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New Avengers #27
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Opening up with a flashback to K'un Lun of yesteryear, "New Avengers" #27 continues to reveal the secret (retconned) connection between the legend of Iron Fist and the Phoenix. It seems odd to have the Phoenix coming to Earth retro-fitted into continuity centuries before the X-Men first encountered the fiery spirit of destruction and rebirth.
As a matter of fact, it reminded me more than a little bit of Earth's critical importance in the pages of "Blackest Night." Brian Michael Bendis, through his choice to narrow this issue's cast down to a handful of characters transcends that comparison and drops a fun little story on the importance of Spider-Man once again. Master Yu Ti guides Hope to realize that she is to learn a truth of the utmost importance from Spider-Man. Along the way, during the journey to realization, Bendis shows us that Hope is still a teenager, with the weight of the world set upon her shoulders. She's anxious, scared and completely on edge. Add in Spider-Man and there's plenty of opportunity for unexpected enlightenment as well as a couple solid laughs.
Mike Deodato has a knack for over-emphasizing the female form through extreme liberties in anatomical construction and posture, but given the largely conversational tone of this issue, those extremes are significantly lessened. True, Deodato exercises just as many liberties with the male characters of this story, but the importance for the art is expression, posture and body language. The artist sells the conversation between Hope Summers and Spider-Man quite well, frequently accentuating the discussion with keenly crafted backgrounds.
The combination of quieter moments and a tighter cast really helps to make this issue of "New Avengers" shine. This isn't the Earth-shattering reveal of the Phoenix Five, nor is it the final confrontation between X-Men and Avengers, but this issue does seem as though it may contain one of the critical turning points in the course of the "Avengers Vs. X-Men" story as well as in the development of Hope Summers. Bendis and Deodato addressed the mandate of tying their tale into the larger story and did so with a comic that is fun.

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Robin and Cyborg from Teen Titans Go will have to fight alone, without the rest of the team, in Channel Crashers. In fact, the robot is in trouble. His head has been snapped out of his android body and now his friend has the responsibility of fighting using his powers for him, trying to recover it. Good luck moving around in this action game with the young teen hero Robin, avoiding the attacks at the same time he plans his own offensive and don't let the opponent do as he pleases. Good luck and save them in time to watch TV inside their heroes' tower. The arrow keys are useful for moving, but use Space-bar to get out of the robot body and collect coins, usually dropped after a few hits with the X key from the keyboard.


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When Congress finally completed its Lame Duck Session in 2010, pro-business government relations professionals breathed a sigh of relief – the "Employee Free Choice Act" – better known as "Card Check" was dead. Again.
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Reading the AFL-CIO's Stewart Acuff's glib assurances that small businesses will not be harmed by the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, I was reminded of the old parable of the scorpion and the frog.
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I had the opportunity to try the Grill Mat from Amazon seller Big Time BBQ the last couple of weeks and I have to say this may be a short review. I love these things and it makes for a perfect grilling hack!
The Grill Mat is not a new thing - many of us are familiar with the kitchen variety of non-stick cooking sheets and mats. The main difference is that Big Time BBQ has released an industrial style version that is perfect for home grilling and slow smoking. In fact - the package contains two awesome mats!
Why I Like the Big Time BBQ Grill Mats!
First off - these mats are heavy duty. I tested them over low as well as high heat grills. I even placed one in the oven for about an hour and a half at high temperatures. I placed two bricks on one mat and walked back and forth across the back yard waiting fo the mat to rip. It didn't! This was the "carrying a Boston Butt" test. These things are strong and I love them. And... I've not even gotten to the cooking side of things yet.
So lets talk about PIZZA - well, not yet - let's talk about small stuff. You know, shrimp, chicken bites, catfish nuggets, vegetables, and more. Those items tend to slip through grill grates and also find their way out of grilling baskets. The Big Time BBQ Grill mat offers a flat grilling surface that still allows for the great grilling flavor we crave.
The mats are even good for a variety of other things such as shredded beef, chicken tenders, pork, steaks, burgers, seafood and much more. The juices don't run off, small things don;t fall through grates, and you can even grill stuff like Pizza dough.
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For years I've been sending people to the grill in order to grill up pizza! I've suggested everything from French bread, pitas, deli flat bread, and even pre-made crusts as a way to get your grilled pizza going. What was lacking was grilling good old fashioned soft pizza crust. You know, the kind of crust that pizza guys toss over their heads and spin.
I've offered a few suggestions about grilling real pizza dough but the questions and concerns about grilling something that could slowly seep through grill grates seemed to freak people out. That's where the Big Time BBQ Grill Mat comes into play! This mat, actually two mats per package, make a great surface for grilling pizza crust. That's a hugh hack! Grilled pizza on the grill using real pizza crust without an expensive pizza stone or specialty pizza oven.
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The Bayburt Social Sciences Institute which started its education first during the 2010-2011 academic year with a master's degree program (with thesis) on DİKAB (Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge) accomplished great progress during recent years and has now become an academic unit offering one PhD and eight master's programs.
The Institute regularly updates its programs in line with changes in the world in order to enable its graduates to specialize in specific fields and reach higher standards of knowledge and skill by offering international standards.
We invite student candidates having wide visions and horizons to prepare themselves to the worldwide scholarly competition with a firm belief that their success will also reflect that of the institution. We want you to know that we will feel great happiness to cooperate with you and to contribute to your success.
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The Bayburt University Social Sciences Institute was founded in 2008 based on the Higher Education Law 2547 Article 19. The Institute started its master's programs in DİKAB (Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge) department during 2010-2011 academic year, in Management during 2013-2014 academic year and primary education and basic Islamic sciences departments during 2013-2014 academic year. Other master's programs are also planned to be opened soon.
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Visit kent has teamed up with tourist attractions all over the county to bring locals like you and I experiences we won't forget!
It is a great chance to see or do something in our great county that you haven't had a chance to yet and the best part of it, it's absolutely free.
The big weekend will be held on the 21st and 22nd of March and the ballot closes on Tuesday the 17th of Feb so get in while you can!
Last year, 123 kent attractions and destinations signed up giving away more that 21,000 free tickets and 116,414 members of the public signing up.
And if you fancy a little Lazer Rush Quasar, The Caterbury Tales, St Augustine's Abbey or Mini golf in Herne Bay, Pearson's is a short travel away to refuel with our excellent Value Lunch menu.
There are also tickets available for Leeds Castle, Tudor Park Marriot Hotel and Country Club, Maidstone Museum and Bentliff Art Gallery or learn a new craft at This Art of Mine. Perfectly situated to tie in with a Visit to The Windmill.
Guided walks of of Royal Tunbridge Wells or the Spa valley railway can only be enhanced by a dining experience at Thackeray's. The Big weekend also ties in with our tasting menu. Why not make your day extra special?
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This paper analyses the development of the Chilean labour market over the last 20 years from a legislative and empirical perspective, and shows how despite consistent economic growth and employment generation, employment conditions present a mixed performance. This highlights the need to look at employment conditions as important indicators of labour market development. The data we present shows which individual and job characteristics most impact a worker's capability to generate income and to maintain him or herself employed. The paper concludes that apart from individual characteristics associated to human capital, the job characteristics that most impact these capacities are a conditions associated with the occupational status of workers, particularly their type of contact. We find that having an open-ended contract is the most important factor that contributes to a worker's employment capabilities. The paper concludes by analysing the implications of our findings for labour policy in Chile.
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In 1983, KLRC was a 100-watt radio station, broadcasting only the JBU campus and immediate community. Today KLRC is an award-winning Christian radio station that reaches over 100,000 people in the NWA community each week and can be streamed online from around the globe.
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The JBU athletics program, a rallying-point not just for JBU but for local and regional communities as well, is an integral part of the education and community experience at JBU. The athletics program provides student-athletes opportunities for character and leadership growth that are unique to the crucible of competition.
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Having moved from New York fifteen years before to become a Vermont farmer, Perrin recounts his mistakes in adjusting to country life and offers advice on such topics as sugaring, raising sheep, and making butterfor manual, but I dona#39;t think ita#39;s an important choice. The only important thing is never to ... With the distinguished exception of Stihl and some of the Swedes a whose frankness may be explained partly by the fact that their saws are the quietest on the marketamost manufacturers tend to deny the problem. A spokesman foranbsp;...
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This has been a family favorite for years! Love the combination of flavors!
This Chicken, Apple, and Cheese Casserole is outstanding! The combination of apples and Swiss cheese is lovely, and preparation is easy. Use Jonagold apples—or, any other variety firm enough to hold up when cooked.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a 2-quart baking dish with 1 tablespoon of the butter.
Melt the remaining 4 tablespoons butter in a large heavy skillet over medium heat. Add the apples and onions and saute until the apples are tender, about 10 minutes. Spoon into the baking dish.
Rub the chicken with the salt and pepper and arrange over the apple-onion mixture. Combine the cheeses with the bread crumbs and thyme and sprinkle the mixture over the chicken. Drizzle the brandy over the cheese. Bake for 35 minutes or until the cheese is golden brown and the chicken is done.


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A balanced overview of Johnson's policies across a range of theatres and issues. Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency was characterised by domestic successes and vilified interational policies. He presided over the advancement of civil rights and educational reform while escalating the disastrous war in Vietnam. Drawing on recently declassified documents and the latest research, this fresh account looks at Vietnam and beyond to Johnson's relations with Europe, NATO and the rest of the world. Colman contends that, although the war in Vietnam could have been prosecuted more effectively, overall Johnson dealt with the world beyond the borders of the United States very capably. In particular, he dealt with successive challenges to the NATO alliance in a skilled and intelligent manner, leaving it politically stronger when he left office in 1969 than it had been in 1963.Theya#39;ll take the war as their weapon . ... Yet domestic concerns undoubtedly did influence the President. ... happened when the communists took power in China in 1949.60 Furthermore, ]ohnsona#39;s worries about a#39;credibilitya#39; probably related not anbsp;...
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"My oldest son was always a big kid; at age two, he weighed 39 lbs. At age 10, he tried Weight Watchers and actually gained a few pounds. It's not that he ate bad food or fast food, but his portion sizes were simply too big, with adult-sized meals and huge snacks. Summer 2009 he was excited to try an overnight weight loss camp -- Camp Shane in Ferndale, NY -- and opted for the full nine-week program. He was 11 and left for camp at 5'1" and 180 lbs. Through a combination of portion control, nutritional education and tons of physical exercise -- swimming, boot camp-style workouts -- he lost 29 lbs! When he came home, we took him shopping for nice clothes and for the first time, they fit him well.
What really helped was the at-home eating plan devised by the camp's nutritionist. It works like a traffic light system: Foods are classified as green (proteins and carbs, up to 100 calories each), yellow (occasional indulgences like mac and cheese) or red (rare treats, like cake, limited to twice/week). Based on his metabolic rate, our son gets about 1,500 calories a day, divided into three meals and two snacks/day, made up of 11 'greens' and unlimited fruits, veggies and fat-free cheese. If he wants a yellow, he needs to swap it for two greens. Lunch might be cold cuts in a pita, sugar-free pudding and a bowl of strawberries. He also works out and does track and field at school.
Now he's 12 and at 5'6", 140 lbs., you'd never know he'd had a weight problem. It really jumpstarted him and helped him change his habits. He's more athletic, faster, happier, he takes pride in what he wears. And he's excited to return to the camp again this summer."
- Melissa Campbell, 39, Millburn, NJ, mom to two sons, age 9 and 12 and one daughter, age 6
"When my daughter was 18 months old, her lines on the doctor's height/weight record were off the charts. I felt awful but I thought, 'I know how to feed my child' and denied the problem for a few more years. It was hard – she didn't look like other girls her age and I'd have to buy clothes three to four sizes bigger and hem them. Meanwhile, at age four, my third son was having issues, too (the older two were normal weight). When my sister-in-law, a nurse, said she was worried that her six-year-old niece could be pre-diabetic, I knew I had to get serious, so we started the PHIT Kids (Promoting Health in Teens and Kids) program at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, MO.
My son and I would go together (my daughter was too young to enroll) and we'd both weigh in, kept food journals and set a small weekly goal, like skipping dessert or exercising three times per week. I started feeding the entire family more fruits and vegetables. One morning, I put out strawberries, wheat toast and an egg for breakfast instead of Pop Tarts and I was sure they'd complain… but they just ate it. I felt like it was my fault they were overweight because it was just that easy: They ate what I put in front of them, like chicken nuggets and mac and cheese. We switched from 2% milk to skim and drank less soda. No more chocolate syrup or Little Debbie snack cakes. My older son, who is almost underweight, was resentful, but the pediatrician explained, 'Just because you're skinny doesn't mean you need a candy bar.'
I'm overweight and I know the teasing that can happen. You can't wear cute clothes. I knew that's what was ahead for my daughter and I wanted to protect my kids. I felt guilty that I hadn't taken the time to plan the perfect meals, or didn't say no to extra treats. But now we're making healthy changes: My son looks healthier; he didn't lose weight but he grew taller. My daughter is starting softball soon and when she enrolls in PHIT Kids, the whole family will participate."
-Shelli Cornell, 42, Kansas City, MO, mom to 3 sons age 10, 13, 16 and one daughter, age 7
"When my son started gaining weight around age eight, my pediatrician said he'd grow out of it, but he just got larger and larger. By fourth grade, he had a 36-inch waist, despite the fact that he exercised all the time, playing basketball, soccer, baseball and more. He dieted, we sent him to weight loss camp, even took him to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, to check for medical causes (he's adopted so we're unsure of his biological parents' weight) but nothing worked. After years of unsuccessful attempts and unhappiness, we found the New Hope Pediatric & Adolescent Weight Management Project at the University of Illinois-Chicago. We discussed surgical options and decided on the gastric band procedure. On the day of surgery, he was 16 years old, 5'10" and 365 lbs, and that was after losing 60 pounds for the surgery. He wound up losing 170 lbs in the next 10-and-a-half months and began his senior year of high school weighing 190 lbs. Emotionally, he has blossomed -- he has a greater sense of belonging, grew more social, went to his prom. But he also had to remember who were his real friends were, as some of the kids who had teased him for being overweight now suddenly wanted to be friends with him, and that was difficult for him.
We were told if our son had kept gaining weight at the rate he had, he wouldn't see age 25. Today, he's 19 and enrolled in culinary school. Some people have expressed concern over such a drastic step as surgery, but he was past the point of prevention. It's a treatment. If your child needed glasses, you'd get him glasses. We treated him the same way you'd treat a diabetic or a child with cancer."
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Jamshedpur, March 17: West Singhbhum police have learnt about the startling tale of a two-year-old who was born into and is living with a Maoist armed squad in Porahat, the discovery made during the pursuit of an area commander and revealing the plight of women in the outlawed outfit.
The fact came to the fore after a contingent of police and CRPF personnel carried out combing operations at Kudabera jungle in Sonua following a two-hour encounter with the Maoist squad on Friday.
The jungle falls in Sonua police station area, under Porahat forest division, and is over 200km from Jamshedpur.
The forces were trying to hunt down CPI(Maoist) area commander of Porahat Prasad Munda, 43, alias Aheer Munda, who is wanted in connection with over 50 cases of murder and abduction.
SP Pankaj Kamboj told The Telegraph that the child belonged to a 20-year-old woman who was raped by Prasad three years ago. Since then, the rebel leader did not allow her to return home.
We came to know of the childs presence after we found his clothes at a temporary Maoist camp in the dense Kudabera jungle. When we questioned local villagers, we came to know that Prasad had fathered the child. The mother has been seen in combat fatigue, accompanying other members of the squad, Kamboj said.
The woman and her child were in Kudabera when a gun battle was being fought between the rebels and security forces on Friday afternoon.
The SP said a couple of Maoists sustained bullet wounds during the encounter. He added that one of them captured by police died at a referral hospital in Sonua.
The child too could have easily fallen prey to our bullets during the encounter that lasted two hours, he added.
The joint forces are continuing the anti-Maoist operation in Porahat, a rebel hotbed. Kamboj said the hunt for Prasads 18-member squad was on.
The police have been on the area commanders trail ever since the death of six villagers on March 12.
Kamboj said the victims, all residents of Manmaru in Tebo police station area, had killed two persons of Kudabera following a cockfight gambling dispute on March 3. One of the two was a Maoist. Prasad retaliated by killing the six, the SP added.
The Maoist leader even forced residents of Manmaru to carry the bodies to a mountaintop, about 25km away in Kudabera, for burial.
Police have exhumed the bodies, which were sent for post-mortem to Chaibasa Sadar Hospital today.
Kamboj said they would register separate cases against those involved in the twin murders.


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Russell O'Neill, 17, died last Saturday swimming at the same site.
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A. Remember the button math teachers used to wear--the one that said "Mathematics is not a spectator sport"? But is it a team sport? If so, who should be on the team? Is it true, as we have heard, that mathematicians hesitate to join wholeheartedly in interdisciplinary programs?
B. I taught an interdisciplinary college-level class this fall in which students were paired up in teams. Non-mathematicians were supposed to describe phenomena and the associated problems that they needed to solve. Mathematicians were supposed to build the models. I'm not sure how well it worked.
C. That's no surprise. It took me almost a year of working weekly with a biologist to begin speaking the same language. This collaboration came about because she was trying to understand biological papers with a lot of formulas. It took a long time to make any progress. Understanding another discipline is a long and difficult process.
D. Were you teaching each other, or negotiating?
C. She was providing me with biology papers from current projects in her lab. I was interested in the problems in these papers, and often could tell her how these things were working. We even published a few joint papers. Because this joint project went so well, I decided to teach a class in beginning mathematical modeling. Half the students were not from mathematics; they were paired with mathematics majors.
A. What value do you see in this pairing?
C. The non-mathematicians know what results they want and the mathematics students know how to get them. The teams worked reasonably well.
A. Do the non-mathematicians come with well-formulated questions?
C. I don't know about the well-formulated part ...
E. But tell us what happened when you took these ideas to freshman calculus.
C. Yes indeed! The biology faculty had been displeased with what the students were getting out of their calculus courses, and mathematicians complained about the mathematical abilities of the biology students that they got. A lot of mathematicians say "they cannot do algebra, so how can they do modeling"? I say, show students why they should want to learn a concept or a skill. Don't hit them over the head with the same stick.
F. It is interesting to me that what you want to accomplish seems very different from what others want to accomplish. Your vision is very different.
C. I know that my students know some biology. They are comfortable with science where observations lead to hypotheses, as opposed to mathematics which often starts with theory which is then illustrated with trivial examples. My conflict with my colleagues in mathematics is that I believe that without the right basis of intuition, students cannot learn mathematics using that approach--theory first, applications second. My approach rests on a very different philosophy in that nontrivial examples are introduced to show how the mathematics is used.
G. Could you have done this before your year-long discussions?
C. Probably, but that is because I had a double major in biology and mathematics. But the discussions really helped.
H. As a mathematician, how do you feel about what your students are learning in calculus?
C. They get what they need. They "blackbox" some of it, but that's OK. I teach them Maple--it gives them a crutch to move ahead. I feel good about what they are doing. Biology students don't have great algebra skills; should we let that stop them from moving ahead?
H. What do your students think of the course?
C. I push them hard. In the traditional course, students consistently ask why they are being forced to learn all that stuff. In my course they are still not comfortable, but they appreciate what they need. Now they complain that they only got three credit hours. When you start getting interdisciplinary you are asking a lot of students.
H. These same problems arise at the high school level, especially with students in vocational programs. Leaders in these fields, as well as recent federal legislation, advocate integration of academic and vocational study. But very few places seem to be able to make it happen.
E. I know one example where carpentry and algebra teachers got together to try to work to the same goal. But it is the only case I know.
A. Why are there not more?
C. It's so hard. Try mixing computers, biology, and mathematics all at once. It is too much to take on at the same time as one is also doing other things (teaching or research). Time is major factor.
I. And if you have time pressures at the college level, think about moving this challenge down to high school. Time is a real problem there, for both teachers and students. Teachers hardly have the opportunity to talk to others in their own discipline, let along take a year to be comfortable with the vocabulary of another field. Now with all the pressure of standards, teachers are feeling as if they are getting squeezed from every direction. And still not very much new gets accomplished.
A. One strategy to ease these separate pressures involves coordinated work on a single large project--for example, building a bridge. Students can get involved in issues of design, environmental impact, geography, history, economics, and so on. It is a good way to get students to look at broad-based projects.
J. But those kinds of projects require students to know something about many different subjects. That's unrealistic. I'm curious about whether students in the calculus class for biologists can answer the calculus questions without knowing biology.
C. They have good intuition on the biology side, but they do not have reliable intuition about mathematics.
J. I can't imagine an interdisciplinary program like this because I have never seen a successful example. In looking at musical scales, for example, you can talk about interval ratios and even-tempered scales without ever having seen a keyboard. If you require that students need to know an area of application in order to do a problem, you--and they--are in trouble. Sure, there are lots of applications of calculus in chemistry and biology for example, the action potential of nerves. But if you can pose problems so that students can get the answers from the mathematics itself, then you are on safer ground than if the students need to know both biology and mathematics. I can't imagine a truly interdisciplinary course. It is unrealistic, perhaps impossible.
K. I agree, but for a somewhat different reason. In the interdisciplinary programs I have seen, the mathematics is in there to serve the science. Often the mathematics itself gets lost. There is no opportunity for the students to pursue mathematical concepts. The mathematics is not clearly visible, except as a collection of skills needed to accomplish the matter at hand. It appears "as needed," so students get no experience grappling with mathematics itself. I feel uneasy because what I have seen lets the mathematics go.
C. When I first gave my biology students a graph of the growth of a puppy vs. time, using m and t for mass and time, they asked me whether they could put x and y there. Biologists complain that students don't know straight lines when they use m and t instead of x and y. Students compartmentalize their learning so that mathematics is one thing, science something else. "If it's math, it must be x and y, and can't have anything to do with life or society." Mathematics is not relevant to what they do, so they forget it the moment they walk out the classroom door.
R. I agree. Interdisciplinary issues do not motivate mathematics faculty. Other teachers may be motivated to do this, but mathematics is not pushing the envelope. Mathematics teachers are used to traditional goals-- numbers, graphs, equations. For these reasons, the interdisciplinary projects in this state rarely engage mathematicians.
K. I worry that some mathematics I want students to know might be missed in interdisciplinary study.
H. This discussion helps explain why mathematicians are less enthusiastic than other teachers to join these programs. But the dominant view in vocational education and tech-prep programs is that because real problems are holistic, discipline boundaries don't really matter all that much. Can mathematicians feel that the study of mathematics is complete if it is centered in rich applications?
G. Maybe one of the difficulties is that the kinds of things that people will encounter at work are really very varied. When prospective teachers take a mathematics class focused on their role as future teachers they can see the relevance of that class for their job. But making a similar connection to other areas of work is much more difficult.
M. And this has consequences for students. Since teachers know so little about the role of mathematics in careers, I find quite often that students' sense of what is gong to be relevant to their future careers is way off base.
N. I think you can convince an eleven-year-old that mathematics is relevant. The new middle school mathematics curricula that have been inspired by the NCTM Standards get into rich mathematics from the ground up.
D. Yet even in scientific endeavors, as likely as not, if there's some mathematics involved, it is put off to an appendix. For most of life, you can get along fine without mathematics.
L. I'm hearing a dichotomy. We may want to have these large-scale problems and have everyone get involved, but we also want to put on our mathematicians' hats and be sure the discipline gets its due.
O. If all your knowledge is skill-based or procedure-based, you are not going to recognize mathematics in other situations.
L. I worry about using rich problems for students. If you don't have the mathematical background, how would someone know what kind of problem it is?
P. You absolutely need both the discipline-based knowledge and the integrated "big problem" approach.
J. Teachers in other subjects are trying to implement changes. How can we help teachers understand the mathematics they need?
C. Just using the word "mathematics" can create a psychological block.
Q. I teach programming to students who do not know much mathematics. This makes me wonder how much mathematics you need to function in a classroom that's not itself about mathematics. Do we know what people really need? Maybe it is not what we thought, or what mathematicians believe.
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importance but well beyond the agenda of this discussion. It does
seem clear from what we have heard that in addition to the many
ordinary impediments to innovation, even the desirability
for mathematics of integrated curricula is not at all clear. That
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Barrie Hibbert from Adelaide, Australia wrote to me about a letter to his local paper and how this stimulated a rich vein of insights:
Whoever You Are
I found in yesterday's paper [The Advertiser], among the Letters to the Editor, the following letter:
I am writing this to a man, still unknown to me, who jumped into the duck pond at the Botanical Gardens in mid-October 1983 to rescue a four-year-old boy who had fallen in while feeding the ducks during an outing with his grandmother.
That little boy graduated last week with his PhD, and I would like to say thank you, who ever you are, for that day.
J. Short, Rosslyn Park.
Well done the unknown jumper… and well done the grown-up four-year-old with his doctorate… and specially well done J. Short (who ever you are!) for sharing your joy, pride and gratitude with the rest of us.
You Never Know
Somehow this reminded me of the old school teacher in the German mining village.
Every morning he stood at the school gate and doffed his hat to each student as he or she arrived. Then in the afternoon, he would take up his position at the gate and doff his hat to each departing student.
One day one of the leading citizens of the village asked the old teacher why he went through this rather ridiculous little ritual. The old man responded: "You never know … among that group of children there may be one who will one day do great things for the world."
Among those children was a village miner's son, the young Martin Luther.
Miss Finlay
One day in the early 1940's an Australian teacher, Miss Finlay, decided it was too cold and wet to send the children out into the playground. So she settled them down and read them a story. It was the story told by the Greek writer Homer in the final book of The Iliad.
Miss Finlay must have been a good reader, as she held the attention of the youngsters until the tale was told. One little boy in particular, David, was rapt in the story. Nearly seventy years later, David Malouf, now one of Australia's most distinguished writers, published his novel Ransom – inspired by his lifelong fascination with that story from The Iliad.
Malouf's novel is a powerful fictional elaboration of the story of the attempt by Priam, the aged King of Troy to secure the release of his slain son Hector's body from his killer, the Greek warrior, Achilles.
Malouf uses the original legend to reflect on the nature of human relationships (especially father-son relationships), and also how we establish and define our own individual identity. In the end, Ransom is about what it means to be a human being.
The actual writing is quite superb. Some critics are already suggesting that in the years ahead, Ransom may come to be regarded as one of the truly great Australian novels.
At the time the book was published, David Malouf told the story of his childhood encounter with Homer's Iliad. Shortly afterwards, at one of the book signings, a little old lady joined the line of those seeking the author's signature. When she reached the table where he was seated, she pressed an envelope into his hand. She did not attempt to engage him in conversation, but subsequently he made contact with her and they met.
Yes, it was Miss Finlay, now in her nineties and so thrilled that as a young teacher she had imparted something so memorable and precious to that little boy on that rainy afternoon.
As the old German schoolmaster said, you just never know.
Source: Thanks to Barrie Hibbert for these stories.
Dr Geoff Pound
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On my further considerations of code redistribution (from my perspective of Facets)... I think one of the fundamental distinctions that I've been missing is that which lies between a common utility and a more specialized tool. For example, the Command base class is more specialized, while the ANSICode module is more a common utility. Ultimately I think it would be nice to create a more cohesive tool that covers the full- spectrum of requirements for console based apps. While it would make sense to include all the components needed for this in the single package, eg."Comrade", this would discourage others from using those parts for their own equivalent utilities. In other words, by including ANSICode in "Comrade", I've discouraged others from creating there own command- line solutions that could re-utilize ANSICode. For this reason, one can argue that something like ANSICode would be better off as it's own package. However packaging systems are generally poorly suited to small reusable libs like this, which typically having but a single file. For example, RubyGems package format and conventions for project layouts are bulky relative to this need, and it is inefficient in it's effects on Ruby's loadpath system. Also, it may be foolish to think an ANSICode library would get much independent use anyway. If someone needed it for another application they'd might just copy and paste it into their own project --avoiding the dependency. That's the other issue here. With so many small libraries one could easily have dozens of such dependencies per application. While that upholds the common mantra of "code reuse", it also comes at the practical costs of dependency. This is the primary reason I came up with the idea of GemBundles. So I suppose I have to ask, what is the goal? Is it to create comprehensive solutions such as Comrade? Or simply to offer essentially independent reusable components such as ANSICode? And if the later, is it acceptable to distribute so many small packages, or must we accept packaged groups even though it may discourage reuse? T.
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Disclaimer: I don't care about dance, and I don't know anything about it.
So no one's more shocked than I am at my reaction to writer-director Wim Wenders' stunningly gorgeous documentary about German choreographer Pina Bausch. Rather than providing any biographical information that would fill out a biopic or a Google search, Wenders uses spectacular 3-D to bring viewers into the meat of a choreographer's work: the dances.


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The technical and practical abilities of a student are developed after they embark into this training program which is really useful if they already get to practice their career. Topics to be explained in the training include medicine ethics, general healthcare methods, human anatomy, nutrition and diet, and physiology.
Since training programs develop students, in turn students should pay money for the tuition fee. Tuition fees differ from state to state; offering $400 in Las Vegas and $1000 in Las Vegas for example. Free CNA classes are out there, you just need to be resourceful enough. Say in Las Vegas, it is an initiative of the Board of Education to provide free CNA classes to those worthy scholars.
Every facility needs a helping hand especially in the busiest of times, that is why most nursing institutions often provide free CNA classes since they can benefit from it too. Also, there are those establishments that offer scholarship grants with the condition that the scholar will work for them for a particular period for free after completing the examination.
The Department of Public Health provides free scholarships to CNA hopefuls, and it is constantly being practiced in Nevada. If you're qualified, the Air Force Aid Society Spouse Employment Program also provides assistance to ten fortunate spouses of the military. These scholarships or grants are offered to all interesting CNA hopefuls and you may be one of them.Author: Paula Shelton


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Everyone talks about how creamy and tasty almond milk is, but I have honestly never thought that it is neither creamy nor that tasty. Until I tried to make my own. It was surprisingly easy and it had this delicious, nutty flavor. You can drink it as it is or use it in smoothies, coffee or even matcha tea. Believe me when I say you're going to love it!
2 cups of almond (soaked overnight)
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Place the almonds in a bowl and let them soak in water over the night. Switch out the water the next day and put it all in a blender for about 60 seconds until completely pulverized. To strain the milk use a nut bag (worst case a coffee filter) and place it over the opening of a glass bowl or jar. Pour small amounts of almond milk into the bag, and then squeeze it to segment the milk from the almond pulp. Homemade almond milk lasts around two to three days in the fridge. Enjoy!
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A Nashville building registered as a church has been used as a sex club for swingers, investigators say after a graphic report from undercover inspectors.
The city of Nashville has filed a complaint against the owners of the Social Club for "maintaining a public nuisance by permitting acts of lewd conduct" and violating a state law banning sex clubs from operating within 1,000 feet of a school, WTVF-TV reports.
The longtime downtown swingers club, owned by Freedom 4 All Inc., underwent a conversion in 2015 when it relocated to a run-down office park in the community of Madison, calling itself a church because the new location is near the back of the private Goodpasture Christian School, The Associated Press reports.
Two codes inspectors paid $40 to enter the facility in March and filed affidavits detailing sex acts they witnessed within.
While inside, the pair counted at least 100 people as well as 12 rooms with either a bed or lounge chair inside. The lawsuit says some of the rooms had windows for viewing inside, according to Fox 17 News in Nashville.
The Department of Codes employees said they saw patrons openly engaging in sexual contact and intercourse in the rooms and were even asked to photograph a couple's activities inside "the Choir Room."
Metro's Zoning Administrator Bill Herbert said he was shocked by the investigators' report, according to the New York Post.
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Herbert said it wasn't until recently that the city was flagged of the club's increased late night activity and blatant advertising for "Naughty Nights" every second Saturday of the month.
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Immigration Dynamics in Team Decisionmaking Meetings (TDM) Peer to Peer Discussion
Borelli, Ken
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"The goal of this workshop is to sort out key issues for working with immigration families in child welfare and discuss the techniques and process of integrating immigration concerns with family dynamics. The importance of resources and support to families as prevention strategy so that child welfare problems can be solved at the lowest level of intervention was stressed throughout the workshop." - Publisher's description
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I'm 67 and want to divert my wages into a tax-free pensions lump sum. Can I do this?
I have taken my pension from work, the Pearson Group, but I am continuing to work for a few more years. I am 67. I'd like to go back into the pension scheme to get the benefits of them contributing and the tax-free bit on my contribution but the rules won't let me.
I wondered if it was worth setting up a private pension because I heard that if you had a small pot you could take the lot without buying an annuity. If so, it would be like saving but without paying tax on the income. Is this true and would you recommend it? GB, Sussex.
The short answer is that it is probably not worthwhile. But the the rules do state that you can have two small pension pots - where you don't have to buy and annuity - even after cashing in other larger pensions.
Andy Zanelli and technical pension expert at AXA Wealth explains:
There has been an ability to take 'small pots' as cash for many years and this was extended to private pensions in April 2012.
Technically the rules are
• You must have reached the age of 60
• The payment does not exceed £2,000
• It extinguishes all your rights under the arrangement, and
• You have not previously received more than one payment under one of these types of schemes. This excludes any separate 'stranded payments' commutation under an occupational or public sector scheme.
Extra pension pot: If eligible, you could have two pots totalling around £4,000
If eligible, you could contribute to a pension scheme and get the
appropriate tax relief, therefore you could have two pots totalling
around £4,000.
Two key things to consider are,
firstly, ensuring the provider you deal with will make these types of
authorised payments. More importantly you are correct in that you
do not have to purchase an annuity and the payment is made in cash.
However it is paid as 25 per cent lump sum with the balance of the cash being subject to tax at the clients marginal rate.
If you did the two pots and the full £4,000, £1,000 would be paid as tax-free cash and the balance, £3,000, would be added to the clients income and taxed appropriately.
If you are in receipt of a State Pension and benefits from the Pearson Group scheme this may well take up all of your available Personal Allowance (the initial £10,500 you can earn tax-free) and make the balance subject to at least 20 per cent tax.
If this is the case there may well be only a very marginal benefit balanced against some potential difficulties.
The ultimate benefits would depend on two variables:
- The rate of tax relief the client got when paying the contribution – 20%, 40% or 50%
Tax on The rate of tax suffered on the balance payment as income – 0% [up to £10,500], 20%, 40% or 50%
In most cases I think the client would be getting 20% or 40% tax relief on the contribution – then 0% or more realistically 20% on the encashments.
In other words, the only situation when this might make sense would be if someone was paying 50% tax (on earnings above £150,000) and then was able to take the money out of the pension in a year when they were earning less than £10,500 - the tax-free threshold. It's highly unlikely anyone would be in that situation. If they were, they could save themselves £2,000 in income tax.
In any case, most pension companies would not consider doing this sort of business as it is not profitable for them.
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fuck steck!!!!!!!some deep shit bro.....
"Also if we do the whole psp series there is no chance in hell you could go to cup in october jade would hunt you down and kill all of us" carl jr.
Here we go. My next post is what i had written about in vegas, i though i had lost this last January or February of last year, which was then about 4 months after vegas. However, not to long ago, some body manage to recover some documents from the old computer here, and this was recovered. Like always, i left the post and its contents as un edited as possible, it was what i felt at the time and that is what i wanted to document. This doesn't have much paintball in there but it is what it is:
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Freezing In the Desert
The one aspect tourists tend to forget about in the desert, or at least are not informed of, is the drastic temperature plunge at night. At first the evening is comfortably warm so you don't think twice about your t-shirt and jeans, in fact you're too busy dodging the clicking "business" cards and focusing on the fireworks going off on Treasure Island to worry about something like your shirt. It would take most of the night till you're already shuffling pass Circus Circus or the Rivera before that blister on your foot starts thumping and the chill of the cold Nevada air starts penetrating any bare exposed skin. That's usually when those thirty dollar sweaters with cheesy phrases like "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, except Herpes!" are a pretty good idea. However, you still manage, the cold doesn't stop you.
At least not when your stomach is weighed down with Wild Turkey and your nervous system is being bombarded with stimuli from blinking/rotating/flashing neon lights, and noise coming from whores, gamblers, club hustlers and little Mexicans pawning off handfuls of slut cards on you, which I welcomly appliquéd. Nevertheless, enough time passes and the clock turns whatever, and the voyage back to your room begins. If you're a lucky one, you crawl back to a casino on the strip and take an elevator up to your floor, maybe with a particular lady, and scramble to the door of you room. But for many, it's a matter of climbing into the back of a stingy, and often worn, cab or hustling down the strip to a shuttle pick up. At which point the voyage ends with a walk to a condo timeshare or maybe a cheap motel. That's when the reality of the desert truly kicks up, after all, no longer are you feeling the warm sensation that was radiating off the neon lights that circle, surround, and straddle the strip. Now, all that is left is the cold air and that thin shirt you thought looked good at the start of you adventure so many hours ago.
Needless to say, when that cab turns onto Tropicana Ave with the strip, at least temporarily, in the rear-view mirror, and the rays from the neon walls start to shrink more and more, it becomes obvious that you're veering off the beaten trail and slowly secluding yourself back into a place of clear thoughts and perhaps rational thinking. To many that signals the end of the night, but for a few, maybe that's why they came out here in the first place.
I didn't come here just for the atmosphere that luresyoung partiers to this populated stretch of desert; I did it for the same moments I've experienced in every other place I've traveled this year. For that moment, when I think to myself, "This was worth it, this is something special".
I've grown up my whole life within 15 minutes of a beach, so I have seen a lot of sunrises. When I woke up early on Thursday morning, the morning after my stroll on the strip, I took my bag of oranges and my Itouch to a staircase on the side of the time share, that way my teammates wouldn't be disturbed. I found a seat at the turn of a stair case, sat down, and typed away, like I always do on these little trips, while I feverishly went after my oranges. The other vacationers would've thought I was a freak for sitting on the dirty concrete step, out in the early morning, going at these pieces of fruit like I was on P.C.P. In fact, one older couple started up the staircase, but turned back once they found me sitting on my perch on top of stairs. The fruit only lasted so long and the story I was typing was finished, or so I thought, and then the eventual sunrise rise began. I was interested in taking in the light of the day in hope of an epiphany or some sort of revelation, but I did so also because I locked myself out of the room and didn't have a choice. I climbed up a few levels and got a clear view of the phenomenon. I leaned over the rail, watching the warm orange and yellow light illuminating from the star as it matched up against the red and soft orange clay layers on the mountains, their peaks creating shadows on the bedrock underneath the cliffs. Something I will never forget and surely, couldn't capture in my description. It made me think about how lucky I felt to have traveled this past year, the memories I had made, the friendships I had formed, and the season my teammates and I were having on the NPPL circuit. For all of things I had felt thankful for, there was paintball, friends, and family to thank for it. As I watched the sun lift further into the sky, I felt clarity, relief, and finally some sort of warmth.
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damn, reading these again really makes me miss you guys. Fuck, i'm glad we have these memories together! I need to show my face more!
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