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The Poetry of Abraham Lincoln
By Bruce Guernsey
ISSUE: Spring 2002
Not far from where I live in east central Illinois, the father of Abraham Lincoln lies buried. Though I've lived out here in this open land for more than two decades, I had not visited Thomas Lincoln's grave until last year, after my father died. He is buried in the east where I'm from, and I guess I needed a nearby place to mourn. Or maybe I just missed my father that fall day I stopped by tiny Shiloh Cemetery to stand where Abraham Lincoln once stood. That great man knew words and how to say them, and I began to imagine his voice as he lowered his head and whispered.
What he said, and especially how he said it, became an obsession of mine after that visit. The president-elect had come there the last time on Jan.31, 1861. He was off to Washington the next day to be inaugurated. I felt like an eavesdropper, my ear at the wall of time as I tried to hear this incredible moment of son speaking to father about what lay before him. Did he ask for advice? Did he say thank you? Did the past come back with all its difficulties, and did they argue? I wanted to know because I, too, was now a fatherless son.
I attempted to deal with this connection I felt by writing a poem, but struggled with point of view. Finally I realized that I had to write this in Lincoln's voice, not my own or my father's or Thomas Lincoln's or some third-person's—a dramatic monologue, that is, set on that very day in January, the air raw in this openness, and windy as only the prairie can be. The monologue's time and place were the easy part, but what did Lincoln sound like? I had to know and turned to his letters and speeches to find out.
I began thumbing through the first of the Library of America's two-volume set of Lincoln's work, the 1832—1858 writings edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Among a group of 1846 political letters was a strikingly familiar sight: words in a vertical shape that didn't go all the way to the right-hand margin—words that looked a lot like poetry. Abraham Lincoln wrote poetry!? Amazing! I knew he split rails and learned to read in the dark, but I'd never heard about the poems. Besides, an ambitious young lawyer-politician is hardly someone we think of as penning verse. What might have been so important for him to take the time to do so, I wondered? Could it be that something "hurt" him into poetry, as has been said of poets before, but not of future presidents?
"My Childhood-Home I See Again," the poem I found there, was actually written in two separate parts that were included in letters to Andrew Johnston, a former colleague of Lincoln's in the Illinois House and a budding poet himself. In another letter, Lincoln sent along a third poem called "The Bear Hunt," and humbly refers to all of his poetry as "doggerel." "I am not at all displeased with your proposal to publish the poetry," Lincoln says to Johnston, however. He does want his name "suppressed," so he says, for "I have not sufficient hope of the verses attracting any favorable notice to tempt me to risk being ridiculed for having written them." The two halves of "Childhood-Home" did finally appear in the Quincy, Illinois Whig and with Lincoln's name, so perhaps this legendary man was just like any other beginning poet: at once shy, nervous, and proud about what he had written.
Honest Abe was also being honest—the work is very stylized and sentimental—and the distinctive voice I was searching for was not in these little-known poems, alas. It is, of course, in the prose, but I'm convinced that Lincoln's practice with lines—and as I later learned, his constant reading and reciting of poetry—helped make him the speech writer he was. Of equal importance, the content of these poems hints at a vision in the making, revealing this dark-browed man's nostalgic personality as he ranges from troubling thoughts of home to a rollicking ride through the country, hunting bears.
Writing to Johnston on April 18, 1846, Lincoln acknowledges a parody of "The Raven" that his friend had sent along but admits that he has never read Poe's original. He also discusses another poem that he'd read some years before "in a straggling form in a newspaper," one he would "give all I am worth . . .to be able to write"—a poem that scholars are sure was William Knox's "Mortality," a very somber piece. He concludes this letter with some stanzas of his own that he "was led to write under the following circumstances." To summarize, Lincoln had gone back to Indiana helping to campaign in 1844 and while there, had visited the site "where [his] mother and only sister were buried." The result of that visit is the first part of what became "My Childhood-Home."
Written in the meter of Protestant hymns ("common meter") and full of all kinds of graveyard-school poeticisms, the poem is nonetheless oddly touching, perhaps because we know of Lincoln's own sorrows and of his later heroic struggle to keep the national "home" together, never having had a permanent one of his own. Here are a few stanzas:
As dusky mountains please the eye
When twilight chases day;
As bugle-notes that, passing by,
In distance die away;
As leaving some grand waterfall,
We, lingering, list its roar—
So memory will hallow all
We've known, but know no more.
The friends I left that parting day,
How changed, as time has sped!
Young childhood grown, strong manhood gray,
And half of all are dead.
I hear the loved survivors tell
How nought from death could save,
Till every sound appears a knell,
And every spot a grave.
One of those friends he left, one of those "loved survivors," is the subject of the next section which he sent Johnston half a year later. Based on the same visit to Indiana, these lines deal with "an insane man" from his hometown whom Lincoln identifies as Matthew Gentry. Matthew once went to school with Abe, but at 19 became "unaccountably" mad. The poet Lincoln found him in this same "wretched condition" in 1844, and in a "poetizing mood," wrote 13 quatrains about the man's plight. In form and content these are a focused extension of the previous stanzas and underwent only minor changes when Lincoln joined them all together. Again, some examples:
But here's an object more of dread
Than ought the grave contains—
A human form with reason fled,
While wretched life remains.
Poor Matthew! Once of genius bright,
A fortune-favored child—
Now locked for aye, in mental night,
A haggard mad-man wild.
How then you strove and shrieked aloud,
Your bones and sinews bared;
And fiendish on the gazing crowd,
With burning eye-balls glared—
And begged, and swore, and wept and prayed
With maniac laugh joined—
How fearful were those signs displayed
By pangs that killed thy mind!
"The Bear Hunt," sent to Johnston in February, 1847, is a major change of pace and would have confirmed what many in Washington thought of this lanky Mid-Westerner, that he was a hick at heart. Full of energy and 19th-century country fun, the poem reveals another side of Lincoln, who apparently was able to have a hearty laugh at what "pompous, two-legged dogs there be," as well as feel for the plight of his fellow man as he does for Matthew Gentry. Despite its continual end-stopped lines, "The Bear Hunt" races along on monosyllabic paws and hooves in pursuit of both its burly quarry and Lincoln's concluding moral about man's false pride. These stanzas are part of the "chace":
On press his foes, and reach the ground,
Where's left his half munched meal;
The dogs, in circles, scent around,
And find his fresh made trail.
With instant cry, away they dash,
And men as fast pursue;
O'er logs they leap, through water splash,
And shout the brisk halloo.
And round, and round the chace now goes,
The world's alive with fun;
Nick Carter's horse, his rider throws, And more, Hill drops his gun.
Now sorely pressed, bear glances back,
And lolls his tired tongue;
When as, to force him from his track,
An ambush on him sprung.
Given the earthiness of Lincoln's subject here, I was not surprised when I learned later that his two favorite poets were Shakespeare and Burns, lads of the fields themselves. Lincoln is reported to have walked the hallways of the White House late at night reciting lines from MacBeth, the tragedy he liked most. Political themes appealed to him for obvious reasons, but he also loved the figure of Falstaff. He had his critical opinions, too. Writing to the actor James H. Hackett in 1863, he said, "Unlike you gentlemen of the profession, I think the soliloquy in Hamlet commencing "O, my offence is rank" surpasses that commencing "To be, or not to be.""
So Lincoln was more like Claudius than Hamlet when visiting his father's grave, I thought after reading this. "A man to double business bound," unable to pray sincerely like that ambitious brother caught between love and hate. "Bow, stubborn knees," Lincoln may well have said that January morning, trying to find the right words to say goodbye to his father with whom he had had a difficult relationship. He had to find those right words, too, on Nov. 19, 1863, at another, more famous grave site.
And find them he did, all 272 of them in the legendary address which, as Gary Wills makes so clear in Lincoln at Gettysburg, is a poem in prose. Part inspiration, part perspiration, the writing of the speech is as surrounded by mystery as Coleridge's composition of "Kubla Khan." Myth has it that Lincoln wrote it on the train, hastily on an envelope, his muse the rhythm of the rails. More likely, he worked on it for days, carefully selecting, carefully omitting, for the speech gets a good deal of its richness from what's left out.
For example, "The omission of most coupling words," as Wills states, of what rhetoricians call "asyndeton." "We are engaged/ . . . We are met/ . . . We have come/ . . ."—an absence of "and's" and "but's," that is, and no transitional adverbs to remind us that we are reading sentences. Instead, the sentences read like lines, which is why I separated them as if I were quoting a poem. "We can not dedicate/. . .we can not consecrate/ . . .we can not hallow."
This "telegraphic eloquence," Wills' oxymoron for Lincoln's verse-like precision at Gettysburg, was certainly part of the contemporary technology, one that Lincoln welcomed for practical purposes to keep up with his generals but one that he also made into an art form, epigrammatic, lapidary. He apparently grew very impatient with imprecise language from the War Department which fumbled with messages, and thus the truth, in a way that we have grown used to today. In contrast, here are three of Lincoln's telegrams that Wills gives us that reveal Lincoln's ear for brevity, Shakespeare's "soul of wit":
"Have none of it. Stand firm."
"On that point hold firm, as with a chain of steel."
"Watch it every day, and hour, and force it."
Hard-hitting monosyllables, these crafted miniatures mostly are, but if we listen closely, we can sometimes hear a rise and fall in those one-syllable words: an iambic rhythm, that is, which persuades the recipient of the message more gently. In the first example, Lincoln starts out with a brisk, two-step stride to the door and ends with two hard knocks. The second message is the opposite in form: several stressed syllables followed by a simile in three alternating accented syllables—the same iambic trimeter found in the even lines of a common meter stanza. As in a line of poetry, the comma placement in the third little gem helps create a voice by isolating a moment of time that is more exact than "day" and makes the recipient's two-fisted duty even more urgent.
Lincoln clearly had a sense of words as sounds. He loved theater, he loved mimicry, he loved poetry. From all reports he had a high-pitched tenor voice, not the brawny baritone we might expect and which has been portrayed. More reed in the prairie wind than rumbling roll of the sea. Wills believes that Lincoln was well heard at Gettysburg because of the tone of his voice, but how exactly he emphasized the syllables is anyone's guess. Here's mine.
Lincoln starts with a rhyme, and it would be hard not to put equal emphasis on both "Four" and "score." He begins with a spondee, that is, with two hard stresses like that knock at the door—or more appropriately here, the bang of a drum. The next line is simple iambic: "and seven years ago," followed by the strongly alliterative, "our fathers brought forth upon this continent." But here we have a slight discrepancy between the spoken text and the official written one. In the former, Lincoln included the syllable, "up-" (to "-on") that he omits in print, this slack syllable smoothing the rhythm into iambic and perhaps adding, ever-so-slightly, to the eloquence of hearing. The additionally alliterative, "a new nation," is followed again by iambics that might be broken into lines this way: "conceived in Liberty, /and dedicated to/the proposition that." Here, the opening spondee returns with "all men," and the first paragraph/stanza concludes with strong assonance, "are created equal."
This little exercise is not meant to suggest that Lincoln continually measured his way through words but that by the time he went to Gettysburg, language had a more natural motion for him, not the studied and stilted formality of his poems more than a decade before. As Wills says, "Lincoln, like most writers of great prose, began by writing bad poetry." An apprenticeship in form and in selecting the right word to fit, which was a lifelong struggle for the studied Lincoln, comes in part from these poetic attempts. This kind of discipline, together with his habit of reciting poetry— of putting voice to words, that is—help make his prose so memorable. Like an Elizabethan actor, he learned to hear in lines, and came to write that way.
What he found the need to write about in a poem like "My Childhood-Home" is also the very stuff of his greatest eloquence in the speeches and letters. What "hurt" him into this poem was visiting the graves of his mother and sister; that is, his sorrow at the early separation from their warmth and companionship. Returning after 15 years to what he knew of home, as he wrote to Johnston, "aroused feelings in me which were certainly poetry."
The heartbeat is everywhere in Lincoln's best prose as he attempts to resolve loss with the comforting pulse of the iambic rhythm. For example, in his famous letter to Mrs. Bixby, who had lost five of her sons in battle, the president returns again and again to this consoling rise and fall: "I feel how weak and fruitless must/ be any word of mine. . . . I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage/. . .the cherished memory of the loved and lost/. . .the solemn pride that must be yours." (Line breaks mine.)
Motherless, he sought the bosom of his stepmother, Sarah Bush Lincoln, and became almost mother-like himself in his tender concern for someone like Matthew Gentry, who was neglected by both fate and family. The cradle rocks endlessly and subtly at those most emotional and memorable moments of Lincoln's prose. Just listen to his voice in these concluding words-as-lines from the Second Inaugural Address: "to care for him who shall have borne the battle, / and for his widow, and his orphan—/to do all which may achieve and cherish/ a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, / and with all nations." The sophisticated rhymes ("borne," "orphan," "nations") and reassuring rhythms ("lines" one and four, near perfect blank verse) are here in service of the richest of themes.
So are they, too, at the end of the Gettysburg Address where Lincoln brings down an imagined curtain with a powerful and symbolic rhyme the way Shakespeare closes a scene. Here's how, shaped as poetry, the clauses of his famous last sentence might look and sound:
". . . that the nation shall,
under God, have a new birth
of freedom, and that this government
of the people, by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth."
No doubt there was long applause after he finished, but I'll bet there was also that moment of silence that follows the hearing of a deeply felt poem. We hold our breath and maybe even bow our heads, look down at the earth. Did he call him Thomas or Father, this man whose family name he'd carried from birth? With all those stones at Gettysburg, for "those who struggled here"—how could he not think of that one at Shiloh, as I see my own father's now? His hat off, the wind harsh out of the west, he'd come with "a great task" before him. He came to remember and give thanks, reasons enough for any poem.
Issue: Spring 2002 Volume 78 # 2
Topics: Lincoln, American poetry


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How to select next record by clicking "Next" button through actions?
In the attached workbook. When I click a customer name in sheet 1, it will filter sheet 2 through filter action. There is another sheet, which is a floating Next Button.
My question is: Is it possible to select next record in sheet 1 to filter sheet 2 by clicking Next button? For example, Now it filter customer name Erin Ashbrook from sheet 1 to sheet 2. When I click next, I hope it will show Harry Marie in sheet 2. Click again, it will show Heather Kirkland in sheet 2, etc. I don't care if it will select next customer name in sheet 1.
1. Re: How to select next record by clicking "Next" button through actions?
Looks like you are using 10.5.
if you have version 2018.3, Tableau provide this function thru "Set Actions", but with 10.5, probably not.
2. Re: How to select next record by clicking "Next" button through actions?
I also have 2018.3 version. Could you help me to do this with set actions?
In attachment is the 2018.3 version.
3. Re: How to select next record by clicking "Next" button through actions?
The problem is you cannot mix the Actions with anything to get your result and especially with your version of 10.5. Like Shinichiro mentioned, you can take advantage of Set Actions once you use 2018.3.
To show you a workaround I have a solution as described below. Hope this helps.
You could take advantage of using Rank and Parameter functions.
The Parameter - 'Select Customer' which is nothing but integers (since rank is going to be in numbers).
The Rank is based on the Sales because your Sheet 1 in based on that.
The Selected Customer is a Boolean Calculated field to show only those that are equal to the rank.
Sheet 2 - Placing the Rank in the Row's shelf and the Selected Customer in the filter and fixing it to True. So only when you choose the parameter, these values will change accordingly.
4. Re: How to select next record by clicking "Next" button through actions?
However, I don't want the customer name sort by sales, I want to them sort by alphabet. How to do it?
5. Re: How to select next record by clicking "Next" button through actions?
If that is the case then just sort the "customer name" pill ascending in both the sheets and replace all the rank calculations with INDEX().
Let me know if you were able to get through. Attaching the revised workbook.


I'm trying to show new things on each day of Car Week, models that I've not shown previously on LaLD. I'm pretty sure I haven't shown this one before. Those of you on IG have seen me post it before. Apologies for the redundancy. I couldn't find any other Germans worthy of showing for today, so here's the Kyosho 1/64 Porsche Carrera GT.


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Tales From The Borderlands: Episode 1 - Zero Sum
Tales From The Borderlands 'Zer0 Sum' Trailer Rockets To Pandora
by Mike Futter on Nov 13, 2014 at 07:00 AM
Publisher: Telltale Games
Developer: Telltale Games
Rating: Mature
Platform: Xbox One
It won't be long before Telltale's latest series, Tales from the Bordlerands, drops us into a new spin on Gearbox's franchise. A new trailer heralds the imminent arrival of the first episode, Zer0 Sum.
There's also been a casting change, with Sam Witwer (Star Wars: The Force Unleashed) out as Rhys. Stepping in is Troy Baker. He's joining Infamous: Second Son castmate Laura Bailey, who plays Fiona. The Nerdist founder Chris Hardwick plays Vaughn, with Patrick Warburton voicing Vasquez. Dameon Clarke reprises his role as Handsome Jack.
We had a chance to play part of the first episode at PAX this year. You can check out our hands-on preview for more information. Tales from the Borderlands will launch on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC. Android and iOS versions are coming before the end of 2014.

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What's a reliable way to make an iOS app crash?
I want to test my app's crash reporting out in the field by deliberately having it crash when the user performs a particular action that a real user is unlikely to do accidentally.
But what's a good reliable way of making the app crash that doesn't create a warning at compile time?
Edit: Note that many seemingly obvious answers to this question result in exceptions that get caught by Cocoa and thus don't result in the app crashing.
All of them generate crashes captured by my crash reporting tool.
This has the benefit that it's designed for exactly this purpose, so it shouldn't generate any compiler warnings or errors.
abort(); causes abnormal termination… That is a crash.
It is actually even intended to use this feature in case something goes wrong in order to make the app crash.
To avoid an if statement in a special case, you could use precondition, too. It's similar to assert, makes thus the intention (if wanted) pretty clear and is not removed in the final release as assert. It is used like precondition(myBoolean, "This is a helpful error message for debugging.").
Add a gesture recognizer to a view that recognizes a 10 finger tap (5 fingers for iPhone as 10 can get a bit crowded). The GR has a method attached to it that executes anyone of the previously mentioned surefire ways to get your app to crash. Most users are not going to lay 10 fingers down on your app, so you're safe from the general user accidentally causing the crash.
However you should be able to use something like Testflight or just deploying it to personal devices and test in the wild before ever submitting it to Apple. Having a forced crash could get your app rejected by Apple.
So if you install a handler with signal you can also handle the crash, finishing to write opened files and these things.
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Iran, Turkey, and the Non-Arab Street
Post author By Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Protestors clash with Turkish riot policemen on the way to Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 5, 2013
To Western eyes, Middle East politics have again been stood on their head. Iran's theocratic mullahs allowed the election of Hassan Rowhani, a man who announced in his first speech as President-elect that his victory is "the victory of wisdom, moderation, and awareness over fanaticism and bad behavior."
Iranians, apparently surprised that the candidate whom a majority of them had backed (over six harder-line candidates) had won, poured into the streets and hailed a victory "for the people." To be sure, it was a carefully controlled election: all candidates who might actually have challenged Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's authority were disqualified in advance. But, within those limits, the government allowed the people's votes to be counted.
Next door, in Turkey, the West's favorite Islamic democrat, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was using bulldozers, tear gas, water cannon, and rubber bullets to clear central Istanbul's Taksim Square and Gezi Park of peaceful protesters who would not bend to his will. Erdoğan's theory of government seems to be that, because he was elected by a majority of Turks who still support him, anyone who opposes him is a terrorist or a pawn of sinister foreign forces. He appears to see no room for legitimate opposition, for the idea that today's majority can be tomorrow's minority and that the rules of the game must allow both to be heard.
Four years ago, when hundreds of thousands of young Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran to protest outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection, the Iranian government shot at them with live rounds. The protests were brutally repressed, with participants rounded up, imprisoned, and reportedly raped and tortured, damaging the regime's standing not only among Iranians, but also among the millions of young Arabs across the Middle East and North Africa who would soon rise up to demand their social and political rights.
Erdoğan was initially a hero to those same crowds. He toured Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya in September 2011 and received a hero's welcome. He presented his Justice and Development Party as the Muslim equivalent of Europe's Christian Democratic parties, combining economic growth, anti-corruption policies, and free elections.
Today, Erdoğan's government looks much more like the governments against which young Arabs rose, targeting journalists and accusing a "high-interest-rate lobby" of speculators of seeking to harm the Turkish economy. He has also taken a page from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's book, not only demonizing the demonstrators, but also going after the medical personnel who care for them and the hoteliers who shelter them.
Turkey is certainly not Iran, and vice versa. But comparing current developments in the two countries yields lessons that resonate across the Middle East and North Africa. Most important, in a world that at least pays lip service to democracy, the voice of "the people" matters. It confers a kind of legitimacy that simply cannot be acquired by force and that is ultimately the surest guarantee of investment and growth.
Of course, "the people" are never truly one: fickle in their loyalties and subject to demagoguery, they often unite in opposition but fracture once in command. Nonetheless, the willingness of large numbers of people to stand up (or sit in) for their right to be heard, despite the imminent possibility of violent repression, announces to their fellow citizens and the world that something has gone very wrong.
Khamenei and his fellow guardians of Iran's Islamic revolution were able to weather the 2009 storm, but their façade of legitimate power was collapsing. Somewhat paradoxically, the election of Rowhani will strengthen their political hand. And, though Erdoğan may well be able to force the protest genie back into the bottle, he will be significantly weakened until the next Turkish election.
A second lesson of recent events in Iran and Turkey is that the spectrum of government in the Middle East and North Africa runs from autocracy and theocracy to varieties of managed democracy. No country qualifies as a full liberal democracy – that is, as a political system that combines free and fair elections with constitutional protections of individual rights for all its citizens.
Iran has long qualified as what the American foreign-policy analyst Fareed Zakaria has called an "illiberal democracy." Turkey, for its part, seemed to be on a path toward true liberal democracy, notwithstanding the criticism of those who pointed to Erdoğan's jailing of journalists and generals; it is now backsliding for all the world to see.
A final lesson is that the test of a secure government is whether it can bear to hear itself criticized, even excoriated. Erdoğan seems outraged, above all, by Turkish citizens' temerity to speak up against him.
After Erdoğan appeared to broker a deal with the protesters regarding the fate of Gezi Park, the planned demolition of which sparked the initial demonstrations, one of my Twitter followers expressed his satisfaction at the outcome and said the demonstrators should now go home, because "three weeks is enough." But enough for what?
Recall that the Occupy Wall Street protesters in 2011 took over lower Manhattan for two full months. New York City officials ultimately did shut down the protest, but largely for health and sanitary reasons and related complaints by neighborhood residents. At a press conference on the day the protests began, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said: "People have a right to protest, and if they want to protest, we'll be happy to make sure they have locations to do it."
Meanwhile, in Syria, "the people" rose up, were fired upon, took up arms, were manipulated, and began a cycle of sectarian killing and revenge that can only fracture them further. Neither Iran nor Turkey has reached that point. Nonetheless, peaceful protest, lawsuits, political negotiation, compromise, and ultimately fresh elections would provide both countries – and many others in the region and beyond – a far better way to resolve their internal tensions than the approaches their leaders currently employ.
Copyright Project Syndicate.
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"The Cassowary is the giant bird of the rainforest and can stand as tall as a human. The male is the guardian of his chicks and will defend them by leaping and kicking with both feet, each of which is armed with a dagger like claw. Even though the Cassowary carries bright colours on its neck and head, it is not easy to see in the darkness of the rainforest.


In this paper, we develop an analytical tool for the role of the physical environment in mathematics education. We do this by extending the didactical triangle with the physical environment as a fourth actor and test it in a review of literature concerning the physical environment and mathematics education. We find that one role played by the physical environment, in relation to mathematical content, is to portray the content in focus, such as geometry and scale. When focusing on teachers, students, and the interaction between them, the role of the physical environment appears to be a precondition, either positive (enabling) or negative (hindering). Many of the findings are valid for education in general as well, such as the importance of building status.
This study explores mathematics teachers' conceptions of how the physical environment in classrooms affects their students' chances for learning. Semi structured interviews were performed with a few Swedish teachers with experience from tackling different physical settings when teaching mathematics. When analysing the interview transcripts preliminary findings are that: teachers appreciate flexibility and control over the physical settings in the classroom; inadequate acoustics are extra problematic in mathematical activities involving verbal interactions between students in small groups; mathematics task solving in peace and quiet is a common part of mathematics lessons and it easily gets disturbed by external noise.
Fahlström, M. & Teledahl, A. (2017). Students' use of images for documenting their problem solving. In: : . Paper presented at The Eighth Nordic Conference on Mathematics Education, NORMA 17, Stockholm, 30 May – 2 June 2017.
Dalarna University, School of Education, Health and Social Studies, Mathematics Education.
The problem addressed in this thesis is that a considerable proportion of students around the world attend school in inadequate facilities, which is detrimental for the students' learning outcome. The overall objective in this thesis is to develop a methodology, with a novel approach to involve teachers, to generate a valuable basis for decisions regarding design and improvement of physical school environment, based on the expressed needs for a specific school, municipality, or district as well as evidence from existing research. Three studies have been conducted to fulfil the objective: (1) a systematic literature review and development of a theoretical model for analysing the role of the physical environment in schools; (2) semi structured interviews with teachers to get their conceptions of the physical school environment; (3) a stated preference study with experimental design as an online survey. Wordings from the transcripts from the interview study were used when designing the survey form. The aim of the stated preference study was to examine the usability of the method when applied in this new context of physical school environment. The result is the methodology with a mixed method chain where the first step involves a broad investigation of the specific circumstances and conceptions for the specific school, municipality, or district. The second step is to use the developed theoretical model and results from the literature study to analyse the results from the first step and transform them in to a format that fits the design of a stated preference study. The final step is a refined version of the procedure of the performed stated preference study.
Fahlström, M. (2014). Less is more - how to communicate simple but distinct. In: Summer School On Scientific Visualization And Presentation: Falun 16-18 June, 2014. Paper presented at Summer School On Scientific Visualization And Presentation, Falun 16-18 June, 2014 (pp. 18-18).
When you present something you want the recipients to perceive the content the way you intend without ambiguity. A picture is worth a thousand words is a famous phrase. If this phrase is true - how do one control the thousand words? In this session I will present some ideas for my research in the light of the theme- Scientific Visualization and Presentation. My research is about class room noise and the impact on students chance of learning as intended. I will address questions such as: In what way is it useful to transform future results to a form of: Wasted Learning Units?


Your sushi picture always makes me starving. Should'nt see your blog before sleeping lol.
My favorite sushi restaurant is a cheap standing bar near my office in 麹町(Kojimachi)… Always enjoy talking with the chef in the bar.
Taichi! I still have your movie, I hope we can meet this fall so I can give it back to you.


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Electronic Data Logging
One of the primary difficulties involved with developing an autocross car is the relative lack of track time. Unlike a road race or rally car, you're not running for hours at a time. In fact, the total run time at an event varies from as low as 90 seconds to perhaps as much as 640 seconds.
This isn't very much time to try and analyze all the various performance-influencing factors, especially in the "heat of battle" at an event. There's no time for an extensive driver debrief between each run, and on course, there is so little time between corners that it's hard for the driver to remember what the car was doing in each individual portion of the course.
In order to get the information the race engineer needs to do development work, there needs to be some means of recording data off the car. Furthermore, the system needs to be reliable enough and simple enough that using it becomes an ingrained portion of the run routine.
Enter the electronic data logger.
The data logger is an electronic device, wired into the car, that records a number of operating channels. It also contains a pair of accelerometers that can record the lateral and longitudinal g forces the car is experiencing. It is a solid-state device, so there is no recording media to worry about, and it has sufficient memory to record an entire event's worth of data. Furthermore, recording is a function of a pushbutton switch on the dash - when the switch is "on", the logger records.
This system is simple enough that it is almost driver-proof - "almost" in that the driver still has to remember to turn it on and off. ("on" is easy, but for some reason, "off" is tougher to remember).
After the event (or between heats in a multi-heat event) the data is downloaded from the logger unit into a laptop for storage and analysis.
This solution is far superior to laptop-based logging products. Not only is the sample rate higher, as the dedicated logger isn't forced to try and read all its data through a single serial line, but it is far more robust and simple to operate. Securing a laptop in the often violent environment of the race car is tough enough - securing it firmly enough and in a location where the driver can manipulate the program interface is another challenge entirely. And locating a laptop that is hardened enough and has a display suitable for reading in direct sunlight can be an expensive proposition.
Far better to remove the laptop from recording duties, hand this task off to the dedicated logger, and let the laptop serve strictly as an analysis device.
Our current data logger is an Edelbrock QwikData 16 channel unit.
The following is a screenshot of a portion of a run, recorded at the 2001 Peru National Tour, on Sunday. This particular event is noteworthy in that it was the event in which we tried Hoosier tires for the first time.
This corner is the long, sweeping "turnaround" at the far end of the Peru site. There is a lot of information here in this graph. Shown are Engine RPM (dark blue), Brake (light blue), Throttle (green), Boost Pressure (medium blue), Lateral G (red), and Vehicle Speed (purple)
Some bits of information are immediately obvious. For example, the driver brakes with his right foot, so the lag time between releasing the throttle and applying the brake shows up as a gap between the throttle trace and the brake trace. As well, turbo lag is clearly indicated by the length of time between throttle application and the boost trace stabilizing.
By doing a histogram of the RPM trace of the entire course, we get the following:
This histogram shows the RPM percentages that was used during the run. As such, it highlights which part of the powerband is in greatest use, which in turn suggests areas for further development. From this histogram, we see that the engine spends most of its time operating in the 3800 - 4900 RPM range, with a secondary peak at 5300 RPM. From this, we can determine that improvements to torque at about 4700 RPM will reap the biggest benefits in terms of time, but also that the engine sees more high-RPM use than low.
As such, we can safely trade a little low-end (sub 3000 RPM) for high-end, because we spend more time there.
But perhaps the most useful aspect of the data logger is that it is not subject to the vagaries of human memory. The driver may swear up and down that "he didn't lift at that corner" but the logger knows the truth - and being able to identify the truth - and act on it in terms of development - pays huge dividends to both car development and driver development alike.
2010 Comment: of all the places where we were ahead of our time, this one ranks #1. The data logger went into the car about one-third of the way into 1999 and was used constantly through 2005. Aside from the rare occasion where I forgot to activate it before a run, I recorded, analyzed, and annotated every single run I ever made.
The ability to call up the data from an event for later review paid for itself over and over and over again. I'm still learning lessons from this data a decade after the fact.
And yet, the number of teams running data loggers in 2010 can probably be counted on one hand. The only real exception appears to be video capture systems (Randy seems to be doing well with Chase Cam) but that appears to be more about capturing video for later broadcast on YouTube than any sort of rigorous data capture and analysis program.
Look folks, this stuff is so much cheaper, faster, and easier to use these days that there's really no excuse for not running a logger. If you aren't, you're quite simply throwing time away.
More about data logging HERE and HERE.
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Former Georgia Tech football standout Mike Mooney, a starter on the Yellow Jackets' 1990 National Championship team, died Friday at his home in Westminster, Calif. He was 37.
Mooney started at offensive tackle for Tech in 1990 and 1991, helping the Jackets to back-to-back bowl games and the school's first Atlantic Coast Conference title, as well as the National Championship in 1990 with an 11-0-1 record.
As a senior in 1991, he earned first-team all-ACC honors and was voted team captain for Tech's Aloha Bowl squad.
Raised in Mt. Airy, Md., Mooney attended South Carroll High in Sykesville, Md. He was among the first players signed by head coach Bobby Ross when he arrived at Tech in 1987.
Mooney went on to play in the National Football League for the Houston Oilers and the San Diego Chargers, where he was reunited with Ross.
Mooney, who earned his degree in 1994, was the owner and president of a collection agency based in Orange County, Calif.
Mike is survived by his wife Gina; two sons Thomas and Robert; daughter Charlette; and brother Craig. He is the son of Robert and Charlette Mooney.


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June 30, 2009 - Smokers and tobacco users will have to wait months, perhaps up to three years, to feel a substantial impact from federal oversight of the tobacco industry, analysts say. President Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act into law on June 22nd.
included within regulations,
harder for smaller companies to compete,
impact on the industry,
immediate changes - flavoring - Other Tobacco Products (OTP),
no guarantee this law will achieve its goals.
The Food and Drug Administration now has the power to regulate the content of tobacco products including: removing ingredients considered as hazardous; restricting the marketing and distribution of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco; focusing on limiting the impact of advertising on youth; expanding warning labels; and stopping the use of such characterizations as "light" or "low tar."
From the consumer end, the initial cost of FDA regulation is projected at 1 to 2 cents a pack, likely beginning in October. Even when the new FDA agency, Center for Tobacco Products, is fully operational by 2012-13, the cost is not projected to exceed 7 cents a pack, according to research by UBS Investment Research.
However, FDA regulation is likely to spur consolidation by driving up compliance costs for smaller discount manufacturers. "It will force them to register with the FDA and test their products," said Adam Spielman, an analyst with Citigroup Global Markets Inc. "It probably will make it impossible to launch new brands and lines without a series of tests that will be expensive for them. "It probably will require them to use tobacco that has been treated in complicated ways to reduce certain constituents." All of which could add tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars in expenses, Spielman said. "Due to lesser-scale efficiencies, these manufacturers could either be forced to take meaningful price increases - lower price gaps for premium brands - or be forced out of business due to the costs of new labeling costs of compliance with FDA standards and more complex inventory management," said Nik Modi, an analyst with UBS.
Calvin Phelps, the chairman and chief executive of Renegade Holdings Inc. of Mocksville, said that it will take years of FDA regulation to determine how much of an impact it will have on the industry. Phelps based that on his experience with the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement, which limited the advertising and marketing of tobacco products. "I doubt the consumer will notice anything from FDA regulation in the near future," Phelps said. "The regulation is being rolled out in stages, and there's a lot of gray area right now about how compliance will be handled.
"We're expecting the FDA to require manufacturers to be able to trace the constituents and ingredients in their products the way pharmaceutical companies have had to for years."
The most immediate change is that cigarette flavorings outside menthol will be banned, beginning in September. Analysts said that part of the law will have little impact since most manufacturers abandoned candy- and fruit-flavored cigarettes in recent years. Spielman said that despite stricter requirements for introducing tobacco products under the FDA, he believes regulation will not undercut R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s smokeless innovation programs. The law requires premarket approval for new products, those introduced after Feb. 15, 2007.
"We disagree with the consensus view, which is that the legislation will harm Reynolds because it will make it harder (or nearly impossible) to introduce new products like Camel Crush," Spielman said. "This is because the rules on new products do not require sign-off from the FDA if the product is substantially equivalent health-wise to existing products." Camel Snus were introduced before February 2007, said Maura Payne, a spokeswoman for Reynolds. "There were also substantially equivalent snus products sold in the United States prior to Camel Snus."
Payne said that the orbs, sticks and filmlike strip for the tongue are substantially equivalent to dissolvables sold by Star Scientific Inc.'s Ariva and Stonewall.
Spielman said he doubts that "the FDA will interpret the law in an obsessive way, trying to block every line extension."
Bill Godshall, the executive director of SmokeFree Pennsylvania, said that where Reynolds could be impacted is in its elaborate cigarette packaging compared with Marlboro. "Whereas most Marlboro smokers know that a red Marlboro box means regular, gold means light and silver means ultra light, there is no similar color coding for Camel," Godshall said.
Analysts said that there's no guarantee that the law will fulfill the lifesaving messages touted by anti-tobacco groups. For example, UBS research found that in four of five countries that have regulatory warnings covering most of the cigarette pack - Australia, Brazil, Canada and United Kingdom - sales dropped only between 0.8 percent and 2.4 percent in the first three years. In India, sales increased by 0.5 percent. "None of the goals envisaged will be achieved as similar provisions in other countries have failed," said Anthony Hemsley, a vice president of Commonwealth Brands, which has a plant in Reidsville. "Congress has rushed through regulation that will have a disproportionate effect on smaller manufacturers, hurt honest adult consumers and create an illicit trade nightmare."
A few related news briefs: Impact for retailers of law that has the FDA regulating tobacco..; Key elements of the FDA regulation law as articulated by the White House..; FDA regulations ban on clove cigarettes Indonesia may protest to WTO..; FDA tobacco regulation - unintended consequences..; Fitch Ratings - FDA oversight to favor big established brands...
Reference: FDA Regulations On Tobacco Could Take 3 Years by Richard Craver, Winston-Salem Journal, 6/23/2009.
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Spotlight: Health ingredients industry shows potential of cooperation between U.S., China
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by Julia Pierrepont III, Huang Heng
LAS VEGAS, United States, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- The booming health ingredients industry needs cooperation between the United States as the largest market and China as a key supplier on the supply chain, industry insiders have said.
The industry also needs ideas originated from both countries for development, said many of the 17,000 attendees at the SupplySide West Trade Show in Las Vegas this weekend -- the largest annual gathering of health and nutritional ingredient professionals in the United States.
Mark Alyn, a radio commentator for Late Night Health show on radio station KABC, is an advocate for alternative health, food supplements and global medicine.
"Some Chinese herbal remedies have been used effectively for thousands of years," he said. "There is a lot of know-how there that China can share with the world."
More than 350 Chinese companies joined this year's fair, and China's pharmaceutical ingredient industry is witnessing expansion, said Chris Cai, deputy secretary general of the China Chamber of Commerce for Import & Export of Medicines & Health Products.
"This is a good area of cooperation between China and the U.S.," Cai said. "Health issues are a concern for all people and we already have a very strong foundation and basis for cooperation."
Cai pointed out that, historically, many patent medicines were developed first in China as part of thousands of years' tradition of Chinese medicine. In some recent 100 years, U.S. and European companies with automated capsule-filling capabilities leapfrogged over China to take the lead in plant extracts drug manufacturing.
Even though, China is still the biggest ingredients supplier of the world for plant extracts drug, Cai said, adding that now it has come full circle, with many U.S. medicines and supplements being made or partially made in China at ultra-modern laboratories.
Some U.S. companies are heading to China to set up camp as well. Carrie Hernandez, a marketing manager of the U.S. National Sanitation Foundation, said they recently opened a lab in Shanghai to ensure comprehensive cross-border quality control on imports.
"It was time," she told Xinhua.
The trend has been predicted by other industry analysts as well. Pan-Asia professional services firm Dezan Shira & Associates reported of China in a briefing last year that "Every health sector -- from pharmaceuticals to medical devices -- will have more opportunities."
Danica Cullins, brand director and vice president of sales for events company Informa's SupplySide portfolio, said that the Chinese suppliers "represent the largest number of exhibitors at the show outside of the U.S. group."
"They (the Chinese suppliers) bring a great deal of business and value to the show," Cullins added. Enditem


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Whereas any overtime work after normal working time is more than 2 hours, an employee shall be entitled to rest for………………minutes before the employee commences the overtime work.
During probation period for 3 month or less than 1 month, and the first day of probation period, an employee shall not be entitled to receive any payment.
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An employee who has worked for an uninterrupted period of one year. He/she is entitled for annual holidays and shall receive wages for 7 working days per year. The company shall specify the dates of annual holidays in advance for the employee or as agreed by the company and the employee. Unless otherwise agreed to accumulate and postpone any annual holiday that has not been taken in a year to be included in the following years.
An employee who wish to take annual holidays, the employee must submit a leave application form not less than 7 working days and the employee is entitled to take annual holidays only if he/she get permission in writing from a supervisor. Otherwise, the employee shall be considered for being absence from work or abandon his/her duty.
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The company shall pay wages to an employee on a normal working day 2 times per month, on 1st and 15th of every month, at the company's offices, or the company shall transfer money into an employee's bank account or by other appropriated method.
Whereas the date of wage payment is the same day with a bank holiday or a company's holiday, the company shall pay wages in 1 working day before the following holiday.
If an employee is entitled to sick leave as long as he/she is actually sick. An employee shall receive wages for sick leave equivalent to wages of working day.
An employee is entitled for sick leave if he/she does not aware of sickness, injury or other causes which make he/she is unable to work.
An employee must notify the company or a supervisor as soon as possible, within 24 hours prior to the first day of sick leave. However, in case of emergency, the employee or other person must notify the company or a supervisor within 2 hours prior to the first day of sick leave. If the employee does not notify within specified periods, he/she shall be considered for being absence from duty on that day.
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For sick leave of 3 working days or more, an employee must produce a certificate from a first class physician. If the employee is unable to produce the certificate, he/she shall give an explanation to the company.
An employee who take sick leave without a reasonable cause and the company is able to prove that the employee is not sick. Disciplinary procedure and action shall be taken on a case by case basis.
If an employee gives false information to supervisor, the action shall be considered as a serious offense to the company and shall be subjected to punishment in accordance to company's regulations.
Sick leave and a total number of sick leave shall be taken into consideration of salaries, wages and other kind of payment.
A female employee who is pregnant shall be entitled to maternity leave both before and after delivery of not more than 90 days (including any holidays in that period). An employer shall pay wages to a female employee for maternity leave equivalent to wages of a working day throughout the leave period, but not exceeding 45 days per year. However, a female employee should notify the company in advance at least 30 days.
If a female employee has been through the maternity leave and still not be able to come back to work, the company shall allow her to leave more but not exceeding 30 days without wages.
In case a female employee cannot give leave notification, the female employee should notify an employer reasons either by calling, or letting her spouse or relatives to inform her employer instead.
Whereas a female employee who is pregnant presents a certificate from a first-class physician certifying that she is unable to continue in her previous duties, the employee shall be entitled to request the employer to temporarily change her duties before or after delivery, and the employer shall consider changing her duties to suitable work for such an employee.


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Helo, we've been expecting you.
Netflix will raise the price of its streaming service for new members by $1 to $2.
Analyst and media experts have long predicted this move on Netflix's behalf. With licensing costs for movies and TV shows rising and the production of original content, the company is spending dramatically more to keep up with it all.
"Orange is the New Black" (June 6) and "Hemlock Grove" (July 11) are back this summer for their second seasons and recently obtained series, "Marco Polo" premiering later this year.
Update: Netflix has officially raised the price to $9 a month in the US for new new members.
How do you feel about the price increase? If you are not yet a member, does this repel you from getting the service? Let us know in the comments below.


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Abdelghani Hamel (en arabe : عبدالغني هامل), né le  à Sabra dans la wilaya de Tlemcen, est un militaire algérien, général-major,

Biographie

Abdelghani Hamel a fait une carrière de 37 ans dans l'ANP, dans le corps de la Gendarmerie nationale. Tout d'abord chef d'état-major du  régional de la Gendarmerie nationale de Tamanrasset, il a été en fonction à Ghardaïa. Puis, il a été chef de la division de la Sécurité publique du commandement de la Gendarmerie nationale à Alger. En 2004-2005, il a occupé le poste de commandant régional de la Gendarmerie nationale à Oran. Enfin, il a été pendant trois ans à la tête du groupement des gardes-frontières (GGF).

En 2008, le président Abdelaziz Bouteflika le nomme commandant de la Garde républicaine, poste qu'il occupe de 2008 à 2010, année où il est également promu général-major.

Le , il est nommé chef de la police (DGSN) par le président Bouteflika, succédant ainsi au colonel Ali Tounsi.

Limogeage
Le , un décret présidentiel mettant fin aux fonctions de Hamel à la tête de la DGSN le remplace par le colonel Mustapha El-Habiri.

Condamnations

Le , il est convoqué par la Justice, ainsi que son fils, pour « activités illégales, trafic d'influence, détournement de foncier et mauvaise utilisation de la fonction ».

Le , Abdelghani Hamel et deux de ses enfants, sont convoqués devant le tribunal de Sidi M'Hamed, entendus pour des affaires de détournement de foncier et d'enrichissement illicite. Auditionnés jusqu'à minuit par un juge d'instruction, ils sont placés sous mandat de dépôt et transférés à la prison d'El-Harrach dans l'attente de leurs procès.

Le , Abdelghani Hamel est condamné à  15 ans de prison et à une forte amende dans plusieurs affaires de corruption, principalement liées au . Cette peine est réduite en appel à 12 ans de prison. Ses enfants Amiar, Chafik, Mourad et Chahinaz sont respectivement condamnés à dix ans, huit ans, sept ans et trois ans de prison ainsi qu'à des amendes. Ces peines sont respectivement réduites en appel à 8 ans, 6 ans, 5 ans et 1 an (et une année avec sursis). Son épouse, Annani Salima, est condamnée à deux ans de prison. Les sociétés de la famille d'Abdelghani Hamel sont condamnées à une forte amende et à la .

Le 4 juin 2020, il est à nouveau condamné à 12 ans de prison pour . Son fils Chafik est condamné à trois ans de prison. Le tribunal prononce la nullité des poursuites en avril 2022.

Dans une autre affaire, il est condamné le 26 juin 2020 à quatre ans de prison pour . Il est acquitté le 7 novembre 2021 lors du procès en appel.

Le 14 octobre 2020, dans une affaire mettant en cause Nachinachi Zoulikha, alias Mme Maya, (qui se présentait par ailleurs comme étant la fille cachée de l'ancien président Bouteflika), il est condamné à 10 ans de prison, peine confirmée en appel le 31 décembre 2020.

En 2021, ses biens sont confisqués.

Notes et références

Naissance en juillet 1955
Naissance à Sabra
Général algérien
Directeur général de la Sûreté nationale (Algérie)
Prisonnier à la prison d'El-Harrach
Prisonnier algérien

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On my way to work, at the bus stop, many people ask me,"Where do you work?" And I tell them I work with children with Autism. And then theres that silent "o" that follows. In the back of my head, I end up wondering "do they know what that mean?" But then there was that person who asks "What is autism?" I am glad to tell her that Autism is a term for a group of complex disorders of the brain. Autism and ASD are characterized in different degrees by difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors. It can also be associated with disability in motor coordination, attention, and physical health issued such as sleep and gastrointestinal disturbances.
Then it became Q&A!!!!!!!! "When will you know a child has Autism or ASD?" Autism appears in very early brain development . But the most obvious signs and symptoms of autism tend to show between the ages of 2 and 3years old. "How common is Autism?" Autism is four to five times likely to be among boys than girls. 1 out of 54 boys and 1out of 252 girls are diagnosed with autism in the USA. "What causes Autism?" There is no one cause for Autism just as there is no one type of Autism. A number of rare gene changes and mutations are associated with Autism, a small number of these are known to cause autism by themselves. Autism risk genes and environmental factors are also influence early brain development.
"What increases the risk of Autism?" Risk factors involve events that happen before and during birth. They include advanced parental age at time of conception (both mom and dad), maternal illness during pregnancy, and certain difficulties during birth, particularly those involving periods of oxygen deprivation to the baby's brain. These factors don't cause Autism by themselves. There is no one exact cause of Autism. As Autism differs as do the people who have it. "Any ways to reduce the risk?" Researchers suggest that women can reduce the risk of her child having a child with Autism by taking her prenatal vitiates containing frolic acid and/or eating a diet rich in folic acid (at least 600 mcg a day) during the months before and after conception. Though this is only correlational data.
"So what is it you exactly do?" As an ABA therapist I work with children who have Autism. I teach them how to interact with others, social skills, to follow directions, and enjoy life to the fullest. "Well what's the punishment you use?" We don't use use "punishment" We use reinforcement, praise and error correction until the student becomes prone and aware of the situation and or response. "What do you do with the aggressive children and the ones that throw tantrums?" We block the aggression and try to avoid tantrums with using break cards when things become a little intense with the student. "Why do you keep saying "student". Because that's what they are. Every one dooesn't learn at the same speed, some take a little longer to understand than others but at the end of the day you become a student that learns something new everyday. "How do I enroll my grand child?" You can got to www.basicsabatherapy.com and either email Saundra Bishop or call her direct number. "Thank you for the help and understanding of Autism." Your welcome!….. And of course by this time I've already missed my stop.


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Orcs. Trolls. Wraith riders. Dark wizards. Together, they form an unstoppable force. Or so they thought.
Dark Army...meet the US Army Rangers.
When a Joint Task Force of elite Rangers are transported to a strange and fantastic future where science and evolution have incarnated the evils of myth and legend, they find themselves surrounded, pinned down, and in a desperate fight for their very survival - against nightmares of flesh and blood made real. Which means only one thing.
It's time to Ranger up and stack bodies.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Tolkien, Anspach, and Cole meet at last
Having read a lot of the military science fiction Anspach and Cole have put out, I wasn't sure I'd "dig" epic fantasy flung into their crazy smoothie blender... but I enjoyed this book WAY too much! As a CS Lewis and Tolkien-lover, I appreciated the obvious insight and research these authors put into "Forgotten Ruin" while maintaining their unique styles of writing. There are fantastic beasts in worlds untold, and why couldn't US Army Rangers be just as fantastic as a wizard, elf, orc, or were-tiger? This is not a lust-filled garbage dump of political intrigue, incestuous, murderous deceit like a certain popular fantasy series big pub loves to pump out to the masses. For that, I'm giving this book an extra star! This story stays true to the Ranger Creed and allows us to be part of the forces in a fast-paced, epic adventure in a world that may... or may not... be our own near future. The mystical, mythical creatures add volumes to this story when paired with modern humans in such a creative way. There's humor, darkness, joy, relief, and real emotion in this story as well as some of the best little Easter eggs like references that a lot of readers will get a kick out of. If Tolkien had sat down for tea with Anspach and Cole (with coffee and donuts as bonus items), they would have all had an enjoyable meeting of minds and tales... and the result would have been this book. Glad I took a chance on the smoothie, for sure. Be meaner than anything you fear. Great lesson learned.
Robert DeFrank
5.0 out of 5 stars Embrace the suck - and the fantasy!
At the end of this first of (hopefully) many installments of Cole and Anspach's incursion into the genre of epic fantasy, The authors thank Rangers for their input in the research, and it shows. I'd learned more than I had expected to about the training, equipage and mental makeup of the Rangers, and I agree they would be particularly suited to being dropped into a world of magic and monsters. Our protagonists quickly determine the efficacy and limitations of contemporary firepower, how to incorporate the eldritch arsenals available, what the objectives are, proceed to pursue them.
The worldbuilding also excels, with new twists on fantasy and D&D tropes – the magic is more pyrokinetic D&D than Tolkien. There's a great big world to explore, and new uncanny magical applications to try out.
The main character's borderline stream-of-consciousness narration is excellent for presenting the story, recreating the feel of a war journal and combining deadly serious, gallows humor, smartmouth comments and sheer wonder. Whether he will continue as the chronicler of adventures in the Forgotten Ruin or future books will follow other characters in the third person, I look forward to reading more.
Whether battling insurgents or Orcs, Rangers will Ranger!
David J. Baer
5.0 out of 5 stars Ruck up, it's time to get your Ranger on.
This book is an exceptional tome by two very talented writers. It is the perfect blend of military science fiction, fantasy, and action. The best way I can describe it is a base of Tolkein, a sprig of Dragonlance, a strong essence of DnD, finished with a perfect topping of Clancy or Kratman. If you have every wondered what a company-sized element of the finest light infantry in world (75th Ranger Regiment) with modern weapons could do if they were magically (or technologically, as it were) transported to a Lord of the Rings/Dungeons and Dragons world, then brother, this book is for you. The authors are the ultimate Dungeon Masters in this epic crawl through a our broken future world. If you aren't military, then don't worry, you will garner an excellent insight into the actions and thought-process of soldiers in combat. If you are military, then sit back and smile as you recognize all the things you love and hate about your time in the suck. Get this book, read it, and most of all enjoy it. Fix Bayonets! RLTW!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fast paced and epic! Perfect mix of fantasy and military sci-fi
As a fan of Tolkien, Forgotten Realms and military Sci-Fi this book provides a creative story that suffices them all. As a fan of their Sci-Fi work I picked this up to discover a fast pace, epic story of overwhelming odds, true heroism, and I geeked out on the fantasy portions of the story. The character development is excellent. The pacing is quick. The storyline and inclusion of typical fantasy characters is excellent.
The first-person narration of the story is great. I really like the narrators (PFC Talker) commentary on his own narration of the events at times. Thanks to for the continual '80s shout-outs Nick.
5.0 out of 5 stars When two worlds collide.... there will be BLOOD!
Not going to lie... I was initially skeptical.
Tolkien with NVGs?
Lewis with Machine Guns?
Orcs and wizards and elves with Carl Gs and military tactics?
Who knew they could all work so well together, better than PB&J or jack and coke!
All the nostalgia of all the fantasy I read as kid is woven together into the gritty, bloody, and raw world of heart-pounding military thrillers I've grown up to love. The action is heavy, but don't get me wrong, its not without its emotional moments. The characters, while ripped out of the reality of personalities in the storied Ranger Regiment, have complexities that bleed across the page, urging the reader to look past the tough exteriors and examine the hearts of man. We can do that in any genre but especially when Anspach and Cole are writing together!
5.0 out of 5 stars Astounding mix of sci fi and fantasy
Astounding book. I am by nature a hard sci-fi fan. But once upon a time I loved hobbits and wizards. This book more than met both needs. Lord of the Rings and army rangers. I was just astounded and entranced by this book. Just loved it
5.0 out of 5 stars Army Rangers meet Lord of the Rings and kill it
And past and Cole out did themselves and for them that is a hard thing to do. They took Dungeon and Dragons messed it with Lord of the Rings then threw in a nerd of Army Rangers to keep things busy and LET's everything in Galaxies Edge style. My God it's exhausting and fun.
2.0 out of 5 stars Far too much padding
Why use 10 words, when a thousand will do
This book could have been written in half as many words and still got the story across to satisfy the most detail oriented reader
The problem is the story is good, really good, it is just so ponderous. The characters are great, the story well thought out, the concept just different enough to be engaging.
It is a pity, because I want to know how it turns out, I just cannot bring myself to put in the excessive time and effort to find out
5.0 out of 5 stars Strange but wonderful
I would note that at times the style this is written in is a little difficult, it's like a journal but one written by someone who has a loose hold on time and dates and interjects their own entries. That said, the content more than made up for this and what started off as strange just got more and more interesting as the book progressed, I didn't quite finish it in one reading but that's because I looked at the clock, realised it was 03:00 and that I needed to get some sleep before picking it up again in the morning. I'm eagerly awaiting the next, the 1st of April can't come soon enough!
5.0 out of 5 stars Quirky but good.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 27, 2021
How i enjoyed that,not your regular story line,different exciting well worth the money. If you like sci-fi you will love it, if you like war genre you also will. Have an excellent read i say thank you to the authors for giving me two days of enjoyment. Had to sleep sometime.
5.0 out of 5 stars Forgotten ruin
Tolkien updated!!! Not as good as J. R. R. but with so many connections. For fans of military Sci fi and fantasy a creditable offering. Most enjoyable.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic switch in the genre
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 7, 2021
Really enjoyed - a well written book with an interesting flip on the usual. Written by ex military people with none of the usual pretend military garbage that you can find. This one genuinely reflects how rangers etc work! Thanks!