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10-20 days. Pea shoots are a delicious and nutritious addition to almost any of your favorite recipes. Fast and easy to grow, they can be enjoyed any time of year. Pea shoots can be grown indoors in shallow flats under lights or in a sunny window. Outdoors, Peas for Shoots are best grown in the cool temperatures of spring and fall, but will grow any time soil temperatures are between 45°F and 75°F. Harvest when plants have a couple sets of leaves, usually when shoots are only 3" to 4" tall. Pea shoots are extremely versatile. Add to salads, sandwiches, soups and stir-fries, use them for a pizza topping, or serve as an edible garnish.
This packet yields approximately 12 cups of pea shoots.
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Tackling bureaucracy and reforming the tax and subsidy systems are necessary to improve the economic conditions and to reduce the high unemployment rate.
Political situation
Fragile security situation persists
The current government coalition of national unity still remains shaky and prone to tensions. Consisting of both secular and (moderate) Islamist parties it lacks ideological cohesion, which hinders effective decision making and reform progress. The main secular alliance in parliament, Nidaa Tounes, is affected by continuing tensions about leadership and policy direction. The May 2018 municipal elections saw a low turnout below 40%, reflecting widespread disillusion among voters due to the tense economic situation and the lack of political and economic reform progress.
The internal security situation is still tense and the risk of terrorist attacks remains elevated. Countering this threat while maintaining democratic freedoms is a major challenge. Social dissent remains high, reflected in frequent protests and strikes that disrupt business operations and negatively influence the investment climate. However, it is not expected that protests will easily lead to widespread unrest and a threat to democracy in the short-term.
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In 2018 and 2019 GDP growth is expected to remain moderate (2.5% and 1.8% respectively) and insufficient to substantially reduce the high unemployment rate of over 15%. Slow reform progress and social tensions continue to weigh on the medium-term outlook, while economic expansion remains heavily dependent on the security situation. Inflation is increasing in 2018, driven by higher food prices and a weakening of the currency, negatively affecting households' disposable income. Further interest rate increases by the central bank to combat inflation could adversely affect growth. The financial sector remains weak and the level of non-performing loans high.
The budget deficit is expected to decrease only gradually in 2018 and 2019, guided by an IMF programme (in May 2016 the IMF approved a four-year Extended Fund Facility arrangement worth USD 2.9 billion).
Public debt increased to 70% of GDP in 2017 and remains vulnerable to exchange rate fluctuations due to the high foreign currency denominated share of about 65%. Reforming inefficient public institutions and containing the enormous public wage bill (which amounts to 70% of primary current spending) are key fiscal reform priorities, and some austerity measures have been implemented to do so. The Tunisian government has announced it will cut fuel subsidies and hold off public wage increases. However, austerity measures meet the strong resistance of the powerful labour unions and so far IMF program implementation has been weak. Any missed IMF disbursement could have a large impact, as Tunisia is heavily reliant on international assistance to finance its deficits.
Tunisia´s external position also remains vulnerable, with high annual current account deficits of about 10% of GDP. Foreign exchange reserves decreased to a minimum import cover of three months (insufficient to cover the large gross external financing requirement), and the country will remain dependent on multilateral support for the time being. In order to improve external competitiveness and reduce pressure on reserves the central bank agreed with the IMF to accelerate the depreciation of the managed exchange rate (basket of mainly euro and USD) and to intervene less.
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Braciole with Orecchiette
By amt2mf
- 2 cups stale 1/2-inch Italian bread cubes
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic (2 smashed; 2 minced)
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 28-ounce container strained tomatoes or tomato puree
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 pounds beef bottom round, sliced into 12 thin pieces
- 12 thin slices prosciutto
- 3/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 1/2 cup grated pecorino romano cheese, plus more for topping
- 6 ounces aged provolone cheese
- Kosher salt
- 1 pound orecchiette
- Combine the bread and milk in a large bowl and let soak, 15 minutes.
Preparation time 45mins
Cooking time 180mins
Adapted from foodnetwork.com
Step 1
Meanwhile, make the sauce: Cook the olive oil, smashed garlic and red pepper flakes in a large pot over medium-high heat, stirring, until the garlic softens, about 2 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste and cook until it begins to sizzle, about 2 minutes. Add the strained tomatoes, bay leaves and 5 cups water; bring to a boil and cook 20 minutes.
Place the beef slices between 2 pieces of plastic wrap and pound with a heavy skillet until 1/16 inch thick. Position the slices with the short sides facing you and lay a slice of prosciutto on top of each. Add 1/2 cup parsley, the pecorino and minced garlic to the soaked bread and mix with your hands, breaking up the bread; spread on top of the prosciutto.
Cut the provolone into twelve 2-to-3-inch-long sticks, about 1/2 inch thick. Put a piece of cheese horizontally across the middle of each slice of beef and trim any overhanging cheese. Starting with a short end, tightly roll up the beef and secure with a toothpick.
Transfer the braciole to the sauce. Reduce the heat to medium low, cover and simmer 1 hour. Uncover, stir and reduce the heat to low; continue simmering, uncovered, until the beef is tender and the sauce thickens, 1 more hour. (Add up to 1 cup water if the sauce gets too thick.) Discard the bay leaves. Stir in the remaining 1/4 cup parsley and season with salt.
About 20 minutes before serving, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the pasta and cook as the label directs. Remove the braciole from the sauce and transfer to a platter; remove the toothpicks. Pour half of the sauce on top. Drain the pasta and toss with the remaining sauce. Serve the braciole with the pasta; top with pecorino.


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Building A Better Burger
This story appears in the March 1996 issue of . Subscribe »
Dave thomas' face is everywhere: billboards, TV commercials,
life-sized posters in the window of every Wendy's restaurant.
It's the face that launched a hamburger chain, and built it
into a $4.2 million dollar empire.
With more than 4,500 restaurants in the United States and 34 other countries, Wendy's repeatedly beats McDonald's as the number one burger joint in an annual survey by Restaurant & Institutions magazine. Burger aficionados consistently rate Wendy's high on the quality scale. And it's all due to Thomas' hard work, dedication and commitment to building a better restaurant.
"In 1940, at the age of eight, I dreamed that one day I would own the best restaurant in the world. All of the customers would love my food, and all of my employees would do everything they were supposed to do. But most important, everyone would think I was a good boss, and every day when I walked into the restaurant, people would be glad to see me," writes Thomas on the opening page of his autobiography, Dave's Way (Berkley Books).
Thomas candidly admits that achieving that dream was a study in survival. "Early on, I realized there is no easy way," says Thomas. "If you want something, you have to go out and work for it. The idea is to do something you love."
Ask him what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, and Thomas tells you straight out that anyone can be successful if he or she is dedicated to a service or product, has strong convictions and is willing to work hard to build experience. As the saying goes, however, it's easier said than done.
In The Beginning
Thomas was adopted by Rex and Olivia Thomas when he was six weeks old and christened Rex David Thomas. His adoptive mother died when he was five, and after his father divorced his second wife, Thomas began to get up close and personal with the restaurant business.
"We started going to restaurants for our meals," says Thomas. "It was then that I decided I wanted to own my own restaurant because I liked to eat, and I just thought restaurants were really neat, exciting places. By the age of nine, I had become a real expert on restaurants. I knew what customers expected and I knew what kind of service and quality was acceptable. I overheard complaints and compliments and I soaked it all in."
Thomas spent his teen years learning the grunt side of the restaurant business. When he was 15, his family moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he landed a job as a busboy at the Hobby House Restaurant. "By then, I was a veteran restaurant worker," Thomas chuckles.
At 18, he made another major career move: He enlisted in the army and enrolled in the cook and baker school to learn the skills of a master baker, as well as the rudiments of managing a mess hall that served 2,000 meals a day. He learned to negotiate with vendors and buy in quantity.
"It turned out to be a great learning experience," says Thomas. "I learned how to be an entrepreneur and it didn't cost me anything. It was like running my own business, without any of the risks."
When he finished his three-year army stint, he got back his job as a short order cook at the Hobby House. There he met and fell in love with a pretty waitress named Lorraine Buskirk. They married in 1954, when Thomas was 22 and Lorraine 19.
Kentucky Fried Marketing
Marriage only made Thomas more determined about building his career. It was 1956 when his boss, Phil Clauss, opened a barbecue restaurant called the Ranch House. There, Thomas met the legendary chicken baron, Harland Sanders, better known as "the Colonel," the founder of the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) chain.
"The Colonel was traveling nationwide, promoting his new fried chicken franchise," says Thomas. "He turned out to be a man who had a profound influence on my career."
Seeing an incredible opportunity, Clauss bought a KFC franchise. He sold the chicken through the Ranch House and Hobby House, and Thomas, now Clauss' right-hand man, learned the chicken business.
In 1962, Thomas got an opportunity to prove himself. Clauss made the mistake of buying four failing KFC carry-out locations in Columbus. At his wit's end about the crumbling businesses, he made Thomas an enticing business offer: If Thomas could turn around the stores, pay off a $250,000 debt and turn a profit, Clauss would give him 40 percent of the Columbus franchises. "The Colonel warned me that the stores were almost bankrupt," says Thomas, "but I figured I had nothing to lose. I knew it would be difficult, but with four kids to support on a salary of $135 a week, I'd have been foolish not to try." Thomas studied the ailing restaurants and found a solution.
"There were too many items on the menu, many of which took a long time to prepare," he says. So he trimmed down the 100-plus items to a manageable staple of chicken and salads. To promote the restaurants, he bartered buckets of chicken for TV air time. Business turned around practically overnight. In March 1967, the $250,000 debt was paid off. He and Clauss opened a fifth location in Columbus, before selling their stores back to the parent company in 1968. Thomas was then a millionaire at the age of 35.
Convictions About Hamburgers
By 1969, Thomas had a clear vision of the kind of business he intended to build. Hamburgers were, and still are, Thomas' favorite meal, and he knew he could beat his competitors by offering a better burger.
"Some people have convictions about the making of fine silver. Others have convictions about how to run universities. I had convictions about hamburgers that came from my experiences as a kid," Thomas says.
"My burgers were going to be hot off the grill. No hamburger would be put on a bun until we had an order. Customers could choose their own toppings, rather than buy burgers with condiments already sitting on them." The burger meister also intended to offer meatier burgers containing less fat.
In 1969, Thomas finally made the big move and opened Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburger Restaurant in downtown Columbus at a cost of less than $90,000. The restaurant's logo featured a cute little pigtailed girl who was based on Thomas' eight-year old daughter, Melinda Lou, nicknamed Wendy.
Thomas' first Wendy's did well immediately, earning $300,000 in its first year, but he was determined to move cautiously. "I had no grand five-year plan," he says. "It was more like, 'Let's get on our feet before barreling ahead.' I wanted to make sure we had a viable product that would make money."
Early on, he learned to surround himself with the best people he could find. He hired people who loved the restaurant business as much as he did. It didn't hurt if they were passionate about hamburgers, either.
"If you hope to grow your business, you've got to learn to trust and support people," says Thomas. "If they don't perform, you go out and find people who can get the job done." He also kept a watchful eye on the competition, never second-guessing or underestimating them. "I looked at the competition and tried to figure out what they were doing better so we could improve our operations."
Thomas decided to test the franchising waters cautiously. He wanted to be certain that franchising worked, and that his concept could easily be franchised. He also wanted franchisees who understood the restaurant business and would be successful. If they did well, Thomas would do well and the Wendy's image would be strengthened. By his second year in business, potential franchisees were beating down his door. Four years after launching his company, Thomas sold his first franchise.
In 1970, Thomas opened another restaurant in Columbus, and sales reached above $600,000. By the end of 1974, total restaurant sales hit nearly $25 million. There were 100 Wendy's restaurants in 1975. About a decade later, Thomas celebrated the opening of his 3,000th restaurant in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
It's not that Thomas was lucky; luck played no part in his extraordinary ascension to entrepreneurial superstardom. Thomas credits listening and observing-and determination, dedication and hard work-for his success, skills he began honing as a teenager. Everyone he worked for served as his teacher. Their successes and failures taught young Thomas everything he needed to know about running a successful business.
"I learned to look at everyone's business style and philosophy," says Thomas. "I picked and chose compatible ideas and rejected the others. There are a lot of ways to get downtown and they're all right. It's just a question of picking the best path for you. It's the same way in business."
Well Done
In the mid-1980s, Thomas stepped down into an advisory role and took the titles of senior chairman of the board and founder. He hired an experienced team of managers to run the company on a day-to-day basis, most of them former franchise owners with impressive credentials in the food business.
The "Where's the Beef" advertising campaign, starring retired Chicago manicurist Clara Peller, exploded onto the scene of the 1984 "Burger Wars," between Burger King and McDonald's, and stole the spotlight from Thomas' larger competitors. Some groups raised a fuss, saying the ads made fun of seniors, but by the end of its second wave, the campaign had increased public awareness of the company from 37 to 60 percent.
In 1989, Thomas was brought back into the fray to act as the company's spokesperson, a job he enjoys almost as much as he enjoyed building his company. At 63, he is on the move constantly, making public appearances and doing TV spots. In the last six years, he's made over 383 TV ads. This year, he's scheduled to make 90 commercials. Put it all together, and Thomas is on the road almost 200 days a year.
When Thomas is trying to do a thousand things at once, he does exactly what he's been doing for 25 years: He finds the nearest Wendy's and has a double cheeseburger with mustard, pickles and onions, a bowl of chili and an order of french fries, and then washes it down with a large Frosty. After that he's charged and ready to go.
Bob Weinstein is a frequent contributor to national magazines.


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Tween Reads
April 2018
Recent Releases
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World
Ashley Herring Blake
What it's about:
Twelve-year-old Ivy is reeling after her family's home is destroyed by a tornado, her treasured private sketchbook goes missing, and she starts crushing on a girl in her class. Then someone begins anonymously returning her drawings -- along with notes encouraging her to come out.
You might also like:
Barbara Dee's
another authentic, relatable story about a girl finding the courage to be herself.
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
Leslie Connor
seventh-grader Mason Buttle, who's big, sweaty, dyslexic, and targeted by bullies. But he's NOT lying about what happened on the day his best friend Benny died, no matter what police Lieutenant Baird thinks.
Who it's for:
If you like hopeful stories that let you peek into a unique character's life, you'll enjoy spending time with Mason as he tries to make peace with his memories, as well as make friends with tiny, equally unpopular Calvin Chumsky.
Cynthia Kadohata
What it's about:
Just before he's supposed to try out for a professional youth hockey team, 11-year-old Conor learns that his dog, Sinbad, needs an expensive cancer treatment. Since money is tight in Conor's family, saving Sinbad means that Conor might have to give up the sport he loves.
Who it's for:
athletes, hockey fans, and readers who like bittersweet slice-of-life stories.
Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein: Based on a True Story
Jennifer Roy with Ali Fadhil
What it's about:
Things change quickly for 11-year-old Ali and his family in 1991, when the Gulf War hits their hometown of Basra, Iraq. Used to a life filled with soccer, video games, and comics, Ali is now faced with bombings, food shortages, and constant fear.
About the author:
Though this book is written as vivid historical fiction, it's based on the real wartime experience of author Ali Fadhil, who later worked as an interpreter at Saddam Hussein's trial.
The Wishmakers
Tyler Whitesides
What it's about:
All Ace wanted was some peanut butter, but since opening the jar released a genie instead, he has only seven days to master the art of wishmaking and save the world from an army of zombie animals.
Who it's for:
Fans of Max Brallier's Last Kids on Earth books will relish the offbeat humor and supernatural action in this series opener.
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Forever, or a Long, Long Time
Caela Carter
What it's about:
With no memory of their birth parents and a long history of foster homes behind them, Flora and her little brother, Julian, find it hard to believe that they've finally been adopted by a caring family.
Why you might like it:
It's both heart-wrenching and moving to follow Flora and Julian as they try to adjust and, with help from new mom Emily, confront the pain of their past.
The Pants Project
Cat Clarke
eleven-year-old Liv, who knows he's transgender but hasn't told anyone yet -- a situation that's more difficult at his new school, where they see him as a girl and require him to wear a uniform with a skirt.
Why you might like it:
You'll be rooting for the likable, determined Liv as he and his moms challenge the school dress code.
Try this next:
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The Other Boy
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Bone Jack
Sara Crowe
What it's about:
Ash should be proud to be leading this year's Stag Chase, an ancient ritual that persists in his modern English town. But with eerie incidents on the rise -- including his ex-best friend hiding in the woods and raving about old magic -- Ash's pride is replaced by fear that something sinister is stirring.
Who it's for:
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Bone Jack
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Armstrong & Charlie
Steven B. Frank
What it's about:
It's 1974, and Los Angeles sixth-graders Armstrong and Charlie are both having a rough year: Armstrong is mad about being transferred into a school where he's one of only a few black kids, while white Charlie is mad that all of his friends have transferred out.
Why you might like it:
Both boys take turns describing the realistic, funny, and sometimes uncomfortable events that lead to them becoming best friends.
Alyson Gerber
Rachel, who's starting seventh grade with awesome friends, a maybe-boyfriend, a spot as forward on the school soccer team, and a bulky spinal brace that makes her life complicated both on and off the field.
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, which also stars a middle school soccer player who's sidelined by an unexpected medical issue.
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It was a jazzy moment right out of the opening of "The Cosby Show."
Marking his final appearance on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl after three decades as the emcee of the Playboy Jazz Festival – itself 34 years in the running – legendary standup comedian and television star Bill Cosby mixed a little music-making and silly schtick in a moment reminiscent of the fun-loving, jazz-filled opening credits of his 80s-era sitcom.
"It's my last time here, and I'm gonna give you something you've never heard before," Cosby told the packed-to-the-cheap-seats audience as he joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on stage during the final hours of the Festival. "Take it back to the bridge!" he cried, doing a trademark shuffle dance before grabbing a trombone and preparing to play – but "accidentally" breaking the trombone in two before he could squeeze out a note.
The moment was part of Cosby's comic swansong as the master of ceremonies for Playboy founder and publisher Hugh Hefner's weekend music celebration – close friends for decades, "Cos" was "Hef's" host of choice until the 74-year-old icon announced that this would be his final stint just days before the festival kicked off.
"It's the aging factor," Cosby later told the Los Angeles Times backstage during the festival. "As I began to look at the newer groups, the newer individuals on the level of selling 7,000, maybe 8,000 tickets, I realized there's a need here for a different feel…I think that the business changes, and we need a different emcee with a newer voice, maybe someone younger, maybe someone bilingual, maybe trilingual because this is Los Angeles."
Hefner seemed to be only slightly – and skeptically – prepared to say goodbye to his friend, who wore a t-shirt proclaiming "30 ½ Years" to mark his time with the festival and spent a portion of the opening day playing drums with his band the Cos' of Good Music, which annually assembles jazz up-and-comers on stage.
"Cosby and I go back a lot of years," Hefner told reporters. "I will understand if he decides to pack it in. Maybe it's adieu."
This year Playboy's lineup featured a diverse array of musicians, including acclaimed jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis, blues standard-bearer Keb' Mo', Sheila E and her father Pete Escovedo, saxophonist Boney James, all-star septet The Cookers, Latin funk-fusion band Ozomatli, bass virtuoso Christian McBride and soulful pop star Robin Thicke.
Bill Cosby's Final Funny Business as Host of the Playboy Jazz Festival
The Comedy Icon and Longtime Emcee Bows Out after Three Decades
It was a jazzy moment right out of the opening of "The Cosby Show."


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Curly? Check. Larry? Check. Moe? Moe? Moe....?
Sean Hayes, best known for playing Jack on "Will & Grace," has been cast as the red-headed Stooge Larry Fine for the Farrelly Brothers' "The Three Stooges," reported Deadline. Hayes joins "Mad TV" alum Will Sasso, who's been cast as Curly.
During readings for the role, Hayes showed an ability to play "a lovable simpleton," but for most viewers it my be difficult to get past Hayes' over-the-top, hyper-flamboyant persona as Jack.
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This is not to take anything away from Hayes and Sasso, who have been doing solid work for years, but this project had a lot more allure when names like Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro were floating around. For a while it seemed as though the Farrellys had something really intense brewing. Now it looks like they're just making a "The Three Stooges" cover band.
Just for laughs, here's "The Curly Shuffle," which inexplicably reached #15 on the Billboard charts in 1984.


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Cops: 4 from Calverton steal shrimp to sell for drug money
Four Calverton residents helped to support their drug habits by stealing more than $2,400 worth of frozen shrimp from supermarkets and selling it to a Mastic Beach restaurant, Suffolk County police said Tuesday.
Crime Section officers from the Seventh Precinct uncovered a series of thefts from supermarkets in the Fifth and Seventh precincts and found a bag of stolen shrimp in a vehicle driven by the suspects on Jan. 30, when they were pulled over, police said.
Officers found money inside the vehicle believed to be proceeds and arrested the four. They were charged with 22 counts of petty larceny and two counts of attempted larceny. They also face two counts of possession of a hypodermic needle and one of criminal possession of a controlled substance.
The four -- Joseph Elardo, 34, Sharmane Cromer, 34, James Donnellan, 33, and Nicole Johnson, 22, all of 169 Southfield Rd. -- were arraigned Friday at First District Court in Central Islip.
Each was remanded on bail of $2,000 cash or $4,000 bond.
All are scheduled to be back in court on Friday, according to court records.
Sgt. Joseph Suarez, of the Seventh Precinct Crime Section, said that the police investigation revealed the four sold the shrimp to only one person -- Xue Chai Li, 34, owner of Tai Yu Chinese Restaurant at 195 Mastic Beach Rd.
She faces charges of criminal possession of stolen property. She was also cited by the Suffolk County Department of Health for a sanitary code violation of using an unapproved source to obtain authorized food.
Suarez said the thefts were from at least three supermarkets, including King Kullen in Patchogue and Manorville between December and Jan. 30, when the four suspects were arrested.
One store reported missing shrimp, and Crime Section officers from the Seventh and Fifth precincts found surveillance video of the suspects taking shrimp from stores, Suarez said.
They went through frozen-foods aisles, putting bags of shrimp in their carts, recyclable shopping bags and under their clothing, Suarez said. They apparently took shrimp, he said, because they were able to sell it "at discounted prices" to the restaurant.
Suarez said that police are looking into the theft of other merchandise from other stores, including a CVS, but "that's still under investigation."
Police declined to say what kind of drugs the four purchased with the proceeds.


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Graduation 2013
In a festive ceremony, the Department celebrated the Class of 2013.
Professor Donahue, Chair of the Department, announced the Department's Prize Winners:
- Brett Evans: William J. Hogan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Classical Studies
- Courtney Greer: APA Award for Outstanding Student in Classical Philology
- Anthony Maslanka: CAMWS Award for Outstanding Student in Classical Literature
- Laura Claggett: Department of Classical Studies Award in Classical Civilization
- Athena Tellis: Department of Classical Studies Leadership Award
There were the traditional shoutouts:
Laura Claggett: "I plan to attend graduate school for psychology and pursue a career in psychotherapy. My favorite memory from my Classics career was studying abroad in Rome spring of junior year at the Centro. I would not have chosen the program without help and encouragement from my professors –and I am so grateful that I did. I look back on my time in the department with such fondness; a truly wonderful place to spend the past four years."
Scott Daisley: After graduation Scott is attending law school at the College of William and Mary so he will be in Williamsburg for another three years.
Brett Evans is graduating with Highest Honors in Classical Studies, concentrating in Latin. He spent this past year writing a thesis called "Looking for Reality in Latin Love Elegy," directed by his advisor Dr. Lily Panoussi. He cannot thank her enough for her guidance, her support, and her kindness. Each and every one of his his professors have showed him the riches of studying the ancient world, and taught him to think and to think again. With their support, he has been awarded a Fulbright Full Grant to study for an MA in Classical Reception at the University of Bristol in the UK. After his year abroad, he come back home to Virginia, where he will enter the graduate program in Classics at the University of Virginia. He looks forward to returning to the Department for many visits to come."
Courtney Greer: "It's incredibly difficult to pick a favorite memory from the past four years, but with its combination of wonderful people and the exploration of my favorite ancient civilization combined with one of my favorite modern ones, the Classics Department Trip to Rome and Pompeii this past summer was without a doubt the most educational, entertaining, and memorable trip I've ever had. Beginning this summer, I will be training to teach English in low-income urban areas in Rhode Island as a member of the Rhode Island Teaching Fellows, and I will have my own class to teach in the fall."
Derrill Hagood will be attending Columbia University's Summer Publishing Institute through the month of July and afterwards hopes to find a job as an editorial assistant in trade publishing. Her favorite memory of the department has been her close-knit Greek classes with Professors Oakley, Panoussi, and Hutton.
Brittany Hull: "After graduation, I intend to take the time to finally start planning my wedding. Beyond that what my future holds is uncertain, but I know it could never overshadow the memories I've gathered along the way in this department. Coming in to college I intended to major in Computer Science. But by the second semester of my freshman year, after having only taken one Classics class in the fall, I was hooked and decided to change my major. Little did I know I'd spend the next three and a half years climbing to the third floor of Morton Hall every day, a place we'd all complain about but at the same time call 'home'. There is no way to pick out just one favorite memory but I will say Monty Python served as an exceptional teaching supplement."
Anthony Maslanka: "I have enjoyed getting to know my professors and my fellow classics classmates during my time at William and Mary. They have been invaluable both to my academic and personal growth. After graduation, I will be pursuing a career as a secondary school Latin teacher. I would also like to thank my family for their continual love and support throughout my education."
Cassidy Stinson: "I have many dear memories of my time spent in the Classics department, and the many projects developed, Mediterranean parties thrown, and sword-and-sandal movies watched together. I'll never forget discussing the Odyssey in the sunshine on the New Campus lawn with Professor Paga, exploring the streets of Ancient Pompeii with Professor Swetnam-Burland, and watching the exploits of Alexander the Great with Professor Donahue. I plan to take these memories with me as I study philosophy and theology at Catholic University of America next year, and can't wait to see what the future brings."
Athena Tellis: "For the next few years I will be teaching 7th grade science in Chicago with Teach for America. While I am not pursuing classics, I have had an incredible four years with the classical studies department and have enjoyed every single class I have taken here with these brilliant, hilarious, passionate professors. I took Greek Civilization for a GER, but ended up loving it so much that I decided to major in classics without really even thinking about it. Two things in particular stand out to me when I reflect on my time here: the amazing summer in Rome/Pompeii last year with Professor Spaeth, and her unique class on ancient magic the following semester. For those experiences I would like to thank her. I also especially want to thank Professors Irby and Swetnam-Burland for their contagious enthusiasm, and Professors Donahue and Paga for never accepting anything less than the best. Finally, a huge thank you to Professor Hutton for being an exceptional advisor and for bringing me into this department."
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ESPN says it fired an employee responsible for an offensive headline referring to Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin.
The headline was used Friday on ESPN's mobile website after Lin had nine turnovers in New York's loss to New Orleans.
In a statement Sunday, ESPN apologizes for that headline and also says it is also aware of two other "offensive and inappropriate" comments on ESPN outlets.
"I don't think it was on purpose or whatever, but (at) the same time they have apologized. And so from my end I don't care anymore,'' Lin said after leading the Knicks to a 104-97 win over Dallas on Sunday. "Have to learn to forgive, and I don't even think that was intentional. Or hopefully not.''
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I've written before about using Ruby with Microsoft's ADO technology to query Excel workbooks as databases.
This works well---most of the time. But you may occasionally bump into data type issues, where you find that Excel/ADO treat a specific column as a different data type than you expected.
For this reason, I recommend using a collection of ADO functions that will expressly convert a value to a specific data type. These ADO functions include:
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For example, instead of assuming that the ORDER_NUMBER field would be treated as a string...
...call the CStr() function on it to ensure a string-to-string comparison:
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ADO, Excel, and Data Types
I've written before about using Ruby with Microsoft's ADO technology to query Excel workbooks as databases.
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In the drunken, drug-crazed twilight of its run as Leader of the Free World, America's collective imagination swerves from one breakdown lane to the other while the highway patrol throws a donuts-and-porn party down at headquarters and the news media searches the gutter on hands-and-knees looking for the spot where it dropped its brains. The other day, Larry Kudlow, the king popinjay at CNBC, told viewers that the US has over a trillion barrels of oil waiting to be drill-drill-drilled on our way to "energy independence." This is the kind of malarkey that America thrives on these days, the way yeasts thrive on sugary mash. It's a complete falsehood, of course, but the working dead over at The New York Times said substantially the same thing in a front-page story the week before. The Timespersons have only one source for their stories: Daniel Yergin, chief public relations pimp for the oil industry, because he makes it so easy for them by providing all the information they will ever need. The oil and gas companies would like to direct the fire-hose of loose and easy money out there into their stock prices - building to the magic moment when, Mozillo-like, the executives can dump shares, cut, and run for the far hills where no SEC officer or DOJ attorney will ever think to look. This is just another racket in an all-rackets society. The fantasy of energy independence therefore takes shape as a "settled matter" as we lurch toward elections. The arch-moron Mitt Romney will inveigh against Obama for holding the oil dogs back while Obama pretends to spank the oil companies for gouging the public on that alleged Niagara flow of new oil. None of them understands the true situation, which is that the USA is enjoying one last gulp of a very expensive oil cocktail with the last few dollars it can prestidigitate out of the central bank's magic box, and then there is no more even notional surplus wealth to blow on more drinks. And it isn't even much of a gulp. US production of "all liquids" - which includes methane gas drippings, ethanol, etc - went from 7.2 million barrels a day in 2004 to about 7.7 in 2011. We use about 19 million barrels a day, down about a million from peak US consumption before the financial crash of 2008. The reason it's down: Americans are going broke, one household and one small business at a time. Shale oil production is approaching half a million barrels a day. That's about 45 minutes of daily go-power. It might go up to an hour-and-a-half before production of shale oil permanently crashes on the combination of fast-depleting wells and a lack of capital to keep drilling new ones at $8 million per well. The story for shale gas is similar, except that initial production was so exorbitant that it drove the price down to nearly nothing (the $2 range), and the bust from that Ponzi will be even more spectacular than the shale oil. Everyone from Mr. Obama to the chiselers who run Citigroup maintain that there is a one hundred year supply of gas in the USA. They are going to be very disappointed. The public, on the other hand, will not even remember what they said as they burn down the cornfields in anguish. I met a guy at the pumps last week who was filling up a pickup truck at least twice the size of mine a few yards away. I asked him how things were going fuel-wise with that monster Ram-Charger he was feeding. At more than $100 a fill-up, it was killing him he said. His line-of-work required him to drive all over the county incessantly. His reality was a bit different from the oil company execs promising limitless horizons of oil to CNBC-watching retirees desperate for some "yield" on investment in the face of ZIRP bond rates. The price of oil (and gasoline) may well crash again, but when it does, there will be fewer business reasons for anyone to drive around the county all the live-long day, and that guy's Ram-Charger could fall into the hands of the re-po goon squad. He may never be able to get another one, either. No more money for truck loans. Capital shortage. Sorry. This oil and gas thing cuts so many ways that the public will feel like it is gargling Gillette blue blades. Just add up the total tonnage of steel necessary to keep this Ponzi going and you would reach a discouraging conclusion: this thing has nowhere to go but swift and implacable contraction. The ultimate destination of "energy independence" will be a nation with no cars and trucks to run. We'll get there, you'll see. But that is speaking the unthinkable.
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Penn State coach Bill O'Brien has tried coming up with imaginative ways in the past to give his team an extra game/event while the program serves its NCAA-mandated postseason ban.
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The Centre Daily Times reports that O'Brien gave a presentation behind closed doors to Penn State's board of trustees Friday that "indicates the university is considering asking the NCAA to reduce some of its sanctions."
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The New Zealand dollar rose after Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) held the official cash rate at 2.5 percent even though the central bank said the currency is overvalued.
The kiwi rose 83.40 US cents from 83.11 cents just before the review and 83.71 cents at 5pm on Wednesday.
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The US Federal Open Market Committee, as expected, left in place its bond-buying stimulus plan, and kept interest rates low, in a statement released just ahead of the RBNZ rate review.
It regarded the pullback in the US economy as temporary and indicated it will keep purchasing securities until the outlook for employment improves.
The US payrolls report, due Saturday NZ time, is also a big event for the market but evidence ahead of it has been conflicting.
The Australian fourth-quarter terms of trade report today will also be watched.
The kiwi was at 80.13 Australian cents after 9am from 79.74 cents at 8am and 79.94 cents at 5pm on Wednesday.
It was at 75.70 yen at 8am from 76.04 yen at 5pm on Wednesday, at 61.29 euro cents from 62.05 cents and was at 52.63 British pence from 53.13.
The trade-weighted index was at 74.85 from 75.29.
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Liberal frontbencher Christopher Pyne has spoken about how Opposition Leader Tony Abbott was ''extraordinarily supportive'' during the five years he and his wife went through IVF, saying it is a ''myth'' that Mr Abbott is against the treatment.
This comes in the wake of an opinion piece by Mr Abbott at the weekend, in which he argues he has never been opposed to the fertility treatment and an interview given by his top adviser, Peta Credlin, in which she defends her boss against sexism claims and talks about her own IVF treatment.
Mr Pyne told The Australian newspaper on Monday that Mr Abbott had supported the Liberal MP and his wife Carolyn through five years of IVF, which led to the birth of their twins Barnaby and Eleanor in 2000.
''He was only ever extraordinarily supportive, often raising the subject and being encouraging, hoping it would all be a great success,'' Mr Pyne said.
Mr Pyne added that Mr Abbott was critical of the Catholic Church's stance against IVF.
''His view was the church's position was simply misguided and that there was nothing more important or exciting than the birth of children and if IVF could help bear children, then it was a good thing not bad.''
Ms Credlin, who is the Opposition Leader's chief of staff, has also taken the unusual step of speaking to women's magazine Marie Claire, describing her boss as deeply supportive of her efforts to have a child through IVF with her husband, the federal director of the Liberal Party, Brian Loughnane. This included keeping her fertility drugs in his parliamentary office fridge.
The normally private Ms Credlin, 41, told the magazine Mr Abbott's views on abortion, contraception and IVF were far more balanced and nuanced than many people believe.
But the Attorney-General, Nicola Roxon, said Mr Abbott was clearly trying to fix his image problem with women. Australians would ultimately judge him on his public comments over his nearly two decades in politics, she said.
''Mr Abbott is not a new figure on the public field,'' Ms Roxon said on Sunday. ''He has many years of record to stand by and those are the things that people rightly will judge him on.
''I think it's clear from these sorts of stories that the Liberal Party research must be showing that Mr Abbott does have a problem with women and that he is trying to do something about it.''
Asked whether Ms Credlin was part of a cynical ploy to win female votes, Ms Roxon said it was up to individuals whether they told their personal stories.
In her interview, Ms Credlin said she asked Mr Abbott about his views before she agreed to work with him in 2010 and was satisfied with his answers.
In a weekend opinion piece for News Limited papers, Mr Abbott described how it was a ''persistent myth'' that he had been opposed to IVF.
''I have never been opposed to IVF. How could any pro-family politician not want to encourage people to have children and to make it easier for them to do so?''
The latest bid to reassure Australian women about Mr Abbott's attitudes follows the entry of Mr Abbott's wife, Margie, into political debate as well as his sister, Christine Forster.


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Better access to scientific articles on EU-funded research: European Commission launches online pilot projectEuropean Commission4, Brussels, Belgium
Brussels, 20 August 2008
Fast and reliable access to research results, especially via the Internet, can drive innovation, advance scientific discovery and support the development of a strong knowledge-based economy. The European Commission wants to ensure that the results of the research it funds under the EU's 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7) with more than € 50 billion from 2007 - 2013 are disseminated as widely and effectively as possible to guarantee maximum exploitation and impact in the world of researchers and beyond. The Commission today launched a pilot project that will give unrestricted online access to EU-funded research results, primarily research articles published in peer reviewed journals, after an embargo period of between 6 and 12 months. The pilot will cover around 20% of the FP7 programme budget in areas such as health, energy, environment, social sciences and information and communication technologies.
"Easy and free access to the latest knowledge in strategic areas is crucial for EU research competitiveness. This open access pilot is an important step towards achieving the 'fifth freedom', the free movement of knowledge amongst Member States, researchers, industry and the public at large," said EU Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potočnik. "Beyond, it is a fair return to the public of research that is funded by EU money."
"The rapid development of digital technologies offers researchers unprecedented possibilities for the timely and efficient sharing of information. Our new pilot will harness that potential, making it easier for researchers, businesses and policy makers to address global challenges like climate change by providing them with access to the latest research," said Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media. "I welcome especially the fact that scientific publishers have started to move gradually towards new dissemination models and are collaborating with researchers on open access. They have given valuable input to the Commission on these areas, which has been used in the preparation of the pilot project. This will allow a mutually beneficial coexistence that maximises the effects of open access on publicly funded research while leaving room for privately financed business models in publishing."
The Commission's open access pilot, to run until the end of FP7, aims to ensure that the results from EU-funded research are progressively made available to all. Grant recipients will be required to deposit peer reviewed research articles or final manuscripts resulting from their FP7 projects in an online repository. They will have to make their best effort to ensure open access to these articles within either six or twelve months after publication, depending on the research area. This embargo period will allow scientific publishers to get a return on their investment.
Open access to research articles, previously accessible through journal subscriptions, can help to increase the impact of the EU's € 50 billion investment in research and development and avoid wasting time and valuable resources on duplicative research. With access to a wider selection of literature, researchers can build upon this knowledge to further their own work. Small and medium sized businesses and entrepreneurs can also benefit from improved access to the latest research developments to speed up commercialisation and innovation.
The open access pilot launched today was foreseen in the European Commission's February 2007 Communication on 'Scientific information in the digital age: access, dissemination and preservation' (IP/07/190). In reaction to this Communication, the November 2007 Council of EU research ministers invited the Commission to experiment with open access in FP7.
Since 2006, the Commission has organised extensive consultations with stakeholders on open access policies, including a high level stakeholder conference, attracting some 500 participants, in February 2007.
Many national funding bodies, for example the Wellcome Trust in the UK or the National Institutes of Health in the USA already have open access rules. The European Research Council's Scientific Council adopted its Guidelines for Open Access in December 2007.
Details are available in MEMO/08/548
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I think this is a little complicated. Geoffrey Samuels suggests that whilst Pabongkha's actions went against the Thirteenth Dalai Lama's spiritual interests, they did in some way fit in with his political aspirations of making Tibet a more organised centralised state. Along with making Geshe degrees more rigourous, setting up a standing army and other measures,Sherab wrote:If forced conversions happened while the 13th Dalai Lama was alive, did he issue an order to Pabongka Rinpoche to stop those conversions? If no, why? (I don't think distance is a good explanation if the answer to my question is no.)
He goes on to say:Civilized Shamans p51 wrote:Again in the religious sphere, the lama P'awongk'a Rimpoch'e, acting in association with the Dalai Lama, instituted a campaign to convert non-Gelugpa gompa in K'am to the Gelugpa school, by force where necessary.
One also has to bare in mind the other issues happening here. In complaints made about Pabongkha by Rimed lamas such as Jamyang Khyentse, Pabongkha's sectarianism was inextricably linked to his ghost worship. In response to these complaints, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama wrote to Pabongkha and told him to stop. Pabongkha wrote back saying that he was in error and he would stop. He didn't.Civilized Shamans p545 wrote:P'awongk'a Rimpoch'e thus stood in a complex relationship to the 13th Dalai Lama, and in fact the two men were not personally close. The 13th Dalai Lama, like the Great 5th, was interested in the Nyingmapa, and Dzogch'en traditions, and received teachings from Rimed lamas such as Terton Sogyal (also known as Lerab Lingpa: see Smith 1969a:17 n.59: Mullin 1988:37). His own orientation seems to have been open-minded and eclectic, and he was not identified with P'awongk'a's conservative and traditionalist faction. Nevertheless P'awongk'a was in some respects the logical expression in the religious sphere of the transformation that the 13th Dalai Lama was trying to bring about. Had the Lhasa government ever succeeded in turning Tibet into an effective centralized state, the Gelugpa might have continued to move in this direction and might have gradually eliminated the other Tibetan religious traditions in favor of a well-controlled academic and clerical version of Tibetan Buddhism.


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A Response to Slate: How the recent article on technology misses the point.
Ah, summer. A great time to kick back, relax, and have time to write reactions to things that bug me.
I read through the article on Slate titled 'Why Johnny Can't Add Without a Calculator' and found it to be a rehashing of a whole slew of arguments that drive me nuts about technology in education. It also does a pretty good job of glossing over a number of issues relative to learning math.
The problem isn't that Johnny can't add without a calculator. It's that we sometimes focus too much about turning our brain into one.
This was the sub-heading underneath the title of the article:
Technology is doing to math education what industrial agriculture did to food: making it efficient, monotonous, and low-quality.
The author then describes some ancedotes describing technology use and implementation:
- An experienced teacher forced to give up his preferred blackboard in favor of an interactive whiteboard, or IWB.
- A teacher unable to demonstrate the merits of an IWB beyond showing a video and completing a demo of an electric circuit.
- The author trying one piece of software and finding it would not accept an answer without sufficient accuracy.
I agree with the author's implication that blindly throwing technology into the classroom is a bad idea. I've said many times that technology is only really useful for teaching when it is used in ways that enhance the classroom experience. Simply using technology for its own sake is a waste.
These statements are true about many tools though. The mere presence of one tool or another doesn't make the difference - it is all about how the tool is used. A skilled teacher can make the most of any textbook - whether recently published or decades old - for the purposes of helping a student learn. Conversely, just having an interactive whiteboard in the classroom does not make students learn more. It is all about the teacher and how he or she uses the tools in the room. The author acknowledges this fact briefly at the end in arguing that the "shortfall in math and science education can be solved not by software or gadgets but by better teachers." He also makes the point that there is no "technological substitute for a teacher who cares." I don't disagree with this point at all.
The most damaging statements in the article surround how the author's misunderstanding of good mathematical education and learning through technology.
Statement 1: "Educational researchers often present a false dichotomy between fluency and conceptual reasoning. But as in basketball, where shooting foul shots helps you learn how to take a fancier shot, computational fluency is the path to conceptual understanding. There is no way around it."
This statement gets to the heart of what the author views as learning math. I've argued in previous posts on how my own view of the relationship between conceptual understanding and learning algorithms has evolved. I won't delve too much here on this issue since there are bigger fish to fry, but the idea that math is nothing more than learning procedures that will someday be used and understood does the whole subject a disservice. This is a piece of the criticism of Khan Academy, but I'll leave the bulk of that argument to the experts.
I will say that I'm really tired of the sports skills analogy for arguing why drilling in math is important. I'm not saying drills aren't useful, just that they are never the point. You go through drills in basketball not just to be able to do a fancier shot (as he says) but to be able to play and succeed in a game. This analogy also falls short in other subjects, a fact not usually brought up by those using this argument. You spend time learning grammar and analysis in English classes (drills), but eventually students are also asked to write essays (the game). Musicians practice scales and fingering (drills), but also get opportunities to play pieces of music and perform in front of audiences (the game).
The general view of learning procedures as the end goal in math class is probably the most destructive reason why people view math as something acceptable not to be good at. Learning math this way can be low-quality because it is "monotonous [and] efficient", which is not technology's fault.
One hundred percent of class time can't be spent on computational fluency with the expectation that one hundred percent of understanding can come later. The two are intimately entwined, particularly in the best math classrooms with the best teachers.
Statement 2: "Despite the lack of empirical evidence, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics takes the beneficial effects of technology as dogma."
If you visit the link the author includes in his article, you will see that what NCTM actually says is this:
"Calculators and other technological tools, such as computer algebra systems, interactive geometry software, applets, spreadsheets, and interactive presentation devices, are vital components of a high-quality mathematics education."
...and then this:
"The use of technology cannot replace conceptual understanding, computational fluency, or problem-solving skills."
In short, the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics wants both understanding and computational fluency. It really isn't one or the other, as the author suggests.
The author's view of what "technology" entails in the classroom seems to be the mere presence of an interactive whiteboard, new textbooks, calculators in the classroom, and software that teaches mathematical procedures. This is not what the NCTM intends the use of technology to be. Instead the use of technology allows exploration of concepts in ways that cannot be done using just a blackboard and chalk, or pencil and paper. The "and other technological tools next to calculators in the quote has become much more significant over the past five years, as Geometers Sketchpad, Geogebra, Wolfram Alpha, and Desmos have become available.
Teachers must know how to use these tools for the nature of math class to change to one that emphasizes mathematical thinking over rote procedure. If they don't, then math continues as it has been for many years: a set of procedures that students may understand and use some day in the future. This might be just fine for students that are planning to study math, science, or engineering high school. What about the rest of them? (They are the majority, by the way.)
Statement 3: "...the new Common Core standards for math...fall short. They fetishize "data analysis" without giving students a sufficient grounding to meaningfully analyze data. Though not as wishy-washy as they might have been, they are of a piece with the runaway adaption of technology: The new is given preference over the rigorous."
If "sufficient grounding" here means students doing calculations done by hand, I completely disagree. Ask a student to add 20 numbers by hand to calculate an average, and you'll know what I mean. If calculation is the point of a lesson, I'll have students calculate. The point of data analysis is not computation. Just because the tools take the rigor out of calculation does not diminish the mathematical thinking involved.
Statement 4: "Computer technology, while great for many things, is just not much good for teaching, yet. Paradoxically, using technology can inhibit understanding how it works. If you learn how to multiply 37 by 41 using a calculator, you only understand the black box. You'll never learn how to build a better calculator that way."
For my high school students, I am not focused on students understanding how to multiply 37 by 41 by hand. I do expect them to be able to do it. Usually when my students do get it wrong, it is because they feel compelled to do it by hand because they are taught (in my view incorrectly) that doing so is somehow better, even when a calculator sits in front of them. As with Statement 3, I am not usually interested in students focusing on the details of computation when we are learning difference quotients and derivatives. This is where technology comes in.
I tweeted a request to the author to check out Conrad Wolfram's TED Talk on using computers to teach math, and asked for a response. I still haven't heard back. I think it would be really revealing for him to listen to Wolfram's points about computation, the traditional arguments against computation, and the reasons why computers offer students new opportunities to explore concepts in ways they could not with mere pencil and paper. His statement that math is much more than computation has really changed the way I think about teaching my students math in my classroom.
Statement 5: "Technology is bad at dealing with poorly structured concepts. One question leads to another leads to another, and the rigid structure of computer software has no way of dealing with this. Software is especially bad for smart kids, who are held back by its inflexibility."
Looking at computers used purely as rote instruction tools, I completely agree. That is a fairly narrow view of what learning mathematics can be about.
In reality, technology tools are perfectly suited for exploring poorly structured concepts because they let a student explore the patterns of the big picture. The situation in which "one question leads to another" is exactly what we want students to feel comfortable exploring in our classroom! Finally, software that is designed for this type of exploration is good for the smart students (who might quickly make connections between different graphical, algebraic, and numerical representations of functions, for example) and for the weaker students that might need different approaches to a topic to engage with a concept.
The truly inflexible applications of technology are, sadly, the ones that are also associated with easily measured outcomes. If technology is only used to pass lectures and exercises to students so they can perform well on standardized tests, it will be "efficient, monotonous, and low quality" as the author states at the beginning.
The hope that throwing calculators or computers in the classroom will "fix" problems of engagement and achievement without the right people in the room to use those tools is a false one, as the author suggests. The move to portray mathematics as more than a set of repetitive, monotonous processes, however, is a really good thing. We want schools to produce students that can think independently and analytically, and there are many ways that true mathematical thinking contributes to this sort of development. Technology enables students to do mathematical thinking even when their computation skills are not up to par. It offers a different way for students to explore mathematical ideas when these ideas don't make sense presented on a static blackboard. In the end, this gets more students into the game.
This should be our goal. We shouldn't going back to the most basic textbooks and rote teaching methods because it has always worked for the strongest math students. There must have been a form of mathematical Darwinism at work there - the students that went on historically were the ones that could manage the methods. This is why we must be wary of the argument often made that since a pedagogical method "worked for one person" that that method should be continued for all students. We should instead be making the most of resources that are available to reach as many students as possible and give them a rich experience that exposes them to the depth and variety associated with true mathematical thinking.


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Hempstead Dems draft own redistricting map
Democrats have released their proposed Hempstead Town redistricting map to counteract the Republican-controlled town board plan.
Democrats say the town's six-district map -- issued March 19 -- lacks consideration for minority communities and disfranchises voters.
The Democrats' "Fair District Map" creates two minority-majority districts, keeps the Five Towns area together and puts the bulk of seaside communities in one district. A minority-majority district is one in which the majority of people belong to a minority group, and these districts are mandated in the Voting Rights Act of 1982.
"We are keeping more people in similar communities together than they are," said Town of Hempstead Democratic Committee first deputy leader Bob Young. "We are going to fight."
District maps are redrawn every 10 years, to account for population changes. The board hired a consultant to analyze population data the town attorney's office used in crafting the map. But critics have called for a bipartisan redistricting commission and public hearings in each district with online streaming.
"Redistricting in Hempstead Town has been an open process," town spokeswoman Susie Trenkle-Pokalsky said in a statement. She said the process complies with federal and state laws and the federal voting rights act. "The Town Board is dedicated to the empowerment of minority communities and looks forward to adopting council district maps that continue to protect the voting power of minority communities."
In the town's proposal, most of Baldwin and Freeport would be taken out of District 1, the only proposed minority-majority district. The two communities would be included in District 5 with areas such as Wantagh and Bellmore.
But Democrats argue that minority neighborhoods in Baldwin and Freeport should stay with other similar communities such as Roosevelt and Lakeview.
"There has to be two minority-majority districts," Young said. "Whether these people want to vote Democrat or Republican is up to them, but they have to have a cohesive voice."
The two proposed minority-majority districts in the Democrats' plan would include District 1, with Elmont, South Floral Park, Franklin Square, West Hempstead, Hempstead and Uniondale. The other would be District 2, that would include portions of North Valley Stream, Valley Stream and South Valley Stream, Lakeview, South Hempstead, portions of Baldwin, Freeport and Roosevelt.
The town's plan for District 1 would include Lakeview, Hempstead, Uniondale, Roosevelt and a small portion of Baldwin and Freeport. District 2 would include Elmont, Floral Park, South Floral Park Stewart Manor, Garden City, Garden City South, East Garden City, West Hempstead and Salisbury.
The board plans to hold a redistricting hearing during its meeting April 9 in the Nathan L.H. Bennett Pavilion, adjacent to Hempstead Town Hall.


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