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WWC review of this study
Print-focused read-alouds in early childhood special education programs
Justice, L. M., Logan, J. A. R., Kaderavek, J. N., & Dynia, J. M. (2015). Exceptional Children, 81(3), 292-311. Retrieved from: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1055246
examining
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Single Study Review
Sample Characteristics
Reviewed: May 2021
No statistically significant positive
Meets WWC standards with reservations
Single Study Review (findings for Teacher Read-Alouds (TRA))
Review of Individual Studies Review Protocol 4.0
Review Standards 4.0
Meets WWC standards with reservations because it is a compromised cluster randomized controlled trial, but it satisfies the baseline equivalence requirement for the individuals in the analytic intervention and comparison groups.
This review may not reflect the full body of research evidence for this intervention.
Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Alphabetics outcomes—Indeterminate effects found
Significant?
Composite Measure of Print Knowledge
Teacher Read-Alouds (TRA) vs. Business as usual
PF/PF vs. RR/RR;
More Outcomes
PF/RR vs. RR/RR;
Show Supplemental Findings
Upper/Lowercase Letter Knowledge
PALS-PreK - name writing subtest
Characteristics of study sample as reported by study author.
Female: 19%
Male: 81%
Rural, Suburban, Urban
Other or unknown
The study took place in early childhood special education programs in one midwestern state (p. 294). The article mentions working through districts to recruit the programs, so it is assumed they are school-based programs and not private centers (p. 294). The programs were located near one of two universities and were predominately in urban and suburban locales. Only about 10% of the programs were located in rural areas (p. 295). Greater than 90% of the programs were part-day programs that offered inclusive programs. That is, they served both children with disabilities and children without disabilities (p. 295).
In the regular reading/regular reading (RR/RR) comparison condition, the mean age was 52 months; 30% of the children were female, and 98% spoke English as their first language. The racial/ethnic breakdown for this group was as follows: 74% white, non-Hispanic; 11% African American; 8% other; and 7% missing. Maternal education for this group was as follows: 8% no high school diploma, 15% high school diploma, 29% some college, 10% associate's degree, 13% bachelor's degree, and 23% graduate degree. Family income for this group was as follows: 14% $15,000 or less, 13% $15,001-30,000, 16% $30,001-45,000, 12% $45,001-60,000, and 45% $60,000 or more. In the print-focused/regular reading (PF/RR) intervention condition, the mean age was 51 months; 26% of the children were female, and 100% spoke English as their first language. The racial/ethnic breakdown for this group was as follows: 68% white, non-Hispanic; 11% African American; 7% other; and 14% missing. Maternal education for this group was as follows: 13% no high school diploma, 12% high school diploma, 17% some college, 11% associate's degree, 20% bachelor's degree, and 27% graduate degree. Family income for this group was as follows: 12% $15,000 or less, 11% $15,001-30,000, 10% $30,001-45,000, 13% $45,001-60,000, and 55% $60,000 or more. In the print-focused/print-focused (PF/PF) intervention condition, the mean age was 51 months; 23% of the children were female, and 98% spoke English as their first language. The racial/ethnic breakdown for this group was as follows: 75% white, non-Hispanic; 16% African American; 8% other; and 6% missing (note that these percentages do not sum to 100 as they did for the other two groups). Maternal education for this group was as follows: 7% no high school diploma, 16% high school diploma, 28% some college, 3% associate's degree, 22% bachelor's degree, and 24% graduate degree. Family income for this group was as follows: 14% $15,000 or less, 16% $15,001-30,000, 13% $30,001-45,000, 12% $45,001-60,000, and 43% $60,000 or more.
Intervention Group
The intervention is print-focused read-alouds, implemented by early childhood special education teachers alone or in conjunction with caregivers. In the study, all teachers and caregivers were given a set of 30 commercial storybooks, reading one target book per week. Teachers read the target book aloud four times per week and caregivers read the target book aloud two times per week. In the print-focused/regular reading (PF/RR) intervention group, teachers read the program storybooks using print-focused strategies that were specified by a scope and sequence provided by the researchers to integrate discussion about specific print-related targets into their read-alouds. During the book readings, teachers engaged in discussion related to 15 objectives (e.g., understanding that letters are a symbol used in written language and that letters are different from words) in four broad categories: book and print organization, print meaning, letters, and words. In this condition, caregivers read the storybooks using their normal reading style. In the print-focused/print-focused (PF/PF) group, both teachers and caregivers used the same print-focused strategies described above.
The comparison condition, regular reading/regular reading (RR/RR), was implemented by early childhood special education teachers in conjunction with caregivers. Teachers and caregivers were given the same set of 30 commercial storybooks, reading one target book per week. Teachers read the target book aloud four times per week and caregivers read the target book aloud two times per week. Both teachers and caregivers read the storybooks using their normal reading style.
Support for implementation
Teachers in the treatment group were provided with a two-page insert for each book that gave examples of how to implement the print-focused discussions with that particular book (p. 299). They also participated in a 1-day training in the fall and a 3-hour refresher training in the winter. The training content included the rationale for the intervention and opportunities to practice all 15 objectives. Teachers also received feedback on their performance (based on the ongoing assessments of fidelity; p. 299). Caregivers were instructed on how to implement the print-focused reading style during a 2-hour training that took place in the fall. They were provided with a DVD that included videos of caregivers reading with a print-focused style that they could review as needed. The books that were provided to caregivers also included inserts with examples. These were similar to the inserts provided to teachers, but written in a more caregiver-friendly style. Each caregiver was visited in their home during the winter. During the visit, they read a book to their child and the home visitor provided feedback on their implementation. Finally, researchers called caregivers five times during the study. During these calls, researchers provided suggestions for implementation of the print-focused reading style.
In the case of multiple manuscripts that report on one study, the WWC selects one manuscript as the primary citation and lists other manuscripts that describe the study as additional sources.
Pelatti, Christina Yeager,Dynia, Jaclyn M.,Logan, Jessica A.,Justice, Laura M.,Kaderavek, Joan. (2016-12-00). Examining Quality in Two Preschool Settings: Publicly Funded Early Childhood Education and Inclusive Early Childhood Education Classrooms. Child & Youth Care Forum v45 n6 p829-849 Dec 2016.
Kaderavek, Joan N., Pentimonti, Jill M., Justice, Laura M. (2014). Children with Communication Impairments: Caregivers' and Teachers' Shared Book-Reading Quality and Children's Level of Engagement. Child Language Teaching and Therapy v30 n3 p289-302.
An indicator of the effect of the intervention, the improvement index can be interpreted as the expected change in percentile rank for an average comparison group student if that student had received the intervention.
For more, please see the WWC Glossary entry for improvement index.
An outcome is the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are attained as a result of an activity. An outcome measures is an instrument, device, or method that provides data on the outcome.
A finding that is included in the effectiveness rating. Excluded findings may include subgroups and subscales.
The sample on which the analysis was conducted.
The group to which the intervention group is compared, which may include a different intervention, business as usual, or no services.
The timing of the post-intervention outcome measure.
The number of students included in the analysis.
The mean score of students in the intervention group.
The mean score of students in the comparison group.
The WWC considers a finding to be statistically significant if the likelihood that the finding is due to chance alone, rather than a real difference, is less than five percent.
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The name and version of the document used to guide the review of the study.
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Based on the direction, magnitude, and statistical significance of the findings within a domain, the WWC characterizes the findings from a study as one of the following: statistically significant positive effects, substantively important positive effects, indeterminate effects, substantively important negative effects, and statistically significant negative effects. For more, please see the WWC Handbook.
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Anyone see when they're doing an Ingram and Zubac player introduction at the practice facility?
Pretty sure that's your answer. LOL. I don't think anyone knows yet. We're not keeping it a secret from you!
i read thast ingram is eating 5000 Calories a day.
My ideal weight for him would be 220 by 2nd year and by 3-4 year, hopefully he can be at 240 pounds.
Dont think his weight is going to be an issue. Nerlens Noel also were skinny as hell but gained about 25 pounds pretty fast.
@SerenaWinters any word on when the @Lakers draft picks will be introduced?
220 by next year is very optimistic.
Edited by lakerfan98, June 27, 2016 - 11:15 AM.
Some of yall are banking on hope. I get it. But the truth is Ive seen chicken wings with more meat on them than this kid.
Hope? Lol. These guys are analyzed more than ever. I would say hope is shown much less than fear and tempered enthusiasm on this forum.
Because Im busy this week.
That's a LOT. He'd have to gain close to 30lbs. I'd rather him gain 10-15lbs the first year max and then add another 5-10 after that slowly. Let his body adjust to the added weight before packing on more.
240lbs? WOW...no. He's a SF. LO played at 220 during the Championship years...that's about as much as I'd like to see Ingram put on in his first 5 years...no more.
240lb would be too much weight...if he could add it while retaining mobility and speed, fine...but I don't think it should be the goal. That much added weight does one thing: increase risk of injury.
I think ~220 is probably his optimum weight.
He's always going to be a skinny dude. That's just his body type. He's a lean, mean, 3 point shooting machine. Don't want him bulking too much too fast. He'll get there.
He should get on my diet. I mean it wont be muscle weight but he will get to 220 no problem.
Fast food and tat parlor time. Eat and sit. Eat and sit.
Hey you can eat donuts and ice cream and gain weight but its not a healthy solution, slower and more healthy diet building muscle and stamina is better. gaining weight between the ears ie; experience is key too. Wishing you the best and Rookie of the year!!
he has been quiet ever since the draft. i hope he locked himself in the gym and maybe close to a swimming pool to get his body stronger.


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Q: Rails capistrano deploy issue, Malformed version number string Capistrano I'm not very familiar with ruby. I'm trying to deploy existing project to the staging server.
Project uses followings,
ruby 1.8.7
rails 2.3.5
rake 0.8.7
capistrano 2.5.13
capistrano-ext 1.2.1
When I run "cap staging deploy" in my project root, it fails with Malformed version number string Capistrano::Version (ArgumentError)
following is the console output,
/Users/sajithk/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-head/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/version.rb:187:in `initialize': Malformed version number string Capistrano::Version (ArgumentError)
from /Users/sajithk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@global/gems/bundler-1.9.1/lib/bundler/capistrano.rb:8:in `new'
from /Users/sajithk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@global/gems/bundler-1.9.1/lib/bundler/capistrano.rb:8
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from ./config/deploy.rb:1:in `load'
from /Users/sajithk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head/gems/capistrano-2.5.13/lib/capistrano/configuration/loading.rb:172:in `load_from_file'
from /Users/sajithk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head/gems/capistrano-2.5.13/lib/capistrano/configuration/loading.rb:89:in `load'
from /Users/sajithk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head/gems/capistrano-2.5.13/lib/capistrano/configuration/loading.rb:86:in `load'
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A: I found the issue by myself. This might help someone else who came across same issue in the future.
The  issue was with the bundler. I have used the latest version of bundler. Since this is a older project, I seems the bundler is not compatible with them. I downgrade the bundler to 1.0.10. everything works ok now.
Commands used,
rvm @global do gem uninstall bundler
gem install bundler -v '1.0.10'

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Artifishal
The road to extinction is paved with good intentions
Directed by Liars & Thieves! / 2019 / 79 Min
Artifishal is a film about people, rivers, and the fight for the future of wild fish and the environment that supports them. It explores wild salmon's slide toward extinction, threats posed by fish hatcheries and fish farms, and our continued loss of faith in nature.
Protect Wild Fish
We made our new film Artifishal to help ensure a future with more fish for all of us. We are living in a time of high human population and increasing pressure on our natural resources. If we want fish for our kids, we need to take responsibility for protecting the wild fish and waters that we love.
What's The Difference Between Wild, Hatchery, And Farmed Fish?
Wild Fish: Spawned, born and specifically adapted to thrive in the wild environment through natural selection, which ensures only the most genetically fit individuals survive to reproduce. Wide range of genetic and life-history diversity allows wild fish to better survive changing conditions and compromised habitat.
Hatchery Fish: Spawned and raised by humans in artificial habitats, where a precisely controlled environment selects for domesticated traits, then released into the wild. Hatchery fish are weaker and less able to survive in the natural environment or adapt to changing conditions. They also tend to mature at younger ages and smaller sizes than wild fish. Threaten wild fish through increased predation and competition for food and habitat during mass releases, and through interbreeding on the spawning grounds, where they pass maladapted genes to the wild population.
Farmed Fish: Domesticated and raised by humans to thrive in high-density aquatic feedlots, often in public marine waters, where they are raised to market size and harvested for consumption. Threaten wild fish with parasites, diseases (and the pesticides used to control them), and through competition and interbreeding during frequent escapes.
Don't We Need Hatcheries To Make Up For Habitat Loss?
While it's true that human activity—dams, development, resource extraction, etc.—have taken a toll on our rivers, science shows that wild fish, because of genetic and life-history diversity, survive better than hatchery fish, even in severely compromised habitat. In fact, the presence of hatchery fish is often a limiting factor in wild fish recovery, which can leave large amounts of prime spawning and rearing habitat unused. As climate change further threatens cold-water fish populations, the diversity and adaptability of wild fish will be crucial for survival.
How Can Putting More Fish In The River Result In Fewer Fish To Catch?
Juvenile hatchery fish outcompete wild fish for resources and attract unnaturally high levels of predation, both from sheer numbers and through domesticated behavior. Surviving hatchery fish can spawn with wild fish, reducing offspring survival rate of mixed hatchery/wild pairs by up to 50% in the first generation alone. In other words, adding more hatchery fish frequently results in less total fish available for harvest.
Who Pays For And Manages Fish Hatcheries?
While many people believe fish hatcheries are paid for exclusively with fishing-license sales, funding sources actually include city and state general funds, electrical utilities and a range of federal agencies. Which is to say, taxpayers and electrical-rate payers—ordinary citizens—are footing the bill for a system that's driving wild fish to extinction and costs billions of dollars in the process.
Hatcheries are managed by a variety of state, federal, tribal and private, non-governmental entities.
What About Tribal Fishing Rights?
We strongly support First Nations/Tribal rights to fish, hunt and harvest throughout their ancestral territories. However, science demonstrates that adding hatchery fish to a watershed does not create a sustainable fishery. Our goal is to work with tribal fisheries to focus on wild fish recovery and building more abundant, truly sustainable harvest opportunities.
If We're Serious About Helping Wild Salmon And Orcas Survive In Puget Sound, What's The Solution?
Leading scientists and recent data indicate that the current plan—to feed starving Southern Resident killer whales with 60 million additional hatchery Chinook salmon per year—is misguided, expensive ($87 million), and likely, disastrous for the orcas, wild Chinook salmon and other aquatic life. And yet, the fact remains: The whales need more food and they need it now. The only real solution to provide more Chinook salmon for orcas in the short term, then, is to reduce harvest, particularly in West Coast open-ocean fisheries. This will require sacrifice by many of us, but if we're serious about saving hungry orcas, we humans need to take less for ourselves.
Longer-term solutions benefit wild Chinook salmon, orcas and human fishermen alike. By recovering habitat, removing dams, reducing hatchery production and moving harvest to rivers and estuaries rather than open-ocean, mixed-stock fisheries, we can rebuild healthy populations of big, wild Chinook salmon. As wild salmon grow in size and abundance, they can provide the critical food needed by Southern Resident killer whales, and increased opportunity for recreational and commercial harvest.
But Wouldn't More Hatchery Fish Provide Immediate Relief For Starving Orcas?
According to leading orca scientists, no. Based on current orca-food-source research, increased numbers of hatchery releases would be of little benefit to Southern Resident killer whales (SRKW). A majority of hatchery salmon, as part of the domestication process, mature early and are too small, even as adults, to meet the caloric requirements of orcas. SRKWs need the increasingly scarce, large, wild Chinook salmon, which would be further depleted by the influx of hatchery fish.
The only immediate way to provide more food for Southern Resident killer whales is to reduce open-ocean harvest. Currently, the ocean fishery off the west coast of Vancouver Island alone takes 70% of the Chinook salmon large enough to benefit orcas. Moving fisheries to river mouths and employing selective-harvest techniques in the future would allow humans to continue harvest while increasing the number of large, wild Chinook available to orcas.
How Can We Help Klamath River Wild Salmon Recover After The Dams Are Removed?
When the four Klamath River dams come down, we will witness one of the largest river restoration projects in North American history. A free-flowing Klamath represents prime wild salmon habitat and the possibility of a truly wild river. However, current plans call for the Klamath hatchery program to operate for at least eight years after dam removal. Given that we know hatchery fish are often the limiting factor in wild fish recovery, this would mean another lost opportunity, like the one we missed on the Elwha with its ongoing, post-dam-removal hatchery program. How can we best help the Klamath return to its natural abundance? Invest in long-term, science-based solutions: recover habitat and allow wild salmon to recolonize and repopulate the watershed as they've evolved to do over millions of years.
Can I Eat Salmon Without Supporting Hatcheries And Net-Pen Fish Farms?
In a word, yes. It can be difficult, but there are a few simple rules of thumb that allow us to buy and eat salmon responsibly:
Don't buy Atlantic salmon and steelhead, which are, for the most part, either farmed in net-pens or harvested from endangered populations.
Do buy wild salmon harvested from well-managed, hatchery-free fisheries. For example, sockeye salmon from Bristol Bay, Alaska, or reef-net-caught pink salmon from Lummi Island, Washington.
Don't buy Pacific salmon from open-ocean, mixed-stock fisheries. A majority of these fish are often of hatchery origin, and more importantly, open-ocean harvest cannot discriminate between abundant and endangered stocks of fish.
Do ask your fishmonger, chef or server where their salmon is from and how it was caught. This may lead to further confusion, but encourages support for responsible fisheries and allows seafood eaters to make better choices.
How Quickly Can Wild Fish Recover When We Restore Habitat And Remove Hatcheries And Dams?
The results of hatchery removal vary from watershed to watershed, dependent on habitat condition and how much genetic damage the remaining wild fish population sustained from interbreeding with hatchery fish. But it can happen fast: On the Toutle River in Washington State, seven years after the watershed was devastated by volcanic eruption (and the resulting cessation of the hatchery program), there were more wild winter steelhead spawning than in any other lower Columbia tributary. In Montana, within four years of stopping hatchery supplementation, the rainbow trout population was up more than 800% and their total biomass had increased by 1000%. On the Skagit River, four years after hatchery planting was stopped, the wild steelhead population, which had undergone a decades-long spiral, had increased to above the state's current escapement goal.


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Epic working on Unreal Championship sequel
With third-person mode, spins and flips and combination moves? Eh?
Microsoft has just announced Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict, a sequel to one of the console's first online games currently in development at Epic Games and due out in Q4 2004.
"Big wow," you're probably thinking. "Unreal Tournament 2004 is out this Friday, so why should a fairly similar console title that isn't out for ages interest me in the slightest? Next please!" Well, hold your horses there, Mister. This doesn't sound like a mere crossover.
For a start, it's got a third-person perspective and a combo moves aspect. You can still play the game from the first-person perspective, but now you have the option to switch to the third to help with mastery of melee attacks and defensive combo moves, including one called "reflect" which bounces attacks back in the direction they came with an added kick. Sounds a bit like Jedi Knight 2, which can't be a bad thing. All we need now are "laser swords".
We're told the game's characters will be a lot more agile than their PC cousins, too, jumping, spinning and flipping around to make full use of the environments. And those Adrenaline boosts should come in handy for charging up attacks and defensive moves now too, as well as increasing speed and mobility.
Although Xbox Live is obviously the focus, offline modes will also be catered for thanks to a pair of new single-player options. The campaign mode will involve fighting through new cities and arenas as they take on the role of Anubis in his attempt to retake the Nakhti Rite of Ascension Tournament from the Liandri Corporation. A separate tournament mode will then allow you to unlock characters and work your way through a more traditional ladder approach to the single-player aspect.
Then of course there's the System Link and particularly Live aspect, which will take advantage of the Live leaderboards system and thus ought to appeal to anybody who ever fell in love with their ngWorldstats ranking page...
Hrm. Actually, at the end of the day it still doesn't sound like the most revolutionary game in the world, does it? Still, it's another FPS for Live owners to keep an eye on, and given the reported quality of UT2004 we'd imagine it's worth doing so.
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Management and Production Engineering Review
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Management and Production Engineering Review | 2014 | No 2 |
1 Ant Colony Optimization for Data Acquisition Mission Planning
Marek B. Zaremba, Giancarlo Colmenares, Fadi Halal
Management and Production Engineering Review | 2014 | No 2 | DOI: 10.2478/mper-2014-0011
Management and Production Engineering Review (MPER) is a peer-refereed, international, multidisciplinary journal covering a broad spectrum of topics in production engineering and management. Production engineering is a currently developing stream of science encompassing planning, design, implementation and management of production and logistic systems. Orientation towards human resources factor differentiates production engineering from other technical disciplines. The journal aims to advance the theoretical and applied knowledge of this rapidly evolving field, with a special focus on production management, organisation of production processes, management of production knowledge, computer integrated management of production flow, enterprise effectiveness, maintainability and sustainable manufacturing, productivity and organisation, forecasting, modelling and simulation, decision making systems, project management, innovation management and technology transfer, quality engineering and safety at work, supply chain optimization and logistics. Management and Production Engineering Review is published under the auspices of the Polish Academy of Sciences Committee on Production Engineering and Polish Association for Production Management.
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2 The Impact of Clustering on the Innovativeness Of Furniture Industry
Izabela Niziałek, Emilia Grzegorzewska, Magdalena Olkowicz
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Emilia Grzegorzewska
Magdalena Olkowicz
3 Exponential Smoothing for Multi-Product Lot-Sizing With Heijunka and Varying Demand
Frédéric Grimaud, Alexandre Dolgui, Przemysław Korytkowski
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Magdalena Niemczewska-Wójcik, Thomas Mathia, Artur Wójcik
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2023 Presidency: Northern youths defy elders, Advocate for Southern President
by John Asama January 2, 2020
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The Arewa Youth Assembly have contrary to stand of the Northern elders forum advocated for a Southern President in 2023.
This was contrary to claims by the Prof. Ango Abdullahi-led Northern Elders' Forum that the region should retain the Presidency in 2023.
The former vice-chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, had said at a book launch in December 2019 that the rotation of the Presidency between the North and the South was the making of political parties to win elections.
He had said that the arrangement was encouraged by the Peoples Democratic Party which later jettisoned it under the ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's administration.
Prof. Abdullahi had said, "Go and check the constitution. There is no place it is written that the president of Nigeria will be rotated according to local governments, states or geopolitical zones.
"In fact, geopolitical zone does not exist in the constitution. Go and check," he had said.
But on Wednesday, the coalition of youth groups, under the auspices of the Arewa Youth Assembly, urged their kinsmen to be magnanimous enough and give the southern part of the country, especially the South-South geopolitical zone, the chance to produce the Presidency in 2023.
They said in addition to shifting the 2023 presidency to the South-South, they were ready to support a youthful president within the age bracket of between 40 and 50 years.
The group declared that it was time to say no to recycled politicians in 2023, especially from the region.
The leader of the coalition, Mohammed Danlami, who addressed the press conference held at the Arewa House, Kaduna, said it would be unfair for the North not to relinquish political power to the South in 2023.
He noted that the position being taken by the youth at the moment might be hard as northerners but it was aimed at moving the nation forward.
The AYA leader said, "Arewa Youth Assembly has noticed a series of misleading comments being orchestrated by some political buccaneers over leadership factor that North should retain the national leadership come 2023.
"It is grossly unfair, malicious and wicked for all those fuelling or promoting this project. We say No!
"The North has occupied the leadership position of the country since independence, more than any other region.
"It is time for the South-South youths to produce the next president in 2023 to complete their eight years of leadership.
"We seek to redefine the role and leadership development process of the country.
"We are charting a new path to national rebirth to put an end to the issues of recycling old politician for leadership.
"Nigerian is a nation standing half in the light of progress and promise, and half in darkness of injustice.
"We live in a period of grave uncertainty. As things now stand, we have no idea where the nation would be heading to if the North retains power in 2023.
"The greatest challenge facing Nigeria today is that of leadership. Nigeria needs a leader that the people can identify with and who can inspire them to greater heights.
"We are calling for power shift to the South-South. We need leaders with vision and passion because sound and visionary political leadership is vital for Nigerian peaceful co-existence.
"With this timely intervention ahead of 2023, we are championing the course of youths within the age bracket of 40 to 50 years to lead Nigeria to the Promised Land.
"A vibrant youth who is detribalised; a youth who has vision enough to foresee the needs of the people and compassionate enough to match these needs with actions."
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Frederik I van Baden (Alland, 1249 - Napels, 29 oktober 1268) was van 1250 tot 1268 markgraaf van Baden-Baden en pretendent van het hertogdom Oostenrijk en het hertogdom Stiermarken. Hij behoorde tot het huis Baden.

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Frederik I was de enige zoon van markgraaf Herman VI van Baden en Gertrude van Babenberg, nicht en erfgename van hertog Frederik II van Oostenrijk, de laatste uit het huis Babenberg.

Toen Frederik II in 1246 bij de slag bij de Leitharivier sneuvelde, stierf de mannelijke lijn van het huis Babenberg uit. Door zijn huwelijk met Gertrude had markgraaf Herman VI van Baden de erfenisclaims van de hertogdommen Oostenrijk en Stiermarken verworven. Herman VI kon echter deze titel niet bemachtigen en toen in 1250 keizer Frederik II van het Heilige Roomse Rijk uit het huis Hohenstaufen stierf, was er ook geen enkele keizerlijke autoriteit meer die Herman tot hertog van Oostenrijk en Stiermarken kon benoemen. Zowel paus Innocentius IV als Rooms-Duitse tegenkoning Willem van Holland wilden niet dat Herman VI deze hertogdommen in handen kreeg. Ook kon hij zich niet verdedigen tegen de claims op Oostenrijk van de machtige koning Wenceslaus I van Bohemen en diens oorlogszuchtige zoon Ottokar II.

Toen Herman VI eind 1250 overleed, bevond de jonge Frederik zich met zijn moeder in de stad Meißen. Hij werd hierdoor markgraaf van Baden, maar omdat hij nog niet zelfstandig kon regeren werd zijn oom Rudolf I regent. Als pretendent van het hertogdom Oostenrijk en Stiermarken nam Frederik zijn residentie nabij de stad Wenen. In 1252 huwde echter Margaretha van Oostenrijk, een tante van zijn moeder die ook Oostenrijk en Stiermarken opeiste, met Ottokar II van Bohemen, waardoor Frederik en zijn moeder moest vluchten. Eerst trokken ze naar Stiermarken en daarna naar het hertogdom Karinthië.

Vanaf rond het jaar 1266 groeide Frederik op aan het hof van hertog Lodewijk II van Beieren. Daar geraakte hij bevriend met Konradijn, de jonge zoon van de in 1254 overleden Rooms-Duits koning Koenraad IV en de erfgenaam van het huis Hohenstaufen. Ook werd Frederik door Konradijn gesteund in zijn opeising van het hertogdom Oostenrijk.

In 1267 maakte Frederik een fatale beslissing door Konradijn te begeleiden in zijn expeditie tegen koning Karel I van Napels, die door paus Clemens IV tot koning van Sicilië werd gekroond nadat hij Konradijns oom Manfred, de vorige koning van Sicilië, had verslagen in de slag bij Benevento. Op 24 juli 1268 trokken Konradijn en Frederik de stad Rome binnen, maar op 23 augustus 1268 draaide de expeditie uit op een catastrofe toen Karel I van Napels de troepen van Konradijn en Frederik definitief versloeg in de slag bij Tagliacozzo.

Aanvankelijk konden ze vluchten, maar uiteindelijk werden ze op 8 september 1268 nabij de stad Anzio gevangengenomen. Konradijn en Frederik werden daarop overgedragen aan Karel I van Napels, waarna ze werden gevangengezet in het Castel dell'Ovo in Napels. Karel I besloot daarop om beiden ter dood te veroordelen en ze zouden dit naar verluidt te horen hebben gekregen tijdens het schaken, waarna ze onverstoord verder zouden hebben gespeeld. Op 29 oktober 1268 werden ze publiekelijk onthoofd.

Hun stoffelijke resten werden eerst haastig begraven, maar werden daarna op uitdrukkelijk verzoek van Konradijns moeder Elisabeth van Beieren overgebracht naar de Santa Maria del Carminekerk.

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Pigeons have quite a way with words: Otago research
Monday 19 September 2016 2:24pm
Dr Damian Scarf
Pigeons can learn to distinguish real words from non-words by visually processing their letter combinations, surprising new research from the University of Otago in New Zealand and Ruhr University in Germany shows.
The researchers found that pigeons' performance was on a par with that previously reported in baboons for this type of complex task. Their study, which is published in the prestigious international journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is the first to identify a non-primate species as having "orthographic" abilities.
In the experiment, pigeons were trained to peck four-letter English words as they came up on a screen, or to instead peck a symbol when a four-letter non-word, such as "URSP" was displayed. The researchers added words one by one with the four pigeons in the study eventually building vocabularies ranging from 26 to 58 words and over 8000 non-words.
To check whether the pigeons were learning to distinguish words from non-words rather than merely memorising them, the researchers introduced words the birds had never seen before.
The pigeons correctly identified the new words as words at a rate significantly above chance.
According to the study's first author, Dr Damian Scarf of the University of Otago's Department of Psychology, they performed this feat by tracking the statistical likelihood that "bigrams", letter pairs such as "EN" and "AL", were more likely associated with words or non-words.
Professor Onur Güntürkün, one of the co-investigators from of Ruhr University's Department of Biopsychology, says "that pigeons — separated by 300 million years of evolution from humans and having vastly different brain architectures— show such a skill as orthographic processing is astonishing".
Another of the study's authors, Professor Michael Colombo of Otago's Department of Psychology, says "we may have to seriously re-think the use of the term 'bird brain' as a put down".
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Trump and Macron seek to resolve U.S.-European differences on Iran deal
Vastavam web: U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Tuesday to try to resolve U.S.-European differences on Iran but Trump gave no clear signal about whether he would carry out a threat to abandon an international nuclear deal with Tehran.After lengthy talks at the White House, Macron told a joint news conference with Trump that they had discussed "a new deal" that would strengthen the 2015 accord along the lines Trump wants, such as by addressing Iran's expansion in the Middle East and its ballistic missile program.
Trump continued his hostile rhetoric toward the nuclear deal, calling it terrible, ridiculous and insane and threatening Iran with repercussions should it restart its nuclear program."If Iran threatens us in any way, they will pay a price like few countries have ever paid," Trump said.Trump has until May 12 to decide whether to keep the United States in the agreement and is under strong European pressure to remain in it, with Macron saying that while imperfect it holds the best chance of containing Tehran."We want to come home. We'll be coming home. But we want to leave a strong and lasting footprint," Trump said.
Iran has said it will ramp up its nuclear program if the deal collapses and a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday that Tehran might quit a treaty designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons if Trump scraps the agreement.Under the deal, Iran agreed to curb its nuclear ambitions in return for relief from economic sanctions. Tehran says its nuclear program is only for peaceful means.
Trump said he and Macron could have an agreement soon on the Iran deal. "We could have at least an agreement among ourselves very quickly. I think we're fairly close to understanding each other."A U.S. withdrawal from the Iran agreement would raise tensions in an already volatile region, possibly prompting an arms race involving Saudi Arabia. Iran says its nuclear program is aimed only at peaceful purposes.
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In 2009, IFOA posted its first-ever open call for submissions. Poets 35 and younger were invited to be part of a celebration of our 35 years in the reading series business. The standard of entries was astonishing, and the resulting event was one of the highlights of our year. The event returned in 2010, but was opened up to published poets of all ages. 2010 also saw a new partnership with our friends at NOW Magazine, and that collaboration continues this year!
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For many years now I have been using an ergonomic keyboard from Microsoft. I used every model they released in the last 10-15 years. But recently I had been having issues, as all the new ones are wireless and just caused strange problem. So in the end, I decided to change the brand of what I use for the first time in years. So now I got the Xiaomi Gaming keyboard and also mouse. They look quite nice, but it is quite a change from what I had before.
Even I'm curious to see if I get used to them or I switch back soon. The last time I tried a different mouse (Logitech MX I think) I had to switch back within a week, as my hand hurt like if somebody broke it. I just could not use it. Hopefully this will not happen this time.
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This is a two shot vertorama, taken at the new Old Bridge in Bratislava. Mostly edited in Lightroom, with only few tweaks in Photoshop.


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Following yesterday's New York Times report that claimed Facebook had given Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, BlackBerry and other tech companies 'deep access' to private user data, the iPhone-maker has come out with a forceful denial, with the company's influential CEO, Tim Cook, telling NPR in an interview that, the company has never received, nor asked for any private data of Facebook users as part of any agreements between the two companies.
During the interview, which was conducted on the sidelines of the ongoing WWDC event in San Jose, California, Cook took on the NYT report head-on, saying that the company has never been in the data business. He also said that all allegations made in the report are 'foreign' to the company.
"The things mentioned in the Times article about relationship statuses and all these kinds of stuff, this is so foreign to us, and not data that we have ever received at all or requested — zero"
Cook, however, did not deny that there was a partnership between Apple and the beleaguered social media giant for integrating the latter's services into iPhones, iPads, and other Apple gadgets. However, it had all to do with convenience and nothing to do with data-harvesting, he claimed.
"What we did was we integrated the ability to share in the operating system, make it simple to share a photo and that sort of thing. We weren't in the data business. We've never been in the data business"
Cook, who has often described privacy as a 'fundamental human right', reiterated that view in his interview with CNN on the same day. Talking about the increasing concerns about the data-mining activities of companies such as Facebook, Google and others, Cook said that true privacy can only be maintained when companies simplify their user-agreements by stripping them of all the legal jargon that makes it impossible for average users to know what they are signing up for.
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