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Guanghan Airport (Chinese: 广汉机场) (IATA: GHN, ICAO: ZUGH) is an airport southeast of Guanghan, Sichuan, China. Formerly a military airfield known as Kwanghan Airfield (A-3) during World War II. It is now used by Civil Aviation Flight University of China for pilot training and has no commercial flights.
During World War II, the airfield was the forward staging base for the 444th Bombardment Group, which carried out B-29 Superfortress raids on the Japanese Home Islands.
In 1943, The United States Army Air Force was given rights to use the airfield to stage bombing missions from India to attack Japan.[1] It was one of four B-29 bases established by the Americans in China.
The USAAF 444th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy) flew missions from the airfield beginning in mid-June 1944. The group had to transport its supplies of fuel, bombs, and spare parts from its base at Dudhkundi, India over "The Hump" (the name given by Allied pilots to the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains), since Japanese control of the seas around the Chinese coast made seaborne supply of China impossible. The first mission was carried out on the night of June 14/15, 1944 against the Imperial Iron and Steel Works at Yawata on Kyushu. This plant was considered to be the most important single objective within Japan's steel industry, and had long held top priority for the first strike. It was the first time since the Doolittle raid of 1942 that American aircraft had bombed the Japanese home islands.[1]
In addition to the bombers, the USAAF 81st Fighter Group used the airfield, flying P-40 Warhawk and P-47 Thunderbolt fighters as part of the Fourteenth Air Force "Flying Tigers".[2] The 81st provided close air support for Chinese Army ground forces fighting the Japanese, as well as flying escort missions for the B-29s over the Japanese-occupied area of China. In January 1945 the B-29 bombers were moved back to India before transferring in April to the newly captured bases in the Mariana Islands. In February, the fighters were moved to a new airfield near Fungwansham.[2] With the departure of the Americans, the much-improved airfield was then returned to Chinese authorities.[1]
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This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Craven, Wesley Frank; James Lea Cate. "Vol. V: The Pacific: MATTERHORN to Nagasaki, June 1944 to August 1945". The Army Air Forces in World War II. U.S. Office of Air Force History. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/V/index.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.

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Does anyone miss those days when everyone owned candy bar Nokias and switched phone plates as often as their outfits? Because I do.
I remember walking through malls and seeing kiosk after kiosk of crazy phone plates just waiting for me to take home and snap on (be sure to line up the buttons with the holes!) After I heard the resounding click, I knew I had a brand-new phone just like that. Not really, but you get the idea.
These days, there are numerous phone covers and skins you can choose from, but they don't have quite the same appeal. And because it's gotten so hard and so rare to customize phones integrally, any service that offers to aesthetically change the phone itself perks my ears.
And, yes, even things as simple as etchings can tickle my fancy.
That's why I was excited to hear about IndieGoGo member "omie07." Droid Life reported that omie07 is running a Kickstarter-esque campaign to fund a Samsung Galaxy Nexus customization business.
That's right--send in some money along with a 2x2-inch design, and you can give your Nexus yet another way to stand out (as if that Ice Cream Sandwich OS wasn't already good enough for you).
The money donors/customers give goes toward buying battery doors (stock battery doors and extended battery doors) from OEMs that are not "third-party knockoffs," according to omie07's IndieGogo page.
Starting at $30, the pricing can get a little steep. But once people get phones that they can truly claim as one of a kind, it's pretty easy to see why omie07 is raising more than the intended goal.


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Conversations During Sleep by Michele Wolf
Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry (1997)
These poems, in an extraordinarily appealing and mature voice, create a web of underlying connections in our random and violent world. For the most part, these are family stories--birth, aging, death, first love, later love. As one of these poems says, they offer us, "with transparent/Pleasure, the power to see." -- Peter Meinke
What are our "conversations during sleep"? Michele Wolf insists that they are verbal equivalents of the visual sumptuary of our dreams. This poet shows us how to understand the world around us through the thrill of the senses. By vivifying the poet's dreams--waking and sleeping--this book tastes the world. -- Molly Peacock
Conversations During Sleep feels like a logbook of gutsy revelations, transporting us to a territory both ethereal and earthy. We care about the lives that nudge us awake in this dark luminosity, a heartfelt journey we don't want to miss. -- Yusef Komunyakaa
Cover art: Rousseau, Henri. "The Sleeping Gypsy." 1897. Oil on canvas, 51" x 6' 7" (129.5 x 200.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. Simon Guggenheim. Photograph © 1998 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
"The Sleeping Gypsy"
a painting by Henri Rousseau, 1897
In the heat of her drearn, she hears
The iron kettle boiling, its scuttle and hum
As hurried as hoofbeats across a plain.
She drops in two guinea hens. Dancing
In a ring round her skirts, the children
Cheer, "Auntie, the English song!" Lifting
Her lute, she sings of the cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumping over the moon. How the little
Ones hoot when the dish runs away
With the spoon. Ah, spoon--an uncloaked
Lute, it waits to be strummed. The temptation
Of spoon. The temptation of London, of Paris,
Of bumping along in the carriage with M. Philippe
In his top hat and greatcoat to visit
The peacocks, turquoise and gold and green, each
Roaming the Bois de Boulogne with one hundred eyes.
She sleeps in the desert, under a smiling full moon
That shines in the teal night. Quiet behind her,
A lion stands, tail erect, having sniffed
At her onyx flesh, at the ribbony stripes
His color-blindness darkens on her muslin dress,
All rainbow hues. She is lost in a dream,
Always happiest out of doors, without shoes.
Keep Going
I was led to the trees, as if someone with muscle
In her walk had pushed me. Heading
To the leaves--regal, molten with their final
Chance to breathe, Indian summer--I stopped
By the crowd shouting at the blue police barricade,
Mile 25. This was the moment, one of 26,000
Runners, you presented yourself, dazed and red-faced,
Soldiering on. Although I was too astonished
To speak, your name issued from me, the same way
A cut bleeds, the eyes allow us to see.
"Keep going!" I shouted, again without forethought.
Slowly, your mouth fashioned my name, then
You continued, working to control your body,
Pushing on through a life out of control.
"I can't sit still," were your words, so urgent,
Serving as much as a plea and apology as a goodbye.
Yet it is the way we would sit together
For which I remember you. We would talk only briefly
Or not talk, leaning against each other while the light
Turned to darkness over the Hudson, until we were sitting
In darkness, and one of us, without any active thought,
Might quietly speak, or rise to turn on a light,
Or move closer to the other, as if the darkness
Itself had spoken and thought were held away
Like an outsider, standing outside a barrier,
And we were not going anywhere. We were inside.


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Published 27 March 2011
Tim Hanni MW is not a popular figure amongst old-school wine boffins: primarily because he debunks the establishment's theories of food and wine matching. The old guard believes that there are specific rules for which wines should be paired with which foods. I, for one, was taught that red wine should be drunk with beef "so that the protein can soften the tannins and round out the flavours" (Snooth.com), that fish should only ever be accompanied by white wines, and many more. Apparently, these are total rubbish.
Hanni himself acknowledges that many see him as Satan, so his spirits must have been lifted last week when WSET (the very well-respected Wine & Spirit Education Trust) announced that they are adopting his principles into their curriculum. They are apparently not just adding his theories to the course; they are 'replacing' the old ones with them.
Although he disproves most established 'rules' as wrong, Hanni doesn't claim to know all the answers; he admits "the more we learn about it, the more we don't know". However, below are a few salient points:
- Salt makes a wine seem smoother because it suppresses bitterness.
- Increasing acidity in your food reduces sourness in wine.
- Sweetness in food increases the sense of sourness and bitterness in a wine. This is why much Asian food – which is generally sweeter than European cuisine – makes a lot of wines seem unpleasant. It is also why red wines often taste disgusting when drunk with puddings (and explains why dessert wines work).
- Mirroring a wine's characteristics in food will not work. For example, using cherries in food, when the wine has a strong taste of cherries, will "suck" [Hanni's own words].
Want some proof that the above is true? Have a sip of some red wine, then lick some salt and suck on a bit of lemon (tequila-style), then retry the wine: much of the tannin and bitterness will have disappeared. Adding a bit more salt and a bit more acidity (e.g. lemon/lime juice) to your dish will suppress the bitterness and mitigate how it will react to the wine. Hanni warns, you "must balance acidity and salt very carefully".
So what does this mean to future food and wine matching? There's good news as Hanni reports that some chefs are now balancing their foods perfectly, so you can drink whatever wine you want. But he also says that, if you want to add more salt to the dish, do it: "You know what you need better than the chef" because everyone's palate is very different.
Which brings us nicely on to another theory for which Hanni is famous: 'taste sensitivity'.
He openly acknowledges that theories of taste sensitivity are not new findings. The original research started back in 1931 by Arthur F.Fox (albeit by accident when he spilled some chemicals and noticed that, whilst some people found it intolerable, others barely noticed it). Professor Linda Bartoshuk has since taken great leaps into taste theory, but it is Hanni who has brought it to the wine world.
The basics are that people have differing levels of sensitivity, and Hanni categorises them as follows
- "Sweet" tasters have so many receptors in their mouth that anything but sweet wines taste intolerably bitter. Favourite wines are likely to include white Zinfandel, Riesling, Moscato.
- "Hyper-sensitive" tasters like delicate and low-alcohol wines, and loathe bitterness (so often won't drink coffee). Because of this disgust of bitterness, they love salt (remember that salt suppresses bitterness). Artificial sweeteners often appear bitter and metallic, and high alcohol wines 'burn'. Favourite wines will probably include dry rosé, Riesling, Chardonnay, Sauv Blanc, Pinot Noir.
- "Sensitive" tasters will like smooth wines that combine intensity and balance. They will have a wide range of preferences and often be adventurous. They can take or leave salt, but will often find very high alcohol wines irritating. Preferred wines are likely to include Chardonnay, Cab Sauv, Shiraz, Pinot Noir and Merlot.
- "Tolerant" tasters have the lowest level of taste and therefore love intensity, power, and high alcohol (which they experience as sweet). They often like strong, black coffee, Scotch and cigars. They don't need saltiness or sweetness to suppress bitterness, because they just don't experience bitterness very much. Tolerant tasters will probably choose Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah/Shiraz, Pinot Noir, Red Zinfandel, Merlot.
This means that, when tasting the same wine, a tolerant taster and a hyper-sensitive taster are likely to have two totally different experiences. Furthermore, it probably means that someone else's views on a particular wine will mean little to you (unless you have similar sensitivity and share a similar palate). However, even then, we all have personal experiences that shape our tastes. And even these change over time.
So, in short, don't listen to anyone else. Try some different wines and drink what you like. And add more salt (and lemon) to your dinner if you want.
If you want to know more, a great place for more information is Tim Hanni's website and his Twitter feed.
Tim Hanni is also running some exciting experiments. More about those soon…


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At 67, the governor of Israel's central bank, Stanley Fischer, has been told he is too old to run for the vacant role of head of the IMF. Fischer had hoped the rule that applicants had to be under 65 would be overlooked, as it is "not relevant today", but the IMF did not share his views. Here, four readers tell us about their experiences of age discrimination in the workplace.
Michael Grumett, 72, aka grumatchester: "90% of applications go unacknowledged"
I am a university lecturer. In February a colleague (also over 65) and I were both told our contract wouldn't be renewed due to government cuts to higher education – this happened significantly before the new age discrimination law came into force in April.
Everybody, from faculty dean downwards, wants us to stay because 140 students are predicted to start in October in a huge rush to beat the tripling of tuition fees next year. The staff don't know how they are going to cope with this unprecedented number.
I have been job-hunting both as an academic and journalist ever since. So far, I have had just one interview, and 90% of applications go unacknowledged. So enforced retirement after 31 July beckons.
People say I should retire gracefully. I always give three reasons for not wanting to: the postponement of dementia by keeping the brain active, the avoidance of boredom, and because I need the money. A long and chequered journalistic career meant I have never worked anywhere long enough to accumulate a worthwhile pension pot. I accept that people who want to retire should be able to: but those who want to carry on, if they have knowledge and experience they can pass on, should be allowed to.
Dawn Foster, 24, aka Dawnhfoster: "Someone recently said 'I didn't look old enough to be out of school'"
I work in advice, and since part of my job involves telling people older than me things they might not want to hear, my age is often brought up. I've had my intelligence questioned; been told that I don't have the life experience necessary for empathy; and someone recently said that "I didn't look old enough to be out of school", asking to speak to my manager instead. When I bring up ideas others disagree with, I'll often find people tell me I "don't understand". I've yet to see my managers receive the same response.
At an interview recently, my interviewer told me I was "by far the youngest person" they'd talked to, as though it was a sticking point. This isn't unusual: after nearly every interview I've had since graduation, the feedback I've been given has run along the lines of "we think you're really capable and interviewed well, but had to go for someone with the same experience over a longer period" – ie someone older.
Despite legal changes preventing employers from asking for your age on applications, it's still easy to work out someone's age from the dates they were in education – and even easier to dismiss an application on the grounds of "experience" when you mean "age". But there are ways around it. One national charity explicitly asks you not to put dates of employment and education on your application form, but to focus on the skills you've taken from qualifications and roles. Doing so means they've no idea how old candidates are until the day of the interview. Since age discrimination is largely based on subconscious assumptions, this model of application goes a small way towards stopping it.
Sarah Lockwood, 29, aka crimsonandclover: "Our children need role models from all generations, and of all types"
I work in an ambitious new academy, if I can anthropomorphise an institution according to its leadership ethos. This drive seems to be a factor in the gradual but systematic removal of anyone over 50.
While many older teachers have been kindly "asked" to leave quietly with a cheque in their back pocket, we have members of senior staff line-managing teachers twice their age. These 20-somethings work 13-hour days uncomplainingly, attend endless meetings unquestioningly and work tirelessly to reach management level, often before they are ready. Having no dependents so you can work flat out is also a great asset these days. How can the older generation compete?
The obsession with the use of new technology in the classroom is helping to weed out older staff. Teachers who learned to teach without the internet are sometimes seen as having a dated approach. Of course, there are cases where older educators have lost their enthusiasm, but this is by no means the rule. Likewise, many of the younger teachers are not sufficiently prepared for the job, and this is not their fault. They are thrown in at the deep end.
There are advantages to having younger employees; these are self-evident. But this is insufficient. Our children need role models from all generations, and of all types. We need older workers to hold the new generation to account, and perhaps temper their misguided zeal at times. A school ought to be a microcosm that reflects the values of its society, but there is a lamentable lack of a sense of the worth of older employees. When all the teachers left are under 40, the legacy of previous generations will be all but lost. Talk about a false economy.
Paul Nethercott, 65, aka ManchePaul: "Equal-opportunity interviewing is the best way of ensuring discrimination is minimised"
My first job in the early 1960s was clerking for an insurance company. They had set pay scales, which were based solely on age: each year on your birthday, you moved up a notch. Of course, there were different scales for men and women; the latter 75% of the former.
After a couple of years, I found myself supervising half a dozen other staff so I thought I might ask for a rise. My manager agreed, but the only way to get more money was to move on to a higher scale. Head office agreed, but the minimum age on that scale was higher than my then age. This, logically and inevitably, demonstrated that I could not be doing the work I was doing. They recruited someone several years older than me to do my job.
That was the norm then. Now that overt age discrimination is effectively eliminated, the problem is that recruitment is carried out, in house or agency, largely by young people at the first stage. They often filter out most older people unconsciously or deliberately. The problem has to be solved in the same way as sex and race discrimination: legislation and monitoring.
The public sector is supposed to be showing the way with equal-opportunity interviewing: ask all the applicants the same set of questions with relevant followups, and with a rating of each applicant on a common scale for the job's requirements. In my experience, that is the best way of ensuring that any form of discrimination is minimised, and apparent where it occurs.
Gordon McDougall, aka afterglow: "The employment market and cult of youth have led to a waste of working talent"
For 25 years I was a theatre (and sometimes television) director at the top of my profession. I ran major theatre companies – including the leading touring theatre in Britain – my work was seen all over the world, and I was twice nominated by London critics as best director.
After eight years working abroad, in 1991 I returned to the UK to find that the profession had changed: the emphasis was now entirely on youth.
Reinventing myself, I became a teacher, academic, eventually a professor. I developed courses at Rada, ran three drama schools, wrote articles in journals and taught students wherever I could find them.
By the age of 55 I found that institutions that had automatically shortlisted me were no longer doing so. At 64, I started to get emails from HR departments saying they couldn't accept my application – I was over their retirement age.
I have watched in frustration as young directors stage Shakespeare – even at the RSC – without a clue how to train talented actors to speak the verse and inhabit the language and the thought. I have watched as talented young teachers struggle to articulate what they want to say without help from more experienced mentors.
The employment market and the cult of youth have led to a waste of working talent which is a scandal and a part-cause of our global recession.


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Chiropractic Testimonial
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In 1993, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and have suffered with widespread pain. Over the years I have sought chiropractic treatment for acute flare-ups in my back, hips and shoulders with very good results. More recently, I realized that these treatments might also help to improve the chronic symptoms of my fibromyalgia, if they were done on a regular basis. Over the past 25, years, each time I have been treated for an acute flare-up such as a back spasm, the pain would go away after a few adjustments. More recently, Dre. Dallaire showed me how poorly my spine was aligned and that this misalignement probably contribued to my chronic symptoms. Regular adjustments have greatly improved the mobility in my back, neck, shoulders and hips. I have less pain and am sleeping better. Treating chronic chonditions requires a completely different way of thinking from the treatment of acute problems. Now rather than treating the pain, we are treating the source of the pain. So, regular adjustements are gradually relieving chronic symptoms and improving my overall health. Although it may take some time. I am confident that this treatment will allow me to get back to some of the things, such as swimming, biking and running that I have put on hold due to my chronic pain.
I was experiencing a 70% loss of sensation in the lower part of my body and a numbness from my waist, down the length of both legs, to my feet. The symptoms began in March. 8 weeks later, with the chiropractic adjustments I've been receiving at the clinic and with Dre. Dallaire's professional experience my condition has improved by about 90%. Close to all of the sensation is back to normal. I believe within a few more weeks I'll be back in shape. I continue coming to my appointements in order to maintain the alignment of my spine, thus preventing any kind of interference of the energy flowing through the nervous system, therefore eliminating any kind of future pain and discomfort. Thank you very much to the team of Centre Chiropratique Des Sources.
I came to see Dr Dallaire because I felt "Out of sorts" and I wanted to try and get it on track. My general health was good and I exercise and eat reasonably but I needed a boost Chiropractic Results: Just to know I am getting help has been a positive experience. My energy has improved. No colds, so far, and sleep patterns have improved. It didn't happen quickly but my health has improved.Regulated my digestive system, calmness and energy are a plus. Why I Continue to Receive Care: Its working, not quickly but I feel a long term committment is necessary. Thanks Renée Chiropractic! It works! Please share this inspiring story with someone you love!


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"Little Puppy Lost" written by Holly Webb - ISBN 978-1-84895-909-5 Little Tiger Press
I was delighted to illustrate Holly Webb's very first picture book! This is another lovely animal story by the best selling author, where Harry, an adorable little pup meets a new friend. This was great fun to work on as the pages had such a variety of locations to keep the eye interested. The adventure takes the reader and the tiny pup through the park, a woodland, the street and best of all, cuddled up safely on a warm cosy lap.


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Though you may not have known it, chances are you've seen one of J. Scott Applewhite's photographs. The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist is on the scene for nearly every major event in Washington, from presidential inaugurations to the swearing-in of Supreme Court justices.
Now Applewhite has unknowingly become a Capitol Hill celebrity, and it's not just because of the photographs he takes. It's because Washington insiders are obsessed with taking photographs of him.
It all started in 2012, when a group of journalists on the Hill became amazed by Applewhite's ability to be on the scene for every important photo op.
"If you're in a committee meeting ... he's there. Walking around the basement of the Capitol … he's there. Impromptu news conference … oh, wait — Scotty is already there," a Scott fan told Business Insider in an emailed statement (the people we spoke to asked to remain anonymous.)
This specific gaggle of writers began snapping pictures of Applewhite wherever they spotted him. Then they would email the photos to one another. Soon, those email chains grew into a Flickr account, and in October 2013, they created an Instagram account called ScottyShots1.
"Was it mean spirited? No way. Was it a crush? Well, maybe. Mainly, Scotty just makes us smile."
ScottyShots1 has become a must-follow Instagram for political junkies. Its 563 quality followers include NBC correspondent Luke Russert, the House Government Oversight Committee, and even Speaker of the House John Boehner. Everyone from Congressional staffers to journalists to Capitol Police officers submit shots of Applewhite wherever they happen to spot him.
Why are people so obsessed with photographing Applewhite?
Those who run the account think it's simply because they "really like Scotty." While much of what happens in Congress is serious, consequential, and divisive, the administrators of ScottysShots1 are sure to keep things "positive and fun."
One user commented on a post by saying, "The feed has made life worth living! I <3 you #scottiepie."
The best part? Applewhite didn't find out about the account until last year, when a network-television employee at the White House mentioned it to him, according to the account's administrators. Applewhite did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
After decades of covering Washington's key players, it seems Applewhite is thriving in the unfamiliar territory in front of the camera.


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New Teaching Tool for English Language Learners from Merit Software
New Teaching Tool for English Language Learners from Merit Software
New York, NY (PRWEB) February 14, 2006
Merit Software announces the addition of a voice component, called the Merit Text Talker http://www.meritsoftware.com/text_talker/ , to most of its English language improvement programs. With the Merit Text Talker, all of the passages, questions, answers, tips and explanations students view on the screen can be spoken aloud. This is a new innovation that shortens the time required to grasp key English language concepts.
Text-to-speech functionality is now seamlessly integrated into the software. With just two clicks, students can command that text be spoken aloud without additional windows opening or closing. There is no copying and pasting of text, or toggling back and forth between applications. Students may repeat words and phrases as often as they choose, and from wherever they wish within the context of Merit's skill-building exercises.
Words are highlighted in synchrony with their enunciation, providing emphasis and helping students follow the text. The company provides two high-quality North American voices. Users may also install their own regional voice into the Merit Text Talker.
Research has shown that a multi-sensory approach to instruction shortens the length of time required to grasp essential English language concepts. Even before the addition of speech capability, Merit programs have been evaluated through rigorous research and shown to have a long term positive effect on student mastery of essential English language concepts.
Merit expects that the fresh instructional enhancement of including text-to-speech will be beneficial to a wide variety of students, including but not limited to English language learners, people with learning disabilities, and remedial readers.
The Merit Text Talker is included with the installation CD-ROM for all 1-Station, 5-Station, 10-Station, and Site License networkable versions of Merit reading, vocabulary and grammar programs. Home versions purchased on a CD-ROM also include the Merit Text Talker. The Merit Text Talker may be purchased separately for Home versions sold by download.
The Merit Text Talker runs under Windows 2000, Windows 2003, and Windows XP and uses the Microsoft Speech Application Interface Version 5 (SAPI 5). SAPI 5 is pre-installed on Windows XP and freely distributed by Microsoft. The Merit Text Talker functions only with Merit programs. It does not read-aloud common documents such as Word or PDF files. Although other screen reader products can be used with Merit Software, they do not combine the quality of voices, ease of use, and other features of the Merit Text Talker.
RAM usage on most Merit programs is between 32 and 75 MB. Merit programs use many shared components, so each additional program installed will usually take no more than 5 MB of hard disk space. A few graphic-intensive programs will use an additional 55 MB. The Merit Text Talker requires 500 MB of hard disk space and 20 additional MB of RAM.
To see how the Merit Text Talker works, please go to http://www.meritsoftware.com/text_talker/ Complete copies of all Merit programs are available for review upon request.
About Merit Software: Merit Software (http://www.meritsoftware.com) is an experienced publisher of educational software. Since 1983, Merit Software has focused on the core competencies for grades 3-12 and adult education. Merit Software is currently being used in thousands of educational facilities.
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How A Wellness Maven (And Mama) Keeps Her Skin Glowing
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Natural Beauty Blogger Lola Gusman Spills Her Skin Care Secrets
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We opened up registration for our workshops (the kind where we talk about work and relationships over soulful conversation and champs) and the feedback has been amazing.
The topics for the workshop revolve around Intentions for 2016, building your tribe, career mapping, and knowing more about who you are and where you thrive.
Speaking up and talking to our strengths without sounding fake or Ego-crazy, is a tough one for some of us.
I watch amazing people shrink into the background, while they listen to their friends take over conversation with witty stories highlighting their strengths and passions.
Not only is talking about who we are and our strengths important for networking negotiations, and interviews...
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In the post-earnings conference call following their Q1 results today, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot was asked why prices on their games in stores drop faster than those sold through digital retailers.
Here's what he had to say:
Digital is more reactive than what we put in stores, but at the same time, it doesn't react as fast on consoles than it does on PC. What we can say is that when games are older than one year, digital is a lot more dynamic on console because there are less units in stores. It's a new business, a new trend, and we think all this will get more in line with time, but for sure, at the moment you see all sorts of prices depending on who is doing a promotion for that specific week.
For an example of the physical/digital price differences, last year's Far Cry 4 is still $59.99 on the PlayStation Store, but you can buy it for $39.99 regularly on Amazon, with a sale right now putting it at $24.00.
Hinting towards faster price drops on consoles in the near future, Guillemot added, "If you look at the PC [post-release discount] trend, I think you will see that on consoles, but you will have to wait a little bit of time for that to happen with the same speed."
Guillemot later highlighted stock as another reason for keeping digital prices higher: "If we have stock in stores, we tend to make sure we decrease the quantity of units in stores before going digital with lower prices."
Elsewhere on the call, Ubisoft CFO Alain Martinez said, "On digital we will not sell [a game] for a lower price compared to physical." While things do change with promotions in the weeks or months following launch, Ubisoft tends to be more conservative on consoles when it comes to digital pricing, but they are "more flexible on PC."
[Source: GameSpot, Games Beat]


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Happy Memorial Day! What a great opportunity to give thanks for our freedom and all those who sacrificed for it. I must say, I'm also thankful for not being at work today. And... for Elle Moss for creating the awesome 21-day photo challenge that ended yesterday. I feel like I don't know what to do with my day off since I have no photo assignment! Here's a look back at what I did for the last 21 days:
I had so much fun! And I realized that no matter how busy I am, I can be creative every day. Looking at these photos helps me see that there's beauty all around me even on my long, stressful work days. I just have to put forth a little effort to find and capture it. No more excuses. By the way, I'm thinking I'll offer a few of these photos as prints in my etsy shop. Which ones would you like to see there?


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Dr. Robert Aquino, a former hospital exec charged with bribing ex-state Sen. Carl Kruger, has hired a lawyer who's married to a prosecutor in the office that's taking him to trial.
The lawyer, Alixandra Smith, also revealed in court yesterday that she has a pending job application to join hubby Daniel Richenthal in the Manhattan US Attorney's Office.
Aquino said he was OK with the setup.


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Staples Has A New Meaning; Will It Matter?
The Staples (NASDAQ: SPLS) consumers once knew no longer exists.
They might find bits and pieces of the old Staples at some stores and online, but this company is transforming. The best way to understand the difference is that with the old version, the name referred to actual staples, as in what you use to connect two pieces of paper.
This, in turn, indicated that Staples was the place to go for your office-supply needs. With the new version of the retailer, the name Staples pertains to essentials. The Staples founder was lucky to have chosen a name with two meanings, which has made for an easy transition with the company name and brand, but what about the company's performance and potential?
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Before getting to some important numbers, let's clarify what Staples will sell. Considering the company has now added more than 250,000 products to its online store, it would be impossible to list everything here. The basic concept is that Staples will sell everything you might need (vs. everything you might want). A few examples consist of: hard hats, goggles, mops, coffee, a dolly, rubber boots, paint brushes and dog biscuits, to help expand the range.
Due the paperless-office trend, Staples needed to make a move, but despite optimism surrounding the company, this is still going to be an uphill battle. Fortunately, it won't be a steep grade, but it won't be downhill, either.
Staples' biggest advantage is that it's the third-biggest online retailer in the world. While that's a big positive, think about that for a moment. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is the biggest online retailer in the world, and it sells everything you can possibly imagine, including products that consumers might need or want. Put simply, why would investors opt for the third-largest online retailer in the world when they can invest in the largest retailer in the world?
Looking at this a little deeper, when a company's revenue consistently outpaces its selling, general, and administrative expenses, it often indicates top-notch upper management. With that in mind, consider the five-year performance comparisons for these companies:
- Revenue: Down 4.9 percent
- SG&A Expenses: Down 0.6 percent
- Revenue: Up 233.6 percent
- SG&A Expenses: Up 377 percent
Amazon has enjoyed incredible top-line growth for years, but at a steep cost. That said, a company with relentless top-line growth like Amazon always has significant investment potential. This is especially the case considering CEO Jeff Bezos' innovative ways. Cutting costs is always easier than driving the top line higher.
If you move to the physical retail space in regards to a company that sells everything, then Staples has to contend with Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT). Despite all the headwinds Wal-Mart is facing with its low-end consumer and all the negative press it receives, if you just look at the facts, Wal-Mart is holding its own, and it might continue to do so thanks to the advent of its small-box stores, eCommerce growth, and consistent free-cash-flow generation. However, let's stick to the metric in focus here: revenue vs. selling, general, and administrative expenses over the past five years. Over this time frame, Wal-Mart's revenue increased 18.37 percent while selling, general, and administrative expenses grew at a 16.28 percent clip. This is a net positive.
If you're a dividend investor, then Staples might look appealing thanks to a 4.2 percent yield. But an attractive yield might not mean much if the company is facing competition in every direction, which has the potential to negatively impact the stock price. Plus, Wal-Mart yields a somewhat generous 2.6 percent. Amazon doesn't offer any yield, but growth investors don't expect yield anyway. They would rather have stock appreciation.
A bullish case could be made for all three companies. A lot will depend on an investor's time frame and risk tolerance. Which company do you think is the best bet?
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Older Plastic Surgery & Laser Clinic Patients Are Online/
It's no longer the case that teens are the ones flooding Facebook and Twitter. (You can follow Medical Spa MD on both Medspa MD on Facebook and Medical Spa MDs Twitter feed.)
The chat below shows the details of the Baby Boomers rush to embrace social networks. In the last week at least three people have told me of a parent that has 'discoverd Facebook'. It's no longer the case that you can just have a web site and sit back to be found. The web is maturing and big business. The rush of Baby Boomers to embrace Facbook, Twitter and social networking in general is indicative of this move.
According to the study referenced below, Baby Boomers...
- Increased reading blogs and listening to podcasts by 67 percent year over year; nearly 80 times faster than Gen Y (1 percent)
- Posted a 59 percent increase in using social networking sites—more than 30 times faster than Gen Y (2 percent)
- Increased watching/posting videos on the Internet by 35 percent—while Gen Y usage decreased slightly (-2 percent)
- Accelerated playing video games on the go via mobile devices by 52 percent— 20 times faster than Gen Y (2 percent)
- Increased listening to music on an iPod or other portable music player by 49 percent—more than four times faster than Gen Y (12 percent)
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- Participation slipped in virtual worlds from 23 percent to 19 percent
- Consumed no more video online than they did last year
- Clogged and contributed to wikis less (it's down from 35 to 33 percent)
Additional data from the latest Accenture report is summarized here from TWICE.
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Generation of a FHV-1 Viral Vaccine Against Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone for Immunocontraception of Felines
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With approximately 8.5 million unwanted cats euthanized in the U.S. annually, convenient, cost effective methods of sterilization are greatly needed. Current spay/neuter techniques, such as surgery and hormonal intervention, are not satisfying this need due to their high cost, significant expertise required, and the need for feral cats to be collected and brought into clinics for treatment. The aim of this research is to develop a safe contraceptive vaccine that could be delivered to the feral cat population in bait without compromising non-feline species. Feline Herpes Virus (FHV) is a feline specific virus. The USDA has approved the immunization of cats with an attenuated, non-pathogenic strain of FHV expressing foreign antigens. In our research, we have partially replaced Glycoprotein I of FHV to express a fusion protein of Flagellin (FliC), Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein (EGFP), and Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone (GnRH). FliC has been shown to stimulate a heightened antibody response when antigens are expressed as fusion proteins with it. GnRH, a major reproductive hormone responsible for the development of testes and ovaries in felines, is the target of our vaccine vector. Expression of EGFP will allow tracking of the viral vector. The expression of the fusion protein (FliC-EGFP-GnRH) is expected to stimulate an antibody and cell mediated immune response directed towards feline GnRH, which will provide an immunocontraceptive effect specific to cats.
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We are a friendly, easy going family with 4 kids. We have a 170 acre hobby farm with 100 acres of covenanted native bush. We are pretty much organic, the kids and animals are free range, and we love living in the Far North on our beautiful property.
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We would particularly like to host anyone that has building/carpentry skills, lumberjack skills, farm skills, painting experience, an interest or experience in gardening or permaculture, or anyone strong and fit that is happy to do some of the heavier work around the farm.
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"Artistic expression is under threat worldwide. Authoritarian governments jail cartoonists for sedition, lock up poets and painters for blasphemy, prosecute rappers for insulting the state, and illegally censor filmmakers."
After March's trip to UNESCO I continue in my role on the board of directors with Cartoonists Rights Network International to travel and represent the organisation at meetings focused on challenges to artists' rights.
Today I'll be participating in a gathering in Los Angeles called for by David Kaye, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression and launching "a new effort to revive the protections guaranteed to artistic expression in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [...] a workshop to examine the definitions, standards, and human rights law pertaining to artistic freedom of expression, identify the key threats, and collect stories of artists' experiences on the ground. [...] The workshop will bring together 25 international experts, including artists, lawyers, activists, policymakers and academics in order to develop a long-term agenda to promote freedom of artistic expression around the world."
I'm grateful to Prof. Kaye for his gracious and most welcome invitation; his team at the University of California, Irvine School of Law for their assistance in handling the logistics of the event; and our generous hosts at the Artistic Freedom Center.


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The terms 1 and 2 correspond to degenerate polygons.
These are also the numbers for which phi(n) is a power of 2: A209229(A000010(a(n)) = 1. - Olivier Gérard Feb 15 1999
A004729 and A051916 are subsequences. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 20 2010
From Stanislav Sykora, May 02 2016: (Start)
The sequence can be also defined as follows: (i) 1 is a member. (ii) Double of any member is also a member. (iii) If a member is not divisible by a Fermat prime F_k then its product with F_k is also a member. In particular, the powers of 2 (A000079) are a subset and so are the Fermat primes (A019434), which are the only odd prime members.
The definition is too restrictive (though correct): The Georg Mohr - Lorenzo Mascheroni theorem shows that constructibility using a straightedge and a compass is equivalent to using compass only. Moreover, Jean Victor Poncelet has shown that it is also equivalent to using straightedge and a fixed ('rusty') compass. With the work of Jakob Steiner, this became part of the Poncelet-Steiner theorem establishing the equivalence to using straightedge and a fixed circle (with a known center). A further extension by Francesco Severi replaced the availability of a circle with that of a fixed arc, no matter how small (but still with a known center).
Constructibility implies that when m is a member of this sequence, the edge length 2*sin(Pi/m) of an m-gon with circumradius 1 can be written as a finite expression involving only integer numbers, the four basic arithmetic operations, and the square root. (End)
Subsequence of A295298. - Antti Karttunen, Nov 27 2017
A. H. Beiler, Recreations in the Theory of Numbers, Dover, NY, 1964, p. 183.
Allan Clark, Elements of Abstract Algebra, Chapter 4, Galois Theory, Dover Publications, NY 1984, page 124.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
B. L. van der Waerden, Modern Algebra. Unger, NY, 2nd ed., Vols. 1-2, 1953, Vol. 1, p. 187.
T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..2000
T. Chomette, Construction des polygones reguliers
Bruce Director, Measurement and Divisibility.
David Eisenbud and Brady Haran, Heptadecagon and Fermat Primes (the math bit), Numberphile video (2015)
Mauro Fiorentini, Construibili (numeri)
C. F. Gauss, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, 1801. English translation: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1966, p. 460. Original (Latin)
R. K. Guy, The Second Strong Law of Small Numbers, Math. Mag, 63 (1990), no. 1, 3-20. [Annotated scanned copy]
R. K. Guy and N. J. A. Sloane, Correspondence, 1988.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Constructible Number
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Constructible Polygon
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Regular Polygon
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Trigonometry
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Trigonometry Angles
Wikipedia, Constructible number
Wikipedia, Regular polygon
Wikipedia, Mohr-Mascheroni theorem
Wikipedia, Poncelet-Steiner theorem
R. G. Wilson, V, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, Aug. 1993
Terms from 3 onward are computable as numbers such that cototient-of-totient equals the totient-of-totient: Flatten[Position[Table[co[eu[n]]-eu[eu[n]], {n, 1, 10000}], 0]] eu[m]=EulerPhi[m], co[m]=m-eu[m]. - Labos Elemer, Oct 19 2001, clarified by Antti Karttunen, Nov 27 2017
Any product of 2^k and distinct Fermat primes (primes of the form 2^(2^m)+1). - Sergio Pimentel, Apr 30 2004, edited by Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Jun 16 2006
If the well known conjecture that, there are only five prime Fermat numbers F_k=2^{2^k}+1, k=0,1,2,3,4, then we have exactly: sum_{n=1,...,infty} 1/a(n)= 2*prod_{k=0,...,4} (1+1/F_k) = 4869735552/1431655765 = 3.40147098978.... - Vladimir Shevelev and T. D. Noe, Dec 01 2010
log a(n) >> sqrt(n); if there are finitely many Fermat primes, then log a(n) ~ k log n for some k. - Charles R Greathouse IV, Oct 23 2015
34 is a term of this series because a circle can be divided exactly in 34 parts. 7 is not.
Select[ Range[ 1300 ], IntegerQ[ Log[ 2, EulerPhi[ # ] ] ]& ] (* Olivier Gérard Feb 15 1999 *)
(* first do *) Needs["DiscreteMath`Combinatorica`"] (* then *) Take[ Union[ Flatten[ NestList[2# &, Times @@@ Table[ UnrankSubset[n, Join[{1}, Table[2^2^i + 1, {i, 0, 4}]]], {n, 63}], 11]]], 60] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jun 11 2005 *)
nn=10; logs=Log[2, {2, 3, 5, 17, 257, 65537}]; lim2=Floor[nn/logs[[1]]]; Sort[Reap[Do[z={i, j, k, l, m, n}.logs; If[z<=nn, Sow[2^z]], {i, 0, lim2}, {j, 0, 1}, {k, 0, 1}, {l, 0, 1}, {m, 0, 1}, {n, 0, 1}]][[2, 1]]]
A092506 = {2, 3, 5, 17, 257, 65537}; s = Sort[Times @@@ Subsets@ A092506]; mx = 1300; Union@ Flatten@ Table[(2^n)*s[[i]], {i, 64}, {n, 0, Log2[mx/s[[i]]]}] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jul 28 2014 *)
a003401 n = a003401_list !! (n-1)
a003401_list = map (+ 1) $ elemIndices 1 $ map a209229 a000010_list
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Jul 31 2012
(PARI) for(n=1, 10^4, my(t=eulerphi(n)); if(t/2^valuation(t, 2)==1, print1(n, ", "))); \\ Joerg Arndt, Jul 29 2014
from sympy import totient
A003401_list = [n for n in range(1, 10**4) if format(totient(n), 'b').count('1') == 1]
# Chai Wah Wu, Jan 12 2015
Cf. A000079, A004169, A000215, A099884, A019434 (Fermat primes), A295298.
Edge lengths of other constructible m-gons: A002194 (m=3), A002193 (4), A182007 (5), A101464 (8), A094214 (10), A101263 (12), A272534 (15), A272535 (16), A228787 (17), A272536 (20).
Positions of zeros in A293516 (apart from two initial -1's), positions of ones in A295660.
Cf. also A046528.
Sequence in context: A182418 A204580 A295298 * A281624 A242441 A064481
Adjacent sequences: A003398 A003399 A003400 * A003402 A003403 A003404
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Inside a Wii Controller/
I was sitting waiting for an ebay auction to nearly finish so that I can pile in with a last minute bid when I wondered to myself if there was anything about the inside of the Wii remote controller out there on the interweb. Turns out there is.
Very interesting, and lovely pictures.


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April 9–25, 2015
New York, NY
Conceived by Third Rail Projects Artistic Directors Zach Morris, Tom Pearson, and Jennine Willett, Genuine Plastic Reliquaries included two world premieres. The first, Sign of the Times by Zach Morris, is a duet that navigates over an assemblage of light-up retro roadside billboards. Ricocheting off of Open-All-Nite signs, two dancers grapple with the overblown promises, wide-eyed wonder, and disenchanting realities of what awaits us at the next exit. The second premier, Pizza Queen by Tom Pearson, part of One New York Plaza's "Redefining Americana" series, is a love song to all-night eateries and diner-booths. A solo performer transforms herself, and her environment, from a bored waitress in a pizza joint, to a lounge-y androgynous crooner in a posh den, and finally to a spectacular, glittering superstar in her own fantastical disco-tech. Paired with the new works was a re-mounting of Yolk (by all three directors), a durational dance performance for two dancers and two 1970's-era egg chairs. Set against the bustle of midtown Manhattan, Yolk is part time capsule and part hidden treasure, offering meditative movement and saturated images of ready-made goddesses transforming within a fragile shell. The series culminated in a presentation of all three performances on April 25 at One New York Plaza.
Genuine Plastic Reliquaries was the latest chapter in a longstanding creative partnership between Third Rail Projects and Arts Brookfield that began in 2009, including developmental residencies for Then She Fell, the long-running immersive theater hit, named as one of The New York Times' top ten shows of 2012, and 2013′s critically acclaimed Roadside Attraction, and Genuine Plastic Reliquaries was part of an ongoing series of projects and explorations that culminated in a large-scale work, The Grand Paradise, which premiered in New York City in February of 2016.
Photography by Adam Jason Photography, Darial Sneed, and Joshua Dutton-Reaver
Created by Third Rail Projects
Artistic Directors
Zach Morris, Tom Pearson, Jennine Willett
Written, Choreographed, and Directed by
Zach Morris, Tom Pearson, Jennine Willett
Created in Collaboration with and Performed by
Elizabeth Carena, Roxanne Kidd, Tara O'Con, Joshua Reaver, Jessy Smith
Composer: Meiko's Starlight Orchestra (Yolk), Sean Hagerty, with Isaiah Singer (Sign of the Times and Pizza Queen)
Costume Design: Karen Young with Tom Pearson (Pizza Queen) and Zach Morris (Sign of the Times)
Set and Installation Designs: Tom Pearson and Zach Morris with Elisabeth Svenningsen
Set Build: Elisabeth Svenningsen and Carlton C. Ward
Production Manager: Brittany Crowell
Stage Manager: Elisabeth Svenningsen
Wardrobe Assistant: TJ Burleson
Costume Intern: Audrey Ketchell
Commissioned and Presented by Arts Brookfield


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Tonight was EQAO night for the Education Committee. Unfortunately, our EQAO results were a mixed bag at both the elementary and secondary levels. They can be found here.
In grade 3, there were declines in writing and math, but an increase in reading. In grade 6, there was a decline in writing, an increase in reading, and no change in math. Furthermore, the board performed below the provincial aggregate in every area in grade 3 and 6.
The increases in reading were somewhat of a pleasant surprise because we have received many students to GECDSB who are learning English as a Second Language over the last 18 months or so. However, we implemented new programming in the last school year to assist grade 2 and 3 students struggling with literacy. Lexia and Empower are intensive computer-based programs that work as both diagnostic and learning tools. Essentially, they help students and teachers know where students need the most help, and the computer program is designed to focus students in the areas they need, providing reinforcement as they reach new achievement levels. We saw through our own studies using these programs that they have been wildly successful. In fact, the Lexia and Empower diagnostics showed that all students improved, with some grade 2 students moving from Kindergarten level reading to grade 4 reading, and some students at the grade 3 reading level moving to grades 4 and 5. During the presentation we heard about some quotes from students, including, "It made me read better and it made me happy." It seems that these programs may have impacted our EQAO scores as well as we saw increases in EQAO scores for students with Special Education and ESL needs last year in grade 3.
I am hoping that the increases in reading are precursors to increases in math. The board undertook a significant math intervention through the Math Task Force which was completed in April of 2016 and in which I am deeply invested. More information about the MTF can be found here. We learned at tonight's meeting that most of the recommendations from the MTF have been implemented, but some are targeted for implementation through 2017-18. Moreover, some will be ongoing and evolving such as professional development and alignment of all departments to support math, the goal being to ensure that we are changing the math culture. That is, it is important to change the pervasive mindset (not just within our board, but within the broader culture) that some people just can't do math. As Superintendent Clara Howitt pointed out, "It's not okay to say 'I just can't read. I'm not a reading person.' We should have the same expectations about math."
There is a section on the EQAO that asks students about their attitudes and beliefs about reading, writing, and math. There were some interesting findings this time around suggesting that our work to change attitudes about math may have made some early gains. Specifically, more students indicated they like math and believe they are good at math most of the time, even more than they believed the same about writing, and more than their belief that they are good at reading. In fact, slightly more than 50% of students indicated these beliefs about math this year, whereas less than 50% indicated these beliefs about writing. As disposition is a factor that relates to math achievement for students, this is a good sign, and it was one of the recommendations of the MTF.
It is also possible to study math EQAO based on the specific assessment areas. There is a pervasive belief that we need to "get back to the basics" - and not just within our board. The EQAO assessment areas include fundamentals in both grade 3 and 6 (i.e., number sense) as well as thinking and conceptual areas. In both grades, GECDSB students did well in the fundamentals (the basics), but the area of need across the board is conceptual understanding and application. That is not to say that no students need support in the basics, but it does help us to know where to direct our efforts at a board level.
Unfortunately, the results for both the grade 9 math EQAO and grade 10 OSSLT showed slippage. Although GECDSB is still performing higher than the provincial aggregates in both areas, applied math declined by 12 points and academic math declined by 1 point. OSSLT declined by 1 point as well. Although administration is still undertaking analyses to understand why there was such an extreme decline in applied math, comparing the student feedback questions between the applied and academic students does provide some insight. While only 35% of students in applied math like math, 59% of students in academic math like math. In addition, while only 40% of students in applied math believe they are good at math most of the time, 58% of students in academic math believe they are good at math most of the time. There are some clear differences in disposition here.
With regard to next steps, although there are no diagnostics for math like the Lexia and Empower programs for reading, the board will be implementing a game-based program called Knowledgehook that teachers can use with students in grade 7 and 9. Parents and students can use it home as well.
As I've written before, we need to get this right. My personal focus as a trustee has been the math outcome area. I am proud of the work of the MTF, but the work is not over. We have a plan that many educators and administrators in our board developed along with parents and with input and feedback from students and academics. I believe we should honour their work and the plan and give some time to work out any bugs and allow it to come to fruition. Educators at all levels are working very hard and they continue to dedicate hours every day to math professional development, research, and teaching. The board has seen this before when literacy showed decline. When we directed energy toward it, literacy outcomes improved, although it did take time. We set the direction for math in April 2016 and these results come after one full school year. Without a complete implementation of the MTF and a bit more time, it would not be prudent to hastily modify what we are doing. However, we do have closely monitor how it is working because this is not really about EQAO. It is about our children's futures.
(I am pulling from my September 21 Facebook post now.)
The point of EQAO isn't EQAO scores. It's about the big picture. It's what they mean for our students' futures after they leave us.
The timing of the results coincide with two other new pieces of information about Windsor-Essex. First, we have the highest child poverty rates in Canada at 24%. Carrying this directly through means we have about 8600 kids in our board who are lacking basic needs. The thing is, education helps lift children out of poverty. That means the same kids coming to school without food in their bellies are the ones that need this the most. There are breakfast programs in many of our schools and we need to examine what more we can do to ensure kids are ready to learn.
Second, the community has a great opportunity to partner on a bid for Amazon's North American HQ described here. As a web-based company they will obviously be looking to hire people with computer skills which requires math. These opportunities will keep coming up. With great math skills GECDSB can help carry our entire community into the future.
I can assure you that I am following these developments and our progress very closely. We will continue to invest resources in math until we change the direction of these outcomes.


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(Chicago) The Illinois Environmental Council (IEC) will honor Senator Don Harmon, Senator Mike Frerichs, and Representative Mike Fortner for Outstanding Environmental Leadership at its 11th Annual Environmental Leadership Dinner today. The 11th Annual Environmental Leadership Dinner will be held at the Holiday Inn Merchandise Mart, 350 W. Mart Center Drive in Chicago, Illinois.
IEC's Environmental Leadership Awards are given out each year to legislators, individuals, organizations, or businesses that have made a significant achievement in the past year towards addressing the environmental community's most significant issues. Eleven Illinois state legislators have been previous recipients of the IEC Environmental Leadership Award.
"We are honoring three legislators tonight because of the very significant pieces of legislation that Senator Harmon, Senator Frerichs, and Representative Fortner have passed through the legislature," said Jen Walling, executive director of IEC. We are grateful for the leadership each has shown on critical environmental issues."
Senator Don Harmon will receive this special recognition because of his work improving access to open space through SB1042 – restoration of recreation liability protections to private landowners – and his leadership on renewable energy issues and efforts to introduce a fracking moratorium in the Illinois Senate.
"I want to thank the IEC for this award and, more importantly, for the work the IEC and its affiliates do to protect our state's natural resources. We all need to work together to keep our land, air and water safe for generations to come," said Illinois State Senator Don Harmon (D-Oak Park).
Senator Michael Frerichs will receive this special recognition for his leadership as the first legislator to introduce legislation regulating hydraulic fracturing in Illinois and for his leadership on legislation to reduce nutrient pollution.
"I have been pleased to work with the Illinois Environmental Council and the Illinois environmental community to pass legislation over the past few years. Our efforts have led to increased programs to reduce nutrient pollution from agriculture, new opportunities for green business through benefit corporations and the toughest fracking rules in the nation. I appreciate the honor of receiving the IEC's Environmental Leadership Reward this year and look forward to continue working with the organization on future legislation," said Senator Mike Frerichs (D-Champaign).
Representative Mike Fortner will receive this special recognition for his work on green stormwater infrastructure and municipal aggregation.
"The passage of two bills encouraging the use of green stormwater infrastructure – HB1522 and SB1869 – provide new opportunities to manage and finance this infrastructure," said Hal Sprague, Water Policy Manager at Center for Neighborhood Technology. "This cost-effective infrastructure will protect water quality and prevent property damage from flooding."
The keynote speaker at the 11th annual Environmental Leadership Dinner will be Dale Bryk, Energy and Transportation Program Director at Natural Resources Defense Council. Dale Bryk is director of NRDC's energy and transportation program and a senior attorney. Her expertise is in the area of climate policy, including cap-and-trade design, utility regulation, energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, global warming pollution registries, green building and smart growth. She worked on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and was featured as a guest on The Colbert Report. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and teaches at the Yale Law School environmental protection clinic.
The Illinois Environmental Council (IEC) is a non-partisan 38 year-old organization that promotes sound environmental laws and policies, provides a forum for environmentalists and facilitates a statewide activist network. IEC performs legislative advocacy and serves as the environmental community's eyes, ears and voice in Springfield.


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NEW YORK — Sean Hannity shares a world view with President Donald Trump and on Monday it was revealed, with some reluctance, that he shares a lawyer, too.
The Fox News Channel prime-time host is Trump's most vocal defender on television, and a week ago he was on the air criticizing the FBI raid on the president's personal attorney Michael Cohen as evidence that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's "witch hunt" against the president has become a runaway train.
After it was revealed in a court hearing Monday that Cohen represented Hannity, Fox News did not immediately say whether it knew that ahead of time, or whether Hannity had any ethical obligation to reveal that relationship to viewers. A threat to Hannity is a threat to Fox: His show is the most-watched program on the network and he runs neck-and-neck with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow as the most popular on-air cable news personality.
Monday's hearing before U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood in New York was about what should happen to seized material from Cohen. Cohen's lawyers did not want to publicly reveal that Hannity was a client, but Wood said that "I understand he doesn't want his name out there, but that's not enough under the law."
Hannity said on his radio show that he had never retained Cohen "in any traditional sense," but that he occasionally went to him with legal questions. While he said he had not paid Cohen, he believed their discussions were protected under attorney-client privilege. He later tweeted that he mostly asked Cohen questions about legal matters.
"It never, ever involved a matter between me and any third party," Hannity said.
During his live radio show, he seemed flustered that he was getting a steady stream of phone and email messages about it.
"I don't think this is such a big deal," he said. "Why do you think the media is going crazy on this?"
CNN and MSNBC heavily covered the revelation. Fox did, too, but spent far less time on it Monday afternoon. Still, it was noteworthy that on Fox's show "The Five," panelist Juan Williams said Hannity had some questions to answer.
"The question for me is, why Sean didn't disclose this earlier," Williams said.
Besides supporting Trump on his show, Hannity reportedly talks to the president regularly and, last week, Trump even tweeted out a promotion, telling his followers that Hannity was going to have a big show coming up.
It's not the first time Hannity and Trump have shared a lawyer, either. Hannity, who said Monday that he had eight lawyers representing him in various matters, revealed last summer on his radio show that he had hired Trump attorney Jay Sekulow. Sekulow has been a frequent guest on Hannity's Fox show.
On his Fox show last Monday, Hannity said that the Cohen raid represented a "dangerous phase" of Mueller's investigation "and there is no turning back from this."
He said earlier that day, on his radio show, that a sense of "mission creep" had developed.
"It seems that there's no limit at all into the fishing expedition that Mueller is now engaged in and if he has access to everything that (Trump's) personal attorney has, I can only imagine where that's going to lead."
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Amazing Magician - Grad Nights & Safe and Sober After Prom Parties/
Amazing magician! That was the review given by several students this past week. On Sunday, May 22nd, I performed for the Newbury Park High School Safe and Sober After Prom Party where a couple hundred students showed up for a night festivities that lasted until 5:00 a.m.
The After Prom Party was held in a movie theater, and my performance started at Midnight with an hour of strolling close-up magic. At 1:00 A.M. I headed into one of the theaters where I had already set up for a 45-minute show. With a packed house, Dee Dee and I proceeded to showcase our particular brand of magic that was unlike anything these students had ever seen. They were a great audience, and we had a blast performing for everyone. This was our third year in a row performing at this event, and we've already been invited back to perform next year.
On Wednesday, May 25th, Dee Dee and I headed to Hemet, CA to perform at the Hemet High Grad Night. This was our second year performing at this event, which was held in their gymnasium. With 500 grads in attendance, our performance started at Midnight with two hours of strolling close-up magic. The new graduates were highly animated, and the interactive close-up magic got them primed for the stage show which started at 3:00 A.M.
With the grads sitting on the gym floor, these young adults were surprisingly awake as we hit the small stage. What followed was a rollercoaster ride of laughter and amazement. 45 minutes later it all came to an end. After packing up and getting paid, we were once again asked to return next year.
I gotta love my repeat clients, and performing for these young people is always a lot of fun! To get more info on my grad night and after prom shows, please visit www.LouSerrano.com/grad-night-magician.
Lou Serrano
(About the Author: Lou Serrano is a professional magician based in Los Angeles, and is available for hire to entertain at social, association, and corporate events world-wide.)


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Having dogs has dramatically affected my attitude towards the behaviour of kids and their parents.
I know what it is desperately to want my dogs not to lurch at an innocent passerby, but I'm grappling with heavy bags of groceries while they're tugging on the leash and I Just Can't Quite get them under control. Or what it is to know they've made so much progress with them on a particular behaviour and yet they're not quite Good Enough for the person observing a situation. Or frankly, what it is to try to work with Two Dogs when there's only One of me, and sometimes, I am too overwhelmed or frustrated to bother trying.
I also know what it is to have 2 dogs who are delightful, simply delightful, the vast majority of the time only to be seen on less-good-behaviour by someone who then judges them as if that's the sum total of them. (and to you folks, Piss Off, I say)
So now when I see kids having a tantrum, I'm much more inclined to cast a sympathetic glance at the mom and know that she's likely trying her best. Or when I see a dad yell at his kids, to recall the time I threw two (empty!) 2L pop bottles at my guys one time when they yapped despite my multiple "Quiet!" commands. And then feel horrible afterward and ply them with chewy rolls as apology. I get it now, or more so at any rate, that most parents are doing the best they can with their supply of inner and outer resources.
This afternoon I was at the local Co-op store. A together-looking mom was dispatching her energetic daughter to get this and that grocery item while the mom also browsed the aisles. However. The girl (six? seven?) was pushing a small cart with her brother (five?) inside it, and running – yes, energetically *running* – along this aisle and that. It was one km/hr away from careening. The store was decidedly full of shoppers and I know I was constantly on edge wondering when the girl was going to accidentally run into me (she didn't. nor did she run into any shoppers, to my knowledge).
Question for you, readers – esp. parents: Would you have said something to the mom? Or just live and let live?
Photo Credit: Eden (ed note: and this is *not* a picture of the child in question!)


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Around Christmas, we went to see my family in Sacramento (and that's where I got my watercolor Moleskine! :)). I drove 450 miles to and from, with a 4.5 month old baby and a dog. I feel like a hero.
Crayons, found in various places in my brothers' room, turned out to be quite interesting. You can add color to your lines plus they resist paint so bravely!


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Various pictures from my Flickr account.
Various pictures from my Flickr account.
Hi Adam – I am in the process of adding 70 trails around Mt. Hood onto REI's sponsored site http://www.hikingproject.com I would like to use some of your pictures – particularly the one at McIntyre Ridge by the bench. I would give you photo credit. Please let me know if that is possible. Thank you!
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tamil: Inji
malayalam: Inchi
telugu: Allam / Allamu / Sonthi
kannada: Shunti / Alla / Ashi Shunti / Ardraka
hindi: Adrak / Adu / Soonth
Bengali: Ada
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Marathi: Aale
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Punjabi: Adrak
Tulu: Soonthi
Urudu: Adrak / Adhrak
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English: Chilli Powder
tamil: Mulakupodi
malayalam: Mulakupodi
telugu: Erra Mirapa Kayalu / Yendu Mirapakayalu
kannada: Molaku / Kempu Menasinakai / Ona Menasinakai
hindi: Lal Mirch
Bengali: Paka Lanka / Lal Mirch / Lankamorich
Gujarati: Lal Marcha
Konkani: Sukki Saangi /Suke Miriyasang
Marathi: Lal Mirchi / Mirchya
Oriya: Lanka / Nali Lankamaricha
Punjabi: Lal Mirch
Kashmiri: Marach Wangun
Urudu: Lalmirch
English: Cashewnuts
tamil: Mundhiri Paruppu / Andiparippu
malayalam: Andiparippu / Kashuvandiparippu / Parangi Andi
telugu: Jeedipappu
kannada: Godambi / Geru Beeja
hindi: Kaju
Bengali: Hijli Badam
Gujarati: Kaju
Konkani: Cajjubi / Caaju / Moyi / Kazu
Marathi: Kaju
Oriya: Kaju / Lanka Ambumanji / Kajubadam
Punjabi: Kaju
Tulu: Goanku
Kashmiri: Kaju
English: oil
tamil: Ennai
malayalam: enna
telugu: camuru
kannada: taila
hindi: tela
Punjabi: moyen
English: Cream
tamil: Paal Aadai
malayalam: Cream
telugu: Meegadu
kannada: Kene
hindi: Malai
Gujarati: Malai
Marathi: Saih
English: Onion
tamil: Vaengayam
malayalam: Savala
telugu: Nirulli / Ullipayalu / Yerra Gaddalu
kannada: Ulligadde / Erulli / Neeruli
hindi: Pyaz / Dungri / Kanda
Bengali: Pyajj / Piyaz
Gujarati: Dungri / Kanda
Konkani: Sawalo / Piyavu
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Punjabi: Pyaz
English: Green Chillies
tamil: Pachchii Milagai
malayalam: Pachamulagu
telugu: Patchimirapa / Pachchi Mirapakayalu
kannada: Hasi Menasinakai
hindi: Hara Mircha / Hari Mirch
Bengali: Kancha Lanka / Maricha
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Oriya: Lila Marcha
Punjabi: Mirchan
English: Cilantro / Coriander Leaves
tamil: Kothamalli Ilai / Malli Ilai
malayalam: Kothamalli Ila / Malli Ila
telugu: Kothimeera / Kothamalli Kooraku
kannada: Kottambari Soppu
hindi: Hara Dhania Ke Patte / Dhania Patha
Bengali: Dhonay Patha
Gujarati: Kothmir / Dhana
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Marathi: Kothimbir
Oriya: Dhania Patra
Punjabi: Hara Dhania
English: Salt
tamil: Uppu
malayalam: Uppu
telugu: Uppu
kannada: Uppu
hindi: Namak
Bengali: Laban / Noone
Gujarati: Meethu
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Cut the chicken pieces and mix in salt, ginger-garlic paste, lemon juice. Keep aside for 15 mins.
Blend the cashew nuts and make a paste.
Heat oil in a pan or a kadai.
Add onions and fry until they become golden brown.
Add yoghurt, chilly powder, chopped green chilies, garam masala, salt, red orange color and cashew paste and mix well.
Add chicken pieces and cook until chicken is done.
:- Serve with cream and coriander leaves on it.
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