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Arrest, foreclosure: As trial nears, woes swarm elder Huguely
The father of accused girlfriend-killer George Huguely V has had his own run-in with the law, and is facing three charges related to alleged drunk driving in Montgomery County, Maryland.
According to the Washington Examiner, George Wesley Huguely IV was arrested September 20 in Potomac after a police officer observed a dispute between Huguely and two joggers in which one of the runners allegedly hit Huguely's black Chevrolet Suburban. The officer followed the SUV and observed it driving erratically and going through a red light.
Huguely, 56, took a field sobriety test and was taken to the police station, where he refused to take an alcohol breath test, the Washington Post reports. He was charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol, driving while impaired by alcohol, and for failure to obey properly placed traffic control device instructions.
Huguely père has had a series of financial setbacks since his son was arrested for the murder of Yeardley Love in May 2010, weeks before the two UVA lacrosse players were set to graduate.
Last December, an eight-acre parcel he owned on Morgantown Road in Ivy was scheduled for foreclosure, forestalled temporarily by the bankruptcy of a West Virginia partnership of which Huguely IV is the general partner.
Reports says he owes more than $1 million on his River Road home in Potomac, which is under foreclosure, and he's requested foreclosure mediation, the Examiner reports.
According to court testimony, Huguely father and son played golf together on May 2, 2010, the last day Love was alive. Huguely V has been jailed since May 3, 2010, and goes to court in February. Huguely IV goes to trial April 3.
On Thursday, December 1, the elder Huguely was dealt a further setback when the judge in the case, Edward Hogshire, ruled that the family must decide whether to attend trial or speak up during the potential sentencing phase. Under Virginia law, no witness can watch the trial over the objection of the prosecutor.
"The statute is very clear," argued Commonwealth's attorney Dave Chapman, "It's unequivocal in its terms."
Huguely lawyer Fran Lawrence argued otherwise– that Virginia's so-called bifurcated trial process– which seems to separate the guilt and penalty phases– should allow the parents and other family members to provide support during the trial without getting excluded from offering glowing character witness during a sentencing.
"Our concern is the family members were faced with a dilemma," Lawrence told the judge. But the judge– who also excluded the possibility of letting family testify via video– ruled against such efforts.
"To me," said Hogshire, "it's not even a close call."
Note 1:15pm December 1: The date of Huguely V's incarceration was corrected.
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Edit: Final sentence should say that Huguely V has been jailed since May 3, 2010, not May 3, 2011.
From bad seed bad fruit.
I would drink too if my son was a MURDERER.
Based on "innocent until proven guilty", I have never understood how someone who has not been found guilty in a court of law can be in jail for over a year. An an institutional level, isn't that making someone who could very well be innocent do jail time for something they didn't do?
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@ U.H.G. - He's admitted to kicking in Yeardley's door and beating her up, including repeatedly slamming her head against a wall, which, according to law enforcement, caused her death. Now it's a matter of his lawyers trying to prove that the beating he administered wouldn't have been enough to cause her death. Hence, why they're nitpicking what substances she could have had in her system, and trying to get a hold of her medical records. But the fact that he psychotically kicked in her door and physically assaulted her has never been denied. And that in itself is reason enough for many people to keep him locked up in the meantime.
@ realist
Future "Courtney Loves"? Are you serious? Courtney?
Someone named "the Fifth," in the US anyway, is rather doomed from the start, I would think.
yea preppy hipsters with their fedoras and button downs
U.H.G. December 1st, 2011 | 2:04pm
Based on "innocent until proven guilty", I have never understood how someone who has not been found guilty in a court of law can be in jail for over a year. An an institutional level, isn't that making someone who could very well be innocent do jail time for something they didn't do?
He could get a speedy trial if he wanted one. He doesn't. You have safeguards (in the form of the judge) making sure than the holding before trial process isn't abused. I am sure there are instances where it is, but this isn't one of them.
Oh, this article is sooooo sad! Sob, sob... Can you hear it?? The world's smallest violin playing my heart bleeds for you...
Actually this story is sad--for Miss Love and her family.
"Likely, the typical fairy--I mean fare--you see the UVa types wearing at Farmington or Birdwood." - Liberalace
How are homophobic comments helpful or insightful? Or was it just an easy insult?
Sounds like the apple didn't fall too far from the tree to me.
How is Sr. going to get to the trial? Wonder where he will stay? I guess they will rent rooms to anyone.......
U.H.G.- flight risk for sure, same as the wonderful and proven INNOCENT Orenthal James Simpson.
@ boo: You got me on that one! Unfortunately, I make that mistake 99% of the time. The name "Courtney" is firmly implanted in my mind even though I don't even follow rock music or it's vocalists. Seriously. In my defense, at least "Courtney" and "Yeardly" both end with "ly". I even attended my kid's graduation on The Lawn and Casteen specifically mentioned Yeardly Love in his Commencement Address", so I should know better. But I'm sure I'll continue to make that faux pas.
At least I know enough to not want her killer, alleged or otherwise, to be roaming free on bail pending trial. For whatever reason, the moderator deleted my comment, perhaps because I mentioned the ACLU in a negative light. Go figure.
@ boo: Oh crap...more mistakes. I meant both names end in "y", not "ly". Today is just not my day. Maybe a cup of coffee will help.
One more comment on Huguely the 4th, 5th, 10th or whatever number he is in a long line of privileged elites (at least, unless he has a brother, there won't be any more of them). He should be thankful he's serving extra time in the local lockup because it's that much less time he'll have to spend at Big Boy's prison at Nottoway, Sussex or whatever he**hole he winds up at, for the rest of his life. Maybe that's part of the reason for his attorney's delaying tactics. He should also be thankful his trial isn't in Prince William County or there might be a needle in his future.
Thanks to all the money being spent on lawyers, Daddy won't have as much to spend on booze, so maybe there won't be as much DUI in his future.
I hope he goes to the supermax facility near Abdingdon.
So why the fixation on IV.? Why the hostility for the parents of V? Is it professional to go after the family tree now?
Does he have a dog you can kick or a daughter you can humilate?
discoduck, the people around here don't like ANYBODY who has any wealth to speak of.
"George Wesley Huguely IV was arrested September 20 in Potomac after a police officer observed a dispute between Huguely and two joggers in which one of the runners allegedly hit Huguely's black Chevrolet Suburban." Apple didn't fall too far from the tree......
@ Gasbag...It looks like he doesn't have that much wealth anymore.
"@ Gasbag...It looks like he doesn't have that much wealth anymore."
Someone can default on property and still have personal wealth. It is all in how you structure the deals and if you know how to keep personal and business dealings seperate. I seriously doubt he will be participating in Occupy Cville anytime soon.
Cheryl Tweedy, in addition to what discoduck said, income is much more important than wealth in the grand scheme of things. I doubt many a night will come along where George Wesley Huguely IV will be eating Hamburger Helper and drinking $6 a bottle wine..
Yup, George the IV is far from broke, just the folks who extended him credit are screwed. Just another fine example of the character this family exhibits. With the Penn State and Syracuse scandals, I am still amazed UVa was able to protect Starsia the way it did. He was able to claim ignorance and get away with it. Penn State needs to hire whoever UVa used to pull that one off, or maybe it is just the media is so lame around here. There was no investigative reporter around here without ties to UVa to dig up the truth.
I hope Starsia has to appear at the trial and testify under oath as to what he knew when.
It's the disease that keeps on giving...especially in families.
Would hope he won't be able to afford all those highpriced lawyers to get George IV off lightly.


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President Barack Obama on Friday will call on companies to help the long-term unemployed find jobs and issue a presidential memorandum pledging the federal government to do the same.
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will meet with the chief executives of large businesses in the morning to discuss the issue, after which the president will discuss a "best practices" pledge that some 300 companies have already signed onto. Obama will also unveil a $150 million grant competition aimed at encouraging local governments and CEOs to forge partnerships that can help the long-term unemployed find jobs.
These events will build on the president's vow in his State of the Union address this week to help tackle long-term unemployment and give everyone looking for a job a fair shot at being considered by potential employers.
The administration wants companies to drop practices it says can discriminate against those who have been out of work for several months or longer.
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"Someone almost gets a job at three months, they almost get a job at five months — suddenly they can't even get an interview," National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling told reporters on a call Thursday. "They become very discouraged, it's very demoralizing to send out hundreds of résumés and not get an interview and it leads to a negative cycle."
The best practices guidelines include ensuring that job advertisements do not discourage or discriminate against the long-term unemployed and updating hiring procedures so they do not disadvantage anyone based on their employment status.
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9 Sports Moments Brought to You by the Flu
Some athletes have caught the flu before their biggest games.
Sept. 15, 2008 -- Each year, the flu leaves many bed-ridden and unable to get to work. And while you might worry about how your co-workers will feel about the time you miss, it's unlikely you'll have to worry about disappointing hordes of fans.
But star athletes do: The virus has changed the course of championships, either in the form of missed opportunities or plays made even more memorable for what players overcame.
"Fans are not forgiving of athletes for being human," said Dr. Rebecca Jaffe, a family and sports medicine physician in Wilmington, Del., speaking of her own experiences with New York- and Philadelphia-area fans.
"They shouldn't put their overall health at risk to do something that will limit or compromise their well-being."
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"It depends on the severity of it," said Dr. Scott E. Nelson, a family physician in Cleveland, Miss. "Milder cases of the flu, we've seen all sorts of athletes in different sports make it happen."
How well athletes respond may also depend on whether they've had flu before.
"If you get the true flu, you feel like you've been hit by a truck, so you're not likely to get up and exercise," said Jaffe.
"[An athlete] might have been exposed to the flu previously, and therefore had some antibodies. He may have had a milder case and been able to rise above it," she said.
Athletes who sit out the game may decide they won't be in top form.
"I think a fan's sympathy, at least from me, as both a fan and physician [is that] if someone's got the flu and they don't want to play, they're doing it because they don't want to hurt the team," said Nelson.
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But in the meantime, here are some athletes who came down with the flu -- and how that affected their job performance.
Michael Jordan: 1998 NBA Finals
Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls won the title six times in eight years from 1991 to 1998, missing out only in the two seasons Jordan missed because of his brief retirement to play baseball.
No one was able to stop them -- apparently not even the flu.
With the Bulls leading the Utah Jazz three games to one in 1998, Jordan came down with the flu. But it wasn't enough to keep him off the court.
In the last two games of the series, Jordan played despite his illness.
He was able to score 45 points in Game 5, but Utah pulled out a narrow 83-81 victory.
But in Game 6, Jordan scored 38 points, finishing the game with a memorable shot to beat the buzzer and lift the Bulls to the crown.
Joe Montana: 1990-91 NFC Championship Game
The San Francisco 49ers won Super Bowl titles in 1988 and 1989 and were aiming for a three-peat in 1990.
The 49ers and the New York Giants started off their respective seasons with 10 straight wins, but each lost their next game, marring what would have been a match-up of the two teams with the best records in NFL history.
The 49ers pulled out a 7-3 win, so the teams seemed evenly matched when they met again for the right to represent the NFC in Super Bowl XXV.
But on Friday before the game, 49ers All-Pro quarterback Joe Montana missed practice with the flu.
Montana felt up to playing by game time, but his presence couldn't lift his team past the Giants. Despite having the league's best record, the 49ers were unable to pull away, and Montana was knocked out of the game in the fourth quarter. The Giants prevailed, 15-13, with a field goal on the game's last play.
New York went on to defeat the Buffalo Bills in the closest Super Bowl ever played, 20-19.
Bruce Smith: 1995-96 NFL Division Playoffs
The Buffalo Bills were the class of the AFC in the early 1990s, advancing to four straight Super Bowls from 1990 to '93.
While they missed the playoffs in 1994, they won their division in 1995 and beat the rival Miami Dolphins in the playoffs' opening round, 37-22.
But days before their next game, against the Pittsburgh Steelers, defensive end Bruce Smith, who had made the Pro Bowl eight times up to that point and was arguably the Bills' best defender, caught the flu, keeping him out of the game.
Pittsburgh scored more points against Buffalo than anyone had all season, winning 40-21.
The Steelers advanced to Super Bowl XXX, where they were beaten by the Dallas Cowboys, 27-17.
The Bills have not won their division or a playoff game since.
Rodney Harrison: 2006-07 AFC Championship Game
The rivalry between the New England Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts became what was arguably the premier rivalry in the NFL so far this decade.
After Tom Brady took over at quarterback for the Patriots, they reeled off six victories in a row over the Colts between the 2001 and 2004 seasons.
But Indianapolis had won the last two games between the teams, leading up to a showdown for the AFC Championship after the 2006 season.
Rodney Harrison, the hard-hitting safety for the Patriots, came down with the flu a few days before the teams faced off. Harrison was not able to play.
The Patriots jumped out to a big lead early in the game and led 21-3 at one point before the Colts began scoring and pulled even.
Ultimately, the Patriots' defense wasn't able to stop the Colts, who emerged with a 38-34 victory.
The Colts went on to beat the Chicago Bears, 29-17, to win their first Super Bowl since 1970, when the team still played in Baltimore.
AFC Championship Game, 2007-08
While the flu may have derailed their championship hopes the year before, the Patriots were able to overcome it in 2007.
Although the Patriots are notoriously guarded about how much the public knows about their players' ailments, quarterback Tom Brady was apparently suffering some symptoms when he led the Patriots over the San Diego Chargers to win the AFC Championship, 21-12.
Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman was also apparently suffering from the flu in the loss.
In the week leading up to the Super Bowl, several members of the New York Giants, among them starting cornerback Aaron Ross, suffered some of the symptoms.
But it seemed everyone had recovered in time for Super Bowl XLII, a memorable game in which the Giants emerged victorious, 17-14.
Magic Johnson: 1988 NBA Finals
Michael Jordan may be the most famous example of a flu sufferer to help lead his team to the title, but he wasn't the first.
After the Lakers captured the NBA championship in 1987, Lakers coach Pat Riley promised the fans of Los Angeles that he would deliver it to them again the next year.
But fulfilling that wouldn't be easy. The Lakers finished the season with the best record in the NBA, but it took them the full seven games to beat the Utah Jazz and the Dallas Mavericks in the playoffs.
The Lakers met the Pistons in the Finals, only to lose Game 1, followed by their star point guard, Magic Johnson, coming down with the flu.
But Johnson was able to play, delivering 23 points and 11 assists in Game 2, which the Lakers won 108-96, and came up with 18 points, 14 assists in Game 3 to help the Lakers triumph, 99-86.
The series remained tight, but the Lakers ultimately beat the Pistons, 4-3, to deliver on Pat Riley's promise and win their second consecutive title.
Elvis Stojko: 1998 Nagano Olympics
A number of athletes caught the flu bug during the winter games, a problem no doubt exacerbated because of the close living conditions in the athlete's village.
A number of athletes were forced to withdraw or finished well below expectations, including German figure skater Tanja Szewczenko, Canadian figure skaters Marie-Claude Savard-Gagnon and Luc Bradet, and Norwegian speedskater Aadne Sondral.
But perhaps the most prominent athlete to catch the flu was Canadian figure skater Elvis Stojko.
Having won the silver medal in Men's Singles at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, Stojko was among the favorites to take the gold at Nagano.
Stojko had a minor groin pull beforehand, which he said was exacerbated by the flu, both of which worked against him.
While he was able to capture the silver medal again, he blames the illness for keeping him from gold.
Chris Weinke: 2000 Florida vs. Florida State
Chris Weinke brought Florida State to three straight national championship games as their starting quarterback from 1998 to 2000.
The Seminoles won the 1999 Sugar Bowl, emerging as the national championships.
But their bid to repeat appeared to suffer a setback as Weinke came down with the flu just before their 2000 season-ending game against their archrival, the Florida Gators.
They needn't have worried, as Weinke threw three touchdown passes and Florida State annihilated Florida 30-7 to advance to the Orange Bowl, where the championship would be decided.
Despite Weinke's heroics, Florida State was not able to repeat as national champions, falling to Oklahoma 13-2 in the Orange Bowl.
Weinke was awarded the Heisman Trophy, given to college football's best player, at the end of the season.
1918-19 Stanley Cup
The influenza outbreak of 1918-19 killed 50 million people--more than three times the number killed in World War I.
Many sporting events were able to continue that year--the Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 in 1918 to win their last World Series for a long time--but others ended up bowing out due to the tragic international epidemic.
The Stanley Cup final in March of 1919 pitted the Seattle Metropolitans against the Montreal Canadiens.
The teams played five games in a best of five, but with one game ending in a tie, the series was knotted at two wins apiece headed into the decisive game.
However, a number of Canadiens players had caught the flu at that point. While they attempted to forfeit the series, the Metropolitans did not accept, and so the series was called off.
Joe Hall, a defenseman for the Canadians, died from pneumonia--a complication from the flu--just a few days after the series was cancelled.
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Skyjacker Returns Once More To Kickstarter
Colourful co-op space-combat game Skyjacker looks fantastic, frankly, but even its good looks and space charm hasn't yet managed to guide it through a successful Kickstarter. Could the third time by the charm? They're hoping so, not least because the game is almost finished this time around: "All we need to complete now is mission assembly, multiplayer stress testing, voice work and localization, and that last 5% of art content."
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The context/environment section includes four modules. The first module presents information from the Study of Personnel Needs in Special Education (SPeNSE). The second provides information from the Special Education Expenditure Project (SEEP). The third module analyzes data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) to discuss children with disabilities in low-income families. Developmental delay is the focus of the fourth module.
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- SPeNSE was designed to describe the quality of personnel serving students with disabilities and the factors associated with workforce quality.
- SPeNSE data show that the nation's special education teachers, as a group, are highly experienced, averaging 14.3 years of teaching in 1999-2000; 12.3 of those years were spent teaching special education.
- SPeNSE data show that 59% of special education teachers had a master's degree, compared to 49% of regular education teachers.
- SPeNSE data tested five teacher-quality factors: experience, credentials, self-efficacy, professionalism, and selected classroom practices. Experience proved to be the strongest of the factors in this first analysis.
What Are We Spending on Special Education Services in the United States, 1999-2000?
- This module is based on descriptive information derived from SEEP.
- Data from SEEP indicate that the total spending to educate the average student with a disability amounts to $12,639. Total special education spending alone accounts for 13.9% of the $360.6 billion total spent on elementary and secondary education in the United States.
- In constant dollars, total spending on special education (excluding Other Special Needs Program Services) has increased from an average of $9,858 per pupil in 1985-86 to $12,474 in 1999-2000, an annualized growth rate of 0.7%.
- During the 1999-2000 school year, over 80% of total special education expenditures were allocated to direct instruction and related services.
Children With Disabilities in Low-Income Families: An Analysis of Data From the ECLS-K
- Child poverty has implications for the field of special education because it can affect children's health and behavior, as well as their cognitive development and academic achievement.
- A third of mothers of poor children with individualized education programs (IEPs) did not finish high school, compared with 7% of mothers of nonpoor children with IEPs.
- While single parenthood and lower parental educational attainment are by no means found exclusively among poor families, these demographic characteristics are strongly associated with poverty.
- Poverty alone had a negative effect on teacher ratings of approaches to learning.
Use of the Developmental Delay Classification for Children Ages 3Through 9
- The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Amendments of 1997 expanded the age range to which developmental delay may apply to cover ages 3 through 9. By 2000-01, 20 states had expanded their age range above age 5, although not necessarily for the entire 6-through-9 age range.
- States report that using developmental delay through age 9 allows for continuity of services throughout the developmental years without a stigmatizing label that may be associated with a specific disability category.
- State-reported data suggest that there has been no surge in the number of children reported to be receiving services under IDEA and that use of the developmental delay option steadily decreases as chronological age increases.
Section II-Student Characteristics
This section contains information about the characteristics of children and students receiving services under IDEA. The populations reported are children and families entering early intervention, preschoolers, and students ages 6 through 21. Data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2 (NLTS2) make up the final module.
Infants and Toddlers Served Under IDEA
- According to the 2000 child count data, 63% of the children served under Part C were classified as White (non-Hispanic); 17% were Hispanic; 16% were Black (non-Hispanic); 4% were Asian/Pacific Islander; and 1% were American Indian/Alaska Native.
- During the 1999-2000 reporting period, states reported that 68% of all early intervention services took place in the home, compared with 63% served in 1998-99 and 53% in 1995-96, before enactment of the IDEA Amendments of 1997.
- During this second year of collecting exit data, states continued to report eligibility for Part B as the most common reason for exit.
Preschoolers Served Under IDEA
- For the 2000-01 school year, states reported serving 599,678 children ages 3 through 5 with disabilities under IDEA, up from 589,134 in 1999-2000.
- Speech or language impairment was the most prevalent disability category, accounting for 55.2% of all preschoolers served in 2000-01.
- White (non-Hispanic) preschoolers were overrepresented in the Part B population. Asian/Pacific Islander and, especially, Hispanic children were underrepresented among the preschoolers served under IDEA.
Students Ages 6 Through 21 Served Under IDEA
- The 5,775,722 students ages 6 through 21 served under Part B represented 8.8% of the U.S. resident population in 2000-01.
- Specific learning disabilities, speech or language impairments, mental retardation, and emotional disturbance continued to account for the majority of students served under IDEA.
- White students made up 62.3% of the students served; 19.8% were Black; 14.5% were Hispanic; 1.9% were Asian/Pacific Islander; and 1.5% were American Indian/Alaska Native.
- In 2000-01, the rank ordering of the top five disability categories was nearly identical for all racial/ethnic groups; however, students from some racial/ethnic groups were overrepresented or underrepresented in specific disability categories when compared with the IDEA student population as a whole.
A Changing Population: Individual and Household Characteristics of High School Students With Disabilities
- This study, which is modeled on NLTS, will follow secondary-school-age students through their mid-20s, collecting data on their secondary school experiences and achievements and how those influenced their postschool outcomes.
- The population of high school students receiving special education in 2001 more closely mirrored the racial/ethnic distribution of the general population than had been true in 1987.
- High-school-age students with disabilities in 2001 were first identified as having a disability or delay significantly earlier than were their peers in 1987.
- The decline in the average age at first identification of a disability that was noted for students with disabilities as a whole resulted from statistically significant reductions in age for students in four disability categories-learning disabilities, emotional disturbance, and orthopedic and other health impairments-ranging from almost 10 to 18 months.
Section III-Programs and Services
The four modules in the section examine some of the programs and services available within schools for children and youth with disabilities and their families. The first module uses data from SPeNSE to discuss the quantity and quality of school-based speech-language pathologists. The module on social adaptation and problem behaviors of elementary and middle school students receiving special education reports data from the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study (SEELS). The next module, educational environments, contains state-reported data on the settings in which children and youth receive services. The last module in this section describes SLIIDEA (State and Local Implementation and Impact of IDEA) and presents preliminary findings.
Ensuring an Adequate Supply of High-Quality, School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists
- Because so many students with disabilities require speech-language services, ensuring an adequate supply of high-quality speech-language pathologists is crucial to the success of the students served under IDEA.
- Having an adequate supply of school-based speech-language pathologists is as important as the quality of those available because shortages typically force administrators to hire less qualified individuals.
- Speech-language pathologists devoted an average of 7.1 hours per week to completing paperwork, 4.6 hours per week to preparing services, 1.8 to sharing expertise with colleagues, 1.7 to reading background material, and 0.9 hours per week to communicating with parents.
- School-based speech-language pathologists rated their skills in a few areas as relatively low, suggesting a need for professional development in using technology in instruction, accommodating diverse students' needs, supervising paraprofessionals, using literature to address problems, and managing student behavior.
Social Adaptation and Problem Behaviors of Elementary and Middle School Students Receiving Special Education
- The importance of behavior itself as an outcome, as well as its role as a mediating factor in many other important outcome domains, made it a priority area to address in OSEP's national assessment, including SEELS.
- SEELS data showed that students with learning, speech, hearing, vision, and orthopedic impairments received positive marks from parents and teachers in assertion, self-control, and cooperation.
- Social development is a key outcome for many students with disabilities, and concerns about school safety and discipline generally have been increasing in recent years.
- According to parents, 14% of students with disabilities in elementary and middle school had been expelled or suspended at some point in their school careers.
Educational Environments for Students With Disabilities
- In 1999-2000, 95.9% of students with disabilities were served in regular school buildings; of those students, 47.3% were served outside of the regular classroom for less than 21% of the school day.
- Students with low-incidence disabilities are less likely to spend the majority of their school day in the regular classroom, while the majority of students with learning disabilities and speech language impairments are served in the regular classroom.
- It is possible that the differences in placement by race/ethnicity may reflect the disproportional representation of some minority groups in disability categories that are predominantly served in more restrictive settings.
Study of State and Local Implementation and Impact of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act: A View From the Field of District Implementation
- SLIIDEA's charge is to understand both the implementation and impact of policy changes made in the IDEA Amendments of 1997 at the state, district, and school levels.
- The SLIIDEA study is collecting data over a 5-year period by means of mail surveys at the state, district, and school levels and through focus studies of the implementation of IDEA in selected school districts.
- Districts that showed evidence of use of a comprehensive range of implementation tools, a consistent relationship between stated policies and activities, consistency across stakeholders on the knowledge base and skills required for implementation, and stakeholder satisfaction were more likely to have fewer students living in poverty, be smaller, and be suburban.
Section IV-Results
This section of the annual report contains three modules. The modules describe high school graduation among students with disabilities, data from the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study on the results experienced by children and families 1 year after beginning early intervention, and state improvement and monitoring activities.
High School Graduation Among Students With Disabilities
- In 1999-2000, the standard diploma graduation rate for students with disabilities age 14 and older was 56.2%.
- The graduation rate was highest, and the dropout rate lowest, for White and Asian/Pacific Islander students.
- Improvements in the dropout rate took place in almost every disability category, most notably among students with speech/language impairments, specific learning disabilities, orthopedic impairments, hearing impairments, and emotional disturbance.
Results Experienced by Children and Families 1 Year After Beginning Early Intervention
- Children in all age groups are advancing developmentally, with significantly higher percentages of children in each group showing mastery of selected milestones 1 year after entering early intervention.
- Notably, for all four age groups, after 1 year, significantly more families felt confident about their ability to help their child learn and develop.
- Families report that their child's communication and motor skills have improved, and over two thirds of families report that early intervention has had a lot of impact on the child's development.
- Families of nearly all children in early intervention reported that their children had a place to go for regular medical care; there has been no change in this variable since the first year in early intervention.
State Improvement and Monitoring
- OSEP has redesigned its accountability system into a Continuous Improvement Monitoring Process (CIMP) that incorporates strategies designed to foster greater state accountability, increase parental involvement, establish a data-driven process to inform improvement planning, and ensure public awareness and dissemination.
- OSEP is assisting states in completing self-assessments, designing and implementing effective improvement plans, and obtaining data to support program accountability.
- OSEP is working with states to develop procedures leading to effective transition, including the development of shared data systems to track children as they move through transition activities.
- Implementation of the CIMP has increased accountability of states, ensured public involvement and input, focused on processes with the strongest relationship to positive results, created mechanisms for making data-driven decisions, and increased emphasis on improving results for children with disabilities and their families.


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159.9 kcal/100g Carbohydrate
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Protein: 21.51, Fat: 35.58, Carbohydrates: 42.91
Turkey, Brewers Rice, Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, Potato, Ground Whole Grain Barley, Chicken Meal, Fish Meal, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Dried Beet Pulp, Chicken Flavor, Dried Egg Product, Fish Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Potassium Chloride, Brewers Dried Yeast, Salt, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid, Beta-Carotene, Vitamin A Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of vitamin B1), Niacin, Riboflavin Supplement (source of vitamin B2), Inositol, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of vitamin B6), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid), Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Choline Chloride, Dicalcium Phosphate, Minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Potassium Iodide, Cobalt Carbonate), DL-Methionine, Rosemary Extract.
Nutrient (percent)
Crude Protein not less than 23.00 %
Crude Fat not less than 14.00 %
Crude Fiber not more than 4.00 %
Moisture not more than 10.00 %
Vitamin E not less than 140 IU/kg
Omega-6 Fatty Acids not less than 1.75 %*
Omega-3 Fatty Acids not less than 0.30 %*
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First ingredient is a named meat product
Inadequate meat content, some low quality grains; controversial filler
The first ingredient in the food is a named meat product. This is not a meal ingredient. It is inclusive of water content (about 80%). Once that is removed, as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. Ingredients are listed in order of weight, and the dehydrated ingredient would probably be more accurately placed much further down the ingredient list. It is highly unlikely that this ingredient makes any significant contribution to the overall meat content of the food.
There are two meat meal ingredients in the food - 6th & 7th on the ingredient list. It is likely that these ingredients, rather than the wet-weight meat listed at the head of the ingredient list, make up the largest meat portion in the food. Aside from being a different species from that indicated on the packaging, it is also very unlikely that this product contains a great deal of meat at all.
The major ingredients in the food are, in fact, grains. This is disappointing in a dog food product as grains are not a natural part of a canine diet. Of these grains, sorghum and barley are decent quality, but brewers rice is a low quality waste product.
We note that the product contains fish meal, but find no sign on the manufacturer's website of a guarantee that only ethoxyquin-free protein ingredients are used in this food (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative, commonly added to fish ingredients, and that is banned or heavily regulated in human food due to the belief that it is carcinogenic).
Beet pulp is controversial filler. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
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8:23AM PST - Alright everybody, we're kicking off over here at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Be sure to book mark this URL, as even though we're doing a little pre-game coverage now, this is where it's all gonna go down when Steve takes the stage at 10:00AM.
8:25AM - Appleprechauns!
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Yeah, it was rubbish.
I realize I should qualify this: in my opinion, it was rubbish. But really, I'm surprised by how much rubbish I think it is. I'm the girl that finds positive points in anything (*cough Agent Cody Banks, Percy Jackson, Last Holiday cough*), and it was very difficult to find positives for this. Particularly because it falls on the day that the Academy Award nominations were released, because this was nominated for 'Best Picture.' Sure it was pretty, decent talent I suppose, lovely shots, so there may be something there for cinematography, and the sounds of battle were great, so sure, sound mixing...I could see that... but BEST PICTURE?! No.
I found it so indulgent. So superfluous, over the top cheesetastic...and I love cheese! Of all sorts! And this was just wretched. If there was one more shot of pondering in the sunset, or staring deeply into eyes, or a 'change of heart' from the hard army man (seriously, how many times did that happen?), or ceremony for the relationship-- the one near the end where the whole army posse gives him thirty pounds to buy the horse... ugh... indulgent. Cheese.
Now, I'll hold up on the rant and just focus on a couple of film/structural things that stood out.
Tone: I felt like it wasn't sure what kind of film it was trying to be. It had the tone of Babe at times, with the goofy goose and the wire cutters getting chucked over the barrack wall... but really, with the emotion and seriousness that this film was trying (trying...so hard...) to get across, I think it should have been more towards the Saving Private Ryan tone. There were gorgeous moments in Saving Private Ryan that reflected humanity, the horrors of war, the desolation and destruction, and also some very clever, humorous moments. I think War Horse could have done that, and it was a missed opportunity. Instead it went to Cheeseville.
It was just godawful "I'm gonna try to force you to cry... watch me! Here! I'll swell some music! Here! I'll throw in another sunset! How about a 'sick' little girl falling in love with the horse (I say 'sick' because really, she coughed once in the last scene we saw of her... other than that, she ran around, trained a horse, made jam...)" Right... I'll stop there... you see my point, I hope.
Loose ends (it's entirely possible I missed their conclusion and it's my mistake; I was catatonic by the end):
1. The guy in the beginning who had the silk lining in his hat... Is there a reason we spent so much time getting to know him? And had a parting shot of him in the back of the ambulance?
2. His friend in the barracks? We assume he died, right?
3. The rich ass of a landlord-- any comeuppance?
4. The pretty girl in the car-- I can only assume that the fact Rich Boy didn't remember her name was to add to his own character of rich, haughty, and takes things for granted. But why did the girl keep getting brought up?
5. The sketch in his pocket- why didn't they pull that out when he was trying to prove the horse was his? And if they weren't going to use it, why show us his effort to fish it out of the bucket and put it back in his pocket? So we can see that he loves the horse? Yeah... instead of using the picture, instead we'll just wash off the socks...one by one... insanely slowly... and then pondering.... pondering ever so much.... wiping off the mud.... on the horse's face... to see... if... there... was .... a .... star... GAHH Just do it already!! Yeah... issues.
Pacing: As demonstrated in the above section. It was so slow. Really could have been tightened. Every time the horse went somewhere else I sighed; another location? How long 'til he's home? Cause I wanna go home...
Sorry, it was rather rubbish. I'm nervous about Irvine as Pip in the upcoming Great Expectations. Although perhaps it was the wretched, schmaltzy script, as that certainly didn't do him any favors, but his performance was rather one note-- simple, good boy, a little weepy, and can't play "angry" very well.
The girl in France (?); she was beautiful, and this was her first film... but yeah, all the slack I'm gonna cut her. Her accent was wretched and performance just so melodramatic...
The horse was great.
The girl in France (?); she was beautiful, and this was her first film... but yeah, all the slack I'm gonna cut her. Her accent was wretched and performance just so melodramatic...
The horse was great.
Right, I'm a poor sport on this one. It happens so bloody rarely, normally I like films and can find shiny happy things to each production. War Horse, however.... I felt the need to tilt my head and make a massive "barooooo" sound at my utter disbelief, and slight loss of faith, in the Academy for nominated this self-indulgent, superfluous cheese.
Also seen recently:
Iron Lady. Meryl Streep was bloody brilliant. I wasn't a huge fan of the film; the story or the camera work, but she was fab.
Ides of March: SO good. Great script, great performances, I was rather riveted.
My Week with Marilyn: Similar to Iron Lady, the story was a bit weak; it just kind of rolled, with little through-line to hang the rest of the film on, but hot damn was Michelle Williams amazing. The opening footage- I didn't know if it was her, or stock footage of Marilyn. Brilliant.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Rooney Mara was amazing. And I LOVED how much ass she kicked. Daniel Craig was quite literally playing the hot side-piece role. How many times is the girl cast as a pretty thing that they might throw one or two capabilities to her in order to make her seem 'confident' or 'strong'; but in this, Lisbeth was the kick-ass, smart, street-wise, kind, capable badass. Yes, tortured past, and could be very, very difficult to watch at times, but she was bloody brilliant. Great character, and great performance. And James Bond got to play a Bond Girl sidekick.
Sherlock 2: Meh. I'll watch Robert Downey Jr. in anything, and this was pretty, and fun, and a romping good time, but the story was silly. It just kept being 'convenient' that they got out of scrapes, and there wasn't a ton to figure out in this. Yes there was the 'face twist' at the end, but mostly it was just chasing a baddie in a foreign land. Really? That's it? Yup. That's it.
Right, that'll do for now, yes? Sorry for the long delay-- things are going well with Elfin, the PhD is still rolling, and my international travel for my university is picking up quite a bit-- all is well in the world, but busy as anything!


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Recently, fi360 CEO Blaine Aikin wrote a column for InvestmentNews about the AICPA's Code of Professional Conduct. Aikin focused on the opening line of accountants' code, which precedes obligations to each other as professionals and to their clients. That first line reads: "As professionals, certified public accountants perform an essential role in society."
According to Aikin, that stated goal "helps explain why accountants have the highest rating among financial occupations in terms of the public's perceptions of trustworthiness. […] By accentuating the word 'professional' and reminding practitioners that their conduct affects more than themselves, their clients and their profession, the bar is set high for what is expected of those who agree to abide by the code."
Aikin's thoughts made me curious about how other professionals saw themselves in the larger context of society. Through the miracle of the Internet, I was able to get a pretty clear picture of the role that doctors and lawyers are expected to play. I would have said "quickly found," but it seems that when professionals muse about something of importance, they tend to muse a lot.
Following a nice treatise on why the Hippocratic Oath, written over 2,000 years ago, has become outdated (go figure), I found a more modern nine-point Principles of Medical Ethics by the American Medical Association. As you might imagine, lawyers' rules for professional conduct are a bit more extensive: Just the preamble to the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct contains 13 points.
Still, both standards contain plenty of fodder for Aikin's "higher bar," and provide a stark contrast to the standards in the financial advisory profession: the CFP Board's Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility and the FPA's Standard of Care. It's no coincidence that the omissions from the advisory industry's standards are also lacking from the current discussions in Washington about advisor reregulation and expanding the fiduciary duty: an underlying sense that professional financial advice is essential to a modern society. It's also not surprising. If advisors don't see themselves this way, it's highly unlikely that anyone else will either.
It seems that other major professions do see themselves as not only providing valuable services, but contributing a great good to society. Of the nine points in the American Medical Association's Principles of Medical Ethics, three of them address a physician's larger role:
- A physician shall continue to study, apply and advance scientific knowledge; maintain a commitment to medical education; and make relevant information available to patients, colleagues and the public.
- A physician shall recognize a responsibility to participate in activities contributing to the improvement of the community and the betterment of public health.
- A physician shall support access to medical care for all people.
Adherence to these principles is a commitment not only to put their patients' interests ahead of their own, but the interests of society, as well.
Of the 13 points in the preamble to the ABA's model rules, four address larger duties such as improving access to the law, the administration of justice and the quality of service. The first rule notes lawyers' "special responsibility":
- A lawyer, as a member of the legal profession, is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.
Let's contrast these standards (and the AICPA's as described by Aikin), with the FPA and CFP Board codes. Here's the CFP Board's Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility for financial planners:
- Integrity: Provide professional services with integrity. Integrity demands honesty and candor, which must not be subordinated to personal gain and advantage.
- Objectivity: Provide professional services objectively. Objectivity requires intellectual honesty and impartiality.
- Competence: Maintain the knowledge and skill necessary to provide professional services competently.
- Fairness: Be fair and reasonable in all professional relationships. Disclose conflicts of interest. Fairness requires impartiality, intellectual honesty and disclosure of material conflicts of interest.
- Confidentiality: Protect the confidentiality of all client information. Confidentiality means ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to have access.
- Professionalism: Act in a manner that demonstrates exemplary professional conduct. Professionalism requires behaving with dignity and courtesy to clients, fellow professionals and others in business-related activities.
- Diligence: Provide professional services diligently. Diligence is the provision of services in a reasonably prompt and thorough manner, including the proper planning for, and supervision of, the rendering of professional services.
Notice the Board's sixth principle, Professionalism. Here's where financial planners might have committed to going beyond clients, peers or "business-related" activities. Yet, the planning profession remains silent on contributing to the greater good and, more importantly, seeing the role of financial planners as important to making our society work in an economically fair and just way.
The FPA Standard of Care manages to make the same omissions much more concisely:
"Whereas the public expects to experience a high level of confidence, trust and clarity in relationships with professionals trained in the distinct process and discipline of financial planning, it is essential that they obtain a commitment of professional care, quality and excellence in the services they receive. All financial planning services will be delivered in accordance with the following standard of care:
- Put the client's best interests first.
- Act with due care and in utmost good faith.
- Do not mislead clients.
- Provide full and fair disclosure of all material facts.
- Disclose and fairly manage all material conflicts of interest."
The underlying theme in the codes of conduct of the legal, medical and accounting professions is that the actions taken by these professionals, due to their specialized knowledge and experience, play an essential role in our society and to the people in it. The same should be said for a profession of financial advice.
In fairness, both the CFP Board and the FPA mention the public expectation of a high level of confidence in their financial planner, but the focus is still myopically on the advisor/client relationship. What's missing is an appreciation of how important access to competent, professional advice is to the well-being of those clients and society. Citizens who manage their finances effectively not only don't drain on our collective resources, they are in a much better position to support others who are not so fortunate, starting with aging parents, children and grandchildren. They are in a better position to invest in their communities through charities and through investments in businesses that hire people.
In today's complex world, most people need help planning for their future, supporting their dependents, allocating their resources and managing their financial risks. Professional financial advisors play an essential role in helping people do that. But until financial advisors stop viewing themselves as the final link in the product distribution chain and take responsibility for the vital role they play in people's lives, they—and their clients—will continue to be plagued by regulations based on "business model neutrality" and "suitability" standards.


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Friday at the Game Developers Conference found Kotaku's newshounds still hard at work in the city by the bay, getting their hands and eyes on everything being discussed and displayed at the year's first major games industry conference.
The conference is scheduled to last through tomorrow, but that won't be the end of news coming back from San Francisco, For now, here's a roundup of the past 24 hours at GDC 2011.
The Games
Dead Island snapped us to attention with a harrowing trailer showing a little girl, infected by zombies, flung to her death by her own father. But that family's story will not be in the game, the developer told Kotaku.
Earth Defense Force is gunning for a campy, B-movie feel in its tale of humans versus invading space-bugs, right down to the death and destruction. "Buildings crumble dynamically and more believably. Spectacularly? Not quite, as they fall apart with B-movie realism," writes Michael McWhertor in his impressions.
5th Cell is known as the studio behind the Scribblenauts franchise. Hybrid is anything but whimsical or light-hearted. Stephen Totilo got a look at a game that intends to change how cover-based shooters are played..
Video and Screens
Minecraft's Creator: No Sequel | Dark Souls | Previously: inFamous 2 | Resistance 3 | Battlefield 3 | The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
GDC Days One and Two
Battlefield 3's Preview | Super Mario is teased for the 3DS | inFamous 2 will have a level editor | Dead Island draws on the best of a zombie decade | Resistance 3 is a more personal struggle | Our full Day One report | Day Two
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This year stretched the imaginations of many astronomers and cosmologists. They have discovered amazing features at the outer reaches of the universe.
This discovery is a huge problem for evolutionary timescales. These galaxies exist when, according to big bang cosmology, they shouldn't have had time to form.
For nearly two centuries, the planet Mars has captured the imagination of Earth-bound astronomers. The Red Planet displays intriguing features and ever-changing conditions.
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SUNDAY GRAVY: UConn football not known for producing NFL stars
Driving to New Jersey on Friday morning, I was reminded of a magazine article I once read ranking the four most scenic drives in New England.
Along with country roads in Vermont, Maine and the Berkshires, the writer listed the Merritt Parkway in Fairfield County.
But it sure didn't feel very serene sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic from the no-exit zone through Stamford. Granted, there was ample time to fawn over the spring foliage (as seen through a fine mist of exhaust fumes). I was just too busy yanking out fistfuls of my own hair to notice.
- Since joining the Big East in football, UConn has been quite successful in churning out NFL draft picks. Entering this year, only Pittsburgh (20) and Louisville (18) had more drafted players than UConn's 15 during that time frame.
But success in the NFL has been a far different story for UConn.
Only Tyvon Branch has emerged as a true star. The Raiders placed a franchise tag on the safety in March, guaranteeing him $6.2 million this season to keep him off the free agent market.
Fullback Anthony Sherman had a strong rookie season for Arizona, and is expected to again have a key role in the inglorious position of blocking back this fall.
Dan Orlovsky is a legitimate NFL player, but his value remains as a backup. Donald Brown (first round) and Darius Butler (second round) have been part-time starters, but, given their status as top draft picks, considered disappointments so far.
Offensive linemen Will Beatty and Donald Thomas were once starters, but, like receiver Marcus Easley, had promising careers sidetracked by injury.
All indications are that Kendall Reyes, a second-round pick of the Chargers and behind only Brown and Butler as the highest-drafted Huskies, has what it takes to make a name for himself. It's just not as easy as it sounds.
- Reyes may well displace ex-Southern Connecticut State star Jacques Cesaire in the San Diego defensive line rotation. Cesaire, who turns 32 in August and about to begin his 10th NFL season, has been invaluable to the Chargers since being signed as an undrafted free agent in 2003.
- When Jon Gruden goes for a haircut, do you think he just tells the barber, "Give me the Alfalfa?"
- Yankees general manager Brian Cashman publically stated he doesn't blame the Seattle Mariners for knowingly selling him damaged goods in Michael Pineda.
But some of his comments suggest that he's at the very least considered the notion.
Cashman, in an ESPN article, said he asked Pineda "several times" if he'd ever had an MRI in Seattle. Not once, not twice, but several times. This is notable because the Yankees already had his medical records, which would include results from any MRIs or scans.
And while Cashman has repeatedly accepted blame for the deal -- "I'm responsible. I'm the decision maker," he's done it in a manner that suggests he should have known better.
Perhaps we're reading a bit too much into Cashman's comments. But let's see how long it takes for the Yankees to make a deal with the Mariners again.
- Quinnipiac alum Lauren Rubino scored a small victory for fans against obnoxious, Internet-trolling team executives.
The Florida Panthers playoff run revived an old team tradition of fans throwing rubber rats onto the ice after victories. But some were thrown during the game, a rules violation that could have resulted in a penalty to the home team.
Michael Yormark, the Panthers team president, claimed sabotage by New Jersey Devils fans. Rubino, a Devils fan, took to Twitter to criticize him. Yormark responded to Rubino by tweeting, "You have 70 followers. No one cares what you think."
It sparked a backlash against Yormark while Rubino's Twitter followers ballooned to nearly 5,000, surpassing Yormark's count of 3,400.
Yormark apologized, and even flew Rubino and her father from New Jersey to Miami to watch Thursday night's Game 7 from his suite.
- Since we last week criticized John Sterling's penchant for calling baseball games with roughly the same level of accuracy as Mr. Magoo, let's today give credit to a Yankees broadcaster where it's due.
Michael Kay took a break from cracking himself up with his own jokes to stick it to a couple with cutting precision at the Yankees-Rangers game on Wednesday. Right or wrong, I loved Kay's take on what was happening.
Certainly, you saw the clip of the pair snagging a ball lofted toward a 3-year old and then posing for cell phone pictures with that ball, willfully ignoring the bawling toddler sitting right next to them.
The couple now says they would have given the ball to the child had they known he was there. Of course. It's not like they were, I don't know, sitting right next to him for an entire baseball game or anything.
There are situations in life you can't help but to be aware. Sitting directly beside a toddler is one of those situations. I do it every day. It's like having a 30-pound live fish flopping around on the chair next to you.
- Southern Connecticut State's promising defensive back Dion O'Joe may have the greatest football name in the history of the sport.
- We send out condolences to the family of Al Bike, who passed away this week at age 98. Al Bike, father of Sacred Heart men's basketball coach Dave Bike, was an outstanding amateur baseball player and bowler in Bridgeport who helped organize the Springwood Athletic Club and saved Pony League baseball from disbandment in the city in the early 1960s. He and his wife of 71 years, Mary, who died in March at age 94, were fixtures at Sacred Heart basketball games.
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Maybe not all devices like the use of the NMI signal. Not sure if that is the problem with PlayCity (don't have one).
Pokes using the CPCEMU poke database format would be awesome, especially if the M4 remembers the name of the last runned game to position to the first letter of the poke database or even the good name of the database.
I have started to use directories, in the web page if I have moved into a directory, a file uploaded will still be at the root of the SD. Would it be possible to upload to the current directory on the web page ?
nice job Duke with beta 7I have some graphic color bugs when I'm using the snapshot function on my CPC6128 CRTC1 .and when I'm typing the filename on my CPC, it is running too fast, to all my letters entries are double. I have to press each keys very fast.TTEESSTT.SSNNAA
Users always ask for more so mayke a AZERTY keyboard support in hack menu, or a way to launch hack menu from the CPC itself would be great but anyway here is a huge thank you for your work!!
The PlayCity can use the NMI by itself (not used by default though). So maybe there is a hardware interference. I do have one and can run tests if needed.
And yeah, I may add so an external switch can be connected to one of the GPIO pads. of the top connector.
M4 Firmware v2.0.5 beta 7 now available.Download here: http://www.spinpoint.org/cpc/M4FIRM_v205b7.zipNew feature is Hack MenuThis will allow you to save snapshots (SNA's) while playing games and other things.Also possible to load snapshots from it.Later if there is enough interest, I can add stuff like: PokesHex editorScreenshotIt is very beta atm. so probably full of bugs See video here for usage:https://youtu.be/N2Vdeu-x1moHappy new year !
So for example if I run the Pinball Fantasies preview and click Hack Menu the menu never appears.
Whereas with other games it took a while for it to appear. Not sure if this is because I'm using a C4CPC cart as didn't test without.
One further piece of feedback is that shifted characters on the number keys don't appear to work. Some of my snapshot file names have brackets so I couldn't type those file names as shift+8 just generates an 8.
Great starting point though and a great dev tool ultimately for debug like the HackIt for Siren Software back in the day.
Is it just Pinball Fantasies, or was it failing to start up with other games too? (examples appreciated, so I can test).
Slow depends a bit on your microSD card speed. When the hack menu is activated, memory will be written to the microSD. With a class 10 microSD card which I use, this takes about 1 second all in all.It may take longer with older microSD's, which may be the reason for the slowness you experince?
The method goes like this:When "Hack Menu" is activated, NMI is triggered along with RAMDIS and ROMDIS and M4 maps the lowerrom/ram area with its own dynamic rom "hack rom" (containing the menu code, save code etc).Z80 registers are stored via M4 commands to the hack rom (hence dynamic) and 16 bytes of ram is used aswell (0xFFF0) as this is thrashed anyway when using the sna loader.CRTC, Gate Array, PSG, Romsel and PPI registers are watched by the M4 core handler when the CPC is running at all time, and copied into the hack rom, when the NMI is triggered.At entry RAM is saved to a temporary file, so the menu can use the screen to show registeres, menu options etc.At exit, RAM is reloaded and a minimal exit routine is written to 0xFFF0 (so both upper and lower roms can be disabled if RMR had them disabled) that resumes the game/whatever was running.
I'm guessing that this won't work for Plus cartridge titles as you're not storing the ASIC registers etc?
MEMORY &33FF:LOAD"FLASHALL.Z80",&3400does not work. Instead of loading the file, the memory remains to be filled with zeros.Here is the DSK (you can look inside file DISC.BAS beginning at line: 3050).
A quick look at the file "FLASHALL.Z80", the AMSDOS header has file size set to 0 (offset 19 and 20). According to Soft 968:"Data length 19...20 As per cassette"So if it loads using a real disc drive, I guess I should not be using those fields, with cas_in_direct.
Ah that explains it! Filesize is only important for few files. All disc routines do read the number of blocks or number of records from the directory entry. Can you make the M4 loading routine compatible with that?
But most people probably are doing gaming.
Ah that explains it! Filesize is only important for few files. All disc routines do read the number of blocks or number of records from the directory entry. Can you make the M4 loading routine compatible with that? Would be easy, if file size is set to zero, then check if the directory entry has blocks and how much. Lots of assemblers do save a binary file with file size 0, because they just don't know the final size of the file.I'm surprised that nobody did find this problem before. But most people probably are doing gaming.
I would like to buy a M4 board to use with my CPC464. So, a question to Duke, is still possible to buy the M4 board?
Duke, how many M4 card have you sold?
Are you thinking for an hardware upgrade to have more functionality? Like more memory, CPC+ cartridges, clocks, etc..
Users always ask for more so mayke a AZERTY keyboard support in hack menu
I'll make the AZERTY scan code table.However I have a question, when reading your QWERTY table, I don't get why for example, line 3, row 2, I find the character " ' " (which should be " \ " ??) and when shifted I read " / ", whereas I should find " ' ".What did I miss?
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Dr. Anne Larsen, professor of French at Hope College, has been awarded the "Translation or Teaching Edition Award" for her book "From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames des Roches."
The University of Chicago Press published the book in its series "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe" in 2006. The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women presented Larsen the award during the annual meeting of the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference in October in Minneapolis, Minn.
The award citation states: "Madeleine (1520-87) and Catherine (1542-87) des Roches, mother and daughter, count among the most celebrated and prolific French women writers of the sixteenth century. Members of the emerging urban elite in a society torn by religious wars, the Dames des Roches boldly advocated female education and defended women's right to participate in poetic and political discourse. Anne R. Larsen's introduction to her exemplary bilingual edition clearly elucidates the historical context in which these early modern intellectuals and proto-feminists flourished."
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women includes scholars and teachers from all disciplines who study women and their contributions to the cultural, political, economic, or social spheres of the early modern period. It consists of an international network of scholars who meet annually, sponsor sessions at conferences, maintain a listserv and Web site, give awards for outstanding scholarship, and support one another's work in the field.
Larsen was invited this fall to become the secretary of the society for a three-year term (2009-11), and to be nominated to one of its awards committees.
Larsen's translation was made possible through the support of a Jacob E. Nyenhuis Student/Faculty Cooperative Research Summer Grant from Hope during the summer of 1999, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant during the fall of 2004, when she completed the book. During the summer of 1999, Larsen worked with Michael Brinks, a French and Spanish double major who graduated in 2000. Brinks obtained his M.Div at Western Seminary, worked in student ministry, and is now studying at the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University toward a Master of Arts degree in medieval studies.


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USCIS Announces Change to Filing Location for Nepali Adoption Petitions Update
WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced that any U.S. citizen seeking to adopt a Nepali child, whose case is not affected by the suspension of processing of adoption cases involving Nepali children claimed to have been found abandoned, should file the Form I 600, Petition to Classify an Orphan as an Immediate Relative, with the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal.
This change in the filing location for the Form I-600 petitions applies to two groups of prospective adoptive parents who are not affected by the suspension. The first group is those who received a referral letter from the Government of Nepal's Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare before Aug. 6, 2010, informing them of a proposed match of an abandoned child. The second group is those who seek to adopt Nepali children who were relinquished by known parent(s) and whose identity and relationship can be confirmed.
USCIS strongly encourages prospective adoptive parents to follow this procedure for their own benefit, based on growing concerns about unreliable documents, irregularities in the methods used to identify children for adoption in Nepal, and the resulting difficulties in classifying those children as orphans under U.S. immigration law. Please see the Aug. 6, 2010 announcement online regarding the suspension.
To file the Form I-600 petition with the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu, prospective adoptive parents should complete and sign the Form I-600 and send the Form I-600 with all required supporting documents and evidence, other than the adoption or custody decree, to their respective local agency representatives in Nepal. The local agency representatives may then deliver the documents directly to the American Citizen Services Section of the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu. Based on this filing, the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu will then complete the required orphan determination before prospective adoptive parents travel to, or adopt a child in, Nepal.
Following this procedure will protect the interests of the prospective adoptive parents and the children by ensuring that the adoptive children will be eligible to immigrate to the United States before the prospective adoptive parents travel to Nepal and complete the Nepali adoption process.
If, after completing its investigation of the case, the Embassy finds that the child qualifies as an orphan under U.S. immigration law, the prospective adoptive parents will be notified in writing that they may travel to Nepal to complete the adoption process.
For addition information about filing a Form I-600 petition at the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu, please visit www.adoption.state.gov. Guidance for prospective adoptive parents of Nepali children is available online at www.uscis.gov.
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At a Kuwait air base we see "That Others May Live" written on the ground. This is the motto of the Pararescuemen (or 'PJs'), an elite team whose duty it is to rescue downed pilots – often behind enemy lines. They also perform civilian recoveries when the only suitable form of rescue is someone jumping out of a plane to save you. Beside the motto they've also painted bigfoot's footprints, perhaps the logo for an elite team of Pararescue Yeti? Thanks: James Turnbull


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I had so much fun making these Martha Stewart Christmas ornaments with – of all things – office supplies! So easy that kids could make them.
When I say I'm celebrating Christmas with Martha, I don't mean the woman herself – I mean her new Martha Stewart Holiday Home Office line at Staples!
I know I have a lot of 'splaining to do . . . how can I possibly be making DIY Christmas ornaments with office supplies? Well, it's easy when the office supplies look like this:
Staples exclusive line includes wrapping paper, ribbon, gift bags, tissue paper, shipping wrap and tape . . . and more. I was lucky enough to get some samples, and the designs are so, so cute. I LOVE the stripes (of course), and all of the patterns are typical Martha loveliness.
I knew that I'd be doing some serious wrapping and shipping with my goodies, but I also felt the need to craft with it as well. And so some ornaments were born.
Can you believe these started as wrapping supplies? I love my ornaments! Here's how I made them.
Tissue Paper Christmas Ornaments
Gather These Supplies
- Paper mache ornaments – round
- Mod Podge Gloss
- Mod Podge Dimensional Magic
- Martha Stewart Holiday Home Office supplies – tissue paper, gift tags, gift bags or wrapping paper
- FolkArt Extreme Glitter – Hologram
- FolkArt Acrylic paint – Titanium White
- EK Success Large Punch – Ornaments
- Rhinestones – 3 small
- Snowflake button
- Paintbrushes
- Scissors
Paint your paper mache discs with several coats of white paint until fully coated. Then let dry.
For the mitten ornament, give it a few coats of Extreme Glitter in Hologram for the sparkle effect. Let it dry and set aside.
For the "ornament" ornament, you'll want to cut some of the tissue paper into medium squares. Use Mod Podge Gloss to add the squares to the ornament, layering as you go.
Do the front, overlapping edges. Let dry and then turn over and finish the back side.
I used my punch to create teenie ornaments from the stripes. Then I Mod Podged them to the front of the ornament and let dry. I also glued the mitten to the front of the other ornament using Mod Podge.
Add Dimensional Magic to the small ornament shapes as well as to the mitten shape. Place the snowflake button into the wet DM on the mitten, and place the rhinestones into the wet DM on the ornaments. Let them dry overnight.
These Martha Stewart Christmas ornaments whipped up quickly. and I love that they were made from supplies from Staples. These Martha Stewart Holiday Home Office Supplies are so perfect. Simple – stylish – just what you would expect from Martha.
And of course, I won't just be using the Martha Stewart supplies to make things. I have plenty of gifts to give that require cute packaging. This includes hostess gifts like the ones I've already wrapped above. Yay!