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Goodbye country life,
Hello tiny house!
Disaster 101- a new name for my blog?
No! That would be asking for trouble although it seems to find us just the same.
After a reasonably comfortable seven week stay in a static caravan/single-wide which welcomed us on our first full day in Blighty with a puddle in the sitting room, himself drove 1260 miles to the south east coast of Italy while I alternately argued with and fumed at the GPS.
In hindsight, four days of driving, six days in Italy and a return trip of four straight days of driving was an even more ridiculous idea than the time we flew from Arizona to the UK and set off, jet-lagged to drive to the south of France.
Needless to say on our return from Italy, we were exhausted, grimy, hungry and already in a poor frame of mind when we stepped into the hell that was to be our home for the next two weeks. The curtains hung in loops from the rails, only attached every few feet like sad bunting; it smelled of dog and the carpet looked like he'd made himself right at home. There was a gaping maw where one of only two kitchen drawers had been and the cookware consisted of two small saucepans, enough for a tin of beans each.
We'd begun the tedious but necessary job of disinfecting every surface when I encountered the last straw – the kitchen sink was blocked. I poked at it with a fork and a black Satan's spew regurgitated into the sink.
After a fourth trip with the various complaints to reception, the maintenance men turned up, disassembled the plumbing, lost a crucial piece of pipe and blamed us for taking it.
At 10 minutes to closing time we stood in reception, stunned with tiredness and incredulous with our bad luck, to argue our case with an 18-year-old. The manageress had made herself scarce.
We were given no alternative accommodation, no compensation, not even an apology, just a refund.
At six o'clock on a Friday night our car was crammed with suitcases of dirty washing and groceries with nowhere to cook them. We were shattered and we were homeless. Again.
Our only option was to go to the FBI.
At the Ferryboat Inn (FBI – geddit?), a low-ceilinged, timber-framed seaside pub exuding warmth and comfort, we stuffed our faces with fish and chips and downed large glasses of red wine. On the way to the pub, we'd booked a hotel for the night so felt no further need to molly-coddle the few functioning brain cells we'd left between us.
Dear friends took us in the next day and even offered to put up the marquee for us to sleep in.
We declined the marquee so this is where they made us sleep:
. . . . . to have this view every morning when I opened the curtains:
And this is where they made us eat candlelit dinners night after night . . . .
. . . .and relax afterwards here . . .
. . . . kept warm of a chilly evening by a giant inglenook fireplace:
I had just his tiny garden to play in:
Our friends kindness and generosity kept us from walking into the North Sea – ending our Which Way Now quest forever.
And speaking of the sea, I can feel your sympathy ebbing away.
We are now rested and as sane as we'll ever be and ready to embark on our next phase – life in a tiny rental house. Our big black Chevy truck is being titivated for the UK roads and our furniture is languishing in a customs shed. We've no idea where any of it is other than not at the bottom of the Atlantic.
We have just been emailed and asked to write a review for our "holiday" by the head office of the caravan park – corporate communication being what you would expect. No one thought to question why we had a full refund on the day our "holiday" was due to start.
He's cheating on me.
He has a new girlfriend and she communicates to him via a little box plugged into the cigarette lighter. My services such as they were are no longer required.
I sit with the road atlas on my lap, ready to catch her out and just as I'm nodding off her strident voice alerting himself to an autoroute exit brings me round with a start.
After some initial teething problems in the relationship – a 20 mile detour on a ten mile journey close to home, probably operator error – I have been forsaken. I can't argue with her, touch her or question her judgment. Her clipped British accent and penchant for being right is getting on my nerves. She is even correcting my pronunciation of French villages and towns.
I hate her.
Now and again, clearly enunciating her t's she says, "Lost satellite reception." Not so clever then is she? I know exactly where we are and where we're going but if he wants to dally with her he can suffer the consequences.
The fact that he is carrying on with her right under my nose and in my car is just too much.
He thinks it's funny.
If we weren't in France and in my car I'd get out and leave them to it.
However . . . .
She didn't cover herself in glory in Italy. As we approached the French/Italian border I made a show of closing the French road atlas and slipping it beside my seat.
"You're on your own now, matey, you and your new girlfriend." Himself looked alarmed. Though he'd been taking directions from her exclusively she obviously didn't inspire him with confidence.
A spectacular journey through the Alps and under Mt. Blanc – a 7 mile tunnel in a series of 17 tunnels – came as a major surprise as no route planning had taken place.
Then she really messed with him.
She insisted he come off the autostrade, go in circles, make several u-turns, attempt some mountain climbing, pass under the same cable car three times and pay two unnecessary eight euro tolls, robbing us of all our coins.
Just as we were both feeling quite frantic – we'd many more miles to go but which way now? – I pulled out my secret weapon, a map of Italy, and resumed my relationship with my husband. I'd had my doubts all along about the two of them and had highlighted our route on the map before leaving home.
We zig-zagged back down the mountain, where we'd had a nice view of the autostade below, and headed east once more.
I turned the stupid woman off and stuffed her in the glove box.
I didn't gloat. That's unlike me but himself was looking strained and it seemed only fair to keep my mouth shut.
At our final destination, the seaside resort of Porto Sant'Elpidio, I was forced to make up with her in an effort to find our hotel. She invited us to complete our journey at a derelict building and was banished once more to the glove box.
On the return journey she "lost satellite reception" in Bologna, a city of 400,000, all seemingly on our stretch of road and fighting for space in our lane. Several major roads intersect in Bologna and they are designated by international, national and local numbers which quickly become meaningless when panicked. The only way to find our way through was to look for major cities on our route, all of which were on the other side of the fold on the map.
Have you ever opened a full-size country map in the passenger seat of a compact car? It blocked out the sun and the road ahead and terminated the peaceful spell in the car.
GPS – Gloriously Pointless System
We made it back to the EuroTunnel but I lost my dog.
So many of you drooled over your keyboards when I posted pictures of our desserts we felt obliged to take the same route back through France and stay in the same hotel so we could go back to the Restaurante de le Maire to eat the same dessert so I could photograph it and post it again. So . . . . .
Here it is and please no comments about the fact that the wine bottle and glasses are empty. You all encouraged me to drink.
Here is a close up:
The profiteroles were full of ice cream and the chocolate was pooling around them. I didn't eat it all. I left some for you. Enjoy!
I thought it couldn't get any worse than yesterday.
Our first toll of the day was €4.10. Take a ticket; drive until a toll booth appears; pay for the kilometers traveled.
Of the dozen or so booths, some had a red X over them and some were for the prepaid Telepass. Others only take a carte – never a good option as you can't be sure what your credit card will be charged and receipts are unpredictable. That leaves cash only, denoted by a picture of coins and notes – 12 lanes of traffic – quick make a choice!
"Look for an arm," I pleaded with himself, meaning I wouldn't have to deal with the automated toll horror. I pushed a €5 note towards a human and received my change.
I felt pleased with myself, but we'd only been on the road 15 minutes.
Several miles later we drove to a barrier to pick up the next ticket. Except the barrier was up and there was no ticket. I pressed a red button. Still no ticket. I pressed the assistance button but was secretly pleased no one answered. No parlo italiano was all I could say. What good would that do?
Traffic was piling up behind us so himself pulled off the road the other side of the barrier and stopped.
"We have to have a ticket," I said unhelpfully.
Himself stared stoically ahead.
"If we don't have a ticket we'll be charged the maximum amount." My hand twitched towards the door handle. The next booth over was dispensing tickets and I contemplated sprinting across two lanes of traffic and assaulting that machine.
Trucks flew out from a blind bend and barreled through the booth we'd just come through. I thought better of offering up my life for a toll ticket. "One of us has to go and get a ticket," I said, meaning not me. Both lanes had a solid stream of traffic.
Himself was looking over his shoulder by now. His hand moved towards the gear stick. He put the car into reverse and began backing up.
"Stop yelling at me!"
"I'M NOT YELLING AT YOU!" I yelled at him.
I dared look behind only once to see that the lane was clear before himself began a tenuous reverse chicane maneuver around some superfluous barriers on the wrong side of the lane.
He rounded the first barrier and snugged up between the two for a moment's shelter from the fear of the trucks appearing and ramming us. He began to reverse around the second barrier and I remember thinking, pathetically, I hope he doesn't take my wing mirror off by driving too close to the barrier. I mean, really, a) I know he's a better driver than that, and b) with our lives at risk, who cares?
Miraculously, he reversed far enough to go through the booth spitting out tickets and I grabbed one and slunk down in my seat.
I'm not an alcoholic. I'm really not. I don't drink in the mornings. I rarely have a glass of wine at lunchtime. I don't even have a drink every evening. But I'm having one tonight!
My toes are cramping from curling them, my teeth are aching from clamping them and my stomach is in knots. I've given up with faux braking and am assuming the fetal position.
There is no need to seek out a theme park for a thrill ride. Any Italian road will do, whether on foot or in a car.
Boldly striped pedestrian crossings meant to give one the right of way appear to be optional for the motorist.
Once across the busy north/south road along the promenade in the seaside town it was tempting to let one's guard down only to be taken out by a cyclist on the cycle path.
The promenade was no sanctuary for the unwary as cyclists sought their thrills weaving in and out of pedestrians or taking a high speed direct line to watch unsuspecting pedestrians leap left and right like a bowling ball down the middle of the pins for a strike.
We fared no better in my (new!) car. Himself braked for a cyclist who cut in front of him then he swerved as she proceeded in front of him completely oblivious while talking on her phone. When he swerved left to avoid her, a car came out from a side road on the left and having avoided that a whole family stepped out onto a pedestrian crossing in front of us.
I assumed the autostrade – being wider with no pedestrians and limited access – would be less nerve-wracking.
We watched a car full of young lads tailgate a motorcycle to within a meter of him. The motorcycle was boxed in with nowhere to go. As we were all doing 80 mph, we willed the motorcyclist to hold his nerve and not fall off.
The style of driving here is to stay as close as possible to the motor in front whether traveling at 15 mph or 80 mph. A 15 mph rear-ender would be annoying. At 80 mph it would be deadly.
The tailgaters on the autostrade – predominately BMWs, Mercedes and Audis – given an open road are easily motoring at 120 mph.
I'm going to close my eyes now and pretend I'm not in the car.
Okay. Awake now. We survived. Toll to be paid. Himself pulled up to an automated toll booth. Great. Cash only. Oh wonderful.
I inserted the ticket I'd taken at the start of the day (remember we are in a right-hand drive car in a country of left-hand drive cars so tackling tolls is my job – lucky me). The digital readout was €28.50. A ten and a twenty. That should be easy.
I tried to insert the ten. It wouldn't go in. I turned it over. Nope. I turned it around. Nope. And over. Success!
The machine sucked in the bill, spat it out again and it blew away! I couldn't open the door as himself had thoughtfully pulled up to the toll gubbins as close as he could so I could reach. He pulled forward at an angle so I could squeeze out of the door in my bare feet (no time to find flip-flops). In my panic I hit my head, knocking off my sunglasses (****!) then chased the bill down the road.
Back in the car:
"Back up!"
"I can't!"
"You have to! I can't reach!"
"There's a car behind me!"
"The barrier's still down!"
"I know!"
He did back up. Now what?
We certainly didn't have €28.50 in coins. I tried the ten again. The machine sucked it up and I slapped my hand over the slot. It didn't reappear. I tried the twenty and slapped the machine again with more than necessary vigor. It disappeared too and change tinkled out.
I think the toll machine is related to our SatNav – another long tale of woe to follow.
The same three cars were still at the toll booth in the next lane as our barrier went up and we drew away.
So it's not just me.
Or is it?
Where's my sofa? I want to go home.
The photos in this post, taken in Numana, Italy, are completely irrelevant to the subject matter here and are purely to keep me in a calm frame of mind as I read and proofread the post.
As we left a sleeping campsite behind and headed towards Dover, the stresses and strains of the last three months – an international move and corporate harassment – seeped away.
For the moment the monumental planning tasks for the move and our impending trip were complete and we were still on familiar roads.
Approaching check-in at the Channel Tunnel, reservation in hand, we were both spooked when the self check-in computer screen greeted us, "Hello Mrs. C. Welcome to EuroTunnel." Without a word or screen touch from my driver, we were checked in and the smarty pants machine spat out our boarding pass.
"It knows me. That's a little creepy." The adventure into the unknown had begun.
The unmanned all-knowing computerised check-in at EuroTunnel:
EuroTunnel was celebrating 20 years of operation and the terminal building was heaving. Les Anglais on holiday. Even Snow White and Cinderella were there. Look closely under the W H Smith sign:
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Oh very funny. France this way. Follow that car to the train:
On our way into the train, like a rat up a drainpipe, I had hoped to elucidate you with a quick snap of the Folkestone White Horse, an ancient Celtic carving in the chalk cliffs of Dover. However the carving is only 11 years old:
Follow the leader into the train:
In a car, on a train, under the English Channel. I've never quite been able to get my head round that:
And away we go. Italy beware:
To those of you who commiserated with me on my last post – A Catalogue of Disasters – many heartfelt thanks. Your kind words were most appreciated.
At the moment our brains are dulled with French food and wine to the extent that we are unable to stress about anything for a few days.
The original title for this post was going to be "Named and Shamed." The conversation in the car went something like this:
"You can't do that." That would be himself speaking of course.
"Why not?"
"It's libelous."
"How can it be libelous if it's the truth?"
"It just is."
"I'll stick to the facts. Just say exactly what happened. What's wrong with that?"
"A large corporation can come after you and sue you to protect their name. It doesn't matter if you're telling the truth."
"Well I won't bother writing about it if I can't name them. What's the point of rambling on about some nameless company?"
This sorry tale then went into the trash bin in my head. It's an increasingly large space.
But the stories nagged at me, occupied that space in my head when I should have left room for happy thoughts and gave me toothache from clenching my jaw in anger and frustration.
They say moving house is in the top three of stress-inducing life events. I think a bereavement and marriage are the other two. (Doesn't say much for getting married.) If moving house is so stressful, let me tell you an international move is off the scale. We should have had nervous breakdowns. I nearly did.
Shortly after that conversation I read The Jaded Apothecary's blog referring back to a post she had written in April referred to cryptically as TirecDV. After lots of bad words and humorous jibes, she's still around writing and posting in July.
So . . . gulp . . . himself phoned our satellite TV company before our move to inform them we were leaving the country. They assured him they would cancel our contract on the agreed date and send a post paid box to return the receiver. Needless to say the box never arrived. Two weeks before our departure himself phoned again and was told the post paid box would take 36 days to arrive.
This might seem a minor complication but in amongst packing up goods (which for the suitcase and which for the packing box?), throwing out long-held useless treasures, making friends with the guy at Goodwill, seeing our truck off for an ocean cruise, arranging for furniture shipment, arguing with credit card companies, insurance companies, and the motor vehicle division, saying goodbye to friends, family and neighbors, it was nearly the proverbial straw.
The digi box was still streaming programs through to our TV the day after the agreed cancellation date so himself disconnected it, wrapped it up, put it on the doorstep and I wrote a snotty email to the company telling them it was there for collection. I told them not to bother replying to the email. They didn't.
More than one company insisted that our U.S. credit cards could be used in Europe.
"Where are you moving to?"
'You can use our card there."
"I don't want to. I have UK credit cards."
"You can pay your bill online."
"I know that. I already do. But I won't have any funds in the U.S."
"We'll give you a good exchange rate."
"I've been changing pounds to dollars and dollars to pounds for probably more years than you have been on this planet." (This was meant literally. I don't know how the insistent don't-cancel-your-card representative took it) "I know that no financial institution will give me a good rate."
They began to cave at that point.
I came to enjoy the patter once I was expecting it so was wholly disappointed when I cancelled my J C Penney store card by pressing a few phone buttons and not speaking to anyone!
The real laugh, if you think this is funny (I don't but I can't help what you are thinking) is that many U.S. credit cards cannot be used in Europe as they don't use the electronic chip and pin system in place over here.
The motor vehicle division of the particular state where our truck was registered insisted we renew the license OR ELSE! was the gist of the email. This was after himself had phoned twice and written to them twice to inform them Mr. Chevy was emigrating to Europe.
The medical insurance organization for old gits with which some of you may be familiar politely requested payment for July when we'd informed them of our departure in June. In writing. Twice. Or was it three times. I forget.
I thought all the tricksters, scammers and snake oil salesmen resided in the United States until I tried to buy a car in the UK.
Here's where I'm on really dodgy ground as the dealer is not five minutes away from where I sit. They could swoop in, serve a writ and leave me bereft of worldly goods.
I so wanted that car. It was the right size, almost the right price, economical and most importantly, the right color. The only thing missing was its history. As it sat amongst six other identical cars with similar registration number plates, similar mileages and of a similar age, himself quite rightly asked the question:
"Is this an ex-rental car?"
"Not to my knowledge," was the answer. My radar went up. That wasn't a yes or a no.
"Can I see the log book (registration documentation)?"
"We don't have that here." Why not?
"I won't buy a car unless I see the log book first."
"I can get it faxed from head office." Why didn't she offer to do that when himself first asked to see it?
When the blurry fax was put in our hands it showed that it had been owned by ERAC Ltd.
"So it was a company car, not a rental," I said.
She nodded a little bit.
Himself, the old cynic, was not convinced so looked up ERAC Ltd. when we got home.
Guess what ERAC stands for?
Enterprise Rent-a-Car.
I did not buy that car.
I was trying to turn this into a humorous tale but feel I've failed. So if you've read this far, I thank you for your attention and possibly your commiseration. If it has amused you at my expense that's okay too!


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Best-selling author Sarah MacLean concludes her Rules of Scoundrels series with Never Judge A Lady by Her Cover. The long-awaited final book stars Lady Georgiana Pearson, the daughter of a Duke. Ruined at the tender age of sixteen, Georgiana turned her back on society and created her own world when she became part owner of "London's most scandalous and most popular gaming hell," The Fallen Angel.
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"Are Conservatives Being Seduced By Value-Added Tax?"
Excellent piece by Cato's Daniel Mitchell. I agree completely: support for a VAT is a conservative version of a classic Liberal mistake. It assumes practice will match the theory. It probably won't.
Having a vision of a free society doesn't mean libertarians are incapable of common-sense political calculations.
For example, the long-run goal is to dramatically shrink the size and scope of the federal government, both because that's how the Founding Fathers wantedour system to operate and because our economy will grow much faster if labor and capital are allocated by economic forces rather than political calculations. But in the short run, I'm advocating for incremental progress in the form of modest spending restraint.
Why? Because that's the best that we can hope for at the moment.
Another example of common-sense libertarianism is my approach to tax reform. One of the reasons I prefer the flat tax over the national sales tax is that I don't trust that politicians will get rid of the income tax if they decide to adopt the Fair Tax. And if the politicians suddenly have two big sources of tax revenue, you better believe they'll want to increase the burden of government spending.


text: Report: African Soccer Star Dies After Being Pelted in Head with Rock Thrown from Stands Print article Send a Tip by Breitbart Sports 24 Aug 2014 post a comment A top African soccer player died this weekend after he was reportedly hit in the head with a rock that was thrown from the stands. According to news reports, "24-year-old striker Albert Ebosse of JS Kabylie died at the hospital after he was struck in the waning moments of a match with USM Algerin." Though the exact object that hit Ebosse is not yet known, the team's website said a "'shower of stones' came down on the opening of the player tunnel following the match, and that Ebosse was not specifically targeted." Ebosse was the top scorer in the Algerian league last year and scored his team's lone goal in their 2-1 loss on the road when he was fatally struck by the object.


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On October 30th three pro-democracy protesters were arrested. All three of them men, ages between 24 and 50. According to the WSJ two of the men were arrested for "obstructing police officers executing their duty"the other man was arrested, according to the WSJ for suspicion of criminal damage. According to the AP the skirmish began when a protester shined a cell phone camera light in an officer's face, the officer tried to arrest he man, and a line of protester swarmed the police. The protesters are in their 6th week and are planning on marching from the business district to the Chinese government liaison's office this Sunday. Hong Kong's Chief Executive, what they call their president (shows the economic history of Hong Kong) will be in Beijing for the Asian- Pacific Economic corporation forum. The student groups who said they would go to Beijing during this conference says they will wait, because they want their own time with Chinese officials. It isn't going to be easy for them to go to main-land China anyway, China can deny entry to anyone, even Hong Kong residence.
It seems strange to me that the student leaders of this protest aren't taking full advantage of what is going on. Hong Kong is an economic gold mine for China, that is why they wanted it back and why Great Britton took it after the Opium wars. This is also why the Chinese government wants to control Hong Kong faster, as opposed to the forty years that was promised after the hand over in 1997. I am curious of the aims of Hong Kong, the protesters say they want Democracy, but not independence. Do the protesters want permanent democracy or China to keep their promise for another 20 years? These are some of the questions I have that maybe you could lead me to a good answer about.
Catcalling, street harassment, no matter what term you use it's all the same. Not asked for remarks made by a person on the street. These remarks are usually of a sexual nature designed to illicit a response from the other person. Most of the time catcalling is perpetrated by a male. And honestly, as a woman, I don't know why men do it. Is it to illicit a response, because quite frankly I don't believe these men want a response.
When I was younger and people talked about catcalling it was something that construction workers did. There was an episode of "Sex in the City" where Miranda was catcalled outside of a video store and she turned the tables on them.
But the truth is, even for Miranda, catcalling is unwanted. Women are human beings, just as men are, and we want to be talked to and not talked at. When did catcalling become a thing that many men do.
I am going to blame a few things on this. One is media and the other is women ourselves. The media has slowly but surely showed the female body as a prize, and the more you get to see the bigger the prize is. There seems to be, in this day in age, an entitlement, almost a reverse political correctness, in seeing a woman's body.
The 1990s were all about political correctness, what we can and cannot say on the street and in the office, and how much those women and sometimes men were teased and made fun of. As children of the 1990s I think men and women of my age group don't want to be seen as "those" kinds of people. We are the children and grandchildren of the sexual revolution, we have always had access to birthcontrol (mostly), safe and legal abortions (mostly), and Title IX. Equality is complete.
But these same people who see equality as being complete also believe that with complete equality means a right of equal and complete objectification. "A girl doesn't walk down the street in leggings if she doesn't want people to look." I have heard before, and for some women that is true. Some women feel good being checked out. But that doesn't mean that she wants strangers to talk to her.
Girls, as I can only speak as a woman, are taught to be afraid of strange people. Women are taught to be afraid of dark corners and shadows and to be wary of strangers, because this stranger may want to attack or sexually assault you. Men teach these ideas to their daughters. And yet other men go out on the street and catcall? Most women in America are taught from a young age to fear strangers, and yet men don't understand why we don't like catcalling.
I watched a video by CNN about he recent viral video by Hollaback on this subject:
And the man in this video says that women should, "stand up for themselves," even after he is told that a women died in Detroit, http://michronicleonline.com/2014/10/08/shot-down-mother-of-three-killed-because-she-said-no-to-a-mans-advances/ . He then says women should go buy guns and blames bad parenting. She didn't add this incident in New York, http://nypost.com/2014/10/08/womans-throat-slashed-after-rejecting-mans-advances/ . Women shouldn't need guns to walk down the street. Women shouldn't be made to feel unsafe because our "ass looks good in dem jeans." We as a society shouldn't stand for it.
Now this word has become a new fear buzz word. Remember anthrax and what could any white powder have been? The problem with the Ebola breakout is two-fold. One is that we, as a television watching, internet reading community, know who deadly this virus has been. The
BBC has reported today that World Health Organizations numbers, that 4447 people have died from this Ebola virus outbreak with the majority of this people being from West Africa. As of when this article was published the WHO states that an estimated 8,914 cases of Ebola overall. This is a deadly disease and we all know it. And yet, the media is also trying to calm people.
Recently I took a trip back to the United States and for the first time in a long time watched the nightly news. As the anchors were discussing what Ebola is and why it is so dangerous they kept mentioning over and over again that it's not an airborne disease and that one cannot catch Ebola from being in the same room as another person with Ebola, and yet, every person who was dealing Eric Duncan, the patient in America with Ebola was wearing a hazmat suit. The people who were going his living quarters were wearing hazmat suits and people were being quarantined.
This doesn't make sense? Why does the news tell us we have nothing to fear when we can all see that we do. When the BBC has to publish an article called "How Not to Catch Ebola"
The US media is downplaying the risk of catching Ebola by focusing on it not being an airborne cotangent, but in a way it is. This BBC article clearly states that if a person with Ebola sneezes on a person who isn't wearing protective gear there is a high risk of catching the disease. There are good things to know the media has reported, such as if a person doesn't' have symptoms they aren't contagious. But this downplaying of Ebola to not cause panic is clearly going to make the disease worse. Already a nurse who treated Eric Duncan has contracted Ebola. We have to be vigilant.
When I traveled to the USA from China I had to take off my shoes, but when I left the USA I didn't have to take off my shoes. Does that mean Americas are becoming less vigilant, or that the USA has better trained bomb sniffing dogs? I don't know. America has historically perceived itself as being better, more knowledgable and more prepared. But it just feels like we aren't. There has to be a line between fear pushing and truth-telling about something that is scary and dangerous. I just feel as though my media should tell me the truth and not just what they think I need to know.
Donald Sterling no longer owns the Clippers but he is counter-suing the NBA, because he says he was illegally taped. He lost his team and was banned for life based on a conversation he had in private that he never ment to see the light of day. The NBA says that this conversation reaching the public has tarnished the image of the league. Funny the NBA has a stronger punishment for racist remarks than the NFL does for domestic abuse.
For some clarification, in case you have forgotten back in April Sterling was caught on tape with a female friend. This friend, V. Stivano irritated Sterling when he saw that she had posted on instagram a photo of herself with Magic Johnson. Sterling stated "It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people", and, "You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want", but "the little I ask you is … not to bring them to my games"
These comments caused a backlash within the team and within the NBA in general. Sterling was banned, within four days of this taped being released, from the NBA and given a fine of 25 million dollars. It's crazy to realize all of these events happened about 6 months ago. Sterling's ban has forced a sale of the team. Now he has lost a court battle is taking place over whether or not the sale Sterling's wife made was legal and binding.
Basically Donald Sterling, no matter how much apologizing he tries to do will always be labeled a racist, and an organization like the NBA has no room or tolerance for racists. Players don't want him around, it's better for the moral of the NBA for him not to be there. The question he poses though is more interesting, should a private conversation that was illegally taped cause you to lose everything?
In this day in age where everyone has smart phones and tablets, it's almost a given that your photo can be taken or you can be recorded at any moment. I think those of us under 30 have realized this. I think we have lost true privacy, unless you have good friends and this case will prove that.
September 11, 2001 is a day that I will never forget. I can't believe that it has been 13 years. I guess that it makes sense that I just missed my 10 year high school reunion, so many friend of mine have had babies and the world has been introduced to the iPhone 6, and yet that morning still feels sickeningly real.
At that point in my life I was living in a small town outside of Chicago, and was in the 11th grade. I was sitting in my Algebra 2 class when my notoriously forgetful teacher told us she still hadn't graded our last tests, and we had a test tomorrow. So she went to the office to photo copy our previous tests, like she did the test before, and the one before that, so we would have something to study from. 25-30 minutes later we all started to realize that she hadn't returned. I don't know why none of us left the room or didn't do anything stupid, we just didn't, I was actually playing on my friend's TI89 calculator, cause those things were the coolest. Our teacher walked in with this dazed look on her face and said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center and she was listening to the radio in the office and then walked out. We all sat there confused until the bell rang.
My next class, English, we were all talking about what we had just heard and made the most logical conclusion we could, drunk pilot. It had to be a drunk pilot, how else could something like this happen. Then third period AP History, that calmness of truth was gone. Live my friends and I watched on TV as the second plane hit the second tower and I knew that there was no mistaking, their was no question, something was wrong and we were going to war. The rest of the day was confusion and tears. All the downstairs classrooms in my high school had TVs but the upstairs ones didn't, so it felt like you were going into a different world upstairs. A friend of mine had a brother in the Pentagon, and I was worried about my Aunt and Uncle who I knew were supposed to be flying out that week, but I didn't know when. And my daddy who worked as a limo driver at O'Hare. There were so many rumors and so much speculation going on, we were worried that their were other planes heading for the Sears Tower (now Willis Tower) or this huge nuclear power plant near us, it was all rumor and fear and speculation that day.
The truth is though we all saw that our generation would bear a huge brunt of this war. And that is something none of us could question, we (America) would be going to war with someone. I have seen so many of my friends go to Afghanistan and Iraq and come back, thank goodness. They have never come back the same though. My generation grew up with terror alerts and heightened security, fear of the dodgy looking person near landmarks and sadly less personal liberty than the generation before. We won't ever feel freedom from fear again because September 11th began a different type of war that Americans never had to deal with, and it will never end.
I still remember thinking, no country would ever be stupid enough to attack mainland America, and now I know, a country wouldn't do that, but a terrorist would.
First before we begin with Olberman's statement we need a little back story. Ray Rice was (he was fired on Monday) a player on the Baltimore Ravens. He was indited for domestic abuse. On February 15, Rice and his then fiancée got into a heated argument and he knocked her out cold in the elevator. The tape that was (allegedly seen) by the NFL was of him (Rice) dragging his unconscious fiancée out of the elevator to the hotel room. The couple married on March 28th, one month after his indictment. He avoided jail time by going to a pretrial diversionary program.
What was surprising to most was the NFL's reaction to this incident. Roger Goodell, NFL commissioner, gave Rice a 2 game suspension. This suspension was shorter than other players had received for marijuana use, and other crimes that do not involve bodily injury. Goodell has later stated that he, "didn't get it right," and has imposed tougher punishments for domestic violence.
This week a new video has surfaced. TMZ, our friendly neighborhood paparazzi hounds found the actual video inside the elevator where we see Rice deliver a knock-out punch to his then fiancée. For those of you who want to see it here in the link to the article. The include the raw footage and a cleaned up version.
The NFL states that they never saw this second video and that this video changes everything. Rice was fired on Monday from the Baltimore Ravens, and both Goodell and the Raven's organization are receiving sharp critique from current and former players and new commentators.
Keith Olberman states, and I agree with him wholeheartedly,
"We begin tonight with the unavoidable and simple truth that intentionally, or by neglect, the Atlantic County, New Jersey district attorney's office, the Baltimore Ravens, the National Football League, and commissioner Roger Goodell have conducted a cover-up of Ray Rice's assault on his then fiancée on February 15th.
There is no other conclusion possible. Each body, each leading individual involved came to a judicial conclusion about what had happened to Janay Palmer and What should happen to Ray Rice. And each, through deception or incompetence, misled the public, damaged the efforts of every man and every woman in this country seeking to merely slow down the murderous epidemic of domestic violence, and made a mockery of the process by which those who batter those they claim to love are to be brought to justice."
How could this have happened? How could the NFL thought that a 2 game suspension was enough? How could we have thought that this incident was just a, "bad night," as the Ravens head coach had said. The original video released shows Rice dragging his unconscious fiancée out of an elevator, what other conclusion could have been made about what happened to her? And yet Rice is an amazing running back and I think the organization was wanting to do everything in their power to keep him. But here is the thing that we all know athletes are role models, and men. And because they choose to be role models, because they choose to be professional athletes their choices are seen differently. Rice's actions are wrong and inexcusable, but so were the Raven's actions, and so were Roger Goodell's actions. Everyone needs to be held accountable for what they did.
Sadly the world has lost a great comedian. Robin Williams was found dead in his Northern California home of an apparent suicide. It has been reported by multiple sources that he has been depressed recently. Robin Williams was the comedian of a generation. He was a doctor, a genie, and a hero. We looked to him to make us laugh and remember our childhoods and he will be sorely missed by all.
This death does raise a different issue. If a man such as Robin Williams, who has the public face of being the funniest man on earth could be seriously depressed, what about the people in our own lives? I believe that we as a society can take this tragedy of a life not finished and learn from it. We should learn to recognize the signs of depression. I do not pretend to know the extent of Williams's condition. But I do know that we live in an age where people are more likely to ask you how you are on your Facebook timeline than to actually pick up the phone. Where people are complaining about the Facebook messenger app and how you should just text them, as though texting someone is so difficult to begin with. We are so connected but with that connection we have become even more isolated. We seem to know everything about everyone's lived but in reality we don't take the time to call people anymore and see how they are doing. Hopefully we can take the time out of our days and think about the people in our lives, call them, have coffee and see how they are doing. We don't need to be living in a connected solitary world.
A chilling recording recently surfaced in Australia. While meeting with a group of Australian businessmen just hours before the 9/11 attacks Bill Clinton is recorded saying:
"I'm just saying, you know, if I were Osama bin Laden … He's a very smart guy. I spent a lot of time thinking about him. And I nearly got him once. I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have had to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him."
"And so I didn't do it."
This audio was recorded by Michael Kroger and originally aired by Sky news in Australia.
In the clip the news anchor says, "You're right 99% of the time what happens if its 1%," implying that he feels as though Clinton made the wrong choice. If you search this story anywhere on the internet it always says something along the lines, hours before 9/11 Clinton says, I could have killed Osama. Implying that on September 10, 2001 Clinton had the power to kill Osama Bin Laden, which he didn't.
According to the 9/11 Commission Reports there was an attack proposed in December of 1998 an attack was proposed on the town of Kandahar. The president was advised by the Joint Chiefs not to attack due to the collateral damage this attack would cause, the lives of 200 – 300 civilians.
Is it our job to judge whether or not the president made the right choice. In 2014 we can launch a missile on a direct target with ease and have a small amount of collateral damage. In 1998 we have to get the intelligence, have it reach the president, have a choice be made and have a plane bring the payload, which at that time could take 4-5 hours. Osama could have left where they thought he was by then. Is bombing the whole town okey to kill one man? Would that have been the better choice in hind sight?
If you watch the videos by Fox News and ABC News you see two very different points of view. ABC News is very clearly on the side of Clinton making the right choice, for the times and good for him to not want to kill innocent civilians. The Fox News anchor seems frustrated that the military expert he brought on to discuss this matter isn't for Clinton killing those civilians, and Bin Laden.
I think that hindsight is just that. Could different choices have been made, yes. There were many choices that could have been made by different leaders, and maybe 9/11 wouldn't have happened, maybe. But that is just it, maybe. And focusing on those moments when you could have made a different choice is not the best for your health or sanity. And it isn't the best for America.
A friend of mine posted this article on his Facebook page called, 'This Bill is about me': Baroness Campbell's speech at yesterday's Lords debate and it got me thinking. This speech given in the House of Lords was given about the Falconer Bill, which is a bill, modeled after the Oregon bill that would legalize assisted suicide for those who have less than six months to live (two doctors independently must agree on this), prove that this person is of sound mind to make this request, and there is no coercion. There is support for the idea of assisted suicide among the majority of Brits, but there is some fear and misgivings there. This speech though has given me cause to think. Is terminally ill and disabled the same thing? Automatically you would think no, but what do you think of as disabled? Unable to walk, what is the line between disabled and terminally ill? My mother who has multiple sclerosis considers herself disabled, but the law says she has a terminal illness, while my sister who is autistic is legally considered disabled (which I don't think anyone would disagree with that legal definition). I find that the line between disabled and terminally ill can be blurred at some points and it would be very difficult to agree on one definition. Alright so then if we give someone the right to die does that take the burden away from us to help people who choose not to die? I know that sounds harsh and your knee jerk reaction is to say, of course not, but hear me out. Over the last 50 years the ideas of illness and dying has changed dramatically, from being sterile and clinical to being just a stage of life that with the good graces of modern medicine can be less painful. But if you give the choice of ending your life, easily will then the medical community just say, well he/she isn't my problem because he/she could have just taken the easy route and just ended things. I know this sounds harsh and far fetched, but people and the government can take laws and ideas that seem to make since and be peaceful and nice, and these laws can be mishandled and mistreated. Do we have the right to choose when we die? That is an interesting question. We have many legal choices. I as a woman can choose whether or not I want to be fertile, I can choose if I want to keep a fetus or not, I, when I have a sound mind, have complete legal autonomy over my body, and yet do I have the right to choose when I die? At various times in US history suicide has been a criminal offence in the United States (laws varied from state to state) currently there is no law on the books against suicide, but is considered a common law crime. That is fascinating to me. It's fascinating to me and most of those from outside the United States that major laws can vary in America from state to state. In the US only in Oregon and Washington state (at the time this article was written) can you choose to end your own life with the help of a medical professional, but you can choose to end your own life at any point. Why do you think that there are so many taboos about suicide. I think that it stems from religion mostly. God created us as beautiful individual beings with free will and by ending our lives we are denying the plan that God had for us. Circular logic, but still none the less, we as humans see this sanctity in life, religious or not. Our mothers went through hell carrying us and delivering us, and I know most would do it all again in a heartbeat, but to end your life by committing suicide is almost negating all that work your mother did. But what about for the terminally ill or disabled? I think one would need to agree on a definition of these terms. I think that there have to be safeguards put in place. I am sure there are days when many disabled people feel like ending it all, but that is just frustration. Should they have access to that? Although there are some clear cut cases, my grandfather. My grandfather had lung cancer was in pain for every breathe, and we knew that he had hours. Some would say that it would be cruel not to end his life, and yet others see a dignity in the natural process of life. These are my thoughts at the moment. I would like to hear yours.


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Many of my photos are kind of strange. They are close ups of something and often they look like the first photographic evidence of an alien invasion. Sometimes I don't even know myself what it is I've been trying to capture or what I've been thinking of taking the pic. Sometimes I do know what's going on.
In this case the alien invasion seems likely, though I'm pretty sure we don't have to be worried, since the subject of my photo didn't have much of intelligence. (I know some might argue with me about it's intelligence.) Besides I assume it was something from our own planet. It was, wasn't it?
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Arbil, March 28 / March (Rn) - The head of the Commission on oil and energy in the Parliament of the Kurdistan region Lavigne Omar on Wednesday that the region hopes to be the Baghdad government is serious in exchange entitlements of foreign companies operating in the oil sector in Kurdistan.
The Iraqi Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi said in a press conference on the sidelines of the Arab summit in Baghdad that the Iraqi government agreed to pay 650 billion dinars as receivables for oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region.
The decision came after he waved to the Kurdistan Regional Government Monday to halt oil exports from fields in the end of this month that Baghdad continued detention of payments due to the oil-producing companies.
Said Omar, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "the Iraqi government an obligation to pay amounts due to the oil companies operating in the producing region."
She pointed out that "the only company which markets are the Iraqi oil company SOMO (state company) and the amounts shall be deposited in a box of oil revenues and then the Iraqi government to pay the share of the region, It is strange that Baghdad had not paid the amounts so far."
In its response to the decision to consent to pay dues Baghdad, Omar said "We hope that the Iraqi government is serious about the remarks and to implement those statements, and this is supposed to. Must pay the amounts."
She says that "this is not the first time that we hear these statements from Baghdad, but we hope that they pay the amounts due."
Omar pointed out that "in the case of non-payment of amounts due we have no choice but to reduce the size of production, because companies will not produce oil if you do not get their financial dues."
A spokesman for the Ministry of Natural Resources Kurdistan Regional Government said in a statement on Monday that due to production costs and investments that should be producing companies do in the region have decided to Ministry of Natural Resources to reduce exports to 50 thousand barrels per day has been stopped completely within a month if no payments.
He added that the federal government for the city of Arbil, about $ 1.5 billion. He continued that the last payment received by the Kurdistan Regional Government amounted to $ 514 million and was in early 2011.
He said Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul Karim and coffee earlier this month that the central authorities had received 65 thousand barrels of oil a day only less than half of 175 thousand barrels per day expected from the Kurdish region since the beginning of the year.
The official said that the Kurdish region could export more oil than if Baghdad committed to its obligations to pay.
And there is a dispute has existed since a long time between the federal government and the KRG oil contracts concluded on Erbil, Baghdad says it is illegal.
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We as a buyer are ready to file a lawsuit for specific performance of real estate contract. Purchase agreement lists specific performance as the remedy for purchaser in case of default by seller.
Is it possible to seek legal fees and damages in addition to specific performance by listing it while declaring Time is of the essence?
Yes. You can seek all costs and fees caused by the willful breach of the contract such as bank costs, storage fees, rent, use and occupancy, court costs and legal fees., etc. You may not be awarded all costs but you can seek them. Most of these cases get settled prior to trial so seek all expenses as leverage. The end result is you want a closing as quickly as possible. You will need counsel to do this successfully.
You can get legal fees if your contract provides for it.
Concur with counsel. Do you have a lawyer to represent you in your case? If you don't, I'd really recommend that you hire one. Often, the contract such as the one you're referring to has a provision for attorney's fees. You'd still have to pay your lawyer although there is a possibility that you can recoup your attorney's fees, in whole or in part, if you win. Of course, that depends on what your contract says and if you win.
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ICE is coming! Yeah – you're probably thinking, "Well, duh, I've been outside . . . I know." No… ICE as in the Illinois Computing Educators. The annual ICE conference will be held in February in lovely St. Charles, Illinois (so it doesn't involve a whole lot of travel, and no overnight stay). The ICE workshops take place just before the general conference and provide in-depth training in a variety of techie topics. ICE workshops are also a great way to use your professional development dollars. Check out the workshops here.
Kahoot.it is another one of those online multiple choice quiz sites where you can put questions in and your students play entering the game pin that you specify, and answering questions. I think it's very engaging – you can type in Hebrew, there's fun music, and it ranks players as you play the game. You can also put photos in to increase engagement, and a video option is in beta right now (that's cool – play a video and stop in pre-determined locations to ask questions).
Where do good ideas come from? That's a fascinating question, and one I think about often. Here's an interesting video on the subject:
Google tip of the week: are you going batty with folders in your Google Drive? Here's a neat tip that can help. Change the color of your folders by clicking on a folder and right-clicking on it (to right-click with a one-button mouse, hold down the control key and click). Lookie there – you can give a folder a star (which puts it in Starred in your drive), and/or you can change the folder's color! Makes it easier to locate. Sadly, folder colors don't show up (yet) on mobile devices.
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I think I've written about Chirbit before, but it may be worth another visit. Chirbit is a nifty little website for working with audio. You can record or upload a message and then make it available to others (who can then comment on your Chirbit) via weblink or QR code. It will also "speak" text that you type into the website. What I found most useful, though, is that Chirbit will extract the audio from a YouTube video. Any Chirbit can be downloaded as an .mp3 file.
iPad app tip: Let's say you're doing an activity with your class and you want to get instant feedback to assess for understanding. Or maybe you're doing a poll or survey. Let's say you also don't have iPads or laptops for your students, but you still want to have a feedback mechanism that assures privacy (no student wants to be the one to raise his or her hand and say "I don't understand") and gives you student-by-student results. What can you do? One option is to download the free Plickers app to your phone or iPad. Then print out the plickers cards for your students (get it? Paper + clickers = plickers). Create your assessment (it's a lot like using Socrative or Nearpod), hand out the cards and scan with the app. It's very cool, extremely low tech, and we got rave reviews from the fifth graders with whom we tested it last week. Visit Plickers for more info.
Love New York? Love Jewish books? This map is awesome. It's the Jewish Book Council's literary map of New York City and it marks the landmarks, descriptions, and allusions found in the works of some of our heritage's greatest writers. Fun!
Google Tip: OMG! This is terrific. Did you ever think it would be useful if you could create an email contact group on the fly while sending an email? C'mon . . . you know you want to do this! Here's how:
Create the email, placing the recipients in the "To" section
Once all your recipients are listed, click on the word "To." Click right on that puppy
This should bring up a dialogue box where you could include other recipients. If you look at the bottom of that box, though, you'll see the magic box that says "Save as group . . ."
That will save your group to your contacts for future use. It may take a few minutes for it to appear – but this is a handy tip!
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Check it out – 15 strategies for teaching vocabulary. There are some great ideas here!
I'm fascinated by introducing alternate reality and gamification into the classroom – here's a really interesting article about a teacher who did just that.
Chrome tip: check out this article for a list of great extensions to download and install to make Chrome even better.
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How BIG is Google? Check out this great documentary:
Shake Up Learning is a website that features tips and techniques for educational technology, including Google, mobile learning and social media.
Well, now, this is interesting…here's a nicely crafted revision of the traditional rubric. Instead of working on all those columns and rows, why not try the single-point rubric? Very cool! Read more here (and I love the name of the website, too!).
Google tip: If you've been using Google Classroom, be sure to check out this blog post to get an idea of some of the new features that were introduced this week.
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If you use Animoto, you'll want to apply for a free Animoto Plus account. That allows you to choose from 57 styles to create 10-minute long videos. Plus accounts normally cost $5 per month but this is free for educators if you apply here.
Teaching with Google strategy: Here's a useful strategy for using Google's comments feature with students to help make their thinking visible. Nice!
Google tip: Need an online timer for a classroom activity? Just type timer into a Google search box. Simple and elegant. You can click on the brackets icon to have the timer go full screen, too!
If you want a quick collaborative space, check out Awwapp. It's simple to create a whiteboard and invite by URL. You can post completed whiteboards or save them as .png images.
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EduCanon is a website that enables you to take a video and assign questions for your students to answer at pre-determined spots. Check out my sample video here. This is great for flipped classes.
Still haven't signed up for JEDcamp Midwest? What's holding you back? Here are 10 reasons to sign up TODAY.
Google Tip #1: If you love Google forms (you know I do!), check out this blog post about recent improvements. For instance, you can now shuffle questions (which is great if you want to use a form for an assessment), and limit people to only submitting one response per form. You can also insert a video into a form, which lends itself to using Google Form as part of a flipped classroom experience. Finally, (I LOVE this), when you go to "Send form," you can now specify a shortened URL, eliminating the need to paste the long URL into goo.gl. Yay!
Google Tip #2: Did you know that you could use Google to "read" PDF files and turn them into text documents? Here's how:
- Upload your PDF file to your Google drive
- Click in the box to the left of the uploaded file to select
- Click on More (at the top of your screen) and choose "Open with"
- Choose Google Docs
- Google will proceed to open your document. The beginning with have the image, and the digitized text will appear at the end of the document.
Now, it may not be perfect, and you may have to tweak it a little, but it beats retyping!
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This is just hysterical. Check out Shimon Peres' plans for what to do after retirement:
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but I do want to remind everyone about Sefaria. Sefaria allows you to choose different texts – or portions thereof – and create a custom resource sheet. It's still in development, so every text isn't there, but it's awesome nonetheless.
Shameless JEDcamp plug of the week. We are proud and excited that the second annual JEDcamp Midwest will be here on Sunday, October 19th from noon until 4:00 pm. There will be swag! There will be free lunch! There will be door prizes! There will be lots of great ideas to share! Need more incentive? Watch the terrific movie about last year's JEDcamp:
Chrome tip #1: I'm a multi-tab user, which means I often have a dozen or so browser tabs open at one time. Some of them, like my mail and Schedulet, are tabs that I always, always use. I hate it when I accidentally close them by clicking on the little x. To remedy that, and to make the tabs take up less space, I "pin" them. To pin a tab, right-click (or hold down the control key and click) and choose Pin Tab. Like magic, the tab takes up, well, a pin-size amount of space and it can't be closed accidentally. To unpin and remove a tab you'll have to right-click again.
Chrome tip #2: If you love to use Chrome, check out these Chrome extensions that can make your user experience even better!
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Some of us spent a little time this summer talking about digital portfolios and how to implement them in class. This article expands on that quite nicely.
Here is a nice little Google docs cheat sheet you can print out and hang in your classroom.
Thinking about upgrading your iDevice to iOS 8? Here's a list of privacy settings you should change immediately.
GAFE tip of the week: When you're composing an email in Google mail, you can make it take up the whole screen rather than just that little puny spot in the corner. Just click on the little down arrow and choose Default to full screen.
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Need to record a brief audio clip? Want your students to? Visit ClypIt, record your clip and get a link to share.
If you need some GIFs to explain mathematical concepts (and WHO doesn't need those?) check out this website.
http://www.wordle.net is one of our favorite word cloud generators, but sometimes it gets cranky and stops working. This article has 9 more word cloud websites.
"Make it big, do it right, give it class…" Science teacher Steve Spangler's science videos aim to do just that. Watch his videos here.
GAFE tip of the week: searching for a particular email message has gotten easier now that we're using GAFE! Check out this article for tips on using Google search terms in Google Mail.
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Need a place on the web to quickly post graphics or information? Check out Tackk.
Should schools still be teaching cursive handwriting? This New York Times article explores the issue. Read more here.
GoSoapBox is another student response website (like Socrative or Nearpod). You create an "event," and your students join using a computer or mobile device. You can embed quizzes, polls or discussions. There's also a cool "confusion barometer" so you students can let you know if they're stuck (could we have one of those in life, please?). Teachers can download graded spreadsheets or activity reports.


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A selection on underwater photos around the Caribbean islands of the British Virgin Islands.
It is actually great that you can order the calendar to start in any month you would like !
Absolutely beautiful. Great creation, Leon. Love it.
Thanks WeeZie, tell all your friends, lol.
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Stunning calender nice work :)
Thanks Yampy, nice to hear from you.
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Stunning calendar Leon.great work.
Cheers Jude
Thanks Jude.
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Excellent job on this one and great idea on the calendars.
Thanks Haybales, this is my first attempt and I like it.
– Leon Heyns
Wow – very nicely done Leon. I love this :)
Thanks Debby, now I would LOVE to sell some ! lol.
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Wonderful calendar.
Thanks so much Judy.
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Superb collection, eye appealing and filled with positive energy!!!……Tony
Thanks for such inspiring comments Tony.
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This is beautiful, amazing images x
Thank you so much Jenny.
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Awesome Leon.
Thanks Julie, glad you like it.
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