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Critique of Harris & Walton on Narrative Skills and School Conflicts
Article Reviewed: Harris, A. R., & Walton, M. D. (2009). "Thank you for making me write this." Narrative skills and the management of conflict in urban schools. Urban Review, 41, 287-311.
In this article, Harris and Walton (H & W) state that Laursen, Finkelstein, and Betts (2001) "identified three types of conflict resolution strategies: coercion, negotiation, and disengagement" in "a comprehensive meta-analysis" (p. 289). This statement gives the impression that Laursen et al. studied categorizations of conflict resolution strategies and concluded that coercion, negotiation, and disengagement best represented the myriad taxonomies they had encountered. That impression would be mistaken. Laursen et al. (p. 424) did not study that question; instead, they looked to Jensen-Campbell et al. (1996) for evidence suggesting that negotiation, disengagement, and coercion might be the three strategies by which disagreements are closed.
The work done by Laursen et al. had to do, instead, with developmental trends in peer conflict resolution. H & W observe that Laursen et al. compared the relative frequency of these three strategies at different stages of development. H & W (p. 289) say that Laursen et al. found the following rankings at the following stages of development, with the most frequently used strategy listed first (N = negotiation, D = disengagement, C = coercion):
Childhood: C, N, D
Adolescence: N, D/C (equally)
Young adulthood: N, D, C.
H & W infer, from this, that "conflict resolution strategies develop in a direction away from aggravating or aggressive strategies toward the more constructive strategies of mitigation and communication" (p. 290). But that seems pretty glib. One rarely finds children holding grudges for years and even decades, as adults do. It seems that the children who try to imagine themselves in the violent settings of adults sports and wars might instead emulate adults' admirable verbal conflict resolution skills – if the kids were seeing such skills as the standard of adulthood.
H & W devote some pages to the discussion of narratives by which children relate their conflict resolution experiences from their own perspectives. The authors chose to focus on autobiographic narrative data because these data "show how children represent the different aspects of the conflict situation" and "can begin to reveal how children make sense of their conflicts" (p. 291). It will soon develop, however, that some ways of making sense are privileged in these authors' eyes.
Notwithstanding the putative meta-analysis of the matter by Laursen et al., H & W divide their own discussion of these narratives into four, not three, categories: communication and reconciliation, withdrawing from conflict, retaliation, and seeking adult help (or not). It seems that Laursen et al. are enlisted selectively, for the purpose of supporting a scheme of linear developmental progression in the direction of negotiation and away from conflict.
So. Having evoked the nonpresence of a tight theoretical framework, the authors proceed to marinate juicy excerpts from children's autobiographical narratives in the vinegar of their own values. For starters, in a nation in which many adults report having no friends, and where that number is increasing, H & W aver that communication and reconciliation are the most mature conflict resolution methods. Consider their Example 1, providing a quote from one of the children (p. 296): "I told her how I felt when she bumped into me. I told her that I got mad but, I knew that she [just] made a mistake. So we both said that we were sorry." If only adult conflicts reaching the point of anger were routinely handled so maturely!
Oddly, the authors' four categories do not include actual aggression or violence per se. While I cannot lay my hands on a copy of the article by Jensen-Campbell et al. (1996) at the moment, I have the assurance of Laursen et al. that it was an empirically based piece. Everyday experience provides its own empirical corroboration: people do not consistently take, or even see themselves as taking, the meek route that the authors palpably prefer. In the quote just offered, for example, the child admitted that she had been the one who had gotten mad, knowing that the other child had intended and did no harm. The girl is commended for using "communication and reconciliation"; there is no comment on the reasonable impression that this was a conflict that she, herself, had created.
H & W provide quotes from two narratives as grist for their discussion of the communication and reconciliation strategy. They offer a third excerpt in their discussion of the withdrawal strategy. When they turn to the retaliation strategy, they provide their fourth quote. "This story in Example 4," they say, "shows much less social-cognitive and moral sophistication than did the previous examples" (p. 299). Moral sophistication, for this purpose, appears to be measured in terms of whether the author takes "a moral stance" or assigns blame to oneself or to the other person (p. 295). According to the authors, an instance of a "moral evaluation" occurs in Example 1 (quoted above) when the girl says, "I knew she made a mistake," characterizing the other's action as "an atypical lapse." But wouldn't it be the height of moral hypocrisy to graciously pardon the other for her mistake, when it may be one's own flash of unresonable anger that created the problem?
And so the child in the authors' Example 4 is a boy, the first such creature to appear in their examples; and his lack of moral sophistication is said to be found in his failure to offer moral evaluations, analyses of motives, or speculations as to others' thoughts and emotions. Apparently they think he should not have tried to describe how his little fistfight in the bathroom became a whole big to-do involving his dad and the principal and the other boy's big brother and the Safety Council. Had so many helpful adults become involved in the girls' conflicts -- had their counterparts been backed up by a mean big brother -- perhaps they too would have had to devote their attention to explaining how all these people got into the mix, and why it all ultimately comes back to the fact that the other boy was hassling him. How H & W can read his description and miss what they would otherwise consider a "moral" propensity to blame people is beyond me.
In the quoted excerpt, the boy instead takes what a lawyer might call a "strict liability" approach to the transgression at issue. Basically, if you pick on me, you'll wish you hadn't. It doesn't really matter what you are thinking about. You may think you're the Queen of Sheba. Whatever. Just don't pick on me. It seems, unfortunately, that H & W are not fond of a strict liability approach. Tut-tut, they say: there is "no evidence that the author has learned anything about how to avoid violence." But apparently there is no evidence that he has failed to learn anything about violence either. Besides, why would the authors be encouraging him to "avoid" violence, when their own preferred strategy is to engage in communication and reconciliation? The impression that both authors (Marsha and Alexis) are female does not generate confidence that they have considered the calculations by which he may have to appear strong, so as to discourage other aggressors.


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There are TONS of in-jokes in this game so I highly recommend you play the first two games (or at least read through all of the walkthroughs I have online) to get a sense of the full backstory on this game. There are a lot of fun characters and situations that are referred to throughout this game!
You start with your favorite heroes, Ratchet and Clank, playing a strange game of chess. Suddenly Clank's favorite TV show comes on. It starts in the Maktar Casino, at 12:31am. You see Secret Agent Clank facing off against Max Million, complete with witty banter. There's a fight which Clank easily wins, and he waltzes out with his lady friend. "Jeeves", i.e. Ratchet, is the hotel doorman who is sent for the car.
The real Ratchet is not thrilled with this plot and changes the channel. You see a newscast with Channel 64 News, that your home planet is under attack by the Tyranoids. They're lead by Dr. Nefarious, the masermind behind this attack.
"We're going home," says Ratchet. Your home is in the Salonid Galaxy and Clank is concerned. "Not the gravometric warp drive ... the untested gravometric warp drive." "We are doomed," he adds. But of course, you make it home safely!
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Oh, yeah...this will make America 'respected' again!
- Friends and foes alike will be in sheer agony from their sides hurting from the laughter.
On Kerry's first day as SecState, he says "I have some big heels to fill."
- What a "poofter!"
Then I saw this cartoon just after reading the article about his introductory speech to State Department employees.
- It seemed a 'natural' fit for this "Mary."
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid June Scans *SPOILERS*
Yesterday, the new scans for the June issue of Televikun Magazine were released online. The scans feature events for the upcoming episodes of Kyuranger, Ex-Aid, and Ultraman Geed! In addition, the scans also feature teasers to the upcoming summer movies. First off, in this post we will be presenting the Kamen Rider Ex-Aid portion. The majority of these scans explain Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Muteki Gamer, the return of an old friend, and the movie! Please keep in mind that scans do count as spoilers, so one should continuing reading this articleRead More
Kamen Rider EX-Aid Q3 Toy Catalog Scans Revealed *Spoilers
Recently new toy catalog scans have surfaced online, which reveal several interesting developments for Kamen Rider EX-Aid. *Keep in mind this article contains spoilers so read at your own discreet. First, Kamen Rider EX-Aid's final form has been revealed. By using the Hyper Muteki Gashat he will be able to henshin into Kamen Rider EX-Aid Muteki Gamer. Next, it has been revealed that Kamen Rider Para-DX will be receiving a new form. By using his own GamerDriver he wil lbe able to henshin into Kamen Rider Para-DX Perfect Knockout Fighter Gamer. With this form he will be receiving aRead More


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text: This time on America's Test Kitchen, we speak with Jeremiah Tower, a leader of the American culinary revolution who started as the chef of Chez Panisse in the 1970's and later went on to open Stars in San Francisco. We'll find out all about cake pans from gadget guru Lisa McManus, and we'll be tasting wines with expert Stephen Meuse. Then we'll head into the test kitchen to learn how to make the best Almond Cake. And of course, we'll be taking your calls to answer all of your cooking questions.


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As aviators we have found that successful flying is a microcosm of living and successful life. The same principles that keep us safe in the air also works in every day life. We have found that most of these principles are biblical principals.
As and example, prior to flying an aircraft the pilot will conduct a thorough inspection to make sure that it is airworthy. This is called a pre-flight. Were is this found in the bible?
The apostle Pail wrote the Ephesians to put on the armor of God every day.
Ephesians 6:10-20
New International Version (NIV)
The Armor of God
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord's people. 19 Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.
Then give it a try. See if this simple "pre-flight" each morning keeps you flying through the day. We are certain it will.


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A new Group Health study says radiologists can wait on a biopsy and just recommend a six-month follow-up mammogram to women with "probably benign" breast lesions (which means it has a low chance of being cancer)
The study found that six-month short-interval follow-up exams had an 83 percent sensitivity, which is similar to the sensitivity of other diagnostic mammograms, said Erin J. Aiello Bowles, lead author of the study. (High sensitivity means having a high number of actual cancer cases and a low number of cases mistakenly deemed benign.)
The study included 45,007 initial short-interval follow-up mammograms which monitor for changes in "probably benign" breast lesions.
"Because the probability of cancer is so low, we don't want to put the patient through an unnecessary biopsy, which is an invasive procedure that increases both patient anxiety and medical costs," said Aiello Bowles. "At the same time, we want to closely monitor these patients, because changes in "probably benign" lesions occasionally mean cancer, and we want to detect the cancers as early as possible," she said.
In the study, 360 women with "probably benign" lesions were diagnosed with breast cancer within six months and 506 women were diagnosed with cancer within 12 months, Aiello Bowles said.
The study appears in the May issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.


text: goforthebet Monday, 11/16/09 08:33:51 AM Re: None 0 Post # of 31 BlackRock says central banks to be net buyers of gold By: Reuters 16th November 2009 SYDNEY - Central banks will be net buyers of gold this year as they diversify away from the US dollar, global commodities investment fund BlackRock said on Monday in comments that helped drive bullion to fresh record highs. BlackRock is one of the world's largest fund managers, boasting a total $1,4- trillion under management across all asset classes. It is manager and adviser to the US Federal Reserve and its views can influence the direction of global markets. Evy Hambro, who runs two of the world's largest commodities funds, BlackRock World Mining Fund and Gold & General Fund, gave an upbeat outlook for gold during a media briefing in Australia. His forecast for net central-bank purchases of gold this year would, if met, mark the first year in two decades when the world's central banks bought more gold than they sold. They have been net sellers of gold each year since 1988. "The most recent break-out in the gold price in US dollars has caused most gold prices to start trending higher at the same time," Hambro said, adding that investors were now looking for gold to rise in other commodities as well as US dollars. "When you start to see the price rising in a range of different currencies, it is a clear sign of a very strong market to come," he added. Spot gold stood at $1 123,70 as of 02:16 GMT after touching $1 126,30 per ounce, a record, compared with the notional New York close of $1 118,50, helped higher by Hambro's bullish outlook, according to financial broking group IG Markets. The previous record was $1 122,85 marked on Nov. 12. Bullion was also gaining on renewed appeal as a hedge against the US dollar's weakness and inflation risks. In other currencies, gold has not reached new highs since early 2009. In Australian and Canadian dollars and the South African rand, it peaked in February. But Hambro said investors were now "looking for price rises across all currencies" as central banks build up their gold holdings and global supplies tapered off. "Gold's role is gathering a lot more attention in terms of risk diversification," he said. Hambro also said that the high level of gold production in China, which has replaced South Africa as the world's biggest producer, was not sustainable, pressuring world supply. China's gold production rose 13,49% in the first half of 2009 from a year earlier to 146,505 t, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Hambro also said US demand for commodities was starting to show signs of recovery. This, along with stronger Asian demand, set the stage for a prolonged bull market, he added. Hambro said China's rapid rise would underpin the next bull market. China accounts for about 40 percent of demand in almost every commodity and more than half the demand in some commodities such as steel and copper during the second quarter of 2009. "Obviously other countries as well [that are] in a similar position to China, such as India, Brazil and so on are also having another magnifying affect in terms of the commodity picture," Hambro said. Edited by: Reuters


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My cousin David who is about 4ish weeks younger than me is at the University of Hertfordshire doing a course in 3D Animation. And you see I already knew he did lots of work at university – in the past he has been known to come home at Christmas in his slippers because he didn't have the energy to change into his shoes – I feel sorry for his girlfriend sometimes! (She is lovely – she wants to be a teacher one day and might be coming to study in Bedford – I doubt they will but if they did split I hope that we will still be friends because she's really cool – We chat about Shakespeare and I don't feel like a geek because she gets as excited as I do!) Anyhoo here is one of his videos.
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I like the video. Is that your cousins girlfriend starring in it?God's Rock Angel says:
No it's not his girlfriend. I'm not sure who it is – I signed into MSN to see if he was online so I could ask him but he's not there I think he's working
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Autumn is the perfect season to showcase my favorite style: retro romanticism.
Bows, ruffles and bowler hats are some of the key ingredients for cooking up a nostalgically romantic outfit, but it would not be complete without a color palette that is reminiscent of autumn leaves.
This burnt orange bow bag by TUSCAN'S off its Tale of the Continental collection is inspired by the bow shape of 14th century attire. I love how vintage and feminine it looks and how pragmatic it is. Pairing it with a ruffle dress with cut out shoulder details and lace up shoes gives the look a contemporary spin.
The Halo flap bag in brick red also draws reference from the bygone European era. The highlight of the classy design is the round metal ware that resembles a holy person's circle of light in religious paintings.
Accessorizing the look with layers of chain necklaces can emphasis the religious accent and matching red hues with sugar mousse pink would never go wrong.
This dusty pink and sunset yellow flap bag may look sweet and chic, but the design actually takes inspiration from the back pocket of denim jeans.
As the bag oozes a more casual vibe, I romanticize the outfit with the help of the burgundy tulle skirt and multiple bow crochet top.
Although the color palette of fallen leaves is my first priority in Autumn and Winter, occasionally styling with darker tones or bright and bold hues can be refreshing.
The Halo doctor bag is a timeless essential. Carrying it with a big coat makes me feel poised and assured.
While it is the ideal bag for going to work with formal clothing, it can also e dressed down with jeans and casual outfits.
The Homage to the Artisans collection celebrates the exquisite craftsmanship in the Renaissance period. This mustard yellow crossbody is named Seam, with details focusing on this indispensable artisanship in fashion.
Matching it with powder blue lace skirt gives the look a vibrant, modern, feminine charm.


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I think you'd like this story: "ABLE" by NiktheN on Wattpad http://my.w.tt/UiNb/JXgzYQ1iUA
Hoods: Stray Dogs, a wattpad story
I think you'd like this story: "Hoods: Stray Dogs" by NiktheN on Wattpad http://my.w.tt/UiNb/XtpoQ8SVTt.
My writing (covers)
I'm not perfect with book covers
Umbrella Dogs: Soldiers vs Supernatural in a paranormal/supernatural world.
Drama, magic
The Mad Kingdom: An attempt at a Alice in Wonderland retelling. Mad Hatter is King and must die
Second Idea: Sleeping King Retelling
Third Idea: some crazy none inspired by Naruto somehow
Current Project
The O: The InSPIRE tower is home and prison to the young Akene Pope, she lives in the highest Society, the Society that can speak to the Sleeping King Machine regarded as a type of God and Church of Parapsychology carries out its rules. Akene's father was a herdsman, a soldier for the Church, he went on a mission and was only to be gone a week to two weeks, but seven days after his parting, the family received a note telling of his death.
However, Akene finds out about the tower's wicked people and the use of PSI, something kept and monitored and told that civilians couldn't use unless they were blessed by Terrosseus himself. She learns none of this is true, with the help of friends and those outside the InSPIRE, she plans with them to destroy the tower. (Bad Blurb)
You should read "Unreal Urban: Black Days (Book 1)" on Wattpad. http://w.tt/1mImkhC
My outline
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The story begins by introducing the protagonist in a way that reveals his defining characteristics, strengths, weaknesses, life circumstances, motives, and goals. SEGMENT 1 also establishes the setting and tone.
Something happens to the protagonist that is out of the ordinary (for the protagonist, not for you). The event should be as apocalyptic as possible. This event throws the protagonist out of his comfort zone. The more disastrous it is for the protagonist the higher the stakes are. The higher the stakes are the more interesting the story will be.
The protagonist weighs his options. He decides he can not ignore the event that has thrown his life off track. There is either too much at stake or the event has irrevocably closed the door on his previous life until he confronts the issue.
The protagonist makes a plan of action to address the source of the conflict. The event that threw him off course has given him 1 clue as to where to start finding answers or he knows the first obstacle standing between him and the resolution of his conflict.
The protagonist executes his plan and succeeds, closing the door on the antagonist's original plan. Not only does the antagonist not achieve his goal he was hoping for, but the exact opposite of what he intended happened and the door he was trying to go through is now closed. The protagonist learns more about the antagonist, himself and the antagonist's motives/goals. Based on this new information the protagonist makes a new plan to get closer to the antagonist.
The protagonist, enabled by his previous success, sets in motion the second part of his plan to accomplish his goal.
The antagonist has to adapt to the new circumstances created by the protagonist's success and devises a new plan.
The protagonist executes his new plan and fails. Not only does he not achieve the goal he was hoping for, but the exact opposite of what he intended happened. The door he was trying to go through is now closed.
Despite the protagonist's failure he has learned something new about the antagonist. He uses that information to create a new plan to approach the conflict from a different angle.
The protagonist executes his new plan and succeeds.
Note: You can repeat SEGMENTS 4-9 as many times as logically needed to fully develop the characters and the conflict.
There's no set rule for how early or how late you should reveal the antagonist. It just needs to be logical and provide maximum tension.
The protagonist's success places him in a position to confront the antagonist directly, which he does. This is the Battle of the Bulge. The protagonist has made it to/into the gates of the antagonist's lair and must directly battle all of the antagonist's signature strengths with his own signature strengths.
The antagonist has the protagonist cornered. The protagonist is at his weakest point and all hope is lost. The antagonist is one step away from accomplishing all of his goals and defeating the protagonist.
The protagonist uses his signature strength and attacks the antagonist's signature weakness to defeat him.
Having defeated the antagonist the protagonist finally takes possession of the object of his quest.
After the protagonist takes possession of the object of his quest he must do what he planned to do with it.
The protagonist, having accomplished all of his goals must choose what to do next or with the rest of his life.
The denouement tells what lies in store for the protagonist, any supporting characters or the world in general.
I found help on internet ans mashed up my own outline
Writing Question
Does anyone have tips for outlining a story?
Possibly bad. This is a draft and I'm planning to fix it. But this is what I got now.
My life has always been an unfortunate one and I'm not saying that in a 'woe is me' sort of tone. I've been through things that weren't fun and maybe one time I got abducted by aliens but that isn't… Important.
"This is our new student—"
Monica looked at the clock repeatedly as grabbed her purse, took the gun from table in the living room and tucked away at her hip under her black dress. "Alright! I'm gone!", she shouted. Her daughter Mackenzie Young, came downstairs before her mother before her mother walked out the door. Mackenzie was five foot seven,brown, curly hair, amber eyes like her mother and father due to the effect of the jewel. "Ma!", she called her stopping her mother in her tracks. "What is it now?" "It's about–", she started to say but her mother cut her off. "I'm not having this discussion again it's already set and we're going next week so look nice for him"
Mackenzie frowned, she was the only daughter in the Young family but not the only child, she hated what she went through with her family and they seemed to put pressure on her and not her brother, Moses Young. It wasn't fair and she couldn't stand it. Bitch, she thought and chased after her mom towards the car
"I don't get why you didn't pick Moses!", she yelled. "I don't get why your so upset about it. He's nice and handsome…"
"Arranged marriages is what white people do!", she protested. "I don't wanna hook up with some white boy!" Her mother grimaced. "I never realized I raised such a closed minded daughter…"
"You just want the money!", she said. "I never said you had to love him!" "I don't want to have this talk again, you can't make me go!", she glared. Her mother started up the Chrysler Crossfire, looking at the wheel as she said to herself she is so stubborn, either way I don't care what she wants, She looked at her daughter's stone shocked face. "I…", Mackenzie looked away for a moment, She's going to make me late bringing up some bull, she can through a damn tantrum for all I care.
Mackenzie bit her lip, as her started started backing out the drive way, what hurt the most is that her mother knew she could her thoughts loud and clear. She often wondering was she like that all the time before they got the jewels. She took hold on her necklace in which the jewel hung from. An orange tone with an eye in the middle, sometimes she thought it blinked sometimes.
The cookout was going fine until that man came through. They decided to split the jewels, she would rather return hers, it wasn't serving her any good.
She stood there in the drive way for a moment, gasping her jewel and thinking about things she wanted to act on but was afraid of the consequences that would or could happened.
Her brother saw her from the window, he was wondering why she was gasping her necklace so tightly. He picked up his phone having had received a text from Dominic Riley, he read the text and replied quickly then put the phone away. Moses wasn't bothered by certain things unless it affected him in ways like his life was threatened, which would almost explained as why he had the immune response. His sister couldn't read his mind, the families powers didn't affect him and he seemed to be content with the way things were. He received a text again and checked his phone.
"Do you have a gun?", the text read. Dominic always was a proper one, he never made shortcuts. Never 'U', he always used 'YOU', he replied. "What kind of gun you need?" Dominic replied intently. "The kind that murders my brother"
He chuckled at the text. "What did he do now?", he sent. "Bitch is so damn rude, he ate all the cookies :("
Just as he replied his father walked in the room. A cut across his cheek and rather uneven crew cut. "Moses!"
"Where your mother?", he said in his well visable accent. "Did she go to work?", he said. Micah leaned in the door. "You seen my gun?" "No sir", in reality, Moses never say no sir or yes sir in his life but things happened when Micah got angry and Monica couldn't always hold him down. Moses had no real life for his father nor did his sister because they both knew the dark secrets that their father was a bigamous. The siblings chose not to say a word to their mother because they were scared…. they wouldn't want up the next day. "Damn it… she's always taking my shit as she pleases…", his amber eyes gave off a shade of red. "You sure you ain't seen her?"
"No sir…", he shook his head rapidly. "Where's your sister?", he asked, his skin turning from brown to reddish tone. "Outside", he answered.
Micah shut the door hard enough to shake the glass window. Moses picked up the phone and texted Dominic. "I think my dad is insane", he texted and received an instant reply. "Can we trade? Mine won't come home…"
Mackenzie was sitting on the steps when her dad grabbed her by the arm from behind. "Where's your mother!?"
"I… I don't know…", she stammered. She stared at his red eyes full of anger, he was holding her tight and she couldn't fell the circulation in her arm. "Daddy you're hurting me…", she told him. "Let me go…"
He did as he was asks and pushed her roughly back in the house. Moses rushed down stairs after seeing his sister being handled roughly. Micah's fingers ripped the garage door away and grabbed his bently by the bumper and dragged it out the garage. The siblings could only watch as their father was completely furious, "Moses!", he commanded. "Get… me…. my keys"
Moses was hesitating, the first thing that came to mind was his mother; he was so scared as to want his father could possibly do to here. He hoped she wasn't doing nothing really stupid to make him even angrier than he was. "BOY!", his father yelled at him making him jump in freight. Moses quickly went into the house and snatched the keys off the living room table. He went back out and rushed to hand the keys over.
His hand was shaking and as his father jerked the keys from his hold, his lips quivered as he said, "please…. don't hurt her"
Micah wasn't in his right mind to hear the boy and pulled on the door to the car so hard he intentionally removed the whole door but got in the car anyway.
Please don't hurt her, he had said that a lot in his life because he was afraid. The first time it happened, he had to had been five years old. It was the middle of the night, they didn't have a big house and where damn near poor. They had an apartment instead, Moses and Mackenzie shared a bed or sometimes he slept on floor beng too tired from school to make it to the bed. He heard arguing outside the room and his sister was wake, he turned over and asked was she sleep, she said with tears in he eyes that he couldn't see. "Daddy I gonna kill her…"
He jumped out of bed, and went o the kitchen; sometimes that was as far as his mind went, he couldn't remember what was said. He remembered his mother on the ground lips bleeding, hair a mess and his father striking her. He could have sworn he recalled his mother reaching for him….
Micah has always been an angry individual, the jewels they wore around their necks came who they were. Micah was rage, respecting the anger in the man.
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Every month or two, I feel that it's important to check in on the meltdown-ravaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima. It's been nearly six years since a near "perfect storm" of bad events — a major earthquake, followed by a tsunami making a direct hit on the four-reactor power plant on the Japanese coast — caused the worst nuclear accident of the 21st Century. That's a long time, and yet it's [...]Read More »
Even before the tragedy in Fukushima, it's been clear that America's aging nuclear power plants are an accident waiting to happen — and desperately need to be taken off line. That's happened far too slowly, nor has safety been the only issue. When policy makers did decommission some of the nation's most dangerous plants, such as California's oceanfront San Onofre facility that was far too close for comfort to the [...]Read More »
The world not long ago marked the 5th anniversary of the Fukushima reactor meltdown in Japan — an ongoing nuclear crisis that may not be cleaned up for decades, and even that may be optimistic. Lingering high radiation levels mean that swaths of northern Japan remain uninhabitable — unsafe to eat local food, breathe the air, or drink the water. To many, the 2011 Fukushima tragedy stands out as clear [...]Read More »
In addition to the sixth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon spill, this month marked another grim environmental anniversary — 30 years since the April 24, 1986 nuclear accident at the Chernobyl plant in what was then the Soviet Union and is now the Ukraine. In a strange way, the fact that the accident occurred well behind the Iron Curtain of the 20th Century has left much of the Western world [...]Read More »
Today marks the 5-year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant. In today's distracted world — where the worst cases of attention-deficit disorder belong to the mainstream news media — it feels as if these annual anniversaries are the only way to bring attention to any ongoing environmental crisis, from the our own Gulf of Mexico to the faraway shores of [...]Read More »
We're coming up in a few short weeks on the 4th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. It was certainly a series of unfortunate — if completely foreseeable — events that essentially caused a meltdown at the four-unit reactor…a massive earthquake, followed by a tsunami which knocked out an atomic plant that had been poorly sited along the Pacific coastline. Still, the Fukushima tragedy — with areas in [...]Read More »
More than four-and-a-half years later, the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan continues to send out the warning signs of just how bad the 2011 meltdown at the site truly has been. After all this time — not to mention all this distance — scientists continue to find radiation from the Japanese plant, which was devastated first by a major earthquake and then the subsequent tsunami, assaulting the Pacific [...]Read More »
Like most federal regulatory agencies, especially in fields such as energy and the environment, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or NRC, tends to be a toothless tiger. It's quick to side with the interests of large corporations and against those of the public that it is supposed to serve. But even by the NRC's historically weak standards, the agency is moving down a very disturbing path these days — killing a [...]Read More »
It was just the other day that I was upbraiding the mainstream media for taking its eye off one of the most important stories — to my mind, anyway — of this decade: The nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima power plant in Japan, and the lack of focus on the potential for similar accidents at atomic sites both here in the United States and around the globe. Simply put, we [...]Read More »
One story that I've tried to stay on top of for the last four years has been the horrific nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, and its aftermath. It has been, without a doubt, the worst radioactive incident since I started working on this issue as an environmental lawyer at the end of the 1980s. For one thing, it shows the folly of humans and our shortsighted energy policies — building [...]Read More »


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Just was reading an article on how fast foods are taking over home cooked food, specially during lunch hours at school, offices, everywhere. Really liked and agree with the timely input. I will not go into any argument here, but this ancient mother has only one question for the new age mothers....if this trend is repeated every day over the years, will it be good for their health? Is time and effort more important than our loved one's health? I know that little bit of time management can solve this problem. Our family is our priority and keeping them in good health is our responsibility.
At my home, the wiser person gets silly when it comes to taking lunch from home. So many things I have to listen everyday....his bag gets heavier carrying the lunch box, he feels awkward taking out the lunch box in front of all, that I am treating him in the same league as his son, I am not giving him his space. Well I give a deaf ear to all these and do what I feel is right. I remember my mom packing lunch for me while I was in college too. I used to get very less pocket money so that I cannot eat outside food much. That generation parents did not believe in giving too much money to their kids.
Since my men eat very light breakfast saying they cannot travel with full stomach, I pack heavy lunch for them. My love for rice leads me to try n test all kinds of rice recipes on them. This SWEET PULAO is Bengal favourite, goes with all kinds of spicy curries.... vegetarian/non vegetarian. I served it with SPICED POTATO CURRY.
INGREDIENTS :[ for the pulao ]
Rice[Basmati/Gobinda Bhog] : 1 coffee mug
Oil : 2tbsp
Ghee[clarified butter] : 1 tbsp + 1tsp
Cinnamon Sticks : 4 one inch
Green Cardamom : 4
Cloves : 3
Bay leaf : 3-4[if small]
Salt : As required
Sugar : 4 tbsp
Permitted Food Colour : 2pinches[optional]
Cashews : 7-8
Raisins : 7-8
Water : 3 coffee mug[of same size which measured the rice]
INGREDIENTS :[ for the potato curry ]
Potato : 4
Onion : 2
Garlic Paste : 1tbsp
Ginger Paste : 1tbsp
Kashmiri Chilli Powder : 1tsp
Green Chilli : 2
Cinnamon Stick : I one inch size
Green Cardamom : 2
Cloves : 2
Cumin Seeds : 2 pinches
Bay leaf : 1
Salt : As per taste
Turmeric Powder : 1tsp
Sugar : 1tsp
Turmeric Powder : 1tsp
Oil : 2 tbsp
Wash and soak the rice for one hour. Meanwhile wash, peel and boil the potatoes till 70% done. Cut each potato into 4 pieces and apply little salt and turmeric to it. Wash, peel and slice the onions and slit the green chillies.
Heat 2tbsp oil and 1 tsp ghee in a heavy bottomed vessel. Temper with bayleaf, cinnamon, green cardamom and cloves. Stir, as it gives a nice aroma, add the halved cashews and raisins. Fry till the cashews turn light brown. Strain the water from the rice and pour onto the vessel.
Stir continuously for 3-4 minutes at medium to low heat. They should not get brown but well coated with the ghee. Add the food colour if you wish.
Add 2 coffee mugs of water and cover. Keep the heat at medium to low. Check occasionally. After 8-10 minutes, when the rice is almost done, add 1 table spoon of ghee. Shake well the vessel with the cover on it and switch off. Do not uncover, keep as it is for at least 10 minutes.
In a wok heat oil. Fry the potato pieces till light brown. Keep aside. Temper the same oil with bay leaf, cinnamon stick, cumin seed, green cardamom and cloves.
Add the sliced onions and fry till light brown, add the ginger- garlic paste and fry till the raw smell goes. Add salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder and the slitted green chillies. Saute well till the spices separate from the oil.
Add the fried potatoes. Coat well with the spices. Add 1 small cup water. Stir and let boil covered for 6-8 minutes. Add the sugar, mix well and switch off. Its done.
Serve sweet pulao and spiced potato with salad and pickle of your choice!! The spiced potatoes goes very well with any type of South Asian breads too!!


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At the 2015 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, Sony invited Shenmue creator and former Sega developer Yu Suzuki on stage to announce that he was making Shenmue III as a crowdfunding project on Kickstarter. That campaign raised $6.3 million with plans to release it in December 2017. After missing that date, the open-world forklift-driving simulator is getting another delay from sometime this year to sometime in 2019.
European publisher Deep Silver, a subsidiary of THQ Nordic, revealed the delay on its website.
"Deep Silver today announced that its upcoming release Shenmue III has been moved and will now release in 2019," reads the publisher's statement. "The extra time will be used to polish the quality of the game even further to the high standards it deserves and release the product in the best possible timeframe."
Suzuki and Sega released the first Shenmue for the Dreamcast console in 1999. The followup launched in 2001 for Dreamcast and then Xbox in 2002. Since then, fans of the series have asked Sega — and anyone else who would listen — to continue the unfinished story.
While Sony didn't exactly listen to fan's pleas and bring back the game itself, the company did give Suzuki stage time at E3 to launch his Kickstarter. That helped it end up as one of the most funded games projects ever on that platform. While that turned it into a huge crowdfunding campaign, $6.3 million is a small budget for a large, open-world narrative experience. That's where Deep Silver has stepped in to publish and provide support.
But even with publisher backing, Shenmue III couldn't afford another delay. For an audience of fans who have already waited since 2001 for a sequel, another year may sting, but it's a longing pain they're accustomed to.


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I wanted to discuss how the legion is going to be presented in Cyrodiil. I will admit, I understand this point of view of separation. It seems logical and lore-friendly to me, that there are several independent legions in Cyrodiil. I understand that it would be easier to make quests for the legion as we go along, instead of leaving all the quests till the later date. But as much as I understand both these points, I am afraid that it might be not the best choice from story telling point of view.Imperial Legions
The Empire's military hand. Home defense in Cyrodiil, ensuring the peace of its citizens and suppressing any unrest. Garrisons and patrols throughout the land. Divided in several sub-legions guarding separate areas (allowing us to tell storylines without having the entire landmass present): The First Legion in Colovia, the Seventh Legion in southern Nibenay, and the Third Legion in the Imperial City. Also associated are the Imperial Navy and the Battlemage Academy. The top ranks of the Legions are united in two militaristic knightly orders: the Knights of the Garland and the Knights of the Imperial Dragon (whom I consider to be the same as the Order of the Dragon from Oblivion). The Legions support a strong Emperor, and do not have good relations with the Elder Council, Administration, or the various mercenary organizations in Cyrodiil (Fighters Guild, Blackwood Company, etc).
Most importantly, the story just wouldn't be that great. Unless we are extremely creative and come up with something brilliant, having three small stories for one faction is not the best option. As a result, we would get a very fragmented vision, without understanding the whole picture. Plus it feels like a mod. The idea does not seem very plausible to me.
We can of course have just one faction as an alternative. It eliminates the problem of the story, but it is harder to make and does not show the diversity of legions properly.
What if we go with a compromise? We can have three different legions as possible start where you can be accepted only in one of them. It wouldn't make sense to be enlisted in several armies, would it? Once you are enrolled in one of the legions, you complete different quests and get promoted. At this point, you get certain insights in the future plot, but can't see whole picture yet. That part we can do while working on different territories.
Once you complete a quest line, you get a rank of a Knight of the Imperial Dragon, similar to Morrowind. Morrowind Imperial Legion will count as enough for admission, since you become one at the end. From that point onward, you will be doing more dangerous work all across Tamriel, getting your orders from the Order itself. It would also include some internal struggle and plots. This part we can do after finishing most of the province (in a few years? )
What do you think? Should we have one faction only without any additional work, several factions with separated stories or my idea, where we have three smaller factions leading player to bigger and more exciting story? Granted, it's more work, but we can do it, I am sure. It would also significantly increase replay value of the mod, having different quests for different legions. It also makes sense to have more quests, considering how much bigger Cyrodiil is, compared to Vvardenfell. I believe we can do it. Maybe it was the plan all along, then we can say that great minds think alike


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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Too Much Star Trek
Does anyone else think that Captain Janeway bears a passing resemblance to a Gibson Girl?
I think it's the up-do.
Note: I've disabled Lightbox on my blog, so when you click on an image, it will take you to another page with just the image and the option to see it full-sized. I realized that some of the smaller text was too hard to see using Lightbox, and might be unreadable unless seen at full size.
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Oh man, what is it with Voyager and space-baby-mama-drama?ReplyDelete
For the love of goodness, light and newt-procreation (lower-case "N" there, thank ghod for small favors), don't watch THRESHOLD.
I only READ about it and was thoroughly endumbened; but if you've been spared that episode, and you need to feel like you've watched it, they vivisect it scene-by-scene here:
In the land of selfservingness, of the 5-6 different comic episode cards, i think it's not unlikely I gave you the "The Sh*t Just Got Real O'Clock" one, which makes this blog entry doubly the one that must be commented on.
Rereading the construction of the last paragraph in dismay; DETANGLE THAT SYNTAX, LINGUISTS OF AMERICA!
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2013 at 8:30 AM
Chakotay's expression at the end is priceless! I want to hug the poor guy, but I think if anyone squeezes him right now he'll puke.ReplyDelete


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If the Premier League is now, for many, something approaching the ultimate footballing experience, there is probably something to be said for the argument that, in its quest for purity, quality, our game has lost something. The idiosyncracies of football at or near the top have been whitewashed out of sight over time, to be replaced by a scrubbed up and sanitised version of what we might call The British Football Experience. This is not only true at the top end of the game. The prediliction of smallers clubs to leave their ancestral homes for identikit stadia (for these, in spite of their modest proportions, lean more closely towards being "stadia" rather than "grounds" – or, at least, that is how they wish to be perceived) has been one of the defining characteristics of lower league football over the last two decades or so.
It's a selfish pleasure, for sure – after all, it fails to take into account the match day comfort of those that are its regular visitors – but there remains something aesthetically pleasing about Exeter City's St James Park. The line of houses that run a third the length of the touchline on one side of the pitch with people hanging out of the windows enjoying the free view, the small open terrace for away supporters away to the left, the red and white chequered goal nets. This is the football that time forgot and it is all the better for it. Yet Exeter City are, in their own, understated way, thoroughly modern. The club's supporters trust took over their running of the club in its darkest hours and they have remained in charge of the club through promotions from the Blue Square Premier to League One and held their own in their new surroundings last season. Their form of late – just one win in nine since they demolished Sheffield Wednesday by five goals to one a week before Christmas – has been poor, but they haven't been sucked into a relegation scrap just yet.
The last time Exeter were at Wembley, they were winning promotion back to the Football League. Dropping from the Football League hasn't been an ignominy to befall their opponents for this Johnstones Paint Trophy semi-final second leg this evening, Brentford, but the Bees have had their own brushes with football's grim reaper over the last few years and their majority shareholding is also owned by the club's Supporters Trust, Bees United, although this is due to end in 2014, should minority shareholder Matthew Benham, who is funding the club through loans up until that point, take up his option to convert his loans to ownership of the club. What is worth remembering about this agreement is that Bees United will retain at least a minority shareholding in the club and that Griffin Park (which has, like so many other grounds in London over the years, attracted the interest of speculators and carpetbaggers over the years) will be secure in the event of a transfer of ownership. Brentford's future is about as secure as a club of their size could hope for at the moment.
On the pitch, with ninety minutes separating one of these two clubs from Wembley, there seems little to choose between them. Brentford are a place above Exeter, but only goal difference separates them in the league and their last two meetings (this is, including the first leg of this tie, the third time that they have met in three weeks) both ended in 1-1 draws. On paper, in theory, as far as logic goes, there should be little more than the width of a cigarette paper between them. Exeter start brightly, although there is a hint of hesitation as they approach the edge of the Brentford penalty area itself. Brentford manage to soak these early exchanges up – it would be an overstatement to call it a "barrage" – and hit the home side with two solid, well-placed jabs midway through the half to leave Exeter chasing the game.
Myles Weston has been attracting admiring glances from the likes of Sheffield Wednesday over the last few weeks, and he proves to be the catalyst for Brentford this evening. After twenty minutes, he works himself a little space on the left-hand side, drives the ball across the face of goal and Sam Saunders, unmarked at the far post and two yards out, slams the ball into the roof of the net. Six minutes laters, the ball is back with Weston on the left-hand side. This time his cross is aerial and Gary Alexander is at the far post and heads in to double Brentford's lead. For a club that has only a handful of previous appearances at Wembley, the scent of a place in the final in the nostrils. Throughout the remainder of the half, they play out a predictable and effective exercise in containment, limiting Exeter to a couple of long range efforts and half a shout for a penalty that is waved away by the referee.
If Exeter are to somehow find a way back into this match they need to start the second half incisively but, while they dominate possession throughout the opening fifteen minutes of the half, they seem to lack attacking guile and invention, and play with an air of lethargy which indicates that this season may well be ending two or three months late for a squad with stretched resources for League One. The introduction of substitute Richard Logan just before the hour mark, however, introduces a little more pep to their front line and within a couple of minutes he has dropped a header a couple of feet wide of the right-hand Brentford post and wriggled free of his marker and shot just wide of the other post. Exeter need more, but one goal would haul them back into this match, and it's a start.
The spark, however, never quite arrives. Logan continues to looke spritely and with a shade over ten minutes to play a looping ball into the penalty area narrowly evades his outstretched boot. Exeter City, however, are almost out of ideas. Every pass seems to be a yard too long, every tackle that they win sees the ball bobble into no mans land rather than into a position that can they can do anything useful with. The Exeter home crowd does its best but, if the relationship between the crowd and the team on a match day can be described as symbiotic, this evening the Exeter doesn't give the crowd much reason to roar them forward in the closing stages, but for Daniel Nardiello's dipping shot, which drops over the crossbar and onto the roof of the goal and a long range shot in stoppage time from Jamie Cureton which brings a sprawling save from the Brentford goalkeeper Richard Lee. It's Exeter's first shot on target of the night and Nardiello finally finds a way through with thirty seconds left of the five additional minutes with a curling shot from the edge of the penalty area, but it's too late to raise the tension levels at all.
Wembley will have to wait for another time for Exeter, whose aim for the rest of the season now will be to ensure League One survival for another season. Brentford are deserving victors this evening and may seek to look in an upwardly direction over the coming months. They are nine points from the play-offs, but League One has had the knockabout air of being a division in which anyone can beat anyone else and they will be looking in the opposite direction to Exeter, in spite of being level on points in the league with them at present. In addition to this, a trip to Wembley will be a day out and a chance to lift some silverware – they will play Huddersfield Town or Carlisle United in the final. The Johnstones Paint Trophy will never carry the weight of many of football's other end of season trinkets, but its one more cup final than many other clubs the Brentford supporters in the conga line behind the goal with five minutes to play seemed happy enough with the way their evening had panned out.
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The earliest records of European visitors to the region that is now North Dakota demonstrate amazement at the quantity of large game animals. Bison were always the most exciting of the animals they viewed, but they also wrote of elk, deer, pronghorn antelope, wolves, and smaller animals such as badgers and prairie dogs. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their 1804 1806 expedition enjoyed looking at the herds that sometimes blackened the plains with their huge numbers, but also hunted the animals for fresh meat required by their crew. They were soon followed by fur traders and fur trappers who sought precious beaver pelts for international markets.
In the following quotations, goat refers to pronghorn or antelope. Deer are usually unidentified as to Whitetail or Mule deer.
From the letter of Pierre Gaultier deVarennes et de La Vérendrye
(see Unit 2 Document Set 2) in reporting his travels to the
Missouri River in 1738.
Game is to be found in great abundance.
From the Journals of Lewis and Clark
18th of October Thursday 1804 [on the Missouri River a few miles north of the mouth of the Cannonball River]
. . . Saw Great numbers of Goats on the S.S.[starboard side of
the boat] comeing to the river our hunters Killed 4 of them Some
run back and others crossed & proceded on their journey to the
Court Nou [Black Hills] passed a small creek on the L.S. [larboard
side of the boat] 1 mile above the last, and camped on a Sand bar
on the L.S. opposite to us we Saw a Gangue of Buffalow bulls
which we did not think worth while to kill. Our hunters killed 4
[G]oats 6 Deer 4 elk & a pelican & informs us that they Saw in
one gang: 248 Elk, . . .
20 of October Satturday 1804 [on the Missouri River between
the Heart River and the Knife River]
. . . I kild. 3 Deer . . . Great numbers of Buffalow Elk & Deer,
Goats. Our hunters killed 10 Deer & a Goat to day and wounded
a white Bear [Grizzly Bear] I saw several fresh tracks of those
animals which is 3 times as large as a mans track. . . .
Christian Hintz who settled near Hebron in 1880 remembered seeing pronghorn in the early days.
There were a great many antelope, often as many as 50 100 in
a herd. They used to come up to our yard in the mornings and
look on with curiosity.
Settlers who came to Dakota Territory in the late 19th century had a different experience. Most of them never saw a live bison, though they picked up the bones of these great animals and sold them to earn much needed cash. Except for the earliest arrivals, they seldom saw deer or antelope and considered it a great curiosity if one animal should happen to wander by.
On July 14, 1873, a Bismarck Tribune article welcomed a steamboat from Fort Benton Montana. The article helps explain why the numbers of wild animals began to fall. .
She had 9000 buffalo robes, 123 bales of wolf , 40 sacks of wool,
94 bales of deer [hides] and antelope, 18 tons of silver . . .
Another article from the Bismarck Tribune (April 15, 1874) reveals how technological changes in the North Dakota landscape might have affected game animals.
A five mile race between the train and two herds of antelope,
delighted the passengers on a late train from Fargo to Bismarck.
At first the animals gained on the train and kept ahead of it for
some time, and finally fell behind and were passed after running
about five miles.
Lillian Foell farmed with her husband south of Menoken in the 1930s. Her words indicate that deer were not a common sight around her farm.
I loved the quiet, the smell, the sound of the birds and the hope
that just maybe I would see a deer if I got out early enough.
(Lils Courage, p. 61)
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Session descriptions and presenters from the 2012 Teaching and Learning Conference are listed below. Many of the presenters have generously shared their presentations and materials as a resource. Materials have been converted to PDF () where possible.
How to hit a moving target: assessing engaged learning ()
Ashley Finley, Senior Director of Assessment and Research – Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), National Evaluator – Bringing Theory to Practice
Campuses are increasingly realizing the need to expand traditional notions of teaching and learning in order to meet the demands of higher education in the 21st century. It is a time to think inclusively about student success, challenge paradigms that govern institutional structures, re-examine the skills necessary for today's workforce, and consider the utility of our technology rich environments. It is a time, in short, to develop assessments that enable better, more meaningful narratives about 21st century learning in higher education. This interactive plenary will guide participants through campus-based examples of how educators are using e-portfolio and Web 2.0 tools (e.g., social media and constructivist digital tools) to shape and inspire student learning across complex and often non-traditional settings. Additionally, the role of intentional reflective practices and the application of student-centered rubrics will be examined as essential components for capturing students' experiences and measuring learning gains.
Have you ever wondered how students are really interacting with materials placed in the LMS? This session will explore using Google Analytics as a way to assess student behavior within the LMS, helping you make informed adjustments to the student's learning experience. Google Analytics is a powerful, free tool that tracks user behavior across your web site and offers fresh, data-driven insights to help you provide materials in effective ways. In this session, we'll take a look at analytics across three courses in the LMS and discuss ways that this information can be used to make informed decisions about enhancing the student's online learning experience. Participants will brainstorm online behavioral goals for their courses, followed by guidance from the facilitators on how to set these goals in Google Analytics to begin tracking the behaviors.
Claudia Sparks, Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning Technologies, Elon University
Deep conceptual learning does not happen without engagement - a state of motivated, focused mental (and sometimes physical) activity. This session will provide ideas for creating learning contexts that promote engaged, self-regulated learning through in-class activities and out-of-class assignments.
Katie King, Associate Director of CATL and Associate Professor of Psychology, Elon University
What kinds of evidence can faculty use to improve and evaluate their own teaching? This interactive session will provide a framework for gathering and using evidence to improve your teaching and to demonstrate your effectiveness with others. The session also will include examples of different approaches to using evidence, and will give you the chance to think about your own use of evidence in teaching.
Catherine Ross, Managing Director of the Teaching and Learning Center, Wake Forest University
Peter Felten, Director, Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, Elon University
Students at William Peace University are surprised when they learn that ghost stories are an effective tool for learning about ethical decision making. In this workshop, Peace's Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Instruction and an experienced first-year seminar instructor will demonstrate the crucial difference between teaching a subject called "ethical decision making" and USING specific precepts of ethical decision making to encourage critical thinking about issues in traditional academic disciplines and, as in the ghost story seminar, popular culture more generally. We will also address the problems inherent in assessing student learning outcomes in a course devoted to such potentially personal issues.
Marnie Arkenberg, Professor of Psychology and Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, William Peace University
Wade Newhouse, Associate Professor of English, William Peace University
In inclusive classrooms, all students feel supported to learn and explore course material, readily participate in class, and view themselves as people who "belong" in a community of learners. In this workshop, we'll explore ways faculty can increase the odds of achieving broad-based, civil, and productive class participation in classes that spend a fair amount of time in discussion.
Mary Jo Festle, Associate Director of CATL and Professor of History, Elon University
Just in Time Teaching (JiTT) is a student centered approach to teaching and learning that makes regular use of before-class questions or problems that make visible to both students and instructors the nature of students' understandings and misunderstandings of course material. JiTT can help instructors make efficient and effective use of class time and facilitates the development of students' abilities to reflect on and regulate their own learning processes. This workshop will provide the rationale for the use of JiTT and help participants explore its use in their own courses. Scott Simkins, Director, Academy for Teaching and Learning, North Carolina A&T State University, co-editor (with Mark Maier) of Just-in-Time Teaching: Across the Disciplines and Across the Academy, Stylus Publishing, 2009.
Scott Simkins, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of Academy for Teaching and Learning, North Carolina A&T State University
Experts and novices don't only differ in what they know, but in how they think; therefore, witnessing the thinking of experts (not merely the result of that thinking) can be a powerful way to gain understanding of a discipline. Think alouds–the verbalizing of one's thought process while doing a particular activity, such as reading a difficult text or responding to a challenging problem–can successfully be used for both teaching and research purposes. In this session, we will present examples of both uses, and give participants an opportunity to develop ways of using think-alouds in their courses and scholarship.
Ann Cahill, Professor of Philosophy, Elon University
Stephen Bloch-Schulman, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Elon University
This workshop session will discuss and demonstrate techniques for engaging students in reflecting about the cultures and communities that they will encounter when they do study abroad, service-learning and other experiential coursework. Participants will talk about the role of preparation in formal curriculum and have a chance to participate in an exercise designed to engage students with a new culture through local experiences and to develop their own exercise appropriate to their course.
Phillip Motley, Assistant Professor of Communications, Elon University
Amanda Sturgill, Associate Professor of Communications, Elon University
Steven Duke, Director of the Center for International Studies, Wake Forest
In addition to content knowledge, science students must have advanced critical thinking and communication skills to participate fully as part of a scientific community. In this session, I will describe the results of a heuristic review of writing-to-learn strategies in STEM, and highlight evidence-based strategies that promote specific learning outcomes. Then, we will work together to discuss ways to overcome barriers to implementation and to promote teaching efficiencies.
Julie Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Biology, Duke University
A panel discussion where Elon faculty share how they are going to teach using Moodle, our new LMS. Learn tips, tricks, and their most useful features in Moodle.
Elon University panel members
Maureen Allen, MBA & Post Masters in Information Systems Instructor - Computing Sciences
Scott Buechler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Business Communications Chair of the Management Department
Jeffrey Carpenter, PhD, Assistant Professor - Education
Brooks Depro, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor - Economics
Victoria Shropshire, MA, Instructor - English
Cheri Crabb, PhD, Academic Technology Consultant, Teaching and Learning Technologies
Ben McFadyen, MEd, Instructional Design and Technology Consultant, UNCG School of Education
How can STEM faculty incorporate writing into their courses without displacing essential disciplinary content? How can they provide effective instruction in a subject—writing— they have not been educated to teach? Participants in this practice-oriented workshop will learn a practical approach to using their existing expertise to design, teach, and grade assignments that integrate technical and writing instruction.
Paul Anderson, Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the University, Elon University
At last year's Teaching and Learning Conference, British researcher Ray Land introduced our campus to Threshold Concepts, ideas that are crucial to a discipline but often difficult for novices to grasp because they embody highly disciplinary ways of knowing and thinking. In this session, we will report the results of a small study of senior political science majors. Our results suggest that while some concepts may serve as disciplinary thresholds, it may be more helpful to focus on "portals" to the many sub-disciplines of Political Science. Participants will be guided in examining the value of exploring threshold concepts within their own disciplines.
Dion Farganis, Assistant Professor Political Science, Elon University
Jason Kirk, Associate Professor of Political Science, Elon University
The Reacting to the Past pedagogy, pioneered by Barnard College, consists of elaborate role-playing games set in the past and informed by classic texts. Reacting to the Past is commonly used in writing-intensive, first-year seminars where students collaborate in factions to debate a "big question." This pedagogy can also be modified to create one-week games appropriate for science classes or for introducing the pedagogy to new players. In this workshop we will briefly discuss the rules for Reacting to the Past games, restage a 1999 panel debate over Pluto held at the American Museum of Natural History, and consider assessment issues. Instructor materials for The Pluto Debate and other Reacting to the Past games are available online (www.rttp.org).
Tony Crider, Department of Physics, Elon University
All first year undergraduates face challenges in adjusting to their new college or university environment. If the student is also the first in the family to attend college, the first-year adjustment challenges are compounded. Davidson College's recent Teagle Foundation Grant is allowing us to assess the needs of our first generation students, to inform campus constituents of those needs, and to create an academic support structure through advising and our new Center for Teaching and Learning that will help level the academic playing field for these students. This workshop will help participants think about the challenges first generation students face on their home campuses and explore ways to address the needs of these students.
Verna Case, Beverly F. Dolan Professor of Biology and Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning, and Research, Davidson College
Linda LeFauve, Associate Vice President for Planning and Institutional Research, Davidson College
What do we know about how students apply writing knowledge and strategies to new contexts? How can we facilitate students' transfer so that they take what they learned about writing in previous classes and use or adapt that writing knowledge in our classrooms? This session briefly synthesizes research on writing transfer before giving participants an opportunity to brainstorm and design assignments that support students' writing transfer.
Jessie Moore, Associate Professor of Professional Writing and Rhetoric, Elon University
What choices about audience, voice, and purpose do students make when they use Twitter, Facebook, text messaging, and other digital media? How can faculty help students understand to think critically about the ways they communicate using social media and how the same rhetorical decision-making applies to more traditional forms of communication? How do faculty address the challenges of allowing students to access social media during class? The presenters will discuss ways faculty can help students be more careful and responsible users of social media by teaching students to critically analyze tweets and text messages, and asking students to extend this thinking to develop research projects about digital literacy. If you are new to Twitter, an overiew will be included in the presentation.
Paula Patch, Lecturer in English, Elon University
Dan Reis, Instructional Technologist in Teaching and Learning Technologies, Elon University
Ever been really excited about technologies presented at a conference, only to come back to reality when you realize you have no idea where to start? Yeah… us too! The Technology Exhibit Hall featured stations that explored the technologies discussed during the concurrent sessions and provided more depth. Handouts from the Tech Exhibit Hall are included below.
Library Resources
Citation Mangers
Journal Alert Services
Research Guides
Mobile Devices
Elon's Tablet Initiative
Social Media Plus
Google Plus
Twitter in Higher Education


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And the two shall become one...sound familiar? This excerpt is read at many weddings. When couples unite the two individual entities join together as one. Your home and finances become a joint conservatory, but what about passwords? Should Husbands and Wives share passwords with one another to email? Social media accounts? The majority of committed people do it, but horror stories have psychologists wondering whether sharing passwords is ever a good idea.
According to a recent Pew study, 67% of Internet users in marriages or relationships have shared passwords to one or more of their accounts with their partner. Though we don't feel comfortable exchanging passwords with perhaps more trustworthy family members and long-term friends, we do feel comfortable exchanging access to our personal information with their significant other. It's an exercise in trust, the logic goes. If you have nothing to hide, why would you want to hide your password? In most circumstances, psychologists suggest keeping passwords private. "In relationships, we depend on each other for a lot of things, but it's good and healthy to have some independence too," says Kelly Campbell, PhD, an Associate Professor of Psychology at California State University. "The more you self-disclose, the happier you are. But the happiest couples have some degree of secrecy and privacy." Many couples believe that sharing passwords or, if appropriate, maintaining a shared account can also be a way of building a hedge around your marriage. It's a strategy for protecting your relationship against outside threats. Whether you've been married for thirty days or thirty years, you're never really immune to the threat of an extra-marital affair. Other couples ask, just how much do we really need to share and argue that there is a place for privacy in loving, trusting relationships, and it's important to remember that a person's request for privacy doesn't mean he's up to no good.
What side are you on? To share or not to share? Leave a comment!


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Anthony Macari, MBA, JD
Assistant Professor of Management
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Anthony Macari, MBA, JD is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance at the Jack Welch College of Business at Sacred Heart University.
He has extensive business experience in mergers and acquisitions, financial analysis, planning, and corporate development at corporations including Fortune Brands, Kiewit Continental and Pepsico.
Since 2001 he has worked in higher education with Sacred Heart University and New York University, and consults with corporate training departments. He specializes in coaching non-financial executives on financial concepts, and has developed custom training programs for Vertrue, Standard Motors, the Society of Human Resource Management and Pace Law School. He is a frequent speaker at SHRM events and has conducted programs including "Getting HR to the Table-Understanding Acquisitions and Strategic Financial Initiatives", "Advanced Financial Literacy", and "Basic Financial Literacy".
Degrees and Certifications
- BA and MBA from the University of Connecticut
- JD from Pace Law School


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Welcome to the Warner Bros. Studios in California, a must see place for film and TV fans. In the VIP Tour you get to visit several sets, sound stages and even a museum with original items from movies and TV shows.
This is where most of Warner's shows are recorded, including The Big Bang Theory and The Ellen Degeneres Show. Stars from Friends used to be seen here.
Only a few sets are named after famous productions, like the Friends Stage and The ER Stage.
There is even a small city inside the area. This city is customized to look like different locations according to the production. They do an amazing job to make such unique scenarios from the same layout.
This is the iconic location where Phoebe runs. It is also the place where Sheldon donated his cats.
This church was in the downtown area of Stars Hollow, in Gilmore Girls. But it was also where Rose married Manny Quinn in Two and a Half Men.
Here is the garage where they keep vehicles from Batman, Scooby Doo, Harry Potter and Matrix.
Here are more amazing props!
And finally, we visited the famous Friends set! If only Gunther could be there to get us some coffee!


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Vaerluth was the easternmost goblin realm in the Rauvin Mountains in Luruar.[1]
Malauth was located in the caverns and foothills of the eastern Rauvin Mountains.[1]
Vaerluth was ruled by a succession of kings named Vaerluth; in 1372 DR, the realm was on its 36th King Vaerluth. Succession of each king came through the murder of his predecessor.[1]
The goblins of Vaerluth were considered the poorest of the goblins in the Rauvin Mountains. They dwelt in huge-spider-infested caverns and foothills, which gave them immunity to the spider venom. The goblins boiled the spider webs to make soup.[1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Ed Greenwood and Jason Carl (July 2002). Silver Marches. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 18. ISBN 0-7869-2835-2.