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Quick-service and fast-casual restaurants can be plagued by data security issues within their information networks and at the point of sale. A breach of cardholder or other sensitive data can cost restaurant owners necessary operating capital and even lead to time in court.
ControlScan and Lucas Systems, Inc. are partnering to offer cost-effective, customizable solutions and comprehensive support to remove the ongoing burden of restaurant data security and IT oversight. With these core business challenges out of the way, restaurant owners and franchisees can focus on their primary revenue-generating activities.
An expert provider of data security and Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance solutions for small- and mid-sized businesses, ControlScan safeguards the overall network environment with managed security services that fit the unique needs of the business being served.
Through their partnership, ControlScan and Lucas will function as "transparent extensions" to each other, working side-by-side to implement and maintain secure, PCI-compliant restaurant information systems, as well as POS technology that is Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) compliant.
"Lucas is known for its solid history and expertise in restaurant information systems and POS technology," says Joan Herbig, CEO, ControlScan. "Our managed security solutions, which include specialized reporting and support services, complement the POS technology and overall network support Lucas already provides, promising our joint clients long-standing reliability and lowered operational costs."
"Our partnership with ControlScan creates a business advantage for our clients by making data security integral to not only their payment networks, but their business operation as a whole," says Lee Lucas, owner, Lucas Systems, Inc. "And this is not a one-time thing; when a store needs to add components to its technology network, the owner can be assured that the entire operation is still secure and in compliance."
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Case against Shaon, Mazharul withdrawn
The case against celebrated writer Humayun Ahmed's widow Meher Afroz Shaon and friend Mazharul Islam over alleged murder of the noted litterateur has been withdrawn on Wednesday.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Chittagong ABM Nizamul Haque withdrew the case after complainant filed a petition seeking withdrawal of it, reports our Chittagong correspondent.
On August 1, thirteen days after the death of Humayun Ahmed, lawyer and writer advocate Nazrul Islam filed the case against Shaon and Mazharul, publisher of Annya Prokash Publications Ltd, for committing the 'murder' in connivance with each other to misappropriate the cash and property of Humayun Ahmed.
Nazrul filed the petition on Wednesday requesting withdrawal of the case in line with section 248 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and it was readily accepted.
On query, why he requested withdrawal of the case, Nazrul told The Daily Star, "After I filed the case, close relatives of Humayun Ahmed, especially his brothers, noted politicians and public intellectuals stated in different media that Humayun should be kept beyond unnecessary debates and disputes."
"I filed the petition showing respect to these statements," he said.
Humayun Ahmed died of colon cancer in a New York hospital on July 19 at the age of 64.
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Everyone (well, we hope everyone) knows data backup is important. That's why we always vow to be more diligent after we lose more data at an inopportune time. Data backup has become more complicated over the past few years as our data moves out from our computers to the cloud. We know what to do, so why don't we? In this episode, co-hosts Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell discuss current good practices for data backup, whether backup fundamentals are changing, and how to walk the backup walk and not just talk the backup talk. After you listen, be sure to check out Tom & Dennis' co-blog and book by the same name, The Lawyers Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies.
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More Than Just Blue
With HIVers experiencing depression at higher rates than the general population, it's important that you not ignore any telltale signs and that you take extra care of your well-being.
Depression 101
Since many HIVers are more prone to depression, here's what you should do if you're experiencing its symptoms.
Depression and Anxiety
A recent report by the American Journal of Psychiatry found that there were indeed higher rates of depression in gay men than in the general population. As a result, gay men are more likely to engage in high-risk sexual behavior and to abuse alcohol and drugs with more frequency.
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Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, Gender Decisions
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Since the first recognized HIV case was reported, many Americans have come a long way in understanding what HIV is and how it can be prevented. But how much do we really know about HIV today?
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As we age, our dependence on health care increases and the rising costs of medicine, hospitalizations, and doctors' fees can make choosing an insurance carrier a difficult decision.
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Really, and you proudly call a state where family trees are pretty much a straight line and the snake worshipers are home? Look at the Senators you idiots elect, the laughing stock of most of the country.<quoted text>No Offense intended Waverly, But usually I would feel better if you & I did not agree.
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I refer to Malaysiakini's report MIC's 'Robin Hood' to meet the whip.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi used to lament that we have world-class infrastructure but Third World mentality. When he came to power, I, for one, thought that he and his cabinet would lead the way. After about four years, he and his ministers are far from achieving the First World mentality. Recent events confirm their state of mind.
When a MIC member spoke in Parliament about the hardships faced by the Indian community, a fact that Hindraf was trying to put across, without hesitation the 'know-all' minister Nazri sprang to action. Nazri insisted that this parliamentarian must pay for his foul-up with the ruling party even though it is a fact. In other words, when the ruling party claims that the world is flat, all members must agree.
Najib explained that anyone who fanned racial sentiments and instigated the people would be charged in court as their actions breached the country's laws. He added that no matter who they are, if they are found to be giving or have given seditious speeches that arouse the anger of the other races, they can be charged.
I strongly agree with such action. All peace-loving Malaysians will be behind you. He seems to be blind to the beam in his eye, but can see the splinter in Hindraf's eyes. When Umno delegates make speeches which even an imbecile could sense to be seditious under full view of the nation, there were no charges leveled against them.
Yes, Najib. Charge by all means those who create troubles and we are 100 percent behind you. It is disgusting when your policies are inconsistent. And inconsistence is the order of the day and an attribute of Third World mentality.
When Pak Lah said that Hindraf could hand over the memorandum in an orderly manner and need not march in the streets, he forgot that it was his son-in-law who led the way. His son-in-law could have sent his message to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a quiet way instead of leading a demonstration. May I ask, if it is permissible for Khairy, why is it not for others?
Nazri even labelled the demonstrating lawyers as "crazy people". By the same token, Nazri had inadvertently labelled Khairy as one of them. Here again, Nazri thought the rakyat are fools. If he lacked grey matter upstairs, do not presume others are of his class. They most probably thought that the rakyat are living in the earlier post-Merdeka era when kampung folks would relax over a cup of coffee and smoking rokok daun, town folks happily watching Teochew opera or the estate workers treated to a free show on the padang.
Just to wake you up, Mr PM, these simple folks have changed and are better informed through the advent of Internet. Even though some may not read, their children or neighbours could feed them with the latest information. Yes, the rakyat had changed to first-class mentality, but sadly those in the ruling parties are stuck in the third!


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The food was exceptional. They catered for a special diet without any quibble. It was lovely and the service was spot on.
The food was exceptional. They catered for a special diet without any quibble. It was lovely and the service was spot on.
Attractive conservatory bar and adjacent restaurant; short but interesting menu featuring some German specialities; quiet knowledgeable service, excellent cooking. It all made for a very pleasant evening.
We were staying at the Sherbourne House hotel 7th – 9th June. Although I have posted a review of the hotel I felt that the restaurant was worthy of having a separate review. My wife and I arrived early Friday evening and we had already pre-booked a table for our evening meal. The restaurant room at the Sherbourne is very... More
Not an extensive menu but the food was really tasty. I am not a "steak" person but I had a rib eye and it was so flavoursome. My daughter has IBS and they catered for her too. Couldn't fault it.
An excellent meal, wonderfully cooked and presented, in a nicely decorated dining room. We picked this as a holiday treat, somewhere slightly different to the usual recommended restaurants in the vicinity. Wow, the selection on the menu, may be limited, but this chef can really cook. It was quiet on the evening we visited, but this restaurant deserves to be... More
Lovely establishment, great food and choice of wine and beer. Look forward to visiting here not just on special occasions. Have put family up here when over for the weekend and they have all loved it. Would eat here every night if I could afford it
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Swing Into the Holidays: A Cabaret -- Yuletime Standards Performed Live
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Come lift your holiday spirits with the melodies of the season on December 6th with Swing into the Holidays: A Cabaret. Olney Theatre favorites Carrie A. Johnson, Sharen Camille, Tommy McNeal and Michael Nansel bring you classics like "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" and "Let it Snow" in an intimate setting in the New Mainstage. Come have a drink, relax and celebrate with us. Ticket price includes performance, light appetizers and one drink of your choice. Additional drinks available for purchase.
About the Ticket Supplier: Olney Theatre Center
Located just north of Washington, D.C. in arts-rich Montgomery County, Maryland, Olney Theatre Center for the Arts offers a diverse array of professional productions year-round that enrich, nurture and challenge a broad range of artists, audiences and students. One of two state theaters of Maryland, OTC is situated on 14 acres in the heart of the beautiful Washington-Baltimore-Frederick "triangle," within easy access of all three cities.
An award-winning regional theater, Olney Theatre Center operates under an Actors' Equity Association Council of Stock Theaters (COST) contract, one of only three theaters in the country to operate under such a contract.
In addition to its mainstage season, which emphasizes 20th-century American classics, new works, area premieres, reinterpretations of classics and musical theater, OTC offers a wide range of programs and affiliations including: National Players, America's longest running classical touring company (since 1949), which performs for high school and college audiences in over 25 states; Potomac Theatre Project, which offers experimental and alternative plays that explore provocative and challenging human situations, ideas and visions; special school performances of mainstage shows; a free Summer Shakespeare Festival; and post-show discussions.


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Market Staff and Volunteers take care of the Market Information Booth – a great place to donate to the Market, pick up flyers and information on up-coming community events, offer feedback, receive a friendly hello, or leave your application for the Market. While you are there you might want to purchase a raffle ticket for a chance to win the weekly Market basket filled with all kinds of goodies donated by the Vendors. Proceeds from the raffle go towards the building of Vallarta's first community garden.


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The Trinidad and Tobago government said Wednesday said that the British defence firm, BAE Systems, had agreed to pay TT$1.382 billion to settle a two-year dispute over the cancellation of a contract for three offshore patrol vessels (OPVs).
In April 2007, BAE was awarded the contract to build, integrate, test and commission three OPVs for the local Coast Guard at a cost of TT$1.5 billion.
But the current T&T government, citing persistent delays, opted out of the deal that had been struck by the previous Manning administration.
The vessels were subsequently sold to Brazil.
"We are pleased that the dispute has been settled amicably," said Attorney General Anand Ramlogan in a lengthy 10-page statement.
"The government was prepared to stand up for its rights - the rights of the people - against the one of the largest military defence companies in the world," he said.
BAE Systems said the settlement was "consistent with provisions held". It did not elaborate.
But in his statement, Ramlogan said Trinidad has emerged victorious in the dispute.
"Far from having to pay BAE any money, we have come out of this transaction with TT$1.382 billion. After repayment of the outstanding balance on the loans, there will be a surplus of TT$340.09 million which can go towards the construction of our hospitals and police stations," Ramlogan said.
"We have saved this country a recurrent expenditure of TT$32 million per annum that would have been a yoke around the necks of our children in the years to come."


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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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A sculptor offers to barter his soul to Satan if his latest beautiful creation can take the form of a living woman, and it happens, but she doesn't know that her kiss is cursed and it turns the artist to stone.
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After we ran a , Frank Egger wrote in about the history behind the cabins.
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We almost lost Steep Ravine Cabins in the late 1970s when the California State Parks Department decided to tear them down. The state had received bad publicity when a San Francisco daily paper's investigative reporter wrote a story about how folks with political influence gave their friends first choice on staying at the cabins. Publically-owned property, but using them depended on who you knew.
State Parks decided the best way to end the bad publicity was to remove them. Their proposal to remove them was based, they said, on a new proposal to restore the area to its pre-cabin state. Fortunately, State Parks needed a permit from the Coastal Commission before they could remove the cabins.
The Coastal Commission Staff Report recommended the commission approve demolition to support a sister agency.
As the first Prop. 20 California Coastal Commissioner appointed (on Dec. 7, 1972) after voters approval on the initiative, I was always at the forefront of the issues of the day. At the commission meeting held in San Rafael I questioned the removal, stating the cabins provided low-cost overnight accomodations and they should be kept and we should require the State Parks Department to put them on the state's list of campgrounds for first-come, first-serve.
After much public discussion, where the State Parks Dept questioned the right of the Coastal Commission to tell them to stop demolition, other commissioners joined me and on a split vote the permit to remove the cabins was denied.
Fortunately, my recommendation passed and the Steep Ravine Cabins were saved and today they are one of the most sought after campground reservation sites in Northern California.
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The Calendar of the Arts lists dynamic public events that represent the academic curriculum in the Arts at Dickinson.
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by Lauren Davidson
June 10, 2013
Lots of kids develop a love of horses in their youth, but Patrick Cummings '02 turned the passion he developed when he was just 7 into a renowned career. He first started calling horseraces while he was a student at Dickinson through an internship as a production assistant at Philadelphia Park.
A recent New York Times feature on Cummings outlines the interesting path the policy-management and political-science double major has taken since, including founding the Web site Dubairacenight.com and becoming one of the most authoritative figures on Dubai racing, gaining more than 3,000 followers on his Dubairacenight Twitter account, earning his MBA at Baylor University and in 2001 joining Trakus as business manager and director of racing information.
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by Dr. Michele Brown OB/GYN
Here's What You'll Find Below: • Overview
• Hypothyroidism in pregnancy
• Dangers to mother and fetus
• Causes of hypothyroidism
• How is it diagnosed?
• What is the treatment?
• Subclinical hypothyroidism
• How does hypothyroidism affect your baby?
• Summing it up
Let's pretend we have a 26-year-old, newly-pregnant woman sitting on the exam table in her obstetrician's office. While she is excited about her pregnancy, she is verbal and is telling her physician about the terrible nausea and vomiting, anxiety, difficulty sleeping, and general fatigue.
The obstetrician can easily see that she seems to be suffering the normal symptoms of pregnancy but is also a bit worried that it may be something else. Even if nausea and vomiting occur in 50–80% of all pregnant women, especially between the 5th and 13th week, a good obstetrician will go a bit further to make sure it is not something more serious before suggesting a medication, or a supplement, to reduce the symptoms of nausea and vomiting.
Is it possible that this woman is experiencing something more severe than the normal, early pregnancy symptoms? Could it be hypothyroidism?
One of the great masqueraders for pregnant women is thyroid disease. Many of the symptoms that women experience in the early stages of pregnancy are the exact symptoms that occur with thyroid problems. Women will commonly experience fatigue, weight gain, constipation, insomnia, and lethargy.
Health care providers will often reassure patients that this is normal and these symptoms are due to the hormonal and physiological changes that one expects with the early stages of a healthy pregnancy. However, one must be on the alert that these same symptoms could be representative of a much more serious underlying problem; one that could have major, negative ramifications on the pregnancy and the newborn infant.
Left undiagnosed and untreated, hypothyroidism (low thyroid hormone) could result in serious, high-risk conditions during the pregnancy. Prematurity, preeclampsia, placental separation (abruption), and/or serious consequences in the child such as congenital cretinism (mental retardation, deafness, muteness).
This article will focus only on hy-PO-thyroidism. (when you have too little thyroid hormone) and its effects on pregnancy.
Symptoms of hypothyroidism often mimic a normal early pregnancy, such as weight gain and lethargy with a decrease in exercise ability. Hypothyroidism is defined as the inability to manufacture thyroid hormone by the thyroid gland. Missing this diagnosis can have grave, irreversible neurological consequences for the fetus.
How often does hypothyroidism occur in pregnancy?
Hypothyroidism occurs in .1 to .3% of pregnancies. It can be associated with other autoimmune disorders such as diabetes. It is often a cause of difficulty in conceiving since women with this condition have difficulty ovulating.
What are the symptoms of hypothyroidism?
intellectual slowness
voice changes (hoarseness)
lethargy or decrease in exercise capacity
prolonged relaxation of deep tendon reflexes
concentration difficulties


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Tutoring refers to an instructional method in which a tutor teaches or guides a tutee about a specific subject matter or for a particular purpose by providing explanations, modeling targeted behaviors, and/or providing prompts and feedback to students' performance. Although one tutor can teach two or three tutees simultaneously, most tutoring involves one tutor teaching one student (thus the term "one-to-one" tutoring). Everyday tutors are often peers and other paraprofessionals with little experience in teaching, although they are knowledgeable about the content domains they teach (Bloom, 1984; Cohen, Kulik & Kulik, 1982). Terms such as expert and novice tutors are used to differentiate tutors with and without pedagogical expertise. The development of artificial intelligence and information technology has also made it possible for computers to serve as tutors.
One-to-one human tutoring has been shown to be a very effective form of instruction. The average tutored students achieved performance gains about two standard deviations (thus usually referred to as the 2 sigma effect) above the average students in conventional classrooms with a class size of 30 students (Bloom, 1984). A meta-analysis of school tutoring programs reported superior academic performance of tutored students in 45 of the 52 studies. The average effect size was modest (.4), but it varied from study to study with the largest effect size reaching 2.3 (Cohen et al., 1982).
Tutoring effectiveness varied depending on a number of features of the tutoring program. The effect was larger when mathematics was taught as compared to reading and also when lower level skills were assessed. The effect was also larger in structured tutoring programs and also in programs of shorter durations. However, age difference between the tutor and the tutee did not seem to matter. Providing tutors with pre-training did not increase the effect sizes either (Cohen et al., 1982).
Tutoring produces effects not only on the cognitive level, but also on the affective level. In addition to higher achievement scores, tutored students developed positive attitudes toward the subject matter covered in the instruction. Tutoring also benefits both tutors and tutees. Although the amount of improvement was smaller than that of the tutee's learning, tutors' achievement test scores also improved in 33 out of the 38 studies (Cohen et al., 1982). This effect is often called learning by teaching (Bargh & Schul, 1980) or the tutor learning effect (Roscoe & Chi, 2007).
The tutoring session is predominantly controlled by tutors. Tutors, not the students, are the ones who set the agenda, introduced the subtopic, and/or proposed problems to solve. Tutors also speak first, take more turns, and make more statements than tutees (Chi, Siler, Jeong, Yamauch, & Hausmann, 2001; Graesser, Person, & Magliano, 1995; McArthur, Stasz, & Zmuidzinas, 1990). Given their dominance of the tutoring session, it is only natural to assume that tutoring is effective because of what tutors do. This leads to the conjecture that tutors would undertake an array of sophisticated pedagogical moves during tutoring. Research on tutoring, however, shows that although certain moves are frequently undertaken by tutors, they rarely undertake other, often more sophisticated pedagogical moves in spite of the conjectures and expectations that they would do so.
Feedback and Explanation. Earlier research on human and computer tutors highlighted the role of tutorial feedback (Anderson, Boyle, & Reiser, 1985; Anderson, Conrad, & Corbett, 1989; McArthur et al., 1990; Merrill, Reiser, Merrill, Landes, 1995; Merrill, Reiser, Ranney, & Trafton, 1992). For example, Merrill and colleagues (1995) studied natural human tutoring in computer programming and found that tutors kept the students' problem solving on track by providing ongoing confirmatory feedback and setting new goals. When errors were made, tutors immediately drew students' attention to them if students did not notice their errors first. Later studies of tutoring, however, reported that tutorial feedback was not only infrequent but also unimportant to student learning (Graesser et al., 1995; Chi et al., 2001). Because the majority of the studies emphasizing the role of tutorial feedback came from studies of tutoring procedural skills (e.g., programming language, algebra, and geometry), it is likely that the value of immediate feedback on errors might be most useful in the procedural domain where following the right problem solving steps is important. However, there is considerable variability in how tutors handle errors even in the procedural domain. Some tutors provide explicit feedback, sometimes even telling students how to solve a problem (McArthur et al., 1990), whereas other tutors give very subtle and indirect responses to student errors (Fox, 1990; Lepper, Woolverton, Mumme, & Gurtner, 1993).
Another frequent tutor move during tutoring is giving explanations. Graesser et al. (1995) examined the tutoring of algebra and research methods and reported that one of the noticeable tutor behaviors was providing explanations along with specific examples that connected student understanding to concrete real-world examples. Chi and colleagues (2001) analyzed various tutor statements made by novice biology tutors in a naturalistic tutoring session, such as: (a) giving explanations, (b) giving feedback followed by short corrective explanations when the feedback was negative, (c) reading text sentences aloud, (d) making self-monitoring comments (e.g., "I don't know whether this will help you"), (e) answering questions that students asked, (f) asking content questions, (g) scaffolding with generic and content prompts, and (h) asking comprehension gauging questions (e.g., "is this starting to stick?"). Of the eight types of tutor statements they coded, the most prevalent tutor statement was explanations. Giving explanations is also frequent in the procedural domain (Anderson et al., 1989; McKendree, 1990), but the prevalence of explanation might vary depending on the nature of the content domain. Conceptual domains such as biology are more conducive to tutor explanations than procedural domains such as algebra. In addition, the role of tutorial explanations seems to be limited as they only correlated with shallow measures of students' learning (Chi et al., 2001) or not at all (VanLehn, Siler, Murray, Yamauchi, & Baggett, 2003).
Socratic Technique and Error Diagnosis Rare. Although tutors dominate the tutoring dialogue, this does not necessarily mean that they employ sophisticated tutoring techniques. One such technique that is absent in typical tutoring is Socratic technique. Socratic technique refers to a tutoring method in which the tutors lead students to discover their own misconceptions and construct understanding through a line of questioning instead of giving out information to students directly (Collins & Stevens, 1982). Socratic tutoring appears to produce superior learning outcomes compared with didactic tutoring (Rosé, Moore, VanLehn, & Allbritton, 2001), but it is rare not only in typical tutoring session involving novice tutors (Graesser et al., 1995) but also when tutors have years of experience (VanLehn et al., 2003).
Another tutoring technique that has often been attributed to tutors is the ability to perform a detailed and accurate diagnosis of student understanding especially with respect to errors and misconceptions. An accurate diagnosis and monitoring of students' misunderstanding is essential for tutors to be able to decide how and when to deliver the feedback and explanations and also to tailor their moves to the needs of individual students. Chi, Siler, and Jeong (2004) analyzed how accurately novice biology tutors diagnose and monitor the status of students' misunderstandings. The results indicated that tutors could assess only what students did not know against the normative understanding that the tutors were teaching and were dismal at diagnosing the students' alternative understanding or misconception. Additional evidence indicated that even experienced tutors did not engage in detailed error diagnosis and monitoring (McArthur et al., 1990; Putnam, 1987). It seems that tutors have some sense of what students understand and are aware of the general level of their competence, but are insensitive to the specific errors or misconceptions students have.
In spite of the initial belief that tutors would play a critical role in tutoring, a closer examination of tutor behaviors revealed that their contribution is rather limited. This led to a realization that tutoring effectiveness needs to be examined from a broader perspective that considers not only what tutors do but also what students do in the context of interactive tutorial dialogue.
Tutorial Dialogue. To examine the potential mechanisms responsible for the tutoring effect, Graesser et al. (1995) studied the tutoring dialogues of unskilled tutors as they tutored algebra and research methods in psychology and examined the extent to which tutoring dialogues manifest components that have been emphasized in contemporary pedagogical theories and intelligent tutoring systems. These components were: (a) active student learning, (b) sophisticated pedagogical strategies, (c) anchored learning in specific examples and cases, (d) collaborative problem solving and question answering, (e) deep explanatory reasoning, (f) convergence toward shared meanings, (g) feedback, error diagnosis and remediation, and (h) affect and motivation. Of these, only three components were prominent in a typical tutoring session: collaborative problem solving and question answering, explanatory reasoning, and anchoring in the context of specific examples.
Because most of the sophisticated techniques were underdeveloped or virtually non-existent in typical tutoring, Graesser and colleagues (1995) postulated that the tutoring effect would come from the use of localized strategies embedded within tutorial dialogues. They identified frequent dialogue patterns between tutors and tutees in the following five broad steps (p. 504):
- Tutor asks a question.
- Student answers question.
- Tutor gives short feedback on the quality of the answer.
- Tutor and student collaboratively improve the quality of the answer.
- Tutor assesses student's understanding of the answer.
The first three steps of tutoring dialogue roughly correspond to the initiate, response, and evaluation cycle of the classroom dialogue in which the teacher initiates the dialogue typically by asking questions, the students respond, and then the teacher evaluates the responses. There are two extra steps in tutoring dialogue, however. Graesser and colleagues (1995) postulated that these extra steps of tutoring dialogue provided the advantage of tutoring over classroom instruction as tutors and tutees collaboratively construct knowledge during these steps.
Tutor-centered, Student-centered, and Interactive Hypothesis. Chi and colleagues (2001) conceptualized that tutoring effectiveness can be attributed to either what tutors do, what students do, or what tutors and tutees do together, and formulated three corresponding hypotheses: a tutor-centered, student-centered, and interactive hypothesis. The tutor-centered hypothesis states that tutors' pedagogical tactics are responsible for the effectiveness of tutoring and predicts that tutors not only employ sophisticated pedagogical moves during tutoring but also that their moves would make a significant contribution to students' learning. The student-centered hypothesis, derived from the findings that students' generative and constructive activities such as self-explanations aid learning (e.g., Chi, de Leeuw, Chiu, & Lavancher, 1994), states that tutoring is effective because it provides more opportunities for students to be generative and constructive. It predicts that students would be active during tutoring and that their active construction (e.g., question asking, self-explanations) would correlate with their learning outcomes. Lastly, the interactive hypothesis states that the key to tutoring effectiveness is not what the tutors or the students do alone, but the interaction between them. Tutorial interaction is critical because it elicits constructive responses from students. The hypothesis predicts that tutor and student would be interactive and that students' constructive and interactive responses (e.g., responding to tutor questions and scaffolding prompts) would foster learning more so than constructive but non-interactive responses (e.g., self-explanations) or interactive but non-constructive responses (e.g., acknowledgements).
In their analysis of naturalistic tutoring by novice biology tutors, Chi and colleagues (2001) found evidence for all three hypotheses. As for the tutor-centered hypothesis, tutors provided extensive amount of explanations, which was significantly correlated with student learning outcome. However, explanation was the only tutor move significantly correlated with student learning and did so only with shallow measures of learning. As for the student-centered hypothesis, they found that although tutors dominated the tutoring session, students were still more active during tutoring than in the classroom. Students asked far more questions during the tutoring sessions (e.g., about eight questions per hour) than in the classrooms (e.g., less than one question per hour according to Graesser et al., 1995). They also found that some of the students' constructive moves were correlated with learning outcomes, but they were all interactive moves (i.e., responses to scaffolding prompts and comprehension gauging questions), lending support to the interactive hypothesis as well. As for the interactive hypothesis, although tutors were not very interactive (after all, they dominated the tutoring session), students were. They never ignored tutors and always responded to prompts and questions from tutors. Tutorial interaction was also essential to student learning in that interactive construction was correlated with learning outcomes, whereas non-interactive construction was not.
Tutoring is a complex process. On the surface, it appears that tutors play a critical role in making it so effective. However, tutors in general do not use sophisticated tutoring strategies such as the Socratic technique or error diagnosis. In addition, even the tutorial moves frequently used by tutors such as explanations only made a limited contribution to students' learning. A deeper look at the tutoring session suggests that what students do in response to tutorial interaction also plays an important role. Being in a one-to-one situation with a tutor gives students more chances to engage in active learning and to be constructive, but it is not merely students' construction that mattered. Student constructive responses elicited by tutor moves played a more important role in their learning than self-initiated constructive responses.
Although tutoring is already a quite effective form of instruction, there is still room for further improvement. As Graesser and colleagues (1995) noted, many of the components that have been emphasized in contemporary pedagogical theories are either poorly executed or rare in typical tutoring situations. Thus, one obvious way to improve the effectiveness of tutoring is by training tutors in these missing pedagogical components. Although efforts to teach tutors to use specific strategies can be challenging, it seems that some of the strategies such as scaffolding seem to be relatively easy to implement (Chi et al., 2001).
Alternatively, tutoring can be made more effective by making tutors do less instead of trying to make them do more. Chi and colleagues (2001) also manipulated the kind of tutoring strategies tutors were permitted to use. In order to make tutoring less didactic and promote a more interactive style of dialogue, tutors were asked to refrain from giving explanations and feedback. They were encouraged to prompt the students instead. The results showed that students were just as effective at learning the materials even when tutors were suppressed from giving explanations and feedback. Even in the absence of tutor explanations and feedback, students were able to learn from a greater amount of scaffolding episodes as well as by taking greater control of their own learning by reading more.
Computer-based intelligent tutors began to appear in the mid 1980s. These Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) heavily relied on the cognitive model of competence about how students learn and solve problems (e.g., Anderson et al., 1985; Anderson, Corbett, Koedinger, & Pelletier, 1995). A detailed cognitive model of students allowed computer tutors to trace students' problem-solving behaviors closely and provide directive step-by-step feedback to ensure that students stayed on the right paths. There are now well-tested tutors of algebra, geometry, computer languages, physics, and electronics (e.g., Koedinger, Anderson, Hadley, & Mark, 1997; Lesgold, Lajoie, Bunzo, & Eggan, 1988; VanLehn et al., 2005). According to one estimate, they produce learning gains of approximately 1.0 standard deviation units compared with students learning the same content in a classroom (Corbett, Anderson, Graesser, Koedinger, & VanLehn, 1999) and are actively implemented and used in schools in the United States (Aleven & Koedinger, 2002; Koedinger et al., 1997).
In spite of their success, existing ITSs are often too rigid, allowing only one strategy for problem solving and providing perhaps too much scaffolding in the form of error correction. They are also limited in promoting deep learning, failing to help students to articulate reasons behind the problem-solving procedures and to apply what they learn to more qualitative problems (Aleven & Koedinger, 2002; Graesser, VanLehn, Rosé, Jordan, & Harter, 2001; Ohlsson, 1986; VanLehn et al., 2000). Several attempts have been made to remedy these shortcomings and make computer tutors as competent as expert human tutors. One approach, based on the research showing the importance of students' own construction activities, is to provide more opportunities for students to self-construct their understanding (Aleven & Koedinger, 2002). Another approach is to endow ITSs with natural language capability so that computers could engage in tutorial dialogue with students using natural language, thereby eliciting collaborative knowledge construction more actively (Graesser et al., 2001; Person, Graesser, Kreuz, & Pomeroy, 2001; VanLehn et al., 2000). The preliminary results from these attempts look promising. Students who explained their steps during problem-solving practice with a computer tutor learned with greater understanding compared to students who did not explain steps (Aleven & Koedinger, 2002). Students tutored by an ITS with natural language enhancement also outperformed students tutored with an earlier version of ITS without the enhancement (Graesser et al., 2001).
The tutoring effect demonstrates that most of the students have a potential to reach a high level of learning. In spite of its effectiveness, tutoring has not been used as actively and widely as it should be. The main reason has been the cost. There are ways, however, to circumvent this limitation and introduce the benefits of one-to-one tutoring into classroom instruction. One traditional solution is to use peer tutors. Because the majority of tutors are novices and yet produce significant effects, pairing students with other students of either same-age or cross-age across grades can be an effective alternative to using professional tutors. Peer tutoring can also help those students who serve as tutors since tutors themselves engage in active knowledge construction processes as they tutor (Roscoe & Chi, 2007). Peer-tutoring also brings other benefits such as community building and integration of students with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds (O'Donnell, 2006; Webb & Palincsar, 1996).
Benefits of tutoring can also be obtained by combining collaborative learning with tutoring. For example, Chi, Roy, and Hausmann (in press) examined the effectiveness of collaborative observation of tutoring against several other instructional conditions such as one-on-one tutoring and collaboration without observation. The results showed that students learned to solve physics problems just as effectively from observing tutoring col-laboratively as the students who were being tutored individually. It seems that learning conditions such as collaborative observation of tutoring can serve as a promising alternative to one-to-one tutoring while providing all the same benefits.
Research on tutoring has demonstrated and reinforced the idea that students learn best if they construct knowledge for themselves rather than being told the knowledge. Tutoring seems to be a particularly effective form of instruction because it facilitates active knowledge construction within the interactive context of tutorial dialogues. Regardless of whether teachers implement tutoring into the classroom, classroom instruction can benefit greatly by finding ways to elicit more active construction from students in interactive contexts.
See also:Reciprocal Teaching
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Pasta dishes are a family favorite for many people, and tonight, we're learning how to make a must-have recipe from internationally renowned chef Todd English. Time to grab a Bite with Belkys.
The Chef: Seth High
The Restaurant: Da Campo Osteria in Fort Lauderdale
The Dish: Shrimp Penne with Candied Lemon
Ingredients for shrimp marinade:
2 tsp. of garlic, sliced
1 tsp. of oregano
1 tsp. of mint
5 shrimp, size u-15, cleaned and deveined
black pepper, one pinch
1/4 cup of olive oil
Method of Preparation:
-In a bowl, add garlic, oregano, mint, shrimp, black pepper and olive oil. Then toss this all together, cover it with plastic wrap and let it sit in the fridge for at least four hours.
Ingredients for sauce:
1 Tbs. of olive oil
1 tsp. of garlic, sliced
salt and black pepper, to taste
1 Tbs. of chardonnay
Juice of 1/2 a lemon
1/4 cup of candied lemon
2 Tbs. of butter
6 oz. of penne (blanched half way through)
1/2 cup of baby arugula
Method of Preparation:
-First, pour a drizzle of olive oil into a hot pan. Then saute some sliced garlic and add the marinated shrimp.
-Next, sprinkle salt and pepper. Take the pan away from the heat and pour in white wine.
-Then, add a squeeze of fresh lemon juice, a little candied lemon, butter, penne (cooked halfway through) and let it simmer.
-Mix all the ingredients, and toss in some baby arugula at the end.
To Plate the Dish:
You can garnish with chopped parsley and a little more candied lemon.
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Serves: 1
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Remember the scene from the movie Borat when the title character and his colleague wrestled through the hotel naked? Perhaps you've blocked the imagery from your medulla oblongata.
For some reason an outbreak of shirtless-slap fighting has plagued our sports media the past few weeks. I've witnessed higher-level debates on Saturday Night Live.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's adorable. The same way a neighbor's puppy humping your leg is charming at first. Eventually you just have to shake the dog free and swat him in the nose with a rolled up newspaper. But hey, it's all in good fun right?
On to a few real sports rants. You know the biggest problem this past Saturday? Not the momentum shift to Texas that OU was unable to overcome. No, it was the Cox broadcast inexplicably flipping to SD broadcast during the third quarter.
Between ABC, KTUL and Cox they really need to get their HD in check. The saying goes something like: once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence but thrice? Get your head out of the bin and flip the switch.
The second most disappointing result of Texas defeating OU? The lack of "Colt 45" references the following morning. If Billy Dee Williams was a corpse, he would be turning over in his grave.
Wild Card Weekend (college's version) wasn't kind to some of the top seeds. The BCS is not perfect but it made for some vital college football match-ups this past weekend. You have to admit as much.
OU dropping from the ranks of the unbeaten. LSU getting annihilated at the Swamp. Missouri, well, more on that game in a bit.
Random thought: when is the last time OU simply lost?
You know what this means for the 26th ranked Golden Hurricane? In the immortal words of Lloyd Christmas we're saying there's still a chance.
The TU Express needs a Miracle on 11th street to sneak into the BCS Bowl picture. To their credit, they are living up to their end of the bargain. Unfortunately, the nation isn't taking notice.
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The team in Oklahoma and nationally that remains under the radar? Oklahoma State. Before we treat them like Rachel Ray treats corn on the cob, let's see what they do this week.
In recent years the Cowboys under whelm against Baylor-type foes. With the new lofty ranking (no. 8) let's see if they are real men.
Another side note on the Pokes. And please bear with me while I make this point.
Let's say Charlie Weis coached the team. For fun let's pretend this group wore Ohio State colors. Just for kicks pretend for a second the OSU Cowboys were rolling through the Pac 10. Wouldn't the 6-0, Ohio State-uniform-wearing, Charlie-Weis coached and Pac 10 leader be the number one team in the nation? They would at least be ranked higher than a one-loss Sooners squad right?
Fans blow their O-rings complaining about the BCS. What about the AP voters who think one-loss Florida, OU and USC should be ahead of undefeated OSU and Texas Tech? Where's the venom?
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This coming week is Kid's Clothes Week Challenge over at Elsie Marley. I participated last year but I was not as accustomed to sewing daily then. Now, sewing everyday is pretty typical for me. I have been very blessed in the last year, my etsy shop has done very well. Better then I even hoped for a year ago. Of course, along with my shops growth my dreams for my shop has grown. :)
The challenge is to sew kid's clothing for at least one hour per day everyday from the 23 - 30. Since I sew kids clothes pretty much daily anyway I enhanced the challenge for myself to sew clothes for my kids at least one hour everyday. I figure I will sew any orders for my shop and then an additional hour of things for my kids. I am really excited about it. I have lots of ideas/plans about what I want to make for my kids but I seem to regularly end up putting them off.
So what is on my list?
For Big Brother -
a pair of Star Wars pajamas
a pair of Star Wars shorts - to match this dress
an applique shirt (like this one) with the Star Wars fabric to match the shorts
For Big Sister
a party dress
a princess peasant dress (like this one)
a Wall-E dress (like the Star Wars dress in the fabric from these shorts)
a Star Wars nightgown that will match Big Brother's pajamas
For Little Sister
a Batman Sun Dress (like this one)
a Scooy Doo Dress
For Tiny Sister
a dress made from a maternity shirt of mine (like this one)
a Star Wars Dress to match Big Brother's shorts
a princess peasant dress to match Big Sister's dress
Do I really expect to finish all of that this week? Probably not but I am going to try. As such I will be taking a break from blogging about RAD, attachment, life, etc. I will skip a therapeutic parenting moment post for this week (you can expect one on May 1st). Tomorrow starts our respite and I am giving myself a mental respite as well. Little Sister will go off to her grandparents and I will sew. I will take this week off of writing (and reading) about RAD and attachment. I WILL be blogging about kids clothes. I have a tutorial post on turning a shirt into a dress, possibly one on making a doll peasant dress. I will post details and pictures about what I make as I finish things. So, Happy Kid's Clothes Week everyone!


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I think Halle has the celebrity style I find the most interesting. I love how she combines casual and rocker together.


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This beautiful condo has breathtaking views of Vancouver's Burrard Inlet, mountains and downtown skyscrapers. Floor to ceiling windows frame a vista that includes the North Shore Mountains, and the lights of Grouse Mountain.
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Full facility building: Descend from your home on the 28th floor and enjoy the full size heated lap pool, hot tub and fitness facilities. Relax in the gardens or have a barbecue.
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- Long-Term Renters Welcome
- Suitable For Elderly Or Infirm
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Bedrooms: 2 Bedrooms, Sleeps 6
Bathrooms: 2 Bathrooms
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- Guest Chad (Orange County, CA)
- Date of stay 06/14/13
- Review Submitted 06/21/13
We were able to book a week at this apartment last minute as they had an opening. Great location with view of the harbor and got to watch the float planes take off and land. Apartment was clean and well appointed as advertised. Nice quite street but a short walk many nice areas with bars and restaurants and shopping. Overall would highly recommend that apartment and the area! Owners were easy to deal with and arrival went just as planned with no hitches.Recommended for: Families with young children, age 55+, romantic getaway, families with teenagers, girls getaway, tourists without a car, sightseeing.
Manager response: Thank you for your kind comments. I am so pleased you were able to enjoy and appreciate this fabulous location. Although it is tempting to just sit and watch the neighbourhood activity and harbour action from this perch above Coal Harbour, I am glad you got out and enjoyed exploring the local attractions. I hope you have the opportunity to return in the future. We would be pleased to welcome you again. Warm regards, A
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- Guest Verdigris (Manchester, UK)
- Date of stay 08/18/12
- Review Submitted 09/13/12
We (family of 4) enjoyed a week in Vancouver in August and this apartment was simply perfect. The views across the bay are fantastic, but equally the apartment itself more than lives up to its billing, modern, spotlessly clean and very well furnished. How many times have you turned up at a holiday rental to find a nice property blighted by cheap fixtures, fittings and utensils? Not here - everything is high end and new, from the corkscrew right through to the dishwasher. The location is great for a family - equidistant from Stanley Park (a 15 minute walk via Wholefoods) and the main tourist/bar/restaurant drags in the other direction, but in a very safe and quiet neighbourhood in Coal Harbour with good facilities all around. You could pay pretty much the same amount for a family room in a good hotel for the week and have your beds made for you every day, or enjoy spectacular views, kick about in 2 beds and a den, lounge, kitchen, 2 baths etc. It's not much of a choice really! Highly recommended, as you can tell.Manager response: Thank you for your glowing comments, we truly appreciate your taking the time to write this review. We take pride in providing a high quality product and are happy that our condo met your expectations. We look forward to having you stay with us again in the future! Sincerely, Andrea Phillips
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Great Place!
- Guest Liz C. (Oak Park, IL)
- Date of stay 11/29/11
- Review Submitted 12/17/11
We stayed at this condo for a few days with another couple and LOVED it! The two king beds with good mattresses was a plus but it's the VIEWS that stole the show. The condo was immaculately clean, well equipped, safe, quiet and comfortable. There is garage parking for two cars but since it's walking distance to everything, we didn't need a car. The location cannot be beat. Walk down Bute about three blocks to the water and there's a great bar there. Even though our flight was delayed and we didn't arrive until 10:30 p.m, getting the key from the caretaker was a breeze. The listing is an accurate representation except it probably doesn't do the view justice. We were lucky enough to rent for four days even though the listing said two week minimum. I recommend it highly and hope to go back some time soon. Vancouver is a great walking town, and this is a great place to call home while you're there; have fun!Did you find this review helpful? Yes | No Helpful votes: 6/6
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