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This week parents of students with learning differences and/or living with executive function challenges came together to share stories using the This PS Life model. Together, they explored what they like about being parents of these kids, what's challenging, and what do they want the community to know about this experience.
There were parents representing both campuses with children who had been through the formal evaluation process years ago through students who have not yet been identified. Some of the children have been diagnosed with ADHD, sensory and auditory processing challenges, dyslexia, dysgraphia, or combinations of these.
These parents would like others in our community to know:
If you were unable to join the conversation, but would like to connect with the other parents, please let us know: Britt at firstname.lastname@example.com or Lisa Pious (Deepa '14, Kavi 7) at email@example.com.]]>
This past Wednesday night, a group of nearly 30 parents met to share what it's like to be a parent of a student of color at Prospect Sierra. Five different groups gathered together, including parents of multiracial students, White parents, Asian parents, parents who identify as Black, African-American, or African, and a group of parents who identified as parents of students of color.
Here is what they had to say:
And finally, they would like other folks to know:
Joanna Poz-Molesky (Class of '02) received the most votes, winning the grand prize for founding and supporting JUNTOS, an international collective of dancers that seeks to educate, heal, liberate, and build community through dance. Since its founding in 2008, the organization has provided dance workshops and performances for children in orphanages, with HIV-positive street children, with seniors, in elementary schools, and with dance companies with few economic opportunities in U.S., Mexico, and Central America.
Suzanne Becker (Class of '10) is the winner in the high school category, honored for her work as co-president of her chapter of buildOn, an organization which supports the building of schools in international rural communities. Over the last two years, Suzanne's chapter of buildOn has raised over $50,000 to build and support a primary school in rural Nepal.
Congratulations to all of our finalists:
On Tuesday, September 3rd, Prospect Sierra officially cut the ribbon on the new kindergarten playground. Named "Mrs. Puckett's Kindergarten Yard," the new playspace includes:
The unveiling was the culmination of a speedy fundraising campaign last spring to honor Sheila Puckett's departure from Prospect Sierra after 15 years as Elementary School Division Head. Based on some design-thinking work done with kindergarteners, their teachers, and construction professionals, this is just the first stage in realizing Mrs. Puckett's dream of developing and expanding the playspaces available to Prospect Sierra's youngest students.
Mrs. Puckett's Kindergarten Yard will hear the shrieks of a new breed of Prospect Sierra student: the legacy student.
What does that mean? It means that an alum of Prospect Sierra grew up, had kiddos, and decided to send them to their old alma mater: Prospect Sierra! And this year, we have two of these delightful beings:
Thinking back on your time at Prospect Sierra, do you think you'd do the same?
We caught up with Lindsay Rotblatt ('03) to find out what life is like when you study brains for a living:
I've never been much of a fiction reader, with the few exceptions of The Hunger Games and Harry Potter series. (But who didn't love those?) Currently, the three books I'm in the middle of reading are
All three are excellent reads, but I don't recommend Garbology before bed … It's
pretty unsettling.
This is a tricky question. It would also depend on what I'm making for dinner. I'd say Bill Gates and Sugata Mitra, because the two of them together could probably change the world over dinner. The two of them would be incredible to converse with. For the third guest, I would say Will Ferrell, because Will Ferrell always makes me smile.
Prior to researching Huntington's disease, I studied prenatal insults (such as alcohol and stress) on the developing fetal brain. What amazes me is how extremely plastic the brain truly is. While certain environmental factors can be extremely damaging, experience and enrichment can be so impactful that they can physically repair the brain. Look up Jill Bolte Taylor's TED talk if you're interested. It's so cool.
That is perhaps the hardest question on this list! Being away from the Bay Area really gives you perspective on how awesome we have it. However, with that in mind, both Santa Barbara and San Diego have been amazing places to live. I have to say that I've always loved warm weather, and you can't beat San Diego's November sunshine and gorgeous beaches. The energy in San Diego is also fantastic. With young entrepreneurs opening cool new restaurants and startups, I have to say that I'm kind of loving this city. The farmer's market here also has an ocean view. Nonetheless, Berkeley will always be home.
After graduating with a degree in biopsychology from UC Santa Barbara, Lindsay decided to continue her love of research and the brain by attending San Diego State University to pursue her masters degree in psychology, with an emphasis in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience. She is currently working under Dr. Paul Gilbert at the Center for Healthy Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease Research, studying the cognitive deficits associated with Huntington's disease. Following the program, she wishes to travel through South East Asia prior to starting a doctoral program in clinical psychology.
If you are an alumni activist (or know someone who is), please consider entering the race for next year's Prospect Sierra Alumni Action Award. We will once again be celebrating changemakers in two age brackets:
Our first place winner will win $500, with second place earning $250. So enter the details of your activism (or that of someone you know) in the realms of social and/or environmental justice in this online nomination form by Friday, November 15, 2013.
Winners and finalists will be notified in December, and there will be an award ceremony, to which all are invited, on Friday, January 10, 2014.
Do you ever feel like the bad stuff is easier to remember than the good stuff? Suzan Kaufmann's daughter, Alison (Kaufmann) Ledgerwood ('93), now a psychology professor at UC Davis, addresses just this notion, and proposes some potential solutions in her recent TEDx presentation. Check out the video!
All summer long, your former teachers (some of them alums!) have been learning, exploring, and DOING! We collected stories from Annie Fujimoto ('91), Debby Roosevelt, Jonah Klein ('96), Kirk Cooper, Maddie Hogan, Jay Rhodes, and more … Read their stories!
Many stories from the fall edition of Taking Flight magazine, are now online:
More stories at: takingflight.prospectsierra.org
Prospect Sierra Alumni Action Award Ceremony
January 10, 2014
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Avis MPR
Prospect Sierra Class of 2013 Alumni Reunion
January 12, 2014
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Avis Campus Courtyard
Prospect Sierra Class of 2010 Alumni Reunion
May 18, 2014
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Avis Campus Courtyard
See you there!]]>
We are so proud to announce that Madeleine Rogin has won the Great American Teach-Off, receiving a $10,000 grant for kindergarten classroom projects from GOOD and the University of Phoenix! After five weeks of voting in this contest of elimination, the winner was announced today, with Madeleine receiving the news and her award in a surprise assembly at Tapscott attended by students and her fellow Tapscott teachers.
Madeleine is being honored for her peaceful changemaker curriculum, developed with the kindergarten teaching team and in conjunction with 8th grade teachers to teach students about the concepts of courage and empathy and their place in promoting human rights. Madeleine uses these big ideas to talk about race in her kindergarten classroom, introducing the peaceful social change brought about by such leaders as Martin Luther King, Jr.—inspiring her students to become changemakers, too.
Thousands of teachers from across the nation were nominated, with 20 finalists making it to the five weeks of daily voting. Thanks to Madeleine's loyal supporters and their tireless voting, Madeleine plans to use the grant to fund continued restoration projects at Canyon Trail Park, and support a global connection between Prospect Sierra and an elementary school in Ghana. This project will provide educational supplies and technology for the school in Ghana, and connect students, using technology like Skype, enabling them to teach one another about the changemakers in each culture.
Please join me in congratulating Madeleine for being recognized for her work in the classroom, and all the changemaker teachers and students at Prospect Sierra who are represented in this tremendous honor. Finally, many thanks to you for supporting our school in this contest!
Katherine Dinh
Head of School
Miles Makdisi (Class of '01) wins the grand prize for his work with Sports for Development in Colombia. Miles' work aims to provide lessons in leadership, values, community action, and social justice, as well as improved opportunities for education and work, amongst youth displaced by violence.
The winners in our high school category are Elinor Lewis and Aden Copeland (Class of '11) who created and built the Arts Benefitting Children (ABC) program which sends high school volunteers to teach dance and drama to elementary after school programs in underprivileged communities who may not otherwise be exposed to the performing arts at school.
And congratulations go out to all of our finalists:
Please join us in congratulating our winners and finalists, many (perhaps all!) of whom will be joining us at the award ceremony on Friday, January 11.
The Prospect Sierra Alumni Action Award was established in 2008 with monies awarded from West Contra Costa County Integrated Waste Management from the school's greening efforts. Students wished to use these funds to honor recent graduates who take action to make a difference in the world. Honorees have worked on projects as varied as building a brick oven in Africa to creating a campaign to reduce teen dating violence.]]>
So said, Alex, my kindergartener, as I frantically raced through the back streets of Berkeley, cursing under my breath, clenching the steering wheel, snapping at my boys, all the while attempting to get them to their soccer matches on time. My efforts were in vain as we arrived late. I was harried and impatient—not one of my finer parenting moments.
Yet Alex's words grabbed me, and I immediately shifted my emotions. "Thank you, Alex, for your reminder," I calmly replied, and I pulled over. We each put one hand on our tummies and the other on our hearts, and together we breathed deeply five times.
From the mouth of my babe I was brought back to center, to what's most important—regulating my emotions so I'm present and connected to others, my environment, and myself. The hustle and bustle of working parenthood can sometimes unnerve me. I'm awed to be reminded by my five-year-old, who regularly makes use of his Toolbox, that I have a Toolbox available, too.
Regulating emotions is a critical life skill, and yet it's not something that has been deliberately taught. Traditionally, school has been a place for reading, writing, and arithmetic, not "touchy-feely" social emotional curriculum. However, it's become evident that success in adulthood has direct correlation to emotional literacy. In Daniel Goleman's book Primal Leadership, he speaks to organizational research of adult financial success where social skills improved adult financial success 110%. Even more impressive, self-regulation skills improved adult financial success by 390%. Hence, mastering emotions pays off.The greatest athletes deliberately regulate emotion because they know it's the key to peak performance. During the 70's, sports psychologist James Loehr's work proved just this point. Loehr wondered what separated the top-ranked tennis players in the world from the rest of the pack. Loehr's groundbreaking study proved there were many more athletically talented athletes on the pro circuit, beyond those who made the top fifty spots; however, those in the top fifty mastered regulating their emotions in the 25 seconds between points. Knowing how to regulate emotions fosters champions.
At Prospect Sierra, we know emotional literacy is a 21st century skill, and we make a K-8 commitment to it. At Tapscott, the social emotional health curricula have helped students recognize their own feelings and how they can be in charge of their own emotions. The Toolbox curriculum is just one of the programs empowering kids with concrete tools, when developmentally, students are concrete thinkers. My son Alex is a perfect example. By the second week of kindergarten, he was naming his emotions and using a tool he had just learned that week, and he was teaching it to others … namely me. Having access to something tangible like the Breathing Tool and the Garbage Can, is developmentally perfect for the K through 4th grader.
More recently, both the Tapscott and Avis campuses have integrated the RULER Approach into our emotional literacy programs. It provides an excellent framework, vocabulary, and more tools to add another layer to the curriculum. The RULER Approach, too, asks students to Recognize, Understand, Label, Express, and finally, Regulate emotion, as the acronym implies, and this is necessary as children become more abstract in their thinking in middle school. While the "cool" 8th grader may be reluctant to announce her use of the Breathing Tool, she is definitely, when given the opportunity and trained in reflection, able to understand and articulate the sophisticated nuances of her emotions and those of others.
With my "parent hat" on, I'm delighted that both my boys are learning great tools to regulate their emotions. With my "division head hat" on, I'm inspired by the work and commitment from our entire staff to learn, practice, instruct, and coach both kids and each other in the critical emotional literacy tools that ensure success.
With that, I'm going to pull out my Breathing Tool and practice.
Heather Rogers
Middle School Head
Not once have I heard a parent say, "For my child to get into an Ivy League school."
I don't have anything against Ivy League schools per se. Yet research has shown that where a person attends college matters less to their future success than other factors, such as supportive relationships, emotional intelligence, perseverance, and resilience. The philosopher Aristotle coined the phrase, "human flourishing," which is our ultimate hope for each Prospect Sierra student: that they may attain a life of human flourishing.
At Prospect Sierra, we create an environment that allows students to take full advantage of learning opportunities–including experiencing disappointment to build resilience; by figuring out solutions to problems on their own; to developing awareness of their emotions in order to cultivate greater self-knowledge.
By the time our students graduate, just as our most recent alumni did last June, they are confident, successful, and ready to take on the next stage in their education and life.
As a stark contrast to Prospect Sierra's environment, I provide this little story. Once upon a time, some years ago, I was approached by an historic, brand name school where children of internationally-famous and powerful parents are educated. I was recruited to take on a key leadership role. The school's reputation stands on its own. It hardly mattered what happened in the classrooms because there would always be massive competition for seats. Yet, somehow I sensed something was missing or wrong.
After a whirlwind of interviews, I found myself in front of the board. One very successful working mother told me I should lower my expectations for how much time I would spend with my young son, should I be so lucky to get the job. Another told me, not bragging—-more as matter of fact, that their alums go to the best colleges and become ambassadors, editors-in-chief, presidents, and CEO's of major companies.
Finally, they asked, "Do you have any questions for us?"
"Yes," I answered. "Is this a joyful place?"
My question was met with silence. A room full of extremely intelligent, sharply dressed executives and investors could not answer my question. Finally, a senior trustee-emeritus spoke. "We take joy in our children's accomplishments."
I flew home, called the search chair, and humbly removed myself from the search. They were shocked. It appears I was—somehow—their top candidate. I breathed a sigh of relief and continued on my path to find a joyful place of learning, leading me eventually to Prospect Sierra School.
While I could easily rattle off our students' accomplishments, and our alumni college list, I also know that this matters less in the whole path towards human flourishing. Thanks to a well-trained, experienced, and child-centered staff, our students receive the guidance, support, and skills they need to flourish in school and beyond.
Katherine Dinh
Head of School
I guess everyone knows my summer story: I gave birth to my first child, Dylan! He was born on July 23rd, and my husband Chris and I have been the happiest (and sleepiest!) people alive ever since. I'm looking forward to watching this little guy grow.
This summer, in addition to moving to the East Bay, I went to a yoga festival in Squaw Valley and practiced in the mountains. It was a new experience for me, outside of my comfort zone!
I ended the summer by going on a week-long backpacking trip through the Eastern Sierras with my boyfriend. We connected with the John Muir trail, and I took some not-so professional photos via disposable camera for my students to see (as we're learning about John Muir in our 4th grade explorers unit!).
I had a wonderful summer traveling, spending time with family, enjoying time in nature and getting ready to teach kindergarten! Some of my summer highlights included: getting some projects done around the house, exploring our beautiful state with my niece from Michigan, sea kayaking and whale watching in British Columbia, and zip lining on the highest zip line in Canada!
I made it back to Lake George in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. My family has spent time there every summer since I was a baby! We stay at a wonderful YMCA conference center (Silver Bay), somewhat like a family camp. It is my slice of heaven.
I spend a lot of time in or on the crystal clear water in canoes and kayaks, do a lot of reading and photography, and soak up the magnificence of nature. There are over 300 islands in Lake George! The best part is spending time with family and multi-generational friends.
I painted my kitchen and a playroom for my forthcoming grandson, Dashell. I also went on a shopping spree at Baby World … that was really fun!
Near the end of the summer, while my poor wife was already back at work at her school, my daughter and I spent a week in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. One great experience I had during that trip was going snorkeling and seeing, among myriads of brightly colored fish and sponges, two sting rays and a large squid, which hid under a rock when it sensed I was following it and stayed there keeping an eye on me until I swam away….
After spending last spring recovering from a broken leg, I happily started the summer off with my first trip back to the mountains. The hiking was slow and a little painful, but well worth the effort to look out over Yosemite Valley again. Ending the day in El Cap Meadow under a setting sun, my boyfriend, Brendan, asked me to marry him. And I said yes!
Over the rest of the summer, we ventured back to Yosemite a few more times for some hiking and climbing, did a short backpacking trip to the Trinity Alps, and spent ten days in Kauai exploring the island. I also took swimming lessons to hone my stroke and got back into the ceramics studio—a former passion of mine. The summer left me rejuvenated, happy, a little more mobile, and ready for a new school year. I'm happy to be back!
For me, this summer was all about learning and expanding my bounds as a teacher. I spent the first three weeks at the Exploratorium as part of their Teacher Institute. Along with a batch of science teachers from across the nation, I spent each morning exploring the museum's exhibits before they opened for the general public. Mid-mornings were spent learning how to make snack-sized versions of the exhibits to take back into the classroom.
My learning didn't end with the Exploratorium, however; once that was finished, I traveled to a temperate rainforest in the mountains of North Carolina for an intense course on arthropods. From 8:00 a.m. –10:00 p.m. every day, I collected insects and other arthropods in the field, painstakingly keyed them out to identify them, learned the phylogeny of the most diverse group on the planet, and curated a collection of specimens. I'm hoping to bring my newfound knowledge of insect collecting into the sixth grade classroom as a way of studying biodiversity.
Aloha, friends! I spent six weeks this summer on the beautiful island of Oahu where I am working toward my Masters in Education in Private School Leadership. The program is offered through the University of Hawaii at Manoa in partnership with the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools and is hosted at the country's largest independent school, Punahou.
It was a fantastic summer of rigorous and inspired study for me; my classes were intense and engaging. Though I was studying a great deal of the time that I wasn't in class, I was able to get some snorkeling in, as well as stand-up paddle boarding. And, I proved myself correct: if one must must go to graduate school, one ought to do it on a tropical island in the Pacific!
As part of my graduate studies, this year I will be working on my thesis and a project for Prospect Sierra School that focuses on building leadership capacity at the middle school. I will return to Oahu next summer to finish up my course work. I know, tough life, and someone has to do it.
Each summer, I like to explore a new physical activity. As a teacher, I think it's important to also remain a student and to continue experiencing the excitement, frustration, and ultimate joy that come from the process of learning.
Last summer I took on parkour, which with all of it's running, climbing, jumping, swinging, etc, was right in my wheelhouse! This summer, however, I decided to step further outside my comfort zone—actually, extremely far outside my comfort zone—and enrolled in several weeks of ballet class. I actively avoided dance while I was growing up, so stepping into my first class this summer was more than a little nerve-wracking.
But wow … what a work out! Who knew you could sweat so much standing in place, holding onto a bar, and just lifting your arms and legs in various combinations? I was amazed! I was also overwhelmed, flustered, clumsy, and completely lost at times. As the lessons progressed, however, I found myself really looking forward to class and enjoying both the physical and mental challenge that each ballet technique presented.
While you won't see me on stage anytime soon, and I still can't land a clean pirouette, I came away from my summer dance adventure with not only a new set of skills, but an enhanced perspective of how the human body can move and a renewed sense of what my own students might be feeling when they take on a new challenge in my classes.
My summer description lends itself more to photos than description. We spent the summer having fun with my twin daughters, Addison and McKenzie:
After all signs pointed west in May, I sold my home in Boston, rode my bike 192 miles across Massachusetts to raise money for Dana Farber Cancer Institute Research, packed up my car, and drove across the country with my two Springer Spaniels, George and Odin, and my future mother in law! My fiancé, Lorin, and I have settled into a flat in the Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. I am thrilled to be joining Kristin and Brie as a part of the sixth grade team.
I spent two weeks with my family on my parents' coffee farm in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. While I've been to the island many times, there are always new things to explore.
This summer I went out on a night snorkeling excursion. The boat took us to a spot just offshore from a hotel where an amazing spectacle was discovered in the 1990s: light from the hotel attracts plankton at night, and the plankton attracts giant manta rays! I had the surreal experience of floating at the surface and watching these bizarre creatures feeding by gracefully gliding through the water, mouths agape, injesting millions of the tiny prey. They seemed completely undisturbed by our presence as they casually moved their eight foot wide bodies within inches of ours. It was a great reminder of why I studied biology as a student and why I love to teach about the living world around us.
This summer I had the pleasure of taking a two-week road trip with my husband. We traveled through Nevada and Salt Lake City on our way to see family in Denver. After Denver, we headed south and visited some spectacular natural scenes in Moab, Bryce, and Zion National Park. What an adventure! While hiking through these amazing national parks, I was awestruck by their magnitude, beauty, and peace. Although we had a few exciting moments with aggressive swarms of bugs, an ant invasion, and the hundred degree weather, we could not have been happier. I am already planning our next National Park adventure!
The best part of my summer was the road trip I took with my fiancée for two weeks in July. We drove from the Bay Area up to British Columbia and back. Along the way, we hiked in the California redwoods, kayaked on the Deschutes River, attended the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, marveled at the beauty of Crater Lake, bathed in the hot springs of Willamette National Forest, explored Portland by bicycle, camped at the base of the great Mount Saint Helens, swam in the lakes of Seattle, and toured the many museums, music venues, shops, restaurants, parks, and beaches of Vancouver. It was a magnificent adventure and most definitely the highlight of my summer!
This is where I lived all summer. I worked on my cabin in Colorado, fixing it up and enjoying the clear mountain air:
The highlight of my summer was surfing in Baja. This trip, we stayed in the southern-most end of Cabo in a great little hotel situated near a couple of fun rocky point breaks and directly in front of a mellow long boarding break. I spent each morning surfing rocky point breaks, and afternoons were spent teaching my kids to surf on long boards.
We also took well-deserved naps and spent lots of down time reading and lounging by the pool. We ate great meals each day. In the evenings, we headed south on the local bus to San Jose Del Cabo to enjoy art, music, and traditional meals in the old town square.
There was also an ASP/WQS surf contest in town, which brought 125 of the best professional surfers in from countries around the world. Each morning, I found myself surfing the point nearest to our hotel with these professional surfers, many that I have followed for years and read profiles about in surf magazines! It was pretty cool to share the lineup with each of them, talk to them, and view their amazing, precise wave riding talent from such a close distance!
My husband, Jim, and I were fortunate to take a wonderful trip to Mozambique and South Africa this summer. A very special highlight was our visit to a Chopi village in Mozambique where we experienced a rare performance of timbila—a complex music played on wooden xylophones of many sizes, not unlike our instruments in the music room. Dancers from the village accompanied the xylophone orchestra, and I thought of the many African dance students in our school and wished they were there!
Our time in South Africa was mainly spent in Kruger National Park where we saw an amazing variety of animals, from the mighty rhinoceros to unique species of insects. We also visited a school with an ecology-based curriculum, where classes in many subjects are actually taught outside in the bush.
I went backpacking at 10,000 feet elevation in Yosemite with my partner Chantelise, and Soliane (6) and Lucien (16 mos). It was really spectacular and fun, and the kids did great and loved it!
We also went swimming and camping in the El Dorado National Forest with extended family, spending a wonderful time connecting, as well as two weeks in Kauai for total relaxation: warm ocean swimming, rainbows, and fresh air.
Exploring the Mendocino Coast was fun, as well, beach combing and hiking through coastal forests. I also did a few musical concerts:
My summer was spent bonding with a 1.5 year old in the best possible ways! We went to museums, zoos, parks, and all the standard kid places. We were also fortunate to spend two nights at the rustic Steep Ravine Cabins, right on the coast at the base of Mt. Tam. Geronimo, Pedro, and I spent lots of time hiking, beach combing, and just pretending that the summer (and our time as mom, dad, and little one) would never end.
In the first week of July, my middle brother (I have three!) and I took a road trip from Northern California to Vancouver, Washington. We followed a trail of Oregon's volcanoes, making stops along the way to hike where we could. The photo is of me at McKenzie Pass, with an observatory built completely of lava rocks. Can you imagine covered wagons during the time of the Oregon Trail would lay wood planks down to cross through? Definitely not a paved road in those days! Read more at this travel site for McKenzie Pass
Ten days before school opened, a baby fin whale beached 500 meters down from where we stay in Stinson. A "baby" is 42 feet long and 16+ tons! Adult fin whales are twice that, the second largest mammals on earth, and the fastest of all whales. Very sleek. Apparently this one had gotten separated from its mother, and possibly had been bumped by a boat. Sometimes fin whales are seen 30 miles out near the Farallones, but rarely near shore. It was alive when it landed, but sadly expired soon afterwards.
Many of us hung around for the 10 hours while scientists and officials did an autopsy and then buried the whale on the beach. All the tissue and blood was startlingly brilliant red; some spilled into the surf, where the activity was high. Porpoises arced their fins and backs, harbor seals fed. A great white shark bit a seal in half, just a ways down from where our son, Dan, was surfing with a friend. Of course, they closed the beach … everybody out! An excavator dug a huge hole, rolled the whale in and covered it.
A local TV crew interviewed my wife, Mary, and showed her on the evening news talking about the "mythic creature." Keith Davis' wife, Amy Sass, was quoted in a local newspaper, and she is incorporating this whale's passing into a play she's been commissioned to write for Berkeley Rep. On the whole, all very interesting and very sad. I kept thinking someone drumming a 3-note cadence—short, short, long—was needed.
At around midnight Mary, Dan, and I went back out to pay our respects. A big full blue moon shone on 20 small fishing boats that were moored right off shore. I imagined the waters were filled with life, a gathering of many beings. Dan chanted in a language unknown to me at one end of the buried whale, and Mary sang about oceans and whales at the other. We stuck some dried flowers in the sand. The next day other folks had added feathers, sticks, shells, and rocks. Beautiful. Later the site was cordoned off with an orange temporary fence to which someone tied prayer flags.
The thinking is that small sand bugs and crustaceans will eat the flesh and that the bones may surface during the winter storms, which typically temporarily flush out the beach. So we will keep our eyes peeled for that. Wonder what size a baby fin whale's vertebrae are. Students at a local school may find out, as the community is hoping to help them harvest the skeleton next year.
Article from the Press Democrat
I spent a few weeks in Tanzania and Kenya with my kids and father, visiting Masai villages and schools and photographing wildlife in national parks. The highlight was seeing the migration of hundreds of thousands of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelles through the Serengeti Plains and learning a few words in Swahili!
I also attended a conference in Atlanta as part of this year's cohort in the NAIS Aspiring Heads program, studying school leadership, governance, and financial sustainability. Finally, the summer ended with a wonderful week in Maine where I got up on water skis for the first time since high school and attended my first clambake with friends, capped by a trip to Ann Arbor, MI, where I dropped off my oldest son, Max, for his first day of college. Go Blue!
This summer, my family and I spent some lovely, relaxing time in Maui, where we soaked up the sun, enjoyed time at the beach and the pool, and finally made it to the top of Mt. Haleakala, among other island adventures. Back on the mainland, we explored our local regional parks almost daily with our puppy, Muki, who seems to especially enjoy Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve and Redwood Regional Park. Hawaii certainly makes a great vacation spot, but I love the Bay Area!


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Great tactical RPG combat; visually amazing maps; interesting demigod characters.
Poor documentation; weak pathfinding AI; connectivity problems.
It is said that a great game is easy to learn but difficult to master. Demigod has the latter part down—the former, not so much. Veterans of the Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients, from which this game draws much of its inspiration, will have an easy time grasping the excellent concept, but to most other players it's a very new form of multiplayer role-playing game, and the lack of tutorials makes learning the ropes a challenge.
To make a long, superfluous story short, portals on both sides of a symmetrical map spew out waves of AI-controlled troops that clash in the middle. Controlling a single powerful character, your goal is to push the tide of battle back at the enemy and topple their citadel. It sounds fairly simple, but thanks to a blizzard of game elements such as eight character classes, structure and minion upgrades, item purchasing, and flag capturing, Demigod becomes extremely complex.

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Hospital Ortopédico Infantil: Dream Locations
A series of postcards were created depicting dream locations for disabled children. On the back of each postcard were the instructions on how you could help them get there. These postcards were strategically placed in bookstores and leisure and travel agencies where people could take them home for free. In this way, people had the opportunity to help others reach their most wanted destinations, while making plans to reich their own.
Advertising Agency: ARS DDB, Caracas, Venezuela
Creative Director: Maria Carolina Jaso
Art Director: Carlos Eduardo Reyes
Copywriter: Anayancy García
Photographer: Vladimir Marcano
Executive Creative Directors: Exequiel Rodríguez, Horacio Maggi
Agency Producer: Dianela Córsica
Account Manager: Natalia Pereira
Account Director: Ramón Guzmán
Published: March 2010


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Pronunciation: /so͝oNG əv/ /ə sôNGz/
(also Song of Solomon)
Definition of Song of Songs in English:
A book of the Bible containing an anthology of Hebrew love poems traditionally ascribed to Solomon but in fact dating from a much later period. Jewish and Christian writers have interpreted the book allegorically as representing God's relationship with his people, or with the soul.
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Friends and family are saying goodbye today to actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
More than 400 people packed into the Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola for a private memorial service. Among the mourners were stars like Cate Blanchett, Ethan Hawke, Louis C.K. and Spike Lee.
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The much-anticipated President Obama climate change speech on Tuesday at Georgetown University easily topped 6,000 words, but only one of them really stuck out for us: Keystone. That's because, of all the disastrous fossil fuel projects that have clouded the American landscape with increasing regularity, the proposed Keystone XL pipeline is the only one that the President mentioned by name. So, did President Obama just carbon-shame the notorious Keystone project into a corner, or is there still a possibility that the pipeline will be built?
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To answer that question, let's go back and take a look at the basic structure of the Obama climate change speech. You can find some good summaries online but it's an easy read (here's a link to the video and transcript) and well worth your time.
If you don't have time to read the speech or a summary, you can just take our word for it. The whole beginning is an exposition of climate science going back to the 1800′s, leading up to modern record keeping in the 1950′s and concluding with the current state of affairs.
The current state of affairs, for those of you just tuning in, consists of an economic disaster in the making that will make the Great Depression look like a mild case of overspending at the local Dollar Store.
Mentioned in the speech are the property damage caused by rising sea levels and storms that increase in intensity and destructiveness, more intensive (and expensive) wildfire seasons, extreme cycles of flood and drought that hamper agricultural production, loss of tourism dollars especially in winter sports, drinking water scarcity, and a consequent impact of all this on insurance premiums.
This leads up to a forceful argument for less talk and more action. Err, make that no talk and all action. If anything was clear about the President's speech, it was the fact that the time for arguing the merits of climate science is long past. Global warming is a real phenomenon and solutions are at hand, namely, in the form of controlling greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.
President Obama And The Keystone XL Pipeline
In that context, it seems pretty clear to us that TransCanada, the owner of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, has a tough row to hoe.
For those of you unfamiliar with the project, the proposed pipeline will carry notoriously "dirty" tar sands oil (more precisely, diluted bitumen or dilbit) from Canadian fields through the heart of the American breadbasket states, down to Gulf Coast refineries for the export market. Since the pipeline will cross an international border, it will require approval from the Administration through the State Department.
Although the President did not specifically mention the fact that a foreign company owns the project, he did make a point of noting that it involves transporting a foreign-sourced petroleum product through US soil.
That reference alone appears designed to raise some red flags regarding who exactly stands to gain financially from the project, US citizens or stakeholders in a foreign company. Though perhaps a bit subtle, for those who are parsing the speech it's an important point in the context of the economic issues raised by the President.
For those familiar with the project, "Gulf Coast refineries" raises another red flag. Petroleum products refined from Keystone XL dilbit have already been committed to the export market served by Gulf Coast facilities, which means that the pipeline will have little or no effect on the price or availability of petroleum products in the US. It will therefore be of little or no benefit to US consumers from one end of the spectrum to the other; in other words, from me and you on up to the Department of Defense.
As outlined in the speech, though, the real meat of the Keystone issue is carbon emissions. The project, described as a "carbon bomb" by opponents, seems tailor made for rejection by the President's own criteria, as stated in the speech:
"Allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built requires a finding that doing so would be in our nation's interest. And our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution. The net effects of the pipeline's impact on our climate will be absolutely critical to determining whether this project is allowed to go forward. It's relevant."
Again, for those of you familiar with the project, "net effects" indicates an awareness that the project does not simply involve adding more oil to the global supply. It also involves more lifecycle carbon emissions. Extracting oil from tar sands is an energy-intensive process that also involves substantial loss of biomass, and the petcoke (petroleum coke) byproduct of bitumen refining is itself a notoriously dirty fuel that is already accumulating in mountainous heaps around the US.
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Some observers have viewed the President's remarks on Keystone as a bit unclear, but if you look at them in the context of the entire speech, the pattern emerges.
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Now take a look at the middle of the speech, which includes all of the technological innovations, public-private partnerships and economic activity that the President envisions marshaling to establish the US as a global leader in reducing carbon emissions, and ask yourself if it makes any sense for the federal government to enable a project that directly undermines all of that investment in talent, dollars and national willpower, by exporting carbon emissions overseas.
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What did he really say though? He only mentioned methane gasses once in the entire speech. I lost count of the number of times he mentioned carbon though. He was like a magician talking about carbon and ignoring the 800lb gorilla in the climate problem. That is methane which we are getting from fracking which is causing the environment to heat 7 to 17x faster than carbon was. He also snuck in building nuclear power plants as a good thing. Stopping coal, which he seemed to be all about, only came down to not subsidizing foreign coal plants... Unless they put carbon sequestration equipment on the plants. Then we'll continue subsidizing them.
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Following the recommendations of the city's Blue Ribbon Commission on budget issues, City Manager Jane Brautigam had asked the City Council to put the tax on the ballot as undedicated tax with no sunset. City officials said they intended to keep funding parks, but they wanted flexibility to deal with possible future budget problems.
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3. Simple Document Management
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4. Comprehensive Planning
For bigger projects use the Gantt-chart view for a concise visualization, keep track of all your diverse tasks in the Kanban view, or allocate and manage resources with the resource planning feature. This gives you a structured overview of project progress, the status of tasks, and available capacities of team members for meetings and follow-ups.
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Colleges and Universities
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Alternative Fuels and Electric Vehicle Training Opportunities
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Human Trafficking Video for First Responders
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Printable 2-sided card for fire and EMS
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Tools for Service Providers and Law Enforcement
Polaris Project's interactive training for health care workers, fact sheets for educators, and other resources.
Human Trafficking Training Program
Training for law enforcement officers through the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC).
Additional Training/Education Resources
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ResponderSafety.com's online Learning Network offers free training modules related to all aspects of safe roadway responses. Topic areas include the National Unified Goal, Blocking, Advance Warning, ICS at Traffic Incidents, High Visibility for Emergency Vehicles, and more. New modules are periodically added.
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Roku can NOT ask me for my unblock-us email account to verify it because it doesnt have a web browser, so after doing the router setup it works fine on my computer because there I can verify that I have a unblock-us account, but how do i get unblock-us to recognize my account on ROKU??
Hello Javier,
You will need to setup the router instead since you cannot setup the Roku. There are additional instructions that you need to do on the Roku before you can use it for our service. The link is given below:
Hello Javier,
On the Roku menu, what do you see or the icons that you see? Are you able to find the netflix app on the Roku?
Hello ,
With the Roku, you will need to have a US netflix account in order to view US content and in order to be able to connect to netflix on the Roku, you have to link your Roku to your netflix account.
You will also need to have a hulu plus account to access hulu videos on your Roku. Only in the computer can you access hulu.com since it uses a regular web browser whereas roku does not.
Hello Scott,
Do you have a netflix account? You need this in order to get the netflix app to your roku.
Have you tried linking the roku to your amazon account? You also need to do this in order to get the amazon app on your roku. instructions are given below:
Hello Scott,
This is strange that the apps disappear. In theory, the way it should work is that you need to set up our DNS in your router first, then register your Roku device using a US billing address. You could try again to re-register the Roku by setting up a completely new account and see if this helps.
Hello David,
What do you see when you click on the check service link on our home page?
What exact error that you see on the screen?
Hello David,
Are you able to access netflix using the computer? Do you have a US netflix account?
It is important that we establish a baseline that we can go forward from. First we need to know if you are able to access netflix from your computers.
If yes, and you are able to, then we find the reason why you cannot access from Roku.
Hello ,
Do you remember if your roku updated its firmware recently? If yes, reply back with the firmware version that you see on your Roku main menu.
This is the only I can imagine that would cause that kind of drastic change on the Roku.
Have you guys tried to delete and recreate your roku account online? Being sure to specify that you live in the US.
Hello ,
If there is any other problems with your Roku or our service, be sure to send us an email or post on our forums and we will help through the problem until it is working properly as it should.
Hello Alfonso,
In your email, you stated 'using the same modem'. Maybe you intended to say 'router' instead of modem?
If you really intended to say modem that means you do not have a router and might have been using a modem that has a wifi connection.
That will not allow you to setup the Roku properly, since Roku cannot be setup like other devices and need a dedicated router in order to change the DNS so that your location is verified by our servers as within the US and you will be allowed to download hulu and netflix apps.
Hello Javier,
First try accessing netflix using the computer and see if you are able to access US netflix instead of Latin American Netflix.
The link for setting up your device is given below:
Then go to our home page and click on the check service link. The most important part when doing the check service is that your see these on our website:
Your service is active: * email address *
This device is setup correctly. It is using our DNS.
If you are able to access US netflix on the computer, then you will need this computer to link your US Netflix account to your Roku. You will not be able to link your Roku account from within Roku itself.
Hello Javier,
I seems to have found step by step instructions on the how to of Roku, including how to install just about any channels on Roku, netflix included.
The link is given below:
Remember that you will still need to have your Roku setup with our DNS before registering with a Roku account, before trying to get netflix.
Using the Roku, do not forget to click on the check service link on our home page to activate the service on your home network to this device then register your Roku.
Hello Bo,
With the Roku, you need to first register your Roku on the Roku website if you have not yet done so. The full instructions are given below:
It is required that your Roku must be registered with the Roku website before the US content apps are downloaded.
If you are checking your IP address using any site, it will see that you are indeed in denmark since we do not change your IP address. The DNS that is setup on your router will route your data to our DNS servers and it will verify to the sites that we support that you are in the US.
If there is anything else you need, please let us know.
Hello Daniel,
What exact error that you see on the screen on the Roku?
What do you see when you click on the check service link on our home page?
The most important part when doing the check service is that you see these on our website:
Your service is active: * email address *
This device is setup correctly. It is using our DNS. <—— important to see
If there is anything else you need, please let us know.
Hello Edson,
What DNS addresses are you currently using with your router? Please double check the setup instructions for the Roku by clicking on the link below.
Hope this helps. Please let me know if you need further assistance.
Hello Javier,
That's an odd way to resolve the issue. Deleting then creating the Roku account with our DNS setup usually solves the problem for most Roku owners, but in your case, it is deleting the Roku account again that allows the US content to reappear.
If there is anything else you need, please let us know.
Hello Shay,
What specific problem are you encountering with Roku?
Hello David,
Where did you setup the DNS, on the computer or the router?
Try setting up the DNS on the computer if you put it on the router and vice versa and see if you are able to get the proper DNS message.
If still not able to, let us see if something is not allowing the DNS to pass through, maybe the ISP has got to do something with this one.
Try this link and report back the results that you get:
Also try this and reply back with the results:
nslookup check.unblock-us.com 188.8.131.52
run the command prompt if you use windows and run the terminal program if you use a Mac.
Type that command on the line followed by the enter key and then reply back with what it says.
It would be better if you took a screenshot of the results that you get. It is better to save an image file in the forms of either .png or .jpg or JPEG format.
Here are instructions on how to make a screenshot:
And then attach the files on your next reply.
If there is anything else you need, please let us know.
It is important that you have atleast one computer with our service active that is within the same network as the device for our service to work properly with your Roku.
Hope this information helps. Please let me know if you need further assistance.
I'm sorry, can you please rephrase that? Please elaborate further so we could assist you better. Let me know if you need further assistance.
Hello Craig,
To address the issue you are experiencing please click here: http://support.unblock-us.com/customer/portal/articles/852834-my-roku-is-not-showing-us-apps
Let us know how it goes and if you need further assistance.
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another shot of Montreal; this is one of the oldest industrial area (especially the factories in front)
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c'est génial le pont jacques cartier pour prendre des photos et les tiennes sont vraiment fortes
Nice Pic. Makes me homesick.
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And even more especially Molson's beer factory, huh? Nah, just kidding. Like I said on your Jacques-Cartier Bridge pic, monochromic pics like this have a way of bringing out the more "ancient" feel to old buildings and locations. Very nice.


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Late in the afternoon on Nov. 2, 1942, not long before the wedding reception, Vibert and most of the village stopped to watch a U.S. Army seaplane taxi from the harbour.
But the plane — a PBY Catalina — struggled to clear the water. Vibert recalls the towering waves of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence lashing at the cockpit during its second takeoff attempt.
"I counted five waves, but there may have been more," she says from her home, still in Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, north of Anticosti Island. "After the last one, water started entering their plane."
The town's fishermen braved the frothing waters to find four crew members clinging to the fuselage.
Just moments after the survivors were hauled aboard the local fishing boats, the plane, along with the five remaining crew members, slipped beneath waves, never to be seen again.
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