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Hey all, i live in Portland, play on an indoor mens team for last few years, we have won the league twice, and I scored a hat trick in one of our games. I have only been playing for a few years, so I was pretty excited to score 3 goals. Cant wait for new session to start and hopefully help my team win more and score more goals, but above all enjoy footy and have fun!Peace to all! If u want to know more, just ask!
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Thanks Tony, I totally agree, I support Arsenal, but I love to watch all the top teams play especially Man United and the other big clubs in Europe. Thanks for...
Hi tucker and thanks for the friend invitation i am always happy to meet more football fans no matter who they support, coz i as i always say, if there was no f...
Amazing strike by Kun, a lot of players would've skied that from that close, but he took it so fast and perfect, he gave the keeper no chance.
Haha that player on the near post got nutmegged by a backheel! All he had to do was close his legs or kick the ball away, mistakes like that are unacceptable a...
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Yo dude you are a SP*RS fan, you are my ARCH RIVAL!!!!Nothing personal,I just have to act like I hate you because of the N. London history of our rivalry.
HAHA, sorry its been a long weekend! Just saw and realized this, thanks for the swift reply! You guys are really on your game! Good point as well about the p...
Happy New Year! I have a question regarding Evra's points from the game vs West Brom. I just watched the replay and it shows Evra crossing for Rooney to finis...
True, I agree, but that 1 goal for Ajax is a LEGEND!!!He needs to be the star, at FCB he was 1 of many, look at his last season for Inter, he works hard and is ...
Seriously bro, u have got to be kidding, he is a poor sport. Maybe he lost his balance, but he threw a temper tantrum like a 3 yr old when he didn't get a PK a...
Ronaldo should be ashamed, but yeah can't really say I would expect any different from that sissy. He is like Drogba, has amazing skill, but loses so much resp...
Thanks for the clarification Matt! I didn't see the game, I was going by the ESPN.com gamecast which had him as the 3rd goal scorer.
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7 years ago
Hi tucker and thanks for the friend invitation I am always happy to meet more football fans no matter who they support, 'cause I as I always say, if there was no football, there would be no man utd, no arsenal, no liverpool etc:, so you must respect the game before your club, or your wasting your time.
If you have any questions or problems regarding footytube, don't hesitate to contact myself or any of the other staff members here on the site.
Thanks again tucker, and enjoy the site.
If you have any questions or problems regarding footytube, don't hesitate to contact myself or any of the other staff members here on the site.
Thanks again tucker, and enjoy the site.
7 years ago
Thanks Tony, I totally agree, I support Arsenal, but I love to watch all the top teams play especially Man United and the other big clubs in Europe. Thanks for setting up the awesome fantasy league to make the season exponentially more exciting and enjoyable to follow. Footy is kinda like my religion, I wake up every day and check whats going on in Europe with the clubs and the English league gets the most coverage here in the states so its easiest to follow. Thanks again for helping me get my footy fix!
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8 years ago
Why did you add me as rival
8 years ago
Yo dude you are a sp*rs fan, you are my ARCH rival!Nothing personal, I just have to act like I hate you because of the and. London history of our rivalry
8 years ago
Its great to see that a fellow gooner is topping the charts in dreamfooty! Keep up the good work mate!
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8 years ago
Arsenal, Barca and Juve- a man of fine taste!
8 years ago
Thanks dude, I have to thank my cousin, because about 6 years ago, when I was first getting into footy, he told me that those were the 3 teams to support in their 3 respective leagues. I am now very much supporting Arsenal, but Barcelona and Juventus have kind of slipped in different ways I feel. I have lost a lot of respect for Barca and some of their players over the Cesc debacle and Juve has really sucked it up, they need to figure out some new faces so they can start winning again!
Great DF team. Probably the best planned I've seen here. Well deserved lead Congratulations!
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|2009-11-03, 07:30
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Are we really that desperate to add unproven new abilities to a character of 2nd rank (in terms of ability?)
But if we ARE that desperate, it might be fun to try and use Wing Road as a basis for a DEFENSE against deca- to hectometric range "jet" type weapons (read: Divine Buster types), when for some reason evasion isn't a hot strategy.
Here's how it'll work. The Wing Road would be fired at the enemy's location in a sine form as the enemy prepares the fire from a halt. If the Wing Road actually reaches the target before the target finishes the preparation, it doesn't have a lot of attack but might disrupt the opponent's firing sequence, providing a closure opportunity.
If the enemy fires, the jet will strike the Wing Road. If the Wing Road doesn't just disintegrate under the blast, the jet will be forced around the Wing Road. This will cause the jet to interfere with itself, causing it to weaken or even potentially self-destruct.
|2009-11-03, 13:47
|Link #8482
Truth Martyr
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Doing Anzu's paperwork.
Age: 33
To be frank, I'm dubious as to how much usefulness all this is for Subaru. Combat is a means to an end for her; it's something she trains at, but isn't really psyched up.
What is she doing after StrikerS? Rescue Rollerblades, that's what. SAR. Saving people. That's her whole shtick.
|2009-11-03, 14:42
|Link #8483
Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
I feel the need to point out that punching isn't Subaru's only trick. While StrikerS certainly didn't stop showing it to us, Subaru is well trained in the Shooting Arts, which use the entire body for combat. Not just punching, but also kicking.
To avoid going into a rambling mode, I'll just say that StrikerS never showed us a good presentation of what Subaru can do. Put down whatever reason you will, but calling Subaru a one-trick pony because her punches are her signature technique is like calling Vita a one-trick pony who only knows how to wildly swing her hammer towards the enemy.
Now, I agree that Wing Road is a blatant "I'm going to attack your left flank!" shout, but if your enemy can't outrun you, that's pretty much irrelevant. The moment you get into melee range it's your territory. Wing road goes wherever Subaru goes is as much a plus as well in that regard.
If I'm fighting ground opponents (and, let's face it, even with Wing Road fighting ground opponents is far more my forte) I don't have much need to use Wing Road at all, bar perhaps a few tactical situations. I'd leave the air opponents to my flying allies and focus on the ground, where my skills have dramatically more advantage.
And modify Mach Calibur a bit and you have Graf Eisen tied to your feet. How's that for kicking power?
|2009-11-06, 02:31
|Link #8484
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In cooperation with SaintX and Nya~n, presenting my slice of
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The First Phase
The Coder
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|2009-11-06, 02:31
|Link #8485
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|2009-11-06, 02:32
|Link #8486
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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You've seen the Coder, you've seen the Tuner, and now you see the final part of the trio. We bring to you
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Maven Emeraude
Warning: Text wall because I'm the only one out of the three who didn't make a poster profile. Not necessarily a bad thing though, no?
Name: Maven Emeraude
Affiliation: TSAB Engineering Division, Device Meister
Military rank: Private 1st Class
Magical rank: C+
Call sign: Ariadne
Age: 18 (as of MC0083)
Birthday: October 12 MC0065
Height: 163cm
Magical colour: Green
Hair: Lavender, hip length
Eyes: Red
Specialty: device mechanics; capture and arrest
C.V: Kikuchi Kokoro
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|2009-11-08, 19:09
|Link #8487
~ Your Smile ~
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 33
Loved and waited for Vivid, but didn't like the overemphasis on fanservice? Were you bored by 3 chapters of slow, only to receive 1 chapter of win that ends up in anticlimax in the next? Feeling that there's just too many characters in too little time?
I'm gonna do things a little differently! Cross-posting from FFT, featuring Our Dear Kaiser, the "anime" spinoff of Nanoha Vivid:
Magical Lyrical ViVid
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|2009-11-09, 08:18
|Link #8488
umbrella moe~♥
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: huh wha-?
I've got 2 profiles up and a fic running on another, so I guess I get to have my own OC index, right?
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|2009-11-17, 01:34
|Link #8490
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Hotsprings Resort
Age: 33
Five days without activity. Awesome.
The Gospel of Judas
Pervious chapters:
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|2009-11-17, 11:26
|Link #8491
The Interstellar Medium
Join Date: May 2008
Location: [SWE]
Age: 29
There was some weird grammar in some places and some words that had the wrong tense, that made me stop for a second. Also, I've never ever seen "serendipitous" before so I had to look it up, but it fits in the context.
Another thing I hooked on was -> Stein 'tsked'. This is probably just a difference in style, but it kinda stands out. I'm split whether I want to like it or not, as I personally prefer to write it into the dialouge. It works though.
Overall, however, a solid chapter as always. Especially the fighting gave me a nice mental image going on and the last part of the fic leaves open a wide range of new encounters, which, I am looking forward to.
|2009-11-17, 16:24
|Link #8492
Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
Took the time to finaly create a profile for her. Major edits since Fall of an Empire, of course. One of which finding the perfect match for Alistina image wise.
Lady Alistina Carter
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|2009-11-17, 17:27
|Link #8493
The Dang-meister
Oh WHY am I not surprised someone actually decided to do a Fairy Tail port XD
Edit: Oh lord....I HAVE IDEA!!!!
Keroko, do you mind if I make use of Alistina, and incorporate her into my story? >:3
|2009-11-17, 17:50
|Link #8495
The Dang-meister
|2009-11-17, 20:45
|Link #8497
~ Your Smile ~
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 33
Looks like my advisors were wrong about this anime...
*reactivates servitors for download*
This is interesting indeed... Her personal vault parallels Cedric Skyliner's inherited access to a vault of Lost Logia collected by an ancient King during the shattered era of Ancient Belka.
As for the rest, there's been a lot of changes. For one, she's no longer short.
Though what's with all these resurrected/immortal characters from Ancient Belka... Granted I have a 350+ year old character, what with medical advances and stuff keeping people alive longer, she is a spunky gramps, not a MILF like Lindy, a loli like Einhart, or the resurrected Arawns and Rhiannons from Gospel...
I can include them in my fanon with some modification and justification as defence programs and Dark Age of Alhazred era enhanced humans. THough with the burgeoning cast, its going to weigh on ViVid.
Apologies to the FFT; MLV was and is meant to be an OC platform, just that I try to keep it down...
|2009-11-17, 20:59
|Link #8498
Master of the Shiny Crack
@Keroko: I like Alistina~ If I get the urge can I use her?
|2009-11-18, 01:07
|Link #8499
Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
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|2009-11-18, 05:29
|Link #8500
~ Your Smile ~
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 33
*sees the rest of the chat facepalm as another limiter on the Khrack Meister goes offline*
Just kidding. I find it hilarious that canon is blowing all the safeguards that WE as fans placed. I'm not complaining; I've been fighting these restrictions for years now.
You know, that actually sounds like an awesome warcry.
I like her story too. It's perfectly embodies one of the best officers of the Belka Imperial Guard.
Having canon clear the way for oh so many fandoms is really... cool, in a facepalming sense, the kind you get while long-time rebels against "common sense" are firing AK-47s of joy in the background.
I'm not complaining.
What do you mean about Syn? That she's an old King brought to the future? Or has memories of an old King? The set-up I had for the group was that Syn was the only one of the 4 Kings (Ix, Syn, Vi+Stella and Ein) who wasn't related to any previous kings.
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In three parts: A view from science; A view from education; A view from arts education
By Guy McKhann, M.D.
The relationship between those in neuroscience and those in education historically has been somewhat edgy. Those in education would like to know what neuroscience can tell them in a practical way— what can help them in the classroom now. Those in neuroscience have little concept about what those in education would like to know. What questions are educators asking? What ideas or myths are out there that neuroscience might be able to clarify? Most importantly, those in neuroscience have little idea about the limitations involved in modifying a tightly controlled curriculum. Finally, it is apparent that the level of knowledge about the brain among educators, even by science teachers, is quite low.
All of this is starting to change now that several different groups have initiated interdisciplinary approaches to bringing educators and neuroscientists together. These include a discussion of K-12 education as part of the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research in 2008; a conference on neuroeducation sponsored by the Society for Neuroscience in 2009; the summit, which is the basis for this report; and a recent discussion in a Decade of the Mind symposium in Germany.
From these discussions several concepts emerged:
Does exposure to the arts change the structure of the brain?
Previous studies have suggested that the structure of the brain is different in accomplished musicians than in non-musicians, particularly in the corpus callosum. (See Dr. Gottfried Schlaug on this topic, chapter three.) What these previous studies could not determine was whether the "musician brain" had always been different or whether the differences were acquired. The longitudinal studies of Dr. Schlaug and Dr. Winner started with children whose brains looked the same, and indicate that exposure to music is associated with changes in the brain. This is the first indication from a prospective study that music induces specific brain changes.
One should not underestimate how difficult these types of longitudinal, controlled studies are to do. Ideally one would recruit a pool of subjects and then randomly assign a group to exposure to music and another group to some other, non-music exposure. From a practical point of view, such a study would be impossible to perform over a longer period of time. How many mothers are going to sit still while an investigator tells them their kids can't take music lessons or have music in school? Schlaug and Winner did the next best thing; they recruited a group already planning to take music, and then recruited a control group. Fortunately, the brains were all the same at baseline, or the studies would be uninterpretable. As more sophisticated forms of imaging are used, as discussed by Dr. Wandell, the specificity of the effects of music, or other arts, may be more precisely defined.
Does music acquisition enhance performance in other cognitive areas?
This is the major question that this research would like to answer. Investigators use terms such as near transfer and far transfer. Near transfer applies to skills that are an integral part of music training, such as finger dexterity or rhythm discrimination. Clearly there are near-transfer effects.
One possible near-transfer effect is enhanced attention. Attention, however, is a complicated area. Music may positively affect attention mechanisms, but so may other activities, such as computer games. Any proposed effects of music must be evaluated within the concept of the question, "Compared to what?" In the next phase of studies of the effects of the arts on the developing brain, choice of control groups might include kids spending equal time on computers as other kids do with their musical instruments. How you keep kids from doing both, I leave to the investigators and parents, and not to grandparents like me.
Far transfer is where many of the unsubstantiated claims lie. The studies to date suggest that transfer may occur in mathematics, as outlined by Dr. Spelke, but only in specific mathematical functions associated with spatial performance. The other aspect of Dr. Spelke's work relates to how early these effects of music may occur, possibly indicating to educators that preschool or early school exposures to music and other arts may be more important than previously thought.
But possibly not for all children. The studies of Dr. Posner suggest what many parents already know—some kids respond to music and others to visual arts. Determining how to sort these kids out at an early age, possibly by genetic testing rather than cognitive performance, may set the stage for the education of the future.
Where are we?
The studies of the Winner/Schlaug group and of Spelke indicate the feasibility of controlled studies over time. It is not clear that such studies can be performed within the educational system. Perhaps comparing one school to another is more likely. Pilot projects within a school system are another possibility. The emphasis needs to be on improving education and not "experimenting with our kids." How to move forward is the next challenge!
By Mariale Hardiman, Ed.D.
As we consider next steps and implications for the information disseminated at the summit, it is important to consider exactly which implications we want to address. As the summit revealed, the answer is not so simple.
At the highest level, we are talking about the implications of collaboration among cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, educators, applied researchers, and faculty from schools of education. Critical input will also come from artists, arts educators, and advocates of the arts who have already built a strong case for applying methodologies that make the process of education more engaging and effective.
Collaboration is the big-picture objective, but what exactly do we expect this collaboration to yield? And how will it work?
As we heard again and again at the summit, educators are seeking research that sheds light on how children learn translated in ways that are relevant and useful in authentic school settings.
What are the requisite conditions of this collaboration? Researchers must understand how teachers teach and which measurements are most useful. Teachers need to understand what research currently can deliver and how to frame the demands they make on it. Arts educators and proponents of arts integration should codify the meaning of arts learning so that teachers in other disciplines understand its benefits and are more prepared to accept and use it. Universities that train teachers, provide in-service professional development, and develop new curriculum models need to understand their key role: higher education won't bear this burden alone, but it should be a leader in redefining the standards of success.
Underlying all these conditions is the need for communication to engage parents, families, school boards, legislators, and others who determine educational policy.
Now What?
Improving instructional quality is the ultimate objective of the collaboration between the education and scientific communities. We believe that it is critical to begin this collaboration through the emerging field of neuroeducation and organize it as a discrete field of study.
The already emerging field of neuroeducation will explore how children learn and what practices and interventions promote and sustain the learning process.
Neuroeducation is the collaborative discovery and application of new knowledge to:
Accomplishing this objective will take time. Building the field of neuroeducation is a hugely important task, but there is little agreement on how to proceed. Diverse professional and advocacy interests must align with the public's notion of effective education. And, as Howard Gardner has pointed out, there is no tradition of practice on which to base this movement.14
Educators will have to deal with extreme opinions about the relevance and utility of biological and cognitive research for pedagogy from both skeptics, who think there is none, to enthusiasts, who overstate and misinterpret the research.
Agents of Change: Who Will Get Us Where We Need To Be?
As students are the ultimate beneficiaries of this effort, educators are natural partners in neuroeducation. At the grassroots level, effective change will come from classroom teachers. They want to know how children learn, and how the new research they are hearing about can play out in the classroom.
To many educators, the question is not whether we should have arts in the classroom, but how the arts influence learning. How do the arts enhance attention and connect to content, and how do they create emotional connections? What is testable and what questions are educators asking that neuroscience has not yet developed the means for studying?
The purpose of this collaboration is not to justify having the arts in school. Teachers are intrigued by the reported neurological phenomena, but they're really interested in the potential for realizing pragmatic outcomes. Educators who already know that the arts make students more creative learners do not need research explaining why. But neuroscience does add a level of confirmation. Scientific evidence on the influence of arts-based learning will add new dimensions to educational practices and policies.
Most educators are aware that curriculum changes come about through revised perceptions, programs of accountability, and the demand for specific skills. Research and teacher-training institutions have the potential to develop and test individual modules for sample grades and subjects. Testing will reveal if students respond to integrated methodologies—does their retention improve, and are they better at applying what they learn? Testing standards determine both curricula and instructional methodologies. Today, teaching is constrained due to the mushrooming burden of prescribed content and accountability, which is largely misaligned with real workforce needs.
Summit participants frequently mentioned the need for translation—getting from the lab to the classroom. Collaboration among multiple fields will be critical, with a focus on topics and problems rather than disciplines. Bringing together scientists and educators in lab schools and other forums will encourage a joint solution to problems that neither domain could answer alone.
Hinton and Fischer have already begun to create such teaching laboratories.15 University-based researchers design and develop research in response to the practical needs of teachers; they test new methodologies, evaluate the effectiveness of interventions, and provide real-time opportunities for teacher development. Based on the medical-school model, researchers spend a residency period integrating theories about learning with practical applications in real classroom settings.
At Johns Hopkins, through the School of Education's Neuro-Education Initiative and courses leading to its Mind, Brain, and Teaching certificate, scholars share knowledge from the brain sciences with educators to inform their teaching and identify the questions that will shape translation research in the future.
Such university programs, including the Mind, Brain, and Education degree at Harvard, will produce a new generation of scholars who will bridge the division between scientists and educators. These translational researchers will move beyond individual disciplines and approach learning from a more inclusive perspective—testing hypotheses in authentic settings, designing and evaluating best practices, and training educational practitioners.
Higher education will be a core driver of change, but not the only one. Leadership will also come from such organizations as the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society and the Society for Neuroscience, whose 2009 Presidential Initiative relates to the intersection of neuroscience and education. The National Institutes of Health has included in its Blueprint for K-12 Efforts an exploration of how to apply neuroscience to teaching and learning. The U.S. Department of Education has offered research grants to support the study of how the cognitive sciences apply to and promote student learning.
As neuroeducation takes shape and develops momentum, leaders must emerge to encourage dialogue and guide the collaboration, focusing strategically on improving four major components of the education system: teacher preparation, the curriculum, pedagogy, and school governance.
Wagging the Dog
We have outlined our view of what has to happen in education now, but this process will not be one of quick fixes.
Ironically, understanding what makes students better learners may remain disconnected from substantive changes in educational policy. Certainly educators will make incremental improvements in curricula and teaching methodologies, but real policy change has to do with repairing two fundamental breakdowns, the disconnect between what children can do and our expectations of them, the disparity between official accountability, and the clamor for more creative skills and abilities.
Educators can adjust to teaching to the test. But the preoccupation with limited measures has distracted them from a clear view of what they should expect and how best to measure real success. This should be the concern of educational policy; neuroeducation can help re-center the field of education.
In a recent seminar at The Johns Hopkins School of Education, Martha Bridge Denckla, M.D., of the Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Hopkins School of Medicine, shared with teachers her research and clinical experience in the area of executive function. She explained how children's brains develop, pointing out that educational practice is frequently inconsistent with students' cognitive development. Because of curricular demands, we start reading instruction in preschool and require that young adolescents take algebra before many are ready for conceptual thinking. The timetable for what we teach is often out of sync with what some students are ready to learn.16
Business and industry leaders say they need creative thinkers and problem-solvers, and they complain that U.S. schools are not delivering them. But policy makers are assessing an opposing set of skills: both our curricula and our pedagogy hold students and schools accountable for far-toonarrow achievement in quantitative and literacy abilities. There is obvious misalignment between what workers need to be successful in the 21st century and how policy makers are holding schools accountable for effectiveness.
As educators have been slow to take the lead in defining success, politicians and policy advocates have done it for them. Given what we know today, can we continue to justify such an exclusive focus on reading and math? Or should we broaden the base of our expectations, and test accordingly?
Standardized tests are a sacred benchmark for evaluating schools and students. There is risk in changing the playing field and how we keep score, but if we know better we are obliged to use everything we know to change our practice and our policy.
T.S. Elliott once said, "Anything worth doing is at first impossible." Below is a model for how to make the impossible take root for the field of neuroeducation, developed at Johns Hopkins University's Neuro-Education Initiative to begin to address the dynamics of multiple disciplines, domains of learning, and constituencies.
By Janet Eilber
"Arts, Creativity & Other Outrageous Education Ideas," a workshop for Maryland educators which preceded the Hopkins summit, provided an appropriate launch for the work of the next day. The afternoon's presentations and panel discussion gave the educators an inside look at diverse approaches to learning based on the arts and the creative process.
Presenters included Alice Wilder, Ed.D., creator and producer of a number of interactive television shows for young children, such as Blue's Clues and Think it, Ink it. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek talked about her book, Celebrate the Scribble: Appreciating Children's Art, and the importance of process and discovery for young minds, while Keri Smith, author, illustrator, and guerilla artist, presented a decidedly less conventional approach. Her books, Wreck This Journal and Living out Loud – Activities to Fuel a Creative Life, have inspired a devoted following of educators who use her techniques to engage students in middle and high school. The afternoon closed with John Tarnoff, an executive at DreamWorks Animation, who demonstrated how the process of developing an animated film offers a template for dynamic teaching and learning in other subjects.
These approaches are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to new teaching and learning methods using the arts. Arts-education advocates have always believed intuitively that the arts are a highly effective vehicle for improved learning, and scientists are now showing us how this intuition is supported by a growing body of serious brain research. The field is deeply involved in translating research findings into teaching practice; its wide array of curricula are being retroactively "vetted" as new findings in cognitive science emerge.
Neuroeducation advocates are now asking the "how" questions needed to launch this new field: How will this collaboration between scientists and educators work? How will we get these new ideas into the classroom and ultimately into the minds of students?
Arts education has been pro-active about its own "how" question (How can we get more arts learning into the schools?) since it lost ground in the late 1970s. The better strategies that have emerged for developing and disseminating research-based arts curricula will offer useful models to neuroeducators, but the field has also honed methods outside the classroom that neuroeducation advocates will need: for example, how to increase public awareness and support, and how to influence national and local educational policy.
By the turn of the millennium, most parents, policy makers, and school leaders no longer needed to be convinced of the value of arts education. Although there was a call for more "hard science" that initiated many of the studies reviewed at the Hopkins summit, there was also growing realization that success rested not only on the proof of research or the demonstration of best practices. More was needed. Arts education began to recognize the need for its own bridge between the science of learning and the practice of teaching.
Focus shifted to fostering new relationships with a much wider range of constituents, resources, and policies. Arts-education advocates looked for better ways to connect with all stakeholders, from helping classroom teachers by aligning arts-education curricula with state learning standards to creating support groups for principals and superintendents that help incorporate arts learning into the school day.
Arts-education advocates and organizations began creating better connections with higher education to improve arts training for pre-service classroom teachers. We worked with school systems to provide better professional development for teachers already in the classroom. We are pressing for stronger relationships between schools of education and schools of the arts, and for better tools for measuring the impact of arts learning so that the arts can be as accountable as other core subjects in schools.
In the last few years, this drive for more productive collaborations has led to projects that incorporate the views of all stakeholders at the earliest stages of the planning process. Listening to all voices—including the contrarian voice—has emerged as a rewarding strategy. For example, it has provided solid foundations for influential projects such as Arts for All, the ten-year plan to secure sequential arts learning in every K-12 classroom in Los Angeles County. On the national level, the Education Leaders Institute, created by the National Endowment for the Arts, brings together teams of diverse constituents from each state to hammer out new support for arts in the schools. Neuroeducation has already reaped the benefits of this technique. The Hopkins summit gave educators and scientists the rare opportunity to interact face to face. The ideas developed through this cross-pollination provide fertile ground for the next steps in the field.
This kind of activity has primed the landscape for neuroeducation. As the new field works to answer the question of "how" and to develop the bridge between the lab and the classroom, it will do well to take advantage of the resources already in place.
Arts education now offers a network of partners that are working with school systems and building a reputation for alternative learning processes. A growing body of arts-based curricula is accountable to the states' learning standards, supported by the findings coming out of neuroscience, and can provide models for new brain-based pedagogy. With cohesive advocacy efforts and a range of approaches to education policy and reform, arts education stands ready to champion some of the basic elements needed for the brave new world of neuroeducation.
The summit at Hopkins this year, the unofficial launch of the new field of neuroeducation, underscored the ways that the arts can play a larger, more integrated role in what research is telling us about quality education, school improvement, and effective teaching methods. Arts education has orchestrated a shift in its reputation in recent years, from a special interest group to an important catalyst in helping children learn. As neuroeducation reframes the most essential questions of education, the arts are poised to help provide answers.
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IRIS 9000 Bluetooth Speaker & Speakerphone
Perfect for deep space missions
- Classic Sci-fi styling. Aluminum accents.
- Syncs via Bluetooth to use as a Speakerphone & Speaker
- Built-in mic picks up your voice at a distance
Having an artificially intelligent computer at our beck and call has long been the fantasy of every green blooded sci-fi fan amongst us. Finally Siri on the iPhone has given us a tantalizing taste of this promised future... and we're lapping it up.
However it's not all roses in our 2012 A.I. future tech fantasy. Sure Siri can schedule appointments, make funny quips and answer inane trivia questions with the help of Wolfram Alpha but she has one failing... to get her to listen you've got to have your hands on your phone and push a button. Somehow when we imagined the future of smart computer companions we assumed that shouting at them from across the room to do our bidding was part of the package. Apparently not.
Therefore you can see why we were forced to create the IRIS 9000. Simply place your iPhone into the cradle and use the included micro remote to trigger Siri. Just tap the IRIS 9000 remote button once, listen for the Siri chime, and speak your command. The built in mic on the IRIS 9000 picks up your voice and the embedded speaker amplifies Siri's spoken responses. You can also make and receive calls using the IRIS 9000 like a standard speakerphone. Oh and did we mention that the glowing eye flickers along with Siri's voice? How's that for amazing Buckaroo Banzai future tech?
Product Features
- Classic Sci-fi styling. Aluminum accents.
- Included micro remote triggers Siri with a single button press
- Built-in mic picks up your voice
- Embedded speaker amplifies Siri's responses
- Use as a standard speakerphone to make and receive calls
- Glowing LED eye flickers along with Siri's voice
- Power: 3 AAA batteries (not included) or USB
- Bluetooth® v3.0 + EDR Class II
- Supports the Hands Free Profile (HFP) and Headset Profile (HSP)
- Exclusive product designed and manufactured by ThinkGeek
- Important: Please read all product documentation before you begin your odyssey with IRIS 9000.
*iPhone and Siri are registered trademarks of Apple Inc.
**This is not an officially licensed Apple product and all references to iPhone and Siri are only used to indicate compatibility.
The Bluetooth word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by ThinkGeek is under license. Other trademarks and trade names are those of their respective owners.


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Posts tagged 'astronomy'
- Pale Blue Dot on February 14, 2010
- A Valentine for the Ages on February 12, 2010
- A Sense of Proportion on January 21, 2010
I am a PhD-level cell biologist at the University of Chicago. My Dad loved to introduce me by telling people that I am a doctor, just not the kind that helps people.
I started this blog to discuss science in a way that is understandable and interesting to non-scientists. In this way, I hope to increase public awareness and acceptance of scientific findings.


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A while ago, I wrote about UNetbootin, a very nice utility for starting Linux installation or live cd's like GPartEd from a running system without burning a CD or DVD. I've been using it since then and will do so in the future. However, in the case of Fedora, CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux upgrades, using UNetbootin has its limitation. (Which is, of course, not the fault of UNetbootin, but a limitation of these distributions, in the latter simply referenced as Fedora.)
For upgrade of Fedora, there are basically two options:
- The officially supported way is using the Anaconda Installer. That means booting from a CD, DVD (or via UNetbootin :-). That's nice, if you have a DVD ready and also have direct access to the system.
- The officially unsupported way is using Yum. Much better in some aspects: You can do it from within a running system, even remotely. However, if you are reading the Yum Upgrade FAQ, then you cannot fail to notice that there seem to be a lot of traps and possible problems. I have had my share of these in the past, for example when the IDE devices have been renamed from /dev/hdx to /dev/sdx: At that point you could bet your house on Yum upgrades failing.
For similar reasons, the Yum upgrade should not happen with a UI running. If you are actually using the machine (for example on your own desktop), then that means a lot of more downtime than you want. (Ok, you might use the download-only plugin... I am ranting, but there's a reason for this Blog's title...)
In other words, you either got to do it safe (Anaconda) or nice (Yum). No longer: Use PreUpgrade.
It's a small python utility with a UI. You start it. It connects to the Fedora server and gathers a list of releases, which are available for an upgrade. (This might include alpha and/or beta releases, if you like.) Proxy servers are supported, btw., I did not check, whether it uses http_proxy, yum.conf, or both. You select a release and click on "Apply". After that, it automatically calculates dependencies and loads the required RPM's to your hard drive. So far, you' ve got the advantages and the comfort of Yum.
But that's not all. In the next step, PreUpgrade is loading a kernel image, a ram disk and similar stuff to your hard drive and configures your system for using them at the next reboot: In other words, it does what UNetbootin would, for you.
All this is happening in the background. You can continue your work, no downtime so far. Finally, when PreUpgrade is finished, you may click on Reboot: Anaconda comes up, performing a safe installation without downloading anything or using a slow CDROM drive.
By using PreUpgrade, I have just upgraded from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10. My downtime was about 10 minutes. (Excellent possibility to get some coffee!) Aint this magic?


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And by "beard" of course we're referring to 50 Cent's butch, new facial hair. The campy gangsta rap superstar shows off his new beard ... and the fabulous Better Midler at last night's benefit for the Divine Miss M's New York Restoration Project.
The guest list included a who's who of gay fabulousity—such Andre Leon Talley and Tim Gunn, who probably approved of 50 Cent's Gucci shirt and belt. Oh and Dolly Parton, too. I'm loving this new look and crowd for Fiddy.
50 Cent and Bette collaborated on the development of a public garden in his childhood neighborhood in Jamaica, Queens. Bette Midler recently talked about going in the studio with Fiddy for another collaboration: To sing jazz duets. "It'll be the little Jewish lady and the great big rapper. He's such a doll. I love him. He's gorgeous. I was hoping we'd sing songs from the Depression."
WHEN YOU JUMP, close-ups of 50 Cent's new beard, the menu and the invitation.
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The ability for the body to heal at a faster or normal pace determines how healthy a person is. A healthy body is well nourished. It will heal faster than a body that is unhealthy. Also, an unhealthy body is susceptible to germ causing sicknesses and diseases that can be transmitted to others.
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September 18, 2012
Families, friends and Wabash men made it another stellar Wabash Day in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Over 30 volunteers came together again to assist the Grand Rapids Veterans Home on this special project. We were excited to work with the Veterans Home and to show the veterans a small token of our appreciation for all of the sacrifices they have made for all us and our country.
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The Veterans Home is really appreciative of our work on the trail and we look forward to other projects in the future. The work we performed included: spreading mulch, planting tulip bulbs, cutting trees, planting flowers, and general cleaning. It was a great day and we are very proud of the community spirit shown during this project!


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Forensic corpora
This page describes large-scale corpora of forensically interesting information that are available for those involved in forensic research.
Disk Images
The Harvard/MIT Drive Image Corpus. Between 1998 and 2006, Garfinkel acquired 1250+ hard drives on the secondary market. These hard drive images have proven invaluable in performing a range of studies such as the developing of new forensic techniques and the sanitization practices of computer users.
- Garfinkel, S. and Shelat, A., "Remembrance of Data Passed: A Study of Disk Sanitization Practices," IEEE Security and Privacy, January/February 2003.
Network Packets
DARPA ID Eval
The DARPA Intrusion Detection Evaluation. In 1998, 1999 and 2000 the Information Systems Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory created a test network complete with simulated servers, clients, clerical workers, programmers, and system managers. Baseline traffic was collected. The systems on the network were then "attacked" by simulated hackers. Some of the attacks were well-known at the time, while others were developed for the purpose of the evaluation.
- 1998 DARPA Intrusion Detection Evaluation
- 1999 DARPA Intrusion Detection Evaluation
- 2000 DARPA Intrusion Detection Scenario Specific
The MAWI Working Group of the WIDE Project maintains a Traffic Archive. In it you will find:
- daily trace of a trans-Pacific T1 line
- daily trace at an IPv6 line connected to 6Bone:
- daily trace at another trans-Pacific line (100Mbps link) in operation since 2006/07/01:
Traffic traces are made by tcpdump, and then, IP addresses in the traces are scrambled by a modified version of tcpdpriv.
The open source WireShark project (formerly known as Ethereal) has a website with many network packet captures:
Email messages
The Enron Corpus of email messages that were seized by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during its investigation of Enron.
Log files
CRAWDAD is a community archive for wireless data.
CAIDA collects a wide variety of data.
DShield asks users to submit firewall logs..
CALLFRIEND is a database of recorded English conversations. A total of 60 recorded conversations are available from the University of Pennsylvania at a cost of $600.
TalkBank in an online database of spoken language. The project was originally funded between 1999 and 2004 by two National Science Foundation grants; ongoing support is provided by two NSF grants and one NIH grant.
Other Corpora
The Canterbury Corpus is a set of files used for testing lossless compression algorithms. The corpus consists of 11 natural files, 4 artificial files, 3 large files, and a file with the first million digits of pi. You can also find a copyof the Calgaruy Corpus at the website, which was the defacto standard for testing lossless compression algorithms in the 1990s.


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Lynx waive Adair
Minneapolis, MN – The Minnesota Lynx have waived center Jessica Adair.
Knee surgery limited Adair to just 19 games in 2012. She averaged 2.4 points and 2.1 rebounds in 8.8 minutes per contest.
Adair averaged 3.6 points and 2.7 rebounds in parts of three seasons with the Lynx. She was a member of Minnesota's 2011 WNBA championship team.


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In the face of dismal prices for the state's non-organic dairy farmers, New Haven's state Rep. Christopher Bray says the 'Farm to Plate' legislation passed this past legislative session may be the most important bill approved in the past decade that has to do with food or agriculture. Why is Bray so optimistic about legislation the average Vermonter has never heard of? Because the initiative encourages Vermont's local food production to grow from what is now just 3 percent of the food consumed in the state to 20 percent in the next decade.
The "20 by 2020" goal, Bray said, could add approximately $800 million to the state's economic activity. Today that $800 million is being imported from outside the state to feed Vermonters and is an amount that is about equal to the current dollars generated by today's dairy farms.
It's not rocket science to understand that almost doubling the state's current agricultural economy would be a huge boon for the state, and that it would go directly to beefing up Vermont's farming community. Could such a movement help rescue the state's dwindling family farms? Perhaps, but it's best to think of it as transitioning Vermont's farms from predominantly dairy to a mixture of dairy and other types of farming that produce the basic food groups Vermonters consume.
"It will help us rebalance our food system and, I think, create a more stable agricultural environment," Bray told the Addison Independent in an interview last week. "I don't think we will be creating food that's on the sort of pricing roller coaster that dairy farmers are on… This will be market driven, and much more predictable."
The idea, of course, is a throwback to how the nation used to get its food supply a century or more ago. Then, every town of any size had its own grain mills to mill flour, creameries to process milk and make cheese, butcher shops and slaughter houses to process locally-raised meats and more vegetable farms to support the neighboring population. Transportation of foods was less convenient in those days, thus requiring the local farms to meet the communities' and the state's basic needs. With gas prices in flux, and dairy prices seeing higher peaks and lower valleys than in years past, it's also just a smart way for Vermont's farmers to maintain the farming lifestyle they cherish and still make a comfortable living.
That's only possible, however, if the state is successful in reducing its out-of-state food imports from the current 97 percent to 80 percent, and increases its exports. To achieve that goal, state initiatives need to be developed to help communities build creameries and granaries to allow the individual farmer to take advantage of a collective or cooperative model. That does not need to be a government entity, but surely it will take tax incentives and government encouragement to get privately-based operations underway.
Middlebury, or other communities in Addison County, should not wait for that model to be developed elsewhere, but should seize the moment and start figuring out how to make that happen right here in 'the land of milk and honey'. We have the farm land to make it happen, the legislative support to push ideas into policy, and the creative energy to think outside the box and create new ways to prosper on the farm.
What the movement needs now is a group to move the idea forward, specific goals and structure. Perhaps the young farmers of Addison County could work with the Addison County Economic Development Corporation to get something started.
Rep. Bray is right: The farm-to-plate movement is "helping us plot a whole new course as a state … The usual dialogue about food and agriculture is, 'Woe is me,'… (This) is very empowering."
And certainly it is more refreshing to see this approach than to watch the histrionics of our congressional team plead to Congress for more federal funds to prop up low milk prices due to recurrent problems with over-supply. If Vermont is to have a stable and productive agricultural economy 20 years from now, it seems a given that we have to transition away from a dominant agricultural economy that is tied to a boom-to-bust dairy cycle over which Vermont farmers have very little control.
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LIBERTY, Texas - A Liberty County Judge said he was "furious" after Local 2 Investigates reported finding cable TV pornography being displayed for inmates at his county jail for months, sometimes nightly for hours before lights out.
"What bothers me is that it went on for so long," said Judge Craig McNair.
Internal e-mails and nightly security check documents show inmates have been watching pornographic movies since late last year and one corrections officer told Local 2 Investigates, "It's going to build until something happens."
The corrections officer said he was afraid that Liberty County Jail managers were failing to respond quickly enough to the nightly pornography shows and he was afraid it could lead to added violence between inmates.
"That's got to be in their mind. They're watching this constantly and you have no way of releasing your frustrations," said the jailer. "They can take full advantage of anybody."
Liberty County Sheriff's Office Captain Rex Evans said the inmates were able to "somehow manipulate the system and were actually watching, at their own leisure, pornographic material."
One recent inmate told Local 2 Investigates there would be "a lot of fights" because of the nightly porn viewing. He said some guards didn't care and allowed it to be watched.
Another recent inmate, who also said he viewed the pornographic movies behind bars, said inmates would gather around and watch it for hours each night. He said it "made the showers hell" as inmates would act out from viewing the pornography.
Inmates said they would disconnect the cable and bypass the set-top control box, connecting the cable wire directly into the back of the TV set to watch the movies.
Internal jail e-mails obtained by Local 2 Investigates show Liberty County Sheriff's Office leaders mentioning the "inappropriate programs" being viewed by inmates back in January.
Jailers continued mentioning the porno shows in their nightly "hall logs" long after those e-mails.
On February 3rd, a jailer wrote an entry on the nightly hall log of security issues: "4 Dorm watching porno channel again."
Then on February 6th, a jailer wrote: "One of the TV's had porn on it. Told them to change the channel."
"That's just unacceptable in an incarcerated environment," Captain Evans said.
Maryanne Denner, a professor of criminal justice in Houston who spent 17 years in management for the Texas Department of Corrections said all porn does is "aggravate that tension" inmates already have.
"Why would you allow offenders that, some are sex offenders, you're allowing them to watch this porn? Are they in treatment? What if they're in treatment? Is this helping them?" she said.
She said her experience tells her that public masturbation can result, leading to more clashes between inmates.
"This will be the predator against the prey. They're going to find somebody....Is there going to be more forced jail rape?" she asked.
But she also said pornography can push other inmates toward attacking their fellow convicts.
"They don't care. They're acting out, they've gotten aroused," she said.
She faulted jail managers for not making it a higher priority when the pornography was first discovered on the jailhouse televisions.
"That's not management," she said.
Evans said a review is under way to see if jailers and managers reacted quickly enough, but he blamed the delay on the jail's cable television provider.
"It was very frustrating for us. We knew we had a problem. To get somebody out here to review and identify the problem and correct the problem was a lengthy process that, in our opinion, took too long," Evans said.
The jail's warden, Tim New, told Local 2 Investigates that he contacted the cable TV provider when it came to his attention, but the cable company responded that it was impossible for inmates to be viewing the porn.
"Well they damn sure were," New said.
He said after weeks of delays, the cable company finally sent engineers to the jail and confirmed that the channels which carry soft-core pornography many nights were, indeed, being viewed inside the jail.
New said he was called by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards in Austin, which regulates county jails.
"They didn't condone it," New said.
County Judge McNair said he also received a call from Jail Standards investigators. He also said the cable company, at first, assured him it wasn't possible that it could be happening.
McNair said he threatened the cable company that all cable service would be terminated at the jail, and that's when engineers were sent to fix the problem.
"Handled it right then," McNair said.
The judge who said he was "furious," said it raises even more of a concern because several suspects in a highly publicized gang-rape of a young girl in Cleveland are now locked up in that jail.
"People in that Cleveland rape and we're letting them watch porn?" he said.
Warden New insisted rape suspects were not mixed in with the general jail population that had access to the porn. New also said any other violent offenders were likely locked away from the other inmates in their own cells and also unable to see the nightly porn shows.
"The problem is fixed, the problem is resolved," Sheriff's Captain Evans said. "The cable company is working with us and they've resolved the problem. Any future problems that we may experience, they have certainly guaranteed us that there will be a much more immediate response."
The private company that runs the Liberty County Jail, Community Education Centers (CEC) provided a statement through its spokesman, Christopher Greeder in New Jersey, saying, "The cable provider corrected its programming error after repeated requests from the warden."
Jail leaders said inmate trust fund money paid the monthly cable bill for the jail, rather than tax dollars. Jail leaders told the county judge that the cable TV and a sports channel were needed to keep inmates calm and occupied.
Assistant Director Shannon Herklotz with the Texas Commission on Jail Standards said no action would be taken against the Liberty County Jail because it did not violate any state regulations, but of the porn he said, "Nothing good can come of it."
Along with added violence, Herklotz said pornography could result in the county being exposed to legal liability if something does happen.
"It's mind boggling that would happen," he said.
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