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Can Winston Abreu make the Rays Roster?
Coming into the middle of February in 2010 when the Tampa Bay Rays pitchers and catchers begin to report for Spring Training in Port Charlotte, you have to realistically visualize the picture that there might only be one lone slot left on the Rays 25-man roster for another reliever. And considering this Spring invitees will include Durham Bulls relievers like Randy Cromier, Dale Thayer and Calvin Medlock, there is still one name missing off this list who I think might have a real legitimate shot at securing that solo seat on the Rays Bullpen bench for 2010.
Sure, we can debate back and forth for days as to the merits of the other three guys I have mentioned, or a even the merits of other relievers currently on the Double-A Montgomery Biscuits roster who could also make some huge advances and impressions both the field and in the minds of the Rays organizations Coaches minds by the end of March 2010. And the one name missing from this group is Winston Abreu. I think that Abreu has the stuff on the mound and the acquired veteran wisdom needed to secure his first Opening Day roster spot of his 14-year professional career.
Sure some people will certainly point to his extended journeyman minor league career with only two prior Major League promotions to the before the 2009 season with the Baltimore Orioles (2006) and Washington Nationals (2007) as a bit of negative fodder that his name should not even be uttered with such confidence. But then again, in all of his past promotions to the Major League, he has been a stop-gap guy filling in for a veteran persence missing on that Major League roster, and that shows you teams knew he had the abilities.
But again, in 2009, Abreu did appear to fill that same type of gap for the Rays securing a limited role with the Rays Bullpen after the team put veteran reliever Jason Isringhausen on the Disabled List on June 14th and only gave Abreu two appearances before designating Abreu for assignment after veteran reliever Chad Bradford was ready to rejoin the Rays Bullpen after an injury.
And sure you can also throw the added negative bonus of the Rays then trading Abreu to the Cleveland Indians on July2,2009 and Abreu only spending about a month on the Indians roster before they also designated him for assignment on August1,2009. But Abreu quickly rebounded and signed with the Rays again and was sent to the Triple-A Durham Bulls for the second time during the 2009 season. And within 30 days of Abreu rejoining the Bulls, he was selected as the International League Pitcher of the Week for August 30th after only surrendering 1 lone hit in his last ten appearances of 2009.
And even if Abreu's stats while pitching with the Indians held up a gaudy 23.14 ERA for the whole baseball world to see in his only three appearances for the Tribe, most people around baseball seem to remember his actions during a July 27,2009 game at Safeco Field. Abreu took the mound in the ninth inning after Mariner's starter Chris Jakubuska's hit Ben Francisco square in the back with his first pitch after surrendering a 2-run homer to Asdrubal Cabrera earler in the top of the ninth inning.
Abreu countered in the bottom of the ninth inning with an action that should happen according to the unwritten rule book of baseball and plucked M's Third Baseman Jack Hannahan. Sure both benches and Bullpens' cleared and came out onto the field, but order was quickly restored and the game started up right after the Home Plate Umpire ejected Abreu because of the retaliation pitch. Abreu was subsequently given a 3-game suspension for his part, along with a fine for good measures. Most people would see that as a negative blemishe on a pitcher's mental make-up to try and incite a brawl, but I actually see it in a different light as a veteran pitcher understanding the unspoken code of the game, and doing the right thing for his teammate.
But the main reason I think that we will see Abreu make this year's Rays 25-man roster might have come about with MLB.Com naming him the Triple-A Reliever of the Year after posting a 3-1 record with a 1.94 ERA during 37 appearances for the Bulls last season. That might have been the cherry on top of that Triple-A Championship sundae. But with abreu coming back to the Bulls after his Indians disaster and showing his rubber mental consitution by getting 15 saves, you can see Abreu as a reliever who has that proverbial ice water in his veins that the Rays seemed to be missed most of last season.
Abreu has that veteran mustard and wealth of past experience that the Rays Bullpen will need during their 2010 season. And sure he might have a few quirks like carrying his glove with him to the Bullpen restroom during his time up with the Rays, but the guy truly understands the game from A to Z. The Rays farm system has a bevy of ample arms sitting down in the minor leagues, but they do not have any relievers with prior Major League experience besides Thayer and Abreu right now. When the Rays resigned Abreu on December 14th, I felt they made the move for his expertise, not as a reward for winning a Triple-A title or a post season MLB.Com award.
The guy has take a long journey through the farm systems of the Braves, Cubs,Dodger, Diamondback, Orioles, Nationals, Indians, Royals and now the Rays during his career. And the abundance of knowledge he has as a veteran pitcher could be a valuable asset in 2010 for the Rays. I mean if he was such a middle-of-thepack reliever, then how did he pitch for Bobby Valentine's 2008 Chiba Lotte Mariner's squad over in Japan? You know Valentine stresses pitching on his teams. So coming into this Spring, I am going to be watching Abreu to see if he is one of the guys to get a lot of reps in Spring Training contests.
Last season Abreu made it all the way up with the Rays Spring Training roster until March 16th when the Rays sent him to the minor league camp also located in Port Charlotte, Florida. Hopefully during this this Spring Abreu can make a lasting impression on the Rays Spring Training coaching staff to get a chance to stay and earn a roster spot. Abreu has everything you want in a reliever at the major league level.
Abreu has pitching ability, the vast experience and a yearning to succeed at the highest level of the game.
And we also know from his little incident in Seattle, that Abreu also understands the little things that
revolve just under the surface around the game of baseball. I guess all Abreu needs now is a chance on the mound to show he should be one of the last decisions of the Rays this Spring, and be sitting on that Rays Bullpen bench watching the first pitch of the 2010 season.
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I like the Rays farm house it has a lot of talent. The Rays will be a team that hangs around for quite a while they will be a team that scares people for at least the next five years. Also can I ask your opinon on who has the better rotation? White Sox or Red Sox because red state blue state thinks the White Sox have the best. Just would like your opinon since you don't like either team and could you reply on my blog I don't get too many so the more the better! Thanks.
I actually think that in 2009, the White Sox has a younger, more ambitious rotation, but the Red sox beat them with veteran players like Josh Beckett, Jon Lester and a crew of hundreds (or so it seemed during the injuries).
Just because one game was superior (Buhrle) doesn't discount that Boston's pitching kept them in the AL East Wild Card, while the White Sox staff did their part, but the White Sox hitters missed their stride.
BTW, a farm system full of talent at two levels is better than a $ 200 million payroll in my book.
Rays Renegade
And wouldn't you love your team have that kind of money. By the way Kelly, Westy, Anderson, Iglsesia (whatever his name is the SS guy), Bucholtz, Lester, Ellsbury, Pedy, and Bard is a great young team also not to mention three or four other players. Also how do the White Sox have that great of a pitching team? I think they are good or very good, but not at the Sox level.,
whatever happened to those plans for a St.Pete waterfront Park with grand sails for shade etc etc? The renderings were nice? Is that still a go?
Jake Peavy and Mark Buehrle have the control to be one of the best 1-2 combo in the AL. John Danks is like Jon Lester and getting better every year. Gavin Floyd is in the mold of David Price and has some work to do, but is an innings eater, which is great for a #4 in the rotation guy. Freddie Garcia is the question mark here, but I think that time off for most of 2008 gave him another year to his career.
By the end of 2010, the White Sox starters will have better stats than Boston, but Boston will have a chance the White Sox will not….. for the post season.
I honestly have had Peavy on my Fantasy for 2 seasons and have won the title twice…..He is my ace over Beckett.
Rays Renegade
Those plans are gone like the wind.
There was a huge bit of opposition from an old political hot pot group in St. Petersburg that wanted to save the waterfront, and the Rays backed up a bit and let a committee decide the futre locations of the stadium.
They are finalizing their reccomendations, but the sail is dead right now.
Rays Renegade
well rays renagade u know ur team top to bottom well what u said is true then the rays need to look at Abreu then hope u right he might be a real good pitcher.
tmas805 PS good blog as always hope u get to the top 5 go renagade go
I am happy to stay near # 10.
I do not want to be near the top rung of the ladder. I am fine right here. This spot is fine with me, I was in or around the top 10 spot the entire time in 2009, and I like the neighborhood (lol).
Abreu was given the Minor League Baseball Triple-A reliever of the Year award for 2009.
I think he just did not have enough time to adjust to the majors before the Rays shipped him back down, then out to Cleveland.
I thought he had the ability last Spring, and should get a second chance in 2010.
Rays Renegade
You have some great points re: Abreu. Investing in the farm system has paid off for the Dodgers. Most of the starters are from that system: Kemp, Loney, Martin, Broxton, Billingsley.
It is becoming more of a reality in baseball to home grow your players to fit your system.
The Rays definitely have to produce players in this method due to the restricted pocketbook and payroll forced on by being a small market team.
But it is possible, and Carl Crawford and Rays starter James Shields are prime examples of farm system produced MLB stars or top flight pitchers brought up through the system.
But every team has these types of guys, but with our limited resources to go out and hand-pick the right player, these additional options are paramony for our team.
Rays Renegade
I always think it says something when a guy struggles at the Major League level during a season, then get s post-season award like Triple-A Reliever of the Year.
Circumstances and maybe other factors came into play we are not aware of at the moment.
But whatever they are….I think this guy can throw, and will possibily get every opportunity to stay with the Club past April 2nd.
Rays Renegade
Some guys just a hit an invisible wall when they go from Triple-A to the Big Leagues.
Not sure why, but they do.
But thank goodness most of the guys just take a small adjustment time, or none at all and feel right at home.
I remember a few years ago when stress and anxiousness got the better of Rick Ankiel, but he went back down to the minors and re-invented himself to again be a force in the MLB.
But of course, he has not thrown a pitch since coming back up, and will line-up probably in centerfield for the Kansas City Royals and is a testement that hard work can provide the miracle " happy ending".
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Some just have a harder time than others do. I know we have Marte, who performs beautifully in AAA, but struggles at the Big League Level. It's tough. Maybe he can bust through this season. http://clevelandbaseball.mlblogs.com/


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H&M is finally coming to Miami, with a pop-up store opening on Friday.
The shop makes its debut Friday at noon at 1669 Meridian Avenue in Miami Beach with exclusive summer looks for South Florida fashionistas.
Until now, the closest location of the Swedish shop with high-end fashion at frugal prices has been in West Palm Beach, an hour and a half away.
"We've been looking forward for years to come here to Miami and we have had our fans basically begging us to come," said Marybeth Schmitt, the head of communications for H&M.
"I love getting trendy pieces for a great price, it's fast fashion. Things change, they update, you get things like at the moment," said South Florida fashionista Ria Michelle, who used to take the drive to West Palm to get her H&M fashion fix.
The pop-up store is a small preview of what's to come this fall, when a flagship H&M store opens at the historic Lincoln Theatre on Lincoln Road. The pop-up will remain open through September.
"They have a lot of nice things here now and we can afford it!" shopper Loyndon Silvia said. "You tell me, I am crazy about this store! It's going to be my second home now!"

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Ben Fennell
|Knoxville, Tenn./Bearden HS
2010 Cross Country: Limited to two meets during cross country season... Finished 62nd (17:51.59) at the Belmont Opener, and 59th (18:56) at the Powerade Invitational.
2010 Track and Field: Opened the season with a personal-best 54.09s 400m dash at the Ed Temple Invite, finishing 24th... Part of second-place distance medley relay team at the TSU Invitational with a 10:48.38s total time... Set personal-best in the 800m run with a 2:00.94s run.
2009 Track and Field: Finished 27th in the 800m run at the Hoosier Hills with a season-best 2:02.24s run... Season-best 13th-place run came at the Governors Invitational with a season-best 4:16.05s run.
2008-2009: Third best finisher for the Bisons in Evansville Invitational (10/18), finishing 72nd (26:26.77) in field of 239 runners on 8-K course. ...Finished 25th (16:10.39) on 5-K course in Belmont-Vanderbilt Opener (9/5). ...Finished 191st (26:41.80) in Greater Louisville Classic (10/4). ...Finished 49th (27:17.63) in Atlantic Sun Conference Championships (11/1) in Macon, Ga. ...Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team.
High School: Fennell is the fourth Bearden runner in the Lipscomb program this fall. ...He has an 800m PR of 1:59.66 and has split 1:57 in the relay. ...His 5-K PR is 17:07. ...A five-time state qualifier in cross country and track.
Personal: Certified as a lifeguard, and has three siblings; including one twin brother. ...He loves the music group Relient K, and is an avid Atlanta Braves fan. ...Parents are Mary Ann and Tom Fennell. ...Major is undecided.
Why chose Lipscomb: "I love to run and I knew Lipscomb would allow me to do that and also pursue the Lord."


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Welcome to kidmodern...
...the home of fun and modern art for children by artist and designer Gale Kaseguma. There's a wide collection of prints, original art and more to explore. Look around and learn about these vibrant paintings, the inspiration behind them, how these one-of-a-kind pieces are created.
What's new?
July 3, 2007: It's an all new site! Now hand stretched canvas prints are available directly from kidmodern.com. It's all here, including new work created this Spring: the Tree, Bird, Ladybugs and Inchworm series. Find out about original art and murals too! Please do drop a line if you have any questions about commissioning an original piece of kidmodern artwork.
What else? Nighttime City was recently purchased for the collection at the Children's Hospital of Boston, joining Friendly Fish, Starry Seas, and Summertime. Also, Giggle the fabulous baby and kid's store carries Gale's canvas prints at all of their locations as well as on egiggle.com. And check out Gale's original paintings at Giggle in SOHO, NYC!


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If you're like most people, you are constantly vowing (again and again) to get in shape.
For anyone over forty, especially those working long hours or raising children, it's easy to let a few pounds catch up you. Unlike the days of your youth, where you could go jog off a few pounds or simply get exercise by being out and about, the body starts to develop new aches and pains as you age. Add in degenerative issues such as arthritis or heart disease, and how does one get in shape without causing more damage to the body?
Water aerobics! If you like the idea of increasing your strength, improving coordination and increasing your range of motion, all can be achieved in the comfort of your local swimming hole. Best of all, it's a very inexpensive exercise lifestyle. These are just some of the benefits.
Fun music and videos are incorporated into the classes. Hundreds of different exercises are combined to allow for the greatest health benefits.
Other health benefits include:
Most aquatic programs offer classes for beginners to the extreme. So grab your water shoes, webbed gloves and any number of the latest swimwear designs and jump in!next article >>


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At Shawnee State University, our goal is to help you obtain the financial assistance you need. Our Financial Aid Office is here to help make an education at Shawnee State affordable. We have an extensive program to help you with college expenses.
Shawnee State awards more than $25 million annually in financial aid through a combination of scholarships, grants, loans, and college work-study programs. Much of this assistance is based on need and determined by your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA); however, merit scholarships are granted to students whose potential for contributing to campus life is significant, but who may not qualify for need-based financial assistance.


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Verification, please
I need someone to verify the following statement I made in the article: "The '90s Viper RT/10 version is the only top-down convertible that the player cannot jump into without opening the driver door." I'm pretty sure of this, but I just wanted confirmation from others who know the game as well. Thanks! Eganio 19:11, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
- You're right in the statement you made, when I played GTA SA and LCS when I got into a Banshee my character didn't hop through to get in.::Fast Lane 22:46, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
- That's also the case for the GTAIII Banshee. No jumping in. --MattyDienhoff 04:25, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
This article may want to be revised and I'm too lazy to do it at the moment. But seriously, it should. --Synthetic Socks 13:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
- Discussion moved to Forum:Vehicle page images
Panoz Esperante?
No way, not even close. What, have you never seen a Ford GT? And the headlights were probably inspired by the Corvette C6.
I agree I see no similarity at all. But the front of the Banshee looks nothing like a Viper either, this has always thrown me off. I heard the front is similar to a Marcos Mantis but even that doesn't seem like a good match. It's probably just made up. And I'm not seeing this Ford GT thing.--Thescarydude 23:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
- Take the GT, now flatten the front down to a curve that turns into a straight downwards, instead of that edge. Now remove the foglamps and just leave that spot smooth. Now it looks like a Banshee with different headlights. At least I think so.Roothorick 02:13, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
- GT or not,but has anyone noticed that one of the GTA IV Banshee paintjobs is light blue with orange stripe,similar to the Ford GT40 Racecar,which had similar paintjob,accompanied with the Gulf sponsors.
- The headlights look like an Esperante, you bunch of goofs.
- Sorry for you being more observant than you but the Esperante has elliptical headlights the Banshee does not, makes no sense, you might as well say they are from a Porsche 911.--Thescarydude 00:04, February 12, 2010 (UTC)
- Thescarydude's correct here... the GTA IV Banshee headlamps are very similar to the 1997 Marcos Mantis
- In fact, the whole front end is pretty similar now that I look again... / Szebrine 16:27, July 2, 2010 (UTC)
San Andreas Car Facts
Are they really needed to be removed ?? It's interesting enough, and I know some other websites (which are NOT encyclopedias about GTA) that notice these informations.--Loadingue 14:14, October 12, 2009 (UTC)
- They were moved to Vehicle Stats in GTA San Andreas. I'm thinking about doing the same kind of table-based article for the Transfender modification section. - ZS 15:36, October 14, 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry, I didn't know that page. Maybe I will complete it soon...--Loadingue 18:45, October 14, 2009 (UTC)
Blue and White Banshee not found anywhere else?
After I finished bringing Brucie his Exotic Exports Banshee, I was driving around and found an exact copy of the Exotic Export and took it to my safehouse. Glitch/Bug? Kitanoguy222 06:06, August 2, 2010 (UTC)
- Apparently there's a glitch that keeps Stevie's last requested car in the game. I didn't look into this glitch yet but I've read other people having this glitch happening.--spaceeinstein 07:36, August 2, 2010 (UTC)
Banshee car review
Hey guys , I got some videos about Banshee review (GTA San Andreas) :
By thw way,this is my favourite car in San Andreas
Pontiac Banshee
there are a GM concept who named Banshee , i think there a link because the pontiac banshee is a corvette and in vice city,the car a based on a corvette.what do you think about that?Bondergomme 19:50, May 26, 2011 (UTC)
The real thing
Should it be given a section on this article or be an independent article? JBanton (Talk | Contribs) 21:16, September 4, 2013 (UTC)
- I agree with a section.
- Mikey Klebbitz (talk) 21:22, September 4, 2013 (UTC)
- I agree with a section as well. It woud probably fit well into the "Trivia" section. I will get to work on it when I have the go from you, JBanton. The vote is fairly unanimous. (Talk) 14:41, September 5, 2013 (UTC)
V10 or V8?
I popped the hood and saw 8 cylinders. It's a V8Tsui K (talk) 07:40, October 8, 2014 (UTC)Tsui K


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Bob Saunders spent many hours scanning hundreds of pages of her work.
Now it is available on five CD's.
It is a most commendable genealogy work,
now in the library of the West Gauteng Branch, GSSA.
Here is the story.
Celia writes: "It was my lucky day when Lucas Rinken, the chairman, invited me to take part in the Hobby-X Fair at the Dome in Johannesburg and assist at our GSSA stand there a couple of months ago.
The easiest way for me to explain what genealogy is about is for me to show a hand-written Family Tree in the old fashioned format, and to this end I took along one of my booklets. Little did I think the booklet would spark so much interest?
Lucas then invited me to do a presentation at the AGM, and I took along several of the family booklets that I had compiled and displayed them for the members to look at.
What a compliment it was when Lucas asked if I would leave copies with the West Gauteng branch, as my departure for retirement in Cape Town was imminent.
Bob Saunders, the vice-chairman, then offered to scan the booklets and put them onto CD's, provided I agreed to a copy being left with the West Gauteng Branch under his supervision.
And so it has come about that Bob Saunders has produced the most remarkable set of CD's which contain the information of my family tree. He has, at his own cost, produced 5 CD's and will remain custodian of them for the West Rand Branch of the GSSA.
Bob will keep a register of any copies which may be sold to members of the West Rand Branch, as well as members of my family.
The final result of this set of electronic copies of my work is outstanding. I am truly indebted to Bob for the expertise, time and care he has put into these reproductions. To say that I am delighted would be an understatement, and the fact that my work will be preserved in this way is a great joy to me and will be to my family in time to come.
I very much regret that I will be unable to be present when Bob hands over a set to the West Rand Branch on 19 June, 2008.
Bob (left) writes: "As you and all our genealogical colleagues will know only too well, the work is never complete, no matter how extensive it may be. Be that as it may, we have compiled into a compendium of five CD's, a total of no less than 34 individual publications produced by Celia over the past five years.
Of course the research and collection of the content spans a far greater time period, and is a magnificent collection personal history, memories, personal research and artifacts lovingly crafted into tangible presentable format as a record for her greater family's benefit.
The benefit has been extended to our branch through me as the custodian and originator of the digital format of her work, which although not copyrighted per se, the copyright of the work is to be guarded as best we can.


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Ticked off: Bloodsuckers are bad news
There are many different types of ticks.
"Tick-tock of the lonely clock." "The old ticker is still working though my spouse is going to give me a heart attack!" "Don't tick me off; I'm off my antidepressant." "Your breath smells; here's a Tic-Tac." "Everyone now and then gets a little tic under the eye so it quivers like Katherine Hepburn's."
But the grossest tick is the one you find stuck to your body, sucking your blood. Do ticks serve any purpose in the environment?
When John Denver sang "Rocky Mountain High," I wondered if he ever considered changing the lyrics to "Rocky Mountain High from a Tick-Borne Fever."
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) is all over North America– and North Carolina has about 35 percent of the cases. The dog tick is the main carrier.
That means that about five to seven days after Lassie's tick bites you, RMSF presents you with fever, a headache that makes you wish you were Marie Antoinette, nausea, and joint and muscle pain. The rash actually doesn't appear until three to five more days.
Lyme Disease is better known, though it's mostly located in the Northeast. It's the deer tick, Ixodes, that carry these little blighters, and the classic bull's-eye rash occurs seven to 14 days after a bite. However, it's believed that 10-35 percent of the time the bulls-eye doesn't appear.
Initially, an infected person might feel totally wiped out and experience joint and muscle aches and enlarged lymph nodes. If Lyme is not treated, chronic arthritis can develop, and in some cases neurological and heart damage. Getting a blood test for Lyme is usually worthless during the first phase, a fact which infuriates most patients.
What most people in Virginia don't know is that the most common tick-borne illness in this state is Ehrlichiae (er-lick-e-ah). The Lone Star tick is the main tick that carries Ehrlichiae, even though it sounds like it's from Texas.
People with Ehrlichiosis develop flu symptoms in the spring and summer when ticks are out having a good ole time. About a week after infection, a fever starts, accompanied by body aches, headaches, fatigue, and sometimes vomiting. Most people with Ehrlichiosis, unlike RMSF, don't develop a rash (which is why it's sometimes called Rocky Mountain Spotless Fever). Neck pains and neurological disorders can occur as well.
Most people with Ehrlichiosis just tough it out and blame their symptoms on work or their in-laws. Usually it goes away in 2-4 weeks, but it can persist for up to two months. Others– in particular, older people and those with HIV– end up in the hospital with high liver enzymes, anemia, slowing of the kidneys, and a drop in their immune cells. Platelets can drop, so easy bleeding can occur.
Unfortunately, Ehrlichiosis, like RMSF, can be fatal. Seizures, coma, congestive heart failure, and kidney and respiratory failure can result from Ehrlichiae. The good news is Ehrlichiosis, like RMSF and Lyme, is treatable with antibiotics.
And just when you thought it was safe to get out your Mint Juleps this summer, another southern tick-borne illness is out there. Vincent van Gogh painted "Starry, Starry Night" but the Lone Star tick can give you a STARI night, Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness.
STARI causes a bulls-eye rash like Lyme, but the blood tests are negative for Lyme, RSMF, and Ehrlichiae. Again, headache, body aches, fatigue, and sometime nausea occur in STARI. Antibiotics, anyone?
Make sure your dog is brushed off every day and given tick medication. If you go into grassy, bushy areas, watch out for ticks. Wear bug repellent it works! I like OFF which has Deet, though it makes me smell "OFF-full."
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Pork Spring Rolls
When my daughter started a gluten-free diet, I experimented in the kitchen to create some new foods. My mild pork rolls were a hit with all of our friends and family who sampled them.
Total TimePrep: 45 min. + chilling
Makes1-1/2 dozen
- 1-1/2 pounds ground pork
- 1 medium carrot, shredded
- 3 green onions, finely chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon grated fresh gingerroot
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 package (8.8 ounces) vermicelli-style thin rice noodles
- 18 rice papers (8 inches)
- Torn romaine
- Sweet chili sauce
- In a large skillet, cook pork over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in the carrot, onions, garlic, ginger, coriander, cumin, oil, pepper flakes, salt and pepper until blended.
- Add the water, soy sauce and sugar. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 3-5 minutes or until liquid is evaporated. Transfer to a bowl; cool. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until chilled.
- Cook noodles according to package directions. Drain and rinse in cold water; drain well. Fill a shallow bowl with water. Soak a rice paper in the water just until pliable, about 30-45 seconds (depending on thickness of rice papers); remove, allowing excess water to drip off.
- Place on a flat surface. Layer meat mixture and noodles down the center; top with romaine. Fold both ends over filling; fold one long side over the filling, then roll up tightly. Place seam side down on a serving platter. Repeat with remaining ingredients.
- Cover with damp paper towels until serving. Cut rolls diagonally in half and serve with sweet chili sauce.


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A legal adviser to incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo says the internationally-recognized president, Alassane Ouattara, is not being truthful after accusing Gbagbo, in a Thursday speech, of plunging the country into a humanitarian crisis.
Augustin Douoguih says Ouattara forces are to blame for the ongoing violence, which has left hundreds dead and tens of thousands fleeing the West African conflict.
?The speech is very typical of Ouattara. For anybody who knows this man, he is a liar; he lies the way you and I breathe. Gbagbo is the president of Ivory Coast. The Supreme Court of Ivory Coast, the Constitutional Court as we call it, recognizes him as the president. President Gbagbo was on French television a few nights ago saying the same thing,? said Douoguih.
?Nobody saying Ouattara is the recognized president-elect has pointed to a legal basis for it because there is none. His [Ouattara?s] people are the ones committing the atrocities in Ivory Coast today,? he added.
Officials of Ouattara?s government deny the accusation their forces are committing atrocities.
The United Nations is investigating reports of massacres in the western town of Duekoue, which pro-Ouattara forces seized from Gbagbo troops last week.
Ouattara said his rival?s refusal to cede power has plunged the country into a humanitarian crisis. But, he said crimes committed during the standoff will be investigated and perpetrators will be punished.
In his speech, Ouattara called on all Ivorians to refrain from acts of violence during efforts to return the country to normalcy. Ouattara told the nation his forces have set up a blockade around the presidential compound in Abidjan, where Gbagbo is barricaded.
Douoguih says part of Ouattara?s speech suggests that Gbagbo could be forced to step down and cede power.
?There is word going around that [French President Nicolas] Sarkozy has given orders to his troops to assassinate President Gbagbo tonight. If Ouattara believes his friend [Mr.] Sarkozy and trusts the French to accomplish that, obviously what he is thinking is that tomorrow Gbagbo will not be alive, so I will be the president. So, there won?t be fierce fighting as there has been until now because there won?t be [Mr.] Gbagbo to be defended. That is the only interpretation I can give to that,? Douoguih said.
VOA has no independent verification of Douoguih?s claim that France has given orders to assassinate Gbagbo.
Meanwhile, French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet says Gbagbo still commands about 1,000 men in Abidjan, 200 of them at the palace compound. His loyalist forces used heavy weapons Wednesday to repel pro-Ouattara troops trying to enter the palace.


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My Mega Million Dreams and Rays Aspirations
It has been an odd kind of day today. As I was sitting in the grandstands of McKechnie Field in Bradenton, Florida today awaiting the Tampa Bay Rays and the Pittsburgh Pirates taking the field I began thinking a whole heck of a lot about the possibilities, great changes and even a few rearrangements I could do if those lucky number somehow popped into my mind before 11 pm EST. They really got the name of the Lotto drawing right because Mega Millions is just what it is all about tonight.
I have been all up in my head today thinking of ways to spend, circulate and even give back or pay forward with an award of close to $ 640 million dollars. To put it into prospective, if I win this kind of payout, I could almost singlehandedly have enough greenbacks to be the second part of a stadium deal for the Rays. Sure a new stadium would probably cost close to $1 billion with a hotel and Convention Center included in the complex, but I had 640 million reasons to sit on the warm sunny beach today and day-dream.
Sure I might have the money to then make a few demands, like the stadium will be on the Pinellas side of the region, but would any bank or contractor take me serious even if Rays owner Stuart Sternberg gave a "thumbs up" to a proposed stadium? Of course that is the great thing about daydreaming, even if it doesn't materialize, you do not hurt anyone, cause economical chaos or potentially have death threats posted to your Twitter page. But if I could secure that amount, or even 50% of it, I would try to take a meeting with the Rays.
But that is only one angle of the proposed futuristic dream-scape that is invading my mind right now if I got the right combination. Still with over $1.5 billion dollars supposedly already taken in by Lotto retailers from sea-to-shining-sea, I have to be realistic and venture I might have to share it or split it more than 2-ways. So the reality is on the horizon I might not have $ 640 million reasons, but hey let's just say I had $100 million reasons for argument's sake.
If that was the situation, I would definitely get in good with my old Rays Season Ticket Rep Craig Champagne ( love that name) and purchase 5 seats for the entire season ($16,098.00 a seat ) in the Rays Avantair Home Plate Club. I would then get to the Trop. early enough to walk between Gate 1 and 4 and at each gate location select or hopefully find a father and son or couple who are at the stadium for the first time.
Playing the "perfect host" card, I would ask them if they were "willing" to give up their tickets for a pair in my section, but will not advise them in advance it is all-you-can-eat and a great view. If they do not accept, I will keep trying to find a suitor on either side of me for the game that night/day. I would take the tickets they exchanged and walk over to the ticket line and just hand them to a father and son or couple standing in line for tickets asking nothing in return but that they get some extra fun and excitement from their visit with the saved money.
But my great times would not end there. I would wait until one of those entertaining Park and Recreation Days also known as day time "getaway express" contests and surprise one group for each P&R Day during the season and treat them to free Rays gear, lunch and a future special surprise of 2 outfield game tickets for each kid in the group to a future Rays game during the weekend (maybe a concert night or Sunday).
Maybe this seems a bit over done and a tad too giving to some, but this team has done so much for me on so many other levels, giving back like this would just seem fair. But my paying it forward gesture would not stop there. I would get the membership of the "Maddon's Maniacs" together once a year for a no holds bar throw-down possibly during a Boston or Yankee away series complete with food, beverages and possibly see if the Rays want to do something in unison with this event. I would purchase 10 VIP Event packages to each Rays/Hess Express Concert Series and award five of them to people who write an essay why they should be picked as a special VIP guest and meet the artist before the show. The last 5 VIP badges would be given out anonymously through the Rays staffers to fans who deserve a treat like this, or just show such commitment to the "Rays Way" it would seem criminal for them to miss out on such a fantastic prize.
Then of course during the season I might " show up" at a seating section during the season with Rays fitted caps, possibly an ice cream or cotton candy guy in tow and give away a few boards or satchels of goodies to the fans. But even during all of this, I want nothing in return. No press, no First Pitch, no scoreboard or Jumbotron acknowledgment, just hope to be a card-carrying member of the Rays Republic from Day one giving back for 15 years of fantastic baseball and memories.
Gosh it is great to think like this, propose such great activities and rewards to people who visit the Trop. even if it would eventually end when the money dries up and only dust settles again in my wallet. So I rushed down to my neighborhood Sweetbay who are corporate partners with the Rays and plucked down $50 for tickets that could fulfill the dreams and aspirations of such a $640 windfall.
But much to my chagrin, Florida is not one of the state participating in the Mega Millions sweepstakes. That even with 1 in 176 million odds to win I can not get a single chance, a single iota of the proposed riches because my state in to part of the Mega Million empire. I am taken aback that a state that thrusts it's Lotto and Powerball drawing to the forefront is missing from the National obsession tonight, but I know that maybe it is a good thing.
Money changes people, even with the most honest of intentions, futuristic charitable dreams and aspirations, sometimes they disappear when the numbers click and a huge check is thrust into your hands. But tonight someone outside the state of Florida will have a chance at that dream, that life-changing moment we all wish would pluck itself into our arms at least once. So instead I bought $20 of Powerball tickets. Hey that jackpot is $60 million. Not the huge windfall of the Mega, but could still bring about every aspiration and idea I have listed above……It's now 10:55 pm, Wish me luck!


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Act II in 'Performance'
Published June 10, 2004, in issue 0323 of The Hook
The Hook's Culture section welcomes Robert Armengol as the new Performance editor. He comes to us today with a wry report on Ulysses (see page 37)– and an excellent resume. He's a veteran of two dailies, a semi-weekly, as well as the news service founded by New York's mayor. He's a native speaker of Spanish and Portugese, and he's earning his anthropology Ph.D at UVA. Viva Roberto!


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Healthy Pujols looking sharp on defense
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford hit a bullet to the right side, but when Jered Weaver turned around, there was Albert Pujols, diving full-extension to his right, fielding the short-hop cleanly and feeding the Angels' ace for a 3-1 putout that was one of two diving stops Wednesday for the $240 million first baseman.
"That's what we're used to seeing out of him," Weaver said after giving up two runs (one earned) in four innings during his second Cactus League start. "You can tell he feels good, feels healthy. He's a Gold Glove first baseman when he's feeling good, feeling healthy, and obviously we saw it on that play."
Pujols, coming off a season in which he was limited to 99 games because of plantar fasciitis in his left foot, has started at first base in four of the Angels' six Cactus League games -- and Wednesday was the most positive day so far.
Pujols traveled to play in back-to-back games for the first time this spring. He notched his first hit, singling up the middle to snap an 0-for-9 skid. And he made two diving plays at first base, robbing Crawford of a hit in the first and doing the same to Joaquin Arias in the sixth.
Weaver said the difference between Pujols in March 2013 and March 2014 is "night and day."
"Just the way he's running around, the way he's moving at first -- just walking in general, he looks more healthy," Weaver said. "I've been talking to him. He says he's feeling really good. Hopefully we can keep him at that level."


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The SNIA has devised a test spec for solid state drives that tests both their initial state and their later sustained performance. Will the SSD manufacturers use it and reveal their performance drop-off?
When SSDs are first bought and fresh out of the box (FOB), their performance is much higher as there is no need for write-erase cycles that slow performance down. Quoted performance numbers based on the FOB state generally bear little resemblance to steady state numbers once the initial state is history. Steady state write IOPS can be less than half the FOB numbers.
The SNIA's performance test specification (PTS) takes this into account. The test sequence puts the SSD into a near-FOB condition by erasing data. Then pre-conditioning takes place with data being written to the SSD to facilitate reaching a steady state. A test loop is run until the SSD is in a steady state and then measurements are taken.
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#2 Montclair State - 14, #1 Farmingdale State - 12
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The top-seeded Farmingdale State women's lacrosse team fell in today's Skyline Championship game, 14-12, to #2 seed Montclair State. The Rams (13-2) saw their winningest season come to an end, as the Red Hawks (13-4) receive the conference's automatic bid and move on to the NCAA Division III Tournament. Montclair's senior attack Maggie Fallon (Cherry Hill, N.J.) was named the Tournament MVP.
It was an evenly matched game that came down to the final minutes. Farmingdale State held the advantage in shots 33-29, ground balls 18-17 and forced 22 turnovers, while Montclair edged the Rams on draw controls 15-13.
Early in the game, Montclair went up 5-0 and held the five goal lead over the first ten minutes. With a 6-1 score and 20 minutes to play in the first half, the Rams slowly chipped away and would hold the Red Hawks to three goals before the break. Farmingdale State trailed 9-8 at halftime.
In the second, freshman Christy Thoden (Bayport, N.Y.) connected off a pass from senior attack Krystin Shand (Massapequa Park, N.Y.) to tie the game at 9-9 with 26:02 left to play. Montclair's Fallon converted a free position shot a minute later to give her team the lead, 10-9.
Freshman midfielder Nicole Marzocca (West Babylon, N.Y.) scored an unassisted goal at the 15-minute mark to tie the game at 10-10, before Shand added her own unassisted goal just 39 seconds later to give the Rams their first lead of the game, 11-10.
Junior attack Kailee Beal (Succasunna, N.J.) scored two straight goals for Montclair State, followed by a goal from freshman attack Tierney Conlon (Caldwell, N.J.) for a two goal cushion, 13-11, with 9:37 on the clock.
Sophomore midfielder Jordyn Hasemann (Farmingdale, N.Y.) put the game within one, 13-12, scoring on a pass from junior attack Carly Schneider (Merrick, N.Y.) with 1:19 to go.
But Fallon scored with 39 seconds remaining to assure the victory for Montclair State.
Montclair's Fallon scored a game-high five goals, while Tierney dished off five assists and scored two goals. Beal posted 11 draw controls, four goals and one assist. Junior goalkeeper Tiffani Henderson (Landing, N.J.) made 10 saves for the win.
For Farmingdale State, senior goalkeeper Courtney Cook (Deer Park, N.Y.) made 11 saves in defeat. Marzocca finished with a team-leading five points, including four goals and one assist. Schneider totaled three goals and one assist, while Thoden scored two goals, one assist and five draw controls.


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Most Bulls fans can still vividly remember what it was like when Derrick Rose tore his ACL against the Philadelphia 76ers. It was like time stopped. The Bulls were set to make another deep run into the playoffs, and after battling injuries all season, D. Rose was ready to lead his team, hopefully all the way to an championship.
But the injury changed everything. Almost five months later, many fans still recall the feeling as Rose lay on the United Center floor.
Well, adidas has done a fantastic job of recreating that moment as experienced by Bulls fans everywhere in its new ad to promote the Oct. 4 release of Rose's signature apparel collection and the Rose 3 basketball shoe.
The commercial, titled "Wake Up," freezes Bulls fans at the point of the injury, but slowly begins to bring them out of that state with each step that Rose takes in his recovery. The spot features the actual in-game call from TNT's Kevin Harlan and ends with Rose hugging his brother, Reggie, as he enters to a raucous ovation at the United Center.
The commercial was intended to heighten the excitement of Derrick Rose's return to the NBA. After viewing it, it's safe to say the mission was accomplished.
- Derrick Rose's new adidas commercial, "Wake Up" (YouTube)
- Bulls rotation spots up for grabs (Bleacher Report)
- Kyrylo Fesenko to work out for the Bulls (Chicago Bulls Confidential)
- Can Chicago defy expectations again without Rose? (ProBasketballTalk)
- When Michael Jordan met Michael Phelps (Downers Grove Patch)


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N.M. School Builds Bridge to Standards for ELLs
A New Mexico school focuses on making standards accessible to everyone—including English-learners
In Yolanda Medrano's class here at Emerson Elementary School, hands shoot into the air to answer questions she is asking about women and professional baseball.
These 4th grade students—most of them still learning English—have just finished reading and listening to a story about Jackie Mitchell, a 17-year-old girl who struck out baseball legends Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig when she pitched in an exhibition game against the New York Yankees in 1931.
Noting one expression in the story, Ms. Medrano asks the students to tell her what "throws like a girl" means.
"It means you don't throw good," a boy answers. "It means that no one thought she should play with boys," says another one. "It means that girls aren't good at baseball, but that isn't true," offers a girl.
Ms. Medrano checks with a few other 4th graders to make sure they understand the insult, which is common in English but doesn't exist in Spanish, the first language for most of them.
This reading lesson is part of Emerson Elementary's, and the entire Albuquerque school system's, foray this year into the Common Core State Standards in English/language arts and mathematics in the primary grades. The district piloted the new standards in 4th and 8th grades last school year, and this year, it is rolling them out in every kindergarten through 3rd grade classroom.
The new English/language arts standards demand that students sharpen their skills at reading, understanding, and analyzing a variety of complex texts. For teachers of English-language learners like Ms. Medrano, using strategies and supports (such as clarifying unfamiliar words and expressions) have long been crucial tools in effectively teaching ELLs, but they are even more critical for all teachers who work with English-learners now that the new standards expect that ELLs will be able to read and comprehend complex texts across all content areas despite their unfamiliarity with English.
At Emerson—a long-struggling school of about 500 students in one of the poorest sections of Albuquerque—the focus on effectively teaching the common-core standards to English-language learners is the centerpiece of a new strategy to drive up academic achievement. Nearly 50 percent of students at Emerson are English-learners.
After years of sluggish test scores and the discovery of a troubling pattern that showed very few ELLs were progressing, even modestly, in their English-proficiency over the course of a school year, leaders in the district and the local teachers' union agreed last spring to overhaul the school.
District leaders and Ellen Bernstein, the president of the Albuquerque Teachers Federation, worked together to select a new principal and vice-principal, and agreed that teachers would be invited to reapply for their jobs or transfer to different schools. About three-quarters of the teachers who were hired came from other city schools; only a handful reapplied and were selected to stay. Most significantly, the district agreed to pay for an extra hour of work time each day that would be spent exclusively on professional development. Teachers would also have to start school a week earlier for training than their colleagues across the district, and all would have to hold an endorsement to teach English-learners, either in bilingual education or Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.
With those pieces in place, the district and the union decided to make Emerson a common-core "demonstration" school where, eventually, teachers from across the city could come to watch and learn best practices from their colleagues on teaching the common core and supporting ELLs.
Gift of Time
"We are doing common core just as every other elementary school in the district, but the benefit we have is the extra time to come together, on a daily basis, to have deep conversations about our teaching and learning and supporting our students," said Denise Brigman, a veteran school administrator in Albuquerque who was selected to be Emerson's new principal.
Across the 90,000-student Albuquerque school system, 18 percent of students are English-language learners, said Lynne Rosen, the district's director of language and cultural equity. Most of them come from Spanish-speaking families and are either the children of immigrants from Mexico, or second- or third-generation Mexican-American. The district has also seen a recent uptick of students whose parents immigrated from Vietnam, Burma, and other Asian countries.
But many more students, Ms. Rosen says, are better described as "academic-language learners," students who are still mastering more formal English vocabulary, grammar, and syntax that are not commonly part of ordinary oral communications.
"No one is born knowing academic language, so this is a skill that all teachers, regardless of who their students are, must work intentionally to develop," she said.
To help teachers and administrators understand better themselves what academic language is and why it's so important for student success, the district has been working closely with Lily Wong Fillmore, a professor emeritus of education at the University of California, Berkeley, who has long argued that English-learners often don't learn academic language because they are not exposed to it, either in the curricular materials they have been taught from or in the language spoken by teachers in the classroom.
There is broad consensus that widely used texts in public schools have been simplified and watered down over the years, a phenomenon that has been even more profound for ELLs, Ms. Wong Fillmore said.
Ramping Up Rigor
Last February, the district brought Ms. Wong Fillmore and Gabriela Uro, the director of English-learner policy and research at the Washington-based Council of the Great City Schools, to Albuquerque to talk to staff members about the opportunity that the common core presents for bringing a more-challenging curriculum to all students, especially for ELLs. Ms. Wong Fillmore also made a presentation to the Albuquerque school board, Ms. Rosen said.
"The key lesson from her to our staff was that ELLs have to have access to grade-level, complex text," she said. "That is revolutionary."
Staff members at Emerson have embraced the idea that no one is a native speaker of academic language as a central mantra and have spent hours talking about the use of complex texts and how they must change or augment their classroom practices to support students, said Ms. Brigman, the principal. Together, teachers pore over the units of study developed for the new standards by a group of nearly 100 teachers from across the district and "figure out how they need to take those lessons and adapt them specifically for the kids in their class," said Penny Zink, an instructional coach hired as part of the team to turn Emerson around.
"This gives teachers a lot of responsibility, but it also gives them an opportunity for ownership," Ms. Brigman said.
Elvira Desachy-Godoy, who teaches a 3rd grade dual Spanish/English class at Emerson, says she finds the daily collaboration with her colleagues "energizing."
"I am listening to what they say they are doing in their classrooms and the next day, I am probably going to try the same thing," she said. For example, she has started to use more games to engage her students and has starting mixing up the configurations of her small groups so that lower-proficiency students have more opportunity to interact and learn from their higher-proficiency peers.
In a separate, but related, effort, a small cadre of teachers—brought together by the Albuquerque Teachers Federation, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers—began meeting a year ago to study the common-core English/language arts standards and craft model lessons based on grade-level-complex texts. Through the local union, the teachers are providing professional development to any colleagues looking for help with selecting texts, planning lessons, and providing supports to English-learners. The teachers' model lessons will also be videotaped and posted on the bilingual Colorín Colorado website as a free resource.
The initiative—which paired the teachers with Diane August, a language-acquisition researcher and former teacher of English-learners—is supported by the AFT's Innovation Fund.
Some teachers involved in the project say they were stunned to discover that much of the text they had been using in the district's English/language arts curriculum, for example, was not just below grade level, but far below.
"I was stupefied," said Maria Padilla-Enyart, a middle school English/language arts teacher who is part of the cadre. "I had been teaching 4th-grade-level text to 7th graders who were in general education. And what about my ELLs? They were getting an even more watered-down version."
Norma Lujan-Quiñones and Loyola Garcia, 1st grade teachers who are also part of the common core/ELL group, said the same was true in the lower grades, with reading content too often presented in pictures rather than words.
"It's an injustice to these students," Ms. Garcia said. "Those days of watering down material for them have to be gone if they are going to succeed with the common core."
Adapting 'Little Red Hen'
Ms. Lujan-Quiñones recently presented a lesson she developed on "The Little Red Hen" folktale to about two dozen teacher colleagues from around Albuquerque. A more condensed version of the story is in the district's 1st grade basal reader, but she built her lesson around a longer, more language-rich version, which forced her to think more carefully about the supports she needs to give the 10 English-learners in her class of 18 students. She says she may spend as much as two weeks on the story. In the past, it might have been just two days. On the first page of the story, the writer uses "sleep," "nap," and "snooze," words with similar meanings, but only one of which—"sleep"—might be familiar to her ELLs. In her lesson, Ms. Lujan-Quiñones will point out "sleep" and ask her students to tell her if they read or heard another word with the same meaning. She'll ask them to act out "sleep," "nap," and "snooze," as she says the words aloud.
"For me, as their teacher, I have to spend much more time reading and thinking about the text myself before asking them to tackle it," she said. "And it's not enough just to read it to them or read it with them, we've got to break it down and have discussions."
Preparations for All
Back at Emerson, the team emphasizes how nascent their efforts are—not only in figuring how best to teach the new standards to ELLs, but also in establishing a strong school culture, with involved parents and strong community partners. They are less than three months into what they hope will be a transformation of the school and a model for the city.
But Clint "Tee" McDougal, a 4th grade dual-language teacher before he was tapped last spring to be the school's new assistant principal, sees signs of promise.
"I did a classroom observation in 5th grade and watched these small groups of English-learners reading and discussing a science text on the Albuquerque aquifer," Mr. McDougal said. "First, just seeing these kids work with a complex science text is a huge shift, and seeing them persevere with it shows me that our teachers are creating the conditions students need to stick with something until they understand."
But educators here are also concerned about how they can make sure that all teachers across the district will be prepared to change their practices and provide the intense supports that English-learners need. One of the next major common-core-related initiatives in Albuquerque involves intensive professional development for principals on the needs of English-learners. In addition, the district is getting ready to release an adaptation of its common-core English/language arts units of study for dual-language teachers who also teach Spanish/language arts.
"We do worry about the children who could be left behind by this," said Ms. Rosen. "But then you have to turn that worry into figuring out how we make sure that doesn't happen."
Vol. 32, Issue 12, Pages s23, s24Published in Print: November 14, 2012, as Building Bridges for ELLs
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Myers makes some valid points. The prices Ham is charging for the "attraction" are quite outrageous and as Myer's says people are credulous/gullible, but the difference between Ham's theme park and other attractions is that once you've been there..............that's it. There are not going to be many repeat visitors. I mean once you've seen a large wooden boat-shaped building once, there's not a lot to come back for.


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Hey boys and girls, and of course, Sensei!,
Long time no hear. I have been extremely busy both professionally and personally, but I do pop in from time to time and check things out. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season.
Let's get to it. I have read much about this theory that going forward is the best possible way of defending oneself. Moving forward and never giving ground, that sort of thing. I have read about how people have done tremendous research on the subject, blah, blah, blah. I have heard and read how people look at one or two people in the past and say things like, that's how they did it, so it must be right, blah, blah, blah. This sort of thing goes on and on and on with everyone having the definitive answer to it all or knowing someone who does.
The answer is simple, no one has the complete answer or method. Why? Because everyone is different. The attacker is different, the defender is different, the environment is different, and the condition is different. Why argue it? Because we love to.
Kata teaches us this and that so it must be effective when looking at real situations. OK, sometimes I suppose. Bunkai and prearranged kumite teach us nothing when it comes to a real fight. That's just nonsense! Freestyle sparring or randori is the only real training for a "real" fight. Sorry, cant' be convinced about that either. So where does it all end? I don't know.
Let's just narrow this conversation to the subject of direction in a fight and perhaps we can go off on tangents later. I've heard how people say that going forward is the best means of defense because someone or a group of people have "scientifically" examined it from all angles. These people totally disregard those arts which have been around a lot longer than these modern "Scientists." For example, the ancient jujitsu arts of Japan, or the ancient weapons systems of Japan (and China I suppose) have in them movements that go to the side and back with technique that they believe work. Where was the labortory for these experiments performed? Where it counts, on the battlefield! So let's consider the souce and the validity of some of these modern people's ideas. Where have they experimented? In tournaments? On the street? You decide which one is more valid.


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A 44-year-old man was fatally shot as he was fighting with his wife and then attacked a neighbor when the Good Samaritan stepped in to help the woman Tuesday night in north Harris County.
Victor Daniel died at the scene about 8:50 p.m. in the 23200 block of Berry Pine near Woodiver, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
The wife told investigators he was physically assaulting her when the neighbor saw the attack and tried to stop it, deputies said.
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CRESTVIEW � Former Crestview High School softball player Hannah Day has taken the next step in her softball career. Day, a sophomore catcher at Northwest Florida State College, recently accepted a softball scholarship at Troy University. She'll enroll at Troy in the fall of 2014.
CRESTVIEW � Former Crestview High School softball player Hannah Day has taken the next step in her softball career.
Day, a sophomore catcher at Northwest Florida State College, recently accepted a softball scholarship at Troy University. She'll enroll at Troy in the fall of 2014.
Day, the daughter of Dexter and Rhonda Day, chose Troy over Auburn University and Samford University.
"A lot of thought went into the decision because I had several options," she said. "None of them were bad choices, so it was really hard making that decision.
"I'm a home person and it was the closest to home. And it felt more comfortable than the other schools did. I felt I should be there."
Day said her older sister, Lauren, attends Troy. Hannah said she has frequently visited the school to hang out with her sister.
As a freshman catcher at Northwest Florida State, Hannah finished in the top three on the team in almost every offensive.
She led the Raiders with 77 hits and 187 at bats. She tied for the team lead with eight home runs, was second in batting average with a .412 average and second in runs batted in with 59.
Hannah said playing for Raider softball coach Jack Byerly will help her as she moves to Division I softball in the Sunbelt Conference.
"The transition will be easier because I know if I can handle coach Byerly I can handle anybody," she said. "He's tough, but he's a good coach, he really is.
"Everything he does, he does it to get us to the next level."
Byerly isn't the only tough coach she has had to put up with through the years.
Dexter Day, a former college and minor league baseball player, admits he has been tough on Hannah.
"She's put in a lot of time (working on the field and in the weight room) and she's had to put up with me too," Dexter said. "I'm not just the easiest person to play for. I think looking back on it, and she can speak for herself, but she's glad that she did what she did to get to where she's at today."
Hannah has embraced her father's coaching.
"Having him at the games helps a lot because he is always helping me no matter what I do," she said. "During the Christmas break we are going to be out there working and getting better all the time, because you can always get better.
"He picks me apart every time I'm up to bat and every play I make. He's always videoing me. He's always correcting me, which is good, because I always need it."
The catcher is always considered the field leader on a softball or baseball team and Hannah enjoys that mental aspect of the game.
I like being vocal on the field and trying to be a leader," she said. "If you are quiet, they (the teammates) are not going to look to you for help.
"I like being out there and taking charge on the field behind the plate."
Stepping out of his role as Hannah's dad and into the role of coach, Dexter assessed her game and what she brings to the diamond.
"She's strong, a hard worker, committed," he said. She's a coach's player. She's the kind of player coaches like.
"She's my daughter, but I'm going to talk to you as a coach. She's that person you can depend on to be at practice every day with a great attitude. She's going to come to work every day. She's going to give her best all the time and she's not going to go out and do something stupid and hurt the team."
When asked, Dexter also was quick to list some areas of Hannah's game where she can improve.
Among those things were improving her bat speed, as she will see faster pitching at Troy than she's seen at Northwest Florida State. He also said she needs to work on hitting the outside pitch that might be a little away from her.
Defensively, Dexter said Hannah should continue to work on the things that have gotten her this far, such as blocking the ball in front of the plate and getting her throws off quicker when trying to throw out a base runner.
Stepping back into the role of dad, Dexter expressed his pride in what Hannah has accomplished.
"I'm just happy for her to be able to experience what I've experienced (being successful)," he said. "It's not about softball. Let's take softball away from it and you've got the work ethic that you've done this. You will carry that (work ethic) the rest of your life.
"You are going to be dependable and the kind of person you want to have working for you. I'm proud of her. I'm very proud of her."
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Highlighted by a pair of 30-point double-doubles and the 1000th career point for junior forward David Louison, the St. Joseph's College men skated to an 88-75 at Brooklyn Technical High School.
Louison and Michael Megafu posted 30 points each, one shy of their career bests, to lead St. Joseph's (8-7) to their first win over the Bulldogs (3-10) since 2006.
Megafu paired his season high with a game-high 15 rebounds to extend his double-double streak to seven games and 10 overall this season. Louison matched his season high and coupled it with 10 rebounds for his seventh double-double of the season.
The Bulldogs were paced by Jamel Gist's game-high 36 points and Egzon Gjonbalaj added 13 points and eight rebounds.
Things didn't go as well for the St. Joseph's women's squad. Turnovers and poor shooting dominated the game as St. Joseph's dropped a 47-35 decision.
The Bulldogs (9-4) substituted early and often, keeping their players fresh throughout the game. Nicole Francomano led the way with 11 points and Megan Campbell added 10 points, the only players in double figures for the surging squad, which has won six of its last seven.
St. Joseph's (8-6) was led by Megan Moran, who led all scorers with 13 points and snagged six rebounds as the Lady Bears dropped their sixth straight to their borough rivals. Kristin D'Chiutiis also contributed nine points and six rebounds.
T'Keyah Francis corralled a game-high 16 rebounds, including seven on the offensive end, helping Brooklyn to a 52-35 advantage on the boards.
The Bulldogs took advantage of an aggressive pressure defense that forced 25 Lady Bears turnovers, which accounted for 25 of their 47 points.
The St. Joseph's men open a stretch of four straight road games against Valley Forge Christian College on Wednesday, January 22, while Brooklyn College was set to host Hunter College on Wednesday, January 15.
The St. Joseph's women have a week off to regroup and will close out a three-game home stand against The City College of New York on Monday, January 20. The Brooklyn College women were scheduled to join the men in hosting Hunter College on January 15.


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"It's no coincidence that 'Thou shalt not lie' is one of the Ten Commandments."
Suppose you were writing about how to succeed in business by being nice and wanted to back up your ideas by giving examples of some famously "nice" celebrities. Would the first name that came to mind here be "Donald Trump"? No? You'll find other bizarre examples like this one The Power of Nice (Doubleday), a dish of treacle from the advertising executives who created the Aflac duck. Although this is supposed to be a business book, you'll also find breathless platitudes that wander far from the office like "call your grandmother, for goodness' sake – she's dying to hear from you!"
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Kaplan Thaler and Koval report: "It's no coincidence that 'Thou shalt not lie' is one of the Ten Commandments." So did God send them a text message explaining this? Or a fax? And are we to assume that other things in the Ten Commandments are a "coincidence"?
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Chuck is on a roll. Even after getting a little political, he can still say whatever he wants and flip off whomever he pleases, so long as it's not on the air. Miami fans are sour that he called their team "a whiny bunch" last week; Barkley is operating under the correct assumption that he can do whatever he wants because TNT will either to pretend not to notice, or to act like he's just their senile great-uncle acting out without his meds again.
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The Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (YOSA) continue their tour of England. They played a concert two nights ago in St. George's Hall in Liverpool. Following the tour on the YOSA Student Blog is a lot of fun. Here are just a few quotes about their concert in the grand hall pictured on the right:
The orchestra itself was abuzz with energy during the performance: 'we are in England, we are going to play in England!
If it weren't for Rackspace, I wouldn't be able to attend YOSA, So Thank You Rackspace!
It was one of the most beautiful concert halls I've ever played in, with a tall, ornate ceiling and intricately decorated walls.
According to the Hall's web site, it was built between 1842 and 1854. Charles Dickens gave the first reading of "The Christmas Carol" there. When it was built, it was the first building fitted with a modern air conditioning system. It was also the location of several famous murder trials. How many concert sites can make that claim?!?
The next concert in YOSA's tour is tonight in Cardiff in a concert hall known as The Gate. It was originally a church and was converted to a performing arts center in 2000. Here is a photo:
Speaking of student performances, the San Antonio International Piano Competition (SAIPC) presents the seventh annual SAIPC Summer Showcase of Young Pianists this Sunday, June 24 at 3 p.m. This concert is free and will be held at Christ Episcopal Church at 510 Belknap Place.
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Waqar Younis has been appointed as pakistans latest cricket coach. Why latest? Because he became the fourth person in the last three years to assume the mantle, clearly showing the lack of direction within the Pakistani ranks.
Younis has replaced Intikhab Alam as the coach. No problems with that, given that Alam looked to be going nowhere with his strategy and was more of a father-figure to the side, than a shrewd tactician or master motivator. Else, the team wouldnt have gone down so tamely in australia; 9-0.
The funny bit is that the joke by the name of the Waqar Younis contract runs till the end of December 2011. That is a good 21 month long sign-up! In a country where coaches have fell by the wayside after every bad series or two, the 21- month long contract is almost eternity.
How many months does Waqar last is a question that would be on everyones l i p s, but when you have countrymen like Javed Miandad who were very candid in saying that Younis is the wrong choice as the coach of the side! Not that Miandad has too many fond memories of any foreign coach either, which makes it possible that he was gunning for the position himself!


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Scherzer validates Tigers' choice to give him Game 1
Righty dominates A's for nearly all of seven-inning, 11-K outing in win
OAKLAND -- As well as Max Scherzer pitched in Game 1 of the American League Division Series on Friday, he probably didn't need any help. The Tigers' lineup gave it to him anyway, scoring three in the top of the first before he threw his first pitch of the night.
That turned out to be all he needed. Giving up just one hit through the first six innings, Scherzer ended up striking out 11 in seven innings as the Tigers took an early advantage in the best-of-five series with a 3-2 win at O.co Coliseum. Game 2 is here on Saturday night (9 ET on TBS).
Scherzer was undefeated this season when getting at least three runs, so there's that. It also helped quiet the largest Oakland baseball crowd in nearly a decade, at least for a while. But there was also a sense that, on this night, he would have been dominant no matter how the game played out.
"Certain times, certain situations, you might pitch to what the scoreboard is saying. But, for the most part, you're trying to execute the game plan no matter what the score is," catcher Alex Avila said.
Jim Leyland thought that getting the honor of starting the season opener might have given Scherzer a little extra boost.
"He was locked in all night," the Tigers' manager said. "He was awful determined. He was thrilled to get Game 1. I think it meant a lot to him, even though he said it didn't matter which game he pitched."
Afterward, Scherzer said, in so many words, that it didn't matter which game he pitched.
"It was the same as always. I don't get caught up in the hoopla, worry about where I'm pitching or if I'm pitching Game 1 or Game 5," he said.
No matter what the reason, he was sharp.
"That was vintage Max right there. A lot of strikeouts," Avila said. "He walked three guys, which he's probably ticked off about. But he pitched great. A real live fastball. And everything kind of worked off that.
"He did a very good job of [pitching to the game plan]. He did a good job of being able to make the adjustments he needed to when he started to get out of whack. It's a little tough when there are that many lefties. He does have a really good changeup that's something that those hitters will try to take away. So being able to throw the breaking ball in there a couple times was a key, and he was able to do that. But his fastball was just electric."
The first hit Scherzer gave up was a one-out triple to Yoenis Cespedes in the second. Leyland kept the infield back, in part because one run wouldn't have been the end of the world at that point. And partly because Scherzer has the kind of ability to pitch out of that situation. Sure enough, he struck out Josh Reddick, and Stephen Vogt lined out to end the inning.
"Our staff is built to strike people out," Avila said. "When there's a guy on third base, that's why [Leyland] has the confidence to play the infield back. It depends [on the situation], but he knows our guys have the stuff to get strikeouts. When I saw that, that didn't surprise me. And when there are guys on base, Max definitely tries to take it up a little bit and make sure he makes quality pitches."
The only pitch that hurt Scherzer came in the seventh after Brandon Moss led off the inning with an infield single, bringing Cespedes to the plate. Scherzer had struck him out on a changeup in the fifth and had him out in front of a changeup in this at-bat before the Athletics' left fielder hammered a 2-2 fastball for a home run that pulled Oakland to within a run.
"I didn't know what pitch to go with, and I thought if I went with my fastball, I could make him go away," Scherzer said. "The pitch caught too much of the plate and he took it deep, and that's just something that happens. It's baseball. It's pitching. And you move on."
That blast also brought the crowd back into the game, but Scherzer easily disposed of the next three hitters.
"The crowd was roaring and on their feet," Scherzer said. "To get those outs was big, because I was then able to pass [the lead] on to the pen."
It's possible the outcome would have been exactly the same if the Tigers hadn't gotten to Athletics starter Bartolo Colon for three runs in the top of the first, considering how well Scherzer was throwing the ball. But the Tigers are just as happy they didn't have to find out.


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