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I would like to take just a few rocks from a local river bed to use in my aquarium. Is this legal?
I could find no authoritative source, but I would imagine taking a "few rocks" wouldn't cause a problem - unless you're taking it from a protected area or area of scientific interest of course.
My reasoning is that I would imagine the situation is similar for UK beaches - technically taking stones, sand etc. is illegal but if your 5 year old son decides there's a couple of stones he likes and wants to take home, no-one is going to care one bit. Rock up with a couple of land rovers / trailers and fill them up with shingle, the situation will be very different!
IANAL, but...
The riverbed is owned by the landowner (although the water isn't), so removing rocks (or any other item) from the riverbed is the same as removing them from anywhere else on the land.
In other words, it's probably theft, so NOT legal. If you're concerned about it, ask the landowner's permission.
Also note that the CROW act is pretty restrictive about what you can do in rivers and lakes even when they're on access land. No boating or bathing... : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_Access_Campaign


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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy has had two aircraft carriers steaming in Middle Eastern waters for most of the past three years.
And despite warnings from the Navy that maintaining the two-carrier presence there over an extended period could have drastic effects on the fleet, they stayed for one simple reason: a general believed they were necessary.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees combat operations in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, said it needed the extra aircraft carrier year round to help support and carry out strikes against the Taliban and other insurgent fighters in Afghanistan.
The Navy said it could deliver the two carriers, but only for nine months out of the year — one carrier would be present for the remaining three months. Even as combat operations in Iraq came to a close, the requirement remained, until this month.
Facing an uncertain future budget, the Pentagon in February announced it would delay the deployment of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, which would have been the second carrier in the Middle East.
Experts say that budget uncertainty combined with a refocused military strategy could further play a role in the prioritization of regional combatant commands' (COCOMs') operational requirements and lead to more constraints when senior military leaders make these requests, experts say.
"Combatant commands don't have to fund these capabilities ... so they don't have a natural constraint on their 'requirements,'" said Mark Gunzinger, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments think tank in Washington.
The Army, Navy and Air Force are responsible for funding the troops, equipment and weapons that combatant commanders deem essential.
As the Pentagon prepares to shrink its budget $487 billion from planned spending levels over 10 years — and perhaps an additional $500 billion over that same period should across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration begin next month — the Defense Department's January 2012 announced military strategy is expected to play a critical role in requirements allotment.
For more than a decade, CENTCOM has received the largest portion of U.S. military assets due to combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. Other commands, such as U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which oversees operations in South America and Latin America, and more recently U.S. European Command (EUCOM), have received fewer.
The Pentagon's year-old military strategy, which puts more emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region, is expected to elevate U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), SOUTHCOM and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) requirements, experts say.
The new military strategy could elevate the requirement requests from combatant commands that have historically ranked lower in priority over the past decade.
"I think you'll see a waning of effort in the CENTCOM area," said retired Air Force Gen. Charles Wald, a former EUCOM deputy commander. "You'll see a growing attention being paid to AFRICOM and SOUTHCOM. I think [U.S. Northern Command] will remain important. I don't think we're ever going to get away from the fact that we actually have to have a combat capability to protect America now."
In the coming years, much of the focus in South America, Africa and Southeast Asia will likely center on training local forces through partner building efforts and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).
The vast majority of the Pentagon's expansive unmanned aircraft inventory — key tools in ISR operations — has been in Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
The Cost of Presence
Scaling back COCOM requirements could in fact lead to a trimmer force. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has often said the size of the U.S. military — as laid out in the Pentagon's military strategy — will get smaller, but remain agile and flexible.
"To an extent, all of the services can justify their force structure and so forth based on the presence requests of the combatant commands," Gunzinger said.
With defense spending already set to decline in the coming years, and the deeper cuts looming, some analysts believe throttling back on requirements could help the Pentagon save billions of dollars without major capability losses.
"I think given the chance to do it right ... DoD could afford to take some more cuts and they will," Wald said. "I don't get real nervous if they're given a chance to do the right planning. I think the COCOMs will follow that eventually if that kind of guidance and leadership comes out of the Pentagon."
Presence, or forward basing troops, ships or aircraft in a particular region, is a major cost driver.
"Everything is on the table and that means our global presence is certainly on the table, not just how many, but how we do it," Gunzinger said.
For example, a Navy presence reduction could mean reducing the number of aircraft carriers, which in turn reduces the number of carrier air wings and other assets that support the ship.
"The calculus driven by presence requirements are pretty significant and justifies keeping more carriers around," Gunzinger said. "If that presence policy changes, then that can have implications on the size of the carrier fleet."
Gunzinger — a former deputy assistant defense secretary and a retired Air Force colonel — said the COCOMs could do a better job addressing particular requirements by mixing and matching different weapons and forces to deliver a certain capability.
"Don't ask me for a carrier battle group, ask me for what is it you want me to do," he said. "These are the kind of things that could be managed through the joint process and could mitigate some of the strains on the force, especially for our capabilities and units that are in high demand."
Traditionally, urgent battlefield requirements, which have been extremely prevalent in Iraq and Afghanistan, are for weapons or equipment already in production. Historically, experts say, an urgent battlefield request is given higher priority based on the rank of the person requesting it.
The Threat
A classified document called the guidance for the employment of the force establishes priorities and makeup of U.S. assets in different regions of the world. Based on that document, the combatant commanders develop war plans and create a force posture that seeks to deter conflict.
Combatant command requirements are overseen by members of the Joint Staff through the Global Force Management process. The combatant commanders provide a list of requirements to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff once per year. Those requirements — the majority of which are classified — are then adjudicated through this process.
"Usually, the demand for presence, forces and so forth exceeds the supply, so you have to have an adjudication process that allocates forces and so forth across the COCOMs," Gunzinger said.
At the same time, urgent requirements are reviewed every few weeks, most often to address requests from the battlefield.
Because combatant commanders strive to reduce risk, the practice could lead to "requests for capabilities that can be a little unrealistic at times," Gunzinger said.
"If your responsibility is to do this in your [area of responsibility] and you think you need that to do it, then you're going to ask for it, probably without concern for other theaters," he said.
Combatant commanders are "attempting to minimize risk, and that can drive a significant request for force structure and capabilities and presence, and you're not required to pay for those, the services are," Gunzinger said. "There's no governor on those requests due to resources, and that's why you have that centralized Global Force Management process."
But military officials and many lawmakers argue that combatant commanders' requests are justified due to threats, such as terrorism.
"[T]here's this big suggestion that somehow our combatant commanders are coming up with all of these wish lists of everything they want," said Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., chairman of the House Armed Services seapower subcommittee. "When you really do the analysis, when you peel that onion back, they're not. You know, they're making requests that we truly need and they truly need."
Despite the looming defense spending cuts, the Global Force Management oversight process is not expected to change, said a spokeswoman for the Joint Staff.
The only way to inject more constraint in the requirements process is though strong leadership, experts say.
Pentagon brass needs to send a blunt message to the COCOMs as yearly budgets shrink: "Think a little smarter about how you're going to spend," said Todd Harrison, also with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
"You need a strong set of leaders in the Pentagon who are willing to say: 'OK we get it. That's what you would like, but you need to support that as a requirement,'" Gunzinger said.
Christopher P. Cavas contributed to this report.


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They knew that Ari, who until 48 hours before had been a perfectly healthy 16-month-old, was brain dead, killed by some mysterious and sudden illness that shut down his metabolic system.
"Part of our reason for doing it was a sense that maybe something good could come out of this horrible thing," says Ullendorf of those wrenching days 12 years ago. "We also had a feeling that if somebody else had something of his, it was a way of keeping him more alive."
So they held Ari while he was still on a respirator and said goodbye to him. Then Rabbi Neil Gillman, a family friend, helped the young parents do kriyah, tear their clothing in the Jewish symbol that marks the onset of mourning.
He also assured them that donating Ari's organs was a mitzvah.
"We weren't sure what the Jewish position was, but our rabbi said if there was anything that could save a life, we should do it," says Ullendorf, who now has three healthy children.
Like many other Jews, Ullendorf had had a vague preconception that Judaism would not support organ donation. And yet the affirmation she received from her Conservative rabbi is the same answer she might have gotten from any rabbi -- Reform, Conservative or Orthodox.
While halachic debate still surrounds the donation of some organs, there is growing consensus that donating organs is not only permissible within Jewish law, but fulfills the positive imperative to save a life.
Several new educational initiatives have emerged in the Jewish community to spread that idea and to counter a very disturbing fact: The Jewish community has one of the lowest rates of organ donation among ethnic groups.
For despite rabbinic decisions, at a grassroots level, there persists in all segments of the Jewish community -- traditional and liberal -- a reluctance to discuss the topic, and an assumption that Judaism forbids organ donation.
An Urgent Need
Twelve people die every day waiting for an organ. There are currently about 68,500 people on the waiting list of the United Network of Organ Sharing, and that number is expected to quadruple in the next few years, according the Division of Transplantation of the federal government's Department of Health and Human Services, which sponsors National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week the third week in April.
In 1998, about 5,800 people who died donated organs and tissue -- about a third of the number of potential donors. An additional 4,300 people were living donors, mostly of kidneys. One cadaver can supply a heart, kidneys, pancreas, lungs, liver, intestines, cornea, skin, bone marrow and connective tissue. Some of those on the waiting list can survive for several years without a transplant. Many will die waiting.
The situation has been particularly dire in Israel, where donation was chronically low, and Israel was consistently a net drain on the European organ sharing network, endangering the Jewish state's status in the network. Israelis have often had to travel abroad to procure organs.
The situation has recently taken a turn for the better, as several major rabbis, most recently Shas leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, declared it not only permissible but a mitzvah to make your organs available. Still, Israel's remains among the lowest rates of organ donation in developed countries.
Dignity of the Dead vs.
Saving a Life
Given the high stakes, what is holding the Jewish community back?
Partially, the same things that keep the number of organ donors so low in the general population.
"Part of it is people don't want to contemplate death altogether, and part of it is when they do contemplate death, they have trouble thinking of themselves minus some organs," says Rabbi Elliot Dorff, a bioethicist who is rector and professor of philosophy at the University of Judaism and chair of the Committee on Jewish law and Standards of the Conservative movement.
About five years ago, Dorff participated in an interreligious project that looked at the psychological, folklorist and literary issues that prevent people from making their organs available.
He said aside from a general aversion to death, what also came into play were people's fears of surgery and notions about resurrection.
According to many doctors and educators who deal with the issue, Jewish audiences -- of whatever denomination -- consistently bring up the idea that in order to be resurrected, one needs to have all her body parts.
Rabbi Eddie Reichman, a physician and professor at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, says the idea stems from some obscure references in midrashic sources. But he points out that if one believes in resurrection, that must come with a belief that God will restore decomposed bodies.
At a panel on end-of-life issues at B'nai David-Judea Congregation a few months ago, Reichman countered with another midrashic idea.
"There is a rabbinic tradition that there is one bone called the luz bone from which resurrection will take place," he said, "so we will have a connection to the original body in which we lived. Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan has translated this midrash into contemporary understanding, saying one simply needs one strand of DNA."
But there is also more solid ground for the perception that Judaism would frown upon organ donation: the very real halachic concept of kavod hamet, preserving the dignity of the body that housed the departed soul.
Cadavers are treated with honor, so that modesty is retained even during the ritual washing. The body is never left alone, and it is buried as soon as possible. Every effort is usually made to bury a person with all her body parts, even amputated limbs or spilled blood.
It is no surprise, then, that harvesting organs would seem to violate these precepts.
But everyone involved in the halachic debate surrounding organ donation agrees that all those laws must be overridden if it is a matter of pikuach nefesh, saving a life -- considered one of the greatest mitzvot in Judaism, surpassing most commands.
Defining Death
The real debate revolves, then, around the halachic definition of death. All organs from cadavers are harvested when the donor is brain dead, but machines are keeping the donor's heart beating and blood flowing, since organs begin to deteriorate as soon as they are deprived of oxygen.
The classic Talmudic definition of death is when a feather held below the nose doesn't move, and when an ear pressed to the chest does not hear a heartbeat. The question then becomes how those criteria work into today's medical technology.
In 1969, at the early stages of transplantation, the Conservative movement accepted cessation of brainstem activity as meeting the halachic criteria for death.
"The only reason why traditional criteria were the criteria was that was the state of medical science," says Dorff, who discusses the topic in his book, "Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics" (Jewish Publication Society 1998).
In 1997 the Conservative movement passed a resolution declaring it a positive obligation incumbent upon Jews to sign a donor card and make their wishes known to family members.
The Reform movement likewise encouraged organ donation starting in 1968, and has made available extensive educational and programming material (see sidebar page 16).
In the Orthodox movement, the questions surrounding organ donation remains one of the most heated contemporary halachic debates, involving the top thinkers in the Orthodox world.
In 1991, the Rabbinical Council of America, an Orthodox umbrella group, weighed in, issuing a healthcare proxy form saying that brainstem death met the halachic criteria for death, and therefore making one's organs available for donation was permitted and strongly encouraged. The RCA, under the scholarship of bioethicist Rabbi Moshe Tendler, relied on the positions of the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and the findings of the chief rabbinate in Israel, which in 1989 declared organ donation permissible.
But the Agudath Israel of America, another Orthodox umbrella group, denounced the document, saying there were still too much debate to issue such a definitive answer. An article in the Jewish Observer in response to the RCA proxy cited several noted halachic authorities -- including, they say, the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein -- who have held fast to the idea that a beating heart renders a person living, and thus removing organs from a patient on a respirator constitutes murder.
Agudath issued its own proxy that designates the patient's personal rabbi to make the decisions, and it makes no declaration about organ donation.
There is more rabbinic consensus on live donation of kidneys, where halacha -- much as secular bioethics -- requires that the donor not be putting herself into mortal danger. Discussion still surrounds live donation of lobes of the lung or parts of the liver, which are newer to the medical field and have higher mortality rates than live kidney donations.
Taking Action
But most people who assume that organ donation is not within Jewish practice aren't referring to the halachic debate, but rather to the deep-seated, very personal qualms inherent in the issue.
That is where several new educational initiatives are taking aim, trying to dispel superstitions, to move people toward dealing with an issue that can save lives.
Alan Septimus, a securities analyst in New York whose life was changed by a kidney transplant five years ago, founded Operation Pikuach Nefesh in 1997 to make organ donation a topic discussed in Jewish institutions.
He says he hasn't run into anyone who is unwilling to host a speaker or run a program, but "it only becomes a priority if I find an institution that has been personally touched by the issue."
Irving Goldberg founded Transplant for Life, an educational group that operates out of Temple Kol Tikvah in Woodland Hills, after his son underwent a successful pancreas and kidney transplant four years ago. Its primary mission is to encourage Jewish participation in the Department of Health and Human Resource's National Donor Sabbath, a Friday, Saturday and Sunday set aside in November for organ and tissue donation awareness in churches, synagogues and other religious communities.
With Goldberg's help, participation went from 14 Los Angeles area shuls a few years ago to 85 in 1999. Goldberg, who gets calls from all over the country, supplies written materials for Jewish program-ming for Donor Sabbath -- or any other day -- and a five-step process to ensure that organiza-tions and individuals can get involved (see sidebar below).
The topic is also gaining some high-profile support in Los Angeles, with the help of some Wexner Heritage Foundation alumni, a class of 20 leaders in the Jewish community, including several entertainment industry machers, who spent two years together studying Jewish history and culture. As a class project, the group is developing a discussion guide for the hundreds of powerful members of the Wexner network nationwide.
"Our hope is if we keep talking about it people will be challenged in an intellectual and personal way," says Beth Comsky Raanan, a member of the class.
Discussion materials will also be available through Pikuach Nefesh, a new program Hadassah will launch at its international conference in Los Angeles in July.
"We will address the specific need for people to have a discussion with their families, so that everyone is on board," says Nancy Falchuk, co-chair of Hadassah's convention.
While the law does not require doctors to consult family members if a donor card is signed, most do, out of respect for survivors. But since so many people don't discuss the issue with loved ones, in almost half the cases the family refuses to let the procedure go through.
Temple Beth Am, which has been touched personally by a member who donated a kidney to his wife, will hold a half-day seminar on the topic Sunday, June 11, starting at 9 a.m. (for information call 310-652-7353, ext. 223).
Septimus says the initiative for changing these facts must come from within the religious community, because that is where people turn for end-of-life issues.
For Septimus, who for years before his transplant was tethered to a dialysis machine 12 hours a day, transplantation is very much a religious issue, where the physical and the spiritual merge.
"Many of the prayers we say daily take on tremendous new meaning," says Septimus. He quotes the part of the "Amidah" that praises God as a "supporter of the fallen, healer of the sick, liberator of the imprisoned."
"I never thought of myself as a shackled slave, yet I had to be hooked up to a machine and have a needle in my arm to draw out my blood and have it cleaned. Our lives are very fragile," Septimus says.
"Whether you believe God is Mechayeh HaMetim (Resurrecter of the Dead) or Mechayeh Hakol (Who Gives Life to All), whether you take it literally or figurative-ly," Septimus adds, "certainly there is a greater understanding of what those prayers mean after we've seen ourselves become so vulnerable, and because of this phenomenal late 20th century innovation, restored back to a semblance of health."
While organ donation remains a topic of sensitivity, all denominations agree that it is a mitzvah incumbent on healthy Jews to donate blood on a regular basis and to enter their names into a bone marrow registry. With American blood banks experiencing dangerous shortages, the mitzvah becomes even more urgent.
To make an appointment to donate blood, call the Red Cross at (800) GIVE-LIFE.
To enter a bone marrow registry, (800) MARROW-2, www.giftoflife.com.
A Godly Act
By Michael Gotlieb
Shortly after I graduated rabbinical school, I received a phone call. At the other end of the line was the voice of a woman wanting to donate an organ. Feverishly, my thoughts turned inward as I began rehashing the material taught to me in my biomedical ethics courses: when life stops, what Jewish law says, how to comfort the bereaved... "Rabbi," she went on, " would you send someone over from your congregation right away to pick it up?" That's when I realized she had been referring not to her kidneys or corneas, but to her somewhat neglected, 30-year-old Wurlitzer.
As happy as I was to receive a Wurlitzer -- and that the women was in fine health -- I do wish more congregants would call me to discuss donating the other kinds of organs. It is, to be blunt, nothing short of a godly act.
Inexcusably, most people do not donate their organs once they pass away. Some refuse to donate out of the fear their body will be disfigured when the organs are harvested. But according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, the procedure takes place in an operating room, guided by the hand of a skilled surgeon. When completed, it leaves the deceased donor neither disfigured nor altered in appearance.
Others, who wish to donate their vital organs after they die, often fail to properly inform their family and physician of their final request, thereby invalidating a potentially life saving contribution. Meanwhile, 64,000 Americans are included on an organ recipient waiting list; a list which grows larger every year. One-third of those listed will die before they receive a heart or liver.
If everybody eligible would routinely and clearly stipulate that his or her vital organs may be donated upon death, the waiting list for those in critical need would diminish significantly. Unless medically ill-advised, everyone has a moral obligation to be an organ donor.
Giving of one's vital organs upon one's death is an unsurpassed expression of love, precisely because the donor will never know the recipient. Furthermore, organ donation has the power to transcend ethnic and racial boundaries. The recipient is not concerned about whether the compatible donor lived life as a Jew, Christian, Muslim, or secularist; whether he or she was rich or poor; black or white.
Ever since the courts ruled on Roe vs. Wade, our nation has debated the important moral question of when life begins. But in order to help save the lives of those who are in precious need of an organ transplant, it is also in our nation's moral interest to address the question, "When does life end?"
Most major religious groups approve and support the principles and practices of organ donation based on the definition of brain death. Such a definition is an accepted medical, ethical, and legal principle. It is the standard by which our own Jewish religion determines life's cessation; one that crosses most Jewish denominational boundaries.
According to a recent Gallup poll, fewer than 10 percent of Americans are aware of their own religion's doctrines regarding organ and tissue donation. If that survey is correct, places of worship throughout the land must better inform their congregants of their religious duty to donate their organs. Though religions may differ on many issues, most agree: Organ donation is one of the highest forms of preserving and caring for one's fellow human being.
While the Bible makes no specific mention of organ transplants, its timeless content alludes to it in principle. The story of creation portrays God taking a rib from Adam, and thereby creating Eve. No doubt, the story is allegorical and not intended for a literal interpretation. Nonetheless, it suggests that God both gives and enhances life, in essence, by transplanting one part of a human being into another. As God does, so ought we.
In the final analysis, the good that comes from organ donation is that which it teaches humanity the world over: All of us are made of one flesh, all of us are truly children of God.
Michael Gotleib is senior rabbi at Kehillat Maarav in Santa Monica
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The 7 Most Unintentionally Nightmarish Children's Characters
#3. Wizbit
Meet Wizbit, a magical talking wizard's hat from space with a shrill, buzzing voice and eyes that stare off in conflicting directions as if they are locked in magnetic opposition. It is unclear whether Wizbit is supposed to be a boy hat or a girl hat, but what is painfully clear is that this is a question the universe never intended for us to ask.
Wizbit lives in a house with the desaturated color palette of a 1960s cigarette ad alongside a gloomy rabbit-man named Wooly who spends the majority of every episode muttering inaudibly like a sociopath trying to do an impression of Art Carney. Wizbit, meanwhile, wags his eyebrows like a silent film comedian and dares children not to weep in terrified confusion, as if they have any choice in the matter.
There is no stopping the tears. Or the fears.
In one episode, the nefarious Professor Doom steals all of the color in Wizbit's village. They take great pains to stress how evil Professor Doom is, despite the fact that he looks about as menacing as a birthday magician and as such is much less horrifying than the two heroes of the program.
We're ruling whatever he does a clear-cut case of self-defense.
Wizbit turns the world back to color, prompting Wooly to shuffle awkwardly outside like he is struggling to choke back the biggest shit in anal-clenching history to marvel at the space hat's handiwork. He then does the same gloomy wallflower dance we assume he did when he went stag to prom. The dance goes on for an uncomfortably long time while Wizbit just stands there and stares off into the middle distance.
This is like a deleted scene from The Wicker Man.
#2. The Greedy
In Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (the Toy Story of the 1970s), Raggedy Ann and Andy are two stalwart dolls who embark on a mission to save one of their fellow toys from a villainous pirate named the Captain, who, to be clear, is also a toy. They hitch a ride on a camel with an inexplicable Southern accent who ends up leading them directly into the Taffy Pit, at which point they meet the Greedy and every child in the theater starts crying.
If nightmares were money, this episode would be the world's fourth largest economy.
At first, Raggedy Ann and Andy (who, with their patchwork faces and unblinking eyes, are both unsettling enough in their own right) think they've merely landed in a giant subterranean river of taffy, and they immediately begin eating the Greedy's body without any hesitation whatsoever. As they take bites of his tasty flesh, the Greedy's horrifying face rises out of the sticky ocean like the T-1000 and engages the two dolls in polite conversation.
"Terribly sorry, but I couldn't help but notice that you're chewing lustily on my sugary taint."
He begins to sing a depressing song about his loneliness and how he longs to find a "sweetheart" to ease his suffering and put an end to his compulsive eating. As he sings, his face is constantly melting and shifting in an endless surreal food sludge sculpture, like something you would find in Salvador Dali's toilet bowl.
However, things don't get really dark until Raggedy Ann lets it slip that she has a heart made of candy (for some reason) -- a literal "sweet heart." That's when the Greedy loses his damn mind.
Because he clearly had such a tight rein on things to begin with.
He suddenly pulls out a pair of scissors and lunges for Raggedy Ann with the intention of cutting her heart out and eating it in a G-rated musical adventure for children.
The valuable message being "The things you love will literally devour your heart."
Then he ejaculates vanilla ice cream at them as they make their escape, and no parent with any respect for their child's mental health should be far behind them.
"You kids enjoy the candy sperm monster show. Mommy and Daddy have coke to do."
#1. The Blue Thing
Courage the Cowardly Dog is about a senile old couple and their haunted dog Courage who is regularly terrorized by phantasms that only he ever seems to notice. Most of the monsters that appear on the show aren't any more frightening than a standard Scooby-Doo villain. However, in one episode, Courage accidentally breaks his master's bugle and goes to bed tormenting himself with enough guilt to trigger a nightmare, which the animators used as an excuse to settle some inexplicable vendetta they had against the young viewers of their television show.
A blue Tim Burton sculpture with a pale death mask of regret and disappointment is unleashed on Courage fans, apropos of nothing, for nine horrible seconds. Seriously, Courage blinks a few times and then suddenly that fucking thing comes wailing on screen like a sad banshee.
"Wait, what's happen- NOOOO AAAAAAH!"
A dissonant orchestral arrangement oozes from the speakers as the Blue Thing (the character has no official name, but Courage fans have christened him thusly) slowly rolls his head around on his shoulders like a dead psychic, bulges his eyes out, and whispers, "You're not perfect." And then it ends, as quickly and with as little explanation as it began. It's as if somebody randomly spliced a David Lynch dream sequence into the middle of a children's cartoon.
Apparently, the Blue Thing is supposed to be the broken bugle, reaffirming Courage's feelings of inadequacy, despite the fact that it looks more like a mad scientist's experimental fetus clone and precisely nothing at all like a bugle. Incidentally, this was the last episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog ever produced, so maybe terrifying children with a naysaying doom specter was a way for the animators to express their feelings over the loss of both their jobs and their creative outlet.
"Children exist to be terrified. Why can't the network understand that?!"
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What's the best way to say "to miss" in the sense of feeling a longing for something, or that something pleasant is missing? I understand there's [懐]{なつ}かしむ, but it seems to me that, like 懐かしい, is more appropriate for recalling your childhood home or a great vacation or something like that, not a "smaller" context like "I miss having lunch with you on the weekends" or something like that. Am I wrong?
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In that situation, it is more natural to express that you are lonely without the person.
I think one way is to use 会いたい
A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to converse with a professional J-E conference translator who is native Japanese, and I asked him this very question. After some thinking about it, he suggested 恋しい【こいしい】.
Looking in the Wisdom J-E dictionary to verify, I came across the following example sentence and translation that seems to support this:
Some other examples I've found include:
So in short, while most English speakers would take 恋しい at its basic meaning of "beloved", it seems it also carries overtones of longing as well which lend itself to the purpose of "I miss X" in English.


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That is must there either be no non-trivial zeros off the critical line or infinitely many?
I'm sure that no one believes otherwise, but I've never seen a theorem in the literature addressing this. Folklore perhaps?
That is must there either be no non-trivial zeros off the critical line or infinitely many?
I'm sure that no one believes otherwise, but I've never seen a theorem in the literature addressing this. Folklore perhaps?
To elaborate on my comment, I really do think this won't be resolved until RH itself is resolved, or at least until new tools are brought onto the scene, because it's so far from what we know about the zeros by current technology. All the theorems we have about zeros of the zeta function - e.g., the zero-free region, the zero-density theorems, Montgomery's conditional results on pair correlation, Selberg's theorems on $S(t)$ - are either incredibly weak compared to what we expect to be true (Iwaniec often refers to zero-density theorems as "estimates for the cardinality of the empty set"), or are theorems "in the large", that is to say they deal in whole masses of zeros as opposed to individual zeros. Conventional harmonic analysis is simply unable to grasp individual zeros, for reasons of the uncertainty principle.
The closest reference I know to your question is a paper of Bombieri, "Remarks on Weil's quadratic functional in the theory of prime numbers", where he shows that if the RH is false for only a finite number of zeros, then very odd things follow...
Edit: Thinking about this question a bit more has led me to a conjecture seems quite a bit weaker than anything approaching RH and which essentially implies the impossibility of finitely many failures.
This does not answer your question, but recall that the explicit formula reads
$$\psi(x) = x - \sum_{\rho} \frac{x^{\rho}}{\rho} - \log(2 \pi) - \log(1 - x^{-2})/2.$$
On RH, this implies that $\psi(x) = x + O(x^{1/2} \log^2 x)$. If RH were false with infinitely many exceptions, you'd get a bigger error term which would potentially behave erratically and "randomly". But if RH were false with finitely many exceptions, then you would get
$$\psi(x) = x - \sum_{\rho} \frac{x^{\rho}}{\rho} + O(x^{1/2} \log^2 x),$$
with the sum over the exceptions -- a distinct secondary term and therefore weird oscillatory behavior in the frequency of the primes. Although this has not been ruled out to my knowledge (for example you see terms for Siegel zeroes of Dirichlet $L$-functions all over the literature), it does seem unlikely.
To quote from "Problems of the Millennium: the Riemann Hypothesis" by Bombieri:
On a somewhat related note I would like to call attention to the following papers:
A. Booker, Poles of Artin $L$-functions and the strong Artin conjecture, Annals of Math. 158 (2003), 1089-1098.
Here the author proves that for 2-dimensional Galois representations $\rho$ the Artin conjecture implies the strong Artin conjecture by showing that if some character twist $L(s,\rho\otimes\chi)$ has a pole then $L(s,\rho)$ has infinitely many poles (hence in fact all twists have infinitely many poles).
P. Sarnak, A. Zaharescu, Some remarks on Landau-Siegel zeros, Duke Math. J. 111 (2002), 495-507.
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5 Embarrassing Failures History Class Turned Into Victories
#2. The Miracle at Dunkirk
Hitler wasn't a very nice guy, and he knew how to organize an invasion. In 1940, it was France's turn to experience the blitzkrieg of the Luftwaffe, the Panzer corps and bratwurst.
Those monsters.
For any readers out there who have at some point been alive, you know that the French lost. Badly. The entirety of France was overrun in days and there were over 350,000 casualties between the French and the British. Less than a year into World War II, the Axis were disturbingly close to winning the war. British and French troops retreated until they had no room to retreat any farther, their backs to the English Channel.
But in a remarkable last ditch effort, the British managed to rescue over 300,000 of their troops from the beaches of Nazi-occupied France, frantically enlisting the help of everybody and anybody with a boat. More than 850 fishing boats, lifeboats, canoes, jet skis, anything that floated, worked for a solid week to carry troops to safety in England.
"Last one to the sea gets shot by Nazis!"
The rescue effort would come to be called the Miracle of Dunkirk.
How History Remembers It:
The Daily Express declared in their headline, "Tired, dirty, hungry they came back -- unbeatable." Churchill himself was soon to jump on the Dunkirk bandwagon, delivering his famous "We shall fight them on the beaches" speech. While he was clear that this was no victory, the British public didn't quite see it that way. Across the pond in America, New Yorkers were told, "Between flights, the young pilots of the RAF calmly sipped tea at their home fields."
It's hard to look cool in a fishing boat.
Almost immediately, papers like the New York Times were joining in. The defeat was spun into a tale of Allied heroism, and it quickly became a rallying point across England and France. It spread from person to person, growing in fame until it resulted in a major morale boost, coining the term "Dunkirk Spirit," which held all the connotations of "solidarity in adversity" and the idea of the stiff upper British lip.
Manly hug? MANLY HUG.
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Meanwhile, the German newspapers simply declared: "Dunkirk Taken."
"Left behind hats."
Not only had the Germans easily won the battle (only a three-day halt order on their part allowed the escape to happen at all), but also while the ragtag fleet of boats were carrying the soldiers to safety, all of their weapons were left behind. And we're not talking about a pile of rifles and some grenades -- the vast majority of the British army's weaponry was abandoned at Dunkirk, enough to arm eight to 10 divisions. The Germans captured more than 84,000 vehicles -- that's not a typo, 84 thousand, and more than 657,000 tons of ammunition and supplies (or 1.3 billion pounds). In short, a veritable treasure trove of supplies as a nice birthday present to arm the Nazis.
"What's this? An arsenal big enough to conquer all of Europe? You shouldn't have!"
It left the British desperately low on equipment. The whole affair was an absolute disaster from top to bottom, and one of the low points of the war.
The only saving grace is that it could have been much worse. And, when you're looking for a story to boost morale, sometimes that's all you've got.
#1. Captain Scott's Expedition to the South Pole
Captain Robert Falcon Scott set out to reach the South Pole, probably figuring that it would be a crime against nature for a guy with the middle name "Falcon" to not be a global adventurer. Antarctica was, and still is, very cold and inhospitable, so this was certainly no mean feat. Previous expeditions had failed -- even one of his own crew, Ernest Shackleton, had attempted the same only a few years before. The man who could successfully make the trip would be world famous.
At almost exactly the same time as Scott set out, another explorer named Roald Amundsen was making his own effort across Antarctica. Obviously, the race was on.
"First one to the middle of nowhere wins!"
How History Remembers It:
Scott's expedition had been incredibly carefully planned, with drop-off points for supplies arranged. Unfortunately, all the plans disintegrated. Conflicting orders were given, much of the communication got mixed up and transportation arrangements failed.
"Dear diary. Got hungry, ate the dogs. Dimitri pissed."
Yet Scott overcame all of this and made it to the South Pole. But he could not make it back -- he and his team paid with their lives, eventually freezing to death in their tents.
As for how the story was reported back home, well, imagine if Neil Armstrong and the crew had died coming back from the moon. Scott was instantly lionized and celebrated as a British national hero. For 50 years, Britons erected monuments to his name across the country, and over a million pounds were raised for the dependents of the expedition. Celebrities heaped praise upon him by the truckload -- an 8-year-old even wrote a famous poem about him. Though you can't be posthumously knighted, they granted his wife the rank of knight widow.
Who then sculpted this.
Scott had a research institute named after him at Cambridge University, the current U.S. scientific base there bears his name and he was the subject of a film portraying his heroics in 1948. And so on. Yeah, it was kind of a big deal ...
The Reality:
... for the guy who lost the race.
Remember that other team that was also racing toward the pole? Yeah, when Scott arrived, he discovered that Amundsen had beaten him there ... by five freaking weeks.
So now these are more like vacation photos than anything else.
Amundsen returned from his successful expedition, the one that didn't kill him and his crew, to be greeted with utter indifference by the public. At a banquet for Amundsen that was allegedly to honor the winner of the race to the South Pole, the host sarcastically toasted Amundsen's sled dogs.
Culturally, the difference between Scott and Amundsen was the difference between Kurt Cobain and Billy Corgan -- nothing romanticizes a person's accomplishments like dying in their prime. The fact that Amundsen actually did a better job of planning and executing his trip, and as such, actually survived it, meant he had the same reputation the Titanic would have today if it had completed its journey and served a long career as a cruise ship for rich assholes. Which is to say, none at all.
"Well, this feels a bit anticlimactic."
Amundsen, who might have been just a little bitter about the whole thing, later said, "Victory awaits him who has everything in order -- luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time; this is called bad luck."
Scott never got around to replying to this barbed comment. Because he was dead.
Don't give us that magnificent facial hair, Amundsen. You're still a dick.
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WASHINGTON— Tom Harkin, one of the Senate's leading liberals, said Saturday that he wouldn't seek re-election in 2014, likely setting off a scramble among Republicans and Democrats for what promises to be a competitive Senate seat.
The 73-year-old Iowa Democrat cited his age and his length of service on Capitol Hill as a factor in his decision. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1974 and won his Senate seat in 1984.
Mr. Harkin has endured major political upheavals through the decades, arriving in the Senate during the conservative Reagan era and more recently helping to advance the 2010 health-care overhaul, the Affordable Care Act, a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's presidency that is widely embraced by liberals.
"After 40 years, I just feel it's somebody else's turn," Mr. Harkin said in a statement. "I don't by any means plan to retire completely from public life at the end of this Congress. But I am going to make way for someone new in this Senate seat."
Mr. Harkin had been viewed as likely to retain the seat. His decision to step aside triggers a wide-open race that could attract a number of contenders. Among those mentioned most frequently are Rep. Steve King (R., Iowa); Rep. Tom Latham (R., Iowa) and Rep. Bruce Braley (D., Iowa.)
In a statement, Mr. Braley called Mr. Harkin's departure "a huge loss for the people of Iowa," praising the senator's work on health-care issues. He didn't comment on whether he plans to enter the Senate race.
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"It's clearly no longer safe for the Democrats—it's now a competitive race," said Stuart Rothenberg, the editor of the Rothenberg Political Report. "I think you have to start off with the Democrats having a slight advantage no matter what. The question is how big is that advantage."
"Right now I'm inclined to call this a tossup," said Jennifer Duffy, senior editor of the Cook Political Report. "Both parties have candidates they're looking at who are credible. It comes down to who has a nasty primary and who can clear the field."
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I've heard the phrase "passt schon" used to mean:
- Never mind: "Ich denke... nee, passt schon."
- No problem: "Entschuldigung!" "Passt schon."
- OK: "Wie geht's?" "Passt schon."
What can it mean in Bavaria? Is there a good English translation?
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What can it mean in Bavaria? Is there a good English translation?
I don't think you could translate it with an English word 1:1.
As you said yourself, it can have many meanings in German. In fact, you can say it in response to almost any question.
Generally, it's used to make something less important/worse/interesting or to express that the other person shouldn't worry about something.
There are many translations for each of these situations, so I think you should translate it how it fits the situation.
"It's all right" may be the best for most situations, but certainly not for all of them. As this is very, very, very informal you should translate it as it best fits in the situation. There is definitely no "universal" translation for it!
"It's alright" would probably be the closest translation, but as you have shown, other words are more appropriate in many situations.
The translations you show are the best ones I think -
This is highly informal language - there are many situations where it might not be 100% appropriate.
Another meaning:
Paying your restaurant bill and saying "Passt schon." means "Keep the change.".
There's also a more sarcastic/ironic version,
I don't know if that usage is in use in Bavaria, though.


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Note: If I click on the title bar, the application does in fact move to the top (in front of the terminal for instance).


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First a little background. Mircowaves do not heat uniformly. To help overcome this, your 'food' is rotated, however this is not usually sufficient to produce a totally uniform heating. Informally, the question is when can we find a way of moving our 'food' in order to heat it uniformly throughout?
Let $f : \mathbb{R}^n \to R$ be our heat function. Let $I^n = [-0.5,0.5] \times \cdots \times [-0.5,0.5]$ be the unit n-dimensional cube centered at the origin, this will be our 'food'. Let $\gamma : [0,1] \to \mathbb{R}^n \times SO(n)$ be a map specifying a path along which to translate and rotate $I^n$. If $x \in I^n$ then let $h(x)$ denote the total 'heat absorbed' by $x$ as it travels along $\gamma$. Note if $\gamma(t) = (\gamma_1(t), \gamma_2(t))$ then $h(x) = \int_0^1 f(\gamma_2(t)(x) + \gamma_1(t)) dt$.
We will call a curve $\gamma$ uniformly heated iff $\forall x,y \in I^n$, $h(x) = h(y)$.
How sufficiently 'nice' must our heat function $f$ be in order to guarantee that there exists a uniformly heated curve? Do these requirements change if we consider a different 'food' to heat? For example, if we heat $I^m \times 0^{n-m}$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$.
Note that in $\mathbb{R}^1$, as $SO(1) = 1$, if $f$ is a strictly monotonic function then there cannot exist any uniformly heated curves as (assuming wlog $f$ is increasing) $h(-0.5) < h(0.5)$.


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I play as part of a small group of players still in full-time education (16-18), although there is one player who is 12. We play AD&D 2e regularly, and I am usually the DM, although one or two others have run sessions occasionally.
I would like to try a Cyberpunk or Futuristic game setting/system (not a modern setting/system). Which one would you recommend for me to look at or try, based on rules similarities? I am looking for something as mechanically similar as possible (THAC0, non-weapon proficiencies, etc.) although if this is not mechanically feasible I would be happy with a different method. I would also like the system to have a similar 'feel' if possible - not too abstracted compared with AD&D 2e, and preferably without feats.
Basically, I am looking for a mainstream futuristic/cyberpunk setting which is relatively easy to learn and DM coming from AD&D 2e.


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GENESEO, N.Y. – Finger Lakes Opera will stage Bizet's "Carmen" as its first full production Aug. 6 – 10, 2014, in SUNY Geneseo's Wadsworth Auditorium.
Artistic Director Gerard Floriano made the announcement at a gala concert Aug. 10, which featured an evening of arias, duets and ensembles from some of the world's best-known operas. Performing were Metropolitan Opera soprano Danielle Pastin; Seattle Opera tenor Rolando Sanz; baritone Evan Jones; and mezzo soprano Jessica Best.
"I am enormously grateful for the large and enthusiastic audience we had at the gala concert," said Floriano, professor of music at SUNY Geneseo and a 1984 alumnus. "I'm quite certain those who attended share the excitement of Finger Lakes Opera and we already are planning for a successful production next summer."
"Carmen" takes place in Seville, Spain, during the 19th century and is the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by the fiery gypsy Carmen.
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Description: A Monte Carlo simulation study investigated the effect of scoring format, item parameterization, threshold configuration, and prior ability distribution on the accuracy of ability estimation given various IRT models. Item response data on 30 items from 1,000 examinees was simulated using known item parameters and ability estimates. The item response data sets were submitted to seven dichotomous or polytomous IRT models with different item parameterization to estimate examinee ability. The accuracy of the ability estimation for a given IRT model was assessed by the recovery rate and the root mean square errors. The results indicated that polytomous models produced more accurate ability estimates than the dichotomous models, under all combinations of research conditions, as indicated by higher recovery rates and lower root mean square errors. For the item parameterization models, the one-parameter model out-performed the two-parameter and three-parameter models under all research conditions. Among the polytomous models, the partial credit model had more accurate ability estimation than the other three polytomous models. The nominal categories model performed better than the general partial credit model and the multiple-choice model with the multiple-choice model the least accurate. The results further indicated that certain prior ability distributions had an effect on the accuracy ...
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Description: Web-based training has become a billion dollar industry in the United States. Electronically aided learning is viewed by many companies as a cost-effective way to deliver the up-to-date, up-gradable job-related training that the industry is demanding. This study sought to examine the relationship between learners' satisfaction with online training as it relates to learner readiness, online features, and course relevance. The population for this study was adults seeking non-credit workforce training, specifically library professionals who were involved in web-based training through the Lifelong Education @ Desktop (LE@D) program at the University of North Texas, Denton. Online methods of training are used most extensively in the area of mandatory or compliance training, in which 35 % of training is conducted mostly or completely online. The total potential library population using LE@D product to date is approximately 4,000 unique enrollments nationwide. Participants were selected from a complete list of unique LE@D users over a 90-day period. A survey instrument was sent via e-mail to 514 enrollees who had completed a recent LE@D online training course. In total, 254 participants responded to the survey. Bivariate analysis of the variables using the Pearson product-moment correlation was used to determine the occurrence and strength of ...
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Description: The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze perceptional differences among department chairs, faculty, and instructors toward the barrier to using multiple teaching strategies in two-year technical and community college electronics courses. The literature review focused on defining multiple teaching strategies and identifying and discussing four major perceived barriers to implementing them in the electronics classroom: student, resources, classroom environmental, and teacher training/teaching technology. The targeted population consisted of 150 out of 231 electronics teaching technical and community college department chairs, faculty, and instructors throughout the state of Texas. In actuality, the targeted population's breakdown consisted of 36 full-time electronics teaching department chairs, 96 full-time electronics teaching faculty and instructors, and 18 part-time electronics teaching faculty and instructors who were actively involved in the delivery of instruction in their respective schools. Analysis of the data revealed that: (1) there are no significant differences among the perceptions of department chair people, faculty, and instructors toward the four perceived barriers to implementing multiple teaching strategies in a post-secondary electronics program; and (2) there are no significant differences in the perceptions electronics faculty members categorized by years teaching experience toward each of the four perceived barrier categories to implementing multiple teaching ...
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Description: Because there has been a paucity of research on the educational needs of females with academic, behavioral, and emotional problems involved with the juvenile justice system, this study has been an attempt to classify and compare specific characteristics of this population. In particular, it examined their demographics, disability prevalence rates, along with academic, behavioral, and emotional functioning levels, in order to further understand their relationship to the resocialization or recidivism of the different groups of female juveniles incarcerated in the state of Texas, and contribute to the research for further developing successful prevention and intervention programs. Various demographic factors of the female juveniles in this study were examined: (a) offender type, (b) county of commitment, (c) race/ethnicity, (d) age at first referral, and (e) English language proficiency. Prevalence rates of special education disabilities were determined. Academic functioning was measured by (a) IQ; (b) last school grade completed; (c) Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) reading gain score; and (d) TABE math gain score. Behavioral functioning was indicated through (a) offense history, (b) documented behavior incidents, and (c) total risk score. Emotional functioning included DSM-IV diagnoses and treatment needs. Due to the design of the research being a descriptive exploration, the ...
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Applying Cognitive Load Theory to the Design of Online Learning.
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Description: The purpose of the study was to investigate the application of cognitive load theory to the design of online instruction. Students in three different courses (N = 146) were measured on both learning performance and perceptions of mental effort to see if there were any statistically significant differences. The study utilized a quasi-experimental posttest-only control group design contrasting modified and unmodified instructional lessons. Both groups were given a posttest to measure knowledge gained from the lesson (cognitive domain of learning) and perceptions of mental effort involved. Independent samples t-tests were used to compare the mean performance scores of the treatment groups (i.e. the sections using redesigned materials) versus the control groups for all three courses. Cohen's d was also computed to determine effect size. Mental effort scores were similarly compared for each group on the overall cognitive load score, for a total of six data points in the study. Of the four hypotheses examined, three (H1, H2, H4) found no statistically significant difference between the experimental and control groups. Negative significance was found between the experimental and control group on the effect of modality (H3). On measures of cognitive load, no statistically significant differences were found.
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Assessing Allied Health and Nursing Post-Secondary Career and Technical Education Teacher Attitudes and Beliefs About Reading
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Creator: Moore, Bridgit R.
Description: This study examined allied health and nursing career and technical education (CTE) teacher beliefs and attitudes about reading. Since beliefs and attitudes influence the way teachers teach, it is important to understand what those beliefs and attitudes are, especially in relationship to reading in subject matter classrooms. One hundred twelve individuals responded to a written survey concerning their attitudes and beliefs about reading. A four-factor solution was achieved with a principal components factor analysis. A significant number of variables were associated with the factor labeled Reading Apathy, which appears to be indicative of the condition known as aliteracy among faculty who participated in the study. Professional development activities grounded in novice-to-expert theory are suggested as a way of overcoming the phenomenon. Recommendations for future research involve a more detailed study to further characterize the condition of aliteracy and its impact on student learning.
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Assessing the Efficacy of Learning Communities at Four North Texas Community Colleges.
Date: August 2002
Creator: Dodd, Patricia M.
Description: This observational study involving intact groups and convenient sampling examined learning communities at four North Texas Community Colleges. The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a significant difference in cathectic learning climate, inimical ambiance, academic rigor, affiliation and structure among students in learning communities and freestanding classes. Learning communities are gaining nationwide popularity as instruments of reform in Higher Education. Recent studies have discussed the benefits of learning communities to student, faculty and institutions. As learning communities are gaining popularity, especially at the community college level, there is a need to determine if the learning communities are significantly different than freestanding classes. The College Classroom Environment Scales, developed by Winston, Vahala, Nichols, Gillis, Wintrow, and Rome (1989), was used as the survey instrument for this study. Using SPSS 10.1, a multivariate analysis of variance, (Hotelling's T2) was performed on five dependent variables: cathectic learning climate (CLC), inimical ambiance (IA), academic rigor (AR), affiliation (AF), and structure (ST), which yielded a significant difference. The independent variable was learning community compared to freestanding classes (group). Follow-up independent t tests were also conducted to evaluate the differences in the means between the two groups and to explore which dependent ...
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An Assessment of Technology Learning Styles, Skills, and Perceptions Among Teachers of Grades Pre-Kindergarten Through Four.
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Description: This study investigated whether a relationship exists between learning style and the self-reported technology-related needs, beliefs, stages of adoption, software expertise, and technology competencies of teachers in a large suburban school district. The Gregorc Style Delineator was used to identify dominant learning style, and the Snapshot Survey was used to measure technology-related needs, beliefs, stages of adoption, and software expertise. Technology competencies were measured using the Technology in Education Competency Survey. Data collected from 499 participants was included in data analysis. The study was conducted at each of the 12 elementary schools of a large suburban district in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The findings suggest that there is a significant relationship between learning style and the technology-related needs, stages of adoption, software expertise, and competencies of teachers. The relationship between learning style and technology-related needs was significant at the p < .01 level. The relationships between learning style and technology-related stages of adoption, software expertise, and technology competencies were significant at the p < .05 level. Members of the abstract sequential [AS] learning style group reported having significantly fewer needs and significantly higher stages of adoption, software expertise, and competency than members of one or more of the other learning ...
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Creator: Leach, Lesley Ann Freeny
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. — It hung in the air like the voice of God, cascading around Paul Pasqualoni in his makeshift interview tent at Byrd Stadium on Saturday. Randy Edsall's dulcet tones boomed, his postgame interview shown to an empty stadium on the big video boards.


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I have dabbled with Ethiopian food in the past, so I wanted to go to a real Ethiopian place to see what the food is supposed to taste like (and to see what injera is supposed to be like). This place was recommended in the Veg-DC book I picked up at Sticky Fingers and was a 10 minute walk from the hotel. I went with two friends from grad school and we decided to share a large platter of veggie dishes. The setup was neat--chairs around a very small, low, round table on which the food is placed. There was no cutlery, so we all dipped into the food with bits of injera, all sharing from the same common plate. There were two lentil dishes, one warm and one cold, that were exquisitely spiced. There were cold potato and tomato salads, and two vegetable stews. We were stuffed to the brim and could not even finish it all. I hope I can find some teff flour at home to make injera--as it turns out, the recipe I made from Vegan Lunchbox is almost exactly the same as the injera they served at Meskerem.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Vegan Dad on the Road: Meskerem
Posted by Vegan Dad at 8:48 PM
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3 comments:
- Cherie said...
Meskerem was really good - I liked the lentil sambusas a lot!
- January 6, 2008 at 9:25 PM
- mustardseed said...
Hi Vegan dad! I'm new to Ethiopian stuff, I'm still stuck to the Indian craze!
Oh yeah for Indian food, try making stuff without all that soy yogurt and coconut milk. Many many traditional indian veg recipes don't require any form of yogurt or coconut milk or even milk at all.
- January 7, 2008 at 7:21 AM
- Lorena said...
Just catching up on some of your posts from earlier this week.
And you've made me crave Ethiopian food! Luckily, we've got two really great restaurants not too far from my house in San Diego.
Hmmm...Maybe I'll be able to drag my omnivore husband out for it this weekend.
- January 9, 2008 at 1:32 PM
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DURHAM, N.H. - Running two computer models in tandem, scientists from the University of New Hampshire have detailed for the first time how thermoelectric power plants interact with climate, hydrology, and aquatic ecosystems throughout the northeastern U.S. and show how rivers serve as "horizontal cooling towers" that provide an important ecosystem service to the regional electricity sector — but at a cost to the environment.
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