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John B. Barranco's road to riches - and maybe ruin - was paved with good intentions gone bad - very bad, if you believe what state investigators have been saying about him. He is the man, they allege, who took a Merrimack Valley agency designed to serve children with disabilities and turned it into a personal treasure chest, siphoning off enough to become the owner of four homes, including a Florida getaway and a spread on Lake Winnipesaukee that he paid for with more than $1 million in cash.
The state inspector general has called it "one of the most outrageous abuses this office has ever seen.''
But it is more than that.
John Barranco's story is also about an East Boston boy who loved to box and grew into a young man remembered for smarts and moxie and sometimes intimidating toughness. About a schoolteacher whom many admired, one with an ambition for greater things. About a man with a gift for building political alliances, particularly among an endangered species in Massachusetts - GOP power brokers.
And about love.
For Barranco didn't build his empire alone. He left his wife for one of his employees in 1997, moving in with a woman nearly 20 years younger than himself for what he later called, in a court filing, "a mutual adult relationship of trust, confidence, and love.''
For a decade, Mary A. Clisbee was Barranco's right hand on the job and hostess at home, rising quickly from social worker through a series of promotions until Barranco had her named as his successor as executive director of the Merrimack Special Education Collaborative, an agency that provides academic instruction and job training for about 500 special needs children and 200 adults a year.
During their affair, Barranco and Clisbee collected ever-higher salaries and ultimately, in 2006, engineered the transfer of more than $11.5 million from the Collaborative to the Merrimack Education Center, a related, private nonprofit that Barranco was running as his personal fiefdom, according to findings released in June by state Inspector General Gregory W. Sullivan. Indeed, from 2003 through 2006, Barranco and Clisbee together took in more than $2.5 million in salaries and bonuses from the two organizations.
And then it all went sour, starting with their relationship. When Clisbee broke up with him in 2007, Barranco didn't hesitate to strike back. He forced her out of her $300,000 a year job, Clisbee said in an affidavit, and sued her for $100,000, claiming she owed him the money for work on her Groveland home. That legal battle would bring into view an intimate account of their personal and professional lives - an account that would ultimately prove useful to law enforcement.
Barranco now faces investigations by federal prosecutors and no fewer than six state agencies, including the offices of the inspector general and State Auditor Suzanne M. Bump, for allegedly transferring the $11.5 million and drawing on the money to award himself, Clisbee, and a tight circle of staffers extravagant salaries and benefits.
It is an accusation that astonishes some who knew Barranco back in the day as a teacher committed to bettering the neighborhood where he grew up, a charismatic sort who rose from the streets of East Boston to earn a Harvard doctorate in education and become a generous boss often eager to take underlings to lunch.
Others, however, are not so surprised, recalling Barranco as a man who could quickly turn into a "mad bull snorting and pawing at the turf'' when he was crossed, as one former education official put it.
But all agree that he is a man worth seeing in full.
The 69-year-old Barranco would not comment for this story, but interviews with more than a dozen people who know him and documents reviewed by the Globe illuminate how he was able to gain control of an obscure public agency and, investigators say, repeatedly dip into its assets for personal gain over more than a decade - largely out of view and without anyone raising objections.
"I didn't see any of this coming,'' said Robert S. Hargraves, a former state representative and Groton selectman who has known Barranco for nearly 30 years. "I have found John to be nothing but aboveboard.''
Neighbors unaware
In East Boston, where Barranco grew up during the 1940s and '50s, former colleagues and neighbors were stunned when they learned of Sullivan's allegations.
"I was in shock,'' said Mary Ellen Welch, a retired grade school educator who recalled Barranco as an innovative teacher at the old Barnes Middle School, during the early 1970s. "The John Barranco I knew was committed to his job and committed to the community.''
Laurence N. Aiello, a longtime friend of Barranco's who today serves on the board of the Merrimack Education Center, recalled growing up with Barranco in what was then a neighborhood of predominantly Italian families.
Barranco, Aiello recalled, was an especially bright - and unusually tough - teenager who trained as a boxer at the Paris Street Gym, adding that Barranco was someone who "could take care of business - could then and presently could.''
As for Sullivan's allegations, Aiello said he is confident Barranco will eventually show that they are largely without merit, although he declined to address any of the specific accusations leveled against his friend.
"He's a man of integrity,'' Aiello said, "and when all this other stuff is sorted out people will see that.''
Successful educator
By the early 1980s, Barranco was an educator on the rise, forging political ties with local and state Republicans that would serve him for decades.
In 1982, when he was named superintendent of the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District, he quickly won the admiration of Hargraves, then a member of the Groton Board of Selectmen, and his wife, Ellen, a member of the School Committee that hired Barranco.
Both Robert and Ellen would support Barranco for decades, even as they rose to more powerful positions. Robert would serve 16 years in the state Legislature, while Ellen would win an appointment from former Governor A. Paul Cellucci to the board of the state Teachers' Retirement System.
It was an appointment that paid off for Barranco as recently as last December, when Hargraves asked fellow board members to reconsider a decision to dock Barranco's $157,000 annual teacher's pension for exceeding the limit on outside income.
"Knowing him as I do, I found it very hard to believe there could be some wrongdoing involved,'' Ellen said, in a recent interview.
By the early 1990s, Barranco had become something of a favorite with Governor William F. Weld and then-Lieutenant Governor Cellucci, winning appointments to several blue ribbon panels; administration insiders even tried to overrule a search committee and have him named state education commissioner.
Shortly after that bid failed, Barranco left his position as regional superintendent to become executive director of the Collaborative and the Center, posts he would hold simultaneously for more than a decade.
From the beginning, the two organizations were closely entwined. In the late 1960s, a group of educators in the region established to Center to foster innovative education programs. In 1976, the Center created the Collaborative as a separate entity for special needs students, and for many years the two organizations operated in tandem, sharing managers and office space in Chelmsford.
But when Barranco arrived on the scene, in the early 1990s, the financial interests of the two groups were diverging, with the Collaborative becoming a paying customer of the Center. Under Barranco, the Collaborative would purchase a variety of services from the Center, including classroom space, transportation, and administrative support.
It was an arrangement that created an inherent conflict for Barranco, the executive director of both organizations, Inspector General Sullivan concluded in his investigation, as Barranco was both the buyer and seller of goods and services paid for with taxpayer money.
Sold technology
By the time Barranco and Clisbee began living together in the late 1990s, Barranco was already using the nonprofit Center to generate revenue by providing high-technology services to local school districts - and throwing sharp elbows at anyone who got in his way.
Through an arm of the Center called MECnet, he had already capitalized on the growing importance of the World Wide Web by selling Internet services to 200 public school districts.
So when a newly created state-funded agency decided it could offer schools a less expensive connection through a different vendor, Barranco fought back, publicly denouncing the decision as a "scam'' and a "bag job.''
Then he caught up with Greg Nadeau, the chief technology officer for the old state Department of Education, and, Nadeau said, offered some pointed criticism.
"He physically threatened me in the halls of the State House, yelling at me and saying he was going to shove something down my [expletive] throat,'' Nadeau recalled. "John Barranco was an extraordinarily aggressive, ruthless bully.''
At the time, another official, Ray Campbell, was working as the executive director of the Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications, the state-funded agency established to provide schools with a variety of high technology teaching tools.
When the agency decided to move into the area of connecting schools to the Internet, and cut MECnet out of the process, Campbell, too, felt Barranco's wrath.
"I've never encountered anyone so crass, so boorish, so incapable of sitting down and working something out,'' Campbell recalled. "He was like a mad bull snorting and pawing at the turf.''
In the long run, Barranco prevailed. Within a year, the vendor chosen by Campbell's agency filed for bankruptcy, a victim of the volatile high-technology market of the era, and the Center picked up much of its business with local schools.
Methods questioned
But Barranco would lose out - permanently - on another line of MECnet's operations, when a newly named state official questioned the quality of the service he was providing and the conditions under which he was securing contracts.
In this particular line of the Center's business - which grossed nearly $4 million in the early 2000s - the Center sold specialized software to cities and towns to help them audit new school construction costs. Cities and towns were required to submit the audits to the state Department of Education before being reimbursed for their construction expenses.
To build its software business, Barranco and the Center hired James L. Anderson away from the Department of Education. Anderson, in turn, secured a letter from a former colleague in the department saying that the department approved of the software and would reimburse cities and towns that bought it.
To Katherine Craven, who in 2004 became head of the newly created Massachusetts School Building Authority, the letter amounted to an exclusive, no-bid contract. "There was no other software endorsed by a letter from the Department of Education,'' she said.
Craven also decided that her office could design more sophisticated software, offer it to local schools for free, and cut off the reimbursements to cities and towns for Barranco's product.
"This was a multimillion-dollar business and it went away after 2006,'' she said.
Corruption allegations
By then, Barranco was relying on Clisbee to help carry out the deal that now lies at the heart of the corruption accusations lodged by Sullivan and Bump - the transfer of more than $11.5 million in taxpayer money from the Collaborative to the Center. The money had been collected by the Collaborative from member school districts in the form of tuition for disabled students.
The transfer was executed in June of 2006 through two agreements, Sullivan wrote in a letter to the two co-executive directors of the Collaborative. Under the first one, the Collaborative agreed to pay the Center $5.5 million for back rent, building improvements, and various administrative services dating to 2000.
But Bump, the state auditor, found that the Collaborative had already paid $16 million for those very same services.
The second agreement set the rates for services to be paid by the Collaborative over the next 10 years under an exclusive arrangement that Sullivan said not only violates the state's open bidding law but has also required the Collaborative to pay the Center $6.5 million in excess of the Center's costs for those properties. Sullivan has urged the Collaborative to demand repayment of the money.
The net result of the two agreements was dramatic: The Collaborative went from having a $3.8 million surplus, to being $2.4 million in the red in less than two years, according to Bump's audit. The Center, meanwhile, saw its assets soar from $4.6 million to $14.6 million over the same period.
To win the approval of the two agreements, Barranco and Clisbee relied on overlapping boards of directors at the Collaborative and the Center to push them through, Sullivan's investigation concluded. Because of the overlap, five superintendents voted twice to approve the pacts, once on behalf of the Collaborative and again on behalf of the Center, another conflict of interest.
Moreover, Barranco later awarded three of those board members high-paying jobs at the Center: James McCormick, now the superintendent of schools in Mason, N.H.; Robert Calabrese, who is dead; and David Hawkins, who appears to be still working for the Center.
The fourth of the five board members, Richard Moser, attended the Kentucky Derby with Barranco - at the Center's expense - a year before casting his votes for the two agreements.
None of these individuals returned numerous calls from the Globe.
The fifth board member, Joseph J. Connelly, now the interim superintendent of the Harvard public schools, told the Globe that when he approved the agreements he believed he was voting on innocuous measures designed to separate the functions and assets of the two organizations.
"I thought we had done everything legal and proper,'' he said.
Personal setback
Even as they prospered in their professional relationship, Barranco and Clisbee foundered in their personal relationship.
Clisbee, now an associate dean at Nova Southeastern University, in Florida, said in her affidavit that Barranco expected her to entertain his friends and business associates at her Groveland home, and would desert her on weekends while she was suffering from Crohn's disease and thyroid cancer.
In March of 2007, after spending several days making preparations for a board meeting at Barranco's Bradenton, Fla., Clisbee ended the relationship.
But Barranco quickly moved to get even, waiting only two months to file his lawsuit. Once again, he appeared to prevail. Last July, after three years of litigation, Clisbee agreed to settle for about $41,500.
In the end, however, it could turn out to be a hollow victory, with investigators - aided by details in the lawsuit - closing in on Barranco at a time when he is on an unpaid leave of absence from his $500,000 a year job at the Center.
"I do believe he's a bad person who did bad things,'' said Nadeau, the former Department of Education official. "I'm just surprised that it took this long for them to catch up with him.''Michael Rezendes can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @RezGlobe.


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"How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept."
William Cowper
In 1998 the genealogy bug bit hard. I had set a goal that I wanted to walk in the the villages of my ancestors. Unfortunately for me I started this journey a decade after my great grandparents and their contemporaries had died. To my surprise no one of my grandparents generation knew or remembered the name or the location of our ancestral villages in Italy. Eight more years of painstaking field research in the NYC Municipal Archives, cemeteries, and other repositories using direct and collateral line techniques had expanded the family tree, the pool of surnames, and identified a number of potential relationships. However I was no closer to identifying the land from whence we came.
At the same time in my work life I was involved in a number of large mergers and acquisitions in the software industry. One of those acquisitions had a broad portfolio of geodemographic analytics solutions. Geodemography is the linkage of demographics with a spatial location. Geodemographics is a structured method for making sense of complex socio-economic data by where people live. One of the key learnings in geodemographics is that people who live in the same neighborhood are more likely to have similar characteristics than are two people chosen at random.
I began to wonder if the massive amount of data I had collected between 1998 and 2006 could be geolocated and visualized together. I then went back through my research and through online census records at Ancestry.com to extract as much address information as possible. What became immediately clear is that the names and addresses I had captured had a clear spatial pattern – these people were not randomly spread through the area – they were actually quite spatially proximate to each other. Through additional outside research it became clear there were established 19th century spatial settlement patterns for southern Italian Catholics:
- Neighborhood distinctiveness and social cohesion in New World urban areas was directly related to migrants tendency to move in with relatives and acquaintances from their Old World rural past.
- Southern Italian villages tended to be isolated and insular, and new immigrants tended to preserve this isolation in their new country, clustering together in close enclaves.
- The population of a single Italian village ended up living on the same block in New York, or even the same tenement building, preserving many of the social institutions and habits of worship
In Italy, this spirit of village cohesion was known as campanilismo—loyalty to those who live within the sound of the village church bells. Therefore, it became clear a more detailed analysis of the people living in certain neighborhoods in time and finding out where they immigrated from (vs. direct or collateral lines) might allow me to "hear" the echoes of the village bell and "force open all the cells where the memory of my ancestors slept."
It worked.
By following intensely researching a witness on the marriage record of Clementina Carmela Petrone and Angelo Corbo and corroborating surnames patterns with existing surname distributions in villages in Italy I discovered a probable candidate for one of the ancestral villages of my maternal line – Piaggine in the Salerno Province of Campania. I sent my proof sources to a wonderful field researcher near Naples (Joe De Simone) who went to the archives in Piaggine and not only validated my research but sent me back stacks of vital records. The ancestral echoes of the village bell as outlined by the spatial pattern of immigrants in the New World has pointed me to the ancestral village of the Petrones. There was only one thing left to do – to hear the ancestral echoes of the village bell in Piaggine.
With the outstanding hospitality as well as transportation and translation services of Joe De Simone on the ground, my eldest daughter Julia and I flew to Naples and joined Joe for the long drive to Piaggine. We timed our trip to coincide with the festival of Piaggine's patron saint – Santa Filomena (Saint Philomena) on August 23rd where the size of the village swells as Piagginesi from around the world come home. We stayed at an agriturismo (Le Grazie) and as we stood out on our veranda for the first time looking at the village below – we heard the sound of the Village bell calling us home too.
I could write 10 more blogs about what happened in Piaggine – the people from around the world that we met, the outstanding hospitality, the vistas, the vibe, the music, Mt. Cervati, faith and tradition, and the food! One of the thrills was getting an unscheduled personal tour of the oldest Church in Piaggine – the Chiesa di San Pietro which was built in the year 1200. When we saw one of the pews with a dedication to a Petrone family in Piaggine we really got the sense of the potential span of Catholic Tradition in our family back to the 13th century. But the arc of these blogs does not end in Piaggine. We had found the ancestral village of the Petrones but not of the Corbos. All the of the vital records from the archives in Piaggine as well as a physical geographic assessment from Google Earth pointed to us to a smaller village nearby – Sacco. Not only in Sacco did I have my "Kunte Kinte I found you" moment – I also discovered what I believe has been the driving force of Faith in my family for three and a half centuries. More on what I found in the last installment of this series of posts.

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An important figure in early American science and letters, William Bartram (1739–1823) has been known almost exclusively for his classic book, Travels. William Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design presents new material in the form of art, letters, and unpublished manuscripts. These documents expand our knowledge of Bartram as an explorer, naturalist, artist, writer, and citizen of the early Republic.
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The Bats of Kenya: assessing the species limits of cryptic species
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Symposium Presentation Title: The Bats of Kenya: assessing the species limits of cryptic species
Symposium Presentation Abstract: The diversity of mammal fauna in east Africa has captured the interest of biologists for centuries. The world-famous "Big Five" grab the attention of people far and wide. However, hidden in plain sight is a group of animals which offer a treasure trove of evolutionary, ecological, and economic knowledge -- the bat! Bats represent a quarter of Kenya's >400 mammal species. As one of the few mammalian orders capable of echolocation and the only one capable of true flight, bats quickly specialize and separate to adapt to their environment. Only recently have scientist begun to realize the economic and ecological benefits of bat species. Bats contribute to a healthy ecosystem via pollination of flowers, seed dispersal and consuming herbivorous insects. Consumption of insects in Kenya, where agriculture is subsistence based, may be one of their most important contributions to humanity. Our study gathered and tested morphometric information within the genus Epomorphorus. Using 27 variables and the Epomophorus collection at the Field Museum, we performed univariate and multivariate analysis to discover which measurements were of greatest influence in distinguishing two species. After gathering this information, we compared it with the current species key to confirm or deny the existence of cryptic species. We found that when distinguishing between species with skull morphometrics, skull length and braincase breadth have the biggest impact. However, Epomophorus wahlbergi and Epomophorus haldermanni continue to be separated by non-morphometric features. This project will evolve. With the continued addition of data to the project, we expect to gain further insight into this misunderstood order. Access to new habitats will greatly increase our capability to accurately determine the many forms of the Chiroptera.
Original Project Description: Kenya straddles the equator and mega-diverse, being world-famous for the "Big Five" and other charismatic megafauna. But a quarter of its mammal species (>100!) are bats, which are known to serve vital ecological roles, including pollination, seed dispersal, and insectivory, and are important to both agriculture and public health. Developed with the help of the National Museums of Kenya and the Kenya Wildlife Service, The Bats of Kenya will detail the distribution, status, diagnosis, and ecological habits of all these species. For such a large fauna, determining species limits is perhaps the most challenging task, one aided by analyses in the field (vocalizations and habits), museum (conventional and geometric morphometrics, ectoparasites), and the laboratory (DNA sequences).
Research methods and techniques: Interns will be trained in museum collection management, morphological data collection, specimen preparation, and data analysis. Interns will be taught to analyze their data on species limits and relationships. With access to data on vocalizations and ectoparasite collected in the field, interns will test the existence of cryptic (or currently unrecognized) species in this fauna.


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After Genevieve Brett, an undergraduate physics major at Skidmore College, presented her mathematical analysis of coastal water temperature to WHOI scientists and graduate students, someone asked, did three weeks at WHOI seem like enough time for her work?
"It was really only 2½ weeks," she said, "and I had never worked with real observational data before." It added up to an intense time—not exactly a break from school.
College breaks between fall and spring terms can last all January, enough time for travel, courses, short internships, or work. For the past four years, a few undergraduate students have combined these at WHOI in the Ocean Research Experience (ORE) program, a pilot program that plunges them into ocean science for three to four weeks.
"In the four years of the program, we have brought 22 science students here from liberal arts colleges, none of whom had much prior exposure to ocean science," said Jim Yoder, WHOI dean and vice president for academic programs.
The program was supported by a grant from The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, which were interested in providing science majors at liberal arts colleges a way to experience ocean science firsthand at a top-flight oceanographic research institution.
"Funding from The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations was meant to last three years," said Yoder, "and we managed to extend it to four." He is now actively seeking private donors to help continue the ORE program.
Yoder recruits students from colleges where he has strong connections, primarily through alumni of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program. This year's five students were Brett; Akemi Berry and Gail Schwietermanm from Oberlin College; Christopher Elliot from Williams College; and Stephen Hesterberg from DePauw University.
The visiting undergraduates aren't the only ones to benefit from the midwinter program. They are taught short courses in basic oceanography by advanced Joint Program students—this year by Whitney Bernstein, Kim Popendorf, and Maya Yamato, who relished the opportunity to get teaching experience.
The undergraduates also partner with WHOI scientists and work on short research projects in their labs.
"I've been pleasantly surprised at the number of WHOI scientists willing to host an undergraduate for a few weeks," Yoder said. Five to seven scientists participate each year.
The ORE program also helps recruit students into other WHOI educational programs. Three of this year's participants have applied for a Summer Student Fellowship at WHOI, and Brett, a senior, said she is applying to the Joint Program.
Undergraduate science majors from liberal arts colleges got a taste of the breadth of oceanographic research during midwinter break. In a pilot program organized by the WHOI Academic Programs Office, the undergraduates attended classes in oceanographic topics taught by MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate students and worked on short research projects in scientists' labs. Above, graduate students Maya Yamato (far left) and Kim Popendorf (at back) oversee students Christopher Elliot, Akemi Berry, and Stephen Hesterberg (left to right) dissecting a fish. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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But in the end Manchester United's opening day fixture of the EPL season bore all the hallmarks of its recent troubled past as Swansea City upset Louis Van Gaal's side to win 2-1 at Old Trafford Saturday.
Goals from Ki Sung Yueng and Gylfi Sigurdsson either side of a spectacular Wayne Rooney overhead kick ensured the Swans were full value for the three points.
Apart from a Rooney free-kick that cracked the post midway through the second half, United rarely threatened or looked like a side capable of getting its league campaign off to a winning start.
"It is very disappointing that we have lost our first home match," Van Gaal told BT Sport in his post game interview.
"We didn't reach the level we can play at. That is disappointing because we have done it much better and when you cannot do it in your first home match that is disappointing, especially for the fans."
The feelgood factor had seemed to have returned to United since Van Gaal's appointment earlier in the summer.
A busy pre-season witnessed promising victories over Liverpool, Roma, Valencia and Real Madrid.
But Saturday's performance had more in common with last year's disastrous campaign under David Moyes which saw the Red Devils finish seventh, their lowest placing in Premier League history.
"We were very nervous in first half, made the wrong choices and that is a pity. In the second half we never played as a team, therefore I'm responsible," Van Gaal continued.
"We had more chances than Swansea but that shall say nothing about the result. It is the goals that count.
"I thought we would win (when the scores were tied at 1-1 in the second half) but because we are not playing as a team in the second half we made the wrong decisions going forward."
Van Gaal intimated later in an interview with MUTV that there would be further signings arriving at Old Trafford before the transfer window slams shut at the end of August.
Judging by this performance, the prospective new arrivals can't arrive soon enough.
United began with a 3-5-2 system similar to that employed by Van Gaal's Dutch side at the World Cup earlier this summer before switching to a 4-4-1-1 as the game progressed.
There were competitive debuts to new $48 million midfield signing Ander Herrera and 20-year-old center half Tyler Blackett.
Newly installed captain Wayne Rooney led the line alongside Javier Hernandez with Robin Van Persie still missing after he was given extended holiday to recover from his World Cup exertions.
Like many a visitor to Old Trafford, Swansea sat in deep and attempted to play on the break.
It was a tactic that would work to perfection as United pressed and dominated possession but produced few goal-scoring opportunities.
Ki was a standout in midfield for Swansea while Ashley Williams was his usual commanding self at the back, organizing when required and reading the game exceptionally well.
"We have been working hard in pre-season on defensive shape and we can get even better at that but there were pleasing signs in the way we stuck together and the goals we scored against a side of Manchester United's resources," said Swansea manager Gary Monk.
"We have worked on the mentality side of things so that even when things go against us we continue to believe in what we are doing."
Having lost a raft of key players over the summer, including Chico Flores, Michel Worm and Ben Davies, many observers had questioned whether Swansea would be relegation candidates.
With more solid, mature performances like this over the coming season such predictions will be made to look badly placed.
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Dirk Nowitzki laid his 7-foot, 34-year-old body across the floor of the Dallas Mavericks locker room Wednesday at Staples Center and grimaced as he went through his pregame stretching routine.
In an hour or so his lowly, fourth-place Mavericks would take the floor against the Clippers, the best team in the NBA, and the likelihood of another loss pushing the Mavs further and further away from the playoffs seemed as imminent as Dallas owner Mark Cuban being fined by the NBA for criticizing the league's referees.
Sure enough, commissioner David Stern slapped Cuban for fifty grand this week after Cuban made a disparaging tweet about NBA refs, and considering Cuban is now in $1.5 million deep with Stern it's a pretty good bet it won't be the last time Stern shakes him down for opening his mouth too wide.
As far as Cuban's Mavericks, they just keep plodding along on a miserable trip to nowhere, taking a 13-22 record into their game against the Clippers and plummeting all the way to the 12th spot in the Western Conference standings.
If the season ended today, Dallas would be out of the postseason.
And that doesn't sit well with Nowitzki, who never imagined himself sacrificing his remaining prime years for a terrible team – especially after climbing to the top of the mountain just two years ago after beating the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals.
Nowitzki's frustration boiled over recently when he publicly questioned the team's direction and even brought up the possibility of leaving Dallas in a trade if the Mavericks go into full rebuild mode.
By Wednesday he wasn't exactly backing down.
"I've always said I want to finish my career in Dallas. But all I wanted to say is that we won one championship and we want to win it again," Nowitzki explained. "I don't want to settle for being the eighth seed or just playing to get into the playoffs."
Nearly 1,400 miles away in San Antonio, the Lakers were falling further into their own abyss, like the Mavericks just another recent champion scrambling to find their way back to elite company.
I pointed that out to Nowitzki. I also pointed out how his skill set would fit perfectly with the Lakers in Mike D'Antoni's system and alongside point guard Steve Nash, whom he made beautiful music with back in the day as Dallas teammates.
The more I continued the wider Nowitzki's smile grew. He knew exactly where this train was headed and wanted to slam on the brakes before it barreled any further down the tracks.
And before I started fitting him for a Lakers jersey.
"I mean honestly, I'd never allow myself to even think about something like that," Nowitzki said, laughing.
I then reminded him how his buddy Nash said pretty much the same thing about playing for the Lakers last summer – only to ask the Suns to trade him to Los Angeles a week later.
"It's funny how business works," Nowitzki conceded.
Funny indeed.
But when you think about it, if your aim is brilliance it takes a fair share of crazy to get there.
And when you stop laughing at the thought of Nowitzki playing for the Lakers and start thinking about how much sense it makes for everyone involved, the unimaginable actually becomes plausible.
How, you ask?
By trading Dwight Howard to the Mavericks for Nowitzki.
By rolling the dice on Nowitzki paired with Nash paired with Kobe Bryant paired with Pau Gasol creating the kind of perfect amalgamation for D'Antoni's system.
By understanding that combination gives the Lakers a better chance to compete for a championship over the next two years, not the team we see flailing about with mismatched parts trying to fit into a system it's not built to succeed in.
And by accepting you're going to have to blow things up in two years anyway, and with Gasol and Bryant and Nowitzki's contracts all expiring after the 2014 season the Lakers will go into that summer with enough cap space to add at least two dynamic young stars.
Finally, by admitting Howard might not be the ideal piece to build around moving forward and by dealing him now – and adding the perfect part for D'Antoni's offense while preserving cap space in 2014 – you're making proper use of an asset.
It makes all the more sense if you have any doubt Howard will re-sign here when his contract expires.
If that's the case, you have to move him.
From the Mavericks perspective, there's no way you deal the greatest player in team history to the hated Lakers, right?
Unless, of course, the player you get back is one of the very players you cleared all sorts of cap space for last year in hopes of landing him as a free agent or in a trade.
Only for the Lakers to swoop in and beat you to him.
If given another shot at Howard, Dallas might do what it takes to make it happen.
Even dealing with the Lakers.
The Mavericks are going nowhere right now, and unless they figure something out quickly it's going to be a long time before they get back on track.
By the time they do, Nowitzki will be 36 years old and probably moving on to another team.
As hard as it would be for Cuban to move Nowitzki – especially to the Lakers – getting Howard in the process eases that pain considerably.
And the best part is, Cuban will have the necessary cap space with which to build around his new big man as early as next summer.
I know it sounds crazy, right?
But the NBA is where crazy happens these days, and unless you're willing to think outside the box and act decisively, you're putting yourself at risk against your fast-thinking, fast-acting competition.


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MI-5 "Accidental Discovery" Lucas is running from MI6 agents while trying to protect a boy and his family after the teenager picked up a piece of assassination equipment that appears to be connected to a planned attempt on the life of a United Nations negotiator.G
4:00 am
Hustle The gang is just about to close a deal when Sean is distracted by someone with whom he has a score to settle. He lets the mark walk off with the money while he pursues this man. Emma is shocked to learn it is their father who walked out on Emma and Sean 25 years before.G
5:00 am
Story of India "Beginnings" Archaeological discoveries, DNA, climate science and oral tales cast light on India's deep past. Part 1 of 6G
6:00 am
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood "Mister Rogers Visits An Art Museum" Mister Rogers visits the Carnegie Art Museum. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl receives a letter from Big Bird of "Sesame Street" saying he's bringing his entry to King Friday's drawing contest. X the Owl gets so excited about Big Bird's news that Henrietta Pussycat feels jealous and is afraid of losing X's friendship. D
6:30 am
Curious George "Curious George Takes A Vacation/Curious George and the One That Got Away" George has fun when he gets stuck in the airport and makes his own fishing pole to catch an eel.G
7:00 am
Wild Kratts "A Bat in the Brownies" When a little brown bat crashlands into a plate of Jimmy Z's famous brownies, Martin and Chris out set out to convince Aviva, Jimmy Z and Koki that bats are nothing to be afraid of. With bat activated Creature Power Suits, the bros follow join their new friend on a nocturnal fly about, and the entire crew must come to the rescue when the bat colony's roost is destroyed by a lightning bolt. In the end the Wild Kratts crew "goes batty," as they gain a new appreciation for bat ecology, predators and insects and echolocation, and learn to love bats. D
7:30 am
Peep and the Big Wide World/Pocoyo "The Mystery of the Thing That Went and Came Back/Peep's Color Quest" Peep sets sail - accidentally. Quack's exciting new toy makes him see things differently. Pocoyo: Double Trouble - Pato stirs up trouble when he invents a cloning machine. D
8:00 am
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Jumping on the Moon/Sneezy Riders" Jumping on the Moon - Nick and Sally are trying to jump high enough to touch the moon, but "what goes up must come down" says the Cat. That's gravity! And to show them just what gravity is, that means a trip to the moon! That's where they meet Astronaut Audrey who takes them for a space walk to learn all about gravity. Sneezy Riders - Sally and Nick are playing hide and seek, but Nick keeps sneezing! How can they stop it from happening? Good thing Cat's friend Cluey Looey will be able to help them! At Muddyfeet Waterhole they discover that Louie is having the same problem! Nothing a trip inside Louie's nose can't solve! Inside a super shrunken Thingamajigger, Nick, Sally and Cat discover what causes sneezing and what they can do to avoid it from happening!. D
8:30 am
Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps "Angelina Cheerleader/Angelina's Ballet School" Angelina Cheerleader - When Marco is chosen to run in the Chipping Cheddar Marathon, nobody is more delighted than Angelina. But her overenthusiastic support, which includes forming a cheerleading team, makes Marco so nervous that instead of running in the race, he ends up running away from all the fuss and attention. Angelina's Ballet School - Angelina opens her very own ballet school in the attic and enlists Polly as her first - and only - pupil. D
9:00 am
Bob the Builder "Listen to Your Friends" Scratch and the Dream Home US - Bob, Wendy and the machines are at Farmer Pickles' Farm, ready to build Spud's new room. Spud decides that if it's his dream room, he can have whatever he wants! Spud enlists Scratch's help to make sure his dream room takes shape exactly how he wants it. The other machines think that Spud and Scratch should wait and follow Bob's plans. D
9:30 am
Barney & Friends "The Magic Caboose and Bj The Great" The Magic Caboose: Melanie is sad because she misses her friend who is visiting relatives in India. Barney shows his friends that it's fun to go to new places and see new things by taking them on an imaginary journey on the Magic Caboose! Educational theme: An introduction to different countries. BJ the Great: BJ wants to be a great magician, but he doesn't want to spend any time practicing. D
10:00 am
Wishbone "The Pawloined Paper" This live-action program follows the exploits of Wishbone the dog and his human friends, Joe, David and Samantha through their adventures in their hometown of Oakdale. Wishbone's everyday experiences trigger his imagination and he finds himself in scenes from classic works of literature. In this episode, Joe is in a race to recover a love note that could be embarrassing. D
10:30 am
WordWorld "Pig's Present/Tick Tock Space Clock" Pig's Present: It's Pig's birthday and his nephews, the Three Little Pigs, are making him a secret present. Although Pig promises not to peek, his curiosity about his present gets the better of him and wreaks havoc all over WordWorld. Will Pig ever learn to be patient? Tick Tock Space Clock: When a mysterious rocket lands in Word World, Duck pledges to help a robot track down a very important clock. D
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Consuelo Mack WealthTrack "Great Investor Turns Cautious" Guest: Donald Yacktman, Founder, Portfolio Manager, Yacktman Fund. This week's Consuelo Mack WealthTrack features an interview with "Great Investor" Donald Yacktman of The Yacktman Funds, who is becoming more cautious. Yacktman has delivered top performance for more than two decades by staying true to his investment process, but adapting to market conditions. D
12:00 pm
To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe Rape on College Campuses; Surprising New Survey on how Men and Women Define "Having it All"; Behind the Headlines: Phyllis Chesler - An American Bride in Kabul. PANELISTS: Red Alert Politics Francesca Chambers, Heritage Foundation's Genevieve Wood, Avis Jones DeWeever host of NPR's Focus Point, Journalist Anushay Hossain. D
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Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer "Summer Roses" The Bansemers travel to Maine where Sarah tours an antique garden on Clapboard Island. Roger uses oils to paint a bush of red summer roses by a picket fence. D
1:30 pm
Sewing with Nancy "Knock Out Knits, Part 1" Use a little creativity to make stylish changes to a basic knit T-shirt. Donna Fenske, guest designer, and Nancy create easy knit ruffles using several different methods to gather and finish them. They accent tees using ruffles terraced on the yoke, down the front, and to complement a round or V-neckline. D
2:00 pm
Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting "Bygone Table Runner" This festive table runner would make a great gift for someone on your list. Marianne and Mary demonstrate paper foundation piecing techniques used to complete this project. They also show how a pieced border adds interest. D
2:30 pm
Hometime "Energy Smart Sunroom" See how new doors, finished millwork and a ceiling fan freshen up an aging sunroom while increasing efficiency. D
3:00 pm
Woodsmith Shop "Cherry Bookcase" Create an elegant cherry bookcase from a single sheet of plywood. The Woodsmith editors show you how easy it is. D
3:30 pm
This Old House "Jersey Shore Rebuilds 2013/Lines in the Sand" A Texas contractor explains how they're dredging sand shoaled in Barnegat Bay after Sandy; structural hardware and windows are installed in Bay Head. The Point Pleasant garage, now 10 feet in the air, becomes the new dining room; Rita's modular home gets trucked in and craned onto timber piles in Manasquan; Kevin visits the 19th-century Great Auditorium and tent city in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. D
4:00 pm
Ask This Old House "Installing A Shade Sail Over A Deck In Santa Fe/Installing a Hybrid Water Heater to Save Energy" Kevin visits Santa Fe and explores the Santa Fe style of architecture. Then he installs a shade sail over a deck to cut down on sun exposure. Roger shows the proper way to use a wheelbarrow. D
4:30 pm
Growing a Greener World "Weedless Gardening (NY)" We visit a sustainable garden expert and author who nurtures the soil while reducing the labor in growing your own food in a weedless garden. D
5:00 pm
Dialogue "Preserving Public Memory" Brent Glass, director emeritus of the Smithsonian's Museum of American History, talks about the ways in which museums, historical sites and memorials are increasingly involving the public in their exhibits, and the importance of preserving public memory.G
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PBS NewsHour Weekend On Sunday, in an unlikely alliance, natural gas companies and environmentalists have decided to work together to make fracking safer. Rick Karr travels to Pennsylvania to explore the tensions this has created among environmental groups. That, and the weekend's news, online and on-air. D
6:30 pm
British Antiques Roadshow "Beverley Minster" Fiona Bruce is now host of the British production of Antiques Roadshow, and she and a team of experts are in Yorkshire. Treasures include a valuable medieval ring dug up on a farm, two Victorian paintings given in exchange for a gambling debt, and a car rescued from a pig farm's outbuilding that is a former rally winner driven by Stirling Moss.G
7:00 pm
Outdoor Idaho "Rec Tech" Whether producing custom jet boats, some of the world's best-known knives, high-end fly fishing reels or calorie-packed and great-tasting energy bars, the people leading Idaho's recreation technology companies share one characteristic: They love Idaho's great outdoors. This episode features the adventurous men and women behind these innovations.G
7:30 pm
Oregon Field Guide "Disappearing Frogs Update, Imperial Stock Ranch, Thundereggs" Researchers find global amphibian decline has complex causes, including UV radiation, water mold, chytrid fungus, aggressive bullfrogs and habitat destruction.G
8:00 pm
Father Brown "The Wrong Shape" Soon after his poetry recital, Leonard Quinton is found hanging in the conservatory. When Father Brown realizes that he could not have committed suicide, the search begins for a murderer.G
9:00 pm
Masterpiece Classic "The Paradise, Part Five" Exotic lovebirds arrive at The Paradise to be sold as the latest attractions, and Denise struggles to keep her feelings for Moray to herself. Miss Audrey, seeing the telltale signs of love, advises her to keep quiet. Part 5 of 7G
10:00 pm
Masterpiece Classic "Downton Abbey (S2 E4)" In the climactic battle of the war, Matthew and William go over the top to an uncertain fate. Vera plays a cruel endgame with Bates and Anna, forcing Lady Mary to consider using her connection with Sir Richard Carlisle to save her family from dishonor. Daisy faces the severest test of her life. Part 4 of 7G
11:00 pm
New Tricks "Dead Poets" The UCOS team re-opens the case of Sean Docherty, a talented young poet, whose burnt body was discovered 10 years ago in the scrapyard of a known gangster. While Standing is convinced that the murder is related to Docherty's criminal connections, Lane is sure that the answer lies in his poetry.G


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entreplanner needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 161 designs submitted by 58 freelance designers.
Been using an old logo and would like to revamp...website design will be coming following logo design.
NOTE: We needed to extend the contest one day beccause I won't have any internet access at the time the contest originally closed. Thanks to all the designers that have submitted and are still submitting designs. The response has been great and we are very impressed with the work. This is our first time using 99designs.com and we will recommend it to everyone.
We will make a decision tomorrow (Saturday September 27th) during the day Eastern Standard Time. ONLY A FEW HOURS LEFT....KEEP THEM COMING! TAKE A HINT FROM THE ONES I'VE KEPT.
Illusion Graphics
The logo should be sleaky, sexy and colourful. This logo should catch our customers attention and represent our business name, so incorporating a illusion (perhaps a popular one) should be one route you explore. The logo must be easily incorporated into many different web and print situations so white background would provide that (but I am not a designer so I will leave that discretion in your hands).
To see the existing logo please email firstname.lastname@example.com and write 'old logo' in the subject line.
- the current colour scheme can be seen on the existing logo but it is not mandatory that you stick with it.
- must say "Illusion Graphics" in full
- style is your discretion
- nothing looking corny
- must look corporate and clean
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As one of Baltimore's most notorious stick-up artists, Omar Little brings another element to the game: the hunt. With his long duster, battle armor and the sweep of his shotgun, he adds an additional element of risk for Baltimore's dealers. Uncomfortable with profanity and careful to rob only dealers and others in the game who can have no complaint to police, Omar shows particular pride when taking off the stronger organizations - though that pride has cost him.
After robbing a Barksdale stash house with two confederates - one his lover, Brandon, and another gunman named Bailey. He soon found himself hunted ruthlessly. Bailey was caught and killed first, followed by Brandon, who was himself tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to make him reveal Omar's whereabouts. In retaliation, Omar took the battle to the Barksdale organization, ambushing the hitters Wee-Bey and Stinkum, killing the latter and wounding the former. Subsequently, he made a point of testifying - in fact, perjuring himself - in a campaign to give a third Barksdale gunman, Bird, a life-sentence in a court trial. Manipulated by Prop Joe into ambushing Brother Mouzone - a gunsel brought down from New York to hold Barksdale territory and make an alliance between Stringer Bell and Joe problematic - Omar realized he'd been used after wounding Mouzone and so let the man live. Mouzone, after working his way back to Omar, learned the story and the two paired up briefly to successfully assassinate Stringer Bell, bringing Omar's campaign of retribution to an end.
Moving on to other targets in the drug world, Omar gets caught in a web of framing and retribution with Proposition Joe and Marlo Stanfield. When he finally pulls off a double-crossing heist, further alienating the two dealers, Omar takes the money and runs. But Marlo remains determined to smoke him out.


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Jon NIese takes his 9.00 ERA to the mound today against the Braves. Niese is still in the hunt for the fifth spot in the rotation, but hasn't overly impressed in his opportunity.
I'm still putting what's left of my money on Livan Hernandez to win the role. That is, of course, if the Mets don't pick somebody else up, such as re-signing Pedro Martinez.
Nobody has blown away the field. Tim Redding is hurting and could open the season on the DL. Freddy Garcia? That ended quickly.
I like what I saw of Niese last season, but he also had those moments that said he wasn't ready. I'd hate for him to come up and get rocked the way Mike Pelfrey did. If there is a viable major league option to Niese, the Mets will take it.


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On my USB stick, I have a whole bunch of MP3 files in folders with 20 files per folder. I deliberately did this to divide a large number of files up into conveniently sized groups. When I say a large number, the folder structure is like this:
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│ └───a05
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The root directory has 26 folder named a00 to z00
Each 00 folder has 5 sub folders (e.g. a01, a02, a03, a04 and a05)
Each folder has 20 MP3 files, 2600 files in total. For the most part, I just leave this thing cycling over and over.
With nearly every ICE system I have used in recent years, I can just slap the USB into the port and the files in the folders will play continuously. However, they have all also have a system that allows me to skip from one folder to the next with one button-press. e.g. a 4 way joystick (similar to the one in my ND) on a Pioneer system used left/right to skip tracks and up/down to skip folders. So, if I was playing any file in folder c00/c01 and I pressed joystick-down, it would skip to the first file in c00/c02 or if I hit joystick-up it would skip to the first file in b00/b05.
I can't seem to find similar functionality with MZD.
Why do I want this? MZD connect sometimes forgets where it was in a playlist and goes back to track 1 (I've seen this mentioned in a few forums so it's not just me) or if I take the USB out, alter it and put it back in, I might want to start playback at a particular point in the folder list. That's one of the main reasons for the folder structure: an easy ability to skip about 20 songs at a time or to navigate to a particular point in the file list and then continue playing from that point - and keep doing so for all 2600 songs on repeat (OK, it takes weeks to get through them, but that's not the point).
I can't find an easy way to do this with the MZD Connect system. Yes, I can hit a button to skip to the next track and if that happens to be the last track in a folder, it will go to the next folder but that isn't as powerful as I want. I can also use menus to go to particular folders but when I do, that seems to take me in to that folder without an easy way to skip to the next one. The repeat functionality, for example, now just operates on files within that folder. I *think* it effectively generates a virtual playlist of the files in that folder and only uses them until a different selection is made from the menus? The whole thing seems to be playlist driven, genres, artists, etc but I just want one folder to play after the other and with it to be easy for me to pick a particular folder and carry on from that point.
I can, of course, navigate to the root menu of the USB and have every file on the USB listed. That creates a huge list. That's fine in as much as I do want the whole list to play but, as I mentioned MZD sometimes forgets where it was in a playlist. So, if I happened to be listening to a song in folder r00/r04 when MZD resets itself and I want to go back there, I can either navigate to that folder and then be trapped in it (as described above) or scroll through hundreds of files in the main list until I get to something in r00/r04. That takes too long and not something I'd want to concentrate on while driving.
So, is there any way to get around this that people know of? I've scoured the manual and googled around but I'm not finding what I need. Is it me doing it wrong or does the functionality simply not exist?


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Dialogue "Jac Venza" Host Marcia Franklin talks with the founder of several long-running PBS arts series - including GREAT PERFORMANCES and LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER. He and Franklin talk about his long career in public broadcasting, the potential effects of cuts in national grants programs, and the trends he is following in the arts.G
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America ReFramed "Street Fight" This program follows the turbulent campaign of Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law graduate running for mayor of Newark, New Jersey, against Sharpe James, the four-term incumbent twice his age. An urban David and Goliath story, the film chronicles the young man's struggle against the city's entrenched political machine, which routinely uses strong-arm tactics to hold onto power. The battle sheds light on important questions about democracy, power, poverty and race. D
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Global Voices "The English Surgeon" In the early 1990s, British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh traveled to Kiev, Ukraine and was horrified by its medieval brain surgical procedures. Since then, Marsh has attempted to improve the system by performing procedures for free and sending used equipment to Igor Kurilets, a controversial Ukrainian neurosurgeon. The English Surgeon looks at the dilemmas of the doctor-patient relationship and the moral choices of modern medicine. D


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Pires: Arsenal's title dream not over just yet
Robert Pires believes that former side Arsenal can still win the Premier League title, but only if they beat Manchester City this weekend.
Frenchman Pires was a key figure the last time the Londoners won the top-flight crown, with the 2003-04 'Invincibles' going unbeaten for the entire league campaign.
Arsene Wenger's men had looked to be staging a significant title challenge this term, but three league defeats and two draws in their last seven matches have seen them fall six points behind leaders Chelsea.
With question marks over their ability to live with the leaders - particularly after a 6-0 drubbing by Chelsea last weekend - Pires knows that their home match with City on Saturday is key.
And he believes that anything other than a win will see their title bid come to an end.
"I hope (they can win the title)," he said. "It is my dream for the fans, for the players and for (Arsene) Wenger.
"But it depends on Saturday. If they win they could do it."
That heavy defeat at Stamford Bridge last weekend soured the 1,000th game in charge for Wenger, but Pires - who is currently training regularly with Arsenal's first-team - is adamant that his countryman will be focused on ensuring a response against City.
"Everybody knows Arsene Wenger. He never changes," he added. "He's always the same, like a philosopher with the players.
"After the (Chelsea) game you saw he was upset, but this is normal. He talked with the players on the training pitch on Sunday and they are all focused on Saturday."
While Wenger's own position has come under scrutiny in recent days, one player who has been the subject of some criticism is Mesut Ozil - with the club-record signing failing to match his early promise after his big-money move from Real Madrid last September.
Pires has, however, defended the German and praised his attempts to adjust to Premier League football.
He continued: "Mesut has had a good impact for Arsenal. He's a very good player - maybe one of the best in his position in Europe.
"So for him it's very difficult because the football is totally different in Spain. It's tough (in England) and the tempo is not the same, so maybe he needs one year to adapt.
"I remember my first season was terrible, but after that you play and you learn. I believe in Mesut."


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ProTraining needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 42 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
We require a home page for the International Door Association's testing and training website.
The IDA has launched a new certification and training website for their members. The site should mimmick the look and feel (color scheme) of the IDA corporate website (http://www.doors.org).
- our T2 Platform training application allows nearly full customization of this page
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Current Topics in Conservation Biology
Topic: Climate Change and Conservation Biology
Credits: 1
Instructor: David Wagner and John Silander (contact: david.wagner[AT]uconn.edu)
Meeting time: Friday @ 2
Location: Bamford Conference Room, TLS 171B
The topic of this seminar course varies from year to year depending on what is "current" in conservation biology and what students in the program are interested in focusing on. Usually we pick a recent book or selected readings focused around a specific theme in order to get a deeper understanding of the topic than would be normal in a survey course. If you have suggestions for future topics, please let Chris Elphick know.
The course is required for students in the EEB BS/MS program, but is open to all graduate students. A few senior (and occasionally junior) undergraduates also take the course every year, and I encourage you to do so if you are interested. To be eligible as an undergraduate, you should have at least a B average and should talk to me first. Undergraduates will need a permission number to enroll. The course is limited to ~12-15 students each year and I occasionally have to turn people away, but we try to accommodate as many people as possible. Priority is given to students in the BS/MS program who need the course to graduate. Post-docs, adjuncts, and (even) faculty are welcome to join in the fun.
The spring semester 2011 seminar will focus on aspects of climate change relevant to conservation and biodiversity. Principal themes will include collecting and evaluating biological evidence for climate change, predicting consequences of climate change, conservation planning, and climate adaptation. Approximately one-third of the class meetings will be committed to issues surrounding communication, disinformation, and public perception regarding climate change. This "module" may include viewing and discussion of Randy Olsen's "Sizzle" and other topical media. There will be no assigned text. Prior to or over first half of the semester students are encouraged to read relevant sections of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007. It is our hope to include invited experts and other concerned parties in some of our discussions.
This semester's schedule is posted below. Two students will lead the discussion each week (see next section for tips on leading effectively). If you have EEBedia editing rights (i.e., if you are an EEB graduate student) you can go in yourself and sign up to present. If you do not, email me and tell me when you'd like to lead so that I can put you on the schedule.
|Jan 28
|John & Wagner
|Executive summary for policy makers.
|Feb 4
|Summer & Kelly
|Physical evidence for climate change
|http://www.pnas.org/content/106/51/21527.full; http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/surface_temp.pdf
|Read PNAS. Skim the other document, but make sure to read pages 6 and 7.
|Feb 11
|Yingying & Allie
|Paleo-records of climate change
|Feb 18
|Dr. Bruce Kahn
|Climate change and financial risk management
|Feb 25
|Brigette & Jenica
|Biological evidence for climate change
|Mar 4
|Sarah R & Johanna
|Greenhouse gasses: sources, sinks and dynamics
|Mar 18
|Mar 25
|Adam & Purbita
|Climate change biotic impacts
|Apr 1
|Colin & Manette
|Climate change skeptics, critics and deniers
|Apr 8
|Sarah B & Ben
|Climate change skeptics, critics and deniers
|Apr 15
|Kasey & Sam
|Climate change: economics and politics
|Apr 22
|Guillermo & Graz
|Climate change mitigation: science and policy
|Apr 28
|Adam Whelchel and Bill Hyatt
|Climate change adaptation and conservation planning
Here are some general comments about my expectations for the class. Exact details will vary depending on the semester's topic. Generally we will read papers or have presentations and discuss them in class each week. Most discussions will be led by students, and everyone is expected to sign up to lead at least one discussion. The schedule is posted above.
Discussion leaders: Generally, my expectation is that you will present a 5-10 minute (NO MORE!) introduction to the topic. Your introduction should draw on the readings, but should not simply re-state what we have all read. Simply reiterating what the readings say is boring and doesn't accomplish much. Instead, your job as leader is to get a discussion going. This is hard (and I will help), but far more interesting for everyone involved. Here are some tips:
- Make sure that you have enough to say to keep things moving, but do not feel that you have to say everything that you have thought of or cover every idea in the readings. If the conversation is going well, just let it take its course. The worst thing that can happen is that no one says anything. The next worst thing is that the leader completely dominates the conversation (I can be guilty of this sin myself, so feel free to cut me off if I'm talking too much).
- In your introduction, try to synthesize the material and draw out the major points. What are the 3-5 things you'd tell your parents if you were going to explain this to them over dinner - the chances are good that these are the same things we should be focused on. Also, feel free to supplement the reading material with other information on the topic to broaden the discussion.
- Come with a list of questions to ask (more than you think you'll need). The more specific the questions are the better, as this makes them easier for people to respond to. Preferably, email around some questions a day or two before class so that people can think about them while they are reading the materials (if you email them to me, I will forward them to the rest of the class).
- Ask people what surprised them, and why. If you're not leading, think how you'd answer this question. If people complain about the readings, ask them how things could have been done better, or what needs to be done next.
- Where possible, try to relate your topic to those we have discussed in previous weeks so that the ideas covered by the class build over the course of the semester.
- Being purposefully provocative (even if you don't believe what you're saying) can often help to get people talking. If the material is appropriate, set the discussion up as a debate - tell half the class that they have to argue one side and the other half that they have to argue the opposite. This approach can force people to really think about the ideas and about their preconceptions. If you are going to do this, it is best to warn people ahead of time (though don't tell them which side they will be on).
- When you ask a question, give people lots of time to respond. A good rule is to (slowly) count to 10 in your head before moving on. This is because (a) it often takes people this long to formulate something to say and (b) the uncomfortable silence (and it can be excruciating) is often what it takes to get people talking. This sounds (and can feel) horrible, but it really works, and the discussions that result are much richer.
- If no one answers a question, and there is a simple yes/no, do you agree/disagree, type answer, then ask for a show of hands - then you can focus in on individuals and ask them to explain their response.
- Don't pick on individuals and make them comment unless you have to. But if no one says anything, then it is OK to do this. Everyone else is responsible for reading and thinking about the material too, so it should not be a surprise to them. Even though you are in charge of running things, the responsibility for maintaining a discussion lies with everyone in the room. If you think people are not engaging in the discussion enough, then it is your job to do something about it ... don't just expect me to do it for you.
- Finally, in weeks when you are not leading, make sure that you have thought about the material enough that you can help the leader out. Come with at least 2 or 3 ideas to talk about if things get too quiet. If the leader has sent out questions, actually think about them before class. And be responsible about doing the reading. If you do all this stuff, others will do the same when it's your turn to lead.
The hardest part is getting the conversation started. Once it's going, it will often run itself - and if it is doing this you should let it. I've been running seminars for a few years now, and I'm only just getting to where I realize that my job is to say as little as possible. If I talk the whole time, then I'm essentially lecturing ... and this is not a lecture format ... the goals are very different, they are to get people thinking on their feet and discussing ideas to help them learn the stuff for themselves. But, it is your job to ensure that we are not just subjected to silence.
PowerPoint: When presenting a reading, I don't really mind whether you use PowerPoint or not. Often, it is not necessary, but sometimes it can help by putting up key talking points where everyone can see them. If you do use PowerPoint, it should be to help maintain a conversation, not to just reiterate what is in the reading. If there are figures that you want to ask questions about, then putting them up on a screen can be very useful. Likewise, having your questions on screen for people to refer to can help. I will reserve a projector for each class session, but you will need to go and get it from the EEB office before class. If you do not have a laptop, let me know and I will bring mine.
Grading: The course is S/U and it is unusual for people to fail. But, if you hardly ever participate in the discussions, I will fail you. This is your only warning!!
If you have never led a discussion in a seminar course before, or feel nervous about doing so, please talk to me beforehand. It isn't as hard as it might seem, and it's always easier if you're well prepared and know what to expect.
If you have any information related to the course (e.g., relevant news items, related web links, etc.), feel free to post it here. Please put the date first, then your name; be concise; and organize the list so that items are in reverse chronological order. For an example of the right format, check out my Conservation Biology in the News site here. If you're not an EEB graduate student, then you can email items to me and I will add them, but please send them to me in the right format.
Course history
If you are interested in the topics that we have covered in this class in past years, I have preserved previous versions of the web page, linked below.
During 2010, the topic was invasion biology. To see what we covered during that course, click here.
During 2009, the topic was evidence-based conservation. To see what we covered during that course, click here.
During 2008, the topic was the history of the U.S. Endangered Species Act. To see what we covered during that course, click here.
During 2007, the topic was the biological consequences of climate change. To see what we covered during that course, click here.
During 2006, the topic was the conservation implications of invasive species. To see what we covered during that course, click here.
During 2005, the topic was relating general conservation approaches to local problems in New England. To see what we covered during that course, click here.
During 2004, the topic was the role of science in the U.S. Endangered Species Act. To see what we covered during that course, click here; for a reading list, click here.
Other information
For information about EEB's Joint B.S./M.S. degree program in Biodiversity and Conservation Biology click here
For information about the Society for Conservation Biology click here
For information on jobs in conservation biology click here
For information on jobs in wildlife biology click here


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|Bach's World
|Education & Career
A New Curriculum
While in Ohrdruf Sebastian studied at the Klosterschule, famous in the region for having adopted curricular reforms advocated by Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius). Not neglected in the new curriculum was the Lutheran emphasis upon Holy Scripture. Sebastian soon came under the tutelage of Elias Herda, recent graduate of the University of Jena, who helped his student squeeze a six-year course of theology into four. Also included in the curriculum were four to five hours of music study per week. Johann Sebastian excelled in the new environment and quickly rose to the head of his class.
Music at Ohrdruf
Sebastian's musical training in Ohrdruf was not confined to the school. Brother Christoph's library contained manuscripts by the masters of imitative polyphony: Pachelbel, Kerll, Froberger and tribe. An unauthenticated story from this period represents Sebastian, over a span of six months, as having repeatedly sneaked into his brother's study on moonlit nights to copy an album of organ music to which, for whatever reason, access had been denied. While the story may be fiction, there can be little doubt that in Ohrdruf Sebastian Bach was repeatedly exposed to the masters of method and literature for the organ. This exposure equipped the precocious youth with a bookish fondness for fugue and chorale variation that would continue to fascinate him late in life even after those techniques had fallen out of favor with most of his contemporaries.
Student Composition
There exists from Ohrdruf days a whimsical fugue, for the clavier, thought to be one of Sebastian's first. The fugue's G-Major subject (right) strongly hints of A minor at its tail, a mistake at which the mature composer would surely have blushed. Nonetheless there is a certain youthful charm to the work.
An Act of Kindness
Although Sebastian's brother is primarily remembered for his act of kindness, Johann Christoph's gift to the world weighed more than beneficent provision of bed and board to his younger sibling. Contrary to Forkel's assertion that Sebastian's keyboard studies were delayed until Lüneburg, it is likely that such training actually began in Ohrdruf, under the guidance of his brother.
But Johann Christoph's greatest contribution was probably that of a role model. Sebastian appears to have been sufficiently impressed by the status of his brother--the organist--to aspire to a similar status, if not to become the preeminent organist of the eighteenth century. But, for now, as young Sebastian's feet could barely reach the pedals of that grand instrument, he must have contented himself listening to big brother practice preludes and fugues while tentatively orchestrating his own prelude: studying the harpsichord...and occasionally pilfering copies of forbidden organ scores by moonlight.
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