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TheStreet) -- Major U.S. stock averages traded mixed Monday even after Caterpillar (CAT) shares popped, as investors took a breather following a substantial run-up in the benchmark indices the prior week. The tech-heavy Nasdaq advanced slightly; Apple ( AAPL) shares jumped 2.5%.The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 14 points, or 0.10%, at 13,882. Monday brought an end to the previous six consecutive positive sessions. Friday was the index's highest close since October 2007. Breadth was negative, with losers outnumbering winners 17 to 13. Alcoa ( AA), Boeing ( BA), Bank of America ( BAC) and Travelers ( TRV) shares sank to the bottom. The top percentage blue-chip gainers were Caterpillar, General Electric ( GE) and Procter & Gamble ( PG). Caterpillar shares jumped 2% after the heavy construction and mining equipment maker beat fourth-quarter bottom-line expectations and gave cautious guidance. The S&P 500 was down 3 points, or 0.18%, at 1500. The Nasdaq closed up 5 points, or 0.15%, at 3154 as Apple shares gained. The stock slid by 15% last week after the tech giant's disappointing first-quarter results. Most sectors in the broader market were down, led lower by basic materials, consumer cyclicals and capital goods. The only sector gainers were technology, conglomerates and utilities. Volumes totaled 3.31 billion shares on the New York Stock Exchange and 1.86 billion on the Nasdaq. Decliners were outpacing advancers by a ratio of 1.3-to-1 on the Big Board, while advancers were ahead of decliners 1.3-to-1 on the Nasdaq. David Molnar, partner and managing director at Hightower's Molnar & Nordlicht Group, said with 93% of the S&P 500 trading above their 50-day moving averages, investor bullish sentiment at two-year highs, and the March quarter guidance tending negative, he sees a short-term risk of an overbought situation. "Our approach towards the market at these levels is to be cautious and use a correction as a buying opportunity," said Molnar. "We see the market heading higher longer term, so we will continue to advocate a healthy high-quality stock allocation as well as adding to those positions at the right price points." Caterpillar shares were tacked on 2% for Monday after the company posted fourth-quarter profit of $1.91 a share, excluding a non-cash charge of 87 cents a share, on revenue of $16.08 billion. Analysts, on average, were expecting earnings of $1.70 a share in the fourth quarter on revenue of $16.12 billion. The company said it remains cautious about the global economy. While Caterpillar expects some improvement in the U.S. economy, growth could be relatively weak, the company said. "We believe China's economy will continue to improve, but not to the growth rates of 2010 and 2011. We also remain concerned about Europe and expect economies in that region will continue to struggle in 2013," Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman said in a press release. Thomson Reuters had issued a report Friday that said fourth-quarter earnings are expected to grow 2.8% over the year-earlier period. The report said, of the 141 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings to date for the fourth quarter, 67% have posted earnings above analysts' expectations. This is higher than the long-term average of 62% and higher than the average over the past four quarters of 65%. Thomson Reuters also said that 64% of companies have reported fourth-quarter revenue above analysts' expectations. This is higher than the long-term average of 62% and higher than the average over the past four quarters of 50%. The National Association of Realtors said Monday that its pending home sales index fell 4.3% in December to 101.7 after rising 1.7% the previous month. Economists expected the December pending home sales index to increase by 0.3%. Still, contract activity has risen for 20 straight months on a year-over-year basis and the reading remains above the 100 level that points to a normal level of activity. Lawrence Yun, NAR's chief economist, said in a press release that buyer interest remains solid and that supply limitations appeared to be the main factor holding back contract signings in the past month. The Census Bureau said Monday that durable-goods orders rose 4.6% in December after rising 0.7% in November, with much of the increase attributable to gains in defense and commercial aircraft bookings. Economists, on average, were expecting orders to tick up 1.8% in December. That said, excluding the transportation factor, durable goods orders rose 1.3%, after increasing 1.2% the prior month. It was the fourth straight month of gains of more than 1% each month. The estimate was for an uptick of 0.7%. "U.S. business investment apparently enjoyed an unexpected renaissance over the final few months of last year, only getting stronger as the fiscal cliff deadline got closer," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics. "Overall, a good set of figures to end last year, but we're still a bit nervous about how the payroll tax hike will affect the consumer figures for January." The DAX in Frankfurt closed down 0.32% on Monday after soaring to a fresh multi-year high earlier in the session. The FTSE finished up 0.16% at 6294, earlier breaking above 6300 for the first time since May 2008 as financial stocks rallied and investors cheered the stronger-than-anticipated U.S. durable-goods data. Hong Kong's Hang Seng finished up 0.39%, tracking Friday's rally on Wall Street and strong Chinese market performance. The Nikkei in Japan closed behind by 0.94% as investors took profits after the index rose to fresh highs and paused for more earnings reports. Gold for February delivery fell $3.70 to settle at $1,652.90 an ounce at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, while March crude oil futures closed up 56 cents at $96.44 a barrel. The benchmark 10-year Treasury was down 5/32 to raise the yield to 1.974%. The dollar was up by 0.08%, according to theNEW YORK (
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( JOSB ) shares dropped 15.1% after the men's tailored and casual clothing company warned Friday that that its fiscal 2012 net income is expected to be about 20% lower than the prior year.
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( HES) shares popped 6.1% as the company pursues the sale of its terminal network and aims to complete the exit of its refining business by closing its Port Reading, N.J., refinery.
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What's on the Menu at Brulard's?
By Lolis Eric Elie
I happened to be sitting on set with Alan Richman between takes of his scene in Episode 204. There was a copy of the Restaurant Brulard menu sitting around. He picked it up, took a quick look and pronounced it good. There was little time for a more thorough analysis. Soon he was back at work, doing another take. But the fact that at least one New York restaurant critic gave the menu a nod is testament to the combined efforts of Chester Kaczenski, our production designer, Chris Lynch, our chef/food stylist, Anthony Bourdain, who wrote the restaurant scenes in this season's episodes, and Soa Davies, a chef and member of the Le Bernardin brain trust.
Unless Victor Slezak decides to quit acting and open a restaurant using his character's name and menu, this may be your only chance to drool over these dishes.
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From NWN1 Custom Content Guide
The portraits.2da resource file is where we indicate to NWN the existance of portraits.
(excerpt from the portraits.2da file)
BaseResRef Sex Race InanimateType Plot LowGore 0 **** 4 **** **** **** **** 1 dw_f_01_ 1 0 **** 0 **** 2 dw_f_02_ 1 0 **** 0 **** 3 dw_f_03_ 1 0 **** 0 **** 4 dw_f_04_ 1 0 **** 0 **** etc...
These different entries are the resources available to the game as portraits. Every resource has several columns attached to it. Check the table to find out what the different columns represent.
|An integer ID# identifying the portrait internally.
|When choosing an ID for a .2da file, use one of the User999 rows.
|Refers to the filename resource for the portrait.
| The portrait filename must start with "po_" and end with one of L/H/M/S/T. The prefix and suffix are not included in the label name in the .2DA, but do count towards the 16 character filename limit.
For instance, say you wanted to add a portrait for Cthulhu, you have your po_cthulhu_h.tga, po_cthulhu_l.tga, po_cthulhu_m.tga, po_cthulhu_s.tga and po_cthulhu_t.tga portraits in your .HAK. In portraits.2da, your BaseResRef string will use "cthulhu_"
|Gender, actually.
| The number comes from the first column in the 2da file gender.2da from the 2da.bif file (you can view the contents of this file using NWN Explorer as well).
0 Male
1 Female 2 Both 3 Other 4 None
|This number is used for the toolset filter when selecting a portrait for your NPC.
| The number comes from the first column in the 2da file racialtypes.2da from the 2da.bif file (you can view the contents of this file using NWN Explorer).
0 Dwarf 1 Elf 2 Gnome 3 Halfling 4 Half-Elf 5 Half-Orc 6 Human
Etc. **** if it is a placeable and not a creature
|The type of placeable.
| Refers to placeabletypes.2da
0 Battlefield 1 Containers 2 Military 3 Misc 4 Misc_Interior 5 Parks_Nature 6 Penants_Signs 7 Trades_Academic 8 Visual_Effects
**** if it is a creature and not a placeable
|Is this a plot portrait? Generally no.
0 if no 1 if yes
**** if it is really a placeable anyway (1 equates to TRUE if you know C or C++)
|The portrait to use in place of this one if the game is set to low gore mode. If you create a really messy portrait, find or create a substitute, low gore, portrait here.
|Portrait name (generally **** for creatures).


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A Covington couple has been arrested and charged with imprisoning three children, authorities said Friday.
Will and Wylie Cater, of the 200 block of Gladney Road, are accused of locking the teenagers in bedrooms and a storage shed when they weren't in school.
"There was a bariatric commode placed in the room and the windows were screwed shut," said Sheriff Pancho Chumley. "The girls were fed in their rooms and confined until they were allowed to go to school in the mornings."
Chumley said a 14-year-old boy was worse off than his sisters.
He was housed in an uninsulated storage shed in the backyard, without electricity or running water. Like his sisters, he was given a bariatric commode and had a space heater. The shed was lit by a drop light powered with an extension cord.
"There was exposed wiring throughout the shed," Chumley said. "The boy would be allowed to come inside the residence in the mornings for breakfast before going to school and returned to the shed after school."
A press release from Chumley states the investigation has revealed the boy has been deemed seriously emotionally disturbed. It has been alleged that the children have lived in these conditions for six months as a means of discipline.
Detectives said two fully-functioning restrooms were in the home.
The teens had been adopted by the Caters, but have been removed from their custody, said Chumley. The money the Caters received as guardians of the teens has been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation.
"This investigation is disturbing in the manner which these children were allegedly being held," the sheriff said. "We are making certain that they are receiving all the needed services."
The Caters were arrested during a traffic stop on Jan. 28. They have reportedly admitted to their roles in the confinement of the children and have been charged with false imprisonment and three counts of aggravated child abuse.


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Yarn: DK weight (#3 Light).
Louisa Harding Kimono Angora Pure (70% angora, 25% wool, 5% nylon; 125 yd 114 m/25 g): #1 rice (tan), 1 ball.
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Notions: Tapestry needle; one 1/2" (1.3 cm) mother-of-pearl button; brooch back
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GaretJax wrote:Can you remove the level cap through a mod?
simpleforce wrote:Theres no limit to New Game plus's, that was confirmed by a dev on the stream chat.
Also, New character.
Also, MF.
Also, PVP.
Also, Mods.
freakshow0 wrote:Anyone know what there will be to do once this level is reached? Im guessing more loot and of higher value. just curious. I know i will play this longer than i did torchlight 1 but im woding what there is to keep me playing after level 100 is reached. if not then i guess il just make other characters.
adamperin wrote:Just want to clarify, there is only ng up to ng++++. The character hits max level at 100. In Ng++++ the monsters continue to level up to level 120 while your character stays at 100. Also after you beat the initial game campaign you unlock a maproom where you can buy and run maps with strange affixes to help you level up. Affixes, for example, can be things like all monsters teleport, or all monsters explode on death.
MightyBoognish wrote:Are we forgetting class mods?!!??!?! With a huuuuuuuge player base in comparison to TL1 and easier modding tools, there should be some pretty awesome classes popping up. So many possibilities. So many different ways to go about character design other than direct damage and AoE skills. A character that steals enemy powers or possesses enemies would be really cool. Some high speed, glass-cannon only type chars would as well (think SmashTV in 3D, with TL monsters!!!). Some mage/thief type illusion/backstab/CC mix would be awesome.
Other than original classes, which could yield some awesome results, some of the cool possibilities for borrowed/adapted classes I can think of:
-updated versions of D2 classes. Assassin, paladin, and necromancer would be nice as there are no directly comparable classes in TL2 right now.
-adapted versions of D&D classes. Ranger, Druid, Cleric would suit this nicely and add some interesting new builds.
-adapted versions of Street Fighter or (insert favorite fighter here) characters as a "class". We already have a "super" bar in the UI.
-a Kirby-type character that eats enemies and absorbs their powers.
-you get the point. Some other game universes' characters would lend themselves well to this.
As a related side note/question: Does anyone know if dude is going to finish the Decimator Robot? Is he on these forums? Last time I heard about that project was 2010.
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There's still time to get creative--The deadline for Kids in Print, the Richland Library's literary magazine for children and teens, has been extended. Submissions will be accepted through January 4th. So start sketching, snapping black & white photos or writing your own poems, plays, essays or short stories.
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- 24-hour front desk
- Accessibility
- Luggage locker
- Cable TV
- LCD / Plasma
- DVD player
- Optional breakfast
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"El Ciprés" Cabins are located at the 14th. kilometer marker on the road to Villarrica - Pucón , IX Region.
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Rock Hall to honor Aretha Franklin with series
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin is already a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but this fall, she'll be honored by the hall once again, as part of its American Music Masters series.
The Queen of Soul will be the subject of a week-long celebration by the hall and Case Western Reserve University. It kicks off Oct. 31, includes an all-day symposium and ends with an all-star tribute concert on Nov. 5. Performers for that show have yet to be announced.
In a statement released Tuesday, the 69-year-old Franklin said she was "thrilled and delighted" to be honored and planned to take part in the festivities.
Franklin returned to the concert scene this year after surgery for an undisclosed condition.
Past honorees include Bessie Smith, Les Paul, Janis Joplin and Woody Guthrie.
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A new report shows the three Michigan schools that make up the University Research Corridor generated about 69,000 jobs and contributed nearly $13 billion to the economy last year.
Michigan, Michigan State and Wayne State formed the URC to help spark the state's struggling economy. The three schools believe the report shows that the URC is succeeding.
The analysis was prepared by the Anderson Economic Group of East Lansing and was commissioned by the three schools.
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While many students sign yearbooks and trade digits and Twitter handles as school closes, Secretary Arne Duncan began June on assignment: using student input to expand Department efforts to help eliminate bullying against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) student community.
June 5, 2012
Gay-Straight Alliance Network and the California Safe Schools Coalition release the latest report in their School Research Brief series, "Lessons That Matter: LGBTQ Inclusivity and School Safety."
Bottle-blond bangs swept over one eye — this, the other boys whispered, was not a man's haircut. One of them — a popular, handsome specimen — grew particularly incensed at his classmate's new look. He formed a posse and found a pair of scissors. After locating the blond boy, the gang tackled him. The boy screamed for help, but none came. Lock by lock, his hair was lopped off.Soon after, the boy disappeared from school. Eventually, he returned, his hair clipped short and back to its natural brown color.
San Francisco, May 21, 2012 – eQuality Scholarship Collaborative has announced the recipients of its 2012 scholarships, presented at the 23rd Annual Awards Dinner held Friday at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.
Seventeen young leaders from throughout the State were honored and recognized for their service to the LGBTQ community. Fifteen graduating high school seniors received $5,000 scholarships toward their post-secondary education. A nursing and a medical scholarship also were awarded.
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Last month an Indianapolis teenager named Darnell "Dynasty" Young brought a stun gun to his high school and fired it into the air.
On Tuesday Young was expelled. Problem solved. He got what he deserved, right?
Indianapolis Public Schools' decision to expel a 17-year-old Tech High School student who brought a stun gun to school to scare away bullies has raised questions about whether the district takes bullying seriously.
Several groups who advocate for equal rights have come to the defense of an Indianapolis teenager expelled for firing a stun gun in school.
A gay student who said he fired a stun gun in the air at school when bullies threatened him has been expelled, according to the school district.
Darnell "Dynasty" Young, a junior at Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis, may return to school in the district on Jan. 7, 2013, Indianapolis Public Schools said Tuesday in an e-mail statement.
Young, 17, said bullies hounded him daily. The harassment escalated on April 16, when a group surrounded him at school and threatened to beat him up, according to the Indianapolis Star.
A sad yet not entirely unexpected development in the case of the openly gay teen who used a stun gun to chase away his bullies: Darnell "Dynasty" Young has been expelled from Arsenal Tech High School until January of next year.
Nearly 50 high school students from communities throughout California came to Sacramento Monday to lobby state legislators in support of two bills aimed at protecting students from extreme or unjust discipline policies.


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BEIRUT (AP) " Opposition activists say Syrian troops have captured areas from the Islamic State group in the central province of Homs under the cover of Russian airstrikes.
JERUSALEM (AP) " Two Palestinian teenage girls stabbed a 70-year-old Palestinian man with scissors outside a central Jerusalem market on Monday before they were shot by police " in a fresh burst of violence ahead of the arrival of U.S. Secretary of...
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BRUSSELS (AP) " Belgian police carried out raids throughout the tense capital, detaining 16 people as the city remained locked down under high alert Monday. In Paris, British Prime Minister David Cameron said he will ask for parliamentary approval...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) " Police have been trying to figure out what sparked a gun battle in a crowded New Orleans park that left 16 people wounded and the mayor is calling on witnesses to come forward.
TOKYO (AP) " An explosion Monday damaged a public restroom at a controversial shrine in Tokyo that honors Japanese war dead, with police suspecting foul play. No one was injured.
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A CAR has ploughed through the display of a South Grafton mower shop this afternoon.
At 12.05pm two cars were involved in a crash on Bent St.
One of the cars, a Commodore, clipped a tree, went through some bushes and knocked over a 60cm brick wall before crashing into Leslie Farm and Garden.
Shop owner Chris Leslie said it was "extremely lucky" no one was out the front of the shop when the crash happened.
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Jose Martin Giron, president of the Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras, asked global partners to pray for an end to violence in the Central American country.
In the political turmoil since a 2009 coup ousted Manuel Zelaya as president, "children don't go outside to play; neighbors rarely visit each other and women spend their days trapped inside their humble homes," Giron said.
Church leaders said a Lutheran congregation in San Pedro de Sula was forced to close its building due to the violence but was grateful that Anglican and Reformed churches were willing to share their facilities.
"These are areas where every day is one of death and survival," read a statement from the Lutheran church.
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The "Teaching American History" grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Brandon Roy scored 24 points, including
the go-ahead free throw with 2.3 seconds left, and the Portland
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94-93 today.
The victory snapped a two-game losing streak for Portland, which
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The Blazers pulled within 91-87 with 2:24 left on Roy's
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Guide for Growing
Extension Volunteer Monitoring Programs
monitoring can be a tremendous asset to water quality
protection efforts*. While volunteers contribute their
monitoring effort for free, these cost-effective
monitoring programs require a great deal of effort and
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The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring
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is bring together some of the excellent resources produced
by a wide variety of monitoring programs or agencies
into a comprehensive document to help support Extension-affiliated
volunteer monitoring efforts. Thus you will find frequent
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Building Credibility: Quality Assurance and Quality Control for Volunteer Monitoring Programs (942 KB pdf file)
Sharing Information Through Internet Exchanges (127 KB pdf file)
Volunteer Management (1 MB pdf file)
Planning Your Programs Data Management System (560 KB pdf file)
Tips and Tools for Effective Presentations (541 KB pdf file)
Outreach Tools (464 KB pdf file)
Locating Support and Funding (590 KB pdf file)
Introduction to Bacteria Monitoring (518 KB pdf file)
Methods for Monitoring Bacteria in Surface Waters (1 MB pdf file)
Presenting Bacteria Monitoring Data Effectively (522 KB pdf file)
Evaluating Your Volunteer Monitoring Program (423 KB pdf file)
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Assessing the Scope of Cooperative Extension Volunteer
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FIRST POSTED IN 2007 There's no shortage of live Captain Beefheart floating around. Quality live Captain Beefheart is another matter. By virtue of its outstanding sound quality, this Rhino Handmade 2000 release stands as the best overall concert recording you can find of the good Captain and one of his Magic Bands. Recorded November 11th, 1978 for a radio broadcast on WLIR in New York, this complete, 85 minute show features the '78 version of The Magic Band, with Jeff Moris Tepper on guitar and Bruce Fowler, late of the Mothers, on trombone. They were on the road to promote the Captain's return-to-form LP, Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (HERE, in the archives). How good do they sound? Note the slow, flawless fade-out they execute on the opening number, "Tropical Hot Dog Night." After that, it's a satisfying mix of old, new and obscure with Van Vliet sounding musically at home after his two misguided commercial albums for Mercury Records. Listen for the hula part in "Safe As Milk," below. The limited edition run sold out long ago, so your disc options now are Ebay, Amazon (HERE) and a boatload of money. Find tons of Captain Beefheart, The Magic Band & solo albums in the archives, HERE.
Tropical Hot Dog Night
Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
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You Know You're A Man
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When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy
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We've covered some milestones recently on our brewery project. We took possession of our new location earlier this month. We are very fortunate to have a HUGE space to grow into and a great landlord. In the last week or so we had our ABC Public Notice posted in our window to keep the licensing process moving along. Our offices have been painted and are ready for (sparse) furnishings to start out. The plans for improvements needed to make the building brewery ready were also submitted to the City of Redlands this week and we are anxious to get our building permits in hand so work can begin. For now it's a big empty space but our new 30 barrel brewhouse is coming in early May along with other equipment.
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Deena Nicole may call herself a walking holiday, but her Jersey Shore pal Snooki knows how to get festive herself.
The reality TV mom took to Instagram over the weekend, posting photos of her decked out halls. Even though Snooks, her fiancé Jionni, and their son Lorenzo still live in Jionni's parents' basement, Snooki still decorated for the holidays like a pro. We'd expect nothing less!
Plus, Snooki and Jionni are currently building a house in New Jersey, so we can only imagine how many lights and ornaments there will be when they move into their own place.
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Teaching Textbooks — Math 3, Math 4, Math 5, Math 6, Math 7, Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry, Pre-Calculus
Publisher: Teaching Textbooks
This is one of my 102 Top Picks!
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See the complete review in 102 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum.
I knew that the Teaching Textbooks series was going to be added to my Top Picks next time around as soon as I reviewed the first few courses. These fantastic courses were designed specifically for homeschoolers to solve some of the issues that make math challenging for them.
CD-ROMs for each course actually teach the lessons. (CD-ROMs will run on either Windows or Mac systems.) Lectures on the CD-ROMs are audio presentations accompanied by step-by-step written explanations showing how to work each problem. Lectures are interactive, requiring students to answers questions from time to time, both to keep them engaged and to test their understanding. The screen designs are colorful and nicely illustrated without being too busy.
While it is possible to work only with the CD-ROMs, most students are likely to prefer having the print textbook as well. As students encounter more difficult problems on the CD-ROM presentations, such as with long division, they will then need to copy problems and work them on paper. The text saves the copying step, and it also provides an easy way for either student or parent to review a lesson.
Even when students use the textbooks, they need to enter their answers on the computer since each course tracks and grades student work. Students can try again if they miss a problem, but the program will report this.
This automatic gradebook feature generates reports for practice problems (which are optional), assigned problems, and quizzes. The final score (expressed as a percentage) does not include the practice problems. The program also reports whether or not students view the step-by-step solutions to problems....
Textbooks are written directly to the student and do not assume the presence of a teacher. Explanations are clear and complete, with plenty of practical examples. In the textbooks, a light-hearted touch gives the texts a user-friendly feeling while avoiding silliness. This is evident in all of the courses in everything from the layout of the books and the program's interface design and style of type through the occasional cartoon illustration and the wording of the text itself.
Lessons are taught in a traditional fashion. The new concept is presented, followed by examples then practice problems. Next, students work through a set of problems on their own (about 18-25 problems per lesson). Problem sets include continual review of previously-learned concepts. In addition, key points are highlighted for quick student review. There are 95 to 142 lessons per course, with lessons grouped into chapters that concentrate on different topics. In all of these texts, students should aim to complete approximately one lesson per day. Adding in test days still should leave you at least 20 days in the school year for extra work on troublesome concepts, review, or "mathless" school days.
The soft-cover textbooks have plastic-spiral bindings and range from 612 to 872 pages in length. The paper is a bit thin for textbooks, but the books are already more than an inch thick. (Pre-Calculus is two inches thick!) Durability might be a concern. I know that is a lot of pages for each course, but there are two obvious reasons: each page is less crowded than pages in many other courses, and expanded explanations that make the material much more understandable take up extra space, particularly in high school level books.
Problem sets in each lesson are laid out so that students can actually do some of their work directly in the textbook. However, in high school level books it is not practical for students to solve lengthy problems in the textbook. You might skip the textbook entirely and have students solve and answer problems in separate notebooks. Whether or not you purchase the printed textbooks, I would encourage the use of a separate notebook because you really want to see the work showing how a student arrives at his or her answer.
Indexes have been added to the newest editions of printed textbooks except Pre-Calculus. (Those who have texts without indexes can access indexes on the publisher's website.)....
The Teaching Textbooks series is a college prep curriculum even though it is not as rigorous as some other courses. However, textbooks for the elementary grades move at a slower pace than other series such as Horizons Math and Saxon Math. Of course, you can always move ahead more quickly with a child who excels. You might even select a grade level higher than the student's actual grade level. Placement tests on the publisher's website will help you select the correct level.
The Math 3 through Math 7 courses each come with a set of four CD-ROMs. Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1 each have ten. Algebra 2 and Geometry each have 12, and Pre-Calculus has 16. CD-ROMs include lectures, problems, quizzes, and complete solutions.
Significantly, students begin by watching a lecture on a CD-ROM then they might read the summary in the textbook. Next, they work the practice problems, mostly likely in the textbook, before entering their answers in the computer. For incorrect answers, they should watch the solutions on the CD-ROM. Then they are ready to tackle the problem set, entering answers on the computer. They can still view solutions if they continue to make errors. Voice hints are available for the hardest problems. Parents should review progress before students go on to the next lesson. Each chapter concludes with a quiz. Note that courses also come with an answer booklet that is strictly an answer key for practice problems, lesson problems, and quizzes....
Families are given permission to install the CD-ROMs on as many computers as they like, which means that two or more students might be working in the same course at the same time. Even better, each time a student completes a course, you can simply reinstall for a new student. That means that all of your children can use the course over subsequent years. (Note: after two installations, you will have to contact the publisher for new activation codes.) You can access free demos and samples at the publisher's website.
Details on individual courses are in 102 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum.
If you have a high speed connection to the internet, you can access a free demo at the publisher's website: www.teachingtextbooks.com.
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Teaching Textbooks Math 7 Answer Key
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Traveling this Thanksgiving could cost Americans more money when we fill up at the pump. The Lundberg Survey found that gas prices are up five cents a gallon over the past two weeks. The national average for a gallon of self-serve regular is now $2.23. A check locally has gas prices in Greenville at $2.07 a gallon. Washington is at $2.13 a gallon, and New Bern and Jacksonville are around $2.17 a gallon
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Schools eye career readiness
Educators focus on students being prepared for next stage of life
Sunday, June 8, 2014
The popularity of career and technical education — sometimes known as "vo-tech" — is on the rise in Missouri's high schools.
More than 177,000 students — two in every three — participated in at least one career and technical education program during the 2012-13 school year, said Dennis Hardin, career education coordinator for the Missouri Department of Education. He presented his data to the Missouri School Boards' Association, which met at Tan-Tar-A at the Lake of the Ozarks this weekend.
Almost 26,000 of those students earned three or more credits in a sequence, meaning they likely mastered a skill or even earned a certification.
"We think we'll see those numbers continue to grow as schools move towards career academies," he added.
He also noted that student organizations — like Future Business Leaders of America, Future Farmers of America and Skills USA — are also growing in strength. More than 74,000 Missouri students participate annually and five of the organizations rank in the Top 10, nationally, in terms of membership.
"We consider them an integral part of instruction," he said.
Hardin noted that in 2012, a group of his peers in other states convened the "Career Readiness Partnership" to further define what it means to be ready for the workforce.
He said they defined "career readiness" in three ways: adaptability, employability and commitment to life-long learning.
"Students have to be adaptable, because the workplace changes so rapidly," he said. "They need to be committed to lifelong learning. We all know that jobs change and we all have to upgrade our skills to stay current in the workplace."
The term "employability" refers to all of those skills — punctuality, time on-task, adherence to safety requirements, etc. — people need to be effective workers, he noted.
He noted when DESE developed its "Top 10 by 20" strategic plan — which calls for Missouri to be ranked among the Top 10 states in education by the year 2020 — officials didn't separate college readiness from career readiness, but combined them together.
Hardin said people tend to be familiar with their area vo-tech programs — like Jefferson City's Nichols Career Center — but they don't always notice the magnitude of career and technical education in Missouri.
He said the state has:
• 57 area career centers with four on community college campuses,
• 440 high school programs,
• one state technical college at Linn State,
• 12 community college districts, and
• seven four-year institutions offering associate's degrees.
He also noted the state is seeing rapid growth in "Project Lead the Way," a non-profit program that emphasizes learning in science, math, engineering and technology. The program provides teacher professional development and curriculum to thousands of schools around the country, including the Jefferson City Public Schools.
At Friday's seminar, three other speakers: Jefferson City Superintendent Brian Mitchell, Nichols Career Center Director Sharon Longan, and Pathways to Prosperity Director Christy Davis, also shared their perspectives on "career readiness."
Mitchell shared the JCPS's work to develop career academies, which open this fall for the ninth-grade class.
He noted high schoolers today must prepare themselves for global competition.
"We want them prepared to compete with anyone, for any job, or any entry to a post-secondary program," he said.
Longan talked about changes Nichols Career Center staff implemented last school year when they asked website design students to perform their work for real — not mock — business clients.
She said dealing with the unpredictability of a real client's needs helped students delve deeply into the learning process.
"When a local business partner talks about the importance of appropriate office dress or timeliness, it has a greater impact than when a teacher or parent does," Longan said.
Speakers also talked about the need for all students to pursue post-secondary training. While a four-year degree still has value, Davis said state education leaders have recognized the need for a variety of career pathways.
She noted 72 percent of American workers in 1973 had a high school diploma or less.
"It was the key to the American dream," she said.
Three decades later that has shifted dramatically, she said.
In 2007 only 40 percent of American workers could find a job with a high school diploma or less, she said.
"That number is going to continue to shrink," Davis said.
All the speakers agreed that high school education is no longer about training students for the workforce or for college, because students must be ready for both.
"Our job is to grow them into Grade 13," Longan said. "It's no longer college or career-ready."
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Denver Broncos linebacker Louis Green left the field on a stretcher with a neck injury and a concussion in the first quarter of Saturday's preseason game against Houston.
The 6-foot-3, 237-pound Green collided with teammate D.J. Williams as the two converged to tackle Texans tight end Owen Daniels, who caught a short pass.
Green lay motionless for several minutes as medical staff rushed to check on him. Green was strapped to the stretcher and was moving his fingers and hands as he was rolled off the field.
The Texans said Green was taken to a hospital for further evaluation, but has since been released. Green will accompany the team back to Denver on their charter flight.
Green had replaced Boss Bailey, who sprained his right ankle and limped off the field on the Texans' second play from scrimmage.
The 28-year-old Green, starting his fifth NFL season, played in all 16 games for Denver in 2007 and finished with nine tackles.
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Sure as death and taxes and my back hurting when I wake up in the morning, another NHL lockout is all but a certainty. On Sept. 13, Gary Bettman will convene his NHL board of governors for an update on the status of negotiations with the league's players toward a new collective bargaining agreement. With no agreement, Bettman will then get the OK from owners to lock the players out for a third time in the last 18 years.
Gates to NHL arenas will thus become locked. Training camps due to start on Sept. 21 will be canceled. And soon after that, the opening-night games of the regular season — slated for Oct. 11 — will be shuttered as well.
It is astonishing that we as hockey lovers are faced with this grim scenario once again. The NHL, the only major pro sport to ever have cancelled a full season, in 2004-05 over labor problems, is facing its fourth work stoppage since 1992 (players had a brief strike in that year, then came lockouts in 1994-95 and '04-05).
Players already are resigned to not playing games for their NHL teams in October. In talking with a few players over the last couple weeks, they have already begun making inquiries into signing with European leagues when the lockout starts. In 2004-05, more than 350 players played for European teams.
The NHL had record revenues last season of $3.3 billion. But players got 57 percent of that revenue. Owners want that number to go down.
They also want a bunch of other things, such as more restrictive lengths on contracts and free-agency eligibility. Under new NHLPA director Donald Fehr, players proposed taking less of a percentage of revenue for three years, while establishing a more equitable revenue-sharing model — an "Industry Growth Fund." After three years, if the league was still growing at its current rate, players would get "snapbacks" to their current revenue cut.
No dice, said the owners. We want that 57 percent number to come down and stay down, they essentially said. So here we are.
Here is one major reason why players aren't sweating the loss of at least the first part of a season — and the owners have only themselves to blame for it:
• On Oct. 15, all players will receive roughly 8 percent of their 2011-12 salaries back in a lump-sum payment. It will be the return of their escrow money, the amount deducted by owners in case overall player salaries exceed 57 percent of hockey-related revenue. Players had 8.5 percent of their pay withheld in escrow last season, but will get most all of it back in five weeks.
According to capgeek.com, the average NHL salary was $2.17 million last season, which means the average escrow check the players get on Oct. 15 will be $173,600. That's enough to pay the light bill and take the family out to the Olive Garden for a while at least.
It was the owners' insistence on an escrow system in the last CBA that now, ironically, will make it easier for players to yawn at their threats of losing paychecks now.
Also, players will receive monthly checks from an NHLPA "war chest" (mostly money from licensing fees set aside over the years). In the last lockout, according to player sources, those checks averaged between $10,000 and $15,000 a month. Again, enough to grab a few combo meals for the family at McDonald's.
Talking with players of late, they are very unified this time around. Many still feel the stinging embarrassment of the beating they took in the last lockout, with players caving in to a salary cap and 24 percent rollbacks of salaries. They feel they gave back plenty last time, and aren't going to cave in this time. They may bend some on that 57 percent number, but they aren't going to take a drastic cut in revenues — not down to the 46 percent mark, as the owners would have them on their first proposal.
I'll still hold to my prediction of this summer, though: We'll see the NHL back in December or so. The NHL owners have a lot more to lose this time around than last — when they had zero TV money and a warped economic system that had 76 percent of all revenues going to player salaries.
It will be the owners — with pressure applied from U.S. TV rights holder NBC and a growing list of sponsors — who will push to cut a deal in time to get that big TV money rolling in. True, the NHL will still get its full portion of TV money from NBC this season - even if no games are played. But that's a red herring, I believe, as NBC will get a freebie makeup year added on to their current 10-year contract.
Many believe NBC is already getting quite a bargain at just $200 million a year to broadcast NHL games. It could be worth double or triple that in another nine or 10 years. But if that's the case, the owners won't get a dime of it when the contract is up, because they'll owe that freebie year.
Unfortunately, the NBA set a precedent of doing very well financially despite missing the first couple months of its last season. That also makes it easy for NHL owners not to sweat the loss of games in October or November.
Of course, the owners' ringleader, commissioner Bettman, is the same man who said the following in 2008, well into the CBA that runs out Sept. 15.
"One of the reasons we had to go through a difficult period through the work stoppage is because we didn't have a system that worked and it was affecting our franchises' health and what the game looked like on the ice," Bettman said on Bloomberg Television. "So, by creating a partnership with the players, by having a salary cap, we now have a system that works for everybody -- but most importantly for our fans."
Right, the fans. They are what's most important.
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