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North Carolina should eliminate most of its tax credits for job creation and investment, according to a study done for the General Assembly. The credits, which make up 98% of the $2 billion the legislature committed for economic incentives between 1996 and 2006, no longer further goals they were created for. The study also recommends cutting the states corporate income tax rate while keeping credits for research and development and expanding discretionary incentives such as the Job Development Investment Grants and the One North Carolina Fund. Brent Lane, director of the UNC Center for Competitive Economies, is co-author of the study.
BNC: Has the incentive program been a waste of money?
Lane: No, it hasnt. We entered a new era of economic-development competition in the 90s when incentives were extraordinarily useful. North Carolina didnt want to do incentives we had to because everybody around us was using them. But the states portfolio of economic incentives was developed for the economy of the early 90s. That economy has changed, so we need to look at our existing portfolio and see how it should be changed.
What are incentives supposed to do?
Youll get a different answer from almost everybody. But we had a very good bipartisan committee of about 20 legislators. They boiled it down to three primary factors. One was job creation not just any jobs but higher-wage jobs. Second was an emphasis on job creation in distressed areas where the market isnt immediately responding to opportunities. The third was: Have we improved the North Carolina economys competitiveness?
How do you measure that?
First, you have to have a significant number of jobs. Second, they have to be high-quality. Third, youve got to have an effect beyond the company thats receiving incentives. If youre going to invest in a relative handful of firms, they have to be transformative in some way.
They have to draw other companies to the state?
Absolutely. Or it can be geographical. A company moving into Mecklenburg County would have a smaller impact than a similarly sized one moving into a distressed rural area.
What did you find the tax credits were doing?
What we found was the popular perception of our incentives doesnt match the reality. Very little of the tax credits are directly related to job creation. Most are for investments in machinery and other equipment. Those credits, which are more than two-thirds of the total, are not even indirectly associated with job creation. On a net basis, theyre associated with job loss. The vast majority of incentives are to companies that are shedding jobs. If your expectation is that your incented companies are adding jobs, then youre failing. If you want to incent companies in distressed areas, youre failing. The tax credits go overwhelmingly to the well-off counties.
Sometimes the state gives incentives not to create but to keep jobs.
People sort of backtrack a bit. We also want to help these companies remain competitive. Or, Now we want to retain jobs. Then you get into a hospice development. We want to slow the rate at which these companies decline. The reason this committee was formed back in early 07 is the legislature had seen the Google deal [potentially worth more than $100 million in state and local incentives] and the Dell deal [$280 million], and they got pulled into a special session about Goodyear [$30 million to retain jobs]. And I believe they realized that we no longer knew what we wouldnt do. The tax credits were more effective in their early years than theyve been in their later years. For the criteria of job creation in distressed areas and enhanced competitiveness, they are not successful any longer.
Why dont the credits create jobs?
In part, its who takes them. Most are taken by mature companies that are not in their most productive stage. An athletic metaphor might be helpful. Do we incent Brett Favre when hes on the Jets and he has one year left in him? Or do we incent Brett Favre when he joined the Packers and had most of his career in front of him? Also, an economic developer is typically not involved in getting the credits. An accountant typically will find out about an incentive a year, perhaps two years, after the corporate decisions were made. Thats not a stimulus. Thats not an influential incentive. And the vast majority of the tax credits fit into that category. So we were spending a lot of our incentive budget on tax credits, most of which it could not be argued had any effect on business decisions.
Why not get rid of all tax credits?
I wont make the case that R&D tax credits are creating jobs, but they are strongly correlated with companies that are growing young Brett Favre companies.
Why are discretionary incentives better?
They have an enforcement mechanism. With tax credits, if you file that you made X dollars of investment, theres generally no verification of that. Discretionary incentives represent a contractual commitment by the company that is verified. The company commits that it will make an investment and it will hire employees at a stated wage rate. All of that is established in the development agreement ahead of time.
When are incentives most effective?
When they go for headquarters. Headquarters are less likely to shut down than a subsidiary is. When they make profits elsewhere in the world, the profits come back into our economy. When a subsidiary makes a profit, it leaves our economy.
What would happen to the corporate income tax rate if the state eliminated the ineffective tax credits?
You could bring the rate from 6.9% to 6.6% or 6.5%. Right now, our corporate tax rate sticks out. Having a conspicuously higher rate than the rest of the region has a definite but difficult to calculate marketing disadvantage. At 6.5%, it would be competitive-neutral. It would essentially tie with the highest of two or three other states in the Southeast, but it wouldnt be conspicuously higher. And far more companies would see a benefit than they see in the current tax-credit regime. The tax credits basically reduce the tax rate of the companies who are aware of them at the cost of the ones who arent.


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Rank and organization:   Private First Class, U.S. Army, 3d Infantry Division.
Place and date:   Near Ponte Rotto, Italy, 23 May 1944.
Entered service at:
Riverside, N.J.
Birth:   Dilltown, Pa.
G.O. No.: 80, 5 October 1944.
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond
the call of duty, on 23 May 1944, near Ponte Rotto, Italy. Pfc. Dutko left
the cover of an abandoned enemy trench at the height of an artillery concentration
in a single-handed attack upon 3 machineguns and an 88mm. mobile gun. Despite
the intense fire of these 4 weapons which were aimed directly at him, Pfc.
Dutko ran 10.0 yards through the impact area, paused momentarily in a shell
crater, and then continued his l-man assault. Although machinegun bullets
kicked up the dirt at his heels, and 88mm. shells exploded within 30 yards
of him, Pfc. Dutko nevertheless made his way to a point within 30 yards
of the first enemy machinegun and killed both gunners with a hand grenade.
Although the second machinegun wounded him, knocking him to the ground,
Pfc. Dutko regained his feet and advanced on the 88mm. gun, firing his
Browning automatic rifle from the hip. When he came within 10 yards of
this weapon he killed its 5-man crew with 1 long burst of fire. Wheeling
on the machinegun which had wounded him, Pfc. Dutko killed the gunner and
his assistant. The third German machinegun fired on Pfc. Dutko from a position
20 yards distant wounding him a second time as he proceeded toward the
enemy weapon in a half run. He killed both members of its crew with a single
burst from his Browning automatic rifle, continued toward the gun and died,
his body falling across the dead German crew.
This data was extracted from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Senate, Medal of Honor Recipients: 1863-1973 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973)

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The Herschel mission has produced high quality photometry and spectroscopy in the far-infrared and sub-millimetre for more than 3 years. Herschel calibration clearly plays a key role in connecting the groundbased near-infrared calibration (via stars) with groundbased submm/mm calibration (via planets). This workshop will enable Herschel calibration experts and observatory users to gather to assess the current status, successes and shortcomings of the whole set of observing modes available to Herschel and the calibrations performed. It is scheduled to take place around the end of Helium cryogenic phase of the mission and before full consolidation of calibrations and archived observations in a post operational phase. The workshop will therefore provide further feedback into the planning of calibration improvements in the upcoming years so that the Herschel Science Archive has the best calibrated data possible.
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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi gave the military new authority on Monday; the army will now be able to arrest civilians and will be tasked with working directly with police "to preserve security and protect vital state institutions" until the election results of the December 15 constitutional referendum are declared.
Morsi's latest mandate providing the army with new powers comes after violent protests rocked Egypt. Last Tuesday, Morsi was forced to briefly flee the presidential palace through a back door after protesters broke through security barriers. Wednesday saw an escalation of violence when four people died and more than 270 were injured after clashes broke out between pro- and anti-Morsi demonstrators in Cairo. And on Friday, tens of thousands of protesters rejected a call for dialogue with the president and sprayed graffiti on the palace walls.
Anti-Morsi protesters in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Dec. 4, 2012. (Photo: Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters)
While Morsi's recent actions unified opposition groups against him, the new constitution is still expected to pass. If that occurs, and tensions continue to rise, it remains unclear what exactly the Egyptian army would do to stem prolonged instability -- and how Morsi would respond.
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Every time you check out at the front desk at the library we give you a receipt.
The receipt shows you what you checked out and when it is due to be returned.
But the receipt also tells you how much you have saved during the year by borrowing rather than buying the materials we have given you on loan.
Books are expensive these days. And DVDs aren't that cheap, either.
During the year 2014, patrons of the library saved a grand total of $1.9 million by checking out books and other materials rather than buying those same things.
That's nothing at all to sneeze at.
The Wall Street Journa,l has reported on a study that shows that if you read in iPad and some similar devices before you try to go to sleep, the process of dozing off will take longer than if you read a regular book.
The problem is a blue light that the devices emit. It disrupts the release of the chemical that helps you go to sleep.
If you're like me, you don't need anything to get in the way of getting in the right number of hours to keep me on my toes through the day.
When, as editor of the newspaper in Wichita Falls, I studied the Census data released in 2001 and 2002, one fact really popped out: The number of Anglos was in decline and the number of Hispanics was on the rise.
I broke the numbers down as far as possible and came to the fairly easy conclusion that the future leadership pool for Wichita Falls and that region was going to be Hispanic, not old white guys.
So, along with a community foundation director, I set about trying to get the younger Hispanics involved in local elections and as local decision-makers. That involved quite a number of initiatives, most of which were still under way when I left Wichita Falls in 2007.
I mention this because at the same time I was looking at Wichita Falls' future, I was also looking at Texas' future, and they were on parallel paths.
Seems as if I were clairvoyant. Now comes Richard Parker, a Wimberley author, in a book entitled "Lone Star Nation: How Texas Will Transform America," in which he argues that Texas needs to be sure to educate the young Hispanics because the state's future depends on them.
I have not read Parker's book yet, and am familiar with his thinking only because I read about it in the Sunday American-Statesman.
All I can say is that it certainly appear that Parker is right, at least to someone who is familiar with the data.
The big question is whether the state's leadership, which is mostly old white guys, will pay attention or whether they will try to hold onto their power to the detriment of the state's development.
An outfit called Quartz has just released a list of the 10 books that were most often mentioned in tweets on Twitter.
The Infodocket website says the list was generated from more than 80 million tweets analyzed by BookVibe.
So, at No. 1, there is no surprise: "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green. No surprise because the movie came out this year and was a hit, and books associated with movies always generate social-media activity.
No. 2 is no mystery, either: "A Game of Thrones" for the same reason.
Another John Green novel called "Looking for Alaska" is at No. 3. I have no clue why that would be tweeted so many times.
I figure that No. 4's "To Kill a Mockingbird" is ranked because it was required reading in a lot of English classes.
And No. 5 is "Hannibal" by Thomas Harris, which must be related to the series that continued running this year on NBC.
So, what about "Looking for Alaska?"
Help me out here.
So, the sorry little dictator in charge of North Korea wins Round 1.
He hacks Sony and spreads its laundry all across the web. Then he wins Round 2: He scares movie-house owners into believing he'll targe them if they play a movie that has his assassination as a central plot point. Then he wins Round 3: He gets Sony to abandon the film altogether.
For Round 4, he now threatens the United States with -- well, something -- if we retaliate for the hack attack.
So, what should the world's most powerful nation do?
Maybe take a play from Israel's game dealing with Iranian nuclear weapons manufacturing plants.
And take a play from Putin's game dealing with powerful internal enemies.
Surely there's a way to deal with the little man and his minions that Silicon Valley could figure out.
President Obama is right: He can't be allowed to get away with telling us what to publish.
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Two chairmen of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement on Monday lamenting the discrimination against those with religious beliefs found in President Obama's executive order which failed to include religious freedom protections while banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity among federal contractors.
"In too many states and in too many workplaces, simply being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender can still be a fireable offense," Obama said, according to USA Today. "So I firmly believe that it's time to address this injustice for every American."
Writing at the National Catholic Reporter, Fr. Thomas Reese suggested that Catholic Relief Services, Catholic hospitals, and Catholic schools and colleges could eventually be impacted. "There is little doubt that if the administration is successful dealing with contracts, grants will soon be on the firing line," he wrote.
Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty and Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, chairman of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, issued a statement decrying the "unprecedented and extreme" executive order.
According to the USCCB, the bishops said in their statement:
In the name of forbidding discrimination, this order implements discrimination. With the stroke of a pen, it lends the economic power of the federal government to a deeply flawed understanding of human sexuality, to which faithful Catholics and many other people of faith will not assent. As a result, the order will exclude federal contractors precisely on the basis of their religious beliefs.
More specifically, the Church strongly opposes both unjust discrimination against those who experience a homosexual inclination and sexual conduct outside of marriage, which is the union of one man and one woman. But the executive order, as it regards federal government contractors, ignores the inclination/conduct distinction in the undefined term "sexual orientation." As a result, even contractors that disregard sexual inclination in employment face the possibility of exclusion from federal contracting if their employment policies or practices reflect religious or moral objections to extramarital sexual conduct.
The executive order prohibits "gender identity" discrimination, a prohibition that is previously unknown at the federal level, and that is predicated on the false idea that "gender" is nothing more than a social construct or psychological reality that can be chosen at variance from one's biological sex. This is a problem not only of principle but of practice, as it will jeopardize the privacy and associational rights of both federal contractor employees and federal employees. For example, a biological male employee may be allowed to use the women's restroom or locker room provided by the employer because the male employee identifies as a female.
The bishops pointed out that many states have passed similar legislation, but most have included exemptions for religious employers. "The executive order is an anomaly in this regard, containing no religious liberty protections," the bishops said in the statement. "In this way, the order, which is fundamentally flawed in itself, also needlessly prefers conflict and exclusion over coexistence and cooperation."
Last month, a number of religious leaders and academics, including some with ties to Catholic colleges, publicly urged Obama to include religious freedom protections in the order.
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While the case of a student suing his school on the grounds that summer homework ruined his vacation might not be the best use of the nation's overly burdened court system, the lad does have a bit of a point.
On what grounds, exactly, do schools have the right to compel students to complete assignments during those times of the year when students are not under the school's legal authority?
The school claims these requirements are not an undue imposition since they only apply to honors courses in which the plaintiff volunteered to participate.
While that might apply to this particular Wisconsin jurisdiction in question, it does not settle the matter on a broader philosophical level as some schools such as those in Prince William County, Virginia I wrote about way back in the mid 90�s do not make it an honor's only requirement but rather mandate that all students do book reports and such over the summer.
In the same spirit as that motivating Bill Clinton when he said he opposed tax cuts on the grounds Americans would not know how to spend their own money properly, educrats claim students not given assignments to do over the break would otherwise allow their brains to whither. What of it?
Since the brains belong to the students and under the custodianship of their parents, aren�t they free to do with them as they see fit when school is not in session? Besides, other than basic reading, who uses most of what they learned in school anyway?
Maybe if schools did not devote so many resources to intellectually dubious pursuits such as diversity appreciation, environmental awareness, and indoctrination in evolution, schools would have more than enough time to teach those essentials education propagandists insist there isn�t enough hours in the day (and hence the year) to teach.
For students still ensnared for whatever reasons in the clutches of the public education leviathan, these institutions serve as centers of indoctrination in the ideology of total state control. For what other lesson do students learn from summertime homework than that, even when not on duty, their lives belong to those running the New World Order?
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The secular spirit of the age is threatening to overwhelm freedom of religion in the United States, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson warned April 19.
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The Gilford volleyball team extended their win streak to 4 games and played close to perfect volleyball by beating Manchester West in 3 games with the scores of 25-6, 25-8 and 25-3. Gilford served 93 percent and recorded 19 aces. Serving was led by Mikaela Mattice 15/15 with 4 aces, Cassidy Demo 11/11 with 3 aces, Shannon Mercer 8/8 with 3 aces, Kirsten Dionne 11/12 with 3 aces, Danica Gelotte 16/18 with 5 aces and Jordan Dean 7/9 with 1 ace. The Gilford offense was close to flawless by recording 30 kills and only 2 hitting errors for a team high .475 hitting percentage. The offense was led by Jordan Dean with 9 kills, Maddie Harris 7 kills, Mikaela Mattice and Kirsten Dionne with 5 kills apiece, Stratton Coleman 3 kills and Brooke Marcella 1 kill. The offense was set up by Danica Gelotte who recorded 21 assists.
The highlights of game one were Maddie Harris who put down kill spikes for points 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20 and Kirsten Dionne who served 10 points in a row including 3 aces. Shannon Mercer finished game one by serving the final 6 points including ace serves for points 21, 22 and 23.
In game two Cassidy Demo served for 10 points including ace serves for points 23 and 25 to end the game.
In game three Mikaela Mattice served 8 points in a row to give Gilford a 9-0 lead followed by Danica Gelotte who served 9 straight points to give Gilford a 19-1 lead. Jordan Dean had kill spikes for points 6, 9, 14, 17 and 20. Stratton Coleman had kill spikes for points 5, 8 and 15.
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GENEVA, Ohio - Led by sophomore Alessandro Bomprezzi's gold medal swim in the 500 free, the Massachusetts men's swimming & diving team maintained its lead after the second day of the 2014 Atlantic 10 Championships at the Spire Center on Thursday.
UMass has 243 points, just one ahead of defending champion St. Bonaventure - who scored 142 on Thursday - with 242 points. George Mason posted a 100-plus point day and move into third place with 178 points, followed closely by La Salle (172), George Washington (142), Fordham (133) and Saint Louis (128).
Bomprezzi finished with a NCAA "B" Cut time of 4:24.85, out-touching Vatslav Lets of SBU by 4-hundredths of a second. The order was reversed last season with Lets winning by less than half a second.
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The Computation of Space
'Technological progress' has generated many new materials, and incorporated computation into many levels of their fabrication. This has established the possibility to create a new diversity of spatial forms and to begin to identify experimental methods of construction that weave the foundational abstraction of computation into their fabric. Once the joints are in place however, or the welds are made, the process of creation stops. We have yet to experience a space that is fully computational. This text aims to suggest a small means of doing so.
Bernard Cache1 has described the Constructivist project as something that is not finished but that is present as an abundant resource, of the imagination and of the synthesis of spatial formations coupled with social dynamics and multiplicative powers of abstraction. Aside from its typological visual characteristics, what constructivism allows for is this coupling of the abstract and the social, making them both concrete, material that can be experimented with in the here and now, but also allowing the fullness of the dimensions that they exist upon to become palpable, thinkable and more importantly to be worked in.
Much of the contemporary work on materials in architecture, although it has the capacity for thinking things through from the level of the multiple interactions of many parts by virtue of their 'non-standard' interaction amputates the potential of its working by staying solely within the domain of what it characterises as material. This is the continuing folly of engineering or of architects who consider themselves only special high–expertise servants or savants whose role is clearly demarcated. Instead, we propose that form-finding goes on at many scales, including the social.2 Cache's image of Constructivism allows not for some codified vocabulary of forms, but for a sense of working with plasticity and constraints, affordances at any level of reality that may be to hand or that might yet be invented.
Perhaps Modernism, in what might be called its official guises, not those that like Alfred Jarry or Mallarmé had the sense to wreck their own pretence to authority from the very beginning, came to an impasse because it generated a codified vocabulary of forms rather than creating a codification mechanism for the generation of vocabularies? In other words, perhaps that architecture that fitted into the administrative functions of the state so smoothly, did so because it was borne of a failure to take a few steps up the scale of abstraction.
The current intensification of the mathematisation of space and spatial processes no longer allows us this option. In order to understand the city, one has to understand it at multiple scales, not simply of the local and the global, or other wavings of the magnifying glass, but as something that emerges out of interacting waves of force and materials operating at scales involving the following:
- The informational normalisation of space, such as traffic control, security or logistics systems3
- The weaving of informational space into the fabric of the city, layering it in with typologies of form characteristic of earlier eras, the mediaeval or modern city
- The increasing production of forms of matter ready to correspond to its informational modelling, what Kas Oosterhuis calls file to factory production4, but also at the 'lower' scale of nanotechnological fabrication and the 'higher' one of pre-emptive actuations of whole futures via computer simulations
- The increasing incorporation of previously 'expert' knowledges, of computing for instance, into popular culture
- The development of algorithmic culture as a compositional force in areas such as music
- The development of architectural software based upon the interaction of parameters rather than (ideal) forms
- The increasing generation of organisational forms, especially in institutions, that are designed to meet the needs of informational schema, such as quality audits, before other considerations
Within this context, we propose an experiment that may help tease out some further possibilities in thinking through the production of space at a relatively high level of abstraction and also as something immediately made and experienced. But alongside the way in which informationalisation has mutated and layered urban space, it is also useful to first think about how it has developed a particular sub-set of practices within that space – architecture.
In terms of recognizing software as a new material within architecture a number of directions of its usage within different architectural practices are identifiable:
Case 1: Software as 'a tool', the most general and widespread use of software. Architects use AutoCAD, 3D Max, Maya, Rhino and Adobe Photoshop instead of a pen. They use software for faster drawing and quicker production of their design. In projects such as Maxilla by Stealth Unlimited5 which parametrically generates large-scale urban layouts, additional software is developed to work inside AutoCAD, and a spreadsheet program. In such cases software becomes less of a tool and more of a machine.
Case 2: Software as 'a material' for sculpturing buildings. Some architects, such as Lars Spuybroek6 and Greg Lynn,7 use software as a means for sculpting the space they are working on. They do not use software solely as a tool for production but more as a means for creating shapes and forms that are not possible to produce or to present on a sheet of paper. Here software is used more intuitively in the process of creation.
Case 3: Software participating in the design process. This practice questions the position of the architect as an ultimate designer. Bernard Cache took part in the creation of the software "TopSolid" that, among other features has the facility to work with an implementation of parametric design. This suite of applications was originally made for the "drafting, design and manufacture of products"8 but architects took on the exploration of the possibilities of its implementation in their practice. Parametric design is determined by the constraints on the structure to be made. These are fed into the software and a correspondingly narrow or broad spectrum of possible results can be derived and tweaked. The composition or structure produced by the architect in this way is a numerically determined geometry. A great advantage is that the architectural design produced in this way can be immediately manufactured in the factory or workshop because all the elements of the construction have their precise specifications.
Case 4: Software as an 'interactive media' or augmentation of space with software. Architects and designers, such as Attila Kovacs,9 Mark Goulthrope (dECOi)10, Daan Roosegaarde11 and others, use these in direct application to architectural elements in space, such as façade walls. In this way they intend to create a playful and receptive architecture. Here software and hardware are additions to the space and not its essential elements.
When making an architectural design for a building, an architect develops a programmatic model of how a building should be used. He or she creates a sort of 'programming table' for the planned life of the inhabitants inside the building. Even the most farsighted architects of Modernism, excited by every new machine that appeared, cars, grain processors, aeroplanes, machines used in factories, didn't see beyond the functionality of the machines and the aesthetics that followed this functionality. They did not imagine the possibility of a machine as an abstraction, the algorithmic logic by which a certain machine works, in order to make such a logic applicable to their architectural concepts. Instead they saw building 'as a machine' in a purely functional sense: a house that works as perfectly as a machine. What, however, would a constructivism of the abstract machine imply?
Whilst computation offers the mechanism of fixing, of identity, and the schematic formatting of realities it is also a manifestation of the possibility of synthesis, and of the generation and development of mathematico-material drives in which permutation becomes the compositional principle. In his text, 'A. and Pangeometry' of 1925 El Lizzitsky states that the realm of irrational numbers allows that, "We now enter a realm that cannot be directly registered by the senses, that cannot be demonstrated, that follows from a purely logical construction and therefore represents an elementary crystallisation of human thought."12 It is the vastly productive alienness of mathematics from ordinary experience of the world that provides the power released when its scalar level is brought into composition with others.
A question one might have with the principle of identity to be found in the logical preposition 'A is A', is about the conditions in which it is uttered. If it is a computation specifying, say, the transition of an email from one point to another, that is one thing: a guarantee of an adequate transmission. If it is a statement made by an entity placed in a position to determine one or other, or both, of the instances of A in a case where A is, from the perspective of another scale, equal to more than A, or something other than A alone, one is left with neither certainty nor accuracy. Such a statement might also equate to a violation.
Asking such questions means that logical structures, even those as simple as 'this equals that' need to be understood in terms of the grammars they weave between entities in the world. It is not possible to adequately describe an entity such as a city in logical terms, nor by a mathematical description that would not itself be larger than the city. Neveretheless, the violence of logical reason, the way it opens itself to ridicule, but also its power, is generated in part in its capacity to map relations between entities. But this is often a process in which the act of mapping itself is excluded. Perhaps it is possible to think this through with reference to minimalist sculpture and thus onto space. If we are to take a square of magnesium or of slate, as in the work of Carl Andre, and identify each of the entities as corresponding to the logical statement 'A', each additional statement of 'A' corresponds to each 'A' in the sculpture. However, what Andre's work allows us to understand and literally to feel, especially in the case of the magnesium, in terms of a heat differential between the viewers' feet and the metal, is that each enunciation of 'A' takes place displaced in time and space from other elements but also in arrangement with them.13 Each square of slate or magnesium has minor differences in quality, which might be derived from manufacturing and shipping processes, their handling whilst entering the category of 'art', or from the long timescale of the material's geological gestation. Each square, like a timeslice of cells in a cellular automata, is placed in varying relation to the other entities in the composition. Thus there is a grammar of differentiation inherent to the repetition of what is ostensibly a 'same'. This minor differentiation alters the meaning of 'A' without however necessarily altering it at the scalar level of logic or of the statement which describes the work at the level of matter-of-fact linguistic articulation. And it is perhaps that they are brought together by a description of sameness at a certain scale, which also produces the capacity for the sensing of their differentiation. Finding the means to articulate the traction or compositional force that logical statements have on other scales of reality, allows us to understand them also as materially productive.
A formalization of the field of computation was achieved in 1936 by Alan Turing. His concept was very simple. He imagined a machine that would be capable of carrying out any achievable calculation by means of an algorithmic process. The genius of his idea consists in its position as a meta-algorithmic statement, that is it produces an algorithm by means of which, as far as it is currently known, all other algorithms or 'effective procedures' for the purposes of computation may be written. 14
The standard model of a Turing Machine consists of an infinite tape divided into cells of equal dimensions, positioned one next to the other.15 Before the machine starts working the cells are blank. When the machine starts working, each cell may be filled with a symbol from some finite alphabet. This alphabet contains a special symbol to identify a blank cell. The Turing Machine also contains a scanner or a head, that scans the cells reading what is written in the cell, carrying out any instructions given in the 'programming table', recording the results of instructions and writing another symbol according to the 'programming table' set up. Instructions might include functions such as copying a string of symbols, deleting a symbol, moving the head a specified number of positions in one direction, writing a specified symbol in the current cell carrying out a concatenation or addition. Each computer language differentiates itself by making certain kinds of such activities, including far more complex ones, more or less built in and accessible by more or less condensed rather than convoluted commands. What is crucial about the Turing Machine is that anything that can be fully formally described can be described within the terms of this abstract machine.
Whilst it forms the crucial logical substrate of all current computers, the Turing Machine is, by and large, an imaginary machine. That is to say, that it is rare for anyone to actually set out to make it manifest both at the level of concept and as material practice, with pencil, paper, and the human computer originally imaged by Turing. Whilst much of what is revealed by such an exercise is a) the mundanity of computation carried out as a task16 and b) the normally imperceptible speed with which electronic computers carry out such work, it is possible, and perhaps fun as an exercise, to set it out. Equally, it is possible to construct a basic set of symbols corresponding not only to actions within the Turing Machine, but also to the manipulation of spatial elements 'outside' of it. It would also be possible to feed the results of the actions carried on at the level of work with materials back into the Turing Machine as the results of computations, or to carry out part of the computation in the handling and behaviours of the materials.
What we would like to propose is a logical continuation of the thought that already exists, and given above in the list of four tendencies in architecture. But instead of augmentation, as the last step in the architectural-computational evolution we suggest merging of the logic of the machine, in our case Turing Machine, and the logic of the architectural space with all of its connotations, social, cultural, formal, mathematical, etc. What we suggest is creation of the space that will function in algorithmic manner. We suggest three ways in which this might happen: a) creating an algorithm that will deal with specific number of basic forms (i.e. as a simple sub-set of all numerically determinable shapes, the Platonic solids: sphere, cube and cone; or using another set such as fogs, slimes and blobs) which will when executed create a form and, depending on the algorithm(s) used, might even create a different form with the same elements on every execution. The accent is on shape; b) creating an algorithm that will deal with only one element (i.e. sticks or tiles). A result of the algorithm is the structure composed by specific mathematical rules. The accent is on structure; c) create an algorithm that when executed creates a specific kind of state of the space and when as machine/space passes different steps that are previously programmed in the algorithm newly created space can be: 1) A space that can go through different states within itself – metamorphosis of the space. 2) A space that can provoke or elicit different states within the observers – metamorphosis of the inhabitants and constructors of the space.
1) The metamorphosis of the space would imply that a space changes its numerically describable characteristics, such as size, volume, colour, shape, sound, texture, etc. There is a possibility of having a database of different materials this space can use. The states of this space are changed with the input of the inhabitant but related to a previously programmed algorithm. A more illustrative example could be in having parametric design software running real-time, not only inside the computer, but in working space. The software would run a space so that an inhabitant could change all the elements of a space, could programme what shape, colour, size, texture one wants to have and then live in its own experiment till the time one wants to make another experiment. This might be like living inside a sintering machine17, or a space equipped with swarms of 'always-on' Computer Numerical Control (CNC) drills18. Equally, one can imagine using a magnetic fluid that can reciprocate in creating shapes with programmable forces, or, over a larger area, banks of particles interacting with positional sound waves. This would be an ever-changing, perhaps interestingly nightmarish, space.
2) The metamorphosis of the inhabitant of the space would be concerned with the experience one has whilst inside the space. One might argue that the modernist grid itself proposes a universal machine corresponding, when reduced to one dimension, to an infinite stretch of cells. Are we not simply proposing a greater degree of formalisation? To inhabit and co-construct such a space would be a significant way of both coupling and uncoupling sensual and cognitive experience in a vivid interplay generated by the momentary degree of emphasis in working with the space. We imagine the spatial entities and processes thrown up by such procedures would allow people to more fully experience the logical and computational scales in which they exist. As an extension of this argument, and in resonance with the continuing potential of constructivism, by opening up a mechanism for the generation of spatial entities, such a project might tend to induce access to a conceptual feel for the relations of dimensionality whose multiply interlocking scales compose life.
In the exercise we have produced for the Calculation Space project at Transmedia we will use a mechanism of the Turing Machine to compose and shape an architectural space. The goal is to write a 'programming table' composed out of a set of algorithms that will when executed create a shape. Instead of using a computer for the calculations we return to human computers, instead of pencils and paper, simple construction materials. The structure for this exercise is:
- Decide whether to operate via a predefined matrix to which materials are aligned or altenately by using the form-finding capacities of the materials. (Turing's 'infinite tape' may be used to produce translated an infinite 3D matrix, since architectural space in computer terms has often been defined with x, y and z axes19). If using a matrix, define and create it.
- Identifying the material (i.e. wooden rods, balloons, paper strips, string, etc)
- Creating an algorithm for shaping an individual material element. For instance by trimming, or filling with water, sand or air. These elements will make a composition when processed through further algorithms – 'what' is composed
- Creating an algorithm for positioning of created elements – 'where' they are composed, whether in the matrix or in reletionship to other elements
- Creating an algorithm for composition of created elements – 'how' they are composed
- Creating an algorithmic routine for the observation and adjustment of the shaping, positioning and composition of elements.
This is the first in a line of experiments we are hoping to produce related to this subject, staging new encounters between abstract machines and the experiential and social working of space. A number of questions naturally arise from such work, including discussion of: the generation of adequate notation and scripting symbols; how far the Turing Machine as logical substrate or pretext remains adequate when different compositional forces, such as other data structures or even imagination, take over; and, necessarily, the relationship of the experience of boredom to that of formalisation
1 Bernard Cache, Earth Moves, the furnishing of territories, trans. Anne Boyman, ed. Michael Speaks, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995
2 For a useful set of arguments see, Michael Hensel and Achim Mendes, 'Morpho-Ecologies, towards and inclusive discourse on heterogeneous architectures' in, Michael Hensel and Achim Mendes, eds. Morpho-Ecologies, Architecture Association, London, 2006, pp.16-59
3 see, Steven Graham and Brian Marvin, Splintering Urbanism, Routledge, London, 2001
4 Kas Oosterhuis, 'A New Kind of Building', in, Arie Graafland and Leslie Jaye Kavanagh, Crossover, architecture, urbanism, technology, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2006, pp.240-269
5 "The input comes from layouts of urban areas in an AutoCAD drawing and parameters saved in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Maxilla generates the streets, envelopes and buildings from scratch." See, http://www.stealth.ultd.net/stealth/05_maxilla.html
6 See, Nox Architecture, http://www.noxarch.com/
7 See, Greg Lynn Form, http://www.glform.com/
8 http://www.topsolid.com/products/plm/
9 See, Attila Kovacs, (1969-1970) "Electronic-cybernetic scultpture and wall"
10 In work such as the 'Aegis Hyposurface'. 2004
11 See, Studio Roosegaarde, http://www.studioroosegaarde.net/
12 El Lizzitsky, 'A. and Pangeometry', in, Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, eds. Art in Theory 1900-2000, an anthology of changing ideas, (2nd. Ed.) Blackwell, Oxford, 2003, pp.317-321
13 i.e. Carl Andre, 144 Magnesium Square, 1969, Tate collection.
14 Alan Turing, On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1936), in, B. Jack Copeland, ed., The Essential Turing, Clarendon Press, Oxford 2004, pp.58-90
15 In some models of the Turing Machine the 'scanner' moves and the tape is motionless. Others contain multiple tapes, although ultimately these distinctions are inessential.
16 David Alan Grier, When Computers Were Human, Princeton University Press, 2005
17 A sintering machine is often used in rapid prototyping. Plastic granules are melted, layer up layer, using computer-controlled lasers, in order to build up three-dimensional entities.
18 Computer Numerical Control is one means of directly manufacturing from file. Such drills, often with several heads working in different dimensions, carve directly into blocks of material.
19 For a reading of a computational alternative to Cartesian co-ordinates see, Adrian Mackenzie, 'Losing Time at the PlayStation: real time and the 'whatever' body', from, Transductions, bodies and machines at speed, Continuum, London, 2002, pp.146-171


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Winter is as changeable as any other season in the Northwest. It is the coldest season of the year, extending from the end of autumn to the beginning of spring or, as reckoned astronomically, from the December solstice to the March equinox. Ideally, it stays cold enough to put our perennial plants and fruit trees into a state of winter dormancy.
In the dictionary, winter is further described as being a time marked by lack of life, warmth and cheer. There is no doubt it can be dreary out of doors when sunlight fades by 4:30 in the afternoon, but for those of us who garden in the Northwest, the very dreariness of the weather is a signal to get out and perform certain garden chores. A few layers of clothing will make sure we don't get over-chilled.
When the last leaf falls from the contorted filbert, I see it as a signal to prune this and other gangly deciduous shrubs back into shape. Planted just outside the large sliding door to the barn, the intricate design of this shrub stands out as a distinct element of the winter landscape. Where it might not be noticed amid the splendor of summer flowering plants, it becomes a focal point in midwinter.
In my garden, I set a precedent for allowing most plants, especially trees and shrubs, to follow their natural growth patterns rather than trying to control them by pruning. It would be overwhelming to have to prune every plant in the garden. This is one of the few shrubs that I prefer tightly pruned. I do so because cutting it back makes it appear even more contorted. Once pruned, the focus is on the plant's fascinating growth pattern through the winter.
The common name for this shrub, Harry Lauder's Walking Stick, is a perfect description of the branch structure. In it I see an old man as crooked as the cane he carries. I trim it yearly, taking off any canes that have grown too long or any branches with a semblance of straightness to them. My goal is to keep the mass of twisting, turning branches within a general rounded framework. In a way it is controlled chaos.
It's important to mulch
At this time of year, as the garden takes a definitive step into winter dormancy, the best work we can do is to assist the natural processes of the season. By now, the foliage of deciduous trees and shrubs have fallen to the ground. This is nature's way of mulching the garden. Some gardeners will take advantage of nature's work and let the mulch remain through winter. Take care that the mulch does not pile up against the trunk of woody plants or smother the crown of garden perennials.
This winter mulching is the most important of the year. Leaves falling from trees are one of the first signals that the soil itself will soon take on the chill of the season. By waiting until the ground chills, then mulching with the purpose of maintaining the chilled soil temperature, you are helping to ensure that the plants in the garden stay in a state of dormancy throughout winter.
We are encouraged to mulch for purposes other than plant protection. Two of the best reasons to add a winter mulch are to enrich the soil and inhibit weeds. Adding an organic mulch to beds and borders will be the one most important chore you can do to improve the overall soil condition of a garden. Good soil is the key element of plant success.
For those gardeners with a penchant for tidy beds and borders, rake up and remove any plant or garden debris, but replace nature's mulch with a layer of bark, compost or other winter mulch. The neat gardener is the most likely to put down a winter mulch because it gives the garden a well-maintained, finished look. Mulching can also be done to give the space between plants a uniform color and texture. Bark dust is often used for this purpose.
If you have outdoor planters available, insert cuttings of holly, heavenly bamboo, cedar and the stems of berry-covered cotoneaster into a light planting mix. Arrange them for a long winter color display. This is a great time of year to clean out, repair or throw away. On the coldest days of winter, give yourself a break and spend some time inside looking out. Like us, our garden has earned this well-deserved rest.
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Processing Excitement on iPad 3 Rumors
As a detached observer last year I was snickering and underwhelmed at the "transition" from iPad to iPad 2. Adding a camera and some other invisible stuff that should've been there to begin with did not impress me. I've seen too many companies (Nintendo comes to mind with their handheld systems) rush to create a market and soak consumers for the whole experiment. All this said, the mysteries of an iPad 3 are just too tasty to ignore because I think this may be the leap in tablets that will knock our socks off.
I'm not an iPad guy. In fact, with my four-year-old iPod, I'm as un-Apple as I can be and still be a connected-citizen. However, I'm still fascinated by the cultural weight behind iPhones, iPads and that whole hardware and software ecosystem Steve Jobs built. And so now this Android guy (my last three phones and a modded tablet) is wondering how excited other Playground Dads are about a potential iPad 3. Here's a look at the various iPad 3 rumors floating about right now and my judgment on where those rumors land on my Excite-o-meter. That is, how awesome would it be if that particular rumor is true.
Internal Improvements
Speed is always going to be the focus with a new iteration of any modern device until we get gizmos that can read our thoughts and react just as quickly. There's supposed to be an A6 or A5x chip with quad-core processing in the next iPad and is supposed to be even faster than what you're used to from that ridiculous, clunky iPad you currently have. Most folks measure "speed" on tablets and phones by how quickly an app loads up when you first go to use it and so faster processing should be a given with any new iPad. That's why they're making the thing.
Excite-o-meter: Meh
Any boost is going to be incremental and doesn't fundamentally change what an iPad 3 can do or how you'll use it. More speed is the price of admission and should not be the biggest plus.
This one is tricky because there's an idea that a new iPad might be a smaller, more budget-friendly unit with a less than 10-inch screen. An iPad with a seven or eight-inch screen is a far bigger deal than a standard sized iPad with a fancier display because it's Apple entering a new sub-market that's already full of competitors. A retina display that once again puts iPad as the sharpest of the sharp makes for a nice bullet point but I'm not sure if it will change how we use the tablet. The only people who "properly" use iPad's are the folks in commercials who keep their tablets clean and only check Facebook in the shade. The rest of us are wiping greasy crumbs off the screen all the time and pretending there isn't a nasty crack in the corner. A smaller form iPad, however, with a smaller screen, even if it does have higher pixel density, would be seen and perhaps used as a giganto-iPod touch rather than a shrunken iPad.
Excite-o-meter: Slightly tingly
A sharp new scren is definitely a plus, but a smaller unit would be a shock to the market and a bigger deal.
Being able to iPad your way through your daily life on a faster data network would be the realization of a promise that was made years ago. There's been quite a bit of blabbing about the next iPad's ability to leverage new, faster data networks and that rumor seems like one that's been willed into existence by excited observers. If we're able to reliably video chat from anywhere using a new iPad, you'll be able to cross "All Conversations Are Face to Face" off the sci-fi/Jetsons Things To Do list. An iPad with a faster processor on a sturdy network would deliver on the full promise of video chat to say nothing of what it would mean for all of us who like to stream hours and hours of video content. Carriers like Verizon and AT&T built those high speed networks because they knew the old ones couldn't handle all of the consumption we were going to demand. An iPad 3 is just the second half of that upgrade.
Excite-o-meter: Thunderous applause
This, times ten. You don't want to be watching all of those Youtube cips on your tiny little mobile phone anyway. An iPad 3 on a high speed data network will finally and completely take away your last remaining idle moments.
So as we continue to wait and daydream about the future of iPad in 2012, let's make sure we understand what we're looking for. There's going to be a lot about such a unit that's just more of the same. However if we're seeing a tablet that's enhanced and reworked on the inside and out to take full advantage of new data networks in North America, then we're talking about something worth waiting for. An attempt that falls short of that wouldn't be an insult or waste of money necessarily, but it does feel like this third time around for iPad needs to leap, not tip-toe, forward.
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May 31, 2016
A $60 million tax break approved by the Alabama Legislature last week will be signed by Gov. Bob Riley on Wednesday.
It will raise the income tax threshold for a family of four from $4,600 annually to $12,500.
The tax break will take effect in January 2007.
It will end Alabama's distinction of being the only state that levies an income tax on a family of four making less than $10,000 a year.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Barack Obama has had a lot of political allies over the years, but few have been as important as Illinois Senate President Emil Jones.
Obama has even referred to Jones as his "political godfather."
Jones gave early support to Obama's longshot bid for the U.S. Senate in 2004, helping give Obama credibility with donors and political groups.
Jones also picked Obama to handle some high-profile legislation, including bills to requiring police to record interrogations in murder cases and ordering the study of racial profiling in traffic stops.
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I am so excited that I decided to learn to ride a bike as an adult. I rode when I was very young and have pleasant memories. ANyway, do you know where and whom I can contact to make this dream come true. Hopefully, the person who you recommend will teach me in a systematic, logical way and have experience teaching adults.
Also, if you could recommend an information source that I could read about adult bike-riding while I wait to find a tutor, please let me know.


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Wright, 19, plays Ron Weasley's sister Ginny in the Harry Potter films. Bower, 21, played the vampire Caius in The Twilight Saga: New Moon. They will appear together in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, coming in November -- in which Bower portrays Gellert Grindelwald.
Wright confirmed to PEOPLE in February that the pair had been dating for about six months. "It's not like we kept it a secret intentionally, but we didn't go around telling everyone either," she said.


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Does ubiquity lead to obsolescence?
by Theo Fanning
History proves that everything must come to an end—that is just the nature of things. It's a universal constant. Species go extinct, tools become obsolete and empires fall. Though until the last hundred years, successful technologies traditionally had a much longer lifespan.
The steam engine, the printing press, the telegraph. Each of these ground-breaking technologies rose quickly, became an integral part of life and were all eventually replaced by the next evolution. So with today's innovations being born and integrated so quickly, is mass-market adoption the beginning of the end?
In the 20 years of my career, the world has changed... a few times. Big players shrank to small ones, successful juggernauts hit brick walls, and technological "darlings" faded into obscurity. While many would just chalk this up to natural selection... I am beginning to think that when everyone adopts/buys something, it leads to higher stakes and much higher risks.
Pandora's box
Every company dreams of the whole world using their product. But as Jay Z eloquently put it: "More money. More problems." Once a product goes mainstream, competitors come out of woodwork, customer service can become strained, and once die-hard loyalists can become fatigued and start looking for the next latest/greatest product to fill their empty consumer lust. As Facebook's IPO looms, many wonder if the uber social platform will successful make the transition from savvy start-up to tech profit-engine, without users running screaming to the myriad of new social media options or embracing whatever next innovation is waiting in the wings with shiny new (or old) functionality.
Under the radar
Many companies, some real smart ones, have started developing products and services that aren't destined for broad mass consumption. Companies like Square, Splunk, Polyvore, and Instagram are more specialized and focused on a smaller consumer cross-section and are appealing to them in a more unique way. While this isn't exactly micro-targeting, this narrower approach ignores courting every human need and allows not only for company focus, but consumer focus as well.
For example, most people will only by a new thermostat when the old one breaks or when the move into a new home. This is a limited market. Nest is counting on being the tech leader in this homeowner segment that while not limited, certainly isn't as broad or as fickle as the consumer electronic gadget audience (though Nest is smart enough to also appeal to that target).
The end is nigh
Whether or not you agree that a mass consumer audience can contribute to today's innovations becoming next year's forgotten pop-song, there is one thing that we must agree on—because like death and taxes, it is a forgone conclusion:
All good things must come to an end.
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Homeschool parents all read the frightening warnings about weak communication skills that inevitably lead to poor writing which somehow (we are warned) concludes in the making of license plates at the Federal penitentiary. So we put writing at the top of our year's lesson plan objectives. See it there at the top?
Get very serious about writing.
As a result, we start applying all the methods used to teach us writing from our own school days. Therefore, in keeping with some old English class traditions, here are ways to be certain your child learns to hates writing.
Correct EVERY thing in EVERY paper.
Make sure they know absolutely everything that they did wrong, all in one paper, all right now. This is sure to let them see what perfection looks like and make equally clear to them how far they are from achieving it. Also, do the same thing when your child starts learning to walk.
"Your legs aren't straight. You've got to drop that bow-legged look"
"Try to keep your hands at your side. Having them up in the air is very unsightly. A smooth swinging motion—one arm forward, the other arm back—is what you must master."
"You need to smooth out your gait. It's very jerky."
"When you feel yourself falling, move toward an object to grab onto—don't just flop straight down on your bottom. That will mark you as a clear amateur."
"Imagine you're on a runway. Glide. Glide. Glide."
Encourage them to write like dead people.
Praise and fawn over writing that sounds like it came from the court of King James instead of their own contemporary language. Discourage The Three Little Pigs and instead have them strive to make it sound like The Triune Tale of Diminutive Swine (Incidentally, this is one of John Branyan's funniest routines.). They may not be able to communicate well, but by gummy they'll sound really smart.
Make them look up every word they can't spell.
Here's how this works. Your child is writing away feverishly. They have a thought stream. They are trying to get it out before they lose it. They reach a point where they want to insert the word "incorrigible" in their sentence, but can't recall the spelling. Suddenly, they turn to you seeking help, and with the sunny perkiness of June Cleaver you announce, "How 'bout-cha go look it up!" They now must leave their concept, their thought stream, and their momentum to step away from the table and go to the dictionary. Maybe they'll be able to pick it all back up when they return. Finally, minutes later, when their writing resumes and they come to a place where they'd now like to insert the word "benevolent", they'll take one look over their shoulder at you—the Perky Word Police and. . . just write down "kind" instead.
Don't waste time telling them what they did right.
They only need to know the misspellings, grammar errors, bad sentence structure, and flaws in logic flow. The fact that their concept was fresh, original, interesting, made you laugh, or displayed a new level of thinking on their part is irrelevant. Just stick to the stuff they should fix.
Never have them read it aloud to you.
The words only need to be readable, not hearable. The fact that they will never develop an ear for the rhythm and flow of good writing is of no consequence. This just adds wasted time to the process and your teaching day.
So, what do I do if I DON'T want to squash the writer in my child?
Well, if you really want a child to learn to write and to love it, then understand that writing is a process learned in bits and pieces over the course of dozens of assignments. Don't expect perfection in first efforts. Master one skill at a time. But while they are learning that skill, let them delight and romp through the fun parts of writing. Let them be gleeful in sharing something fun with you, getting feedback from you that applauds the many things they got right, and praising them in ways that make them want to write again.
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May 24, 2016
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Curiosity rover is celebrating its one-year anniversary on Mars.
The six-wheel NASA rover touched down in an ancient crater near the Martian equator exactly a year ago to much fanfare. Since it was so massive, engineers had to invent a new landing routine and used cables to set it down on the surface.
Despite a slow start, Curiosity has achieved one of its main goals by finding evidence of a past environment that could have supported microbes.
Now it's driving to Mount Sharp, a mountain that rises from the crater floor. The journey will last many months. Once at the base, Curiosity will try to find signs of the chemical building blocks of life.
Curiosity's landing was so successful that NASA said it plans an encore in 2021.
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Cops: Man aims for woodchuck, hits woman
Plains Township police say Christopher David Bohonko was aiming for a woodchuck.
Instead, he shot a 73-year-old woman in the arm with a .22-caliber rifle on Sunday evening in the parking lot of Solomon/Plains Memorial Junior High School.
Investigators on Tuesday charged Bohonko, 31, of 117 Abbott St., Plains Township, with misdemeanor counts of simple assault and reckless endangerment in a shooting reported about 7 p.m. Sunday.
According to a police affidavit, the victim, Plains Township resident Dorothy Sarnick, told investigators she had just pulled into the school parking lot near the running track at the time of the shooting.
Her driver's side window was down and she reached to turn off the car when she heard a loud pop and saw she was bleeding from the right upper arm, police said. She had been struck by a bullet.
The sound appeared to have come from a wooded area near a baseball field, but Sarnick said she didn't see anything suspicious. A girl in the area also heard the shot and dropped to the ground, but didn't see anything suspicious, police said.
Then on Tuesday, Bohonko contacted police saying he was responsible for shooting Sarnick with a Remington .22-caliber rifle.
Bohonko told investigators that he shot at a woodchuck behind his home Sunday evening and saw it tumble over and run into nearby woods, according to the affidavit.
He assumed he had killed the woodchuck and didn't realize what had happened until he heard the news a woman had been shot, the affidavit says.
After hearing the news, Bohonko surmised the bullet "ricocheted off of the woodchuck" and hit Sarnick, according to police. He told officers he felt terrible and wanted to confess, the affidavit says.
On his way into an arraignment before Magisterial District Judge James Tupper, Bohonko characterized the shooting as an accident. He declined to comment afterward.
The judge, noting Bohonko had been cooperative with police, released him on $5,000 unsecured bail. A preliminary hearing is set for 8:45 a.m. Sept. 10.
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FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — A San Tan Valley man is in custody for allegedly selling medical marijuana to an undercover narcotics detective.
Officials with the Pinal County Sheriff's Narcotic Task Force say they received information in February that 32-year-old Phillip Vaughn was selling high-grade hydroponic marijuana.
During the next few weeks, authorities say Vaughn allegedly sold the marijuana to an undercover detective on numerous occasions.
He was arrested on March 27 after completing a $100 transaction.
Sheriff's officials say Vaughn admitted he was using his Arizona medical marijuana program identification card to purchase the drug at various medical marijuana shops around the San Tan Valley area and then selling it.
Vaughn remains jailed on suspicion of marijuana possession and possession of marijuana for sale.
It was unclear Tuesday if Vaughn has a lawyer yet.