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Reviews how to access the infrastructure data layers as well as how to identify the sources of all data layers. Shows how to use the pop-up boxes to get detailed information on the indicator.ДЄttribute Table - View, Filter, and Export Data Дiscusses the attribute table which displays all the indicator and infrastructure information in a tabular form and allows for filtering of data and export of the data in an Excel spreadsheet. Highlights links to the RAPT supporting documents, describes the RAPT Story Map and shows basic navigation functions.Д¬ommunity Resilience Indicator Layers Дescribes the county, census tract and Tribal Territory community resilience indicators and how to toggle them on and off to visualize the data on the map. But, more important, it will teach them one of life's most valuable lessons - that there is no joy like that of a mind engaged, and nothing to engage it like great writing.Background information on the development of RAPT, an interactive data visualization and analysis tool. It will mean, at least, several wonderful hours spent with your children, who crave nothing more than their parents' undivided attention. If this holiday is about joys of being together as a family, a point made so poignantly by the Cratchits, there is no better tradition for the season than reading a book aloud together. But the larger lesson has everything to do with the meaning of Christmas. That was, as I've said, evidence of how much young minds can accomplish when encouraged.

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What was remarkable, however, was not that they preferred Dickens' original, but the way watching the movie with them showed how thoroughly they had absorbed the story. Bobby and Cori loved it - and why shouldn't they? - but not as much as the book.

Nothing the children had seen on television was nearly as good as this faithful representation of the text. Scott in a memorable performance as Scrooge. I rented a classic movie version of Dickens' story, at $3.26 just a shade cheaper than having bought the book for $3.95.

My curiosity piqued, I could not resist a final test of words vs. No one, adult or child, could read those words aloud without falling in love with them, without realizing that no actor or filmmaker, however gifted, could re-create on acetate or digital disc the image Dickens paints so vividly.Д«y the time we finished, with the kids chortling over Scrooge's giddy transformation, the verdict was unanimous. He carried his own low temperature always about with him he iced his office in the dog days and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.' A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue, and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. 'Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire, secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. It is one thing to see Scrooge on television, another to hear Dickens describe the old miser. 'It actually lets you get a picture in your head.'Д«ut, perhaps best of all, was the sound of it. 'It really feels like you are back in the past.' Cori was struck by the way his words worked on her. Bobby liked the authenticity of Dickens' English. Not many activities keep fidgety children still as long.Д«oth children found something special in the book. We continued that way for three nights, six hours of reading in all. They sat for more than two hours, listening intently and drawing their own mental images of the wizened Scrooge, the ghastly face of Marley in the door knocker, the clanking of the chains on the stairs. They would get this book all right.Д«ut, more important, they were rapt. The kids howled about that one - it SHOULD be dead as a coffin nail! - and were laughing about it again the next morning. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.' 'Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. That much was evident in the way the children responded to Dicken's first joke, a wordplay off the opening passage's insistence that 'Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.' It goes this way: This wouldn't be easy reading - for either Dad or the kids - but a spark had indeed been ignited. Before the first page was finished, two things were clear. We gathered around the fire on a Sunday night, and I began reading.

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