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Paper crafting supplies include things you use in scrapbooking, rubber stamping, journaling, card making, planners and more. Paper craft companies make coordinated lines of products that are designed to look great together. Recently I made samples for a promotion at JoAnn Fabrics and Crafts in which I used only products sold in their store. Within that criteria I did a little mixing of brands. I'm continuing to work on the journal prototype because I'm still having major fun with it. I'm developing some templates to help combine the Heidi Swapp journaling products I was demonstrating with making a custom planner. I'm bringing in more product that I already own from other brands. It's challenging to get the different product lines to harmonize together but it's satisfying and fun too. I'm getting some results that please me, anyway!
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My New Planner Layout
Awhile ago I wrote about making a planner out of a sketchbook. This helps me keep track of my work because I can take notes and make sketches in the same book that is my planner. I try not to go anywhere without it! I have designed and purchased some rubber stamps to help me incorporate planner pages into my sketchbook.
Over the last several months I have been battling severe depression as the result of an abusive relationship. An ex-boyfriend gradually used emotional abuse techniques to persuade me to think there was something wrong with almost every part of what made me myself – my work, my hobbies, my goals in life, my family, my friends, my financial acuity, my physical appearance, my lifestyle, even how I packed for camping trips. Over time I internalized these criticisms and came to believe I wasn't worth anything.
I've been fighting hard and using lots different tools to combat the depression. One reliable mood-lifter for me has been the acronym G.R.A.P.E.S. Here is what each letter stands for.
- Being Gentle with yourself
- Relaxation
- Achievement
- Pleasure
- Exercise
- Social
I read on a depression support web site that you should try to incorporate at least one activity each day that fits into each of the six letters in G.R.A.P.E.S. I've come a long way since I counted making it through a day of work in the Achievement category, but that's how it was for quite awhile.
I'm doing much better now and surrounding myself with people who support me and seem to think I'm ok the way I am. I want to keep maintaining my progress so I have redesigned my planner page to remind me to schedule activities covered by G.R.A.P.E.S. I also included a line to check them off to track my progress.
On the page shown, the left column is for items that should be done some time during the week. The right column is for appointments and scheduling. I used letter stickers to spell "G.R.A.P.E.S." at the top. The number stamps and ruled line stamp are by 7gypsies and the month of the year and day of the week stamps are by my own Carolyn's Stamp Store.
Spring Faux Postage #2
Fake "postage stamps" are a lot of fun to make and are good decorations for greeting cards or mail art!
Make the Template
Tools and Materials
Square Faux Postage Template PDF or Rectangular Faux Postage PDF
X-acto knife or Mat knife
Self-healing cutting mat
Metal Ruler
1. Download and print out one of the faux postage templates.
2. Tape a piece of acetate over the printed template.
3. Using a metal ruler as a guide and with the self-healing cutting mat underneath, use your mat knife or X-acto knife to cut out the squares on the template. You will cut through both the acetate and paper layers as you do so.
4. Remove the paper from the acetate. Now your template is ready to use.
Make the stamps
Tools and materials
Dye-based rubber stamping ink
Light colored cardstock
Colored pencils
Faux postage stencils
Water container
Rubber stamps in a spring theme such as flowers and butterflies
Word rubber stamps for backgrounds
Tiny faux postage rubber stamps or other tiny word and number stamps
Decorative edging scissors
Heat tool
1. Tape a piece of light colored cardstock down on your work surface. Tape your acetate faux postage stencil in place over it, hinging it at the top with tape so you can lift the acetate between steps.
2. Squirt a few light analagous colors of rubber stamping ink on a palette. For example, light yellow, ochre yellow and light orange, or light pink and light peach. Sponge these colors inside the openings in the stencil while blending. Try to get the colors lighter toward the middle and darker toward the edge.
3. Lift the acetate (this is so that you don't melt the stencil) and dry well with a heat tool. Stamp a word stamp as a background in a light taupe or light tan color. Dry the ink again.
4. Outline the inside edges of each opening with an analgous color of colored pencil – for example orange with the yellow inks, magenta with the pink inks.
5. Select a stamp for the main part of your image and stamp it toward the middle of each opening in burgundy ink.
6. Select some tiny faux postage stamps and stamp them in black around the edges.
7. Cut stamps apart with a decorative paper-edging scissors.
Following are the stamps I used in each sample.
The background stamp is by Stampington. Butterfly stamps are from 7gypsies then in black I stamped the following stamps from Carolyn's Stamp Store:
The background stamp and flower are both by 7gypsies. In black I stamped the following stamps from Carolyn's Stamp Store:
The background stamp and flower are both by 7gypsies. In black I stamped the following stamps from Carolyn's Stamp Store:
The background stamp, bee and Fig. 13 are by 7gypsies. In black I stamped the following stamp from Carolyn's Stamp Store:
- "Cash Value 10 Mills" from the set Faux Postage Set 4
If you would like to read my first spring postage tutorial, here is a link:
Spring Faux Postage
Joys of Spring Challenge
Every once in awhile I like to participate in a challenge to stretch myself creatively. Canvas Corp is having a challenge called Joys of Spring, using the colors of these products:
I don't own any of the products in the photo but I do own some rubber stamps by the Canvas Corp brand 7gypsies and I used a few of them in my project. I decided to make some seed packets like the ones in my previous seed packets tutorial only in the challenge colors. Here are the results.
If you would like to make some similar seed packets, here are some free templates that you can download and use.
Make a decorated seed packet
Do you have any garden seeds left over from your spring planting? Seeds can make great spring gifts for gardeners, especially if attractively packaged.
Here is how to make a seed packet like the one shown above.
1. Download and print out the PDF file Seed Packet Template. Cut out the template and if you like laminate it for durability.
2. Take some decorative paper with a subtle pattern on it and stamp some background stamps on it in complementary ink colors to make it more interesting.
3. Place decorative paper back side up on your work surface. Place template on paper and trace around with pencil. Cut out envelope and fold in tabs. Tape or glue all the tabs except the top tab. Leave that one open so you can add seeds later.
4. Cut out a narrow strip of paper with a decorative scissors and stamp on it the word "Seeds" surrounded by small brackets. Glue it across the top of the envelope about an inch down or whatever looks right to your eye. Trim the ends if needed.
5. Punch out a flower shaped piece of decorative paper and punch out a paper circle for the middle. Glue circle on flower and glue flower to front of envelope.
6. Stamp large brackets around flower.
7. Turn the envelope over and cut out a piece of paper that will fit on the back. You can stamp it with a rubber stamp that emulates lined paper like I did in my sample or use paper with lines printed on it if you like.
8. Stamp the words "Species", "Harvested", "Location" and "Notes" on the paper, then glue to the back of the envelope.
9. When you fill with seeds, write out the information about the seeds on the back where indicated. Then glue or tape down the top tab or seal with a sticker.
Here are links to some of the stamps I used in this project:
Products of the Kitchen and Garden
Memory Craft Helpers
Journaling and Planner Words
Other stamps I used in this project are from 7gypsies, Inkadinkado, and Stampington.
Here is where you can get more of my free paper crafting templates:
Free Paper Craft Templates for Download
And here is a link to a similar seed packet project that uses the same template:
A Road Trip Journal for Dad – Part 2
For this past Father's Day I made my Dad a blank 6 x 6 journal for a trip we took to Toronto and New York City. Dad wrote notes about our activities in the journal during the trip and we are slowly filling the book in with photos. I'll be sharing some of my favorite layouts as we go.
Because the pages are 6 x 6 inches, I'm using a smaller than normal photo format. Using Photoshop, I am making 4 x 6 inch photo montages that I am having printed at a local drug store. I cut the prints apart and end up with images that are small enough to fit several on a 6 x 6 page. We took a LOT of photos and I'm adding a lot of embellishments, so this book will probably eventually turn into several books.
A client of mine threw out a bunch of old photos and negatives, so I saved some of the interesting ones to use in mixed-media artwork. The tiny negatives shown above have nothing to do with the subject matter of these two pages shown here but they are so small you can't tell and I was intrigued by them as a design element. I decided to include some on these pages attached by tiny brads.
To unify the look of the pages, I downloaded some free digistamps and altered them into a frame graphic which fit my printed photos. I had the frames printed out on clear transparency film and layered the film over my photos with more of the brads. The "Beautiful" stamp and the decorative papers I used are from 7gypsies and the other rubber stamps are from my own Carolyn's Stamp Store collection.
Links to some of the products I used:
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Mini Fasteners
Months of the Year Rubber Stamps
Photo Caption Word Stamps for Road Trips
Handmade Birding Journal
Here is a great handmade gift idea for someone in your life that loves to watch birds. A blank journal like my sample provides places for notes, sketches, photos, memorabilia and more. Here is how to make one.
First download my free template, Square 6×6 Journal. Print it out and use it as a guide.
Cut out two pieces of chipboard for covers. Make a collage of bird related images for the front cover. Cover edges of cover with decorative paper. Cover inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover with decorative paper.
To assemble front cover, cut out a piece of acetate and punch small holes. Punch small holes in front cover collage and attach to cover with brads. Make pockets and attach to both inside covers with double sided tape. Cut out a number of pieces of cardstock for inside pages. Embellish with brayered backgrounds, sponged backgrounds, decorative papers, Project Life cards and rubber stamps. Punch holes in all pages and covers and compile together with binding rings. Open rings and add new pages as needed.
Here are some sample page spreads to give you ideas for the interior pages.
Stamps: Small word stamps are from Carolyn's Stamp Store, other stamps are from 7gypsies.
Here are links to other products you can use for this project:
Filmstrip Challenge
I had so much fun participating in a sketch challenge recently that I decided to make an effort to enter more. RubberStampMadness magazine is currently running a Filmstrip Challenge which appealed to me. Above is my entry. There are still a few days left before the deadline if you want to get in on the fun – here are the entry guidelines.
Though I've been rubber stamping for well over 20 years, I haven't done a whole lot of coloring in of rubber stamps. This project helped me to get some practice and was an opportunity to experiment with mixed media.
The first thing I did was to cut out a bunch of 2 x 2 inch and 2 x 3 inch pieces of scrap paper which would become the individual "frames" in the finished artwork. Then I stamped images on them in black waterproof ink.
The next step was to give each section it's own background color with decorative chalks and old eyeshadow. To apply I used Q-tips, sponge tip makeup applicators and Fantastix by Tsukineko which are a great help in getting color into tight areas around the edges of the stamped images.
Next I sprayed the paper pieces with workable spray fixative to hold the chalk in place, then I coated them with a thin layer of matte medium and let it dry. The workable fixative allowed me to brush on matte medium without the powders smearing and the purpose of the matte medium is twofold – it's the glue I will use to attach the images and words I cut from magazines, and it keeps the markers I'll apply later from smearing the black ink that I stamped.
The next step was to figure out words to put in the word and thought balloons I had stamped. It would be a lot of fun to tell a coherent, planned out story with this format but I couldn't think of any ideas for a story so I did what I often do, I relied on the random and let my subconscious guide me. Cutting out pictures from magazines has been a reliable way for me to tap into the subconscious part of my brain for decades. I picked up some discarded magazines that I hadn't cut up yet and went through them looking for words that piqued my interest. Along the way I cut out appealing pictures – some I put aside to use in other projects and a few I used for this one. I grouped the words on my work surface into combinations that appealed to me and matched the words or groups of words with images. Some of the results make sense to me, some don't and it's likely the ones that mean something to me won't mean the same thing to others and vice versa. That's one of the fun things about art!
I then glued the cut-out images and words in place by brushing the backs of them with matte medium and smoothing them in place with an old credit card. One way to reduce the risk of wrinkling the paper is to coat both sides of the pieces with matte medium and let dry before wetting the backs again to apply. It's extra work but it's worth it for good results. You can speed up drying with a heat tool so your work session isn't interrupted. (It sounds funny to say "work session" – this was play!)
If you prefer instead of gluing in cut-out words you can write words in the balloons or use word rubber stamps or stickers.
My next step was to take each section and highlight the stamped images with a little color here and there and add some texture to the backgrounds with stencils from The Crafter's Workshop. I like the way some of the textures vaguely suggest the "dot gain" effect that you often see in comic books. My coloring implements for this project were Sharpie markers and Prismacolor pencils. Both will color just fine over the matte medium but if you want to use different media, do some tests on scrap paper first to see if the surface will accept the color. I could have made masks to protect the areas I did not want to stencil on but to save work I relied on my eye to tell me where to stop. I only went onto the white word areas on a couple of spots so I decided to touch up these areas later with acrylic paint to disguise my mistakes. If you decide to sponge ink through the stencils you will need to make masks.
I glued the individual "frame" pieces down on a piece of archival cardstock with Yes Glue. Then I got out a tiny paintbrush and touched up the white areas and I liked the way the bright white looked so I added white highlights here and there all over the artwork where I thought it needed it. I liked the effect, it added a little extra "pop".
The next image shows what my artwork looked like before I scanned it and added digital enhancements.
Stamp credits:
Row 1, left to right: Unknown, Carolyn's Stamp Store, Unknown, All Night Media, Carolyn's Stamp Store
Row 2: Viva LasVegasStamps, Carolyn's Stamp Store, Unknown
Row 3: Viva LasVegasStamps, Viva LasVegasStamps, Carolyn's Stamp Store, 7gypsies
Row 4: Unknown, Carolyn's Stamp Store, Chronicle Books, All Night Media
Row 5: Viva LasVegaStamps, Carolyn's Stamp Store, Carolyn's Stamp Store, Carolyn's Stamp Store
After scanning in the image, I opened it up in Photoshop and added a layer for a faux filmstrip effect which I made from a couple of these free digistamps. I may print out this "filmstrip" layer on clear transparency film and mount it over the original artwork with brads or eyelets to display it.
A Road Trip Journal for Dad – Part 1
In June of this year I took a trip with my Dad to Toronto and New York City. I knew ahead of time that we would be traveling on Father's Day, so I made a gift to present to him on the trip – a handmade journal for him to write in each day, which he did. The journal was designed so that after the trip we could add photos and ephemera and perhaps write more about our memories. I'm in the process of getting both of our photos printed so we can start working on it. I expect this will be a long term project and we will enjoy the time together that we spend on it and memories of the great trip we had. Below are photos of some of my favorite parts of the journal, as they looked before any content was added. In the future I'll be sharing some our favorite layouts as we get them done.
Here are some links to products I used to make this journal:
Set of Unmounted Stamps – Journaling and Planner Words
7gypsies Medium Binding Rings Antique Brass
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Long Fasteners
Using Sketch Challenges for Inspiration
Usually my problem is an overabundance of ideas for new projects, way more than one human being can ever do. Occasionally I need a new idea for a certain specific purpose and I find myself coming up dry. This weekend I was trying to create a new Halloween greeting card design and decided to check out some card sketches to see if anything inspired me. I made a new Pinterest Board, Greeting Card Ideas and Sketches to help me keep track of my finds.
I found a lot of sketches I like on a web site called CAS(E) this Sketch! They specialize in clean and simple designs which appeal to me because a lot of times I think paper crafts that I see out there have WAY too much "stuff" on them. I'm sure a lot of people think my own designs are too spare. That's ok, we all have different taste.
Here is my entry for sketch challenge CTS #137.
Making this card helped me get over my creative block and I have some more spin-off ideas that really don't look much like this result at all, one of them isn't even for a card, but are things I never would have thought of if I hadn't done this exercise. That's how creativity often works!
The rubber stamp images used in this card are from my own Carolyn's Stamp Store, 7gypsies and Clearsnap. The small bug stamp is unknown. Here are links to some of my stamps that I used:


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Fact Sheet: Building a Bat Box
Presenter: Josh Byrne, 23/07/2011
SERIES 22 Episode 24
There are lots of species that are beginning to enjoy Josh's garden - birds, reptiles and insects and now he makes a home for one of the cutest and possibly most enigmatic of visitors - microbats.
Even though they number about a quarter of all the mammals in Australia, most people would never have seen one. They're really tiny - some only the size of a matchbox and weighing as little as three grams.
One of the reasons Josh wants them is because microbats eat insects. In fact, just one microbat can eat up to 1200 mosquitoes in an hour. The trouble is, some species are endangered because they sleep in tree hollows which are becoming scarce, so Josh is building a roosting box.
1 x Backboard (350mm x 150mm)
2 x Timber spacers (150mm long)
1 x Baseboard (140mm x 150mm2)
1 x Front board (200mm x 150mm2)
1 x Top / lid (200mm x 150mm2)
2 x Side boards (200mm x 150mm x 250mm x 150mm)
Self-tapping wood screws
Small piece of shade cloth material (150mm x 200mm2)
Staple gun and staples
2 x Eye bolts
A length of washing line wire
Note: pieces can be cut from a single plank of timber 150mm x 1340mm x 30mm
- Firstly, mount the two timber spacers on the back of the backing board.
- Screw the side boards into the back board with self-tapping wood screws.
- Line the inside with shadecloth, fixing it in place with staples.
- Screw the baseboard on so that there is a gap towards the rear of the box. The gap should be between 15mm - 20mm wide to allow for the microbats to access the inside. It's important that the gap isn't too large, otherwise birds can come in and displace the bats and take the space over as a nest of their own.
- Screw on the front board
- Screw the lid on. Importantly there should be a bit of an overhang to keep the box draught free and dry.
- Screw in the eye bolts, thread through the washing line wire to hang the box.
- Paint with a natural waterproofing oil
- Hang from a tree or mount vertically against a tree. Make sure the box is at least 2.5 - 3mt above the ground, to keep the bats inside safe from predators. The box should be in a sunny position - whilst the bats inside like the darkness, they also like the warmth. Make sure it is sheltered by the tree canopy, but also that there is a clear flight path to the box.
Once the roosting box has been installed, it's a game of patience and it's important not to disturb it so you don't scare away any potential visitors.
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Angiography (Overview)
It is an imaging technique to determine the anatomy of the arteries.
Who does angiography?
Cards or vascular: Angio refers to vessel so could be any vessel, but most frequently refers to coronary (heart) vessels, therefore cardiologist usually performs. Other common vessels include aortic and femoral / iliac vessels, carotids, renal arteries and mesenteric vessels. These vessels are often imaged by interventional radiologists or vascular surgeons. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Angiography (Overview)
It is an imaging technique to determine the anatomy of the arteries.
Is angiography test is not safe?
Not risk-free: When done by a well trained/experienced physician, it should be a safe procedure however that does not mean that it is free of risk. If determined to be necessary, the benefits of the test should outweigh the risks. The physician performing the test should discuss risks and benefits with the patient prior to angiography. ...Read more
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What are the possible risks when having a angiography??
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What information do I have to bring along to do the angiography?
List of allergies: Bring a list of allergies and a list of meds you take. Your kidney function is important and your doctor will have checked it with a blood sample. Do not eat for at least 4 hours before the test. If you have diabetes, depending on the time of your exam, you might be asked to hold some or all of your dm med. Aspirin is ok but other blood thinners are often held. ...Read more
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Sunday, 17 February 2013
I have a free programme on my computer (Quilt Assistant) which enables you work on your own photos to create pieced quilts. You have to do all the work of dividing the photo into sewing-able sections yourself but then it will make the templates and the plans ready to print out.
It took a lot of patience as I had to cut out each template, each piece of fabric and then machine it all together which took hours! I almost gave up a couple of weeks ago as it became such a struggle to fit it all together well - It still looks rather wonky on the photo but hopefully I will be able to straighten the sections when I machine quilt it. I plan to add pieced kaleidoscope blocks around this section with the colours blending through to make the finished wall quilt measure about 40"x50". It looks better from a distance!
Dare I say 'Never Again' ?
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Wow! That's amazing! And you seem to have done so much since I saw it pinned on your design wall just last week.ReplyDelete
Fremantle is a great choice. I even think I recognise where you took the photo: near the end of Phillimore Street. Yes?
Yes, I spent most of the weekend fiddling with it! It looks better in the flesh than in the photo... It was on a street on the way back to the railway station- I must find out which one.ReplyDelete
I checked with street view and it is Phillimore Street. Well spotted!ReplyDelete
That is fantastic! So effective.ReplyDelete
That's awesome Phil & does look even better in real life! I'm interested in the program you are using. Does it work with Macs?ReplyDelete
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Re: [ufodiscussion] Reincarnation
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- I broadly concur with this piece on Howard Menger's ETs' teachings
about reincarnation and karma. At least they take these concepts seriously.
By contrast, the J-Rods appear to behave as though they've never heard of
However Menger says:
"You can live above karmic conditions when the gift is yours, but woe to
those who are slaves of karma, and cannot leap it's prison's walls!"
Unfortunately he does not tell us how we can get free of our
presumed enslavement to karma and "leap its prison's walls". I must say
that some of these ETs who we hear about do seem a pretty useless bunch,
from a practical point of view.
Cheers all,
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From: Dex
To: UFOprepare4contact
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 3:01 AM
Subject: [ufodiscussion] Reincarnation
(Note: A brief excerpt from the book "From Outer Space" by Howard Menger. I
think it important that you know with your sharing isn't a fruitless
endeavor. Rather very important for those who have the ears...Dex)
Man's research has penetrated millions of light years into the universe, and
into the almost inestimable depths of the atom; but now he must do research
into an even more mysterious and difficult subject, MAN HIMSELF!
In talking of past lives, I should clarify the karma, as it has been
explained to me. If you wish it, there is such a thing as karma, which one
might term "A COMPENSATIVE HEREDITARY EXPRESSION IN THIS PHYSICAL
You can live above karmic conditions when the gift is yours, but woe to
those who are slaves of karma, and cannot leap it's prison's walls!
To those who say they are resigned to live under this system of karmic
retribution, let me say this: it is a false and artificial condition, one
which takes on reality only because you agree that it should be so.
Jesus said, "Know the truth and the truth shall make you free."
Those who die on this planet without knowing the truth or having the gifts
of awareness are prisoners of this planet and do not leave it; they are
reborn in new bodies and continue in the school of life, bound to the wheel
of karma.
Those, however, who die knowing the truth are not afraid to die. They know
there is no death in Truth, and that they maybe reborn on another planet,
Venus, for example; a veritable heaven compared to Earth. Heaven is not an
isolated place; instead there are degrees of heavens. Some souls who choose
to be reborn here from another planet do so for a purpose, either to
accomplish a mission or to be with some loved one. But whether they progress
upward or downward, there is continual evolvement.
At the lecture I caught myself wondering if it was the soul of myself or
Marla which had voluntarily cast itself once more into the hell of earth.
Perhaps it had been that of both of us.
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- For anyone wanting to explore their own previous incarnations, Karin
Hoppe Holloway has produced an immensely practical book called "How To Find
Your Past Lives Without Using Hypnosis - A Past Life Clues Workbook". The
back cover explains:
"Your life is filled with clues to your previous incarnations.
Past life traces,
Past life resonances,
Past life recollections.
These clues are obvious once you notice them.
This workboook will guide you through every area of your life, helping you
to notice these traces, resonances and recollections.
Will your past life clues prove to you that you have lived before?
Karin Hoppe Holloway is a Certified Hypnotherapist (USA), Past Life
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BuzzFeed reports: Donald Trump's campaign and election have added an alarming twist to school bullying, with white students using the president's words and slogans to bully Latino, Middle Eastern, black, Asian, and Jewish classmates. In the first comprehensive review of post-election bullying, BuzzFeed News has confirmed more than 50 incidents, across 26 states, in which a K-12 student invoked Trump's name or message in an apparent effort to harass a classmate during the past school year.
In the parking lot of a high school in Shakopee, Minnesota, boys in Donald Trump shirts gathered around a black teenage girl and sang a portion of "The Star Spangled Banner," replacing the closing line with "and the home of the slaves." On a playground at an elementary school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, third-graders surrounded a boy and chanted "Trump! Trump! Trump!"
On a school bus in San Antonio, Texas, a white eighth-grader said to a Filipino classmate, "You are going to be deported." In a classroom in Brea, California, a white eighth-grader told a black classmate, "Now that Trump won, you're going to have to go back to Africa, where you belong." In the hallway of a high school in San Carlos, California, a white student told two biracial girls to "go back home to whatever country you're from." In Louisville, Kentucky, a third-grade boy chased a Latina girl around the classroom shouting "build the wall!" In a stadium parking lot in Jacksonville, Florida, after a high school football game, white students chanted at black students from the opposing school: "Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump!"
The first school year of the Donald Trump presidency left educators struggling to navigate a climate where misogyny, religious intolerance, name-calling, and racial exclusion have become part of mainstream political speech. [Continue reading…]
Trump has become a role model for a new generation of bullies
New research identifies a 'sea of despair' among white, working-class Americans
The Washington Post reports: Sickness and early death in the white working class could be rooted in poor job prospects for less-educated young people as they first enter the labor market, a situation that compounds over time through family dysfunction, social isolation, addiction, obesity and other pathologies, according to a study published Thursday by two prominent economists.
Anne Case and Angus Deaton garnered national headlines in 2015 when they reported that the death rate of midlife non-Hispanic white Americans had risen steadily since 1999 in contrast with the death rates of blacks, Hispanics and Europeans. Their new study extends the data by two years and shows that whatever is driving the mortality spike is not easing up.
The two Princeton professors say the trend affects whites of both sexes and is happening nearly everywhere in the country. Education level is significant: People with a college degree report better health and happiness than those with only some college, who in turn are doing much better than those who never went.
Offering what they call a tentative but "plausible" explanation, they write that less-educated white Americans who struggle in the job market in early adulthood are likely to experience a "cumulative disadvantage" over time, with health and personal problems that often lead to drug overdoses, alcohol-related liver disease and suicide. [Continue reading…]
Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion
The Guardian reports: When Boston public schools introduced a new standard map of the world this week, some young students' felt their jaws drop. In an instant, their view of the world had changed.
The USA was small. Europe too had suddenly shrunk. Africa and South America appeared narrower but also much larger than usual. And what had happened to Alaska?
In an age of "fake news" and "alternative facts", city authorities are confident their new map offers something closer to the geographical truth than that of traditional school maps, and hope it can serve an example to schools across the nation and even the world.
For almost 500 years, the Mercator projection has been the norm for maps of the world, ubiquitous in atlases, pinned on peeling school walls.
Gerardus Mercator, a renowned Flemish cartographer, devised his map in 1569, principally to aid navigation along colonial trade routes by drawing straight lines across the oceans. An exaggeration of the whole northern hemisphere, his depiction made North America and Europe bigger than South America and Africa. He also placed western Europe in the middle of his map.
Mercator's distortions affect continents as well as nations. For example, South America is made to look about the same size as Europe, when in fact it is almost twice as large, and Greenland looks roughly the size of Africa when it is actually about 14 times smaller. Alaska looks bigger than Mexico and Germany is in the middle of the picture, not to the north – because Mercator moved the equator.
Three days ago, Boston's public schools began phasing in the lesser-known Peters projection, which cuts the US, Britain and the rest of Europe down to size. Teachers put contrasting maps of the world side by side and let the students study them. [Continue reading…]
States vow to keep protecting transgender students after Trump rolls back federal rules
BuzzFeed reports: Several state and local officials wasted no time Wednesday night announcing they would keep enforcing bans against transgender discrimination in schools and make sure students can use bathrooms that match their gender identity.
Their announcement was a swift rebuttal to the Trump administration's decision to rescind a federal policy created under President Obama that said school districts must protect transgender students.
"I will ensure…protections for transgender and gender non-conforming students are enforced fairly and vigorously," Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson said. [Continue reading…]
The New York Times reports: The question of how to address the "bathroom debate," as it has become known, opened a rift inside the Trump administration, pitting Education Secretary Betsy DeVos against Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Mr. Sessions, who had been expected to move quickly to roll back the civil rights expansions put in place under his Democratic predecessors, wanted to act decisively because of two pending court cases that could have upheld the protections and pushed the government into further litigation.
But Ms. DeVos initially resisted signing off and told Mr. Trump that she was uncomfortable because of the potential harm that rescinding the protections could cause transgender students, according to three Republicans with direct knowledge of the internal discussions.
Mr. Sessions, who has opposed expanding gay, lesbian and transgender rights, pushed Ms. DeVos to relent. After getting nowhere, he took his objections to the White House because he could not go forward without her consent. Mr. Trump sided with his attorney general, the Republicans said, and told Ms. DeVos in a meeting in the Oval Office on Tuesday that he wanted her to drop her opposition. And Ms. DeVos, faced with the alternative of resigning or defying the president, agreed to go along.
Ms. DeVos's unease was evident in a strongly worded statement she released on Wednesday night, in which she said she considered it a "moral obligation" for every school in America to protect all students from discrimination, bullying and harassment. [Continue reading…]
Teach philosophy to heal our 'post-truth' society, says Irish president
The Irish Times reports: Teaching philosophy in schools, and promoting it in society, is urgently needed to enable citizens "to discriminate between truthful language and illusory rhetoric", President Michael D Higgins has said.
Speaking at a function at Áras an Uachtaráin to mark World Philosophy Day, which fell this week, the President expressed concern about an "an anti-intellectualism that has fed a populism among the insecure and the excluded".
Amid claims that we have entered a "post-truth" society, he asked how we might together and individually contribute to a "reflective atmosphere in the classrooms, in our media, in our public space".
"The dissemination, at all levels of society, of the tools, language and methods of philosophical enquiry can, I believe, provide a meaningful component in any concerted attempt at offering a long-term and holistic response to our current predicament."[Continue reading…]
Academics get paid for writing rubbish that nobody reads
Daniel Lattier writes: Professors usually spend about three to six months (sometimes longer) researching and writing a 25-page article to submit an article to an academic journal. And most experience a twinge of excitement when, months later, they open a letter informing them that their article has been accepted for publication, and will, therefore, be read by…
Yes, you read that correctly. The numbers reported by recent studies are pretty bleak:
– 82 percent of articles published in the humanities are not even cited once.
– Of those articles that are cited, only 20 percent have actually been read.
– Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors.
So what's the reason for this madness? Why does the world continue to be subjected to just under 2 million academic journal articles each year?
Well, the main reason is money and job security. The goal of all professors is to get tenure, and right now, tenure continues to be awarded based in part on how many peer-reviewed publications they have. Tenure committees treat these publications as evidence that the professor is able to conduct mature research.
Sadly, however, many academic articles today are merely exercises in what one professor I knew called "creative plagiarism": rearrangements of previous research with a new thesis appended on to them.
Another reason is increased specialization in the modern era, which is in part due to the splitting up of universities into various disciplines and departments that each pursue their own logic. [Continue reading…]
A plan to defend against the war on science
Shawn Otto writes: Four years ago in Scientific American, I warned readers of a growing problem in American democracy. The article, entitled "Antiscience Beliefs Jeopardize U.S. Democracy," charted how it had not only become acceptable, but often required, for politicians to embrace antiscience positions, and how those positions flew in the face of the core principles that the U.S. was founded on: That if anyone could discover the truth of something for him or herself using the tools of science, then no king, no pope and no wealthy lord was more entitled to govern the people than they were themselves. It was self-evident.
In the years since, the situation has gotten worse. We've seen the emergence of a "post-fact" politics, which has normalized the denial of scientific evidence that conflicts with the political, religious or economic agendas of authority. Much of this denial centers, now somewhat predictably, around climate change — but not all. If there is a single factor to consider as a barometer that evokes all others in this election, it is the candidates' attitudes toward science.
Consider, for example, what has been occurring in Congress. Rep. Lamar Smith, the Texas Republican who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, is a climate change denier. Smith has used his post to initiate a series of McCarthy-style witch-hunts, issuing subpoenas and demanding private correspondence and testimony from scientists, civil servants, government science agencies, attorneys general and nonprofit organizations whose work shows that global warming is happening, humans are causing it and that — surprise — energy companies sought to sow doubt about this fact.
Smith, who is a Christian Scientist and seems to revel in his role as the science community's bête noire, is by no means alone. Climate denial has become a virtual Republican Party plank (and rejecting the Paris climate accord a literal one) with a wide majority of Congressional Republicans espousing it. Sen. Ted Cruz (R–Texas), chairman of the Senate's Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, took time off from his presidential campaign last December to hold hearings during the Paris climate summit showcasing well-known climate deniers repeating scientifically discredited talking points.
The situation around science has grown so partisan that Hillary Clinton turned the phrase "I believe in science" into the largest applause line of her convention speech accepting the Democratic Party nomination. Donald Trump, by contrast, is the first major party presidential nominee who is an outright climate denier, having called climate science a "hoax" numerous times. In his responses to the organization I helped found, ScienceDebate.org, which gets presidential candidates on the record on science, he told us that "there is still much that needs to be investigated in the field of 'climate change,'" putting the term in scare quotes to cast doubt on its reality. When challenged on his hoax comments, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway affirmed that Trump doesn't believe climate change is man-made. [Continue reading…]
40% of the global population have no access to education in a language that they understand
By Anna Childs, The Open University
Almost a year after a new set of Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 were finalised, the first report tracking global progress towards its goal for education and lifelong learning shows just how far there is still to go to make sure nobody is left behind.
The SDGs replaced the Millennium Development Goals, which reached the end of their 15-year focus in 2015. While the previous goal that focused on education had only one target – to achieve universal primary education – the equivalent SDG has seven, including on expanding secondary and university education.
So UNESCO's 2016 Global Education Monitoring report is the first in a new era, bringing us the inaugural set of evidence to track progress to achieve these new targets.
UNESCO draws on 2014-15 data to show conclusively what we already know: that the world has failed to achieve universal primary education. In fact on current trends, only 70% of children in low income countries will complete primary school in 2030, the year of the SDG deadline. The target to achieve universal primary education, which remains within the broader SDG on education, won't happen until 2042. On the same trajectory, the new target for universal lower secondary education will come about in 2059 and universal upper secondary in 2084.
Less than a year into the new agenda of "leave no-one behind", the data already predicts that we will be half a century late for the first of the 2030 education targets.
The Middle East needs help with its long game: education and jobs for the young
By Zahir Irani, Brunel University London
The future for many young people across the Middle East and North Africa looks bleak. The World Bank records that 54% of the working age population in the Middle East and North Africa is unemployed with little prospect of any positive immediate change. An average of 28.7% of 15 to 24-year-olds in the Middle East and 30.6% of those in North Africa are unemployed according to the International Labour Organisation.
Much of the world's response to this chronic problem has been to intervene financially: in the form of aid or debt restructuring. But through supporting economic recovery by giving generations of young people new skills and new opportunities to improve themselves, the world can help Middle Eastern societies in a more sustainable and thoughtful way.
Reliance on public sector jobs
One of the biggest challenges the World Bank identifies in this broad region is that unemployment rates are the highest among the educated, with university graduates making up 30% of the region's unemployed. They are slowly losing optimism and hope for a better life and future.
This is largely attributed to a reliance on the public sector to provide jobs that come with steady albeit low salaries but high degrees of job security. In many North African countries or those Middle Eastern ones with high populations, other than wait in line for a public sector job, there are few other alternatives. At one end of the spectrum there's the misery of violence and refugee camps in Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, and the other – even if you've excelled – a flat and static job market for the best and brightest. No wonder so many highly-skilled people are fleeing to Europe in search of stability and new opportunities.
Schooled in nature
Jay Griffiths writes: In Mexico City, the cathedral – this stentorian thug of a cathedral – is sinking. Built to crush the indigenous temple beneath it, while its decrees pulverised indigenous thinking, Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral is sinking under the weight of its own brutal imposition.
Walking nearby late one night, I was captivated by music. Closer, now, and I came upon an indigenous, pre-Hispanic ceremony being danced on the pavement hard by the cathedral. Copal tree resin was burning, marigolds were scattered like living coins, people in feather headdresses and jaguar masks danced to flutes, drums, rattles and shell-bells. While each cathedral column was a Columbus colonising the site, the ceremony seemed to say: We're still here.
A young man watched me awhile, as I was taking notes, and then approached me smiling.
'Do you understand Nahuatl?' he asked.
Head-shaking smile.
'Do you want me to explain?'
He spent an hour gently unfurling each word. Abjectly poor, his worn-out shoes no longer even covered his feet and his clothes were rags, but he shone with an inner wealth, a light that was his gift, to respect the connections of the world, between people, animals, plants and the elements. He spoke of the importance of not losing the part of ourselves that touches the heart of the Earth; of listening within, and also to the natural world. Two teachers. No one has ever said it better.
'Your spirit is your maestro interno. Your spirit brought you here. You have your gift and destiny to complete in this world. You have to align yourself in the right direction and carry on.' And he melted away, leaving me with tears in my eyes as if I had heard a lodestar singing its own quiet truthsong.
A few days earlier, I'd been invited to the Centre for Indigenous Arts in Papantla, in the Mexican state of Veracruz, 300km east of Mexico City. The centre was celebrating the anniversary of its founding (in 2006), and promoting indigenous education: decolonised schooling. Not by chance, it is 12 October, the day when, in 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived in the so-called New World. Here, they come not to praise Columbus but to bury his legacy because – as an act of pointed protest – this date is now widely honoured as the day of indigenous resistance. [Continue reading…]
Teaching 'grit' is bad for children, and bad for democracy
Nicholas Tampio writes: According to the grit narrative, children in the United States are lazy, entitled and unprepared to compete in the global economy. Schools have contributed to the problem by neglecting socio-emotional skills. The solution, then, is for schools to impart the dispositions that enable American children to succeed in college and careers. According to this story, politicians, policymakers, corporate executives and parents agree that kids need more grit.
The person who has arguably done more than anyone else to elevate the concept of grit in academic and popular conversations is Angela Duckworth, professor at the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. In her new book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, she explains the concept of grit and how people can cultivate it in themselves and others.
According to Duckworth, grit is the ability to overcome any obstacle in pursuit of a long-term project: 'To be gritty is to hold fast to an interesting and purposeful goal. To be gritty is to invest, day after week after year, in challenging practice. To be gritty is to fall down seven times and rise eight.' Duckworth names musicians, athletes, coaches, academics and business people who succeed because of grit. Her book will be a boon for policymakers who want schools to inculcate and measure grit.
There is a time and place for grit. However, praising grit as such makes no sense because it can often lead to stupid or mean behaviour. Duckworth's book is filled with gritty people doing things that they, perhaps, shouldn't. [Continue reading…]
'Children today are less free than they have ever been'
Jenny Anderson writes: "Something in modern life is undermining mental health," Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, wrote in a recent paper.
Specifically, something is undermining young people's mental health, especially girls.
In her paper, Twenge looks at four studies covering 7 million people, ranging from teens to adults in the US. Among her findings: high school students in the 2010s were twice as likely to see a professional for mental health issues than those in the 1980s; more teens struggled to remember things in 2010-2012 compared to the earlier period; and 73% more reported trouble sleeping compared to their peers in the 1980s. These so-called "somatic" or "of-the-body" symptoms strongly predict depression.
"It indicates a lot of suffering," Twenge told Quartz.
It's not just high school students. College students also feel more overwhelmed; student health centers are in higher demand for bad breakups or mediocre grades, issues that previously did not drive college kids to seek professional help. While the number of kids who reported feeling depressed spiked in the 1980s and 1990s, it started to fall after 2008. It has started rising again:
Kids are being diagnosed with higher levels of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and everyone aged 6-18 is seeking more mental health services, and more medication.
The trend is not a uniquely American phenomenon: In the UK, the number of teenagers (15-16) with depression nearly doubled between the 1980s and the 2000s and a recent survey found British 15-year-olds were among the least happy teenagers in the world (those in Poland and Macedonia were the only ones who were more unhappy).
"We would like to think of history as progress, but if progress is measured in the mental health and happiness of young people, then we have been going backward at least since the early 1950s," Peter Gray, a psychologist and professor at Boston College, wrote in Psychology Today.
Researchers have a raft of explanations for why kids are so stressed out, from a breakdown in family and community relationships, to the rise of technology and increased academic stakes and competition. Inequality is rising and poverty is debilitating.
Twenge has observed a notable shift away from internal, or intrinsic goals, which one can control, toward extrinsic ones, which are set by the world, and which are increasingly unforgiving.
Gray has another theory: kids aren't learning critical life-coping skills because they never get to play anymore.
"Children today are less free than they have ever been," he told Quartz. And that lack of freedom has exacted a dramatic toll, he says.
"My hypothesis is that the generational increases in externality, extrinsic goals, anxiety, and depression are all caused largely by the decline, over that same period, in opportunities for free play and the increased time and weight given to schooling," he wrote. [Continue reading…]
Technology is not ruining our kids. Parents (and their technology) are ruining them
Jenny Anderson writes: Many of us worry what technology is doing to our kids. A cascade of reports show that their addiction to iAnything is diminishing empathy, increasing bullying (pdf), robbing them of time to play, and just be. So we parents set timers, lock away devices and drone on about the importance of actual real-live human interaction. And then we check our phones.
Sherry Turkle, a professor in the program in Science, Technology and Society at M.I.T. and the author, most recently, of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, turned the tables by imploring parents to take control and model better behavior.
A 15-year-old boy told her that: "someday he wanted to raise a family, not the way his parents are raising him (with phones out during meals and in the park and during his school sports events) but the way his parents think they are raising him — with no phones at meals and plentiful family conversation."
Turkle explains the cost of too-much technology in stark terms: Our children can't engage in conversation, or experience solitude, making it very hard for them to be empathetic. "In one experiment, many student subjects opted to give themselves mild electric shocks rather than sit alone with their thoughts," she noted.
Unfortunately, it seems we parents are the solution. (Newsflash, kids aren't going to give up their devices because they are worried about how it may influence their future ability to empathize.)
That means exercising some self-control. Many of us aren't exactly paragons of virtue in this arena. [Continue reading…]
American inquisition: Training teachers to extract confessions from their students
Douglas Starr writes: About a year and a half ago, Jessica Schneider was handed a flyer by one of her colleagues in the child-advocacy community. It advertised a training session, offered under the auspices of the Illinois Principals Association (I.P.A.), in how to interrogate students. Specifically, teachers and school administrators would be taught an abbreviated version of the Reid Technique, which is used across the country by police officers, private-security personnel, insurance-fraud investigators, and other people for whom getting at the truth is part of the job. Schneider, who is a staff attorney at the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, was alarmed. She knew that some psychologists and jurists have characterized the technique as coercive and liable to produce false confessions — especially when used with juveniles, who are highly suggestible. When she expressed her concerns to Brian Schwartz, the I.P.A.'s general counsel, he said that the association had been offering Reid training for many years and found it both popular and benign. To prove it, he invited Schneider to attend a session in January of 2015.
The training was led by Joseph Buckley, the president of John E. Reid and Associates, which is based in Chicago. Like the adult version of the Reid Technique, the school version involves three basic parts: an investigative component, in which you gather evidence; a behavioral analysis, in which you interview a suspect to determine whether he or she is lying; and a nine-step interrogation, a nonviolent but psychologically rigorous process that is designed, according to Reid's workbook, "to obtain an admission of guilt." Most of the I.P.A. session, Schneider told me, focussed on behavioral analysis. Buckley described to trainees how patterns of body language — including slumping, failing to look directly at the interviewer, offering "evasive" responses, and showing generally "guarded" behaviors — could supposedly reveal whether a suspect was lying. (Some of the cues were downright mythological — like, for instance, the idea that individuals look left when recalling the truth and right when trying to fabricate.) Several times during the session, Buckley showed videos of interrogations involving serious crimes, such as murder, theft, and rape. None of the videos portrayed young people being questioned for typical school misbehavior, nor did any of the Reid teaching materials refer to "students" or "kids." They were always "suspects" or "subjects."
Laura Nirider, a professor of law at Northwestern University and the project director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, attended the same session as Schneider. She told me that about sixty people were there. "Everybody was on the edge of their seat: 'So this is how we can learn to get the drop on little Billy for writing graffiti on the underside of the lunchroom table,'" she said. One vice-principal told Nirider that the first thing he does when he interrogates students is take away their cell phones, "so they can't call their mothers." [Continue reading…]
Naturalists are becoming an endangered species
By David Norman, University of Cambridge
The phrase "Natural History" is linked in most people's minds today with places that use the phrase: the various Natural History Museums, or television programmes narrated so evocatively by renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough.
As times have changed, used in its traditional sense the phrase now has an almost archaic ring to it, perhaps recalling the Victorian obsession with collecting butterflies or beetles, rocks or fossils, or stuffed birds and animals, or perhaps the 18th century best-seller, Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne.
Once natural history was part of what was equally archaically called natural philosophy, encompassing the enquiry into all aspects of the natural world that we inhabit, from the tiniest creature to the largest, to molecules and materials, to planets and stars in outer space. These days, we call it science. Natural history specifically strives to study and understand organisms within their environment, which would these days equate to the disciplines of ecology or conservation.
In a recent article in the journal BioScience, a group of 17 scientists decry what they see as a shift away from this traditional learning (once typical parts of biology degrees) that taught students about organisms: where they live, what they eat, how they behave, their variety and relationships to their ecosystems in which they live.
Partly by the promise of a course-specific career, and perhaps partly because of poorly taught courses that can emphasise rote learning, students are enticed into more exciting fields such as biotechnology or evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo"), where understanding an organism is less important than understanding the function of a particular organ or limb.


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I have a question regarding the valence electrons of transition metals. I am aware of quantum numbers etc and how the s orbital gets filled before the d orbital but my question is that is if was asked to lets say group some elements according to their valence electrons,and among those elements there was lets say Zr, would I consider Zr to have only two valence electrons, or would I also count the electrons in the d sub shell.
Counting the outside electrons is the way we identify the valence electrons in main group elements; however, as you point out, this is not without its problem for transition elements. For those elements, we count the electrons outside the lower core inert element. Here is a site on wikipedia that explains exactly how this works. The example given is for Mn; therefore, instead of two for the 4s2 electrons, we count the two for the 4s2 as well as the 5 in the 3d5 orbitals to make a total of seven valence electrons.