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Our Neighborhood Preservation Team was formed in 2009 when the Bagley Housing Association (BHA) became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Southwest Housing Solutions, creating a stronger and more broad-based community development entity to advance the revitalization of southwest Detroit.
BHA began in 1996 with a mission to provide leadership and resources to improve the housing stock for low to moderate-income families within the Hubbard-Richard and Hubbard Farms districts of southwest Detroit. Over the next 13 years, BHA invested more than $53 million to revitalize the Hubbard-Richard and Hubbard Farms districts by constructing and renovating single-family homes, building affordable housing, securing funding for infrastructure improvements and housing rehabilitation, developing community parks and gardens, and promoting the arts and neighborhood beautification.
Our Neighborhood Preservation Team (NPT) continues the mission of BHA and broadens its scope.
The specific goals of the NPT are to:
The NPT has a strong community organizing emphasis. It works with block clubs, residents, businesses and organizations in the neighborhood to address issues of public safety, abandoned homes, environmental issues, community health, and government services.
The NPT works to help formulate and facilitate community redevelopment plans. This work is driven by data and active community involvement and consensus. The NPT surveys residents and properties in the community to gather detailed data about the housing stock, vacant and foreclosed properties, home repair needs, infrastructure conditions, and quality of life issues and opportunities.
The NPT is now involved in a major community development initiative called "Mexicantown: Vernor/Bagley Vista" or "Vista," for short. The plan envisions developing the Mexicantown and Mercado areas into a vibrant, multifaceted 20-block locale. Vista also proposes innovative ways of linking the locale to Corktown and the West Riverfront. Neglected assets would be transformed into unique opportunities for art, recreation, commercial development and green technologies. Read more about the Vista plan.
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Accomplishments of Bagley Housing Association:
The Bagley Project/NPT engages partners in the public, private and nonprofit sectors to plan and develop its projects within the historic districts it serves. These projects always architecturally complement the existing housing. We have secured resources to enable owners of existing homes to improve their properties. We have also secured funding to upgrade the public infrastructure, especially alleys and sidewalks, throughout the area we serve. Our efforts have resulted in neighborhood commercial development, public art, and a stronger sense of community.


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How to Write a Theater Resume
Two Methods:Sample ResumesWriting Your Own Theater Resume
When seeking any type of job, an employer will ask for a resume. This is a history of your education, experience and employment. The same type of information should be entered into a Theater Resume, with the focus on your Theater performances, education and experience. If you worked for a well known director, or if you had a lead role, make sure you add this. One of best things that can happen when you go for an audition is that a name on your resume is well known, so it gets recognized. It is not necessary to list everything you've ever done, just the most important roles and events.
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Writing Your Own Theater Resume
1Make sure your resume has all the following information that applies to your particular experience.Ad
2Format as shown, or use any other format but make sure that the information is in this particular order.
3Begin listing your experience with your most recent first and continue listing with your earliest one last. The first thing that will be read on your resume is your experience, and your latest performances, so make sure that you emphasize all important names, dates and theatrical performances that occurred at the most recent dates.
4Write your resume as concisely as you can so that it fits on one 8"x10" sheet - not 8.5"x11" - , neatly stapled back to back to your head-shot with one staple in each corner. Time is of the essence in an audition and a resume is only quickly glanced at. It is your performance that will get you the job.
- Name
- Email Address and telephone number
- Unions, if any
- Agency, if any
- Height, Weight, Hair Color, Eye Color
- Vocal Range,
- Broadway
- Theater
- Name of Show
- Role
- Director
- Tours
- Name of Show
- Role
- Theater
- Director
- Regional
- Name of Show
- Role
- Theater
- Director
- Film
- Title
- Role
- Studio
- Director
- Television
- Title
- Role
- Station
- Director
- Commercials
- Product
- Regional
- National
- Training and Education
- Special Skills: Dialects, sports
- Name
We could really use your help!
- Dress well. This is a job interview, you should look very attractive. Be the best and most mold-able piece of clay imaginable, show them that you are what they need!
- At the audition, if they ask questions, be as honest as you can.
- If unsure of how to make your resume proper for a casting director or agent, ask an established friend who will let you look at theirs, or set up a consultation with services in the biz to help actors, like Perceptive Arts or Capes Coaching. Many agency websites have their current talents' resumes available as PDFs. Take a look, and model your own after them.
- Relax and just be yourself. Do not make believe you are what you are not. Be honest.
- Don't fudge on any of your personal statistics such as height, weight or eye color as these could come back to keep you from getting the job AND ruin your chances at working for that company in the future. Stay honest when writing your theater resume!
- Do not lie, because your references and performances will be checked. Lying might jeopardize your entire future, because you might very well be placed on the blacklist for any future auditions.
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McGovern turns to wave at a crowd that attended a noon rally in Boston's Post Office Square, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 1972. At extreme left on the podium is former Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota. / Argus Leader file photo
Chapter 2: The 1972 Campaign
The 1960s did not reach their climax until Nov. 7, 1972.
After almost a decade of strife and change that had begun with John F. Kennedys assassination, had been torn asunder by the Vietnam War, and had been marked by the biggest civil rights gains since the Emancipation Proclamation, it culminated in George McGoverns historic loss to Richard
Nixon for the American presidency.
How McGovern, from a tiny South Dakota town, would rise to become his partys nominee, was the product of perseverance, timing and an audacious political strategy.
Nixons 22-point, 49-state landside initially was received as the triumph of the Silent Majority over the Flower Power generation.
But the tectonic shifts that helped doom McGovern in that 72 campaign still are being felt: fights over civil rights, environmentalism, womens rights. Critics say McGovern almost destroyed the Democratic Party that year by pushing policies that made McGovern liberal a pejorative still occasionally in use. Defenders say the South Dakota senator saved his party in 72, and in doing so, offered a lifeline to Americans long left out of the political, social and economic mainstreams.
It is difficult to overstate the turmoil during which McGovern ascended to his partys presidential nomination in 1972. His campaign manager, Gary Hart, called it a miracle that McGovern won the nomination at all.
Aside from the Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression and two world wars, no four-year period in American history was as tumultuous as 1968-1972.
In the first year alone, the Tet Offensive a military victory but public relations defeat ripped into American public opinion about the Vietnam War. In the ensuing months of 68, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, a war-wearied Lyndon Baines Johnson decided to not seek re-election, the Democratic Party nearly came apart at its Chicago convention, and the respected-but-never-loved Nixon found momentary redemption from a split and shaken American electorate.
When I try to explain that period and that experience to other people it really is that campaign in the context of the social revolutions that were going on, Hart, who would later become a senator from Colorado and run for president in 1984, said in an April, 2012 interview. The Vietnam War protests, the civil rights movement, the emergence of the womens rights movement, the beginning of the environmental age. It was what we usually summarized as the 60s, but it did continue into the 70s.
McGovern emerged as the transcendent figure from that period. Ambitions drove him, but events defined him. Suddenly, the senator from a small state had become the leading anti-war voice. He sponsored an amendment to end the war and spoke to huge anti-war crowds, including 350,000 on the Mall in Washington, D.C., drawing the moniker of apostle of retreat and defeat from Nixon aide Charles Colson. McGovern angered colleagues when, in September 1970, he said on the Senate floor that every senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave.
He did all this while also leading the Democratic Partys assault on its own rules and traditions that would open up the party to minorities, women and gays. That, coupled with Johnsons civil rights push earlier in the decade, rapidly was decoupling Democrats from the conservative southern base they had had since Reconstruction. The American political map literally was flipping.
Going into the 1972 campaign cycle, McGovern was not universally loved in his own party. He had been approached by anti-war activists to run against Johnson in 68 but declined, citing concern about hanging onto a Senate seat he had barely won in a recount in South Dakota in 1962. After Robert Kennedys death, a late-hour attempt to go after the nomination fell short. Many liberals were upset that McGovern so readily had embraced and campaigned for the 68 nominee, then Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who liberals saw as too willing to defend and continue Johnsons strategy of slow withdrawal from Vietnam.
What many did not know was that McGovern and Humphrey, who grew up in small South Dakota towns, had been next-door neighbors in Washington, D.C., for many years. In a private conversation, Humphrey, a native of tiny Wallace, S.D., told McGovern, the son of Avon, S.D., that he did not have a plan to end the war differently from Johnsons.
McGovern, given a choice of stepping back or pushing for Humphrey over Nixon, took the latter path into history.
I didnt have any big beef against Nixon, either, but I felt that he and Hubert had about the same position on the war in Vietnam, McGovern told Timothy Naftali, the former director of the Nixon Presidential Library, in a 2009 interview. But Hubert had led the fight for years on civil rights, on the Peace Corps, on Food for Peace, on housing for low-income people. He was a genuine liberal on everything except Vietnam. So I had no trouble campaigning for him given the alternative of President Nixon.
Once the 68 election was over, McGovern solidified his stance as a leading critic of the Vietnam War. The World War II bomber pilot, who was decorated for bravery and crash landed his plane after one mission, would later say that he thought he made a strategic mistake in not tying his own war experience with his opposition to Vietnam.
I have always felt awkward talking about what a great hero I am. It is not the kind of thing that comes easy to me, McGovern said, echoing the ethos of a World War II generation. But I think we should have talked about it more than I did, especially since I was viewed in the public mind as an anti-war person, as a pacifist... I should have said that one of the reasons I am speaking out against the war in Vietnam was that I know first-hand what war does.
McGovern told Naftali that in the 72 campaign he should have more clearly and more repeatedly said that I love this country and it is worth defending, and I defended it as a young man but that I dont want powerful men in Washington committing my son or your son to a war that is unnecessary.
It was just one regretful postscript from a campaign that was unlikely, unwieldy and, eventually, uncontrollable for McGovern and his army of young advisers and supporters.
It began with McGovern declaring his candidacy in 71, far before tradition had dictated. Maine Sen. Ed Muskie had come out of 1968 as the early favorite. But McGovern, propelled by the then 24-year-old Hart and another youthful adviser, Rick Stearns, who later would become a federal judge, decided on a stealth strategy. They focused on the heretofore-ignored Iowa caucuses as an offset to Muskies strength in the then-traditional starting gate of the New Hampshire primaries. McGoverns focus on Iowa gave the Hawkeye State a prominent first-to-decide position in presidential nominations well into the 21st century.
Asked how he defeated Muskie, favored by the Democratic establishment, McGovern later would say, I outworked him for one thing. I was back and forth across the country without ceasing for almost two years.
His plan, he said, was regarded as a kind of freakish thing to do, and the press paid no attention to me for the first eight or nine months. But, he told Naftali, it enabled me to organize grassroots organizations all across the country.
One state, in particular, would pay dividends from all that attention.
I must have had a thousand coffee parties in that many different living rooms across the great state of California, McGovern said. Later, at a raucous and undisciplined Democratic National Convention in Miami, McGoverns ability to hold his California supporters together against challenges from Humphrey and others sealed McGoverns nomination.
The list of missteps in the campaign McGoverns disastrous convention, in which he did not give his acceptance speech until after almost all of America was asleep, his decision to pull back on the nomination of his first running mate choice, Tom Eagleton, after saying he was behind the Missouri Senator 1,000 percent must be viewed through the broader prism of what it took McGovern to win his partys nomination, Hart argued.
In the interest of fairness to McGovern, the litany of things that went wrong overlooks the fundamental fact that he should not have been nominated in the first place, Hart said.
Eagleton was undone by the revelation that he had undergone mental health treatment and hospitalization. His nomination unwound while McGovern was taking a post-convention breather at Sylvan Lake Lodge in the Black Hills. McGovern eventually settled on Kennedy brother-in-law Sargent Shriver as his running mate.
Any chance, in retrospect, that McGovern had to win probably went out the window after that, Hart said.
The election played out, sometimes bitterly, as McGovern tried vainly to tie the incumbent president to the Watergate scandal that would eventually cause Nixon to resign two years later. But the economy was relatively good, Nixon was pulling troops out of Vietnam, and the Republican president had done some things softening relations with China, economic legislation at home that McGovern fundamentally agreed with.
The term McGovern liberal, emanated from that 72 campaign largely because of what McGovern campaigned for: ending the war, cutting defense spending, guaranteeing a certain standard of living in return for welfare reform, and universal health care.
McGovern did have a very liberal oriented platform at that time, said Bob Burns, a former political science professor at South Dakota State University.
In shorthand, it can be retold in the attack lines from then-Vice President Spiro Agnew, who would attack the South Dakota senator as the candidate of amnesty, abortion and acid.
Nixons campaign, with Agnew often leading the way, portrayed McGovern as a dangerous leftist, whose policies would leave America more vulnerable to the Soviet threat, more encumbered by a growing state influence at home, and more likely to tread softly around the drug cultural and sexual revolution of the young people who supported him.
McGoverns ascendancy personified the polarization of the country and did so in a way that hurt the Democratic Party long term by branding it as soft on foreign threats and unwilling to confront, beyond government programmatic ways, serious social problems at home, said Fred Siegel, who worked for McGovern on that campaign in 72, but who later became a critic.
The Democratic Party that emerges (from 72) is a Democratic Party that cant talk about the collapse of black families, said Siegel, later a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. It cant talk about the evils of North Korea.
Hart bristled at such claims, arguing that McGovern saved the Democratic Party in 1972 by opening the convention to minorities, women, young people.
If we had gone to the convention in Miami without those reforms, the Democratic Party would have blown apart, Hart said. Jesse Jackson would have been outside rather than inside. What McGovern achieved came back, in a way, to haunt him, which is the path of reformers in history.
He added: If Reagan Democrats left (the Democratic Party) because blacks and Hispanics and women could participate, shame on them.
In November 72, McGovern suffered the indignity of losing his home state to Nixon. He won only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia in one of the biggest landslide losses in American history, and thereafter would often joke about the size of his defeat. But redemption was only two years away.
Ironically, Burns said, 1972 was arguably the best year for Democrats in South Dakota history. Dick Kneip was re-elected elected governor. Frank Denholm won his second term in Congress, and the liberal Jim Abourezk won a Senate seat.
The Republicans signature triumph that year was James Abdnors win in the West River-dominated 2nd congressional district. Abdnors victory, and McGoverns devastating defeat, would set the stage for one of South Dakotas pivotal elections between the two men eight years later.
Chapter 3: The slide to defeat
George McGoverns defeat and exit from public office in South Dakota in 1980 was only one chapter in a much bigger story that swept the nation in the year of the Reagan Revolution.
Basically, this whole country just took a drastic swing to the right, McGovern said in an interview the morning after he was soundly defeated by then-Rep. James Abdnor. Im just dazed by the whole thing.
He shouldnt have been. McGoverns landslide loss to the folksy, but not flashy, Abdnor was a bitter chapter after the redemption of six years earlier, when he had beaten back a challenge from Vietnam POW Leo Thorsness in another Senate race. But McGoverns last six years in office were served in a country that clearly was moving right, ideologically, and one that had elected a Democratic President in Jimmy Carter, who personified the malaise and worries of the economic stagnation of the late 1970s. Meanwhile, a bursting constellation of national political groups were perfecting the art of negative campaigning, and they saw in McGovern a ripe target.
Abdnors 58 percent to 39 percent victory over McGovern (with independent Wayne Peterson sopping up 3 percent) marked the end of an era in South Dakota politics. The Democratic Party that McGovern had built in the 1950s with index cards and miles on his car would lose its leader, although McGovern would not completely detach himself from his home state.
The good times that the Democrats had enjoyed in much of the 70s was pretty much ended, and the party has not recovered since, said Bob Burns, a retired political scientist at South Dakota State University.
What happened to McGovern in 80 can be traced directly to the 1972 presidential campaign. The senator had survived Thorsness challenge in 1974 by riding the coattails of an anti-Republican, post-Watergate surge. Richard Nixon, who had beaten McGovern badly in that 72 presidential race, resigned the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal less than three months before McGovern was re-elected back home.
McGovern won redemption that November, but warning signs were not far over the horizon.
Carter became unpopular in South Dakota. The anti-Washington Sagebrush Rebellion that swept many western states was prodded by high energy prices, which cut into farmers bottom lines. Farmers and those dependent on their trade drew bitter over a Carter-imposed embargo of grain sales to Russia. It was the perfect atmosphere for westerner Ronald Reagan, who capitalized on the anti-Washington sentiment with a style and communications ability that seemed both new and reassuring. It was an awful environment for anyone defending the status quo.
Ronald Reagan had a lot to do with it, Burns said. His ability as the great communicator made him very successful in hammering a more conservative message out to the voters.
And so, on Election Day, McGovern and a host of other well-known Democratic senators, including Birch Bayh of Indiana and Frank Church of Idaho, were swept away in the Reagan landslide.
Could McGovern have done anything differently to survive it? He often said later, no, but it did not mean he did not second-guess the eight years leading into his defeat.
There were a great many people who stayed with me because they admired me as a person, McGovern said in that morning-after interview. But I would have to conclude that there was an accumulation of resentments and frustrations that all came to a head in his defeat.
The contrast in style and focus in that 1980 Senate campaign was, in many ways, a microcosm of South Dakotans views of themselves, and of the government. There was McGovern, known around the world, vs. Abdnor, earnest but was barely known outside the state.
Abdnor, well liked as a neighborly public servant but never viewed as a statesman, built his campaign around a simple message: McGovern had grown out of touch with the state and he, Abdnor, was far more reflective of the conservatism of everyday South Dakotans.
When he ran for president in 1972, McGovern espoused liberal policies ending the war in Vietnam, cutting defense spending, establishing universal health care and minimum income levels that even some Democrats viewed as overreaching. McGovern would never back away from that 72 platform, and often said it contained common sense positions that subsequent presidents came around to, including Reagan himself in areas such as welfare reform.
In 1972, McGovern had to espouse that liberal platform to win the nomination, said Keith Jensen, Abdnors 1980 campaign manager. That opened some eyes.
Back home, Jensen said, the mood was changing after he took the national stage. McGovern, who had brought home federal largesse for years in everything from farm supports to dam and highway construction, was morphing into the symbol of a bloated federal government.
Abdnor capitalized on the environment every day with a solid, but not perfect, campaign. McGovern tried to connect him with the National Conservative Political Action Committee, a Washington, D.C.-based group that ran advertisements attacking McGovern.
In 1980, outside players were novelties in states such as South Dakota, and Abdnor tried to distance himself from the group. McGovern tried unsuccessfully to use NCPAC to portray Abdnor, who had a speech impediment and was not a strong orator, as having to lean on carpetbaggers such as NCPAC to win election. The inference always was that Abdnor would be unable to make South Dakotas case in a tough Senate environment.
Another novelty a primary challenge descended on McGovern. Native South Dakotan Larry Schumaker, a math professor at the University of Texas, moved back to the state to challenge McGovern in the Democratic primary.
Some McGovern allies tried to portray Schumaker as a stalking horse for the Republicans or for the anti-abortion movement, which was rising in power and had been increasingly at odds with McGovern, who was pro-choice. In a 2012 interview, Schumaker bristled at those suggestions, saying he had entered because he had an interest in politics, and because he felt too many politicians, such as McGovern, felt they owned the offices they held.
Despite having virtually no money or name recognition, Schumaker captured almost 38 percent of the Democratic primary vote. McGoverns vulnerability was there, in the numbers.
The Abdnor-McGovern general election was conducted at a distance. Abdnor refused to debate, despite strong objections from some leading Republicans, especially Gov. Bill Janklow, who told Abdnor and Jensen it would cost them the election.
McGovern tried to reassemble the old coalitions that had served him in the past. He campaigned as an unrepentant liberal, even brought in the music group Peter, Paul and Mary that personified his anti-war nomination of 72.
The clincher against McGovern came in mid-October. Following a long-held political tradition in South Dakota, McGovern went pheasant hunting. But he was refused an in-state hunting license by a young clerk because he could not produce a South Dakota drivers license. All of the Abdnor claims that McGovern had forgotten his roots coalesced around that rite.
It was huge, Jensen said. I said, You have just proven our point.
Years later, McGovern told interviewer Larry King that the 1980 loss so devastated him, but particularly his wife, Eleanor, that they briefly thought of moving to England. But he kept and even strengthened ties in his home state after his loss, especially through his alma mater, Dakota Wesleyan University, and through anti-hunger crusades he joined in with former Republican Sen. Bob Dole. Like Abdnor, he lived at least part of the year in the state.
And despite the tension from the campaign, McGovern and Abdnor remained cordial. Years later, Troy Jones, who worked for Abdnor in 1980, would recall seeing the two men together, along with Sen. John Thune, at a Sioux Falls Pheasants baseball game.
Despite their political differences, I observed those three talking like true friends without an ounce of rancor, Jones told the Rapid City Journal. They truly like each other personally.
McGoverns loss was precursor of many political trends. They include the rise of big-money groups from outside the state, and the gains in the influence of the anti-abortion movement. Primary challenges became more prevalent. And future generations of South Dakota politicians were put on alert that national ambitions could be antithetical to home-state elections.
USA Today reporter Chuck Raasch is a South Dakota native who covered the 1980 election for the Argus Leader.


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"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
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Things Are Not Good. What Do I Do?
The business environment is more difficult than ever. Our national economy is in flux, expenses are rising, sales are down, you didn't plan for this but now what? The pressure is mounting everyday as creditors, employees, maybe even your family become impatient and/or concerned.
What is a business person to do?
A guided turnaround effort is often the logical step for business owners who realize that something different is needed...and needed quickly, with expertise not gained from growing a business.
Almost any business can be reorganized and rehabilitated by taking what may be uncomfortable steps:
1. Make it smaller fast.
2. Control the cash.
3. Control the cash.
4. Control the cash.
5. Develop a plan with your creditors that will give you the breathing room to succeed.
What Will Kingsway Do?
The founders of Kingsway Advisors have been involved in turnaround work for over 20 years. Our goal is to quickly accomplish/identify the following:
1. Stabilize cash flow in the very short term.
2. We apply a series of metrics to diagnose what ails you most. Based on the information collected, we'll recommend a series of actions, then develop a cash flow forecast and a written plan focused on turning the business around as quickly as possible without undermining the goodwill you've created over the years.
3. We'll work with you and your team to communicate and execute the plan. Expect Kingsway Advisors to work with you every step of the way, with other turnaround professionals, if they are needed in the fields of law and taxation.
What Is Required Of Me?
We will present you with an overview of the turnaround process. You as business owner/leader need to be prepared to follow the process which includes open discussions with stakeholders about the condition of the company.
In A Nutshell You Need:
1. The will to succeed combined with a strong work ethic and ability to deal with reality.
2. Maturity to recognize that money will not solve most ills that plague companies in trouble, large or small, the challenge is to diagnose the root problems and solve them and fight your way back to health as a team.
Things Can Get Better With A Plan.
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Tell us how you got to where you are now in one sentence:First I liked nursery rhymes, then I liked serious music, but now I like nursery rhymes again.
How much time do you spend working?
It's impossible for me to give myself designated work time, cause nothing will happen. And then something always happens when I'm least expecting it, so that despite the fact I have all the instruments I need and countless notepads at home, I am ONCE AGAIN forced to scribble an idea on the back of my hand.
What about your creature comforts?
I really like to be alone… That hasn't happened for ages, but when I'm completely by myself for over a week something changes in me. I've written my best songs and come up with my best ideas when alone..
What did you want to be when you were little?
I always wanted to entertain. Piano and drums were my first instruments. When I was 4 years old and making my family laugh by pretending to be a chat show host, I fell off the sofa and split my head open on a speaker. I had loads of stitches in my forehead and remember thinking how brilliant I was.
Favourite chocolate bar?
Any advice for budding musicians?
Don't ever stop. Other humans' interest in you comes and goes. You must continue regardless of what goes on outside.
What's the first record you ever bought?
By The Way by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Secret power?
What are you listening to on a loop?
Modern Vampires Of The City by Vampire Weekend and Nothing Was The Same by Drake.
Best song to do silly dancing to?
Roar by Katy Perry. It's like pumping your fist to the sound of pure glory.
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You may have missed it from our Palm Pre Plus review earlier in the week, but Verizon Wireless have kicked off sales of the new webOS smartphone by offering a BOGOF offer for the Palm Pixi Plus. Between now and February 14th 2010, anyone who picks up a $149.99 Palm Pre Plus or $99.99 Palm Pixi Plus from Verizon will get a second, free Pixi Plus. Full details after the cut, plus a tidbit for Sprint customers envious of the Verizon mobile hotspot app.


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Im still getting bog'd down trying to replicate his sound. The most annoying thing is that reading sources telling me he tuned both heads tight and then I apply this to my heads and they sound like hitting a glass. I love the sound from his Maple Kit from the DVD in the Royal Albert hall, so deep and powerful. Another example is the intro to "Thank you" absoloute gorgeous sound. I have a Tama Rockstar custom and although the drums are not as big as Bonzo's I want to get a similar sound instead of this glassy sound. I currently have EC2's on the batter and Pinstripes reso (thought I'd give it ago instead of the crappy tama stock reso). Im eventually gonna get Emporers or Aquarians Response 2 heads for batter and amassadors for reso. Rant finished.........so yea any feedback :p
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Remembering Amalek
A serious lesson that focuses on fighting evil precedes the Purim fesitivites.
By Rabbi Irving Greenberg
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Purim opens on a somber note. Haman is identified as the descendant of Amalek, whose people attacked Israel in the desert, the symbol of cruelty to the weak. Before celebrating the defeat of the wicked, one must remember that God (as well as God's people) has a war with the Amalekites and will not be at ease until the Amalekites are blotted out. Jews are pledged to work for the end of oppression of the weak everywhere; a temporary, partial victory should not blind one to the persistence of evil in the world.
On the Sabbath before Purim, the portion of the Torah dealing with Amalek is read. This day is called Shabbat Zachor, the Sabbath of Remembrance. It is a special mitzvah [commandment] of the Torah to hear the reading and thus remember.
Zachor [remembrance] is a mitzvah that has made modern Jews uncomfortable. The natural desire to forget and be happy collides with the ongoing pain of memory and analysis. When asked why President Ronald Reagan in 1985 initially declined to visit the Dachau concentration camp, a presidential aide explained that the President was an "up" type of person and did not like to "grovel in a grisly thing."
Modern people who are future-oriented stress the need to forgive. They argue that there will be no reconciliation as long as the memories of the cruelties and atrocities of the past are preserved and thrown in the face of those involved. "Forget and forgive" becomes the slogan. This argument can even take the form of an attack on the victims for keeping the memory alive. In May 1985, a storm of opposition arose against President Reagan's visit to the Bitburg, Germany, military cemetery because the ceremony involved paying homage and laying a wreath in a cemetery with graves of SS Soldiers. During the uproar, one German parliamentarian attacked the Jews for their unchristian-like refusal to forget the past!
Avoiding Past Mistakes
The primary lesson of Parashat Zachor [the special section of the Torah read on that Shabbat] is that true reconciliation comes through repentance and remembrance. Confronting the evils of the past is the most powerful generator of moral cleansing and fundamental reconciliation. Repentance is the key to overcoming the evils of the past. When people recognize injustice they can correct the wrongdoing and the conditions that lead to it. In the 20th century, repentance has liberated many Christians from past stereotyping and hatred of Jews, thus beginning to transform Christianity into a gospel of love, which it seeks to be.
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No matter how large or small your exhibit, there are always preservation considerations ľ and often these considerations are overlooked in the planning and design of the exhibit. Whenever possible, use copies of original records for exhibit purposes. Original materials should only be placed in exhibits when absolutely necessary.
Sheet Materials
For sheet materials, such as photographs and loose page documents, the most effective strategy is to copy the originals and display the copies. Laser copiers make facsimiles that are virtually identical to the original; and high quality copying services are available in most areas. Copying can even be used to improve the quality of photographic images by using digital scanning technology.
There will be situations when the original must be displayed. In these cases it must be protected adequately.
Paper-Based Materials
Five simple rules apply to exhibiting paper based materials:
The USS Massachusetts Memorial Committee, Inc. at Battleship Cove offers an exhibit displaying copies of original photos, as shown below.
We have already discussed the damage light can cause to historical records. Exhibiting original records makes light exposure inevitable. However, there are some steps you can take to keep exposure (and therefore damage) to a minimum.


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Steven M. Wickert of Green Bay Arrested
VIROQUA - The Viroqua Police Department, a new affiliate of the Wisconsin Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, recently completed its second Internet Crimes Against Children investigation that has led to the arrest of Steven M. Wickert of Green Bay.
Mr. Wickert has been charged with two counts of Attempting to Cause a Child to View Sexual Activity, As a Repeater, a class "H" felony punishable by a maximum penalty of 3 years of imprisonment and a $5,000 fine. And, because the defendant is a repeat offender, the maximum term of imprisonment for the underlying crime may be increased by not more than 4 years.
Mr. Wickert has also been charged with eight counts of Attempting to Expose a Child to Harmful Material, Descriptions or Narrations, As a Repeater, a class "A" misdemeanor punishable by a maximum penalty of 9 months of imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. And, because the defendant is a repeat offender, the maximum term of imprisonment for the underlying crime may be increased to not more than 2 years.
Wickert is still being held at the Brown County Jail, awaiting a probation revocation hearing scheduled for January.
The Brown County Sheriff's Department assisted with the search warrant. The Wisconsin Department of Justice's Division of Criminal Investigation assisted with the computer preview and is continuing to assist with the computer forensics.
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An appeals court dismissed the affirmative-action lawsuit of frustrated University of Texas applicant Abigail Fisher after reconsidering it in light of last year's U.S. Supreme Court decision tightening the standards for race-conscious college admissions. The appeals-court ruling drew a strong dissent that suggested the majority got it wrong, however, and if Fisher follows up on her vow to appeal the question may wind up in front of the Supreme Court again.
In a decision released today, two of the three judges on a panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans held that Fisher failed to make her case that UT had engaged in unconstitutional discrimination by using race as a factor in some of its admissions decisions.
"We find force in the argument that race here is a necessary part, albeit one of many parts, of the decisional matrix," Judge Patrick Higgenbotham wrote, in an opinion joined by Judge Carolyn Dineen King.
Fisher, who is white, was rejected by UT in 2004 and subsequently graduated from another university, but her case has lived on as a key challenge to the constitutionality of affirmative action. In a strong dissent, Judge Emilio M. Garza said the majority allowed the school to escape the strict scrutiny required under the Supreme Court's decision in Fisher vs. University of Texas.
"Simply put, the Constitution does not treat race -conscious admissions programs differently because their stated aim is to help, not to harm," Garza wrote. By allowing UT to set a vague goal of "critical mass" for certain minorities — primarily black and Latino students — Garza said, the majority failed to give Fisher the opportunity to prove that the UT program wasn't narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling state goal. "Critical mass" was never defined in the pleadings and the majority also failed to address the question of how anybody could determine when it has been achieved, he said.
"Accordingly, it is impossible to determine whether the University's use of racial classifications in its admissions process is narrowly tailored to its stated goal — essentially, its ends remain unknown," he said.
Fisher's lawyer Edward Blum told the Los Angeles Times his client would appeal this latest decision.
"We are disappointed," Blum said. "But this court was proven wrong by the Supreme Court in 2013 and we believe they will be proven wrong again."
The Fifth Circuit majority opinion examined the recent history of UT admissions and concluded that the university had achieved substantial diversity by admitting the majority of students under the so-called Top Ten Percent plan, which requires UT to accept any students in the top 10% of their high school classes. That plan, required by state law, is designed to make a virtue out of the severe racial and ethnic segregation in Texas public schools by forcing the university to accept applicants from diverse backgrounds.
This race-neutral policy, which supplies more than 80% of students, works against black and Latino students who find themselves in majority-white schools and other well-rounded applicants outside the top 10% of their classes.
"With its blindness to all but the single dimension of class rank, the Top Ten Percent Plan came with significant costs to diversity and academic integrity, passing over large numbers of highly qualified minority and non -minority applicants," Higgenbotham wrote.
To address the "nearly intractable problem" of racial and ethnic diversity, the school adopted a "holistic review" process that the Supreme Court approved in Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 decision upholding a University of Michigan Law School affirmative action program. That program considered race as one of a number of qualifications for admission; in UT's case, race was among a bundle of factors that had a slightly higher weighting than essays.
Only a minority of students are accepted through the holistic review process and the majority of those are white. In the year Fisher applied, 17,000 applicants who applied outside the Top Ten Percent program competed for 1,200 remaining seats at the 38,000-student school.
Fisher argued the minimal impact of the holistic review process argued against it being an essential tool for achieving a policy goal, and Garza agreed. The university failed to explain, and the majority failed to require to it to explain, how the program advanced the goal of diversity, he said.
Garza also criticized the "alarming conclusion" of the majority that the Top Ten Percent plan didn't accept enough minority students, or not the right type of candidates. The court assumes, he said, "that minority students from majority-minority Texas high schools are inherently limited in their ability to contribute to the University's vision of a diverse student body."
The proper analysis would allow the university to determine that racial and ethnic diversity are important goals, he said, but leave to courts the decision of whether the tools the university uses are narrowly tailored to achieve them.
"Because the role played by race in the admissions decision is essentially unknowable, I cannot find that these racial classifications are necessary or narrowly tailored to achieving the University's interest in diversity," said Garza, a George H.W. Bush appointee.
The decision and dissent illustrate the almost intractable conflict between opponents and supporters of affirmative action as the Supreme Court continues to chip away at the allowable uses of race in government decisions. The majority, relying on earlier Supreme Court decisions, says UT can continue to pursue the goal of diversity, which it defines as some unspecified, higher number of black and Latino students. Garza hews to the absolutist line of Chief Justice John Roberts, who once famously declared: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
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Prepare for a massive amount of pictures in this post. (Catch part one here!)
So after the rehearsal dinner, we went home and got a good night's sleep. Right? Wrong! My mother, aka Mrs. Last Minute, waited until the night before the wedding to decide that the 150+ chair covers needed to be dried to get some wrinkles out. Naturally, we headed up to the laundromat. : ) (not the precious bride, she was getting sleep, of course!) It was midnight in a laundromat in a somewhat shady area of town. We were so delirious that we laughed until we almost peed our pants. But hey, at least they were wrinkle free when we were done!
The morning of my sister's wedding was quite the busy one. We (myself, my husband, my parents, and some others) headed up to the reception site early that morning to start decorating. Even though it was busy, it was SO much fun getting to spend so much time together. For some reason, when my mom and I get stressed, we just laugh hysterically. One of us will be totally freaking out about something and we just look at each other and crack up laughing. It's really so fun.
Even husband came to help decorate...and totally was amazing! Fireman/wedding planner?!
In the process...before the chair bows were tied.
After several hours at the reception site, my mom and I left to go and meet the bridal party to get our hair done...after a quick stop by Raising Cane's. I mean, it's not like my dress was tight or anything. ; )
The beautiful bride-to-be!
Heading to the church...it was such a gorgeous (110 degree) day.
The church.
My wedding shoes...which became my sister's wedding shoes. That makes me SO happy!
The stunning flowers...love, love, love!
Patiently waiting and eating.
My mom helping Whit get dressed and ready.
The prettiest bride ever.
My baby sister and my best friend.
The ceremony was short and sweet and totally perfect. I can't describe the emotions that I felt as I stood beside my sister and watched her marry her groom. It was emotional, it was amazing...I was SO proud.
My parents signing in at the reception.
My sister is a MAJOR dog lover, so their favor was puppy cake pops. The note states that money will be donated to a local animal shelter in honor of all of the guests who attended. I would have taken a picture of one of the pops outside of the bag, but I ate
all 6 of mine before I remembered.
My best friend Melissa and her husband.
Such happiness!
Is she not the cutest thing ever?!
The best friends a girl could ask for.
The DJ called all the groomsmen up to come and dance. This is my husband, freaking out. ; )
#totallynervous. So adorable!
Andddddddd they are off!
Wow, is this post finally over?!
Thanks for hanging in there. My sister and her hubby should be coming home today from their honeymoon and I can't wait!! I kinda wish I knew someone getting married every weekend...it's SO fun.
Love, love!
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A pinnacle year.
It's not often that your publisher gets to purchase a brand new press, and George Hearst III's long-sought investment in the Times Union did not disappoint. The multimillion-dollar acquisition has translated into a pinnacle year for the Times Union's photographers. The vivid colors and handsome reproduction have breathed new life into their work. It was like moving from charcoal drawings on discount paper to the kind of stretched oil canvas that might someday grace the walls of a museum. Of course, their brushstrokes were already well-defined, they just didn't posses the means to convey their talent.
In addition to the press, new ground was also broken when they ventured into writing and design with a wonderful series of photo essays called "Our Hands at Work" in which our photographers explored local small businesses through photography and writing. One such essay by Cindy Schultz was recognized during the annual state Associated Press awards. Staffers were also honored statewide for sports, portraiture, illustration photography and video.
Personal milestones were reached by two staff members. Local legend Skip Dickstein celebrated his 40-year anniversary with the paper, and John Carl D'Annibale marked his 25th under the masthead. The veteran shooters share a wealth of local knowledge, and their creativity and drive continue to amaze us on a daily basis.
I hope you've enjoyed their work as much as we have this year. Here are stories from our staff.
Lori Van Buren
Recently I had an assignment to photograph Ahmeik Robinson, an eighth-grader who rides his unicycle to school every day. The reporter was there also, so I had to patiently wait for her to finish her interview. I took some photos of Ahmeik during the interview and even got some shots of him riding his unicycle around the cafeteria. I kept looking out the window, as I knew it was going to get dark soon. Finally, I suggested going outside and saw the sun setting as we walked out of the school. I played around with a couple of angles and created this shot as Ahmeik headed home for the day. Sometimes having patience and waiting through a reporter's interview pays off in the end.
Michael P. Farrell
To quote Louis Armstrong, "What we play is life." At its best, to me, photography is like jazz. It is about timing, composition and improvisation. Inspiration is drawn from the invention of photography in 1826 by Joseph Niepce and the invention of the saxophone by Adolphe Sax in 1840. Both the camera and saxophone are mechanical marvels used by artists. In the course of my day working as a Times Union photographer, I may bop about to six different assignments with nothing in common between them other than they happen to be happening on this particular day. You've got to be in tune to the array of beauty and sadness wherever you arrive, be on time, pick the dynamic point of view, wait, improvise, shoot and go. It gets intuitive over the years and a photographer builds an archive in his head of moments captured of the past.
On a good day, you are taking the A train; on a bad, it's discordant noise.
As photographers, we live for the discovery and in discovering we make the visual soundtrack of life. As Thelonious Monk said "The piano ain't got no wrong notes." My belief on that note is the camera don't either. The wrong note only occurs if the right note doesn't follow it, and on and on again. Like photography and jazz, we play life.
John Carl D'Annibale
This is my 25th year with the Times Union, and I still love it. But the day I took this picture I was in a bad mood. Stuck on the night shift to cover Friday-night football, I rolled up on this Halloween parade without much enthusiasm. I was wandering among the families; the afternoon sun low and the smaller children almost hidden in their parents' shadows. I put a flash on my camera and knelt down to photograph this little boy and his sister, when he tore open his shirt just like I'd watched George Reeves do as TV's Superman hundreds of times when I was a kid. In 1/200th of a second my day completely changed. I kept looking at that shot on the back of my camera as I covered the parade, every bit as excited as I had been on my first days on the job.
Paul Buckowski
Sometimes, what I'm photographing has a sad story based around it. And then there are the times when I get to photograph something that is just pure fun. This past summer, I was up at the Saratoga Race Course for the yearly hat competition. I try to arrive early if I can, because a lot of good photos can be made before the contest even begins with contestants walking about. I rounded a corner and came across this wonderful scene of two daughters working with their mom to get a photo of her in her hat. They were having such a great time, just enjoying each other and laughing a lot at themselves. Many times, I ask permission first before taking photographs, but with this I just had this feeling that they wouldn't mind at all if I took some pictures. The frame that I picked is where Josie, the mom, and Debbie, her daughter, have noticed me taking photos. The three of them were just wonderful. I only spent about three minutes with them, but I remember the joy of that moment as if it were yesterday.
Skip Dickstein
After covering numerous spot news events during 2013, I found that the most telling image I made this year was that of Amish volunteers slogging through ankle-deep mud while helping the owners of the Save-A-Lot grocery store in Fort Plain after floods destroyed a portion of the village. More than 100 residents of Fort Plain were displaced by a flash flood that decimated the downtown area of the quiet village in Montgomery County. One elderly person died when the waters of the Otsquago Creek washed her trailer down the riverbed.
It took weeks to bring Fort Plain back to some normalcy. The Times Union covered every aspect of that recovery with photos and words. I was part of that coverage.
Cindy Schultz
As the crucial 5-foot putt rolled toward its target, the gallery held its collective breath. Not since 1986 had a Capital Region golfer won the state men's amateur title. Would they witness the return of the coveted Ganson Depew Cup? The golfer's aim seemed true, but the ball narrowly missed its mark. Victor Fox of Delmar couldn't believe it. He had fallen short in his bid to make bogey and force a playoff. How had it happened? Just that morning, Fox had been the overall leader when he entered the fourth round of play at Schuyler Meadows. During the last nine holes of the tournament, the drama mounted as Fox and Matt Stasiak of Buffalo traded the lead. At the final hole, Fox had a two-stroke lead but drove into a fairway bunker. Stasiak hit his best drive of the week and birdied the hole. Unable to catch his rival, Fox stood alone on the green as he endured a heartbreaking loss.


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In 2000, Senator John McCain's Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act added language to existing federal law meant to protect fighters from exploitative promoters. And though his name is nowhere in the language of the bill, the kinds of abuses enumerated in the act have Don King written all over them. The law makes it illegal for a promoter to also act as a boxer's manager; it also forces promoters to give fighters a detailed breakdown of the costs and payout of a bout before the match takes place. The act, however, has proven to be utterly toothless. To this day, not a single case has been prosecuted under the law.
"The federal government has done some great things, don't get me wrong," says Tim Lueckenhoff, president of the Association of Boxing Commissions. "But why have a law if you're not going to enforce it?"
As a result, promoters like King — and he is certainly not the only one — continue to operate much the same way they did in decades past, to the frustration of people like manager Tom Moran. In the 1980s, Moran famously tangled with King over his treatment of heavyweight champion Tim Witherspoon.
"The people who think it's all in the past — no, it's not," says Moran. "What ends up happening is, the next generation comes along, they're none the wiser, and they get caught in it."
Even the mellowed-out Tyson acknowledges that allegations of King's continued manipulation of fighters are not exactly out of left field.
"I am not surprised," Tyson writes. "You have certain people in your life, and you expect they will do right by you, but the reality is someone is always waiting to [pull one over on you]."
In a brightly lit arena somewhere in Singapore, a massive right hook crashes into Ryan Coyne's skull.
"Oh, you motherfucker!" his coach bellows from the sidelines.
Almost instantly, the left side of Coyne's face is covered in blood, and black stains splatter his chest. It's 2008, and throughout the fight, his coach has been yelling at him to quit leading with his head, a habit he blames on Coyne's years as a Mizzou linebacker in the early 2000s.
"What did I tell you?" the coach hollers at the end of the round as the cameras zoom in on a jagged crimson slash arcing over Coyne's eyebrow.
This is Coyne's first fight on the NBC Sports Network (then called "Versus") reality show The Contender. He's something of an anomaly on the show — the youngest, the most inexperienced and lacking the made-for-TV back-story of fighting his way out of the ghetto. Coyne's a political-science major from St. Charles. Still, the dark-eyed, square-jawed Coyne earns airtime during the round-the-clock filming by stirring up trouble, sauntering into the gym one day with another contestant's name written across his headband — a "disrespectful" call-out.
With his cutman working overtime, slathering the gash with coagulants and Vaseline, Coyne makes it through five rounds and ultimately finds himself in center ring, his glove in the referee's hand.
"Your winner by split decision, ladies and gentlemen," the announcer calls out, "Ryan Coyne!"
Coyne leaps into the air screaming at the top of his lungs.
It's a nice moment, but the cut, it turns out, goes down to the bone. Coyne is sent home in the next episode.
Rather than bagging the contest's $250,000 prize, Coyne's reward came in the form of a phone call from an acquaintance with connections at Don King Productions — the man himself had seen Coyne on TV and was eager to meet.
"I thought Don King was the greatest promoter who ever lived," Coyne says. "To me this was the biggest opportunity of my life."
Coyne flew to Florida in September 2009 and says he spent most of the 48-hour trip waiting in his hotel room by the phone. On the second day, hours before his return flight, he was summoned to King's gleaming palace.
King headquarters is a $2.8 million building cased in inky-colored glass and plopped in a grove of palm trees, like an oasis for ambitious boxers. "Only in America" reads the side of the building facing the highway. Inside, the rooms and hallways are lined with news articles and accolades, photos of King with Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton.
Coyne, who says he was told he couldn't bring a lawyer, waited at a long conference room table with two of King's employees before the man himself finally stepped in from his office, dripping in jewelry and grinning.
"Oh, Danny boy," King trilled. "Irish eyes are smiling! Leprechauns jumping from glen to glen."
Despite the babbling, King was warm and charming, and Coyne liked what he heard when King promised a shot at a world title within two years of signing with DKP. An assistant produced a contract and slid it in front of Coyne — eight pages of miniscule type — and asked him to sign on the dotted line. Coyne hesitated.
Although the contract states in several places that the signer should "seek the advice of an attorney," Coyne says the mere mention of bringing a copy back to his lawyer in St. Louis completely changed the tenor of the meeting.
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Dr. Zhivago is a classic novel and fascinating story. We didn't expect the tale behind it to be even more intriguing. From smuggling to sabotage, this is the book that had both the KGB and CIA scrambling. See why a plain, blue cloth, Russian language edition just sold for $11,000.
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When news hit in February that one-hit-wonder Harper Lee was not a one-hit-wonder at all, the literary world exploded. It's been a long, long wait but now Lee's long-lost manuscript Go Set a Watchman can be read by Mockingbird fans around the world.
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During a recent Accelerated Online Programs, orientation session with the instructional designers in STaR, faculty were asked to think about the best teacher they ever had. Then they were asked "What made that person great?" Responses indicated the best teachers were:
- Engaging and interesting
- Exhibiting care for the students
- Expecting excellence
- Reaching students where they were
If your students were asked this question, would they give the same response? If not, there are best practices, tools, and techniques to help you build courses that engage students, show care for students, expect excellence from students, and reach students where they are.
Such as Boettcher's (2011), Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online: Quick Guide for New Online Faculty and Gutierrez (2013), The Ten eLearning Commandments. We at STaR are prepared to help you engage in best practices, find the right tools, and learn techniques to help you develop courses that in years to come, when students are asked to remember the best teacher they ever had, they will remember you and your course.
Boettcher, J. V. (2011). Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online: Quick Guide for New Online faculty. Designing for Learning 2006-2013. Retrieved from http://www.designingforlearning.info/services/writing/ecoach/tenbest.html
Gutierrez, K. (2013). The Ten eLearning Commandments. HIFT's eLearning Blog. Retrieved from http://info.shiftelearning.com/blog/bid/297719/The-Ten-eLearning-Commandments-Infographic?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_content=378140


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Over the past four years the teachers at Groves have explored and implemented teaching approaches that balance technological and non-technological methods that work to give each student the best learning experience possible.
1:1 Laptop Program
Groves Academy's 1:1 laptop program for our Upper School and Middle School has been in place since 2009. In 2013 all Lower School classrooms received a set of laptops to be used by the students in the classroom. This 'always present' model of computing provides an arena for student growth that is not available in other school computing models. Our one-to-one program is more than an infusion of technology into the school. It is a way to examine education's best practices and determine what can be enhanced by technology. The availability of technology and continuous connectivity has caused Middle and Upper School teachers to redefine the ways they give and collect homework, communicate with parents, and assess student learning.
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Groves has also made a commitment to prepare our students to use technology as a tool that levels the playing field for those with learning disabilities and attentional disorders. The availability of assistive technology throughout the building has increased student comprehension, productivity, and efficiency. Tools such as Kurzweil 3000, Inspiration, and Dragon Naturally Speaking, enhance the student experience and provide each with the best learning environment possible.
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With distinctive fresh flavours this Lemongrass beef salad will take you to another Asia, one that doesn't rely on the familiar tastes and ingredients of Chinese or Thai. If you haven't eaten it before you'll find that this Vietnamese dish has a lovely lightness and freshness that makes it a dining experience – one that delights and excites.
Recipes Claire Brookman
Lemongrass beef salad
Serves 6 (as part of a menu)
Prep 1 hour (plus 2 hours refrigeration)
Cook 12 minutes
3 stalks lemongrass (white part only), finely chopped
6 garlic cloves, crushed
¼ cup fish sauce
2 teaspoons caster sugar
Pinch of ground white pepper
600g beef rump steak, trimmed,
very thinly sliced
125g dried vermicelli noodles
½ butter lettuce, leaves torn
1 Lebanese cucumber, cut into
6cm-long matchsticks
½ cup torn fresh mint leaves (see note)
1 tablespoon peanut oil
⅓ cup finely chopped salted
roasted peanuts
2 tablespoons fried shallots
⅓ cup fresh coriander sprigs
Nuoc cham, to serve (see below)
Pickled vegetables
1 cup rice vinegar
½ cup caster sugar
1 large carrot, peeled, cut into
6cm-long matchsticks
½ small daikon radish, peeled, cut
into 6cm-long matchsticks
1 Make Pickled vegetables Combine vinegar and sugar in a small saucepan
over medium heat. Cook, stirring, for 2 minutes or until sugar has dissolved.
Cool for 5 minutes. Place carrot and radish in a glass or ceramic bowl. Add vinegar. Cover. Refrigerate for 2 hours or overnight, if time permits.
2 Meanwhile, combine lemongrass, garlic, fish sauce, sugar and pepper in a glass or ceramic dish. Add beef. Toss to coat. Cover. Refrigerate for 2 hours, if time permits.
3 Place noodles in a large heatproof bowl. Cover with boiling water. Set aside for 10 minutes or until softened. Drain. Rinse under cold water. Drain. Place noodles in a large serving dish. Drain pickled vegetables. Add lettuce, cucumber, pickled vegetables and mint to noodles.
4 Heat a wok over medium-high heat. Add 2 teaspoons oil. Swirl to coat. Add half the beef mixture. Stir-fry for 2 to 3 minutes or until browned. Transfer to a bowl. Cover. Repeat with remaining oil and beef.
5 Spoon hot beef mixture over noodle mixture. Sprinkle with peanuts, shallots and coriander. Serve with Nuoc cham.
Nuoc Cham
Makes about 2 cups
Prep 15 minutes
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 long red chilli, finely chopped
⅔ cup caster sugar
½ cup fish sauce
⅓ cup lime juice
1 Place all the ingredients in a small glass or ceramic bowl. Add 1 cup cold water.
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October 29, 2007
The MSU Space Cowboys, a Department of Aerospace Engineering rocket team, is hosting a benefit auction Nov. 15 at 5:30 p.m. at the Microtel Inn & Suites in Starkville.
All proceeds will benefit the Space Cowboys' outreach program, which directly benefits local schools and students. Items to be auctioned include MSU and airplane memorabilia, artwork, and gift certificates.
The outreach team educates the community about rocketry, as well as promoting an interest in education in general and science, technology, engineering, and math in particular. Last year, the Space Cowboys hosted 12 events that reached more than 300 children in Starkville and the surrounding area.
This year, the team hopes to expand its outreach program, if its benefit auction--and other fundraising efforts--is successful. Members are planning their own competition, the Middle School Launch Challenge. This competition will allow Mississippi middle schoolers to build and compete with their own rockets.
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