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This hits pretty close to home right now since one of my teachers is an intense iconoclast when it comes to contemporary Chinese pedagogy and our class theme tomorrow is "另类" educational techniques. There's a lot going on here (and a lot a lot of David Brooks), and despite my vague suspicions toward the type of pop-social science cited here, I want to linger on the question of emotion's role in learning. I really can't speak for education in China (yet!) or even for all of America, but I can say that the unwillingness of professional educators to allow emotion into the classroom is not just a Chinese characteristic. It's a characteristic of an insecure or threatened educator, and it happens in America, too. Often. At my current university, even. Is that worth pointing out in this context? Maybe, maybe not, but the point is, as it so often is, that the things people and particularly Chinese people object to about China are not necessarily specific only to China. This is one of those weird perspective warps that comes as a result of some Chinese writers' self-obsession that earlier scholars like C.T. Hsia spent a long time pointing out, or another way of conversely investing in Chineseness through criticism as Tsu Jing has argued, and it's one of the downsides of navel-gazing or even navel cross-referencing.
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Sad stories of artists overshadowed by relatives or lovers are common enough, and after films about TS Eliot's wife, Rodin's lover and Jacqueline du Pré's sister, we now have Mozart's gifted sibling, Nannerl, being sidelined by her conventional father in favour of little Wolfgang, five years her junior. A French film, mostly set in France when the Mozart family were close to members of Louis XV's court, it's a well-designed, tasteful affair. But as none of Nannerl's music exists, judgments on her talent, as opposed to the cruel way contemporary mores insisted on her being treated, remain moot.


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- Monday, March 08, 2010
Back in the ancient days when I began homeschooling (more than twenty years ago), homeschoolers were considered something of an oddity. People would point to us in the grocery store and whisper. Some brave souls would come up and ask us how we could "get away" with doing this and weren't we afraid of being arrested. That is because in 1980, homeschooling was technically illegal in thirty states in the U.S.1 When I began homeschooling in 1988, we were one of the first wave of families to begin homeschooling legally in my state. However, in the past twenty years the homeschool climate has changed considerably. Recent data suggests that homeschooling has grown at a steady rate and will continue to mushroom in the years to come.
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How things have changed in the past two decades. Now homeschooling (in some form) is legal in all fifty states5 and is becoming more widely accepted as an alternative form of education. During the 1990s, attitudes toward homeschooling began to shift. A Gallup poll taken in 1985 indicated that only 16% of U.S. families considered homeschooling a good idea; by 2001, that figure had escalated to 41%.6 In addition, a 1998 Newsweek poll revealed that 59% of respondents felt that homeschooled students were at least as well educated as their traditionally schooled counterparts.7
Homeschooling began to catch on quickly as the public perception caught up with reality. By 1992, researchers estimated that there were 300,000 homeschooled students8—a six-fold increase in just seven years. In the 1995-1996 school year, the U.S. Department of Education placed the number of homeschooled children at between 700,000 and 750,000.9 By 1999, that figure had risen to more than 850,000, or roughly 1.7% of the school-age population.10 Also, by this time, practicing Christians represented about 75% of American homeschoolers.11
In the twenty-first century, homeschooling has maintained steady growth. In 2003, the U.S. Department of Education estimated that there were 1.1 million homeschooled students.12 The number of homeschoolers not only increased, but the rate increased as well: 2.2% of U.S. school-aged children were homeschooled in 2003, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.13 Perhaps these figures reflect a growing frustration with the public school system. According to a 2003 U.S. Census Bureau report, 7% of households with children in the public school system said that they were dissatisfied with the schools.14
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JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Hundreds of business, government, and education leaders gathered at the 7th annual Senator Thad Cochran Forum on American Enterprise in Jackson on Tuesday.
The event was hosted by the Mississippi Council on Economic Education (MCEE) and the event is designated to recognize Sen. Cochran's efforts in steering Mississippi towards financial literacy and education.
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Okay. There's plenty of problems with your argument Matt. For starters, making a class completely 1 stat reliant is VERY limiting. It brings down the different playable styles available. To exemplify, a rogue who stacks crit tends to go for smaller damage on each hit, but makes it up in the frequency of their hit. Just as well, a rogue who stacks attack power tends to go for bigger damage each hit, but typically sacrifices critical strike chance.
The combination of stats allows for many different styles of class play.
Oh by the way, gameplay is put over logic. Just because it works out logically doesn't mean it works out in terms of playability and balance. ;]
Excuse me, but as a person who plays a non-intellect based class (My only character), what was the preexisting system before this? As in, what exactly changed, I know what happened when 2.4 hit-but how did it work before?
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The previous system was that spirit restored a fixed amount of mana per point. Problem being that spirit is itemized at the same point value as the other four attributes, so you were giving up a lot of other stats for an amount of regen that simply didn't scale very well, especially with larger health and mana pools in TBC. Also remember that spirit-based health regen doesn't function in combat at all for any class other than trolls, and mana regen is shut off for five seconds after each spell-cast, meaning no spirit regen unless your class has a spell or talent to allow it. Spirit was overall pretty useless.
So they changed it to scale with intellect in the hopes of making it better (primarily for healers, many of whom have a talent to allow 30% of their regen to continue in combat) so that people wouldn't avoid it anymore. And apparently they forgot that hunters don't stack intellect.
That said, total ignorance about the high end hunter game here, but aren't hunters subject to the 5-second rule? Is there actually room for a tick of spirit regen in your shot rotations to begin with?


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And what might surprise you isn't who the attacker was but what the attacker turned out to be. A feral cat!
It slipped through the doggy door of a home, and according to authorities attacked a mother and daughter.
Supervisor of Kennel Operations Darcy Andrade says feral animals will enter doggy doors in search of food. But this case of a feral cat attack inside a home is rare.
"That's not very common!" she said.
It happened 9:30 Tuesday night. Animal services says the cat bit one person, and scratched another. Cat bites can be dangerous. "Cat bites have a tendency to get infected, so anytime a cat bites we usually urge people to seek medical care," said Andrade.
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Meanwhile, the health department has been notified.
Authorities also believe this is an isolated incident. "Chances are it got into the house, got terrified, scared, and acted like a feral cat did," Andrade said.
If the cat gets a clean bill of health, and if it calms down, it could be put up for adoption down the road.
The cat entered the doggy door at night. Animal Services says it's common for feral animals, especially cats, to search for food in the dark. That's because they are nocturnal.


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A note on the coefficient of determination in regression models with infinite-variance variables
AbstractSince Mandelbrot's seminal work (1963), alpha-stable distributions with infinite variance have been regarded as a more realistic distributional assumption than the normal distribution for some economic variables, especially financial data. After providing a brief survey of theoretical results on estimation and hypothesis testing in regression models with infinite-variance variables, we examine the statistical properties of the coefficient of determination in regression models with infinite-variance variables. These properties differ in several important aspects from those in the well-known finite variance case. In the infinite-variance case when the regressor and error term share the same index of stability, the coefficient of determination has a nondegenerate asymptotic distribution on the entire [0,1] interval, and the probability density function of this distribution is unbounded at 0 and 1. We provide closedform expressions for the cumulative distribution function and probability density function of this limit random variable. In an empirical application, we revisit the Fama-MacBeth two-stage regression and show that in the infinite variance case the coefficient of determination of the second-stage regression converges to zero asymptotically. --
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When I first talked to the defendant he sat in his prison cell. He was cold and without remorse. Obtuse to the charges against him, my new client deflected responsibility and sat in silence. I asked him why he thought he was being punished and he immediately blamed his brother escaping all charges against himself.
"Alex started it," he repeated. Each time with a lower tone to his voice and a lower scowl to his brow.
I explained to my client that as his defense attorney the only way I could absolve him from his punishment or shorten his imprisonment would be if he fully disclosed the events that led him to a sentence in this 12 x 6 room. If I was going to stand in front of the judge and act as his only defendant I would need complete details of the acts in question.
He maintained his innocence stating that the entire world was against him. He stated that he was a victim of criminal profiling. He stated that he was not raised in a stable upbringing. He stated he was merely a product of his social surroundings.
This wasn't just any defendant I was sitting beside in judgment. This was my son. And the judge in this particular case was his mother, my wife. And this holding cell we were sitting in was one little boy's bedroom. Usually bright and cheery with life, we sat in the dark on his bed shadowed in the light that applied only from the crack of the curtains.
As a defense attorney and a dad to this stubborn little six-year-old it was my duty to not clear him of these charges, but to plea down the punitive measures. The least I could do was lessen the charges to a misdemeanor. But as a husband to the judge, his mother, I knew that I was putting myself in a position of contempt. I had to balance the scales of justice to maintain a proper level of peace in my house.
It was a weekend afternoon and I jumped in the shower to prepare for work. This otherwise relaxing shower turned tense as I heard parental screams and a childlike, defensive cry coming from the hallway. I knew someone was in trouble. When I emerged from my fifteen-minute shower oasis I found my eldest son sulking in his dark bedroom appearing confused and defeated.
Overtime my wife and I have learned to stay out of each other's way when it comes to punishment of the children. However, our pendulum of justice often swings to such extremes that we sometimes need each other to act as a mediator. I trust my wife enough to know that this little son-of-bitch was surely guilty of something, but it's my instinct to act as a liaison to civility and help this child make parole when his number comes up for a hearing.
I could only assume what the charges were. First ruling out assault as the screams I heard were not "assault-like" screams. I am a father of four and know what assault sounds like. My very educated guess was that my son was probably being punished for some crime against the family. Perhaps a two-bit offense like 'petty theft of a toy from a sibling'. This, coupled with one count of 'resisting timeout' and another count of 'talking back.' The sum of this rap sheet has led him to a room sentence for an undisclosed amount of time.
Marking off his time served with hash marks on his bedroom wall was a futile exercise not knowing the length of his punishment. And it was my job to get this family right before I left for work.
"It's in your best interest to use 'I' words, son," I explained to that little stubborn face. "When you get an opportunity to stand in front of Judge Mommy….When you get your chance to explain your case to the judge you need to accept responsibility. Tell your mother, 'I am sorry. I know what I've done. I will not do it again.' Tell your mother, 'I will change my behavior. And I will learn from this."
"But DADDY! I didn't do anything!" the boy pleaded.
"Well. In that case Honey, you are on your own." I arose from the bed and left his room giving him a kiss goodbye.
With this, I closed my briefcase and went back to getting ready for my real job. I knew what this boy needed most was time to reflect his crimes. As I tied my tie and shoes, and packed my lunch and i-pad I heard the judge head upstairs for the boy's hearing. The talk was quiet, which I recognized to in my client's favor.
I kissed the rest of the family and headed out for the driveway. By the time my key ignited the engine all was right with the world. My wife, the judge, was standing on my front porch with our six-year-old defendant in her arms like a newborn, forty-eight-pound baby. The two of them giggled and danced on those steps in forgiveness. They waved goodbye in unison.
This is the kind of peaceful, familiar mental photographs that drives me to work. This is the kind of moment that makes all that pro bono work worth it. Another case closed.
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The sport involves setting loose hunting dogs on foxes or coyotes in fenced preserves. A Senate committee will hear a bill Thursday that would phase out the practice, which occurs almost exclusively in Southside Virginia.
Animal protection activists call it legalized animal fighting akin to dog fighting, while supporters defend it as a Southern tradition. Operators say foxhounds that are let loose rarely catch their prey, which can slip into holes to escape baying hounds.
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Ruberta C. Hemmert, 88, of rural Botkins, died at 4:43 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, at the St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima.
She was born on Jan. 2, 1924, in Rhine, to Peter and Alvina (Greve) Steinke, and they preceded her in death.
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NEW KNOXVILLE — Two days after President Barack Obama gave his State of the Union address, mayors from the Golden Triangle met in New Knoxville on Thursday to give their summation of 2011 and outlook for 2012.
Minster Mayor Dennis Kitzmiller took to the podium first and gave a recap on his village's activities in 2011. Spending and income tax revenue dominated his address.
CELINA — A national organization is actively seeking volunteers to help track weather in Auglaize and Mercer counties.
The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) is a "community-based network that incorporates training and education on tracking rain and snowfall," according to the organization's website. Presenters Ashley Novak and Julie Reed of the National Weather Service spoke with area residents Wednesday night at Wright State University Lake Campus about how to get involved and some techniques to collecting weather data.
CELINA — A newly formed Flotilla hosted an open house Wednesday night to inform area residents about how they could get involved and to discuss the group's mission.
The Coast Guard Auxiliary District 8 Eastern Region, Division 6, Flotilla 12 held its chartering ceremony last week and is now working to inform the community about opportunities the Coast Guard Auxiliary offers. Flotilla Commander Larry Baker said Coast Guard Auxiliary members are all volunteers.
ST. MARYS — Local students received a lesson in safety as part of an official's visit to their school on Wednesday.
"Magic Tom" Rozoff and St. Marys Ptl. Kevin Draiss presented the Officer Phil and PALS program at St. Marys Intermediate School on Wednesday.
"The Officer Phil program is sponsored by the St. Marys Police Department and is paid for by local businesses," Rozoff told The Evening Leader. "Each student will get a safety booklet, and it mentions the local businesses."
Wilbur Warner, 90, of St. Marys, died on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital in St. Marys. Arrangements are being completed with the Miller Funeral Homes in St. Marys.
William H. D'Addurno, 61, of 615 N. Vine St., St. Marys, died at 9:06 a.m. Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, in the emergency department of Joint Township District Memorial Hospital in St. Marys.
He was born on April 2, 1950, in Trenton, N.J., to William and Elsie (Blom) D'Addurno, and they preceded him in death.
On Sept. 18, 1998, in Fort Wayne, Ind., he married Norma Jean Hall, and she survives.
He is also survived by a daughter, Jessica D'Addurno of St. Petersburg, Fla.; a sister.
He was preceded in death by a brother.
Betty A. Bowersock, 84, of 1321 Celina Road, St. Marys, died on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, at her residence.
She was born on Jan. 17, 1928, in St. Marys, to Ralph and Mary (Ruperd) McElroy, and they preceded her in death.
On Jan. 21, 1949, in Celina, she married Norman R. Bowersock, and he preceded her in death on March 23, 2007.
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