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ER Visits From Drinking Energy Drinks Jump Tenfold Since 2005, Report Says
Nov. 22, 2011 -- There's been a big spike in the number of people who need emergency medical attention after they guzzle popular caffeinated energy drinks, according to a new government report.
The report shows a more than a tenfold increase in the number of emergency room visits tied to the use of these drinks between 2005 and 2009.
In 2005, 1,128 ER visits were associated with the use of energy drinks compared to 13,114 in 2009. That number peaked in 2008 with more than 16,000 ER visits linked to energy drinks.
Beverage manufacturers fired back at the statistics, charging that they are misleading since they are being taken out of context.
"Of the more than 123 million visits made to emergency room facilities each year, less than one one-hundredth of one percent involved people who consumed energy drinks according to this report," says the American Beverage Association in a statement.
"Even so, this report shares no information about the overall health of those who allegedly consumed energy drinks, or even what symptoms brought them to the ER in the first place," the statement says.
Energy Drinks and the ER
While 44% of cases involved energy drinks in combination with alcohol or other drugs, the report shows most people who wound up in the ER told doctors they had downed only energy drinks.
"There's been quite a bit of attention paid to those energy drinks that have alcohol with them. What we found was that there are actually more visits for those energy drinks that don't have alcohol," says Albert Woodward, PhD, director of the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in Rockville, Md. DAWN reports, such as this one, are published periodically by the network.
"People may think that the alcohol-caffeine drinks are dangerous, but they may not have any idea that the caffeine-only drinks are also potentially problematic," Woodward says.
Experts who study the health effects of energy drinks called the finding surprising and worrisome.
"I do a lot of my research on combining alcohol and energy drinks and I know that's really risky, but energy drinks by themselves, it's been quite in debate whether they're really all that dangerous," since they're supposed to contain about the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee, says Cecile Marczinski, PhD, an assistant professor of psychology at Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights.


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Issue Date:
June, 2012
The June issue of School Reform News reports on the Tennessee legislature's passage of a bill allowing public school teachers to explain the strengths and weaknesses of scientific theories such as evolution and global warming.
Also in this issue:
- A bill offering South Carolina parents education tax credits and allowing tax credit scholarships passed the state House--a first for any such measure since 2004.
- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer unexpectedly vetoed an expansion of the state's education savings accounts, citing budget disputes with the legislature.
- Increasing numbers of teachers support reforms that broaden school choice and axe seniority schedules for pay and layoffs.
- A new Idaho law lets kids get halfway through college by the time they graduate from high school.
- President Barack Obama wants the United States to hop on the international testing bandwagon.
- A new guide outlines how other school districts can achieve the New Orleans transformation.
- Professor Jack Chambless relates the astonishing story of what his students want the government to do for them.
Newspaper Articles in this Issue
Study: Alternatively Certified Teachers Outscore Traditional Counterparts– May 8, 2012
Colorado Senate Committee Votes to Restrict Teachers Who Want to Leave Unions– May 8, 2012
FL Tax Credits Save Millions; Common Core Becomes Utah Elections Topic; FL Charter Students Outperform Peers– May 7, 2012
California Affirmative Action Ban Upheld by Federal Court– May 5, 2012
President Requests Huge Education Spending Hike– May 4, 2012
NH Passes Education Tax Credits; VA Requires Online Class– May 3, 2012
South Carolina Legislature Considers Major Charter School Legislation– April 28, 2012
Study: Holding Kids Back in School Can Help Them– April 27, 2012
Duncan Floats 'Bizarre' No Child Waivers for School Districts– April 26, 2012
New Orleans' Education Transformation Model– April 25, 2012
Tennessee Science Teachers' Academic Freedom Guaranteed– April 23, 2012
Arizona Governor Vetoes Expansion of Education Savings Accounts– April 20, 2012
Compromise with Union Clears Way for Cleveland Education Overhaul– April 19, 2012
Georgia Voters to Consider Charter School Constitutional Amendment– April 18, 2012
Retired Illinois Teachers May Pay the Price of State Insolvency– April 13, 2012
President Aims to Shift National Testing Focus– April 11, 2012
South Carolina School Choice Bill Passes House, Faces Uphill Senate Battle– April 10, 2012
Students' American Dreams: Plunder and Entitlement– April 7, 2012
Survey: Majority of Teachers Embrace Reforms– April 6, 2012
Study: Choice Doesn't Threaten Public School Finances– April 4, 2012
Maine School Choice Bills Get Chilly Reception in Legislature– April 3, 2012
Idaho Legislation Would Give Teacher Associations Equal Access– March 26, 2012
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A listing of offered courses follows with prerequisites. Please note that some courses do have additional fees associated with them. The credit value of each course is represented by the number in brackets.
This is the first course of a two-semester introductory sequence, with laboratory, that covers the fundamentals of algorithmic problem solving. The course emphasizes general programming methodology and concepts common to object-oriented and procedural programming languages: algorithms, top-down structured program design, modularity, efficiency, testing and debugging, and user-friendliness. The object-oriented paradigm is covered, including classes, objects, access control, abstraction, and encapsulation. Other topics include organization and hardware, input and output, subprogram units (methods), fundamental data types, reference types, control structures including conditions and iteration, and arrays. Prerequisite: M 110, M 140, or equivalent. Laboratory fee.
A second course, with laboratory, that builds upon the algorithmic problem-solving concepts covered in CS 114. The course emphasizes language-independent, object-oriented programming techniques. It focuses on designing classes for code reuse, cohesion and coupling, polymorphism, inheritance, static and dynamic binding, and other related concepts. Other topics include exception handling, the software life cycle, recursion, sorting and searching algorithms, and an introduction to data structures. Prerequisite: CS 114 (minimum grade of C). Laboratory fee.
The study of linear lists (stacks, queues); static versus dynamic allocation; garbage collection; sparse matrices; prefix, postfix, and infix formulas; recursion and recursive algorithms; trees (binary and other representations of trees, traversal of trees); hashing; searching; sorting (bubblesort, quick-sort, heapsort, mergesort); analysis of algorithms in terms of time and space complexity; graphs (representation of graphs, topological sorting, reachability, critical path algorithm). Prerequisite: CS 115 (minimum grade of C). Laboratory fee.
This course serves as an introduction to programming models used to generate and support Web-based applications. The course covers markup, presentation, and front-end interactivity concerns through an in-depth examination of current client-side scripting techniques. Other topics include the document-object model (DOM), event-driven programming, form validation, debugging, and asynchronous web processing.
Prerequisite(s): CS 111 or CS 114 (minimum grade of C) or permission of instructor.
Laboratory fee.
Characteristics and design of objectives of operating systems. Serial and parallel processes. Deadlock detection, prevention, and avoidance. Scheduling, long and short term. Memory management. Executive multiprogramming and multiprocessor systems. A comparison of major operating systems. Prerequisites: CS 211 or ECE 332, and CS 220. Laboratory fee.
This course focuses on the development of large-scale software that is reliable, understandable, and maintainable. Procedural and object-oriented paradigms are used to illustrate design approaches. Students will work in teams and will develop software on at least two platforms. Abilities and knowledge gained in the other computer science courses will be integrated with a series of comprehensive system development projects. Students will be required to present their project work to the class. Project organization, professional standards, and ethics will also be covered. Prerequisite: CS 220 and junior or senior standing. Laboratory fee.


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Pope Francis Meets With Benedict
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy— Pope Francis traveled Saturday to this hill town south of Rome to have lunch with his "brother" and predecessor Benedict XVI, a historic and potentially problematic melding of the papacies that has never before confronted the Catholic Church.
The two men dressed in white embraced warmly on the helipad in the gardens of Castel Gandolfo, where Benedict has been living since he retired Feb. 28 and became the first pope to resign in 600 years.
And in a series of gestures that ensued, Benedict made clear that he considered Francis to be pope while Francis made clear he considered his predecessor to be very much a revered brother and equal.
Traveling from the helipad to the palazzo, Francis sat on the right-hand side of the car, the traditional place of the pope, while Benedict sat on the left. When they entered the chapel inside the palazzo to pray, Benedict tried to direct Francis to the papal kneeler at the front of the chapel, but Francis refused.
Bergoglio: A Man for the Church
Benedict XVI: Guardian of the Faith
"No, we are brothers, we pray together," Francis told Benedict, according to the Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi. The two used a different kneeler in the pews and prayed together, side-by-side.
Francis brought a gift to Benedict, an icon of the Madonna, and told him that it is known as the "Madonna of Humility."
"I thought of you," Francis told Benedict. "You gave us so many signs of humility and gentleness in your pontificate." Benedict replied: "Grazie, grazie."
Benedict wore the simple white cassock of the papacy, with a quilted white jacket over it to guard against the chill, but minus the sash and cape worn by Francis. Walking with a cane, he looked frail compared with the robust 76-year-old Argentine.
Outside the villa, the main piazza of Castel Gandolfo was packed with well-wishers bearing photos of both popes and chanting "Francesco! Francesco!" But the Vatican made clear they probably wouldn't see anything.
The Vatican played down the remarkable reunion in keeping with Benedict's desire to remain "hidden from the world" and not interfere with his successor's papacy. There was no live coverage by Vatican television, and only a short video and still photos were released after the fact.
The Vatican spokesman said the two spoke privately for 40-45 minutes, followed by lunch with the two papal secretaries, but no details were released.
All of which led to enormous speculation about what these two popes might have said to one another after making history together: Benedict's surprise resignation paved the way for the first pope from Latin America, the first Jesuit, and the first to call himself Francis after the 13th century friar who devoted himself to the poor, nature and working for peace.
That the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was second only to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the 2005 conclave that elected Ratzinger pope has only added to the popular imagination about how these two popes of such different style, background and priorities might get along.
Despite Benedict's expressed intent to fade away, Francis on virtually every occasion afforded him has made clear he has no intention of letting his "venerable predecessor" disappear from memory: Francis called Benedict right after his election, urged prayers for him in his first papal Masses, and called the former Joseph Ratzinger to congratulate him on the feast of St. Joseph on March 19.
The Vatican has similarly made clear that the ex-pope hasn't completely lost interest in the matters of the church, following on television Francis' inaugural appearance on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica after his election, when he charmed the crowd with a simple "Brothers and sisters, good evening."


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GENESEO, N.Y. -- SUNY Geneseo is remembering the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with its third annual "Day of Leadership and Service" program Jan. 21, the 27th anniversary of the federal holiday commemorating the life of the civil rights leader. Students, faculty and staff will have the opportunity to hear a keynote address by a Geneseo distinguished teaching professor emeritus of history, participate in afternoon service projects and attend leadership workshops through the college's highly regarded GOLD program (Geneseo Opportunities for Leadership Development).
"This celebration takes on special meaning this year as the country celebrates the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation," said Tom Matthews, associate dean of leadership and service at Geneseo. "Dr. King devoted his life to advancing equality, social justice, and opportunity for all, and taught us that everyone has a role to play in living up to his vision of America. Our 'Day of Leadership and Service' focuses on the impact we can make as individuals and communities in focusing on the needs of others."
William Cook, distinguished teaching professor of history emeritus at Geneseo, will deliver the program's keynote address, "Beyond Our Borders: The Lessons of Martin Luther King for our Global Society" at 10 a.m. in MacVittie College Union Ballroom. His address is free and open to the public. That will be followed by five GOLD workshops and intergenerational service projects to assist home-bound senior citizens in Livingston County but registration is required. Visit the GOLD website for more details.
Geneseo will continue its MLK commemoration April 1 when civil rights attorneys Rita and Bill Bender will address "The Deliberate Denial of Education." They will speak at 7 p.m. in the MacVittie Union Ballroom.
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10 Ways to Deal with Temper Tantrums
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Don't Give In
Don't ever bribe your child or give in on the limit you've set just to quiet a tantrum. (Even if you realize that a limit you've set is unreasonable, hold your ground. You can always apologize later for your unreasonableness, but continue to be unreasonable for some time after the tantrum has ended.)
If you reward a tantrum, you will condition your child just like one of Pavlov's dogs. Every time your toddler wants something, she'll throw a little fit. So don't buy your child the candy she wanted just because she makes a little scene —or even a huge brouhaha. Instead, try to demonstrate that the tantrum has no effect on you whatsoever. It will not change your mind one little bit.
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I have to decide a title, I want to convey of the idea of a legendary sword which emits fire/ befalling curse on the enemies. I want a more impressive word for emitted. And also I need a "when" so I can't just change the title to "The Sword Which emitted Fire".
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The Erupting Épée?
When the Sword Erupted Fire
also try this
You could try "the sword that SPEWED fire."
The word "spew" means particularly to eject forcefully or in large amounts. In fact, you will find that the Free Online Dictionary illustrates the word this way: "The volcano spewed burning lava."
As for the "When", you could go for a "The Day the Earth Stood Still" feel and write: "THE DAY the sword spewed fire."
You could say When the Sword Spits Fire.
One definition of spit is "(of a fire, hot fat, etc.) to eject (fragments of coal, sparks, etc.) violently and with an explosive sound; splutter."
(If you put it in the past tense -- "When the Sword Spat Fire" -- it doesn't have the same pizazz, though.)


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The Most Widely Known Secret People Are Writing On $1 Bills
It's today's message in a bottle. Will recipients take heed?
And some people are even using markers*.
*MoveOn does not condone the defacing of currency or any other government property. Just sayin'.
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If a set $S$ has $n$ elements, how many such pairs $(A,B)$ can be formed where $A$ and $B$ are subsets of $S$ and $A \cap B = \emptyset$?
Hint: If you don't insist that $A \cup B = S$, each element has three places it can go: into $A$, into $B$ or neither.
If you consider fixed $A$ for a moment, then $B$ must be a subset of the complement of $A$, and so there are $2^{n-i}$ choices for $B$.
Number of different pairs of non-empty disjoint subsets of a set with n elements is:
There are (3n - 2n+1 + 1) / 2 such pairs of non-empty subsets.
We either put an element in A, in B or in the None bag. There are 3n possibilities to do that, but they include the cases where A or B is empty, the number of these cases has to be substracted from the result.
There are 2n cases where all of the elements were put in B and the None bag and A is empty, and similarly 2n cases where B is empty. Those 2 * 2n = 2n+1 cases has to be substracted from the result. There is one case though where everything went to None, that one case got substracted twice, so we only have to substract 2n+1 - 1.
Now we are at 3n - 2n+1 + 1 and have all possible pairs included twice as (x, y) and (y, x), so dividing by two gives the final result.


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I have a 125cc bike. My cousin uses my bike more than me. He is more than 110 kg in weight. So I feel that my bike's shock absorbers will be break down soon because of my cousin. So is there any simple and cheap way to maintain the shock absorber?
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As long as your cousin isn't using the bike for jumps and stunts, and is just riding it on roads this shouldn't pose a problem. As @Bob pointed out in the comment below - the spring is what takes the weight. The damper is what slows down the movement of the spring, preventing bouncing.
If the shock bottoms out under his weight, then it may damage the mounting points or the shock itself, but under normal usage the piston is capable of moving it's full range without damage.
Dirt is a killer of shocks. Dirt on the cylinder ends up scoring the cylinders and getting into the seals, causing the effectiveness of the seal to drop. Then you get leaking and eventual failure. Keep the moving portions as clean as possible. On our airplanes (which don't have any dust boots), we clean the struts with hydraulic fluid and a cotton cloth periodically.


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Is anyone aware of Mathematica use/implementation of Random Forest algorithm?
Here I will attempt to provide a basic implementation of the random forest algorithm for classification. This is by no means fast and doesn't scale very well but otherwise is a nice classifier. I recommend reading Breiman and Cutler's page for information about random forests.
The following are some helper functions that allow us to compute entropy and ultimately information gain easily.
Now for the decision trees that will be used in the forest. This is the biggest bottleneck in the whole process and I would love to see a much faster implementation in Mathematica! The trees I'm working with are called CART trees.
The basic idea is to select at random
To demo these things as I go lets use the famous iris data built in to Mathematica selecting about 80% for training and 20% for testing.
Now lets create a CART tree from this data letting
So far so good. Now we need a classifier that can take a new input and a tree to make a classification.
Lets try it out with the first element from our training data. It correctly classifies the iris as species 2 (virginica).
A random forest is nothing but an ensemble of such trees, created from a bootstrap sample of the data, that allows each one to vote. The function
Lets try it on the iris data. First we fit a forest with our training set. And test it to make sure it works well on its own training data. In this case we get perfect classification of our training data so it looks good.
Now lets try it out on the test data it has never seen before.
I'd say 97% correct classification isn't bad for a relatively small data set and forest.
It is worth showing how one might use
Disclaimer: This is not an implementation of the Random Forest Algorithm. Also, while I have on occasion used random florists, until today I had not heard of the Random Forest Algorithm.
I poked around a bit on the Net and learned that these take subsamples of data, subsampling the variables as well, and form decision trees for the subsetted subsamples. These then can be used to classify data points. One tests against each subsamples (tree) and returns the modal value.
Okay there is more that can be done with these, and I probably don't have even the above part correct. Whatever.
For some types of problem one can regard the "space" as having a vector of either continuous, discrete, or perhaps mixed values, with each datum then evaluating to some new value. That is to say, we pretend we have an unknown function
I will assume the input data is of the form
That's it.
Here is an example. I'll take a million points in the 8-cube {-1,1}^8. We give them ordinal values based on orthant (use base 2...) but before evaluating we "pollute" them first with Gaussian noise.
Now we'll create a "forest" (I really should use a different term since I doubt this is what an actual random forest is, but...). I use 300 trees, each taking 4 (of the 8) vector positions, and each using 1000 elements from the full set, chosen at random.
Now i create an random 8-vector with coordinates in
We run it through
While I doubt it will always give the "expected" result at the top of the list, it is encouraging to see that it might do so. Also the next ones do tend to share bits with 117.
Of course it might be unrealistic to use half of the full set of dimensions in the trees, so I really do now know how well this might scale to "real world" problems of high dimension. But I thought it might be worth showing this approach since it is simple in terms of code and others might have ideas on tweaking it for better accuracy/performance.
As of version 10.0 there is a built in implementation of Random Forests which is accessible through the Classify function.
I'm going to be bold and attempt to edit the Ross code so that it is (a) a little easier to understand and (b) takes the same form of argument as LinearModelFit and other Mathematica prediction creators. I've also added some annotations to the critical code. My variable names are now far longer than the Ross names but perhaps for informative. So far in my testing this code works the same as Ross, but it is possible I have messed something up in my rewrite.
Part 1. Same as Ross but I add a function informationGain that determines the information gain one obtains about y from knowing the ith feature of x.
Part 2. Same idea as Ross but x now contains not just the features (independent variables in statistics lingo) but the entire data set. It thus has the same structure as the first argument to LinearModelFit and NonlinearModelFit.
Part 3. The idea here is again to let the first argument just be the entire data set. What I have then done is to use a lot of local variables with hopefully evocative names and some annotations to better explain what is going on in the elegant but terse Ross code. The text below explains the annotations.
Part 3 Annotations.
Part 4. This code to classify an instance works exactly the same as in Ross. Notice that here, and now consistent with the way it is done above, x is a vector of attributes. It will also work as a vector that contains a list of which most of the elements are attributes and the last element is the class value. Thus, one can now just map over the instances in some testing set to get the predictions.
Part 5. The random forest creation function is similar to Ross but, again, x is now a unified matrix containing the instances. I have added an optional argument subsetFactor that can speed up your code (at the risk of losing accuracy) by using just a subset of the instances to create the trees each time.
I very much enjoy Dan's approach in part because it is so simple both in concept and implementation. I'm taking the liberty here of suggesting a few arguable improvements to his terrific code. For makeForest (a) the data is in the same format as is used in functions such as LinearModelFit (a simple array instead of a list of rules of features onto class); (b) standard machine learning vocabulary in naming variables; (c) direct use of RandomSample on the data.
For classify,(a) clarify with named variables how one extracts the slots and the NearestFunction from the forest; (b) use the built in Commonest instead of the Reverse SortBy Tally composition. This method does lose the number of votes each prediction received; (c) create an optional argument k that effectively implements kNN on the data instead of Dan's required 1NN.
Also, a wacky idea that follows up on Andy Ross's comment: could one not pretty easily create an ensemble of forests and then let the forests that perform well on the training data have breeding rights? Breeding might consist of some sort of reshuffling of the slots. To do this, we might take more liberties with Dan's code by creating a polymorphic makeForest that permits the slots to be input directly.


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5:10 p.m. Second witness testifies to sexual activity at juvenile rape trial
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STEUBENVILLE — A Steubenville High School senior testified this afternoon he belied he saw two defendants facing rape charges engaged in an inappropriate sex act the night a 16-year old Weirton girl......
Where were all the parents and how did these kids get alcohol.
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The "parents" are Steubenville residents. Where the*****do you think they were? In their lame shacks trying to figure out how indoor plumbing worked.
This town md the fools who defend these kids are the very definition of creepy.
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A question about the teens with testimony; if they lie is the immunity deal off the table?
Did anyone keep track of the testimonies from probable cause hearing to this one? (Prosecutors?)
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Also, no matter where the parents were then, I know where they need to be now......talking with and educating their kids.
Maybe reading about respect, what abuse is; how to dial 911; how to be a person with character.
Again; prayers to all.
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St. Paul tops Hearts
Kelly McMahon scored a game-high 19 points as the St. Paul girls basketball team downed Sacred Heart, 43-35, in Naugatuck Valley League action in Bristol Wednesday.
Theresa Swanke added nine points with 14 rebounds for St. Paul (7-1), and Lizzy Ferraro chipped in with 10 points.
Mikyla Jacobs scored a team-high 16 points for the Hearts (5-3) and Maya Eggleston added 11.
Holy Cross 68, Ansonia 39: Kiera O'Donnell recorded 17 points to lead host Holy Cross in Waterbury.
Rashana Siders added 13 points for the Crusaders (8-0) and Chelsea Houlihan added 11.
Morgan Westine led the Chargers (0-9) with nine points while Quentesa Robinson contributed eight.
Taft 37, Deerfield Academy 30: Hannah Friend scored 18 points and swiped 12 steals to lead Taft over Deerfield Academy in Watertown. Waterbury's Jalissa Rodriguez added nine points for the Big Red (3-4).
Jess Hom led the Big Green (4-5) with 13 points.
Kaynor Tech 51, Bullard Havens 43: Taleeha Green, Daelyn Kale and Cinthia Vega combined for 18 fourth-quarter points to rally the Panthers in Waterbury.
Green finished with 10 points and 15 rebounds for Kaynor (3-4). Vega had 16 points, six steals and six rebounds. Kale chipped in with 14 points, eight rebounds and five steals.
Bullard Havens (6-2) led, 36-33, after three quarters.
Pomperaug 66, New Milford 33: Hannah Metcalf tallied 17 points, five assists and seven steals to lead visiting Pomperaug.
Kaitlyn Perrotti scored 14 points and grabbed 13 rebounds for the Panthers (5-2), while Lauren Rubinstein added nine points and 11 assists. Jen Catuccio also contributed with 12 points.
Emily Llerena had 11 points for the Wave (3-4).
Lauralton Hall 59, Oxford 31: Emma McCarthy recorded 21 points to lead all scorers for Lauralton. Carly Fabbri added 12 points for the Crusaders (6-1).
Taylor Drayton scored a team-high eight points for the Wolverines (3-5) and Sarah Woolfrey contributed seven.
Westover 33, MacDuffie 14: Zulie Dunn scored a game-high 11 points for Westover in Middlebury. Paige Cunningham added eight points for Westover (1-2) and Marissa Littmann netted seven.
Chase Collegiate 47, Miss Porter's 19: Idalis Miranda led Chase with 17 points, five assists and four steals in the home victory.
Emily Grimes also had 14 points and seven steals for the Highlanders (5-2), while Desiree Parker had six rebounds, five steals and three assists.
Cheshire Academy 53, Gunnery 20: Chelsea Dow scored a game-high 21 points with nine steals for the Cats in Cheshire.
Greenwich Academy 40, Canterbury 24: Rachel Gaglio scored a team-high nine points for Canterbury.
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Continuing about this my question.
Mac Lane "Categories for the Working Mathematician" and "Abstract and Concrete Categories. The Joy of Cats" use different set theory foundations.
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November 06, 2013
Wine canapés and French words in Cape Town's Constantia Winelands
Allison Foat
I live and work in Cape Town, a place that inspires me on a daily basis with its beauty. I try and capture its exceptional uniqueness and that of other fabulous cities around the world, as best I can, as often as I can, through one lens or the other. I'm probably addicted to Instagram.
It's fair to say that I'm in search of amazingness wherever I can find it, and find it I shall.
I work as a Publicist in the entertainment industry, and am the founder and owner of DIVA PR (@AllisonFoat on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook / www.capetowndiva.blogspot.com).
My motto: seize the day.
Editor's Note: This blog was first published on www.capetowndiva.blogspot.com on Tuesday 5 November, 2013.
And there's me thinking I'd seen all the beautiful wine farms this amazing city of Cape Town has to offer. Think again Diva. Beau Constantia est arrivé (by the way, when I see French words like 'beau' and 'pas de nom', I can't help but throw my French about a bit).
Beau Constantia is a 'newly' established boutique vineyard (2003), that is exceptionally appointed, not just as far as the lay of the land is concerned, but the building where we were hosted) designed by Jon Jacobson, is a masterpiece of minimalist design-meets-modern architecture, and it set the scene for an all-encompassing and fabulous experience: food, wine, good company and sweeping views of the terraced valley, with the blue Helderberg mountains as the backdrop - jaw dropping stuff.
On Sunday 3 November, 2013, together with a fabulous group of fellow bloggers, I was shuttled, courtesy of Constantia Wine Tours, to the estate, situated on steep slopes 350m above sea level. Consulting chef Tjaart Walraven and the BC team gave us a true Capetonian warm welcome and over a glass of the award winning Cecily Viognier, he explained the wine and canapé pairings that are being introduced for the coming festive season.
Sunday's offering showcased Asian, Mexican and South African inspired fare and the wines chosen, created by winemaker Justin van Wyk (round of applause here) were excellent. I particularly loved the pea and ginger shooter with sesame crumble (Asian), paired with the Pas de Nom (more lovely French words) White (2013); the Machacha shredded beef stew (Mexican), paired with the Beau Constantia Lucca (2011) and the tres leches cake with dried mango cream that went beautifully with the Beau Constantia Aidan (2011).
Leaving the proudly SA moment for the last, the roast spiced butternut soup and popcorn crust was amazing, matched with the Pas de Nom Red (2010). The koeksister, one of my fave sweet treats, was a fitting finale to that tray of SA canapés and the Pas de Nom Rose (2013) complemented it so well.
I loved the story about Oom Japie Bronn who hails originally from Robertson and is the Beau Constantia farm manager. He has been developing vineyards around Constantia and Cape Point for just over 35 years and is known as the 'silent legend' - it is his face that is captured on the Pas de Nom wine label.
After devastating fires in 2000, the slopes at Beau Constantia were cleared and terraced for the planting of vineyards. Pierre and Cecily Du Preez (the lady for whom the superb Cecily Viognier is named) purchased the 22 hectare property in 2002 and the first vineyards were planted in 2003. Constantia itself is the oldest wine growing region in Southern Africa - some of the estates like Steenberg began operating as far back as 1682.
The valley, famed for its beauty, stretches from the Wynberg hill in the north to the Silvermine mountains in the south - it's only minutes from the CBD -a rural retreat away from the hustle and bustle of city-life.
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sam bradford did great against san fran's D, an this week he plays the jets, i think hes gonna have a even better day against new yorks D!!! carson palmer is still available but the saints D are gettin tougher every week?? plus amendola is back what do you guys think????
bigmatt5579 11/14/12 06:41 AM
What do you guys think of Schaub for the rest of the season? Trade offered - I get Schaub & McGahee and the other guy gets RG3 & Forte. Thanks!
runirwinrun 11/14/12 12:02 PM
I'd rather have RG3 and Forte -- ESPECIALLY if it's a PPR league. RG3's rushing yards adds up, and Forte (other than his last game) is good for 120 total yards and 3-6 receptions. McGahee is inconsistent, and Schaub had the second lowest QBR in the league last week.
I know change is fun, but I'd stick with RG3 / Forte.
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Who should I start in 16 person standard league: Mark Ingram, Cecil Shorts, or Danario Alexander?
Pick My Week 11 Starters Pls!!!
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QB:(Matthew Stafford)and(Carson Palmer)
RB:(LeSean McCoy),(Jamaal Charles),
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WR:(Andre Johnson),(Jordy Nelson),
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TE:(Aaron Hernandez)and(Jermaine Gresham)
K:(Sebastian Janikowski)
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Six19R_OG-Mobsta 11/14/12 07:03 PM
Anyone else considering dropping Big Ben? I don't think he will be healthly enough to start during FFPlayoffs.
I am considering dropping him and adding a "waiver-wire" guy (TBD) with Eli and Dolton on my team too. Any advice?
DirtDogs818 11/15/12 11:34 AM
PPR tds are 6pts.
Cecil Shorts or Danario Alexander?
matteno 11/15/12 03:07 PM
Cecil Shorts
csadow 11/15/12 04:33 PM
should i start Cam Newton or RG3?
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moonwalker31 11/17/12 07:22 PM
Matt i would go
Stafford, Mccoy, alf, Andre, nelson, Young(flex), gresham. Saints D is getting better and green bays number one pass rusher is out
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1961 Chevy Suburban Floor Install- First Time FloorsWritten by on April 22, 2011 Hone Your Sheetmetal Skills
Vintage trucks aren't known for having had a pampered life. They were utility vehicles built for work and abuse, and that's exactly what they got--along with a healthy dose of neglect along the way.
Part of their utilitarian nature was a rubber floor mat in the cab. Durable (for a decade, anyway), the rubber mats repelled mud and water, and made cleanup easier (if the owner was ever so inclined); but they also trapped moisture between it and the sheetmetal floor. So in addition to the normal rust from 50 years, old trucks got a double-dose and rusted from the top down. By the time we get 'em, it's a pretty safe bet they need new floors.
The beauty of welding in new floors is that they are the perfect job for the beginner with minimal sheetmetal and bodywork skills. Processwise, it's a simple matter of methodically removing the rusted panel and fitting the replacements. The skill builder is in the welding and finishing.
The standard beginner method of installing patch panels is to cut away the rust until you hit solid metal, make a stepped flange (usually with a pneumatic panel flanging tool), trim the replacement panel to fit, lay it on the flange, and weld it. The overlap is then covered with body filler. This method works, but there's a lot of area for moisture to get in and cause rust, and the repair is always visible from behind. This may not be a big deal on a floor or firewall, but you'll see it on the back side of your hood or bedsides.
The proper way to weld replacement panels is a butt-weld. The problem with butt-welding is it's extremely time consuming, and it's real easy to end up with heat warping, though heat warp doesn't tell the whole story. The key is getting the gap right between the two panels; if the gap is too big, you'll have to add a lot of filler wire (and heat); if the gap is too small, as the heat is applied and the metal expands, the adjoining edges hit each other and will buckle the metal.
Trimming the metal to fit perfectly is tricky business. A shortcut is to secure the panels together and slice through both at the same time with a cutoff wheel, creating a uniform, matching seam. All cutoff wheels, however, are not created equal. The proper gap between panels to be butt-welded is 132 inch, and though most thin cutoff wheels are labeled as being 132-inch thick, we've measured them at two and three times fatter. We use Lawson wheels (PN 93483), and while they're more expensive than the hardware store wheels, and they're just a tick fat, they're the thinnest we've found. Don't scrimp on cutoff wheels--good ones will also last longer, so you'll buy fewer of them. Another key to good results is "easy grind" welding wire. It's also more expensive than standard mild-steel MIG wire, but it's much easier to work, and doesn't leave a brittle weld. Finally, and we can't stress this enough, take your time. Metal master Ron Covell once told us to always make sure you're in a comfortable position when you work, because it will allow you to take your time and be fussy. We rushed a couple of areas, and ended up with sloppy cuts and some sloppy welds. After we slowed things down, the work went much smoother--and much quicker!
Our project is a '61 Chevy Suburban. While the replacement panels extended into the wire channel/top of the inner rocker, our rockers are solid so we only replaced what was needed. And that's probably the final tip: When you buy a replacement panel, don't feel like you aren't getting your money's worth if you don't use the whole thing. Buy a panel for the contours you need, and use as little as possible.
Our method here is straightforward, but time consuming. And while they're "just floors" and would have taken less than half the time had we lap-welded, we use it as an exercise toward building our skills so when it's time to do fender repairs or doorskins--where fit and finish really matter--we'll have better results. At this point, our process isn't bad, but we need to dial in our welding a bit. With a couple of these installs under our belt now, we'd hesitantly tackle a fender or hood; before the floors, we wouldn't have considered exterior panels something within our abilities. And that's why a floor job is the perfect beginner project. CT
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Just about every vintage truck you see has some temporary fix installed over the foot wells. This sheetmetal was tack welded to the floor, and was copied on the passenger side.Begin with a rough removal of the rotted metal, trimming away the obvious thin stuff to see where the braces are. We used a Sharpie and marked the approximate area to be removed, then cut holes near the corners and connected the dots with a reciprocating saw. A saber saw with sheetmetal blade or cutoff wheels will work, too.The toeboard was good, so we cut the rotten floor away from the flange, trimmed the floor back to solid metal, and cleaned up the tops of the floor braces.The passenger side got the same treatment. We like to leave as much of the original sheetmetal as possible, so we didn't go all the way to the trans tunnel.The passenger side got the same treatment. We like to leave as much of the original sheetmetal as possible, so we didn't go all the way to the trans tunnel.The floors are billed as fitting '60-66 trucks, but they're actually for '63-66; the '60-62 trucks have a different frame, the body bolt is in a different location, and the toeboard area dips lower over by the door. Note our trim lines: We kept the leading edge on both pans somewhat generous, so we could recreate the flange where the floorpan meets the toeboard. For the passenger side, we used the excess to recreate the bottom of the toeboard.There were a couple of options for correcting the body bolt recess; we could have cut it out and patched the metal or hammered it out. We opted to off-dolly hammer it flat, mainly to practice the technique. We got it nearly flat, and with a little heat shrinking with a torch, it would have disappeared completely. The dolly was moved around the perimeter of the recess as we hit the dome with the hammer, moving the metal. This was our first attempt at off-dolly shrinking, and it was passable, so it's definitely within a novice's abilities. We'll be better at it once we buy a torch.
To recreate the recess in the floorpan, we used our hydraulic press. We set the pan in the truck and marked the body mount hole from below. On the press, we backed the pan up with a piece of pipe and used the original body mount washer (removed from the original floor section) as a die, pressing it into the floor. Once fitted, the washer was spot-welded to the new floor, as per original.When we trimmed the leading edge of the floorpan, we needed to recreate the flange where it welds to the toeboard's flange. The pan has a gentle side-to-side curve to it, and the flange goes along this curve—meaning you can't use a sheetmetal break. This is the only reason we have adjustable wrenches in the shop; they work perfectly for bending a flange around a radius. Small bites an inch at a time, making three or four passes across the panel.Once the flange was bent, we finished it with a hammer and dolly, using the cross chisel on the inside corner of the flange to make it crisper.Once the floorpan is generally fitted, lay it over the hole and mark all the body braces from behind, then drill spot-weld holes to match the braces. A uni-bit works great, while a series of uniform holes along an edge can be made with a Whitney hand punch. (We pulled this shot from another project because the holes showed up better in the picture than on our black truck pan).While trimming and fitting the floor, use self-tapping sheetmetal screws to secure the pan. You'll have the pan in and out a dozen times during fitting, and the sheetmetal screws assure the pan is in the same place every time.Here's our fitted passenger-side floorpan, nearly ready for welding. Note that the body mount washer (the ones we saved from the original floorpan) has been spot-welded from behind already. Initially, you want the new pan to overlap the old by an inch or more all the way around. Once everything is right, begin your final installation by plug-welding the floor to the braces.With the floor plug-welded to the braces, it's time to start the butt-weld around the perimeter. Cut through both layers with a thin cutoff wheel.Cutting through both layers gives a perfectly mated seam to butt-weld. Peel away the excess edge from above and below the floor (passenger compartment and under the vehicle). Then, use a small screwdriver in the seam to pry up the lower sheetmetal (the original panel) even with the top piece (replacement panel) until they line up. Then, tack weld them together. (*Great tip, I'll have remember this one. Riz)
Once the full perimeter is tack welded, grind all the welds down. There are three important things here: always go along the length of the weld, not side to side as that thins the sheetmetal on both sides of the weld; use a new cutting disc as it cuts quicker and builds up less panel-warping heat—if the weld turns blue when you grind, you're building up too much heat; finally, use an "easy grind" alloy MIG wire. It's more expensive than common mild-steel wire, but the difference is night and day when grinding. It cuts much quicker, generates much less heat, and makes grinding disc last longer.While we were welding the panel on the driver side, we kept blowing through the original metal because it was thinner than we thought. We trimmed away some more and added this patch. We should have spent a little more time with a pick checking the thickness.The series of tack welds is going to have some porosity. To keep moisture from getting inside the weld line, we coat the welds with a generous helping of POR15, working it into the welds and the seam between the floorpan and the toeboard. If this was an exterior panel, we'd use lead body soldier, as it will melt down into the seam and seal it the same way, whereas plastic filler sits on top of the seam and won't seal the porosity between the panels. After the paint dries, we applied seam sealer to the joint at the toeboard, as per original.


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I rely heavily on the reminders so I really do need this to start working.
Every time I wake my MacBook Pro, I notice that my gmail inbox in the browser, as well as my Mail inbox, are full of all the reminders I missed!
So it's almost as if the MBP is "consuming" these. I have wondered if it is Mail's fault, and I've done my best to turn Mail off for good (I only ever use gmail via the browser) but every time I wake the machine, Mail is back again, and my inbox is topped up with all recent reminders. Not sure if this is what's causing my reminders not to go to my desktop / 'droid.
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Greek Salad with Marinated Onions and Oregano
(Makes 2 servings, recipe created by Kalyn)
Ingredients for Marinated Onions:
1 medium Vidalia onion
2 T extra virgin olive oil, plus more for serving if needed
1 T balsamic vinegar, plus more for serving if needed
Ingredients for Salad:
2-3 small cucumbers (I used mini-cucumbers from Costco)
3-4 small tomatoes
8-10 pitted Kalamata Olives
1 T chopped fresh oregano (or more)
(If you only have dried oregano, add 1 tsp. with the dressing ingredients when you assemble the salad.)
1/4 cup crumbled Feta cheese (or more)
fresh ground black pepper to taste
About 4-8 hours before serving the salad, peel onion and slice thinly. Separate onion into rings and put in small ziploc bag. Whisk together olive oil and balsamic vinegar and pour into bag. Let onions marinate in refrigerator until ready to assemble the salad.
After onions have marinated for desired time, remove from refrigerator and drain the dressing into a small bowl. (I do this by opening one end of the ziploc bag and holding it over the bowl while tipping the bag.) Taste dressing and add more olive oil and balsamic vinegar if needed, whisking into dressing.
Wash cucumbers and cut into slices about 1/2 inch thick. (Larger cucumbers will need to be cut in half and if you don't have small cucumbers you may also need to peel them.) Cut tomatoes into halves, then cut each half into fourths to make eight pieces. Wash oregano and chop with chef's knife.
In large mixing bowl, toss together marinated onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, and olives. Toss with desired amount of dressing. Sprinkle with oregano and crumble Feta cheese over salad. Arrange on two plates, season with fresh-ground black pepper, and serve immediately.
South Beach Suggestions:
Salad like this is perfect for any phase of the South Beach diet. For a school-night dinner, I'd eat this as an entire meal. If you wanted to use the salad as a side-dish for phase one, you could serve this with something like Kalyn's Souvlaki and Grilled Zucchini. For phase two or three, this would taste great with Basil and Parmesan Rice with Pine Nuts.
More Salads with Feta Cheese:
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly, check ingredients.)
Green Bean Salad with Hearts of Palm, Olives, Red Pepper, and Feta from Kalyn's Kitchen
Spinach Salad with Bacon and Feta from Kalyn's Kitchen
Mediterranean Salad with Hummus Dressing from Kalyn's Kitchen
Lentils and Feta Salad from Dhangitt's Kitchen
Joanne Weir's Cucumber and Feta Cheese Salad from David Lebovitz
Salad with Red Beans, Feta Cheese and Thyme from Lucullian Delights
Cranberry, Feta, and Avocado Salad from Baking Bites
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Many dyslexics find spelling to be very difficult. One approach to addressing this difficulty is to call more than the sense of sight into play when working on spelling. This is called a multisensory approach. An example of this is: a child spells the word aloud as they trace the letters with their finger in a tray of cornmeal. This activity involves hearing (as the child spells out the word); touching (as the child spells it in the cornmeal); as well as seeing (letters in the cornmeal). Another example of a multisensory approach to spelling is moving plastic letters on a table top as a child says the sounds and arranges the letters.
If your child is in a school system and has been diagnosed as having a learning disability due to dyslexia, he probably has an Individual Education Plan (IEP). This plan addresses the most effective teaching strategies that will help him succeed in school.
If your child does not have an Individual Education Plan, you need to become your child's advocate. Make sure that teachers understand the degree to which your child is affected. Also, tell your son's teachers what strategies have been helpful in the past so that they know to use these strategies with your son.
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An Independent Remuneration Panel for Birmingham was established by the City Council at its meeting on 3 July 2001. The main features are:-
A total panel of 7 members, made up of 3 invited members [one of whom to chair the Panel] and 4 Citizen representatives. Over 130 people responded to a public advertisement and registered an initial interest in serving on the Panel and a total of 62 followed this up by completing application forms. The 4 Citizen Representatives were chosen from a shortlist of 12.
Panel members are appointed for a mixture of 2 and 3 -year periods.
An allowance is paid to each Panel member and travel expenses can be claimed.
Terms of Reference
The role of the Independent Remuneration Panel is to consider and keep under review certain key aspects of the Allowances Scheme and, as and when appropriate, to submit reports [containing recommendations] to the Council.
Initially the Panel was asked to make recommendations on the arrangements for Basic and Special Responsibility Allowances and the new Childcare & Dependant Carers Allowance to take account of the new Leader/Cabinet model of governance introduced by the City Council in December 2001.
New Regulations in 2003 extended the role of the Panel to include making recommendations on pensions for Councillors and travelling, subsistence and co-optee allowances. This required the Council to make a New Members' Allowances Scheme on or prior to 31 December 2003. The Panel also has the role of reviewing the Scheme annually.
Reports of the Panel
The City Council must have regard to the recommendations made to it by an Independent Remuneration Panel when making or amending its Members Allowances Scheme.
Latest Independent Remuneration Panel Report


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Which physical system in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics is actually described by a model, where the norm of the "position eigenstate" (i.e. the delta distribution as limit of vectors in the Hilbert state) matters? >What are some actual end-of-calculation quantum mechanical results, which are supposed to mirror some experimental values, where the constant $c$ in the explicit representation of the distribution $c\ \delta(x-y)$, which representas a sharp localization used in calculations, matters? If I write $c$ and I don't set it to 1, how does it enter the result in the end?
If you want to say the norm emerges as a limit of normed states, then justify the norm for the calculation to the point of extracting the specific physical values the theory is supposed to compute.
Also, I guess the "if you would position-localize" statement is a little handwaving, or does this have any practical parallel. (Given that it's not really possible, is it? Especially once relativity comes into play.)
I ask because on the one hand the momentum and position eigenstates/operator are the one you learn first, but in comparison to spins, there bring some mathematical difficulties. And in a quantum mechanics course, most example calculations will be about bounded problems. I guess there might be non-relativistic scattering processes where a delta is actually used to compute some scattering angle. But nonrelativistic scattering is eighter taught in mathematical physic courses, which focus on the structure of the theory (and I don't know practical physical results coming from there), or they are just the results obtained as classical limits of QFT calculations.


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Grandparents learn to text to keep in touch with grandchildren
|Nancy Lemmon, left, poses for portrait with her grandson Tyler Moore, 17, January 8, 2013, in Stow, Ohio. They are only a few doors from each other, but they text regularly to communicate. Many busy teens and 20-somethings say texting is more convenient. (Paul Tople/Akron Beacon Journal/MCT)
"It's natural for grandparents to want as much personal interaction with their grandchildren as possible. Many grandparents feel like texting is so impersonal and detached (and) really do get a great deal of happiness from hearing their grandchildren's voices," said Amy Goyer, AARP's home and family expert. "There is nothing wrong with trying to balance phone calls and in-person time with texting or emailing, but as grandchildren grow up, grandparents may have to adjust to their changes and preferences."
Kids often have hectic lives. And sometimes texting is the best way to keep in touch - whether Granny and Gramps like it or not.
"I'd say they run the risk of losing touch with their grandchildren's everyday lives if they don't text," Goyer added. "That doesn't mean their whole relationship will fall apart, but they can stay in closer touch if they are willing to text."
Goyer added that those older than 50 are high adopters of technology, and grandparents are often motivated by their grandchildren to learn how to use new forms of technology - such as texting.
Many grandparents who live miles away from their loved ones have taken to Skype to hear and see their grandkids. With the free software application, a webcam and a high-speed Internet connection, users can talk to and see each other live via the Internet. But many busy teens and 20-somethings say texting is more convenient.
Nancy Lemmon and her 17-year-old grandson, Tyler Moore, aren't separated by miles. In fact, they live just a few doors from each other in Stow, Ohio. Still, they text regularly to communicate.
Moore is a busy guy. Though technically a student at Stow-Munroe Falls High School, he is taking 18 hours of post-secondary classes at Kent State University and participating in an internship in the psychology department. With those things and other activities, he's not the easiest guy to get in touch with for a voice conversation.
"They do not want to chat on the phone with their grandmother, or anyone else for that matter. They want to communicate short and sweet," Lemmon explained. "Tyler may respond to me when I ask how he did at Kent this semester. He may let me know he has arrived safely at a destination out of town. He can tell me that he scored the highest grade in his psychology class or he got a 4.0 this semester at school, but the words that warm my heart the most is when he simply texts, 'I Love You.'"
Sitting in his grandmother's home, Moore acknowledged the two would go longer periods of time without communicating if it weren't for texting.
"People don't talk on the phone that much anymore," he said.
If grandparents can adjust to thinking of texting as a way to bring them closer to their grandchildren, Goyer thinks they will be more willing to adopt it as a method of communication.
"The reality is that tweens, teens and young adults these days use texting as their most common form of communication and if grandparents . really want to be in touch they'd better learn to text, even if it's just the basics," Goyer said.
And Lemmon offered: "Keep on texting, grandmas, and stay in touch. We have to learn the technology in order to savor these important relationships."
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This profile is part of IEEE Spectrum's Special Report on Dream Jobs 2011.
When Amir Abo-Shaeer told his friends and associates that he was going to quit his job as a mechanical engineer to teach high school, they warned him not to be rash. "If you decide you don't like it after three or four years, you'll have lost your skills," they said. Some cautioned that he was being too idealistic and that most teenagers couldn't care less about learning.
"Everything everybody said has been completely untrue," Abo-Shaeer reports from a classroom at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, Calif., where he has pioneered a four-year engineering academy.
What makes Abo-Shaeer's teaching so different is that he doesn't just lecture in front of a blackboard. Instead, he gives his students rich hands-on learning experiences. Central to that is the annual FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics competition, which inventor Dean Kamen and MIT professor Woodie Flowers started in 1989.
So he's a teacher, yes, but he remains an engineer—and a skilled one. "I build robots with students, and we use the newest and latest, greatest technology," says Abo-Shaeer. "I'm right there at the cutting edge."
Indeed, in the eyes of many in industry, Abo-Shaeer's expertise has only grown. "I have companies come to me and say, 'Can you talk to us about how you are able to get 32 students who don't know anything to build a deliverable in six weeks?' "
Abo-Shaeer engineered his transition to the classroom because he had so enjoyed being a teaching assistant in graduate school and was convinced that helping others to learn would pay off in the end. It didn't hurt that his Iraqi-born father had transformed himself in an even more drastic fashion, from a Ph.D. physics professor to a landscaper, after moving to the United States following Amir's birth.
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That year he entered a school competition to build a solar water heater. He won, hands down. One of his physics professors took notice and hired Abo-Shaeer as a lab assistant. He relished the opportunity, because by that point, he had decided to pursue mechanical engineering in graduate school and was seeking more hands-on experience.
While in grad school, also at UCSB, Abo-Shaeer began working for a small aerospace company. He decided to end his education with a master's degree. But he was laid off from his job after a year and a half, which led him to a dreary position at a telephone-products company. "It was kind of sucking my soul dry," he says. Looking back, though, he views that stultifying experience as the best thing that could have happened to him, because that was when he decided to go into teaching.


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7 Classic Movies That Almost Had Absurdly Dark Endings
A movie's ending is the last chance it gets to leave an impression on us, whether that impression be "Boy, I'd like to see that again, and perhaps buy the DVD!" or "The combined weight of all my regrets is crushing my soul into powder, I should call my parents and tell them I love them before it is too late."
These movies all originally had that second type of ending, until the filmmakers, for better or worse, decided to change them to keep people from sobbing through several traffic lights on their way home from the theater.
#7. Return of the Jedi -- Han Solo Dies and Luke Abandons the Rebels
20th Century Fox
In Return of the Jedi, Han Solo and Princess Leia manage to destroy the Death Star's shield generator on the forest moon of Endor just in time for Lando to swoop in and detonate the Imperial superweapon. Meanwhile, Darth Vader changes his mind about evil and tosses Emperor Palpatine down a shaft, then dies himself shortly thereafter. Everyone reunites for an Ewok dance party. The end.
The Original Ending
According to producer Gary Kurtz, the first draft of Jedi left the Star Wars universe even more bleak than it was at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. For starters, Han Solo is killed while trying to destroy the shield generator. The Death Star still gets destroyed, but Luke becomes so disturbed over his final encounter with Darth Vader that he decides to venture off on his own, leaving Princess Leia to lead the tattered remains of the Alliance by herself. We assume that, after all that, nobody wanted one goddamn thing to do with the Ewoks.
20th Century Fox
Chewie, about to suplex Wicket off a tree.
Apparently, Harrison Ford really wanted Han Solo to be killed off at some point during the trilogy. In fact, the whole reason he was frozen in carbonite at the end of Empire was because the producers weren't sure if Ford was going to return for the next film. If he had decided not to, at least they'd found a way to write him out of the series.
20th Century Fox
"Just put Han's clothes on Billy Dee Williams and no one will know the difference."
However, George Lucas decided not to go with this ending, taking a firm stance against killing off any of the trilogy's heroes. Not because of how depressing it would make the movie, mind you, but because he was worried about how it would affect toy sales. Both Kurtz and Ford have confirmed this, claiming that Lucas "didn't see much of a future in 'dead Han toys'."
20th Century Fox
"It's useless, sir! It's like he has some kind of force field made of greed!"
#6. Rocky -- Rocky Throws the Climactic Fight
United Artists
Rocky is an amateur boxer moonlighting as a low-level mob enforcer when the world heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed, selects him as a replacement opponent for the upcoming New Year's Day title bout, literally because Apollo likes the sound of Rocky's nickname.
United Artists
"'The Italian Stallion'? Haha, that's great! People would love to see me beat the shit out of a guy called that."
Rocky spends the whole movie training for the fight with absolutely no illusion that he is actually going to win. He just wants to last all 15 rounds against the champion without getting knocked out, and when the day of the fight finally comes, he gets his wish -- he loses, but he goes the distance, and he gets his life together in the process.
The Original Ending
Rocky gets to the epic battle against Apollo Creed and throws the goddamn fight.
United Artists
"Yo, Adrian! I'm kinda tired."
That's right -- among a baffling whirlwind of other major differences, Stallone's original script ended with a disillusioned Rocky deciding to lose to Apollo on purpose and leave the world of boxing behind him, because apparently he had a wealth of other untapped talents. After retiring, Rocky uses the money he earned from scamming the hell out of his once-in-a-lifetime title shot to open up a pet store for Adrian, which is possibly the least inspirational ending you could write for an underdog story.
United Artists
In Rocky II, they burn the place down to collect the insurance money.
Stallone churned out his first draft of Rocky in three days, which explains why this version seems like it was created by somebody on the verge of seeing what color sounds make before passing out on a coffee table. With the help of a few producers who saw potential in the project, Stallone rewrote the script several times before they found a studio willing to greenlight it. Which is good, because if the movie had stayed the way Stallone originally envisioned it, there would have been no room for Rocky sequels, and the 1980s would've been a sad, barren wasteland.
United Artists
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#5. Pretty Woman -- Edward Abandons Vivian Back to Her Life of Prostitution
Touchstone Pictures
In Pretty Woman, ruthless corporate raider Edward pays a hooker named Vivian $3,000 to spend the entire week with him, because apparently that's the only way he can convince women to be around him despite looking like 1980s Richard Gere and commanding a six-figure annual income. He's planning to buy out a fledgling company from a sweet old man so he can liquidate it piecemeal, sort of like Michael Douglas in Wall Street, but his time with Vivian softens his heart, and she is similarly won over by Edward's ability to buy her anything she wants at any given moment.
Touchstone Pictures
Love is never having to say "We can't afford that."
At the end of the week, Edward drives to Vivian's apartment in a limousine, gives her a rose, and asks her to have sex with him for free for the foreseeable future. She agrees, they share a romantic kiss, and Roy Orbison sings us into the credits.
The Original Ending
We've previously talked about how Vivian was a drug addict in the original script. But that doesn't even scratch the surface of how dark this story used to be:
Touchstone Pictures
Then Edward burns down an orphanage.
Edward does indeed drive up to Vivian's rancid cocaine paddock, but instead of a rose, he leaves her an envelope full of boner cash to cover their week together and gets right back into his car. There's no sweet reconciliation, no heartfelt romantic gesture, and no limousine -- Edward just dumps Vivian's ass back on Hollywood Boulevard and drives out of her life forever, leaving her literally crawling on her hands and knees crying bitter tears into a pile of money.
That ending was just one of a million other desolately bleak things about the film's original screenplay, a cautionary drama about addiction and prostitution called $3,000. However, after it was purchased by Disney, their chairman, Jeffrey Katzenberg, looked at the script and somehow thought the story of a strung-out prostitute and her unscrupulous john would make a perfect romantic comedy. The film was extensively rewritten to force-feed us a spunky Julia Roberts in a feel-good modern fairy tale, which to date is the only R-rated movie about hookers ever filmed that doesn't have any nudity in it.
Touchstone Pictures
Believe us. We checked.
#4. Terminator Salvation -- John Connor Dies, Is Replaced by a Cyborg
Warner Bros.
Terminator Salvation tells the story of cyborg kryptonite John Connor leading a war against an army of machinated overlords in a post-apocalyptic future. Partway through, he teams up with a guyborg named Marcus Wright, who used to be human until he was turned into a metal abomination by the nefarious robots, and he is having trouble adjusting. The two end up battling through a prison to rescue a bunch of captive Resistance fighters, but John is badly wounded and needs a new heart, because apparently furious murderbots can piston-fist you in the sternum without killing you instantly.
Knowing that the humans need John Connor in order to continue their fight, Marcus offers his own heart (one of the only parts of his anatomy that are still organic) up for transplant, heroically sacrificing himself so that the Resistance can live on.
Warner Bros.
"I should tell you my cholesterol is through the roof. I never could get enough chicken wings."
The Original Ending
John and Marcus invade the robo-prison to free their comrades, and once again, John gets horribly wounded. However, in this version, he has absolutely no chance of surviving, robot heart or no. Marcus has been badly damaged, too, and since he will need to be rebuilt, John's wife comes with up a solution:
Warner Bros.
Hang on, is she saying ...?
Warner Bros.
"You must become legend, Mr. Connor."
Yep, that's totally what she's saying. The film was supposed to end with the real John Connor getting rolled into an anonymous corpse hole while Marcus gets dolled up in John Connor battle makeup to take his place. He then goes on to lead the Resistance with nobody the wiser, at least until a squadron of robots runs a bioscan on him or until one of his keener-eyed troops notices his sudden boulder-juggling super strength.
Apparently, everyone involved was 100 percent behind this idea, and this was the version that was in production until the ending was leaked out onto the Internet before filming had been completed. The studio was reportedly so enraged at the Internet for doing precisely what it exists to do that they felt the need to dramatically change everything. Thus, a franchise built around the Marcus Wright character (which was their original intention) was completely aborted midway through, and the film was rewritten to keep John alive and sweep Marcus under the rug moments before the end credits. Luckily, the production of Terminator Salvation didn't have any more issues with things getting leaked out all over the Internet.
Warner Bros.
"Just start bellowing rage curses at the crew and they'll all think you're me."