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Sentencing Of Former Traffic Court Judges Begins
By Tony Hanson December 3, 2014 at 7:48 am
Filed Under:Dickinson Square, Judge, KYW Newsradio 1060, Lawrence Stengel, Philadelphia Traffic Court, Robert Mulgrew, South Philadelphia, Thomasine Tynes, Tony Hanson, Traffic Court
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By Tony Hanson
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The first in a series of sentencings of former Philadelphia Traffic Court judges begins today with sentencing for former Judge Robert Mulgrew. The defendants were acquitted of ticket fixing conspiracy, but convicted of lying to authorities about their actions.
Judge Lawrence Stengel, who read the jury's verdicts in July, will now sentence Mulgrew. The government is seeking a sentence of about 3 years, while the defense counters there is no need for additional penalty.
Mulgrew is already in custody – he's inmate number 68619-066, serving a 30-month sentence for stealing state grant funds that he claimed were being used to beautify his Dickinson Square neighborhood in South Philadelphia.
The defense cites what it calls Mr. Mulgrew's extraordinary volunteer services to his community, his exceptionally low risk of recidivism and other factors. But the government argues the co-defendants in this case destroyed an entire court system. The Philadelphia Traffic Court was disbanded.
Former Judge Thomasine Tynes is scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow. Two other former judges will be sentenced later.
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A console version of Diablo III has long been rumoured, but it has not yet been confirmed. Blizzard says they are indeed looking to bring the long awaited action-RPG to consoles, and they're in the very early stages of planning, but they won't make any promises yet.
Blizzard, says lead designer Josh Mosqueira (via Eurogamer), "is very, very serious about bringing the Diablo 3 experience to the console."
"Today, we're trying to build the best console team at Blizzard," said he during a gamescom conference.
"We're looking for programmers, designers, artists who think their dream job would be to bring Diablo to the console. Trust me, it is a dream job.
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def newtonF(e, Mh):
    i = 20
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        F_at40 = F_i+1
        i = abs(F_at40-F_i)
    return F_at40
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Dance Center gives members guidance
Amber Caron - Staff Writer
The town of Hamden is the home of many places that attract the younger generation. It is housed with bars, restaurants, clubs, and shopping centers.
But, Hamden also holds other places where people can enjoy themselves and one of these places includes Joni's Dance Center.
Many Quinnipiac students come to the Dance Center because, unlike the Dance Company, people do not have to perform infront of others in order to participate.
Joni Christensen opened her dance studio in the volunteer Fire Department building about 17-years-ago.
She has been dancing since she was four-years old and has grown a passion for dance, which has developed into a bright career.
She enables her students to be creative and energetic with their dancing.
"I give them the steps and show them how to execute them, but only they can bring them to life," said Christensen.
The dance center is responsible for giving people a sense of confidence to perform in front of a large group of people, which will help them in the future.
Christiansen believes that competition will drown out the fun in dancing. By adding competition into the equation, means adding longer hours, and less time to do fun activities.
"I want me students to dance because they love it, not because they feel that they have to," said Christensen.
The dance center offers classes in ballet, tap, jazz, point, hip-hop, acrobatics, and theatre.
"We offer many different kinds of dance, originally we focused on theatre, but have progressed with the times," said Christensen.
People that attend the Dance Center range in age from two-year-old children to grown adults.
"I love to work with all groups of people because there is progression in each one," said Christensen, "It is so fun to watch the light bulb go off in each students head when they finally get it."
Along with guiding students through difficult dance moves, Christensen and her staff also try to guide her dancers to be healthy and happy with themselves.
"We are always telling our students to make sure they are giving their bodies enough fuel and eating correctly," said Christensen.
She feels this advice is important for young people who are continually feeling the pressure of the world around them.
With over 130 students, most of which are involved with multiple disciplines, the dance center remains open six days a week to provide students with ample time to practice.
Christensen is in the studio each hour that the center is open.
She believes dancing will help students with their life.
"Dancing has helped me through many things in my life," said Christensen. And she believes dancing will help students with their life.


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I spent as much time as I could soaking up sun and conversation outside between sessions in the mid-70 degree weather before returning home to 10-below.
C2C was my first B2B content marketing conference, and I welcomed the opportunity to dive in and get fully immersed in the topic. As a journalist-turned-marketer, it was also refreshing to see some common themes from other areas of writing resonating throughout the conference.
From Michael Brenner's talk on content personalization and Laura Ramos's insight into B2B storytelling, I brought home a deeper understanding of the emotional connection B2B buyers need to have with the content they consume. From Tim Riesterer and Karen Thomas-Smith, I learned more about how content influences buying decisions and ways to implement content-first marketing programs.
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Love's Bond - Robert Nozick
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Love's Bond – Robert Nozick In this writing assignment I will be giving a detailed interpretation on Robert Nozick's writing, "Love's Bond". First I will give an explanation on Nozick's account of the nature of love. Secondly, I will explain why Robert Nozick believes that in love there is no desire to trade up to another partner. Lastly, I will also explain why he says that it is incoherent to ask what the value of love is to an individual person. The nature of love according to Nozick is the desire to form a "we" with the person you feel romantic love for, the desire to become one with the loved one. When two individuals are mutually in romantic love with one another, they both desire to form a "we" with each other. Once two romantic…show more content…
According to Nozick when two individuals join and form a "we" this new identity completely takes over and creates a new shared identity. To Nozick, it would be completely irrational to even think of the person of an individual and to ask what the value of love is to them. It is something that is just not possible when a person has formed a "we" with another. In conclusion, I have given my complete interpretation on Robert Nozick's writing, "Love's Bond". I have explained to the best of my knowledge the nature of love, the reason why in romantic love there is no desire of trading up, and lastly why it is incoherent to ask what the value of love is to an individual. Works Cited 1. Nozick, Robert. "Love's Bond." Philosophical Perspectives on Sex & Love. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. 231-39.
Distributive Justice, By Robert Nozick
In Distributive Justice, Robert Nozick aims to clarify the processes of distribution that can be reasonably upheld in a free society. To do so, he examines the origins of how people legitimately come to own things and applies the least intrusive set of guidelines that can be doled out in order to guarantee the most justice possible, while also respecting individual liberty. Nozick provides the Entitlement Theory, which specifies that so long as there is justice in the acquisition and transfer of
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views that speak on the subject. In his book Theory of Justice, John Rawls follows a high liberal tradition of thought, asserting that a distributive pattern of justice is most correct. On the other hand, in his book Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick argues for an emergent approach to justice, rooted in libertarian philosophy. Lastly, John Tomasi, in his book Free Market Fairness, offers the most compelling argument of the three. Tomasi purports that the market democratic approach to justice
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ultimately matters. Recognition of the "separateness of persons" is needed to put constraints on such trade offs. In this essay I will lay out the theory of utilitarianism and explain the "separateness of persons" objection presented by John Rawls and Robert Nozick. Ultimately I do think they present a successful argument, since utilitarianism is detached from individuals it can lead to grotesquely immoral consequences when put into practice. Utilitarianism is a theory in normative ethics supporting the
The Libertarian Philosophy That Robert Nozick Advocates
The Libertarian Philosophy that Robert Nozick advocates in his seminal works Anarchy, State and Utopia delves deeply into the concepts of distributive justice and equality we, humanity, are entitled to. Nozick emphasises the effectiveness of the minimal state as a political system that is successful in ensuring the traditional libertarian view of negative liberty that secures what Nozick believes to be our inalienable rights. Quite clearly Nozick is a supporter of minimal interference from a governing
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Issues on morality, and the paradox of pursuing happiness. We will see there are many flaws with this way of thinking leading it to be a poor choice for the well-being of mankind. The first argument against hedonism is Nozick's experience machine. Robert Nozick an author and philosopher first thought of this machine was in his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia thus the title of Nozick's machine. The point of this machine was an individual would be plugged into the machine and essentially, be disconnected
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fortunate or does it mean allowing individuals to freely give to those who are poor? This question has been debated for a long time and will still be debated for years to come. This paper will look at the writings of two philosophers, John Rawls and Robert Nozick, and compare and contrast their beliefs on what that question means and whether or not one theory is more beneficial to society in the long run. Throughout history there has always been a dilemma between freedom and equality. Some people think
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John Rawls and Robert Nozick both believed in the idea of crafting a just society. They had different ideas on its implementation, however. In the following paper I will first briefly outline the two authors central ideas for a just society. I will discuss their thought experiments including the veil of ignorance, initial position, Wilt Chamberlain and even a non zero sum expanding pie. I will discuss means and ends and why both writers claim to be treating others as ends before discussing the problems
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process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life (Education). Robert Nozick, John Rawls, and Aristotle all have different views on where, how, and what education can get you in life. For Nozick, he may see education as an entitlement, if you are the original holder. Rawls may believe that education should be a fair and equal opportunity to all individuals. Aristotle believes that
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into two to create knowledge, giving us the difference between the false and the truth. Epistemology is important due to the fundamentals of the way we think. In the article of "Conditions for Knowledge" Robert Nozick believes that a belief is somewhat of a fact without some truth. Nozick calls this truth tracking he believes that these can be proven with gettier counter examples, which are situations that are put together to find out the truth of the belief. Plato 's belief is that in order
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May 17, 2018 timbooktoo Belgium, Romania national team, rugby, shambles, Spain, World Cup
Episode 4 in the long-running and very confusing telenovela that is the 2018 Rugby Europe Championship. If the European qualifiers for the 2019 World Cup are series one of Twin Peaks, then we are now at the bit where we see Leland seeing Bob in the mirror. (I think.)*
If you don't know what's been going on up to this point, and you have a bit of time, I implore you to read my posts view episodes 1, 2 and 3 before continuing; otherwise what follows will mean very little.
Ready to proceed? Rather you than me….
Sione Faka'osilea, the man who has inadvertently caused Romania's World Cup disqualification. [Source: digisport.ro]
World Rugby convened a panel of independent judges to come to a decision on several matters arising from this season's Rugby Europe Championship (REC). The procedures of both World Rugby (WR) and Rugby Europe (RE) are under the microscope. As you will recall, there was the Romanian refereeing team appointed to officiate at the Belgium-Spain match, where Romania would directly benefit if Spain lost. Then there was a flurry of questions raised about the eligibility of certain players used during the competition, which (confusingly) doubled as World Cup qualifiers. Here is what they decided:
There was not sufficient evidence that the refereeing in Belgium's unexpected win over Spain materially affected the result of the match, nor that it was manifestly the result of corruption or bad faith. Therefore, although World Rugby had supported the Spanish rugby union's demand to replay the match, the panel decided that there were insufficient grounds for doing so.
When Spain requested, well ahead of the fixture, that the referee be changed in view of the possible implications, Rugby Europe put the burden of decision onto the officials themselves. Naturally, they felt they could still do the job. The panel considered this shifting of responsibility unwise, and recommended that no official be put in a similar position in future.
The regulations on the eligibility of players for national teams are of utmost importance in preserving the integrity of international competition. Fault and intent do not matter on this issue; breach of these regulations is a strict liability offence. There is an automatic financial penalty for breaking the regulations, but punishments relating to points or places in competition are more complicated, as there are several different precedents from different levels of the sport. It was decided that each team would be deducted the maximum number of points they could have gained from each match in which they used one or more ineligible player; in the REC this number is five.
Questions were raised about player eligibility for all five countries competing in the World Cup qualifiers. The Russian and German situations were looked into and quickly discarded, leaving three unions under scrutiny: Belgium, Spain and Romania.
BELGIUM: Five players were used whose connection to the country is sufficient to qualify for a Belgian passport (great-grandparents born in Belgium), but insufficient to make them eligible for its international rugby team. Because Belgium fielded ineligible players in six matches which counted towards Rugby World Cup qualification, they are deducted 30 points from the RWC qualifying competition. The union is fined £25,000 for each ineligible player used, thus £125,000.
SPAIN: Two players were used who had previously represented France Under-20s at a time when that team was the designated second senior team of the country; therefore they were "captured" for France at that moment and immediately rendered ineligible for any other country. Ineligible players were fielded in eight matches which counted towards RWC qualification, so Spain are deducted 40 points. The union is fined £25,000 for each ineligible player used, thus £50,000.
ROMANIA: One player, Sione Faka'osilea, who had played in the past for the Tonga Sevens team and was thus "captured" for Tonga according to World Rugby's rules, featured in six games which counted towards RWC qualification. Romania are thus deducted 30 points in the RWC competition. Since Romania is a member of the World Rugby Council, the fine is much higher than for the other nations: £100,000 per ineligible player used.
All the financial penalties are suspended for five years, so if the unions do not breach the eligibility regulations again before 2023 no money will be paid. This is a blessing to these small rugby countries whose budget would be unable to cope with such an outlay.
The surprisingly readable report is available for download in its entirety here.
THE COUNTER-RUCK
Belgium will not appeal the decision: guilty as charged, your honour.
The Spanish federation, FER, is considering an appeal, based on its contention that the French union changed its designated next senior representative team without authorisation. The panel's report has already dealt with that issue, though, so an appeal would surely be fruitless. Here is the FER's statement.
Spanish players hassling referee Vlad Iordachescu. [Source: the42.ie]
The Romanian federation, FRR, will appeal. Their own statement is here. Officials feel that they fulfilled their obligations in "taking all the necessary steps" to secure clearance for Faka'osilea, which is what the regulations rather nebulously require of them. This is why:
After initially having trouble contacting the Tongan union, they got an email reply stating that the player had not played for the national team or the A-team and was thus OK to play for Romania.
In the absence of a centralised database of "captured" players, they searched the ESPN statistics database and (sharp intake of breath from librarian) Wikipedia, and found no evidence of Faka'osilea's having played for Tonga.
The player himself signed a document declaring that he had not played for the representative side of his country of origin, and that he had not been notified of his capture by the Tongan rugby authorities.
The FRR had, in a previous case, sent team sheets off to World Rugby for checking, only to be told that they should do so only if there was something unclear.
In their submission to the panel, World Rugby argued that:
The FRR cannot have, as they are required to do by the regulations, adequately explained the eligibility rules to the player, as he would hardly have forgotten that he had played Sevens for Tonga.
Proper internet searches would have revealed evidence of his having played for Tonga Sevens.
The FRR could and should have made inquiries with WR.
The team sheets mentioned were purely for media propagation, not for administrative checking.
The Tongan email did not appear to specify that Faka had not played for the national Sevens team.
The Romanians have to show that exceptional circumstances exist in order to have a chance with their appeal. If they can produce the Tongan email exchange, that could seal it one way or the other.
THE KNOCK-ON EFFECTS
So the upshot is that Russia qualify for the World Cup and will play Japan in the opening match. Meanwhile Germany, who this season broke all records as the worst team ever to take part in the REC since its inception in 2000, will go into a one-off playoff against Portugal – a match which had originally been slated for April but will now take place on 9th June, somewhere in Germany. The winners of that game will play two legs against Samoa. The winners of that match-up will go to the World Cup, while the losers go into a four-team repechage tournament in the autumn.
Russia on the way to beating Belgium. [Source: americasrugbynews.com]
Romanian and Spanish grassroots rugby will inevitably suffer from the teams not appearing in Japan next year. And the controversial boss of the FRR could be in trouble depending on who is eventually fingered as the root cause of the Faka'osilea affair. However, to tell the truth, Romanian rugby is in a pretty poor state anyway, and until mid-February the Spanish were not expecting to qualify, so apocalyptic predictions as to the effect of this judgement are probably exaggerated. Conversely, can any good come out of this farce?
Rugby Europe will never again allow a situation where the referee is compromised by the appearance or suggestion of bias. We hope.
The Spanish players who angrily confronted the referee after the defeat in Brussels were punished last month. The two worst offenders received a 36-week and a 43-week ban for physical and verbal abuse of the match official, while three others received 14-week bans for threatening the Romanian. Say no to the soccerisation of rugby!
The interconnected scandals of the refereeing appointment, the refereeing performance, and the abuse of the referee, are rendered slightly less prominent by the all-devouring player eligibility problem. Admittedly this is only a positive if you squint quite hard.
Given that the Spanish and Romanian eligibility cases could have been avoided if there were one central source of information on players who have been "captured" by another country, paragraph 58 of the review sows the seed of a Great Idea: "World Rugby might want to consider whether to maintain a database showing players who have been captured by Unions." Well, duh. It will be complicated and expensive to do, but surely essential now that there are clear precedents to follow: the worms will escape the can.
Samoa and Canada will be happy to face Germany or Portugal rather than Spain in the World Cup play-offs.
Russian rugby will get a huge boost from the exposure a World Cup brings. Their clubs are the strongest of Europe's Tier 2 nations, and now perhaps the national team can kick on too. Rugby fans will enjoy seeing an unfamiliar team at the World Cup (although, admittedly, the Russians did appear in the 2011 edition).
We can all move on now. Can't we? Please?
*I really hope there won't be an equivalent of all those scenes in that lodge in the forest where everyone talks backwards and the dwarf does a weird dance.
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ASHLEY WALTERS is nonchalant when he recalls having the idea for new Sky One show Bulletproof the best part of a decade ago. "It's normal," he says when asked about being ahead of the cultural curve and bringing this project to life.
Set in London, with guns bussing, epic fight scenes and proper car chases, Bulletproof is a fun, authentic, action-packed ride around the city as Bishop and Pike tackle the bad guys in their own uncompromising style, all while maintaining their friendship, their relationships and taking on ghosts from the past.
It's a refreshing take on a conventional blueprint; good guys have to get the bad guys by any means necessary. However, two black men in lead roles using the type of urban vernacular you would associate with 'road man', aren't your typical front runners for the roles, but it works and works very well.
Former MC Walters, who plays Officer Pike in Bulletproof, has been at the fore of mainstream entertainment in various guises over the years and said the feeling he got when the idea popped into this head was a familiar one.
"It feels normal (being ahead of the curve). What me and Noel have done is be pioneers, we've always been on the cusp of transition and a lot of the stuff we have done people have been inspired by, so this is nothing new.
Fans of both Walters and Clarke will immediately be taken by the on-screen synergy between the two. Jokes are running from the off and the talent of both actors is highlighted by the effortless way the two it between intense scenes and those requiring more subtle emotion.
Clarke said: "The chemistry was really easy because me and Ash just get on, we get on really well and laugh a lot. We get on and laugh a lot more than people would expect or know, so bringing that energy and that banter to life on screen is simple even when the pages were different we would add spice to it and made sure that it kept that energy and that it kept that banter that we have in real life.
Guns bussing every minute isn't a feature of London life in reality, thankfully. However, both actors believed as well as communicating in a language that was relatable, in order to give the show the edge required, and action scenes needed embellishing.
"It's a heightened show and we are the good guys, so if the bad guys are gonna bring it we're going to bring it back," Clarke enthused.
He added: "We didn't want to make a conventional UK show, we wanted to make a show that was slightly heightened. The reality is you can't walk around the station with your firearm, you have to check it in a safe, when you go out on a call you have to go and check it out, we didn't have time for that.
On how he thought the audience will relate to the show, Walters said: "It's going to be automatic for a lot of people, the Top Boy crowd maybe a bit reluctant in the beginning but I think us adding things like the authenticity of the language is what is going to attract people and once they get into it, they will like it. You could even walk away from watching the show and be like 'I might even join the police force'", Walters joked.


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As taffy entered his parents stood up and seemed just as awkward as their visitor.
"perhaps i am a coward," he said; "but i will.
Nor was i alone delighted with his life, but all the world with one accord said all good things, and prais'd my happy fortunes, who possess'd a son so good, so lib'rally disposed.


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These (scaffolds) are forms of support temporarily provided by instructors when introducing new content and making assignments. Novice learners, like construction workers, need structures of temporary support during their efforts to build something new; once the initial phase of construction is in place, the scaffolds can be withdrawn.
The posting below looks at five scaffolding strategies to help novice learners. It is by Susan Johnston, Ed.D. and Jim Cooper, Ph.D., and is adapted with permission from Cooperative Learning and College Teaching, S. Johnston & J. Cooper Vol. 9, No. 3 Spring 1997.
Definition: Procedural Guidelines function as concrete references students can rely on for support as they attempt to complete new and complex assignments. This scaffolding strategy is often used when assignments involve a particular series of steps, procedures, or questions. The sequence or checklist is presented during instruction and is used later as a guide by students as they work independently on the assignment.
ent rather than in inefficient and frustrating attempts to divine how the experts arrived at the solutions.
Specific content: Steps in writing a proposal for a qualitative research study.
1. Identify the general goal of the study (called a Foreshadowed Problem in qualitative research).
2. Construct several Research Questions--more specific questions or issues to be answered in addressing the goal.
3. Develop methodology to answer each Research Question, including: a) sample to be studied (students, teachers, parents, others), b) specific procedures to be followed (classroom observation, interviews, videotaping, etc.), and c) time line to complete the study.
Definition: Partial Solutions involve presentation of a complex task that is already partially completed by the instructor so that students can more successfully complete the task by focusing on only a few elements while trying to assimilate new information. The Partial Solutions scaffold also allows instructors to regulate the level of difficulty when students first attempt the application of new ideas or skills. This form of guided practice temporarily reduces the complexity for novice learners while requiring focused attention to the content just covered.
Description: Novice learners benefit greatly when not required to independently complete an entirely new and complex learning task. Too often, students are given only brief explanations of new content followed by assignments that will be graded. Typical assignments often include lab reports, critiques of research articles, persuasive essays, sets of word problems, or case-study solutions. Assigning is not teaching, and students need much more specific instructional support than is typically provided. Each of these types of assignments can be broken down to isolate parts that students can practice. For example, using Partial Solutions with persuasive essays, instructors provide the main arguments and supporting points, and students are required, in practice sessions, to submit rational evidence for each supporting point made. The next step requires students to give both the supporting points as well as the evidence, and so on.
Giving students the opportunity to practice complex tasks under the guidance of their instructors is an important scaffolding tool that allows them to experience some success at each step of the learning process. Some instructors will avoid using this strategy because it requires some extra preparation, or they believe it provides students with unnecessary assistance. Either argument is an unfortunate abdication of instructors' responsibilities. Students at all levels of schooling have reported that many of their teachers failed to provide opportunities for guided and gradual practice with complex skills, and then these instructors expected immediate understanding. Such expectations often resulted in additional time spent by students in remedial work after marginal work was submitted and returned.
Specific content: Correctly labeling a correlation scatter-plot.
After drawing several examples of correlation scatter-plots on the board, Jim asks students to draw one in their notes. He often labels the X and Y axis the first time he has the students draw a scatter-plot and simply has them draw in the data points or dots. Then, the next time they do the drawing, students draw and label the scatter-plot. Jim also uses this technique when teaching his students about frequency polygons.
Definition: After some direct instruction on a topic, the teacher presents new applications of the content and verbally models for the novice the thought process that reflects how an advanced practitioner would attempt to address the issue.
Description: College teachers are inclined to present students with the results of their thinking in class rather than identifying the process that they followed coming to those results. Thus, students lack a model of an expert coming to terms with complex issues. Little wonder then, that students are often incapable of creatively solving problems or addressing issues on tests or papers, preferring instead to provide memorized answers or rote solutions. The Think Aloud is designed to make teachers explicitly address the steps that they use in thinking about content. For most professors, these steps are so automatic that they assume the steps are self-evident to students.
Specific content: Distinguishing stratified from purposive sampling.
r is specifically interested in just the at-risk kids, based on prior test performance (the kids scoring below the fifteenth percentile). So, it seems that this is a purposive sample."
Definition: Anticipating and discussing potential student errors is a way of regulating the difficulty in students' understanding of new cognitive strategies. Expert teachers can use prior experience in teaching their courses to pinpoint mistakes that frequently occur and to address these mistakes as course content is being presented (rather than waiting for students to make these common mistakes on tests or papers).
Description: As experts in their fields, teachers tend to forget the mistakes they made when they were novices. They often present content in a way suggesting that all of the material is of equal difficulty rather than pinpointing areas of special difficulty to students and addressing these difficulties at the precise points when the content is being presented. A few minutes spent addressing areas of special difficulty during lectures can improve the quality of assignments, making the grading experience more pleasant for faculty and students as the number of quality assignments increases.
After drawing several examples of correlation scatter-plots on the board, Jim asks students to draw one in their notes. Since they are inclined to put the actual numbers of the scores used to present the problem, he cautions them that they need to label the X and Y axis using equal-sized intervals and NOT to put the actual face values of the data on the X and Y axes. As he warns them about this common error, he physically draws the incorrect labeling on a scatter-plot drawn on the chalk board, then erases the incorrect labels and replaces them with the correct labeling, using equal-sized intervals.
Definition: A series of brief thinking tasks inserted into lectures to guarantee that both students and instructors have opportunities to check on the comprehension of the material as it is explained. Students can write their answers quietly in their own notes and/or they can be asked to discuss possible answers with work partners.
atements with evidence, reorder steps given out of sequence, reach conclusions, and paraphrase ideas. Research on student achievement and critical thinking by Eric Mazur at Harvard and others presents a convincing argument for inserting Comprehension Checks throughout the learning sequence.
Specific content: Identification of sampling procedures.
edures and does a Comprehension Check for all six sampling procedures identified to that point.
These are just five scaffolds that teachers can use with their students. Many scaffolds have significant amounts of research documenting their efficacy in promoting academic achievement and fostering critical thinking. For additional material on scaffolding we recommend the Rosenshine and Meister chapter (Scaffolds for Teaching Higher-order Cognitive Strategies, 1995. In A. C. Ornstien (Ed.), Teaching: Theory into Practice (pp. 134-153). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.


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Verjuice, if you're in Australia (and by extension New Zealand), is synonymous with Maggie Beer, the Australian celebrity cook who first commercialised it in the 80s. Before that, the fermented grape juice had fallen out of popular use, despite having a history that stretches back to ancient times.
The tart juice is made from grapes, but it is not fermented, and must be refrigerated after opening. It adds acidity to cooking without dominating or detracting from other flavours, and can be used broadly for deglazing pans, making delicate salad dressings, adding to spritzers and cocktails, or incorporating into braises.
Next time you're roasting a batch of beetroot or pumpkin, once everything is caramelised and nearly ready, slosh some verjuice across the veggies and return to the oven. The liquid will bubble up and reduce to a syrup. Serve this with some baby spinach (and feta, if you eat it) and a drizzle of good extra virgin olive oil for a delicious warm salad.
For a quick salad dressing, combine 50ml walnut oil, 30ml verjuice and the juice of one lemon, and whisk. Serve over crunchy lettuce leaves (such as buttercrunch, cos and radicchio) with roasted walnuts, sliced pear and chopped fresh chives.
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Street dance started appearing in clubs in the USA in the late 1970s. With the help from films such as "Step Up" and groups such as"Diversity", Street dance has grown in popularity, causing a great demand in dance schools across the UK. Dance to the latest chart music and learn the basics of street and hip-hop in our beginners' classes – whilst trying the more complicated moves as you progress with your class! It is never too late to start Street Dance we offer classes for tiny tots through to adults, there's even the opportunity for our kids to join a Crew and perform/compete representing City-Limits.
Modern jive is a dance style derived from Swing, Lindy Hop, Rock & Roll and Salsa. It is a partner dance, which is quite easy to learn as there is no footwork involved. You can dance it to a huge variety of music, from the latest hits, pop, rock, and latin or even slow it down to blues. So, if you are at a club or party, you could dance all night! It is lots of fun and an enjoyable way to keep fit. Modern jive moves can be done within a small radius so you will be able to practice at home making the learning process much quicker.
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Don't worry; if you weren't the tiny tot in a tutu who took Ballet classes from aged three, it's never too late to fall in love with this elegant style of dance. Lots of people attend ballet classes for the sheer pleasure of the dance, and not in order to become a professional. Our classes are for all ages and are beneficial for posture, flexibility and mobility. They can also be a solid foundation when learning other styles of dance.
Tap is for people who like to make music with their feet. In this class, you will learn the basics of how rhythm is created through transference of weight and the action of body-leg-foot. You will learn basic tap steps and ways of combining them into spectacular powerful sequences, as well as the basics of improvisation. Anyone at any age can have a go, and in a very short space of time you can gain a real sense of accomplishment. Please remember to bring your tap shoes with you - the louder you sound the better!
Zumba classes are not like your normal, everyday aerobic class. There will hardly be any verbal cueing and Zumba uses "tracked music" and not continuous music. The instructor will lead the class in easy, simple movements with a combination of dance and fitness moves. Usually visual and hand cues are given. The music is fun and invigorating and is mostly Latin with some up to date tracks thrown in for fun. Different Latin dance styles will be used, as well as fitness moves, such as bicep curls,lunges, and other body-toning moves. There will be a lot of hip and booty shaking too! The structure of the class starts with a warm-up and proceeds to intervals of faster and slower tempos throughout the duration of the class. Zumba® Fitness has become one of the fastest-growing, dance-based fitness crazes in the world, with people of all ages falling in love with its infectious music, easy-to-follow dance moves, and body-beautifying benefits. Come and join the party!


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Stuff that happened in the capital today as the disease spreads among its people
So much is happening with the virus in the capital and things have been changing so fast, I'm wondering if it might be better and more useful to readers if instead of trying (and failing) to write up every small but interesting story separately I make a little list of them towards the end of each day with helpful links. Try these:
After his meeting with London business leaders and others yesterday, Sadiq Khan wrote to Boris Johnson this morning asking for "more rapid and ambitious action" to support the capital's economy, such as support schemes to help firms with payroll bills and employees who have to reduce their hours. The letter is posted in full here.
The Mayor later welcomed additional measures announced by chancellor Rishi Sunak, but expressed concerns that the help won't come soon enough and that much of it takes the form of loans that will have to be repaid. He also noted that although there will be a "mortgage holiday" for home owners there was nothing for London's private renters. Sunak has since said that housing minister Robert Jenrick – not a public admirer of the Mayor, by the way – will soon come up with something "to protect renters in these difficult times".
Following the cancellation of London's St Patrick's day Parade, Mayor Khan has now also called off scheduled annual Trafalgar Square events marked St George's Day (18 April), Vaisakhi (25 April) and Eid (30 May). Ninety minutes after that press release went out he responded to the news that this summer's Euro 2020 football tournament, which was to stage seven matches at Wembley including the final, will now have a year-late kick-off. The legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once joked that football is not a matter of life and death, but much more important. Khan, a Liverpool fan, respectfully inverted the sentiment.
There have been various reports of London schools closing or part-closing or finding that pupil numbers are reducing on a daily basis. A distinctive educational establishment in Croydon has announced that it will be completely closed until 15 April due to "many staff being isolated". At the BRIT school, alas, the show must not go on for a while.
Kensington & Chelsea Council wrote to traders in the Portobello and Goldborne markets this morning, telling them that because of coronavirus they will not have to pay rent for three months for sites or parking bays. The royal borough is also waiving library fees on books and other items that have been borrowed so that residents keeping their distance from others won't feel under pressure to return them.
The total number of confirmed cases in Greater London as of 9:00 a.m. was 621. Southwark and Westminster had the most, with 58 each. Kingston had the fewest with just one.
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Stephen Cowan Leader of LBHF is someone to watch as his decisions are ahead of the curve. A dedicated team to deal with the impact of c-19 on adult social care was brought together two weeks ago. He closed parks several days ago, although after the mixed messages in the PM's speech to the nation are taken on board, the local parks may reopen. I think you know him. Anyway I think keeping your finger on his pulse is worthwhile as his stewardship is forward looking and I think is inspired. He has enormous emotional intelligence, a rare quality in politicians.
He has put aside ideological differences and is working with Greg Hands MP for the benefit of Fulham residents.You may also like to do a feature on Hammersmith Bridge and the reasons for its closure which are more complex than reported,
and the support of neighbouring boroughs regardless of politics.
Thank you for what you do. Journalism of your calibre is precious, especially during these interesting times.
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The elegant Hult Center is a premier regional performing arts center, located in the heart of downtown Eugene. Resident companies include the Eugene Opera, Eugene Symphony, Eugene Concert Choir, Eugene Ballet, Ballet Fantastique and Fred Crafts' Radio Redux. Nationally touring headliners, Broadway and dance shows regularly grace the stage. The two beautiful theaters, the Silva Concert Hall can seat 2,500 and the Soreng Theater can seat 500 people. The Studio provides space for receptions, meetings, lectures and presentations. They are the host to world-class performances and conference sessions.
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This was shared during Outsourcing Malaysia ('OM')'s launch of the Global Business Services Outlook 2015, which is the first ever industry report to provide a detailed analysis of the Buyer's perspective. The launch is being held in conjunction with the OM hosted Smart Sourcing Summit 2015 – an industry targeted event aimed at the promotion of best practices, industry expertise and experience from across the region.
From Years 2014-2019, GBS is expected to grow steadily with APAC recording an average CAGR of 5% per annum. However, four selected markets – India, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore, in particular, will record higher CAGR of 10-15% over the next five years.
Demand from the BFSI segment is expected to come from banks as they face pressure to reduce operational cost, offer seamless customer service and replace legacy systems.
Meanwhile, the government sector is expected grow faster due to increase in IT penetration and adoption across government-based services in different countries. The retail and hospitality industry will see growth fueling from the rise of e-commerce and increasing adoption of ICT.
The outsourcing demand from the global telecommunication sector is expected to slow down; however in APAC it is expected to register a higher growth due to rise in demand for application service delivery, service provisioning, activation services and billing services.
For 'specific' growth segments in ICT – the OM report highlights Infrastructure Maintenance, Information Technology Management (ITM), Business Process Management (BPM), Software Services and Infrastructure Management Services – as those likely to see a significant take-up, as compared to other ICT segments.
David Wong, Chairman of OM says, "This year, the report was created from a Buyer's perspective; to give a different point of view after having previously shed light on Malaysia's position as a Seller or Provider of SSO offerings, and the strategic roadmap for the industry.
He added that the current report findings augur well for the nation, but local players needs to be cognizant of the specific industry demands and new technologies such as Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing and new disruptive business models that are driving demand for GBS / SSO.
"Given Malaysia's strong positioning as a leading GBS location, the weaker ringgit could also work in favour as overseas Buyers look to invest capital, purchase assets or hire talent for GBS operations here. Major GBS customers will continue to be from the developed economies i.e. the US, UK and Japan. But demand will also come from within APAC," added Wong.
Aside from looking to be aligned with emerging trends, the report also recommends that GBS players aggressively build awareness of services capabilities with the Malaysian government and GLCs, develop or acquire Infrastructure Management and Information Technology Management capabilities and forge partnerships to move up the value chain and expand market reach, especially given the imminent implementation of the AEC.
The launch event also saw OM Malaysia signing two Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreements with University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Call Centre Association of Malaysia (CCAM) respectively.
The MoU between OM and UKM signals the start of a much closer working relationship between both parties in several key areas. This includes the exchange of students, scholars and educational resources; the development of GBS related study and training programmes, joint research and knowledge sharing activities, as well as development of workshops, conferences and other events. OM will also play a lead role in bridging the gap between GBS firms and local educational institutions.
The MoU between OM and CCAM is aimed at fostering closer collaboration between towards undertaking joint research activities i.e. collection of data and report publishing as well as training and development.


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Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven by Ross King
A detailed history of Canada's groundbreaking painters
Canadian author Ross King has made a career of taking art history and crafting it into surprisingly enthralling bestsellers. Having previously read his fascinating book The Judgment of Paris, about the rise of French Impressionism, I was excited when I found out that King had written a book on some of my favorite artists, The Group of Seven. Defiant Spirits, published in 2010, tells the story of these groundbreaking painters who strove to forge a distinctly Canadian school of modernist painting at a time when Canada struggled to find its national identity.
I have previously read several books on the Group of Seven, including F. B. Housser's contemporary account A Canadian Art Movement, but their story has always felt incompletely told. Defiant Spirits is the most comprehensive history of the Group I've ever come across. Even so, for such an important group of artists, it still feels as if there's surprisingly little extant documentation on their lives. The bulk of King's book is comprised of historical context—what was going on in Canada at the time these painters were active. While the reader gets a meticulous history of Canada during World War I, for example, often the narrative of the artists' lives just reads like a history of lakes they visited, with little concrete insight into what actually went on there. If the source material is sparse, however, King does a great job of wringing it for all it's worth.
As is often the case with books about the Group of Seven, some members are given preferential treatment over others. Here as usual Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, and J. E. H. MacDonald receive the most in-depth examination and are credited as the driving forces behind the formation of the Group, with Arthur Lismer and Frederick Varley regarded as second-tier members. King provides a surprising amount of information about Varley—in fact, far more than I've ever seen him covered in any other book on the Seven. As is often the case, Frank Johnston and Franklin Carmichael are treated as lesser contributors, perhaps because they were less actively involved in the promotion of the Group, but likely also because they generally get an unjustified lack of respect from art historians for producing the most "graphic" or "decorative" work of the original members, as opposed to the others' more post-impressionistic style of painting. Carmichael is almost absent from King's narrative, to a shameful degree. The later members to join the group—A. J. Casson, Edwin Holgate, and Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald—are only mentioned by name once or twice in the epilogue. In a book where we get a mini-biography of every artist, critic, politician, and fishing guide the Group ever met, couldn't King have at least given the same treatment to the three artists that the Group invited into their ranks?
The book ends with the 1924 British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Park, London, where the Group were featured in an exhibition showcasing Canadian art. This stopping point feels inconclusive because although the Group were praised by British critics, they still had failed to find much appreciation in their home country. In an epilogue, King explains that there is still little consensus among Canadians as to the value of their most famous painters. Fans of the Group of Seven, who are used to adulatory coffee-table treatments of the artists, will find King's perspective surprisingly ambivalent. He takes a refreshingly even-handed approach, taking varying critical responses into consideration. Due to this rather dispassionate tone, Defiant Spirits may not be the page-turner that The Judgment of Paris was, but it is highly informative and fills in a lot of the blanks in the historical record of these remarkable artists' lives and careers.
https://www.amazon.com/review/R26AHHKGJAJ9S1/ref=cm_cr_othr_d_rdp_perm
Posted by Karl Janssen at 11:49 AM
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Q: Hypergeometric Distribution over an interval In a village with 2000 people, 100 people suffer from Alzheimer's disease. On a certain day, 40 people are admitted to a hospital.
Calculate the probability that between $15$ and $25$ people (inclusive) of the patients admitted have Alzheimer's disease.
My attempt:
Let $X$ be the patients admitted who have Alzheimer's disease.
$$P(15 \leq x \leq 25) = P(X=25) - P(X=15) = \frac{\binom{100}{25} \binom{1900}{15}}{\binom{2000}{40}}-\frac{\binom{100}{15} \binom{1900}{25}}{\binom{2000}{40}} $$
What is the expected number of patients who have Alzheimer's disease?
$$ E(X) = 40 \frac{100}{2000} =2$$
Is this right?

A: The probability is wrong. Note that
$$P(15\leq X \leq 25) = P(X \leq 25) - P(X \leq 15) = \sum_{k=15}^{25} P(X=k).$$
The expected number is correct.


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"Arts In Depth" with WSKG Host Bill Snyder
Injuries Can Take Many Forms
By Bill Snyder | April 22, 2021
Know Theatre of Binghamton presents Rajiv Joseph's "Gruesome Playground Injuries" for on-demand virtual performances from April 22-30.
Know Theatre Stages O'Neill's Masterpiece
By Bill Snyder | February 14, 2019
Know Theatre presents Eugene O'Neill's posthumous masterpiece 'Long Day's Journey into Night'.
Know Theatre presents 'True West'
By Bill Snyder | February 8, 2018
Joshua Sedelmeyer and Jeff Tagliaferro play brothers in Sam Shepard's 'True West'
Know Theatre Presents 'Of the Fields, Lately'
Know Theatre of Binghamton is presenting David French's play 'Of the Fields, Lately'. David French is held in the same esteem in Canada as Tennessee Williams is in the United States. His cycle of plays about the Mercer family is presented with great regularity there. Tim Gleason talks about his role in the play. We also get him to reluctantly tell about a recent award he received. http://wskg.org/audio/0206fields.mp3
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The Generation Gap and the Challenges on Both Sides are Explored in a Drama at Know Theatre
After a traffic violation, a judge renders a decision, but which party is being punished: the young driver with lots to do in his demanding career, or the widower who has next to nothing to do? Know Theatre Actors Bernie Sheredy and Josh Sedelmeyer, along with director Tim Gleason, talk about Jeff Baron's 'Visiting Mr. Green'. It's a play with themes so universal that it has been performed in many languages in over 40 nations.
http://wskg.org/audio/mrgreenmix.mp3
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Southern Tier Actors Read perform Chekov's "Uncle Vanya"
By Bill Snyder | May 7, 2015
Director Bernie Sheredy speaks with WSKG's Bill Snyder about directing Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya. Sheredy has found a translation of this classic play that he feels captures the spirit of the original. "Vanya is one of the most — I think — fully realized of his comedic masterpieces. It's certainly my favorite. And to have a chance to work on it, even in just a reading, though as a reading it's incredibly challenging, because Vanya's a stretch for any actor."
Chenango River Theatre presents the comedy "Heroes"
By Bill Snyder | August 12, 2014
Actors Bernie Sheredy, Bill Gorman, and Jim Wicker speak with WSKG's Bill Snyder about the comedy Heroes, which opens on August 22nd at the Chenango River Theatre. The play is Tom Stoppard's translation of the French play Le Vent Des Peupliers by Gérald Sibleyras. http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wskg/local-wskg-1035690.mp3
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This previous post highlighted the SEC's $25.2 million FCPA enforcement action against Sanofi and this post continues the analysis by highlighting additional issues to consider.
Sanofi's FCPA scrutiny began in mid-2014 (see this prior post). Thus, from start to finish, its scrutiny lasted approximately 4 years.
To anyone who values the rule of law, it is troubling when an FCPA enforcement agency invokes a standard of liability that does not even exist under the FCPA.
Yet once again, that is what the SEC did in the Sanofi enforcement action.
Problem is, the invoked "detect or prevent" standard does not even exist in the FCPA!
Rather, the FCPA's internal controls provisions state that an issuer shall "devise and maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that" certain financial objectives are met.
The Sanofi enforcement action is the latest example (of numerous prior examples) of the SEC seeking a disgorgement remedy in the absence of FCPA anti-bribery charges or findings. Specifically, the $25.2 million settlement amount, based on books and records and internal controls violations, consisted of the following: disgorgement of $17.5 million prejudgment interest of $2.7 million and a civil monetary penalty of $5 million.
As highlighted in this previous post (and numerous prior posts thereafter), so-called no-charged bribery disgorgement is troubling.
The disgorgement amount in the Sanofi enforcement action was troubling for another reason.
As highlighted here, in June 2017 the Supreme Court unanimously held in SEC v. Kokesh that disgorgement is a penalty and thus disgorgement actions must be commenced within five years of the date the claim accrues. However, as highlighted in this post, Kokesh, not to mention other Supreme Court decisions and other legal principles, only matter to the extent companies under FCPA scrutiny do not roll over and play dead.
The bulk of the disgorgement amount in the Sanofi enforcement action appears to have been based on the conduct in Kazakhstan which, per the SEC's order, occurred between 2007 and 2011. In other words, 7-11 years prior to the enforcement action.
In short, Kokesh is not going to matter one bit if companies role over and play dead when under FCPA scrutiny and presumably Sanofi did what most companies under FCPA scrutiny do: either waive or toll statute of limitation defenses. As highlighted in this previous guest post from a former SEC Enforcement Division attorney and DOJ Fraud Section prosecutor, issuers simply need to stop doing this.
Is the Post-Enforcement Action Reporting Truly Necessary?
Is post-enforcement action reporting truly necessary or yet another example of a government required transfer of shareholder wealth to FCPA Inc. (see here a prior post including additional posts embedded therein).
With the FCPA turning 40, it is prudent to ask the salient question of whether the FCPA has been successful in achieving its objectives? (See here for a prior post and here for 25 minute video on the subject).
The following statement from Charles Cain (SEC FCPA Unit Chief) in the SEC's release is relevant to the above question.
"The funds paid to foreign officials were derived from discounts and credit notes extended to several distributors who colluded with senior managers to kick back funds to Sanofi employees in Kazakhstan which were then used to pay Kazakh officials.