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Vernissage 30 November 2018 – 5pm to 7pm
Salivam is the culmination of several months of collaborative laboratory research between WhiteFeather Hunter, Sporobole's (bio)artist-in-residence and Dr Denis Groleau, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Microorganisms and Industrial Processes at Université de Sherbrooke.
The research process encapsulated not only scientific laboratory experiments punctuated by art-based DIYbio approaches, but was also a process of developing a non-hierarchical transdisciplinary research relationship within an academic setting.
The Salivam project utilizes the techniques of bacterial culture, enzyme extraction and collagen degradation to address themes and concepts developed by the researchers. Some of these are: intimacy, including bacto-intimacy, or the micro-proximity of bacteria cells with their substrates during their metabolic processes, as well as industrial biotech product development from classic artistic materials, and a humorous critique of the technological hype around anti-aging formulas.
Together, the researchers successfully isolated and purified nonpathogenic strains of Bacillus cereus from soil samples taken from the site of the historic Village des Tanneries in Montreal, as well as directly from the artist's saliva. These samples, which began as unknown micro-ecologies, over time revealed their capacity to produce a strong collagen-digesting enzyme. These enzymes have been extracted and filtered in order to explore their use for creating sculptural collagen drawings, as well as their potential for human use.
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WhiteFeather is a Canadian artist/researcher, educator, consultant and writer currently based in Montreal. WhiteFeather has been professionally engaged in a craft-based bioart practice for 15 years, via material investigations of the functional, artistic and technological potential of bodily matter. Her latest focus, spanning the last three years, is on biotextile experimentation and creation of new, vital specimens through hands-on tissue engineering. She also enjoys hacking electronic laboratory apparatuses. WhiteFeather is a multiple-award winner, holding an MFA in Fibres and Material Practices from Concordia University. She has participated in art-sci research-creation residencies at SymbioticA Centre of Excellence in Biological Art (University of Western Australia), Pelling Lab for Biophysical Manipulation (uOttawa), and Fluxmedia Lab (Concordia University). WhiteFeather recieved the FRQSC Étudiants-chercheurs étoiles prize in March 2016 for her project, Crafting Biotextiles.


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You will stick to a diet better when certain foods that you like are included. Yes, I am talking about Ice-creams also:)
Let's leave ice-creams for latter and concentrate on the following foods:
Proteins: Do you find drinking milk pleasurable?
I do and that's why 500 calories in my diet come from milk and milk sources like buttermilk.
It goes well with my culture and my stomach can take it well.
I work hard in finding reliable organic sources for my dairy. Quality of your food sources is very important too.
Same thing I can say for eggs. 200–300 calories from eggs almost every day.
What about you?
Think about 3–5 core ingredients that you can form your diet around.
Then decide the meal pattern that is suited for your lifestyle.
I swear by Intermittent Fasting.
It works very well for me.
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During the times when I do mini fasts I survive with coffee/green tea.
I do include unhealthy calories also. This helps me curb my cravings.
I follow the 80/20 or the 90/10 diet
80 calories from healthy foods and 20% from unhealthy foods.
When I am trying to cut body fat down to less than 10% than I go for 90/10:
Now lets come to ice-creams:
This guy and this guy, lost a lot of weight just eating Mc-donalds and Twinkie's! They biomarkers also improved.
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Holy Communions: Entertainment
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Marathi TV Channels in Mumbai
Marathi TV Channels are important Mumabai entertainment industry. Star TV has the Star Prabah exclusively dedicated to Marathi shows/serials. Get updates of TV shows in Star Prabaha.
Marathi TV Channels in Mumbai
Star Entainment private Limited's Marathi entertainment TV Channel Star Prabah is a popular Marathi entertainment TV Channel solely dedicated to Marathi people all over India. It has successful shows like Agnihotra, Ghar Shri, Vacchan Dile, Man Udhan , Kulaswamini etc. And more interesting projects are on the pineline.
Star Prabah has completed 1 year successfully and adding colour to regional palate of TV shows.
Timings of TV shows in Star Prabah
The Timings of TV shows in Star Prabah are as follows:
Man Udan Varayche: A love triangle people whose life perspectives completely different. The show runs on Monday to saturday at 7 pm.
Olakh : Olakh is just another story of small towners hoping to make it big in big cities. This show runs on monday to friday at 7:30 pm.
Kashala Udyachi baat is aired at 9 pm and a story of a woman who finds herself in a strange situation in life.
Swapnachya Plaicadle is being aired at 8 pm. Protagonist Aditi is a woman of substance and wants to create her niche in the world runs from Monday to Friday.
Tuj ni maj Ghar Srimatache is a story of utopian families and comes at 9:30 mon to saturday.
New Marathi show Jhunjh will be coming shorty. Timings of Jhunjh is still not available.


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Product Benefits
Considering the tremendously popularity of mobile phones in Pakistan, businesses can no longer ignore the importance of sending text messages in business advertising, sales promotion, product launching and customer services. Corporate SMS has become the most cutting-edge marketing technique being used today
Installation Free Solution:
Customer does not need to install any software. It's a web based solution and can work on any computer
Affordability: A fraction of what it would cost using conventional means to reach multitude of individuals
Ease of Usage: A simple desktop interface enables message composing, recipient selection, scheduling delivery and account maintenance effortless
Wide Reach: Enables sending Timely notifications to both off-net and on-net recipients
Customized Message Templates: Allows users to compose new messages and/or select from customized message templates for re-use, thus saves time
Volume of Subscribers' List: Unlimited number of subscribers' list can be created. Language Support: This system supports messaging in Urdu, Chinese and English languages
Message Length: Subscriber has the visibility of text counter
Scheduler: Subscribers can broadcast their message immediately or schedule the broadcast for a later time and date
APIs: Customers can use the open web-based APIs within their own in-house software to send out SMS messages (open API gives flexibility to customer to use its own application/GUI)
Multiple Campaigns: Multiple campaigns can be added/ modified/ deleted using check boxes
Multiple Subscriber List Deletion: Multiple subscribers' list can be deleted using check boxes
Reusability of Executed Campaign: Already executed campaigns can be re-used instead making new campaign every time
Quick Message History: Messages executed by using quick message feature via API & Web will generate history of last 30 days
Integrated Billing & Reconciliation: Corporate SMS application allows a Business organization to have a profile that is mapped onto one physical account. Its inherent account logging feature provides real-time updates of broadcasted messages, scheduled deliveries, and recipients & sender details
Throughput: SMS throughput from this solution is much more than sending from handset, EDGE card or any other application


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Datacenter : Introduction to VDC- Virtual Device Context
Let's talk about VDC in datacenter. Many of you guys already aware if VDC concept. VDC is basically partition of Single Physical Device into Multiple Logical Devices. VDC runs as a separate logical entity within the physical device, maintains its own unique set of running software processes.
Each VDC appears as a unique device to the connected users.VDCs also virtualizes the control plane, which comprises all those software functions that are treated by the CPU on the active supervisor module.VDC provides Fault Isolation, Management Isolation, Address Allocation Isolation, Configuration Isolation.
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Types of VDC
There are three types of VDC's. They are Default VDC, Non-Default VDC and Storage VDC. Let's talk about all these VDC's
Default VDC
The physical device always has one VDC, the default VDC (VDC 1).
Can make changes to other VDCs only from default VDC.
Can create up to four VDCs (including a default VDC).
You need to login as network-admin in order to create VDCs.
Non-Default VDC
Other VDCs (which is not VDC 1) are considered Non-Default VDC.
When logged in Non-Default VDC, you can view and manage only that particular VDC configs and not others
Storage VDC
You create separate storage VDCs to run FCoE-Beginning with Cisco NX-OS 5.2(1), you can run FCoE on F1 Series modules.
We can have only one storage VDC on the device.
We cannot configure the default VDC as a storage VDC-More to come when dealing with FCoE.
Pre-Requisites for Creating VDC
Login to default VDC with network-admin user role in order to create VDC.
Have a name for VDC and resources available on physical device to allocate.
Have IP address to use for configuring connectivity (VDC Management).
Now let's talk about VDC management. There are two kind of VDC management, and these are VDC out of band management and VDC In-band Management.
VDC Out-of-Band Management
The Cisco NX-OS software provides a virtual management (mgmt 0) interface for out-of-band management for each VDC.
We can configure this interface with a separate IP address that is accessed through the physical mgmt 0 interface.
Using the virtual management interface allows you to use only one management network, which can share the AAA servers and syslog servers among the VDCs.
VDC In-band Management
VDCs also support in-band management. You can access the VDC using one of the Ethernet interfaces that are allocated to the VDC
Using the in-band management allows you to use only separate management networks, which ensures the separation of the AAA servers and syslog servers among the VDCs.
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November 4, 2005 Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and Baritone Thomas Hampson Celebrate "Creativity Across America" with Concert in Kansas City
First Stop in Kansas City Metropolitan Area Highlights Educational Teacher Training Institutes, Informational Kiosks, Films, Conservation Workshops
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The internationally acclaimed baritone Thomas Hampson will give the premiere performance in his 11-city "Song of America" tour on Saturday, Nov. 12, at 8 p.m. in Yardley Hall at the Carlsen Center, Johnson County Community College. The college is located in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, Kan.
"The 'Song of America' tour with Thomas Hampson is part of an unprecedented national program that the Library of Congress is initiating to celebrate creativity across America," said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. "America is a wellspring of new ideas in music, literature, poetry, film and other forms of artistic expression. As the home of the Copyright Office of the United States, the Library of Congress has been the repository of American creativity since 1870. We want to celebrate the energy and inventive spirit that are such an integral part of our cultural history, and I cannot think of a more accomplished ambassador for the first part of our initiative than Tom."
"To me the most interesting thing in learning about American song is to realize what our poets and composers have in common: It's a driving need to tell a story about ourselves and about our becoming this American society," said Hampson.
His long-standing collaboration with the Library of Congress grew out of a vision shared with Billington: to honor the history and preservation of American song and to reveal to new audiences the breadth and depth of the Library's unparalleled collections of musical scores and recordings.
The primary goal of the "Song of America" tour is to reach out to young people who might not be familiar with the great depth and variety of American song and history. The Kansas City concert tour will include an educational component in which Billington and Hampson will interact with students at University Academy, a K-12 charter public school. Kansas City Young Audiences, an organization that provides artistic educational programs to Kansas City metropolitan area schools, will provide support. The Library will send its educational outreach staff to conduct a two-day teacher institute, "Making a Statement Through Poetry and Song," for local K-12 educators at the Olathe Public School. Invited teachers will learn how to incorporate the Library's unique online collections into their classrooms to encourage critical thinking skills among their students.
Hampson, a native of Spokane, Wash., has long been regarded as one of the most passionate advocates for American song, which he has championed throughout his career. His companion CD, titled "Song of America" (EMI Classics), is a 20-track collection of American song, created in association with the Library. The album features songs that Hampson will sing on the tour, as well as many other favorites and lesser-known gems.
The "Song of America" tour featuring Thomas Hampson has been made possible The Hall Family Foundation, friends of the Library of Congress and members of its private advisory group, the James Madison Council. It is one of the first in a series of events in the Library's broader, long-term exploration and celebration of "Creativity Across America."
The Library is the world's largest library with more than 130 million items in nearly all languages and formats. It serves the U.S. Congress and the nation both through its 21 reading rooms on Capitol Hill and its award-winning Web site at www.loc.gov.
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Kiosks will be installed at the Crown Center, Downtown Kansas City Library and Carlsen Center displaying general tour details, schedules and information on Library of Congress music resources. The Library of Congress will leave these behind as gifts to the greater Kansas City regional area.
Teachers' Institutes at Pembroke Hill School and Olathe Public School
Two assemblies at University Academy, K-12 charter school
Thomas Hampson vocal master class with local students
A pre-concert lecture with William Everett, associate professor in music history at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, on American song in the recital hall
Public viewings of treasures from the Library, including musical manuscripts such as Louis Armstrong's "Gully Low Blues" and Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring," along with items chosen specifically for the tour stop such as the sheet music for Frederic Logan's "Missouri Waltz Song" and Roger C. Webb's "Kansas City A's"
"Song of America" concert featuring Hampson and pianist Craig Rutenberg. For tickets and more information, contact (913) 469-4445, email@example.com.
Screenings of several films restored by the Library of Congress, including "Jammin' the Blues," "His Girl Friday," "The Happy Hottentots" and "Casablanca," at the Tivoli Theater, 4050 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, MO 64111. For reservations call (913) 383-7756.
Veterans Outreach: "Preserving Your Memories."Downtown Kansas City Public Library, 14 West 10th St., Kansas City, Mo. For more information, call (816) 701-3400.


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Extraction and Processing Division Scholarships
Two $3,000 scholarships are available to full-time undergraduate applicants in their sophomore or junior years, who are majoring in the extraction and processing of minerals, metals and materials. Each scholarship recipient is also given up to five Extraction & Processing Division-sponsored conference proceedings or textbooks to be donated in the recipient's name to his/her college or university library. Awards are presented during the Extraction & Processing Division luncheon at the TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition. Up to $500 for travel expenses is available to each recipient in order to accept the award at the luncheon. Eligibility:-The applicant must be a student member of Material Advantage-Applicants must be enrolled full-time in a metallurgical/materials science engineering program at a qualified college/university-Applicants must be undergraduate sophomores or junior unless otherwise noted-Relatives of members of the funding committee/division are not eligible-Submitted coursework must be relevant to the scholarship for which the student is applyingFor more information or to apply, please visit the scholarship provider's website.
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I've just read Peter Yongqi Gu (2003)Vocabulary Learning in a Second Language: Person, Task, Context and Strategies Here are a few interesting points which emerge. All references can be found at the end of Peter's article.
1. Intentional reading should supplement incidental reading.
Like Rose Bard (who's recently talked about her efforts to introduce an extensive reading programme to her students) and many others, I'm convinced of the value of extesive, TAVI, incidental reading. Krashen's advocacy of extensive incidental reading is well-known, and his 1989 survey concluded that incidental vocabulary learning achieves much better results than intentional vocabulary learning. But I was interested to read Yongqi Gu make a convincing case for a dual approach. He points out that in order to benefit from incidental vocabulary learning through extensive reading, students must have the ability to read, and this is something which low level foreign language learners only possess to a very limited extent. Research studies show that, particularly at beginner levels, intentional reading of short texts leads to much faster vocabulary learning than reading low-level structuural readers. Incidental vocabulary learning through reading seems to be more effective for intermediate to advanced L2 learners who already have at least a basic grasp of the language skills needed, and even these learners benefit from using intentional learning strategies. Yongqi Gu cites studies which suggest that a combined approach is superior to incidental vocabulary learning alone. Looking at it from a slightly different angle, if we regard the purpose of vocabulary learning as both remembering words and being able to use them automatically when the need arises, evidence suggests that the knowledge aspect requires more conscious and explicit learning mechanisms, whereas the skill aspect involves mostly implicit learning and memory. This suggests that vocabulary learning strategies should include strategies for "using" as well as "knowing" a word.
2. Dictionaries help vocabulary learning
I always used to tell students that when they were doing extensive reading (as opposed to reading and studying a short text), they should only resort to consulting a (monolingual) dictionary in extremis, relying for the rest of the time on contextual clues and getting the gist. So I was interested to see Yongqi Gu cite research suggesting that while it is cetainly true that new vocabulary is acquired in extensive reading through contextual guessing, those who used a dictionary as well as guessing through context, learn far more words immediately and remember more long term. For example, in a study of Japanese EFL university students, results suggested that using a dictionary significantly improved vocabulary learning through reading. As to whether bilingual or monolingual dictionaries are better, I alsways thought that monolingual ones were better, but it seems that there's increasing interest in the "new bilingualised compromise dictionaries", hybrid dictionaries that essentially provide translations in addition to the good features of monolingual dictionaries. Evaluation of the effectiveness of such dictionaries emerged in the 1990s and it was found that irrespective of the learners' proficiency level, the bilingualised version was significantly better than the other two types in both comprehension and production tasks.
3. Rote Rehearsal is good for Vocabulary Learning
Well I knew that this was "back in fashion", but here's what the article says:
a) Research show that a surprising amount of word pairs can be learned within a relatively short time and not many repetitions are needed before the L2-L1 word pairs are remembered.
b) If a word list does not contain a lot of difficult words, lists of 100 or more words can be studied at one time.
c) Forgetting words mostly occurs immediately after initial encounter, and the rate of forgetting slows down afterwards. Students should start repeating newly learned words immediately after the first encounter. Spaced recall and repetition should follow afterwards at longer intervals.
d) Repeating words aloud helps retention far better than silent repetition.
e) Research shows convincingly that it is necessary and legitimate to employ various repetition strategies, like drills, at the initial stages of vocabulary learning.
Learners of a foreign language should be explicitly warned that mnemonic devices are only meant to complement rather than replace other approaches to vocabulary learning. Too great a focus on learning vocabulary as discrete items leads to neglect of the skill aspect of vocabulary in natural discourse.
5. Organised learners learn faster
From guessing at the first encounter, to possible dictionary use and note taking, to rehearsal, encoding, and contextual activation, vocabulary learning in real life situations is a dynamic process involving metacognitive choices and cognitive implementation of a whole spectrum of strategies. These strategies influence the outcome of learning far more than any task specification. In one study Yongqi Gu cites, two approaches to vocabulary learning were identified. One group approached vocabulary learning in a structured way, setting criteria for the selection of words, engaging in self-initiated learning activities, keeping a systematic note of vocabulary items being learned, and regularly reviewing their records. The other group, by contrast, did little independent learning, kept minimal records of new words being learned, and relied heavily on classroom instruction. The first group learned a lot more, leading to the conclusion that good learners (those who initiate their own learning, selectively attend to words of their own choice, studiously try to remember these words, and seek opportunities to use them) learn faster.
6. Research is needed on learning lexical chunks
While existing research on vocabulary learning strategies suggests that good learners pay more attention to collocations, the field needs a clearer focus on how exactly learners learn multiword units and how these strategies are related to learning outcomes. Fifteen years ago, Scmitt and Carter noted "there is little empirical evidence one way or the other as to the actual effectiveness of Lewis' lexical approach …. In light of the essential nature of lexical chunks, we need to come to a better understanding of their behavior and to develop innovative ways of incorporating lexical phrase instruction into the language syllabus". As far as I know, if we lead aside frequency studies, taxonomies, and other essentially descriptive results of computer-based examinations of big corpora, the only contribution to our understanding of the behaviour of lexical phrases is Hoey's Lexical Priming theory (which I have seen no convincing defence of) and there have been no serious suggestions about how to incorporate lexical phrase instruction into the language syllabus in the last 10 years.
eflnotes says: February 22, 2015 at 7:08 pm
Thx for this Geoff. Ddo you know any reviews that are more recent? i found this one from 2010 – http://www.kushiro-ct.ac.jp/library/kiyo/kiyo36/Brian.pdf but it uses dated references as well
It would be nice as for example the claim that beginners would benefit more from deliberate vocab learning is questioned from this 2013 study with beginners which showed vocabulary gains via incidental learning provided the stimulus used multiple modes – written, pictures and sound.
And there is a 2015 report about effectiveness of gestures http://www.mpg.de/8934791/learning-senses-vocabulary
Also include link to 2013 study on incidental and multi-mode presentation – http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0060912
Geoff says Hi Mura,
There are, of course, lots of more up to date studies on all the topics I picked from Peter Yongqi Gu's (2003) review. Without looking anything up properly, I think McCarthy, Carter, Biber, N. Schmidt, N. Ellis, Laufer, Skehan, Robinson, and a lot of newer people like Peter from the Far East have all got more recent work on this. A more recent review (more of a bibliography really) is H Mohebbi – (2013) "Investigating Vocabulary Learning in Second Language Classrooms.." If you Google that, you'll get the pdf file.
I hadn't seen Peter's article before and I just paraphrased a few bits that grabbed me. I'd seen Kushiro (2010) but kind of forgotten it. Yesterday (Sunday, relax browse…) I was looking back over stuff that came out around the start of this century and there were a few things which got my attention. Apart from Peter's article, I noticed a few articles on Laufer and Hulstijn's Involvement Load Hypothesis, and some things about noticing. It's got me going on lots of related areas like implicit / explicit; processing; parsimonious v. hugely repetitive storage; connectionism & emergentism and all this priming stuff; imput / intake; …. So I thought I'd just post it and see what happens. I think I'll do a quick one on the Involvement Load Hypothesis, one on task complexity, one on Susan Carroll's "Input and Evidence", one on explicit grammar teaching, and fumble around looking for links. I count on your eagle eye for guidance.
Rose Bard says:
I'm concerned with the level of the learners and whether introducing them to graded readers right at the beginning of the year (for those especially who are beginners like me in German) would be really beneficial or not. I've had learners who started the year as a total beginner but took learning on their hands in order to catch up with others in the group. But I also had other learners in the same level who were not as autonomous or motivated to do it on their own.
A pity that teenagers find stories written for children boring. For my own learning of German, I chose children books because, 1) I really love children stories 2) it exposes me to authentic language and 3) grammar structure is not graded. I'm not concentrating on grammar yet. I'm using a dictionary and google translator to aid me in comprehension. I'm using a notebook to keep track and explore language. As I read, I'm also noticing grammar patterns, something that for me is not disconnected of lexis and comprehension though.
I chose trying out learning German through reading (but not reading alone) because it seems much more interesting than learning words/group of words in isolation; and it naturally have repetition of vocabulary and high frequency words in it. I'm really enjoying the experience. The only thing I find hard with the reading by myself is pronunciation, my lower level students also reported that last semester. They would often come to me to ask before the sharing time how to say something. As at this point I don't have a teacher, I'm using whatever tool there is out there to help me and if the tool proves to be useful, I intend to pass the recommendation to my learners. To minimize the problem with not know how to say something in German, I'm using the audio tool in google translator to practice chunks or whole sentences.
I haven't had the time to read Natural Approach book yet, but looking into chapter 6 where Krashen discusses Reading as additional source of input for acquisition and learning following his comprehensible input hypothesis, he agrees that one needs to know enough of the second language to derive meaning from the text (p.131) as you know. This makes me think of my initial concern with learner level that I mentioned in my blog and above. I wonder even if we are enthusiasts for bringing graded readers to the class, how much of enough should be learned before. Even Krashen seems to take into consideration the need to have a certain amount of knowledge of the language to start reading which for me is a relief.
This post was really helpful. Thanks again. I'm convinced that intentional reading of short texts for beginners is more beneficial. And that seems to be what I am doing right now with the stories for children in German. I should revisit some of John F. Fanselow ideas on this topic actually and Kevin STein's blog. I remember John talking about this in the courses at iTDi as well.
Geoff : Hi Rose,
I didn't want to suggest for a minute that there was anything wrong with getting beginners to read extensively, because I don't think there is. The evidence from studies is extremely mixed and anyway, you know better than any university-based researcher what's happening with your students. I think Krashen is basically right about extensive reading, but I don't trust his studies or his "attitude" – I think there's LOTS of politics involved in his promotion of the extensive reading programme in the US. Don't be bowled over by any one report on anything; it's all interesting and it should make us think, but, as long as you critically assess what you're doing, which you do, trust your instincts.
Rose Bard says:
Hi Geoff, don't worry! I'm still following what I think is best for my learners. You know that I never link what I read without linking to practice and of course this always raise extra questions. I still believe that reading extensively is beneficial but I agree with proponents of pure ER that one has to have LOADS of reading at the right level and reading should be for pleasure. Anything out of this might become intensive reading. However, I do not agree with them when comes to use ONLY extensive reading for learning a second language. Even if you read loads (I'm a reader), choice of book will affect your need to check meaning of unknown vocabulary. I see it as supplementing the program whatever that program might be, not substituting it. The point is beginners do not have the amount of knowledge to read a text on their own, hence why explicit instruction will be needed. Whether one hire a teacher, enroll in a course, use digital tools or just a book and a dictionary to assist, one will need to work out the language (lexis and grammar) at least at its basic before they can read, but there will always be words we don't now until we achieve a certain level of knowledge. That is why I mentioned what Krashen wrote in his book above. He agrees with that.
I see that a lot of people (those who I trust at least) agree with studies when comes to the amount of language needed to be able to achieve comprehension of a text: 98%! So if we take this number into consideration beginners will indeed have trouble reading even a starter. That was my main concern. I was trying to think whether I should introduce at the beginning of the year or leave it for later like I did last year. But I did it for other reasons though. Anyhow, if I do bring readers at the beginning, most learners will benefit and it will become ER for them but not for all. If I introduce ER more towards the end of the year, they will not have really experienced it. Another concern is should I do it with the sharing time or not. I'm still pondering here… or thinking aloud. Your insights/questions/critics or anyone's else is really welcome, but I haven't been able to make up my mind yet. I also have to take into consideration that I still need my supervisor on board.
Back at the vocabulary topic, I agree with the study you reviewed in your post. Reading with a dictionary is useful. It is not ER though, but it is still useful for vocabulary learning. I have been for the past year and half reading together with groups and individuals in my classes to understand how they make sense of what they read. Low level learners always guess wrongly a word they do not know and it takes a lot of eliciting and giving way clues to help them, but it doesn't always work anyway. I have found no evidence among my students that they are able to guess from context as some suggest without considering the level of learners. On the other hand, I have showed my intermediate students upwards that they can make educated guesses about words in a text if they consider all the information they have about it. This is something that needed to be worked on with them. They do not look for clues, they glue their eyes in the word and wear a puzzled look on their face. The question with reading is are students comfortable reading a book with their dictionaries on the side? My experience will say no. In Breaking Rules, John F. F. makes the proposition that much of we do in class is not natural and that has implications when we try to link something that is natural, reading a book in our own language for pleasure for instance to something that is not, read things we do not understand. How can we make learning natural for beginners in a world that is not willing to wait, to invest time or take risks? How can we make learning natural when everything in the room seems so unnatural, staged and predictable?
Anthonyteacher says:
Just to clarify, was the article suggesting using dictionaries during extensive reading?
Hi Anthony,
Thanks for this. Yes, the suggestion was that using a dictionary while reading extensively helps with vocab. acquisition. It's not so simple of course. In the study those who use dictionaries took twice as long to read the text, and it's suggested that more than vocab. learning is involved in extensive reading, so one has to be careful with what implications one draws. I'd modify my advice, but only a bit: OK, use a dictionary, but don't let it interfere with the primary aim of getting the info. from the page. I'd say that if you need to look up more than 3-5 words a page, the text isn't suitable.


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There was a decently significant milestone AAPL was on the verge of reaching recently. Consider it reached. Any guesses as to what it is? Answer later or once a commenter gets it right.
EDIT: To be clearer, it relates to price action over the past year.
SECOND EDIT: Hopefully there'll be more comments/guesses next time! The answer was – AAPL had an up move exceeding any previous countertrend move. Bonus points for saying that this move occurred while breaking out from downtrend.
Comments are always welcome – e-mails aren't required!


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By Mireya Martinez
Although semester conversion won't occur until fall 2018, faculty and administration have already begun to change curriculum and discuss the transition.
At the Academic Senate's meeting on Wednesday, the senate discussed both the design of class time modules and the revision of general education student learning outcomes.
"We have to work very hard because these are important issues," said Sepehr Eskandari, current vice chair of the senate and chair of the biological sciences department. "All issues that come to us are important but some influence a small fraction of the campus community. Some issues influence everybody."
Eskandari says that something like class time modules " how much time a class session will be " affects the entire campus community.
"It will change how students will take classes," said Eskandari. "It will influence how faculty teaches. It will influence campus culture in general."
At first glance, time modules seem relatively simple to formulate. But Hassan Halati, chair of the technology and operations management department, can attest otherwise.
"We've looked at many things," said Halati. "There is no such thing as perfect solution because when you deal with human behavior, [the amount of time] all depends on how it's used."
Halati and the other 11 members of the Academic Affairs committee have spent countless hours conducting the necessary research and designing the time modules for classes in the semester system.
The current design allows for two-unit, three-unit, and four-unit classes, proposes a 110-minute final and removes restrictions from scheduling classes at 7 a.m. or on Saturdays and Sundays. Departments could also design six-unit classes for their students if needed.
"Over the years there has been a lot of concerns about the lack of flexibility in our current structure, and the Academic Affairs committee really wanted to include the additional flexibility," said Eskandari. "At the end of the day, having the additional flexibility is probably a good outcome."
Flexibility, however, does come with drawbacks, like potentially large gaps of free time for students, the use of facilities not being maximized, and the possibility of every department clustering classes around the same hours and days.
Senator Angela Shih, like many other senators, thanked the committee for working on the daunting task and for including the much-wanted flexibility, but felt like too much flexibility might present the same problem as too little.
"From a philosophical point of view, I really like it," said Shih, chair of the mechanical engineering department. "But from an execution point of view, I don't think I want to be the one scheduling this in 2018."
By the end of the meeting, the Academic Senate did not come to a conclusion of how flexible to make class modules.
In contrast, the Academic Senate unanimously and quickly approved the revisions made to the GE student learning outcomes.
The Academic Senate, Provost Marten denBoer and President Emeritus Michael Ortiz had previously approved a set of learning outcomes, but the language was found to be incompatible with the new GE area distribution and did not serve as a good guide for students or creating rubrics.
The GE Committee, along with the GE Assessment Committee, rewrote the learning outcomes to be more specific and conducive to learning by using active and direct language, splitting some outcomes and eliminating redundancies.
For example, the learning outcome "Write and speak effectively to various audiences" was divided into two: "write effectively for different audiences" and "speak effectively to different audiences."
Wording changes, while minute, define the learning path students will be encouraged to take and the way in which they will be assessed.
One learning outcome, which once required that students "explain" the importance of active engagement, will now require that students "engage" in communities or civic activities on or off-campus.
The Academic Senate found that the new requirement aligned with CPP's vision and values, and was worded broadly enough to not be a burden for students. Some faculty members, however, were not fully onboard with the new learning outcome.
"I know this is going to sound crazy coming from me, being the big social justice advocate, but I feel a little bit uncomfortable saying that students are required to engage in civic activism," said Faye Wachs, a sociology professor, at the meeting. "That sort of opens this big can of worms."
Despite the changes to GE student learning outcomes and the other changes that will occur for semester conversion, Eskandari said that students shouldn't fear losing credits or having to retake classes.
"We have a commitment to students, especially, those students who will straddle this process [semester conversion]," said Eskandari. "The commitment to students is that they should not lose classes or time. "
The Academic Senate also nominated a new chair and vice chair at this meeting. Eskandari was nominated for chair of the Academic Senate, a position currently held by David Speak, a political science professor. Sara Garver from the geography and anthropology department was nominated for vice chair.
Elections for the new chair and vice chair will take place during the Academic Senate's next meeting on May 13. Discussion about class time modules will also be continued.
Tagui Martirosyan / The Poly Post
Academic Senate
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Short term view - another push lower than reversal to the upside.
Intermediate term view - another week or two higher.
Pullback which does not look complete... overall boring week and no surprises. The forecast stays the same new ATH(the indicators have improved) and the rally should fail short after that - many indexes are lagging and the volume was bigger an rising to the downside and it is less and sinking to the upside.
Short term the indicators are pointing to another push lower - Tom Demark sell setup with price flip, topping candles with tails, histogram / RSI(5) / MACD hourly / McClellan Oscillator divergences.
Intermediate term - as long as the price stays above 1810 (support and MA50) I expect a new ATH followed by real correction 10% or more. Another push lower should not last longer than 1-2 days and we should see a green week or something is wrong and the price is probably reversing to the downside.
Trading - on Monday if the indexes start moving lower you can open shorts with stop above the last highs 1848 (or even 1843 last minor highs). Small risk, it is worth a try - if I am right small profit, but if I am wrong you will catch the reversal:)
Short term - I expect another push lower Mondy-Tuesday to finish the pullback. Target is around 1810-1815 where the support is and MA50 on the daily chart.
Intermediate term - I think SP500 will make short term low at support and MA50 than we will see how high it will move...
- Momentum Histogram/RSI - momentum turned lower - the pullback is probably not over.
Long term - we had small red week so the indexes can take a breath and the next week should be green. I do not think that this move will clear the MACD divergence and the move will fail to start another long lasting rally.
- Momentum Histogram/RSI - momentum turned up - intermediate term trend is up.
The Market Breadth Indicators - oscillators like Advance-Decline Issues are overbought, the trend following indicators have turned up and I expect several green weeks.
McClellan Oscillator - hit mildly overbought levels and showing divergence - pullback?
McClellan Summation Index - buy signal, made higher high than the lat one - several green weeks.
Weekly Stochastic of the Summation Index - buy signal.
Bullish Percentage - buy signal... still lagging.
Percent of Stocks above MA50 - still bellow the previous highs.
Fear Indicator VIX - complacency again. Do not forget - these are levels where the VIX is a buy.
Advance-Decline Issues - hit extremes so I expect a pullback
Probably the top of the smaller 20 day cycles.
18 month cycle bottom if I am right. Usually you will see a strong rally lasting for months, but after 15 months without correction it is a little bit suspect.... The alternative is some kind of a top - double top or H&S and top of the 5 year and 9 year cycle. The line in the sand is 1740 the bottom of the last 18 month cycle if the current one moves lower this will mean the cycles of a higher degree 5 and 9 year have toped out.
Tom Demark SEQUENTIAL AND COUNTDOWN - this technique spots areas of exhaustion.
Sell setup with price flip, technical analysis says the same so I expect something to the downside. In the next 2-3 days we will know if this is a reversal or a countdown will follow.
Feb 23, 2014
Weekly review
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- AnonymousFeb 23, 2014, 9:47:00 AM
Great update Krasi! Look forward to your daily post next week if we get some volatility.ReplyDelete
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Date: Saturday 6th January 2018
Distance: 14.2km
Ascent: 970m
First weekend of 2018 – and it was looking good. Toyed with the idea of a high camp, but the combination of shifting cloud, brutal temps and the temptation of 2 winter walks in different areas saw us staying in Fort William.
Up early and on the 0710 Corran Ferry, driving round to Kingairloch in the dark.
There's space for 2 cars at NM 872 524 (and an estate-built car park at NM 866 531).
We'd headed up Druim na Maodalach to Maol Odhar last year and turned around. Once again we had fluid plans, head up and see if we fancied the horseshoe or an up and down.
Slightly rough first 50m from the car onto Sron na Maodalach and thereafter it's easy walking on a slightly bobbly, long slow ascent to Maol Odhar.
The sun rose a little after we started – emerging from near Ben Cruachan.
The forecast crisp, clear air didn't play ball though – you should be able to see Jura down to the south, but it wasn't visible.
More local views provided the distractions.
Once up at about 200m we spotted an immature Sea Eagle rounding Sron na Maodalach and head round the coast under us. It headed out a few hundred metres Loch Linnhe and then proceeded to attempt to drag something out of the water. Couldn't see what it had found, but try as it might it couldn't fully lift it (dead seal pup or porpoise calf perhaps?). After a few minutes it gave up and flew north….not seen that before. Sightings like that mean the day's a winner before the hill has a chance to impress.
Transition to the snow line occurred at about 500m. The ridge was pretty well scoured, so there was no plowtering through drifts needed at any point. This is a fantastic ridge. Easy-angled with a clear view south down Loch Linnhe to the Firth of Lorne.
As we got to Meall nan Each we were exposed to the biting north-easterly – more layers were donned to repel the cold.
Beinn na Cille and Fuar Bheinn:
A nice layer of shallow snow presented no difficulty and we ambled onwards and upwards.
It was a fairly brisk wind – but much of the loose snow had been scoured. Occasionally there were a few whirligigs of spindrift.
After a drop from Meall nan Each to 500m there's a 2km slope up to Maol Odhar. Followed hardened runs of snow, a nice walking surface.
As the ascent proceeds the view opens up north, and then NW. The Graham above the Corran Ferry was lit up by sun.
Once the shoulder of the NE ridge is gained the Ardgour hills come into view.
Maol Odhar has a craggy flank on its north-east.
Just a walk in the park really.
Spotted some raised tracks in the snow – possibly fox?
Carried on to the summit of Maol Odhar.
The views NW were a little grey – we could pick out Rum and Knoydart, but there was little sunlight that way.
Had a bite to eat and considered the plan. Like the last time we visited we fancied a return down the Loch Linnhe side, especially with the west and north-west views not being superb. Decided against heading up Creach Bheinn allowing a more relaxed amble down without time pressure.
In the meantime the big hills across Loch Linnhe – Glen Coe, Mamores and Nevis – were starting to clear a bit.
Turned and descended by the route of ascent.
Returning, big hills clearing:
Some familiar and shapely hills were starting to become visible.
Pap of Glencoe and the other Garbh Bheinn:
The wind speeds very slowly began to slacken, but they remained pretty brisk and chilly. Wasn't too sad not to be camping under the circumstances.
Had a very slow wander down the hill, eking out as much time as we had to sunset.
Mam na Guallain and Mamores:
This side of Loch Linnhe is really quite attractive, and off the beaten track.
The sun began to lower and the light took on warmer hues again.
There was a fairly rapid transition from snow to grass at about 500m.
The sun setting cast pinker light on the big hills north and east.
…and with the setting sun, Jura came into view across the Firth of Lorne.
Finally dropped back to the car just a little after sunset.
Loch Linnhe and on to the Sound of Lorne:
An easy walk – no Corbetts or Grahams summited, but that wasn't really the purpose. We do like this area and seeing many of the surrounding hills whetted the appetite for 2018.