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The Official Medical Plan to
Eliminate the Midwife: 1900 -1930 part 4
by faith gibson, C.P.M., community midwife
D. Chloroform & forceps -- promoted by doctors as "A Mother's Best Friend"
The campaign against care as provided by midwives also included the idea that chloroform and the routine use of forceps were an important "improvement" in maternity care and that it was unethical to deny such "advantages" to the "disadvantaged" clients of midwives [DeLee, 1915].
~ "If argument were needed to prove obstetrics a branch of surgery the statistics of the NY Lying-In Hospital for 1909-1910 might be used. Dr. McPherson reports 5,073 patients cared for, of whom 1,037 are classified as "operative", that is more than 20 % or one in every 5." [1911-D, p 214] {*}
~ "But all these arguments are unnecessary and insult one's intelligence. I have visited many European clinics and I am convinced that the reason they are so far behind ours in their obstetric technique is because of the presence of the midwife and the low ideals she establishes" {i.e., eschewing the routine use of interventions such as chloroform, episiotomy and forceps}. [1915-C; DeLeeMD]
The status of women at this time was very low and the common perception was that the practice of midwives, (by mere "women") reflected negatively on physicians. The theory was that if a mere woman, not formally educated in medicine, could deliver babies, then childbirth managed by doctors was not a really "respectable" practice of medicine nor worthy of a higher fee than the customary pittance paid to the midwife (two and half to five dollars).
~ "Obstetrics is held in disdain by the profession and the public.. The public reason correctly. If an uneducated women of the lowest class may practice obstetrics, is instructed by doctors and licensed by the State, (birth attendance) certainly must require very little knowledge and skill ---surely it cannot belong the science and art of medicine." [DeLee, MD 1915]
E. "First, Catch Your rabbit" --legal and legislative strategies to suppress and abolish midwives
The legal and legislative aspects of the campaign included a strategy to make the practice of midwives illegal where every possible.
~ "In states where the midwife is practically unknown, it should be seen to that the Medical Practice Law excludes the possibility of midwives practicing within the limits of the state. In states where the midwives are not forbidden by law and are numerous, a well organized license and regulation system should control those in practice. Outline for them the minimum standard for their cases and enforce at least this standard by taking away the licenses of those who violate the law. Renew the old licenses every year and issue NO NEW ONES. Thus the midwives will gradually be excluded from practice by their own incompetence and by the lapse of time." [1911-C, p. 209]
~ "...the best argument for a state law, namely, because a midwife once convicted of a crime would afterwards be disqualified to practice by reason of said conviction. First catch your rabbit." [1907, Dr. Mabbott; American Journal of Obstetrics] {*}
Many medical politicians reported that it was hard to get a judge and jury to take the "unlicensed" practice of midwifery as a sufficiently serious offense, so that charging midwives with the "illegal practice of medicine (instead of the unlicensed practice of midwifery) was more successful at getting convictions.
~ "Moreover, it is a hard matter to obtain the proper evidence to convict such persons, and we have never had an instance in a year and 4 months of (the) execution of the Midwifery Law of an accusation being brought against midwives by either a patient or a physician, (except a health officer)." [1911-F, p. 22
In areas where midwives has already achieved legal status, the tactic was to suppress and eventually abolish them by ever-escalating educational requirements and regulatory controls.
~ "I believe that the midwife should be eliminated as rapidly as possible. She should, however, not be given a license but should be given a certificate, to be renewed from time to time or canceled as deemed advisable under the circumstances. Licensing her will not add to her knowledge, and will not make her more efficient but will place upon the state permanent responsibility for her work." [1912-B, p.227]
~ "It is quite possible by strict educational requirements, by imposing certain qualification as to the experience and training, AND IN OTHER WAYS, to restrict the practice of midwifery to such a degree as to amount to practical abolition. Such a method is necessarily more slow than direct abolition. It can be carried out, ... according to the forms of law." [1911-E, p. 225] {*}
~ "Have the license to practice be an annual affair based on the record for the previous years. Then by gradually raising the standard and providing dispensary care (free clinics and home delivery by medical students), .. the problem in a few years would simply (solve) itself." [1911-C, p. 210]
Furthermore, these strategies included a policy preventing the establishment of midwifery training programs and the licensing of midwives.
~ "No attempt should be made to establish school for midwives, since, in my opinion, they are to be endured in ever-decreasing numbers while substitutes are being created to displace them." [1912-B, p.227]
~ " I am opposed to educating and licensing midwives... I do not believe it possible to train women of the type of even the best of the midwives to practice satisfactorily." [1912-B, p.223]
~ "...the great danger lies in the possibility of attempting to educate the midwife and in licensing her to practice midwifery, giving her ...a legal status which cannot ...be altered..."[1912-B, p.222 ]
~ "Do ophthalmologists favor a school for the instruction of optometrists...? Why not train the chiropractor and Christian Scientists also?" [1915-C; DeLeeMD p. 115]
This was to keep midwives from acquiring the legal protection of an independent profession which would have established normal maternity care as the legal domain of midwives (i.e. requiring physicians to be trained in the principles of midwifery in order to provide normal pregnancy care to healthy women). Many "medical men" of the day complained that licensure "would give the midwife to much dignity and importance" (Mabbott, 1907).
In 1923, Baily compared the record of student midwives at the Bellevue Hospital School of Midwifery to that of physicians:
~ "Their handling of normal cases of labor has been conducted with fewer deaths of the mothers from sepsis and with as low a number of stillbirths and eye infections of the babies as the cases handled by the medical profession."
By keeping midwives from the "discipline of rigorous institutional training which led to the prestige of professionalism, they consequently kept from the midwife the ability to assume the aura of medical progress. ... not only did physicians attempt to woo her patients away by withholding from the midwife the status of a trained professional" [Chaplin, MD; 1919] but they sought subsidies to compete with her ecumenically as well. Physicians, but never midwives, were supported by obstetrical charities to who compensated then for providing maternity services to the poor.
Midwifery licensure would also have required physicians to respond to requests from midwives for medical assistance in complicated cases and established legal penalties for those doctors who did not comply.
~ concerning management of complicated midwifery cases by German midwives -- "the midwife ... must notify a physician in writing ...or communicate personally over the telephone. And the physician must in such case respond at once, unless actually engaged on a case that requires his immediate attention, when he must so communicate to the midwife or messenger. Should the midwife or the physician fail to follow these laws, (they both) are subject to punishment." [1911-C, p. 203] {*}
This was one aspect that particularly irked the medical community --- the very idea of "medical men" ( as doctors of the day preferred to be called) being "bossed" around by a midwife at a time when their own wives did not have the authority to demand their co-operation!
~... "(S)upervising the midwife,... and not only that but a medical profession forced by law to respond to the call of the midwife in trouble."[1911-C, p.208]
One must remember the state of gender relationships in the late 1800 and early 1900s which was the social foundation of male sovereignty used to configure an equally sovereign practice of medicine which remains unchallenged and unchanged today.
An added complexity in the physician-midwife relationship was the recognition by the medical community that many doctors did not effectively treat a patient referred to them by midwives because it was so easy to explain a bad outcome by simply saying that the midwife should have called him sooner.
~ "Then too the physician when called to such a case is far from being as careful as if it had been his case from the beginning, for it is so easy to say that had he been called earlier 'all would have been well'". [1911-C, p. 205]
F. Removing the word "Midwife" from the Birth Certificate Law
~ California Health and Safety statutes, regarding the mandatory registration of birth; 1915, Chapter 548, page 723: "In case no physician was in attendance [at the birth] it shall be the duty of the midwife or person acting as midwife to file such certificate"
Last but certainly not least in the legislative weapons of the medical establishment was a strategy to remove the word "midwife" from the birth registration statutes. This meant that henceforth, only physicians could register the birth. This was very good for the statistics of the medical community, as there was no longer any category of "midwife-attend" birth to contrast unfavorably with physician outcomes. Conveniently, it also gave the medical board "proof", in the form of a signed birth certificate, to use in disciplinary actions against doctors who "cooperated" with midwives.
~ "What we must first do is arouse public sentiment and first of all we must have the enthusiastic support and united action of the medical fraternity.... We feel that the most important change should be in the laws governing the registration of births. The word "midwife" as it occurs, should be at once erased from the statute books. ...
We believe it to be the duty and privilege of the medical profession of American to safeguard the health of the people; we believe it to be the duty and privilege of the obstetricians of our country to safeguard the mother and child in the dangers of childbirth. The obstetricians are the final authority to set the standard and lead the way to safety. They alone can properly educate the medical profession, the legislators and the public." Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Feb. 23, 1911, page 261 {*}
This strategy is alive and well today in California. Because the 1957 California birth registration statute, in which the word 'midwife' is conspicuously absent (conspicuous because state certified midwives were practicing at the time), all domiciliary births attended by nurse and direct-entry midwives are classified as 'unattended' home births.
~ "For live births that occur outside of a hospital, the physician in attendance at the birth, or in the absence of a physician, either one of the parents shall be responsible for entering the information on the certificate, securing the required signatures, and for registering the certificate with the local registrar." Cal H&S Code 10102
The California Department of Vital Statistics thus far declined to acknowledge the category of "midwife-attended" birth (citing the absence of the word "midwife" in the law) which means that the statistics for birth with a skilled attendant are lumped together with those with unattended births. These inaccurate statistics affect maternity policy within the state and the computerized records from California then sent into the national data bank, further muddying the waters.
G. Low cost substitutes financed by the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations
According to the New York Journal of Medicine (1915, p. 300) --
~ "The development of substitute agencies is the most essential factor in the elimination of the midwife, and the element of competition [free services] will do more to eliminate their practice than anything else."
In addition to other strategies, the successful abolition of midwives also depended on developing a low cost substitute for the integrated care of midwives. This was achieved by organizing obstetrical charities, financed largely by the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations, to provide free antepartal clinics during pregnancy, free hospitalization in charity wards for birth and free obstetrical care by medical students as a part of their formal education.
~"(H)owever, to entirely eliminate the midwife, it will be necessary for the government to substitute some cheap service at the time of birth. A women will employ a midwife who will render such services as she can at the time of birth and attend to the women for a certain period after birth, giving many ministrations to the mother and child that no doctor will undertake to furnish. The only way to eliminate the midwife is to furnish some proficient and at least equally cheap service." [1915-H]
Many doctors of the era insisted that this system of free care in exchange for becoming a "teaching case" should be paid for by government out of tax revenues, in recognition of the "great benefit" derived from medical education by the public. By the 1960s this historical marriage of the medically indigent with medical education had been transformed into the federal Medicaid program.
~ "For many physicians, especially some noted obstetricians, there is no midwife problem; they have long since settled the question by vehement condemnation of the midwife and the recommendation that all who engage midwives from tradition or economic necessity should be delivered in finely appointed hospitals at public expense." [1917-B; Levy, MD]
H. Dividing up the Profession of Midwifery Between Physicians and Nurses
~ "Of the 3 professions---namely, the physician, the trained nurse and the midwife, there should be no attempt to perpetuate the last named (midwife), as a separate profession. The midwife should never be regarded as a practitioner, since her only legitimate functions are those of a nurse, plus the attendance on normal deliveries when necessary." [1915-A; EdgarMD p. 104]
Another important historical strategy was to eliminate independent (or non-nurse) midwives from the profession of midwifery by dividing midwifery practice up between physicians and nurses, much like a piece of whole cloth taken from midwives and torn into two unequal pieces. The big piece went to doctors (the independent and high-paying end) and the smaller, subservient (and low paying) one went to nurses. The bottom line was the "necessity" (as seen from the physicians perspective) to maximize their per unit/patient profit by minimizing their per unit/patient time. This was to be achieved by having nurses do most everything but catch the baby (and collect a representational share of the fee).
~ "The doctor must be enabled to get his money from small fees received from a much larger number of patients cared for under time-saving and strength-conserving conditions; he must do his work at the minimum expense to himself, and he must not be asked to do any work for which he is not paid the stipulated fee. This means ... the doctors must be relieved of all work that can be done by others ---... nurses, social workers, and midwives." [1922-A; ZieglerMD, p. 412]
~ "The nurses should be trained to do all the antepartum and postpartum work, from both the doctors' and nurses' standpoint, with the doctors always available as consultants when things go wrong; and the midwives should be trained to do the work of the so called "practical nurses," acting as assistants to the regular nurses and under their immediate direction and supervision, and to act as assistant- attendants upon women in labor---conducting the labor during the waiting period or until the doctor arrives, and assisting him during the delivery." [1922-A; ZieglerMD]
~ "In this plan the work of the doctors would be limited to the delivery of patients [i.e., birth as a surgical procedure performed by the physician], to consultants with the nurses, and to the making of complete physical and obstetrical examinations ... Under this arrangements the doctors would have to work together in a cooperative association with an equitable distribution of the work and earnings." [1922-A; ZieglerMD, p. 413]
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An exclusive auction selling over 300 personal items including childhood toys, which belong to international singer and songwriter, Ed Sheeran, will take place at Bishop & Miller Auctioneers in Suffolk on Saturday 10th November, to raise essential funds for St Elizabeth Hospice's new brand Zest. The Ed Sheeran Collection will be part of the Music & Memorabilia Auction taking place in Stowmarket, Suffolk, a few miles up the road from Framlingham where Ed Sheeran was brought up and went to school.
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Q: Does rustc / cargo have a -march=native equivalent? I feel like binary portability isn't really a concern, and so something like -march=native may always be the default behavior.  I can't find anything saying one way or the other though.

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Could I be a husband if my life didn't fit the image in my head?
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By Harry Valentine
Nov. 29, 2020 2 PM PT
I always knew I wanted to marry my girlfriend.
I just wanted to feel like husband material first.
I had this image in my head of what a husband should be. Unsurprisingly, he looked a lot like my dad: He had a mustache, a house and — importantly — a career. I didn't have any of that.
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L.A. Affairs: I told every guy on the first date, 'I want to have a baby'
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Years before, when I met my girlfriend, Sammie, I was a step down from a guy: a boy. I was fresh out of the University of Georgia with a degree in theater and headed straight to Los Angeles, a place I knew nothing about except what you see in the movies or on TV. I would be living with three other "boys" in a two-bedroom apartment I had never seen.
My friend from college who moved out before me, the one who emailed me the lease, told me it was in a place called Burbank. I didn't know if that was a neighborhood or a city, but I knew I had to go if I wanted to pursue my dream of working in television.
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When you're the largest of the "straight sizes" and smallest of the "plus sizes," it's easy to think something's wrong with you, even though this in-between, no-man's-land is supposedly the average size of American females.
But four years later, as an improv-mover-trivia guy, I was four years into a serious relationship with a girl I knew I wanted to marry someday, and I hadn't yet proposed. And how could I? By this time we were living in a small one-bedroom apartment in Glendale — but not a house. I had three low-paying jobs instead of a career, and Sammie didn't like it when I tried to pull off a mustache.
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During that hour-and-a-half commute, I had plenty of time to watch the city roll by, but not much time for anything else.
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We had been dating for three years when he finally told me he didn't believe in the institution of marriage. "Why do women always want marriage?" he said.
One day, I stifled a panic attack as I did the math: Nine hours a day at the moving company, plus a three-hour round trip bus ride, plus seven hours' sleep a night, plus time away for side gigs and classes, all equaled life feeling shorter than it ever had before.
Most important, time home with Sammie felt shorter than it ever had.
I missed my girlfriend every day at work, even though we lived together, even though we saw each other every morning and every night. It hurt, like a real pain in my chest hurt, to realize how little time we actually had together each day.
"But what if," I thought, "we had all the rest of the days." That didn't seem so short at all.
My commute became planning time. I scrolled through jewelry websites and Reddit threads about wedding proposals. I got off a few stops early some days to call my older brother and ask his advice on rings and stones while I walked. I located jewelry stores along my bus route.
Sometimes I texted Sammie that I was working late as I slipped off the 181 for half-hour scouting missions, dodging salesmen as I browsed just to learn what I liked, hurrying to get back to the stop before the next bus came.
As I planned for the engagement, I realized that this was the first time in years I had planned something without Sammie. As much fun as we had together, and as much as I love her, one of the best things about being with Sammie is that she is the perfect person to bounce ideas off, to help me see what I can't. In short, she has always been a partner as much as a girlfriend.
The more I planned, the sooner I wanted to do it. Maybe I would still be a guy down on one knee instead of a Man, but that didn't matter as much as getting to the moment when I could see the look on her face.
I proposed under the marquee at the Alex Theatre in Glendale. A friend from improv took pictures. She said yes, and we went to In-N-Out to celebrate. I was happier than I had ever been, to be her guy. And I was on my way to becoming her Man.
A few months after we got married, I got a text from a friend at a production company. There was a job opening for me if I wanted it. I was torn. I desperately wanted to switch to a job in TV, but it meant leaving a stable, full-time job with a promotion on the horizon for a new work environment, complete with the potential for failure and lengthy (nonpaying) hiatuses that come with working in TV production. And the new job wanted me to start right away, meaning I'd be burning a bridge at the old job by not putting in an appropriate notice.
The first step was clear: I needed to call my wife. Sammie told me to go for it. But this time, she wasn't just giving me advice for my life, she was giving me advice for our life. She was saying it was OK for our marriage and our family to quit my job and take a risk. So I did.
Looking back, it's obvious I spent too much time worrying about the order of things.
We don't have a house, but we figured out a two-bedroom apartment in Eagle Rock because our baby girl is on the way next month. We picked out the name, Eloise. And Sammie said she didn't mind if I grew out my mustache for a few weeks.
I can see now where I had it wrong. I wanted to be husband material — a Man — before getting married. I should have known that I couldn't actually become a husband without my wife's help.
Harry Valentine is a writer based in Los Angeles. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram at @hairyvalentine.
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In 1876 Dmitri Mendeleev perfected a table to illustrate the elements that are the building blocks of our universe. Mendeleev arranged all the know elements and even predicted properties of undiscovered elements that turned out to be accurate.Today there are 118 know natural and synthesized elements ranging from Hydrogen to Ununoctium. Elements are arranged into two major groups; metals and non metals. From there they can be divided into corresponding sub categories. An element is placed within the table depending on its atomic number, electron configuration and recurring characteristics. Although the periodic table is the most popular representation of elements, there are many alternates, such as the 3D Mendeleev Flower that highlights the relationship between elements in a different way.
Just can't get enough of chemistry? Periodic Coasters are the perfect addition to any geeks home. With Gold, Lithuim, Iron, Neon, Silicon, Krypton and Nitrogen it's difficult to choose a favourite! Each coaster has the atomic number and mass, as well as a witty phrase about the element. Krypton is the 'superhero element' whilst Lithuim with 'keep you lasting for longer'. Now thats elementary!


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A Test For Units 11-12 Senior II 热 【字体:小 大】
A Test For Units 11-12 Senior II
A Test For Units 11-12 Senior II ( 05/ 03/ 08)
I. Listening 20% <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Ⅱ. Multiple choice. 15%
1.There was time I hated to go to school.
A. a, that B. a, when C. the, that D. the, when
2.----What do you think is to happen to me tomorrow?
----Sorry, I don't know.
A. possible B. able C. likely D. about
3. Shortly after that, they ________ to the experiments ,which_________ to be a success.
A. set out , turned out B. set about ,turned out
C. set off , turned D. set out , turned
4. -----Don't you believe me ?
----- , I'll believe you say.
A. No, whatever B. Yes, no matter what C. No, no matter what D. Yes, whatever
5. The man __________to the audience the names of the winners.
A. arranged B. reminded C. announced D. suggested
6. Would you mind _________me _______ the distance really is?
A. to tell me / how long B. telling / how far
C. tell / what D. telling / what
7. Her refusing to go to the cinema with him is not to be .
A. wondered in B. wondered on C. wondered at D. wondered whether
8. You may give the film ticket to you think needs it.
A. no matter who B. whomever C. whoever D. no matter whom
9. This problem is believed __________ in a few days. So have patience and wait.
A. to be settled B. being settled C. will be settled D. to have been settled
10. When Jack arrived, he learned Mary for almost an hour.
A. had gone B. had set out C. had left D. had been away
11. A board by the side of the well on which these words , "Danger. Keep off."
A. put up, wrote B. was put up, wrote
C. put up, is written D. was put up, were written
12. __________in a driving suit, Captain Nemo and his guests walk around in this magic world , ________ by the lamp of the ship.
A. Wearing / lighted B. Dressing / being lighted
C. Dressed / lighted D. Worn / being lighted
13. Only the men held the view the book said was right.
A. that what B. what that C. all what D. that whether
14. His efforts _______him______ his dream of becoming a top scientist in this field.
A. enabled , realizing B. made , possible to realize
C. made it possible for , to realize D. him can realize
15. It won't be he up with his classmates.
A. long before, catches B. before long, catches
C. for long, will catch D. long until, will catch
Ⅲ.Cloze test. 20%
No man can change the weather. Nobody can control the weather. But if we read correctly the ____1____around us we can 2 what the more changes in the weather will be. This way of telling what the weather will be like the following day or two is called weather forecasting.
For many centuries and in all countries people have 3 the weather and tried to 4__ weather forecasting.
Sometimes 5 objects such as hills and tall trees seem to be very clear and near. This is a sign of much water vapour( 水气) in the 6 and therefore rain will ____7_____ come.
Rings round the sun are a sign of coming rain. Many people feel in their 8 the coming of wet weather. Their joints ache. Some birds fly 9 as fine weather is coming but they fly near the ground if 10 or stormy weather is 11 the way. It is probably because of the insects which they are hunting 12__ they fly 13 .
If you see a rainbow during rainy weather, this is a sign that the weather will become clear and fine. Such 14 always come in the evening. If the stars 15 clearly at night, then fair weather will 16 . If a fog appears in the morning just about sunrise, then the day will be warm. Instead, if a fog appears in the evening the next day will be wet 17 .
If the sunset is mostly red in colour, then the following day will be ___18__. If a rainbow appears in the morning, rainy weather will probably come.
Most of the 19 sayings have been made by people who have used their 20 and brains to make weather forecasting.
1. A. wonders B. books C. signs D. days
2. A. tell B. speak C. talk D. point
3. A. studied B. learned C. searched D. watched
4. A. tell B. make C. carry D. send
5. A. small B. away C. near D. distant
6. A. space B. air C .heaven D. earth
7. A. probably B. hardly C. never D. seldom
8. A. legs B. arms C. skins D. bones
9. A. high B. low C. near D. far
10. A. wet B. dry C. rainy D. sunny
11. A. by B. in C. for D. on
12. A. that B. which C. where D. when
13. A. high B. low C. fast D. slow
14. A. as B. rainbows C. weather D. day
15. A. twinkle B. appear C. bright D. seem
16. A. begin B. stop C. continue D. be
17. A. day B. weather C. hour D. time
18. A. wet B. rainy C. worse D. fine
19. A. above B. below C. important D. interesting
20. A. bodies B. hands C. eyes D. legs
Ⅳ.Reading Comprehension 16%
Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.
Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.
E-mail makes it easy to work at home, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren't necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she'd been born before electronic mail became such a practical tool.
The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun see a great movie perhaps-and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may tire of telling the story.
With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and address it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.
E-mail is also an inexpensive way stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children off at college.
We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don't take the place of any of the old ways.
1. The purpose of this passage is to ________.
A. explain how to use the Internet
B. describe the writer's joy of keeping up with the latest technology
C. tell the merits(价值) and usefulness of the Internet
D. introduce the reader to basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet
2. The use of E-mail has made it possible for the writer to ________.
A. spend less time working
B. have more free time with his child
C. work at home on weekends
D. work at a speed comfortable to him
3. According to the writer, E-mail has an obvious advantage over the telephone because the former helps one ________.
A. reach a group of people at one time conveniently
B. keep one's communication as personal as possible
C. pass on much more information than the later
D. get in touch with one's friends faster than the later
4. The best title for this passage is ________.
A. Computer: New Technological Advances
B. Internet: New Tool to Maintain Good Friendship
C. Computers Have Made Life Easier
D. Internet: a Convenient Tool for Communication
The majority of astronauts from America have been men. At the start of the space programme there was strong resistance from some people against having women in space. However, some women were very keen to become astronauts and in the end they were successful. In 1978, NASA began the first training programme for women astronauts.
Judy Resnick and Christa McAuliffe were both astronauts and they were both women, but in many other ways they were very different. Both of them were on Flight STS-5L-L. Judy Resnick was born in 1949 and studied engineering at university and went on to obtain a PhD in 1977. She was a member of the first group of women selected for astronaut training in 1978, and in 1984, she became the second woman in space. During that flight, she helped to launch three new satellites and she carried out a programme of research. She was, in many ways, a professional astronaut whose whole life was devoted to space travel.
Christa McAuliffe was born in 1948 and she was an astronaut almost by accident. In 1984, NASA decided to find a teacher who could accompany astronauts into space. They hoped that she would be able to communicate with students from space and encourage every one of them to be interested in space travel. Christa was a secondary teacher in history and social studies. She was a gifted teacher and she was selected from over 11,000 applicants to go on flight STS-51-L. She was also a very good communicator and she immediately established a very good relationship with the news media(radio, television and newspapers). It was partly because of this that there was a great deal of interest and excitement about the flight. Thousands of students in schools and universities all around the country were looking forward to communicating with Christa in space. Millions of people were watching her flight with great interest. It is partly because of the excitement over McAuliffe's place in the flight that the disaster in 1986 had such an effect on people.
5. We can learn from the first two paragraphs that ___________.
A. Judy was against the idea of having women in space at first
B. Judy was the first woman selected for astronaut training
C. Judy helped to launch three new satellites at the age of 35
D. Judy carried out a programme during her second space travel
6. Christa McAuliffe was chosen for training because _______.
A. she was popular with the news media
B. she expected to give history lessons in space
C. she was an excellent teacher and communicator
D. she made the students in space very excited
7. The reason why there was great interest in Flight STS-51-L is that ________.
A. both Christa and Judy got PhD degrees in the same year
B. a young secondary school teacher was on the flight
C. students were going to learn more about space travel
D. it was the first time for women to travel in space
8. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Two Women Astronauts B. Flight STS-51-L
C. Traveling in Space D. The Training Programme
Answer Sheet For Test( Units 11-12 ) Senior Two
I. Listening 20%
II. Multiple choices 15%
1._______2.______3.______4._______5._______
6._______7.______8.______9._______10.______
11._____12.______13._____14.______15._______
III. Close test 20%
16._____17._____18.______19.______20.______
IV. Reading 16%
1._______2.______3.______4._______
5.______6._______7.______8.______
V. New Words 10%
1. Don't h_____________ any longer. If you don't take action, there will be no more chances.
2. A rainbow appears after the rain, which is a natural p______________.
3. He is b__________________ as a scientist; but at home he is like a baby.
4. When will humans put a stop to war and have p______________ peace?
5 The man witnessed a head-on c__________ between two cars on his way home.
6. What he described in the book was a complete f_____________. It is not at all real.
7. Their guide leads them through a narrow p____________ deep into the earth.
8. The scientists have made a b________________ in medical science , giving hope to cancer patients all over the world.
9. Verne spent many hours studying botany, a___________ science and many other subjects.
10. The being Dr Frankenstein made was about eight feet in h____________.
VI. Fill in the blanks with the words or phrases in their proper forms 20%
consider, grasp, put forward, showcase, persuade, support , use, buy , achieve, throw
1. The suggestion ___________ at the meeting is well worth _____________.
2. When you want to write a ____________ essay, you have to state your opinion clearly and____________ it with strong arguments.
3. The hi-tech exhibition _______________ China's hi-tech success _____________ under the 863 Programme.
4. I think I managed____________ the main points of the lecture.
5. This great discovery helped _________ light on the secrets of heaven and earth.
6. The man decided to ____________ a new way by _____________ unknown powers.
KEYS:
1-5 BCADC 6-10 DCCAD 11-15 DCACA
1-5 CAABD 6-10 BADAC 11-15 DABBA 16-20 CBDAC
1-4 CBAD 5-8 CCBA
1. hesitate 2. phenomenon 3. brilliant 4. permanent 5. collision
6. fiction 7. passage 8. breakthroughs 9. applied 10. height
VI Blank filling 20%
1. put forward , considering 2. persuasion, support 3.showcases ( showcased ), achieved
4. to grasp 5. throw 6. pioneer , exploring
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It's weird to compare these two.
The Artist is a fine movie, but it's not the kind of film one wants to watch over and over again. Ed Wood is much more that kind of film and is an easy winner here.
If you asked me this right after seeing it, I would have chosen The Artist. But, several months after I first watched The Artist, I've changed my tune on the movie. Ed Wood wins.
The Artist. It did so much with virtually no dialogue.
The Artist is alright, but it's not that good. The comedy is fine, but the drama isn't quite as affecting as it should be. Ed Wood is the clearly, clearly the much better film. The comedy is far funnier, and the drama much more well done. It's more original, it's got a better message, the friendship between Lugosi and Wood is much better than the relationship between George & Peppy, the acting is more memorable and it's just a better overall film. Howard Shore's score might not be able to hold a candle to Bource's fantastic score, I give The Artist that, but Ed Wood is the clear winner.
The Artist was an interesting experiment but ultimately I think it kinda failed. What the filmamkers realized was that no one really makes silent films any more for a reason-it's just too hard to express drama when compared to talkies. Ed Wood wins because it doesn't feel the need to forcibly restrain itself.
Definitely Ed Wood. I liked The Artist, but it didn't deserve the Best Picture award.


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15 Players Elect Free Agency
By Anthony Franco | October 13, 2022 at 7:33pm CDT
As the postseason rolls along, players hit minor league free agency daily. It's customary each offseason for dozens of players to hit the open market, separate from the players who reach MLB free agency at the end of the World Series based on the expiration of their contracts while having six-plus years of MLB service time.
Any player who is not on his team's 40-man roster at season's end but has three-plus years of MLB service, multiple career outright assignments and/or seven-plus seasons in the minor leagues has the right to elect free agency. Everyone in today's group falls under that umbrella. The majority will take minor league deals over the winter, although one or two could find a big league deal as a bench piece or middle-inning reliever.
MLBTR covered 34 players who qualified for minor league free agency last week. We'll periodically provide updates as plenty more hit the open market, as reflected on the MiLB.com transactions log.
R.J. Alvarez (Mets)
Shaun Anderson (Blue Jays)
Anthony Castro (Orioles)
Alex Claudio (Mets)
Phillip Diehl (Mets)
Dusten Knight (Rays)
Brian Moran (Angels)
Cristofer Ogando (Rays)
Cam Vieaux (Pirates)
J.B. Wendelken (D-Backs)
Mike Ford (Angels)
Deven Marrero (Mets)
Yolmer Sanchez (Mets)
Elliot Soto (Twins)
Luis Barrera (A's)
Arizona Diamondbacks Baltimore Orioles Los Angeles Angels Minnesota Twins New York Mets Oakland Athletics Pittsburgh Pirates Tampa Bay Rays Toronto Blue Jays Transactions Alex Claudio Anthony Castro Brian Moran Cam Vieaux Cristofer Ogando Deven Marrero Dusten Knight Elliot Soto J.B. Wendelken Luis Barrera Mike Ford Phillip Diehl R.J. Alvarez Shaun Anderson Yolmer Sanchez
Angels Select Kenny Rosenberg, Outright Brian Moran
By Anthony Franco | April 21, 2022 at 2:45pm CDT
Apr. 21: The Angels announced that Moran has cleared waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A Salt Lake.
Apr. 18: The Angels announced this evening they've selected left-hander Kenny Rosenberg onto the major league roster. Fellow southpaw Brian Moran has been designated for assignment in a corresponding move.
It's the first major league call for the 26-year-old Rosenberg. Selected by the Rays in the eighth round of the 2016 draft out of Cal State Northridge, he spent five seasons in the Tampa Bay farm system. The 6'1″ hurler pitched his way as high as Triple-A Durham, where he tossed 30 2/3 innings across 14 relief appearances last season. Rosenberg posted a 2.35 ERA with an excellent 35% strikeout rate against the minors' top hitters, but the Rays didn't give him a big league look.
Tampa Bay also declined to protect Rosenberg from the minor league phase of last winter's Rule 5 draft. The Angels selected him with the eighth pick in that process, and he impressed the front office enough this spring to put himself on the radar for a quick big league call. He has made just one appearance with Triple-A Salt Lake this season, working four innings of one-run ball with five strikeouts and two walks.
Rosenberg worked as starting pitcher up through Double-A in 2019. He spent most of last season in the bullpen but started his aforementioned lone appearance with the Bees thus far in 2022. Presumably, he'll step into a multi-inning relief role for manager Joe Maddon, pairing with offseason signee Aaron Loup as the left-handed options in the middle innings.
Moran occupied that second lefty relief spot last week, heading to the majors eight days ago when the Halos lost José Quijada to an oblique strain. The 33-year-old made just one appearance, though, allowing four of five Rangers' hitters he faced to reach base on Thursday. That was his first MLB appearance since he came out of the bullpen seven times between the Marlins and Blue Jays in 2020. The Angels have a week to trade Moran or place him on waivers.
Los Angeles Angels Transactions Brian Moran Kenny Rosenberg
Angels Place Jose Quijada On 10-Day Injured List, Select Brian Moran, Designate Kyle Tyler
By Mark Polishuk | April 10, 2022 at 1:30pm CDT
The Angels announced a trio of corresponding roster moves, including the placement of left-hander Jose Quijada on the 10-day injured list due to a right oblique strain. Quijada's placement is retroactive to April 8. Fellow southpaw Brian Moran will replace Quijada on the active roster after the Halos selected his contract, and right-hander Kyle Tyler was designated for assignment to create a 40-man roster spot.
It seems as though Quijada's injury may have taken place last night, as Jeff Fletcher of The Southern California News Group (Twitter link) notes that Quijada was warming up in the bullpen, but then didn't come into the game as expected to face a left-handed batter. The southpaw might now face a lengthy absence given the nature of oblique injuries, and depending on the severity of the strain.
Quijada has spent three of his four MLB seasons with Los Angeles, amassing a 4.85 ERA over 29 2/3 relief innings. Counting his rookie season with the Marlins in 2019, Quijada has a 5.31 ERA in 59 1/3 career innings, as his tenure has included a lot of missed bats (32% strikeout rate) but also a lot of wildness (15.6% walk rate).
Aaron Loup was the only other lefty in the Angels' bullpen, necessitating the selection of Moran's minor league contract. After joining L.A. on that minors deal back in November, Moran is now lined up to make his first MLB appearance since 2020. Moran is another former Marlin, with a 6.55 ERA over 11 career Major League innings with Miami and Toronto in 2019-20.
While that represents Moran's big league resume, he has bounced around to several different organizations since the Mariners picked him in the seventh round of the 2009 draft. This is actually Moran's second stint with the Angels, as the Halos acquired him via a post-Rule 5 Draft trade in 2013, but Tommy John surgery sidelined Moran for all of 2014 and kept him from ever pitching for L.A. Moran has a solid 3.05 ERA over 516 1/3 career innings in the minors.
Tyler has now been designated for assignment four times in under a month, and his first three trips to the DFA wire saw the righty switch teams. Originally an Angel back on March 19, Tyler was designated and then claimed/designated by both the Red Sox and Padres before landing back in Anaheim on another waiver claim on Friday. Tyler made his Major League debut last season, with a 2.92 ERA over 12 1/3 innings out of the Angels' bullpen
Los Angeles Angels Transactions Brian Moran Jose Quijada Kyle Tyler
Rays Add Four Pitchers On Minor League Deals
By Steve Adams | February 12, 2021 at 9:01am CDT
The Rays are reported to be nearing a big league deal with veteran righty Collin McHugh, but they've also been active in minor league free agency this week. Tampa Bay has agreed to non-roster invitations with lefty Brian Moran and right-handers Joey Krehbiel and Louis Head, per Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. They've also signed righty Stetson Allie to a minor league deal and Spring Training invite, as announced by agent Gavin Kahn on Twitter.
Each of Moran and Krehbiel have some big league experience under their belts. Moran, the older brother of Pirates first baseman Colin Moran, has pitched 11 innings between the Marlins and Blue Jays over the past two seasons. He's surrendered eight runs in that time and displayed some problematic control (14.5 percent walk rate, three hit batters, three wild pitches), but Moran has also whiffed 31 percent of opponents. The 32-year-old has pitched in parts of five Triple-A seasons with a 3.67 ERA and 30.2 percent strikeout rate.
The 28-year-old Krehbiel tossed three scoreless frames for the 2018 D-backs but hasn't made it back to the Majors since that time. Like Moran, Krehbiel has some bat-missing ability (25 percent strikeout rate in Triple-A) but problematic control that has held him back (12.5 percent walk rate in Triple-A).
Allie may be a familiar name to some due to his status as a once-touted pitching prospect. The 2010 second-rounder was considered one of the top high school arms in the draft and landed on a few Top 100 lists before injuries stalled his career. Allie pivoted and tried to make it as a first baseman/outfielder for several years before returning to the mound on a full-time basis in 2018. He's spent time with the Pirates, who drafted him, and the Dodgers. He's yet to make it to the big leagues, but the Rays will hope to coax another level out of the now-29-year-old righty, whose fastball has in the past reached triple digits.
Head, a longtime Indians farmhand who spent 2019 with the Dodgers organization as well, is a career reliever who posted strong numbers through Double-A but hasn't yet matched that success in Triple-A. He has a 5.46 ERA in 90 2/3 frames of Triple-A ball while striking out just shy of a quarter of opponents against an 11.5 percent walk rate he'll need to reduce.
Tampa Bay Rays Transactions Brian Moran Joey Krehbiel Stetson Allie
Marlins Outright 3 Pitchers
By Connor Byrne | October 28, 2020 at 5:58pm CDT
The Marlins have reinstated three pitchers – Drew Steckenrider, Brian Moran and Brandon Leibrandt – from the 60-day injured list and outrighted them, the team announced. Steckenrider and Moran have elected free agency.
Now 29 years old, the right-handed Steckenreider was a very promising part of the Marlins' bullpen from 2017-18. However, he limped to a 6.28 ERA/7.96 FIP during the next season and hasn't pitched since May 6, 2019, owing to arm problems.
Meanwhile, lefties Moran and Liebrandt have had minor roles with the Marlins. The 32-year-old Moran has thrown just 11 innings (10 with the Marlins, one with the Blue Jays) since making his major league debut in 2019. He has given up eight earned runs at the game's top level. Liebrandt, the son of former MLB pitcher Charlie Liebrandt, yielded just two earned runs in nine frames with the Marlins in 2020, but he also posted seven walks against three strikeouts in the process.
Miami Marlins Transactions Brandon Leibrandt Brian Moran Drew Steckenrider
Marlins Announce Series Of Roster Moves
By Connor Byrne | August 18, 2020 at 3:13pm CDT
The Marlins announced a series of roster moves Tuesday, including the contract selections of right-hander Brett Eibner and lefty Brandon Leibrandt. They also optioned righties Jordan Yamamoto and Justin Shafer and infielder Lewin Diaz to their alternate training site; moved righty Mike Morin to the 45-day injured list; placed lefty Brian Moran on the 10-day IL with right knee patella tendonitis; recalled righty Humberto Mejia from their training site; and reinstated outfielder Corey Dickerson from the paternity list.
Eibner, a former Royals and Dodgers outfielder, last appeared in the majors in 2017. He switched to a two-way role thereafter and performed well enough as a pitcher in independent ball for the Marlins to recently purchase his contract from the Eastern Reyes del Tigre of the Constellation Energy League.
Leibrandt also isn't far removed from joining the Marlins, who inked the ex-Phillies farmhand to a minors pact earlier this month. Most recently a member of the independent Somerset Patriots, the 27-year-old has never pitched in the bigs. He did enjoy a productive season in Triple-A ball in 2018, though, before succumbing to Tommy John surgery.
Miami Marlins Transactions Brandon Leibrandt Brett Eibner Brian Moran Corey Dickerson Humberto Mejia Jordan Yamamoto Justin Shafer Lewin Diaz Mike Morin
Marlins' Roster Moves: Bleier, Venditte, Mejia, Moran
By TC Zencka | August 8, 2020 at 9:33pm CDT
The Miami Marlins placed recent acquisition Richard Bleier on the injured list with a "mild strain in his elbow in his elbow bicep", per MLB Network contributor Craig Mish (via Twitter). In corresponding moves, the Marlins selected the contract of Pat Venditte, the switch-pitcher recently brought to camp. Humberto Mejia has been optioned to the alternate site. Lefty Brian Moran has been put back on the active roster, per Mish.
Bleier made three appearances with the Fish since coming over via trade from the Orioles. He allowed 1 run on 1 hit in 1 1/3 innings. The 33-year-old southpaw didn't make his big league debut until 2016 as a 29-year-old. In the 4+ seasons since, he has mustered a respectable 3.02 ERA/3.73 FIP across 169 appearances (179 innings) for the Yankees, Orioles, and Marlins.
Venditte got into a game for the first time in 2020 tonight, but he previously appeared in parts of four seasons for the A's, Blue Jays, Mariners, Dodgers, and Giants. Venditte's gimmick is well-known throughout baseball as an ambidextrous pitcher, but he's struggled on the whole as a major leaguer. In 58 appearances, Venditte owns a 5.03 ERA/5.04 FIP, though the 35-year-old continues to see opportunities. To his credit, he also continues to post solid numbers in Triple-A, including a 2.85 ERA across 47 1/3 innings with the Giants' Triple-A affiliate in 2019.
Mejia, 23, will no doubt find his way back to the majors after a fine debut. The Panamanian right-hander started one game as an extended opener, going 2 1/3 innings and allowing just one earned run while striking out six. In a year of unprecedented roster moves, it's a safe bet that Mejia will find his way back to the show at some point in 2020.
Last but not least, Moran, 31, made his major-league debut as a 30-year-old with the Marlins last season. He appeared in 10 games going 6 1/3 innings with a 4.26 ERA/4.00 FIP. The lefty hurler notably made MLB history by striking out his younger brother Colin Moran in the first-ever brother-brother showdown. He signed with the Blue Jays this offseason after the Marlins made him a free agent, only to be claimed off waivers last week.
Miami Marlins Transactions Brian Moran Humberto Mejia Pat Venditte Richard Bleier
Marlins Announce Numerous Roster Moves
By Jeff Todd | August 3, 2020 at 4:01pm CDT
As they prepare to resume play, the Marlins have announced a flurry of additions to the active roster (as covered on Twitter by reporters including Jordan MacPherson of the Miami Herald). Just who'll move to the COVID-19 injured list remains to be seen.
Most of these players were picked up in the last week or so as the organization's coronavirus outbreak unfolded. The Fish will select the contracts of righties Nick Vincent and Josh A. Smith, infielders Logan Forsythe and Eddy Alvarez, and catcher Ryan Lavarnway.
Also coming up are a host of other fill-ins that had already gone onto the 40-man roster. Outfielders Matt Joyce and Lewis Brinson are coming off of the injured list. Righties Justin Shafer, James Hoyt, and Mike Morin will join lefties Josh D. Smith, Richard Bleier, and Brian Moran in the bullpen.
Most notably, perhaps, are the additions of youngsters Jordan Yamamoto, Monte Harrison, and Jorge Guzman. Yamamoto had 15 solid starts in 2019 and will be looking to lock down a job for the foreseeable future. As for Harrison, a former top-100 prospect, it'll be his first taste of the bigs. Guzman is a live-armed young hurler who'll get his first look.
In other news from Miami, both president Derek Jeter and manager Don Mattingly pushed back on the prevailing narrative surrounding the team's coronavirus issues. While the leaders acknowledged that some players may have let their guard down, they rejected any rumors that players had recklessly engaged in risky activities away from the ballpark.
Jeter also rejected the notion that the Marlins' players had made their own decision to take the field against the Phillies after several players tested positive. He says the organization simply played a scheduled game and noted that the league and opposing team had full knowledge of the testing results.
Miami Marlins Transactions Brian Moran James Hoyt Jordan Yamamoto Jorge Guzman Josh D. Smith Josh Smith Justin Shafer Lewis Brinson Logan Forsythe Matt Joyce Mike Morin Monte Harrison Nick Vincent Richard Bleier Ryan Lavarnway
Marlins Claim Brian Moran, Sign Brett Eibner
By Anthony Franco | August 2, 2020 at 7:22pm CDT
The Marlins announced they have claimed left-handed reliever Brian Moran off waivers from the Blue Jays. They've also purchased the contract of two-way player Brett Eibner from the Eastern Reyes del Tigre of the independent Constellation Energy League, per an announcement from the indy ball club. (Mark Berman of Fox 26 was first to report that agreement was close). They're the latest additions to a pitching staff decimated by this week's onslaught of positive COVID-19 tests.
The sidewinder Moran actually made his debut as a member of the Marlins last season. He worked 6.1 innings across ten games, leveraged heavily against left-handed batters (including his younger brother Colin, whom he struck out). While the elder Moran performed well both in Triple-A and in his brief MLB action, the Marlins outrighted him last fall. Moran signed a minor-league deal with the Jays over the offseason and made Toronto's season-opening roster, but he only appeared in two games before they cut him loose.
Meanwhile, Eibner will return to affiliated ball for the first time since 2018. The onetime Royal and Dodger outfielder flirted with a two-way role toward the end of his L.A. tenure but was derailed by a Tommy John surgery. He's stuck with playing both ways since his return, although he's presumably being viewed as a primary pitcher in Miami. Eibner has not been added to the 40-man roster but seems likely to report to the club's alternate training site. In 5.1 relief innings in indy ball this season, he's struck out eight against one walk.
Miami Marlins Toronto Blue Jays Transactions Brett Eibner Brian Moran
Blue Jays Set Opening Day Roster
By Steve Adams | July 23, 2020 at 10:16am CDT
The Blue Jays announced their Opening Day, 30-man roster this morning. Left-hander Brian Moran and right-hander A.J. Cole were both selected to the 40-man roster and will make the club. Toronto also placed righty Chase Anderson on the 10-day IL (retroactive to July 20) with an oblique strain and opted to carry infielder Santiago Espinal, lefty Anthony Kay and right-handers Thomas Hatch and Jacob Waguespack.
Notably absent is right-hander Nate Pearson, one of the game's elite pitching prospects. He's on the team's three-man taxi squad (along with southpaw Ryan Borucki and catcher Caleb Joseph) but won't accrue service time in that role. He'll reportedly be called up next week, when the Jays will be able to promote him while extending their club control of him for an additional season (as has long been expected).
Moran, 31, is the older brother of Pirates third baseman Colin Moran. He made his big league debut at 30 years of age with the Marlins last season, pitching 6 1/3 innings while yielding three runs with a 10-to-2 K/BB ratio. A seventh-round pick in 2009, Moran has had quite the odyssey to the Majors, twice taking to the independent circuit as a showcase to get back into affiliated ball. But he carries a career 3.67 ERA with 11.5 K/9 against 3.2 BB/9 in 176 1/3 Triple-A frames and will now get his second opportunity in the Majors.
Cole, 28, is a former top prospect who's yet to find his footing despite multiple MLB chances. He's seen action with three teams in parts of five seasons but posted a pedestrian 4.86 ERA and 5.03 FIP in 174 innings. Cole had some success both with the Nats in 2017 and the Indians last year, logging identical 3.81 ERAs in both years. He's averaged better than a strikeout per frame in the big leagues but has also surrendered an average of 1.8 homers per nine innings pitched.
The Jays don't need to make any corresponding transactions to add Moran and Cole to the 40-man. The team recently placed Breyvic Valera on the restricted list after he was unable to leave his native Venezuela and report to Jays Summer Camp in Toronto. The club also has Brandon Drury, Jonathan Davis, Wilmer Font and Elvis Luciano on the Covid-19 IL, and none of the four will count against the team's 40-man roster while on that list.
Toronto Blue Jays Transactions A.J. Cole Anthony Kay Brian Moran Caleb Joseph Chase Anderson Jacob Waguespack Nate Pearson Ryan Borucki Santiago Espinal Thomas Hatch


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La temporada 1994-95 de l'NBA fou la 49a en la història de l'NBA. Houston Rockets fou el campió després de guanyar a Orlando Magic per 4-0.

Aspectes més destacats
 Houston Rockets es convertí en l'equip amb la pitjor classificació a la temporada regular per als playoffs (sisè lloc) i que després han sigut campions de l'NBA.
 Portland Trail Blazers va jugar per darrera vegada al Memorial Coliseum.
 L'All-Star Game de 1995 es disputà a l'America West Arena (actualment conegut com el US Airways Center) a Phoenix, Arizona, amb victòria de l'Oest sobre l'Est per 139-112. Mitch Richmond de Sacramento Kings fou nomenat MVP del partit.
 A mitjan temporada, Michael Jordan retornà després d'un intent poc reeixit jugant a les lligues menors de béisbol. Anuncià el seu retorn a través d'un fax amb dues paraules: "He tornat". Com que Chicago Bulls había retirat el dorsal 23 en honor seu, Jordan va agafar el 45. Durant la segona ronda de playoffs, davant d'Orlando Magic, va recuperar el número 23, tot i que els Bulls van quedar eliminats després de sis partits.
 Boston Celtics disputà la seva darrera temporada en l'històric Boston Garden.
 Chicago Bulls jugà el seu primer partit en el United Center.
 Cleveland Cavaliers jugà el seu primer partit al Gund Arena (actualment Quicken Loans Arena).
 Degut a les reformes en el Seattle Center Coliseum (actualment conegut com el KeyArena), Seattle SuperSonics jugà els seus partits en el Tacoma Dome, prop de Tacoma, Washington.
 Grant Hill es convertí en el primer rookie a liderar la votació dels espectadors per a l'All-Star Game de l'NBA.
 Orlando Magic fue el primer dels quatre equips de l'expansió de finals dels 80 que arribà a unes Finals de l'NBA. Van perdre en quatre partits davant els vigents campions, Houston Rockets.
 Lenny Wilkens superà a Red Auerbach i es convertí en l'entrenador amb més victòries en la història de l'NBA.

Classificacions

Conferència Est

Conferència Oest

* V: victòries
* D: Derrotes
* %V: Percentatge de victòries
* P: Diferència de partits respecte al primer lloc

* C: Campió

Playoffs
Els equips en negreta van avançar fins a la següent ronda. Els números a l'esquerra de cada equip indiquen la posició de l'equip en la seva conferència, i els números a la dreta indiquen el nombre de partits que l'equip va guanyar en aquesta ronda. Els campions de divisió estan marcats per un asterisc. L'avantatge de pista local no pertany necessàriament a l'equip de posició més alta al seu grup, sinó a l'equip amb un millor rècord a la temporada regular; els equips que gaudeixen de l'avantatge de casa es mostren en cursiva.

Estadístiques

Premis
 MVP de la temporada
  David Robinson (San Antonio Spurs)

 Rookie de l'any
  Jason Kidd (Dallas Mavericks)
  Grant Hill (Detroit Pistons)

 Millor defensor
  Dikembe Mutombo (Denver Nuggets)

 Millor sisè home
  Anthony Mason (New York Knicks)

 Jugador amb millor progressió
  Dana Barros (Philadelphia 76ers)

 Entrenador de l'any
  Del Harris (Los Angeles Lakers)

 Primer quintet de la temporada
 A - Karl Malone, Utah Jazz
 A - Scottie Pippen, Chicago Bulls
 P - David Robinson, San Antonio Spurs
 B - John Stockton, Utah Jazz
 B - Anfernee Hardaway, Orlando Magic

 Segon quintet de la temporada
Shawn Kemp, Seattle SuperSonics
Charles Barkley, Phoenix Suns
Shaquille O'Neal, Orlando Magic
Gary Payton, Seattle SuperSonics
Mitch Richmond, Sacramento Kings

 Tercer quintet de la temporada
Detlef Schrempf, Seattle SuperSonics
Dennis Rodman, San Antonio Spurs
Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston Rockets
Reggie Miller, Indiana Pacers
Clyde Drexler, Houston Rockets

 Millor quintet de rookies
Jason Kidd, Dallas Mavericks
Grant Hill, Detroit Pistons
Eddie Jones, Los Angeles Lakers
Brian Grant, Sacramento Kings
Glenn Robinson, Milwaukee Bucks

 Primer quintet defensiu
Scottie Pippen, Chicago Bulls
Dennis Rodman, San Antonio Spurs
David Robinson, San Antonio Spurs
Gary Payton, Seattle SuperSonics
Mookie Blaylock, Atlanta Hawks

 Segon quintet defensiu
Horace Grant, Orlando Magic
Derrick McKey, Indiana Pacers
Dikembe Mutombo, Denver Nuggets
John Stockton, Utah Jazz
Nate McMillan, Seattle SuperSonics

Vegeu també
 Draft de l'NBA del 1995

Enllaços externs
 Temporada 1994-95 a NBA.com

1994-95
Competicions esportives del 1994
Competicions esportives del 1995


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Molly Stark, née Elizabeth Page (February 16, 1737 – June 29, 1814) was the wife of General John Stark, made famous by his battle cry during the American Revolutionary War. Described as "mother of 11 children, homemaker, patriot, and defender of the household", there are locations and landmarks named for her in at least four states.

Biography
Elizabeth Page was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on February 16, 1737, to Puritans Caleb Page and Elizabeth Merrill. Her father was "a successful merchant, militia captain, and surveyor." Her mother died when she was five, and she was adopted by her aunt, Ruth Wallingford, a widow with 10 children of her own. She spent 10 years with the Wallingfords, then returned to live with her father in Starkstown (current Dunbarton, New Hampshire) in 1752 at the age of 15. Her father owned slaves, which was not common in New Hampshire. She married John Stark on August 20, 1758; it was apparently John Stark who gave his wife the nickname of "Molly". Together they had 11 children, including their eldest son, Caleb Stark.

Molly Stark gained historical notoriety due to her husband's battle call of "There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!" before engaging with the British and Hessian army in the Battle of Bennington. Stark is also known for her success as a nurse to her husband's troops during a smallpox epidemic and for opening their home as a hospital during the war. In late November 1778, she petitioned the New Hampshire Court "praying for leave to inoculate herself and family for the Small Pox," but her request was denied by authorities who feared it could spread the disease. She died on June 29, 1814, and was interred in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Legacy
Molly Stark's name remains in popular use on "a dizzying array of schools, parks, streets and businesses of every description bearing her name", "for reasons never fully explained by anyone".

Vermont
Stark is honored in Vermont by the Molly Stark State Park in Wilmington, and a statue of Stark holding a child and musket in downtown Wilmington near the Deerfield River. Also named for her is the Molly Stark Trail, otherwise known as Route 9, which crosses southern Vermont and commemorates the route used by General Stark on his victory march home from the Battle of Bennington. There is also a Molly Stark Elementary School in Bennington. Molly Stark Mountain is one of the Green Mountain peaks on the Long Trail, just south of Camel's Hump and north of Route 17; the adjacent peak is Baby Stark.

New Hampshire
The Molly Stark House still stands in Dunbarton at Page's Corner, denoted by a New Hampshire historical marker (number 111); it was added to the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places in 2003. The Molly Stark cannon, or "Old Molly", bears her name, and is kept by the New Boston Artillery Company, denoted by a New Hampshire historical marker (number 146). The Molly Stark Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is located in Manchester.

Ohio
Numerous revolutionary war veterans settled in Ohio, so the General and his wife were honored there. Molly Stark Park is located in Nimishillen Township, Stark County, in northeastern Ohio. It is the grounds of the former Molly Stark Hospital, which served as a tuberculosis sanatorium between 1929 and 1956 and as a general hospital and geriatric facility until 1995. In 2008, the county park board offered to buy the hospital and its grounds for a dollar, and the county opened the first public park in the township in April 2009.

Minnesota
Molly Stark Lake in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, is named for her.

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References

External links
Molly Stark Sanatorium at abandonedonline.net
Molly Stark State Park at Vermont State Parks
Molly Stark House Historical Marker at hmdb.org

Women in the American Revolution
People of colonial New Hampshire
People of New Hampshire in the American Revolution
People from Haverhill, Massachusetts
1737 births
1814 deaths
People from Dunbarton, New Hampshire