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Carib Indians aggressively prevented European settlement on St. Vincent until the 18th century. African slaves--whether shipwrecked or escaped from St. Lucia and Grenada and seeking refuge in St. Vincent--intermarried with the Caribs and became known as "black Caribs." Beginning in 1719, French settlers cultivated coffee, tobacco, indigo, cotton, and sugar on plantations worked by African slaves. In 1763, St. Vincent was ceded to Britain. Restored to French rule in 1779, St. Vincent was regained by the British under the Treaty of Versailles in 1783. Conflict between the British and the black Caribs continued until 1796, when General Abercrombie crushed a revolt fomented by the French radical Victor Hugues. More than 5,000 black Caribs were eventually deported to Roatan, an island off the coast of Honduras.
Slavery was abolished in 1834; the resulting labor shortages on the plantations attracted Portuguese immigrants in the 1840s and east Indians in the 1860s. Conditions remained harsh for both former slaves and immigrant agricultural workers, as depressed world sugar prices kept the economy stagnant until the turn of the century.
From 1763 until independence, St. Vincent passed through various stages of colonial status under the British. A representative assembly was authorized in 1776, Crown Colony government installed in 1877, a legislative council created in 1925, and universal adult suffrage granted in 1951.
During this period, the British made several unsuccessful attempts to affiliate St. Vincent with other Windward Islands in order to govern the region through a unified administration. The most notable was the West Indies Federation, which collapsed in 1962. St. Vincent was granted associate statehood status in 1969, giving it complete control over its internal affairs. Following a referendum in 1979, St. Vincent and the Grenadines became the last of the Windward Islands to gain independence. Natural disasters have plagued the country throughout the 20th century.
In 1902, La Soufriere volcano erupted, killing 2,000 people. Much farmland was damaged, and the economy deteriorated. In April 1979, La Soufriere erupted again. Although no one was killed, thousands had to be evacuated, and there was extensive agricultural damage. In 1980 and 1987, hurricanes devastated banana and coconut plantations; 1998 and 1999 also saw very active hurricane seasons, with hurricane Lenny in 1999 causing extensive damage to the west coast of the island.
The People's Political Party (PPP), founded in 1952 by Ebenezer Joshua, was the first major political party in St. Vincent. The PPP had its roots in the labor movement and was in the forefront of national policy prior to independence, winning elections from 1957 through 1966. With the development of a more conservative black middle class, however, the party began to steadily lose support, until it collapsed after a rout in the 1979 elections. The party dissolved itself in 1984.
Founded in 1955, the St. Vincent Labor Party (SYLP), under R. Milton Cato, gained the support of the middle class. With a conservative law-and-order message and a pro-Western foreign policy, the SYLP dominated politics from the mid-1960s until the mid-1980s. Following victories in the 1967 and 1974 elections, the SYLP led the island to independence, winning the first post-independence election in 1979. Expecting an easy victory for the SYLP in 1984, Cato called early elections. The results were surprising: with a record 89% voter turnout, James F. Mitchell's New Democratic Party (NDP) won nine seats in the house of assembly.
Since the 1984 election, politics in St. Vincent have been dominated by the NDP. Bolstered by a resurgent economy in the mid-1980s, Mitchell led his party to an unprecedented sweep of all 15 house of assembly seats in the 1989 elections. The opposition emerged from the election weakened and fragmented but was able to win three seats during the February 1994 elections under a "unity" coalition. In 1998, Prime Minister Mitchell and the NDP were returned to power for an unprecedented fourth term but only with a slim margin of 8 seats to 7 seats for the Unity Labour Party (ULP). The NDP was able to accomplish a return to power while receiving a lesser share of the popular vote, approximately 45% to the ULP's 55%. In March 2001, the ULP, led by Ralph Gonsalves, assumed power after winning 12 of the 15 seats in Parliament.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Same chaotic, champagne dance-party scene in the clubhouse just two days later. New T-shirt: AL West champions.
The Oakland Athletics won the division title with another improbable rally in a season full of them, coming back from four runs down and a 13-game division deficit to stun the two-time defending league champion Texas Rangers 12-5 on Wednesday.
"We knew this is a beast of a team we would have to beat, and to be able to beat them three games in a row and win the division on top of it, really it's a magical-type thing," manager Bob Melvin said.
Josh Hamilton dropped a fly ball in center field for a two-run error that put the A's (94-68) ahead 7-5 in a six-run fourth inning. The A's only added to Texas' troubles the rest of the way.
While Hamilton's Rangers (93-69) are headed to the new one-game, wild-card playoff at home against Baltimore on Friday, the A's get two days off before opening the division series at Detroit on Saturday in their first postseason appearance since being swept by the Tigers in the 2006 AL championship series.
"It's going to be a tough matchup," Melvin said. "They have a very powerful lineup that can certainly score some runs. They also have great starting pitching. We will have our work cut out for us."
The A's needed a sweep and they delivered to win their first division crown in six years and 15th in all. They overcame a five-game deficit in the final nine days and took sole possession of the West's top spot for the first time this year.
"It shows how important Game 162 is," Oakland's Jonny Gomes said. "I don't think it took 162 to games to check the character of this ballclub."
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"2012 AL WEST CHAMPIONS" flashed on the scoreboard two days after the A's clinched a playoff spot Monday and held a wild dance party in the clubhouse.
"I'm glad there's not one tomorrow or Friday," owner Lew Wolff said. "I can relax and go home. I'm running out of underwear."
Players high-fived fans while taking a victory lap through the rundown Coliseum, where the outfield still has a light patch of grass from football in the venue shared by the NFL's Raiders.
Soon, the celebratory champagne and beer made its way to the field _ and players sprayed it into the stands. The A's returned to the field almost an hour later to greet fans still gathered along the top of the dugout.
Oakland pulled off another remarkable performance in a season defined by thrilling walkoffs, rallies and whipped-cream pie celebrations by a team that was never supposed to be here.
A club that trailed Texas by 13 games on June 30. A club with a $59.5 million payroll, lowest in baseball. General manager Billy Beane found ways to get a blue-collar franchise back to the playoffs.
"You can have all the experience as you want but when you run into a team that's hot, experience has nothing to do with it," Texas manager Ron Washington said.
Coco Crisp hit a tying two-run double in the fourth against Derek Holland (12-7) and Brandon Moss drove in three runs, including a two-run single in the four-run eighth.
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If it was just me in my apartment, I would put off turning on the air conditioner as long as I could. I'd rather open the windows for cross ventilation, breathe fresh (if warm) air and avoid the huge electric bill. Besides, I'm in the office during the heat of the day.
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I brushed off as much dust as I could with a cloth, then washed the filter in soapy water. It took a while and a fair amount of scrubbing to get all the grime off. But getting clean, cool air flowing in my apartment was worth it. Winky agreed (she immediately parked herself on the rug in front of the AC).
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Last week was the culmination of a 16-week Industrial Design junior level class from the California College of the Arts (CCA). The class was divided into two groups with two different subject areas for the students to choose from. Myself, Max Burton from frog and Karson Shadley from Shape Field Office taught a segment on 'wearable sound' and Chris Luomanen of Thing-Tank and Rob Swinton from Huge Design taught a segment on 'personal mobile safety.' To enhance the level of realism and to develop connections with the local professional design community, we held the final presentation of the students' work at frog design in our San Francisco studio and Lunar's head office in Potrero Hill with many local industrial design professionals as guest critics.
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In Abrahamic religions, Noah (/ˈnoʊ.ə/[1]) or Noé or Noach, (Hebrew: נֹחַ, נוֹחַ, Modern Noaẖ Tiberian Nōăḥ; Syriac: ܢܘܚ Nukh; Arabic: نُوح Nūḥ; Ancient Greek: Νῶε) was the tenth and last of the pre-flood Patriarchs. The story of Noah's Ark is told in the Genesis flood narrative, and also told in Sura 71 of the Quran. The biblical account is followed by the story of the Curse of Ham. Besides the book of Genesis, Noah is also mentioned in 1st Chronicles, Isaiah, Ezekiel, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, the book of Hebrews and the 1st and 2nd Epistles of Peter. He was the subject of much elaboration in later Abrahamic traditions, including the Qur'an.
Noah was the tenth of the pre-flood (antediluvian) Patriarchs. His father Lamech "called his name Noah, saying, This [same] shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed."[2] When Noah was five hundred years old, he begat Shem, Ham and Japheth (Genesis 5:32).
Genesis chapter six speaks of the conditions before the flood, that led to the decision by the LORD to destroy the earth – but there is a delay – for "Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD." (6:1-8) A new section, "the generations of Noah", is begun in verse 9, and a repeat mention of the birth of Shem, Ham and Japheth appears in verse 10, providing a fixed time reference for the chronology of the chapter. (6:9-10) After these things, Noah was instructed by God to "make an ark", and fill it with two of every sort of living thing, and gather "all food that is eaten" for provisions for them all. (Genesis 6:11-22) The chapter ends with Noah's ark loaded with two of every sort, and fully provisioned, "according to all that God commanded him".
Genesis chapters seven and eight detail events related to the Genesis flood narrative.
After the Flood, Noah offered a sacrifice to God, who promised never again to destroy all life on Earth by a flood (Genesis 9:11) and gave the rainbow, called "my bow", as the sign of a covenant "between me and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for perpetual generations", (9:12-17) called the Noahic covenant. After this, Noah became a husbandman and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and was uncovered within his tent. Noah's son Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his brethren, which led to Ham's son Canaan being cursed by Noah.[3]
Noah died 350 years after the Flood, at the age of 950,[4] the last of the extremely long-lived antediluvian Patriarchs. The maximum human lifespan, as depicted by the Bible, diminishes rapidly thereafter, from almost 1,000 years to the 120 years of Moses.
In 10:1-3 of the Book of Enoch, Uriel was dispatched by "the Most High" to inform Noah of the approaching "deluge".[5]
The Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 2500 BC, contains a flood story almost exactly the same as the Noah story in the Pentateuch, with a few variations such as the number of days of the deluge, the order of the birds, and the name of the mountain on which the ark rests. Andrew R. George submits that the flood story in Genesis 6–8 matches the Gilgamesh flood myth so closely, "few doubt" that it derives from a Mesopotamian account.[6] What is particularly noticeable is the way the Genesis flood story follows the Gilgamesh flood tale "point by point and in the same order", even when the story permits other alternatives.[7]
The earliest written flood myth is found in the Mesopotamian Epic of Atrahasis and Epic of Gilgamesh texts. Many scholars believe that Noah and the Biblical Flood story are derived from the Mesopotamian version, predominantly because Biblical mythology that is today found in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mandeanism shares overlapping consistency with far older written ancient Mesopotamian story of The Great Flood, and that the early Hebrews were known to have lived in Mesopotamia.[8]
Gilgamesh's historical reign is believed to have been approximately 2700 BCE,[9] shortly before the earliest known written stories. The discovery of artifacts associated with Aga and Enmebaragesi of Kish, two other kings named in the stories, has lent credibility to the historical existence of Gilgamesh.[10]
The earliest Sumerian Gilgamesh poems date from as early as the Third dynasty of Ur (2100–2000 BC).[11] One of these poems mentions Gilgamesh's journey to meet the flood hero, as well as a short version of the flood story.[12] The earliest Akkadian versions of the unified epic are dated to ca. 2000–1500 BC.[13] Due to the fragmentary nature of these Old Babylonian versions, it is unclear whether they included an expanded account of the flood myth; although one fragment definitely includes the story of Gilgamesh's journey to meet Utnapishtim. The "standard" Akkadian version included a long version of the flood story and was edited by Sin-liqe-unninni sometime between 1300 and 1000 BC.[14]
Noah has often been compared to Deucalion, the son of Prometheus and Pronoia in Greek mythology. Like Noah, Deucalion is a wine maker or wine seller; he is warned of the flood (this time by Zeus and Poseidon); he builds an ark and staffs it with creatures – and when he completes his voyage, gives thanks and takes advice from the gods on how to repopulate the Earth. Deucalion also sends a pigeon to find out about the situation of the world and the bird returns with an olive branch.
According to the documentary hypothesis, the first five books of the Bible (Pentateuch/Torah), including Genesis, were collated during the 5th century BC from four main sources, which themselves date from no earlier than the 10th century BC. Two of these, the Jahwist, composed in the 10th century BC, and the Priestly source, from the late 7th century BC, make up the chapters of Genesis which concern Noah. The attempt by the 5th century editor to accommodate two independent and sometimes conflicting sources accounts for the confusion over such matters as how many pairs of animals Noah took, and how long the flood lasted.[15][16]
As early as the Classical era, commentators on Genesis 9:20–21 have excused Noah's excessive drinking because he was considered to be the first wine drinker, the first person to discover the soothing, consoling, and enlivening effects of wine.[17] John Chrysostom, a church father, writes that Noah's behaviour is defensible: as the first human to taste wine, he would not know its aftereffects: "Through ignorance and inexperience of the proper amount to drink, fell into a drunken stupor".[18]
Philo, a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher, also exonerates Noah by noting that one can drink in two different manners: (1) to drink wine in excess, a peculiar sin to the vicious evil man or (2) to partake of wine as the wise man, Noah being the latter.[19]
In Jewish tradition, rabbis blame Satan for saturating the vine with intoxicating properties from the blood of certain animals, thus Noah behaved not knowing what he was doing.[20]
In the field of psychological biblical criticism, J. H. Ellens and W. G. Rollins address the narrative of Genesis 9:18 - 27 that narrates the unconventional behavior that occurs between Noah and Ham. Because of its brevity and textual inconsistencies, it has been suggested that this narrative is a "splinter from a more substantial tale".[21][22] A fuller account would explain what exactly Ham had done to his father; or why Noah directed a curse at Canaan for Ham's misdeed; or how Noah came to know what occurred. The narrator relates two facts: (1) Noah became drunken and "he was uncovered within his tent" and (2) Ham "saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without". Thus, these passages revolve around sexuality and the exposure of genitalia as compared with other Hebrew bible texts, such as Habakkuk 2:15 and Lamentations 4:21.[23]
Genesis 10 sets forth the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from whom the nations branched out over the earth after the Flood. Among Japheth's descendants were the maritime nations. (Genesis 10:2–5) Ham's son Cush had a son named Nimrod, who became the first man of might on earth, a mighty hunter, king in Babylon and the land of Shinar. (Genesis 10:6–10) From there Asshur went and built Nineveh. (Genesis 10:11–12) Canaan's descendants — Sidon, Heth, the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites — spread out from Sidon as far as Gerar, near Gaza, and as far as Sodom and Gomorrah. (Genesis 10:15–19) Among Shem's descendants was Eber. (Genesis 10:21)
The righteousness of Noah is the subject of much discussion among the rabbis.[24] The description of Noah as "righteous in his generation" implied to some that his perfection was only relative: In his generation of wicked people, he could be considered righteous, but in the generation of a tzadik like Abraham, he would not be considered so righteous. They point out that Noah did not pray to God on behalf of those about to be destroyed, as Abraham prayed for the wicked of Sodom and Gomorrah. In fact, Noah is never seen to speak; he simply listens to God and acts on his orders. This led such commentators to offer the figure of Noah as "the man in a fur coat," who ensured his own comfort while ignoring his neighbour. Others, such as the medieval commentator Rashi, held on the contrary that the building of the Ark was stretched over 120 years, deliberately in order to give sinners time to repent. Rashi interprets his father's statement of the naming of Noah (in Hebrew נֹחַ) "This one will comfort (in Hebrew– yeNaHamainu יְנַחֲמֵנו) from our work and our hands sore from the land that the Lord had cursed",[25] by saying Noah heralded a new era of prosperity, when there was easing (in Hebrew – nahah – נחה) from the curse from the time of Adam when the Earth produced thorns and thistles even where men sowed wheat and that Noah then introduced the plow.
According to 2 Peter 2:5, Noah is considered a "preacher of righteousness". Of the Gospels in the New Testament, the Gospel of Luke compares Noah's Flood with the coming Day of Judgement: "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man."[26]
The First Epistle of Peter compares the saving power of baptism with the Ark saving those who were in it. In later Christian thought, the Ark came to be compared to the Church: salvation was to be found only within Christ and his Lordship, as in Noah's time it had been found only within the Ark. St Augustine of Hippo (354–430), demonstrated in The City of God that the dimensions of the Ark corresponded to the dimensions of the human body, which corresponds to the body of Christ; the equation of Ark and Church is still found in the Anglican rite of baptism, which asks God, "who of thy great mercy didst save Noah," to receive into the Church the infant about to be baptised.
In medieval Christianity, Noah's three sons were generally considered as the founders of the populations of the three known continents, Japheth/Europe, Shem/Asia, and Ham/Africa, although a rarer variation held that they represented the three classes of medieval society – the priests (Shem), the warriors (Japheth), and the peasants (Ham).
In Latter-day Saint theology, the angel Gabriel lived in his mortal life as the patriarch Noah. Gabriel and Noah are regarded as the same individual; Noah being his mortal name and Gabriel being his heavenly name.[27]
Noah is a highly important figure in Islam, and is seen as one of the most significant prophets of all. The Qur'an contains 43 references to Noah in 28 chapters and the seventy-first chapter, Chapter Noah, is named after him. Noah's narratives largely consist around his preaching as well the story of the Deluge. Noah's narrative lays the prototype for many of the subsequent prophetic stories, which begin with the prophet warning his people and then the community rejecting the message and facing a punishment. Noah is not the first prophet sent to mankind, according to the Qur'an (The first prophet according to Islam is Adam, who was the first man and he was sent to populate earth). Noah has several titles in Islam, based primarily on praise for him in the Qur'an, including True Messenger of Allah (XXVI: 107) and Grateful Servant of Allah (XVII: 3).
The Qur'an focuses on several instances from Noah's life more than others, and one of the most significant events is the Deluge. Allah makes a covenant with Noah just as with Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad later on (XXXIII: 7). Noah is later reviled by his people and reproached by them for being a mere human messenger and not an angel (X: 72-74). Moreover, the people of Noah mock Noah's words and call him a liar (VII: 62) and even suggest that Noah is possessed by a devil when the prophet ceases to preach (LIV: 9). Only the lowest in the community join Noah in believing in Allah's message (XI: 29), and Noah's narrative further describes him preaching both in private and public. The Qur'an narrates that Noah received a revelation to build an Ark, after his people refused to believe in his message and hear the warning. The narrative goes on to describe that waters poured forth from the Heavens, destroying all the sinners. After the Great Flood ceased, the Ark rested atop Mount Judi (Qur'an 11:44). Also, Islam beliefs deny the idea of Noah to be the first person to drink wine and experience the aftereffects of doing so.
An important Gnostic text, the Apocryphon of John, reports that the chief archon caused the flood because he desired to destroy the world he had made, but the First Thought informed Noah of the chief archon's plans, and Noah informed the remainder of humanity. Unlike the account of Genesis, not only are Noah's family saved, but many others also heed Noah's call. There is no ark in this account; instead Noah and the others hide in a "luminous cloud".
The Bahá'í Faith regards the Ark and the Flood as symbolic.[28] In Bahá'í belief, only Noah's followers were spiritually alive, preserved in the ark of his teachings, as others were spiritually dead.[29][30] The Bahá'í scripture Kitáb-i-Íqán endorses the Islamic belief that Noah had a large number of companions, either 40 or 72, besides his family on the Ark, and that he taught for 950 (symbolic) years before the flood.[31]
The Urantia Book considers Noah a real historical person and describes him as "a wine maker of Aram, a river settlement near Erech".[32] Noah is said to have advocated the building of wooden boat houses for the flood season, so that family animals could be kept safe; the people, however, ridiculed him for this.[32] Eventually Noah was proved right when one year an unusually high amount of rainfall occurred in the flood season and destroyed the entire village, save Noah and his immediate family.[32]
While the Urantia Book has Noah as a real person, the biblical narrative involving Noah and his ark and the universal flood is called "an invention of the Hebrew priesthood during the Babylonian captivity." According to the Urantia Book, there has never been a universal, worldwide flood while life has existed.[33]
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In a large bowl, mix 4 ounces cream cheese and ¼ cup butter. Use an electric mixer to beat in 1 pound of confectioner's sugar, adding a little at a time. Roll out on waxed paper and form into a rectangle about ¼-inch to 3/8-inch thick. Spread evenly with 1 cup peanut butter. Roll into a log and trim ends. Roll in chopped pecans, if desired. Chill thoroughly before slicing into 3/8-inch slices. Place on a nice serving plate. Keep chilled until ready to serve, and put any remaining pieces of candy in the refrigerator to store. This is a delicious treat that is pretty, and almost everyone likes it! Enjoy!
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In a large bowl, stir together 2 cups whole cashews, 1/8 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons melted butter, ½ teaspoon salt, 1/8 to ¼ teaspoon ground red pepper, and 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce. (Reduce the salt, if your cashews have already been salted.) Spread in a lightly greased 13-inch by 9-inch by 2-inch Pyrex dish or baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees (F) for 8 to 10 minutes, stirring once or twice during baking. (Bake only about 8 minutes, if your cashews have already been roasted.) Spread cashews on waxed paper to cool. Sprinkle cooled nuts with ½ tablespoon sugar. Pour into a nice serving bowl and serve when desired. You may store these for a couple of weeks in a jar with a screw-on lid, or in a zip-lock bag. Enjoy!!!
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In a large mixing bowl, place 3 egg whites, ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar, 1 ¼ teaspoons vanilla extract, and a dash of salt. Beat on high speed with an electric mixer until foamy. Gradually add sugar, continually beating until stiff peaks form and sugar is dissolved. Spoon the mixture into a zip-lock plastic bag. Snip one bottom corner of the bag to make a hole that is 1-inch across. Pipe mixture into 1 ¼-inch mounds onto a parchment paper-lined baking pan. Bake at 200 degrees (F) for 2 hours. Remove from oven and cool completely (about 30 minutes). When meringue mounds are cooled completely, place 4 ounces of milk chocolate chips in the top of a double boiler. Bring the water below to a boil and stir chocolate constantly until melted. Turn off heat. Spread a thin layer of melted milk chocolate onto half of the flat sides of the meringue mounds. Gently press flat sides of remaining half of meringue rounds onto chocolate-covered side of meringue mounds. Let stand until chocolate is set (about an hour). Place Chocolate-Filled Meringue Sandwich Cookies on a nice serving tray. These are a great treat for a party. With the Playoffs and Super Bowl games coming up, this is a sweet treat that you might like to serve. It is quick, easy, and impressive. It is wonderful for any get-together or just for a comfort snack at home. Enjoy!!!
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In a large skillet, saute smoked sausage over medium-high heat, until browned, about 3 to 5 minutes. Add 1 small chopped onion, ¼ cup diced celery, 1 large chopped green pepper, and 2 coves minced garlic. Saute 2 to 3 minutes. Add 14.5-oz. can diced tomatoes, 14.5-oz. can chicken broth, 1 ¾ teaspoons Cajun seasoning, and ¼ teaspoon ground red pepper. Bring to a boil, and stir in ¾ cup uncooked long-grain white rice. Cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer 25 to 30 minutes, or until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is cooked. Stir in 1 pound uncooked shrimp. Cook 3 to 5 minutes, or until shrimp turns pink and opaque. Ladle immediately into serving bowl, and serve. I served my Shrimp and Sausage Jambalaya with freshly-made Hot Water Corn Fritters. Delicious! I hope you enjoy this recipe! -
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The cruise industry is getting a nice plug this week from the UK's Queen Elizabeth II, who chose a 10-day voyage around Scotland for her latest vacation.
The monarch and a number of her children, grandchildren and other relatives set sail July 23 on the 49-passenger Hebridean Princess, a small luxury ship known for its voyages around the Western Isles of Scotland, the Orkney and Shetland Islands and Northern Ireland.
The Queen reportedly spent around $300,000 of her own money to charter the vessel for the trip, which kicked off in Stornaway, Scotland. The ship's itinerary is being kept a secret.
As London's Telegraph pointed out this week, the Queen is no stranger to cruising, as she used to make annual outings around the Western Isles of Scotland aboard the UK's Royal Yacht Britannia. The Telegraph says the Queen wept when the ship was decommissioned in 1997.
The Queen also chartered the Hebridean Princess four years ago to celebrate her 80th birthday, sailing around the Western Isles for nine days.
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UK news outlets say the Queen's family is celebrating the birthdays of two of her children on the cruise. Princess Anne will be 60 next month, while Prince Andrew turned 50 last February.
Also on the docket, apparently: A bit of puzzle and game playing. The Daily Mail reports staffers on Friday were spotted loading board games and a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle onto the ship.
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Native Americans in Croatia? Movies Come Alive.
Winnetou, the Native American chief and hero is one of the most admired fictional personalities. Now, he comes alive in the wonderful region of Plitvice Lakes in Croatia – alongside with an entire Indian village. What a great attraction.
The Winnetou books are a hit. Over a dozen of films were made about Winnetou, the main character, and the history of his people and the phenomenon of Indian bravery and friendship shaped the faith and beliefs of thousands when the first books were published.
Karl May, a best-selling German author of his time, created the Winnetou stories about 90 years ago and his portrayal of life in the Old West was so grasping, his work became popular almost immediately. Winnetou was a role model and the movies about him still win the ratings as most-watched in many European countries. How fascinating is the fact that Karl May himself never walked on the American soil.
As a setting for twelve out of the thirteen movies made in 1960s, the German filmmakers chose the striking Plitvice Lake region in Croatia. The Mountains Velebit are memorable to anyone who has seen the films and so is River Krka. The area is a natural reserve today and strictly protected – the region is immensely popular among tourists especially during the summer months. However, the locals hope that their new initiative introducing Winnetouland, will bring visitors all year around.
Hajduk Mrdalj is one of those whose adoration of Winnetou transformed into an idea to create an authentic Indian village in the area where his home was – at least on the screen. Visitors get a unique chance to see the typical wigwams, medicine men and the Indian way of life. Exciting and fun activities feature shooting with a bow and arrow, throwing horseshoes and the lasso or horse riding. Perceptive visitors will even find many artifacts from the many films.
The region will blow anyone away with its pristine beauty and charm. And the locals are very proud of it – especially now, that their hero has returned home. The famous Indian from Croatia is back with all his charisma.
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Dude, you've heard a lot about Google doodles haven't you? What about that Pacman one? It is just addictive. Company owners know how a funny game and unlimited search powers could be dangerous for productivity. And how it can be a marketing boost. The most amazing thing is that we can create our own addictive HTML game. Actually, this is why we are here today. With this tutorial you'll see how to use some of JavaScript and HTML capabilities to build simple yet funny games.
So, let's rock!
Demo first, please
You can download or try our online demo. Please, don't forget to come back here if you want to just go playing first :)
"Well, actually I don't know what a Doodle is.."
Google Doodles started when Larry and Sergey played with the corporate logo to indicate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. Since that day we've seen a lot of funny Doodles, and Google's homepage is used to remind us of all kind of important facts.
But they are more than just paintings, games or experiments. They are made with the best current practices (some of them, created specifically for a Doodle). And Google being as supportive as they are of open source technology, usually release the commented source code, so you can just take a look and try to understand what those amazing guys are doing.
Oh, and I don't know if you knew about it, but today is Simon's day according to 1stWebdesigner's official fake holiday calendar. Seems important, right? This is why we'll build a game for it.
So, what will we be doing?
Simon is one of my favorite games (just after Sudoku and Gammon). Can you think of an easier game to code? You know, four buttons, easy actions. I just can't think of a better starting point to learn HTML5 gaming.
Well, first of all you need to know what this Simon thing looks like. I just found a picture of it at Mercado Livre (kind of a Brazilian e-bay) and made my own version in Photoshop.
Since we are doing it via HTML5, the colors shouldn't be directly on image (otherwise you won't be able to change colors, make your own console…). So I've used Chris Coyier's technique for color animation. Basically we make our non-colored elements, and leave everything else transparent. Then our HTML5 will take care of the color itself (via CSS, background-color). Our final game background will be something like this:
Ok, then. Let's start the fun part.
Basic HTML + CSS
Since our target isn't basic HTML itself, I just grab a copy of HTML5 Boilerplate with a few edits to make it cleaner:
<!DOCTYPE html>   <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Google.com - Simon's day (1stWebDesigner.com game :D)</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css?v=2">

 <form id="search" action="#" method="get"> <input type="text" name="query" id="query" /> <input type="submit" value="search" id="submit" /> </form>

Now we need our gaming HTML stuff. As we've done it ready for different colors we will need to have two layers:
- Background color- sets the color and will be animated when you activate a button
- Link – activates all actions for each colored button.
- Alerts – since they are part of the game itself, we'll put them with all other game controls (level up, new game, game over)
Our HTML for this part will be something like this:

Ready? let's rock!

Oh Yeah!

Oh Noes... Almost there!

As you can see, the four "div.box" elements are the background color for each button (red, blue, green, red).
So when someone clicks #box-click-0 it will "activate" the button #box-0. We have a lot of id's because they result in better JS performance.
Our CSS for that will be:
#main { position: relative; left: 155px; width: 200px; height: 200px; } .box { display: block; float: left; width: 100px; height: 100px; } a.box { position: absolute; text-decoration: none; background-image: url("../img/bg_game.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; } a.box:focus { outline: none; } .btnTL { background-position: top left; } .btnTR { background-position: top right; } .btnBL { background-position: bottom left; } .btnBR { background-position: bottom right; } .btnTL, .btnTR { top: 0; } .btnBL, .btnBR { bottom: 0; } .btnTL, .btnBL { left: 0; } .btnTR, .btnBR { right: 0; } #box-0 { background: #c00000; } #box-1 { background: #1506a3; } #box-2 { background: #046606; } #box-3 { background: #ea8f0c; }
Here is our effect: all our links have the console background, bg_game.png (positioned according to what it should be, of course). Since they are on top of divs, what we will see is the bg_game.png AND the element's color ( #c00000, #1506a3…).
Ok, we won't be long on this. Maybe this is enough topic for a single article :)
Search form
Have you noticed the recent (ok, maybe not that recent) Google's switch to real time results? That's pretty cool, yeah, I know. But it makes a little bit harder to link directly to a search results page.
Since our demo has a search form and we want to make it work, let's put a little JS magic on it:
<form id="search" action="#" method="get"> <input type="text" name="query" id="query" /> <input type="submit" value="search" id="submit" /> </form>
$(function(){ $("#search").submit( function(event) { event.preventDefault(); googleRedirect(); } ); }); function googleRedirect() { var query = $("#query").attr('value'); var url = "http://www.google.com/#q=" + query + "&fp=1"; window.location = url; }
This way it will work ;)
Cookies? No, no, local storage instead!
Well, Cookies are great for some things, but this time they aren't the very best option. Here we will make use of Local Storage. This is basically the same idea as Cookies, it allows you to store data related to your site, the difference is that it's faster and very useful in some situations.
As its name suggest it is local, so it won't be sent to the server (you save a few kbytes and processing). Cookies are limited to 4kB and 20 Cookies per domain. With local storage you can record up to 5MB of user data.
The only downside is that it works only on real browsers and IE8+. So, forget about IE7 this time (maybe later with some jQuery data fallback).
Another huge advantage is that it is surprisingly easy to set / remove;
localStorage["level"] = 15; // create it with 15 as value var level = localStorage["level"]; //now var level is 15 localStorage.removeItem( "level" ); //remove it!
So, this is why we will use it this time.
A few options
Then we need to have a way to start the game, see which level we're playing, these sort of trivial things. For this, we'll just put a simple HTML box with Google's logo:

Level: 1

New Game

High Score: 1

Credits

Well, what is important here is that our counters have id's wrapping them, so we can easily change their text.
Let the game begin
Random sequence
The very first thing to do when you start this game should be to generate a random sequence. Because this sequence will be the "right path" to be followed by players. We could generate it on-the-fly as our gamer reaches new levels, but it will be easier to do this way.
So we will create a simple function that just generate a random sequence with 50 digits (levels) and only with numbers from 0 to 3 (our colors!):
function randomSequence() { var chars = "0123"; // four colors! var string_length = 50; //pretty hard, isn't it? var sequence = ""; for (var i=0; i < string_length; i++) { //we'll have from sequence[0] to sequence[49] var rnum = Math.floor(Math.random() * chars.length); sequence += chars.substring(rnum,rnum+1); } return sequence; }
Binding clicks and hovers
Now we need to prepare our all a.box elements to recognize clicks and to animate properly our div.box when you hover any of them.
This time we will need jQuery .hover() and .click() functions:
$(function(){ //caching our elements for better performance box0 = $("#box-0"); box1 = $("#box-1"); box2 = $("#box-2"); box3 = $("#box-3"); clickbox0 = $("#box-click-0"); clickbox1 = $("#box-click-1"); clickbox2 = $("#box-click-2"); clickbox3 = $("#box-click-3"); clickbox0.click( function(event){ event.preventDefault(); clicked(0); } ); clickbox1.click( function(event){ event.preventDefault(); clicked(1); } ); clickbox2.click( function(event){ event.preventDefault(); clicked(2); } ); clickbox3.click( function(event){ event.preventDefault(); clicked(3); } ); var minHover = 0.7; var maxHover = 1; var timeHover = 500; clickbox0.hover( function(){ box0.stop().animate({opacity: minHover}, timeHover); }, function() { box0.stop().animate({opacity: maxHover}, timeHover); } ); clickbox1.hover( function(){ box1.stop().animate({opacity: minHover}, timeHover); }, function() { box1.stop().animate({opacity: maxHover}, timeHover); } ); clickbox2.hover( function(){ box2.stop().animate({opacity: minHover}, timeHover); }, function() { box2.stop().animate({opacity: maxHover}, timeHover); } ); clickbox3.hover( function(){ box3.stop().animate({opacity: minHover}, timeHover); }, function() { box3.stop().animate({opacity: maxHover}, timeHover); } ); });
It is pretty important caching all our elements, since it improves a lot our performance.
Magical JS variable variables and easy error detection
At this point you have coded all the hover and click elements, but when you click them nothing happens, of course. Let's fix it:
// yeah, someone is playing it! function clicked( color ) { // refresh my memory, how long have you gone so far? var level = localStorage["level"]; // this is our current level var clicks = localStorage["clicks"]; //this is our current item INSIDE one level var speed = localStorage["speed"]; //to make it more fun, when you get right it goes faster // blink it! window['box' + color].stop().animate({ opacity: 0.3 }, (speed * 0.5) ).animate({ "opacity": "1" }, (speed * 0.3) ); //variable variables in js via window[varname] :) // well, this time you've got it right? if ( localStorage["sequence"][clicks] == color) { //oh, yeah! localStorage["clicks"]++; //have you finished this level? if ( level == clicks) { nextLevel(); } } else { //oh, noes! endGame(); } }
Every variable in javascript can be accessed via its own name, like box1 OR as an index inside window array, just like window['box1′]. With this we can easily select which is the right element to blink (when you click any button, it should blink, right?).
Ok, you are right! Let's go to the next level
When you get it right, the game should get you to the next level and the events should accelerate a little bit.
Then when you get it right you should also know which is the right sequence at your current level + 1, so let's do it:
function nextLevel() { //Oh, Yes showBox("#ohYes", 1000); // you deserve it, let's move on localStorage["level"]++; levelCount.text(localStorage["level"]); localStorage["clicks"] = 0; //let's show you how it'll be current = 0; //since it's used just for animation, let's leave it as global var if ( localStorage["speed"] > 300 && (localStorage["level"] / 5) == 0 ) { //our maximum speed, and we'll only acelerate it each 5 levels localStorage["speed"] = localStorage["speed"] * 0.8; } setTimeout( function() { rightPath(); } , localStorage["speed"] ); }
Function showBox just shows our div and hides it after one second.
As you can see this piece of code isn't complete, we will need the function rightPath() to see what comes next. Let's go:
function rightPath() { if ( current <= localStorage["level"] ) { var sel = localStorage["sequence"][current]; window['box' + sel].stop().animate({ "opacity": "0.5" }, (localStorage["speed"] * 0.5) ).animate({ "opacity": "1" }, (localStorage["speed"] * 0.3) ); setTimeout( function() { rightPath(); }, (localStorage["speed"] * (1.5) ) ); current++; } for (var i=0; i <= localStorage["level"] ; i++) { var time = 1000 * (i + 1); } i = 0; }
This is kind of crazy, isn't it? This is a simple recursive function. It will call itself, blink the right button for one position and then go to the next until we reach user's current level.
What if you get it wrong?
Maybe instead of click the right button you can just click the wrong button. Then we need to punish you and ban you from the entire world wide web. Let's see our function for that:
function endGame() { //let's see if you have a high score, and save it if ( localStorage["hs"] == undefined || localStorage["level"] > localStorage["hs"] ) { localStorage["hs"] = localStorage["level"]; $("#hs").text(localStorage["hs"]); } localStorage.removeItem( "level" ); // Oh, noes! showBox("#ohNoes", 2000); }
Well, here we just check if you've done something better than this play and then remove your current level so you can restart a new game and try a little harder :)
By the way, did I mention how will you start a game? No? Sorry, my bad.
Sorry, NOW the game will begin
What do we have to do in order to start a match is to reset almost anything we have here and then show what is the right path.
// just like starting over! function newGame() { current = 0; levelCount.text(1); //let's call our sequence and memorize it localStorage["sequence"] = randomSequence(); //wow, we haven't got anything right until now :) localStorage["level"] = 0; //clicks binding localStorage["clicks"] = 0; //let's make things slow for now localStorage["speed"] = 1500; //let's show our welcome warning showBox("#letsRock", 2000); //and let's show the first color rightPath(); }
What is your best score?
Hope you enjoy this quick HTML5 game tutorial and that you find some easter eggs, you know, since it's a JS game we can't hide a lot of things on it :)
But the most important thing here is: what is your best score?


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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday announced that its live-tracking system, known as Bus Time, will be expanded to include more than 100 routes in Brooklyn and Queens early next month. NY1's Jose Martinez filed the following report.
The next and last stops for Bus Time are Brooklyn and Queens.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's online tracking program is set to debut there on March 9, expanding citywide to all 5,500 city buses and 15,000 bus stops.
"It's good news for us," said one commuter. "It's going to help us a lot to know when the bus is coming."
Using GPS hardware installed in its fleet, Bus Time lets riders track how many stops away the next bus is. All it takes is texting a bus code to 511-123 or charting a bus's movements on the MTA web site.
Queens riders say that its arrival at more than 100 lines in the borough is long overdue.
"It eliminates the time being on certain streets, because a lot of the streets are dark, you can't really see anything, you don't know who's coming up behind you," said one person.
"I can stay extra long in my house waiting for the bus," said another.
It also reduces the reliance on schedules that riders say aren't trustworthy.
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"I just look at the map on the pole over there, and it just tells you what time the bus is going to be there," said another. "Sometimes it's accurate, sometimes it's not."
Like the countdown clocks on the numbered subway lines, the MTA says that Bus Time has been a well-received customer service move by an agency many New Yorkers love to hate, even if other cities in the U.S. and Canada have been relying on similar technology for years.
"Incredibly positive feedback in terms of customer feedback that we've gotten over the past couple of months," said MTA spokesperson Kevin Ortiz.
Bus Time actually made its debut in Brooklyn in 2011 as part of a pilot program on the B63. Now, it's coming to more than 50 lines in that borough.
In 2012, Staten Island was first to get Bus Time borough-wide.
"It was the easiest borough to do, and then consequently, the same following with the Bronx and Manhattan," Ortiz said. "It was just an issue of functionality."
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Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Shortlist 2011
The four category winners for the 2011 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards have been announced, and the four books will make up the shortlist for the overall Book of the Year prize. The Awards, run in partnership with Creative Scotland, are worth £5,000, with a further £25,000 prize for the overall winner.
The four shortlisted books will now go forward to a public vote, and the overall winner will be announced at an event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August.
The four category winners are:
Fiction: Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela
Non-Fiction: Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
Poetry: The Breakfast Room by Stewart Conn
First Book: The Death of Lomond Friel by Sue Peebles
Gavin Wallace, Creative Scotland Portfolio Manager for Literature, Publishing and Language, Creative Scotland, said;
"Moving from Sudan to Cairo, Glasgow to Lagos, Scotland's central belt to the east coast, from joyful affirmation to the ungovernable pain of loss, this is a shortlist of myriad journeys, physical and spiritual, of an astonishing range and eclecticism of styles that truly reflect a mature literary culture. As well as rewarding sheer literary excellence, it is equally our aim that these Awards, and the new public vote, encourage people to enjoy the joys of reading, and sharing reading."
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The waif-like figure peering from Bonnard's 'The Breakfast Room' instils a sense of mystery and marginality in Stewart Conn's title-poem. Among other portents of transience in his latest collection are two briefly glimpsed duck shooters.
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A debut novel about a family in crisis, written with compassion, humour and grace. A young woman's life is thrown into disarray when her father has a stroke.
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Set in 1950s Sudan, this novel is the story of the powerful and sprawling Abuzied dynasty. With Mahmoud Bey at its helm, the family can do no wrong. But when Mahmoud's son, Nur - the brilliant, charming heir to his business empire - suffers a near-fatal accident, his hopes of university and a glittering future are dashed.
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Trucker Buddies, Al and Kym Hemerson nominated their teacher, Mrs. Barbara Swalina, a first grade teacher from North Glendale Elementary School, located in Kirkwood, Missouri as an Outstanding Teacher. Barbara has been in the Trucker Buddy organization for the past 12 years. They have been matched for over 6 years.
Al and Kym discuss why they feel she deserves the award.
Mrs. Swalina and her husband have welcomed us as guests into
their home as well as their lives. They have contributed in assisting
us in getting special treats for the students over the past years. We
are able to communicate with the students not only through postcards
and letters, also through the use of the telephone; Mrs. Swalina has
allowed us access and interact with the class. While maintaining and
instructing within the parameters of her curriculum, she has gone
above and beyond the set outlined goal.
Even maintaining the full curriculum she has gone above
and beyond the set goal.
Mrs. Swalina has been educating for the past 21 years.
She has taught curriculum for First grade through the Fourth
grade. We have witnessed the inspiration she has bestowed
in her students, in her writing curriculum, best exemplified in
one of her former students publishing a paperback book, the
book is titled "Thrice", by Madaline Wolfe. Mrs. Swalina was
recognized in the author's acknowledgement in the book. Having moved her career from 4th to 1st grade teaching we have been able to witness the interaction with previous students before and after school. She has taught special needs students and gifted students alike.
During the school year she has contributed her time and efforts in establishing avenues to access the program "Coats for Kids"; thus allowing her the opportunity to help purchase winter gear for some of the less fortunate students. Donating her time in her busy schedule she partakes with the parent or parents to find a suitable coat for the children.
Many of the incoming students and their parents request participation in Mrs. Swalina's class. They not only want the great learning skills that Mrs. Swalina instills in them, but they are also very excited about the Trucker Buddy organization that she participates in.
A pioneering example of how she works with us is, one of the student's that was in Mrs. Swalina's class at the beginning of the 2011 school year; job placement for her parents required that they move to Indiana; throughout the school year we continued to include her in the postcards and activities involving Trucker Buddy. In anticipation of our arrival visit, Mrs. Swalina notified the young student's parents. They were scheduled to be in the St. Louis area at that time, thus bringing their daughter along, and escorting her to the school so that she was included in the day's activities. Along with them many of the student's parents attended the activities of the day.
We have had the opportunity to witness former students involved in her class greet her with a cheerful hug and hello. Then she sends them our way. She always takes time to ask if they remember us.
So we sincerely and respectively submit this nomination for the Trucker Buddy Outstanding Teacher Award, on behalf of her students and former students and our participation as Trucker Buddy with Mrs. Swalina, for a job "Well done".
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"I DON'T KNOW what that is a picture of—ask Sarah. Christian, see Ben about incorporating that design into the site.He's in charge of the Web team."
PEER-TO-PEER Killough's students give instruction as well as take it.
That's Joy Killough, science teacher at Westwood High School in Round Rock, TX. I observed her class as part of an evaluation of one approach to a 1-to-1 computing environment. Joy wasn't shirking her duties as a teacher by directing students to seek instruction from each other; in fact, I wouldsay she was fulfilling her duties. Let's start at the beginning.
Joy's classroom is a typical modern biology classroom, with seven round lab tables, a few sinks, the walls plastered with posters and butcher paper, Joy's desk and table mounded with papers and books, and a computer for her to use forattendance and other administrative tasks.
Less typical are the two carts in the back of the room—each with 16 wireless laptops—and in the front of the room, Joy's laptop, connected wirelessly to a ceiling-mounted projector. Even before the bell had rung to start class, students wererushing in, taking their laptops from the cart, and booting up.
I asked Joy what was going on. She said that her three biology classes had taken a field trip to a nearby creek, where they took digital photos and recorded other pertinent information on their laptops. I asked her what she wanted them to get out of the field trip. "Oh, I didn't organize the field trip," she said. "They did."
An executive committee of students had planned the trip, including establishing learning stations at the site, determining what data to gather, and selecting which students were in charge of different data sets. After the field trip, Joy and the students realized they had gone to a lot of work only to fill out lab sheets and take a test. The students wanted to share the results of the field trip with others who may be interested in the creek they visited, or in the impact humans have on the environment. So they decided to create a virtual field trip on the Web that others could use. The student executive team assigned topics for each of the three classesto cover.
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Westwood High School is on a block schedule (90 minutes per class), and this was the second and last block devoted to creating the virtual field trip. When the bell rang, Joy took attendance and introduced two students, from another of the three classes, who had created templates for each section of their developing Web site. They explained how to find the templates on their site, how to flow data into them, andwhere to save them.
Next, one student came to the front of the room and led a brief brainstorming session—using Inspiration Software and Joy's laptop, which was connected to a projector—that centered on how to get the word out about their virtual field trip. Finally, another studentcame up and showed a splash pageand logo he had created for the site. All ofthis took less than 15 minutes, then thestudents continued creating the content fortheir sections of the site, including findingand incorporating photos from their trip. Forthe next hour and 15 minutes, all the studentswere totally engaged. Often, onestudent would get up with his laptop, takeit across the room, show someone something,and then return.
I have not seen a teacher more comfortablewith students' use of technology than Joy."I don't have to know everything, and I don't haveto control everything," she said. "The result is,kids are learning more than I am teaching."
There was occasional calling across the room from one student to another. Joy deflected most questions onto the other kids, or she would say something like, "It looks like planaria, but check with..." She seemed to be everywhere at once, but she was facilitating communication not only among students in the room, but also among students from the other classes.
Since Westwood High does not allow student e-mail accounts, and communicating on the shared drive is inconvenient, the students had devised a low-tech system of butcher paper covered with sticky notes of reminders, ideas, and suggestions from the three classes. Joy said she wasn't worried about communication:"These kids communicate outside of classin ways you and I haven't even thoughtabout."
I asked Joy how she was going to come up with a grade for each student, a concern teachers commonly have about small-group projects. She said she wasn't; the students were going to evaluate themselves and each other. She pointed out that not one student had asked her about grades. They all were interested in creating a cool project that others could use. She said she had used rubrics in the past, but she found them counterproductive—students would do exactly what was asked for in the rubric and nothing more. When the rubric was removed, students did so much more.
I already had known that Joy was an outstanding teacher; I taught with her at Texas' La Porte High School more than 20 years ago. She knew her subject matter then; she knew what she wanted students to learn over the course of the year. She had a great rapport with students, and she had high standards for all kids. That still holds true, but she is a far superior teacher today because of two factors: maturity and technology. Those two elements are not mutually exclusive, even if it's commonly believed that the older you are, the more resistant you'll be to technology.
I have not seen a teacher more comfortable with students' use of technology, and with exploiting their tech skills to benefit their learning. I asked her why. "I don't have to know everything, and I don't have to control everything," she said simply. "The result is, kids are learning more than I am teaching."
What is this anecdote doing in a Policy& Advocacy column? Because I want to create a policy in teacher education and professional development that embodies Joy's attitude: I don't have to know everything, and I don't have to control everything. Technology can play a critical role in this. Any ideas?
Geoffrey H. Fletcher is editor-at-large of T.H.E. Journal and executive director of T.H.E. Institute.
This article originally appeared in the 06/01/2006 issue of THE Journal.
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Armin Van Buuren
BiographyArmin Van Buuren spent many a young year at home in Holland glued to the radio listening to the likes of Jean Michel Jarre and Ben Librand before he was legally allowed to enter a club. Those quiet evenings alone with his mother's computer and a set of decks soon paid off: at the tender age of 19, he released "Blue Fear" and went on to become a global trance sensation. Early fame led to the typically hectic schedule of remixes, productions and performances, but Van Buuren still managed to finish his law degree just to have something in case the music career didn't pan out. This no doubt helped once he decided to set up his own record company, Armada, in 2003.
Love it or hate it, "Blue Fear" is classic Euro trance -- lush layering of chords with a seductive bassline and big euphoric breakdowns. Van Buuren is quick to differentiate his style from the more clichÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂéd end of the trance spectrum: "Trance for me as a genre refers to the old Oakenfold sound, the warm melodic driving music, not the euphoric cheese with vocals, predictable breaks and drum rolls -- I was playing trance before it became diluted and commercialized, before it became a dirty word," he explains at www.arminvanbuuren.com. Keen to promote his version of the genre, Van Buuren plays all over the world and has a weekly radio show, "A State of Trance," on ID&T in Holland. Regularly nominated as one of the most popular DJs in the world, he is usually to be found sharing the top three slots with Paul Van Dyk and Tiesto. His debut album, 76, was nominated for a Dancestar Award in 2004, in the Best New Artist Album category, and he is currently working on a second release for 2005. "It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living. Music is essential for my life," he says.
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