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You've seen it yesterday...
The February Main kit from My Creative Scrapbook!
I simply loved this kit with all its love-themed designs and adorable prints.
These are pictures of my friends' daughters, Celeste and Jade,
picking a bouquet of wild flowers during a beautiful Summer's day.
I cut the word 'amour' out of the pattern paper using my new Silhouette Portrait machine.
The large Prima roses included int he kit are just gorgeous, this blue one being my favorite!
I fussy cut the bicycle and made it a focal point of my double-pager.
Another double-page layout created with the February Main kit
is this one of my friend Natalie during her wedding day back in 2008.
Here, you can see that I used the negative space from the cut title
of the previous layout to use as part of my title for this one.
Again, those beautiful Prima roses!
A fave part of the Main kit are the Crate Paper tags, that come from the Kiss Kiss collection.
Love that touch of gold glitter!
What a beautiful picture!
It's a pleasure to be able to scrapbook such wonderful moments of my friends' lives.
Natalie used to be a scrapbooking buddy of mine, but since she's very busy being a mommy,
she lets me scrapbook her pictures for her albums.
Today the Main kit, tomorrow the Limited Edition!
Hoping you'll be back!


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US broadband plan falls into chaos2010-04-07 10:03 by Daniela
Tags: FCC, broadband, Comcast
America could sink into a broadband dark age after a US court decided that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has no right to stop carriers from developing a two tier Internet.
The court case was bought by Comcast, which objected to the FCC telling it that it could not throttle bittorrent traffic.
Much of the US broadband plan is dependant on having a free and open Internet where everyone is treated equally.
The court ruling has stunned broadband campaigners who see it as placing the FCC's broadband plan under threat. Derek Turner of the Free Press, a nonpartisan organisation that campaigns for universal access to communications, said the consequences of this decision are far reaching and it has forced the FCC into an existential crisis.
If the FCC cannot protect consumers from Internet service providers (ISPs) then it will be unable to implement the national broadband plan, which is clearly on life support as a result of the court's ruling. The aim is to provide every American in the country with high speed Internet access by 2020.
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Grant Ward did not just kill his brother; Ward killed a [fictional] United States Senator.
Grant Ward already has a huge list of victims that would be a series of long murder and treason trials. Kidnapping and murdering a United States Senator has its own enhanced punishments in Federal Court. Federal law states that anyone who kidnaps and kills a United States Senator (or member of Congress or the Executive Branch) shall be punished by death or imprisonment up to life. 18 USCS § 351(b)(2).
Grant Ward beat Senator Ward, killed at least two guards, and tortured the Senator with the forced digging up of a buried well, followed by threats to throw the Senator down the well.
Federal Prosecutors could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Grant Ward killed his brother with malice aforethought that included kidnapping and torture. 18 USCS § 1111.
There is very little a defense attorney could do for Grant Ward, other than try plea-bargaining for life in prison over the death penalty. Given the number of people Ward killed (at least five SHIELD Agents, four soldiers, two guards, and a Senator) plus the charges for treason by working with HYDRA, it is hard to imagine a Prosecutor even entertaining the idea of a plea; the literal bodies of evidence should end a trial with the death penalty for Grant Ward.


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Stephan Dillemuth
Stephan Dillemuth (Born 1954 in Büdingen) is a German artist that works within the mediums of installations, video, performances, paintings, documents, publications).
Dillemuth studied at the Art Academy in Munich (with Hans Baschang ) and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (with Dieter Krieg ). He holds a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .
From 1990 to 1994 he ran together with Josef Strau the project area Friesenwall 120 in Cologne. In 2003 he participated in the first Prague Biennale .
Dillemuth lives in Bad Wiessee and Munich.
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Boyer College of Music and Dance
Temple University
Student Activity Center
2nd Floor
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:15 Opening Remarks
Dr. Larry F. Lemanski
Senior Vice President, Office of Research and Strategic Initiative
Dr. Robert Stroker
Dean, Boyer College of Music and Dance
Dr. Cheryl Dileo
Director, Arts and Quality of Life Research Center
9:30 - 10:20 Concurrent Sessions
Arts and Quality of Life: Finding the Evidence
Cheryl Dileo, PhD, MT-BC
Director, Arts and Quality of Life Research Center
Professor of Music Therapy
Joke Bradt, PhD, MT-BC
Assistant Director, Arts and Quality of Life Research Center
Abstract: This presentation will detail results of a large grant-funded research project at Temple University's Arts and Quality of Life Research Center. Specifically, work to date on a series of meta-analyses and Cochrane reviews will be presented that documents the effects of music therapy on various outcomes related to the establishment and maintenance of quality of life (defined in the broadest way possible, i.e., physiologically, psychologically, socially, cognitively and spiritually). Studies utilized in these analyses examine the effects of music alone or music therapy on various parameters of those with conditions that impair quality of life. The ultimate intent of this extensive research is to provide state of the art information that can be used to document the effectiveness of music therapy and thus underscore and promote its inclusion as a necessary service in healthcare, education and community settings, etc.In addition, the presenters will discuss the need for a structured approach to research in the arts in healthcare so that the field can move forward towards acceptance in the medical profession. Finally, a comprehensive research agenda will be presented.
In addition, the presenters will discuss the need for a competency-based training program for artists to prepare them to work with members of the community who are vulnerable, disenfranchised and/or underserved because of physical, mental, emotional, social, and economic challenges. Thanks to a grant by the Barra Foundation, the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center has been providing training, at no cost, to professional and student artists to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills to most effectively address the needs of these audiences. This training includes instruction as well as on-site supervision by qualified persons. Information on students' work in their internships will be presented.
Aphasia Talent Show: Songs, Psalms, and Smiles
Francine Kohen, M.S., CCC-SLP
Clinical Supervisor and Instructor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Beth Levine, M.S., CCC-SLP
Director of Clinical Education and Clinical Services, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Abstract: The Temple University Speech, Language, Hearing Clinic presented its first Aphasia Talent show. The unique component of this show was that it featured seven individuals with aphasia (a communication disorder following a stroke) who attended weekly group therapy in the Clinic. The primary goal of the show was to provide an opportunity for these clients with aphasia to showcase their talents and overcome their communication disabilities through song, poetry, humor, and prayer. Graduate students in Speech Pathology were instrumental in helping the clients prepare for the show. The art of singing, emceeing, reciting poetry, and sermonizing, were all lost skills for these participants until the show provided the impetus for them to work extremely hard to accomplish their goals. A DVD with highlights from the show will be viewed. Also, participants from the group and the graduate students will be present to share their positive experiences about the performance.
Teaching Voice to Those with Disabilities
Dena Condron, MMT, MT-BC, LPC
Kardon Institute for Arts Therapy, Philadelphia
Abstract: This workshop will present techniques used in teaching voice to individuals with a variety of disabilities. Issues such as cognitive function level, physical challenges, attention and processing deficits will be considered. Participants will have an opportunity to explore techniques in an experiential manner.
How Does the Music Sound to You? Music Therapy Approaches for Children with
Hearing Impairments
Patricia Winter, MMT, MT-BC
PhD Student in Music Therapy, Temple University
Abstract: Settlement Music School (Philadelphia) participated in a 17 week project and a separate 35 week project, with two pre-school programs for children with hearing impairments. Both populations consisted of children with cochlear implants, hearing aids, autism, Down Syndrome, Landau-Kleffner Sundrome, and physical issues. The Orff/Schulwerk method which is an oral/aural/kinesthetic approach was utilized. This approach was chosen for its use of familiar folk songs, as well as its focus on rhythm, language, and aural development. Goals and approaches for the students were based on music therapy research by Darrow, Gfeller, and Stordahl. The music experiences were designed to make maximal use of the children's residual hearing, and to develop that residual hearing to support speech, motor skills, and social skills development. Music experiences supported the following: determining the presence or absence of sound, determining whether sounds are the same or different, free vocalization, vocal imitation, impulse control, motor planning, self-expression, and self confidence. An assessment tool, designed at Settlement Music School for use in their arts-based headstart pre-school program, was utilized to evaluate the progress of the children over the course of the 17 weeks. Overall development was found in the areas of rhythmic development, pitch approximation and pitch matching, time on task, language development, and increase in coping strategies.
10:20-10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-11:40 Concurrent Sessions
Facilitating Relatedness and Communication: Music Therapy and the Developmental, Individual Differences, Relationship-based Model (DIR®) with Children on the Autistic Spectrum
John Carpente, MA, MT-BC, LCAT, NRMT
Founder/Executive Director, The Rebecca Center for Music Therapy
Faculty and Special Projects Coordinator in Music Therapy, Molloy College
PhD Candidate, Music Therapy, Temple University
Abstract: This presentation will offer a perspective of how the clinician views and understands the child, combining the DIR®/Floortime™ Model and music therapy to facilitate communication and relatedness. The DIR® Model is a comprehensive approach that focuses on the emotional development of children with ASDs. It takes into account the child's feelings, relationships with caregivers, developmental capacities and individual differences. During this presentation the DIR® model will be looked at through the lens of improvisational music therapy, in which the therapist's task is to improvise music built around the child's musical or nonmusical: responses, reactions, and/or movements in order to engage the child in a musical experience that will facilitate relatedness, and communication. Through lecture and video illustration, this presentation will discuss the DIR® Model in terms of conceptualizing the child, while utilizing music therapy techniques as a form of treatment intervention. To that end, this presentation will: 1) provide an introduction of the DIR®/Floortime™ Model, 2) explore child profiling, and 3) discuss music therapy assessment and intervention based on the integration of the Functional Emotional.
Media Production Students and "Arts at your Side"
Yongkyung Cho
Graduate Student, Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications, and Mass Media, Temple University
Abstract: In the Spring of 2008, students in the Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications, and Mass Media at Temple University, in conjunction with the Arts and the Quality of Life Research Center, produced an award-winning, hour-long documentary entitled "Arts at your Side." This dramatic, heartwarming film focuses on programs offered through the Arts and the Quality of Life Research Center in Philadelphia. Among the programs spotlighted are a songwriting program for Kensington youth, an art program for cancer patients, and an electronic music composition program for patients with spinal cord injuries. Yongkyung, the graduate student producer, will speak about the project and present an excerpt.
Participating in Arts and Culture for People with Disabilities
Ruth S. Farber, PhD, OTR/L
Associate Professor, College of Health Professions, Temple University
Mimi Kenney Smith, MFA
Executive Director of VSA Arts of Philadelphia
Donald Gensler, MFA
Lecturer, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Fern Silverman, EdD, OTR/L
Assistant Professor, College of Health Professions, Temple University
Abstract: Participation" in life and community, is described as a key component of health by the World Health Organizations, International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) (2002). Involvement in Arts and Cultures may have additional benefits such as self-expression, fulfillment, transformation and socialization. This panel will describe community and classroom programs addressing participation of people with disabilities in arts and culture.
Dr. Farber will describe students' participation in Independence Starts Here(ISH): Festival of Disability Arts and Culture. The students worked side by side with hundred's of people with disabilities, preparing a mural, and as one student described "disability disappeared."
Ms. Smith will describe how the ISH festival was conceived and developed. The primary goal of ISH Festival was to "build awareness of the work of artists with disabilities and build audiences of people with disabilities." Mimi will describe the process of designing and conducting this amazing event.
Mr. Gensler, a mural artist, designed a striking mural in downtown Philadelphia, with and for people with disabilities. Within the design, people with disabilities stand as monuments, symbolizing different actors within a diverse and extraordinary community. Each person in the mural, has a disability and is an engaged contributor to the various communities he/she represents. Don will also describe the preparation and development of the design and the stages involved in making this vision a reality.
Dr. Silverman has been involving students in museum participation issues, not just in terms of accessibility, but also in terms of full participation of children with disabilities. Her work includes adapting interactive exhibits, adjusting the sensory environment, and altering language and environmental cues to enable learning and enjoyment for all users. She will describe students' active involvement in this interesting process.
Singing for Mind/Body Connection: A Preventative Tool
Kelly Meashey, MMT, MT-BC, FAMI, LCAT
Music Psychotherapist, voice teacher, private practice
Adjunct faculty, Community College of Philadelphia, Immaculata University, Temple University
Abstract: Studies have shown that singing can raise immune efficiency (immunoglobulin A) from 150% to 240% in a few hours of singing, facilitate deep breathing, slow heart rate, calm the nervous system, still the mind and body, improve lung capacity, increase energy, relieve asthma, increase relaxation and confidence, and lower anxiety and depression. In this workshop, participants will be guided through simple breathing and vocal exercises (humming, lip trills, etc.) and will sing as a group. Individuals will be shown through experience how the voice can transform one's awareness of self. By promoting deep breathing and vibrations within the body, the singer can move quickly from a state of stress and fear to a more relaxed, comfortable state. Participants will begin to understand how to use voice as a tool for releasing tension and will be asked to be aware of thoughts before and after singing. This experience will demonstrate the connection of voice to mind and body. It will further demonstrate how to use this connection to gain a sense of greater well-being and mental health.
11:40-1:00 Lunch: On Your Own
1:00 - 1:45 Keynote Address
Jane Golden
Director, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
2:00 - 2:50 Concurrent Sessions
Hear Our Voices: Songwriting with At-Risk Youth
Mike Viega, MMT, MT-BC
PhD Student in Music Therapy, Temple University
Scott MacDonald, MMT, MT-BC
Music therapist, Belmont Center for Comprehensive Treatment
Abstract: Hear our Voices is a community-based music therapy project of Arts at your Side aimed at promoting healthy attitudes and behaviors in at-risk youth through the use of a 14-week structured songwriting program. This project has been initiated at the Hancock St. John (H & S) Learning Center, located in the Kensington South area in Philadelphia. The H & S Learning Center offers after school programming to a culturally diverse student body comprised of African Americans, Arabs, Albanians, Latinos and European Americans. The songwriting program uses a theme-centered approach aimed at providing the children with a creative outlet for exploration and expression of issues relevant to their lives (violence, gangsterism, family situation, drug use, anger management, school, and peer pressure) and opportunity to collaboratively create strategies for personal safety and success. This session will demonstrate the songwriting process, share common themes and issues, and discuss important considerations when working with this population. The importance of collaborating with community-based organizations will be emphasized. Finally, results from open-ended interviews with the children will be shared.
North Philadelphia Arts and Culture Alliance
Shayna V. McConville, MFA
Exhibition and Program Coordinator, Department of Exhibitions and Public Programs,
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Abstract: In 2009, Tyler School of Art's Exhibitions and Public Programs Department will relocate to a new facility at the northern edge of Temple University campus. To prepare for our move and to meet and plan for our new audiences, we have met with various established organizations in the area of Lower North Philadelphia. A district of plentiful arts and culture resources emerged, with productions ranging from programs and exhibitions to events in subjects including natural science, poetry, rock music, and visual arts. These organizations are scattered on and around North Broad Street, occupying a diverse range of neighborhoods between Spring Garden and Lehigh Avenue. Across the board, however, emerged similar challenges: a limited visibility to each other and to audiences within this neighborhood and further afoot. Factors, including limited resources and locations (most within walking distance of Temple University), have made visitorship, program enrollment, and being a destination for arts and culture, a difficulty.
In response, we are spearheading The North Philadelphia Arts and Culture Alliance, an attempt to address the issues we face, including the overarching need for gaining exposure and being recognized as an accessible resource for art, culture, and youth and adult educational programs. We plan on the Alliance being a tool for marketing these small organizations to a larger public and to make our organizations accessible and desirable destinations. Together, we aim to inspire professional, organizational, and cross-cultural collaboration and exchange, and to promote awareness of our resources to the surrounding community and beyond through accessible literature, programs and events.
Working within the system: Music Therapy with Foster Care Children
Michael L. Zanders, LPC, MT-BC
Clinical Transition and Stabilization Services Program Director, Bethanna
Ph.D. Candidate in Music Therapy, Temple University
Abstract: This paper discusses the presenter's experience, as a music therapist, in working withchildren and adolescents within the Philadelphia Behavioral Health System. The lecture will include information on the foster care system, statistical data on foster care and outcomes, and the presenter's music therapy approach to working with this population. Time will be allowed for discussion and questions.
The Agrarian
Brigitte L. Knowless, RA
Professor, Associate Dean, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Abstract: Historically, cities have always been viewed as physical repositories and artistic icons of cultural heritage. However, cities today, at least in America, are not living repositories of historical and cultural reflection but instead are the fair game of the entrepreneurial developer. The skylines of most American cities are in constant fluctuation with the capitalistic greed of the individual developer. The central cores of American cities are predominately economic centers with some housing occupied by a young affluent population with the bulk of the population living in the peripheral urban poverty-ridden slums or the ever-sprawling suburbs. From an aerial view, the American city is seen as an intense sculptural core of high rises, surrounded by vast tracts of debris-filled vacant land, blotched with decaying housing, and then the endless sprawl of the cardboard ticktack of suburbia.
In a city such as Philadelphia, a large percentage of the land in the peripheral ring around the economic core is vacant, debris- ridden land. What were once solid rows of housing are now acres of vacant land, spotted by a handful of substandard houses. On a daily basis, the city of Philadelphia, particularly in an area known as North Philadelphia, undergoes a process of dematerialization. What is the future of cities such as Philadelphia and the people who live within this vacant decay? The future is perhaps an agrarian model as an artistic expression in which the dialogue betweenthe house and the land is the new magical mirror of cultural reflection and urbanization.
3:00 - 3:50 Concurrent Sessions
When Symptoms Speak: Using Song Forms to Facilitate Life Changes for Persons with Chronic Mental Illness
Lillian Eyre, PhD, MT-BC, MTA
Assistant Professor, Music Therapy, Immaculata University
Abstract: This presentation will describe a clinical music therapy project that took place in a Philadelphia psychiatric hospital funded by the Florence Tyson Grant under the supervision of Dr. Kenneth Aigen. Case studies of two individual clients with major chronic mental illnesses will be described. Pre-composed songs, song composition, song improvisation, and spoken word songs were used to access psychological problems in a client-centered psychodynamic approach. Both these clients were residents in an extended acute care unit where the goal was to change behaviors that had rendered them difficult to place in community settings. Both clients had been considered difficult to treat in part because they had a borderline IQ in conjunction with mental illness. Individual music therapy helped these clients to access, express, and work through the deeper issues related to their problematic behavioral symptoms. The song form provided five functions: a reflection of the client' s identity, a means of being heard, a holding container for intolerable feelings, a conduit for self-soothing, and a process through which positive aspects of the client's identity were discovered. One client was able to articulate and process sexual abuse issues, and to understand what had driven him to reenact similar behaviors throughout his life. One client was able to develop a greater sense of identity and establish a trusting relationship with the therapist. In this process, she began to accept limits on the demands she made of others and she gained greater respect for the space and attention allotted to others. Audio-files of the clients' songs will be heard and discussed as they relate to each client's life narrative, to their symptomatic behavior, and to their psyche. The presenter will discuss a rationale and approach for working in a psychodynamic way that is appropriate and helpful to persons with major chronic mental illnesses who have limited abilities for abstraction.
Departing From the Murals
Rhonda Moore, Ed.M
Adjunct faculty, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University
Abstract: This presentation will discuss the presenter's multimedia work with Philadelphia murals and, as such, deals with the elements of sound (music and nonverbal), movement (gesture and motion) and sign (drawing and painting)as separate and integral possibilities leading to interdisciplinary partnerships which in turn create new layers of tactile, visual and sonorial impacting. The presenter's approach begins with a mural as point of departure. The fixed visual element-- at least a very concrete part of it--is already in play even before any sound or any physical human movement is contemplated. This fixed element--fixed in the sense that it already exists as a form of art, on a wall or a building, inside or outside, is in no way perceived as limitative or constricting. It merely provides us with information: color, shape, volume, abstraction, narrative, in short, a wealth of tabs that eventually shape and influence the final outcome of the collaborative effort produced when various elements (in this case sound and movement) "infiltrate a pre- constructed tapestry. Background history of sites, participants and other pertinent information will constitute a vital part of the presentation. Audio-visual materials portraying the selected environments will be viewed and discussed. If time permits, a mini- project (collaborative effort of actual participants) will be staged.
Singing for Tomorrow: A Songwriting Program for Children with Spinal Cord Injury
Mike Viega, MMT, MT-BC
PhD Student in Music Therapy, Temple University
Joke Bradt, PhD, MT-BC
Assistant Director, Arts and Quality of Life Research Center
Abstract: Children with spinal cord injury face many physical, psychological, social and spiritual challenges. Disbelief, sadness, fear, anger, guilt, hopelessness, helplessness, social withdrawal, and decreased motivation are common grief reactions during hospitalization and may impinge on the children's recovery. To optimize rehabilitation, these reactions and feelings need to be expressed, validated and supported. Besides the emotional turmoil, children with spinal cord injury often struggle to find meaning and hope for the future as the injury may drastically change their identities. An innovative music therapy songwriting program has been developed at the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center. In this program, children and teenagers with spinal cord injury create and record, with the guidance of a music therapist, their own songs using music software called Garageband. The goal of the music therapy songwriting program is to help patients with spinal cord injury better cope by: (a) helping them identify and deal with the grief, loss and adjustment issues subsequent to spinal cord injury, (b) assisting them to communicate their feelings and thoughts, (c) increasing their confidence and self esteem through successful music experiences, (d) actively involving them in music therapy treatment, thereby increasing their motivation to participate in other therapies, and (f) providing hope for the future. Clinical examples will be used to demonstrate the songwriting process, specifically the children's active engagements through the use of Garageband. Songs will be shared to discuss common themes found in their song lyrics.
Life and the Quality of Art: A Study of Adjectives in Music Reviews Published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and What They Say about the "Art" They Describe.
Maurice Wright, DMA
Laura Carnell Professor of Music Composition, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University
Abstract: Decrying art music as elitist, cultural critics attempt to flatten the musical landscape, elevating vernacular and commercial musical efforts while denigrating so-called "art" music. Music educators may find themselves on the horns of a dilemma when choosing music for use in a curriculum, but what of music therapists who must choose music for use with their clients? Is the familiar music of contemporary culture more valuable because of its familiarity, or is art music inherently worthwhile and thus of special value to everyone? Rather than argue the question from first principles, the author considers the words used by writers in the Philadelphia Inquirer to describe two kinds of music: that described as "classical" and that not so described. Using frequency tables to search for recurring terms, and lists of synonyms to further simply the language, the author tries to determine whether the two families of description are different, and, if so, how they are different. As the sample grows, perhaps a taxonomy will emerge that will permit some meaningful generalization about musical description.
4:00 - 4:50 Concurrent Sessions
Embodied Education: Empowerment and Transformation through Movement and Dance
Donna Dragon, CMA, RSMT, PhD
Adjunct Faculty, Temple University
Founder/Director, The Center for Movement Alternatives
Sara Narva, EdM
Performing Arts Teacher, Crefeld School
Temple Alumni
Abstract: Historically, dance educators, artists and therapists have been at the forefront in pedagogic and research methodology developments both in higher education and in the private sector and have assisted in transformation for individuals, communities and cultures in the United States and globally. Whether toward academic, artistic or therapeutic goals, learning occurs through our living, breathing bodies—through engaging our physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual existences in their entireties—processes of whole person or embodied learning. Through Our Eyes, was an exciting multimedia collaboration between 5 racially mixed young women in a modern dance class at a progressive Philadelphia high school. Students shared personal anecdotes of how race and racism affect their lives. Through struggling with creative processes and using the metaphoric language of dance to convey their ideas, students were empowered to discuss issues that are often overlooked. They found and claimed their place in the world, and in their school, and they challenged their peers and community to do the same. Dance education and dance educators hold keys to attaining skills where bodily knowledge and creativity are synergetic parts of learning and change. Join us, for a presentation on the history, philosophies, practices and applications of embodied education.
Cultural Considerations in Music Therapy in North Philadelphia
Audrey Hausig, MT-BC
Music Therapist, Sobriety Through Outpatient
Karen Dennery Melita, MMT, MT-BC
Music therapist, Arts and Quality of Life Research Center
Scott MacDonald, MMT, MT-BC
Music therapist, Belmont Center for Comprehensive Treatment
Michael Viega, MMT, MT-BC
PhD Student in Music Therapy, Temple University
Abstract: It is important to be aware of cultural considerations in therapy. Values and beliefs about health, relationships, communication, and expression are rooted in culture, making therapists responsible for attaining an understanding of their clients' cultures. This panel discussion will explore the experiences of four music therapists working in North Philadelphia from a cultural perspective. The presenters will share what significant cultural differences exist between them and their clients and how music is used to bridge those differences. The role of music in therapy as it stems from the role of music in the clients' outside lives will be discussed. The presenters will also address specific types and styles of music used in therapy, and results from a study on the use of the "mix tape" in music therapy will be described by the researcher. Finally, the panel will provide their recommendations for educational needs related to being "culturally competent" as music therapists working in low income Philadelphia neighborhoods.
The Relationship between Musical Performance Anxiety and Flow
Joann Marie Kirchner, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Secondary Piano, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University
Paula Skutnick-Henley, M.Ed.
Instructor of Psychology, West Chester University
Abstract: Studies have shown that performing music while being in a state of flow is a desirable experience. Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi (1975), coined the term, "flow," to refer to a state of focused absorption. Many musicians have the experience of not being able to perform up to their expected capacity as a result of an increased anxiety level. While it is not necessary to eliminate anxiety completely, the anxiety should never take over and debilitate the performer.
The current study was designed to examine the possible relationship between musical performance anxiety and flow proneness. Ninety primarily undergraduate music majors voluntarily completed an inventory to participate in this study. Flow proneness was significantly and negatively correlated with performance anxiety in a planned one-tailed test. The ability to play/sing without destructive self-criticism also correlated negatively with performance anxiety. It was noteworthy that performance anxiety scores correlated significantly with self-confidence and self-trust while playing or singing and the ability to maintain focus on the music. The relatively weak correlation between flow proneness and performance anxiety suggests that both can exist simultaneously. It appears that creating performance conditions that foster flow can be useful for helping to alleviate the intensity of performance anxiety. Strategies to help increase flow and lessen musical performance anxiety will be explored. Ways in which flow experiences and musical performance anxiety might influence one another will also be discussed in this workshop.
4:50 - 5:00 Closing Remarks
Dr. Cheryl Dileo
Director, Arts and Quality of Life Research Center


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I was fortunate to receive training in the Volere Process back in 2007 while I was working as a Senior Business Analyst for Woolworths. Up until that time, I had been a business analyst for 4 years with no formal training in the skill of gathering or documenting business requirements, other than learning UML at university. My work was generally quite solution focused and filling out templates for the sake of producing a document.
The penny dropped after the first day of training with Suzanne. She gently guided us through the Volere process, which connected all the dots from beginning to end of what any BA needs to do to gather the right requirements. The 'essence' of a requirement is what to this day has helped differentiate my work from others, and led me to a successful career of 15 years working as a business analyst, using the Volere process as the guiding paradigm for all my work.
Volere is not about the template nor really just about requirements. It's about understanding the business problem so that the requirements process can actually happen correctly. The Volere method makes it easier for discussion and provides techniques that can be used with stakeholders to analyse and describe what the solution needs to do in order for the business problem to be solved.
For business stakeholders, the requirements document is easy to read because it contains all the information they need in a top down manner – from the goals, objectives, stakeholders, right through to the diagrams describing the solution and the associated functional/non-functional requirements.
The key difficulties are shared amongst any requirements gathering efforts – business stakeholders love to talk about solutions. The Volere process help guide discussions away from solutions via the use of the context diagram, business events, and the partitioning of the work which leads to accurate descriptions of what the business needs to do in order to meet the objectives of the project.
Introducing the Volere process to an organization is best done through having a mini-project set up involving all the members of the BA practice. Both the business and the BA Practice need to change the way they work in order for the Volere process to be effectively embedded in an organization. Ideally, all BA practitioners should receive formal training of the Volere framework. The accompanying text – "Mastering the Requirements Process" – is a great book, however, in order to get all the BA practitioners on the one page, it would be best achieved through interactive, and collaborative training workshops with trained staff from the Atlantic Systems Guild.
My recommendation is that for any organization that wishes to improve the capability of their BA practitioners, is to organize Volere training.
— Karim Khalifa, Toyota Finance Australia Limited
"Volere techniques are not limited to Business Analysts and IT projects. In their Profitable Product Management course The Chartered Institute of Marketing will be making their delegates aware of the Volere Trawling Techniques. The purpose of the course is "This course develops analytical, strategic and tactical approaches to product management, enabling companies to compete sustainably and profitably in increasingly competitive business-to-business markets."
— Julie Ling, CIM Learning and Development, The Chartered Institute of Marketing
"As you are aware, I was busy applying my learning from the course on my current project Realising the Neighbourhood Justice Centre. The learning, information, techniques and resources that I took away fromthat course are proving to be invaluable. I completed my first Business requirements document last week. Thefeedback from my manager was so positive. His comments included 'You did a great job. This is the best requirements document this I have seen in the past 5 years. It is exactly the standard that I am expecting.It's what a requirements document should be and I'll be using this documentto show others what I expect from a requirements gathering exercise.'
This great result came about from your excellent training course and materials. Thank you so much for all your help."
— Gabriella Mascaro, Victorian Department of Justice
"I wanted to drop you a note to let you know that your requirements process is excellent. I am a lead instructor at the University of California, Irvine as well as the president of No Limits Leadership, Inc., a project management consulting firm. At No Limits we provide a project management methodology called Project Ball, and have imbedded the Volere process for requirements into our system with great results. Having used your system for many years it is the only one that really offers a complete solution for gathering requirements in a way that does not become a project itself. We have used it on software, hardware, and various other IT related projects successfully. We feel confident approaching any project and facilitating the requirements process to the satisfaction of our clients. We appreciate the great work you have done and your willingness to share it with the rest of us. Thank you.
— Allan Elder, President, No Limits Leadership, Inc. www.nolimitsleadership.com
"Thanks for the helpful and enjoyable tutorial on Requirements and Creativityyou presented at the Requirements Engineering Conference in Kyoto. I was so inspired that I led a creativity workshop based onyour tutorial with my colleagues at the Open University. We all had a goodtime - everyone seemed to enjoy the exercises. And I got some very goodrequirements for a European project we're working on called ELeGI(www.elegi.org). It's not bad when you can have fun and get the job done atthe same time!
I presented the creative triggers first and then asked the participants tobrainstorm in small groups. Then I presented your experience using expertsgiving Neil Maiden's memorable performance at RE'04 as an example. "Andy theauto mechanic", our own expert, gave a 10 minute talk about how he performshis job. Then I asked the participants to come up with requirements makinganalogies between "Andy's" experiences and the domain we were studying.
Some participants thought that the order of the exercises should be reversedwhile others felt that the order was correct. Nevertheless, all of thegroups came up with useful requirements. My good experience with yourtechniques leads me to look forward to the next time I'm able to attend oneof your tutorials.
Thanks again.
Also check out the paper about my experiences using Volere I deliveredat the Requirements Engineering Conference in Kyoto in September 2004 http://mcs.open.ac.uk/dth46/
— Debra Haley, The Open University
"I have used Volere on the following projects:
Let me add that your Volere methodology is EXCELLENT! I took the course Mastering the Requirements Process in London in November 2002. I finished three projects using Volere. I can say that after 10 years I have finally found a methodology that is very well structured, is logical and easy to follow.
The power, to me, is that it focuses on only one thing: requirements. When this is done well, the rest follows (almost) naturally.
— A.B. - Software Engineer - Name and company withheld at the author's request.
"I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your class you gave at Microsoft in October of last year. It has changed the way I look at projects, and has helped me to be 10 times more efficient and successful with gathering customer requirements, and conveying them to my development team. The framework has worked excellently, and we are establishing our own template which is based on your teachings. "
— C. McKinnon - Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
"I am using the Volere template and shell on a large, European project involving mobile technologies and lifelong learning. The template is a great way to ensure that all relevant areas have been considered. The shell is a convenient repository that ensures uniform and completely documented requirements. When filled out correctly, it is very specific and bridges the communication gap between users and developers. I found I needed to add two fields - status and miscellaneous. The status field reflects the state of completion of the requirement, e.g. incomplete, ready for review by quality gatekeeper, or accepted. The miscellaneous field can be used for whatever is needed for a particular requirement; it isn't always known at database creation time what extra field may be needed. For example, on our project we have 3 separate subsystems. Some requirements apply to one subsystem only, others to two subsystems, and others overlap all three subsystems. It's useful to note this information on a Volere shell."
— Debra Haley, The Open University
"I worked on a project in which I used the Robertsons' Volere event-driven use case approach. Using DOORS we captured a use case model for the functional requirements and each of the use case steps was evaluated to check if any non-functional requirements applied (we used the Volere suggested categories plus a few of our own in another DOORS module). So in DOORS we just linked the functional requirement to the non-functional requirement(s) that were applicable. Because we used DOORS we didn't have to repeat the non-functional requirements - there was only one 'do it within 5 seconds' but it was linked to many functional requirements.
Furthermore, because we packaged the whole system as a hierarchy of use case packages, we found it was simplicity itself to apply a non-functional requirement to the whole system or part of the system, down to a single use case step.
There were a few drawbacks in that as you went up to the 'whole system' package the list of non-functionals got longer, (3 pages if I remember) but on the whole the client and the developer loved it. Any tool that allows the RE data to be linked in a similar fashion could be used I guess."
— Colin Wood, Independent Consultant
"We have applied the Volere requirement shell to specify stakeholder requirements for new European air traffic management systems. Its strength was its combination of simplicity with rigor - a wonderful characteristic of the whole Volere approach. Encouraging stakeholders to think about making their requirements testable changes the way that they think about requirements - for the better."
— Dr Neil Maiden, Head of Centre for HCI Design, City University London
"This SAP project (Enterprise Systems Group [ESG] SAP Project) had built a budget for the development work being done this year for our SAP installation into Dublin, Ireland. We have only had to spend 53% of those dollars. Why? A much thorough job of requirements development was performed, resulting in the employment of less programming contractors. Without this concentration upon requirements, we would have consumed budget dollars employing additional programmers for the "normal" rework. To keep this apples to apples, in our budgeting we had estimated the number of possible designs we would be addressing. In fact, we had to address a slightly larger number, and did this with less programming resources. "
— John Capron, Worldwide Systems Technology Manager, IBM Enterprise Systems Group,Poughkeepsie, N.Y
"I just wanted to let you know that Michelle Weaver and I have been implementing most of what we learned in your seminar. OneBeacon recently adopted a new Development process that includes your requirements gathering methodology. Michelle and I have a definite advantage as the attempt is made to implement these new procedures (and attitudes).
I finished my first complete requirements document last week for an added functionality in an application I helped develop a little over a year ago. I think the level of detail and comprehensiveness surprised the IT management and the developer."
— Bruce Holmbeck Business Systems Analyst OneBeacon Insurance
"Both under-graduate and post-graduate students at City University in London are now taught leading requirements engineering techniques including Volere. It has proved to be both accessible and easy-to-learn - a real winner with the students!"
— Dr Neil Maiden, Head of Centre for HCI Design, City University London
"I love the Volere requirements template! I have experience working as a customer relationship manager for software development companies and the Volere process has assisted me to work with development teams to convert "what the customer really wants" into successful and appropriate and workable systems. Attended a short course run by the Australian Computer Society a few years back, and have used it on two successful health informatics projects in Australian Divisions of General Practice to detail requirements for computerised decision support systems for asthma management and depression medication management . Stakeholders and clients appreciate the clarity and detail of the completed requirements document, development teams appreciate the detail gathered by the Volere process taking assumptions and guess work out of prototyping and product design."
"I am currently using it to detail requirements for an electronic prescribing and decision support system to support reduction of medication errors and improve patient safety in a leading Australian cancer hospital."
— Lenni Morkel-Kingsbury, Project Coordinator, Electronic Prescribing and Decision Support in Oncology Project , Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute
"This is just a short note to let you know about the use of the Volere template on projects conducted by our Sydney branch. By way of introduction, We are an Australian-owned operation with computer-related revenue in excess of $200 million, We have more than 1,200 employees worldwide, servicing over 6,500 customers in 68 countries from 16 offices throughout Australia, Europe, Asia and North America.
I first became aware of your template when I attended your course about 3 years ago. The following is an outline of events since that time:
Without exception the template approach, and in particular the use of fit criteria, has been enthusiastically received by both clients and analysts alike. There is no doubt that this approach has added significantly to the quality of our requirements specifications. The measurable nature of the requirements has also improved the effectiveness of our design validation process.
Please note that the Lotus Notes application described in this e-mail is a tool used by our analysts to aid the requirements analysis process, it is not sold as a commercial product.
If you would like any further information regarding our use of Volere, our future intentions, etc. please don't hesitate to drop me a line. Of course, if you have any free time during your upcoming visit to Sydney and would like to discuss things in person I would be only too happy to oblige.
— Keith Winchester [company name withheld by request]
" We have implemented several of the techniques. We have introduced rationale and fit criteria to our requirements pro forma. Rationale has proved very useful in reducing the number of questions we receive from IT, particularly where IT believe that a requirement will be difficult to meet, and I think the fit criteria has helped the test teams. We are also involving testers at an earlier stage and the general way we write our requirements has improved considerably.
— Karen Agger, Iocore Consulting, Denmark
"I have, and have used, your book Mastering the Requirements Process, for a couple of years. I find it invaluable as a project manager. Currently I'm working on requirements for phase two of a two-year national project here in Canada, about using the Net to affect the social policy process. I was delighted to find your template online. Many thanks for making such a great tool freely available. It is especially wonderful considering my client is a non-profit organization with a typically limited non-prof budget.
— Lynn Hauka, Womens Space, Canada
"Read "the book" 9 months ago & used template to write requirements for an internet banking system. Vendor/developer was able to spin off scope document quite easily. Haven't finished development & testing, but have the most detailed & most realistically scheduled project plan we've ever written!
"We" are the 2nd largest Texas based bank (www.iboc.com), largest minority owned bank, and largest bank headquartered on the Texas/Mexico border. Will use the template again on replacement of legacy host with IBM S80 running Progress RDBMS/4GL development software. Multiple interfaces for front end systems, including web-based. Detailed back-end reporting and data warehousing.
I'll be personally writing the great majority of requirements doc using Volere — I'm just a hands on kinda guy.
Thanks for exceptional insight, clarity, & organization. It's making a positive difference in a very complex undertaking.
— David Combest, EVP/CIO, International Bancshares Corporation.
"Thanks for making this available. I am an IT Architect with IBM and covering all the bases when gathering requirements is always a problem. There never was enough time to do it right but with all the rush rush rush about web enablement and e-commerce, any tool that assists the process is welcome. I will use this template to feed the three modeling tools that I have in my toolbox; IBM's Business Process Modeler, IBM's PlanAhead and an ancient but serviceable copy of TI's IEF.
— George Hilliker, IBM
"Just letting you know that late last year, in a requirements specification subject at the University of Queensland, Australia, myself and my group used your SRS template in a SRS assignment. Almost all of the product of that assignment was developed because of you template, as well as using a peer review process to "iron it out." As a result, we scored 18/20 for the assignment, the highest mark that our group heard of.
— Dan Sketcher, University of Queensland
"We have implemented several of the techniques. We have introduced rationale and fit criteria to our requirements pro forma. Rationale has proved very useful in reducing the number of questions we receive from IT, particularly where IT believe that a requirement will be difficult to meet, and I think the fit criteria has helped the test teams. We are also involving testers at an earlier stage and the general way we write our requirements has improved considerably.
— Colin Stringer, Lloyds TSB
"In our curriculum we pay much attention on the designprocess in civil and building engineering. Because the development of the requirments specification in the domain of the building industry is very weakly supported, we have searched for better concepts in other domains. We found concepts like DOORS, X-tie, RDD-100, Smarteam etc. These concepts are well performed to support the development of requirements specification but gave no information about the way to structure and architecture a well-defined requirements specification. This we found in the book Systems Engineering coping with complexity from R.Stevens and your book with the Volere template. For practical reasons we decided to use the Volere template. This is the first year in our course that we are using the template. We have transformed the Volere requirements specification template edition 6.1 for the building industry by introducing some examples and rename different items of the template. We hope it will work out for the students to get insight in the importance of a well-defined correct and compleet requirements specification. We will keep you informed about our experiences with the template in a course environment if you appreciate so.
— Karel Veenvliet, Assistant Professor, University of Twente
"I am an independent contractor. I provide project management services to organizations working on large IM/IT type projects. Although I have some private sector clients, generally I work for Canadian Federal government department. I am currently assisting Health Canada in standards and practices related to Requirements Management and Configuration Management, which is where I came across your stuff. I recently completed an on line tendering system for the subsidiary of a Canadian bank.
I started life as a business systems analyst so I have some idea as to how complex the defintion of requriements is. Your stuff is the best I have seem. Historically I would have agreed with you that Privacy was jsut a subset of Security. However, there are a number of things happening that change that.
My current client is having to go back and do formal Privacy impact assessment on existing and proposed systems because of new legislation enacted in Canada. This is turning out to be a big job. (The law is very simple; its less then a page long. In effect it says, you must tell people why you want to collect data, you must have their informed consent before you collect it, and the data cannot be used for any other purpose then what they were told). There are some other laws that that is the big one.
I look forward to your future work
— Neil Kemp
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This works best either right before leaving in the morning when she's dressed and ready to go or right when you get home and see her after being gone a while.
Don't try these lines when she hasn't bathed all day, hair a mess, and looks ready to drop. It will come across totally insincere and might even make her mad instead of pleased. Wait until she really does look good and tell her so, in a ridiculously silly way.


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The U.S. Coast Guard reported that a fire that burned for more than a day on an oil production platform off Louisiana's coast was extinguished early on Saturday.
The fire was initially reported at 2:50 a.m. local time on Friday by an offshore supply vessel, which had already evacuated the platform crew of 28 people. There is no information for injured workers.
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Local firefighting teams, after boarding the facility, officially reported around 6 a.m. local time that the platform in Breton Sound near environmentally delicate barrier islands off the state's south-east coast took fire.
According to information given by the Coast Guard officials, the light sheen of oil around the incident location appeared to be dissipating and moving away from the Breton National Wildlife Refuge on the surrounding islands.
During the time, when the cleanup and repair works were still ongoing, crews with containment boom and skimmers were at sight. There were no reports of oil reaching shore or harming wildlife.
According to preliminary assessments, authorities believe that storage tanks on the platform contain around 5,000 gallons of oil, which is much below the platform's storage capacity of 168,000 gallons in total.
Representatives of the Texas Petroleum Investment Co, which is the platform's owner and operator, said on Friday that the most probable reason for the incident was the platform compressor but still the cause was under investigation.
David Marguiles, the Texas Petroleum Investment spokesman, said in a news release on Friday that the platform was shut down after the fire. Previously it was used to gather some 90,000 gallons of oil per day from a field of 50 to 60 wells in the area.


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Editors get nice letters like that and they get nasty ones, but what was exceptional of about this one was that it was yet another from an 86-year old man who had taught me English at Germantown Friends School in the 1950s and was still egging me on over a half century later. Sadly, however, I won't be getting any more such letters, however, because David Mallery passed on January 16.- Sam
Dick Wade, Head, Germantown Friends School - The GFS students in his English classes (1946-59) and the thousands of educators he taught for over 50 years have lost a dear friend and mentor. He will be remembered for his effervescence, his eternal optimism and his ability to be truly present for each person he encountered. . . David taught and directed at Germantown Friends until 1959, when he left on a project traveling around the country to talk to children about the influence of their school experience on their personal values. This exploration led to a career in education from the perspective of observer, investigator, and advisor. Through presentations and workshops he became a leader in independent schools.
Sam Smith, Multitudes - Ed Gordon, David Mallery, and Bob Boynton were the school's English teachers. Mr. Gordon was the toughest of the lot, a smallish, well-dressed man as defensive of our right to say what we wanted as he was insistent that we say it precisely and clearly. . . We would try to trap him, but it was not easy. One day, one of the students demanded of Mr. Gordon why -- given his propensity for free expression -- he always wore gray flannel suits. Mr. Gordon said quietly, "It makes it easier to say what I think."
We knew all about the meaning of gray flannel suits, thanks to Mr. Mallery, who had introduced us to the man in one, and other subversive literature of the 50s such as The Organization Man and Generation of Vipers. Mr. Mallery accomplished with enthusiasm what Mr. Gordon achieved with discipline. I took naturally to the skepticism of the social critics, for I had found much of my world not to my liking but had not realized that one could make a living saying so. And I devoured Ernest Hemingway because his stories were tough and melancholic and he didn't gush adjectives, metaphors and similes like so many of the writers we were meant to admire. In The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, he said that some things lose their meaning when they get all mouthed up. I appreciated the way he didn't use words as much as the way he did.
Several of the bright, proto-literary girls in my class -- who tolerated my less intellectual ways as though I were a colorful but unreliable writer to be both valued and pitied -- became enthralled with T.S. Eliot and Yeats and spoke about them in ways I did not comprehend. Girls, it was understood, would do anything for the handsome Mallery, leaving even proto-literary boys to bring up the rear.
Still, it was a pleasant rear, for Mr. Mallery usually found something good to say, gave us courage to challenge the world and provided daily evidence that growing up did not have to mean the end of joy. And when that didn't work, he once walked atop a row of desks to make his point.
He even inspired me to write a play, a maudlin love story involving a foreign correspondent. In his normal red ink, Mr. Mallery wrote:
Intensely interesting, Sam -- there is talk here that pierces the mind... You have values and feelings made eloquently articulate.
It being only eleventh grade, I believed him. It was thankfully the last play I ever wrote, but it was one of the moments that confirmed that I wanted to be a writer. (Years later, when this essay appeared in a school publication, Mallery wrote me, "But I was right.")
In one essay for Mr. Mallery I even took on the mythic figure of William Whyte who had proposed in Fortune placing an employee's IQ and personality test records, religion, political affiliation, hobbies, type of car and salary all on a single card for use as needed.
It was probably a satire, but I took it seriously and inveighed against the device calling it "the embryo of a police state and a place for a would-be dictator to hang his hat and go to work. . . Once the individual has lost the security of privacy, we are no longer safe from the immediate overthrow of our principles by the ever-waiting demagogue.". . .
David Mallery called my critique of Whyte a "a good, vigorous and heartening response." And when I listened to a recording of Arthur Honnegers King David for the first time and asked Mallery, who was about to help stage a performance of the work, where the line between noise and music was, he said simply, "That's for you to decide."
On the other hand, my attack on Lillian Smith's The Journey brought Mr. Mallery out of his ebulliency:
Lillian Smith is not a friend of mine, or of my mothers. So it is with no bias that I say your attack on her is tiresome, and inappropriate for this particular job... Since you do haggle over her in the way your do, read her again, after a good dinner. Yours, feeling nailsy, though admiring of Sam.


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This weekend I went to Glastonbury Festival for the first time in my life. It was an amazing experience and I'm glad that I got to see the craziness that is Glasto.
The place is so vast it's mind blowing!
It was very, very muddy. I tried to not be too much of a princess about it. I didn't complain (much) and just concentrated on plodding on and not falling over. Lil' L managed to fall over 3 times in the first half hour! It's hard work wading through mud for hours, but at least it gives your legs a good workout. 😉
My favourite area of the festival was 'The Unfairground'. This zone invites you to the dark side of the world where plane wrecks, mutants and freaks all groove to Bez's Acid House. I fitted in well there 😉
The plane wreck below was actually a tequila bar! You had to pick your way through the debris, then prop up the bar in the company of a blood drenched aviator. Lovely!
Lil' L was a bit in awe and a bit freaked out by The Unfairground!
Unfortunately, we didn't make it to Shangri-La – the "futuristic and dystopian wonderland"… as it didn't open until 11pm 🙁
Block9 was another late-night wonderland that we missed, but we did manage to see the incredible 'London Underground' – a 50ft tower block with a life-size, Tube train-cum-night club. I would have loved to have seen it at night time when it was all ablaze.
I also loved the Greenpeace field. Greenpeace is celebrating its 40th anniversary and it was great to join in the birthday celebrations with them. There was cake, party games.. the whole sherbang!
The fish-cum-cafe below was actually made of old CDs!
There were some great installations by Greenpeace.
There were tons of vegetarian and vegan cafes and eateries at the festival. We sampled the veggie burgers, falafel pittas and paella. It was all delish. My favourite refreshment had to be the fruit smoothie which was blended using pedal power to generate the electricity for the blender! Very cool and fun to watch!
All in all, it was a great experience… and I didn't get THAT muddy!!!


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The Cruinniu na nÓg Festival takes place nationwide on June 23rd 2018. It is a national day of creativity for children and young people to celebrate and encourage them to participate in culture and creativity. Here's a selection of what's on with Free Events for Kids at Cruinniu na nÓg 2018:
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Free Events for Cruinniu na nÓg at glor in Ennis
As part of the festival glór in Ennis, Co. Clare will have theatre, workshops, music and cinema all free of charge (although booking is required for some events) including:
- The Willow Wood by Julie Tiernan with Anne Blake for ages 3 to 5 years
- Piano Music Marathon suitable for all ages
- Family Workshop: Introduction for African Dance
- Cinema: Making the Grade
Celebrating Birds in the City: Drop-in activities at The Ark Dublin
At The Ark in Dublin a lush new planted façade and entrance garden will be unveiled on Saturday 23rd June 2018, transforming The Ark into a new green space to attract bird life, insects and flowers – with the design informed by the ideas and artworks created by local children.
As part of activities for Dublin City Council's Cruinniú na nÓg, The Ark invites you and your family to come and explore the building, encouraging you to get creative, dig in, and get your hands dirty during numerous drop-in activities. The building will be a hive of activity aimed to inspire children (and their grown-ups) to examine the variety of plant and animal life in the city.
Activities will run from 10.30-1.30pm and include:
- Flower pot planting
- Protein balls for birds
- Make your own bird
- Build a bird feeder
- Make a bug motel
Throughout the day, from 10.30- 4pm, the building will also host an interactive gallery space with a display of artwork and designs produced by local children during workshop sessions with city greening experts Green Edge.
Free Activities for Cruinniu na nÓg at Lough Key Forest & Activity Park
There are lots of free events and activities taking place at Lough Key Forest & Activity Park for Cruinniú na nÓg on Saturday 23rd June between 2 and 6pm at Lough Key including
- Slovakian Jazz Band
- Art Workshops
- Castlerea Inflatables
- Lough Key Adventure Kingdom
- Magic Face Painting
- Orienteering
- Storytelling
- The Lough Key Experience
- Wheel O (Wheelchair Orienteering)
Russborough Family Park Run & Children's Fun Morning
The Park Run and Children's Fun Morning at Russborough House is a fun, free family event. The course runs entirely on trail paths in beautiful Russborough Parklands and is 5 kilometres long.
There will be free admittance for children to the Russborough Maze on the day and children can enjoy trying out a smoothie bike.
Fun "giant" games will also be organised.
More Free Cruinniu na nÓg Events Around Ireland
From Animation Workshops in Cavan to Jewellery Workshops in Galway to Creative Writing in Wexford, there are tons of free events for kids and teens around Ireland to celebrate this special day.
Find all the events near you on the Creative Ireland website.
Over to you now. What do you think of the events planned for Cruinniu na nÓg? Tell us in the comments below.


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Puzzle your way through 150 perplexing levels in ncient Egypt! In Scepter of Ra the aim is simple: fill the board by pushing the stones onto the playing field. s soon as a group of three or more stones of the same color are linked together you score points. Take on the challenge of the pharaohs and connect the hieroglyphic stones to reveal the amazing Golden Pyramid! It makes the good image effect. First of all, the picture colors are extremely gentle and all images are made with the harmony of lines. Scepter of Ra musical system warms during game and beautiful background melodies attracts. Download now and start playing the game.
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