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Dear Jamie,
The technique you mentioned is rather appropriate to a reading session than speaking, nevertheless there exists speaking it that.
Hi Jamie,
Well I finally sat down to watch the clip of your lesson. One thing that often strikes me about your contributions is how generous you are in terms of opening up your teaching to others. It's great to see the clip as it is to hear (read) about slices of your lessons. And as I mentioned at some point, it's so much more useful to talk about the concrete.
One thing that struck me about the lesson dynamic, in relation to getting students to speak, is that it's clear from the start that a norm has been established where students feel free to offer their ideas unsolicited. For those of us who usually conduct lessons and courses in this way, it may seem obvious, but I've observed many a lesson where a teacher tries an activity which needs students to be forthcoming in the way they are in your clip, but it doesn't work because the norm in the group is towards reticence, i.e. contribute only when nominated.
It's also true that, as you wrote, your pausing and contemplating works technically to open up space for and encourage/motivate more contributions from students.
Thanks for that,
Hi Antonia,
I agree, examining and trying out discussion questions is an important and revealing step in preparation, and I often regret not doing so when I realise my questions aren't 'working' and I realise why-- that they aren't getting at things that people really want to talk about. I wonder about the authenticity aspect, though, as I sometimes feel it sets an impossible standard-- i.e. that the questions should elicit authentic communication. Even in a group with a very good dynamic and a high level of trust and familiarity, there is a limit to how open students are willing to be with each other in sharing their opinions, experiences and feelings, at least in my experience, and I think this is one reason the classroom is sometimes labeled 'not the real world'. This makes the teacher's task all the more challenging, as the questions a teacher asks need to judge the classroom relationships well.
Thanks Steve for saying such nice things
I have to be honest - this is the first proper clip from my classroom that I have uploaded and I deliberately chose something safe. The next clips are going to be more raw and unedited - warts and all for everyone to see (gulp!)
I think that you are right that the techniques used work best with a familiar group where individuals feel more relaxed and at ease about speaking and offering ideas.
So, perhaps this is one key point to answer the original question (How do you get students to speak?)
Thanks again
Hi Jamie,
It has been my experience from teaching both in Europe and Australia I find the mix of students that I get in my classes here in Australia often contain students who have difficulty with open discussions.
Sometimes it's the topic, for example 'crime': a student recently told me that she had never thought about crimes. Specifically, the issue of which sentences should apply to which crimes because it was not something that was touched on in her education system. Futhermore, it was not a topic her mother permitted at home. I find that if I want to facilitiate a discussion on this type of topic is has to be part of a whole unit of work, it's almost as if I have to do a bit of Studies Of Society and Environment teaching along with the EFL. I find the Australian website "Behind the News" very useful for this.
I have also found a lexical approach useful where students have interchangable models language models on the board or on worksheets to help them express themselves fluently. Another apporach, strangely effective, is to put the questions on a game board (you can find blank boards at www.esl-lounge.com). I have also found topics like 'texting', 'lack of sleep' and 'education' work well because they are easy for students to personalise. I now avoid anything to do with 'celebrity', 'film' or 'pop music' because many of my students have never heard of or seen the celebrities who are so well known to most Australians. However, in Europe these topics went off really well on teenage summer programs.
For IELTS practice I give every student questions on a different topic and then ring a bell after 5 minutes and let them all change partners like a speed-dating evening.
I would never force students to speak, in my experience they'll talk when they're ready.
One more suggestion: if you can find an old game of 'Scruples' - that is great for a filler or 2nd conditionals (but take out some of the racier or dated questions)
Gaby Lawson
Hi, Jamie:
The perennial problem of getting students to speak!
Adding a few thoughts to the excellent ideas already offered, here are few pre-discussion techniques that might help induce adult and young adult students to speak out more fully in classroom discussions and role-plays:
· To reduce students' anxiety about your expectations, it's helpful to provide an idea-framing activity, such as a survey, a questionnaire, or a pair work in which students can compare their ideas with each other, testing them out in a more intimate setting rather than immediately exposing them in the whole-class venue.
· Next, to help students prepare the actual statements they'd like to use to express their ideas, notepadding provides a virtual "private planner" to ensure students don't get caught off-guard searching for the right word or phrase in the heat of the discussion.
· To further support students prior to an actual discussion, suggest that they look at the reading selection in their textbook to "text-mine," or circle words and phrases they think might be helpful to them in the discussion.
· And finally, prepare (or have students prepare) "wordposts," actual at-a-glance wordlists of previously learned and relevant words, phrases, collocations, and social language students can have in front of them to support them in the discussion.
It has been our experience that permitting students time to think, plan, and prepare their ideas and intended language prior to actual discussions accomplishes four important things:
1. It reduces the natural anxiety learners experience when asked to express ideas in a new language.
2. It moves them beyond their natural reliance on fossilized and beginning-level language.
3. It ensures that the discussion will represent the most, rather than the least, that learners can say.
4. It guarantees that students will recycle previously learned language, making it unforgettable.
In case you're interested in knowing more about idea-framing, notepadding, text-mining, and wordposting, I'm attaching a monograph Allen Ascher and I have written: A Process Approach to Discussion. Hope you find it useful!
At some time or another most teachers will come across students who don't seem to want to talk or participate in class. For some it may be cultural, for others intimidation or confidence issues. In the productive skills unit we looked at various ways of encouraging students to speak. Following are some other useful ideas:
• Use plenty of pair work. This will allow the students to practice in a safe environment, with the support of a fellow student, before having to contribute in open class discussion/feedback.
• Use controlled practice. Ensure the students are able to produce language in a controlled way before expecting them to be able to produce it fluently.
• Use role-play. Some students find it more comfortable to communicate when they are acting as somebody else than when they are being themselves. Role-plays are very helpful in this respect.
• Use a tape recorder. Ask the students to record what they would like to say outside the lesson. This allows the students to express themselves in a less threatening atmosphere. The teacher can listen to the recording and point out errors.
Hi Jamie,
Inspired by Paul Seligson (IATEFL Conference Sept 2010, Bydgoszcz, Poland), this September I'm going to introduce new techniques fostering speaking. These will involve students using their mobile phones to record themselves. This idea of controlled speaking seems potentially promising:
1. ss can record their speaking tasks as many times as they wish in order to produce perfect homework to sent to their teacher via email - you can't possibly get so much speaking practice during a lesson
2. they are given sample recordings of native speakers as an example to follow and in this way they learn rhythm and intonation from the best - they can copy them without being laughed at by their classmates for 'sounding funny'
The listening and speaking material is graded: from simple voicemail greetings, short weather forecasts to radio news and radio interviews.
One disadvantage is the fact that it is definitely a form of controlled practice, which I am not very fond of, but I believe it is the feeling of safety and self-confidence that students lack when they decide to keep quiet when you ask them to speak.
Another weak point of this way of fostering speaking is that it lacks automaticity and spontaneity. However, you can make your students aware of things that make them sound "English": pronunciation, pace, rate of speech, length of pauses, type of pauses, location of pauses etc.
This will be the first stage I believe. After 5 months (1st term) of such intensive training I will introduce another set of tasks that involve independent speaking, starting from familiar talk (based on IELTS coursebooks) to discussing a topic. The 'independent stage' will take 15 months (2-4 term).
What do you think of it?
I will be grateful for any comments
Hello all of you who have contrbuted before,
One great thing about being a teacher is that you always feel you need to try new and new ideas. And this thread has some geat examples.
I have made some experiments with recording student's speaking practice but Hanna's idea is great: get them do it as homework. (I wonder if they'll have technical difficulties with that.)
So, the tip I can give is this: students will speak 1) if the teacher is not anywhere near 2) if they have someting to say.
So most often I let them speak in small groups or pairs and I (pretend to) prepare the next activity while sharply listening out for some L1 use. Another key is the topic. 'Shopping' might motivate them to talk on the way home from school but not in the classroom. They only see it as one of the 'exam topic'. Personal vaules, stories or memories are things they are ready to share. Groups are often mixed so that they talked to new and new people from lesson to lesson.
When a topic must be forced, however, I give them the topic and I let them talk in pairs for a while. Then they each get a strip of paper and can write down the essence of what they have just said. I collect them, correct them for grammar or vocab and all they can get is positive feedback - so they can do their best if they choose to. If not, well, next time.
Hi Jeremy,
This is Don Maybin. Sorry, but you've got my strategy all wrong. Yes, I do get my students to stand; however, they work in groups (NEVER individually!) and the group sits if ANY person gives ANY answer. In other words, students are encouraged to attempt an answer and not worry about making a mistake. As for continuing until the last group is left standing, sorry, but wrong again. When 2-3 groups have yet to answer I make a comment along the lines of "Oops - no more time..." and have them sit. Leaving one group standing is nasty and smacks of choosing sides for a sports team!?
In future, please feel free to contact me to confirm some of my rather unorthodox ideas. I am still very much alive - and online!
P.S. After "Coast to Coast" I do hope you "remember a guy called Don Maybin".
With younger classes an element of competition usually does the trick. As soon as you divide the class into teams and start awarding points for whatever it is, there tends to be a steady hubble bubble of English.
I know competition can be frowned upon but it tends to do the trick int erms of language production in my experience.
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It is hardly the first time that Sutter has revisited San Jose since he was fired as the Sharks' head coach in December 2002. He returned often as the Calgary Flames' head coach and was here twice last season after taking over the Kings in late December.
The difference this time: Sutter is returning to HP Pavilion as a Stanley Cup champion.
Not that you'd know it from looking at him. Wednesday after the Kings' practice session here, he wasn't wearing a championship ring. Hasn't worn it. Won't wear it.
"I'm not a jewelry guy," he explained. "The rings really are beautiful. But I don't need to wear one. It's not a big thing to me. What is it they say about big jewelry? It either winds up in the estate or winds up in the alimony."
So in case you're wondering whether success has changed Darryl Sutter, there's your answer: No. With the standard Alberta accent.
For Sharks fans, it was a wretched moment when the Kings won their NHL championship last June. But if anyone in San Jose was truly angry to see Sutter personally hoist the Cup with a big smile on the face ... well, I have yet to meet the person.
The fans here know Sutter. They know what he did for the Sharks. Basically, he taught San Jose how to be a serious hockey town. He arrived in 1997 when the team had fallen into ugly disrepair -- and when fans, who were giddy just to see their team reach the playoffs twice in the franchise's first six seasons, figured that was a splendid achievement.
To Sutter, it wasn't. Making the playoffs should be a minimum requirement every season, he said. He then led the Sharks to their first winning regular season and their first division championship while reaching the second round twice in five postseason trips. In 2002, his best team lost to Colorado by a single goal in Game 6 and Game 7 of round two. He was fired seven months later after a slow start to the '02-03 season.
"A couple of times, we were close," Sutter said. "And I think we were as good a team as we have now here (with the Kings). We just didn't win it."
So, yes, Sutter is the same straight-talking and unpretentious man he was during his five-plus seasons in San Jose. And although he's been gone for more than 10 years, he still knows people here -- the "blue collar guys," Sutter calls them. He means the equipment managers, the mail room man, the maintenance folks.
The Kings pulled into town early Wednesday morning after a loss at Phoenix. But by early afternoon, Sutter already had touched base with his "guys." All congratulated him on the Cup victory, his first after eight seasons as a player and 13 as a coach. And in response, even the hard-boot hockey man had to admit the reality of winning it more than matched the dream.
"It was awesome," Sutter said without compunction of the Kings' six-game victory over New Jersey. "The best part was seeing the players, seeing them celebrate. ... You know, what they go through to win it ... it gives you shivers."
And how about his own feelings?
"You're just exhausted," Sutter said. "There's nothing left. I was in bed by midnight the night we won. There was no big party." He smiled.
"You have to get some sleep," Sutter said, "and get back your energy ... and then you party."
Of course, that is a relative term in Sutter-ville. The NHL has a tradition of allowing each winning player or coach to "own" the Stanley Cup for a day. So the trophy made a trip to the Sutter family farm in Viking, Alberta, where Darryl and his six hockey-playing brothers grew up. A fiddle-playing band showed up for a picnic with Sutter's relatives and friends. Horses were ridden. Checkered shirts were worn.
The Los Angeles Times website features a gallery of pictures from that day. The best photo shows Sutter and his son, Chris, posing with the Cup in the barn hayloft where Darryl and his siblings once played pickup hockey between chores. The 19-year-old Chris, who has Down syndrome, and his father are staring out the hayloft window with the sun hitting their faces and the trophy. It's an immensely touching image.
In San Jose, where Chris spent his grade-school years and rapidly became a favorite of players and other Sharks employees, the image will especially hit home. Chris is "doing awesome," said Darryl, who said his biggest joy was simply having his extended family on hand for the affair. Two of his brothers had won Stanley Cups as players -- but in those days, the "Trophy Day" routine had not been instituted. So this was the first time the trophy had visited the Sutter homestead.
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Would he have considered his own career to be a failure if he had not won a Cup?
"Not a chance," Sutter said, then explained.
"The way I look at it," Sutter said, "I've been fortunate to be 34 or 35 years in hockey and ... in the entire history of the NHL, you know, only about 5 percent of the coaches have won a Stanley Cup and about 1 percent of the players have ever won one. So there are going to be a lot of great players who never do."
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Notions of honour aren't upheld in this country any more, but does in the US and some Eastern European countries. The West is not homogeneous.
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humility and respect? lol takeshi's castles. lol tentacle rape. lol vending machines that sell used schoolgirl panties. lol hentai.
There are plenty who don't and plenty who do have those qualities you mentioned but then the same applies here in the west.
Japan or west or anywhere else is the same.
It is sex,war and alcohol.
Japan, like everywhere else, isn't a utopian paradise.
Hnmm... Western society gave the world freedom, and has contributed the most of all cultures in human history.
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Oh FFS, racist? Did you just have throw out that (ever-weakening) label?
You feel like I'm "mocking" Asperge's Syndrome? A common trait of people on TSR, and two of my friends, is that they are fixated on an argument and make incoherent juxta-positions, contradict themselves and make seemingly pointless threads, or talk about pointless things, say one thing, obsess over it and then completely go the other way. Which, IMO, is what you do. Learn the difference between pointing something out, or suggesting, quizzing something, and mocking. Back to the racist comment, I am pointing out what I have observed, I am pointing out an intolerance of certain groups, many black Christian Africans and N.African Muslims are extremely homophobic and anti-white, the Afro Central American nations are some of the most racist and homophobic places on earth, gay people are killed in Jamaica.
I don't tolerate the intolerant, but you have cottoned on to the leftist-progressive idea that we c if you criticise a minority for being intolerant, then you are a racist, or something, it's a weak argument, and it's a tactic to discredit debate, childish.
Protectionism mixed with tradition is Left-Authoritarianism, MTR.
Don't forget the sexist and xenophobia that is engrained in Japanese culture.
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If the Japanese model for culture is centred on respect, honour and humility then what is the Western equivalent? What principles are our way of life based on?
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The current crisis we have in the West calls for a widespread assessment of the Western lifestyle and our attitudes towards culture, what we stand for and the direction we are moving in. Yes, I am asking a lot of questions (and criticising it in the process) about the West at present. Question's which people prefer to dismiss through patronising judgements and derogatory comments. Trust me though, that is not purely to 'discredit' the West for the sake of it. I want it to change for the better and to find ways of contributing to it's change. To quote Gandhi 'be the change you want to see in the world'. If we can create this change by looking at what works well in other cultures, then I don't see the harm this can do
Crime varies greatly from country to country in the West, and even from state to state in the USA. Western culture is not to blame for crime; it is the combination of bad social policies with the culture of certain countries which results in crime.
The problem of an aging population does affect most Western nations but it affects Japan to an even greater extent.
What problem is it that you are hoping to resolve by looking to Japan?
How do I contradict ideology? Yes I think the west should restore religious foundations (not neccessarily solely christian by the way). I believe religious guidance is essential for society. Why is this such a bad thing? Also, the West at present has become very un-Christian so I don't see how that is a contradiction. Many of the problems today are as a result of the destruction of cultural foundations.
Japan counts as part of western civilisation.
In the "West" (not that such a term really exists as a concrete expression imo) I would say....well its hard to say isn't it?
How about "the ability to admit our mistakes and move on" is a good, and under rated, element in Britain's character.
As a westerner living in Japan, I can say with some confidence that you have a horribly distorted view of what Japanese and western culture are like.
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Many of the same problems exist in Japan. There's graffiti, delinquent youths and drunkeness. Maybe there is more in Britain. I can live with that. What I couldn't live with is the idea that women could not travel in Britain without being sexually assaulted. If there were "female-only" carriages on the tube and trains in the UK - we would rightly consider it a scandal and a shame upon our society.
As for the War - it goes to how recently this was, and is also founded on the residue of these so-called Japanese values.
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Do you have any sources about all those sexual assaults or are you just talking out of your ass? I think you're just full of crap. There's no question that Japanese society is far more civilized than the chav attention whoring culture of the UK.
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Contains details of face-to-face interviews carried out by researchers from Shumei University, and also from the infamous 2001 survey of high school girls (where 70% reported being assaulted).
Also, look up the Japanese term "Chikan" which is a loose term for groping women. It's very common in trains, lifts, escalators and for some reason in bicycle parks. Basically, anywhere crowded - which in Japan is just about everywhere.
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'Falling Skies' Recap: Third Season Finale, 'Brazil'
The final episode of Falling Skies is here! Most fans think it has been a disappointing season, ratings have taken a bit of a hit lately, but TNT has already renewed the show for season 4 next summer. You probably recall where the story stands right now.
The best hope for humanity lies in a special weapon being designed by the "good guy" aliens, the Volm. It would take down the evil Eshveni defense grid which threatens to destroy all life on Earth. Of course, many of the humans in Charleston don't trust the Volm either. And, before the weapon can be used, the people of Charleston need to dig out the Volm weapon after it was buried in an Eshveni attack.
The finale begins with Pope, Weaver and some other fighters on a train to Chicago. They talk about needing the Volm weapon to work. Apparently, the weapon has already been dug out because we see Dr. Cadar trying to make it work. Tom and Cochise are talking and they comment on the fact that more Volm are on the way. Cochise urges Tom to "have faith, my friend." Back on the train, we see that Lourdes is there. She's chained up and Weaver comments that she is "bait" to lure out the Eshveni overlord, Karen.
Hal and Maggie have a meaningless conversation about what they will do after the war is over.
The train encounters a couple Eshveni mechs and we see Pope and Weaver begin to attack. But, the train is just a decoy. The Volm weapon is not going to Chicago, it is headed to Boston on a boat. Tom, Cochise, Mattfro (maybe he will get a new hair style next season), Hal, Maggie, watch as Cadar shoots the weapon at the Boston tower and it hits. It takes a minute, but the tower collapses into rubble. Tom and the others celebrate as they see the defense grid begin to crumble. Moments later, a huge… I mean GIANT… Volm ship arrives on the scene. We are about to find out if the Volm are good or bad!
It is the night after the Volm have arrived and the humans are celebrating, playing drums and dancing around. They look pretty silly. If I was a Volm, I sure wouldn't consider them much of an ally. Tom is in a tent preparing for his meeting with the Volm leaders. Outside, there is a cheer as Weaver and Pope arrive at the camp. They were rescued from their battle with the Eshveni by a Volm brigade. Cochise says his people are happy to help the humans. He tells Tom that Tom will get to meet the Volm leader tomorrow morning, which is faster than Tom wanted.
AT the meeting, the Volm commander begins by shaking hands and acting quite nice. It turns out that he is Cochise's father. Tom wants to talk about military plans but the Volm say that will not be necessary. The Volm say they don't need any input or help from the humans. They know how to fight the Eshveni and the humans "would just get in the way." It is pretty insulting, but also somewhat reasonable. I mean, the humans were getting their butts kicked before the Volm arrived and the Volm weapon is the only reason humanity is still standing. Tom and Weaver are not happy. Tom wants to know what the Volm plan to do with the humans. The Volm leader says they will all be relocated to the south to Brazil.
Tom says there is no way he will let that happen. The Volm leader seems to not care what Tom and Weaver think and says human relocation will begin today. Tom says they want to keep on fighting. The Volm leader turns to walk away and Tom grabs his shoulder to continue talking. The Volm flings Tom aside and leaves the room.
Weaver comes back to camp. He orders everyone to get their stuff together and move out. He says they will leave in one hour so they can't be rounded up by the Volm. Someone asks about Tom and Weaver says Tom is being held captive by the Volm. Weaver goes into a tent and seems to suffer a mild heart attack. His daughter comes in and he tells her that he has been taking pills to keep his heart from acting up. He asks her to keep his condition secret.
Before the humans can pack up and leave, Cochise and a Volm military party arrive and order everyone to prepare for transport. Pope wants to fight them, but Weaver realizes they are badly outgunned. Weaver orders everyone to hand over their weapons. Pope sneers at Weaver as he says, "The Volm have just done what the Eshveni never could. They've brought us to our knees."
Tom and the Volm Commander are talking. Tom is angry that Cochise lied to him about the Volm plans. The Volm leader says Cochise was operating under strict orders. The Volm leader explains that every other planet they have liberated has contained people who were glad to be relocated and leave the fight to the Volm. Tom explains that humans are different. "Allow us to fight for our freedom," he pleads. The Volm leader admits that he has never contemplated doing anything but what he always does. He has never had to really consider other options. He tells Tom he will think about it. It is clear that the Volm are not evil, they simply do not understand humanity.
Hal is chatting with the captive Lourdes. She looks terrible and is desperate for the bugs to be out of her brain. Hal vows to help her get better. Maggie says they may have to "put her out of her misery."
Cochise arrives and tells Weaver it is time for the humans to go to Brazil. They join us with Tom. Cochise leads them away and takes them over to their weapons. He says the humans are free to go, though he asks them to leave the Boston area. Tom says, "we are going to continue to fight. I hope we don't get in your way." Cochise says he hopes they will see each other again. He hands Tom a strong Volm rifle and the humans leave. The Volm commander thinks the humans will die if they fight. Cochise says humans are stronger than the Volm may think.
The humans are on the road out of town. Ben senses something nearby and Lourdes begins freaking out. An Eshveni ship is inbound. Karen comes out with some of her forces. She is carrying a white flag. She says she can see that the Volm alliance with the humans has gone sour. She says there will be more unpleasant discoveries about the Volm. She tells them that there may be a day when the two sides need each other. She tells Tom she brought a gift for him. Tom says he has a gift for her too. He puts a bullet in Karen's chest.
The Eshveni forces attack but the humans defeat them. Karen is lying on the ground almost dead. She tells Hal she only wanted to be with him. Maggie pulls out a gun and puts two bullets in Karen.
Tom hears Anne in the woods and rushes to her side. Lexi is there too, but she has aged quite a bit thanks to her alien DNA. She is no longer creepybaby, she's now creepy pre-teen.
Tom talks to Dr. Cadar about Lexi. The doc does not know if Lexi will continue aging at a rapid pace. The humans are moving out. Weaver comments that being back on the road feels like old times.
One last scene before the season is over. Lexi goes up to Lourdes and touches her face. Suddenly dozens of bugs from inside Lexi come pouring out of her. They all gather in Lexi's hands and Lexi crushes them. Lourdes is all better.
And the season is over!
No matter how good or bad the finale was, I think this was a largely wasted season. The show just didn't have the drama or action of season one or two. It often felt like we were just treading water. The finale did a little to fix that. The Volm are neither all good nor all bad, but seem like they will help the humans to fight the Eshveni. Seeing as the Volm are far more powerful, I am not sure how the humans are going to seem like more than an afterthought going forward. But, that is an issue for next year.
So, what did you think? I encourage all of you to join the robust conversation we've been having in the comment section. I'll see you there!
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The grant comes from the Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to promote interest in science, technology, engineering and math.
Qualified high school students can enroll in college credit-bearing courses taught by their own teachers within their own high schools. Courses have the same curriculum content and assessments as those offered on the CCRI campuses. So far, Westerly High School piloted Introduction to Engineering and Technology in the spring semester and has 12 students enrolled this semester. Mount Hope High School in Bristol is offering Introduction to Biotechnology Lab Skills next semester.
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I think we need better categorization of the software. There is also the "software type" product properties we need to keep in mind.
The thing we could do is either remove the sub-categories and use them in the "software type" property, and base these categories on some software website (cnet,filehippo). Or, we could do that in the sub-category flavor...
What do you think is best ?
I'm not too well versed in the software world, so some other folk like dialup, Charon and squalor will have better opinions. I can give some general opinions though. The benefit of adding a sub category is that you can attach new property types to the category, but the downside is that you can't do permutations and combinations of multiple categories. Of course with property types you don't have a "top pick".
Personally I don't find the "Software Type" property that useful, and having discrete subcategories SEEMS to make more sense to me.
I agree with Omar. I also think that operating systems should have a better layout for sub categories, i.e. (Open-Source, Closed, Server...) or at least just server. Or we should settle on a difference between type and cateogory that is clear and usable. For example
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i use qvar along with spiriva. when i first went on qvar it took a month for my sleeping to become normal. after that i've had no problems. i was taken off advair cause of allgeric, qvar was the replacement.
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This was prescribed to my 5 year old daughter and she began to be moody and disruptive at daycare. I called the doctor and they said to discontinue immediately. I had no idea that this could cause mood swings I would had never given it to her if I had known.
My 38 year old autistic son was switched to Qvar 6 months ago. He began having mild anxiety and now is anxious all the time. Had to switch because insurance wouldn't pay for the medication that worked and didn't cause side effects!! He's being switched to another medication that hopefully won't cause the anxiety.
My daughter has been taking this medicine for a few days now. Her coughing ahs gotten better, but she has started to get terrible nose bleeds that last from 30 mins to a hour, but other than that she has been okay.
I have been using Qvar for several years, when my insurance company stopped covering Flovent. Most days it works well, but as one other user stated on wet, heavy air days I breathe harder and sometimes to get a cleansing breath in I have to bend over at the waist and breath in; sometimes several times a day. I am thinking of asking if I need another inhaler, but I would rather stay away from the broncodilators; they make me shakey and my heart races. I don't like that feeling.
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Ever since I started taking this medicine I can breathe better, and I can do normal activities with my children again.
I got broncititus in December of 2006. In Janurary of 2007 I had an asthma atack. I started to Qvar in Janurary and it has help. I got asthma in Janurary because it got below freezing in early morning and early evening when I would wait for my bus to go to work.
Qvar is quite effective, but my insurance company does not cover it as it has no generic equivilant. So I pay out $87.00 every month along with $100/month for Singlair.
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Downgrading a 4.2 unit say with a stubbed IOS 60 will cause a full brick.
hey guys first of all im new to this forum so if i break any rules please let me know.
I had a wii with 4.2J firmware but installed homebrew channel as well as bootmii as IOS. I downgraded with anyregionchanger to 3.2 and all was well. However, I needed to update to 4.2 so I could use the wii shop channel. Naturally, it updated to 4.2U instead of 4.2J. However, it could not play any japanese games I had so I changed the language and game region to japan. I know this will be a semi brick but would allow me to play the game. However, the disk tried to update my wii to 4.2J, causing my wii to fully brick. It does not output ANY video or audio during startup. I do not have starfall or prilloader but DO have bootmii as IOS in case it helps. Would I be able to use the savemiifrii trick or am i out of luck? any help is appreciated.
You can try the savemiifrii trick but I doubt it will work. It sounds like you messed it up pretty good. You have a full brick with no means of saving it from what I can tell. I'll move this to the bricked wii section of the forum (since you're new and are at least trying to follow the rules) so people who are a little better with bricks can check it out. Look over the stickies in the bricked section. If you can access the recovery menu you might be on to something but it sounds like that's your last shot to me. Downgrading is no longer used and is a horrible idea.
Hmm so i guess if savemiifrii doesnt work my only option will be to send it to nintendo or get a new one? wow i am so stupid. if u need more info please ask.
any other ideas please guys im desperate.
Mauifrog and Tealc are the best brick people we have. I'd standby if I were you and wait for confirmation, but from what I see you're out of luck. Sorry, man.
ok thnx. Ill wait until they reply. Again thnx for the help ive still got to try savemiifrii so yah...
do you have a nand backup or is your wii over 2 years old?
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No i do not because i have bootmii installed as an IOS. Sadly, my wii is only 1/2 month old...
Would do you mean, that you cannot make a nand backup with bootmii as IOS? It is pretty mandatory to make a nand backup if you can only install bootmii as IOS and not boot2.
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The story of the decline in the U.S. economy is one of repeated efforts by regulators to rescue a failing institution or sector, only to discover that the problem has spread beyond that sector to somewhere else. At first, it was a group of subprime lenders. Next were the investment banks, followed by homeowners, and ultimately the guarantors of half of the U.S. mortgage debt.
The next target might have to be the U.S. dollar, and if that fails, perhaps the solar system. The U.S. currency hit a new record low against the euro Tuesday, three-month lows against the British pound and is nearly at parity with the Australian dollar, of all things, as global investors question the value of U.S. assets and the quality of the entire U.S. balance sheet, so to speak.
"Markets are fearing another major crisis, and they're doubting that the Fed or U.S. Treasury will do anything near-term to alleviate the situation," says Kathy Lien, chief strategist at DailyFX.com. "They're skeptical about the efforts of the government."
Of late, the euro traded at $1.5969, down from a record of $1.6038 reached earlier in the day. Global markets dropped sharply in the wake of the middling showing by U.S. markets Monday after a Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac rescue was announced.
The morning's economic news was not helpful. Retail sales rose just 0.1%, bolstered by gasoline sales (helped by higher gas prices), and the June reading on wholesale inflation rose by 1.8%, a worrisome result for those hoping inflation will decline as the economy struggles.
The dollar has continued to come under pressure as investors believe U.S. assets do not offer enough return for the risks being taken. Bond yields are low when compared with other major global economies, and the Fed is in a bind – it cannot raise rates while the economic malaise continues, but it fears worsening inflation if it lowers rates.
"The deteriorating market and economic conditions in the U.S. continue to be the chief causes of the broad decline in the U.S. currency," writes Ashraf Laidi, chief currency strategist at CMC Markets. "As long as these continue, the dollar will deteriorate regardless of any jawboning by policy makers, which would be perceived as bluffing rather than communicating real policy intentions."
That leaves little other than jabbering, which Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was expected to do when he testifies before Congress at 10 a.m. ET. As it turns out, Mr. Bernanke has elected to take the reverse approach, discussing the "numerous" difficulties faced by the economy and that there are "significant" downside risks to growth. This hasn't helped the dollar, which is sliding again.
In part, the dollar's decline mirrors the fall in U.S. equities, which are reacting to Mr. Bernanke's testimony. "What's basically happening at the moment is that the dollar is following equity markets, and they're going down, and the reason it's all happening is the credit cunrch which is based in the States," says Chris Furness, head of currency strategy at 4Cast Ltd.


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Daniel Zeng , University of Arizona
Fei-Yue Wang , Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaolong Zheng , Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yong Yuan , Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guoqing Chen , Tsinghua University
Jian Chen , Tsinghua University
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIS.2008.106
Recent years have witnessed the increased application of AI technologies to real-world e-commerce challenges. This article presents a brief overview of representative work by Chinese researchers, covering topics such as multiagent decision making, keyword advertising, social networks, recommender systems, information retrieval and the Semantic Web, and computational experiments. This article is part of a special issue on AI in China.
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Daniel Zeng, Fei-Yue Wang, Xiaolong Zheng, Yong Yuan, Guoqing Chen, Jian Chen, "Intelligent-Commerce Research in China", IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol.23, no. 6, pp. 14-18, November/December 2008, doi:10.1109/MIS.2008.106


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So the first fight ever on this blog and really the reason the blog began was the debate over Lion vs Tiger.
Well that fight has since been buried but I wanted to show the results of the polling that has taken place over a year now.
So as I predicted the Tiger is kicking ass! The poll will not close though, so keep voting.
There have been many requests for more Lion fights. Lets see if the "King" can win this one.
An adult male Lion can grow to be 10 ft long and weigh over 500 lbs. Lions primarily prey on large animals such as Wildebeasts and Water Buffalo, however hunting is usually done in a pack. Lions have more stamina than most large cats and usually kills its prey with a targeted bite at or near the throat and then holding on until its victim dies. The lion's mane provides protection for its own neck.
American Black Bears are on average smaller and less aggressive than Grizzlies. They can reach a length of 7 ft and weight of 750 lbs. These animals are incredible strong and have been known to become enraged killing beasts when hungry or provoked.
This is one of the most evenly matched fights on this site. The lion's speed may help it to get an early advantage in this fight. However, a full sized black bear's superior strength will help it prevail in this fight. In short, as the lion attempts to get inside on the bear to deliver a fatal bite, the black bear will swat lion down with a crushing blow before pouncing on the lion to finish the job.
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This is the Big one. The question who would win in a fight between a lion and a tiger is one of life's great questions. The debate can get heated enough to end friendships.
Here is the final answer.
First of all for this fight we will use the Bengal Tiger, instead of the much larger Siberian Tiger, so we can give the poor Lion a chance. The fact is that the Lion still would have no shot. The Tiger is just a far superior animal. It is stronger and faster. It hunts bigger prey and doesn't need the help of something called a pride. Pride? The Lion should be ashamed.
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For those of you who can not get to sleep at night, or who have an incredibly hard time doing it, a sleep diary might not be such a bad idea. You see, the pros of a sleep diary include getting to know when and how you are falling asleep each night, what you might..read more
Many of us have escapes that we use to get away from our day-to-day lives, and many of those escapes can be as simple as reading a book or watching a movie. Music, however, for the most part, seems to be universal in helping many people deal with their emotions. Music, and lyrics, and singing,..read more
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It is hard to know quite what to make of David Bintley's three-act Aladdin which Birmingham Royal Ballet has brought to London for this week. It was made for the National Ballet of Japan five years ago, its score by Carl Davis. The scenery and costumes are, respectively, by Dick Bird and Sue Blane, and any blame-laying and snook-cocking that may ensue in this commentary must not be laid at their doors (if that is what one does with blame and snooks).
The piece is shown to us with a certain Bakst-ian verve in design: we see that luxe and volupté we hope for in matters of Arabian Nights glamour and bejewelled navels, and all, as Kenny Everett insisted, in the best possible taste. But, Oh Lord!, the score. Predictable might seem an understatement when qualifying the surging predictabilities, the Ketelby-ish melodies, offered by Carl Davis's muse. David Bintley, flooding the stage with dances that tell the tale, offers us a theatrical machine no more unlikely than those grand spectacular ballets beloved of 19th-century audiences in St Petersburg, Milan and Paris, and one as well furnished with stage illusion and hallowed tricks and local colour.
So there they all are: Aladdin (well taken by the resourceful César Morales); his un-engaging princess; his Dear Old Mother with her doctorate in vivacity; an evil, if unexplained, villain; a blue-faced Djinn from a lamp; and a catalogue of sub-Scheherazade characters who should hie themselves to the nearest harem, and calm down. There are also lion-dancers, cohorts of eager minions, a dragon dance, an infestation of danseuses under the misguided impression that they are jewels, fine lighting from Mark Jonathan, and the extremely difficult-to-take and determined sound of the orchestra under Paul Murphy – to whom my sympathies.
What I saw was ballet mired in witless narrative, a show that will satisfy audiences in undemanding Yuletide mood and well adjusted to the seasonal trappings of a family outing with the kiddies for the Feast of Saint Cliché, a none-too-inspiring display of academic dancing more than usually un-nuanced, and a gesture from ballet as an art of our time – not waving but drowning.
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J Turley : " A president is not required to enforce all laws equally or dedicate the same resources to every federal program. Even with this ample allowance, however, I believe that President Barack Obama has crossed the constitutional line between discretionary enforcement and defiance of federal law."
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Not one "idiot". Lotss of people.
And whose fault is it that he bragged in his book about going through high school in a dope haze? Not mine.
And recently he said it is no worse than alcohol. Doctors are contradicting that.
Posted 932 days ago.
I should nothave turned off the olympics when obama wa interviewed. Twitter has been going wild.
Search Bing " obama stoned".
Obama's America, in action.
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have a great evening everyone!
Posted 935 days ago.
mythravere..how do you reconcile when the two intersect of their own accord independent of each other?
Posted 935 days ago.
In other words our government shouldn't cater to people's specific personal wants or beliefs.
If everyone is treated equally then there is no problem.
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"mythravere..is it only christians that you desire to keep their faith from influencing their voice in the direction of the government that they have the right to elect?"
No. Our government should remain totally impartial in regards to religious belief or nonbelief.
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mythravere..is it only christians that you desire to keep their faith from influencing their voice in the direction of the government that they have the right to elect?
Posted 935 days ago.
"Christians especially the evangelical type want all laws..."
Some Christians perhaps but I don't think a majority really does. I don't.
Posted 936 days ago.
" Christians want to boss you. HOW??"
Christians especially the evangelical type want all laws in this nation to be reflective of their PERSONAL beliefs. Its not just the laws either. They want all facets of this nation to reflect what they believe.
Religion is a personal issue and its influence should remain a personal issue by those who choose those particular beliefs for themselves.
Keep it out of government.
This doesn't just benefit me. It benefits religious people of a types also. Its well know that Religion entrenched into government tends to become a dictatorial in it nature.
Posted 936 days ago.
" Gays need to marry. Why?? "
Why not? This is a free country is it not?
Wanting exclusive rights to a public institution eh? What time in history have we seen that before?
Posted 936 days ago.
Myth acts like he thinks no one criticized Bush. A real joke there,myth. Do you dream every night about 6 years ago when Bush was president? Pass into the present tme.
I do. He honored the Oval Office. Always wore a coat and tie. Nothing was under his desk, but his feet. No golf on his calendar. No expensive vacation trips. No expensive WH parties every week. No picture ops at the veterans hospitals where he visited often and regularly.yep I dream of a classy president again.
Posted 936 days ago.
Myth you sure are in a rut. Same old stuff, day in and day out. Gays need to marry. Why?? Bush is bad. He's gone. Christians want to boss you. HOW??
And the marriage laws are already made. Your bunch is who wants to change laws. You are one weird critter
Posted 936 days ago.
On the issue of debt. Sigh. Not a peep about debt during the Bush years. Obama takes office its the end of the freaking world.
And to top it off. The completely unnecessary war in Iraq that ballooned the debt...Obama gets the blame for the debt incurred from that!
Posted 936 days ago.
I am sorry but spare me the sob story about this government being to big and in to much debt.
Fact: Republicans only care what the government is doing when its not doing what they want. Otherwise they are all for big government and big debts.
Just look at the topic of government reaching into peoples everyday lives. The right wails about it when it comes to them being limited in forcing others to do as they want. Take for instance same sex marriage...oh boy cant allow people to do that! Better make laws that define who can enter into marriage. To a Republican thats a good thing. Try and keep church and state separate...oh thats bad to a Republican..at least a large amount of them. Thats government interfering in something it shouldn't they say.
Posted 936 days ago.
All that display of bias against anyone who is associated with the Tea Party, and not one single specific provable incident involving bad behavior of a member.
Opinions and feelings. You have no facts, liberals.
Posted 937 days ago.
I believe the unthinking opposition to Obama stems more from cultural bias than racial bias.
Posted 937 days ago.
I mean look at the charge of socialism. There are a lot of examples of socialist governments across this world. Some good some bad.
But what is the example many on the right compare the Democrats too? The Soviet brand of socialism or Chinese communism.
Never mind the countries out there that are socialist and not bad places for people to live. Nope they stop off at the worst example and foist that up as what liberals want make this country into.
Why is that?
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