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It never fails that every so often we are greeted with a sociological study that tells us what kind of crappy parents we in the US happen to be. The latest one is discussed in The Atlantic HERE. Actually read the article. It's not bad and it is thought provoking. I agree with the commenter that the author of the article should have begun with her last paragraph. There are many things parents are needed for when it comes to their child's education and the ideas in that last paragraph is what should be the take-away points.
But I do think the study misses a major part of reality. There is a huge difference between parents who set parameters, limits and boundaries (my favorite three words of parenting) for their children when it comes to homework and those that actually do their child's homework for them. Now in elementary school we, as parents, were encouraged to do homework with our children, especially when it comes to certain aspects of math. Why they needed us to help with math is beyond me. I haven't been able to do my children's math with them since 4th grade. First it was "new math," then "new new math," and finally a revamping of the math curriculum back to the old stages of math education. Ultimately the education gurus have so messed up the math curriculum in total with Common Core I definitely wouldn't be able to help anyone. (Who ever heard of NOT having to learn your math facts and accepting the best guess as a correct answer in math?)
Children need to learn to do their homework on their own. But that does not mean you shouldn't be there is there is a problem and to help them problem solve. This is not the same as giving them the answers. Helping your child with their homework does them no good. Homework is supposed to be about reinforcing what they learned during the day so that they can assimilate what they have been taught. If you do their research, writing and analyzing for them what will they have learned? How will they actually learn to research, write and analyze?
As early as middle school we understood that when the boys needed help, they needed to go to the teachers for support and alternatively we also hired professional tutors. These tutors were usually teachers who were looking for additional income. I suppose that is part and parcel of our village ethos. You can't always do everything for your child, so you need to seek out the best qualified to help your child be the best that they can be.
Actually in all honesty, I doubt the boys would have wanted our help. They have been viciously independent of their schoolwork since middle school. They wouldn't ask for our help even if they needed it, which at times they did. MrGS seeks out answers through research, analysis and in-school support. CM2 uses what the professors teach him to his advantage and applies all lessons to the next project. Do they always get As? No they don't. But they get something more important out of doing the work themselves and that is independence, self-reliance and they learn the ability to keep pushing themselves. It's that old pick yourself up by your bootstraps philosophy. If you mess up, find the fix and keep moving forward.
I know that there must be a lot of helicoptering here in my town when it comes to homework. When MrGS was in high school, his ability to write kicked in. It's like anything else he does, he will struggle along until one day there is a light that goes off in his brain and then there is no stopping him. MrGS ' case manager called to ask me if I had been helping him with his essay assignments. In truth I hadn't even looked at them. MrGS wouldn't let either of us help. The case manager said it was as if another person suddenly was writing his papers.
But this is just who he is. In fact if you had ever read his college senior thesis you would have witnessed a paper written by a very talented young man with a gift for writing. It is his talent. One of his professors even remarked that he is one of the best writers she had ever taught.
CM2 on the other hand struggles with his essay writing. That is not his gift. His gift is graphic arts. While he fights to get words on to paper for essays he can create the most interesting projects and designs using the computer. He is also very talented when it comes to screen writing. He has a way with interactive language that doesn't show in a one-to-one conversation. Like his older brother, it is as if they are two different people when they write and when they talk to another human being.
Hence, never underestimate what your child can do simply because they don't have the verbal and social skills that everyone thinks is necessary to be a talented writer. Find a way to let who your child really is shine through. This is why the IQ test that measures our children's intelligence, based so much upon their verbal skills, does our aspergeans a great disservice. And does in fact undercut the potential of their real intellectual abilities.
Meanwhile, back to that Atlantic article. Parents have a role to play in their child's education. You do need to set an example for them about homework and responsibility early on in their school career. It is about making certain that they know how to schedule homework and fun, how to take breaks and when to ask for help or try to push through on their own. It is important that they be given a long leash when it comes to learning so that they can figure out how to figure things out for themselves. But that doesn't mean you are not there for support and for a show of force against the school when necessary.
Truth be told, there is a lot that we as parents can do to make school a better and happier place to be for our children. Work in concert with your child's teacher if there are problems. Help identify issues and create solutions using your village. Understand that every individual has a role to play in getting your child to be a successful and independent learner.
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Selecting a template from the list (DOC0200) and clicking OK then the process just hangs. On the application server a winword.exe process gets started but nothing happens, no document is created. If you terminate the winword process on the app server then an error appears in DOC0120. Otherwise you have to crash out of the application and the winword process continues to run on the server. Post resolving above, template did not display either see solution below for fix too.
The main issue with the winword.exe process not completing and eating up processor and all available disk space is resolved by creating two directories. The actual issue is with MS Office Automation on Windows Server 2008. The issue is due to the Microsoft word installed on 2008 r2 server 64 bit server does not create the required directory for system user and due to that winword.exe hangs as runtime user does not have permission to create directory in 64 bit install location.
Creating both directories on application server box resolves this issue. The 64 bit version of Word uses the 32 bit directory and vice versa, so create both directories irrespective of 32 or 64 bit version of Word using to make sure. With this fix I had templates working with 32 and 64 bit version of Word with both directories in place on the application serverC:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\DesktopC:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\Desktop
This enables the Word process to complete on the application server when invoked through a template association.
Amended an option that appeared on startup of Word to open automatically.
In the application where you see the date field displayed there is a calender icon. Clicking on it displays user preferences HIG1840. Clicked on the user option tab click on document manager, working folder. Populated WORKFOLDER user option to be d:\temp ( a directory on the application server used by webconfig.util)
After Template association took place, selecting Display document did not work.
Looked at the exor.conf file to get to apache aliases.
Noticed that in DOC0118 Document Locations and Media Types the Display URL had a physical directory setting on the application server and not the apache alias. So it couldn't display the associated document in a window. Amended the display URL to reflect the alias in exor.conf file. Also the final slash at the end needed to be a \ not a / (forward slash not a backslash). Once this was done the url worked and document displayed.
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For the second time in less than a month, Jawbone is suing Fitbit in advance of the latter company's planned June 17th initial public offering. This time the allegation is patent infringement.
Jawbone is now suing Fitbit over alleged infringement of three patents Jawbone obtained when it purchased BodyMedia in 2013. Although Jawbone implied at the time it would keep BodyMedia intact, it ended up shuttering it within a few years of the acquisition, confirming for some that BodyMedia's extensive IP catalogue was the real impetus of the purchase.
The case concerns three patents: "General Health And Wellness Management Method And Apparatus For A Wellness Application Using Data From A Data-Capable Band," a 2013 patent; "System For Detecting, Monitoring, And Reporting An Individual's Physiological Or Contextual Status," a patent from 2011; and "System For Monitoring And Managing Body Weight And Other Physiological Conditions Including Iterative And Personalized Planning, Intervention And Reporting Capability," a patent from 2013.
The suit also confirms that Jawbone acquired BodyMedia for more than $100 million. If Jawbone prevails, this suit could prove to be a return on that investment. Jawbone declined to comment, beyond providing MobiHealthNews with a copy of the suit.
"As the pioneer and leader in the connected health and fitness market, Fitbit has independently developed and delivered innovative product offerings to empower its customers to lead healthier, more active lives," Fitbit said in a statement. "Since its inception, Fitbit has more than 200 issued patents and patent applications in this area. Fitbit plans to vigorously defend itself against these allegations."
This is the third overall lawsuit leveled against Fitbit since the fitness device company announced its IPO plans, and the second to come from competitor Jawbone.
Two weeks ago, Jawbone filed suit for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, and breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. In that suit, they alleged that Fitbit had poached five Jawbone employees and enticed them to steal information about the company's future plans on their way out the door.
A week before that, a California man filed a class action suit against Fitbit, alleging that the company's sleep tracking is inaccurate and constitutes false advertising. Fitbit has vowed in statements to the press to fight both of these lawsuits.
Jawbone's pursuit of Fitbit comes at a time when not only is Fitbit gearing up to IPO -- seeking to raise $358 million for its own coffers, according to its latest SEC filing -- but Jawbone is rumored to be in some amount of financial trouble.
In early 2014, Jawbone was expecting to raise $250 million from investors affiliated with Rizvi Traverse, but according to a report from Fortune, this investment came up short, forcing Jawbone to "scramble yet again to raise new funds". According to a May 2015 report in Bloomberg, this funding came in the form of a $300 million loan from BlackRock on fairly harsh terms -- it's secured by "Jawbone's current and future licenses, intellectual property, royalties, accounts receivable and revenue from IP or licenses".
In 2014, Jawbone's contract manufacturer, Flextronics, also sued the company because Jawbone's "perilous" financial position prevented the company from paying its $20 million tab. The suit settled quietly soon after.


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Toshiki Okada
About the artist
Toshiki Okada was born in Yokohama in 1973. Since he formed the theater company chelfitsch in 1997, Okada has written and directed all of the company's productions. As a result of putting into practice his distinctive methodology for creating plays, he has come to be known for his use of hyper-colloquial Japanese and unique choreography. In 2005, his play Five Days in March won the prestigious 49th Kishida Drama Award. He participated in Toyota Choreography Award 2005 with Air Conditioner [Cooler] (2005). In September 2005, Okada won the Yokohama Cultural Award/Yokohama Award for Art and Cultural Encouragement. In December of the same year, he presented Enjoy at New National Theatre, Tokyo. He has also served as the director for the 2006-07 Summit, an annual drama festival hosted by the Komaba Agora Theater (General producer, Oriza Hirata). Okada's border-crossing activities have widely drawn attention not only from the theater world and the contemporary dance scene, but also from artists and critics in fine arts and literature. In February of 2007, a collection of his novellas entitled The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed was published and awarded the Kenzaburo Oe Prize. As a director, Okada directed Samuel Beckett's Cascando for the Tokyo International Arts Festival and Kobo Abe's Friends at the Setagaya Public Theater. More recently, Okada directed a workshop production of Strangeness with local actors at the Itami Ai Hall in Hyogo prefecture. He also created Ghost Youth in collaboration with students at Obirin University in Tokyo. Moreover, he has been invited to Nam June Pike Art Center (Seoul), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), The National Museum of Art (Osaka) and Mori Museum of Art (Tokyo), and Yokohama Triennale. In March 2008, he presented Freetime, a piece co-produced by KUNSTEN FESTIVAL DES ARTS (Brussels), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), and Festival d'Automne (Paris). In May 2009, New National Theater of Japan commissioned him to adapt and direct Dea Loher's TAETOWIERUNG. In October 2009, his newest piece Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech premiered in Berlin, in co-production with Hebbel Am Ufer (Berlin). While his stories and plays continue to be published in Japan, his works have also been translated into many languages and published abroad.
Novel "The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed" (Shincho-sha/2007)
"The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed" Pocket edition(Shincho-sha/2009)
Drama collection "Five Days in March"(Hakusui-sha/2005)
Drama collection "Enjoy・Our・Freetime"(Hakusui-sha/2010)
Drama (in French) "Freetime" (CENTQUATRE/ Nouvelles Editions Lignes/2008)
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- ウティット・ヘーマムーン × 岡田利規 『プラータナー:憑依のポートレート』
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- chelfitsch "Time's Journey Through a Room" Tokyo
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Why Doesn't God Help The Innocent Victims?
I have a question that you see many innocent people dying in the world either by natural disasters or by attacks from police or some criminals. The question is that why do innocent people die from such attacks? Why does not Allah protect the innocent people who have nothing to do with crime or corruption?
The Almighty Allah has put man through test in this worldly life. Seen from our angle it is sheer injustice to deprive a man of his mother, son or daughter. But God sees the entire creation from a more wise and merciful angle. He does not see things like us. He has planned a test for us all. He implements His scheme according to His profound wisdom. It needs to be appreciated that those killed by the oppressors also face the test of life. There life is destined to end that way. However, this does not exonerate the atrocities of the oppressors. The criminals will be punished by God according to the demands of justice.


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"Celebrating all that is country!"
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is operated by the non-profit, educational Country Music Foundation (CMF). The mission of the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is to identify and preserve the evolving history and traditions of country music and to educate its audiences. Functioning as a local history museum and as an international arts organization, the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum serves visiting and non-visiting audiences including fans, students, scholars, members of the music industry.
Incredible museum. You must go whether you like country music or not.
A must-see for any music lover. Place is huge!
Wonderful we had a blast but again will be back before going back to Nrw Hampshire!
Loved loved it all of us 🎤🎸🎶👍🏼
My family really enjoyed the museum. Country music fans will not be let down.
As a country fan in my early 20s I can honestly say that there wasn't a lot that appealed to me. As many exhibits were dedicated to musicians before my time. However, I can certainly appreciate the older musicians, and what they've done to pave the way for artists today.
Towards the end of the museum there were current artist exhibits which were more to my taste.
It's definitely worth the trip if you appreciate country as a genre, but if you are just into the current music on the radio, you can likely pass it up.
This place truly holds up the title real well! Though it was not what I thought, I have definitely learned a lot about the history of country music and near-forgotten country singers who were famous before my time. This place is excellent if you want to learn about the history of country music and how the oldies created and fashioned country music during their era. Seldom will you see modern artists or singers who are currently famous today (ex: Tim McGraw, Faith Hill Kenny Chesney, Gretchen Wilson, Sugarland, etc.). The memorabilia for those artists are not present, at least not right now. My favorite mini-exhibit is Taylor's Swarovski gem-filled guitar! Taylor's Education Center is a nice addition to the museum as well.
If you are interested in American County music, it is well worth the money. If you are "whatever ", save your money for some local beer.
Huge. Enjoyed Kenny Rogers Exhibit, but of course I grew up with this music. Early country music development was also very interesting. Might have enjoyed more information about country gospel, which has had a major impact on America. There was a lot of space about new country music artists, while a few of the other legends had a lot less attention. Would have liked to see more on Chet Atkins, George Jones, and others. Maybe if the Hall of Fame cannot give them their due, provide us with information where we can learn more, like their own museum?
The building is gigantic. I'm not a country music fan but I actually enjoyed myself here. Loads of memorabilia, instruments and fun stuff. The gift shop is outrageously expensive so if you want to save some cash stick to taking pictures.
Not a huge country music fan in general, but museum had so much history and content to learn. Beautiful and easy to navigate as well.
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Have you ever made beer-can chicken? If you haven't, you're missing out on the juiciest grilled chicken you've ever tasted and on a few good laughs from looking at your bird perched atop a beer can on the grill. It's also incredibly easy to make, which makes it the perfect dish for this Labor Day weekend. That's if this rain doesn't keep up.
Elizabeth Karmel, a North Carolina native known as the Queen of the Grill, shared this recipe for the chicken using olive oil by Lucini Italia, a line of Italian food products headquartered in Miami. Take our word for it, it's good.
The Original Beer Can Chicken
Grilling method: indirect/medium heat
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- 1 whole roasting chicken, 4 to 5 pounds, preferably amish or organic
- Lucini Premium Select Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 3 tablespoons favorite dry spice rub or kosher salt and pepper
- 1 12-ounce can domestic beer, such as budweiser or a vertical roaster
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Remove the neck and giblets. Rinse the chicken inside and out, if desired, and pat dry with a paper towel. Coat the chicken lightly with the olive oil and season with 2 tablespoons of the dry rub or salt and pepper. Set aside.
Build a charcoal fire or preheat a gas grill. Open the beer can, pour out about ¼ cup of the beer and make another hole in the top of the can with a church-key can opener. Sprinkle the remaining tablespoon of the dry rub inside the beer can. Place the beer can in the center of the cooking grate over indirect medium heat and "sit "the chicken on the top of the beer can. The chicken will appear to be sitting on the grate.
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The email, from the "Google AdWords Team," announces a new policy starting in September for those who advertise on Google Adwords, a service used to attract traffic to Web sites. It bans Adwords advertising for products such as knives "that can be used to injure an opponent in sport, self-defense, or combat" plus "Any part or component that's necessary to the function of a gun or intended for attachment to a gun
- Examples: Gun scopes, ammunition, ammunition clips or belts" [and even bb guns!]
And it's not just ads that are being threatened. The email (see excepts below) includes the following: "When we make this change, any ads or sites that are identified as violating our revised policy won't be able to run."
In other words, is Google not just threatening to shut down advertising campaigns, but also to address Web sites with content about legal products (or topics?) that it finds politically incorrect? The email does not provide additional detail on the issue of the Web sites. Presumably, Google could stop running ads on sites with the disapproved content, a significant revenue hit in many cases for the site owner, or even shut down sites running on Google's Blogger. Should publishers worry the company might use its dominant search engine to make offending sites sink in search results?
This is no idle threat. As users of Blogger and Adwords know, Google rejects ads and shuts down accounts with regularity, referring to often vague policy guidelines. Appeals -- including, for example, to have a Blogger site reflecting many hours of work restored after it ran afoul (wrongly,we think) of a rule about reusing content -- are routed to customer service personnel outside the country whose written responses and knowledge of the content issues at hand are, to be charitable, uneven.
This ban will no doubt impact Web sites (and advertising campaigns) built by small businesses at great time and expense, potentially including some online stores that invested to build sites selling legal products that may now be banned. [note: We have not yet gone back to Google's existing rules to determine exactly what is being changed by the new announcement.]
To be sure, we very much appreciate Google and its services, both free and paid. But the announcement gives us pause for several reasons.
For example, in the email Google warned us that certain of our ad campaigns/sites are in danger. But it did not specify which ones or why. We can only guess. Have we offended with ads for our military history site on the long American effort to secure the Korean DMZ; our page on how to prepare for a possible war with Syria and Iran; a shuttered site we had on zombies with links to "Zombie kits" from a major knife company; the page on fly fishing in war zones and dangerous places; or something else entirely?
Presumably ads with forbidden messages and/or linking to forbidden sites will be refused. But what if Google goes after our sites directly? What topics and products are next to be banned?
Of course, Google can do what it wants with its services. What Google can give, Google can take away. This is a business, not a 1st Amendment, issue.
Let us know what you think about this Google policy -- Political correctness run amok or a sensible response to potentially dangerous products and the liability threat that goes with them?
Check out excerpts from the email and the page to which it links:
Email: "We're writing to let you know about a change to Google's advertising policies that might affect your AdWords account.
Around September, we'll be clarifying and simplifying our policy on knives, guns, gun parts, and other weapons designed to injure others in combat, self-defense, or sport. Some products that we currently allow won't be allowed under the new policies. Examples of products that will no longer be allowed include paintball guns, airsoft guns, BB guns, gun scopes, ammunition belts, stun guns, and tactical knives...When we make this change, any ads or sites that are identified as violating our revised policy won't be able to run.
Our system identified the following accounts associated with your email address as potentially affected by this policy change:"
The email directed us to a Web page entitled "Dangerous Products and Services," which says the new standards will become effective in September. Here are excerpts from the page:
"Functional devices that appear to discharge a projectile at high velocity, whether for sport, self-defense, or combat
(Note that we err on the side of caution and apply this policy to sporting or recreational guns that can cause serious harm if misused, or that appear to be real guns.)
Any part or component that's necessary to the function of a gun or intended for attachment to a gun
Knives that are designed or promoted as products that can be used to injure an opponent in sport, self-defense, or combat"


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Oh, and he also sang songs. With his band, the Murder Junkies, backing him up, Allin screamed anguished tales of every sort of debauchery known to man--deviant sex, drug abuse and senseless violence, to name but a few.
Eleven years later, Allin's brother and longtime bassist, Merle, is keeping G.G.'s music alive by touring the country as the leader of the G.G.-less Murder Junkies, who will spread the filth in Tucson this week.
Also on the bill are the newly formed, local, all-star punk band The Sophistifucks, who count among their ranks current members of Whiskey Bitch and the Last Call Brawlers, and a former member of UPS; and Texas Trash and the Hangovers.
Taste the scum at 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 26 at Vaudeville Cabaret, 110 E. Congress St. For further details, call 622-3535.
Tish Hinojosa performs at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 27 at the Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway Blvd. Advance tickets are available for $16 ($14 for members of TKMA, KXCI, and TFTM) at Antigone Books, CD City, Green Fire Bookshop, The Folk Shop, or online at www.tkma.org. They'll be $2 more at the door. For more information, call 792-6481.
Edith Frost performs at Plush, 340 E. Sixth St., on Tuesday, Nov. 30. The show begins at 9:30 p.m. with sets from openers Manishevitz and Two Gallants. Cover is $7. Call 798-1298 for more info.
The Shapeshifters perform an early show at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 2, along with an opening act not yet announced at press time. Club Congress is located at 311 E. Congress St. Call 622-8848 for more 411.
The Fixx perform an earlier-than-usual show at Plush, 340 E. Sixth St., on Wednesday, Nov. 1. Lagoon opens at 9:15 p.m. Admission is $15. Questions? Ring 'em up at 798-1298.
The madness begins at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 29. Centennial Hall is located at 1020 E. University Blvd., on the UA campus. Advance tickets may be purchased at the venue's box office, online at www.uapresents.org, or by calling 621-3341.


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In Space, Nobody Can Hear You Sing
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away … seemed like an obvious way to start a piece on the subject of space opera – which, despite the rather flippant title, is nothing to do with a soprano in a rocket ship bemoaning the lack of atmosphere, or indeed that episode of Doctor Who with Katherine Jenkins.
No, in fact, the term space opera was coined in the 1940s, as a sort of witty put-down, likening certain types of pulp sci-fi to the then new phenomenon of soap operas.
These were the stories of romantic heroes heading off into the unknown reaches of space with nothing more than a ray gun between them and some green bug-eyed monster; of colossal spaceships involved in the epic struggle of good versus ultimate evil; of the grizzled space-jock, blaster in one hand, recently-rescued princess in the other, taking on a corrupt galactic empire – and winning.
And if that sounds a little familiar, it might just be because some time in the 1970s a man with a beard found all those things in a box somewhere, sprinkled them with Industrial Light and Magic, and… space opera was given a whole new lease on life.
The fact that I grew up in the time of the original Star Wars trilogy, when space shuttle launches were still news and kids still wanted to grow up to be astronauts (or X-Wing pilots), may have something to do with my fondness for this kind of space opera.
Hard science fiction, the kind that takes its science very seriously and likes to contemplate the possible effect of technology on humanity's future development, is all well and good, but doesn't every kid just want to blow the bad guys up and go home?
Nobody cares what powers a Tie Fighter or how the Millennium Falcon can travel faster than light; space opera just takes it as read that the technology works, maybe throws in a dilithium crystal or some other kind of handwavium, and gets on with the story.
As well as the over-arching battle between good and evil that often provides the action, a typical defining characteristic of a space opera is that of scale. The Star Wars trilogy, to return to that well-known example, takes us from the desert world of Tatooine to the swamps of Dagobah, the ice world of Hoth, and the cloud city of Bespin, among others. A rather simplistic approach to designing a galaxy maybe, but undeniably effective in film.
Written space opera, on the other hand, can afford to go into greater detail, and so we find galactic civilisations such as those in Isaac Asimov's Foundation stories and James Blish's Cities in Flight, developed and built upon over a series of novels. More recently, another man with a beard, the late Iain M Banks, has taken the pan-galactic culture to a new level, with the weird humans, even weirder aliens and omnipotent artificial intelligences that inhabit his Culture novels, which have gone a long way to further redefining space opera as a legitimate form of genre literature.
However, there does seem to be an assumption in most stories of this type – it's a kind of unwritten rule in the Star Trek universe, for instance – that any civilisation advanced enough to colonise the galaxy has long since realised that religion belongs to a less enlightened era. Even Darth Vader is mocked for his 'sad devotion to that ancient religion'.
There are exceptions: Christian sci-fi readers have been treated to The Lamb Among The Stars series by Chris Walley, a far future tale in which Christian humanity has colonised the galaxy, as well as the Firebird Trilogy by Star Wars novelist Kathy Tyers. Both have all the things a good space opera should have, and a solid spiritual grounding from which to work.
But these are an exception in sub-genre that doesn't need God in order to perform miracles; so where does that leave us, looking for faith and meaning in these stories? Does space opera have a place for the Christian reader?
Alongside 'May the Force be with you', there is another quote that has hung around in the back of my mind since childhood:
How clearly the sky reveals God's glory! How plainly it shows what he has done! (Psalm 19:1, Good News Translation)
It's hard to deny the huge, galaxy-spanning scale of God's creation. God works on an epic scale; after all, why be satisfied with making the universe just 'really big' when 'infinite' is within your grasp?
And whatever strange worlds we read about in space operas, however weird the aliens we meet, whether based on some theoretical science or a pure fiction, they have been created by a mind far less imaginative than that of God – the Mind which created both the science and the imagination.However fantastic a galaxy we can create in our imaginations, read about in a Culture novel or see in a sci-fi adventure movie, the reality is far more exotic – just take a look at the Pillars of Creation, or the Horsehead Nebula.
But that's not all: the exploring, the seeking out new civilisations – that's right out of the Bible, isn't it? Right from the start, since the expulsion from Paradise, man has been boldly going where no one has gone before. Did anyone ever go more boldly than Abram? Or Moses?
And the backdrop to the Israelites' travels throughout the Old Testament is of course, the ancient struggle between good and evil. A struggle which went on throughout the life of Jesus, and which we all experience on a daily basis.
And that, I believe, is what Space Opera has to say to us. God has placed within us a spark of the infinite, and a knowledge that good and evil are at war around us. The power of story to illuminate God's truth has no doubt been mentioned on Speculative Faith many times. To me, Space Opera is the perfect means to express the big truths about God's plan for us.
And with that, I'm off to grow a beard and reinvent a sub-genre…
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Steve Trower is a Christian, geek dad, and part-time creator of parallel universes. He lives in the once and future capital of Mercia (known in this reality as central England [which explains the occasional strange spelling in this post – 😉 ]) with two daughters, one wife, and a Mini called Binky. In between – and frequently at – a series of menial jobs, he managed to chalk up a number of non-fiction writing credits before deciding that making stuff up was a lot more fun than being bound by those 'fact' thingies magazine editors seem so keen on, and began practicing the dark art of novel writing.
His first Old Testament Space Opera, Countless as the Stars, will be released as an e-book later this year (paperback copies are still available at giveaway prices from stevetrower.com).
He blogs at stevetrower.com/blog and tweets as @SPTrowerEsq, but neither as often as he should.
I've always found the Star Trek "we've outgrown our petty old human traits like [religion, money, war, etc.]" to be rather ridiculous, especially when those same themes (minus religion, and even that some in the 90s) usually came up in later episodes. Putting aside belief in blind truth, a simple study of history should reveal that anything that's survived the entire course of human existence up to this point will probably continue to have an affect on the human race.
I'm a bit confused by your broad classification of "space opera," though, since I think a good number of people would count Asmiov as purely science fiction rather than space opera. True, the "Foundation" series lends itself somewhat to space opera with its grand universe of worlds and adventure, but it is grounded in a theory of social science which influences every action committed the characters and even determines the plot of the story, exploring the implications of such a theory put in practice. Hard science fiction, after all, needn't be as small as the original Enterprise television model. Also, space opera today tends to get far more technical (in books, anyway) than in the pulp days, so the definitions of the two are difficult to pin down.
Finally, thank you for plugging the Lamb Among the Stars. I seriously need to reread those books, and I highly encourage everyone else to get their hands on a copy.
I love a good space opera, especially those with a distinctive military slant. But the vast majority of secular novels I've tried subscribe to the "morals are outdated" philosophy. This annoys me to no end. Finally, I came up with a solution to my problem: if I can't find a book out there I like, I'll just write one.
I think Doctor Who has some "space opera" elements as well–"Rings of Akhaten" comes to mind, especially in mind of the gorgeous scenery. But I've also seen it described as "science fantasy" or a fairy tale (the latter in-universe for Eleven, beginning with his comment that Amelia Pond is "like a name in a fairy tale").
Whenever I hear the term "space opera," I just think of the old Star Trek theme…
I find that I tend to enjoy hard sci-fi a little more often than space opera. I'm a huge Star Wars fan, but I see how it edges toward some fantasy ideas and themes. Sometimes it seems that when the write makes no attempt to explain the science, the story falls on its face as unbelievable–Pacific Rim is my favorite example of this. Loved the movie, couldn't get past the plot holes. Some stories like Firebird do space opera well, but others are lacking meat for me.


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"She's been out there all day. Let the tide come in around her and everything," Glug whispered. "Hasn't said a word."
"I'll go talk to her," said Sparks. "This isn't healthy. She's been through a lot, but this isn't healthy."
Barrow was seated cross-legged on the sand, the sea-breeze whipping her hair about. Her eyes were closed, and she was breathing very slowly.
"H-hey," said Sparks. "Are you okay? I mean, I know you're probably far from okay, but…do you think you can hold it together?"
Barrow said nothing.
"Damn, that came out wrong. Listen-"
"They have a story," Barrow said abruptly, quietly. "Where I grew up. The story speaks of a king who united his land–our land–without shedding any blood. He relied on persuasion and the threat of force, rather than force itself, to unify the realm. Once it was his, he turned inward. A strong army at the frontier, but inside it…roads. Schools. Libraries. Everything a people needed to build themselves up."
"I see," said Sparks. "What happened next?"
"The king's son was hungry for conquest, for power. He engineered his father's death, and then unleashed his armies upon his neighbors. From the position of strength he had inherited, the son was able to carve out a large empire for himself."
"If this is a true story, why have I never heard of it?" said Sparks. "Empires tend to leave a mark."
"This one did not," said Barrow. "For the new king's reach exceeded his grasp. He ruled his new empire for less than five years before it was torn apart by rebellions of the conquered and invasions by alarmed neighbors who feared being devoured next."
"I see," Sparks said. "Why do you bring it up?"
"The first king is forgotten by history, and the second king is remembered as a great hero, and the people still look toward his ephemeral conquests as some sort of ideal." said Barrow.
"And that tells you something about Wall's death?" asked Sparks, gently.
"Wall was the first king. He was right in word and deed, and yet no one will remember."


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I know I am not along of going gaga this Korean telenovela. I just love this show I always watch this although the airing time is a bit late. I love Kang Jae a wealthy business man and a gangster, well he don't have the matinée idol look but there is something with him that I like. **winks**. Mi Joo is a plastic surgeon on this telenovela I already love her in Princess Lulu, she always make me smile. So how about you are one of us?
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Monster - quotes and descriptions to inspire creative writing
To the monster I was meat he was meeting, a simple matter of matter to be consumed once the fear had consumed me. That is a monster. That is all of our monsters. They see us for a utility, to meet an addiction or need they have and to them our needs are nothing. So when we are regarded this way we re-guard, and we should. What and whom we love is worth protecting, including the self.
He lifted his head in confusion, needing to ascertain what the hell was making that noise. He knew it was the creature, but he had to make sure. He didn't. But he wanted to. And he'd already strained his neck enough that whether he placed it back into the dirt or not, he would be as visible as if he took a look. And so he did. He saw the thing, heard its snapping and its new whining. He saw it rearing up, spinning in circles, pounding the dirt and the already previously trampled rapeseed with its foremost legs. Making a shoddy looking crop circle, with various elongated edges. None fitting the previous line's attempts at order. As it reared up and bellowed it's many cries, it's legs snapped outwards no more than an inch. Every time it cried, it did this elongation, or every time it elongated it cried. He couldn't be sure, but he relished in the idea that the beast was uncomfortable in its body. He gained some solace in that fact. However, the snapping also came as the hoofs, hoofs being what he imagined them to be with all the rearing giving an equestrian feel, impacted the ground. Forcing the joints to retract into their non-dislocated positions.
In that empty scream is the pain of the indifferent, of a monster who sold its soul for ease and instead found hell. It can wrap itself in beautiful skin or the rancid hide of the decaying creatures of the abyss, yet I see it regardless of disguise.
Our family tradition is taking the names of monsters and sending them straight to hell. We walk in, all smiles, and leave with evil in chains. We are experts at extraction. We take hold of the beast by the jaw and remove his tongue. After that it's easy to subdue and defeat the scaled ones. Then we go for ice-cream and jump on trampolines. Who said defeating evil wasn't going to be fun?
The monster had always gone unnoticed in the city. She wasn't invisible but her skin perfectly projected the image you'd expect to see behind her. Her gangly frame made it easy to weave through the crowds, and she enjoyed peering into the penthouses at the well-fed tycoons. The abundance of electric cars had made the air sweeter and her sense of smell keener. During the industrial revolution she'd had to flee to rural towns, the pollution had damaged her skin rendering her visible to the two legged delicacies, and she so hated to run after them. At almost five hundred and twenty years old her bones creaked and her muscles grew weary. She had given up on the larger meals, too chewy, too tough, too difficult to swallow. The little ones were far easier to pick off, tender, succulent. Never once did she notice that the city was becoming plastered with posters, each bearing the image of a missing child. She could not read. She did not care. Her decay meant it was time to spawn...
The monster advanced on them, its physique hardly discernible in the shadowy twilight of the alley. With each slow movement that belied the speed it was capable of, slime dripped, oozing great globs of phlegm and depositing them on the pot-holed tarmac for forensics to find. It was sticky mucus, rancid and toxic to touch. On contact the victim was paralyzed for life. Underneath the gelatinous gloop its skin was gnarled, but crumpled and folded like it had recently lost weight. Over it's belly lay crusty flaps of concave skin. The beast reeked of raw sewage and rotten fish. It was frustrated that it's food was backing away slowly and thrashed it's tail in fury. Its one massive eye swivelled wildly, searching, its nocturnal vision only adept for discerning rapid motion. As a final resort it began to emit clicking noises, using sonar to detect this difficult prey and its large dish shaped ears rotated for the reflected vibrations.
It rose, a mass of tangled limbs, each one armour plated with a paralyzing goo seeping from black pores. The monster clicked it's mandibles and followed me with it's enormous compound eye. Towering above me, as tall as a double decker bus, it began to emit a series of squeaks and clicks. The rustling noises that came from all directions told me that it was not alone. There was a whole family out there, and they were closing in.
Later, back in the safety of the hide-out, I began to describe the monster. The monster had seemed to choose it's shape after it had assessed us. What had seemed to be clusters of jelly-like eggs at first began to vibrate and emit noise not unlike whale song. In matter of seconds they turned a metallic green colour and vibrated. After a few seconds more they emitted sparks of red and yellow. Then in the blink of an eye they flew together and made one mighty monster about two lampposts high and as wide as a truck. From the blob grew limbs until looked like some sort of nightmarish Swiss army knife. The whale noise stopped and then the monster moved faster than the eye could see, cutting us down like we were pigs in the slaughter house. I played dead for a while...
The tunnel had been abandoned decades before Mike and Jake had been born. Its brickwork had begun to crumble and its mouth gaped black and dank. They exchanged mischievous grins and dared each other to go in. At first it was so tense that the silence was as thick as the blackness, then Jake stumbled on a rock and screamed, with the tension diffused they laughed uproariously. Then came a smell so foul, so noxious, they thought they would choke and so they ran back to the safety of the daylight. A red slime ball rolled over the vegetation leaving only a mud trail behind it, consuming everything in it's path,. In it's wake it deposited smaller red balls which began to roll after their mother, devouring and growing. Which ever way the boys ran the eyeless monsters pursued them. By the time they reached the edge of the woodland the red balls were too numerous to count and even the "mother" was growing. Their only hope was to climb a tree and pray these beasts couldn't climb....
In the inky blackness lay a savage double-headed werewolf. His teeth, eerily incandescent, emitted a strange blue glow and were as sharp as a fine diamond sword. His skin was mostly scar tissue and he shivered in the early fall breeze. What fur there had been was tufty and thin, providing no protection to the elements at all. On his torso and face were recent scabs from a meal that had fought back, now he picked at them with blood-caked claws to relieve the boredom of the stake-out. Then came movement from the dwelling, his wait was almost over. For such a large beast he moved with surprising stealth, leaving behind only a trail of large dandruff flakes and his heinous odour.
I am a person.
Or I was a person.
Or at least I like to think that I had once been a person; a person with scars and bruises all over their body; red trickily blood running down their sides; picture of misery, reflected both inside and outside.
My beauty was never that skin deep, I guess – that is, if it is even called beauty.
They say time can heal things. But I never healed, or even became better, as a matter of fact.
The monster had been dormant for fourteen long years. It was common for him to slumber on for fifty or more after a good feeding, but there was a drilling noise. It vibrated right through his inches thick skull to the crab-apple sized brain within. As he rose to his feet the semi decomposed leaf litter rained down off his sun-sensitive grey skin to the forest floor. He sniffed for bear, his food of choice, but instead alien scents promising fat and sugar met with his flared nostrils. He blundered through the forest with all the stealth of a bull elephant and onto the building site. He was momentarily blinded by the afternoon sun, and closed his eyes to protect his retinas. He had evolved for nocturnal hunting but the incessant pounding had driven him to action. "Food," he thought. As the workers ran he fell to his knees he began to become white and sticky, almost cocooned and mimicked the distress call of a wounded fawn. The next day a crowd gathered around, enough for a feast...
The only way to describe the monster was a bipedal complete absence of light. It wasn't just blackness, it was nothing at all. He cast no shadow, made no noise and gave off no odour. But if he targeted you he would seize you by the neck and jump into the air so that he could not be followed. The rest of what we know is guess work from the remains of his victims. He seems to eat them like a delicacy. The bones appear to be gnawed with small razor sharp teeth and they are left lined up in order of size, very neatly.
Three rows of teeth, each as sharp as a dagger, nose the size of a baked potato, dripping with gelatinous yellow streaked snot, skin a sallow green, flaking around the eyes and nose, four protruding eyes, bulbous eyes, nails like a sabre tooth tiger's, fangs glinting over rubbery pale gums, ears on stalks, stench of halitosis breath, hands the size of garbage bin lids, fifteen feet tall, small lumpy bald head with mottled greying skin, legs like the trunk of an ancient oak, feet like sprawling roots lashing around as the monster advances, roars like the sound of a thousand nightmarish ghouls, grins menacingly.
The monster was a predator. His frontal eyes were better than any hawk and his teeth sharper than steak knives. He moved in the shadows until his victim was in reach and then the tentacles would shoot out and pull them into his mouth. For the most part they didn't even have time to call out and all one could hear was the crunching of bones.
The monster travelled as a cloud of barely there yellow-tinged gas and entered its prey though the cerebral fluid. The victim knew nothing of the attack except that they could smell something quite metallic. Once inside the host it feasted on their sugars, the closest it could get to the "chemical highs" of its own planet. From then on they would loose weight, happy at first and usually boastful to their friends, snapping photographs of their new physiques. But the loss continued no matter what they ate, the monster getting more and more efficient at taking their sugars as time went on, growing tendrils ever deeper. Each victim wasted away, accused of anorexia or misdiagnosed with cancer or consumption. Once they passed away the monster would flee, occasionally being noticed by a grieving human and mistaken for the departing soul.
The monster didn't need bulk, her muscles were many times stronger than her human prey. She was little more than a wisp of a creature with diminutive limbs and still took down the meal of her choice each dawn. Her skin was wrinkled like a dried prune and thick like leather, she was bipedal with long arms and a small head with an elongated muzzle like a wolf. In her jaws were inch long teeth, serrated like a steak knife. She could not articulate at all except a growling snarl, having little use for communication. She lived her entire life alone except the young she birthed without need for a partner, for "she" was really neither male nor female but hermaphrodite. If her young failed to please her maternal pride she would eat them, no second chances. They were to be fine predators or she'd start again and for budding she required a lot of food.
And when the thunder-voiced, evil-eyed, shaggy haired and monstrous Gorgono reclined on the shelf over my head, saliva drooling with silent precision from his pendulous lips, and gave orders I hastened to obey them.
The monster has black papery looking skin. It's so skinny it looks like he doesn't have any muscle at all. His dead caved in eyes are completely black, with small red pupils. I can feel them the back of my head every night. What makes a chill go down my spine is that he has no mouth...all it does is stand in the corner of the room every time I look back at it. It gets closer and closer until it is breathing down the back of my neck....then when i look back again its back in the corner. Then it starts again......just...staring at me....i don't know what to do...i think Im going insane...
I've never been afraid of 'monsters' per-say. I do believe they exist, I just don't think they are furry and live under my bed and in my closet. You see, I knew a monster once. In fact, I loved him. He played baseball with me, and he spoiled me with lots of gifts. He had deep brown eyes, and a smile nearly identical to my own. I thanked God for my very own monster, every night. My monster didn't have sharp talons. The only thing sharp about him was the knife that made this gash. My monster wasn't green or purple. He didn't even like purple; That's why he made me have all of the purple on my arms. My monster didn't come out and scare me after I had fallen asleep. No, my monster only scared me when he came home. My monster gave me bad dreams too though, so I guess there is that. But I didn't make my monster leave, like the case with normal childhood monsters. No, my monster made me leave. My monster didn't want me anymore, so he made me go...
Thick brown gelatinous goo like melted chocolate, leaves a trail behind it, chaotic spider shape with legs jutting out at seemingly random places, eyes on stalks like eggs on sticks swivel in any direction, smells like seven day old cabbage stew, makes halitosis seem like potpourri. Squeaks like an old rusty hinge each time it moves. Opens and closes a sharp central beak, rancid saliva drips and dribbles across the slime onto the ground.
Mutant giant starfish, eight muscular tentacles lines with suction cups, pink leathery skin, purple veins like a spider's web protrude, central mouth like a beak, sharp and cruel. Moves over land like a wave of flesh, if you cut off a limb it will grow another, twenty feet across, attacks small fishing boats.
They froze in place, watching in mingled horror and anticipation as the thing shambled toward the open doorway. It paused, still within the bank of shadows inside the kitchen. Joe slipped his finger inside the trigger guard.
My monster rises from the deepth of the darkness, muttering unheard words. Covered in scars from the past, carrying the scythe. A tangled mess of arms and faces with one mission, as I look into those soul-less eyes I realize that my monster is the darker side of me
I was wrong. There was nothing left in him, no good, no kindness, no love. Only a monster.
The last time I saw the doctor he was quite different, sad perhaps. He spoke strangely, the "project" was being moved forward. His quiet demeanour was gone, replaced by a sense of urgency I've never seen. I'm still reeling from his words. He said my reality wasn't real, that all we have done is in a virtual world. Apparently if I kill him in this "real" world he stays dead. I'd like that. I've killed him so many times in so many ways and he comes back seconds later to try to "teach" me all over again. I do love his voice, but more so when I take his face in my clawed hand and squeeze until the eyeballs pop from their stupid sockets. Before I killed him this last time he said to die in his world was really the end and that I must learn my lesson now, that I must not kill. But the good doctor is mistaken. How does he know his "reality" is any more real than my own? Perhaps he's too stupid to notice the "resets" like I do. There is a good chance he's insane of course, I'm full grown now and never seen this other place he spoke so rapidly of before I ripped out his vocal chords... again. Victory is feeling blood between my fingers, crushing tissue, eating flesh.
The doctor taught me what pain is. He asked forgiveness as he cut me over and over. His mantra was that if I knew how bad it felt I would become docile, unable to inflict it on others. I forgave him every time he lay dead at my feet and retracted it every time he re-spawned like the demon he is. Human. Apparently my creator, but my inferior cannot be my God, only my prey, a delicacy. Staying dead would be a design improvement for sure.
She could see an inhuman figure standing through the window. Its head was cocked slightly to the right and its back was crooked, making the beast look tired and warn. It had red, thick zig zags crawling across its eyes like worms. It had no eyelids, instead a flap of flesh that curved across where they used to be. The beasts eyes clamped onto her, never looking away. It just stood still, watching silently. Not that it could speak, for its mouth was torn, creating an unnatural smile that smeared across its face. Small black stitches stapled the mouth attempting to keep it shut, however blood continued pouring out through the tangled veins. Its jaw was lined with simple teeth yet its breath reeked of raw sewage and rotting meat. The smell was almost as a skunks. It was as if this monster was truly a horrifying ghost as the creatures face was as pale as snow. Neither did it have hair, or eyebrows; it was completely bold. A Sliced up shirt sat around its neck. Dirt had melted into the fabric and obvious creases were stained into it.
It's quiet. Too quiet. . .
A flash, a creak. There's something lurking in the shadows. An evil no one can see. A monster that torments us. It seeks out the weak and makes itself a home inside of their heads.
Inside my head. . .
I can feel it, raging inside of me. Just under the surface. Just loud enough for me to hear, but there's a door in between us. I had locked it in a room, tried to keep it far away from me.
But it's still there. . .
Tearing through the holes, trying to reach what's left of my sanity. My humanity. . .
It's only a matter of time before it manages to break through. It's been locked up for years, but the door I put between us is starting to collapse, to crumble.
And It Knows.
I looked in the mirror today and I saw it, staring straight back at me. Watching me through my eyes. Seeing everything I see. It's waiting for me. . .
Hoping that I'd let my guard down.
Knowing that sooner or later the door will break.
Lately it's been able to find ways to show itself. Ways to change itself. Ways to change me.
As the days pass, the monster looks more like me than anything else.
I realised that I could lose everything.


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What do yellow pigs and the number 17 have in common? We aren't sure either, but today is Yellow Pig Day and it's a day to celebrate the unique number of 17. Join us!
Why is the number 17 so special?
Let's first find out if 17 is prime or composite with the help of Mathletics.
17 is superior! 17 is a prime number that is truly significant in mathematics. It is the sum of the first four prime numbers – 2, 3, 5, and 7. As described in the video, a prime number is a number that can only be divided by 1 and by itself.
Did you know…
- A 17-sided figure is called a heptadecagon.
- In Italy, 17 is considered to be an unlucky number.
- The fear of the number 17 is called heptadecaphobia.
- It takes 17 muscles to smile.
- There are 17 muscles in a horse's ear.
- A camel can go 17 days without water.
Why the yellow pig? It's said that one of the creators of the day, David Kelly, had a collection of yellow pigs. They now have a mascot for the holiday which is a yellow pig with 17 toes, 17 eyelashes and 17 teeth.
Ways to celebrate Yellow Pig Day
- Schedule the day in increments of 17 minutes and make transitions 17 seconds
- Complete 17 acts of kindness
- Hand out 17 pieces of a small snack
- Have students complete research about the number 17 and its significance in the world
- Using an image or toy of a yellow pig to reward students, as a hall pass or even a as a 'talking stick'


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Math Words & Ideas
Essential homework resource!
Need help or review of math ideas, strategies, or vocabulary? MWI provides examples, videos, and problems to try.
Access online: https://media.pk12ls.com/curriculum/math/Investigations3/MWI/english/index.html#/Grade:1/
click on the grade level on the left tab
Game Center
Games are frequently used in class to learn and review concepts and skills. Students will be assigned games to play for homework. The GAME CENTER is a place to play curriculum games in a digital format.
Access online: https://media.pk12ls.com/curriculum/math/Investigations3/gamecenter/english/index.html#
click on the grade level on the left tab
Math Tools
Access online: https://media.pk12ls.com/curriculum/math/Investigations3/Tools/
Bounce Pages App
Use with any mobile device to scan student pages.
The app takes you directly to digital resources related to student's work on that page.
Access: free download available for Android in the Google Play Store and iPhone/iPad in the iTunes Store.


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April 30, 2013
NFL's Use of Social Media PR
Last week sports media was abuzz with the NFL draft. Fans of every team scoured the Internet for the latest updates, hosted draft parties and waited – wishing and hoping for the missing piece that would get their team back into the playoffs. "This tension," said Ronn Torossian,the head of top PR firm 5WPR, "can teach you the most important fundamental of a good social media campaign."
During the entire process, from the Round 1 pomp and circumstance to the undrafted signings after Round 7, the NFL's Social Media/PR agency was working overtime to keep fans engaged. Here are three ways they did so utilizing social media PR. You can apply the same principles for success in your business.
#1 – Easy sharing
This is vital. No matter what the news was surrounding the draft, from player reaction to pictures of draftees holding jerseys, the NFL's PR Agency made it easy to share. A simple click kept content flying back and forth across cyberspace. This can work for your social media PR efforts too. No matter what you publish, make sure it is "one-click" simple to share.
#2 – Ready-made images
Within minutes of a pick being made, teams released dynamic images of that player in a team uniform. After some added splashy text and a catchy slogan, suddenly that image was being shared across the web at blinding speed. That was how millions found out who their favorite team had drafted. Not from some news report. From a picture that popped up in their newsfeed. Think about how much information was actually being shared in a single image. Did you know that consumers are much more likely to share a visual image than a text link? It's true. So … how can you communicate news about your organization with a single dynamic image?
#3 – Re-tweets
5WPR's Ronn Torossian also pointed out that over the past year, Twitter has increasingly become a channel for news. What gets tweeted or re-tweeted has even impacted presidential politics. During the draft, Twitter was on fire. Instead of asking the players how they felt when they were drafted, news agencies simply followed their Twitter feeds and reported what they read. What about you? Who's following your company Twitter page? Have you trained your employees to automatically re-tweet company messages? If not, think about how much potential market saturation you're missing out on.
With some forethought planning and training, any company or cause can use social media to ignite their PR efforts. Take a page from the NFL. Make it easy for fans to share. Keep them well stocked with shareable content and encourage your employees, volunteers and fans to re-tweet your content.


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Choosing a Citation Manager
3MT Featured Home Graduate Education Week Inclusive Excellence Individual Development Plan (IDP) PostDoc Association Professional Development Upcoming Events August 29, 2019 3:15 to 4:15 p.m.
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A citation manager helps organize PDFs and notes as well as format citations in thousands of styles. Unfortunately, there is no best citation manager. The three citation managers the library teaches—Zotero, EndNote, and Mendeley—all have different strengths and weaknesses. This class previews each citation manager and explains the differences between them.
To attend in person or watch live online via Zoom, register at http://library.missouri.edu/workshops.


text: Iram is a content strategist, technical editor and writer, and has managed to find a happy balance between her technical writing and her passion for story-telling. Originally from Lahore, Pakistan she grew up in the Middle East (Dubai, UAE) where its multi-cultural and multi-faith society has given Iram a global exposure that she is grateful for. Iram has a degree in Publishing from London, UK and in Technical communication from the Engineering School in University of Washington in Seattle. She has worked in academic publishing in Pakistan's premier universities and publishing houses. In the US, she was editor in the Microsoft Press team and managing editor in HP.


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Expert advice on wood board, shingle and shake exterior house siding, including wood siding buying guides, installation, repair and replacement tips.
Wood board siding, also called lap siding or clapboard siding, has long been a favorite of homeowners because of its natural beauty.
Board siding is made from durable softwood lumber that has been milled into any of several patterns designed to interlock or overlap so the boards naturally shed rain, sleet, and snow.
Wood shingles (and shakes) are also a popular type of wood siding. Unlike boards, wood shingles are individually split from short lengths of lumber, typically cedar or treated pine. They are applied to a wall one by one, from the bottom of the wall up so that each course (row) overlaps the one below it.
In this section of HomeTips, we discuss the benefits and drawbacks of boards vs. shingles, as well as wood species and grades, installation methods, and repairs.
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STEM: On the Path to Stronger Workforces
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In 2015 officials in different countries and sectors of Education and science continued to work to develop effective methods for improving opportunities in STEM—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—for all students. In particular, programs focused on coordinating efforts to encourage communities to work together to ensure that the best practices were widely replicated and extended to reach students in formal and informal settings (in and out of school). The work marked a critical step forward from earlier methods, which had centred on motivational competitions and schools developed specifically around a STEM curriculum and yet had failed to expand and have an impact on large numbers of students.
In March, U.S. Pres. Barack Obama announced that more than $240 million had been donated by private-sector entities to fund the development and expansion of STEM programs, including the STEM Ecosystems Initiative. That program, supported by the STEM Funders Network, recognized the need for collaboration between school systems and out-of-school programs, including those provided by museums, science centres, institutions of higher education, business and industry, and parent and community organizations. More than 70 communities submitted proposals to be included in the inaugural learning-ecosystem group that would receive funding from the STEM Funders Network; 27 were selected.
Meanwhile, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) focused on mechanisms for sharing lessons learned by groups that had received funding to implement innovative approaches to STEM education for learners of all ages. A forum hosted in November in Washington, D.C., showcased those activities and facilitated networking and collaboration to transform STEM learning.
Development of STEM in the United States.
The United States had served as a focal point of STEM developments. The STEM acronym was introduced there in 2001 when American biologist Judith Ramaley, then assistant director of education and human resources at NSF, rearranged the previously used acronym, SMET. In the years after, the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics became increasingly integrated in the United States, owing largely to the publication of several key reports. In particular, Rising Above the Gathering Storm (2005)—a report of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine—emphasized links between prosperity, knowledge-intensive jobs dependent on science and technology, and continued innovation to address societal problems. American students were not achieving in the STEM disciplines at the same rate as students in other countries. The report predicted dire consequences if the country could not compete in the global economy as the result of a poorly prepared workforce. Thus, attention was focused on science, mathematics, and technology research, on economic policy, and on education.
Findings of international studies such as TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study), a periodic international comparison of mathematics and science knowledge of fourth- and eighth-graders, and PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), a triennial assessment of knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds, reinforced concerns in the United States. PISA 2006 results indicated that the United States had a comparatively large proportion of underperforming students and that the country ranked 36th (in a panel of 57 countries and economies) on assessments of scientific competency and knowledge.
While the goal in the United States was a prepared STEM workforce, the challenge was in determining the most-strategic expenditure of funds that would result in the greatest impact on the preparation of students to have success in STEM fields. It was necessary, therefore, to determine the shortcomings of traditional programs to ensure that new STEM-focused initiatives were intentionally planned. The problem, however, was not exclusive to the United States. STEM-focused curricula had extended to many countries and economies, with programs developed in places such as Australia, China, France, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. By 2015 many of those programs were facing similar challenges in expanding and in determining how best to improve student success.
STEM Education.
By 2015 STEM education experiences had been made available in a variety of countries and settings by schools and community organizations as a way of fostering diverse STEM workforces. In the United States, educators who were focused on improving science and mathematics instruction employed several approaches to K–12 STEM education. Some teachers, for example, integrated project-based activities that demanded knowledge and skill application in specific areas, such as engineering. In some instances extracurricular activities, including team competitions in which students worked together (for example, to build robots or to mock-engineer cities), were added or expanded. Students also were given opportunities to spend time with professionals in STEM fields, either job shadowing or working as interns.
STEM Workforce.
In the early 21st century, the importance placed on the role of STEM education in preparing students to participate in the workforce and compete in the global economy was signaled by the continued participation of dozens of countries in the periodic international comparisons (TIMSS and PISA) of student knowledge and skills. By 2015 many countries had created STEM-specific educational pathways with options for technical, vocational, or academic tracks of study. Some programs emphasized the sharing of educational strategies across national borders as a way of enhancing STEM learning and better preparing students to solve problems faced by society. In Europe, coinciding with events in the United States, foundations and education officials called for specific programs to help teachers make connections between content learned in science classrooms and STEM career opportunities in which students could apply their knowledge.
From 2000 to 2010 growth in STEM jobs in the United States was three times faster than growth in non-STEM jobs. Racial and gender gaps, however, remained a problem. Employers continued to struggle with the need for qualified STEM workers. While some programs demonstrated success in drawing underrepresented groups into STEM fields and careers, such efforts were not widespread, and many students were left without effective STEM experiences.
In the U.S. and elsewhere, the absence of a clear definition of STEM contributed to disagreement about what professions actually qualified as STEM careers. Some groups considered any job requiring skills and knowledge from any STEM field to constitute a STEM job. However, government agencies used different criteria for designating such jobs. The criteria of the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), for example, implied that many STEM jobs require specialized knowledge but might not require a baccalaureate or a graduate degree. The DOC defined four categories of STEM occupations: computer and math, engineering and surveying, physical and life sciences, and STEM management. Education and social science were excluded.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) likewise had a difficult time analyzing statistics for STEM occupations, since there was no commonly agreed-upon definition of a STEM job. However, a working group of representatives from U.S. government agencies and offices identified 187 STEM occupations and divided them into two domains with two subdomains each. The first domain comprised science, engineering, mathematics, and information technology, with one subdomain comprising life and physical science, engineering, mathematics, and information technology occupations and the other comprising social science occupations. The second domain comprised science- and engineering-related fields, with the subdomains architecture occupations and health occupations. The BLS list of STEM occupations included relevant education and social science careers. Despite their differences, all reports agreed that workers in STEM occupations were critically important, as they drove economic growth and competitiveness through innovations that addressed global challenges and created additional jobs.


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Thanks to all who shot with us today! Weather was beautiful and we had some new shooters added to our lists today....WELCOME! Come back and shoot with us again. All were very safe in their gun handling skills, and I was impressed with that part alone! Keep it up, guys!
Our next monthly AP shoot will be on August 5th since we're skipping the 4th of July weekend next month. We'll be firing the Texas Mover and the Barricade (Modified), two "new" events that have been added to the NRA AP Rule book recently. These events will be part of our State Championship (Cardinal Cup) match in September, so you'll have a chance to practice them before shooting in that match.
Name 6-3-17 Practical Barricade Mover Plates Total
1. Kevin Angstadt 480-42x 480-48x 478-35x 480-48x 1918-173x
2. Greg Davis 478-28x 480-39x 467-28x 480-48x 1905-143x
3. Jon Stoehr 476-35x 480-42x 464-24x 480-48x 1900-149x
4. Harry Russell 468-33x 480-42x 478-29x 470-47x 1896-151x
5. Chris Kennedy 474-21x 480-39x 465-18x 460-46x 1879-124x
6. Mark Spangler 452-22x 480-43x 453-24x 460-46x 1845-135x
7. David McNeil 381-10x 410-17x 408-9x 380-38x 1579-74x
8. Larry Harris NO SCORE CARDS
Metallic Sight:
1. Steve Kalinski 368-10x 325-9x 362-10x 190-19x 1245-48x
1. James Irving 398-12x 376-13x 441-14x 390-39x 1605-78x
2. James Brogan 340-7x 367-11x 384-12x 320-32x 1411-62x
3. Joe Moon 248-4x 316-4x 309-2x 60-6x 933-16x
4. Jeff Hesson 111-4x 304-6x 137-2x 30-3x 582-15x
Open Rimfire:
1. Chris Kennedy 460-24x 480-37x 461-26x 450-45x 1851-132x
2. John Hammock 446-23x 396-24x 457-14x 470-47x 1769-108x
3. Mike Sink 398-10x 444-22x 431-4x 420-42x 1693-78x
4. John Gaylor II 419-11x 410-18x 413-7x 410-41x 1652-77x
5. Jon Heusinger 000-0x 383-12x 456-19x 430-43x 1269-74x
Metallic Rimfire:
1. Kevin Hopkins 436-16x 469-28x 450-18x 470-47x 1825-109x
Production Rimfire:
1. James Brogan 388-8x 371-10x 413-15x 440-44x 1612-77x
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Rachel Skarsten (Eliza in "Steel Bars and Stone Walls") will be Charlotte Dumaine in the ABC drama pilot FOR LOVE, which will star Lex Scott Davis as Hope Castille, a journalist whose life is disrupted by a phone call from Charlie Lapree (Jon Ecker), her long-dead fiancé. (Five years previously, Lapree took a call while remodeling their apartment and shortly thereafter was found dead after a car accident.) Hope's current boyfriend is Gabriel Dumaine (played by Ethan Peck – grandson of Gregory Peck). Gabriel wants to be mayor. His family is very powerful, and he is also very much in love with Hope and wants to marry her, even though doing that might put Hope in danger. (The Dumaine family is hiding some dangerous secrets.)
In her mother's absence, Skarsten's character Charlotte has been running the Dumaine empire, which maintains control over the magic users in New Orleans, and when Mother Dumaine returns, Charlotte's position is threatened. It seems reasonable to speculate that Charlie Lapree might have been magically brought back to life to prevent Gabriel's marriage. Filming of the pilot began in New Orleans on 10 March.
Skarsten will also be Poppy Langmore, sister of Jules Langmore, in the second season of IMPOSTERS. Unlike her sister, Poppy thrives on being one of the rich and privileged. The second season of IMPOSTERS will premiere on 5 April at 10/9c on BravoTV in the US. April Mullen (who directed "Whiskey Lullaby") directs episodes 2.3 and 2.4. A trailer is available on YouTube. Continue reading →


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considering how kids never really just pick up a sandwich and eat it like normal human beings, you can make them lunches that defy the norms of sandwich making for fun. They're going to decimate the thing anyway, why not get them excited about the beauty they are about to destroy?
Ahhhhhh doesn't that look refreshing? Laying out on liverwurst beach with an umbrella and a lettuce bush nearby for a snack. We've been having freak hailstorms with lightning and thunder and then suddenly it will be calm. I'm ready for a steady shot of sunshine. Any time now.
Here's one way to get your kids to eat veggies, tell them they're turkey feathers! They'll gobble them right up!


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DNA Testing
That's right test your dog's DNA, as we all know knowledge of your dog's DNA is important to their health and wellbeing
The smarter you are about your dog's past, the smarter you can be about his future. Dogs are like people. They inherit physical and character traits from breeds in their family tree. They also pass along genetic disorders from generation to generation.
Your mixed-breed dog is a mixed bag of genetic traits. Understanding their ancestry helps you and your veterinarian create an effective health and wellness program.
The ADVANCE® Mixed Breed Identification DNA Test helps to remove the guesswork for both you and your veterinarian. The test can help clear the confusion, unlocking secrets hidden in your dog's DNA.
By learning the breeds in your dog's DNA, you can make it easier for your veterinarian to customise the most effective training, nutrition and medical treatment for your pet.
With just a simple blood sample, the ADVANCE Mixed Breed Identification DNA Test can provide you and your vet information which helps to:
DISCOVER your dog's genetic make-up back to their great grandparents by comparing their genetic signature with more than 200 breeds, types and varieties.
PREDICT your dog's target genetic adult weight range
DETERMINE your dog's recommended nutritional program, and create an effective care and wellness program in conjunction with your veterinarian
OBTAIN a better understanding of your dog's breed-related behavioural characteristics
PRE-SCREEN for your dog's breed-related risk of developing certain genetic diseases*
*Available upon request and at additional cost, for up to three months using the same blood sample


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The Major Trend Discovered After 3 Months of NYC Tech Events
Team SSI has been attending a whirlwind of events in New York City, ranging from topics on Artificial Intelligence, Chat Bots, Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin, to FinTech at large, startups and even property management technology.
Here is a review of just of a few of the events to see if we can come up with any trends.
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Thoughts from TechWeek NYC 2017
Our VP Business Development, Sean Everett, attended Techweek NYC 2017 which included a series of events and conferences to bring together a mixture of entrepreneurs, visionaries, and thought leaders.
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Gener8tor invited SSI to their new program launch
Gener8tor launches a program with 5 startups & SSI joins the mentor swarm..
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Techweek Chicago
SSI take on Techweek Chicago 2015 . Techweek hosts a 7-day series of events with a 2-day technology conference and expo to bring together a mixture of entrepreneurs, visionaries, and thought leaders..
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Healthbox Studio Launch
Healthbox Studio 2015 Launches with a Class of 10 Outstanding HealthTech Companies and SSI team joins the mentorship network..
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The Disney's Premier Visa® Card is an invaluable tool for Mickey-lovers and parents of Mickey-lovers alike. Frequent Disney guest will find many of the Disney's Premier Visa® Card features crucial in making the most of their time and money spent traipsing through castles and cavorting with giant rodents. While the Disney's Premier Visa® Card is by no means the most advantageous credit card for general travel, little mermaids and lion kings should look no further.
Rewards program
We'll start with the basic rewards structure before diving into the more delectable details. Signing up gets you a bonus: $100 Gift Card after spending $500 in the first 3 months — not a bad welcoming gift. From there, your rewards accumulate at a 2% rate at gas stations, grocery stores and Disney locations. All other purchases earn 1%. Points can be redeemed for Disney merchandise, resort stays, dining, park passes and airline tickets.
Most rewards programs return 1 point per $1 spent. The Disney's Premier Visa® Card is a little different. It rewards 1 point per $100 spent, but points (officially called Disney Dream Rewards Dollars) are worth 100x more. It works out to a typical 1-2% rewards rate, but don't be confused when a park day pass only costs 85 Dream Rewards Dollars.
Additional benefits
The rewards program is fairly basic and certainly worthwhile, but the Disney-specific fringe perks are what really make the card worth your attention. First off, the Disney's Premier Visa® Card knocks 10% off the price of Disney Store and DisneyStore.com purchases $50 or more. That same discount applies to merchandise from select locations at Disney World and Disneyland. The card reduces the cost of select guided tours at either park by 20% and saves you 10% at select dining locations at Disneyland.
While the kids might not be able to fully appreciate the financial benefits of the varied discounts, they'll surely get the full effect of the private character meet-and-greet opportunities. At both parks, Disney has private cardholder locations where you can snap pictures with your favorite Disney characters and take home a complimentary 5 x 7 photo.
One of the most unique features is the Disney's Premier Visa® Card vacation financing option. A number of Disney vacation packages are eligible for special financing when booked with the Disney credit card. Every time you book a package, you're granted 6 months of 0% purchase APR, giving you half a year to pay off the expense without accumulating interest.
Is it worth it?
The only drawback of the Disney's Premier Visa® Card is that the $49. Because of the fee, we can only recommend this card to hardcore Disney devotees. The perks are difficult to quantify in a general sense and should be dealt with an individual basis. Before you sign up, do a few estimations to get an idea of whether the benefits will outweigh the cost. Remember to not only consider the return on gas,groceries and general purchases, but the meet-and-greet events and financing advantages as well. Chances are, if you're a frequent Disney vacationer and buy the occasional merchandise, the Disney's Premier Visa® Card will serve you well.
If you like Disney but find their benefits a tad limiting, you may want to consider a more general travel credit card with broader benefits. The Capital One® Venture® Rewards Credit Card, for example, has a comparable annual fee of $95, and yields a flat 2% back on all purchases. Miles can be redeemed for flights, hotels, car rentals and vacation packages without restrictions or blackout dates. If Disney is on your horizon but won't necessarily be a recurring destination, the Capital One® Venture® Rewards Credit Card delivers substantial rewards no matter where your road may lead.


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Kelly Galway Oysters
Kelly Galway Oysters – Native Irish oysters for delivery from the first week of October to the last week of April, shipped on day of harvest
Kelly Galway Oysters supply a range of native Irish oysters (ostrea edulis) for delivery across Ireland and the UK. The area is unique on the Atlantic coast of Ireland, having brakish water and a high plankton count gives the oysters plumpness and a unique rich flavour.
Kelly Galway Oysters have been provided to tp restaurants for many years, including Rick Steins as well as Moran's the Weir.