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I think I''m gonna barf....
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Can''t you two get together, already?
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You must have been close by, Wildheart. Good
for you, you have the right attitude. You will do fine. Thanks for the response.
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dhartdallas: I was sad to hear about your marital parting. Even when it is amicable, it is still stressful and sad. Your situation sounds almost exactly like mine (though I was married for 18 years instead of 30).
I wish that more people could realize that sometimes things change. People change and grow, and unless they change and grow together, they change and grow apart. Often times, it is nobody''s "fault", it just happens. My ex-husband and I are still friends, we have lunch together three or four times a month. He has found someone else and is getting remarried at the end of this year. Guess what? Since I was always the "travel guru" of the family, he has asked me to book their honeymoon trip for them. I have some connections and can save them some money, so I''m happy to do that. I want him to be happy. And, I want to be happy. It IS possible to remain friends after marriage ends.
Life is WAY too short to be fighting and arguing all the time. I just hate it when I see divorced couples treat each other badly. Maybe sometimes it can''t be helped, but once you''ve lived with someone for so many years, you have a history together. So much easier on the mind and body to dwell on the positive, instead of the negative.
I have no children, so this is really a period of "freedom" for me, the first time in my life that I have not had to "answer to" anyone. The initial sadness of our parting has passed, and life is good again.
Well, enough of my soapbox for today.
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Thanks, Wildheart, for your comments. That was sweet. I was married for thirty years to
my first and only, so far, wife. It was a very mutual, extremely civil end and divorce.
It just died over the last few years so we
buried it quietly. Nobody''s fault. We were just two different people thirty years later
from when we met. We are still good friends,
still respect and have concern for each other
and still cooperate for the wellfare of our two daughters and two grandkids. Neither of
us have any regrets, and both would redo the
entire experience even knowing what we know
now. Life is real.
I went to Charleston afterwards and spent two
years living aboard. My brother was there, had retired from the Navy there and we had
never gotten to be together much in our lives
so that gave me time to recover from the sadness, not pain but sadness, of the end of
a long relationship. I lived and worked over
seas for 15 years and that is where I started
sailing. I lived in Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Scotland, Norway, Libya, Hong Kong and Singapore and sailed in those places (my
daughters were both born in Port of Spain). When my marriage ended, I went back to the only place I knew that would bring surcease.
I''ve been back in Dallas two years now, and am long since ready to get back into life. I
am seriously thinking about going back onto a
boat and doing some cruising.
There are so many people out there looking for each other. It is sad there aren''t better
means for them to find each other. Such a waste of human heart.
Again, thanks for your kind and encouraging remarks. I have no doubt I will find her. It
is my intention.
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Well guys, all I can say is, I wish there were more men like you around where I live. The men I know want companionship, but not commitment. They want to "keep their options open in case something better comes along", don''t want any strings to tie them down.
I''ve found that there are some good things about being single. But, caring about someone, having someone to care about you (and yes, having someone to cuddle with, to dream and plan with, to sleep with), those are things that I miss.
Hang in there, y''all will find someone to share life with.
Happy sailing.....
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To Paul: P.S.
You may be right about out interloping in this forum. I didn''t think about that.
My apologies to the ladies. We hadn''t planned to anchor here.
Paul, perhaps you should come back to me under "Start New Discussion". We wouldn''t want to take advantage of their gracious tolerance. Maybe some couples will join us
there and we can continue discussing love and
intimacy under sail. Just a suggestion. Later.
our musings.
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No, Paul, I was not being sarcastic. I started mine where you left off, at the end
of the day. You are right about competition
turning into cooperation, about first mate,
second mate disappearing as two pull together
You say the sea can be mean and dangerous. Isn''t that a true of life as well? Can not
land be mean and dangerous? What you have described is how it should be. Putting two people in so small a space together with no
outside stimulous, off of the well trodden
paths of habitual behavior, even inside the
house itself gives them the enviornment that
allows them to be close, to communicate, to
see only each other and to actually talk to
each other while they work together to sail
their craft. That is how it should be on the
beach, in the house. But we get busy. Things happen. We say things, do things on
impulse, without thinking and it hangs in the
air sometimes for weeks. And the stress of
living in a complex society doesn''t help.
The sea is not dangerous, any more than life
is. It has danger in it, to be sure. But only when we interlope upon it. We are land
creatures so we have to make a tool, also from the land, in order to go upon it. We initiate our danger. The sea just is and just
behaves according to its nature. We, the initiators of the relationship, have the burden to ensure we have considered the requirements for our safety while interloping
upon the sea. She means us no harm. But she
can not think for us.
Why do I say woumb? It was the sea that spawned all life. Our very blood still has the same salinity as the sea. The biggest problem is that nature endowed us for different work, different roles. One is right
brain; one is left brain. Women are sensual,
creatures of feeling. Men are rational, creatures of logic. Women are the makers of
children, the nurturers of the people, and
the keepers of the culture. Men are the keepers of the territory, the hunters, and
the warriors. One doesn''t say to her, "Do
you see that? Isn''t that logical?" One says,
"How do you feel about that? Does that seem
right?" We must learn to speak each others
language. And to translate into each others
language from our own. Remember, security is
very, very important to a woman both physically and emotionally - especially emotionally. Well, I didn''t mean to do this.
I started out to give a simple reply. I, too,
am without a mate. After thirty years with one, it doesn''s rest easily in me. I guess it
is more on my mind that I let myself see.
Thanks for the dialog. See you topside.
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I am not sure if you are serious or being sarcastic. I was serious. I do struggle a bit about leaving the house and sailing for a few months , when my second goes off to college. I do not have a wife to balance the equation.
You spoke of the sea being the womb and I think you are right. explain the connection however as we agree the sea can be hard and dangerous too.
The intimacy of sailing is one deeper then that of the physical. It is also of drive, sharing and understanding of the common element: the sea. When we share love at sea, it is second to the water, and that is commitment of a special kind.
I sense an argument, but do not look for one, rather some understanding...
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Very well spoken pmills42255, very well indeed.
The hook is down in a quiet, isolated anchorage and holding. The sails are furled and covered. The gear is stowed, decks swabbed, dinner over and the dishes done. You
sit in the cockpit, your hands wrapped around
a cup of steaming coffee. Your nose, poised
just above the hot liquid, inhales slowly,
deeply while the aromatic essence of brewed
beans grown half way round the world flows
through your nostrils like living plazma,
warming you. From somewhere below, soft, smooth jazz floats quietly out to you
through the utter stillness. You feel a presence beside you. You look over. Her face is so close you can feel her breath on
your lips. Behind her head a blood red sun
slips slowly into the sea. You look into her
eyes and deep into her eyes. They turn to
shimmering liquid, and you see you in them.
The dying sun casts its final rays against the sheen of her hair forming a halo around
her face. Your mouths gently seek each other, find, form vacuum, lock while you drink long and deep and longer and deeper,
filling the cavernous depths of your inner
most being. Your lips part. You lean back,
drawing her to you. Her head lights gently
on your shoulder as your arms surround her
tenderly, protectively, forming an impenitrable wall between her and the world.
Somewhere in the distance the faint, almost
imperceptible sound of sea cascading onto
shore lulls you. You slip, catch yourself from habit, then remembering where you are,
surrender to it as it pulls you down in undulatilng waves and deeper down into the
oblivion of the unconsciousness of utter
You are right. Nothing nourishes love like the woumb of all life and love, the sea.
Thanks for reminding me.
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Through the Years
Through the years I have said and done so many wrong things that I really regret. Words I have said and things I've done that I cant take back. I know I really hurt people and destroyed their confidence in some way. Why did I do that? I am not 100% sure myself, and all that I know is that I got sucked into the wrong crowd. I fallowed them and figured hey, if I cant beat them. Ill join them. Thats exactly what I did, and I still dont know.
Fallowing the wrong crowd of people showed me somebody who I dont want to be like, and end up as. I noticed the lives I was hurting, destroying, and ruining. That made my heart hurt; for them. I asked myself almost everyday why? Why was I so ugly, rude, and hurtful? I didn't figure this out for a long time. Then one day I was laying in my bed, asking those questions again.
Then I came to the realization that I just wanted to fit in. I wanted and very much needed friends, but the friends I was friends with did nothing but cause me to destroy and hurt the people I love and care about the most. Thats when I deleted them and cut them all out of my life. Since then I changed my life, my words, and my actions. I sent apology letters and emails to everybody I hurt, and I hope that they will forgive me, and that I didn't damage them for life. If they dont I completely understand because I am accountable of what I have said, and done. Although this year is a new year.
My goal is to do nothing but lift and encourage others up, no matter what they have done or have said to me. Also, if I ever snapped or got ugly, or anything to anybody on here...I am truly 100% extremely sorry!!!
I have no idea how old you are (guessing about 16?) but it's time to grow up. Don't let other people influence who you want to be.
"Fitting in" is not important, chances are that in a couple of years time you will have nothing to do with the people you are "friends" with atm.
Be yourself, that takes more strength than being a bully!
Stand up for what you believe in, even small things like for example you don't like a movie all your friends like - that's fine, they may give you crap for it but most people will respect the fact that you don't just agree to be "the same". (and you often find if you're the one that says she didn't like it all of a sudden other people will speak up too.
Treat people the way you want them to treat you and they will help you become a mature, happy person!
Life is to short to hang out with people that make you feel like trash!!!
I agree with you and that is the necessary changes I am going to make.
Good :) Be strong, you can do it!!
That is great insight. Have you apologized to the people you have hurt? That will help you move forward. And you have a shepherd!!
These kinds of self realizations and self truths are difficult to acknowledge, but you need to do it if you ever want to mature and be at peace with yourself. It is very thoughtful and brave of you to send out cards apologizing.
Many people avoid this process by a lot of distractions; TV, music, always keeping busy with something. I'm glad you are moving in a positive direction. Now please forgive yourself and don't dwell on it too much. Try to forgive others who have hurt you in the past and you will start to experience freedom. Glad you have your shepherd to love unconditionally.
Whatever you've said and done, remember that you were just a kid... we all do stupid, irresponsible, and hurtful things when we're too young to know better, it's part of growing up. Now that you've reached the point where you realize you've done wrong, and are taking responsibility and making amends, you've crossed the threshold into adulthood.
And you'll probably make more mistakes as you learn and grow... again, that's part of living, but the fact that you can recognize and amend your mistakes is key. You're human and you're going to screw up just like the rest of us, but as you live and learn, you're less likely the make the same mistakes.
Thank you everybody and I truly do feel better for apologizing and such. I have gotten responses back and they all seemed to have forgiven me. Which makes me of course feel tons better!
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Over the past few weeks, college students across the country have been walking the stage and gleefully retrieving their diplomas. Unfortunately not everyone gets that happy ending. In the U.S., almost 30 percent of college students leave without completing a credential and don't return (over a six year period). Conventional wisdom, backed up by some recent reports, such as those from Complete College America and the College Board Study Group , suggests that the completion problem largely lies with "non-traditional students" (often defined as older, working students who attend less than full-time). But more comprehensive data released last fall by the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) paint a different picture. Rather than isolating age or enrollment intensity as the critical factors that explain differences in completion rates at two-year schools, the NSC data offer compelling evidence that two- and four-year institutions enroll fundamentally different types of students, and therefore the completion challenge should be viewed through that prism.
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- Older students complete at about the same rate as younger students. 35.8 percent of older students complete within six years, compared to 36.5 percent of younger students. And many students in both age groups who did not complete were still enrolled after six years (see Figure 1).
- Mixed-enrollment students were slightly less likely than full-time students to drop out. At the end of the six-year period, 39.9 percent of mixed-enrollment students were no longer enrolled and did not complete, versus 43.3 percent of full-time students (see Figure 2).
- Older students do not necessarily perform worse than younger students with the same enrollment patterns at two-year colleges. Young students (24 or younger) attending exclusively full-time perform slightly better than older students (over 24). But older students who attend exclusively part-time perform better than younger, exclusively part-time students.
College completion is a major challenge, and the NSC report shows that we need to improve completion across all institution types. However, the size and scope of the completion challenge at two-year public colleges should warrant significant consideration. According to CLASP analysis of NSC data, two-year public colleges serve a third of all undergraduates but account for almost half of non-completers.
|Figure 1: Older Students Complete at About the Same Rate as Younger Students
|Source: National Student Clearinghouse, Signature Report Four (November 2012)
But the solutions must be based on an accurate diagnosis of the problem. Completion is a challenge for all types of students in public two-year institutions, whether older or younger, attending full-time, part-time, or as mixed enrollees. Thus, proposals to determine student aid based on age or enrollment status are misguided. Policymakers should look at issues affecting all two-year college students, such as rising unmet financial need or increasing tuition and fees, that force students to work more while in school, which puts their completion at risk. Those problems point to other kinds of solutions, such as helping two-year institutions better support student success and providing more aid to low-income students so that they can work less and move toward that graduation day faster.
Completion is an important metric of a well-functioning higher education system; however, in proposing solutions we should not undermine the goal of college access based on incorrect assumptions about who does and does not complete.
Figure 2: Mixed-Enrollment Students Were Slightly Less Likely Than Full-Time Students to Drop Out
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I think while most of us are experienced dog owners and know well enough how smart, brave and versatile GSDs can be. I personally have always held employment with dogs and know the good and bad of most breeds. Even still I was grossly unprepared for Fawn's intense puppy energy and addiction to biting. I did not expect a breed not known for hard-headed tendencies to be such a challenging puppy.
My pup is a rescue in which we were providing care for her mother while her accidental litter was bottle-raised. I will always prefer to save a life but I'm not sure I would adopt a full GSD again without knowing anything about their lines. All I know is the sire was "large, black and tan" but I have no idea if he was show lines, working lines, yard bred or etc. I just have to hope she has the great temperament of her dam and do my best with her.
|My biggest mistake I'm still trying to correct is believing that training a GSD is easier than you think. I believed that the breed is so motivated to please you they will catch on super quick and training would be a snap. True to a point. Yes they catch on really fast. Yes they are eager to please. However I have those days like today that Gunther refuses to listen to a single thing I say and has been nothing but pee and vinegar since I woke up. I've been home from work for almost 4 hours now and usually he sleeps and then wakes up at 2 am for play time. I play for 30 minutes and he sleeps the rest of the night. Not tonight. He napped for about 10 minutes since I have been home and will NOT settle down. I have never been so tempted in my life to have the dog sleep outside. But I won't and never would. Just going to start over again tomorrow. He's going on 10 months and I'm going on the verge of insanity.
I wouldn't overwhelm my pup so much. I'm not a novice dog owner and I read so much about the importance of socialising GSDs I got it all wrong. I was so stressed she would have issues I threw her in to way to many situations with crazy dogs. She's now dog reactive thanks to my poor management and over thinking. Relax and enjoy your pup and be protective. Teach your pup manners with other dogs and protect it from dogs without manners. On the plus side I've learnt a lot from her in the last year and she's on her way to being a great, calm dog.......but there was a much easier way of getting to that point.
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I am by no means an experience owner I am still learning as I go but one thing that I have got stuck in my head is that having a gsd puppy is like having a child for me. I notice myself practicing the same patience and energy patterns that I go through with my son. Thor relies on me to feed him, give him fresh water, keep him clean, give him playtime and tons of love and my son relies on me for the same things. I don't treat my puppy like a human at all but I do think the effort is similar there.
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I'm glad I crate trained and persevered through her full on temper tantrum's when I first started. She's great about it now. Ex-pens can be helpful too.
Socializing means to expose your dog to things at a distance they are comfortable with, not overwhelm them/bombard them with things. Your GSD does not have to be overly social with other dogs and people, so don't force it, if they aren't wired to be that way. They should be neutral though (not aggressive), but don't panic if they aren't acting like a Labrador Retriever. That is not what they are supposed to be.
One thing I wish I'd done, is the stud dog from my pup's litter, it was his first litter. I wish now, that I'd gone with a litter who's parents had both had previous litters so I could get a feel for what types of dogs that both produced (I only saw dogs produced by the mother).
Line up a good trainer, and start training immediately. Be consistent and firm, but fair.
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Hello everyone,
I am in the process of doing my due diligence in researching German Shepherds and breeders. Of course upon researching I have come across a lot of new information which made me think...What are some the mistakes that anyone made as a new puppy parent they wish they would have known before they had their pup?
Getting impatient and losing my cool. This really takes you several steps back in building your bond with the puppy. I expected way too much from my little guy. And sometimes, they are so smart.. and learn so quick, that you forget they're literally just BABIES.. and then start getting frustrated wondering why he is still having accidents in the house at 9 weeks. Then you realize "oh.. duh. It's really only been one week."
And then.. not really TRULY realizing what it means to bring home a German Shepherd puppy. You've probably seen it on the forum before, heard it from a buddy, and im warning you now... These GSD pups are on a whole other level.
Oh and PICTURES!! Pictures in all sorts of situations and places and poses and whatever you can think of haha Live with the camera glued to your hand. I feel like the GSD's lose that pure puppy face pretty quick compared to some other dogs cuz they develop that strong square snout pretty early. Still friggin adorable at 12 weeks, but he's definitely starting to get those german shepherd traits. After about the first two weeks I'd sometimes look at him in the evening and seriously feel like hes grown since the afternoon. So take plenty of pictures! It'll be too late before you know it.
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I have heard so many horror stories from dog parks and petsmart type of stores!! I guess some people just let their pups run amuck
Thanks so much for your responses though. I may make the active mistake. I feel I am pretty active with the beach, walking, jogging, etc and I have the feeling that my pup may run circles around me haha.
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|I did my research before hand, so I was aware, but I can see people not doing that and being ready to get rid of the pup after a week if they arent prepared for the nippy new "toddler" they have in the house! I am also glad I learned early on before I picked a breeder that not all German Shepherds are the same (working vs show lines), and what to look for in a breeder. My neighbor is looking to get a pup (not GSD), and the one thing I told her over and over is to do her research.
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Re: Replace elements in a matrix
a = {{0, 1}, {1, 2}};
b = {{1, 3}, {2, 5}};
ReplacePart[a, Thread[Position[a, 1] -> Flatten[Pick[b, a, 1]]]]
{{0, 3}, {2, 2}}
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I'm new to Mathematica and have a question regarding matrices. I was
sure that this problem must have been answered in the past, but could
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I want to replace some elements in a matrix (based on value) with
elements from another matrix at the same position. Eg:
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I want to replace the elements in "a" which are equal to 1 (say) with
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c = {{0, 3}, {2, 2}};
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On May 24, the Times-Picayune, which received two Pulitzers in 2006 for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, confirmed that it would eliminate staff and drop down to three days of print publication per week, rendering New Orleans the largest city in the country without a daily newspaper.
Such a decision piqued outrage among much of the citizenry and drew significant coverage from major news outlets, but it is merely symptomatic of the oft-mentioned difficulties currently facing the print journalism industry, which suffers from declining advertising revenue and a host of other issues resulting from the paradigm shift induced by the rise of the Internet. Print, however, is not the only journalistic media finding itself facing challenges: In the case of television news especially, objectivity — arguably journalism's most integral tenet — seems to be losing its prominence.
"[W]hat engagement has turned into … is partisanship, and so you have right and you have left," David Westin, former president of ABC News, said in a speech before the Club on May 30. "That in itself is not necessarily evil: We've always had opinion in newspapers; there's an editorial page; there's an op-ed page. What is the problem … is the blurring of the line."
The warping of this distinction is deeply problematic, because this age of mass media has made news — and especially the manner in which it's reported — among the most powerful forces shaping public opinion. Indeed, even the struggle for the nation's highest office has been characterized as primarily an effort to manipulate the media. More troubling still is that pursuing such control has resulted in the appropriation of objective news sound bites in campaign advertisements, which has been the case in the current election cycle.
In a July 19 column for The New York Times, CNBC Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood described how a three-second sound bite in which he called — in an objective and factual statement — the year's second quarter "the worst job-adding quarter in two years" became part of an ad criticizing President Obama. Crossroads GPS, the super PAC co-founded by former Republican strategist Karl Rove that paid for the ad, never acquired Harwood or CNBC's permission to use the news broadcast footage. Other victims of such tactics include journalists as prominent as former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw and New York Times columnist David Brooks. In taking footage for political purposes, advertisers may hope to gain — or, by extension, compromise — the credibility and objectivity of the mainstream media.
As journalism faces the challenges of the 21st century and the changing nature of the media, one cannot help but wonder how the distant future will look for the reporting industry. According to another New York Times columnist, David Carr, "great journalism … is the one sure hedge against irrelevancy." Great journalism, at least by its current definition, entails objectivity and genuine integrity; so as the industry evolves, one can only hope Carr's analysis is correct.
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In my experience, it wasn't that heavy of a trigger - it just reaches its heaviest point right before the trigger breaks.
Supposedly, the Sig DAK trigger is very similar. It's really more of a trigger that adept for a carry weapon - so U don't get startled and fire the gun accidentally. I don't think it would make that great of a range gun, but I have read others who love it - Supposedly, it takes a while to get used to it.
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Arsène Wenger intends to plug the gaps left by the departures of Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri before the transfer window closes.
The French midfielder is on the verge of signing for Manchester City after Arsenal agreed terms with their Premier League rivals on Tuesday. Nasri's move will go through subject to a medical and registration processes.
Wenger is currently in Italy for Wednesday's Champions League Play-Off against Udinese but the manager is determined to reinforce his squad when he returns.
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"We brought in [Alex Oxlade-] Chamberlain - you will see that he will be a great player. Gervinho will be a great player for this club too but we want ideally more. We are short in midfield at the moment and that is where we want to strengthen."
Fabregas and Nasri's departures have coincided with the start of Arsenal's campaign but Wenger believes that the rest of his squad will rise above recent events to get the right result in Italy.
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Many programmers code by instinct, relying on convenient habits or a "style" they picked up early on. They aren't conscious of all the choices they make, like how they format their source, the names they use for variables, or the kinds of loops they use. They're focused entirely on problems they're solving, solutions they're creating, and algorithms they're implementing. So they write code in the way that seems natural, that happens intuitively, and that feels good.
But if you're serious about your profession, intuition isn't enough. Perl Best Practices author Damian Conway explains that rules, conventions, standards, and practices not only help programmers communicate and coordinate with one another, they also provide a reliable framework for thinking about problems, and a common language for expressing solutions. This is especially critical in Perl, because the language is designed to offer many ways to accomplish the same task, and consequently it supports many incompatible dialects.
With a good dose of Aussie humor, Dr. Conway (familiar to many in the Perl community) offers 256 guidelines on the art of coding to help you write better Perl code--in fact, the best Perl code you possibly can. The guidelines cover code layout, naming conventions, choice of data and control structures, program decomposition, interface design and implementation, modularity, object orientation, error handling, testing, and debugging.
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Most of all, Perl Best Practices offers guidelines that actually work, and that many developers around the world are already using. Much like Perl itself, these guidelines are about helping you to get your job done, without getting in the way.
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I'm an intermediate user of Perl working in academia (evolutionary genomics). In my opinion most of the recommendations in the book still stand because they talk about general coding practices that are equally valid as they were 10 years ago. Later parts of the book which are more specific to specific modules may be out of date because some modules fell out of favour but you could easily find replacements on MetaCPAN. OO Perl is also good and usually people object that Damian missed on inside-out objects as winning in popularity of usage in Perl but the mop-redux project to implement meta object protocol in core Perl is using just that. So in the end maybe that part could become true as well. I recommend this book both to novices and experienced users to learn or remind themselves, respectfully, of the wide repertoire of tools and practices available in Perl.
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Needs taking with a lot of salt.
By Anonymous Monk
from England
Some of the advice in the book is good, but some is just the author's personal style. For example the author favors K&R brace style and recommends it's use with the same strength as he recommends other practices that all can agree are latent bugs.To be useful the author needs to clearly sign post each recommendation to say where it lies of the range between pure style suggestions and actual bugs, so that the reader knows which parts can safely be ignored if they have already adopted a different style.I would also recommend that the author add a paragraph in the forward to the effect that anyone who blindly insists that every recommendation in the entire book should be followed without question or debate can safely be considered an idiot.Overall the book might be useful to a perl novice, or someone who knows they have a lot of bad habits, but is likely to just annoy anyone beyond an intermediate level.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Outstanding book
By JD Baldwin
from Undisclosed
I have my issues with some of the style dicta in this book -- I will NEVER abandon BSD braces or 3-column indentation -- but, as the book notes, even if you disagree, it's healthy to think seriously about your choices. And, modulo my few immutable prejudices, the style advice is uniformly good.Even if you never adopt a single practice from this book, just reading it will make you a better Perl programmer. The one drawback is that, for those of us consigned to adopt or maintain others' code, it will make us that much more intolerant of the sloppy, haphazard coding practices that are so common in the system administration world.
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This book should have a camel on the cover
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For years I've been cracking the spine of my Programming Perl. Now I finally have the parts that were missing. This book should have been called Programming Perl Well.
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History: Established in July 1881, the Lee's Summit Journal has been serving the community continuously for more than 125 years — more than a century of providing its readers with the news of Lee's Summit and surrounding communities.
One of the oldest businesses in Lee's Summit, the Journal has been published longer than any other newspaper in Jackson County, except the Kansas City Star, which began just one year prior to the Journal.
Through world wars, the Great Depression, paper shortages and changes of ownership, the Lee's Summit Journal has never missed a week of publication.
Beginning as the Prairie Banner in the early 1870s, the paper was edited and published by the Joseph Mount Co. The Prairie Banner was published for only a few months.
It then became The Ledger and was published by M.G. Doty; and L.D. Connelly followed Doty as publisher. Later, a stock company purchased the paper and the name was again changed, this time to the Home Journal, and it was edited by a man named Brown.
The Lee's Summit Journal was finally "born" in July 1881 and for six years was edited by men named Houghwough, A.O. Sampson, O.G. Dingley, James A Jones, Henry and J.W. Nichols, and Professor F.D. Miller.
On Jan. 1, 1887, Lewis Lamkin Sr. became the owner and editor. In years to come, son Lewis Jr. and grandson Fred also owned the Journal. The family owned the Journal for 35 years.
On April 29, 1922, it was announced by the Lamkins that the paper had been sold to J.H. Miller and son from Trenton. And more than 11 years later, J.H. Miller's son, Dwight, was publishing the Lee's Summit Journal. That came after the death of his father in 1926.
John T. Cooper, by then an employee of the newspaper for 36 years, was about to become the owner. Lois Lail Cooper Shawgo, Cooper's daughter, served as associate editor of the Journal during the period her father ran the newspaper.
On Jan. 1, 1949, after being a part of the Lee's Summit Journal for more than half a decade, Cooper sold the newspaper. The Lee's Summit Journal was purchased by Stanley R. Fike of Maryland, Don Eck of Illinois, and Paul M. Gould of Lee's Summit. Gould served as editor, and his wife, Irene, served as associate editor.
On Aug. 20, 1965, veteran Missouri newspaper publisher J.W. Brown Jr. and his wife, Wanda, of Harrisonville, Mo., purchased the Lee's Summit Journal, becoming only the fifth owners of the newspaper in 84 years.
In May 1985, the Journal again changed hands, this time being sold to Clark O. Murray of Kansas City, whose family owns Inland Newspaper Machinery Corp., which currently focuses on newspaper machinery.
Inland later sold the Journal to then Knight Ridder-owned The Kansas City Star in 2000, along with the Journal's sister paper the Cass County Democrat Missourian and the Belton Star Herald.
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Discussion in 'Fantasy Sports Central' started by roscoe36, Oct 9, 2009.
That's absolutely false. As far as you know.
Looks like State and Main jumped into a playoff spot. Congrats! Looks like it's gonna go down to the wire between the Squirrels & Criminals for that last spot
Those are viagra. Don't ask me how I know. At least he died with a smile on his face.
...heavy sigh.
BDL, You might have had a chance if the squirrels didn't STIFFEN UP in the clutch. Your guys were ready to go ALL NIGHT LONG and were equipped to SATISFY their fans, but even with all of that STIMULUS, they still CAME UP SHORT.
I guess they PREMATURELY EXTRAPOLATED that they had the 8 spot in the bag.
I crushed Misha in hockey last week , I see no reason why this isn't happening here too VAE VICTIS!
Ugggh. Here's today's Denver Post Sports section. I'm a little ashamed.
2009-2010 PFNFBL season recap and playoff preview: I think and hope it was a fun year for all involved! Here's a quick look back at the final standings and a look forward at the playoff matchups... 1) CJ's Coynesters (coynejeremy) CJ is breathing a huge sigh of relief after somehow avoiding a dreaded first-round Denver Squirrels matchup. He's still waiting for his "Regular Season Champion" trophy to arrive in the mail from the league office. He understands that shipping from Canada takes a little while. In a surprisingly good first season, GM CJ became so attached to wins, he ordered his Coynesters that ties were not acceptable and they had better either win or (if they dare) lose. As a result, they became the only team not to tie a single category this season. 2) Debt Team (detteam) Det was gracious enough early on to take over a team that needed an owner – apparently a DANG good team that needed an owner!! He fended off some furious competition to maintain second place in the closing weeks of the season. The playoff selection committee didn't do him any favors, though, with a tough path to the championship including an opening round matchup with Keweenaw's freethrowsbabys (see below) 3) Ballaholics (Mossberg) Ballaholics had a strong second half of the season (won 8 matchups, tied one, lost one) to move himself into third place and was a particularly strong challenger of Debt Team's second-place position. He will be a tough matchup for anyone this playoff season. 4) small ball fan (raxrets) smallballfan was anything but, finishing the season in second place in total rebounding and first in blocks, and boasting a front line of Dwight Howard, Marc Gasol, Andrew Bynum, Andrea Bargnani, and [strike]Tayshaun Prince[/strike]Lamarcus Aldridge. That's 35 feet of big men! He should be looking forward to his opening round matchup with BK Kyiv, the only playoff team that he swept during the regular season. 5) BK Kyiv (mikhail1973) BK Kyiv had an up-and-down season, beating the teams he was supposed to handily (he won 6 or more categories in all but 2 of his 8 matchup wins) and staying under the radar for the most part. He just might have lulled smallballfan into a false sense of security. (The last I checked, rax benched Dwight Howard this week! He's either crazy or he's crazy smart) 6) State and Main (discotom) State and Main was the surprise of the season with a monster week against asleep-at-the-wheel (no pun intended) freethrowsbaby. Not only did his performance clinch a last-second playoff spot, he catapulted himself from 9th into 5th place after many had left him for dead. State and Main ended the season riding a 4-match win streak. Before that, his last win was against 1st place CJ's Coynesters. State and Main could prove to be a popular sleeper pick in this year's playoffs. 7) freethrowsbaby (hitafreethrow) As exhilarating as State's last month was, freethrowsbaby probably wishes he could have a do-over. After 5 losses over the first 16 weeks, his team suffered four straight defeats, the last of them being a 0-8 beatdown that pushed hita from 5th place to 7th place and a round one matchup against Debt Team, the team that he was trying to steal second place from for much of the second half of the season. Maybe next year he'll get his priorities straight and won't plan a road trip during the last week of the fantasy season 8) Smooth Criminals (aurora) Rounding out the playoff field is Smooth Criminals, who after a very emotional roller-coaster of a season highlighted by the off-again on-again semi-retirement of fan- and owner-favorite Allen Iverson, clinched the final playoff spot on the last day of the regular season. She will match up with CJ's Coynesters in the opening round of the 2010 playoffs, and will throw everything she has up her sleeve (including crowd-pleaser Luc Richard Mbah a Moute) at him in true Smooth Criminals fashion. Random uninterpretable stat of the season: Kim has the most tied categories of this year's playoff teams (5) against CJ's 0 ties. Runners-up: 9) Denver Squirrels (BallDon'tLie) The Denver Squirrels met an untimely demise in a series of unfortunate events that pushed them out of the playoffs after a highly entertaining, if at times bawdry, regular season. The Squirrels and their inspiring press clippings will be missed. Maybe the league can hire the Denver Post's beat writer to cover the playoffs?... 10) Sandwich Microwaves (roscoe36) Despite his best attempts, the juggling of three fantasy basketball leagues, fantasy hockey, (and the running of the Pistonsforum website in his spare time) took its toll on our friendly forum admin and his Sandwich Microwaves. After finishing in 10th place, maybe he will finally fire Idiot Clueless Coach du Jour and hire Lee356 for next season. Roscoe does have the dubious distinction of winning this season's Lowest Turnovers Award. 11) Leicester Arsenal (Rocastle) Leicester Arsenal's foray from across the pond proved to be a good foreign exchange program, even if the team's win percentage was low. Visiting teams learned a great deal of new words, like aluminium, arse, and lots of really good swears. Hopefully he will be back next year. 12) Ryderz (Ryder) A rocky season for Ryderz. His team underwent relocation, an ownership change, and renaming. Fan support in the new arena was low, and team morale dwindled. Ryderz, we hardly knew thee. LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!
My team got better once Chris Paul was injured. Go figure.
nice recap Coyne-thanks. I don't know where that last performance came from (i'm state and main). I had been tweaking the lineup and finally found one that worked near the end there. I made a few bad choices in the draft, so I was glad to be able to make that run at the end. Now....it's anyone's game (which I know all too well when I had a dominating second place record last year and lost in the first round).
As far as I can tell the only reason I am in the Playoffs is because on Sunday night Deron, Grant Hill, Amare, Sheed, and Roy Hibbert managed to make free throws in the final games of the week. I know that when I went to bed last night I was utterly convinced that the Denver Squirrels would take over at the 8th playoff spot because BallDon'tLie had many more categories in play than I did in the waning hours. I had no cats in play, because FT% was a write off cat for me! So I was pleasingly surprised, but flabbergasted to see I was in. That said, now that I look at my lineup for my matchup with the #1 seed CJ's Coynesters...frankly, I really feel like going back to bed and praying for a much larger miracle than the one I woke up to today which was the modest accomplishment of the abovementioned freethrow shooters. Three of ten players on the Smooth Criminals have those cute little red injury flags next to their names. Ben Wallace is still out, status uncertain but not likely to play without a full practice which won't happen until Thursday. Grant Hill got a concussion during a game (!) and is questionable and Memo is having back spasms. Anyway, it would take a HUGE miracle to beat the Coynester's but it definitely will be a big ol' embarrassing slaughter without these three guys to make a contribution. It is nice to get to the dance, but all in all, I'd STILL rather be dancing with AI. (Dim the lights...turn the disco ball....fade out to the strains of Michael Jackson's "YOU ROCK MY WORLD"...)
Good playoff preview and season recap CJ.
Good thing you bought him out. This guy clearly does NOT have Squirrels DNA.
I'll be back. Really enjoyed this.
Happy you did Roc. We'll see you next season. Thanks for playing!!!
I can not believe that we are in the playoffs already, and near the end of the season. Seems like not too long ago we were drafting, and Roscoe's team looked decent! Had a great time this year, and looking forward to next. Everyone here is great, and I appreciate that. Now, a playoff win over State and Main would be the icing, and a league title would be the cherry!
Knock knock. You're playing Debt Team. Have a nice day.
Debt team is broke.
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Forget the price difference, forget the performance difference.
Which style do you prefer the one on the left (981) or the one on the right (991)?
Porsche has two different design languages going for each of them.
Which of these do you prefer?
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African nations risk losing tax-free access to Europe -EU official
* Talks to replace previous deal dragged on too long - official
* Activists want to bar more access for African countries
* EU plans to lock out those who have not signed by 2013
By George Obulutsa
NAIROBI, March 21 (Reuters) - Some African countries could lose tax-free access for exports to the European Union if they fail to sign a deal by next year to replace preferential agreements that the World Trade Organisation has rejected, an EU lawmaker said on Wednesday.
The European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries had until the end of 2007 to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) agreements to replace existing unilateral trade preferences, or risk having European trade disrupted.
Since then the EU's talks with most of the countries, especially those in Africa, have dragged on longer than planned as activists in Europe argued that the availability of more African products would hurt Europe's farming and manufacturing sectors.
Without a deal, countries like Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya - not classified as "least-developed countries" - will have to start paying duty of between 8.5 and 15.7 per cent on their exports to Europe.
Vital Moreira, chairman of the EU Parliament's International Trade Committee, said the EU Commission planned to change its Market Access Regulation, which if passed, would remove preferential access after January 2014 for any country that failed to ratify the EPA by the end of 2013. Continued...


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I just finished my ESB cape today :D
I got some 100% cotton "Shoe Canvas" from Fabricland, and it was fairly simple from there. I cut it into 3 strips, 12", and two 8". I dyed one 8" strip with RIT dye Tan and half a pack of Dark Brown. I tossed the other strips in for about 45 seconds just to brown it up a tiny bit. I just sewed them all together so the seam would be on the back side which you don't see, and made a wee button hole as you can see on the top right. To weather it. I scraped it with some scissors and an exacto knife, pulled on the tears so they would fray, then I got one of those wire-brush attatchments for my drill and went nuts. I then lightly misted it randomly with some flat black spraypaint. What you do think?
Oh, and it cost me about $8 to make (including dye)
Awwwwww, so cute!


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Hey check out www.portphillipmarinelife.net.au – the new Port Phillip Taxonomic Toolkit website we launched this week! It's a joint initiative between the Department of Sustainability and Environment, and us at the museum.
Left to right: Juvenile Scalyfin, jellyfish and biscuit stars in Port Phillip Bay.Image: Julian Finn | Mark NormanSource: Museum Victoria
There is a spectacular gallery of over 2,000 photographs that make it the site to surf if you don't want to get wet this dive season. And if you do get wet, then it's the one place to learn about the cool stuff you've seen underwater.
Have a click around and find your favourite pretty fin or an awesome octopus!
Left to right: albatross, isopod and moray eel from Port Phillip Bay.Image: Julian FinnSource: Museum Victoria
The site has 1,001 species from Port Phillip Bay with more to come in 2012. There are frowning faces of stargazers to picture-perfect blue devils, fish that walk instead of swim, cannibalistic sea cucumbers, and seahorses that eat lunch like sucking a hotdog out of a roll. They're all part of our truly amazing local marine life.
The Port Phillip Taxonomic Toolkit is primarily an identification and information resource for scientists and marine enthusiasts, but the images provide some fun and education for all audiences. There are also interactive menus to identify selected species as well as descriptions of characters that make the animals unique.
The project is funded by the Department of Sustainability and Environment's Seagrass and Reefs Program for Port Phillip Bay and will be completed later this year.
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Updates on what's happening at Melbourne Museum, the Immigration Museum, Scienceworks, the Royal Exhibition Building, and beyond.
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Mark Thomas enters his eighth season as Green Bay's men's tennis coach in 2014-15. The Phoenix has grown into a perennial Horizon League contender under Thomas and has appeared in the NCAA Tournament in three of the last four seasons.
Thomas took the Phoenix back to the NCAA Tournament in 2014-15 to face No. 4 Illinois in Champaign, Ill. Green Bay fell 4-0 to the Big Ten champions.
He coached a trio of All-Horizon League performers in 2014-15, first-teamers Michael Tenzer (Neuried, Germany) and Leopold Gomez Islinger (Weiden, Germany) and second teamer Howard Scott (Exeter, England). Tenzer finished his career as Green Bay's second all-time singles wins leader with 92, trailing only Paul Swanson who finished his career with 94 singles wins.
Thomas was named the Horizon League's Men's Tennis Coach of the Year for the third time in his career in 2014-15 after leading the Phoenix to an 18-8 (6-0 Horizon League) record.Thomas, an owner of Western Racquet & Fitness Club in Green Bay, has served as a tennis professional at Western since May of 2004. A number of his former pupils have achieved state, regional and national rankings. Some have gone on to play collegiately at the NCAA Division I and III levels.
In addition to his teaching duties, Thomas has served key roles in the business operations, development and accounting areas for the club.
Thomas graduated from Marquette University in May of 2002 with a degree in finance. At Marquette, he was a four-year member of the tennis team and was named team captain his senior year. He also served as a Student-Athlete Council representative.
As a prep, Thomas was the team captain and No. 1 singles player for Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) Lahser High School. He was named all-league, all-county, all-area and all-state. Thomas was ranked in the top 20 in the Midwest as a junior in the 18-and-under division and played Jr. Davis Cup for Southeastern Michigan.
Thomas and his wife, Mary, have a son, Alexander, and a daughter, Anna.


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2013 Conference Closing Keynote Speaker
Posted: Friday, March 1st, 2013
Dr. Lawrence C. Smith, climate scientist, professor, and author of The World in 2050 will be the closing keynote speaker at the 2013 California Science Education Conference in Palm Springs.
How will the combination of a booming global population and global warming change the world? Which countries will struggle, and which will prosper? Laurence Smith believes the North is set for major gains. In his talk, Smith will outline the changes that our world will face in the next 50 years, both geologically and societally.
Laurence Smith is one of the world's most respected climate scientists, whose work envisions the future of a warmed planet. His debut book, The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilizations Northern Future, is a work of enormous scope, cross-cutting themes of population demographics, globalization, natural resource demand, and climate change. It's science fiction without the fiction. Smith is the Professor and Vice-Chair of Geography and Professor of Earth & Space Sciences at UCLA and has published more than sixty research papers.
In 2006, Dr. Smith briefed Congress on the likely impacts of northern climate change, and in 2007 his work appeared prominently in the Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In 2006-2007 he was named a Guggenheim Fellow by the John S. Guggenheim Foundation in New York. He has won more than $5M in external grant funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for his research on northern climate change. In 2011 he won the Walter P. Kistler Book Award for his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future. His work has received media coverage in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Discover Magazine, NPR, BBC, CBC Radio, and others.
Dr. Smith will present on Sunday, October 27 during the closing session of 2013 California Science Education Conference at the Palm Springs Convention Center.
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Participate in Chemistry Education Research Study, Earn $500-800 Dollars!
Posted: Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
WestEd, a non-profit educational research agency, has been funded by the US Department of Education to test a new molecular modeling kit, Happy Atoms. Happy Atoms is an interactive chemistry learning experience that consists of a set of physical atoms that connect magnetically to form molecules, and an app that uses image recognition to identify the molecules that you create with the set. WestEd is conducting a study around the effectiveness of using Happy Atoms in the classroom, and we are looking for high school chemistry teachers in California to participate.
As part of the study, teachers will be randomly assigned to either the treatment group (who uses Happy Atoms) or the control group (who uses Happy Atoms at a later date). Teachers in the treatment group will be asked to use the Happy Atoms set in their classrooms for 5 lessons over the course of the fall 2017 semester. Students will complete pre- and post-assessments and surveys around their chemistry content knowledge and beliefs about learning chemistry. WestEd will provide access to all teacher materials, teacher training, and student materials needed to participate.
Participating teachers will receive a stipend of $500-800. You can read more information about the study here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HappyAtoms
Please contact Rosanne Luu at email@example.com or 650.381.6432 if you are interested in participating in this opportunity, or if you have any questions!
2018 Science Instructional Materials Adoption Reviewer Application
Posted: Monday, May 8th, 2017
The California Department of Education and State Board of Education are now accepting applications for reviewers for the 2018 Science Instructional Materials Adoption. The application deadline is 3:00 pm, July 21, 2017. The application is comprehensive, so don't wait until the last minute to apply.
On Tuesday, May 9, 2017, State Superintendent Tom Torlakson forwarded this recruitment letter to county and district superintendents and charter school administrators.
Review panel members will evaluate instructional materials for use in kindergarten through grade eight, inclusive, that are aligned with the California Next Generation Science Content Standards for California Public Schools (CA NGSS). Learn More…
Lessons Learned from the NGSS Early Implementer Districts
Posted: Monday, May 8th, 2017
On March 31, 2017, Achieve released two documents examining some lessons learned from the California K-8 Early Implementation Initiative. The initiative began in August 2014 and was developed by the K-12 Alliance at WestEd, with close collaborative input on its design and objectives from the State Board of Education, the California Department of Education, and Achieve.
Eight (8) traditional school districts and two (2) charter management organizations were selected to participate in the initiative, becoming the first districts in California to implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Those districts included Galt Joint Union Elementary, Kings Canyon Joint Unified, Lakeside Union, Oakland Unified, Palm Springs Unified, San Diego Unified, Tracy Joint Unified, Vista Unified, Aspire, and High Tech High.
To more closely examine some of the early successes and challenges experienced by the Early Implementer LEAs, Achieve interviewed nine of the ten participating districts and compiled that information into two resources, focusing primarily on professional learning and instructional materials. Learn More…
Using Online Simulations to Support the NGSS in Middle School Classrooms
Posted: Monday, May 8th, 2017
by Lesley Gates, Loren Nikkel, and Kambria Eastham
Middle school teachers in Kings Canyon Unified School District (KCUSD), a CA NGSS K-8 Early Implementation Initiative district, have been diligently working on transitioning to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) integrated model for middle school. This year, the teachers focused on building their own knowledge of the Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs). They have been gathering and sharing ideas at monthly collaborative meetings as to how to make sure their students are not just learning about science but that they are actually doing science in their classrooms. Students should be planning and carrying out investigations to gather data for analysis in order to construct explanations. This is best done through hands-on lab experiments. Experimental work is such an important part of the learning of science and education research shows that students learn better and retain more when they are active through inquiry, investigation, and application. A Framework for K-12 Science Education (2011) notes, "…learning about science and engineering involves integration of the knowledge of scientific explanations (i.e., content knowledge) and the practices needed to engage in scientific inquiry and engineering design. Thus the framework seeks to illustrate how knowledge and practice must be intertwined in designing learning experiences in K-12 Science Education" (pg. 11).
Many middle school teachers in KCUSD are facing challenges as they begin implementing these student-driven, inquiry-based NGSS science experiences in their classrooms. First, many of the middle school classrooms at our K-8 school sites are not designed as science labs. Learn More…
Celestial Highlights: May – July 2017
Posted: Monday, May 8th, 2017
May Through July 2017 with Web Resources for the Solar Eclipse of August 21, 2017
by Robert C. Victor. Twilight sky maps by Robert D. Miller. Graphs of planet rising and setting times by Jeffrey L. Hunt.
In spring and summer 2017, Jupiter is the most prominent "star" in the evening sky, and Venus, even brighter, rules the morning. By mid-June, Saturn rises at a convenient evening hour, allowing both giant planets to be viewed well in early evening until Jupiter sinks low in late September. The Moon is always a crescent in its monthly encounters with Venus, but is full whenever it appears near Jupiter or Saturn in the eastern evening sky opposite the Sun. (In 2017, Full Moon is near Jupiter in April, Saturn in June.) At intervals of 27-28 days thereafter, the Moon appears at a progressively earlier phase at each pairing with the outer planet until its final conjunction, with Moon a thin crescent, low in the west at dusk. You'll see many beautiful events by just following the Moon's wanderings at dusk and dawn in the three months leading up to the solar eclipse. Learn More…