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Even more crazy given they selected Khawaja in the tour of England against Pakistan.
They wouldn't have if Ferguson was fit. Add Ferguson's recent ton, and that he's a right hander (with the selectors concerned about the number of left handers with Swann bowling) will put him at the top of the list.
Plus they have a man crush on the lad. And in fairness, he's done alright when they've given him a go in ODIs. But FoS's point is well made.
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***Not sure about who would make the 4th pace bowler. There are so many potential options so its a pretty difficult choice to make. Harris was impressive before, and Siddle looks in very good form as well. Then there are the new guys like George (who I frankly wasn't that impressed with) and Hazlewood (don't know if he'll be fit, plus I wasn't that impressed with him either in the ODI). But then you've also got other domestic players like Copeland and Cameron who look mightily impressive. I'd almost be inclined to pick one of the latter, just as an x-factor for the English, who would know nothing much of their style. Also, if they got smashed around, then there are always the three more experienced guys to rely on, plus Shane Watson if needed.
He bowled okay when he first came into the team but I think what we've seen of him of late is more indicative of his ability. Unless we're going to play four quicks there's no point dropping him as none of the other spinners have maintained sustained Shield performances anyway (bar McGain who's in really poor form at the moment) but he's certainly not a home-track specialist, as his Shield record indicates.
I think given Hauritz isn't the greatest spinner, plus the Gabba looks like could really assist pace bowling (just look at the recent domestic game, NSW vs QLD), a 4 pace attack would be the most potent. If spin is needed at any point in the game North, Katich (if he plays) and Clarke are good enough resources imo.
Is there any point in picking 5 seamers including Watson? I'd have thought that if it's a seamer's paradise, you'd be ok with 4 including Watson, and pick another batsman (or spinning all-rounder) and if it's flat or a turner you'd want Hauritz or, again, a spinning all-rounder. Either way, I doubt that adding a 5th quick would add that much to the team, and it would certainly look unbalanced.
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*He bat's at 4 for WA
*He's a 'boom or bust' batsman. You don't want a guy like that coming in at #6 IMO. You want him coming in earlier because if he does fail then you've got 2 proper batsmen in to halt any collapse, and your #6 to come. Batting him at #6, means the keeper has to halt any potential collapses and if it's due to a good spell of bowling he may not be able to resist with his inferior technique.
*And thinking more positively, North is the most likely of Clarke/Hussey/North to score a big hundred right now. So get him in there first. Clarke might be just as likely to score a ton, but Clarke rarely scores big centuries.
*It would let him partner Clarke more often, and that might give the Poms some bad memories of 2009.
*It would be a good confidence booster for him if Ricky comes and says, hey Marcus you're in at 4.
*It fits well with the other 2 guys as well, since we know Clarke is a good #5, and if Hussey is retained he's potentially a very good #6 too. He bats there in ODIs and even in Test cricket many of his better knocks have come with the lower order.
So my middle order for Brisbane would be:
4 North
5 Clarke
6 Hussey/Ferguson/Usman
Hussey needs at LEAST 2 50+ scores in the next 2 weeks to keep his spot in my mind. He's a broken man at present, badly needs some runs. And I have Ferguson just shading Usman at present if Hussey can't find some confidence. Main reasons being that Ferguson's been with the Aussie setup a bit longer than Usman, he'd be a more natural #6 I think and he's a right hander which will annoy Swann.
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I started "collecting" fairly recently so there's not a whole lot at the moment.
I started "collecting" fairly recently so there's not a whole lot at the moment.
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The "It: 25th Anniversary Special Edition" will probably remain my favorite even when I get more. It is my favorite book of all time and I really love the production on this. The cover art is one of my favorite pieces, it's my desktop wallpaper at the moment. It's my first LE and I was a bit hesitant to get it given the price, but I figured I'd kick myself if I didn't.
I'm a UMass Lowell student, so when Stephen King came over I was able to go to a semi-private Q&A session (about a hundred or so people). I brought It along in a duffel bag just in case and afterwards a handful of people had brought some books as well so I asked him to sign mine. I was a little nervous given his thoughts on limited editions but he was very friendly and was like, "Wow, Cemetery Dance!"
Two recent purchases: The Dark Man with a signed plate from Chadbourne courtesy of the Overlook Connection...
... and the Gift Edition for Dr. Sleep.
Finally my Joe Hill books.
Subterranean Press's NOS4A2 (I'll put it on the bookshelf with the others once I get the slipcase)
These were from a Joe Hill signing around when NOS4A2 first came out.
He also signed a couple of other comics.
Very nice start, CG! Thanks for another collection thread. Hope you'll keep posting as you collection grows. (And remember, a "collection" contains more than just special editions of books!)
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And what a way to start! Thanks for sharing!
An excellent start to your collection!
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Very nice. Jealous of the Doctor Sleep book, and the special sig on your copy of It! I sorta want the Joe Hill book, though still not a fan of the cover being that it seems to fit for a graphic novel and not an actual novel. The art itself is good though, and for all I know it could fit perfectly with the story, which I still need to read
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Very nice, that Joe Hill N0S4A2 book sure gained some value fast, a hot item.
Great books. Welcome.
Nice collection! I'm looking forward to seeing more!
Great start to the collection!
Thanks everyone.
FWIW this is my normal book collection or about a third of it. I have some more scattered around the house and there's another bookcase downstairs that's a bit disorderly at the moment. (If anyone's wondering those aren't first editions of The Shining and Cujo but book club editions I got from a library sale.) Also the book at the left corner is the pop-up edition of Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.
Thanks for starting a collection of yours. I too, didn't really have much, but it's still "my"/"your" collection, and that's what it's all about. I don't have any special editions at this time.
Very nice collection. I look forward to watching it grow. Thanks for starting another collection thread!
Nice King and Hill collection! Are many of them first editions?
Very nice, CGF! Every collection starts off small. (Besides, I spy a HC copy of the complete ficiton of H.P. Lovecraft, so that right there makes it signiificant!)
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Nice looking collection, CyberGhostface. Can you give more info, or a photo, of that Dracula hardcover?
It's 'Dracula: The Definitive Edition' from Barnes & Noble. Can't get any personal pictures atm but here's one from the web.
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Sherwood took many by surprise when he handed Bentaleb his Tottenham debut last month, but the 19-year-old, who worked under the current Spurs boss when he was in charge of the development team, has hit the ground running and is now considered a first-team regular.
Bentaleb has been so impressive that he has been mentioned as a possible England player of the future even though he would not be eligible for the Three Lions for another three years as he was born across the English Channel.
Bentaleb joined Tottenham in 2012 after unsuccessful trials with Lille, where he was born, Dunkerque and Belgian side Mouscron.
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"He's performing regularly and if the English are serious about it, it probably could be an arm wrestle between them and the French.
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Juan Williams: Race and the Gun Debate
The No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34: being murdered with a gun.
By JUAN WILLIAMSThis week much of the talk about gun control concerns New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's $12 million ad campaign to put pressure on senators in key states to support legislation that he backs. Or the talk is about the National Rifle Association's pushback against the Bloomberg campaign. Then there was last week's mini-tempest over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision not to include Sen. Dianne Feinstein's assault-weapon ban in a comprehensive gun-control bill the Senate will take up next month.
One thing you don't hear much about in the discussions of guns: race.
That is an astonishing omission, because race ought to be an inescapable part of the debate. Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities. Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But talking about race in the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed by passing a law: the family-breakdown issues that lead too many minority children to find social status and power in guns.
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The Justice Department reports that between 1980 and 2008, "blacks were six times more likely than whites to be homicide victims and seven times more likely than whites to commit homicide."
The dire implications of these numbers is evident in a Children's Defense Fund report that included a chilling historical perspective: The 44,038 black children killed by guns since 1979 (when national data on the age of gun violence victims was first collected) is "nearly 13 times more" than all the black people killed by lynching in the 86-year period of 1882 to 1968.
This awful reality explains why support for gun control in the black and Hispanic community is overwhelming (71% among blacks and 78% of Hispanics, according to a recent Pew poll). That is a marked contrast with national polls on new gun laws. Those polls show 46% of Americans of all races backing the right to own guns versus 50% who agree to the need for more limits on gun owners. Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.
The debate over gun control too often seems a matter of abstractions about the meaning of the Constitution and the permissible capacities of ammunition magazines. Why is so little time spent on a question of more immediate concern—namely, why are so many young black people using guns to kill their neighbors?
President Obama, a hero in black America as the first black president, has been remarkably quiet on this issue until recently. It was only in December, after the mass killing of mostly white school children in Newtown, Conn., by a white man, that the president took the political risk of backing new gun-control legislation.
Young blacks' violent deaths from handguns hadn't moved him to such action. The president spoke publicly about that matter only after the recent gun murder of a 15-year-old girl from his hometown of Chicago who had performed at his second inaugural. "Last year there were 443 murders with firearms in this city and 65 were people under 18," Mr. Obama said. "That's the equivalent of a Newtown every four months. This is not just a gun issue. It is also an issue of the communities that we are building."
In speaking about social breakdown in those minority communities, the president put the gun issue in the context of high rates of out-of-wedlock births that lead to high rates of childhood poverty. "I wish I had a father who was around and involved," the president said, in words that echoed loudly through black and Latino neighborhoods nationally because he revealed a pain so common, yet so rarely confessed, among young people of color.
The shame and silence is enforced by civil-rights leaders who speak in support of gun control but never about a dysfunctional gangster-rap culture that glorifies promiscuity, drug dealers and the power of the gun.
"Loving, supporting parents . . . [are] the single most important thing," the president told his audience of young, mostly minority children at Hyde Park Academy High School in Chicago. He made the case for parents as the key to giving children a sense of self-esteem beyond the barrel of a gun.
Almost 50 years ago, when the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed, the national out-of-wedlock birthrate was 7%. Today it is over 40%. According to the CDC, the out-of-wedlock birthrate for white children was just 2% in the 1960s. Today it is 30%. Among black children, the out-of-wedlock birthrate has skyrocketed from 20% in the 1960s to a heartbreaking 72% today. The Hispanic out-of-wedlock rate, which has been measured for a much shorter period, was below 40% in 1990 and stands at more than 50% as of the 2010 census.
When President Obama tried to speak to this crippling dynamic in 2008, he was basically told to shut up by Rev. Jesse Jackson. The Chicago-based activist said: "Barack was talking down to black people," then he added a vulgar threat about what he wanted to do in response. The moment revealed the high cost of speaking honestly about social breakdown in black America.
I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.
Mr. Williams is a political analyst for Fox News and a columnist for the Hill.
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3. The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
4. Wicked Appetites by Janet Evanovich
5. Feed by Mira Grant – I just found this series from another blogger. This is the first book of the News Flash Trilogy, and I do love stories that lasts longer than one book!
6. Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth.
7. The Silence by Jim Kraus. This is a dystopian novel (as are several on this list), and I recently read a review on this book that interested me.
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9. Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
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NC DMV pulls licenses of 13 'Dream Act' immigrants
The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles is canceling driver's licenses mistakenly issued to 13 illegal immigrants.
Federal authorities began accepting applications in August under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which grants work permits to immigrants brought to the United States as minors without authorization. North Carolina typically grants driver's licenses to non-citizens with valid federal work papers.
But before anyone under the new program applied for driver's licenses, then-DMV Commissioner Michael Robertson issued orders not to grant any. Robertson asked Attorney General Roy Cooper in September to determine whether doing so would violate state law. Cooper has not yet responded.
DMV spokeswoman Marge Howell said Tuesday 13 people who used DACA papers to get driver's licenses will have those licenses cancelled until the legal issue is settled.


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
versión On-line ISSN 2078-5135
versión impresa ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.99 no.11 Cape Town nov. 2009
'Breakthrough' thai hiv vaccine trial controversy
'For the first time ever we know that an HIV vaccine is possible.'
That's what several excited top South Africa HIV/AIDS researchers thought following the surprise findings in September's 16 000-person trial in Thailand (the much-maligned RV 144 trial), which claimed a 31% reduction in infection risk among participants.
Professor Glenda Gray, head of the perinatal HIV Research Unit at Witwatersrand University, said the efficacy of the combination prime-boost vaccine paved the way for future designs - 'it's exciting because it means that a vaccine is attainable'.
She and fellow researchers like Professor Salim Abdool Karim, Director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research of South Africa (CAPRISA), saw the initial results as a boost for sagging morale after so many failed trials. Confessed a rejuvenated Gray: 'I've devoted my life to HIV vaccines since the early to mid 2000s - I was starting to wonder if I'd made the right choice'.
Karim said that after the scepticism that followed the failed Merck vaccine trials, 'this is big scientific news', while Gray affirmed that 'this is huge'. 'Researchers were becoming despondent about ever making a vaccine and were starting to become disinterested. Basically this means that a vaccine is possible in our lifetime.'
Then the storm broke around the alleged selective leaking of only part of the results by the US Military HIV Research Program. They, together with the Thai government, managed and conducted the trial, originally aimed at 50% efficacy for impact in the relatively low HIV incidence country.
An Izindaba search that included Science Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the United Press International press agency, reveals that the excitement around the selective 24 September data release was based on a 'modified intent to treat analysis' (which prevents bias from the selective exclusion of trial participants from the analysis), and excluded the secondary 'per protocol' analysis.
The former includes everyone who enrolled in the study, regardless of whether they ended up getting the full course of the vaccine while the latter adheres strictly to how the trial was designed by only including those study participants who got the full regimen of the vaccine shots at the right time. The 'per protocol' analysis, usually used as a supportive analysis to corroborate to the more stringent 'intent to treat' analysis, showed that the supposed effectiveness was only 26.2% - and thus not statistically significant.
This news, breaking several weeks after the two South African scientists were approached for comment by Izindaba, ignited a volcanic stream of scientific calls for laying out all possible data at the conclusion of trials to enable differences to be properly analysed.
Dr Anthony S Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Health which financed the trial, agreed that different analyses of the data could show a weaker effect but insisted that the one released on 24 September was 'the gold standard'. He said putting several biostatistical analyses in a news release 'would have confused everybody', while suggesting that researchers were engaging in a cover-up was 'absurd'.
'They couldn't be that stupid; they were already planning to give confidential briefings to experts and publish everything in a journal before heading to Paris, where the results would be presented to the world,' he said.
However, Fauci admitted that the army's decision to brief other players in the field before the 20 October Paris conference backfired. Statistical calculations around the 'intent to treat' analysis reportedly showed there was a 3.9% probability of the study results being a fluke - but for the 'per protocol' analysis this leapt to 16%. In drug and vaccine trials, anything above a 5% probability of a chance result is deemed statistically unacceptable.
Sleuths closing in on protection mechanism
Karim, whose best HIV microbicide gel trial results so far (PRO2000) fell just short of being statistically significant, believes the important thing - if moderate efficacy of the Thai vaccine is proven - would be that it may be possible to identify what led to protection.
'It's not about getting this vaccine in a clinic anytime soon - we'd need to better understand what cellular and humoral responses were engendered. In other words, did those in the vaccine arm who became infected have poorer responses to the vaccine than those who didn't become infected? That will give us clues as to what might have been responsible for the protection. If we can find that, it will be a major step forward in the field.'
Gray doubts that the Thai vaccine results will be taken forward in that country, where HIV incidence stands at around 1%, in stark contrast to South Africa, where HIV incidence is closer to 6%.
'Thirty-one per cent doesn't give it much value there, but in heavily burdened countries like ours you'd have to vaccinate far fewer people to get the benefit, so it would do a lot of good,' Gray explained. More than five million South Africans are HIV positive.
Both experts cautioned that the vaccine was 'no panacea', adding that doubts existed about whether the vaccine will be used for anything more than further study, about how much was still left, and about who will be actively producing it at present.
Gray believes that 'because we've come a long way from the old canary pox vaccine (which the Thai used), the question is should we use this or the new generation of pox vectors (upon which the best South African Vaccine Initiative trials are based)?'
Huge boost for SA pox vector research
The dramatic and at first seemingly serendipitous Thai findings would have thrown the pox vector research field (in which South Africa is a global leader), wide open.
The Vaxgen boost (monomeric gp 120) and the Aventis Pasteur (live replicating canary pox vector) in the Thai vaccine was rubbished by a prominent group of researchers in Science Journal in January 2004.1 They argued that Vaxgen had already been tested and showed no protection whatsoever while Alvac was tested and found to be 'not very immunogenic'.
Writing in the 'Policy Forum' section of the respected journal, they doubted whether 'these immunogens have any prospect of stimulating immune responses anywhere near adequate', pointing to the cancellation of a similar phase III trial in 2003. The cancelled trial was to have been conducted in the USA by the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), the world's largest consortium of AIDS vaccine scientists and clinicians.
Questioning the scale and cost of the Thai trial (more than R650 million), they said the overall approval process lacked input from independent immunologists and virologists who could have judged whether it was scientifically 'meritorious'.
They argued that with two large phase III trials of immunogens that 'all too predictably' had already failed to generate protective immunity, the price of repetitive failure could be 'crucial erosion of confidence by the public and politicians in scientific capability of developing an effective AIDS vaccine collectively'.
Stumbling around the edge of making history
Said Karim: 'One of the things about vaccines (generally) that we seem to forget is that with most of those we have, we actually don't know how they work. Many were developed when we couldn't even grow those organisms or had no idea what immunity was required to be protective. Many were developed on serendipity, like the smallpox vaccine or the hepatitis B vaccine...we only understood them much later.'
He added: 'So the one lesson in all this is that in vaccines, what we don't know is a lot more than what we know.'
With circumcision trials for HIV prevention showing similar efficacy in South Africa, the Thai finding held the potential to become incrementally and collectively highly significant to containing the pandemic locally.
South Africa's Medical Research Council president, Anthony Mbewu, recently said the eventual development of an HIV vaccine would rank among the 'greatest achievements of mankind in the 21st century'.
Elise Levendal, chairperson of the South African AIDS Vaccine Initiative (SAAVI), emphasised that without Thailand's excellent community involvement, the trial would not have been possible. 'It meant a massive and dedicated community involvement strategy by the Thai people, NGOs and the sponsors. The staff of 47 health centres and eight clinical trial sites engaged their communities in a strategy that resulted in tremendous building of trust and respect...that we can learn from.'
While initially 'elated' at the results, she said they were no replacement for other prevention methods and that a vaccine would 'always be part of a comprehensive approach'. Karim said one surprise factor of the results was that those developing the trial strategy thought they had a higher likelihood of reducing viral load than preventing HIV - and the exact opposite seemed to have happened.
He believes much of the controversy surrounding the Thai trial was being driven by those who previously attacked the trial, 'finding weaknesses and exploiting them'. It was 'important to remember' that the secondary 'per protocol' analysis was not statistically significant because its sample size was smaller.
Like the discovery of penicillin, many of history's scientific breakthroughs have come when researchers, tinkering on the edge of what is known, stumbled fortuitously into brand-new territory.
Chris Bateman
1. Burton D, Desrosiers R, Doms R, Feinberg M, et al. Science 2004; 303: 316. [ Links ]


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The Politics of Wildlife in Infrastructure ConstructionSage, Daniel; Dainty, Andy; Tryggestad, Kjell; Justesen, Lise; Mouritsen, Jan (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Across many construction projects, and especially infrastructure projects, efforts to mitigate the potential loss of biodiversity and habitat are significant, and at times controversial. In our paper we do not propose to gauge the success or failure of this effort; rather we are interested in fleshing out some conceptual approaches via Actor- Network Theory through which infrastructure projects can start to address a series of overlooked questions. Some of these questions are firmly located within the realm of construction project management: are animals considered project risks or stakeholders; is wildlife always simply a retrospective cost to a project or can it proactively benefit a project, can we ever manage wildlife, and if so how? These questions in turn lead us to engage with wider debates found in the margins between the social and biological sciences on the distinction between Nature and Politics: to what extent should we seek a place for animals in politics and how can we live with them ethically. Thus far, very little research has addressed the interplay of humans and animals within construction projects. Instead those interested in the politics and ethics of human-animal relations, or Animal Studies, have focussed far more on stable and contained sites, whether organisations like zoos, farms or laboratories, or other places like homes and parks. These largely ethnographic studies inevitably perhaps downplay the unplanned, unexpected and highly politically and ethically charged collision of hitherto rather separate human and animal geographies. Yet, as we argue here, it is often along such colliding spaces, where animal geographies are unexpectedly found at the heart of human projects, that we ask and answer many of the above questions around our respect and response to both animals, and indeed other humans. In this paper we will examine such encounters conceptually, with reference to two infrastructure projects, and discuss their relevance to both construction project management and broader work on the politics of animals. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8849
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Or how the natural environment may qualify as a stakeholder in the firm's business environmentJustesen, Lise; Mouritsen, Jan; Tryggestad, Kjell (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In its general form, stakeholder theory posits an extension of the ecology. It claims that there are other stakes and interests than those posited by shareholder value theory (Freeman et al. 2004; Jensen and Sandström 2011), and some stakeholder theory proponents argue that the natural environment is also to be considered as a stakeholder (Driscoll and Starik 2004; Norton 2007). It is a positive claim – there are more stakes and interests – and a moral one – we should look towards more interests in order to complete the analysis. With this framing, stakeholder theory seeks to identify stakes and interests which may be difficult but in principle achievable; it also seeks to make analysis of organized activity such as (global) business into a concern with the relative power of stakes and interests. These concerns are highly relevant but they face the barrier that if stakes and interests are positively there, the analysis becomes static and will pay less attention to both the formation and to power-effects of stakes and interest. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8482
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Sunday, November 29, 2009
Misused Apostrophes: A Seeing-Thinking-Teaching-Learning Project
By Ela Newman
Instructor in Developmental Writing and in ESL
University of Texas at Brownsville
While driving home from a workshop on integrative learning the other week, I was mulling over the three topics discussed that afternoon — aspects of Bloom's Taxonomy, the Learning Pyramid, typical learning styles of millennials — when my thoughts were interrupted by the sight of a bright yellow banner flapping by the side of the road. It was informing everyone that the local flea market was now open on "Sunday's Only."
Instead of cringing and wondering for too long about how much less unedited signs might cost, I paused, and then asked myself, "Can anything from that workshop relate to this, if I may, apostrophe disaster?" The answer sparked an idea: I could create a project which both focused on misused apostrophes and utilized the three key topics addressed at the workshop.
After all …
- Evaluating and creating require high-level thinking skills, according to Bloom's Taxonomy.
In the taxonomy, which grades instructional activities by difficulty, evaluating and creating are actually ranked as those which involve the highest-level thinking skills. Tasks which involve interpreting, judging, ranking, scoring, composing, reconstructing, or revising represent activities which typically fall into one of those two categories.
- Teaching others is an activity assigned to the top end of the (memory oriented) Learning Pyramid.
A study done by National Training Laboratories revealed that the retention rate of information is highest (90%) if learners either teach the concept to others or put it to immediate use. In contrast, when learners read from books or other materials, or listen to lectures, that rate drops dramatically to 10% for reading and 5% for listening.
- And millennials frequently use the internet to study.
Millennials, those of Generation Y, or simply, people born between 1977 and 1998 are more technologically literate than any generation before them, and they tend to expect learning environments to incorporate the internet.
So here's . . .
The Project
- Stage 1. Having compiled a set of examples of publicly displayed misused apostrophes, including a number of examples from internet sources as well as the "Sunday's Only" sign example, I shared the set with students, and asked them to evaluate and to revise them. One of my sources was the website "Apostrophe Catastrophes," a gold mine of photographs showing real life examples of such mistakes. Also, a quiz incorporating photos of authentic signs, banners, TV images, T-shirts, etc., most of which need editing work, available at http://www.writing-kit.com/ApConsol/index.html, turned out to be very engaging.
- Stage 2. (Un)fortunately, campus reader boards, fliers, and even cafeteria menus can be other sources of specimens. So I asked my students to go on an "apostrophe scavenger hunt" around campus and note examples of problematic apostrophe usage. I gave them the option of working in small teams, and I encouraged them to contact the "authors" and, tactfully, to offer to edit the phrase or sentence and to inform the authors of the rule which was broken (to instruct them).
One of my students veered off campus and found two apostrophe mistakes on the sign in front of his uncle's body shop. The student offered to make a new sign for the shop, which pleased his uncle. The student then offered a short explanation for the change, which met with less enthusiasm.
The students had a great time, and they were perhaps most excited when correcting and teaching native speakers of English a little thing or two about those little marks we call apostrophes.


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Chico the border collie is something of anomaly: although her eyes were removed when she was a puppy, she still manages to play ball with her owner, navigate turf around her home in Terre Haute, Indiana, and hop into the car with no problem. The owners, as well as expert researchers at Purdue University, are stumped by her abilities. With that can-do attitude, it's too bad the role of Sandy in the Broadway Annie revival has already been nabbed.
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24 Hour Fitness, San Ramon, CA, filed an answer to a complaint from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which has charged the company with violating federal labor law.
The NLRB's regional office in San Francisco issued the complaint on April 30. 24 Hour filed an answer to the complaint by the May 14 deadline, according to a source, who says the company denies it has done anything unlawful. A hearing is scheduled before an administrative law judge on June 11.
Both 24 Hour and the NLRB declined to comment on the complaint. The NLRB is an independent federal agency that is vested with the power to protect the rights of employees to join together, with or without a union, to improve their wages and working conditions.
In a press release, the NLRB says 24 Hour violated the National Labor Relations Act by insisting that all employment-related disputes be resolved by individual arbitration. The NLRB says 24 Hour requires its employees to forego any rights to collective or class-action lawsuits or arbitrations, which is in violation of the act.
The charge was filed by Alton J. Sanders, a 24 Hour employee, on Feb. 15, 2011, according to the complaint. The charge then prompted an investigation by the NLRB.
Since at least Aug, 15, 2010, the NLRB says, 24 Hour has enforced its no-class-action policy by asserting it in litigation brought by employees in numerous cases, eight of which are cited in the complaint. In each case, employees, who are not represented by a union, sought to bring workplace-related claims, such as wage and hour violations, on a class-wide basis, according to the press release. In response, 24 Hour sought to compel the employees to submit their common claims to individual arbitrations, citing a policy in its handbook.
The 24 Hour case is one of the cases involving arbitration under review by the NLRB. Another case involves a home building company, D.R. Horton Inc. In January, the NLRB ruled that D.R. Horton violated a section of the act by maintaining, as a condition of employment, a mandatory arbitration agreement that did not allow its employees to file joint, class, or collective employment-related claims in any forum, arbitral or judicial.
Ron Chapman Jr., a Dallas attorney, is representing D.R. Horton in the case. Chapman says the difference between the Horton case and the 24 Hour case is that Horton has a mandatory arbitration agreement whereas 24 Hour's arbitration agreement has an opt-out provision.
"The crucial factor of the arbitration agreement being mandatory on which the board relied is not a factor in the 24 Hour case, and that's a very important distinction," Chapman says. "I think the board's position in both cases is utterly flawed. The existence of the opt-out provision in the 24 Hour agreement makes it even less likely that that board's position in that case will ultimately prevail."
To be clear, Chapman adds, the NLRB itself has not heard the 24 Hour case. Rather, the board's regional director and the general counsel's office are currently prosecuting the case. The Horton case is on appeal.
"From our perspective, there is no basis in the law for the board's position, and they created it out of thin air," Chapman says, referring to the Horton case.
There is a chance that one of the cases could eventually be decided by the United States Supreme Court, Chapman adds.
"If the board continues on the path of propounding this novel theory, then I'm quite certain that the issue will arrive at the Supreme Court in due course," Chapman says. "If the board continues to flaunt Supreme Court precedent with its interpretation of the law, then yes, the Supreme Court will have to correct that eventually."


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Fashion Design and Technology (Foundation)
UCAS Code: W235
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Pass Access to HE Diploma in a relevant subject with a minimum 74 UCAS Tariff Points
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
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A minimum of 72 UCAS Tariff points from at least 2 A levels or equivalent
About this course
This course has alternative study modes. Contact the university to find out how the information below might vary.
The Foundation Year at Manchester Fashion Institute is designed to prepare you for your chosen degree, ensuring that you start Year 1 of your linked Bachelors degree with the confidence, academic knowledge and study skills required of the course.
You will be introduced to the fashion industry through a variety of exciting topics and you will have the opportunity to participate in a number of events and projects. Previous students have attended Vogue's Big Night Out, Graduate Fashion Week and a number of student conferences.
If you choose the Foundation Year route, you will undertake a total of four years of study. You will also have the opportunity to spend a year on placement and/or studying abroad, in which case you will complete a total of five years.
The following degrees are available with a Foundation Year:
BA (Hons) Fashion Promotion (N560)
BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Technology Menswear (8Y92) / Womenswear (2D16) / Sportswear (W234)
BA (Hons) Fashion Buying and Merchandising (N590)
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- Introducing students to a broad variety of elements linking through to the fashion industry.
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Me and my silhouette
I go through phases. Somedays I feel like the person I'm supposed to be, and then somedays, I turn into no one at all. There is both me and my silhouette. I hope that on the days you find me and all I am are darkened lines, you still are willing to be near me.
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BTW, *fear* my Juggers, Hulk and B.B. Hood!!
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A nice semi technical MTB ride.
Stop at Greenway for coffee if you have time
Beechworth and south-west to Nieoff Rd and back
Contact Chris for map
Ride the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail
· Check the official BVRT calendar before registration. You may prefer to adjust your timing to avoid sharing the trail with large numbers of riders or runners. http://www.brisbanevalleyrailtrail.com.au/events-2/
· Please observe the BVRT Code of Conduct, with particular regard to leaving gates as you find them.
Starting at the Bendigo Railway Station head along the Leanangook Track before exploring the gravel roads of Mandurang. Finish the ride with a spin along the Spring Gully Bike Track
A hilly ride from the Gap returning after riding three Brookfield fingers
Elevation: 795 m
This relaxing 50 km loop promises some of the flattest riding the central Tablelands has on offer. Start in Atherton and head south through Wongabel, before turning eastwards. After a quick loop around the Golden Triangle of Kairi and Tolga, head back into Atherton for a well-deserved coffee break.
Elevation: 326 m
Through bobbin head, dash to Berowra and back.
Starting at the lookouts of either Mt Coot-tha or Mt Gravatt ride a loop including both lookouts.
To 'The Dish' and return, out and back via Wellington Rd (includes gravel roads).
Hilly ride on quiet country roads, with ample refuelling stops available
A meander through some scenic Barossa back-roads. 65% dirt, 560m climbing.
A 50km ride around Lake Burley Griffin and through the parliamentary triangle to the Old Parliament House and Parliament House. Mostly bike paths and on-road cycle lanes.
This is a photo tour. Checkpoints are photo stops. Take a photo, and enter the time in the brevet card.
There are plenty of cafes (and a brewery) enroute if you have time for coffee, or a beer.
Brisbane River Loop
Elevation: 388 m
A 50Km Randonee on bike routes for about 80% of the ride along the slow Bay Run and Greenway to Cooks River. Then through Olympic Park Bike routes onto the Parramatta River Cycleway, then mostly quiet roads back to Rozelle. Some coffee shops available along the route, and on Darling St at the end of the ride, but be aware of the time available! Study the route before the start as the first 8Km can be challenging, but is generally signed, as is the Gladesville Bridge near the end. Water and toilets are also available along the route.
Willaston - Freeling - Templers - Wasleys - Willaston.
Elevation: 255m
Start Location; Intercity Cycleway, 1 McVilly Drive, Hobart, Tasmania 7000
Starting at Hobart Cenotaph and out and back course on the Inter-City Cycleway. Turnaround at the end of the cycle way. Continue on to Taroona, turn around point is just past the Old Taroona Pub. Plenty of coffee shops and supply places on this flat and easy 50.
Richmond 50 - Start in Sorell and do a loop around to Tea Tree, into Richmond, and back to Sorell.
Distance: 51.6 km
Elevation: 525 m
Start: Sorell Banjo's Bakery
Finish: Sorell Banjo's Bakery
33 Gordon St, Sorell TAS 7172
CONTROL: Richmond shops or bakeries | Public Toilets up lane on right – 37 km
Geeveston 50 – Huonville to Geeveston and back with a bit of a climb at the far end.
Distance: 51.8 km
Elevation: 780 m
Start: DS Coffee House
Finish: DS Coffee House
12 Main St, Huonville TAS 7109
CONTROL: Geeveston shops – 21.8 km
3 loops of Mt Coo-Tha with out going on the same roads in the same direction
Elevation: 929 m
Start Location; Salamanca Place Hobart, Tasmania 7000 Australia
This 50 km ride starts at the famous Salamanca market. From here you follow some quieter roads out of the Hobart CBD, onto the lovely Hobart Rivulet Track which is only a few km from the CBD but is a full-on bushland setting (some easy unsealed sections), and then the Mount Wellington pinnacle will be in full view in front of you. The climb is tough and relentless, but the views along the way, and from the top are unforgettable. Be fully prepared for all seasons in one day. The weather on the pinnacle can change suddenly. You can get water in the Wellington Park BBQ facilities directly across from the Ferntree Tavern, further along at The Springs (740m ASL), and further along at The Chalet (1000m ASL) as well as toilet facilities at the very top (1,200m ASL). Be very careful of the narrow mountain road (Pillinger Drive) with often heavy tourist traffic. Descend precipitously back to Ferntree, and further on turn right into Chimney Pot Road, heading towards aptly named Ridgeway, then a further precipitous drop along the also aptly named Waterworks Road. From here you are taken through parts of Battery Point and the Hobart docks before returning to Salamanca for a well earnt beer at one of the many local pubs. Because of the numerous turns it is strongly suggested you take some form of GPS if you are not familiar with the ride. Bonne route. Checkpoints:
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The neighborhood has many large Victorian houses and is built around Logan Park, a square dating back to the 1800s and named for Civil War general and U.S. Sen. John A. Logan. Railroad tracks along Central Avenue divide the neighborhood into an industrial area and the residential district. With several renovated buildings in the neighborhood that house artist studios, Logan Park has become the heart of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District.
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1330 Van Buren Street NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
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Stories of Summer: Kutsche Office of Local History exhibit
Stories of Summer exhibit
Date and TimeMonday, February 18, 2019
All Day
- Mary Idema Pew Library » Exhibition Space
Feb. 4 - Mar. 14, Exhibition Space of the Mary Idema Pew Library
West Michigan's landscape reflects the histories of a bustling tourism industry along the shoreline of Lake Michigan during the summer. Many of these areas were profoundly transformed, garnering reputations for their acceptance of minorities. The twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck-Douglas, became an important touchstone in thinking about the region's LGBT history as the towns became a "home for all."
In collaboration with the Saugatuck-Douglas History Center and supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage grant, this project documents the Saugatuck-Douglas area's rise to become a destination for the LGBT community and other contemporary stories through oral histories and digitization of objects, photographs, and ephemera.
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Scugnizza first home
It was indeed a long night for the fleet at the Adria Ferries ORCi World Championship, but dawn has brought a welcome 10-knot southeast breeze to bring the teams home to the finish at the venue at Marina Dorica. The fleet was battered overnight by extremes of weather, from dead calm to thunderstorms and heavy squalls of 25-30 knot winds.
First to cross the finish line here for their long Class B race course of 83 miles was Vincenzo De Blasio's NM38S Scugnizza. The reigning World Champion for this class finished at about 0930 local time, the first of both classes to cross the finish line, as the Class A boats are still out completing their longer 130-mile course. Seven minutes later Giuseppe Giuffre's M37 Low Noise crossed the line, correcting over Scugnizza by three minutes.
"We had a good first start, but it was canceled [because many boats could not cross the start line in time]," said De Blasio. "The second start of the race then was very interesting for us because we've been sailing all very close, very compact. It has been a great battle, we have really strong opponents and this motivates us to do better. Our strongest opponent is Low Noise, and though we got first in real-time, we owed them 10 minutes in this race."
And while the complete corrected time results are evolving as the boats continue to come in to the long race finish, Giuffre and his reigning ORC European champion team did score second at the 36.80 mile scoring gate off Numana last night after 12.5 hours of racing. The winner at this short race gate was Alessandro Consiglio's First 35 South Kensington, but only by three seconds over Low Noise, with Scugnizza finishing third.
This puts Low Noise on scores of 1-2 in the first two races of the event, and with a good result likely in this long race a healthy lead in points in the standings for Class B.
"We went very well because we got second in the second race," said Giuffre, "but the start of this race was so complicated and difficult with the calm wind and strong current. We had difficulty in starting, but we managed to position ourselves for the expected wind in the night. You also need to get lucky and we were able to get out of the doldrums in which others stumbled who were only a few minutes behind us. At this point we flew toward the finish line, taking three violent storms including one with 30 knots of wind: situations where you have to have good qualities of seamanship. Anyway we went fine until now, but tomorrow we have to reset everything and start over. Scugnizza, Port of La Spezia and Uka Uka are the boats that we have to keep our eyes on."
At the Class A short race scoring gate of 57.46 miles last night, Piero Pannicia's canting-keeled Cookson 50 Calipso IV defeated their nearest by a significant margin, namely 9:35 over the GS56R Marina Kastela and 16:30 over Giorgio Martin's TP52 Aniene. Race 1 winner, Enfant Terrible, finished in fifth place in this race, so its likely the Class A standings will be very tight going into tomorrow's resumption of inshore racing.
But at 10:30 local time, much of the Class A fleet is now becalmed again, and while the fast boats are not far out, the remainder of the class is not expected in for another 8 hours at the current rate of progress. This puts them and the remainder of the Class B boats in jeopardy of hitting the 32-hour time limit for this race...this means a long fight for wind is still ahead, and corrected time results likely not available until the end of the day.


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