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Daniel 5-7 New International Version (NIV)
The Writing on the Wall
5 King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them. 2 While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father[a] had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. 3 So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them. 4 As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.
5 Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. 6 His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were knocking.
7 The king summoned the enchanters, astrologers[b] and diviners. Then he said to these wise men of Babylon, "Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom."
8 Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king what it meant. 9 So King Belshazzar became even more terrified and his face grew more pale. His nobles were baffled.
10 The queen,[c] hearing the voices of the king and his nobles, came into the banquet hall. "May the king live forever!" she said. "Don't be alarmed! Don't look so pale! 11 There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the time of your father he was found to have insight and intelligence and wisdom like that of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers and diviners. 12 He did this because Daniel, whom the king called Belteshazzar, was found to have a keen mind and knowledge and understanding, and also the ability to interpret dreams, explain riddles and solve difficult problems. Call for Daniel, and he will tell you what the writing means."
13 So Daniel was brought before the king, and the king said to him, "Are you Daniel, one of the exiles my father the king brought from Judah? 14 I have heard that the spirit of the gods is in you and that you have insight, intelligence and outstanding wisdom. 15 The wise men and enchanters were brought before me to read this writing and tell me what it means, but they could not explain it. 16 Now I have heard that you are able to give interpretations and to solve difficult problems. If you can read this writing and tell me what it means, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around your neck, and you will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom."
17 Then Daniel answered the king, "You may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the writing for the king and tell him what it means.
18 "Your Majesty, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness and glory and splendor. 19 Because of the high position he gave him, all the nations and peoples of every language dreaded and feared him. Those the king wanted to put to death, he put to death; those he wanted to spare, he spared; those he wanted to promote, he promoted; and those he wanted to humble, he humbled. 20 But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory. 21 He was driven away from people and given the mind of an animal; he lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like the ox; and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and sets over them anyone he wishes.
22 "But you, Belshazzar, his son,[d] have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this. 23 Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways. 24 Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the inscription.
25 "This is the inscription that was written:
mene, mene, tekel, parsin
26 "Here is what these words mean:
Mene[e]: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
27 Tekel[f]: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.
28 Peres[g]: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."
29 Then at Belshazzar's command, Daniel was clothed in purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
30 That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians,[h] was slain, 31 and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two.[i]
Daniel in the Den of Lions
6 [j]It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom, 2 with three administrators over them, one of whom was Daniel. The satraps were made accountable to them so that the king might not suffer loss. 3 Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. 4 At this, the administrators and the satraps tried to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government affairs, but they were unable to do so. They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent. 5 Finally these men said, "We will never find any basis for charges against this man Daniel unless it has something to do with the law of his God."
6 So these administrators and satraps went as a group to the king and said: "May King Darius live forever! 7 The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers and governors have all agreed that the king should issue an edict and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or human being during the next thirty days, except to you, Your Majesty, shall be thrown into the lions' den. 8 Now, Your Majesty, issue the decree and put it in writing so that it cannot be altered—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed." 9 So King Darius put the decree in writing.
10 Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before. 11 Then these men went as a group and found Daniel praying and asking God for help. 12 So they went to the king and spoke to him about his royal decree: "Did you not publish a decree that during the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human being except to you, Your Majesty, would be thrown into the lions' den?"
The king answered, "The decree stands—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed."
13 Then they said to the king, "Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, Your Majesty, or to the decree you put in writing. He still prays three times a day." 14 When the king heard this, he was greatly distressed; he was determined to rescue Daniel and made every effort until sundown to save him.
15 Then the men went as a group to King Darius and said to him, "Remember, Your Majesty, that according to the law of the Medes and Persians no decree or edict that the king issues can be changed."
16 So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions' den. The king said to Daniel, "May your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!"
17 A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the rings of his nobles, so that Daniel's situation might not be changed. 18 Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.
19 At the first light of dawn, the king got up and hurried to the lions' den. 20 When he came near the den, he called to Daniel in an anguished voice, "Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue you from the lions?"
21 Daniel answered, "May the king live forever! 22 My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, Your Majesty."
23 The king was overjoyed and gave orders to lift Daniel out of the den. And when Daniel was lifted from the den, no wound was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
24 At the king's command, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought in and thrown into the lions' den, along with their wives and children. And before they reached the floor of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
25 Then King Darius wrote to all the nations and peoples of every language in all the earth:
"May you prosper greatly!
26 "I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel.
"For he is the living God
28 So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus[k] the Persian.
Daniel's Dream of Four Beasts
7 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he was lying in bed. He wrote down the substance of his dream.
2 Daniel said: "In my vision at night I looked, and there before me were the four winds of heaven churning up the great sea. 3 Four great beasts, each different from the others, came up out of the sea.
4 "The first was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on two feet like a human being, and the mind of a human was given to it.
5 "And there before me was a second beast, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told, 'Get up and eat your fill of flesh!'
6 "After that, I looked, and there before me was another beast, one that looked like a leopard. And on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. This beast had four heads, and it was given authority to rule.
7 "After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast—terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns.
8 "While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being and a mouth that spoke boastfully.
9 "As I looked,
"thrones were set in place,
11 "Then I continued to watch because of the boastful words the horn was speaking. I kept looking until the beast was slain and its body destroyed and thrown into the blazing fire. 12 (The other beasts had been stripped of their authority, but were allowed to live for a period of time.)
13 "In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man,[l] coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. 14 He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
The Interpretation of the Dream
15 "I, Daniel, was troubled in spirit, and the visions that passed through my mind disturbed me. 16 I approached one of those standing there and asked him the meaning of all this.
"So he told me and gave me the interpretation of these things: 17 'The four great beasts are four kings that will rise from the earth. 18 But the holy people of the Most High will receive the kingdom and will possess it forever—yes, for ever and ever.'
19 "Then I wanted to know the meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others and most terrifying, with its iron teeth and bronze claws—the beast that crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. 20 I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and about the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn that looked more imposing than the others and that had eyes and a mouth that spoke boastfully. 21 As I watched, this horn was waging war against the holy people and defeating them, 22 until the Ancient of Days came and pronounced judgment in favor of the holy people of the Most High, and the time came when they possessed the kingdom.
23 "He gave me this explanation: 'The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it. 24 The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings. 25 He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.[m]
26 "'But the court will sit, and his power will be taken away and completely destroyed forever. 27 Then the sovereignty, power and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will worship and obey him.'
28 "This is the end of the matter. I, Daniel, was deeply troubled by my thoughts, and my face turned pale, but I kept the matter to myself."
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1 The elder,
To the lady chosen by God and to her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I only, but also all who know the truth— 2 because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever:
3 Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father's Son, will be with us in truth and love.
4 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. 5 And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6 And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
7 I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch out that you do not lose what we[a] have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. 9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. 11 Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work.
12 I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
13 The children of your sister, who is chosen by God, send their greetings.
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The dot reports on the new version of Qt, as discussed by Qt developers Simon Hausmann and Andreas Aardal Hanssen. Much optimizations have already gone in the 4.5 development tree, and more is to come. You can also expect many functional improvements to the WebKit webbrowser engine, graphical effects and a new animations API.


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Motors shipments gain 6.1%, fourth-quarter 2009, NEMA says
NEMA's Motors Shipments Index (MSI) increased 6.1% during the fourth-quarter 2009, marking the second consecutive gain for the index, according to NEMA. MSI is 5.7% below the fourth-quarter 2008 level. Inflation- and seasonally-adjusted shipments of fractional horsepower motors rose for the third-consecutive quarter, while integral horsepower motors saw only their second increase in the past seven quarters.
The U.S. economy appeared to gain some momentum during the fourth quarter of 2009 , expanding at a 5.9% annualized rate to finish the year, NEMA says, though underlying components driving growth do not portray a broad-based recovery. Inventories accounted for a sizable chunk of calculated growth in real GDP during 2009Q4 and the current turn in the inventory cycle is not expected to last beyond the next couple of quarters. One surprising result from the Q4 GDP release was a stronger-than-expected gain in business investment spending on equipment and software, NEMA says, suggesting that companies are beginning to show some confidence in near-term economic prospects.
At this time, NEMA said, the recent turn in the inventory cycle along with surging exports are supporting most of the rebound in manufacturing activity. However, this is more of a temporary boost and the sector's prospects for recovery will hinge on increased export demand continuing as well as capital spending exhibiting signs of sustained growth. The recent upturn in output will generate replacement demand for motors and other equipment used to drive production processes in manufacturing plants. With the national average capacity utilization rate remaining well below long-term historical norms, this boost will be somewhat limited until a larger share of productive manufacturing capacity comes back on line. Consequently, NEMA's Motors Shipments Index will likely see modest gains on balance during 2010, the organization predicted.
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Current Ct Real Estate Activity for the towns of Hebron, Lebanon, Manchester, Bolton, Marlborough and Colchester, Ct from 11/22/09-11/30/09
Hebron Ct
Hebron Ct had 2 homes come on the market as new listings, there was no other activity for home sales in Hebron Ct.
Lebanon Ct
Lebanon Ct had one home, priced below $300,000, come on the market as a new listing. Three homes priced under $300,000 went under deposit, and 4 residential listings expired, one was priced above 300K.
Manchester, Ct
Six homes came on the market as new listings in Manchester Ct, 2 are priced above $300,000. Seven homes, all priced below $300,000 went under deposit and 1 home priced above 300K went under deposit. One new bank owned property came onto the market (this means the home has been foreclosed on and is now owned by, and being sold by, the bank). Seven homes priced below 300K expired and one home priced above 300K had it's listing expire.
Bolton Ct
Two homes came on the market as new listings, both are priced above 300K. Two homes, both priced below 300K went under deposit and two listings expired during this period.
Marlborough Ct
There was no residential real estate activity in Marlborough Ct – everyone was enjoying the Thanksgiving holiday!
Colchester Ct
Colchester Ct had one new listing priced below 300K come on the market and one home went under deposit, it was priced above 300K. During this period 3 homes expired and 1 was priced above 300K
Hebron, Lebanon, Manchester, Bolton, Marlborough and Colchester Ct have 439 active listings, compared to 464 listings the week before.
During a holiday week, we typically expect the real estate market to be quiet, so it is good to see that a number of homes did go under deposit – we will review the current real estate market again in 7 days, in the meantime, call us or email any questions you have about the local real estate market in eastern Ct.


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UPDATE: 1:11 p.m.
Fourteen people were injured this morning when the Bald Head Island Ferry ran aground off Battery Island, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Passenger Matthew Fleming of Supply said it was like "hitting a brick wall," when the Bald Head Island Ferry ran aground on a sandbar near Battery Island about 9 a.m.
"We were cruising along. I figure it was full throttle," a shaken and limping Fleming said as he came ashore from a Coast Guard rescue boat two hours after the wreck. "It was a dead stop."
Fleming was among 50 passengers and three crew members aboard "The Adventure," a 64-foot pedestrian ferry that runs between Bald Head Island and the Deep Point Marina in Southport.
He was inside the passenger compartment with several others, when a short time into it's fourth trip of the morning from Deep Point Marina, the boat ran aground. The impact sent several people "flying," including himself, said Fleming. He said he saw some passengers bloodied as a result.
Fourteen people were taken from the scene with injuries. At least 11 of those were taken to Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport and two were taken to New Hanover Regional Medical Center, one of whom was flown by air because of a potential serious injuries, said Brunswick County spokeswoman Amanda Hutcheson.
According to a press release from the U.S. Coast Guard's 5th District Public Affairs, the ferry called the Coast Guard for medical assistance about 9 a.m.
The Coast Guard dispatched crews from Coast Guard Station Oak Island and the Coast Guard Cutter Bayberry was also diverted to assist.
The crew of the Bayberry used their shallow water skiff to rescue 14 passengers from The Adventure and transfer them to smaller rescue boats. The rescue boats then took the injured passengers to Deep Point Marina. Fleming said it took some time for the Coast Guard rescuers to get on board because of the shallow water.
During a lunchtime press conference, Lt. Lane Munroe, command center chief of Coat Guard Sector North Carolina, declined to be drawn into potential reasons for the grounding.
"It would be false to try and speculate right now," he said.
Munroe added that the Coast Guard would be leading the investigation into the incident, which could take anywhere from a few days to several months.
Officials have said the injuries do not appear to be life-threatening. At least three victims were strapped to backboards and physically secured. All three were wearing neck braces or were otherwise stabilized.
Dosher Memorial Hospital spokesman Kirk Singer said "at least some of the patients" have been brought to his hospital, but the number of patients and the status of their injuries was not immediately known.
Medical personnel from Southport, Oak Island, Brunswick County and St. James set up at dock A at Deep Point Marina in Southport.
Fleming said he was going to take himself to the hospital to have his leg and back checked out.
"My nerves are shot," he said.
As of Tuesday afternoon the Adventure was stranded on a sand bar near Battery Island.
The Coast Guard's Munroe said Bald Head Island Limited, the ferry's operator, would try to refloat and remove the vessel Wednesday morning during high tide.
The crew along with members of the Coast Guard were onboard the ferry Tuesday afternoon checking the stability of the vessel, he added.
Several people were injured this morning when the Bald Head Island Ferry ran aground off Battery Island, but none of the injuries are life-threatening, said Joyce Fulton, director of communications for Bald Head Island Limited, which operates the ferry.
Fulton said the accident happened as the ferry, The Adventure, was departing Deep Point Marina for the 20-minute 9 a.m. route to Bald Head Island. The cause of the accident is under investigation, she said.
Fulton did not immediately know how many people were on board or the extent of the injuries, but she disputed earlier reports that passengers were thrown overboard when the boat ran aground in the vicinity of Battery Island.
"That is absolutely not accurate," she said.
Fulton said the Coast Guard is heading up the rescue efforts and by 10:49 a.m. reports indicated all people onboard the boat had been rescued.
"There appear to be about 10 injuries on board, nothing life-threatening," said Southport Mayor Robert Howard. "We've sent out police officers to help them at Deep Point."
The pedestrian ferry runs between the Deep Point Marina in Southport to the shores of Bald Head Island. The ride is about 20 minutes, according to the ferry website.
Dosher Memorial Hospital spokesman Kirk Singer said "at least some of the patients" have been brought to his hospital, but the number of patients and the status of their injuries was not immediately known.
A passenger told WWAY NewsChannel 3 over the phone that the ferry came to a sudden stop, throwing passengers around the boat. Some who were sitting inside hit tables, the person said.


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I just want to put up a little notice to inform you all about the lack of updates on the main page. The problem is that I've been hit by the flu and have been down and out since last Thursday, unable to do the news. The rest of the team has been occupied as well, so that explains that. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, and since I've pretty much almost recovered, normal posting schedule will resume either tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest. Thanks for understanding. Also, read more for the most beautiful piece of art ever created in the history of the universe. And I mean it.
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I didn't really expect this to happen, so I didn't make a backup of it unfortunately. In case the article might be stored on your servers somewhere or something, the title should be "Port Gallium3D to Haiku, make $2000!". If it's not there, I'll rewrite it and email the new article to you. Thanks.
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Nancy Lynch from MIT has been awarded this (one and half) year's Knuth Prize for her work in reliability of distributed computing. I remember first hearing about her work when I studied distributed computing and Byzantine agreement problems back in IITK.
This has been a good (and well deserved) year for women in computing: first Frances Allen, and now Nancy Lynch.


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Knicks 92, Nets 83
Carmelo Anthony scored 17 points in three quarters, rookie Iman
Shumpert added 16, and the New York Knicks beat the New Jersey Nets
92-83 on Saturday in the preseason opener for both teams.
Renaldo Balkman had 20 points for the Knicks, who got only 10
points on 3-of-11 shooting from Amare Stoudemire. But they got a
strong effort from their reserves, with Shumpert, the first-round
pick from Georgia Tech, outplaying starting guards Toney Douglas
and Landry Fields.
Tyson Chandler, who helped Dallas win the NBA title before
coming to New York in a sign-and-trade, had four points, four
rebounds, three steals and two blocks in 27 minutes.
Brook Lopez and Anthony Morrow each scored 15 for the Nets, but
All-Star guard Deron Williams shot just 4 of 12 and scored nine.
The Nets are hoping to trade for Dwight Howard, but in the meantime
appear short on talent beyond Williams and Lopez.
Mike Bibby's 3-pointer at the third-quarter buzzer gave the
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Argentina President Kirchner's Nod to Nixon
Columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady on Argentina's freezing food prices in an attempt to curb inflation. Photo: Getty Images
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... welcome back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... more ... while bad news out of Argentine President Cristina cursory this week ... froze food prices at large retailers ... of claiming that Ms was going to break the inflation spiral ... America's columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady is here ... Mary back to the nineteen seventies in Argentina ... Chile to work ... um I ... think ... I'm ... actually it's really nothing new in the sense that Argentina has been trying to control prices for several years now ... and the way they did was they went to heads of different ... industry groups and tell them ... you will control prices in fact Guillermo Monday know who is ... the minister in charge of central and planning the economy ... Ott was were learned and we never proved this to happen of one point but it is still on a table and told some I'm industry heads I let's talk ... I'm so that's really tried to control it out when I was on Friday I and the International Monetary Fund on censured Argentine and said that their inflation data was ... misleading Shelley Sandie ... and that they have until September ... to get their act together in terms of their guru crept reporting ... and if they don't do that by September they could risk being ... kicked out of the International Monetary Fund while well this is a short term limits solution and in what is the real cause of the inflation Argentina and one is a better solution than this ... artificial price it's all this is unfamiliar to humanity they haven't ... been spending too much money ... and it basically there's a monetary expansion going on at the central backing ... okay I'm but them but the real problem Argentine has is that it well ... I should say the main probable one of the products here related to the IMF is that it has an reporting inflation data that many people in the private sector say isn't correct so where is the official data ... has inflation just over ten percent ... the private sector estimates that around twenty five percent and of course as we know when inflation pressures build ... and expectations of inflation bills ... then inflation tends to go up so there are those predicting thirty percent this year and of course that would that's causing capital flight which of course is been fueling the inflation front ... so I'm you know they're they're trying to ... cut this off by basically saying food prices can go up for the next two months opening the sound for me so ... we can aggravate food shortages of black market was this mean for the average Argentinian okay well picture yourself Mary got to go to the supermarket into ... it on the tree now on the next two months and you can buy at prices that are basically locked into today's rates when you know that there's high inflation and a horde ... of course there's going to be a lot of grocery shopping this weekend ... and probably for the next two months but what's really troubling is that ... is certainly the tie economists who are handling the big decisions coming from the kitchen a government ... noted in two months time when those in ... inflation pressures built up ... on producers are either going have to raise prices ... or they will simply stop supplying the Argentine market and got about thirty seconds left why your teams keep electing governments like this ... well I would say that the unions have a lot of power and also there's that there's an element of populism which is that when people feel they they can get more from the government they vote for was ever offering the more I get may sound familiar down a little less than air for all of the Americans who are watching the programme and Carrick is gonna share Marius Asia O'Grady reader in the pages the Wall Street Journal thank you for coming


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April 28, 2007
As is often the case, a chance meeting set the stage for a working relationship that made history.
Roy Pardue was a spectator at a Vanderbilt baseball game with a friend, Bobby Reasonover, a major league scout. The temperature was about 25 degrees, less than perfect baseball weather.
When Lipscomb coach Ken Dugan walked into the stadium Reasonover said "There's Ken Dugan."
Pardue's response was, "Who?"
Reasonover introduced Pardue and Dugan. On that chilly day the two talked about baseball for 30 or 40 minutes.
"Coach Dugan told me he had a pitcher with bad form," Pardue recalled. "He told me, `he can't throw the ball over the plate'. I said, `Coach, that doesn't sound too bad. If you want to call me I will come over and work with him. That's what I did."
Pardue did much more than that. He would twice serve as pitching coach for the Bisons. His first stint was 1969 through 1980. He would return again from 1990 to 1996. He developed some of the top pitchers in the history of the Lipscomb baseball program. He helped guide the Bisons to 11 NAIA District 24 championships, five NAIA Area 5 Championships and two NAIA National Championships in 1977 and 1979.
For his contributions to the success of the Lipscomb baseball program Pardue was inducted into the Lipscomb Athletics Hall of Fame Saturday night at a dinner before the start of the Bisons baseball game with Belmont.
"Roy Pardue's symbolizes quality and habit of excellence both on the playing field and in his commitment to Lipscomb athletics and to Lipscomb baseball in particular," said Dr. Steve Potts, Lipscomb's director of athletics. "His contributions could not be recognized in better fashion than to bestow upon him our highest honor, induction in the Lipscomb Athletics Hall of Fame."
Pardue joins his son Tim, the winning pitcher in the 1977 NAIA National Championship game, as a Hall of Fame member. They are the first father-and-son to be inducted. Tim was inducted in 1994.
The evening known as a "Celebration of Champions" also honored members of the 1977 team. Marshall Shumate, an outfielder on that team, offered the opening prayer for the dinner.
Steve Fletcher, a left-handed pitcher who was named MVP of the NAIA National Tournament in 1977 and a member of the Hall of Fame, represented the team.
"I came here in the fall of 1973," Fletcher said. "In the fall coach Pardue put you out there to pitch and he just let you go. As an 18-year-old kid pitching against 21 and 22 year olds you find out that you have a lot to learn.
"He watched and saw things we could work on. After you had gotten knocked around a little bit he offered to teach you and put you to work to learn how to be successful."
Pardue didn't speak much about his playing days as part of his coaching tactics, but the players knew what he had done.
"He was very passionate about helping us be the best we could be," Fletcher said. "He and coach Dugan complemented each other wonderfully. They were best of friends. They had a lot of respect for each other."
Butch Stinson, also a Hall of Fame member, was one of the first pitchers to work with Coach Pardue.
"When you reflect back over the years you come to realize that there were a handful of people who had a profound influence on your life," Stinson said. "Roy Pardue was one of those people.
"We both came to the Lipscomb campus in the fall of 1969. I had just turned 18 and was anxious to show coach Ken Dugan what I could do. Roy was a star pitcher in his day and was left-handed two."
The two worked together for four years as Stinson developed in the all-time earned run leader in school history and also signed to play professionally.
"Roy taught me that hard work paid off," Stinson said. "He taught me that you win ball games not only with your arm, but with your legs. He taught me that those extra 100 pick-ups and extra 50 wind sprints could mean the difference in the late innings in a crucial ball game.
"He taught me how to set goals and how to get into a batter's head. I can't imagine where I would be now if it had not been for him. I am so thankful he was willing to give of his time and talents and have such a prominent impact on young men."
Another pupil was Bo McLaughlin, a former Major League pitcher who is a minor league pitching coach on the Double AA level in the Colorado Rockies organization.
"Coach Pardue taught me that if I believed in myself and used the talent I was blessed with that everything else would take care of itself," McLaughlin said. "He always taught me to let the ball go after it left my hand because after that I couldn't do anything about it. With that philosophy I made it to the big leagues.
"I now have the opportunity to teach young ball players and I use the same tactics on them. It works. I have sent over 100 pitchers to the Major Leagues in 15 years of coaching. Baseball needs more Roy Pardues."
Pardue spent 17 seasons with the Bisons. But he also had an extensive professional baseball career. A Nashville native, he played for the Nashville Vols in the early 1950s, taking time out for two years of service in the U.S. Army. He also played for the Seattle Pilots and finished his professional career in 1957 in Havana, Cuba.
He started his baseball career at North High School. He led the team to the 1949 State Championship. In 1950 and 1951 he was named the Most Valuable Player in the Nashville Interscholastic League.


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For a very long time now, I've been on the hunt for a distribution that really put a lot of effort into their KDE4 implementation. This has been a frustrating search, full of broken installations, incredibly slow performance, and so many visual artifacts they made my eyes explode. Since KDE 4.3 is nearing release, I had to pick up this quest in order to take a look at where 4.3 stands - and I found a home in the KDE version of Fedora 11. Read on for a look as to where KDE 4.3 currently stands.


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Skip to comments.Gillibrand ducks debates with Long
Posted on 10/13/2012 11:09:46 PM PDT by Sun
With most New Yorkers' attention focused on the presidential election, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's debate-ducking is flying under the radar.
To date, Gillibrand's opponent Wendy Long has accepted five separate debate requests while Kirsten Gillibrand has agreed to only one, which will only air in upstate New York and New York City, ignoring the people of Long Island and the Hudson Valley.
Out of one side of her mouth, Kirsten Gillibrand calls herself "a trailblazer for more openness and transparency" while out of the other, she says "no" to the chance to make her case for re-election directly to New Yorkers.
Perhaps Kirsten is hesitant to defend her abysmal record as a legislator: 117 of the 131 bills she has introduced have died in committee, and none of the 14 bills that passed had to do with jobs for New Yorkers.
Perhaps Kirsten is hesitant to defend her flip-flops on gun control, illegal immigration and gay marriage.
(Excerpt) Read more at adirondackdailyenterprise.com ...
Kirsten Gillibrand debated the last candidate she ran against, Joe DioGuardi, twice.
Gillibrand, like Obama, talks about transparency, but doesn't walk the walk. How can NYers trust her about anything?
The one and only Long/Gillibrand debate will be this Wed. at 7 p.m. on YNN and NY1. If you don't have access to tv at that time, you might be able to pick up YNN on 900 AM radio, especially if you live in the Capital District.
She is a lackey of chucky shumer, we all remember chucky dont we the ear to ear grinning arrogant dope who walked hand in hand with pelosi after they signed the healthcare bill into law
"She is a lackey of chucky shumer .."
Yes, Gillibrand is, and I'll never forget, after Gov. Paterson picked Kirsten Gillibrand to be U.S. senator, Schumer publicly told her to evolve on gun rights, and like a good little girl she obeyed Schumer, and is now for gun control.
Wendy Long's website: http://www.wendylongfornewyork.com/
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Just received email that the ONE AND ONLY Long/Gillibrand debate can be seen on C-Span as well as News12, YNN & NY1 (this Wed., 7 PM)
Debate was great, and here's a summary (but the summary doesn't do it justice; it's best to watch the video):
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On Cortez's Poetry
Karen Ford
For most of the women who came of age artistically during the Black Arts movement and who were tutored in the Black Aesthetic, the struggle to create a place for themselves in the literary environment was arduous. Giovanni, Sanchez, Rodgers, Evans, Amini (Latimore), and countless others, who published one or two bombastic poems and were never heard from again, frequently retreated to some form of conventional femininity that was almost as disabling as the overbearing masculinity they sought to escape.
An exception to this pattern and a harbinger of future developments in African-American women's poetry is Jayne Cortez. She published her first volume of poetry in 1969 and produced a book every few years until 1984. In 1976, when the Black Arts movement was past its prime, Stanley Crouch singled out Cortez for praise in an otherwise negative assessment of the period:
During the nationalist promenade and the charade of ineptitude, the very shoddiness of which was supposed to breach a "revolutionary" standard, only one female poet was consistently interesting to me, and that one was Jayne Cortez.... [In her work] there was a passion and an ear for melody and the manipulation of sounds and rhythm units that smoked away the other contenders for the crown, revealing their entrapment in a militant self-pity and adolescent rage more akin to tantrums than the chilling fire and evil of someone like Bessie Smith, the super bitchiness and dignity of a Billie Holiday or a Dinah Washington .... Jayne Cortez is, then, the real thing.(99)
Crouch not only reappropriates "fire" from the Black Arts movement in order to redefine it (the "chilling fire" of the blues queens is superior to the "adolescent rage" of the militants) but also reestablishes the vital link between contemporary black poetry and the older tradition of the blues. Crouch rejects the militant claim to have superseded the blues and instead recognizes the revolutionary potential of the blues singers' bitchiness and dignity.
Indeed, Cortez herself will make much of these traits. Dinah Washington speaks in "Dinah's Back In Town" (Pisstained Stairs, n.p.) and asserts the dignity of bitchiness:
I wanna be bitchy
I said I wanna be a bitch
cause when you nice
true love don't come
into your life.
In "Phraseology" (Scarifications 23), she makes bitchiness a formal principle of her poetry:
I say things to myself
in a bitch of a syllable ...
completely savage to the passing of silence.
Savaging silence--violently expressing her concerns in an environment that discourages female expressivity--is certainly the result of Cortez's use of excess.
In her first book, Pisstained Stairs and the Monkey Man's Wares (1969), Cortez's excess appears to be in service of Black Arts values. In "Race," for example, she vilifies gay black men for betraying the race in betraying their "manhood":
[His] tongue hangs low
with loose diseased pink
pale dying flesh
between his gums
suffocating in farts
& howling like a coyote in the wind
his bent over dedication to
the grunting demons that madly
ride upon his back
flying high his ass tonight
swallowing sperms of fantasy.
The poem blames internalized racism for this "lost tribe of whimpering sons" who can only create "A Race called Faggot." These confused sons, who have repudiated their mothers in turning away from women, must be slaughtered in order to "bring a revolution on." The pitch of desperation, both thematic and formal, reaches a peak in the closing couplet, where the speaker calls out to black fathers (who, by virtue of having "fathered" these sons, have demonstrated their masculinity) for help: "Oh black man quick please the laxative / so our sons can shit the White Shit of Fear out and Live." The association of heterosexuality with liberation, the homophobia, the sexual bluntness, and the excremental imagery all signal adherence to the program of the Black Arts movement in 1969.
However, while Black Arts excesses continued to inform her style, Cortez increasingly brought these stylistics to bear on a wider range of concerns. By 1982, well after the heyday of the new black poetry, Cortez was deploying such excesses against misogynist men, that is, against the very sort of man whom these excesses formerly valorized. In "Rape" (Firespitter 31), the style is the same, but the names have been changed to expose the guilty:
What was Inez supposed to do
for the man who declared war on her body
the man who carved a combat zone between her breasts
Was she supposed to lick crabs from his hairy ass
kiss every pimple on his butt
blow hot breath on his big toe
draw back the corners of her vagina
and hee haw like a Calif. burro.
The poem answers these questions for us by allowing Inez to shoot her rapist; then Joanne, another rape victim, stabs her rapist with an ice pick. The poem celebrates the "day of the dead rapist punk "--a far cry from poems that had urged militants to "Rape the white girls.... Cut the mothers' throats" (Jones, "Black Dada Nihilismus" 41).
In 1971 a Cortez poem, "Watch Out" (Festivals and Funerals, n.p.), had warned about the "bitter," "neglected" woman, "her tongue working out like a machete." By 1982, in a poem like "Rape," we begin to get a sense of this warning, of what it will mean for women to use their tongues in their own defense. Cortez never retreated from the excesses of the Black Arts period, but she trained them on an entirely new subject matter. She did not accept the misogyny of the movement; rather, she turned those aggressive stylistics back on the culture that had glorified violence against women and others as a means of exerting its limited power. Cortez was able to discern the continuing relevance of Black Arts excesses because she was able to distinguish the potent stylistics from the paralyzing subject matter. The other Black Arts women writers abandoned formal excess when they became dissatisfied with the militant posture; Cortez, however, found new and important uses for excess. Not all of her poetry employs these excesses; in fact, her strength lies in her range of poetic resources. But Jayne Cortez provides a literary link between the dignity and bitchiness of the earlier blues queens and the empowered voices of the later black feminist poets because she was able to deploy excess without being silenced by it.
Perhaps the reason Cortez escaped censure even though she used excess to expose the oppression of women, as in "Rape," is that the men targeted by her excess were white. Inez's rapist is compared to a "giant hog," suggesting pink skin, and Joanne's rapist is explicitly called a "racist." But in the mid-seventies, with the women's liberation movement giving expression to concerns that had previously been unspeakable, African-American women writers began to include black men in their analysis of gender problems. To do this, they would employ the very excesses that had troubled black female poets a decade before. Ntozake Shange would be the most prominent writer to reappropriate Black Arts excesses and deploy them against black men, but she would not be alone.
From Gender and the Poetics of Excess: Moments of Brocade. Copyright © 1997 by the University Press of Mississippi.
Kimberly N. Brown
from "Of Poststructuralist Fallout, Scarification, and Blood Poems: The Revolutionary Ideology behind the Poetry of Jayne Cortez."
I borrow the term "scarification" from the title and revolutionary message behind Jayne Cortez's second book of poetry, a product of the Black Aesthetic Movement. Scarification can be interpreted in two ways: (i) in terms of the scars left by oppression, mental as well as physical scars, and (2) as ritualistic tribal markings that define not only the people to whom you belong but also the place. The referential grounding of oppression can have theoretical implications if we consider Valerie Smith's comments: "The conditions of oppression provide the subtext of all Afro-Americanist literary criticism and theory. Whether a critic/theorist explores representations of the experience of oppression or strategies by which that experience is transformed, he/she assumes the existence of an 'other' against whom /which blacks struggle."
Cortez theorizes from her scars by speaking on behalf of third world people from the simultaneous vantage points of both spokesperson and sister worker. Her poetry focuses on the abuses third world people face collectively: the exploitation of their labor, their bodies, and their land. Cortez also undercuts the notion of an academic theoretical hierarchy--as seen in her poem "There It Is," which serves as a perfect example of how she uses poetry as a space through which to filter notions of upheaval.
Cortez writes:
My friend
they don't care
if you're an individualist
a leftist a rightist
a shithead or a snake
They will try to exploit you
absorb you confine you
disconnect you isolate you
or kill you.
(Coagulations 68)
Scarification does not mean that we should ultimately define ourselves through oppression; instead, it attempts to validate the real-life pain that oppression can cause for the African American subject. Scarification theory serves as a ritualistic invitation to marginalized critics/theorists to assert actively their simultaneous presence as both individuals and as part of a collective within the theoretic arena. Scarification theory is born out of the Black Aesthetic Movement's desire to acknowledge the materiality of African American existence and the poststructuralist notion that each person is a social constructions blending of time, circumstance, environment, religion, ethnicity, gender, and sexual preference. In this respect, testimonies of oppression or personal experiences in general become historicized. Scarification, then, recognizes that both the nature of oppression and the marks that oppression leaves behind vary.
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The poetry of Jayne Cortez is about blood and revolution. Informed by the language of the Black Arts Movement, Cortez stands as proof that all has not yet been said about theories of the black aesthetic. Speaking as both "one of the people" and spokesperson "for the people," Cortez proudly asserts her commitment to speak always through her scars to reach others who have also participated in the ritual. Academics and teachers of "theory" and black literatures should not regard a commitment such as this as antithetical to the goals of the academy. If multiculturalism is true to its definition, theories that validate the various experiences of marginalized people should be readily accepted. If we are truly to heal the wounds of the past and not fall prey to the romantic language that poststructuralism often espouses, we must lessen the gap between the academy and those who exist outside of the ivory tower.
As Cortez's fifth book of poetry, Coagulations, reminds us, scarification is about blood, revolution, and, most of all, healing. Coagulation is the clotting of blood--the start of a healing process--and we can envision Cortez's poetry as a "clotting of blood poems." Blood poems could then be taken racially to mean poems that were concerned with the blood connection of blacks and their subsequent uplifting--an attempt to soothe and yet remember the scars left by oppression. Blood poems could also indicate that the commitment to the uplift of blacks is part of our heritage, passed down from "blood" to "blood" (meaning sister to sister, brother to brother, sister to brother) through the bloodstream, through the blood that was shed by our ancestors, from generation to generation. Seen in this respect, the theorist/critic who theorizes through scars is not being naive but rather is fulfilling a legacy. And if we don't accept this responsibility as African American theorists, what will we do if "they" come cracking the whip again? The past repeats itself if we do not learn from history. The message behind Cortez's blood poems is that if we adhere to the heritage in our blood the artist within all of us will openly acknowledge what it means to be black in America--to learn to endure and overcome oppression; brother will not beat sister and sister will not be afraid to draw blood to save her own.
Aldon Lynn Nielsen Following in the pattern of such artists as Betty Carter, Mingus, and Baraka, Cortez realized early on that black artists would require full control over the production of their works if they were to escape the censorious mediations of white editing and of capitalist recording industry demands for certain modes of product. Her response was to form the Bola Press, the imprint for all of her recordings after Celebrations and Solitudes and for all of her books prior to Coagulations. In addition to controlling the production of her jazz texts, she was able to determine the presentation of her printed works, many of which appeared with illustrations by her husband, Melvin Edwards.
From Other Sisterhoods: Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color. Copyright © 1998 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
Unlike David Henderson on Coleman's "Science Fiction," Cortez's recorded reading to music differs little from her unaccompanied reading style, but then, her works are so deeply rooted in music, and dramatic modes of presentation are so fundamental to her writing, that her texts seem to be written as acapella music. Cortez is one of the more "tonal" readers of poetry among contemporary artists. Continuing the poetics of the Beats and of Olson's projective verse, she writes her lines in breath units, and the measures of these units are usually derived from African-American music. In public readings, Cortez tends usually to read these lines in descending pitch sequences. She reads a first line, organized around one tone and then reads the next descending from a lower starting pitch. Her lines are, in this sense, chantlike, allowing for melodic effects within the chosen tonal range of the individual line. Additionally, Cortez has from her earliest days as a poet taken music as both the subject matter and the aesthetic correlative for her writing.
The works she collected in her first chapbook, Pissstained Stairs and the Monkey Mans Wares, published in 1969, had originally been composed for performance by the Watts Repertory Theater Company, a group Cortez had helped to form during her Los Angeles years, for a special production "dealing with Black music through poetry."As she explained to Melhem in their 1982 interviews, "I started writing poetry about my relationship to Black music, talking about the rhythms or what I liked about it, and of course, talking about the musicians who play the music. It's like praise poetry, the old African praise poetry." Trained in music when young, Cortez naturally gravitated toward the writing of lyric verse, and her extensive friendships with jazz musicians provided her with entrée into a community of potential collaborators. She was married, in the 1950s, to Ornette Coleman, who appeared along with cellist Abdul Wadud (Cortez also played cello at one time) on the 1986 recordings of Cortez's poetry, Maintain Control. The son of this marriage, Denardo Coleman, began playing the drums early on. By the time he was ten years old he was already playing on recordings with his father. (The first of these, The Empty Foxhole, includes in its liner notes rare samples of Ornette Coleman's poetry.) Since then, Denardo has continued to play in nearly all of his father's bands, and he has played on each of his mother's albums, beginning with Unsubmissive Blues in 1980.
From Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism. Copyright © 1997 by Cambridge University Press.
- See also the entry on Jayne Cortez from the online version of the Gale Literary Databases.
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Brock says Bean's sentencing will take place November 10 at 1:00 p.m. in the Washington County Courthouse. Rodney Bean and Lori Jo Bean have now both been convicted for the death of Joye Gentzler in 2006.


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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix actors Katie Leung (Cho Chang) and James and Oliver Phelps (Fred and George Weasley) arrived in Istanbul, Turkey recently to attend the Turkish premiere of the fifth Harry Potter film. The event, which took place this past week, was attended by many fans who turned out to see the actors walk the red carpet and talk with fans. Photos of the actors arriving in Istanbul as well as attending the premiere can be seen here thanks to Phelps-Twins.com.
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Seahawks: $21.1 million
This is more than we thought....I believe it was thought to be closer to $18 million in rollover.
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- Heavyweight
Fury support could spark Price showdown
Tyson Fury's supportive tweets for David Price could pave the way for the British duo to meet in the ring in 2013, according to Price.
Former British and Commonwealth champion Fury wished Price, his successor in both belts, good luck for his upcoming fight against Tony Thompson on February 12, marking a thaw in what has been a frosty relationship between the two home-grown heavyweights.
"Hopefully we can fight final eliminator 4 WBC! If we both win our next fights," Fury added. "If we both win our upcoming fights it needs to happen!!! Come on promoters get it together!!"
Speaking to ESPN on Buncey's Boxing Podcast, Price said: "It makes a change. Tyson has a few different personalities, you've got to catch him on the right day.
"As long as a fight between me and him can happen, everyone will be happy, especially the public. As long as it happens either this year or next year then I think everyone will win."
Price faces Thompson at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on Saturday February 23 as he steps up his efforts to secure a showdown with WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko.


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State Superintendent of Education John White said that, while he is a firm believer in teacher evaluations, he plans to recommend modest changes in how the reviews work.
However, leaders of the Louisiana Association of Educators, one of the state's two largest teacher unions, are stepping up their criticism of the 3-year-old evaluations and especially their reliance on standardized test scores for half of a teacher's rating.
LAE President Joyce Haynes said her group is prepared to carry the fight to the courtroom, as they have done to challenge a bill pushed by White and Gov. Bobby Jindal that expands the state's voucher system.
"The LAE is prepared to do it lawsuit by lawsuit," Haynes said.
The evaluations, which are being used in the current school year, stem from a 2010 state law pushed by Jindal.
They are touted as a way to improve student achievement through more rigorous teacher reviews. Virtually every teacher won satisfactory marks under the previous system.
Under the plan, half of a teacher's review is based on the growth of student achievement, which for many teachers is linked to standardized tests such as LEAP and iLEAP.
The other half stems from classroom observations by principals and others.
Students who show gains under the state's model, regardless where they started, generally mean their teachers will get satisfactory ratings.
Those rated as "ineffective" for two years in a row are subject to dismissal.
White said that approach is the right way to go.
"The purpose of teaching is for students to grow, and so it is important to measure the growth of students when we measure how effective a teacher is," he said.
However, White said pilot projects in various school districts since 2010, and comments since the reviews were started during the current school, will lead him to recommend changes to the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, likely in January.
One such adjustment, he said, is to let teachers have a detailed look at the student's previous academic record at the start of the school year.
"Give teachers all of the data at the start of the year, so the teacher can see what progress looks like," White said.
Educators also need video links and other options to see how top-flight teachers operate in the classroom, according to the superintendent.
"They (teachers) have been saying over the course of the year: Give me a clearer understanding of what excellence looks like," he said.
In a third area, White said school principals need more discretion in rating teacher performance, especially in schools with lots of high-achieving students that, critics say, are harder to show year-to-year improvements.
"These are teachers who have done their jobs," he said. "So people are saying why not give the principal greater discretion to use not just test scores, but other means of evaluating teachers."
Leaders of some schools, including Westdale Heights Academic Magnet School in Baton Rouge, have said teachers are liable to get poor ratings when high-scoring students fail to show improvements over the previous year.
Yet Haynes and other critics, who opposed the 2010 law, said the problems go deeper than any tweaks can address.
Linking teacher performance in part to tests like LEAP and iLEAP is a mistake, she said.
"I just want someone to make the case against standardized tests," Haynes said.
Michael Walker-Jones, executive director of the LAE, criticized the use of test results to gauge whether teachers helped students improve in the previous year.
"None of them was designed to judge the performance of the teacher," Walker-Jones said of the exams.
Michael Deshotels, who was executive director of the LAE from 1995-98, said that, just as in state ratings of Louisiana's roughly 1,300 public schools, poverty is often overlooked in analyzing student test scores.
He said data shows a clear link between low rates of students from poor families and high-scoring schools and high rates of poor students and schools rated D or F by the state.
"All the testing experts know that student scores vary greatly no matter what school they attend and that students from poor neighborhoods score worse than those from wealthy neighborhoods," wrote Deshotels, who runs an education-related blog.


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For a wine that's generally modest and so easy to like that the French coined the term "gouleyant" ("gulpable") to describe it, Beaujolais gets surprisingly little respect.
The 14th Century Duke Philip the Bold of Burgundy so despised the Gamay grape of Beaujolais that he outlawed it in Bourgogne in 1395, ordering Gamay vines ripped out by the roots and replaced with the more desirable Pinot Noir.
But Philip's edict didn't apply in the natural home of Beaujolais, a then-forgotten backwater, where they've been growing and making Beaujolais with Gamay ever since. For most of the following 600 years, Beaujolais toiled in isolated, rural poverty because hardly anyone (except, notably, the thirsty gourmands in food-savvy Lyon nearby) thought much of the wine.
It's almost remarkable that a beverage so lightly regarded has become one of the world's most popular wines, with more than 70 million bottles sold annually, putting it right up there on a plane with (and likely earning little more respect than) McDonald's hamburgers.
In Beaujolais, of course, the no-longer-poor descendants of those hard-working French farmers are laughing all the way to the bank. And by and large, much of the region's commercial success can be attributed to one man, Georges Duboeuf, who earned the title "King of Beaujolais" the old-fashioned way, through hard work.
I've had the pleasure this month of reading galley proofs of an intriguing book set for publication this fall, by Rudolph Chelminski, who's perhaps best known as author of "The Perfectionist," his excellent biography of Bernard Loiseau, the troubled French chef who took his own life in 2003, depressed by declining ratings and the fear that he might lose his lofty third Guide Michelin star.
This is a happier tale, the success story of, as Chelminski puts it in his subtitle, the "French peasant" who has become one of the world's most successful wine makers and led the transformation of his region from rural backwater to source of highly popular, commercially successful wines.
In similar fashion as "The Perfectionist," which weaved the life of Loiseau into an extended overview of the development of high-end French cuisine in the 20th Century, Chelminski's new book - "I'll Drink to That" - tells of Duboeuf's life along with the history and culture of Beaujolais, from Philip the Bold to the present, with lavish attention given to the evolution of the Beaujolais Nouveau craze and the associated rise in popularity of Beaujolais in general.
As Chelminski puts it in his foreword, Duboeuf was only 18 when he "revolted against an unfair, illogical distribution system run for the benefit of a dealers' cartel, and did it so well and so thoroughly that he rose to become the biggest dealer of all - but one of an entirely new style. Beaujolais, then, is a double success story, the wine and the man ... "
The author discloses, "I count Georges Duboeuf as a friend. I am partial. I am partial to Georges because of his admirable personal qualities - integrity, sincerity, constancy - and for having served as my initiator and guide to the Beaujolais. He generously shared with me his unparalleled knowledge of for the country, its people and, of course, its wines."
I raced through the book over a weekend, tapping into several samples of Duboeuf Beaujolais to inform the process, and I'll say that any possible loss of objectivity related to this friendship is more than offset by the depth, color and texture of Chelminski's report. Reading this book and, of course, tasting a little of the wine, is the next-best thing to touring the Beaujolais, eating and drinking and meeting the wine makers.
Following are my notes on two recently tasted Beaujolais from Georges Duboeuf. I can't say how much the book changed my attitude, but fairness compels me to confess that I found both wines much more well-constructed and frankly appealing than I remembered. They're fruit-forward certainly, with the balance more tilted toward fruit and minerality than I find in some of the Beaujolais I love from artisanal producers like J.P. Brun. But the old yeast-based "banana" scent is gone, and the wines - particularly the Chiroubles - are nicely balanced, crisp and refreshing, and offer good value at their price points.
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Two from Georges Duboeuf

Duboeuf 2005 Chiroubles ($11.99)
Very dark reddish-purple, surprisingly dark for a Beaujolais, a whiff of lightly toasted white bread. Bright and fresh, juicy plums, fruity but no "fruit bomb," as zippy acidity gives structure and balance, with subtle minerality in the background; already very pleasant drinking indeed, but like many of the better 2005 "Cru" Beaujolais - those that bear their village name (like "Chiroubles") on the label, it will benefit from a little cellar time. U.S. importer: W.J.Deutsch & Sons Ltd., Harrison, N.Y. (May 29, 2007)

Duboeuf 2005 Beaujolais-Villages ($9.99)
Clear, dark purple, glints of reddish-violet. Ripe and fresh, juicy strawberries on the nose and palate. Soft but sufficient acidity for balance; light tannins in the finish. Nicely balanced Beaujolais, stereotypically "gulpable;" try serving it lightly chilled to maximize its refreshing nature. U.S. importer: W.J.Deutsch & Sons Ltd., Harrison, N.Y. (May 31, 2007)
FOOD MATCH: I like Beaujolais' combination of fruit, acidity and earth with aromatic, if not necessarily hot-and-spicy, ethnic fare. The Chiroubles was a surprisingly good match with an Italian-style ragù of ground turkey and crisp pork belly with an exotic dash of cumin-scented North African ras al hanout. The Beaujolais-Villages went well with a Hunan-style home-style tofu with ground pork and black beans. Of course you can go the simpler route with steaks, grilled chicken or even juicy burgers.
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Sony's games division has posted record levels of profits for the first three quarters of the 2010 fiscal year, topping $564 million after three quarters. Of the company's recent sales, 6 million are from the PlayStation 2, pushing the total number sold to over 150 million, making it the best-selling console of all time.
Forget the PS3 or Xbox 360, ignore the Wii–even the Nintendo DS can't touch the total number of PlayStation 2s sold globally. Sony's ten year old system simply refuses to die, and following an impressive six million systems sold last year, the PS2 has officially moved to the king of the heap and become the best-selling console of all time.
The total number of PS2s sold worldwide has officially reached 151.12 million. Despite its replacement celebrating its fourth anniversary last year, the PS2 continues to find an audience. New titles are still being released for the system, and nearly 14.2 million games have been sold for the veteran system in the first three quarters of the fiscal year.
By comparison, the six million PS2s sold in 2010 were just two million shy of the eight million that the PSP sold. The PlayStation 3 sold over 15 million, which makes the six million sold for the ten year old console even more impressive.
Of course it helps that the PS2 sells brand new for $99 (and less for used systems), but with 2.1 million units sold in December alone, the PS2 crossed an impressive milestone by reaching 150 million units. Its closest competitor is the Nintendo DS, which is about to hit the 145 million mark, but will likely continue to slow as the Nintendo 3DS looms. The Game Boy and Game Boy Color combined sold nearly 119 million, the PS1 sold 102.5 million, and the Wii has sold 84.64 million to date.
Sony's gaming division was actually a bright spot for the company, after reporting a 1.7-percent loss overall. Gamesindustry.biz is reporting that the PS3 is also a happy camper, having sold 10 million more games than the year before at this same point, while the PS3 console has sold 15 million consoles, 2 million more than it sold all of last year.


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Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough oxygenated blood to meet the needs of the body's other organs. The heart keeps pumping, but not as efficiently as a healthy heart. Usually, the heart's diminished capacity to pump reflects a progressive, underlying condition. Nearly five million Americans are living with heart failure, and 400,000 to 700,000 new cases are diagnosed each year.
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The goal of treatment is to improve a person's quality of life by making the appropriate lifestyle changes and implementing drug therapy.
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A ventricular assist device (VAD) is a mechanical device that is used to take over the pumping function for one or both of the heart's ventricles, or pumping chambers. A VAD may be necessary when heart failure progresses to the point that medications and other treatments are no longer effective.
For persons with severe or end-stage heart failure, ventricular assist devices (VADs) may be required to support the heart in order to ensure an adequate cardiac output (amount of blood pumped out by the heart per minute) to meet the body's needs.
Heart transplantation is an option for some patients with severe heart failure (HF), but during this late stage of HF, over 50 percent of persons on a waiting list for heart transplantation will die before receiving a donor heart. Organ donors are in short supply and do not meet the demand for patients waiting for heart transplant. The wait time for heart transplantation varies from days to months.
Long wait times and decreased availability of donors has led doctors and researchers to seek other methods to support the failing heart. Patients may die waiting for a transplant or other important organs such as the liver and kidney may become permanently damaged before a donor heart is available. VADs have shown great promise in maintaining adequate blood circulation in cases of severe HF.
VADs may be used in the following situations:
The two basic types of VADs are left ventricular assist (LVAD), which is the most common, or the right ventricular assist (RVAD). If both are used at the same time it is called biventricular assist (BIVAD). However a BIVAD is not a separate type of VAD.
VADs are most commonly implanted during a process similar to other types
of open heart surgery.
All types of VADs have similar complications postoperatively and during prolonged therapy:


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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Southern California wide receivers coach Tee Martin said Tuesday that he'll remain at the school instead of returning to Tennessee to join new Vols coach Butch Jones' staff.
Martin, the former quarterback who led Tennessee to the 1998 national title, is in his first season on Trojans coach Lane Kiffin's staff.
"I was very honored to be offered a position on Coach Jones' Tennessee staff," Martin said in a statement posted on school's website. "I truly believe he will do an outstanding job with the Vols program. My decision to remain at USC was the toughest I have ever had to make because Tennessee is such a special place to me.
"At the end of the day, I am a man of my word. I promised Coach Kiffin when I was hired at USC that I had goals I wanted to accomplish here. We still have work to do here to reach those goals. I see a great future at USC with the players on our roster and the recruits we have coming in.
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