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Medical devices, combination products, move the future closer to the present.
"Science fiction today will soon be routine," is the headline from David Canton's January 11 blog in which he discusses the accelerated pace of change in the next 10 years. One of the column's predictions focuses on eyedrops packaging:
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Anyone been out to Saylorville this week or Red Rock? I know they are both high and full of debris, but the brother is still hell bent on going, How many ramps are open at Saylorville, do you have a recommended time to get on the water?
Boating on the Fourth sucks. To many BLAMOS at the boat ramps trying to get into the water or out. I try to stay away from the lakes during the holiday weekends, at least there is one less BLAMO there.
You will have to get to Saylorville early. Last year we headed over around 8 am. The lower parking lot at Cherry Glen is still under water which greatly reduces the number of parking places. Once the parking lots are full, they will turn you away.
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The crimes and unethical behavior tarred high-ranking officials on Friday when the Navy announced that a three-star admiral and his two-star subordinate had their access to classified information suspended for their suspected connection to Leonard Francis, the chief of Glenn Defense Marine Asia.
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WASHINGTON: The US State Department on Monday announced the first India-Pakistan football exchange, which will allow the women's teams from the two sub-continental neighbours to compete with each other.
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The grades are in from KTAR's "Talk the Vote," and it looks like President Barack Obama's campaign has a new hope after he struck back against Republican candidate Mitt Romney, if only slightly.
Overall, our hosts felt that both candidates were much improved over the first presidential debate, which was somewhat of a sleeper. If anything, Romney lost the debate more than Obama won, but it was nice to see Obama speak with a bit of fire.
Larry Gaydos (Mac & Gaydos): Obama B+, Romney B
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LaDainian Tomlinson said goodbye to the Chargers in 2010, but his multimillion-dollar home in Poway is still on the market, he said on a local sports talk show this week.
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He bought the property in 2004 for $3.5 million, public records show. The home, which sits on two parcels, features five bedrooms, 5 ½ bathrooms and a plethora of upgrades.
"Seller spared no expense in creating this special private atmosphere ideal for entertaining and family living," the listing says. "Home features virtually all the bells and whistles."
Those extras include a wet bar, sauna, gourmet kitchen, game room, private pool and spa, and outdoor barbecue.
A full-sized basketball court/tennis court sits on an otherwise unimproved second lot, which can be developed by the buyer or left as is.
The discussion of Tomlinson's home started when radio show host Scott Kaplan asked how much home one could get in Westlake, where LT resides now. The former Charger said his current home is "very comparable" to his property in Poway, which he revealed on the show is still on the market.
Tomlinson, a five-time Pro Bowler, is not giving up hope on selling his home. He said there's a notable Dodgers player interested in buying, but would not name names.
"Hopefully that happens," he said.
Near the end of the home discussion, Billy Ray "B.R." Smith, the other co-host, quipped "Got the Easy Turf?" referring to a synthetic lawn product that LT once endorsed and apparently has at his Poway home.


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"Are teachers going the way of local bookstores?"
In my new situation of retired educator (or semi-retired educator. I can't really decide), I find myself paying less attention to Twitter and more to friends and relatives on Facebook. But this morning, when I started my computer and Twitteriffic flashed up, I scanned through the most recent tweets from my long-time and famous educator friends – and my eye landed on one by Doug Peterson actually a retweet of Miguel Guhlin's,
The Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher is a March 25 article in The Atlantic written by Michael Godsey, a "veteran high-school English educator." Asked by a college student about the prospects of becoming a public-school teacher, he writes,
I never think it's enough to say that the role is shifting from "content expert" to "curriculum facilitator." Instead, I describe what I think the public-school classroom will look like in 20 years, with a large, fantastic computer screen at the front, streaming one of the nation's most engaging, informative lessons available on a particular topic. The "virtual class" will be introduced, guided, and curated by one of the country's best teachers (a.k.a. a "super-teacher"), and it will include professionally produced footage of current events, relevant excerpts from powerful TedTalks, interactive games students can play against other students nationwide, and a formal assessment that the computer will immediately score and record.
To that, I say, "poppycock!" How's that for post-career reflection and rejection of the ideals that I seemingly promoted for the last 20+ years? But the fact is that I never promoted such a future for the classroom and find the arrangement to be personally revolting and counter-productive to what I believe the purpose of education to be.
It's an interesting question and one that many of us have challenged ourselves and each other with, "What is the purpose of school." Here's a good answer, in my opinion – Why School by Will Richardson and what is described in Invent To Learn, by Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager. But here is my ready answer that is short and to the point.
The purpose of school is to prepare our children for adult life during the next 70 to 80 years.
Life doesn't happen on a video screen and it can't be simulated with a game. Goddey's "fantastic computer screen" will help as will the games and video clips from top thinkers on TED. In fact, they are essential. But the fallacy is the assumption and fear that technology replaces the teacher.
To be sure, nobody in education, but those in the darkest recesses of denial, believes that the role of the teacher is not changing. The shift from "content expert" to "curriculum facilitator" is certainly happening – and it should. But NOTHING, my most loyal readers, IS EVER THAT SIMPLE.
A phrase like "sage on the stage to guide on the side" is intended as an idiom to focus the attention of experienced professional educators who already grasp the changing conditions that are reshaping school. It is not an all-encompassing description of the future of classroom instruction. Frankly, while reading Godsey's advice to his student, I saw no need for classrooms at all – and that's the last thing I'd want to see for my grandchildren and their children.
We have to acknowledge that there is a powerful cabal that desires and promotes just the scenario described by Mr. Godsey. They fancy an education system that spends its billions on their videos, games, tutorials and assessment products, instead of unionized public school teachers. Products, whose service can be measured (test scores), can be marketed.
In my mind the most preposterous statement in the whole article is the advice of a superintendent, aired on NPR, "If you can Google it, why teach it?" ..and this gets back to the question, "What is the purpose of school?" If education's objective is to equip our children with facts that they can recall on state test day, then I would agree with the superintendent's statement. But if its purpose is to prepare our children for adult life, then the job of the teacher is to help learners to understand what they've Googled and develop the essential literacy skills and habits of questioning, analyzing and assigning context to the Googled information.
What we can predict about life in the next 70 to 80 years is almost nothing, beyond the timeless practices of responsibility, compassion and providing value to the community. It will continue to be a time of rapid change, inventions that redefine how we accomplish our goals and discoveries that challenge our beliefs and philosophies.
The common core subject of every classroom today should be learning to learn.
And this brings us back around to Michael Godsey's apparent fear that his college earned knowledge of literature has become obsolete. Our classrooms still require experts. But experts today are no longer known for knowing all there is to know about a subject.
Today's experts are known for being highly skilled at learning and relearning the ever growing and often changing knowledge about their subject.
This is the notion of expertise that teachers need to model and that students need to see every day, the essential and constant practice of contextual learning-skills / learning-literacies.
Adult life is about learning.
I Just Learned a New Word
In my efforts to write this book about the history of educational technology (as I have witnessed it), I'm finding myself doing more reading than writing. I guess that's normal for book-writing, though it surprises me since I am typing this mostly from my own recollections.
This morning, in my reading, I learned a new word. It's mesofacts. These are facts that, when learned, seem to be dependable, longterm and applicable truths – when in fact, they are likely to change within a lifetime, and often within a few years.
In his Harvard Business Review article, Be Forwarned: Your Knowledge is Decaying Samuel Arbesman relates an example, a hedge fund manager saying in a conversation, "Since we all know that there are 4 billion people on the planet…" 4 billion people is what I learned when I was in school, and it still surprises me when I heard that it was up to 6 billion and now 7 billion.
Arbesman says that these mesofacts are far more common than we realize. It makes me wonder about how much of what we are expecting our students to memorize, will simply not be true in their adulthood, and may even be problematic.
This all supports something that I heard someone say a few years ago.
Any question, whose answer can be googled,
should not be on any test.
Another epiphanic statement, which may or may not be attributable to John Dewey is,
If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's,
we rob them of their tomorrow.
Another word I learned is scientometrics. Its the study of the shape of how knowledge grows and spreads through a population.
Arbesman, S. (2012). Be forewarned: Your knowledge is decaying. Harvard Business Review, Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2012/11/be-forewarned-your-knowledge-i
Two Reasons I Won't Use My Typical Opening Today
For the last several years, I have been opening my keynote addresses by describing something that I've learning in the last 24 hours. It was usually something that I'd run across on my iPad (Flipboard), or a conversation I'd had, or some other striking something that caught my eye. Today, it would likely be the Olkaria IV Geothermal Power Plant just brought on line in Kenya with the assistance of Germany's continued development of green energies. I first learned about the plant from the Kenyan cab driver who took me from the St. Louis airport to my hotel yesterday.
But no story today. The first reason is trivial though not insubstantial. It's time. I'll only have 45 minutes for my opening talk. It's usually closer to an hour.
The second reason is more important. It is my audience; school librarians, students of library science, and supporters and administrators of school library programs. I'm not launching into a demonstration of personal learning because librarians and their libraries are almost entirely about person learning. Their patrons explore, examine, experiment and discover – in much the same ways that we all conduct our essential learning outside of school.
These authentic learning experiences are way to rare in the classrooms of our schools, and this is due not to the best intentions, reflections and inventiveness of our teachers. It is my country's continue obsession with market motivated and industrial methodology of public education.
What If Our Roads Were Run Like This?
My wife and I are buying a house in the Shelby area, so that we can spend more time with both of our parents and have a larger place for family gatherings.
We're very happy with the house, except that we can't get reconnected, the DSL line that the previous owners enjoyed. I've spent many hours on the phone with AT&T mostly on hold, or desperately trying to navigate their menu system, or listening to the scripts recited over and over again by the sales and support staff. The story seems to be that DSL is simply not (no longer) available to our house.
Time Warner will not serve the house, apparently because there are not enough houses on our street. The next street over, more populated, has had Time Warner for quite some time.
Being an early adopter of iPhones and iPads, I have been able to keep unlimited data plans on both of them.
I also have an AT&T hotspot device that provides WiFi for me via a local cell tower, up to 5Gb per month. So I went to the AT&T store last night to get its data plan upgraded to 20Gb. It seems that the only way that I can change the plan on that device is by also changing the plans on my iPhone and iPad, giving up my unlimited data there. AT&T seems more interested in providing less service, not more nor better.
We are probably going to go with a Verizon product that will provide WiFi and Ethernet, via a cell tower, 20Gb.
The reason I burden you with this is my wondering,
"What if our roads were handled like this, as a service to customers rather than citizens?"
"What if there weren't enough people living in my area to result in enough profit for the road company to lay a road?"
"How would my children get an education, if they couldn't go to school? How would I get my work done, if I couldn't get to work? How could we shop for essentials, if we couldn't get to the store?"
You get my point. Our Internet connection has become as important to us as our roads. Yet service depends on the convenience and profitability to AT&T and Time Warner. What's worse is that North Carolina it is now agains the law for municipalities to establish and provide Internet service to its citizens, thanks to the hundreds of thousands of dollars of compaign contributions from the telecommunications industry.
So what do you think?
Creativity: The Lego Way
Two 2×4 Lego bricks, of the same color, can be put together in 24 different ways. Three can be connected 1,060 different ways. Six can be combined in 915,103,765 different ways. ..and, of course, children (and adults) have enthusiastically assembled them in nearly as many. It's when useful and reliable resources can be used in so many ways that creativity is invited.1
The best use of Legos, in my humble opinion, never involved lessons or even instructions. You do not sit down and teach children how to creatively make stuff by clicking Lego bricks together. You simply given them the bricks and let them play.
Might we achieve more inventive-minded students, if we could redesign curriculum to simply give our children the prescribed resources of mind, and then encourage and free them to play, construct and learn. One example occurs to me, something that I witnessed in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada many years ago.
In early 2007, I participated in a provincial conference there and in addition had an opportunity to visit some of the area schools with my friend and NB educator, Jeff Whipple. At the time, the entire province was engaged in some pretty innovative initiatives. I wrote about that visit here and here.
I was overwhelmingly impressed with everything that I saw in the schools around Fredericton, but the visit that came to mind as I started thinking about Legos was Chad Ball's civics class. He had decided to approach it in an entirely different way that year, based on a summer morning brainstorm. Rather than present the content to his students in teacher mode, he simply made it available to them, the vocabulary and concepts of Canadian government, mostly through a wiki.
Students were then assigned to work in groups, to create a new political party. They were to develop a platform, write speeches and even establish a mascot and logo – and required to appropriately and effectively utilize every vocabulary word and every concept of Canadian government in the process. Chad taught in consultant mode, though he reported that he api;d often refer students to classmates who seemed to have a handle on the concept or practice.
On the day of our visit, Mr. Ball had asked, on the class wiki, if there might be ways to extend the project. Even though the posting initially evoked complaints from some of the students, within a half hour there were 102 comments on his posting, mostly suggesting ways that they might take their political parties to the next level.2
This style of teaching and learning is about empowerment, not compliance,
because learners are given access to building blocks,
..and invited to build something.
1 (2014). Brick by Brick: Inside Lego [Television series episode]. In Inside.Bloomberg TV.
2 Warlick, D. (2007, March 23). A Day of being Overwhelmed. . Retrieved July 21, 2014, from http://2cents.onlearning.us/?p=946
Am I Missing It?
I just woke with a start. Did I just miss the ISTE14 ADE (Apple Distinguished Educators) photowalk yesterday? A quick Googling from my office (next to my bedroom) and I see that the event isn't until next Saturday. Most years I've been blogging by now with recommendations for ISTE novices, about what gear to take and how to behave. But not this year. I'll be mostly taking it easy at home, taking pictures, taking walks, riding my bike, playing with the dog (my daughter's studying in Europe and we've got the dog) and working on a slew of personal projects.
Will I miss ISTE14? Well, I'll certainly miss the photowalk. Last year's walk around San Antonio was phenomenal, especially because of the talented and ingenious photographers I followed around — both the gear geeks and the artists.
I'll also deeply miss EduBloggerCon, now called something else (HackEd), where educators go to learn from each other. I'd planned, for a while, to attend only the photowalk and HackEd, but figuring the cost and how much I'm enjoying becoming a homebody, I finally decided to forego Atlanta this year. I can't accurately say how many NECC/ISTEs I've not missed, but it's more than 20.
I'd like to say one thing here, about why I'll be at home on ISTE week – and I've written about this before I submitted two presentation proposals.
One was a standup and teach presentation about games and pedagogy. It was accepted.
The other was a very strange interactive performance (see NCTIES), designed to provoke the audience to self-examine their personal ideas about information and communication technologies and education. It was rejected.
Look! The best learning that I have done, was not taught to me. The best learning came from a challenge, or curiosity, or an intriguingly inventive plot – and it involved a conscious and resourceful re-examining of my own knowledge and ideas.
Have fun at ISTE14 and question your learning.
The Rise of the "I"
I've been working through a major overhaul of Class Blogmeister and as a matter of reference, just pulled up its Google Analytics report. There were few surprises, such as a decline in its use over the years — which I was actually encouraging for a time.
What did surprise me was a review of the operating systems that were accessing the 10 year old classroom blogging site (see below). Windows continues to hold a substantial lead with 57.33% of the hits. But second and third are what caught my eye.
iOS has overtaken Macintosh OS for the number two spot.
..and then there was a not-to-be-ignored 6% for Android.
I guess what truly strikes me is that CB is essentially a data-entry activity, if I might be forgiven for using such an archaic term. It's about typing. What sorts of subtle biological evolutions are going on, that our children can type so much on an often hand-held glass surface?
Google Analytics for Class Blogmeister, Visits by OS for the past month
Why I'm Speaking to Science Teachers
Yesterday, Tim Holt wrote "Why I am At a Science Conference," describing his work at this week's Conference for the Advancement of Science Teaching (CAST), and why it is so important that we edubloggers and techspeakers should be sharing our messages into other communities of interest, science teachers for instance. I agree. I've tried, for years, to get into social studies conferences. When I succeed, it's to do a concurrent session, and only 12 teachers showed up. It's part of the nature of the profession, that we owe our professional identity to our particular area of specialty.
I have keynoted foreign language conferences, library conferences, administrator, and even book publisher, real-estate developer and farmer conferences. Perhaps the most receptive to my particular message are school boards conferences. But Tim is right. Little of this actually makes it into classrooms, especially the "Common Core" classrooms.
Holt referred to the fact that I too will also be speaking to Science teachers this week, in Charlotte, at one of the regional conferences of the National Science Teachers Association – and my efforts to tailor my presentation to that audience. I admit some concern about speaking to science teachers, because I taught social studies, and my examples tend to be more social studies oriented – though I would maintain that any good social studies teacher is also teaching science, math, health, literature, and everything else. It's all societal.
Tim mentioned me because of a string of posts I made to Facebook and Twitter yesterday, reporting my progress in playing with Kerbal Space Program, a sandbox-style game that has the player designing, building, and flying space craft, on missions from the planet Kerbal. It's been fun, regardless of my immigrant clumsiness with video games – though I am experiencing some pride in finally getting a manned (well a Kerban-piloted) space craft into orbit. It cost the lives of 12 fellow kerbans and several billion $kerbols worth of hardware.
Holt writes,
And although (David's) message is VERY general, it is at least a start. He is trying to tailor the message to the audience by demoing the Kerbal Space Program online game (https://kerbalspaceprogram.com) so good for him. But those opportunities are few and far between.
These opportunities rare and priceless. ..and forgive me if I seem overly sensitive and even defensive, but there is nothing general about this. The message is singular and it is revolutionary. It has nothing to do with, "Look, here's something that you can do in your classroom with technology." It is,
"Look, here's what many of your students are doing outside your classroom. It's fun, but it's work. It's hard work. And it is entirely about learning. The energy of our students' youth culture is not based on how high you can jump or fast you can run. It is neither wit nor the appealing symmetry of your face. The energy of their culture is the ability to skillfully and resourcefully learn and to inventively employ that learning."
My message is that children are entering our classrooms with learning skills that, although based on long understood pedagogies, they are skills that we are too often ignoring and sometimes even handicapping. When I say that we "chop their tentacles off," it's not about cutting them off from technology. We're amputating their access to the learning skills that they are so effectively developing outside our classrooms – their avenues to personally meaningful accomplishment.
Perhaps those of us who have chosen to pursue education technology or have been seduced by its potentials are in a unique position to notice our children's 'native' learning skills – more so than science or social studies teachers. But we all must be careful to shed the glow of tech, and get right down to the point of being educated in this time of rapid change.
It's not about being taught.
It's about becoming a learner.
A Visualization of Science "Brain Drain"
This is one of the infographics that is not so easy to read, but well worth the effort. It maps out the flow of scientific research talent across 16 countries. Created by information designer, Giorgia Lupi and here team in Italy, as a follow-up to several celebrated graphics (this and this), it was not initially apparent to me that it is a scatter plot.
Some things are better discovered than obvious.
The X axis represents the percent of the country's GDP that is invested in research and development, with Sweden, Japan, Denmark and Switzerland leading the field. The Y axis represents the number of researchers in the country for ever one million people. At the top here are Denmark, Japan, Sweden and the U.S.A.
The lines show the migration of scientific researchers. For instance, Denmark exports talent to Great Britain and the U.S. The U.S. exports to Canada, Germany, Great Britain and Australia. Just about everybody exports to the U.S.
Of particular interest are the percent of foreigner and emigrant researchers in the countries compared to the total foreign and emigrant residents.
All in all, it's worth a study by teachers and STEM and social studies students.
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Science Teachers come to North Carolina
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) will be holding a conference this week in Charlotte, The Queen City of North Carolina. It is both ironic and opportune for science teachers, from around the country, to converge on my state to celebrate science education and to learn more about their chosen passion and techniques conveying it to their students.
I had planned to explain this event's importance as part of my address to the audience. But, alas, I'll have only 45 minutes, so will be getting right to business. Instead, I'll explain it all here, sitting in a Raleigh coffee shop, and proud to be a citizen of this state that owes so much of its recent success to science and education – and a state that desperately needs to be snapped out of its stupor.
Dazed by $80,000,000 worth of campaigning in 2012 ("Follow the money," 2012), we have witnessed an arrogant government, in effect, vilify science and education. Helping to spur this backward thinking is John Droz, a retired real-estate investor and fellow with the American Tradition Institute (which is tied to fossil fuel interests). In a recent presentation [a Droz slidedeck] to the General Assembly, he called smart meters "fascism in a box" and environmentalism a "new world religion backed by the United Nations." Among his cited sources were,
Whistleblower, the monthly magazine companion of WorldNetDaily a website that promotes conspiracy theories about topics such as President Obama's citizenship; Quadrant, a conservative Australian magazine that was involved in a scandal over publishing fraudulent science and the Institute for Creation Research a Texas outfit that rejects evolution and promotes Biblical creationism and the notion that "All things in the universe were created and made by God in the six literal days of the Creation Week." (Surgis, 2013)
Also carrying some influence is John Skvarla, the newly appointed Secretary for the state's Department of the Environment and Natural Resources. He apparently believes that oil is a renewable resource, saying "The Russians for instance have always drilled oil as if it's a renewable resource, and so far they haven't been proven wrong."
And then there are the legislators of 20 coastal counties, where developers have been stifled by the notion of sea level rise. So to make things better for developers, They introduced a bill that outlaws the rise of the sea, or at least how it's measured. From House Bill 819, Section 2.
10 (e) The Division of Coastal Management shall be the only State agency authorized to
11 develop rates of sea-level rise and shall do so only at the request of the Commission.
12 These rates shall only be determined using historical data, and these data shall be
13 limited to the time period following the year 1900. Rates of sea-level rise may be
14 extrapolated linearly to estimate future rates of rise but shall not include scenarios
15 of accelerated rates of sea-level rise. Rates of sea-level rise shall not be one rate
16 for the entire coast but, rather, the Division shall consider separately oceanfront and
17 estuarine shorelines. ("Coastal management policies," 2011)
This whole business prompted comedian, Stephen Colbert to say on the air, "If your science gives you a result you don't like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved."
The dramatic decline in Tobacco farming in North Carolina, illustrated in this graphic (North Carolina Department of Agriculture), has meant an enormous hardship for rural NC. As part of Raleigh's efforts to find a new cash crop, the Biofuels Center of North Carolina was established five years ago, researching, developing and testing a variety of crops biomass crops.
|The now defunct Biofuels Center of North Carolina web site
The center closed its doors last week. The General Assembly cut the center's entire $4.3 million budget. In the words of Steven Burke, the centers CEO,
"The center, a growing biofuels community statewide, and companies considering new facilities here share dismay that North Carolina has visibly pulled back from the nation's lead state biofuels agency and from long-term commitment to comprehensive biofuels development." "No longer pursuing advanced biofuels with a focused, comprehensive strategy will lessen opportunity to create rural jobs, strengthen agriculture, and create an enormous biofuels and biomaterials sector."
There's not much that a few thousand science teachers can do, except to be mindful that science is neither fact nor theology. It's a way of looking at the world, observing, hypothesizing, predicting, testing, evaluating and adapting. It is both personal and social, and following someone else's standards for what's to know (to be taught) is as repudiating to what science is as outlawing the results.
I look forward to seeing many of you at the NSTA conference this week in Charlotte. I'll be in Convention Center, Ballrooms C&D at 2:00 on Friday afternoon.
Follow the money. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.followthemoney.org/database/state_overview.phtml?s=NC&y=2012
Surgis, S. (2013, February 7). Climate conspiracy theorist returns to NC legislature, warns of threat from science 'elite'. [Web log message]. Retrieved from http://www.southernstudies.org/2013/02/climate-conspiracy-theorist-returns-to-nc-legislature-warns-of-threat-from-science-elite.htm
(2011). Coastal management policies (House Bill 819). Retrieved from North Carolina General Assembly website: http://www.nccoast.org/uploads/documents/CRO/2012-5/SLR-bill.pdf
North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, North Carolina Agricultural Statistics. (n.d.). Crops: Highs & lows, stocks & storage, biotech, varieties, floriculture, county estimates, fruits & vegetables. Retrieved from website: http://www.ncagr.gov/stats/2012AgStat/Page061_098.pdfkeep looking »


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Villa / 3 bedrooms / sleeps 6
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Les Cigales is an attractive Provencal property boasting exposed stone walls and large enclosed grounds with shaded terraces and private pool.
This unpretentious villa is well equipped and provides comfortable accommodation in a prime location.
Situated on a hill, on the heights of Vallauris, in a peaceful setting with views over Cap d'Antibes and Vallauris it is ideally located half way between Cannes and Juan les Pins.
Vallauris itself is set in the hills above the magnificent Golfe Juan and enjoys stunning panoramic views of the Bay of Cannes, the lles de Lérins and the Esterel mountains. The old Vallauris oozes Mediterranean charm and boasts a tradition of pottery. Picasso spent ten years here.
Also 8 km from Antibes and Cannes, 20 km from Grasse, 27 km from Nice. 45 km from Monaco.
|Sleeps up to 6, 3 bedrooms
|3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms of which 2 En suites
|Nearest beach
|Golfe Juan 3 km
|Car advised
|Nearest Amenities
|1 km
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Nice 25 km, Nearest railway: Golfe Juean 3 km
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages
|Some pets are welcome - please contact the owner, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Private indoor pool, Internet access
|Private indoor pool
|Video player, Satellite TV, Wi-Fi available
|Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|Double beds (3)
|Linen provided, Towels provided
|Private indoor pool, Balcony or terrace, Private garden, BBQ
|Parking, Suitable for people with restricted mobility, Not suitable for wheelchair users
|Further details indoors
Living/Dining room : 65m², satellite TV, video, sofa, armchairs, dining table and chairs, and mezzanine overlooking the living/dining room.
Kitchen : 15m², oven, microwave, dishwasher, washing machine, gas hob, fridge-freezer, coffee maker, table and chairs.
2 Bedrooms, 1 Mezzanine, 1 Bathroom, 1 Shower room, 2 wc's:
Bedroom 1 : ground floor, 15m², double bed, ensuite bathroom 1.
Bedroom 2 : first floor, queen size bed (160cm), ensuite shower room 2, 20m², wardrobe, cupboard.
Mezzanine : 12m², double bed, chest of drawers, cupboard, TV.
Bathroom : ensuite to bedroom 1, 10m², shower, bath, washbasin.
Shower room : ensuite to bedroom 2, 6m², shower, washbasin, wc.
Separate wc : ground floor.
|Further details outdoors
Grounds : 1700m², fully enclosed, trees, flowers.
Terrace : 100m², with open view. Outdoor table with chairs, sunlounger, barbecue, bench, parasol.
Pool : 8 x 4m, with security system, steps. Depth: 1.7m. 6 deck chairs, parasol and exterior shower.
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No phone
Wifi internet
Small pets welcome
Parking for 3 vehicles on site
Noise: none
Overlooked: no, but view of a villa's roof down below
Please note: narrow access which can be difficult for larger cars.
The Provence region
The Cote d'azur stretches along the warmest coastline of France from Provence to the Italian border.
The beaches from pebble to fine sand are well maintained and some 'private' offer extra facilities, bars and restaurants for a whole days comfortable seaside lounging! Gastronomy is at its best catering for some of the most prestigious clients but offering many choices of restaurant all along the coast.
The bustling cities of Cannes and Nice contrast to the small and still authentic perched villages on the hilltops, and other smaller towns offer quiet corners with dotted villas and yet still most interesting town centres alive with artistic history and tradition.
Further north the terraced hillsides lead up into cooler parts and the Alps can be seen towering above. Hiking and walking as well as many watersports on the lakes will be amongst activities here away from the busier coasts.
Cannes. 8 km. Beachside resort with its large promenade, chic boutiques, restaurants, bars, shops and festivals including the famous Cannes film festival in May each year. A walk along the "Croisette", harbour and sandy beaches is a must.
Antibes-Juan les Pins. 8 km. Two towns in one! Antibes with its vibrant historic centre with narrow winding streets, a good choice of restaurants, cafés, theatres, piano bars, chic hotels, private clubs and Picasso museum, and Juan les Pins renowned for its gorgeous beaches, exciting nightlife with fashionable night clubs, casino and even night shopping. Also Cap d'Antibes, a small piece of paradise, home to a number of millionaires.
Biot. 10 km. Beautiful and picturesque little village best known for its glassware.
Théoule sur Mer. 15 km. Charming seaside resort nestling in a small cove at the foot of the Estérel mountain with red rocky inlets and beautiful sandy beaches shaded by exotic palm trees and majestic parasol pines.
Visiobulle Antibes, Juan les Pins. 7 km. Boat trip. An hour long excursion in a glass-bottomed boat to discover the Cap d'Antibes with stunning underwater view.
Golf Country Club de Cannes Mougins, Mougins. 7 km. Golf course. 18 holes Par 72 - 6312m. In the heart of a magnificent forest, a technical course full of variety and nicely landscaped with few but strategically placed water hazards.
Marineland, Antibes. 12 km. Aquarium. The greatest marine show in Europe with dolphins, orcas, killer whales and seals. Also aquariums and a 30m-long tunnel surrounded by sharks!
Aquasplash, Antibes. 12 km. Water park. Water slides, wave pool, slides, toboggans, flumes and rubber-ring rides... and the Black Cannon, one of France's fastest water slides, which propels riders to speeds of 60 km/hour!!
St Paul de Vence. 20 km. One of the most beautiful and most visited villages in France which has attracted many artists due to its great natural beauty. Also home to Fondation Maeght, France's most important modern art museum with a remarkable collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings and other graphic works from the 20th century.
Grasse. 20 km. Fascinating historic town and world's perfume capital. Explore the delightful narrow streets or go on one of the factory tours offered by some of the most famous perfume houses.
Nice. 27 km. Fashionable and unmissable seaside resort with its wonderful "Promenade des Anglais", a long boulevard along the seaside dotted with palm trees, its old town with pretty colourful architecture and narrow streets. Take a stroll along the flower market in the "Cours Saleya", restaurants serving Mediterranean and sea food and bars. Nice is cool in winter and hot in summer!!!
Tourrettes sur Loup. 30 km. Charming hill top medieval village known as the Violet village and surrounded by superb landscapes. Well worth a detour.
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Knelman: Christopher Plummer vs. Helen Mirren in a cinematic battle of The Tempests?
With "The Tempest's" Stratford theatre run sold out, get ready for a screen duel: Christopher Plummer's Prospero vs. Helen Mirren's Prospera.
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His revels at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival are not quite ended, but there are virtually no tickets available for the final weeks of Christopher Plummer's star turn as Prospero in The Tempest, which closes on Sept. 12.
That's the bad news, but there is also good news for those who have missed their chance to see this legendary actor in a signature role on the Stratford stage.
Now it's time to focus on the afterlife of this show — likely coming to a large screen near you before the first snowfall.
Indeed, it's entirely possible that Stratford's Tempest will reach your local Cineplex weeks before the Dec. 10 theatrical opening of Disney's much-ballyhooed and vastly more expensive Tempest starring Helen Mirren and directed by Julie Taymor.
On stage at Stratford, Plummer's Prospero has indeed created a perfect tempest at the box office since its official opening on June 25. That kind of pandemonium is the stuff that dreams are made of for general director Antoni Cimolino and artistic director Des McAnuff.
But the screen version, filmed last month and currently in post-production, will reach a larger audience, and could be an even bigger crowd-pleaser.
"Both Des McAnuff and Christopher Plummer deliver an edge of your seat cinematic experience," promises Barry Avrich, who produced the film, and has been spent hours in the editing room. "I believe the live theatre aspect has definitively been captured in a raw and stunning production."
Avrich scored a major success two years ago with the film version of Stratford's Caesar and Cleopatra — another McAnuff production starring Plummer.
Filmed in HD during live performance, the screen version could move beyond the single-occasion HD presentation and be given a limited theatrical release not only in Canada but also in key U.S. cities under the terms of a deal currently being discussed.
And if Stratford's Tempest finds its way into movie theatres in Los Angeles and New York for one week prior to the end of 2010, it will qualify for awards. That could mean competition for Taymor's version, which has turned the main character into a woman, played by Mirren.
The Taymor/Mirren Tempest will have its world premiere on closing night of the Venice Film Festival next month, and its North American premiere on Oct. 2 at the New York Film Festival. For the Toronto International Film Festival, it belongs in the file of Movies That Got Away.
Wouldn't it be intriguing if both Plummer and Mirren were nominated for their performances? Presumably they would be in two different categories — best actor and best actress.
When I mentioned this potential screen duel to McAnuff, he quipped: "They are both great actors but for this role, given the choice, I'd go with Chris."
Executive producers for the film version of McAnuff's production are Avrich, entertainment lawyer Michael Levine and Patrice Theroux, head of Entertainment One Films.
Eventually the film will reach TV viewers on Bravo!
At Stratford, the demand for Tempest tickets has resulted in a boost for the other 11 productions on the festival's program as well — making this one of the festival's most successful seasons ever, in terms of both ticket sales and cultural prestige. Though it's too early to tally attendance numbers, insiders say the numbers are running about 10 per cent better than those of 2009.
Until last week, some were clinging to hopes of two or three extra performances of The Tempest, if not an extension. But the combination of festival logistics and Plummer's schedule have ruled that out.
Still, it's entirely likely McAnuff and Plummer will eventually bring their Tempest back to the stage. At the moment, though, no one can say where or when.
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Taking rice
Warnings/notes : AU, Yami/Bakura, mentionings of Seto and Mahado.
Disclaimer : I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. This ficlet is part of 'Feast of the king's shadow', meaning its title is taken from this novel by Chaz Brenchley.
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Note : I'm pretty sure they didn't eat rice in Ancient Egypt but ...
Breaking into the royal palace probably wasn't the smartest thing Bakura had ever done. But it had been fun because of the challenge all those guards presented. Besides, everyone knew the Pharaoh had stored loads of delicious food in here, which he was too greedy to share with the people he was supposed to take care of.
Bakura would have loved to find out if there really were rooms filled with pastries or juicy melons in this place, but he didn't have the time for it, regretfully. Every second he stayed here, the odds of running into some sort of guard grew and the rope he had used to get over the main-wall might be discovered as well. He intended to use it for a quick escape, which had meant having to leave it behind and accepting the risk that someone might find it. If that happened, he'd be in -deep- trouble.
Dismissing such pessimistic thoughts from his mind, Bakura sternly told himself he ought to stop thinking about all those 'what if's. He was in here now, so he might as well make it worth his trouble by snatching some valuable loot on his way out.
It wouldn't even be stealing in a way, since all the riches that had been gathered here were robbed from the Egyptian people by the Pharaoh. Not that Bakura had any problem with robbery himself, but at least he was honest about it. He was a thief (and a damn good one at that, if he did say so himself), and if he got caught, they'd throw him in prison.
-If- he got caught. Which might happen for dozens of reasons, some of them his fault, some of them simply a matter of bad luck. Still, the spoils were worth a little risk, he thought. And at least he enjoyed his job, unlike the laborers he saw walking to the fields every morning at dawn, with as much spirit in them as so many sheep. He'd rather die than become like that.
As he rounded yet another corner in the labyrinth of corridors that made out the ground-level of the palace, he arrived at some sort of round chamber. Crossing it hastily to reach the door across, he only noticed the person who was standing in the shadows when he was halfway.
"What are you doing here? I don't know you." A bright, clear voice demanded. Bakura's mouth went dry as he spun around, his mind frantically trying to come up with a believable lie to explain why he had every right to be in this place.
Yami eyed the stranger with some suspicion and a good deal of curiosity. On a closer look, he looked much too young to be an assassin. It had been the first thing on his mind, which probably went to prove Yami was going a bit paranoid in his seclusion. He did want to get out more, but there were simply so many things he needed to do.
His advisors seeing conspiracies behind every bush didn't help much either. Seto and Mahado did what they could to keep them honest, yet even they couldn't be everywhere. Plus, they had obligations of their own, concerning Egypt's magical protections against the darkness that was always threatening it. Compared to the dangers coming out of the Shadow Realm, human corruption was a petty danger.
"I'm a thief." The young man raised his head, holding up a bag. Yami blinked.
"You ... " Who in his right mind would confess to having entered the royal palace to -rob- it? Of course, Yami would have known if the young man had lied to him but ...
"I steal things." By the way the boy was gazing at him, Yami could tell it was -his- sanity that was in doubt here. "That's my profession. I make a pretty good living out of it too."
"Oh." Yami replied weakly. "Haven't you ever considered finding an ... honest job?" Yes, his health of mind was definitely being questioned here.
"I only steal from rich people. Like the Pharaoh. Or nobles." Yami didn't quite understand why that made it more honest. Neither did he have any idea why he hadn't called out for the guards yet.
"But ... why?" Yami asked. The boy shrugged.
"I'm hungry." He did look kind of skinny under his wide robes, Yami had to admit. Yet his advisors had assured him the temples were providing enough food for everyone who needed it.
"Don't the priests hand out food?" He felt odd, inquiring after the state in his kingdom by a boy hardly his own age. Still, all answers he had received thus far had seemed to be honest.
"Not much. And it's mostly really bad quality, like, so bad it makes people ill." The young thief grimaced. "I bet the Pharaoh thinks it's a waste to feed the poor."
Yami opened his mouth to indignantly deny that, then reconsidered. While it was true that he hadn't thought that, that he hadn't even been aware of this state of affairs, it was also true that he -should- have known these things happened.
"Who are you anyway?" The boy continued, a glimmer of curiosity in his eyes. "I'm Bakura."
"My name's uhm Yami." He grinned a bit sheepishly as Bakura's jaw dropped, silently cursing the fact that he hadn't had the presence of mind to give the boy a false name. Or at least one that was a little less well-known. According to his birth-tablet, he had at least a dozen of those.
"You're joking, right? -You- are the evil Pharaoh?" Bakura stared at him with wide eyes, like he was some strange, dangerous animal that was on display in the market-place.
"Not evil, at least, I hope I'm not -that- bad, but yes I'm the Pharaoh." And he'd never before felt an urge to blush or apologize for that fact. It wasn't a feeling he enjoyed, though Mahado would probably tell him it was good for him to be humbled a little every now and then.
"Hmmm. Do you think I could kidnap you for a big ransom?" Bakura inquired wistfully. Yami had the impression he wasn't entirely joking, even if the idea sounded rather funny.
"You'd never manage to get me past all the guards." Yami informed his former kidnapper-to-be. "Unfortunately." he added with a sigh.
"Too bad." Bakura agreed. "Ah well, I'd have had to kill you if they wouldn't pay the money anyway, so maybe it's better that I don't try it. You don't seem so bad, Yami. In fact, I kind of like you."
For no rational reason, that remark made Yami blush again. "Thanks. I think. For a vicious thief you're pretty nice too. I'd hate to have to order you thrown in prison."
Bakura snorted. "Then might I hope you won't? Because I sure'd hate hearing you order that too."
"Only if you put back everything you've taken from my palace so far." Yami said sternly, trying hard not to laugh at the indignant expression that had appeared on Bakura's face. "I'll give you food to take home."
Bakura seemed only moderately mollified. "All right then, though I think it's very unfair. Ah well, next time I'll simply have to be more careful." Yami preferred to pretend he hadn't heard that last part.
"Come on then. The kitchens are this way."
"Now, this bag of rice comes with a condition." Yami held up the food. Bakura rolled his eyes.
"Another one? Geez, what is is now? I hope you don't expect me to give up being a thief, for I assure you that's -not- going to happen."
Yami smirked. "I want you to become one of my advisors."
"You what?!?" Bakura appeared to think he had lost his mind again. Yami sourly thought he'd get along just fine with Seto, who often looked at him that way too.
"I could use someone who's honest to me. You said there are a lot of things going wrong, so now I offer you a chance to do something about that situation." Yami explained reasonably. "And ... " he bit his lip, uncertain if he ought to add the other reason for his proposal, " ... I'd like a friend."
"An exchange." Bakura countered. "I teach you how to be a thief and you can do your best to turn me into an advisor. You never know when such skills might come in handy after all."
"Deal." Yami smiled, extending his hand. Bakura shook his head, with an odd gleam in his eyes.
"Thieves don't seal promises that way. They do it like this." Soft lips brushed past his cheek, while a hand reached out to take the bag of rice from his powerless grasp. Bakura chuckled.
When Yami opened his eyes again, without remembering when he had closed them, Bakura was gone. In his place, there stood Seto, eyeing him puzzledly.
"I think I'm in love." Yami told him. Seto's reaction was most satisfactory.
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Victoria's Secret Show: Rihanna Grabs Model's Underwear Onstage!
Rihanna's not about to be upstaged by anyone -- not even a few nearly naked , crazy sexy Victoria's Secret Angels!
At the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, taped in NYC on Wednesday night, the "Diamonds" singer, 24, was among the pop star guests joining the models on the runway. (Justin Bieber and Bruno Mars also made musical appearances.)
For her over-the-top performances, Rihanna donned two looks.
First, the chart-topper wore a revealing black corset gown with a thigh-high slit plus pearl-rimmed shades and choker and long lace gloves and sexy boots as she strutted alongside the stunning angel Doutzen Kroes.
For her second onstage look, the Barbados-born superstar went all pink -- pink bra and underwear with a sheer, similarly tone slip and pink booties.
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During one memorable moment in the show, she even copped a feel of one sexy model passing her by.
Indeed, before the show began, Rihanna told reporters on the red carpet that she was looking forward to checking out "t-ts and ass!" during the spectacle.
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"I need to hit the gym after seeing these girls," she joked. "When I sing I'm going to suck in [my stomach] and arch my back and try to remember my songs at the same time."
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