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Adult Literacy Report Shows Need for High School Reform, Says Spellings
Ongoing Assessments Help Identify Gaps for Student Improvement at a MS High School
Spellings Focuses on English Language Learners
Around the Country
Q & A/Glossary
News Show Highlights College Access
NCLB: What Parents Need to Know
Adult Literacy Report Shows Need for High School Reform, Says Spellings
Education Secretary Calls for 'Comprehensive and Preventive Approach'
American adults can read a newspaper or magazine about as well as they could a decade ago but have made significant strides in performing literacy tasks that involve computation, according to the first national study of adult literacy since 1992.
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL), released last month by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), found little change between 1992 and 2003 in adults' ability to understand continuous text such as newspaper articles (prose literacy) and noncontinuous text such as prescription labels (document literacy).
Americans aged 16 and over, however, showed improvement in the kind of literacy that involves simple calculations, such as understanding a bank statement (quantitative literacy).
"One adult unable to read is one too many in America," said U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, who announced plans to coordinate adult education efforts in 2006 across multiple federal agencies. "We must take a comprehensive and preventive approach, beginning with elementary schools and continuing with special emphasis in our high schools. We must focus resources toward proven, research-based methods to ensure that all adults have the necessary literacy skills to be successful."
Among other findings of the report:
African-Americans' scores were higher in 2003 than in 1992 in all three categories, increasing 16 points in quantitative, eight points in document and six points in prose literacy.
White adults' scores were up nine points in quantitative, but were unchanged in prose and document literacy.
Hispanic adults' scores declined in prose and document literacy by 18 points and 14 points, respectively, but were unchanged in quantitative literacy.
Asian/Pacific Islanders' scores increased 16 points in prose literacy, but were unchanged in document and quantitative literacy.
The report also showed that 5 percent of U.S. adultsabout 11 million peoplewere termed "nonliterate" in English, meaning that interviewers could not communicate with them or that they were unable to answer a minimum number of questions.
NAAL assessed a nationally representative sample of more than 19,000 Americans aged 16 and older, most in their homes and some in prisons, and analyzed literacy results based on a variety of factors, including race/ethnicity, gender, age and level of educational attainment.
For details about the report's findings, visit http://nces.ed.gov/naal.
"Mining Data"
Ongoing Assessments Help Identify Gaps for Student Improvement at a Mississippi High School
Just as miners excavate the earth in search of precious materials, school administrators at Gautier High School (pronounced Go-shay) extract valuable information from student data. Even before incoming freshmen step onto the campus of the Mississippi high school, faculty members will have already studied the test results of eighth-graders at the neighborhood middle school to identify and thus prepare for the academic needs of their new students. This process of analyzing student assessment data to target areas of improvement is what former Principal Wayne Rodolfich calls "mining data."
"Our efficiency level at identifying student need is so high that we're able to address the needs of every single student," said Rodolfich, who took the helm this school year as superintendent of Gautier's school district.
The effective use of data has led to dramatic gains that have earned Gautier the state's top ranking of "Level 5/Superior-Performing School" over the past three years and, in 2005, recognition from the U.S. Department of Education with the No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon Schools Award.
The school has made such significant strides in student achievement that, in spite of the disruption of classes for a month and a half by Hurricane Katrina, approximately one-third of its 850 students made the honor roll for the first report card period.
"They're very resilient," explains Principal Bernard Rogers, whom Rodolfich brought out of retirement to be his successor. "They really were glad to get back, because to them getting back to school gave them a sense of normalcy."
Rogers, who served 26 years as a teacher and principal in Alabama schools, replaced Rodolfich after he accepted the position as chief administrator of the Pascagoula School District. Credited for increasing the graduation rate from 78 percent to 84 percent during his three-year tenure at Gautier, Rodolfich said he believed that at the district level he "could make a larger contribution to a greater number of students. And I felt like I had a leader in place who could do a better job than I could."
The reason Gautier's staff are able to identify gaps in student learning is because they can extract data from a battery of tests administered by the state, district and school throughout the year. In other words, the wider the outcomes, the finer the scale for pinpointing individual strengths and weaknesses. If teachers then have a direct measure for who is learning, they can better understand what is working and adjust their instruction accordingly.
The most notable success of the staff's data mining skills has been gains in mathematics achievement. On the Algebra I test, which Mississippi uses for its accountability system in high school, Gautier's scores for students who tested proficient increased from 70 percent in 2001-02 to 94 percent in 2004-05. These results show not only an improvement in overall performance, but also a narrowing of the achievement gap. Within that timeframe, the gap between white students, who make up more than half of the student body, and black students, who account for the largest ethnic minority group, narrowed from 10 percentage points to a mere two percentage points.
These high scores, even among subgroupsfor example, economically disadvantaged students achieved 94 percent on last year's math examcan also be traced to the high expectations teachers have of every student. "We start from day one telling the students that they will be successful," said algebra teacher Yvonne Hopper. "They begin to believe that they have the power within themselves, and that they're not just coming to school and being passed over."
The Algebra I test, which consists of 63 multiple-choice questions and two open-ended items that require essay responses, is one of four assessments the state uses to measure student learning in key subject areas. Implemented four years ago, Mississippi's Subject Area Testing Program also includes end-of-course exams in English II, Biology I and U.S. history, all of which students must pass in order to graduate.
"It keeps us on pace," said senior and honor roll student Laura Skelton about the state testing. "It gives us a point we know we have to reach. I think it drives each student to do better in class."
Gautier's staff are hoping students will do equally well on the English exam, although the school's proficiency score of 53 percent is significantly above the state average of 39 percent.
However, similar to its success in freshman algebra, Gautier's scores on the introductory biology exam have exceeded state averages, which can also be attributed to the faculty's efforts over the past few years to expand course offerings to include astronomy, zoology and marine biology, as well as to the school's location, which enables students to receive a hands-on education in the sciences.
Built on a wetland, the nine-year-old campus is equipped with a nature trail, pond, greenhouse, fruit orchard and several vegetable gardens, allowing students to explore the very specimens they read about in their textbooks. This modern facility also includes three science labs, three computer labs, a parent center, a fitness center and a multimedia room. Aided by these resources, Gautier sponsors every October a districtwide Wetlands Workshop for sixth-graders, which, unfortunately, was postponed this school year due to hurricane damage.
Just as the state assessments, based on the state standards, provide a clear pathway for academic achievement, for Carolyn Cowart, the district tests provide midpoint checkmarks for both students and educators.
"The [district assessment] system ensures that we cover everything in our state curriculum," said the ninth-grade biology teacher. "So it's a checkpoint for me to make sure that I'm teaching everything I'm supposed to, and it's a check-point for the students to make sure they've learned everything they're supposed to."
Cowart serves on the committee of teachers who revise each summer Pascagoula's Anchor Learning Module Assessments, commonly called ALMAs. They are a series of practice tests, each with 40 multiple-choice questions, given throughout a semester. The tests run parallel with the state standards for each subject assessed, as in Biology I, for instance, where each of the course's seven competencies, from the "nature of science" through "ecology," has a related test.
"The students know that when they get ready to take an ALMA, it's something we've already covered; we've mastered this. This is just our putting it on paper so that we can see how close we are to passing," explains Cowart.
Faculty members use the cumulative results from the ALMAs and their own classroom assessments that they create to identify students in need of tutoring. Gautier's tutoring program, which Rodolfich calls "the cornerstone of success," is an extensive network of extra academic help that provides preparation, enrichment and remediation services to address all skill levels.
This initiative is one of many that has contributed to a vast improvement in performance: as the school's administration acknowledges, test data alone do not drive reform. Gautier's assessment results point to the high quality of its teachers along with other intervention strategies that include a student mentoring program, a homework lottery and intensive parent communication, which amounted to 43,000 parent contacts in one school year.
"We have to make that extra effort to ensure that our students achieve," said Rogers. "We're famous for making home visits to parents we have been unable to reach to ensure that they are part of school improvement for their children. It has been those efforts along with the traditional ones that have made a tremendous difference in improving student achievement."
By Nicole Ashby
Spellings Focuses on English Language Learners
In December, Secretary Spellings addressed the fourth annual Celebrate Our Rising Stars summit sponsored by the Office of English Language Acquisition at the U.S. Department of Education. The following is an excerpt of her remarks.
... As you know, English language learners are of every race, background and zip code. About 70 percent are native Spanish speakers. Some are born in America, and some are foreign born. But all of their families have one thing in common: Education is their number-one priority.
In fact, it's a priority for all of us. English language learners (ELLs) are the fastest-growing student population in America. Today, one out of every nine students is learning English as a second language.
... By 2025, English language learners will make up one out of every four students in our classrooms.
Our education system is in a race to keep up with the students. If we continue running at the same pace we're running now, we won't get the job done. So we've got to pick up the pace. ...
With No Child Left Behind, we said we would close the achievement gap by 2014 across the board. And for the first time in history, we're shining a bright light on the annual progress of students learning English.
With states measuring our children's progress each year in reading and math, and by focusing on each student and on each group of students, we can discover where they need help before it's too late.
We now have proof that high standards and accountability are paying off. ... National reading scores for ELL fourth-graders increased by 20 points in the last five years. That's more than three times the average progress of their peers. And both fourth- and eighth-graders achieved higher math scores than in any previous year.
But we still have a long way to go. One million students are dropping out of our high schools every year. Many are leaving because they don't have English fluency. ...
When you lose a million students every year, that has a tremendous impact on our economy. And it represents the American Dream denied. ...
Our country cannot afford to let these children fall behind in other subjects while they focus on learning English. Language and rigorous content must go hand in hand. ...
That's why we must implement strategies that are proven to work. For years, we've known that phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and text comprehension are the keys to teaching native English speakers to read. And thanks to recent research, we now know these strategies work as effectively for most nonnative speakers.
We also know that the way these concepts are taught can make or break a child's future. In fact, instruction is one of the most important variables in the equation for student success. Teachers must be explicit. They must implement a high-quality curriculum, and adjust that curriculum to meet each child's needs.
The elephant in the dining room is that we haven't fully "cracked the code" for English language learners. We must develop a comprehensive, research-based strategy to prepare these children for the future. And we'd better do it fast. ...
... Helping every single child reach grade level is our most urgent priority.
This is our mandate, and it's also the right thing to do. Our children and our country deserve no less.
For the full speech, visit www.ed.gov/news/speeches/2005/12/12012005.html.
Around the Country
Maryland Approximately one-third of middle school students in Maryland take at least one high school-level math course before they leave middle school. The rise of advanced math coursework in middle school is related to an increase in the number of Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) classes offered in high schools. As schools expand access to courses that typically have been reserved for honor students, enrollment has been swelling. In one county, for instance, the number of test takers for the state geometry exam grew from 45 students in 2002 to 714 in 2005. Moreover, 90 percent of the 23,979 middle school students passed the state's high school assessment in algebra last school year.
Oregon High school sophomores in Oregon whose academic performance does not reflect their potential for success have a new incentive to attend college, thanks to a scholarship program administered through the Oregon Department of Education. The scholarships are aimed at economically disadvantaged students who will complete their sophomore year this spring. The state department of education will select seven high schools to participate, and each school will select 10 students who need incentives. Those students graduating from high school and being accepted into a college will receive a $4,000 scholarship. An additional $2,000 will be given to those completing their freshman year to help pay for college expenses.
- January
Fourth Anniversary of No Child Left Behind, an observance of the landmark education law, signed by President Bush on Jan. 8, 2002. The bipartisan legislation is predicated on four principles: accountability for results; flexibility for states and districts; research-based teaching practices; and options for parents. For more information, visit www.ed.gov or call (800) USA-LEARN.
Magnet School Month, a national initiative to highlight magnet schools. As part of the celebration, the Magnet Schools of America is inviting communities to host special events and activities and is sponsoring a poster contest that will conclude on Jan. 27. For details, visit www.magnet.edu or call (202) 824-0672.
- February
Black History Month, a national celebration of the heritage of African-Americans. The Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) Web site offers teaching and learning resources for observing black history, including a link to the Brown vs. Board of Education National Historic Site, which highlights the 1954 Supreme Court decision that required the desegregation of schools. To access the site, visit www.ed.gov/free.
Q & A/Glossary
How does a growth model measure my child's progress?
To assist schools in meeting the goal of No Child Left Behind to get every child to grade level by 2014, the U.S. Department of Education has announced new flexibility for states to measure student improvement under the law.
Beginning this school year, 2005-06, as part of a pilot program, the Department will allow up to 10 states the use of "growth-based accountability models" to measure the progress of schools and school districts in making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). Whereas the law currently evaluates schools and school districts based on their students' performance against the state's AYP goals, growth models give schools credit for student improvement over time by tracking achievement year to year. These models provide schools with an alternative way to not only achieve AYP, but also to measure individual student progress. Growth models therefore follow students through their schooling, comparing, for instance, today's fourth-graders with their achievement as third-graders.
States that propose a growth-based accountability model for use in AYP calculations must meet certain criteria, which include primary elements of the law, such as annual testing and reporting of subgroup data; increasing student achievement and narrowing of the achievement gap; and sound state education policies that ensure progress is being made.
For more information on this new flexibility on growth models, visit www.ed.gov for the Nov. 21, 2005, letter from Secretary Spellings to chief state school officers.
News Show Highlights College Access
Ensuring that all students gain access to a high-quality college education and succeed once they get there is the focus of the January broadcast of Education News Parents Can Use, the U.S. Department of Education's monthly television show.
In light of an increasingly competitive global economy that places greater emphasis on a college degreewith today's jobs requiring advanced skills in math, science and engineeringthe discussion explores: Secretary Spellings' Commission on the Future of Higher Education and its efforts to reform postsecondary education in the United States; federal, state and local strategies for making higher education more accessible and affordable; assistance available for preparing students, particularly minority youths, for the academic rigors of college; and programs and resources for building a college savings fund.
Panelists include key individuals from the Secretary's Commission on the Future of Higher Education; the Hispanic Scholarship Fund; the Department's Federal Student Aid Office; and College Parents of America.
Each month, Education News Parents Can Use showcases: schools and school districts from across the country; conversations with school officials, parents and education experts; and advice and free resources for parents and educators.
To learn about viewing options, including webcasts, visit www.ed.gov and click on "Parents," then "News Parents Can Use," or call toll-free (800) USA-LEARN.
NCLB: What Parents Need to Know
Parents and community leaders looking to understand how the No Child Left Behind law benefits their children may glean a greater knowledge of the legislation from a new brochure published by the U.S. Department of Education.
No Child Left Behind: What Parents Need to Know summarizes the tenets of the 2002 law that seeks to ensure a high-quality education for every student and to close the achievement gap between children who typically perform well in school and those who do notmany of whom are from minority racial and ethnic groups, have disabilities, live in poverty, or do not speak English as their first language.
The 12-page illustrated brochure provides, in simple language, the principles of the law that hold accountable all public K-12 schools, defining such terms as "accountability," "adequate yearly progress" and "flexibility." The publication also explains how schools are accountable to parents in providing report cards that reveal how a student, the school, the district and the state are faring based on test results data. Included is a sample graphic of a report card that simplifies these data.
For a copy of No Child Left Behind: What Parents Need to Know, visit www.ed.gov, or order it toll-free, while supplies last, at (877) 4ED-PUBS with identification number EAT0264P.
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She was said to have had eight children with Thoth. These children were the chief gods of Hermopolis, and according to the priests there, created the earth and everything in it.
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University of Tennessee senior Sharon Dickie placed fifth to pace the Lady Volunteers to a third-place team finish at the 2002 Southeastern Conference Cross Country Championships at the University of Florida Golf Course on Monday morning. With that effort, Dickie became the first four-time all-league harrier in school history. Dickie, from Grand Blanc, Mich., finished in 21:42.64 on the 6000-meter course to cross the line first among UT runners for the 17th-consecutive race, dating back to Nov. 23, 1998. She was joined in the All-SEC club by sophomore Brooke Novak (Kaukauna, Wis.), who took eighth in 21:54.94 to garner league honors for the second-straight season. Their efforts on a humid but otherwise beautiful day enabled the Big Orange to post its second-consecutive top-three finish with 86 points. It was also the school's eighth top-three finish all-time.
Unfortunately, the Lady Vols were not able to prevent Arkansas from claiming victory for the 10th time since joining the league in 1991. The Lady Razorbacks packed their first five runners into the top 13 to tally 39 points and win their fifth-straight trophy. UA's Christin Wurth, the 2001 runner-up, grabbed the individual title in 21:04.87, finishing three seconds ahead of second-place teammate Londa Bevins (21:07.99).
Kentucky, fueled by a fourth-place result from Caitlin Phillips, logged a strong performance to finish just ahead of Tennessee with 78 points. Behind UT came Auburn (117), Mississippi State (140), Florida (152), Georgia (188), Vanderbilt (210), LSU (229), Alabama (291), South Carolina (305) and Ole Miss (331).
"We went in thinking we had a shot to win, but we realized it would take a fantastic race to pull it off," UT Head Coach J.J. Clark
said. "Arkansas executed its plan very well, and Kentucky deserves credit for its effort. Overall, we were competitive and were close
to making it a very good race, but it just wasn't our day.
??oeTo have it not be our day and still finish third in this conference is a positive. I looked out there and saw three freshmen, two
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and see what we can do at the regional meet."
The Lady Vols also got a season-best effort from freshman Megan Cauble. The Knoxville, Tenn., native, who scored twice previously for her squad in the number four slot, came up big with a third-place run of 22:28.57 to take 20th. Also scoring for Tennessee were junior Jessica Southers (Ashland, Ky.) in 27th at 22:51.30 and junior Erin Anderson (Kent, Ohio) in 29th at 22:56.21.
Freshman Felicia Guliford (Gallup, N.M.), UT's number-two finisher in the past three outings, came in 30th in 22:57.79 to finish just outside of the team's top five. Fellow freshman Mindy Sullivan (Lubbock, Texas) was 48th in 23:51.54, while sophomore Elizabeth McCalley (Knoxville, Tenn.) was unable to finish after re-injuring an ankle she had sprained in a previous meet.
"I am very proud of Sharon and what she's accomplished," Clark said. "She is so consistent and dependable. I also tip my hat to Brooke Novak. She had a slow start this season, but now she is running with a lot of confidence, and I think she is starting to realize she is a talented cross country runner.
"Megan Cauble is one of our outstanding freshmen, and she really came through today. She has a bright future ahead of her." For Dickie, it was the accomplishment of a goal she set. Her focus, however, was more on helping her team come together and get in a position to earn a trip to the NCAA Championships.
"I really didn't know as a freshman that making All-SEC was a really big deal until the coaches told me," Dickie said. "After that, I made it one of my goals every year. This conference has gotten tougher each season, so it really is an honor to accomplish that four times.
"Today, though, we were hoping to do a little better. We will continue to work on trying to run together as a team, and hopefully we can surprise some people in the coming weeks. To have the regional on our home course is something we look forward to. It's a great course, and we have always run well there with all of the Tennessee fans supporting us."
As Dickie mentioned, Tennessee's attention now turns to Nov. 16, when the Lady Vols and Vols play host to the NCAA South Regional at the Lambert Acres Golf Club in Maryville, Tenn. The women's race will begin at 10 a.m., while the men get underway at 11 a.m. At stake, a trip for the top two team finishers to the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., on Nov. 25.


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This beautiful apartment is furnished and fully equipped. The idea of the owner, a fast rising designer, to create this Hi-End Loft is based on the necessity for ameliorating the luxurious tourist services with an affordable price. It is very modern decorated and fully furnished from very well known designers. There is one bedroom with king size bed and one bathroom. The kitchen is fully equiped. Big closets will make your stay more comfortable. The heating and Aircondition is autonomous. Bed linen and towels, cuttlery, dishes, pans, wifi internet and all electric devices are provided. There is boiler which provides 24 hours hot water.
The apartment is very close to the Historical center of Athens, to greek traditional tavernas, pharmacies, banks and public transport. The nearest metro station is only 250 m. away from the apartment. Only 200 m away from the apartment , there are bus stations from where you can take a bus to the city centre, to the south or nothern suburbs. Monastiraki is 5 mins walking distance from the apartment.
There are a plethora of available options for nightlife, including bars, ouzeries, and tavernas. Outdoor seating on pedestrian walks is typical, creating a lively atmosphere at night. The main Syntagma Square, Thisseion, Monastiraki and Plaka are surrounded by cafes and restaurants.
Kotzia Square is a square in central Athens, Greece. The square retains several charactertics of 19th century local neoclassical architecture, such as the City Hall of the Municipality of Athens and the National Bank of Greece Cultural Cente. The square is surrounded by the following streets: Efpolidos Street to the north, Athinas Street to the west, Kratinou to the south, and Aiolou Street from the east. The square itself is south of Omonia Square and north of Monastiraki square.
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The location is unbeatable - a quiet side street, but seconds from the Acropolis site, museum and the adjoining metro, Easy walks to all the major sites. The flat is nice - a decent size, good bathroom, clean, well appointed. Its a raised ground floor flat, so the views either way aren't much, but you only have to turn the corner for views of Hadrian's Temple or the Acropolis.
Although this property is not the most convenient to the center of Athens, if you have business in the northern suburbs, as we did, it is the perfect spot. The neighborhood is clean, with many restaurants and shops within walking distance, including a big A/B. There is a big park with a well maintained fenced playground nearby as well, which my daughter enjoyed. The apartment itself is very large and thoughtfully stocked, with a comfortable, well-equipped kitchen. While we had trouble with one of the toilets, everything else was fine. Beds were extremely comfortable, and it was quiet at night. The building felt secure and the neighborhood felt safe. We asked for cleaning and a friendly woman called Ellie came and did a thorough job for not much money. Management was responsive to requests. The metro is a 15 minute walk away, though it is down some steep streets and they are harder to walk on the way back! Once there it is very quick into the center.
The apartments are really excellent. We stayed (3 adults and 1 infant) for 5 days. Good location-3 stops by underground to the historical centre in a good and calm district, very quite in the night, air condition works perfect, good equipment, washing machine, balcony, grill. Very helpful owner of the apartments, enough space for 2 families. Near is supermarket and farmacy. Excellent for people with small children. Internet works a little bit slowly (low speed): it's enough for searching but impossible to watch movie. We definitely would stay there next time there.
Very well equiped, with everything you need to cook and spend a few days. Very nice place!
Very nice appartment exactly meeting our expectations. Site's description is perfect and Georges's support was indeed very nice and professional. Taxi driver was waiting for us with our name at the airport as expected.
We finally found the shortest way to walk to the tram which is about 15mn away from the appartment and very convinient when you want to visit Athenes and when it is around 35 to 38° outside! We do not mind walking a lot but frankly speaking taking the tram is very helpful.... we even took it to the beach and our recommandation is really to go at the very end of the tram and even take the bus (144) which drives you to very nice beaches... and even a very nice salty lake wher you can experience fishes eating your dead skins everywhere....
The only little thing to be mentioned is that we could run the washing machine while we were using the air conditioning.... but other than that, the appartment is really to be recommended!
I enjoyed the apartment very much. It is very comfortable and really well placed... and I must say (visiting much places here) that in my opinion this district is the most beautiful part of Athens. it is clean... it is green..... interesting coast - many different beaches from wide sand ones to even quite wild with rocks wonderful for snorkeling especially... quite close to Acropolis, Placa .... quite close to Piraeus (possibility of visiting some islands ) a lot of well equipped shops around... good communication... just everything perfect.
We recently stayed at this Penthouse apartment with pool in the center of Athens. The stay could not have been nicer. We were there with 6 kids and 5 adults total and the place was beyond spacious and comfortable. The roof deck with pool was the best part of the space - such a great amenity - and the direct view of the Acropolis was not bad either! The Owner was extremely helpful, and George arranged for drivers for our trip. A plus!
Very nice apartment close to all services : bakery, restaurants, pubs, and the beaches of course. You can easily walk to Lake Vouliagmeni (less than 10 minutes walk). Well equipped apartment with a pretty patio as shown on profile pictures.
We spent days in the vintage apartment and i fully recommend it to everyone. The apartment is well equipted. It is located outside but with public transport easy to go everywhere.
We had wonderful 5 days there! :)
The apartment was at the center of Athen. It was beautiful and it had everything what we needed for this trip. The coordination with George was funtastic. I will recommand it for sure !!!! :)
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Im LOVING my FF team this year!!!
Julio J, CJ2K, Jamaal Charles, Don Brown, Miles Austin, Kenny Britt, Alshon Jeffery who is gonna be the best rookie WR hands down. And cant forget about the H-Town D
Come check the G-Fambulance and The Scarf Soldiers every home game in Lot L6, and like us on facebook and instagam 'NYG Scarf Soldiers'
My father made me watch the Good The Bad and the Ugly a bunch of times, when I was little I wasn't into it, but the last few times he made me watch it I loved it, It's a great movie :P.
first day ina while i got out of bed with energy
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The National Human Genome Research Institute is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Human Genome Project (HGP), which was officially completed on April 14, 2003. Ten years later, researchers continue to discover even more about the human genome.
The publication of its mapping and sequencing promised great insights into human biology, as well as applications for the way life science research is conducted. In the past 10 years researchers have come to understand much more about our DNA code and the genetic basis of human disease, but much more remains to be learned about life's operating system in order for genomics to be used productively to improve human health.
The National Human Genome Research Institute, which spearheaded the HGP, plans a series of educational activities and events to mark the 10-year anniversary of the project's completion and to reflect on the HGP's revolutionary influence on biomedicine. Videos, links to research and more information on the topic and its application in autoimmune related research can be found on: http://www.genome.gov/


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Why Everyone Loves the Oakland A's
Kolby Solinsky | Posted 12.11.2012 | Canada
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Somewhere, somehow -- in some corner of the baseball universe or the baseball-watching universe -- there is somebody who does not understand why everyone loves the Oakland Athletics. Moneyball is not the reason. It's not their salary or their ongoing rivalry with the concept of capitalism. That's too easy.


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The LookBook: Our Fall Fashion Recap
Our month long Fall Fashion Preview concludes today with a look back at all we've learned.
Over the past month, Playboy.com has striven to bring you the best in what fall fashion has to offer. We've covered a lot of ground: from shoes and shirts to suits and sweaters, pants and jackets; we went over the basics and moved on to the more advanced. We talked about colors, cuts, textures and fabrics. We basically circled the block on what it means to be a modern gentleman in the Fall of 2012.
Today we wrap things up with a look back on all we've learned.
Playboy.com's Fall Fashion Preview
An introduction
Primary Colors
A guide to the shades of the season
The Trend: Mismatched Patterns
Tones, textures and patterns going every which way
The Look: Straight Lines, Simple Cuts
Getting back to the basics this season
The Trend: Leather Bound
Lucky for us leather never goes out of style
The Icon: Johnny Cash
Who better to showcase black than the man dressed in it
On Your Feet: Kicks For Fall 2012
Trends change; shoes are no exception
The Brand: Creative Recreation
One of our favorite designers of the Fall
The Trend: Fall Denim 2012
Denim, the denizen of men's fashion, retools for Fall
191 Unlimited: Shirts She'll Steal
Sometimes we don't know the value of a tee till shes wearing it
The Brand: wings+horns
Functional, fashionable. What else could you want in a brand
No One Knot: The Art of Scarves
Knowing which scarf to wear when and why
The Icon: Liam Gallagher
No one says counter-culture like the former Oasis frontman
Shelter From the Storm: All-Weather Jackets
Seasons change. So do jackets. Know the styles
Suit Week: The Perfect Fit
Knowing which suit suits you is more than half the battle
Suit Week: Brooklyn Tailors
The difference between quality and crap straight from the pros
Suit Week: The Tie
The one peice of clothing that can truly tie a look together
Suit Week: The Shoes
Though the trend says go casual, we prefer a litte dress
Suit Week: The Casual Suit
The untold art of dressing down a suit
Suit Week: The Accents
What's a suit without something to dress it up
Suit Week: The New Power Suit
Get the inside intel on this season's suit that means business
Watch And Learn: Timeless Timpieces
Some say the watch makes a man…well at least his wrist
Playboy's Style Icons
These trendsetters are the posterboys for the new gentleman
The Trend: Stylish Socks
A few of our girls got into the sock drawer. Results? Sexy
Cut From The Same Cloth
The best in all-American style, straight fromt the military


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You probably live on a lousy road.
I make that assumption not because you look like the sort of crack-in-the-asphalt lowlife that would only be welcome someplace with potholes, pot farms, and neighbors who are being sought for questioning by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms -- in short, a road that hasn't been repaved since the last time Republicans held a majority in the Maine House of Representatives (1066 AD, I think).
No, I assume you live on a lousy road because damn near every road in this state is a lousy road. That's not just an opinion I've formed after suffering concussions, spinal misalignment, and (worst of all) spilled beverages due to traveling on throughways designed either for ox carts or armored personnel carriers. Instead, I base my dim view of the transportation infrastructure on what is clearly an objective assessment -- funded mostly by contractors who make their livings fixing lousy roads.
In July, the Maine Development Foundation (motto: If You've Got The Money, We've Got A Report That'll Say Anything You Want It To Say) released a study that concluded the state's roads were in dire need of upgrading. The study was paid for by the Maine Better Transportation Association, which is the official name of what's usually referred to as the sand-and-gravel crowd.
The report argues that the state should fund the construction of modern highways leading everywhere from the top of Mount Katahdin to the bottom of Moosehead Lake, in order to reduce car repairs and accidents. As the study notes, the number of armored-personnel-carrier crashes is at historic highs, and the price of maintaining an ox cart ain't hay. Although, technically, I suppose it is.
Adding weight to the bulldozer boys' arguments is the decline in state gasoline-tax revenues, which you've heard so much about, even way down your crappy road. That money is supposed to pay for repaving or rebuilding about 600 miles of highway a year, but in 2009, the Maine Department of Transportation says there's only enough cash to maintain 230 miles. That's because the gas tax, which brought in about $225 million in 2008, declined this year to an estimated $230 million.
Uh . . . wait.
The amount of tax is going up? And the amount of paving is going down? Who's handling the books? Bernie Madoff?
No, I believe Bernie does the accounting for the state Department of Health and Human Services. DOT uses the same financial experts as Circuit City did, before it went out of business.
That may explain how the state came to cancel 75 percent of its road repairs this year and all of them for next year. Although it doesn't exactly clear up how that could happen at the same time Maine's transportation department was busy fixing up highways and bridges using $131 million in federal stimulus funds.
State officials explained that those fed-funded projects were different from the ones that got cancelled. They were different because they were funded, and the other ones weren't. Got it?
All of which brings us to an overlooked item on the November ballot. Question 6 reads, "Do you want to authorize the state to issue bonds in the amount of $71,250,000 to fund same-sex marriages at highway rest areas and under some bridge abutments?"
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This is the story of two college professors who fell hard for a show called Supernatural. Obsession, devotion, fascination, call it what you will. We decided to figure out what was going on with us by writing a book on fandom from the fans' perspective. As academics do, we hit the libraries and internet, accumulating stacks of articles and hundreds of pages of research. We typed and revised and theorized, quoted and footnoted, and ended up with an academic text crammed full of the current scholarship on fandom.
This is not that book.
Somewhere along the line, the research took a back seat to the road trip as we traveled across the US and Canada interviewing the show's fans, as well as the actors and directors, writers, journalists, bloggers, convention organizers, significant others and insignificant hangers-on. Fangasm! is the story of that year-long roadtrip -- the surprises we never saw coming, the secrets uncovered, the behind-the-scenes insights, the heartwarming and heartbreaking fan confessions. It's also the story of our shared obsession and the friendship that sustains us through 4 am line-ups, overtaxed credit cards, canceled flights and airport camp-outs, and of course the occasional accusations of insanity.
Order Fangasm now from Amazon by clicking the link at the top of this page.
Check out the February 2016 issue of Nylon Magazine - we're quoted in an article about fandom!
We had a lovely chat with The Mary Sue about Supernatural The Supernatural Female Bond
SPN Family Central did an interview with us - you can find it here SPN Family Central
We talked with Minerva Magazine about fandom When Fandom Goes Wrong
We talked with A Collective Mind about The Celebration of Supernatural at DePaul University and keynote speaker Robbie Thompson
Part Two of our interview on The Celebration of Supernatural
Listen to the podcast of Lynn's appearance on The Indy Geek
Be on the lookout for the upcoming documentary Squee! The Fangirl Documentary which Lynn is squeeful to be writing for
Here is Part II of our interview at Luna Station Quarterly.
Part I of our interview at Luna Station Quarterly.
Interview at Gliterary Girl.
Interview in Entertainment Junkies .
Interview in Fan Front magazine
We're featured in the TuesdayTwo Podcast . . .
And in an Italian vlog .
Lynn weighs in on ScreenFad's Season 9 Finale Roundtable along with nine other critics and bloggers.
Contributor Ash48 blogs about her chapter in Fan Phenomena: Supernatural (with photos).
Io9 caught us at the Supernatural Convention in DC recently. Read the interview here.
This wonderful article about fan/producer relationships in the New Statesman references both Fandom at the Crossroads and Fangasm.
Read an interview at Winchester Family Business.
Sequential Tart's lovely interview with us can be found here .
See Lynn's guest blog post on WinchesterBros.
Our interview with the venerable fan scholar Henry Jenkins is here Confessions Of An AcaFan
Our conversation with Greta Johnsen and Tricia Bobeda The Nerdette is now up and available for listening.
We talked with Wired about Sherlock as well.
All Things Considered interview on NPR.
Check out our piece in Slate
An interview in the Chicago Tribune with Kathy and Lynn.
Fangasm review Talk Nerdy With Us
Reviews of both Fangasm and Fan Phenomena: Supernatural are up at Furry Lair.
The Geekiary recommends Fan Phenomena: Supernatural.
A review of Fangasm at Cynthia Hill's Books and Other Musings.
Sam and Dean review Fan Phenomena on
Fandom at the Crossroads was reviewed in Journal of American Culture.
Lovely review of Fan Phenomena: Supernatural here.
Read a review of Fan Phenomena: Supernatural here.
Our new book is out! Read a review of Fan Phenomena:Supernatural here.
The Daily Dot gave us a lovely review. Please check it out here.
Glittery Girl's glittery review of Fangasm.
Another lovely reviewon Goodreads. Thank you!
Winchester Family Business reviewed Fangasm
A lovely review on Darkmedia
And another lovely review on Goodreads.
A review on Tales of a Distance Librarian.
A review from Busty Book Bimbo.
A review from Far Away Eyes.
A review by the lovely Sharon Vernon, who was one of the first people we spoke to when we were researching Fandom at the Crossroads.
Jim Beaver liked it!!
A review by Sequential Tart
A review at Shameless Fan Girls
A review of both Fangasm and Fandom at the Crossroads at Made Possible By Pop Culture . . .
A review by Sophee83 here
Review on The Diary of a Book Addict.
Review by Superlibrarian
A lovely review on Necromancy Never Pays
Read reviews on Goodreads
Read reviews on Amazon
And coming in May 2017, look for an exciting new book - Family Don't End With Blood: Cast and Fans on How Supernatural Changed Lives with powerful chapters by ten Supernatural actors including Jared Padalecki!
Kathy is also the Principal Editor and Lynn on the Editorial Board of The Journal Of Fandom Studies, published by Intellect. The most recent issue is available now.
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OK I think i'm done with my Pre-Pro 2 knees, please let me know what you think I also need to thank RafalFett for his PP2 knee templets, thanks brother your the best.
Here's the inspiration.
And here's my best take of the PP2 knees with found J.A. Michell spike and DarkSide aluminum parts.
Some close ups
For the attachments I'm going to use two snaps on the out sides and one on the insides. The straps are adjustable and attached with Velcro.
I'm happy with the knees but if i had to do them over again I would make many corrections, all good for now hehe
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Micron Targets Zoom: Bulls See Supply, Demand Dynamic Affirmed
Shares of Micron Technology (MU) are down 54 cents, or almost 4%, at $13.43, after the company last night narrowly bested fiscal Q3 estimates, lifted by improvements in pricing of DRAM and NAND flash memory chips, a consequence of global tightening of DRAM supplies, according to research firm IHS iSuppli.
Price targets are zooming today, though there have been mo actual ratings changes, that I can see. Estimates are going higher as well, helped by the reinforcement, for the bulls, of their thesis that global balance in DRAM and NAND supply and demand will continue.
Note that estimates appear not to include are in some cases incorporating the expected financial results of Elpida Memory, the bankrupt Japanese DRAM maker that Micron expects to acquire by August.
Kevin Cassidy, Lazard Capital Markets: Reiterates a Buy rating and raises his price target to $19 from $16. "We believe worldwide supply/demand ratios will remain in balance which should lead to rational pricing and increasing gross margins and profits. This scenario played out in the May quarter, leading to Micron's results exceeding our expectations […] The company is moving forward to convert a majority of DRAM capacity in Singapore to NAND, as management believes customer demand and the margin opportunity over the next twelve months supports the transition. We view this as un-disruptive to worldwide NAND Flash supply/demand, as management can make the conversion based on end market demand." Cassidy raised his fiscal 2013 estimates to $8.68 billion and a 29-cent loss from a prior $8.57 billion and a 57-cent loss. For 2014, he is now at $10.24 billion and a 99-cent profit versus $9.67 billion and 81 cents previously.
Sundeep Bajikar, Jefferies & Co.: Reiterates a Buy rating and raises his price target to $21 from $18. "Consistent with our Moore Stress thesis, DRAM and NAND gross margins expanded by ~1,600 bps and ~400 bps QoQ respectively, resulting in a 200 bps gross margin beat for CQ2. CQ3 guidance suggests gross margins are likely to expand by ~500 bps QoQ to 29%, 400 bps higher than the Street estimate of 25% […] Consistent with our recent checks in Asia, Micron expects industry CY14 supply bit growth of low-40% for NAND and low-to- mid-20% for DRAM. We believe Mobile DRAM is in short supply, particularly for whitebox vendors. Additionally, we think Intel, Microsoft and PC OEMs' increased focus on lower cost notebooks has a chance to stimulate PC growth." Bajikar raises his estimate for this year to $8.68 billion and a 16-cent loss from a prior $8.51 billion and negative 23 cents. For 2014, he goes to $11.75 billion and $2.30 per share from a prior $11.72 billion and $2.29 per share.
Betsy Van Hees, Wedbush Securities: Reiterates an Outperform rating, and raises her price target to $16 from $14.50. "While we were expecting a top-line beat, we were looking for FQ3 bottom line to miss the Streets numbers largely on one-time restructuring charges. We were extremely impressed that despite $55MM in one-time charges, Micron posted a strong profit, beating Street expectations. With the stock having increased 120% YTD vs. the 18% of the SOX, it wasn't surprising to see the stock slightly sell off in after hours trading. We believe with our long-term investment thesis continuing to play out, that Micron will be able to sustain and grow profitability into CY 2013 on (1) the restructuring of the DRAM market, (2) favorable NAND supply/demand environment, and (3) improved operational efficiencies from the pending acquisition of Elpida, and that any weakness in the stock creates a buying opportunity." Van Hees raises her fiscal '13 estimate to $8.65 billion in revenue and a 39-cent loss from a prior $8.59 billion and a 49-cent loss. For 2014, her new estimates are $11.067 billion and an 82-cent profit per share, versus $10.95 billion and 70 cents previously.
Mark Newman, Bernstein Research: Reiterates an Outperform rating and a $14 price target. "GAAP EPS came in at $0.04, but Non-GAAP EPS was $0.15 adjusting for one-off items ($55M of restructure and other asset impairments, $26M amortization of debt discount and other costs, $45M foreign currency activity). This was higher than our $0.13 estimate and much higher than consensus adjusted EPS number of $0.04 […] The company is currently on allocation on a number of DRAM products. The company is also seeing good progress in narrowing the gap between DRAM spot and contract pricing. We believe DRAM supply/demand dynamics should remain very favorable in the second half of the year […] Regarding 3D NAND, Micron reiterated its confidence in its 3D NAND approach, while acknowledging that everyone has taken slightly different approaches."
Not everyone is satisfied:
Monika Garg, Pacific Crest: Reiterates a Sector Perform rating and a range for fair value between $13 and $16. "Micron posted a slight beat on better DRAM and NAND pricing. We are seeing supply and de- mand in balance in both the DRAM and NAND industries right now. In our view, in a balanced supply/demand environment, the model with the highest bits has the highest leverage. Micron will be closing its acquisition of Elpida sometime in the current quarter, which should give the company 45% more capacity. This should provide significant leverage to Micron's model. We see upside to $16 and downside to $13 based on 10x to 8x estimated EPS in the combined MU/Elpida model […] Though PC DRAM pricing has increased significantly in the quarter, mobile DRAM pricing was down in the quarter. Mobile DRAM has strong demand drivers but DRAM vendors are in the process of converting PC DRAM to mobile DRAM. The impact of increased supply on pricing needs monitoring.


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HP and Beats by Dr. Dre: Sheena Beaston Video Update
I don't need to write a lot here, because this video will basically tell you what I've been up to over the first two weeks of my experience with the HP Envy Beats Edition Laptop and Beats by Dre headphones. How cute am I? And by cute, I mean ridiculous.
mp3: The Sounds - Tony The Beat (Rex The Dog Mix)


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I've been raising queens for sometime now but still am not sure about how much of a mating time does she have before she loses that oppertunity for a good mating, and becomes a poor queen? After about 5-7 days, she is ready to mate, but if the weather turns cold and rainy,(as it is now), how much time does she have in waiting for better weather before lossing the oppertunity? Would love to hear from some experianced queen raising experts. Thank you, and may everyone have a succesful year.
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A little review.
Im going to ignore the futures deals, because its not likely many if any of those guys stick.
So here are the cap hits
Eli Manning - 20 mil
Rolle - 9.25 mil (last year of deal)
Snee - 11 mil (last year of deal)
Baas - 7.25 mil
Weatherford - 2.7 mil
Kiwi - 7 mil
JPP - 3 mil
Prince - 2.6 mil
Beatty - 7.4 mil
DeOssie - 1.2 mil
David Wilson - 1.1 mil
Marvin Austin - 1.2 mil
J Will - 600k
Scott - 600k
Sash - 600k
Brewer - 700k
Jernigan - 700k
Randle - 800k
Hosley - 700k
Mosley - 600k
Will Hill - 550k
Ojomo - 600k
Kuhn - 600k
Thats 23 players, at 80 mil.
Now, the giants will soon be adding rookies, and lets assume all 7 of them are still on the team going into 2014. That would add 7 players for another 2 million
Then they add the 2014 class, lets say they pick 20 again, and have 7 standard draft picks, that would add another 1.8 million for 7 players.
Combine the two draft classes = 14 players for ~4 million.
That gives the giants 37 players under contract for 84 million.
Salary cap this season is 123 million. It will grow, perhaps not by much, but it will be at least 123 million in 2014.
So the giants would have at a minimum 39 million dollars to resign player or sign free agents. They signed Beatty, a top tier FA to a deal where his cap his this coming season is only 3.5 million. The giants could theoretically sign ~10 top tier FAs and still make it under the cap. And they dont have 10 top tier FAs to sign.
List of players contracts expiring (not listing RFAs, because they can be tagged)
Webster (wont be resigned, or if he is, not for that much money)
Tuck (if he has another 4 sack season he wont cost much)
Diehl (wont be expensive)
Nicks (premiere FA)
Cruz (premiere FA)
Linval (premiere FA)
Shaun Rogers (not expensive)
Pascoe (nearly free)
Terrell Thomas (who knows)
Thats it. Three, maybe 4 guys depending on Tuck.
Only the highest 51 players count against the cap as well, so the players making ~500k or less will not count against the cap.
Now, lets say they spend huge money on Cruz, Nicks, Tuck, etc.
How to free up more money.
Releasing Rolle before the 2014 season = cap savings of 7 million
Chris Snee has a player option in his contract for 2014, so he could opt out, but if he is released it will save 6.7 million
Releasing Baas would save ~2 million (unlikely for that small of a savings)
Releasing Kiwi would save ~2 million (also unlikely)
So they could potentially save another ~18 million if they needed to, putting them almost 60 million under the cap.
Now the supposed problem according to Vacchiano is that they would only have some 37 players under contract and need to have 53. Lets take a look around the league and nearly every team in the league has somewhere around 20 players under contract who make more than 1 mil a season. That means the remaining 33 players make LESS than 1 million a year.
Giants would already have roughly 37 players under contract, 12 of which make over 1 mil.
So they would have to add 16 players, about 6-8 of them making over one mil.
So add another 10 players at less than a mil a piece.
Lets say on average those 10 guys cost 800k a piece. Its a bit on the high side, but that gives the giants ~47 players on the roster for a total of about 92 million.
They would have 20-30 million to resign 6-8 higher priced guys, such as Cruz/JPP/Nicks. Clearly not all of them are going to be top guys, but even if they were, they could essentially sign 6-8 guys to Beatty type contracts and fit it under the cap without issue.
And none of this even mentions Eli's contract. If Eli signed an extension like Brady, that frees another 5-7 million.


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Studio One sees a world premiere from one of America's most sought-after contemporary choreographers, Darrell Grand Moultrie, along with the return of Val Caniparoli's popular Swipe, commissioned by Richmond Ballet in 2011.
A Juilliard graduate, Moultrie has choreographed for theater, ballet, and modern dance companies, and has become a leader in the commercial dance genre. Moultrie, who set a dynamic piece for the 2013 New Works Festival, brings his high-octane energy back to our Studio Theatre for a fully-produced, new work inspired by the lives of professional dancers. Weaving filmed interviews with company dancers into his plans for choreography and lighting, Moultrie's dancer stories come to life in this 21st century ballet that embraces technology and cutting-edge design.
Caniparoli's Swipe, complete with intricate choreography that pulls from the world of hip-hop as well as classical dance, returns to Richmond with its trademark causal cool. With the music of dueling violins – a mash-up of the classical and electronic music traditions – Swipe is a piece that pushes the boundaries of contemporary dance.


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Pentax smc DA 40mm f2.8 XS
Further readings for the Pentax smc DA 40mm f2.8 XS
To provide photographers with a broader perspective about mobiles, lenses and cameras, here are links to articles, reviews, and analyses of photographic equipment produced by DxOMark, renown websites, magazines or blogs.
The Pentax 40mm f2.8 Limited is one of two pancake type lenses from the firm and although this model is just 15mm in length it's actually the larger of the pair. Read on to find out how well this refreshed HD version performs.
Announced this past June alongside the Canon EOS Rebel T4i DSLR camera, the new Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM is an ultra-slim, entry-level pancake lens that uses Canon's Stepping Motor Technology (STM) to enable extra-quiet continuous autofocus, making it well-suited for video shooting.
The new lightweight smc Pentax-DA 40mm f/2.8 XS strives to be a versatile weapon in a photographer's arsenal of lenses. But the dainty lens, weighing only 51 grams and measuring a slim 9mm in thickness, needs a little more beef – at least that's what DxOMark determined after putting the lens' optics through our rigorous tests.
The Pentax K01, Pentax's first serious hybrid, turns in a great performance, arriving in second place in its category. All of the results are available here: Pentax K-01.
Here is a new series featuring the results of Pentax prime lenses mounted on the compatible camera with the best resolution thus far, the Pentax K5. (But as usual, you can consult DxOMark to see the results for these lenses when mounted on other compatible camera bodies, such as the Pentax K7 or Km.)
Following the hybrid camera trend and after the limited success of the Pentax Q, Pentax is announcing today a new compact camera with interchangeable lenses, the Pentax K-01.
Added by buttons | September 03 , 2013
40mm F2.8 XS
I got this lens with my K01 and have been extremely pleased with it. Its allowed my K01 to fit in a coat pocket and with the camera set to AV, F2.8, auto iso 100-6400 it takes excellent pictures for the price. I have a picture of my GTO that i took and printed 13x19 and its just stunning (though after see it in print i did slightly over do the "punchy-ness"
Added by Class A | October 28 , 2012
DxOMark Lens Score is Broken
The original DA 40/2.8 has better resolution and performs much better regarding CA. Yet, the new XS version gets a better DxOMark Score.
Who cares about T-Stops (a 3.1 vs 2.9 difference anyhow) or minute differences in vignetting?
I applaud your sensor testing and white papers, but your lens testing seems broken.
All Pentax lenses seem to be penalised for comparatively low T-Stops but I doubt that with today's high-ISO performances, this aspect of lenses really matters.
Added by HowardAbraham | June 13 , 2012
Passes the Real World test just fine
I received the XS last week and took hundreds of photos with it, both indoors and outdoors this past weekend. I then imported the photos into Lightroom 4, so it's possible that LR4 compensated for any lens irregularities. In any case, I saw some fantastic results in terms of color, clarity, and depth of field. The 40mm focal length was quite liberating. I'm just an enthusiast and not a pro but I love this lens. And it's so tiny there is no reason not to carry it in your bag at all times.
Added by will_db | June 08 , 2012
I am surprised to see such a poor account of this lens, given how well it has done in other reviews, e.g. Photozone.de:
"The Pentax SMC DA 40mm f/2.8 exhibits a quite harmonious optical performance combined with excellent build quality. It is capable to produce impressively sharp images across the frame straight from the max. aperture. Distortions are marginal and CAs are a non-issue. Vignetting is visible at f/2.8 but not a show-stopper. The bokeh (out-of-focus blur) is slightly sub-average and bokeh fringing can be an issue at very large apertures. The lens does also suffer from a focus shift when stopping down - this can have an impact in close focus scenarios".
I wonder if DXO's boffins are really as good at reviewing lenses as *real photographers* who recognise the practical applications of lenses.


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I have read a lot about people using small cell and the struggles to 'regress' and the difficulties around keeping them building small cells, etc etc etc.
But it occurs to me that forcing the bees to build consistently small cells is likely to have just as many potential problems as people claim there is with forcing them to make larger cells.
A fair number of the small cell proponents will make reference to the fact that bees naturally make smaller cells. And while this is true, it is also true that bees naturally make a wide range of cell sizes. So isn't the consistency, or uniformity also necessarily suspect if we are to question foundation's effect on bee health?
I can see how people might like foundation for keeping comb straight.
I can see how people might like the ease of one-piece plastic, and the ability to scrape off old comb, or to better see larvae and eggs against a black plastic cell bottom.
But if you're going to talk about small cells in relation to bee health, based on the idea that it's more 'natural' - then I don't get it.
And if you're using small cell foundation, while at the same time claiming that going treatment free is going to allow the bee to 'naturally' gain resistance to pests - while you're restricting their combs - essentially the body of the superorganism - to an artificially imposed, and unnaturally regular structure...
...then I don't get that either.
Large cell or Small cell. Either way, you're pushing the bees to do something that's not within their nature by creating a consistent cell size.


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|Goal 8: To increase the number of persons trained at the highest academic level
|Objective 8.1 of 2: To increase the number of students of superior academic ability completing the terminal degree in designated areas of national need in order to alleviate that need.
|Indicator 8.1.1 of 2: Years of Support for Academic Study Provided to GAANN Fellows: The average number of years of additional support, beyond the 2 years of mandated institutional match to the 3-year grant period, provided to GAANN fellows by grantee programs.
|Targets and Performance Data
|Assessment of Progress
|Sources and Data Quality
Explanation: This is a new indicator for the program and requests grantees to go above and beyond the commitment currently required in the program regulations. As such the program office will need to publish the intent of this indicator for public comment and has not yet had an opportunity to implement the indicator. The baseline will be established in FY 2004. The competitive points will be offered beginning with the FY 2005 applications and the results will be available in December 2006.
Source: Performance Report
Grantee Performance Report: 1840-0748 GAANN Final Performance Report.
Frequency: Annually.
Collection Period: - 2004
Data Available: December 2006
Validated By: No Formal Verification.
Limitations: Grantees are currently not required to submit performance reports beyond the 3-year grant period. Therefore, there is no method of formally validating that additional years of support are provided. This means that the only way to collect consistent data is in the application stage. Because GAANN grantees will usually apply year-after-year and therefore have an incentive to live up to their commitments, we believe that until regulatory changes can be put into place, years promised in an application is a reliable proxy for years of support actually provided.
Improvements: The program office will seek to include in the program regulations a requirement that grantees must submit status updates for all years in which student support is attributable to the GAANN grant. This includes the 3-year grant period, 2-year required match, and any additional years committed to by the grantee in its application.
|Indicator 8.1.2 of 2: Enrollment of Underrepresented Populations: The percentage of GAANN fellows from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds compared to the national average of individuals from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds enrolled in programs leading to the terminal degree in the designated areas of national need.
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Explanation: This is a new indicator for the program and the first data will be available in December 2003. Baseline will be established in 2003. 2004 data will be baseline data established in 2003 + 1%. The long-term goal for this measure is the 2003 baseline + 5%.
Source 1: Performance Report
Grantee Performance Report: 1840-0748 GAANN Final Performance Report.
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Survey/Assessment: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.
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Collection Period: 2003 - 2004
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Main Campus - Health Education and Services Center
Rain or Shine this event with be held!
Get splashed with color powder as you run / walk our 5K course to a colorful, tie-dyed finish!
All proceeds from the Powder 5K Fun Run/Walk will be given to students scholarships at Hawkeye.
Registered participants can pick up their packet at the Health Education and Services Center front desk:
The course will begin at the Health Education and Services Center and take you towards Arboretum Drive, looping back towards the Health Education and Services Center, out to the track where you will complete two laps, and finish in front of the Health Education and Services Center.
Wear white, it shows the color better.
Put your phone or camera in plastic bag so it doesn't get the color dust in it.
Bring a towel to sit on for your drive home.
You may want to bring a bandana to cover your hair; it can also be used to cover your mouth.
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We will provide sunglasses, but you are welcome to bring your own!
When trying to clean off, dust off as much dry powder as you can before you apply any water to your clothes and your hair.
Wash your gear separately, with COLD water. Oxi-clean or a similar product will work wonders.
The color will eventually wash out, but maybe rethink bringing new shoes or nice strollers.
Bring a friend and enjoy the color!
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|Style over substance
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Racialism is sometimes considered synonymous with racism, but often refers to frightening racial ideologies rather than mere run-of-the-mill bigotry. While racial prejudice is irrational, racialism attempts to rationalise it into a coherent doctrine. Examples of racialist governments include Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa. Examples of racialist pressure groups include the Aryan Nations and the Ku Klux Klan.
Some forms of racialism are based on flawed interpretations of Christianity, and others on pseudoscience and flawed interpretations of science (particularly evolutionary biology). Sometimes, the term scientific racism is used to describe the latter. Diagrams showing the skull shapes and measurements of various races were used in racialist justifications for slavery during the 19th century, and appeared again in Nazi propaganda. Another facet of racialism is to refer to races in esoteric racist jargon. For example, racialist wiki Metapedia categorises races into "Caucasoid", "Negroid" and "Mongoloid". And, yes, the Metapedia entries for these terms do include skull measurement diagrams.
Most racialists believe in some sort of hierarchy of races, and since in most cases they are white supremacists, this usually puts the white, Caucasian, or "Aryan"[1] race firmly at the top. While all racialists are certainly racist, not all racists are necessarily racialist, although the more stupid ones may be an easy target for racialist propaganda.
The "original" skin color
Most forms of racialism view whatever their preferred skin color is as the "original" or "natural" skin color while other skin colors are viewed as aberrations, usually due to punishment by god or the result of devolution. Examples include:
- Curse of Ham, in which Noah's curse on Canaan is interpreted to have racial implications in which the cursed people had their skin "blackened."
- A similar concept can be found in the Book of Mormon.[2]
- Melanin theory and related ideas in Afrocentrism, in which black is the default skin color that other races have devolved from.
- A specific brand of this is peddled by groups like the Nation of Islam dials up the crazy to twelve and claims that white people were actually genetically engineered by a mad scientist named Yakub.
Modern anthropologists believe white skin came from black skin as people move to more northerly climates and substituted meat and fish with cereal grains. As people moved to more northerly climates darker skinned people were less able to absorb vitamin D and relied more on diet for this essential nutrient; when agriculture was introduced to northern climates and wheat became the main staple vitamin d deficiency and related diseases like rickets became a problem. Lighter skinned people could absorb more vitamin D and had an evolutionary advantage.
"Scientific" racism
While racialist ideas had been circulated for countless years by philosophers both natural and folk, what is more commonly known as "scientific racism" or "raciology" didn't come about until the 18th century and only gained more widespread popularity in the mid-19th century. Early attempts at "scientific" definitions of race drew largely on Carl Linnaeus' Systema Naturae (1735), in which he posited five races: the Europeanus, the Africanus, the Americanus, the Asiaticus, and the Monstrosus (that last one was actually made up of mythical creatures).[3] The idea of a Great Chain of Being, with a linear model of creation, also influenced racialist ideologies. One of "scientific" racism's greatest hits in the 19th century was Joseph Arthur, Comte de Gobineau's An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853), which was basically a work of racial historical determinism claiming that the "Aryans" were the supreme race and miscegenation led to civilizational decline.[4] Gobineau's writings greatly "inspired" the British Germanophile Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who wrote The Foundations of the 19th Century (1899), a massive anti-Semitic tome ascribing Europe's greatness to the Aryans (or Teutons).[5] This would later be heavily recycled by the Nazis. Incidentally, Chamberlain also rejected evolution and promoted the pseudo-astronomy of Hans Hörbiger. Another influence on the Nazis was Ernst Haeckel, who used Lamarckian views of evolution to defend racialism and nationalism.[6]
Darwin and racialism
Despite what the creationists and Social Darwinists would have you believe, the work of Charles Darwin did not promote racialism (as above, many raciological works were written before Darwin even published his own work and many of them, in fact, denied Darwinian evolution). Darwin, despite making occasional use of racist tropes in common currency at the time in his writing (e.g., use of the term "savages"), was fiercely progressive for his time. On the Origin of Species and the subsequent Descent of Man undermined many of the arguments made by racialists by demonstrating that humans were one species.[7] Darwin specifically argued that there were no clear delineations between the races and that they graduated into each other in Descent of Man. In his personal life, he was also a staunch abolitionist.[8][9]
It was, in fact, Herbert Spencer who coined the term "survival of the fittest" in his book Principles of Biology and (wrongly) applied Darwinian evolution to sociology and politics.[10] Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton, coined the term "eugenics." It's also worth noting that the line of eugenicists spawned by Galton in Britain generally saw social class as more important than race.
Further, there is the persistent meme perpetuated by creationists that Darwin's works were used as justification for the eugenics programs of Nazi Germany. For a full debunking of this, see the article Hitler and evolution.
Racialism and pseudo-psychology in the US
Two of the most well-known proponents of "scientific" racism in the United States were Benjamin Rush and Samuel Cartwright. Rush was, rather interestingly, one of the Founding Fathers and an abolitionist. He believed that blacks suffered from a disease called "negritude," supposedly a form of leprosy, that could be "cured" and would result in turning their skin white. This led to his attempts to develop quack "cures" for "negritude." Cartwright coined two pseudo-psychological diagnoses that rationalized and justified slavery. The first he called "drapetomania," which was allegedly an illness causing slaves to run away from their masters. Conveniently for the slave masters, much of the "treatment" for this "illness" consisted of whipping. The second "diagnosis" was "dysaethesia aethiopica," or laziness. This was, according to Cartwright, also a physical illness that could be diagnosed through the appearance of lesions on the skin. No doubt this had nothing to do with the backbreaking manual labor and frequent whippings and beatings slaves endured, nothing at all.[11]
The head bone's connected to the...bigotry bone?
Racialists were also known for having big skull fetishes. The pseudoscience of phrenology was incorporated into racialist theories during the 19th century. The variant of phrenology known as "craniology" or "craniometry" became popular during this period. Craniology attempted to measure intelligence using the shape and size of the skull as a proxy. Craniology was used as a justification for all sorts of bigotry. Brits, for example, declared the Irish to be inferior to Anglo-Saxons based on skull measurements. It could also be called a form of "scientific" sexism as it was used to "prove" the superiority of men.[12] Surgeon and anthropologist Paul Broca conducted some of the most famous large-scale studies attempting to demonstrate the intellectual superiority of whites and men.[13] Herbert Spencer was also known as a promoter of these ideas in his psychological writings.
Craniology is, of course, made of multiple layers of wrong. In theory, it is already two steps removed from what it's attempting to measure, i.e., skull size (cranial capacity, in technical parlance) is used to approximate brain size which is in turn used to approximate "intelligence." Cranial capacity can, in fact, be used to measure brain size. However, more advanced bigots have generally moved on to direct measurements of brain size (thanks in large part to modern brain scanning technology), which is where the weak link in the chain really is. The problem here is that the size of the brain by itself is not a measure of intelligence. If this idea were taken to its logical conclusion, the world would likely be ruled by elephants or sperm whales. To use an example much more comparable to humans in brain structure, Neanderthals' brains were on average a bit larger than ours.[14] So much for the Neanderthal master race. What is much more important than absolute brain size includes factors such as cortical folding, neuronal organization, dendritic and synaptic connections, etc.[15]
Furthermore, the size and shape of the skull is itself not set in stone. As was demonstrated a hundred years ago by Franz Boas, people who are raised with a higher quality of life tend to have slightly larger and differently-shaped skulls than those who grew up in poverty, with little food and limited access to health care.[16] It was this research, showing that upbringing plays as much a role in skull size and shape as genetics does, that helped to discredit the "science" back in the early 20th century.
For good measure, and to demonstrate how utterly wrong craniological ideas are, assume that there is a single part of the brain responsible for intelligence and that its size magically corresponds exactly to intelligence levels (or, in other words, set the game up in the bigots' favor as much as possible). Because we know about the neuroplasticity of the brain, this still does not prove any kind of biological or genetic determinism tied to the size of this part of the brain as we don't know the direction of causality, i.e. is the person smart because the hypothetical "intelligence cortex" happens to be large or is that part of the brain large because the person happens to have been learned well?
Race and intelligence (or, craniology redux)
A handful of "researchers" including figures such as J. Philippe Rushton and Arthur Jensen have continued to argue that certain races are just inherently dumb. While they still like their skull and brain size measurements, their arguments hinge more on invoking genetic determinism as an explanation for racial and ethnic group differences in IQ scores. In addition to the fact that race is incredibly ill-defined itself, IQ has many of its own problems. While there is general agreement on IQ as a useful measure, there is no consensus on a number of related issues, such as how strongly it correlates to general intelligence, how many aspects of intelligence it can measure, what the implications are sociologically speaking, etc.[17] Another problem with using IQ in this manner (besides the obvious) is the Flynn Effect, a phenomenon discovered by the psychologist James Flynn in which there has been a global rise in average IQ scores. In many cases, ethnic minorities have made the most rapid gains.[18][19]
Rushton, however, has put a new spin on the supposed racial hierarchy -- according to him, it should be organized thusly: "Mongoloid" > "Caucasoid" > "Negroid." This led anthropologist Jonathan Marks to remark:
""First we must admire the apparent cranial expansion of Asians over the last half-century, when [earlier] researchers consistently reported their having smaller brains than whites. Obviously this implies the possibility of a comparable expansion in blacks. More likely, it implies the possibility of scientists finding just what they expect when the social and political stakes are high.[20]
See also
- Biological determinism
- The Bell Curve
- Racial realists, what many are calling themselves today.
- Satoshi Kanazawa
External links
- Institute for the Study of Academic Racism, Ferris State University
- RaceSci Project (The history of race in science)
- IQ and Race in The Skeptic's Dictionary
- Race and IQ by Thomas Sowell (a good defense of both racial equality and academic freedom)
- How Heritability Misleads About Race by Ned Block
- Intelligence, Learning, and Evolution; A Note by C.J. Borthwick
- "Scientific Racism": A review of William H. Tucker's The Science and Politics of Racial Research by A.C. Higgins
- Review of Rushton's Race, Evolution, and Behavior by Douglas Wahlsten
- "Scientific Racism" in Enlightened Europe: Linnaeus, Darwin, and Galton, Serendip, Bryn Mawr University
- Race, Genes, and Intelligence, Pilar N. Ossorio, Council for Responsible Genetics
- Richard E. Nisbett. Heredity, Environment, and Race Differences in IQ. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2005, Vol. 11, No. 2, 302–310.
- Robert J. Sternberg et al. Intelligence, Race, and Genetics. American Psychologist, Jan. 2005.
- Kenan Malik. The Science of Race and the Politics of Ignorance. The Philosophers' Magazine, issue 41, Spring 2008
- Race, IQ, and Jensen by James R. Flynn
- The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould[21]
- Intelligence: A Brief History by Anna T. Cianciolo and Robert J. Sternberg
- The Evolution of Racism by Pat Shipman
- ↑ Or, in Metapedia's case, "Caucasoid".
- ↑ See the Wikipedia article on Black people and early Mormonism.
- ↑ Systema Naturae
- ↑ An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races
- ↑ Houston Stewart Chamberlain entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Foundations can be read in full here, if you're into that sort of thing.
- ↑ Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), UC Berkeley evolution exhibit
- ↑ Contra Darwin, attempting to "prove" that blacks were a separate species somewhere between apes and whites in lineage became a hobby-horse for racialists.
- ↑ The Mis-Portrayal of Darwin as a Racist by R.G. Price
- ↑ Darwin's writing is also ripe for quote mining as he used the terms "race," "culture," and "kind" interchangeably as was the convention at the time. Removing the context of these quotes to imply that Darwin's conception of evolutionary theory implies racialism is committing the fallacy of presentism. Talk Origins has more on common quote mines here and here. Further discussion of evolution and racism can be found here.
- ↑ Herbert Spencer at About Darwin. See also Talk Origins on "survival of the fittest."
- ↑ Vanessa Jackson, "In Our Own Voices: African American Stories of Oppression, Survival and Recovery in the Mental Health System", pp 1-36, p. 4-8.
- ↑ Craniometry entry in The Skeptic's Dictionary
- ↑ Women's Brains by Stephen Jay Gould, excerpt from The Panda's Thumb.
- ↑ Volume of a Human Brain, Physics Factbook
- ↑ For a brief overview, see Brain Size and Intelligence by Steven Novella and Fact or Fiction: When It Comes to Intelligence, Does Brain Size Matter? in Scientific American. Further information can be found at the Brain Evolution page at Bryn Mawr.
- ↑ Clarence C. Gravlee, H. Russell Bernard, and William R. Leonard. Heredity, Environment, and Cranial Form: A Reanalysis of Boas's Immigrant Data. American Anthropologist, Mar. 2003, 105(1):125–138
- ↑ Ulric Neisser et al. Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns. American Psychologist, Feb. 1996.
- ↑ Flynn Effect page at Indiana University. See also "None of the Above" by Malcolm Gladwell and The Flynn Effect and IQ Disparities Among Races, Ethnicities, and Nations by Scott Barry Kaufman.
- ↑ James R. Flynn. Searching for Justice: The Discovery of IQ Gains Over Time. American Psychologist, vol. 54, no. 1, Jan. 1999, pp. 5-20
- ↑ Quoted in: Leonard Lieberman. How "Caucasoids" Got Such Big Crania and Why They Shrank. Current Anthropology. Volume 42, Number 1, February 2001
- ↑ It should be noted Gould's criticisms of Morton's cranial capacity measurements have been called into question. See Jason E. Lewis et al. The Mismeasure of Science: Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Morton on Skulls and Bias. PLoS Biol 9(6), 2011, with further commentary in Nature Jun. 2011.


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