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Last time I talked about dress shopping, I shared my internal conflict over this flattering but perhaps too-traditional David's Bridal dress:
If you recall, I had originally envisioned myself in a short white dress with a little bit of funk. Then I stumbled into this gown on a "just for fun" shopping trip with my mom and bestie. I tried it on and, "Bam!" I felt like a bride. Next I agonized over my simultaneous disdain for David's Bridal and love for this dress. I pondered looking for a used dress online and many of you told me to go for it. In fact, in the days following that post, I came *thisclose* to buying a used version in my size off of Recycled Bride.
What I didn't tell you last time is that all along, there was another dress…
One day, months ago, before I even took that trip to David's Bridal, I was wandering through Etsy in search of short wedding dresses. Somehow, looking through pages of dress pictures that didn't really strike my fancy, I stumbled upon one dress that made me pause and look closer.
It was short! And cute! And a little bit vintage but still a little bit funky! All of a sudden, I was enamored. It turned out that the dress was made by a super-talented designer, the lovely Iselle of The Little White Dress. To torture you, I'm not going to tell you which of these dresses is the one, but here are a few of her pieces.
One of these dresses (sorry, I'm really not going to tell you which one) literally made my heart flutter. I had to get more info! And that's when I discovered THE BEST PART! Iselle is based in San Diego! "OMG, it's meant to be!" I thought. I was hesitant to buy a dress online without trying it on, but because we now live in San Diego, I contacted Iselle and arranged a visit to her studio to try on a sample of my dream dress! Of course, I was terrified that the dress wouldn't wow me in person and I'd be back at square one. Luckily, despite all my stress about whether it would actually look good on me, I LOVED IT. Waves of relief washed over me as I realized, "Yesssssssss! This IS the one!" Mission accomplished!
Plus, Zach and I totally stole a page out of Dana's book and negotiated a labor exchange with Iselle, the dress designer. Although totally worth it for the awesome hand-craftsmanship of her dresses, the $500 price tag was a little high for us! So, we figured, "It doesn't hurt to ask!" and inquired if she'd be open to discounting the dress in exchange for us helping her out with something. It turned out she really needed help building a website, and Zach just so happens to be experienced in that area!
Basically, I am thrilled that my dress-finding journey has reached a successful "end." (Nearly the end since the dress isn't actually made or in my hands yet.) I am so so SO glad that I held out and ended up getting a dress made by a small, independent designer, and one that fits my initial vision much better!
Has anyone else gotten a discount by offering up your labor or skills? Anyone buy their dress off of Etsy? Which one do you think is "mine?"


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Designed for those seeking a more eco-friendly alternative to a fuel-powered ATV, or grownups who simply never learned to ride a two-wheeled bike, the Athos is a pedal-powered quad racer that looks a lot safer to ride than the sum of its parts.
With four-wheel independent suspension the Athos should be able to tackle most off road courses with ease. And since you're probably not going to get it up to real ATV speeds on rough terrain, we imagine there's considerably less risk of injuring yourself on this thing.
The company behind the Athos, Contes Engineering, is mum on pricing details or availability, but they've been showing off the prototypes at bike shows, so all signs point to them actually putting it into production -- hopefully in time for traction season. [Contes Engineering via Gizmag]

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Book to be placed on special exhibit later this fall
A $10,000 Bible that includes gold accents and exotic German paper has been donated to the main library at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Alla Barabtarlo, head of special collections and rare books at Ellis Library, said she was awe struck when the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible arrived at the library in August. Donated by New York City businessman Bruce Kovner, the Bible is one of only 400 created by illustrator and designer Barry Moser of Hatfield, Mass., The Columbia Missourian reported.
Barabtarlo said each element of the 1996 book was crafted with purpose and accomplished sometimes through ancient techniques. The paper was unique and commissioned from a paper mill in Zerkall, a village of about 200 tucked away in Germany's Eifel Hills.
"The binding is handmade of parchment, real parchment," she said. "There's no glue or modern technique. It was all made like it was done in the Middle Ages."
Barabtarlo also praised Moser's treatment of the illustrations and his sensitivity to the theology they represented. The books' words are all rendered in black, save three words that are printed in red ink - "God," ''Christ" and the text's last word, "amen."
"It's like a symphony sounding throughout the entire book," she said.
Moser said in an email that though the project lacked religious motivation, it didn't lack challenge.
"When I first began designing and printing books, I discovered that, as a friend once put it, the history of printing can be walked on the spines of Bibles," Moser said. "Thus I set my sights on this project around 1970 and spent the next 25 years getting ready to take it on."
For now, the Bible is being kept in a climate-controlled room, but it's expected to be moved downstairs by Christmas for a new exhibit, "Verba Sacra," or sacred words in Latin. The exhibit will detail the history of the scriptures through the ages.


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I am trying to implement some security features to a web project. For
various reasons, I need to encrypt a URL, then decrypt it and redirect to
the correct page.
I have implemented a few different ideas based on the .NET cryptography
classes and based on code from the web. Encryption in all cases works fine,
but decryption is a mess.
What I'm trying to do:
Take a url: eg http://www.foo.com?paramter=x
and encrypt it...
pass it to another page as a parameter: Eg:
where Link= refers to the encrypted url from above...
the processpage will then decrypt the url and redirect (if certain security
conditions are met).
the problem:
All the solutions I've seen convert the encrypted byte array to a Base 64
string, then decrypt it using fromBase64...
My problem is I think the Base64 encoded string is being munged when it is
passed as a url parameter. When I try to decrypt the string (in another
page)...I get an invalid length error...
the question:
1. Is there an easier (secure) way to encrypt a url link?
2. Can you use a base64 encoded string in a url?
3. Are you still reading this <grin>?
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But on this day, the weather smiles on Henrik Westling as he makes his way up the shoulder of the Templet, the traverse's first obstacle. Steady on his frontpoints, Henrik, a former pro skier, climbs with a practiced confidence. At 42, he has the lean, compact build of a trail runner and his thirty years of experience in these mountains are evident in his metronomic pace. Two days before, he and Mattias Skantz became the first people to climb and ski every peak in the provinces of Jämtland and Härjedalen. One hundred seventy-eight in all, and few in such good weather.
Looking out from the ridge of the Sylarna Traverse, one can see only the vast, empty and undeveloped land that surrounds, a view that underscores the gravity of Henrik and Mattias's accomplishment. This corner of central Sweden is a little bit Alaskan in its scale: what appears to be a short walk away often requires several hours' hard march. Without trees to provide scale or roads to provide access, it's hard to imagine climbing the many peaks in sight—and many more over the horizon.
"Skiing here is a little bit like football in Europe," Henrik says of the ski culture in Östersund, the town he grew up in. "When I was little, it was all about the fun, the speed, the feeling of cranking a turn. After a while I also started to like the way you could almost paint the mountain with your tracks; choose nice lines and see how they fit into the mountain." Skiing, he decided, would be his life.
After completing his mandatory military service at 19, Henrik spent the next winter seasons trying to ski full time from Åre to BC to Alta, Utah. "I didn't realize how much of a freedom it was," he says, "until I had this crash. We had been skiing out of bounds all day," he recalls, " but the weather was not really good. So we made a quarter pipe in the ski area at Alta and tried to do something that was a little outside my ability."
Crashing on his side, Henrik landed on a small tree, broken off at the trunk and hidden in the snow. Piercing his chest, it broke several ribs and punctured a lung.
"I ended up in a helicopter, and it was kind of critical for a while. There was a lot of air escaping from my lungs into the rest of my body. I thought that was the end of my ski career."
Skiing, he decided,
would be his life.
But even before the shop opened its doors, it consumed Henrik's life. Driven to make the shop a success, he spent more and more time in the shop's cramped back office, and instead of finding connection with the outdoors, he stared at product catalogs and order spreadsheets.
"It felt as if the walls were creeping up on me," he remembers. After less than a year, he burned out, suffering panic attacks and unable to sleep through the night. "I just had to change it," he says. "I couldn't go on that way."
The solution, he decided, was a radical change in what it meant to dedicate himself to something. "I decided that we should not work full time at this shop. It's more important that we live cheap and that we can ski again." So they worked half time: one week on in the shop, one week off in the mountains. Strangely enough, it worked: Henrik's health improved and so did the business's bottom line. "We met all these customers on the mountains," he says, "and we got a grip on what they wanted, what people were talking about on the slopes or on the rock. We changed the product in the shop. After that it took off."
The idea to climb and ski every peak in Jämtland and Härjedalen wasn't originally Henrik's. Growing up in the Östersund climbing community, Henrik had been mentored by an older climber, Carl Wiström, who had a project of his own: in 2007 Wiström became the first person to climb every one of the peaks, in summer. "After he finished, he told me that someone would have to be the first to do it in winter."
It had taken Wiström 30 years to do all the peaks; Henrik figured it would take him about as long. All the same, in 2009 he began working out what it would take to complete the project.
"I bought mountain maps of the entire county," he says, "and I put a nail on every one of these 178 summits." The most popular summits that he'd already completed—about 25—he marked with a red pin. The rest got green pins.
"I bought mountain maps of the entire county. And I decided, I'm going to try to do them all."
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"You get used to it after a while," Henrik says of the long approaches. "You just have to pack up and start walking. If you put one foot in front of the other, you will get there sooner or later. And 16 hours, maybe it sounds like a long time, but there are some people working 16 hours a day, and that's probably a lot harder than walking. I love the feeling of being on my own, the silence and the time to think."
And while Henrik climbed many of the peaks alone, for the final peak he brought along all the people who had made the project possible. Having chosen Blåuhammeren—a relatively easy walkup with a well-equipped mountain hut near the summit—he invited family, friends, colleagues and ski partners along for a celebration. Henrik and his partner Matilda took turns pulling a sled with their son Mio bundled up inside. And on the summit, Henrik and Mattias Skantz popped champagne to celebrate.
"The project was about finding new things," Henrik said the next day. "But you can find yourself in it. I'm another person now than six years ago."
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Published March 2012
The facet joints are the Rodney Dangerfield of the spine – they get no respect. Because of their prominence on MRI images, intervertebral disks have assumed a disproportionate stature, leading most patients with back problems to assume that they have a bulging disk or a bone spur. It's possible, however, that these patients have a problem not with a disk, but with a small, difficult-to-image facet joint.
The facets, also known as zygapophyseal joints, are true joints. They have articular surfaces lined with cartilage and are lubricated with synovial fluid, just like knee or hip joints. I often describe them as "knuckles." A pair of facets exists at each level of the spine, forming the posterior portion of the motion segment.
The body's 46 facets work in conjunction with the spinal column of vertebral bodies and disks. At each motion segment, the facets limit anterior shear forces and twisting movement.
The importance of the facet joint is most evident in the clinical condition of spondylolysis, or congenital absence of the pars interarticularis. The pars is the structure that attaches the facet joint to the rest of the spine. This developmental abnormality occurs at the last mobile segment, usually L5-S1, and results in the facets at that level being disconnected from the rest of the motion segment.
Over time this can often lead to spondylolisthesis – anterior displacement of the upper vertebral segment over the lower – and premature disk degeneration at that level. The tendency is to blame the disk for wearing out, but in reality the disk gets no assistance from the disconnected facets.
A similar etiology occurs with degenerative spondylolisthesis. Here, the culprit often is severe bilateral facet degeneration. This produces the same lack of posterior support and resultant disk degeneration and listhesis. Facet fracture and iatrogenic removal of the facet also can lead to similar instability of the motion segment.
Spinal stenosis
Spinal stenosis, the most common condition related to the facet joint, usually is due to facet arthritis. It occurs most commonly at L3-4 or L4-5, although any level can be affected. The incidence of spinal stenosis increases with age, consistent with a degenerative condition.
MRI scanning reveals that the facet joints are enlarged and irregular. There is thickening of the ligamentum flavum and the joint capsule. This impinges on the underlying nerve root in the lateral recess or "subarticular recess."
Symptoms can include radicular pain, numbness, tingling or weakness in the territory of that root. Often these symptoms follow the pattern of neurogenic claudication, or worsening on standing or walking which improves with sitting. This is believed to be a mechanical issue, as flexion of the pelvis and lower lumbar spine with sitting causes the facet capsule to stretch out and relieve the redundancy and buckling that occurs with standing. This also explains why these patients report relief when leaning on a grocery cart while shopping. Patients sometimes report being able to ride a bike all day but are unable to walk 100 feet.
Synovial cyst
A facet condition closely related to spinal stenosis is a synovial cyst. These cysts also reflect the inflammatory process of facet arthritis. They arise from the synovial membrane that lubricates the joint. They can occur dorsally, where they usually do not produce specific symptoms, or ventrally within the spinal canal. Here, they can impinge on the nerve root and produce symptoms identical to spinal stenosis.
The cysts often are filled with hemosiderin-stained material or old hemorrhage. This evidence of old bleeding also can occur within the joint capsule and ligamentum flavum. This might explain why symptoms can develop acutely in spinal stenosis, even though the condition is thought to progress slowly over time. Repeated small hemorrhages might be part of the slow progression of the condition.
The pain from nerve root impingement from an arthritic facet usually can be relieved by a simple decompressive surgery. Here, the thickened ligamentum flavum or joint capsule, or the synovial cyst, is removed while preserving the integrity of the joint itself. Although this surgery can be dramatically effective, it does not treat the underlying arthritic condition of the joint.
Facet joint pain
An abnormal facet joint can produce pain in ways other than nerve root impingement. Pain from an abnormal facet is typically localized to the back, although it may radiate in a manner that can be similar to radicular pain. It is often said to be associated with tenderness in the region, although the fact that the facets are deep under the paraspinous muscles and other layers (deeper in some of us than others) makes this finding questionable. Worsening with movement – particularly sitting, bending or twisting – also is believed to be consistent with a diagnosis of facet pain.
Facet pain can be treated with anti-inflammatory medications or corticosteroids injections. The presumptive pain fibers to the facet also can be blocked with a procedure known as a medial branch block, or disrupted with percutaneous thermoablation. These procedures can be effective, although their efficacy is hampered by a limited understanding of how to distinguish a painful joint radiographically or clinically, or how to identify the correct joint to treat.
The facets are difficult to image in detail. The largest facets in the lower lumbar spine are only about 20 mm in diameter. Also, the articular surfaces are not oriented perpendicular to the planes of the standard MRI protocols of sagittal, axial and coronal images. To complicate matters further, the facets change in orientation as you progress down the spine. This makes it difficult to get a three-dimensional sense of the shape of the joint.
Besides the findings of facet and ligamentous hypertrophy, there are other MRI findings that suggest facet joint pathology. These include fluid in the facet surface, excessive splaying of the joint and marrow edema in the bone. But these findings can be nonspecific, and it is unclear to what extent they may exist in individuals without pain. Also, the changes can frequently be found at multiple locations in the same patient, forcing targeted therapies such as injections to rely on guesswork.
Surgical repair of the facet joint currently is not possible. There have been efforts directed at facet joint replacement, but these have not gained traction. At present, the only surgical treatment for facet pain is spinal fusion. This also can be effective, provided the pain generator has been correctly identified. The widely reported failures for these surgeries almost certainly relate to the same difficulties in pinpointing the pathology to specific motion segments or facets.
Someday we will understand the subtleties of the facet joint. We will be able to perform high-resolution imaging of individual facets. We will learn about small injuries or degenerative changes that produce pain. We may understand how younger patients have different facet problems than the elderly. Back injuries currently misdiagnosed, or missed entirely, will be identifiable. We will then have elegant ways to repair these problems, like knee arthroscopy, to treat back pain.
We will look back on our current era and marvel at how far we have advanced. And we will have learned that not every spine problem is a "bulging disk." The facet joint will get the respect it deserves.
Clinical articles by Jeffrey Johnson, M.D.
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Ingoma Nshya is Rwanda's first and only all women's drumming troupe. Made up of women from both sides of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the troupe offers a place of support, healing and reconciliation. When the group decides to partner with two young American entrepreneurs to open Rwanda's first ever ice cream shop, these remarkable women embark on a journey of independence, peace and possibility. Sweet Dreams interweaves intimate, sometimes heart-wrenching stories, with joyous and powerful music to present a moving portrait of a country in transition.
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Cool Justice: Supreme and repugnant fallacies on freedom of information
Here is one of the most repugnant sentences ever written in the history of so-called American jurisprudence:
"The right to access public information is not a 'fundamental' privilege ... of citizenship."
Forget about the pretense of a democratic republic. How are citizens supposed to self-govern when information is hidden? Censorship is a tenet of fascism, not democracy.
This abominable statement comes from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Alito spoke for a unanimous court http://tinyurl.com/c4o6pcs in a Virginia freedom of information case on April 29. The court affirmed the denial of public records access to residents of other states.
This dangerous decision, by and for elites, is a classic example of the government class serving itself. It's the stuff of which revolutions are made. Let's cut the crap on law day about the people being sovereign.
The decision reads like the ramblings of a confused, unbalanced person in need of help. For example: "We have said that "the object of the Privileges and Immunities Clause [of the Constitution] is to 'strongly ... constitute the citizens of the United States as one people, by placing the citizens of each State upon the same footing with citizens of other States, so far as the advantages resulting from citizenship in those States are concerned."
Ah, just kidding: We're not really a union of states when it comes to public records.
Try to get public records in Virginia and several other states now if you are not a resident of the state holding the public records.
Fugetaboutit, says the U.S. Supreme Court. Forget about the words of Virginia native and founding father James Madison, inscribed by the main entrance at the Library of Congress: "A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
Why pay attention to Madison? He only wrote http://tinyurl.com/d3ch7cv the freaking Constitution.
"Stupid, huh!" said Mitchell Pearlman, the founding executive director and general counsel of the world's first freedom of information enforcement agency, also known as the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission.
Pearlman said one direct impact of this decision will be felt by citizens who cannot afford a local lawyer or other surrogate to obtain public records. The Virginia law also discriminates against online news operations used by residents to stay informed about government. But, it's not discriminatory, according to our robed wonders.
The U.S. Supreme Court blew off arguments from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 53 other media organizations. The group cited examples of the crucial role state records play for citizens of all 50 states. From the government "fusion center" spying on citizens who engage in lawful activities such as going to meetings to the impact of the so-called "No Child Left Behind" law on teachers and wide disparities in health care, the brief cited Americans' historic, common law right of access to government records.
Citizens in every state certainly have an interest in Virginia, home to Reagan National Airport, 24 Fortune 500 companies, about 4,000 defense contractors and Virginia Polytechnic, site of a 2007 massacre.
The Supreme Court's deranged thinking fails to take into account modern commerce, economics and communications. Most First World countries recognize that we are part of a global economy, according to Pearlman, who helped governments in 20 countries develop freedom of information mechanisms and is the author http://tinyurl.com/btry2af of "Piercing the Veil of Secrecy: Lessons in the Fight for Freedom of Information."
Connecticut, which has its own set of problems with public records, in theory allows any person or organization access.
"In Connecticut, public records are public records no matter who asks for them," said Colleen Murphy, the current executive director and general counsel of the FOI Commission.
Yet, Connecticut's executive, legislative and judicial branches continue to undermine access to public records.
Gov. Dannel Malloy's merger of the FOI Commission with other watchdog agencies under the supervision of a political appointee resulted in the loss of key staffers and has kept the agency tied up fighting for its existence.
Rather than strengthening Connecticut's FOI law, politicians keep on coming up with harebrained ideas to allow secret meetings while legislating away access for researchers to vital historical records. The judiciary, no friend of the right to know, has censored arrest records and perverted the core of the FOI law's plain meaning.
The state's Appellate Court went so far as to uphold the denial by a zoning commission to produce public records following a verbal request at a meeting. This narrow and horrendous ruling has been applied over-broadly by lawyers for municipalities as part of their delay, deny, delay game. Rather than producing documents promptly as required by law, some lawyers stonewall by demanding written requests. Citizens should confidently state they are not even required to give their name and that verbal requests for documents are sufficient.
A modest proposal by the FOI Commission to stop these intimidation tactics and evasions died in the Legislature's Government Administration and Elections Committee this year.
Given the weak support for FOI in a state like Connecticut, one cannot be optimistic that other state legislatures will do anything to remedy the actions of a willfully ignorant and arrogant U.S. Supreme Court.
Andy Thibault is a contributing editor for Journal Register Co.'s Connecticut publications and the author of Law & Justice In Everyday Life. He formerly served as a commissioner for Connecticut's Freedom of Information Commission. Reach Thibault by email at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cooljustice.


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My teammate and I have developed a mini-unit involving research of the various Christmas customs and celebrations of countries around the world. We provide each group with a book and folder filled with material we have gathered over the years. The students then work in groups to complete a short presentation with various "props" designed and developed by the students. Students learn about another country at the same time they are learning about where many of our Christmas traditions and customs originated.
–Lori Chastain, Marietta, GA, Third Grade
I feel it is vital to incorporate as many cultures and celebrations as possible. The children can only benefit, develop understanding, flourish, and even develop their taste buds. We have many separate and unique celebrations. We "travel around the world" with the holidays. We've celebrated Russian Christmas, Canadian Christmas, Australian Christmas and many, many more. The children do the research, the parents do the cooking, and a wonderful time is had by all. When we return from the holidays, we also discuss how we celebrated — in our own unique way. I also try to do this with other holidays during the year, such as New Year's. Again, the children love it.
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We are having an international winter holiday festival. We learn about a new holiday each day of the week and do a craft associated with it. On Friday, parents are bringing in dishes for lunch that represent the different cultures and their holidays. There are five classes, so each teacher is responsible for teaching one holiday and craft.
–Beverly Wiggs, Chantilly, VA, Fourth Grade
We have a "Holidays Around the World" day in which each first-grade class rotates to a new country (classroom) every 40 minutes. Through books, songs, costumes, and pictures, the students develop an understanding of how that country celebrates their holiday. They then participate in a quick curriculum-related art or food project. A volunteer escorts the children from room to room as their teacher remains in the classroom, instructing each new group. We break for a picnic lunch and continue until dismissal. The students love it and are thrilled to share their creations and new knowledge with their families.
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In my class, read-alouds in December center around three main holidays. For Christmas, I usually read aloud The Best Christmas Pageant Ever or The House Without a Christmas Tree, and Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. For Hanukkah, I read Latkes and Applesauce, and this year I added There's No Such Thing as a Chanukah Bush, Sandy Goldstein. I recently added Kwanzaa by reading some stories I found on the Internet (since my public library is sadly lacking and my book order hasn't arrived yet). I explain to the kids (mostly Christian kids who celebrate Christmas) that we should know what the three main holidays are all about, and then we can make wise choices for ourselves and understand others who feel differently. I am a former music teacher, and have always incorporated music from "both sides" of Christmas, and Hanukkah, when teaching in public school.
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We assign students a research paper on a winter holiday from their own heritage. They must include customs, songs, symbols, and food. Students prepare a presentation and provide some sort of audiovisual aid. Some of the research is interviewing relatives. In other cases, students tell how they actually celebrate their holiday, as we have many newly immigrated families. We have a holiday feast for which each student brings a traditional dish to pass. It is a grand celebration!
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Schools Set Boundaries for Use of Students' Digital Devices
Crafting smart policies outlining privileges and restrictions will help keep schools on track for responsible yet dynamic use of student-owned digital devices for learning
Administrators in the Forsyth County, Ga., schools say the district's "bring your own device" initiative, unveiled in spring 2010, has accelerated student learning more than would have been possible with a 1-to-1 computing program alone.
"When you have the same kind of device and software, you wind up with teachers' doing what they've always been doing, except decorating it up with technology," says Jill Hobson, the director of instructional technology for the 39,000-student district. With BYOD, which encourages students to bring their own technology devices to school, "it's not really possible to keep doing the same thing," she explains, "because the technologies aren't all the same. It requires a change in strategy."
BYOD initiatives are emerging in an increasing number of school districts around the country. Proponents hail them as an economical way to adopt hardware under tight budget constraints, a gateway to higher and more innovative student achievement, and a better way to serve the individual learning styles of students with special needs.
But the approach raises questions and poses potential problems. What will be the infrastructure upgrades and support necessary to handle multiple points of entry at different access levels with a mix of devices? Will teachers and parents be on board? How do schools deal with equity issues?
Indeed, bring-your-own-device policies in schools have led to an unprecedented number of safety and security challenges for school leaders, according to the Consortium for School Networking, or CoSN, a Washington-based professional association for district technology leaders. The consortium released a report in September titled "Safe and Secure? Managing the Risks of Personal Devices," which identified top concerns associated with the increasingly popular teaching method. Those concerns include data and network breaches, district liability for theft or damage, legal and regulatory compliance measures, and improper use such as cyberbullying, cheating, and accessing inappropriate websites.
While some of those issues get addressed through revamped policies on acceptable use, districts in many cases are working overtime to keep up with the latest trends in education, says Brian Lewis, the chief executive officer of the International Society for Technology in Education, or ISTE, a nonprofit organization based in Washington.
"We're caught in this perfect storm between our human comfort level with the rate of change we'd prefer, and the high-speed rate of change that is being foisted on us by evolutions in technology," says Lewis. "And this is only going to get increasingly difficult for us as these evolutions happen more and more swiftly."
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In Minnesota, the 21,000-student ISD 279-Osseo Area school system is switching its focus from wireless coverage (ensuring that a wireless signal is present throughout a school building) to wireless capacity (the ability of the network to meet the demand of the devices that are using it) to prevent a concentration of devices from causing network overload. Nearly 2,000 wireless devices were used across the district's three high schools on the first day of the 2012-13 school year, according to Chief Technology Officer Tim Wilson. The district's BYOD program, dubbed Project Copernicus, uses platform-neutral tools such as Google Apps "to create really powerful collaborations and to get out of the business of worrying about which students have what formats," he says.
As an accountability measure, the 180,000-student Fairfax County, Va., district requires students and parents to complete an "acceptance of responsibility and device use agreement" form as part of its BYOD program. To reinforce rules at the district's George C. Marshall High School, where BYOD is in its second year, color-coded signs are posted throughout the school building with concise descriptions of permissible use and potential consequences for disobedience, from loss of network access to "device confiscation, test results voided with no make up."
A green zone, such as in the cafeteria, indicates general and open use of devices. In blue zones, typically in classrooms, devices are permitted for specific instructional use. A yellow zone, in hallways and during classroom instruction, means devices must be silent and out of sight. Devices are strictly prohibited in red zones, which are usually areas being used during high-stakes testing.
"It's just created a clearer playing field for kids," says Principal Jay Pearson. "Are we perfect? No. But this has freed us from a whole lot of energy that was going into suppressing devices, taking them away, and applying consequences. In the end, that was very contradictory to the ultimate goal of taking advantage of what these devices can offer."
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Though electronic devices are still responsible for the second-highest number of disciplinary infractions at Marshall High, the number dropped from 474 in 2010-11 to 366 so far in 2012-13, the result of a changing culture, Pearson adds.
Meanwhile, device-related infractions at the 2,141-student South Forsyth High School in Georgia have plummeted from around 400 annually to from two to four since the district's launch of the program three years ago. Every one of the Forsyth County district's 34 schools are participating to some degree, and at any given moment, approximately 11,000 devices are in use districtwide. To ward off security problems, administrators set up a separate BYOD network that acts as a security wall for student records and other sensitive information.
Though the district is in an affluent area outside Atlanta where most students own digital devices, it set up a task force to examine equity issues for students whose families can't afford regular Internet access. One solution has been to partner with local businesses to advertise free Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the community. Another approach has developed organically in the classroom, as students who own devices eagerly share them with those who don't.
Yet Forsyth County is still cautious about mandating BYOD.
"We don't want to take that approach," says Hobson. "We want people to come to it when they're ready and willing."
1. Be clear about the rules. Have students and parents sign an acceptable-use policy, or post color-coded signs throughout the school that clearly spell out what is expected in each area and the consequences for infractions.
2. Develop a systematic rollout. New BYOD initiatives bring with them a lot of questions, concerns, and fears from the community (including staff and students). Helping people first understand the benefits and risks—through meetings, training sessions, and printed materials—leads to greater acceptance.
3. Address capacity, not just coverage. Adequate coverage ensures there are no dead zones, but addressing capacity is an important step in preventing network overload. Problems typically occur where students or teachers congregate and use their wireless technology simultaneously
4. Teach digital citizenship. Any BYOD initiative should focus as much on behavior as infrastructure, given the trouble students can get into otherwise.
Working systematically, the Katy school district in Texas rolled out its BYOD initiative in 2011-12 after spending the previous two years getting educators and the community first to understand, then to accept, its new focus on Web 2.0 and digital citizenship. The strategy worked: Each year, the number of technology-related calls of concern to district administrators "dropped easily by 50 percent, and we got only three last year," says Lenny Schad, the former chief information officer for the 65,000-student district who recently moved to a new job as chief information technology officer for the Houston Independent School District, which serves 203,000 students.
Breaking the Rules
Despite the Katy district's best efforts, some students still break rules. But that's no reason to abandon the initiative, as districts in other parts of the country have done, says Schad.
"We focus on the fact that these are learning opportunities to help our children understand what it means to live in this digital world they're going to live in for the rest of their lives," he says. "Yes, it's risky, but I think it's riskier for us not to do this and then have kids try to figure it all out on their own."
Because technologically savvy students do, as educators know, wind up figuring things out on their own.
When English and history teacher Brook Brayman worked at the 250-student Technology Access Foundation Academy, serving grades 6-12, in Federal Way, Wash., he was startled by the number of students—a couple of them every quarter—who had their computer privileges revoked because they were downloading software, music, even pornography.
Brayman, who transferred this school year to the 1,800-student Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way, points out that BYOD efforts can only exacerbate the problem unless administrators focus less on infrastructure and more on behavior. Beamer High has no official BYOD policy, but allows the use of personal devices in the classroom.
"It just seems like trying to bomb-proof network security is a losing battle," Brayman says. "That's why we have to teach digital citizenship and responsibility. It's better that kids make these mistakes when they're 15 than when they're 30 and have a career-level job on the line."
Vol. 06, Issue 02, Pages 37-39Published in Print: February 6, 2013, as BYOD Boundaries
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Inbetweeners stars James Buckley, Simon Bird, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas have admitted they liked to misbehave on the set of the new film.
The actors - who rose to fame as teenage pals Jay, Will, Neil and Simon in the award-winning E4 comedy created by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris - star in the second big screen spin-off, which sees Damon and Iain make their debut as directors, which Joe likened "to two kids being left in charge of a classroom".
Simon revealed: "It was a new experience for us because Iain and Damon were directing for the first time and we took it upon ourselves, we felt it was our duty, to remind them how inexperienced they were.
Joe sniggered: "We didn't take them seriously," and James confessed: "We were patting Iain's head."
Joe chipped in: "He didn't like you patting him on the head. He did not like that. And he didn't like it when James went, 'Iain, I know we like to have a bit of a laugh but we actually think you're doing quite a good job'."
Simon added: "He found it a bit patronising..."
And Blake admitted: "They've always set up this attitude on set that if it's funny just do it, but there's normally a director in place to pull on the reins ever so slightly when things got out of control. So when Iain and Damon took over the reins, it was like the lunatics have taken over the asylum."
The first film saw the teenagers go to Malia in Crete for their last holiday before university. The Inbetweeners 2 follows them to Sydney, where Jay is living with his uncle, for a gap-year adventure.
The lads admitted filming in the Australian Outback was an incredible experience.
Joe said: "It's kind of exhilarating because it's so barren. And it would kill you if you were there on your own. We were surrounded by people taking care of us, but if that was all taken away you'd die in a day. It was extraordinary. Fifty degrees in the shade. Flies everywhere.
"The one let down about Australia, probably not really a let down, was that we didn't see any dangerous wild animals. The only animals in the Outback are flies, and they are just everywhere. They get in your eyes - they love your eyes.
"I think because everything in the outback is basically thirsty and there's water in your eyes so they're trying to get it. Which is pretty disgusting.
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Another Christmas has come and gone. Though I will admit to being a little nervous about how it would all go- blending the families and all that you know... it went well and we all had a good day.
We played board games over the days the kids were home and went bowling. We watched movies and ate too much chocolate. We took drives around the neighborhood to see the lights and decorations. When the noise level got too high or the energy level was more than we could handle, Rich and I removed ourselves to the quiet sitting room and cozied up on the couch to read.
And it isn't over yet! Holly and Ben arrive on Wednesday for the second week of the holidays and I am sure it will be plenty rambunctious then too... last time we weren't even in the car for half an hour on the way home from the airport and the four were already bickering... lol
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A question lingering in every issue of HUMANITIES is how we remember. It's a question of legacy, of how humanity's thoughts and words and deeds are recalled or forgotten by succeeding generations. Individuals ask to be remembered, but a writer may record his or her own life for posterity. There are two such writers in this issue, both diarists fortunate to have understood that semiprivate events in their own lives would echo historically.
One of the diarists, Julien Green, happened to write about the other's funeral: "I had the impression of a profound sadness, tearing, racing through the chapel, as if Kessler, rising, had grabbed on to us, like a drowning man who seizes a boat full of people. . . . When one carried away the casket, there was a kind of general distress, I cannot express it any other way; one tore poor Kessler from his friends."
Among important American writers, Green has to be one of the most obscure, at least to American readers. A U.S. citizen born and raised in France, he wrote mostly in French and even became the first non-French citizen to be elected to the Académie Française. As Francis-Noël Thomas shows, Green's diaries of the fall of France make for a unique and revealing record of what surrender, occupation, and exile mean not just to an individual but a whole society.
Kessler was Count Harry Kessler. Another diarist, he was also man of the arts: a patron, a curator, an organizer, a connoisseur of culture and people. And one person to whom he was very good was Friedrich Nietzsche. Although he came into the philosopher's life only after Nietzsche had lost his mind, Kessler was intimately involved in plans for Nietzsche's archives and a grandiose memorial. In his valiant efforts to work with Nietzsche's anti-Semitic sister, Kessler appears to us at the doorstep of a lost opportunity to preserve the philosopher's work from significant corruption.
James Agee also bore witness to historical events, as a journalist to the ravages of the Great Depression and as a critic to the rise of cinema as a major new art form. His talent for scene making, Danny Heitman shows, was visible in his magazine work, his screenwriting, and his fiction.
One wonders how a writer like Agee would have described the public spectacle of street theater and religious observance in the medieval Corpus Christi plays from York, England. With Agee being unavailable, we asked James Williford to essay on the macabre pageantry of the plays and their performance. His account, I think, will prove memorable.


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HARTFORD -- A state lawmaker whose district includes a portion of Newtown has proposed a bill exempting the death certificates of minors from public disclosure for 10 years.
The bill is scheduled for a public hearing on Friday before the legislature's Government Administration and Elections Committee.
The Public Health Committee held a hearing earlier this week on a similar bill that's supported by the three state representatives whose districts include Newtown, site of the Sandy Hook School shooting that left 20 first graders and six educators dead.
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The spirit of riding a roaring Harley down an open highway permeated Phillip Lim's Pre-Fall 2013 collection. If the leather jackets and pants with quilted knee panels didn't express that feeling enough, the stylized phoenix and zippers that acted as decorations should.
Those pieces were appealing enough on their own, but Lim balanced them with garments that even dedicated pedestrians will want to wear. Of note: otherwise simple skirts featuring asymmetrical hems, outerwear with rounded shoulders, oversize knitwear pieces, and a pale green parka that looked perfectly cozy paired with a navy snood and maroon trousers.
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Heraldry of Rome – Part I
I recently had the pleasure to visit Rome, Italy for a couple of days. What an amazing experience! The beauty of the city is unparalleled and I highly recommend everyone visits.
More appropriate to the subject of this blog, Rome is practically swimming in heraldry! It's everywhere you look. In every street, you will run into a coat of arms adorning a church or a secular building. It's a thing of beauty!
Inspired by my short stay in Rome, a series of posts will be published showing the arms I encountered just walking the streets. Note that I did not go out looking for heraldry, I just ran into it!
As this is the first of a series of posts on the heraldry I ran into during my very short visit I will start with a brief history of the arms of the Eternal City itself.
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The blazon of the arms is: Gules in bend a cross and the letters S P Q R Or
For a city with an outstanding heraldic history and an immense heraldic wealth, we run into a case where the city's arms are, in my personal opinion, ugly. I have never been a fan of writing/letters in arms and this example doesn't change my mind.
Having said that, I fully understand the history and meaning of the arms. I also have complete respect for the story behind them. However, I think it would've been better if the design did not have any writing on it.
But, as the Romans say: suum cuique
SPQR stands for "Senatus Populusque Romanus" or, in English, "The Senate and the People of Rome". Though it is not certain when was the first appearance of this phrase, it is found mostly during the Roman Republic period that began in the 5th century BC.
As expected of any city's insignia, the Roman Coat of Arms can be found everywhere. From fountains to manhole covers to water drains, the simple shield can be seen anywhere.
Interestingly, the initials SPQR are found on other arms as well. A prime example is the northern Italian city of Reggio Emilia whose arms are displayed below:
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The blazon of these arms is: Argent a cross between the letters S P Q R Gules
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CD and DVD Recording For Dummies
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Most new PCs and Macs today are equipped with the latest in recording and storage equipment: CD-RW and DVD-R/RW drives. Even if your computer is a little older, you can still join the revolution with add-on hardware and software. You can record music and movies, store photos and data, and organize things you want to preserve for posterity, safely and easily. CD and DVD Recording For Dummies®, Second Edition, takes the frustration out of choosing and using these cool recording systems. This easy-to-follow guide will help you find what you need and use it efficiently, and it covers all the newest equipment. You'll discover how to Choose and install a CD or DVD recorder Pick the best software for your needs Store large data files safely on CD Use EasyCD and DVD Creator and Toast Record mixed media disks Create electronic photo albums, baby books, genealogies, and more Once upon a time, videotape, vinyl record albums, and floppy disks were state of the art for preserving movies, music, and data. The superior durability and capacity of CDs and DVDs have made these tools as obsolete as the washboard, but never fear. CD and DVD Recording For Dummies®, Second Edition, makes it easy to Transfer your favorite VHS movies to DVD Preserve those classic LPs on CD Archive records and data files, and safely store treasured family photos Ask the right questions when shopping for CD or DVD recording hardware and software Record original material, copy and erase rewriteable disks, and make backups of important data Add menus to your disks, label them, and care for them properly Record a bootable CD-ROM Today's CD and DVD recorders can produce everything from superb sound quality to original movies you can play on your DVD player. CD and DVD Recording For Dummies® will get your recording career going in a jiffy.
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Moves underscore company focus on the discovery and development of novel biologic therapies in China
LA JOLLA, Calif. and SHANGHAI, Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Anaphore announced today that its corporate name has changed to RuiYi. As part of the company's shift in strategy to the discovery and development of novel biologic therapies in China, including monoclonal antibodies that target G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), RuiYi has also added three seasoned leaders to its management team in Shanghai.
"RuiYi's new direction will enable us to focus on building our capabilities in Shanghai as we collaborate with a number of innovative drug discovery and development companies to advance our technology," commented Paul Grayson, President and CEO of RuiYi.
New RuiYi Drug Discovery Team
RuiYi also announced today that it has added three key members to its management team to guide its GPCR drug discovery efforts. Chris Song, Ph.D., joins as Director of Operations, Shouhua (Josh) Xiao, Ph.D., joins as Senior Director of Protein Technology and Lei Shi, Ph.D., joins as Director of Antibody Discovery.
"Chris, Josh and Lei are all exceptionally talented individuals with extensive industry experience that is essential as we continue building a truly outstanding biologics drug discovery company in Shanghai," commented Anke Kretz-Rommel, Ph.D., Vice President of Research and Development, RuiYi.
Dr. Song has more than 20 years of experience in biomedical research and business. Prior to joining RuiYi, he led marketing and sales efforts at OriGene Technologies for its China business initiative. Before OriGene, Chris was with Applied Biosystems China, driving business growth in the pharmaceutical/biotech sector. He also held the position of Business Development Manager at Novartis China, developing business strategy and leading licensing activities for the Oncology Business. Dr. Song received his M.B.A from Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Oncology from the University of Queensland, Australia and a B.Sc from Shandong University, China.
Dr. Xiao has worked in the biotech industry for over 14 years. Prior to joining RuiYi, he was Principal Scientist and led the biologics drug discovery efforts for Oncology at Amgen South San Francisco. Prior to Amgen, he managed the HTS/Molecular Pharmacology group at Tularik and previously worked at Millennium Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Xiao obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Louisiana State University and conducted his postdoctoral training with Dr. James Manley at Columbia University. He currently serves as Co-chair of the 2011-2012 EC Business & Career Development Committee of the Chinese-American BioPharmaceutical Society.
Dr. Shi joins RuiYi from Centyrex, an internal venture of Johnson & Johnson, where he was responsible for library technology development and lead generation in the area of immunology and oncology. Prior to Centyrex, Dr. Shi was a Senior Research Scientist at Centocor R&D of Johnson and Johnson, where he led a project on developing and validating large scale de novo antibody library technology on a novel phage display platform and was the leading author on the publication and patent on this effort. Before his career in the biopharmaceutical industry, Dr. Shi conducted his postdoctoral research on innate immunology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from University of Illinois at Chicago and an Executive Master's degree in Technology Management from the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business.
New RuiYi Corporate Headquarters
RuiYi is moving its corporate offices to new space in La Jolla, CA. Effective November 15, 2012, RuiYi's California-based office will be at: 505 Coast Blvd South, La Jolla, CA 92037.
About RuiYi
RuiYi is focused on the discovery and development of novel biologic therapies in China, including monoclonal antibodies that target G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). RuiYi's executive management team has offices in La Jolla, California while all of RuiYi's discovery efforts are located in Shanghai, China. RuiYi's research facility is located in the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in Pudong Shanghai, China.
For more information please visit www.ruiyibio.com.
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The first could mean you would be seeing him for the first time in your life.
Are they the same meaning?
Hello everyone. My Name is Noppanat. I'm from Thailand.
The first could mean you would be seeing him for the first time in your life.
For me, the first sounds rather formal and the second might be what you would casually say to someone as you left them the day before the meeting. "Right, I'm off now. I'll be seeing you tomorrow". However, "I'll see you tomorrow" would sound more natural in that scenario if an arrangement to meet has already been made or if, for example, the two people work together and one is simply stating a fact, that he will see the other in the office.
I would find "I'll be seeing you" better but of course that means "at some unspecified time in the future".
Noppanat - your signature line says you are an English teacher but:
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2 - You have a spelling error in your signature line. You have put "form" instead of "from".
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- Location: Cardiff
- Job Type: Temporary
- Sector: Children Services
- Category: Nursery Nurse, Nursery Nurse Assistant
- Job Ref: GF
- Salary: £8.72 – £9.50 per hour
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With Nurseries due to be returning to some kind of normality shortly, New Directions Social Care are currently recruiting for Level 3 Qualified Nursery Nurses and Nursery assistants in Newport, Cardiff and the surrounding areas.
We have many different clients that we support with reliable and experienced nursery workers throughout Cardiff and Newport, and we are looking to build on the workforce we currently have in place.
As a New Directions candidate, you will have the opportunity to pick up work in a variety of settings either on a full time, part time or flexible basis.
We offer great rates of pay, regular work, free refresher training and dedication to customer service.
This is an excellent opportunity to work in childcare, providing care and support to the under 5s and creating a fun and happy environment for the children to play and learn. The role includes play work, activities and support with feeding, personal care and working with the staff/ team on daily tasks.
In order to apply for this position, you must have a minimum of 6 months experience in childcare work.
If interested in applying for this role or looking to register with us please contact Gareth Ford on 02920390150 opt 1.
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The role of a Nursery Nurse
A job working with children, whether in a nursery, play scheme or out of school club, is primarily a fun one. You will be helping children learn through play and you could be organising group activities or working with a child on a one-to-one basis.
Job Purpose:
- to provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children placed in the nursery;
- to give support to other staff in the nursery;
- to implement the daily routine within the nursery.
Nursery Nurses will need a Level 2 qualification in childcare or above. The Department for Education (DfE) has information on all approved childcare qualifications. http://www.education.gov.uk/eypqd/index.shtml
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- making sure children are safe and well.
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Please contact New Directions Social Care for more information on this job vacancy, on 029 2039 0150, or use our form below to enquire about this job vacancy.
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The Season for Giving
The holidays are wonderful in so many ways, but for some it can be a difficult time. In this economic climate, more people than ever before need assistance, and we can all help through our time or contributions.
Toys for Tots/Gifts for Teens
FiveCap coordinates the Toys for Tots/Gifts for Teens program for Mason and Manistee counties. Each year, hundreds of needy children receive toys for Christmas. Please consider donating a monetary gift or a new toy, which can be dropped off in the colorful barrels found at numerous locations in Manistee and Mason counties. Distributions will be December 16 & 17, 2020 at the Holiday Inn Express-Graystone Event Center, 4079 W. US-10, Ludington. For more information, call (231) 757-3785. Parents/guardians may apply for the Toys for Tots/Gifts for Teens at the Mason County FiveCAP office in Scottville.
"Spirit of Giving"
West Shore Bank teams with Shop-N-Save of Ludington and Benzonia, Hansen Foods in Hart and Family Fare in Manistee for the "Spirit of Giving" event. Special pricing is available for the purchase of a complete dinner to be distributed to local food pantries in time for Christmas. Donations are being accepted at any of West Shore Bank's banking offices now through November 27. With the money raised, West Shore Bank distributes certificates to food pantries in Mason, Oceana, Manistee, and Benzie counties, which can be redeemed for a complete dinner. Every $10.50-$15 buys a complete holiday dinner for one family in surrounding counties. West Shore Bank will match the first $2,500 raised. In 2019, 786 meals were distributed to local food banks, after donations totaling $9,869 were collected.
Salvation Army
Once again The Salvation Army is teaming up with the Marine Corps Toys for Tots and St. Simon's Catholic Church to provide a holiday meal, toys for children, and additional food for people in Mason County. Applications will be taken at the Salvation Army Corps-Community Center at 116 E. Melendy St. in Ludington. Identification is needed at time of application.
The Salvation Army partners with St. Simon's Church "Each One Reach One" project to provide a food box with food for 3-4 days in addition to the Christmas dinner. Toys or age-appropriate gifts are provided for children 17 years of age and younger. Households without children are also welcome to apply for Holiday Assistance.
The familiar bell ringers outside many shopping establishments brave the cold and snow to help raise money for area families. You can help by volunteering to be a bell ringer, even if you only have an hour or two. All it takes is a smile and a bit of Christmas spirit. The Salvation Army is also looking for individuals or families to sponsor a family for the holidays. If you can help, call (231) 843-3711 or (231) 757-3907. And as you're rushing in and out of stores, remember to drop some money into the kettle. It will surely be put to good use.
Food Banks
Many area food banks (including the Salvation Army) run low on supplies, just when people need food the most. Local churches, schools, and businesses organize drives where you can donate canned and boxed goods, personal items, and paper products. While you're grocery shopping, it's so easy to pick up a few extra items to share with others.
Coats & Boots for Kids
Staying warm throughout the winter is not easy for everyone...some kids don't own a coat or boots. The United Methodist Church of Ludington has set a goal to provide warm winter clothing for Ludington students Pre-K through 12th grade. Items needed are gently used or new coats, boots, snow pants, hats, waterproof gloves, scarves, or monetary donations. Last year they gave out over 300 coats and 150 pairs of boots. Donations can be dropped off at the United Methodist Church of Ludington at 5810 Bryant Road Monday-Friday between 9am-4pm. Distribution usually begins November 1st and runs through February 28. Call the church for more information at (231) 843-8340.
Mitten Tree
Since 1950, Church Women United have decorated a tree with handmade mittens, scarves, and gloves. All clothing is donated to the children of Mason County. Please consider helping out the Mitten Tree, located inside Fifth Third Bank in front of Larson's Ace Hardware. They will be accepting items from 9:30am-4pm December 3-6, 2019. The Salvation Army distributes the mittens and scarves so that all children can have a nice, warm winter. Donations of yarn and cash will also be accepted. Attendants from local churches are present to accept donations.
Project Mary
This annual Christmas outreach project sponsored by The West Shore Pregnancy Care Center assists the Center's clients. Donor families provide a laundry basket of household goods (the Center provides the list: toilet paper, toothpaste, laundry detergent, etc.) and one warm outfit for each child in the family. This frees up a client and family from the burden of the necessities and allows them to then purchase the "fun" items for Christmas. For more information, call West Shore Pregnancy Care Center at (231) 843-7094; the Center is located at 603 E. Tinkham Ave.
Communities Overcoming Violent Encounters helps clients all year by providing shelter for women and children caught in domestic violence situations. Drop off unwrapped gifts at their office at 905 E. Ludington Avenue. Volunteers are needed to set up and wrap the gifts. For more information, call Cindy with COVE at (231) 843-2541.
Lakeshore Animal Friends
Lakeshore Animal Friends rescues animals and pays for spay/neuter for all animals. It also provides a humane education program to all county schools, fosters animals from Mason County Animal Control, provides funding for medical care for animals at MCAC as well as for foster animals. This would not be possible without the support of the community. Volunteers can donate their time and efforts at one of the LAF fundraisers; they can also donate funds to enable LAF to continue its spay/neuter program and to fund special projects. A "Gift of Life" of $100 or more can give a homeless animal another chance. Call Lakeshore Animal Friends at (231) 843-1414 or write LAF at P.O.Box 503, Ludington MI. 49431.
Senior Angel Trees
There are several Mason County senior homes and facilities that have individual residents with no family with whom they will share the holiday season. The Scottville and Ludington Area Senior Centers sponsor Angel Trees each year to help make the holidays brighter for these individuals. Tags with gift requests are placed on the trees at both senior centers. Those interested can select a tag, purchase that gift, and return it to the senior center for holiday wrapping and gifting. For more information, call the Ludington Area Senior Center at (231) 845-6841 or the Scottville Senior Center at (231) 757-4705.
Lights and Love Christmas Tree
Spectrum Health Ludington Hospital Foundation is sponsoring a fundraising program to decorate a "Lights and Love" Christmas tree on the hospital's south lawn. Each donation of $20 adds a light to the tree and a name to the honor roll of those being recognized. All donations will support the hospital's Family Birthing Center.
The true meaning of the season lies within us. There are so many ways to give, and it takes so little time and money to fulfill the Christmas dreams of many. Let's band together as a community to make sure the holiday season is warm, happy, and bright for everyone.
More West Michigan Holidays Info...
- Upcoming Family Friendly Events
- 2020 Manistee Area Festivals and Events
- 2020 Festivals and Events in West Michigan
- Holiday Concerts for December
- Where to Find a Fresh Christmas Tree
- Christmas in Scottville
- The Ludington & Scottville Branches of the Mason County District Library Offer Numerous Programs for Children & Families
- Bye Bye 2020 Video Contest to Take Place of Ball Drop on New Year's Eve in Downtown Ludington
- Pentwater's Christmas in the Village Festivities
- The Season for Giving
- The Holiday Season Shines at Bear Lake's Sparkle in the Park
- Home for the Holidays Events in Hart & Silver Lake
- Holiday Parties Made Easier
- Good Cheer is Found in West Michigan During the Holiday Season
- "Deck the Halls: A Mason County Holiday Decorating Contest to Replace Aglow on the Avenue Parade for 2020
- Manistee's Victorian Sleighbell Parade Cancelled for 2020; Will Return December 2021
- Local Bazaars and Holiday Arts & Crafts Shows


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A Zeitgeist quote is a good lead in:
They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority.
– Gerald Massey
Here's from Jason Cooper's new post today:
What is the truth?
Who can we really trust in this apparent world (The Matrix) of deception?
Should we trust:
• The Educational System?
• The Religious Leaders?
• The Media?
• The Law?
• The Government?
• The Conspiracy Theorists?
• Or in fact, any sort of so-called authority of information and knowledge, such as the ones mentioned above, who are suppose to be the benevolent and wise leaders of truth, integrity and justice?
The next thing I'm about to say may contain more than an air of cynicism and conspiracy, but if we are to be honest with ourselves, frankly, we have been led down the garden path for most of our lives.
Unfortunately, there are powerful people out there who choose to monopolise the dissemination of knowledge and information to the masses, and who wish nothing more than to seduce our minds to the point of slumber whilst manipulating us towards submitting our will, freedom and very lives for them to do what they wish – no matter how pernicious.
In other words, through our own ignorance (which is mostly conditioned into us from childhood) we are unbeknowingly empowering them to enslave us psychologically.
Now is the time to take back this power and learn to empower ourselves with the knowledge and wisdom that can eliminate these masters of deception (aka disinformation agents), so that we can then emancipate our minds towards a joyful existence filled with integrity, truth and meaning.
Read the rest here.
Mandatory reading for aspiring critical thinkers.
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A couple months ago, I wrote an article about how resourceful other autism parents have been for me. Ever since my son Julian was diagnosed, most of my information and guidance has come from parents, not doctors or therapists.
In fact, the doctors I've seen have been the least helpful of all in terms of answering questions I have regarding autism. If it weren't for other parents, I would be completely lost.
When I wrote that article, an autistic woman left a comment. (I use the word autistic because that's how she referred to herself.) She wrote:
"If autism parents are your only source of information, you're doing it wrong. #actuallyautistic"
Her comment bothered me in two ways – Firstly because she didn't subscribe to my blog, so I couldn't reply. I would've loved the opportunity to follow up with a question. I'm thirsty for knowledge and her statement confused me.
The second reason it bothered me, and actually made me a little hot, was the fact that this woman could type. She could read. She could obviously process my article, feel a certain way about it, and send me a snide remark about how stupid I was.
What could someone like her teach me about my child? Julian doesn't talk. He doesn't respond to most of my words. And the doctors assume he has a severe cognitive delay. (They can only assume that because he isn't able to perform their tests.)
Fast forward to a couple weeks ago. I read an article in The Guardian by a man named David Mitchell. He wrote a piece about his own journey through the spectrum with his severely autistic son.
In his article, Mitchell referenced a book that was written by a boy in Japan. Mitchell actually helped to translate the book to English so more people could read it. The book is called, The Reason I Jump.
Before I begin, this is not an official review of the book, nor is it sponsored in any way. I'm simply a mom who thinks sharing is caring.
The Reason I Jump blew my mind! It changed my perception of autism in so many ways. Naoki Higashida, who was 13 at the time he wrote it, is almost completely nonverbal just like my son.
For the most part, the book has a simple Q&A format. Naoki is asked questions like, "Why are your sleep patterns messed up?" and "Why do you wander off?"
Naoki answered these questions in detail, with a spirit of simplicity and sincerity and that only a child could express. He talked about his body and his mind in a way that made sense to me.
He didn't use abstract phrases like sensory input or stimming. Instead, he referred to his own senses and feelings.I could actually visualize what Naoki was saying, and relate it to my own child's autism.
I often wonder why Julian does certain things… or if there is any reasoning at all. This book restored my faith that there are reasons for his actions. And it reminded me to be more patient and understanding.
Of course every individual is different, so not all of Naoki's answers lined up perfectly with my own kid. But that's not the point.
The point is Naoki has an answer. He has a reason for the things he does. And even though he struggles greatly to communicate, he definitely has something to say. We just have to do a better job listening.
Every parent will have their own "take aways" from reading this book. Here are 3 of mine:
1. I need to treat my child with more respect. In that, I mean respect for his feelings, his meltdowns, his fears, and his anxieties. I need to do a better job explaining situations to him, instead of dismissing his reactions and hurrying him along.
2. I need to have higher expectations. Even though he can't talk, I should assume that he has a better understanding than he can currently demonstrate to me. I already know he's smart. I need to relay that knowledge back to him.
3. I can't give up. (Not that I ever would.) No, he can't talk yet. He may never be able to talk. But I need to provide more opportunities for him to communicate. I can't give up because the past 10 methods didn't work out. I just need to move on to the 11th.
I'm not sure why this book wasn't shoved in my face 8 months ago when Julian was first diagnosed with autism. Maybe it's because it was written over 10 years ago, and the hype has worn off. Or maybe it was on a list somewhere in that pile of paperwork I've collected.
I now understand what that woman was trying to say on my previous article. I've learned more from Naoki than I could've ever imagined learning from a nonverbal 13 year old.
It would've been nice if she'd explained herself a bit more, but whatever. I'm currently on the hunt for more books written by #actuallyautistic authors. Leave a comment if you have any suggestions.
#actuallyaparent ❤
Follow our journey on Facebook at Not an Autism Mom. ❤


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Why this matters - The way forward on climate is clear: President Obama must start cutting carbon from today's biggest polluters—power plants—and stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to avoid adding more carbon pollution tomorrow.
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