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When i do a long run (4 miles) or tempo run, I will get a sharp pain suddenly causing me to slow down to a walk. I will then proceed to ice when I get back home. Any ideas what it might be.
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I agree with others you should ask a medical professional if it continues to cause pain.
My advice is not professional, but do you think this might be a calf cramp? This can be caused by lack of vitamins, including phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, sodium and potassium. However, it seems that potassium can be the most important vitamin to prevent cramping. I used to get sharp pains in my calves when deficient in potassium. Foods high in potassium include avocados, bananas, dried apricots, mushrooms, spinach, and salmon, among many others.
Happy running!


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7 Ridiculously Outdated Assumptions Every Movie Makes
As Seen In: Transformers, Bad Teacher, Skins, Shameless, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, You, Me and Dupree, 90210, Glee, The 40 Year Old Virgin
What Movies and TV Say:
You've probably seen it in dozens of movies and TV shows -- someone opens the teenage protagonist's closet or looks under his bed and stumbles across his hidden porn stash, consisting of nudie magazines, VHS tapes and (if he's at the cutting edge of modern technology) a few DVDs. The character is shamed, but what else was he supposed to do? Not look at porn?
You, Me, and Dupree / Universal
"What do you mean, 'What other possibility is there?'!"
We're not just talking about '80s sex comedies here -- we've seen variations of that same scene in movies as recent as Transformers and Bad Teacher and current shows like Skins and Glee. It doesn't matter if the characters are teens or very modern adults (Steve Carell's friends in The 40 Year Old Virgin are man-children who are into video games, yet one of them has a cardboard "box of porn" he gives him).
"Only like 40 percent of this stuff is legal. I think it's mostly human, though."
The Reality Today:
Of course every man on earth knows this is no longer true. It turns out that if you offer people a convenient, free way of viewing and storing porn that's less likely to get found by others, most people will go for that choice. Today, we can safely assume that most teenagers' "porn stashes" are confined to a computer folder titled "Boring School Stuff," which is apparently not cinematographic enough for Hollywood.
In fact, the purchase of actual, physical pornography has shrunk so much that the traditional porn DVD industry is on the verge of collapse, as revealed by this cleverly titled article in The Economist:
Editor's note: Hard because of boners.
Magazines are doing even worse, which is not surprising, considering you can get a million times as many pictures for free by typing "boobs" into Google (and without having to sift through rock star interviews and "dude" articles). Even pay-per-view porn on television is down 50 percent since a few years ago, presumably because the nation discovered they could just open their laptops. So what's replaced it? Piracy, mostly, and free websites substituting any part of the word "YouTube" with something lewd.
So. It has come to this.
#2. Dangerous School Pranks Are Still Treated Like Harmless Fun
As Seen In: Friday Night Lights, iCarly, 8 Simple Rules, 90210, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Mean Girls, Drumline, A Walk to Remember, Blue Mountain State, American Pie Presents Band Camp, She's the Man, Sorority Boys
What Movies and TV Say:
Whether it's the entire football team enacting an elaborate joke on a rival school, like this "field covered in toothpicks" prank in Friday Night Lights ...
"Dear God. We are dealing with someone who has no life."
... or just one guy performing some good old-fashioned bullying, wacky pranks are always fair game as long as everyone involved is a high school student. It's a classic staple of teen comedies that we still see all the time, including variations like stealing the school mascot (8 Simple Rules) or letting farm animals loose in the rival school's cafeteria (90210). Then there's the wacky sex-related fun, like in the recent film Sorority Boys, where undercover male characters secretly live (and shower) with college women.
Hahaha! They're not allowed within 100 feet of a playground!
And of course, when the characters are found out, the punishment is always limited to stuff like "detention" or some contrived form of making up for it, like being forced to join a drama club and then star in the school play. But then again, these are just kids: What are you gonna do, call the cops on them?
The Reality Today:
Well, yeah, for starters. Nowadays, students can face felony charges for pranks like spray-painting graffiti on a rival team's property, or releasing live chickens into a school, or building a swimming pool on school grounds overnight.
You know, the classic building a swimming pool overnight joke.
In fact, last year a bunch of seniors in Texas were charged with criminal trespass for breaking into their own school, even though they were caught before they could do anything. And in 2007, students in New York were charged with "planting false bombs" after a senior prank that involved taping alarm clocks to walls. While these kids are no doubt dumbasses, it's easy to see how they could get the idea that they were gonna get away with it without any consequences: That sort of shit still goes on all the time on TV.
"Man, the clip show is going to suck balls."
And when it comes to the type of sex-related pranks that we see in the never-ending American Pie series, it's even worse. Children can now get charged with sexual assault and even become registered sex offenders for life for the kind of vaguely homoerotic bullying that still gets riotous laughs in the cinema, like taking a picture of a beer bottle between someone's butt cheeks, sitting on another kid's head or dressing up as a member of the opposite sex in order to fool your friends into making out with you.
Granted, high school seniors probably could get away with a lot of this stuff in the '80s, before Columbine or the changes in sexual harassment laws, but that only confirms what we already suspected -- that most teenage characters on TV today are being written by perverted 50-year-olds.
#1. The Population of Minorities Hasn't Changed Since the '50s
As Seen In: Pretty much anything, especially if it's set in Southern California.
What Movies and TV Say:
Apparently, America is a diverse paradise of attractive white people, some attractive black people and a vague smattering of others, if you look really closely at the screen and never blink. Here are the lineups for some of today's most popular comedies:
How I Met Your Mother / Fox
White People Who Will Never Resolve the Plot
Big Bang Theory / Warner Brothers
Mostly White Nerds Horribly Compounding Stereotypes
White People Wearing White on White oh God So Much White
OK, so there are fewer minorities on TV than Caucasians. "But that's why they're called minorities," you might say. And every show has a token minority character or two. So overall, the percentage of Asians, Latinos and Miscellaneous in these shows is probably proportional to the amount of real people of these ethnic backgrounds living in the country, right? Or, like, at least somewhere in the same vicinity?
The Reality Today:
Not even close.
Minorities are actually represented on TV in proportion to the real America -- that is, the real America of about 50 years ago. For example, Latinos, whose population in the U.S. has more than doubled since 1980 and who now include almost one in six Americans, get a whopping 3 percent of TV representation -- the same level as it was back in the 1950s (and by some accounts it's even lower). It's like as soon as Desi Arnaz showed up, TV executives said "Yeah, OK, that's enough."
"And make sure he speaks a lot of Mexican. Americans think it's hilarious."
Asian-Americans have it slightly better, with 3 percent representation in TVland compared to 4 percent in the actual country, but most of those characters are one-off minor roles (where most of the dialogue is "Here are your chopsticks"). Native Americans, according to a 2002 study, go from around 1 percent in real life to ... "already extinct," apparently.
The Lone Ranger / Disney
Naw, there's probably at least 1 percent Native American blood here.
Even prime time shows set in Los Angeles County, which is 45 percent Latino, feature only 14 percent Latino characters, and shows set in New York (27 percent Latino, 10 percent Asian) managed a combined Asian/Latino character rate of 9 percent. It's practically a different city.
African-Americans are the only exception to this trend -- apparently, TV execs figure that as long as they throw a black guy in there, that whole diversity issue is taken care of. Maybe everybody else just needs another 50 years or so to catch up.
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Increasing the safety of a low-water Topeka dam where three people have drowned could cost nearly $2 million. Topeka utilities superintendent Don Rankin presented four options Wednesday to the Topeka-Shawnee County Riverfront Authority for safeguarding the Kansas River dam where a kayaker died in July 2011 and two canoers in August 2007. The dam is located near a water treatment plant. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Riverfront Authority board supported two of the options. One was a $1.4 million proposal that would only address the danger zone on the south side of the river. The second option would cost $1.9 million and would address issues on both sides of the dam. Rankin says he's soliciting stakeholder input before providing the Topeka City Council with a recommendation.
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Sweet tart sensation of flavor, beautiful red petals that nestle in the bottom of your cup. Just drop in & top with hot water. Sweeten with honey or enjoy the color & spectacle on its own.Try Making Traditional Egyptian Karkady:4 Servings: 1 cup Hibiscus Petals; 2 cups sugar or substitute sweetener of choice); 4 cups WaterSoak the hibiscus in cold water to cover for 1-2 hours. Transfer the petals & water to a pot & bring to a boil.Remove the pot immediately and strain the liquid.Return the petals to the pot, add fresh cold water, cover & repeat as above.Repeat the process until the hibiscus petals lose their reddish hue.Discard the petals & sweeten while the liquid is still hot, stirring until dissolved. The liquid, now Karkady, can be consumed warm in wintertime.To serve cold, remove from heat & pour into a bowl. Fill a larger bowl with ice water & set the smaller bowl (containing the karkady) inside. Stir the drink until chilled then transfer to a pitcher & chill in the refrigerator.Enjoy!
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I konw that mass affects weight (force), so how does that relate to speed? F=ma. so how does all this affect speed?
Mass doesn't affect speed directly. It determines how quickly an object can change speed (accelerate) under the action of a given force. Lighter objects need less time to change speed by a given amount under a given force.
Alternatively, mass determines how strong a force has to be to accelerate an object at a given rate. Lighter objects can do with weaker force to change speed by a given amount in a given amount of time.
Thus, mass is a measure of object's inertia which is resistance to changes in object's motion. This is what the equation
\begin{equation} F=ma \end{equation}
Note that speed is relative (i.e. depends on the choice of the frame of reference) and, in the framework of Newtonian mechanics, for each object there is a frame of reference in which it is moving at arbitrarily high velocity.
Let us first assume that a constant force, $F$, is applied to a stationary body of mass $m$ from $t = 0$ to $t = T$.
Let us begin with the equation $F = ma$.
This can be re-written as $F = m\frac{dv}{dt}$.
After re-arranging the equation, we arrive at:
$\frac{dv}{dt} = F/m$. we can then integrate both sides with respect to time to give:
$v = \int_0^T \frac{F}{m}\mathrm dt$, where the limits of integration apply over the time the force is applied.
Since we have assumed that $F$ is constant between $t=0$ and $t=T$, we can calculate the integral to arrive at:
$v = \frac{F}{m}T$, assuming the mass is initially at rest before the force is applied.
As we can see, if the mass was doubled, the final velocity achieved at $t=T$ will be halved.
Secondly, one may consider how mass effects speed by considering kinetic energy. The formula for kinetic energy is given by:
$KE = \frac{1}{2}mv^2$.
Therefore, if a photon losses all its energy, $hf$, to a free particle of mass, $m$, the particle will travel at a speed of $\sqrt{2\frac{hf}{m}}$ after gaining the energy from the photon. If however a photon loses the same amount of energy to a particle of double the mass, $2m$, the particle will travel at a velocity of $\sqrt{\frac{hf}{m}}$, which is slower by a factor of $\sqrt{2}$.
In conclusion, we have seen that the final velocity of a heavy particle after the application of a constant force will be lower than that of a light particle. Similarly, a heavy particle will travel at a lower velocity than a light particle, given an equal amount of energy.
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I'm getting this boot error on Natty:
mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init.
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
The root system is using btrfs. However, when I boot up a live-CD, I can mount the system partition without any problems and there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with it.
Running btrfsck gives this output:
sudo btrfsck /dev/md0p1
found 33322205184 bytes used err is 0
total csum bytes: 32134752
total tree bytes: 401801216
total fs tree bytes: 334020608
btree space waste bytes: 104869496
file data blocks allocated: 38219010048
referenced 33116684288
Btrfs Btrfs v0.19
I hope someone can help me out with this problem.


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9 Corporate Attempts At "Edgy" That Failed (Hilariously)
#4. Fruity Pebbles Goes "Urban"
If there's one product that suffers from a lack of hardcore street cred, it's sugary breakfast cereals. The Fruity Pebbles people wanted to tackle this problem, but since it was 1991, they didn't have the simple option of hiring 50 Cent to eat a bowl while talking about his gunshot wounds.
So they did the next best thing, which was to have Barney Rubble do a 1984-era rap:
To be fair, Barney does a much better job channeling Run-DMC than Fred's attempt at Jam Master Jay. But then again, he's using a pterodactyl for a turntable.
At some point they realized that their attempt to modernize the brand with this hip new "rap" thing was grossly out of date since, by 1991, rap had changed considerably thanks to one Mr. Hammer.
Someone must have brought that to Post's attention, because in 1992, a new and more horrible commercial appeared, with Barney in enormous Hammer pants:
It's Pebbles Time all right. Notice how Barney's rapping actually got worse after one year. Not to mention the nonsensical name "CD Rapper." Why not "FP Rapper" for Fruity Pebbles or "BR Rapper" for Barney Rubble?
We like to picture a guy in 1970s New York, taking part in the birth of the whole hip-hop scene, helping invent the genre. Then, 20 years later, he sits in front of his TV, watches the above ad, and weeps softly.
#3. OK Soda: the Cola with Angst
By the time the masses stopped caring about Hammer in the early 90s, the truly cutting edge didn't care about anything at all. Realizing this, advertisers decided that their products became a lot cooler when they pretended not to give a fuck.
Calvin Klein sold jeans with models who would rather rot in existential torment than wear pants. Benetton sold shirts (or something) by showing dying AIDS patients. It all made perfect sense.
Black T-shirt: $59.95.
In 1993, an exec at Coca-Cola came up with the idea of a beverage made entirely of irony. It was called OK Soda, and it came in gray cans covered with edgy comics. The name of the soda played off the fact that "OK" was the second most recognizable word among worldwide languages, the first being "Coca-Cola."
All right, so OK had a witty name and interesting packaging going for it. They could have left it at that, but OK happened to be the brainfart of one of the geniuses behind New Coke. That meant it was destined to not only cross the border between ironic and stupid, but to keep running until it reached Retardedville.
First, there was the OK Manifesto. It was like the Ten Commandments, except that instead of "thou shalt not kill," you got crap like "never overestimate the remarkable abilities of OK brand soda." Then there were the hotlines. OK had an 800-number where hip young consumers could leave messages. An automated voice on the phone told them that their messages might be used for advertising or "exploited in some way [they] haven't figured out yet." OK's most famous message went like this:
"This is Pam H. from Newton, Massachusetts, and I resent you saying that everything is going to be OK. You don't know anything about my life. You don't know what I've been through in the last month. I really resent it. I'm tired of you people trying to tell me things that you don't have any idea about. I resent it."
Pam H.'s message ended up in OK's TV commercials. This was one soda that was so full of youthful rebellion that it didn't even want you to buy it!
And no one did. OK Soda never reached a national market. It was a corporate version of a kid running away from home and wondering why his parents aren't looking for him.
#2. Earring Magic Ken is Cool and Fabulous
Ken has been a problem for Mattel from the very beginning. The guy never had a chance: he was fully emasculated before the plastic was even poured into the molds. He then spent the next 30 years forced to go on ridiculous dates with a woman he couldn't fuck. Mattel seemed to relish the joke as their efforts to make Ken believably butch became more sarcastic over the years:
Then in 1993, this happened:
Mattel said that their intent was to make Ken "a little cooler." The design execs had presumably held a meeting two years earlier that went like this:
"Let's make Ken look a little cooler. Any ideas?"
"You know who's cool right now? That Right Said Fred group. They've got earrings, mesh shirts and leather pants."
"Hmm. That could work. Keep the mesh shirt idea, but replace the leather pants with some high-waisted jeans and put a vest on him."
"Periwinkle blue?" "Yes! And give him a chain with something that looks like a doll cockring hanging on it. Kids like cockrings, right?"
"Sure. Just keep it subtle."
The little girls didn't know, but the men understood. Earring Magic Ken was uncomfortably fabulous, particularly with what reporters awkwardly dubbed his "ring pendant and vest accessory." The doll was discontinued and even pulled from the shelves in a few stores, but he remains the biggest selling Ken doll in Mattel's history, simply because no other toy lines bothered to make theirs into a gay icon. There's a market there, fellas.
#1. McDonald's Finds Where Sell-Out Rappers Draw the Line
The other attempts on this list may be pathetic, but at least they got off the ground. After the marketing firm Maven Strategies got Kanye West and Petey Pablo to plug Seagram's Gin in their lyrics, their other client, McDonald's, wanted in on the action. So in 2005, McDonald's and Maven asked well-known rappers to name-check the Big Mac in one of their songs. The artist would be paid every time the song was played.
"Go ahead and make it rain, fellas."
No one took the offer. No one.
Ray Kroc must have felt that kick in the nuts from his grave. Think about it: the Big Mac doesn't have the glamor of, say, Courvoisier, but more unlikely brands have shown up in hip hop: Brillo, Microsoft, Carvel, Verizon, Coca-Cola, Jello and Chippendale's should all write checks to MF Doom just for "Beef Rapp." And Seagram's success showed that it wasn't a bad business deal. So what went wrong?
The same thing that happened to Raging Cow and Sony. According to Russell Simmons, the plan would have worked if the details weren't revealed on the Internet. That's the lesson here. Being underhanded and manipulative in your marketing doesn't work unless you can keep it a secret.
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Trigger Happy
Teachers and teacher advocacy groups have staged protests at early screenings of Wont Back Down, a new film about the widely assumed decrepitude of American public education that posits the only way forward is for parents to take back their schools. Thats not a critique; its what the filmmakers themselves say, and appealing to moms and dads in so visceral a manner is always a smart sell.But like many sells, it could be a disingenuous one. Education experts contend that the film is really an advertisement for whats known as the parent trigger, an increasingly utilized policy mechanism enabling 51 percent of parents in any public school to close it or hand it over to private management. Thats why knowledgeable educatorsare protesting. Dianne Ravitch calls the trigger an inherently terrible ideaa public school, built with public funds, belongs to the public, she says, not to 51 percent of the parents who have children enrolled in it. Would a simple majority of people using public transit have the right to privatize that?Maybe they wouldnt have the right, but if they were as flush with financial support as trigger advocacy groups, they might have the ability. The Gates, Broad, and Walton foundations are among the backers of trigger initiatives, along with test-development and test-prep companies, for-profit charter companies, educational diploma mills, educational consultants, and other businesses that stand to gain from the privatization of public schools. Right-wing organizations like the Heartland Institute and the American Legislative Council (ALEC) have helped craft trigger legislation in 17 states, with, in the case of ALEC, millions in funding from the billionaire Koch brothers, according to the Center for Media and Democracy. The centers PR Watch notes that ALEC also receives funding from Walden Media, the head of which owns the conservative Weekly Standard magazine and is a producer of both Wont Back Down and the notorious pro-charter documentary Waiting for Superman.Support for the trigger and for charter schools isnt limited to the right, as the administrations of Barack Obama, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg have demonstrated. They may not preach the gospel of market solutions with matching fervor. But in their enthusiasm for "reform," and for tying student and teacher performance to high-stakes testing, they have inevitably found themselves allied with interests seeking profit opportunities in public education.In other words, parental empowerment and reform may not be the real goals. If they were, as Ravitch notes, then the money would be going to community-based parent groups like those in New York City and Chicago that have actively opposed the closing of their neighborhood public schoolsnot sought to take them private. Or to Catholic schools, which according to Ravitch are being killed off by the marketplace of options in spite of noted successes.Michael B. Fabricant, professor of social welfare at Hunter College and co-author of Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education, says in an interview that for-profit interests are exploiting anxiety over the public education crisis to advance their market-based agenda(.pdf; the interview begins on page 17 and is worth reading in full).
The language of crisis is really manufactured, and manufactured crises can open the door to various kinds of shock policiespolicies we wouldnt consider were it not for the threatened crisis. Id say [those policies] are the doctrine of school choice and the proliferation of charter schools. This freedom [of choice] is market-defined, for policy makers simply assume that market-driven reform, when applied to a public good, will produce efficient and productive results. They are, in effect, allowing ideology to drive social policy. And what they put forth as the primary solution to what ails public education is an exit strategy, a way to move children out of the public schools.
And the strategy, in terms of meeting its ostensible educational goals, isnt even working. Fabricant cites a study from Stanfords Center for Research on Education Outcomes showing that only 17 percent of charters have proven more successful than public schools, while 37 percent are less effective and 46 percent about the same. So, Fabricant sums up, ten to fifteen years into the experiment, public schools continue to outperform charters.The real issue, according to Fabricant, is the impact of class and race on achievement, and addressing this requires innovation, union flexibility, and smarter investment to fix a system that isn't working for the poor and people of color. North Carolina, Connecticut, and New Jersey are among the states that have followed this path, focusing on class size, teacher training and workplace support, and leadership development for principals. All three states have seen substantial improvements. We know what works, Fabricant says. There is no magic to this.No magic, and no profit, but dividends in terms of achievement. Which the trigger-happy backers of privatization, and Wont Back Down, may not want to hear.
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Rotten Tomatoes suggests that it's a film worth missing.http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wont_back_down_2012/reviews/
My advice would be "take back your families" not "take back your school". As a teacher my job has expanded into secretary for the parents and mother to the children as well as counselor and you get the picture. A concrete example would be a mother never asking her child about what might be in the backpack of interest...a parent never sending a note back for a child who is absent...etc. My advice to parents is while you are contemplating your next tattoo, why not take a few minutes to see what your child is learning? Is it so hard to look at his graded papers? After all, is she not your child? The elephant in the room on education issues is our terribly disfunctional families. But let's not talk about that because I guess its none of our business. Instead let's do teacher bashing as that poor man or woman skates around the room trying to make up for society's ills and produce a good product...for the 7 hours the child is actually at school, that is!
Denise --Sadly, I have to agree with you. Grammar school and high school teachers are expected to raise the children of parents who are unable to or who did not themselves learn how It's a very vicious circle. As the population becomes even less well educated, the families become even more dysfunctional. And the teachers are supposed to pick up the pieces and put them back together again.I don't know what the answer is. Any suggestions?
Netflix viewers apparently are more impressed with the film. It's gotten an average of 3.4 stars. The review found most helpful is:"Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis play two determined mothers, one a teacher, who will stop at nothing to upgrade their children's inner city school. Although the two woman are from different races and classes, they together face a powerful system of impersonal red-tape to ensure their children get a good education. This is a powerful story about parenthood, friendship and courage, and making a difference."I don't think of the typical Netflix subscriber as being part of any vast right-wing conspiracy.
Ann--I think many schools are trying many different approaches. We each have a presentation station in our rooms and document cameras which greatly enhance our teaching efforts. We have media at our fingertips, so there is no shortage in those terms. We are at a crossroads when it comes to textbooks as the school system is trying to figure out the best approach financially for book replacement. Work ethic is a problem, and parents have trouble instilling it when homelife is poor. We will keep plugging away. I am for Obama, but sometimes when I look at the parental clientel, I wonder if we do have an entitlement society. Thank you for your interest.
For 35 or 40 years a thousand flowers of school reform have been blooming, here, there and everywhere. We have had a succession of "education governors" in every state, but all of them seem to have left a mess for the next "education governor" to fool with. The most successful, i.e., best-funded, of the reformers seem to be those who have never set foot in a classroom since they graduated or who began as teachers and quickly discovered they have neither the temperament nor the skills to teach successfully and so became reformers.IMHO, Americans have been playing games and goofing around with schools because "reforming" them seems easier to the current generation of politicians than doing anything that actually would require study, guts and leadership. Unfortunately, even school reform requires knowledge, but if anyone has ever brought it to bear, why are we still doing this?
I think Denise's and Tom's comments are a cold slap of reality here. I teach at a small private college that accommodates many non-traditional students who are struggling financially and trying for two-year voc-tech degrees or certificates to get out of the mess their lives are in.Most are unmarried, have children, and are enmeshed in the judicial system. These people love their children and are motivated to do better for their children. But they are singularly handicapped by stress, financial woes, and general ignorance about how to be parents. Many are also enmeshed in the judicial system in some way.Any education "reform" that does not include early childhood education in preschools and day care, and fails to help mentor at-risk parents has already set sail without a rudder.FWIW, many public libraries offer havens for stressed young families by offering reading programs for preschoolers. I was stunned to learn from the state library association that many young parents simply do not know how to put a kid on their laps and read them a story.
"Instead lets do teacher bashing"Hi, Denise, I haven't seen the film (and based on Rotten Tomatoes and the review that appeared in our local paper today, I may never see it), but I have seen "Waiting for Superman". The latter does not engage in teacher bashing so much as teachers union bashing and education system bashing. I expect that all of us know that there are some very good teachers in some very dysfunctional systems; in fact, if we had more excellent teachers in our most dysfunctional districts, the students might do somewhat better than they do now.Certainly, getting bad teachers out of the classroom won't fix every educational ill, by a long shot - but it can make a difference, and being unable to fix every problem shouldn't prevent us from addressing the problems we can address.
Hi, Jim. Yes, I am all for getting bad teachers out of the classroom. But how is it that my generation and that of my own children have had better educations than the current students? The factor that has changed is the aforementioned--homelife. The other factor is that the pool of teachers we once had were the cream of the crop because there was no other career for a woman (except the obvious..nurse, secretary, etc) Yes, I am for teacher unions. Without them we may not be able to retain the good teachers we have. Again I invite any adult to come into the modern elementary classroom and take over completely for two weeks. Those so called "experts" on the subject may be humbled.
Denise = =It seems to me that the while disfunctional families are indeed a great problem, they are not one that we should expect teachers to solve. Yes, some families are disfunctional partly because the parent(s) lack education themselves. But the only solution to that is adult education for them -- we cannot expect the teachers in the grammar and high schools to educate both the young and their parents in the same schools. Adult education, of course, would cost money too, and we are just too cheap to solve the problem.And as to getting rid of the "bad" teachers, that's am ambiguous term. Yes, as I never stop complaining, there are too many incompetent teachers, but IT IS NOT THEIR FAULT. They went to college, worked extra hard, decided to work with children and became teachers, being told all the while that they could do it competently I say we cannot in justice just throw them out of the system because at this late date we have decided that they don't meet our NEW standards. Either their contracts need to be bought off or place needs to be made for them within the system as -- what shall they be called? auxiliary teachers? teaching assistants? Expensive? Yes. But in justice they shouldn't just be tossed out.
As a baseline for discussion could we agree that there has never been a "golden age" of public education in America? (And I say this in full knowledge that the US has historically led the industrialized world in educating its citizenry, and that it is only in recent decades that other countries are reaching---in some cases surpassing---the standards we have set.)Taken as a whole, the current generation of students is more likely to attend and complete high school, more likely to attend and complete a 2 or 4 year college degree program, and score as well or better than previous generations on standardized tests, according to the best data we have (e.g., the NAEP). This is especially true for students with mental, emotional and/or learning disabilities who, until recent decades, were basically "locked in the attic".
I agree about the comment concerning special education, because it wasn't until 1989 that it became compulsory to educate them. However, I do believe we've had a golden age in education when the baby boomers went through school. They were raised by the WWII generation that demanded a high degree of discipline. Current countries that are surpassing us are doing so with their best and brightest and they are demanding a high degree of discipline from them. The CNN special a year or so ago on high school age Chinese was a stounding, and the methods they used to educate them would never be tolerated here.Yes, we are demanding that more and more kids go to college, but are we watering it down to force fit them in? We need vocational ed for the many jobs that are needed in our sociey. That's where the shortage is, and it may be that we will pay just about anything to get skilled LABOR.
If we persist in defining "success" in this country as the ability to make money whether as a skilled worker, a janitor, a lawyer, a CEO of a financial corporation, etc., our schools will continue to be commercial training schools, they will not educate a population that is capable of the critical and creative thinking needed for a democracy to work. Germany in the 1930's had some fine technical schools available to ordinary citizens. That citizenry legally produced the Nazi government.Yes, people need training for jobs. They also need educations.
That's good, Ann! It's getting them there that is sometimes the problem!
There's a famous class photograph of the students of a certain German technical schoo in the early 20th centuryl. It supposedly includes two of the most famous people of the 20th century -- Wittgenstein and Hitler. It is certain that they went to the same high school. Hitler said he was particularly fond of some pulp novels by an American about a "hero" who hates Indians and goes about slaughtering them. See what happens when you don't learn Shakespeare and Sophocles and Isaiah instead?
Anecdotal only, but I always ask my students to give me a list of their expectations of me after I review class policies in the syllabus (and it still seems strange to me that we have to have class policies in the syllabus that spell out comportment and the like).Anyhoo, many students tell me they expect me to give them an A if they try really hard and they want me to e-mail them "friendly reminders" if they are missing work.I find this astounding in an age where, with the touch of a button, students can access live-chat tutorial help 24/7 from the college and look up their assignments on line to see what's missing and what grade they received on it.Oh, and we also have a new college policy that doors have to be locked from the outside during class in case we get shooters on campus.What a world.
Jean --I hate to say it, but that does sound something like what some of the neo-cons rail about: the inability or unwillingness of some people to accept responsibility or their own success or failure. Th neo-cons do make a major point.Where I differ with them is that I see those people as unsure of their own capabilities and unconvinced that work will make them competent. They need teachers who truly believe that they can do the work, who inspire them to work their hardest, and who hold them to the necessary standards.
Ann, maybe it's just my age, but my sense is that the human race seems to be populated by people who are emotionally 17 years old. There is a sense of immaturity, a lack of social grace, an inability to pay attention, a desire to define people by their things rather than their ideas, a disconnect with the intellectual and spiritual in favor of the physical. I see this across age groups and social strata.And honestly? When the likes of me notices this, things have come to a pretty bad pass.To people living at this level--and I realize this is going to sound incredibly snobbish--the whole notion of an education designed to transmit some basic sense of what an average human in the early 21st Century should know (v. job training to get money) seems like an airy-fairy proposition.
Ann and Jean, this article, by a professor of education at an American University, about designing an alternative curriculum for his son in order to prepare him for life, may interest you.http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2012/09/a-curriculum-of-life
Here's a very relevant article by David Brooks on why kids fail both in school in school and out of it. It seems that the more psychological traumas that a child suffers, e.g., divorced parents, physical abuse, family member in jail, the more likely it is to fail in school -- not just grammar and high school, ub also college. "Later research suggested that only 3 percent of students with an ACE score [which measures traum] of 0 had learning or behavioral problems in school. Among students with an ACE score of 4 or higher, 51 percent had those problems."A kid with a score of 6 (out of a possible 10) was 50 % more likely to attempt suicide.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/opinion/brooks-the-psych-approach.html?src=rechpThe main problem apparently isn't the teachers -- it's the parents. So who will help the parents?
Big oops -- Those with ACE scores above 6 were 30 TIMES more likely to attempt suicide. !!!
To try to answer my own question (who will help the parents) --I suspect that the main answer is: the clergy of all faiths. It can help the parents to work out better value systems and encourage them to have the strength and patience needed to raise kids in these troubled times. But how much attention will/do parents give to the celibate clergy of the Catholic Church who have no existential acquaintance with the pitfalls of contemporary parenting? Further, and probably most important, the facts of the sex scandal show that the Catholic bishops as a group were incredibly indifference to the welfare of the children under their spiritual care. They have spent their spiritual clout. Why should parents listen when the bishops tell them how to raise responsible kids?
Rocha's article in the link Jim Pauwels is thought-provoking. I find somewhat jarring, if not ghoulish, the notion that a parent would see his primary function as ensuring that his kid went straight to heaven when he died. OTOH, if that's not your goal (even if you find it too difficult to put it in quite that way), what good is your parenting? Going fishing, reading nothing but improving books, and exploring the wonders of the world with only the best people--these are the kinds of fantasies it's fairly easy to entertain when kids are 6, particularly if they're tractable and obedient to begin with.However, I don't think kids are blank slates, and as their own preferences, talents, and personalities emerge, child-rearing becomes an endless game of "pick your battles." In fact, I think allowing kids to learn from a certain number of hare-brained ideas (oh, say, letting your girlfriend cut and dye your hair) can be quite salubrious, particularly if the parent offers comforting words such as, "You know, it'll grow back pretty fast. Just imagine if you'd let her give you a tattoo!"I hope Rocha checks back in 10 years when Tomas and his brother have discovered girls and cars.
Ann, many day care centers and preschools help parents. I knew nothing about children when my kid was born, and the ladies at the Catholic preschool were wonderful mentors ... and some were younger than me.However, as long as we pay people who take care of children minimum wage and require next to no skills to do the job, they can't provide that kind of daily contact and assistance.
Jean --I think that the problems with families are so varied that it would take a huge effort and wisdom we may not posses to change "the family" for the better. There have been so many sociolgical and religious changes since the 30's that the problems aren't going to be solved easily. I just think that the churches and the clergy in particular have to take the lead in inspiring some more solid values than the ones we seem to have these days. We are thoroughly hedonistic on a personal level and thoroughly materialistic in our political aims. I don't think academe can change much, so that leaves the churches to make us at least re-thing our basic values.It's not that I think that people are less idealistic, especially the young. It's that the society's values are inadequate for the flourishing of families.
Jean --I should have added that we aren't thinking our way out of this because the American culture is s9 stringently anti-intellectual and has been for generations. It's not a matter of not trusting the academics -- it's a matter of not trusting *our own* abilities to think critically. Consider all the bad nmes we have for people who study problems and try to think their way out of them: egghead, talking head, geek, bookworm. The list is endless. The last think a teen-ager want to be seen as is a nerd, so they don't study and grow up to inspire the same dumb attitude in their children. Comic books are one the nation's favorite sort of "book". And we can't blame this on the politicians. We end up with "going with our gut". Sheesh.
"Its not that I think that people are less idealistic, especially the young. Its that the societys values are inadequate for the flourishing of families."Ann, I agree in so many way ... and yet, there are so many families that do flourish in the midst of this society.I'm convinced that traditional Christian morality is part of the recipe. Not everyone follows every jot and tittle of it, and I suppose that it was ever thus, but it needs to be presented as an attainable ideal.
Jim --I agee that it has to be presented as an alternative to the hedonism, materialism of most of the people in our culture. But you can't just walk up to a pagan and say, "Christ saves!" You have to understand why the pagan believes as he/she does, and that means understanding the roots of their skepticism about the Church. I hate to sound like the proverbial broken record (kids these days don't even know what that expression means :-), but the sex scandal has destroyed the bishops credibility. Nobody exxcept hard-core conservative Catholics listens to them any more except to laugh at them or call them names. Their attempts at evangelization are doomed unless they change within themselves so radically that people see that they are truly capable of self-criticism and change. Then the skeptics have to see the bishops criticizing their own teachings for whatever flaws are there -- and unless the bishops admit that they too can make theological errors, they don't have a chance of being taken seriously by anyone. They blew it, Jim, with the sex scandal. Their arrogance and lack of empathy with the suffering children has destroyed their position in society. Unless the Holy Spirit provides them with some first class saints to lead them out of the social wilderness, their state of ostracism, they arn't going to lead anybody else anywhere.


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In much of the scientific literature, the words 1D, one-dimensional, 1-dimensional, and 1-D occur frequently. Which of these is the best practice? Are there general principles for deciding which is the best format of these types
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I was taught to write out numbers in formal writing, so I would tend towards "one-dimensional". I don't have a good source with me to look this up, but the first search result to grammarbook.com says to
This rule is actually contrary to what I learned, though, as I was told to write out all numbers.
However, it is widely accepted to forgo this rule in scientific, mathematical, and similar writings and simply use numberals instead, since they tend to contain calculations, measurements, formulas, etc. As FumbleFingers recommended, you should observe what other similar resources use.
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Is there any prospect that you will need to refer to an n-dimensional vector space? If so, there is no other sensible way to write that (nD or n-D is open to all sorts of misinterpretation) and your other references need to be consistent (as in 1-dimensional and 3-dimensional).
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The annual time to "spring ahead" and set the clocks forward one hour is here, reminding us all that — at least according to the calendar — winter is nearly over. While there may still be some snow and cold temperatures, they say that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. With the change of seasons officially coming on March 20, it's time to think spring!
Another sure sign of spring around these parts is the annual Bristol County Home & Garden Show, which takes place Saturday, March 15, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Fall River's Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School.
After the rough, and seemingly never-ending, winter we've been through, most of us are probably ready to get outdoors and enjoy some sunshine and warmer weather. What better way to do it than sprucing up your home and garden? And what better place to get some great ideas than the fourth annual edition of this great — and free — show, sponsored by The Herald News and Taunton Daily Gazette, as well as the Fall River Area Chamber of Commerce and Industry?
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Whether you live way out in the country and have a big yard for gardening, or perhaps just keep a window box in your apartment — or anything in between — there's something exciting about seeing plants, flowers, herbs and vegetables come to life over the course of the season.
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I need to catch event listeners when i select a row and another event listeners when i check the checkbox(as well as when i uncheck)...if i use something like that
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Here are a few interesting publications, articles, updates and news about personalized genetics.
- The first issue of Medicine Studies containing such articles as From Utopia to Science: Challenges of Personalised Genomics Information for Health Management and Health Enhancement
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I've decided that I'd like to focus my efforts on an area that is personally significant and will continue to have a huge impact on our healthcare system–Alzheimer's disease. Effective today, I'm leaving 23andMe and have begun making plans for the creation of a foundation dedicated to the study of this disorder.
- The Human Genre Project (Genetic Future): A collection of poems and short stories assembled into the set of human chromosomes.
- Genetic Variation and Loss of Physiologic Complexity Are Associated With Mortality in 644 Trauma Patients (Annals of Surgery)
Conclusions: This first study to simultaneously examine autonomic nervous system genetics, the biomarker complexity, and mortality concludes: (1) ANS genetics and physiologic complexity are independently related to mortality; (2) Genetics and complexity add information over traditional acuity scoring (probability of survival); and (3) Simultaneous assessment of ANS physiology and genetics may yield novel research, diagnostic, and therapeutic opportunities in critical illness.


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WELLSBURG - Wellsburg City Council on Tuesday agreed to apply for a federal grant to target areas of the city for redevelopment and approved a match required for a state grant to provide additional lighting at the Betty Carr Recreation Site.
City Manager Mark Henne said he will apply for a $50,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission to develop a comprehensive plan to promote development in the city and a blight plan to identify former industrial sites and other properties that require rehabilitation for them to be used again.
Henne said if the city receives the full amount sought, it will be required to provide a $50,000 match.
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Winners of Wellsburg's first Christmas home decorating contest were recognized by Wellsburg City Council Tuesday. On hand for the presentation were, front from left, City Manager Mark Henne, Logan, Justin and Debbie Welch, 3rd Ward winners; Hayley Fadse and her parents, James and Melissa Fisher, 4th Ward winners; and Mayor Sue Simonetti; middle, Councilman Bruce Hunter, Councilman Paul T. Billiard, who organized the contest; Councilmen Ron Michaux and Jeff Tarr and Councilwoman Della Serevicz; and back, Councilman Mike Smith -- Warren Scott
Ed and Ruth Stein, residents of Wellsburg's 1st Ward, also were winners of the city's first Christmas home decorating contest. -- Contributed
The move is part of an ongoing effort to find new uses for vacant industrial sites and buildings in the city.
With the help of the Brooke-Hancock Regional Planning Council, an arm of the Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission, the city's redevelopment authority secured two $5,000 grants to assess and improve the Brooke Glass site at Sixth Street.
The board, which meets at noon on the second Tuesday of each month at City Hall, has invited the public to share ideas for the location.
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In related business, council appointed 2nd Ward Councilman Ron Michaux to the redevelopment authority following the departure from it by Steve Mitchell Sr.
Council also agreed to provide a 10 percent match for a $7,178 Governor's Community Participation Grant received for additional lighting at the Betty Carr Recreation Site.
Mayor Sue Simonetti said the grant will allow the city to put in a 30 foot pole with three 1,000-watt floodlights near the center of the park and a conduit for a video camera there. The move will both serve evening activities in the warmer months and deter vandalism, she said.
In related business, Second Ward Councilman Paul T. Billiard said the portable ice rink placed at the park recently has been damaged and must be dismantled until it can be determined if it may be repaired for next year.
Billiard said the ice had melted and 12 cuts, each about 12 inches, were made in the rink's liner with skates.
It was purchased by the city with $3,293 in local funds to offer area residents a winter recreational activity.
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Joined Simonetti and Henne in recognizing the winners of the city's first Christmas home decorating contest. Billiard, who suggested the contest, said the winners and many other residents can be proud of their efforts to decorate their homes for the holiday.
Named for each ward, the winners are: Ed and Ruth Stein, 1st Ward; Randy and Vicki Smith, 2nd Ward; Bill and Debbie Welch, 3rd Ward; and James and Melissa Fisher, 4th Ward.
Simonetti, Henne and council also recognized the Brooke High School cheerleaders for earning the school's 13th state cheerleading championship, setting a state record for the school with the most wins.
Granted permission to the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Museum, which is based at the Brooke County Public Library, to hold a walk marking the 71st anniversary of the Bataan Death March at 5 p.m. April 9 from 12th Street near Rite Aid to Seventh Street and back.
Received a thank-you from Brooke County Salvation Army Commanders Ed and Goldie Long and the Salvation Army board for repairs made by city crews to the street near the Salvation Army Service Center at Commerce and Fourth streets.
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Dawn Smith, MD, Biomedical Intervention Implementation Officer, National Center for HIV/AIDS Prevention, CDC and
Deborah Cohan, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
Webinar Objectives:
After this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Discuss the role of PrEP as part of comprehensive HIV prevention services for heterosexually active adults at very high risk of HIV infection
– Especially uninfected persons whose regular sexual partners are known to have HIV infection.
- Identify populations in which PrEP can be used (our focus is on women and HIV serodiscordant heterosexual couples)
- Describe clinical considerations, including
– Acute infection
– Comprehensive counseling (adherence, resistance, HIV testing, signs/symptoms of HIV infection etc.)
– Monitoring for and treating STIs
– Monitoring HIV status, pregnancy status, side effects, adherence and risk behaviors
– Engaging men in care
- Discuss the state of the science related to the use of PrEP in HIV-discordant couples wishing to conceive and describe the current perinatal guidelines.


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One of the world's most important airports, Frankfurt Airport (FRA) is the home base of the Star Alliance and it is also served by a long roster of other airlines from all over the globe. The airport is intermodally linked which makes it one of Europe's most important transportation hubs and in 2014, Frankfurt welcomed 60 million passengers from 297 destinations and 105 countries.
Frankfurt Airport actually uses two terminals for passenger operations
Terminal 1, concourses A, B, C and Z
Terminal 2, concourses D and E
The two terminals are linked by the "Sky Line" train and a shuttle bus.
Road Access
Frankfurt Airport is located right at Germany's most important motorway interchange (where the A3, A67, and A5 motorways intersect). Each of both terminals is separately accessible by road.
Parking at Frankfurt Airport
There is a total of some 15,000 parking spaces right at the terminals. The offering is diverse and huge for every type of customer. Business travelers can take advantage of separate access and short walks. Vacationers can book reduced rates online.
Rental Cars All major rental car companies are represented at Frankfurt Airport: Terminal 1, Concourse A, Level 0 (Airport City Mall) Terminal 2, Concourse D, Level 2 (Arrivals)
Access by Rail
Frankfurt Airport has two train stations: The long-distance train station (platforms 4– 7) for ICE and IC trains offers 174 daily connections to all major cities in Germany. The regional train station (platforms 1– 3) connects FRA to Frankfurt suburbia. Trains for downtown Frankfurt leave every 15 minutes. Train tickets can be purchased in the DB Travel Centers in the AIRail Terminal and Terminal 1 (Concourse B, Level 0) and at numerous ticket machines.
AIRail Terminal
The AIRail Terminal is located between the long-distance train station and Terminal 1. More than 40 airlines let passengers arriving by train check their luggage and obtain their boarding passes there.
Porter and Escort Services
For a fee, porter and escort services can be booked in advance for passengers flying with any airline. The escort service also takes the luggage to where it needs to go, conveniently and by the shortest possible route.
Luggage Storage
For a stressless and untroubled shopping tour, passengers can load off their baggage, coat or important documents to the luggage service. The service is available at Terminal 1 and at Terminal 2.
Many airlines operate exclusive lounges for their own passengers to enjoy. LUXXLounge (Terminal 1) and SkyLounge (Terminal 2) offer a comfortable atmosphere to all passenger – regardless of their booking class and airline.
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Frankfurt Airport invites you to shop and snack amidst a truly fascinating and international atmosphere. A shopping spree at Frankfurt Airport is an absolute must for visitors of the Main metropolis.
Clothing, accessories and leather goods by local designers as well as international brands like
Porsche Design
H. Stern
Dolce & Gabbana by Engelhorn
and much more are available at city prices at over 60 boutiques and fashion stores situated throughout the airport, most of which are open seven days a week.
If you start to feel hungry during your shopping spree, simply choose your favourite type of cuisine from over 60 restaurants and bars. Try the haute cuisine at "Käfers" while looking out upon the apron and runways, experience "haute cuisine" at Caviar House & Prunier or just continue on your stroll through the shops while enjoying a cup of Starbucks coffee. Travellers will find everything they require at the airport's 30-plus newsagents, bookshops and convenience stores, some of which are open 24 hours a day. The 24 duty-free shops, meanwhile, offer excellent savings regardless of your destination, with prices being a great deal lower than the domestic average
The New Frankfurt Airport App Focuses on Individual Customer Approach
Even before travelers begin their trip, the FRA Airport App optimally prepares them with useful tips such as how to get to Frankfurt Airport, parking recommendations, and orientation at FRA. Upon arrival, passengers can use the FRA Airport App as a personal guide during their stay in the passenger terminals
From Outer Space to the Ocean Blue: Frankfurt Airport Makes Traveling with Children Fun
Fraport, the airport manager, has already opened nine new playgrounds in the transit areas (after passing the security checks) at Frankfurt Airport's terminals. Each play area features a different adventure theme where kids can romp and explore to their hearts' content
To help passengers anticipate waits at the checkpoints, which unfortunately can't always be avoided, Fraport has just launched a new, unique service. The Frankfurt Airport App now sends the expected waiting times at passport and security checkpoints straight to your smartphone in real time. This lets you decide how early to leave home to avoid the stress of unexpected long waits after getting to the airport. This information is also displayed on the information kiosks around Frankfurt Airport.
How far is it to my gate? Many passengers nervously ask themselves this question when it's getting close to their flight's departure time. Frankfurt Airport has now reduced this stress factor by installing new display boards in both terminals that list not only the current flight data and departure gate, but also the time it takes to walk there—in orange characters. It only takes a quick glance to find out whether you'll need one or five minutes.
If you are leaving the European Union and live outside it, you are entitled to refund on the value-added tax paid on all merchandise purchased within the EU. Please note that you must request a tax refund check when buying items.
Information for international passengers
Free Brochures Show the Way Through the Terminals in Eleven Languages Germany's largest airport is now making it even easier for passengers from around the world to get around the terminals. Whether you're from China, Russia, or Portugal, most will find the key brochures in your native languages. Free brochures in your language:
Frankfurt Airport passengers can now take advantage of exclusive transfer services
Gate to Gate
Changing planes can be this easy! Our Gate to Gate Service ensures an exclusive, even more comfortable transfer experience at Frankfurt Airport.
Home to Gate
By chauffeured luxury limousine from home to gate: on request, we will pick you up directly at home, load your luggage, and then transfer you straight to the airport. After an assisted check-in, you will be escorted all the way to your departure gate.
Gate Express
A great way to start your next business trip in style: by riding a luxury limousine from your office straight to the departure gate at Frankfurt Airport. Book our Gate Express Service for a more enjoyable travel experience!
Office Express
Will you be visiting or returning to the Frankfurt area on business? If so, our Office Express Service is just the thing for you! We'll pick you up at the arrival gate and chauffeur you in a luxury limousine straight to your office or business appointment.
Messe to Gate
A successful trade fair visit is coming to a close – now it's time to get home as quickly as possible! Luckily there's the Messe to Gate service to help you do so. In cooperation with Fraport AG, you will be chauffeured in comfort from the exhibition grounds to your departure gate without having to wait.
Gate to Messe
You're heading for a trade show in Frankfurt. When you land at the airport, there's no time to lose - the next few days are going to be extremely busy. So it's a very good idea for you to take advantage of our exclusive Gate to Messe service, which we offer in cooperation with Messe Frankfurt GmbH, the operator of the Frankfurt exhibition grounds.
If you have booked a very early flight, some airlines offer you a convenient service: the possibility of checking in and reserving a seat the evening before. Don't forget to bring your ticket, ID card or passport, and (if required) a visa. Please keep in mind that (in most cases) all passengers must be physically present in order to check in.
Wifi Frankfurt Airport offers 24-hour Internet Access – Free Wi-Fi Whenever Travelers Want Access
Telephone You will find telephones in all terminal areas and exits. You have the choice of paying with euro coins, telephone card or credit card.
Rent-a-Mobile You can rent a mobile phone at the Airport Communications Center, FAC 1, Terminal 1, Level 3.
The Airport Conference Center is your reliable partner for every type of event, be it a conference, a meeting, or a presentation.
• Fast and easy booking service
• Total cost transparency
• Smooth processes
• First-class service
To put it simply: Arrive. Meet. Depart.
Medical Care
The Airport Clinic in Terminal 1, between Areas B and C (Arrival level) offers first aid and medical services. Open 24 hours daily.
Baggage storage facilities
Terminal 1 (Level 1): Arrivals Level, Area B (open 24 hours), and Departures Level, Area B/C (open 6 am –10 pm)
Terminal 2 (Level 2): Area D, Arrivals Hall (open 6 am until 10 pm)
Airport Sightseeing Tours & Visitors´ Terrace
Experience Frankfurt Airport up close
Every visit to Frankfurt Airport is an experience. Enjoy the spectacular view from our Visitors' Terrace or explore the airport from a different perspective on one of our many tours. From exciting events to fun for kids or teaching materials for schools, on the following pages we offer you everything to make your visit unforgettable.
Visitors' Terrace - Terminal 2
You can access the Visitors' Terrace from the redesigned Food Plaza in Terminal 2, which features Europe's largest McDonald's Restaurant and McDonald's Playland.
Airport Tours
Experience the action live right on the apron and airfield; peer behind the scenes of a major aviation hub. We have created tours to satisfy every taste. Would you like to get a close-up view of the A380 maintenance base? Are you interested in our newest airport fire engine, the giant Z8 XXL? Are you fascinated by the sea of lights at the airport after dark.
City Tours
A lot of Attractions are just a heratbeat away...
Sustainability being firmly anchored in Frankfurt Airports Corporate Principles in its Agenda 2015, in 2010 we compiled our objectives and the measures necessary for their achievement for the first time in a Sustainability Program.
Our strategic orientation was developed in an interactive process involving all important stakeholder groups. Internal and external experts were checking and weighting the various issues identified on the basis of the guidelines pertaining to sustainability reporting as developed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and in stakeholder consultations. Crucial sustainability topics have been discussed in Executive Board meetings since 2014, involving also the heads of Frankfurt Airport business, service and central units. This ensures a greater commitment towards sustainability issues across the Group, while rising the relevance of this area of action. The topics dealt with cover the introduction of a materiality matrix, the sustainability program and the commissioning of relevant sustainability projects.
More information: sustainability-report.fraport.com
Before Traveling
Physically challenged passengers and passengers with reduced mobility who require assistance at the airport are asked to request it in advance: at least 48 hours before departure by contacting their airline or travel agent This advance notice lets us notify the Passenger Support Service in good time. For security reasons, it is not possible for passengers to directly contact the Passenger Support Service.
If you are taking your own wheelchair with you, you must report it in advance to the airline and indicate its measurements (height, width and weight).
Important: If you are traveling with a battery-powered wheelchair, when booking your flight please also provide information about the type of battery used. Gel and dry-cell batteries may remain in the wheelchair and require no special preparations for transport. However, before checking it you must secure and disconnect the batteries and isolate their poles. For security reasons, wheelchairs with wet-cell batteries must be specially packed. Please contact your airline in advance to inquire.
Guide Dogs
Dogs are welcome in the terminals, but must be kept on a leash. If your dog accompanies you on a trip, please contact your airline ahead of time to find out what requirements have to be met.
For security reasons, no dogs may be taken onto the Visitors Terrace.
At the Airport
Check-In Counters
On the day of your departure, go as usual to: your airline's check-in counters or to one of the Help Points for the Passenger Support Service. If you are flying with Lufthansa, please go to the special support counter next to check-in counter 339.
Help Points Locations of the Help Points
You'll find Help Points for calling the Passenger Support Service at the following locations:
Terminal 1: Level 0, between the regional train station and the parking structure (near the DB ServicePoint) Level 3, along the walkway between the long-distance train station and the Frankfurt Airport Conference Center (FAC 1) Level 1, in the B Arrivals hall near the Meeting Points Level 2, in the B Departures hall near entrance 6
Terminal 2: Level 1, between the D and E Departures areas near entrances 5 and 6
Information Desks Locations of the Information Desks Our personnel will be happy to answer all of your questions. You'll find information desks at the following locations:
Terminal 1Service Point T1
B Concourse, Level 2 - opened 24 hours each day
Information Desk 1
B Concourse, Level 2 (Departures) - daily 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Welcome Center
B Concourse, Level 1 (Arrivals) - daily 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Information Desk 10
B Concourse (Transit) - daily 5.30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Information Desk 12
B concourse, Level 2 ( Transit) - daily 06,00 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Terminal 2Service Point T2
Between Concourses D/E - opened 24 hours each day
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Pick up arriving passengers at the Meeting Points in the terminals. (The exact locations of the Meeting Points are indicated on the terminal maps.)
Meeting Points: Terminal 1, B Arrivals Terminal 2, in the middle between Departures and the E Concourse
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"Great to have you here!" – the service program of Fraport Airport
Where We're Heading
We want to offer our guests a five star experience that satisfies their greatest expectations with regard to comfort, atmosphere, and quality.
In an environment like the one we envision, passengers will always have the feeling that they are well looked after in every respect – and the time they spend at our airport will be a memorable experience.
As a result, we will score even more points with them and turn Frankfurt into their first choice for layovers. Particularly today, with competition among airports intensifying, this will give us a priceless advantage.
Our Shared Focus: Completely Satisfied Passengers
Many measures are involved, but they all serve the same goal: to make passengers feel good here with us. Our number one priority is meeting our guests' basic needs, which we must never lose sight of: signage, cleanliness, acceptable waits, and friendly attention. This is the basis for an optimal experience.
Every day we welcome wildly diverse kinds of passengers to our airport. But whether it's an elderly German couple, American businesspeople, or a group of Asian tourists – we always strive to meet all of their wishes and individual needs.
Thoroughly satisfied passengers come back and also recommend us to others, which strengthens our site and makes us more competitive. That is why our current activities are aimed at making it even more worthwhile, pleasant, and attractive for them to spend time at our airport.
Welcome & Wayfinding
We only have one opportunity to make a good first impression – and we aim to use it. That's why we do everything possible to make sure that our passengers feel good right from the start and never lose sight of where they want to go.
For example, with monitors in the buses that pick passengers up from their planes on the apron, welcoming and informing them at the same time. With better signs showing the way to our services. By offering flight information on display boards and kiosks in more languages that are also easier to select. With an app that translates signs. And by providing more and better information about nearby hotels in the terminals.
Amenities & Comfort
We want our passengers to feel like they're on cloud nine when they're on the ground, too. We therefore go that famous extra mile– so they won't have to walk it themselves.
Like with our "Home to Gate" and "Gate to Gate" services: the first chauffeurs passengers from their homes to the departure gate, and the second shortens their paths from plane to connecting flight. And with the "My Airport Guide" service, which escorts passengers through the airport. We're also providing extra comfort and convenience by creating inviting smoking lounges, modernizing restrooms, installing many more power outlets at all gates, and offering free Wi-Fi internet access.
Relax & Enjoy
We're naturally not going to rest when it comes to doing everything possible to let our passengers lean back and relax.
For example, by enhancing the quiet areas in the transit zones. By creating opportunities for passengers to get some shuteye, for instance in NapCabs. By installing privacy walls around our premium lounge chairs. With "silent rooms" where they can escape the hustle and bustle. And by creating a planted roof terrace in Terminal 1.
Work & Explore
The best waits fly by effortlessly. We are therefore going to give our passengers ways to productively use and enjoy their time.
For example, by providing additional entertainment such as video and gaming areas, movie theaters, and TV viewing. With activity areas and gyms in the transit zones. And by providing places where they can work in peace. The possibilities include new worktables, counters, and noisereduced seats.
Art, Culture& Ambience
What kind of airport do people feel best in?
Ideally, one that doesn't look like an airport! We're going to use art, culture, and designs to evoke something that not many airports have: a feel-good atmosphere.
For example, by creating forest-like oases in both terminals. With impressive, largeformat impressions of Germany and its landmarks. With coordinated lighting and colors throughout the terminals.
By displaying works by selected artists. By redesigning the drive-by in front of Terminal 1. And with more attractive bus arrival areas around the terminals.
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Simple Definition of celebrate
: to do something special or enjoyable for an important event, occasion, holiday, etc.
: to praise (someone or something) : to say that (someone or something) is great or important
: to perform (a religious ceremony)
Full Definition of celebrate
transitive verb
1 : to perform (a sacrament or solemn ceremony) publicly and with appropriate rites
2 a : to honor (as a holiday) especially by solemn ceremonies or by refraining from ordinary business b : to mark (as an anniversary) by festivities or other deviation from routine
3 : to hold up or play up for public notice <her poetry celebrates the glory of nature>
intransitive verb
1 : to observe a holiday, perform a religious ceremony, or take part in a festival
2 : to observe a notable occasion with festivities
celebrationplay \ˌse-lə-ˈbrā-shən\ noun
celebrativeplay \ˈse-lə-ˌbrā-tiv\ adjective
celebratorplay \-tər\ noun
celebratoryplay \-brə-ˌtȯr-ē, ˌse-lə-ˈbrā-tə-rē\ adjective
Examples of celebrate in a sentence
We are celebrating my birthday by going out to dinner.
The family gathered to celebrate Christmas.
We are celebrating our anniversary next week.
They are celebrating the birth of their third child.
The book celebrates the movies of the past.
Her lecture celebrated the genius of the artist.
He is celebrated for his contributions to modern science.
A priest celebrates Mass at the church daily.
Origin and Etymology of celebrate
Middle English, from Latin celebratus, past participle of celebrare to frequent, celebrate, from celebr-, celeber much frequented, famous; perhaps akin to Latin celer
First Known Use: 15th century
Synonym Discussion of celebrate
keep, retain, detain, withhold, reserve mean to hold in one's possession or under one's control. keep may suggest a holding securely in one's possession, custody, or control <keep this while I'm gone>. retain implies continued keeping, especially against threatened seizure or forced loss <managed to retain their dignity even in poverty>. detain suggests a delay in letting go <detained them for questioning>. withhold implies restraint in letting go or a refusal to let go <withheld information from the authorities>. reserve suggests a keeping in store for future use <reserve some of your energy for the last mile>.
Rhymes with celebrate
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I have two integrals:
$$ A=\int\limits_1^\infty \dfrac{1}{x}dx\,, B=\int\limits_1^\infty \dfrac{1}{x^2}dx $$
Calculus says that A is an improper integral as it diverges, but the B converges and is $1$, because $\dfrac{1}{x^2}$ is faster near $y=0$ than $\dfrac{1}{x}$.
I don't understand the reason behind this. So I looked for another way to put down my problem. Multiple sources define that:
$$ \frac{1}{\infty} = \frac{1}{\infty^2} $$
What is the reason that the integral of $\dfrac{1}{x}$ is divergent and $\dfrac{1}{x^2}$ is convergent? In the end they both reach $\dfrac{1}{\infty}$ (or $\dfrac{1}{\infty^2}$ which is $\dfrac{1}{\infty}$).