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Rachel Boss '07 on the Academic and Service Learning Program in Thailand
I spent the spring semester of my junior year studying at Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand through the International Partnership for Service-Learning (IPSL). Although I made the decision to go to Thailand rather last minute (until the day before my application was due), I couldn't have asked for more well-rounded international experience. The program's directors went to great lengths to introduce the students in the Thai Studies program to all aspects of Thai society.
I chose to go to Thailand because Far Eastern cultures have always struck me as particularly foreign. Thus, the most rewarding part of living in northern Thailand for four months was being immersed in a fairly traditional, Buddhist society that is steeped in customs of reverence and mindfulness - especially among older Thais. On the other hand, it was dizzying to bear witness to the extent to which Western culture is seeping into Southeast Asia through mass communication and economic globalization. It was challenging to visit ethnic minority villages in which a reverence for the mundane persists, while living among the bustle of the most popular tourist destinations in northern Thailand.
In addition to my academic classes, I also volunteered at an NGO called the Healing Family Foundation (HFF). HFF is home to a dozen or so intellectually disabled adults who would otherwise have very little opportunity to work as 'productive members of society'. These individuals weave tapestries, scarves, and other products using the Saori style of weaving that originated in Japan. Saori is unique, because the weaver doesn't have to follow an intricate pattern, as with traditional weaving. In fact, the artists at HFF are encouraged to be imaginative and inventive when they work. When I would ask what someone was working on, more often than not, the artist would describe the abstract landscape of the cloth: this is a bird, these are mountains, here is a rainbow, etc. I often felt that I wasn't helping as much as I imagined I would be. I helped set up the looms and attempted to create a photo blog for the agency, but sometimes I felt that I was in the way. The best days were the ones when I gave English lessons to the artists, because then we got to sing and be silly. On several occasions, one or more of the artists would show me how to weave and let me work on their projects a little. At first, I found the idea of stepping in and working on their weaving troubling, but when I talked to my service-learning professor about this, he helped me see that work as vital too. He pointed out that because of their work at HFF, they have a unique skill that makes them valuable and useful, and that being able to share it with someone - by stepping into the role of teacher - is probably one of the most gratifying parts of their work.
I could go on forever about the ways in which my time in Thailand profoundly affected my outlook on the world. But I won't. Let me just say this: it was probably the most worthwhile experience of my college career.
Josh Cohen '07 Studied Peace and Conflict in Uganda and Rwanda
I spent the summer of 2006 studying peace and conflict and working in Uganda and Rwanda. During the previous spring, I prepared for the trip with an independent study on colonial East Africa. For me, the independent study was an essential precursor to the trip because I was able to learn a lot of the basic background information, theory, and historical context that I felt I needed before studying the modern manifestations of these conflicts. My assignment was essentially to read as much as I could and write about the connections I was drawing between readings. Having this basic foundation enabled me to actually make connections between my environment in East Africa and the reading I had done, which, in a small way, was empowering for me. The independent study also gave me a forum to discuss issues around studying abroad in general. We addressed the national rise in popularity of such programs, the purposes (and whose) they serve, who clearly gets excluded from "abroad" programs (a conversation about so-called higher education in general), whether studying abroad can ever be more than just academic tourism, questions of colonialism, and much more. I needed a space to really question whether what I was about to do was right for me and, in part, the independent study provided this. I was also able to grapple with specific ways in which I could make my learning more substantive even though I was invariably going to be a tourist. This, for me, was an equally important way of preparing for the trip. All of these things helped me to actually be present once I was in East Africa.
I studied for two months in Uganda, Rwanda, and at the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. My program was coordinated by the School for International Training and led by Dan Lumonya, a professor of development at Makerere University in Kampala. It's incredibly difficult to explain just what the overall experience was for me - no one can honestly answer questions like "how was your trip?" It was so many things - the most positive and disturbing experience of my life. I have never been in so many warm, loving, hospitable environments in my entire life but the nature of what we were studying was simply terrifying, almost incomprehensible. I am still struggling to process so much of it.
After the program ended I volunteered with Mulago center of The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) and lived with Peter Ssebbanja, one of the 16 founding members of the organization. Once again, I can't begin to explain how meaningful of an experience this was; everything I begin to write sounds so trivial . . . let's just say I (and the whole world should be) in awe of what these individuals have accomplished. It is unprecedented . . . I am just constantly in awe. Everyone has taught me so much.
There were many things working in conjunction with one another that made the over all experience meaningful. Some things were out of my control like the compassion of all of the families who took me in and continue to be in touch and the dedication and honesty of my teachers. Other things, like designing the independent study, trying to find volunteer work after the program ended, finding modes of expression to create something out of my trip once I was back at school, and even constantly reevaluating myself to ensure I was really engaging while I was actually in East Africa, are all things I had a say in and made an enormous difference in making my experiences meaningful.
Lindsey Henley '07 on Her Experience in the Dominican Republic
Still considered a third world nation, the Dominican Republic is on the same island as Haiti - the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. I think it was very important for me, as a student interested in Peace Studies to be able to see life from a very different viewpoint.
And I did. Life was different on every level. Students in the Dominican Republic do not live at school, they live with their families, so I lived with a host family. I am an only child, and all of a sudden I had siblings! Being 20 years old and having to learn how to share personal space and belongings with a nine year old was difficult. Doing it in a different language was challenging. Hot showers were rare, electricity was unpredictable, and internet access was available only at school and a few coffee shops.
Not only was life different, school was different as well. The out-of-class demands were far less than those for American colleges and universities. The concept of community was also very different. Questions started formulating in my mind. Why are education and community perceived so differently here from how I perceived them in the US? What role does education have on society in the DR? What role does society have on education? How do social values and education interact? How is it different from the US? All of these questions nagged me endlessly while I was away because at that point, I had no capacity to express them fully. When I returned to the United States, I was able to articulate better how different things were between American and Dominican student lifestyles by being able to examine my own culture from a different viewpoint. I started wanting to compare Dominican and American education systems and their interaction with cultural norms and social values. By being in a place to view American education and culture from an outsider's point of view, this became easier.
My first semester back at Goucher, I enrolled in a class called Identity and Conflict. The class examined identity formation through the lenses of ethnicity, nationality and religion. I spent a lot of time reflecting on my time abroad and examining Dominican identity and its formation. The more questions I was able to answer through this class, the more questions I came up with. Because the Peace Studies program offers the opportunity to do independent research, I decided to explore this with assistant professor Elham Atashi from my Identity and Conflict class. In preparation for my independent study, I returned to the Dominican Republic over winter break to re-experience life there from a more removed and analytical eye with less feeling of culture shock.
I asked more questions this time around, learning interesting tidbits on how societal needs were reflected in the education system. For those graduating college in the Dominican Republic, there is a class on the proper and safe installation of cable and electricity that must be taken as a general education requirement. The number of deaths by electrocution is absurdly high in the DR because people connect their homes to electrical and cable sources illegally. Many cannot afford electricity. I also looked more at the lives of the students there, because their role is different from the American college student. Whereas the majority of American students live at school with their lives structured mostly around the educational process, Dominican students live at home and still have family obligations and responsibilities. Most American students' educational experience is a four-year hiatus from the real world, while most Dominican students never leave it.
Upon my second return from the Dominican Republic, I wanted to do a case study of Dominican, Cuban, and American education systems and the ways they differ and the manner in which they are similar. I was increasingly interested in the role of community in the educational process. While I was formulating a way to do this, I was also enrolled in two service-learning classes that worked within two Baltimore city schools. As I spent more time in these schools, I became aware of their differences and I realized that what I wanted to analyze in the education systems of several different countries existed in these Baltimore city schools. My interests were shifting towards a more tangible exploration: I wanted to be able to clearly define what was creating success in one school, and what was lacking in the other.
In one school, I was involved in conflict resolution training with a group of fourth and fifth graders. Most of these students, by the age of 12, had experienced death as a result of violence, illegal drug use and/or abuse, domestic violence, and had friends or family members in jail. They were not just casual witnesses; for these students, most of these matters were a daily reality. The conflict resolution program was the first step in the direction of changing the lives of these children, but it is only one aspect to which attention must be paid.
In the other school, the entire community is becoming involved in the school. Not only are children are being given increasing amounts of positive attention, the school holds GED classes for adults, after school workshops for students and parents, computer training for adults, parent-child events, nutrition workshops, as well as other programs. The idea is to engage the entire community in its own development, especially the development of the children.
Each of these schools is in the most economically depressed areas of Baltimore. The former puts emphasis on attention to students, while the latter engages its entire community. While the same lack of resources exists for both schools, the latter is succeeding in achieving high scores on statewide tests while the former is not. The level of intelligence is not creating the distinction here; it is the idea that it takes a village to raise a child. I began to recognize the importance of holistic education, in which it is not only vital to educate academically, but in terms of humanity as well. The participation of community within one's educational experience has a profoundly positive effect.
It is with this fascination with community and education that I am able to envision my life after graduating from college. This is a time associated with endless opportunities, but also a feeling of paralysis for fear of the unknown. By participating in community programs and being able to involve myself in the educational system, I am able to steer myself away from that paralysis, because I have been able to satisfy my curiosity, while simultaneously developing a hunger for community involvement and educational development. The professors I worked have advocated for me getting a job at the community based school at which I worked. I have been introduced to some of the community leaders who are involved at the school, and am very excited to pursue the opportunity to work with such inspirational people who are succeeding against such great odds. Without the foundation that peace studies gave me, I would not have found myself so intrigued with the process of community and educational development as a means to foster appreciation of humanity at large. This process is pivotal in becoming a global citizen and peace practitioner.
Katherine Leswing '07 on Peace Studies and France
I grew up in a small town in Vermont, but I have always been drawn to the learning about the greater world and global community. One way that I have satiated my love for learning about all things international and foreign, has been to take on a foreign language; in my case I have always had a passion for the French language and culture. While I yearned for the opportunities and new perspectives that knowing the French language would give me, I often found it hard to get excited about learning a language in a classroom. For that reason, I had always dreamed of immersing myself in a French-speaking culture.
Although I had always been passionate about French, it was not my only academic interest. I wanted to have an education that would reflect the whole world in which I was living, not an isolated area. Thus, I started taking political science and international relations courses. Peace studies had not yet been approved as a major, but I took the courses anyway because they were the classes that spoke most to my personal academic interests. By the end of my sophomore year, and still awaiting the approval of the peace studies major, I was looking to pair the peace studies and French areas of study. It was also in May after my sophomore year that I was finally able to get my first real taste of French culture when I took the three-week intensive course abroad in Avignon, France. While the trip itself was somewhat difficult to finance, the experiences that it gave me were priceless. I believe that being a peace studies student made this journey even more enriching.
In peace studies, we are concerned with establishing lasting peace and creating equality; in order to achieve these ideals, one must understand all sides of the story. My peace studies classes had given me tools to look at a whole picture. As a result, when I was placed in a foreign environment, I was able to look at this new community in its entirety. That's to say that I didn't just see white France, immigrant France, rural France or urban France, but I could look at this country as a whole and see how all of its population and their respective ideologies formed the country's social climate. While I was in Avignon, my French improved enormously, to the point where I could communicate with the people of France in their language, and learn their personal histories. I wasn't learning about a culture through a political scientist's analysis, but rather I was learning from the people who were living in it. The heightened ability to communicate and understand different perspectives that is acquired by knowing a second language is the reason a peace studies student must complete additional language credits. Global communication and understanding is essential in today's world.
Peace studies is a domain that encourages international engagement with the intent of hearing everyone's voice. Although I traveled to a developed and internationally-prominent country whose voice is generally heard in the global community, my peace studies background made me aware to the potentially unheard voices within this society. It was this factor that made my experience so complete and rich, and it is also why I chose to continue my peace studies and French learning during a semester in Paris the fall of my senior year for a more immersed academic and social experience. Ultimately, studying abroad with a background in Peace Studies allowed me to realize and benefit from the versatility and practicality of my education.


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TRURO – Saturday will be a big day for children and families at the Truro Mall as the Easter Bunny arrives.
Arrival time is 11 a.m. on Saturday and those visiting the mall can also participate in free face painting, crafts and treats, while supplies last.
A professional photographer will be on site, and those wishing to purchase a photo of their loved one with the Easter Bunny can do so.
Following Saturday's visit, the Easter Bunny will be at the mall from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesdays to Fridays, and Saturdays and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. until April 19.
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John Bohrer replies to Geoffrey Kabaservice on George Romney's civil rights record.
When O'Donnell sympathizes with how much work she has to do, Jaclyn replies that "it's not much to me."
"Hold on, Arthur, I'm live-tweeting your comments," Ben replies.
Asked who would have made the order, Clarke replies, "I would think it would have been made by the director," referring to Tenet.
He replies that business alone has kept him from her; he hopes that all is well with her.
"That is good, that is good," replies the professor, in a tone of the utmost commendation.
"I am sorry to see you looking so ill," replies she, softly, and then begins to wonder what on earth she shall say next.
Then Monsieur Pascal and I will examine these reports, and prepare my replies.
Boodels replies that he has, but would like to see it again.
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Even though having a flower girl is optional, including one of your favorite little ones is always a nice way to make them feel a part of your special day. Of course, not only is her main job to look adorable and happily make it down the aisle, but also scattering floral petals along the aisle. Instead of having your flower girl carry a basket of petals, here are three alternative smaller bouquets you may want to consider:
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The United States has said it will take "all appropriate actions" in response to reports that oil-rich Libya is engulfed by the spreading civil unrest in which hundreds of people are believed to have died in clashes between protesters and Libyan security forces.
The US fears interruptions to oil supplies with the leader of a powerful tribe in eastern Libya saying oil exports to the West would be halted unless the authorities stopped the "oppression of protesters".
Attempts by Libyan ruler
Sketchy reports speak of a "bloodbath" in the eastern city of Benghazi where clashes appear to have been most intense, with trouble spreading to the capital Tripoli, in the west of the country, on Sunday night local time. The early hours of yesterday saw relative calm in the capital, though there was evidence of fires overnight that burned several government buildings.
By late morning, another central government building, the People's Hall, was on fire. Police were noticeably absent.
Some estimates put the number killed at 500 or more in what is shaping up as the bloodiest moment in a spreading Arab revolt against long-established regimes across the Middle East.
An absence of international media on the ground is complicating efforts to establish the extent to which the situation is unravelling, but it seems clear the government is finding it difficult to contain pent-up anger.
A White House spokesman did not specify what actions might be contemplated, but US concern about events in Libya reflects fears that unrest may spread beyond Libya to other oil suppliers in North Africa and the Persian Gulf.
The US maintains a strong naval presence in the Mediterranean and may seek to influence developments in Libya by moving ships into position in the Gulf of Sidra, off the Libyan coast.
It did this during the 1986 crisis in which the US bombed targets in Tripoli in retaliation for Libyan involvement in terrorism against US subjects.
While Libya, which accounts for about 2 per cent of world oil production, is not critical to meeting global demand, it is a significant player, ranking in the top dozen exporters.
Removal of Libyan oil from the market would put upward pressure on prices at a moment when the world can ill afford $US100 a barrel.
Oil for April delivery firmed in New York and is now above $US91 a barrel.
Libya has the largest proven oil reserves in North Africa.
BP suspended exploration work in the Libyan desert and shares of Eni dropped on concern that worsening unrest would disrupt oil and gas production.
Foreign governments are expressing alarm over developments. In Canberra, the Libyan ambassador was summoned to be told of Australia's concern about reports of widespread bloodshed.
In London, Foreign Secretary
In his pre-recorded speech, Seif Gaddafi, regarded as heir apparent to his father, blamed outsiders for Libya's unrest.
In an ominous warning of the regime's determination to withstand what he described as a "civil war", he said: "Muammar Gaddafi, our leader, is leading the battle in Tripoli, and we are with him.
"The armed forces are with him. Tens of thousands are heading here to be with him. We will fight until the last man, the last woman, the last bullet," he said.
But these words are belied by signs of dissent in the leadership itself amid reports of army officers either refusing to fire on demonstrators, or deserting their posts to join the revolt.
In Cairo, Libya's envoy to the Arab League, Abdel Monein al-Honi, resigned in protest at the suppression. Libya's ambassador in China quit for the same reason while on air on al-Jazeera.
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Rhodes Docherty, which acquired Smartsuper on August 12 after months of due diligence, intends to add scale to the very business that the fund manager rejected because it was unable to generate sufficient scale to benefit from the growth in the $430 billion SMSF sector.
Rhodes Docherty managing director John Docherty declined to say how much his company paid for Smartsuper, citing a confidentiality agreement that it had entered into with Perpetual.
In an update to the market, Perpetual said that the inclusion of Smartsuper was "no longer warranted" and that the decision to sell the SMSF administrator has generated an additional $4.1 million after tax-impairment charge in the 2011 financial results.
Perpetual chief executive
Mr Docherty said Smartsuper has got a "great brand, good team and excellent systems" but the reason it lacked scale was due to a fragmented SMSF marketplace and difficulties with aggregation.
"It is expensive to supply the technical resources, so the prize comes to people who have the depth of technical knowledge; it is the deep experience that we have that adds value," he said.
With its acquisition of Smartsuper, Rhodes Docherty grows to around 80 employees and a client book of nearly 200 SMSFs.
It plans to focus on SMSF administration and compliance services to financial planners of the major banks and dealer groups.
Mr Docherty declined to say whether he had signed new institution contracts but said that the company would be contacting institutions in the field to provide a white-label administration and compliance service to the large banks and dealer groups.
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Ellsworth mainstays merge, as Cleonice and the Maine Grind become one
By Emily Burnham, BDN Staff
Cleonice Mediterranean Bistro and the Maine Grind, both in Ellsworth, recently merged to offer greatly expanded breakfast, lunch and dinner options. Chef Rich Hanson and manager Cary Hanson talk about the merger.
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|East Timor cabinet backs creation of truth commission to record rights abuses, 26 February 2001
|UN troops clash with militia at East/West Timor border, 26 February 2001
|In Jakarta, chief of UN East Timor mission discusses human rights tribunal, 23 February 2001
|East Timor National Council calls for elections of constituent assembly, 22 February 2001
|East Timor court holds hearing into first case of crimes against humanity, 16 February 2001
|UN agency, peace mission team up on national museum project, 15 February 2001
|Top UN development official calls for steps to ready East Timor for independence, 14 February 2001
|second trial for serious crimes committed in 1999 begins in Dili, 13 February 2001
|UN-backed reconciliation seminar opens in East Timor, 12 February 2001
|In East Timor, top UN development official to launch anti-corruption project, 9 February 2001
|East Timor to regulate production and sale of firearms, 7 February 2001
|UN mission files second war crimes indictment for 1999, 6 February 2001
|UN holds reconciliation meeting between militia and villagers, 2 February 2001
|Head of UN East Timor mission pays tribute to Falintil, 1 February 2001
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Congrats To Jeremie Poplin. New TU Sideline Reporter
Local Sports Radio Show Host Added to Golden Hurricane Radio Network Crew
Jeremie Poplin will handle sidelines reporting for TU football broadcasts this season
Tulsa, Oklahoma –– The University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane Radio Network/Learfield Sports announced today that Jeremie Poplin will be joining the radio broadcast crew as sideline reporter.
Poplin is the current co-host and producer for "the Big Show" on AM1430 The Buzz. Poplin is a veteran of 12 years on radio in Tulsa, including sideline and play-by-play stints with Jenks High School and Holland Hall High School. He also has experience in TV sideline reporting with COX Communications.
TU's Director of Sports Broadcasting and "Voice of the Golden Hurricane" Bruce Howard said, "we're looking forward to working with Jeremie, and I'm confident he'll bring great perspective to the broadcast, just as Chris Kaiser had for the last 11 years". Kaiser resigned his sideline duties to spend more time following his sons, one of whom is playing college football, and another playing high school football.
Poplin will join Howard and analyst Rick Couri beginning with Tulsa's season opener on Aug. 28th against the Tulane Green Wave. Game time is 7:00 p.m. Airtime is at 6:00 p.m.
All games and the Bill Blankenship Radio Call-in Show can be heard on NEWS 102.3 & AM 740 KRMG Radio this season.


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- 12 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1/4 cup kosher salt
- 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped thyme
- Finely grated zest of 1 large lemon
- 1 tablespoon juniper berries
- 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, plus freshly ground pepper
- 12 turkey legs (12 ounces each)
- 6 cups duck fat (3 pounds), melted (see Note)
- 6 cups vegetable oil
- 4 cups Rich Turkey Stock or low-sodium broth
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
In a food processor, pulse 8 of the garlic cloves with the salt, thyme and lemon zest until finely chopped. Add the juniper berries and peppercorns and pulse just until slightly cracked.
Preheat the oven to 325°. Arrange the turkey legs in a large roasting pan and rub with the seasoned salt. Let stand for 30 minutes. Pour the duck fat and vegetable oil over the turkey legs and add the remaining 4 garlic cloves to the pan.
Roast the turkey legs for about 2 hours, turning them every 30 minutes, until the meat is very tender and pulls away from the drumsticks. Transfer the legs to a large pot and carefully strain the fat over them, stopping when you reach the sediment and any caramelized pan juices. Reserve the garlic cloves. Let the turkey legs cool to room temperature, then refrigerate overnight or for up to 5 days.
While the turkey legs are cooling, return the garlic to the roasting pan and set the pan over 2 burners. Add 2 cups of the stock and bring to a simmer over moderately high heat, scraping up the browned bits on the bottom and sides of the pan and mashing the garlic into the juices. Strain the pan juices into a large measuring cup, let cool then refrigerate for up to 5 days.
To serve the confited turkey legs on Thanksgiving Day, preheat the oven to 350°. Gently rewarm the turkey legs in the large pot over moderate heat, just until the fat melts. Remove the legs from the fat and transfer them to a roasting pan; reserve 2 tablespoons of the fat. Roast the turkey legs for 25 minutes, turning once or twice, or until golden and crisp in spots. Transfer the turkey legs to a platter, cover loosely with aluminum foil and keep warm.
Pour off any fat from the roasting pan and set the pan over 2 burners. Add the remaining 2 cups of stock and the reserved pan juices and bring to a boil, scraping up any browned bits stuck to the bottom and sides of the pan. Pour the pan juices into a medium saucepan and bring back to a boil.
In a small bowl, blend the flour with the reserved 2 tablespoons of fat. Whisk the flour paste into the pan juices and simmer over moderate heat, stirring, until the gravy thickens and no floury taste remains, about 10 minutes. Stir in the balsamic vinegar and season lightly with pepper. Serve the turkey legs with the garlic gravy.


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Created: September 18, 1999
Latest Update: August 1, 2002; July 17, 2003, July 22, 2003
Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, July 2003.
"Fair use" encouraged.
In this draft we're trying to give you a sense of how some of our students have shown us evidence of their learning. But those few measures, though helpful, don't begin to adequately measure anyone's learning. They are perhaps indicators along the way for students who have not yet developed such indicators for themselves. This is meant to let you see that there is an identity in learnng, and maybe inspire you to find your own.
Learning, because it takes place in the midst of everything else going on, is not neat, linear, simple even to understand, never mind to measure. Let's take a simplistic example. Vocabulary. Most K-12 teachers give vocabulary tests, or used to in my day. There are hundreds of vocabulary books. Ten words a day, and you shall be the master of the written universe. Hah! I don't think I ever got past the second chapter. I particularly liked "I always look up the word Egregious," but I didn't go through it. Not then. Not ever. I just taught my students the word "egregious."
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Studying vocabulary doesn't work for me. And I believed every one of those persuasive arguments about how important a large vocabulary is. I just couldn't find the motivation to learn with what was offered. But then in law school I discovered that I didn't have to learn vocabulary their way. A German friend and I were so desperate we carried pocket dictionaries about. Unfortunately, lots of the words they used were not in the dictionary. But she was learning English, and I was fascinated. Since I had this dictionary always with me, I put a little check mark beside each word I looked up. As I had suspected, I was looking up some of the same words, like "egregious," time after time after time. And soon, I learned that about the 17th check mark, I didn't have to look it up anymore. The word was mine! I had discovered a measure of my own latent learning. Now when there were eight check marks by a word, I could tell that that word was 8/17 mine. No more affect. No more guilt. I knew now that every time I looked the word up, it went a little deeper into my apperceptive mass. That's a measure of learning. Not one your teacher is likely to use on a test, but one that will give you much greater assurance that you ARE learning, and WHAT you are learning, compared to you, and you alone.
Once I've discovered such techniques, I can share them with you, and maybe they'll work for you. Only you can be the judge of that. But if you manage to articulate such measures, you will be much more convincing when you claim that a vocabulary test has incorrectly measured what you have really learned.
The matter is one we discussed in another essay on identity in the narrative of learning. That is, that students often know they have learned "something," know that they "studied," but don't have a good measure of that "something" even for themselves. That was my problem with vocabulary. Once I found a way to measure it that fit with my needs for vocabulary, I was comfortable letting the learning take its natural course. And with that comfort came the ability to explain to you what that measure was. Before that all I could do was take vocabulary tests, which never seemed to make me feel any more confident even when my test scores were good.
That's because having someone give you a ranking of Fair, Good, Excellent, having someone tell you how well you tested on their instrument is conclusionary. It doesn't give you the kind of feedback that 8/17 of the way to owning that word gave me once I understood it. Many students complain that the comments on their papers don't help them. They are conclusionary. Something like "not college writing" doesn't help a lot, when you're trying to figure out whether you're 3/17 or 6/17 or 15/17 of the way there, wherever there is. Conclusionary. No evidence to support the conclusion, and none that will help you figure out even if you're on the right track, never mind how far along that track you are.
In law, we teach that adversarial argument must balance statement of the facts, which, of course, includes an interpretive perspective, and statement of the law, which includes an interpretive perspective to the way the law should be interpreted. Law, facts, law, facts. Learning should be treated in the same way. Learning: I have gained confidence. (conclusion) Facts (how I know that): can read faster now, understand some concept better and can state it succinctly now, or maybe I can't define it, but I'm pretty sure what it means. I feel less intimidated by it (affect is a valid component of learning). Some of you hit on this when you show up in our offices, only to say:" I was scared to death to come here."
Learning is difficult to prove in an adversarial climate, for there are so many immeasurables. All of status characteristic theory supports that people perform as we expect them to perform, and that we experience negative affect (meaning that we are annoyed or unbelieving) if they do not perform as we expect, even if their performance is better than we expected. (Katz, Bi-racial Groups, Cohen, Elizabeth, at Stanford) And sensing that we expect a poor performance, people are more likely to perform poorly. This means you may be stating your validity claim of learning to someone whose expectations you are going to violate. That's adversarial. And you will be more convincing if you give solid factual detail to support your claim.
This means that your job in a class is to think about what you are learning so that you will be able to communicate that learning effectively. It helps if you do this in a collaborative environment. Sometimes what works for others will work for you. But not always.
This is who you are. How open to learnng you are and choose to remain. This is your identity. That part that defines your learning, but nonetheless and importantly, a part of your identity. To the extent that you accept the passive measures of the Other you have attempted to deny your own responsibility for defining that learning identity, or accepted the Other's domination of you in that denial. Such denial is a project that must fail, for it is your identity and no Other can define its essence. Only you. This is why we refuse to give tests. Tests designed by us reflect our vision of your learning and deny you the necessary freedom to define your own learning.
The easiest way I know to find measures that work is to tell the story of your learning. If you tell us what happens to you, how it feels, in sufficient and focussed detail, sometimes we can help you conceptualize the measures. That is what we call the in depth piece of good faith listening. When you listen to a validity claim in good faith you try to help the Other communicate that claim in terms that the community can relate to.
Original draft for Text on the Identity Narrative of Learningby jeanne curran and Susan R. Takata, Copyright, June 1999.


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Published on Monday, October 9, 2000 by the InterPress Service
US Corporate 'Biopirates' Still Staking Claim On Basmati Rice
by Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - India and Pakistan could still lose a
fight over
the ownership of 'Basmati' rice to a U.S.-based company, which has
forced to withdraw patent claims on the fragrant rice that has
been grown
for centuries in the central Indian Himalayan foothills.
Food security experts say celebrations by the Indian government's Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), which filed for revocation of the patents granted in September 1997 to 'Rice Tec' by the U.S. Patent Office (USPTO), may be early.
''We have succeeded in forcing Rice Tec to withdraw four out of 20 claims. The claims now withdrawn would have adversely affected India's commercial interests in future exports of Basmati rice,'' said an APEDA statement.
But leading food security activist Devinder Sharma argues that by withdrawing four of its crucial claims, Rice Tec has foiled India's attempts to strike down the patent.
According to Sharma, Rice Tec withdrew these because it realised its claims pertaining to 'novel rice grains' would not hold in the light of the re-examination sought by APEDA with the USPTO.
''Of the 20 claims, only four are specific to the characteristics of the rice grain while the remaining 16 claims are more or less concerned with 'novel rice lines', which details breeding techniques, characteristics and properties for cultivation outside the Indian sub-continent,'' he says.
APEDA's strategy was to contest the claims made on novel rice grains on the premise that that the rest of Rice Tec's claims would then automatically fall flat. But Rice Tec's lawyers, apparently sensing the strategy, deftly withdrew the clearly untenable claims.
''Instead of celebrating and putting on a brave front in public, APEDA must quickly challenge the withdrawal and force the USPTO to either accept the entire patent application for re-examination or direct Rice Tec to withdraw its patent,'' says Sharma.
Rice Tec's claim on Basmati rice is said to be the most audacious instance of 'biopiracy' by Western transnational corporations (TNCs). The Indian government has successfully contested in the United States, the grant of a patent on the commercial use of the traditional medicinal properties of turmeric.
Another well-known example of biopiracy is the patent on the herbicidal properties of the 'neem' tree.
The Indian government was successful in the turmeric patent case because it could produce documented evidence, from ancient Indian texts, showing that turmeric's medicinal use was well known in the country for centuries.
''The Basmati case is tricky techno-legal business and once we take up a position we cannot easily withdraw it,'' explains Raghunath Mashelkar, director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
But leading Indian anti-biopiracy campaigner, Vandana Shiva, who successfully challenged patents on neem granted to 'W.R. Grace' by the Munich-based European Patent office, accuses the government of ''lethargy, indifference and collusion'' with Western interests.
According to Shiva, the Indian government is actually helping biopirates. She has challenged in India's Supreme Court, a biodiveristy law enacted by Parliament last year, which allows TNCs exclusive marketing rights (EMRs) for traditional medicines that are used by the bulk of the one billion Indians.
''The implication of the (biodiversity) bill is that the global seed industry can freely take seeds, claim patents or breeder's rights by tinkering with them and not be regulated,'' she explains.
In contesting the neem patents, Shiva too cited ancient texts to show that neem products have been used in India for centuries for medicinal and agricultural purposes. Earlier, the Indian government lost its challenge to the neem patents in the United States.
Pakistani anti-biopiracy campaigner, Uzma Jamil describes the Basmati and turmeric patents as ''manifestations of the increasing infringement of the economic and national sovereignty of the South by the North.''
According to Jamil, who is with the 'South Asia Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy, Rice Tec's claims are clear violations of the Convention on Biodiveristy (CBD), which recognises the sovereignty of a state over its natural genetic resources.
''The manner in which Rice Tec established its patent, demonstrates that it has ignored the contributions of local communities in the production of Basmati and that it does not intend to share the benefits,'' says Jamil.
Rice Tec's Basmati patent also violates provisions of the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) agreement concerning 'geographical indications', say anti-biopiracy activists.
Under this, for example, the term 'champagne' can only be used to describe wine that has been produced in the Champagne region of France and 'Scotch' whisky can only be applied to the spirit produced in the Scottish highlands.
Basmati rice is also governed by this rule since it is has a ''closely linked, exclusive relationship with its place of origin on the Indian sub-continent,'' says Sharma.
But, India has failed to claim TRIPs protection for Basmati rice, Darjeeling tea and other products, he says.
Copyright 2000 IP


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By Will Cobb
From: Flagstaff, AZ
Mar 29, 2006
rating: 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b PG13
This is a great route, however it is very physically demanding. When I climbed it we took a double set of cams with one 4.5 camalot and one 5 camalot. This was very sufficient.
When I climbed the route we made our second belay on top of the chockstone that Greg describes. (Where he ended his adventure due to wet rock.) From here you are faced with two options - 1. The right hand variation is 5.10 and looks like thin hands. 2. The second variation is a 5.7+ to 5.8- chimney. Most of this pitch can be protected with #4 to #5 camalots being walked up the crack in the back of the chimney.
Other beta would be to wear long pants and to tape up. I don't think that I had any skin left on my hands after climbing this route...
By Will Cobb
From: Flagstaff, AZ
May 25, 2006
rating: 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b PG13
When Jon and I climbed this thing several years go it was not possible to rap the route. Has something changed?
Jon and I topped out in the dark and had to tie our ropes together and do one long single line rap back to the deck. Burcham told me that there are rap anchors, but we never saw them... Do you have new Beta?!? I want to go down this summer and repeat the route.
By Flex
From: Flagstaff, AZ
Jun 19, 2007
Great summer route with an early start-perfect temps in the shade.
There are bolts/chains at the top of pitch 2 and bolts/webbing at the top of the route, however the Burcham rap route follows 2 sets of bolt anchors down to the climbers right from the top. Bring 2 ropes for the raps.
A classic route with good, well protected climbing on the crux.
By Larry Coats
Oct 28, 2007
|First ascent Scott Baxter and John Gault.
By Will Cobb
From: Flagstaff, AZ
Jul 30, 2008
rating: 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b PG13
Just climbed this route again with Dean today and it is still awesome. Two sets of cams to #4 Camalot plus a 4.5 and a 5 was great.
A bit of descent beta -
Rapping the route seemed pretty straight forward, but we took the Burcham raps down. These bolts as mentioned above are on the climber's right and sort of behind the route. A full 190' rap into a corridor brings you to two bolts with biners set in a chimney back behind you. As you near the end of your ropes start looking back and the anchor will be easily visible. Then rap down and out of the corridor. Walk about 30 seconds back to your packs.
By Dean Hoffman
Aug 13, 2008
|Had a blast climbing this with Will, anyone know of a route climbing the opposite side, visible from the rapps Will describes?
By Tyler Williams
From: Flagstaff, AZ
May 15, 2010
rating: 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
Did this route with Roman on 5/14 - Awesome! The whole thing is all old school burliness, even the 5.8 start and finish. The "5.7+" final pitch chimney was harder than anything on epinephrine I thought, which would make it 5.9+ in Red Rocks. Or 5.7 in Yosemite.
We ended up doing it in 4 pitches:
1) Up all the way into the alcove right before the crux bulge (~120ft)
2) Over the bulge to the chains (~20 ft)
3) Up the "trihedral" (fun!) to the top of the pillar (80 ft?)
4) Up the chimney to the top (80 ft?)
If I was doing it again, I would recommend not belaying at the chains and going from the alcove below the crux to the top of the pillar in the trihedral.
We rapped the route with 2 ropes. in terms of pro, we brought the kitchen sink - 2 new #4s 1 old #4, 2 new #5s, 1 old #5. Next time I'd leave the big guy. It was nice but not necessary to have the 2 new #5s.
park at the pullout right off the road to cave springs campground
P.S. What is the crazy looking right leaning overhanging crack across the canyon with the fixed ropes? Looks wild!
By Petair
Jun 25, 2011
|Does anyone know what happened to the rap anchors going down the left face of this route? I remember them being there the last time I did this climb a couple years ago. Is the rap down the back side the original way down? Just curious...
By Zack S.
From: Prescott, AZ
Feb 29, 2012
|As of today, no bolts or chains anywhere on the route (and no need for them). Can't speak to the presence of a bolted rap route except to say that we didn't see it.
By jayci
From: Flagstaff
Mar 1, 2012
rating: 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
|This route is about as good as it gets if you ask me. If only this corner went on for 1000'. Someone has indeed removed the rap anchor. Zack and I rapped off a really bad dead tree into a bush filled gully and then off a terrible piece of tat on a bolt. This climb is worth a good safe rap line!
By Paul Davidson
Sep 7, 2012
|The original descent was to walk west & south and down to a gully that had a chockstone in it. Pretty simple, fast and straightforward as I recall. It seems like it was one longer rap, bit of a walk and then maybe a short bit and you were down. I think it drops you right into the Dr.'s Office. So, if you get stuck without anchors, keep it in mind.
By JimmyK
From: Flagstaff, AZ
Oct 11, 2012
|Descent Beta: We climbed it on 10/8/12. Will Cobb's 7/30/08 posting is right on. There are rap anchors as described. Upon reaching the top of P3, scramble up and right, a short distance to the summit. The anchors are located at the top, backside of the summit on the north side (climber's right) of the rock formation.
By Robbie Brown
From: Flagstaff, AZ
Dec 3, 2012
rating: 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b
Dont do this with only 2 # 4 C4s. If so i would call it R rated! Bring a god damn #5! Also we forgot our second rope and with some trickery you can get to the ground.
Old school burl-fest! 5.10++++
By Tony Montana
From: Wilmer, BC
Feb 3, 2013
|Who is John Gault?
By Ryan Z
Mar 3, 2013
rating: 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
|The climb was good and the approach was a piece of cake. Belayed off of nuts and a small cam at the top of P1, then we linked the last 2 pitches. The last pitch is a bit runout but I didn't think it was any harder than 5.8. The rap is right off the backside, we brought 2 ropes and it was straightforward.
By JMo
From: Tucson, AZ
Mar 25, 2013
Until I have led it or sent it (I have done neither), I can't say nothin'... But if you are sending some 10's and 10+'s at forks and waterfall, that don't mean jack here. Sandbag.
Stellar tho. I'll be bringin' the kitchen sink, as per Tyler, above. And yeah no more chains/easy retreat from top of p2. Kinda coulda used that....
By Paul Davidson
Jul 15, 2013
|The difficulty of the climb is greatly affected by the direction you face in the crux pitch. (like most wide cracks...)
By Eva Christ
Feb 5, 2015
|awesome route, some of the best rock around Sedona, anchor is in good condition.
By Greg Malloure
From: Prescott Az
Mar 31, 2015
|DESCENT BETA (march 2015): Once you top out, the Bolts are 25 feet to the North (north as in the direction of Up Oak Creek Canyon towards flagstaff). 190 foot rap gets you to the next set of chains. One more clean rap to the Ground. 30 seconds to get you packs. Easy.
By Derek Field
From: Flagstaff, AZ
Feb 11, 2017
rating: 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
|So much meaty climbing. Loved it from start to finish! Especially the incredigroovy trihedral on pitch two. Tape up for this one!
By markguycan
From: flagstaff, AZ
Feb 12, 2017
|Anybody know what the sweet hand and finger crack is on the rappel? 2pitches with bolted anchors, wish we had time..!


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Handing an alcohol licence to a Mill Hill newsagent would be an "unwelcome and negative step" for the area, according to a local councillor.
Broadway News Food and Wine owner Manmohan Singh has applied to Barnet Council to sell alcoholic drinks at the shop in Mill Hill Broadway between 6am and 11pm.
The business owner will have his application assessed before a licensing committee tomorrow morning (Thursday) but opponents including local councillor Sury Khatri have sent a total of 15 letters of objection.
Conservative Mill Hill councillor Mr Khatri said in his own letter that he felt the application was "inappropriate".
He wrote: "Mill Hill Broadway is a central point for school children alighting and boarding buses to different parts of the borough.
"This change would be a very unwelcome and negative step as the shop is frequented by school children of varying ages because of what the shop currently stocks.
"I am concerned with the damage to young people potentially being attracted or tempted to what would be displayed in this regard."
Barnet Council's licensing committee will meet at 10.30am tomorrow at Hendon Town Hall to assess the proposals.


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My apple tree
Posted by Magrat (Nordhausen, Germany) on 20 April 2010 in Abstract & Conceptual and Portfolio.
Last year I bought a little apple tree for my balkony.
Welcome to my Aminus3-photoblog!
Please look around and leave a comment, if you like what you see.
Thanks and wish you all the best!
Elora from Genoa, Italy
20 Apr 2010 1:53pm
@Elora: Thanks, Elora... no, not watercolour... I just used duplicated layers, copied them into each other, applied a high-pass filter and a texture I made out of some of my "mossy castle wall"pictures... (Photoshop Elements 7)... I'm playing around, you know? Glad you like it! :)
Fonts from Barcelona, Spain
20 Apr 2010 3:38pm
@Fonts: Thank you so much, Adela... Using this lens without tripod or image stabilizer, just freehand, is always exciting. You never know how the result will be... but almost always you get soft colors, a wonderful smooth background and interesting light effects... ;)
Wenche from Oslo, Norway
20 Apr 2010 3:42pm
@Wenche: Thanks a lot, Wenche... :) I will drop by your today's picture the next hours...
Self-Indulgence from Chicagoland, United States
20 Apr 2010 5:37pm
@Self-Indulgence: Yes...! That is.. I hope so.. ;) Would be the very first time for my baby apple tree... if it works, I'll show the baby apples, too! :))
kate from lincolnshire, United Kingdom
20 Apr 2010 6:30pm
@kate: Thank you, Kate... :)
k@ from Paris, France
20 Apr 2010 7:20pm
@k@: I'll put a piece aside for you, my dear.. :)
Thea from Leeuwarden, Netherlands
20 Apr 2010 8:45pm
@Thea: Thanks again, Thea.. I've got no clue, what colors the apples will have, now that I come to think about it... ;) Texture is made out of one of these mossy castle wall-pictures... I'm glad you like it! Greetins!
Pavan Kaul from Mumbai, India
21 Apr 2010 6:32am
@Pavan Kaul: Thank you so much, Pavan... :)
Marleen from Doesburg, Netherlands
21 Apr 2010 11:03am
@Marleen: Thanks, Marleen.. :)
Marion from Cincinnati, United States
21 Apr 2010 12:28pm
@Marion: Thanks, Marion... :) I once looked up the Amazon-link to show you what kind of lenses I used here:
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BEIJING – Buildings constructed during Japan's occupation of Manchukuo, a puppet state set up in China, have received official protection from Beijing, state media reported Thursday.
The move to preserve the buildings followed calls by Chinese netizens to demolish structures left by invaders from the 1931-45 Manchukuo era, domestic media said.
However, media quoted analysts as saying preserving the buildings would help Chinese people better understand a key period in the country's history.
"A nation should face the tough years in its history," Zhou Zueyang, a history professor from Nanjing University told the Global Times newspaper.
"If it's invaded, enslaved and bullied by others, it should not hide that history but should demonstrate it to the world and let its descendants remember that forever."
Located in northeast China, Manchukuo was seized by the Japanese Imperial Army following the Mukden Incident of Sept. 18, 1931, when military personnel set off an explosion on a rail line and blamed it on Chinese citizens as a pretext for starting the war.
Pu Yi, the last Qing dynasty emperor, was installed as the puppet government's figurehead.


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2 Beth Chatto Gardens
This drought-resistant garden, surely the best-known former car park in the history of garden design, has never been artificially watered since its creation during the winter of 1991/2.
This, combined with the region's very low average rainfall of 50cm/20in and the poor soil, have made this experiment a horticultural landmark.
The Beth Chatto Gardens, Elmstead Market, Colchester, Essex CO7 7DB (01206 822007; bethchatto.co.uk).


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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey's largest city is hitting some roadblocks just months after its rising-star mayor went off to Washington.
Since Cory Booker's departure, a bold reform plan for the state-run school system has hit a snag. The police department is facing federal oversight over citizen complaints. And the state is threatening a takeover of the city's finances after several key deadlines were missed.
A state official who oversees the city's compliance with state obligations is awaiting the results of an audit to determine whether he will recommend bringing Newark's finances under formal state oversight.
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The Dutch finance ministry has announced that the new bilateral tax treaty between Japan and the Netherlands will be effective from January 1, 2012, following the recent exchange of notes between the Japanese Ambassador and the Dutch State Secretary for Finance.
In its release, the Dutch finance ministry notes that the new treaty, signed in Tokyo on August 25, 2010, will serve to benefit trade and industry as it provides for a reduction of taxation at source between the two countries, thus making it more attractive for Dutch companies to do business in Japan, and for Japanese companies to invest in the Netherlands.
The ministry states that the treaty "strengthens even further the position of the Netherlands as the gateway to Europe for Japanese companies".
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Welcoming ratification of the treaty with Japan, the Dutch State Secretary underscored that the low source taxation provided for in the treaty will further reduce tax barriers for businesses, and increase legal certainty for taxpayers, ending by noting that: "The treaty will benefit Japan and the Netherlands for many years to come."
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Pharoahe Monch – Damage
Hip-Hop legend Pharoahe Monch has announced today he'll be releasing his upcoming album P.T.S.D (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) later in 2012, and to kick off promotion for the album we have the first official leak from the project titled "Damage". For the hardcore Pharoahe Monch fans out there, this is the third installment in the "Bullet" trilogy (the first being with Organized Konfusion, and the second featured on the 2007 Desire album), and has been produced by Lee Stone. P.T.S.D will be released via Pharoahe Monch's own W.A.R Media label who are partnering with Duck Down Records for the project, and accompanied by a tour with Jean Grae and Mr Len (link above). You can listen to Pharoahe Monch – Damage on the soundcloud player below.
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|From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 18 22:04:52 EDT 2010
At Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:55:40 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote: > On Sep 19, Thomas Chust wrote: > > I'm interested in building Racket for Cygwin but with > > Win32-GDI-based GUI libraries instead of X11-based GUI > > libraries. The configure script doesn't seem to allow for this > > setup, but since Racket already has support for Win32 GUIs and since > > nothing prevents a Cygwin program from calling directly into the > > Win32 APIs this should theoretically be possible without much > > effort. > > > > I would be glad if anyone with some insight into the build system > > could give me a few hints what I would have to do to make such a > > setup possible. > > That's likely to be very difficult, since the Windows stuff is very > different from the usual configure script. I agree. Even ignoring project and Makefile pain, the C++ code that connects Racket to Win32 probably uses a lot of MSVCisms, and I think it would be difficult to get it through g++, to try to compile Racket for Cygwin using MSVC, or to try to make binaries from the two compilers link together. (We're in the process of getting rid of the C++ code completely. If a Cygwin+Win32 hybrid is somehow useful, I think it will be much easier with the replacement GUI-library implementation. When it's ready.)
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The Early Middle Ages
History and Geography
Invasions of Europe, 800-1000
Between 800 and 1000, three groups—the Magyars, the Vikings, and Muslims—invaded Europe. The Magyars, fierce warriors from the east, crossed over land and attacked Europe from Asia. Perhaps the most frightening invaders of all, the Vikings, came from Scandinavia in the north. The fierce Vikings used ships to travel along Europe's coast and up its rivers, looting towns and taking prisoners to sell as slaves. The Muslims had already controlled Spain and attacked France, but also crossed the Mediterranean Sea to invade southern France and northern Italy.
1. On the map, use a bright color to trace a route where the Vikings invaded inland by traveling along a river.
2. Use a different bright color to trace the Magyar's route from Asia to Italy on the map.
3. Use a third color to trace the Muslim invasion routes from the Middle East and Africa into Europe.
4. Find the island on the map that was invaded by Muslims from two different directions. Draw an X on that island.
5. Update the map legend to reflect the colors that you added to the map.
1. Location In which direction did the Magyars travel as they invaded Europe?
2. Region Which group of invaders came from the north? Which group of invaders came from the south?
3. Draw a Conclusion Did the Magyars used ships in their invasions of Europe? Why or why not?
4. Predict How successful do you think the Vikings would have been in invading Europe if they had not had ships? Explain why.
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A golfer plays against his or her own "mental gremlins," to cite a term Greg Norman, who had a few of his own, once used. Norman won two majors and many other tournaments but his talent was such that he ought to have won more majors, probably many more. Still, he's one of the most successful and famous golfers in the world.
Then there's Tiger Woods, who won his third PGA Tour event of 2012 last Sunday when he took the AT&T National in Bethesda, Md. There's Yani Tseng, the No. 1-ranked player in women's golf, who will try to win her sixth major this week at the U.S. Women's Open. She's 23, and is the youngest player in history to win five majors.
These golfers are "names." And then there's Joe Daley.
Joe Daley? Yes. The 51-year-old forged golf's best story last weekend. But a writer is supposed to show, not tell. Here's what Daley showed the golf world. And himself.
Daley started the final round of the Senior Players Championship at the Fox Chapel Country Club, near Pittsburgh, tied for the lead with Mark Calcavecchia. He was a shot ahead of Fred Couples and Tom Lehman. The threesome had won major championships, and were multiple winners on the PGA Tour before becoming eligible for the Champions Tour.
But Daley? He was a credit salesman in Pennsylvania, his home state, before he turned pro when he was 32. He'd won twice on the Nationwide (now Web.com) Tour and had a couple of stints on the PGA Tour. His best finish had been a tie for sixth place at the 1996 B.C. Open in Endicott, N.Y.
More than 11 years had passed since Daley had become famous – if that's the right word, and it probably isn't, but somehow it fits – for missing a five-foot putt on the final hole of the fourth round at the 2000 PGA Tour qualifying school. The putt was in, and then it wasn't. The ball snapped off the top edge of the cup liner and bounced out of the hole. Did that really happen?
Daley was shocked. He whipped his head around and threw his cap on the ground. A cup liner is supposed to be set at least an inch below the surface. But this cup liner had shifted.
Never mind. Two rounds were left in the dreaded qualifying school, a six-round tournament that in many ways represents the apotheosis of confrontation with one's mental gremlins. Two rounds later, Daley had shot 418 for the six rounds. Thirty-six golfers qualified for the PGA Tour. Daley wasn't one of them.
He missed by a shot. That one shot. The cup liner.
Now Daley is on the Champions Tour. He had shot 66-64-68 to take the one-shot lead into the final round at Fox Chapel, a classic old course where one green has a scooped-out middle so deep that it appears suitable for a skateboarder rather than a golfer. He was playing in his home state.
Along the way in the final round, Daley flinched on a four-foot par putt. Calcavecchia, with whom he was playing, noticed the yip. But the ball somehow fell. The cup liner was in the right place. Daley went on to shoot 68, and won. He's set now on the Champions Tour through 2013. He can play wherever and whenever he wants. The $415,000 (U.S.) he won is a bonus.
"I was my competition out there," Daley said when asked about playing against Calcavecchia, Couples and Lehman in the last round. "I'm my own competition. Have been for years."
Daley won the competition. He chased away the mental gremlins. He showed his stuff. Last weekend, he was golf's best story.Report Typo/Error
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Good value for money, kind and helpful staff, rich breakfast and dinner. Excellent location near Rab's harbor. There is a beautiful park in front of the hotel. The hotel features live music which can be too loud and disturbing (lasts until 11:30 PM) for guests who like to go to bed early.
Nothing - this hotel is for package tours only. As independent travellers, we were unable to get dinner in the dining room, only for tour groups. List of charges for any food taken out of the dining room at breakfast, eg bread roll; excessive charges for use of wireless internet;
Hotel Imperial was a pleasant surpise and we enjoyed the hotel alot.The hotel is in Rab up on a small hill in a beatiful park. The food is ok, not something to write home about but good enough to eat if you do not wish to go in to Rab Old Town for dinner
clean, number of room, garden, terrace, lot of waiter, inside, outside around the hotel, large hall, large restaurant, large terrace
the view from hotel is spectacular if on the top floor the breakfast didnt vary at all in 17 days
Good location Poor breakfast, chimical juices, noisy...because of the customers in thecorridors, no free nternet no wifi , hotel for package tours..
The hotel is perfectly located, 5 min from center and in the small park. There is place where kids could play. Free parking is advantage too. The breakfast is one and the same every day. For stay more than 3 days will be "boring"
Nice location, convenient for Rab Old Town Slightly offhand manner from some staff, had also failed to register our request for an extra bed for our son
Good buffet breakfast, various food. Excellent location, near sea and old town.
Gorgeous view of the harbor and old town of Rab, great facilities (pool, boat)
Very nice location close to the beautiful town of Rab (a few minutes by water taxi - very convenient and nice to cross). Also good view on the city from your balcony if you book with sea view Parking spaces limited if you arrive by car. Also unfortunately other hotel guests 'reserve' the chairs at the pool using their towels and just showing up only for a short moment in a whole day - a shame that the hotel does not interfere to make sure that people who really want to stay at the pool can use the chairs
the airco; fast elevators; late special diner by arrival they close the refrigerator the day before leaving.
Very friendly hotel with good choice at breakfast and very good value half board
The buffet dinner and breakfast were both very good. Nice lounge area. Nice pool. Noisy room on front of hotel and inconsiderate staff early in the morning cleaning outside. Also, lifts made a terrible noise. Location a bit remote. Little by way of other bars / restaurants nearby. Need a car if you want to travel anywhere else
I liked the food - really great buffet- and the sea view room. Location of the hotel is great The elevators - noisy and little bit outdated, room cleaning can be improved also
It's a nice hotel in a beautiful place. There was lot o do for me and my family. We had a great time swimming, playing sports and just enjoying the amenities of the resort. We also went to the old town of Rab and had some great nights and some beautiful boat trips
Great place; quite but with all facilities None; just in the road to the hotel no enough signals to get there
The location of the hotel is just perfect, and the grounds were so beautiful. The hotel staff were kind and helpful, and while the room we had was very red, it was comfortable with a great view of the water. Some reviewers complained about the bells, but our room was soundproofed enough that we never heard them. It was overpriced, and the breakfast was just ok.
Location, service and general ambience. When we arrived we were informed that no room was available and unfortunatley we had to spend the first night at an alternative (very reasonable) residence. This was provided free of charge and we received a discount for the remainder two nights. The situation was resolved amicably and we have no complaints about the final outcome but it does seem odd that the reservation was not complied with.
area on peninsula RAB very poor service in restaurant
Service and staff were first class, a quiet hotel nothing too much problem beautiful quay side location, roses at breakfast for the ladies a gentle and nice touch A bit pricy, but ok for what we got and location etc, the name isnt on the front of hotel
Very impressed with the hotel and the helpful attitude of the staff would definitely return if in Rab again
good hotel, good value when taking half board the breakfast was not so good
close to the sea we didn´t like the hotel system, a bit of chaotic, nobody informs you about things you should know (e.g. breakfast, parking - we have to ask for parking paper that we are guests at their hotel)The most of the stuff was kind of unfriendly and the other fact was they couldn´t speak English properly so it was sometimes hard to explain what we wanted. The accomodation is very poor, furniture, bathroom needs to be refurnished. never again
The proximity of the Casa Blanca restaurant and the good food served there as well as the proximity to the old Rab town. The common areas of the hotel were not clean. The hotel was not user-friendly and everything had a separate charge. Also worst breakfast in Croatia.
The location of the hotel is stunning, in one of the most beautiful bays. The hotel was functional and clean which is about all that can be said, very definately only two star.
the hotel was well located (close to the beach) but not easy to find this is a hotel that survived communist times and it reminded us a bit of that. for those who want to get an idea about those times may be a good choice. staff not very friendly and made mistakes on our bill
Well placed, confortable rooms. Maybe too big and unexceptional building.
The hotel is perfectly located on the center of the city. In front of the seaport. The welcoming of the staff was not good at all. When I arrived, there were no parking place in the city center close to the hotel. But the hotel had some reserved parking place empty ... but didn't want to give them as I was staying only one night ! Then, I had 2 times to go to the reception check-in and check-out. There each time I had to wait because nobody was there. Last thing ... a quarter to 10, breakfast was already closed !
This hotel is located just a few doors down from a bar/club which played music until 4am on every night of our stay to a volume that was still audible with all windows closed and with ear plugs. After changing rooms this was still no better. If you want a good night's sleep this is definitely not a hotel to chose! Also, the parking as advertised is actually to be found in a field 400m walk away from the hotel.
Location was great. Pull out couch was good for our 2.5 yr old to sleep on. Pool was not open in October, which was part of the reason we booked there. Breakfast was below average. Room was nice, small cruise ship like window, but great view. No lampshades or bedskirt, which was a bit weird. Felt like there were only a few guests in entire large hotel. This hotel is probably a lot better in peak tourist/ summer season, but desolate in October!
Nice view to the harbour. Breakfast was OK. We did not get the service offered on the home page. Air-conditioning did not work, outside was 40C, and the room's temperature was unbearable. Staff said they could not help, we should have opened the window, and we did not even get a fan. In the night we could not open the window because of the very loud hip-hop disco (till 4 AM) just under the window (home page did not informed about the neighborhood). We did not get a discount from the price. The parking lot was very far and we had to pay for it. After the first night we left the hotel.
The hotel was what as expected for the amount of money. The staff was helpful and we had a nice time there. While not problematic, for a longer stay the lack of variety for the breakfast might be a bit of a problem to some.
clean hotel and hotel staff very friendly
In a peaceful spot and the view was very pleasant to wake up to. The manager was very obliging. Restaurant food was very nicely cooked The assistant/waiter was slightly odd! (Over the top) the hotel and its location was more modern/suburban than expected, prefer traditional buildings
Quality of room, and warm welcome
quite, friendly, clean etc...
everything, the best place i stayed in Croatia. comfy, clean, US-style room, large balcony, great view, great service, very friendly staff and owners. i was the only guest at the moment so was served my own personal customized-just-for-me breakfast ))) the manager helped me program the sattelite tv. great view over the harbor, climate control, good rate for the room. could leave my bag there after the checkout while i was exploring the town and waiting for my ferry later that day. the owner (Dulijano) suggested a great spot for taking pictures of the old town that i wouldn't have found on my own (and it wasn't mentioned in my LPlanet))) at first i thought i goofed w/my hotel choice since it was a longer walk from the old town than i expected. but the walk is super-pleasant and picturesque, the air is amazing and it's still about 20 mins only. i took diff routes and explored more of the island
new hotel good food
Great location by the water. A great welcome from Marino at Reception on arrival and great service received from him also. Nothing was too much trouble. Lovely restaurant, good food. Easy walking distance into Rab. Both my husband and I thought the pillows were far too high, but this wouldn"t stop us from staying there again.
the staff was very helpful, no problem w/english. very nice location w/great relaxing patio. nice that it did have a resturarant. Breakfast was great. they even served breakfast earlier for us. great time. needed to spend more days here. it was hard to find, set back some from the street.
The staff at the Pansion Tamaris were genuinely extremely friendly and entertaining from the moment we arrived until we left. They speak fluent English (as well as many other languages!). The hotel is modern and clean with the best in-room air conditioning unit I've ever used. The evening meal provided was very good quality food with a varied choice. The location is perfect. It's about 10-15 mins walk from Rab town centre but is located at a tranquil marina. The walk to the town centre is along the picturesque coastal path. The breakfast was a bit basic with just bread and different meat and spreads.
I liked the position, in the centre. Furniture is old; no air conditioning; the towels and the small soaps were added/remade randomly (one day yes, one day no)
Location is excellent. Service was helpful and friendly
the staff is very friendly and the location is in the center the interiour is outdated and falling apart, the rooms very small, no aircondition the breakfast is very basic with bad coffe, the juice is only colored sugar water and there are not any fruits. renovation is overdue.
Convenient to the old town Needs air conditioning and a facelift in rooms
Great center location. Parking is right behind the hotel and they have a electronic card system to get in and out of the town. Rooms are normal, nothing too fancy, but all with a real nice balcony. Breakfast was ok, not very interesting. Internet is advertized to be everywhere but it is NOT TRUE. Only in the foyer. I had read that it was very silent but the fact that the Hotel is in the main piazza of Rab, makes it quite noisy. Saturday nights,you can forget about sleeping. The disco ges on until 3.30 am. In the park in front of the Hotel are also play grounds for kids and lots of people going by.
Good location in the middle of the town. Shops and market nearby. Food ok, 4 meals at the dinner menu
Rab Town is fabulous, and hotel is well situated to explore and staff are friendly. The wifi worked straighforwardly in lobby areas. Breakfast quite pleasant to sit outside. The view over the habour is nice but.... The biggest problem is no air conditioning, so because it is hot there we had to open windows, which because we faced the harbour meant we heard all the noise from motorbikes, bars, and excited tourists chattering away all hours. Suspect less noisy if you face the back, but we were not able to change.


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TENS machines
Tens machines are widely used by lower pack pain and sciatica sufferers as a means of obtaining pain relief. Many medical practitioners and physio therapists often prescribe the use of Tens machines as a means of controlling back pain. It is impossible to cover every model of TENS machine so hopefully by describing how I use my own TENs machine you will be able to choose comparable programs suitable for your particular tens machines.
How to use your TENS machine and what programs to select
TENS stands for Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation. A tens machine works by transmitting electrical impulses via special electrode pads though the skin.
The placement of the TENs electrode pads is carefully selected to target the problematic areas which are causing pain. The theory is that the electrical impulses from the machine modifies the pain signals which are transmitted to the brain via the nerves. You should experience a slight tingling sensation when the machine is in use. Many users find that they may have to wait a few weeks before obtaining effective results.
The user manuals which come with your TENs machine will give recommendations on how long you should use the machine. Personally, I use my TENS machine for several hours in the evening - but some people may use their TENs machine several times throughout the day to obtain maximum relief.
TENs machine Modes of OperationMost machines have several modes including ones you can program yourself. The modes fall into three main groups:
Conventional modeThis is usually between 50Hz - 200Hz with a pulse width of about 200uS, this mode is used to give rapid pain relief.
Burst modeThis provides a similar effect to acupuncture, with the machine delivering short bursts of pulses. This mode usually gives longer lasting pain relief.
Modulation modeThis mode is similar to burst mode except that the pulse width is continuously cycled to give a massage like sensation.
Placing the electrode pads
Placement of the electrodes or pads is very important and may require some experimentation to achieve maximum relief. Most TENs machines come with a guide to help place the electrode pads. Generally speaking the pads should be placed relatively close to the source of the pain or the accu points you want to stimulate. Your physiotherapist or health care practitioner should advise you as to the most effective position to place the pads.
How I use my TENs machine
I use my TENs machine for about 3-4 hours each evening on the following settings:
Conventional mode 120Hz at 50uS for 1 hour.
Program mode 3Hz at 250uS for 2-3 hours.
Modulation mode for 1 hour.
If at first you don't succeed, experiment with the electrode placement and the programs you use to see what works best for you. Ensure you do your experimentation in a controlled manner.
More information about TENs machines
To find out more you might wish to read my short blogg on TENs machines