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quote: You are still believing in an artificial limit. Do some research on how much metal is current recycled and how much is created from raw ore. The economy is about creating things, not raping the world as you see it.
quote: Energy is the most recyclable thing there ever has been. Ever heard of E=mC^2?
quote: Even mass theoretically can be made into energy or vice versa
quote: We can take chemical energy and change it into kinetic energy
quote: Take any energy and it can theoretically be changed into any other form of energy
quote: energy is the most recyclable thing that has ever existed.
quote: Everyone agrees that the idea of a perpetual motion machine is a good thing, but it's also something impossible in a system on earth
quote: Economics isn't about what's "good" per se, but what's the correct price for things.
quote: Even mass theoretically can be made into energy or vice versa.
quote: All recycling and renewable energy is "lossy."
quote: The sun isn't renewable, the energy from it comes at a loss to the reserved energy of the sun.
quote: And theories make everything more understandable. Newton's theories on motion didn't only describe what existed at the time, but helped people create more useful things that Newton never imagined could exist. The engine for example. "Theoretically" is one of the things that does help the real world, and quite significantly at times.
quote: coldfriction, appearantly your economic analysis fails to realize we have reached a ceiling. The world will not let us use more oil than we currently are.
quote: It used to be cheap, but a cost analysis shows solar breaks even in a number of years now, not decades like it used to be.
quote: Know what's funny? I can see a future, call it 75+ years from now, when people like you will grandstand about us "depending" on Rare Earth metals in all the solar panels. And about how we have to get off them or we're all doomed or something lol.
quote: That's hogwash. Your statement is only true if the oil currently being exploited was all that was left on the planet. Which we know not to be the case.
quote: Maybe I was incorrectly educated. I was taught a law known as the Conservation of Energy.
quote: So what if we have to quit using oil? Oil isn't the economy, human's producing things worth trading for the betterment of all is what the economy is about.
quote: should we run out of nuclear, we still have the sun
quote: Good thing I believe in the conservation of energy and that all things change; there is no true loss or gain, just a better condition if we make it
quote: I do understand that we can't close the universe off to obtain all the energy in it, and that entropy removes energy from any system that isn't the entire universe.
quote: Fear mongering is what is killing the progress of mankind. Like the stupid belief that mankind can't make itself better than it is.
quote: BTW it's not hypocrisy. The original poster said that our economy has a cieling; that it is limited in it's ability to grow. I say it is not and back my claim.
quote: Running scared from a boogeyman is not adapting. We need to obtain better understanding of what energies exist, how to reorganize them, and where we go from where we are. Creating a false scenario of the sky falling puts everyone into bunker mode and not progress mode.
quote: We need efficiencies of capturing solar energy to be ECONOMICALLY viable before we can do without oil and nuclear, this is only occurs through reorganization and creation. Get the scientists to quit worrying about the end of the world and they might make something to help someone instead.
quote: it is manipulation of the laws that exist to get something desired.


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J.K. Rowling reveals she almost killed Ron Weasley in 'Deathly Hallows'
By Andy on 6 November 2011 at 09:54 GMT
J.K. Rowling has revealed that she almost killed Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
"Funnily enough, I planned from the start that none of them would die. Then midway through, which I think is a reflection of the fact that I wasn't in a very happy place, I started thinking I might polish one of them off. Out of sheer spite. 'There, now you definitely can't have him any more.' But I think in my absolute heart of heart of hearts, although I did seriously consider killing Ron, [I wouldn't have done it]," she told the actor Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry Potter in the films and who was "convinced one of the main three had to buy it".
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WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is considering a $50 million plan to fund hundreds of police officers in public schools, a leading Democratic senator said, part of a broad agenda against gun violence that is likely to include a ban on high-capacity ammunition clips and universal background checks.
The school safety initiative would make federal dollars available to schools that want to hire police officers and install surveillance equipment, although it is not nearly as far-ranging as the National Rifle Association's proposal for armed guards in every U.S. school.
The idea is gaining currency among some Democratic lawmakers, who see it as a potential area of common ground with Republicans who otherwise oppose stricter restrictions on firearms.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said that she presented the proposal to Vice President Biden and that he was "very, very interested" and may include it in the policy recommendations he makes to President Obama.
"If a school district wants to have a community policing presence, I think it's very important they have it," Boxer said in an interview Thursday. "If they want uniformed officers, they can do it. If they want plainclothes officers, they can do it."
But hope of finding an accord over gun laws dimmed considerably Thursday after the NRA lashed out publicly against what it called the Obama administration's "agenda to attack the Second Amendment" after meeting with Biden and senior White House officials.
Biden plans to present recommendations from the administration's working group on gun violence to Obama on Tuesday. The vice president said Thursday that he sees an emerging consensus around "universal background checks" for all gun-buyers and a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines.
Obama, meanwhile, has said he also supports a ban on assault weapons.
The gun industry has long opposed such restrictions, and the NRA said after its 95-minute White House meeting that it would have nothing more to do with Biden's task force, foreshadowing a partisan and emotionally charged fight over gun control.
"It is unfortunate that this administration continues to insist on pushing failed solutions to our nation's most pressing problems," the NRA said in a statement. "We will not allow law-abiding gun owners to be blamed for the acts of criminals and madmen."
Biden met with other gun-owner groups as well as representatives of hunting and sporting organizations Thursday as he surveys interest groups in the wake of last month's elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 first-graders and six educators.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. met separately Thursday with major gun retailers, including Walmart. Biden already has spoken with law enforcement leaders, victims of gun violence and gun safety groups and has had conference calls with governors and other state and local elected officials of both parties.
The vice president said that going into Thursday's meetings, his task force heard repeatedly about the need to strengthen background checks to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill.
Biden said the proposals would go beyond closing a loophole that exempts some private firearms sales, such as transactions at gun shows, from background checks.
"There is an emerging set of recommendations – not coming from me but coming from the groups we've met," Biden said. "There is a surprising, so far, a surprising recurrence of suggestions that we have universal background checks."
These recommendations were not only about "closing the gun show loophole," he said, "but total universal background checks, including private sales."
He said the focus would be on how to "strengthen those background checks."
Biden also mentioned strengthening the ability of federal agencies to conduct research about gun violence. He drew a comparison between current limits on federal gathering of data about gun violence and 1970s-era restrictions on federal research into the causes of traffic fatalities.
Biden stressed a need for the government to collect information about "what kind of weapons are used most to kill people" and "what kind of weapons are trafficked weapons."
The Obama administration is weighing solutions beyond gun laws, including mental health and education initiatives.
Boxer's school safety plan would cost about $50 million and restore or add funding to some Community Oriented Policing Services programs that pay for police officers, tip lines, surveillance equipment and secured entrances at public schools.
After the Newtown shootings, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre proposed that every school be protected by armed guards, who could be volunteers, firefighters or private security personnel.
Boxer said that her plan is limited to law enforcement officials from the community and that any decision would be up to individual schools.
"I don't see why anyone should object to it, left or right," Boxer said. "It's an area where I think I can find common ground with my colleagues on all sides."
The vice president also met Thursday with representatives from the entertainment industry, including Comcast Corp. and the Motion Picture Association of America.


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Schifferdecker Named MAC Scholar Athlete of the Week
MUNCIE, Ind. - - After posting a 3-0 record in the circle last week, Ball State softball sophomore pitcher Kelsey Schifferdecker (Belton, Mo./Belton) has been named the Mid-American Conference Female Scholar Athlete of the Week as voted on by the league's faculty athletics representatives.
A three-time MAC West Division Pitcher of the Week this season, Schifferdecker earns MAC Scholar Athlete of the Week accolades for the first time in her career. The Scholar Athlete of the Week Award is presented to one male and one female MAC student-athlete each week that has a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0-or-better and performs well during the previous week's competition.
"I am very excited for Kelsey to be recognized not only for her athletic accomplishments, but for her work in the classroom as well," Ball State head coach Tyra Perry said. "Kelsey is a very hard worker on the field and puts just as much, if not more, time into her studies. For her to maintain a 3.95 grade-point average with nearly two seasons of play under her belt is a testament to how hard she works and how focused she is on being an outstanding student-athlete."
Schifferdecker, a business major with a 3.954 grade-point average, turned in a solid all-around week by leading the Cardinals to a 3-0 record over her three starts, highlighted by a complete game shutout of MAC-leading Ohio last Sunday. In the win, Schifferdecker limited the Bobcats to just three hits and a walk over 7.0 innings of work. She also tallied three strikeouts, including the final batter of the game.
In Friday's doubleheader versus Akron, Schifferdecker entered the first game in relief and held the Zips to just six hits and one run over 5.0 innings of work in a 4-2 loss. In the nightcap, she threw 4.2 innings and surrendered just one run and six hits to guide the Cardinals to a 15-2 (5 inn.) victory. Schifferdecker opened the week by leading Ball State to a 6-3 victory at Indiana, limiting the Hoosiers to 12 hits and three runs in a complete game win.
Schifferdecker finished the week with a 1.48 ERA and a 1.23 WHIP (walks plus hits per inning pitched) over 23.2 innings of work. In league-only contests this season, Schifferdecker is second in the MAC with a 1.53 ERA. She owns a 4-1 record in MAC action and has held opposing batters to a .245 average over 36.2 innings of work.
Schifferdecker and the Ball State softball team return to action with a two-game weekend series versus its Mid-American Conference travel partner Miami. The teams are scheduled to play single games Saturday (2 p.m.) and Sunday (1 p.m.) at the BSU Softball Complex.
For the most up-to-date news on Ball State softball, follow the team on Twitter: @BallStateSB and @TyraPerry13/ Instagram: ballstatesb / Facebook: BallStateSoftball
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MIFFLINTOWN - A 38-year-old McAlisterville man accused of robbing three banks, allegedly confessed after recently speaking with two FBI field agents.
All told, Richard L. Lockett stole over $20,000 from three different banks over a period of nearly 30 days to support a drug habit, police said.
It remains unclear at this time whether any of the cash was recovered by investigators.
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Lockett confessed to committing the unarmed robberies of the First National Bank in Thompsontown on Oct. 22, the Juniata Valley Bank in Port Royal on Oct. 27 and the Swineford National Bank in Beaver Springs on Nov. 5, court documents indicate.
Lockett also confessed to stealing a Ford Escort from Lewistown, which he used in the commission of two of the robberies, police said.
Police first began to zero in on Lockett as a suspect after Juniata County Probation Officer Abby Krepps told investigators she had received an anonymous phone call from someone who claimed Lockett was spending large amounts of money on drugs, and bragging about stealing cars.
Shortly thereafter, Lockett's nephew, Jesse Michalchic was interviewed by police and told investigators he believed Lockett had committed the robberies, according to court documents.
Michalchic was shown surveillance photographs of the bank robberies, which reinforced his believe it was Lockett who committed the robberies, police said.
On the morning of Oct. 27, Lockett contacted Michalchic requesting a ride from the Newport Giant Food Store to Harrisburg. During the course of the drive, Lockett removed a large sum of cash from his pants pocket, police said.
After arriving in Harrisburg, Michalchic saw Lockett remove another large sum of cash from a purse he had been carrying around with him. Michalchic said Lockett gave him $300 for the ride to Harrisburg, court documents indicate.
Lockett was arrested on Nov. 16, at Rebecca Powell's residence in Lewistown along South Pine Road. Powell was interviewed and told investigators Lockett had been in possession of a large amount of cash and had given her $1,000 to hold, which she later wired to him while he was in Harrisburg.
Powell also told investigators Lockett had been acting strange and was using heroin, court documents state.
Lockett was then transported to Lewistown Borough Police Department for questioning, where he was provided a Rights and Warning Waiver, which he signed and then requested to speak with field agents from the FBI.
During the course of the investigation, the state police were assisted by field agents from the FBI, Lewistown Borough Police Department, Mifflin County Regional Police and the Granville Township Police Department.
Lockett was charged with three counts of robbery, one count of criminal attempted robbery, one count of theft by unlawful taking and one count of receiving stolen property.
Lockett was arraigned at Magisterial District Judge Barb Lyter's office and placed in the Mifflin County Correctional Facility in lieu of $300,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is tentatively scheduled for Nov. 28, and Lockett is represented by Steven Manbeck.


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TRUCKEE, Calif. - Those involved in new construction within the Truckee Donner Public Utility District's service area can expect to pay more in water fees in the coming months.
At a TDPUD board meeting Wednesday night, the board of directors unanimously approved adjusting both one-time water facility fees and water connection fees - each fee hadn't been adjusted since April 2005 and February 2008, respectively.
The water facility fee for commercial projects such as golf courses and schools will increase about 30 percent due to inflation over the years, said Neil Kaufman, water system engineer for TDPUD.
That increase will take place in two phases, the first taking effect 60 days after the board's vote, and the second taking effect Jan. 1, 2014.
"We're spreading the increase out because we do recognize that it can be a significant increase if unplanned for," said Steven Poncelet, public information and conservation manager for the TDPUD, after Wednesday's meeting.
Pat Davison, of the Contractors Association of Truckee Tahoe, said she would like that timeframe to be extended.
"We still prefer the three-year phase-in of the commercial phase increase," she told the board Wednesday.
"I can't speak for the rest of the board, but for myself I feel like we've met a middle ground," said board president Tony Laliotis. "I think this gives developers and contractors some time to get their plans in before the final step comes into play, and trying to move forward with some of these projects gives them time to save a little bit of money."
Those involved in residential projects - or single-family residential housing - will have an opportunity to save money since the water facility fee for those projects will see a 3-cent decrease per square foot, going from $1.64 to $1.61.
"What has happened in the interim since 2005 is the size of houses (most notably the living space) have increased significantly, so it's not that the cost of providing service has decreased," Kaufman said. "It hasn't. It has increased in the same manner as the commercial has; it's just the houses have grown at even a faster rate, so on a per-square-foot basis, it goes down."
This fee change will take effect 60 days after being adopted.
"The purpose of facility fees is to deal with the impact of new construction, growth upon the water system," Kaufman said after the meeting. "That basically pays for the construction of additional water supply, additional water storage capacity and associated system-wide large transmission to serve individual projects."
"Growth pays for growth," Poncelet said.
Board vice president Ron Hemig also touched upon that topic.
"Again, our job is to make sure there are funds available for whenever this (growth) occurs, so we have to collect in advance and we have to be prepared," he said.
This fee is increasing by approximately $100 for smaller meters; as for the larger meters, they will remain at actual cost, Kaufman told the board, in order to reflect current district costs.
"Water connection fees go with the actual physical connection of a project to the water system," he said after the meeting.
Some costs for the district in doing so include the purchase and installation of a water meter and administrative costs associated with creating new accounts, Kaufman said.
This fee will go into effect 60 after being approved.


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SALEM - If you walked into Reilly Stadium late last Friday night, you missed plenty of excitement.
Two fumbles, a touchdown and a field goal put Salem up 10-0 over the top ranked team in Ohio Div. III, Region 11 after one quarter of play.
For the next three quarters, it was all Dukes as Marlington eventually overpowered a younger, smaller Salem club en route to a 41-10 victory.
The gauntlet continues for the Quakers as they hit the road for the first time since week two to square off against another quality NBC opponent in Canton South.
The Quakers won last year's game 17-10.
"They're playing very, very well," Salem head coach Ron Johnson said. "They had a nice comeback win last week. They had another come-from-behind win against Northwest."
Canton South is trying to keep pace with those same Dukes that churned out 41 unanswered against Salem last Friday. The Wildcats have just one loss on their record, coming in NBC play, and have a marquee match-up with Marlington in week eight.
This week the Quakers will get to play a bit of a spoiler role when step onto the field at Clyde Brechbuler Stadium.
"We're not thinking about that," Johnson said. We just want to be 1-0 this week and win."
For South, sandwiched between Salem and Marlington is West Branch in week seven. While the necessity to focus one week at a time is on the Wildcats, there is still an importance in preparation for Salem.
"Good football teams don't overlook teams," Johnson said. "I don't think they're going to overlook anyone. It's their homecoming, it's a big game for them. I think we're going to get their best shot."
Last week the Wildcats escaped a scare with the Alliance Aviators and pulled out a 33-27 win.
That comeback was keyed by a running game featuring Josh Kenny, and a passing attack highlighting Josh Lyons to seal the deal.
On the season, Lyons has thrown for over 800 yards and nine touchdowns. It's a change of pace from the high powered ground attacks that Salem has gotten accustomed to over the past few weeks.
"It's really the first true passing offense that we've seen so it is a little different," Johnson said. "He's a true passer."
Defensively, Salem is preparing for an in-your-face attack that features plenty of pressure. A short passing game, displayed early on last week, will be key to developing timing and rhythm.
The speed that occupies the Quakers backfield and receiver positions will also undoubtedly need to be a factor.
"They're vulnerable to some fast guys," Johnson said. "Alliance had some fast guys and made some big-time plays. We've got some fast guys, but they're a high-pressure defense, and we're going to have our hands full.
The developing offense will continue to grow, and likely bring new wrinkles added to what was seen last week to optimize space.
"As we continue to get more reps, we'll get better at it," Johnson said. "We'll continue to expand the package and then we'll have more answers for what we can do on offense."
With rain all week, the forecast for Friday night in Canton is expected to be relatively dry - a contrast from the three rain-soaked affairs that have taken place at Reilly Stadium in recent weeks.
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On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 11:13:00PM +0100, Markus Moeller wrote:[color=blue]
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> I get an GSS: error: "The token was a duplicate of an earlier token" and
> debugging on the client shows that it received seq 0 but expected 1. So I
> need to dig a bit further what my server processes do. Is the following OK :
> client <-> server main process establishes context -> export_context
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Do I understand correctly that you're importing a given exported
security context token twice?
If so, then "no, that's not supported." RFC2743 is quite clear on this.
And it makes sense too: there may be no way for "child 1" and "child 2"
to keep their sequence number windows in sync and perform as well as if
they did not even try to keep them in sync. Also, the spec allows the
second GSS_Import_sec_context() function call to fail, and it is
possible to imagine implementations where such a failure would occur.
Heck, even if an implementation supported multiple imports of one
exported security context token you'd still have problems because
whatever the per-message token sequence number window size is, if one
process consumes/produces per-message tokens at a sufficiently different
rate than the other then you'll still get sequencing errors.
You could cheat and not request sequencing, but there's no guarantee
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Michael Francis
Recently appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor to Sweden's Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Michael Francis follows in the footsteps of Herbert Blomstedt and Franz Welser-Möst each of whom were Chief Conductor with the orchestra in the early stages of their careers.
His successful 2010 'step-in' debut with the San Francisco Symphony has led to his conducting that orchestra's New Year's Concerts in 2011 and 2012 and to conduct nine classical concerts in each the 2011 and 2012 summer seasons.
Most recent and upcoming debuts include those with the Boston, Washington, Pittsburgh, Vancouver, Bournemouth, Toronto, Milwaukee, New World, Ottawa and Quebec Symphonies, as well as the Dresden, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Japan Philharmonics, while making return visits to Stuttgart, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Oregon, Seattle and BBC Wales.
Other acclaimed debut concerts included the New York Philharmonic, Houston, Seattle, and Oregon Symphonies as well as with Mariinsky Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and Münchner Symphoniker.
His musical collaboration with Anne-Sophie Mutter began in January 2009 when he made 'step-in' performances for André Previn in four German cities conducting Mozart and Gubaidulina concerti plus major works of Hindemith. He has also appeared with Ms. Mutter in the 2010 world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Lichtes Spiel with the New York Philharmonic, and on a 2012 European tour conducting Sebastian Currier's Violin Concerto Time Machine with the RSO Stuttgart. In May 2012 they collaborated again on a tour of seven European cities with an orchestra of musicians from the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics.
Michael Francis will return to Asia with Ms. Mutter in November 2012 for concerts in Taiwan and Hong Kong having earlier conducted a series of concerts for her in 2010 with the National Taipei Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. While on this tour, Mr. Francis again 'stepped-in' to conduct the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra to great triumph.
Michael Francis came to prominence as a conductor in January 2007 when he was asked, with 12 hours' notice, to replace an indisposed Valery Gergiev for the rehearsals and performance of Gubaidulina's Märchen-Poem and Pro et Contra with the London Symphony Orchestra during the BBC Gubaidulina festival at the Barbican Centre. Only one month later, Michael was asked, this time with only two hours' notice, to replace the composer/conductor John Adams in a performance of his own works with the LSO at the Philharmonie Luxembourg: the program was Slonimsky's Earbox, The Dharma at Big Sur (an electric violin concerto with Leila Josefowicz) and Naïve and Sentimental Music.


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As an undergraduate at Eastern Michigan University in Warren, Mich., Rob Ciesluk was part of a percussion trio called Axis Indoor Percussion. After graduation, the trio disbanded. Ciesluk went off to serve as the band director at St. Wendelin School in Fostoria for three years and worked on a master's degree
at Bowling Green State University.
Somewhere along the line, Ciesluk wanted to create a larger performing percussion ensemble. That opportunity came this school year at Tiffin University, where Ciesluk is director of bands.
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This photo from Tiffin University shows Rob Ciesluk directing Axis from a high perch at
Hemminger Center at TU.
Axis drummers (from left) Nick Mahr, Travis Valdez and Kenzie Huffman keep their eyes on the director during an April 6 rehearsal.
Drummers show their stick work during a recent rehearsal.
"It's been evolving in my head for quite a few years," Ciesluk said.
The season typically starts in October, but Axis was not launched until December 2012. The group includes 27 men and women, including students from area high schools, BGSU and Tiffin University. Ciesluk said membership in the ensemble is open to musicians ages 14-23, but preference is given to those with ties to Tiffin University.
It is not necessary to be a music major.
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For the 2013-14 school year, director Rob Ciesluk plans to conduct auditions for Axis in mid-October.
He said people interested in the group already have been contacting him. The Axis Indoor Percussion Ensemble Facebook page will have audition dates posted, along with other updates.
For more information, call him at (419) 448-3439.
In choosing a name for the ensemble, the members had a brainstorming session.
"TU has many touring groups, so we wanted something distinctive," Ciesluk said.
With the mix of members, they did not want Tiffin University as part of the title. Because the original Axis was defunct, Ciesluk proposed that name for the group, and the musicians adopted it.
Although based at Tiffin University, Axis is an independent organization. Membership is free for those enrolled or employed at TU, but everyone else must pay an annual fee of $350. The university provides the instruments, transportation to competitions, an equipment trailer, meals and other touring expenses.
Even with the delayed start, Ciesluk and his assistants, Aaron Wheeler and Mike Hejka, were able to prepare a competition routine for the Ohio Indoor Performance Association competitions.
The group's first program is called "Tribal Affect." Jonathan Thomann wrote the drill, with music composed by Ian Grom and John Mapes.
The percussionists decided to paint their faces and march in bare feet. They wrapped the drums in striped fabric and dressed in earthy colors and animal prints. Ciesluk designed a circular floor mat with African art work. The mat marks the performance area and helps keep the marchers oriented and properly spaced. Ali McClintock collaborated with Ciesluk to paint the mat.
"I had three or four pictures, and then we put them together and made it," Ciesluk said. "We have a giant tarp that covers one basketball court. Generally, you would paint that tarp, but we decided we didn't want to have 10 extra people worrying about that, so we would just go with a smaller one this year."
With members coming from various locations, Ciesluk tried to schedule weekly practices that run 9 a.m.-5 p.m. or sometimes 9 a.m.-9 p.m. in TU's Heminger Center. Occasionally, they had an overnight "camp weekend."
Ciesluk said each ensemble has a time limit in which to perform.
"There's set rules. It needs to be at least 41/2 minutes and it can't be longer than 6 minutes. ... You can only have a 9-minute total of what they call 'interval time.' So if your show is 6 minutes, then you only have 3 minutes to set up and tear down," Ciesluk said.
At its debut appearance Feb. 16-17 at Springfield High School in Holland, Ohio, Axis won first place in its division. It also competed March 24 at North Royalton High School. Before the final competition of the season April 6, the musicians showed up at Heminger at 9 a.m. for a 3-hour practice before driving to Wapakoneta.
The marimbas and vibraphones form a stationary front line. Just behind them are keyboardist Morgan Hammond and Billy Gruber on drum set. Various drums and cymbals do most of the moving about the mat, but even the front line has choreography and vocalizations to perform.
Bowling Green student Paul Sansing plays toms, vibraphone, marimba and even throws in some didgeridoo.
"It's a lot of fun and a lot of work," he said.
In addition to the cadences and beats, the drummers must do fancy stick work, arm and body movements and intricate footwork in different directions while fading in and out of formations.
Billy Sheak, a Bowling Green student, is one of the quad drummers. He describes his participation as "stressful but fun."
Spectators may find it difficult to choose what to watch. The flying mallets on the front line provide quite a show in themselves. Katherine Hickey of Bowling Green, who plays those instruments, said she has been doing percussion for nine years, but this is her first experience with an indoor percussion team. She said mistakes are more noticeable in the front line than they would be in a large marching band.
"The performance is more personal because we're closer to the audience," Hickey said. "At BG, I'm one in 12 cymbals, but here there's only two vibes. ... You have to be on top of your game."
TU student Jacob Simon of Morral played bass drum with Axis. His experience includes about 16 years of playing percussion in marching and concert bands, but this is his first involvement with an indoor drum line.
Like Hickey, he learned Axis differs from traditional marching units.
"Axis taught me a lot about determination. This activity demands a great deal of energy, and you just have to stick to it. Without dedication and positive energy from each member, the final product would not have been such a success," Simon said.


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LOCKPORT – Lawrence G. Congi, who washed out of court-supervised mental health treatment because of his cocaine addiction, was sentenced to a year in jail Wednesday for knifing a man a year ago in a Niagara Falls motel.
Congi, 41, of Niagara Falls Boulevard in the Falls, had pleaded guilty in February to third-degree assault and was assigned to Niagara Falls mental health court.
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Every field of human endeavor has a vocabulary of its own. Sometimes, it helps to look into the meaning of words that are unfamiliar in order to understand directions or explanations.
Gardening is no different. Many terms are specific to horticulture or botany, and it is helpful for beginners to know what they mean. A few of these follow, and experienced gardeners may want to skip this column and go directly to the news pages.
Some fairly well known terms apply to the life of a plant.
An annual germinates, grows, blooms, produces seed and dies all within one season. A biennial takes two years to complete its life cycle, starting with foliage in the first year and blooming and setting seed in the second, and a perennial has a longer life, depending on the variety.
A peony is one of the longest-living, sometimes upward of a hundred years.
Hybrid is a term that is often used but little understood.
Hybrid seeds are the result of cross-fertilizing within a species with the objective of gaining more vigorous growth, more uniform fruit, greater disease resistance or some other desirable quality.
A few drawbacks are that a hybrid flower probably will not breed true, in some cases may be sterile, and they tend to be expensive.
There are a group of specialized swollen stems that can be used to propagate a plant, and the ordinary bulb is the best known of these.
In addition, there is a corm, which is a below ground type of stem that looks like a bulb, and produces small off-shoots called cormels. Autumn crocus and gladiolus grow from corms.
Such diverse plants as potatoes, dahlias and caladiums grow from tubers, which have eyes or nodes from which new shoots develop.
And a stolon is an above-ground stem which sends up shoots from each node
Scarification is a long word with a short meaning. It means to scratch.
Some seeds with a hard coat need to be scratched or notched with a sharp knife in order to be able to absorb water for germination.
Other seeds need to be stratified, or exposed to cold temperatures for a period of time before planting in order to break their dormancy. Bleeding heart is an example of this.
Directions on seed packets often suggest full sun, part shade or other conditions for the best growth.
Full sun means at least six hours a day. Full shade means a substantial reduction in light for the entire day. Part shade denotes equal amounts of sunlight and shadow, either afternoon or morning. Light shade offers a few hours of shade during the heat of the day.
A groundcover is any low-growing plant that will spread to cover the ground, look attractive and keep weeds down.
It will require less upkeep than a lawn, can be used in shady spots, will need less water, and once established will flourish with little care. (And if you are not careful it may take over your property.)
Alpines are plants whose native habitat is above the tree line on a mountain. In the garden, they will do well in a trough or rock garden,
needing gravelly, fertile and well-drained soil similar to their native habitat.
They will often have built-in protection such as thick leaves or grey or hairy foliage to enable them to flourish through drought or strong sun.
Herbaceous refers to non-woody growth that dies back to the ground in winter. An herbaceous border is a rather pretentious name for an area that contains predominantly perennials, but also might feature shrubs, ornamental grasses, biennials and annuals.
And finally, a knot garden is a decorative and strictly ornamental herb garden featuring foliage designed to look like miniature hedges looping over and under one another.
These beautiful garden beds are time-consuming and require almost daily clipping and watering to maintain.
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Google rivals are pressing the European Commission to reject Google's proposed antitrust settlement as "totally inadequate" because the search firm would still have "too much scope" to favor its own products in its search results.
The EC said it's gotten "very negative" feedback from Microsoft and other companies that originally leveled antitrust charges against Google.
Google offered to label its properties and show links "to three rival specialized search services close to its own." The EC said Google also has agreements with web sites and ISVs that stifle competition for ads.
Hubert Burda, president of the German magazine publishers' association, said either Google will have to improve on the remedies or the EC would be pushed to issue a statement of objections and force remedies on Google.
Competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia wants to end the EC's investigation with a deal.
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Shortsighted is, I believe, the word for opposition to a measure now under consideration by the Freeport City Council to get a handle on rental property in town.
Sure, the tight municipal budget requires a fee to establish and operate the program. In the long term, it will be more expensive to let deterioration continue. The result will be lower values and more problems, at taxpayers' expense.
I've owned and operated rental property, not by choice, in marginal neighborhoods, and I can tell you that things just do not remain the same. Change, slowly, is always in progress.
The problem is not unique. Such cities as Portland, Oregon and Winston-Salem, North Carolina have effected such municipal legislation.
Property owners should realize they would be investing in their own future.
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Professional Staff Senate members peppered President Satish K. Tripathi with questions on a wide range of topics Thursday during the group's final meeting of 2013, including the deficit reduction program as part of the new United University Professions' contract and the emergence of online courses known as MOOCs.
"Listen for a few minutes and then ask me lots of questions," a grinning Tripathi said before giving a 15-minute update on the current academic year, beginning with President Obama's visit to campus in August to kick off his plans to make higher education more affordable.
Obama's dialogue is continuing on university campuses across the nation, Tripathi said. While many colleges support Obama's proposals, Tripathi noted that the majority of U.S. university presidents oppose the new rating system he wants to implement by 2015, a system that rewards schools based on metrics tied to performance.
Tripathi also talked about Finish in 4, UB's initiative to provide the resources students need to graduate in four years. "It's not just a slogan," he said. He also thanked university staff who assisted with the creation of UB's new winter session.
Briefly addressing the student partying controversy that's been brewing in University Heights, the neighborhood that borders the South Campus, Tripathi said, "We need to work with the neighborhood to make sure that we are a good neighbor."
He also talked about the future of the South Campus. "We definitely want the South Campus to be as vibrant — in fact more vibrant — than it is today," he said. "As I've said before, we want to take the temporaries out, move a couple of other schools there and make that the E.B. Green campus it used to be."
Tripathi also touted the $25 million National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center grant UB received earlier this month to develop next-generation crystallography.
The question-and-answer session covered a number of topics over the course of the next 45 minutes of the forum, held in the Center for Tomorrow.
One PSS member asked Tripathi about the deficit reduction program in the new UUP contract, which requires employees to take two unpaid days off, noting that other SUNY schools already have informed employees of when those days must be taken.
Tripathi said UB's vice presidents and deans should work with their staff members to determine the best days to take off. "I personally feel that we need to have that flexibility at the unit level so that people can see when the best days are, rather than me saying Dec. 26 and 27 are the two days," he said, adding he'll be sending out a communication to employees "very soon."
When asked for his thoughts on Massively Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, Tripathi said he has frequent conversations about their emergence in higher education. "There's not a single meeting I go to where we don't talk about MOOCs," he joked. In the short term, there's a lot of hype over MOOCs, but over the long term, Tripathi said, there will be impact, especially at the undergraduate level. "Undergraduate education is not just taking courses. It has a lot more to do with the environment, the campus and so forth," he said.
"MOOCs, many of us feel, are like a textbook. … MOOCS are really just a one-way transfer of information. You are absorbing, but you have no way to have interaction. So this provides a chance to have another source of information for people to learn from, in addition to the textbook. Given the price of a textbook these days, it might be a better alternative."
Tripathi pointed out that student needs and demands will determine whether these online courses become more prevalent.


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Weekly Audit: The Closing Bell
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
This week marks the final edition of the Weekly Audit. It has been a pleasure compiling the best financial and economic writing in the Media Consortium. Thanks to all the contributors whose work we've showcased and to all the loyal readers who have shared in this experience.
Debt Ceiling 101
As the Weekly Audit wraps up, we're looking ahead to some critical economic issues facing the country. Christen Simeral and Veronica Beebe of The American Prospect explain what the debt ceiling is and why the debate over raising it is shaping up to be the political battle of the year.
In short, the debt ceiling is the maximum amount the government can borrow. The debt ceiling is currently $14.294 trillion. At the current rate of spending, we're due to hit the wall around May 16, if Congress doesn't vote to raise it. Usually, raising the debt ceiling is a formality. Congress has voted to raise the debt ceiling 10 times in the last 10 years.
If the debt ceiling isn't raised, the government can't take on any new spending commitments. Worse still, the government may not have the cash it needs to pay tax refunds, Social Security payments, and other critical disbursements. Failing to raise the debt ceiling would hurt the U.S.'s credibility in global markets, making it more expensive for us to borrow money in the future.
The war on unions
All across the country, right wingers are trying to turn union workers into scapegoats for the nation's economic woes.
Right wing media baron Andrew Breitbart tried to frame some labor history instructors at the university of Missouri by deceptively splicing together hours of classroom footage to make it look like the professors were advocating violence and sabotage, Dave Gilson of Mother Jones reports. The unedited video shows that the instructors are discussing the bloody history of the American labor movement, in which violence has overwhelmingly been perpetrated by management against workers.
NAFTA reprise
Multinational corporations are renewing their lobbying push for more NAFTA-like trade deals, Michelle Chen reports for Colorlines.com:
The construction giant Caterpillar is reportedly planning to treat its workers to steaming cups of Colombian coffee in the coming weeks, to warm them to the benefits of doing business with their "partners" in Latin America. While employees enjoy their break, lobbyists will be working hard, in their name, to peddle so-called "open markets" in Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
Chen reports that lobbyists for multinationals are besieging Congress to push for three new accords. The Panama deal is expected to be first on the agenda. Advocates for fair trade have been fighting these deals since the George W. Bush administration.
The push for deregulated international trade is on at the state level, too. The conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is handing out boilerplate resolutions to state representatives urging Congress to approve the trade deals. Chen notes that the Koch Foundation is among the major backers of ALEC.
High gas prices
Gas prices have long been seen as a bellweather of the electorate's state of mind. When gas is cheap, incumbents rest a little easier. When gas prices rise, challengers start licking their chops. Daniel J. Weiss and Valeri Vasquez report in Campus Progress that rising gas prices are frustrating consumers and enriching speculators:
This year "it's like déjà vu all over again." Oil prices are rising to heights not seen since 2008. Oil rose from $85 per barrel to $112 per barrel in a little more than two months—a whopping one-third leap. Gasoline prices have followed along, rising by 70 cents per gallon—or 23 percent—during this same time. As our economy struggles to recover from the Great Recession, Americans are again forced to pinch pennies to afford their commute to work, school, and worship. Meanwhile, oil companies prepare to reap record profits in the first quarter of 2011.
The authors note this combination of rising pump prices and soaring corporate profits looks an awful lot like the oil shock of 2008, which helped push the economy into recession.
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Weekly Audit: Hostage-Taking Over the Debt Ceiling
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The latest contrived showdown between Congressional Republicans and the White House is over what concessions the GOP will demand in order to increase the federal debt ceiling. George Zornick of The Nation explains how the shakedown works: Congress now needs to approve any borrowing past the $14.3 trillion debt […]
Weekly Audit: The Shocking Truth About Taxes
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The super rich are different from you and me. For one thing, their tax rates are lower. According to IRS statistics, the nation's top 400 taxpayers increased their average income by 392% and slashed their average tax rate by 37% between 1992 and 2007, Dave Gilson reports in Mother […]
Weekly Audit: Government Shutdown Averted, But At What Cost?
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama reached an eleventh hour budget deal on Friday night, to fund the government for the rest of the 2011 fiscal year and avert a government shutdown for the time being. The deal would cut about $38 billion, Amy Goodman reports for Democracy Now!, […]
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The Republicans are poised to unveil a model budget on Tuesday that would effectively end Medicare by privatizing it, Steve Benen reports in the Washington Monthly. House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) is touting the budget as a strategy to reduce the national debt. Ryan's plan would turn […]


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Talk about up to date. On Jeopardy! tonight (1/5/10) Doctor Who was a question. "Matt Smith plays this character, previously played by Peter Davison and Tom Baker." We've made the mainstream! And it was the champion, a women, who got it right.
It's not the first time that "Doctor Who" has had a question about it on "Jeopardy!".
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Pattern Language for Project Management in Global Software Development
Välimäki, Antti
Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 2011-06-10
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University: Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Tieto- ja sähkötekniikan tiedekunta – Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering
Department: Ohjelmistotekniikan laitos – Department of Software Systems
Globalization is a general trend in the world which will also affect the way software is developed and the kinds of organization which will make this development. Global Software Development (GSD) offers new benefits but also new challenges which make the work more difficult than earlier. This thesis tries to find solutions to these challenges from the viewpoint of project management. Rather than developing a totally new GSD process that addresses these problems, I try to come up with solutions to specific problems, and present these solutions in such a way that they can be easily integrated with existing processes. An attractive way to document proven solutions to specific development process problems is to use process patterns as done in this work. Pattern mining is not an easy task and different methods have been used to mine patterns. In this thesis, a pattern mining method has been developed which is applied in case projects. The solutions in these patterns have been mined from the practices that have been found to work well in a case organization. How to apply patterns is not always clear, because usually there are different kinds of patterns for different purposes. Patterns should be organized in a way which makes it easier to use them. In this work a process view of project management has been used to organize the found process patterns. When patterns are found, it is not always easy to tell if they are good or not. In this work, a new approach to evaluate process patterns was developed. The resulting patterns have been evaluated by using the proposed scenario-based assessment method. To summarize, the main contributions of this thesis consist of a method to find GSD process patterns, a collection of process patterns for project management in GSD, a pattern language organization based on the structure of the PRINCE2 project management process, and finally, a new assessment method to evaluate process patterns.
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The Weld County Sheriff's Office is warning residents of an increase in vehicle battery thefts.
Several hundred batteries have been stolen since September, according to a news release. The batteries were most often stolen from semi-trucks and other heavy equipment. Many have also been stolen after they were left unsecured, the release states.
The batteries have been taken late at night and early in the morning.
Sgt. Tim Schwartz, spokesman for the sheriff's office, said information about why the batteries are being stolen is not available because the investigation is ongoing.
To avoid battery thefts, the sheriff's office recommends that people park vehicles in well-lit, secure areas. Residents should also mark their batteries so they can be easily identified if stolen.
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- The Erie BayHawks will be hard-pressed to finish above .500, much less make the D-League playoffs, after losing their top two scorers this week.
Big man Henry Sims and swingman D.J. Kennedy are two of the league's top prospects and were the BayHawks' representatives to the D-League All-Star Game. Their contributions -- a combined 35.9 points and 17.3 rebounds per game -- won't easily be replaced.
But the puzzling thing about the BayHawks is that, even with Sims and Kennedy, they never wore the look of a championship contender for long.
For one thing, the BayHawks rank fourth in the league in scoring defense, allowing only 98.4 points per game. But they've given up at least 100 points 20 times in 38 games.
Most playoff contenders are tough outs at home (league-leading Bakersfield is 18-3 at Jam Events Center). But the 'Hawks have enjoyed no measurable advantage at Erie Insurance Arena, posting a 9-8 mark.
The BayHawks also rank dead last in the league in blocked shots, helping to explain why in many of their games they've shown a near-complete absence of interior defense.
At 20-18, they're only a game out of the eighth and final playoff spot and only three games off the pace of division-leading Canton.
But with Kennedy and Sims gone from an already inconsistent team, postseason talk sounds a little absurd.
- Jimmie Johnson might have held off Danica Patrick to win Daytona 500 last month, but he got trounced by a woman in a race the Sunday before NASCAR's season-opening showcase.
And now, the rest of the story ...
Johnson and three fellow NASCAR drivers participated in the Daytona Beach Half-Marathon on Feb. 17, which started and finished at the speedway and included a 100-yard sand run along the ocean.
This is where Katie Hoover -- formerly Katie Donahue -- comes in.
The former standout distance runner at Northwestern High School and Edinboro University now lives in Ormond Beach, Fla., with her husband Otto, who played football at Edinboro. Katie Hoover is a third-grade teacher and still runs road races, including the Daytona Beach event, which she won for the third straight time this year.
Her time of 1 hour, 26 minutes, 18 seconds bested Johnson by more than 3 minutes.
- First Alex Rodriguez, then Curtis Granderson, now Mark Teixeira. All are out with injuries until at least early May. If the Yankees lose a couple more sluggers, their offense will be almost as bad as the Pirates'.
The good news for the Bronx Bummers is Mariano Rivera, who is retiring after the season, is scheduled to make his spring debut Saturday. The bad news is Rivera might need to drive in 25 runs in April.
- Since Bill Belichick arrived in New England, there have been two constants with the Patriots. They usually win, and they don't overpay.
That's why the Pats are so leery of a long-term deal averaging an estimated $8 million per year for receiver Wes Welker, who could be ready to explore free agency.
Welker is the classic is-he-or-isn't-he-a-system receiver. The Pats are willing to bet other teams don't envision Welker thriving away from Tom Brady and the New England offense. Welker seems willing to bet he can.
I think Welker's right, so don't be surprised to see the Patriots, with newfound cap relief created by Brady's restructured deal, make a strong play over the next few weeks to keep Brady's favorite target in the fold.
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The Rockford School District plans to spend $1.2 million the next four years to offer arts-infused math instruction to students who struggle with traditional math.
What's next
The Rockford School District plans to spend $1.2 million the next four years to offer arts-infused math instruction to students who struggle with traditional math.
Rockford Arts Infusion, which is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement, kicked off last week.
The program will target sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders at Kennedy and Flinn middle schools. Students there who take two math classes to address basic math deficiencies soon will receive instruction that's a blend of arts and math.
Local artists and math instructors will develop lesson plans that incorporate visual arts, music and dance with such math concepts as common multiples, ratios and proportions.
An example of this is studying the principles of numeric patterns through rhythm. Two students clap the number of letters in their names with a hard clap on the first letter. Then they calculate how many times they have to clap before their hard claps match up. The use of music or movement takes the lesson from numbers on a page to something more tangible.
Donna Moeller, curriculum director for secondary math instruction, worked with LuAnn Widergren, director of fine arts, to obtain the grant.
Rockford was among eight districts in the country to win the money.
- Corina Curry
ROCKFORD - Pipes from an old church organ form a wall along the edge of a loft in Fraim & Mortar. Behind it is a heap of salvaged glass bottles. There's a rocket ship off to the side, the kind you'd see on a mini-carousel outside a grocery in the 1970s.
That's just one corner of this old warehouse on the northwest side, where four Rockford artists have set up shop.
A massive woodworking table is in the middle of the room. Screen printing machines take up the south end of the building. Everywhere you look is stuff. Wood stuff. Metal stuff. Stuff you'd find at a Hollywood prop house or flea market.
Electronica music fills the air in what has become a hub of creativity and collaboration for Jeremy Klonicki, Carmen Turner, Javier Jimenez and Jennifer Burtman.
The framing and light artists, screen printer and woodworker come and go at all hours. They share the space, the rent, the pizzas and the double IPAs in the fridge. Most important, they share energy and ideas.
"Being around creativity is amazing," said Klonicki, the 34-year-old owner of MainFraim. "I may not be feeling creative one day, but Jen may be making something brilliant up there and that will inspire me to work on something I wasn't planning on. Or if I get stuck on something, I can go to Javier and ask, 'What would you do in this scenario?'"
Something different
Late last year, Klonicki's communal arts space, 3022 Wallin Ave., went beyond collaborative projects and creative support and into the world of public education.
Klonicki, Turner and Burtman are among the 20 artists chosen to help teach math in the Rockford School District.
LuAnn Widergren, Rockford's fine arts director, went to Fraim & Mortar last fall looking for one artist, Klonicki, to participate in art-inspired and art-centered math instruction in middle schools.
She walked out with three.
Artists started working with teachers this month at Kennedy and Flinn middle schools.
The goal is to help the School District change the way it teaches math to students who struggle with basic math concepts.
"There's a saying that you can't get a dent out of a can by kicking it. You have to think of something different, like filling it with water," Widergren said. "Well, these kids, they need something different. We have to try something different. They have had intervention since grade school and it's not working."
Helping students make real-life connections to math could help them realize how math is used in the world, said Amy Blume, a math instructor at Kennedy Middle School.
Page 2 of 2 - Building a picture frame takes a geometry textbook's one-dimensional drawings and turns the lessons on angles and ratios into a hands-on activity in which students can touch and see mathematical theories.
"I want them to see that math is all around us," Blume said. "There's so much more to math than what they see."
Pass it on
The idea of arts-infused math instruction makes perfect sense to the artists from Fraim & Mortar.
"I'm a spatial person," Turner said. "If anyone needs visual to understand math, I'm just like them. I can totally relate."
Turner remembers not enjoying math in school.
"People would tell me, 'Oh, this is important. You'll use this.' I remember thinking, 'Whatever.' ... Now I use math all the time. I use math to figure circumference to see how big an opening needs to be so the light bulb fits inside."
Klonicki thinks he'll connect with students. He didn't like school much, dropping out of high school when he was 15.
"I was bored and constantly in trouble," he said.
Klonicki worked at a copier service. He played the drums and dabbled in art. Eventually, he got his GED. He worked for his parents' security business and started making custom frames.
Working with the Rockford School District this spring is a chance to offer assistance of the sort he received from artists when he was starting out.
"Artists in Rockford are great. They encourage me and help guide me. They gave me that 'You can do this.' ... I'm ready to pass it on."
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