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Recent 2016 Projects and New projects for 2017
Arab Amerian National Museum. JVA has been contracted to provide a program for visitor research studies and exhibition evaluation needs assessment for a new museum exhibition program. Services will also include consultation on interpretive exhibit planning and design based on the survey research outcomes, and focus workshop theme and objectives development. The project will run from March - June 2017.
JVA/the Heritage Interpretation Training Center presented a workshop for the Toronto Zoo Education Team on: Incorporating visitor psychology and recreational learning theory into developing visitor surveys and interpretive services evaluation strategies, presented in December, 2016.
Howell Area Historical Society, Howell, Michigan. Provide an interpretive planning and exhibit planning overview seminar for Historical Society and the Livingston County Parks & Open Space Advisory Committee. October, 2016 (Howell Depot Museum - photo below.)
Barksdale Global Power Museum (Airforce Museum). JVA has the pleasure of sub-contracting to Kaser Design to provide an interpretive planning focus workshop and interpretive plan consulations for developing new exhibits for this important military museum. You can visit this museum at: http://barksdaleglobalpowermuseum.com/.
City of Somerset, Ohio/Studio Graphique. Working with Studio Graphique, JVA will be presenting a interpretive planning focus workshop and interpretive panel planning and writing for a series of interpretive panels on Somerset historic buidlings/Sites. October/November, 2016.
US Army Corps of Engineers, Interpretive Services Course, Huntsville, Alabama. This is year 5 into our 5-year contract for developing and teaching the 4-day interpretation courses on basic interpretive services. Training focuses on interpretive theory and principles, planninng interpretive media, planning, presentation of an interpretive program, and field experience in interpretive planning at theWheeler NationalWildlife Refuge. The course is taught twice each year. January, 2017.
John Veverka has been invited to collaborate with an upcoming issue of the Gaceta de Museums, the most important journal of the trade in Mexico. John's article will address the difference between traditional museums and interpretive centers. A copy of this article is available upon request (email@example.com).
Interpretive Writing for Museum Exhibits and Outdoor Interpretive Panels (hosted by the Cranbrook House). One day workshop for MMA members. Workshop details can be found here: http://michiganmuseums.org/event-2211103. June, 2016.
Barcelona University, Spain. Provide a cyper-class by skype, for a post degree course in Ecotourism and interpretation in Nature guiding for Barcelona University. Two hours open lecture related to Interpretation and Nature guiding. April, 2016.
Kaser Design/Bachman Lake Trail Interpretive Panels Text Development. Jan/2016.
Klaipeda State College, Lithuania. John Veverka/Heritage Interpretation Training Center was invited to participate in a partnership between our organizations, in lecturing at Klaipeda State University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania. Our department delivers Tourism administration, Wellness service management and Sport and leisure management study programs. On the basis of the academic contact we have had, and having in mind your academic highlights, we would appreciate having you as a guest professor for lecturing in November 2016. Final dates will be confirmed a few weeks. For more information you are invited to visit the Universities web site at: http://studyinlithuania.lt/en/institutions/klaipedastatecollege.
Allegheny County Parks, PA - 3-day interpretive training workshop for new and seasonal interpretive staff on Interpretation and Interpretive Program Development, Boyce Park in Allegheny County Pennsylvania. May 17th to Thursday May 19th at Boyce Park. A photo of our participants planning for an interpretive project (left) and having an interpretive tour presenting experience/training (right photo).
Toronto Zoo (Canada) - John Veverka/Heritage Interpretation Training Center - Develop and present a training seminar and practicum workshop for the Toronto Zoo Education Staff on Interpretive Writing, with a practicum activity of having staff develop some draft interpretive panels. December, 2015.
Snowdonia National Park Training Center, Wales, UK. John Veverka/Heritage Interpretation Training Center will be providing a training course on Interpretive Master Planning, April 26-29, 2016, Plas tan y Bwlch, Wales. http://www.eryri-npa.gov.uk/study-centre.
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John Veverka/The Heritage Interpretation Training Center is pleased to announce that he will be partnering with Dr. Ted Cable of Kansas State University to offer our Interpretive Master Planning Course through KSU's Global University program (A Campus without Boundaries) for three (3) Semester Hours of college credit. The Interpretive Master Planning Course will appear in the KSU's Spring 2016 Catalog. For more details on future registration information for our 2016 course please contact Dr. Ted Cable at: email@example.com. You can visit the Global Campus web site at: http://global.k-state.edu/.
Exhibit Professionals Group Workshop, Michigan. John Veverka/Heritage Interpretation Training Center, will be presenting a one-day workshop on "Planning Truly Interpretive Exhibits", to be held at the Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, Michigan - October 23rd, 2015.
Museum Study - is an organization whose mission is to help staff in small to medium museums and heritage sites build a better cultural institution and be a stronger member of the team that carries out the mission of their institution. To accomplish this, Museum Study provides online professional development training courses on a broad range of topics important to running a cultural institution. JVA/Heritage Interpretation Training Center is pleased to be working with Museum Study to offer several 4-week long training courses in Heritage Interpretation, the first course being "An Introduction To Heritage Interpretation" that will be presented in November, 2015. You can learn more about Museum Studies diverity of Museum Management and Curation courses at their web site: http://www.museumstudy.com/. JVA interpretive courses planned for 2016 include "Interpretive Writing" and "Planning Truly Interpretive Exhibits". Details on the Introduction to Heritage Interpretation course and other courses: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/.
Lower Colorado River Authority/Matt Kaser Design - Matagorda Bay Nature Park Interpretive Plan and Exhibit Concept Design Services. JVA was pleased to join with our long-time interpritive design partner Kaser Design (http://www.kaserdesign.com/) in providing interpretive planning services for the Matagorda Bay Nature Park, in Texas. You can learn more about the Nature Park here: http://www.lcra.org/parks/developed-parks/Pages/matagorda-bay-nature-park.aspx. This first project phase was completed 15 June 2015.
You can reveiw the interpretive exhibit concept design plan here: www.issue.com/interpnews.
Association of Cultral Heritage Managers - Budapest, Hungary. John Veverka presented a workshop on developing visitor survey research/questionnaires for the Association of Cultural Heritage Managers - Buddapest, Hungary, to develop market/visitor research for the Budapest World Heritage Site. The workshop included discussions on visitor research practices, developing survey research plans and related visitor research studies and had course paritcipants actually conduct a pre-test visitor survey program. 13-15 June 2015. John's participation was funded by a grant from the US Embasy in Budapest, Hungary.
Workshop participants and team members involved in developing
their visitor survey instruments.
NAI 2015 Great Lakes Regional Workshop. John Veverka had the pleasure of presenting an interpretive workshop session on "Interpretive Planning - What Interpretation Can Be" at the workshop. If anyone would like a copy of the presentation paper feel free to ask. 24 March 2015. The NAI Regional workshop committee did a wonderful job in putting this multi-day workshop together - it's quality reflected all your hard work - thank you. jv
Ellanor C. Lawrnce Park (Fairfax County Park Authority, Virginia). Presented a two day interpretive training program on Interpretive Exhibit Planning and Interpretive Writing for Park Authority Staff, June, 2015. You can visit this amazing park here: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/eclawrence/
Workshop participants working on mock-up exhibits (left ) and presenting their exhibit
deisgns and strategies to other course participant teams (right).
Lithuanian National mission for UNESCO/National Focal Point for Cultural Heritage - Two day conference on Capacity Building Training in Communication and Management of Trans-boundary Properties. John Veverka was invited as a presenter for this conference for training on the role of interpretation in communicating and managing the trans-boundary World Heritage Sites in the Baltic Sea region and to increase public awareness, involvement and support for the World Heritage. A lead partner was "Kursiu Nerija" (Curonian Spit) National Park and World Heritage Site (managed by both Lithuania & the Russian Federation) - http://www.nerija.lt/en. 28-29 September 2015.
One of the dramatic sand dunes that makes up the 50 miles of the Curonian Spit (left) and JV with other seminar participants on the top of one of the larger dunes (right).
Leslie Science & Nature Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan. JVA was awarded the contract to develop the Interpretive Master Plan for the Leslie Science & Nature Center. The plan included several elements including: Developing a draft feasibility analsis for a new Nature Center, analsis for development/modifications for their "Critter House", review/development of a site signage plan, and analysis of the LSNC marketing plan and materials. The project was completd in March 2015. You can visit the LSNC at: http://www.lesliesnc.org/
Xochicalco World Heritage Site, Mexico - Interpretive media and services assessment as part of an evaluation team from the "Seminario Permanente de Museologia en America Latina" seminar,
October 25, 2014, State of Morelos, Mexico. Full interpretive master planning is scheduled for late 2017.
Developing an Interpretive Systems Plan for the total Metroparks of the Toledo Area system of parks. Starting in 2014 JVA will be developing the Interpretive Systems Plan for The Metroparks of the Toledo Area. The project will continue through 2015. To learn more about interpretive systems planning JVA has a publication on developing interpretive systems plans that we would be happy to e-mail you (as a PDF). You can contact JVA at: firstname.lastname@example.com
CH2MHILL National Park Service IDQ. JVA is a team member with CH2MHILL in their recent award of an Indefinate Quanties Contact Award with the NPS. JVA will provide interpretive planning/design services as needed over the 5 year IDQ award period.
US Army Corps of Engineers. JVA was awarded a contract to totally re-vamp the interpretation course - Interpretation for Supervisors, Managers and Team Leaders, for the 2015 training seasons. This included a new schedule of instruction for the 4 1/2 day course and a new course manual. January 2015.
US Army Corps of Engineers, Interpretive Services Course, Huntsville, Alabama. This is year 4 into our 5-year contract for developing and teaching the 4-day interpretation courses on basic interpretive services. Training focuses on interpretive theory and principles, planninng interpretive media, planning, presentation of an interpretive program, and field experience in interpretive planning at theWheeler NationalWildlife Refuge. The course is taught twice each year. The first 2015 course was the week of 26 January, 2015 (class photo below).
Snowdonia National Park Training Center, Wales, UK. We have scheduled our 2015 courses (Interpretive Master Planning in March and a new course TBD October) - watch this web site or contact us for details. You can visit Plan Tan y Bwlch training center in Wales - UK at: http://www.eryri-npa.gov.uk/study-centre. Look under Professional Courses.
Korea National Arboretum. JVA, working with Dr. Ju-Hee Lee of Daegu University (Korea), began working on a new project for the Korean National Arboretum in 2012, developing an interpretive training program/exhibit planning training program, for Arboretum Staff. I will be working on a strategy for training people who want to be an expert on Interpretive Education and Exhibit Planning in Arboretum settings for the first phase. Current work includes developing the full curricula for the training program as well as lesson plans, teaching aides and related materials, all of which will be translated into Korean. I just finished my new book "An Interpretive Trainers Handbook" which will be incorporated into the training program. The project was completed in 2015.


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Religious Education
Religious Education is provided in the school within the framework of the LA's Agreed Syllabus, in accordance with the 1988 Education Act. RE is concerned with "learning about religion" and "learning from religion". RE must 'reflect the fact that religious traditions in Great Britain are in the main Christian whilst taking account of the teaching and practices of other principal religions in the country'. Therefore in KS1 children concentrate on Judaism and Christianity, whilst in KS2 the emphasis is on Islam, Sikhism and Christianity.
As part of their learning we aim to give the children the opportunity to;
- develop an understanding and knowledge of the world's major religions
- begin to appreciate how religious beliefs affect the values and lifestyles of the people who hold them
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Parents may, if they wish, withdraw their child from RE lessons, but must inform the school in writing of their intention. In such cases children will be provided with supervised work in a classroom.
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Each day the children take part in a Collective Act of Worship which, in accordance with the Education Reform Act 1988, reflects the broad traditions of the Christian faith, incorporating, amongst other things, song, story and time for prayer/meditation/reflective thought. Themes are drawn from the Christian and other religious traditions supported by themes linked to the Secrets of Success and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Collective Worship at our school is led by the Head Teacher, other school staff and visiting representatives from local churches or other organisations.
We believe that it is very important to learn to respect each other's views and values and our daily collective worship establishes a firm basis for how we live together in our school and in the wider community.
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I have a confession to make – this came off the loom a few months ago and I have been so busy using it to keep cosy on the couch that I forgot about sharing it. Not that I ever share it. With anyone (except Smudge the cat who insists!).
Anyway, I saw this amazing super-chunky yarn at the shops around six months ago and loved it, but couldn't quite figure our the best way to work with it. A few months later and it came up on sale so I did what I often do – bought it and told myself I'd figure out the 'how' stuff later! Well I came across it in the stash during a cold snap and couldn't walk away.
It was a delight to weave with a grew so very quickly. I used a double-weave technique to weave two layers of cloth with a join on one side (as you can see from the picture on the left) which takes away the need to stitch two panels together. Once off the loom the chunky yarn looks like basket weave, but I have to say that it does shed fibres all over the carpet. Even after a few washes it still leaves it's mark, so despite it's good looks it isn't a yarn I would used to create blankets for sale, but I still enjoy it myself.


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Temple Grandin's compilation of success stories from adults with autism and Asperger's syndrome.
One of the most important missions Temple Grandin has is making sure people with autism and Asperger's make something of their lives. As Temple points out, "Being on Social Security is NOT a job choice."
These unique individuals often have great potential in parts of their minds that neurotypicals never even start to tap. This needs to be shared with the world.
However, in order to share their hidden genius, they have to overcome many social obstacles. The stories of these crusaders, handpicked by Temple herself, show how it can be done.
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But when groups hate stuff happens, protests, riots, rebellions, even civil war. Those who once were allied can get so angry at each other that there is hard conflict, involving damage – even death and destruction.
Today there is deep, loud outrage, angrier than in a generation or two ago. Bad things happened, because some are actually fully committed to hate. That means anger happens. People have died.
150 years ago, America had about 30 million people – and about 5 million of those were enslaved by about half of what made the United States. For the first century of America slavery was an overwhelming focus for those who ran the new country. Beatings on the Senate floor, lunatics killing people, not to mention a huge and growing abolition movement. No compromise worked, despite extreme effort and commitments over 70 years.
So we killed 600,000 of us and slavery was ended. But the losers kept their weapons and their governments, there were no exiles, executions, imprisonments, attitudes were not changed, just power – America make illegal all the reasons for having slavery, and went on to win the West, ride the Industrial Revolution and become the last standing World Power. Then 100 years after the Civil War, we tried to match that change in the strictures in our national law beyond the Bill of Rights that made race explicitly part of our belief in freedom.
But history is forgotten in hatred.
For some, it's as if the Civil War never happened, let alone 1968: Human fear immediately leaps to hatred, and people die.
Upon winning the Civil War, should we have burned all losing flags, melted all sculptures of those who fought to believe in slavery, outlawed the words we hated, made the reasons themselves for the Civil War illegal to express? Winners can do that. It would have precluded many things we spent the next 150 years dealing with, but it also would have changed the reason the country was founded. The freedom to do arguably wrong things legally was why we broke away from England – if we were a colony, we were only there to feed the King. To that king we were wrong to want to have freedom, so we grew to hate him, and anger ensued, then war. We no longer had a King and imperial control, we ruled ourselves.
We were soon no longer colonies. We also came to change America so there were not 3 types of humans: no slaves, and owners of slaves and and those who tolerate slavery – just one country of humans – ultimately gender was removed from classification too – without a war. But even with all this history, we have not realized that hate kills, regularly.
I have never owned a gun or wanted to, but I understand that freak show. I have never smoked anything, but understand why cigarettes are legal. I also have no experience with drugs other than booze, but understand making heroin illegal. So I get the hatred of dehumanization, of prejudice, even the hatred of hatred. But I lose understanding at anger.
I do not feel anger to those names on the book jacket I saw yesterday, but I hate what the names mean for my profession. But no anger, the book should not be burned.
I understand the hate of today and the summer of 1968, but I do not think this anger is Ultimate, unprecedented, or even us at our worst. That was the Civil War. And we are no better than them, by the way – history is the facts that reveal our commonality, good and bad. We seem to be able to control what we create – government, laws, social systems – but we cannot seem to create ourselves into those who do not hate – or are hated.
The last time we nationally rallied against hate to the point of war in 1941 we had over 4 times the population, but lost 1/3 fewer folk than we did in the Civil War, and fought no battles on our soil. That Civil War was only understood better 30 years ago when music, words and pictures of a PBS TV show made millions know what had always existed. But our memories are short. We do not live history.
We have a lot of hate – so much so that sometimes anger, and death, happen. History reveals that – if we can listen to it.
It's easy to blame everyone but ourselves. History is just facts that show that while hatred is inevitable, anger is not – but left to its natural progression anger leads to death.
It's a fact that we hate. I hate, you hate, but history shows what the results are if we hate to the point of anger. We just have to be smart enough to see that the facts show that hate kills – if you forget history.
I Loathe Fantasy Football
Fantasy Football is perfectly named. It's surreal to the point of fun.
Football has 11 players on defense and 11 players on offense.
Fantasy football has one defensive entity that is judged by its stats – like a quarterback rating for for a whole NFL team's defense.
Fantasy football evaporates 5 players on offense: all the linemen. The rest play for any team and have only the computer-aided stats to distinguish them.
There is no coach, no special teams, no character, no emotion, no reality other than stats. It's a fantasy of those who follow anything, but do not have to understand it. Strategy, emotion, group love is the essence of sport, especially football – those are not found in the Fantasy version of football.
You just combine stats and make a "team" then you see how that does as the stats create their own stats. It's very separate from the sweat, sound, noise and fear that is down there on every field. It's literally a Safe Space of no consequence.
"Be a Boss!" declares NFL hype on the promotion of their Fantasy Football machine. You are not a player but you are their "Boss". Now it's just fun, it's a way to go deeper into a natural affinity with football. But it's a sham, and a misrepresentation.
Focusing on names, numbers, measurable is the antithesis of sport. The unspoken connection, irrational hope, deep interpersonal devotion is the unseen cause of those numbers, and in their absence, the reason those numbers are missing. Fantasy Football assumes all is equal, and absurdly reduced to sound bytes.
I do not conflate – you can chew the fun of Fantasy and yet walk the talk of being part of a transformative dedication to the sport: but for many it's substitutional.
Many of my friends truly believe they display a deep connection with football by being able to know stats and guess results. Football is raw pain and consequence: stats are the froth atop its essential humanity. Fantasy Football is a distraction from the humanity that lives in the sport.
And within that human side there is the intellectual reality of strategy. The great stats, or the absence of stats are due to how these names are actually used on the field. I know great pass catchers receive fewer passes from not great quarterbacks – runners cannot run with ineffective linemen. The gifted Fantasy player will note that those tangibles are part of who you choose as your player. But the stats ignore their group generation – so Fantasy Football lives in sad ignorance of what makes the sport what is loved by those who played, coached or know the game.
But if you never played, had a loved one who played, let alone coached, the idea you could sense a connection to anything but the game of Fantasy Football itself is a sad delusion. The problem is pain hurts. Working out to get in shape is hard – it makes you sore, even injured. It controls your life. Then if you compete in practice, you hurt on the first contact. And you can be deeply embarrassed at your inadequacy. It hurts.
Games can hurt more. Strangers see you. You unadequacies wreck others' hopes. Of course success elevates, inspires, validates. But, in sports, in music, in anything, real competition means real failure as well as success. Now ESPN will have a YouTube/Punk'd version of the consequences for the losers in Fantasy leagues: absurd simulated tortuous imposition for the lowest point getter in a group – the "Fantasy Fail" moment..
Maybe it's just the inadqucy of life in a virtual, social media world, where I type this alone after working out alone, connecting with others alone that leaves so many with just a simulation of a larger connection. Maybe the overt substitution of pretending to be an epic loser, of being a "Fantasy Fail" on ESPN, gives a taste of the risk and pain football mandates – without the danger of actually being hurt.
Is being whole and inconsequential better than being broken and in the game? For most, I guess it is…
One Meal A Day
4.5 months ago I was just fine.
But then, at the Spring Solstice, a 61.5 year old blood tube decided it's inadequate middle layer had performed as long as it could: it blew, the tube blew, part of my brain was flooded and I lost (only) balance. https://savedbydesign.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/thrombus/
It was back in 10 days.
But in the 100 hours in Yale New Haven Hospital it was clear that my blood pressure was too high, and that I had gained about 5 pounds a year for a bunch of years since I had lost 1/3 of myself 10 years ago; https://savedbydesign.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/"why-am-i-soft-in-the-middle-now-why-am-i-soft-in-the-middle-when-the-rest-of-my-life-is-so-hard"-–-paul-simon/ putting about 2/5 of the 1/3 I had lost back. Not good.
Entitlement is the evil twin of success. I had controlled what controlled me: fat. So with that "victory" I grazed for 9 years. I knew there was no "win" – that there is only struggle. But I limited that struggle to relentless working out, and not eating crap. But I ate too much not crap. Through the fat creep I worked out, at least an hour a day, at least 5 days a week. So I was fat and fit.
But that blood pipe was not.
The larding up danced with the now age-increased blood pressure to blow this tube out. The hyper vigilance of Yale Hospital's Chief of Neurology and her flock of physicians determined that I had no history of, and no existing, and no future of, veinious malfornation – after lots of hours viewing by many people of many (many) tests. However the first test of my weight was not unexpected but it did set a directive. Not from my doctors: From me. To me.
I was determined that amid the absence of balance that I would get that lard off me, but unlike a decade ago, I was working out more, not less. https://savedbydesign.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/a-crazy-way-that-worked/ A decade ago, my radical methodology curtailed my available energy. I could not accept that today – my twin enemy to my lard lard was my blood pressure. I wanted to reduce that elevated pressure, and kicking it every day in the barn helped: recumbent, bow flex, and until I broke it, the elliptical. Instead of at least an hour it was an hour and a half, instead of 5 or 6 days it was 6 or 7 days a week. I have missed 6 days of exercise in 14 weeks, all due to business.
But that extra work out just meant a pound or 2 a month off if I ate as before. Defendable, but not enough.
There were evils in my eating. I binged Triscuits. I often had calorie laced skim milk and juice. Sometimes butter. And I had desert. Those went. But that reduction in scope, maybe, nailed another pound a month and I needed to lose scores of pounds. Scores of months would not cut it.
Since I dropped the 1/3 a decade ago, I yet grazed and lunched at a minimal level. The mouth toss here, the cookie for lunch (total). (I never ate breakfast). So that ended. I have had perhaps 10 lunches in those 14 weeks since the event: all due to social necessity.
And, voila: the One Meal A Day routine. But more than just eating once a day: a 23 hour fast every day. Food freeze out. Sacrifice. But not nuts.
My diagnosis saw no issue with drinking, so once or thrice a week I drank around 500 calories of booze, but I lessened salt without urging, and ate more vegetables upon another doctor's urging (diuretic impact). Although it was fine, coffee went away: I needed no monkeys riding my back.
In the isolated daily meal I was careful: not junk (less or no: fried, sugar, empty carbs, butter) – but it was not measured, calculated, obsessed over – the meal was enjoyed.
If I had one full real meal it could barely reach 2,000 calories and often less without desert or fluids with calories. If I was burning 500 calories a day, that meant a net 1,500 calories were eaten a day, max. This regime kills over 1,000 net calories a day from the 2,500 daily calories I need to maintain my weight, fat or less fat. This meant losing over 2 pounds a week, and, duh, I am down over 30 pounds in 14 weeks, and will kill 20 more.
An interesting consequence that my heart rate was 60-70 beats per minute as tested a jillion times in the hospital. Now it's around 55 beats per minute, often lower…
Did the added work and less food reduce pressure? Sure: over 3 months crushing it, I went from 150-160 to 130-140 in the early AM – normal, but not normal when the up fluctuation during the rest of the day sent it over 160 without med's. I learned that a normal morning pressure is inoperative once your old man upside pressure is revealed later in the day.
So I failed.
So I take med's.
As I write this I do a one week a year special edition: vacation.
Eating is a joy, and part of my 7 days off involves diving into great grub 3 times a day. But I try amplify to work out to over 1,500 calories a day, tripling my workout schedule, because, well, I eat like a (hungry) pig. It has worked in the past: no gain, but this year, I am a little more careful. Let's see if this works.
Like everything else.
I guess I am a little more careful for the rest of what life is left…
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Aqua Vista Summer
I think it was 1966.
It was August because my father always took the month of August off in the 30 years I knew him. By being indispensable as the lawyer to a Greek American family at a time of crisis in 1960 (the death of a brother), he was offered a sweetheart deal to obtain said dead brother's vacation house in the Aqua Vista Association near Danbury, Connecticut.
He had 3 kids in private school at the time, including me, so it was a reach – despite the low cost. It was a small lot with an upside-down 1940's cabin: bedrooms on the lower level (tiny), kitchen, living and bath on the upper level – maybe 1,000 square feet or less, total.
It was the next step. Though older than most Greatest Generation compatriots, 50 at the time of the purchase, a decade earlier earlier my father and his wife had obtained a nice place in what he called a "second rate" town – a suburban home in Westchester County. In the early 1960's he had a lovely wife and 3 kids, oldest going into boarding school, the younger boys in day school.
Now he had the second home.
The idea was a version of East Hampton or Tuxedo Park – the second home. This was a very modest comp: it was a sea of small retreats, close together' huddled on the big Lake Candlewood, fraught with powerboats. Ours was a box clad in bark-edge Fir Slab clapboard siding, fully creosoted. For the first years of ownership I was dispatched first to Hackley Day Camp, then Incarnation sleep away camp – each for two years of July's.
I applied myself to both: first obtaining "Marksman First Class" in "22 Rifle" target shooting (after humiliating degradation by a counselor at 7), then, at Incarnation, I made "Junior Lifesaver" at 10. I always wanted to justify my parents' paying to send me to these remote, exotic places – not that far from Dobbs Ferry, New York.
But after those July's each summer I had August at Aqua Vista. Mostly reading comics and walking to swim at the lake. There was no social life. Essentially it was my parents taming the landscape and home after 30 years of neglect, barbecuing and drinking. Mostly Miller Beer. My brother was there mostly, but I do not remember my older sister being there.
Then my mother decided she had made enough as a decorator in 1965 that they could could build a wing into the Aqua Vista house: an addition that turned the existing living room into the Master Bedroom and bath and added a vaulted living room on the other side of the existing kitchen.
"FirZite' white staining of the Texture 1-11 plywood interior walls and new Slab Siding, with old and new exterior completely coated in a grey stain/paint. There was a new large concrete block chimney and firebox at the gable end. It was a fun winter watching construction. The money ran out with the fireplace unclad, with steel strips hanging out from the mortar joints between the concrete block.
So the spring saw my father and I stealing field stones by the side of the road and tossing the stones in the trunk of our 1958 Fleetwood Cadilac to be serially offloaded in Connecticut. My father, having worked for the Carlin Construction Company that had employed by Grandfather Harry while in school and college and law school, knew how to build things.
So in the summer of 1966 I spent August standing next to my Dad for 6 or 8 hours a day as he mixed concrete and set stone facing upon the concrete block mass. My job was to choose the stone and clean it, and has the stone rose, hand my father those same field stones as he stood upon the ladder.
It was a bizarre counterpoint to the raging Vietnam War, and to my rebelling siblings – not there I think. My brother was working at 16, and my sister had quit high school before graduation and drove to California. So it was the three of us.
On off days and evenings I would still hit the beach, alone and swim off the mortar.
But at the end of the day, and the end of the month, the fireplace was done. I was praised as "a great help". I had done the right thing, unlike my siblings. I had hewn to the role of the good son – supporting, following experienced direction.
I greatly missed Incarnation Camp where I had been the previous summer. Apparently there was no thought of that expense once the Aqua Vista addition was envisioned. Two years of playing with my peers and being chosen to paddle down the Connecticut River was not only an honor, I was the youngest, so it was a point of pride.
So in 1966 I settled for the pride of pleasing my parents. My absent siblings found a place for themselves in disappointing them. Then, 3 years later, I was shipped to Buffalo in the wake of a crashing decade of family failure. The Buffalo house was financed, ultimately, by the sale of the Aqua Vista house and fireplace – a couple of years after my sister had used it to have secret meetings with her future husband in the absence of the rest of the family.
Being alone is not tragic. Making things is good. Comics and swimming are a good way to spend a summer at 11.
But I wish I knew why any of it happened.
"That Giant Sucking Sound…"
It was the spring of 1992. I was having lunch with my mother and my brother in Westchester County. I have no idea why.
I had served as the Executor of my father's will, managed the sale of his stamp and coin collection, helped my mother sell the family house, help her create a revived one. The were a lot of reasons, but my wife was home in Connecticut with our babies.
As usual there were gaps in the conversation, and at one point I piped up "Isn't that Perot weird?"
A fevered look came across both faces, it was a time that Ross Perot had ascended to 25% as a third party candidate in the presidential polls for the coming election. Perot had surfed many interviews on The Larry King Show, banging on the piñata of George HW Bush. The courtly WASP president was uncomfy being a pol, but had crushed Irag when it swiped Kuwait, outraged others by raising taxes, and was a World Order patrician, buying into the the Great State of America leading the world thru the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Bush was elected in 1988, according to an employee of mine, to simply be the third term of Ronald Reagan. That is why my mother voted for him (and Dukakis was a vole-ish presence). I do not think my brother ever voted.
So I was more than surprised as they both blurted, loudly, in the Hilton Inn in Tarrytown, New York "We Love Perot!" The uninimity was not surprising. They had always talked. And drank. And smoked – late into the night upon my brother's visits from Buffalo, especially since his estrangement from his first wife.
"Oh" I profoundly retorted. They launched into how lame HW was, how Clinton was a fake mess, how Ross hated NAFTA, how we should have stayed in Iraq (even tho Ross was against the Kuwait war) and how he, he – he "really understood how much this place is screwed up!"
No logical, measured defense of the prez or even the explication was offered by me of how Perot was a freak, offering progressive views of social things and yet isolationism in a time when the rest of the planet had the Steaming Soviet Carcass to deal with – yet he wanted a huge tax on capital gains and the rich and putting tariffs on imports deionizing the federal deficit.
At one time there was a poll that said 39% of America was in favor of Ross Perot. Just like Trump now. There are now any number of times the "Oh" argument has been presented by me to rabid "Make America First" enthusiasm and outrage.
Perot lost steam after getting a temporary bounce from the debates, ultimately getting 19% of the 1992 election. An oft-cited analysis cites that it was not a factor in HW's loss – but it's clear he drew moderate support, and new voters, and I have always thought that his candidacy was a cherry on the cake of a "No New Taxes!" Dessert to his four years.
But now my mother is almost 20 years passed, my brother became my sister 15 years ago, and 39% of America supports Donald J. Trump. My mother had been a fan girl rabid supporter of Wendell Wilkie, I do not think my brother had ever voted before. But next presidential race Ross ran again, got half the votes despite declaring that black helicopters from the Deep State wrecked his daughter's wedding. I did not ask, and do not know if they voted for him again.
Families and politics are inscrutable. Both mother and sibling loved and love the Episcopal Church, deeply – as I do, so that bullet was dodged. But the most soothing balm to the irritation of salvation prescriptions is our astrangement. My support of mother was kept at a distance until her death, because, well, her marriage always trumped any dealing with the trauma of our childhoods.
And I have not spoken with my now sister in over a decade: despite scores of mailings and some early invitations: all unresponded to. My "Oh" response was for almost everything in my relationship with my family's revealed distinction from my understanding, let alone support and embrace.
I did all the Good Son Duties through my mother's death, but I never offered argument, contrast, or insight – my view was always to keep the rest of the world away from our fragile, broken family life – a life 20 years ended by the time my mother died.
Like families, the politics of the moment change. I know, first hand, the anger of many I love, most in a rage at the insanity of the Game Show, others at the obvious essential change to the disruption of the wrecking of America.
That does not means that I do not wince, now, when I hear again the 25 year old love of my Mom and brother for Perot in my memory…


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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I know it's a little late but I was ill just after Christmas and have only just started to feel better. Unfortunately I spent my New Year in bed watching films instead of partying so I have no New Year OOTD's to show you. However I thought I'd update you all and let you know I'm still here!
This picture, is me just before I went to a Christmas Party. The dress is from Miss Selfridge, I didn't buy it too long ago but you can't seem get it now. I loved the sparkly peter pan collar over the lace and I paired it with suspender tights and shoe boots, which I couldn't fit into the photo! I want to wear it again already! I did my nails in a dalmatian print which was surprisingly easy to do and I may do a whole post on them soon.
At the moment I'm writing a few more blog posts so expect to see them soon. I may even schedule them which is a first for me as I get over excited and want to post them all straight away! My New Years resolution is to blog more as I love it and always take photos but never find the time to upload them. I can't wait to see what 2012 brings, hopefully it's a good year!


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|Michelle Rodriguez
Degree: B.S. - Health Science, Saint Mary's College of California (2016)
Area of Emphasis: Public Health, Health Education, Exercise Science, Sports Medicine
Practicum: TBD
About Michelle: Michelle's interests in Public Health developed when she traveled to Rwanda. Michelle was immersed into a severely underprivileged area but learned the value of community work as well as the importance of health. Through this experience Michelle became deeply passionate of the Public Health field and is now inspired to make changes in the health system. She hopes to one day start her own non-profit organization to support communities in receiving the knowledge and resources to live a healthy lifestyle, with a focus on providing clean water to underprivileged areas. Michelle has also worked as a patient advocate at Highland Hospital where she is able to support patients in getting the necessary health resources they need. Through these experiences Michelle has gained a deeper understanding of the importance of health. In the future Michelle hopes to apply to medical school.


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Can I obtain my social worker license with 3 DWIs?
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johnnyboy in Ashburn, Virginia
76 months ago
I recently received a third conviction for Driving While Impaired. I was contemplating applying to an MSW program. Will it be a waste of time or will I be able to obtain a license in any state?
socialwkr in Missouri
76 months ago
Johnnyboy, it will definitely depend on the state board who licenses social work and the social work school you are trying to get into. Some social work schools require background screenings as part of the admissions process. I think for the most part all social work schools tell their students that before their block internships, that we have to meet the agencies requirements for criminal background checks. It could get difficult for someone trying to find an internship placement with a conviction history, especially based on the clientele they may be looking to work with.
This is from the rules/regulations for Missouri, to give you an example.
Johnnyboy in Ashburn, Virginia
76 months ago
Thank you for your prompt response. Your information was very useful. I actually spoke with a social work licensing board member on the phone yesterday, and she pretty much echoed what you indicated.
I think my best option is to continue with alcohol treatment and work on my Master's in Psychology and then apply to experimental doctorate psychology programs. The time required to complete these degrees will allow for the charges to become older and maybe I can explain my stupidity to potential employers in higher education as youthful indiscretion.
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76 months ago
Johnnyboy in Ashburn, Virginia said: Socialwkr,
I applaud you for seeking alcohol treatment. Your openess and awareness of these issues will go along for you in whatever you decide to do. I had the pleasure of meeting a wonderful clinician who had overcome drug and alcohol problems in their past. They are a very effective practitioner because they have been on both sides of the coin, so to speak.
We all make mistakes, the key is that we work on not continuing with that same trend. The fact that you have chosen to go to alcohol treatment will help you in showing that you are seeking to better your issues.
Time will definitely be on your side as you said.
Best of luck! And stick with it!!!! Another tip is that the other person I was talking about also became a mentor after completing their alcohol program....they continued with AA and became a mentor. So it will definitely help if you continue with becoming involved in something like that too!
johnhardin in Ashburn, Virginia
76 months ago
mangomango in Birmingham, Alabama said: Youthful indiscretion? You've had 3 DUIs! It's gone further than that. Do you not even care that 3 times (3 times you've been caught at least) you've been stupid and selfish to put other peoples' lives in danger? You should be in jail, not out driving a car.
My "youthful indiscretion" comment was not an attempt to belittle my actions. I agree that my actions were extremely selfish and irresponsible. Certainly, I care that my actions could have caused great harm to others, and I very thankful that I did not cause such harm. Obviously, I have an alcohol problem, and I voluntarily decided to seek intensive outpatient treatment to overcome this issue in addition to the alcohol education program mandated by my state of residence. Additionally, I spent 15 days in jail, lost my privilege to drive for four years, and was fined a substantial amount of money for my actions. You may feel that these sanctions are not sufficient, and maybe they are not in all cases. However, I have learned my lesson. Yes, it took me getting arrested three times, but it takes some people more time to learn from their mistakes than others.
johnhardin in Ashburn, Virginia
76 months ago
socialwkr in Missouri said: I applaud you for seeking alcohol treatment. Your openess and awareness of these issues will go along for you in whatever you decide to do. I had the pleasure of meeting a wonderful clinician who had overcome drug and alcohol problems in their past. They are a very effective practitioner because they have been on both sides of the coin, so to speak.
I really appreciate your positivity. I recently joined an AA group, and I am looking forward to sharing my experiences and learning from others with my problem. Thank you very much for not being judgmental! You sound like an excellent social worker!!! :)
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A delicious pasta salad using bow-tie pasta. It is great as a side dish or as a light lunch. As with any pasta dish, the longer you allow it to marinate in the refrigerator the better the flavor will be. The recipe doesn't call for salad to marinate in the refrigerator but I recommend it. (Recipe courtesy of Olivia Hines at AllRecipes)
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A friend made this for us and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it! If memory serves I think she added snow peas as well. Not your typical pasta salad.
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- 1⁄4 cup sesame seeds
- 16 ounces bow tie pasta
- 1⁄4-1⁄2 cup vegetable oil (I use 1/4 cup but the recipe called for 1/2 cup)
- 1⁄3 cup light soy sauce
- 1⁄3 cup rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 cups shredded cooked chicken breasts
- 1⁄3 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 1⁄3 cup chopped green onion
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- Heat a skillet over medium-high heat. Add sesame seeds, and cook stirring frequently until lightly toasted. Remove from heat, and set aside.
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta, and cook for 8 to 10 minutes, or until al dente. Drain pasta, and rinse under cold water until cool. Transfer to a large bowl.
- In a jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine vegetable oil, soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, sugar, sesame seeds, ginger, and pepper. Shake well.
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Lee Der-Huey, Chief Education Officer & Liaison Officer of Yuqi Technology Co., Ltd. participants
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The 4th Global Economic Leaders Summit (GELS2015) & Forum of International Collaboration on Production Capacity, co-hosted by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Development and Reform Commission, Jilin Provincial Government of China and Asia-Pacific CEO Association, was held in Changchun City, China, from August 30th to September 1st, 2015.
In the morning, Mr. Bayin Chaolu, Secretary of CPC Jilin Provincial Committee, and Mr. Ma Junqing, Executive Deputy Governor of Jilin Provincial Government met the leader of Asia-Pacific CEO Association and representatives of the summit on Aug. 31st.
The Opening Ceremony was moderated by Mr. Zhao Biao, Deputy Secretary-General of Jilin Provincial Government. Important speeches were made on the Opening Ceremony by Mr. Ma Junqing, Executive Deputy Governor of Jilin Provincial Government, Ms. Susanne Kurz, Former President of Federal Council of Austria, Mr. Zhang Jun, Director-General of Department of International Economic Affairs of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Mr. Liang Linchong, Deputy Director-General of Department of International Affairs of National Development and Reform Commission of China, and Mr. Zheng Xiongwei, Global Executive Chairman of APCEO. Besides, Mr. Eamon Gilmore, Former Vice Prime Minister of Ireland, along with some heads of state and relevant government officials attended the Opening Ceremony.
Mr. Eamon Gilmore, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland, moderated the Keynote Speech. Main speakers included Dr. Matt Wang, Vice President of IBM, Mr. Siu Ngan Tse, Vice President of Hewlett-Packard, Mr. Niyazi Faruk Arig, Greater China President of Henkel, Mr. Yan Xuan, Greater China CEO of Nielsen, Mr. Stephen Phillips, CEO of China-Britain Business Council and other high-level executives from Fortune 500 & Forbes 2000 companies.
GELS2015 had about 600 attendees from over 60 countries and regions, including heads of state and relevant government officials, high-level executives from Fortune 500 & Forbes 2000 companies, chiefs from famous international organizations and industry associations, renowned economists, experts and scholars.
The theme of GELS2015 was "Promoting Global Science and Technology Innovation & International Collaboration on Production Capacity for Economic Transition and Upgradation". Two Dialogues were held during the Summit, namely, Panel Discussion on International Collaboration on Production Capacity and Dialogue on Emerging Industries & Technology Innovation.
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"sAid" Can Revolutionize the English Language Teaching and Learning across the Globe
(Summit Theme: Global Technological Innovation & Cooperation, World Economic Restructuring & Upgrading!)
By Dr. Lee Derhuey,Chief Education Officer, Beijing Jinyun Technology Co., Ltd.
Respected Mr. Governor Jiang Chaoliang, Mr. Chairman Zheng Xiongwei, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon!
First of all, I must thank our host Governor Jiang Chaoliang and Chairman Zheng Xiongwei for inviting me over to attend THE 4TH GLOBAL ECONOMIC LEADERS SUMMIT.
Education is talents creation's cradle; the talents are key to a nation's rise and fall; the nation that wishes for prosperity must provide good education. The communication among nations around the globe, official or nonofficial, mostly depends on the English language as the communicating tool; in the international contacts and communication process, an effective platform for technological innovation and cooperation to the full extent is bound to promote world economic restructuring and upgrading. "sAid"―the English Teaching Platform is one such effective platform!
Given the importance of the English education, nations across the globe all invest greatly in time, manpower, money and resources to undertake the research and reform of English teaching.
The most direct expression of the English language lies in English listening and speaking ability. In China, a nonnative-English-speaking language environment, to improve English listening and speaking ability is required to rely on more and more English teaching and learning environment. In the past, many teachers attempted serious efforts at lessons planning and teaching, but usually got half the result with twice the effort, academic performances of students therefore were not noteworthy.
How can anyone help teachers better teach English listening and speaking courses, meanwhile to also reduce the burden of the teachers' lessons planning, and present good teaching performances, to finally further revolutionizing the English language teaching and learning across the globe?
Beijing Jinyun Technology Co., Ltd. joins hands with Peking University and Tsinghua University to first, in China, lead the reform of teaching English listening and speaking, where Mr. Yu Minhong, the president of China's largest English language training company, New Oriental Education and Technology Group, not long ago actually attended "the Joint Press Conference of Beida―Jinyuan sAid Scientific Research Project" speaking so highly of "sAid."
Please bear with me watching the following two related television news films in Chinese:
1. http://www.centv.cn/news/folder211/2015/06/2015-06-25113963.html
2. http://my.tv.sohu.com/us/262199561/80681398.shtml?qq-pf-to=pcqq.c2c
Combining the world's latest cutting-edge technology, information and IT with education, researching and integrating multimedia engine, pronunciation engine, recognition engine, cloud technology, communication engine, and multiplayer online educational games engine, etc. we also develop "the Independent Learning Center Platform" and "the One-to-many Synchronous Platform of Teachings, Evaluations, and Lessons Planning," which make full use of the existing professional language classrooms, and create for students a professional learning environment of pure English listening and speaking. Having achieved the two-way constant interactive communication, teachers―through the whole class' synchronous training and unified evaluating, with the results being immediately sent back and sorted―can get a grip of each and every student's learning situation, and take into account each and every single one of them to achieve "individualized" effect, only by then can Confucius' "providing education for all people without discrimination" be sublimated into "teaching students to perfection without discrimination."
In a nutshell, "sAid"―the English Teaching Platform holds the unique edge, where any user who adds whatever English contents needed, after saving the file, can be automatically taught listening, speaking, reading, writing, testing, and translating, with the choice of adjusting language speed, to realize human-machine interactive learning. sAid's pronunciation is more accurate than 95% of Americans and Europeans.
Here and now, I, on the behalf of Beijing Jinyun Technology Co., Ltd., would like to make an announcement that, in order to set an example to others, we are more than willing to make a free offer of 960,000 RMB worth of 80 full-version sets of "sAid"―the English Teaching Platform to Jilin Province's 80 elementary schools, or 80 junior high schools, or 80 senior high schools, but there has to be an enterprise relatively donating 800,000 RMB to support the 80 English teachers to come to China's best university Tsinghua University (Peking University) to take 5-day "sAid" English training, this 800,000 RMB also includes supporting:
1. 80 teachers' 5-day fees for bed, food accommodations and transportation in Beijing.
2. 5-day fees for English listening and speaking training by Foreign Languages Department's full-time professor(s) in the morning.
3. 5-day fees for "sAid"―the English Teaching Platform's applied training by Dr. Lee Derhuey in the afternoon (I shall make a donation of the entire fees in support of public welfare).
4. 5-day fees for training classroom(s) rent.
5. Fees for 80 notebook computers.
6. Fees for 80 "sAid"―the English Teaching Platforms and chips (including 2-year free warranty and upgrade).
Hopefully, under the aegis of APCEO and caring enterprises, we three parties can and will share with one another's resources, on the basis of benefiting English teaching among Jilin Province's elementary schools and high schools, so as for us all to play a certain role in the English language teaching and learning for mainland China and even for the whole world.
We, in the meanwhile, also hope to offer cooperation and service for those who are in the English education business across China, together dedicating our best efforts to the cause of uplifting English teaching and learning standard.
Last but not least, this method of exchange and cooperation cordially welcomes provincial/municipal governments and all kinds of enterprises registered in China to take part in, too. We Jinyun promise to send 80 local teachers to Tsinghua University (Peking University) to study or hire professors from Tsinghua University (Peking University) to go there conducting "sAid" English training.
Thank you all, ladies and gentlemen!
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The Fargo Season 4 release date has not been canceled completely despite reports to the contrary. Creator Noah Hawley hopes to see Fargo renewed in the future and has been dispelling rumors that audiences will never see future Fargo cast members in the fourth season.
The idea that FX networks had Fargo Season 4 canceled started out back in May when chief John Landgraf commented that there "may never be another Fargo."
"Unless Noah has an idea for Fargo that he thinks he can make as good as the prior three," Landgraf said. "I think once people get to the end of this [Season 3] they will find that it is thematically different. It's really about the moment we live in now."
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