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Whew!! What a week! We had a CRAZY busy week learning about the rainforest jaguars, making our moms some wicked cool plates for Mother's Day, and celebrating Teacher's Appreciation Week (well, that was actually all about me, and it was AWESOME!)
Here are our jaguars from my Rainforest Art and Writing Unit...they are ADORBS!
|This guy has squatty legs! HEEHEE!
|Her spots are FABULOUS!
|I LOVE these WHISKERS!!
|Like the chain he added hanging from his pants? Straight thuggin' it!
|Hmmmm, Jack Skellington eyes??
|Or maybe the sideways smirk?
|Love Little Miss MisMatch bows and shoes!
It's not too late!! You can make these too! All you need are glass plates from IKEA or the Dollar Tree, tissue paper, and modpodge (naturally!) and you are good to go! See my post from last year if you want to make the best Mom's Day gift EVER!! :)
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This camera is light, portable, TOTALLY user friendly and projects SUPER clear images. All you have to do is connect it to the USB port on your computer and it comes right up. Here is mine on my computer desk......
You can take a photo of what you're projecting and save it to your computer (AWESOME, right??) take a video (Hello, video tutorials!), focus the image, rotate it, and all of these things happen with the click of a button!!
Here is another view of it from the front...
Isn't it cute?? I also like how well it projects onto my SMART board. Here is a pic from the kid's perspective... The image is HUGE!
These projection cameras retail for $200, which is CHEAP AS CHIPS when it comes to Doc Cameras! If you don't have one yet, I HEARTILY recommend the LUNA Interactive Projection Camera from Learning Resources.
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November 2015
Weather still mostly mild. I picked 2 more chilli peppers from an unheated greenhouse today Lots of flowers everywhere and very colourful. No frosts so far but lots of wind and rain.
March 2016
As I am finding it difficult to post on Blogger from my IPad I have decided that I will use Facebook for future posts of Maureens Garden.
Here are a few final photos for the Blog in this form
A cat in my daughters garden in snowy Wisconsin
Daffodils at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight

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Hinomaru Tarou: Musha Shugyou no Maki
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The hero Taro attempts to rescue a kidnapped girl from a bandit. Short film from 1936.
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text: Originally conceived by director Pete Doctor long before Monsters Inc. proved an enormous hit for Pixar, this animated short follows playful beasties Mike and Sully as they attempt to master a state-of-the-art six-wheel drive car featuring all of the latest gadgets. Now that Mike has established himself as a true star in Monsters, Inc and played a pivotal role in solving the energy crisis that plagued Monstropolis, he has decided to reap the rewards of his newfound stardom by purchasing a fancy new car. When Mike's road test takes a frustrating detour and Sully proves that monsters and motors don't mix, the two friends quickly determine to make their way to work by foot for the time being.


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Although the Harlequin Illusions 'Pinetti' Wine Bottle Rack might appear to make wine bottles disappear before your eyes, the reality is that it will actually keep your collection safe and sound.
Designed by Tony Potter, the wine rack is capable of holding up to 12 bottles of wine at a time in a clean, sturdy design. With bottles placed within, the wine rack appears to cross-section the bottles and make the middle portion inside the unit disappear.
Bringing a touch of whimsy to an everyday product, the Harlequin Illusions 'Pinetti' Wine Bottle Rack plays with optics by utilizing strategically placed mirrors to create the illusion. The solid wood premium wine racks are made by hand in Virginia to ensure the utmost attention to detail.
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An Interview with The Fabulous Christiana Baffour-Awuah, Co-Founder of Rumy's Breakfast
About me…
My name is Christiana Baffour Awuah. I am the third and last child of my parents. My parents are both Christians and business persons. I attended St. Monica's Senior High School and then the University for Development Studies (UDS) to study Integrated Business Studies (Accounting option). Currently, I am a National Service Personnel and I run my business on the side. I love swimming although I can't swim very well, and then watching television.
My childhood dream…
When I was young, I loved female doctors because I love to see them in their dresses and coats anytime I go to the hospital. It looked so nice to be a female doctor especially when attending to patients and I always wished to be a female doctor one day. Along the line, I happened to be in the business class so I had to tow the line of what I was studying; I couldn't pursue my childhood dream.
Why we started…
What really made us start this business on campus was because there wasn't anything like that on campus. Before I went to university, my mum gave me an oven with an electric hub and I took it along with me when I was going to school. I wasn't using the oven in Level 100, I was only using the burner. When I got to level 200, I had a roommate who studied Home Economics in SHS and knew a little about baking. She suggested we use the oven to make pastries for ourselves and use the pastries for our breakfast and I agreed to this. For a semester we were baking for ourselves. We were using the pastries for breakfast and at times added it to drinks for lunch.
In Level 300, I had a different roommate called Juwairiah Korkor Narh. I discussed what I had learned from my previous roommate with her since I felt it could be a viable business. This is because during the period my previous roommate and I used to bake, friends and neighbours would come to our room just to get some to eat and they were enjoying the pastries. My friends encouraged me to make them in bulk for sale. I suggested it to my roommate and we decided to give it a try to see the patronage. The first day, we made sixteen pieces and it sold out, therefore we continued making and selling. Later on we were baking for programs especially during SRC week and other programs.
The main motive for us baking on campus was because there wasn't anything like that on campus and the students needed something like that. At that time all what we had was bread which was usually available in the evening around 5:30pm to 6.00pm so we had to buy the bread in the evening for breakfast the next day. On the other hand, we were baking the pastries early in the morning; we made fresh pie so the students could get them fresh. That is how we started Rumy's Breakfast on campus and along the line, we got more ideas, we were improvising and we were making it big.
How we started our business…
Rumy's Breakfast started when I was in my third year in the University. I started with Juwairiah, thus the name Rumy's because it was a roommates thing.. When we started, it was only pastries so we called it Rumy's Pastries. We were baking in large quantities for the students and for programs when we had orders and contracts. Whilst we were in school, we were thinking of ways to make it bigger.
Once I told Juwairiah, that I believe if we really concentrate on it and we really devote ourselves to Rumy's one day it could be our only job and we wouldn't need to work for anyone. So we thought of it and really motivated ourselves right from there; we didn't need anyone to motivate us. Although some people tried to talk us out of it we were ready to do anything to make it survive irrespective of our challenges, we are still willing to make Rumy's survive.
What we do…
Rumy's Breakfast serves already prepared breakfast in traffic. Our main motive is to serve people who are going to their workplaces very early and probably couldn't have their breakfast at home. If they pass by any of our stands, they can get our pack to take to their office and enjoy. We serve everybody. For the breakfast we have already prepared oats, tom brown, wheat, oblayo, hausa koko, rice porridge and white porridge. Currently, we are operating in three stands, we have one at Ridge just beside Rattary Park, another at Nhiayeso at the GRIDCO junction and the last one on the path from Danyame to Adum all in Kumasi, Ghana. We serve you with your delightful food so enjoy our meals whenever you get them.
Do I feel shy selling in traffic?
Well, that is quite a challenge because it's human nature to feel shy in such circumstances especially in the beginning, considering the fact that we graduated not too long ago from the university. All the same we have been able to manage the situation quite well. There were instances where I would say to my partner, 'what if my lecturer or one of our mates just passed by and saw us selling in traffic, what would they say and how would that feel like?', then we would laugh over it with a silly joke. It's not an easy thing to do, again considering 'snobbish customers' who would greet you with a frown, anger or 'that face' (I don't know what to call that lol). It kind of breaks you within but you quickly have to gather that courage and with a smile move on to yet another customer because we know what we want and why we're doing what we're doing.
That "purpose" keeps us going putting all shyness away because I believe there's no word such as "shyness" in doing a job to achieve a dream.
Thank you
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Source: The Fabulous Woman Network Facebook page
Interview conducted by Ama Duncan, Founder of The Fabulous Woman Network
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Rear Adm. Grace Murray Hopper, who dedicated her life to the Navy, passed away Jan. 1, 1992. She was 85. As a pioneer in computer languages and co-inventor of COBOL (common business-oriented language), she was known as the "Grand Lady of Software," "Amazing Grace" and "Grandma COBOL." Hopper is remembered for her now famous saying, "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
It's only fitting that Grace Brewster Murray was born between two memorable events — the Wright Brothers' first successful power-driven flight in 1903—and Henry Ford's introduction of the Model T in 1908. Taught by her father at an early age to aim for whatever she wanted to achieve, Hopper's life consisted of one professional success after another, including the significant contributions she made in computer languages and software development while working in industry and in her service to the U.S. Navy.
Hopper's early diligence and hard work paid off when in 1928 at the age of 22 she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College. She then attended Yale University, where she received an MA degree in mathematics and physics in 1930 and a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1934. Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931 — where her first year's salary was $800. She remained at Vassar teaching until she joined the United States Naval Reserve in December 1943.
Upon graduation from UNSR Midshipman's School-W at Northampton, Massachusetts, she was commissioned a lieutenant (junior grade) and ordered to the Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project at Harvard University. There she became the first programmer on the Navy's Mark I computer, the mechanical miracle of its day. Hopper's love of gadgets caused her to immediately fall for the biggest gadget she'd ever seen, the 51- foot long, 8-foot high, 8-foot wide, glass-encased mound of bulky relays, switches and vacuum tubes called the Mark I. This miracle of modern science could store 72 words and perform three additions every second.
Hopper's love affair with the Mark I ended a few short years later when the UNIVAC I, operating a thousand times faster, won her affections.
In 1946, Hopper was released from active duty and joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where her work continued on the Mark II and Mark III computers for the Navy. In 1949, she joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in Philadelphia — later called Sperry Rand — where she designed the first commercial large-scale electronic computer called the UNIVAC I.
Hopper changed the computer industry by developing the Bomarc system, later called COBOL (common-business-oriented language). COBOL made it possible for computers to respond to English words rather than numbers. Hopper often jokingly explained, "It really came about because I couldn't balance my checkbook." [Editor's Note: By the 1970s, COBOL was the "most extensively used computer language" in the world, according to Yale University's website article "Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992): A legacy of innovation and service."]
Hopper is credited with coining the term "bug" when she traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay. The bug was carefully removed and taped to a daily logbook. Since then, whenever a computer has a problem, it's referred to as a bug.
Hopper reluctantly retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of commander at the end of 1966 due to U.S. Navy age restrictions. She was recalled to active duty in August of 1967 for what was supposed to be a six-month assignment at the request of Norman Ream, then Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy for Automatic Data Processing. After the six months were up, her orders were changed to read her services would be needed indefinitely. She was promoted to captain in 1973 by Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, Jr., Chief of Naval Operations. In 1977, Hopper was appointed special advisor to Commander, Naval Data Automation Command (NAVDAC), where she remained until she retired in 1986.
In 1983, a bill was introduced by Rep. Philip Crane (D-Ill.), who said, "It is time the Navy recognized the outstanding contributions made by this officer recalled from retirement over a decade and a half ago and promote her to the rank of commodore." Crane became interested in Hopper after seeing her March 1983 "60 Minutes" TV interview. He would never meet Hopper, but after speaking with several people regarding Hopper's naval service, was convinced that she was due flag officer status. The bill was approved by the House, and at the age of 76, she was promoted to commodore by special Presidential appointment. Her rank was elevated to rear admiral in November 1985, making her one of the few women admirals in the history of the U.S. Navy at that time.
Sept. 27, 1985, the Navy Regional Data Automation Center (now the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station), San Diego, broke ground on a 135,577 square-foot data processing facility, The Grace Murray Hopper Service Center. The building contains a data processing center as well as training facilities, teleconferencing capabilities, telecommunications and expanded customer service areas. A room-sized museum contains numerous artifacts, awards and citations that Hopper received during her lengthy career. The guestbook contains the names of several prominent individuals paying tribute to the computer pioneer. There is also a Grace Murray Hopper Center for Computer Learning at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, where she spent her childhood summers.
Hopper was 80 years-old when she retired again involuntarily from the Navy. The ceremony was held in Boston on the USS Constitution, fulfilling Hopper's final request before retirement. Three hundred friends and admirers and 30 family members attended to watch the culmination of her distinguished 43-year Navy career.
As then Secretary of the Navy John Lehman said in his remarks, "I'm reminded of that famous story by P.T. Barnum. About the turn of the century, his principle attraction, the human cannonball, came to P.T. Barnum and said, `Mr. Barnum, I just can't take it any longer. Two performances a day and four on weekends are just too much. I'm quitting.' Barnum said, `You can't possibly quit. Where will I find someone else of your caliber?' They [U.S. Navy] realized Hopper was irreplaceable."
In Hopper's retirement speech, instead of dwelling on the past, she talked about moving toward the future, stressing the importance of leadership. "Our young people are the future. We must provide for them. We must give them the positive leadership they're looking for... You manage things; you lead people."
At Hopper's retirement she received the highest award given by the Department of Defense — the Defense Distinguished Service Medal — one of the innumerable awards and honors that she received during her lifetime from the Navy, academia, professional organizations, and industry.
Other awards include the Navy Meritorious Service Medal and the Legion of Merit. Hopper also received the first computer sciences "Man of the Year" award from the Data Processing Management Association (DPMA) in 1969. Other achievements include, retiring from the Navy as a rear admiral at 79, the oldest serving officer at that time, and being the first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University. As Capt. Grace Hopper, head of the Navy Programming Section in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OP-911F), she was the first woman in the Naval Reserve to be called back to active duty.
Retirement didn't slow Hopper down. Shortly thereafter, she became a senior consultant at Digital Equipment Corporation where she was active until about 18 months before her death. Hopper continued in much the same manner as she did when she was in the Navy, traveling on lecture tours around the country, speaking at engineering forums, colleges, universities and computer seminars passing on the message that managers shouldn't be afraid of change. In her opinion, The most damaging phrase to [progress] is: "We've always done it this way."
Hopper said many times, "I always promise during my talks that if anyone in the audience says during the next 12 months, 'But we've always done it that way,' I will immediately materialize beside him and haunt him for the next 24 hours and see if I could get him to take a second look." Always embracing the unconventional, the clock in Hopper's office ran counterclockwise.
The admiral's favorite age group to address was young people between the ages of 17 and 20. She believed they know more, question more, and learn more than people in what she called the "in-between years," of ages 40 to 45. She always placed very high importance on American youth and education.
Hopper often said, "Working with youth is the most important job I've done. It's also the most rewarding." This attribution fits Hopper's character perfectly since she spent her entire adult life teaching others.
Hopper was a big hit with attendees at the Navy Micro Conferences in the 1980s. She loved to tell the story of how the conference started based on her famous quip, "It's always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
Here's the story: A Sailor in the Pacific Fleet built a computer aboard his ship. A picture of the computer appeared in Navy Times where a rear admiral saw it. The admiral wrote the Sailor a letter of encouragement. The Sailor then decided to answer the rear admiral directly, telling him exactly what was wrong with computers in the Pacific Fleet and what could be done using microcomputers. (The computer infrastructure at that time was built around bulky mainframe computers.)
As events evolved, the Sailor was transferred to the Navy Regional Data Automation Center (NARDAC) in Norfolk, Virginia, now called Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic, where his technical expertise could be fully utilized. He was part of the team that launched the first microcomputer conference in 1982.
A five-point plan was developed that centered around the microcomputer contracts [issued by the Navy at that time]. The conferences provided a forum where users could exchange information and lessons learned and learn how to operate the new microcomputers and applications being rolled out across the Navy.
What started off as a small seminar for 400 people working in naval computing that first year, grew into a full-blown conference, averaging more than 1,000 attendees every year. It wasn't until the third year of holding the conference that it was approved by the Navy.
CHIPS magazine grew as a result of this same five-point plan. In an effort to communicate and connect with even more microcomputer users, NARDAC Norfolk leadership decided to start a newsletter in 1982, then called Chips Ahoy. Neither the Navy Micro Conferences nor CHIPS magazine might have been started if someone didn't take the initiative first, and worry about asking permission later, as Admiral Hopper advised.
Grace Hopper was a keynote speaker for the conference in its earlier years, drawing standing-room-only crowds. Although Hopper talked about familiar themes, people were fascinated by her. Hopper's legendary lectures challenged management to keep pace with changes in technology. The Navy Micro Conference morphed into the Connecting Technology Conferences in the 1990s, still alternating between the east and west coasts, and still stressing Hopper's unique message: Be innovative, open-minded and give people the freedom to try new things.
Due to her talent as an educator, Hopper enchanted her audiences with tales of the computer evolution and her uncanny ability to predict the trends of the future. Many of her predictions came to fruition during her lifetime as industry built more powerful, more compact machines and developed the operating systems and software that allowed average individuals to own and operate a computer.
Some of Hopper's more innovative ideas include using computers to track the lifecycle of crop eating locusts and building computers for weather forecasting, managing water reserves, and tracking the waves at the bottom of the ocean. She also thought every Navy ship should have a computer that the crew could learn to use.
I never met Grace Hopper, but I did see her at Navy Micro '87. She passed by with an entourage, smoking an [unfiltered] Lucky Strike cigarette as she often did. You could hear people whispering, "There she is," as she passed by.
My first impression of her was that of a friendly, grandmotherly-type woman who looked almost frail. Those words don't exactly describe the public side of Grace Hopper. She was described by one reporter as a "feisty old salt who gave off an aura of power." This held true in Hopper's dealings with top brass, subordinates and interviewers — she was always interested in getting to the bottom line.
One dream Hopper didn't fulfill was living to the age of 94. She wanted to be here Dec. 31, 1999, for the "New Year's Eve to end all New Year's Eve parties." Hopper said she wanted to be able to look back at the early days of the computer and say to all the doubters, "See? We told you the computer could do all that!"
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was laid to rest with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery
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Adisar Media grows with Pablo and GenePool
Spanish production and post facility doubles its post facilities with Quantel
Last Updated: October 31, 2012 10:28 am GMT
(Newbury, UK--October 31, 2012) Adisar Media, the Madrid full-service production and post production facility, has invested in a Quantel Pablo color correction and finishing system and a Quantel GenePool. The new Pablo instantly shares content with Adisar's existing Quantel eQFX system via the new GenePool enabling Adisar and its clients to save time in post.
"It's less than two years since we extended our business to offer post production alongside our existing production facilities," said Adisar Media Producer Iván García Lázaro. "We chose Quantel to be the centerpiece of our post production operation, and it has been a great choice for us. Quantel systems are unique in offering great picture quality with all the tools we need for finishing and color correction in a single system.
"Quantel has helped us quickly build a reputation for producing highest quality results in the very short timescales demanded by primetime soap operas and TV movies. As a result our business continues to grow rapidly - for example, Globomedia, one of Europe's leading production organizations, has recently chosen Adisar as a principal supplier of post production services," Iván García Lázaro added.
"With this increase in business, it was a natural choice to add a second Quantel suite, with the GenePool enabling us to work on the same project simultaneously in both rooms where required. It's all instant - no media moves, no copies are made and the project history remains live. This shared workflow dramatically reduces post production timescales, and not surprisingly is already a big hit with our customers," Iván García Lázaro concluded.
"We're delighted that Quantel systems have contributed materially to Adisar Media's growing success," said Martin Mulligan, Quantel Sales Director. "We look forward to continuing to support Adisar as their success takes them forward."
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Chocolate-Banana Donuts
Banana bread and a classic fried donut recipe joined forces in these scrumptious homemade donuts. After the Chocolate-Banana Donuts are cooled, dunk in rich chocolate glaze.
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Chocolate-Banana Donuts
- In bowl combine 1-1/2 cups of the flour, the sugar, yeast, and 1 tsp. salt; set aside. In saucepan combine milk and butter. Heat until warm (125 degrees F). Add to flour mixture. Add bananas, eggs, and yolks. With mixer, beat on medium 2 minutes. Stir in 3-1/2 cups flour, adding additional flour 1/4 cup at a time. (Dough will be sticky.) Transfer to a buttered bowl; turn to coat surface. Cover; let rise 1 hour or until doubled.
- On floured surface roll dough to 3/8-inch thickness. Cut with floured 2-1/2-inch doughnut cutter. Reroll dough and repeat. Place cutouts on baking sheet. Cover; let rise 30 minutes or until doubled.
- Fry a few at a time in hot oil (365 degrees F) for 2 minutes or until golden; turning once. Remove with slotted spoon; drain. Dip in glaze. Makes 30 doughnuts plus holes.
- In microwave-safe bowl combine semi- sweet chocolate pieces, whipping cream, and butter. Microwave 1 minute; stir. Microwave 30 seconds more. Whisk in powdered sugar until smooth and light-color corn syrup.
Nutrition Facts (Chocolate-Banana Donuts)
- Per serving:
- 213 kcal ,
- 9 g fat
- (4 g sat. fat ,
- 1 g polyunsaturated fat ,
- 3 g monounsaturated fat ),
- 41 mg chol. ,
- 115 mg sodium ,
- 30 g carb. ,
- 1 g fiber ,
- 11 g sugar ,
- 4 g pro.


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On July 14th through 16th 2016 Stockholm will be the host city of the TBEX Europe congress. TBEX is the largest conference in the world for travel bloggers, online travel journalists, travel brands and other industry professionals. Stockholm has been actively trying to get the chance to host TBEX. And rightly so... it is, after all, the perfect group to open your doors for and showcase your city! The Rival Hotel is offering congress delegates a special discounted rate during the period July 8th to 18th. Click here for more information about the rate and to reserve a room! So why should you, a travel blogger, choose the Rival? I am glad you asked. Here are three great resons!
1. Location. The Rival Hotel is located in a beautiful residential area on the island of Södermalm, yet still is centrally located. It is only a 10 minute walk to the historic Gamla Stan and regular ferries to Djurgården where you will find the Vasa Museum, ABBA the Museum, Skansen and many other popular attractions. The subway station Mariatorget is only 2 blocks from the hotel and the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Center, home of TBEX, is just three subway stops away. Make sure you take time to explore Södermalm with its funky shopping, pedestrian streets, endless cafés and SoFo district. In 2014, Vogue Magazine called Södermalm one of the world's 15 coolest neighbourhoods.
2. The hotel. The Rival Hotel opened its doors in 2003 as Stockholm's first boutique hotel. And it is so much more than a hotel! Under the same roof you will find a popular bistro, café, several bars, conference facilities as well as 700-seat theatre. The theatre was once a cinema and this Swedish cinematic theme can be found throughout the Rival. Elegant yet cosy, romantic yet exciting, with a genuinely friendly and welcoming staff... the Rival is the perfect home away from home and a destination in itself. A fantastic place from where to discover what Stockholm has to offer.
Owner, and former ABBA member, Benny Andersson believes that love is in the details. He wanted to create a hotel which conveyed a feeling of coming home. That is why you will find a teddy bear in each and every room at the Rival.
Owner, and former ABBA member, Benny Andersson believes that love is in the details. He wanted to create a hotel which conveyed a feeling of coming home. That is why you will find a teddy bear in each and every room at the Rival.
3. Blogger and social media friendly. While warm and cosy, the Rival is still fitted with the latest technology. Free WiFi is available throughout the hotel, both in the rooms and public areas. You don't have to worry about bringing an adapter with you as each room has several USB ports, including the bed's headboard, where you can charge your smart phones and tablets. Guests can also connect devices such as laptops, tablets or smart phones directly to a JackPack. When the device is connected to the JackPack you can use Apps on your device and display the content directly on the Samsung LED TV that is installed in all of our rooms. Listen to your own music or enjoy your subscriptions* on Netflix, HBO, Spotify etc. We do have extra cables to loan so you can recharge your device via the JackPack as well. * Local restrictions may apply
Forgot your computer? Not a problem! On the fourth floor we have a guest corner and business center open 24 hours a day. Here you will find computers to use as well as a printer.
During the TBEX Congress we will have a Bloggers' Lounge open for delegates staying at the Rival. Here you can get some refreshments, kick back, see what is trending with popular congress hashtags, check your social media accounts and do some serious blogging. In the lounge you have free WiFi & wired internet access. You will also find connections for VGA, USB, HDMI, a 60" Led TV and whiteboards. Get creative! #hotelrival #tbex #tbexeuropeAnd if you need another reason after all of those... I am here! A blogger myself and the social media coordinator for the Rival. This blog was recently named by Spotted by Locals as one of the top 5 blogs about Stockholm. Click here for more information about our TBEX rate and to reserve your room.


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Gentle Spring
'O Virgin Mother! of gentle days and nights
Spring of fresh buds and Spring of soft delights,
Come, with lips kissed of many an amorous hour
Come, with hands heavy from the fervent flower
The fleet first flower that feels the wind and sighs
The tenderer leaf that draws the sun and dies!'
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Monday, 24 December 2012
Merry Christmas! (nearly)
10 comments:
- Susan said...
Absolutely gorgeous Julie - which sizzix die is this....??
Hope you and yours have a lovely day tomorrow Xx
- 24 December 2012 at 23:11
- Mynnette said...
Oh wow, this is amazing!!! LOVE the fun fold! Merry Christmas to you and your and a happy New Year! :)
- 24 December 2012 at 23:29
- Lisa Jane said...
Just beautiful.. love the design
Merry Christmas
Lisa x
- 24 December 2012 at 23:52
- Ani said...
So lovely! Thank you for playing along at Card Mania! Happy Christmas!
- 25 December 2012 at 07:54
- Cumbrianlass said...
A brilliant card, I do love the spotty paper thanks for joining in the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge
and I hope you have a Very Happy Christmas
- 25 December 2012 at 17:15
- Marjorie said...
This is really beautiful Julia.. Thank you for sharing with us at 'Make it Monday'...
All the best for the New year!!
- 26 December 2012 at 15:13
- Linda R said...
Hello my sweet friend. I do hope you Christmas was a Happy one. I am looking forward to seeing all your wonderful creations in the New Year!
I just love the design of this card. Looks amazing!
- 27 December 2012 at 17:53
- Pop's Cards said...
Hey sweetie, this is just fabulous big hugs Pops x x x
- 27 December 2012 at 20:28
- PennyLine said...
Julie, This card is totally cool. Must be a great fun class to take.
Happy holidays, Penny
- 28 December 2012 at 06:41
- scrappymo! said...
This is totally gorgeous...but which dies do we need to use...there is no recipe for your card...
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Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
This novel is the sequel to Russell's The Sparrow, and begins almost immediately after the occurences of the previous novel. Emilio Sandoz is slowly trying to put his life back together, and as part of that, has decided that he must part from the church. He actually meets someone, and his interactions with her help him slowly heal. This narrative flashes back with the events on Rakhat immediately after Sandoz's departure (thanks to time travel, the events on Rakhat take place over almost forty years, while for Sandoz, only a two or three years pass). The first surprise is that Sophia is still alive and had only been badly injured but not killed. Supaari, who had been a character in the first novel with questionable intentions, also is a major player in the Rakhat narrative, and it turns out that he had been well-intentioned all along but had seemed like a bad person due to cultural misunderstandings.
When the Jesuits decide to go on another mission, Sandoz agrees to train the new crew but refuses to go along. He is forced on the mission, and when he returns to Rakhat, he finds a very different planet than the one he left. Supaari and Sophia have rallied the Runa, and changed the life on the planet drastically. Children of God is in ways a darker novel as the planet Rakhat becomes involved in a violent civil war, leading to the near annihilation and extinction of an entire species and way of life. It also has a more hopeful ending than The Sparrow, however.
I preferred The Sparrow but Children of God was still a very good novel. A few of the characters in Children of God seemed a little random, but the Jesuits had to get the expedition to Rakhat financed somehow. Russell is great at developing characters in all of her novels, but I preferred the more intimate setting of explorers interacting and misunderstanding a new culture and society to the massive civil war back drop. However, as usual, her writing was excellent, and she shows very well how the good guys can become the villains, and how what seems right and moral can easily slide into grey areas.


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We're getting close to that moment in June (41 days!), when Mountain Music Fest kicks off and as you sit at your desk at work hatin' it, we'd like to take this opportunity to offer a few helpful suggestions on making your experience at Mountain Music Fest the best weekend of your entire life.
Leave work at Noon on Thursday, head up the mountain, set up your campsite, and grab a beer at The Lost Paddle Lounge…. Watch the sunset from the Greenbrier Valley Brewing Company Lake Stage and take a deep breath, you're on the mountain now.
Jam out with us at the Thursday Night Pre-Party with The Commonheart and Spiritual Rez. The Commonheart is one of the fastest growing, most popular bands to come out of our neck of the woods in a while and we can guarantee you won't be disappointed. GET YOUR TICKETS TO THURSDAY NIGHT SOON–it's about to sell out.
Wake up Friday and head over to your favorite food truck to pick up a much-needed and super delicious breakfast sammich. Wander over to the Strange Coffee's Strange Stage to enjoy that life-saving breakfast while catching a little of Matt Mullins and the Bring Downs — the perfect soundtrack as you ease into Friday.
While you've got 'em, take a couple of hours to enjoy all of the amazing visual artists, workshops and vendors attending the fest this year. Whether you're into handmade jewelry, painting, slacklining, yoga, or hydroponic gardening, we've got loads of talented folks joining us this year to share their passions. Jump right in and enjoy all of the various art forms we're hosting at this year's fest!
When you're feelin' it, head on back to camp to gear up for a PACKED Friday night of Main Squeeze, Karl Denson and The Revivalists.
Always Remember: It's a Marathon, not a sprint.
Saturday is a long one, so let's make sure you guys plan accordingly to take advantage of all the fun. Start your Saturday by heading to the water park for some food, brews, tunes and to wash off that Friday funk. There will be plenty of food and live music for those who want to casually bask in the sunshine and the glory that is a good cheeseburger with a side of guitar solo. If you're feeling really spunky and have a little more energy to spare, the lake is packed with all kinds of games, inflatable toys, and slides.
If you're not feeling like hitting the water on Saturday, head over to the Art Tent and catch a Live Painting Experience, chat with artists and take a few minutes to appreciate their craft.
Now, this is the part of the weekend where you either rally and push through the day or sit back and take a nap to regain some of that lost energy. Your call on this one.
Once you're done soaking up the sun at the Lake, napping or rafting, head back to camp and get ready for a night of music like no other…featuring: The Mantras, Twiddle, Big Something and Umphrey's McGee. And, if you're a night owl, be sure to catch the late night sets over at Strange Stage which keeps rolling until dawn.
The last step to making sure Mountain Music Fest is the best weekend of your entire life is to remember to take a moment during the weekend to enjoy it all, appreciate your surroundings, and make new friends. We love that you're joining us for the weekend and hope you walk away with a giant smile on your face, and plans to return next year.


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Under grand hotel, volume 1 / Mika Sadahiro.
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John Aloysius Duffy (October 29, 1884 – September 27, 1944) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Syracuse from 1933 to 1937, and as Bishop of Buffalo from 1937 until his death.
Early life and ministry[edit]
John Duffy was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Patrick Joseph and Anna Marie (née Smith) Duffy.[1] A onetime boilermaker,[2] he was ordained to the priesthood on June 13, 1908.[3] Duffy then served as assistant pastor at Our Lady of Grace Church in Hoboken, professor of literature and languages at Seton Hall, and instructor in Church history at the Newark seminary.[1]
He became a Domestic Prelate of His Holiness, and served as chancellor and vicar general for the Diocese of Newark. He was the diocese's Apostolic Administrator between the death of John O'Connor and the appointment of Thomas Walsh, and served as pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Jersey City.[1]
Episcopal career[edit]
On April 21, 1933, Duffy was appointed the fourth Bishop of Syracuse by Pope Pius XI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following June 29 from Archbishop Walsh, with Bishops James Griffin and Alphonse Smith serving as co-consecrators.[3] He selected as his episcopal motto: "Wisdom from Above." In 1934, when fan dancer Sally Rand was scheduled to appear in Syracuse, the Bishop said, "I must regard the presence of the Rand woman on the stage as an act of public defiance of the Catholic people of Syracuse."[4]
Duffy was later named the seventh Bishop of Buffalo on January 9, 1937. He was installed as Bishop on April 14 of that year.[3] In 1939, he said, "[I]f the United States ever joined in a foreign war with Russia, I would advise every Catholic boy to refuse to serve in the United States Army." During his tenure, he established the Diocesan Fund for the Faith for those left in need because of the Great Depression, erected parishes in the sparsely settled areas of the diocese, and organized the Catholic Youth Organization, Bishop's Committee for Christian Home and Family, Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, and Newman Clubs.[5]
Duffy died at age 59, and was buried next to his parents in Holy Name Cemetery.[1]
- ^ a b c d "Most Rev. John Aloysius Duffy". Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse. Archived from the original on 2009-06-09.
- ^ "Archbishop Up, People Down". TIME Magazine. 1937-04-26.
- ^ a b c "Bishop John Aloysius Duffy". Catholic-Hierarch.org.[self-published source]
- ^ "Legion of Decency (Cont'd)". TIME Magazine. 1934-07-12.
- ^ "Diocesan Bishops Through the Years". Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo. Archived from the original on 2006-07-18.
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For english I have to answer the following questions (on The Crucible), an entire page per question. Please help me answer them since i dont have the book next to me.
First Question:Examine the reasons the girls have for not telling the whole story of what happened in the woods. Base your discussion on the reactions of the main characters introduced so far and what you know of society of Salem from the opening narrative.
Second Question:Discuss how Mary Warrens character has changed fro Act one to Act two. What are the causes of these changes.
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The warm weather earlier this spring convinced me that spring was here to stay. I went to work refilling my stack of wood and settled in for the warm weather we expect in spring.
Unfortunately I did not keep access to some of the dryer wood. Now the weather has turned cold, with freezing temperatures in the morning and a forecast of snow for Sunday. That has left me scavenging burnables and searching for dry wood in tree lines. All of this in a time the calendar says I should be planting corn.
Many of my neighbors used the previous warm weather to plant corn. I looked at the weather forecast, checked soil temperatures, looked for barn swallows and tree leaves and decided to wait. I'm not sure how much damage is happening out there in that cold wet ground, but I was not going to chance it. I was not the only one, with many a planter sidelined waiting for needed warmth.
Now the forecast is for snow and two more days of cold. Then the weather reports says spring will be here. If the warm comes as predicted, it looks like I'll be starting planting this Thursday of Friday, two weeks after those early go getters started putting their corn in the ground. If it will make any difference I do not know. I just know I am happier for having waited.
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It happened shortly after 12.30pm today on the slip road coming from Seaton Lane when a Volvo car collided with the barrier.
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Walden in touch with 'Inner Child' pitch
Looks to add family comedies to its slate with projectWith a goal to add family comedies to its slate, Walden Media has picked up a pitch by Ross Venokur called "Inner Child."
The project marks the first acquisition by newly appointed Walden co-CEO Michael Bostick. The deal was brought to Walden by Amanda Morgan Palmer, who just came aboard as senior vp development and production.
The story centers on an uptight dad whose life is turned upside down when his inner child takes control of his life.
Walden has been successful producing films in which the protagonist is a young adult, including the "Chronicles of Narnia" franchise -- which brought in $55 million at the U.S. boxoffice last weekend with its "Prince Caspian" -- and "Bridge to Terabithia."
But it has yet to really tap into films with an adult protagonist, Bostwick said.
"It's a big idea ... with themes of reawakening the imagination in us all," Bostwick said. "It's a step in a new direction, which is expanding the definition of a PG-rated family film."
The "Inner Child" project will be part of Walden's joint venture with Fox to market and release family films. The studio has released with Walden "Nim's Island" and "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium."
Up next for Walden is the July 11 release of "Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D," distributed by Warner Bros.
Venokur, who started his career as a children's book author, sold his pitch eight days after he moved to ICM from CAA. He most recently sold "All Boxed Up" as a pitch to New Line and "The Eighth Wonder" as a pitch to Universal, with Benderspink producing both.


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Lesson Study? There's an App for That
One of the standards for mathematical practice in the Common Core is to "construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others." That's a tall order for students used to sitting quietly in a math classroom passively receiving instruction. Knowing that improving the quality of math discussion in their classrooms won't be easy, educators are applying the "lesson study" technique to improve their craft.
During a "research lesson," only one teacher will deliver instruction, but other teachers in the lesson study group will be present to observe how students react, what sorts of solutions they come up with, and how they interact with one another. This is very different from many classroom observations that focus primarily on how the teacher delivers the lesson.
In a research lesson, the observers helped develop the instruction ahead of time, and are gathering data that can give them insights into how well the lesson worked so they can discuss it later. "The key to having a good discussion is to have good data about how the lesson impacts the student," said Tom McDougal, one of the main advocates behind the Lesson Study Alliance, a non-profit working to promote lesson study practice. "To get that data you have to be watching the students, not the teacher."
During the planning phase, the lesson study group is thinking about all the small steps that might enable them to teach a little differently. For example, when it comes to discussing math arguments and critiquing one another, teachers know kids are often afraid to put their ideas forward. So one way to structure the lesson could be to ask students to put their solutions on a whiteboard. That makes their thinking visible, but they may feel less vulnerable. And there are bound to be differences in problem solving when all those ideas are out there, a good jumping-off point to critique one another's thinking.
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As the group of lesson study teachers are thinking through the research lesson, they're asking themselves: Will the lesson they've designed together elicit the kinds of errors they hope to see? Will it make students curious? In what order should the ideas be presented? How are they going to make sure the student ideas are visible to everyone in the class? It sounds like minutia, but these details could be the difference between the lesson going well or poorly. These teachers are trying to look into the future and predict how the lesson will go.
To help them take accurate, helpful notes that can be discussed later, teachers are using an app called Lesson Note, developed by the Lesson Study Alliance in Chicago. Proponents of lesson study have found that many teachers new to the method don't know what to look for when observing a classroom and they tend to sit in the back and focus on the teacher.
The iPad app presents an observer with a seating chart of the classroom, with the option to add names of students. Sitting at the sides of the rooms, or intermingled with the students themselves, observers can use the app to select a student when he or she says something in class, and write a note. The same can be done when the teacher speaks, and a timer immediately starts when a note is opened to help give an overall sense of how much class time is spent on the teacher talking and how much spent on students talking. The notes are also time-stamped, "so you could actually say at such and such a time this student was still confused," McDougal explained.
The app also allows observers to note when a state change happens in class. They can choose between whole class, individual time, group work or other.
"You can look at the distribution both in terms of how much time is whole class versus individual versus group, and when that time is occurring," McDougal said. In more traditional instruction, the teacher often lectures for the first half of class and then lets students work in groups or individually for the second half.
A different model would be a quick five-minute introduction to the task, 10 minutes of group work and then a whole class discussion about the work. "At the end of it you can see a timeline of what the lesson looked like in terms of how the lesson was distributed," McDougal said. Many educators are recognizing that the best learning happens when students themselves are grappling with problems, and are seeking ways to shift class time toward that type of inquiry. The Lesson Note app helps make class time distribution very obvious.
Additionally, observers can take photos of student work and upload them to a note. For example, an observer might snap a photo of wrong work, or an interesting way of approaching the work, before it is erased to show where a student was at that moment in class. Or, observers might take notes about how student A helped student B with a specific concept. The notes are more useful after the lesson if they are very specific.
"We think that it helps promote better post-lesson discussions. That's certainly our goal," McDougal said.
When he observes a lesson he'll often take 90-100 notes, flagging the most important ones along the way. After the lesson, all the observers and the teacher get together to look through the student data they collected and analyze how well the lesson went. They think about what could be done differently in a future lesson to better meet the specific goal they are working on, like improving the quality of discussion that kids are having.
In a school dedicated to lesson study, teachers from other classes might also observe. While teachers at a grade level might be involved in workshopping a lesson in this intensive way only twice a year, they would observe other grade levels working on the same mathematical practice at various points throughout the year. In this way, the whole school moves toward improving instruction on one thorny problem.
The Lesson Study Alliance developed this app as a tool to improve the quality of observations and discussions they are having with a group of Chicago schools engaged in this practice regularly. In an effort to boil down the essential components of the process, McDougal and Dr. Akihiko Takahashi have developed the Collaborative Lesson Research (CLR) which explores how lesson study could be implemented in an American context. Other educators have tried to use lesson study, but have implemented it unevenly to varied results. CLR is an attempt to map out the most important elements that should be part of any program like this.
McDougal said he feels the Lesson Note app meets his nonprofit's mission to improve teaching. That's why the base level app is available for free. But at the request of administrators around the country, McDougal asked the developers to add a Web-based product that costs $150 per license and allows observers to upload the data to a server or the cloud, aggregate it in one place and make printouts. The app is not available for Android devices because the nonprofit did not have the funds.
If a teacher were using this Web-based feature, he or she could also look back at all the data taken throughout the year and search for one student's name. Then all the notes over time would pop up, helping provide a sense of that student's development.
Lesson study is a specific way of collaboratively working to improve teaching practice and is not meant to evaluate teachers. But even districts that aren't explicitly engaged in lesson study are finding the Lesson Note app useful for their work.
Coaches for a consortium of schools in Humboldt County, California, are using Lesson Note to deepen the feedback they give to teachers. Several schools in the area are part of a partnership to integrate STEM into the curriculum. They received a grant to develop teaching materials, receive extra training and release time to collaborate with colleagues. These districts have opted to do most of their professional development through coaching.
"When the teacher invites the coach in, the idea is this is a new STEM-integrated lesson and they want to get feedback from the coach," said Michael Kauffmann, director of Project HISI and a math and science intervention specialist. He and other coaches are using Lesson Note to facilitate their observations and make it easier to show the teacher his or her patterns in a post-lesson discussion.
"You can map out during the class period how much time was spent on lecture, how much time was spent on student-to-student interaction, which in many ways is the direction Common Core is going," Kauffmann said.
He likes having the interaction data in front of him when he's conferencing with a teacher post-lesson because often the teacher won't realize how long he or she spent lecturing. And, Kauffmann has even helped design and teach follow-up lessons based on the misconceptions he documented with the app while walking around the classroom.
In Chicago, a few teachers are even using the app as part of daily data collection. Third-grade teacher Gustavo Soto wrote in an email: "As groups are working I go around and take notes on the app which I can later use for assessing student work and student engagement." Soto's school, Daniel Boone Elementary School, is part of the Lesson Note Alliance, and Soto says he mostly uses the app when he's participating in research lessons as an observer.
"When I learned about lesson study I was like, oh, this is so much better than what I've been doing," McDougal said. He was a longtime high school math teacher and then a K-8 math coach, but now he's devoted himself to lesson study. He remembers going to traditional professional development sessions where ideas were presented, and he was expected to go back to his classroom and immediately implement them.
"My own experience as a teacher is that when I go back to do it, the forces aligned to keep me doing what I'm doing are pretty significant," McDougal said. Time, the textbook and student expectations all make it much easier to continue all the same path. "It's really really hard to change instruction by that model," McDougal said. "The evidence is that teachers are still teaching much the way they taught 100 years ago."
Lesson study, on the other hand, feels hopeful and doable to him. He believes this model could change teaching for the better -- much like Japan has done since the 1960s -- but only if U.S. schools are willing to drop the traditional professional development model and try something new.
"It gives you a chance to really think through all the details and address all the problems you are trying to address," McDougal said. "And you do it with the moral and intellectual support of your colleagues and it's not evaluative." The focus is on designing better lessons, which changes the whole dynamic of the endeavor and makes teachers much more open to the experience.
McDougal said very few people in the US are trained in this method, which is a large barrier to the method spreading. Only four to five schools in Chicago participate, and everyone benefits from the experience of Takahashi, a DePaul University math education professor and an expert on the technique. In a formal research lesson, a "knowledgeable other" helps the group navigate the process. McDougal says the number of people who could act as "knowledgeable others" is small.
"There's really only a handful of people in the US who know lesson study and know content and know teaching, and are really good at analyzing the lesson and giving remarks at the end of the lesson," McDougal said. But a transformation is not impossible.
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In the 1960s, Japanese elementary education was very teacher-centered and rote. But over the past few decades the system has changed completely through lesson study, which ironically was imported from the US Now, all aspects of Japanese elementary school teaching (even PE and lunchtime monitors) use this method to continually improve their practice. The Japanese system is set up to support that work, paying teachers for the time they spend collaborating.
Despite the barriers, McDougal is working to spread this idea to more schools and teachers. The Lesson Study Alliance holds public research lessons on the weekends when teachers from the area can come and observe the process. And, while he knows one exposure isn't enough to give teachers and administrators all the skills they need to implement lesson study well, he hopes it opens their eyes to a new way of collaborating that could actually change math instruction to focus on problem-solving, a goal the US has claimed is a priority since the 1980s.


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