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A heart murmur is a sound made by turbulent blood flow in the heart. It sounds like whooshing or swishing with each heartbeat. Some adults and many children have incidental heart murmurs that are benign (harmless) and are not caused by abnormalities in the heart. However, some heart murmurs can signal an underlying heart problem.
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Benign murmurs are caused by the normal flow of blood through the heart and large vessels near the heart. The murmur may come and go over time. Some things that can increase blood flow and cause a benign heart murmur to be heard include:
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If you think that you or your child has a heart murmur, you should see the doctor.
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what shall the installer do? remove configs that were changed by the user? that would be equally wrong.
The installer could warn about it, that problems might go away if you remove that directory...
Or it could update the incompatible entries.
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it is a problem related to the hardware cursor and fglrx.
People are really desperate in looking for things to blame the fglrx drivers it would seem.
This is an existing problem. Of course you think that having people chasing forums for several days until they discover the "delete /etc/ati" solution is really great. Your opinion. My opinion is that the user should be told or the installer should fix the entries.
People are really desperate in defending the fglrx driver's bugs.
considering there are about 10 million different ways you could have your system configured its kinda to be expected to some extent. i see configuration problems leading to broken nvidia drivers on forums as well.
there are so many things people could change. So many interactions. Hard for a tool to figure that out. Also people always blamed yast for doing that .... hmmm...
Well, I finally got amdcccle working. The bad way - used the ati installer instead of the gentoo ebuild. Something on my system is really screwed; likely junk leftover from a really old driver/xorg-server/libX11/whatever.
The synch to vertical refresh option actually makes some movies play nicer as it turns out.
ugh - not using the ebuild will hurt you later. There are a lot of apps that need mesa-ogl to compile and won't do with nvidia or ati. If stuff fails, deinstall ati and reinstall mesa...
Well, at least you don't also have to reinstall X server like with nvidia driver.


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With the non-waiver Trade Deadline looming, two of the best pitchers in the American League square off on Friday night with their disappointing teams trying to fight their way into the playoff picture.
David Price, a potential AL Cy Young Award candidate, has been surrounded by trade rumors since the Rays got off to an underwhelming start and plummeted to 18 games below .500 on June 10. Since then, Tampa Bay has pulled within 4 1/2 games of an AL Wild Card spot and will face the last-place Red Sox at Tropicana Field on Friday.
"We need to win. Period," Price said. "We need to continue to play the baseball that we have."
Price (10-7) leads the Majors with 173 strikeouts, has pitched more innings than anyone else in the big leagues and has posted a 3.06 ERA.
Meanwhile, Jon Lester has endured similar uncertainty this season as far as his future with the Red Sox organization. Trade rumors and all, though, the southpaw has still been as good as any pitcher in the AL.
Lester (10-7) is 4-0 with a 0.85 ERA in his last seven starts, and he hasn't allowed an earned run in three of his last four outings. His season ERA is 2.50 heading into Friday night's matchup.
"I just try to make sure I go out and pitch well for these guys in here," Lester said. "If these guys are happy with the way I'm throwing and how I'm going about my business, that's all I care about. Like I've said in the past, that other stuff will take care of itself."
Late on Wednesday, principal owner John Henry announced that the Red Sox would table contract negotiations with Lester until the offseason.
"I think Jon has handled this exceptionally well throughout the course of this entire season, so I don't see it changing anything," manager John Farrell said.
Rays: Tampa Bay fills out rotation with Hellickson callup
After Price starts Tampa Bay's series opener against the Sox on Friday, the Rays will recall Jeremy Hellickson from Double-A Montgomery to start on Saturday.
Hellickson began the season on the disabled list due to right elbow surgery and made his season debut on July 9. Four days later, the Rays sent him back to Montgomery to make additional starts during the All-Star break.
"Everything seemed to be good. We wanted to keep him rolling," Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said. "The awkward schedule permitted us to do it this way, also, coming out of the break. He's ready to roll."
Hellickson allowed one run in 4 1/3 innings during his only Major League start this inning and allowed three earned runs in 11 innings during his two starts after being optioned back to the Biscuits.
Chris Archer will start in the series finale on Sunday. He last pitched on Sunday against the Twins.
Red Sox: Holt's versatility one of a kind in Boston
Brock Holt became the first player in Red Sox history to start at every position outside of pitcher and catcher on Thursday.
After getting the day off on Wednesday, Holt was back in the leadoff spot and started at second base in the 8-0 loss to the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.
The 26-year-old's start at second was more about giving Dustin Pedroia the day off, manager John Farrell said, but there's no denying Holt's versatility gives the Red Sox a lot of flexibility. Still, Farrell said he has no plans to start Holt behind the plate any time soon.
"He's done a great job, there's no doubt," Farrell said. "We like to think that because of injuries, it's opened up and created some opportunities for him. If we had our choice, we would've liked to avoid all that. ... But in light of what's taken place this year, it's one of the better stories. [He's] a guy we can plan around in a number of ways as we go forward."
Before getting a breather Wednesday, Holt had played all 533 innings in the field since being recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket on May 17.
Worth noting
• The Rays and the Red Sox have occupied the bottom two spots in the AL East since May 16.
• Injured Red Sox third baseman Will Middlebrooks homered in his rehab game witih Triple-A Pawtucket on Wednesday. Middlebrooks is 8-for-19 at the plate in his past five games with the PawSox.
• With his three RBIs on Wednesday, David Ortiz passed the 1,500-RBI milestone in his 2,067th Major League contest.
David Wilson is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The European SME Week, which runs from 3 to 9 October, aims to inform entrepreneurs about available support, give recognition to their role in society and promote entrepreneurship. This year's central event, the European SME Week Summit, will focus on two issues: transfers of business and a second chance for entrepreneurs. Hundreds of other events covering a wide range of topics and sectors will be held across Europe.
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When we make distinctions between natural and supernatural activity in Scripture, not only do we push our modern categories into the Bible, but we also limit God's action.
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Collection of the best articles of the past several weeks on science (and faith) from around the web.
Some of the Christian objections to evolutionary creation come from a misunderstanding of what the Bible means when it says "God created".
When we sit down to read sacred Scripture, we need to develop a rapport with the Bible's various authors and their worldviews. Otherwise, we will unintentionally demand they communicate in the same manner we do.
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This weeks in Origins news: studies of a skeleton uncovered in 2007 provide clues about rapid human evolution in the Americas, our climate and Christian stewardship, a few BioLogos folks give interviews, and some cool links to miscellaneous finds.
We must press beyond the various creation narratives in the Hebrew Bible, including the final chapters of Job, to the picture of God revealed in the New Testament—the Creator who does not rationally explain away the scandal of suffering but who instead enters into it.
This week in our Origins News Roundup: News of new nucleobases, the future of synthetic biology, and some healthy dialogue and critique of certain aspects of modern science.
Today's Origins News Roundup features a tour of trending topics in neuroscience, from commentaries and questions made recently by popular media to developments in neuroengineering and the BRAIN initiative.
Collins poses, as the central question of his book: "In this modern era of cosmology, evolution, and the human genome, is there still the possibility of a richly satisfying harmony between the scientific and spiritual worldviews?"
"I believe it is fair to conclude that the supposed threat posed to human free will and moral responsibility from the very much work-in-progress social and cognitive human sciences is quite overblown."
A deep love for scripture, coupled (ironically) with a lifelong struggle with religious doubt, led Robert Boyle to write several important books relating scientific and religious knowledge. We explore aspects of this fascinating interaction.
It is precisely the recognition of the qualities of elegance, economy and naturalness which solves the problem of the under-determination of theory by experiment, so often pressed by philosophers of science, who sometimes speak of the process of discovery as if it were a dull routine of fitting curves to data points.
The problem is that as human beings, we know that goodness exists, so it must be accounted for, and if one is a staunch believer in scientism, it must be accounted for scientifically.
Once we have a scientific hypothesis for how something exists, it is tempting to make the philosophical inference that this is also why it exists.
In this three-part series, Cal DeWitt offers insights and examples of why science and ethics must work together to help us make informed, practical decisions within our society. DeWitt's science-ethics-praxis model provides a framework by which we can live more effectively as God's stewards.
In this series, David Buller pays careful attention to the original language and cultural context of Genesis 2, revealing that our responsibility to care for creation is a sacred task given to us by God, not merely a modern secular activity. By taking Scripture seriously, we learn that we have a God-given mandate to be diligent stewards of His creation.
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Phoenix—Interactive Advertising Bureau President-CEO Randall Rothenberg presented what he called the "founding principles of the digital brand advertising industry" Monday at the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting here.
Rothenberg said the "empirical approach" that has won the lion's share of advertising expenditures in recent years has not brought about the "long-sought digital advertising utopia."
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My reading of this is that the LLVM's x86_64 backend is slightly better than GCCs x86_64 backend, but that the C(++) frontend (eg Clang) still sucks. Would be great to know if this holds for other frontends and/or backends available in both compilers as well.
Still, beating even parts of the long optimized GCC is a great step forward for LLVM. Here's hoping to Clang being brought into shape as well!


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This will get interesting once they get reclocking (in the kernel) going. Since the big rewrite, nothing much has changed except for a few patches which mostly seemed to fix bugs.
Phoronix: Early Mesa 9.2 Benchmarks With Nouveau
While the release of Mesa 9.2/10.0 is still a ways away, for those users of the Nouveau reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA graphics driver, here are some early benchmarks for reference compared to the stable Mesa 9.0 and 9.1 series...
This will get interesting once they get reclocking (in the kernel) going. Since the big rewrite, nothing much has changed except for a few patches which mostly seemed to fix bugs.
I think it was David Airlie that said they had spoken to the nvidia devs and what they basically said was: we dont even know how i works. -supposedly- they get a sheet from the hardware devs that says "put these registers in this state" and it automagically reclocks to X frequency. (Sounds like a joke i know, but he said it with a pretty straight face in the talk lol)
Yeah, it's been a while since there has been some progress. That said, it has been pretty good so far. The quality of the 3D driver is pretty good. I got a really old (but nice) game work under wine with this driver. Which is awesome. The game was Drakan: The order of the flame.
But, wouldn't they 'see' these registers in 'this state' and then just copy-paste that to nouveau? Case closed? From what I can see in the IRC channels, is that they are trying to understand the entire mechanics 'behind' these registers. Only then to implement it properly.
Wish I could help though. All I'm doing now is prodding them with bugreports :P .
You're right in that ideally it would just be a copy-paste from the blob, also it would be better if they DID understand the entire reclocking process but that takes a lot longer. Better, but it takes more time. Honestly it'll be interesting when the foss drive gets properly memory / fan frequency support... theyve got a a pretty good 3D pipeline going from michaels tests over the years, just needs to be running at higher-than-minimum frequencies.
Speaking of Nouveau, what is required to get GTX 660 to run on it? Do I need a special Mesa version? Do I need some files from the blob? I'm currently trying to test as many configurations as possible, and the only driver I haven't tested so far is nouveau
From the codenames I think that's an NVE0. The driver provides firmware for that card. However, on the hardware status page, someone reported a shoddy experience with an EVGA chipset with exactly your chip.
This information is not exactly classified btw...
I know, but it's good to know - I never used nouveau before, so I really don't know what's the installation process, and it doesn't just work out of the box in openSUSE 12.3. But apparently that's because it requires kernel 3.8, and the one that ships is 3.7. So that's good to know too. As for it being unstable in 3D, eh, I don't really mind it, since I just need to use it for a quick look at any bugs a game may have when using nouveau, and if the bugs are the same as when using some of the other drivers (intel, radeon, fglrx, nvidia) or different in some way.


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While the site gives instructions to install vbox2.2 on Intrepid, I think a mistake has been made, because here the files aren't available (they are available for hardy, gutsy, dapper, sarge, lenny and etch).
So if anyone on the vbox Linux team is reading this: please fix it!
BTW: the .deb files for Intrepid *are* indexed by aptitude & synaptic, they're just not installable because they aren't available (yet). Temporary workaround: download and install the proper deb file manually here.
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"The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!" - Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind
The Spinosaurus
Perhaps you like listening to and collecting phrases like I do. Our Montessori classrooms are great theaters for listening. Three, four, and five-year-olds are intensely thoughtful and they tell us so much about themselves just by talking with their friends.
This week I had the pleasure of working in the Willow, River Birch, and Canoe Birch classes and I collected as many fabulous phrases from the children as I could. The words are theirs, the spelling is mine.
On being the first to arrive... "The only time I'm not first is when Mommy brings me. Daddy is faster than Mommy."
"Frogs lay eggs, right? Butterflies lay eggs, right?"
"I had my birthday before my brother's."
"Our grandpa makes a Donald Duck sound."
While drawing dinosaurs with friends... "It's a Spinosaurus. It's the biggest carnivore on land and it's name means lizard. It reaches in the water just a little bit and snatches a fish with it's crocodile long snout."
"A drobeosaurus has toe claws and it goes 25 miles an hour."
A different dinosaur friend... "It runs 100 and 90 hours. He has a bunch of blood in his body. It's called Spinadoctora Hundreds."
"At my house I have five lipsticks. No, six."
A child was looking for a bike to ride on the playground. I asked, "I see that blue bike is available. Would you like to ride that one?" "No! he said. "I just fell off that one."
"I'm trying to sing Let it Go, in German, but it's too hard." (The children in one class burst into singing "Let it Go" from the movie Frozen at least six times in one morning:)
"Being in the sun is so much fun."
"Will you do something interesting?"
I like to listen to teachers, as well. I overheard a few of them talking about the possibility of having a couple of chickens at school and which type might be best suited to be Montessori chickens.
"They're good egg layers, the Wyandotte's. "And they're peaceful."
"I am concerned about them getting upset and flying up into the pine tree."
"There is a 100% chance of them getting upset."
Wyandotte chick
May all your chickens be peaceful as you enjoy some fun in the sun this holiday weekend.
~ Heather
First, I will start with what I saw this week. This was my favorite moment.
Another photo. If you are familiar with Humans of New York, the book and website by Brandon Stanton, then I know you can relate. If not, I know you can relate.
Children dress so fabulously and so beautifully because they have not yet learned that other people are judging their choices. They wear what they like. I want to wear what I like but I feel childish. How old will I grow before I truly understand that being childish is the truest way to be?
And, one more photo.
And now, for what I heard.
1. I erroneously asked a child how she was enjoying her Kindergarten year at MSGL. She responded, "I'm not IN Kindergarten. That's why I'm HERE!"
2. "That's a small story."
3. A friend was reading me a note from his lunch box. "Look! Look it! It says I'm going to my grandma's house. And I think I'm gonna get a Spiderman hat when we go to the store."
4. "Yeah. Let's do our maps."
5. "Where's the damn lizard?"
Rest easy. That darned lizard was found.
Somdatta and Felicia of the Canoe Birch Class and Cathy and Mary of the All-Day Program invited the children to tell who and what they are thankful for and then wrote their answers on leaves. Each class has a paper tree by the door displaying the children's gratitude. As this Thanksgiving Day draws to a close I thought it would be nice to share the gratitude of these 3, 4, and 5-year-olds with all of you.
Enjoy your holiday weekend!
..and this was its steeple.
When we remodeled the former Calvary Baptist Church in 2000-2001 to become our Montessori school, we had to replace a few fixtures. The steeple was detached from the roof and lowered by crane to the parking lot below.
What do you do with a second-hand steeple? We gave it to a church down the road.
The demolition crew also removed the fiberglas baptistry by cutting it into pieces. All of the beautiful wood pews were sold. You can see one being used today in the school office. The colored windows were eventually replaced with clear glass.
This is what Building B looks like today.
Have a great Wednesday!
Grace's first day of Montessori preschool, 1997.
Last summer, my 19-year-old daughter was getting ready to move into her first apartment. I was excited for her to have the chance to live on her own and had been setting aside household items that I thought she could use. One day, after admiring the "steal" of a chair I had found at Goodwill, she asked me, "Aren't you sad that I won't live here anymore?"
"Well, honey," I said, "I always imagined that you would grow up and move out of the house. That was our goal all along for you to be an independent, self-sufficient person."
"I know," she said. "But I'm kind of sad that I won't be sleeping here anymore."
I reminded her that she had hardly slept at home at all since she started college last year. She lived in the dorm, four hours away from home and we often didn't hear from her for days.
"Yeah, but this is different. I just can't believe this won't be my home address anymore. Are you going to change the garage door code?"
A-ha! Then I figured it out. She was worried about cutting the cord from the house where she grew up. I had been concerning myself with making sure she was comfortable "out there" and she was worried she would no longer be welcome back at home.
It occurred to me that not much has changed between that day and the day sixteen years ago when we were preparing to send her to preschool here at the Montessori School of Greater Lafayette. Back then we were so excited to help our "baby" pick out a new lunch box and indoor shoes but we had little idea what to do to help prepare her (or ourselves) emotionally for this new chapter. She sailed through preschool and is now working through nursing school just fine, but we have learned a lot since then. Today I am sharing some tips and advice gathered from teachers and parents here at MSGL to help you and your child prepare for the first days of preschool.
Talk about school - mindfully. Talk with your child about preschool when he is in the mood. Maybe he will bring it up or you can start the conversation, just don't push too hard. If your child seems "done" with the conversation or is becoming anxious, let the topic drop until later. And be honest about your feelings when you do talk about school. Some children worry that their parents will be sad or lonely when they are gone. When you say, "I am going to miss being with you in the morning, but it makes me happy to know you will be enjoying yourself at school," it lets him know that you will miss him but you are confident that school is a good place for him to be.
Check out the new environment. MSGL's Parent Work Day is Saturday, August 16th. This is a great time to get familiar with the school and classroom environments and to be part of the school community. Children are encouraged to help clean lockers, pull weeds, and load and unload wheelbarrows full of mulch right alongside their parents and new classmates. And, each family member's time counts towards your volunteer hours requirement.
You will have another opportunity to get familiar with the school when your child attends her New Student Orientation visit on Monday, August 18th. This is her first opportunity to see her teachers and classmates in her new classroom. She can put her indoor shoes in her locker, locate her cubby and extra clothes box, and see where the bathroom is. The whole family can attend the Parent Orientation later that evening and maybe your child can give a tour of her new classroom.
Make new friends. You will receive a class list via email in August. Consider contacting a few families on the list to set up a playdate before school starts. Even if you can't get together with any other families, you and your child can look over the names on the list together. You may discover that one of his classmates lives on your street or maybe someone has the same name as a sibling or a friend.
Help her dress for success. Our Montessori classrooms are prepared to encourage your child's independence and you can help by providing your child with shoes and clothing that she can put on and take off by herself. Belts, suspenders, and jumpsuits look smart but they can be difficult for your child to use successfully. Provide your child a choice of clothing that allows her complete independence in her self-care routines. And please remember that preschool is a time to jump in and explore. Paint, snack, sand, and dirt from the garden can stain your child's clothing, so please send her to school in clothes that can stand to get dirty.
Plan a morning routine. Now is a good time to do a mental run-through of your morning routine. Consider how much time your child needs to wake up, get dressed, and eat breakfast. Allow time for packing lunches, finding coats and shoes, and getting on the bike or in the car. Then add a few extra minutes. Parents and children who are not in a rush tend to have much better experiences at drop-off. Some families even do a few "practice runs" in the summer to see if they can get to school and work on time.
Create a goodbye routine. Discuss with your child how you each want to say goodbye at drop-off. Some families say, "After you put on your inside shoes and put away your lunch box, we will walk to the classroom and I will give you three hugs and two kisses before I go to work." Some children like to wave to dad out the window and some parents leave their children with specific plans for what they will do after school. "Sonia is picking you up today" or "we are going to the Farmer's Market on our bikes after school today." Children have so little control over their daily lives that they appreciate at least knowing what is happening and when.
And while we're talking about goodbyes, let's take just a moment to consider the specter of separation anxiety.
What if my child cries when I walk away? Separating from your child that first time can be heart-breaking, but remember - it's only for a few moments. The majority of children who are sad when they separate from their parents are able to calm themselves and choose an activity within a few minutes. If you have gone through the goodbye routine and are finding it hard to turn around and walk away, ask your teacher for help. Sometimes parents say, "Please help me. I need to leave." That is the teacher's sign that she needs to hold your child's hand or pick her up so that you can walk away. Teachers don't want to step in before you are ready to go but they are happy to help when you ask them.
The best thing you can do for your child at drop-off is to be consistent and walk away when you say you will. Lingering tends to just prolong the heartache for the parent and the child. The first few times you drop your child off may be difficult, but trust that with consistent repetition you and your child will develop a peaceful good-bye routine.
Talk with the teachers. Talk with your child's teachers about how the adjustment period is going. The teachers help dozens of children adjust to school every year but this may be your first time. They expect you will have questions and concerns. Email is a great way to communicate with your child's teachers and all of the contact information is available on the classroom web page at Msgl.org.
Help your child talk about his day. If this is the first time your child has been away from home you will no doubt be very eager to know what he did all day. Unfortunately, preschoolers often say they "did nothing" or "just played." A lot of things happened between the time you dropped him off that morning and when you picked him up several hours later, but he might not yet be able to give a sequential list of his activities. Here are some ideas to help your child tell you about his day.
Take care of yourself! The best thing you can do during these last few weeks of summer is to give you and your child the gift of a regular bedtime that allows enough sleep to wake up refreshed and ready for the big days ahead. Fill up with a good breakfast each morning and be extra patient with your child and especially with yourself. Parenting preschoolers, like college students, is hard work and there is no right way to do it. Follow your heart and follow your child, and in sixteen years, or so, you will be very proud of the people you have both become.
The best kind of snow day is when you can actually play in the snow.
Last week provided a miserable welcome to the new semester. Snow, high winds, and bitter cold meant that the Montessori School of Greater Lafayette was in session for only 20 out of a possible 40 hours over four days. Our staff did its best to maintain communication with the families and those families were very understanding. There were, however, a few questions about how we respond to Indiana's volatile winter weather at MSGL.
The question of the week was "If the weather continues like this, can we expect to continue having so many delays and closures?" The short answer is, "yes." But how are decisions about school delays made? That's a longer answer.
I would have thought this to be a very elementary understanding. Doesn't everyone know when it's too dangerous to take the kids to school? But when I found myself working as MSGL's "Weather Delay Intern" last week, I discovered that many factors contribute to a closing or delay, and they are not always obvious to everyone.
First, there are no hard and fast rules for determining if conditions are too dangerous for school. Everything depends on timing. Temperatures below -12F are a general cut-off if people are going to be outside for more than a few minutes. However, if the roads are clear and the temperatures are on the rise at 8 a.m., then -12F might be acceptable at arrival. High winds could change that, of course. Roads that are clear now may not be clear when morning classes dismiss. Or they might be passable in town, but dangerous out in the country. And all of this has to be considered over the course of our 10-hour day.
MSGL can't follow the determinations of local school districts because they have special considerations - such as bus transportation and a large number of students who walk to school. Generally, MSGL can be in session more frequently than the public schools.
The weather is just one component of a weather-related school delay. Preparation of facilities and the safety of our staff are two others. And our families themselves are an important consideration.
Facilities: The parking lot and sidewalks must be clear of snow and ice before staff and families arrive. Our school is a small, not-for-profit, parent-owned school. A small core of people manage the day-to-day operations of the school and the needs of over 500 people. This is why we rely on a private company to clear the parking lot, sidewalks, and steps of snow and ice. That company serves several other businesses each day AND it needs two hours to clear MSGL after a snow or ice event. As an example, if the snow stops falling at 6 a.m. on a school day and we are third on the list for snow removal, school cannot open at 7:30. The ability of our snow removal contractor to clear our lot and paths before we arrive is a major determinant of our start time.
Cultural Considerations: Another little-known factor is our region's cultural relationship with winter weather. As one parent said, "I grew up in Vermont. We don't cancel school there." Indiana's threshold for tolerating winter weather might be a bit lower than other cold places because we don't see as many snowy days and our street departments are not equipped for a large quantity of snow on a regular basis. And because the majority of the West Lafayette community is made up of faculty or students from Purdue University, we also have a lot of families who come from places with absolutely no snow, ice, or cold temperatures. It can take these families a few snowy days to get the hang of dressing for the weather and driving in it. We are more comfortable with snow than Los Angeles, but less comfortable than Montpelier - and that makes a difference in how we respond to it.
Staff: Teachers and staff need to be able to travel safely and arrive at school before the children. Our staff are dedicated to their jobs and they want to be at school. While it's easy to imagine teachers being excited to have a snow day, the reality is that the majority of our teachers have school-aged children of their own. Just like MSGL families, the teachers have to scramble to get their children safely to school in case of a delay or to arrange other care if public schools cancel and MSGL is in session.
Many of our staff live outside of city limits and travel county roads to get to work, so their ability to arrive safely is always a top priority. Delaying the start of school allows them to get out of their driveways and travel potentially hazardous roads in daylight so they can be here when the families arrive. We could call on substitute teachers to work for staff who cannot make it to school, but our substitute teachers are also home with their children on these days. Operating without adequate staff is not an option so we need to be sure all of our teachers can get to school.
Forecasted weather: Conditions throughout the day, and not just at arrival, need to be considered to determine closures and delays. The weather may be clear at morning arrival, but if incoming snow and/or ice and wind threaten later in the day, staff and children could become stranded at school or out on the roads. The administration must take into account the anticipated timing of dangerous weather and sometimes cancel classes in advance of this weather (even if that bad weather never fully materializes.)
Our early arrival and after school programs are the first to be cancelled because MSGL is a school and not a daycare facility. We do offer before and after-care programs that can function as full-day care for families, but our primary function is that of a school. This means being open during class time from 8:30 - 3:00 takes priority over being open before and after class.
We understand that it is frustrating to wake up to a school delay or cancellation. Our Montessori parents have jobs, commitments, and plans and not being able to leave their children in our care causes real problems for them. That being said, MSGL is a parent-owned school. We were started by parents over 40 years ago and all current MSGL families are the current owners of the school. If you are reading this and you have children enrolled at our school, you are one of the owners of the Montessori School of Greater Lafayette. With that ownership, come some responsibilities.
What can MSGL families do to help?
1. Stay informed - before school and during the day. We announce delays, cancellations, and early dismissals through many different sources. Here is a listing.
2. Offer help, if you can. If you have some time after bringing your child to school on a wintry day, you might:
If possible, we would prefer to be able to control the climate and prepare the outdoor environment as carefully as we prepare our students' learning environments. But the realities of winter weather require our staff and families to be vigilant, flexible, and patient with weather events - and the timing of those events - over which we have no control.
And if you, like me, are curious how the large, public school districts determine delays, this video from Louisville, KY is interesting.
Thanks for reading, ~Heather
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"Gradually the children begin to concentrate. One day one child, another day two or three children. After they have concentrated the children are different. They become detached and work for themselves. The disorderly children begin to love order. They all become so orderly that disorder is an extraordinary thing." - Maria Montessori, The Child, Society, and the World
"Normalized" is the word Maria Montessori coined to describe children in their natural state. She believed that a "normal" child is one who is able to focus on activities that interest him and, through these experiences, he constructs his personality. A normalized classroom is one in which the children interact peacefully while exploring activities that introduce them to the world. Montessori described a normalized classroom this way,
"A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without commiting any rough or rude act, would seem to be a classroom very well disciplined indeed." - The Montessori Method.
At the beginning of the year, Montessori Toddler and Preprimary classrooms are far from normalized. Some children shout, wander the room, and maybe even throw objects or dump materials on the floor. There is crying and spilling. Messes are made and not cleaned up. Disagreements arise. Those first few weeks can be wild, indeed! In traditional educational methods, teachers might respond to these behaviors with reprimands and punishments. In Montessori classrooms, the teachers respond with redirection to purposeful work.
For example, when a new three-year-old is wandering the room and disturbing the work of others, a teacher will take him by the hand and present a new material to him. If he has shown an interest in counting then we might present the Hanging Bead Stair. When this work is completed, we assist him in finding another activity that calls to him.
While polishing the sailboat, a child tunes out everythiing else around him.
Whatever the activity the child is redirected to, the aim is always the same: to develop concentration. Concentration is the key to a child's natural development and all learning takes place in a state of concentration. We can think of ourselves in our adult lives to get a better understanding. When you need to study for your GRE exam, what do you do? Do you head to a busy shopping mall to work on your laptop in the food court with your friends, or do you choose a quiet place? If you need to paint a room in your home, do you do it in the afternoon when the children are busy around your feet or do you save it for those glorious, quiet mornings when they are at school? Adults relish those moments when they can concentrate and really focus on their work without interruption. Children also relish those moments, but they must first know what concentration feels like.
This is what a Montessori classroom does: it provides an environment where children are free to concentrate - without interruption - on work that is essential to their development. A child who is excited and distracted by all the activity around him will transform into a peaceful, thoughtful individual when he is able to concentrate on a work he enjoys. Because concentrating and being in control of his body feels better than thrashing around wildly and causing mayhem, he continues to seek out other activities that allow him to feel this way.
Since concentration is the ultimate goal of every activity in our classroom, we are reverent of it when it appears and we do not interrupt it for any reason. If all learning occurs during a state of concentration, it would be illogical to interrupt a child's concentration in an attempt to "teach" her something. Corrections, points of interest, fixing a lock of hair that has fallen over her eye, picking up the pencil that rolled off the table, reminding her to wash her forgotten snack plate - we must do none of these things. In fact, when a child begins to concentrate on an activity, our job is to quietly step away and behave as though we are not in the room.
"The great principle which brings success to the teacher is this: as soon as concentration has begun, act as if the child does not exist. Naturally, one can see what he is doing with a quick glance, but without his being aware of it." - Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind
Dressing the baby doll and fastening its clothes requires great concentration. Some children choose this activity nearly every day.
Eventually, in a few weeks or even months, the classroom has been transformed from a noisy, chaotic scene into a peaceful, happy place to learn and play. We have seen this transformation begin in our classrooms. The children are beginning to put their belongings in their lockers and walk quietly into their classrooms. They greet their friends warmly, but not loudly. They choose work, complete the work, and put it away when they are finished. They choose to work with a friend or by themselves. They tap us on the shoulder when they have a question. They pour their own water for snack and wash their dishes when finished. They use the toilet without assistance (although assistance is always available.) They are also preparing to read, write, and count to 1000 - but when you are a young child, those accomplishments are of secondary importance compared to the ability to control one's body and interact peacefully with friends.
Your children always benefit from opportunities to concentrate on an activity. You can provide these opportunities at home by providing space and, most importantly, time for them to focus on just one thing. Maybe painting with watercolors, washing the breakfast dishes, watering the plants outside, looking at the spider web by the front door - let her look and explore for as long as she wishes. Be available to answer questions, but don't obey your urge to jump in and explain everything you've ever heard about spiders or tell her all about color theory. Let her concentrate and formulate her own ideas and questions. When her curiosity is satisfied and she is ready to turn her attention elsewhere, you may notice that she looks refreshed and relaxed. This is a sign that she is learning and making new connections in her brain! Dr. Montessori observed that, "The child who concentrates is immensely happy."
Do you have a story about concentration from your life or your child's life you would like to share in the comments below? We would love to hear about it.
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What an interesting group of pioneers December brings us. Some were well-known in the Western District while others toiled quietly to build their lives. Obituaries come from a chemist, a cricketer, a former Portland Mayor, a pastoralist, a Monsignor, mothers and two pioneers of the newspaper industry in Western Victoria.
James TRANGMAR: Died December 16 at Portland. James Trangmar was a resident and a former Mayor of Portland, but he acquired land throughout the Western District.
After working as a manager of a grocers in Tasmania, he arrived in Portland in 1844. He worked in that field before turning to sheep farming. He bought properties including "Bochara", "Violet Creek" and "Morgiana". James had connections to the Portland Hospital and the Portland Free Library and was also a Justice of the Peace. He was buried in the North Portland Cemetery
William NICHOLAS: Died December 17, 1890 at Colac. Arriving in the Colac area around 1841, William Nicholas was an early pioneer of the district. He came first to shear for three local squatters,then he worked in the forests before purchasing a bullock wagon. He carted produce to Geelong and Ballarat, returning with stores. His obituary, by Mr B.N. Butcher of Colac, was written with emotion.
John HARRIES: Died December 18, 1914 at Stawell. John Harries was born in Carmarthenshire, Wales in 1843 and arrived in Stawell in 1875. A true Welshmen, he was a great singer and was a member of the Presbyterian church choir and Prouts Band of Ballarat. He married and had eight children. His brother, Reverend David Harries had joined him Australia, but he had passed away a few years earlier.
Ann WALTON: Died December 31, 1914 at Mount Arapiles. Ann Walton is one of my favourite pioneers and I am familiar with her as she was the mother-in-law of Jonathan Harman Jnr and mother in-law to the nephews of the Oliver sisters that married Harman brothers. Also, I know the area around Natimuk and Mount Arapiles in the Wimmera where she and her husband James Keyte pioneered and it can be harsh country.
Ann, born in Scotland, arrived in Portland aboard the "Indian Ocean" in 1854 as a four-year old. Her parents, David Walton and Margaret Tennant went to Mount Gambier and that is where she married James Keyte. James and Ann selected land in the Natimuk district in 1872 and remained until 1892 when the bought land in New South Wales. She later returned to Mount Arapiles when her health began to fail.
Oliver YOUNGMAN: Died December 17, 1915 at Port Fairy. Oliver was born in Norwich, England in 1847 and arrived to Port Fairy with his parents in 1849. His father, Arthur Youngman was an owner of the "Port Fairy Gazette" and later the "Alpine Observer" at Bright and Oliver was involved with both newspapers. He was the ledger keeper for grazier Sir William Clarke for 29 years and later his for his son Sir Rupert Clarke. Oliver held high office in the Methodist Church and was a member for 50 years. Leaving a daughter to mourn him, he was buried at the Port Fairy Cemetery.
Mrs Catherine McKENZIE: Died December 14, 1916 at Ararat. Catherine McKenzie was born in Scotland and arrived in Australia with her parents around 1853. She was married Alexander McKenzie at Trawalla Station near Beaufort where Alexander was manager. They spent time at De Cameron Station near St Arnaud before settling at Ararat. Catherine and Alexander had nine children.
Mrs Florence DOW: Died December 16, 1917 at Ararat. Florence was born in Scotland and arrived in Victoria aboard the "Lady Peel" as a 16-year-old in 1853. She married John Dow at Skipton before they took up land at Tatyoon under the Duffy Land Act of 1862. After John died, Florence lived at the Burrumbeep Homestead, before moving into Ararat.
Alfred Bussell CLEMES: Died December 26, 1917 at Stawell. Born in Cornwall, Alfred Clemes trained as a chemist in Bristol before travelling to Victoria in 1852. He opened a business in Melbourne until 1854 when he and his wife opened businesses at the various goldfields. They arrived in Stawell in 1858 where he remained. He became Shire secretary in 1870 and held the role for 44 years, only retiring four years before his death. He was a co-founder of the Stawell Hospital and the Mechanics Institute.
Bernard CONLAN: Died December 12, 1918 at Dixie. Bernard Conlan, born in County Down, Ireland, should have bought himself a lottery ticket after a twist of fate saved him from death from a cauldron of molten iron at the Clyde shipyards in Scotland and he survived a bout of typhoid fever on the voyage to Australia, despite given little chance of survival. He worked first in South Australia before moving to Victoria, living at Garvoc and Wangoom before buying land at Dixie, near Warrnambool. Despite being burnt out in bush fires in 1887 and losing much of his stock during drought time, with Bernard's hard work and perseverance he raised a family that had much respect for him.
John THORNTON: Died December 16, 1919 at Mount Myrtoon
And so begins the obituary of Yorkshire born, John Thornton. At age 18, with his brother, he left England aboard the "Great Britain" for Melbourne. He spent time in Gippsland before buying land at Mount Myrtoon, where he lived for the next 50 years. He also opened a stock and station agents that he built into a successful business with transactions from Hamilton to Geelong. John was a talented cricketer and represented Victoria in 1859 and 1860 and made a great contribution to the Camperdown Cricket Club.
James Park Dawson LAURIE: Died December 2, 1928 at Naracoorte, South Australia. James Laurie was a son of Reverend Alexander Laurie and was born at Kongatong station, near Warrnambool, in 1846, After his schooling, mostly at Portland, he pursued his journalistic aspirations and started the Mount Gambier newspaper "The Border Watch", along with his brother Andrew Frederick Laurie. In 1868 he travelled to America and Europe and on his return, having sold his share in the newspaper, he moved into pastoral pursuits. In 1870, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He married Dora Kean, daughter of Thomas Kean, in 1882 at Portland. James Kean, Dora's brother, established the "Portland Mirror".
Right Reverend Monsignor SHANAHAN: Died December 6, 1931 at Hamilton. Monsignor Shanahan was well-known among the Roman Catholic community in the Western District. Ordained in his home country, Ireland in 1864 he then travelled to Melbourne. He took up the parish at Carisbrook and later the Inglewood parish overseeing churches in towns such as Clunes, Creswick and Talbot. In 1878 he became assistant pastor at Warrnambool, then parish priest at Hamilton in 1886 and was there for the completion of the St Mary's Church. In 1916 he was appointed Dean of Ballarat. During his time in Hamilton, Monsignor Shanahan was president of the hospital for 22 years. Money raised and presented to him went towards completing the well-known spire of Hamilton's St Marys Church.
Louisa SEALEY: Died December 4, 1934 at Casterton. Louisa Sealey was born around 1861 and arrived in Casterton with her parents when it consisted of only two houses. She married John Black and they lived in Miller Street, Casterton. After her husband's death she resided with her son on his soldier settlement property at Nangeela. Another son, Gordon was killed at Passchendaele, France during WW1. Four sons and four daughters survived at the time of Louisa's death and she still had eight surviving siblings.
Thomas PHILIP: Died December, 1937 at Hamilton. Thomas Philip was born in Scotland and came to Victoria as a child after his father, Captain John Philip, gave up the high seas and took over Lagoon Station near Cavendish. John then purchased Miga Lake Station and St Mary's Lake Station, which his sons, trading as Philip Bros. ran after his death. Thomas married Margaret Laidlaw in 1883 and they had one son and three daughters.
Thomas died at his home "Kenmure" in Ballarat Road, Hamilton. "Kenmure" is one of my favourite homes in Hamilton and one that I went past almost daily for around 15 years. It has recently been sold and is now, probably for a short time only, on a Hamilton Real Estate agent's site, with some great photos too.
Mary Ann JOHNSTONE: Died December 22, 1951 at Portland. Mary Ann was born in Portland around 1856, the daughter of James Johnstone and Dorothy Hall. Her brother was John Johnstone and her sister-in-law, Mrs Hannah Johnstone. Mary Ann married Mark Kerr in 1876 and they resided at Drik Drik before moving to Swan Lake about 25 kms away. Mary Ann was considered an excellent horsewoman, equal to any man.


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The Carnival of Cultures, which takes place in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, is a multicultural festival that has been celebrated around the Whitsun weekend every year since 1996. Berlin's vibrant carnival is an international, peaceful celebration of diversity, openness and tolerance, with parades, music, dance, theatre, exotic food and drink and all kinds of arts and crafts.
Ideas for a Berlin carnival had been around for a long time, but it was on 15 and 16 May 1996 that the first Carnival of Cultures transformed the Kreuzberg district into Germany's biggest multicultural hotspot. The event then expanded into a four-day festival and was moved to a different time of year. Since that happened, Whitsun in Berlin has been an extravaganza of exuberance featuring decorated carnival floats and people in fancy costumes, dramatic make-up and fantastic masks. From Friday to Monday the area around Blücherplatz in Kreuzberg becomes one very happy, loud and lavish party. World music – some familiar, some distinctly new, and all 'made in Berlin' – is performed on four stages. The Rasen in Aktion is a hive of creativity featuring theatre, performances and interactive goings-on. Add to that an exciting children's programme plus food, drink and crafts at almost 400 stalls. But the real highlight of the carnival is the street parade on Whit Sunday, which departs Hermannplatz at midday and reaches Yorckstrasse by late evening. Close to 5,000 participants and around a million spectators from 80 nations join together to celebrate Berlin's cultural diversity and openness at full pitch with a dazzling display of traditional costumes, ritual dances and folk customs.
Предстоящи събития:
22.05.2015 - 25.05.2015
Място на събитието
Blücherplatz 1A
10961 Berlin
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