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Does learning end on the last day of the school year? It's the end of the school year, you are ready to get out of the classroom and so are your students. But how do you keep their minds sharp during the summer months? What can you do to compete with the beach, family gatherings and all the other fun summer activities that they could be doing instead of learning?
I remember growing up that my mother, who wouldn't admit to it, would plan our vacations and other summer time fun so that we would learn something at the same time. Whether it was a trip to the day camp at the local Museum, traveling to Washington DC and Philadelphia, going to the Aquarium while at the beach, or just something as simple as helping her plant a garden or baking cookies. She tried to keep us learning even though we did not know we were learning because we thought it was fun.
That was a long time ago, how long I won't tell, but what do you do today? With all of the other distractions of this day and age how do you keep your Elementary School students or children learning throughout the summer?
There are camps that they can still go to, you can arrange trips to cities where they can learn about the history of the U.S. like D.C., Philadelphia maybe Beaufort, North Carolina's first capital, or even local to Old Salem. But what happens when it rains or if it is to hot to play outside for any length of time? As much as I hate to say it there are all of those nice wonderful little gadgets around that they can play with. From the full blown gaming consoles and computers to iPad and Android tablets or even the small handheld devices like the PSP and Nintendo DS. There are educationally sound games that students can play that make them think through problems and use math concepts. I think it was interesting when a co-worker mentioned that their child started playing "Angry Birds" even though the child was having fun they were also learning, by default mind you, mathematical concepts for trajectory and angles. There are many different websites available for students to use that will allow them to continue their learning through the summer and they will think it is fun because it seems like a game to them.
Here is a sample list of sites that your students/children can go to on the web to learn during the summer or at any time during the year.
· PBS for Kids – Has educational games, videos and activities for kids
· BBC Children – Has educational games, videos and activities for kids
· Math Playground – Multiple resources for learning in Math
· NASA for Kids – Offers lots of fun interactive resources for student learning. Starchild site
· Tryscience – Where you can download fun experiments to do at home with your children
· Google Art Project – Virtual tours of Museums from around the world.
· Crayola for Kids – Online coloring and drawing activities for kids
Through our school system students have access to netTrekker an online safe search engine that will automatically filter out and remove any non-educational information so that you only see search results that have merit and have been checked out to make sure they are educationally sound.
As a teacher and as a parent, possibly, you know that learning is never done. It is always happening and ever evolving throughout your life. Take some time to teach or learn something this summer so that it will make a difference in a student/child's life to help them be life-long learners.


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Women's Lacrosse Defeats Sacred Heart, 16-8
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Sophomore Laura Ryan (Stirling, N.J.) tallied four goals and one assist for five points, while senior captain Kat Sutton (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) netted four goals giving her 102 for her career as the Holy Cross women's lacrosse team defeated Sacred Heart, 16-8, at Campus Field on Saturday. With the win, the Crusaders improve to 3-2 on the season, while the Pioneers fall to 0-2.
Sutton is the seventh player in program history to score 100 career goals. Senior Taylor Zebrowski (Verona, N.J.) extended her point scoring streak to 28 straight games and her goal scoring streak to 25 games with three goals and one assist, while junior Sara Hennessey (Winchester, Mass.) extended her goal scoring streak to 21 games with two goals and two assists.
The Crusaders scored the first six goals of the game to take a 6-0 lead. Hennessey netted the first goal of the contest off a pass from Zebrowski, while Zebrowski then found the back of the net. After a free-position goal by Ryan, Zebrowski scored off an assist by Ryan. Sutton netted her first goal of the game on a free-position shot and then Hennessey increased the lead to 6-0 with her second goal with 24:19 remaining in the first half. With the score now 6-1, Sutton found the back of the net on a free-position shot for her 100th career goal. With the game now 7-2, Sutton tallied her 12th career hat-trick and second of the season with a goal off a pass from freshman MacKenzie Bozel (Hunt Valley, Md.). Jacqueline Zlevor found the back of the net for the Pioneers for the last goal of the half as the Crusaders led 8-3.
Holy Cross netted three consecutive goals to start the second half and to take an 11-3 advantage. Zebrowski tallied her 15th career hat-trick and her second of the season when she scored the first goal of the second half. After a goal by Sutton off an assist from Hennessey, Ryan netted her second goal of the contest. After a goal by Zlevor, senior captain Maddie Carrellas (Middletown, R.I.) scored on a free-position shot to make it a 12-4 score with 13:50 left. After the Pioneers posted two straight goals, sophomore Lissie Russert (Cincinnati, Ohio) scored her first two collegiate goals. Freshman Margie Smith (Mountain Lakes, N.J.) assisted on the first goal and Hennessey assisted on the second goal. With the score now 14-8, Ryan scored the last two goals of the game for the 16-8 final. Freshman Kaitlin Concilio (Ridgewood, N.J.) assisted on the first goal. Ryan now has eight career hat-tricks with two this season.
Junior goalie Sarah Weber (Summit, N.J.) made 12 saves for a .600 save percentage to improve to 3-2 on the season, while Kelly Keenan made 11 saves for the Pioneers. Holy Cross outshot Sacred Heart, 31-23, while the Crusaders tallied 17 ground balls and the Pioneers posted 15. Holy Cross secured 13 draw controls and Sacred Heart tallied 12. The Crusaders went 4-6 on free-position shots and the Pioneers went 1-4.
The Crusaders return to action on Thursday, March 7, when they travel to Washington, D.C., to take on George Washington at 3:30 p.m.

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Written By: FloTrack's Johanna Gretschel
When Sydney McLaughlin made the Olympics for Team USA as a sixteen-year-old last summer, she became the youngest track and field athlete to do so in more than 40 years. The game-changer may become the best 400m hurdler the world has ever seen but right now, she's very much still a normal teenager - most of the time. McLaughlin gave FloTrack a tour of her New Jersey high school and reflected on her past and future in the sport of track and field in this exclusive documentary.
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My roommate and I were goofing around on Chat Roulette tonight. It was our first time.
You asked us what we were doing on there. We said it was drunk boredom. I told you that you looked like Conor Oberst and you said you were blushing. I mentioned that I was roadtripping through Ohio next week after you mentioned that you live there. You said that you just graduated from college and then we got disconnected. Would like to talk to you again, if you see this!
Wonder how long it will be until the first Chat Roulette related murder happens? Not long I am thinking...
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Author of sassy romance novels containing dollops of adventure and enough steamy sex to drive those who dare read them racing for a cold shower …
I write sassy romance with smokin' hot heroes, kick-ass heroines, tons of humor, and always an animal or two.
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As some cities continue to address the problem with punitive methods, other cities are taking a more collaborative approach.
A conversation with former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Juliette Kayyem on the future of airport security.
The newly elected mayor of London has some choice words for Donald Trump and the presumptive GOP nominee's brand of Islamophobia.
The D.C. Metro system is in crisis, and a power struggle between federal agencies fighting for the right to oversee safety isn't helping.
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Israel World Fact - Hostel in Asia
IsraelIsrael The only Jewish state in the world, and problably most known for its city Jerusalem, that has a significant impact within most religions. Neighbouring Egypt and Jordan, and coastline to the Mediterranean Sea, it will give you an ancient history combined with the todays high-tech life. Israel is a country of its own, with beautiful beaches and he unique Dead Sea, visit Israel and you will experience a land of absolute wonders.
Area: 20.404 Km²
Population: 5.938.000 (2001 est.)
Density: 291 pop/Km²
System of government: Parliamentary Republic
Capital: Jerusalem (591.000 pop.)
Major cities: Tel Aviv-Yafo 356.000 pop. (1.200.000 urban aggl.), Haifa 252.000 pop.
Ethnic majority: Jewish 80%, Arab and others 20%
Border countries: Lebanon NORTH, Syria, West Bank and Jordan EAST, Egypt and Gaza Strip WEST
Principal mountains: Mount Meron 1208 m
Principal rivers: Jordan 360 Km (total, with lebanese, palestinian and jordanian tracts)
Principal lakes: Dead Sea 280 Km² (israeli part, total 1020 Km²), Lake Tiberias 165 Km²
Principal islands: Mifraz, Hefa
Climate: Mediterranean - arid
Language: Hebrew, Arabic (officials), English
Religion: Jewish 80%, Muslim 15%, Christian 2%, other 3%
Currency: New Israeli Shekel (ILS)
Fixed public holidays: 2002: 28/1, 26/2, 27/2, dal 28/3 al 3/4, 9/4, 16/4, 17/4, 30/4, 10/5, 17/5, 18/7, 7/9, 8/9, 16/9, froml 21 to 28/9
Dialling code: 00972
World Heritage List:
- Masada (2001)
- Old City of Acre (2001)
- White City of Tel-Aviv -- the Modern Movement (2003)
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Hey I recently just started to play Elemental shaman for my 8/8 HM 25 man guild and I have got the right spec, gems, glyphs, etc... and doing the right rotation (spell priority).
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-keep flame shock up 100% of the time (or close too)
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Im doing all the right things and my DPS seems to be always very low, Im always anywhere from 11-16 in damage and always in the 35-40k DPS range. Please help with suggestions of how I can step it up and impress my guild!
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The crook had thighs of steal.
A thief accused of robbing a mother with two children of an iPhone on Powell Street last week apparently had trouble hiding the mobile device in his sagging pants, police said.
After catching the suspect after a brief foot chase, officers reportedly found the phone "clenched" between his thighs.
The victim told police she had her iPhone swiped while she was waiting for a cable car with her 5-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter, Tenderloin Police Station officers said.
She shouted about being robbed as the thief fled toward Market Street. Several witnesses described the suspect to police and he was subsequently located at Fifth and Market streets, police said. He ran from officers, but was quickly caught.
"His pants were sagging and officers could see an iPhone clenched between his thighs," police said.
The victim positively identified the suspect, who's on probation. A search also uncovered five Oxycodone pills, police said.
He was booked on suspicion of street robbery with force, possession of a controlled substance and a probation violation.


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Utility Supply Group Hiring New Sales Engineer
August 5, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Utility Supply Group Hiring New Sales Engineer
Paul Croteau has joined Utility Supply Group (USG), Kingston, Wash., as its senior sales engineer, according to a press release.
"Paul has over 25 years combined experience in design, development and sales of electrical products specifically for the RV and manufactured housing markets," Wade Elliott, president of USG. "His addition to our staff provides us with even stronger sales support, added technical service and overall customer service. As a business owner, Paul knows the value of good service. Service, Product Knowledge and Industry Expertise; it's a triple play for the USG team."
Croteau, the former owner of Electrical Professionals LLC, has represented Eaton/Cutler Hammer and has worked for Milbank Manufacturing. He has participated in many national, regional and state trade shows.
Croteau stated, "I am pleased to join a top tier company such as Utility Supply Group. I have known Wade Elliott for many years. Joining forces will help solidify USG's commitment to their customers."
Utility Supply Group is a supplier of electrical power outlets pedestals and boxes, and electrical distribution equipment for RV parks and manufactured housing communities throughout North America.
Suppliers Partner with Best Parks in America
March 24, 2010 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Suppliers Partner with Best Parks in America
Best Parks in America welcomed four industry powerhouse suppliers to their Strategic Partner Program.
Utility Supply Group, Texas Advertising, Suburban Propane and TengoInternet have joined forces with Best Parks to offer affiliate resorts product/service programs and other partnership benefits designed specifically for the Best Parks network, according to a news release.
"Much like the high standards used for park/resort affiliation, our Strategic Partners have proven themselves to be outstanding in their areas of expertise. We are pleased to partner with these four notable companies and look forward to their contribution to the Best Parks in America brand," said David Gorin, president and CEO Best Parks in America.
Strategic Partners are nominated by current affiliated parks and companies must have at least a five-year track record of doing business in the park industry. Strategic Partner nominees meeting the nomination criteria have an opportunity to develop an ongoing, mutually supportive relationship and association with Best Parks in America and the affiliated parks. Developed in response to contacts from a number of companies that have reached out to Best Parks inquiring about a relationship with this new park brand, the Strategic Partner Program provides unique possibilities for all parties involved.
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Dust storms raging across the surface of Mars may wield toxic chemicals that could poison any forms of life as we know it on the planet's surface, according to two NASA-sponsored studies.
Small dust devils and planet-wide storms - combined with static electricity - may lead to the formation of hydrogen peroxide and other corrosive chemicals that fall to the Martian surface as a sort of toxic snow, the reports stated.
"We are trying to look at the features that make a planet habitable or uninhabitable, whether for life that developed there or life that we bring there," said one study's lead author Gregory Delory, a University of California, Berkeley physicist, in a statement.
Delory and his colleagues found that Martian dust storms, like their Earthly counterparts, can generate electric fields that rip apart water and carbon dioxide molecules in the planet's thin atmosphere. Those molecules would then be free to form hydrogen peroxide and other toxic oxidants that could scour the Martian surface of any organic molecules crucial for the formation of life.
A second study, led by University of Michigan researcher Sushil Atreya, found that the levels of hydrogen peroxide that could coalesce from Martian dust storms would be high enough to condense into snow that could blanket the surface below.
"As a consequence, any nascent life (microorganisms, for example) or even prebiotic molecules, would find [it] hard to get a foothold on the surface of Mars, as the organic material would have been scavenged by the surface oxidants," said Atreya, a professor with the university's Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, in a statement.
Both studies - which drew on Earth dust storm observations, computer models and lab experiments - appeared in a recent issue of the journal Astrobiology. They were conducted for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the agency's Mars Fundamental Research Program.
Planetary scientists have long known that Mars' surface presents a hostile environment for life to take root, though observations by NASA's hardy Spirit and Opportunity rovers and other probes still exploring the red planet today have found signs that water once wet the surface long ago. Some spacecraft - including Europe's Mars Express and NASA's recently arrived Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - are using radar to probe beneath the planet's surface for caches of liquid or ice water, which scientists believe is an essential ingredient for the formation of life.
Meanwhile, the studies led by Delory and Atreya may help answer one long-lasting riddle of Mars exploration.
NASA's two Viking landers found conflicting results when they tested Martian soil for signs of life in the mid-1970s. The landers added water and nutrients to Martian dirt to see if it contained any microorganisms. One instrument watched the nutrients as something broke them down, but another recorded no signs of organic matter in the Martian material.
The presence of hydrogen peroxide or ozone in the Mars dirt could have fooled the Viking instruments by producing reactions similar to that expected from microorganisms, researchers said, adding that the substance could also break down methane seen in the Martian atmosphere.
"The presence of peroxide may explain the quandary we have had with Mars, but there is still a lot we don't understand about the chemistry of the atmosphere and the soils of the planet," Delory said.
- VIDEO: Mars Life?
- GALLERY: Viking's Triumph at Mars
- VIDEO: Viking at Mars
- Dust Devils Race Across Mars in New Movie
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prairie chicken
either of two North American gallinaceous birds of western prairies, Tympanuchus cupido (greater prairie chicken), or T. pallidicinctus (lesser prairie chicken), having rufous, brown, black, and white plumage.
Origin of prairie chicken
An Americanism dating back to 1685–95
Also called prairie fowl, prairie grouse.
prairie fowl
Origin of prairie fowl
An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805
Also called prairie grouse.
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prairie chicken
prairie fowl, prairie grouse or prairie hen
either of two mottled brown-and-white grouse, Tympanuchus cupido or T. pallidicinctus, of North America
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Each year, the senior leaders of the colleges and centers select one graduate from each college who represents the best of RIT. This year, RIT honors 10 distinguished alumni who stand out among the more than 110,000 accomplished graduates. The awards will be presented on April 11. For more information, go to rit.edu/alumni/recognition.
Tristan E. O'Tierney '08 (computer science) co-founded the popular mobile payment company Square in 2009. Working with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, O'Tierney developed Square's original iPhone application and contributed to the development of Square's iPad application and Square Wallet.
Prior to Square, O'Tierney worked on a variety of Mac-related projects for Silicon Valley powerhouses Yahoo!, VMware and Apple before being contracted to develop the mobile application for President Obama's 2008 campaign. He first caught Dorsey's attention when he built Twinkle, one of the first-ever Twitter client apps.
In June 2013, O'Tierney left Square to pursue new projects as well as travel the world and develop his passion for photography.
Mark N. Gentile '10 (applied arts and science) is a software executive, entrepreneur and strategist with more than 20 years of experience in software management, architecture, engineering and research.
He currently serves as senior technical director for the Enterprise Mobility Group at Symantec Corp., where he is responsible for defining the optimal architecture, technology stack, high-level design and security for Symantec's mobility products and solutions. He is a leader who coaches and mentors team members, striving to ensure excellence and helping teams deliver higher quality commercial software.
In 1996, Gentile founded Odyssey Software and served as the company's chairman, president and CEO until Symantec Corp. acquired the company in March 2012. His leadership, vision, real-world experience and ability to bring best-in-class products to market were instrumental in establishing Odyssey Software as a recognized leader in the mobile market and which earned him recognition as the Rochester Business Association and Small Business Council's Business Person of the Year in 2011.
In her marketing leadership role at Kraft Foods Group, Stacey R. Rychlewski '85 (food management) spearheaded the launch of one of Kraft's Foodservice Division's key innovations, the Kraft YES Pack, a flexible one-gallon salad dressing pouch.
Not only has the Kraft YES Pack helped foodservice operators manage food costs and improve efficiencies in their operations, it also received numerous packaging and marketing awards, including the DuPont Silver Award for packaging reduction and innovation and the Food & Beverage Product Innovation Award from the National Restaurant Association.
Rychlewski credits faculty members in the hospitality and service management program for inspiring her love of the food service industry, which she has been involved in for more than 25 years. Throughout her career, Rychlewski said she has never looked back. "I've always looked forward. You have to be passionate about what you do every day and focus on the future."
Kelly McCormick-Sullivan '08 (health systems administration) is the former president and CEO of the Pluta Cancer Center. She led New York state's first independent, not-for-profit cancer treatment facility and spearheaded the successful integration of the center into the University of Rochester Medical Center in December 2012.
Prior to joining Pluta, McCormick- Sullivan was director of global internal communications for Carestream Health.
She also served on the faculty of St. John Fisher College and was director of organizational communications at Rochester Gas and Electric Corp.
McCormick-Sullivan has served as a board member at the Rochester Hearing and Speech Center, the Northeast Lung Association Advisory Board, the Women's Foundation of Genesee Valley and the program committee of the March of Dimes.
Herbert Eichelberger '70 (photography) began his career in the fall of 1965 when he worked for Eastman Kodak Co. as a film tester/quality evaluator and later became an industrial photographer.
After graduating from RIT, he went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received his Master of Arts degree in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in communication arts from Emory University in 1990. Since 1975, he has been an associate professor of film at Clark Atlanta University. He has taught and mentored many notable people, including film directors Spike Lee, Bryan Barber and Monty Ross and actors Keshia Knight Pulliam and Eva Marcelle.
Outside of the classroom, Eichelberger has produced documentary films to support grant proposals and special projects. Most recently, he and his students created a 90-minute special hosted and produced by Robert Townsend for broadcast on the Black Family Channel.
Debra Heath-Thornton '81 (criminal justice) is the executive dean of the Campalo College of Graduate and Professional Studies at Eastern University. In this role, she is responsible for the quality of the academic programs in the college and for managing academic policies, faculty affairs and personnel matters, as well as strategic planning for the college, curriculum development, enrollment management and budget management.
Prior to serving as executive dean, Heath-Thornton was a full-time faculty member at several four-year institutions, becoming a tenured faculty member at two. She is committed to higher education and believes that it is within this realm that she is able to do the most good and effect positive change one student at a time.
Heath-Thornton has created curriculum and criminal justice opportunities at every educational institution she has served, both at the secondary and higher education levels. She is particularly passionate about the courses she has created in victimology, community- based corrections and restorative justice.
Rick A. Kittles '89 (biology) received his Ph.D. in biological sciences from George Washington University in 1998, and his first faculty appointment was at Howard University where he helped establish the National Human Genome Center.
Currently, he is associate professor in the Department of Medicine and the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is at the forefront of developing ancestry-informative genetic markers and how this information can be used to map genes for common traits and disease, especially among African-American populations.
From 1997 to 2004, Kittles helped establish and coordinate a national cooperative network to study the genetics of hereditary prostate cancer in the African-American community. This project, called the AAHPC Study Network, serves as a model for recruitment of African Americans in genetic studies of complex diseases.
Kittles is one of the creators and featured experts in the "Race: Are We So Different?" traveling museum exhibit. He is also co-founder and scientific director of the Washington, D.C.-based African-Ancestry Inc., a genetic testing service for determining individuals' African ancestry.
After completing all of his co-op assignments with Eastman Kodak, Johann G. "Hans" Demmel '80, '83 (industrial engineering) thought his career would be in Rochester. Dick Reeve, then-chair of the industrial engineering department, enlightened him to the merits of graduate school, and with the help of a fellowship from Tau Beta Pi, he headed west to Oklahoma State University.
Upon completing an MS in industrial engineering and management, he continued west to Arizona where he helped Allied Signal build a new electronics manufacturing facility—a rare opportunity for a young industrial engineering graduate.
Demmel further advanced his education with the help of a Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellowship from Hughes Aircraft Co., earning a Ph.D. in systems engineering at the University of Arizona.
His career with Hughes (now Raytheon) afforded him the opportunity to build upon his IE background and interest in simulation, expand into software development and have the opportunity to build a department within the engineering organization whose focus is on hardware-in-the-loop simulations.
The importance of giving back was instilled in Demmel while at RIT and he continues to give back to his profession and his alma mater.
When asked how RIT prepared him for life after college, Andrew R. Jacobson '90, '96 (hotel management, service management) said the intensity of RIT's academic system combined with involvement with his fraternity gave him a broader perspective on life.
Jacobson's career led him to Portland, Ore., and Wilmington, Del., before he returned to New York City to focus on his tax preparation business. He was raised on the lower east side of Manhattan.
"The tax business truly is a people-focused business. You meet all kinds of individuals and building those business relationships has great rewards," he said. He became an Enrolled Agent in October 2002.
Jacobson has given back to RIT/NTID in a variety of ways, including serving on the boards of NTID's Foundation and the NTID Alumni Association. He has been a supporter of Sebastian and Lenore Rosica Hall, NTID's newest facility for research and innovation. Outside of work, Jacobson enjoys motor racing, music, theater and travel.
As a freshman entering RIT, Frank S. Sklarsky '78 (business administration/accounting) seriously considered a career in engineering or computer science. That is until Professor Emeritus Eugene Fram took Sklarsky under his wing and recommended accounting. Sklarsky took the advice, beginning a journey that has taken him to the upper echelons of several Fortune 500 companies.
He is executive vice president of finance and chief financial officer for PPG Industries, capping a 35-year career that also included senior executive positions at DaimlerChrysler, Dell, ConAgra Foods, Eastman Kodak and Tyco International.
Sklarsky is a member of RIT's Board of Trustees and regularly returns to Saunders College of Business to speak with and mentor its students.
Although he counsels students on how to achieve career success, he emphasizes that it is a lifelong journey to be savored, and that whatever path they choose to take, it should be guided by a strong ethical compass.


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Archos Android 2.2 Tablets Deliver Diverse Models, Features
Archos Android 2.2 Tablets Deliver Diverse Models, Features
Archos 28
Archos envisions its 2.8-inch screen Archos 28 device as a mini multimedia player for MP3s. The WiFi connected-device supports the most popular audio and video formats. The device ships this month for $99.99 with 4GB of storage.
Archos 28 Good for E-Mail
Users will log in using one or several e-mail accounts and the Android e-mail application will handle all accounts.
Archos 32
Like the Archos 28, the 32 is quite the mini music player, but it uses a 3.2-inch screen and boasts more storage. The Archos 32 costs $149.99 for 8GB of memory and ships later this month.
Video Camera
The A32 tablet also includes a camcorder for video and photos. Users can upload videos and pictures to the Web or share via social networks.
Archos 43
For $199.99 with 8GB of memory later this fall, the Archos 43 is like a large smartphone, employing a 4.3-inch screen and weighing 4.6 ounces. The gadget offers HD video playback, HD camcorder, apps, e-mail and full Internet browsing.
Stand, Screen on Archos 43
Like the HTC Evo 4G, the Archos 43 has a leg stand to prop up the device for easy video consumption. Also, check out the 854 x 480 pixel, high-resolution display.
Archos 70
The Archos 70, coming this fall in $274.99 (8GB) and $349.99 (250GB) flavors, almost doubles the screen size of the 43 with 7 inches of high-resolution real estate.
Gaming, TV
The Archos 70 displays every Android screen on a user's wide screen TV, allowing users to browse files or the Internet from the couch. 3D gaming is also a joy with this tablet.
Archos 101
The high end of Archos' tablet line is the 10.1-inch touch screen Archos 101, arriving this fall. This big screen device (big for a tablet) only weighs 16.9 ounces. This device will cost $299.99 (8GB) and $349.99 (16GB) when it lands this fall.
Archos lets users connect their mobile phone with 3.5 G and Bluetooth technology to the Archos 101 tablet via Bluetooth or USB cable to let users access the Web.


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Finnegan, who was nominated for five Emmy Awards, died Friday of Parkinson's disease at his home in Sag Harbor, N.Y., according to his son Michael.
In the late 1970s and 1980s, Finnegan-Pinchuk Co., the Studio City-based production firm he started with his wife, Patricia, and their partner, Sheldon Pinchuk, was one of the leading suppliers of network and cable television movies.
In addition to "The Dollmaker" (1984), with Jane Fonda, and "Amos" (1985), with Kirk Douglas, their productions included "Hoover" (1987), with Treat Williams, "The Atlanta Child Murders" (1985), with Morgan Freeman, "World War III" (1982), with Rock Hudson, "The $5.20 an Hour Dream" (1980), with Linda Lavin, and "The Ordeal of Patty Hearst" (1979), with Dennis Weaver.
Born June 29, 1928, in Kansas City, Mo., Finnegan served in the Navy after World War II. He started his career as a newsman in 1950, writing for the Hollywood Citizen News, the Associated Press and CBS. He went on to work in television and feature films as an assistant director and production manager.
The feature films he produced or co-produced include "Support Your Local Gunfighter" (1971), "North Shore" (1987), "The Fabulous Baker Boys" (1989), "White Palace" (1990), "The Babe" (1992), "CrissCross" (1992), "Reality Bites" (1994) and "Ed" (1996).
He also produced the TV shows "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" (1987) and "Big Hawaii" (1977).
He retired in 2003.
In addition to his wife, Patricia, Finnegan is survived by sons Michael, a political reporter for The Times; William, a staff writer for the New Yorker; Kevin, a labor lawyer in New York City; daughter Colleen, a doctor in Northampton, Mass.; brother Charles Robinson of Mill Creek, Wash.; and three grandchildren.
A memorial service in Los Angeles is being planned for January.


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The Breckinridge County is located in the state of Kentucky. This county occupies 586 square miles, with 19 square miles being water areas. There are 20.059 inhabitants living in the county according to the 2010 Census. As for the racial makeup of Breckinridge County citizens, the 3 largest groups are White (95.75%), followed by Black or African American (2.04%) and Two or More races (1.25%). There are 7.827 households in the county, while 70,46% of them are family households and 29,54% represent non family households. There are 3 cities and towns in Breckinridge County. The most populated city is Hardinsburg city and the smallest town or village is Cloverport city.


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Darjeeling (WB): Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha workers on Tuesday raised the demand for Gorkhaland at a government programme here in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who firmly ruled it out, warning that she could be both "rough and tough".
"Please remember this is not a party programme, this is a government programme. I am very rough and tough on such issues," a visibly angry Banerjee said with GJM President Bimal Gurung sitting beside her on the dais as GJM workers shouted slogans and held up posters for Gorkhaland.
"You are free to give political slogans at party programmes, but this is a government programme and such slogans cannot be raised here," Banerjee said.
"Please do not give a wrong message so that people think Darjeeling again has a problem," Banerjee said.
"Let us remain together, Darjeeling is part of Bengal and we will remain together," she emphasised.
Referring to the previous Left Front government`s alleged failure to ensure development in Darjeeling and failure of the then chief minister visiting the hills, Banerjee said, "If Darjeeling remains peaceful, development work will continue and employment will be generated."
Gurung, the Chief Executive of the Gorkhaland Territorial Authority, told a press conference later "I also want Gorkhaland. But our relations with the West Bengal government will remain cordial."
Stating that he disapproved of GJM workers raising Gorkhaland slogans when the chief minister stated that Darjeeling was an inseparable part of the state, he said the GJM workers were angry as Telengana was likely to be declared a separate state and the hill party`s demand went back 105 years.
Stating that GJM elected members were to hand over a memorandum to the Chief Minister, but could not do so as she left for a programme near Kalimpong, Gurung criticised the district magistrate, Soumitra Mohan, who is the principal secretary of GTA for not informing him about her programmes.
Asked if he was considering to resign from the GTA because of delay in transfer of authority to the hill council by the state government, he said he would consider it at an appropriate time.
Opposition parties decried the GJM for raising the Gorkhaland demand before the chief minister, with the CPI(M) accusing the Trinamool Congress of having created a `Frankenstein`.
"We had repeatedly told her during signing of the agreement for the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration that the chief minister has created a Frankenstein in the GJM over which she will not have any control," Leader of the Opposition Surjyakanta Mishra belonging to the CPI(M) said.
WBPCC President Pradip Bhattacharya said the demand for a separate state could not be accepted and suggested that all political parties and the Centre look for a permanent solution to the Darjeeling problem within the constitutional framework.
Congress leader and Union Minister Deepa Dasmunshi said, "Mere scolding will not serve to bring a permanent solution to the hill problem. The sentiment of the people in the hills should be honoured while finding a permanent solution."


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So, for those of you who visit my blog regularly... I LOVE YOU! You make me happy. And for those of who who just found my blog, keep coming back. I love you too!
I've got to tell you all that I've been a bit flustered about something. I am going back to school for nursing, starting NOW. I got into a great program and I'm very excited to be on my way to what I love doing... but I have another love in life, which is my cooking and baking, plus this blog. So, with the beginning of this new journey, I don't want to slack on the blogging and let you all down.
So here's what I've been doing. I'm hoarding (no, not like those houses on TLC that make you want to puke). I'm hoarding recipes. I have cooked up some real treasures these past few months and I have reserved them for posting in the next few months while I study away on things like "acetocholine being released in the synaptic cleft of the pre-synaptic neuron to continue the electronic current to the post-synaptic neuron". Sounds important right? This way, you all still get new recipes and I can sleep at night knowing that my blog and homework are both getting done. Yay us!
So I hope you enjoy everything I've put together for you and I'm sure as the semesters drag on you will see a slight change in the style of my recipes... like when I'm searching for something super easy and fast. Hopefully you all will enjoy the change.
Now that we got all of that taken care of, follow along and I'll show you how to make this crispy, seasoned tilapia that I'm sure your just dreuling over:
Crispy Parm-Crusted Fillet of Fish
*Recipe from Rachael Ray
4 (6-ounce) tilapia fillets (or sole)
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons seafood seasoning (such as Old Bay)
2 large eggs
1 cup plain, fine bread crumbs
1/2 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese (or fresh Parmesan)
2 tablespoons fresh thyme leaves, finely chopped
2 lemons
4-8 tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Set up 3 dishes for breading the fillets. In the first, combine the flour with the seafood seasoning. In the second, beat the eggs with a splash of water. In the third, combine the bread crumbs, cheese, thyme and the grated zest of 1 lemon.
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What has Jesus been doing since his ascension?
This is the question that Frank Viola wrestles with in his new book "Jesus Now: Unveiling the Present-Day Ministry of Christ." Viola has been on something of a quest to discover Jesus afresh, authoring and co-authoring several other books on the topic. Here, we discuss what Viola calls the seven aspects of Jesus' present-day ministry.
RNS: I loved your book "Jesus: A Theography" with Leonard Sweet. You seem to be writing a lot on Jesus these days. What sparked this for you?
FV: "Jesus: A Theography" tells the story of Jesus from Genesis to Revelation, whereas "Jesus Now" explores the present-day ministry of Christ. It answers the question, "What is Jesus doing now?" It's an entire study on what Jesus' ministry has been since His ascension and until His second coming, and how it benefits every believer.
I embarked on the journey because I know of no other book that's addressed this specific subject in any detail and in a way that every reader can understand. So I felt an exploration of the seven aspects of Christ's present-day ministry was needed.
RNS: Seven aspects of Christ's present-day ministry?
FV: Yes. They are Great High Priest, Good Shepherd, Heavenly Bridegroom, Author and Finisher of Our Faith, Builder of Ekklesia, Head of the Church, and Lord of the World. I went through the entire New Testament from Matthew to Revelation to find every verse that gives insight into what Jesus has been doing since His ascension. Each chapter describes one of these facets, so each chapter is like a different side of a diamond when you begin turning it. To my mind, all of them shine brilliantly in their own way.
RNS: Did you find anything that caused you hesitation?
FV: In my chapter on the High Priestly ministry of Christ, I decided to come out of the gate pretty strong against two contemporary problems. One is the legalism that's in the drinking water of the Christian faith today that makes God's people afraid of the Lord and heavily focused on their own service, works, and growth. This can lead to one of two problems: condemnation and guilt or self-righteousness and a judgmental attitude toward other Christians.
On the flip side, I took dead aim at the opposite teaching which has gained ground today. It's the idea that because we're under grace, God doesn't care if we sin, and we should never feel bad if we transgress.
I decided not to hold back in presenting the biblical viewpoint in contrast to these two extremes. Part of the challenge is that legalists don't see themselves as legalistic, and those who believe that grace is a license to sin don't view themselves as being unbiblical. So it takes some careful nuance to expose these two issues.
RNS: What question stumped you the most in this exploration of Jesus? And did anything blow you out of the water?
I wrestled hard with the idea that Jesus is Lord of the world. If that's true, I wondered, why do we see corruption, sin, violence, pain, and suffering in the world? I discovered an answer, and it is included in the book. I was blown out of the water by how Jesus in His High Priestly role benefits every believer each day.
RNS: Name one thing you want people to remember after reading "Jesus Now."
That Jesus isn't sitting up in heavenly places yawning until He returns. He's very active. I want readers to know specifically what He's doing that will benefit them, if they simply avail themselves of it.


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1.3.1 Structuralism
Structuralism in linguistics, anthropology, psychoanalysis or literary theory was a strong intellectual movement first in France and later in the western world in general, and it served as a kind of antidote to existentialism, taking the stance of antihumanism. Wikipedia defines the method of structuralism as follows:
As a method, the basics of structuralism consist of analyzing social events (speech, familial identity, and recounts of history, for example) to discover the synchronic structures that both underlie them and make them possible (language, kinship and narrative structure, respectively), which are then typically broken down into units, codes, rules of combination, etc. The essential theory underlying this method is that these structures are autonomous, and that their units are interdependent, because they are constituted through contrast with one another. So how we discursively conceive of ourselves, or anything, for that matter, is dependent on contexts found within historically contingent systems.
In the sense given above, Chomsky, for example, is a structuralist (but certainly more than that), although his name cannot be found in the section of "structuralism in linguistics" in Wikipedia
As someone in the generation which took structural linguistics for granted, I believe the idea of structuralism should be highly regarded even in these "post-" days.
1.3.2 Saussure
Saussure laid the foundation for many of the significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century. His terms like signifier (signifiant) and signified (signifie), langue and parole are common knowledge for linguists and applied linguists. He is also a very important figure in semiotics.
Wikipedia explains the legacy of Saussure as follows:
The impact of Saussure's ideas on the development of linguistic theory in the first half of the 20th century cannot be overstated. Two currents of thought emerged independently of each other, one in Europe, the other in America. The results of each incorporated the basic notions of Saussurian thought in forming the central tenets of structural linguistics. In Europe, the most important work was being done by the Prague School. ... In America, Saussure's ideas informed the distributionalism of Leonard Bloomfield and the post-Bloomfieldian Structuralism
Saussure's posthumous book, Course in General Linguistics, compiled by his students is a very important book in the history of linguistics and beyond.
The distinctions of "langue" and "parole," "signiant (signifier)" and "signifie' (signified)" or "synchronic" and "diachronic" and the concepts such as "arbitrariness" and "value" are now common knowledge in humanities.
Take a look at Wikipedia:
However, the rigid distinction of synchronic dimension and diachronic dimension and the complete separation (autonomy) of the system from the body/world may have become burdens rather than theoretical advantages later.
Cognitive linguistics, for example, takes a different approach from structural linguistics.Wikipedia explains the feature of cognitive linguistics as follows:
In linguistics and cognitive science, cognitive linguistics (CL) refers to the school of linguistics that understands language creation, learning, and usage as best explained by reference to human cognition in general. It is characterized by adherence to three central positions. First, it denies that there is an autonomous linguistic faculty in the mind; second, it understands grammar in terms of conceptualization; and third, it claims that knowledge of language arises out of language use.
Below is how Gilles Fauconnier explains about cognitive linguistics.
Cognitive linguistics recognizes that the study of language is the study of language use and that when we engage in any language activity, we draw unconsciously on vast cognitive and cultural resources, call up models and frames, set up multiple connections, coordinate large arrays of information, and engage in creative mappings, transfers, and elaborations. Language does not "represent" meaning; it prompts for the construction of meaning in particular contexts with particular cultural models and cognitive resources. Very sparse grammar guides us along the same rich mental paths, by prompting us to perform complex cognitive operations. Thus, a large part of cognitive linguistics centers on the creative on-line construction of meaning as discourse unfolds in context. The dividing line between semantics and pragmatics dissolves and truth-conditional compositionality disappears.
1.3.3 Chomsky
Chomsky is an intellectual better known as a political activist for general public(http://www.chomsky.info/), but for applied linguists he is one of the most important linguists or cognitive scientists. His importance in linguistics and cognitive science in the 20th century. Personally, I'm more a non-Chomskyan than a Chomskyan, but it's hard for me to be an anti-Chomskyan, given the consistency of his framework.
Chomsky's review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior challenged the behaviorist approaches quite radically and contributed to the cognitive revolution.
Chomsky's generative grammar radically changed our way to see "language."
Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965) contains one of the most important statements in linguistics.
Linguistic theory is concerned primarily with an ideal speaker-listener, in a completely homogeneous speech-community, who knows its language perfectly and is unaffected by such grammatically irrelevant conditions as memory limitations, distractions, shifts of attention and interest, and errors (random or characteristic) in applying his knowledge of the language in actual performance. This seems to me to have been the position of the founders of modern general linguistics, and no cogent reason for modifying it has been offered. To study actual linguistic performance, we must consider the interaction of a variety of factors, of which the underlying competence of the speaker-hearer is only one. In this respect, study of language is no different from empirical investigation of other complex phenomena. (pp. 3-4)
Chomsky's research program is succinctly expressed in Knowledge of Language:
(i) What constitutes knowledge of language?
(ii) How is knowledge of language acquired?
(iii) How is knowledge of language put to use?
In the same book, Chomsky explains generative grammar as follows:
A generative grammar is not a set of statements about externalized objects constructed in some manner. Rather, it purports to depict exactly what one knows when one knows a language: that is, what has been learned, as supplemented by innate principles. UG is a characterization of these innate, biologically determined principles, which constitute one component of the human mind -- the language faculty. (p.24)
Later, in New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind (2000), he defends his scientific approach from common-sense understanding:
The concept human being is part of common-sense understanding, with properties of individuation, psychic persistence, and so on, reflecting particular human concerns,attitudes, and perspectives. The same is true of language speaking. Apart from improbable accident, such concepts will not fall within explanatory theories of the naturalistic variety; not just now, but ever. This is not because of cultural or even intrinsically human limitations (though these surely exist), but because of their nature. We may have a good deal to say about people, so conceived; even low-level accounts that provide weak explanation. But such accounts cannot be integrated into the natural sciences alongside of explanatory models or hydrogen atoms, cells, or other entities that we posit in seeking a coherent and intelligible explanatory model of the naturalistic variety. There is no reason to suppose that there is a "natural kind 'human being'"; at least if natural kinds are the kinds of nature, the categories discovered in naturalistic inquiry.
The question is not whether the concepts of common-sense understanding can themselves be studied in some branch of naturalistic inquiry; perhaps they can. Rather, it is whether in studying the natural world (for that matter, in studying these concepts, as part of the natural world), we view it from the standpoint provided by such concepts. Surely not. There may be scientific studies of some aspects of what people are and do, but they will not use the common-sense notions human being or language speaking -- with their special role in human life and thought -- in formulating their explanatory principles. (p. 20)
Chomsky is also an important figure in language acquisition and philosophy of mind.
Chomsky is regarded as a nativist.
Nativist theories hold that children are born with an innate propensity for language acquisition, and that this ability makes the task of learning a first language easier than it would otherwise be. These "hidden assumptions" allow children to quickly figure out what is and isn't possible in the grammar of their native language, and allow them to master that grammar by the age of three. Nativists view language as a fundamental part of the human genome, as the trait that makes humans human, and its acquisition as a natural part of maturation, no different from dolphins learning to swim or songbirds learning to sing.
Chomsky originally theorized that children were born with a hard-wired language acquisition device (LAD) in their brains [1]. He later expanded this idea into that of Universal Grammar, a set of innate principles and adjustable parameters that are common to all human languages. According to Chomsky, the presence of Universal Grammar in the brains of children allow them to deduce the structure of their native languages from "mere exposure".
As a Wittgensteinian myself, I'm appealed to a "dissolution," not a "solution" of the mind-body problem.
Each attempt to answer the mind-body problem encounters substantial problems. Some philosophers argue that this is because there is an underlying conceptual confusion.] These philosophers, such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and his followers in the tradition of linguistic criticism, therefore reject the problem as illusory.[50] They argue that it is an error to ask how mental and biological states fit together. Rather it should simply be accepted that human experience can be described in different ways - for instance, in a mental and in a biological vocabulary. Illusory problems arise if one tries to describe the one in terms of the other's vocabulary or if the mental vocabulary is used in the wrong contexts. This is the case, for instance, if one searches for mental states of the brain. The brain is simply the wrong context for the use of mental vocabulary - the search for mental states of the brain is therefore a category error or a sort of fallacy of reasoning.
As a Wittgensteinian, Donald Davidson proposes the idea of anomalous monism. According to Wikipedia, "The theory is twofold and states that mental events are identical with physical events, and that the mental is anomalous, i.e. under their mental descriptions these mental events are not regulated by strict physical laws."
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Critical views against Chomsky's idea of language acquisition are expressed.
Noam Chomsky interviewed by Harry Kreisler (Activism, Anachism, and Power) is an interesting reading. The excerpt:
I've read interviews where you have tried to separate your approach in science to your approach of politics. How does your approach to the world as a scientist affect and influence the way you approach politics?
I think studying science is a good way to get into fields like history. The reason is, you learn what an argument means, you learn what evidence is, you learn what makes sense to postulate and when, what's going to be convincing. You internalize the modes of rational inquiry, which happen to be much more advanced in the sciences than anywhere else. On the other hand, applying relativity theory to history isn't going to get you anywhere. So it's a mode of thinking. I try, at least -- with what success; others have to judge -- to [apply] the mode of thinking that you would use in the sciences to human affairs.
As to other connections, there may be some, but they're pretty remote. If you think about the core notions of what I was calling anarchism, which, as I say, is deeply rooted in popular traditions everywhere (for good reasons), if you try to take it apart, it's based on a conception of what Bakunin once called "an instinct for freedom," that people have an instinctive drive for freedom from domination and control. I can't prove it, but I think that's probably true.
The core of the work that I've been interested in, in language, is also interested in a kind of human freedom: the cognitive capacity to create indefinitely, and its roots in our nature. Historically, people have drawn a connection between these. If you look at, say, the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and the Romantic periods, this connection was explicitly drawn. If you read Rousseau or Wilhelm von Humboldt and others, the connection between human freedom in the social and political realm and human freedom in the creative use of cognitive capacity, in particular language, they did try to establish a connection.
Now, if you ask, can this be connected at the level of science, the answer is no. It's a parallel intuition, which doesn't link up empirically, but maybe could someday if we knew enough.
As a traditional rationalist Chomsky disagrees with poststructuralism and postmodernism:
I have spent a lot of my life working on questions such as these, using the only methods I know of; those condemned here as "science", "rationality", "logic" and so on. I therefore read the papers with some hope that they would help me "transcend" these limitations, or perhaps suggest an entirely different course. I'm afraid I was disappointed. Admittedly, that may be my own limitation. Quite regularly, "my eyes glaze over" when I read polysyllabic discourse on the themes of poststructuralism and postmodernism; what I understand is largely truism or error, but that is only a fraction of the total word count. True, there are lots of other things I don't understand: the articles in the current issues of math and physics journals, for example. But there is a difference. In the latter case, I know how to get to understand them, and have done so, in cases of particular interest to me; and I also know that people in these fields can explain the contents to me at my level, so that I can gain what (partial) understanding I may want. In contrast, no one seems to be able to explain to me why the latest post-this-and-that is (for the most part) other than truism, error, or gibberish, and I do not know how to proceed. Chomsky, Noam (November 22, 2002). Chomsky on Democracy & Education. Routledge, 93. ISBN 0415926319.
Whether you ultimately choose to be a poststructuralist or postmodernist or whatever, you cannot disregard the "cognitive revolution" in which Chomsky played an important role.
When you have time, watch this 90 minute lecture "Language and the Mind Revisited - The Biolinguistic Turn" by Chomsky kindly offered by University of California Television.
1.3.4 Constative / Performative
John Langshaw Austin opposed the view of language predominant in his time that sentences are to state facts, and argured that sentences have not only the function of stating facts (constative) which is either true or false, but also the function of performative, doing an action in words, which is either felicitous/happy or infelicitous/unhappy.
He later developed a theory of speech act in which he distinguished locutionary act, illocutionary act and perlocutionary act.
According to Wikipedia, Judith Butler, the philosopher and feminist theorist developed a new, more Continental (specifically, Foucauldian) reading of the notion of performativity and described performativity as "…that reiterative power of discourse to produce the phenomena that it regulates and constrains." (Butler qtd. In Identity: A reader, 2000)
Learn about Judith Butler.
The concept places emphasis on the manners in which identity is passed or brought to life through discourse. Performative acts are types of authoritative speech. This can only happen and be enforced through the law or norms of the society though. These statements, just by speaking them, carry out a certain action and exhibit a certain level of power. Examples of these types of statements are declarations of ownership, baptisms, inaugurations, and legal sentences. Something that is key to performativity is repetition. The statements are not singular in nature or use and must be used consistently in order to exert power.
Read my short Japanese essay on Judith Butler's Excitable Speech.
1.3.5 Literacy / Oracy
According to Wikipedia, The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has drafted the following definition: "'Literacy' is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning to enable an individual to achieve his or her goals, to develop his or her knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in the wider society."
Currently, however, the concept of literacy has been expanded to include, for example, multimedia lietracy, computer literacy, information literacy, technacy, arts literacy, critical lteracy and health literacy.
The central concept of literacy is concerned with written language, though. To understand that, it is important to see the differences between written language/writing (literacy) and spoken language/speech (oracy).
A standard view regarding the differences between oral and written communication is provided by Vincent Ferrato and Kathryn C. Plamer (Mount Holyoke College)
The Gutenberg Galaxy by McLuhan, is an important book in media studies. Wikipedia summarizes the book as follows:
McLuhan studies the emergence of what he calls Gutenberg Man, the subject produced by the change of consciousness wrought by the advent of the printed book. Apropos of his axiom, "The medium is the message," McLuhan argues that technologies are not simply inventions which people employ but are the means by which people are re-invented. The invention of movable type was the decisive moment in the change from a culture in which all the senses partook of a common interplay to a tyranny of the visual. He also argued that the development of the printing press led to the creation of nationalism, dualism, domination of rationalism, automatisation of scientific research, uniformation and standardisation of culture and alienation of individuals.
The book may also be regarded as a way of describing 4 epochs of history:
1. Oral tribe culture
2. Manuscript culture
3. Gutenberg galaxy
4. Electronic age
See other entries of Wikipedia.
Print culture
Manuscript culture
Oral culture
If you read Japanese, read my essay on media ecology and social differentiation theory.
Dyslexia is becoming an increasingly important term for language teachers.
Dyslexia affects reading and spelling among others.
* Spelling errors ― Because of difficulty learning letter-sound correspondences, individuals with dyslexia might tend to misspell words, or leave vowels out of words.
* Letter order - Dyslexics may also reverse the order of two letters especially when the final, incorrect, word looks similar to the intended word (e.g., spelling "dose" instead of "does").
* Highly phoneticized spelling - Dyslexics also commonly spell words inconsistently, but in a highly phonetic form such as writing "shud" for "should". Dyslexic individuals also typically have difficulty distinguishing among homophones such as "their" and "there".
* Vocabulary - Having a small written vocabulary, even if they have a large spoken vocabulary.
There are several, not mutually competing, theories of dyslexia.
The following is some of the explanations taken from Wikipedia.
Evolutionary hypotheis "posits that reading is an unnatural act, and carried out by humans for an exceedingly brief period in our evolutionary history."
"The phonological hypothesis postulates that dyslexics have a specific impairment in the representation, storage and/or retrieval of speech sounds."
Visual theory considers dyslexia "as a visual impairment giving rise to difficulties with the processing of letters and words on a page of text. This may take the form of unstable binocular fixations, poor vergence, or increased visual crowding."
Cerebellar theory claims "that the dyslexic's cerebellum is mildly dysfunctional and that a number of cognitive difficulties ensue. "
Magnocellular theory "is a unifying theory that attempts to integrate all the findings mentioned above. A generalization of the visual theory, the magnocellular theory postulates that the magnocellular dysfunction is not restricted to the visual pathways but is generalized to all modalities (visual and auditory as well as tactile)."
Wikipedia summarizes the issue of managing dyslexia as follows:
There is no cure for dyslexia, but dyslexic individuals can learn to read and write with appropriate education or treatment. There is wide research evidence indicating that specialized phonics instruction can help remediate the reading deficits. The fundamental aim is to make children aware of correspondences between graphemes and phonemes, and to relate these to reading and spelling. It has been found that training, that is also focused towards visual language and orthographic issues, yields longer-lasting gains than mere oral phonological training.
Logocentrism, a Western tradition, regards speech as superior to writing (believing writing only represents or archives speech). In this line of thought, speech represents "presence", "identity", and "fullness", whereas writing represents "absense", "difference" and "emptiness".
In his early work, Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida gave a new look at speech and writing. Derrida opposes the traditional idea of speech over writing (the original over the derivative) and instead argues that all that can be claimed of writing - eg. that it is derivative and merely refers to other signs - is equally true of speech. Derrida also explicates spatial differing and temporal deferring in writing.
See the following two sections of The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
(Japanese browsers may need encoding adjustment to read these pages. Use a West European encoding system).
Some portion of "Of Grammatology" is available here:
Information of Of Grammatology is given by Amazon.com.
The orbituary article of Derrida on The Guardian is a very good introduction to his philosophy and life.
The majority of language teachers may be more interested in specific issues of reading education than in philosophical issues above. Check the terms like "Whole Language" and "Phonics".
A well-known distinction between CALP and BICS in applied linguistics is related to, but different from the difference between written language and spoken language.
Oracy, in opposition to literacy, may require skills in body language.
1.3.6 Freire
Please read my short summary: Paulo Freire (1970) Pedagogy of the Opressed
A general introduction to Paulo Freire is offered by Smith, M. K. (1997, 2002) 'Paulo Freire and informal education', the encyclopaedia of informal education. [www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm. Last update: July 02, 2008].
According to this article, there are five aspects that have particular significance.
(1) His emphasis on dialogue rather than curriculum.
(2) His emphasis on praxis -- action that is informed and linked to certain values) -- that is meant to make a difference in the world.
(3) Giving a voice to the oppressed.
(4) Situating educational activity in the lived experience of participants.
(5) Christian metaphor ('Easter experience' of the teacher).
See also the critique in the article.
As always, Wikipedia gives a reasonable introduction.
According to Wikipedia, Freire is also "known for his attack on what he called the "banking" concept of education, in which the student was viewed as an empty account to be filled by the teacher."
The two important works by Freire are
Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Pedagogy of Hope
Other related keywords are
Critical pedagogy
1.3.7 Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdies (1930 - 2002) is a French sociologist who is known for concepts such as cultural, social and symbolic capital, and habitus. To borrow a summary in Wikipedia, "he asserts the primacy of social origin and culture capital by claiming that social capital and economic capital, though acquired cumulatively over time, depend upon it. Bourdieu claims that 'one has to take account of all the characteristics of social condition which are (statistically) associated from earliest childhood with possession of high or low income and which tend to shape tastes adjusted to these conditions'". His theory has a particular significance to contemporary Japan where social class and stratification is (re)emerging.
Cultural capital
Symbolic capital
Social capital
Economicl capital
Social class
Social stratification


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So here's the last word on my favorites and least favorites of everything. I figured this would be a good way to end the story of my trip around the world in 60 days.
Favorite Flight: Korean Airlines, Tokyo->Honolulu
Worst Flight: Delta Airlines, Beijing->Tokyo
Comment: Just don't destroy my bags Delta. That's all I ask. And Korean, you had first class service the whole way to Honolulu. Fantastic job.
Favorite Hostel: K's Hostel, Tokyo
Worst Hostel: Legends Hostel, Rome
Comment: K's was cheap, great location, and had fantastic staff. Legends was expensive, had a terrible location, and lied to me about A/C.
Favorite Hotel: White House Hotel, Istanbul
Worst Hotel: Windsor Palace, Alexandria
Comment: It really wasn't the staff's fault. They just need to knock down the Windsor Palace and build something that isn't so terrible.
Favorite Country: Japan
Worst Country: Egypt
Comment: Greece was unfortunately disqualified. Kristen being there gave it a HUGE advantage. And while Egypt was amazing and I can't wait to go back, it was an easy decision to make it worst. I had money extorted from me. It's hard to overcome that.
Favorite Attraction: The Great Wall of China, Beijing
Worst Attraction: The Vatican Museum, Rome
Comment: Everyone should see the Great Wall before they die. It is amazing.
Favorite Food: Kristen's Mushroom Tortellini, Greece
Worst Food: Coffee, Vietnam
Comment: I don't think I had a single meal I hated the whole trip. It was all amazingly good. But Greece knocked the pants off every place else for food. Meanwhile, Vietnam does great tea but their coffee is just awful.
Thing I Missed Most: Personal Space
Comment: Obviously this doesn't include friends and family. England, Ireland, Japan, and the US are the ONLY countries I have visited that have personal space. And China doesn't even understand the concept.
Thing I Will Miss the Most: Making Friends
Comment: My favorite part of the whole trip, was making friends in the hostels, on the trains, and the boats. Sharing stories, food, and eventually friendship.
So now I have been all the way around the world, and I have just one last thing to say. I love America, I love New York City and New Jersey and Little Silver, and it is so good to be home again, in the best place in the whole world!


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This week - The East German Stasi listen in on a writer's life (The Lives Of Others) and Disney rape our minds (Wild Hogs).
First up, The Lives Of Others, a film written and directed by a man called Florian Maria Georg Christian Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck. It won the Oscar for best foreign language film this year for that name alone. It beat Pan's Labyrinth to the prize, a film that we thought was one of the best of the year in any language, but having seen it, this German film does measure up. The critics agree.
James Christopher gives 4/5 to a film that has apparently, "put the fear of God into the German cultural establishment. It rips the stitches from memories that are still fresh and deep."
The basic plot is that a writer's flat is bugged by the security services and monitored by a Stasi agent. However, the agent begins to sympathize with the dissident artists who frequent it.
Christopher writes that,
What doesn't ring entirely true is a Stasi officer who undergoes an angelic change of heart. This is a harsh leap, and arguments still rage about whether or not unsuspecting audiences should be allowed to take it.
The film looks wonderfully depressing. Christopher describes the atmosphere as "exquisitely 1980s. The cruel backdrops are marvellous shades of grey."
Few films have dared paint East Germany and its legions of demons in such honest and unsparing detail. Von Donnersmarck puts a pickaxe into the past.
Bradshaw gives "this fierce and gloomy drama" 4/5
When the film first came out in Germany, it became notorious for turning against the prevailing trend of nostalgia for the old East Germany, a phenomenon known as Ostalgie,
The Lives of Others is a very different experience to Good Bye Lenin!, the funny and much-admired satire from 2003 on East Germany's collapse which, frankly, came close to indulging the shabby communist regime.
Quinn at The Independent gives it full marks, 5/5,
So much narrative cinema pretends at the idea of redemption - the character who has an epiphany, changes his ways and, in that repulsive cliché, "moves on" - that when a convincing drama of self-transformation comes along there is a danger that we might undervalue it, or overlook it, or assume that we've seen it all before. That's because most movies can only really convey a change of mood. It's a rare picture that can persuasively dramatise a change of mind, and a change of heart. This is why you should take pains not to miss this outstanding, and astounding, German film.
The end of the film final scene is brilliantly understated and in his review, Quinn does not want to "give away the magnificence of the final scene" but,
all that can be safely said is that it takes place in a bookshop, and features a sentence of four words that may bring a tear to your eye. To both eyes, for that matter. It pulls together, with beautiful economy, the threads of poignancy and hope which this film has so dexterously and diligently fashioned.
Watch the trailer -
and then go and see it.
Next up, Wild Hogs
Bradshaw gives it 1/5, hooray!
Looking at the actors on the poster outside the cinema - John Travolta, William H Macy, Tim Allen and Martin Lawrence - triggers a kind of awestruck anticipation. They are four faces on a Mount Rushmore of rubbishness. Which one of these Hollywood middleweights is going to be the most utterly abysmal? Which is going to phone in the most inept performance? It's like King Kong versus Godzilla versus Alien versus Predator: all four creatures lined up on the starting blocks for the 100m Terrible Acting event ... Well, it's a photo-finish, but by a nose, by the briefest sliver of proboscis. It is John Travolta who is first among equals in this mind-sodomisingly mediocre family comedy from Walt Disney.
Thank you sir.
James Christopher also gives it to 1/5 - woooo!
One mad beer-crazed morning they decide to rip up the shopping list and take to the road. They are going to be true rebels and God help anyone who gets in their way. For Macy that means trundling into stacks of carefully placed hay bales. Tim Allen cracks dentist jokes. Travolta wears a bandana. And they all try to avoid looking gay. This is not easy when they are stalked by a crazed and lonely homosexual cop.
Quinn gives it 1/5 - hat trick!
Not very wild. Four suburban males, fearful of middle-age decline, decide to jump on their motorbikes and discover the romance of the road. This amounts to a run-in with a gang of psycho-bikers led by a menacing Ray Liotta. The template is Billy Crystal and chums doing a cattle-drive in City Slickers, which now looks like Easy Rider in comparison with this. John Travolta plays the bankrupt one, Martin Lawrence the henpecked one, Tim Allen the disgruntled one and William H Macy the nerdy one as they trade threadbare quips about homophobia, mount their bikes and putter towards their paychecks.
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Moorabool Shire Council approves extended consultation period over Lal Lal wind farm
Credit: By Michael Pollock | The Courier | Dec. 23, 2015 | www.thecourier.com.au ~~
Moorabool Shire Council has voted to propose an extension for the community consultation period for the Lal Lal wind farm project at a recent council meeting.
Council has written a letter to Minister of Planning Richard Wynne requesting an extension to the public exhibition period until February for the proposed amendment, fearing residents hadn't been given enough time to process information.
The amendment would see WestWind Energy increase turbine height from 130 metres to 161 metres, with the number of turbines reduced to 60 from 64.
The item seeks clarification on whether Mr Wynne considers the amendment minor or major in nature and whether a new application should be submitted.
The item stated that the proposed height of each turbine "will cause an unacceptable amenity impact on the community".
Westwind managing director Tobi Geiger told The Courier in November that the turbines would have "minimal" visual impact.
"I can tell you honestly, if you were two kilometres away and you saw a 161 metre high turbine and then you drove further and saw a 130 metre turbine from two kilometres away you wouldn't notice any different," he said.
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Booth #:96
The group is a CA global communications teknoweldgy network that is Training-the-Trainers in service as an Educational Entrepreneurship Open Source Coalition changing the digital divide.
We will have three or more kiosks that provide access to our OpenACS server and they will be able to experience installing the software and for a donation can walk with the software. to demo various Open Source tools and applications as presented at http://teknowledgy.org most of which will be centered around School 2.0: http://etoolkit.org which is a community technology mapping system, developed by Stanford Research Institute SRI


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Sekret by Lindsey Smith
Why -> You have a young girl forced to be a psychic spy for the KGB. I'm loving the psychic element and the mystery of spy business on this one. This one looks really good. A mystery coupled with espionage and psychic abilities, yes!
Salvage by Alexandra Duncan
Why -> I love this idea. Ava escapes a male dominated merchant space ship to save herself. She finds herself on a floating continent of trash in the Pacific Ocean. I'm really into sci-fi books lately. Now I just need to clear my reading list to read them, hahaha.
Dear Killer by Katherine Ewell
Why -> This one looks so good. Kit is a killer. She receives letter that begin with "Dear Killer" and she follows the only rules she's ever known and leaves a letter with the dead body. That is until a certain letter arrives that turns everything upside down.
A Whisper in Time (Whisper Falls #2) by Elizabeth Langston
Why -> I have this one on pre-order and can't wait for it to come out. I loved the first book, Whisper Falls. Such a great story. I love the way history and present time swirl together in this series. I can't wait to see what happens next with Susanna and Mark. Trying not to give too much away about how the first book ends, I'll just say that if you like a historical twists this is the series for you.
Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins
Why -> I feel like I've been waiting forever for this book to release. Harper becomes a Paladin at the homecoming dance and is charged to protect her least favorite person, ever. To make matters worse she starts to fall for him and finds out his destiny could be to destroy the Earth.
Burn Out by Kristi Helvig
Why -> Tora lives on the wasteland that is left of Earth after the sun goes red giant and she longs to get the heck off the planet. She dreams of a planet with oceans and animals, and real plants that aren't deadly cacti. She finds herself questioning who she can trust when mercenaries arrive to take her father's weapons by force. The very weapons that only Tora should be able to use, but one of the soldiers, James, is able to fire.
Dreams of Gods and Monsters (Daughter of Smoke and Bone #3) by Laini Taylor
Why -> When I first heard of Daughter of Smoke and Bone I was intrigued and wanted to read it, but I never got around to it. Then Days of Blood and Starlight came out and there was that crazy buzz again. This time I figured it was only another year before the final book came out, so I might as well wait and read straight through. Now, I can't wait! I am going to finally read this trilogy that everyone else can't stop talking about.
House of Ivy and Sorrow by Natalie Whipple
Why -> This one is filled with magic and I love a good story around magic. Jo has spent the past ten years hiding from the very curse that killed her mother, but now it appears the killer has returned. But Jo needs to learn more about what she is really up against and decide what she's willing to risk to save those she loves.
Frozen (Taken #2) by Erin Bowman
Why -> Another book I have yet to read the first installment of. I have Taken on my Kindle, I just haven't read it yet. This is on my list of books to read this year. I'm trying to read books I have on my shelves and Kindle first before requesting other books from the library.
In the Shadows by Kiersten White and Jim Di Bartolo
Why -> I'm completely enthralled with this idea. The story is told alternating between words (Kiersten White) and pictures (Jim Di Bartolo). The story takes place in a town where mysterious things happen and no one can outrun their past.
The Taking by Kimberly Derting
Why -> Ooh, Kyra wakes up to find she's been missing for five years and everything has turned upside down in her life. Her boyfriend and best friend are now dating. Her parents are divorced and her dad is convinced little green men had something to do with her disappearance. So interesting. I can't wait for this one. I love a good conspiracy theory.
Sweet Reckoning (The Sweet Trilogy #3) by Wendy Higgins
Why -> I have both Sweet Evil and Sweet Peril on my Kindle waiting for this third book. I can't wait to read them. I've heard great things about the series and I am anxiously awaiting this final installment so I can read them back to back.
What books are you excited for releasing this month?