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MANILA - Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Corp. will hire 24,000 more Filipino workers for its Subic and Misamis Oriental plants, the government announced on Tuesday.
At present, Hanjin Philippines Inc., the corporation´s main office in the Philippines, employs 16,000 workers.
During a meeting with Hanjin Philippines President Jong Shup Shim, President Gloria Arroyo lauded the company´s billion-dollar investment in its Subic shipyard, and the additional multi-billion investment in a new facility in Misamis Oriental, which would make the Philippines the fourth-largest shipbuilder in the world.
Jong later told reporters that starting September, Hanjin would begin local production of ship components that they normally import from South Korea for the assembly of work at Subic.
Jong estimated that the company would be able to manufacture $29-million worth of locally produced components for the first year, and he expressed confidence that this amount would increase to $57 million next year.
Jong said the company would make the ships produced at the Hanjin shipyard in Subic, entirely and proudly, Philippine-made.
Medal of Merit
As this developed, President Arroyo conferred the Presidential Medal of Merit on the former president Hanjin Philippines Inc., Jong Shup Shim, for making that firm one of the world´s largest shipbuilding conglomerates and for his contribution to the shipbuilding industry in the Philippines.
Jong was also credited for influencing Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Corp., to put up a shipbuilding facility in the Subic Freeport Zone in Zambales.
The ceremony was held on Jeju Island, South Korea, at the sidelines of the 20th Anniversary of Asean and Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit. Asean is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a regional bloc of 10 countries that includes the Philippines.
More hirings
Some 600 Filipino seamen were hired daily, despite the global economic crisis, Giovanni Lopez, vice president of the Luneta Seafarer´s Center (LSC), said also on Tuesday. He added that the demand for Filipinos seafarers even increased, and if there were layoffs, they would normally be the last to go -after other foreign workers.
On average, some 1,000 jobs were available daily at the popular seamen´s hub on Kalaw Street, Manila, where 112 manning agencies offer jobs to the thousands of Filipino seafarers who troop to the center everyday.
"Over the last two years, the global maritime industry´s choice for Filipino seafarers continues, and it will never face a bleak future if you look into the official running count of available jobs being offered to them everyday," he said.
Lopez also said the Philippines was the biggest source of maritime workers in the world, and he believed that the demand for Filipino seafarers would "not be dampened in a big way."
He added that until 2012-when more modern vessels would be set to sail-the international maritime industry would be needing ship captains, marine deck officers, chief engineers, cooks, stewards and other maritime crew.
Filipino seafarers comprise 35 percent to 40 percent of the global maritime manpower. (Angelo S. Samonte nad Bernice Camille V. Bauzon, Manila Times)


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My new year´s eve look- 20136:08 AM
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Former Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva, yesterday lost his bid to stop his trial for alleged money laundering offences.
A Federal High Court in Abuja refused his prayer that the charges against him be quashed. The court also turned down his prayer for a permission to be allowed to accompany his wife, Mrs. Alayingi Sylva, on a foreign trip.
Justice Adamu Bello, in separate rulings, dismissed two motions filed to that effect by Sylva, for lacking in merit.
Sylva, in the first motion filed in June, last year urged the court to quash the six-count charge against him on the grounds that no evidence in the proof of evidence linked him to the offences alleged; that the proof of evidence did not disclose a prima facie case against him; that the charge is frivolous, unconstitutional and amounted to an abuse of court process.
He had, with the second motion filed in April, sought the court's leave to accompany his wife on a medical trip abroad. He said his wife was due for an urgent surgery in London and needed his company.
Refusing the first motion, the judge held that it was premature for Sylva to contend that the charge was frivolous and that there was no evidence linking him with the offences alleged.
The judge, relying on the Court of Appeal decision in the case of Alamieyeseigha vs the Federal Government reported in 2006, 16 NWLR part 1004, held that there was a distinction between the summary trial conducted by the Federal High Court and the trial by information as done in the state High Court. "Under the summary trial, the question of whether the proof of evidence is sufficient could only be determined after the prosecution has closed its case and if a no-case submission is made by the defence. It is then the court can decide whether or not a prima facie case is established, not before," the judge held.
Justice Bello further held that the summary trial procedure was constitutional, but that the procedure that was not constitutional was that adopted by the accused person because, by his motion, he sought to prevent the prosecution from proving its case against him.
He held that by seeking to quash the charge before the prosecution is allowed to present its case, amounts to denying it the right to fair hearing, since the accused has had the opportunity of pleading not guilty to the charge.
The judge also relied on the Supreme Court decision delivered on April 19 in the unreported case of Ralph Nwazurike vs the Attorney- General of the Federation, numbered: SC/207/2008. In the lead judgment delivered by Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, it was established that in summary trial, proof of evidence must not necessary accompany the charge, but that the accused was at liberty to apply to the court for additional information relating to the charge.
It was also the decision of the apex court that the accused, under summary trial, is only entitled to know the nature of the charge and not the nature of the evidence.
Guided by the apex court's decision, Justice Bello refused to quash the charge at this early stage.
In refusing the other motion, Justice Bello observed a number of conflicting information in the exhibits tendered by Sylva.
The judge noted that while the letter referring Mrs. Sylva to Cromwell Hospital, London for treatment was written by a Nigerian doctor at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, no response was addressed to the Nigerian doctor by the London hospital.
The judge elected to accord the case an accelerated hearing and adjourned till July 8 for the beginning of trial.
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When I found this old spice rack (circa 1970s?) it was like a one-legged pirate, with a missing drawer and gate-like wood doors and rusty upholstery tacks. I carried it all over the thrift store with me, not absolutely sure that I really wanted it. I wasn't even sure what I was going to do with it. I even thought I would remove the doors altogether and the lone drawer.
When I got it home and posted pictures of it, comments were surprisingly favourable and it was suggested that the doors should stay and that the missing drawer didn't matter. It was cool, pirate-like and all. So I got to work, or rather, my hubby did. Being the good helper that he is, he removed the tacks then sanded this piece all down for me. I then took it to my workshop. I primed it and painted the entire thing a nice glossy raspberry colour.
A quick trip to the fabric store was in order. I bought a quarter meter of a light green and cream print with delicate filigree butterflies. I wanted something that wasn't going to compete against the jewellery that would be hanging inside. So like the other re-lined boxes I've done, I set to work cutting cardboard, glueing it to fabric then glueing it all into place inside.
I decided to line the opening that had the missing drawer. Plus I lined the very top shelf due to a paint mishap. (I re-sprayed a coat after an hour and before 24 hours. It immediately bubbled and wrinkled on me so I scraped that paint off and decided right then that I would just upholster that surface. It was a plan that worked out well in the end.)
I've since added a length of chain strung across the two large openings, just right for hanging earrings from. I didn't take a picture of it yet with the chains. So from a rickety old pirate to a classy butterfly bedecked lady, I think this was a successful transformation. What do you think?


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Between school, homework, practice and spending time with loved ones, it's easy to miss out on the latest in science, technology, engineering, art and math. But don't worry, Thinkery's got you covered. Here are some of our favorite family-friendly discoveries from the previous week. It's STEAM to fuel your weekend.
California-based photographer Craig Burrows snaps dazzling shots of flora and fauna using ultraviolet-induced visible fluorescence, a unique and underused photography process. The vibrant images shimmer, shine and glow—and we can't stop staring at 'em! Don't believe us? Take a look!
Why does the moon looks bigger near the horizon? This striking phenomenon, known as the moon illusion, has baffled scientists for decades. Is it lunar trickery, or is it all in your head? National Geographic's interesting and informative article breaks it down for you—check it out!
How long did it take for baby dinosaurs to hatch? Scientists from Florida State University suggest that it took anywhere from three to six months for dinosaurs to emerge from their eggs—depending on the type of dinosaur, of course. So cool! Click here to learn more about their findings.
We can't help it—we love kid-friendly, technology-focused Kickstarter campaigns. Especially if they empower kids and adults to bring their inspired ideas to life—like Plezmo! Plezmo, an inventive platform of intelligent, wireless devices and easy-to-use coding apps, is a fun, effortless way to learn, play and innovate with technology.
With Plezmo, you can create projects in arts, science, music and robotics—or you can even build your own games. Seriously, the possibilities are endless. Can you tell we're a little obsessed? OK, we're totally obsessed. Learn more!


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Friday, January 12, 2018
11:00 am
High Energy Theory Seminar
Three applications of topology to physics
Dan Freed, UT Austin
(1) What is the classification of invertible phases of lattice systems? (2) Is M-theory time-reversal invariant? (3) How to match topological features (spin structures, global anomalies) of QCD with the effective theory of pions? Question (1) lies in condensed matter theory and question (2) in string theory, but we can make a conceptual jump and reformulate them in quantum field theory. In this talk I sketch how an Axiom System for Wick-rotated quantum field theory, coupled with ideas and techniques from geometry and topology, let us address each question. The recent work on (1) and (2) is joint with Mike Hopkins.
Contact Carol Silberstein email@example.com at 6685
For more information see http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/seminar/schedule.html


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DeskProto events
Events where DeskProto will be / has been present.
March 7 and 8, 2018
RapidPro is a combination of trade-show and conference, all about Rapid Prototyping, Rapid Manufacturing and 3D Printing, targeting both industrial applications and home usage.
During the RapidPro 2018 we will proudly present the new DeskProto Version 7 !
You can find DeskProto on Stand No 10, a stand that is shared with Eding CNC.
Admission to this show is free, registration at www.rapidpro.nl is required.
More information about what we will present in our Press release (only available in Dutch)


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LPPTV Episode 8 – What Does Rejection Really Mean?
This week has been pretty interesting. I was interviewed for a documentary called "Love in Your Pocket", which is all about how technology is affecting our experience of dating.
I was asked a lot of questions and some really interesting topics came up, one of which seemed too important not to share via LPPTV.
I've spoken about rejection before here on LPPTV, but it's such a hot topic in the world of dating I'm not surprised it's come up again so soon.
I regularly speak to both men and women around the world, people who are single and in relationships, and the fear of rejection is an issue that comes up time and time again.
So in today's episode, I answer the question "What does rejection really mean?"
Tweet the Love… The Number 1 Rule in Relationships, Choose Someone Who Chooses You @LovePPassion
Now I'd love to hear from you.
What has your experience of this been? Have you taken 'rejection' to heart and made it mean something about you, like I did? Has this alternative way of viewing 'rejection' shown you a different perspective on a past situation? Have you focused on your own sense of self-worth, and has it affected how you feel about someone walking away from you? What has improving your self-esteem done for you in relationships? Has this video brought up a question for you?
Or, ask me a question that you would like me to answer on a future episode of LPPTV, what is the one thing you'd like to know? What is the biggest challenge you're facing in your relationship situation right now?
Please share with as much detail as you can because your insight and questions may provide a breakthrough for someone else and I guarantee if you're thinking it, someone else is too and they could benefit from you having the courage to share your thoughts and questions.
Thank you in advance for having the courage to share and being kind and understanding in the comments.
…and if you haven't already, be sure to get your hands on the FREE video series "The First Steps to Transforming Any Relationship" by clicking here now.
Wishing You Love,
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We, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA,
having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizen:
JUSTICE-social economic and political;
LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;
EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;
And promote among them all
FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the
IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949do
The Preamble is like an introduction or preface of Constitution. The 'Preamble' provides the guide lines of the Constitution. The Preamble, in brief, explains the objectives of the Constitution in two ways:
one, about the structure of the governance and
the other, about the ideals to be achieved in independent India.
The Preamble is considered to be the key of the Constitution.
The objectives, which are laid down in the Preamble, are:
i) Description of Indian State as Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic Republic.
ii) Provision to all the citizens of India i.e.,
- Justice social, economic and political
- Liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship
- Equality of status and opportunity
- Fraternity assuring dignity of the individual and unity and integrity of the
- nation.


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Stream AirPlay Audio On iOS From iTunes, Apple TV & Other iDevices With AirFloat
AirPlay has been around in iOS for so long that at times it tends to get ignored when people are showing off all the great things their iPhone can do. Siri, iCloud and even the chameleon status bar get mentioned more than AirPlay, but that doesn't diminish its usefulness and importance. Apple has kept things pretty simple with AirPlay while keeping it quite efficient at doing its job of streaming media to other iDevices in the vicinity. Maybe this near-perfection is the reason not many Cydia developers have thought about making changes to AirPlay's default functionality. AirFloat, however, goes against this trend and demonstrates that AirPlay can be improved. The app that was taken down from the App Store in 2012 has returned to iOS via the Cydia store to provide you with an easy way to convert your iDevice into an AirPlay receiver, allowing you to play audio streams from iTunes, Apple TV or any other iDevice.
To get started, head to the BigBoss repo of the Cydia store and download AirFloat to your iPhone or iPod touch. Once installed, AirFloat appears as a standalone app icon on the SpringBoard. You don't have to worry about configuring anything, since the app doesn't have any options at all; it just displays a few basic instructions regarding its use and its compatibility with other devices. Apart from Apple TV and iTunes, the app can be used to receive audio from other iOS devices even if they are not jailbroken. To get started, keep the AirFloat app running, and start playing any audio file on the the other iDevice or computer.
As long as both devices are on the same network, you'll notice that the AirPlay icon on the source device is active. Just look for the AirFloat option inside it and click it; the audio will begin streaming to your iPhone straight away. Since AirFloat doesn't come with any playback controls of its own, you can only control the song's volume level using the hardware button on your device. The audio source retains full playback controls, just the way things normally go with AirPlay. In receiving mode, AirFloat displays the name of the song and any album art associated with it. AirFloat can keep the audio playing under lock screen or when the app is in background.
We are aware that there are some other apps available in the Cydia store that let you stream both audio and video via AirPlay (like the famous AirServer), but its open-source nature, price tag of zero, and iOS 6 compatibility certainly earns AirFloat a shoutout. So, give this free Cydia app a try and you might starting using AirPlay a lot more than you currently are.


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Miss Me Women's White Slub Knit Embroidered Tank Top
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- Miss Me Women's White Slub Knit Embroidered Tank Top
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Who says casual has to be boring? This fun summery top by Miss Me is made of white slub knit jersey with a keyhole at the collarbone and woven collar. Brightly colored embroidery adorns the bodice of this knit top. A mesh back panel shows off a peekaboo of skin.
- Asymmetrical hemline
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- Keyhole cut-out at collar
- Sleeveless
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- Cotton/Polyester blend
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Basting & Pastry Brush
A traditional pastry brush is made with natural hair, and many economy brushes are still made from boar bristles. Synthetic alternatives like nylon are popular these days for their durability and easy maintenance, while many chefs are beginning to favor silicone basting brushes, which are long lasting, heat resistant, and available with color-coded bristles to help keep them reserved for specific applications. A wide selection of baster brush sizes and designs is available, including widths ranging from 1 inch to 4 inches. Round pastry brushes give users finer control, while flat ones provide wide coverage.


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|Matthew C. Schikore, Yiannis E. Papelis, Ginger S. Watson
Conference paper
|As the use of driving simulators becomes commonplace in various disciplines, there is increased demand for user-friendly tools that allow researchers with no expertise in software development to effec ...
|Ginger S. Watson, Yiannis E. Papelis, Matthew C. Schikore
Conference paper
|After executing driving simulator studies, researchers are inundated with data containing primary vehicle state variables such as velocity, Cartesian position, and sensor inputs. These data must be re ...
|Sunil Bulusu, Yiannis Papelis, Bin Chen, Matt Schikore, Omar Ahmad
Conference paper
|A key problem with data collected during experimental studies is the expeditious reduction and delivery of reduced data. It is not unusual to generate over 500 MB of raw data for a 20-minute drive on ...
|Michelle Reyes, John Lee
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|Effective use of driving simulators requires considerable technical and methodological skill along with considerable background knowledge. Acquiring the requisite knowledge and skills can be extraordi ...


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|Buy This Book Online
This book makes a strong case for taking advantage of the best of two disciplines - health care and operational systems engineering (a combination of science and mathematics to describe, analyze, plan, design, and integrate systems with complex interactions among people, processes, materials, equipment, and facilities) - to improve the efficiency and quality of health care delivery, as well as health care outcomes. Those most interested in pursuing this approach include leaders in the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Veterans Affairs, who are committed to finding ways of improving the quality of care for military personnel, veterans, and their families. Intrigued by the possibilities, DOD decided to sponsor a series of workshops to explore the potential of operational systems engineering principals and tools for military health care, beginning with the diagnosis and care of traumatic brain injury (TBI), one of the most prevalent, difficult and challenging injuries suffered by warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan.


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PlantsForHillary.com -- Crashed or Pulled Down?
BY Colin Delany | Friday, November 16 2007
A John Edwards-created anti-Hillary site seems to be down, even though it only launched yesterday. Technical problems or a change of heart? Now updated. Read More
Dueling Emails: GOP Has Hillary's Library Card; DNC Thinks It Has the GOP's Number
BY Colin Delany | Tuesday, November 13 2007
Time for another in our occasional series of articles chronicling dueling emails from the Republican and Democratic National Committees (very exciting, yes). Today, the Rs struck first with a quite clever message from ... Read More
Is No One Reading Giuliani's Blog?
BY Colin Delany | Thursday, November 8 2007
Continuing with the recent exciting news from the Republican side of our little presidential campaign, Bruce Reed notes in Slate that Rudy Giuliani's official blog seems to be acting in sympathy with Hollywood writers ... Read More
Connecting Some Dots: What Wesley Clark, Rush Limbaugh and MoveOn.org Have in Common
BY Colin Delany | Wednesday, October 17 2007
A chat I had with a couple of folks from Radio Singapore International this weekend called up something that's been playing around in my head for a while now: the idea that we're seeing the birth of a host of alternative ... Read More
DNC Using Email to Encourage Real-World Action
BY Colin Delany | Wednesday, October 10 2007
The Democratic National Committee continued their consistently excellent use of an email list today with a message keyed to local political organizing. Read More
Giuliani and Obama's House Party Fundraiser Webcasts
BY Colin Delany | Thursday, September 20 2007
A little bird dropped something off via email the other day that I thought you guys might be interested in it's a new twist on the classic political house party fundraiser. Read More
Joe Biden's Latest Online Video Innovation: A Searchles Channel
BY Colin Delany | Tuesday, September 11 2007
Here's an interesting little feature that the Biden campaign has just started using a tool that can combine several video clips into a single embed, even if they originate on different video hosting sites. Instead ... Read More
Fred08.com Still Buggy, But a Good Campaign Site
BY Colin Delany | Thursday, September 6 2007
In honor of his announcement last night, I just checked out Fred Thompson's official site, and I gotta say, very slick Flash interface, guys. A few bugs here and there, though when I clicked on some of the stories ... Read More
Online Challenges for 2008, Part 1: Will TiVo Kill the Political Ad?
BY Colin Delany | Wednesday, September 5 2007
TiVos will matter to political campaigns because television matters: candidates and their media consultants spend the vast majority of their money on television ads, and digital video recorders are going to let the ... Read More
Republican Resurgence and the Myth of the Progressive Web?
BY Colin Delany | Thursday, August 23 2007
I hate to agree with Jonah Goldberg on anything, but... Okay, it'd be an exaggeration to say that I side with his recent LA Times op-ed about online politics, but I agree that the rise of the political Internet ought to ... Read More


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and the feeling is easy!
Living in Northern Ireland our weather tends to be a bit wet, a bit windy and rarely lovely.
But over the past few days it's been absolutely glorious! Instead of sitting inside in the evenings, I've been outside with a book in the evening sun, enjoying every minute of it.
Alex took some pics of the flowers on our patio last night -
Yesterday was the longest day of the year. Can't even bear to think that the days start to get shorter now :)
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Posted by AMIdesigns at 07:21
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- Anonymous22 June 2010 at 11:26
it's nice when the longest day is a good sunny one (never works to celebrate it when its pouring down!)ReplyDelete
Wow, seriously? Then again, you are pretty far north! Here in Texas it's hot, hot and more hot. Seriously, I'd trade you. In a heartbeat. I took the kids for a bike ride at 8 am and we came back soaked in sweat. ICK.ReplyDelete
Totally different here Aly - this has been the best summer in a few years! We've actually got up to 23 degrees :DReplyDelete
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Mina Vargas is a licensed clinical social worker who uses the pronouns: she, her and hers. She is interested in working with students, staff, faculty, and administrators from all backgrounds. Her passion is in providing clinical services that are affirming and empowering to minorities such as first generation immigrants, international, and especially individuals and groups along the LGBTQA continuum. She believes in the idea of living well and the importance of holistically addressing mind, body, and spirit to achieve a balanced, healthy, and happy life. Her practice philosophy is rooted in various traditional and evidence-based therapeutic modalities that are complementary to Integral Yoga, Reiki, Mindfulness practices, and meditation in movement through rock-climbing and other physical activities. She has received specialized sex therapy training approved by AASECT, is fluent in Norwegian, and enjoys conversing informally in Tagalog and Spanish.
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The State Bar of California is working with legal groups to coordinate pro bono opportunities in response to the fires around the state.
We need help staffing a legal hotline and resource table at disaster recovery centers. Attorney volunteers may be asked to handle pro bono cases to assist fire survivors in the next one to three months. Online training and technical assistance are available.
Start by completing the online signup forms for Northern and Southern California.
You will receive follow up information by email. For questions, contact Elizabeth Hom at email@example.com.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, the State Bar's Office of Legal Services is working with the Bay Area Resilience Collaborative (Justice and Diversity Center, Alameda County Bar Association and its Volunteer Legal Services Corporation, Bay Area Legal Aid, Pro Bono Net and the Judicial Council of California) along with with the America Bar Association Young Lawyers Division and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The State Bar of California encourages attorneys to perform pro bono work in the course of their careers.
Whether it is representing people who are struggling financially or people with disabilities, offering pro bono legal services is a way for new attorneys to gain experience, and for experienced attorneys to provide representation to those who need it the most.
Legal work on matters that have been screened and referred by a qualified legal services provider qualify as pro bono under the State Bar's Pro Bono Resolution.
The State Bar also waives the active status membership fee for eligible attorneys who do pro bono work under the Pro Bono Practice Program. This involves working exclusively with a qualified legal services provider or a State Bar certified lawyer referral service, no-fee or pro-bono panel or a court-based self-help center.
More information for attorneys looking for pro bono work opportunities:
If you are an attorney, you can find free MCLE training programs via the Practising Law Institute (PLI) and the Pro Bono Training Institute.
Some local legal services organizations provide training and support.
Previously called the Emeritus Attorney Pro Bono Program, the Pro Bono Practice Program offers attorneys the opportunity to contribute their legal expertise to Californians in need.
Eligible participants who qualify can have their State Bar membership fees waived and also get free and reduced rates to attend Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) programs.
Download an application form
The State Bar honors recipients showing exemplary pro bono work. Learn more and see the past recipients of the President's Pro Bono Service and other awards.
Volunteers can also receive the Wiley W. Manuel certificate in recognition of their pro bono efforts. Those who contribute at least 50 hours of pro bono service in a 12-month period are eligible.
Download the form and get it signed by your pro bono program coordinator.


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Would your friends and family describe you as being generous? Do you regularly give to charity or are you known to always be the first to buy the drinks? If the answer is yes then you might be driven by guilt into sending more than you usually would.
Here are the some of the most common guilt driven spending areas you can avoid:
It's no surprise that people splash the cash when they are expecting, but do you find yourself spending far more than you want when buying gifts for friends bundles of joy? It's easy to get carried away, especially if they are a close friend or family. Instead of stocking up on a stack of new baby clothes, why don't you buy a longer lasting baby gift like some personalised artwork or some practical gifts, like offering to babysit.
Don't get suckered into buying the most expensive present on the gift list. Think about your relationship to the lucky couple, how close are you? Only been invited to the evening? Don't feel like you need to spend loads on a fancy gift.
No, don't go cancelling all your charity donations. But don't feel pressured into donating to charity (avoid the chuggers) and make sure you are donating what you can afford to give.
Leaving gifts
Someone at work who you don't really know is leaving and round comes the collection tin – how much do you contribute (if you contribute at all?) It's fine to put in a small sum so don't think it needs to be a huge amount. Instead, why don't you send a leaving message in a card, it'll last longer and be valued beyond the limits of cash.
Don't forget, with Monese you can stay fully in control of your spending. Using the Monese app you can send and receive money in real-time, no waiting. You can make currency transfers for only 0.5% above the mid-market rate; which is one of the best rates available. Using our app you can also make payments, check your up-to-date balance, review your transactions, get paid to invite friends – plus much more.


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A new type of post I figured I would try out.
I will start my first Theory Thursday with one of my favourite heavy warjacks, the Avenger.
The best thing about it in my mind is the Seismic Cannon, which on a direct hit on an enemy model knocks down everything in the 4" AOE.
The problem lies with its RAT of 4... but there are ways around this, I typically marshal the Avenger to Gun mages to get use out of their great Rune shots.
I'll breifly cover those shot types and how I think they are with the avenger
- Critical Brutal is not great on a AOE attack as it only effect models directly hit, so has no effect on the blast damage and as a crit effect its unlikely anyway.
- Thunderbolt is only worth doing if you are shooting at shield wall troops (push them out of formation then roll the damage to get around that armour bonus) or you are trying to get models out of a zone.
- Snipe is the best for this Warjack, gets the range up to a more respectable 14" (which often means you can aim to mitigate the poor RAT)
I tend to use the Avenger to deny ground to my opponent rather than get kills. At POW 14 its ok but I mainly end up using the Jack marshal bonus to boost to hit. If it kills something that's great, but I would always rather hit and knock things down than miss because I wanted to boost damage.
I was idly reading the its card the other day and something twigged for me. The knock down only triggers on a direct hit on a enemy model, and playing steamroller scenarios as most players do I remembered that the objectives you often get are classed as enemy models.
Also I have found that a lot of player will use these objectives to hide their Warcaster. So it can be a nice way to knock down their caster and you only have to roll a 3 to hit an objective!
The Avenger also has great synergy with the Trencher Master Gunner, who can give it Artillerist to give it +2 to ranged attack rolls and a reroll on distance and or deviation.
Or he can give it Close Fire to allow it to fire into troops that have run to engage your Gun Mages. Using Thunderbolt in this situation helps as it can push them clear out of combat even if they survive the shot itself.
A great Jack for clearing line of sight for either Caines, Siege or Sloan to assassinate.
An odd trick you can do with it when its in Sloans battlegroup is to run with the Avenger in its activation, and then when Sloan activates have her Feat and shoot to trigger a feat shot for the Avenger who is now further up the field and perhaps has now got a better line of sight.
It can also be very mean to run it on Gun Mages with eHaley as your Warcaster, cast Temporal Acceleration on it to knock down even more of their army!
Appologies if this is all super obvious or you all already knew this, I just want to try something new and get some of my ideas out there.
Please let me know your thoughts in the comments and let me know if you want more of these or not!


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What Is Worth Teaching?
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To cite this article: Kagan, S. What Is Worth Teaching? San Clemente, CA: Kagan Publishing. Kagan Online Magazine, Spring 2008. www.KaganOnline.com
"What we resolve to do in school only makes sense when considered in the broader context of what the society intends to accomplish through its educational investment in the young."
—Jerome S. Bruner, The Culture of Education
At a time when there is so much pressure on us to boost test scores, it would be wise to pause and ask a simple question: What do we most want to give our students?
If our students get a perfect score on the test, but do not take away from our class a love of learning, we have failed them. This is increasingly true as the change rate accelerates and our students will have to become life-long learners to be successful. Half of what an engineer learns in school is outdated five years after graduation. The content of our teaching is not as important as the process — we must ask if our students are acquiring the will and skill to continue the learning process?
But, as Daniel Goleman has so eloquently demonstrated, preparing our students for success demands they learn more than academic content and skills.1 The student who lacks knowledge and control of her/his own emotions, or who cannot understand and relate to the emotions of others, will not be successful on the job or in life.
What then, is our true mission as educators? I have been thinking about this for some time and have concluded that to give our students what they most need, and to make a better world, we need to fan five fires within each student. What are these five fires we want to burn brightly? Truth, Beauty, Empathy, Innovation, and Excellence.
A true statement is one that corresponds accurately to reality. Whether we ask a student what are some of the things that happened during the great depression or what are some of the things that happened right before the fight on the playground, we want them to respond with the truth. Truth has two sides: Knowing and being able to accurately describe external reality (What does the Bill of Rights guarantee? How did the prism cause the light to break into colors?) and accurately describing memories, perceptions, and feelings (How much time did you spend on your homework? Did you take Johnny's book? What did you feel when you didn't pass the test?). Searching for, accurately describing, and respecting both types of truth will make our students more successful and make it a better world.
It seems self-evident that as teachers we want to promote both truth seeking among our students as well as truthfulness. Who would argue that our students will be more successful if they think the sun rotates around the earth or if they respond dishonestly to others? Let's examine each of these two sides of truth.
Truth Seeking. When Einstein talks about Truth as an ideal that lighted his way, he is talking about the classic ideal of seeking the truth. He dedicated his life to seeking a true picture of how the world works. The search for truth is the motivation for scientific discovery. It is the basis for making wise decisions. If I know how the world really works, I will be more efficient in my actions. Making wise decisions is the basis for success on the job and in one's personal life.
How can we promote truth seeking among our students? How can we inspire in students a habit of mind that seeks to understand? The answer to this question is contained in a true anecdote from Einstein's life. One day Einstein was walking on the beach. He noticed how his feet sank into the warm fluffy sand. As he walked closer to the water's edge he noticed how his feet no longer sank into the sand — they were supported by the damp sand. He then waded into the water and noticed that his feet again sank into the sand beneath the water. He asked the question: Why? He thought about it and went back to write a formative paper: The properties of solids and liquids (water) and gas (air). How many of us have walked on the beach and had the same experience, but never asked the question? One difference between Einstein and most of us is that he asked the question. The way we can promote truth seeking among our students is to foster in them a habit of being curious, of generating questions.
Truth-Seeking Structures
Years ago Chuck Wiederhold and I worked together to develop the Q-Matrix. From the matrix we designed spinners and dice to promote student question generation. We found that within a few minutes of putting the dice in the hands of students of any age, we released curiosity. With these simple tools in hand, students can generate a fantastic range of questions about any academic content. There are many structures students can use with the Q-Dice. For example, a simple AllWrite RoundTable lets each student in turn roll the dice to generate a question that all students record. Later they can prioritize the questions in terms of importance or difficulty and/or plan how to answer them.¬Ý What many teachers today don'Äôt realize is that it is more important to foster student-generated questioning than it is to have our students give the correct answer to a teacher-generated question. Fostering questioning among our students is the royal road to making truth seeking a habit of mind.
One of the most important truth-seeking structures is Find My Rule. In Find My Rule the teacher places items into a graphic organizer without telling students the categories of the organizer. The simplest form is simply placing pictures, words, or objects in one of two boxes. The students work together using RallyRobin and RoundRobin to generate and test hypotheses about the rule the teacher is using to place the objects. Find My Rule has students practice the inductive thinking of a scientist who observes the world and generates and tests hypotheses about how the world works. When Find My Rule becomes a habit of mind, students become truth seekers.
Thoughtful educators have gravitated to the importance of fanning the fire of curiosity and truth seeking through fostering student questioning. Unfortunately, in the press to boost achievement, we are focusing too narrowly on having students give us correct answers. In the process, they learn to memorize and repeat back the answers we have given them. Do we really want a nation of parrots? — Or would we prefer a nation of truth seekers?
Truthfulness. To have our students be more successful in life and to create a better world, we want our students not only to seek truth, but also to tell the truth — we want to foster honesty. To tell the truth, to be forthright and honest, creates trust which is the foundation for successful interpersonal relations. If I am honest with others, they will come to trust me and I will not only maintain good relations, I will more likely become a leader. It is those we trust that we are more likely to follow.
If student-generated questions are the royal road to truth seeking, how can we best foster the other side of truthfulness — honesty? Perhaps the most important tool we have is ourselves. We are models for our students. If we are honest with our students, truly honest, they are more likely to be honest. There is tremendous power in self-disclosure. When we admit to our students that we found it difficult to solve a problem, we pave the road for their being more honest about their own difficulties, inadequacies, and fears.
For example, let's say a student is lying to us. We could say, "Don't lie to me." Alternatively we could disclose our feelings, "I have a hard time believing you right now, and I want to be able to trust you. I want the best for you. I want you to be truthful because I know that will serve you well throughout life. When you are honest, people will trust you and feel good about you."
Notice, in the first example the teacher communicates non-acceptance and gives the student no feedback about how dishonesty affects others. In the second example, the teacher models honesty and communicates acceptance of the student. The more we can accept students, the easier it is for them to accept themselves and to be honest.
Parents and teachers sometimes inadvertently push their students to be dishonest. Let's say a student does not feel like doing homework or a chore. If the student says, "I didn't do it because I didn't feel like doing it," the student may well be punished. If on the other hand, the student can come up with a good enough (albeit dishonest) excuse, the student may get out of the punishment. If the student's behavior has it's own predetermined consequence, we sidestep the trap of inadvertently rewarding dishonesty.
Structures for Honesty
Honesty is not best fostered by preaching about honesty in a one-time lesson; it is best fostered by having students practice honesty daily. We want to create honesty as a habit, not as a moral precept. There are a number of structures that we can use on a daily basis which in a few minutes have students practice honesty. For example, we might ask our students which problem on the homework gave them the most difficulty and why and have them share with a partner using a Timed Pair Share. In two minutes each student in the class has had the opportunity to practice honesty. As a team builder we might ask students to do a Timed RoundRobin each sharing for a minute a time they were really frightened, angry, or shy. Not only do they have the chance to practice self-disclosure and honesty, they bond with teammates because they learn others have similar emotions.
Empathy is another form of truth seeking — Seeking the truth about another. Empathetic understanding is among the very most important of all qualities for us to foster among our students.
Why should we elevate empathy to such a high position? Of all of the many social virtues, why emphasize empathy? Because from empathy springs all that is positive in human relations: caring, kindness, charity, cooperation, social responsibility, fairness, justice, understanding, tolerance, and respect. If we could only have every child leave our schools with a deeply developed capacity and habit of empathy, we would have succeeded in eliminating most sources of misery in the world.
To be truly empathetic is to do what philosophers of all ages have declared as the highest virtue: to treat others as we would hope to be treated, to seek win-win solutions. What is the difference between someone who stops to help the person who has tripped and the person who walks by? What is the difference between someone who tries to get as much for themselves as possible compared to the person who considers the outcomes for others as well as their own? The difference is empathy.
Brain science reveals we are biologically prepared for empathy. The discovery of mirror neurons is among the most important of all recent advances of neuroscience. When we watch someone pick up a glass, neurons fire in our brain as if we were picking up the glass. When we see a happy or disgusted face, neurons fire as if we were happy or disgusted. Mirror neurons explain the extraordinary importance of modeling as a method of teaching and explain why contagion of emotion is so common.
Mirror neurons that don't function well or that don't function at all explain the plight of the autistic student and the psychopath. An autistic child was asked at the dinner table, "Can you pass the salt?" The child answered in all innocence, "Yes," but did not move to pass the salt. What was wrong? The child failed to consider context and failed to register the emotional state of the other. The psychopath can harm others with no remorse. What is wrong? The psychopath does not feel the emotions of others. The fully developed person constantly monitors and responds to the emotions of others. And that person is not only more successful, but also creates a kinder, caring world.
A revealing set of experiments were carried out to test the effectiveness of punishment v. empathetic reasoning to reduce aggressive behavior. Parents were encouraged to either punish their students for being aggressive or to have them reflect on how their aggression made the other person feel. Children who were punished became more aggressive; those who developed their empathy because less aggressive. Why? Parents who punished were modeling aggression; their actions spoke louder than their words. Parents who had students practice empathy were modeling the use of impulse control but also were developing empathetic understanding. When empathy is fully developed, I can't hit someone without feeling hurt: Your pain is my pain. Empathy is a social cushion; it makes us not just individuals but part of a common humanity.
How can we fan the flame of human empathy? The more often we get our students to feel, really feel what it is like to be someone else, the more we create a habit of mind that will result in kindness and all its related positive social virtues.
We can develop the skill across the curriculum: What was the character feeling? Use Paraphrase Passport as you discuss in your teams what is going well and what is frustrating about your progress on your science experiment. I want you to just listen as I tell you how I have used long division in my life and afterwards, I want you to list ways long division has helped me. If you were the father of four and the stock market just crashed wiping out your life savings, what are some of the things you would be thinking and feeling?
If we elevate empathy to its proper place in our curriculum we will find many ways to make students more sensitive¬Ý to the thoughts and feelings of others. And when that happens, we will have created greater success for them and a better world.
Structures for Empathy
There are a number of structures we can use which further our academic content goals while at the same time fostering empathy. For example, all of the structures that cause students to reach consensus (Team Statement, All Write Consensus, Proactive Prioritizing) cause students to listen carefully to the ideas of others. The structure that is most clearly designed to foster empathy is Paraphrase Passport.
I have often done this experiment in workshops. I give a topic to participants to discuss, something I know they will have some strong feelings about. For example, I might have them talk about ways students have shown them disrespect, or whether or not they feel there should be a stronger dress code.¬Ý After about four minutes of discussion, I have them continue discussing the same topic, but introduce Paraphrase Passport. In that structure, to earn the right of anyone to speak, the person must accurately paraphrase the person who has spoken before them. Following the Paraphrase Passport, I ask participants whether the structure caused them to listen more carefully. All hands shoot up!¬Ý When we structure so our students are held accountable for empathetic listening, they develop that skill.
The world values beauty more than it does education. We pay huge sums for those who provide beauty in any form — play music, dance, paint, sculpt, photograph, craft jewelry, design clothes, design buildings. We are not satisfied with the building or bridge that is strong and functional, we demand they also be graceful. We pay more for the architect that creates space that is not just functional but also captures the light and inspires. We pay far more for the key ring that is elegantly designed than the key ring that is merely functional. Our musicians earn more than our engineers — we demand to be uplifted, to connect to our deeper self.
The appreciation and creation of beauty is innate. Bears have been observed climbing a hill simply for the opportunity to find a good viewing spot to sit down to observe the sunset. Whales show preference for certain kinds of art. Elephants given paint and a brush created paintings. Our ancestors drew on cave walls not just to tell stories, but to express what was important in their lives. Children with no instruction, given the opportunity, express themselves with crayons or paint and show great satisfaction when they have completed their creation. We have a drive to express ourselves not just with words but in myriad forms.
Yet in the press to boost achievement we define achievement so narrowly that beauty is not part of the formula. Why would we allow achievement in school to be defined as the ability to remember a date or perform a rote calculation, when at the same time we define achievement in society as the ability to create beauty in any of its myriad forms? If in the real world we demand bridges that are not just strong but also graceful, should we not help our students appreciate and produce beauty? Would they not be more successful and make a better world?
In many schools the panic over tests has resulted in cutting time and funds for music and art. How sad if this results in less inspired students and a duller world.
Importantly, those schools that have resisted the temptation to narrow the curriculum not only have happier students, but have students who perform better academically. Schools that were lagging academically and which adopted a multiple intelligences curriculum, without intending to boost achievement went from the bottom of their district to the top, and in some cases doubled the percentage of students reaching academic proficiency! Students who find in school a place to connect to their creative side, like school more and peform better across all courses.
How, then, shall we proceed to write beauty back into our educational plans? In our work in the area of multiple intelligences we have described in depth, ways to engage and develop the visual spatial and musical rhythmic intelligences. Without going into detail, I would suggest four approaches: Assessment, Integrated Curriculum, Appreciation, and Creative Expression.
Assessment. From the teacher's perspective, that which is tested gets taught. From the student's perspective, that which gets assessed gets mastered. It would be self-defeating to grade students creative expressions; we don't want students making a painting for a grade. We can, however, teach students to distinguish the instruments in an orchesteral piece and to recognize the styles of different painters, and if we assess their skills in this area it will ensure teaching and learning occurs. We show, through what we assess, what we value.
Integrated Curriculum. Across the curriculum there are myriad ways to promote the appreciation and production of beauty. When we study the great depression, why are we satisfied only with students who can pass verbal test questions about the facts? Should they not experience and relate to the paintings and music of the times? Why would we not have each student or student teams produce paintings, music, skits, mimes, and/or sculptures that capture the feeling of that era. The students will not only better remember the meaning of that unit, they will better remember associated facts.
This arguement can be extended to all traditional areas of the curriculum. We can give students feedback, not just on the accuracy of a geometry proof, but its elegance both in the number of steps and also in how it is laid out on the paper. Scientists talk about a beautiful experiment and what they mean is an experiment that is parsimonious in how it ruled out alternative hypotheses. Students can learn about and learn how to create beautiful experiments. They can study aesthetics with scientific methods. What are the elements that make a painting or piece of music perceived as beautiful? Why do we say this bridge is beautiful and that one not? We can teach scientific method while integrating beauty as the content.
Language arts lends itself in many ways to developing appreciation for and the creation of beauty. Students can respond to and produce poetry. They can study and practice using literary techniques. They can write about their reactions to beauty they find in a flower, dance, or movie. Once we open the door to include beauty in our curriculum, the possibilities are endless.
Appreciation. One of the most important findings of brain science for educators is 'ÄúUse it or lose it.'Äù¬Ý The brain is constantly rewiring itself and if sensory tracks are not used, we rewire ourselves so that portion of the brain is dedicated to other inputs. If we draw the attention of our students to aesthetics, they become more sensitive to the beauty that surrounds us. We can bring beauty into the classroom in the form of a butterfly, a flower, a painting, or a sonnet and have students study it and respond in any number of ways.¬Ý Alternatively, we can send students out to find beauty in any of its many forms. They can photograph, sketch, draw, or create a model of a beautiful building, landscape, or sunrise. The more we do this, the richer will be their lives and the richer will be the lives of those around them as they in turn draw attention to the beautiful gifts of nature and mankind.
Creative Expression. Typically we have fostered creative expression through art and music classes. With proper instruction, students without special gifts can perform at extraordinary levels. Howard Gardner has been one of the most important advocates for schools to develop musical and artistic skills he calls intelligences. His description of what is possible should be an inspiration for us to set our goals higher. He provides a glowing description of his visit in 1980 to the Suzuki Talent Education Center in Matsumoto, Japan.
Gardner describes ordinary preschoolers performing like exceptional prodigies. Where would our students be, where would our world be if we elevated beauty to a primary place among the goals of education?
If we truly would give beauty its proper place in the curriculum, we would expand the opportunities for students to create beauty in its many forms. A rich curriculum would afford students opportunities to express themselves by crafting jewelry, designing clothes, making model homes and skyscrapers, performing dances, decorating rooms, and creating flower gardens. If we did, the lives of our students would be immeasurably enriched, the lives of those around them would benefit, and they would like and perform better in school. What we value in life, we should value in school.
Structures for Beauty
Part of the ability to appreciate and produce beauty is attention to detail. A number of structures are designed to orient students to detail. Same Different has students focus on the details within drawings of objects; Match Mine has students focus on the details of the relations among objects. Another skill related to the appreciation and production of beauty is the ability to visualize what one will paint, perform, or play. Both Guided Imagery and Visualization develop that skill. Perhaps the structure most directly related to the appreciation and production of beauty is Observe-Draw-RallyRobin. Each student observes an object, draws it, and then shares their drawing with a partner. The structure can be modified to foster visualization by removing the object from view during the Draw step, or it can foster attention to detail by keeping the object in view.
If we look around and ask who has been successful and who has improved the lot of mankind, we gravitate not just to those who create beauty, but also to those who have been innovative. The ability to create the proverbial "better mousetrap" certainly is partly a genetic gift, but it certainly is partly a gift we, as teachers, can give our students. When we have a student do a project, our eye should be not just on the facts and information our students acquire, but also on whether we are fostering the spirit of innovation. The spirit of innovation can be taught.
Those students who acquire the will and skill to be innovative will be the ones to make a better tomorrow for themselves and for the rest of us. If it were not for the spirit of innovation, we would not have eliminated polio, flown to the moon, figured out how to control inflation without creating unemployment, designed cars that run on corn or water, or have come up with Velcro or sticky notes. The products of innovation surround us, improving our lives daily. How innovative will our students be? How can we increase the probability each of our students will leave class more likely to make the next innovative breakthrough?
How can we make our students more innovative? It turns out that innovation is a meta-curricula. It can be developed while we teach anything. It is a habit of mind.
We ask our students, as individuals or teams, to create a plan to solve a world problem such as global warming, pollution, extinction of an endangered species, or poverty. We tell them their plan will be evaluated, in part, on how innovative it is. Does it include ideas not previously thought of?
We place before our students, as individuals or in student teams, four objects: a sheet of paper, a paper clip, a Styrofoam cup, and some scotch tape. Then we lay down a challenge: What can you make from these in then next ten minutes. If we want to foster cooperation, we tell student teams that each teammate is in charge of one of the objects and is the only one who can touch that object.
We give each student five words: Run, Typewriter, Beanbag, Gorgeous, and Listless. We lay down a challenge. You have five minutes. What is the most innovative paragraph you can write incorporating those five words?
We give students a physical challenge: How quickly can you toss a ball so each student in the class catches it. You have five tries, and we will record your time each attempt. Your goal is to beat your own record each time.
As we give our students problems in math, science, language arts, social studies, and physical education, our eye needs to be not just on their ability to solve the problem at hand, but rather on whether we have fostered in our students the spirit of innovation. How well have we made innovation a habit of mind?
Schooling is incomplete if it does not instill in our students a drive for excellence. Too often we ask our students if they have completed an assignment without asking if they have done the very best they can.
As an employer, I watch who excels and who does not. One of the most distinguishing variables: Those with a drive to do their best compared to those who merely want to complete their job. Pride in excellence drives innovation and improvement. If we want to serve our students well and make a better world, our curriculum needs to instill the drive toward excellence.
The drive toward excellence is a meta-curricula, an attitude toward all that we teach. We want to create a habit of mind that always asks, have I done this as well as I can? Can I improve on what I am doing? If we are to do our best for our students, this attitude needs to pervade our curriculum. Students need to ask if they have mastered as fully as they can an understanding of the academic curriculum. The goal is not that they master the curriculum better (although that would be a great by-product), but rather that they leave school with a drive for excellence. This attitude needs to extend not just to the academic curriculum, but also to understanding others and the range of aesthetic appreciations and expressions. Have I fully grasped the artist's intent? Do I really understand how my study buddy is feeling? Have I made my essay as convincing and complete as it can be? Does my pottery have the grace I would most like?
Paradoxically the drive for excellence, to do better, must be coupled with self-acceptance or it will be self-defeating. None of us can successfully strive to be the best we can be if at the same time we do not accept who we are. Without self-acceptance, the drive for excellence becomes a hammer with which we beat ourselves on the head: I will never be good enough. What we want to instill is the feeling that I have done the best I can to this point, but with time and effort I can improve. The more we accept ourselves, the more we can advance from that position without falling into depression. To realize that we do not measure up to our own highest standards without a basic feeling of self-acceptance is a prescription for discouragement and giving up.
How can we create this attitude? By accepting our students for where they are and communicating that acceptance, while at the same time getting them to question themselves as to how they might improve. When we validate our present postion, we have more energy to move forward from that position.
The attitude I am describing is related to humility. As we read Einstein's writing, it is pervaded with a sense of humility. He speaks of "A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds…." He knew with his best efforts he could only very dimly grasp the way the world is. This humility, this always knowing we could do better, is associated with the willingness to continually strive to improve. What would our world be like if each individual were to strive for excellence in all pursuits?
How successful would our students be in life and how much would the world be improved if our students left school with excellence as a habit of mind? We want excellence as an internal mantra: How could I improve — Make a better photo, sonata, poem, or juggling performance? How could I better grasp what another experiences? Gain a deeper, truer representation of reality? Create a more beautiful expression?
In the drive to boost test scores, we forget that the most important outcomes of schooling are not content, but creating within each pupil a process — a habit of mind that will serve them well for life.
Structures for Excellence
Many cooperative learning structures increase the drive for excellence among students because they are held individaully accountable. For example, in Showdown students each solve a problem on their own, then show their teammates what they have done. Because they will be held accountable to their peers for their performance, they try harder than if they were working solo. A number of structures hold students accountable for doing their best on their part of a problem. For example, in Blind Sequencing students in turn each have to describe their card as well as possible and deduce the order of the card in the sequence for their team to succeed. In Jigsaw Problem Solving students have to use the clue provided by their card to advance progress toward the solution of the problem, and then get feedback from their peers.
The drive for excellence is fostered by structures in a number of ways: Because students receive peer encouragement and support, they are more motivated and more successful, so students who otherwise would give up, find they can succeed. And success increases self-confidence and motivation which in turn increase future successes, so students become more willing to tackle more difficult problems. Knowing "I can do it" promotes the drive toward excellence.
A Question
I have not been sharing in this essay anything new or even anything most of us have not known and thought about. I am hoping only to have shined a brighter light on what I think is our noble mission as educators. To be all we hope to be for our students and for the world, we might well ask ourselves a question each day:
In which ways, today, will I instill in my students a passion to seek understanding of the world, themselves, and others, to be truthful, to appreciate and create beauty, to be innovative, and to strive for excellence in all they do?
These ruminations about the goal of schooling make me conclude that we would do well to focus far more on process and far less on content. There is an important truth in the witticism: "Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school." We cannot predict the content our students will need to think about, but we can predict with relative certainty the habits of mind that will serve them well. The measure of our success is far less what our students learn than what they become.
To help our students become all they are capable of, we, ourselves, have to be innovative and strive for excellence. To the extent we refocus on the true goals of education, to that extent we will have reclaimed the nobility of our profession.
If all of our students could pass all of our present tests with flying colors, yet have no passion or ability to understand and care for others, no respect for honesty, no ability to appreciate or produce beauty, and no passion for innovation, would we be satisfied? And if not, then our tests are either too narrow or there are legitamate goals of education best not measured by tests 'Äî or both!¬Ý
Let's prepare our students not for tests, but for life.


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Release of accommodation data for May confirms growth in the tourism sector was strong across all regions in the months before the arrival of the Lions rugby team.
The total number of guest nights in the 3 months to May was 2.8% higher than year-earlier levels. More noticeable was the nearly 5% surge in the number of international visitor nights.
Large contributions to this growth came from international visitors to Auckland, Otago (which includes Queenstown) and, interestingly, the Central North Island.
Although the Central North Island accounts for a relatively small number of the total guests nights (less than 3% of the nationwide total), it has accounted for more than 11% of recent growth. Further, this does not seem a 'flash in the pan' occurrence. The chart below indicates a sustained upswing over the past couple of years, following a lengthy period of no growth. While the popularity of the Tongariro Crossing has been long established, this data suggests further attractions (Whanganui River and cycle trails) may be encouraging an increasing number of overnight stays in the area.
In a similar vein, the also noticeable contribution to growth from visitors to Northland is another region currently punching above its weight. Its 8% contribution to growth contrasts with the relatively small number of guest nights in total – only 4% of the nationwide total.
Amongst other regions, strong contributions from West Coast, Canterbury, and the Top of the South confirm promising levels of activity in the South Island tourism sector. This is doubly reassuring noting the transport and other infrastructure disruptions subsequent to the Kaikoura earthquakes.
In contrast, there are only small contributions to recent growth from the Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions. These areas include popular tourist attractions (Hobbiton and Rotorua). The picture here though indicates these areas are not attracting increased overnight stays. From a nationwide perspective, this may not necessarily be bad, as efforts to improve the regional dispersal of tourist activity and utilise infrastructure (including accommodation) already present in other areas.
Further evidence of heightened activity in the accommodation sector is seen in occupancy rates data. In particular, in each of the first 5 months of the year occupancy rates were higher than for those in the comparable months of 2016.
And this has occurred across all accommodation types. Average occupancy rate in hotels over the first 5 months was recorded at 74.1%, compared to 72.5% a year earlier. Similarly, motel occupancy was at 67.1% this year compared to 64.4% last year; backpacker occupancy was up at 51.2% this year from the 50.5% last year; and holiday parks occupancy up at 25.2% from 23.6% last year.


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Tuesday, April 05, 2016
Bienvenue a Paris - a Counterfeit Kit Club page
So I created the entrance to Paris page for my scrapbook with my Counterfeit Kit, Les Voyageurs.
I mean, who could not love a city who welcomes you with a sunset like this?! Paris was always my dream vacation, and it came true in 2011 when my husband and I traveled to France, among Ireland and Spain. It was everything I had imagined (except maybe a bit more walking...), and we both LOVED the city. I definitely want to return and take my kids someday (Disneyland Paris, anyone?).
Here are a few details:
I used my Cricut to write the type on the cardstock. I then just clustered a few groupings of embellishments and cut a decorative border from my Cricut as background to the photo.
Grey cardstock - Craftsmith by Michaels
Patterned Cardstock & stamp by DCWV
Wood veneer by Heidi Swapp
Stamp by 7 Gypsys
Thanks for looking! Merci!
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Wow! What an amazing photo..and such a perfect, clean layout to show it off.ReplyDelete
Great photo! I couldn't stop taking photos of the Eiffel tower when I was there in 2009.It was a dream for me too. Your layout is fabulous,I like the lettering on your title.ReplyDelete
WOW indeeed - what a stunning photo. I love how you have kept the page full of white space to let it havefull impact, but on closer inspection there are lots of fine details to enjoy too ...ReplyDelete
Yes, it a fabulous photo and you've shown such grace in restraint of how you scrapped it. Fabulous.ReplyDelete
It's a perfect introduction to your Paris pages - it looks like a very classy brochure cover! So glad your dream city did not disappoint :DReplyDelete
Fabulous - it's one of my favourite cities in the world! Great intro page with that gorgeous photo. I really like that little string wrapped veneer - will have to remember that idea!ReplyDelete


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The "Internet of Things" (IoT) refers to the connectivity of physical objects to the internet. Recent developments in smart technology allow everything from wrist watches to industrial equipment to establish a wireless internet connection. This is an evolution of machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. Greater connectivity allows businesses to passively generate and collect data as well as automate more industrial and manufacturing processes.
A comprehensive list of possible applications and a description of the technology required for these IoT applications can be found in chapter 7 & 8 of Internet of Things - Global Technological and Societal Trends.
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Winter Brambles
Bramble stems in leaf,
untidy lines of a poem
with hooked thorns
snagging clothes and hands,
older stems, purple as wet ink,
spreading through trees
and over dried leaves.
Today I've cut them to the ground,
till my old dry hands too dripped bloody ink.
So now from easy garden paths
trees are skeletal, architectural.
But Wild and Waiting
the brambles soon regrow,
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Preparing for the Long-Term Digital Future of Libraries
Breeding, Marshall, Computers in Libraries
Let's turn the calendar forward a decade or so and consider that libraries might face relative changes that might take place in the reading and entertainment materials that make up their collections. We can project at least some aspects of this world based on trends well underway today. Although many things could happen to impact the kinds of change and the timetables, it's important to begin thinking now about long-term library futures.
The Shift to Digital Formats
The obvious changes to anticipate involve major shifts toward digital formats, distributed through license arrangements, rather than physical materials available for purchase. Different types of materials created by different publishing niches will each travel toward this destination on their own timeline, but it seems clear, at least by what's happening today, that scholarly journals, newspapers and other periodicals, books, music, and movies are all headed in this common direction.
Serials and periodicals. These kinds of materials were the earliest to get on the track toward all-digital distribution. Even today, most academic libraries have largely experienced the transition of their scholarly journals from print to electronic versions. Many of the university libraries that I'm familiar with have replaced the expansive ranges of bound serials and periodicals with subscription ejournal products. Extensive, often comprehensive, backfiles provide convenient access to this material, though libraries continue to struggle with the rising costs of ejournal content, despite its transformation to fully digital publishing and distribution methods once believed to have the opportunity to drastically reduce expense.
In the scholarly publishing arena, we can anticipate a greater variety of business arrangements, such as open access publishing, where authors pay publishing costs to support perpetual free access to the materials. We might anticipate a vigorous competition between commercial publishers and universities that selfpublish their scholarly output. The scholarly publishing sector has many different dynamics in motion, making it difficult to predict its shape in the relatively long-term future.
Music and other audio materials. The music industry has gone through a tumultuous history since it encountered the digital fray. Today, rampant peer-to-peer sharing outside the bounds of official commerce and copyright restrictions has largely been beaten down, now replaced by legal streaming services. In a decade or so, CDs and other physical media will have largely gone extinct, or at least relegated to the niche of aficionados or collectors. By that time, even lesser-known artists will depend on publishing through internet streaming services rather than CDs or other formats. It seems fairly safe to anticipate an all-digital future for commercial music publishing.
Movies, documentaries, and other video content. These holdings will follow much the same trajectory as music. Streaming video services, which are gaining steam today, will dominate entirely in the years and decades to come. Blu-ray, the latest of the physical media formats for video, may never achieve critical mass before streaming comes to dominate. Manuscripts and photographs.
Manuscripts, photographs, and other historical materials will likewise enjoy benefits through comprehensive digitization in the coming decades. While advanced researchers may continue to appreciate access to the original objects, the vast majority of scholars will find that digital technologies unlock these treasures more than was ever possible in times when constrained by physical access. During my recent visit to Leipzig, for example, I learned how the famous Codex Sinaiticus was published digitally in the last year through a collaboration of The British Library, Leipzig University Library, the National Library of Russia, and the Monastery of St. Catherine in Mount Sinai to bring together many different fragments of an important historic artifact--fragments that had long been separated (http://codex sinaiticus. …


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My little monster has been quite ill over the weekend. We've been housebound since friday and I can tell you the walls are closing in one me! The silver lining of spending all my time between these four walls is of course sewing! I finished my mini quilt for the Doll Quilt Swap. Here it is all bound and quilted, still in need of a label and a name perhaps? Suggestions are welcome!
I've grown to love this little quilt. It's been quite a challenge to come up with something I hope my partner will like. Judging from the extensive stalking I have done she has quite different tastes from mine. But she, like most of us in the swap, would like for her partner to make something they love. So I tried to do both. A little bit of my likes combined with some things I think she likes...lets hope I didn't get it wrong!
I ended up making something quite different from my initial idea but I still really wanted to execute the 'ceci n'est pas un coq' quilt. So I made this mug rug. It's pathetic if you're the one laughing hardest at your own joke, I know! But it makes me laugh everytime I see it.
Something completely different; Kat is hosting a series of posts by different guest bloggers Good Etiquette for the Modern Blogger Today's day two so there's only one day's worth of cathing up, it's very interesting to read!
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
~about a doll quilt, a mug rug and good etiquette~
Geplaatst door {Leila}Where the Orchids Grow op 11:52
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Leila I love your doll quilt its beautiful! I'm sure your partner will love it too!ReplyDelete
Your mug rug made me giggle love it. Dq very pretty too, I have no ideas for names, sorry !ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness that doll quilt is BEAUTIFUL! Love love love it!ReplyDelete
And thanks for the publicity! Really glad you're enjoying the week :)
I love your doll quilt, it makes me think of patience as all seems to be moving but not the bird.ReplyDelete
It's really lovely, I wish that would come to me! Your partner is very lucky!!ReplyDelete
Your doll quilt is beautiful -- and I love the mug rug (well-made, smart and naughty...what else can one ask for?). Nice work!ReplyDelete
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Jordin Sparks is the new American Idol.
The 17-year-old from Glendale, Arizona bested Washington state native Blake Lewis to become the youngest champion in the show's six-year history.
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