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Block Building: The children in this picture are doing more than playing with blocks. They are using problem solving skills as they work cooperatively to construct their building. They are showing their beginning knowledge of basic math and physics concepts. They are also engaged in a deep discussion about this building: "It's an office building with a magic elevator that goes to the North Pole!" This was the beginning of our Architecture Unit.
Bears and Caves: The teachers waited to start this big unit as we were just wrapping up "The Foot Show." We wanted to make sure that the students were still interested in building so we started slowly by talking about bears, hibernation, and caves.Here the children are constructing bear caves with blocks and rocks. We snapped this picture before the roof was assembled.
Language and Teaching Others: The older child (4 years old) in the gray shirt is explaining to the younger child (3 years old) what he has built, where the entrance is, and who lives in the cave. The older child is using his new "bear" vocabulary to express his knowledge of bears and caves.
Completed Bear Cave: The student is placing the last piece of the roof on his cave so his bear can hibernate.
Making a Big Bear Cave: The children are working cooperatively, using problem solving skills, using a variety of materials, and sharing their "bear" knowledge to make a large bear cave.
We're Going on a Bear Hunt: After building the cave, we invited the children to bring in a teddy bear to "hibernate" in the cave. We read "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" many times, learned how to sign it, and retold it by going on an actual bear hunt!
Moving on...After all the bear hunt excitement, the teachers decided to set out invitations for learning about architecture by providing many books, skyscraper pictures by art easels, boxes, tubes, and lots of tape. The children quickly began exploring how to balance boxes and tubes and frequently exclaimed, "I need more tape!" as they constructed towers and buildings.
Blueprints: After reading "Up Goes The Skyscraper" and "Building a House", we learned that before we could really build a house, skyscraper, hotel, or other building we needed a blueprint. Each child drew their own blueprint of a building of their choice.
Blueprints aren't small...
After consulting some books, we saw that the blueprints the architects draw are not small, they are on big paper! We projected the blueprint images onto the wall. The children traced their image carefully and learned how to keep their bodies and heads from creating shadows.
Constructing: With blueprints in hand, students began constructing their buildings with many materials: boxes, tubes, chopsticks, and buttons.
This child is showing his understanding of gravity. He is carefully balancing the tube on top of box and putting lots of tape to make it stay.
The Sears Tower; Each child gave a name to his or her skyscaper, tower, hotel, or house. This child named his "The Sears Tower."
After Constructing...
After the construction process was complete, the students referred back to their blueprints to add details. The students used paint, markers, and zigzag ribbon to make their buildings look more realistic.
This child is adding windows to her hotel while explaining how she has stayed at a hotel before and what she did while she stayed there.
Details: There were lots of windows on this child's blueprint. He carefully counted the windows on his blueprint and referred to a book to make sure all the windows were accounted for on his building.
Making a House a Home: This child is making her 3-D model look like her house by adding jig saw work made out of zigzag ribbon and dormers made out of cardboard.
A Job Well Done: The preschoolers had a real sense of pride and self-confidence as they looked at their 3-D representations that they had built using their blueprints.
Clay Models: After we completed our blueprint buildings, we introduced clay into our classroom. We hadn't used it before and began comparing and contrasting it to playdough.
Students carefully began to shape their piece of clay into buildings and poking windows and doors into the sculpture with sticks.
Unexpected but Creative: Some of the sticks became parts of the buildings.These clay models were showcased in the St. Mark's Church Talent Night along with our chalk pastel city skyline.
What Else Were We Doing While We Working on Our City? Students created a city skyline using chalk pastels and tape. They cut short, medium, and long tape to put on paper and then rubbed and blended the chalk pastels next to the tape. The tape was then removed to create an outline of buildings. All these were placed on a large box for display.
Building Our Names: Preschoolers had the opportunity to build their names with Legos. They had to identify their names on a large bag, put their letters in the correct order, and then use problem solving skills to manipulate the Legos to make their names.
Center Time: Students engaged in block building during center time, often creating large and elaborate constructions. These boys are building a gas station with a road to Egypt. The boys really wanted to make a sign, and after discussing how they could accomplish that task, went to the art cart to get paper, scissors, and markers to make a BP sign.
Goodbye Dale: We wanted to create a going away present for the Church's secretary, Dale. She had assisted the preschool staff many times and helped the preschoolers mail letters to Santa. The preschoolers used old maps of Illinois, Chicago, DuPage County, and Glen Ellyn to create a city skyline. They drew rectangles and carefully cut them out and glued them on the blue background. Everyone also signed a card for Dale telling her "Goodbye! and "Good Luck with the Move!"
We Were Still Busy Back in the City: The next step in our blueprint building project was to turn our solitary buildings into a city. The students carefully placed their buildings on two large tables in the hallway. We all stepped back and looked. One of the teachers thought out loud, "Hmmm....I think it is missing some things. What could we add to make it look more like a city?" The students eagerly made a list of ideas of things their city needed: sidewalks, cars, people, a park with a fence "so the kids don't get hurt", roads, a sun, and clouds. They then broke into to teams to make these things for our city. This team is working on the park.
Paying Attention to Details: This team is working on adding a lake, complete with a boat and fish to go by the lighthouse built by one of the students.
A City Turns Into a Town: There was one more thing our city needed: a name. We made a graph and wrote down potential city names. We then voted for our favorites, and the winner was "Friend Town." Our city was no longer a city...it was a town! Students wrote the name of our town on large poster board to welcome visitors to our city.When parent teacher conferences came, we wrote a class letter inviting our parents to "look at our town in the hallway" and "come into the classroom to see our clay buildings." Parents were amazed by the hardwork, attention to detail, and creativity of their preschoolers!
People in Friend Town: These are two friends driving their cars in Friend Town.
Our Town's Motto~"It's where friends come together." Bryce, Age 4


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Nina Dobrev is currently single.
Nina Dobrev (born Nikolina Konstantinova Dobreva Bulgarian: Николина Константинова Добрева; January 9, 1989) is a Bulgarian Canadian actress and model. She portrayed Mia Jones on the drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation (2006–09), and then play...ed the role of Elena Gilbert on The CW's supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries (2009–15). Dobrev has also starred in the 2012 drama film The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the 2014 comedy Let's Be Cops, and the 2015 horror comedy The Final Girls.
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Helo nina.. Til now im still watching vampire diaries.. How r you?
She is absolutely stunning!
If only she and Paul dated, they would have been a great couple! I wish her luck with Austin anyway, hope they marry and have sweet little children, Ian didn't deserve her.
How do you know that Nina Dobrev is Single because I am pretty sure she is not single. I know she just got out of her relationship with Ian Somerhalder ,but I think I heard that she was getting together with someone else.
its rumored that dobrev will be quitting tvd's after season #6. If that's true tvd's will have one big hole to fill with one of the main characters gone.
even now dobrewood still is real :) i hope see nina dobrev and chris wood together for long time ♥ they are cute :)
I've been "Vampire Diaries" every week on the CW Network and CTV2 on Thursdays can I give you flowers to wear around your neck and also can I have an autograph before I become a game show host of "Truth or Consequences" on syndication.
Good choice Nina, Chris Wood is sooo hot, younger and more handsome then Ian.
I love nina, shes such a good actress and shes hot
Love her so much, beautiful sweetheart. Eapecially love that she's bulgarian :)
There's a rumor that Nina is Dating Christopher Wood (Her Co-Star, Kai Parker). Is it true?


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Published: Sunday, August 12, 2007 at 6:01 a.m.
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HOUMA A south Lafourche hospital received $70,434 to hurricane-proof its building with wind-resistant shutters and shatterproof windows.
Lady of the Sea Hospital in Galliano will spend an additional $24,000 of its own to cover the cost of shutters and screens to help prevent wind-blown debris from breaking glass and damaging the building and its contents.
Completion of these mitigation measures will significantly improve the likelihood of the hospital surviving a major hurricane and remaining open to deal with emergency situations, house emergency personnel and respond to the needs of the community and emergency responders, said Jim Stark, FEMAs director of the Louisiana Transitional Recovery Office.
Lady of the Sea is a 35-bed hospital that serves much of the south Lafourche area as well as lower Jefferson Parish and Grand Isle, said John Davenport, director of plant operation at the hospital. Davenport said the hospital filed for the FEMA grant last August.
It will help protect the hospital from damages and to help us close up the hospital and make it secure so emergency personnel can stay through the storm, Davenport said.
Members of the South Lafourche Levee District also stay in the hospital during storms to monitor water levels outside the levee system.
Davenport said it was difficult to prepare the 84,000-square-foot, three-story building for oncoming storms, especially when hospital workers tried to board up more than 100 windows.
The people here need to protect their own properties and families, he said. And to have to protect the hospital, leave, go protect their property and then come back and man the hospital, well, it was a real logistic nightmare.
Andrew Thomas, a spokesman for FEMA, said the south Lafourche project is a good example of a typical hazard-mitigation project improvements made on structures to help prevent future damage from storms.
We do a lot of structure elevations, he said. But the shutters and the windows are one of the most common improvements.
The hospital hopes to get large accordion shutters to pull across the main entrance and the emergency-room entrance.
Weve been struggling to get this done as long as Ive been here, which is six years, Davenport said. Its always been on everyones mind.
Flooding during hurricanes and tropical storms could be devastating for the hospital, he said.
The amount of the equipment that could be damaged, he said, would be mind-boggling.
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"Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life and I get frightened. I know I'm one of the luckiest dudes in America right now," LaBeouf tells Parade magazine in its June 14 issue. "I have a great house. My parents don't have to work. I've got money. I'm famous. But it could all change, man. It could go away. You never know."
At the age of 23, LaBeouf says he is still trying to figure out life.
"I have no answers to anything. None. Why am I an alcoholic? I haven't a damn clue! What is life about? I don't know," says the star of this summer's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. "What I do know is, I screw up, and I know that I'm working on myself to be a better person."
Last summer, LaBeouf injured his left hand in a car accident and has undergone several surgeries to repair the damage. "It was smashed so bad, it didn't even look like a hand," he says.
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Rest in peace, Stephen. You will be truly missed. I am proud to have been able to call you my friend.
Wow............nobody's drank anything in 4 months.....:Faint::couch:
Just booked my hotel room last night. Staying at the Hampton Inn on Smallman
I'll be there..........
Nah.....he's harmless. :grin2:
Morning, all........
Wanted to check in with y'all. I haven't done that enough. :putergreet:
Looks like the protest and counter-protest were civil and went on without incident or arrests.
Hopefully, everyone stays home and this becomes a demonstration of futility. The current Principal of this High School is a childhood friend of mine and has a good head on his shoulders.
Now, if...
This excerpt taken directly from WBC's website.
Here is the school's response on their website:
Dude.......that's awesome:grin2:
Since I was a kid, major media outlets have been propping up puppets to tell us how to feel or how to act.
Meanwhile, my friend is so broke, he can only afford to buy cookies. Another friend...
I agree with the previous posters.
Learn how/where to take the right readings. Technology is a "crutch" to help us become more efficient servicemen, but you still need to know the theory behind...
:gah: Was that taken at Piatt Park? :grin2:
I'll be there...:cheers:
Get well soon, DW........prayers from Ohio.
She's on trickle charge in the garage. Trying to get enough battery power to drive it to the repair shop.
I got a backup plan, though. I just purchased my dad's 2000 Lexus RX 300. Gonna sell...
It was good seeing old friends and some new ones as well.
I found Robo eating his new creation, the "Philly Cheese Chip"
Weber was helping me get free SWAG, since he couldn't smuggle anything...
Morning, all.......
I'll be there on Friday for the day. Short drive for me....
Hey, guys....thought I'd drop in and say "hi".:grin2:
After your time in the Air force, you have had 8 different jobs in 27 years. Is there a reason you don't stay with a company for more than an average of 4 years? Boredom? Personality differences? ...
I'm going to do the Friday sessions at a minimum. Trying to convince the boss to let me do Thursday as well.
Unless the salesman used to be a technician. I have had no issues with estimating too little time on my PM's. :grin2:
I have a library full of PM sheets for everything from small tonnage split systems to high tonnage centrifugal chillers. All are done on Excel and customized for each client. The only standardized...
BTW, I am on both LinkedIn & Facebook. The line between professional networking and social networking needs to be maintained.
So why did you sign in here?
Just sayin' :whistle:
Refrigerant has no color.
If you have kids, I'd be checking their crayon boxes for a pink one missing.
And you should be more considerate to correct me via PM rather than on the open forum. Otherwise nobody learns anything.
You will have to have your HVAC service provider do a load calculation on your home to make that sizing determination.
If anything, you want your evaporator a half ton to a full ton larger than your condenser, not the other way around. The added surface area of the evaporator coil will increase the efficiency of...
Indeed it is...........:cool:
If you drive a car, Ill tax the street;
If you try to sit, Ill tax your seat;
If you get too cold, Ill tax the heat;
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
The Beatles ~ "Taxman", 1966
All scrapped units need to have the proper EPA sticker on them giving the following information: Refrigerant type, recovery date, company, and technician.
:LOL: Thufferin' Thuccotash............
May the "Schwartz" be with you......:grin2:
This one's for you, Bin Laden.........
I've got 2 acres. When I was still running service, efficiency of EVERYTHING I did at home was of paramount importance. That's why I have this beast of a mower, Stihl backpack blower (400cfm),...
No need for any other filtration if you are considering the AP5000.
WTF is this "pull start" you speak of? :grin2:
Yep. Starting over is the best advice anyone will give you.
This is how I roll........
52" Commercial walk-behind
Honestly, at this stage of the game, I don't give a red rat's @$$ whether it's real or not. It probably isn't, since it's taken almost three years to obtain. That being said, if it's a fake, and he...
Old Airtherm? :grin2:
I think this is the pic that quite possibly got R22forbreakfast permanently banned?
Nice catch. :grin2:
You trace IP or did he use the same e-mail address when he re-registered? :LOL:
1/8th of a bubble is plenty. As hvacvegas said, slightly to the front or dead level. The secondary heat exchanger has it's own slope toward the front of the furnace..
You might want to edit the pricing out of your post before one of the mods does it for you. Not supposed to be pricing discussed here.
Did any of the contractors perform an actual load...
P.E. was an elective for us back in the day. (mid-late 80's)
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Making that vision a reality is why I'm
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The last four years have been both a
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Over the next four years, I will continue
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Why we're takin it on the chin today? No News and down 6%? WTF!!! Guess I'll have to buy more.
Well, thats because there won't be a country left. The massive debt is too much for the citizens to handle. Not saying Romney will do better, but I doubt he could do worse.
I have a good feeling about this stock going up at least 50c a share By 08/03/12
This is a long term buy for me. I'm looking 5 yrs down the road with this one and buying on dips like today. Compare MDF with the big insurers and I think you'll like the potential in this company. GLTA
i got more @ $8.30 with fingers crossed. GO MDF!!!
JUST HUM dragging MDF down I think, along with the rest of the sector.
I can't imagine that the earnings would be bad enough to send the stock down 12% +, or that the insiders would make it so obvious that they're jumping ship. Just got to hold tight.


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This is a good bike i never had any problems ,it is lite , great to do tricks with ,and alot of people thinks it looks cool i love this bike i will never give it up . it iz a great product and i would highly recommend it to a the bmx rider out there !!!!
This is a awesome bike! My 13 year old son loves it and i even bought one to ride with him and we have a blast.
My son loved the looks and ride of this bike. I thought it was too heavy but, he didn't mind. After fixing three flat tires and both the front and back brakes the front brakes broke for a second time. This time in a different place. Enough is enough. My son says he wants a different bike. I have done more work on this bike than his last three bikes combined. I wouldn't buy this bike.
POSITIVES: comfortable ride, looks cool, pegs front/back, front/back hand brakes; NEGATIVES: H-E-A-V-Y!! (hard to jump curbs, climb hills, etc.). Mine came with a defective back brake and a piece that rubs against the back wheel (makes clicking noise)
OVERALL: It's a good bike --if you don't mind fixing up a few things and have the muscle to lug it around, then it's the bike for you!
i have had this bike for over a year and i love it. i have always loved to ramp big and do tricks which this bike is very tough to exceed my expectations which i like. i also take this bike out to the dirt track and i have had some bad wrecks but it still works fine. but i have had put some parts on this bike.(brake pads.rims and tire,seat post). i have had no popped tires yet. so if you like to go big and want a bike to stay together i recommend this bike.
I bought this bike 4 month ago and it has vary good brakes it has never broken down on me and I took a 11mile bike ride it'a avarry good bike.
The ball bearings in the mags were very slow if not completely shot when I got this bike!!!
this bike is awsome. i can jump and do all sorts of tricks. and its light.
We had this bike shipped to the store. We had to put it together, so we got to see first hand just how badly made it was. Nothing fit as it should. We couldn't even get the front wheel on because the front forks were welded wrong. The front brake wouldn't fit on the handle bars. One handle bar was 1 inch higher than the other. The seat was tore and the paint was scratched and not shiny in places. For $178 we should not have had these problems. We took the bike back.
My son got this for his birthday. We thought that the Tony Hawk brand would be an excellent choice because he is amazing and knows his stuff. This bike was so heavy I had a hard time lifting it. He had a hard time pedaling because the bike tire was warped and rubbed on the broken back brakes making it very difficult to go. We took this bike back and went with another brand and are very happy with the new one.
I drove to 6 different Wal Mart stores to find this bike for my girlfriend's son for Christmas. The first day he rode it the reflectors and end caps came off. Four months later, the seat had to be reattached and it needs a new tire because he jumped a very small ramp. Wish I had went with some other brand.
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Legmaker carbon fiber intake tube review.
I got this thing in today finally....first let me say that it's just an intake tube, I do not expect any power increase and I bought it because I liked the way it looks. It's a very nice part though. The weave is nice and even and the tube itself is very uniform and smooth.
The hardware provided is above and beyond what's necessary. The medium duty t-bolt clamps were a surprise. They look much better than a regular worm drive hose clamp. They're definitely overkill as there's no pressure on these connections but they're a nice touch.
Both connectors are multi layer silicone hose, also overkill for this application but look much nicer than a plain old rubber hose.
I definitely like the IAT extension wire that moves the sensor to the air box intake tube. That stock sensor location is an eyesore.
Anyway....I'm sure if I dynoed it it would provide the same <10 hp increase any other intake on the market gives. I did add an aFe Pro Guard 7 drop in filter just because.
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Looks good. Loved my old LMI CAI and i missed the CF weight vs my behemoth steel tube now.
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Are you still butthurt over our previous posts back and forth...or do you still think that S&B intake turned your stock truck into a fire breathing dragster that gets 40mpg? LOL
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I hardly EVER take ANYTHING said in the real world to heart, let alone on an internet forum from a handle; so no, my butt don't hurt.... at least not as much as yours.
I gained next to no MG gains on the S&B; I posted this on my thread. You should be a little more attentive to the task at hand to prevent [continous] self-enduced embarrassment.
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Women in 'Orange' Help Women in Prison
Cast of the Netflix Show Attend Benefit for the Women's Prison Association
One of the trickiest things about attending a party with the cast of "Orange Is the New Black" is figuring out which character each of the actresses plays on the show. It isn't an easy feat considering the severe make-unders these women undergo for their roles as prison inmates and administrators.
"Nobody recognizes me," said Alysia Reiner, who plays morally corrupt prison administrator Natalie "Fig" Figueroa on the Netflix show and is decidedly more glamorous in real life.
On Wednesday evening at the Carlton Hotel, Ms. Reiner, fellow "Orange Is the New Black" cast members and Piper Kerman—author of the book on which the show is based—came to celebrate Ms. Reiner's very un-Fig-like undertaking: a charity/shopping event for the Women's Prison Association.
Ms. Reiner teamed with Suz Somersall, founder of KiraKira jewelry, to design a limited-edition locket for the WPA. All of the proceeds from sales of the locket go to the service and advocacy organization. Among its many programs, WPA runs a family reunification center for formerly incarcerated women, in-prison HIV prevention programs, and the recently launched alternative-to-incarceration program called JusticeHome.
Ms. Kerman—who served 13 months in prison for a money-laundering offense—became involved in WPA's mentoring program after being incarcerated. She is now on the association's board.
Ms. Reiner's WPA locket—which is available gold-plate or silver—is $98 and will be available throughout 2014. The pieces they had on hand at the event sold out in less than an hour.
"We came up with the idea of a locket, because it's a beautiful way to honor someone you miss," said Ms. Reiner. The back is engraved with three words from WPA's mission statement: "Strengthen. Empower. Connect."
The front has a celestial-inspired design, with asymmetrical white sapphires. "We wanted to communicate an idea of reaching for the stars," Ms. Reiner said. "WPA gives people a second chance."
"We all connect to a charity based on what's going on in our lives," she said. "I feel so blessed to be part of this production and part of a piece of art that can really change things."
"The show has been an amazing gift for the agency," added Tina Daniels, board president of WPA. "People really relate to the human interest stories."
And the story many relate to most is that of Piper Chapman, who is loosely based on Ms. Kerman. Of the power of the show, Ms. Kerman said: "Anything that makes it easier for us to explain our work—why we do it, why it matters—helps."
She told us though the series is based on her book, it veers wildly from her reality. "Piper Chapman is very different than me," she said. "I made plenty of mistakes when I was locked up, but she makes some real doozies."
One hard-to-believe element of the show that actually is true: That Ms. Kerman and her former partner—the woman with whom she committed her crime—served in the same facility. "My ex-lover and I were reunited in prison—not in the same way that it happens in the show—but we did share a cell for a month," she said. "Here's what I'd say about prison: Truth is stranger than fiction."
The cast and Ms. Kerman were tight-lipped about what to expect from season two, which they're currently filming. Ms. Kerman, who is a consultant on the show, suggested viewers prepare to be shocked.
Jessica Pimentel, who plays inmate Maria Ruiz (who spent much of season one pregnant), gave a bit more detail. Ms. Pimentel said, "If the first season was a 6 in terms of emotion, tension, comedy and plot twists—we've dialed it up to an 8."


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29-year-old Pampa man has been arrested on charges of promoting child pornography.
Pampa police arrested Alex Ray Fox on 10 counts of possession with intent to promote child pornography, authorities said. Fox was taken to the Gray County jail.
Police sought search warrants for Foxs home after they were tipped off about his alleged activity by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, authorities said.
Fox remains in the jail on $250,000 bond.
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Choice and competition in education have recently found growing support from both policy-makers and academics. Yet evidence on the actual benefits of market-orientated reforms is at best mixed. Moreover, although the economic rationale for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts. In this paper, we study whether pupils in Primary schools in England with a wider range of school choices achieve better academic outcomes than those whose choice is more limited; and whether Primary schools facing more competition perform better than those in a more monopolistic situation. In simple least squares regression models we find little evidence of a link between choice and achievement, but uncover a small positive association between competition and school performance. Yet this could be related to endogenous school location or pupil sorting. In fact, an instrumental variable strategy based on discontinuities generated by admissions district boundaries suggests that the performance gains from greater school competition are limited. Only when we restrict our attention to Voluntary Aided schools, which have more freedom in managing their governance and admission practices, do we find some evidence of a positive causal link between competition and pupil achievement. (JEL: I20, H70, R5)


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An administrative law judge with the International Trade Commission (ITC) decided Friday that Apple's iPhone, iPod and Macs don't infringe five remaining Nokia patents.
The ITC now has to decide if it will adopt his position like it decided on Friday to review its judge's decision that Apple and RIM don't infringe Kodak's camera patents, reviving Kodak's hopes of collecting a possible billion dollars in royalties.
The ITC can't order that royalties be paid but its decision, expected in late May, could be used to strength a patent suit. Samsung and LG have already paid a struggling Kodak $964 million for infringing the same patents.
Meanwhile, a frustrated Nokia threw the book at Apple, telling the ITC Tuesday that Apple is infringing its patents in "virtually all of its products" and filed another complaint citing seven particular patents on multitasking operating systems, data synchronization, positioning, call quality and use of Bluetooth accessories. That means the new complaint embraces iPads, Macs, iPhones and iPods.
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The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining book, Lance Fortnow traces how the problem arose during the/i>
The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining book, Lance Fortnow traces how the problem arose during the Cold War on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and gives examples of the problem from a variety of disciplines, including economics, physics, and biology. He explores problems that capture the full difficulty of the P-NP dilemma, from discovering the shortest route through all the rides at Disney World to finding large groups of friends on Facebook. But difficulty also has its advantages. Hard problems allow us to safely conduct electronic commerce and maintain privacy in our online lives.
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"As Lance Fortnow describes in his new book, The Golden Ticket: P, NP and the Search for the Impossible, P versus NP is 'one of the great open problems in all of mathematics' not only because it is extremely difficult to solve but because it has such obvious practical applications. It is the dream of total ease, of the confidence that there is an efficient way to calculate nearly everything, 'from cures to deadly diseases to the nature of the universe,' even 'an algorithmic process to recognize greatness.'. . . To postulate that P ≠ NP, as Fortnow does, is to allow for a world of mystery, difficulty, and frustrationbut also of discovery and inquiry, of pleasures pleasingly delayed."Alexander Nazaryan, New Yorker
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"Without bringing formulas or computer code into the narrative, Fortnow sketches the history of this class of questions, convincingly demonstrates their surprising equivalence, and reveals some of the most far-reaching implications that a proof of P = NP would bring about. These might include tremendous advances in biotechnology (for instance, more cures for cancer), information technology, and even the arts. Verdict: Through story and analogy, this relatively slim volume manages to provide a thorough, accessible explanation of a deep mathematical question and its myriad consequences. An engaging, informative read for a broad audience."J.J.S. Boyce, Library Journal
"[This] as-yet-unsolved problemidentified by mathematicians as the P-NP problemraises fundamental questions about just how far society can ride the technological wave triggered by the computer revolution. Fortnow unfolds a fascinating dual-track story of how this problem first emerged, Western researchers encountering it while trying to maximize computer efficiency, Russian analysts confronting it while puzzling over the persistent need for perebor ('brute force search'). Readers watch as the P-NP problem attracts investigators in cryptography, biology, quantum physics, and social networkingand frustrates them all. Fortnow allows nonspecialist readers to glimpse the conceptual difficulties here (try 'nondeterministic polynomial time,' for example). But he mercifully frames his discussion largely in nontechnical terms. Even readers averse to mathematics will share in the intellectual stimulation of pondering a riddle compelling us to ask what we should hope forand fearin replacing human brains with computer algorithms. A provocative reminder of the real-world consequences of a theoretical enigma."Bryce Christensen, Booklist
"The definition of this problem is tricky and technical, but in The Golden Ticket, Lance Fortnow cleverly sidesteps the issue with a boiled-down version. P is the collection of problems we can solve quickly, NP is the collection of problems we would like to solve. If P = NP, computers can answer all the questions we pose and our world is changed forever. It is an oversimplification, but Fortnow, a computer scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, knows his stuff and aptly illustrates why NP problems are so important."Jacob Aron,New Scientist
"Fortnow's book does a fine job of showing why the tantalizing question is an important one, with implications far beyond just computer science."Rob Hardy, Commercial Dispatch
"A great book. . . . [Lance Fortnow] has written precisely the book about P vs. NP that the interested layperson or IT professional wants and needs."Scott Aaronson, Shtetl-Optimized blog
"[The Golden Ticket] is a book on a technical subject aimed at a general audience. . . . Lance's mix of technical accuracy with evocative story telling works."Michael Trick, Michael Trick's Operations Research Blog
"Thoroughly researched and reviewed. Anyone from a smart high school student to a computer scientist is sure to get a lot of this book. The presentation is beautiful. There are few formulas but lots of facts."Daniel Lemire's Blog
"An entertaining discussion of the P versus NP problem."Andrew Binstock, Dr. Dobb's
"The Golden Ticket is an extremely accessible and enjoyable treatment of the most important question of theoretical computer science, namely whether P is equal to NP. . . . [I]t is a very pleasant read for those specializing in discrete mathematics, and understandable to anyone with an undergraduate knowledge of mathematics."Choice
"The book is accessible and useful for practically anyone from smart high school students to specialists. . . . [P]erhaps the interest sparked by this book will be the 'Golden Ticket' for further accessible work in this area. And perhaps P=NP will start to become as famous as E=mc2."Michael Trick, INFORMS Journal of Computing
"In any case, it is excellent to have a nontechnical book about the P versus NP question. The Golden Ticket offers an inspiring introduction for nontechnical readers to what is surely the most important open problem in computer science."Leslie Ann Goldberg, LMS Newsletter
"The Golden Ticket does a good job of explaining a complex concept in terms that a secondary-school student will understanda hard problem in its own right, even if not quite NP."Physics World
"The whole book is fun to read and can be fully appreciated without any knowledge in (theoretical) computer science. Fortnow's efforts to make the difficult material accessible to non-experts should be commended. . . . The book thus caters to all audiences: from novices with an interest in computational problems to experts with knowledge in theoretical computer science."Andreas Maletti, Zentralblatt MATH
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In The Golden Ticket, Lance Fortnow takes a fascinating look at a conundrum that has been around since Kurt Gödel wrote about it in a letter to a pioneer in the field of computer science, John von Neumann in 1956. The mystery? Is P = NP? Gödel didn't get credit for the question because the letter didn't come to public light for years, and in the meantime Sam Cook in the West and Leonid Levin in the East each posed the question to their respective mathematical communities and in fact, Sam Cook received the Turing Award for his work on the subject. Fortnow explores what he calls "the beautiful world" that we would live in if we could actually achieve P = NP where P represents problems that can be solved quickly on computers and NP represents those that cannot be solved quickly or easily. He goes through a number of problems that are satisfyingly illustrative of the complexity of the mystery: clique and map coloring to name a few. In The Golden Ticket, Fortnow, who is a professor and chair of the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, writes really well. He somehow explains these problems and the enormous challenge involved (in moving from a world where P ≠ NP to the "beautiful" world where P = NP) in language and illustrations which make it easy for the non-technical among us to easily comprehend. And in doing this, he creates a timeline of mathematical history that starts the 9th century mathematician whose nane in Latin (Algoriti) gave us the name algorithms for the computational procedures, to the relative present and IBM's Charles Bennett et al, and their research into quantum teleportation. P = NP or P ≠ NP is an captivating conundrum and The Golden Ticket makes it available to the layman in an enjoyable, easy-to-read style that returns a lot for the investment one makes in the reading of it.


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