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Nonprofit Visions Awards Dinner, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club, 7000 NW Grand Blvd.; 463-6886.
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The National Marfan Foundation's Oklahoma City Network Group will have its first meeting from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at Mark Heitz Chevrolet, 1221 Ed Noble Parkway in Norman.
The network group, which will be led by Krystal Teal, will provide a forum for people with Marfan syndrome and related disorders to share experiences and information and provide peer support.
At the meeting, attendees will have an opportunity to meet each other and talk about future activities and get-togethers. It is open to anyone with Marfan syndrome or a related connective tissue disorder, their family and friends. Members of the public who would like to learn more about the condition are also invited to attend.
Marfan syndrome is a potentially fatal connective tissue disorder that affects the heart, blood vessels, eyes, bones, joints and lungs. It is often, but not always, characterized by a tall stature and disproportionately long legs and arms.
For more information, please contact Kristal Teal at 408-8810.
For information about Marfan syndrome, contact the National Marfan Foundation at (800) 862-7326or log on to www.marfan.org.
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Dale Rogers Training Center is participating as an Oklahoma #GivingTuesday partner in the annual movement.
#GivingTuesday follows the branded "Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday" and is designed to give back in a charitable effort the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
The movement has a growing list of partners that numbers 1,000 people in 50 states, all who are working to lead the nation to "Get Out the Give."
The Dale Rogers Training Center, which provides training and employment to people with disabilities, is participating by encouraging people to shop for gifts on its online store to support the center.
To go the Dale Rogers store, go online to www.drtc.org/commerce. For more information about #GivingTuesday, go online to www.givingtuesday.orgor connect via Facebook at GivingTuesday or Twitter @GivingTues.
Foundation celebrates success
The Sooner Oklahoma City chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation recently celebrated a successful year of fundraising and medical advancements with a party and the commissioning of an original piece of art by Benjamin Harjo Jr.
Dick and Jeannette Sias commissioned the piece depicting 65 roses called "Love and Caring" for the foundation, and the artist created 65 limited edition prints for donors who make a contribution of $650 or more.
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The long awaited implementation of the Teacher Laptop initiative is not yet happening. According to reports, the Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) has indicated that there is yet another delay.
The reasons for the delay are vague. The bottom line to teachers: don't rush out to buy your laptop unless you've received the go-ahead from your provincial authorities.
While the authorities are dragging their heals on the Teacher Laptop Initiative, most children in our schools are walking around with cell phones in their pockets. They're not using their mobile devices for making telephone calls – they mainly use them to send text messages and passing pictures to one another.
This means that our learners are digitally connected. Gone are the days of the digital divide for them – they have crossed the gulf. Sadly, bureaucratic bungling left many of our teachers on the wrong side of the divide.
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Wednesday, 3 March, 2010
Doesn't it worry you that your observation mocks the e-* that you guys have been talking about? We have learners who are the e-pioneers and the educators who are sitting waiting for laptops!
Wednesday, 3 March, 2010
My advice to teachers have changed. Get your own laptop and don't wait for the government. The same with the housing. People will wait forever. It does not matter which party is in power they are all basically the same. It is quite strange that millions are being bandied around in government and party circles but everybody else must tighten their belts.
By the way… I was sitting next to a PhD student busy writing up his thesis on Mobile Learning and being inquisitive I asked him what his findings were. His thesis shows that there is no significant difference in learner achievement whether they study with or without mobile phones. So the question is….how do mobile phones affect learning and teaching? In fact, does the Nokia project show that learners do better at Maths by using mobile technology or not? If this was measured, then did the researchers study which other factors could have contributed to an increase in learner achievement? In the same breath we should also ask what does research show about laptop use in teaching and learning?
Laptops as with mobile phones must just help us to do our job as teachers better.
Wednesday, 3 March, 2010
L = Left
A = Alone !
P = Poor
T = Teacher !
O = Our
P = Process (ICT Skills development)
S = Stopped….
Albie, My Apple is klein en compact (Compaq) and lê nou weer (Lenovo) somewhere (Samsung) ag siestog (Asus). Hi time (Hitachi) dat (Dell) to stuur (Toshiba) my a nuwe HP wat kan lê by my voetjies (Fujitsu). Meer (Mecer) kan ek nie sê, maar my hart a seer(Acer)oor die gesloer
Thursday, 4 March, 2010
Yes Dwayne, it bothers me! That's why I posted this item, and made the comment in the last paragraph. Our learners are running technological circles around their teachers.
Thursday, 4 March, 2010
Question is – how many teachers will actually qualify for TLI now? Where will you be placed in rank out of 400,000. Principals first; assuming HODs next; management etc. When will the newer teachers -the new generation, the ones we want to assist to use technology and change the classroom experience finally receive their taxable allowance of R130 over the next five years? (and then they would have to make up the shortfall anyway) Who of the principals and senior ranked educators really WANTS a laptop? Who of them will put it to good use? Looking at the ads for laptops one can buy a laptop bundle for R250 per month X 36. Teachers who desperately want one should be encouraged to go out and buy one for themselves or it may be 2020 before they are even considered.
Thursday, 4 March, 2010
Very sad indeed that a project that created such hype and high expectations should be dogged by vagueness of intent. I however choose to differ with your PhD student Mark and say i think there could be, in the long run, and if used appropriately, a not-so-negligible difference in the achievements of pupils with and without mobile phones.
The factors that come into play could be, what is the mobile phone primarily used for, and how often. And most importantly, what functionality does the mobile phone have?
I have,on a number of ocassions, been "sitting next" to pupils exchanging their homework answers, peruse through the Encyclopaedia Brittanica etc. On the face of it, this should be stimulus enough to kickstart an improvement in one's marks, but i may be wrong.
Thursday, 4 March, 2010
There has been lots of educational research done by many rated researchers which prove what I say. In fact many have moved away from looking at learner achievement and ICT usage. Even from the conference held recently by the project that message came through. How we use technology in our daily lives is where the difference comes in.
Sitting next to another person may enrich the learning experience but may not actually lead to getting better marks. There mere fact that I can take a keen interest in baking cake and be involved in baking it does not make me a better baker. I can understand the process and even do many of the right things and still get it wrong. There are other mechanical, psychological, environmental and attitudinal factors that play a role that can short-circuit my attempt at being a better baker.
I can mention "khanya" schools that do well in mathematics without using any "Khanya" software. I live around from a school that did excellently in maths because they had good educators and tutors. Name me one "Khanya" school where due to the exclusive use of educational software they have done well in maths.
Look at the Physics results and at the top of the list in east are ex-model C schools who do not use technology in teaching the way we do. Where are all the other schools we support? Not one of them "at the top". In fact the results where Physics is concerned is putrid. The factors mentioned why learners did so poorly cannot all be fixed by ICT.
Students were asked once what technology they require to make them do better in their studies. The women mentioned that they need washing machines although the lecturers thought that they would have asked for computers. In other parts of the world they did the same. The students asked for donkeys that would help them to get to school quicker. From this we learn that we have to give the education system what it needs, Sometimes what they need are not computers. We are looking at the problem because it serves our interests and not the interest of what issues the schools may face.
Using technology should address the need and that is to help enrich teaching and learning when educators and learners do what they normally do. None of the other fancy stuff that ICT offers in education really matters.
I am not against using technology in education. Neither have I changed my view of how technology should be used in education since I started working for the Khanya Project in 2004. I have always differed as to how technology is to be used.
We are still riding on one research piece done on maths in Khanya project (early 2000s) and anecdotal evidence that ICT improves learner achievement. No other scientific or educational research was done to prove what we do.
Friday, 5 March, 2010
Nice debate Mark. I fully agree with you that it is how differently some schools use technology. However one researcher summed it up and said "..through the use of advanced computing and telecommunications technology, learning can also be qualitatively different. The process of learning in the classroom can become significantly richer as students have access to new and different types of information, can manipulate it on the computer through graphic displays or controlled experiments in ways never before possible, and can communicate their results and conclusions in a variety of media to their teacher, students in the next classroom, or students around the world. For example, using technology, students can collect and graph real-time weather, environmental, and populations data from their community, use that data to create color maps and graphs, and then compare these maps to others created by students in other communities. Similarly, instead of reading about the human circulatory system and seeing textbook pictures depicting bloodflow, students can use technology to see blood moving through veins and arteries, watch the process of oxygen entering the bloodstream, and experiment to understand the effects of increased pulse or cholesterol-filled arteries on blood flow."
"We know now – based on decades of use in schools, on findings of hundreds of research studies, and on the everyday experiences of educators, students, and their families – that, properly used, technology can enhance the achievement of all students, increase families' involvement in their children's schooling, improve teachers' skills and knowledge, and improve school administration and management."
In my view, those schools, call them ex-Model C schools may be doing very well simply because they use technology in one form or another. Good marks and technology in this case are not mutually exclusive, in fact one complements the other, i think.
Any worker would definitely do better in terms of performance and output if equipped with appropriate technology…and any worker would include students.
Friday, 5 March, 2010
You are correct David, the qualitative aspects are important and that is what we should look at. The problem is that many of our colleagues are exclusively looking at the quantitative aspects. The bottom line is that only results count. We still have a lot of work to do here. It is a pity that not more people would enter into this debate as we can learn from each other. I still think we should deviate from our strait-jacket approach to the use of ICT in education.
Saturday, 6 March, 2010
It's always difficult to admit to be wrong, especially when you think it's going to have an effect on your means of income.
If I were still teaching, I would not so much use ICT as a teaching tool, but rather as a tool to free me up from the administration and other things related to my teaching so that I can prepare better, know my learners better, know my subject better and therefore be a more effective and productive teacher.
Saturday, 6 March, 2010
I was thinking about a few companies' slogans:
Nokia (Mobile): "Connecting People"
Nike (Shoes): "Just do it"
Telkom (communication):"Touch tomorrow"
Toyota (Cars): "Lead the way" (maybe not the best example now)
Twitter: "Share and discover what's happening right now, anywhere in the world."
Google : "Don't be evil"
All the slogans hit at the heart of what people do. There may be guidelines on how to use their products but a person may use it to their advantage or disadvantage as they wish.
What is it that educators and learners do and what is it that they need to learn more effectively?
Saturday, 6 March, 2010
Mark, I am intrigued by your comment: "I still think we should deviate from our strait-jacket approach to the use of ICT in education." What do you have in mind?
Sunday, 7 March, 2010
I don't think it is ground-breaking stuff but I will make some comments later. One of it is to move away from click-click software to more knowledge construction (for lack of a better phrase) using everyday tools. These tools may not necessarily be computers but any technology that will facilitate learning. I have to formulate a longer answer but unfortunately I am juggling a few balls (e.g. trying to get my assignments done before tomorrow afternoon). I think I will mention a few ideas as you write many of your insightful blogs…which I think is another way we should encourage.
Tuesday, 9 March, 2010
Many learners do not study properly and cannot see any pathway through work (roadmap) . A program we used to have in the primary school basket of software was Inspirations, a propriety package. Most probably due to under-utilization it was removed, yet this piece of software teaches people skills that they need right through their lives (brain-storming ideas, studying etc.). This software presents a good visual picture of what people are doing, why the are doing and where all the pieces of a puzzle fit it. Of course I would push for freeware such as Freemind and X-mind etc. I will be including this in some of my training during next quarter. I came up with the idea when I saw a pattern in what I was doing when teaching organic chemistry. The software does not make itself "formula friendly" but it can work in some way. You can use this with pen-and-paper but doing it the e-way, on an electronic whiteboard is better.
Thursday, 11 March, 2010
Some time ago I spoke to an educator teaching at an independent school. He mentioned that he uses Moodle, a content management system, to assign learners work. It is multi-platform and saves him time marking. There are various assessment modes on the system such as MCQs, matching, True-false, etc. (We do have some of this in our current software but the reporting for portfolio purposes is not always accessible). These types of testing appears in many question papers. The teacher does the normal setting up of the questions, choose the correct answers and bangs them out with immediate feedback.
I am not pushing Moodle, but I think it is worth a try. This suggestion worries me a bit in the sense of that teacherś as developers (even of tests) do not always work very well. In my earlier years at Khanya Moodle was show-cased by CEI but never really looked at as an option for schools(?).
I would also suggest we look at another platform such as Apple and Linux as many CMS are web-based. There are not a lot of viruses written for both these operating systems. On top of it, for Linux there are loads of freeware that can be downloaded and used.
The downfall is that one needs a reliable internet connection and committed PEOPLE. The skills to run a server different from the normal Windows server needs to be trained and it is not easy. Looking at the government's commitment to signing agreements using FOSS first but then continuing the Windows way somehow does not make sense to me. So Mac and Linux do not have much impact in our schools.
The content management system has been around a long time. Have we given it a bash yet? If so, what was the outcome?
Take a look at the McKinsey Report: "Shaping the Future: How Good Education Systems Can Become Great in the Decade Ahead" It identifies the quality and competency levels of teachers as central to 'effective education systems' and postures the 'appropriate' role of technology. Although South Africa is not included in this report, it is telling when we consider the challenges faced by the education system in this country.
How do we ensure that we hire the best and most competent teachers and school leadership into our education system, ensure tenure so that the system can gain from experienced teachers, actively promote relevant teacher professional development and ensure that teachers are supported by systems and tools to be more effective? Clearly technology has a role to play in supporting teachers as the kingpin toward a successful education system but we need to have consensus re. both the challenges as well as the priorities that need to be addressed and who carries this mandate.
We have the compounded challenge in South Africa with a 'good percentage' of our teachers being 'under qualified' to teach the subjects at the levels that they've been appointed to. Let's not be confused that the TLI on its own without systemic transformation will effect the improvement that we all seek. A qualified, competent, experienced, innovative and motivated teacher in an effective and supportive school, district, Provincial and national education system, with appropriate learning and teaching resources (including a laptop) is powerful! How do we drive a multi-stakeholder partnership to make this a reality?
As a follow on from the comments above, what would it look like, integrating the TLI under the banner of the "Quality Learning and Teaching Campaign" with a tangible, decisive and courageous execution plan for each Provincial DoE which aligns and leads all education initiatives within each Province? Would the TLI take on a different function? Would we measure success of the TLI differently? What would teachers include as priorities in the 'Quality Learning and Teaching Campaign? How do we address the critical issue of accountability, responsibility and leadership is such a broader campaign? What can we learn from the global experience that contributes toward 'GloCal' success?
Here's the link to the McKinsey report:
Sunday, 14 March, 2010
Thank you for your most valuable comments(and link) Reza. I agree with you wholeheartedly that the TLI can only be successfull if it is part of a wider drive to improve the quality/ability/attitude of our teachers. It's good to know we have good partners joining in the fight!
Thursday, 18 March, 2010
I have used Moodle for a while in my Lab, about 5 years ago, and really it is a wonderful tool, I tried getting other teachers to join, but its difficult as they are so 'scared' or 'lazy', and you end up doing all the work, and it really takes lots of effort to get all the tests setup. Mark, we used Xampp and hosted Moodle on a localserver. I think that CEI have moved on to LAMS: http://www.lamsinternational.com/
I also try to expose my learners to different CMS's to show them how easy it is to get your ideas on the web, Joomla, WordPress etc as opposed to the Facebook hype.
And coming back to the Laptop initiative, I would recommend the ASUS 1201n, a 12.1″ netbook that has got some good specs.
Sunday, 21 March, 2010
Take a look at the free Live Services Plug-in for Moodle: http://port25.technet.com/archive/2009/07/21/the-live-services-plug-in-for-moodle-debuts.aspx
Tuesday, 23 March, 2010
Thanks for the link, Reza
Thursday, 25 March, 2010
Can we move on to use web 2.0 tools with educators already? Online repositories of information are lying on the internet which educators in disadvantaged schools are not accessing yet.
Thursday, 25 March, 2010
Of course, Mark, you can do that immediately, provided the particular teacher is ready for it. That is the ultimate goal: to empower teachers to use state of the art tools to create learning experiences for their learners. The use of packaged software is merely a stepping stone to achieve this ultimate objective. So, if you have teachers you feel can make the leap to Web 2.0 (and beyond!) tools … go for it!
Thursday, 28 October, 2010
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Tuesday, 7 December, 2010
Hi Kobus – very interesting thoughts and interesting people in this Blog – I'm busy with Moodle as well and am looking at a very simple deployment of it in a Primary School – I'll give some more info later.
Tuesday, 21 December, 2010
In my opinion the most important thing is to simply get started – this is the only way to start building skills – and overcome the enormous challenges on at a time.
We are looking at ways to provide teachers/schools with a simplified version of Moodle – a kind of a "getting started" out of a "box" (together with e-learning content) – through a new initiative (XpertkidZ) launching in January 2011. In many cases teachers do not even know how to use a computer never mind complex LMS's. Teachers need to be able to learn how to use a simple system quickly or they will simply not use it and if they do not use it, they will not extend it to the classrooms. The Microsoft Digital Literacy content is great and we want to incorporate this into the simplified version of Moodle together with further content (we are currently in negotiations with some suppliers). We want to offer this via the XpertkidZ for free (the intention is to always offer the content free, tools, supporting products & services for free and possibly later offer "pay-for" products such as further educational software & resources at a price but still at as low a price as possible – on a non-profit basis and subsidized through whatever funding we can get) but this means that initially only teachers/schools/children with web access will be able to access it. Once it's up and running we want to also provide the tools and content on CD/DVD with a "getting started" manual.
There's a lot more detail to this – will communicate this soon… Once version 1 of XpertkidZ is up & running I'll post details here for your thoughts and input – it will be before the end of January so within the next month & a bit.
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I'm looking for some hiking/walking trails that are friendly for the little ones. In other words, we'll have stollers, as the older one (21 mos) gets too tuckered out after a while. We're open to all parts of the Bay Area. I heard there is a nice one over by the Stanford area but hoping to also find some closer to home (East Bay). We want to start enjoying the nice weather! Thanks for any suggestions! momhb
I have spent the first 12 months of my baby's life with my child. Literally. Every moment. I have not yet hired a sitter, and plan to get on that, nor do I have a great support system. My husband is not particularly helpful in looking after our child. While I have enjoyed almost every minute, the difficult times have sent me seeking solace in chocolate. I was a little overweight when my baby was born. Now I feel quite a bit over where I would like to be. While I plan to find more support -- beginning with a sitter, and perhaps fix my situation at home in other ways (Lord knows how I am gonna tackle that one!) -- one thing I need to do to start feeling good is lose some weight. I plan on changing my eating habits, and I want to get out and walk more with my baby. I'd also like to run. I'm not a runner, but I have a stroller that could be used for it. I have the time, and I have the baby. My goal is to lose weight and get out a bit. I don't care about being a good or fast runner as much as I care about losing weight, having fun, and making it reasonably enjoyable for my little one. I wonder if anyone has advice for a beginning runner. Is it better if I jog first? Run fast and rest when I need to? Go short distances until my baby gets used to it? Have parents found a certain time of day to be easier with kids, to make it part of a routine? Have you found that a certain amount of time in the stroller is ideal? Or, is there a certain amount of time that it feels like too much for the baby? Any other tricks to keeping the baby entertained? I would really appreciate any general advice. I see you out there running with your babies! You look healthy, and it looks like it could be fun. Thank you for any ideas you can share! Hoping to get Healthy
When I started running several years ago, I ran for about half an hour and was sore for a week. The next week I tried again and was sore for 5 days. After a few weeks of this, my body grew used to the effort and I was able to happily run several times a week. Depending on your fitness and experience, you might want to start with 30 minutes of run/walking and gradually increase the amount of running. Several websites (like runnersworld.com) have some programs for beginning runners. Good luck and have fun! Kevin
I think it is important that you do it regularly. 4 days a week, at least. It also helps to have a set route to follow ( we just run from our houses, and have a set route in the neighborhood that we follow. Everytime we made the length a bit longer, I'd drive it again in the car to see exactly how long the run was! I needed constant reinforcement and praise!!!). We did not do it with babies-- we did it at 6:30 A.M., before our spouses had gone to work, and we let them deal with the kids. You may not have that support, but it is REALLY helpful if you do. We also entered a few 5 and 10 K ''races''. The Bay Area has an extensive running community , and that can be very encouraging as well. Most importantly-- find a friend to do it with, if you can. The hardest part is just making yourself do it, and having someone waiting for you is often the final kick you need to make it happen.
Set a reasonable goals for yourself, try to improve very gradually to avoid injury and just make yourself get out each day! I have never found anything that is as good of a payoff ( in terms of sweat and burning calories) than running. Plus, we go get coffee every Sunday after the long run and it's nice time for myself. - once a novice, now a veteran
On running, I go out with my little one around Lk. Merritt or up in Redwood Park, let him play then sit him down in the jogger (not always so easy) with a toy/snack and have a short jog. He's older now, so I can promise him swing-swing after the run. For starts, walk a quarter mile, jog a quarter mile, walk/jog, etc...If you have time, an hour + walk is very good for the metabolism. As a matter of fact, get the baby in the stroller and do a long brisk walk to get started. I like going out early, and the rest of the day is more relaxed. Jogathon
My advice is the same if you run with a stroller or without: start slowly. Trying to run too fast or too long will most likely result in discouragement, injury or both. Do a google search on ''learn to run'' programs and you should come up with one that will work for you, like this one: http://www.clubmom.com/display/234787
Running for many of us is not easy and I hated it for the first two years but the more I ran, the more I started to enjoy it. After five years, I have learned that it's almost always a challenge the first few miles! I have just learned to accept that running will always be hard but the rewards are worth it.
More unsolicited advice: no one exercise will give you everything you need to be fit. All women should do weights and some flexibility/stretching is important too. Exercise is a lifestyle and not a temporary solution, so be patient and kind to yourself and know that it won't be easy to shed the weight but you are doing the right thing! Best of luck to you! -Runner mom without stroller
I've exercised with Stroller Strides since my son was 7 months old and continued to exercise throughout my second pregnancy, which made a huge difference during labor, delivery and then recovery. I resumed classes when my daughter was 5 weeks old and feel great! Stroller Strides is a great way to do something for yourself - staying healthy, getting fit - and having fun with your kids. And it is a really wonderful group of moms who participate - an unexpected benefit to the classes has been the friendships I've developed with the other moms. Prices of classes are quite reasonable too. Check it out! - Stroller Stridin' Mama
My one piece of advice that I can give you unequivocally is JOIN A GYM WITH CHILDCARE. I loved my YMCA when I had very small children. Childcare was free up to two hours a day. I could run outside as long as I was carrying my cell phone. I could get a cup of coffee in the Y Cafe. I took classes. I lifted weights. ALONE! My kids were awesome easy going types prior to turning two, but I still needed some time alone, where I wasn't responsible for them.
Good luck on the running. -anon
Anyway, a few tips. As it sounds like you are not a runner, I would recommend you start out slow with quick paced walks and then build up to a jog. It's getting hot now, so you'll want to try and go in the morning if at all possible or early evening when things start to cool down. Try and get out around your little one's morning nap time if he/she still takes two or when they do nap if it's not too hot.
If you have to go out when baby is awake, make sure you have snacks baby can get to in the jogger and sippy cup that is accessible to baby (or easy for you to get to so stops are short). Again, try shorter distances first then build up to longer so you both get used to the run. This can be a really fun time for both of you as the baby gets older and used to riding (before they want to walk around all the time!) I have been fortunate enough to live in areas that offer nice trails which makes it more interesting for both you and child. Not to mention easier on the shins.
I hope some of this helps. Start out slow, build up, go at the right time of the day for baby especially (really, best is when they might fall asleep in the jogger when younger) and you will be fine.
ps- don't forget water and sunscreen for both of you. :) mama runner
If you have a jogging stroller your baby will love going along for the ride!
Good luck! Anon
#1. It's essential that you get good shoes and socks. Go to someone who knows, not to Sportsmart, or a place like that. Transport is a running store on College Ave. in Oakland that has an excellent staff.
#2 It's also important to find a really good bra I'm a DD cup size; I use Champion bras, but you have to find what works for you...This is probably too much information, but I also use ''glide'' around my bra line, to avoid a bra-burn!
Shoes and bras not only help make running comfortable, but also help you avoid injury. -Keep on running!
Start out slow...jog...walk....jog...walk.
Don't be afraid to walk, it is most important to just keep moving. Go in the morning, before it gets too hot.
My advice is to go to the Lafayette Reservoir. It is always packed with moms pushing their babies in strollers. It is beautiful and easy to get to. It is 2.7 miles around with hills.
Be sure to bring quarters - it is metered parking.
Good luck - what a great idea! Just be careful - running makes you very hungry - so once you start, don't go crazy eating or you won't lose a pound. Sign me, running mom of three boys.
Hi everyone: I was wondering if anyone has an idea of how I could go jogging with my almost 4 year old. He obviosly cannot jog with me but I feel funny putting him in a stroller at his age. I am a single mom so I don't have extra money for a nanny while I exercise and my friends have not volunteered to watch him at all, eventhough I have volunteered to watch their kids. So, basically, I need some idea as to how I could jog with an almost four year old. Is there any product out there I am not aware of that would help me carry him? Any other ideas? I would really appreciate any input since I'm desperately feeling like doing something active; I communte a lot for work and my bottom is getting tired of being sitting all the time...:) Longing-for-some-exercise
I hiked with him in a pack until he was almost 3, letting him out now and again to hike with me for a mile or so. After 3, I started riding bikes and pulled him in a trailer on the back until he was 5.
When he was 5-6 I bought a beach cruiser (slowed it down a bit) and with his little bike, we biked around. You need to go slow, but it is so fun to be out and about with your little guy! The memories are priceless!
Today he is 12, and I run about 4 miles and he rollerblades along side me. He is going to start running with me when the weather gets warmer. He has done a mile with me, but then he gets pooped.
I have some friends that go to some running tracks and run around, and their kids play in the middle.. but I don't know where as running in circles makes me dizzy...but it is a great idea.
I also belonged to the Berkeley Y for 3+ years, they have a Financial Assitant Program and it was fantastic... I could do spin class or work out and my son hung out in Kidz Zone where they can go swimming or the other child care (for younger guys) and they jump around or something... you can check it out on their web site. http://www.baymca.org/index.php/downtown.html
I just worked with his age. The bay trail from Emeryville to Sea Breeze/Berkeley Marina is a great place to start. You can each have a bike or get one of those 1/2 bikes that attach on the back of yours until he is a little older. You can also power walk while he rides along... again the bay trail is great for this. It is nerve racking at first with all the 'pro' cyclist.. but with some patience, you will be 'cruising' in no time. And then by the time he is 5, he can ride and you can run... and then get him some roller blades. This time that my son and I share, I wouldn't trade for the world.
Working with your son's age and abilities is a wonderful thing... and the bonding that takes place is so great. Just today I was looking at my son, my 12 year old young man.. thinking about when he was so much younger, I miss his need for me.... and thank goodness I have these memories. Run'n Mama
Then we play tag. Other rewards that are not treats (though I have also given treats once in a while) are playing with special markers (highlighters) when we get home, playing Candyland by her rules, cooking play-doh from scratch or her own ''soup'' with pantry items--anything can work. Another fun way to exercise together is dancing together to kid music or doing ''10-minute solution'' exercise videos together. We also go swimming at the community pool. I walk/jog to the pool and back to get the exercise, because it's not very aerobic with her in the water. exercise together
I've checked out the website archives for listings of great
places to take the jog stroller ... but there isn't a ''list'',
just a few places, so...
I'd like to hear about safe places to jog, (alone or just two
women and babies)with the jog stoller and baby, that are
relatively flat (no steep hills), where you can get in a good
workout (45-60 minutes of jogging)
If you want a place that is flat, Kennedy Grove in El Sobrante, next to the San Pablo Dam Resevoir is great. It has a paved loop around a large grassy area (3 laps equals one mile). It also has other trails that are unpaved and a play area for kids (play structure and slides and swings). It is usually pretty quiet and peaceful.
Another great place is the Lafayette resevoir. It is a bit hilly but a great work-out when you are pushing a jogger stroller. It tends to be a little busier than Kennedy Grove.
Also in Lafayette/Moraga is a nice 8 mile trail. It is flat and paved. If you take 24 towards Walnut Creek and exit Pleasant Hill Road, vere to the right and turn Right at light (pass Hungry Hunter), at the end of the road turn right and there is a parking lot on the right.
Happy Jogging! Amy
1. Inspiration Point in Tilden Park -- Paved, predominantly flat, rarely congested, good views of Bay and GG Bridges.
2. East Ridge trail in Redwood Regional Park (begins at Skyline staging area off Skyline Drive) -- Wide trail, gentle grade hills, scenic.
3. Tennessee Valley in Marin (a few miles north of GG Bridge) -- Paved trail (until end stretch), flat, ends at small, beautiful, beach bordered by cliffs.
Hi, Can anyone recommend some good places to take stroller walks? I know some of the usual places, such as Inspiration Point, Richmond Marina, Point Pinole, Point Isabel, etc, but I'm looking for other places as well. I would prefer walks that are on the longer side. Also, are there any websites or books with such info? I checked the archives but only found a couple of suggestions. Thanks! Gayle
Books that we bought for father's day that seem promising: *Golden Gate Trailblazer - Where to Hike, Stroll, Bike, Jog and Roll* (in SF and Marin) and *Rails to Trails California* both from REI -- they both seem to be attuned to the need for smooth paths, so they describe the trails in good detail.
Happy Trails! Shahana
Hi. I am looking for recommendations on safe, not too steep and scenic running routes (including neighborhoods) that are in the general vicinity of el sobrante, pinole, richmond or even orinda. My neighborhood is very hilly and I cant run (can barely walk) and push a jogging stroller up it. Niloufar
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The Bible Code: Enigmas for Dummies
Do messages hidden within the Bible really predict the future?
by Brian Dunning
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|Skeptoid #48
June 5, 2007
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By Brian Dunning, Skeptoid Podcast
Episode 48, June 05, 2007
Today we're going to load some cheap software onto our laptop and decode that silliest of modern pop phenomena, the Bible Code.
In 1994, an American journalist named Michael Drosnin visited Israel and told a poet friend, Chaim Guri, that he had a letter for prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. In his letter, Drosnin wrote that according to an obscure code embedded within the Torah, the Hebrew version of the first five books of the Old Testament, Rabin would be assassinated. Guri passed the letter along to Rabin, but alas, no heed was taken, and Rabin was in fact assassinated — a year later.
Convinced that his prediction must have been divinely inspired, Drosnin wrote a book called The Bible Code in which he detailed his coding methodology. It was based on the work of Israeli-Latvian mathematician Eliyahu Rips, who had based his work in turn upon that of school teacher Avraham Oren. Others throughout history had dabbled in similar pattern finding, including Isaac Newton. Drosnin's book was a major success, and is about to be followed by its second sequel.
The codes in The Bible Code are what's called Equidistant Letter Spacing, or ELS. A very simple example of this is the word troops. Take every other letter, and you'll get the word top. The word top is said to be encoded within the word troops as an ELS with a "skip" of 2. That's all there is to it. Now imagine a sentence written out in a grid, without spaces or punctuation, like a giant crossword puzzle with no black squares. A word encoded in this manner will appear in a line, vertically, diagonally, or horizontally, and it can even skip squares. It will often be at an angle something like a knight's move, like 4 squares up and 1 square to the left. With a large enough block of text, it's possible to find just about any word. Add a computer to the mix to do brute force crunching of all the possibilities, and you'll be surprised at how many words crop up. Short words are everywhere. Each time you add a letter to make your target word longer, the number of hits drops dramatically. It's rare to find a word of 7 or more letters.
Now that you know how to find words encoded within a text, what about sentences? Followers of the Bible Code methodology take a pretty liberal approach to this. It is not necessary to find the entire sentence as one long ELS string; that's impossible. All you have to do is find words that appear on the grid near each other, usually near enough to all be viewed on the same grid (but you can make your grid as large as you prefer). Words can go in different directions with different skips. Picture a word search puzzle with a whole bunch of words circled in it, and this is how sentences are found using the Bible Code methodology. There are no rules governing this process, it's completely up to the individual to decide which words to search for within a text, and then place them in the desired order. There are always many other extra words, especially shorter words, scattered through a given grid, so the researcher has plenty of words to choose from to form the desired sentence.
That's how the Bible Code works. If it seems pretty weak and loose, well, you're right, it is. It seemed that way to me, too, so I looked around and purchased a commercial software program that performs these searches. It's called CodeFinder and it cost around $70. There are several available and this was one that looked decent. CodeFinder came with a number of source texts, including the New and Old Testaments, and also War and Peace. Really any long text will do, including completely random text. I generated a large file of random text and did some searches on that as well. First I found my name, which is liberally scattered throughout all texts; maybe I'm holy. CodeFinder works in such a way as to store the locations of each word found to facilitate the building of sentences. If you're patient enough, and willing to try all sorts of alternate wordings, and stick with as many short words as possible, you can find just about any sentence you want in any text. Don't get me wrong, it's not quick and easy, you will have to spend significant time building a decent sentence. I played with it long enough to find "I will die on Friday" and "Brian is a cool guy" in the Bible, in War and Peace, and in my own random text file. That was enough for me.
The Bible Code proponents have another secret weapon up their sleeve, and that's the Hebrew language. CodeFinder also comes with a copy of the Old Testament in Hebrew. Remember the Indiana Jones movie where he almost steps through the wrong floor tile because of an ambiguity about the spelling of Jehovah? Hebrew has different forms and different spellings of the same word, in some cases a number of different spellings. When Drosnin wrote The Bible Code, he took full advantage of these ambiguities to find the maximum number of matches for a given word in constructing his sentences. He has been widely criticized for this. If he'd have stuck to one form of Hebrew or another, many of Drosnin's sentences would be considered misspelled. Even so, to find the name Yitzhak Rabin in Hebrew, he had to use a skip value of 4,772 characters. That covers a massive block of text in which it's possible to find just about any other word.
So, clearly, it is possible to find almost anything you want in almost any text using the ELS method. The nature of entropy means that there will be accidental words and sentences everywhere. When Bible Code proponents find a sentence, how do they know that this sentence was placed there deliberately by some higher power, and was not just another accidental hit? Proving this distinction is really the key to proving that there's any substance to Bible Code claims, and so far, nobody has put forward any reasonable suggestion of what form such proof might take.
Bible Code proponents often point out that Eliyahu Rips co-authored an article about his discovery which was published in a legitimate peer-reviewed mathematical journal, Statistical Science, in 1994. What they fail to point out is that this publication was in no way an endorsement of Bible Codes as predictors of future events, let alone divine inspiration. Statistical Science is a mathematics journal, it has nothing to do with religion or predictions, and it does not publish research. The ELS article was published simply as a mathematically challenging word puzzle, a definition under which Bible Code style ELS findings are perfectly legitimate.
But Drosnin says that it's more than that. Much more. Astronomically more. At least, astronomic in terms of its origins. In his first sequel book, The Bible Code II, Drosnin states that the Bible was written by — wait for it — aliens. The same aliens, in fact, who brought DNA to Earth and caused life to first develop here. Drosnin believes that the aliens left the key to decoding the Bible Code inside a steel obelisk buried near the Dead Sea, and Drosnin even claims to have gone searching for it himself. Why an elaborately buried key is necessary is unclear, since cheap $70 software off the Internet decodes it just fine.
So what about Drosnin's famous prediction of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination? It does sound impressive, but consider three points. First, it was only one of innumerable predictions that Drosnin made, the rest of which turned out to be nonsense — such as the nuclear destruction of civilization in both 2000 and 2006, and the devastation of Los Angeles by a meteor in 2006. This is the typical tool of the celebrity psychic: Remembering only the hits and ignoring the misses.
Second, at the time that Drosnin made the Rabin prediction, it was a practical certainty that Rabin was going to be assassinated. The hardcore right-wing Jews were as angry with Rabin as were the Palestinians he was trying to make peace with. Pundits said at the time that it was only a question of which anti-peace group was going to get him first. Psychics all over the world predicted his assassination, and Drosnin was lucky enough to be the one who was invited onto the Oprah Winfrey show, even though his prediction provided no useful information about the date or place of the assassination. This PR is the reason that Drosnin is the one whose book became popular, and not some other psychic.
Third and finally, the actual prediction that Drosnin found contained simply the name "Yitzhak Rabin" and a Hebrew word that can mean "assassinate". Shortened, it can also mean "assassin". In a block of text that massive, innumerable shorter words are found, so Drosnin chose "will". Drosnin selected a few words from his palette and arranged them into "assassin will assassinate Yitzhak Rabin", using the word for assassin twice. Note that it could also be arranged into "assassin Rabin will assassinate Yitzhak" or any of numerous other names also found within the block. In short, it's very hard for a critical thinker who understands the ELS coding to conclude that Drosnin found a definitive prediction that Rabin would be killed. Either deliberately or through gross negligence, Drosnin put this foolishness forward as a prediction, and it remains the strongest evidence in favor of the Bible Code.
© 2007 Skeptoid Media
References & Further Reading
Brant, D. "Fun with the Bible Code." DmitryBrant.com. DmitryBrant.com, 30 Apr. 2006. Web. 5 Jun. 2007. <http://dmitrybrant.com/fun-with-the-bible-code>
Jackson, A. "The Bible Code." Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 1 Sep. 1997, Volume 44, Number 8: 935-939.
McKay, B., Bar-Natan, D., Bar-Hillel, M., Kalai, G. "Solving the Bible Code Puzzle." Statistical Science. 1 May 1999, Volume 14, Number 2: 150-173.
Singh, S. The Code Book: Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography. New York: Anchor Books, 2000. 373.
Thomas, D. "Hidden Messages and The Bible Code." Skeptical Inquirer. 1 Nov. 1997, Volume 21, Number 6.
Witztum, D., Rips, E., Rosenberg, Y. "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis." Statistical Science. 1 Aug. 1994, Volume 9, Number 3: 429-438.
Reference this article:
Dunning, B. "The Bible Code: Enigmas for Dummies." Skeptoid Podcast. Skeptoid Media, 5 Jun 2007. Web. 4 Oct 2015. <http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4048>
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A simple Bible Code Introduction page has been added. An obvious code pattern present within the Bible is clearly exposed. See
We had a few codes in our city phone books..much more coherent than any bible code..
I have always wondered why the coded data had to be interpreted..
I am still suspicious after 25 years (i think since the first travesty published in Stat Anal) That its called the "bible Code"..
But then its easy to sucker those who are believers and those who have never read the bible in any of its forms. That makes about 99% of the planet.
Thanks for the useless lookey see link..I'll treat it with the normal disdain..
I can honestly say, four centuries ago a credible witch sniffer persuavant would have burned the contributors before the publication..After the drowning, whipping and interrogation of course..(order specific!)
Where have all the good times gone? Long, long time ago?
You just never see persistence today like witch sniffers of times gone..
Sean your still here promoting your nonsense! http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/04/yet_another_bible_code_bozo.php
If you don't mind a little swearing, you could watch
to learn about the power of Bible Codes.
Not hard Reasoner.. a free lookup table based on the masoretic redact just has to be right..
Hip Hip hooray to... the people in 1050 and poo poo to the septuagint writers!
Why doesnt the septuagint score? well its a bit embarrasing using a redact written 1000 years earlier. Have we coughed up the differences between earlier texts? Why isnt the original heiroglyph or cuneiform used if the moneotheists are to be believed? Becuse it probably would make better sense.
Ive been onto this since the book was first heralded in the end times literature 20 years ago. You can win with anyone smart to write code. Those who think people who write code are special and god inspired become a bit dissapointed when they find out people like are are very common indeed..
or satan inspired...that I think is a compliment...someone as big, rough and tough as god singles me out for the ignorants..
Now back to scratching for reality!
Sometimes I should be a bit less rhetorical.
Why should the bible code work for a late translation/redact an not for earlier texts?
The earlier texts havent been tested.
This makes the "moby dick" charge so more credible.
I have found from both volumes and the original paper that a lookup table of text will always produce a "reliable" literary result.
I am perterbed that the review panel for the original paper did not test the code against other works. In this case, a copy of an extant of say "Judges" or "kings" or even "Chronilces" would have provided the same results.
What say we pass the same filter over "American Psycho". I assure you, the results would have been similarly underwhelming.
When you have a variable parametered filter setting variable arrays to seek out current terms, Brian Dunnings skeptoid has four tyrannosaurs and a tightly heeled jib..
Gotta stop using "friends" episode scripts as search sources!
"Sean your still here promoting your nonsense! " says Brent.
No....(You're) still promoting your nonsense.
I just expose truths. Truths of which those who choose to be blind, can not see.
Yehaa Sean....the Braille edition makes so much more sense...
Yeah I did punch cards!
Mud, At virtually missing point, NSW, OZ,
September 5, 2012 2:47am
I can interpet the bible in many ways.
For example, the King James version proves to me that Moses abused his wife.
It says right in the Book of Exodus:
"And Moses took his wife and set her upon her ass."
Sounds to me like he busted her on the snoot and knocked her down backwards.
It says something similar about his sons in the next passage.
I've been trying to find codes in the Yellow Pages, obviously published by the Reptoids and the New World Order, to figure out just what their agenda is.
Thanks for explaining this so beautifully. Very helpful. I'm not surprised that 'Brian is a cool guy'' is encoded in the Bible.
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Do I Not Criticize Israeli Policies?
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He implies that my views should have no weight because I am a lapdog of the Israeli government with no mind of my own, just a p.r. agent or lobbyist for whoever's in charge in Jerusalem. This portrayal undermines my role as an independent analyst and therefore calls for refutation.
In fact, I disagree often and volubly with Israeli policies, as the following partial list suggests:
In brief, I advocate an Israel that seeks victory.
My disapproval of Israeli policies is so severe that one Israeli academic took it upon himself to scold me publicly (in the Jerusalem Post) for the "patronizing and insulting" quality of my critique concerning Samir Kuntar, prompting an extended debate between him and me on this topic. The current prime minister of Israel once spent an hour dressing me down for my portrayal of his 1998 diplomacy with the Hafez al-Assad regime.
Obviously, someone who claims that I never criticize Israel does not follow me "quite closely." Obviously too, he does not have the above list in mind. Rather, he would have me protesting checkpoints, the "occupation," the "settlements," the "apartheid wall," the "Judaization of Jerusalem," and Gaza's being "an open air prison." Well no, I complain from the other side. But that should no less effectively dispel the insinuation of agency. (September 29, 2013)
Sep. 29, 2013 addendum: Speedie's criticism that I agree too much with the Government of Israel contrasts with Yoram Schweitzer's criticism that I disagree too much with it. For my response to Schweitzer, see "May an American Comment on Israel?" The common theme in my responses to both of them is simple: I am an independent analyst who calls them as he sees them.
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After some years in the drug discovery business, I have a few modest requests to make. To start with, I think that the existing periodic table is too limited, with a number of elements that clearly were left out. I have a shopping list of what's needed to complete the set, and here's number one:We need something electron-donating that's no bigger than a fluorine. Medicinal chemists, when they hear that, usually say "Hmmm. . .yeah!" That is, when they're not telling me I'm nuts. For those outside the field, I'll explain: when you want to substitute something for a hydrogen on a carbon atom, fluorine's usually your boy, because it's not that much larger, and you get a lot of other effects as well.Untold numbers of useful things have been made this way. The carbon-fluorine bond is a lot stronger than the C-H bond it replaced, and the fluorine has some odd properties all its own. (You go from polyethylene to teflon when you make that substitution, to pick one example - I wouldn't recommend buying a polyethylene-coated frying pan unless you want your next batch of scrambled eggs to take on a completely new dimension.) The lower reactivity means that fluorocarbons generally don't burn worth a hoot, and it lets med-chem folks like me stick fluorine atoms all over our structures to keep the liver from ripping them to shreds. Not even the liver seems to be able to tear up a fluorocarbon. (That low reactivity is also why freon-type compounds were assumed to be completely inert for so long. As it turns out, much of the ozone-depetion reaction they set off is caused by some other carbon-chlorine bonds breaking apart in the hard UV light of the upper atmosphere. You really have to beat the heck out of a compound to break C-F bonds, but C-Cl will turn on you.)Of course, all these interesting properties come at a cost. Fluorination reagents tend to be a bit exotic and expensive, for one thing. That's because they're mostly a way to put a leash on elemental fluorine itself, and a strong leash it had better be, because it's about as nasty as it gets. Plain fluorine will start in on basically every compound there is, and plenty more: it'll make steel wool, for example, burst into flame, so you don't even want to think about what it'll do to your hand. Whatever it does, it does with a huge release of energy; it's just too happy to pitch in. Ask Berthelot, the French chemist who tried to make fluorocarbon compounds in the 1800s by using the same sorts of reactions that worked for chlorine. He blew himself up several times in a row; how he survived is a real mystery. Most of the early fluorine investigators poisoned themselves with the stuff to some degree.You also pay with some physical properties you might not want. Fluorine owes its weirdness to the way that it crazily pulls electronic charge off of any atom it's attached to. (You can practically hear the electrons being sucked over across the bonds - well I can, anyway, but maybe I've been doing this stuff too long.) That's all fine, but what about the times when you don't want all the electron density piling up on one end of your molecule? Wouldn't it be good to have something that pours charge back into the system, but keeps that handy fluorine size?Well, I can tell you that if we had this element available, there would soon be some pretty puzzled enzymes and receptor binding sites out there. Medicinal chemists would be putting it on everything and making compounds these poor proteins never even dreamed of. We spend a lot of time adjusting polar groups on our molecules to make them tuck into binding pockets more tightly - something like this would give us work to do for many years. For starters, I'd take all the compounds that got worse when I fluorinated them, and put this stuff on instead. Couldn't hurt.And there's nothing but the laws of physics to keep us from having it. Maybe some other universe is built so that they have my element in it. If so, there are probably some fellow chemists sitting around wishing that they had something like fluorine. . .
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The naming of the two Badgers extends an impressive streak for Wisconsin men's rowing. The Badger program has now had at least one men's rowing Olympian in 11 consecutive Summer Olympics dating back to the 1968 Mexico City Games.
Hoopman, who won gold with the mens eight during 2004 in Athens, Greece, originally hails from Plymouth, Wis. Part of the eight that set the worlds fastest time over 2000 meters at the 2004 games, Hoopman will sit as the two seat for the 2008 games. A walk-on to the Badgers in 1999, he is now a veteran of eight U.S. national teams.
During his Badger career, Hoopman captained the Badgers to the 2002 Eastern Sprints varsity eight title, the Badgers first since the inaugural event in 1946. He also helped the UW win its fourth consecutive Ten Eyck Trophy as team champion at the 2002 Intercollegiate Rowing Association national championships. His varsity eight placed second at the same national championships.
Boyd, who will sit four seat for the mens eight at the Olympics, makes his second national team appearance. A St. Paul, Minn., native, Boyd rowed in the same boat at Wisconsin with Hoopman in 2002 and 2003.
As a sophomore, Boyd sat five seat for the UWs Eastern Sprints varsity eight title and national runner-up finish. He went on to captain the team in 2003 as a junior. That year, Hoopmans senior campaign, the UW varsity eight placed fourth at the national championships.
In addition to both serving the Badgers as team captains, both Hoopman and Boyd won the UWs Randall T. Jablonic Award as MVP of the freshmen rowing team and went on to win the Norman R. Sonju Award which is given annually to an oarsman making an outstanding contribution to the success of the UW crew program in leadership, dedication and sportsmanlike attitude.
Former Badger rower Matt Imes will also make the trip to Beijing as one of the teams assistant coaches. Imes will direct the men's four. Former Wisconsin womens openweight rower Elpi Pagitsas will serve as team manager.
Rowing at the 2008 Olympic Games begins August 9 and runs through August 17. Finals are set for August 16-17. The competition will take place at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park, located in Mapo Town in the Shunyi district of Beijing. The rowing course is located about 45 kilometers outside of downtown Beijing. The venue also will host the flat-water and slalom canoe-kayak competitions.
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Gov. David Paterson continues to defend his decision to withhold $750 million in state aid to schools and cities. Starting tomorrow the governor will hold back ten percent of state aid payments across the board, affecting not only schools, but local governments and the state's property tax rebate program.
The governor says he must take the action in order to keep New York solvent through December. Paterson says the move will withstand any legal challenge because the reductions were made across the board and are just deferments, not cuts, which would require legislative approval. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has signaled his support of the governor's actions. "It is his job as governor and the budget director's job to manage the cash of the state in a way in which he sees appropriate," Silver says.
Silver's position is in contrast to teachers union officials and state Senate Democrats, who have threatened to sue the governor over the withheld aid. They say it is unconstitutional.
However, a spokesman for the Senate leadership says today there are currently no plans to take the governor to court.
Meanwhile, the emergency budget move cost the city $84 million in expected education and municipal aid. But the Bloomberg administration reports an upswing in local tax revenues running $680 million above projections, so, the mayor says, the city can handle the hit for now.
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Five Favorite Films with Abigail Breslin
The star of this week's Janie Jones drops by for a chat about movies, music, and her career.
Since her acting debut in Signs (at age six) and Oscar nomination for Little Miss Sunshine (at age 10), Abigail Breslin has taken an unpredictable path in her film roles, appearing in everything from family movies to heartstring-heavy dramas to unabashed horror-comedy -- as Zombieland's gun-toting scamp Little Rock, she got to indulge in what few of her young peers are allowed; namely, blowing away hordes of the undead. This year, Breslin's already lent her voice to probably the best, and certainly the most original American animated feature, Rango, and she'll soon appear (alongside practically everyone else in Hollywood) in the romantic comedy New Year's Eve; while next year brings a transition to teenage roles -- including a high school murderess in the very Heavenly Creatures-sounding Innocence. In this week's Janie Jones, Breslin plays the title character, a 13-year-old girl set adrift from her single mother to reconnects with her boozy rock-n-roll dad, played by Alessandro Nivola. We sat down with the young actress to talk about the movie and her music, where she sees her career headed, and her Five Favorite Films (with a little assist from her mom).
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944; 100% Tomatometer)
Insidious (James Wan, 2011; 67% Tomatometer)
I guess I'll have to do one horror movie because it's my thing; I love horror movies. So my favorite horror movie would be... [pauses] I guess I'll just go with a recent one that I really like right now, which was Insidious. I actually really liked that. It was kind of like, in some ways kind of campy, but it was so fun the way it was done. I loved the storyline of it all, and the ending was really cool.
The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011; 74% Tomatometer)
A recent movie that I really liked was The Help. I thought The Help was really, really good. And I love all the actors in it, who I thought were just amazing. I love Jessica Chastain, and Viola Davis and, you know, Emma Stone too, 'cause I worked with her. And Octavia Spencer. I thought they were all amazing.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962; 89% Tomatometer)
Prancer (John D. Hancock, 1989; 69% Tomatometer)
And then finally I love... [long pause] Can I think about the last one? [Breslin's mother intervenes: "For sentimental reasons the one you always loved was Prancer," she suggests, laughing.] Oh yeah, I loved Prancer. Oh my god. [Laughs] I actually, really--- okay, yeah, I'll put that. So that movie, for sentimental reasons, and just because I still love it. It still has to be watched every Christmas. [Mom laughs in the background. ]
How many times have you seen it?
Oh, probably over a hundred. Especially when I was younger, I watched it like every day.
Do you know I've never seen it?
Oh my gosh, shame on you! Now you must.
Next, Breslin talks about Janie Jones, starting her music career, and her mini-obsession with Little Rock.


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Grateful Dead
Spring 1990
– 6 Complete Shows On 18 CDs
– 60 Page Hardcover Book
– Individually Numbered, Limited To 9,000
– Tons Of Memorabilia
– CDs Will NOT Be Issued Individually or Digitally
– 6 Complete Shows On 18 CDs
– 60 Page Hardcover Book
– Individually Numbered, Limited To 9,000
– Tons Of Memorabilia
– CDs Will NOT Be Issued Individually or Digitally
Search HERE
Willy, you just be sure to post this here box-set when you get ahold of it, Brother.
All 4 now….
My first (and sadly, only) Dead show was on that tour, Hamilton, Ontario Canada, March something-or-other, 1990. Got to do a whole day on the parking lot festivities and everything, I went with a jamming buddy who'd got me into the Dead as a live thing in the first place, lost him, but got taken in by a great crew of Cornell kids up from Ithica. Got some great enhancers from a fellow I'd met in the drunk tank from getting too enhanced at a concert the summer before that I ran into! Wonder if that Hamilton show is in the set? I do have an audience tape of it from the tape trading days.
Colin H
Yes it IS! 3/22/90!
Go for it, Colin. It's a great investment. I've had a handful of limited edition boxes over the years and have profited handily from them. Quadrupled my investment in the Dead's Fillmore Box, I think maybe tripled my dough of the Stooges. The best part is you can enjoy it for a few years and feel relatively confident you'll get a nice surprise out of it later. According to the website, they're not going to release this stuff individually. Except for maybe a future digital download (they don't say), this is supposed to be the only place to get this material. But.. these things sell out fast.
What a great tour that was — I saw all the Knickerbocker shows and one of the Nassau shows.
In fact, that was a period in my life when my vacations were scheduled around Dead tours….
Those were the days, huh?
Thank you thank you!
Thanks Kurt. Try 'em now.
Thanks for the fix. I can't wait to listen to all of them. Again great blog with great tunes.
All good now, friend – at least for the moment! As always, THANK YOU for freeing the music. These Brent era shows have tremendous energy – yet a certain sense of melancholy as well – Brent would pass away in July 1990 and looking back this tour seems a showcase of his talents as a vocalist and musician – give a listen to 03-15-90 (prior official release) where out of 'space' comes Brent's impassioned I Will Take You Home – sends chills down my spine, that one does.
I think the first Copps link is also down. Thanks for all you do, this is a great site, tons of good music.
NEw link up, thanks.
hey now,any kind person have some more complete scans for this fine package,would love a link for the artwork,peace, :)
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Bruce Edward Hill
Position: WR
Height: 6-0 Weight: 178 lbs.
Born: February 29, 1964 in Fort Dix, NJ
High School: Antelope Valley
College: Arizona St. (school history) (Hill college stats)
Drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 4th round (106th overall) of the 1987 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 22 (4371st overall since 1950)
Other SR Links: College Football at Sports-Reference.com
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