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Ebb tide
When most folks think of cabaret, I expect the image that comes to mind is that of a single performer backed up by a piano, possibly augmented with bass or percussion. That's certainly the most common arrangement but, as singer (and visual artist) Dionna Raedeke and guitarist Mike Krysl will be demonstrating this Friday, it's by no means the only one.
A relatively new addition to the St. Louis cabaret scene, Ms. Raedeke has garnered raves for her singing and musical taste. "Dionna is one of my new favorite singers," says actor, singer and teacher Jason Graae. "Her voice has such a haunting beauty and it comes directly from her soul." New York-based singer, songwriter and music director Rick Jensen—who accompanied Ms. Raedeke for her 2011 show Sight – Sound—agrees, describing her as a "vocally compelling and consistently original in her performance."
For her new show, titled Ebb and Flow, Ms. Raedeke has put together an evening in which the sound will be acoustic, the mood mellow, and the song choices rather different from the Great American Songbook standards that are so often associated with cabaret. Expect 70s rock, contemporary singer/songwriters, and even some new tunes. Ms. Raedeke, with a nod to her visual artist side (and with tongue somewhat in cheek), describes the evening as a "carefully curated" one that features "everything from Pink Floyd to PINK."
Expect arrangements that will make you re-think familiar songs as well. An inventive musician who lists influences as diverse as Robin Trower, Django Reinhardt and Leonard Bernstein, Mike Krysl has often impressed me with both the ingenuity and virtuosity of his inventive and original takes on rock and pop standards. I remember being particularly blown away by what he and singer Shauna Sconce did with some of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon at their recently concluded monthly sessions at The Wine Press.
"Mike Krysl's sound is taut, deep and brilliantly soulful," says local cabaret artist Katie McGrath. "Dionna's voice is plaintive, joyous and straight-arrow true. My favorite musician with my favorite singer. And the angels smile." As someone who has been both a critic and performer on the local cabaret scene for many years and who has had the pleasure of seeing both Ms. Raedeke and Mr. Krysl in action, I heartily concur.
The one and only performance of Ebb and Flow is this Friday, August 9th, at 8 PM at The Chapel, 6238 Alexander Drive at the intersection of Skinker and Wydown. A not-for-profit music venue, performance space and art gallery, The Chapel has played host to a number of cabaret shows over the last few years. It's an attractive, unconventional space in a quiet residential neighborhood that provides its services free to local musicians as part of its mission to support the arts in St. Louis. I think that's pretty admirable and worth supporting.
Tickets, which are available at the door and at ebbandflow.brownpapertickets.com (along with some free sample music tracks), are $20 and include two free drinks. Parking is free as well. Come on down Friday and smile with the angels.
Spring Forward
Palm Springs-based cabaret artist Jerome Elliott is making his St. Louis solo cabaret debut this Saturday (June 29) at 8 PM at the Chapel with "My Favorite Springs," produced by Mariposa Artists. But Mr. Elliott's relationship with St. Louis goes back several years. He sees St. Louis, in fact, as "the birthplace of my work in cabaret" due to his participation in the St. Louis Cabaret Conference in 2007.
"Prior to the 2007 workshop," he said in an email interview, "I had done a couple of cabaret shows in Palm Springs, going by instinct only. The first St. Louis year propelled me to dig deeper into the craft and led me to the Yale Conference in 2008. In turn, the Yale Conference made me want to investigate even more, which brought me back to St. Louis in 2009. Since then I've created five original shows that I have performed in Palm Springs, New York, Seattle and Los Angeles. I would not have accomplished that without the work I did in St. Louis."
Mr. Elliott also appreciates the vitality of the St. Louis cabaret scene. "I look at the St. Louis cabaret community," he notes, "as a model for keeping this art form moving forward. As a direct result of the annual workshops, you have created a very supportive and nurturing environment for cabaret. Through social media, I've kept up with many of the friends I met during my two visits and I admire how many of you have continued to study and grow. I am amazed at the breadth and frequency of cabaret activity that goes on in St. Louis." Indeed, he asked Katie McGrath (of Women Under the Influence) to do an opening set for his show here precisely "because she exemplifies what I like to call the Spirit of St. Louis."
Based on an earlier Palm Springs show, "My Favorite Springs" pays homage both to the season spring and to the famous hot springs of his hometown in the California desert. The eclectic song list spans eight decades and includes works by Noel Coward, Lerner and Loewe, Rodgers and Hart, Harry Chapin, William Finn, Amanda McBroom, Gordon Lightfoot, Steve Marzullo, Mark Campbell and Jerry Herman. There's even a number (Coachella Valley Blues) with lyrics by Mr. Elliott himself.
Music director and pianist for the show is Jasmine co-founder and Webster University faculty member Carol Schmidt, whose work is frequently scene on local cabaret stages. Carol is also the music director for The Cabaret Project's monthly open mic series at Tavern of Fine Arts
Mixing a rich baritone with a sly wit, Elliott has received accolades for his performances in New York (The Duplex), Los Angeles (M Bar), Seattle (Julia's and Egan's), as well as at many cabaret venues in the Palm Springs area. His work in Southern California music and theater has garnered seven nominations for the Desert Theatre League's annual Desert Star Awards.
Mr. Elliot, though, says he thinks of himself primarily as "an actor who sings" rather than a singer per se. "I've learned that one of my natural abilities is story-telling. I like to give myself leeway to improvise within the patter. I love to write patter and a good third of my show consists of talk."
"My Favorite Springs" bounces on to the stage at The Chapel, 6238 Alexander Drive in Clayton, on Saturday, June 29, at 8 PM. As its name implies, The Chapel is a converted chapel that now serves as both a performing arts venue and a gallery space, which makes for a very friendly and mellow vibe. For more information: brownpapertickets.com; look for event 365191.
A league of their own
|The view from the stage
If the rest of the League of American Orchestras conference here goes as well as the special St. Louis Symphony Orchestra concert they saw tonight did, it will certainly be a week to remember. Maestro David Robertson conducted a very full program (two and one-half hours with intermission) that showed off the orchestra's versatility: arias and overtures by Mozart and Wagner (with powerful performances by bass-baritone Eric Owens) along with Sibelius's 7th symphony (which still sounds strikingly original nearly 90 years later) and John Adams's flashy but (to my ears) rather empty "Doctor Atomic" symphony.
There was heroic work by the brass and percussion in the Adams and fine playing all around. The string sound in the Sibelius was particularly striking.
After a week in Fort Worth for the Cliburn Competition and another week in Boston for the Boston Early Music Festival, it was nice to settle back with the home town band at Powell Hall—even if I am more aware of its acoustic shortcomings as a result of my travels over the last twelve months. It's still a lovely space and, to quote a Tom Lehrer lyric, "what the hell, it's home."
Concert review ON AN ON, Dots Not Feathers and Royal Canoe more than pass their audition at the Demo, Monday, March 18
The Demo feels like a church's basement. Visitors to the club enter another dimension where worship is optional since a basement avoids the light of day.
It could be a storage center, a meeting place for Girl Scouts, maybe a bootlegging outfit back in the day. Although the building it anchors is meant as Holy ground: a basement can duck that dogma.
The Demo's size lets it behave unlike larger venues. There is a walkway from the ticket counter to the stage created by a brick wall and the very bottom of stage right's rafters. The tunnel blinds all peripheral vision. Once out of the tunnel, when 180 degree vision has returned, there is a merch table to the right and another vendor — a woman selling lighters. Look up and left; there is the bar. Turn around and get the first look at the stage. It stands chest high with monitors placed on its edge. It can be leaned on with arms crossed and chin rested. It is probably the most comfortable front-row in St. Louis. The venue holds, maybe, 150 people.
I stood there for the last two songs of Dots Not Feather's opening set. They may have followed Samuel Fickle, a local singer-songwriter and forlorned lover of maligned folk, but the show felt like it started when Dots Not Feather's shot into "There's a Ghost." DNF grafts afro-jazz beats onto pop melodies and Dirty Projector's-esque hockets and three-part harmonies. Singer/guitarist Stephen Baier's guitar parts were highlighted by the uneven mix. His parts are not fidgety, but roam at an urgent pace. With Dots Not Feathers, Baier certainly has something to say.
Benefitting from DNF's chromatic arrangements, Royal Canoe played to an audience of 50 warmed up for a lesson in music theory. Approximately six synths were placed around the stage — at least three were stacked before keyboardist Matt Schellenberg. With the dexterity of a forest-dwelling monkey, Schellenberg navigated each individual synth portion and backing vocal opportunity with precision. The entire band, for the matter, cut like a blade tracing the bones of hydrogen's atomic skeleton.
The myriad of tracks that dance throughout Royal Canoe's compositions sounded enchanting. I have sparse notes from the band's set from being completely subservient to the sound. The heady mix of afro-infused double percussion and '90s hip-hop synth tones in bizarre time signatures left me spellbound. Topped by the sub-octave vocal cutter used by lead singer Matt Peters, the songs were multi-textural and sounded unconventionally brilliant.
ON AN ON are brave for following Royal Canoe, for the latter played a set of headlining caliber. As the main drawl, ON AN ON, played a nonchalant set of gauzy dungeon pop. Often compared to Beach House, ON AN ON,'s debut "Give In" is less prone to sleeping in the clouds. Every song was tethered to the ether by guitarist/singer Nate Eiesland's safety-knot guitar patches. Ryne Estwing's full-voice falsetto on "Bad Mythology" was as calculated as Eisland's guitar parts — timed all too-well within the track and attention giving, and getting, live.
ON AN ON did not have the life-springing zest of Dots Not Feathers and Royal Canoe. Born from the fallen seeds of Scattered Trees, they induce epiphanies. Royal Canoe carried on like the conscious thought aware of its deftness. Not a hair was out of place during that set. It made ON AN ON's set, and the night at the Demo, all the more successful, and finally conclusive.
Concert review: Kentucky Knife Fight (with Pretty Little Empire and the Ladybirds) release new album to a packed house at Off Broadway on Saturday, March 2
First, let us get the obvious out the way: I love Kentucky Knife Fight and I'm not the only one. The St. Louis band receives plenty of press from local media and beyond, so why do we need another Kentucky Knife Fight concert review?
Well, it is because the band fucking rocks, as does its new record, "Hush Hush," which was released this Saturday to an Off Broadway packed with adoring fans, family, whiskey swillers, balcony perchers, PBR tippers, hipsters and bar-rock aficionados. Lead singer Jason Holler and company performed at top form; it could not have been a better night to be a Kentucky Knife Fight fan.
St. Louis' Pretty Little Empire opened the evening promptly and brought a set of tunes that warmed the crowd as more fans trickled in pairs and threes. Soon, the floor at Off Broadway was obscured, with people standing shoulder to shoulder, watching the flush-faced lead singer/acoustic guitarist Justin Johnson as he belted out the shimmering melancholy of his well-crafted tunes.
During "You Can't Have It All," from 2010′s "Reason and Rooms," lead guitarist William Godfred pulled glowing tones from his distorted guitar, which created a glimmering bed of melody to complement Johnson's David Byrne-influenced singing.
"All I Know" burst at the seams thanks to the tight drumming of Evan O'Neal and Godfred's scoping guitar-sparkle. During the chorus, Johnson sang, "'Cause I know what it's like to feel alone," just before a huge cymbal crash and wall of sound from the rest of the band. Pretty Little Empire left the stage after a quality set that pleased the hometown crowd.
The Ladybirds, which could be referred to as Kentucky Knife Fight's Louisville, Ky. sister band, took the stage after Pretty Little Empire and rocked a set that included elements such as the glittering sequins of lead singer Sarah Teeple's flowing mini dress, a tiny tambourine, a tattered jean jacket, a gold-sparkle bass, a leather jacket, a shirtless Brett Holsclaw on drums, mutton chops on dual keyboards and enough traditional-greaser-punk-rock-doo-wop to rocket regional pomade stock prices into the stratosphere.
With the exception of a few slow numbers, which Teeple dedicated to "all the dirty birdies" in the crowd, The Ladybird's set was relentless, raucous and energetic. The five-piece band crashed through "Lights Out," "Shimmy Shimmy Dang," "She's Alright," Billy, Billy, Billy," and "Hum De Dum" as head-banging, jiving and swing-dancing fans struggled to keep up. The band's stamina was as impressive as their rocking late-night-diner-style tunes.
Concert review: A quadraphonic rock experience with Acid Baby Jesus, HellShovel, Little Big Bangs and Demonlover at the Heavy Anchor, Friday, March 1
If there's a musical touchstone that links Acid Baby Jesus, HellShovel, Little Big Bangs and Demonlover, it's American psychedelic music — kinda.
Each band has its own special relationship and secret handshake with that sound though. Another thing links them: they're all really confident, good bands.
With typical who-gives-a-fuck bravado and youthful ebullience, Little Big Bangs bursted into the first songs of the night at the Heavy Anchor with an audience of about five people. The Big Bangs members write some really good songs, but watch them play live and you get to experience something unique and contradictory: they fuck up pretty often, yet they give the impression that they've been around forever. It's a jangly swagger that lives in great rock bands — there are no mistakes, it's rock 'n' roll. Lucy Doughtery and Ryan Macias and Eric Boschen all yelled lyrics over one another, a guitar launched into a song prematurely, an amp went out, who cares. When these guys looked unsure, they still smiled, most of the time looking at drummer Drew Gowran (the rock solid core of their live show) to hold it down, which he does. And they do.
HellShovel played next, and it was a nice switch from the full-on fuzz and spit of the Big Bangs to this quieter, drugged-out sound from Montreal. It was the best set of the night. Through their command of dynamics, HellShovel's songs and ideas got through to the crowd (and by now, it was a crowd) most successfully, like an electric current. Each song was fairly predictable in structure — something like double-lead riff-intro, verse, chorus, riff-bridge, verse, chorus, done — but this may have lent to the crowd's big, lovey response.
Like a million great bands that don't deserve it, HellShovel is frequently lumped into the garage-rock genre, but they share way more blood with Moby Grape than the 13th Floor Elevators. Each song is propelled by truly great riffwork, Jeff Clark's vocals are right on, and Bloodshot Bill's drums are great in that they just showcase how great Dox Grillo's and Clark's riffwork is.
Greece's Acid Baby Jesus delivered the biggest, rocking sound of the night, but something about it all was kinda unremarkable. Their songs limbed out from singer Noda's cool, trebly vocals and the bassist's solid grooving lines. After the reigned-in sound of HellShovel, Acid Baby Jesus's frayed-edge songs felt a little lost in the echo chamber that is the Heavy Anchor. That said, people loved it and danced their asses off. I was glad to see St. Louis warm up the room so well for these faraway dudes.
Demonlover, the phenomenon, played next — the only band of the night to neglect the tall stage for the floor. Something separates Demonlover from the other bands that played this evening (and pretty much from any band I've ever seen) that I can only explain as the band's constant action toward redefining band-music and what a "band" is. Add to this Demonlover's weird, perfect sense of timing as St. Louis audiences are ready for something completely fresh and strange.
Enter Andy Lashier, the sneakily overpowering personality/philosopher behind the band, omni-melodic-instrumentalist wizard JJ Hamon, and the sheer exuberant drum-power of Sam Meyer. The sound is spread way out, allowing great strange territory to open up for Lashier's more detached Rick Danko-esque vocal explorations (in English, French, yelling, whatever). This, and the unstoppable drumming, are really the only constant sonic elements song-to-song, show-to-show. Last night the band released its first recorded material, a full-length cassette tape, but no one should be surprised if nothing they played live sounds like what's on the tape.
Concert review: Willie Akins and the Montez Coleman Group define the sound of St. Louis at Jazz at the Bistro, Saturday, February 23
The "late" set at Jazz at the Bistro starts at 9:30 p.m., about the time other jazz clubs are getting ready to open.
The Bistro does call itself a listening room — not a club — a place where besides a few aspiring players and Webster jazz students, the listeners are what the jazz demographic has become over the years: people interested in what they call culture, dressed on the conservative side, listening quietly, one glass of red deep, and sometimes a little tired.
And there's Willie Akins, one of the greatest active tenor players of his generation, sitting wide and stately in a small chair onstage, his eyes deep and distant. He and the band surrounding him represent all that is real and good in St. Louis jazz — no-bullshit, solid stuff, rooted in the blues.
It's a multi-generational and undeniably great band made up of elite, St. louis-grown (though not all-born) players: co-leader and drummer Montez Coleman, bassist Bob DeBoo (who you can see every Friday night playing at Mangia with the Dave Stone Trio), vibraphonist Peter Schlamb, and guitarist Eric Slaughter. With Akins blowing the sole horn in the group, the sound is spaced-out and dynamic, not so different from the musical effect of a trio.
This spacing also allowed each member ample room to open up and find the grooves in their solos. They started with a busy Victor Feldman tune (didn't catch the name) that Schlamb carried with his brainy, more-is-more approach to the vibes — angular showers of notes punctuated by weird rests and sudden chordal counter-melodies. The crowd got into it.
Next, the group shifted fluidly into a funky Yusef Lateef tune called "Nubian Lady." Coleman settled way deep in the backbeat, sometimes stretching the straightforward 4/4 groove to its extreme limits and driving it home with lightning handwork. Here, it became clear that the rhythmic chops of Coleman and DeBoo were at least as important to each tune as Akins' solid swing. Slaughter, who's made a name for himself playing with Bobby Womack and the O'Jays as much as in jazz, complemented this and every tune of the night was his jabby rhythmic riffwork.
On Errol Garner's ballad, "Dreaming Over You," Mr. Akins found his best solo of the night. Akins seems to favor the roominess of more straightforward compositions for soloing, which allow his dry, bluesy tone to resonate, his strong harmonic ideas to take shape even over Schlamb's sometimes meandering vibes-accompaniment. I could finally confirm the critics' comparisons of Akins to Coltrane in that he is a comfortable master-balladeer. Coleman and Schlamb put down there sticks, allowing DeBoo's tender, tune-closing solo to hang soulful over the room.
During the last few tunes, Montez Coleman invited various buddies onstage to sit in, including an incredible, ambidextrous, 15-year-old drummer named Christian McGhee. What the set lost in momentum, it gained in making the room more friendly and loose.
All the players, foremost Mr. Akins, are humble men and great teachers, perhaps the two most valuable and respected aspects of great jazzmen: the elite who welcome everyone onstage, no room for stuffiness.
Concert review and set list: A perfect 10 from So Many Dynamos and Née at Off Broadway, Friday, February 1
A blue haze descended over Off Broadway as an ocean-colored light collided with the milky fog of a smoke machine. On cue, New Order's "Blue Monday" somersaulted out of the overhead speakers. Whether by serendipitous chance, or true fate, Friday night's So Many Dynamos and Née show was destined to be flawless.
Half an hour after doors opened, Off Broadway was pressed for capacity. Droves of young St. Louisians buzzed about the venue and added an electric current of positive vibrations. They bore drinks in hand, mostly the free Schlafly provided by promoters Do314. They flitted around the venue, spoke to friends, acquaintances, people they did not know. Overheard: "It's a St. Louis music family reunion! You can quote me!" They were treading towards boorish benevolence at a steady pace.
Mic Boshans of Née and Humdrum began the record spin. He pulled from a stack of records, eyeing his choices with care prior to greeting them with the needle. His pragmatic choices were well received. Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" was followed by instrumental numbers with rattlesnake-shimmy percussion and bass that fluttered. Clayton Kunstel of headliners So Many Dynamos would spin next. His first choice? A brilliant segue into his band's and Née's sense of percussion-driven electro-pop: Chaka Khan's "I Feel For You." His propulsive choices added aural fuel to the liquor fire that brewed inside Off Broadway's patrons. So Many Dynamo's frontman Aaron Stovall jumped in, air drumming all the way to Prince's "I Wanna Be Your Lover."
The show marked two achievements for the two bands: 10 years of making music for So Many Dynamos and a 10″ vinyl release of the "Finches EP" for Née. Appropriately, Née opened its set with "Spiders" from the celebratory EP. With David Beeman on guitar and adorned in an industrial-strength onesie, and Boshan on percussion, Née frontwoman Kristin Dennis moved in staccato breaks between her two synths. She popped her voice off with the whizz-bang of a Bop It toy. Her herky-jerky shoulder shrugs and hand gestures caused the black fur on the coat she was wearing to shake like a live animal. For a moment, it did look as though she were wearing a bear cub on stage. A rainbow strobe emphasized her dance moves, as if mirroring her limbs with every song.
The crowd boogied like separate atoms readying the abandonment of a greater mass. They turned and twisted in every which direction, never unified but caught by their own inhibitions. One young man spent most of the set with his back to Née wriggling his body around like a wet noodle. He ceased his loose gyrations during "Absolom," the first track from the "Hands of Thieves" release. Perhaps enraptured by the ethereal choir of voices backing Dennis, he appeared absorbed: A noodle resigned to blissed-out attention.
During "Let's Get Drunk and Kiss," a song the band recorded for KDHXmas 2012, an odd thing occurred: Normally eloquent friends began to spew gibberish as the night gained momentum. St. Louis natives adopted New Jersey accents. As with any good party, everyone seemed ready to abandon responsibility. Libations aplenty, we were buzzing before So Many Dynamos took the stage.
"That's, like, seven Go-Pros taped to a mic! That's why it is taking so long!" It was the best explanation I received for the wait between Née and So Many Dynamos' sets. True, there were about seven microscopic videocameras duct taped to a microphone stand in front of Stovall. Regardless, 20-or-so minutes feel like a lifetime when anticipation is so high. We are spoiled by So Many Dynamos. We come to expect a hootenanny that would make Bacchus red with shame. Hence the whines during the wait time: It hurts to want to dance so much.


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Salisbury Community School is located in Salisbury, VT and is in Salisbury School District. It is a public school that serves 96 students in grades PK-6. See Salisbury Community School's test results to learn more about school performance.
In 2011, Salisbury Community School had 10 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The Vermont average is 12 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
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Mexican Summer have some fine artists on their roster including Best Coast, Tamaryn, Dunes and the latest to come to my attention No Joy.
I posted about their amazing first 7" No Joy / No Summer a while back. No Joy will be in my tracks of the year. fuzzy vocals and a thumping frenzy of feedback. It's simply superb.
Thus my hopes for the LP are high, we got our first snippet of it today. Listen to "Heedless" below:
No Joy - Heedless by morrisday
There's a more laid back shoegazey feel and it's not quite so franetic but I still like it and can't wait to hear more. Give it a spin and get the No Joy 7" for guaranteed satisfaction.
Album Details:
No Joy - 'Ghost Blonde'
*release date is November 16th, 2010
Pre-order from Mexican Summer
01 Mediumship
02 Heedless
03 Maggie Says I Love You
04 You Girls Smoke Cigarettes?
05 Pacific Pride
06 Hawaii
07 Indigo Child
08 Still
09 Untitled
10 Ghost Blonde
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The Logic Level Converters are these https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8745
I had buzzed out the connections high and low side, so I am pretty confident they are behaving normally.
The module is powered from the 5v bus on the arduino, however I have just checked the 3v3 max current draw an its 50mA max from the Arduino, however the specs show it can draw up to 69mA in active sensor mode. That also doesn't take into account the current drawn by the Level Converters either.
Looks like I will have to sort out a breadboard psu and a 3v3 arduino so I can stop using those level converters and clean up the wiring.
I suspect this project needs to be paused until the above are sourced. Thanks for all your help so far, I will keep everyone updated.


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Police seized tools, electronics and even the front door from the home of a Williams Township man who died last month under suspicious circumstances.
Michael Muretta, 47, was found covered in blood in his home on Morgan Hill Road on Aug. 29. He died a few hours later at St. Luke's University Hospital. His death was deemed suspicious, but nearly a month later the Lehigh County Coroner still hasn't ruled on how Muretta died.
According to state police, deputy Coroner Rick Pender said that circular abrasions on Muretta's face and head may have been caused by a hammer.
The search warrant application released earlier this month says police were looking for "potential weapons used to inflict injuries."
And according to the Express-Times, court documents said that's what investigators took away from the scene: numerous tools, including a hammer, pliers, screwdrivers and scissors.
They also took phones, three computers and a number of prescription medications.
Muretta had lived in the home since 1998. He was part of a group of residents fighting the expansion of the nearby Chrin landfill.
His death was the second one investigated by authorities in the township this year. In March, resident Mark Werkheiser was shot and killed at his home. His ex-girlfriend has been charged with his death.


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Group Exhibition: Composed: Identity, Politics, Sex, The Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Avenue at 92nd Street, through June 30.
An exhibition of photo-based works by seven contemporary artists examines national, ethnic and sexual identities. Selections from Debbie Grossman's My Pie Town re-envision Russel Lee's iconic Depression-era photographs of a community in the American West as a fictitious parallel reality populated exclusively by women. Collier Schorr questions notions of identity through a staged photograph of androgynous German youth dressed as Israeli soldiers, and Rona Yefman portrays an elderly Holocaust survivor performing in drag in front of a Warhol painting in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Group Exhibition: Everything That Rises Must Converge, Hart Gallery, 950 Hart Street, No. 103, Bushwick, Brooklyn, weekends only or by appointment through April 29.
Hart Gallery presents a group exhibition of work by six photographers who explores the character of their own neighborhoods. These photographers create narratives about what exists in their immediate communities, such as Irina Rozovky's series of painterly photographs, In Plain Air, which captures the multi-ethnic inhabitants of Brooklyn's Prospect Park experiencing family unions, social gatherings, romantic trysts or tranquil moments alone at resonant times of day bathed in the beauty of natural light. Other participating photographers include Heyward Hart, Michael Lopez, RaMell Ross, Trevor Powers and Andrew Laumann.
Interactive Performance: Brunch N'Jam, The Art Pop Up Shop, 672 Driggs, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, April 21, 2 – 6pm.
The public is invited to enact their rock star fantasies with Amanda Keely's installation, Action Symphony, at the Art Pop Up Shop in Williamburg on Saturday, April 21st. Also on view is a current exhibition of work by Mika Azegami, Thomas Brodin and Joe Caswell. Refreshments and small bites will be served by charcutier Herve Katz.
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Ellie Harrison, Tea Blog
It was suggested that I research the artist Ellie Harrison, as her live archiving projects are relevant to the project I am about to undertake.
I came across "Tea Blog", a 3 year project in which Harrison recorded and archived the thought that was most on her mind every time she sat to drink a cup of tea.
There are 1,650 thoughts recorded on the blog.
I particularly love that you don't have to read all the entries to gain an understanding of the project and imagine yourself having to do this whenever you drank tea. It's very inspiring, and made me wonder whether I should try a website instead, but due to a very limited understanding of website design I should probably stick to what I know best: books.
Anyway, click here for Tea Blog, and enjoy!
Capturing Moments
We have been working at creating our own briefs for this module, taking forwards the strongest ideas from our last project. I have now put together a very interesting looking brief titled "capturing moments", which will involve a lot of experiments in recording, cataloguing and archiving events. The final project will result in a book containing documentation of the next few weeks.
Capturing Moments – BAFA103
"Basically, I want to look back on this time and be able to recall every single detail."
During this project I will create a documentation of my personal life in the form of a printed book. I will be gathering, recording and documenting thoughts, actions and items meticulously, including times (to the nearest second).
I will first experiment with different forms of documentation, including photography, automatic writing or streams of consciousness, record keeping, tally charts, graphs and meticulous description.
I will then move on to collecting a week of this documentation on a tablecloth with a permanent marker. I will be limited to only writing and drawing on this table cloth with the permanent marker and will not write in my diary, but straight onto the tablecloth. After the week is over I will document the tablecloth as an artefact and then continue to document different aspects of my life in different forms.
I will be archiving present objects, and creating sentimental value where there is none.
All these ideas will then be curated into a book, which will serve as a kind of "journal" of this moment in my life.
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Legal Overview of the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) Scheme
Author: MacRoberts LLP www.macroberts.com
Terminology used in this note
Terminology used in this note is used for convenience and abbreviation, and is different from the terminology used in legislation and guidance.
"FIT" means feed-in tariff.
"Generator" means the party installing the equipment which will generate the electricity attracting FIT payments - for example, in a domestic situation this would often be the property owned.
"Installation" means the totality of the equipment installed by the Generator which is used to generate electricity.
"Statement of FIT Terms" means the agreement which will be entered into between the Generator and the Supplier setting out the terms on which the parties will engage in relation to FITs.
"Supplier" means the licensed FIT Supplier of electricity which enters into an agreement with the Generator to take the Generator's export electricity and to pay FIT payments. Examples include ScottishPower, Scottish & Southern, E.ON, nPower, EDF Energy and British Gas amongst others. "Supplier" does not mean your installer.
Which generation technologies are eligible for FITs?
The following are eligible for FITs if they produce less than 5 MWh electricity per annum and provided they meet criteria in relation to accreditation and installation date:
- Anaerobic digestion to produce biogas for electricity generation
- Hydro-electric power
- Solar electric photovoltaics (PV)
- Wind power
- Small-scale gas-powered combined heat and power (CHP) units up to 2kW
Are there criteria in relation to the installation date of equipment?
If installed after 1 April 2010 FITs can be claimed from date of confirmation of registration (see below) of the installation on the central register maintained by Ofgem.
How are installations accredited?
Accreditation of an installation is effectively part of the installation process.
For "microgeneration" systems below 50kW, the major equipment needs to be certified by the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS), and the equipment needs to be installed by a company accredited under the MCS. The MCS is an independent scheme that certifies microgeneration products and installers in accordance with consistent standards. The MCS has support from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), industry and non-governmental groups.
For systems above 50kW, but below 5 MW, there is an accreditation process called 'ROO-FIT' based on that used in the Renewables Obligation.
For those technologies which are required to be ROO-FIT Accredited, Ofgem will determine eligibility and award accreditation, but not until the installations are complete, i.e. at or just before commissioning. Successful applicants will be awarded a ROO-FIT Accreditation Number which Suppliers can use to register the installation in the central FITs register. Suppliers will be able to verify a ROO-FITs Accreditation Number on the register.
Owners of installations with a declared net capacity (DNC) of above 50kW and up to 5MW have a one-off choice to receive support under either FITs or the Renewables Obligation. This decision needs to be made during the ROO-FIT accreditation process.
As of April 2010 the majority of microgenerators will not be eligible under the RO and will have to transfer to the FITs. Those commissioned after 15 July 2009 using recognised FIT technologies generating a DNC above 50kW up to 5MW will have the option to choose whether to transfer to FIT, The choice to transfer, or to join FITs rather than RO on accreditation, is likely to be based upon the owner's personal choice of the administration associated with each option and their requirements for price certainty. The Government has tried to set the tariffs for larger systems at the same rate as ROs. However, it should be noted that the FIT scheme is intended to provide a stable income whilst ROC prices can be volatile. Where a generator's DNC rises above 5MW they will have to move over to RO regardless of whether they had opted to join FITs.
What tariffs are available?
Subject to confirmation of eligibility and registration, tariffs last 20 years for most systems with the exception of solar PV systems (25 years) and micro CHP systems (only 10 years). The payment is guaranteed for this period. The appropriate tariff will not change throughout that period other than by way of annual index-linked increases following the Retail Prices Index. The increase in April 2011 was almost 5%.
Owners are entitled to:
- a generation tariff for energy produced and consumed by the Generator, and
- an export tariff for excess energy distributed to the grid.
Generation tariffs differ depending on the technology installed and the amount of electricity generated in a year. The tariffs for installations completed before April 2012 are as shown in the table at this link http://www.fitariffs.co.uk/eligible/levels/.
Export tariffs are the same for all technology types and regardless of installation capacity. The "floor" price has been set at 3p per kWh, but Generators (anyone generating energy) can opt out of that price and seek to negotiate a higher tariff with their Supplier. That option can be exercised each year, not just once.
Tariffs are payable by Licensed Electricity Suppliers, that is Suppliers who are licensed to take Generators through the registration process. FITs obligations are being imposed on these Suppliers by modifications to the standard terms of their licences.
There will be a five-yearly review of the FIT scheme but only entrants after the review date will be affected by changes to the tariff, which are likely to be "degressed" in line with expectations that some technologies will be cheaper to install in the future.
What is the registration process?
Registration of your new installation will take place following completion of the installation and will be subject to satisfactory accreditation, as outlined above.
Registration for FIT is against the property, not the owner of the property. There is no provision to allow owners to move property and take the kit with them to install in their new property. In the event, for example, of a residential house-move, the FIT register would be amended and payments made to the new owner. All technology used must also be new – it cannot be 'second-hand' to qualify for FIT payments.
The most likely route to registration is for the Generator to approach a licensed Supplier and have the Supplier do most of the work. Most of the administrative burden of FITs is on the Supplier. For example, the Supplier must be satisfied that the Generator is eligible and can then enter the Generator's details on the central register with Ofgem. Ofgem then has to confirm that the installation is eligible, and this confirmation can presumably be made available as evidence to the Supplier that the installation has been registered.
Verification of metering data, payment calculation and audit is also principally the responsibility of the Supplier, albeit subject to contract terms entered into with the Generator. Of course, some of these obligations will be reflected in the contract between the Generator and the Supplier (see below) so that the Generator will probably be subject to a number of positive and negative obligations for example in areas like data provision.
Generators get a choice of either taking the FIT or selling the electricity on the open market, and the Supplier is obliged to explain the choices to the Generator and to enter the Generator's choice on the register.
Generators and eligible installations may be suspended from the Central FIT Register, maintained by Ofgem, if a change is made to an installation which makes it ineligible, if fraud or abuse of FITs is suspected, if a Statement of FIT Terms is in breach, or if Ofgem have good reason to believe that a FIT Payment should not have been made. One example might be that once a PV system has been registered by a Supplier, if a non-accredited installer then extends it (eg. by adding PV panels to generate additional electricity), then the whole system may then be ineligible for FIT claims.
Is there a contract with the Supplier?
Suppliers are required to take all reasonable steps to agree a Statement of FIT Terms with a Generator: essentially the contract between them. The minimum required contents of a Statement are outlined in Appendix 2 of the Ofgem Guidance fro Licensed Electricity Suppliers at http://www.fitariffs.co.uk/library/regulation/100514OfgemGuidance.pdf.
Ofgem expects the Supplier to have agreed a provisional Statement of FIT Terms with the FIT Generator before registration has been completed, having explained key elements, including obligations on the Generator as regards agreeing declarations, providing information and deciding payment terms. Following receipt of confirmation from Ofgem that the Generator and installation are registered on the central FIT register, the Supplier should not delay in informing the Generator of receipt of Ofgem's confirmation Notification and agreeing the Statement of FIT Terms in writing. If a Generator and Supplier cannot agree a Statement of FIT Terms, the FIT Licensee should not begin making FIT Payments.
If a Generator and a Supplier cannot agree the Statement of FIT Terms within ten working days, the Supplier may decide to discontinue the FITs registration process. If this happens, the Generator's only option appears to be to try to find another supplier. There is no obligation on a Supplier, even a Mandatory FIT Licensee (see below), to conclude an agreement.
If a Supplier considers that a Generator is in breach of the Statement of FIT Terms, that is one ground on which the Supplier can ask Ofgem to suspend the registration and so suspend payments.
Generators are entitled to switch Supplier and Suppliers must facilitate a smooth transition.
How are FIT payments made?
Generators are entitled to nominate a payee other than the Generator, if they notify the Supplier. This could be a person or friend living at a completely different address. It could be a Pension Scheme provider. It could be a separate company.
Payments will be made by the Supplier once eligible equipment has been installed and is commissioned to the required standard.
Generally payments will be paid in accordance with metered supplies at the relevant tariff(s) for generation and export. The frequency and timing of payments are matters to be agreed in the Schedule of FIT Terms, which should also set out the circumstances in which payments can be suspended, reduced, recouped or withheld (see below).
For metering for generation payments, the Generator will have a generation meter fitted as part of an eligible and accredited installation.
As regards export payments, an export meter is supposed to be installed, and it is anticipated that future Smart Meters will cope with FIT exports. However, certainly for many residential properties at the current time, there is no export meter. Instead there are what are termed as 'deeming provisions' obliging the Supplier to deem 50% of the generation meter figure as the export figure. So, for many households claiming FITs, the export tariff payment is based on an estimated figure of 50% of the electricity generated. If you schedule your main power-consuming activities to coincide with daylight hours and end up exporting only 10% of your locally generated electricity back to the grid then, at the current time, you will still be paid on the assumption that you are exporting 50% back to the grid.
Can FIT payments be suspended or terminated?
FIT payments may be reduced, recouped or withheld by the Supplier:
- if an error has been made;
- if fraud or abuse of FITs is suspected; or
- if Ofgem notifies the relevant FIT Licensee that it has good reason to believe that a FIT Payment should not have been made.
All Suppliers have an obligation to take all reasonable steps to ensure that any FIT payment it has made reflects only that to which the Generator is entitled. If a Supplier believes that in making a payment to a Generator it would contravene that obligation, it is required to notify Ofgem immediately. If Ofgem determine that a payment could result in the improper administration of FITs then it may suspend the relevant installation from the register.
If instructed to withhold payments, the Supplier shall continue to do so until such a time as notified by Ofgem that the suspension has been rescinded, or if instructed by Ofgem to recover or make a reduced FIT Payment.
What is the difference between Mandatory and Voluntary licensed Suppliers?
Licensed Suppliers who have a minimum of 50,000 domestic customers are obliged through their Electricity Supply Licence to register and make FITs payments to eligible Generators. These Suppliers are classed as Mandatory FIT Licensees.
Licensed Suppliers with fewer than 50,000 domestic customers can elect whether or not to register. These Licensees are classed as Voluntary FIT Licensees and are required to remain in FITs for at least the remainder of the FIT Year (1 April - 31 March) in which they enter.
Mandatory FIT licensees are not allowed to exit the FITs regime unless they cease to fall within the definition of a Mandatory FIT Licensee. In that event, they can elect to become a Voluntary FIT Licensee and must notify their Generators accordingly if they are no longer obligated to be a Supplier for the purposes of making FIT payments to the Generator. The minimum notice period is 6 weeks prior to the end of the current FITs year.
If a former Mandatory FIT licensee elects not to become a Voluntary FIT licensee, notice must be given to Generators on a minimum period of 6 weeks prior to the end of the current FITs year.
Do Suppliers have the right to exit the FIT regime?
A Voluntary FIT licensee may decide to withdraw from participation in the FIT scheme at any time. However, if it does decide to withdraw from the scheme, the Voluntary FIT licensee will still be required to continue its existing obligations under the FIT scheme for the remainder of the FIT year in which it has given notice of its withdrawal, unless notice was given after 14 February in any FIT year, in which case the Voluntary FIT licensee shall continue its obligations for the next 6 weeks from the date upon which notice was given.
The Voluntary FIT licensee must also notify Ofgem of its decision to withdraw and notify the Generators to whom FIT payments are made.
There appear to be no provisions protecting Generators against a Supplier deciding to exit the FITs regime, if the Supplier is permitted to do so, i.e. is not a Mandatory FIT licensee. The Generator will be left without a Supplier or a contract, albeit after a period of notice within which they can attempt to find another Supplier.
Generators are advised to consider their own particular requirements/preferences and take independent specialist advice when choosing their energy Supplier.
What happens if FITs are abolished?
We have not found anything that would legally guarantee payments under the FITs regime in the event that the regime is abolished, and nor anything in relation to compensation for loss of payments. Despite the fact that any contracted period may extend beyond an abolition date, if the FITs regime infrastructure is abolished, e.g. the central register is abandoned or Suppliers ceased to be FITs licensed, we anticipate that the legal position will be that the contract is frustrated. In other words, if the regime was abolished and the contract could not be performed, it would not be the fault of either of the parties. As such, each party would be discharged from any future obligations under the contract and neither party would be able to sue for breach of contract.
FIT Review
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have announced they are bringing forward their review of Feed-in-Tariffs which will be completed by the end of 2011 (originally scheduled for 2012) in order to determine how the efficiency of FITs will be improved in order to deliver the required savings.
The comprehensive FITs review will:
- Assess all aspects of the scheme including tariff levels, administration and eligibility of technologies
- Be completed by the end of the 2011, with tariffs remaining unchanged until April 2012 (unless the review reveals a need for greater urgency)
- Fast track consideration of large scale solar projects (over 50kW) with a view to making any resulting changes to tariffs as soon as practical, subject to consultation and Parliamentary scrutiny as required by the Energy Act 2008.
- Undertake a short study into the take-up of FITs for farm based Anaerobic Digestion plants.
Useful Resources
Ofgem's FIT website http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/Sustainability/Environment/fits/Pages/fits.aspx
OfGem produce a useful regular newsletter on FITs – to register see http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/Sustainability/Environment/fits/Newsletter/Pages/Newsletter.aspx
Website created by Feed-In Tariffs Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ownergy plc, set up to provide free information on the Feed-In Tariffs http://www.fitariffs.co.uk/
UK Government FiT Legislation: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/678/pdfs/uksiem_20100678_en.pdf
The material contained in this summary is general in nature and does not give advice on any particular matter. Readers should not act on the basis of the information in this summary without taking appropriate professional advice on their own particular circumstances.


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An ebook is a book that can be read online or downloaded to a personal computer, book reader, phone, etc. Many ebooks are digital versions of books that are already in print.
We Give Books We Give Books are free books you can read online with your child. You don't have to download or buy any software. There are current favorites like Skippy John Jones, Ladybug Girl, Llama Llama books. There are also classic books like The Snowy Day. There is a wide selection of nonfiction as well. Not only do you get free books to read, every time you read a book, books are donated to a charity. We give books was created by Penguin group and the Pearson Foundation.
Starfall is a free online site that includes animated books. These are mostly phonics readers and some can be read aloud.
TumbleBooks is not a free site but many public libraries and schools have a subscription that you can use. These are print books that have been animated and have sound added to them. There are some wonderful titles as this site and it's worth checking out to see if you can use it for free through your child's school or your public library.
Oxford Owl This is a a free website by Oxford University Press to help you with your child's learning. It includes many free ebooks (over 250). You can read these books directly on the site. You can also turn on audio and have the story read to the child. I like this site because you can sort by age level. There is a good mix of fiction and nonfiction as well. You can also purchase print copies of some of the books. There are comprehension activities included for each story most are games that the child can play on the site but some are printable activities. There are also math ebooks. The preschool math books work concepts like shapes and counting.
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Almost all of our favorite ebooks were made by OceanHouse media. They have tons of Dr. Seuss, The Berenstein Bears, 5 Little Monkeys. many classics, and some new titles. They are very well made and have animations and read aloud options. They can be pricer than some other book apps but every one has been worth the money-- plus, they often have a few for just .99.
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The Itsy Bitsy Spider early reader PDF, Itsy Bitsy Spider, is able to work as an ebook on an iPad or and iPhone. This early reader ebook opens in just two easy steps into ibooks and can be viewed as an ibook! This is one of five nursery rhyme early reader ebooks for sale in my store. ($1.50)
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
DIY Halloween Decorations
Our neighborhood has been filling up with spooky decorations. We've been shopping for Halloween costumes, attending Halloween events, and reading lots of Halloween books. The boys have been dying to decorate our yard for Halloween. This week we decided to start the week by reading some favorite {not so} spooky Halloween books. After we read the books, we discussed the Halloween objects that we had seen in the stories. Armed with a entire Pinterest board, we set to work making a few {not so} spooky decorations.
{not so} spooky Halloween books
Five Little Bats Flying in the Night by Steve Metzger This book is based on the 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed rhyme.
Five Spooky Ghosts Playing Tricks at School by Steve Metzger This Metzger book follows a similar pattern. In this story, the ghosts are causing trouble at school. In each refrain the teacher calls a mommy, daddy, grandma, etc
Six Creepy Sheep by Judith Ross Enderle Another Halloween counting book! In this story, 6 sheep start off on Halloween night. They encounter creepy things (like pirates, fairies, hobos, goblins, and witches). One by one they run off. In the end, they come to a Halloween party. They find all of the creepy things at the Halloween party.
{not so} spooky Halloween decorations
After reading these books, we made these tomato cage ghosts that I found on Lowe's website. These are tomato cages turned upside down, draped with a drop cloth (or in our case an old sheet) and given a face. We made a few changes to Lowe's tutorial.
First, I used an old twin sheet for two of the cages and I used an old fitted crib sheet for the third cage. I have to say, the crib sheet stays put the best!
Second, Lowe's suggested drawing a face with permanent marker, but I used sticky black felt. (I'll let you know how it holds up!)
Third, Lowe's suggested using rope lights to light up your ghosts. They are pretty cute unlit too but I did want to light them up for Halloween night. Unfortunately, I purchased a box of broken rope lights. They were pretty expensive too. I thought about using regular white Christmas lights, but I read on the post that those get too hot. Soooo, I finally settled on 3 push lights! This made the project much cheaper and they do provide enough of a glow to make the ghosts a little creepy. The batteries may run out more quickly, though, so I may look for some better rope lights.
The boys named the ghosts Powder, Spooky, and Pluto. Our friendly little ghosts may last for many years to come!
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
Oral Language Game
As I've mentioned before, oral language is a huge predictor of future reading success. A common saying among reading professionals is, "If a child doesn't hear a word, that child won't say that word. If he doesn't say it, he won't read it." You can help your child grow his oral language with easy and fun games. We've been playing a super simple oral language game using objects we have lying around the house.
variety of small objects from around your home
large clear container with lid
How to Play:
Fill large container with small objects from around the home. Screw on the lid. Show the item to the tub to your child and say, "I spy something (object) and you use it to (description)" When the child guesses the correct object, unscrew the lid and let that child hold the item.
For added challenge, let your child try giving clues to you.
(When I play with my 2 year old and 4 year old, I give clues to both of them. Then my four year old gives a clue to me!)
Here are some of the objects we included the last time we played.
Some of the clues we used were, "I spy something black and you use it to fix your hair." or "I spy something with black and white spots and it is an animal."
I've also found it is good to include figurines like batman or Papa Smurf because the boys LOVE when they get a special character!
Try to include a variety of concepts in your clues such as:
color words
categories (animal, food, transportation)
number sense (I spy an animal with four legs)
My boys love to play this game over and over again. I love the language that is built each time we play.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Book Activity: Plant a Kiss
Welcome back to the Virtual book club for kids. This month the Virtual Book Club is featuring books by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Here at Ready. Set. Read, I am featuring the book, "Plant a Kiss". My boys have been loving this sweet story!
Plant a Kiss by Amy Krouse Rosenthal is simply the story of Little Miss who literally planted a kiss. Crazy as it seemed, she waited in anticipation until the kiss sprouted and grew. Although her friends suggested she hoard the rare sprout, Little Miss decided to spread the love. She shared the fruit of her kiss all over, not worrying about running out. At the end of the story, she learned when you share love, it grows!
Seeds of Kindness
This book provided the perfect opportunity to work on being kind and loving-- a skill that one member of our family is struggling with right now! We painted flower pots and began to work on planting seeds of kindness. Whenever the boys were caught being good, I gave them a "seed" to put in their pots. We actually used glass gems. Rewarding the kind behaviors instead of focusing on the negative behaviors that have crept into our home lately, worked instantly. The boys were working together, sharing, and letting the love grow with in just a few days.
Create a Kindness Garden
The idea of planting seeds of kindness could be expanded into a kindness garden. Consider giving each person a circle and having them write their name on the circle. Flower petals could be cut out and children could write how they showed kindness on the flower petal. This could be an excellent writing activity. After creating the entire flower, children could expand this writing into a paragraph and even give a sentence to explain the results of showing kindness-- whether it made them feel good or improved a friendship with a classmate or a sibling, or had another result. It would be fun to reflect on how love grows as we share the love.
"Grow Up" a Rhyming Word Game
The book features a minimalist rhyming text. The book has the feel of a wordless picture book. Much of the story is told through the wonderful illustrations by Peter Reynolds. The simple rhyming words or phrases on each page complement his illustrations perfectly. After reading this book, we listened for rhyming words. We played a rhyming game called, "Grow up". The boys squatted like tiny seeds. I said two words. If the words rhymed, they grew up like a flower. If the words did not rhyme, they stayed a tiny seed.
Word Family Flowers Board Game
There are several word families in this book. If you child is ready to begin decoding simple consonant-vowel-consonant words, check out my freebie, Word Family Flowers game. In this game, children must first read a CVC word with a long i vowel sound before moving each space.
We really really really loved "Plant a Kiss" by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. I can't wait to see the Rosenthal books and activities that all of the others bloggers share in the virtual book club for kids. I adore her books and I can't wait to try some of the fun activities that are shared. You can find more ideas for Amy Krouse Rosenthal books at these blogs:
Toddler Approved - Rainy Day Mum - Adventures in Reading with Kids - 3 Dinosaurs - Royal Baloo - The Educators' Spin On It - Inspiration Laboratories - Pleasantest Thing - Edventures with Kids - Two Big Two Little - Playing With Words 365 - Kitchen Counter Chronicles - Outlaw Mom - Mommy and Me Book Club - Crafty Moms Share - No Twiddle Twaddle - The Good Long Road - Ready. Set. Read 2 Me - Reading Confetti - Mama Smiles - Juggling with Kids- Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas - Creekside Learning - Creative Family Fun - The Usual Mayhem - Teach Preschool - PlayDrMom - CraftoArt - Here Come the Girls - Being a Conscious Parent - Smiling like Sunshine - Crayon Freckles - Train Up a Child - Smile Play Learn
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Monday, October 15, 2012
Best Books for Kids: Choosing Repetitive Texts
When you are building your home library, there are many types of books you should include. Most parents and teachers want to find the best books for kids to add to their home and school libraries. I am beginning a new series to help you build your library. I'll suggest several types of books and give examples of each type. Check out these books and then choose 3-4 that connect with your child.
Repetitive texts are one type of book that should go into every preschool library. Repetitive texts are books that have a phrase that repeats several times or a pattern that repeats several times. They allow children to become active participants in read aloud time.
Children need to be participating orally in our read alouds. In fact, if a child doesn't hear a word or a language pattern, they won't say it. If they don't say it, they won't read it. I have sat through many early readers trying to sound out the phrase, "Once upon a Time…" If they have never heard a story that began "Once upon a time" they will never figure it out. On the other hand, a child who can't read independently but has heard a ton of stories that begin "Once upon a time" may be able to easily "read" this phrase.
In Mem Fox's book "Reading Magic" she says that a child needs to hear 1,000 stories before they begin to read independently. I think it would benefit your children if some of these favorite repetitive texts are included in the 1,000 + stories they will hear before they begin to read.
5 repetitive texts are HOT in our house:
1. Pete the Cat: I love my White Shoes by James Dean and Eric Litwin Pete the Cat is walking down the street in his white shoes which change colors as he steps in piles of strawberries, blueberries, and mud. He doesn't let his colorful shoes get him down, he keeps singing his song... his very repetitive song!
2. Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes by James Dean and Eric Litwin Pete the Cat is hot, hot, hot with my preschool boys. In this story, he is rocking a new school year as he sings his school song... his very repetitive school song!
3. Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by James Dean and Eric Litwin Once more, Pete the Cat faces the challenges of life as he loose buttons off his shirt. Does he cry? Goodness NO! He keeps singing his song... his very repetitive song.
4. Pout Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen The Pout Pout fish is a gloomy member of the underwater world. His friends swim along and try to get him to give up his gloomy ways. To each encourager he offers the same repeating refrain, "I'm a pout pout fish with a pout pout face for spreading dreary wearies all over the place. Blub, blub, blub." Eventually, someone comes along that helps him turn his frown upside down.
5. Cat the Cat Who is That? by Mo Willems. Another hot item in our home currently is any book by Mo Willems. Of course, I had to include a Willems book in our top 20 repetitive books. Many of them lend themselves so well to young learners actively participating in the reading of the story. Cat the Cat is one of the most obvious repetitive texts. Cat the Cat moves through the book introducing us to a whole cast of characters. !
11 Classic Repetitive Texts for Every Library
6. Brown Bear Brown Bear by Bill Martin and Eric Carle This classic book follows a pattern on each page as each animal introduces the next animal in the story. "Brown bear, brown bear what do you see? I see a red bird looking at me." The red bird picks up the pattern on the next page and continues the pattern through out.
7. Panda Bear Panda Bear by Bill Martin and Eric Carl This book continues the pattern from the Brown Bear book. This is a nice way to help children transfer the knowledge from one book to another and firm up their knowledge.This book focuses on endangered animals..
8. Polar Bear Polar Bear what do you hear? by Bill Martin and Eric Carl This book also continues the pattern of the previous books but it focuses on animal sounds.
9. Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat are you Waking Up? by Bill Martin Jr. This book has a repeating pattern and a rhyming text. It is a little cutesy but my kids love this little kitty who doesn't want to wake up and get ready to go!
10. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. A rhyming stories of letters racing up a coconut tree is interspered with a repetitive jingle. Kids can't help but join in the silly sounding words in this book.
11. The Napping House by Audrey and Don Wood As a child, a cat, a dog, a mouse and a flea pile into bed with a sleeping Grandma in this story, the reader gets to experience a predictable pattern of text.
12. The Chick and the Duckling by Mirra Ginsburg When a duckling is born moments before a baby chick, the chick admires the older duckling and copies each of his actions with a repetitive "me too". The ending of this book is a fun surprise for kids!
13. Have you seen my cat? by Eric Carle In this story, a little boy loses his cat and travels the world asking "Have you seen my cat?" The repetitive phrase, "This is not my cat" will be wonderful for children to chime in.
14. It looked like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw In this story, a white shape on a blue background changes with each page turn. The repeating phrase, "It looked like..." allows children to join in on a guess. This is one your child will be able to "read" independently long before they can actually decode text.
15. Silly Sally by Audrey Wood Silly Sally and her friends parade into town in this cummulative rhyming text.
16. Jump, Frog, Jump by Robert Kaplan This is a cummulative tale of a frog who tried to catch a fly but then found himself in the place of the prey. He escapes many attempts at being eaten when readers shout, "Jump, frog, Jump!"
3 Repetitive Texts that will engage your child's emotions: When your child reads the repetitive phrase in these books, they are able to express the characters emotions. It's a safe way for your child to express being grouchy, mad, or scared!
17. The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle While this book does focus on a grouchy ladybug who thinks he is big stuff and wants to stir up fights, it allows children to join in expressing a phrase they have all felt. They are able to sassily say, "Oh yeah, want to fight?" in a safe environment.
18. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorist This is a longer text embedded with the repetitive text, "It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day." The story is one that children (and adults) can relate to. Reading the book can be almost therupetic.
19. The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything by Linda D. Williams In this book, children repeat the sounds that a little old lady hears in the woods. The suspense in this book builds, but the ending is funny rather than scary!
1 Repetitive Nonfiction Text: Every collection should have some nonfiction. I am working on growing our nonfiction selections as my boys LOVE it!
20. My five sense by Aliki This book explores the five senses. Several of the pages have a repeating pattern and your child will love to try and read these pages.
The best part of repetitive books is that your child will want to hear them over and over again. In fact, your child needs to hear these texts over and over again! The more they hear them, the sooner they'll join in the reading! You can add a few of these to your library and have books that will last for a long time!
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This is a big blow to the Chargers defense, as Freeney was off to a great start with the Chargers. Although he only recorded half a sack in the first four games, he consistently pressured opposing quarterbacks which made it possible for his teammates to make plays.
After spending the first 12 season of his NFL career in Indianapolis, Freeney signed with the Chargers in May. He wasn't only expected to make plays on the field, but the Chargers were hoping is veteran presence would be helpful in the locker room and on the sidelines. He will be a tough for the Chargers to replace. (Photo: Associated Press)
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Nous sommes enchantées de vous présenter ce blog! Nous, étudiantes (et futures professeurs) de français, voulons partager cette langue et toute la culture francophone avec tous vous. Soyez libres pour nous demander ce que vous voulez voir dans le blog et nous le tiendrons en compte.
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We are pleased to present you this blog! We, french students (and future french teachers), want to share with all of you this language and all the French-speaking culture. Feel free to ask us everything you want to see in this blog and we'll take account of this.
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Hi, my name's Alejandra. I'm 21 years old and I'm a French Philology student at the National University of Colombia. I like reading, music (rock mostly), languages, technology, science, geek's stuff, videogames, anime, playing guitar, soccer, drawing, and joking around. I like french not only because its beauty, but because it includes a huge amount of interesting aspects about the French-speaking culture (that's not only France actually), its literature, its people, its tradition, all that show the essence of human being… and by learning this beautiful language, we can get closer to this wonderful world. I want to encourage you to learn new things, new ideas, new ways of flirting with your girl(boy)friend xD… because, you know, there's so much in the world, and life's too short to discover it!
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Another day, another dollar, another fake birth certificate from Kenya emerges from the birther morass and the Administration continues to wonder where to put our detainees. The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman comes by for a talk, and a goodbye.
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