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To get to my high school, Martinsville High School in Martinsville, Indiana, I had to travel down John R. Wooden Drive—named, of course, after legendary basketball coach and hometown hero John Wooden, who coached the UCLA men's basketball teams to 10 NCAA championships, a feat that will probably never be repeated.
Coach John Wooden died last night. He was 99. Wooden was more than a living legend in Martinsville. All of us felt as if we had a direct connection to him: many of my classmates had gone to West Middle School, which was what the old high school had been turned into, and took gym classes on the same gym floor where Wooden first learned the game and later achieved basketball greatness, leading the high school team to three state championships, winning once. And, as others have reported, whenever he was in Indiana, he frequently made the trek 30 miles south to visit the town, see old friends, and watch his grandchildren and great grandchildren dribble on the same floor he had only decades before, back when players were still being called "cagers" because its meaning—basketball used to be played in an area completely enclosed by netting—hadn't yet been lost.
Almost everyone who knew Wooden would probably say that "improvisation" was the last thing he valued. Indeed, preparation, practice, details—these were the things, as he understood them, that led to success. Wooden systemized his experience and beliefs into what he called a "success pyramid," the components of which were performed daily by those he coached and mentored, the prescripts from which he was constantly peppering his practice sessions with: "be quick, but don't hurry"; "failing to plan is planning to fail." No detail was too small for Wooden, and no element of the game, or the players under his tutelage, escaped his attention: the first thing every UCLA Bruins player learned to do when they played for Coach Wooden? To put on his socks and shoes. Wooden believed that there was a correct way to do these things to prevent foot injuries, and this was the first lesson he imparted to new players. In essence, he literally refashioned his players from the ground up. Such systemized attention to detail no doubt led to his success at every level of the game—he was the first person to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as both player and coach—but it doesn't really lend itself to the ad hoc nature of improvisational comedy.
True. But there is a lesson we can learn from John Wooden: the fact that he cared less about the result, specifically winning. Player after player testified before and after his death how the word "winning" never came up during the season, during practices, during half time speeches. It's how all understand success in athletics is measured, and yet it was something he never talked about or focused on. Instead, he focused on the principles that guided his system. A half-time speech, one player offered in remembrance, wouldn't be about what the team could do to win, but instead how the team wasn't being "enthusiastic" ("Enthusiasm" being one of the components in his success pyramid).
What if improvisors acted like John Wooden, and decided to not be concerned with the outcome of their endeavors? What if we stopped caring about the end result of a scene: where it's going, the plotty path we're going to take to get there, the so-called "loose ends" we think we need to tie up, the up-in-our-head hoops we think we need–or the scene needs, or our partners need—to jump through to arrive at some vague destination in our heads? Or, better still, what if improvisors stopped worrying about what the audience thought (or would think) of the scene long enough to concentrate on simply being in it?
As any novelist can you tell you, you never end up writing the story or novel you plan to write: the process is constantly one of discovery, of the story, of the characters, of the theme, even as you're crafting it, and then getting the hell of out of the way to let it be told. Improvisors shouldn't be any different from writers, or even John Wooden, in this respect: they should worry less about the outcome, and take sheer playful pleasure in the journey that will get them there. That's what Wooden did, and the results are now the stuff of legend.


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Kim's Day;
Today Kim started at 11 so she had a nice relaxed morning and then headed into work to get admin done.
Given that Kim spent most of her afternoon doing admin means that there is nothing to report back on.
As you can imagine it meant she did a lot of typing and getting confused.
It was interesting to get a handle on some of the back office things and some of the tasks meant that she had to learn more stuff and work closely with the kitchen, which was interesting.
During the late afternoon / evening Kim spent a lot of time in the restaurant and helping out there.
She ran food, took orders and made some drinks. During the more quieter times Kim had a dance to get on with more admin!
At the end of the shift Kim sat down and ate her dinner while chatting with Narina, it's a nice way to end a shift. Just as they were about to head off the big boss came over so they stayed a little longer and had a nice long chat.
It was another good and interesting shift today.
Curtis' Day;
Curtis had a lot of traffic again this morning, but was JUST able to get to work on time.
Once Curtis got to work he grabbed a coffee and had a few pieces of admin to do.
Once that was done and his colleagues got into the office it got very busy! There weren't many phone calls but we had some emails.
Curtis got stuck in with a few challenging cases which is always good to do.. Kept him busy too!
At 11:00, Curtis drove to a client just 5 minutes down the road to drop off a laptop and show them how to use it. It was very straight forward and the guy was a nice person which always helps!
At lunch, Curtis went up the road and bought a chicken and mushroom pie and it was adequate!
After lunch, Curtis had 2 laptops to configure so he started on that but then ended up in a long email conversation with a client which stumped his progress!
Curtis left around 16:45 as he had a chat with his boss about exciting things!
He got home and made some noodles then just chilled out and played Xbox… He got pretty bored as Kim was working until very late!
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They move from one province in the south to the other, for pasture and water, and they come to the cities to sell their cattle. They are the Arabs of the desert and their numbers on the outskirts of the southern city of Basra are increasing.
For many years the Bedouin groups of Iraq were proud of the fact that they were able to roam the nation's deserts, surviving by herding their cattle. But that statelessness and nomadic life is becoming more and more of a problem. For one thing, many Bedouin do not have the identity cards that most Iraqis carry.
"When I was a young man, I deserted the Iraqi army and went back to the desert," Sabah Bandar, 60, tells NIQASH. "And that's why I don't have an identity card."
Bandar hardly ever visits the city but when he did go, he was arrested almost immediately. "Because I wasn't carrying a card that proves I'm Iraqi, I was accused of being a terrorist. I was released after a long time – the head of my tribe helped to bail me out. But I was arrested again later too, this time by US troops, for the same reason. I was in prison in Basra for several years. When I was released I went back to the desert," he says.
For the Bedouin, the desert is their home.
"We are famous Iraqi tribes," notes Ibrahim Abu Nasser, another elder Bedouin in his 60s. "We've inherited our traditions from our fathers and grandfathers. But we've started to lose the desert and we cannot move as freely as we did in the old days."
In many places the Bedouin must be wary of mines in the sand. If they try to cross borders into Kuwait or Saudi Arabia – because the desert covers all of these areas – they are faced with further threat of imprisonment or expulsion. Additionally they are often forced back out into the desert if they approach Iraqi cities. Because of their nomadic ways, many Iraqis see them through prejudiced eyes, and they are discriminated against in the same way that gypsies, or Roma, are discriminated against in Europe.
In law, Bedouin women suffer even more because of their lack of official identity. Their marriages are not documented in the Iraqi courts as they get married via verbal agreements. So they have no marital or property rights. Their children are also stateless.
The local authorities in the Zubair area insist that they are trying to help. "We monitor their conditions and we're trying to get an accurate idea of how many of these families are actually working, grazing," says Mahdi Rikan, the head of Zubair's security committee. "We've got data on them and that makes it easier for them to access healthcare and social services. There's also a security permit they can get that allows them to pass close by oil industry or military sites as they're travelling in the desert."
Getting an identity card however is beyond the reach of the Zubair authorities – that is something that must happen in Baghdad, they say.
"And actually some of the Bedouin do have official documents in provinces where they were originally registered, or where their fathers and grandfathers registered them," adds Abbas al-Haydari, the mayor of the district. They could journey there and get official identity cards, al-Haydari argues.
Meanwhile human rights organizations in the area are also trying to help, by getting lawyers to aid the Bedouin in obtaining marriage, birth, death and naturalization certificates, free of charge.
"These people have inherited incredible knowledge of the desert and of breeding cattle and camels; they provide the people of Iraq with essential services," activist Sami al-Maliki says. "They are part of our wealth and they should receive the help they deserve."


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Fragrance Basic Black perfume for Women by Bill Blass was released in 1991. Who Is It Best For? Well it is an aroma highlighted by a bouquet of fragrant aromatic, woody and powdery scented tones that will bring a sensual, warm and calming perfumed sensation. Examining it closer once applied you will notice a lingering quality of softer fragranced balsamic, animal wildlife and fruity hints that hide an essence of soft, inviting and natural feelings.
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Date Added: 17/01/2015Bill Blass Basic Black perfume is a gorgeous old time classic that is very spicy and sexy. It gets better and better as it dries down on my skin. Lasting power and projection are excellent and its one of my favorite winter time fragrances.by Mabel
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Date Added: 01/11/2012Basic Black was like the third part of the trio of scents Blass put out in the very early 90s - Nude and Hot being the other two. And if Nude is the sexy one and Hot is the wild one, then Basic Black is the very refined, tasteful and well mannered lady-like one, beautifully appointed and self-assured but also incredibly interesting and well-rounded. Unfortunately, it is also ridiculously hard to find! A soft floral with a semi-oriental feel, Basic Black melds rose, violet (which is quite prominent and at its most powdery loveliest) and ylang ylang with some spices, a little coriander and cardamom. The soft base is mainly oakmoss with lower-lying notes of patchouli (can't even detect it) and sandalwood. The result is something that sits between delicate and confident; the violet-moss combination comes through quite clearly as coolish and powdery, while the spices insert a sense of vitality and worldliness. As with a black dress, one could probably wear this on a very regular basis and never tire of it or find it out of style.by calcium
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O's down RangersJul 21, 2013 - 6:12 AM Arlington, TX (Sports Network) - Adam Jones went 2-for-5 with a homer and two RBI, while Miguel Gonzalez put together another effective outing to carry the Baltimore Orioles past the Texas Rangers, 7-4, in the second installment of a three-game series.
Gonzalez (8-3) allowed just one run on eight hits and struck out three without walking a batter over 6 2/3 innings. It was the eighth consecutive quality start for the right-hander, and the Orioles' bats backed him with 17 hits.
"He's been really good," Jones said of Gonzalez. "He goes out there and competes. He's been giving us a great chance to win."
Brian Roberts smacked a two-run single during a two-hit night, Matt Wieters had three hits and Chris Davis went 2-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored for Baltimore, which went 7-for-13 with runners in scoring position.
Both playoff contenders came in with 54 wins, but the Orioles have been playing better of late, winning six of their last seven games.
The Rangers have dropped six of seven after they were a season-high 16 games over .500 following a win at Baltimore on July 9.
They may be looking for another starter after their latest project, Ross Wolf, was knocked around following a short rain delay to start Saturday's game. In his third career start, Wolf (1-3) was charged with seven runs on nine hits and two walks and was pulled after failing to record an out in the third inning.
"It's obvious that we need to pitch better," Texas manager Ron Washington said of his team's recent struggles. "It's obvious that we need to start playing the type of defense we know we can play and it's obvious that we need to start hitting with runners in scoring position."
On a day they inducted future Hall-of-Fame catcher Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez into their Hall of Fame, the Rangers didn't come to life until the later innings.
Ian Kinsler got Texas on the board with a sacrifice fly in the seventh, and the hosts pounded out four hits and three runs against Tommy Hunter an inning later to pull within 7-4.
Mitch Moreland chipped in an RBI single, David Murphy added a two-run base hit, and the Rangers brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth with a pair of two-out singles.
Jim Johnson, however, closed the door by retiring A.J. Pierzynski on a ground ball to lock down his 35th save.
Nate McLouth opened the game with a single, Nick Markakis worked a one-out walk and Jones and Davis followed with RBI singles to left field.
McLouth scored again in the second frame after legging out a triple and coming in on Manny Machado's base hit to right, and the O's poured it on with four runs in their next turn.
Jones' 20th home run of the season reached Greene's Hill in straightaway center leading off the frame, and a double, walk and single loaded the bases and marked the end of Wolf's brief outing.
Henry Urrutia, in his second career at-bat after getting his contract selected by Triple-A Norfolk earlier Saturday, greeted Joseph Ortiz with an RBI single, and Roberts hit one over the head of Nelson Cruz in right field to plate a pair for a 7-0 Baltimore cushion.
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The Orioles have taken four of the six meetings against the Rangers this year, and regardless of Sunday's result, they will win the season series for just the second time in the last nine seasons (2-6-1) ... Urrutia, signed by the Orioles on July 11, 2012, became the 12th Cuban-born player to see action with Baltimore ... Texas' bullpen combined for seven scoreless innings and has given up just one run over the past 10 games (31 2/3 innings) ... The Rangers will turn to Martin Perez in Sunday's finale while Baltimore counters with Chris Tillman.
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The Mini Teddy Bear 1903 is based on the very first teddy bears made by Steiff, but in miniature form. It has long, shaggy cinnamon mohair, with matching paw pads and each paw has five hand-stitched claws, just like in the early years. The black hand-stitched nose has been lacquered, to replicate the look of the early bears, who generally had noses made of sealing wax.
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I met an old friend and the airport one day a couple of months ago. He was coming back from a trip to Las Vegas as I was preparing to go there. He told me all about the fun he had, especially with the Las Vegas European girls that he got from an escort agency. I didn't know he was into escorts, but he spoke highly of them, and recommended that I try them for myself. It was an idea that I wasn't too sure about, but my friend assured me that it wasn't a big deal and that people do it all of the time.
While on the flight to Las Vegas, I was thinking about what my friend said about the escorts the entire time. I hadn't planned for any escorts on my travel itinerary, but there was room for me to squeeze one in. I figured that since I wasn't going to be in Las Vegas for a while after the trip, I might as well get one of the escorts and enjoy my time with them. My friend had given me the contact information for the escort agency so I could make the arrangements.
Once I landed in Las Vegas, I went to my hotel room to prepare for my meeting with the escort. The fact that it was my first time made me really nervous. I was pacing back and forth as I was getting ready. Although my friend had given me a detailed account of what happened with him and his escort, I wasn't sure if my experience would be the same. Once I met the escort, we greeted each other and she was pretty friendly. We talked for a while and I was getting into the experience. We went out to eat, had some fun, and I wasn't nervous anymore.


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Mary Alice Arnold, age 83 of Sterling, died Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at Rock River Hospice and Home in Sterling.
Alice was born on October 30, 1935 in Centralia, WA, the daughter of Joseph Gordon and Lucille (Brady) Theriault. She married William "Bill" Arnold on February 2, 1957 in Centralia, WA. Alice was a very active member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Sterling. She was a nurse, loving wife, mother, and friend. She had endless energy for volunteering and loved baking, reading, gardening, tennis and attending sporting events. Alice was never afraid to let anyone know her opinion, she was feisty and a fighter to the end.
Survivors include her husband of 62 years, William E. Arnold; four children, Mary (Joseph) Bloom of Pinckney, MI, Joseph (Connie) Arnold of Winnebago, IL, Timothy (Lori) Arnold of St. Charles, IL and Susan Koehler of Ames, IA; eight grandchildren, Jeff (Heather), Mike, Kaylee, Will, Riley, Grant, Grace and Sam; one great grandchild on the way, Jillian; her brother, William (Cindy) Theriault of CA and her niece and nephew, Julie and Dan.
She was preceded in death by her parents and one uncle, Bryant Brady.
A gathering of family and friends will be on Friday, August 16, 2019 from 10:00-11:00 A.M. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Sterling. Celebration of the Mass of Christian Burial will follow at 11:00 A.M. at the church with Reverend Bruce Ludeke, Celebrant officiating.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Rock River Hospice and Home in Sterling.


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Spanish utility Iberdrola said on Wednesday it will invest up to 4 billion euros ($4.5 billion) over the next four years in France to develop renewable energy.
Iberdrola said it is already investing 2.4 billion euros in the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France and plans to invest in new onshore wind, solar photovoltaic and participate in future offshore wind capacity auctions.
"France is a strategic country for Iberdrola," said Ignacio Galán, chairman and CEO of Iberdrola.
"The company is very interested in participating in the new offshore wind capacity auctions to be held in the future by France," he added.
(Reporting by Nina Chestney; editing by Jason Neely)


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Last Friday, May 2, Senate Bill 135 was signed into law by Governor John Hickenlooper (D). SB 135 enacts a long-overdue alignment of Colorado with forty-two other states that allow their residents to purchase rifles and shotguns in non-contiguous states, provided the purchase or transfer complies with state and federal law. SB 135 takes effect on August 6, 2014.
SB 135, sponsored by state Senator Greg Brophy (R-1), repeals restrictions in state law relating to the purchase and sale of rifles and shotguns in non-contiguous states, and will permit the purchase and sale of firearms in states not bordering Colorado by both residents and non-residents. SB 135 is an important pro-gun reform which repeals outdated restrictions, providing Colorado residents the freedom to purchase long guns in states beyond their immediate borders.
While this legislation is a step in the right direction, critical reforms are still needed after last year's egregious anti-gun laws were passed, making this election year one of the most important in years.
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What's in the Box:
Petite Share:
Snow peas, Celery, Cherry Tomato,
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Dear Friends,
Nothing says 'summer' quite like ears of sweet corn: buttery, salty, and delicious. Here at the Farm, our corn crop is in full harvest, and we are thrilled to add it to this week's delivery. For me, the first ripe ear of corn is rivaled only by the first ripe strawberry, and I am glad they don't happen at the same time. I could never choose.
Sweet corn, though it has become a bit of a novelty in our modern culture, has an ancient history of necessity for the Latin American world. Originating as a wild grass in southern Mexico, it was first domesticated between 9000 and 8000 B.C. By 1500 B.C. it had become an essential part of the diet and culture of the Olmecs and Mayans, who used it for food, medicine, and utilitarian purposes such as baskets and moccasins.
When purchasing sweet corn seed, today's farmer has myriad choices. Corn has been bred perhaps more than any other plant. There are super sweets, sugar enhanced, super sugar enhanced… and those are just the descriptors. Then one has to choose color, finishing date, and too many other characteristics to mention. While we love the 'sweetness' of corn, we also value traditional corn flavor, and choose varieties that have a flavor that is not overshadowed by pure sticky sweetness.
This year at Boistfort Valley Farm, we are growing two varieties of sweet corn. 'Luscious', an early bi-color and a new (to us) variety that replaces an old favorite, and 'Bodacious', a yellow sweet corn whose old-fashioned flavor is a real standout.
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Today I've been at this year's meeting of the International Mental Health Nursing Research Conference scientific committee. This convened at the Royal College of Nursing headquarters in London. We had a good range of abstract submissions to deliberate over, and … Continue reading →


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What is Act-On?
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Established in 2008, Act-On is a comprehensive platform that offers marketing professionals all the standard features in an automation tool, alongside several other unique features.
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More leadership than ever are engaged with quality - Survey of 265 quality professionals across 55 countries (See results here: https://quality.eqms.co.uk/blog/qualsys-publishes-global-quality-trends-report-2019)
The secret to success?
Don't talk about ISO 9001:2015 at all
Yesterday I interviewed Jonathan Rigby, an ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 27001:2013 consultant based in Harrogate, to find out how the role of quality is changing, key trends and challenges.
Historically, if an organisation wanted to implement ISO 9001:2015, they would turn to a quality assurance manager, and expect certification within twelve months.
Nowadays there is a much greater onus on senior management to take ownership.
That historic perception has now been morphed.
It's been a struggle for ISO to convey that quality must go from top to bottom. But with the changes in 2015 and using the Annex SL structure, there has been a really positive shift in understanding of the role of the quality management system.
So when I start working with a new client, I get the senior management team sat at the table. I don't talk about clauses. I listen and learn about the strategic objectives of the organisation.
Many consultants use the same out-of-the-box ISO 9001 policies etc. But this approach fails because it's not embedded into the organisation. It doesn't work.
Senior management need to be sat at a table together, take responsibility and play their role. There is a change. They know quality is their issue now. But quality professionals need to use the right language.
One of the biggest mistakes I see is quality professionals going into great detail about the operational aspects of what is required. They talk about standards and clauses.
Directors and shareholders don't want this information.
A typical person building a QMS will be focusing too much on the nitty gritty aspects of the standard.
Instead, focus on why the ISO certification is going to be important for the business.
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Case study: how one 'outstanding' secondary school cut its marking workload by 75%
Barr Beacon School cut down teachers' marking time to less than an hour a day by banning detailed written marking and improving the way staff give feedback to pupils. Read on and download this school's marking policy and other resources to learn how you can make this happen too.
Why the move away from written marking?
The deputy headteacher of Barr Beacon School, David Lowbridge-Ellis, banned detailed written marking as part of a wider campaign to reduce teacher workload. He made this decision because:
- The school's 2014 Ofsted judgement found that marking was not 'consistent' across the school
- Teachers were then trying to make marking look the same in every subject, which was actually counterproductive
- One of their teachers, Michael Eszrenyi, represented the school on the DfE marking policy review group and fed back to the school about what 'meaningful feedback' looked like in practice
- David recognised that teachers were martyring themselves, but he knew that giving them time to refresh would result in better outcomes for pupils
Approach to marking in a nutshell
1. The feedback approach centres around teachers asking their pupils the following 2 questions:
- What are you doing well in this subject?
- What do you need to do to improve your work in this subject?
If pupils can answer these questions accurately, using subject-specific detail, the school is confident that they are receiving effective feedback.
2. To make this happen, teachers build in dedicated lesson time, or entire lessons, for feedback. This includes activities such as working from prompt sheets, peer marking, analysing model examples, working through sample questions as a class, and self-correction.
3. Feedback is subject-specific
4. Feedback is very pupil-centric. It is essential that pupils work as hard as their teachers
5. Only significant pieces of work are 'marked' by the teacher
What is Ofsted's stance on marking?
Read our marking mythbuster, where we de-bunk some common myths around Ofsted's expectations for marking.
Approach to marking in more detail
Self reflection
Teachers give each pupil a green pen at the beginning of the year, and David explains how they should use it in an assembly. It is a way of ensuring from the very start that the onus is on the pupil to take in feedback and process it. The green pen is used in different ways for different subjects, e.g. correcting answers in maths and setting targets in English.
Feedback classes
Some teachers saw spending lesson time on feedback as a waste of time, because pupils weren't 'learning something new', even if they were filling in knowledge gaps that remained from previous lessons, or consolidating information. Getting over this perception was a major hurdle. David removed grades from lesson observations so that teachers didn't feel they had to put on a show. Now, teachers are not afraid to spend even entire lessons on feedback if necessary.
Reporting to parents
The school records only 6 data entries per year (and is even considering reducing this number). All grades are teacher-generated.
- At KS3, this is a 'working at' grade: a percentage rounded to the nearest 5% based on how many subject-specific objectives the pupil has met
- At KS4, this is an expected grade for the end of the GCSE course
- At KS5, this is a 'working at' grade
- All Key Stages also have effort grades (one for classwork, one for homework)
Teachers use this data to generate reports. They also provide guidance to help parents understand how well their child is doing based on this data (see a sample report below). The school's policy of ensuring that pupils know their strengths and weaknesses at all times ensures that parents will always know how their child is performing.
Coding systems
Many subjects use a coding system to save teachers' time. If the teacher sees the same mistakes in books all the time, they write a code next to it and feed back on the most common codes to the whole class in the next lesson, providing pupils with time to correct their own work.
Teachers review pupils' notes once every half term and provide feedback on how they can make their lesson notes more effective using this sheet:
Initial on-boarding process and trial period
To introduce a new marking approach in your school, David recommends the following steps:
- Sit down with staff to find out how they are currently marking and how long they are spending on marking. At Barr Beacon, this involved informal chats with individual staff, followed by a voluntary meeting for anyone interested in changing how they mark. David then met with heads of department and compared everyone's answers
- Conduct a parent forum or parents' evening to gather their views about marking, and feedback more generally (David did this in the summer term)
- Follow this with a letter to inform parents that the feedback system is changing. Download David's example letter below
- Carry out whole school continuing professional development (CPD) for all staff in order to explain your research and rationale for changing marking, as well as explaining how you want staff to mark from this point onward (David did this in September)
- Instruct staff to break off into subject areas to discuss how they might change things and to evaluate different approaches. Encourage them to collaborate with each other, take bits from their colleagues' approaches and adapt them to suit their subject
- Begin with a 'marking vacuum', allowing teachers to 'mark how they like'. At Barr Beacon, most people had tried something new in the first few months
- Collect examples from different subject areas (see below, in 'Adapting this approach for different subjects'), and share them
- Lead by example. Encourage staff to watch the senior leadership team (SLT) teach and see some of the feedback strategies in action. This helps to reassure teachers that they have the permission to do things differently, but also showcases the effectiveness of the new strategies to any doubters
David gathered a team of 15 staff with a range of experience and disciplines (including newly qualified teachers and more senior staff) to create the following dos and don'ts cheat sheet, which formed part of the official marking policy.
Building in time for termly monitoring is essential. You can't leave it alone or teachers will slip back into bad habits.
This is how monitoring works at Barr Beacon:
- Ongoing CPD (6 twilight sessions a half term, with a day off in lieu)
- Informal drop-ins from senior leaders. Do not use these findings for performance management, but as a way to monitor marking throughout the school and provide support where needed
- Termly reviews of pupils' work by the SLT, using proformas designed specifically with workload in mind (download an example below)
- Observations of other teachers' and senior leaders' lessons to see the methods in practice. This reassures teachers that less marking is OK, and they are still good at their jobs even if books aren't fully marked at all times
- A fluid policy – if people have better ideas, they bring them forward. Regularly ask staff if they've discovered a new and better way of marking
Adapting this approach for different subjects
You can adapt many of the ideas below to use them across different subjects.
- Pupils correct much of their own work in class, as there is usually only one correct answer. The teacher circulates and looks at books to check that this is being done properly, see how well pupils are doing and understand what to focus on in future lessons
- Instead of writing out the same correction twice, teachers write out the calculation once, take a photo and then print it out on sticky labels. When pupils see what they've done wrong, the whole class completes a new (but similar) question on the whiteboard. It might not save much time but is less repetitive for the teacher
- Staff do not mark everything. They mark 'significant pieces' e.g. extended writing - usually 1 every half term
- Teachers print off a mark scheme for each pupil that covers assessment objectives (AOs). They read through pupils' work and highlight parts of the mark scheme that still need attention. They may also make comments on spelling and grammar, etc. using a coding system
- Pupils spend time in the next class going back over their work in response to the teachers' comments. The teacher then focuses on one particular learning outcome as a class, and addresses any misconceptions using the coding system
For exam practice:
- Teachers hand out booklets containing anonymised example essays from previous years for pupils to keep
- They spend many lessons analysing the example essays before pupils write their own work
- The teacher reads through each pupil's work and highlights relevant areas of the mark scheme to see what they included and what was missing from their responses. Pupils then read through their work themselves and make the necessary corrections and improvements
- The teacher then takes a picture of a pupil's work for the next lesson so the whole class sees examples of the mark scheme in action, highlighting good practice and areas for improvement
Humanities/social sciences
- Pupils stick assessment objectives into the front of their books so they are always there to refer to, and feedback is always in relation to them. Teachers can simply write, for example, AO4 and pupils will know what to work on, or where to find out
- Teachers use stickers and pre-made stamps for quick feedback on progress, spelling, etc.
- Teachers use dedicated lesson time to give more extensive verbal feedback and for pupils to conduct peer assessment
- Like in English, 'significant pieces' of work have a designated marking proforma with the AOs on it and room for teachers' comments
For mock exams:
- After working through exam questions as a class, teachers provide pupils with short worksheets for them to self-reflect on their performance and identify areas to improve. Download an example of a history mock exam self-assessment below
- When reviewing A-level psychology exams, teachers make notes of the most common mistakes and misconceptions on a pre-made sheet as they mark. They then distribute the sheet in class and pupils work through the answer again together
- Pupils stick a standardised list of around 20 numerical codes in the front of their books. These include things like 'subject-object agreement' and 'word order'. Teachers use these codes when marking work. Pupils gradually learn to recognise the codes by heart
- Teachers provide verbal feedback immediately after speaking exercises and assessments
- In PE, teachers issue multicoloured pens to GCSE and A-Level pupils, and insist they write in different colours when they are hitting different assessment objectives. This ensures pupils are constantly reflecting as they write. You can also adapt this approach for many subjects that use AOs in written pieces (English, humanities, etc.)
The positive impact on staff work-life balance
The school is now doing a quarter of the marking it was doing a year ago, and teachers have unanimously reported that David's new marking strategy has had a positive impact on their work-life balance.
"I actually have a life outside of teaching now. I've got time with my boys and I've also got around to learning Spanish, which I've been wanting to do for years."
"I've got a great work-life balance. My husband not so much, but that's because he doesn't teach here."
Teachers also reported that they have far more time to spend on planning effective classes and seeing the 'bigger picture' of the curriculum.
Make this work in your school
To follow David's example and cut marking time in your school, you'll need the following conditions in place:
- Staff must know what effective feedback looks like
- Staff should constantly question why they are marking something. The sheet below offers some alternative ideas to traditional marking, including subject-specific approaches
- A marking policy that allows for subject-specific variation
- A single person to drive the change, and to be passionate about both improving teachers' workload and quality of student feedback. Appoint a member of the SLT to oversee the marking overhaul, from initial on-boarding to constant maintenance of good practice
- An SLT that pays attention to staff, gives them time and permission to do things differently and trusts their professional judgement to do their own thing
- An SLT that is very visible within school and in and out of lessons a lot
Typical barriers to implementing this approach successfully
- An overly prescriptive marking policy that loses sight of what feedback is about and/or is written out of fear of the tiny minority of staff who might not pull their weight
- Staff finding it difficult to let go of things they think work, rather than trying things that work better. The initial on-boarding period is really important in getting staff on board here
- Winning around staff who are new to the school and getting them to get rid of bad habits. David suggests visiting them regularly to provide extra support
Barr Beacon School is an academy in Walsall. It was graded 'outstanding' in its last Ofsted inspection in 2014. It has 1,527 pupils on roll.
See David's "47 things" Barr Beacon is doing to improve staff wellbeing here.
- Alcohol at staff parties
- Building relationships between staff
- Case studies on reducing marking workload
- Case studies on staff wellbeing and work-life balance
- Case study: how to offer flexible working to attract outstanding staff and boost retention
- Case study: save teachers 2 hours a day with strategic minimal marking
- Conquer your inbox: tips and tricks
- QuickRead: DfE report on workload and marking
- Effective flexible working arrangements
- Flexible working: examples
- Flexible working for senior leaders
- How to create a staff mental health and wellbeing action plan
- Improving staff wellbeing and work-life balance: strategies
- Marking mythbuster
- New headteacher's presentation to staff Updated
- Poll results: how to reduce your teachers' workload
- Pre-flight meeting checklist
- Rewarding staff: payments, perks and incentives
- Slash teachers' workload: what to stop doing
- Staff survey pack
- Staff wellbeing days
- Staff wellbeing questionnaires
- Start-of-year presentations and meetings for staff
- Strategies to combat stress for small school headteachers
- Supporting trans staff
- Teacher workload audit tool
- What not to do with pupil performance data
- Workload: get to the heart of what's overloading your staff with 'keep, tweak or ditch'
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Senior journalist Vinod Verma, arrested on extortion charges in connection with a Chhattisgarh Minister's alleged sex CD, was on Tuesday sent in 14-day judicial custody by a court.
When Verma was presented before Fourth Sessions Judge Bhavesh Kumar Vatti, he pleaded against being lodged with hardened criminals.
The court accepted his plea and directed he be kept in a special cell in jail, remanding him in judicial custody till November 13.
Verma was arrested by the Chhattisgarh Police in coordination with Uttar Pradesh Police from his house in Ghaziabad on Friday morning on charges of extortion over an alleged "sex CD" of the Bharatiya Janata Party leader in Chhattisgarh.
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US gym doctor, Larry Nassar is accused of s*xually assaulting over 100 girls and women1 min read
In March 2017, Larry Nassar, a longtime
doctor for USA Gymnastics and Michigan
State University, was charged with sexually
assaulting dozens of girls and women he
has treated over the past 20 years. The girls
and women in the case, most of them
current and former competitive gymnasts,
accuse him of using his medical practice to
sexually assault them, digitally penetrating
them without gloves or lubricant and
fondling their breasts and buttocks often
while visibly aroused.
Nassar has since been charged in state
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Simi releases 'I Dun Care' Video
The Nigerian music industry is no more a place for child's play or waiting game. If you snooze you lose. Smi put out the audio for this song less than a week; she's back with the video. Watch Simi 'I Dun Care' video. The video is directed by Capital Dreams Production.


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Overview of this Lecture / week
This week we will look at clustering or data clustering. This is a machine learning technique that tries to identify related groups of records or cases. What makes me more similar or less similar to others. This is an un-directed or unsupervised machine learning method.
Clustering can be used to identify similar records. It can also be used to help with missing data treatment.
Sometime the terms Segmentation and Clustering are used interchangeable. This is incorrect. They are different concepts.
Clustering will tell us case records that are similar, but it will not tell us what this grouping or similarity means. it will be your job as the data scientist to investigate the outputs for clustering and to determine the meaning of each cluster. This is not an easy task and requires lots of domain and business knowledge. You need to apply these to understand the outputs.
Click here to download the notes.
Videos of Notes
Planning my Summer Vacation using Clustering
Lab Exercises
You have 2 main tasks for the lab work this week. You can work through the Clustering lab exercises and/or use the lab time to work on your assignment.
I would suggest you use the lab time to start/progress your assignment. Then come back during the week and complete the Clustering lab exercises
Click here to download the Clustering Lab Exercises.
Additional Reading Materials
ACM Review Paper on Data Clustering


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Professor Alison Wolf, the influential academic who authored the government's 2011 report on vocational education, is one of just four people to have been given a coveted life peerage by the Prime Minister in this Parliament, and will soon join the ranks of Peers as a cross-bencher without party political affiliation.
As she prepares to fight the Garter King of Arms over her desire to be Baroness Wolf of Dulwich, a title she fears may be denied her due to the popularity of the South London suburb, the 63-year-old King's College professor spoke to FE Week reporter Freddie Whittaker about study programmes, apprenticeships and careers guidance, and why she remains committed to the principle of House of Lords reform — even if it means giving up her seat in the future.
Tell us about the peerage. Was it something you expected? Do you think it will give you a bigger voice to speak up for FE?
I had no idea that the Prime Minister even appointed any. If I had been asked to do it as a party political peer I would have said no. That I am absolutely sure about.
But I do think somebody has got to do something about the Lords, even if that involves throwing me out again. We did a half-baked reform and we never finished. I am a believer in second chambers, and not just because I've been asked to join one, but it needs to be younger, it needs to have more people who are still in the world of work and therefore not losing touch with everything.
I haven't the faintest idea what the government is going to look like after next May, or whether they will have the slightest interest in listening to me or not, but I do think will give me a platform.
I had a fantastic chance to write a report for the government, but what I have concentrated on are the things that the report covered. You can't do everything, and there are some major issues in the sector which I didn't get a chance to talk about, I mean particularly post-19, but also 16 to 19.
There have been some concerns raised about study programmes. They were your brainchild. What do you make it all?
I was a bit cross with the Ofsted report. If you actually read it carefully and you actually look at the sample size, it was very anecdotal. So I haven't lost heart. I mean, obviously it was a bit disappointing, but it was very small-scale, it's very early days. I still really, really believe in it.
[Responding to claims FE is picking up the responsibility — and bill — for learners when school sixth forms reject learners without Cs at English and maths GCSEs] The FE sector, for better or worse, has always had this dual role, it's always had to balance itself between being full of centres of excellence and things, which are selective, demanding and all of that, and the fact that is basically is the sector that soaks up everything else that everybody else rejects. It always has been.
What I'm really concerned about is the funding for 16 to 19. I mean, the situation is just not tenable. They cannot go on and on and on cutting 16 to 19 funding. I don't like ringfences because the trouble is, if you have ringfence here, ringfence there, ringfence there, that everything else gets squeezed out. I actually want more money for 16 to 19, not to ringfence what's already there.
The funding cut for 18-year-olds worries me enormously. It just seems to me that these are the kids that we really, really need to try and help before it is too late. If they're in their third year, it probably means they've had some false starts, but if they're there in their third year, then they're really giving it a go, and many kids really need that third year if something went wrong when they were 11, 12, 13 years old.
What do you think about apprenticeships, the proposed reforms and the party pledges around boosting them?
I am cheering falls in the total number of apprenticeships, and I am aghast at the fact that the two main parties are screaming about numbers, numbers, numbers.
There is no point doing an apprenticeship if it's not decent. So if you set a numerical target, right there you have blown quality out of the water. End of story. I can't imagine what got into their [Cameron and Miliband] heads. They should know about targets by now, shouldn't they? I was aghast. I thought that was just stupid.
With the reforms, ideally, what you want is for people to put money in and get it back rather than be given money, for two reasons. First of all, from what we know about the psychology of human beings is that if they are actually putting even small amounts of money in, they really get involved in what it is being spent on. And the other thing that we know is that basically refunding people is much less bureaucratic than
giving them money.
When you get government funding, for all sorts of absolutely predictable and totally understandable reasons, you feel like a regulatory mountain has fallen on your head, because this is public money. What you want to avoid is giving employers money to spend, which they then have to account for in incredible detail, which is what happens whenever you get public funds.
You don't want them to feel that it's going to cost them huge amounts of money that they might never get back.
What can we do to end the age-old careers advice problem?
Schools are not going to promote apprenticeships, except to kids they want to get rid of. You can put it in every piece of legislation you pass from now to the year 3000, and they still won't.
But I don't think anybody else really ever does it. My sense is, you have to give responsibility to schools and you have to find some way of checking that they are making things available. But it's also an area where I actually think the model has to change.
I just think it asks somebody to do what no human being can do. It asks them to know enough about every individual who comes in and enough about the whole labour market to be able to give really good, personalised advice to a totally random sample of hundreds of people. You can't do that.
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2020 Toyota 4runner – Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro is one of the qualified SUVs in the market today. While most SUVs soften into a crossover with a unibody chassis, 4Runner continues the body-on-frame tradition tailored to the more qualified TRD Pro suspension system.
Toyota 4Runner is happy to be anachronistic, a sports vehicle for the hardcore type that will not be seen in the crossover. But then there are people who think a day without putting a little sunlight between the tire and the terra firma is an unworthy day to live.
For the next release, 4Runner TRD Pro receives Fox off-road shock system to improve off-road capability, newly designed roof rack, and standard JBL Premium Audio system, among other exclusive products contained in trim terrain-ready.
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We do not get accurate information about the machine. we hope The 4Runner still rely on the old Toyota 4.0-liter V-6 to gain strength. It does have variable valve timings on its double overhead cams, but it's about as sophisticated. Horsepower rated 270 at 5,600 rpm and torque entered at an altitude of 278 pound-feet at 4,400 rpm. The engine is paired with an outdated five-speed automatic transmission.
Thus, EPA fuel economy is not expected to be very impressive. The 2019 4Runner TRD Pro is rated at 17 mpg city and 20 mpg highway. The figure is not expected to change by 2020. Of course, the engine and transmission are only a small part of the 4Runner TRD Pro drivetrain.
The 4WD part-time system is used here, with a nice ole-mode manual handle. A high 4WD range can be involved while on the move, while the low range does require a full stop and the transmission is placed neutral. After engaging in the 4WD range, the engine torque is split 50/50 between the front and rear axle.
2020 Toyota 4runner also offers electronic rear locking differentials as well. The transfer case does need to be in the low 4WD range, but the E locker moves quickly and makes the rear tire rotate at the same speed, regardless of its appeal.
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The 4Runner TRD Pro will upgrade Fox Racing Shocks that help handle high-speed deserts better while providing civilian ride around the city and new roof racks offer more storage for dirty equipment. Several other changes inside and outside helped maintain the interest of 4Runner as the interest exploded for its main rival, Jeep Wrangler.
Other visual changes are the new LED fog lights. Like 2016 and then Tacoma TRD Pro, this comes from Rigid Industries, a supplier of off-road LED lights. While road-legal and floodlights are a little crazy, LEDs should be more effective than halogen lamps before.
The last aesthetic update takes place with the front skid plate. While technically the same as before, the stamped TRD logo was painted red. It does not really help anything, but it sure looks good.
The 4Runner TRD Pro retains the same wheel and tire package from the previous one, which means rolling on 17-inch matte-wrapped black wheels wrapped in a 265 / 70R Nitto Terra Grappler insulated tire.
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Small changes also occur inside, but not limited to the TRD Pro class. Entune infotainment system has been upgraded for 2020 and includes premium JBL Audio system with navigation and suite of Toyota applications. Unfortunately, it still does not include Apple CarPlay or Android Auto.
As for the TRD Pro upgrade, the seats are wrapped in Softex and accented with contrast stitching and TRD logo on the headrests. TRD logo appears more on the mat and on the shift key.
4Runner offers to seat for five with a cargo volume of 47.2 cubic feet behind the second row. With the rear seats folded flat, the volume of cargo jumped to 89.7 cubic feet. Of course, this new roof rack offers more storage than ever before 4Runners.
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We Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants & American Abolitionists after 1848
We Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants & American Abolitionists after 1848
Widely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration. As the sectional conflict escalated, discontented Europeans came in record numbers, further dividing the young republic over issues of race, nationality, and citizenship. The arrival of German-speaking "Forty-Eighters," refugees of the failed European revolutions of 1848–49, fueled apprehensions about the nation's future. Reaching America did not end the foreign revolutionaries' pursuit of freedom; it merely transplanted it.
In We Are the Revolutionists, Mischa Honeck offers a fresh appraisal of these exiled democrats by probing their relationship to another group of beleaguered agitators: America's abolitionists. Honeck details how individuals from both camps joined forces in the long, dangerous battle to overthrow slavery. In Texas and in cities like Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and Boston this cooperation helped them find new sources of belonging in an Atlantic world unsettled by massive migration and revolutionary unrest.
Employing previously untapped sources to write the experience of radical German migr's into the abolitionist struggle, Honeck elucidates how these interethnic encounters affected conversations over slavery and emancipation in the United States and abroad. Forty-Eighters and abolitionists, Honeck argues, made creative use not only of their partnerships but also of their disagreements to redefine notions of freedom, equality, and humanity in a transatlantic age of racial construction and nation making.


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Apple is an incredibly terrible company (even if their products are decent) who are spearheading the push to make it impossible for a consumer to repair their own products.
They are going so far as to have ICE confiscate refurbished parts at the border and claiming they are counterfeit.
To explain why this is ridiculous, let's say you had a Volkswagen car. You hit a deer or something and your windshield is now completely unusable, so you replace it with a windshield from Toyota. Did you just counterfeit a Volkswagen windshield? The entire car? Are you counterfeiting Toyota cars by using their windshield on another brand?
The answer is obviously no, you refurbished your product with parts from another party. This has always been something which was legal because there is no reason someone should be unable to repair their own legally owned property with whatever parts they want.
What Apple is doing here is claiming that broken screens which have the glass replaced by a third party while every other part of the phone and screen is still an Apple product is somehow stealing their intellectual property.
If this behavior from Apple isn't stopped, other companies will take notice and start doing the same thing. The consumers right to repair any product will be gone, and we might see more people going to jail for doing completely legal things but being unable to explain to their grandparents how technology works.
I'd like to add a disclaimer here that I don't have a problem with the idea ICE seizing foreign imports of refurbished goods so long as it is for the sole purpose of making third-party repair companies do business with American sellers. That isn't what's happening here though.


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Going on a green tea diet can be one of the best decisions for your body. Perhaps you're the type of person who maintains quite an active lifestyle but don't take the time to diet and exercise as you should. In today's hurry-up age, it is very possible to spend much of our days rushing to and fro, only taking time to grab a bite to eat on the run. We don't blame you for being on the go, but at some point, you have to stop and take care of your health and body to make sure they both last you for the long run.
Such a lifestyle, while conducive to getting things done as quickly as they need to be, is harsh on your body and more specifically your metabolism. Taking the time to replace nutrients that are lost from eating fast food and poor nutritional content in your diet is very important. Green tea is an excellent choice to do just that.
Deciding to go on green tea diet doesn't have to be an ordeal but careful planning and consideration should be given to creating a diet plan that you can stick to and that will yield results you desire.
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Norwalk, CT. [August 19, 2015] Leading area human resources consulting and outsourcing provider OperationsInc (www.OperationsInc.com) has established a team of Affordable Care Act (ACA) Consultants in a concerted effort to assist area businesses in complying with the ACA. The company stresses that the time has come for businesses to start preparing for January 1, 2016 and the Affordable Care Act. Businesses normally start planning their year-end benefit related activities around late October, but anticipated issues driven by new reporting requirements have experts advising organizations start the process as soon as possible.
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Joe Lehman hit a 162-yard hole in one using a 7-iron on the 4th hole at Platteview in Papillion. The ace was reported on Sept. 14, 2009. Witnesses: Steve Exon.
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