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Call of Duty Black Ops 3 lacks a lot of the inspiration we found in the first two Black Ops, but with that said, if you were a fan of the past titles, more of the same fast-paced arcade shooting is coming up the pipeline. The game fell apart because of how it reaches in several different directions without concentrating on any focus point. With that said, there's a lot of action and shooting that appeals to a certain kind of gamer.
Customization and Specialists
To be fair, they did add some new options to the game. You now have specialists, which add more nuance to the game, and you also have customization to the characters. For example, you can now create a female soldier too. Although to be honest, the customization is extraordinarily basic. If you want real customization, you might be better off seeking a game like Elder Scrolls. The customization options are basically a female with a headband or a female without a headband. You do not get to select much outside that, but most of the Call of Duty fanbase did not come to customize their characters.
Three Different Modes
In the game, you have three different modes: zombie mode, multiplayer mode, and campaign. Zombie mode was wildly popular in past Call of Duty games, and they have revived it in the new Black Ops. You will also unlock another mode called "Nightmares," after you have beat the campaign with the zombies.
With regular campaign mode, the objectives start to feel somewhat boring and like a chore. It's much of the same, and you just aim, shoot, reload, and repeat. The campaign mode could have used a little more inspiration than what we have seen with it. One of the most crippling problems with it is how it lacks variety. You kill your enemies in much the same way you did in the past levels. Along with a lack of variety, the story falls flat. You do get a compelling story line; in fact, it raises intriguing questions and fails to answer them.
Black Ops 3 feels a lot like it does just enough to keep the status quo of the past titles, but it does not offer much in the way of innovation. Black Ops 2 was a highly ambitious title with maps that redefined gun fighting. Unlike other games, it is recommended to play the campaign mode in Black Ops 3 with a higher difficulty level. The game does have a few twists and turns, but unfortunately, most of them are predictable. The cool thing about campaign mode is how you can play with up to four other gamers and some of the gameplay relies on teamwork.
Multiplayer mode was one of the gaming modes that made the Call of Duty games famous among gamers. Starting out, you will die a lot. It only takes a couple hits to die. The biggest problem is how the game does not match you up with gamers close to your skill level, and you will often find yourself outmatched against some of the more seasoned Call of Duty players. The addition of specialists has given the game a little more variety. Likewise for campaign and Zombie modes, the gameplay has become more nuanced and enjoyable than ever before.
Lacks Variety
As has been a common complaint in the past, Call of Duty Black Ops 3 lacks much in variety, which degrades the excitement. You shoot, kill, reload, and repeat. This game does not have much in the way of real strategy, and it focuses more on fast kills and getting as many as possible. With the futuristic gameplay, it feels similar to what you might do in Bioshock or Titanfall. Nevertheless, when it comes to the voice cast, you have an interesting selection of talented voice actors that includes:
Large Amount of Content
Call of Duty Black Ops 3 has a sizable amount of content, which is some of the best ever seen in a Call of Duty game. The problem with the content is how Black Ops 3 failed to spend enough time making you care about the characters. You have almost no emotional connection to them, which is somewhat disappointing. The game did explore some rather taboo and interesting topics of the future. For example, what happens once people no longer own their own thoughts or they do not receive the mental health service needed. The problem is, they didn't go much deeper than that. If you didn't guess, the answer was to kill more robots.
Where Call of Duty Excels Its Predecessors
The common tactic in the game is to charge to the other side of the battlefield. From there, you flank the enemy from a spot they could not make it to at a normal running speed. A lot of the levels accommodate for this type of strategy, and the game often relies on teamwork and cooperation to beat the Black Ops 3 campaign mode. It does this in a way that has never been seen before.
Another refreshing point in Call of Duty is how you can now hack drones and use them to clear a path. It's a breath of fresh air to finally have a game where you have more options than to just shoot another guy but with a different gun. Multiplayer has some interesting mobility mechanics like you could perform wall-running while shooting, but keep in mind, this feature will be locked away in the tech tree of campaign mode.
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This atlas contains 189 coloured images taken from transversal, horizontal and sagittal sections of eleven organisms widely used in university teaching. Six invertebrate and five vertebrate species – from the nematode worm (Ascaris suum) to mammals (Rattus norvegicus) – are shown in detailed images.
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July 2015
Mairead Case
"The Most Lesbian Thing": Talking with the Filmmakers of The Ladies Almanack
The Ladies Almanack is a book published by Djuna Barnes in 1928, a knotted and decorated calendar-record of Natalie Clifford Barneys Parisian salon, and a film directed by Daviel Shy and produced by Stephanie Acosta. (Daviel and Stephanie are my friends; we went to the same graduate school and Stephanie and I were neighbors for a long time. I read in support of the film at the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York, and my bed is in a deleted scene.)
What I love about this film -- this entire project -- besides my friends beauty and burn is how it demands more from nostalgia. Shy and Acosta adore Barnes and work her into their daily lives, but instead of making her a straight valentine theyre building a giant prism. Theyre illuminating, holographing, intersecting, holding space and seeing difference outside of capitalism and across generations. They hopped on a plane to meet with Hélène Cixous about her role in the film, found themselves assisting on a sex-positive short film in French, and ended up casting all those people in the Almanack too.
Significantly too this movie is being made without financial security on anyones part. For me this makes it even more real and urgent, particularly because many collaborators are in their thirties, at least, and know the sick-feeling of working like hell and still not making rent. (If you would like to buy Jessica LeMasters tarot cards to support the film, you can.)
In my life I have never known a project that is both so solid in its politics and so tenderly open to the future, and the lives we need to survive as ourselves. I feel that besides making a film, Shy and Acosta are doing work towards new language about affect, money, eros, and home. I want them to be famous for this. I want to watch this movie, which will defy linear narrative and solo definitions just like the book that inspired it, and then I want to watch it again and again.
Daviel, Stephanie, and I talked about the Alamanack across a spectrum of media in early summer 2015, after theyd returned from filming in Paris and just before filming started in Chicago.
Why make a film together?
STEPHANIE ACOSTA: Daviel and I are both multidisciplinary, but she is first and foremost a filmmaker. I think all her work has a touch of the cinema in it. And I would say the same is true of me. Everything comes back to performance in some way or another. Maybe it's about first languages.
This film was introduced to me through its zygote self: the film within the film contained by Shy's thesis, The Tyrant. My partner James Tate was Assistant Director on the project, and I did some consulting and art direction but at the time I was also focused on a multi-part series for my own thesis work, Unintended Structures 2014. So I met this writing through the eyes of Daviel's excitement, which is a pretty great door to walk into anything through.
Around that same time I think I read the whole Ladies Almanack in my studio, across the hall from Daviel. I asked her to let me know if she wanted to make that film. She told me the whole wish: the dream of Cixous, and Myles narrating; everything. And I was like, OK. If you want to make that film, I'd produce it. She grabbed my arm in that grip she has, where you know you should be crossing the street or listening close, and said, Really?!!
One moment I remember clearly: we were lying down on the grey wood slats of her studio floor like kids, and she talked me through the whole thing, and I just thought, Man, that would be so great. I bet if we did this with everyone we wanted, they would want to be in it too. Then I reminded her I didn't know squat about raising money, and that I had produced a lot of my own work, large scale and all, but production wasn't really what I did. Anyway, we started then, I think. In my mind it started then.
DAVIEL SHY: I was struck by The Ladies Almanack because it is the most lesbian thing Ive ever read. This was no Well of Loneliness, bargaining for acceptance from some unseen father, though it was published in the same year (1928) and featured one of the same models (Barney). Barness book is funny and stylish and sexy and bizarre. It pushes conventions of style and propriety, but from the perspective of those in the know. It is a giant unapologetic wink. Barneys circle was certainly not the only lesbian game in town, for instance Claude Cahun and Gertrude Stein chose very different ways to be queer artists in twentieth century Paris.
But Barnes was smart in choosing Natalie Barney as a way to speak about the condition that is woman. Natalies group is set apart for their unrelenting female-centricity. Natalie as a locus is interesting, cause she didnt want to convince anyone of anything. She just made trouble and fun by putting everyone together and stirring. This film is like that: unrelentingly female-centric, but otherwise incredibly diverse. My own lesbian-centricity has been met with occasional resistance, but welcomed resistance! I am told that my interest is too narrow, but I think sometimes the focus has got to be narrow, even as the audience is broad. I run a monthly movie night called L.M.N.O.P: Lesbian Movie Night Ongoing Project. Strictly lesbians onscreen, but anyone can be on the couch. Politically speaking, maybe being on that couch is what makes you a lesbian?
In 1976, Hélène Cixous wrote, Knock the wind out of the codes. We will rethink womankind beginning with every form and every period of her body. The Americans remind us, We are all Lesbians; that is, dont denigrate woman, dont make of her what men have made of you. I hear echoes of Cixous in Barnes, even though chronology would say the reverse. But reading is outside of chronos and we, in 2016, will be readers of this film.
ACOSTA: For me these are moments when people thought the revolution was over, when things seemed on their way to safe homogeny. And yet these are also moments rife for real revolution: for the hard uncomfortable and necessary means of making community not just images. I think today there are huge communities who are not waiting for permission, and these moments are moments when we can build our own worlds and push through, and try to rectify the attempted erasure.
This is a multi-generational project rooted in identity and different kinds of lives and art-making. How do you bring people together? How do you keep everything sincere and relevant?
SHY: I could say its like a dream: you were there, and so was my aunt. Fannie Sosa, Poussy Drama, and Heidi Loukoum stretching on the couch and then Josefin [Granqvist] arrives, tall in space-silver Lawrence of Arabia costumes. Only it isnt a dream, I mean I dreamed this last night, but I woke to realize this is my life. There is nothing separate from this.
It is important to talk about resources. My astrologer told me to think about myself as a resource to others. Once we truly realize that we are each others resources, desperation melts away. This production has a wealth of resources attached to it; an infectious energy of women and others respecting each others work. That is all it is. How did you get Eileen Myles? Well, I read her books and liked them, and I began to write. I wrote a part for her, then I wrote to her. For some it may be a name that gets them interested. For Barbara Hammer, one of my favorite filmmakers and a huge supporter of this project, it was the name Djuna Barnes. Djunas work is of course the frame and the glue of the project, but the work has many centers. The wealth began with them -- Barnes and Barney and Brooks and Colette, etc. -- recognizing it each in other.
Natalie wasnt, in my opinion, that great of an author. But she was well aware that her life was her work of art, and she fought, advocated for, and supported the work of her friends until her death. Her character teaches me constantly about the amount of ego needed to be of any help to others. A selfless person is useless on any team. Each one in this project remains herself, brings herself, and we recognize this being as the greatest contribution. We organize around no common interest save our individual selves in togetherness.
ACOSTA: Hybridity is definitely at the heart. These characters are combinations of the real life women, their characterizations in Barnes's text, and the real live women who play them today. Some characters are more today, some more then; it depends on who is playing. We aren't casting actors, though many of our cast has training and experience in that realm. And then you have our narrators, who are based on theorists then read by yet another voice removed. Helene Cixous is the only one who plays herself; as narrator, she is a sort of pinpoint or lynch pin.
Neither Daviel nor myself experienced Barness Ladies Almanack without voices we already had in our heads, so inevitably we are making a film that is the experience of reading it. Of pulling in the history and the people we know, to access and try to decode what she is trying to tell us.
What I continue to say that for me, it's like creating the dream table I'd like to sit at. I am inviting people I am inspired or excited by, to sit down and talk through some realities, shared and dreamed ones. And we have done that. This film is the best party I have ever been to. This cast is the table I hope I sit at in the next life.
Our deadlines have shifted a lot. They change because someone like Cixous says yes, but only if you can come during September. So we do that. But that trip leads us to new cast members, to filming Baby Love Your Body, and to a scouting trip that made the reality of our March filming in Paris possible. Every shift leads us bigger. We have really let the women in the script and on the ground be guides. Prioritizing the voices we want to hear over logistics has been a big part of keeping this thing true. And keeping our funding as restriction free as possible has let us make our movie our way.
When you believe in what you are doing, it's easier to champion it. I made a rule early on, and we say it out loud a lot: NO ONE should have to be talked into this project. If there is even a twinge of disinterest, I say THANKS and move on. But if there is excitement at the idea, then I know a yes is hidden in that excitement, so I keep talking. It's not about pushing. We just knew that somehow, if they heard what we wanted to do, they would want to do it. Or maybe we just hoped that was true, and once a few started saying yes, more and more did.
I mean, Guinevere fucking Turner?! I almost passed out when she said yes, and she's been such a huge supporter and now, a friend. I adore her.
SHY: I remember the first time I shared the script. The Luce Irigary character in the film asks, Would the words we publish turn to solids in our mouths as others read them? Nourishing a secret hunger, proliferating on contact with the tongue? The answer is Yes. There was something in that moment that made it real outside of myself: April 2014, I arrived in Paris for the first time. I met a woman named Josefin Granqvist who was in town working and would leave in a few days -- so if we were going to talk about the film, she warned in a text message, it would have to be soon. We met up at a cafe in the Marais. She was carrying an astronauts costume she bought for her nephew. I was carrying my film binder. We drank tall glasses of citron pressé and I held my breath while she read the whole movie in her lap, next to me, the happy hour idlers crowding the sidewalk around us. Josefin is now an intrinsic member of the cast and crew: she plays Djuna Barnes. But none of that was known yet. All I knew for certain at the time was that her reading brought the film into its next phase. That cool evening just before my 30th birthday, it became real.
How did your friendship start? And once it did, why work on a long-term art project together? Are there parts of your solo practices that you miss?
ACOSTA: We were both attending SAIC for our MFAs in performance [a two-year program], so we knew each other, but we weren't really friends that first year. The next summer we both decided to go to Prague for a course called Abandoned Practices, lead by Lin Hixon, Mathew Goulish and Mark Jeffrey. Daviel was Teaching Assistant, and I asked her if she wanted to share a room, because otherwise I wasn't sure about this crew and didn't want to end up with a crying twenty-one-year-old. The day I moved in I went a bought a cactus, like I usually do. I tend to need something living -- a plant, a cutting, something -- and I also use smells a lot. Incense, and in the winter, boiling cloves. These things are usually free or inexpensive, and they make a space mine. I'm convinced these gestures remind me that my space and self come with me, and so I try to inhabit the space with scents, smoke, and living things that keep shifting. They are not solid, and they take spaces and make them environments. It helps me do the same. She seemed to really like that.
We spent the next three weeks discovering we were variations of the same person, Daviel and I, and I am not exaggerating. Not just part where we are both small directors who are loud and political. Having the same strange musical in our heads because it was both our favorite when we were kids. Loving the same obscure '90s music, the same poets, arguing about social politics in the same way. I don't know how we are like this: she comes from a pack, I am an only child, she's Jewish, Im Cuban-raised-Catholic. Were both witches now really.
That day on the grey slats, I didn't know I'd be working on this for years or that it would change my life. But I have, and it has. Once we really bit in, there was no going back. Once I invested there was no releasing. It's mine -- not all of it, and it's born of Daviel's brain, but it's mine too, and I mate for life when it comes to art.
I've been able to keep creating things separately from the Almanack; we both were, for a while, but now we are more focused up. Still, it takes so many elements to make this film it's hard to miss much. Every aspect of this project has brought me some joy, even if through tears.
SHY: After living together in Prague, we spent the second year of school in adjacent studios, working, drinking whiskey, yelling over the curtain, or crying on a sand dune because we found each other. In two years we'd be on a plane to Paris looking out the window at the half moon. On the plane back home a month later, the moon would have migrated to our hands, tattooed by house-call in Fannie Sosa's living room, and there would be no turning back.
Stephanie is the first person I really let into my creative process. I wrote and incubated the film inside of me for about a year before we took this trip together. At first it was difficult and terrifying, but it also it was an incredible relief to stop carrying this world alone. And as the project grows, my ownership over it decreases and loosens, which I think is healthy. After all there are more films in me waiting to be made, and now I can't imagine working without this team.
As for solo work, I am always writing. I have always been a filmmaker, but claiming the title of writer and historian in the past few years have really allowed me to make the types of films I need to make, namely: heavily researched experimental narrative. For me, this is the only way to describe a story that refuses the three-act structure, proscribed character arcs, and a straightforward plotline but contains a story nonetheless, with dialogue and events that are equally important to the formal elements, words, and materiality of the film.
What is the most beautiful thing youve experienced so far? The most surprising? The ugliest?
ACOSTA: Beautiful, surprising: the people. This cast and crew; these magical interns, though I hate to call them that; these inspired painters; these heroes and poets. Everywhere I turn, someone is joining us and with that action changing my life. I spoke with Hélène Cixous about death; I sang and danced with Nessa Noorich, Soa De Muse and Fannie Sosa; I have made deep friends and been inked with these people. That's why I say we aren't just a movie: we are a movement. I am not trying to be cheeky. We didn't build a cast, we built a network and the work and thoughts coming out of that will be creating for a long time after the Almanack is done shooting.
The ugliest thing is the money, but thats not surprising. Its been hard; we are making a film that lots of people want but no one wants to fund. We have received some really generous and supportive grants, and individual gifts through direct communication with our networks and audience. We have tactically not used some well-known methods, and while that has been tricky, ultimately we have been able to stay uncompromising.
With every private note that comes with the rejections saying, Well I mean, I love it, we get it, but you know... women... and poetry... and lesbians? They won't get it but we love it.I just think, OK, even through you won't help us make this I am making this for you too, so you can be reminded once again that you aren't the only one that wants this story. And we keep moving forward. So, not that ugly. Just the usual problems with capitalism.
Because I am a nut for color and texture: what is your favorite costume?
ACOSTA: Ah! This is impossible. I love everything Fannie Sosa wears, but I also swoon over all the choices our Djuna, Josefin Granqvist, makes for the cast. She changed the look of this whole thingthrough her private collection of fashion objects, and through friends. And then there's the robe Natalie Clifford Barney wears, which has astrological signs embroidered in gold on green velvet; this woman could take the world wearing nothing but that robe. I am also in love with Deborah Bright as Radclyffe Hall, she was on fire in that outfit... but we haven't shot Colette's masquerade garden party scene yet, and I am making jackal and wolf masks for that so... the costumes in this film are a large platform for the hybridity. Did I mention Dolly Wilde in rust and coral? Ugh, she's a beauty.
What did you have to teach yourself?
ACOSTA: Everything? I mean, we aren't working within the usual systems, so everything was somewhat familiar and somewhat impossible. I'm a director; I went to a conservatory, I ran a performance group for over seven years, and so I know how to talk to a room and produce a thing and make it happen. But asking for funding and support has been a big lesson, and I had to learn to do it in a way that felt right to me and to the ethos of the work, because you can't have one energy making and another funding behind the scenes. I mean, you can, but in this case it felt like that wouldn't be a good fit. I have learned that you need to define for yourself what you will and won't give, and you have to build partnerships and teams around you that agree and support that ethos. Because everyone is going to sacrifice something for this thing, somewhere along the line, so we need to all believe.
So I had to learn to be patient with the rejections, but I don't know, I have also really learned how not to hide from being proud of our work, and my own work, and to say this is valuable, no matter how many times you erase it. We are real, and this shit is fucking good.
It's also hard for me not to be the one pointing the camera, which is probably why I decided to do a little behind the scenes film. I needed an outlet that was mine for interpreting the whole of this experience. I've learned to keep making room for new threads, or I've learned how to do that with greater success and joy.
SHY: I dont always think Im a compassionate director. Part of this is that Im also the director of photography, so Im squinting into this tiny hole, watching humans, objects, locations, and light coincide to outdo my wildest hopes. Each frame Ive imagined twice, once when I wrote it and again when I drew the storyboards. But there is nothing to prepare me for seeing it in the moment through that little hole, holding my breath and pulling the trigger. From this place of elation, it is hard for me to remember that the humans, both in the frame and on the set as crew, need to know what I see, what I want. So I have to slow down and communicate. This comes naturally if something is not right: if its too dark or I need a chin to turn toward the camera, if the person holding the light is in the shot, etc., but most of the time, very little direction is needed. That is when I run off alone, thrilled into the hole, and down the eighteen seconds for five feet of film. I am learning to curb this trigger happy-dash. With help from Stephanie, the rest of the crew and the incredibly patient and talented cast, I am entering this second phase of shooting with hopes of being as aware and present to the room outside the camera as I am to the tiny room within it.
When have you had to say no?
ACOSTA: When people who didn't want to work on the film initially saw who wasjoining us and tried to work their way back in. Thanks, but no thanks. Or when someone asks if we can afford... well, anything, and I have to say no. This is a hard thing to talk about, but we are a fully volunteer based project; there was no other way. That includes location donation, everything. The money we have raised pays for the bare minimum of what can't be donated, like flights and film stock.
SHY: From its inception, before I even began writing the script, Stephanie and I agreed on a few values regarding how we were going to do this: one, bigger is not always better, and two, every aspect of the project has to follow the logic and integrity of the whole. So you could say we began with no.
Sometime in 2013, I stood in a used bookstore reading a collection about indie films in the '90s, and I found a chapter on Go Fish. Some asshole at MGM wrote this chapter saying if it werent for him, Rose Troche and Guinevere Turner would still be in a cafe in Wicker Park, waiting to be discovered. As if this incredible classic Troche and Turner wrote and made were his accomplishment. So we get to inherit the films, but also the lessons of the tribulations from our cinematic predecessors. In the 90s, a distribution deal with a major studio was a necessary evil for getting independent films seen. Today we have more options. It was important to say no to the idea of corporate help from the jump, even though it was never offered, because this is the beginning of what I hope to be a life-long career, and I want to make every decision with longevity and integrity in mind. We are making decisions about what kind of people we are going to be in this economy.
Whats the connection between the Almanack and Baby Love Your Body? (And who came up with the phrase khuntry klub? Because it is amazing.)
ACOSTA: I heard khuntry klub first from Fannie Sosa, and I use it all the time -- Daviel and I arrived in Aubervilliers, outside of Paris, in September on the day before they shot Baby Love Your Body, a project by Sosa and her collaborator Poussy Drama. I hadn't heard about it before that day. They had the whole crew, cast, and everything, but no one to shoot it.When they took Daviel and I over to check out the space, I offered to film it, and that's how I ended up holding that camera for that whole lovely trip. Almost everyone who worked on that piece ended up in the Almanack. The vibe, the beautiful energy of everyone was just too inspiring. We just started casting one by one, and suddenly they were all in it!
I should also say I love the goal of sex positive discussions for children. People feel all sorts of things about this video, but I think some want to react instead of searching inside for why they think it's so bad to talk about consent, to sing about loving your body and respecting private body engagement. Like, why is that so scary? Is it because we are talking about female bodies as bodies with agency and sensory experiences that are self-contained? Is it strange to talk about female bodies without putting them to use for others pleasure or gaze or life? The discussions around this work made me a much bigger advocate for this subject. When we were making it I was just, oh this is fun, but the reactions made me realize how important it is. Those two women and the School of No Big Deal are life changers.
Daviel wrote this on Facebook: filmmaking as a form of seeing from the standpoint of desire instead of power. this is the path to a place where capitalism cannot use us. When did that become fact for you?
ACOSTA: I would read an elevator manual if Daviel wrote it.
SHY: I wrote this sentence because I think photographic apparatuses are falsely assigned as phallic symbols in our culture. Making a film, as I said earlier, is building a world. Or sharing a vision. It does not have to be about colonizing and subjugating. Our language, a tool of patriarchy and oppression itself, is built to hide the radical potential of any given activity. We do not take a picture, we do not capture the subject of a photograph. She is not yours because you pointed a camera at her. The truth is, she cannot be captured. Imagine the potential if we changed the language? If we said, How well you noticed that subject or, You witness beautiful pictures. Then we would begin to uncover what film can really be: this is the path to a place where capitalism cannot use us. Our attention is everything. If we continue to turn our attention to one another, we will be dismantling the power of the capitalist racist patriarchy with, as Marilyn Frye writes in The Politics of Reality, the mere flick of an eye.
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Response to Intervention: An Investigation of Training, Perceptions, and Fidelity of Implementation
Latacha, Kathryn N.
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The authors investigated the extent to which the amount of training in Response to Intervention (RtI) impacts staff members' perceptions of RtI, how staff members' perceptions of RtI relate to their fidelity of implementation, and to what degree staff members' involvement in training influences their fidelity of implementation. A convenience sampling of thirty-eight staff members in Middle Tennessee was surveyed using a questionnaire and interview. Participants in the study worked in elementary and middle schools within a large urban district lacking a well-defined RtI program and a smaller district with a well-defined program. The quantitative analysis revealed that there is no statistically significant relationship between training and teachers' perceptions of RtI. There is a statistically significant relationship between teachers' perceptions and fidelity of implementation as well as the amount of training they receive and fidelity of implementation. The strongest relationship found was between teachers' perceptions of RtI and their fidelity of implementation of RtI. The qualitative analysis revealed that staff member perceptions concerning RtI effectiveness and individual comfort in implementation abilities are motivated by accountability, time, procedures, and training. The chief recommendations the researchers made to the Tennessee Department of Education are to focus on improving perceptions of RtI and provide adequate training through adding evidence-based intervention suggestions to the state manual, determine how to unite pre-service training for RtI across the state, and create a hierarchy map of new personnel including a state-level RtI coordinator, regional coordinators, state auditors, district-level coaches, and site coaches. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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Have you ever woke up and thought "look out world – here I come"? We all have. We all have those days that we just wake up and know it is going to be a good day to conquer the world. And then our feet touch the floor and its showtime. The winner attitude doesn't always stick around the entire day. That's where I have found it's best to lay a foundation of uplifting practices that clear my mind, focus my attitude, and enrich my heart for what lies ahead. When I wake up, regardless of feeling like a #BAUS or not, I know I have a routine in place to help get me there.
Here are my tips and tricks to being a #BAUS… Every. Day.
Show Gratitude.
Be thankful. You know the old saying: no matter what you're going through, someone else always has it worse. That is straight truth. There is always something to be thankful for even if you're still working for the #boss while becoming a #baus. My life begins and ends with Christ. I wouldn't be where I am today without all He has done for me through His guidance, love, and mercy. That is enough for me to be thankful for no matter the deals I'm fighting for. My faith is a huge part of who I am. Even if you don't have a faith, it is amazing what kind of attitude adjustment you can get by being thankful instead of resentful. Whether you are speaking it out loud or starting with writing a list of 10 things you are thankful for each day, you are actively speaking life and good things into your circumstances. I challenge you to start with this. During the day as situations arise, this is one practice I revert back to. I'm telling you, it is a game changer!
Tidy Up
I'm kind of a clean freak. Not a "neat" freak where everything has to be in a certain place or put away, but I need things to be clean. If I am in an environment that I feel needs to be cleaned, I can't focus. If there are dishes on my counter, I would rather them be clean and air drying versus being out and dirty. It is impossible for me to focus on work if every 5 seconds I'm thinking "I should really just clean that now." One of my favorite books is The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. She and I are on the same page. The book discusses how small irritants – like cleaning – add up to big time distractions. Especially if you have a heavy workload ahead of you that day, or an important meeting, the last thing you want is to be wasting your time worrying about the dishes. Get up and get them done. Clean your environment even if it is your desk at work or the breakroom. Wherever you do your work and wherever you come home to at the end of the day, make sure it is inviting for your body and soul to rest and focus on other tasks.
Drink Coffee. Eat Breakfast.
I don't need to say more right? I mean this one is a give-in. At least the coffee should be. We all have our habits and things that make us feel good. Coffee is by far one of the biggest feel-good habits out there. The emotions alone from the bootstrapping, first cup of coffee in the morning is inspirational to say the least. Eating breakfast is one that often gets missed. Especially as hustle and bustling entrepreneurs we think that we don't have time for that. Let me tell you a secret… there is always time for self care. Yes, eating breakfast is self care. We have become so wrapped up in deadlines and all that we have to get done during the day, that we logic we don't have time for it all. So what do we do? Easy, skip breakfast. Stop! I promise you, you have 10 minutes at the very least to get a good breakfast and sit down with your coffee, and pour into yourself. Invest in yourself during your breakfast, by eating breakfast and nourishing your body to have the energy for the day.
20 Minutes of Meditation
You know what puts you at ease. For me, breaking out my prayer mat that I got from a trip to Dubai, a YouTube meditation playlist, oils or fragrance of choice, and a candle set the mood for 20 minutes of meditation. I set a timer so that during my meditation I am not constantly wondering how much time I have left in my meditation. That is a viscous and unproductive cycle to get into. The goal is to promote peace and a sense of calm. If I go into my day with my attitude in a mess, everything I touch will turn out that way. But if I take the time to surround myself with peace and calmness, I can get that to carry with me through meetings, tasks, and any interaction I have. Promote peace within yourself so you can offer it to others as you come into contact.
Affirmations are so powerful and there are so many ways you can do it! You can listen to affirmations. You can speak your own. You can print out or order super cute cards to place around your mirror to read as you get ready in the morning. You can speak God's word over your life. The whole point of affirmations is to get your mindset straight. Get a solid foundation in your mind of what is good, and that you are good. Speak these things over your life, your business, and whoever you come in contact with. Let your positive attitude be what drives others towards you.
Get Dressed.
Dress for success, baby! The saying goes, "dress for the job you want, not the job you have." Put on those chic pumps. Rock those tight jeans. Curl your hair. Do whatever makes you look and feel like you are on top of the world. Do this even if you work at home. You heard me. Even if you are not leaving the house and no one will see you all day, you will get more done when you are dressed for success. Dress as if you are your own boss and one day you will be your own #BAUS.
Get yourself ready for tomorrow, today. There's a whole world out there to conquer… and it's screaming your name.
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Editorial: More cost, less convenience and liberty
As travelers return to the nation's airports, they will find flying more costly and less convenient, the result of Tuesday's deadly terrorist hijackings of four commercial flights.
Concern for improved security has become the primary motivator within the airline industry and the Federal Aviation Administration.
The FAA already has directed a new set of safety measures for airport security, and the traveling public can expect even more in the future.
No longer will there be curbside check-ins. All passengers must go to ticket counters. And only passengers with tickets and badged airport employees will be allowed past the metal detectors and security checkpoints. Sharp objects and even small knives will be confiscated by security personnel. Plastic knives have been removed from airport restaurants.
Travelers also can expect greater screening, random identification checks and questioning. Carry-on bags may be searched by hand, clothing extracted and the inside of shoes searched. Normally innocent items such as nail scissors may be removed and put in the checked bags of passengers.
Such questioning will be an infringement on privacy that Americans never have encountered before, unless they have visited Israel and been questioned by Israeli airport security personnel.
And all of this will take place within a system that moves more than 2 million airline travelers a day.
These new safety measures and others that will be proposed will take more time to carry out, so air travelers will have to arrive at airports earlier than they are accustomed now.
No matter what the nation does in trying to ensure greater safety of air travelers, it must inevitably amount to passengers being asked to sacrifice some of the freedom and privacy they currently enjoy in the name of security.
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Aren't you tired of just sitting in your room and going to class? We are college students, we are supposed to be out and discovering new places, people and cultures. While sitting in your dorm room may be a new experience, it is important to keep in mind that you're going to be looking at those four walls for at least the next eight months. So, when you only have maybe two hours between classes, don't rule out the possibility of exploring some new places, even if you are one of the many who lack a car and the ability to get off campus.
The Student Lounge in the AIMM Building
Here, students can enjoy a slightly less populated area to themselves to do work or just hang out. It is equipped with a microwave, a sink, and a refrigerator as well as a vending machine for small snacks. One of the walls is painted with chalkboard paint, allowing students to leave their marks for others to discover. There is a small bookshelf with an array of books that are available for borrow, and the view outside is gorgeous through the floor to ceiling windows.
The Basement of the Music Building
My favorite time to be down here is when it is desolate and no one is around. The lights are dim, making it ominus as the only source of light comes from those illuminating on the two vending machines. This place may not be the best for those looking for a quiet place, but for those who don't mind, there is often a few kids practicing their instruments in the classrooms nearby, allowing for a faint background music.
Study Areas in the Student Center
For those who prefer being with people, but still have work to do, you may enjoy working on the second floor of the student center. Here, there are tables for small study groups to work on their projects together in a more casual setting. There are also a number of dry erase boards provided, allowing there to be group brainstorming.
The Atrium in Social Sciences
This place is good for a rainy day. You can sit inside among plant life and just relax. The glass ceiling allows for the occupants to gaze up at the sky, giving a totally new perspective when it comes to the rain. This place is just pleasant to be in and welcomes everybody.
Science Complex Fountain
This place is bustling with the science kids coming in and out, so there is some foot traffic. Just sitting and watching the fountain is a vacation in its own. It almost takes you away from a college campus if you will let it. The best part about hanging out here is when you find a shady spot, you can just lie down and close your eyes to let the sound of rushing waters take you away.
Behind the Football Bleachers
This little spot between the back of the bleachers and the parking garage is a quaint little spot where it is almost always shady. It isn't bad for those who want to be outside but don't want to be in the sun. This spot is really pretty at night, when you can see the buildings in the distance illuminated by the people inside. It's a place for romantics.
Roof Deck at the AIMM Building
This has become my favorite place to be. The deck only has two ways in and out, and they're out of the way so many people don't know how to get to the deck. This allows for some isolation for those who want less company, because people have a hard time finding it. At night, there's nothing as calming as laying on the deck and staring up, watching as more and more stars become visible.


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Monday, January 25, 2010
Our faithful tipster C.H. has just sent us this link about a dictionary ban in Southern California's schools:
"Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California schools after a parent complained about a child reading the definition for "oral sex".
Merriam Webster's 10th edition, which has been used for the past few years in fourth and fifth grade classrooms (for children aged nine to 10) in Menifee Union school district, has been pulled from shelves over fears that the "sexually graphic" entry is "just not age appropriate", according to the area's local paper."
Does this constitute censorship, or should classrooms offer more age-appropriate dictionaries with definitions less prone to elicit playground titters? Should encyclopedias, with their illustrations of human anatomy, be banned from classrooms as well? Where do educators and librarians draw the line?
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Last night I was thinking how my whole life, my height has influenced people's view of me. And in fact how I see myself. Sometimes using it to my advantage . It's the first thing you notice about me. I'm 4foot10 inches. People comment or tease about it because they are comfortable doing so... I'm very approachable. Sometimes comments are very funny...
I'll start with the funniest.
My son and his family moved to Guatemala for the first 3 years of my grandson, Blaise's life. When they returned just before his third birthday he said to me on his first morning at breakfast, " your little" then holding is fingers close together and looking through them , " your this small" out of the mouth of. Babes!
I decided to actually blog about this for real because there are daily experiences. Half an hour ago I was in the grocery store walking I front of an aisle and a very tall big guy almost ran into me . He stopped short " whoa! I didn't see you!" I 'm sure tall people have their own issues.
Ok, here's a few issues:
Grocery shelves are so high! Seriously I always have to wait for a taller person to happen by to help me.
Size 5 shoes.... Always on the top shelf... How many tall people do you know with size 5 feet?
The lack of size 5 shoes in shoe stores! Although I do manage to find plenty... My closets can attest to that!
Drivers seats don't adjust we'll enough, I sit too close to the steering wheel , if the airbag goes off I'm toast!
I have to hem all my pants atleast 5 inches!
I have to drag a stool around my kitchen to get to the upper cupboards.
My work place is not set up ergonomic ally for short people.
Now here's a list of comments I get as a cashier at Costco:
"Are you standing in a hole?"
" are you sitting down"
"You need a stool"
Some very kind comments when they are concerned that I have to stretch to reach the receipt 100s of times a day.


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A federal court in Lagos has adjourned to March 6 the suit filed by former first lady, Patience Jonathan, seeking to un-freeze bank accounts she says belong to her.
The judge adjourned the matter following requests for more time by some of the defence counsel – those representing companies linked to Mrs. Jonathan – to study the case.
Mrs. Jonathan had sued the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after the agency froze the bank accounts containing a total of $15 million.
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Itziar Hernandez had a rough pregnancy.
A routine test that screens for Down's syndrome and spinal cord defects indicated a possible problem with the baby. Because of those test results, Hernandez had to undergo amniocentesis. And the first-time expectant mother also suffered from gestational diabetes, which she controlled with insulin shots.
"I never really got to enjoy my pregnancy," she says. "It seemed like every trimester, it was one thing after another."
Fortunately, the troublesome pregnancy culminated in the birth of a healthy baby. Noah Juan Ibarluzea Hernandez was born April 28 at Memorial Hospital West in Pembroke Pines.
The new mom's only memories of the delivery come from a videotape her husband, Juan, made during the Caesarean section. When the epidural anesthetic didn't take, Itziar Hernandez's doctors gave her a general anesthetic for the surgery.
"Waking up and not seeing [Noah) for three hours, that was awful," she says. "I watched the video later, and the baby was so high up that the doctors had to get on top of me and push. That kind of explains the pain you're in afterwards."
Noah's middle names honor his grandparents. Maternal grandparents are Estrella and Txomin Ibarluzea of Pembroke Pines, and paternal grandparents are Juanita and Juan Hernandez of Hollywood. The baby's half-brother is Arian, 9, who lives in Kendall with his mother. The Hernandez family lives in Pembroke Pines.
Noah was baptized June 22 at Nativity Catholic Church in Hollywood by the same priest who had married the parents. The priest had left the church and relocated to New York City, but was in Hollywood for the weekend, "and he offered to perform the baptism," Itziar Hernandez says. "That really made it more special for everyone."


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I want to wish my mom a very happy birthday. She's one of my favorite people in the world. I wish I was more like her almost every day. Maybe I will be someday with a little more practice.
|This is still one of my favorite photos of my mom and me.
Second ::
I invited a friend to join me at Zumba on Tuesday night. She'd never gone before, but I think she enjoyed it. This might become a Tuesday night tradition for us. I would enjoy that a lot. Having a workout buddy makes it easier and more fun to go.
Third ::
I have a very fun road trip coming up this weekend. I'm riding a bus with a hundred or so other Iowa State fans down to Lawrence, Kansas, to watch the Cyclones to take on the Jayhawks. Two friends are going with me as well and I'm sure I'll make some new friends on the journey. It's going to be a long day, but I think it'll be a lot of fun too.
|It's been two years since I took in a Cyclone football game with these two.
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I am almost one week into NaNoWriMo, and I'm still feeling good. I had Tuesday off of work and was able to knock out about 6K words. That'll definitely help me out since I know there will be a few days this month I won't have any time to write. The story is starting to really pan out too, although I'm still nervous I'm not smart enough to write something like this. I'll be sending bits out to beta readers next week, so we'll see what they say.
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I'm seeing one of my favorite music guys tomorrow night. And it's my 200th concert ever (yes, I've kept a list). It couldn't be more perfect and I'm so looking forward to seeing him.
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We drove part of the Parker 400 racetrack.
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We drove to the Osborne Wash where it intersects with Hwy 95. We pulled off the highway to air down our tires and disconnect the sway bar. The new equipment to air down the tires worked great!! But when Carl tried to disconnect the sway bar, he couldn't disconnect the right one. We decided to leave them and he'd work on them when we got back.
The famous Parker 400 race runs in and along the Osborne Wash in Parker, Arizona. The race is held in January each year. We missed the race this year, but we ran part of the racetrack, about 15 miles of it anyway. I was amazed at how rough it was. Hundrededs of vehicles going over this track at 60 mph created awesome whoop-d-doos!!! These were really fun and we were going to a lot further. The desert was really pretty because of the recent rains!!! But after about 8 miles, we turned around.
We had a lot of fun going up and down a really steep grade. It was kinda scary, but the Jeep made it with no problems!!!! We even got a video of it!!!
We just got new tires and a lift kit installed on our Jeep, so we wanted to test it out!!! It worked great!!! We hit bottom and the rear bumper (a lot) on our last trip, so we took pictures of the improved clearance!!
The new onboard air compressor worked like a champ!! It only took a few minutes to air our tires back up!!!
When we got back to the house, Carl worked with the sway bar disconnects. He made a small adjustment and seemed to get them working.
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In many professions, employees participate in professional development programs to improve the work they do in the company. Sometimes, this work is in the form of workshops and sometimes, it is purely independent work on the part of the employee.
For authors, there is really no end to the learning. Unfortunately, I see far too many authors out there who stop learning about the craft once they get that first book published. Clearly, they know how to write and now the focus needs to be on marketing. This is far from the truth! Yes, marketing is important, but a continued focus still needs to be placed on insuring your craft, as an author, is improving.
Both my wife and I read romances and we are frequently talking about the latest book we read. Too often, the conversation is not about how good the book was, but on "What happened to this author's ability to write a story?" It was clear that the focus had been more on just writing the story and not about trying to improve the craft!
Authors need to make an effort each year to not just write their stories, but to spend time reviewing their writing, learning new strategies, researching other authors, and yes, take the time to learn new approaches for marketing.
Your learning does not stop with the release of that first novel.


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Photographer Marie Tomanova and stylist Maria Montane have again created an impressive editorial. Do you still remember the wonderful and flowery photo-story 'Indian Summer'? This new editorial contains clear colours and shows different motifs in a beautiful artful way. ☆
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When you have an imagination like Stephanie Mykals but no social prowress, it becomes very easy to immerse yourself in your own world, and forget about everything else. Being a successful writer under a pen name hasn't changed this about her, and at the age of 27 she still believes… Read More
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A boy Simon goes to school one day and discovers he has powers. Time freezes and Men in black suits take him him to a top security building. (If yal like this story I can elaborate and make it longer and more detail.) Read More
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A twisted tale of the sassiest unicorn and the plot to dull his sassieness. Read More
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Most people fall in love and don't become addicted to their significant other. Most people, but not Alex. She didn't know Draiden was going to be the one that will have her completely and hopelessly devoted to him with just one touch. Read More
Kate Evens, personal assistant and struggling writer, is a woman with a secret. A secret she has spent most of her life protecting. Plagued by visions of one way glass, confining white walls, and a man she's never known, she is unable to cope with the mysteries beyond. Her whole… Read More
Cheeky Delilah Alexander Louis is your typical seventeen year old with the attitude, sassiness and the witty comebacks. She's smart and she's the biggest troublemaker you would ever come across. New to Kingsley Academy, Delilah miraculously manages to brew trouble on her first day…by starting a minor explosion and ending… Read More
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I started writing this a couple days ago, I've always wanted to write a book and decided why not. It's about a plain girl who has one friend. She wants to know what else this world has to offer besides working in a book store. Read More
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The Tron Square Residence is all about the three Cs: character, comfort and central location. Sitting pretty in a quiet development just off of the Royal Mile, this apartment offers guests a peaceful haven amidst the hustle and bustle of the city centre. The property sleeps up to four guests, and features a balcony, and two double bedrooms.
The large living area has been lovingly decorated with eclectic furniture and exotic artwork, and is perfect for relaxing in after a long day's sightseeing and exploring Edinburgh. If you fancy a night in why not put your feet up with a good book or DVD, and rustle up some of your own culinary treats in the well-equipped kitchen. The owner of this property has thought of everything, and so this really is a home away from home with everything from ladles to the latest blockbuster.
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TDB-120, Dry block thermostat
TDB-120 is a traditional Biosan's dry block thermostat for laboratory analysis. Thermostat is designed for maintaining constant temperature of samples in tubes inserted in the aluminium block sockets. Unprecedented high precision and uniformity of temperature over the block. TDB-120 is widely used for PCR–analysis.
Microprocessor controlled temperature and time. Simultaneous indication of set and actual temperature and time.
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Some construction firms rely on a Long Island building supply provider to get their projects moving. In terms of construction materials, they are on the fence as to whether to choose engineered or traditional lumber as the prime material, with a few experts putting their bets on engineered lumber.
In many cases, engineered lumber can be ordered in specific dimensions. This gives many builders access to the exact size of lumber they need for a project. Additionally, engineered lumber is much lighter and can be spaced apart better than traditional lumber. All of these characteristics significantly improve the efficiency at which your team can work.
One of the biggest drawbacks of traditional lumber is that this wood is sourced from forests around the world. Even worse, only 70 percent of a tree is used in creating traditional lumber. Since engineered lumber is made from a combination of wood veneers and particles, the amount of wood necessary to manufacture engineered lumber is calculated, and there is no need to go above that number. Similarly, the particles can easily be sourced from the remaining 30 percent of a tree. Both scenarios easily reduce the amount of trees to be cut down.


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MULA SA PUSO Outreach Program
Member : xam(2/23/04 6:15)
Feb 11, 2004
Ivette and I arrived at San Lazaro Hospital around 1:30PM. Shortly thereafter, Melody and Ms Beth Castro (representative of the Kabayan-Yamato Filipino Community) joined us. We were met at the entrance by Ms Rose Mendoza, the head nurse of the training office. We turned over the medical supplies (our heartfelt gratitude to the Kabayan-Yamato Group) to the newly appointed director of San Lazaro Hospital, Dr. Arturo Cabanban. Praxis and his cousin Sonny joined us later and helped us in distributing the loot bags for the young patients and fruits to the older patients.
Kandong King was supposed to join us that afternoon but unfortunately the cab that he was in was involved in a minor accident. Fortunately, our dear Rene wasn't hurt. After distributing the loot bags and fruits, the group parted ways but met that evening together with the other chatters at Giligan's Island for the Valentine's Day EB.
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Nice work people, it's a fitting first project for our organization now known as Tribyalista Inc. or it's virtual counterpart www.tribyaista.org (coming soon).
Our heartfelt thanks to our counterparts in Japan, the Kabayan-Yamato Filipino Community, whose generosity has made this Outreach Project possible.Below is a copy of the letter of acceptance from Dr. Cabanban the OIC of the San Lazaro Hospital.
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thanks xam and cabrong for reporting about this great event. it makes me feel proud and good that we are one of the few, if not the only group in Yahoo phils chat, that does more than just "chat."i look forward to similar projects and as usual offer my services as consultant or advisor.wtg tribyalistas


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Knee Pain Leads to Additional Aches
People with osteoarthritis of the knees often experience painful feet, ankles, hips, hands, wrists, elbows, and shoulders as well. Now, a new study confirms that people with chronic knee pain are at higher risk for pain in other joints.
Researchers examined the results of two large studies involving middle-aged and older adults with, or at risk for, knee pain. Study participants were asked questions about their pain and had knee x-rays taken.
According to the study, people with knee pain experienced more pain in other parts of the body than those whose knees were not painful. In those with pain in both knees, 79.6 percent had pain in other areas, and in those with pain in one knee 63.8 percent had pain elsewhere in the body.
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Kevin Rose has a great little write up on XP SP2. It is due out some time this week, in conjunction with an update to Windows Update, that allows for resumed downloads so that presumably people on dial-up can get the upgrade that is a whopping 265 MB. (Don't worry Dad, I'll burn it to a CD and bring it over)
If you just can't wait for Windows latest update, and it's more like an upgrade. Kevin has some links where you can download a copy. There are numerous improvements to security, firewall and wireless networking.Comments are off for this post


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Mapping Childrens Understanding of Mathematical Equivalence
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Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness
The focus of this research is to develop an initial framework for assessing and interpreting students' level of understanding of mathematical equivalence. Although this topic has been studied for many years, there has been no systematic development or evaluation of a valid measure of equivalence knowledge. A powerful method for accomplishing this task has been developed by Wilson (2005). Building upon item response theory, Wilson and his colleagues utilize an assessment instrument called a construct map. A key feature of this tool is that it can assist educational researchers in making criterion-referenced interpretations of instructional materials and student performances. Thus, a construct map of mathematical equivalence can provide a coherent framework for interpreting findings from across elementary and middle school mathematics curricula. A written assessment was administered to ten second- through sixth grade classrooms (two per grade) in an urban, parochial school serving a working- to middle-class population. Participants were 181 second- through sixth grade students. This set was comprised of 39 second-grade students (17 girls and 21 boys), 43 third-grade students (26 girls and 17 boys), 39 fourth-grade students (16 girls and 22 boys), 34 fifth-grade students (17 girls and 17 boys), and 28 sixth-grade students (14 girls and 14 boys). The students were predominantly Caucasian. Utilizing the construct map and Wright map instruments developed by Wilson (2005), the authors developed a framework for understanding mathematical equivalence across elementary and middle school curricula. This framework can provide educational professionals with a tool for more accurately diagnosing students' current skill level and providing guidance for how to foster students' movement along the pathway toward greater mastery of this topic. Furthermore, the framework can provide educational professions with a means of identifying gaps or obstacles in curriculum design and suggest ways for remedying such problems. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Parochial Schools, Instructional Materials, Elementary School Students, Student Evaluation, Urban Schools, Educational Research, Item Response Theory, Mathematical Concepts, Elementary School Mathematics, Maps, Middle School Students, Mathematics Curriculum, Algebra, Equations (Mathematics)
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. 2040 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208. Tel: 202-495-0920; Fax: 202-640-4401; e-mail: inquiries[at]sree.org; Web site: http://www.sree.org
Autor: Taylor, Roger S.; Rittle-Johnson, Bethany; Matthews, Percival G.; McEldoon, Katherine L.
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When Ralph Pearson, Claims Manager at property specialist Resident's Insurance Services got the call from a managing agent client for support in a large fire claim, he quickly stepped in to help resolve the issues.
Insurance claims under a certain value, usually £5,000, are normally dealt with easily and quickly on a desktop basis by the insurer's in house claims team.
Insurance claims over £5,000 generally become more complex due to the increase in cost and parties involved. Firstly insurers will look to instruct a loss adjuster to visit site to meet the insured or their representative to view and assess the damage. The loss adjuster will confirm the extent of policy liability and then effectively take over the running of the claim. The loss adjuster will confirm the degree of works and authorise costs as appropriate. Larger losses will also include the involvement of some or all of the following: managing agents, surveyors, engineers and others dependant on the type and size of loss.
One of our clients recently suffered such a loss when fire completely gutted a flat in a block. It quickly became clear that this was going to be a large complex loss as the insurer immediately appointed a loss adjuster to attend site.
With a loss of this nature as Claims Manager at Residents Insurance Services, I'm keen to assist in providing an efficient claims process for the client. This could involve an initial site visit, meeting with insurers/loss adjuster/client and other necessary parties involved during the course of the claim.
This particular large loss needed just such an intervention when the loss adjuster was slow to respond to the client on quotations for stripping out works. I contacted the loss adjuster to stress the urgency in him contacting the client to confirm costs which he then did which enabled the claim to move to the next stage. I will continue to monitor this claim and will intervene when necessary.
Claims need not necessarily be of a large nature to require my involvement. Smaller or contentious claims can have issues which require my intervention. Due to the close relationship I have with insurers and other claims related parties this is something often an insured or agent would find very difficult to manage.
When arranging insurance on a block of flats you should be asking your broker if they have a dedicated claims manager with the experience to assist and resolve all issues on their behalf. Someone you are able to call on for absolutely any claims related issue; someone who won't just fob you off to insurers; someone willing to come out and meet with all involved parties to ensure your claim is managed efficiently; someone like me!
Don't wait until you have a serious incident to discover you are on your own.
Ralph Pearson is claims manager at Resident's Insurance Services


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Infrared non-destructive evaluation method and apparatus
United States Patent
|October 21, 2014
|View the Complete Patent at the US Patent & Trademark Office
|U.S. Department of Energy - Visit the Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer & Intellectual Property Website
|A method of nondestructive evaluation and related system. The method includes arranging a test piece (14) having an internal passage (18) and an external surface (15) and a thermal calibrator (12) within a field of view (42) of an infrared sensor (44); generating a flow (16) of fluid characterized by a fluid temperature; exposing the test piece internal passage (18) and the thermal calibrator (12) to fluid from the flow (16); capturing infrared emission information of the test piece external surface (15) and of the thermal calibrator (12) simultaneously using the infrared sensor (44), wherein the test piece infrared emission information includes emission intensity information, and wherein the thermal calibrator infrared emission information includes a reference emission intensity associated with the fluid temperature; and normalizing the test piece emission intensity information against the reference emission intensity.
|Baleine; Erwan (Orlando, FL), Landy; James F. (Cape Canaveral, FL), Lee; Ching-Pang (Cincinnati, OH), Stinelli; Stephanie (Edgewater, FL)
|Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, FL)
|13/ 604,668
|September 6, 2012
|STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED DEVELOPMENT Development for this invention was supported in part by Contract No. DE-FC26-05NT42644, awarded by the United States Department of Energy. Accordingly, the United States Government may have certain rights in this invention.