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The Center for Digital Scholarship and the Brown University Library present An Emerging Canon? Mapping a Field through Database Visualization, a talk hosted by Professor Scott Rettberg of the University of Bergen, Norway. This event will be hosted in the Rock Conference Room at the Rockefeller Library in Providence on Thursday, May 1 at noon.
The Electronic Literature Knowledge Base is a cross-referenced, scholarly database containing entries about creative works of and critical writing on electronic literature, as well as information about authors, events, exhibitions, publishers, teaching resources and databases in the field. It was established in 2010 by the University of Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group, as an aspect of the seven-nation project Electronic Literature as a Model for Creativity and Innovation (ELMCIP ). This presentation will show how the Knowledge Base has been developed as a scholarly resource and how gathering humanities data about a creative field of practice allows us to see new connections and patterns through distant reading strategies, visualizations and network analysis. Through an analysis of all critical references to creative works in critical writing documented in the Knowledge Base, and visualizations, we are able to consider and contest the possiblity of an emerging canon based on more objective measures of citation analysis than previously possible.
Scott Rettberg is Professor of Digital Culture in the department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Rettberg is the project leader of ELMCIP (Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice http://elmcip.net), a HERA-funded collaborative research project, and the founder of the Electronic Literature Organization. Rettberg is the author or coauthor of novel-length works of electronic literature, combinatory poetry, and films including The Unknown, Kind of Blue, Implementation, Frequency, Three Rails Live, Toxicity and others. His creative work has been exhibited online and at art venues including the Chemical Heritage Foundation Museum, Palazzo dell Arti Napoli, Beall Center, the Slought Foundation, The Krannert Art Museum, and elsewhere.


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Flat-chested Japanese girls make for tight holesWritten by: Tadashi Anahori on October 2, 2012 at 11:57 pm | In Hands-on Reports | Discuss (3) »
We've talked before how, despite all their loveliness, there is no getting around the fact that many Japanese girls are flat chested.
As one commenter on that blog post pointed out, large breasts sag with age so it is better to go with modest chests in youth for a more attractive older woman. (And older Japanese women can also be extremely hot!)
Japanese hinnyu ("poor" breasts) can also be a fetish. Many guys here like girls with nothing on their chests!
Tsurupeta also means flat-chested and it seems there are some other hidden advantages to girls with no busts to speak of (though Japanese girls with nice breasts are also not so rare in the porn world).
The Tsurupeta Girl Laboratory Onahole is based on such a young Japanese girl with a flat chest.
But such a body also means that she has a super, super tight (and curving!) hole that will more than make up for whatever you miss upstairs.
Designed to be like the pussy of a preteen girl who hasn't yet developed much (or anything) in the chest area, this hole is for anyone with a hankering for youthful, soft bodies. The texture and feel of this hole as you push yourself in deep reveals the secret merits of girls with small chests.
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Wow. It can be sort of disturbing but if it is a fetish for Japanese men, then so be it. lols.
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Our very last CSA box (foxtailcommunityfarm.com) arrived today. It feels a bit bittersweet, to see this most plentiful season come to an end.
According to our CSA newsletter, our share was harvested this morning in two inches of snow!
Here is what came today: black beans, popcorn, beets, pie pumpkins, carrots, brussels sprouts, celeraic. And a wonderful surprise: a perfect dried bouquet from the De Long's flower garden. This will sit on my kitchen windowsill, and cheer me on cold, grey February mornings.
We will eat black bean soup this weekend, with corn bread and salad. The recipe will come, when I make it. And we will all savor these last bites of the harvest.
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MANILA -- The Department of Health (DOH), on Wednesday, reported that more than 2,000 measles cases have already been confirmed in 2013, including 55 killed by its complications.
According to DOH – National Epidemiology Center (NEC) head Dr. Eric Tayag, they have already verified a total of 2,232 measles cases from the period of January 1 to December 31, 2013.
"The figure is 712 cases higher compared to the number of cases reported for the entire 2012, which is 1,520," noted DOH consultant Dr. Willie Ong in a media forum.
The National Capital Region has the highest number of cases with 1,051; followed by Calabarzon with 526; and Western Visayas with 306.
And according to DOH Secretary Enrique Ona, they expect more of the same, at least, in the early weeks of January.
"Ang nakikita ko based sa data natin, pwede ngang sabihin ko na bumaba this past week. But I'm not ready to say na pababa na… it's too early to say that," said Ona.
This is despite the government's massive vaccination efforts in recent weeks.
According to the health chief, the effects of the massive vaccination campaign can only be felt between two weeks to a month.
"In short, it will take you two weeks to a month. Hopefully, we can see the lessening of cases in the following weeks," said Ona.
Earlier, the DOH began doing house-to-house vaccinations in areas where there are declared outbreaks, where children between six months to 59 months are being given measles shots.
Parallel to it, the DOH will also do "catch-up" vaccination in local health centers in areas with low coverage for those that failed to have their children vaccinated.
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Nutritional regulation of muscle protein synthesis with resistance exercise: strategies to enhance anabolism
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Nutrition & Metabolism 2012, 9:40 doi:10.1186/1743-7075-9-40Published: 17 May 2012
Provision of dietary amino acids increases skeletal muscle protein synthesis (MPS), an effect that is enhanced by prior resistance exercise. As a fundamentally necessary process in the enhancement of muscle mass, strategies to enhance rates of MPS would be beneficial in the development of interventions aimed at increasing skeletal muscle mass particularly when combined with chronic resistance exercise. The purpose of this review article is to provide an update on current findings regarding the nutritional regulation of MPS and highlight nutrition based strategies that may serve to maximize skeletal muscle protein anabolism with resistance exercise. Such factors include timing of protein intake, dietary protein type, the role of leucine as a key anabolic amino acid, and the impact of other macronutrients (i.e. carbohydrate) on the regulation of MPS after resistance exercise. We contend that nutritional strategies that serve to maximally stimulate MPS may be useful in the development of nutrition and exercise based interventions aimed at enhancing skeletal muscle mass which may be of interest to elderly populations and to athletes.


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Via Appia Antica from Torre in Selci to Frattocchie
Via Appia Antica is the name given to the section of Via Appia between Porta S. Sebastiano and Frattocchie, a hamlet near Albano where it joins Via Appia Nuova which starts at Porta di S. Giovanni.
The initial section of Via Appia Antica is covered in the following three pages: Porta S. Sebastiano, Basilica di S. Sebastiano and Via Appia Antica from Cecilia Metella to Torre in Selci.
Torre in Selci
This last section of Via Appia Antica is not flanked by imposing monuments such as Tomba di Cecilia Metella or Villa dei Quintili, but especially near Frattocchie it is indicative of how the road appeared to an XVIIIth century traveller. In recent years the use of cars to visit this section has been discouraged by uncovering stretches of the ancient road. After the crossing of a road (Via di Fioranello) which leads to Ciampino Airport Via Appia Antica is reserved to pedestrians and cyclists.
This XIIth century tower is named after the selci (flints) which were used to build it; it stands above a mound which hides an ancient tomb. It was decorated with fragments of marble and travertine.
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The ancient Romans are known for having been a people of warriors, yet in their funerary monuments they usually preferred to be portrayed wearing a toga, a civilian cloth. The toga was a large woollen cloak which was wrapped around the body. In origin it was most likely a smaller garment, but over time its ceremonial usage prevailed and its size increased; only Roman citizens were allowed to wear it.
The most imposing ruins of Roman aqueducts are located at some distance to the north of Via Appia, whereas in the proximity of the road one can see a section of the aqueduct of Villa dei Quintili.
Inscriptions, reliefs and fragments of decoration can be seen also in this section of Via Appia Antica, although not to the same extent as in those closer to Rome. A very lengthy inscription near Torre in Selci can be seen in a page on the historical shops of Rome.
The original meaning of exedra is a building or part of building with outdoor seats; in Roman architecture it mainly indicated a semicircular wall adorned with statues. The exedra shown above was most likely part of a large funerary complex where the mourners rested; the niches which housed statues are still noticeable.
The size and design of the funerary monuments along Via Appia varied greatly depending on the importance and financial condition of the dead and the kind of tomb which was in fashion at a certain time. Two examples of a "compact" tomb which responded to several requirements are shown above; they were small brick buildings with two chambers one above the other: the lower one (hypogeum) had niches for urns containing the ashes of the dead or loculi, recesses for their buried remains. The upper one was used for funerary rites. The decoration was made with specially shaped and coloured bricks; a statue of the family leader was placed in the central niche to represent all dead family members.
The sections of Via Appia Antica which are closer to Rome are flanked by upper class private properties; high walls prevent seeing the ruins of the tombs which were built behind those on the very edge of the road. In this section the secluded villas are replaced by farms; their owners are not obsessed with privacy and security and it is possible to trespass in the private property to take a look at these tombs.
Tempio di Ercole
According to tradition and based on a reference in epigram IX, 64 by the Latin poet Martial Emperor Domitian built a temple to Hercules at this point of Via Appia Antica. Archaeologists tend to believe the building to belong to an earlier period, because of the usage of peperino columns rather than marble or travertine. It is also possible that the columns were part of a marketplace.
Tomba di Quinto Verannio
Quintus Verannius was a Roman general who ended his career as governor of Britain where he died in 57 AD; according to a now lost inscription he was buried in this well preserved brick tomb. Close to this building there is a later (IVth century) circular tomb which was converted into a little church and then used as a granary; most likely it was surrounded by a porch. Both buildings were the subject of many paintings and prints (including one by Piranesi who thought the tomb to belong to Pisone Liciniano - external link).
The columns placed in niches inspired Michelangelo and Raphael, Pietro da Cortona and Borromini.
In 1789, Sir Richard Colt Hoare a rich Englishman, admirer of Horace, decided to follow the itinerary described by the poet in Satire 5 of Book 1, a record of the journey he made to Brindisi in 38 BC.
Colt Hoare invited Carlo Labruzzi, a young painter and draughtsman, to join him on his journey along Via Appia and to draw its main monuments for him.
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This class is suitable for students looking to make executive strategic financial decisions, including investment bankers, consultants, CFOs and corporate treasurers, portfolio and investment managers, and students seeking careers in private equity.
Advanced Corporate Finance should be considered a capstone course. This is an advanced course in which students are expected to perform professional level work. The class is open to both 1st and 2nd year students who have completed B8306 Capital Markets and Investments, as the material covered in B8306 is necessary throughout the course. In particular, students should be familiar with notions of options pricing including valuation using the Black-Scholes formula.
Advanced Corporate Finance builds directly upon the basic valuation tools developed in Corporate Finance and extends in the following directions: (1) The course introduces more advanced concepts into valuation (such as corporate securities beyond simple debt and equity) to equip students with the tools necessary to analyze more complex (and therefore, more realistic) capital structures and corporate transactions. (2) The course incorporates richer institutional detail into quantitative analysis, bringing students closer to real-world. (3) The course explores new topics and recent developments in corporate finance theory and practice as a means of exposing students to the ever-changing nature of the capital markets, both its terms and its practices. The more advanced tools and deeper understanding of the valuation process in this course serve the same goal stated in Corporate Finance: To improve corporate financial decision-making by executives and to provide value-creating tools of analysis for investors.


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In the RoDip3 system, car bodies are rotated by 180° as they are dipped into the tank and are again rotated another 180° as they emerge. Rotation enables an improvement in both the pretreatment and coating of the bodies. Air bubbles in hollow spaces or drops of material running from the hollow spaces are avoided, preventing potential weaknesses in corrosion protection. According to DPC, since the new procedure was introduced, coating results are "noticeably improved" and time-consuming touch-up efforts have been reduced. Also, the line is approximately 20% shorter compared to a conventional line.
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Lush Big Conditioner you are so over due my dear friend! Many years of using Big Shampoo has taught me one thing, DON'T use it more than once a week or even once every two weeks. Fact, it makes my hair like straw. Holy cow it is so drying! But I love how it clarifies and gets my hair so damn squeaky clean.
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Here's how to get that awesome distressed look, courtesy of John Eshaya, designer of the seriously destroyed JET jeans, a favorite of celebrities such as Nicole Richie and Cameron Diaz.
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Lay the jeans on a flat surface.
Make about a small incision where you want the rip to be. Cut at a slight angle, not straight across. Take care to cut through just one layer of fabric.
Insert your fingers in the hole and rip slowly until you are about one inch away from the side seams.
Turn inside-out and wash in cold water to get rid of dangling threads.
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Lay the jeans on a flat surface, outdoors or in a well-ventilated area. Don't use jeans with spandex, as bleach will destroy the stretchy fibers.
For big splats, take a small amount of bleach in a cup and carefully splatter across the jeans. For smaller splats, cover most of the mouth of the bleach bottle, then shake out a sprinkling of bleach droplets.
For drippy splats, hang or prop up the jeans. Put bleach in a spray bottle, and set to mist or spray, depending on how big you want the drips to be.
Wait for the bleach to turn white on the jeans, then turn inside-out and wash in cold water.
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A muumuu — long, loose and brightly-colored — is a Hawaiian classic. But if you're not into voluminous garb, how about a slimmer-fitting maxi dress? They're all the rage this year, and there so many designs to choose from.
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River Oaks residents wrapped up in patriotic trappings to march into the holiday morning for the community's July Fourth parade and celebration.
Some rode in refurbished antique cars, golf carts, wagons or bikes, while others waved flags and walked the parade course — all with head-to-toe or windshield-to-tire patriotic garb.
Neighbors on the sidelines also dressed for the occasion: veterans pinned with American flags and children's faces painted with fireworks. The crowd took part in the parade, waving from lawn chairs and catching candy thrown from vehicles blaring "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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Ventura Regional Sanitation district manager's compensation raises concerns
The Ventura Regional Sanitation District board Thursday agreed to place on a future agenda questions raised about the compensation of Mark Norris, district manager of the Triunfo and Saticoy sanitation districts.
Norris, 59, is under contract with the regional sanitation district, which provides the Triunfo and Saticoy districts with management and operational support.
In public comments at the regional board's meeting, David Grau, board chairman of the Ventura County Taxpayers Association, charged that Norris last month became the highest-paid public servant in the county.
Grau said the board approved a 50 percent increase in Norris' contract, raising his annual compensation to $300,000 a year from $200,000 a year.
"Most of those costs will be passed on to two small districts and their ratepayers," he said.
But Mark Lawler, general manager of the regional sanitation district, said the board did not approve a 50 percent increase. Rather, members extended Norris' independent-contractor agreement for another fiscal year, paying him the same $110 an hour with no benefits, not to exceed $300,000. That's the same cap he had in fiscal year 2012-13, Lawler said.
Despite the $300,000 limit, Norris wasn't paid nearly that much in the past fiscal year, which ended June 30, Lawler said. Through May, Norris had billed the district $212,000, said Lawler, who expects Norris to bill the district about $230,000 this fiscal year.
Norris, a former Oxnard assistant public works director who began working for the regional sanitation district in January 2012, said the district wants him to work more hours this fiscal year. In addition to his work for the Triunfo and Saticoy districts, he said he also works for the regional district's Toland landfill outside Santa Paula.
"Certainly this $300,000 a year is an overstatement," Norris said. "There is no way that I'll ever get close to that. It would be impossible at my hourly rate."
Still, Norris said Grau's concerns "are valid questions, and the district is in the process of responding to them."
Janna Orkney, a Triunfo district board member, told the regional board that Norris does an "outstanding job" for her agency.
Even so, she said, she had some transparency concerns.
"What is VRSD charging us for his services?" she said in an interview. "It's real murky."
But Lawler said it's perfectly clear. The Triunfo district is charged $126 an hour for Norris' services, which equals a 15 percent markup of his $110 an hour wage to cover the regional district's overhead for the office space he uses, Lawler said.
"These numbers have been presented and approved by their board," he said.
The concerns about Norris' compensation could be on the agenda for the regional board's Sept. 5 meeting.
The regional district serves the waste needs of Camarillo, Fillmore, Ojai, Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Santa Paula, Thousand Oaks, Ventura and eight special districts, including Triunfo and Saticoy.
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ATHENS, Ala. – Edward Gettys Jr. took home the big bucks during the Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Weekend Series, operated by American Bass Anglers, Tennessee East Division 4 opener, held March 17, 2012, on Lake Guntersville.
Running out of the Waterfront Tackle & Grill landing in Scottsboro, Ala., the hometown angler caught five bass going 21.29 pounds. He anchored his catch with a 6.63-pounder that took the top bass title in the Boater Division. For the win, Gettys earned $2,702 with a $315 bonus for the lunker.
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In second for the boaters, Tim Hurst of Oxford, Ala., landed a five-bass tournament limit weighing 20.39 pounds. He pocketed $1,351.
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Gregg N. Crass of Oliver Springs, Tenn., took third among the boaters with five bass at 20.15 pounds. He capped his catch with a 4.52-pound kicker to win $901.
"I caught my fish on a green pumpkin jig around milfoil," Crass said. "We ran about 15 minutes down the lake. I broke off two good fish that would have made a difference."
Ted R. Ridley of Maryville, Tenn., finished fourth with five bass and 18.68 pounds including a 5.86-pound kicker. Shawn M. Thornburg of Valparaiso, Ind., landed five keepers for 17.85 pounds and fifth place. His biggest bass weighed 6.21 pounds.
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Red or Dead: How Stalin Re-Defined American Liberalism
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Susan Sontag, who characterized the KGB's disinformation play about Pope Pius XII as "an excellent theatrical idea," spearheaded the transformation of the intellectual movement in the 1960s. New York Magazine described Sontag as "the last significant member" of the New York intellectual crowd (which included the likes of Lionel Trilling) and the source of its demise. What Irving Howe would come to define as "the new sensibility" would usher in the conquest of high culture in the name of pop and the metamorphosis of the intellectual class from theological Marxists into a nihilistic oligarchy.
While Sontag was by no means alone in her endeavor, as an academic she pioneered the already closing gap between high and popular cultures by essentially defaming Matthew Arnold, the Victorian father of modern literary criticism. Arnold defined culture as "a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world."
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Sontag embraced late 19th century aestheticism. Beauty would no longer be the source of moral value; according to Sontag's stylistics, beauty — or, rather, the pleasure one received from viewing or listening to a piece — would be the only way to value a piece of art. Arnold's concept of content as character building was thrown out the window along with Arnold's definition of art. Kramer details,
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Diane McKinney-Whetstone's lyrical first novel, Tumbling, vividly captures a tightly knit African-American neighborhood in South Philadelphia during the forties and fifties. Its central characters, Herbie and Noon, are a loving but unconventional couple whose marriage remains unconsummated for many years as Noon struggles to repossess her sexuality after a brutal attack in her past. While she seeks salvation in the church, Herbie gains sexual gratification in the arms of a bewitching jazz singer named Ethel, a woman who profoundly affects both Noon's and Herbie's lives when she leaves with them, first, a baby girl and then later, a five-year-old named Liz.
When a road planned by the city council threatens to break up this South Philadelphia neighborhood, the community must band together. Unexpectedly, Noon rises up and takes the lead in the opposition, fighting for all she's worth to keep her family and community together.
Tumbling is a beautiftilly rendered, poignant story about the ties that bind us and the secrets that keep us apart. With striking lyricism, Diane McKinney-Whetstone keenly guides us through the world of community, family, and the human heart.
"Even the air is palpable in Tumbling...The story moves forth on the power of Ms. McKinney-Whetstones characters. Ms. McKinney-Whetstone captures the formidable struggle to protect both a community and a family." —New York Times Book Review
"Warm and intimate.... Tumbling is an accomplished novel, with sharply drawn characters, exuberant prose, plenty of period detail and a wise, forgiving outlook on family life." — Los Angeles Times Book Review
The beloved bestselling debut novel that launched the luminous career of Diane McKinney Whetstone, critically acclaimed author of Tempest Rising, Blues Dancing, Leaving Cecil Street, and Trading Dreams at Midnight. Writing in a style as accessible as Terry McMillan (Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back), yet with the literary touches of Toni Morrison (Beloved, Song of Solomon), McKinney Whetstones Tumbling is the "warm and wonderful" (Nikki Giovanni), beautiful and uplifting story of Noon and Herbie and their tight-knit Philadelphia neighborhood in the 1940s and 50s.
Noon and Herbie are deeply in love and living in a tightly knit African American neighborhood in South Philadelphia during the 1940s. But their marriage remains unconsummated because of a horrible incident in Noon's past, so each seeks comfort elsewhere: Noon in the warm acceptance of the neighborhood church; Herbie in the arms of Ethel, a jazz singer. Then one day an infant girl is left on their doorstep, and later Ethel blesses them with her five-year-old niece. Suddenly and unexpectedly a family, Herbie, Noon, and their two girls draw closer—until an outside threat reawakens a fire in Noon, causing her to rise up and fight to hold her family and her community together.
Diane McKinney-Whetstone's Tumbling is a poignant, exquisitely rendered story of the ties that bind us and the secrets that keep us apart.
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What role can vendors play in helping me to learn how to use technology?
Monday, November 22nd, 2010 | technology
Technology vendors are not charity organizations – they have a profit motive. The fact that they take money from your school – or from you – does not make them your enemies. In fact, they can become your best friends!
How can you use the client-supplier relationship between you and vendors to your advantage? Think about it this way:
When a vendor sells you a piece of technology – it can be a device like a computer or a data projector or an interactive whiteboard or it can be a software program – and it is not working, it reflects unfavourably on the vendor.
Many people – teachers, principals, school governing body members and even education department officials – are not yet convinced of the value of technology as teaching and learning tools. They question whether an investment in it will yield a positive return.
Vendors know that future sales depend on successful operation of their technology. When the equipment or program is not working because you – the teacher – don't know how to use it, onlookers seldom understand the real reason for this. They only see expensive technology that is not working. Vendors need their products to be successful in your classroom and it is therefore in their own interest to give you all the training and support you need.
It is also in your own interest to make use of whatever training vendors offer you!
Not all vendors provide proper training and so it is important that you select reputable dealers – those who are not mere box-droppers and interested in a quick sale. Good vendors understand that, after selling technology to you, they can't simply walk away and hope for the best. The service they render must include initial training, as well as ongoing support.
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Tuesday, 23 November, 2010
How about vendors employing Khanya staff as consultants to assist them in proper implementation and training?
Tuesday, 23 November, 2010
The acquisition of hardware and software is the easy part – how to use these effectively to add value to teaching and learning is far more complicated. Reputable technology vendors that adhere to a strict code of conduct, as required by members of ADESSA, are on hand to offer training and support on an on-going basis and will work in partnership with Education Departments and schools to grow the use of ICT in education. These vendors are highly professional and are therefore able to assist in the implementation of e-learning on a sustained basis and to help in building the skills of educators in the use of ICT.
Tuesday, 23 November, 2010
After a number of years being involved with 98 FET College Campuses using the PLATO Learning System, one thing is abundantly clear: "What gets measured, gets done." Ideally, the local leadership (principal/campus manager/HOD) should be "checking" and supporting the implementation of the ICT's, but often the vendor is forced to do that in order to protect the name and integrity of the product. In the ICT world,teachers need to become the "guide on the side" and allow the learners to access the technology, as opposed to continue trying to be the "sage on the stage" in a field with which they are uncomfortable.
Tuesday, 23 November, 2010
Shirley, it is good to hear from the CEO of ADESSA. I believe that ADESSA can play a leading role in Southern Africa to champion the cause of technology in education. I trust that your members, each in their own right, will continue making a contribution towards teacher training … some of them are already doing such a superb job! The education authorities on their own can not make ICT in schools happen – we NEED the vendors!
Wednesday, 24 November, 2010
I could not agree more. The only way that we are going to integrate ICT into the classrooms is by ongoing, quality training to the schools. Knowing exactly how the product can enhance curriculum delivery is key to improving numeracy and literacy at the Khanya schools!
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As it has over the past 15 years, the aggressively pro-homosexual Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) rolled out its self-serving Day of Silence, supposedly meant to protest the oppression and "bullying" GLSEN insists "gay" young people face. By remaining silent the entire day, explained GLSEN's director Eliza Byard, students in high schools across the nation are "calling attention to the silencing effects of anti-LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] bullying, discrimination, and harassment present in too many schools across the country."
But a coalition of conservative, Christian, and pro-family groups contend that the "Day of Silence" is little more than a tool of radical homosexuals to engage teens in "gay" advocacy — and to recruit some of the more vulnerable ones into the destructive lifestyle along the way. One of those groups, Mission America, encouraged parents to keep their kids home from school on that day.
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In a previous post on the MIRCI conference, I wrote:
Guilt sucks. At least half of the talks mentioned the devastating effects of mother guilt — not only is it a tool of control of the kyriarchy (or "the dominant cultural discourse") by keeping the focus on "what's wrong with me" not "the prescription of the 'good mother' is wrong", it makes us worse parents. We overcompensate out of guilt, we lose our autonomy and authenticity because of guilt, and we snap from the stress of feeling guilty. Drop the guilt.
And so, of course, as soon as I got back home, the universe decided to test me on the topic. I'm not going to go into the details right now, not least because everything is still very much in flux, but the Boychick has been having difficulties in preschool that came to a peak on his first session back after my return. And oh, did the guilt come on in force.
I had left him.
I let his sleep disregulate.
I exposed him to "adult language".
I failed to regulate my moods around him.
I broke my child, and he would never "succeed" at school, and it would be all my fault, forever and ever and ever amen.
What good did this guilt do me? Did it help me identify areas to change? Did it grant me the courage to make the changes I needed? Did it help me accept the situation as it was so I was free to move on?
No. It made me want to grab my child and climb in a dark hole where no one could get at us, and sob in his sweet soft curls, his long limbs curled in my lap, my eyes squeezed closed and streaming salty tears. It froze me. And I had to let it go before I could move, before I could talk, before I could plan for any action but that, that impossible urge to run and flee and hide and burrow and board off the world.
Even now it threatens to overwhelm — your selfishness is responsible for all his problems, it whispers, seeking to slip in wherever it can, my culture's beliefs borrowing my brain's voice to torment and tie me down — and must be ignored, set aside, even — radical notion! — forgiven if I'm to help my walking heart as he deserves.
It's this strange game we play: we are blamed, so we blame ourselves, carry this guilt, wield it before us — "See, I'm doing my job, I know it's my fault, don't blame me more, I'm not a Bad Mom, I know I've done bad, but I'll try harder, do better, beat myself for it, don't hurt me more!" — so as to stop it being wielded against us. It doesn't work, of course, but in many ways it is worse when we dare to declare "No, I won't take this on, I did not mold my child, he is who he is and I'll help him as I can but I am not his creator or his owner or his personal omnipotent god and there is only so much I can do." Then, we are told, we don't care, our blasé 'tude proof of our culpability, our unfulfilled responsibility, our negligence and negative influence. And to try that as a mother with a mood disorder? Then, the voice smirks, the culture accuses, I must be delusional. Obviously I have damaged him. Obviously I am bad, wrong, unworthy, unable to parent without causing pain.
And maybe some small part of that is true. Maybe some of how he is is because of how I am. Maybe his life is harder because mine isn't easy. But guilt? Doesn't ease either of our burdens, doesn't help us move, doesn't help us grow. Guilt would have us hide away, deny us the sun and air and freedom we need, both of us, to thrive in our own unique ways.
I have my difficulties. So, as much as it breaks my heart to know but as has always been inevitable, does my child. And we are both beautiful and perfectly imperfect exactly as we are.
Guilt? Would only get in our way. And we've got too much to do to let it.


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Sheriff's Office investigating home invasion robbery
Collier County sheriff's deputies are investigating a woman's report of a home invasion robbery late Tuesday in East Naples.
The victim, 64, told deputies she was sitting outside her apartment on the 2100 block of Scrub Oak Circle reading a book when a man approached her with a silver gun. The man, who wore a black scarf over his face, ordered her inside the apartment at gunpoint and demanded all her money and jewelry, according to an incident report. The woman said the man took a box of rings and her tablet computer.
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MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Promptu Systems Corporation, a leading developer of innovative voice-powered mobile applications, unveiled today at the CTIA trade event in San Francisco a new and highly accurate voice dictation system. Using the company's proprietary Client Server Speech Recognition (CSSR(TM)) technology, the system converts a user's fluent, natural speech almost instantly into text. Suggested as a safer, more convenient text input method than the limited 12-button keypad of typical mobile handsets, the system is targeted at SMS, email and social networking applications.
"We believe we have overcome the accuracy limitations preventing successful continuous speech recognition on mobile devices, which has been the barrier to wide adoption," stated Giuseppe Staffaroni, President and CEO of Promptu. "Applications that use Promptu's Client Server Speech Recognition technology can dramatically increase the usability of speech as a means of user input. Users can simply talk to their mobile phones, rather than typing on tiny keyboards. We believe this is an exciting development in mobile user interface technologies."
Mobile carriers, handset manufacturers, social networking and related companies are encouraged to visit Promptu at the CTIA trade show at booth #1540 for a demonstration today (September 10) through Friday (September 12), or to contact the company by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com to arrange a private showing. The technology being demonstrated requires that a user have an active data connection at the time of voice input.
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Abilene police and fire blotter 5/6/2013
Incident reports released Sunday by the Abilene Police Department:
Burglary vehicle parts, 3500 block of Curry Lane, Sunday
Someone removed a tailgate, valued at $800, off a victim's pickup.
Assault — citizen family violence, 800 block of Grape Street, Sunday
A live-in girlfriend slapped her boyfriend several times in the face during an argument. The suspect left before police arrived. The victim declined to pursue charges.
Assault — citizen family violence, 1600 block of Simmons Avenue, Sunday
A woman was assaulted in her home by a male suspect known to her. The victim declined to pursue charges.
Robbery, 900 block of East Highway 80, Saturday
A male suspect got into a car at South 14th and Butternut streets and told the male victim driving the car to drive or he would kill him. The victim drove the suspect to Judge Ely Boulevard and Highway 80. The suspect then took money from the victim.
Theft, 2400 block of Rountree Drive, Saturday
Someone pulled open a side gate of a residence and took two dogs.
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text: http://ubuntuforums.org – I have Ubuntu PP desktop 64 bits with recommended nvidia drivers. I have 1 Monitor and 1 TV connected to the same video card Geforce 9800 GT (2 DVI). I use the TV from time to time as a second monitor. Because the settings were not all that clear I messed around with Xinerama and XServer configuration. Later when I put everything back on default and re-saved to X config I am stuck with only UBUNTU 2D!??? Can anyone take a look and help me get 3D back again? Here my X-Config Code: # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 295. (Hardware)