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[Fake World] Limited Theories of Engagement
December 3rd, 2013 by Dan Meyer
Let's just call them "theories of engagement" for now. Every teacher has them, these generalized ideas about what engages students in challenging mathematics. Here's the theory of engagement I'm trying to pick on in this series:
This theory says, "For math to be engaging, it needs to be real. The fake stuff isn't engaging. The real stuff is." This theory argues that the engagingness of the task is directly related to its realness.
This is a limited, incomplete theory of engagement. There are loads of "real" tasks that students find boring. (You can find them in your textbook under the heading "Applications.") There are loads of "fake" tasks that students enjoy. For instance:
No context whatsoever in any of them. Perhaps the relationship actually looks more like this:
I'm being a little glib here but not a lot. Seriously, none of those tasks are "real-world" in the sense that we commonly use the term and yet they captivate people of all ages all around the world. Why? According to this theory of engagement, that shouldn't happen.
Here are fake-world math tasks that students enjoy:
- Ihor Charischak's Jinx Puzzle.
- David Masunaga's Magic Octagon.
- Malcolm Swan's Area v. Perimeter.
- NRICH's Factors and Multiples Puzzle. (Megan Schmidt: "… I have one student in particular who is not particularly motivated by much … when I bust out a puzzle, he's all in.")
- Matt Vaudrey's Magical Triangle Theorem.
- Andrew Stadel's Weekly Puzzle.
- The meaning of the sequence 3, 3, 5, 4, 4, 3, … , which drove kids bananas the day I wrote it on the board at the end of a test.
- The proof that 2 = 1.
- 2013 Dec 3. The four fours puzzle.
- 2013 Dec 5. Timon Piccini's Broken Calculator.
- 2013 Dec 10. Patrick Vennebush sends along "How much is your name worth?"
My point is that your theory of engagement might be limiting you. It might be leading you towards boring real-world tasks and away from engaging fake-world tasks.
We need a stronger theory of engagement than "real = fun / fake = boring."
Homework Time!
Choose one:
- Write about a fake-world math task you personally enjoy. What makes it enjoyable for you? What can we learn from it?
- Write about an element that seems common to those enjoyable fake-world tasks above.
33 Responses to "[Fake World] Limited Theories of Engagement"
on 03 Dec 2013 at 6:57 pm1 Jared Cosulich
When you look at what is going on in a puzzle (everything from a jigsaw puzzle to Tetris to Angry Birds) you see some very consistent patterns:
1) A clear goal that is neither too easy or too hard.
2) Immediate feedback loops enabling someone to develop and quickly test hypotheses
This also happens to be the definition of "Flow". Which is the very definition of engagement (you lose track of time, hunger, etc).
I also think there is another pattern, which is actually pattern-matching. The human brain is a pattern-matching machine. The most abstract mathematics usually comes down to recognizing and leveraging patterns in unique ways and yet we generally don't approach mathematical learning from the perspective of patterns. It may seem like patterns to an expert, but feels like memorization to a beginner…
on 04 Dec 2013 at 5:18 am2 David Coffey
Thanks for taking this on. John Golden and I often talk to teachers about making math the context. Here's an example of one of our favorite activities, When will it end?
on 04 Dec 2013 at 6:14 am3 Chelsey Mayo
Confession time…
In those glorious hours of freely surfing the web, I love to play games on Neopets. There are so many of those games that have a math component. It's definitely one of my favorite time wasters. I think what I enjoy most is the instant gratification of beating a level or winning a game, or my competitive side that comes out when I fail or get beat. I think the scaffolding of the games also has a lot to do with engagement. I know it gets harder as I progress, but since it was so easy to beat the first few levels I should be able to beat the harder levels as well. I also think a factor is the pressure associated with these tasks, the fact that is no pressure makes them so engaging. There is nothing riding on whether or not I get three stars on a particular level of Angry Birds, but when something is for a "grade" I always spazzed out about it.
on 04 Dec 2013 at 7:33 am4 Stan Yoshinobu
I agree with your overall thesis. "Real" is not necessarily good or important. If only real-world things mattered, then much of what the ancient Greeks accomplished that is the bedrock of many modern ways of thinking in math and other subjects, would not matter. Context-based and inquiry-based math requires suitable contexts for grounding the mathematics. With that said, it is our ability as humans to abstract and generalize our ideas, finding math as a context itself, that allows us to be creative and insightful.
The goal is good, rich math and good delivery (i.e. teaching methodology, class environment, etc.). The form this takes depends on the mathematical landscape and the creativity of teachers.
For me? It's the game called Flow Free!
A wonderful little game that draws in 30-year-olds, high schoolers, and 4-year-olds alike. It seems like there is a lot going on in the game that can translate back to lesson design. In general, there is a simple goal with few instructions to get started, increasing difficulty throughout, and unlimited do-overs.
If you want to read more, I talk about it in more detail here.
on 04 Dec 2013 at 8:19 am6 Brendan Murphy (@dendari)
I've always felt that the inquiry or context based math was perfect for introduction to the concept. A way to draw the student in and get them interested. But the most important part of the lesson was the discussion. The translation of the guessing and checking and fits and starts we used to actually solve the problem into standards, rules, and procedures that most people see as "actual math".
Once the students understand the relationship between the real and the pure anything can be engaging.
Teaching then becomes the work being done to help students connect fun math into "pure" math.
A fake world math task I always kind of enjoyed are those find the measure of all the angles in this shape type of problem. I suppose it could easily be made into a game by allowing hints to appear when a player clicks on the angle. And perhaps an explanation of proofs after completing levels. Someone should create something like that.
I agree completely that there are plenty of REAL tasks that aren't engaging, but in my personal experience as a math student and as a teacher that occasionally creates and teaches math lessons, I find the most engaging problems are those that have a real application to my personal interests and life. Personally, I believe that if teachers present tasks to the students that they are passionate about and have fun teaching, that rubs off on the students, even if the students themselves don't find the task very real or relevant.
As an example, I helped to teach this lesson yesterday:
The students were a mixed bunch, but when I asked if any were runners, barely any students raised their hand. However, at the end of the period, nearly all of the students were saying things like "man, this is really interesting," "this is pretty cool," or even "this is fun."
on 04 Dec 2013 at 9:25 am8 Kenneth Tilton
Exactly. http://stuckonalgebra.com/gaming_misunderstood.html
We even used the same examples: "…who has not become addicted to Tetris or Sudoku or something along those lines?"
I like especially your point re Sudoku et al: "No context whatsoever in any of them."
Ironically math has the win here because even if kids (or grown-ups) do not like math, they understand it is important.
on 04 Dec 2013 at 9:30 am9 Michael Pershan
I'd say that all of these fake-world tasks are both doable and unusual. We study area and perimeter all the time, but how many times have you plotted them against each other? We do arithmetic all the time, but how often do we have the constraints of a four-fours puzzle?
My explanation would predict that one's level of interest in these tasks would decrease as your exposure to them increases.
I have a similar problem in chemistry. Based on amounts of reagents, you can calculate the amount of product using some conversions (or vice versa). Stoichiometry is one of the basic calculations in chemistry (so I can't skip it or water it down), but it's hard to motivate students to figure out something like, "If 8.23g of hydrochloric acid react with 3.52g of zinc metal, how much zinc chloride will be produced?" I can make practice problems about explosives and poisons and antidotes, but that's in the "fake math" category… pretty disingenuous. I've had them predict lab outcomes (and then do the experiment), but that's still mostly like work rather than an interesting problem.
But I think something that a lot of the posted math-tasks have in common is that students know when they're done. They can solve a puzzle (a la, Ben Orlin's distinction between game and puzzle) and know that the answer is done. My chemistry students usually like balancing equations because they can tell when it's correct and it's finished. I get the highest homework turn-in rates, as well as the highest homework accuracy during this unit. Especially with stoich, it's often hard to tell if the weird, funky decimal answer is what they're really after or not.
on 04 Dec 2013 at 10:26 am11 Mike Lawler
I've done a few things recently with my kids that fall into the "fake world" definitely (hopefully I'm understanding the definition correctly!).
(1) The Chaos Game
After seeing Conrad Wolfram's talk at the computer based math summit, I thought it would be fun to introduce a bit more computer stuff with my kids. I happened to be reading a book about Fractals at the time and chose to introduce them to the so-called Chaos Game.
As for your questions:
(i) Why is it fun? Even now, more than 25 years after seeing this result for the first time, it still surprises me. If you watch the video, you'll see that the kids were floored. The fact that you get more or less the same picture from any starting point is also incredibly surprising.
(ii) What can we learn from it? At least a couple of things. First, since the code itself isn't too hard, it lends itself to kids playing around with a math-related computer program. Maybe they'll ask questions like – what happens with a square, or some other shape? Second, the there's a nice tie back in to other simple fractals that kids can play around with using pencil and paper.
(2) Talking about pentagons
The first time around with my older son was just sort of a whim. We'd spent several weeks talking about quadratic equations and I wanted to spice things up a little and show a neat math result that used quadratic equations. The result I chose was talking about pentagons and, essentially, why cos(72) = (sqrt(5) – 1 ) / 4.
Several weeks later my younger son asked me how to draw a pentagon, so I talked about it with him, too:
As for the questions:
(i) Why was this enjoyable. For me it was really fun to have an example that took so many seemingly different parts of elementary math and produced a nice and easy result. For my kids, I think they had fun seeing how some math that is still way over their heads came into play making a shape as simple as a pentagon.
(ii) What can we learn from it?
First, even with elementary math, seemingly different ideas can tie together in unexpected ways and kids might find that to be really interesting. Second, after I finished making the pentagon with my younger son, I mentioned how the square root of 5 came into play. Wish I would have kept the camera running since his question back to me was something like – how can you take the square root of 5, 5 isn't a perfect square?
on 04 Dec 2013 at 12:43 pm12 Amy Zimmer
I agree with Stan and Brendan if I understand what you are asking correctly. Today I had two students walk into Advanced Algebra and say, "the homework was fun!" (What?!) All the students were doing were practicing some complex manipulations with rules of integer exponents. (Can't think of a real world use for simplifying 〖4x〗^(-3)/(8〖(xy)〗^6 )). Yet the conversations were rich, as in, "will 3^4/5^4 ever have common factors? And finally seeing ∛125 as 〖〖(5〗^3)〗^(1/3) and just swooning with the excitement of seeing something so gratifying!
Sometimes you just never know what will light a fire under their butts!
on 04 Dec 2013 at 2:36 pm13 Cathy Yenca
I think the "obtainable challenge" idea that makes gaming so appealing has a lot to do with students' motivation and "buy-in" to the math we sell, regardless of it's "real-world-ness".
Here are a few samples I used just yesterday in class with my 8th graders:
I love this post and the comments. I'm glad to hear this question discussed by experienced teachers as I've wondered about it during my teacher training (just finished and am set to begin teaching in January). Throughout the teacher training, there is huge emphasis on the "real world application" theory of engagement but I know it's at odds with my own experience so I think there must be more to it. For myself, real world applications can be tricky because Bring in one that involves something I'm not interested in and I'll switch off no matter what the maths is. Give me a puzzle or abstract maths and I'll be happy.
Two of my favourite elements in problems are:
– pleasing unexpectedness (like discovering a pattern or a connection to another concept)
– changes in pace eg Slow hard going followed by a flurry of activity as you 'get' something and a few different parts fall quickly into place.
on 05 Dec 2013 at 9:20 am15 Jason Dyer
Part of what turns a "classroom math problem" into a "puzzle" is simple presentation. A Professor Layton game for the DS can get away with a system of linear inequalities if it is presented as different colors of cats.
on 05 Dec 2013 at 10:09 am16 Chris Hunter
You call this a limiting theory of engagement. I call it simplistic. Potato, potahto. (Sad to see Diane's experience of this theory being the dominant one in her teacher training. Probably not atypical.)
Race to 20, a Nim variation, is enjoyable. No context, just naked numbers. Taking turns, players count on one or two numbers (i.e., you say "one, two", I can say "three" or "three, four"); the player who says "twenty" wins. Students enjoy the challenge of finding a winning strategy. Some form of success comes fairly quickly: most key on the importance of being the one to say "seventeen" which presents a new challenge (and pattern to discover).
Sometimes, I think teachers mistakenly believe it is the context, rather than the math, that engages students. Area vs. Perimeter problems, brought up above, are examples of this. I can present the problem as "You have 24/240 m of fencing. Build the largest pen for your pet dog/dragon." Real? Fantasy? Dunno. Doesn't matter. Spot/Sparky are quickly forgotten. What engages students is the challenge of finding the largest area given the perimeter constraints. I'd say it's competition, but it's not really about having the largest area within the class– more about bettering one's previous attempts. By the way, this elicits argument ("Does 6 by 6 count?) further engaging students.
on 06 Dec 2013 at 8:29 am17 Josh Britton
Re #8: Thanks, Kenneth, for the link to your essay. Nicely succinct skewering of 'everything's better in a game' blather.
on 06 Dec 2013 at 8:35 am18 Josh Britton
I recently spent several hours obsessing over peg solitaire. I enjoyed the trickle of pattern revelations found through experimentation, but I suspect that the most powerful motivator was the desire to end up with one peg all alone in the middle. Never happened.
Competition helped: my daughter was playing, too, and we frequently compared scores.
on 06 Dec 2013 at 9:58 am19 Kevin Hall
I think student engagement depends on specific characteristics of the connection made between something already in students' minds and something new. The thing already in their minds could be the memory of an experience, an preference or attachment they hold, an opinion or idea they have formed, etc. The term "prior mental construct" or just "prior construct" may capture what I'm describing here. This is completely subjective and has little to do with what's in the real world.
Using that term, engagement is proportional to: i) intensity of the prior construct in my mind, ii) the number of connections made, iii) the conceptual distance between the prior construct and the new experience, and iv) the strength of that connection. Something like Engagement = (Intensity of prior construct)(Number of connections)(average Distance of connection)(average Strength of each connection), or E = k(I)(N)(D)(S). Here is what I mean:
i). The intensity factor means my engagement will be higher if you make a connection to something I care more about, remember more vividly, etc. Connecting quadratics to snowboard sales data won't work for me, because snowboard sales data is not something I've ever thought about before.
ii). The number of connections is important because I'll care more if you can connect one math concept to many prior constructs. You have to make me feel that when I'm in my mental world, I'm somehow surrounded by applications of this math concept.
iii). The average distance is basically the surprise factor, and it's subjective. It measures how crazy I find it that the thing you taught me is actually connected to something else. For my students, realizing that completing the square allowed you to derive the quadratic formula was an experience like that. They had no idea those two concepts were going to be related. In addition, for many students, the experience of doing math is so unlike the experience of living that anytime math can predict something real, it's a surprise. (How long will it take the water tank to fill up? I can't believe math actually works to answer that! I thought math was just math).
iv). Finally, the stronger the connection, the more I'll be engaged. When it comes to 3-Acts, this is why it's so vital to show Act 3 rather than just telling students the answer. Playing out the tape shows that this connection really works, and isn't contrived with a mere "textbook answer". The strength of a connection also provides satisfaction to students as they move up the Van Hiele levels in Geometry. What originally seemed like a bag of unrelated characteristics (4 right angles, two pairs of parallel sides) begins to have some coherence and necessary dependence. That's satisfying, as long as the connections actually make deep sense.
Anyways, that's my theory.
on 07 Dec 2013 at 5:27 pm20 Michael Pershan
Check out this quote from the NY Times editorial about how math teachers suck and all our kids are finding math boring but the kids would be stoked if they were being prepared for STEM careers.
A growing number of schools are helping students embrace STEM courses by linking them to potential employers and careers, taking math and science out of textbooks and into their lives.
When you started this series, I thought that you were attacking a scapegoat. Who really thinks that the only math that's interesting to kids is "real world" math?
Answer: The New York Times, and maybe President Obama.
Anyway, the theory of engagement on display in the Times' editorial is pretty clear. They think that kids are motivated to prepare for their careers, and they think that the closer school work hews to the "real world" (read: job world) the more excited kids will be for it.
There are so, so many problems with this idea that I'm pretty comfortable calling it stupid.
This is a different sort of "real world" than your snowboarder. But is it related? Does the idea that kids are into the real world spring from this notion that kids are interested in job prep?
on 08 Dec 2013 at 4:53 pm21 Bob Lochel
Just posted about a task I have used: The Hot Seat. The task is explained on my blog, along with a quick video example: http://mathcoachblog.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/my-fake-world-task/
What I see in these tasks:
1. They aren't intimidating, and are equally accessible to many types of learners.
2. Their secrets are not immediately obvious, and invite us to experiment with out ideas.
3. Their solutions can be explained easily, once we become experts with the problem. Or the explanations can take different forms.
4. There is an opporunity to adapt the problem, or create a new problem based on our experience.
5. Finally, many of these problems are one which simply drive us crazy. We know the answer is staring us in the face, and there is inherent desire to be the "first" to get it.
on 10 Dec 2013 at 12:12 pm22 a Different Dave
I think comment #1 by Jared is absolutely the right direction to be going, in terms of discussing the actual pieces that make something engaging. A clear goal and a well-tuned feedback loop? That's serious gold.
He mentions flow, though, and I disagree on that usage of the word flow. Cal Newport has made some really great progress in dissecting motivation in school and the workplace. He points out that flow is actually the lazy state. Flow is what happens after you've already learned what to do and internalized the process, and you're just in plug-and-chug mode where you don't really have to think.
A productive state that Newport strives for instead of flow, is "deliberate practice" – http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/12/23/flow-is-the-opiate-of-the-medicore-advice-on-getting-better-from-an-accomplished-piano-player/
The ability to use math concepts in the "flow" state might be a good end goal for our students, but we have to start with something closer to deliberate practice.
on 10 Dec 2013 at 12:34 pm23 Jared Cosulich
How you specifically define "Flow" isn't super-important, but I have personally frequently felt something that I would define as Flow (complete engagement to the point of losing track of time) when I program and it happens most consistently when I am tackling problems that are very challenging. In fact if they are not challenging enough then I will not get in to "Flow" (that's literally one of aspect of the definition).
So I don't think that the state of Flow as I think about it in any way is a lazy state.
That said, I would agree that deliberate practice may be a more efficient mechanism for improving, but it may also be more exhausting. If you're making tangible progress, though, then that progress can provide a great deal of fuel.
I would certainly never discourage a learner who was engaging in deliberate practice, but I think you have to be really motivated as a learner to take that path.
A few way-too-late notes on what I'm reading here.
Jared Cosulich:
When you look at what is going on in a puzzle (everything from a jigsaw puzzle to Tetris to Angry Birds) you see some very consistent patterns:
1) A clear goal that is neither too easy or too hard.
2) Immediate feedback loops enabling someone to develop and quickly test hypotheses.
The first is pretty well-supported. I find the second one problematic, though. When you play Sudoku, you write a number in a square and there's no immediate feedback that it was the right or wrong number for that square. The feedback comes much later when you've realized you've created a logical contradiction.
But I think something that a lot of the posted math-tasks have in common is that students know when they're done. They can solve a puzzle (a la, Ben Orlin's distinction between game and puzzle) and know that the answer is done.
So there is eventual feedback, not simply immediate feedback. And that feedback has a certain character. Something to do with validation. The Sudoku book has answers in the back, but you can validate it yourself by verifying that your solution meets every constraint.
Mike Lawler:
Why is it fun? Even now, more than 25 years after seeing this result for the first time, it still surprises me. If you watch the video, you'll see that the kids were floored. The fact that you get more or less the same picture from any starting point is also incredibly surprising.
"Surprise" is surfacing a lot around here.
Jason Dyer:
Part of what turns a "classroom math problem" into a "puzzle" is simple presentation. A Professor Layton game for the DS can get away with a system of linear inequalities if it is presented as different colors of cats.
I can't tell if this is a joke or not.
Chris Hunter:
Sometimes, I think teachers mistakenly believe it is the context, rather than the math, that engages students. Area vs. Perimeter problems, brought up above, are examples of this. I can present the problem as "You have 24/240 m of fencing. Build the largest pen for your pet dog/dragon." Real? Fantasy? Dunno. Doesn't matter. Spot/Sparky are quickly forgotten. What engages students is the challenge of finding the largest area given the perimeter constraints.
A couple of points worth highlighting here:
1.) Optimization problems have a certain appeal, not necessarily for their competitive angle, but because they give everyone a place to start and then improve.
2.) When I find a productive and fun real-world task, it's almost always the case that the "real world-ness" is its least salient aspect.
Michael Pershan:
When you started this series, I thought that you were attacking a scapegoat. Who really thinks that the only math that's interesting to kids is "real world" math?
Kind of a few. This is a recurring topic of conversation between Mr. Mathalicious and me also.
Michael Pershan:
This is a different sort of "real world" than your snowboarder. But is it related? Does the idea that kids are into the real world spring from this notion that kids are interested in job prep?
The job world is a subset of the "real world" but the idea that kids will dig into math if teachers enforce its connections to the job world is problematic.
on 10 Dec 2013 at 4:41 pm25 Jared Cosulich
I agree. The use of the word "immediate" is misleading as I think it's more of a spectrum. With Sudoku I think the feedback is still immediate enough to create engagement on easy puzzles and the feedback becomes less immediate on harder
In fact I'd say that you can control the challenge of any given puzzle or challenge by varying the immediacy of the feedback loop. Creating a feedback loop that is instantaneous may actually make a challenge too easy, potentially reducing engagement.
That said I think most of the time your better off providing more immediate feedback if you are looking for engagement. You can tackle more challenging problems more easily with a fast and consistent feedback loop, so the threat of making a challenge too easy can be compensated for through a more challenging problem.
on 10 Dec 2013 at 6:13 pm26 Patrick Vennebush
I have three examples of things that look "real world" but really aren't, though kids love them.
Paper Pool: I like the version from Illuminations, though it was in CMP before that, and the problem is at least a century old:
Product Value Problem: I first heard this from John Horton Conway on NPR:
Find an English word for which the product of its letters (i.e., the product of the letters' positions in the alphabet) is 3,000,000.
Name Letters: A completely ridiculous 29-equation system that doesn't LOOK like a system of equations problem, and kids just dig it:
(For this one, I think the appeal is that the question asks students to find the value their name, which makes it personal.)
@Patrick, nice examples. Name Letters seems to tip-toe the line between familiar and strange that a lot of people have mentioned. It has, like, names … which are familiar … but the names have prices … prices which seem kind of arbitrary … and that's a little strange.
Perhaps I'm a bit late to the party here… but I'll give it a go:
Collatz Conjecture is one of my favorite "Fake-math" topics to explore with students. I wrote about how I explored it last year with my 5th/6th grade class.
Perhaps what make it most intriguing is that it is simple to state, yet has eluded some of the most brilliant mathematicians' attempts at proof. I usually drop in the discussion that a proof of this conjecture could even earn you an honorary Ph. D, or at the very least instant rock-star status in the math world.
Also students can have minor victories along the way to keep them motivated to explore, like proving that all powers of 2 will eventually go to 1.
…and by "fake-math" I meant to say "fake world" math.
on 24 Dec 2013 at 2:55 am30 Joshua
Obviously there are other dimensions missing in your engagement model, but one seems especially worth highlighting: the most compelling problem can be the one that is not what you are supposed to be working on. An example from my office yesterday:
I was supposed to spend some time building a forecasting model for UK interest rates based on various economic indicators. Instead, I spent time formulating a model of the break-even cost for aged port (a problem hinted at by your post http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=18174). To be clear, this has no relevance for my professional work. Also, actually, I didn't spend much time on the wine model, but I found it really difficult to stay away from it!
In contrast, another co-worker was meant to be recoding some of his old models and, instead, felt compelled to work on my interest rate/economics model!
I feel this is also somehow the punchline behind some of the Vi Hart videos: the math is really fun when done subversively.
I don't know how to engineer this as a classroom technique.
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Side note: there are many real world applications for Shikaku, the same maths for instance is used in determining how to position planes on an aircraft carrier.
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"real = fun / fake = boring"
Curious. Games are fun specifically because they are NOT real world. Instead games are abstractions, yet are "fun".


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- John begins the chapter with a newspaper clipping of an advice column. A mother writes to "Dear Alice" saying that she thinks it is normal for her five-year-old son to play with dolls, but her husband disagrees.
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The ancient Romans felt that a man's testicles testified that he was male. They formed the word testiculus from Latin testis 'witness', the source also of attest (late 16th century); detest (Late Middle English) which originally meant to denounce; protest (Late Middle English); testify (Late Middle English); and intestate (Late Middle English) 'without a witnessed will'. The testicles were the 'witnesses' of the man's virility.
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Mark Penn is gone as Sen. Hillary Clinton's chief campaign strategist, the victim of a Wall Street Journal story disclosing his work on behalf of a free trade agreement that Sen. Clinton opposes, but his exit "likely will portend no dramatic shift in message for the campaign in coming weeks," says Politico's Ben Smith. But, Smith adds, his departure "will bring satisfaction to scores of Clinton loyalists who have wanted the controversial image-meister sacked for months."
|Former adviser Mark Penn speaks to reporters following a debate.
In Penn's wake, "few in Clinton's circle foresee a dramatic shift in direction, largely because it is now too late for a dramatic shift in message -– voters in the largest remaining state, Pennsylvania, cast their ballots in two weeks … If there's any immediate consequence, though, it will be to morale inside a shell-shocked campaign where Penn's compensation, his attention to his business, and his gruff demeanor made him a divisive figure."
While the Clinton camp dealt with the Penn controversy, Sen. Barack Obama was campaigning out West. In an appearance in Montana, which is yet to vote this year, he "declared that he wanted to learn how to fly fish, joked about drinking beer, and said he was on a search for Sen. Jon Tester's barber," reports NBC's Aswini Anburajan. "His emphasis on appealing to Western voters appeared to be more than just cosmetic, however. In his speech in Butte, Obama emphasized a message of personal resilience, declaring that people in the West's desire for good government had nothing to do with getting a handout. He also spoke about Native American affairs, promising that his administration would place a higher priority on their concerns than past administrations. Montana is home to 10 Native American tribes."
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Athens, GA - University of Georgia student-athletes made food and monetary contributions totaling 3,307 pounds to the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia as part of the Southeastern Conference's fourth annual "Together We CAN" drive.
The SEC's annual league-wide community service project ended on Sept. 26 in record-breaking fashion. The initiative raised more than 240,000 pounds in food and financial contributions, breaking the previous record by almost 100,000 pounds.
For four years, the SEC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) has encouraged fans and supporters to spend 10 days donating at sporting events, on campus and in the community. All proceeds from the Drive benefit food
banks and local charities across the SEC's region. After four years, the league's overall total now stands at approximately 478,000 pounds.
³I think the food drive is awesome because it not only shows each school¹s commitment to the ones in need, but also shows the communities¹ support to help out fellow people in need,² said Georgia distance runner Taylor Adams, a member of the SEC's SAAC and co-president of UGA's own SAAC. ³The more we can donate, the more lives we can help impact. Even though we have busy
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The SEC Together we CAN drive began on September 18. UGA student-athletes began their collection drive that day on campus in conjunction with the Georgia-Arkansas football game. They continued the process the following
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SIKESTON -- A Sikeston man was fatally injured in a construction accident Monday.
At 2:04 p.m., the Department of Public Safety was dispatched to assist EMS personnel with the South Scott County Ambulance District at 1101 Willow Way
"The call was originally that multiple subjects had fallen through a roof," said Lt. Ken Dicus of the Sikeston Department of Public Safety. "Upon our arrival we found that two subjects had fallen from the roof and one was in critical condition."
Lance Simmons, 30, a construction worker for Mid South Construction Company of Morley, was first taken to Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston by ambulance in critical condition. He was later air lifted to St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Simmons died from his injuries at approximately 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Injuries to the second man were described as minor.
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a failure so incredibly unbelievable it will go down in fail history right next to the Chia Pet and Pet Rock.
"Hey, what's 2 + 2?"
"Epic failure."
"Epic failure."
de LindsayLouFool 10 Decembrie 2008
Someone who has any moment when they thought they could be sucessful but they end up failing EPICALLY!!!
Mason my uber epic failure! buddy and me myself and I who are epic failures
de Falloutgirl0916 20 Octombrie 2009
Olivia Calistri
Olivia Calistri performs actions which can be construed as 'epic failures' multiple times daily.
de damn_right_son 09 Ianuarie 2009
Despite being given a perfect opportunity for success, no matter what you do it ends in total failure. If the same opportunity was given to another person it would have resulted in success, but you only transform things into failure..on a very large scale.
(Dude 1): Man...I'm miserable.. my wife's a gym teacher, I dont have a job, everyone hates me, I've been divorced 3 times, my dog just peed on my leg....
(Dude 2): You're an Epic Failure
(Dude 2): You're an Epic Failure
de Jack Duvales 03 Decembrie 2010
A failure of such proportions that it takes an extra word at the front to fully describe the magnitude of the fail.
Person 1: "I did a backflip off my house onto my trampline and landed it. Then I jumped off the trampoline and broke my ankle"
Person 2: "Epic Failure"
Person 2: "Epic Failure"
de Laughing @ him 04 Octombrie 2009
an expression used to identify failure of the epic kind
Astronaut: "Sir, the pants have landed."
Sir: "OMFG THIS IS EPICFAILURE."
Sir: "OMFG THIS IS EPICFAILURE."
de Pierce The Mighty 17 Noiembrie 2007
Top 5 reasons why you fail
1. You rolled a BE Lock
2. Your on Coilfang
3. Punctuation
4. Spelling
5. You have horrible comebacks and are retarded.
1. You rolled a BE Lock
2. Your on Coilfang
3. Punctuation
4. Spelling
5. You have horrible comebacks and are retarded.
Your response is a #5. (epic failure)
de Gurubashi 20 Octombrie 2007


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Police blotter: 3 cars broken into in downtown Spartanburg
Published: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 11:19 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 11:19 p.m.
Spartanburg Public Safety Department
Police responded to three car break-ins near downtown within an hour on Tuesday.
According to incident reports, two women reported to police about 6:30 p.m. that their cars were broken into while they were parked at Nautilus Fitness on Church Street.
On both cars, a passenger side window was broken. Gifts and a purse containing an iPod, wallet and checkbook were taken from the passenger seat and trunk of a 2010 Toyota. The second victim said her purse had been rummaged through, and $5 was taken from her wallet, a report states.
About an hour later, officers responded to II Samuels restaurant on Henry Street. The owner of a 2011 Buick Lucerne told police that she was inside the restaurant for a dinner party and she was told by a restaurant employee that a man was seen breaking out the back passenger window of her car, a report states.
Nothing was taken from the Buick. Officers noted that the window had been completely broken out and they found a large rock on the floor of the car, according to the report.
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Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 1012 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2291-4), I hereby certify, with respect to Brazil, that (1) interdiction of aircraft reasonably suspected to be primarily engaged in illicit drug trafficking in that country's airspace is necessary because of the extraordinary threat posed by illicit drug trafficking to the national security of that country; and (2) that country has appropriate procedures in place to protect against innocent loss of life in the air and on the ground in connection with such interdiction, which shall at a minimum include effective means to identify and warn an aircraft before the use of force is directed against the aircraft.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The University of New Hampshire volleyball team split a pair of matches, downing Princeton 3-2 after falling to George Washington, 3-1, on Saturday to close out play at the George Washington Invitational at the Smith Center.
UNH now moves to 6-8 on the season. The set scores against Princeton were 24-26, 19-25, 25-18, 25-18 and 15-12, while the set scores against George Washington were 25-23, 17-25, 22-25 and 20-25.
In the match against Princeton, Morgan Thatcher made 20 kills and Abby Brinkman recorded 15.
Against George Washington, Tori Forrest led the way with 13 kills while Destiny Tolliver also reached double figures with 11.
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DURHAM — The University of New Hampshire men's soccer team played to a 1-1, double-overtime draw against UMass on Saturday.
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Historic Macanese Cuisine
Dra. Beatriz da Silva's study of Macanese cuisine motivated me to share a few family dishes of my own. But first, let me provide a little background.
I was able to create this list because of a recent visit by two experienced cooks (actually my mother and aunt), who were generous enough to reveal their favorite Macanese cusine. Together these ladies have roots in Portugal, Spain, Goa, Macau, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Canton, which explains the wide variety of dishes and desserts you see below. In fact, I was able to find hereditary links to twenty different Macanese families, which also explains why many of these dishes are common throughout the community, some dating from the 16th century.
Most of these dishes are prepared as main meals and for special occasions. And many, except for the desserts, are served with rice. The specific recipes vary due to personal embellishments and cultural influences, depending on where and when each family cooked them. But in every case, the dishes represent a cultural link to the past that continues to evolve as these recipes are passed down to each new generation.
Minchi – Minced beef with onions and potato, cooked with soy, molasses, turmeric
Tacho –cabbage stew and meat (pork or sausage), cooked with balichaong (fermented shrimp sauce) and soy
Vaca Estofada – beef stew (cooked many hours), cooked with soy and bay leaf
Feijoada – Portuguese style stew with beans and pork
Caldo Verde – Creamy spinach soup
Bacalhau – Salted Cod
Pasteis de Bacalhau – Breaded cod fish balls
Curried Fish – (or beef, lamb, chicken), cooked with Indian curry and coconut milk
Chilicote – Curried meat hors d'euvre in light pastry shell
Rolete – Fried Portuguese style meatballs
Congee' (cheuk) – Rice gruel
Impada – fish or meat pie (usually served cold) with Turmeric
Chili Crab – Chinese style whole crab cooked in plum sauce and garlic
Diabo – Cut-up roasted beef, lamb, poultry, pork, cooked in creamy sauce and sweet pickels
Capella – Portuguese style meatloaf (baked), cooked with onions, cheese, almonds
Beefy Macau – Sirloin steak sliced marinated with oyster sauce and hoishsin
Ginger and Garlic cooked Chicken – cooked in peanut oil and oyster sauce
Prawns in Garlic – Stir fired
Star Anis Pork Shoulder – Slow cooked in soy sauce
Bafasau – Saffron Pork
Lo Pak Kou – Macanese style rice and soy squares
Nata – Portuguese custard
Batatada – Potato and Coconut cake
Pao de Leite – Coconut pudding gelatin
Bebinca de Leite – Baked custard with coconut
Genete – Butter cookies
Cuscarao – Fried sugar cookies
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Being a grand daughter of Luis Nolasco da Silva and although never been in Macau, some of the recipes shown here were cooked in our house. Minchi, Diabo, among others. Just to let you know that one of my father's cousin husband – Joao Antonio Ferreira Lamas – published a book with many recipes from Macau. The book is named A culinaria dos Macaenses.
Thank you for all your information. Very, very interesting
Hi Beatriz,
Thank you for information. Where I can purchase the book? Is the book written in English? Does it have the recipe of fish empanada?
Looking forward to hear from you. Thanks
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Percy Weasley
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Fred sums up Percy pretty well when he calls him a "Ministry-loving, family-disowning, power-hungry moron" (30.171). Yep, Percy has definitely been that guy for the past couple of Harry Potter books.
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Leviticus Chapter 18 Summary
- Now we get to one of the most controversial sections in Leviticus: the holiness rules in chapters 18 through 20.
- Chapter 18 starts with a couple reasons for the rules.
- For one thing, Israelites are the cool kids now. Don't be like other people. God has his own lunch table and they're not invited.
- Israelites also get something out of being part of the Israelite crew. They're really gonna live, baby, and living ain't just breathing.
- Of course, if the Israelites want good things to happen, they have to keep God's laws and show that they know where the good stuff is coming from.
They're Too Sexy for This Land
- The key word here is Israelites. The laws in this chapter are ways for the nation to thrive as a separate community in the land that God has given them.
- The first dozen or so rules are about not "exposing the nakedness" of certain family members. Pantsing other people is apparently okay.
- Precisely what these incest rules mean has been the subject of extensive debate.
- Because adultery is already established as unlawful, it would appear that the target of these incest rules are sexual relationships with women who are widowed, divorced, or otherwise not married to someone else.
- The emphasis on the wrongfulness of uncovering others' nakedness might be focused on keeping a strong male family member from exploiting women in his extended household, both in order to satisfy his sexual appetites and to exert his power.
- The incest rules also make it unlawful to have sex with combinations of women that could lead to social strife within a family, such as sleeping with two sisters, sleeping with a mother and daughter, or sleeping with a wife and her sister.
- Clearly God in his total knowledge of all space and time has seen every episode of Jerry Springer.
- Another forbidden sex-related act is adultery, which refers to a man sleeping with a married woman.
- Under biblical law, a man—whether married or single—is not committing adultery if he sleeps with a woman who is not his wife and also not married to someone else.
- For example, in Fifty Shades of Grey, Anastasia Steele and Christian are technically not committing adultery, since Anastasia is not married to someone else. Hmmm.
- Don't dedicate your children to Molech. Stoning your kid to death if he misbehaves is cool, but sacrificing him to Molech is a big no-no even if he is acting like a spoiled brat.
- And then, here it is, verse 22, the big kahuna: an Israelite "must not lie with a man with the lying down of a woman."
- "Lie with a man with the lying down of a woman?" Who in the world talks like that? What does it even mean?
- Based on other biblical references, it would appear to refer to a man anally penetrating another man.
- Whatever it is, it's taboo.
- The word used to describe the lying-down-of-a-woman taboo is toevah, which is used for a variety of taboo things from unclean food, unclean birds, and dirty clothes to idols and intermarriage with non-Israelites.
- Verse 22 says nothing about any other form of sexual contact, such as a woman sleeping with another woman.
- The next verse is more specific, stating that neither a man nor a woman may have sex with an animal.
- The chapter winds up by circling back to the reasons for following these rules. The emphasis here is the purity of God's land. If the Israelites and the people who live among them pollute this holy land by engaging in such acts, the land will vomit them out.
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This is the report of the New York City Committee on Adoptions to its sponsors, The New York Academy of Medicine, The United Hospital Fund of New York and the Welfare Council of New York City.
The work of the committee is authorized, explained, commended and limited, respectively, by a sponsor's note, a forward, an introduction and a preface. The report proper, some 37 pages, is divided into four sections. The first contains quotations from some laws and discusses other laws and regulations governing adoptions in New York City. The second section describes the types of services made available by adoption agencies in New York City and discusses the adequacy of these services in view of present and anticipated demands. The third recognizes the right of the public to know what adoption agencies are for and advocates a program of public relations. The fourth section presents the committee's recommendations for
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