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This weekend, I decided to attend BarcampJB pretty last minute. Lucky for me, barcamps are made for chaotics like me, so it was no problem at all. I found some friends that live here in Kuala Lumpur who I drove down to JB with (JB is around a 5 hour drive from KL, we did it in 3.5 🙂 ).
The camp was very interesting. Because JB is on the border with Singapore, there's a good crossover between Malaysian and Singaporean techies.
I decided to go all out and give three talks on Saturday: First up was the MMM talk I've given at a few conferences before. All went well, and later on in the day some people approached me for more in-depth questions. It still seems that people have this idea in their head that they somehow need MySQL Cluster when there is more then one machine involved. When I explain them that that is very rarely the case and they can achieve what they want with MMM as well, they are often happy to hear that.
My next talk was more of a personal development one. People keep asking me here where I am from. When I explain to them that I've been location independent for the last 3 years, they are usually very eager to find out how I pull that off. I decided to summarise my experiences and put them in a talk. This talk was very well attended and I loved giving it. Most of the attendants were young techies, they are usually in a perfect position to do something very similar to what I'm doing.
The last talk was a lightning talk on Zabbix, the Open Source monitoring system we use at Open Query. Quick, and dirty, but effective.
Other interesting talks I attended were on breeze, an online banking application made for Standard Chartered bank that looks very slick and usable (If anyone from my bank is reading this: get with the program and fix our banking application to enter the 21st century please 😉 ).
Conary and Foresight Linux were interesting as well. Conary (the package management system in Foresight Linux) is not quite mature yet, but definitely a very interesting technology. I was interested to hear about it and hope to see it become more mainstream in the future.
Daniel Cerventus gave a good lightning talk on what not to do as a startup. The main message was to just do it, and not wait for grant money or VC's. Some solid tips as well, one of them being to run your potential name through Namechk, a handy potential username checker for many services.
There was obviously also a lot of networking and we went for a foot massage at the end of the day. Funny fact: I was the only one to stay awake through the massage (Even though I am narcoleptic), while two of my friends (who I won't name here 😉 ) snored all the way through it 🙂
All in all another succesful tech event in Malaysia. Definitely one of the many reasons I love living here!

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Merlot, sourced from the 2 for £10 section of the supermarket.
Cheap and cheerful, it nicely complemented shooting baddies on the xbox.
Proinsias wrote:Merlot, sourced from the 2 for £10 section of the supermarket.
Cheap and cheerful, it nicely complemented shooting baddies on the xbox.
puerhking wrote:Thanks to Chip I will have tried 14 new shinchas this year!! What a fantastic experience this has been. Thanks again!!
woozl wrote:Into the Nishi organic today
lighter in body, very aromatic
smell the leaves warming oohhh
smells of ocean and lemons.
good balance of astringency on the palate.
3 tasty steeps.
good every day tea
Seeker wrote:Decided to go for the Maeda-en SP shincha après matcha today ... Have to rate this experience a "D".
This has left me wondering about air exposure.
With the travel, possible exposure to heat, and lack of air-tight packaging, well I wonder if the tea loses quality.
Could explain my fairly consistent disappointments with the OTTI teas so far.
Seeker wrote:True, true - round 1 was good!
I think my response to today's tour result may have run over into my tasting!
My apologies.
bsteele wrote:Last night I had the Shizuoka First Flush Kukicha and right now I am drinking the Nishi Organic.
Mmmm they are so good once I dump in two teaspoons of sugar and a splash of half and half. Ommm nom nom
I'm not a green tea guy, but I am enjoying everything so far and am following your brew guidelines, Chip. This is my second go at Shincha-- last year I bought a bag of YM from o-cha and ended up with more than I really needed and sadly didn't consume all of it in its prime *tear*... but I did make some delicious cold brew from it several months later.
So I'm loving this shincha OTTI because it's enough tea for me to handle and I don't have to worry about spending lots of cash monies on shincha and end up having it just sit unconsumed.
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THUMBS UP: Well done, Marshall High School marching band, at this years Bands of America Super Regional Championships. Marshall placed second in Class A at the annual event in Missouri that draws top marching bands from around a specific region. All members who make up the squad put in plenty of hours on the practice field (or parking lot) and should be commended for representing the city of Marshall on a major stage.
Handling of sexual misconduct in the church
THUMBS DOWN: Archbishop John Nienstedt admitted Thursday the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis poorly handled allegations of clergy sexual misconduct in the last decade and apologized to victims in the archdiocese's official newspaper. This issue has made plenty of headlines in the last couple of weeks, and it was reported Thursday the Archdiocese spent almost $11 million to cover costs associated with sexual abuse and other misconduct by priests who were removed from active ministry. Nienstedt has denied any cover-up of abuse and maintains there are no offending priests in active ministry. We sincerely hope the Archdiocese continues to be active in working to improve this situation and, for the sake of the public, do more to vet and monitor clergy members in the future; transparency is also a must for everyone involved.
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Microsoft Corp., the world's largest developer of software, plans to unveil more details regarding its Windows 7 operating system and even provide select software developers pre-beta versions of the forthcoming OS in late October at its Professional Developers Conference.
Microsoft recently announced that at this year's PDC, keynote attendees will be among the first to receive the pre-beta build of Windows 7. Additionally, attendees will have the opportunity to attend 21 different sessions that drill down into the details of developing for Windows 7.
Microsoft claims that advances in Windows 7 have been made across the full range of the operating system, including the kernel, networking, hardware and devices, and user-interface.
Attendees of the conference will be able to learn more about opportunities to build on the platform's commitment to OS fundamentals. Besides, the company indicated that the new operating system will enable software developers to enhance existing applications and create new applications that use the new technologies and APIs in Windows 7. The company plans to present Windows 7-related keynote on the 28th of October, 2008, at PDC.
According to previously reported information, the software giant plans to unveil its Windows 7 OS on the 3rd of June, 2009, which is inline with claims of Bill Gates made earlier this year, but is about half a year earlier than Microsoft publicly stated. The new operating system is expected to correct all the issues with Windows Vista, which has been heavily criticized.


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Skip to comments.Nate Silver: 'Romney, clearly, could still win'
Posted on 10/29/2012 2:44:15 PM PDT by Arthurio
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Nate Silver could be a one-term celebrity.
The New York Times' resident political predictor says President Barack Obama currently has a 74.6% chance of winning re-election. It's a prediction that liberals, whose heart rates continue to fluctuate with the release of every new poll, want to take solace in, but somehow can't. Sure, this is the guy who correctly predicted the outcome of the 2008 election in 49 of 50 states, but this year's polls suggest a nail-biter.
"Romney, clearly, could still win," Silver told POLITICO today.
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"Could still win?" How 'bout will win, but 0 may still win if he cheats enough?
understatement of the election!
LOL I've seen libs posting Silver's predictions of zero's impending win all week on FB.
I won't gloat on FB when he loses. But I will be verrrrrry happy :)
It ain't over, 'till it's over.
0bama has certainly left a mess to clean up.
Ya think, Nate? Really?
How did Twinkle Toes do with the Walker recall a few months ago?
I don't know who this fool is but if he would just check out the website fivethirtyeight he would know that Romney has no chance what so over.
This is what passes for brilliant analysis on the left...
This is what passes for brilliant analysis on the left...
I think Ray was making a joke.
Nate Silver is actually playing a pretty smart game here. He's building a following of libs. When he's wrong, he will suffer no consequences at all because he is a lib. If he happens to somehow be right, he's a hero. It's a no lose situation for him. Our scorn means nothing to him.
There is a 78.5% chance that Nate Silver will be yesterday's news by Nov. 7
I know, but I thought in case Ray wasn't, I'd post anyway and risk looking a fool who hasn't had his coffee.
Just as parties have designated drivers, I'm willing to be the designated fool of a thread :)
They cannot be the same guy. The guy over at 538 is 75.9876% certain that Romney is a looser. He has no chance in Ohio, all the recent polls show Romney lost his momentum and that Obama is solidifying his lead.
Ya forgot the 'NYT Delusional Fellating Moron Alert' !
This thread is an opportune plate to note the lack of [vulgarity deleted] postings about Intrade numbers over the last month. They certainly made a nuisance of themselves earlier in the year.
The thing that sickens me to no end is that the last image the low information (idiot) voters will take to the voting booth will be of Hussein in his yellow coat helping comfort hurricane victims.
It might be just enough to pull his sorry Kenyan butt over the finish line and bring the Nate Silver worship from the libs to a whole new level.
Obama has provided more assistance to governors than he has to his ambassadors.
Absolutely true.
No matter what happens, Obama, Silver, Biden, Hillary...they're ALL heroes for life for the leftist droolers.
These people, remember, still think of Jimmy Carter as a hero. LBJ, too...all of LBJ's micro-management and subsequent handcuffing of America in Vietnam, his ruination of the black family via welfare, all of that is FORGOTTEN.
Carter's gasoline lines, humiliation from Muslim extremists in Iran, his impotent response to Soviet domination of Asia, FORGOTTEN.
Clinton's obvious failures in lying under oath, his sleeping at the wheel as the dot-com bubble inflated the stock market, his weak-kneed response to the Cole bombings and embassy bombings in Africa, all FORGOTTEN.
The leftists make HEROES out of their failures—contrast this to conservatives...arguably the worst Republican president in the last 50 years was Nixon. You ever hear a full throated defense of him from conservatives? Nope. You hear the truth: while good on anti-Communist expansion and a need to engage China, Nixon screwed up by wage and price controls and implementing the horrendous EPA.
Basically, I think conservatives are MORE HONEST about their history—liberals whitewash and deify their heroes.
Reagan is, I admit, a bit of a "demigod" by us conservatives....but only because he was SUCH a rarity and fought so long to finally win the presidency. Still, Reagan left us with some problems: Sandra Day O'Connor, for instance...and his response to the Marine bombing in Lebanon wasn't the best. My point isn't to rip Reagan...he was 10,000 times better than Carter. He just wasn't perfect.
Romney, too, won't be perfect. Far from it. He WILL be a better President than Obama.
If Nate Silver wants to lay 3 to 1 odds, I'll take $5k of that action.
Nate Silver is insane. If his numbers are accurate then Romney has no chance, but I think he is wrong
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Last December, Aby Rosen unveiled his extensive renovation of the Diamond Horseshoe, Billy Rose's famed New York City nightclub, which had been dormant for more than 60 years. "We want people to walk away and say, 'Wow, what just happened to me?' " Rosen says of Queen of the Night, the club's first show, an interactive mix of theater, circus, and dining that quickly became a hot ticket. It's a typically audacious project for Rosen, a canny real estate entrepreneur and noted bon vivant and art collector. His holdings include two of New York's architectural gems—the Seagram Building and Lever House—along with hotels and residential projects around the world. He may work with big names from Lord Norman Foster to John Pawson, but Rosen says, "I'm not afraid to push back. I don't want to be a guinea pig for anybody's dream."
At my firm, RFR Holding, we look for undervalued properties that have real potential but were mismanaged or poorly designed. Then we fix them. You have to pick investments that have longevity. You don't want to be the trendy hotel that opened three years ago that is no longer trendy.
I don't think New York City has peaked in terms of real estate values. The city is safe and fun, and a lot of people will always want to live here. Compared with many other cities, though, New York does not have enough housing inventory. Most of the newer residential buildings that have been built in the last few years, including several near the High Line, are quite small. And everything that is being built is luxury. There isn't enough new housing for the normal person.
I would feel confident investing in real estate anywhere on the East Coast right now, as well as in places like Los Angeles and Silicon Valley. Globally, I often look at secondary cities. Everyone loves Paris, but how about Marseille? Milan is great, but so are Rome and Bologna. We hired John Pawson to renovate a 17th-century monastery in the old city of Jaffa, which is in Tel Aviv, Israel, one of the most dynamic cities right now.
In February, we started construction on a 61-story tower designed by Norman Foster, which will be located next to the Seagram Building. We are also turning the Watchtower, the old Jehovah's Witnesses headquarters in Brooklyn, into a new office environment with plug-and-go technology, event spaces, and bicycle access.
A Dan Colen installation outside the Seagram Building
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With "30 Rock" kicking off its final season, we're counting down the funniest female TV characters ever. We want to go to there!
10. Phoebe Buffay, "Friends"
"Pheobe. That's, P, as in Phoebe, H, as in -heobe, O as in -oebe, E, as in -ebe, B, as in -bebe and E as in ... 'Ello there, mate."
9. Jerri Blank, "Strangers with Candy"
Amy Sedaris leads this super-dark spoof on after-school specials playing a 46-year-old ex-junkie who returned to high school.
7. Karen Walker, "Will & Grace"
Yeah, Will and Grace were narcissistic wet blankets, but Megan Mullally's Karen was a drunken spitfire whose shenanigans were always the best and funniest parts of the show.
7. Deputy Trudy Weigel, "Reno 911!"
Credit is overdue for Kerri Kenney's underrated run as the blissfully unaware Deputy Weigel on "Reno." "If I'm addicted to anything, it's sparklers."
6. Elaine Benes, "Seinfeld"
Elaine was smart, confident and, most importantly for this list, funny. Julia Louis-Dreyfus' performance was always sponge-worthy.
5. Sweet Dee Reynolds, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
I don't know how Sweet Dee (Kaitlin Olson) puts up with the torture from the others at Paddy's Pub, but no matter what they do to her she's always there for them. Even to help Mac get his letter — with stickers — to his hero Chase Utley.
4. Lucille Bluth, "Arrested Development"
The matriarch of the Bluth clan may not have been a great mother — OK, she may have been the worst mother — but Jessica Walter's aloof rich person act was comedy perfection.
3. Leslie Knope, "Parks & Recreation"
Newly elected Councilwoman Knope (Amy Poehler) is the best thing to potentially ever happen to anyone, anywhere in the history of Pawnee. Well, other than Leslie getting Lil' Sebastian for the Harvest Festival.
2. Roseanne Connors, "Roseanne"
Roseanne was a tough, hilarious smartass you didn't want to mess with, but when it came down to it she put on the best haunted house in Lanford, Illinois. Oh, she was a pretty good mom, too.
1. Liz Lemon, "30 Rock"
Tina Fey's Liz Lemon is smart. She's successful. And she's a socially inept trainwreck who doesn't really have her s--t together. These are all reasons we love her — she reminds us all of ourselves.


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Here's how RW members rated this race (782 votes).
In short: An uphill task.In full: I have done loads of races and this has to be by far the best. The crowd support was unbelievable. Especially along the ridge.Date of review: March 20, 2011
In short: Thank you! I love this race. Brilliant organisation, marshalls, crowd support.Date of review: March 20, 2011
In short: Nice seaside raceIn full: The usual very well organised race by the Hastings Lions. Congratulations on a job well done!One item that could be improved though is the finishing time markings for the starting pens, which were not very easily identifiable, and we had a lot of very slow runners and walkers in the first mile well to the front, and getting in the way, as well as an army troope running slowly with a bed, holding up the faster runners. These people really should not be where they were. Date of review: March 20, 2011
In short: toughest half in the southDate of review: February 13, 2011
In short: The 'must do' half marathon of the year - great crowd spur you on and the view of the seas from the top of the hills is refreshing!Date of review: March 29, 2010
In short: A must do race. In full: If only for the 7mile up-hill start.....Date of review: March 29, 2010
In short: a well organised and friendly raceIn full: really enjoyed this race, very well organised and the support from the hastings locals was fantastic and really helped to push you on. i will be back again next year.Date of review: March 28, 2010
In short: If you are a 'running driven' like myself, I would highly recommend this race to you runners.In full: Folks, if you were meant to entered the UK Half Hastings Marathon but entered for the Hastings Half Marathon in New Zealand you should have gone to SpecSavers!Easter is coming! So here's a race to put the SPRING back into your step, the UK 26th Hastings Half Marathon 2010. This race is guaranteed to turn heads and cause a bit of a stir and will cause most Race Directors all over U.K to be dumbstruck and shellshock. In other words their jaws will drop! Because everyone is talking about the Hastings Half Marathon.This race has eight miles of notorious hills guaranteed to wipe that smile off your face and will blow your mind and your legs! The Good news is that the last 5 miles are flat, which is pure joy. It's a great race and hilly in places. I turned and said to the gentleman beside me at the finishing line 'Ron that's was Hilly'! He did not respond.RUNNERS, I had a problem with my spell-checker, but it's knot a problem because I am a grate speller and also I have the Oxo Dictionary as my mane backup. I just need to watch my P's and Q's.The Hasting Half Marathon has been voted UK Best Half Marathon, it's also been claimed that it was once the WORLD best half Marathon. So I just had to find out for myself.This hilly half Marathon is known to be tougher than the Tunbridge Half Marathon and which can command up-to 5,000 runners.I like the horse brass memento that we received at the finishing line. It makes a pleasant change from any other mementos! I have knot received one for a few years. The quick chip timing results were also impressive as ever. I loved the idea your times can be forwarded to you by text which was a nice touch. I was in two minds whether to run this race or knot, I had my eyes on a much flatter half marathon, but instead I decided to run the Hastings Half Marathon with my club Orpington Road Runners – ORR. I Must say, when I saw those hills in Hastings, I thought to myself 'Beam me up Scottie'.Now what really upset the apple cart was I paid two pounds extra on Hastings Lion Club – the official site for the Hastings Half Marathon. If I had gone onto RUNNERS WORLD Web Site it would have cost me two pound less!Hastings also has that touchy feely atmosphere like the London Marathon, which makes it very appealing to runners. The crowds lined the streets shouting and cheering – great stuff. I loved every minute of it. But it can be just a bit too congested. I was stuck at the back as I tried to get to the front but, with little luck. I was ducking and diving and bobbing and weaving to find space to run.Mr. Harwick - The Race Director you gained many Brownie points for the Bag Pipe players that was outstanding. The drummers were also good. However, the following need to be addressed:- insufficient signs for toilets; not enough portaloos; additional signs identifying the drink tent (I was not aware there was a drink tent); more signs identifying the baggage tent -I was not to keen to leave my top on muddy floor after the race as I later found that some runner had left their muddy, massive hooves marks all over my new Orpington top! Also one water station should provide small bottles of water instead of cups all through the race. I ran out of mine, because of the weather was bit hot. Furthermore I wasn't aware that there were goody bags at the finishing line. So I did not get one! That said, I am very pleased I ran Hastings Half Marathon. I did not think I was fit enough for this race. I'd like to thank the female runner who encouraged me as I approached the finishing line. She was a 'Great Sport'.Congratulation and well done to The Race Director Eric Harwick MBE for organising such a great race. Like Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon this race was able to attrack I mean attract some well known Running Clubs such as:Kent Athletic Club, Orpington Road, Runners, Petts Wood Runners and Bromley Veterans Athletic Club that absolutely amazing!MBE – I don't know that Running Club. Can I Join?Between you and me runners, I think it's going to be head to head between Tunbridge Half and Hastings Half marathon for RUNNERS WORLD title for the 'Best Half Marathon in Britain'.To the Editor-in-Chef and RUNNER'S WHIRL on-line editors, I hope you were impressed with my spelling! I am also impressed with your multi-talented skilful editing – "You clever finsâ€. If you ever want any help with spelling and your grandma, look no further, I'm hear to help. Police don't report me to the moderator!!! Like your shelves you can tell I am committed to running. To Alice Palmer from RUNNERS WORLD Online team you did your Mum proud. I just like to mention that:Adventist Development and Relief Agency) ADRA-UK Fun Run will be held at Crystal Palace Park Thicket road, SE20 8DT on Sunday 18th April 2010 at 10am. http://www.secadventist.org/event/175This event is for runners and walkers. No entry fee but T-shirt can be purchase at £3.00 – on the day. Just turn up on the day. Free Parking is available at the National Sports Centre, at the top of Crystal Palace Park. For additional information about ADRA please visit the following web page. http://www.adrauk.org/Alternatively more details can be found on Croydon ADRA Event web page or write to ADRA-UK (Event Organiser)25 St. Johns Road, Watford, Herts, WD17 1PZ Also the Myra Garrett 10k (Bexley AC 10k) is 11am on 23rd May 2010. (Please note correction of time). Getting the time wrong could be a sackable offence. (It's a good thing I didn't work for Henry VIII because heads might be rolling). I think I should leave the advertising of races to RUNNERS WORLD.REMEMBER THE CLOCK GOES ONE HOUR FORWARD ON SATURDAY NIGHT OF 27th MARCH 2010 - Drat! There is No rest for the wicked.Date of review: March 27, 2010
In short: Good raceIn full: Good race, although I heard people over 500 place didnt get a goody bag!Date of review: March 27, 2010
In short: Very tough course, killer up hills and down hills but a friendly race, great atmosphere.In full: A very surreal experience, passing a congregation outside the church singing hymns as you went past was the strangest race moment I have ever had, but made me smile. Tons of community support all the way around. Thought the hill between miles 2-5 was never going to end. All in all a very enjoyable race. I finished in under 1:32, considering the hills, I was really pleased with this, but don't expect a personal best in this race. Just do it for the atmosphere...Date of review: March 25, 2010
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- Subjects:Manipulatives, Math Fluency and Intervention, Math through Literature, Multiplication and Division, Number Sense, Homework and Studying Support, Teacher Tips and Strategies
Total Recall: Helping Our Students Memorize Multiplication Facts
- Grades: 1–2, 3–5
As a young student, I railed against memorization and my "Draconian, pseudo-fascist teachers" who demanded that I spit out the answer for "6 times 7" like a soulless automaton. (I was also given to overblown metaphors and florid tirades.) As a teacher, some small part of me still cringes every year when it is time to encourage my 3rd graders to memorize the multiplication/division facts. "Long live the calculator!" the former freedom fighter in me cries out.
Given my rocky relationship with memorizing math facts, I am always on the hunt for effective and motivating ways to help my students achieve "automaticity." And now that the Common Core Standards explicitly require 3rd grade students to "fluently multiply and divide within 100," I am particularly focused on effective strategies to help my students meet this standard (Standard 3.OA.7). Here are some strategies that simultaneously help my students' math memories and mollify my conscience.
Stage 1: Understanding Equal Groups — The VERY Important Precursor
First off, my students must internalize what multiplication means long before they begin to memorize the multiplication facts. They must have an intuitive understanding about the reciprocal relationship between multiplication and division, and equal groups and equal shares, and the connection with repeated addition and skip counting.
My students live with these ideas for months, exploring multiplication concepts with arrays, area models, pictorial representations, and hands-on experiences. Only when I am confident that all of my students truly understand why and how multiplication and division work do I begin to emphasize memorization. Just as in reading, accuracy and fluency without comprehension is useless.
Stage 2: "Figure-It-Out" Tricks
Now that my students have internalized what multiplication and division are all about, it's time to begin to teach them some "tricks" to quickly figure out multiplication/division facts, and to help them develop their own tricks. In fact, these are not tricks at all, but ways to analyze multiplication patterns, apply partial-product principals, and use "landmark numbers" to quickly use what they know to figure out unknown facts. At this stage, I want to help my students realize that they can find the products for multiplication problems that they haven't yet memorized.
I begin by having my students fill out blank multiplication tables several times a week. The first few times, I have the students highlight the "easy" rows and columns such as the 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s. They fill in these parts first, and then realize that they can use those landmark numbers to help them figure out the remaining facts. For example, I might encourage a student who knows 2 x 6 = 12 to add another six to figure out 3 x 6. My students share their strategies, and we chart these tricks. Then I have my students color in their completed times table charts with crayons to create "quilt patterns" by shading in multiples. The multiples-of-4 quilt is always a favorite.
I also read our "multiplication bible," The Best of Times by Greg Tang, with my class, and we practice his strategies for figuring out multiplication facts. For example, Tang writes,
Four is very fast to do
when you multiply by 2.
Here's a little good advice:
Please just always double twice!
Through Greg Tang's Web site, you can have your students play the Break Apart game focusing on multiplication. (The nines level is free.) This further reinforces partial-products thinking strategies, or "Breaking It Up," as we call it in my class.
Example: 9 x 7 = ?
Breaking It Up: "I know that 10 times 7 is 70, so one 7 less than 70 is 63."
Stage 3: Approaching Automaticity
At last, we get to memorization! I only begin to focus on memorizing the multiplication facts after my students are already solving multiplication word problems and are using a wide range of strategies to figure out the necessary multiplication facts, from drawing arrays to using their own "break it up" strategies. I point out to my students that automaticity is far more efficient, and that the speed inherent with automatic fact recall will help them to solve multi-digit multiplication and division problems efficiently. Memorization is about speed, efficiency, and freeing up brain space for other math thinking.
Recall Tip 1: Timez Attack
In my opinion, the free downloadable computer game Timez Attack is the best computer program to help students learn the multiplication facts. This first-person adventure game feels like a "real" video game, and it uses built-in assessments to advance students at their own pace. My students love this game, and I've seen it really work with them.
Recall Tip 2: Totally "Unsquare" Flashcards
Rather than using traditional flashcards that teach multiplication or division facts separately, I prefer "fact triangles," three-sided cards that have an entire fact family on the three corners of the triangle. My students enjoy "playing" with their fact triangles by covering up one corner and then having a friend figure out the hidden number. This helps my students internalize the relationship between multiplication and division. A free printable set of all of the multiplication fact triangles is available online.
Recall Tip 3: Play Kakooma
Greg Tang of The Best of Times didn't just stop with an awesome book. He also developed a fun mental math game that can be played online or with paper and pencil. Kakooma challenges students to use multiplication to solve a series of deceptively difficult puzzles. The rules are easy: just find the one number in the diagram that is the product of two others. Like all great puzzles, however, looks can be deceiving. Often, the answer is right in front of you, yet your brain won't let you see it! This is another game that my students beg to play. You can download a sample packet of Kakooma multiplication puzzles from Greg Tang's Web site.
Tip 4: Multiplication Masters
I use a management system to help my students keep track of which multiplication facts they have mastered, and which they still have to study. I've named the system "Multiplication Masters," and I explain to my students that any student who makes it into the "Twelves Club" by the end of the school year will be considered a Multiplication Master. At the end of June each year, I hold a party after school for the Multiplication Masters. The students receive certificates and decorate T-shirts with multiplication facts.
Twice a week, my students take three-minute multiplication quizzes with twenty questions. (Download my Multiplication Masters quizzes.) Each student takes the quiz on the level above his current club. So, a student who is currently in the Threes Club will take the fours quiz. I photocopy the quizzes and cut them into strips at the beginning of the year, and I store dozens of copies of each quiz in an accordion file folder sorted by level.
When a student earns 100% on a quiz, he moves into that club, and then begins studying for the next higher level. Once a student becomes a Multiplication Master, I challenge my students to see how many problems they can solve in three minutes, working up in increments of ten.
Yes, this system is somewhat competitive, and yes, it does put some pressure on my students. Nonetheless, all of my students have seemed to enjoy the challenge, and I always emphasize that each student should focus on how high she can soar individually, without comparing herself to her classmates. Three minutes is a fairly generous time allotment for twenty questions, so I find that students who are comfortable using other methods can also get 100% on their quizzes, without having true automaticity.
To make my Multiplication Masters board, I used a rectangular piece of foam board and gridded out sections using colored masking tape. I attached bits of Velcro across the entire board, and then I labeled each grid section. Finally, I printed each student's name onto card stock, which I laminated and backed with Velcro.
What are your favorite tips and tricks to help your students memorize the multiplication tables? Please share your favorite games, Web sites, and activities below in the comments section . . . I know I'm always looking for new ideas!
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hmmmmm.... i've found very useful site where u can teach your child how to count very well - in few simple rules. Check it out - http://Aztekium.pl/Multiplication
Hi miss Zimmerman, I really like your idea. I am a student from Mindanao State University, Philippines and I would like to apply your idea as my independent variable in my thesis as an experimental research design. I would like to use your idea to apply it to the pupils under your name :) Can I have you permission Miss Zimmerman? I would love to know more about this idea of yours, it really satisfies me :D and may I know the definition of this strategy? Thank you very much :)
Our son had some success learning multiplication through board/card games. His favorite was a card game his teachers friend created called Math Grab http://www.MathGrab.com it's worth checking out.
There are other free games you can also make at home that were fun, he really liked this one I think because of the speed of the game and that we could all play as a family.
Thanks for Sharing, my husband and I took your advice and ordered the Math Grab Card game and it came over the weekend, my daughter has a lot of fun playing it with us and I think she is learning more than she has with flash cards.
thanks for the suggestion!
I know this post was written a long time ago, but can you please elaborate what you mean by using multiplication tables to make quilt patterns by coloring in multiples of a certian number. Thank you!
hi i am tamya willis and i need help
You should look at Multiplication Education.com. It uses pictures,movement, colors, rhymes, and stories. Really a great way to teach all kids the multiplication tables, especially if they struggle with flash cards.
I use the following mnemonics:
8 times 8 fell on the floor, picked it up it was 64.
OR 8 times 8 fell on the floor, picked it up it was Nintendo 64.
(We chant this periodically to remind ourselves)
7 is an odd number, both literally and because it's known to be strange and have magical powers. So guess what happens when you multiply 7 times 7? You get a REALLY odd number--49! Isn't that the strangest, oddest number you ever heard of? (To remind ourselves of this story, every time we see 7x7, we blurt out "It's odd!" or "How odd!" or "Strange!") 49 really does seem like a strange number to a lot of kids.
I am teaching 4th grade LD Resource and I *love* this info!!! I've already purchased "The Best of Times" and I'm implementing the Multiplication Masters ideas too. One other idea that's working well for my groups - Multiplication War. It's funny that when nothing else motivates them, sometimes competition can make it happen! I find that building up their CONFIDENCE gives them an excellent push, and I love your concept of them being MASTERS... for children with learning disabilities, who believe by the age of 8 or 9 that they are "BAD" at a subject, this makes a huge difference. ;) THANKS!
After a lot of searching of research based ways to teach math facts, this seems to sum everything up nicely. Thanks so much.
After trying to help math-challenged high school graduates learn basic algebra, it is clear that people must memorize the "times-tables." Watching twenty-somethings using their fingers is rather disturbing. Write out the 12x12 table ang look for patterns. But they must learn to work on the job without music pumped into their ears.
Emil, I totally share your sentiments! If I see another high school (or even intermediate) students struggling to recall facts, simply because they (and their teachers) were told that memorization is 'old-school', I'll scream! I think that the ideas shared on this site are all super! It's great to have a number of different ideas to use with our varied students!
It would be helpful to me if people would share ideas for developing automatic recall of specific number combinations. I find that children will often encounter a few combinations that are difficult for them to memorize and these combinations vary from child to child. I have used the 5678 trick for 7X8, 321 for 7X3 and using two 7's to form a 14 (the top of the first 7 is removed to make the middle horizontal stroke of the four) for 2X7. I am currently "rescue tutoring" a perfectly intelligent 15 year old whose addition skills are poorly developed, so even though 7X2 is a "two", the "trick" helped her. She understands multiplication fine and can figure out the answers. It's the development of immediate recall that has, for some number combinations, been hard for her. I especially would love to have "tricks" for 4x7,6X7,3X6,3X8, 6X8 and 4X8, but ideas for other combinations would be welcome as well. For this particular student, word associations with numbers has not worked at all.
when I was seventeen I was put through a litany of tests and though my language skills were excellent, I had the equivalent of dyslexia with numbers. They would not stick in my head, sometimes they moved around, I would focus hard on 4112 and when I looked bacm it would no doubt be 4211. If I didn't know better I would think someone was playing a practical joke. the poor ability at math had me thinking I was dumb, so I didn't try at English or writing or science with any effort. The more I can visualize math equations such as adding, subtracting and multiplication, as well as finding the logic behind it, helps a lot.
I know of a new multiplication book/CD that has found a way to develope automatic recall of SPECIFIC NUMBER COMBINATIONS.
I think it is exactly what you are looking for! It has no factor rhyming words or stories to remember. It is based on the SHAPE of the factor combination. It is very unique and works for most kids, including those with special needs. Visual learners love it.
It is called "Times to Remember , The Fun and Easy Way to Memorize the Multiplication Tables."
the web site give free downloads so you can see if this is what you are looking for. the site is www.TheTimesTable.com.
Hope this Helps!
I love multiplication.com. They have drill type games that are fun for the class, and one called "Quick Flash" that is great practice. They also have online quizzes that can be printed out and automatically time the student. Quizzes are both fact family based and cumulative.
I agree that the competitive element really works! My students must pass the online quiz in 3 minutes to "beat the level". They get a prize at level 6, 9 and 12.
Songs work, but when kids get to 4th grade they can't answer 3 x 8 without singing the song all the way to 8!
My kids also like playing each other with multiplication games on Mathplayground.com and other sites.
Thanks, Alycia for sharing your wonderful activities, and to everyone who has contributed! This really is a treasure trove. I have seen children memorize the multiplication facts with outrageous ease through chanting the facts while using rhythm sticks and a different set of motions for each group of facts! Tapping sticks, touching the floor, and flipping the sticks and different melodies and rhythms are all used in a different combination for each group of facts. This is very flexible, and the kids love making new rhythms and different patterns of movement. Example: 2_is_1x2_1x2is2_ _ _ 4_is_2x2_2x2is4_ _ _6_is_3x2_3x2is6_ _ _,etc. (The underscores represent pauses, or musical rests, to create the rhythm of the voice, while continuing to move the sticks on the vocal rests.) They can use a hand clapping rhythm with a partner, as well. This is incredible to watch. I have seen children with different learning styles doing this, and it's a little difficult in the beginning for the kids whose dominant style is not kinesthetic. I have some kids who are slower processors, and need to go slowly at first, but they pick up tremendous speed as they go. It gets easier as they learn each group of facts. IT IS ESSENTIAL that each group of facts retains the same rhythm and pattern of movement each time, at least until the table is learned, as the pattern is the signature and creates the neural pathway. Each time it is practiced, the pathway gets stronger. When the tables are memorized, it's fun and helpful to create new rhythms and patterns for the groups. Also, each group of kids can make up a different song for the same facts. These activities use multiple intelligences and facilitate differentiated instruction, besides being unbelievably fun!
Love these tricks! Very helpful for an 11 year old girl (similar to your student) who can not memorize the facts. Any other tricks would be appreciated.
Anonymous, I know that you wrote your post over a year and a half ago, but I am hoping that you will be inspired by others' interest to make a video of this method of tapping into children's rhythm to help them learn timestables. It would be great to see it!
I just started teaching and this website was really helpful
I am going to miss teaching third grade next year.
I love your ideas. Thanks!
I love this blog. You have some great ideas. How can I follow it on my blog?
This is really awesome! Thanks for sharing! I have started using it with my students, and they LOVE it! Even students who don't need to practice their facts want to do it, especially the follow-up work.
My students love Times Tables the Fun Way by Judy Liaqtaud and Dave Rodriguez and have worn my book completely out!
Brilliant - Thanks
I do a few of these "tricks" already in my class and I want to thank you writing about this topic and making me feel like I'm doing a good job!
Multiplication has been a fun element in my class and I wish everyone good luck! My students enjoy playing "multiplication war" which you can Google. We also use virtual dice to "roll" for factors.
If you are going to reply to a comment from another teacher, please don't be rude. We are all on the same team. I am a good writer and a terrible typist. I usually don't have spelling errors unless I am terribly tired, but sometimes my brain just sends my fingers to crazy keys.Before I have a minute to check it...it is sent.
It doesn't cost anything to be nice. With all the pressures to meet standards..we need a cheering section, not a critical spirit.
Thank you for the site! Studies show that children recall information that is set to music or a rhyme- why not bring that into math? I love all of these rhymes and jingles for the ones that do have the conceptual understanding but have trouble remembering some of their facts. After they understand the basics, they do need to memorize the facts. Why not make it fun for them to memorize their facts? I still remember the Multiplication -Songs from SchoolHouse Rocks with Cloris Leachman! Thanks for the tips!
Please do your students a favour and focus on developing meaning and NOT cute rhymes and verses that don't connect to the actual math involved. Better that they should have a variety of strategies (doubles, make-ten facts) and math principles (i.e. the commutative property)so that they will be able to make significant connections within their math learning.
My class is working on a banana split incentive to promote mastery.
Additionally, we sing songs to familiar tunes. Like the 3's song is to the tune of jingle bells:
3, 6, 9
12, 15
18, 21
24, 27, 30 Counting's fun!
Thank you so much for writing on this topic! I am a new third grade teachre and so badly want my students to know there facts (it will help them in math down the road). Thank you for the ideas!
Thanks for your comment! I am so happy that this is helpful for another third grade teacher. Third grade is such an amazing year as a big transition grade. As their first true foray into multiplication, it seems really important to me to build a strong foundation. Best of luck with your young mathematicians!
~ Alycia
Excellent ideas for concepts and memory. Perfect!
I like www.xtramath.org!
I just checked xtramath out, and it looks like a great, free resource. I'm going to try it with some students this week. Thanks for the suggestion!
Pneumonics is great! Who plays for 7 and 7? 49 'ers!
It is mnemonics (memory trick), not pneumonics. Just a friendly hint.


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Submitting Letters to the Editor
In June 2013, President Obama nominated three extremely well-qualified people to fill the three vacancies on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals: appellate attorney Patricia Millet, Georgetown law professor and former civil rights attorney Cornelia "Nina" Pillard, and D.C. District Court judge and former public defender Robert Wilkins. These three nominees – two women and an African American man – have not only had exceptional careers: they would bring important racial, gender and career diversity to the federal bench.
Pillard, for example, has distinguished herself in both the legal and academic realms. As a litigator, she won the Supreme Court case opening the Virginia Military Institute to women. As a professor at Georgetown Law School, she runs Georgetown's Supreme Court Institute, which helps any attorney seeking assistance in preparing for arguments before the Supreme Court, regardless of who they represent, and without charge. The Institute is so well-regarded that it helped attorneys in every single Supreme Court case last term.
But even before the President nominated them, Senate Republicans had threatened to filibuster the nominees—whoever they were, whatever their qualifications.
Senate Republicans are following through on this threat without a hint of shame. Senator Chuck Grassley, who is the Ranking Member on the Judiciary Committee, is leading the effort to obstruct these uncontroversial nominees: in fact, he's so desperate to prevent the President from filling the seats that he even introduced a bill to remove the seats entirely. In a move we've become all too familiar with, Grassley and other Senate Republicans are concealing their partisan obstruction with deceptive and misleading arguments. This time, they're claiming that the court's workload is too low to justify appointing new justices, even though that simply isn't the case [3].
Yet it seems that facts don't matter to the Senate Republicans. They're too busy making sure absolutely nothing gets done in Washington to worry about what's actually true.
The D.C. Circuit is widely regarded as the second-most important court in the United States – behind only the U.S. Supreme Court – because of the complexity and significance of the cases it decides. As the court with jurisdiction over many federal regulations, it makes decisions that affect all Americans, and often its decisions are final because the Supreme Court only hears a small fraction of cases brought to it. It rules on issues from workers' rights and environmental regulation to national security: issues that we cannot afford to ignore. Currently, the court leans heavily to the right—and Senate Republicans are trying to preserve this ideological tilt by blocking the President's nominees.
One of the best ways to help hold these senators accountable for their obstruction is to attend a town hall and ask them outright why they're standing in the way of progress. Remember, as with a letter to the editor, be firm but polite, and let them respond. We want their answers on the record, which means letting them answer the question you've asked. Try to bring a friend and have them record a video of your question and their response – if you get one, you can send it to us [4] and we'll help distribute it.
You can use the following as a basis for your questions:
- Political gridlock is bringing our country to a standstill, and nothing is getting done. We put a man on the moon, but we can't figure out how to fill our courts. Will you ensure nominees to the DC Circuit Court move to a yes or no vote – the way it's supposed to be under the Constitution?
- The DC Circuit Court rules on important issues that affect us all, from the environment to national security. Don't you think these issues are more important than a partisan grudge against the President?
- The court system allows us to defend our rights – all of us, whether we're consumers, workers, or corporations. Will you support allowing the court system designed by the Constitution to work as it's supposed to, and let the Senate vote on the vacant seats of the DC Circuit Court?
- There are three incredibly well qualified nominees for the DC Circuit. As just an example, there's Nina Pillard. She won a case before the Supreme Court opening the Virginia Military Institute to women and another case protecting the Family and Medical Leave Act. She runs a program at Georgetown Law School that offers free help to lawyers arguing cases before the Supreme Court no matter which side they represent. Can you promise that you will allow the Senate to have a yes-or-no vote on her confirmation?
If your senator is a Republican, write to them, e-mail them or call them, and ask that they give these nominees a yes-or-no vote (as opposed to a Republican-led filibuster). If your senator is a Democrat, reach out and let them know that you care about the DC Circuit Court vacancies, and that you want them to take the lead on supporting President Obama's nominees. You can find your senator's contact information here [5].
You can use the Talking Points below for some ideas on what to say. Remember to be polite and brief, to make sure your message gets across. If you contact your senator, please let us know [6] how it went.
Social media is a fun, easy, and effective way to spread the word about the DC Circuit Court. We hope you're able to share the following social media tools and encourage your friends and family to do so as well.
https://www.facebook.com/peoplefor [7] – People For the American Way's Facebook Page
@peoplefor [8] – People For the American Way's Twitter handle
The Critically Important DC Court [9] – Talking Points About the DC Circuit
America's Progress at Risk [10] – People For the American Way Report on DC Circuit
Judicial Nominations [11] – Articles tagged "judicial nominations" from People For the American Way's blog
Click here to share this toolkit on Facebook. [1]
Click on the following images to view/share on Facebook:
Court activists have been using the hashtags #CourtsMatter [20], #EndGridlock [21], #DCcircuit [22], and #Filibuster [23] to raise awareness on the importance of the courts and the need to fill the DC Circuit.
Social media is also a great way to demand the attention and call out Senate obstructionists. Click here [24] for the full list of Senator Twitter accounts. Please find the Senate obstructionist you wish to target, and plug their twitter handle in one of the sample tweets below.
[2] Check out this activist toolkit on the #DCcircuit. We need to #EndGridlock because #CourtsMatter www.pfaw.org/DCCircuitToolkit
[25] Hey @Senator X, we want up and down votes on the #DCciruit, not a #Filibuster! Don't be an obstructionist, #Endgridlock
[26] The #DCcircuit is the most important court Americans have never heard of – let's change that! #CourtsMatter Check out http://www.pfaw.org/media-center/publications/critically-important-dc-circuit-court
[27] Nina Pillard deserves an up and down vote for the #DCcircuit -- stop the Senate obstruction! www.pfaw.org/DCcircuit
Submitting Letters to the Editor:
Writing a Letter To the Editor (LTE) is an effective way of raising awareness on an issue. The following tips and "talking points" will guide you through your LTE submission.
If you have any questions about the process or content of your LTE, feel free to reach out to us by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com [6].
LTE Submission Logistics
- As a rule of thumb, you will want to keep your LTE under 200 words. However, be sure to find out the LTE guidelines of the paper[s] you are submitting to beforehand to double-check that 200 words is an acceptable length – generally, guidelines are posted online. However you can also find out by calling the newspaper's office.
- Do not feel obligated to only submit LTE's to large newspapers. Your local paper is a great place to start the discussion. At the same time, do not feel hesitant to submit to bigger papers even if the chances of acceptance are slimmer.
- To increase your chances of acceptance, submit your letter using two methods – standard mail and email. Writing your letter by hand or printing out your letter and then sending it via the mail shows that you have been intentional about your submission and that you really care about the issue. At the same time, sending your letter via email offers newspaper editors – who are already pressed for time and content – a quick way to get material into their publication. So if you have the time, please submit using both methods, and acknowledge in both that you are doing so.
- Be sure to include your contact information in your submission. Many newspapers will require their employees to contact an LTE submitter before publication. If you do not feel comfortable sharing your information publicly in the newspaper print, be sure to specify that stipulation at the bottom of your letter.
What To Write About
- Provide background information on the DC Circuit Court and the obstruction of these nominees. Keep in mind your audience will most likely have never heard of the DC Circuit Court or the three nominees before. For examples of concise information you can use on the Court, see the Talking Points section below.
- Try to identify a target for your LTE. If you live in a state represented by a Republican senator, or a senator on the Judiciary Committee [28], you could use the letter to ask them to support a yes-or-no vote. By identifying a local target, you can make your LTE relevant to your community.
After Submitting Your LTE
- If your LTE has been printed, PLEASE let us know [6]. We'll work to amplify your message and will make sure your public officials see it.
- If your LTE is not accepted, do not be deterred. There are many way you can contribute to the movement. A quick way you can make sure your hard work does not go to waste is by repurposing what you wrote and mailing it in to your senator.
- The D.C. Circuit Court rules on vital issues that affect all Americans. As former Chief Judge Patricia Wald has written, "The D.C. Circuit hears the most complex, time-consuming, labyrinthine disputes over regulations with the greatest impact on ordinary Americans' lives."
- There are now three vacancies on the 11-member court, and President Obama has nominated three highly qualified people – Patricia Millett, Cornelia "Nina" Pillard, and Robert Wilkins – to fill them. In an all-too-familiar scenario, Senate Republicans are obstructing these nominees for political gain.
- Republican gridlock and abuse of the filibuster have brought Washington to a standstill. The threatened filibuster of these nominees is just another example of the shameful, craven approach to governing that the Republican Party has made their specialty. This effort to rig the court by preventing a Democratic president from filling existing vacancies shows a deep hostility to the constitutional ideal of an independent judiciary, and it must be countered.
- The Constitution gives the President the right to nominate justices, and it tasks the Senate with approving or rejecting them – not with letting them languish for years because it helps them politically. It's time for these senators to do their job. Making the work of the DC Circuit Court more difficult by refusing to fill its vacancies for partisan reasons is a betrayal of the American people.
- For more information on the DC Circuit Court, visit here [9].
www.pfaw.org [29] – People For the American Way
The Critically Important DC Court [9] – People For the American Way Report on DC Circuit
Judicial Nominations [11]-related articles from People For the American Way's blog
Judicial Nominations [30]-related articles from People For the American Way's Right Wing Watch
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Thoughts on masak's Perl 6 Coding Contest
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Masak's Perl 6 Coding Contest (short p6cc) is now in its final stage - the public commentary of solutions. So far masak has commented on p1, p2, and p3. I enjoyed the reviews and explanations so far, and look forward to more (except to the p4 review, because I botched the solution to this one).
The reviews made a good read, and here are only a few very minor points that I find worth mentioning. No criticism intended (neither to the author nor the reviewer).
- Matthias'
p1 solution uses side effects in subroutine named
to-string. I would avoid that in "production" code (for whatever I might mean with that word...), since it's not what I would expect from the name. Instead of a counter, the array indexes could be used to identify which matrix to stringify.
- Masak's review of fox' p1
solution contains the question I wonder why the @items array
deserved a plural but the @matrix only a singular.... I'd say
that's because
@matrixholds one matrix, but
@itemsholds many items. Speaking of which, I don't like the name
@matrix- it describe a structure rather than the contents. The structure becomes pretty obvious through the access, but what is in the matrix?
- After viewing my own p1 submission without syntax hilighting, I wonder why I chose so many double blank lines. My vim color scheme uses a dark blue for comments, which means that comment blocks need more visual distance from code, in my personal opinion. But when sharing code, I shouldn't make layout decisions based on non-shared syntax hilighting.
p2 submission uses complex numbers for coordinates. I considered
that myself, and there's nothing wrong with it. Just strange that he
then reinvented subtraction of two complex numbers in sub
lines-intersect. Maybe he didn't want to come up with names for the intermediate results,
$axes-interceptmight have been viable ones.
could have simplified
comb: /<&number>/to just
comb: &number-- a regex is just a callable, and when it's explicit in the current scope, you can just use a hard reference to it.
- colomon's p3 solution could, as far as I can tell, replace all regexes with tokens - less backtracking, fewer surprises.
- Reviewing my own p3
solution, masak asked I wonder what stopped moritz from,
rather than doing $_ && .including on line 39, doing .?including
instead. Either he considered that too cute, or he didn't consider
it. I did consider it, but I decided against it, because the two
things are subtly different. Mine only calls the method if the topic is
true, whereas
.?includingalways tries the call - even on a type object, where accessing an attribute leads to a fatal error. I think in my code that case doesn't show up, but it did appear during debugging in earlier versions.


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**Let it be known that where I live there are no real tea shops nearby with the exception of Teavana. **
I needed a fix, I had been out of my Rishi Darjeeling for a week or two and I was going through withdrawls in the AM. I decided to make a trip over to my local mall to snag a few ounces from Teavana. When I got there, I was greeted witthe same beautiful face I always hope to see when I go in, and I placed my order for 2 ounces of their second flush Margret's Hope Darjeeling. They got a little busy and I was in no rush so i looked around for a minute and when I turned around the young woman who was helping me had left me with not 2, but close o 6 or 8 ounces of tea. I only payed around 7 bucks for it. And to top it off I got a cup of Gyokuro on the house =]
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U.S. Olympian Aly Raisman lit the torch at the opening ceremony of the 19th Maccabiah Games, which features a record number of nearly 9,000 athletes.
JERUSALEM — U.S. Olympian Aly Raisman lit the torch at the opening ceremony of the 19th Maccabiah Games, which features a record number of nearly 9,000 athletes.
Thursday night's ceremony at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem featured pyrotechnics and performances with hundreds of dancers and popular Israeli singers, as well as electric violinist Miri Ben-Ari. American "X Factor" runner-up Carly Rose Sonenclar sang "Hallelujah" joined by many in the crowd of 30,000.
"After winning medals and winning achievement, go tour Israel. This is your country," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a welcoming speech that alternated between English and Hebrew. "I'll tell you the truth. I hope you and your families decide after this visit to come and live here."
Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres rose and applauded as Israel's blue-and-white-clad delegation of 2,270 athletes entered the stadium. The 1,100-member U.S. contingent wore red, white and blue sweatsuits with white baseball caps.
President Obama greeted the athletes via video, referencing the "unshakeable bond" between Israel and the United States.
Athletes from a record 78 countries will participate in 42 sports, as well as Paralympic events. Some 150 athletes who participated in the recent Olympic Games will be competing in the Maccabiah, the quadrennial event known as the Jewish Olympics.
Former Israeli Olympians carried a large Israeli flag into the stadium, each accompanied by a participant in the special-needs events.
Amitzur Shapira, an Israeli athlete at the Munich Olympics, recited the Yizkor prayer of mourning in memory of the nine members of the Israeli delegation who were killed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and the four Australian athletes killed in the the 1997 Maccabiah bridge disaster.
Paralympics tennis gold medalist Noam Gershony, four-time windsurfing world championship winner Lee Korzits, former Israel national soccer team goalkeeper Nir Davidovich and Israeli judoka Arik Ze'evi carried the Maccabiah torch into the stadium. They passed it to Raisman, an Olympic gold medalist, who lit the Maccabiah flame.
Earlier in the day, Peres at a meeting in his Jerusalem office implored New York Knicks forward Amar'e Stoudemire, a coach for the Canadian Maccabiah basketball team, "to join the Israeli National Team and be a part of our country."
Stoudemire, a one-time all-star, met with Peres to present the educational project he has launched to promote in Israel — learning science through sports.
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In short: A bracing run along the canal - everyone was very friendly, but watch your step!Date of review: November 16, 2007
In short: Well done Chris and Claire for organising a lovely canalside runIn full: A few niggles in the organisation which have been covered in the previous reviews. But all in all, it was great. Beautiful autumn weather and scenery. Small numbers, so nice relaxed atmosphere. Shame all the locks were 'up' not 'down', so let's go down next year! Just need to work out why I took longer than I hoped.Date of review: November 16, 2007
In short: Great senic route, well organised, will definatly do again.Date of review: November 15, 2007
In short: A great half marathon with potential for a good time. The uneven terrain made for a more challenging race than expected In full: Number one grumble was the lack of toilets. Thankfully managed to find the pub one prior to the start, however the location of this wasn't defined on PP instructions which laid added pressure on runners before the race. A huge shame that some selfish people took it upon themselves to steal the water provided at the 3 mile mark but other than that a good friendly event. Date of review: November 14, 2007
In short: good 1st attempt. Needs more stewards. Good aut/winter halfDate of review: November 14, 2007
In short: Very pleasant course (flat & scenic). Organisational problems could be forgiven (1st running of the race)Date of review: November 13, 2007
In short: Something a little different.In full: Something a little different from the usual road based courses and well organised throughout (toilets excepted). Not sure the terrain is suitable for "Tanks"..... knees and hips feel more trashed today than after FLM....but nonetheless might well be tempted to try the "downhill" route next year! :-)Date of review: November 12, 2007
In short: Well organised, very pleasant route, flat, ideal for PB/1st time!Date of review: November 12, 2007
In short: First water station too far along, mile 7!Date of review: November 12, 2007
In short: Well organised and very enjoyable event. Bit hard on the ankles at times but beautiful day and nice scenery combined with friendly runners, marshalls and organisers made for an excellent experience. Date of review: November 12, 2007
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Our airliner was on final approach to New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport when a flight attendant decided to grab a mic and start warbling Willie Nelson's country-western ballad "Crazy." Not Nelson's own smooth-as-pudding rendition of the song or the plaintive Patsy Cline version, but rather a caterwauling, off-pitch, screeching interpretation that, as the airplane descended, probably had most of the cats in North Jersey looking to the night sky with alarm.
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Virtually every category of aircraft has an entrant that does nothing particularly well. It's not a worst in class, it's not a best in class. It's just…OK. And so it is with the Cessna Citation VII.
March 20, 2016
Manufacturers and writers often attach the word "revolutionary" to new aircraft, but the forthcoming AW609 tiltrotor from Finmeccanica's AgustaWestland really deserves the label. The aircraft takes off and lands like a helicopter yet can achieve forward speeds of around 275 knots, on par with a fast turboprop airplane.
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