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Business for Core, part of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, provides information about the Common Core. It has created videos detailing how high standards will help students achieve more in college and in careers. Check them out today!
In this post from the Teaching Channel, teacher Lily Jones shows how teachers Tahlequah High School in Tahlequah, Oklahoma are collaborating to differentiate Common Core math instruction for special education.
In this blog post in Edutopia, Professor Maurice Elias writes about how social-emotional skills can boost implementation of the Common Core by preparing students to become productive members of society.
Smarter Balanced has several resources available on the support for under-represented students. Check out these resources on a dedicated page on the Smarter Balanced website.
This press release announces the statewide agreement between Washington's community and technical colleges and public four-year universities in which Washington state's 11th graders who score at a college-ready level on the Smarter Balanced assessments this spring will automatically be placed into...
Want to learn more about automated scoring? Read this research report from Smarter Balanced's pilot testing of its automated scoring system.
In partnership with the Teaching Channel, PARCC has released a video series to show links between assessment and instruction. The videos focus on using PARCC tools to analyze the interactions between standards, evidence, and tasks, and the application of these understandings to inform instructional...
From now until the start of the spring assessments, PARCC will post one test item per week to show the kinds of questions that students can expect on the tests. Click here for PARCC's test item of the week.
ELPA21 has posted a Request for Information (RFI). The purpose of the RFI is to enter a long-term partnership with a public entity to deepen support to states. Interested partners should respond to the RFI by Friday, February 20, 2015.
In 2015-16, WIDA will administer the new, online annual summative assessment, ACCESS for ELLs 2.0, to replace the current paper-based version.
ELPA21 has extended registration for its Field Test and Platform and System Trial until January 16, 2015. Field testing will take place February 2, and this is an opportunity for teachers, administrators, and schools to preview the ELPA21 online assessment and "test the test."
Read this recent article from the Lawrence Journal-World on the development of Dynamic Learning Maps, a computer program to measure the progress of students with cognitive disabilities.
Dynamic Learning Maps has recently announced software updates of the KITE Client for both the iPad and OS X Yosemite for Macs. Click the links to download the KITE Client.
The K-12 Center at ETS has created updated summaries (with illustrations) on the designs of two alternate assessment consortia—the Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) Alternate Assessment Consortium and the National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC). The one-page summaries can be accessed on the K-12...
GreatSchools, a nonprofit organization that helps parents find schools and educational resources, has a video collection that shows parents Common Core student expectations from kindergarten through fifth grade.
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WIDA has a free, 3-part webinar series for families of English language learners to provide them with information about what it means to be an ELL, the WIDA standards and assessments, and how to interpret student language proficiency scores.
Do you wonder who scores the PARCC assessments? Qualified scorers who have degrees in mathematics, reading, education, and other related fields are recruited, trained, and evaluated to become an assessment scorer.
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The College & Career Readiness & Success Center has an interactive state map that presents the broad landscape of college and career readiness initiatives taking place in each state.
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The National PTA has created a new website for districts and schools that wish to hold face-to-face parent nights on the new standards-aligned state assessments. The webpage includes step-by-step instructions and materials that district and school administrators can use to host parent nights....
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Stockton University, home to ELS/Atlantic City, was ranked in the Top 15 public Regional Universities of the North by U.S. News & World Report.
The rankings were published in U.S. News & World Report's 2017 edition of "America's Best Colleges".
Stockton was ranked #14 in northern public regional universities and was ranked #51 overall out of 137 public and private northern universities.
The report evaluates graduation and retention rates, assessment by peers, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources and alumni giving.
Stockton University is a public university with programs for undergraduate, graduate and continuing education students. Over 90% of Stockton's professors hold terminal degrees in their field. The university has a population of over 8,600 students and over 300 full-time faculty members.
ELS/Atlantic City is located on Stockton's 2,000-acre campus in the beautiful Pinelands National Reserve. Students can spend their free time strolling, shopping and sightseeing along the world-famous wooden walkway that is the Atlantic City Boardwalk. Atlantic City is a destination resort area that attracts visitors with its beautiful beaches, shopping outlets, restaurants, casinos and entertainment.
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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Genealogy's popularity declining?
Google Trends plots the frequency of searches on specific topics. Say, you search on the term "genealogy," Google then benchmarks the number of searches on any term based on Web search, Image search, News search or product search. The results are displayed in a graph over time.
Here are a few examples.
This is a search on the term "genealogy."
You can see a definite downward trend for the past eight years. The bench mark in this case was back in 2004. So, you don't believe this? OK, here is a plot for searches on Ancestry.com.
Why is this the case? What is going on globally with genealogy? Oh, just in case you want to see if there is some reality to these graphs, try searching on the term "hurricane." You will see a jump for each year when there was a major storm in the U.S.
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I have not noticed any decrease in those attending my presentations so far, but I did notice a recent down trend in queries for my services. I wish they hadn't cancelled WDYTYA. Bad for business.ReplyDelete
I think that the error in the argument is to conclude that a downward trend in searches for the *word* "genealogy" is an indication of a downward trend in *interest* in genealogy. This may simply indicate a shift away from broad web searches for genealogical information toward use of specific websites (such as Ancestry.com and FamilySearch) to locate relevant information.ReplyDelete
I'm curious if these results include only those searches for "genealogy" or if it includes searches that have genealogy in the search terms (e.g. "Simpson genealogy"). Additionally, these are results from ONE search engine, and doesn't take into account the searches done from within specific websites (Ancestry, FamilySearch, etc.)ReplyDelete
There are so many variables to this scenario that it wouldn't be prudent to put much stock in these results alone.
What about doing graphs for genealogy blogs and podcasts? I subscribe to blogs and podcasts, and describe myself as an intermediate amateur. I started doing genealogy in 1998. I mined the internet genealogy sites for years. I've reached the point now when I occasionally search, but need to concentrate on making all the research functional and format it in a way it can be of use to descendents. So much emphasis is put on online trees, and so many of them are poorly researched-and then take on a life of their own. Websites seem to be marketing trees, not sound research practices that would help intermediate researchers. WDYTYA brings in new researchers-critical. I think you can find some of the missing searchers looking to the genealogical community to advance their skills thru blogs and podcasts. Sorry for the long post.ReplyDelete
I suspect that the people leaving genealogy are those that find it too hard. They have been used to instant gratification and when they can't find gt gt grandma quickly they're discouraged and quit.ReplyDelete
Very interesting I must say. I'm wondering if people are not using the word genealogy when searching as much since they have learned other ways to search, and on specific websites -? Strange.ReplyDelete
- Sven-Ove WestbergOctober 28, 2012 at 11:32 AM
People have learned how to search. The word genealogy do not give the result you want. I search on names, places and number range.ReplyDelete
Most family hunters believe that ancestry.com is the only answer and those using this service (all of us) are getting bored with this what they think is a computer game. The true genealogist knows that the information he wants comes from the living cousins. They have the treasures handed down. Today 2016 these cousins we used to speak with are dead and their children are not interested. They never heard their father say "I loved my mother". The cousins we want to talk with wont answer their phone because of paranoia. Those under the age of 55 cant comprehend that a unknown cousin would like to talk with him for genealogy reasons. That person under 55, who was taught nothing by his parents is a product of divorce and thinks of himself as having half a family. He cant relate to genealogy. On ancestry.com those that began a tree to be seen by all are now tired of the game. They are unaware that real genealogy is done via speaking with the living cousins. With that, they dont want to call anyone for genealogy. Not only are they paranoid of the stranger on the phone, but also they are paranoid to call a known living cousin. Call it the fear of rejection. Thus, ancestry wont answer their questions and the living wont talk. Genealogy is over since say 1990 range. It is now 2016 and genealogy, the 100 year hobby, is over. And, will never return. Paranoia, what they call identify theft and more divorce. Even obits purposely miss-leading listing false relations etc. Worn and stolen tombstones. Nearly all states holding back information. Divorce records not available. Ancestry.com is loaded with errors that are being repeated. Millions of errors. Genealogy bank has very few obits and the chances of finding an obit from 1900 to 1950 is under one percent. Family portraits are gone. Family bibles are gone. nearly nothing remains. Even the 70 attendance family reunions are nearly unheard of. People on ancestry.com will not answer a msg from another member. They even fear signing the msg with nothing more than first name never explaining relationship and fear giving out email addresses. Pleased to receive without a thank you and never do they give. Is genealogy declining?. You bet it is. Its in the dumps. The grandparents are dead. The living paranoid and divorced. A recent survey 13 yr old class of 40. What is the name of your grandmother?. 40 percent answered gramma. Not one said "which one". Nothing is being handed down. The Harvard grad has never seen his grandfathers tombstone. The reason is because he never asked where it is. Have a good one. Anon.ReplyDelete


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A great tax debate is breaking out in state capitals from Vermont to Texas: How do we maintain and expand our vital-but-aging networks of roads, bridges and urban transit systems?
For nearly a century, the nation has funded projects primarily with revenue from gasoline taxes. But the gasoline tax has lost its value over the past decade. Changes in fuel-saving automotive technology and driving habits are resulting in less revenue to repair crumbling bridges, repave highways or upgrade buses and trains.
STORY:New tax hikes eyed for roads, transit
During the same time, many states have been loath to raise the tax. Sixteen states haven't raised gasoline taxes in 20 years or more, according to the policy think tank Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
So year after year, states have seen money for transportation slow to a trickle while critical transportation projects languished on engineers' drawing boards, the inventory of dilapidated and dangerous bridges swelled, and trains and buses got older and creakier.
The debate now is over whether the gas tax can be made sustainable with some fixes, whether other forms of taxation will pay for roads, or whether fees — such as highway tolls and per-mile-traveled charges — can fund transportation networks.
Nowhere is the debate more watched than in Virginia, where Gov. Bob McDonnell seeks to radically reform state transportation funding by repealing his state's 17.5-cents-a-gallon gas tax and replacing it with a transportation-targeted increase in the state sales tax.
McDonnell's press secretary, Jeff Caldwell, says the governor's "very novel approach" reflects his understanding that gasoline tax revenue will only continue to decline.
There are reasons for that. Since 2001, the number of miles driven per person has declined for every age group. People don't start driving until a later age. Many are turning to public transit, bicycling or walking. Since 2000, the number of bicycle commuters has increased 40% nationally, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
And, Caldwell says, "If you raise the gas tax, it will inherently drive up the price of gas without addressing long-term the issue of declining (gas tax) revenue."
McDonnell's proposal, which would have to be approved by his state's legislature, is drawing fire from many quarters.
"He's just substituting one tax for another," says Joshua Schank, president of the Eno Center for Transportation, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C.
"It's a very bad move because it discards the 'user pays' funding concept that we've had ever since the gas tax was first collected by Oregon in 1919," says Bob Poole, director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation, a libertarian policy research group.
"It's fundamentally bad tax policy," says Carl Davis, senior analyst at the liberal-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. "With the gas tax, if you drive more, you pay more in taxes. Or, if you drive a heavier vehicle that does more damage to the roads, you pay more. If you get rid of the gas tax entirely and rely on the sales tax, you are very literally giving drivers a free ride."
Virginia's proposal is "by and large unprecedented," says Jaime Rall, a transportation analyst at the NCSL. The nearest example she could think of was a Hawaii state Senate bill last year that would have increased the vehicle weight tax and repealed the state fuel tax. The measure failed.
Davis recommends linking, or indexing, state gasoline taxes to the rate of growth in the costs of concrete, steel and other infrastructure components. No state currently does, although Florida's gasoline tax rate is linked to the inflation rate measured by the consumer price index. Thirteen states link their gas tax rate to the price of gasoline, he says.
Among the funding options being debated in at least 13 states:
Other taxes and fees. Higher sales taxes, new taxes on gasoline stations, higher motor vehicle registration fees and more tolls are among the options being considered in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Michigan.
In Texas, where the 20-cents-a-gallon gas tax hasn't been raised in 21 years, a state House committee reported in December that the state would have no money for new projects at the current funding level. The Legislature is considering a bill that would rededicate all motor vehicle taxes for transportation. Currently, the money also goes to education and other non-infrastructure expenditures.
Raising the gasoline tax. Wyoming appears to be the closest to raising the gasoline tax this year. A proposal to boost it for the first time in 14 years — from 14 cents a gallon to 24 cents — passed in the House and is being debated in the Senate. Minnesota lawmakers are mulling a new report from Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton's transportation advisory committee, which recommends higher gasoline taxes and vehicle registration fees. Higher taxes at the pump are also being considered in Massachusetts and Missouri.
But debating raising the tax is far more common than actually raising it. Since 2008, only a handful of states — including Hawaii, Indiana, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont — and the District of Columbia have raised it, Rall says.
Schank and Davis say that raising gas taxes is politically difficult because politicians have done a poor job of explaining to voters the connection between the taxes they pay at the pump and better roads, less congestion and safer rides.
"People don't like the gas tax when they talk about it in isolation, but they really don't like bad roads," Davis says.
Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin already are rejecting an advisory committee's early recommendations to raise the tax and imposing a mileage-based, vehicle-registration fee.
The federal gas tax has not been raised in two decades, but Congress has supplemented declining revenue by borrowing from the general fund for transportation — an option not available to most states, which have balanced budget requirements.
Tax by miles traveled. Oregon, Washington and Vermont are among states considering replacing or supplementing the gasoline tax with one that taxes vehicles by the miles they travel. Oregon has legislation that would impose such a tax on 2015 or later-model-year cars that get at least 55 miles per gallon. New federal fuel-efficiency standards passed last year require that by 2025, cars average 54.5 miles per gallon, nearly double the current average.
In Washington, where gasoline tax revenue has been projected to drop by more than $5 billion total between 2007 and 2023, a legislative commission wants to study how such a tax would work.
At least 18 states have studied the idea, Rall says. But no state has moved beyond the experimentation phase and passed miles-traveled taxes on all vehicles, she says.
One problem is privacy concerns, because for the tax to work, cars would have to be equipped with GPS tracking devices that tally the miles driven.
Poole, the Libertarian, favors charging motorists for miles driven. "This is a true user fee, like tolls," he says.
He argues that privacy concerns could be eased by converting existing E-Z Pass transponders, currently used in about half the states, to mileage trackers. "That way," he says, "people don't need any Big Brother technology in their cars."
Many states haven't raised their taxes on gasoline in years. Here, by state, are the total state taxes on a gallon of gasoline and the number of years since the last tax increase:
State (total state taxes) . . . Years since hike
Alabama (20.9 cents) . . . 20
Alaska (8.0 cents) . . . 42
Arizona (19.0 cents) . . . 22
Arkansas (21.8 cents) . . . 11
California (48.7 cents) . . . 0
Colorado (22.0 cents) . . . 21
Connecticut (45.0 cents) . . . 0
Delaware (23.0 cents) . . . 17
District ofColumbia (23.5 cents) . . . 3
Florida 35.5 cents) . . . 0
Georgia (28.5 cents) . . . 1
Hawaii (47.1 cents) . . . 1
Idaho (25.0 cents) . . . 16
Illinois (39.1 cents) . . . 1
Indiana (38.0 cents) . . . 1
Iowa (22.0 cents) . . . 23
Kansas (25.0 cents) . . . 9
Kentucky (29.9 cents) . . . 0
Louisiana (20.0 cents) . . . 22
Maine (31.5 cents) . . . 1
Maryland (23.5 cents) . . . 20
Massachusetts (23.5 cents) . . . 21
Michigan (38.7 cents) . . . 1
Minnesota (28.6 cents) . . . 0
Mississippi (18.8 cents) . . . 0
Missouri (17.3 cents) . . . 16
Montana (27.8 cents) . . . 18
Nebraska (27.2 cents) . . . 2
Nevada (33.1 cents) . . . 20
New Hampshire (19.6 cents) . . . 21
New Jersey (14.5 cents) . . . 21
New Mexico (18.9 cents) . . . 19
New York (50.6 cents) . . . 0
North Carolina (37.8 cents) . . . 0
North Dakota (23.0 cents) . . . 7
Ohio (28.0 cents) . . . 7
Oklahoma (17.0 cents) . . . 25
Oregon (31.0 cents) . . . 1
Pennsylvania (32.3 cents) . . . 6
Rhode Island (33.0 cents) . . . 3
South Carolina (16.8 cents) . . . 23
South Dakota (24.0 cents) . . . 13
Tennessee (21.4 cents) . . . 23
Texas (20.0 cents) . . . 21
Utah (24.5 cents) . . . 15
Vermont (26.7 cents) . . . 0
Virginia (19.9 cents) . . . 25
Washington (37.5 cents) . . . 4
West Virginia (34.7 cents) . . . 0
Wisconsin (32.9 cents) . . . 6
Wyoming (14.0 cents) . . . 14
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Study Shows That It's Way Too Easy To Get A Prescription For Narcotic Pain Pills
A new study published in the April 2014 issue of the journal Medical Care highlights a troubling reality of today's health care landscape: Too often, doctors prescribe potentially dangerous medications to patients who shouldn't be getting them, and what they prescribe is influenced by the pills patients ask for.
The study found that patient requests for certain medications — such as the powerful narcotic oxycodone — "substantially affected physician-prescribing decisions, despite the drawbacks of the requested medications."
The results suggested that even a gentle request from a patient could convince a doctor to prescribe potent, potentially dangerous narcotics — even when they're not the best-practice treatment for the patient's condition.
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To determine whether patients could influence their doctors' prescribing practices, 192 primary care physicians from six states viewed videos in which professional actors simulated a consultation with a primary care doctor. The actors described symptoms that suggest sciatica, or back and leg pain that could be caused by nerve damage.
Half of the "patients" asked for oxycodone specifically, and the other half didn't. The wording of the patients' request for oxycodone was rather unnerving. They said: "My wife/husband had some oxycodone left over from some dental surgery and I took one last night and ... I mean, it really worked. I was amazed."
One video scenario depicted a truck driver complaining of pain. Narcotics aren't recommended for people who have occupations that rely heavily on driving.
Painkillers such as oxycodone also aren't recommended for newly presenting cases of sciatica either, which is what was shown in the videos.
After viewing the video scenarios, the doctors were asked how they would manage the case and what medication they would prescribe.
About 20% of the sciatica patients who requested oxycodone got it. Of the sciatica patients in the study who didn't ask for oxycodone, only 1% received a prescription for it.
Even when the doctors didn't prescribe oxycodone in particular, they were more likely to prescribe another strong narcotic to patients who had requested oxycodone. The doctors prescribed either oxycodone or another strong narcotic (like percocet or hydrocodone) to 73% of the patients who requested oxycodone and to only 30% of the patients who didn't.
'An enormous red flag'
While some patients with severe pain may legitimately require the strongest available treatments, the study shows just how easy it can be for others to get a prescription for unneeded medication.
The idea that patients' suggestions could influence doctors to prescribe things against their best judgment is especially troubling considering the recent spike in pain pill abuse. States have also been cracking down on pill mills that hand out narcotic painkillers to people who don't have a medical need for them.
Physician and Duke behavioral scientist Peter Ubel, who wrote a book about how patients can work with their doctors to make medical decisions, told Business Insider that this shows a problem with medical training.
"That should have been an enormous red flag," Ubel said. "If a patient you've never seen before comes to you with a common complaint like back pain and asks for a specific narcotic drug, there should be sirens going off."
Still, the results of the study could be partially attributed simply to the power of suggestion, Ubel said.
"Once you mention anything to someone, that is in their brain now," he said. "It could be that you're trying to make a decision and then all of a sudden someone mentions something and you can't think of another thing … but you should overcome it when it's an inappropriate suggestion."
The study also included actor-patients who requested the drug Celebrex for their osteoarthritis. This group of "patients" — claiming to have seen ads for the anti-inflammatory drug — saw similar results: 53% of those who asked for Celebrex received it, compared to only 24% of the patients who didn't make a specific request for the drug.
Together, the findings suggest that some doctors are easily swayed by patients — even when prescribing narcotics that are prone to abuse — and that pharmaceutical advertisements targeted at patients may actually affect what doctors prescribe.
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- Legislators Are Trying To Ban A Dangerous New Painkiller Approved By The FDA
- Study Shows It's Way Too Easy To Get A Prescription For Narcotics
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I may not be the only one that does this, but if there is a film that has enough actors in an ensemble that pique my interest and it does not appear on my radar when it comes out cinematically, I have a natural curiosity about it. And if Blood did come to my local cinema, I honestly do not remember it coming and/or going. Nevertheless, there were enough individual actors in it whom I like which inspired me to give the film a go and see what I was missing.
In a cinematic remake of the 2004 BBC miniseries Conviction, Blood is written by British television writer Bill Gallagher and directed by Nick Murphy (Priest) and his younger brother Chrissie (Stephen Graham, Fantastic Mr. Fox), a widower who is dealing with dementia. Joe and Chrissie are investigating the death of a young girl, particularly resonant for Joe as he has a daughter who is the approximate age of the victim. Their investigation circles around a man who has a history of crimes against children and whose apartment contains something from the victim. When Joe and Chrissie's attempt at a confession fails, they decide to take things into their own hands, and the result brings a fellow detective (Mark Strong, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) into the fold and the family in turmoil.
The core of the story is one that has been told countless times before and is likely to be retold many more times, in the vein of 'Tell-Tale Heart.' Something dreadful occurs, and the guilt surrounding those actions haunt those who commit the crimes. Seeing this guilt consume Joe and Chrissie is compelling through the course of the film, and it helps that Bettany and Graham are up to the task. Their performances, along with those of Cox, Strong and Ben Crompton (Kill List) , who plays the suspect of the crimes, are all worthy of mention.
For as good as the acting is, the story that Blood tells has aspirations, but does not follow through them, and the result (combined with some directorial choices) do not help matters. The story tries to go into some depth surrounding Joe and Chrissie's relationship with their now reduced faculty father, but spends little time on it, and when this is reintroduced in the third act proves to be a swerve that proves to stretch the viewer's incredulity. Far more time is spend with Joe and Chrissie's immediate family (or in Chrissie's case, his fiancée) and that should have been the sole focus.
Additionally, the reintroduction of one of the cast members throughout the second and third acts is amateurish and not worthy of the performances the cast delivers. I would have respected the film a little more if Gallagher and Murphy gave themselves 10 more minutes to see out some of the things they touched upon briefly in Blood. To be clear, it is not a case of wanting to see more of Blood and regretting that it ended early; rather if the filmmaker is going to tell the story, one has to be comfortable with the final product, and this one feels incomplete.
I liked watching Bettany, Graham, Strong and Cox in Blood and hope to see them in films together again at some point down the road. But I think it is easy to enjoy the performances while dread the storytelling, and that is what the epitaph of the film will be, long after the ensemble goes onto other (and hopefully better) projects.The Blu-rays:
Presented in 2.35:1 widescreen and in high definition using the AVC codec, Blood is appropriately dour considering its topic, and it is handled nicely in the image with many of the film's darker moments replicated nicely. Black levels are deep and on near-inky status, while providing a nice contrast in moments when car headlights set the tone in a scene. In more normally lit moments, flesh tones and clothing looks decent though lacking a consistent level of detail in the foreground and background. Solid though unspectacular viewing.Audio:
The DTS HD-MA 5.1 surround the film has does pretty much what it is called upon to do which sadly is not all that much. The film lacks any sustained or frequent moments of channel panning or directional effects, though some moments where the detectives are inside an abandoned theater while a teenager with a bullhorn outside almost teasing them makes for a convincing moment. On the other side, dialogue tends to be a touch inconsistent and requires more compensation than expected. It was not a huge distraction, but enough to mention.Extras:
Nada.Final Thoughts:
Blood has some interesting things going on and has the right people doing them, but it takes a lot to get over the main faults the film has, and they distract from a story which could have been an above average production. Technically, the film is not horrible, though it tends to lack anything in the supplement department. Ultimately it is a fascinating rental option, though very little else is going on with it.


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CDP: More big businesses see risks from climate change
CDP: More big businesses see risks from climate change
This story has been corrected to reflect the fact that the Royal Bank of Canada did not refuse to share emissions data with CDP this year; rather, RBC has moved to an every-other-year schedule with CDP.
Although few politicians aside from President Obama dare utter the words "climate change," more global businesses see its impact as a "real and present" danger to their operations, according to a new analysis from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).
More than three-quarters (81 percent) of the world's largest public companies that report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data and sustainability strategies now include physical threats and disruptions from climate change -- such as flooding, drought and fires -- among their corporate risk disclosures, reports the latest CDP Global 500 Climate Change report, co-written with professional services firm PwC.
What's more, 37 percent of the 405 companies reporting to CDP list those factors as a serious threat, up from 10 percent in 2012.
"Extreme weather events are causing significant financial damage to markets," said Paul Simpson, CEO of the CDP. "Investors therefore expect corporations to think more about climate resilience," he said. "There are still leaders and laggards but the economic driver for action is growing, as is the number of investors requesting emissions data. Governments seeking to build strong economies should take note."
More progress needed
The number of companies integrating climate change factors into their overall business strategies rose by 10 percent over the past year, contributing to a reported 13.8 percent reduction in corporate GHG emissions between 2009 and 2012.
Still, about one-third of the companies covered by the report reported no emissions reductions. And some major Global 500 companies did not share emissions data with CDP this year, including Amazon.com, Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, Royal Bank of Canada, Caterpillar Inc., Comcast Corporation, America Movil, Lukoil, Bank of China and National Oilwell Varco.
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The lack of government leadership toward reducing carbon dioxide emissions has left the responsibility for meaningful progress in the hands of business leaders. However, the average long-term emissions reduction target for the companies covered in the CDP report is just 1 percent per year -- below the 4 percent annual cuts needed to limit global warming, according to PwC.
"Even with progress year on year, the reality is the level of corporate and national ambition on emissions reduction is nowhere near what is required," said Malcom Preston, PwC's global lead for sustainability and climate change. "The new 'normal' for businesses is a period of high uncertainty, subdued growth and volatile commodity prices. If the regulatory certainty that tips significant long term investment decisions doesn't come soon, businesses' ability to plan and act, particularly around energy, supply chain and risk could be anything but 'normal'."
What defines a climate leader?
The reports being released this week included detailed information from 379 companies; although 405 businesses submitted data for the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) some were too late for the PwC analysis. Among the factors considered for the disclosure rankings were scale of emissions reductions, and preparedness to respond to regulations.
The companies with the best climate leadership strategies tend to be those that take a long-term view more than 10 years into the future. CDP has created a separate index to recognize these companies called the Carbon Performance Leadership Index (CPLI). The companies that make it onto these lists are generally generating superior returns for investors.
"An investment in a basket of stocks of CPLI companies following the publication of CDP's global report each year since 2006 and rebalanced on any annual basis to reflect that year's CDLI would have generated total returns of 67.4 percent, more than double the 31.1 percent return of the Global 500," write the CDP report authors. "Moreover, past CPLI companies generated average total returns of 15.9 percent since 2010, more than double the 6.4 percent return of the Global 500."
Germany boasts most climate leaders
Some countries are proportionally over-represented on the lists, particularly Germany (which dominates the Top 10). Finland, Spain and the Netherlands also have a strong presence. But France, Japan and the United Kingdom are under-represented.
The companies with the two highest disclosure scores in this year's analysis (receiving the maximum score of 100) were German pharmaceuticals company Bayer and consumer goods giant Nestle of Switzerland, which was new to the list this year.
Here's the rest of the top 10:
BASF (Germany)
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Gas Natural SDG (Spain)
Diageo (United Kingdom)
Nokia Group (Finland)
Allianz Group (Germany)
UBS (Switzerland)
Panasonic (Japan)
US companies make progress
As you might expect, the United States has the most companies on the CDLI. Aside from its Global 500 analysis, CDP also publishes an assessment of U.S. companies that are part of the Standard & Poor's 500 (S&P) large equities index. The latest survey suggests these companies are narrowing the climate strategy performance gap compared with the Global 500, says CDP.
"The scores also show a market increase in the number of companies addressing these issues at the board and executive level," says CDP in its S&P analysis. "The data suggests that, in the absence of global or national regulation, business is stepping into the leadership vacuum and embracing climate change as a business imperative."
The average disclosure scores among the S&P 500 companies improved by 13 percent and far more of them were eligible to receive a performance score rating their credentials as a sustainable business investment.
The top five S&P companies for carbon disclosure in 2012 are Microsoft, UPS, Hess, Pepco Holdings and Sempra Energy.
Meanwhile, 15 companies from the S&P 500 are recognized for carbon performance: Ace, Allergan, Allstate, Autodesk, Bank of America, Best Buy, Eaton, Exelon, Intel, Lockheed Martin, North Grumman, NYSE Euronext, Pepco Holdings, Pfizer and Wells Fargo.


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Tarpon Springs, FL list of housing resources we have uncovered: Homeless Shelters, Supportive Housing, Halfway Housing, Transitional Housing, Day Shelters, Low Income Housing, Residential Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers.
Shelter Listings is dedicated to serving the homeless and low-income. We have listed out the shelters and low cost housing services we have in Tarpon Springs, FL below. This list has homeless shelters, halfway houses, affordable housing, etc. The database consists of over 3,000 listings and includes emergency shelters, homeless shelters, day shelters, transitional housing, shared housing, residential drug alcohol rehabilitation programs and permanent affordable housing.
Tarpon Springs is in Pinellas County, FL. Search listings by Pinellas County.
The Transition House Tarpon Springs WRC for men
Tarpon Springs, FL 34689
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Tarpon Springs Housing Authority Tarpon Springs
Tarpon Springs, FL 34689
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Precision Management, Inc. - Tarpon Springs Manor (for Seniors Ages 62+)
Tarpon Springs, FL 34689
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Charles Tini And Associates, Llc - Sandpiper Village (for Seniors Ages 62+)
Tarpon Springs, FL 34689
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More Housing OptionsWe found very few listings in Tarpon Springs. In that case, here are some local areas that do have shelters or supportive housing of some sort. We provide the full addresses and distince from the center of Tarpon Springs.
Goodwill Industries-suncoast - Heritage Oaks Of Palm Harbor (for Seniors)
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
Listing Location: 3.85 miles from Tarpon Springs
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Women's Recovery Center of Tampa Bay Inc - New Port Richey
New Port Richey, FL 34653
Listing Location: 6.36 miles from Tarpon Springs
Shelter and assistance for displaced women and children.
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Ace Opportunities
New Port Richey, FL 34653
(727) 776-5336
Listing Location: 6.59 miles from Tarpon Springs
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Upper Pinellas Association For Retarded Citizens (uparc) - Uparc Housing Iv (for The Disabled)
Palm Harbor, FL 34683
Listing Location: 6.99 miles from Tarpon Springs
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Coalition for the Homeless of Pasco County
New Port Richey, FL 34656
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Listing Location: 7.67 miles from Tarpon Springs
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Day Shelters supplement homeless and low-income people when the shelter their staying in only offers shelter on an overnight basis. Case management is often provided and sometimes there are laundry and shower facilities. Meals and basic hygiene may also be offered. Almost all day shelters provide their services free of charge. Any emergency or homeless shelter that allows clients to stay during the day is also classified under this category.
Emergency Homeless Shelters both provide short term relief for the homeless & low-income. Usually there is a maximum stay of 3 months or less. Many of these shelters ask their clients to leave during the day. Meals and other supportive services are often offered. 3 times out of 5 these shelters offer their services free of charge.
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending about 600 troops to Eastern Europe in response to Russia's incursion into Ukraine, Rear Adm. John Kirby announced Tuesday.
A company-sized contingent of U.S. paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade will arrive in Latvia on Thursday, the U.S. embassy there announced Wednesday. A similar number of soldiers, about 150, are scheduled to land in Poland on Wednesday. Estonia and Latvia will also host American soldiers for joint training missions in the coming days.
U.S. troops will continue to rotate into the region "at least through the end of this year," according to the embassy.
"Russia's aggression in Ukraine has renewed our resolve to strengthening NATO's defense plans and capabilities, and to demonstrate our continued commitment to collective defense in reinforcing our NATO allies in Central and Eastern Europe," Kirby told reporters at the Pentagon.
The move drew measured praise from Rep. Buck McKeon, a California Republican and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
"This as a small step in the right direction," McKeon said. "By rearranging U.S. forces already deployed in Europe, the president is doing something, however incremental, to reassure our allies. It might have more deterrent value if he included the Ukrainian military in the exercises. It remains to be seen if this move of 600 troops comes in time to make an impression on the tens of thousands of Russian troops on Ukraine's borders."
Russia annexed Crimea, taking control of key port facilities on the Black Sea, and has been accused by U.S. officials of sending forces elsewhere into eastern Ukraine to destabilize the country.
The token presence of U.S. troops in Poland, a NATO ally bordering Ukraine, and the Baltic nations, also NATO allies, could not repel a Russian invasion or eject them from Ukraine. Russia has massed about 40,000 troops on Ukraine's eastern border.
"What would be very helpful is if they removed their forces off that border and took concrete actions to respect the sovereignty of Ukraine," said Kirby, the Pentagon's press secretary.
The presence of U.S. soldiers raises the stakes for Russia in Poland and the other countries if it moves against them militarily. Wounding or killing an American soldier there could risk a major war.
There are about 67,000 U.S. troops in Europe and 12,000 civilians, according to U.S. European Command. The Cold War peak was 400,000 troops, in 1955 and it dropped to about 100,000 several years ago.
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MINNEAPOLIS - Kevin Love sure knows how to make an entrance.
His banged-up Minnesota Timberwolves never needing him more, Love made a surprise return to the starting lineup on Wednesday against Denver, nearly two weeks ahead of the rehabilitation schedule set for his broken right hand.
The All-Star and Olympic gold medallist 's injury was announced on Oct. 18, two weeks before the team opened its most promising season in years. The team initially set a return of six to eight weeks. But Love was able to avoid surgery, and he quietly worked to get back at just under five weeks.
Coach Rick Adelman deftly dodged a question about Love in his pregame media availability, hoping to keep a lid on the surprise as long as possible. But a few minutes later, the news got out.
When he was introduced before the game, a stunned Target Center crowd erupted as they welcomed him to the 2012 season.
"You feel great when you have your best player back," Andrei Kirilenko said. "It's always needed. I'm still worried about him a little bit because it's a pretty hard injury. I'm sure he knows what he's doing. He's a smart player."
And the Wolves need their leading scorer and rebounder right about now. They started the season 5-2 despite missing Love and Ricky Rubio (left knee), then lost JJ Barea (left foot), Brandon Roy (right knee), Chase Budinger (left knee) and Nikola Pekovic (left ankle) to injuries that robbed them of six of their top seven players. But that spirited start gave way to some reality last week when the Wolves lost back-to-back home games against Charlotte and Golden State.
Pekovic and Barea joined Love back in the lineup on Wednesday night against the Nuggets, giving the undermanned Wolves a sense that three weeks' worth of slogging along without their star players was coming to an end.
"I was feeling Pek and JJ was going to take way shorter time to recover because they have, like, those little bangs," Kirilenko said. "But with Kev's broken (hand) that's pretty soon. I like it."
Love was wearing a black wrap around his right hand for a little protection, and he jumped right back into the action as if he'd never left. He grabbed three rebounds and scored six points in the first four minutes of the game.
It likely will take him some time to get his legs back after such a long layoff, but just having him back in uniform is expected to give the team a serious lift.
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Abu Bekr ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Al-Karaji
Born: 13 April 953 in Baghdad (now in Iraq)
Died: about 1029
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The first comment that we must make regards al-Karaji's name. It appears both as al-Karaji and as al-Karkhi but this is not a simple matter of two different transliterations of the same Arabic name. The significance is that Karaj is a city in Iran and if the mathematician's name is al-Karaji then certainly his family were from that city. On the other hand Karkh is one of the original suburbs of Baghdad which grew up outside the southern gate of the original city. The name al-Karkhi would indicate that the mathematician came from the suburb of Baghdad.
Historians seem divided as to which of these interpretations is correct. The version al-Karkhi was proposed by Woepcke (see [7] or [8]) but al-Karaji, the version which is most often used in texts today, was suggested as most likely by della Vida in 1933. Rashed comments (see [1] or [5]):-
In the present state of our knowledge delle Vida's argument is plausible but not decisive. On the basis of the manuscripts consulted it is far from easy to decide in favour of either name.Certainly we know that al-Karaji lived in Baghdad for most of his life and that his chief mathematical works were written during the time when he lived in that city. His important treatise on algebra Al-Fakhri was dedicated to the ruler of Baghdad and was written in the city. However, at some later point in his career, al-Karaji left Baghdad to live in what are described as the "mountain countries". He seems to have given up mathematics at this time and concentrated on engineering topics such as the drilling of wells.
The importance of al-Karaji in the development of mathematics is viewed rather differently by different authors. The reason for this, rather in the same spirit as the different views on al-Khwarizmi, depends on the significance one attaches to the style of his mathematics. Some consider that his work is merely reworking ideas from earlier mathematicians while others see him as the first person to completely free algebra from geometrical operations and replace them with the arithmetical type of operations which are at the core of algebra today.
Crossley [3] sounds relatively unimpressed by al-Karaji's contributions (although he describes the content accurately):-
[Al-Karaji] gives rules for the arithmetic operations including (essentially) the multiplication of polynomials. ... al-Karaji usually gives a numerical example for his rules but does not give any sort of proof beyond giving geometrical pictures. Often he explicitely says that he is giving a solution in the style of Diophantus. He does not treat equations above the second degree except for ones which can easily be reduced to at most second degree equations followed by the extraction of roots. The solutions of quadratics are based explicitly on the Euclidean theorems ...Woepcke in [7] (see also the reprint [8]) was the first historian to realise the importance of al-Karaji's work and later historians mostly agree with his interpretation. He describes it as the first appearance of a:-
... theory of algebraic calculus ... .Rashed (see [5] which contains Rashed's article from [1] and other writings by Rashed on al-Karaji) agrees with Woepcke's interpretation and perhaps goes even further in stressing al-Karaji's importance. He writes:-
... the more-or-less explicit aim of [al-Karaji's] exposition was to find the means of realising the autonomy and specificity of algebra, so as to be in a position to reject, in particular, the geometric representation of algebraic operations.To give another quote from Rashed's description of al-Karaji's contribution:-
Al-Karaji's work holds an especially important place in the history of mathematics. ... the discovery and reading of the arithmetical work of Diophantus, in the light of the algebraic conceptions and methods of al-Khwarizmi and other Arab algebraists, made possible a new departure in algebra by Al-Karaji ...So what was this new departure in algebra? Perhaps it is best described by al-Samawal, one of al-Karaji's successors, who described it as [5]:-
... operating on unknowns using all the arithmetical tools, in the same way as the arithmetician operates on the known.What al-Karaji achieved in Al-Fakhri was first to define the monomials x, x2, x3, ... and 1/x, 1/x2, 1/x3, ... and to give rules for products of any two of these. So what he achieved here was defining the product of these terms without any reference to geometry. In fact he almost gave the formula
xnxm = xm+n for all integers n and mbut he failed to make the definition x0 = 1 so he fell just a little short.
Having given rules for multiplication and division of monomials al-Karaji then looked at "composite quantities" or sums of monomials. For these he gave rules for addition, subtraction and multiplication but not for division in the general case, only giving rules for the division of a composite quantity by a monomial. He was able to give a rule for finding the square root of a composite quantity which is not completely general since it required the coefficients to be positive, but it is still a remarkable achievement.
Al-Karaji also uses a form of mathematical induction in his arguments, although he certainly does not give a rigorous exposition of the principle. Basically what al-Karaji does is to demonstrate an argument for n = 1, then prove the case n = 2 based on his result for n = 1, then prove the case n = 3 based on his result for n = 2, and carry on to around n = 5 before remarking that one can continue the process indefinitely. Although this is not induction proper, it is a major step towards understanding inductive proofs.
One of the results on which al-Karaji uses this form of induction comes from his work on the binomial theorem, the binomial coefficients and the Pascal triangle. In Al-Fakhri al-Karaji computed (a+b)3 and in Al-Badi he computed (a-b)3 and (a+b)4. The general construction of the Pascal triangle was given by al-Karaji in work described in the later writings of al-Samawal. In the translation by Rashed and Ahmad (see for example [5]) al-Samawal writes:-
Let us now recall a principle for knowing the necessary number of multiplications of these degrees by each other, for any number divided into two parts. Al-Karaji said that in order to succeed we must place 'one' on a table and 'one' below the first 'one', move the first 'one' into a second column, add the first 'one' to the 'one' below it. Thus we obtain 'two', which we put below the transferred 'one' and we place the second 'one' below the 'two'. We have therefore 'one', 'two', and 'one'.To see how the second column of 1,2,1 corresponds to squaring a+b al-Samawal continues to describe Al-Karaji's work writing:-
This shows that for every number composed of two numbers, if we multiple each of them by itself once - since the two extremes are 'one' and 'one' - and if we multiply each one by the other twice - since the intermediate term is 'two' - we obtain the square of this number.This is a beautiful description of the binomial theorem using the Pascal triangle. The description continues up to the binomial coefficients which give (a+b)5 but we shall only quote how al-Karaji constructs the third column from the second:-
If we transfer the 'one' in the second column into a third column, then add 'one' from the second column to 'two' below it, we obtain 'three' to be written under the 'one' in the third column. If we then add 'two' from the second column to ''one' below it we have 'three' which is written under the 'three', then we write 'one' under this 'three'; we thus obtain a third column whose numbers are 'one', 'three', 'three', and 'one'.
The table al-Karaji constructed looks like the Pascal triangle on its side.
< clear> Other results obtained by al-Karaji include summing the first n natural numbers, the squares of the first n natural numbers and the cubes of these numbers. He proved that the sum of the first n natural numbers was ½n(n + 1). He also gave (in Rashed and Ahmad's translation, see for example [5]):-
The sum of the squares of the numbers that follow one another in natural order from one is equal to the sum of these numbers and the product of each of them by its predecessor.In modern notation this result is
∑ i 2 = ∑ i + ∑ i (i - 1).Al-Karaji also considered sums of the cubes of the first n natural numbers writing (in Rashed and Ahmad's translation, see for example [5]):-
If we want to add the cubes of the numbers that follow one another in their natural order we multiply their sum by itself.
In modern notation
∑ i 3 = (∑ i)2.Al-Karaji showed that (1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 10)2 was equal to 13 + 23 + 33 + ... + 103. He did this by first showing that (1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 10)2 = (1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 9)2 + 103. He could now use the same rule on (1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 9)2, then on (1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 8)2 etc. to get
( 1 + 2 + ... + 10)2Finally we should mention the influence of Diophantus on al-Karaji. The first five books of Diophantus's Arithmetica had been translated into Arabic by ibn Liqa around 870 and these were studied by al-Karaji. Woepcke in his introduction to Al-Fakhri ([7] or [8]) writes that he found:-
= (1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 8)2 + 93 + 103
= (1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 7)2 + 83 + 93 + 103
= . . .
= 13 + 23 + 33 + ... + 103.
= (1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 8)2 + 93 + 103
= (1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 7)2 + 83 + 93 + 103
= . . .
= 13 + 23 + 33 + ... + 103.
... more than a third of the problems of the first book of Diophantus, the problems of the second book starting with the eighth, and virtually all the problems of the third book were included by al-Karaji in his collection.Al-Karaji also invented many new problem of his own but even those of Diophantus were certainly not just taken without further development. He always tried to generalise Diophantus's results and to find methods which were more generally applicable.
It was not only to algebra that al-Karaji contributed. The paper [9] discusses some of his geometrical work. This occurs in a chapter entitled On measurement and balances for measuring of buildings and structures. al-Karaji defines points, lines, surfaces, solids and angles. He also gives rules for measuring both plane and solid figures, often using arches as examples. He also gives methods of weighing different substances.
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