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8 cups mixed vegetable florets (broccoli, cauliflower and broccoflower)
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- 1.1 Astronomy A periodic oscillation of the earth's axis which causes the precession of the poles to follow a wavy rather than a circular path.More example sentences
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- In addition to the precession and nutation of the Earth's rotational axis, the Earth itself undergoes a wobble such that the crust wanders about the rotational axis with a combination of two periods and amplitudes.
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2. | any place regarded as resembling a black hole in that items or information entering it cannot be retrieved |
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1. | a small dungeon in which in 1756 the Nawab of Bengal reputedly confined 146 English prisoners, of whom only 23 survived |
2. | informal chiefly (Brit) any uncomfortable or overcrowded place |
black hole
(click for larger image in new window) An extremely dense celestial object whose gravitational field is so strong that not even light can escape from its vicinity. Black holes are believed to form in the aftermath of a supernova with the collapse of the star's core. See also event horizon, See more at star. Our Living Language : When a very massive star ends its life in a supernova explosion, the remaining matter collapses in upon itself. If there is enough mass in this collapsed star, it becomes a black hole. A black hole is so dense that its gravitational forces are strong enough to prevent anything that comes close enough to the region known as the event horizon from escaping. Even light cannot escape, since the escape velocity (the velocity needed for an object to escape some larger object's gravitational field) necessary to escape a black hole is greater than the speed of light. Black holes are extremely dense: for the Sun, which has a diameter of about 1,390,000 kilometers (862,000 miles), to be as dense as a black hole, its entire mass would have to be squeezed down to a ball fewer than 3 kilometers (5 miles) across. Some theorists postulate that the material in a black hole may be compressed to a single point of infinite density called a singularity. Because astronomers cannot directly observe a black hole, they infer its existence from the effects of its gravitational pull. For example, when a black hole results from the collapse of one star in a binary star system, it attracts material from the remaining star. This material forms an accretion disk, which compresses and heats up until it emits detectable x-rays. Black holes are thought to reside in the centers of many galaxies, including our own Milky Way. |
A cell in the jail of a British fort in Calcutta, India. In the middle of the eighteenth century, British and Indian troops clashed at the fort. The Indian troops drove a reported 146 defenders of the fort into the cell, which measured about fifteen by eighteen feet. Many had suffocated by the next morning.
In astronomy, an object so massive that nothing, not even light, can escape its gravitation. Black holes were given their name because they absorb all the light that falls on them. The existence of black holes was first predicted by the general theory of relativity. Supermassive black holes have been found in the centers of many galaxies. Stellar black holes are thought to arise from the death of very massive stars. Astronomers expect to find many stellar black holes in the Milky Way.
Note: Figuratively, the term black hole is used to refer to a total disappearance: "They never saw the man again — he might as well have fallen into a black hole."
black hole
n.,vt. [common] What data (a piece of email or netnews, or a stream of TCP/IP packets) has fallen into if it disappears mysteriously between its origin and destination sites (that is, without returning a bounce message). "I think there's a black hole at foovax!" conveys suspicion that site foovax has been dropping a lot of stuff on the floor lately (see drop on the floor). The implied metaphor of email as interstellar travel is interesting in itself. Readily verbed as `blackhole': "That router is blackholing IDP packets." Compare bit bucket aand see RBL.black hole of calcutta
scene of an incident (June 20, 1756) in which the remaining European defenders of Calcutta were shut away and many died, following the capture of the city by the nawab Siraj-ud-Dawlah, of Bengal, and the surrender of the East India Company's garrison under a member of the council, John Z. Holwell. The incident became a cause celebre in the idealization of British imperialism in India and a subject of controversy. The nawab attacked Calcutta because of the company's failure to stop fortifying the city as a defense against its rivals in anticipation of war (the Seven Years' War, 1756-63). Following his surrender, Holwell and the other Europeans were placed for the night in the company's local lockup for petty offenders, popularly known as the Black Hole. It was a room 18 feet (5.5 m) long and 14 feet 10 inches wide, and it had two small windows. According to Holwell, 146 people were shut up, and 23 emerged alive. The incident was held up as evidence of British heroism and the nawab's callousness.
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(1991) Amino acid sequence of a muscarinic toxin deduced from the cDNA nucleotide sequence. Toxicon, 29 (4-5). pp. 516-520. ISSN 0041-0101 Echevarria, F.A.M. and Gettinby, G. and Hazelwood, S. (1993) Model predictions for anthelmintic resistance amongst Haemonchus contortus populations in southern Brazil. Veterinary Parasitology, 47 (3-4). pp. 315-325. ISSN 0304-4017 Fraser, J. and , Scottish Government (Funder) (2009) Acquisition and retention of DNA and fingerprint data in Scotland. [Report] Hoskisson, P. and Rigali, S. (2009) Variation in form and function: the helix-turn-helix regulators of the GntR superfamily. In: Advances in Applied Microbiology. Advances in Applied Microbiology, 69 . Elsevier, pp. 1-22. ISBN 9780123748249 Hunsicker, A. and Steber, M. and Mayer, G. and Meitert, J. and Klotzsche, M. and Blind, M. and Hillen, W. and Berens, C. (2009) An RNA Aptamer that Induces Transcription. Chemistry and Biology, 16. pp. 173-180. 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Here is my latest column for Justia's Verdict, in which I counter Stanford law professor Michael McConnell's critique of the arguments of liberal law professors who defend the constitutionality of Obamacare. *** Any week now, the Supreme Court will hand down its ruling in the Affordable Care Act (ACA, also known as Obamacare) challenge. The Court will likely address, among other things, the key question whether Congress has the constitutional authority to enact the so-called "mandate" provision, requiring individuals to procure minimum healthcare coverage or instead pay money into the federal treasury. It's not surprising that analysts and commentators are gearing up for the momentous decision. What is surprising, however, is the content of some of the commentary. In my column today, I offer reaction to an Op-Ed piece Stanford law professor and former federal appellate judge Michael McConnell published in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on May 24. I welcome Professor McConnell's voice in the Obamacare debate—I have long admired his overall body of work and was openly and actively supportive of his nomination for the federal appellate bench at a time when he was criticized by many on the Left. And I agree with some of what he says in his WSJ Op-Ed. But I am also quite troubled by many other points he makes or implies. What Professor McConnell Argues It bears noting at the outset that Professor McConnell does not say he thinks the challengers to Obamacare are constitutionally correct—that the mandate exceeds Congress' constitutional powers. (My brother, Yale law professor Akhil Amar, noted in Slate a few months ago that most conservative constitutional scholars have not expressed agreement with the challengers' position—an observation that accords with my own sense.) Instead, Professor McConnell finds the "health-care case [to be] hard," and says that the challengers' argument "may [reflect] a correct reading of the Constitution, or not, but it must be taken seriously." I'm not sure I find the case as hard as Professor McConnell does, but I certainly don't disagree with him that the challenge must be taken seriously. Indeed, I and many others who have written scholarship and other commentary on the case have done so because we do take the matters raised therein seriously. All of that is why I am troubled by what Professor McConnell goes on to say. Professor McConnell writes to chastise "liberal law professors . . . [who] claim[] that it would be 'hypocritical' and 'partisan' of [conservative Justices] to invalidate legislation passed by Congress when they generally oppose 'judicial activism.' It appears the professors' idea of sound jurisprudence is that their favored justices are free to invalidate statutes that offend their sensibilities whether or not the words of the Constitution have anything to say on the matter, as in the case of same-sex marriage or partial-birth abortion, and even if the Constitution seems to endorse it, as in capital punishment. But if conservative justices have the temerity to enforce actual limits on government power stated in Article I, Section 8—over liberal dissents—then they are acting as shameless partisans." Professor McConnell asserts that "[i]f liberal supporters of the health-care law were as confident of the merits of their position as they claim to be, they would offer actual legal arguments, based on text, history, structure and precedent, instead of labeling justices with whom they disagree as hypocrites and partisans." Professor McConnell also says that "[i]t seems unlikely this one-sided definition of 'activism' will persuade anyone. Judicial review might be aggressive and it might be deferential, but there cannot be one set of rules for liberal justices and another set for conservatives." The First Flaw in McConnell's Argument: A Straw Man Concerning the Supposed Absence of Textual, Historical, Structural, and Doctrinal Arguments in Favor of the Mandate It's hard to know precisely whom Professor McConnell has in mind when he excoriates "liberal law professors;" many of us among the group of analysts who think Obamacare is constitutional have not spent our time simply hurling names at those with whom we disagree. But even as to those professors who have been most stridently critical of the conservative Justices, Professor McConnell's analysis misses the mark. First off, his criticism is based on a straw man (forgive the gendered term, but "straw person" is too awkward). "Liberal law professors," or at least the ones I see and hear, don't ground their allegations of hypocrisy and partisanship with respect to the possibility of high Court invalidation of Obamacare on a claim that conservative justices have generally embraced a deferential form of judicial review, and that striking down Obamacare would be inconsistent with such professed deference. (Conservative Justices have not been, and have not said they should be, necessarily deferential to elected branches in exercising judicial review.) Instead, folks who say that a ruling by the conservative Justices striking down Obamacare would be hypocritical and perhaps partisan say so precisely because arguments (to use McConnell's words) "based on text, history, structure and precedent"—the very tools conservatives traditionally contend should be used in constitutional interpretation—cut in favor of, not against, the constitutionality of Obamacare. Professor McConnell asserts that "liberal supporters of the health-care law" should "offer actual legal arguments, based on text, history, structure and precedent, instead of labeling justices with whom they disagree as hypocrites and partisans" (emphasis added). But supporters of the mandate have indeed offered those arguments, and it is precisely because those arguments seem to have been ignored by many conservative Justices at oral argument that some defenders of Obamacare have cried hypocrisy and partisanship. I am genuinely puzzled as to why Professor McConnell feels that there have been no textual, historical, structural and precedential defenses of Obamacare. I, my brother Akhil, and many other scholars have written numerous law review articles laying out just such arguments. Take the constitutional text. The question here is whether any words in Article I give Congress the power to impose healthcare-coverage procurement mandates. As many of us have pointed out, certainly no one doubts the Congressional power to mandate the military draft, militia service, jury service, census participation, etc. And nothing in the constitutional text under which these activities are permissibly mandated explains why affirmative conduct can be required in those realms, but not under the Commerce Clause, which gives Congress the power to "regulate" commerce "among the several States." By comparison, Article I permits Congress to "raise and support" Armies, but there is nothing in the text of this clause that indicates why mandatory military service is permissible. "Raise and support" could textually be read to mean "create incentives to voluntarily generate." But the Supreme Court had little trouble holding in 1925 that this clause, combined with the Necessary and Proper Clause, permitted Congress to mandate military service—in other words, to regulate inactivity and require affirmative activity—because the Court reasonably concluded that Congress should not be dependent on the inclinations of potentially reluctant individuals to accomplish Article I's enumerated objectives. More generally, the word "regulate" (used in the Commerce Clause) does not foreclose the compulsion of activity, including the compulsion of commercial activity. "Regulate," as defined in language dictionaries, means, among other things, to "direct." Moreover, when we turn to the Constitution itself as a possible dictionary, we see that it uses the word "regulate" at least sometimes in ways that include a power to mandate activity. The militia in which Congress can compel membership, for example, is referred to as one that is "well[-]regulated," in the Second Amendment. Congress' power in Article I to "regulate the [v]alue" of money would seem to permit Congress, under certain circumstances, to require individuals to exchange their currency for something else that Congress reasonably believes would provide stability to the monetary system of the country. Congress' power to adopt rules for the "[r]egulation" of the land and naval forces undeniably allows Congress to mandate activity on the part of otherwise disinclined men and women in the armed forces, when such mandates are reasonably helpful to the national defense. Congress' power to undertake "[r]egulation[ ]" of the Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction is what gives Congress the power to create such jurisdiction in the first place—"regulate" as used there includes the power to create and control. And there is much more. In short, to say no arguments about text have been made by Obamacare supporters is simply to ignore the scholarly discourse. The same is true for historical, structural and precedential arguments. As to history, the record makes clear that the Commerce Clause was designed to allow Congress to deal with interstate economic externalities. No one could really doubt that the healthcare and healthcare insurance markets involve true interstate commercial problems. After all, insurance and healthcare providers are usually national, or at least regional, operations; folks who cross state lines get sick and must be cared for away from home regularly; and people are often unable to relocate to another state for fear of losing their employer-based insurance coverage. Nor is it disputed that Congress' enactment of the individual mandate provision was sincerely motivated by, and closely related to, the regulation of these interstate markets and interstate spillover effects. Professor McConnell says that these observations about the health care market are not "grounded in any principle based in constitutional text, history or theory," but that assertion itself ignores the very history behind, and the theory underlying, the Constitution—history and theory that Professor McConnell rightly recognizes as central. History also debunks the notion that mandates to purchase are, as a general rule, constitutionally novel or out-of-bounds. For example, the Militia Act of 1792 required able-bodied men to become Federal militia members, and to arrive ready to serve. Men were required to arm themselves with a musket, bayonet and belt, two spare flints, a cartridge box with 24 bullets, and a knapsack. Men owning rifles were required to provide a powder horn, 1/4 pound of gun powder, 20 rifle balls, a shooting pouch, and a knapsack. Even if novelty were a basis, in and of itself, on which to object to an exercise of Congressional power—and it is not—mandates to procure are not novel, but rather go back to the founding. Professor McConnell is also wrong to suggest that no structural arguments defending the mandate have been made. When one looks at the entire structure of the Constitution and compares the already-recognized bans on mandates—the Third Amendment's prohibition of the quartering of troops in private homes during peacetime, the Fifth Amendment's protections against government mandating self-incrimination and the surrender of property without just compensation, the First Amendment's protection against mandating that individuals be vessels for government speech, and the so-called anti-commandeering federalism principle prohibiting Congress from mandating that state governments exercise their regulatory power on behalf of federal goals—a pattern emerges: Congress generally cannot merely use individuals or states as the instruments, or tools, of its own objectives. But when individuals (or states) are, by contrast, acting as free riders, and thus contributing to the problem—rather than being just handy tools to fix a problem created by others—then mandates are much more constitutionally permissible. This explains why the federal government can mandate taxes, and jury and military service, among other things, even if the individuals so mandated are contributing to problems only passively. Military defense, government spending (on roads and other infrastructure), and a system of criminal and civil justice requiring juries are, broadly speaking, "public goods" in the sense that people benefit from them and have an incentive to be free riders unless they are mandated to contribute. The free riding is itself a big part of the problem that Congress is trying to solve when it imposes mandates in these areas. So long as the mandate is "congruent and proportional" (to borrow a phrase from another federalism context) to the free-rider problem that the very existence of the individuals being mandated is creating, then the mandate seems less objectionable. This explains why, for example, the quartering of troops is different from the draft. Placing a narrow, focused, and selective mandate on a few homeowners to bear the costs of a military that everyone benefits from is not a proportionate response to a free-rider problem in the way that a random and broad-based draft that seeks sacrifice from thousands, if not millions, of people is. When viewed through this structural prism, the healthcare mandate would seem to fall on the permissible side of any implicit constitutional line safeguarding against instrumentalization. Obamacare's mandate is, in substantial part, a response to the free-rider problem—a problem that itself is exacerbated by other undoubtedly permissible elements of the healthcare reform package. The individuals subject to the mandate would—if they were free from the mandate—become part of the problem, rather than merely being a convenient part of a solution to problems created by other folks. Finally, again contrary to what Professor McConnell suggests, believers in Obamacare's constitutional validity have made many arguments based on precedent, especially to answer the "slippery slope" problems that seem to worry Professor McConnell and some of the conservative Justices. Professor McConnell writes, "defenders of the health-care mandate are unable to identify any line between what they say Congress can do and what it cannot." Nonsense. As many of us have pointed out, some of the important limiting principles come from Gonzalez v. Raich , where the Court permitted a federal ban on the possession of all marijuana, no matter how small the amount or how local the use. That result too, created slippery slope problems, but the Court made clear that even as the federal government might sometimes ban the possession of things, the government's power in this regard is not unlimited. As Justice Scalia observed in his concurring opinion in Raich, the possession of marijuana in particular can be punished because such punishments are necessary to carry out a comprehensive regulatory scheme—the Controlled Substances Act—that governs a robust and interstate market in drugs. Without that comprehensive regulatory scheme respecting an interstate market as an anchor, and a clear tie-line connecting the ban on possession to the regulation of the interstate market in illicit drugs, the ban on marijuana possession would have exceeded Congress' Commerce Clause power. Of course, such an argument cuts in favor of, not against, the individual mandate in the healthcare reform law. The Affordable Care Act is itself a comprehensive regulatory scheme governing interstate commerce and interstate spillover effects, and the individual mandate plays an important role in furthering central pieces of that regulatory framework. The Bigger Problems With Professor McConnell's Argument Come From What Some Might Read Him to Be Suggesting Professor McConnell's mistaken suggestion that Obamacare's defenders make no arguments based on text, history, structure and past precedent is troubling to be sure. But there's another flavor to his criticism that leaves an even worse taste in my mouth: He might be read as suggesting that if liberal law professors support reading the Constitution to protect same-sex marriage, partial-birth abortion and abolition of the death penalty, then they are estopped from complaining about "aggressive" (his word) judicial review to support conservative ends. Professor McConnell never quite says it that way—and I hope that he wouldn't embrace this position–but many people might glean this to be his implication because, absent such an implication, I'm not sure why he mentions in his Op-Ed liberal constitutional stances concerning same-sex marriage, partial-birth abortion and, capital punishment, and the free-form constitutional interpretive modes they involve. Perhaps he's saying simply that liberal law professors are themselves hypocritical and partisan to insist that conservative Justices in the Obamacare case exercise judicial review in a restrained way, when the liberal profs do not themselves believe in restraint in other areas of constitutional law. Maybe that's true (or maybe liberal law professors have a theory as to why the individual-liberties aspects of the Constitution require different interpretive modes than do federalism questions—I personally might not find such a distinction altogether persuasive). But the point that some liberal law professors might be partisans and hypocrites hardly seems like a point worth making. Liberal law professors don't decide cases. They don't make law. There's a reason (many reasons, actually) why we don't give them any real, immediate, decisionmaking power. But Justices do have tremendous authority we have delegated to them, and they should exercise it in a way that is free from hypocrisy and partisanship. And if liberal law professors accurately point out hypocrisy on the part of Justices who purport to care about text, history, structure and precedent, these professors will have performed a useful function, even if the professors themselves are guilty of even more intellectual dishonesty than the Justices whom they lambaste. So the hypocrisy of law profs really wouldn't bear on whether their criticism of the Court—the subject of Professor McConnell's Op-Ed—is appropriate or not. Even if the hypocrisy, partisanship and lawlessness were being practiced by other members of the Court, that should not, I would hope, cause Justices to abandon their own interpretive principles. So, for example, if Justice Kennedy thought that Justice Breyer's dispositive vote to strike down Nebraska's ban on partial-birth abortion (one of Professor McConnell's examples) in Stenberg v. Carhart was completely inconsistent with the conception of responsible judicial review that Justice Breyer has espoused in a series of books written for the broader American public (and one could argue that there is some tension there), Justice Kennedy should not, as a general matter, change his own approach to judicial review. When Professor McConnell says that "there cannot be one set of rules for liberal justices and another set for conservatives," I pray he does not mean that conservative jurists can and should abandon their aversion to judicial activism (however defined) because they see liberal jurists acting in unrestrained and unprincipled ways. There might be some specific doctrinal areas where a Justice might think that wrong-headed or hypocritical rulings by earlier Courts or other Justices have created a sub-optimal body of law, such that the Justice might have to decide a particular present or future case in a way that is different from how s/he ordinarily would have preferred (stare decisis, or deference to past precedent, is one example of the effect that earlier methodological or substantive mistakes can have on future outcomes). But generally speaking, "retaliatory activism"—by which I mean the abandonment of a Justice's own principles because other Justices are not playing fair—is a dangerous and inadvisable game. It is also something that contributes to the popular and unhealthy perception that the Court is no different from and no better than the overtly political branches of government in DC. So to the extent that anyone understands the essay from Professor McConnell—a venerable conservative jurist and scholar who was often thought to be on Republican Supreme Court short-lists a decade ago—as suggesting that conservative Justices are to be forgiven for hypocrisy or partisanship because liberals engage in it (or vice-versa), I would urge a different reading of his words.


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Jackson and the Obama administration has promised to move forward with greenhouse-gas limits under a legal settlement with environmental groups, and following the failure in Congress of legislative proposals for comprehensive climate change actions.
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I'm attempting to run a ventrilo server on my webhost bluehost.com. I called them up and got a dedicated IP address, then I logged on using SSH through a command ...
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installing a ventrilo server on my web host
I'm attempting to run a ventrilo server on my webhost bluehost.com. I called them up and got a dedicated IP address, then I logged on using SSH through a command prompt and uploaded the .gz file to the appropriate directory. I have no experience in linux or using linux commands, so I'm going by what I can afford time to google to try to figure this out. I'm not sure which distribution of linux the server is running that I'm connecting to.
I've asked my web host to open port 3784 for TCP and UDP.
Here's what I've typed in order to attempt to run it so far:
mkdir ventrilo - creates a directory called "ventrilo" in root
cd ventrilo - sets folder "ventrilo" as the 'working directory' (?)
I then copied the .gz file to said directory.
tar zxf (.gz filename) - this I guess extracts the files onto the server. I can see them extracted on my FTP client.
./ventsrv - on the directions it says run "./ventrilo_srv". but I'm assuming it means ventsrv since that's the name of the sub directory after extraction. I don't understand how this command runs the executable/script.
To isolate the problem, how can I figure out if the server is running besides trying to log into it via my client at home? How can I figure out if the port my host claims to be open is in fact open?
Among the files in the archive, which is the script that needs to be executed on the server's end? What is the command to do so? Have I executed it without realizing it already?
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A possible alternative
I know this isn't a solution to your problem, but it's an alternative worth considering. You may want to take a look at Mumble (mumble.sourceforge.net). It's an open-source VoIP system like Ventrilo, but it uses the Speex codec for really good audio quality.
We used both Ventrilo and Mumble, and my team and I have found Mumble to provide far superior sound quality and reliability. Setting up Mumble is a breeze, and the software is cross-platform, with servers and clients for Linux, Windows, and Mac. It also has text-to-speech and a slew of other features.
Plus, the development community of Mumble seems more active than that of Ventrilo. For example, the Ventrilo Linux client has been "in development" for years now.


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Five years ago my husband chaperoned a trip for the tough to Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center. He and the children came home with harrowing tales of winter survival, a ropes course and skin-chapping adventures in the snow.
Five years ago my husband chaperoned a trip for the tough to Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center. He and the children came home with harrowing tales of winter survival, a ropes course and skin-chapping adventures in the snow. I was ever so grateful that I didn't have to be part of it.
My turn came last week when I accompanied a class on an educational adventure at Wolf Ridge. Initially dreading the challenge, I checked out the website, wolf-ridge.org, which describes Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center as an "accredited K-12 school" whose "educational activities immerse participants in nature exploration, cultural history, outdoor skills, team-building, and personal growth."
I'm all for "cultural history." Organized "team-building" is terrific fun. However, "outdoor skills" and "personal growth" are clauses which concern me. My aims for "personal growth" in the past have generally accompanied discomfort or pain, and now I was afraid this discomfort might involve my lack of "outdoor skills."
I needn't have worried. Upon our arrival at the gorgeous compound nestled between pine hills and vast Lake Superior, our liaison quickly soothed fears and promised to keep our spirits high. In fact all the guides at Wolf Ridge were remarkably adaptable, kind and strong. Each one made each class very special.
The outdoor classroom experience was dynamic. My 12-year-old, a boy who vibrates out of his desk on a good day, was exhilarated and passionate about learning. Normally in a classroom he wrestles to keep his attention focused. When he is out in nature, there is no struggle. He naturally attunes himself to what's in the trees, what topography is ahead, who's got a great stick, what are those tracks. Instead of the constant scolding to pay attention, he receives kudos for all he notices and calls everyone's attention to. Instead of being the class problem, he is part of the class solution. This role is vital to a positive understanding of himself.
One morning we spent an hour learning how to use harnesses and carabiner clips in order to complete the ropes course. I couldn't have completed it had not an 11-year-old girl, Lydia, talked me through it. Her ability to guide and encourage gave me hope for our country's future!
One afternoon we donned snowshoes to find great things in the woods. We DID find great things. We found a station of benches where wild birds are conditioned to eat bird seed off of squirmy grade-schoolers' heads! We also found a Native American settlement where we got to sit in a teepee, eat venison jerky and hear Native American tales. The students were so rapt with attention they called for "More! More!"
One afternoon the guide gave groups of kids tarps, a little twine, a couple of matches, pots and some hot chocolate packets. She told them to spread out, make shelters and fires, and have some hot chocolate.
As parents we had to do the same thing. Although my group didn't struggle with the challenge, we did struggle with NOT helping the kids around us. One dad gave in to the group with the smallest and most discouraged members, encouraging them to come to the base camp (ours) and borrow a firebrand. We obliged them; it seemed like an important survival move.
One group which intentionally didn't receive parental intervention (even though they asked for it) was fighting over the quality of the melted water. The girls found the water filthy and refused to make hot chocolate with it. The boys refused to go find cleaner snow. This bone of contention was remembered all the way home to Duluth.
One lesson we learned in our survival skills class was the utmost importance of PMA — Positive Mental Attitude. I must admit, before every class I struggled with this. My inner princess whined while my outer teacher bit her tongue. I jumped into my snow pants and endured and then thrived. How could I not be positive when I saw our students respond with enthusiasm and joy — so different from many days in the cramped classroom?
Both public and private schools in Duluth send upper elementary students for an educational adventure at Wolf Ridge every year. Don't miss the opportunity to send your kids. And if you want to be even richer, try to finagle a spot as a chaperone.
As my 9-year-old said, "It was the best trip we've ever tooken!"
Note: In addition to K-12 school programs, Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center offers summer camps, family vacations (including a "Grandparent & Grandchild Road Scholar" program), wilderness trips, graduate naturalist training, and live education animal programs. Check out its annual open house on June 15. Learn more at wolf-ridge.org.
Monthly Budgeteer columnist S.E. Livingston is a wife, mother and teacher who writes for family and education newsletters in northern Minnesota (and lives in Duluth). E-mail her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Anyone use the Note 2 as a data only "tablet" with a data plan?
Specifically on ATT, although I'd consider other carriers if it worked. I'm not ready to replace my ip5 with the Note 2, it's just too big as a phone. But I'd love to carry one around in addition to my ip5 as a "tablet", to use for internet, video, RDP into windows, etc.
I doubt ATT would let me add it for $10 to my mobile share plan, but has anyone done this? Absent this I'm thinking I could pop out my ipad SIM card which is on a $10 mobileshare plan and pop it into the Note 2 and change the APN settings for data, would this work?
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I wish they would allow it. But it would crush their margins, since you could just use skype and replace your phone with a data only plan. However if you do figure out a way let us know!
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---------- Hmm, but you can do this with any other ipad or tablet, but chances are people don't want to use those as phones I suppose. Does ATT explicitly not allow this?
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Or even better use Google voice and get a real phone number with free calls and sms!
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They don't allow smartphones to have a non smartphone data plan. I know people have had success using International phones with cheaper data plans because AT&T sometimes can't identify the device by the imei. If you try to use an AT&T device then they probably won't let you add it as a tablet. Go to xda and see if anyone has tried this with the International Note 2.
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Dang, TY for the info. So if I swapped my ipad SIM and got it to work what would ATT do? Oh well, I can always tether it.
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