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Learning to "Like" Facebook
"How do you get people to 'like' you?" is not usually a question of much concern to a group of academics, but that's exactly the challenge we took on when our team at American Jewish University's Graduate Center for Education endeavored to create a new communications channel to expand our online community of alumni, students, colleagues and friends through Facebook this year. Without a communications department or dedicated staffer to build our social media presence, it's been hard to consistently lean in to our Facebook ambitions without getting carpal tunnel. That being said, we've come away from Darim's Social Media Boot Camp for Educators with some great strategies for managing and promoting the page, with the valued input of our fantastic coach Debra Askanase:
1) Develop and implement a content calendar.
2) Keep experimenting with different kinds of content, and check the analytics regularly to monitor what the fans want.
3) Based on #2, we discovered that our fans love and share photos, videos and announcements of awards the most.
4) Post regularly and consistently to keep up the flow of traffic.
5) Don't feel sheepish about buying likes (which we haven't tried yet).
While we are proud of what we have developed so far, a challenge is that there are members of our community missing out on our shiny new vehicle for sharing content, good and welfare and relevant education news and links. Not all of our constituents (alumni and Jewish education professionals) are on Facebook. Not everyone who is on Facebook uses Facebook for professional interests. Not everyone who is on Facebook checks Facebook. And so on. We are still wondering: how many of our constituents use Facebook for really engaging with professional content?
Personally, I entered Darim's Boot Camp committed to a pretty solid boundary between the personal and professional when it came to Facebook, resisting the invitations to post professional content and reserving my Facebook use for sharing photos of my kids with actual friends and (and viewing photos of their kids). Now I'm kvelling over the latest accomplishments of our students and alumni, sharing education news items and op-eds of interest, reflecting on the teachers who have inspired me, and posting photos of my students and campus, all with a couple of quick clicks on the Pages Manager app on my droid. My new use of Facebook has become a vehicle for work/life integration in surprising ways.
So after a few months of work, the Graduate Center for Education's Facebook page now bears the unique stamp of our learning community and the personalities and professional interests of the faculty leadership. We discovered that Facebook is a medium that can easily convey our institutional culture of intellectual curiosity, passion for creative education, sincere caring for members of our community and deep appreciation for the hard work and commitment of educators. We can be serious and playful in one space.
We're a boutique graduate school of education, and we take a lot of pride in the warm and nurturing yet rigorous and professional learning culture that defines the "in-person" experience of being an AJU student. With the help of the Darim Social Media Boot Camp, we have slowly begun to transmit that culture online through our Facebook presence. Our next step is to share the love with an ever-growing circle of fans! You don't have to be an AJU affiliate to join; anyone passionate about Jewish education can "like" us at www.facebook.com/educationmasters.AJU.
Dr. Miriam Heller Stern is Dean of the Graduate Center for Education at American Jewish University. Follow her on twitter @mirhstern. The Graduate Center for Education participated in the Social Media Boot Camp for Educators, a year long program generously funded by The Covenant Foundation. This series of blog posts this spring chart the learnings of the 10 teams in this year's cohort.
Using social media to enhance student learning
Q: What do you get when you cross a former social media nerd turned marketing guy with a couple of tech-savvy teachers and instructional technology coaches, plus an expert at integrating social media technologies into Jewish education?
A: A toolkit of social media case studies highlighting how teachers can use common social media and Web 2.0 tools and technologies to facilitate student interaction, collaboration and learning.
At Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School, a community Jewish day school in the city of Chicago, we came into the school year with a healthy knowledge of what social technology tools were out there and a thought that we'd like to identify a few of those tools for widespread teacher and student use. Thanks to our participation in Darim Online's Social Media Boot Camp for Educators, we're heading out of the school year with some key technologies identified and faculty members who have designed learning experiences around those technologies that are scalable across the organization. In fact, after some in-house professional development, we already have teachers trying new things that have worked in other teachers' classrooms.
Specifically, we've recognized the power of simple platforms including Twitter, Skype and YouTube to both facilitate interaction within our school community (among students and teachers, for example) and to facilitate interaction with students, classrooms and experts in other states and countries.
A handful of case studies highlight how our faculty members have used these technologies to drive cross-cultural communication, collaboration and learning. If you've never heard of or conducted a Twitterview, or an author-Skype session or mystery-Skype session, or if you've never Explained Everything via a Youtube "flipped classroom" video, we can help...
These things don't just sound fun—they are fun, and, per the title of this blog post, they enhance student learning. Once teachers see what these tools can do and hear from colleagues about the excitement created around learning by incorporating these technologies, we're pretty sure they won't hesitate to try their hands with social media. Here at BZAEDS, after hearing from another faculty member at a professional development session about an eighth grade / author Skype session, one of our third-grade teachers set up an author Skype for her students, much to their excitement and enjoyment.
So if you'd like to hear more about our success with a social media toolkit of case studies, or read more about any individual case study and see photos or videos that accompany these, please don't hesitate to reach out to that former social media nerd (if you check my Twitter timeline you'll see how rarely I use it anymore--even Facebook is no longer a regular thing)—he's here to help!
Derek Gale is the Director of Communications at Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School in Chicago. They participated in the Social Media Boot Camp for Educators, a year long program generously funded by The Covenant Foundation. This series of blog posts this spring chart the learnings of the 10 teams in this year's cohort.
80-20: Work on Whatever You Want
Netbooks, Document Cameras, Google Apps, Educational Apps, Student blogs, we floated all of these ideas around as we tried to come up with where to focus our technology training this summer. There are so many opportunities it is often overwhelming. With training being a fundamental component of our technology plan at the Stanford Eisenberg Knoxville Jewish Day School, we struggled to determine a school wide technology goal for the coming year. As we spoke and brainstormed, inspiration from the NAJDSC, and our recent participation in the Darim Online Jewish Day School Social Media Academy came together, and an idea formed based.
One of the famous benefits of working at Google is the 20 percent time program. Google allows its employees to use up to 20 percent of their work week at Google to pursue special projects. That means for every standard work week, employees can take a full day to work on a project unrelated to their normal workload. At Hewlett-Packard, 3M, and Google, "many" of their best and most popular products come from the thin sliver of time they granted employees to work on whatever they wanted to.
We decided that instead of us choosing a school wide goal we would allow each teacher to choose a technology based project that they'd like to implement in their classroom. We'd take the money we would have spent training and pay our teachers to spend the time to research, create and implement a project that they were passionate and excited about. We have a treasure of knowledge, experience and skill amongst our staff and with so many learning opportunities readily available on the internet we know we will have a rich, informative and exciting journey. The program has no outcome benchmarks but process requirements. The focus is on the experience. Because we are offering the freedom to "work on whatever you want" we are also offering the freedom to fail, without failure there can be no innovation or true experimentation. Regardless of whether the project plays out as we hope it to we know there will be valuable lessons learned from the process.
In addition to choosing and implementing a project there will be a reflective and reporting process where teachers will reflect, share and teach each other about their project and what they have learned. Not only will teachers benefit from their projects and experience they will learn from everyone else's research and projects. And at the end of the project we will have a staff where each teacher is well versed and experienced in different areas of technology and available to support each other in their area of expertise.
Miriam Esther Wilhelm is the founding Head of School at the Stanford Eisenberg Knoxville Jewish Day School. She has enjoyed the journey of taking the school from a start up to a growing and thriving Jewish Day School.
The Jewish Day School Social Media Academy is an intensive program designed to help Jewish Day Schools advance their strategic use of social media in areas such as communication, marketing, community building, alumni relations and development. The 2012-13 nationwide cohort of 20 schools was generously supported by The AVI CHAI Foundation. Each of the schools will be sharing insights from their experience through blog posts here this spring with the tag #jdsacademy
The 2013-14 cohort is currently in formation. If your school or community is interested in more information, please contact Lisa Colton.
See3C: Scheck Hillel Reinvents, Stays Connected
As a school who strives to be on top of the latest and greatest forms of social media, this year was the time for Scheck Hillel Community School to explore one of the most popular outlets used today: Instagram. With one click on the app, you can quickly see what is going on around campus and in classrooms. In the past, Scheck Hillel has used Facebook and Twitter to reach out to the community and share what is going on at school. Now we have taken the jump not only with a school account (@eHillel) but also individual classroom accounts to reinvent photo sharing, making it easy for families and students to stay connected. Instagram also links to other forms of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. This allows our followers to branch out and explore eHillel across the social media world.
In the classroom, Instagram has taken a different turn. Students as early as third grade are excited and eager to explore the social media world with their iPods, iPads, and iPhones. What better way to do it than linked to school! With followers in many grade levels, we are sharing our classroom with the rest of campus. Parents are slowly but surely starting to follow and engage in Instagram by liking and commenting on photos. Siblings and former students are among our greatest followers, and are encouraging their teachers to jump on the bandwagon.
As a third grade teacher, I was unsure of how Instagram would impact my class. Would parents be interested? Would students want to follow their class? My worries were quickly erased as I have only seen a positive response! Students are excited to be involved in writing captions, adding filters, and creating appropriate hashtags to share our photos. Another third grade teacher was persuaded to create a page when her students started to follow my class page @see3c. She found that her students were eager to get involved as well. Teacher Jennifer Cohn, @3bpics, says "Students are commenting on photos after school. It gives them a chance to go back and reflect on what was happening in school that day." Scheck Hillel's third grade was recently empowered with a couple iPads for each class, so the students can get involved with our Instagram page more easily. It has become a class activity and the students are deciding what is important to share with our friends in the community. We look forward to sharing our achievements as we engage more teachers and classes to connect to social media!
Jenna Kraft is a Grade 3 teacher at Scheck Hillel Community School in North Miami Beach, Florida. Taking a lead beyond the classroom, she recently co-authored Scheck Hillel's Social Media Guidelines & Policy with the School's Advancement department.
The Jewish Day School Social Media Academy is an intensive program designed to help Jewish Day Schools advance their strategic use of social media in areas such as communication, marketing, community building, alumni relations and development. The 2012-13 nationwide cohort of 20 schools was generously supported by The AVI CHAI Foundation. Each of the schools will be sharing insights from their experience through blog posts here this spring with the tag #jdsacademy
The 2013-14 cohort is currently in formation. If your school or community is interested in more information, please contact Lisa Colton.
Contractually Blogging: Maturing Systems in a Congregational School
Shearith Israel is a conservative congregation in Dallas with a strong religious school, approximately 200 students. We have pre-k-10th and we are in the midst of developing a HS component through 12 grade back into our program.
The biggest challenges we face are related: apathy and communication. Over the last couple of years we have tried to address both of these issues. Each of our teachers was required to communicate with parents on a bi-weekly- monthly basis, giving them information about what their children were experiencing in the class.
We also have a weekly newsletter from the school, but this is more general information, and not usually specific to classes. We also decided last fall to use a text system for updates for parents: Remind 101. We had many parents sign up for this- but not all.
Ellen Dietrick has been our mentor in the Darim Social Media Boot Camp for Educators, and she has guided us through various explorations. Each year Dallas has a Yom Limmud- day of learning where all of the educators come together and this past fall one of the featured presentations, from November Learning www.novemberlearning.com , was about tech in the classroom, featuring Twitter. So we eagerly joined Twitter as luddites. Ellen helped us explore what to do with it, but learned that our best bet was to set up blogs for our classrooms. This would be a better focus for students, parents, and even our teachers to interact with and learn from each other. Back in February we presented this idea to our teachers at a professional development session. At first they were reluctant, but they grew very interested when they found out about the various ways to communicate, engage and share the content of what goes on in their classrooms.
Showing the various steps of the learning process, as well as what the students take away for it will definitely serve the students better, and help their parents understand and hopefully engage them and us a bit more. We decided to make this compulsory as of the coming school year and it is written into the teacher contracts that they need to submit a post each week we have school. At this point we are exploring whether to use the template we created on Blogger or to invest in using Edublogs (which is part of Wordpress). We are very excited about this and will be suspending our weekly newsletter that we send using Constant Contact in lieu of this improved and interactive tool. I am already thinking about who will be our 'plants' on the blog- hoping to quietly designate parents to generate/comment on posts to build and keep the conversation going.
We should tell you as well that back in the fall as part of a separate grant, we began creating a teen Israel blog which is a blog about Israel by teens, for teens. This has been a great learning experience for the teens and the professionals working on this project.
In addition, we are fortunate to have smartboards in our classrooms, as well as iPads for teacher and student use. Our students have been working to create apps…. Now we can actually tell the world about this and use them to enhance our blog communications.
We hope that this project will improve parent communication, as well improve the students' engagement with what they are learning. We want to thank Ellen Dietrick for her assistance and Darim and The Covenant Foundation for the opportunity to make our school a better learning environment.
Shearith Israel participated in the Social Media Boot Camp for Educators, a year long program generously funded by The Covenant Foundation. This series of blog posts this spring chart the learnings of the 10 teams in this year's cohort.
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With a stay at Relais Santa Croce in Florence (Santa Croce), you'll be minutes from Casa Buonarroti and Basilica of Santa Croce.
This 5-star hotel is close to Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and Ponte Vecchio.
Make yourself at home in one of the 24 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars and plasma televisions. Wireless Internet access (surcharge) keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have hair dryers and slippers. Conveniences include direct-dial phones, as well as safes and desks.
Make use of convenient amenities such as wireless Internet access (surcharge), concierge services, and babysitting/childcare. This hotel also features wedding services, a fireplace in the lobby, and tour/ticket assistance.
Grab a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, which features a bar, or stay in and take advantage of 24-hour room service. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. Breakfast is available for a fee.
Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a business center, and currency exchange. Event facilities at this hotel consist of small meeting rooms, a ballroom, and banquet facilities. Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Amenities
- General
The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Business amenities at this 5-star property consist of a business center, a meeting/conference room, and small meeting rooms.
Wired high-speed Internet access is complimentary. Event facilities include a ballroom and banquet facilities. This luxury hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and concierge services. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
Relais Santa Croce has designated areas for smoking.
- Total number of rooms - 24
- Year Built 1700
- Concierge services
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- Room service (24 hours)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Parking (surcharge)
- Valet parking
- Parking garage
- Banquet facilities
- Ballroom(s)
- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Business services
- Computer rental
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Doorman/doorwoman
- Multilingual staff
- 24-hour front desk
- Currency exchange
- Babysitting or childcare
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Wedding services
- Express check-in
- Turkish bath/Hammam in spa
- One meeting/conference room
- Parking nearby (surcharge)
- Luggage storage
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Business center
- Designated smoking areas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Elevator/lift
- Fireplace in lobby
- Wireless Internet access - surcharge
- Tour assistance
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Wireless Internet access - surcharge, Free wired high-speed Internet
- Parking
Parking (surcharge), Valet parking, Parking garage, Parking nearby (surcharge)
- Room Amenities
- Pay movies
- Climate control
- Air conditioning
- Complimentary newspaper
- Direct-dial phone
- Minibar
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Slippers
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
- Plasma TV
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Soundproofed rooms
- In-room massage available
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Dining
Guelfi e Ghibellini - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
24-hour room service is available.
- Recreation
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Rowing or canoeing nearby
- Swimming nearby
- Racquetball/squash nearby
- Pilates classes/instruction nearby
- Yoga classes/instruction nearby
- Aerobics nearby
- Tennis nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Helicopter/airplane tours nearby
- Horse riding/rental nearby
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- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Reception is on the main floor and is accessible by elevator or stairs.
- Check-out
Check-out time is 11:30 AM
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: JCB International, American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard, Visa
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Noise-free rooms not guaranteed
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- Unless otherwise indicated, the charges below are not included in the overall room price. If not included in the overall room price, they will be charged by the property at check-in or check-out. Charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book. This property told us they will charge you for the following:
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 5 per person, per night, up to 7 nights. This tax does not apply to children under 12 years of age.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Breakfast fee: EUR 28 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: EUR 14 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: EUR 14 per day (rates may vary)
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 75 per vehicle (one way)
- Self parking fee: EUR 35 per night
- Additional Details
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. Children 16 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
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Public involvement and public participation naturally require the inclusion of stakeholders. Stakeholders are individuals or groups in the community that are most affected by a municipality's stormwater program. They have a vested interest in the waterbody and stormwater activities. Stakeholders might include citizens, local school groups, community leaders, local and state government representatives, and business owners in the watershed. Stakeholder meetings can be in the form of a local stormwater management panel, a public meeting, or any type of interactive, information-sharing event.
Each stakeholder has a vested interest in solving stormwater management problems for the particular waterbody. Therefore, stakeholders should be informed of water quality issues in their community and asked to contribute their ideas and concerns. One way to do this is through stakeholder meetings, where participants can hear what others have to say and can contribute their own ideas.
In addition to inviting the stakeholders, representatives from several local newspapers, radio stations, and television news departments should be included. Journalists, broadcasters, and others who attend the meetings can let others know what happened, when the next meeting is, and how they can get involved.
Identify stakeholders. The first step for a municipality is to determine which citizens are most affected by the stormwater program. Stakeholders will need to be identified by whether they live or work in the watershed or by their activities. Involving stakeholders in the stormwater program can be an important first step in forming a watershed organization. To identify stakeholders, an attitude survey can be conducted that seeks to answer the following questions:
Determine how to involve stakeholders. Once stakeholders have been identified, the municipality must decide how to approach them. Flyers and media stories can be used to educate stakeholders and to prepare them for a public meeting. Municipalities might also choose to speak before homeowner, civic, and business groups or to contact a strong watershed organization, if one exists.
Organize a meeting.. After the stakeholders have been informed about the issues, the municipality should work with community groups to organize a public meeting. If the meeting is to successfully involve stakeholders in the stormwater program, the first meeting will set the tone for many others to follow. Rules for conducting the meeting must be agreed upon and can be addressed with the following questions:
Once the meeting has been organized, an appropriate meeting place must be chosen. Then invited stakeholders must be notified through mail, Internet, word of mouth, flyers, or posters. Someone will need to be the designated leader of the meeting, so that it will be organized.
Since the audience will be diverse and at all levels of scientific knowledge, some of the best ways to disseminate information at stakeholder meetings is through graphics like photographs and charts. Stormwater management uses a lot of technical terms, such as "watershed" and "runoff." A glossary of commonly used terms might be displayed on a flip chart or as an overhead, or it could be provided on a handout given to participants before the meeting starts.
A question and answer period and a time for comments should be planned. It is often difficult to get people to speak in public, but it is a good way for them to express their opinions and concerns. Someone else might hold the same ideas or might not have thought of these new ideas. When questions are asked or comments made, it is vital that the meeting leader listen carefully, not interrupt, and acknowledge the point(s) made. When giving information, the leader must be sure to be descriptive, nontechnical, and up-front. One of the most important things for the leader to remember is to be straightforward and to answer every question. If the leader is unsure of the answer, he or she can promise to look into it before the next meeting and come to that meeting with an answer.
Some topics that might be addressed at a stakeholder meeting include the following:
A local stormwater management panel might be chosen from the attendees. This panel could consist of representatives from the municipalities in the watershed as well as citizen and business representatives. The roles of the panel could include policy writing and meeting organization.
After the meeting has ended, a municipality should be careful about relying on the media to inform the public of what happened at the meeting. The media may report only on disagreements or discussions that are more sensational than substantive. The media can also intimidate people from speaking for fear of being quoted and encourage others to dominate the discussion for the same reason. It can be useful for the meeting leader to prepare a news release that summarizes the results of the meeting and to distribute it to the local media within the next day or two.
The effectiveness of a stakeholder meeting is a function of its organization. Assignments are more likely accomplished if meetings are conducted in an orderly manner. Sometimes the issues might be controversial or might negatively affect some of the participants. These matters should be handled as professionally as possible, so that no one feels disregarded. It should be made clear that some issues will not be solved and some participants will be dissatisfied, but together the stakeholders can arrive at the best compromise.
To be effective, stakeholders must attend the meetings. Finding an appropriate location for the meetings, such as a local school auditorium or a public library, is vital. The location must be easily accessible, able to accommodate the number of participants, and equipped with the appropriate resources, such as tables and chairs, outlets for projectors, and speakers and microphones.
Meeting times are also important. If the stakeholders work during the day, it could be difficult for them to make a mid-morning or early-afternoon meeting. Commutes must also be considered. If the meetings are to be held in a suburban community and most people in that community work in the city and travel a considerable distance each way, adequate commuting time must be allowed. If the meeting is held during dinner hours, refreshments should be served. The better the timing and location, the easier it is for people to attend.
One of the greatest benefits of stakeholder meetings is the variety of ideas from people of all backgrounds and interests. Some participants will be more knowledgeable than others, and they can share their expertise with the other stakeholders. In some cases, stakeholders might belong to other groups with overlapping concerns. In such cases, resources can be pulled together to achieve corresponding goals.
Determining who to include and who to eliminate as potential attendees could be a limitation. People who are not directly affected by stormwater management activities should not be included because they could distract the group's attention from more important issues. Other limitations include finding an appropriate location and time to meet, costs associated with planning and holding meetings, and keeping the stakeholders organized and focused enough to get items accomplished.
The costs associated with stakeholder meetings revolve around planning and conducting the meetings. The flyers, mailings, or other means of announcing the meeting incur costs for design, production, copying, and distribution (e.g., stamps and envelopes). There also might be rental fees for a meeting location. Producing and distributing minutes of meetings might involve additional costs.
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The Works of Mr. William Shakespear. London: Jacob Tonson, 1709. 6 Volumes.
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As a playwright, Nicholas Rowe has been called a skilled professional who proved "not quite good enough for posterity." He provided far better service to the literary world when he took on the task of editing Shakespeare. He divided all the plays into acts and scenes; he provided many of the stage directions which the general reader thinks of as original; he worked on the text "to remove corruptions and make it more intelligible." As the first named editor of Shakespeare and the force behind the first edition since the Folios, he and his edition have earned a place in history.
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Leading Index projects tepid economic growth through the next six months
Link to publication: http://www.conferenceboard.ca/e-library/abstract.aspx?did=5996
OTTAWA, Jan. 31, 2014 /CNW/ - The Composite Leading Index, a new economic indicator published for the first time today by The Conference Board of Canada, shows that the Canadian economy will grow in the first half of 2014 - but only modestly.
The increase in the Index of 0.3 per cent in December matched the gains made in both October and November. While this trend signifies that the economy is growing, the Index also projects that Canadian growth will not pick up the pace until later in the year.
The Composite Leading Index sums up the performance of ten components that track the short-term course of the economy. The newest of the Conference Board's macroeconomic indicators, it signals changes in the business cycle (periods of faster and slower economic growth) approximately six or seven months in the future.
"The modest gains in the index in recent months, combined with the uneven performance of individual components, suggest that the economy has not yet begun to feel the benefits of strengthening U.S. demand," said Philip Cross, author of the CLI for the Conference Board.
"Unusually severe weather in December may have weighed down some parts of the economy. In particular, the indicator for the housing industry suffered in December, some of which can be attributed to the weather in many parts of the country."
The composite leading index retains 6 of the 10 components from the now-discontinued Statistics Canada index:
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Four of the ten components in the index expanded in December, and six components declined. The U.S. Leading Indicator, produced by The Conference Board Inc., provided the most striking improvement. With a gain of 0.6 per cent in December, the U.S. Leading Indicator continued to climb. Increased economic activity in the U.S. is expected to feed export demand in Canada.
Overall, financial market conditions pointed to higher growth in Canada. The Toronto Stock Exchange ended the year on a positive note, while the growth of the money supply improved slightly. The interest rate spread widened slightly, reflecting marginally higher borrowing costs in the private sector.
New claims for Employment Insurance fell for a fourth straight month. Despite a setback in employment in December, this trend reflects slowly improving labour market conditions in Canada.
Movements in other components of the CLI illustrate that the economy is growing at a modest pace. The Conference Board of Canada's Index of Consumer Confidence retreated in December and barely gained ground in January. The Canadian housing index fell by 0.9 per cent in December, its second consecutive monthly decline.
The strengthening of U.S. demand and the lower value of the Canadian dollar did not translate into stronger indicators for manufacturing. The average work week and new orders for durable goods both slipped, and commodity prices fell for a third straight month.
The CLI will be published monthly by The Conference Board of Canada. It is available to subscribers of the Conference Board's e-library.
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Philip Cross spent 36 years at Statistics Canada specializing in macroeconomics. He was appointed Chief Economic Analyst in 2008 and was responsible for ensuring quality and coherence of all major economic statistics. During his career, he also wrote the "Current Economic Conditions" section of the Canadian Economic Observer, which provides Statistics Canada's view of the economy.
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West Virginia is coming off a game where they allowed 63 points and still won. Texas allowed 36 points in Stillwater last week, but they edged out Oklahoma State 41-36. Will either of the defenses show up for this one? It's a battle of two teams who look like serious contenders in the highly competitive Big 12 Conference.
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9:00am Tuesday 31st December 2013 in News By Wesley Rock
TWO schools in the Winchester District sent more than 100 boxes of Christmas treats to the city's homeless.
Peter Symonds College and Fair Oak Junior School students joined forces with St Thomas' Church to deliver the Christmas cheer.
Homeless hostel Trinity Winchester said they were delighted to have received over 100 shoe boxes full of gifts for their service users.
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A Great Day For PETA
A place for the discussion of all things not closely related to the sport and its competitive side. (as always, locked for the duration of major international championship)
A Great Day For PETA
Score one for the bull.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/2 ... 08906.html
I always love it when the bull gets a good shot in. No sympathy here for this guy when these poor bulls are killed slowly and painfully by the picadores and matadores. Where is PETA in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, etc...? Anybody involved in sponsoring bullfighting should be arrested and jailed.
We went to a bullfight in Mexico once after having been told about what a beautiful ballet it is. This was in Cancun, which must be the minor leagues of bullfighting. These SOBs just couldn't kill the poor bull. The matadores finally stabbed the bull again and again as the gringos in attendance shrieked in horror. There was blood everywhere. My wife was hysterical. I wanted to cry, but I was more in shock.
The announcer finally told us that this was all normal. Fuck these people. I'm happy for the bull who gored that guy.
If i ever did watched a bull fight i would always root for the bull , all the while thinking PETA is completely nutz.
If it is indeed a "fight" then the compatants should have an equal chance to win. So blindfold the Matador and then i will watch. If not then i would wear the blindfold.
I read a lot of Hemingway when I was a kid, so was kinda into the bullfight as spectical. On a trip to Mexico, DF, I did attend a bullfight. I will admit that I enjoyed it. Except for the warm Corona that was served on the sunny side (we had the cheap seats ) . I don't drink Corona to this day.
Another great day for PETA
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/1 ... 29281.html
We are all in one accord!
but, as far as the Pamplona goring goes, that's no win for anyone. The reveler wasn't trying to hurt the bull. It's not the bull's fault, but this is not a win for PETA.
Cant say I'm glad the guy was gored, but I'm hopeful the bull will be. Right before he's cleaned and quartered.
I like my steak well done with a baked sweet (the "w" is silent) tater on the side.
House salad, finely chopped lettuce, olives with raspberry vinaigrette.
Do I like cats and dogs? Darned right. Grilled is best.
I was with you til the grilled part.
Spend time in 'Nam?
I wiki'ed this thing out of curiosity. For those whose may not know or not take the trouble, the ostensible purpose of the run is to get the bulls who are to be fought that day from the overnight corral to the bull ring. It is a traditional, macho exercise on certain celebratory days all over Spain and southern France. Pamplona being the most famous. Presumably, on other days the bulls are transported by safer, more conventional methods.
What surprised me is, the bulls negotiate the 840 meter run over twisting, cobble stone streets at an average 15 mph . What is that, a 1:55 800m? Apparently, the bulls get a head start and overtake the runners, who get a slight handicap, early in the run. I doubt many of the overnight revelers could beat the bulls to the ring in a fair start.
I do not rejoice in the death of a runner or a bull but, hey, you try to outrun/evade a 1000 pound fighting bull, at your own risk.
the PETA wacko fringe making news in my paper this morning. How about calling fish "sea kittens"?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 18P99O.DTL
I hate to say this and I hope the spanish are not offended... but that has to be one of the greatest sporting photos of all time!.. Is it time this ancient practice went the way of Mythris. An american would go to jail for treating a dog like that.
Another happy day at PETA headquarters.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/0 ... 09990.html
Unlike most bull fighting matches, in Colombia, it's forbidden to kill the animals.
Well at least the bull lives. I always root for the underdog or in this case the underbull.
I have no big beef with a cape routine (that's just harassment), but when they start sticking pointy things into the animal, that's when I start rooting for the bull too. Every time the bull gets stabbed, the matador should get stabbed. Seems fair to me.
I guess its supposed to be a fair fight
In this corner the Bull- 1500 lbz, equipped with horns but an I.Q. of 10
And in this corner- the Man- 160 lbz equipped with knives and a cape but with an I.Q. of 90.
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If he dies does the bull get his ears?
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ewwwwwwwwwwwwww! That's too gross even for me!
[but I still have little sympathy for the matador . . . ]
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Is there a manual on the proper procedure to remove a matador gored through the neck from the horn of an enraged bull?
Re: A Great Day For PETA
A Bullfighter says, "No mas!"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/ju ... -hernandez
Re: A Great Day For PETA
It's that time of year again.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38122443/ns ... ws-europe/
Re: A Great Day For PETA
In addition to being gored by a bull, I wonder if there are bonus points for being urinated by a bull, kicked in the 'nads by a bull, or the ultimate --- being "buggered" by a bull...
Bulls should get together and talk about these possible options, and get on the bonus system...
Might as well have some fun prior to getting carved up, right ?
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Am I the only one who always roots for the bull?
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i think most of are for the bull!.
If the intent of the sport is to kill the bull (or is it just to prove how macho one is?), then, by all means, the object of the sport for the bull is to kill the matador.
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Yep and i always root for the underbull, i mean underdog. If one of them has to die in the contest then it should be the one that was forced to fight against it's will. Like a street fight started by some punk against an innocent bystander, die punk die!
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PETA should adopt the bull as its mascot since it seems that this is the animal that contributes to most of its triumphs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/1 ... 87368.html
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Now elephants are getting in on the fun.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/1 ... 74260.html
Re: A Great Day For PETA
Whenever I get stung by bee/wasp/hornet, I try to kill it. Whenever I try to kill one that hasn't stung me, it tries to 'kill' me. Seems like a fair and equitable scheme to me.
Elephant 1
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Re: A Great Day For PETA
score one for the cows
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/co ... ty-1891015
Re: A Great Day For PETA
Maybe you score one when they are attempts by someone to harm or abuse them, for this poor guy, that did not appear to be the case.
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He tells them the same thing always co-operate with the Social Worker, be respectful, as they are just doing their job.
Yeah - right. Of course, the person the SW is visiting has to swallow whatever disrespectful crap they dish out, but god forbid it go the other way.
No offense intended, but I highly doubt you'd receive the same kind of treatment someone who wasn't married to a CAS worker receives. Sure - your dh had to talk to his supervisor, but the fact that he works where he works is also a huge positive for you guys...just like it was for us. As soon as the intake worker who came here changed her mental pigeonhole from "living in a low-rent neighbourhood" (low-rent for the municipality - it's not low rent at all) to "professional father who works in my building", her entire demeanour changed. It was sick.
No, never. And I don't know anyone IRL that has had CPS involved either. Every single story I've "heard" about CPS has been on MDC.
Maybe I'm naieve - but I don't worry about CPS at all. I feel we are good parents that provide a loving, stable home. It's clean, there is lots of healthy organic food & I just don't worry about CPS.
If the Social Work is disrespectful then there is their supervisor/director to complain to. If that fails there are other ways to complain, your MPP, MP, the media...
People with tattoos (okay - that was before they went mainstream), or "bad" taste in music, or poverty-level living conditions, or any of a number of other "disreputable" traits, are unlikely to complain, because experience has clearly taught them that they won't be taken seriously. Besides, when you know full well that a representative of an organization has consistently treated you like crap because of your income level, lifestyle, or whatever, why would you expect their supervisor to give a crap? These people are terrified of bringing more attention on their families, because they've learned the hard way that it's a really, really bad idea.
I also disagree that that change is political. All the political, organizational change in the world isn't going to change the attitude of workers who walk in knowing they're better than the parents and families they "serve". (And, yes - I have seen this same patronizing, disrespectful, negative attitude directed at the children who are supposed to be receiving help.)


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Theories regarding what caused the eventual defeat of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich abound, running the gamut from poor strategic decisions to allied daytime bombing decimating Germany's industrial base. All are valid to some degree, I imagine, but I happen to be the sole possessor of the one true reason: I was not yet born, and therefore was not fighting in the US Army. Had I been, we would all be speaking German and eating wienerschnitzel. Now this theory will be argued against by academia and Hollywood alike, but that is simply because none of the leading authorities in those areas have ever seen me play a WWII game on the PC. Put succinctly, I suck.
That said, I truly enjoy the genre. I hear it all the time: "The WWII game has been done to death, there's nothing new and innovative there, and they really ought to stop wasting their time and effort on them." I disagree. Sure, Call of Duty 4 was great and it was a refreshing change of pace, but there's just something about the WWII games that calls me back every time. This time around it was the new Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway that led me to sign up for another tour. Fortunately for me, Ubisoft/Gearbox are bucking the trend that says that the PC platform is dead for gaming and went ahead and included the PC in their development plans.
If it matters, BIAHH continues the story of Matt Baker and his recon squad assigned to the 101st Airborne as they fight there way through the ill-fated Operation Market Garden, an attempt to end the war with a bold surprise attack that would stun the German army. The surprise failed and gave Germany their last major victory in the war, and took a heavy toll in lives on both sides of the battle. In your character as Matt Baker, you still suffer the guilt and anguish of having lost half of your squad during the invasion of Normandy and the need to balance the need to aggressively attack the enemy while wanting to protect your men. These conflicting emotions are presented in periodic scenes between skirmishes, and are very well done. At times these scenes were as well-acted and compelling as a scene cut from Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan.
Beyond the story telling, there is a quality single player experience to carry the player through the story. As a squad leader, there is more to a battle than striving to make an individual contribution while staying out of the way of the other squad members in the manner of many other games in this genre. The squad leader has to have a higher level view of the battle and place members of the squad in areas where they can make the best contribution without putting them into undue danger. In the case of BIAHH, you will be leading one, two, or three sub-units within your squad, depending on the situation.
With these sub-units, you will need to practice the Four F's of combat: Find, Fix, Flank, and Finish. The first, Find, will be easy for the most part in that the Germans will find you, even if you don't find them. There are advantages to finding them first, of course, the primary advantage being that you can pick off a few before they take cover. Here's a hint from me to you, though: make sure you reload your gun before opening fire or you will run out of ammo and give the enemy a chance to disperse and dig in. It will be much harder to dig them out of whatever cover they ran to. The second F, Fix, means that you need to put fire on them to keep them fixed in position. That will keep them from applying the third F, Flank, on you or your men. Your machine gun teams are very good at forcing the enemy to remain in cover while you or one of your teams flank them. Once flanked, it's usually pretty easy work to apply the fourth F: Finish them off.
Depending on the shape of the battlefield and available cover, it may be fairly easy to get in a flanking position, or it might be pretty close to impossible. In the cases where there are no obvious flanking opportunities, you just need to hunker down and pick the German soldiers off one by one as they pop up from behind cover to take a shot at you. I found the venerable M1 Garand to be the best choice of weapon for these situations. Depending on the cover being used, it also can be more expedient to order your bazooka team (if you have one) to blast away the cover. I eventually cooled to the option, though, as I often had trouble getting them to actually shoot. I would often get nothing but an excuse from them, and found it easier to just do it myself. Naturally, I also often found it to be fatal to try to do it myself too. That said, I found the long range head shot to be the most reliable way to get what I took to calling a "melon head" shot whereby the game would slow down, zoom way in tight on the guy I had shot, and show his head exploding from the impact of my bullet. I initially thought I'd hate that feature for its gratuitous depiction of gore and violence, but it really did turn out to be kind of cool. I still wonder what that says about me as a person, of course, but it is what it is. Sadly, it was even cooler when I'd take out four or five guys with a single tank shot.
The environments of the battlefields were very well detailed and so fully immersive that I often had to remind myself that we weren't tourists and didn't have the luxury of time for sightseeing. P-47s and DC-3s flying over were the worst offenders; I couldn't help looking skyward to seer them fly over. The thunderous sounds of artillery exploding nearby were enough to re-focus my attention to the battle at hand, though. Small touches, such as the way my squad mates would whisper as we skulked around looking for German soldiers and adequate cover to protect us from them should they see us first, really made the entire experience seem more authentic. Watching German soldiers run for better cover rather than just stand where they were as we perforated them with American-made lead raised the experience to an entirely new level.
The story had to end eventually, but by the time it was all over I had spent an entire week working my way through and enjoying every minute of it. Sure, the body count was well over 100 (and that was just me!!) but I got better at it as the game progressed and I gained experience in thinking as a leader rather than a run & gun individual. For those that say the WWII shooter is a dead genre, I say give BIAHH a chance. I contend that anyone that plays through this game will never see the hell that was Operation Market Garden the same way again.
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Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah," the shattering nine-hour documentary about the Holocaust, which was first shown in New York in 1985, has, on its twenty-fifth anniversary, reopened here and will soon appear in museums, universities, and select theatres across the country. Back in 1985, the film left me bruised and sore, moved by its clarifying passions and its electrifying rhetoric, and amazed by its revolutionary form. Lanzmann, a French filmmaker and intellectual journalist, omitted photographs, newsreels, and documents (all the usual historical materials), and, instead, reconstructed the past from what remained of it in the present. He used the testimony of three groups of people: survivors of the death camps in Poland, most of them Jews who worked for the Nazis and either escaped or outlived the camps at the end of the war; Nazi guards and functionaries; and Polish witnesses, some of them farmers living near the camps who respond to memory with a bemused shrug and a few smiles, others villagers who make typical anti-Semitic remarks. And Lanzmann filmed, with obsessive precision and poetic eloquence, the physical remnants, the trains, tracks, and roads that conveyed prisoners to Treblinka, Sobibor, and Auschwitz-Birkenau—camps that the Poles left standing, half as memorial sites and half as cursed and loathsome wastelands, and whose environs and interiors he crosses and crisscrosses. All this was fascinating, but I wondered whether seeing "Shoah" again could teach audiences anything new. And was there not a possible moral danger in fascination—the habit of returning to the Jewish catastrophe over and over for an emotional workout without receiving further illumination from it?
There is, however, a startling new interpretation of the period which makes another viewing of "Shoah" necessary not as an immersion in sorrows but as a fresh experience. A few months ago, Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale, brought out a stunning book called "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin" (Basic; $29.95), which chronicles not just the Holocaust but also the many mass killings perpetrated during the years 1933 to 1945 by both the Nazis and the Soviets, especially in eastern Poland, the Baltic states, and areas nominally within the Soviet Union, such as Ukraine and Belarus. Parts or all of this vast territory were stormed by armies and occupied no less than three times: first, by the Red Army, after the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939 in effect ceded eastern Poland and the Baltic states to the Soviet Union; then, beginning in June, 1941, by the German attack on the same lands, an assault by three million men which subsequently advanced deep into the Soviet Union; and then, of course, by the Soviet counterattack and "liberation," which expelled the Germans from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in 1944 and 1945. Each army was accompanied by killing units: the Nazis by S.S. death squads, German "security police," and local thugs who were recruited, or intimidated, into doing their part; the Soviets by the secret police—the N.K.V.D.—which, in 1939 (and after), continued the mass exterminations begun on Stalin's orders in the early thirties, when five and a half million people, most of them in Ukraine, were starved to death. In all, from 1933 to 1945, fourteen million noncombatants died in what Snyder calls the "bloodlands."
As Snyder demonstrates, the Nazis and the Soviets may have been trying to destroy each other in the ferocious combat of 1941 to 1945, but, if one looks at the entire thirteen-year period that he describes, the two totalitarian powers occasionally acted in a kind of weird concert, in which each side emboldened or even enabled the other. For instance, when the Soviets murdered twenty-two thousand Polish reserve officers in the Katyn forest, in 1940, they were mirroring the German slaughter of the Polish professional classes in German-occupied western Poland. And when the Polish Home Army revolted against the Germans in occupied Warsaw, in 1944, the Soviets, who had encouraged the uprising, fought and defeated the Germans outside the city but then waited for months as the Nazis crushed the Poles inside it. When the Soviets finally entered Warsaw, they not only routed the Germans but, with the help of Polish Communists, suppressed the surviving anti-Nazis, thereby finishing the job of subduing the spirit of Polish independence. Without diminishing in any way the Jewish Holocaust, Snyder insists that it should not be seen as separate from the many other mass slaughters of civilians—the millions of Poles, Belarusians, Balts, and Ukrainians killed for political or ideological reasons, or merely because they were an encumbrance that needed to be cleared away to make space for German or Soviet occupancy.
That kind of large-scale historical account is certainly not what Lanzmann intended. "Shoah" is solely about the war against the Jews. It is, in fact, devoted to one aspect of that war—the transportation of Jews from various corners of Europe to the extermination centers in Poland and the killings by gas, first at Chelmno, where mobile vans were used, and then at Treblinka, Sobibor, and Auschwitz-Birkenau, with their gas chambers and crematoriums. From Lanzmann's movie, you would not know that by the time of the Wannsee Conference, in Berlin, in January, 1942, in which the Final Solution was openly plotted by the S.S., perhaps a million Jews had already been killed, mainly by shootings in the places where they lived, the bodies dumped into pits and buried. Roughly as many Jews were killed by bullets as by gas in the Holocaust, a fact not widely known to this day. Certainly, we need to know everything, understand everything, feel everything. Snyder's book, by making an original account of the period in copious detail laid out in sombrely blunt declarative sentences, should expand these three faculties in anyone who engages its grim but lucid exposition. His point about the Jewish tragedy, as I understand it, is that you can't get the Holocaust straight if you don't get the entire history of the period straight.


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