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Congratulations, Mike...
Safe travels, and welcome home!..
This is a discussion on Going Home :smile: within the Bob & Terry's Place forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Well, my year in Korea is coming to an end, and I will be going back to my family next week. My wife has already ...
Well, my year in Korea is coming to an end, and I will be going back to my family next week. My wife has already bought a house and moved herself and our 2 boys to our new duty station (She is awesome, the hardest job in the military is a military spouse). I will now be able to change my location from Korea to Crestview, FL (maybe I'll see Craig45 around). I already have my CCW paperwork filled out, and I just need to get my fingerprints done and mail off the application. I am still planning on getting the S&W M&P .40, although I have never actually seen a real one. I guess I will make my final decision when I get to actually hold one. I would also like to pick up a small pistol like the Glock 26 for my wife (if I can convince her), or for me to carry if the M&P is to big for some situations.
Finally, I would like to thank all of the members here for making my time go by faster. It is always the highlight of my day to come home and go through the forum. It amazes me that you can have so many people from around the world, different ages, sex, races and economic means, come together and have rational discussions about various topics and do it in a civilized manner (There is hope for our country).
I will be packing and sending my computer out soon, so I will not be able to access the forum for my last few days here , and then of course I will be busy with my family (My wife booked us on a cruise for when I get back - did I mention that she was awesome). It will probably be a few weeks until I will be able to check back in. Thank you all again and I will hopefully be back to the forum soon.
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Congratulations, Mike...
Safe travels, and welcome home!..
"I surrounded 'em"- Alvin York
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Awesome...glad to hear you are coming back stateside.
Have a safe trip when you take it.
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Great news Mike - this will be some homecoming I am sure.
Kudos to your lady wife for obviously getting many things sorted out in advance.
As soon as you are back in ol' Fladah - drop back in when you can - it'll feel good I can be sure of that
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Ahead of time..."Welcome back!"
Where is Crestview? I'm in Gainesville...
Stay safe!
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Great, Mike, glad to have you coming home. We'll be here waiting for you when you get back....
Coimhéad fearg fhear na foighde; Beware the anger of a patient man.
I'd say have a good trip back, but having made the trip from Korea to the States twice I know there is no other kind.
So, have a SAFE trip back, I hope you do bring some good memories of your tour back with you.
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Glad you're on the way; have fun on the cruise; then let us know how it was! Congratulations!!
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Welcome back and safe journey....
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Mike, hurry home. We'll miss you while your computer is packed up and you are in transit, but know you will be loving every minute since each one is a minute closer to home. Look forward to you jumping back in. When you get back are you going to ask Bumper to changer your user name? How about: The Member Formerly Known as osanmike? Probably not. Anyway let us hear from you as soon as you can after your return.
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Welcome back and welcome to FL! Have a safe trip home.
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I know how it is when your tour of duty is up in some god forsakin land and you step foot back onto the rich soil of these United States of America (not saying korea is bad, it's just not America).
Have a safe trip home and I used to live in Florida, McAlpin (it's that blep between Live Oak and Branford) and used to travel to Jacksonville and Gainsville alot.
Welcome home and be sure to hug/kiss your wife, my Mom was a military spouse and she knows how tough of a job that can be. I don't really remember my father really thanking her for the job that she did (but he may have, I just don't know).
Please get "set back up" as soon as you can...once you arrive in and give us all the chance to give you a huge Welcome HOME! once you are again on American soil.
Have a safe and uneventful journey back home.
Crestview huh ?? Must be coming back to Eglin. Name to remember for weapons is Jay's Gun's and Accessories. It's downtown. He is retired AF. Tell him your AF and you'll get a discount.
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|Reviews for The Boy with Black Hair
| Lady Isabelle Black chapter 8 . 10/31/2012
who is the father?
| Readergirl66 chapter 8 . 2/20/2011
When will you be writing more? It's really good.:) I can't wait. Keep up the great work.
| mokonahapuuuuuu chapter 8 . 8/31/2010
Wow, I'm so glad I looked at your story archive. There are TONS of stories in the section, and I filter it just to narrow it down, but since this is under "Claire", I'm so sad that I almost missed it. ;;
This is really good! :) I liked how the mystery air around Noah's father is written. Hiro made me laugh. :) :D
Keep writting! .
| Compass chapter 9 . 5/23/2010
This really turned out to be good. It's heart warming. I was a bit curious in the beginning about the father of the child but, in the end, it turned out that I was just hoping it would just be both of them even if it's kinda impossible..
Anyways, nice work.. This is truly a master piece..
| goldensage05 chapter 9 . 5/21/2010
I really liked this. I was hoping it would be Sylar, but I had a feeling it wouldn't be either of them and we wouldn't know who the father was. However, I was not expecting them to all become a family.
| maggie chapter 8 . 5/20/2010
Awww, great! Loved the chapter :) I still hope Noah is Peter's son :)
*fingers crossed*
| ItalianFlower chapter 8 . 5/19/2010
I'm really loving this story. All the anticipation is killing me! And it's really hilarious that everybody's gossiping like old women about Claire and Noah Jr., especially each person's preference to either Sylar or Peter.
But you know what would be even funnier? If the father was a totally random person that no one else knew other than Claire. :)
I can't wait to see the final chapter and finally learn who the father is!
| lassandra chapter 7 . 5/19/2010
I am very like it. I can not wait to find out who is the father : )
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| XoXoX-9009 chapter 2 . 5/15/2010
Fairly interesting. It has made me wonder who the father is . . . Peter or Sylar. Great job so far.
| XoXoX-9009 chapter 1 . 5/15/2010
At first I was really confused. But then I started reading more, and I started to understand. Chapter 1 is fairly good. Off to reading Chapter 2 now.
| anon2 chapter 2 . 5/14/2010
dude this is better than I hoped...please continue..
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How human is it for all the people in Claire's life to be gossiping about who the father of her child might be. We're all so nosy, me included.


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Dekalog: Three
|Dekalog: Three
|Directed by
|Krzysztof Kieślowski
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|Ryszard Chutkovski
|Written by
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Krzysztof Piesiewicz
|Daniel Olbrychski
Maria Pakulnis
Joanna Szczepowska
|Music by
|Zbigniew Preisner
|Piotr Sobociński
|Edited by
|Ewa Smal
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Dekalog: Three (Polish: Dekalog, trzy) is the third part of the television series Dekalog by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski, possibly connected to the third and seventh imperatives of the Ten Commandments: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" and "Thou shalt not commit adultery". [1][2]
It is Christmas Eve. Janusz (Daniel Olbrychski), a taxicab driver, plays Święty Mikołaj (roughly equivalent to Santa Claus) for his children and then comes home as himself (crossing paths briefly with Krzysztof from Dekalog: One) to his wife and children, in order to spend the evening with them. They attend mass in the city. There he spots Ewa (Maria Pakulnis), with whom he had an affair three years earlier. Ewa just happened upon the church after visiting her senile aunt in the retirement home (the confused aunt asks Ewa whether she's done her homework, but also enquires after her husband).
Ewa later comes to Janusz's place looking for her ex-lover, asking him to help her find her husband, who she says has disappeared. Janusz leaves his house saying that his taxi got stolen, although his wife (Joanna Szczepowska) suspects something and suggests that he should leave it alone. Janusz answers that the taxi is their sole income and leaves. Janusz and Ewa spend the whole night driving around the city and discussing past and present. Janusz is eager to go home and be with his family on Christmas evening, but Ewa is desperate and manages to keep him with her by setting up clues along the way to track her husband down. They inquire in hospitals and at the train station. Eventually Janusz sees through her game but does not say anything.
When the clock strikes seven the next morning, Ewa reveals that she has been lying to Janusz. She is no longer with her husband; they divorced right after her tryst with Janusz, and he has been living with his new family in Kraków for the past three years. She is now forced to face the holidays all alone while watching other families share the love and peace that she does not have. Ewa reveals that she had set up a scheme in her mind - if she succeeded in her "game" keeping Janusz away from his family till 7am, all would be well again, if not, she would commit suicide. They part at dawn, with Janusz returning to his family and Ewa to her loneliness. When Janusz gets home, his suspecting wife asks him whether he's been seeing Ewa. He promises never to see her again.[3][4]
- Daniel Olbrychski - Janusz
- Maria Pakulnis - Ewa
- Joanna Szczepowska - Janusz's wife
- Artur Barciś - tram-driver
- Krystyna Drochocka - aunt
- Krzysztof Kumor - doctor
- Henryk Baranowski - Krzysztof
- Jacek Kalucki - policeman
- In other roles:
Zygmunt Fok, Jacek Kalucki, Barbara Kolodziejska, Maria Krawczyk, Jerzy Zygmunt Nowak, Piotr Rzymszkiewicz, Wlodzimierz Rzeczycki, Wlodzimierz Musial
- ^ Wilmington, Michael (January 5, 2007). "Kieslowski series a post-holiday treat". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ^ Berardinelli, James. "Decalogue". Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ^ Synopsis on www.rottentomatoes.com
- ^ http://filmsufi.blogspot.com/2009/03/dekalog-3-remember-sabbath-day-to-keep.html Episode overview


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UPDATE 2-Dollar Tree expects to shed less than 300 stores to buy Family Dollar
* Dollar Tree says has identified potential buyers
* Expects to close deal by March
* Family Dollar seeks Jan. 22 vote (Adds analysts' comments, details)
By Ramkumar Iyer and Sruthi Ramakrishnan
Jan 12 (Reuters) - Discount chain Dollar Tree Inc said it expects to divest fewer than 300 stores to satisfy competition regulators scrutinizing its proposed takeover of Family Dollar Stores Inc, and had already identified potential buyers.
Dollar Tree, which had 5,282 stores in the United States and Canada as of Nov. 1, said it would likely sign an agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission by the end of the month on the number of stores it would have to give up.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Target Corp could be among potential buyers as they seek to expand their small-format stores, Rahul Sharma, managing director of investment advisory firm Neev Capital, said.
Family Dollar has agreed to be bought by its smaller rival for $8.5 billion in cash and stock, rejecting a sweetened hostile $9.1 billion offer from Dollar General Corp.
Family Dollar has said a deal with Dollar General, the biggest U.S. discount chain, would be blocked by the FTC because Dollar General has not committed to shedding enough stores. Continued...


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Tiger Woods' late father, Earl, made a prediction after his son had won an unprecedented third consecutive US Amateur title in 1996 and turned professional at the age of 20, that his son would go on to win 14 major titles.
As outlandish as that may have sounded at the time, with Jack Nicklaus holding the record that still stands at 18, 14 is where the clock stopped back in 2008 but the 38-year-old American is still, for perhaps the only time in his life, determined to prove his father wrong.
Woods had pushed hard in vain at the 2006 Masters with his ailing father looking on from home on television and aware that it was probably the last time he would see him playing in a major. When Woods secured his third Open at Royal Liverpool a few months later, he found a strange kind of peace on the course, with his late father watching over him as he produced a tactical masterclass with his two iron to win on 18 under and capture an 11th major.
That he finished with a three-under 69 on Thursday, and even hit a driver on the back nine as he had done once only in the parched conditions of 2006, in his first major round in 11 months, did him enormous credit – more so because his preparations were not what they normally are.
Two competitive rounds completed at Congressional since disc surgery on his back in late March, practice rounds at Royal Liverpool consisting of 50 holes through Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday, interspersed with a workout in the weights room of a local fire station on Monday evening, and Woods was looking for a similar kind of calm when he teed off with Henrik Stenson and Ángel Cabrera.
The start was nervous and with the top deck of a park-and-ride bus bringing in spectators to the adjacent Stanley Road lining the windows and peering over the fence, Woods played his second shot on the 1st into the front-right bunker, chipped through the green from a difficult lie and had to make a brave six-footer on the way back to restrict the damage to a bogey.
His 2006 victory had also begun with a bogey but a three-putt from the middle of the green at the 2nd had no precedent and left Woods in the highly unusual position of teeing off third in a three-ball. "I'm not going to be the only guy in a 72-hole event to make two bogeys. I just got mine out of the way early," he said later.
He again found the fairway on the 3rd, as did Cabrera, but the Argentinian hit his second shot into the internal out of bounds to put the skids under his round, from which he never really recovered, the double bogey setting him up for a day of toil and a four-over 76.
Par for Woods on the hole had the crowd cheering as if it was a birdie and when he holed a 10-footer at the par-five 5th to get his first shot back, the roar spoke volumes. Woods had always believed it and said the only acceptable result for him at Royal Liverpool was for him to win but now the galleries were starting to believe it.
Woods hit a three wood off the tee at the par-five 10th and missed his birdie but then began a run of three in a row, the best of which came at the 11th, where he holed his put from front right and below the green. The 12th was a six iron that drew to eight feet and on the par-three 13th he hit the same club to six feet and holed the putt.
Stenson began to unravel by sending his birdie putt off the green at the 12th, chipping back on from 30ft and two-putting for a six, which took him back to level. The process was to be completed on the par-four 17th, where he hacked up the left rough and eventually snapped his gap wedge over a knee. "In the circumstances bogey was a good score there," he said, adding that from how it was looking after two of those shots, par for the round was also a decent effort.
Woods managed to give a shot back after missing the fairway from the tee at the difficult 14th, a hole where he had an eagle two in 2006, but successive birdies got him back to three under. An aborted shot because of clicking cameras in the hospitality area on the right of the 18th disturbed his serenity momentarily and he found a difficult lie in the third of the new trio of bunkers on the left and was happy to take his par and sign for a 69.
"I felt good about a lot of things I did out there today, especially coming back after that start I had, to fight myself back into the championship. I feel pretty good about it," Woods said. "I knew I could do it. I'm telling you guys it was so important for me to play at Congressional. The fact that I was able to recover every day and the fact that I was stronger, more explosive, the more days I played. I'm only going to get better from that point and I'm getting stronger, I'm getting faster, I'm getting more explosive. The ball is starting to travel again and those are all positive things.
"There were a lot of cameras out there and a lot of people moving around. It was tough. Unfortunately, people don't put their phones on silent or the professional people were getting on the trigger a little early."
Five birdies in six holes on the back nine of 33 suggest Woods has silenced a few of the sceptics for now but the way the crowd cheered his efforts, the grinding of the front nine and the free-flowing play of the inward half suggest that as a former Open winner on Royal Liverpool's historic links, the American will always be one of their own.


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Qualcomm Gets Tough with Meizu: Right Time to Bring the Heat, Says Cowen
Shares of Qualcomm (QCOM) today fell $3.43, or 6%, to close at $52.12, caught up with the massive downdraft in tech, and most equities, following Britain's vote to leave the E.U.
The headlines crowded out the company's announcement that it has filed a complaint in Beijing against Chinese smartphone maker Meizu, asking the court to confirm that Qualcomm's demands for licensing its patents to Meizu are in accordance with an agreement signed a year ago with the Chinese government.
Meizu is one of the final holdouts in Qualcomm's ongoing efforts to tie up loose ends in its licensing and royalty business following that deal with the government. Qualcomm asserted in its press release it has "negotiated extensively and in good faith" with Meizu.
There are varying responses today to the step-up in effort by Qualcomm.
Cowen & Co.'s Timothy Arcuri, who has an Outperform rating on the shares, and a $60 price target, writes that now was the right time to put the heat on Meizu: "With catch-up payments still somewhat lagging, the time is right for more aggressive tactics - especially as China strives to build some IP enforcement against the West.
We have previously highlighted that we believe that Meizu was the largest holdout (see FQ2:16 (Mar) Earnings Preview) and think that this is the right move as QCOM needs to demonstrate a willingness to take legal action to prevent interminable negotiations and stalling tactics. We do see the likelihood of a resolution in QCOM's favor with the likely enforcement of the NDRC terms, which should lead to long overdue catch-up payments from Meizu and a quicker setting of terms with the few smaller holdouts.
Others were more measured in their commentary Amit Daryanani with RBC Capital writes that Meizu, which said it sold 20 million phones last year and hopes to sell 25 million this year, is probably the biggest hold-out left.
He thinks investors may have been surprised Qualcomm had to resort to this:
We believe that Meizu is presently the largest Chinese smartphone OEM yet to sign a license. While we like QCOM's aggression in resorting to litigation when licensing talks break down, we think that the near-term reaction to the news could be negative as we think that the market likely expected a resolution for smaller Chinese OEMs given 100+ companies accepting the NDRC terms including the top 5 China smartphone manufacturers.
Nevertheless, closing deals like this helps the Qualcomm licensing business over the long term:
QCOM believes that 26% of global device sales related to China will be underreported or go unlicensed in FY16, representing further upside to QTL revenues should QCOM be able to track these units in the future, while another 18% of the market (37% 3-mode, 13% non-3-mode) were under key Chinese OEM deals under negotiation as of QCOM's Analyst Day back in February 2016. Historically, most of the underreporting in FY15 has been related to 3- mode technologies (an astounding 86% of 3-mode sales in FY15).


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2PAC & Mike Tyson: "One Night in Vegas"
2Pac & Mike Tyson-Inspired Documentary To Air On ESPN
The documentary "One Night in Vegas," chronicling the friendship between 'Pac and Tyson, will air on ESPN, Tuesday Sept 7, 2010 at 8PM.
One Night in Vegas will premier on ESPN on September 7 at 8pm. It will re-air on the same night at 11pm on ESPN2 and on September 9 at 10pm on ESPN Classic and finally on September 30 at 9pm on ESPN2
The world mourned the loss of Tupac Shakur, who was shot on September 7, 1996. 'Pac was shot and killed on his drive away from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, following a bout between friend Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon. Reggie Rock Bythewood, a writer/director from New York, was struck by the events of that night, inspired to create One Night in Vegas, a film said to connect the world of sports with the culture of Hip Hop using the friendship between Tyson and Tupac as a point of focus.
One Night in Vegas will be shown as part of ESPN's 30 for 30. The documentary has full cooperation from Tyson and has been billed as an homage to classic boxing films such as "Requiem For A Heavyweight," and "The Harder They Fall." For Blythewood, this film will also feature some social commentary.
"I am extremely excited that ESPN will allow me to hold a mirror up to the boxing world, a mirror up to Hip Hop, and ultimately, a mirror up to society," the director said in a statement.
(writing exact from article dated July 30, 2010 4:27PM courtesy of HipHopDx.com, and video courtesy of Youtube)


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REVIEW: Once you see this oh-so-realistic movie, you will never again turn your back on the sea at Himatangi or Foxton.
Break out the hankies for plenty of sad, harrowing and tense scenes in this survival ordeal about the Southeast Asia tsunami of 2004.
The scale of the disaster almost left me traumatised - thanks to the visual special effects by Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona and the scale of that thundering tidal wave.
The speakers almost shook off the walls in Cinema 7, as if we were in Khao Lak in Thailand when the thing was about to strike.
The deathly silence was something else, too, as everything disappeared in the maelstrom under water, as it does when you are tipped arse over kite in the surf.
A superbly manufactured disaster film, it is based on a Spanish family who were washed away from their resort by the tsunami.
While financed by Spanish producers, it is was produced in English, no doubt to aid worldwide sales. The parents, Maria Bennett (Naomi Watts) and husband Henry (Ewan McGregor), and their three sons are washed away and the odds against them surviving are, well, impossible. Thousands didn't, especially local Thais, and those who did survive were dead lucky.
The family are split up by the tsunami and presume each other is kaput.
There are few twists to the plot so to blab would be to spoil, except to say the resort was meant to book the family on the third floor. It might not have mattered because they were outside when things went silent and birds scarpered.
Not once would you figure much of the movie was made in a tank in Madrid, also using miniatures and special effects. The tsunami and its aftermath looked precisely as we saw it on the newsreels at the time.
Watts has deserved an Oscar nomination for this role, playing most of it covered in mud and blood and bedridden in a filthy hospital. Her eldest son, Lucas (Tom Holland), sticks by her after seeing horrors no 12-year-old should see, a fine effort by the 16-year-old from Surrey.
McGregor is overshadowed by Watts, although he does feature in two of the saddest scenes.
The screenplay doesn't match the special effects, nor the acting of some of the support cast.
It added to the realism that Palmerston North Rotary Club volunteers were later at the theatre door collecting money for disaster shelter boxes.
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Why I oppose the SATs resits in Y7 so strongly
It's a tale of two sittees.
Picture this:
One student relishes the opportunity to sit slap-bang at the front of the classroom all year, as she masters every single academic and developmental KS2 expectation, and prepares for the exciting transition to secondary. Amelia cashes in daily from the wealthy bank of correct answers she seems to have on tap; clearly proud of the intelligent identity she has become renowned for among these parts.
The other sittee, placed at the back of the room, head in hands, never dares putting so much as a toe outside of the 2-metre radius he has established over the last few years with Mrs Davies, the teaching assistant. That safe bond, which may have just edged into the 'overly-dependent' zone, is at least a comfort to Tom as he grows increasingly aware of the knowledge gap that lies between him and his classmates. He dreads the move to secondary school, anxious to go-it-alone without the familiarity of class 6R and his trusty neon putty that is supposed to be improving his fine motor-skills (not that his handwriting would be a good advert for this).
The middle of May arrives. It's SATs week. Amelia and Tom both attempt the reading comprehension SATs paper – one with ease, the other with utter frustration. When results come in, they reflect entirely the early forecasts the classteacher had made back in September. Amelia's glowing score is worlds away from Tom's failed attempt, which scored him a total of 3/50. As a result, Tom automatically gains himself a firm place on the list for a chance to resit the test this time next year, after three short terms in secondary. To the untrained ear, this may sound like a good opportunity, but this is no cause for celebration.
I'm not quite sure what the thinking is behind the DfE's proposal for these resits but, if they know much about children's development at all, they will know there are no magic fixes. A student who arrives at secondary school unable to read and write, extremely vulnerable as a result of little primary progression (for whatever reason), needs invested support. I'll forever argue that one of the highest priorities for this transition period is to ensure that ALL students by the end of KS3 can read and write at a functional level. Those few who managed to slip the literacy net in KS2 must slipeth the neteth no longer.
In a good secondary school, baseline assessments and further diagnostic testing will highlight the specific area of weakness in reading that a student possesses. If reading accuracy is identified as the focus area, Tom will be streamed into a rigorous and systematic synthetic phonics intervention, intentionally scheduled for the same time each morning, ensuring that every effort is being made to ensure positive progress. Over the next few months, Tom's reading development will be monitored using pre and post standardised scores, formative sounds assessments and a regular dialogue with his parents, tutor and mainstream teachers. If successful, he will make good progress and, by the end of the year, will begin to show signs of increasing independence in reading. His confidence will improve, learning for himself that repetition and rehearsal is key to any progress he will make. To compare his reading in the summer term of Y7 to this time last year, Tom has made great gains and can now read at a functional level, carefully breaking words down to decode and make use of the toolkit he has built, to help him read unfamiliar, longer words.
However, what Tom doesn't show – and won't for a while yet – is the ability to read with total fluency or at any quick pace close to the demands of a KS2 test. It is not always true, but quite often, that students with reading accuracy difficulties also possess a more limited range of vocabulary. This could possibly be a direct result of a) not being able to access more challenging texts that offer exposure to new words, b) a lack of word variety in the home, or c) a multitude of other reasons! Whatever the root cause, I'm quite certain that students who make good reading progress in Y7 will not be able to demonstrate it through a resit of this paper.
If those in power are set on building evidence to confirm that the 'catch-up' funding they offer to schools is being used wisely, this is not the way forward. There are no silver bullets. Just as one meal is not enough to rectify a lifetime of malnourishment, one academic year (which, let's not forget, sees a colossal change in a child's life) is not enough to fix years of literacy famine. A more longitudinal approach to measuring progress in this area, I believe, is necessary.
With no recent mention of this proposal on official sites, I'm very much hoping there'll be news in the coming months of this being another educational U-turn. It would be great if those in office could meet with those in the classroom to consider what success might look like through a different lens.
My Starter for Five Contribution: SEN at Secondary
Starter for Five is a UK based advice blog for new teachers. You can find it on twitter here. Each post gives 5 quick pieces of advice on a particular topic for new teachers and trainees submitted by experienced teachers.
Here's mine:
Name: Josie Mingay
Twitter name: @JAMingay
Sector: Secondary
Subject taught (if applicable): English and Literacy
Position: Literacy leader / Lead Learner
What is your advice about? SEN at Secondary
1: No SEN label should cause you to lower your expectations of students. Do all you can to remove specific obstacles to learning in order for students to reach ambitious goals.
2: Be explicit about praising students for effort and hard work, rather than achievement. Students with SEN need to see that the journey to the destination is rewarded too.
3: Make use of your SENCo/Learning Support dept – a great resource, often with a wealth of knowledge. Utilise their expertise to aid your planning/teaching.
4: Talk to your students! More than any official document listing suggested strategies, students usually know their obstacles best and can tell you what support they need.
5: Model using metacognitive strategies. One of the best tools for students with SEN is the ability to think about their learning and select strategies to apply to given tasks.
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Should reading ever be discouraged?
An article written in the TES News this week caught my eye and got me thinking. John Boyne, author of 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas', claims that we should be encouraged to read well, or not at all. He believes that there is little point in reading for its own sake. Citing titles such as 'Fifty Shades of Grey', he asks, "Reading for its own sake – what's the point of that, if people aren't reading interesting or challenging books?"
It's a tough one, isn't it. On the one hand, we have a duty as teachers to encourage students to find intellectually stimulating texts with challenging vocabulary and grammatical accuracy. As Literacy Leader, I am careful not to direct students to books that I feel would offer no opportunity for progression on their reading journey. We SHOULD be encouraging readers to embrace texts that demonstrate beautifully constructed sentences, take us to exciting and unfamiliar places, test our opinions and open our minds to new ways of thinking. With that, I don't disagree.
What I would question, however, is the idea that a text that does not challenge is pointless. Boyne's viewpoint neglects all those readers who read for enjoyment. Consider a student who has a very difficult home life and needs something to escape to. Or a struggling, weary teacher who finds reading a peaceful exercise, but doesn't have the energy to be questioned or face anything too testing after a long day at work. Surely there is merit in the practice of reading in those instances?
I wonder if the analogy of running might help here. Suppose a runner has a marathon to undertake in a month's time and is currently in the training phase. If the runner was to attempt a marathon-long run every day in the lead up to that event, they would surely reach a point of exhaustion before the event. Any experienced runner knows that a good training plan alternates run days with rest days and other forms of interval training. What's more, many experienced runners without an event in the pipeline enjoy a short jog every now and then. It's good for the mind and soul.
Could we not apply the same idea to reading?
As a teacher, I question what right I have to discourage a student from reading, if it gives them pleasure. While I would, of course, encourage students to be mindful of the text choices they make, asking them to review what a certain book may or may not offer, I would be concerned that having an opinion where students should ONLY read if it will pose challenge might put them off reading altogether.
Like any hobby, one must take ownership of a practice in order to develop a love for it and, I believe, there is no harm in reading, sometimes just for the sake of reading.
ROOT MAP: A Vocabulary Instruction Model
Last July, I wrote the first of a two-part blog post (see part 1 here) sharing some early musings around the best approach for a new vocabulary model that we wanted to introduce at my school. This generated much interest and a number of people since have asked for the second instalment. As a result of the programme's ongoing evolution, there have been alterations along the way. Nevertheless, I finally present to you the sequel, in the form of a write-up from my session at ResearchED last Saturday. My colleague, Phil Stock, has also written about this here.
Footage of the session will be available here soon.
On Saturday 7th November, I was privileged to speak at the first ResearchED Secondary English & Literacy conference at Swindon Academy. (To see my Top 5 takeaway points from the day, see here.) My session explored the importance of direct vocabulary instruction.
To begin, I asked those present to spend a few minutes discussing where they would rank each of these actions on a scale from least energy required to most.
When feeding back as a group, two members of the audience beat me to my own teaching point, making the case that this task would be impossible without the semantic knowledge of the words in bold. I then displayed the following slide, which I had composed to exemplify how unfamiliar words can instantaneously become unwelcome hurdles that students must face when trying to comprehend a given text.
"Those who know 90 percent of the words in a text will understand its meaning and, because they understand, they will also begin to learn the other 10 percent of the words." (E.D. Hirsch, 2003)
I proceeded to explain that a study conducted by Beck et al. into the acquisition of new vocabulary resulted in the speculation of a continuum, whereby different texts can present a reader with a variety of scenarios, some which offer the necessary clues to help us learn a word meaning and, for others, no clues at all. More information is given in the PPT slides embedded at the foot of this post.
As a result of their studies, Beck's team resolved that "…relying on learning word meanings from independent reading is not an adequate way to deal with students' vocabulary development." Beck, McKeown & Kucan (2013)
I'm in full agreement with this, not least because there are a great number of students who won't necessarily come into contact with unfamiliar vocabulary through independent reading anyway, as a result of a lack of interest in books, or they may be reading texts that lack enough challenge.
Next, I outlined the memory process we believe to be true when acquiring new information. I shared Anderson's theory (1994), asserting that information is stored in biomodal packets, separated into linguistic packets called 'logogens' and non-linguistic packets called 'imagens'.
Both Anderson's theory and that of Sadoski and Paivio's Dual Coding Theory (1994), support the notion that experiences are stored in language terms but also in ways more connected to senses, feelings, emotions, visual perceptions etc. From these theories, it can be ascertained that an individual learns new information by initially creating an episodic memory of an event (ie. a one-off experience) which, with repetition, can become a semantic experience whereby the learner begins to assimilate new information as part of a deeper network of knowledge around a particular idea or theme.
I noted the importance of Graham Nuthall's working memory model here, stressing that three conditions that lead to effective processing are:
- Strength – multiple exposures to new information (at least 3 or 4 within a limited time) is essential in order to embed knowledge
- Depth – ensuring students think 'hard' about new information so as not to allow it to just hover on the surface, instead challenging learners to wrestle with new ideas and concepts to ensure they are deeply rooted
- Elaboration – providing opportunities for learners to make connections and associations with previously acquired knowledge, in order for this to 'latch' onto something
In discussing which words should be targetted for direct instruction, I made reference to three sources:
- Rolfus and Ackerman (1999) asserted that subject knowledge has a high degree of specificity i.e. little transfer. The five particular areas they recommend to teach are:
a) Subject specific words and phrases embody deep, underlying concepts e.g. condensation, genre
b) Roots and suffixes e.g. gen, anti-
c) Proper nouns e.g. Carl Lewis
d) Compound words e.g. drummer boy
e) Subject and verb phrases e.g. book review
- Beck's contribution of the tiered vocabulary pyramid suggests that words can be categorised into three tiers.
The advice from Beck suggests that it is Tier 2 words that should be taught explicitly, since these are the words that arise less frequently in conversation, more in writing. This theory would suggest that, as a result of teaching Tier 2 words, Tier 3 words can then be accessed more easily by the learner. While there is some sense in this approach, much of the research undertaken in the area of memory would dispute this method, arguing that the teaching of words need to be deeply rooted within their subject domain, in order to connect new information to already-learnt knowledge.
- The final source was taken from a synthesis of research studies undertaken by the National Reading Panel (NRP) in the US, 2010. As a result of their analysis, they identified eight findings that provide a scientifically based foundation for the design of rich vocabulary instruction. These were:
These findings, as well as the great research undertaken by Robert J. Marzano in his book "Building Academic Vocabulary", have directly informed our delivery of vocabulary instruction at Greenshaw.
All too aware of the gap between word-rich and word-poor students, we recognise the crucial importance of providing all students with direct and indirect experiences, broadening their understanding of the world, enabling students from both privileged and disadvantaged backgrounds alike to obtain and retain new words taught.
"[There is an] estimated difference of vocabulary knowledge of 4,700 words between students of high and low social economic status." (Templin, 1957)
It is through the mediums of those listed below that we might be able to develop students' vocabulary in a way that meets their individual needs.
Taking direction from Marzano's work, we have implemented 6 steps of effective vocabulary instruction in our Year 7 research trial.
See slides 41-60 of the PPT shared at the bottom of this post for more information and the filmed session, which will be available here shortly.
In closing, I will attempt to outline the structure we have designed, in order to deliver two strands of vocabulary instruction, namely subject-specific English words (Tier 2&3) and roots, prefixes and suffixes.
As you can see from the image above, one tutor time session a week is reserved for a morphology and etymology focus on words. During this time, tutors across a range of different curriculum subjects deliver 15 minutes of intensive vocabulary delivery, teaching the meaning of common roots required at KS3 and beyond.
In addition to this, students are also explicitly taught Tier 2 and 3 subject-specific words in their English classes, directly linked to the text being studied at the time. See the slide below for our first cycle of Autumn term words and roots taught.
Here is a rough idea of how much direct instruction students might receive over a fortnight's cycle.
As I explained in my talk and, as is the reality for so many teachers, there is never enough time to teach the content of the curriculum, let alone trying to cram in additional vocabulary content. This is why we have moved some of the definitions and connections tasks originally designed to take place in English lessons to our online learning platform, giving students the opportunity to revisit information multiple times by completing multiple choice quizzes and games online between lessons, set as homework. (When I figure out how to share the demo of this on here, I will!)
I hope this has given some insight into the development of our vocabulary curriculum design, but would encourage you to check out the footage from the session when it becomes available for a complete walk through.
PPT slides here:
My Top 5: ResearchED Secondary English and Literacy
Saturday 7th November saw the first ResearchED Secondary English & Literacy event at Swindon Academy. It really was a fantastic day. Whether you made it to the event or not, here's my top 5 moments of the day:
- Professor Ray Land opened the day with a keynote talk on Threshold Concepts, revealing why new knowledge can be so troublesome and unsettling for learners at any age. It would be foolish for me to even attempt to summarise Ray's presentation as it was brilliant in many ways. His research-rooted insight into why students struggle to understand or take hold of such large scale concepts in the classroom was fascinating.
- The structure of the day; the travelling, the cake breaks and the pockets of times waiting for sessions to begin, offered welcome spaces for some geeky, intellectually provocative and nutritious conversations about teaching and learning matters with colleagues both familiar and new.
- The menu of sessions on offer was packed with so many great choices. There was real opportunity to hear some fantastic teachers and leaders share their knowledge of research and how they are applying this to their curriculum design and pedagogy in the school where they work. For me, this included:
a) listening to Summer Turner share the English curriculum design with a heavy focus on rich literature that she and colleagues have put in place at the East London Science School
b) learning from Katie Ashford about the importance of rigorous grammar instruction – something we are evolving at our school, so it was great to see that Michaela Community School is one step ahead
c) soaking up the wisdom offered by Eric Kalenze on the importance of background knowledge (was sorry not to see the end of this, but grateful for technology!)
It was a shame to miss other great speakers including Phil Stock, Andy Tharby, James Murphy, but am looking forward to catching up with their sessions online when they're available.
- The priviledge of delivering a session myself alongside some excellent speakers, on the importance of direct vocabulary instruction. I do believe this is one area of literacy that has huge value in the classroom and enhances students' deeper learning, so I was grateful to have the opportunity to lead on this (blog post soon to follow on here).
- Not wishing to wrestle any credit away from Tom Bennett or David Didau, there's a warm sense of achievement that I believe those involved can enjoy on days like this. It's worth reflecting that the ResearchED community is central to this ever-growing grassroots movement, snowballing solely because those people who live and breathe education are passionate enough to ensure that this super profession remains transparent, research-driven and authentic.
I will blog about my talk here in the next couple of days.
Here's to the next one!
Vocabulary Matters – My contribution to ResearchED Literacy, 7th Nov 2015
Next Saturday, I will be one of a number of gathered teachers and researchers who share a common aim – hopeful that, through organic grass roots events like @researchED1, it might be possible to reduce the considerable chasm between educational research and classroom practice.
Attending this event for the first time last year, I was surprised by the number of delegates present who had sacrificed a day of their weekend to travel, ready to participate in the workshops on offer and be willing to engage in educational conversations with others there. It was refreshing to experience an approach to teaching and learning so rooted in research and, after a powerful day, I left feeling positively challenged.
That's why this year I'm really pleased to have been invited to lead a workshop at the @researchED1 Literacy event on Saturday 7th November at Swindon Academy, run by event directors David Didau, Tom Bennett & Hélène O'Shea.
As Literacy Leader in my school, and also recently appointed as a Lead Learner in research too, I will be delivering a workshop on the importance of teaching vocabulary in order to enhance students' understanding across the curriculum. Incidentally, the session itself is far more interesting than the somewhat tedious title I gave it: "Improving students' understanding through direct vocabulary instruction".
Many months ago on my blog, I wrote Part 1 of a 2-part post on the new vocabulary programme we were soon to implement in my school as a result of the research we had carried out called 'Root Planner'. See here. It was always intended that the second part of the duo ('Root Map') would be published soon after, outlining the implementation of the programme. For a number of reasons this failed to transpire and, so, albeit a year later, I will be posting Part 2 of this post following my presentation next Saturday.
A great colleague of mine, Phil Stock, has shared the journey of this whole-school language intervention with me and has recently written about this on his blog here, following the presentation he gave at #TLT15 earlier in October.
I'm very much looking forward to the day; to hearing some super speakers, to reflecting on my own practice and to embracing the possibilities an event of this nature can bring to teaching and learning.
Hope to see you there!
The Oracy Priority
*This article was written for the bi-monthly newsletter
of a national education organisation.
"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is no great secret that British politics and many top professions in the UK continue to be steered by an overwheming majority of "public" school graduates. While we might attribute much of this to students' consistently hard work, avid parental support, privileged learning experiences and networking opportunities through financial circumstance (not to mention some darn good 'pedestalled-by-people-in-power' teaching), we must not neglect another significant constituent lying beneath the surface here.
These schools are masters in cultivating learning environments that nurture students to become confident, articulate public speakers. A degree in neuroscience is not required for me to suppose that regular exposure to effective speaking and listening skills – modelled by confident speakers who talk effectively to other confident speakers, whilst employing a wide range of impressive vocabulary to express themselves and their ideas – is far more likely to be the reason why we become confident speakers ourselves, rather than some genetic predisposition to possessing superior oracy skills from birth.
Neil Mercer, Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, explains,
"The British public schools, which educated many members of the present Westminster government, of course place great emphasis on developing the confident and effective use of spoken language. For the sake of social equality, state schools must also teach children the spoken language skills that they need for educational progress, and for life in general."
Despite being considered one of the top three skills that employers look for in potential employees, leaders in education could be considered guilty in recent years of overlooking the importance of the explicit teaching of oracy. Current evidence of this within government legislation includes both the downgrading of 'speaking and listening' to 'spoken language' in the Primary Curriculum, and the entire removal of the oral language assessment at GCSE in 2014. The message this sends is contrary to large volumes of educational research advising that opportunities to discuss, debate and reason with others are essential in the process of assimilating new knowledge and broadening vocabulary. While some students regularly participate in debating groups and thrive in smaller classes where teacher-student and student-student interaction is optimum, others simply dread the moment when their name might be called to answer a relatively straightforward question in front of their peers.
Studies in this area have revealed that by providing greater opportunities within the classroom for structured exploratory talk, which promotes the sharing and challenging of ideas raised by peers in a safe and well-managed environment, this leads to a greater and more 'rounded' understanding of topics raised. Geoff Barton, Headteacher, author and leading literacy expert in his book "Don't Call it Literacy!" (2012) suggests,
"Group work provides an opportunity for the word-poor to mingle with the word-rich, to hear language being used by pupils of their own age in ways that they might not otherwise encounter. So, at the risk of being too grandiose, we mustn't forget the importance that thoughtful groupings give to the social mobility agenda."
Another crucial type of talk is one that enables students to review concepts and ideas in a critical manner, reflecting in a way that leads to higher order thinking. Designing opportunities where students can rehearse presentational talk is also vital in ensuring that we are fostering future generations of confident public speakers.
Good oracy is clearly an essential tool in achieving success, not only to enhance a list of employability skills on a CV, but it is also necessary for the process of learning itself. Best practice oracy teaching includes; effective communication modelled by teachers and staff within a school, a range of opportunities provided to rehearse talk through intentional, planned discussions, a combination of different types of talk, discrete teaching of advanced and unfamiliar vocabulary, exemplar modelling of good oracy skills and feedback on student progress in oracy with built-in revisits to enable future improvements.
With so many obvious advantages to teaching oracy, not least to function as the foundation on which all reading and writing is constructed, it is perplexing that this fundamental aspect of literacy has been removed from the education agenda. As long as the metaphorical 'gap' continues to exist between private and state schools, so too should any intervention we can offer that seeks to close it.


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Although I hadn't as yet read any headlines about it, I understood Father Dwight Longenecker to be pulling a taut string of satire on this "Hollywood director coming out for man/goat love.
And then I saw the actual article and realized that Longenecker hadn't, perhaps, stepped far enough away from reality to make it truly satirical!
So, in the course of a week, we see advocacy for incest and as well as a sort of apologia for pedophilia suggesting that some people are "born with" the urge to destroy children's lives, and so an amount of sympathy ought to be rendered their way.
To all of which, Mark Shea wonders, with wide-eyed sarcasm, Jeepers, who could possibly have foreseen this? and then pretty well sums up my feelings:
If by "sympathy" one means the sort of sympathy one has for a raging drunk in his wretchedness and ruin as a result of his capitulation to his fallen human nature, that's one thing. All sinners deserve sympathy, even the most wretched. God sympathizes with us in our abysmal sinful wretchedness and sent his Son to die for the worst of us–even Hitler. But if by "sympathy" you mean "Whatever inclination you happen to feel deserves to be indulged because you feel it" then you are a fool and an enabler of monstrous evil.
You'll want to read Mark's whole piece which calls for a return of the Catholic understanding of the fall and redemption.
Incest and adult/child "love." Those of us who have lived with the life-long after-effects of these destructive deviancies find ourselves feeling concerned and disgusted but also inclined toward jeering disdain. That's all you are? The big boogey-monster of countless nightmares is finally some sniveling creep too ill-informed and self-oriented to feel embarrassed by coming out and making exactly the arguments the Catholic church predicted they'd be making, once the gay marriage argument became politico/media-normalized?
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Recipe makes 20 biscuits
Ingredients Edit
- 1 ounce cocoa powder
- 2 ounces potato flour
- 2 ounces rice flour
- 1 ounce gram flour
- 1 ounce ground almonds
- 3 ounces granulated sugar
- 3 ounces hard margarine or butter
- 1 egg
Directions Edit
- Preheat oven to 350 °F.
- Mix all the dry ingredients together.
- Beat the egg before adding with the butter and mix together until a soft dough is produced that sticks into a large ball.
- Break the dough into walnut-sized pieces and place on a greased tray or nonstick baking parchment.
- Flatten each lump with the back of a fork dipped in cold water.
- Bake for 12 – 15 minutes.
- Cool on a wire rack.
- Variations: add chopped nuts or crystallized ginger.