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The story subject seemed interesting but as I read I felt no emotions, not even sadness. However, I kept reading because of the subject matter and with willpower I made it slowly and desperately to the end. The novel was just on the edge of being somewhat good and it made me think about what I would do if I was going to die….
The foundation of the story is that a woman found out she was dying and decided she wanted her husband and children to be taken care of after she dies. She begins her search for women that would be a platonic relationship match "at first" for her husband and also someone her children would fall in love with. It all just seemed unbelievable especially when the author created the wife's career "a business person matching together upper class people". She did well in her business but made a dumb miscalculation with her own marriage….
I had a hard time believing the scenes in the novel as I was reading. I don't feel it was that well written. Maybe if the author creates a different path with the subject matter and gave it some feasible way to expand on the idea and soften the story up some, gave it believable people it may have flourished into a great read instead of being so flat and blah. I'll give it a three rating because the idea was interesting and it tried to show the wife did it out of love. Some people may like the novel but I just couldn't recommend it as favorable.
I thought it was pretty good but annoying too and in the end I found it sad. I started out thinking I would like the protagonist, Camille Hart, but quickly thought she was far too self-satisfied and a good bit on the over-controlling side as well. There was a lot of miscommunication between the characers and damage that could have been avoided had they just been willing to talk to each other. The basic point of the story is that when Camille learns that her cancer has returned and has metastasized, she decides she is going to die, and she also decides that she needs to find someone to take her place for her husband and her children before she dies. But she gets to control who she chooses, and she wants him to accept her choice, but not get too involved at the same time. In short she is working from her head, and from her own unresolved issues surrounding her mothers death when she was 14 and unresolved issues with her father arising from that same event. In the end everyone gets hurt. Yes the husband behaves childishly also, but I am more inclined to forgive him because I don't see from the story that Camille every understands the way her actions felt like a complete betrayal of trust to him. In the end, she lives, they get divorced, and the husband remarries. It seems from the story he learns something about himself and about openness to relationships, and Camille seems to grow up a little but she still seems somehow to have missed something critical. Maybe I jut took the whole thing too seriously.
I picked up this book because the dress on the cover caught my eye, and the title is intriguing. The premise hooked me once I read the synopsis.
Camille is a cancer survivor with a successful career as a matchmaker and 20 years of marriage under her belt. She lost her mother when she was a young girl and always felt her life would have been better had her father remarried. So when her cancer recurs, and this time it is terminal, and she realizes her husband didn't do so well as a 'single parent' the first time around, she decides to put her matchmaking skills to work and find her husband his second wife and her children the ideal stepmother! This sounds like a really good idea....until you think about it. Your instinct is to feel sorry for Camille because she is dying. Because her husband, Edward, feels the same way, he reluctantly agrees to go along with her scheme. It turns out, Camille is a bit of a control freak. She wants her husband to bond to the woman SHE picks out, but ONLY the woman she picks out, and not to get TOO intimate....she's not dead yet! It is not a terrible story; it was actually interesting. But as I read it, I kept thinking, this is a situation where there can be no happily ever after for everyone....someone has to be the loser! Although the story is somewhat predictable, you are never quite sure which way it is going to go until the end. This would be a great 'summer read' even though it is not at the top of my list of books I recommend.
My Rating: ★★★ 3 Stars
Why did you choose this book? Look at the cover!
When did you read this book? May 2012
Who should read this book? anyone looking for a quick, entertaining read with a 'not happily-ever-after' ending
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This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.I usually like books by Eileen Goudge, but after 2 tries I have given up on this one. It move too slowly, and I just don't connect with any of the characters.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.I'm really at a loss as to how I feel about this book. I loved the premise, a dying wife trying to secure her families future. I was with the book until a little more than half-way through. I understood the husbands reluctance and her insistence at finding someone to take her place and even his wondering why his wife was trying to pawn him off on someone else. I even understood (though didn't condone) the cheating. Where the book lost and irritated me was when she beat her cancer but they got divorced. From there the husband marrying his mistress and our main character ending up alone but content, I just couldn't back that. I gave this book three stars because like I said it did have an interesting premise and held my interest, but I just wasn't satisfied at the end.
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Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) introduced the Subcontracting Transparency And Reliability (STAR) Act on Feb. 2.
Under the bill, agency officials would have to allow the public to comment on the agency's procedures for bringing in-house work that a small business has been doing. The small business advocates within a department, such as Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) officials, would have to review the procedures as well.
The bill would also give small businesses the opportunity to challenge insourcing decisions in court.
Mulvaney tackles subcontracting problems as well in the bill. A small business could not subcontract more than 50 percent of what the government pays it for a contract. There would be a penalty for violating the rule, including a possible three-year suspension from contracting, a fine or jail.
The legislation is designed to ensure that small businesses that get the contracts are doing the bulk of the work. It would make it easier to crack down on deceptive large businesses hiding behind small businesses.
"The STAR Act will help provide an even playing field for many small contractors who otherwise would not have the resources to fight deceitful subcontracting and unjustified insourcing within the federal procurement system," said Mulvaney, chairman of the Small Business Committee's Contracting and Workforce Subcommittee.
Mulvaney's legislation was introduced two days after the Small Business Committee chairman, Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.), introduced two bills. One bill would pressure agencies to meet their small business contracting goals or take bonuses away from senior federal officials. The Government Efficiency through Small Business Contracting Act (H.R. 3850) also raises the governmentwide contracting goal from 23 percent to 25 percent.
Graves introduced the Small Business Advocate Act (H.R. 3851) the same day. It would make the OSDBU director a senior executive position and "report directly and exclusively" to the agency head. The Small Business Committee wrangled with agency officials in 2011 about the access their OSDBU directors had to the top-ranking official.
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OccupyIT's last sentence hits the nail on the head. Prohibit small business contracts from being bundled and included into larger corporate contributor's contracts where a $100,000 bid is accepted and NOT bundled and included in a $10 Million contract instead where there is NO accountability for any savings. Stop bundling of small business contracts or force large businesses to show how they have included the same savings offered by the small business proposal!
Subcontracting Plans don't have a large amount of impact if the agency is not performing adequate oversight. Many are far worst than others & it applies mostly to the larger budget offices.
Feds are getting push from OMB to limit contract support staff if there is not adequate resources to oversee the work and to finally put an end to all the support contracts that violate FAR 37.203(c)(2). So if this legislation is passed, it would put feds in a catch-22 situation when trying to make a determination to not reprocure an inappropriate support contract that previously was awarded to a small business.
Failure to meet small business targets is not the result of small businesses subcontracting more than 50% of the work - that is already prohibited in essentially all awards with appropriate redress available when violated. The real issue is large businesses not meeting the subcontracting plans that they bid as a required part of their large business awards. What a red herring that turns this on its head. Ridiculous, Mr. Mulvaney! Include the same penalties for large business violating the subcontracting plans!
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International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 147097, 7 pages
Sparse Planar Array Synthesis Using Matrix Enhancement and Matrix Pencil
1School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
2The Second Research Institute of Civil Aviation of China, Chengdu 610041, China
3School of Astronautics and Aeronautics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
Received 3 July 2012; Accepted 28 January 2013
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Copyright © 2013 Mei-yan Zheng et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The matrix enhancement and matrix pencil (MEMP) plays important roles in modern signal processing applications. In this paper, MEMP is applied to attack the problem of two-dimensional sparse array synthesis. Firstly, the desired array radiation pattern, as the original pattern for approximating, is sampled to form an enhanced matrix. After performing the singular value decomposition (SVD) and discarding the insignificant singular values according to the prior approximate error, the minimum number of elements can be obtained. Secondly, in order to obtain the eigenvalues, the generalized eigen-decomposition is employed on the approximate matrix, which is the optimal low-rank approximation of the enhanced matrix corresponding to sparse planar array, and then the ESPRIT algorithm is utilized to pair the eigenvalues related to each dimension of the planar array. Finally, element positions and excitations of the sparse planar array are calculated according to the correct pairing of eigenvalues. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.


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Need some video explanation on the Canadian Healthcare System? Check out Real Canadians Talking Real Healthcare, or if your feeling like something a little more polished with a bit of humour check out Michael Moores Documentary Sicko.
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In the 19th century, Canadians from all walks of life helped enslaved african-americans escape to the northern parts of the United States as well as Canada. Estimates indicated that anywhere between 30,000 and 100,000 slaves successfully made it to Canada through the secret network of stations. Stations were said to have been as far west as British Columbia, and as far east as Nova Scotia. Survival on the railroad was hard, and on many occasions had it not been for the help of the Native Americans along the trail, many people wouldn't have survived. While freed slaves found safety all over Canada, the majority settled in the Ontario area where they formed their own communities and pioneered their own farmland.
As it turned out many of the new arrivals to the "promise land" found the weather to be cold, the life to be hard, and when civil war erupted in the United States, some chose to fight with the Union and help rebuild the United States from the ground up. While many African-Americans headed home in search of family and friends, some stayed and formed communities. Men like Josiah Henson began to purchase land in Ontario and formed communities around what is now Dresdon Ontario, such as the famous Dawn Settlement. Josiah Henson is/was the inspiration behind the famous abolitionist tale, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Hariet Beecher Stowe. This book is said to have been one of the books Abraham Lincoln read which encouraged him to pass the Emancipation Proclamation.
While the most of the credit needs go to the brave souls of the african-americans who made that journey, I couldn't be more proud that Canadians helped people find their own freedom.
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According to the 2011 Global Peace Index, Canada scores an in the Top 10, at the relatively charming number of 8, just behind Finland (7) and Austria (6). This index looks at up to 23 different measures, including military spending, percentage of violent crime, possibility of violent demonstrations, deaths from conflicts with neighbouring countries, along with the political terror scale, which apparently we didn't score too high in due to the G20 Protests in Toronto. But to most Canadians, you don't need a fancy number to know we're a pretty peaceful bunch.
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16 April 2011
Suicide bomb in mosque
According to the news in Indonesia, the perpetrator were identified aged between 20-25 years, 170 cm tall, oval-faces and short-haired, worn a jacket, a hat, and brought a prayer rug.
Actually this is not the first time for the bomb attack on the mosque. Previously it had occurred at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta on April 19, 1999. Nevertheless usually observers in Indonesia, even international, tend to associate the bomb cases with Islamic extremists. But I guess a bomb attack in the mosque for this time probably will triggers various discourse and assumption. It's clear that the target location of bomb attacks this time are in the mosque and the police.
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Hi Tikno,ReplyDelete
I have been following the news on TVs about this suicide bombing, and some terrorists observers have various theories :
1) the bomber wanted to revenge against the
Police institution that have been very
successful in eliminating terrorists here.
2) the bomber was angry at the trial of Abubakar
Ba'asyir. But Ba'asyir's organization MMI
denied this allegation.
3) it the work of an institution that is not
happy with the Police position as the top
security agency in the country.
Others said that this bombing show the importance to issue the intelligence law which is still being discussed by the DPR.
One thing for sure is this bombing makes me question about the effectiveness and efficiency of our intelligence network. Especially that until now the Police still cannot identify those responsible for the spread of book bombs that exploded 1 month earlier in Jakarta.
PS: The bomb in Istiqlal Mosque was not by suicide bomber, but was placed there.
Another possibility may be the man was another, socially isolated guy angry with God, the world, mankind and himself.ReplyDelete
The phenomenon of these kind of loners, suicidal individuals, who want to take as many with him, is known from killings in US, Germany, Finland and Alphen, the Netherlands (Last week a young men at random killed seven people in a shopping centre and next committed suicide in one of the shops). Maybe this man in Cirebon had similar mental problems.
Terrorism is now spread allover the world so no one can immediately stop but decrease their activities through punishment and negotiations Indonesian government should act strongly on the terrorism.ReplyDelete
Maybe we 'needed' this action. why? so that the police acts more quickly in eradicating terrorists now that it struck their own. That being said, I'm not condoning the action of any suicide bomber at all. But unless it's close to home, people tends to be more relax.ReplyDelete
@ Multibrand,ReplyDelete
Thanks to extend this post. Yeah a lot of presumptions growing now. According to you, which presumptions are closer?
Here are a few interesting opinions that I quoted from Antara News:
1) Islamic Students Association Alumni Corps (KAHMI) asked the government to immediately reform the intelligence to be able to work better, effective in warding off terrorism.
2) Rector of Bandung Institute of Technology, Prof. Dr. Akhmaloka Ph.D. said the character education may anticipate the development of terrorism tenet in the younger generation. He also said terrorists actually because of dissatisfaction which it resulting frustration, suicide. Moreover suicide bomb did not fit the standpoint of any religions or beliefs.
3) Chairman of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) KH Said Aqil Siradj said this is the proof of our intelligence weaknesses. What is more apprehensive is this happened in Cirebon City which is famous as the city of religious leader.
@ Colson,ReplyDelete
Perhaps the presumption of mental illness is the most neutral views from Colson. But temporarily and personally I would agree with you as long as the evidence is still vague.
@ Prasad,
WHAT...? decrease their activities through punishment and negotiations?
Suicide bombers are even not afraid to punishment because they're really sure will not be punished by judge after death.
As for negotiations... can you tell us of what kind of negotiations that can decrease their activities?
I'm confused! maybe others too.
@ Triesti,
Wow ... you seem to satirize the police.
In the case of dancing cop Norman Kamaru, many also being said, police also ordinary human who need relax to release the tension. ;)
In these days of me,me,me the crazies make it difficult for us to preserve the GOOD that is what made this world the place it is.ReplyDelete
On another note, I read an article that list lanaguages that will be extinct VERY soon : the guardian.co.uk/April 13, 2011. It lists the LENGILU of KALIMANTAN, Indoesia as one of many. You have such great reach to your neighbors, I thought you should know.
Omegetymon, the world is getting weird, isn't it?ReplyDelete
Tikno, you know my views on this matter very well. Fundamentalists will not stop at any thing to drive their ideology home to moderates. My condolences to the families of the killed policemen and best wishes to all Indonesians to come out of this danger at the earliest.ReplyDelete
Rummuser, I know you will recommend "do anything to eradicate them even must be sentenced to death". Well, a reasonable recommendation!ReplyDelete
But I still doubt whether it would end it all. No warranty because suicide bombers are not afraid to die. For me, the most effective way is to provide the true understanding of religious teaching to the younger generation. This is a tough task for parents, religious teachers, schools, and government.
In addition, it seems brutal murder is the pattern in developed countries, not because of religion but tend due to the factors of severe stress or mental sickness.
Those suicide bombers, regardless of their motives, are mentally disturbed. This one is no exception. They hate things and people around them with no clear reasons. The religious sentiments are good fuels to satisfy their tormented brains. Pathetic!ReplyDelete
Yari NK,ReplyDelete
Widespread publicity in the media for their actions indirectly satisfying their tormented brain. Do you also think like that?
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My wife is on her 2nd bread machine in 6 year and it sounds like it full of marbles so a new one is on the list. Also a new vaccuum packer because the old one doesn't suck. That really sounds backwards
In 1978 I bought my "then 9 year old" son a Montgomery Ward western field 410 shotgun. Last month we were looking at recurve bows on ebay. We ran across a vintage Montgomery Ward WF recurve. He commented on it being a nice match for the shotgun. I went home, signed on the 'puter, and bought it.
buzz if you get the stand mixer get her a a kitchen Aide professional 6 series. expensive but worth it. you can get the smaller kitchen aids cheaper at sams club but I think the big unit is worth the cost.
they say the nicest gifts are the ones you make yourself. my friends and family are getting some of my "world famous" ( at least in my mind) home made maple syrup. it didn't cost me anything but my own sweat.


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|Inconsistency Will Continue For Bruins Unless A Change Is Made
Is the Red Sox clubhouse toxic? I know, this is an age-old question. But, we may finally have our answer.
Let's just say it's an absolute YES.
Yahoo!'s Jeff Passan reported Tuesday about an explosive meeting on July 26 during the team's off-day. Red Sox owners called the meeting after receiving a text message from Adrian Gonzalez, who was complaining about Bobby V's decision to leave Jon Lester in a game in which he allowed 11 runs (four home runs and five walks) in 4-plus innings in a 15-7 loss to the Blue Jays on July 22.
"The intent of the meeting was to provide a forum for people to express whatever frustration needed to be expressed at a time during the season when things were not going exactly the way we wanted to on the field in hopes that we could put whatever issues were there aside and focus on playing games the rest of the season. That was the intent of the meeting. That was the focus of ownership. It was a productive meeting," Ben Cherington told Passan. "Since then, we have not gone on the run we were supposed to."
Sources told Passan the tenor of the meeting quickly turned ugly with Gonzalez and Dustin Pedroia among the most vocal about their displeasure with Valentine. Several players even said they could not play for Bobby V, but officials assured them that despite the near mutiny, Valentine would remain the team's manager for the rest of the season.
In all, 17 players showed up to the meeting, according to ESPN's Buster Olney.
"I don't think it's that uncommon for complaints to be made during the season," Cherington told Passan. "I'm not going to comment specifically on those complaints. Our owners felt, given where we were at that time in the season, given the collective frustration, we had not accomplished what we wanted to. It was time to get together and hash things out. There were no ultimatums issued. There were concerns expressed. Some very positive things expressed, too. We felt that it was an opportunity to get things off people's chests and move forward."
Olney also reported that the players simply could not get past Bobby V's remarks at the beginning of the season about Kevin Youkilis, when he said Youk was not as "emotionally or physically into the game as he once was."
So by the end of April, Valentine had already lost his team.
That truth was even more evident in an alleged photo circulating around the Red Sox clubhouse that shows a sleeping Bobby Valentine with the caption "our manager contemplating his lineup at 3:30 p.m."
What do you make of this mess?
Tags: Adrian Gonzalez, Ben Cherington, Bobby Valentine, Dustin Pedroia, John Henry
Sad. So much talent, managed by a clown.
Cherington is the source of all the front office chicanery. He has to be replaced. Once he was told he could not hire an inexperienced, uneducated "yes" man to be his manager, at the start of the season he has become a power seeking, back stabbing, fomenter of dissatisfaction, among the players, because the field boss senior management chose, over his objections, is a smarter and more experienced baseball man than Cherington, could ever be. He simply does not have the resume for the job. But Henry will not replace his GM (after all Ben has worked for the Red Sox for a decade) during the season nor without finding a spot for him somewhere else. Maybe in Chicago, with the Theo and the Cubs?


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I have peas! Well, 3 pods only, but they're peas!
I also have 3 marble-sized tomatoes on one plant, and flowers on the other 2.
The peppers haven't done anything reproductive yet, but they're growing like crazy. As soon as I get a jalapeño, I'm going to make a 3-pea and fried green tomato spicy salad.
Or not.
Patience. Gotta work on that.
Oh, and I planted one of the sprouts from my scary sprouting potatoes, and there's lots of leafy greenness growing up out of the pot...
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Garden Veggies!
I have peas! Well, 3 pods only, but they're peas!
at 7:03 PM
2 comments:
- Kitt said...
Lucky you! I can't even plant my tomatoes for three weeks yet (it snowed today), and the pea plants are only an inch tall.
- May 1, 2008 at 10:19 PM
- Vicki said...
The weather is one of the only perks of living in southern CA. But I still miss the snow!
- May 2, 2008 at 1:21 PM
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Big $2 Billion Vision for OER, Yet Short-Sighted
A fantastic announcement this week from the Departments of Labor and Education. $2 billion to create new curricular programs for community colleges, all materials to be released under Creative Commons licences.
I like the objectives of this grant program, and it has a lot of potential to do much good. However, the implementation of the vision is a little short-sighted and may be disappointing to many in open education. Assuming I'm interpreting the grant program requirements correctly, only community colleges are able to be grantees. Section III. A. reads,
Eligible institutions are institutions of higher education as defined in Section 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002) which offer programs that can be completed in not more than 2 years. (p. 12)
I can understand that the lead grantee should be a community college, and that the assessed outcomes should provide evidence of success in community colleges. It's important to keep the focus on community colleges. However, it seems to me that there is much to be gained by allowing four-year institutions and those that offer graduate degree work to participate as well. We have some overlap in needs for our 100- to 200- level courses that coincide with community colleges. By drawing on the resources and expertise available in these other institutions in higher education, stronger consortiums could be formed. Finally, there are many people in OER already who would love to be involved in developing these new curricular programs.
I decided to write the Departments of Labor and Education today and ask them to reconsider the eligibility requirements. Ed.gov lists the following contact information in their announcement of the program:
- Sara Gast, Education, (202) 401-1989, firstname.lastname@example.com
- Mike Trupo, Labor, (202) 693-3414, firstname.lastname@example.com
If you agree with this assement, you might call or send an email, too.
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OER and Community Colleges
Charlie, et al:
I agree with the disappointment that the grant is so specific for community colleges to the extent that it would seem to discourage 4 year colleges and universities. I saw it as probably a political compromise, since if any federal dollars are going to be spent today, they have to link up to creating jobs in a direct way.
I think that if you read the rules broadly, an instiution is eligible if they offer a 2 year degree, and many institutions which are overall a 4 year institution probably do offer a 2 year degree somewhere. Plus, there's always the option of forming a consortium between 2 and 4 year colleges.
And what a big win for Creative Commons licensing!
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Jodi's Slow Cooked Breakfast Casserole
1 bag frozen hash browns
1 lb. roll Jimmy Dean sausage (regular)
Shredded cheese (2 cups or so)
Diced onions
12 eggs
½ cup milk
Spray the inside of a Large slow cooker with cooking spray (this recipe will not work in a small regular sized cooker). Brown, crumble and drain the sausage…..set aside. Layer ½ of the hash browns in the bottom of slow cooker. Then sprinkle onions & half the sausage. Top that with ½ the shredded cheese. Repeat with another layer of hash browns, onions, sausage & cheese. Whisk together the eggs, add salt, pepper and whatever you normally season scrambled eggs with. Add the milk to eggs, whisk. Pour the egg mixture evenly on the sausage/hash brown mixture (You CAN sprinkle a little more cheese on top). Cover, and cook on low for 8 hours (or High for 4 hours).
…your house will smell Breakfasty.
** Murphy and I both feel it could use a little more bite. Maybe use hot sausage, or pepper jack cheese….OR, serve with salsa. You could also add green and red peppers along with the onions.


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Tanzania #9 — Learning by Doing
William Ughetta '17 reflects on his teaching experience in Tanzania:
The students were not back yet. I unpacked the batteries, bulbs, wires, and worksheets. Although I had taught the same class earlier, I was not sure how the lesson would go. I had modeled it after my own Physics classes, which focus on student learning through experimentation and discovery.
The seventh grade being small, the ten students filed into class after their break. They were surprised to see the materials in front of them, expecting another class with lectures and exercises. I started by asking the students to figure out how to turn the light bulb on, using the batteries and wires in front of them. In groups of two, the students worked together to hold the wire to the battery and bulb in different combinations. By asking specific questions and trying different combinations, students slowly figured out what worked and what did not, and, more importantly, they were able to use their observations to figure out why they behaved this way.
Students saw how the circuit had to be completely connected and how materials either conducted electricity or impeded its flow. Students recorded their observations and drew diagrams of how the light bulbs were connected. Then I showed them how to draw circuit diagrams to show the components of the circuit and how they are connected, rather than the physical appearance. While investigating how changing the number of batteries affected the brightness of the light bulb, one group blew a 1.2 volt light bulb with 3 volts (using two AA batteries), which was a learning experience because it helped show how the voltage has a very real effect depending on the resistors in the circuit. Students knew that the circuit did not work when it was not closed from experience, so they could guess that the light bulb no longer worked because the electricity could no longer flow from one end of the battery to the other. The class then set up circuits in series and parallel, drew diagrams, and recorded observations about which layout was brighter and the differences between them. Sometimes it took a lot of hands to hold the circuits together, especially in parallel (when the light bulbs are not in a row but both connected to the battery). The observing teacher even was eager to lend a hand and help the students understand.
Although I had planned to explain how the flow of electricity can be modeled by the flow of water, I had to end class since we were over time and I had to go help teach fourth grade. Before I left, I gave the supplies I brought to the teacher so he could use them later. He showed me what he had to teach on circuits in the textbook, and, although I did not cover any math, I felt that my lesson was a good introduction that helped students understand core concepts and basics of circuits. Rather than being lectured to about a topic that may have seemed irrelevant and imaginary on a white board, students were able to explore intrinsic concepts of circuits with careful observations and questions.


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Singing Walmart Cashier Makes Grand Ole Opry Debut
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The "Coat of Many Colors"-singing Walmart cashier turned Internet sensation continues to see her musical dreams come true.
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The "Coat of Many Colors"-singing Walmart cashier turned Internet sensation continues to see her musical dreams come true.
HURRICANE MILLS, Tenn. -- Fire has destroyed the cook shack at country singer Loretta Lynn's Dude Ranch.
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From actors to accolade, country music made the rounds this week.
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Trace Adkins, Lee Ann Womack, Bill Anderson, Crystal Gayle, Little Jimmy Dickens, Miranda Lambert and the Pistol Annies took the stage at the Grand Ole Opry Tuesday night (Sept. 25) to help Loretta Lynn celebrate her 50th anniversary as a member of the Opry.
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It's been 37 years since Loretta Lynn's controversial hit, "The Pill," hit the airwaves, helping change the perception of contraception. Now the country music icon's revolutionary tune is being honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of a touring exhibit called "Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power."
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Loretta Lynn will be celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 25, with a star-studded tribute commemorating the iconic entertainer's 50th anniversary as a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
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Loretta Lynn has recorded more than 50 albums since her debut single, "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl," hit the airwaves in 1960. But while it may seem that the 80-year-old would be ready to relax in her rocking chair, she admits there's plenty more she hopes to accomplish before she considers retirement.
Stealing Angels singer Tayla Lynn gave birth to a baby boy named Tru on Friday (Aug. 3). This is the first child for the musician and husband Jon Cody Finger, who were married in April...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Country music legend Loretta Lynn is three years older than she has led people to believe, an age change that undermines the story she told of being married at 13 in "Coal Miner's Daughter," documents obtained by The Associated Press show...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Country Music Hall of Fame member Loretta Lynn is taking her life story to Broadway, and she has tapped film and TV actress Zooey Deschanel to play her on stage...


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In the days when Herod was king of Judea there was a certain priest whose name was Zachariah, of the daily service (the division) of Abia; and his wife was also a descendant of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
And when Zachariah saw him, he was troubled, and fear took possession of him.
But the angel said to him, Do not be afraid, Zachariah, because your petition was heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you must call his name John [God is favorable].
And Zachariah said to the angel, By what shall I know and be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.
Now the people kept waiting for Zachariah, and they wondered at his delaying [so long] in the sanctuary.
And she went to the house of Zachariah and, entering it, saluted Elizabeth.
And it occurred that on the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were intending to call him Zachariah after his father,
Then Zachariah asked for a writing tablet and wrote, His name is John. And they were all astonished.
Now Zachariah his father was filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,
In the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the Word of God [ concerning the attainment through Christ of salvation in the kingdom of God] came to John son of Zachariah in the wilderness (desert).


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The Lions of Tel Aviv Come to New York
On April 18, the enterprising, Israel-based Meiter Ensemble made its U.S. performance debut, presenting works by an international array of young composers, including Bryan Jacobs, Ofer Pelz, Enda Bates, Marcin Stancyzk and Christopher Bailey, at the opening night of the 2013 MATA Festival at Roulette.
In anticipation of their upcoming show, artistic director Amit Dolberg took time to answer some questions about the ensemble's international touring, its extensive works to foster emerging Israeli talent, and what to expect from its U.S. debut.
Aside from strings and winds, Meitar Ensemble's unique roster also includes three singers and a viola da gamba player. How did this formation come about, and how does it influence the kind of repertoire the ensemble performs?
We always look for new material and new ways of expressing ourselves... new sounds. It's important for us to give the composers that work with Meitar as many options as possible. We believe that baroque instruments can give great contemporary performances. A good example is a work Walter Zimmermann wrote for us that features four baroque instruments and singers. It was premiered in Tel Aviv with the Bach soloists ensemble, and we will perform it again and record it this September in Stuttgart with the Neue Vocalisten.
You co-produced a documentary following the group as they traveled to Berlin to perform works of Israeli composers in the notorious Wannsee conference room; the exact space in which high ranking officials from the Third Reich introduced their "final solution to the Jewish question" in 1942. What was the genesis of this project, and what was it like performing in that room?
A few years ago, I visited the museum with my wife, Osnat, and couldn't believe that, at the time, the museum was a summer resort for students. In that moment, I felt that we needed to play our music there. It wasn't until later that I realized how difficult it would be to turn this impulse into an actual event. Emre Sonmez, a director and producer from L.A, heard about my idea and wanted to make a documentary of this performance. We were all very moved by his devotion and vision.
It was a special and emotional day when the concert finally came about. We played so much music that in the editing, Emre had to make significant cuts. We just felt that we needed to play more and more. The movie was screened in many festivals around the world and all of us are very happy about the final product.
Meitar Ensemble recently named Phillip Leroux as a resident composer, starting in 2012. What led the group to choose Leroux, and what kind of interaction does he have with the ensemble in his position?
My friend, the composer Ofer Pelz, introduced me to Leroux's music. I immediately felt he would be a fit for us and for our audience. Leroux's role as a professor at McGill University and at IRCAM in Paris also appealed to us. As part of his position with Meitar, every year Leroux will teach a course for composers in Tel Aviv. We will also premiere a new work that he is writing for the ensemble, in addition to recording a CD of his music.
Meitar's appearance on April 19th at this year's MATA Festival is billed as a workshop of pieces by American and Israeli composers. Why is the label of "workshop" important, and how will it affect the audience's experience?
We work a lot with young composers and young instrumentalist as part of our youth ensemble, the Tedarim ensemble, and in our international workshops. It's important for us to assist composers, conductors and instrumentalists in finding their way to the contemporary music scene. We have many consultations with students and we conduct many workshops like the one we will do for MATA. For the audience it is a special, behind-the-scenes opportunity to be part of the intimate meeting between the composers and performers as we explore these new pieces.
Meitar Ensemble has an impressive output, both in the traditional sense - the recording and publication of new works through partnerships with the Israeli Composers League and the Israeli Music Institute - and in surprising spin-offs like the formation of an autonomous string quartet founded by Meitar members. What kinds of growth do you see for Meitar Ensemble as the group moves forward?
Our youth ensemble, The Tedarim Ensemble, is an important part of our work. We coach them in chamber music groups, conducting sessions, masterclasses, as well as provide opportunities for them to perform with us in Israel and abroad. This year we also offered two international masterclasses with Fabian Panisello and Phillipe Leroux; Leroux and Ivan Fedele will offer masterclasses next year. A year ago we opened the center for contemporary and electronic music in collaboration with the Israeli Conservatory, Tel Aviv, providing courses for musicians and to the public on improvisation and electronic music.
I can definitively say that there is a revolution in Israel in the contemporary music scene. More and more young musicians are getting involved. We have great guests who perform with us in Tel Aviv, then take their new-found knowledge of Israeli composers and perform this music in their home countries.
Next season will be our tenth year. In the time since we began, the ensemble members have become more and more involved such that it no longer feels like a one man show. Roy Amotz is in charge of our tours, Moshe Aharonov is the head of the education program and is the artistic coordinator, Gilad Harel is the head of the center for contemporary and electronic music, Guy Feder is our conductor-in-residence working with young conductors, Ayal Adler is our advisor, Phillipe Leroux is the composer in residence, and everybody has a say in picking repertoire. It really is a group effort, and for us it feels like a family.


text: Bella A is looking very fine in those white boots and sporty jacket and not much else. Her milky white skin contrasts nicely with the red car and even whiter snow. Her flat tummy and fine round ass just draw you into the photo. These were taken for Met-Art by Ingret and titled Olimpia.