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Bianchi lost in the title match for the second straight year and both losses have come to Luxemburg-Casco’s Bryce Bosman.
On Saturday, Bianchi lost a 2-0 decision to Bosman, surrendering a third-period takedown for the only points off the match. Bosman won 2-1 in the 10-6-pound title match a year ago.
Bianchi nearly scored a takedown but couldn’t quite finish the move before the wrestlers went out of bounds and then Bosman rode Bianchi out the entire second period.
Duerschmidt lost an 11-5 decision to Oconto Falls’ Bryce Ash, the same wrestler who beat Duerchmidt in the sectional final last weekend, 15-5.
Duerschmidt scored the first take down and led 2-1 after the first period and then went up 4-3 after an exchange of reversals early in the second period.
But once Ash regained the top position, he scored three near-fall points to head to the third period with an 8-4 lead.
Gehrke was pleased with the way all three Raiders wrestled.
Saturn Girl (Amy Jackson) is finally getting the team-up with Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) she’s always wanted.
Last week it was revealed that Saturn Girl (aka Imra), Mon-El (Chris Wood), and the rest of the Legion have the key to saving the future hidden in their DNA, but that didn’t stop Saturn Girl convincing the rest of the Legion to help the DEO with Reign (Odette Annable) in Supergirl’s absence.
This week’s episode — titled “Fort Rozz” — is being pegged as a “girl power” episode that finds Supergirl and Saturn Girl teaming up with villains Livewire (Brit Morgan) and Psi (Yael Grobglas). Variety spoke with Jackson about her long-awaited team-up with Supergirl, getting to know Saturn Girl past the love triangle with Mon-El and Supergirl, and the show’s fandom.
How does Imra get roped in to helping Supergirl and two of her villains this week?
“Fort Rozz” is an out-and-out girl-power episode. It’s a whole different world away from the relationship with Mon-El and that love triangle. It really focuses on Saturn Girl as a leader of the Legion and her relationship with Supergirl as a friendship — which she’s always wanted. To be able to fight alongside her, away from everyone else, it gives her that opportunity.
There’s no apprehension from Supergirl to really get to know her? We haven’t seen them spend a ton of time together up to this point.
In the last episode she had come to terms with the situation and there’s a bigger job at had — which is Reign. Although she was in love, and probably still is in love, with Mon-El she knows she has a job to do and obviously that comes before anything as does it with the Legion.
With the fate of the future resting on the Legion, will there come a time when the Legion looks around while helping Supergirl deal with Reign and say “OK, this is getting too dangerous for us to get involved and hope to survive”?
I think that’s why Supergirl brings in the villains this week. She knew she would need as much help as possible. As did Saturn Girl and the DEO, they’re deciding what they can do and how to make it as safe as possible.
How does Saturn Girl deal with working alongside the villains, Livewire and Psi?
She always sees the good in people and thinks she can change people. I think because she can read minds, she can see the backstory to these people and what’s coming from inside them. She thinks she can change things and — not manipulate — but have an impact.
Do we get to see more of Imra experiencing this Earth that she’s only heard stories about?
Yes! She literally relates Bon Jovi to Shakespeare and Aristotle. Even though she’s a major intellect in the 31st century, this is a whole new world to her and that makes her innocent in a way. She’s learning — she wants to learn. She’s always watching Supergirl, so to get to fight alongside her and watch her and learn from her is really important to her.
When you first joined the show, you got some fan backlash on Twitter when it was revealed Imra and Mon-El were married. Has fan reaction changed as they’ve seen more of your character?
Yes it has. I noticed after last week’s episode we were getting more welcomed into the “Supergirl” fandom. Can I be honest? I watched “Supergirl” prior to being cast on the show, and I was a KaraMel fan and I would love to see them together. Because Imra is such a genuinely nice character, it’s impossible not to like her. I think that’s why this episode is important, because she’s so much more than her relationship. She’s a really strong, powerful character and it’s nice to showcase them away from the whole love triangle.
“Supergirl” airs on Mondays at 8 p.m. on the CW.
Capitol’s menu is strongly seasonal; using the best of local seafood, idealistic and ethical produce. Their food is fresh, pure, and uncluttered and they value strong relationships with their local suppliers.
Whether it’s a Martini at the bar, an easy dinner on the way home from work, or to celebrate a special occasion, you’ll find the warm and vibrant Capitol dining room opposite Courtenay Place.
Former Vice President Joe Biden said he hopes Democrats do not impeach President Donald Trump right away if they take control of the House, arguing they should wait until the conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation to determine their approach.
"I hope they don't. I don't think there's a basis for doing that right now," Biden said in an interview with "CBS This Morning" co-host Nora O'Donnell. "I think we should wait until the report comes out."
Asked if Mueller should release his report before the midterm elections, Biden said, "I think it should be issued when they finish the investigation. I've been around a long time. You wait until the investigation's finished. You don't put an arbitrary end to it. You wait till it's finished, and let's see what it has to say."
While some Democrats, including billionaire donor Tom Steyer, are pushing for impeachment, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who could become speaker if Democrats win back control, has tried to quiet impeachment speculation.
"Our priority (is) unifying. Impeachment is a very divisive approach. Elections should determine who is in office," Pelosi told CNN last month. "If the President has broken law, he's not above the law, but that remains to be seen."
A CNN poll conducted by SSRS last month found that nearly half of Americans in the poll -- 47% -- said Trump should be impeached and removed from office. That figure was up from a June poll that found 42% said Trump should be removed from office.
In the same interview, the former vice president also criticized Trump's handling of the disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Arabia's government, in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
"I'm very worried that the President seems to have a love affair with autocrats," Biden said. "The idea that he's already making excuses before the facts are known ... it's typical but it hurts us internationally."
Biden said his doubts about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman have "been confirmed."
"My doubts are that there is very little sense of rule of law, respect for human rights, dignity and you know, the allegations that are made so far -- I don't know yet -- are not inconsistent with the way the kingdom would act," he said.
The former vice president argued there should "absolutely positively" be consequences if it is found the crown prince ordered Khashoggi's apparent murder and floated the cancellation of US arms sales to Saudi Arabia as a possible retaliatory measure.
Asked to explain Trump's behavior, Biden said, "I don't want to speculate on my worst fears but either he doesn't know what he's doing or he has an absolutely convoluted notion of what allows America to lead the world."
DUP MP Ian Paisley has refused to comment after it emerged he accepted a four-figure gift from a gambling firm after previously criticing the industry.
The North Antrim Parliamentarian was given two Premier League football tickets by London-based bookmaker William Hill in March this year.
The entry recently appeared in the Commons’ Register of Members Interests, and the total value of the tickets and “associated hospitality” is given as £1,000.
In a DUP statement issued in Mr Paisley’s name last May, the MP hit out at Fixed Odds Betting Terminals, or FOBTs (a type of gaming machine used by many bookmakers including William Hill) saying they offered “ridiculously low odds of winning” at a cost of up to £100 per spin.
He dubbed them “a plague on many families”.
The same statement went on to add that such betting machines are just one part of the issue, adding that “online gambling addiction is the real problem”. People are “bombarded with encouragement to gamble online” he said, and called on the government to intervene.
As well as its shops, William Hill also runs an online gambling operation.
In the Commons chamber itself, whilst in 2011 Mr Paisley voted to tighten the law on planning permission for betting shops, he was absent from votes in 2013 and 2014 on fixed-odds betting machines according to the website TheyWorkForYou, which tracks MPs’ voting records.
The News Letter contacted Mr Paisley yesterday. He was asked about why, given his past calls to tighten regulation of the gambling industry, he accepted the gift.
“I’ve really no comment to make”, he said.
The Commons register shows the gift from William Hill was received on March 10, 2019, and registered five days later.
Assuming the tickets were used on March 10, he could have been at one of three matches: Liverpool v Burnley, Chelsea v Wolves, or Arsenal v Man Utd.
In addition, looking through Mr Paisley’s register for 2018 shows that in May that year, the same month he made his statement calling for a clampdown on gambling, he used £2,700-worth of travel and hospitality provided by the Northern Ireland Friends of Israel.
The address of Northern Ireland Friends of Israel listed in the Commons’ register is “c/o Oasis Retail Services Ltd, Mallusk Drive, Newtownabbey”.
Founded by NI-born man Gerald Steinberg in 1968, Oasis describes itself as the “premier supplier of gaming and betting machines to licensed betting offices in Northern Ireland”.
These include things such as poker machines.
Mark Baillie, Northern Ireland policy officer for the charity Christian Action Research and Education (CARE), which has been critical of the gambling industry, did not address Mr Paisley’s specific case but said in general: “We hope elected representatives think very carefully about taking money from the gambling industry.
“Obviously we don’t want the industry, with all its financial muscle, to be exerting undue influence on our politicians.
New York Is Preparing to Ban Plastic Bags Plastic pollution has been a hot-button issue in recent years. New York is inching closer to a plastic bag ban. Although lawmakers are ideally seeking a ban, a 5-cent fee for plastic bags may be on the table. Sen. Todd Kaminsky, chair of the Committee on Environmental Conservation, says the ban is “about changing the culture.” Sen. Todd Kaminsky, via 'New York Post' However, low-income residents would be exempt from fees. Governor Andrew Cuomo says he supports the ban, but his real emphasis is on the plastic bag fee.
Do Standardized Tests Reflect Student Learning in Schools?
"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted."
"What is tested does count, but much of what counts cannot be tested."
Many teachers quote Albert Einstein when describing the challenges and frustrations they feel towards standardized testing and its impact on their classrooms.
Teachers often explain how testing narrows the curriculum, limits the variety of student learning opportunities, emphasizes basic skills, and fails to measure higher level thinking such as creativity. Teachers feel that they help students learn so much more than what is reflected on test scores. The majority of teachers do not teach in subjects and grade levels that are tested.
The recent National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) Report, Student Learning, Student Achievement, adds to this "counts versus counted" dialogue by describing the differences between student achievement and student learning.
The report emphasizes that it is student learning- not student achievement- that is relevant to defining and assessing effective teaching.
Student learning and student achievement are closely related concepts.
But while the two terms are often used interchangeably, they convey profoundly different ideas, particularly as they relate to teaching. In brief, student achievement is the status of subject-matter knowledge, understandings, and skills at one point in time. The most commonly used measure of student achievement is a standardized test. Such standardized assessments measure specific areas of achievement--for example, the extent to which a 3rd grader has mastered the English/language arts standards in his or her state or district--and are best understood as one measure of a subset of a body of skills or knowledge.
Student learning is the growth in subject-matter knowledge, understanding, and skills over time. In essence, it is an increase in achievement that constitutes learning. Central to this notion of learning as growth is change over time. Knowing whether student learning has occurred, then, requires tracking the growth in what students know and can do.
It is only by comparing student mastery at successive points in time that the nature and extent of learning can be gauged. Student learning is also reflected in a broad array of outcome measures, including attendance, participation, engagement, and motivation.
To expand on the differences between student achievement and student learning, the report contains a graphic, "From Learning to Measuring" that depicts the limitations of formal testing in core subjects in relation to the total learning that occurs in classrooms.
The graphic is very clear in showing how little formal tests measure when compared to what students learn in schools. The graphic accounts for other learning that can be measured by other assessments.
"Reproduced with permission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards"
The box represents the broad domain of skills, learning, and knowledge we expect students to know and be able to do. The shaded triangle reflects the considerable-- but still incomplete--portion of what students are expected to know that can actually be measured by different means.
The bottom of the triangle shows the wide base of learning that occurs in any given classroom, while the middle section reflects the narrower- but still substantive--range of knowledge that potentially can be measured through a range of assessments and activities by a teacher in the classroom.
The top of the triangle represents the extent of what is actually measured by formal, wide-scale testing, which typically only covers core subjects such as language arts, math, and, in some cases, social studies and science.
In other words, what is tested does count, but much of what counts cannot be tested.
Achievement will always be larger than a single test and is not specific to any particular assessment.
Teachers must monitor achievement regularly using a variety of formal and informal assessments for both individual students and the class as a whole.
The Student Learning, Student Achievement Report articulates and expands the "counts versus counted" and "student learning versus student achievement" dilemmas that all educators experience in schools daily.
This report, along with other similar literature that discusses the effects of testing, continue to provide a common language and resource for which educators and other concerned stakeholders can better engage the public on the merits, limitations, and pitfalls of relying too much on standardized tests.
The graphic "Learning to Measuring" simplifies, in an easily digestible format for the public, what all teachers already know to be true. For everyone else, the message is now clearer, more concise, and more convincing than ever before.
Disclaimer: I was part of a NBPTS webinar that discussed this report. My opinions are my own.
A memorial service will be held Friday for Sandra DeNola Kirshenbaum, a lifelong book enthusiast who founded Fine Print, a one-of-a-kind journal devoted to the art of making books.
Ms. Kirshenbaum died Dec. 26 at the age of 65.
Born July 4, 1938, in Milan, Ms. Kirshenbaum's family came to San Francisco in 1940 to escape fascism. She was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UC Berkeley, earning a degree in Italian literature. Following that, she attended Carnegie Library School and received her master's degree in library science in 1960. Her passion for books was developed very early on -- "not just reading them," her daughter Daniela said, "but also appreciating how they're made."
After living in Cordoba, Argentina, for a few years, Ms. Kirshenbaum returned to San Francisco and became a rare book dealer. She founded Fine Print in 1975, and the Colophon Club of San Francisco thereafter. To many, she was a central figure in the renaissance of the Bay Area book arts movement, and she was recognized by book arts enthusiasts worldwide. She received several honors, including the Oscar Lewis Award from the Book Club of California in 1998 and the American Printing History Association Award in 2001.
She read in English, Italian and French, and "was just starting in German" when she passed away, said her daughter. "My mother loved literature. She caused others to realize the pleasure in the reading experience itself."
Ms. Kirshenbaum's office was filled with unusual, hand-made books, some in non-traditional shapes. Some of the books, Daniela said, tested the boundaries of what was a book and what was art.
She is survived by her husband, Noel, of San Francisco; a son, Ken, of New York City; a daughter, Daniela, of San Francisco; two sisters, Lydia of Los Gatos and Emily of San Mateo; a brother, Albert, of Atherton; and three grandchildren.
The memorial service will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Temple Emanu-El, 2 Lake St., San Francisco.
A co-founder of Vine, perhaps the purest and least evil social media platform to ever grace our smartphones, has officially announced a spiritual successor to the beloved video-sharing app.
Dom Hoffman today announced Byte, a “looping video app” which he says will debut in the first half of 2019.
Precious little extra information exists regarding the app, but Hoffman did confirm Byte is the latest incarnation of the V2 project, which was put on ice earlier this year due to funding constraints and what he labelled “a bit of ‘sequelitis’’.
Vine, which emerged in 2013, allowed users to share looping six-second videos. Its deceptively simple premise eventually drew a slew of content creators, who flushed the platform with viral comedic snippets.
That’s perhaps an oversimplification: Vine, which boasted hundreds of millions of users at its peak, was ground zero for the kind of weird, non-sequitur comedy which now pervades much of modern online culture.
It also made a star of Logan Paul. Make of that what you will.
Despite a dedicated and engaged user base, Vine struggled to monetise its platform like its contemporaries. Twitter, which owns Vine, officially disabled new uploads in October 2017, but still hosts the app’s content online.
Its legacy has been profound, and anyone who has mindlessly gorged 40-minute compilation videos uploaded to YouTube would agree.
Byte is currently seeking content creators to kickstart the platform. We can only hope folks like Connor O’Malley and Thomas Sanders give the new upstart a chance.
The person Chambers, William, 1800-1883 represents an individual (alive, dead, undead, or fictional) associated with resources found in Boston University Libraries.
American slavery and colour, by William Chambers, author of "Things as they are in America."
American slavery and colour,, by William Chambers.