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Area Committee Reports 2004
Published April 10, 2007, 2:46 p.m. EDT
Below are the 2004 committee annual reports and the respective comments of the Review Board.
- Apparatus
- Educational Technologies
- Graduate Education in Physics
- History and Philosophy of Physics
- International Physics Education
- Laboratories
- Minorities in Physics
- Physics in High Schools
- Physics in Pre-High School Education
- Physics in Two-Year Colleges
- Physics in Undergraduate Education
- Professional Concerns
- Research in Physics Education
- Science Education for the Public
- Space Science and Astronomy
- Women in Physics
2004 Committee on Apparatus
This committee is focused on hands-on learning and the associated equipment. To this end we sponsored the following sessions, workshops, cracker-barrels, and competitions during 2004.
Greg Puskar organized the session on fluids at the Winter Meeting in Miami Beach, FL. The speakers, Paul Hewitt and Doyle Davis, attracted more than 50 attendees, making this session a real success. The Apparatus Committee sponsored many successful activities at the Summer Meeting in Sacramento, Calif., including the Apparatus Competition organized by Richard Flarend. Unfortunately, the number and quality of entries continues to decline with only eight entries this year. The possibility of holding the competition every other year was discussed. Many thanks to PASCO scientific for its continued support of this event. Dean Hudek organized the Instructional Apparatus Crackerbarrel, which was well received with about 16 participants. Harold Stokes organized the Instructional Apparatus Poster Session.
Hudek also organized the Instructional Laboratories Workshops. With 18 participants the first day and 12 the second day, this event was well received. Attendee feedback was positive. Dave Maiullo organized the Lecture Demonstrations Workshops. With about 35 attendees each day, this event continues to be a big success.
Many thanks to the Bauder Fund for its continued support of the Instructional Laboratories Workshops and the Lecture Demonstrations Workshops.
Physics Instructional Resource Association
This has been a truly successful year for PIRA. The hard work and dedication of our members was evident in the wonderful successes of all PIRA events at the 2004 AAPT Summer Meeting.
Machele Cable was elected Vice President and David Haley was elected Secretary.
The PIRA session "Sports and the Human Body" was organized by Gerald Zani. With 100 attendees the first day and 40 the second, these talks were a huge success.
The PIRA Resource Room, organized by Dale Stille, was a rousing success. It focused on the dissemination of teacher resource materials. Many thanks to D. Rae Carpenter, Jr., Richard B. Minnix, and many others, as well as to the Bauder fund for financial support.
The DCS (Demonstration Classification Scheme) subcommittee continues to keep the PIRA 200 current and available online and the LCS (Laboratory Classification Scheme) committee continues to work towards developing a similar classification scheme for instructional labs. The Salary Survey subcommittee will have its survey online soon and the Constitution Committee continues to research and suggest changes to optimize our constitution. The first newsletter in several years was distributed at the 2004 Summer Meeting. Thanks to all of committee members for their tireless contributions.
The Apparatus Committee and PIRA thank Varney Johnson and his colleagues at California State University Sacramento for doing such an excellent job of dealing with all of our packages and special requests.
The Apparatus Committee continues to benefit greatly from the many valuable contributions made by PIRA and its members. The Committee is also very grateful for the help it receives from its many "Friends of the Committee" and its continued interactions with the Committee on Laboratories.
- Dean Hudek, Chair
Review Board Response
The Review Board believes that the diversity and quality of the activities organized by the Committee on Apparatus and its productive interactions with PIRA are outstanding. Does the PIRA Salary Survey subcommittee coordinate its efforts with the Committee on Professional Concerns?
2004 Committee on Education Technologies
The Committee on Educational Technologies (CET) identifies, communicates, and promotes new developments in educational technology and their application to physics teaching and learning. During 2004, CET accomplished these goals by sponsoring and leading more than two dozen workshops, tutorials, and sessions at AAPT National Meetings. While we have been very successful in these endeavors, we are concerned about the competing interests of having the meeting be useful to its participants, while at the same time not being too overrun with an overabundance of workshops, tutorials, and sessions. Balancing these two competing interests is difficult for most committees; for CET, this balancing act is made even more difficult because much of our identity lies in sponsoring technology-based activities. Our workshops tend to be very technical, and the more technical they become, the smaller the audience. Despite these smaller turnouts, CET believes such activities are vital to our organization. Additionally, as technology evolves, we must remain flexible with workshop themes and incorporate new topics when appropriate. We are concerned about the costs associated with leasing computers and other technologies used during our workshops because these costs are passed on to our participants and the AAPT. Since many meeting attendees bring personal laptop computers to our national meetings, we designated two tutorials at the Sacramento AAPT meeting as BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop). Participants in these tutorials had a workshop-like experience but without the associated costs.
To better serve AAPT members, the Committee sought ways to specifically address the educational technology needs and interests of its members. To accomplish this, we conducted a survey during the 2004 Summer Meeting to assess the educational technologies members would like to see at future meetings. The survey results indicate that members prefer technology-based workshops (over tutorials and sessions), and stated that cost and scheduling influence their workshop attendance. These results were shared with AAPT's Committee on Meetings.
- Mario Belloni, Chair
Review Board Response
The Review Board believes that CET has the daunting challenge of keeping pace with technological advances, mastering their idiosyncrasies, and then gently sharing these findings with the larger organization in a timely manner.
Strong leaders and visionary committee members have earned the respect of the AAPT and its members. Through numerous workshops and tutorials, CET continues to provide our members the opportunity to explore innovative teaching technologies, while its sponsored sessions remain well attended.
The committee selflessly serves the AAPT and has taken the lead in designing a survey and other evaluation tools that will improve the quality of future workshops and meetings. CET understands that National Meetings require a delicate balance of our members' time and resources to provide meaningful workshops, tutorials, sessions, plenary talks, exhibition events, and networking opportunities. In recognizing this, the committee has demonstrated that it is here to serve our members needs and interests first, in addition to providing a positive resource for our organization's growth and development.Back to top.
2004 Committee on Graduate Education in Physics
The Committee on Graduate Education initiated (in 2003) the formation of the a joint AAPT-APS Task Force on Graduate Education. This Task Force was fully staffed by spring 2004 and began its mission to study the status of graduate education in physics and to make recommendations. The Task Force met in College Park in August 2004 and a survey to physics departments, to be conducted by AIP, was reviewed and revised. The survey now has been carried out and the results await the next meeting of the committee, scheduled for early November 2004. It is anticipated that the results of the survey and the broader work of the committee will be reported at the January 2005 AAPT meeting, and then will be disseminated more widely.
The Committee has continued its policy of trying to increase the presence of physics at the AAPT meeting by sponsoring invited sessions on contemporary topics in physics. The necessity for such sessions may be somewhat reduced from a few years ago with the increase in invited research talks by other committees (notably Women in Physics) and plenary research talks.
In addition to physics research-oriented sessions, the Committee co-sponsored a session on Teaching Biological Physics at the January meeting and sponsored one on Information Literacy at the August meeting. A session with speakers from non-academic employment sectors, speaking on the topic of careers in those sectors, is planned for January 2005.
This Committee struggles a bit with membership, and with active participation by members. There appear to be issues preventing some members from attending many meetings. The poor attendance at committee meetings is exacerbated by the scheduling of simultaneous committee meetings. In particular, the CISP meeting should not be scheduled at the same time as the Graduate Education Committee due to the overlap in membership. The perpetual need to recruit new members and the difficulty associated with that task has led to discussions concerning whether this committee should be merged with another committee.
At the moment, there is no clear indication how this could be achieved satisfactorily. The committee seems to function reasonably well even with only two or three active members, but it could accomplish much more of its mission with more active members.
-Renee D. Diehl, Chair
Review Board Response
The Review Board commends the committee for taking the initiative to focus AAPT attention on some large issues that link our concerns with those of the research universities and provide common ground for AAPT and APS to work together. The report is not clear on whether the Graduate Education committee is following closely the work of the task force, on whether it is trying to influence it, and on whether it has ideas on how the task force should shape its work. Reaching out to physics teachers concerned with graduate education in physics is very important. It is to be hoped that the AAPT Committee on Graduate Education will show an aggressive interest in the work of the Task Force and will strive to contribute to it. The Graduate Education committee might also devote serious consideration to formulating other initiatives for how AAPT can be more responsive to the interests and needs of teachers of graduate level physics inside and outside the AAPT. The difficulty of recruiting committee members and then engaging them in important activities is a worrisome problem. Clearly this problem needs the attention of the committee. The Executive Board is likely to be responsive to suggestions for ways to attract more energetic participants to the committee, including further proposals to involve AAPT more actively in graduate physics education.Back to top.
2004 Committee on History and Philosophy of Physics
Issues in the history and philosophy of physics are relevant to and implied by many discussions in the AAPT. Hence, the mission of the Committee on the History and Philosophy of Physics (CHPP) is to raise an awareness of history and philosophy and its role in physics teaching. Below is a summary of recent and future activities.
At the Miami Meeting (Winter 2004), the CHPP sponsored two sessions: "History and Philosophy of Physics and Physics Teaching" and "My Life as a Scientist". The latter session included presentations by the following women leaders in physics: Esther Conwell, Mildred Dresselhaus and Vera Rubin.
At the Sacramento meeting (Summer 2004), the CHPP sponsored its first ever History and Philosophy of Physics Resource Room (in collaboration with the Apparatus Committee and PIRA). Also, the committee sponsored a special session on modern physics entitled "20th Century Appletrees", featuring Gaurang Yodh, Andrew Harris, Virginia Trimble, John Rigden, and Albert Bartlett, and Terry Klopcic. This session was very well attended!
At the upcoming meeting in Albuquerque (Winter 2005), the CHPP will sponsor a workshop by Robert Morse entitled "Franklin and Electrostatics" and an invited oral session entitled "A Selective History of Government Sponsored Science" (which includes speakers from Sandia and Los Alamos Labs).
The CHPP is grateful to the AAPT Program Committee for accepting our nomination of Michael Janssen, University of Minnesota, as plenary speaker for the Albuquerque meeting. Janssen is an expert on the life of Albert Einstein, and will help us to kick off our celebration Einstein's Miracle Year!
In the future, we will continue to offer sessions on the interaction of the history and philosophy of physics and the physics classroom. Also, we are planning an invited session on the philosophy of science centered on the origins debate.
The Committee continues to disseminate information about its activities through its new website (http://planck.phys.uwosh.edu/hpp/). This site contains the CHPP mission statement, membership information, a list of CHPP-sponsored workshops and sessions at annual meetings since 1995, a list of recent Physics Today articles on the history and philosophy of physics, and related links.
Through these and other activities, the CHPP will make a collective, determined, and sustained effort to share the belief that the learning of science is supported by learning about science.
-Mark Lattery, Chair
Review Board Response
The committee shows commendable energy and initiative in making valuable contributions to the AAPT National Meetings. Given that it often brings quite distinguished physicists to these meetings, the committee might explore ways to better publicize these people and their accomplishments in advance of the meetings. The committee might also examine what roles it can play beyond its contributions to the national meetings. For example, sponsoring a session of the philosophy of physics and origins would seem to be an opportunity to stimulate awareness of AAPT beyond the associations membership.
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2004 Committee on International Physics Education
The mission of the International Education Committee is to provide a channel of communication between AAPT members and physics teachers and students around the world and to facilitate cooperation with international groups concerned with physics education. To accomplish its mission the committee:
• Sponsors sessions at the summer and winter meetings;
• Invites speakers from other countries to make presentations at meetings; and
• Encourages participation by AAPT members in international meetings related to physics teaching.
The contributions of the Friends of the Committee continue to be essential to the fulfillment of the mission.
The committee continued the tradition of sponsoring sessions entitled "Physics Teaching Around the World" at both the winter and summer AAPT Meetings. At the Winter Meeting the session included several papers based on the VII Inter-American Conference on Physics Education (IACPE) held in Havana in July 2003. The committee was very disappointed that, due to illness, Eduardo Molto (organizer of the Havana conference) had to cancel his presentation. In addition, there were papers contrasting U.S. and international students' understanding of Gauss' law and a U.S. teacher's comparison of teaching the introductory physics course here and in England as a Fulbright scholar. At the Summer Meeting the PTWA session included a large number of papers on a wide variety of topics. The committee was very pleased to co-sponsor two sessions organized by The Committee on Minorities in Education.
Several years ago the committee invited a group of Danish physics teachers to come to an AAPT meeting. This was followed by a visit to Denmark by a group from AAPT. The delegation also went to Sweden where they participated in a meeting of teachers from the Scandinavian and Baltic countries. As a result of the efforts of Jeff Mallow, this relationship has continued. We are planning a second visit to Denmark and participation in the 2005 Science Teachers meeting in Iceland.
The International Group for Physics Education (GIPEP) is a group of physics educators based in Europe. Members of AAPT have been active participants in their meetings for at least 25 years. The next meeting will be held in 2006. The next IACPE meeting will also be held in 2006 in Costa Rica.
Notices of international meetings are posted on the committee's web page and listed in the Announcer. Any member of AAPT who is interested in what is happening in physics education in other parts of the world is invited to attend the sessions sponsored by the committee and the committee meetings.
-John FitzGibbons, Chair
Review Board Response
Physics as a science is independent of geological and political boundaries, but the teaching of physics is influenced by these boundaries. There is no one best method for teaching, and we can all learn valuable lessons from each other. To do that we must interact and communicate what we are doing and how effectively our students learn this challenging subject. The Committee on International Physics Education and its many Friends continue to do an excellent job of fostering our international interactions on the subject of teaching physics, keeping us informed of opportunities for interactions at international conferences and meetings, and organizing sessions at our national AAPT meetings.
2004 Committee on Laboratories
The goal of the Committee on Laboratories is to advance the pedagogy of the laboratory setting throughout the student's physics experience. We work closely with the Committee on Apparatus and with PIRA to achieve this goal.
We continue to sponsor workshops and sessions to help the AAPT membership improve their teaching within the laboratory environment. In Miami Beach, a very interesting session on radiation safety was scheduled over the dinner hour, but still managed to pull a small audience. In Sacramento, the theme of Physics of Sports and the Human Body was also the theme of several sessions, all of which were well attended. Examples included using skydiving, bicycles, and human vocal cords to help our students learn physics. These examples illustrate the growing trend of using the human body and biology applications in the physics teaching laboratory. The committee also sponsored a cracker-barrel session on performance assessment. This session generated a lively discussion and the committee is sponsoring future workshops and sessions to explore assessment in the teaching laboratory.
The Committee on Laboratories has partnered with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to sponsor workshops and sessions to help the AAPT membership secure Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) grants. This program is tailor-made to help undergraduate institutions develop and disseminate outstanding programs. NSF Program Directors Duncan McBride and Theodore Hodapp generously led sessions and workshops at the Miami Beach Winter meeting of the AAPT, and we will sponsor similar workshops and sessions in the future.
The committee continues to generate interest and explore funding avenues for LabFocus II. In 1993, the first LabFocus conference was held to educate attendees about the new computer interfaces and educational impact of them. Ten years later, there is a new need to refocus the physics laboratory. The organizing committee continues to plan LabFocus II and we welcome input from all members of the physics community.
The Committee on Laboratories lost one of its members this past year. J. William (Bill) Dawicke passed away on July 19, 2004. He was the chair of the Chemistry and Physics Department at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). Dawicke taught physics for more than 35 years and won MSOE's Oscar Werwath Distinguished Teaching Award as well as the appreciation of many students. Dawicke was an active and creative member of the committee and will be missed by all who knew him.
-Tom Foster, Chair
Review Board Response
Your sponsored sessions and workshops encouraging CCLI proposals (and also reports from CCLI grants) have been especially successful and important in both meetings of 2004, and they directly show the AAPT's involvement with two and four year institutions – from introductory to advanced lab programs. The Review Board agrees with the Committee that the past decade of pedagogical and technological lab progress has made the time ripe for a LabFocus II type conference, and we look forward to your recommendations. Finding one or two people to really write the proposal and direct the conference will be key. The Committee on Laboratories seems to work very positively with the Apparatus Committee and PIRA—and we applaud these interactions and the leaders involved.
2004 Committee on Minorities in Physics
Mission 1. Seek more effective means of recruitment and retention of minority members of society in physics classes and physics related careers.
Miami Beach, Winter 2004
SEES (Students to Experience Engineering and Science) had one member of the COMP (D. Smith) to participate in its annual winter meeting science demonstrations for school children. D. Smith, introduced about 120 Miami-area middle school students to the surface tension of water via several hands-on experiments.
At the COMP 2004 winter meeting, copies were distributed of the diversity statement that grew out of the American Geophysical Union-sponsored Joint Scientific Society Conference on Diversity in the Earth and Space Sciences. The diversity statement was discussed in the COMP meeting and there were some criticisms of it, but no decision was made to endorse the statement. The key elements of the statement are, in part,
- Make diversity a priority in the use of their organizational resources….
- Endorse and help to implement key recommendations outlined in the Task Force on National Workforce Policies for Science and Engineering Report (National Science Board, 2003).
- Coordinate efforts to foster diversity in Earth, ocean, atmospheric, space and physical sciences….
Albuquerque, Winter 2005
COMP has proposed a workshop for high school physics teachers of Native American and Hispanic students to be held at the winter meeting in Albuquerque, NM. Native American and Hispanics suffer chronically from low educational attainment compared to the rest of the United States. The proposed workshop will transmit new tools and knowledge to teachers that will help them to do a better job of serving these underserved populations. Fred Begay of Los Alamos National Labs has secured funding for the workshop, to be held on January 8th. AAPT is providing significant help with the logistics.
COMP is also sponsoring the session "Physics and Astronomy in Native American and Hispanic Cultures." Besides enlightenment of the AAPT members, this session will give teachers of these underrepresented populations new ways to make connections between science and the cultural heritage of their students.
Mission 2. Seek methods of aiding minority physicists to overcome barriers to career development.
Juan Burciaga attended a Project Kaleidoscope conference on diversity in October 2003 as a representative of the AAPT. The focus of the conference was what role could professional societies play in promoting diversity. Some conference attendees made these suggestions for the AAPT:
- Work on changing the image of a bachelor's degree in physics so that engineering firms and other large employers will look more favorably on physics graduates.
- Prepare a booklet on diversity content for authors and publishers of textbooks.
- Prepare a brochure on careers in physics (at the bachelors level) for middle and high school.
- Focus on the recruitment and training of minority teachers.
- Promote a more flexible, balanced criteria for tenure decisions so that those who work in outreach or mentoring can be given appropriate credit for their work
COMP has not responded to these suggestions.
Mission 3. Communicate to the AAPT membership and to the community at large the findings of the committee, through approved AAPT channels.
Sacramento, Summer 2004
COMP was a co-sponsor of the session "Pacific-Rim Women in Physics" with the Committee on Women in Physics. A highlight of the session was the talk by Yan-Lai Yan on a set of high-quality Power Point lectures on frontier physics that she has developed for students who have completed a university-level course in general physics in Shanghai, China.
"Physics Education in Africa," co-sponsored by COMP and the International Physics committee, was popular enough for two sessions thanks to Ken Cecire of Hampton University and other AAPT members who suggested speakers. One session highlight was a comparison of conditions in Zambia 40 years ago to conditions today.
Other COMP members have suggested scientists and engineers who are members of underrepresented groups to be included in the video series under development by James Stith, Vice President for Physics Resources at the American Institute of Physics, highlighting the work of individuals in all fields of science. The series is called Discoveries and Breakthroughs-Inside Science TV (DBIS). Some of the past work is at http://www.aip.org/dbis/.
COMP attendance is much better in summer than in winter (10 vs. 5), New committee members have been appointed recently whose terms expire in 2007. We expect that the new infusion will generate fresh ideas in helping the committee to reach its goals.
-Daniel M. Smith, Jr., Chair
Review Board Response
Sometimes one hears that the problems of diversity issues in physics are so overwhelming that one simply does not know where to start. Following some extraordinary recent work of COMP, this excuse for inaction has been taken away. The Project Kaleidoscope conference suggestions are especially practical, and it seems COMP could help prioritize them for the AAPT Board and make some quite specific suggestions for action. The importance of strengthening the career image of B.S. level physics for first generation college/university physics students is clear. M.S. and Ph.D's will follow if that is the individual's desire. Secondly, how can the AAPT help promote more flexible, balanced criteria for tenure decisions so that those who work in outreach or mentoring can be given appropriate credit for their work?
The national program work of the committee (and other co-sponsoring area committees) has been very strong. The program anticipated for Albuquerque is both creative and exciting and should singularly draw folks to this meeting. The Alaska meeting of 2006 may provide venues for further development of physics and physics education perspectives from Native Americans of that locale.Back to top.
2004 Committee on Physics in High Schools
The high school committee has had a very productive year and is anticipating many new and exciting challenges for the future. Committee meeting attendance is at an all time high, and we benefit greatly from the active participation of the friends of the committee and the support provided by the Executive Office staff and the Executive Board. The committee provides leadership in communication and support of high school teachers of physics and astronomy. Recognizing the rapidly changing needs of the high school community, the committee coordinates its efforts with many committees within AAPT and organizations outside of AAPT.
Ongoing projects for this year include many successful sessions, workshops and cracker barrels at national meetings, along with the popular Physics Photo Contest, Physics Video Contest, Share-A-Thon, assistance with the NSTA physics strand, and the Outstanding High School Student Certificate program. The high school committee is actively supporting the work of the comPADRE project and is again encouraging AAPT to feature the photo contest winners on the cover of TPT and to provide a 2005 AAPT calendar.
Some changes have been made in the Innovative High School Teacher Grant. The 2005 grants will be limited to projects promoting the World Year of Physics. Beginning next fall, proposals will only be accepted from members of AAPT. In addition to the cash award, the committee is discussing the idea of providing a year of free membership to winners, which could be used by the winner or given as a gift to a colleague.
The revision of the New Teacher Handbook is due in January 2005. Work has begun on our new publication dealing with the alignment of the Physics First program within the existing physics curriculum. The committee gathered valuable information in our sessions in Sacramento and will be looking at pros and cons of the program in our two follow-up sessions in Salt Lake City. Although AAPT is not endorsing Physics First, this booklet is to serve as a guide for teachers who are considering Physics First for their schools.
We continue to have concerns in the areas of teacher preparation, mentoring of new teachers and retention of retired teachers in AAPT. In our ongoing search for solutions to these problems, we are co-sponsoring sessions on teacher training with the Committee on Teacher Preparation, and we continue to provide input and seek assistance from the Committee on Concerns of Senior Physicists. We have begun to nominate one veteran teacher and one new teacher for committee membership each year with the aim of maintaining a balanced committee that serves the needs of all members of the high school community.
Long-range goals involve production of a document on physics content standards and a physics lab resource guide. We recognize the need for continued cooperation with AAPT committees, various science organizations, as well as state and national agencies to coordinate efforts on these documents and other ongoing projects of the committee.
-Lila M. Adair, Chair
Review Board Response
The Review Board commends this committee for supporting many projects that involve students as well as high school teachers, for attending to the top issues facing AAPT members from the high school community, and for surveying members about under utilized AAPT services.
The Review Board suggests the committee develop a specific time-line and responsible individual or group (perhaps sub committee) for the "long-rang goals" of the committee. This is particularly important for the development of documents (e.g., "Importance of the Laboratory," "High School Physics Curriculum," "Support for the Beginning Teacher") that the committee supports.
It would be helpful to identify members of the committee interested in the "Long-range goals ... "listed with the name and e-mail address of a contact. Similar suggestions are appropriate for New Teacher Handbook and Physics First efforts.
2004 Committee on Physics in Pre-High School Education
The mission of the Committee for Physics in Pre-High School Education is threefold:
- Serve the teachers of K-8 students and improve the physics learned in grades K-8.
- Work with the college teachers whose students are the future teachers of children in grades K-8.
- Sponsor sessions and workshops on programs and curricular materials for pre-service teachers in grades K-8.
This committee must serve three diverse masters while attempting to achieve its mission. It must respond to the needs of K-8 teachers who are already in the field. The committee needs to provide assistance to pre-service teachers before they begin their practice. Finally we need to work with those institutions and instructors charged with developing the future teachers.
Fortunately the members and friends of the committee are enthusiastic and committed to accomplishing this threefold mission. Attendance has been good even with our usual 7:00 a.m. meetings.
In the last year the committee has proposed and conducted workshops, sessions and cracker-barrels intended to meet the wide range of needs that our mission requires. We have had success addressing some needs, yet feel frustrated when trying to meet others. We have worked with the evolving Committee on Teacher Preparation to organize popular sessions and cracker-barrels addressing topics in teacher preparation. Members of the committee were active in initiating an AAPT response to the possible limitations to hands-on science instruction in California. The committee has been able to help bring topics such as the effects of high stakes testing into discussion at AAPT meetings. We can feel somewhat satisfied with our efforts in these areas and we feel a commitment to continue in this direction. However we realize that we are only reaching Association members that attend national meetings with these efforts. We need to develop other methods to reach the rest of those we wish to serve.
We will continue to attempt to reach practicing pre-high school teachers at national meetings and provide worthwhile workshop experiences for them. We ask for ideas from the Board on how we can solve problems such as coordination with local schools and recruitment of local teachers. We are attempting to coordinate with the Committee for Science Education for the Public


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Greetings from Naxos, Greece, the largest island in the Cyclades. There are dozens of Greek Islands, but the Cyclades chain is probably the most famous due to its proximity to Athens (six to ten hours by ferry), and the fact that it's the chain that includes the two islands with the highest name recognition – Santorini and Mykonos.
As for Naxos, the ancient Greeks believed that Dionysus (aka Bacchus) – the god of wine and revelry – came from here, and there are still some ancient Greek ruins scattered along the coastline, including a pretty amazing arch right by where the ferry comes in. The middle of the island is filled with olive trees and vineyards, and I booked a little room with an ocean view which ended up being a rather large two-bedroom, four bed suite with no chance of seeing the ocean whatsoever. I hate to be judgmental, but the claims of an ocean view have been irrevocably exposed as a balls-out lie. Nonetheless, it's spacious, so if any of you are in the neighborhood, come on by!. Although the view is blocked by the hotel in front of it, the room is just 50 meters from the beach…and a mere 5 kilometers from civilization.
Unlike Santorini, which is very tourist-focused and has several decent-sized 'towns' spread quite a bit apart, Naxos consists of many independent, tiny villages a few kilometers from one another. In Santorini, you are very isolated from the rest of island (25 minutes by car, an hour by 4-wheeler) and the routes are quite mountainous and not walkable. However, when you're in your little town (Perissa, in my case) the area is heavily laden with grocery stores, restaurants, souvenir shops, and bars, Granted, 75% of them are closed in October, but there's still a fair offering. Every building that isn't a hotel is set up to sell something to the people staying in them, and whatever you need (within reason) can be found.
I think one of the things that perhaps made me a little overconfident about what I might find in Naxos is that Perissa (on Santorini), had not one, but two 24-hour bakeries. I don't know how the local baker got swindled into this deal, but it seems unfair. They're already making their product, do they really need to available at any time to sell it?
Meanwhile, on my birthday I took a late night walk in the moonlight. I decided to go by the bakery I came to prefer for its lower prices and friendly owner and see if he really was open and if he had any spanikopita. He had been there the last two times I'd gone by, so I was surprised – if not a little dismayed – to see him dozing in a chair at 11:30pm. Remember those "Time to make the donuts" ads for (Dunkin Donuts? Well, on Santorini it's ALWAYS time to make the donuts.
In contrast, when i got to Ag Anna here in Naxos, I was informed that there are no longer any restaurants open this time of year…and the one mini-market would be closing in ten minutes (at 7pm). I rushed over there, and was immediately flummoxed. It was extremely small. And the cabbie who had charged me an arm and a leg for the ride to my studio was running the cash register. At first I thought I was hallucinating or maybe he was a twin or something, but after I stared at him for about five seconds in disbelief, he threw up his hands and gave me a sheepish smile as if to say, "Busted!"
It was like a scene from an Adam Sandler movie: You're on a small island and everywhere you go, the same guy is working there, waiting to overcharge you. The same guy played (poorly) by Rob Schneider. Unrelated, there was a Rob Schneider doppleganger working at the hotel in Santorini. i considered pointing the uncanny resemblance out to him, but didn't want to hurt his feelings.
As for the market, I guess I shouldn't really be surprised by anything anymore, but this place hit a new low. Among the limited offerings and vast empty shelf space, one could find potatoes with very healthy looking 3′ sprouts (at 1 euro a pound, a virtual steal!), oranges from 1981, a variety of cheeses that expired in August, and a package of hotdogs with no expiration date, but an usual white hue along one side. In the mini-market's defense, they did have piles and piles of canned dolmathakia (dolmas) – rice wrapped in grape leaves (as well as a variation in cabbage leaves), but unfortunately for me, I don't like those.
As with the markets in Santorini, the place was desperately in need of restocking. The freezer had two gigantic restaurant supply-sized bags of peas and an entire octopus. You probably think I'm exaggerating, but this was no squid. The arms alone were the size of specimens more commonly seen at an aquarium. However, between the dog food and the dish soap I did find a package of linguine and a jar of Barilla spaghetti sauce. In need of protein, I threw caution to the wind ad bought a tin of meatballs. I know, I know. Normally I would be having the same reaction, but I'd already stared down an entire octopus, so I was feeling unusually bold.
Besides, I didn't really eat much of anything today (mistakenly thinking I could get a nice dinner once I got here), and I'm hoping that they taste like Chef Boyardee ravioli or something in that ballpark. I don't know that I've ever in my life WISHED for food to taste like Chef Boyardee, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
I hauled my wares back to my studio, and surveyed the scene. Somehow I hadn't registered that one of the two kitchen hotplates was no bigger than the palm of my hand. If I had, I might not have gone with a meal plan that involved boiling water, because as it turns out, that was the only burner that worked. They're electric and the light to tell you they're on isn't working, but I cranked them both up to to "3" (the max) and waited. After about five minutes, I came back and threw a little water on each of them. The larger burner didn't react. The mini burner sizzled a little. Emphasis on the word 'little.'
Long story short, I couldn't really get anything warmer than tepid water out of the tap (something I will be discussing with the owner, as my shower was the same temperature), but I put a pot on the tiny burner, put a lid on it, and waited. And waited. And waited. And when the water finally got to a 'pre-simmer' (the most it appeared it would ever be able to achieve), I put the noodles in and waited, and waited, and waited.
In the end, they were crunchier than I might normally prefer, but they softened enough to be edible. In the same vein, the meatballs were bearable, and the tomato sauce they were in was better than the Barilla. The balls themselves were fairly standard, except for the unexpected yet unmistakable flavor of mint. It was an aftertaste, but mint is one of those things that's so strong that even a little bit can be overwhelming. The effect was like a meatball with a smear of toothpaste on it.
Thankfully, the water here is not nearly so funky as Santorini, because one of the many things not offered by the Ag Anna mini-market was bottled water. For your drinking enjoyment, they carry a wide array of hard liquor, wines, and some orange Fanta. If you're not in the market for booze, hopefully you're looking for a sugar high and some orange dye.
Anyway, I realized I was thirsty about 10 minutes after I got back to my room…and 15 minutes after the market had closed. After making my linguine, I found a little tiny pot (probably meant for heating milk) and the same size as the little burner and boiled up some water. Well, I didn't BOIL it, that's not possible under the circumstances, but you get the idea. It's my personal theory that if you're going to drink something bad, may as well drink it through a veil of Earl Gray tea. Thankfully the tea tasted more or less normal, and a later sampling of the unadulterated tap water found it drinkable.
Food acquisition troubles aside, the Greek islands are incredibly beautiful – chalky white buildings along jagged coastlines, delicate olive trees, and endless blue water. I took the most gorgeous 'sunset on the water' photo today as the ferry was arriving in Naxos. Moreover, if you're the kind that tends to wander on foot (like me) you will come upon hidden little spots with natural panoramas that are jaw-dropping perfection. Like something out of a calendar.
Otherwise, and to be honest, I am way out in the sticks. I thought I was in the sticks in Croatia, but I think I've topped myself here. For example, I have never actually seen a horse give birth, but if I had to wager a guess on the noise coming from outside my room right now, that would be my first guess. Seriously though, it's kind of alarming, something akin to a child bawling mixed with a donkey noise, although it does help distract from the half-dozen roosters braying.
It probably goes without saying, but if you find yourself on Naxos and decide to drop by and crash on one of my unused beds, follow the sound of the distressed mule. I'm right next door. And if I'm already asleep, feel free to help yourself to some of the leftover peppermint meatballs in the fridge.
(And just so you aren't feeliing too terribly sad for me, I will add that I ended up walking to Naxos Town this morning – which took over two hours. I didn't mind. I could walk all day so long as it's warmish and the sun is shining. Plus, I think it would have taken more like an hour if I hadn't stopped on this one beach and also taken a bunch of picures on the way. And played with some cats. By the way: DO NOT PICK UP GREEK CATS NO MATTER HOW FRIENDLY THEY SEEM!!! They go from friendly feline to whirling dervish of claws, fur, and maybe even a couple switchblades in 0.3 seconds.
Anyway, I am currently savoring a lovely lunch rich with local feta and heavenly tzatziki and calamari and Greek salad AND it turns out they have free wifi, so I can post the blog! All's well that ends well…)

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Out of the cellar
Weekend in review…………..
**By winning the series, the Phillies now have done that back-to-back which is good enough to get them out of the cellar.
**Shutout on Saturday night was the Phillies first at Citizens Bank Park since September 5, 2011.
**Doc's win was his first since May 17.
**Cliff is winless in his last 10 starts at home. But, back-to-back strong outings by Doc and Cliff bodes well for the future.
**Ryan's walk-off single was the eighth of his career, most of anybody on the team.
**Five of the Phillies last six wins at home have come in their final at-bat.
**In this season of disbelief, yet another injury, Chooch, their most consistent player. The All-Star catcher could miss the rest of the season.
**Given an opportunity, Kratz has stepped up big time behind the plate.
**J-Roll moved into third place ahead of Larry Bowa for games played in Phillies history. He trails only Richie Ashburn (1,794) and Mike Schmidt (2,404). Sometime next week, Jimmy will pass Bowa for the most games played at shortstop in team history.
**Chase's homer on Sunday was his 195th, tying former teammate Bobby Abreu for ninth place on the all-time list. Dick Allen is eighth, 204.
Down On The Farm (weekend edition)
Lehigh Valley lost 2 of 3 at Pawtucket to fall from first to third, but only 1.5 games out. RHS Jonathan Pettibone won his first AAA game on Saturday. C Sebastian hit his first AAA homer in same game. Red Sox scored 2 in last of ninth on Sunday and won it in walk-off fashion as relievers Phillippe Aumont (blown save #3) and Jake Diekman (1-1) walked 6 batters in 1.2 innings.
Reading took 3 out of 4 form Binghamton. 1B-LF Darin Ruf hit 4 homers (19-20-21-22) out of 5 hits. RHS Ethan Martin, acquired in the Victorino trade, made his Phillies debut, winning on Friday, 1 run, 6 innings, 6 strikeouts. RHS Brody Colvin (1-0) won his first AA game Sunday, 2 runs, 1 hit, 6 innings. Phillies are in third, 1 game out of second and a postseason berth. Clearwater was swept in a 3-game series in Lakeland. Threshers are in fourth, 2.5 games out of first place in the second half.
Lakewood lost all 3 in West Virginia and was outscored, 19-5. BlueClaws are in fourth place, 3 games behind in the second half.
Williamsport dropped all 3 to Connecticut, including a 6-5, 15-inning decision on Saturday. Crosscutters are in sixth place.
Gulf Cost League Phillies lost 2 of 3 to the Tigers. RHS Shane Watson, the Phillies first selection in the June draft, made his pro debut on Friday, second game, 1 inning, 1 strikeout. Phillies are in fourth place.
Del Ennis became the second Phillie to reach 1,000 RBI 57 years ago. Check out www.phillies.com/alumni for a vintage photo of Del and three teammates acknowledging that accomplishment.


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pens2005 wrote:The flyers, once again, force another team into a scrum match, totally get them off their game, and dominate a hockey game.
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As "owner" of a virtual terminal:
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mir-test-tools.sdl2-test runs an SDL2 client and reports if it fail
mir-test-tools.gtk3-test runs a gtk3+ client and reports if it fail
mir-test-tools.performance-test runs the Mir performance tests and reports if any fail
mir-test-tools.smoke-test runs each of the example Mir clients and reports any that fail. (This is mostly legacy as it tests mirclient support, not Wayland.)
mir-test-tools.bash is a debugging aid: it starts a bash session with the environment set up for the tests.
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We had a lot of annoying spammers registering names (over 5k, to be exact). Most of these accounts looked like they were produced through random smashing of the head on keyboards but others were hard to weed out. It wasn't a big deal until we realized it made it hard for our fellow geeks to find other legit community members. It ruined the leaderboards, messaging, and forums. No me gusta.
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We're trying to keep our site as user-friendly and snappy as possible but, rest assured, we are more secure than the average web site. I personally find things like CAPTCHA really annoying and mostly unnecessary.. But sometimes they are a necessary evil. We'll be dabbling with additional security layers so please stand by, folks!
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Sherlach remembered as a spunky Miami Dolphins fan
TRUMBULL -- The morning rain ebbed as a procession of vehicles arrived for Friday's memorial Mass for Mary J. Sherlach, the school psychologist killed during the Newtown massacre a week earlier.
Minutes later, the clouds gave way fully to sunshine as Sherlach, 56, was remembered as a spunky Miami Dolphins fan who loved her job and spent her life in service of others.
Mourners stepped from parked cars and into the embrace of one another. The first to enter the open double doors at St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church were three men in uniforms, two carrying bouquets of white roses and the third an urn containing the victim's remains.
Sherlach was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School when she ran toward the shooter in an attempt to stop him.
But observers inside the church said Friday's service was focused on the way Sherlach lived her life and not on the way it ended.
Two of her friends recalled a compassionate woman who gave her time to anyone who asked for it.
Another eulogized her with funny stories and took off his jacket to don a teal Miami Dolphins football jersey. He said Sherlach was a fan of the team's famed former quarterback Dan Marino, and she and her husband, Bill, would go to games often.
Should the crowd's enthusiasm wane, he told mourners, Sherlach would always rally them.
The NFL team sent a teal and orange floral arrangement, which was placed on the altar near a Dolphins jersey left by someone else.
To the left of the altar, another stand paid tribute to another of Sherlach's passions with a gray Sandy Hook Elementary School T-shirt.
Sherlach may have loved Dan Marino, but she lived for her job.
One eulogist said she was often busy with school activities, so it was a source of consolation for her husband that they had spent a little more time together than usual last Friday morning.
Sherlach had plans to retire next year.
"It was a beautiful service," said former U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays. "You felt that God was in that room." Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Trumbull First Selectman Tim Herbst were also in attendance.
Shays didn't know Sherlach, but his wife, Betsy, said the couple wanted to pay their respects to the shooting victims.
"We just came out of quiet love and respect," she said. "I would like to think great good is going to come out these unimaginable events."


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EDIT: This is the "All Purpose Tab Request" thread from the other side of the forum, Daidj was nifty enough to move it over here for me and I'm leaving it pretty much as is. For reference it covers: Taster, Campershell Dreams, Lost On Yer Merry Way and This Is How It Always Starts
Feel free to continue this thread but please try only to expand on ideas already discussed here (and try and crack Taster for me) - We have a whole sub-forum to discuss other songs and make tab requests etc.
Hey guys,
I've been having some major issues with taster. I've been playing it for a while to how it goes in my head but then listened to it again recently and realised I'd been miles off.
I've been playing:
weird E/Bb thing (67x8xx), A (577655), E (022100)
but of course its E/Bb, A, ?, ?, E. I've looked around but what I've seen in tabs doesn't really work for me. Any hints on what the ? chords are? Also are there any live vids of this that might shed some light on the problem?
Thanks Talkscapers


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SCOTTSDALE, AZ - FilterMag International announces new management, funding and customers in response to pent-up worldwide demand for its breakthrough FilterMag product family. As the manufacturer of magnetic filtration products that substantially reduce the presence of harmful particles from oil, hydraulic and fuel systems used in critical assets relied upon in mining, oil and gas, heavy construction and manufacturing markets, FilterMag is pursuing a total addressable market (TAM) opportunity estimated in excess of $25 billion.
The challenge facing all oil and hydraulic filtration technologies deployed in essential assets such as drilling systems, fleet trucks, pumps and compressors is the ability to remove the smallest particles that cause the greatest wear and fatigue on parts and systems. FilterMag has developed a breakthrough magnetic filtration product family that dramatically improves the capture rate of the most harmful particles – in the sub-10 micron range – that cause three and a half times more wear than contaminants greater than 20 microns in size. As a result, life expectancies of strategic capital equipment can be extended significantly, system reliability and uptime can be improved, and operating costs can be reduced substantially. For example, a major mining company evaluated FilterMag's on 28 of its diesel engines with extrapolated test results that produced a 1.6x lifecycle extension, a 38% reduction in operating cost per hour and an overall lifecycle savings of $1.49 million based on an initial investment of $88,480 in FilterMag products.
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As a magnetic filtration solution, FilterMag products use custom-designed, heat resistant Neodymium alloy magnets that are mathematically optimized and magnetically modeled for specific applications. These are the strongest rare earth permanent magnets in the world that are also used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems. Using a patented design, FilterMags non-invasively extract wear-causing particles from oil and hydraulic fluids without interfering with the flow. In addition, FilterMag products are engineered to focus a magnetic field inside a filter that is formulated to remove damaging particles from oil operating at up to 300 degrees F. This is in sharp contrast to most magnets that start to lose their magnetism at 180 degrees F.
New Management Team
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"What's remarkable about our value proposition is that a single FilterMag, that snaps on to oil, hydraulic and/or fuel filters in 60 seconds, can have a profound impact on extending the lifespan of crucial equipment used across a wide range of industrial markets," Martin said. "The utter simplicity of our solution is matched by the application-specific magnetic modeling built in to every FilterMag. While magnetic filtration is not a new technology per se, our non-invasive and patented approach to contaminant removal - using the world's most powerful rare earth magnets – is redefining this space. The bottom line is that paper, bypass and centrifugal filtration alternatives cannot compete with our results."
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In response to widespread demand for its magnetic filtration solutions, FilterMag has added a global mining company as its latest customer, delivering products used in haul trucks, drills, bulldozers and graders at multiple sites in the US, Brazil, Australia and Indonesia. This adds to FilterMag's successful installations in land and sea-based drilling platforms, mud pumps, top drives and generator sets across multiple oil and gas locations as well as thousands of installations in oil and natural gas distribution systems.
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text: Singer/pianist Michael Feinstein was both a prime motivator and a beneficiary of a renewed interest in pre-rock popular music that started in the 1980s, a trend that also found Linda Ronstadt selling millions of copies of albums of traditional pop made with conductor Nelson Riddle and that fueled the success of Harry Connick Jr. In Feinstein's case, it allowed him to establish a career as a nightclub entertainer and then move up to theaters while releasing major-label albums; his background as a musical archivist also enabled him to bring a scholar's knowledge to his performances of classic pop music. He was born Michael Jay Feinstein on September 7, 1956, in Columbus, Ohio. His father, Edward Feinstein, was an executive in the meat business, but had been a band singer, while his mother, Mazie Feinstein, was an amateur tap dancer. Beginning to play the piano by ear at age five, Feinstein grew up fascinated by the pop music of generations preceding him and amassed a large record collection. He moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1976, and there began to come in contact with the people who created the music he adored. He was hired by Ira Gershwin to catalog the veteran lyricist's archives, a job he performed until Gershwin's death in 1983. (He also worked for Harry Warren in 1981-1982.) At that point, he turned to performing as a cabaret artist full-time, beginning in Los Angeles. In 1985, he released his debut album, Pure Gershwin, on Parnassus Records. A 1986 engagement at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel in New York was extended for four months and resulted in the LP Live at the Algonquin (Elektra, 1987). After releasing Remember: Michael Feinstein Sings Irving Berlin (1987), he was able to take his act to Broadway, opening Michael Feinstein in Concert: Isn't It Romantic at the Lyceum Theatre on April 19, 1988. The same year, he released his third album, also called Isn't It Romantic. During 1989, he released two thematic albums, Over There (Angel), devoted to the music of World War I, and The M.G.M. Album (Elektra). For Elektra's Nonesuch imprint, Feinstein launched a series of "songbook" albums recorded with the participation of the veteran songwriters themselves, the first of them devoted to Burton Lane (August 1990, with a second volume in November 1992), followed by Jule Styne (October 1991), Jerry Herman (October 1993), and Hugh Martin (September 1995). Back at Elektra, Feinstein devoted an album to children, Pure Imagination (April 1992). Forever (March 1993) found him balancing contemporary material with the usual standards. He then switched labels, landing at Atlantic Records for Such Sweet Sorrow (March 1995) and Nice Work If You Can Get It: Songs by the Gershwins (February 1996) before moving to Concord Records, beginning with an album to mark the centenary of George Gershwin, Michael & George: Feinstein Sings Gershwin (September 1998). In 1999, Feinstein lent his name to a new nightclub in New York located in the Regency Hotel, as Feinstein's at the Regency became a venue for sophisticated cabaret entertainers including its namesake. (A second Feinstein's later opened in Hollywood.) The same year, he released Big City Rhythms, fronting the Maynard Ferguson Big Band. Romance on Film/Romance on Broadway (October 2000) was a two-CD set, the first disc recorded live. It was followed by Michael Feinstein with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in May 2002. In the fall of 2002, Concord announced the formation of Feinstein's own custom subsidiary label, Feinery, intended to "present hidden gems from the American Popular Songbook." It was launched with a new album, Michael Feinstein Sings the Livingston & Evans Songbook, on October 8, 2002. Feinstein's 2003 album, Only One Life, was devoted to the songs of Jimmy Webb. In 2005, he and George Shearing teamed up for Hopeless Romantics. The Sinatra Project appeared in 2008. In 2009, Feinstein and Broadway star Cheyenne Jackson made The Power of Two for Harbinger Records. Fly Me to the Moon (September 2010) on the Duckhole label found him accompanied by jazz guitarist Joe Negri. In 2011, Feinstein followed up his 2008 homage to Sinatra with The Sinatra Project, Vol. 2: The Good Life. ~ William Ruhlmann


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by Jim Harris
It seems like everyone is talking about school violence these days. My friend Swami Tommy, a certified psychic soothsayer, is predicting that Mayor Nutter will soon launch a "humanitarian intervention" into Philadelphia's violence-plagued public schools to prevent further assaults on decent students by thugs.
"Police helicopters will drop carefully aimed satchels of explosives," says Tommy. "Just enough to break up the fighting and roust everyone from the building. It's completely safe."
While that looks good on paper, there has to be a better way to make our schools safer. I have a few suggestions.
•School uniforms might help. Suits of armor, perhaps.
•Plant child spies in the schools to rat on troublemakers. Put the mini-spies on the payroll, and guarantee them a witness protection home in Florida if they get "outed."
•Paint more inspirational murals on the school buildings. Pictures of happy, well adjusted kids reading, helping old ladies across the street and engaging in wholesome activities. This would only cost $5 million dollars, and it's bound to work.
•Look to nature for solutions. Animals, too, often have discipline problems with their young. Lions are known to banish hooligans from the pride, and in some insect societies, the troublemakers get eaten (not recommended).
•The tough kids might not be smart enough to be accepted into the military, but maybe they could be drafted into the Peace Corps and sent off to beat up helpless people in foreign lands.
•Turn the schools into prisons. The schools already look like bunkers. They have metal detectors, barred windows, armed guards and video surveillance. You don't need to do a whole "extreme makeover;" just lock the damn doors. The only drawback to this method is that the good kids would get locked up along with the bad.
•Prospective parents could be required to take training courses and buy licenses for their progeny. This might cut down on the number of folks who have absolutely no intention of being responsible parents. This would, however, undoubtedly be opposed by the powerful NRA (National Reproductive Association). According to NRA spokesperson Aphrodite LaLapalooza, "The constitution guarantees us the right to bear children. Children aren't the problem, people are the problem."
•I'm not sure if the constitution actually does guarantee anyone the right to churn out babies like it's an Olympic event, but I do know it doesn't guarantee the right to an education. Wouldn't it be easier to just eliminate schools altogether? Or have kids enter school at age 6 and graduate at 7 — just long enough to learn basics — then channel them directly into the work force. If a kid is old enough to curse and kick a teacher, he or she is old enough to work. Maybe let them return to school at age 18, when they're better prepared to learn.
•The current Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Arlene Ackerman, has suggested that the violence is not a school problem but a societal problem. Maybe we should just bomb society.
•Dr. Ackerman has also intimated (if I'm reading her right), that al-Queda has been putting mind-altering drugs in the kids' milk. This is not likely, though, since most kids prefer soda. Maybe it's all that high-fructose corn syrup and food coloring that's making them crazy.
I thought about contacting Ackerman for an interview, but her number is unlisted, and it costs $20 to do an Internet search. Besides, I'm told she doesn't like to be called at home, and she's always out somewhere anyway, getting yet another "Educator of the Year" award.
When I ask my teacher friends if they like their jobs, they invariably reply sarcastically, "Oh yeah, I'll really miss it when I retire — 10 years, two months, three weeks, four days, and 55 minutes from now." It's sad; a teacher is a terrible thing to waste.
You don't have to be smart or charming to succeed in America, but you still should need to be a decent human being. If we can't teach that, we can't teach anything.


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Again, in protest, this council must read county directives that directly affect our community from a newspaper.
It is understandable that our commissioner has been receiving comments and questions from residents and businesses about the old Seafarer's property. Between the rumors that there is going to be an employee parking area for the Fort Myers Beach downtown district and that Lee County is considering the purchase of many properties to possibly get into the development business, many eyebrows are being raised.
It all began when the Fort Myers Beach Council approached the county to work with the town to look at the Seafarer's property and adjacent beachfront for what was considered our best opportunity to address the traffic situation on Estero. The beachfront property soon became a park and the traffic resolution has been relatively set aside in lieu of TDC requirements for parking.
Misinformation undermines any hopes of effective communication. After speaking with other commissioners, one has to assume that there is no real plan that has been agreed on by the BOCC regarding the future of the Seafarer's property. Consider that the involvement of the Council has been extremely limited at best. Someone has been making a lot of decisions and now they are being questioned.
There are remnants of past communications that are yet unresolved. LPA requested a flagpole for the park in honor of service from our late Carlton Ryffel. Council agreed, forwarding that request to the county. Now we wait. Concepts for new shade structures are in the works, and there may be a new gazebo? Neither Council nor this town have not seen nor considered any of the concepts.
Jo List created an idea to place artwork on the desolate vacant corner that highlights the entrance to our island from those that enter from the north; the first thing they see after the panoramic view from the bridge. As everyone knows, Jo works with Principal Larry Wood, the teachers and the kids to bring our families together with positive projects for everyone to work with and enjoy together. We look forward to the Fort Myers Beach Art Association and the kids, creating our window to the island. This project certainly requires her leadership and council participation.
Alan Mandel was directed by the council to work with Town Attorney Jim Humphrey to look for avenues that the Town could choose to ensure that the integrity of the property requires that traffic solutions are given highest priority in all future plans. Based on commissioner comments, the council is reacting to rumors rather than information.
When asked why is it taking so long? Judah says the county is waiting on a legal opinion from the town. And the county waits?
A letter was sent to the county, Feb. 9, 2012, written by Fowler White Boggs P.A., Marilyn W. Miller, addressed to Donna Marie Collins, Assistant Lee County Attorney, providing a formal opinion concerning whether any amendment(s) to the Town of Fort Myers Beach Comprehensive Plan is(are) necessary for a surface parking facility. Thus, offering the county assistance from Fort Myers Beach to help with the application. In essence, it's the town that waits!
This situation is rather simple, if an individual, government entity or business property owner wishes to make improvements to property, they must submit appropriate paperwork to begin the process. They all get treated the same.
Mr. Judah explains that "we have hired the consulting firmwith some things we have come up withcreation of signage so that cars coming over the bridge are directed north on Estero, right onto Old Sand Carlos, right onto 3rd Street, right onto Crescent Street and right onto 5th Street to get to the parking lot." Judah further explains that they are looking at removing the left turn onto Crescent and turning the lot into Employee parking.
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I was surprised to read this week that Microsoft is not only working on IE10, but has already published a Platform Preview 1 available for download since April 12th. There's also a guide for developers available which accompanies IE 10 Platform Preview 1. In this guide you can read about several new features which are going to be supported which are compatible with the W3C Working Draft:
- Flexible Box ("Flexbox") Layout, which will allow child element positioning, use unused space within the box and handle resizing and different browser resolutions.
- Grid Alignment, which will allow to divide a container into rows and columns for better positioning and better handling of screen resolution changes. MS' people are the ones currently signed on this draft.
- Multi-column Layout Module, which allows content to be split into columns with a "gap and a rule between them".
- Gradients, which allows gradient coloring of the background of graphical elements.
From a preliminary reading of these features and abstracts, it looks like the first three items are targeting not only the web developer's usual difficulties of supporting different resolutions and browser resizing, but also the dynamic layout of the tablet world which storms upon us all.
With regards to IE10, being used to a slow delivery pace of IE browsers over the years, especially the 5 year gap in between IE6 and the release of IE7, Microsoft finally seem to realize that they have to take the browser development to a rapid pace, and especially compete with Google Chrome's ultra quick release of their browser updates. Unfortunately my current favorite browser, Firefox, seems to lag behind, at least as far as the version numbering and the buzz involved, but not necessarily in quality. I guess that as long as Firefox maintains the leadership in extensions, or so it seems, it will still find a place amongst IE and Chrome. I'm uncertain however regarding IE's extensions. I guess that MS has to encourage a developer community to develop more and more extensions in order to compete with Chrome and FF.
All in all, I'm content that Microsoft seems to be taking on this seriously, providing faster and more standard compliant browsers. We, users and developers alike, are only expected to gain from this competition, as long as the different browser manufacturers maintain W3C standards, unlike Microsoft's earlier browsers.


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Anyway, point is, Flight in D&D sucks. It's absolutely must-have after a certain point, it completely changes the game once it's available, and it's simply a bitch to deal with. You have to maintain a record of things' altitude, you have to figure out the lengths along diagonals, it's just miserable.
This... ditches all that. Not without cost, mind you! Flight is far, far less "realistic" (or "simulationist") under these rules. There will absolutely be situations where you'll be like "but wait, I'm flying, why can't I just..." and the answer will be "because the rules are an abstraction and we don't want to go into that much detail, because we've been there and it's bad."
Ultimately, it will require a bit of looking-the-other-way-ness. Some players and DMs will probably hate it. But I think it really simplifies things and makes them much more elegant and balanced. If you can look the other way a little bit, you may find that this change really simplifies and improves your game.
A creature is either flying or it is not; the rules do not consider its altitude.
A "flying" creature is one that is out of reach from the ground. A creature that is flying is assumed to be flying high enough to be out of the reach of any ground-based opponents. If an enclosed area has a ceiling not high enough to allow this, it is impossible to be considered flying. Creatures that are not flying may not make melee attacks against flying creatures; creatures that are flying may not make melee attacks against grounded creatures. The flying status of either attacker or defender does not make any difference for ranged attacks.
Each square effectively is two squares: the ground square and the air square. Two creatures, one grounded and one flying, may share a square without penalty. Because they cannot reach each other with melee attacks, neither threatens the other. They do threaten all other squares within their reach that match their flying status: a flying creature with 5' reach threatens any other flying creatures in adjacent squares, while a grounded creature would threaten those around it that are not flying.
All rules regarding hovering, turns, minimum distances moved, and the like, remain in effect for each maneuverability. The sole exception is the rules for moving up and down, which are described below:
A flying creature may, during any movement, switch from flying to not-flying and vice versa. When the creature does so, they reduce their total movement during the action by the listed amount.
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|Penalty, Down
For example, a creature with 20' Flight speed (Poor) could spend a Move action to become Flying (and have no left over movement with which to change squares); after doing so, if it had Skirmish damage (extra damage for moving), it would count as having moved 20', triggering the damage and preventing, for example, a 5' step.
A creature that has Perfect or Good maneuverability may stop flying as a Free Action, as it requires no movement. This must occur on their turn, however. It does not count as a 5' step, and provokes Attacks of Opportunity as normal, unless they combine it with an actual 5' step (i.e. moving down and up to one square over). They are not required to change squares if they spend a 5' step moving from Flying to not.
A flying creature may also ignore ground-based Difficult Terrain and other hazards, provided there is room to fly over them (i.e. flying creatures may ignore walls in an open area, but not floor-to-ceiling walls in a dungeon).
A creature that can fly but is not currently flying (as in, not flying high enough to avoid melee attacks), may still "fly" at low altitudes (provided it maintains minimum velocity, does not turn too sharply, etc., as normal for its maneuverability). If it does so, it may ignore Difficult Terrain and other hazards on the surface of the ground, and use its Flight Speed to determine how far it can move in a round, but is otherwise treated as grounded. Switching between flying at a low altitude and simply walking is a Free Action, which may also be made out of turn if the creature is otherwise entitled to any form of controlled movement.
Reduced Abstraction — Variants
A couple of fairly major limitations of the above system can be solved without throwing out the entire concept of abstracted flight. These increase flight's complexity versus the above, but it is still less complex than normal flight.
Creatures with Different Reach
A creature who is Flying and has greater Reach than an opponent should, logically, be able to fly such that it can attack a grounded foe with melee weapons without that foe being able to counter attack.
To allow this to happen, allow a Flying creature to do exactly that: a Flying creature may position itself such that it can attack grounded enemies, and enemies with less reach than the Flying creature cannot attack with melee in return. This is similar to the "low altitude flight" above, but a bit higher in altitude than normal. Other Flying creatures may attack this creature in melee without exposing themselves to the ground. By the same token, if the other creatures have longer reach than the original, they too may avoid returns.
A creature being attacked from above by something with a reach advantage has a few options. If they are capable of flying, they can close the distance between themselves and the target. The movement penalty for doing so is equal to the difference between the two creature's respective reaches.
If the victim is grounded, it must instead rely on the Jump skill to close the gap and use melee weapons. The creature must make a Jump (which usually involves a Move Action) with a DC sufficient to attain a vertical height equal to the difference in the two creatures' reach. If its Jump check beats the DC for a height 5 ft. more than this difference, and the jumper is jumping straight up (i.e. no more than 5 ft. horizontal distance moved), this movement counts as a 5 ft. step instead of a normal movement, and thus the jumper may make a full-attack against the Flying target before dropping back to the earth. Either way, this jump does not provoke attacks of opportunity unless the horizontal distance moved would.
Creatures of Very Different Size
When there is a creature or creatures that are very much larger than others on the field, the DM may decide to include more than one "air" square. These are effectively the same as the normal abstract flight, simply with more layers: instead of just "Grounded" and "Flying", you might have "Grounded", "Low Altitude", and "High Altitude". Additional layers may be added at the DM's discretion. Moving between these layers is the same as moving from "Grounded" to "Flying" under the usual scheme; simply take the movement speed penalty for every layer a creature moves between.
The very large creatures then take up more than one layer. There should always be a layer above the largest creature, so that flyers can stay out of its reach. The large creature can attack in melee with any target in the same layer as it. Other creatures can only melee attack creatures from their own layer, as normal. This means that a flyer could be flying high enough to avoid melee attacks from the ground, while still entering into melee combat with the very large creature.


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A Seattle man has been charged with insurance fraud and second-degree theft for allegedly filing multiple auto insurance claims for a single accident.
Thanh Thai "Derrick" Dang, 31, was charged Wednesday in King County Superior Court. Both charges are class C felonies, carrying a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
An investigation by the state insurance commmissioner's Special Investigations Unit found that in May 2010, Dang contacted insurer Ameriprise to say that his Toyota RAV4 had been hit by a hit-and-run driver while parked outside a home in Seattle. Ameriprise issued a check for $3,887.
Eight days after the accident, Dang obtained coverage over the internet from Allstate. Almost immediately, he filed a claim with Allstate for damage to the RAV4, saying that the car had been rear-ended while he was driving on Interstate 5. He also claimed that he'd been injured. Allstate issued a check for $3,502 for repairs to the vehicle.
A subsequent investigation by Allstate's anti-fraud unit showed that the RAV4 damage was identical in both claims.
A hearing in Dang's case is scheduled for June 13th.
Update (9/20/2011): King County Superior Court Judge Susan Craighead ordered Dang to pay restitution to both Allstate and Ameriprise, plus $600 to the court. He was also sentenced to 200 hours of community service.
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