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Sam Marks has much to beproud of. He watched as the seeds of an idea have grown into a multi-million dollar program that leads students along the path to worlds of success.
Mr. Marks is the founder of Breakthrough New York, what initially was called Summerbridge at The Town School when he started to build its foundation in 1999. More than 14 years later, he is poised to be honored by Breakthrough New York at its annual gala on April 18th at Capitale.
"I was a Summerbridge teacher in Providence, RI, when I was in college in the summers of 1992, '93 and '94," Mr. Marks said. "When I graduated in 1994, I landed a job at The Town School teaching sixth-grade English and Social Studies, and as a homeroom teacher."
But, he said, his entrance into the classroom paved the way for stronger ambitions. "What I wanted to do was direct; I wanted to found a Summerbridge program in my home town," he said.
A native of the Upper East Side who now lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Mr. Marks collaborated with Joyce Evans, then the head of The Town School, endeavoring to launch a local Summerbridge program.
"We both had this idea in the back of our minds that we could get a Summerbridge program up and running. It took us three or four years to line everything up. We worked with The Town School's board, and Summerbridge National to establish the program and ensure that there would be local support so it could thrive," he said.
Mr. Marks launched and then ran the program - which was soon renamed Breakthrough New York - from 1998 to 2002, when he left to attend graduate school at the Harvard Kennedy School, earning a Masters in Public Policy and Urban Planning.
Following graduate school, Marks continues to work in the same communities in New York City from where Breakthrough students are recruited. He subsequently joined the Bronx-based nonprofit organization WHEDco as its Director of Housing and Community Development.
He currently is the Vice President at Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, where he manages the group's $5 million community development grants budget, and works with its Community Development Finance Group to manage its $500 million portfolio of loans and investments in affordable housing and economic development throughout New York City and at times the U.S. and internationally as well.
To this day, he reflects fondly on the early days of Breakthrough New York, and its remarkable growth and impact on students from across New York City.
"I had an amazing life-changing and growing experience as a teacher at Summerbridge," he said. "I was entrusted with all of this responsibility of teaching a classroom of kids, and not just to teach but to help run this program."
"It was designed so they could throw themselves into it with all of their passion and 110 percent of their energy, and put all of that to work to really build something," he said.
And, he said, his enthusiasm was driven by the ability to learn and grow along the way. "It was about both engaging with kids and learning how to teach, learning how to inspire young people. Also, it was like building the track as you were riding the train down it."
Mr. Marks recalls the "incredible experience" of developing the program at The Town School, and considering not just the experiences that students had in the classroom but in the larger world beyond it. Many of the participating students aspired to go to college, but they and their families needed guidance and support to understand what they needed to get there.
From its origins, his program attracted "really young, talented people who had limited opportunities." Today, when he encounters some of its graduates, he is incredibly moved by their stories of success.
"It's always really amazing to see where folks wound up," Mr. Marks said, "and how their experience of being part of a program has been a touchstone to them in their lives. We really created a culture with the program where everybody was working incredibly hard and finding a lot of joy in the process of learning, a community where learning and achievement were really valued and celebrated, and that it was cool to be smart and engaged and enthusiastic."
"We wanted to create a sort of oasis of that positive culture, and it seems to have been an experience that people really carried through their lives," he said.
Breakthrough New York owes its success to the seeds planted by Mr. Marks, and recently announced the honor he will receive in a few weeks.
"It's amazing to think how much the program has grown under subsequent leadership such as Rhea's. There is just an enormous breadth of stakeholders that believe in and support the organization now."
"The program has grown in size and impact, and has really become a leading organization in the kind of work it does, which has been really amazing to see from its humble origins."
He reflected on his first office – a reconstituted gymnasium closet – and how now Breakthrough has grown into a much more formalized organization to implement its mission and chart a better future for its students.
"It was me in a gym closet with an idea in my head," he said. "and now it's a million dollar budget organization that has a track record that can look back and honor its founder from 14 years ago, and that is pretty amazing.

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You can never ever go overboard with a black eyeliner, I think it's the most commonly used cosmetic around the world… And why not, a black eyeliner is something that fits very well in every occasion, be it an everyday look or the dramatic bridal look, a black eyeliner is what most of us reach for to complete the effect. My favorite liquid black eyeliners are the ones which have a pen sort of applicator. That makes the application so quick and mistake proof. Here is a detailed review of the Milani Eye Tech Perfection Eyeliner.
The packaging reminds me of The Curve Eyeliner by NYX , It has a curved body to give a better control over the application. The felt tip allows you to create a thin, medium or a heavy line, as you desire! It's extremely comfortable to hold, beginners would love it for sure. Talking of the down side, I faced slight issue working on a winged liner with this felt tip applicator, I wish it was slightly more flexible.
Quality & Texture
The product claims to give a full color definition in one stroke, well… that isn't really true, I need to coat 2-3 times to get a deep pigmented black line.
It gives a matte black finish, which is how I like my eyeliner to be.
Another good thing is, It dries quickly as you apply, you wouldn't need to sit for long with your eyes closed, which is a common case with most of the liquid eyeliners. Also it saves a few extra minutes getting ready.
The product isn't waterproof, it is some what water resistant. It smudges easily on oily lids, so if you have oily lids, this is not the right product for you, if you don't, make sure not to apply moisturizer on your eyelids as a part of your daily moisturizing routine.
It lasts for good 8 hours if you have powdered your eyelids prior application, else it stays well for about 6 hours.
Why it couldn't make 5/5?
- The pen felt tips makes application along the ends slightly difficult, I wish it was more flexible.
- It smudges easily if you apply a regular moisturizer on your lids, or have oily lids naturally.


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Since 1991 I have been helping people online with websites, marketing campaigns, social media and technology training. I have worked with hundreds of companies, non-profits and individuals around the world including favorites like Tampa Theater, WMNF Community Radio, Great Explorations Children's Museum, American Lymphoma Foundation, Derrick Brooks Charities, Princess Diana Gown Auctions and Mediators Beyond Borders. I started a company called Computer Tutors in 1991 and wrote articles for Computer Friendly Magazine, Creative Loafing and Tampa Tribune about the internet. I renamed the company and became The Internet Adept™ in 1996 when I realized I was the first and only web designer in Tampa Bay. Even with new competition I still remain the most dedicated to my clients.


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Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer hits bookstores on November 1st here in the United States, and to celebrate, we're having a contest!
First, what is Hint Fiction? Inspired by Ernest Hemingway's six-word story -- "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" -- Hint Fiction is a story of 25 words or fewer that suggests a larger, more complex story. The anthology features 125 stories by writers worldwide, including such luminaries as Joyce Carol Oates, James Frey, Peter Straub, and Ha Jin. Here is what people are saying already:
"The perfect story collection for all of us with too little time on our hands is a brilliant reminder of the magic that happens when you string the right words together. A must-read for anyone who is or wants to be a writer." — Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of House Rules
"Some of these stories suggest entire novels in just few words. So, in this small book, you have a whole library. It's reading at the speed of light." — Robert Shapard, editor of Sudden Fiction and Flash Fiction
"The stories in Robert Swartwood's Hint Fiction have some serious velocity. Some explode, some needle, some bleed, and some give the reader room to dream. They're fun and addictive, like puzzles or haiku or candy. I've finished mine but I want more." — Stewart O'Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster and Songs for the Missing
The anthology is currently available for pre-order at:
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You can follow Hint Fiction on Twitter, "like" it on Facebook, and even add it to your shelf on Goodreads.
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- Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer
- Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories
- Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories
- New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond
- Sudden Fiction International: 60 Short Stories
- Sudden Fiction (Continued): 60 New Short-Short Stories
- Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America
- Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Fifty Really Short Stories
The total cost for these eight books is $120.00, and it can all be yours.
By simply linking back to this contest. Put it on your blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Then paste the URL in the comments section of this post (if on Facebook or any other password-protected site, paste your profile URL). The contest runs until midnight, October 31st, EST. A winner will be picked by random and notified by e-mail and announced here November 1st. Five runners-up will receive a copy of Hint Fiction. Have fun!
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Reader Spotlight: David Ferguson Jr.
Meet David Ferguson Jr., a musician who spends his day doing "Music, music and more music."
David shares a lot of great stories, but I think my favorite by far is his response to the "superpower" question. Read on and you'll see what I'm talking about.
David is No Treble's reader in the spotlight for the week of November 25, 2013.
I am a 32 year old husband and father of one. I started playing music at about 15 years old and have been in love with it ever since. Originally from Chicago, IL where I lived the first 23 years of life. I have lived in a handful of places in the US, but now reside in Nashville, TN where I came to pursue music and be closer to family. On top of music I am also into doing tech work on guitars and basses for myself, band mates and others. I also am into comics, cartoons, films from around the world, vintage cars and disc golf.
Nashville, TN USA
Day gig:
Music, music and more music.
Years experience:
1 year
Bands & Gigs:
I play bass in a Blues/Rock Trio based out of Nashville, TN called The Leah Marie King Band.
It is fronted by Canadian guitar slinger Leah Marie King, Me on bass and The Rev. Zack Reynolds on drums. 90% of what we do are originals with some covers thrown in here and there to pay homage to our musical heroes.
At the moment we are #1 on the Nashville Blues/Rock Charts and are gearing up for some good tours and having some singles recorded in the studio.
We are gigging at the moment a couple of times a week and we also host an open mic jam in Springfield, Tn. We enjoy getting musicians together and creating live music. We also think it is important to give new players a place to come stretch their legs and get some experience.
- Mid 70s-style Fender MiM Jazz Bass Reissue (with some mods)
- Hartke LH500 Head
- BBE 482i Sonic Maximizer
- Ashdown ABM 4×10 Cab
Why I play the bass:
After playing guitar for many years (about 15) I had been searching for another "voice" and way to express myself creatively and musically.
I was at a jam here in Nashville playing guitar and met Leah Marie King. She is the front-man (well in this case woman) of the band I play bass in. Her and I hit it off musically right away and she told me she was reforming her 3 piece Blues/Rock trio and was wondering if I would be interested in playing bass. I felt like that would be a great time to find that new "voice" I was looking for and told her I would.
It was like the bass was just made for me. All the things I struggled with over the years on guitar, technique wise I just seemed to pick right up on with the bass and I feel in love with the bass right from the start.
It has been an awesome time since. I have discovered many new styles of music and the bass has helped teach me many new things about music, timing and working together as a unit in a band.
In short the bass has made me great friends, helped me with music and gave me some great memories.
Thank you bass…. I am forever in your debt.
My bass superpower/claim to fame
First and foremost my superpower comes from my Lava Lamp that is put on the top of my rig at gigs…
Or maybe it is the fact that I only get dressed up for gigs and the rest of my time I am a t-shirt and jeans kind of guy…
Or that I can defuse our drummer with random silliness when I upset him because I am rushing (or is it that he is dragging). All jokes of course… Or are they?
On a real note I just love everything about music. There is nothing that makes me feel as good as playing and creating music in my own time and as a group. It also feels really good to put music together and then go out and share it with other musicians, friends, family, music lovers and fans.
I feel blessed everyday I am able to still do it.
My influences
I have many of them. But I will name who I feel has been the most important.
Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Johnson. I mentioned these three guys first because they are why I got into music. I am not only influenced by them as guitar players. I am influenced by their bands as well. Double Trouble behind SRV is just an incredible band. So were Mitch, Noel and even Billy and Buddy behind Hendrix. Eric Johnson has also played with some incredible bassists and drummers over the years.
As far as bass players I am influenced by Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, Tommy Shannon, Pino Palladino, James Jamerson, Will Lee, Jaco Pastorius, Esperanza Spalding.
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Magic School Bus Presents: Sea Creatures/
Book Information
Rating: Outstanding
Reading/Interest Level: Primary, Intermediate
Author: Tom Jackson
Illustrator: Carolyn Bracken
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Year: 2014
Pages: 32
Jump on the Magic School Bus and come explore sea creatures! Starting at the beach and then taking you further and further and deeper and deeper, this journey will introduce you to a vast and beautiful world of sea animals and plants. You'll see fish and sharks, whales and dolphins, turtles and snakes, jellyfish and octopuses, seals and sea lions, and so much more. You'll also find out who lives by the coral reefs, in the kept forest, and at the bottom of the sea.
Like other books in The Magic School Bus Presents series, this educational book uses all the well-known Magic School Bus characters to present a wide range of interesting information in a very appealing format. The book has a consistent color scheme and layout, which includes on every page a title, the main commentary, a "Frizzle Fact," a short book-report summary, and several fascinating photographs with additional fun facts, all of which is written in very clear and understandable language. The final pages also include some more interesting facts and a helpful "Words to Know" page. This series would be an excellent addition to a classroom library and also a great educational tool to use at home.


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Jack is an Eden Christian Academy senior with a lot of style (check out that tie!). Jack came prepared with two very opposite outfits in mind for his session - we went from a Men's Warehouse suit to a Patagonia outdoor jacket and hat, and both of them fit perfectly at the Hartwood Acres mansion and surrounding woods. I'm a little surprised that Jack has never modeled before, because all of the poses came so naturally to him, which made my job so easy!
Check out of favorites from his session below!


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The best way to improve your writing, besides writing, is by reading what you want to write. Even better is listening to books. When I listen to an audiobook, I can hear an author's repetition, flow, style, and voice. This is especially helpful when writing a series. What storyline do you complete in the first book and continue into the other? How does the author focus on the protagonist and include secondary characters? What is the teaser at the end of the book that will guarantee a reader won't be satisfied until they read the next book?
My buddy Conge, who is a fabulous writer and one of my beta readers, suggested I read Gregor the Overlander in our last writing workshop. I had read The Hunger Games, which was the series Suzanne Collins became well-known for, but Gregor was written for ages 8-12 just my book, The Puzzle Quests: Shimmer's Eggs.
Whenever I begin a new story or continue a series, I start with the characters. I immediately loved Gregor and his connection to his baby sister, Boots. Even at age 11, he was a protector and head of the family. Collins quickly throws them into a quest, similar to Luke and Peter with finding Shimmer's eggs. I won't spoil the book, but it's a fun travel through time or a black hole would be more descriptive.
There are many storylines in this first book, but for Gregor to follow through on his quest, he has to be pushed beyond what he is willing to live with. He has to get back what he has been wanting for more than two years–his father. Collins describes how hard life is without Gregor's father. Gregor is laden with responsibility, and his mother is struggling to keep food on the table. It's a sad situation, and Gregor has the chance to change that.
It doesn't matter whether it's a quest to find Shimmer's eggs in order for Luke to be healthy again or Gregor having to fulfill a prophecy to get his father back. When what a character wants more than anything is jeopardized or who they love is thrown into danger, a plot is formed. It's something we can all relate to. Who wouldn't go above and beyond to save a family member if they had the chance? The characters become relatable and that is why we stay with the book.
I also loved Boots. Hearing her call, "Hey you!" was adorable. She stated the obvious and kept Gregor grounded. "Fly you high," was how everyone wished each other luck, and they were lines that stayed with me. They made the book real, even though it was set in a fantasy genre.
As far as setting up book two, Gregor may think he's finished, but we know he isn't when this little thing called the Prophecy of Bane is mentioned before he returns home. He figures he's never seeing any of them again, but we already know different.
I just started book two. New characters have been introduced, which is extremely helpful for me as many new characters have come into play in Saving Atlantis. Some revisiting of the previous storyline is necessary, but finding that balance will be key to keeping the story flowing.
I'm lucky to have great readers who can recommend books for me to enjoy and learn from. Give Gregor the Overlander a try, especially if you liked The Puzzle Quests: Shimmer's Eggs! If anyone has other middle grade books to suggest, let me know!


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3 Stars – Wholesome
It isn't every day that you get caught hooked on a film you didn't expect, but "Salmon Fishing In The Yemen" will reel you in. Its charm and wit make for a good story, but its example of simple faith is inspiring. Caught between the cultures of stiff upper lip Great Britain and the desert mystery of the middle east, a viewer can easily fall in love with both.
Dr. Alfred Jones (Ewan McGregor) is a British fisheries expert who knows every detail of the life of salmon in the streams of his country. He is methodically devoted to his study, and his personal life is equally methodical and correspondingly dull. While he is on the verge of marriage, his passion is really about fishing. In his spare time, he plays in a string quartet in an old, seemingly abandoned, church.
Life has a way of bringing together strange circumstances and such is the case when Sheikh Muhammed (Amr Waked), a billionaire from Yemen, who also has a castle in Scotland, proposes to Dr. Jones that they embark on a journey to stock salmon in the Yemen. Dr. Jones is aghast and dismisses the idea as a rich man's fantasy. Meanwhile, the British government is looking for any kind of "feel good story" out of the middle east to reduce the tensions that are mounting in the media as a result of their military blunders.
With great comic timing, a British press officer, Patricia Maxwell (Kristin Scott Thomas), happens onto this little story she reads about a Yemen Sheik who wants to build this cross-cultural tie between their two countries through salmon fishing. She proceeds to convince the British government that this is the answer to their prayers. What unfolds next makes for a charming story of life, love, and faith, with lots of laughs along the way. Maxwell is the queen of spin and her hilarious management of this story changes all of the lives of the participants.
Representing Sheikh Muhammed is Harriet (Emily Blunt), a perky investment counselor who doesn't blink an eye when Dr. Jones first rebuffs her offer from the Sheik with a sarcastic retort that the his nonsensical idea would cost 50 million British Pounds. She just goes and gets the money and Dr. Jones is mortified. The counterbalancing story, though, is that Harriet is broken-hearted over the disappearance and apparent death of her charming and handsome military boyfriend who is a British war hero. When Dr. Jones slowly falls under the spell of Harriet's charm, she struggles to get beyond her grief to see his budding love.
The spiritual nature of the two main men in this story is part of its charm. Dr. Jones was raised in Scotland in the shadow of what once had been a great Christian culture but no longer has any meaning to him or anyone he knows. By contrast, Sheikh Muhammed is a man of great faith, and he appeals to Dr. Jones to live with a bigger purpose in mind than just catching fish or barely surviving on an emotional level. At one point, Dr. Jones witnesses some villagers in Yemen stopping for daily prayers and he remarks about how different their worlds were. "In my world," he comments, "no one stops for prayers. Sundays are meant for going to Costco."
What ends up happening in Yemen is a modern miracle, but it is not without its local critics. There are those who have no interest in bringing Western culture into their homeland and are willing to do anything to stop it. It becomes apparent that any good deed rarely succeeds without a struggle.
"Salmon Fishing In The Yemen" is a good example of how each of us needs to break out of our little world of assumptions to see how big our world is. It is also a great statement of how shallow our faith can become while we are surrounded by a culture that seems to offer so many alternatives for self-satisfaction. In the end, the story reminds us that life is so much deeper, opportunities to stretch our faith occur in the strangest ways, and a deep love for one another trumps any occupation we commit to in our daily life.
Discussion for those who have seen this film:
1. In your own faith journey who has opened your eyes to the larger world that transcends assumptions, cultures and nationalistic boundaries?
2. The providential provision of the necessary ingredients to bring a Scottish past time to a desert nation is what makes this story work. Do you believe there is such providence in real life?
3. Love most often comes upon us while we are doing something else. How did you and your love cross lives, and what struggles have you had to deeply connect?


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The THINK Exhibit is open to the public from September 23 to October 23 at Lincoln Center in New York. Through live data visualization, a first-of-a-kind immersive film, and giant interactive stations, the exhibit explores how we can make the world work better.
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Homeschooling is a HUGE investment.
It is an emotional investment.
It is a time investment.
It is also quite a large financial investment, if you consider the commitment to living on one income (in most cases), purchasing of curriculum, and the myriad of other expenses that inevitably occur.
I will detail in this post what I consider to be the TEN best homeschool investments we have made in our five years of teaching our children at home.
*One quick note: I am advocate of debt free living. (My husband has been employed by a non profit debt relief agency for many years.) We make sacrifices in many areas so we can make these homeschool investments. It's WORTH every penny. I don't advocate going into debt so you can buy homeschool materials!
*This post contains affiliate links.
1. Math Curriculum
For our family, this is Saxon Math. I don't like to buy math curriculum used. I feel it's worth it to make this investment.
This year, we purchased the Saxon Teacher CDs for Saxon 8/7 and this has been SO WORTH THE MONEY!
2. Books
Money spent on books (preferably quality, living books) is never wasted! We also spend money on resource books that I know will get used frequently.
My daughter and I love to frequent consignment stores and thrift stores as well as library sales for used and rare books. I always tell her, "You know I never regret spending money on books!"
Here's a list of the 10 Best Books for Homeschooling Moms that you might find useful.
3. Snap Circuits
I cannot tell you the ENDLESS hours of play (and learning!) time our two sets of Snap Circuits have received. I promise you that if you purchase these for your homeschool you will LOVE them. There is no better way to teach your children about simple circuits and fuel their imagination and creativity at the same time!
My daughter and I made a video to show you one of the projects she recently completed - to demonstrate Reverse Polarity:
4. My Printer
We own the Canon Pixma MX922. I LOVE this printer. We've had it for a few months now and it's easy to use (the wireless setup was a SNAP) and I think it's pretty good on the ink usage.
Best news - it frequently goes on sale on Amazon (for much less than we paid for it at a local office supply store).
Talking about my printer naturally leads to the next item on my list...
5. Notebooking Pages
We use Notebooking Pages in every area of our homeschool.
This membership site is my go to resource when I need any type of notebooking page. You can even create your own pages with the Notebooking Publisher App.
Need I say more?
LEGO bricks bring endless hours of learning and enjoyment for my son. From general LEGO sets to the wonderful homeschool sets from LEGO Education®, we love them all!
There are so many ways to make learning fun with LEGOS!
{It might be safe to say I'm a sucker for LEGOS}
Here's a video my son and I made demonstrating a Balloon Car and a set from LEGO Education®:
7. Water Bottles
You might think this is a strange investment, but I found that purchasing NICE water bottles and always keeping them available encouraged all of us to drink more water, and we feel better!
Our Classical Conversations community is also a water ony community, so we take our bottles to CC each Tuesday.
8. Classical Conversations
I recently blogged about why we love Classical Conversations so much.
My husband and I see this as an investment in our children's education, well worth any sacrifices we make to pay the tuition.
One commenter wanted to know the exact pricing of CC. I directed her to this link, which gives you all of the specifics. For what you get I consider this a BARGAIN!
9. Piano Lessons
Yes, piano lessons.
So many people wonder why I (a former music educator and piano teacher) send my children to take piano lessons from someone else.
The answer is simple. My children's teacher has a large studio of students. She holds multiple recitals each year and has her students participate in competitions and festivals. This is just something I could not give my children. It is important that my children know how to read music and play an instrument, and I believe piano is a wonderful foundation for wherever they want to go in the world of music.
When I sit back and listen to my daughter play (she's been taking lessons for almost 5 years now), I'm so proud of her and can see the LOVE she has for playing piano.
This is one investment I am HAPPY to make.
{You might want to read "What About Piano Lessons", which details my philosophy on piano lessons!}
10. Technology
I'm married to an IT professional. We have a lot of technology in our home.
We have strict limits on the technology, but we also believe in having the most current technology available so our children can keep up with the world around them.
In addition to our computers, we love our iPad.
We also use our ROKU and Apple TV on a daily basis. These make internet streaming on our television so easy. We can also air play anything from our computers to the television. Nice.
Is there a specific something you MUST HAVE in your homeschool? What is it?
This post is a part of the iHomeschool Network's link up: Our Must Haves for Homeschool. Visit other bloggers to see other "must haves" for homeschool!


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RobynsVeil Bio
Life in flux. So, I was looking with passionate interest for people who were interested in making realistic materials - called shaders - for Poser mesh. That interest had shifted to making dynamic cloth for Poser, but has since moved further afield: to Blender3D. And creating scenes in Poser for Cycles.
Exciting times!!
How can it be the best things in life are free? Blender 2.63a with Cycles is just the most amazing programme, evah! How can this be free? Well, what I'm typing in: Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu 12.04) is also free. Solid, stable, never any issues, finds new devices without me having to do anything... how can this be free?
These are exciting times indeed, and they don't cost money. They cost time and imagination and dedication and a desire to learn. And they are free.
Gotta love it!


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A feature short story from the 100th issue.
When the real estate agent first drove us up the gravel driveway, I felt I'd been to this place before. I wasn't sure at first, for I'd first been there at night. Over fifteen years before. A dinner of academics after a lecture at UNC on Southern food. I was still living in New York then, and found the idea of owning a two-hundred-four-year-old restored farmhouse out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by cornfields to be the height of fancy. Nothing in my future. Much too Town & Country for my tastes. Back then I fully expected to die on the twenty-first floor of a high-rise in the middle of some urban engine. How odd.
A feature essay from the 100th issue.
From across the broad and whitecapped Indian River, the Kennedy Space Center looks like two tiny Lego sets in the distant vegetation. The palms here are windswept, the oaks are scrubby. Pelicans bob in the shallows. Eventually, one of the structures comes clear as a small and skeletal rocket launch tower, the only one visible, though we know more are hidden not too far away. The other is a square block, the Vehicle Assembly Building, where giant NASA rockets are constructed in their upright positions.
Poems from the Spring 2018 issue.
One white anemone,
the year's first flower,
saves the world.
That Hell was born and raised not in some dark and edgy urban enclave but in the rolling hills of Lexington, Kentucky, can feel incongruous. It's too soft, where he comes from—too genteel. Yet having emerged from a region Hell considers a Nowhere—not in the ugly or pejorative sense, but in the empty sense, a place that was just like any other place, a blank place—allowed for wild self-creation later on. These are ideas that repeat for Hell: blankness, voids. He is someone who understands how to make something from nothing.
It was around this time that my father and his friends started a gang. They were all blanquitos from Condado: Yasser Benítez, Claudio LaRocca, Tommy Del Valle, and Juanma Thon. On the night their gang became official, they downed a bottle of Bacardi, then smashed it into pieces and used a shard to cut their arms. Then they rubbed their wounds together, so the blood passed from arm to arm.
Sketches of Tennessee.
From the time I was about ten years old, my mother and I put in our time by visiting with Irma for an hour or two every day. We'd bring her the Enquirer and Star and try to cheer her up by pointing out the most salacious stories and the home remedies for arthritis. Sometimes she'd enlist me to rub her back, and I'd perch monkeylike on the back of the couch, kneading her knots as she growled, "I could hug yer neck fer that."
A new-society vision in Jackson, Mississippi.
Chokwe Antar Lumumba saw Jackson as a last chance. This was a place where long-marginalized black communities could build a new economy for themselves, a democratic and fair society, a foundation for good lives to grow from. In his mind, this black-majority city that sat in the middle of the state with the highest concentration of black people in our country had to be the staging ground for this particular experiment in moving past economic and governance systems that weren't working for so many.
A story by Jesmyn Ward, the third and final excerpt from her forthcoming novel Sing, Unburied, Sing.
The officer is young, young as me, young as Michael. He's skinny and his hat seems too big for him, and when he leans into the car, I can see where his gel has dried and started flaking up along his hairline. He speaks, and his breath smells like cinnamon mints.
We both loved Gary Stewart, and we both loved Grace.
My wife Grace's father was a big man. He wasn't much more than six feet tall, but I think folks thought of him as taller because he carried himself large. He tried being a hippie once, he said, but couldn't abide the non-violence (too many people needed to get their asses kicked). At the first job he ever had, on a ranch, he got a business card with his official title: COWBOY. He kept that card. He wore a cowboy hat and cowboy boots. He had the best hunting dogs in Levy County. For a while he ran a sawmill. For a while he was a watermelon farmer, then a beekeeper, then he raised buffalo on the family farm. That's just a small sampling. His name was John. He went by Chuck.
Wendy Brenner's classic 2005 profile of snake enthusiast Dean Ripa, who died Saturday.
By now I've grown accustomed (and rather devoted) to Dean's rhetorical style—outrageous overstatement, subsequent qualification—but I think I recognize something else, something authentic here: a certain strain of introverted misanthropy that often leads people to commit their lives to animals, something I think I know about from my family. Introverts and loners love animals. It runs the spectrum, I think, from my father's boyhood shyness to full-fledged autism—Temple Grandin and all those like her who understand animals better than people. Whether it's a quirk of personality or a genuine disorder, it's a trait I find familiar and strangely comforting.


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Curwyn Mapaling
Curwyn Mapaling is currently an author for The Student Hub Online (pty) Ltd. He holds a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology and Community Counselling from Stellenbosch University. Curwyn, a Mandela Rhodes Scholar and a member of the Abe Bailey Fellowship, is passionate about improving education and community mental health in South Africa as a servant leader.
I had initially aspired to become a medical doctor, because ever since childhood, I had always wanted to help people. I would not admit this to myself at the time, but I wanted to become a doctor for all the wrong reasons. In retrospect, this was ignorant and self-serving. I desired the prestige and money associated with those in the profession.
On the other hand, I had recognized that I, in actual fact, loathed mathematics and physical sciences despite my resolve to pass Grade 12 with these subjects. Needless to say that as I grew up, I learnt that being a doctor was not the way I wanted to go about helping people, and that psychology was, in fact, better suited for the person I wanted to become and the impact I wanted to make.
As a result of this maturity and personal self-awareness, I decided to apply to study psychology after high school. I guess I could say that in many ways psychology has molded me into the selfless, servant leader I was meant to become.
I completed my undergraduate qualification at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) where I obtained a Bachelor of Psychology (B.Psych) for professional registration as a registered counsellor. The road to my undergraduate graduation in 2015 was laced with its fair share of trials and triumphs.
Due to high residence costs and a lack of financial aid, I did not live on campus and I commuted daily from my home town of Uitenhage to Port Elizabeth (PE). This commute took me approximately two hours to get to campus and another two hours to get back home. Every morning I walked 1km from my house to the corner of a street where I waited for a taxi that took me to the train station. I then boarded the train in Uitenhage which took me to downtown PE. From the train station in PE I then had to take another taxi to campus. Despite this time and travelling constraint I still managed to juggle my high-level academic commitments along with my multiple commitments to community outreach and my various leadership roles in a busy co-curricular schedule.
Furthermore, throughout my undergraduate university years I had sought my own personal counselling on three occasions to address issues of career direction, a family challenge, and to deal with the death of my next door neighbour who tragically passed away in my arms while we were transporting him to the hospital. On every occasion, I found the short-term assistance helpful in allowing me to process and healthily deal with the relevant issues. These therapeutic encounters have, in turn, influenced my thinking as a person and as a budding psychology professional. The issues of career direction were sparked following a first year lecture wherein we were told that the youngest to gain entrance into the Master's class for the past few years was 27 years old. I then already decided that I was not going to wait until I was 27 and that I would get accepted in the year I turn 22.
I value all relationships that I have formed as I consider them all to be meaningful. I especially value those with my family, friends, and my mentor. These individuals provided me with continuous emotional support throughout the year, year after year, through the good and bad times. I also relied on my spiritual leaders for emotional support. I realise that psychology is a profession that requires one to constantly give of yourself. This journey has demanded that I remain committed to my mental and physical health through regular therapy, exercise, and relaxation. My commitment and appreciation of human relationships and Ubuntu was recognized when I was selected as the student ambassador of the value of Ubuntu at the NMMU. A promotional video was made which can be viewed at here.
I am of the opinion that psychology is about relating to people, understanding how their minds work, and their motivation or lack thereof to do certain things. Delving into someone's mind, with their permission, requires trust and sensitivity. One of the ways to hone in on and perfect these skills can be through interacting and relating to various people. Psychological theory has made me want to refine who I am, so that I can hone the way I treat others.
I had always thought I would prefer working in a clinical, psychiatric, hospital setting with a multidisciplinary team of health professions working together to provide a thorough and well-rounded treatment for each patient. For these reasons I chose the clinical psychology registration category. Following a stressful period of three selections processes and two acceptance letters, I ultimately decided to leave the NMMU and pursue my postgraduate training at a different institution.
In December 2016, two weeks before my 24th birthday I graduated with a Masters in Clinical Psychology and Community Counselling at Stellenbosch University, as a Mandela Rhodes Scholar. Through psychology and servant leadership, I firmly believe that I can effect a positive change towards unity in South Africa and in the world by starting at home, in my community. My hope is that my pursuit of professional and ethical approaches of achieving greater equality and justice for all citizens of our heterogeneous society effects change in the world.


text: Steve Norris is a husband, father, grandfather, gardener, beekeeper, businessman-builder, friend and activist dealing with environmental justice. Presently he works with small communities and groups around the country which are trying to avoid being over-run by hydrofracking, pipelines, compressor stations, and the worst offenses of all, LNG export terminals. He also advocates strongly in Washington and elsewhere for government policies which promote environmental sustainability and alternative energy. He tries as best he can to bring people together in places and organizations where we can best love and care for the earth and all her peoples, especially the least privileged and the most oppressed, and those whom we sometimes consider enemies. He sometimes goes to jail for justice.


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New England Adventurers
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Believe: The Shamu Show
I am glad that Helida loves taking photos, because I don't. If it were up to me, we would only have 2-3 photos of our trip to Sea World. Instead, we have 2-3 HUNDRED photos. Here is a sample. As side note, Helida hates watching a show more than once. I can watch the same show over and over and over and over and... In this case, Helida took me back to watch the Shamu show 3 times in 1 day. I don't mind. I loved it.
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Sea World San Diego
Here are some photos of our day at Sea World. This is my favorite theme park. You may notice that there is something significant missing from these photos: there is not 1 photo of Shamu. You can see the next blog for those.
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San Diego Zoo
The last half of the day was spent at the San Diego Zoo. Katie drove home right after the park closed while Helida and I checked into our hotel room and to rest before our last day of leisure before flying across the country to Massachusetts.
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San Diego Wild Animal Park
The day after Disneyland, Helida, Katie and I spent the next 1/2 day at San Diego Wild Animal Park. It has been many years since I was here last. We could have easily spent the whole day here, but we had plans that cut our time at the park.
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The Happiest Place on Earth
After a week of work, Helida and I were able to spend the last few days in California playing. Our first day of play was at the Happiest Place on Earth: Disneyland. This was Helida's first trip to Disneyland and we spent all day and all night.
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gggggooooooooooooodddddd mmmoooooorrrrrrnnnnnniiiiinnnnngggggg
It's finished! (well hopefully), finally the longest year ever is finished.
I've sat all the exams, done my final rotation and its been a good term overall. Apart from the never ending exam stress sending us all rather insane, made me gain 5 pounds and get drunk really easily
This term i did 10 weeks on what they call an abdomen firm (piss, shit and vomit to put it nicely)… This basically means EVERYTHING in the abdomen from the nipples to crotch, which is a lot of systems to learn essentially in 7 weeks due to the fact we got NO study leave.
I have really enjoyed this rotation and it has definitely been my favourite, but it's been a shame to not have more time on it as I've LOVED the surgery aspect of it… Even if i got teased and picked on 90% of the time in surgery, which normally was a result of myself making up anatomy in the body… Who knew the liver didn't have 12 lobes?!
It seems all those hours spent watching greys anatomy only helped me on 2 occasions, but still thank you Shonda Rhimes!
If you've been reading this blog for a long time you'll probably remember that I don't exactly have the best track record with the male anatomy and yet again this proved true…
We have to get a genitalia exam signed off, so begrudgingly I went to a clinic where I learnt to do the exam. However the Doctor who was doing it had a 'lets torture the
lesbian med student' and I ended up holding this guys testicles, then I was told to feel them and look for lumps.
Just to let you know I am a professional so this is fine… HOWEVER, I am rather unaware of my strength at times
So while I was feeling for lumps the patients spoke up
"I hope you don't do that to your fella"
Safe to say I went bright red moved my hands far away and attempted to mumble a come back. So I then spent the rest of the clinic being ripped to pieces by the doctor
Most of the term went without a hitch, It was really enjoyable and I got to do some really cool things. So here are my Abdomen rotation highlight *Cue Montage*:
1.Spending a day with an anaesthetic consultant who let me intubate and control patient airways (The one thing BIG hands are useful for!)
2.Scrubbing in on surgery and being a glorified retractor holder
3.Spending a night with the surgical F1 clerking in and doing all the bloods on 'my own' patients
4.Having some awesome people in my firm – this really is the key i think!
5. Actually feeling like I can manage stuff now and not cowering in the corner when picked on
It's amazing really how much I've changed over this last year, I found it really hard at the start and hated my first rotation (psych/neuro), which made me actually wonder if medicine is for me. But I've loved this last one and have seen my confidence grow 10 fold.
Even though the rotations went well there was still the matter of actually having to pass the year and sit the dreaded exams…
First the written exam was 6 hours of hell on one day. Each exam being 3 hours long each with 100 MCQ questions. Naturally with a short attention span and i don't spend ages on a question as I either know it or I don't i managed to finish both exams within 90 minutes.
Which was good, I HATE exams
With the run up to exams we had to get into a clinical skills lab to do numerous skills we could get in our OSCE like: venepuncture, catheterisation, CPR, surgical gowning, BP, rectal exam etc.
However due to the amount of students there was a better chance of finding the Holy Grail that getting a slot in the clinical skills room.
Therefore, a wonderful (and slightly strange) friend of mine decided to make some homemade catheter models…
Yes I'm worried for him too
P.s. do not get cannulae and catheter mixed up and tell your friends that they can catheterise you… It will end in a year of teasing with even more proof that you should never become a urologist
Overall the OSCE went okay, it wasn't fantastic but it wasn't a complete disaster. I even managed to say my name correctly this year and not call myself a boys name…
The only complete disaster was psych, and well that was pretty much a fail as soon as the patient told me Mi5 were chasing him.
As well as most of my differential diagnose's being 'space occupying lesion somewhere in the brain'… Again I've ruled out neurology as a future career
The problem with the exams is that everyone gets very stressed and the conversations all revolve around revision. I feel sorry for all my family and non-medic friends as the only conversations I could have for a month were like..
"What have you been up to?"
"Cool… Got any nice plans for the weekend?"
"Well I'm taking an exciting trip into the centre of London to a new library"
"Oh… Enjoy!"
I pretty much felt like the most boring person on the planet while having all the feels that I still know absolutely Fuck-all
Now I am on holiday, well I use holiday as a very loose term as I'm spending more time in hospital working in my holiday than I was in term time… But here's to 2 weeks time where I will be put out of my misery to find out if I have passed! But you know even if I fuck up there are still plenty of options…
But, this is a message to all of you people applying for medical school this summer, sitting the entrance exams, writing the personal statements, finding the holy grail, performing brain surgery etc etc.


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How Cartoons are Made
Monday, July 02, 2007
Cartoons, cartoons, everybody watched them when they were little, but have you wondered how cartoons are made ? You might have a vague idea about how they are made, with a computer. IF you want to know more about how cartoons are made, watch this video, and you'll see that here is a lot of work.
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Angkor Temples, Cambodia
Spent 2 weeks in this beautiful country and actually got to see a large part of it this time. Angkor is amazing. A great mix of Hindu and Buddhist Temples. Ta Prohm wins by far, crumbling beautifully.
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Where we are going camping for the weekend, DH and I decided first thing this morning to wash the truck. While we were out there working, our neighbour came along with her dog, Molly. She is still very puppyish and she was running around our property. She suddenly appeared with, guess who? That poor little squirrel that we had seen the other day. It had apparently gone, laid down at the bottom of one our trees and died. We are not sure if he died from the beating he got the other day or if he had not been well before that. Poor little guy.
I am now trying to get some blueberry freezer jam done as well as some blackberry freezer jam. I love doing this kind of thing but today I feel rushed as we are leaving tomorrow morning for the weekend. Ah, well, you see I'm used to doing things while taking my time, especially since I retired. At least, I'll be able to enjoy my weekend.
DD has forwarded some of the pictures of the quilts that I made for her and her DH, so when I can tie my DH to the computer long enough, I will put some of these on my blog. He loves working outdoors especially on a beautiful day as today, so pray for rain so he can stay in - not really. He will do this for me, perhaps even this evening.
Must get back to my jamming. Enjoy the day!
ATC Tuesday
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Jana Bennett
Jana Eve Bennett OBE (born 1956[1]) is President and General Manager of History and H2 at A+E Networks in New York.
She joined A+E Networks in June 2013 as President of The Biography Channel (bio) and Lifetime Movie Network (LMN). bio was rebranded as fyi, in July 2014.
Prior to joining A+E Networks she was President of BBC Worldwide Networks and Global BBC iPlayer. In that role she was responsible for BBC Worldwide's television channels, which operate in more than 100 countries, and the development and roll out of the commercial global iPlayer. She was also Worldwide's Managing Director for Latin America with oversight of the company's businesses in the region. She sat on Worldwide's Executive Board and on the Board of UKTV, Britain's second largest pay-TV group. She took up this role in February 2011 moving from the BBC's UK public service where she had been Director of Vision at the BBC from 2006. As Director of BBC Vision, she headed "the largest multi-media production, commissioning and broadcast group of its kind in the world" with overall responsibility for BBC Television and its online services, BBC Films and BBC Productions. Previously she was Director of Television (appointed January 2002). In her two most recent roles at the BBC, Jana Bennett "steered the BBC TV portfolio through its transition into the mainstream digital age."[2]
She was previously Executive Vice President and General Manager at Discovery Communications in the US.[2]
Bennett is a member of the governing board of the Pew Research Center. She is also a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company[3] and was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in 1999.[4]
Born in Cooperstown, New York State, USA, Bennett moved to Britain in 1969, where she was educated at Bognor Regis Comprehensive School, then studied politics, philosophy and economics at St Anne's College, Oxford. She undertook post-graduate studies at the London School of Economics where she was awarded an MSc (Dist) for her work on strategic analysis and international and defence studies.
Early BBC careerEdit
In 1979 she won a place on the BBC News trainee scheme, and began her first period of employment with the corporation working on radio and television news; BBC Newcastle's Look North and Radio Sheffield. She worked on Nationwide, The Money Programme and Newsnight.
She became an award-winning producer of Panorama in 1986, and co-authored The Disappeared: Voices from a Secret War with the BBC's diplomatic editor John Simpson about the actions of Argentina's military government in the same year.
In 1990 she became editor of the BBC's flagship science programme Horizon. Awards she won during this period included the 1991 News and Documentary Emmy for her role as Executive Producer of the film "Suicide Mission to Chernobyl" which also aired on the WGBH program Nova in the United States.
In 1994 she was appointed the BBC's Head of Science, the first woman to take that role. Under her leadership the department expanded the range and ambition of its programming, winning awards for series such as Walking With Dinosaurs, The Human Body and Meet The Ancestors and business formats such as Blood on the Carpet, Back to the Floor and the medical format Trust Me, I'm a Doctor. She introduced a new animal genre to UK television with the highly successful and long-running Animal Hospital,[5] alongside live events such as Hospitalwatch. The science department also pioneered content rich web sites and was one of the first areas to use email inside the BBC.
She joined the BBC's Board of Management in 1997 as Director of Production, then became Director of Programmes for the former BBC Production division until she left the BBC to join Discovery Communications as General Manager of the TLC channel in August 1999.
In 2000 she was appointed an OBE in 2000 for her work in science broadcasting.[6]
Discovery CommunicationsEdit
At TLC Bennett transformed the channel's ratings and revenue performance. She introduced a new editorial direction under the slogan "Life Unscripted" which included reality-drama and interior design shows, some of them based on popular British formats. The audience success of shows[7] like Trading Spaces, and Junkyard Wars exemplified a shift in programming towards more mass-appeal shows. By 2001 TLC had the youngest adult audience profile amongst US cable channels with a median age of 40 and a 15% year on year growth in audience among the 18- to 34-year-old age group. It was also the strongest performing network for women in daytime.
Later BBC careerEdit
In 2002 Bennett returned to the UK to take the job of Director of Television. In this capacity she took charge of the launch and expansion of the BBC's portfolio of 7 digital TV channels: BBC THREE, BBC FOUR, HD TV and the children's channels, CBBC and CBeebies This included winning the approval of the government for the launch of BBC THREE, the corporation's youth orientated digital television channel, which at the time was considered by some to be a controversial development for the BBC.
In 2006 the BBC's Director-General, Mark Thompson reorganised the BBC's divisional structure, creating BBC Vision from the amalgamation of the corporation's Television, Drama Entertainment & Children's and Factual & Learning divisions. Bennett was promoted from Director of Television to Director of Vision taking "overall creative and leadership responsibility" for the commissioning, production and scheduling of television, video and online content across the BBC's analogue and digital television networks (excluding the BBC News and Parliament channels), the web, mobile phones and interactive technology.[8]
During her tenure, BBC television was responsible for natural history landmarks, such as Life, worldwide entertainment hits, including Strictly Come Dancing, The Apprentice and Top Gear; new comedy formats, such as Outnumbered and Gavin & Stacey. Dramas ranged from period classics like Cranford to contemporary pieces such as Criminal Justice and Occupation, from science fiction in the shape of Torchwood and Doctor Who to detective series such as Life on Mars, Wallander and Sherlock.
Her division was also heavily involved in the planning and launch of the corporation's on-demand service, BBC iPlayer, providing 400 hours content for the service each week. In a speech to the Royal Television Society in 2007, she articulated a fresh approach to the BBC's mission to inform and educate in the digital era.[9] She also championed new multi-media approaches to major fundraising entertainment events. In partnership with Comic Relief, the BBC produced the first truly digital Red Nose Day in 2009.
Jana Bennett also implemented the BBC's out of London strategy for commissioning and production.[10] In 2010 she launched the BBC's year of science across television, radio and online.[11] In the same year she established BBC One HD, `the biggest sign yet that HD is now part of the mainstream',[12] and also announced a major new Shakespeare Season.[13][14]
In addition to the BBC branded television channels, as Director of Vision, Bennett had responsibility for feature film production through BBC Films, whose credits include Oscar-winning Man on Wire as well as BAFTA award-winners Mrs Brown, An Education, In the Loop, Fish Tank and StreetDance 3D, the first 3D film produced outside the US.
Bennett was appointed to BBC Worldwide as President, Worldwide Networks and Global iPlayer in February 2011.[15]
Bennett left BBC Worldwide in 2012 following a reorganisation of the company.[16]
A+E NetworksEdit
In June 2012 Bennett was appointed at President of The Biography Channel (bio) and Lifetime Movie Network (LMN) at A+E Networks in New York.[17]
Personal lifeEdit
Bennett is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts' and Sciences' Executive Committee and of the Advisory Board of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. She is a trustee of Comic Relief and fellow of the Royal Television Society. She is on the board of Women in Film and Television and in 2011 and 2012 she was included in the WFTV power list.[18][19]
Bennett is married to Richard Clemmow, a director of Perfectly Normal Productions Ltd and Bite Media Ltd. The couple have two children.
- Bennett, Jana; Simpson, John (1986). The Disappeared: Story of Argentina's Secret War of Oppression. Sphere. ISBN 0722178751.
- ^ "MediaGuardian Top 100 2009". London: The Guardian. 13 July 2009. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
- ^ a b "BBC Newsnight profile". BBC. 12 March 2009. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
- ^ "Annual Report". Royal Shakespeare Company. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
- ^ "RTS Fellows". Royal Television Society. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
- ^ "Google Drive Viewer". Docs.google.com. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
- ^ "TLC'S Jana Bennett Receives Order of the British Empire At Buckingham Palace". PRNewswire (via The Free Library). 5 December 2000. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
- ^ Seattle Times July 22, 2002 http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20020722&slug=wtradingspaces22
- ^ "BBC Vision launches with a promise to audiences" (Press release). BBC. 20 November 2006. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
- ^ "Jana Bennett speech given to the Royal Television Society, London" (Press release). BBC. 2007-09-20. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
- ^ "Beyond the M25: A BBC for all of the UK" (Press release). BBC. 2008-10-15. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
- ^ "BBC launches year of science". Royal Society. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
- ^ "BBC One HD Channel to launch 3 November" (Press release). BBC. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
- ^ Singh, Anita (2010-09-21). "The live play's the thing in BBC Shakespeare season". London: Telegraph. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
- ^ "Vision Forum 2010" (Press release). BBC. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
- ^ "BBC Press release: Jana Bennett to join BBC Worldwide as President, Worldwide Networks and Global iPlayer" (Press release). BBC. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
- ^ "New BBC Worldwide organisational design moves P&L ownership from divisions to geographies" (Press release). BBC. 22 June 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
- ^ "Executive Bios — Jana Bennett". A+E Networks. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
- ^ "Power List | WFTV | Women in Film and Television". WFTV. 2012-03-08. Archived from the original on 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
- ^ "Women in film and television Top 50 Powerlist 2012 | Media". London: theguardian.com. 8 March 2012. Retrieved 2013-09-15.


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Prabhat Patnaik in The Economic and Political Weekly
The renowned economist Joan Robinson (1962) had referred to the view that the government's budget should always be balanced, as the "humbug of finance," namely, as a false proposition with no theoretical merit which was nonetheless promoted by finance capital. These days, of course, the insistence is not exactly on balancing the budget as was the case during the pre-second world war years. A certain amount of fiscal deficit relative to gross domestic product (GDP), usually 3%, is considered "permissible," though it is not clear what is so sacrosanct about the figure 3 and why 3 is better than zero. But this shift from zero to 3% does not signify any change in theoretical position: it still invokes the same logic that underlay the insistence on balancing the budget. In Robinson's words, it still constitutes "the humbug of finance," though with a slightly, and inexplicably, different number for the percentage of fiscal deficit to the GDP.
The argument which the insistence on balancing the budget advances is that a fiscal deficit "crowds out" private investment. Now, for this to happen there must be a fixity of supply of some economic variable, so that the government taking more of it (via a fiscal deficit) leaves less for the private sector. What exactly is this variable? Pre-Keynesian theory believed that this given variable (assuming for simplicity, a closed economy) was the magnitude of "savings": a fiscal deficit, by drawing more "savings" towards the government would leave less "savings" for the private sector, and hence reduce private investment via a rise in the interest rate. (Even if the rise in the interest rate itself contributed towards an increase in "savings" so that their magnitude was not exactly fixed, this would still mean a partial crowding out of private investment because of the rise in the interest rate.)
This argument, however, was obviously false, since "savings" depended not just on the interest rate but also upon the level of income (and on the distribution of income too, though we shall not go into the question of distribution of income here). Since a fiscal deficit in an economy that was demand-constrained—namely, had unemployed labour and unutilised capacity—raised the level of income, it also increased "savings." In fact at any given interest rate (as Richard Kahn's famous proposition on the multiplier showed), a fiscal deficit (in a closed economy) generated an amount of private "savings" in excess of private investment that was exactly equal to itself. Hence private investment did not get "crowded out;" additional private savings got generated. And to believe otherwise was to subscribe to Say's Law—that there could never be a deficiency of aggregate demand—which was absurd.
The other economic variable whose fixity is invoked these days to argue the "crowding out" proposition (since none can seriously profess a belief in Say's Law today) is money supply. A rise in the fiscal deficit raises income; but, if money supply is fixed, then the interest rate rises which "crowds out" private investment. But, even leaving aside the fact of the endogeneity of money supply—namely, the fact that in a modern economy money supply simply adjusts to the demand for it at a given interest rate—and accepting this assertion for argument's sake, such a situation can only arise if a government that is pursuing an expansionary fiscal policy is simultaneously pursuing a tight monetary policy. This is a mistake in policy and not any inherent flaw of the fiscal deficit itself.
There is therefore no logical reason why in a situation of deficiency of aggregate demand the government should not resort to a fiscal deficit to boost demand and hence output and employment.1 To be sure, a fiscal deficit is not the best way to finance larger government expenditure for stimulating demand in such a situation. Larger government expenditure financed by a tax on profits even within a balanced budget is better than a fiscal deficit for overcoming a deficiency of aggregate demand, for one obvious reason, namely, that it keeps down wealth inequality. Since a fiscal deficit generates an amount of private savings in excess of private investment exactly equal to itself, taxing away this excess rather than leaving it in the hands of capitalists, who are primarily the savers, keeps down wealth inequality (as savings constitute addition to wealth). But increasing government expenditure financed by a fiscal deficit is better than keeping down government expenditure and balancing the budget, as the "humbug of finance" would advocate.
A new consideration however intrudes here. Even though there may be nothing wrong with a fiscal deficit, and the view that the budget must be balanced (or nearly balanced with at most a 3% fiscal deficit) is no more than the "humbug of finance," since finance capital does not like fiscal deficits, whatever the reason, in an economy open to cross-border financial flows, running such a deficit would lead to an outflow of finance that is obviously harmful to the economy. Hence the fiscal deficit has to be controlled, even though the arguments advanced for doing so are wrong, simply in deference to the caprices of globalised finance. Let us explore the implications of this argument a little further.
Opposition to State Intervention
The basic proposition established by the Keynesian Revolution was that in a capitalist economy, where all economic agents acted "rationally" in the sense of maximising some objective function subject to certain constraints that are given, the overall outcome could be socially "irrational" in an obvious sense, namely, that it could be characterised by both unemployment and unutilised capacity. In such a case, the outcome, quite apart from the fact that it did not satisfy Pareto-optimality, would not even satisfy private "rationality."
What Keynes suggested, therefore, was that the state should intervene in the economy in order to realise social rationality, in the sense of an avoidance of what he called a state of "involuntary unemployment." Implicit in this suggestion was the assumption that the state itself was free to act according to its own wisdom, unconstrained by the demands or pressures from any agency acting in accordance with its private rationality. The state, in other words, could fulfil its role of being an agency for realising social rationality only if it was external to the world of private rationality and was unconstrained by, and non-imitative of, the agents belonging to this world. (The Marxist critique of Keynesianism argued that this was not possible, but let us leave this aside for the present.)
The state's being non-imitative of private agents, which is an obvious condition for its intervening successfully to achieve social rationality (for otherwise it will simply replicate the same result that is achieved through the mere agglomeration of private decisions), implies a fundamental break from a certain analogy that is often drawn. This analogy states that just as an individual cannot go on accumulating debt, likewise, the state too cannot simply go on piling up debt; that the state too has to tighten its belt in order to ensure that it does not fall irredeemably into debt. This analogy is doubly wrong: it is wrong in the sense that the state, because it has sovereign powers of taxation, is on a different footing from individuals; and it is also wrong in the sense that if the state acted like any individual does, then it would be incapable of achieving social rationality by overcoming the deficiency of aggregate demand.
Forcing the state to bow to the caprices of globalised finance, by making it "fiscally responsible" (namely, by keeping it within a fiscal deficit ceiling), makes it constrained by private rationality, and hence prevents it from being an instrument for the achievement of social rationality. Fiscal responsibility legislation enacted by the state, to which the state adheres, amounts therefore, to robbing capitalism of any means of achieving social rationality, particularly in the sense of overcoming "involuntary unemployment."
The question immediately arises: since overcoming "involuntary unemployment" represents a Pareto-improvement in the sense that everybody stands to gain from it—the capitalists through obtaining higher profits and the workers through obtaining higher employment (and hence incomes)—why should finance capital be opposed to state intervention by fiscal means which serves this end? This opposition incidentally is not something that arises only in the age of globalised finance, it existed even before finance capital became globalised. The globalisation of finance only means that the demands of finance necessarily get accepted by the nation state, for fear that otherwise there would be a capital flight; but the demand for "sound finance" itself is characteristic of finance capital per se. This is the reason why Keynes' proposal in 1929, put forward by Lloyd George, the leader of the Liberal Party to which Keynes belonged, for a scheme of public works financed by a fiscal deficit to alleviate unemployment in Britain, was turned down by the British Treasury under pressure from the City of London, the seat of British finance capital. The question therefore is, why is finance capital so opposed to fiscal deficits even when there are no palpable ill-effects of such deficits, other than those that might be caused by its own opposition to them?
The answer, I believe, lies in the fact that accepting the need for intervention by an agency entrusted with upholding "social rationality" undermines the social legitimacy of the economic system presided over by finance capital. Any demonstration that the universal pursuit of private rationality, which is what capitalism entails, leads to a socially irrational outcome, subverts the power of financial interests, which is why they vehemently deny the need for such direct state intervention. They would rather have the state intervening by creating a better situation for the play of private rationality. In short, indirect instead of direct intervention, or jogging private rationality instead of acting independently of it, is what they prefer.
Monetary policy is the pre-eminent means for such indirect intervention, apart of course from other means like guaranteed rates of return, tax concessions to the capitalists (which also enlarge the fiscal deficit but which are not frowned upon by them). Monetary policy acts through inducing the capitalists to invest more (or generally through making the affluent who constitute the "creditworthy" segment of the population to spend more). Changes in monetary policy as the means of overcoming "involuntary unemployment" do not give the impression of there being something intrinsically wrong with the system; they rather give the impression of creating the right atmosphere for its smooth functioning.
Indeed a focus on monetary policy goes much further; it even suggests that if there is "involuntary unemployment" then the reason for it lies not with the system itself but with the central bank whose monetary policy happens to be out of sync with the needs of the situation. The culpability for involuntary unemployment is thus neatly shifted from the system itself whose functioning is flawed, to the shoulders of the central bank.
The absurdity of such inverted thinking becomes particularly clear in times like the present, when in the United States (US), for instance, the long-term rate of interest has been pushed down close to zero, and yet there is no sign of a recovery from a state of substantial involuntary unemployment. In Europe, the central bank is even charging negative interest rates on loans to banks, provided these are given out as credit for certain purposes by the banks; and yet there is no sign of a recovery from the crisis that afflicts Europe. So inadequate has monetary policy become for stimulating the economy that some authors are now saying that pervasive negative interest rates even on deposits (and not just on central bank lending to banks) are the need of the hour, and, for achieving this, there must be an abolition of cash altogether, since the possibility of holding cash in lieu of bank deposits puts a floor to the interest rate at zero (Rogoff 2016).
This amounts to carrying the inversion of thought to an extreme degree: the flaws of the system are according to this argument blamed on the very existence of cash; and rather than having direct state intervention through fiscal means, including a fiscal deficit, as a way of achieving "social rationality," what is advocated is "sound finance" combined with the very abolition of cash. The lengths to which reified thinking can be carried can be imagined from this.
What globalisation of finance has achieved, in short, is that the opposition of finance to fiscal deficits, or more generally to direct state intervention for increasing the level of activity, has become effective once again. This had been overcome, albeit temporarily, in the context of the changed correlation of class forces in the post-war period with the emergence of a militant (pre-Blairite) social democracy. The fact that finance is globalised while the state remains a nation state, ensures that the writ of finance runs; and this strips contemporary capitalism of any potential instrument for achieving even a semblance of social rationality.
There are only two possible ways that, even potentially, a semblance of social rationality can be achieved in contemporary capitalism. One is through a global state, or through a set of nation states globally coordinating their actions, providing a fiscal stimulus to the world economy by overcoming the opposition of globalised finance. The other is through individual states providing such a fiscal stimulus within their own particular economies by delinking themselves from the vortex of financial flows and thus withdrawing from the entanglements that contemporary globalisation entails. In either case, however, the opposition of globalised finance has to be overcome, and this requires a broad class alliance of working people which has to be organised in a manner appropriate to each case.
Whether such a class alliance can achieve a semblance of social rationality within the confines of capitalism itself, that is, whether capitalism will adapt itself to the new situation by making appropriate concessions, as it had done over large stretches of the capitalist world in the post-war years, or whether it will transcend capitalism in the process of introducing a semblance of social rationality, is a matter for the future. But the point is that until such an effort is made, world aggregate demand will remain constricted, and the world economic crisis will persist, apart from possible occasional "bubbles" that may cause temporary revivals, to be followed by collapses into crisis once more.
Legitimacy Crisis
Donald Trump's economic strategy has to be understood in this context where he remains as tied to fiscal conservatism as other governments in advanced capitalist countries. Committed to increasing employment in the US, but unwilling to do so by expanding government expenditure, he is taking recourse to protectionism, which, in a situation where world aggregate demand is not increasing, amounts to a "beggar-my-neighbour" policy, that is, a policy of exporting unemployment to other countries.
True, Trump has said that he is not averse to increasing the fiscal deficit; but he is willing to do so only as a means of effecting a tax cut on the corporate sector (from 35% to 15%). This amounts to increasing the fiscal deficit for the sake of putting more purchasing power in the hands of capitalists. But putting more purchasing power in the hands of capitalists hardly increases aggregate demand: their marginal propensity to consume out of income is small, and they do not invest more, even if they have larger post-tax profits, as long as the market is not expanding. Hence, the Trump strategy really amounts not to an increase in aggregate demand in the US, but to a beggar-my-neighbour strategy imposed upon the rest of the world.
This strategy presupposes that the rest of the world would simply sit tight and tolerate an import of unemployment from the US: its success, in other words, depends upon the US action not facing any retaliation, that is, upon the US being able to impose "one-way free trade" upon the rest of the world, as Britain had done in the colonial period. But if other countries do retaliate, then competitive "beggar-my-neighbour" policies would ensue, which would increase uncertainties associated with investment, and hence aggravate the crisis.
But if the US individually or several (or all) countries on their own increased the fiscal deficit to expand government expenditure, and imposed protection only to the extent of preventing a leakage outwards of the additional demand so generated within their economies, without actually curtailing their imports in absolute terms, namely, without exporting any unemployment to other countries, then all countries would be Pareto-wise better off. No one country's employment increase in such a case would be at the expense of some other country.
What comes in the way of such a move which would improve the employment situations in all countries without their adversely affecting one another, is the opposition of finance to fiscal deficits and to taxes on capitalists (taxes on workers would not raise aggregate demand as they already have a high propensity to consume). Unless finance capital's hostility to fiscal deficits is overcome, which in turn requires that unless the hegemony of finance capital on the world economy is overcome, the world would remain mired in crisis.
Either way, therefore, world capitalism will be facing a legitimacy crisis in the coming days: on the one hand, if it remains committed to the "humbug of finance" then its legitimacy is threatened because of the persistence of the economic crisis, and with it of high unemployment; on the other hand, if it "permits" direct state intervention through fiscal means for overcoming the crisis, then its legitimacy is threatened because the flawed nature of the system gets exposed, thereby, opening the prospects of growing state intervention.