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Angola | Between black mountains and deep blue sea
The magnificent Black Rocks are a huge draw card in northwestern Angola. In the last of our three-part series on Angola, Dale Morris explores an enormous cave and visits one of Africa's biggest waterfalls.
"Sorry folks, we have to turn back," Martin le Roux, our bearded guide to Angola announces over the convoy radio. "A flood has destroyed the track since my last visit. We have to return to the highway and find another route down to a very special bay I want us to camp at tonight."
Martin has just got out of our bakkie and halted the eight-car convoy near the town of Sumbe in northwestern Angola.
And a good thing he did too, because the road, if one could call it that, disappears into a very steep set of drainage channels and deep cracks in the earth.
Fortunately, we can all turn around on the steep and uneven terrain and within half an hour are trundling down towards the sea on a much better track.
"The locals must have forged this new route down. I'm so glad they did, and so will you when you see where I'm taking you," Martin promises.
Of course, he is right. The secret little beach at which our group arrive is magnificent. Giant striated sandstone cliffs of the most brilliant orange glow as if lit up from inside by the big red sun dipping into the Atlantic Ocean.
The sea laps at the sands and a warm breeze ruffle the flames of our beach braai.
And there's no one else around. It's only us.
Pg. 2 | The final push
The final push
It is the tenth evening of a 4500-km, 18-day voyage throughout Angola's western provinces; an odyssey that had started at the Namibian border village of Ruacana, taken us north inland and over the Angolan Highlands to the capital of Luanda, and then sent us south along the country's arid coast.
Before visiting Angola, I would never have imagined that I would be describing it as a kind of a paradise. After all, it has only recently come out of more than three decades of bloody wars. But after nearly three weeks' exploring the place in a 4×4 convoy, I saw so many special places, so many magnificent views and so many dramatic contrasts that I am now a devoted fan.
Some of those places in the southwestern and central-western regions, have already featured in the first two instalments (featured in Drive Out #43 and #44, respectively) of the three-part Angolan series. This, the final instalment, covers the route through the northwestern provinces of the seldom-visited country.
As with the previous two Angolan stories, the journey is a loop. This time it starts in the nondescript inland junction town of Alto Hama, 930 km from the Oshikango border with Namibia and about 250km from the coast.
The route runs northwest on a brand-new Chinese-built highway for 570 km to the coastal capital of Luanda.
There the route turns south and follows Angola's mostly arid coast for 460km before reaching the junction to the main east-west highway that connects the busy seaside town of Lobito to Alto Hama.
Along the way, we saw lush rain forests, rolling verdant hills, tropical thunderstorms and colourful cultures as well as stunning waterfalls, bizarre rock formations, a cavernous grotto, shipwrecks, beautiful beaches and arid desert plains.
Pg. 3 | Angola's 'Spitzkoppe'
Angola's 'Spitzkoppe'
North of Alto Hama it is lush everywhere you look, with woodlands, emerald-coloured crops wat is dit? sprouting from a rust-coloured earth and huge granite mountains rising towards dark tropical skies.
If you've been to Spitzkoppe in Namibia or Yosemite National Park in the United States, you will have an inkling of how steep, bare and impressive these mountains are. I spend most of the drive leaning out through the window to take in the magnificence and enormity of the scenery.
That afternoon we pass through the little town of Uaco Cungo with its dilapidated Portuguese-style churches and houses. Roofs are missing while graffiti and bullet holes riddle their facades. More than three decades of war have left its mark on most old buildings in Angola.
After a night spent camping in a quarry just outside of town, we awake to the sound of children who had gathered around our laager. They are fascinated by our tents, food and gadgets – especially the head torches, GPS units, 12V fridges and my camera – but after some good-natured but ill-fated attempts at communication (no one on the trip spoke Portuguese) we give up and say goodbye.
As with most major highways in Angola, the road on which we are travelling, the En180, is mostly excellent-quality tar, built very recently by foreign contractors.
The going is easy, but due to the occasional very deep pothole and, not least, the reckless Angolan drivers (trucks being the worst) we drive slowly. Who would want to go fast anyway, with all that beautiful mountain scenery to look at?
Some 80km further, Quibala comprised a mixture of modern soulless buildings and dilapidated Portuguese edifices. Atop a granite boulder on the outskirts of town stands an old Portuguese fort, a long-dead sentinel of colonial rule.
After passing Quibala, the granite mountains and the local people vanish, and for a further 185km we see nary a soul but for the occasional mud hut and village rooster.
Wearing giant crowns of leaves, huge healthy baobabs stand at the roadsides, small ladders made of wooden pegs spiralling up their enormous trunks.
"Can you believe the locals climb up those pegs to collect the baobab's fruit," Martin says. "Looks dangerous, doesn't it?"
I agree, but climbing the sheer face of a 10-storey tree could well seem tame to the average Angolan who has survived bullets and landmines during the wars.
Later, after crossing the Cuanza River on a brand-new bridge, we reach the dump of Dondo. Officially, it's a town, but it had about as much charm (and about as much litter) as a landfill site.
On the upside though, while the rest of the convoy go to fill up tanks and empty bladders, I chance upon a young boy selling baobab fruit from a steel bowl balanced on his head. I buy one and eat it. It tasts like Styrofoam. I'll stick to mangoes.
From Dondo, we detour to the east via N'dalantando on another good-quality road that takes us through several police checkpoints where uniformed officers do their utmost to find discrepancies with our paperwork.
My passport is a little bit damp courtesy of being caught out in one of Angola's many afternoon thunderstorms, and this provides the official with the only opportunity he can think of to extract some money from me.
"We have a problem," he says, to which I respond, "We don't," and much to my surprise, he concedes. I lean out of the window, pluck my passport from his fingers, smile sweetly and wish him all the best with the coming advent of mass tourism to Angola.
"The authorities are getting better by the year," Martin says. "I think they have been briefed from above to go easy on tourists."
We drive up a number of mountain passes through remnants of thick tropical forests where
locals line the roadsides selling tropical fruits. One man proffers a small antelope from beneath his banana-thatched stall.
A further 205 km up a road littered with the burnt-out husks of vehicles (yet more evidence to Angolan's poor driving skills) we reach the little town of Lombe. From here, we take a 50-km detour north on shiny new Chinese tar to the spectacular Kalandula Falls, Africa's third biggest waterfall.
This awesome wall of water roars over the lip of a vertical cliff, casting rainbows across the breadth of a sheer kloof as it falls 105m. Clouds of cooling mist billow through a forest canopy.
Sadly, I have very little time to enjoy either the falls or the pretty girls in bikinis flouncing around in the waterfall's plunge pools, because within fifteen minutes of our arrival, a fierce thunderstorm rolls in and douses us all in rain.
Tonight we camp in another damp quarry alongside the road and hope for better weather in the morning.
Pg. 4 | Weird Black Rocks
Weird Black Rocks
We get our wish – the next day we awake to the sight of a wonderfully crisp blue sky. A light mist hangs in the air between the miombo woodland canopy under which we camped and tropical birds flit between the branches.
The mist has burned off though by the time we hit the road, heading towards the spectacular granite koppies of the Black Rocks (Pedras Negras) at Pungo Andongo.
Here, we drive for 10km on dirt tracks between towering domes of blackened rock, some more than 400 m high. Some formations among them resemble jelly moulds and others look like fingers pointing at the sky. And between them are patches of beautiful rainforest and huge looming baobab trees.
We stay quite a while at the Black Rocks, exploring a circular road that meanders among the giants. We alight from our vehicles and walk to the top of one of the larger mounds, where we have a breathtaking views across this bizarre landscape of oddly shaped rocks, mountains and trees.
We then retrace our tyre tracks all the way back to Dondo on the main north-south highway (the En180) and then turn northwest again for the last 180 km to Luanda.
I have never seen so many huge baobab trees. There are thousands of them; all lined up along the highway.
Upon hitting the city proper, we inevitably get stuck in traffic, which gives us time to notice Luanda's hectic reconstruction. Wherever you look, there are half-finished skyscrapers, festooned with hundreds of swinging cranes.
Massive construction projects are underway, road teams hammer away at the surface, streetlights are being erected and electric pylons are being heaved upright. The capital of a country that ground to a standstill for more than three decades is being reborn.
Bar the eye of a tornado, Luanda is possibly the most hectic place on earth to drive. Trucks U-turn in the middle of multilane highways, vehicles drive on pavements and battered cars and busses force their noses into gridlocked traffic, losing side mirrors and paintwork in the process.
There appears to be no rules whatsoever governing the city roads, and what's worse, few drivers seem to have the foggiest idea how to drive. They are very good at using the horn, but as far as the more subtle controls of a vehicle (indicators, pedals, steering wheel) they have a long way to go.
Sitting bolt upright and rigid in the passenger seat, I grit my teeth, clench my fists and occasionally squeeze my eyes shut as Martin steers our vehicle and the rest of the convoy through the mayhem. We all make it through – with side mirrors intact.
Tonight we're staying in town to take little excursions out into the city and its surrounds the following day. The most notable of these is a trip to a beach in the northern suburbs that is littered with the remains of sunken ships.
"When the Portuguese colonials were chased out of Angola in the '70s," Martin says as we explore the broken hull of a beached tanker, "they sabotaged all their boats rather than let them fall into the hands of the civilians."
And wow, what a thorough job they did of it too. I look up and down the length of the beach and count dozens of boats ranging from modest trawlers to enormous tankers. It is a strange site, a sort of post-apocalyptic graveyard for sea vessels.
We also visit a war memorial to the Angolan armed struggle, and a few quaint churches that somehow survive among the towering new buildings of the city centre. However, a city is a city and we are all quite glad to be on our way later in the afternoon.
In stark contrast to manic Luanda, we camp on a beautiful empty beach in the evening, south of the city and directly on the border of the Quicama National Park.
Here we search for sea turtles at night, and although we don't see any, their tank-like tracks crisscrossing the beach prove that Angola is still an important breeding area for these rare marine reptiles.
Pg. 5 | Bats in a giant cave
Bats in a giant cave
A very different landscape to that of the inland mountains that we have just come from awaits us the next day, as we continue our journey south along the coast.
Arid scenery and coffee-coloured dust replace the greenery and tropical storms. Towering euphorbias reach for a sky totally bereft of clouds.
It is hot as hell.
The barren, featureless Quicama National Park through which we travel in the morning is empty of people and wildlife. It might be Angola's only operational national park, but there is no sign of large numbers of game such as elephant that were transported here from South Africa and Botswana during the world's largest animal repopulation of its kind – Operation Noah's Ark in 2001.
The cold Benguela current strips most of the moisture from the air along this stretch of Angola's coast, and therefore it hardly ever rains here.
However, things look a little more hospitable at Porto Amboim, 245 km south of Luanda with a turquoise bay containing hundreds of fishing canoes. Near the beach, we escape from the heat sipping cold beer in open-fronted bars surrounded by towering palm trees.
After passing through the scruffy, busy town of Sumbe, Martin leads us off the main road in the evening and down to the special little bay mentioned at the beginning of this story. It is a beautiful, serene location and one where I could have easily spent an additional day or so, just relaxing or snorkelling in the shallow clear waters.
Alas though, we are on a schedule and have to depart early the next morning, but Martin has yet another treat in store for us southeast of the town of Sumbe. This time it isn't a beach or a mountain or a forest; it is the most enormous cave I have ever seen, let alone ventured into.
After a difficult climb down into a forested valley, he walks us into a cave mouth that must have been easily 80 m high. Inside, shafts of light filter down through holes in the roof, giving the place an angelic cathedral-type atmosphere.
If it were not for the thousands of bats circling overhead and the millions of giant cockroaches rushing around on the floor, I might have be
en quite taken by the place, enough to ask if we might not pause a while and have our lunch here.
I'm put off the idea slightly when a dead bat bounces off my head.
It takes us an hour to explore the cave and when we emerge from the other side I am amazed to see a huge cascading river disappearing into a hole in the ground.
The rest of the day's journey takes us through arid plains and dusty brown hills. Huge mountains of the Angolan highlands loom in the east some distance away, while the bright blue Atlantic twinkles in the west.
Pg. 6 | An odyssey ends
An odyssey ends
To complete the circular route covered in this story, you would head east back to Alto Hama upon reaching a junction in the highway 140 km south of Sumbe and 28 km east of Lobito.
This road slowly climbs back into the highland mountains, passing from arid desert to lush hilly slopes and steamy waterlogged plateaus.
A total 210 km further, you will find yourself back where you started at Alto Hama.
Our actual trip continued south, past the coastal city of Lobito and onwards for more than a thousand kilometres to the border post of Ruacana.
I travelled to Angola with preconceptions that perhaps I would be visiting a dilapidated nation, still suffering from more than three decades' civil war and economic stagnancy.
What I found though was a country back on its feet again. The people appear friendly, the highways and major roads have mostly been rebuilt, the landmines along the routes we drove have nearly all gone and the different regions offer a diversity of experiences to the avid explorer.
I entered Angola with one thought in mind – to get through it in one piece and then leave as soon as possible. But by the time I left, Angola had captured my heart and all I wanted to do was to return as soon as I possibly could.
Pg. 7 | I want to go too!
Fast facts
Best time: All year round
Stay at least: 7 days
Experience: A diverse country, friendly people, stunning waterfalls, isolated beaches and impressive mountains
Know-all: The Kalandula Falls are the third-largest cascades in Africa and drop a total of 104m.
I want to go too!
How do I get there? Although the road from the Oshikango border crossing is pristine tar for 500km all the way to Lubango, rather cross the border at Ruacana or Calueque. As Oshikango is the main border post between Namibia and Angola, it's hectic, and you could wait for anything up to six hours to pass through it. Alto Hama is 930km from Oshikango on perfect tar.
What can I see and do there? Visit the beautiful Kalandula Falls, explore the weird and wonderful Black Rocks, experience the madness of Luanda and see the shipwrecks that litter the coast.
The best time to go? The wet season (November to April) when highland waterfalls are in full flow and in the dry (May to early November) to see the contrast (and to have an easier time of it driving)
How long is the trip? You need a minimum of 9 days to do this loop, but it's better to take 12 days to do it. You need 2-3 days to get to Alto Hama from the border, 5 – 7 days to explore the loop and 2-3 days to get back to the border.
What types of terrain will I be driving on? Mostly good condition tar but any side trips off the main highways will be 4×4 territory.
4×4 or 4×2? You need a 4×4 for the access roads to some fishing villages and for finding a bush camp off the highways.
What should I take along? Imported goods are very expensive in Angola. Bring your own canned goods and coffee, but do buy local fresh produce from markets, as this is cheap.
Look out for Unicef hand-pump wells found at almost every town and village. The water from these is safe to drink.
Charcoal and wood can be purchased from vendors at the side of almost any road.
Bring your Garmin GPS along with Tracks4Africa maps that show all the highlights.
Mapstudio has a very useful Angolan Map that I highly recommend.
How much fuel do I need to take? Fuel stations are common on the main routes, and in every town.
Can I go alone? Angola is not for the faint-hearted. Rather go with a tour operator such as Live the Journey, as there are too many things that can go wrong (bad infrastructure, no roadside rescue service, dodgy police, landmines and dubious prawns).
What does the trip cost? Live the Journey offers scheduled tours to Angola that include this loop. Depending on group size, trips cost R800 – R1000/person per day, which includes a guide, 3 meals daily, showers and chemical toilets. A 12-day trip that includes this loop is recommended.
Where will I stay? In dome tents. Unlike South Africa, it's mostly safe to camp anywhere at the roadside, if you have a guide with you, but be informed about landmines. (Visit www.cnidah.gv.ao for more info on landmines.)
Should I book? Yes
Do I need a visa? Yes, and it can take over six weeks to process a visa. You need a letter of invitation from a person or a company in Angola. Your tour company could arrange this, or ask a hotel that you plan to stay in.
Where do I book? Contact Jurgens Schoeman from Live the Journey on 021 912 4090; firstname.lastname@example.com, www.livethejourney.co.za
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Rapper Chris Kelly has died at the age of 34. The hip hop star died in an Atlanta hospital after being found unresponsive at his home.
Kelly was a teen sensation in the early 1990s as part of the rap duo, Kris Kross, with childhood pal Chris Smith. The group had a hit single, "Jump," and their trademark style included wearing their clothes backwards.
In a statement to Us Weekly, Kelly's mom, Donna Kelly Pratt, said, "To millions of fans worldwide, he was the trendsetting, backwards pants-wearing one-half of Kris Kross who loved making music. But to us, he was just Chris - the kind, generous and fun-loving life of the party … His legacy will live on through his music, and we will forever love him."
Chris Kelly's death is the latest in a long line of rappers who've died at a young age. Here are five more rappers whose lives were cut short.
N.W.A. rapper Eazy-E (born Eric Wright) died in 1995 at the age of 31. While the gangster rap pioneer's death was attributed to complications from AIDS, in 2011 his protégé B.G. Knocc Out said he believed there was more to it. In an interview with Hip Hop DX, Knocc Out said, "I believe in my heart somebody did something to Eric. Whether it was Jerry [Heller, Eazy's partner at Ruthless Records], whether it was [his widow] Tomica [Woods-Wright], I have yet to really know the truth about it." Knocc Out's single, "N My Prime," also declares, "The way my big homie went out, he didn't deserve it / Try to say he died of AIDS, but Eazy was cold murdered."
While Eazy-E left behind seven children, two of his kids have gone on to careers in the music business. According to MTV, his son Lil Eazy-E is a rapper, and his daughter E.B. Wright has gone the pop route after appearing on the MTV shows "My Super Sweet 16," "Sweet 16 Reunion" and "TRL Countdown."
Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard (born Russell Jones) died in 2004 at the age of 35. The controversial rapper collapsed in a recording studio after mixing cocaine and the prescription drug Tramadol. According to Rolling Stone, the troubled rapper had been working on a new album and had said of his recent prison release, "I feel good. I'm happy my eyes are open. I'm all right physically and mentally…The first thing I wanted to do was give my mother a hug."
ODB -- who also went by the nicknames Big Baby Jesus, Dirt McGirt, Osirus and Joe Bananas -- was survived by his mother, Cherry Jones, and a reported thirteen children. In a 2008 email to MTV News, Jones said, "For the past four years, I have sat back and watched certain individuals try and tarnish my son's beliefs. My son loved every single one of his children and every single one of their mothers and provided for them all the best he could when he was alive. My son was an extremely generous soul. I will always love my son Rusty and I will always make sure all of his children are taken care of."
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes
In 2002, hip hop star Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes died in a head-on car collision in Honduras. The 30-year-old member of the girl group TLC was known for her trademark eyeglasses with a condom in place of the left-eye lens. Following the rapper's death, Lopes' fellow TLC band mate, Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas told CNN, "She was our sister, you know? And no matter what we went through, we're sisters. You know sisters argue, and they kiss and make up and that's just how our relationship was...Through us, people will always remember Lisa. We'll always be a group. It doesn't stop." Later that year, TLC's fourth and final album, "3D," was released.
Tupac Shakur
Amid the notorious East Coast- West Coast hip hop rivalry, in 1996 West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. He was 25 years old. The legendary rapper had just left the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon prizefight when he was shot four times while riding in a BMW. According to the New York Times, Shakur's lawyer Shawn S. Chapman said, ''It's really unfortunate that the violent perception that the world has of that young man may be exacerbated by the way he died: art is being confused with real life. There was this wonderful, charming, bright, talented, funny person that no one is going to get to know; they are just going to know this other side. Hopefully, this will have some positive effect on people -- the gang members -- who are shooting each other.''
In 2013, Shakur's mother, Afeni Shakur, head of his estate and founder of the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, said there may be more of her son's work available in the future. According to Billboard, Afeni Shakur said, "I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac's entire body of work is made available for his fans. My son left many incomplete pieces and even more unfinished ideas. Using the blueprints he gave us, I am committed to fulfilling this duty."
Notorious B.I.G.
In one of the most shocking hip hop music deaths in history, in 1997 Christopher Wallace -- known in the rap world as Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls -- died in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, just six months after Shakur's murder. (Both homicides are still unsolved.) Biggie was leaving a music industry party when someone fired shots into the Chevrolet Suburban he was riding in.
In 2012 -- 15 years after the rapper's death -- Biggie's mother, Voletta Wallace, told LA Weekly she believed her son's nemesis, Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, had something to do with his murder. "Over all these years I've been trying to find the truth," she said, "Why isn't Suge Knight behind bars? What are the police waiting for? They murdered my son. LAPD, make a goddamn arrest."
During a 2012 interview on Howard Stern's radio show, Knight denied having anything to do with the murder. "If he would have been around long enough Biggie definitely would have been a Death Row artist. He was one of the greatest rappers in the business," he said.
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An Introduction to Integrated Studies (Transcript)
Teacher: Three-sixty times two-
Narrator: Public education in America hasn't changed much since it began in the mid-19th century with a curriculum adopted from Prussia that featured reading, writing, and arithmetic, taught in separate periods, ruled by the clock.
Sir Ken Robinson: In school subjects tend to be hermetically sealed off from each other. You know so you do science on a Thursday morning, you do math in the afternoons. And this is really a feature of education because outside of education people know naturally that all these things flow in and out of each other, you know, that disciplines affect each other.
Teacher: All these digital photographs actually fill in the missing parts.
David Williamson Shaffer: We don't live in an industrial economy anymore. We live in a knowledge economy so we have to think about education in a fundamentally different way.
Teacher: Look where the water is falling.
David Williamson Shaffer: We can't be focusing on basic facts and basic skills. We have to think about ways of thinking that are going to matter more than what we do in traditional schools right now.
Teacher: You want to be a photojournalist?
Students: Yes.
Teacher: Oh alright.
Narrator: One successful approach to curriculum design is Integrated Studies which blends various subjects and brings them into meaningful association and often through projects. Integration provides students with a depth and breadth of understanding that goes beyond individual subject matter knowledge.
Teacher: It's called the circumference of the circle, so when you measure around this-
Narrator: At Ferryway School the Iron Works project which is a collaborative effort of a dozen teachers integrates math-
Earl Fitzpatrick: Maybe two millimeters.
Narrator: Art, English, history, and science.
Man: What's this simple machine right here?
Student: Wheel and axle.
Man: Wheel and axle, right.
Earl Fitzpatrick: The project is not just about the water wheel. It's not just about the Saugus Iron Works. It's about all of the subject areas being brought together: the rocks and minerals, the simple machines, the technology concepts.
Student: Right click.
Narrator: Brain research supports the notion that learning increases when information is presented in meaningful connected patterns.
Anxhela: It looks like shiny metal.
If you're like in different classes you sometimes forget because your mind is on one class and then you have to be focused on another class. But when it's all together you could just focus on one thing because it's all the same.
Narrator: Success in integrated studies requires flexibility and scheduling and collaboration among teachers. Studies show that benefits include a sense of teamwork, a faster retrieval of information, and higher attendance and homework completion.
Earl Fitzpatrick: Here we go!
Tom DeVito: You know, often you don't have the chance to show kids that education is real, that there's value to it and they get a chance to put that all together and it's just wonderful seeing their enthusiasm, and the teachers too. It's not easy, but we know what the benefits are so that's why we do it.
Students: Go! Go! Go!
Earl Fitzpatrick: We have a lift!
Students: Yay! Whoo!
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Before teaching First Grade,
Before teaching First Grade, I was a Science Teacher in a primary school. The other specialists & I would plan together for every holiday & event we could. We each brought ideas that covered our content area and together the children were immersed in the subject matter. Integrating subjects in the classroom is so logical for me now, even if I am unable to work with colleagues. Let the class collaborate! If you have a unit or lesson that you are required to cover, ask yourself; how can this relate to every other subject? If you get stuck, use the Multiple Intelligences as a guide. -What can we do to incorporate visual/spatial (-an art project?). What music, audio or sounds can we listen to? Where does nature come in? What can we write about? What books can inspire us or be used for reference? The children love to have meetings to offer their opinions & suggestions. Once you get going, the ideas will flow naturally!
How can teachers who teach
How can teachers who teach second, third or fourth grade include integrated studies to their objectives? If I was a teacher for second grade, I would include this in Health lessons by letting kids go on a computer to see different types of diseases or illnesses.
Early Childhood - Elementary
Integrating core content areas into other content areas makes learning fun and provides the student with a reason to learn. At times I hear colleagues and other educators undermine Early Childhood saying all they do is play. What they don't realize is that the Early Childhood education programs have been integrating core content areas into other content areas for years.
Children listening to a read aloud, "The Drop in My Drink: The Story of Water on Our Planet" By Meredith Hooper and Chris Coady. With this book students in my Kindergarten class not only learn about water and where it comes from (Science and Social Studies), they also do reflection assignments (Writing); connect the book to other text/self/& world by reading other books about water (Reading); doing a webquest on water or searching for other books about water (Technology); count how many droplets of water make a cup of water (Math).
Integrating studies makes learning fun and exiting to learn. It's not hard to plan, perhaps when you first start it may be a little challenging. However; like anything else in life, once you get the hang of it you will enjoy how much more time you have to do other projects you have been wanting to do.
Love this!
We are required to teach one integrated study per trimester next year. I have never taught an integrated study before but am looking forward to the challenge. It is amazing what children can do when held to a challenge.
students are involved
Looks like the students are really getting ahead by taking and teaching them what they are interested in. Good job
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its really wonderfull video on integerated studies.The issues related to integrated studies are clearly apprehended by the key sentence "succees in integrated studies requires flexibilty of schedualing and collaboration among teachers".It is really a big problem for subject teachers to take out time from very busy scheduals to impement integerated studies. It is need of time that a curriculum to be devised which promote project based integerated studies for better learning outcomes of children in and outside their schools.


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Companies seeking more efficiency and tighter monitoring of IT projects are opening project management offices (PMO) in growing numbers.
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CIO — For years, IT departments have struggled to deliver projects on time and within budget. But with today's emphasis on getting more bang for the buck, IT has to rein in projects more closely than ever. That challenge has led many to turn to project management offices (PMOs) as a way to boost IT efficiency, cut costs, and improve on project delivery in terms of time and budget.
While not a new solution, the trend toward implementing PMOs to instill much-needed project management discipline in IT departments is spreading fast. "More people lately have been talking to me about PMOs than they have in the last 10 years," says Don Christian, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. PMOs can help CIOs by providing the structure needed to both standardize project management practices and facilitate IT project portfolio management, as well as determine methodologies for repeatable processes. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act—which requires companies to disclose investments, such as large projects, that may affect a company's operating performance—is also a driver, since it forces companies to keep closer watch on project expenses and progress. W.W. Grainger, an industrial products distributor, has a PMO that "enables us to complete more projects on time and on budget with fewer resources," says Tim Ferrarell, senior vice president of enterprise systems.
But PMOs are no panacea for project challenges, including battling today's tepid business climate. For one thing, there is no uniform recipe for success—it's important that the PMO structure closely hews to a company's corporate culture. PMOs also won't give organizations a quick fix or deliver immediate, quantifiable savings. And companies with PMOs report that they don't necessarily yield easy to use cost-saving benchmarks and performance metrics. In a survey conducted by CIO and the Project Management Institute (PMI), 74 percent of respondents said that lower cost was not a benefit of their PMOs.
However, survey respondents still reported positive benefits from the formation of a PMO, even if quantifiable ROI is elusive. Out of 450 people surveyed, 303, or 67 percent, said their companies have a PMO. Of those with a PMO, half said the PMO has improved project success rates, while 22 percent didn't know or don't track that metric, and 16 percent said success rates stayed the same. There is also a strong link between the length of time a PMO has been operating and project success rates: The longer the better. While 37 percent of those who have had a PMO for less than one year reported increased success rates, those with a PMO operating for more than four years reported a 65 percent success rate increase. The top two reasons for establishing a PMO, according to the survey: improving project success rates and implementing standard practices. In a finding that indicates PMOs' importance, a survey-leading 39 percent of respondents said the PMO is a strategic entity employed at the corporate level, meaning it sets project standards across the enterprise and is supported by upper managers.


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Warm & Gooey Citrus Pudding
Author Notes: this recipe is a pucker-punching hit!
it can easily bake while you eat at your dinner party, as it is best served straight from the oven. the texture is like nothing else, as i have been known to dream about it's sticky, ooey, gooey, curd/cake combo.
you can use whatever citrus you have on hand, however lemon is the ultimate. i imagine that meyer lemon would be divine, however i would suggest you cut the sugar to suit their sweetness.
the sugar in this recipe can be adjusted to suit your citrus, or your tastes.
inspired by fussfreecooking.com, who in turn got the recipe from "good looking - the new essentials" by jill dupleix.
i've adapted this recipe by swapping lemon for just about any citrus you have on hand, and making the preparation process simpler to accomplish. i also replace milk with half and half and adjust the sugar based on the citrus i am using. lastly, ingredient amounts are modified to US standards (and some are increased, decreased to suit). - thefood
Food52 Review: WHO: thefood is an interior designer from Canada.
WHAT: A sunny, gorgeous pudding that whips up in no time.
HOW: Mix a batter, fold in egg whites, and bake. Top with powdered sugar.
WHY WE LOVE IT: The batter for this comes together in minutes, but the finished product exudes elegance, refinement. We love the fact that you can make this with whatever citrus you have on had -- or you're in the mood for. Plus, with it's layers of curd and custard, it's warm and gooey in all the right places.
Serves 4-6
- 5 tablespoons butter, softened *note: 1 tablespoon shall be reserved for greasing the dish*
- 1-1.5 cup sugar (if your citrus is very sweet, use less sugar)
- 1-2 tablespoon lemon zest (however you can swap for any citrus - lime, grapefruit, orange, blood orange)
- 3 large eggs, separated
- 5 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 1 cup half and half
- 6 tablespoons lemon juice (swap for any citrus)
- icing sugar, for dusting (optional)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees farenheit and grease 9"X9" oven safe dish. Set aside.
- In a large bowl (or bowl of electric mixer), using hand mixer, beat butter, sugar and lemon zest until pale and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks one at a time until incorporated.
- Add the flour and half and half alternatively until incorporated, then add the lemon juice until you have a smooth and silky batter.
- In a separate bowl, using hand mixer (or a whisk, if you are in need of an arm workout) beat egg whites until fluffy and glossy white, but stiff.
- Fold the lemon batter and egg whites together until just combined and pour into baking dish.
- Place your baking dish into a larger pan that is at least 1/2 the height of your dessert's dish and fill with hot (not boiling) water until it reaches 1/2 the way up your lemon dessert's dish. Note: I like to add the water once the dishes are already placed IN the oven, using a pitcher with a spout as i am not very adept at transferring delicate dessert batter surrounded by water into the oven from the counter without turning the delicate batter into inevitable soup. However if you are graceful and can, please do! Bake for 50 minutes, or until top of dessert is golden brown and cracking. the dessert will still seem giggly, but this is ok as there is a sinful layer of curd at the bottom that will make you swoon. The longer you cook it, the more cakey it will become (which is not necessarily a bad thing!)
- Dust with icing sugar, and serve immedietely!
- This recipe is a Wildcard Contest Winner!
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Citrus Recipe
Comments (29) Questions (0)
20 days ago hana
this tasted really good. Can i double up on the amount and put in a single dish? It was a bit thin when i first did the recipe. this time i need to feed a larger crowd.
2 months ago Lessardi
This is AMAZINGLY delicious.
5 months ago tess
I'm allergic to wheat so I used a gluten free-wheat free flour. it was delicious! my friend didn't have a mixer so I had to do everything by hand (arms!--what a workout). then dinner was delayed so it actually sat in the kitchen for an hour and it was still perfect!
5 months ago Doris
My son is allergic to flour is there a substitution I could use ?
5 months ago tess
Thanks! Am going to dinner at a friends how so thought i could make it now and refrigerate instead of taking over her kitchen when i get there. a little worried that the egg whites won't stay firm that long.
Happy Thanksgiving! I'm an interior designer too.
about 1 month ago Señora Hughes
Hi there! Just wondering what the result of making in advance was? I want to make it for a dinner party tomorrow but also, want to make in advance and then just pop in the oven during the meal... Thanks!
5 months ago tess
can i make this ahead and bake it later while I'm having dinner? i want the warm gooey but would love to make in advance
5 months ago thefood
Hi Tess,
I usually make the mixture when I am prepping dinner and then have it in the oven while we eat dinner so it is ready right after, if that helps at all.
I haven't made it any further in advance than that though.
Enjoy! Alana
5 months ago Heather
I would love this dessert, but how could I get more juice at the bottom? By adding more half and half?
5 months ago thefood
Sorry for the late response on this one.
I'm not sure about making it more runny at the bottom, but I would assume that more half and half would be a good start!
You could also bake it a little bit less, that would help too!
Enjoy! Alana
9 months ago Lindy Bennetts
Please ignore my ignorance, but What is half and half?
9 months ago thefood
Hi Lindy - half and half is store bought cream typically used for coffee. It's a mixture of half full cream, and half milk.
about 1 year ago LE BEC FIN
neat ideas here. you might also want to try first grinding together your sugar and zest in a mini food processor; i find that this technique draws out more of the citrus flavor. I think i might add chopped pecans to this; i love lemon and pecans together. thx for the inspiration!
about 1 year ago laurenlocally
Absolutely adored this! So easy, so yummy, perfectly giggly, and from a fellow Canadian no less.
about 1 year ago Bevi
about 1 year ago thefood
Thanks for the congrats & kind comments, folks! So flattered & excited to be chosen as a wildcard!
about 1 year ago Helana Brigman
This looks DELICIOUS!
about 1 year ago Lucy Mercer
Oh my, this does look good!
about 1 year ago
AntoniaJames is a trusted source on Bread/Baking.
Warm? Gooey? Citrus? Yes, I would say you have all the bases covered here, quite nicely. Congratulations! ;o)
about 1 year ago thefood
Thanks, from you that means a lot!
about 1 year ago lapadia
Congrats! Lemon comfort at its best!
about 1 year ago Kitchen Butterfly
about 1 year ago thefood
Thank you!
about 1 year ago Kitchen Butterfly
Yum, it reminds me of the sponge-pudding cups. I like it very much - it would be wonderful with Meyers!
about 1 year ago
Suzanne is a trusted source on General Cooking.
Congratulations, this looks and sounds amazing. I will definitely be making this recipe. Love citrus!
about 1 year ago
Susan is a recipe tester for Food52.
In step 3 Is half and half one of the ingredients? No quantity is listed for it.
about 1 year ago thefood
Hello Susan,
Sorry for the miss! I have edited the recipe to reflect the 1 cup of half and half required.
Happy cooking!
about 1 year ago
Susan is a recipe tester for Food52.
Thank you! I made it today and it was delicious!


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One Nob Hill, 999 California St, San Francisco, CA | Directions 9410837.791899 -122.410786
Mon-Thu 6:30am-11am; 12pm-2:30pm; 5pm-12am
Fri-Sat 6:30am-11am; 12pm-2:30pm; 4pm-1am
Sun 10am-2pm; 5pm-12am
Neighborhoods: Northeast, Downtown
Afternoon tea is served only during the winter holiday season, which is a shame because it's so lovely. The view, of course, is unparalleled.
The afternoon tea at this legendary hotel top bar is surprisingly good! Enjoy the view, delicious tea, and tasty nibbles like egg salad tea sandwiches and scones with clotted cream.
Still the best view in town – this aint what it used to be. it has clearly become a tourist attraction. the band caters to it, the food caters to it and the drink prices cater to it.
i will always love this place for the romance and the tradition but i will not come here that often
UNBELIEVEABLE VIEW, Fab MUSIC. Great(STRONG) drinks! – We've been here several times. ISadly the TOTM had seemed to have gone downhill there for awhile- but I am glad to say the Top of the Mark is BACK. We went on a tuesday and the pianist Ricardo Scales- was out of this world good- he said he was back that Saturday with his full band- so we went back! OMG- there was a white girl- Paula Harris- that sang with more soul and range than I have ever heard in this city. I can't believe she isn't famous! The downer is that is IS hard to find street parking and if you DO spring for a garage it's expensive. The drinks are 10-13 dollars each but the martinis are guaranteed to put a burn in your throat! The food is really good but on the high side too-I couldn't afford to hang out here all the time- but for a romantic date- or special night...or just to impress out of town visitors- it's great. Oh- as a side note- the band on Friday is "OK" but nothing special like Sat. Dunno know about the wed and thurs bands!
Great Bar – No one can deny that Top of the Mark is still an amazing place to catch a fancy cocktail and hang out with your suit buddies after a tough days of deal making. Having that said, be ready to strut your stuff; or risk feeling uncomfortable in your own skin.
Never Again. – Don't go. Ever. We're boycotting Top Of The Mark.
We've been burned by them before from bad service, but this was the last straw. We paid $200 for a dinner that was terrible. We literally did not eat the main course. Then the band completely sucked, it was like amateur hour. We had come for dinner and dancing and we got neither.
We stopped for fast food on the way home. That's not a joke. That's a very sad reality. Imagine seriously doing that, stopping for $5 fast food on the way home from a terrible $200 night at Top Of the Mark.
It used to be a nice place, but now it's just full of hot air. Anything that may have been nice about that place is long gone.
+$50 parking on top of that. I'm tried of trying to bring people there for a nice night only to be made a fool of by the establishment itself. We're through giving them $100 and $200 chances to give us something as simple as service, dinner, and dancing.
We're done with them.
A perfect romantic dinner – This is one of the best roof top restaurants i have ever been to. The view from up there was just fantastic. My girlfriend and I went there on a Saturday night and there was live music played which was wonderful. There was a cover charge of $10 which was reasonable. The ambiance was romantic and the food was surprisingly good. But, to top all this up is the dance that you get to do there. Go there for the dance! I highly recommend this place for couples.
Very Romantic! – My boyfriend and I went here for a drink and we were very pleased. The staff was attentive and courteous, and of course, the view was amazing. We had an unbelievable seat over looking the city. Great place to celebrate with loved ones, not children. Dinner is pricey, it was $82 fixed dinner on the Saturday night we went. We opted for drinks and appetizers, which were amazing and reasonably priced (for being such a great place).
Absolutely Breathtaking – My boyfriend took me here for my birthday a few weeks ago. I was absolutely stunned how beautiful the city looked from the Top of the Mark. We got the best seat in the house; a corner window seat. Everything was absolutely fabulous? the food, the dessert and the drinks. We got the chocolate covered strawberries and champaign. Afterward we danced. It was so incredibly romantic. This is one birthday i will never forget!!!
***If you want to impress a date I highly recommend taking her here!***
great place downtown for light dining and drinks with a great view – i have been to san francisco the 2nd time and i wanted something special for my friend who was visiting for the 1st time. we went there on a tuesday at 6 pm for a snack and it is a nice open space with a really fantastiv view!! it was not too crowded so we could be seated by the window. the snacks were terrific! of course they are not cheap (they have a menue at the website), but it is great food in that location therefore i don't think it's overpriced (we shared the nachos and a dessert and we were full). i highly recommand that place for tourists- we really enjoyed it! but go on a sunny day or at night when the fog might have lifted!! i am in my 20s and i think they should put a night club in it, that would be fantastic!! i would go there every weekend! :-)
Great View – Get there before 9pm to save on the cover.
Sunset is great too. $10/cocktail isn't bad and the nibble plates are at a fair price too.
Can't beat Top of the Mark for drinks anytime time of the evening!!
Best view in the city. – I absolutely loved this place. If you ever want to show off this beautiful city check this place out. It is full of upscale people and service.
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We evaluate right hand integral of the expression of moment of inertia for regularly shaped geometric bodies. The evaluation is basically an integration process, well suited to an axis of rotation for which mass distribution is symmetric. In other words, evaluation of the integral is easy in cases where mass of the body is evenly distributed about the axis. This axis of symmetry passes through "center of mass" of the regular body. Calculation of moment of inertia with respect to other axes is also possible, but then integration process becomes tedious.
There are two very useful theorems that enable us to calculate moment of inertia about certain other relevant axes as well. These theorems pertaining to calculation of moment of inertia with respect to other relevant axes are basically "short cuts" to avoid lengthy integration. We must, however, be aware that these theorems are valid for certain relevant axes only. If we are required to calculate moment of inertia about an axis which can not be addressed by these theorems, then we are left with no choice other than evaluating the integral or determining the same experimentally. As such, we limit ourselves in using integral method to cases, where moment of inertia is required to be calculated about the axis of symmetry.
In this module, we will discuss calculation of moment of inertia using basic integral method only, involving bodies having (i) regular geometric shape (ii) uniform mass distribution i.e uniform density and (iii) axis of rotation passing through center of mass (COM). Application of the theorems shall be discussed in a separate module titled " Theorems on moment of inertia ".
As far as integration method is concerned, it is always useful to have a well planned methodology to complete the evaluation. In general, we complete the integration in following steps :
- Identify an infinitesimally small element of the body.
- Identify applicable density type (linear, surface or volumetric). Calculate elemental mass "dm" in terms of appropriate density.
- Write down the expression of moment of inertia (đI) for elemental mass.
- Evaluate the integral of moment of inertia for an appropriate pair of limits and determine moment of inertia of the rigid body.
Identification of small element is crucial in the evaluation of the integral. We consider linear element in evaluating integral for a linear mass distribution as for a rod or a plate. On the other hand, we consider thin concentric ring as the element for a circular plate, because we can think circular plate being composed of infinite numbers of thin concentric rings. Similarly, we consider a spherical body, being composed of closely packed thin spherical shells.
Calculation of elemental mass "đm" makes use of appropriate density on the basis of the nature of mass distribution in the rigid body :
The choice of density depends on the nature of body under consideration. In case where element is considered along length like in the case of a rod, rectangular plate or ring, linear density (λ) is the appropriate choice. In cases, where surface area is involved like in the case of circular plate, hollow cylinder and hollow sphere, areal density (σ) is the appropriate choice. Finally, volumetric density (ρ) is suitable for solid three dimensional bodies like cylinder and sphere. The elemental mass for different cases are :
|Elemental mass
|Elemental mass
The MI integral is then expressed by suitably replacing "dm" term by density term in the integral expression. This approach to integration using elemental mass assumes that mass distribution is uniform.


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