A single little problem with a faulty front-end piece could easily create a whole variety of Ford wheel alignment troubles. Putting it simple, every one of the components that can make the Ford vehicle go straight are related to alignment. Misalignment can be caused by many elements including merely operating the vehicle. Potholes are usually popular contributors. A major pothole while you're driving down the Scottsdale streets can bump your Ford alignment out of the correctly determined set of measurements that control correct wheel alignment.
What Makes Proper Ford Wheel Alignment So Vital?
Increases fuel economy. With the way the economy is these days, people are trying to get the most our of the gas they buy. By having your Ford aligned properly, it lowers any resistance while rolling which increases your gas mileage. It is also important to make sure that your tires are correctly inflated as this will help gas mileage as well Be sure to check your Ford owners manual on proper tire inflation pressure.
Reduces tire wear. Early replacement of worn out tires on your Ford means you aren't getting the value out of your tires and that can be expensive in Scottsdale or any other city for that matter. A good indication of misalignment is tires that have uneven tread wear. A Ford car that's out of alignment has tires that are dragged along instead of rolling straight ahead. This wears tires out quickly. You will have to replace them more often, costing you more. Proper alignment can save you money in the long run.
Improves the handling of your Ford vehicle. How a Ford handles terrain is affected by the wheel alignment. These signs can be if your steering wheel pulls to the left or right, if it is not centered when driving straight ahead or if it vibrates or shimmies. A steering wheel can vibrate because of low tire pressure or excessive wear to the tire tread too. When cruising down the road, your car might feel like it's loose or that it wants to wander all over the road. All of these signs can be corrected with total alignment from a qualified auto repair shop near Scottsdale. A total alignment can absorb any road shock and provide a smoother ride.
Steering problems and tracking issues can be solved with a good wheel alignment; keeping you safer while driving. The improved handling and control of your Ford can help you prevent or avoid accidents.
For the most complete Ford wheel alignment, a vehicle needs to have all 4 wheels aligned all together A 4 wheel alignment doesn't ordinarily cost any more when compared to a 2 wheel alignment. If you just align 2 of your wheels, the other two might affect the way the car handles}.
Of course a lot can depend on the road conditions in Scottsdale but at least once per year, it's suggested you check and adjust your wheel alignment. To keep your Ford in good running condition, more than just your wheel alignment should be checked regularly; a routine schedule of maintenance should be done which helps keep you and your family safe. Following the suggested maintenance from directly from Ford is a smart idea. Getting a checkup on your wheel alignment and tire tread level at least once per year or every 10,000 miles is highly recommended.


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"Sharing knowledge and promoting literacy in Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources with Alaska's K-12 teachers"
Homeschool + Agricultural Education
The Perfect Practical and Academic Opportunity
for Alaska Homeschool Educators and their Students
The Alaska Data and Homeschool Academics
Homeschool advocates often champion studies they claim show that homeschooled students score thirty percentile points above average as proof of the superiority of homeschooling. Unfortunately, these studies have some serious flaws—they do not use random samples and they do not correct for background factors. For an overview of what we do and do not know about homeschooling and academics, see our introduction here. Given the flaws that characterize most studies of homeschooling, I was fascinated when I stumbled upon some data from Alaska.
There is a lot more here than what I will examine in this post. I am not formally trained in statistics and I will not even touch on what the data says about race or gender. There are also limits to this data. We only have testing data from those Alaskan homeschoolers who participated in Alaska's popular and innovative correspondence school programs. While this covers the majority of homeschoolers in Alaska, it means we don't have data on the performance of the remainder of Alaska's homeschoolers. Still, this data avoids some of the flaws of other studies of homeschooling and academics and is vastly more interesting than anything else I have seen.
Alaska's Correspondence Schools
Alaskan parents can homeschool under the state's homeschool law, which is probably the most minimalist in the entire country—no notification, no parent qualifications, no required days of teaching, no required subjects, no assessments. However, the majority of homeschool parents in Alaska choose to homeschool under one of Alaska's many correspondence programs.
These correspondence programs do not use videos or mail-in workbooks, and they do not replicate the public school curriculum at home. They are designed with conventional homeschoolers in mind and allow parents to choose their own curriculum and plan out their own school years. They require a yearly education plan for each student, quarterly progress reports, and annual testing. In exchange, each parent receives around $2000 per child per year for use on things like textbooks, classes, and tutors.
In the 2012-2013 school year, almost 11,000 homeschooled students participated in 28 different correspondence programs across the state. Because these programs technically operate as public schools or charter schools under state law, they are required to put together an annual report at the end of each school year. These reports include testing data for each grade where testing is required—grades 3 through 10—broken down by things like age, gender, and poverty level, and are released to the public.
The Basic Scores
Throughout the remainder of this article, I will compare the scores of students homeschooled through Alaska's correspondence schools with Alaska's public school average. Students' scores for reading, writing, and math are broken down into "advanced," "proficient," "below," and "far below."
Students homeschooled through Alaska's popular correspondence schools do better in reading than the state average but worse in math. This difference in performance further confirms studies that have found a homeschool advantage in reading and a homeschool disadvantage in math.
Background Factors
Very few studies of homeschooled students' academic performance have accounted for background factors. We know that public school students whose parents have college degrees tend to do better academically than those whose parents do not have college degrees. When looking at the academic scores of homeschooled students, we need to ask how background factors like parental education affect children's performance. Otherwise, we cannot locate the effect of homeschooling from the effect of various background factors.
By breaking student test scores down by whether they are "economically disadvantaged" or "not economically disadvantaged," we can examine how parental income affects homeschooled students' test scores. Roughly one-third of the students were economically disadvantaged and roughly two-thirds were not economically disadvantaged.
There is a clear academic difference between economically students homeschooled through Alaska's correspondence schools who are and are not economically disadvantaged. The difference between these two groups in each subject is smaller than the difference between public school students who are and are not economically disadvantaged (you can view that difference here). Unlike for public schooled students, however, the difference in scores varies by subject—it is most significant in math and least significant in reading.

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Il doppio del torneo di tennis Reunion Island Challenger 1993, facente parte dell'ATP Challenger Series, ha avuto come vincitori Jonathan Canter e Jeff Tarango che hanno battuto in finale Lan Bale e Mark Kaplan 6-4, 3-6, 7-5.

Teste di serie

 Tom Kempers /  Michael Zimmerman (primo turno)
 Alois Beust /  Bertrand Lemercier (quarti di finale)

 Lan Bale /  Mark Kaplan (finale)
 Jonathan Canter /  Jeff Tarango (Campioni)

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Reunion Island Challenger 1993

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How about that other zero-calorie water? You know… WATER!!! much love, M.E.
Mmmm… I soaked the chickpeas overnight, and Mike cooked them this morning. He also made the rest of dinner, chickpea curry (from a recipe I picked up at the VegFest) and veggie. Superrrrrrr tasty! much love, M.E.


The resort is situated along 2 adjoining beaches on the north east coast of Koh Samet, approximately 30 minutes by boat from Ao Prao Pier in Rayong Province and approximate 3 hours from Bangkok. We can provide private transfer with pickups in Bangkok City and international Airports to Ao Prao Pier, where you take a 30 minutes sea crossing in our Shuttle boat. Once you arrive in Koh Samet, our team will pick you up from the pier and transfer you to the resort located along Sai Kaew Beach.
Route: 5 Use the Motorway, starting from Phatthanakarn Road, Prawet District, Bangkok and drive all the way up to Pattaya (120 kilometres), then switch to use Highway No.36 and proceed for another 50 kilometres to Rayong and 30 kilometers from Rayong City to Ao Prao Pier.
From Ban Phe Bus terminal, visitors must walk to Ao Prao Pier about 5 minutes. There are also busses from Bangkok's Mo Chit Northern Bus Terminal to Rayong town, from where visitors must take a songtaew to Ban Phe. From Pattaya, busses also head to Rayong, from where visitors must also get a songtaew or tuk tuk to the pier at Ban Phe. Minibuses from Pattaya go directly to Ban Phe.
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La Vérité – Leben und lügen lassen (Originaltitel: La Vérité, englischsprachiger Festivaltitel: The Truth, dt.: "Die Wahrheit") ist ein französisch-japanischer Spielfilm von Hirokazu Koreeda aus dem Jahr 2019.

Das Familiendrama mit Catherine Deneuve und Juliette Binoche in den Hauptrollen eröffnete am 28. August 2019 die 76. Internationalen Filmfestspiele von Venedig. Der Kinostart in Frankreich erfolgte am 25. Dezember 2019. In Deutschland war der Film ab 5. März 2020 in den Kinos zu sehen.

Handlung
Die ältere Schauspielerin Fabienne gilt als Ikone des französischen Kinos. Als ihre Memoiren veröffentlicht werden, kehrt ihre Tochter Lumir, selbst erfolgreiche Drehbuchautorin, mit Ehemann Hank und dem gemeinsamen Kind von New York nach Paris zurück. Das Wiedersehen von Mutter und Tochter ist mit großen Spannungen verbunden, wobei in dessen Verlauf pikante Wahrheiten ausgesprochen werden und verschiedenste Geheimnisse ans Licht kommen.

Entstehungsgeschichte

La verité ist der erste außerhalb von Japan inszenierte Spielfilm von Hirokazu Koreeda. Gleichzeitig ist es die erste Zusammenarbeit der beiden französischen Filmschauspielerinnen Juliette Binoche und Catherine Deneuve. Binoche gab 2016 in einem Interview an, Koreeda sei durch Olivier Assayas' Film Die Wolken von Sils Maria (2014) dazu inspiriert worden, einen eigenen Film mit Deneuve, Ethan Hawke und ihr zu realisieren. In Die Wolken von Sils Maria hatte sie die Hauptrolle einer gefeierten Schauspielerin übernommen, die in der Neuinszenierung eines Theaterstücks mitwirken soll, das sie vor 20 Jahren berühmt gemacht hatte.

Der Film wurde im Herbst 2018 innerhalb von 10 Wochen in Paris gedreht. Laut Koreeda berichtet La Vérité – Leben und lügen lassen trotz der glamourösen Besetzung von "einer kleinen Familiengeschichte, die überwiegend in einem Haus" spielt. "Ich habe versucht, meine Figuren in diesem kleinen Universum leben zu lassen, mit ihren Lügen, ihrem Stolz, ihrem Bedauern, ihrer Traurigkeit, Freude und Versöhnung", so der japanische Regisseur und Drehbuchautor. Da Koreeda weder Englisch noch Französisch sprach, wurde er von Beginn des Filmprojekts an bis zur Postproduktion von seiner langjährigen Übersetzerin Léa Le Dimna unterstützt. Da Koreeda dazu neigt, während der Dreharbeiten seine Texte ständig umzuschreiben, übersetzte sie nicht nur die verschiedenen Drehbuchversionen ins Französische, sondern auch die Textänderungen von Drehtag zu Drehtag. Aufgrund der kulturellen Kluft zwischen Japan und Frankreich kam es zu zahlreichen Änderungen des ursprünglichen Drehbuchs, die in Absprache mit dem besorgten französischen Filmteam beschlossen wurden. So berichtete Le Dimna beispielhaft von einer Szene, in der das 7-jährige Kind bei seinen Eltern im Bett schläft. Dies sei aber für französische Sehgewohnheiten ungewohnt gewesen und deshalb verändert worden.

La Vérité – Leben und lügen lassen sollte ursprünglich im Mai 2019 beim Filmfestival von Cannes gezeigt werden. Koreeda, der im Jahr davor mit der Goldenen Palme für Shoplifters – Familienbande ausgezeichnet worden war, hatte aber laut den Festivalorganisatoren den Film nicht rechtzeitig fertig stellen können.

Rezeption

Kritiken
Auf der Website Rotten Tomatoes gefiel der Film zu 88 Prozent der 145 Kritiker. Beim Publikum gefiel der Film zu rund 65 Prozent.

Ende 2018 wurde La Vérité – Leben und lügen lassen von Kritikern des Branchendiensts IndieWire zu den 20 am meisten erwarteten Filmen des Kinojahres 2019 gezählt.

Zur Eröffnung des Filmfestivals von Venedig sah Andreas Borcholte (Spiegel Online) mit Koreedas Regiearbeit einen "gemächlich und gefällig inszenierte Eröffnungsfilm": "Stilsicher" eigne sich der japanische Filmemacher "die Rhythmik und Manierismen des französischen Autorenfilms" an. Der Kritiker bedauerte aber leicht, "dass dadurch nicht viel von seiner Handschrift erkennbar" bliebe. Wie auch Koreedas frühere Filme habe La verité das tiefe, sensible "Eindringen in komplizierte Familienkonstellationen" zum Thema. Borcholte lobte Hauptdarstellerin Catherine Deneuve in der Rolle der Fabienne, bei der "Leinwand-Charakter und reale Person miteinander" verschmelzen würden. "Es ist manchmal, als würde man der echten Deneuve bei der Spiegelung ihrer Kunst und Lebensdramen zusehen", so der Kritiker.

Tim Caspar Boehme (die tageszeitung) sah ebenfalls die Familie als "ein großes Thema" des Films an, auch wenn es "nicht die Hauptsache" ausmache. Er lobte die Schauspielriege um Deneuve, die in ihrer "Rolle der schlagfertigen 'Hexe' ziemlich überragend" sei, sowie Clémentine Grenier als ihre entwaffnend pfiffig agierende Enkelin. Koreeda zeige Respekt bei der Schauspielerführung, was laut Boehme "dabei ein wenig zu oft zu Momenten versöhnlicher Gediegenheit" führe. Dennoch seien die Szenen mit kindlichen Protagonisten dem Regisseur wieder "grandios gelungen". Außerdem lobte Boehme das Drehbuch, das "sehr schön das komplizierte Verhältnis der Hauptfigur zu ihren Rollen im Film und ihren sonstigen Rollen im Leben" verschachtele.

Dietmar Dath (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) stimmte in das Lob für Deneuve mit ein und pries ebenso die von Koreeda erhaltenen Darstellerleistungen von Juliette Binoche und Ethan Hawke. La verité sei "leichthändig komponiert" und ein "wunderbarer" Eröffnungsfilm.

Einspielergebnis
Der Film konnte weltweit rund 5,2 Millionen US-Dollar einspielen.

Auszeichnungen
Hirokazu Koreeda konkurrierte mit seinem Film zum dritten Mal nach 1995 und 2017 um den Goldenen Löwen des Filmfestivals von Venedig. La Vérité – Leben und lügen lassen blieb aber unprämiert.

2020 folgte eine Auszeichnung bei den Online Film Critics Society Awards in der Kategorie Bester nicht-amerikanischer Kinostart (Best Non-U.S. Release). Darüber hinaus gelangte der Film auch in die Vorauswahl für die Golden Globe Awards 2021 (Bester fremdsprachiger Film).

Weblinks
 La vérité (The Truth). In: labiennale.org (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Filmtitel 2019
Filmdrama
Französischer Film
Japanischer Film


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Congrats, Sue Storm and The Thing!
Here's some downright fantastic news for Kate Mara and Jamie Bell: They're engaged!
The couple — who starred together in the 2015 reboot of Fantastic Four — are set to tie the knot, Mara's rep confirmed to E! News on Friday (January 13). The news comes after Mara was recently spotted wearing a sparkly ring on that finger in New York City. She later showed off the same bling in a photo posted on Twitter.
Mara, 33, and Bell, 30, met on the set of Fantastic Four in 2014 and made their first public appearance as a couple at the Met Gala the following year. This will be the first marriage for Mara, while Bell was previously hitched to Westworld star Evan Rachel Wood. He and Wood split in 2014 after two years of marriage, and share a 3-year-old son together.
Congrats to the soon-to-be newlyweds!


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Q: Estimating Lambda parameter in Poisson Distribution I'm working on a problem where I am given a very small amount of information, and need to impute the median from it. Suppose I have the following
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║ Value ║ P(Observed > Value) ║
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║     1 ║ 0.476               ║
║     2 ║ 0.168               ║
║     3 ║ 0.069               ║
║     4 ║ 0.036               ║
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I would like to find the value that corresponds to $P(\text{Observed} > \text{Value}) = 0.50$, constrained to values below $0$ having $P(\text{Observed} > \text{Value}) = 1$. The values have a Poisson distribution, and I'd like to be able to solve for $\lambda$, but not sure of the best way to estimate $\lambda$ given this data.

A: Given the data, we have
$$\Pr[X \le 1] = 1 - \Pr[X > 1] = 1 - 0.476 = 0.524, \\
\Pr[X = 2] = \Pr[X > 1] - \Pr[X > 2] = 0.476 - 0.168 = 0.308, \\
\Pr[X = 3] = \Pr[X > 2] - \Pr[X > 3] = 0.168 - 0.069 = 0.099, \\
\Pr[X = 4] = \Pr[X > 3] - \Pr[X > 4] = 0.069 - 0.036 = 0.033, \\
\Pr[X > 4] = 0.036.$$
We can multiply these probabilities by $1000$ to obtain a hypothetical sample $\boldsymbol x$ of size $n = 1000$, which has likelihood function
$$\mathcal L(\lambda \mid \boldsymbol x) = \left(e^{-\lambda} (1+\lambda)\right)^{524} \left(e^{-\lambda} \frac{\lambda^2}{2!}\right)^{308} \left(e^{-\lambda} \frac{\lambda^3}{3!}\right)^{99} \left(e^{-\lambda} \frac{\lambda^4}{4!}\right)^{33} \left(1 - \sum_{x=0}^4 e^{-\lambda} \frac{\lambda^k}{k!}\right)^{36}.$$  Then after dropping out the constant multiplicative factors, the log-likelihood simplifies to
$$\ell(\lambda \mid \boldsymbol x) = -964\lambda + 524 \log (1 + \lambda) + 1045 \log \lambda + 36 \log \left(1 - \sum_{x=0}^4 e^{-\lambda} \frac{\lambda^k}{k!}\right).$$  We will need to use a computer to numerically search for the global extrema; we get
$$\hat \lambda = 1.555229077495491498 \ldots.$$
That said, there are two issues.  First, it is not clear what you are trying to do with the parameter estimate; if you only wanted to compute the median, there are easier ways; one simply notes that $\Pr[X \le 1] > 0.5$ and $\Pr[X \ge 1] > 0.5$, so the median is $1$.  Second, the numeric computation is not trivial.  The most sound approach is to establish a Newton's method recursion relation on the derivative of the log-likelihood to find the critical point:  $$\lambda_{m+1} = \lambda_m - \frac{\ell'(\lambda_m \mid \boldsymbol x)}{\ell''(\lambda_m \mid \boldsymbol x)}, \quad \lambda_0 = 1.$$  Here I have used a suitable initial guess $\lambda_0 = 1$ informed by the fact that the sample mean is bounded below by $\bar X \ge 1.045$.
If this method is not appealing, we can use a recursive method of moments calculation.  Suppose $\tilde \lambda_{m+1} = \bar X_m$ is our $(m+1)^{\rm th}$ guess for $\lambda$, which is the sample mean based on the previous estimate $\lambda = \tilde \lambda_m$.  Then we would expect that $$524 \cdot \frac{\Pr[X = 1]}{\Pr[X \le 1]} = 524 \frac{\lambda}{1+\lambda}$$ of the observations are equal to $1$, and the others are zero; similarly, for each $x \ge 5$, $$36 \cdot \frac{\Pr[X = x]}{\Pr[X > 4]}$$ of the observations are equal to $x$, approximately.  So for an initial guess $\tilde \lambda_0 = 1$, we have
$$\tilde \lambda_1 = \bar X_0 = \frac{262(1) + 308(2) + 99(3) + 33(4) + 30(5) + 5(6) + 1(7)}{1000} = 1.494, \\
\tilde \lambda_2 = \bar X_1 = \frac{314(1) + 308(2) + 99(3) + 33(4) + 27(5) + 7(6) + 1(7) + 1(8)}{1000} = 1.551, \\
\tilde \lambda_3 = \bar X_2 = \frac{319(1) + 308(2) + 99(3) + 33(4) + 27(5) + 7(6) + 2(7)}{1000} = 1.555, \\
$$
and subsequent iterations are stable.

A: $$P(X\le k) = \sum\limits_{i=0}^{k}\frac{\lambda^i}{i!}$$
So,
$$P(X \gt k)= 1 - P(X \le k)$$
Notice, $$P(X \gt k-1) - P(X \gt k) = \frac{i^k}{k!}e^{-\lambda}$$
Then, you get the follow estimates of $\lambda$,
\begin{align}
&\frac{\lambda^4}{4!} e^{-\lambda} = 0.033 \\
&\frac{\lambda^3}{3!} e^{-\lambda} = 0.099 \\
&\frac{\lambda^2}{2!} e^{-\lambda} = 0.308 \\
&\frac{\lambda^1}{1!} e^{-\lambda} = 0.524
\end{align}
There are several ways to estimate $\lambda$. One is by brute force, scanning through a probable range, and selecting a value that minimizes some error function. On first pass, $\lambda \approx 0.9 - 1.3$

A: In the following paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00184-020-00765-3
(If you don't have access, there is an arxiv version.)
the authors jitter a Poisson$(\lambda)$ random variable by a Uniform$(0,1)$ to find the asymptotics of the median. This leads to a robust estimator of $\lambda$.
This might not be so useful for small samples, but it seems highly relevant if you have a large sample.

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It's still early in the recruiting cycle for the Class of 2014, but the number of suitors for Illinois sophomore power forward Cliff Alexander is likely to rise soon, thanks in large part to his phenomenal strength in the post. Want proof? Just check out the backboard-shattering dunk below.
"It felt good," Alexander told Slam Magazine. "I felt like Shaq actually."
Alexander, who plays his high school hoops for Chicago (Ill.) Curie High but was competing for the D-Rose AAU squad when he broke the backboard, is ranked as one of the top-10 recruits in the sophomore class. The forward already holds scholarship offers from a variety of Big Ten and SEC powerhouse programs.
He'll likely have his choice of college destinations, particularly with the attention of the likes of John Calipari, Tom Izzo, Tom Crean, John Beilein and Buzz Williams all in attendance at the Nike Spring Shootout by Chicago Hoops to watch Alexander and his AAU teammates.
For his part, the powerful forward said he had no idea the backboard was going down when he elevated for his event-defining slam in the final game of the night at The Fieldhouse in Merrillville, Ind.
"When I went up, I didn't know it was going to break," Alexander told Slam Magazine. "It just broke. ... All I heard was a big noise. I looked up and all I saw was glass."
Intriguingly, Alexander's game-ending slam wasn't the first backboard breaker of his career, but it was the first he's had in an official game; he pulled off a similar feat during his freshman season in a practice.
Given his early success, it seems likely that more rims and backboards may come crashing down in future seasons, something that future AAU tournaments with Team D-Rose on the schedules might want to take note of.


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Decolonizing Higher Education
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" I confess I have taken all knowledge to be my province," declared Bacon in the year 1592. The Baconian credo has ruled the Western consciousness ever since. With the introduction of western learning in India we imbibed the Baconian belief in the universality of all knowledge. In practice, however, it meant - thanks to the colonial bondage - the universality of western knowledge only. This was particularly disabling for a country like India which had three thousand years of history and culture of its own. It meant for the most part an engagement with ideas and issues that were either irrelevant or peripheral and joining in a rat race in which we were doomed to be laggards. No wonder one of our social scientists once ruefully observed, "We are neither Asian nor scientists... We are beggars, all of us we sneak under many an academic table to gather the crumbs under them."
Long before independence, sensitive minds had voiced their dissatisfaction with the prevailing situation. K.C. Bhattacharya warned against mindless acceptance of western ideas and pleaded far "discovering our own self '' More recently Dube, Joshi and Daya Krishna have emphasised the sociocultural matrix of ideas.
May be, by bringing philosophers, sociologists, litterateurs and political activists on one platform, we could take a step in the right direction, i.e., intellectual swaraj.
Ashok Celly, the editor of this book was reader in English, Rajdhani College, University of Delhi. He has authored a book entitled Emily Bronte'' D. H. Lawrence and the Black Horse and edited D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. He has also contributed articles on cultural and educational issues to leading dailies like The Times of India, Hindustan Times and Indian Express..
Preface . 7
Acknowledgements . 9
Praise for the Book . 10
List of Contributors . 11
Introduction . 13
1. Swaraj in Ideas . 23
— K.C. Bhattacharya
2. An Eastern University . 35
— Rabindranath Tagore
3. Encounters Between Civilizations: The Question of the Centre and the Periphery . 55
— Daya Krishna
4. Indigenization of the Social Sciences . 71
— S.C. Dube
5. Countering Aupaniveshik Mansikta: Swaraj and Swadeshi in Indian Social Science . 81
— P.C. Joshi
6. Science and Swaraj . 113
— J.P.S. Uberoi
7. On Schemes of Research at Indian Universities . 119
— Rammanohar Lohia
8. Their Classics, our Classics . 127
— Ashok Celly
Bibliography . 137
Index . 141


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Finally found my tone on this unit. Here's a guitar solo I did for an unfinished track. If you like John Mayer and some bluesy stuff, this one is for you.
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Kansas-based restaurant started in 1972 entices 30-somethings and families with a flashy menu, inventive drinks and chic, but accessible, decor.
Houlihans can be found at W Mount Pleasant Ave 372. The following is offered: Restaurants. The entry is present with us since Sep 7, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 12, 2013. In Livingston there are 30 other Restaurants. An overview can be found here.
From 11am to 2pm, Monday through Friday, order off the special "Nooner" lunch menu at participating locations and you're guaranteed to get your order within 15 minutes.
At most locations, the bar pours six signature mini-martinis including a Blue Moon Mini with Absolut Vanilia, Blue Pucker and Sprite.


Finnigan's Cove Seafood Bar & Grill can be found at 30 W Water St . The following is offered: Restaurants, Restaurants: Seafood, Steak Houses, Catering Services, Barbecue & Grill . In Harrisonburg there are 65 other Restaurants. An overview can be found here.


The online ticket system is open to purchase discounted tickets for the 2015 Show. With a whole host of entertainment lined up, including the Red Arrows on Friday, incredible equine competitions, livestock classes, lots of food and drink stands and specialist areas, the Kent County Show is an exciting and wonderful day out. A family ticket will cost £41 in advance or £48 when bought at the Gate. The family ticket entitles 2 adults and 2 children aged between 5 and 15 a full days entrance. Children under 5 go Free and parking is free. Adult tickets are £18.50 in advance and £22 on the gate, concessions are £13 when bought online and £15 on the gate.
For a full-line up for this years Show visit the 'Plan Your Day' tool to see the hundreds of different things going on each and every day. Tickets can be purchased by clicking here.
The Kent County Show opens at 8am and stays open until 6pm although there is no rush to leave as some of the food stands stay open later. The Show has over 120 different activities, workshops, displays and competitions which run throughout the day and are repeated daily – unless stated. The itinerary planner will be updated next month and it is well worth looking through the host of entertainment and making the most of your day at the Show.


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Q: ssh script returns 255 error In my code I have the following to run a remote script.
ssh root@host.domain.com "sh /home/user/backup_mysql.sh"

For some reason it keeps 255'ing on me. Any ideas?
I can SSH into the box just fine (passless keys setup)
REMOTE SCRIPT:
MUSER='root'
MPASS='123123'
MHOST="127.0.0.1"
VERBOSE=0

### Set bins path ###
GZIP=/bin/gzip
MYSQL=/usr/bin/mysql
MYSQLDUMP=/usr/bin/mysqldump
RM=/bin/rm
MKDIR=/bin/mkdir
MYSQLADMIN=/usr/bin/mysqladmin
GREP=/bin/grep

### Setup dump directory ###
BAKRSNROOT=/.snapshots/tmp

#####################################
### ----[ No Editing below ]------###
#####################################
### Default time format ###
TIME_FORMAT='%H_%M_%S%P'

### Make a backup ###
backup_mysql_rsnapshot(){
        local DBS="$($MYSQL -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS -Bse 'show databases')"
        local db="";
        [ ! -d $BAKRSNROOT ] && ${MKDIR} -p $BAKRSNROOT
        ${RM} -f $BAKRSNROOT/* >/dev/null 2>&1
#       [ $VERBOSE -eq 1 ] && echo "*** Dumping MySQL Database ***"
#       [ $VERBOSE -eq 1 ] && echo -n "Database> "
        for db in $DBS
        do
                local tTime=$(date +"${TIME_FORMAT}")
                local FILE="${BAKRSNROOT}/${db}.${tTime}.gz"
#               [ $VERBOSE -eq 1 ] && echo -n "$db.."
                ${MYSQLDUMP} --single-transaction -u ${MUSER} -h ${MHOST} -p${MPASS} $db | ${GZIP} -9 > $FILE
        done
#               [ $VERBOSE -eq 1 ] && echo ""
#               [ $VERBOSE -eq 1 ] && echo "*** Backup done [ files wrote to $BAKRSNROOT] ***"
}

### Die on demand with message ###
die(){
        echo "$@"
        exit 999
}

### Make sure bins exists.. else die
verify_bins(){
        [ ! -x $GZIP ] && die "File $GZIP does not exists. Make sure correct path is set in $0."
        [ ! -x $MYSQL ] && die "File $MYSQL does not exists. Make sure correct path is set in $0."
        [ ! -x $MYSQLDUMP ] && die "File $MYSQLDUMP does not exists. Make sure correct path is set in $0."
        [ ! -x $RM ] && die "File $RM does not exists. Make sure correct path is set in $0."
        [ ! -x $MKDIR ] && die "File $MKDIR does not exists. Make sure correct path is set in $0."
        [ ! -x $MYSQLADMIN ] && die "File $MYSQLADMIN does not exists. Make sure correct path is set in $0."
        [ ! -x $GREP ] && die "File $GREP does not exists. Make sure correct path is set in $0."
}

### Make sure we can connect to server ... else die
verify_mysql_connection(){
        $MYSQLADMIN  -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS ping | $GREP 'alive'>/dev/null
        [ $? -eq 0 ] || die "Error: Cannot connect to MySQL Server. Make sure username and password are set correctly in $0"
}

### main ####
verify_bins
verify_mysql_connection
backup_mysql_rsnapshot

A: If there's a problem with authentication or connection, such as not being able to read a password from the terminal, ssh will exit with 255 without being able to run your actual script. Verify to make sure you can run 'true' instead, to see if the ssh connection is established successfully.

A: This is usually happens when the remote is down/unavailable; or the remote machine doesn't have ssh installed; or a firewall doesn't allow a connection to be established to the remote host.
ssh returns 255 when an error occurred or 255 is returned by the remote script:
 EXIT STATUS

     ssh exits with the exit status of the remote command or
     with 255 if an error occurred.

Usually you would an error message something similar to:
ssh: connect to host host.domain.com port 22: No route to host

Or
ssh: connect to host HOSTNAME port 22: Connection refused

Check-list:

*

*What happens if you run the ssh command directly from the command line?

*Are you able to ping that machine?

*Does the remote has ssh installed?

*If installed, then is the ssh service running?

A: Isn't the problem in the lines:
### Die on demand with message ###
die(){
  echo "$@"
  exit 999
}

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe exit 999 is out of range for an exit code and results in a exit status of 255.

A: I was stumped by this. Once I got passed the 255 problem... I ended up with a mysterious error code 1.  This is the foo to get that resolved:
 pssh -x '-tt' -h HOSTFILELIST -P "sudo yum -y install glibc"

-P means write the output out as you go and is optional. But the -x '-tt' trick is what forces a psuedo tty to be allocated.
You can get a clue what the error code 1 means this if you try:
ssh AHOST "sudo yum -y install glibc"

You may see:
[slc@bastion-ci ~]$ ssh MYHOST "sudo yum -y install glibc"
sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo
[slc@bastion-ci ~]$ echo $?
1

Notice the return code for this is 1, which is what pssh is reporting to you.
I found this -x -tt trick here.  Also note that turning on verbose mode (pssh --verbose) for these cases does nothing to help you.

A: It can very much be an ssh-agent issue.
Check whether there is an ssh-agent PID currently running with eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
Check whether your identity is added with ssh-add -l and if not, add it with ssh-add <pathToYourRSAKey>.
Then try again your ssh command (or any other command that spawns ssh daemons, like autossh for example) that returned 255.

A: This error will also occur when using pdsh to hosts which are not contained in your "known_hosts" file.
I was able to correct this by SSH'ing into each host manually and accepting the question "Do you want to add this to known hosts".

A: If above didn't help: check if locale is valid on client and server:
https://www.linuxbabe.com/linux-server/fix-ssh-locale-environment-variable-error
How do not pass locale through ssh

A: ### Die on demand with message ###
die(){
        echo "$@"
        exit 999
}

I don't have the rep to comment on Alex's answer but the exit 999 line returns code 231 on my WSL Ubuntu 20.04.4 box. Not quite sure why that is returned but I understand that it's out of range.


A versatile dish with a sausage-y twist - these sweet potatoes are perfect as a side or main course. They also happen to look amazing on your plate!
With a sharp knife, make 1/2 inch cuts along the top of each sweet potato, making sure to not cut all the way through to the bottom.
Drizzle olive oil over sweet potatoes and wrap each in foil to bake.
Bake for 60 minutes, until tender.
While sweet potatoes are baking, cook Johnsonville Mild Italian Sausage meat in a pan until browned.
Add onion to sausage meat mixture.
Remove potatoes from the oven. Sprinkle sausage mixture into the cuts along the top of the sweet potatoes.
Top with parsley and Canadian cheddar cheese.


Cupertino has 7 ARKs located throughout the city where, in the event of an emergency, Cupertino Citizen Corps members will converge, self-organize, and deploy into the surrounding neighborhoods to assist the community with stabilizing the situation and assisting with the recovery. Information about the response is critical to the field and EOC to ensure the success of the response.
The current communications bandwidth between the EOC and the ARKs limits the volume and richness of information to only the critical elements about the response.
ARKnet addresses the bandwidth issue and will create a Cupertino-internal emergency Intranet in support of a city declaration of an emergency.
28 Jan 2015; The Pilot was reviewed by the Cupertino OES director. The recommendations that were presented by the team were approved (see the Pilot Summary and Recommendation for details).
28 Jan 2015; Funding was submitted for FY'16 (July 2015) to begin the system build-out.
Follow the progress with the follow-on ARKnet Deployment Project.


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Claydon RDean
Administrative unit
Rural Deanery
Relationships and changes
Click on the hyperlinks for direct access to key graphs and tables.
Here we are presenting statistics for a historical unit, which may have changed its boundaries significantly during the period covered.
CLAYDON
Date abolished:
Unit ID:
Authorities:
F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 782.
We know of no alternate names.
Unit associations
We know of no associations with other units.
This unit was part of the following units:
BUCKINGHAM Archdeaconry 1855 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 782.
We know of no boundary changes affecting this unit.
Lower level units
We know of no units which were contained within this unit.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Claydon RDean through time | Census tables with data for the Rural Deanery, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10571765
Date accessed: 30th January 2023


The Sr. Manager, Transportation Analysis & Optimization, delivers logistics solutions and executes analysis to support optimal transportation decisions for merchandise sourced both internationally and domestically. The Sr. Manager owns the relationship with both internal (IM, Merchandising, Transportation Ops, Supplier Performance) and external (vendor) stakeholders to ensure all dimensions of a freight treatment solution are considered in order to establish transportation-ownership terms between each merchandise vendor and Target.
This role is responsible for providing solutions across the Home, Hardlines and Apparel and Accessories Merchandising groups that consider the financial and operational impacts to Target; monitors and validates these impacts; and supports implementation. Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals.
Identify and execute analysis to determine most optimal freight term agreements (Prepaid/Collect, FOB/FCA, and Importer of Record decisions) between both import and domestic vendors and Target.
Drive successful implementation of freight term conversions that include consideration and impacts to transportation expenses, import and/or domestic operations, and any applicable strategic merchandising considerations.
Liaison between transportation, merchandising teams, and vendor partners to initiate solutions for all internal transportation-related concerns.
Serve as the main point of contact for vendor inquiries and general transportation-related questions.
Execute domestic ship point optimization / import factory or country of production shifts by completing analysis when vendors change or close ship points to validate current freight term or renegotiate costing to drive savings.
Validate initial analysis and compares recommendation to the actual costs.
Support ad-hoc logistics solutions requests for internal and external partners.
Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience within supply chain, logistics, and/or inventory management in a retail environment are required.
Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills are required.
Strong ability to plan, manage, and prioritize time/tasks effectively.
Self-motivated and demonstrates initiative; demonstrates ability to work independently.
Ability to develop relationships, both internally and externally, and work in a team environment.
Advanced knowledge of PC Windows based applications (Excel and Word) required.


Carolina Poodle Rescue is proud to be a featured vendor at Woofinwaggle's Fall Sip & Shop!
Kick of Fall with Woofinwaggle & Purr and Bark at our Sip & Shop Event. Enjoy a fun & relaxing shopping experience!
Join us for the Fall Sip & Shop Event on Sunday, October 7th from 11am-4pm.
Spend your Sunday in a fun way supporting local business and adoption agencies while finding some new products and services for yourself and your pup. Enjoy alcoholic beverages while you browse, meet artists & crafters, and feel free to bring your dog along for the fun!
There will be food truck vendors for you to enjoy tasty treats that have been showcased throughout the Triangle as well as live music and more!


TravelMax is a healthcare staffing facility that focuses on providing qualified healthcare professionals to their hospital clients. Their recruitment managers take the time to understand their potential employee's strengths and the working goals they set for themselves. They take a more personal approach to their clients and nurses compared to their competitors.
I have been with Travel Max Nursing since 2016, and absolutely love them. my recruiter, and I know I can ALWAYS count on her for anything I need. She is always honest, dependable and there for whatever I may need. I will definitely stay with her and Travel Max Nursing! Thank you for everything!
I have worked for Travel Max Nursing since September 2015. I love this company, not too mention my recruitere has made my travel experience so easy! I highly recommend this travel company to anyone that is looking! I am so blessed to be apart of the Travel Max Nursing Team!


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ASPIRING MUSICIAN? PROMOTE YOURSELF WITH YOUR VERY OWN MUSIC VIDEO!
Let's face it—making music isn't everyone's cup of tea.
The reason behind it takes hard work, perseverance, inspiration and most importantly—talent. Creative artistry is what separates an artist from an amateur musician. As we know, if you are attending the live performance within 5 minutes you can differentiate between the both.
That's why record labels put lot of money on promoting a record, and why they take into account public response before deciding to release an artist's new album.
A great music video is like a brilliant trailer for an upcoming film.
You might not have heard of the title, you may not know the actors—but through a 2 minute teaser you will get a preview of movie ; what to expect from movie. Great trailer can make an average film seem like a promising one, while a poor one can make an extraordinary film seem like a waste of time.
At the end of the day, it's a powerful way of reeling in consumers and conversely, driving them away—similar to the principles of a music video.
Before you come to the conclusion, that you don't want to go ahead with the idea of making one to promote your band or independent music, channel your inner artist and remind yourself: it's a risk worth taking.
After all, what's the point of creating a music that will not reach to your listeners?
As a musician, the process of self-promotion may feel alien to you. You're an artist—and it's natural that you will focus on perfecting your craft rather than thinking of ways that how to sell your music. Fortunately now you don't have to give huge amount of money to a video production company just to shoot a music video that misrepresents the soul of your lyrics.
That's right! You don't have to be a cinematographer to shoot a video! It's a music video—not a film! And with your own music playing muse to your directorial skills, you can create a music video yourself.
Now you don't have to buy an expensive camera equipment and lighting to get started?
You can have the latest, cutting edge technology at your disposal, but without a great song, your music video would not be visually appealing and will not give the desired result which you have expected.
You're in the business of making music—and music should take precedence over everything else. That means paying attention to not just the video, but the audio mixing!
We're big fans of music and do our part to support the artist. We help emerging artists to promote their music in the events which takes place in different part of Pune.
Go to Takerentpe.com (GHARBAITHEDECORATION) as it provides affordable rental services for audio visual equipment, including, video cameras and lighting on rent.


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Thinking About Facebook: Big Data
Facebook allows us access to all the data we have ever created on their website. I have lived half of my life on Facebook. For my generation, known as the millennials, social media offers the largest collection of photo's, conversations and events that we own. Whilst diaries used to be treasured objects of the private sphere, Facebook has created a public diary where we continually mould ourselves through our photo collections and ever-growing connections.
Downloading my Facebook data was like unearthing hidden gold. Whilst my photos remained public, I thought my Facebook messages had been lost. Instead, in a mixture of excitement and shock, I found out that I had access to every message I'd ever sent on Facebook. I got my Facebook in 2008. From 2012 to 2017 there are over 1482 pages of messages, thus creating the most comprehensive record of my development as a human being.
In total my best friend and I have shared 16,000 messages together. My second best friend has reached 11,000 messages, and my girlfriend is currently on 8,200 which is impressive considering I have known the two former my whole Facebook career.
We have shared 179 "hello's", 191 "hey man's" 61 "how are you's" and 29 "good thanks".
There have been many moments of laughter with 11,147 "haha's", 525 "jokes" and 17 "pranks". In a particularly British way this laughter has been coupled with outright negativity, with 35,910 "no's" contrasted to just 1840 "yes's", however, this negativity must also be weighed against the memorable instance that someone wrote "looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool". In simpler English that's lol with 112 zero's.
Football and music have been the main sources of entertainment. The word "football" has been mentioned 461 times with particular mention to "Chelsea" (250), "Fulham" (126), and "Man United" (47). "Music" has been mentioned 489 times. On this subject there have been 402 "tunes", 607 "songs", 129 "guitars", 67 "Hip Hop's" and 250 "festivals". The makers of these "tunes" are hugely varied. On the subject of Grime "Skepta" won with 29 mentions, whilst both "Kano" and "Wiley" were tied with 16.
Even amongst someone with a keen interest in politics, social media has not precipitated political discussion. There have been just 29 "labour's", 10 "conservatives", 14 "politicians" 6 "David Cameron's" and 13 "Obama's".
On the subject of the internet, YouTube is the social media's champion, with 1922 "youtube's", possibly a result of the words correlation with Youtube links. "Facebook" also provides a good showing being mentioned some 1237 times, once again a reflection of things being linked with the URL "facebook.com", by contrast, "Twitter" has played a small part in my network being mentioned just 47 times.
Encouragingly Love has also played a prominent part in my Facebook career. My friends have had 1866 "love's" (they wish…) and 64 "love you's", however, it appears I am from a clan who prioritise the head over the heart, with 444 "minds" and just 86 "hearts".
Insults have never been far away, with an amazing 2,854 "Fucks", nevertheless, I was proud and rather surprised to find that the word "love" had been mentioned over a thousand times more than "dickhead" (27) and "mug" (152) combined.
For now, these language datasets will continue to grow. The Facebook ecosystem remains lively and I foresee I will still be on Facebook for the next decade. I cannot envisage a future when the subjects of music and football cease to be the main topics of entertainment, and, I still cannot imagine Facebook becoming an Athenian forum housing expansive discussions on "Labour" and "David Cameron".


Diversity Fellowship Personal Statements – What Makes for a Winning Essay?
Monday, Nov. 19, 2018, 12-1 p.m.
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In this video Professor Claire McLachlan discusses the research that sits behind the learning outcomes in Te Whāriki (2017).
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What I want to do now was talk about the learning outcomes themselves. As I said Leslie and I both started with the 118 and I remember our first conversation in my office. When we looked at them and went, "Oh, how do we do this?" But anyway I think the learning outcomes have been revised at least 15 times. But part of what I did, on top of us coming up with these ideas (and they've been reworded a gazillion times but the ideas themselves actually have stayed reasonably stable) is I undertook to go and see whether there was any research evidence for those big ideas. The reassuring thing is that there is and you know that is useful. For instance for wellbeing, for mana atua, there is solid evidence that children's wellbeing is really, really important. Wellbeing has lots of components – so it's physical, it's cognitive, it's social-emotional, it's psychological. So there's all these different parts to wellbeing.
We also know that wellbeing involves the practical components of learning how to act, how to care for themselves, but also knowledge of how to avoid harm. So there is solid research around this.
There's also research that shows that children need to be taught how to manage their feelings – that this isn't something that happens spontaneously. This is something teachers help them with. It's particularly important for children who've been through trauma that they need help in order to become resilient. So kaiako have an enormous role in this and this work with children.
For belonging, for mana whenua, there's significant research on the outcomes of early childhood and you all know that. There's now years worth of research talking about what are the outcomes of high quality early childhood. The other thing that you also need to be aware of is about the outcomes of poor quality early childhood. So for children who come from challenging homes, if those children go into a poor quality early childhood centre they get the double whammy don't they? They're not getting it at home, they're not getting it in the centre. And we know that the research says that actually the outcomes for those children are much worse than if they hadn't gone into early childhood so you know it can't be stressed enough how important the high quality learning experiences are.
The research also says for children who have come from these quite difficult home environments that the need to have a sense of belonging is really, really important. And we know this is for all children, but particularly for those children. The research on relationships, on adaptability, and on behaviour supports this focus of Te Whāriki on children needing to feel part of the setting. I've given you some of those references but actually I was thinking afterwards that I wrote a paper for early education that's got a pile of those references actually, so that might be useful to people rather than my whistle stop tour.
So the next one, contribution, and the research evidence around this. There are three big ideas travelling in this one and they are around: self-efficacy – so the belief in yourself, on peer learning, and on social justice. The work on self-efficacy primarily comes from Albert Bandura, who you probably know through his theories on modelling. Also from the work of Dale Schunk who has done extensive work on self-efficacy. This one explains how children come to believe in their own ability in different domains of learning.
Children may be quite confident in some areas of learning and completely lack confidence in others. And so the research shows that teachers need to find out what can they do to help children feel confident. Certainly some of the research I've been doing on physical activity is really amazing in that space because you can see, within the period of an hour, a child's belief in their own ability to do something physically can grow. So you know this is important.
The other one is around peer learning. And one of my doctoral students has been doing research. Some of you will know Penny Smith who's with Te Rito Maioha. Her doctorate on peer learning has had such an interesting finding. She's found that teachers believe in peer learning and talk about promoting it. Yet when she's filmed them and then got them to reflect on it, she's found that they are happy with their involvement and promoting peer learning when it's for social reasons. But when it's for cognitive reasons they don't want to own it. So a very interesting finding. But one of the big things about this notion is that you have to teach children how to learn with peers. It doesn't actually necessarily happen on its own. So there is this need for involvement.
The notion of social justice is also being widely researched with young children. Researchers are saying that children have greater capacities to be able to express their needs and express their wishes and wants about how they want their world to work than we probably ever previously anticipated. This is one of those big shifts that Leslie talked about before. When I first became involved with early childhood it very much was about teachers setting up the environment and this is how the world worked. The researchers said actually children can be involved in deciding how does the curriculum work here.
The next one, which you actually probably can't even read because there's too much on this slide. So I should have divided this up: communication, mana reo. My big favourite topic, which I can talk about probably for the rest of the year not just the rest of the afternoon. The big one is that there is an enormous body of research that says that oral language in the early years is probably the most important thing that children can learn and there is an enormous predictive relationship with later literacy learning. It's that black and white.
I know that for my grandson he's probably going to have difficulties with learning to read because he's deaf at the moment and he's having speech language therapy and we're waiting for grommets. But the fact that he's got language delay now, we can predict reading delay at the age of eight. It is that straightforward because he will have difficulty with hearing sound and therefore he will have difficulty with both spelling and with reading. So we know the oral language stuff. So if the least thing you do is get children's hearing checked, you've done a big thing. There's a lot of children with hearing problems.
So we also know that children who can recognise the alphabet and can hear sounds and word for the phonological awareness, develop the alphabetic principle. They develop the understanding that sounds can be represented in print. This is a fundamental understanding that most children develop without any help whatsoever in early childhood. And it's done through things like nursery rhymes and story reading and so forth. This isn't something that you do – you do teach it but it doesn't have to be a skill and drill type thing. ERO, by the way, found that 25 percent of centres do. That's very scary what's happening. Children also need an enormous vocabulary. And the reason for that is that when you come to later reading if you've got a small vocabulary you don't understand what's been said to you so lots of it whistles over the top of your head. So you do the story reading because it introduces children to new words and to new understandings. There's some very old research now by Warwick Elley who was professor of education at Canterbury. He said that for every new word if you explain the meaning of the word to children, you double the vocabulary gains. So this is basic isn't it that you give them new words. So this is a big focus through here.
The same happens with maths and there are big parallels between the teaching of literacy and the teaching of maths in the early childhood setting. It's about learning how to understand symbols and learning how to use the concepts about mathematics. As Leslie said this is very under stressed in most early childhood programmes. So we find that teachers struggle with domain knowledge mainly because of the initial teacher education programme so we will take ownership of this. People probably haven't had enough to feel confident. Often people have wound up in early childhood because they weren't good at maths and their guidance counsellors have said do early childhood because you couldn't teach maths in primary. And I promise you I've heard the story so many times it's not funny. Then they sometimes avoid the teaching of maths in early childhood. Or they just do the basic bits of it. In some ways it is similar to the bicultural, they don't get below the surface for children and children are capable of a lot more. In this one also we have the arts and there is a great deal of research on how children's interest in arts actually intersects with all the other parts of the curriculum. So it's a growing area too.
Then we get to exploration. This is huge – this strand. It includes all of the research around critical thinking and research skills in young children. It also includes physical activity and scientific thinking. So arguably you could put the maths and literacy in this one too couldn't you, so it's kind of a little bit random where they are in a funny sort of way. But there is a great deal of research happening in all of these areas too and certainly the research on children and their critical thinking skills is amazing. And there's a lot more than there was 20 years ago when I was studying this as a postgrad student. Transcript
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Did the new Skoda Fabia steal your attention? Skoda's marketing team hoped you'd answered yes.
While undoubtedly a clever ad, Skoda's attention test is nothing new. For many years, cognitive scientists (and marketers) have been experimenting with 'sustained inattentional blindness', a striking phenomenon in which people fail to notice stimuli appearing in front of their eyes when they are preoccupied with an attentionally demanding task (Mack & Rock 1998, cited in Most et al. 2005, p.217). Capitalising on our attention deficits, hundreds of brain-training apps have exploded onto the market, claiming to improve our attention spans and build up our 'mental muscle'.
Eager to design and implement my own attention test, I initiated a small-scale collaborative ethnographic project with my Mum and Dad as fellow consultants. My Dad was particularly interested in investigating the idea of multitasking (also referred to as "continuous partial attention"), with the intent of determining whether the constant flow of incoming emails at work impacts his attention, and thus, productivity. I related strongly to this issue, as I have found messaging family, friends and even assignment group members to be a distraction during university lectures.
In order to investigate these ideas, my parents and I decided to stimulate a multitasking situation where Dad and I would task-switch between watching a video and instant messaging with each other. Afterwards, Mum would test us separately on what we remembered from the video. We would then compare, evaluate and interpret the results.
We decided to watch a five-minute segment of The Wonderful World of Cats – HD Nature Wildlife Documentary on YouTube. It was important that the video was of interest to both of us, otherwise we would be more inclined to tune out and focus solely on messaging. We also decided to watch the video in different rooms in order to mimic real-life situations in which the people messaging are separated by distance.
It turned out that neither Dad or I could recall many specific details about the video. Although we were both interested in learning about the fascinating world of cats, our dominant interest at the time was vested in the information we were communicating – Dad wanted to know what was happening in the football and I wanted his opinion on how I could generate more Facebook exposure for an assignment.
On the other hand, Mum could recall very detailed accounts of the video. Interestingly, Mum's attention was also influenced by her interests. For example, Mum eagerly recalled seeing Snoopy, one of her favourite cartoon characters, in the background of one frame. This reinforces the idea that we are likely to pay attention to information that pertains to our current motives and personal interests (Verderber, Verderber & Sellnow 2010, p.24).
Can you see Snoopy in the background?
Mum's excellent recollection is also due to the fact that she was actively note-taking throughout the video in order to test Dad and I. This supports research findings that reveal the exam scores of students who text in class are significantly lower than the exam scores of students who do not text in class (Dietz & Henrich 2014; Ellis, Daniels & Jauregui 2010; Kuznekoff, Munz & Titsworth 2015; National Communication Association 2012). Multitasking is, thus, considered a distraction that is likely to result in lower grade performance (Dietz & Henrich 2014; Ellis, Daniels & Jauregui 2010; Kuznekoff, Munz & Titsworth 2015; National Communication Association 2012). In work contexts, multitasking has also been found to reduce productivity, quality of work and efficiency (Kleiman 2013). One study even claims that multitasking can damage your career.
While these studies validate each other's findings, pointing to the general consensus that multitasking has negative consequences, they do not give a complete, accurate and contextual picture of people's attention capacities. For example, studies into the way students multitask in learning environments should extend their focus beyond how students multitask and the effects of this attention-splitting on their performance to a more holistic approach investigating why students do not pay full attention in class. Is the lecture content boring? Does the lecturer engage with students? Do students pay more attention at the beginning of session than the end? Are students preoccupied with other matters, such as planning how to get home or what to cook for dinner? There are a variety of influences impacting student's ability and/or desire to pay attention. These factors cannot be gauged in the likes of Microsoft and Google's visually appealing quantitative charts and certainly should not be overlooked in audience research.
Research conducted by Microsoft on attention.
After conducting the experiment, I showed my Dad a research study that found typical office workers only get 11 continuous minutes to work on a task before interruption (Sullivan 2013). According to the study, working with interruptions has costs: people in interrupted conditions experienced higher stress, frustration and pressure (Mark, Gudith & Klocke 2008, p.110). Asking Dad how he felt about multitasking, Dad replied "Multitasking helps me assess and prioritise. I like to action things as soon as I receive them. I also like variety. I don't even realise I'm doing it." For Dad, the value of this experiment in improving his own understanding of his work practices had suddenly become clear.
Yet Dad's response has also raised a number of pertinent questions – are studies into the effects of multitasking biased to reveal only negative effects, fuelling another moral panic about the loss of 'skills of concentration'? Are there in fact positive effects of multitasking?
Both public and private sectors should not underestimate the value inherent in people's individual experiences to understand why attention is captured, retained or lost, or why people multitask, if they are even aware they do. After all, if the scarcest commodity in our economy is now human attention, then why aren't we paying attention to these stories?
Dietz, S & Henrich, C 2014, 'Texting as a distraction to learning in college students', Computers in Human Behaviour, vol.36, p.163-167.
Ellis, Y, Daniels, B & Jauregui, A 2010, 'The Effects of Multitasking on the Grade Performance of Business Students', Research in Higher Education Journal, vol.8, p.1-10.
Kleiman, J 2013, 'How Multitasking Hurts Your Brand (and Your Effectiveness at Work', Forbes, 15 January, accessed 19 September 2015, <http://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2013/01/15/how-multitasking-hurts-your-brain-and-your-effectiveness-at-work/>.
Kuznekoff, JH, Munz, S & Timsworth, S 2015, 'Mobile Phones in the Classroom: Examining the Effects of Texting, Twitter, and Message Content on Student Learning', Communication Education, vol.64, no.3, p.344-365.
Mark, G, Gudith, D & Kloche, U 2008, 'The cost of interrupted work: more speed and stress', in CHI 2008 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Florence, Italy, 5-10 April, accessed 19 September 2015, <https://www.ics.uci.edu/~gmark/chi08-mark.pdf>.
Most, SB, Scholl, BJ, Clifford, ER & Simons, DJ 2005, 'What You See Is What You Set: Sustained Inattentional Blindness and the Capture of Awareness', Psychological Review, vol.112, no.1, p.217-242.
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A fire truck caught fire inside a historic Philadelphia firehouse on Friday.
It's unclear how the fire started, according to CBS. There were no reported injuries. The Center City firehouse is nicknamed the "Ben Franklin Firehouse."
The fire started at about 11:20 a.m. Traffic was blocked off in the area.


The Sacramento Bee laid off 15 journalists and eight employees from its production team this Tuesday. The announcement joined the list of other major publications that executed mass layoffs in 2018 — among them the Chicago Tribune and the Denver Post — highlighting the reality of financing print journalism in an online world.
The most recent layoffs at The Sacramento Bee are only one example of a large-scale sustainability issue in the news industry — and the loss to local news organizations is tremendous. Many of those laid off have experience that spans decades, and their absence puts the future of journalism in peril.
Local reporters set the groundwork for bigger and farther-reaching stories, often doing the brunt of the investigative work without the recognition or the limelight. The Sacramento Bee is an example of such renowned local journalism, and their most recent layoffs are a huge detriment to these efforts.
Though The Sacramento Bee has not yet announced the full list of those laid off, a few have been made public: business reporter Mark Glover, who worked at the paper for 34 years; and real estate writer Hudson Sangree, who worked there for over a decade.
Stephen Magagnini, a senior writer of ethnic affairs, race relations, immigration, tribal issues and faith will also be leaving the Sacramento Bee after 32 years at the paper. He is dedicated to sharing the stories of unheard people and will continue doing so. In addition to reporting for the Sacramento Bee, Magagnini teaches journalism courses at UC Davis and serves as the faculty advisor for The California Aggie and University Writing Program internships.
He is known by the Editorial Board for his enthusiasm and journalistic wisdom and insight and, more importantly, for his dedication to providing aspiring student journalists with real-world knowledge and experience.
In many ways, Magagnini has held an open door policy. Whether that includes inviting students to visit The Sacramento Bee's newsroom or providing career advice in office hours, Magagnini has helped numerous UC Davis students in their writing endeavors.
We stand in solidarity with Magagnini and journalists across the country, especially those laid off from publications facing budget crises like The Sacramento Bee. These are our mentors. And, of course, we stand with the aspiring writers and newsmakers, the young people who are fighting to build a career in a shrinking newsroom.


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Home Health & Fitness Trump, Out of Sight, Tweets Up Storm, Says He 'Feels Great'
Trump, Out of Sight, Tweets Up Storm, Says He 'Feels Great'
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump remained out of sight for a second day Wednesday as he recovers from COVID-19, with the White House offering scant details about his health and activities.
Lashing out on Twitter, the president remains largely isolated in White House residence, where aides were instructed to take extensive precautions to prevent themselves from catching the coronavirus from the contagious president.
Trump's physicians have not provided a substantive update on his health since Monday afternoon, including his medications and potential long term health impacts from the virus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans and reached into the upper echelons of the U.S. government.
As Trump convalesced, he again publicly played down the virus on Twitter after his return from a three-day hospitalization, though even more aides tested positive, including one of his closest advisers, Stephen Miller. All told more than a dozen White House staffers have tested positive.
In one significant national coronavirus action, Trump declared there would be no action before the election on economic-stimulus legislation — an announcement that came not long after the Federal Reserve chairman said such help was essential for recovery with the nation reeling from the human and economic cost of the pandemic. Stocks fell on the White House news. He later tweeted his support for a range of piecemeal stimulus proposals that appear to be a political non-starter before Election Day.
As for Trump's own recovery, his doctor, Navy Cmdr. Sean Conley, said in a brief Tuesday letter that the president had a "restful" Monday night at the White House and "reports no symptoms."
Meanwhile, Trump was grappling with next political steps exactly four weeks from Election Day. Anxious to project strength, Trump, who is still contagious with the virus, tweeted Tuesday that he was planning to attend next week's debate with Democrat Joe Biden in Miami and "It will be great!"
Biden, for his part, said he and Trump "shouldn't have a debate" as long as the president remains COVID positive. Biden told reporters in Pennsylvania that he was "looking forward to being able to debate him" but said "we're going to have to follow very strict guidelines."
Elsewhere in the government, the scope of the outbreak was still being uncovered. On Tuesday, the nation's top military leaders including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, and the vice chairman, Gen. John Hyten, were in quarantine after exposure to Adm. Charles W. Ray, the vice commandant of the Coast Guard.
It was not known how Ray contracted the virus, but he attended an event for military families at the White House on Sept. 27. The Coast Guard said in a statement that Ray felt mild symptoms over the weekend and was tested on Monday.
Also testing positive Tuesday was Miller, a top policy adviser and Trump speechwriter, who has been an architect of the president's restrictive immigration measures." Miller's wife, Katie Miller, who serves as communications director to Vice President Mike Pence, had the virus earlier this year. She had been in Salt Lake City with Pence where he is preparing to debate Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, but she left as soon as she found out about her husband's diagnosis, officials said. She tested negative on Tuesday.
Trump on Monday made clear that he has little intention of abiding by best containment practices when he removed his mask before entering the White House after his discharge from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Waiting aides were visible when he entered the Blue Room without a face covering.
Trump's attitude alarmed infectious disease experts. And it suggested his own illness had not caused him to rethink his often-cavalier attitude toward the disease.
Republican Sen. Susan Collins said Tuesday, "When I saw him on the balcony of the White House, taking off his mask, I couldn't help but think that he sent the wrong signal, given that he's infected with COVID-19 and that there are many people in his immediate circle who have the virus."
Trump, for his part, falsely suggested that the virus was akin to the seasonal flu.
"Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the Vaccine, die from the Flu," he tweeted. "Are we going to close down our Country? No, we have learned to live with it, just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!"
In fact, COVID-19 has already proven to be a more potent killer, particularly among older populations, than seasonal flu, and has shown indications of having long-term impacts on the health of younger people it infects. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that influenza has resulted in far fewer yearly deaths than Trump said — between 12,000 and 61,000 annually since 2010.
Trump was working out of makeshift office space on the ground floor of the White House residence, in close proximity to the White House Medical Unit's office suite, with only a few aides granted a face-to-face audience. The West Wing was largely vacant, as a number of Trump's aides were either sick or quarantining after exposure to people infected with the virus, or otherwise working remotely as a precaution.
First lady Melania Trump was isolating upstairs in the White House. On Tuesday, her office released a memo outlining extensive health and safety precautions that have been put in place in the executive residence, including adopting hospital-grade disinfection policies, encouraging "maximum teleworking" and installing additional sanitization and filtration systems. Residence staff in direct contact with the first family are tested daily and support staff are tested every 48 hours. And since the president and Mrs. Trump tested positive, staff have been wearing "full PPE."
Despite Trump's upbeat talk about the disease, his own treatment has been far from typical, as his doctors rushed him onto experimental antiviral drugs and prescribed an aggressive course of steroids that would be unavailable to the average patient. It was not known whether he was still being administered the powerful steroid dexamethasone, prescribed Saturday after he suffered a second drop in his blood oxygen levels in as many days.
Conley said Monday that because of Trump's unusual level of treatment so early after discovery of his illness he was in "uncharted territory," adding that Trump would not be fully "out of the woods" for another week.
Conley has noted coronavirus can become more dangerous as the body responds, with days seven through ten "the most critical in determining the likely course of this illness."
He has repeatedly declined to share results of medical scans of Trump's lungs, saying he was not at liberty to discuss the information because Trump did not waive doctor-patient confidentiality on the subject.
Associated Press writers Lauran Neergaard and Jonathan Lemire in Washington, and Bill Barrow in Wilmington, Delaware, contributed to this report.
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