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Overall, you scored 60% Religion, 80% Art and 60% Science! Here are the answers to the questions, for those that are curious.
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They scored 60% on Religion, higher than 34% of your peers.
They scored 80% on Art, higher than 58% of your peers.
They scored 60% on Science, higher than 62% of your peers.
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ST. LOUIS • The area's queen of campy commercials and her magic carpet have come in for a crash landing.
Becky Rothman and her brothers, Jules and Arnold, have pulled the plug on Becky's Carpet & Tile stores. The chain's five locations shuttered on Monday, though employees are still working to fulfill orders and some customers were still picking up items this morning.
In an interview at the company's Manchester headquarters, Rothman blamed the chain's demise on the economy that led to a screeching halt of new home building as well as competition from big box stores.
"It's been very hard to keep the business going," she said.
According to the St. Louis and St. Charles counties assessors' websites, Rothman Properties is delinquent in paying more than $150,000 in property taxes from 2011 at four of its stores.
Rothman was well-known around town for her commercials in which she took on the moniker the "queen of carpet." Wearing a crown, she was sometimes seen pretending to fly on a magic carpet.
The family-owned business was started by her father who opened a carpet store in East St. Louis in 1954. After her father died in 1977, she and her brothers took over the two stores.
At its peak, Becky's Carpet & Tile had eight locations in the metro area. But the company began paring back its stores after the recession hit, including a store that closed last year in the Fairview Heights area.
The five remaining locations were in Fairmont City, St. Peters, South County, Hazelwood, and Manchester.
Rothman did not provide a clear explanation for why the stores had closed so suddenly, leaving many customers angry and wondering if their orders will be fulfilled. She just notified the company's 30 or so employees of the impending demise on Friday.
But she vowed to fulfill current orders or to provide refunds. A sign on the door advised customers to call 314-447-3200 for more information.
And she said there is still a possibility the company may consolidate and re-open the south county store.
Staff writer Lisa Brown contributed to this report.


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Israel's dismal results in the Meitzav ("Teaching the future," The Jerusalem
Post, October 18) simply confirm what we already know from our dismal results in
the international PISA exams (Program for International Student Assessment),
detailed in the McKinsey report (2006/2007).The prime minister was aware
of this report and indeed used its recommendations (alas, not implemented!) as
part of his last election platform.Change is, of course, a long-term
project. However, there is one change which can dramatically improve the quality
of our educational system, and instead of costing money, it can save funds which
are badly needed to improve the quality of teacher training.Diagnosis:
The tail wags the dog – the matriculation exam, or bagrut, system is what fuels
everything else that is done in the classroom.The system of modular
matriculation exams and indiscriminate access to "moadei bet," repeat exams, are
ruining the quality of education. The simple reason is that the purpose of this
system is to ensure that more students obtain a bagrut certificate not by
improving the quality of education, but by watering down the syllabus.
Ironically, the effort to get more students to pass the exams by making things
easier has backfired: not only are more students not getting a certificate, but
often the certificate that they do get is not worth much (witness our results in
the PISA exams.) The effect of the modular system on students and the quality of
education: 1. A student entering high school in ninth grade is immediately faced
with the bagrut system. Teachers, being human and practical, have no option but
to "teach for the test." The result is that students are being taught how to
pass exams, rather than being challenged to think, explore, compare, read
critically, write clearly, express themselves creatively, etc. Teachers have to
cover the material the students will be tested on, rather than communicate a
love of their subject and the excitement of learning. The system also results in
hours of deadly boredom, giving rise to the frustration and cynicism of our
youngsters, who deserve better, and who react with disrespect, bad behavior and
even violence.2. When children begin taking bagrut exams in the 10th,
11th, or even the 9th grade they are not mature enough to appreciate the
material with the depth that the subjects deserve. This means that the initial
modules – which qualify as bagrut level – are of necessity simplified to
accommodate the age and scholastic level of the students.3. The fact
that the students study a subject in modular sections in order to pass exams
means that they seldom arrive at an in-depth understanding and overview of the
subject. One module is "done" and forgotten, and then it's on to the next
section. The students are never tested in a way that requires them to
make connections between the various modules.4. Students are not
required to pass all the modules in order to get a bagrut certificate for the
particular subject, because the grade is calculated as an average of the
modules. So, for example, a student can do well on the earlier, easier modules,
fail the final module – the one that actually tests their knowledge of the
subject – and still get a passing grade. At the pre-academic centers, for
example (where I was the inspector for English studies), teachers complained
that students coming in with high marks on a three-point Education Ministry-
approved bagrut in English could not read."The medium is the message" –
and the message that students are getting is that the education system will make
things as easy as possible and not make too many demands of them.5.
Students who fail or even do badly on a module are encouraged to take a moed
bet. This promotes an attitude where students fail to fully exert themselves,
because they know that there is always another chance. The time lapse between
modules is, however, too short for any real learning to be effective – the most
that the student can do is brush up on test techniques.6. The effect on
the educational budget. Each module costs a fortune to prepare, print,
distribute, administer, mark, check for discrepancies and cheating, as well as
issuing of permits for students with learning difficulties and providing them
with CDs.Each additional test date costs another fortune. Of course
there should be provision for students who cannot take the original exam due to
illness, accident, or family crisis, but at present the system is used
indiscriminately. For example, a student who gets 95 on a bagrut can and often
will take a moed bet to try for 100, as the higher mark will be the one that
counts and there is thus no penalty for trying again.The money that
would be saved by administering exams only in the 12th grade (as was done in the
past and is still done in many advanced countries) would be considerable. In
terms of quality of education, this would ensure that the exam would be on a
mature and all-encompassing level. Students in grades nine, 10 and 11 would have
time to explore the subject in depth, rather than merely study for exams with
innumerable tests throughout the year (when do teachers have time to teach?)
However, the problem cannot be solved simply on one level. The sad fact is that
it is easier for teachers to teach for a test than to have real knowledge of
their own subject and of teaching methods which encourage children to think for
themselves.The money that could be saved by abolishing the modular
system could then be devoted to raising teachers' salaries, while at the same
time ensuring a higher quality of teaching by being more selective when
accepting teachers for teacher training colleges, and providing a higher level
of teacher education (i.e., finally implementing the suggestions of the McKinsey
report.) The writer has worked in a range of senior positions in Israeli
education over the past 39 years and now watches this system's deterioration
with growing anxiety. From 2000 to 2011 she was director of English Studies for
the Aguda l'Kidum Hachinuch, which administered 45 pre-academic centers
throughout the country.
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A man was bending genders and the law this week when he showed up at a PNC Bank in Sebastian, Florida, dressed in women's clothes accessorized with a purse containing a handgun. While his lace-accented fuchsia sweater and hot-pink fuzzy slippers suggested something casual, the man meant business and demanded cash from the teller.
According to TC Palm, the incident occurred last Tuesday around 3:20 p.m. In addition to the sweater and slippers, the man was also wearing black flare-legged pants, a knit wool cap, and a multicolored print purse. Despite the get-up, however, he made no attempt to hide his face.
The man pulled out the gun and demanded cash. He then took off and, even though he wasn't wearing ideal footwear, hopped a fence during his getaway.
Police are still on the lookout for the cross-dressing bandit. He's described as a black man in his early 20s, about 5'9" and 140 pounds. No word on if he's still wearing lady's clothes.
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Leyton Orient boss Russell Slade has billed Saturday's London derby against fellow automatic promotion contenders Brentford as "vital".
Second-placed Orient are expecting a sell-out for the crunch League One clash with Mark Warburton's side at Brisbane Road.
Orient stretched their unbeaten run to five games with a 2-0 win over Port Vale on Tuesday and have now won four of their last five matches to enhance their chances of securing automatic promotion.
Brentford are just a point behind them after securing back-to-back victories over Bradford City and Tranmere Rovers and Orient boss Slade knows how much is at stake when the two sides lock horns this weekend.
He said: "It's vital, but it doesn't matter who we're playing. It happens to be Brentford. It would be vital if it was anyone else in the league.
"It's going to be a tough game because they're a very good side. Their record stands up.
"If we could take three points of them it would be fantastic, it would give us a little bit more momentum and put them under pressure."
Free-scoring Wolves look destined for an immediate return to the Championship after securing a club record ninth consecutive win at Swindon Town on Tuesday.
The leaders won 4-1 at the County Ground to stay two points clear of Orient and will fancy their chances of stretching their winning streak to double figures when they entertain relegation-threatened Shrewsbury Town on Saturday.
Preston North End will attempt to half FA Cup semi-finalists Sheffield United's 10-game winning run when Nigel Clough's side travel to Deepdale on Monday.
At the other end of the table, beleaguered Notts County can ill afford to slip up again when they travel to fellow strugglers Tranmere.
A 3-1 home defeat against MK Dons on Tuesday ensured Shaun Derry's side have now lost seven of their last nine games to remain bottom of the pile.
MK Dons will move level on points with six-placed Peterborough United if they beat Darren Ferguson's side on Saturday.
Walsall also harbours play-off hopes, but could really do with a win at fifth-placed Rotherham United this weekend.
Crewe Alexandra need a victory for very different reasons when they host Oldham Athletic as Steve Davis' side battle to stay in the third tier.
Saturday's other fixtures see Bristol City host Swindon, Carlisle United take on Stevenage, Bradford entertain Gillingham and Colchester United travel to Crawley Town.
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In the journal Environmental Health Perspectives this week, an international team led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Chernobyl Research Unit at the Radiation Epidemiology Branch of the National Cancer Institute describes the increased risks of leukemia among these workers between 1986 and 2006. The risk included a greater-than-expected number of cases of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which many experts did not consider to be associated with radiation exposure in the past.
The new work is the largest and longest study to date involving Chernobyl cleanup workers who worked at or near the nuclear complex in the aftermath of the accident.
Overall, there were 137 cases of leukemia among the workers over the 20-year span of the study, and 16 percent of those cancers were attributable to the Chernobyl radiation exposure, the team found.
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"Low doses of radiation are important," said the lead researcher Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD, an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF. "We want to raise awareness of that."
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The nearly 111,000 Ukrainian workers in the study were among the more than 500,000 former Soviets who worked directly on the front lines in the aftermath of Chernobyl disaster, which was the worst nuclear accident of the 20th century followed by the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan.
It began in the early morning hours of April 26, 1986 when a planned test of a backup system for operating cooling pumps went awry. A combination of human error and unsafe reactor design led to the runaway production of heat in Chernobyl's Reactor No. 4, which quickly caused two massive explosions, ruptured the reactor, crumbled the building, exposed the nuclear core, rained radioactive debris around the compound and spread fallout through the atmosphere over the Soviet Union and Europe.
Many of the Ukrainian workers were exposed to high levels of radiation because they were part of the teams that helped sweep up contaminated debris from the immediate area – much of which was highly radioactive. Some of them, in fact, reached lifetime limits of radiation exposure within a matter of a few hours.
Although an elevated radiation-related risk of leukemia was not surprising, given the level of exposure among many of these workers, what did surprise Zablotska and her colleagues was the elevated risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), which was similar in size to the risk estimated for non-CLL leukemia.
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For many years, doctors have known that ionizing radiation from an X-ray source or produced by the decay of radioactive elements can cause leukemia, because it can penetrate the body, expose bone marrow to the radiation and damage DNA. But while scientists have understood this basic mechanism for decades, the question of how much leukemia risk is associated with moderate or low doses of radiation has been hard to answer.
For many years, the best estimates came from long-term studies involving survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan during World War II. People in the immediate vicinity of the blasts were exposed to various levels of radiation, and in the decades afterward, their health was monitored and the increase in cancer tracked.
From those assessments of cancer risk, scientists estimated risks from lower doses by extrapolating the data down. But there have always been problems with this approach, said Zablotska. Atomic bomb survivors were bathed in gamma or neutron rays, while someone who undergoes a CT scan in the U.S. is exposed to X-rays, a different type of radiation. Moreover, extrapolating risks for Japanese population to Western population is further confounded by differences in genetics, lifestyle and diet between the two.
The new work helps to bridge this gap because the doses received by the Ukrainian cleanup workers falls somewhere in between the high level received by the Japanese atomic bomb victims and the lower levels received by people who undergo extensive medical scans.
It also challenges the idea that chronic lymphocytic leukemia is not linked to radiation exposure – something that earlier studies of atomic bomb survivors had seemed to support.
The genetic makeup of the Japanese population may have hidden any increased risk, Zablotska said, because they are much less likely to develop this type of cancer anyway. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia accounts for only 3 percent of all cases of leukemia in Japan – as opposed to about one-third of all leukemia cases in the U.S. and 40 percent of all cases of leukemia in Ukraine.
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