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A Yashica 635's Resurrectionwritten by renenob on 2013-05-20
This is an unbelievable story about how a cameraman called Bebot resurrected a dead Yashica 635.9 36 Share Tweet
Fuji Velvia 50: The Film with Earth Colourswritten by bao_wei on 2012-05-04 #gear
Hello everyone! In this article, I am introducing a slide film which is uncommon for lomographers. It is Fuji Velvia 50, as stated from the name, it is an ISO 50 slide film. I think most of the lomographers will be thinking of reddish colours when they see the word Velvia. But not for Fuji Velvia 50. The colours you will get are extremely amazing!6 24 Share Tweet
Discovering the Marquesas archipelago (part 4): Ua Hukawritten by vicuna on 2010-04-22 #places
After visiting Nuku Hiva and Hiva Oa, we finally landed on the last island of our Marquesas trip, Ua Huka. We decided to spend 3 days on this very small island as everybody told us that it was the most magic and wild one, absolutely different from all the other islands. And indeed, we really made a trip "into the wild".....13 12 Share Tweet
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Parkwritten by artpunk on 2008-09-04 #places
The largest monolith in the world sits majestically in the center of the Australian landmass. With the beautiful rocks of Kata Tjuta (meaning 'many heads' in the traditional aboriginal _Pinjantjatjara_ language) nearby (well, 50 kms by road distant from Uluru which _is_ nearby if you are used to driving Australian distances!), this is one of the most amazing areas in the world that you can visit.11 10 Share Tweet
Discovering The Marquesas Archipelago (part 2): Nuku Hivawritten by vicuna on 2010-04-11 #places
After the short transit on Rangiroa (see previous location) we finally arrive on Nuku Hiva, the main island of the Marquesas archipelago. The exploration of this magic and beautiful part of the world called "Henua Enana" (that means "the land of men" in marquesian) can now begin!10 10 Share Tweet
Amazing Expired Fuji Superia 200written by moonormoon on 2011-08-03 #gear
This is expired film, but without expiry date on producing amazing photos.4 14 Share Tweet
World Finest Grain Avaliable Through The Kodak Ektar 100!written by illegaltender on 2012-09-07 #gear
This is a short and sweet review of this amazing film with amazing colors perfect for shooting in most situations!2 15 Share Tweet
Discovering the Marquesas archipelago (part 3): Hiva Oawritten by vicuna on 2010-04-16 #places
Hiva Oa is another stunning island of the Marquesas archipelago and has something very special: 2 worldwide known european artists decided to live their last years on this island and today they're buried side by side in the cemetary of Atuona. I'm talking about the famous painter Paul Gauguin and the fascinating poet and singer Jacques Brel...8 6 Share Tweet
The Seaweed Farms of Jambianiwritten by adrienne-is on 2011-03-19 #places
Bright violent sunlight streams from a nearly cloudless, blue sky striking the soft wet sands of the early morning Swahili Coast. Wooden dhows rest motionlessly atop of tiny pools waiting for the ocean's water to roll back in, waiting to bob and weave while in pursuit of fish with their fishermen friends again. Cloaked in vibrant khanga cloth, the women of the village move away from their jagged coral, shell, and concrete constructed abodes.3 10 Share Tweet
Lomography Fisheye One, the Little Camera that Couldwritten by chaoticsense on 2011-01-06 #gear
The fisheye lens was originally developed to help meteorologists to shoot the whole sky and study cloud formations. I don't know if it's used that way anymore, but I do know that it gives an amazing effect and that the Lomo Fisheye One is a perfect way to rock it sky high!4 7 Share Tweet
Voigtländer V400 (35mm, 400 iso) User-Reviewwritten by cyan-shine on 2010-02-19 #gear
Voigtländer is a very well known name when it come to optics, but little did I know that they also made some films!2 3 Share Tweet
The Little Celebration That Couldwritten by lomography-to on 2012-12-03 #news
This past Friday, November 23rd, 2012, we invited you to our store to help us celebrate our family's 20th anniversary and Lomography Toronto's 2nd birthday! A little celebration that could and would turn out to be an unforgettable night filled with friends, family, music and CAKE! Here is the insider' look through the eyes of our staff on that magical night!2 Share Tweet
Please Don't Goh!written by lomography-to on 2012-12-03 #news
LomoAmigo Goh Nakamura performed live at LGS Toronto on November 11, 2012, leaving us with great tunes throughout the store!1 Share Tweet


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Skip to comments.Abramoff Tied to Dorgan Donation, Tribe Says
Posted on 11/29/2005 8:48:33 AM PST by The_Victor
WASHINGTON - New evidence is emerging that the top Democrat on the Senate committee currently investigating Jack Abramoff got political money arranged by the lobbyist back in 2002 shortly after the lawmaker took action favorable to Abramoff's tribal clients.
A lawyer for the Louisiana Coushatta Indians told The Associated Press that Abramoff instructed the tribe to send $5,000 to Sen. Byron Dorgan (news, bio, voting record)'s political group just three weeks after the North Dakota Democrat urged fellow senators to fund a tribal school program Abramoff's clients wanted to use.
The check was one of about five dozen the Coushattas listed in a tribal ledger as being issued on March 6, 2002, to various lawmakers' campaigns and political causes at the instruction of Abramoff, tribal attorney Jimmy Faircloth said Monday.
Many of the recipients were lawmakers who had just written letters to the Bush administration or Congress supportive of Abramoff's tribal causes, documents show.
"I am confident of that fact," Faircloth said when asked whether Abramoff had requested the donations listed in a tribal ledger obtained by the AP.
The revelation came as Dorgan took to the offensive Monday, saying there was no connection between the $20,000 in donations he got from Abramoff's firm and tribal clients in spring 2002 and a February 2002 letter he wrote urging the Senate Appropriations Committee to fund the tribal school building program.
Dorgan's letter noted that the Mississippi Choctaw, one of Abramoff's clients, had successfully used the program and requested lawmakers consider long-term funding for it. It made no mention of Abramoff or any of his other tribes that were interested in the program.
Dorgan sharply criticized an AP story last week that divulged he and about a dozen other lawmakers had gotten Abramoff-related donations around the time they sent letters supporting the school building program.
Dorgan told a news conference in North Dakota he had never met Abramoff, did not know about the donations from the lobbyist's clients around the time of his letter and saw no reason to step aside from the Senate Indian Affairs committee investigation of Abramoff.
"I don't have any idea what was contributed to me, or by whom. No contribution has been made to me that was ever represented as a contribution coming from Mr. Abramoff, or any relationship to things that he was involved in," Dorgan said when quizzed about the $20,000 in donations.
Dorgan said he wrote the letter because he supported the tribal school construction program and believed tribes in his state might benefit. "The Bush administration wanted to shut the program down. I disagreed. The program saves the federal government money and gets results. That makes sense to me," he said.
Dorgan's staff said Dorgan believes the letter was drafted by Sen. Conrad Burns (news, bio, voting record), R-Mont., who also signed it and got similar donations from Abramoff's clients in the same time frame.
For instance, the Coushattas' check ledger shows the tribe on March 6, 2002, wrote checks for $5,000 to Dorgan's political group, called the Great Plains Leadership Fund, and $25,000 to Burns. That money ultimately landed in Burns' Friends of the Big Sky political group, records show.
Other checks listed as being issued that day were made out to groups or campaigns associated with Sens. Trent Lott, Mary Landrieu, Harry Reid and John Breaux and Reps. Tom DeLay, Charles Taylor and Pete Session, all of whom wrote letters favorable to Abramoff tribal client causes, the ledger shows.
Those lawmakers, like Dorgan, have denied any connection between the letters and the donations.
"The suggestion in the story that I may have supported that school construction program because of Jack Abramoff or because of campaign contributions from Indian tribes is clearly and despicably wrong," Dorgan said.
Dorgan's spokesman, Barry E. Piatt, said he believed his boss had pursued the congressional investigation of Abramoff aggressively.
Asked why that investigation hasn't focused more on donations to lawmakers who wrote letters favorable to Abramoff's clients, Piatt said, "They're investigating what appears to be massive fraud, and there's lots of ground to cover and it is still early."
Dorgan's office also corrected one piece of information it provided last week. In an interview last Wednesday, Dorgan chief of staff Bernie Toon told the AP that congressional aide Peter Kiefhaber worked for Dorgan's subcommittee in late January 2003.
Kiefhaber did work for the Democratic staff of the Senate Interior Appropriations subcommittee at the time and Dorgan was a member, but Dorgan didn't formally take over as the top Democrat on the panel until March 4, 2003, his office said Monday.
Associated Press Writer Dale Wetzel contributed to this story from Bismarck, N.D.
This is just what the Republicans have to jump on to avoid being the only party consumed in the fire the dems have lit. Can you say "Culture of Hypocrisy?"
Sweet. Here's hoping that the Culture of Corruption is entirely revealed, Rats included...
Frog walk this bastard, right to the JAIL !!
Has there ever been a bribe in the history of politics where a politician couldn't say, "I took the money and did what he wanted, but the two events were NOT related."
He belongs is a Chain Gang with all the others who took bribes.
Maybe we should start asking them. Personally, I was amazed that the 'Rats would have the unmitigated nerve to discuss "cultures of corruption," after Clinton's long, messy, corrupt term. Why isn't any of that brought up when they start yammering about corruption?
because they are wimps, tell me why some "moral GOP member" has not shouted kennedy down with his immoral behavior,some war hero confronted kerry with his shameful anti-military past,why haven't there been our party members confronting the durbins,lying immoral clintons,bidens;leahy and rockfellar leaking of national secrets to the media why has there not been a flame thrower for once already;we need a pitbull,take no prisoners "I don't care whose feelings are offended kinda MAN"!!!!
I will bet my retirement check that scrutiny would also show l'il Tommie Dasshole is up to his na-na's in this also!!!!!!!!
Check his wife's bank book. They are two of the most corrupt people in DC.
LOL. In light of their double standards, I share your sentiments. What I have learned, however, is that US Senators are essentially immune from criminal prosecution. McCain and the Keating Five come to mind...
corruption will only be reduced when the Federal government doesn't have the power to 'do things' for all of these interests. With no federal regulation of gambling, these indian tribes would never have given any money to anyone.
It is obvious we cannot trust the politicians.
More on Senator Byron "Combover" Dorgan (D-ND)
Abramoff Investigator Aided Mashpee Tribe By JOHN SOLOMON and SHARON THEIMER,
Associated Press Writers
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WASHINGTON - The Democrat helping to lead the Senate investigation into Jack Abramoff's Indian lobbying had his own connections to the controversial lobbyist's team and clients, including using his sports arena skybox to raise money.
Sen. Byron Dorgan (news, bio, voting record), D-N.D., acknowledges he got Congress in fall 2003 to press government regulators to decide, after decades of delay, whether the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts deserved federal recognition.
Dorgan met with the tribe's representatives and collected at least $11,500 in political donations from Abramoff partner Michael D. Smith, who was representing the Mashpee, around the time he helped craft the legislation, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The senator also didn't reimburse another tribe, the Mississippi Choctaw, for the use of Abramoff's skybox in 2001, when the tribe held a fundraiser for him there, instead treating it as a tribal contribution. He only recently reimbursed the tribe for the box, four years later, after determining it was connected to Abramoff.
Dorgan, who is vice chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee that is investigating Abramoff, says he sees no reason to step down from the probe, which he and Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., are leading. He said he had no idea at the time that any of the transactions were connected to Abramoff or the alleged fleecing of tribes.
"I never met Jack Abramoff but I am appalled by what we have learned about his actions," Dorgan said Thursday. "So I have never felt there was any conflict in my helping to lead that investigation. I think Senator McCain would agree our investigation has been relentless and that neither of us will be diverted."
Dorgan's contacts, donations and fundraisers involving Abramoff tribal clients and lobbying associates, as well as those of other lawmakers, have not been examined during the Senate hearings into the lobbyist's roughly $80 million in charges to the tribes.
The senator didn't volunteer the information, although he did disclose his donations in campaign reports over the years.
Larry Noble, the government's former chief election enforcement lawyer, said Dorgan should have considered stepping aside from the inquiry and at the very least should have disclosed all his own intersections with Abramoff's associates and tactics.
"I think any way you look at it he had an obligation to disclose," Noble said. "It is hard for anyone not to see a conflict when you're investigating the same activity you yourself were involved with."
Over the last month, the AP has reported that about four dozen lawmakers, Republicans and Democrats, collected donations from Abramoff's tribal clients and firm around the time they wrote letters to the Bush administration or Congress favorable to the tribes.
Congressional ethics rules require lawmakers to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest in performing official duties and accepting political money. The Justice Department is investigating whether Abramoff, already charged with fraud in a Florida case, won any undue influence through donations and favors.
Dorgan on Monday sharply criticized the AP for reporting last week that he collected $20,000 from Abramoff's firm and tribes in the period when he wrote a letter urging the Senate Appropriations Committee to fund a school construction program that Abramoff's clients and other tribes wanted.
The senator, who has Indian tribes in his state, said he long supported the program, and the letter and donations had no connection. And he asserted that he never took any action or received any campaign help that knowingly involved Abramoff.
Dorgan, however, benefited from the very arena skybox that has become a symbol of Abramoff's controversial efforts to win Washington influence, records show.
The Mississippi Choctaw tribe, an Abramoff client that has been a primary focus of Senate hearings, sponsored a fundraiser March 28, 2001, for Dorgan's political group, the Great Plains Leadership Fund. The event treated Dorgan and his donors to a bird's-eye view of a professional hockey game from a skybox Abramoff leased in Washington's MCI Center, while lobbyists got the chance to bend his ear.
Dorgan knew the fundraiser was sponsored by the Choctaw and that two Abramoff lobbyists attended, but at the time he didn't know they were connected to Abramoff, his spokesman said. "He was told the skybox was the Choctaws'," Barry Piatt said.
Dorgan didn't reimburse the tribe, instead reporting the event as an "in-kind" $1,800 tribal contribution without specifying it involved the skybox.
Piatt said reporting it that way was legal and normal. The senator reimbursed the tribe $1,800 for the skybox earlier this year when he learned from reports that it was connected to Abramoff, Piatt said.
Documents the Senate released show Abramoff charged the Choctaws $223,679 to underwrite use of the skybox in 2001, the year of Dorgan's fundraiser, even though the tribe "very rarely" used it. Dorgan has denounced the fees as outrageous.
Dorgan and his staff met several times with Abramoff's lobbying team, according to the lobbying firm's billing records.
Smith, the Abramoff associate who represented both tribes and the Northern Mariana Islands, billed for at least four meetings with Dorgan or his staff in 2001. He billed for two hours on the day of Dorgan's skybox fundraiser for a discussion with the lawmaker on "minimum wage legislation," the records state.
Investigators have information suggesting Dorgan and his staff may have had more than 20 contacts with Abramoff's lobbying team involving the Marianas, tribes and other clients over the years, said a person directly familiar with the investigation who spoke only on condition of anonymity because of the probe continues. Piatt said Dorgan's office doesn't keep records of staff meetings but that any notations in billing records shouldn't be trusted because Abramoff was fired from his firm over his billing practices.
Dorgan's office acknowledged he met in 2003 with representatives of the Mashpee, the Massachusetts tribe that Abramoff signed as a client and Smith represented. The tribe was trying to persuade the federal government to rule on its decades-old request to be formally recognized.
The senator used his position as a member of the joint House-Senate committee that approved the final Interior Department spending bill for 2004 to craft a provision that pressed the agency to "complete its review of the Mashpee petition as expeditiously as possible."
"Absolutely, he was involved. The tribe asked him to be involved and the Massachusetts senators supported it," Piatt said. "They had 29 years of waiting. It seemed like a reasonable thing to do."
Piatt said he didn't think Dorgan's help was significant because the action didn't order Interior to make a specific conclusion, only urged it to act more quickly.
But the Mashpee say the lobbying paid off because Dorgan's provision prompted Interior to speed its decision-making process. The tribe credits Dorgan and one of his colleagues, Sen. Conrad Burns (news, bio, voting record), R-Mont., another frequent recipient of Abramoff tribal donations, for the provision.
"Both Senator Burns and Senator Dorgan were helpful," Mashpee spokesman Scott Ferson said.
The summer before the help, Smith sent three donations to Dorgan totaling $1,500, while a separate Abramoff client, the Saginaw Chippewa, sent Dorgan a total of $10,000. The Saginaw were interested in a second provision in the same Interior spending bill, inserted by Burns, that provided the tribe $3 million in school construction money.
The spending bill was finalized Oct. 27, 2003, with both the Saginaw and Mashpee provisions.
Six weeks later, Smith donated $5,000 to North Dakota Senate 2004, a joint fundraising committee set up to help Dorgan's re-election. Smith made a second $5,000 donation to the same Dorgan committee in February 2004, campaign reports show.
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Exactly right - throw this right back in their face everytime they bring up the "Republican Scandals Rocking Washington" - I want to puke everytime I hear a RAT LIB say those words. Clintoon ran one of the most corrupt campaigns and administrations in recent history, but he like all RATS get a pass in the MSM. We need the Repubs to come out and denounce this activity. Should he be forced to step aside just like Tom DeLay - how can he investigate something that he himself condoned and did?? WHAT HYPROCISY.
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WILMINGTON — Dixie Sue Way Woodbury, 79, of Wilmington, passed away Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, surrounded by her family at her home. She was born May 7, 1937 in Anita, Iowa the daughter of the late Max Way and Marjorie Knowlton Way.
Dixie retired after 40 years as an elementary school teacher that specialized in the art of reading and started her career in the Omaha Public Schools of Nebraska. She was a dedicated and caring teacher who took immense interest in her student's success. Later, she took time from teaching to raise her family and further her education by going back to college to earn a Master's Degree.
Dixie taught in the Howard County Public Schools in Columbia, Maryland, and lived most of her adult life in Maryland and Pennsylvania until her retirement, when she moved to Wilmington, N.C.
She spent much of her time giving back to others and volunteering in the community at the Wilmington Airport and the local homeless shelter. She enjoyed line dancing at the senior center and local churches. Most of all she was devoted to her family and was a loving and wonderful mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend that will be deeply missed by all.
Left to cherish her memory are her three daughters, Pageen Williford of Md., Lee Anne Crane (Bob) of Wilmington, N.C., and Lorrie Noll (Jeff) of Charlotte, N.C.; six grandchildren, Matthew Robinson, Brandyn Robinson, Brianna Crane, Connor Crane, Savannah Noll and Skylar Noll; a Brother, Dean Way (Teresa) of Lincoln, Neb.; and two nephews, Christopher and Kyle Way.
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A Wilmington man who was suspected of supplying a brand of heroin in Wilmington tied to an April spike in overdoses has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. The drug has since been found not to be heroin, but a more lethal form of an opioid, Fentanyl.
Vidal Leonard Becton, 42, pleaded guilty Wednesday in New Hanover County Superior Court to attempting to sell heroin, selling Fentanyl, maintaining a vehicle for a controlled substance and possession of a firearm by a felon, according to a news release from District Attorney Ben David.
Superior Court Judge W. Allen Cobb sentenced Becton as a habitual felon and ordered him to serve 127-165 months in the N.C. Department of Corrections.
A New Hanover County Sheriff's deputy stopped Becton in a Mercedes on Chestnut Street for an outstanding warrant on Nov. 21, 2014. The deputy reportedly found 90 bags of heroin, a 9 mm handgun and $870 in cash in the car. While out on bond for the charges, Becton reportedly sold 10 bags of heroin to an undercover officer for $130 on May 1.
"During the transaction, Becton warned the person to be careful because it had not been cut, and that the buyer shouldn't use more than half a bag at a time because of the purity," David said. "The substance sold was not heroin but was in fact Fentanyl."
Fentanyl — a synthetic opioid — is commonly laced with heroin, according to a nationwide treat and public safety alert issued March 18 by the Drug Enforcement Administration about the drug. It is the most potent opioid available for use in medical treatment — 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin — and is potentially lethal in low doses.
At the time, Wilmington detectives were investigating a rash of overdoses associated with two brands of heroin. Narcotics detectives suspected Becton sold one of the brands of heroin tied to a spike in overdoses this spring, according to Wilmington Police Department Spokeswoman Linda Rawley.
According to overdose records provided by the police department, officers responded to 10 heroin overdose calls April 11-12, which equaled the total number of overdoses reported in all of 2014. Police suspected there may have been additional unreported incidents, Rawley said. A total of 19 overdose cases were reported between January and May.
Undercover officers arranged a second purchase from Becton — of what he believed to be heroin — and arrested him on May 6, David said. Detectives seized $800 from his car but did not find any narcotics.
After his arrest, detectives searched Becton's home on East Plaza Drive in the Houston Moore community and seized opiate drugs and a military ballistic vest, Rawley said.
"This case shows the lunacy of heroin consumption. Nothing dramatizes the addictive quality of heroin than the fact that people will continue to use and even seek out a brand of heroin that is literally killing people," Assistant District Attorney Timothy Severo said. "Our office will continue to seek lengthy sentences for defendants who trade human lives for profit."


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The poker game was going well-at least for everyone except Will Riker-which meant it was going VERY well for everyone else. It spoke volumes as to the seasoning of those present that when the proximity alert sounded, there was a moment of contemplation, assessing the hand before them, before laying cards face down and proceeding to the front of the shuttle. No one rushed, each crew member slid into their role with the ease of familiar competence.
Just as they had filled the four Command chairs in the nose of the shuttle, the smooth baritone of the Captain sounded behind them.
"What have we got?"
"It's a debris field of some sort, wasn't on the star maps..." Will pushed commands on the computer console.
"Slow to one quarter impulse." The Captain ordered. "Let's have a look."
"Sensors indicate the debris is titanium, duranium, zilcon, transparent aluminum..." Data broke off the list, noting he was supplying more information than needed, "It appears from the composition, this was a Federation vessel."
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The Doctor was filling the position of Navigator on this trip, and had already called up the information. "Just leaving the Ninan system, we won't be in direct communication range with the Enterprise for another two hours."
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The large shuttle bucked. Will's hands dove for the manual controls.
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The authors point to barriers to telehealth for chronic care including reimbursement, the need for extensive care teams to work with patients, effective data management from various devices, the ability to apply predictive analytics and application of data into clinical practice. Efficient business models must emerge if technology-driven healthcare services are to grow.
Telehealth policies among U.S. states, federal agencies, and in European Union countries "are outdated and woefully inadequate to support widespread telehealth adoption and growth," the paper adds.
Cost estimates of telehealth programs in the United States from the Congressional Budget Office focus on short-term financial costs of new legislation rather than potential long-term savings from such programs, the authors say. Meanwhile, European countries have longstanding Health Technology Assessment organizations to make better cost-benefits analyses.
To create a personalized telemedicine program, providers must match their technology and data-management approach to patients' needs. There needs to be greater clarity about who owns the data, patients' access to that data and the legal obligations to protect patient privacy--support of a full and auditable "chain of custody" of the data, according to the authors.
Providers also must address the digital divide among patients, realizing that those who could most benefit from technology solutions might need the most help in using them.
"To demonstrate and realize added value to health outcomes, telehealth implementation is not simply a feature to be added to existing healthcare delivery. It must be integrated into innovation at the system level," the authors say, a finding that echoes that of the Center for Connected Health Policy.
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The storm was horrific. The lighting stuck loud. The rain came down hard. I usually sleep well during thunderstorms but somehow not tonight. Something dreadful was coming; something awful was going to happen.
I kept tossing and turning. Perhaps I should go to Lucy's bedroom. She was so worried when I returned. I was too. But I had no idea why. Probably because was kidnapped by some "prince". I should probably go and tell Lucy everything; after all she was my best friend. She had to know. I owed her that much.
I got up and went down the hall. The thunder seemed to grow louder as I approached the door. I slowly opened the door.
"Lucy?" I whisper. "It's me Sana..." I walk in. Lucy wasn't there! I rush to her bed.
"Lucy?" I scream. Her crucifix necklace lay on her bed. I turn and see her full length windows were opened! Oh, God not again! Lucy's sleepwalking has gotten worse and worse the past year.
Oh no! I rush out without thinking. I see Lucy walking to the gardens.
"LUCY!" I scream.
The rain and the strength to the thunder and wind stopped me as I ran out to Lucy. Who was still walking in her trance.
"LUCY!" I shriek.
She still didn't wake up as I saw her disappear into the darkness of the storm.
I followed the best I could run in the direction of Lucy. The heavy rain pouring down across my nightgown seemed to add heavy weights to my body as I ran to find Lucy.
Dark words penetrate my mind of darkish music that brings the fear of danger. Where was she?
LUCY! Where are you?
I suddenly hear cries and I run toward them and I find Lucy on a bench. Moaning, constantly laying down upon a bench with this dark figure on top of her. She was in a completely vulnerable position and he was taking advantage of her. I couldn't tell who or what it was. Instead of saving her, I cannot move. I am in a fixed position and horrifies of what I see. Unable to stop watching, unable to stop it from happening.
All of a sudden the dark creature bit into Lucy's pale neck. Her scream echoed even in the storm. My breath cuts short and I see the dark shadow look at me with anger and fear.
"No! Do not see me!"
And it vanished…just like a dream.
I run towards Lucy and cover her up the best I can. Shaking her to wake up, for she was still in her trance.
"Lucy, Lucy!" I say loudly, shaking her to wake up.
She stirs and says "I couldn't control myself."
"Lucy, you're dreaming. You're walking in your sleep again." What had just happened?
She was fully awake now as I helped her up. She said confusingly and somewhat agitated
"My soul seemed to leave my body. There was this agonizing feeling and, when it came back to me, I saw you shaking me."
She was dreaming, she had to be.
"You're all right, Lucy." I say reassuringly. "Nothing's going to harm you, not while I'm around."
We begin to walk fast paced out of the garden as she says somewhat dazed
"I had to. It sort of pulled me and lured me and I had no control. And those red eyes! I still have the taste of his blood on my mouth."
We finally make it up the stairs and Lucy faints against me.
Now what am I to do?
I cleaned up her face and neck the best I could. I noticed two little marks on her neck. Where the monster bit her. Or where they always there and I haven't noticed. Have I gone rather mad?
Did I call someone? I don't know… I felt too tired to even understand my own thoughts. I sat on a comfy chair facing Lucy. There was no use troubling anyone tonight. I would stay with her tonight in case she got up again.
What happened today? It seemed almost a blur as I sank into another terrible deep sleep. Full of horror, blood, and tragic ends of all the people I've ever loved.
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Islamabad, Mar.3 :A United Nations report has criticised successive governments of Pakistan for their dismal performance in facilitating development in the country's various social sectors despite being the third highest recipient of Official Development Assistance (ODA) after India and Egypt between 1960 and 1998. Quoting extensively from the said U.N.Report, the Daily Times cites ineffective management, the lack of capacity to plan and deliver at the micro level, difficulties with bureaucratic structure and weaknesses in the rule of law as the main factors responsible for Islamabad's inability to deliver in the social sector.
"Pakistan received 58 billion dollars in foreign aid from 1950-99, however it systematically underperformed on most of the social and political indicators," claims the United Nations report titled 'U.N. reforms and civil society engagements.'
Criticising policy makers for the improper use of funds, the U.N. report said: "If Pakistan had invested all the ODA during this period at a real rate of six percent, it would have a stock of assets equal to 239 billion dollars in 1998, many times the current external debt."
The paper quotes Fayyaz Baqir, a Senior Adviser on Civil Society of United Nations Office of Resident Coordinator, and writer of the UN report, as saying, "Almost all National Building Departments are at district level, whereas the unit of most of the rural population of the country is local police station, or maximum tehsil. This gap hinders execution of most of the projects and policies, which doesn't bear any fruit even after spending generous funds."
Baqir also held disorganised communities responsible for the failure of policies and projects launched by the government. "Due to inefficiency of mechanism to reach communities at local level, most of the money goes to the pockets of the officials and an artificial helplessness is created. This artificial crisis leads policy makers to seek refuge in looking towards international donors for more donations," he said.
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Some of the top investment bankers in Hong Kong have chosen to leave a high-flying career in the financial industry and return to more traditional businesses, such as real estate and trade, fuelling doubts about the attractiveness of investment banking jobs in the future.
[1]Most major international banks have embarked on internal restructuring - in some cases just to survive amid fierce competition - since the 2008 global financial crisis, which changed the landscape of the industry.
Human resources consultants say many investment bankers are increasingly concerned about their job security, regulatory uncertainties in the financial industry worldwide, and fiercer competition for deals, which often results in lower fees. They also have concerns about worsening office politics and confusing internal restructuring, often following a change in leadership.
Such concerns have encouraged some investment bankers to consider job opportunities in sectors more stable than their relatively young current business, the consultants say.
Yip Chai Tuck, 39, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs in charge of mergers and acquisitions in China, became chief executive of Hong Kong-listed Lai Sun Garment, the flagship of Lai Sun Group, last Monday.
Lai Sun used to engage in garment manufacturing and distribution. It later diversified into property development and investment in Hong Kong and on the mainland.
During Yip's eight years at Goldman, he led several important deals, such as the privatisation of well-known mainland hotpot restaurant chain Little Sheep, now a unit of US fast-food giant Yum Brands. Prior to Goldman, Yip worked for PCCW, Hong Kong's leading telecommunications service provider, as a vice-president.
The trend of such moves out of Hong Kong's financial services industry is "obvious", said Robert Grandy, managing director for Asia-Pacific financial services at consultancy Korn/Ferry.
"Some bankers and analysts decided to make a change into industrial and corporate [jobs], as the global investment banks are still undergoing restructuring," Grandy said.
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Re: Guys who use female avatars
I use the female avatar for several reasons , one is that I like how well they designed, two i love women in general and thre their clothes just fit better lol. whats really funny but kind of sad is that there are guys who actually think that they are talking to real
women when almost 80% of the gamers in home are guys. all a Avatar is is a video fantasy or representation of what you want to be seen as in the cyber world , some of these guys need to remember that.
Re: Guys who use female avatars
Let me tell ya what! Back in Feb 2009 when i first got on home the very first time... I had to make an Avatar! Well i tried the male one first was gonna base it off me. Saw it and was like oh NO! nah! Deleted that one. Made a female one it looked better right from the beginning. And if i'm looking at it all the time is better be Female! HA HA!
That was way back in Feb 2009... I saw Home at the time with that avatar! It wasn't based on me and i was not going around acting like it was me either! It just Looked better to see on my TV Screen!
I left Home then wasn't plaiing on ever coming back! It was PLAIN! and BORING to say the least! Came back two weeks later. Saw a poster in Home Square... Said Street Fighter 4 Costumes Coming Soon! I WAS LIKE WHAT?!?!?!?!
Are ya kidding me! Well now that's something to get me to come back on Home since it was plain and boring prior to those costumes... He He! So they added them. I only had money to buy one when they first came to Home.
And guess what one i bought first? YEP! Chun-Li why? Because she is from my Video Games and out of the ones they made first she was the Best Choice! So Yes Chun-Li was my first Home costume i ever bought on Home back then!
I bought all the other costumes a few weeks later and got all SF and tekken costumes since 2009. If it weren't for these Costumes i wouldn't even be on HOME today! And u know Chun-Li looks way better than Ryu or Ken or Guile.
Was not trying to act as a girl she was just a character from my game and i like Chun-Li so that's why i made my choice to buy her first!
To me HOME may of started out PLAIN and BORING! And most Avatars before that may of been based on what real people looked like in real llife prior to that. But soon as Street Fighter costumes hit Home that Changed the FACE of HOME and made it what is is today! Without those Home would still be PLAIN And BORING as it was prior to SF 2009!
So if u see a Female avatar on Home these days don't go around Assuming that's it's a Real GIRL it may just be a GUY who has that costume because it comes from one of there Favorite Video Games? So Don't just a Book by it's Cover! Or in Home's case Don't judge an Avatar based on it's Sex... U will most likely be fooling only urselfs if u do so!
Re: Guys who use female avatars
my reasons....
-i don't take Home seriously enough to care what gender avatar i'm using
-i'm a cartoonist/comic artist, any male or female character i draw, i like to duplicate on Home.
-female avatars are better to look at
-female avatars get some awesome outfits
like fighting games or games featuring female protagonists, no one seems to question why a guy uses a female character. i'm always befuddled as to why in Home it seems to be a big deal...maybe to guys trying to hook up and look for a girlfriend...oy vey!
and i love how guys just know your sexual orientation based on what gender avatar one uses...idiots. what one does in the virtual has nothing to do with the real world, usually...but one has to be mature enough to understand that.
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2 reasons why guys buy female clothing on home
1. To deceive people.
2. They play for the "other" team
I'm really tired of seeing being gay or a scammer as the only reasons for why a male would use a female avatar. Most males who use a female avatar do it for a very simple reason. They have very little interest in staring at some guys butt for several hours at a time.
Re: Guys who use female avatars
My reasons behind using a female avatar
1. I found some of the female clothes and items more appealing than the male ones.
2. I use my female avatar to impress my female PSN friends and show them the clothes my female avatar is wearing and see if it's worth getting.
3. I enjoy using the female avatar as much as my male avatar.
4. I sometimes use the female avatar to protect my female friends from would-be pervs and stalkers.
5. I enjoy making avatars and dressing my male and female avatars in different clothes and accessories to have original results.
6. I use it for harmless fun and not for selfish purposes.
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this is rather silly and honestly im quite disgusted with people worrying about what another person chooses to do. people wake up every morning and scream"IM DIFFERENT FROM EVERYONE ESLE IN THE WORLD" and then turn around and bash other people for being different. a guy/girl using a avatar of the oppisite sex does not mean they are gay and/or a tranny and even if they were ITS THEIR OWN BUSINESS!!!. i dont see anyone getting all geeked over someone using a female character in a video game. millions of guys play re5 and tomb raider, does that mean they are a cross dresser for playing as lara and sheeva ? to the people concerned with getting personal or prying into others business, playing captain save a ho( when theres a simple ignore button) and the so called exposers , get a life. either enjoy home for what it is or dont login plain and simple. threads likethis always become a mile long when theres more importantissues that can be discussed. its funny this very topic was discussed on an episode of curb your enthusiasm (officer krupke). KRUP YOU!
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Re: Guys who use female avatars
I don't believe the thread was created to bash, criticize or humiliate males that use female avatars. Maybe some of our community member do not agree with this, but that is their sentiment/opinion and they have a right to it. I have posted this question before (not on the forums) but to male friends of mine that do use female avatars and they were not able to give me a good reason as of why they do this, mostly telling me that they do it out of sheer boredom.
This is fine and all, it really doesn't matter but I have to say curiosity does sit in and make one wonder why this is done in the first place especially when we all know that if your a female avalar your most likely gonna get harassed my male avatars. I have seen this very often and then the males wearing female clothes get mad and start cursing the male avis hitting on them, What did they think was gonna happen?
In the end I really don't care what others chose to do but what I do have a problem with is those males that dress like females and do it to mislead people or to get other males to buy them psn cards and that's just wrong. I know what everyone is gonna say that they are stupid for doing so, but you never know some might be new to PSH and may not be aware of this tactic. It is not my place to be judgmental of what people do on home or anywhere else for that matter, but it is indeed up to us whether we do it with good intentions or with bad ones.


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Hydraulic properties of Pinus halepensis, Pinus pinea and Tetraclinis articulata in a dune ecosystem of Eastern Spain
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The hydraulic properties of Pinus pinea, Pinus halepensis and Tetraclinis articulata were studied in a coastal dune area from Eastern Spain. The measured variables include vulnerability to xylem embolism (vulnerability curves), hydraulic conductivity and carbon isotopic discrimination in leaves. Leaf water potentials were also monitored in the three studied populations during an extremely dry period. Our results showed that roots had always wider vessels and higher hydraulic conductivity than branches. Roots were also more vulnerable to xylem embolism and operated closer to their hydraulic limit (i.e., with narrower safety margins). Although it was not quantified, extensive root mortality was observed in the two pines during the study period, in agreement with the high values of xylem embolism (> 75%) predicted from vulnerability curves and the water potentials measured in the field. T. articulata was much more resistant to embolism than P. pinea and P. halepensis. Since T. articulata experienced also lower water potentials, safety margins from hydraulic failure were only slightly wider in this species than in the pines. Combining species and tissues, high resistance to xylem embolism was associated with low hydraulic conductivity and with high wood density. Both relationships imply a cost of having a resistant xylem. The study outlined very different water-use strategies for T. articulata and the pines. Whereas T. articulata had a conservative strategy that relied on the low vulnerability of its conducting system to drought-induced xylem embolism, the two pines showed regulatory mechanisms at different levels (i.e., embolism, root demography) that constrained the absorption of water when it became scarce.


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crazy, fast, chaotic, intense, powerful, raucous, driven, wild, adrenalised, frenzied, rocket-fuelled rock track with monster riffs & explosive drums. a brooding groovy intro leads to an all out sonic dynamic assault. would suit action/thriller/extreme sports/combat type projects. can you handle it?
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An uplifting, positive soundtrack with a well-paced, elegant orchestral build-up that dynamically transforms from sparse to full instrumentation. Mid-tempo and good for portraying determination, sense of purpose, mounting confidence and building momentum.
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BeschreibungPlease note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Pen Duick yachts are ocean racing yachts from the 1960s and 1970s. They were built for French yachtsman Éric Tabarly, and he had a hand in each design.Pen Duick IV was a 20.50m aluminium trimaran with a ketch rig and rotating masts. She was designed by André Allègre. During the 1968 Singlehanded Transatlantic Race, Pen Duick IV collided with a ship and Tabarly was forced to withdraw from the race. Later, Pen Duick IV was sold to French yachtsman Alain Colas, who rechristened her Manureva and won the 1972 Singlehanded Transatlantic Race with her. In 1978, Manureva sunk at sea with her owner.
Untertitel: Éric Tabarly, William Fife, Ocean Racing. Sprache: Englisch.
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This is a discussion on Hi from SE Michigan within the New Members Introduce Yourself forums, part of the Welcome To DefensiveCarry.com category; I guess I'll say hi. I rarely say hi in forums because I tend to just lurk and read 99% of the time. This will ...
I guess I'll say hi. I rarely say hi in forums because I tend to just lurk and read 99% of the time. This will be one of my random times poking my head out of my hole I guess.
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Skip to comments.Obama Addresses Single Moms at Minn. Job Training Center (Afro Reports)
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A day before delivering a speech railing against Congressional Republicans opposition to his economic agenda, President Obama made an unexpected visit to a HIRED job training center in a predominantly Black neighborhood of north Minneapolis on June 26.
While at the training center, Obama spoke to a classroom of members participating in Project CARE, which trains young mothers in sales and customer service jobs before placing them in internships.
All of us start in different places, Obama told the nine women present at the meeting, according to a White House media pool report. I was basically raised by a single mom My mom was in a similar place as a lot of you guys.
Obama said his mom benefited from programs such as those at HIRED, and told the women he wants to ensure all of you have opportunities and a chance to thrive. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Labor Secretary Tom Perez joined Obama for the visit.
During a trip to Minneapolis, Minnesota, President Obama stops by a Project CARE class.
The visit was part of a two-day series of events leading up to a speech in Minneapolis, during which the president lambasted Congressional Republicans for derailing his efforts to increase the minimum wage, provide equal pay for all workers, and extend unemployment benefits.
Republicans in Congress this year have voted down every single serious idea to strengthen the middle class, he said, according to MinnPost.com. Over and over again theyve shown that theyll do anything to keep in place systems that really help folks at the top but dont help you. They dont seem to mind.
"My mom was in the same situation as all you guys"
SO Presidential.
Addressing single moms, Obama began, "Henceforth, your children will address your welfare check as "Daddy".
His audience is becoming narrower and narrower. Pretty soon he'll have a lock on the handicapped female gay transgender biracial retarded midget lobby.
He should have shown them a picture of his mom. Would have been news to everyone assembled.
BS....Your mom was messing with a muzzie and got caught. She dumped you at your wealthy grandmother's joint...then took you to Kenya where she managed to find a very rich muzzie who made his money in oil. You lived on a large estate with servants.
He was mostly raised by his wealthy grandparents. His grandmother was a vice president of a bank. He went to an elite prep school in Hawaii. He was NOT raised by a struggling single mother. Why does the media never call him out on his bogus life story? He was raised in affluent circumstances.
LOL. Indeed.
If his Mom was single how did he get named Sotero?
If his Mom was single how did he get named Sotero?
If his Mom was single how did he get named Sotero?
When he tells this story, he doesn't mention that his mother was married to Sotero, and doesn't mention that he was part of a blended family with that stepfather.
Or, we could say that Obama lies about his own background when he tells these stories.
How did that happen? The last couple articles I read said that Obama was so toxic at this point that even a Lib zealot like Franken doesn't want to be seen with him.
yes he should have shared the picture of his momma posed in the buff for Frank Marshall Davis
and advised all those women to do what his momma did
enroll in a useless artsy PhD program at a big university and screw exotic nonAmerican students until they snagged one willing to marry them
then maybe they could end up in a foreign country with houseservants and nannies
Maybe even a trannie nanny
Doin a liddle communita actavatin.
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
Mom was married. He was adopted by Lolo. Then he was shipped to Hawaii to be raised by his grandmother. hmmm...maybe there is a similarity, LOL
When I see a posting such as this posted by "AFRO", I LMAO!!! African-Americans, both men and women have been royally screwed by Obama for the last six years. American Blacks are adrift-at-sea, going nowhere, and will remain there for a long time period to come!!!
I guess...they are overjoyed at being kept in economic slavery by their own, Obama (Muslim), the CBC & the NAACP, thugs, grifter and shysters...always ripping off and scamming Black folks!!! Ya think...maybe....they are not-too-bright!!! Must be!!!
I was basically raised by a single mom and a Marxist, Frank Marshall Davis who was cranking both me and my skanky low life excuse for a mother."
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Systems Biology Opens New Research Pathways
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Next-Generation Plant Growth
Medicago and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) are collaborating to develop a next-generation technology for plant production. The objectives are to evaluate MCHC's Plant Factory System, a closed cultivation system, to produce Nicotiana benthamiana plants for protein production using Medicago's technologies.
"This system would be designed to enhance our capacity and further decrease operating costs, whilst facilitating new applications of Medicago's technology," said Andy Sheldon, president and CEO of Medicago. "We are pleased to build upon our existing strategic relationship with Mitsubishi and look forward to continuing to strengthen the synergies between our two companies."
MCHC has developed a plant factory system, a closed hydroponic system to grow plants, which is currently used for industrial-scale vegetable production in Japan and other countries. The company says that it is meant to achieve efficient, clean, safe, and environmentally friendly plant production using solar panels and LED lighting that is not dependent on weather conditions. These features can provide tightly controlled conditions and reproducibility, which, according to MCHC, are key elements to ensure reliable biopharmaceutical production in different geographies and climates.
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The Mathematical Education of K-8 Teachers at t he University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a Mathematics – Mathematics Education Partnership Jim Lewis and Cheryl Olsen University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Mathematics Semester for future elementary school teachers and
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The Mathematical Education of K-8 Teachers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a Mathematics – Mathematics Education Partnership
Jim Lewis and Cheryl Olsen
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Mathematics Semester
for future elementary school teachers
Math in the Middle Institute Partnership a professional development program for middle level teachers
Math Matters, an NSF-funded CCLI grant began in 2000, and became The Mathematics Semester in Fall 2003
(a field experience in a local elementary school)
Number and operations, part I: Building a system of tens. Parsippany, NJ: Dale Seymour.
What is the fewest number of coins that it will take to make 43 cents if you have available pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters? After you have solved this problem, provide an explanation that proves that your answer is correct?
How does the answer (and the justification) change if you only have pennies, dimes, and quarters available?
Note: We first encountered this problem in a conversation with Deborah Ball.
Five couples met one evening at a local restaurant for dinner. Alicia and her husband Samuel arrived first. As the others came in some shook hands and some did not. No one shook hands with his or her own spouse. At the end Alicia noted that each of the other 9 people had shaken the hands of a different number of people. That is, one shook no one's hand, one shook one, one shook two, etc., all the way to one who shook hands with 8 of the people. How many people did Samuel shake hands with?
Note: This problem is a slightly modified version of Exercise #14, page 32, in The Heart of Mathematics, by Burger and Starbird, Key Curriculum Publishing, 2005.
Dear Math Professors,
We are 1st and 2nd graders in Wheeler Central Public School in Erickson, Nebraska. We love to work with big numbers and have been doing it all year! Every time we read something with a big number in it we try to write it. Then our teacher explains how to write it. We are getting pretty good at writing millions and billions!
We have a problem that we need your help with. We were reading amazing 'Super Mom' facts in a Kid City magazine. It told how many eggs some animals could lay. We came across a number that we don't know. It had a 2 and then a 1 followed by 105 zeros!! We wrote the number out and it stretches clear across our classroom! We know about a googol. We looked it up in the dictionary. A googol has 100 zeros. Then what do you call a number if it has more than 100 zeros? Is there a name for it?
Another problem is that we learned about using commas in large numbers. In the magazine article they used no commas when writing this large number. That confused us. Also, if you write a 'googol' with 100 zeros, how do you put the commas in? It doesn't divide evenly into groups of 3 zeros. There will be one left over.
We appreciate any help you can give us solving this "big" problem. Thank you for your time.
Mrs. Thompson's 1st & 2nd graders
Megan Kansier, Mark Rogers
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M2 InnovationsProfessional Writings
What do Math Teachers Need to Be?
Read "What do Math Teachers Need to Be?"* by Herb Clemens, a mathematics professor at The Ohio State University. Where does your own practice of teaching mathematics stand in relationship to what Clemens says mathematics teachers need to be: unafraid, reverent, humble, opportunistic, versatile, and in control of their math. If Clemens came to your classroom and watched you teach math, how would he answer his question: Can this teacher teach it [math] with conviction, and with some feeling for its essence? Explain.
* Published in 1991 in Teaching academic subjects to diverse learners (pp. 84-96).
The goal is to investigate a new mathematical area of the elementary curriculum and consider what teachers need to know as well as what children need to learn the topic in the deep and meaningful ways suggested by the NCTM Standards (2000).
1)Pick a topic: data analysis and probability, geometry, reasoning and proof, or algebra.
2)Read, analyze, and synthesize the mathematical topic in the NCTM Standards.
3)Analyze and synthesize the topic in a set of reform curriculum materials (Everyday Math, Trail Blazers, Investigations, local curriculum).
4)What do teachers need to know to teach this?
5)Create 5 math problems that would help teachers learn. Create 5 math problems that would help children learn.
The task began with a homework problem. It is taken from Reconceptualizing Mathematics: Courseware for Elementary and Middle School Teachers, Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education, 1998.
Is there a relationship between the area and the perimeter of a polygonal shape made with congruent square regions?(For fixed area, find the minimum and maximum perimeter. For fixed perimeter, find the minimum and maximum area.) Squares must be joined complete-side to complete-side. The outside "boundary" should be a polygon. In particular, this would not permit a shape with a "hole" in the middle.
We want to revisit the "Area and Perimeter" problem. This is to be the basis for a mathematics lesson that you will videotape yourself teaching to one elementary school student.
How can you present this task to the student you will teach? How can you set the stage for the student to understand the problem? How far can the student go in exploring this problem? Remember that you want your student to discover as much as possible for himself (or herself). But there may be some critical points where you need to guide the student over an intellectual "bump" so that he (she) can move on to the next part of the problem.
Finally, produce a report analyzing the mathematics and your teaching experience.
Math Lesson. You will teach a math lesson that connects to the curriculum in the classroom in which you are working. You should make use of the textbook and other resources from your cooperating teacher and what you are learning and reading in the Mathematics Semester.
Child Study. This assignment will give you some experience watching, listening to, probing, and assessing one child's understanding of several math problems focused on a particular area of mathematics. You will write a report of your interview and suggest instruction for the child based on the information you gathered in the interview session.
Principal Investigators
Jim Lewis, Department of Mathematics
Ruth Heaton, Department of Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education
Barb Jacobson, Lincoln Public Schools
Tom McGowan, Chair, Department of Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education
(Funding began August 1, 2004)
M2 Goal
Invest in high-quality teachers
* To improve K-12 student achievement in mathematics and to significantly reduce achievement gaps in the mathematical performance of diverse student populations.
M2 courses focus on these objectives:
Summer Fall Spring
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Yr 1M800T Teac800 & M802T M804T M805T
Yr 2M806T Teac801 & Stat892 Teac888 M807T
Yr 3M808T Teac889/M809T
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- A 25-month, 36-hour graduate program.
A person with the habits of mind of a mathematical thinker can use their knowledge to make conjectures, to reason, and to solve problems. Their use of mathematics is marked by great flexibility of thinking together with the strong belief that precise definitions are important. They use both direct and indirect arguments and make connections between the problem being considered and their mathematical knowledge. When presented with a problem to solve, they will assess the problem, collect appropriate information, find pathways to the answer, and be able to explain that answer clearly to others.
While an effective mathematical toolbox certainly includes algorithms, a person with well developed habits of mind knows both why algorithms work and under what circumstances an algorithm will be most effective.
Mathematical habits of mind are also marked by ease of calculation and estimation as well as persistence in pursuing solutions to problems. A person with well developed habits of mind has a disposition to analyze situations as well as the self-efficacy to believe that he or she can make progress toward a solution.
This definition was built with help from Mark Driscoll's book, Fostering Algebraic Thinking: A guide for teachers grades 6-10.
(Paul Sally, U. Chicago) Consider an equilateral triangle with points located at each vertex and at each midpoint of a side. The problem uses the set of numbers {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}. Find a way to put one of the numbers on each point so that the sum of the numbers along any side is equal to the sum of the numbers along each of the two other sides. (Call this a Side Sum.)
M2 InnovationsLearning & Teaching Projects
Select a challenging problem or topic that you have studied in MSL and use it as the basis for a mathematics lesson that you will videotape yourself teaching to your students.
How can you present this task to the students you teach? How can you set the stage for your students to understand the problem? How far can your students go in exploring this problem? You want your students to discover as much as possible on their own, but there may be a critical point where you need to guide them over an intellectual "bump."
Produce a report analyzing the mathematics and your teaching experience.
Each teacher takes TEAC 888, Teacher as Scholarly Practitioner, an action research course. Each teacher then conducts their own research project and writes a report about their findings.
M2 Masters Degrees
A math class with "n" students sits in a circle to play mathematical chairs. The students choose an elimination number "d" and then count off in order, 1, 2, 3, … . When the count gets to d, that student is eliminated from the game. The next student starts the count over and the students count 1, 2, 3, … . Again, when the count gets to d, that student is eliminated. Continue in this manner until only one student is left. That student wins the game.
Where should you sit in order to win the game?
Hint: Solve the problem first for elimination number 2 or 3 and then try to solve it for elimination number d.
Note: This is a version of The Ring of Josephus problem.