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The Patrick Melrose Novels
What is it that makes a reader become interested in a really rather unpleasant character, especially when its the central character, even sometimes the narrator, of a work of fiction? The obvious examples that spring to my mind at least are the awful Bendrix in Graham Greenes The End of the Affair, Tony Soprano, Sherlock Holmes or even Hannibal Lecter. There are of course pretty dreadful specimens with whom we connect out of pity or self-recognition, like the unspeakably self-obsessed George Costanza of Seinfeld fame, and in this case humor is his salvation. Not bad for someone with no sense of humor at all. And before you stop me, there are female counterparts aplenty, starting from Emma Bovary and Hedda Gabler, moving on to the Wicked Witch of the West, Velma in Chandlers Farewell My Lovely and Mrs. Danvers in du Mauriers Rebecca. Some of these characters exercise the kind of hypnotic fascination of a cobra, perhaps, but they all have interest. Most of them dominate the places in which they appear, though they are not the least bit admirable.I am posing this question as I try to make some sense of why I, like so many others, find Edward St. Aubyns protagonist, Patrick Melrose, so fascinating. With the recent publication of At Last, a five-novel sequence comes to an end. The first four were Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope and Mothers Milk, the last one a finalist for the Booker Prize. They tell the story of moments in Patricks life, as a small child, a befuddled heroin addict, an alcoholic and a middle-aged man struggling with his Mrs. Jellyby-style mother giving away his inheritance to a shady New Age Irishman named Seamus. They take place in a world of social privilege and snobbery, and now in At Last his mothers funeral provides the context for the faint stirrings of a possible resolution.
Some things about these novels are matchless. The gift for capturing the self-involved chattering of the entirely contingent aristocratic hangers-on is remarkable, though why we should care about them any more than they would care about us is hard to say. Nevertheless, we do, perhaps because St. Aubyn makes them funny, usually despite themselves. Hes also rediscovered the Homeric simile as a stylistic device and works it just short of the point at which it would become tiresome though, of its nature, it is always noticeable. And he is witty in a way that reminds all his commentators of Evelyn Waugh. One suspects, too, that he is as caustic in real life as was Waugh. No reason, except that so much of these novels, including some of the most sordid and distasteful parts, are more autobiographical than we might want to believe.St. Aubyn gets us into the position where we stay with Patrick through the nightmare of Bad News, by the simple expedient of having first shown us the boy who became this man and the reasons why. Bad News is hard to finish and I cannot imagine anyone picking it up and reading it out of sequence. [Warning: Do NOT read any of these books out of sequence.] But once you are rooting for the hapless child victim of a pedophile, sadistic father you are hooked enough to watch the twenty-year old dope himself to the brink of death. I think I prayed my way through this second book, though not as hard as I might have done if I had bought it when it appeared and not known that there were three to follow. Foreknowledge takes the edge off the drama but keeps you going beyond what is reasonable. No wonder that the earlier books didnt initially sell well and have been read more since the appearance of Mothers Milk.Patrick doesnt have many friends, but maybe it is befriending him that keeps us going, though we will surely suspect that for most of the novels our outstretched hand would be ignored or abused. The fragility in Patrick that goes back to a childhood of unspeakable brutality makes it easier to like him, though he is not on the whole likeable. The reader is a bit like Johnny, the psychiatrist who is the only real friend Patrick has and has had from childhood. It is to Johnny that he reveals the abuse he suffered at his fathers hands, and Johnny is there at the mothers funeral, as unjudgmental and genuinely warm as ever. Maybe we even like Patrick a little bit because if Johnny likes him, well, there must be something about him. We also see him through the eyes of his eerily precocious children and we glimpse the capacity for greater humanity in the way he responds to them. But Im not sure we ever relax with him and Im pretty sure he wouldnt like us. Or me at least. On the other hand, perhaps his failure to find or give unconditional love is being turned on the reader. Everyone who stays with him through the five books, something I heartily recommend, is another Johnny.
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What is it that makes a reader become interested in a really rather unpleasant character, especially when its the central character, even sometimes the narrator, of a work of fiction? The obvious examples that spring to my mind at least are the awful Bendrix in Graham Greenes The End of the Affair, Tony Soprano, Sherlock Holmes or even Hannibal Lecter.
It has to be the writing, no? You're listening to the narrator, not to the unpleasant character. Ross Thomas, an author I've mentioned before, writes about quite a few unpleasant characters, but his narrator's not unpleasant, nor are the protagonists. The world's a dicey place. It seems perfectly normal, if not necessary, that novelists, most of whom, in my experience, try to describe the world, will assume the task of describing unpleasant people along the way.Also, there's a wide variety of unpleasant characters. From the tiny sample I read just now describing Melrose at the very beginning of the first novel, he's nasty unpleasant. Shrelock Holmes is not nasty. I doubt I'd care to read even one, let alone five, novels centered on that kind of unpleasant character. But, unlike you, I read strictly for pleasure.
David, I suspect the Melrose you found nasty and unpleasant was David Melrose, the sadistic father of the young Patrick.
Right. Sorry. Patrick's still a child at that point in the story.The three Melroses that populate the first part of the first chapter of the first novel are the nasty father, the drunken mother, and the child who will grow into the unpleasant Patrick. Excellent writing, but depressing reading. I imagine that two answers to your question
What is it that makes a reader become interested in a really rather unpleasant character, especially when its the central character, even sometimes the narrator, of a work of fiction?
are that a student and teacher of literature is likely to be drawn to the skill of the portraitist and a student of human nature may find the clinical dissection absorbing. I wonder how many other readers would want to persevere, and why.
I suspect that we stay interested in nasty characters because we enjoy their nastiness for one reason or another. Everyone loved the Countess Violet on Downton Abbey, though sometimes we would like to have seen her swatted a good one. We all want to be nasty at times, but in ordinary circumstances have to restrain ourselves. We identify with the nasty more than we like to admit.
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Maybe, Ann. But when you say
Everyone loved the Countess Violet on Downton Abbey
remember, please, that not everyone is even aware of what you're talking about and that, surely, not everyone who watched that television program "loved" that character. I think it likely that I, for one, would not have. I find that as I grow older, I'm increasingly aware of the crying need in our society for reducing the nastiness that seems to have crept into and practically absorbed it in recent decades.From skimming a fair amount of the first chapter of Never Mind, I have the sense that the author is practically a practitioner of the art of being unpleasant. In a way, that's very English. As something of an Anglophile, that makes me sad, but there it is. Perhaps it's a necessary element of the whole. But perhaps not, too. I don't know.
David --For you novels seem to exist to make you feel good, a purely a subjective reaction.Since you seem to have an aversion to subjectivity as a value, why should we be interested in what you like in novels? Why should you even talk about them? Historically most people have taken a much broader view and found many different values in novels: novels describe, they make us aware of new possibilities, they exhort, they do X, Y, and Z. I say the more they do the better the novel. There's even a new theory of "medical humanities" that asserts that the humanities should exploit our knowledge of medicine and its practice to make us more "resilient", and that includes novels. (Now there's a thesis that can be argued!P Sounds like Patrick's relationship with his father is a natural for consideration by psychiatry. The novels were largely autobiographical.http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/12299/St. Aubyn says that it was the *writing* of the novels that was therapeutic for him. Doesn't this suggest that novels can also be a means of sharing effecting different sorts of psychological healings? Some descriptive novels might cure -- Freud says that to understand is to cure. And novels can make us understand human nature even at its ugliest and most wicked which can be a useful moral lesson. They can be a sort fo grace, and like some other graces, they are not always pleasant.
Ann, not everyone is bound by some sort of higher law to aspire to the same goals, to use the same criteria throughout life. Literary theory is fine for a small segment of intellectuals, but for most of the world, it's not even on the radar. Are the only considerations we're permitted to respect here those of academics? I thought not. But if so, I apologize for intruding.You write:
For you novels seem to exist to make you feel good, a purely a subjective reaction.Since you seem to have an aversion to subjectivity as a value, why should we be interested in what you like in novels? Why should you even talk about them?
Ann, this isn't about me. Or, rather, it is only in the sense that I'm trying in my clumsy way to speak for a not insignificant part of the human race who live outside the academy. I'm hardly the only not entirely stupid and unlettered reader who looks for literature that's not deliberately unpleasant, or not deliberately politically correct, or not deliberately in sync with fashionable theories of how the world should be viewed.Accept it or not, there are perfectly valid criteria for literature that are not those of the academy. To dismiss them as unimportant is, I think, narrow minded in the extreme.
David -- I don't knock reading for pleasure. My point was that there are MANY values to be found in literature and other sorts of books as well, and they aren't there because some academic *said* they're there. The values come first, the critics reflect on them.You seem to think that non-academic people are not touched by academe and don't need it. Not so. The thoughts of the people in academe live in our institutions and in our languages, and the ideas become part of people's mind-sets that way. The ideas are often reflections of what the academics found in non-academic people. And, No, you don't have to read all the great books to have a bunch of useful ideas. A college education which includes both basic humanities and science isn't the only way to get an education. But, on the other hand, it is the easiest most efficient way.True, some people do better on their own (though not usually when they don't have labs to help learn science.) And it also seems to be the case that very often novelists and poets begin college but drop out. The question is: do thy really write more valuable works because they discovered the world on their own? I'd say, in some case Yes, in most cases No. It's too easy to think that one knows more of what's valuable and knows it better than everyone else put together.The issue is: can we learn from others and find value in other people's thoughts?
Without wishing to enter the fray here, may I say that there is a rich tradition of writing about evil in a seemingly sympathetic way going back at least to Milton's Lucifer?I think that in reading about characters who fall into sin and evil, one recognizes that these urges are not limited to "bad other people," but that we are all prey to those evil tendencies. Moreover, I think the point of the novel is to tell us what it means to be human, and to deliver the news, good and bad.However, there have been valid critical theories that would implicitly reject books like St. Aubyn's. If I recall from the dear dim past, philosopher C.E.M. Joad wrote "Decadence" in 1946 in which he raised concerns and made judgments about literature that was not sufficiently uplifting, and was, instead, told from the point of view of individuals who were damaged mentally or morally. (He made some thinly veiled allusions to Faulkner's work, particularly "The Sound and the Fury.")I was quite taken with Joad when I was in grad school, whom I encountered when our crit prof directed us to articulate our own critical theories. Joad was so persuasive that I felt that if I could satisfactorily respond to his ideas, I would be a better reader for it.
Without wishing to enter the fray here, may I say that there is a rich tradition of writing about evil in a seemingly sympathetic way going back at least to Miltons Lucifer?I think that in reading about characters who fall into sin and evil, one recognizes that these urges are not limited to bad other people, but that we are all prey to those evil tendencies. Moreover, I think the point of the novel is to tell us what it means to be human, and to deliver the news, good and bad.
Makes sense. But I'd like at least a dispassionate narrator as a guide.
Oops. Should have thought a little further before tapping send. Apparently St. Aubyn's is a dispassionate narrator, at least for the most part. So maybe better would be a narrator who looks on the evil critically, thoughtfully, even compassionately - not just one who simply tells the story, uncritically, dispassionately.
"So maybe better would be a narrator who looks on the evil critically, thoughtfully, even compassionately not just one who simply tells the story, uncritically, dispassionately."I think coming up with a critical theory that tries to incorporate a moral dimension is an interesting project, and if you ever flesh it out, I would be interested in reading about it. Certainly, feminists, marxists, and other -ists have tried to develop critical theories using a variety of moral viewpoints as the main criteria with very mixed results. Paul, thanks for the review. I always get good rec's from you, and have the Melrose novels on my wishlist.
Jean and David --I think the question involves the difference between truth and goodness. Sure, a novel can be a sermon, but it can also be valuable simply because it tells us the truth about human possibilities, both good and bad. We need to know both.There's a big problem with writing a novel about goodness -- if it's going to be true to life its happy ending is not likely to be thoroughly happy. (Pride and Prejudice is the exception, of course. And who knows -- their marriage probably had its storms :-)
Ann, I agree completely.But I'm interested in trying to understand David's overarching criteria for judging books because he is almost always the first commenter on the Verdict threads and most often rejects the books under consideration out of turn, often without having read them, as too highbrow, too lowbrow, too depressing, too immoral. He must forgive me if I seem dense, but I don't get a sense of what his critical underpinnings are. I doubt he's pushing for some sort of formula whereby the villain, however alluring the writer makes him, has to "get his" in the penultimate chapter every time. But perhaps some hint of Divine Justice is necessary for David to have a pleasurable reading experience.Speaking of pleasurable reading experiences, a colleague has lent me David McCullough's "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris" between 1830 and 1900. I don't read a lot of nonfiction, but McCullough is such a good story teller, I don't mind that the book is all true!
Jean --David's criterion of what a good novel is seems to be that he finds it pleasant to read. But that is entirely subjective. One can't *argue* such a criterion -- we like what we like, period. But why should anyone else care? And why does that amount to a valid criticism of *other people's* criteria? Surely there must be something more to his position. *Why* does he find them pleasant?(So you too think that Lizzy and Mr. D. might have had some rough patches later? Hmm.)
Reading fiction is for pleasure and although there are a few unfortunate people who do it for professional purposes alone, I am certainly not one of them. I read fiction to escape theology. But it is certainly true that we all should read what we like and perhaps not dismiss what we think we will not like before at least tasting it. I, for example, have a visceral dislike of books about animals that I should probably overcome but can't. So I am not going to trash Watership Down or anything about dogs saving the world because I haven't read them (and probably won't). The Wind in the Willows is of course an exception allowed anyone who grew up in England. The first criterion for any book whatever the subject, for me, is that it be well-written. Any poorly constructed sentence or bad choice of words announces that I am reading a book rather than entering a world. It's a bit like what happens when you're reading along and hit on a typographical error. Suddenly you are out of the story and back in the physicality of the book, which is not at all what you want to be doing. But that kind of thing aside, fiction is our way into a world not our own, whether a fantasy of past or future (ugh!) or the world as constructed by author or narrator. This is one of the beauties of St. Aubyn, by the way, because despite the distasteful side of some of the events and some of the central character's follies, you find yourself making a sort of act of faith in the fundamental integrity that Patrick seems to be reaching for but not quite grasping. This is an experience with which most of us can sympathize. And God save us from fiction about noble souls anyway. The only interesting things about people in books and maybe in life--saints or sinners--are the trials they have had to undergo and the imperfections they have struggled with to reach any kind of moral plateau or any resolution. The resolution or the plateau had better come on the last page or I for one will not be interested in reading on.
In graduate school, several of us females started our "literature as gossip" school of criticism. After all, what is Austen or Atwood or von Arnim. but gossip about the neighbors that feeds that human desire to get into other people's personal business to learn more about the human condition? To be sure, what I read is wittier, sharper, and more instructive than the gossip I get at the fish fry on Friday ... but that's only b/c professional writers have editors to get rid of the boring stuff and to make everybody talk properly--or at least according to type and character.Ann, I think that whatever rough patches Lizzy and Mr. Darcy might have had would have been nicely smoothed out by money, comfy surroundings, nurses and nannies, and, when things got boring, travel to Italy. My guess is that Mr. Darcy, who is not a great confider in anyone, wouldn't be above having a mistress stashed away somewhere very occasionally, but he would be so discreet that nobody would ever know. And he would feel very guilty about it afterward and make up for it with extravagant presents.
"I read fiction to escape theology."Ha! Funny, Paul. I don't know why, but it is -- very :-)I haven't been reading novels since the hurricane (except mysteries), but my brand new neighborhood library just opened, so I hope to start again. St. Aubyn is on my list. Thanks. Yes, lots of fiction is about other worlds, but this world is pretty interesting too. It's a question of the transcendentals again: we want it all, and that includes the infinitely varied gratuitous things and gratuitous combinations of things.My preference is for works with extremely well-constructed sentences too. Hemingway is, of course, great with short sentences, but Updike is the champion in that area, I think. Beats Henry James who trips over his own clauses. I once stopped while reading an Updike work just to count the number of words in a perfectly constructed sentence. It was cram-packed with information, 80 words long, but crystal clear. How did he do it? Poetry critics talk about the structuring of the sounds of the words, but I think that the structuring of the info-bits in prose is just as important. Compare, for instance, a narrative by, say, C. S. Lewis and one by J. K. Rowling. Both tell great stories, but Lewis *writes* better.
Saul McNeil, the "world's funniest atheist," had to be a stinker to make the story work. And he was nasty.You can read more about the novel ("The World's Funniest Atheist") here:http://www.amazon.com/The-Worlds-Funniest-Atheist-ebook/dp/B006TLHPKW/re...
But it is certainly true that we all should read what we like and perhaps not dismiss what we think we will not like before at least tasting it.
Yes, if course. But I find it takes only a sip to tell me that the brew is pleasant or bitter. A paragraph or two is usually enough, though when the writing's good, as it is in Never Mind, it's not at all hard to browse through several pages.I've never before been challenged to come up with a rationale for my reading preferences beyond instinct and intuition. Part of it's certainly good writing, but that makes only the first cut. Beyond that, there are felicity, the voice of someone whose company I like and trust, and, possibly, topics and milieux of interest, though I'm not sure about that. Intelligence, of course. I'm probably pickier than any of you because I'm such a slow reader. You could read five or six books in the time it takes me to finish one. A book has to be exceptional, therefore, not just good. That's a real segregator. One thing that implies is that flaws loom larger for me than for you, and I'm likely to find fault where you see none. It must look thoroughly negative, but I'd like to think it's mainly just hyper-selective.The reason I almost certainly won't read St Aubyn whereas you all probably will has less to do, perhaps, with what feels like his pathological unpleasantness than with the fact that I'd have to be immersed in it for far longer than you would. A long bath versus a quick dip.Sorry to be so focused on me here, but Jean and Ann more or less asked for an explanation. I hope this will do.Quick last thought. Paul's admonishment to at least taste before deciding - or, worse, condemning - is much more easily followed these days because of the option Amazon provides to sample online. That's a wonderful gift.
Bill D. --Yes, it does sound hilarious. Is the father at the end Sam's actual father -- or God? Wouldn't that be a switch -- caring for God the Father!
David --LIke you I'm a slow reader, so I too don't bother with the second-rate. The problem is to find them these days. There are so many authors, and most of them seem to have attended the same writing program.
David, thanks for your response. You may be a slow reader, but you are certainly quick at reading those two paragraphs and getting on here ASAP to dismiss the books discussed as worthless on that basis. Knowing how you reach your conclusions helps me find this habit a little less aggravating.Like Dr. Johnson, I'm a curmudgeon who struggles to be more easily pleased. As someone who freelances a lot and whose talents cannot sustain anything of interest much beyond a couple thousand words, I appreciate the effort of concentration it takes to produce even something of middling worth. I'm not sure that those of us who plow through a book or two a week are necessarily undiscriminating readers. I read a lot of things because I feel I "should": i.e., my students or son are reading them, and it gives me a better bead on what's going on in their world(even if it's the overrated Narnia Chronicles, the dreadful Twilight saga, or the very worst of all, "Winnie the Pooh"); or I want to "keep up" with fictional trends (I'm not sure how Gary Shteyngart has become so celebrated, but maybe I'm just too old to get it).FWIW, April is poetry month, so one of the faculty sends around a poem a day through the e-mail, and he has an extremely good eye/ear. I confess I read poetry at almost no other time unless you count the daily Psalm.
Personally, my preference is for works with characters who are unpleasant. Or perhaps unpleasant isn't the right word for it: maybe nuance requires me to say that a character that is unlikable (maybe just most of the time), and yet whose failings make sense in light of my experience of people and the human condition, seems richer and even more "real" to me.I can't say that I purposefully look for these works, but when I think back over some of my favorite books I can see it. I can also see that they tend to share the feature of a first-person narrator: Malaparte's Kaputt, Von Rezorri's Memoirs of an Anti-Semite (Von Rezorri himself, it seems), Murakami's 69, good ol' Humbert Humbert, etc., etc. I suspect that I prefer the 1st-person perspective because it means that whatever irony or disdain the narrator shows for the protagonist simply adds another layer to the character (almost certainly why I think books like Lolita and Pale Fire outstrip ones like Ada or Despair--the cleverness of Nabokov fades somewhat into the background in favor of the pathology of the character).I like to be uplifted and transformed by art (and a lot of what I've referenced above can do that), but I also accept that art that does not teach, serve as catharsis, or helps advance the spirit--and that perhaps crushes our spirits or reduces our spirits to despair in the face of meaninglessness and absurdity--also has its fair places. It may even undermine itself by teaching truths.
"It may even undermine itself by teaching truths."Abe --I don't think I understand this.
Ann, I suspect Abe may have been saying that even a bad or an unpleasant book may, in spite of itself, lead the reader, in thinking about the issues raised in it, to come to a conclusion that the author didn't intend.


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Sloan's first novel is called Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore. It's the story of an unemployed digital designer, named Clay, who finds work in an unexpected place: a dusty old bookstore. "Clay is a pretty common character here in San Francisco," Sloan tells NPR's David Greene. "He went to art school, and then came out here to California to make his fortune — or something."
As the novel opens, Clay's job has become a casualty of the recession, and he's casting around for anything that will help him stay afloat — when he's not getting distracted by interesting articles he finds online. "It's the great agony and the ecstasy of the Internet today. I think we have more great stuff to read than we ever have before, but of course the downside of that is we have more great stuff to read than we've ever had before," Sloan laughs.
Clay falls for a young woman named Kat, who works at Google and who embodies another San Francisco archetype — the Renaissance man (or woman), who can do just about anything. "Somebody who can design, somebody who can code, and somebody who frankly is really at the heart of these enterprises, really driving them forward," says Sloan. "And so I wanted to kind of paint that character, and help people understand why a programmer could be a really cool character, and in fact, kind of the most compelling, charismatic character in the whole story."
Without giving too much away, we can say that Kat joins Clay on an adventure through a sort of literary underground centered on the titular bookstore. They use Kat's modern Google tools to try to crack a code that members of the underground have been struggling with for centuries without success. And at the center of the book is a message: Embracing modern digital technology doesn't mean giving up the values of the past. "I wanted to do something that kind of bounced back and forth between the real world and the virtual world, the new and the old," Sloan says.
This isn't the first time Sloan has undertaken that kind of project. Some readers may recognize him as the author of the iPhone app Fish, which was essentially an essay on liking and loving things on the Internet, delivered in multiple fonts and colors that force the reader to slow down and consider each screen carefully.
"If you come from the Internet, as I do — I think of it as sort of my native country — there's a lot of great things happening on the Internet, but one of the things, one of the feelings you just can't escape is the sense that it's really hard to keep people's attention," Sloan says. So both the book and the Fish app were an effort to capture people's attention and give them a reason to engage.
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Books, says Sloan, are among the last things to which people pay continuous, deep attention. "When I'm using the Internet, I have 25 tabs open, and even if somebody sends me ... something interesting, odds are I'll forget about it, or it'll get kind of lost in the shuffle," he says. "Whereas if I find a book, especially a novel, and I make that decision to kind of sit down with it and start it, I think it gets a kind of attention, a quality of attention that's actually really rare these days."
And, by the way, it's pretty easy to pay attention to Mr. Penumbra — the cover glows in the dark. "When you're making a print book in 2012, I actually think the onus is on you, and on your publisher, to make something that's worth buying in its physical edition."
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WHEELING – The scuttlebutt around the local water coolers has been so crazy that one begins to wonder if in fact it's not a much stronger liquid being consumed. It seems more than a few people think on the whole, this has been a disappointing prep football season.
If we're talking purely the number of teams – five – from the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference that remain in the hunt for titles in their respective states, then I can see being surprised. But certainly not disappointed.
Here's a list of 50 reasons why the 2012 season should be remembered fondly.
1. Well, for starters, we still do have five – St. Clairsville in Ohio; Madonna, Magnolia, Clay-Battelle and Morgantown in West Virginia, alive to bring home the ultimate prize.
2. We got to see the Wheeling Central staff pull off its best coaching job, one year after doing the same thing. A state title isn't a must when talking about outstanding accomplishments.
3. Shadyside ran off 10 straight victories to author its second unbeaten regular season in school history, and first since 1977.
4. Bellaire QB Spencer Badia threw for more than 3,000 yards to help the Big Reds get back into the playoffs. Coach Jose Davis has done a tremendous job turning that program around.
5. The ledger shows two victories, but it was evident to everyone around that Rick Goodrich has John Marshall back on the right track.
6. Indian Creek ran off nine regular-season victories and made another playoff appearance. Coach Andrew Connor deserves serious consideration for postseason honors.
7. Jay Circosta pulled off a heckuva job himself, considering what he lost to graduation from the previous year. The Seminoles missed the playoffs but finished with a fine 7-3 record.
8. Nobody could say for sure how Bishop Donahue was going to be at the quarterback position, but sophomore Jesse Padlow emerged as someone who has the potential to be special.
9. Who saw four victories coming out of St. John Central? The total would be five if not for the Irish having to forfeit their opening game. Great job by first-year boss Jason Merryman.
10. Wheeling Park got back in the playoffs and we were treated to the birth into stardom of defensive ends Markieth O'Neal and Chalmer Moffitt.
11. After a tough start, it looks like Sean Blumette is beginning to turn Brooke into his type of program. Wait until he has a full offseason to go through with his kids.
12. Had the pleasure of watching one of the best backs I saw all year in Week 1. That would be hard-running Dillon Sunnafrank of Cambridge.
13. Harrison Central's Maurtice Hython bulled his way to nearly 2,000 rushing yards as he helped his team get back to the postseason for the second time in school history. Linebacker Nick Pelegreen is the school's all-time leading tackler and was East District Defensive Player of the Year.
14. If you haven't watched Steubenville Catholic's Brenton Colabella in person or on highlights, please do. He's the real deal.
15. Beallsville's Teryn Jarrett concluded his stellar four-year career with more than 6,000 passing yards. Jarrett is just the sixth Ohio Valley quarterback to do so.
16. Raise your hand if you had Conotton Valley finishing the season with a .500 record. Maybe we should have had an inclination after we watched Coach Eric Schumacher lead Ohio past West Virginia in late July.
17. How often do you see a 300-pound running back in high school football? Not only does Valley's Spencer Mason fit that bill, but he rushed for nearly 1,000 yards.
18. Hundred may not have had victory this season, but I can't count on one hand the number of coaches that told me the Hornets played as hard as any other group of kids they faced.
19. Was there a team that overcame more than Steubenville this season? Off-field distractions from Day 1, yet Big Red manages to get to the playoffs and win a first-round game. Tough as nails up there in Jefferson County.
20. Who can forget the bright spot at Weir that is quarterback William Larch. In truth he's more of an athlete than a quarterback, and he's one of the best in the valley.
21. How about the season put forth by Bridgeport's Dallas Fields? He averaged 101.8 yards a game on his way to a 1,000-yard season.
22. Another of the best running backs I saw hails from Linsly. Chinelo Oparanozie could hurt you with his speed or his toughness, as shown by his more than 1,500 yards.
23. I think people wondered how Paden City would replace all-stater Taylor Still in its backfield. Enter Brandon Cross, who just missed a 1,000-yard season and scored 10 times.
24. Oak Glen didn't have the type of team success most envisioned, but there's little doubt we were right about its best player. Defensive lineman Preston Murray was again tough to move on the interior.
25. Parkersburg South was one of the most talented teams in the conference when healthy. Unfortunately for the Patriots, that wasn't often.
26. Martins Ferry throwing the ball? Yep, and Cody Schau may have been the best receiver not named Dan Monteroso the area had to offer. He hauled in 55 passes for nearly 1,000 yards.
27. What can you say about the finish by Tyler Consolidated in its first season in Class A? The Silver Knights sent Coach Rob Caldwell out in style by winning four of their final six games.
28. Coach John Kelley got University back in the playoffs with the help of Jack Armstrong, who turned into one of the conference's top do-it-all threats.
29. It was also the last season for Edison coach Mike McKenzie, who led his team to arguably the biggest upset the valley saw this season. In Week 8, the Wildcats knocked off Martins Ferry by a 35-22 score.
30. People want immediate results, and I get that. But Jeremy McElroy seems to be in the process of turning it around at Beaver Local, which won twice this season.
31. Buckeye Local was decimated by graduation last season, but another guy in his first season, Phil Pest, got the the Panthers to four victories.
32. After starting 0-7, East Liverpool set the table for a big 2013 by running off three straight victories to end the season, winning by an average of a little more than 28 a game.
33. Jesse Wells continued to build for the future at Meadowbrook. Once he gets his team where he wants it, Wells has a great new turf field to display the product.
34. Union Local's Tater Blake burst onto the scene as one of the area's better linebackers. The sophomore made 76 solos stops, 29 assists, 11 for loss, as well as two INTs, 5 sacks and a fumble recovery.
35. Fort Frye returned to the playoffs behind the throwing of Chandler Lang and the running of Spencer Lang, both of whom were named All-Eastern District.
36. Not many knew Buckeye Trail quarterback Morgan Daugherty before this season. They do now after the junior was named second team All-District.
37. Barnesville may have had a tough go of things late in the season thanks to a tremendously tough schedule, but the Shamrocks put together a four-game winning streak early.
38. Winless seasons are never fun, but there's no question Shenandoah will be better next season with all the experience it gained.
39. Sitting at 3-3, few expected River to play in Week 11. Coach Mike Flannery's squad reeled off four in a row and qualified despite what doubters said.
40. Chazzy Thomas became the feature back Coach John Bowers has been looking for at Morgantown. Too bad he dislocated and broke his ankle during the final week of the regular season.
41. Not very often a team around here has three D-I athletes. But with Dan Monteroso and Michael Ferns already committed, Jaylon Brown is next on the list. Embarrassment of riches.
42. Everyone talks about Stephen Rogalski, and rightfully so. But Drew Keller has turned himself into a feature back at Magnolia.
43. People question the schedule, but Coach Ryan Wilson and Clay-Battelle are playing this weekend in the second round of the playoffs.
44. Wellsville turned some heads early in the season and are expected to only grow for 2013.
45. At first glance you see Caldwell won two games. Don't be fooled, because the Redskins are about to turn it around.
46. Behind the running of Chaz Glenn things seem to be coming around at Toronto.
47. Coach Jim Rogers and Cameron used to be regular playoff participants. They're getting closer to returning.
48. The best two-way threat in the Ohio Valley? Madonna QB Ross Comis, who is a star.
49. Perhaps no team made bigger strides than Frontier, which won four times and was competitive nearly every game.
50. And this will be a special season because we again are lucky enough to welcome the Super Six.
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EL PASO (January 14, 2013)--El Paso's water supply is down as the region continues to feel the impact of a long drought and declines in snowfall in areas of New Mexico and Colorado that feed the Rio Grande.
U.S. Department of Agriculture water specialist Wayne Sleep said snow-melt into the Rio Grande from southern Colorado and northern New Mexico is 70 percent below normal.
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STEUBENVILLE - While Steubenville Catholic Central didn't win the 2013 Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Bill Hinegardner Class 1A/2A Dual Meet Championship Thursday at the Crimson Center, head coach Aaron Henry realizes his program is moving forward after finishing runner-up to Shadyside.
"I'll tell you what, this is the first piece of hardware this team has got at Central in a long, long time," said Henry. "It means a lot to us. We've worked really hard for this. It's nothing but hard work. We won't surrender on the mat because of hard work.
"We came out with the right attitude tonight. It was 50-50 on the mat tonight. We had some good strategy, and we came out ready to go."
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THURSDAY WRESTLING — Steubenville Catholic Central's Cuyler Ledyard controls Shadyside's Jake Haswell on his way to a 16-0 tech fall victory in the finals of the OVAC Class 1A/2A Dual Meet Championships Thursday at the Crimson Center.
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IN CONTROL -- Toronto's Donnie Starkey works to control Caldwell's Koby Rayner during Starkey's 11-5 decision win in the consolation final.
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The Tigers topped the Crusaders 48-23 to claim the title.
"I'm real happy with that," said Shadyside head coach Scott Kinemond. "It's been a long time coming. We finally got almost a full team this year.
"The kids have been stepping it up every week. I'm real happy with them."
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Caldwell 38
106 Isaac Kiedrowski (Steubenville Cathotic Central) over 0 (Caldwell) FF
113 Kolby Rayner (Caldwell) over 0 (Steubenville Cathotic Central) FF
120 Blake Kiedrowski (Steubenville Cathotic Central) over 0 (Caldwell) FF
126 Tyler Wiley (Caldwell) pin Cedro Parise (Steubenville Cathotic Central) 4:51
132 Cuyler Ledyard (Steubenville Cathotic Central) pin Michael Haga (Caldwell) 1:25
138 Kameron Rayner (Caldwell) pin Mike Crosby (Steubenville Cathotic Central) 3:40
145 Pat Hernon (Steubenville Cathotic Central) over 0 (Caldwell) FF
152 Ricky Happ (Steubenville Cathotic Central) over Austin Cobb (Caldwell) FF
160 Leo Herrmann (Steubenville Cathotic Central) pin Caleb Van Meter (Caldwell) 5:09
170 Kale Rayner (Caldwell) pin Harold Rogers (Steubenville Cathotic Central) 0:23
182 Jared Leasure (Caldwell) tech. fall Isaac Sanford (Steubenville Cathotic Central) 17-2
195 Tyson Cartell (Caldwell) dec. Lucas Borden (Steubenville Cathotic Central) 6-4
220 Clay Polling (Caldwell) pin Caleb Moore (Steubenville Cathotic Central) 5:41
285 Marty Engle (Steubenville Cathotic Central) dec. Chance Rutger (Caldwell) 4-3
Shadyside 62, Toronto 15
106 Wyatt Skapik (Shadyside) over Alex Anderson (Toronto) 1-0
113 Zach Vaughn (Shadyside) over Donnie Starkey (Toronto) 3-0
120 Bailey Chaplin (Shadyside) dec. Jerry Savage (Toronto) 9-4
126 Austin Allen (Shadyside) over Joe Walter (Toronto) 12-7
132 Cody King (Toronto) over Jake Haswell (Shadyside) 10-7
138 Brett Kahl (Shadyside) over Zach Price (Toronto) 5-0
145 Ian Baker (Shadyside) tech. fall Drew Lowery (Toronto) 15-0
152 Alex Quinn (Shadyside) over Charles Ross III (Toronto) 4-1
160 Chase Kinemond (Shadyside) over C Phillips (Toronto) 2-0
170 Jake Duvall (Shadyside) over 0 (Toronto) FF
182 Andrew Miller (Toronto) dec. Scott Hammond (Shadyside) 3-1
195 Jake Haynes (Toronto) over 0 (Shadyside) FF
220 Dante Defelice (Shadyside) over 0 (Toronto) FF
285 Zach Meadows (Shadyside) over Tim West (Toronto) 2-0
Shadyside 48, Catholic Central 22
106 Wyatt Skapik (S) dec. Isaac Kiedrowski (CCHS) 6-0
113 Zach Vaughn (S) over FF
120 Blake Kiedrowski (CCHS) pin Bailey Chaplin (S) 0:59
126 Austin Allen (S) dec. Cedro Parise (CCHS) 4-2
132 Cuyler Ledyard (CCHS) tech. fall Jake Haswell (S) 16-0
138 Brett Kahl (S) maj. dec. Mike Crosby (CCHS) 9-1
145 Alex Quinn (S) pin Pat Hernon (CCHS) 0:21
152 Ian Baker (S) pin Ricky Happ (CCHS) 3:13
160 Chase Kinemond (S) tech. fall Leo Herrmann (CCHS) 19-0
170 Jake Duvall (S) pin Harold Rogers (CCHS) 0:48
182 Isaac Sanford (CCHS) over FF
195 Scott Hammond (S) dec. Lucas Borden (CCHS) 2-1
220 Caleb Moore (CCHS) pin Dante Defelice (S) 1:09
285 Zach Meadows (S) pin Marty Engle (CCHS) 0:48
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Toronto 48, Caldwell 30
106 Alex Anderson (T) over FF
113 Donnie Starkey (T) dec. Kolby Rayner (C) 11-5
120 Tyler Wiley (C) pin Jerry Savage (T) 0:30
126 Joe Walter (T) over FF
132 Cody King (T) pin Michael Haga (C) 2:19
138 Kameron Rayner (C) pin Zach Price (T) 1:34
145 Drew Lowery (T) over FF
152 Chris Phillips (T) over FF
160 Charles Ross III (T) over FF
170 Caleb Vanmeter (C) over FF
182 Kale Rayner (C) over FF
195 Jared Leasure (C) pin Andrew Miller () 0:51
220 Jake Haynes (T) dec. Tyson Cartell (C) 6-1
285 Tim West (T) FF
Chase Kinemond got Shadyside rolling with a 19-0 tech fall victory over Leo Herrmann at 160 pounds in the first match. At 170 Jake Duvall gave the Tigers an 11-0 lead after pinning Harold Rogers in 48 seconds.
Isaac Sanford gave Central its first points via forfeit at 182, making the match 11-6.
Scott Hammond squeaked out a 2-1 decison over Lucas Borden at 195 to put Shadyside back in control.
The tide seemed to swing toward the Crusaders when Caleb Moore dominated his way to a pin of Dante DeFelice in 1:09, but Zach Meadows pin of Marty Engle at 285 and Wyatt Skapik's 6-0 decison of Isaac Kiedrowski at 106 put the Tigers up 23-12.
Zach Vaughn's forfeit win at 113 pounds pushed the score to 29-12 before Central attempted to storm back.
Blake Kiedrowski (120) and Cuyler Ledyard (132) earned one-sided victories with Blake Kiedrowski pinning Bailey Chaplin in 59 seconds and Ledyard grinding out Jake Haswell for a 16-0 tech fall win.
"Against Shadyside we got a few matches," said Henry. "Blake Kiedrowski got a big pin. Cuyler Ledyard with a big tech fall. We were getting a little bit of momentum there, but it fizzled off."
Between those matches, at 126 pounds, Central's Cedro Parise was an eyelash away from pushing his 4-2 decison loss to Austin Allen into overtime when the official ruled a takedown wasn't completed until just after time expired.
The champion Tigers closed strong with Brett Kahl (138) earning 9-1 major decison over Mike Crosby, Alex Quinn (145) pinning Pat Hernon in 21 seconds, and Ian Baker pinning Ricky Happ in 3:13.
Central punched its ticket to the finals via a 39-38 victory over Caldwell. Ledyard and Herrmann each rolled to victories by pin during the Crusaders semifinal match. Engle secured a hard-fought 4-3 decison win.
"I would say Cuyler Ledyard wrestled big for us. He gave us a tech fall for five points and a pin against Caldwell that gave us six points. Leo Herrmann had a big pin against (Caleb) Van Meter which is big for sectional seeding so that was a big match for Leo to win.
"In the first match, against Caldwell, I was really impressed with us. In the second match, hey, we were able to get runnerup here at the OVAC Dual Championships. That can't mean anything but the best for our kids."
Toronto placed third in 1A/2A after stopping Caldwell 48-30 in the consolation finals. Cody King (132) won by pin with Donnie Starkey (113) and Jake Haynes (220) picking up 11-5 and 6-1 wins respectively.
"I think today we wrestled really well," said Toronto head coach John Parker. "Shadyside is a great program. You've got to give it to them. We've come a long way in five years from starting our program.
"Our kids bounced back from a tough Shadyside defeat and wrestled well against Caldwell. We wrestled some tough matches against Caldwell.
"Donnie Starkey wrestled a great match against (Kolby) Rayner from Caldwell, and Joey Walter won a big match against Shadyside for us. These guys wrestled tough.
"Cody King came in, our 132 pounder, and pinned the 132 pounder from Caldwell which was big for us because we weren't expecting that win."
The Red Knights lost 62-15 to Shadyside in the semifinals.


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Will it be possible to daisy chain a NXT brick as a slave of a new EV3 brick ?
As per This LEGO education FAQ, it is not possible to use the USB cable the same way it's done between multiple EV3 bricks:
However, keep in mind this is valid within the scope of official software; it could be that someone later makes the necessary hacks for it to work in some way.
Also, other communication methods such as bluetooth are available which you can likely use to control the NXT brick from an EV3 one, rpovided you program the NXT brick accordingly. It probably won't be as simple, but definitely doable.


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What is the probability that the sum of squares of n randomly chosen numbers from $Z_p$ is a quadratic residue mod p?
That is, let $a_1$,..$a_n$ be chosen at random. Then how often is $\Sigma_i a^2_i$ a quadratic residue?
What is the probability that the sum of squares of n randomly chosen numbers from $Z_p$ is a quadratic residue mod p?
That is, let $a_1$,..$a_n$ be chosen at random. Then how often is $\Sigma_i a^2_i$ a quadratic residue?
This probability can be calculated exactly, and indeed it approaches $1/2$ rather quickly — more precisely, for each $p$ it approaches the fraction $(p-1)/(2p)$ of quadratic residues $\bmod p$. This can be proved by elementary means, but perhaps the nicest way to think about it is that if you choose $n$ numbers $a_i$ independently and sum $a_i^2 \bmod p$, the resulting distribution is the $n$-th convolution power of the distribution of a random single square — so its discrete Fourier transform is the $n$-th power of the D.F.T., call it $\gamma$, of the distribution of $a^2 \bmod p$. For this purpose $\gamma$ is normalized so $\gamma(0)=1$. Then for $k \neq 0$ we have $\gamma(k) = (k/p) \gamma(1)$ [where $(\cdot/p)$ is the Legendre symbol], and $$ p \gamma(1) = \sum_{a \bmod p} \exp(2\pi i a^2/p), $$ which is a Gauss sum and is thus a square root of $\pm p$. It follows that $|\gamma(k)| = p^{-1/2}$, from which we soon see that each value of the convolution approaches $1/p$ at the exponential rate $p^{-n/2}$, and the probability you asked for approaches $(p-1)/(2p)$ at the same rate.
As noted above, this result, and indeed the exact probability, can be obtained by elementary means, yielding a (known but not well-known) alternative proof of Quadratic Reciprocity(!). But that's probably too far afield for the present purpose.
The probability depends on the parity of $n$ and the residue of $p$ modulo $4$: it can be calculated in a straightforward way using Gauss sums.
Let $n$ be $2k$ or $2k+1$, and let $p\equiv r\pmod{4}$ where $r=\pm 1$. Then, assuming I made no mistake, the probability equals $$ \frac{p+1}{2p}+\frac{p-1}{2p}(rp)^{-k}. $$
Note that in my calculation I regarded zero as a quadratic residue. If we exclude zero then the final answer will look slightly different, with a main term $\frac{p-1}{2p}$ as Noam Elkies said.
Let me atone for giving too few details by giving too many.
Let $$S=\sum_{a_1=0}^{p-1}\dots\sum_{a_n=0}^{p-1}\sum_{t=0}^{p-1}\sum_{m=0}^{p-1}e^{2\pi im(a_1^2+\cdots+a_n^2-t^2)/p} $$ The innermost sum is $p$ if $a_1^2+\cdots+a_n^2-t^2\equiv0\pmod p$ and zero otherwise, so $S$ counts $2p$ whenever $a_1^2+\cdots+a_n^2$ is a (nonzero) quadratic residue, $p$ whenever it's zero. On the other hand, $$ S=\sum_{m=0}^{p-1}\sum_{a_1=0}^{p-1}\dots\sum_{a_n=0}^{p-1}\sum_{t=0}^{p-1}e^{2\pi im(a_1^2+\cdots+a_n^2-t^2)/p} $$ so $$ S=p^{n+1}+\sum_{m=1}^{p-1}\sum_{a_1=0}^{p-1}\dots\sum_{a_n=0}^{p-1}\sum_{t=0}^{p-1}e^{2\pi im(a_1^2+\cdots+a_n^2-t^2)/p} $$ so $$ S=p^{n+1}+\sum_{m=1}^{p-1}\left(\left(\sum_{a_1=0}^{p-1}e^{2\pi ima_1^2/p}\right)\cdots\left(\sum_{a_n=0}^{p-1}e^{2\pi ima_n^2/p}\right)\left(\sum_{t=0}^{p-1}e^{2\pi imt^2/p}\right)\right) $$ Each of those inner sums is a Gauss sum and known to equal $\sqrt p$ in modulus (more detail: the sum is ${m\overwithdelims()p}\sqrt{{-1\overwithdelims()p}p}$), so $|S-p^{n+1}|\le(p-1)p^{(n+1)/2}$. For $n\gt1$, the main term beats the error term, and you get a good estimate.
Here is a slightly different argument: Let $Q$ be a non degenerate quadratic form over $\mathbb{F}_q$ of rang $n$ and determinant $d$. Let $A(n,d)=|\{x\in \mathbb{F}_q^n:Q(x)=0\}|$. The claim is that $A(n,d)=q^{n-1}+O(q^{n/2})$. For $n>2$ we can write $Q(X)=Q_0(X_1,\ldots,X_{n-2}) +X_{n-1}X_n$, where $Q_0$ is a form of rank $n-2$ in the variables $X_1,\ldots,X_{n-2}$. This decomposition shows instantly that that $A(n,d)=(2 q-1) A(-d,n-2) +(q-1) (q^{n-2}-A(-d,n-2))$. Proceeding by induction we get the estimate $A(n,d)=q^{n-1}+O(q^{n/2})$. (The error term can be computed exactly using Gauss sums). Applying this to the forms $X_1^2+\cdots +X_n^2-X_{n+1}^2$ and $X_1^2+\cdots+ X_n^2$ we get that the desired probability is $(A(n+1,-1)-A(n,1))/(2 q^n)= (q-1)/(2q) +O(q^{-n/2})$.


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Assuming that I've combined all of my vertex data for many particles into a single array, how would I batch draw all of those particles in a manner that preserves their unique translations?
Any code examples would be greatly appreciated.
Assuming that I've combined all of my vertex data for many particles into a single array, how would I batch draw all of those particles in a manner that preserves their unique translations?
Any code examples would be greatly appreciated.
In my OpenGL ES 1.1 particle system I solved this by drawing one alpha blended textured triangle per particle. Another option would be to draw quads (or two-tri strips), but i found single tris to be OK for my application which has many small particles. If you have few large particles, quads might be better (fill-rate vs trig).
For each particle in my list I calculated the corners of the triangle by simple vector math and a pre-calculated look-up table. I would also make sure that each triangle faced the camera using a billboarding helper class. In other words I did not use any OpenGL transformations on the individual particles. This code would also handle rotating the sprite and/or scaling of the individual sprites.
Each corner of the triangle would be appended to the vertex buffers so that 3*3 floats would be added per triangle.
Here is the snippet from my code that does the actual building of the vertices buffer (method on the particle object, called once per particle per update):
I have also included my entire billboarding helper for good measure :>
Are your vertices something like topleft position:-1,-1, bottomright position +1,+1? All being rendered to the center of the screen? And you're moving them around with the worldview matrix?
To use vertex arrays and give each particle individual positions you need to do the transformation on the CPU. For each particle you have a set of vertices 4 if you're doing a quad, 6 if it's made from two triangles. Lets say the particle is 2x2 and the center is 0,0.
If you drew this it would create a particle centered around the origin of your scene, how big it appears would depend on your projection matrix. If you've got a position for each particle all you need do is going through all the vertices and add them to the particle position.
Do that for all your particles each time they change position. This is reasonably common solution, you might think it seems quite slow (but it's not too bad) try it out and see how it works in your case.
If you are pushing a lot of particles and find you need things to be faster then it's probably best looking at doing the entire particle effect as a shader, that way you reduce the communication between the gpu and cpu.
Just put your particles coordinates to buffer (geometryBuf in example) considering unique translations for each. And batch draw it with glDrawArrays().
Params depend on particles type.


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Creating a Webquest
A WebQuest, originally developed by a team at San Diego University, is a guided online, inquiry-oriented student activity typically consisting of six parts (sometimes the process and resources, and the evaluation and conclusion are combined):
- The Introduction orients students and captures their interest.
- The Task describes the activity's end product.
- The Process explains strategies students should use to complete the task.
- The Resources are the Web sites students will use to complete the task.
- The Evaluation measures the results of the activity.
- The Conclusion sums up the activity and encourages students to reflect on its process and results.
Adapt WebQuests to your own needs
Don't have time to create your own webquest? Visit the following website to learn how to adapt the best components of other peoples webquests, fix links, and customize the content for your classroom.
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I would google your topic with keywords like "Evolution WebQuest" or visit the sites below:
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When I hit a piano key should I be grabbing the piano key with a slight inward tug kind of like a brushing motion? Or should I be pressing down with no inward motion?
To develop your technique, you should work on the simple downward motion. Your fingers should be more curved than straight, so that pressing the key is an actuation of your primary knuckle joint that pushes the rest of your finger directly down to press the key.
The vast majority of the time you just want to move downwards, with no tugging or pulling on the key - work on honing this technique.
There are other particular techniques used in certain cases that do have elements of this, but save those until later. (A case of you can only break the rule, sometimes, when you know you can keep it!)
if you're hitting the same chord in quick succession, the tips of your fingers should gradually move a little closer to you with each hit. For a single new hit, they may move slightly toward you as you raise your hand back off the key, but you don't actively grab. At least that's how I heard it...


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Suppose I have a function $f$, and positive integers $x$ and $y$ such that $x$ is a square, $x \ne y$ and $y \ne \sqrt{x}$.
Now, assume that:
$|\frac{f(x)}{y} - \frac{f(y)}{x}| > 2$
$|\frac{f(\sqrt{x})}{y} - \frac{f(y)}{\sqrt{x}}| > 1$
for all $x, y$ in the domain of $f$.
(Note that $|N|$ is the absolute value of $N$.)
My question is: What properties would this function $f$ necessarily possess? In particular, can $f$ be injective?


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The goal of KAPT is to provide Kentucky families affordable college tuition for their children and grandchildren by guaranteeing the cost of tomorrow's tuition at lower prices today.
State Treasurer, Jonathan Miller says: "I feel strongly about KAPT because it provides educational opportunity to almost 9000 families. It makes college affordable by locking in the price of today's prices. With tuition rising at double digit rates all over the state, it's been a great way for families to save."
But now there's concern about the future of KAPT. When the program was started four years ago it was backed by money from the states unclaimed property fund. That money was from the stocks and bond portion of the unclaimed property fund. Last year $13.7 million from the unclaimed property fund was put into the KAPT fund to build interest. Now some Senate leaders want to take that money.
Miller says: "We're getting really mixed signals from the Senate. On the one hand they say we'll meet this obligation later. On the other hand, in their budget they not only took this $13.7 million but also said that no general fund or unclaimed property could be used to back up the program."
Miller has asked Governor Ernie Fletcher to line item veto the provision to take the money. If that doesn't work the 9-thousand families enrolled in the KAPT program will be granted tuition rates locked in at today's prices because they have a binding contract with the state.
Miller says: "I'm particularly motivated because this raid represents money being taken out of the program, money that was promised to these 9000 families when they signed up for the program. It's not only wrong, but we believe it's unconstitutional."


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Agents with the special operations division of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI), El Dorado Police Department, Lyon County Sheriff's Office and the Kansas Department of Revenue have culminated a 7-month investigation into the sale of synthetic cannabinoids XR-11 and Ur-144 , (a.k.a. 'potpourri') with 10 search warrants on businesses and residences in Emporia and El Dorado.
The investigation began with undercover agents purchasing several types of potpourri, investigation of emergency room admissions of persons being admitted to the hospital after using the substances and financial records.
On August 6, law enforcement officers made controlled purchases from Blitzed Detox Shop in Emporia along with All Out Detox and Price Right Smoke Shop/JKL Liquor in El Dorado. Search warrants were then executed on all three businesses with further 'potpourri' products, drug paraphernalia and cash being seized.
Evidence found at those locations led to search warrants at the residences of the owners and other businesses in Emporia, Arkansas City and El Dorado including C&J Wholesale where what appears to be a packaging operation was seized, as well as an additional undercover purchase of a controlled substance at a retail location in Wichita.
At this point several pounds of synthetic cannabinoid treated potpourri, five cars, a boat, a motorcycle, tools, equipment and more than $100,000.00 in cash has been seized as evidence, proceeds and through drug tax stamp obligations.
Two subjects, Benjamin Huff of El Dorado and Jonathan Pope of Emporia have been arrested on one count each of Distribution of Controlled Substance, Possession of Controlled Substance and Drug Tax violation. Further arrests and seizures are expected.
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BOGO Never Ending Pasta Bowls coupon (Regional)
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Very limited in the areas you can use this...
Offer valid only in the metro areas of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Raleigh, Seattle, and Washington D.C.
"Italian" food.
this kind of deal is why im overweight
Really..... only valid for those in major cities.. Seems fishy. Zombie outbreak coming.
But it's like eating in the private kitchen of a delightful Italian Stereotype
how in the heck do you determine what the "metro area" is around a city?
Apropos of nothing, I'd like to pass along my own informal name for the 'neverending pasta bowl' promotion: 'Pasta Til You Puke.'