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Wii Sports
Wii price cut goes official, becomes $150 from May 15
Nintendo's just confirmed that Wii will get a price cut in the US from May 15 to $149.99.
Wii Sports headlines
Rumour: Nintendo to introduce US Wii budget line alongside price-cut
Kotaku's rumouring that Nintendo will introduce a new budget line of titles for Wii in the US.
Nintendo to release new Wii Fit Plus bundle across Europe
Nintendo has announced it's to release a new Wii Fit Bundle across Europe on December 3, and it comes with in black.
Limited edition Mario anniversary Wii, DSi XL coming to US
Nintendo of America's announced it's bringing over the special 25th anniversary of Mario SKUs for Wii and DSi XL to the US.
25th anniversary Mario Wii, DSi confirmed for Europe
Know that Wii bundle announced last week for Japan by Nintendo to celebrate 25th years of Mario? It's coming to Europe as well. So is the previously-announced DSi bundle
Rumor: UK Wii bundle includes WMP, Sports Resort, Wii Sports
An unnamed retail source has revealed to MCV that the UK's current Wii SKU is to be replaced with new bundle that included Will Sports, Wii Sports Resort, and Wii MotionPlus. However, it is not believed that the new bundle will be less expensive than the current offering. If the report is accurate, this will […]
Sports Resort will not replace Wii Sports with Wii bundle
Wii Sports Resort will not replace Wii Sports bundled with Wii any time soon. This is according to Nintendo of Canada's Matt Ryan, who told Toronto Thumbs that Sports Resort was a more "full-on software that you're used to purchasing at retail at that price point" where as Wii Sports is more-or-less just designed to […]
Wii Sports sells 1.91 million copies Q1 09, LTD 47.62 million
Nintendo announced sales numbers for some of its titles in the last quarter, and the numbers are not too shabby, especially considering four titles sold over one million copies between April and July. Pokemon Platinum DS, moved 1.91 million copies during the quarter and has sold 5.66 million worldwide Wii Fit sold 3.6 million copies, […]
Wii Sports tops Famitsu 500 for 2007
Here's the top ten. We're assuming this is based on Japanese sales. The full list's here. Thanks, GoNintendo. 01. [Wii] * Wii Sports Nintendo 02. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2 Capcom 03. [Wii] * Wii Play Nintendo 04. [NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Pokemon 05. [NDS] Mario Party DS Nintendo 06. [NDS] New Super Mario Brothers […]
Korean Wii date and price confirmed
According to the official Nintendo Korea site, Wii is now confirmed to launch in the country on April 26, priced 220,000 won (£114). GoNintendo's reporting that the system will release with eight games including Wii Sports (system sold by itself), Wii Play, Super Swing Golf 2 and Zack and Wiki.
Prime Minister beaten by child at Wii Sports
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown can't beat his own son at tennis on Wii Sports. We knew you were rubbish, Gordon, but seriously. "Mr Brown also revealed he has been struggling to play tennis on his four-year-old son John's Wii video game console, said this. "He said: 'It didn't leave me out of puff but […]
Wii fitness trial "surrenders to laziest pupils"
Campaign For Real Education spokesman Nick Seaton has battered a Worcestershire school trial which uses Wii games to encourage pupils that consistently miss sports lessons to be physically active. "I think most sensible parents will think this is surrendering to the laziest pupils, it cannot possibly be any replacement for serious games and competition between […]
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Rumour: Nintendo to introduce US Wii budget line alongside price-cut
Rumor: UK Wii bundle includes WMP, Sports Resort, Wii Sports
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Hoiberg: CU's Higgins will get selected in NBA draft
First-year Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg spent 15 years in the NBA, as a player or executive, so it spoke volumes when, during Monday's Big 12 coaches teleconference, Hoiberg said Colorado guards Alec Burks and Cory Higgins are "two players that I think will be (NBA) pros."
Burks, a 6-foot-6 sophomore, has long been considered a probable first-round NBA draft choice, as soon as this summer, if he chooses to come out early.
"I do (think he will get drafted)," Hoiberg said of the 6-5 Higgins, a senior. "He can play two positions (point guard and wing/shooting guard). He's got very good size for a point guard.
"And he can create his shots. He does a terrific job of getting to the free-throw line. That's something that in the NBA … that's a luxury to have, a guy that can create contact and get to the line.
"He shoots the ball well. And he's a very smart player. Having his dad (Charlotte Bobcats general manager and ex-NBA player Rod Higgins) having been in that league for a long time obviously will help him."
Iowa State (14-8, 1-6 Big 12) plays Tuesday night at Colorado (14-8, 3-4), beginning at 7 p.m. (telecast: FSN)

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Q&A with Cameron Sprowles
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Q- How do you feel about UCSD's season so far?
SPROWLES- We're doing really well. Our team has a lot of strong fencers right now and we've been very competitive regionally as well as challenging some of the strong national teams. We are currently leading our conference and I'm very proud of how our team has been doing against teams across the country such as Notre Dame, UNC, and Stanford.
Q- How did you get started in fencing?
SPROWLES- I started fencing in fifth grade when a few of my friends tried it out and my dad encouraged me to join them. I've been hooked ever since.
Q- What is the most difficult part of fencing?
SPROWLES- The most difficult part of fencing is effective training. Fencing requires endurance, speed, strength, and mental focus and keeping all of those things at a high level at all times is very challenging.
Q- How has the coaching staff helped improve you over your career at UCSD?
SPROWLES- The UCSD coaches provide a great space for practice and help me a lot with my training. I feel much stronger as a competitor now than I did before coming to UCSD.
Q- Do you have a funny story you can share involving the team and coaching staff?
SPROWLES- I've got a couple of funny stories saved up, but most of them would embarrass one or more of my teammates, so I'd rather not make them public...let's just say that we have a pretty good time in general.
Q- Being from Capitola, which do you prefer, northern or southern
SPROWLES- I'd say that I prefer
Q- What is your major and what do you plan to do after graduation?
SPROWLES- My major is psychology and right now I'm planning on teaching fencing after I graduate.
Q- Which UCSD student-athlete are you glad you do not have to face in competition?
SPROWLES- I actually wind up having to face my teammates during the Western regional competition, but fortunately I don't have to face them for most of the matches during the year. My teammate Ben Dorn is a very strong fencer and not someone I like to face in a tournament.
Q- UCSD has traveled out-of-state for several matches this year. What has been your favorite trip and least favorite trip? Did you have time for any sight-seeing on the trip?
SPROWLES- My favorite trip was to
Q- Do you have a favorite professor or class at UCSD?
SPROWLES- My favorite class has been Psych 141: Evolutionary Psychology with Don Macleod. If you have the opportunity, I strongly recommend taking this class. It is incredibly interesting subject matter and the round table format makes for very lively discussion.
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
― Epicurus
My tendency is to live from one project to the next, marking my life with goals, successes and the trying process of reaching those goals. Ambition in and of itself is not bad but what I find is that the constant desire to want something that I don't yet have robs me of truly enjoying what I have now.
Recently I watched the documentary entitled, Happy. It looks at various cultures around the world and how happy they are. I'm not certain how one can measure happiness but as the images of dancing villagers in a remote tribe, a rickshaw driver in India who has "nothing" by our cultures standards, and a group of older women on a remote Japanese island who gather daily to converse, play games and build intricate origami creations it's quite easy to see that these people are truly happy.
My first thought when watching the film is that true happiness comes when you concern yourself with the happiness of others. All of these people live in community. They support one another, celebrate with each other and carry one another's burdens.
When a wave of sadness hits me I tend to analyze my emotions and my life extensively. "Why am I feeling this way? What do I need to change? What can I do to be happier?" Not bad questions but did you notice all those "I's" in there? I make it all about me. Rarely do I reach out for help and more importantly, rarely do I concern myself with the happiness of others as much as I obsess about my own happiness.
Days after watching the movie and reflecting on my own need to change my attitude and my desire to find more joy in my days I realized that a change in attitude requires more gratitude. It helps that it rhymes.
When expressing gratitude my energy is spent focusing on all the good in my life. Making others happy by thanking them for their presence in my life inevitably fills me with great joy. Taking a moment at the end of a long day to think about what I have to be thankful for today can do nothing but alter my attitude for the better.
A big reason why I'm writing this here is to give myself some accountability. When I write it then I'm more likely to do it or keep doing it. And also I wanted to start the gratitude here with you people.
I've said it before but it bares repeating at least a few times a year – thank you. Thank you to those of you who come here and leave here silently. I appreciate you taking the time to stop by and spend some time with me.
Thank you to those of who comment. I'm not very good at responding to comments but that is no reflection as to what they mean to me. I read every single one and I value their affirmation and encouragement more than these mere thanks can express.
Thank you to those who write personal emails. I'm humbled by your generosity and willingness to reach out and encourage me in such an incredibly powerful way.
Your continued support along this journey is often what powers these pages. You are what keeps me coming back here and propels me further.
Thank you is not enough but it's a start and I feel better for having said it.
Cornmeal Loaf Cake
adapted from Bon Appetit 2006
This hearty cake is perfect for sweet syrupy berries and softly sweet cream. It's also perfect in the afternoon with a bit of tea or coffee. The crunch of cornmeal and sweetness of honey mark its uniqueness and leave you lingering in the kitchen slowly cutting away at the golden loaf. I find the texture improves after the first day.
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons honey
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
5 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Butter and flour 9x5x3-inch metal loaf pan.
Whisk flour, cornmeal and salt in medium bowl to blend. Using electric mixer, beat butter, sugar and honey a in large bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time beating constantly, then beat in vanilla. Scrape down the sides of the bowl the mix again. Add dry ingredients and mix just to combine. Finishing mixing by hand as to ensure everything is well combined.. Transfer batter to prepared pan.
Bake cake until brown on top and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour.
Cool cake in pan 15 minutes. Turn cake out onto rack and cool completely.
Can be made 1 day ahead. Wrap well once completely cool and store at room temperature.
Maple Whipped Cream
I don't care for too sweet whipped cream but if you want more sweetness and more maple flavor feel free to add as much maple syrup as you'd like. I don't imagine you needed my permission but it's there no matter.
1 ½ cups heavy cream
2-3 tablespoons maple syrup
Combine the cream and the syrup and whip until soft, billowy peaks form.


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NAIA Men?s Cross Country Runner of the Week ? No. 5
Photo by Aaron Craig
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Evans Kirwa of Embry-Riddle (Fla.) has been named the NAIA National Men's Cross Country Runner of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Kirwa, who is receiving the award for the second time this season, was selected based on his performance from Oct. 1 - 7 and was chosen out of a pool of conference/independent runner of the week selections.
Kirwa, a native of Eldoret, Kenya, claimed his third individual medal of the season - 15th overall - with a first-place finish at the Florida State Invitational in Tallahassee, Fla., on Oct. 5. The senior harrier set a course record with an 8K time of 24:40, which also ranks as the 13th-fastest time in program history. Kirwa, who averaged 4:58 per mile, finished 26 seconds faster than second-place runner Elias Chesire of NCAA Division I Florida A&M.
Kirwa's previous victories this season came at the University of Southern Florida Bulls Invitational on Sept. 7 and at the Asics Embry-Riddle (Fla.) Classic on Sept. 22.
For complete results for the Florida State Invitational, click here.
For the complete NAIA Men's Cross Country Runner of the Week calendar, click here. The next Runner of the Week will be announced on Oct. 17.
For more information on NAIA men's cross country, click here.
Nominees: Zach Widner, Siena Heights (Mich.); Adam Godwin, Oklahoma Baptist; Andy Reidsma, Trinity Christian (Ill.); Nicholas Mizeur, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); David Swiatocha, Texas Wesleyan; Joel Allen, Tabor (Kan.); Matt Pieri, Xavier (La.); Johny Watson, Wiley (Texas); Taylor Chapman, Morningside (Iowa); Aaron Caldwell, Baker (Kan.); David Duque, Our Lady of the Lake (Texas); Frank Adelman, Southwestern (Kan.); Dylan Grunn, Point Park (Pa.); Alejandro Sanchez, Waldorf (Iowa); Cameron Magro, Davenport (Mich.); Joseph Mullen, Tennessee Wesleyan; Daniel Tubei, Park (Mo.); Tim Boes, Madonna (Mich.); Jeff Cherry, Aquinas (Mich.); Kyler Kathman, Southeastern (Fla.); John Darmody, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Nicolos Jones, Tougaloo (Miss.); Anthony Vecchio, South Carolina Beaufort; Tj Mosbach, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Cody Risch, Cornerstone (Mich.); Adam Schroeder, Shawnee State (Ohio); Alexander Howell, Warner (Fla.); Ryan Meyer, William Woods (Mo.); Taylor Whitmore, Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.); Hildon Boen, Wayland Baptist (Texas); Ignacio Fernandez, SCAD Savannah (Ga.); Ethan Naylor, Indiana Wesleyan; Felix Alfen, Webber International (Fla.); Christopher Orbe, St. Thomas (Fla.); Joash Osoro, William Carey (Miss.); Billy Funk, Goshen (Ind.); Noe Perez, Southwestern Christian (Okla.); Ben Sievert, Concordia (Neb.); Alex Garcia, Reinhardt (Ga.); Izzy Miranda, Lubbock Christian (Texas); Jacob Reeves, Bethel (Tenn.).
2012 NAIA Men's Cross Country Runners of the Week
Week 1 (Sept. 12): Frank Adelman, Southwestern (Kan.)
Week 2 (Sept. 19): Evans Kirwa, Embry-Riddle (Fla.)
Week 3 (Sept. 26): Greg Montgomery, College of Idaho
Week 4 (Oct. 3): John Gilbertson, The Master's (Calif.)
Week 5 (Oct. 10): Evans Kirwa, Embry-Riddle (Fla.)


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Gerry Goffin and Carole King
Gerry Goffin and Carole King wrote much of the soundtrack of the Sixties.
Chances are, you have danced around to a hit single by the dynamic songwriting duo. Goffin wrote the lyrics and King wrote the music for such hits as "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "One Fine Day" and "Don't Bring Me Down."
Songwriting partners Gerry Goffin and Carole King composed a string of classic hits and cherished album tracks for a variety of artists during the Sixties.
A brief sampling: "Up On the Roof" (the Drifters), "One Fine Day" (the Chiffons), "I'm Into Something Good" (Herman's Hermits), "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (the Shirelles), "Take Good Care of My Baby" (Bobby Vee), "Chains" (the Cookies), "Don't Bring Me Down" (the Animals), "Take a Giant Step" (the Monkees) and "Goin' Back" (the Byrds). The prolific duo, who remained married for much of the Sixties, even tapped their babysitter to sing one of the songs they had written. The result was a Number One hit and a new dance craze: "The Loco-Motion," by Little Eva.
Goffin and King met while attending Queens College in 1958 and spent evenings together writing songs. After their college days had ended, the newlywed couple was hired by Don Kirshner to write songs for his Brill Building song publishing firm, Aldon Music. With King composing music on piano and Goffin penning lyrics, the pair banged out hits to order from a cubicle in a work environment that has all but vanished from the music business. Their success was so substantial that Kirshner set up a new label, Dimension, as a vehicle for Goffin-King songs, and the team moved into production and arranging as well. The pair kept abreast of stylistic changes on the vibrant Sixties scene, writing with vividness and versatility for British Invasion groups and R&B artists alike. They were paid a high compliment by the Beatles, who recorded their song "Chains" (previously a hit for the Cookies) and cited Goffin-King as songwriting influences.
In 1968 Goffin and King divorced and went their own ways. Goffin continued to write for and with others, while King evolved into a masterful interpreter of her own increasingly mature songs. She became one of the most popular singer/songwriters of the Seventies with the release of Tapestry (1971), which contained such mellow classics as "It's Too Late" and "You've Got a Friend." A tour de force of confessional songwriting and understated performances, Tapestry held down the top spot on the album charts for fifteen weeks, earning King a Grammy for Album of the Year in 1971.
Since then, King has released more than twenty solo albums, including 2010's Live at the Troubadour, which was recorded during her tour with James Taylor. In 2012 she issued the book A Natural Woman: A Memoir. That same year it was announced that she was retiring from music. She quickly corrected that statement, however, saying that she was just "taking a break."
Inductees: Gerry Goffin (born February 11, 1939, died June 19, 2014), Carole King (born February 8, 1942)


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Baltimore Sun reports that seven people were taken to hospitals after a pickup truck ran into an assisted living facility in Reisterstown Friday evening, Baltimore County fire department officials said.
The truck ran into the building, in the 600 block of Main St., around 6:30 p.m. and struck a gas line. No fire or explosion was caused by the ruptured line.
Five of the eight residents of the assisted living facility were taken to the hospital, two with injuries that were serious but not life-threatening. The truck driver was also hospitalized, as was a neighbor who ran to help and later experienced breathing problems.
The building was deemed unstable, and as of Friday night the truck was still inside it, fire officials said.


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A space odyssey
Next year's Networks telecom show is already being planned as a bigger, more 'unified' event. Andy Donoghue talked to the man who is guiding the show through its metamorphis.
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Since the establishment of the Kitesurf Tour Europe, North Kiteboarding supports the tour year by year. For 2014 they have confirmed the partnership again.
NKB is one of the leading brands in the Kiteboarding Industry. Their team riders like Mario Rodwald, Stefan Spiessberger, Maxime Nocher and Blazej Ozog are regularly on the KTE podium. Last year Mario Rodwald became the European Champion in Freestyle for the second time. Stefan Spiessberger was very successful at the last KTE stop in 2013 – he beat Mario Rodwald and current World Champion Alex Pastor and won the final stop. One of the talented riders will be on the poster for 2014 – who will it be?
For 2014 we got already fully equipped with the new Dice. We look forward to a great year with North Kiteboarding and wish all riders a successful season.
You want to know more about North Kiteboarding? No problem, have a look at their website to get the latest news and product information.
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May 2008 Journal of Geoscience EducationVolume 56, Number 3
Karen S. McNeal, Mississippi State University
Heather R. Miller, Texas A&M University
Bruce E. Herbert, Texas A&M University
Collegiate introductory Earth science courses are frequently terminal science courses for non-science majors. As a result these courses, such as the introductory physical geology course in this research study, are the final opportunity Earth science instructors have to support and develop student learning in the sciences. The use of inquiry-based learning (IBL) and multiple representations (e.g., physical models and information technology) has been a call for reform in science education and may be a means to reach students in introductory courses. This research tested the pedagogical coupling of IBL and multiple representations to support introductory students' conceptual model development of the complex and dynamic Earth process, eutrophication, through the evaluation of student drawings and written reports. In this research, participants from nine laboratory sections were randomly placed into experimental (IBL and multiple representations style labs) and control (workbook style labs) groups. Statistical results indicated significant (ρ < 0.05) pre-post differences in the conceptual model drawings in only the experimental group, where student performance on the reports and drawings were significantly different (ρ < 0.01) between test groups. These results indicated that the use of IBL and multiple representations had a positive impact on introductory students' conceptual model development of eutrophication.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may08.html#v56p201
Environmental History of the Southwest as a General Science Education Course
Paul R. Sheppard, University of Arizona
Christine L. Hallman, University of Arizona
Ronald H. Towner, University of Arizona
Environmental History of the Southwest is a general science education course at the University of Arizona with an emphasis on human-environment interaction of the past and an objective of preparing non-science majors to understand and critically evaluate contemporary environmental issues. The American Southwest is well suited for such a course, as it is rich in many data sets of paleoenvironmental reconstruction techniques and has been inhabited by humans for thousands of years. Lectures are grouped into three parts. Part 1, Background, covers geology and climatology, paleoenvironmental techniques, and ecosystems. Part 2, Past Environments and Societies, covers environmental changes since the late Pleistocene and human response to and interaction with those changes. Part 3, Modern Environmental Issues, covers contemporary environmental issues as well as past analogs of these issues for comparison. Lecture topics are interconnected with one another, making for a comprehensive study of environmental history. Several elements of science are revealed and discussed, improving general science literacy among the students, who are mostly non-science majors. Other regions of North America have had long-term human habitation and are also rich in multiple data sets of paleoenvironmental indicators, so nearly all of the continental U.S. and Canada is suitable for a course on environmental history and human-environment interaction.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may08.html#v56p212
Some Cycles of Nature - Applications of M. Montessori's Cosmic Education in a Nursery School
Paul Herbst, Salzburg University
M. Gruber-Fuchs, Kindergarten Liefering II, Salzburg, Austria
E. Herbst, Kindergarten Stiftsgasse, Seekirchen/Wallersee, Austria
By means of Montessori education, children aged from 3 to 6 years were introduced to the basics of earth-sciences in general and of glaciology in particular. For this purpose, a one-year-program was established under the principles of Cosmic Education (Sensu Montessori) in order to provide an insight in some parts of the aforementioned sciences via 3 steps. Step 1 brought up introductory informations about earth sciences, historical geology, planetology, and climatology. In Step 2, specific information about the Ice Ages and glaciology was given by introducing a story about a personified glacier which included information on mass budget (ablation/accumulation), dynamics, features (crevasses), and in relation to those, the dangers of a glacier. Step 3 completed the program by giving the children the opportunity for depicting and acting out their knowledge via glacier-"modelling", painting, dancing, and making music.
After this one-year-program the children were able to give a simple account of the basic principles of climatology and glaciology, which may contribute to a more careful and respectful attitude towards their environment.
The program turned out as a helpful and appropriate tool for giving an introduction into the great cycles of nature to preschool children, not only in nursery schools, but also at home with their families. In addition, the interactive and hands-on ways of presentation described were responded by the children with interest and sometimes enthusiasm, which is taken as further evidence for the tool's efficacy.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may08.html#v56p220
Integrating Topics in an Introductory Hydrogeology Course through a Semester-long Hydraulic Containment Design Project
Roseanna M. Neupauer, University of Colorado
A semester-long hydraulic containment design project provides a practical application of the topics covered in an introductory hydrogeology course, and serves as a better vehicle than traditional approaches for integrating the topics. Traditional homework assignments typically contain stand-alone problems or groups of problems that are isolated from other assignments of the course. In this design project, the knowledge needed to complete the design is developed in an integrated manner from material covered throughout the course. A project was developed based on a simulated hypothetical aquifer for which students were provided various types of data. After analyzing the data using appropriate methods learned throughout the course, students obtained estimates of parameter values that they then used in the design of a hydraulic containment system. A survey of the students showed that the project provided a better learning experience than homework, and provided additional benefits such as seeing the interconnectedness of course topics, learning to discriminate among data measured at multiple scales, and accounting for uncertainty in measurements.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may08.html#v56p225
Professional Development Needs and Outcomes for Education-Engaged Scientists: A Research-Based Framework
Heather Thiry, University of Colorado
Sandra L. Laursen, University of Colorado
Anne-Barrie Hunter, University of Colorado
Involvement of scientists in education is essential to strengthen quality and access to US science education at the K-12 and higher levels. Yet little research evidence exists to help practitioners understand scientists' education and outreach interests, beliefs, and motivations, and the barriers that must be addressed to involve them effectively. The ReSciPE Project (Resources for Scientists in Partnership with Education) has offered professional development workshops and resources to a wide audience of working scientists who undertake individual or institutional education and outreach activities. While seeking to increase the effectiveness of these "education-engaged scientists," the project also conducted research on scientists' involvement in education. We report findings from qualitative analysis of 30 in-depth interviews and propose a comprehensive framework for addressing scientists' needs for professional development in this domain, placing these findings in context of national needs and efforts to engage scientists in education.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may08.html#v56p235
Demonstrating the Stratification of Dimictic and Meromictic Lakes in a Fish Tank
Donald T. Rodbell, Union College
The demonstration described in this paper attempts to illustrate the main controls on the vertical circulation of lake water. This phenomenon integrates the effects of annual air temperature cycles, fetch, and possible groundwater sources to a lake. Because the nature of a lake's circulation pattern has an effect on the "quality" of the sediment record preserved, it is among the most important limnological processes for students to understand.
This demonstration involves a fish tank, colored water, salty water, and artificial sun and wind. The water in the tank "evolves" through the seasons of a typical meromictic lake, beginning with Spring turnover and ending with Fall turnover. The demonstration requires several hours to complete, and students measure water temperature and conductivity through the model year. I have found this demonstration to be a helpful illustration of dimictic and meromictic lakes; it is especially helpful to illustrate the seasonal evolution of lake water, which is not apparent during winter field studies of local northeastern US lakes.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may08.html#v56p247
Geoscience Conceptual Knowledge of Preservice Elementary Teachers: Results from the Geoscience Concept Inventory
Heather L. Petcovic, Western Michigan University
Robert J. Ruhf, Western Michigan University
Effective instruction hinges in part on understanding what prior knowledge students bring to the classroom, and on evaluating how this knowledge changes during instruction. In many disciplines, multiple-choice tests have been developed to gauge student prior knowledge and assess learning. In this study, a 15-item version of the Geoscience Concept Inventory (GCI) was used to assess the prior knowledge and learning of students enrolled in an introductory physical and historical geology course specifically designed for preservice elementary (K-8) teachers. Gains (pretest to posttest) among participants (n = 122) averaged 4%, similar to gains reported elsewhere. However, gains among participants enrolled in revised course sections (n = 84) averaged 7-8%. Detailed analysis shows that statistically significant gains occurred on test items related to geologic time, earthquakes, radiometric dating, and tectonics. Items for which the greatest gains were observed correlate with teaching method; classroom activities coupled with discussion and supplemental reading appear most effective in increasing student knowledge. Our interpretation of the GCI results suggests that students need multiple opportunities to work with geologic concepts in a variety of formats, and provides further evidence of the persistence of student prior knowledge in specific topics.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may08.html#v56p251
The Dry-erase Cube: Making Three-dimensional Visualization Easy
Yvette D. Kuiper, Boston College
The 10 cm dry-erase cube is an effective tool for illustrating the three-dimensionality of geological features in maps, cross sections and block diagrams, and it aids in the understanding of stereographic projections and orientated samples. It is ideal for use in classes and labs of structural geology and geological field methods courses. The cube is useful for demonstrating the three-dimensional relationships among any planar or linear features in geoscience courses at any level.
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Improving Urban Earth Science Education: The TRUST Model
Maritza Macdonald, American Museum of Natural History
Heather Sloan, Lehman College, CUNY
Eleanor Miele, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Wayne Powell, Brooklyn College, CUNY
David Silvernail, University of Southern Maine
Rosamond Kinzler, American Museum of Natural History
Carmen Simon, Teachers' Preparatory School, Brooklyn, New York
TRUST, or Teacher Renewal for Urban Science Teaching, is a National Science Foundation funded Earth science teacher preparation partnership between the American Museum of Natural History and Brooklyn and Lehman Colleges of the City University of New York. Our research and practice form a promising and replicable model for formal-informal partnership between teacher education programs and science-rich institutions such as museums, zoos, and botanical gardens. The model takes a problem-based approach to urban teacher shortages by focusing on the knowledge required for Earth science teacher certification. The initiative included two types of participants, teachers seeking Earth science certification and teacher leaders/school administrators seeking to improve science instruction in their schools. Key features of the model included new college-based courses that focus on Earth systems science and urban Earth science investigation and a two week museum-based summer institute emphasizing essential questions, interactions with scientists, and approaches to science teaching outside the classroom. The overall findings after four-years of implementation, action research, and external evaluation indicate that the model successfully provides timely and relevant approaches to partnership that complex urban situations require.
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Increasing Learning in Introductory Geoscience Courses Using Lecture Tutorials
Karen M. Kortz, Community College of Rhode Island
Jessica J. Smay, San José City College
Daniel P. Murray, University of Rhode Island
Students often leave introductory geoscience courses without learning the scientific perspective, and we developed Lecture Tutorials to help alleviate this problem. Lecture Tutorials are 10-20 minute interactive worksheets that students complete in small groups in class after a short introductory lecture. They are specifically designed to combat alternative conceptions and increase learning on difficult topics. Our study shows that Lecture Tutorials increase student learning in the classroom more than just lecture alone. On related multiple choice questions asked before and after the Lecture Tutorial (but after a short lecture on the topic), student scores increased 19%. When a subset of these questions was given before and after an extended lecture instead of a Lecture Tutorial, student scores did not increase by a statistically significant amount. On the multiple choice assessment questions given on exams relating to the information covered in the Lecture Tutorials, students who completed the Lecture Tutorials scored significantly higher than students who heard just lecture. In addition, students feel that they are an important and useful part of their learning experience. Lecture Tutorials are being disseminated and are available for instructor use.
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SKF to demonstrate condition monitoring solutions for tough on-board conditions
2014 November 27, 13:00 CEST
SKF will showcase a range of innovations based on the combined knowledge of SKF, SKF Blohm + Voss Industries and Kaydon at the International Workboat Show in New Orleans, USA.
Gothenburg, Sweden, 27 November 2014: SKF will be present during the International Workboat Show in New Orleans, USA 3-5 December. Throughout the show SKF will display products and solutions including bearings, lubrications and seals, but with a special focus on the company's condition monitoring offers for the marine industry.
Among the SKF solutions on show will be the SKF Marine Condition Monitoring Kit, which includes everything that is needed to carry out simple and reliable condition monitoring on-board ships and enables ship operators to take a first step towards condition-based maintenance.
However, the kit is more than a data collector as it has capability to do additional analysis of the machine, based on Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) frequency band analysis. It is able to detect the most likely root cause of the fault, such as unbalance, bearing failures, gear failures, electrical failure in motors, hydraulic and aerodynamic problems.
The SKF Marine Condition Monitoring Kit has been developed specifically for the demanding requirements of the marine industry and tough on-board conditions. It is well suited for use on a wide range of vessels, including container ships, ferries, Ro-Ro ships, fishing vessels, dredging vessels, tug boats and offshore supply vessel.
Another product to be featured during the show is the SKF Thruster Monitoring solution which provides integrated condition monitoring solutions for propulsion and manoeuvring thrusters in the marine and offshore industries.
The monitoring solution is applicable for both ship operators and thruster manufacturers, for aftermarket and new build installations.
SKF is also proud to showcase Kaydon Corporation, an SKF Group company. Among the new products and services that will be exhibited, are Kaydon's thin section and slewing ring bearings and Cooper split roller bearings.
SKF experts will be on the stand to discuss these and many other solutions available for the marine industry, offering visitors the opportunity to learn more and discuss their own specific issues.
Visitors to the International Workboat Show 2014 will find SKF at stand number 1714 and Kaydon at 1464. At stand number 1818 the Marine Sales Agent Simplex Americas shows further SKF Blohm + Voss Industries solutions.
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Every museum tour should start with a huddle break. That's what Mark Rosen, one of the guides behind the upstart group Museum Hack, believes. On a recent Sunday, he began a tour in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Great Hall by urging his nine guests to form a tight circle, hands in the center, and on the count of three, shout: "MUUUUSEUM!"
"There is a thing called 'museum fatigue.' That's a real problem," he said, before zipping off toward the European Arts wing. "We want you to be engaged in the way you typically aren't, physically, in a museum."
The huddle break is what Mr. Rosen refers to as a "fatigue fighter," just one of several components to a Museum Hack tour.
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The four-month-old startup, which is not affiliated with the Met, leads its guests through two-hour, $39 tours of the museum, usually on Fridays and weekends,and instead of focusing on specific areas or crash-course overviews, it gravitates to overlooked pieces in the collection or intriguing facts about the more celebrated ones. To say it is an unconventional museum-going experience would be like calling the Met a good place to see old paintings.
"You typically don't go to a fancy restaurant, study the menu for three seconds, order everything, gorge yourself and roll out the door," Mr. Rosen said to his Sunday-morning charges. "Yet almost everybody comes here, tries to see everything in four hours or less, Instagrams the hell out of the place and leaves, remembering nothing." Drawing a line between art appreciation and modern-day foodie culture, he likened Museum Hack to his version of a tasting menu.
And like any talented chef who wants to impress his diners with an experience they'll remember long after the check is paid, Mr. Rosen and Museum Hack's founder, Nick Gray, currently the only guides, customize their tours according to their guests' museum diets: who's been to the Met before, who's a first-timer, and their likes and dislikes.
The museum knows about and doesn't object to Museum Hack, though Harold Holzer, the Met's senior vice president of public affairs, noted that it offers some 140 official tours a week, "and they're free with admission," he said.
Ultimately, Mr. Holzer said, he and Mr. Gray share the same philosophy. "The main message is the Met is open to everyone."
Mr. Rosen, 24 years old, holds a master's degree in museology and has worked at a spate of arts organizations from Dia: Beacon to the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation in Venice, Italy. "This is the most fun I've ever had, though," he said. "I can actually talk to people normally."
Over a stretch of 1.25 miles, he led his group through troves of arms and armor and modern art, with stops for group photos along the way—more fatigue fighters—and a final interactive exercise that involved pairing up to discuss individual art works.
That day's attendees, a nearly-equal split of men and women ranging in age from 22 to 57, learned that the tiny, ornate dog bed in a rococo-decorated room belonged to Marie-Antoinette's Thisbe, a papillon she carried with her to the guillotine. The dog escaped the same fate and was kept at a home outside Paris, which still bears the name "House of Papillons" in its honor ("Ultimate dog owner's aspiration," enthused Mr. Rosen).
A walk through the museum's visible storage galleries revealed history's first easy chair, a popular 18th-century design that came with a built-in chamber pot. Then there were the better-known museum fixtures, like the Temple of Dendur. Mr. Rosen recounted how the massive structure, a gift from Egypt to the U.S., came to reside at the Met, thanks to Jacqueline Kennedy.
"The whole experience is a really unique setup, like the team-building aspect and getting people to feel comfortable with each other so you can interact," said Evan Neubauer. The 24-year-old Bushwick resident had come with his friend, Joelle Gamble, who, despite having a Met membership voiced her disdain for the bourgeois sensibility she felt it exuded.
"Coming in and finding out about things that were less pretentious and made artists seem more human was really important. I feel like I can engage with the material a little more now," Ms. Gamble, 22, said.
Museum Hack was born from Mr. Gray's desire to share his love of the Met with friends and peers. "It's one of the least appreciated museums among the 21 to 39 demographic," he said. "So many of my friends just don't have a relationship with the museum. You ask them, where do you go to get inspired or to have a break, and nobody says museums."
In December 2011, he led friends on a four-night stretch of Met tours to celebrate his 30th birthday, which spawned the idea to continue giving them on a weekly basis. Mr. Gray set up a website for friends and their friends to sign up. It went viral in a matter of days, with registrations exceeding 1,000, he said. "It became clear this was more than just something fun that I could do on the weekends."
Last April, he resigned from his family business, which develops in-flight-entertainment equipment, to launch Museum Hack as a business, making Mr. Rosen his first hire. It remains a mostly word-of-mouth operation. "When my California friends ask for help planning their trips to New York, I always suggest Nick's tour. Before, a museum wouldn't have been in my top 10 recommendations," offered Zach Klein, who co-founded Vimeo and helped develop the website CollegeHumor.com (he and Mr. Gray also attended college together).
Mr. Gray's knowledge of the museum and its collections is, for the most part, self-taught. Hosting comes naturally to him: In 2009, New York magazine described him as "a sort of Lois Weisberg for the Tumblr age," a nod to the connector described in Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point," in an article entitled "Meet Nick Gray, Thrower of 'Culturally Significant' Williamsburg Parties."


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eForms - there has to be a better way.
December 11, 2014 @ 10 AM GMT
Industry trends and online discussions around forms since InfoPath's retirement plan has moved into a space where businesses need forms that integrate with line-of-business systems both on premises and in the cloud.
The requirement for forms that are customisable, that scale across the enterprise and provide easy systems integration and in-depth reporting are on the increase. As the year comes toward an end, business and technical teams are being asked to plan their 2015 forms strategy.


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I would go to the future and ask myself what I did with my time machine
I would go to the future and ask myself what I did with my time machine
I would go get the winning lottery number.
I'd go to the future and get the winning lottery numbers, then come back and keep winning the lottery until I'm richer than Bill Gates.
"I am probably the laziest programmer on the planet, a fact with which anyone who has ever seen my code will agree." - esbo, 11/15/2008
"the internet is a scary place to be thats why i dont use it much." - billet, 03/17/2010
Maybe you could borrow Sang-drax's.
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Code:#include <cmath> #include <complex> bool euler_flip(bool value) { return std::pow ( std::complex<float>(std::exp(1.0)), std::complex<float>(0, 1) * std::complex<float>(std::atan(1.0) *(1 << (value + 2))) ).real() < 0; }
Probably start my education again.
It'd be pretty fun getting 100% in almost everything without study
I'd go back in time, find ಠ_ಠ's grandfather and kill him, then come back to see if this thread had ceased to exist. That would, once and for all, settle the question of the Grandfather Paradox.
Any help I give may be classified as:Currently working through:
The Blind leading the Blind...
"C++ Primer Plus"
What happens if ಠ_ಠ goes back in time simultaneously and kills your grandfather before you can kill ಠ_ಠ's grandfather?
Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart WayOriginally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
I thought I already explained this to you people: time is a machine, invented in the future by the super computer descendants of humanity, who must create the universe from the beginning if they and us are to exist now.
So everyone work extra hard today and help code the way forward.
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
No problemo. Then this thread title would simply read as,Originally Posted by MK27
What would you do if you had a machine^2 ?
Any idea how he does that?Originally Posted by Sebastiani
Oh well.Never mind. Just realized it is a sig.
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted
- Albert Einstein.
No programming language is perfect. There is not even a single best language; there are only languages well suited or perhaps poorly suited for particular purposes.
- Herbert Mayer
So, lock him up while he doesn't have a time machine yet?That would lead to a race condition.
I might be wrong.
Quoted more than 1000 times (I hope).Thank you, anon. You sure know how to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away.
I can only imagine that I will (have?), in the future, find a time machine go back in time and incrementally leave useful pieces of information for me. Today I found a piece of paper that said "Go for a coffee at 4". Sounds like good advice to me.


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Opinion: Obama's Negotiating Arrogance
Columnist Kim Strassel gives an update on the fiscal cliff negotiations and President Obama's demand that Republicans give him the power to raise the debt ceiling whenever he wants.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... welcome to Opinion Journal I'd mind Dan Henninger and I'm joined here now by our Potomac watch columnist Kim straw soul by doing Kim ... how are you a pretty good well I don't know about that in mind beginnings ... to get it feels so I'm ... a member of Occupy Wall Street with this fiscal cliff may be limit the amount ... camped out in tenth on the edge of this club for the rest of my wife it's become so intractable ... but you all feel that way ... well you actually may have put a fresh perspective on in your column this morning as free for box of calm I thought you suggested that the president if he wins on the tax rates ... that may turn out to be smaller than the year than he imagines also networks ... this is something that you're here and on some congressional Republicans these days I it's being whispered in back alleys attach the thinking goes like this IBM which is that ... it ... traded below one way or another either because the co op class ... or because Obama in maneuvers Republicans in the summer can a last-minute deal ... it makes ... more sense to Republicans to instead have a deliberate exit strategy ... I and you try to minimize the political damage and economic liability to you that he is ... among his top two tax rates the Senate bill that would retain the Bush a ... brace for a ninety percent of their hands ... these and ... many say ... are you getting nothing also case anew on these ... sites on everyone you are sequester UTA not spending the last four ... Uganda known for their tax money from us from a tax reform down the road sch and I'm we still have a little bit feeling problem I that that ... the stock would come February will see will see it and ... yell fascinating ... speaking of the debt ceiling ... of which is sort of ... in the news of more than it was earlier in the week you know can it almost seems as though the president insisting that ... Congress give up that ability to approve on increases in the debt ceiling and it almost seems so the White House's ... throwing things against the wall the CIA pills to ... what the them of them in the debt ceiling just looks like a huge monkey wrench the negotiations ... yet yet I think the White House has really changed its hands on as an Democrats actually claim is very cool thing is one of the debt ceiling in a Spartan ended the year deal ... you know when a ... proposal down to John painter last week that the isthe demands may ask to be given permanent ... toll priority over the ability to raise the debt limit on their own ... and now you're a Democrat to last a saying we think the president has the right to unilaterally do this the in the Constitution shh it's the team just how worried they are about the debt ceiling by coming in in in in the station to Republicans that they really do have some creature that uncertainty last time around ... when in extracting some significant spending cuts from the White House ... by refusing to reason that wanted to let happen and I think that they are realizing ... that the White House is a bit scared of listening may have more power and his buy in on the other was an easy just about got about thirty seconds but can the debt itself is sixteen trillion dollars raising it means spending increases at that level most of the American people that kind of nervous that the Democrats concerned about that ... now we're concerned about getting more money which is what is Jackson's instances all of our Kitt's Danny look of the proposal the president said that they interact ... more new offerings is spending more and demands for many many good on her spending cuts so this is the age and ... Arike thanks alot


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Aiming for a Healthy Body: Incorporating Exercise into Your Life
Exercising makes you feel good and look good. But fitting exercise into your busy schedule can be a challenge. The following easy everyday tips can help keep your body fit, strong and balanced:
Set specific, realistic goals. Instead of vowing to 'get in shape', commit to walking three times a week.
Keep a daily exercise diary. Record the details of your exercising, such as how far you walked, how hard you pushed and how you felt.
Pace yourself. Build up your exercise slowly adding a few extra minutes each day.
Exercise with a friend or join a club. You'll gain more motivation – and fitness – than if you exercise alone.
Choose a few gentle Pilates or Yoga exercises. Do these every day as a morning stretch routine. Try the Basic Cat Stretch or The Sun Salutation.
Remember to breathe deeply. Take a moment each day to breathe deeply and slowly. Doing so is relaxing and good for your health. Breathing wide into the ribs helps to release muscle tension.
Keep your shoulders relaxed and pulling down your back. Relax your shoulders, and keep pulling the shoulder blades down and away from your ears. Think of using the muscles underneath the shoulder blades to keep the shoulders in the proper position. This also works wonders for your neck.
Keep your belly scoop whenever you can. Pulling your navel toward your spine protects your back from potential injury. Using your deep abdominal muscles, especially when bending over and lifting, takes some of the strain off your back.
Think of a golden string pulling you up from the back of the top of your head. Holding an image in your head can help you change your body dramatically as you think of proper alignment for your body. Stand up with the back of your head pulled up towards the sky helping to lengthen your spine.


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Mark Daly
Mark Daly
Madison Avenue Flags, NYC
Oil on Board
16 x 12 inches
Signed Lower Left
Mark passionately paints in the tradition of the Impressionists. He seeks to portray beauty and emotion in his paintings by capturing the motion of the moment--people walking the snowy streets of the City with patriotic flags flowing... families playing at the beach... boats reflecting in a calm harbor
While painting, Mark uses all of his senses to go beyond the obvious. His skill can be seen in his colorful, atmospheric and light-filled compositions. To him, success starts by choosing the right design. He believes success is fully realized when he captures feelings that are important to him such as serenity, optimism, wonder, and joy.
Mark was born on Long Island in 1956. Early on, he was taught to draw by his mother, Elizabeth Daly and by Woodhull Young, a marine painter and curator of the Vanderbilt Museum. Since 2007, Mark has been blessed to be mentored by CW Mundy, a master artist.
Always striving to improve, Mark travels worldwide to paint directly from nature. His positive energy and creativity seem to grow with each new journey. To quote Mike Compton (Grammy Award winning musician), Mark Daly retains the childlike curiosity to always see something new in the commonplace... always curious, always searching, always energetic, always enthusiastic.
Daly's work has been featured in solo and group shows and is in many private and corporate collections. He has received prominent awards in national juried art exhibitions. He is a member of the American Impressionist Society, Oil Painters of America, Cincinnati Art Club and The Greenacres Artist Guild.
Mark has been blessed with several talents. He is a composer and performer of original mandolin music and a voting member of the Grammy's. He has been Founder/CEO of several successful businesses and is author of 5 Steps to Board Success. Mark graduated from Cornell University (AB) and the University of Pennsylvania (MBA). He resides in Ohio with his wife, Gigi. They have three sons, Gregg, Steven and Patrick.


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At the first appearance, Mary asked the children to return to that spot on the thirteenth of each month for the next six months. She also asked them to learn to read and write and to pray the rosary to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war. They were to pray for sinners and for the conversion of Russia, which had recently overthrown Czar Nicholas II and was soon to fall under communism. Up to 90,000 people gathered for Marys final apparition on October 13, 1917.
Less than two years later, Francisco died of influenza in his family home. He was buried in the parish cemetery and then re-buried in the Fatima basilica in 1952. Jacinta died of influenza in Lisbon, offering her suffering for the conversion of sinners, peace in the world and the Holy Father. She was re-buried in the Fatima basilica in 1951. Their cousin, Lucia dos Santos, became a Carmelite nun and was still living when Jacinta and Francisco were beatified in 2000. Sister Lucia died in February 2005 at the age of 97. The shrine of Our Lady of Fatima is visited by up to 20 million people a year.


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For a given data set of x,y pairs, a polynomial regression of this kind can be generated:$ \displaystyle f(x) = c_0 + c_1 \, x + c_2 \, x^2 + c_3 \, x^3 ... $
In which $c_0,c_1,c_2 \, ...$ represent coefficients created by a mathematical procedure described in detail here.
In this regression method, the choice of degree and the evaluation of the fit's quality depend on judgments that are left to the user. It is well known about this class of regression method that an effort to squeeze more correlation out of the algorithm than the data can support will sometimes produce an out-of-control function that, although it matches the data points, wanders wherever it pleases between those points. Therefore, a "good" (approaching 1.0) correlation coefficient is not enough to assure a well-behaved or meaningful function. Decisions about a result's appropriateness is more a matter of judgment than mathematics.
A "perfect" fit (one in which all the data points are matched) can often be gotten by setting the degree of the regression to the number of data pairs minus one. But, depending on the nature of the data set, this can also sometimes produce the pathological result described above in which the function wanders freely between data points in order to match the data exactly.
For those seeking a standard two-element simple linear regression, select polynomial degree 1 below, and for the standard form —$ \displaystyle f(x) = mx + b$
— b corresponds to be the first parameter listed in the results window below, and m to the second.
This regression is provided by the JavaScript applet below. To enter new data, type data pairs into the upper window (or paste from the system clipboard by pressing Ctrl+V), then press "Solve." To change the degree of the equation, press one of the provided arrow buttons.
A technical note — when using double-precision variables (as this program does), polynomials of degree 80 and above begin to fail because of limited floating-point resolution. The only practical remedy for such a case is to decrease the polynomial degree, regardless of the size of the data set. But in general, for problems requiring more than 80 coefficient terms or that show unsatisfactory results using this method, there are alternative regression methods including splines, and for periodic data sets, Fourier methods often produce excellent results.
Data Entry Area: Select: Ctrl+A | Copy: Ctrl+C | Paste: Ctrl+V
Chart Area:
Reverse Degree: 99
Results Area:Select: Ctrl+A | Copy: Ctrl+C | Paste: Ctrl+V
Table Generator:Select: Ctrl+A | Copy: Ctrl+C | Paste: Ctrl+V
Start: End: Step: Decimals: Exponential
Each of the above data windows can deliver or receive data by way of the system clipboard:
- To paste from the system clipboard into a data window, click the window, press Ctrl+A (to overwrite existing content), then press Ctrl+V (paste).
- To copy from a data window, click the window, press Ctrl+A (to select all the data), then press Ctrl+C (copy).
- Having learned how to copy and paste to/from the system clipboatd, you can share this program's results with other programs, and other programs' data with this program.
- To acquire a graphic copy of the generated chart, press the "Graphic" button at the bottom of the chart display. This will create a graphic version of the chart in a separate window. Then right-click the graphic and choose "Save ..." or "Save as ..." or "Save Image as ...", depending on which browser is in use.
This JavaScript program replaces an earlier Java program with the same purpose. This recoding is meant to make this program more robust and portable. To use the earlier Java version, click here.
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In lieu of presents, a Rotary member celebrated by helping to build a learning center and day care in India.
Sixty cents and two drops on the tongue.
That's how much Lynn Freshman learned it takes to save a child from getting polio. In developed nations, the disease is long gone. In mountainous northern India, kids in remote communities like Ghaseda have little access to immunizations, regular health care or, in many cases, the pocket change needed to buy a dose.
"It's just very mind boggling, when we think of 60 cents being nothing to us. It's a candy bar," says Lynn, "to think that that same 60 cents could save a person's life."
Lynn was recently in Ghaseda, personally giving more than 200 children the vaccine as a Rotary International volunteer for National Polio Immunization Day in India. She envisioned an orderly line of villagers, shuffling into a medical center or rented office. Instead, in crowded streets, she gave the drops to kids from vials she kept in a cooler.
"It was definitely on-the-job training," says Lynn, of Perinton.
Together, her Rotary team immunized thousands of kids in a few hours. One child her fellow volunteers met was thought to have polio and had been confined to a household chair for most of his 14 years. His family carried him to the street to go to the bathroom. The Rotary team arranged for a doctor's exam.
He did not have polio, but likely muscular dystrophy. The team was so moved, they pitched in to buy the boy a wheelchair and commode so he could have mobility and privacy. When they delivered them, the boy got in the chair and was immediately rolled away by his friends to see his village for the very first time.
Lynn keeps a photo of the boy's empty chair — a symbol of how such simple actions can be life-changing. She experienced it often in India as a volunteer, providing the vaccines and helping to open community centers, and seeing what the Indians generously gave back.
Lynn spent two weeks in February with a 54-person-strong group of Rotarians and their friends and families from seven countries. The mission was to take part in the immunization day and then spend a week turning two abandoned buildings into a day-care center and a technology training center in the small village of Chahalka. Volunteers paid their own way to India, about $3,000. She chose it as her birthday and Christmas presents.
"Now that I'm in my fifties, I don't need more material things. I'd rather do something for my birthday that's a little more meaningful," says Lynn, who belongs to the Rotary Club of Pittsford. She's a past president of the club and is an incoming assistant governor for the Rotary District 7120.
Transforming the buildings and opening and running the technology center in Chahalka cost about $50,000, says Lynn. Pittsford Rotary donated $1,000. One other person from the region was on the trip — Linda Werts, of Newark.
The team's polio mission is fitting. One of Rotary International's top goals is to eradicate polio. The volunteers kicked off the event with a rally with students from a nearby Rotary school. Together they paraded through the streets carrying banners and shouting reminders to get vaccinated. Lynn knows someone else would have helped the kids if she was not there, but knowing she made a difference was amazing.
"Without those two little drops, this child may get this terrible, crippling disease, and now they won't," she says, looking through her photographs of her smiling, surrounded by a handful of kids hamming it up for the camera.
In Chahalka, the 500 Muslim families live just far enough away from the big city of Delhi that residents receive few government services. Many homes are made of straw and families often rely on water buffalo, and dried dung for heating fuel and building material. Women carry water, food and other supplies on their heads in large earthern pots, with a little cushion called an indi to comfort the load. Village men often don't have skills to get better-paying technology jobs outside town. Many of the men have had some education so they feel labor jobs are menial, but don't have enough education to get better-paying jobs.
The buildings Lynn's team rehabilitated were empty shells that looked a bit like concrete garages. "Barren," says Lynn.
Volunteers painted a mural with fish, giraffes, whales and turtles to fancy up the day-care walls and prepped the areas for new use. Outside, they set up a human assembly line to pass bricks from stack to entrance to make a brick wall and courtyard.
They will greet mothers bringing children and vocational students and make the building "look important," says Lynn, "and so people could feel proud to go there."
The mission of the day care is to provide women with a place to care for their children so they can learn money-making skills.
At first, the villagers seemed shy, Lynn said, but they always drew a small of crowd, who watched them work. In time, some villagers joined in the brick line.
With bricks left over, the Rotary team built a watering trough outside the village in the hopes that fewer water buffalo will wander into close quarters with people while searching for a drink. They also built steps at the well and a trench from the well so waste water is carried off and doesn't stagnate. It should be cleaner and deter mosquitoes.
Chahalka residents and the Rotary team celebrated their handiwork and the new centers in a ceremony on the last day. Village elders gave the volunteer men turbans.
"It's a big honor," says Lynn of the gift.
She and the other women were presented with colorful dyed scarves, crafted by the Chahalka women. As Muslim women, the females always keep their heads covered.
After Lynn's team left, the Delhi West Rotary club took over the day care and tech center, providing generators, instructors and equipment. It's now open. There are already 60 students.
Most of the time was spent working, but Lynn, a music teacher, was able to teach school children to sing "You are My Sunshine" using her portable, rolled-up keyboard.
"It was a neat little experience for me to use my occupational skills over there," she says. It's a highlight she wants to repeat if she returns to India. "I'd like to have more interaction" with villagers and get to know them, she said.
Lynn felt overwhelmed at times in a land known for it's overcrowding, desperate poverty and chaos. But Chahalka was small enough to get to know the villagers, she says, and makes her inspired to return.
"They might have been poor but everyone had their routine," she says. People seemed to have the basics and to be happy even without the frills.
During one work day, a woman invited a group of the volunteers to her house for hot milk and sugar, using a good portion of her family's supplies. And, when a volunteer said she wanted to buy an indi as a souvenir, a woman gave her her own yellow cushion, with ornate red tassels — her best — and refused money.
"It showed me that the material things must not be that important to them," says Lynn. It means more to us. "It's hard when you're brought up with material things and wanting material things. It's hard to break that cycle ... It does get you thinking. Do you really need all that stuff?"
Kris Dreessen can be reached at (585) 394-0770, Ext. 253, or at email@example.com.


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The illustrious surname Tranoorthay finds its origin in the rocky, sea swept coastal area of southwestern England known as Cornwall. Although surnames were fairly widespread in medieval England, people were originally known only by a single name. The process by which hereditary surnames were adopted is extremely interesting. As populations grew, people began to assume an extra name to avoid confusion and to further identify themselves. Under the Feudal System of government, surnames evolved and they often reflected life on the manor and in the field. Lords and their tenants often became known by the name of the feudal territory they owned or lived on. Unlike most Celtic peoples, who favored patronymic names, the Cornish predominantly used local surnames. This was due to the heavy political and cultural influence of the English upon the Cornish People at the time that surnames first came into use. Local surnames were derived from where a person lived, held land, or was born. While many Cornish surnames of this sort appear to be topographic surnames, which were given to people who resided near physical features such as hills, streams, churches, or types of trees, many are actually habitation surnames derived from lost or unrecorded place names. The name Tranoorthay is a local type of surname and the Tranoorthay family lived in Cornwall at the manor of Trenowth in Crantock.
The surname Tranoorthay was first found in Cornwall where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor of Trenowth in Crantock. They are described as a very ancient and powerful family of Cornwall and the first on record is a junior branch of the powerful Trenowths of Trenowth, John Trenowth of Cornewe and Tillond, whose daughters and co-heiresses married into the Sprys of Cornwall. "The original name of this family was Baillie. Thomas Baillie, the first ancestor, was living temp. Edward III. His son, Henry Baillie, obtaining from the Duchy of Cornwall, a grant of the manor and barton of Trenwith, near St. Ives, began to write himself De Trenwith." [1]
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Tranoorthay research. Another 125 words (9 lines of text) covering the years 1280 and 1560 are included under the topic Early Tranoorthay History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Cornish surnames are characterized by a multitude of spelling variations. The frequent changes in surnames are due to the fact that the Old and Middle English languages lacked definite spelling rules. The official court languages, which were Latin and French, were also influential on the spelling of a surname. Since the spelling of surnames was rarely consistent in medieval times, and scribes and church officials recorded names as they sounded rather than adhering to any specific spelling rules, it was common to find the same individual referred to with different spellings of their surname in the ancient chronicles. Moreover, a large number of foreign names were brought into England, which accelerated and accentuated the alterations to the spelling of various surnames. Lastly, spelling variations often resulted from the linguistic differences between the people of Cornwall and the rest of England. The Cornish spoke a unique Brythonic Celtic language which was first recorded in written documents during the 10th century. However, they became increasingly Anglicized, and Cornish became extinct as a spoken language in 1777, although it has been revived by Cornish patriots in the modern era. The name has been spelled Trenowth, Trenowith, Trenoth, Trenoith and others.
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An investigation of the immigration and passenger lists has revealed a number of people bearing the name Tranoorthay: William Trenoth who landed in North America in 1713.


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By NEMS Daily Journal
Magnolia crappie stocked in state lakes
The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks Fisheries Bureau stocked approximately 18,000 Magnolia crappie in five state fishing lakes this week.
The Magnolia crappie were raised at the North Mississippi Fish Hatchery and are a hybrid species best known for having fast growth rates.
MDWFP State Fishing Lakes that received Magnolia crappie were Lake Mike Conner, Lake Claude Bennett, Prentiss Walker Lake, Simpson County Lake and Lake Jeff Davis.
Lake Jeff Davis is located is located in Jefferson County near Prentiss and is currently closed for renovation.
The lake is expected to reopen during 2013.
Lifetime license to be given away Nov. 15
Hunters and fishermen who purchase a 2013 Sportsman License will automatically be entered into a drawing for a Lifetime Sportsman License.
The drawing, sponsored by the Foundation for Mississippi, Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, will be held on Nov. 15, and the winner will be notified by email. Participants must purchase their 2013 Sportsman License by midnight on Nov. 14 to be entered into the drawing.
The Resident Lifetime Sportsman License is a $1,000 value and includes the sportsman, WMA user permit and saltwater privileges. The winner may transfer the license to a qualifying Mississippi resident if he or she chooses.
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#Harvest2012 is very rapidly wrapping up; Monte Bello may be finished as soon as today!
What occasioned all this sudden rapidity was the onset of very warm weather; suddenly, we couldn't seem to pick fast enough.
I had the chance last week, in the middle of all the heat and bustling hustle, to check in with Monte Bello viticulturist Kyle Theriot, as the teams worked frantically to bring in fruit from what we call West Block; just over 4 acres of Merlot, planted at just about the highest point of the Monte Bello Estate; just under 2700 feet.
We had doubled our crew size for the day, and in the heat and the haze, they moved through the rows with astonishing fervor, while Kyle strode the perimeter like a caged cougar; it's not often I can find him NOT picking, and while he graciously took a few minutes to chat with me, it's instructive to observe how often he keeps turning away to check the rows …
Cinch up your chin straps, it's on! -Kyle Theriot
If that ain't #Harvest2012 in a nutshell, I don't know what is …
And that said, please join me in thanking Kyle for taking a moment to share his time and his thoughts; it is through the largesse of he and all the extraordinary members of the vineyard and winery teams that we are able to deepen our understanding of, and appreciation for, just what goes into a bottle of Ridge Vineyards wine, and I for one am very grateful.
For many things.
Categories: Merlot, Monte Bello, Video, Vineyards, Winemaking


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For our World AIDS Day 2010 section, we wanted to capture the diversity of the AIDS community. So, we reached out to people across the world -- mostly those who have never written for us before -- and asked them to guest blog. These columns are written by people who are living with HIV, have been affected by HIV, or work in the field.
(I was honored to receive an award from the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association for this piece in 2007, which has been revised to commemorate World AIDS Day. I produced the accompanying video a few days ago -- think of it as a "DVD Extra." Feel free to share this with friends. Here's to a joyous and healthy holiday season for us all. -- Mark)
My brother Richard smiles a lot. He has an easy laugh. But there was a time, years ago, when he held a poisonous drink in his hands and begged his dying lover not to swallow it. A time when Richard held the concoction they had prepared together and wept.
Emil couldn't wait. He took the drink from Richard quickly, because the release it offered was something more rapturous than the appeals of his lover of thirteen years.
It was Emil's wish to die on his own terms if living became unbearable, a promise one to the other. When that time arrived, however, Richard wanted another moment, just a little more time to say, "I love you, Emil," over and over again, before the drink would close Emil's eyes and quietly kill him.
Richard has a charming store in my hometown today, where he sells collectibles and does theater in his free time. The drink was consumed over twenty years ago.
There were people who displayed remarkable courage then. People who lived and died by their promises and shared the intimacy of death, and then the world moved forward and grief subsided and lives moved on. But make no mistake, there are heroes among us right now.
There is a shy, friendly man at my gym. There was a time when his sick roommate deliberately overdosed after his father told him that people with unspeakable diseases will suffer in hell. My gym friend performed CPR for an hour before help arrived, but the body never heard a loving word again.
Episode 24: Once, When We Were Heroes: Revised
There is courage among us, astonishing courage, and we summoned it and survived. And then years passed. We got new jobs and changed gyms.
There was a time when old friends called to say goodbye, and by "goodbye" they meant forever. When all of us had a file folder marked "Memorial" that outlined how we wanted our service to be conducted. When people shot themselves and jumped off bridges after getting their test results.
There is profound, shocking sadness here, right here among us, but years went by and medicine got better and we found other lives to lead. Our sadness is a distant, dark dream.
My best friend Stephen just bought a new condo. He's having a ball picking out furniture. But there was a time when he knew all the intensive care nurses by name. When a phone call late at night always meant someone had died. And just who, exactly, was anyone's guess.
Stephen tested positive in the 1980s, shortly after I did. A few months after the devastating news, he agreed to facilitate a support group with me. We regularly saw men join the group, get sick and die, often within weeks.
Watching them disintegrate felt like a preview of coming attractions. But Stephen was remarkable, a reassuring presence to everyone, and worked with the group for more than a year despite the emotional toll and the high body count.
There is bravery here, still, living all around us. But the bravest time was many years ago, and times change and the yard needs landscaping and there's a brunch tomorrow.
There was a time when I sat beside friends in their very last minutes of life, and I helped them relax, perhaps surrender, and told them comforting stories. And lied to them.
Jeremy lost his mind weeks before he died. Sometimes he had moments of sanity, when we could have a coherent conversation before his dementia engulfed him again. It was a time when you were given masks and gloves to visit friends in the hospital.
He was agitated with the business of dying, and told me he couldn't bear to miss what might happen after he'd gone. I had an idea.
"I tell you what," I offered, "I'm from the future, and I can tell you anything you would like to know."
"OK then, what happens to my parents?" he asked. I thought it might be a distracting game, but Jeremy's confused mind took it very seriously.
"They went to Hollywood and won big on a game show, so they never did need your support in their old age," I answered. He barely took the time to enjoy this thought before his hand grabbed my wrist, tightly, almost frantically. He pulled me closer.
"When ..." he began, and a mournful sob swelled inside him in an instant, his eyes begging for relief. "When does this end?" There was an awful, helpless silence. His eyes beckoned for a truth he could die believing.
"It does end," I finally managed, although nothing suggested it would. "It ends, Jeremy, but not for a really long time." He digested each word like a revelation, and slowly relaxed into sleep.
There is compassion here, enough for all the world's deities and saints acting in concert. Infinite compassion for men who lived in fear and checked every spot when they showered for Kaposi sarcoma, and for disowned sons wasting away in the guest room of whoever had the space. But we get older, and friends don't ask us to hold their hand when they stop breathing, and the fear fades and I bought new leather loafers and the White Party is coming.
The truth is simply this, and no one will convince me otherwise: My most courageous self, the best man that I'll ever be, lived more than two decades ago during the first years of a horrific plague.
He worked relentlessly alongside a million others who had no choice but to act. He secretly prayed to survive, even above the lives of others, and his horrible prayer was answered with the death of nearly everyone close to him.
To say I miss that brutal decade would only be partially true. I miss the man I was forced to become, when an entire community abandoned tea dances for town hall meetings, when I learned to offer help to those facing what terrified me most.
Today, the lives of those of us who witnessed the horror have become relatively normal again, perhaps mundane. We prefer it. We have new lives in a world that isn't choking on disease.
But once, there was a time when we were heroes.
Mark S. King has been an HIV/AIDS activist, writer and community organization leader since the early 1980s. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Read more of My Fabulous Disease, Mark's video blog, on TheBody.com.
Visit Mark's live blog at www.MyFabulousDisease.com.


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Kickstarting the Food Staples Series, I take a look at one of our more common and beloved ingredients — eggs!
This 2019, we're ushering the year of the pig which means we've completed one full cycle of the 12 Chinese Zodiacs. I always love this time of the year for there's a certain buzz in the air, filled with excitement for the coming of spring.
Happy 10th Anniversary FairPrice Finest SG! In collaboration with FairPrice Finest's #GourmetMadeSimple theme this year, I'm recreating this Bread & Peanut Butter Pudding back at my home kitchen! If you are a fan of peanut butter, YOU HAVE TO TRY THIS!
In collaboration with DFS, create these flavor packed summer refreshers with ease featuring new spirits by Johnnie Walker and The Dalmore. Summer is here, bringing with it sultry days, balmy nights, and a need for vibrant cocktails
The final recipe in collaboration w/ Harvey Norman Sg this week! If you're into spicy vegan food you're bound to love this for sure!
Char Siu - prevalent in Cantonese cuisine, is a pork dish that's been marinated then barbecued or roasted to attain a sweet & toasty flavor which is often served as a side dish, or along with rice to complete as a meal.
Kickstarting the Food Staples Series, I take a look at one of our more common and beloved ingredients — eggs!


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On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we talk about important changes (improvements, we hope) that we've been making to our Drupal site for students, Youth Voices. We invited teachers who are using Youth Voices this year. Listen to find out what how they are planning to use this social networking site with their students this coming year.
Youth Voices is much more than a web site. It is a community of teachers, working together to concoct a collaborative curriculum that supports our students in peer-to-peer online discussion. Chris Sloan, Paul Allison, and Susan Ettenheim started working together on this project in 2003. As we begin the 2009-2010 school year, we are excited to invite you and many more teachers into this work.
We are in the process of making several important changes to Youth Voices. Here are a couple:
- Collaborative Curriculum: http://youthvoices.net/curriculum — We're building it now. Join us!
- The guides http://youthvoices.net/guides have been updated, organized… and there is more work needed here.
- There are now three main ways for students to add Discussions to the site - See under Add a Discussion.
There is more! But that's probably enough for now. Please enjoy this podcast. It's one of our "staff meeting" podcasts where we make public the planning that used to be done in private. If you are interested, we would love to work with you and your students this year. Just join the site, and let us know.
Click Read more to see a transcript of a chat that was happening during the webcast.


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How well do you know the Code? Think you can spot violations the original installer either ignored or couldn't identify? Here's your chance to moonlight as an electrical inspector and second-guess someone else's work from the safety of your living room or office. Joe Tedesco, who has a knack for finding shoddy electrical work, did the dirty work and found this mess. Now it's your turn to identify the violation.
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Okay, it was actually last month when I discovered this damaged makeshift support structure that was being used to secure lighting equipment to this tree for the hotel's parking lot spaces. This was one of about three similar arrangements that were all in the same condition.
It looks like the installer used the brackets in an attempt to avoid the type of damage shown in the photograph. Although the brackets were adequately secured to the tree, the exposed equipment was located about the same height as a car or truck bumper, which most likely caused damage to the lighting components. In addition, the expansion fittings used here would never help prevent this type of damage.
Needless to say, the installer was most likely not familiar with NEC rules and showed a lack of common sense. I could cite my favorite reference in the NEC as the need for protection from physical damage (300.4) or the lack of a proper enclosure as defined in Art. 100.