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Teaching Pre-Service Mainstream Teachers about TESOL. Laurie France. 1.0 Volunteering to Teach Linda Lord s LIT311 Class About TESOL
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1 This assignment was one that I gave to my EDU 360 class. By the time students get to this point in the TESOL (Teaching English to speakers of other languages) major, they have learned a lot about writing, and a lot about TESOL. The first part of the assignment is to decide to have an out-of-the-box experience, meaning something related to TESOL, but different from what they ve learned to do in their major, maybe even something out of their comfort zone. Laurie France is used to teaching English to young children who are English language learners. Therefore, she decided that her experience would be to give an hour-long talk to her SUNY Oswego peers about what ESOL teachers do. The next part of the assignment is to write about this experience in the same style as the papers they have been writing in other classes in their major. The paper was to be error-free and divided into sections, and subsections if the author saw fit. Each section was to be numbered and titled appropriately, and data within each section was to be set apart from text in figures that are numbered consecutively. The paper was to build from the beginning of the experience to the significance of the experience to the student as a preservice ESOL teacher. Teaching Pre-Service Mainstream Teachers about TESOL Laurie France 1.0 Volunteering to Teach Linda Lord s LIT311 Class About TESOL On the evening of April 13, 2010, I volunteered to do a presentation to Linda Lord s LIT311 class on Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) from 6:30-7:30 p.m. This class was full of Childhood Education (CED) and Adolescent Education (ADO) majors; many of which had never even heard of the TESOL major before. My presentation consisted of many important aspects and facts about TESOL. As a pre-service English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher, this was a very valuable experience to me because I was able to take many of the things that I have learned thus far in the TESOL major at SUNY Oswego and actually put them to use in some way. It was very fulfilling to be able to share my knowledge with others, and I hope that some of the things I discussed will stay with the students on their journey to becoming teachers. In the following subsections, I describe my experience in Linda Lord s class in great detail. I will first discuss the content which I covered in the presentation in regards to the actual TESOL major, things about ESL students, and the importance of the collaboration of ESL and mainstream teachers (2.0). This is the bulk of my paper, but I will also discuss some of the questions, comments, and concerns of Linda Lord s LIT311 students following the presentation (3.0), and lastly I will summarize the implications of the overall experience of volunteering to teach about TESOL (4.0). 2.0 Content Covered in the Presentation When preparing this presentation I thought to myself, If I weren t a TESOL major what information would be most useful to me? I really had to put myself in the shoes of all of the
2 CED and ADO majors that I was going to be presenting to in order to decide on appropriate content to include in my presentation. I found myself trying to dig up the past and bring myself back to the moment that I first learned about the TESOL program; but I remember having no clue what TESOL even meant! So, I decided to start off with the most basic things, such as acronyms that relate to TESOL (2.1), characteristics of ESL students (2.2), and the roles of the teachers when working with ESL students (2.3). 2.1 What is TESOL??? Since I realize that many people do not know what the TESOL major entails, I decided to give some general facts about the major. When exploring important aspects of TESOL to present I first thought to myself, why not start with some of the basics? So, I first began with the most used acronyms that I have come across during my time in the TESOL program. I thought that these would be useful to pre-service mainstream teachers because if they ever have the opportunity to work with ESL students, they might need to know some of them. I included the following acronyms with descriptions of each one: TESOL, TEFL, ELL, ESL, EFL, L1, and L2. I also made a clear distinction of the difference between TESOL/ESL and TEFL/EFL to the students. After this, I decided to discuss some of the extra classes that TESOL majors must take and why, such as linguistics. I briefly explained that to become language development experts, TESOL majors must take linguistic classes in order to learn things like patterns of language and the acquisition of language. I provided an example on the board to the class using eth and theta; I explained the two different sounds (eth a hard th sound / theta a soft th sound), the symbols for them that we learn in linguistics (eth ð / theta θ), and where to place one s tongue when articulating these sounds. I chose this example due to the fact that it is one of the most difficult sounds to make if a particular language does not have it in their language. I said, One day, you might have students who physically cannot articulate these sounds. How would you try and get them to make the proper sounds? You must first know where the place of articulation is. You must explain to them and show them how to physically make this sound! That is part of our job as ESL teachers. In addition to discussing general facts about the TESOL major that I found important, I also decided to figure out what it was about the TESOL major that was so appealing to me when I first learned of it. First, I was interested because language has always been very intriguing and mysterious to me especially trying to learn a new language; I actually had the desire to become a Spanish teacher when I first came to college. However, ultimately I knew that this was the major for me when I learned of its broadness in job opportunities. Unlike previous majors that I had been in, TESOL offered a new aspect in which I would not be as limited in what I decided to do in the future. It is for this reason that I decided to include the many job opportunities which come with a TESOL major in my presentation. I included both jobs offered within the United States as well and international opportunities. I also talked to the students about having the opportunity to teach English to a very wide range of ages. I spoke to
3 them about how the particular classes that we take at SUNY Oswego allow us to teach K-12, but also that we are not limited to teaching in a school setting; and that we can also go on to teach adult literacy classes. 2.2 Who Are the ESL Students??? Following the teaching of some important aspects of the TESOL major and what it entails, I thought to include another very important aspect of TESOL the ESL students! I felt that learning about what TESOL had no use to the audience if I did not also include the actual students that they may be working with in the future. Again, I decided that I should start with the basics, so I began with explaining how students become a part of an ESL program. First, I told Linda Lord s class that ESL students are mainly immigrant children who come to America with a previously learned language and that they must learn English as a second language in order to have any chance of succeeding in society. I also explained that even if they were born in America, they could also possibly qualify for an ESL program if there is another language which is spoken at home by their parents/guardians. It all depends on the students English proficiency (determined by tests) in order to determine whether a student should be in ESL or not. I also decided to speak a lot about misconceptions of ESL students because I did not want these pre-service mainstream teachers to one day make the mistake of misjudging students that they might have one day. A point that I really wanted to make clear to these pre-service mainstream teachers was that ESL students are not bad students; that they just have a lot on their plate to deal with for such a young age. Besides trying to learn English, they are dealing with other personal struggles that many times go unnoticed. Things such as culture/language shock and an ethnocentric curriculum can really have a negative effect on these students; they can get overwhelmed by their new, unfamiliar surroundings and begin to have feelings of panic, anxiety, fear, curiosity, etc. When dealing with all of these new emotions, a student can enter a silent stage in which the student will not talk at all. The misconception is that these are bad students, who are unwilling to talk and participate in classroom activities this is not the case! I explained to the audience that they might be surprised to learn that many of these students actually have a great desire to participate and be involved, but that their lack of participation is due to limited English proficiency as well as overwhelming fear. I also explained that our rather ethnocentric curriculum can be a shock to immigrant children, as it leaves little room for cultural appreciation. Another struggle I spoke about in regards to immigrant children is that they deal with dual-identity. In a school setting, students are encouraged to learn and speak English by teachers and friends, or feel obligated to do so in order to fit in and not be an outcast. However, at home immigrant children are encouraged to speak their mother tongue in order to preserve their native culture, or to keep in communication with family members. Children who deal with a dual-identity can grow to have negative associations with their 1 st language and/or 2 nd language based on different situations.
4 In addition to the misconception of ESL students as being bad, I also wanted to make aware to the LIT311 students that sometimes ESL students are looked at as disabled; ESL students are not disabled! In EDU 360, we read an article titled, What Every Educator Should Know: Separating Difference from Disability by Dr. Catherine Collier. I used the author s ideas from this article and included them into my PowerPoint in order to show them how important it is to not classify ESL students as having a learning disability, but rather a learning difference. As future teachers, it will be our job to provide the most appropriate learning environment for our students, and it is not appropriate in any way for an ESL student to be classified as having a learning disability; unless of course, the student has both a learning difference AND a learning disability in which case proper action should be taken (which I discuss next). I used another article by Dr. Catherine Collier as an example for the case in which a student has both a learning difference AND a learning disability titled, Serving Special Needs Students Who Are Limited English Speaking. I included the four fallacies that Dr. Collier discussed in her article, and in order to clear up any misconceptions I went over them in depth and explained why they are not true: 1. Students with exceptionalities cannot learn two (or more) languages. I explained that the truth of the matter is that culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD students who also have a disability must learn a second language most of the time. However, if their exceptionality is that of language difficulties in his/her 1 st language, then they will likely acquire a second language very slow. This is due to the fact that second languages are better acquired when there is a firm foundation of a first language. 2. Parents of CLD students, with and without exceptionalities, should speak with their children at home in English. This is very incorrect, and parents should not be encouraged to speak English to their children if they are not proficient in the language. This will only be a bad model of English for the child and useless. The best thing that a parent can do is to provide a strong model of the child s 1 st language, because as I mentioned before, second languages are better acquired when there is a firm foundation of a first language. 3. Acquiring more than one language is difficult and can lead to academic problems. I explained to the audience that the only way that bilingualism can affect a student is in a positive way. Through research, it has been shown that there are cognitive benefits for bilingual students, and acquiring more than one language is not a burden on them. There are other positive outcomes such as social benefits and more opportunities for employment in their future.
5 4. Some bilingual students don t speak any language to a real extent and are semilingual. I told the LIT311 students to never believe such a thing! That everybody has a language, and that some people might confuse students not speaking with the silent stage, which I discussed earlier. 2.3 What Are the Roles of the Teachers??? Following the discussions about what TESOL is and who ESL students are, I decided it was time to incorporate the people who can help to change the lives of ESL students the teachers. I identified the roles of both mainstream and ESL teachers as having different areas of expertise. Mainstream teachers are experts in the content curriculum and in the case of mainstream elementary teachers, they must be masters of a wide variety of subject matter. ESL teachers are language development experts with knowledge of second language acquisition, and we must share our knowledge with our colleagues. In fact, it is not just ESL teachers who must share their knowledge, but mainstream teachers have to do this too in order to provide the best learning environment for the students. I made it very clear to the audience that the collaboration of ideas between mainstream and ESL teachers will give ESL students the best opportunity to succeed. Without communication, ESL students can easily slip through the cracks and it will ultimately be our fault that we failed to give them the same opportunity as we give our native students. I mentioned different ESL classrooms that can be found depending on different types of communities. When working in a rural setting, one is likely to come across a pushin/pull-out system in which the teacher will either push into a classroom to provide assistance to the mainstream teacher and particular ESL students that may be in that class, or the ESL teacher will choose to pull ESL students out at a specific time in order to help them in a more one-on-one type of setting. On the other hand, in an urban setting, one is likely to find inclusion classes. This is when there is a high population of ESL students at similar levels, and enough to put them all in a classroom together. In this case, the ESL teacher will teach his/her classes as a regular classroom setting which is less restrictive to the students, and help support learning. Lastly, I decided to include different methods of ESL instruction and what research has shown to be the most successful among ESL students. I used another article that we read in EDU360 titled, Reforming Schools for English Language Learners: Achievement Gap Closure by Wayne P. Thomas & Virginia P. Collier to illustrate this point. I gave the audience a brief overview of the article about the research of various schools and their particular methods of working with ESL students. I did this in order to clear up one last misconception that I believed to be important and wanted to address; that is an English-only policy. I feel that people who don t understand the acquisition of language and how ESL students work would think that forcing them to use English-only during instruction would work the best. However, English-only
6 proved to be the least successful method in the research findings. As I mentioned previously, the best way to acquire a second language is to have a strong foundation of one s first language; and using only English prevents the students from forming a strong foundation of their first language, and ultimately will be less successful when it comes to acquiring English. The best method is actually two-way development bilingual education (DBE) with content ESL. DBE is instruction that uses two languages, English and another language. In a DBE program, half of the class consists of native English speakers while the other half consists of students who are native speakers of another language. The content is learned in both languages, which will enable students to become proficient in a second language, as well as continue to develop skills in their native language. I even provided the audience with a graph which was in the article in order to show them the different success rates of particular programs studied. 2.4 Future of ESL Teachers After all of the general information about TESOL, facts about students, and the roles of teachers was provided for the audience, I decided to end things about the outlook of ESL teaching. I told the LIT311 class that ESL teachers are not going away due to the growth in immigrant population and that as future mainstream teachers they will be working with ESL students and teachers at some point in their careers. It is better to learn about what ESL means now, rather than just having it pop up in their class one day and not be prepared. I told them that, this is what I m here for today, to help provide you with a little bit of background knowledge in order to better prepare you for your future as teachers. I hope that they really take the information that I gave them to heart, and will think about some of these things in the future when they work with ESL students. 3.0 Feedback From Linda Lord s Class After I said everything that I had wanted to say to the audience, I allowed them to ask any questions that they wanted to be cleared up. This was a super experience that I thought that I would not be ready for, but much to my surprise I answered all of their questions with no problems whatsoever. Many of the students seemed genuinely interested in what I had to say, (which I loved!) and asked numerous questions some of which I have provided below (3.1). 3.1 Questions Following the Presentation So, what if a student came to your class one day and you weren t prepared? How would you explain this to your other students? I answered that although this shouldn t happen, it definitely does happen. A lot of parents of immigrant children do not know the process in which they need to go through in order to get their child registered for school. They think that they just send them to the closest school and the school will take care of it; and without any prior warning, they send their children to school. If a student were to just show up at your
7 door one day and not speak English, you should definitely call someone to come get them (preferably the ESL teacher) in order to figure out what is going on. That way, the school can hopefully get the student registered and figure out where they should be. I really think there is no explanation necessary for this case. However, if you know that you will be getting an ESL student in your room, you should maybe go over with the students about how to act and how to be polite to new people. You would want to point out that they are from a very different place and point it out on the map, and tell them that there they have a whole different way of life including language. The kids will think it is cool, and want to learn more about this new and intriguing place which would be a good activity for the whole class when the immigrant student does actually come. That way he/she would feel accepted right away instead of wondering if it s okay to be different. Should you force your student to talk and be involved in classroom activities if they are in the silent stage? I explained that the silent stage is a very sensitive stage to children. Many times, children want to be an active part of the classroom but either don t because they are terrified, or cant because they don t have the means to do so (low English proficiency). It is preferable that you try to get the student to get involved so that they don t deal themselves out, but sometimes they will refuse to do anything and that usually, immigrant children will eventually come out of their silent stage on their own and begin to gain more confidence in themselves; but as teachers, we must guide them out of it and give continuing patience and support. 4.0 Summary of the Implications of the Experience This experience was so significant and valuable to me. I learned a lot about what I know, and how I can pass my knowledge onto others. So far in my college career, I have learned so much valuable information, but have never had the opportunity to really use it for something other than papers or assignments. I now know that all of that hard work actually does pay off. Sharing about all of the things that I have learned thus far was an overwhelming, but amazing experience to have. However, I don t think that I really thought it was a big deal until it was all over. I read all of the reflections and the letter from Linda Lord, and it was all very touching. I am glad that I was able to experience teaching to college level students, and feel that this is something that I might like to do in the future teach an older audience. They appreciate your knowledge more than children because children don t recognize how much they appreciate you until a later time, I think. All in all, this experience was life-changing, and it really gave me more confidence in what I know and about what to do in my future!
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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
GENRE: Paranormal Romance
THEME: Magic/Romance/Demons
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AUTHORS BLOG: Michele Haufs' Site
His destined mate Certainly Jones has pushed it too far this time. Gnawing and clawing at his soul are the demons he unknowingly carried back from his quest into their land. Weak and exhausted, the dark witch gazes down the dim, cobbled street at his only hope—a lone vehicle with blazing headlights. Desperate, he makes a mad dash for the light, and the striking woman illuminated in its wake.
Vika senses him before she sees him. The good witch with emerald eyes and fiery red hair has never dabbled in dark magic. But one look at CJ turns her life upside down. Soon Vika is lured into his dangerous world and his powerful arms. A few sultry kisses are not enough to save CJ from his demons—it's going to take some seriously potent sorcery. And they're running out of time.
Vika senses him before she sees him. The good witch with emerald eyes and fiery red hair has never dabbled in dark magic. But one look at CJ turns her life upside down. Soon Vika is lured into his dangerous world and his powerful arms. A few sultry kisses are not enough to save CJ from his demons—it's going to take some seriously potent sorcery. And they're running out of time.
After finishing Malakai I couldn't wait to jump into Michele Haufs latest novel in her This Witchery series. Even though I hadn't read the first book I didn't feel lost at all and was able to connect to the world and the very colorful characters with ease.
This Wicked Magic follows Certainly Jones (CJ) who is a dark witch that has just come back from Daemonia. Sadly for him he didn't come back alone, demons have taken ahold of him and have made his live miserable whenever nightfall comes. But one night a demon inside him is attracted to a smell which brings him to the light of a white witch named Vika, who unknowingly is able to free him of one of his demons. Determined to get her help CJ pleads for her help, since nothing has been able to free him. Thus bringing together light and dark and two people who are so opposite but so right for each other.
Certainly Jones (by the way I love his name) was a jumbled and eccentric character. He is pretty much a mess, especially with all the demons taking up camp inside him and not being able to sleep with them taking over his body. I felt so bad for the guy; he just never knew when a demon would take over and what they would do once they did. Even though CJ is titled a Dark Witch, it doesn't make him bad, he works for the good guys but just has made a really bad decision. My favorite tidbit about CJ was that he always gave Vika strange nicknames to express what he thinks about her, such as calling her the Mistress of Subtle Yet Insistent Distraction. I just thought it was hilarious how he always gave her some exaggerated title. I felt for a male character that he was extremely unique, in most romances they are strong burly and handsome, by CJ was almost nerdy and had so many flaws even though he was good looking. I loved that most about his character, it was great to get a different type of male lead.
Vika is exactly what some would picture a light witch, clean, perfection and beautiful. Meeting someone like CJ, who is a mess and not so very clean, she is a bit taken back with him when they first meet. Her job is cleaning up for the council, cleaning supernatural evidence so that they can control what happens to their kind. My only issue with Vika was that she called CJ, dark one alot, I know it was meant as a reference to his dark magic. But it sounded odd in the sentences that it was used in, making the scene sounds a little awkward. Both she and CJ are very powerful and learn a lot from each other with magic. I loved their chemistry and how CJ gives her a little push to go outside the box of who she normally is.
Overall I felt this story was a bundle of fun and the plot twist were engaging and kept me hooked into the characters. The readers do get introduced to some secondary characters, which will be the focus of the next book. One of which is Vika's sister who is in love with an emotionless supernatural. I loved her introduction and how much she wants the attention of someone who doesn't understand love. I highly recommend this to any and all paranormal romance fans that love a good mystery, romance and hilariously well-developed character who you'll fall in love with.
This is an adult book with some sexual content for a mature reader. Fans of Kim Harrisons Hollow series and Chloe Neills' Chicagoland series will love This Witch Magic by Michele Hauf.
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You can own a new Victorian home in Lima, Montana. It is 1 and 1/2 stores high. It is in the best business district of Lima. It is just over the Continental Divde half way between the largest elk herd and grizzly population in the U.S. (The Bitterroot Mountains and Yellowstone National Park.) Yellowstone Park is only ninety miles through the Centennial Valley, (just 75 miles as the raven flies).
Lima is in the southern most part of Montana. It is a ranching community. It is a quiet, little town with delicious, cold spring water to drink. It is right at the Interstate mile marker 15 on I-15.
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The price is $118,500.
On I-15 take exit 15. Turn left at Ralph's Exxon. It is about a block down on the right side of the street just before the Lima Public School.
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Fuming Over Gas: Where the Pennies Go
With a gallon of gasoline costing $3 in much of America, many consumers wonder how the price is broken down, from oil fields, refineries, suppliers and the pump. Robert Siegel talks with Jim Haddock, vice president for retail sales of Gas America, which owns about 80 service stations and is based in Greenfield, Ind. Haddock talks about how much money the service stations are making as gas prices continue to rise.
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
With gas prices averaging close to $3.00 a gallon, drivers are thinking quite a bit about the price of gas so we thought we'd take a little time to tell you where your money is going.
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
As you might expect, most of it, 55%, goes to cover the cost of crude oil and we'll note that the cost of crude oil has more than tripled in the last four years.
BLOCK: Twenty-two percent goes to the oil refineries. Their profits have increased in recent years as well. Four percent of the money spent on each gallon goes to advertising and marketing and an average of 19% goes to taxes. That number, of course, varies by state. The federal gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon.
SIEGEL: And, of course, the retailer, your local gas station, makes a small profit, too. And that's where we go now. We're joined by Jim Haddock, who is the vice president for retail sales for Gas America, which is based in Greenfield, Indiana.
Mr. Haddock what are we talking about here? What's your margin of profit on a gallon of gasoline?
Mr. JIM HADDOCK (Gas America): Well it's very low. It's no different than it was when we sold gasoline for $1.00 a gallon.
SIEGEL: Well $1.00 or $3.00, how many pennies stick with you?
Mr. HADDOCK: Well not enough, under ten, I'll say that.
SIEGEL: Under ten cents?
Mr. HADDOCK: Yes.
SIEGEL: And when you're selling gasoline for, you say, $1.00 a gallon you make ten cents a gallon and for $3.00 a gallon you make ten cents a gallon?
Mr. HADDOCK: Well we've always, gasoline's always been marketed as cents per gallon instead of a margin per cost. In other words when the gas goes up, we don't make more profit just because the cost of goods goes up.
SIEGEL: Less than ten cents a gallon profit, is that enough to keep a service station afloat, or do you assume you're doing a lot of repairs in order to make a go of it?
Mr. HADDOCK: We don't do any repairs at all. We have convenience stores in our chain where we sell other products and services.
SIEGEL: Shall we assume that the soft drinks and the candy are more profitable than the gasoline?
Mr. HADDOCK: Yes.
SIEGEL: Really?
Mr. HADDOCK: That assumption would be correct.
SIEGEL: So you are a candy store owner with a bunch of gas tanks attracting people in the store?
Mr. HADDOCK: That's right.
SIEGEL: So to think of this as an automotive, as a petroleum industry, one branch of it, is missing the point of the business you're in.
Mr. HADDOCK: You know we need both things. It's, we couldn't run the store we run without gasoline, and we couldn't just sell gasoline without the store. So we have a nice combination of sales and if we can get a little margin on the gas, we're just fine, but we can't operate without some margin, that's the problem, so.
SIEGEL: Let's say the price of a gallon of gasoline were to go down precipitously another 50 or 60 cents less than it's selling for right now, do you assume that more people are going to pump more gas, for example? Does your volume go up if the price goes down?
Mr. HADDOCK: We've seen some decreases in our volume in the store sales and in the gas sales when the prices have moved up a substantial amount in a short period of time, such as the last 30 days. I think the biggest reason is that, you know, a lot of our customers have so much money to spend and if their budget's squeezed because they have to spend $20 more a week on gas, they give up the pop or the candy bar or the small luxuries of life.
SIEGEL: Which is your meat and potatoes there at the gas station. Yeah. You have, I assume, competition from national brand gas stations?
Mr. HADDOCK: Absolutely, yes.
SIEGEL: At what level does the differential in price between what you're charging and what Exxon Mobile is charging or somebody else is charging, at what point do you starts affecting where people go buy their gasoline?
Mr. HADDOCK: Well as independents, we've always felt like we should be a minimum of one cent cheaper a gallon than the major oil companies such as Shell, BP, Marathon. I think the consumer today is so tuned in on the price of gasoline that a lot of customers aren't really loyal to a store anymore. They really search out that lowest price for gas to save a few pennies here and there.
SIEGEL: Well, Mr. Haddock, thank you very much for talking with us.
Mr. HADDOCK: Well, thank you.
SIEGEL: Jim Haddock who is vice president of Gas America, which owns about 80 service stations. He spoke with us from corporate headquarters in Greenfield, Indiana.
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With average prices at the pump approaching $3 a gallon, filling up is causing American consumers increasing pain in the pocketbook. A look at the issues surrounding high gas prices:
Fuel Economy Tips
Some tips on saving gas — such as walking more or taking public transportation — are obvious. Others are less so. Check out these tips from NPR's Car Talk:
- Use the lowest grade of gas your car can take. Unless your vehicle owner's manual calls for premium gas, there's no reason to use it.
- Slow down. For every mile you drive above 55 mph, your fuel economy drops by 2 percent. And gas mileage tends to drop quickly at speeds above 60 mph. The EPA offers this rule of thumb: Assume that for every 5 mph you drive over 60 mph, you might as well be paying an additional $0.20 per gallon for gas.
- Drive in the highest gear you can, at the lowest possible speed. The slower your engine turns, the less gas you use.
- Don't accelerate when driving uphill -- it makes your mileage per gallon plummet. Instead, try to drive at the same speed, or even a little slower.
- Try to brake less by anticipating stops. When you brake, you waste the acceleration you've already used. Instead, try to accelerate slowly when leaving a stoplight, and then coast to the next light.
- Ditch your car's luggage rack, roof rack and related outdoorsy gear and put it away until you actually need to use it. The drag created from this gear can reduce your mileage per gallon by up to 5 percent.
- Get rid of the junk in your trunk. Every 100 pounds in the trunk can reduce your fuel economy by 1 to 2 percent.
What factors are causing gas prices to rise so quickly?
The biggest factor in rising costs is the price of crude oil, followed by the cost of refining.
If a gallon of gasoline costs $2.90 (this week's average, according to the Energy Department), crude oil accounts for about $1.60. The cost of crude oil on the futures market has risen about 33 percent in the last year. This reflects supply problems in such places as Nigeria, Iraq and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the threat of supply problems in Iran.
Refining costs add another 64 cents or so to a gallon of gasoline. Refining margins have increased from a few years ago, and are especially high this spring, because many refineries are currently shut down for seasonal maintenance. Refineries are still recovering from the effects of last year's hurricanes. And they are adjusting to more stringent low-sulfur fuel requirements and the phase-out of the gasoline additive MTBE.
The balance of the price is taxes — about 55 cents — and distribution and marketing costs, which account for about 11 cents per gallon.
OK. So the rising cost of crude oil and of refining help account for the spike in gas prices. But at the same time, oil companies are reporting record net profits. They're being accused of price gouging. What's their response?
Big oil companies are making most of their money by producing crude oil. They invested in oil fields when prices were much lower, with the expectation that they could break even at, say, $25 per barrel. Since the market price is now more than $70 a barrel, the extra money is gravy. It's like a farmer who can raise corn for $1.50 a bushel. If the market price is $1.75, he makes a quarter per bushel. If the market price jumps to $2.25, his profits jump as well. (If the market crashes to $1 per bushel, the farmer loses money. That can happen to oil companies as well.) Oil companies, like the farmer, are the beneficiaries of high market prices, but they can no more control those prices than a farmer can dictate what he gets for a bushel of corn.
Critics would say the oil industry is far less competitive than the corn market, which is certainly true. But if oil companies could control the price of crude oil, they would not have allowed the price to fall to $10 a barrel as it did in 1998.
Then who sets the prices?
Oil companies don't set crude-oil prices; the global market does. Basically, the market decides what people are willing to pay at a certain moment in time. And a lot of that has to do with the fact that the world is getting richer. Countries like India and China are growing, and that has created more demand for oil and gas. In the United States, we're still going full throttle when it comes to energy use. At the same time, there have been supply disruptions and political instability in major oil-producing nations. So you have a situation where demand has been growing steadily and inexorably, and the system of supply is quite vulnerable. That's the basic recipe for high prices.
If the market sets prices for oil, then what role does OPEC play? How does it affect prices?
Traditionally, OPEC set limits on how much oil its member countries produce in order to keep the price higher than it would be in a truly competitive market (but not so high as to encourage development of alternatives). This often worked, despite widespread cheating by OPEC members, who often produced above their quotas. OPEC's production quotas are less of a factor in limiting supplies today, since members other than Saudi Arabia are almost all producing as much oil as they possibly can.
Iraq's oil production hasn't recovered to its prewar levels. Has this had a major impact on global oil supply and prices?
Yes. In January 2003, before the U.S. invasion, Iraq produced 2.5 million barrels of oil per day. Production fell sharply during the invasion, and recovered to as much as 2.3 million barrels per day in 2004. Last year, however, Iraq rarely produced as much as 2 million barrels a day. And in January of this year, daily production was only 1.6 million barrels. By itself, this would not be a huge loss to the world market. But coupled with supply problems in Nigeria, Venezuela and the Gulf of Mexico, it doesn't help.
Some Republicans want to open up Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas drilling. What kind of impact might ANWR oil have on prices?
The Energy Department forecasts that if ANWR were opened to drilling, it would add about 900,000 barrels of oil per day to global supplies. That would just about make up for the current gap in Iraq's production. But the new barrels wouldn't become available for many years.
Are prices really that high when compared to other countries or to the gas crisis of the late '70s and early '80s?
Gasoline prices have increased sharply in the last two years. But over a longer period of time, the prices of other goods have increased even more. In March of 1981, the average price of gasoline nationwide peaked at $1.42 a gallon. If gasoline prices had simply risen at the same rate as other goods since then, the average price today would be $3.08. (Although gas prices are higher than that in some areas, the national average is still about 18 cents shy of the all-time high.)
Drivers in some other countries have it worse. Gasoline prices in the United Kingdom, Italy and the Netherlands are at least twice as high as those in the United States. (But drivers in oil-rich countries such as Kuwait, Nigeria and Venezuela pay less than a $1 a gallon for gas.)
Is there any evidence that people are starting to change their habits in response to higher prices?
When you ask drivers at the gas station, "Are you trying to conserve?," they invariably say they are. But weekly data from the Energy Department show that we're still using more gasoline than we were a year ago. It's likely that the pace of growth has slowed because of the high price.
It also appears that people shopping for new cars are paying more attention to fuel economy than they were a few years ago. Buyers of hybrid and fuel-efficient diesel cars are already eligible for tax breaks, and this week President Bush called on Congress to expand those.
The Bush administration is supporting an investigation into possible price gouging. Meanwhile, some members of Congress are talking about a windfall profits tax. Will those measures help?
The government has conducted numerous investigations of suspected "price gouging" in the past; it usually finds that market forces of supply and demand, not illegal market manipulation, are responsible for high prices. The idea of a windfall profits tax was raised last year and went nowhere. Oil companies say taxing their profits would limit their ability to invest in new oil fields or refineries, although at least one proposal, from Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND), would tax only those windfall profits that were NOT reinvested.
Are there any short-term fixes?
The market solutions are: a) increase supply; and b) decrease demand. The seasonal crunch in refining capacity should ease in the next few weeks. But unless peace suddenly breaks out around the globe, crude oil supplies are likely to remain tight. So decreasing demand is our best hope in the short run.
What about long-term fixes?
They're the same: increase supply and decrease demand. But in the long term, we have more opportunities to do this, by developing new oil fields, building new refineries, replacing gas guzzlers with gas sippers, and searching for alternative fuels.


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Wes Kemp signed a 1 year, $390,000 contract with the New York Jets, including an average annual salary of $390,000. In , Kemp will earn a base salary of , a signing bonus of , a roster bonus of , a signing bonus of , a restructure bonus of , a workout bonus of and a incentive bonus of , while carrying a cap hit of and a dead cap value of .
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Article: Why we should all be more like Liz Hurley
Check it out: Mother of three paints her laundry
Review: The Playstation 2 Console
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September time in the Western hemisphere, kids are back at school and us mums are heaving great sighs of relief that the chaos of summer hols are over. Time to have time for ourselves once again. For those of us with kids at school all day, those little windows of opportunity are swinging open. Little windows in which to indulge ourselves, to think, and to not be someone's mum for a little while.
I couldn't wait for summer to end so that I could get to work on my own big project: to learn how to use Dreamweaver, the website-authoring programme, and give my website a facelift.
It's been really tough working out how to use Dreamweaver, trying to design on a platform that is so different from the DTP software I'm used to. But I think I've finally done it! You can see the results of my efforts on:
Click on one of the features and dig my new navigation bar which took me ages to figure out!
I also learned how to view the webalizer supplied by my webspace provider. The webalizer analyses the traffic you get on your website. I was surprised by the results. Here are September's top five most-visited pages at Mum at Work:
1. Pregnancy Cartoons
2. More Pregnancy Cartoons
3. Feature: If you can raise kids you can write a story
4. Story: The Tiger's Meow
5. Story: Seal Boy
And here I was trying to beef up the Features section! Indeed, I have not included any of these pages in my revamp. But now that I know what visitors want, I'm going to spend some time improving those pages (and I'd better draw some new cartoons quickly!).
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"How women must hate her."
The husband was sneering at a photograph of Liz Hurley dangling from gym rings in spectacular gravity-defying stilettos.
But it was not the foot high stilettos that prompted his disdain, nor even the spectacular PVC swimsuit which will take its place in fashion history next to the celebrated Versace safety-pins Hurley wore to the opening night of Four Weddings and a Funeral.
It was the revelation of Liz Hurley's shiny new, flat-tummied, super-toned figure - four months after the birth of baby Damian Charles.
The brief caption somewhat snidely reported that Hurley achieved this on a diet of brown rice and steamed fish.
Should we hate Liz Hurley for having a flat tummy?
Well, although one's first instinct is to glue the photograph to a chopping board and spend the afternoon attacking it with a meat cleaver, I don't think we should hate Liz Hurley. We should congratulate her.
Indeed, we should all try to be more like Liz Hurley.
As a model, Liz Hurley's currency is her face and her body. Now, she is a single mother. She has done well to pursue the thing that defines her most. She may have had a baby - but she has not lost herself in the process.
We should all do the same. We should never forget that, before motherhood wonderful though it may be, we were individuals with our own personalities, interests and talents. Motherhood can be so overwhelming that many of us forget who we were. So instead of enhancing our identities, the babies take over.
Why should we hate Liz Hurley for achieving what she wanted to achieve? We should embrace her because she is now one of us. And just like us, Liz Hurley is going to be wiping small people's bottoms for the foreseeable future.
Have you achieved something Liz Hurley-like (not necessarily a flat tummy)? Mum At Work would love to hear from you. Reply to email@example.com
See this piece on http://www.mumatwork.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/HurleyFrameset.htm
Yes, really. And very beautifully too. Mother of three Emily Patrick is a much garlanded artist who paints life as we mums know it. Sneakers on the table, fresh faced children, a basket of unironed laundry, a chair draped with teatowels. Check out her most recent work (including the painting of laundry) on http://www.emilypatrick.com/. Or even better, visit the exhibition from Oct 7 to 19 at Air Gallery, 32 Dover Street, London W1.
I can hear your collective gasps. Why the hell would Mum At Work be interested in the Sony Playstation 2? Well, there are many reasons why mothers ought to have a little think about this contraption which has achieved iconic status in the eyes of most children under the age of 13. And yes, I confess, I recently capitulated and acquired the thing that I swore would never grace my television shelf.
My excuse is: our CD player died. And the DVD player on the computer couldn't take it anymore. And my PC was developing a phobia towards kids whose games software cause so many crashes.
I told the kids I wasn't buying a PS2, I was buying a CD player and DVD in one that could, by the way, play Playstation games. Indeed, we didn't even tell the kids we were getting it. We just set it up on the shelf and waited to see if they would notice.
So here's what they don't tell you about the PS2:
It doesn't come with a remote control though it comes with a game control. So you have to buy the remote control for £20 extra.
The remote control doesn't work unless you buy some memory, which comes for £20 extra.
The games you can buy at a discount when you purchase the PS2 are inappropriate for younger children besides being older versions of new games. We couldn't bring ourselves to buy any of the discounted games on offer.
It hums all the time. It hums so loudly you have to turn the volume up to drown out the humming.
To listen to CDs, you have to hook your TV to your tuner and speakers. When you listen to CDs, you have to switch on the PS2 (humming along), the television set, AND the stereo.
The kids fight over who gets to play what, when and for how long. For peace of mind, I have instituted a strict rota and only THREE PS2 days a week!
And here are the good things about the PS2:
It's cheaper than buying a new multimedia PC so the kids can play games.
It plays old Playstation games and the quality of gameplay is pretty slick.
The kids get a kick out of being the first people on the street to own one.
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All about EUFA Championship League
When one hears the term "football championship league the most noteworthy thing that comes to mind in general, are the English football teams present nowadays.
There are many notable teams who members of this acclaimed football game – Poland, Ukraine, Italy, Croatia, Hungary and so on. Different countries have taken part in staging the game, displaying an essential support out for these popular football games. A solitary season game can run from the month of August up to a full year, which means that football fanatics never fail to engage in their very own versions of football predictions that they would like to see. Naturally, this means that every game would be a multi-million dollar endeavor.
It is not surprising to note that in every competition, each and every nation with their players representing them, would like to the win the game all the time – of course, that is the main goal for joining a sports contest anyway. Whereas for the champion team, they have the sole responsibility to defend their title and win it back against those who would like to take it from them; suffice to say they have the largest portion of stress and responsibility resting on their shoulders out of all the players in the team. But do not think that the task of being the defender is easy, as the saying goes: you are only as good as your last performance", so all the more that they have to show that they still got what it takes to keep the award. So the challenge now lies in the team playing in the games as they need to be noticeably prominent as each and every player compete for the chance to win the games, which is quite understandable as each one of them dreams of bringing home the championship awards. At the point when the game is all about amusement, enjoyment and winning, the group is then granted a focus in light of whether they win, draw or lose the diversion.
The main team or groups who have garnered the highest number of scores are the ones who will be declared the winning team or teams, usually done once the game has totally ended. The groups who have won are therefore advanced into the higher places for the association, are supplanted in the division by the those who won as they are consigned from the base up to the highest position.
Overwhelmingly, it is all the more important for teams to perform generally better than not, as they each have the goal of winning the coveted title and get drafted into the league's greatly hyped-up association. Competition was held in various countries all over the world, not just to give them a quality game short from pulling off the hottest showdown for sports and competition but also, to ensure that the audience and fans are being checked and determined based on their behaviors and what influences them.
Both for the players and the audience's goal is to totally enjoy the game and make it worth their time and effort.


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Amazingly Easy Cookies
Recipe by Evans Mommy
A great recipe for the times you need a quick dessert but don't feel like doing a lot of work! Vary the recipe by adding your own ingredients to this 3 ingredient batter--such as nuts, chocolate chips, toffee pieces...and so on. Yummy!
Top Review by krista harberson
very delicious. i used a yellow cake mix and then threw in some chocolate pieces. because the base is a cake mix it makes the cookies maintain their moist-ness. i'm going to make the next batch from chocolate cake mix and throw in some peanut butter chips :).
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- Heat oven to 350.
- In large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients and mix at low speed until moistened.
- Drop by rounded talblespoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until set.
- Cool a couple of minutes before removing from cookie sheets.


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NEW! Tube watch S38 – Rose Gold
Regular price £269.00
We absolutely love the watch collection by renowned designer Piet Hein Eek that he has designed for Leff. The incredible stylish tube watches are contemporary, effortlessly chic with a minimalist design. The precisely cut ring and the high-quality materials used give this watch its refined, yet tough and industrial character. The tube watch S38 has a 10 ATM water resistance and a sapphire crystal lens. As opposed to the S42, the S38 is lighter and more delicate, making it suitable for a smaller wrist.
- Contents Packaging: Tube Watch | Rose Gold S38, spare links, instruction manual, warranty
- Designer: Piet Hein Eek
- Dimensions 38mm: 38mm case, thickness 11.4mm, 2,2cm bracelet width
- Material: stainless steel, rose gold
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- Crown: Screw down crown with diamond cut teeth
- Water resistance: 10ATM / 100 meter
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Rated 5 out of 5 by cakelady1951 from love it! i used around 90 size 1 diapers and made it 4 layer. For the center I used an 11" tall 3-4" round baby bottle/bank. It was the perfect item to hold all the diapers easily in place. Easy to follow instructions. I made some extra "cutouts" to add to the feet since the "cake" I made was 4 layers high. It was so easy even my husband had fun helping. The directions say not to use diapers with pictures but I already had the diapers bought. I used them and it was perfect --I thought it added some character to the cake too.
Date published: 2012-07-27
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Date published: 2011-01-17
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Date published: 2011-01-12
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Date published: 2011-01-15
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Date published: 2011-01-13
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Date published: 2011-01-13