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Travis Shalla, Letter Carrier Supervisor at Canada Post's Belleville Operations, approached the Historical Society and Community Archives last year about their celebration for the 100th anniversary of mail delivery service in Belleville. Travis began collecting historical information from the letter carriers (active and retired), and the Archive Angels researched the collections at the Community Archives for information about the post office and postal service in Belleville.
The results of that work became apparent last week. Travis give a short presentation at the Historical Society's meeting on May 21, describing the history of letter carriers in Belleville. Some of the images he featured are in the Archives collections, including the photograph below of the posties assembled on the steps of the old post office at the corner of Pinnacle and Bridge Streets at 11 am on May 24, 1913 - just before the very first delivery mail in Belleville.
But the highlight of the week was the celebration at the Belleville Operations building on on the actual 100th anniversary date of May 24, 2013, with the unveiling of the cancellation stamp, pictured right, that will be used in Belleville from that afternoon until the end of the year.
The image of the old post office used on the cancellation stamp is based on a silk screen print, pictured left, that is part of the Mika collection in the Community Archives.
At the May 24th celebration, the Historical Society and the Community Archives were presented with one of the commemorative numbered prints showing a view of the old post office with the anniversary cancellation stamp. Print #2, shown below, will be preserved at the Community Archives for future generations.
Story Nick White / Sharon White. Picture of Travis Shalla, Nick White, other images from Community Archives.


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Hi everyone!
I'm so excited that the second session of Book of Days with Effy Wild has started - yeayyyy!!!
Book of Days started as a workshop for me, and has progressed into the regular spiritual art practice that I have always wanted. In the Book of Days (BOD) group, we look at what's going on in both our inner and outer worlds and express them through art journaling. The inner world pages are called Book of Mirrors and the outer world pages are called Book of Days. How awesome are those names? I just love them.
Anyhoo, they are taught as separate pages in one journal; but this time I decided to change it up a little and have two separate journals. The first one is my Book of Mirrors. I made this by following the instructions in Effy's Bookbinding 101 class (which is free by the way). This just might be my new favorite way of binding! Here's how it turned out...
The cover is cut from a big roll of canvas...
The binding allows for dangly threads, but I accidentally bound it upside down (lol), which made my danglies end up at the bottom. Ack. Oh well, I just cut them off...
I decided to use up all the big sheets of watercolor paper that I had left. The pages are a mixture of white, light grey, kraft and black, which should provide for interesting challenges...
My Book of Mirrors will be the place to reflect on what's going on in my heart. Here are my first week's pages...
The inside front cover holds my intention for this journal...
The second one is my emotional response to an event from the week (dinner with Michael's parents).
Note: I used the same stencil in each spread (swirly garden by Balzer Designs), but in different ways. The top one with sprays and paints to create layers; the bottom one with gel medium to create a resist.
If you want to check out Book of Days, click here to find out more info.
I will be back next time with my other journal! Thanks so much for visiting and I will see you then!
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Book of Days Session 2 has started - yeayyyyy!!!
Posted by Michelle LaPoint Rydell at 3:54 PM
4 comments:
- Raine said...
Great job, Michelle! LOVE your journal! All those pages...wow!
- July 9, 2013 at 4:17 PM
- Julie Tucker-Wolek said...
LOVING how you sewed the cover and love love love love your page!! GORGEOUS colors and loveeee the photo!!!!
- July 9, 2013 at 6:47 PM
- dawn said...
WOW!! It's all gorgeous and so COOL!! So fun to read what you are learning from this class. I think this is the most excited you've been and keep being excited for. That's so awesome and I'm thrilled for you!!
Happy Weekend!
- July 13, 2013 at 4:29 AM
- Paula Jennings said...
stunning pages. I can't wait to get started on mine!
- July 20, 2013 at 10:46 AM
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The Blue Springs girls golf team got its season off to a strong start.
Mady Acers fired a 3-over-par 75 as the Wildcats captured second place, falling by just one stroke, in the Camdenton Invitational Wednesday at The Club at Old Kinderhook.
Blue Springs totaled 340 to finish just behind Columbia Rock Bridge's 339 in the 20-team tournament.
"Really proud of the girls," Wildcats coach Jill Courter said. "We were needing a competition under our belts and I thought the girls did great for our first tournament. I'm really excited to see what this season will bring."
Acers tied for second individually, while Lauren Muller tied for ninth at 86 and Jordan Marshall tied for 15th at 87 to earn medals.
Sierra Heuston shot 92 and Marybeth Podjenski posted a 110 to round out the Wildcats' card.


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Snows on the prairie
Over the ground lays a mantel of white, for the winds of the prairie are still,
But folk here all know that the long winds will blow, and that snow will move to where winds will.
That lovely, still snow tomorrow will lie, in drifts that are hard near and far,
So look well my friends at this still, shimmering snow, that tomorrow will bury your car.
When cold winds do moan and tree branches groan the new fallen snow will take flight,
Snow again takes to the air, to move here and there, to places revealed by morning light.
Then snow sculptures will form, in strange shapes smooth and worn, in places away from winds might.
New wonders will be revealed, and my soul will be healed, by the wonders shown forth at the death of the night.
Soon I'll venture forth, away from fires warmth, to see what's revealed with morning's birth,
Small creatures will join me, from tunnel and tall tree, their tracks, they shall add to my mirth,
But I'll not tarry too long, for the wind it is strong, and I do know what my life is worth,
I'll come back to my chair, my book it is there, and the fire, it will warm me in the hearth.
A poem inspired by a walk in last nights fresh snow.
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Contrary to what most people believe, do it yourself folks know that constructing their own garage or pole barn is not difficult. A bare minimum of general framing knowledge is enough to get your project off the ground, allowing you to complete the building within your own time frame and at a reduced cost. And with the right do it yourself shed kits or garage kits, your building project will result in a quality structure. A building kit from APM Buildings includes detailed plans along with all the materials (lumber, siding, roofing, etc.) for your next do it yourself garage or shed.
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Today was my husband's 35th and my son's 3rd brithday party. Check out the full story here.
Next week baby #5 will be arriving. This may be my last cake for a little while. I will try to update the blog with things I have not yet posted. Thanks for looking.
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A rally to raise awareness of domestic violence will be held on Wednesday, the first anniversary of the murder of Boca Raton-area resident Kim Brunner.
Members of the South Palm Beach County Chapter of the National Organization for Women will stage "Operation Save a Woman's Life II" from noon to 1 p.m. at the south county courthouse, 200 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach.
The rally will remember Palm Beach County women who died in 1993 and 1994 as a result of domestic violence.
Brunner's ex-husband, William Brunner, faces a charge of first-degree murder in connection with her 1993 stabbing and shooting.
That case and the arrest of O.J. Simpson on charges of killing his ex-wife have raised awareness about domestic violence, an issue NOW hopes to continue highlighting, officials said.
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"All we are saying is give peace a chance" John Lennon
This photo image over here on the right is a sample flyer from May 1970 urging student demonstrations all around the country following those infamous Kent State studen shootings. I grew up during all those Vietnam War era protests (& others for ecology, etc). Prior to graduating high school in 1975, I would have had to register for the USA draft. I wouldn't have gone of course. The draft law was due to expire at the end of June 1971. But President Nixon decided it needed to continue and asked Congress to approve a two-year extension. In March 1973, 1974 and 1975, the Selective Service assigned draft priority numbers for all men born in 1954, 1955 and 1956, in case the draft was extended — but it never was. Rather than angrily protest, burn my draft card or run away and hide in Canada or some other foreign land, I was prepared ro simply reveal to the authorites that I was a "conscientious objector." Whether that brought prison time or some other consequence, who knows. But I never ever considered a violent angry option for expressing my views. I remember watching the Nighly News back then reporting various civil disobedience and organized protest action and thinking, wow the world really is going down hill fast. I remember thinking and pondering about what kind of world we'd be living in when all those angry 'baby boomer' generation's children and grand children grew up and started running the World. Wow, and here we are living the nightmare. Interestingly Colleges are still ground zero for protests and general opportunities for anarchists. But it's been building up for decades. Remember the 77 years of tradition called "College Days" otherwise known as "Spring Break" which generally occurs in April ?
Take a look just a few years back the reason for rioting. Spring break has gotten out of hand for decades. I remember working in downtown Palm Springs at the Caadillac dealer on Palm Canyon Drive when those first of several Spring Break Riots happened. I packed up at 2:00 and left for home in the San Jacinto Mountains. When I hit Palm Desert heading up Hwy 74, I heard on my radio that the police had closed off all streets around Palm Canyon Drive and Indian Avenue and made 120 arrests. That was my first taste of college student insanity.
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Anarchy at Michigan State University as fans riot in East Lansing, Mich., early Sunday. Michigan State University students celebrated their football team's first invite to the Rose Bowl in decades Saturday by rioting through East Lansing streets. Street revelers hate being behavioural restrictions, always have.
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University of Kentucky fans celebrate on State Street after their team's come from behind victory over the University of Louisville to advance to the Elite 8 in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament on March 28, 2014. Now keep close in mind that both groups above back in 2013 thru 2014 are actually happy campers. No anger here, just Nation Lampoon Animal House Party Revelers.
Fast Forward to Post USA Presidential Elections January 2017 & onward
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Militant Anarchist Protesters actually protesting
against Free Speech at Berkeley in California
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Anti-Trump protesters using "black bloc" tactics –
covering faces, dressing in black – arrive at the protest
at Berkeley, California
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Early 2017 riot at University of California Berkeley raised big
questions about the future of the free speech movement which,
was originally incubated & hatched at Berkeley in the 1960s.
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Arielle Moore, 19, argues with a Trump supporter during a protest
at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, Thursday Nov.
10, 2016, opposition of Donald Trump's presidential election victory
To be perfectly fare, it's not just the Students, but almost always the Professors as well. There's no reason to provide more photos, since we all know what's going on regarding academic insanity. But what struck me is a meme which has long been floating around for a few years now, but I ssaw again today. I saw it once before in 2015, but it has more impact now. Here is the billboard statement below.
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Seriously folks, considering where we all are at this point in time, whether to fund more prisons or more universities is quite the dilemma. I mean universities haven't exactly been overly productive and/or beneficial for mankind for a couple decades now. Remember what I said about how I wondered what the world would look like when Babyboomer kids and grandkids grew up and started running things ? Okay, we're here. But the spookier scenario now is what will this world look like when these GEN Xer's or Millennial's kids and/ot grandkids grow up and start running things 30 or 40 years from now ? What type of parenting will they provide ? What type of State funded Education will be filling their heads with whatever nonsense ? Already here in Sweden, a Dagis (Daycare) teacher's aid can and will be fired if they are caught using a male or female pronoun with these under Kindergarden age pre-school kids. So the Swedish State has borrowed a word from Finland, "Hen," (a kinder gentler way of calling someone "It") which provides a gender neutral designation. Whatever! 😣
A Future Millennial Dystopia, otherwise known by it's old description Soylent Green 😨
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My wife does the payroll accounting for a large construction company and they are losing many of these workers because other competitor companies are making them better offers. Oddly enough a month ago I was at a week long school in Copenhagen Danmark and spoke with a friend who told me the very same problem exists there. Oddly enough this may proven to be a gold mine for the 10s of 1000s of immigrants coming here who still have a wholesome work ethic and are already familiar with many blue collar trade jobs. But the big down side of this modern day secular ideological movement is that it's changing traditional family structure for the worse. Despite hard times many immigrant families still have traditional family structure intact, even if not perfect. Whatever anybody thought normal was is now long gone. Welcome to the new abnormal. And as far as more Universities vrs prisons ? That's getting tougher and tougher to answer. Of course this subject's debate always comes up when some charismatic ideologue wants to be elected to some political office and will tickle the ears of a potential voter market that has yet to be tapped into (Millennials). Funny thing about change, the centuries old political tactics really haven't changed or reformed all that much despite for calls for change.
False Hope Sermons making Millennials believe that one day things will get better 😵
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"We live in an age of identity politics in which people have been encouraged to define themselves by what makes them angry. You know, I mean, I would say that the more healthy definition of the self is to define it in terms of the things you value and care about and love, you know."
"But now, we seem to be—or many of us—seem to be defining ourselves by what we hate. You know, and that rage, as you say, becomes a badge of identity—becomes a kind of selfhood."
"Classically, we have defined ourselves by the things we love. By the place which is our home, by our family, by our friends. But in this age we're asked to define ourselves by hate. That what defines you is what pisses you off. And if nothing pisses you off, who are you?"Yup, sure enough. Many today are encouraged to identify themselves by what they hate, not what they love. This is true of all sides, even environmental movements. Below here is a wonderfully put together video where an author and motivational speaker, Simon Sinek, explains how the millennial generation became so entitled. He illustrates where a combination of failed parenting strategies, technology, impatience and degraded unnatural environment have created a wave of young people who can't hack it in today's real world. It's about 12.34 minutes in length, but well worth the watch, entertaining and probably the best illustrative piece I've ever watched which truly informs people just how far down mankind's youth have sunk to and the collective reasons as to why this has happened.
What we really need is divine intervention soon, not some promise of another benevolent dictatorship under the guise of some new version of democracy. Oh and BTW, John Lennon's other peace prtesting song was "Imagine," which also is just an illusion and I really like John Lennon songs. Maybe what today's youth need (as well as many adults) is a good boot camp experience at an old fashion Israeli communal Kibbutz where they'll be outdoors and learn the value of a good hard work ethic for nothing more than room and board. 😉
BBC reality show to put Brits on an Israeli kibbutz
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Picking grapes on Kibbutz Tzuba, near Jerusalem
References on scary trends
marketwatch.com: Why millennials are ditching religion for Witchcraft and Astrology
Millennials turning from capitalism toward socialism, study shows
Update Nov 11, 2017
"Universities Tell Students: We Run Campuses, Not You" - Wow, go figure!
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Universities Tell Students: We Run Campuses, Not You
"Administrators should be responsive to student concerns, but there's a limit to how much they can bend to student demands."
Well, in this day and age (Millenial Culture), good luck with that. 😒 Sign of the times.


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Black Powder Musings
Black powder is outdated. There is no question about that. It is inefficient, it does not burn cleanly, it makes a lot of smoke, and overall is quite inferior to smokeless powder. However, that does not mean that black powder has no place in modern shooting.
Black powder has the advantage of nostalgia. With a classic rifle like the Thompson/Center Arms Hawken, you can feel like you're a frontiersman in 1805 traveling with Lewis and Clark. Or, with any of the numerous Sharps rifles you can feel like you're with Buffalo Bill, hunting buffalo on the Great Plains. With a Colt 1860 Army you can feel like you're on the streets of Laredo. There's a certain romanticism that comes from a black powder gun.
But, I feel that in today's world, black powder is being pushed beyond its natural limits. It does not, and never will, replicate the abilities of a smokeless powder rifle. If you want an easy to use, fast-flying bullet you shouldn't turn to a black powder rifle, even if it is a supposed "magnum." It simply doesn't have the ability to propel a bullet that fast.
Black powder is made up of roughly 75 percent potassium nitrate, 12.5 percent charcoal and 12.5 percent sulfur. This makes a quick-burning but inefficient agent. Most smokeless powders use nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose. These are far more powerful and energetic, with the capability to propel a bullet much faster.
I am not trying to discredit the abilities of sabots and magnum black powder rifles. They are definitely more powerful than a traditional black powder rifle. They also shoot a little flatter. But, in the olden days, hunters' used traditional muzzleloading rifles and did the job pretty well. They didn't have an inline muzzleloader with a sabot and a JHP bullet. Such things didn't exist.
As far as I can tell, there really isn't much point to black powder hunting and shooting beyond nostalgia. So why use these ugly, modern rifles with special ammunition that simply deletes the nostalgia? If you don't want the nostalgia, shoot a smokeless powder rifle.
Don't get me wrong, hunting with a muzzleloading black powder rifle is a fine sport. Even just plinking with a black powder rifle is fun. But, black powder will always remain black powder. It does not, and never will, equal the power of smokeless powder.
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Originally posted: Friday, January 29, 2010
5.Your partner will get on your nerves (& vice versa).There will be times where you need some space/breathing room & your partner needs space/breathing room. This does not mean that the marriage is falling apart. It simply means you need to spend some time within yourself. Ideally, after this space, your bond will be just as strong if not stronger.
6.Try not to go to bed mad, or start the morning off mad.Tune in to the "energy" of the space & your partner's mood. If you notice that something is "off," ask about it. This type of policy is very successful for couples because it allows you to get everything off your chest, into the air, rather than allowing things to build up (which causes resentment).
7.Separate accounts is not a horrible idea. The number one reason why people divorce is because of money/financial issues. This is also a way that "control" can become an issue. When you get married, it's important to maintain some aspects of your own individual identity and a good way to do that is have your own checking accounts. There is nothing wrong with having a joint account for joint responsibilities, but I also think it's important to have your own too!
8.The wedding is not the most important part of the marriage. Many couples get so caught up in the wedding day, that they neglect to think about the actual marriage. What about the day after the wedding, one week later, one month later? The wedding is important and should be a reflection of the couple and a celebration of the union, but that should not be the primary concern.
9.Major purchases should be discussed/agreed upon.You have to have a clear conversation about how you are going to handle bills, debt created before the marriage/relationship, and household purchases. Come up with an amount, perhaps anything over $500.00 should be discussed? It doesn't have to be an approval thing where you're getting "permission," but you have to approach the marriage/family finances as if you're co-partners in a business.
Check out What I Know About Marriage Part 1 here: https://donnienicole.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/what-i-know-about-marriage-part-1/


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As an environmental education is fundamental to promoting a more healthy future, MassDEP developed the Green Team program.
School busses on the roads, leaves in shades of red and yellow and a little chill in the air - what that tells me is that another school year has begun.
Most schools have been up and running for over a month now. The teachers and children are into the school routine with the teachers sharing their knowledge and the children working hard to absorb and process new information while maintaining very busy schedules. Teachers recognize more than any of us that our children are our future.
As an environmental education is fundamental to promoting a more healthy future, MassDEP developed the Green Team program. The Green Team is an interactive educational program that offers recycling and composting equipment, lesson plans, environmental curriculum, a library of videos, books and recycling activities, signage and more. Each class that takes THE GREEN TEAM PLEDGE receives a Certificate of Recognition and is eligible to win great prizes. Classes that complete more activities advance to the next level and are eligible to win more valuable rewards.
This program is offered at no cost to teachers who enroll in the program. Help your students help the environment through waste reduction, reuse, recycling and composting. Visit http://www.thegreenteam.org/ to learn more, to view the participating teachers and schools, and to enroll.
The October Newsletter at http://www.thegreenteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013-Oct-Registered.pdf highlights many opportunities for teachers and students throughout Massachusetts.
Janine Delaney serves as regional recycling coordinator for the MassDEP. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com


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vKaty Sheppard, a kindergarten teacher at Sunset Park Elementary School, who has been chosen by the Palmetto Chapter of the International Reading Association. as its Distinguished Teacher of Reading for the Rock Hill, York, Lancaster, Chester, and Clover school districts. Katy will be honored at the SCIRA banquet in February.
vWally Blankenship, a science teacher at Rock Hill High, on his selection as the winner of the 2012 Rock Hill Tree Commission Award for his tree planting work at Rock Hill High. In the 20 years that the award has been given, Wally is the first educator to be recognized.
Holiday Coat Drive
South Pointe and Northwestern High Schools are competing to collect clean used and new coats, blankets, gloves and "new" hats. Bins are located at both schools, but items can also be dropped off at Shomars in the Galleria Mall. (Just remember to include the name of the school which should receive the credit.) The competition began on Dec. 10 and will end on Dec. 14.
Breakfast with Santa
Santa and his elves from Sunset Park would be delighted to have breakfast with you this Saturday at Fatz on Herlong.
Computer Basics
Rock Hill Adult and Community Education will offer a Computer Basics Class Curriculum at the Flex Center from 5-8 pm January 3, 7, 8, 9, and 10. The class includes Microsoft Office 2010 components, copying/pasting, email essentials, Skype, Internet safety, music topics, web tools, and applying for jobs online. For details, contact Brett Taylor at email@example.com.
Attention: Sullivan Parents
Sullivan is the recipient of a 21st Century Learning Grant which will allow the school to offer an after-school program for students in grades 6-8 beginning in January. An informational meeting for parents will be held at 6 pm Thursday, Dec. 13, in the school's media center.
Kids Caring for Kids
vMembers of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the National Honor Society and the Beta Club at Rock Hill High collected over 125 boxes of needed items for Operation Christmas Child, and 25 students volunteered at Samaritan's Purse Christmas Child Processing Center on Dec. 7. The Bearcats also collected over 200 canned food items through the school's media center "Food for Fines" project for a local food bank.
vClub S.O.S. (Students Organized for Service), comprised of fourth- and fifth-graders at Finley Road Elementary School recently sponsored a Clemson/Carolina competition for students to bring non-perishable food to donate to the Salvation Army and Pilgrim's Inn. While the competition ended in a tie, over 1,000 food items were collected. Co-chairs of this effort were teachers Tammy Potter and Michelle McGuinness.
Calendar Committee
A calendar committee to determine potential calendars for school year 2013-14 will meet for the first time on Dec. 13. The committee, chaired by Elaine Baker, is comprised of three administrators, 3 high school students, six teachers and four parents.
In the Dec. 7 "update," it was mentioned that Clay Flowers is the art teacher at Dutchman Creek when, in fact, Carmen McKee Deas is the art teacher.
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Following the defacement of its Web site, the South Australian Liberal Party will terminate its contract with a Canberra-based hosting company on Friday, February 3.
The Liberal Party homepage will now be hosted by Netspeed. The previous host could not be named.
The defacement took place on January 17, 2006, when an image of a Turkish warrior, complete with bow replaced the normally gleaming banner of Prime Minister John Howard with South Australian Liberal honcho Rob Kerin. The warrior stood atop the words "We Are Your Nightmare".
The Web site previously used the URL www.sa.liberals.org.au. As a result of the defacement, and the new hosting contract, the URL now is www.saliberals.org.au.
Ryan Story, IT manager for the South Australian Liberal Party, confirmed the defacement was the motivator to switch hosting companies and said the breach was utterly disappointing.
"In recent times we have had some problem with hosting and we moved as a result of the defacement as we were utterly disappointed with the services we had received from our previous host as it was previously considered to be a good company," Story said.
"We learnt that when you are looking for a company to host an ASP-based Web site running IIS it is important that the hosting company has security as a high priority.
"I initially noticed the homepage in the morning and our logs showed the defacement had not been there that long; as soon as it was bought to my attention we returned a back-up copy of the homepage. It was surprising, but I do not think it is part of a targeted attack."
The homepage has survived legitimate attacks in the past. According to Story, the South Australian Liberals were targeted by a domestic hacking group during the 1998 federal election, which saw the profiles of cabinet ministers defaced.
Since the attack, the hacker, who goes by the handle aLpTurkTegin, defaced nearly 20 Australian-owned private sector Web sites, including the message board of the Christian-oriented site connexion.net.au.
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So deep! He posted the 2nd photo on his instagram page and captioned it;
He has no idea how bad I wish I was him.......... When people walk up to us as black people in America and ask "where are you from? We start mentioning streets, the hood we from - Crip, Blood, south side, west side - cross streets and bullshit - Nah... when they ask where you're from in Africa they're answer is followed with their "Tribe" their real roots and family blood line......... Some or even
most may look at this as poverty he looks happy and well fed to me!!! Ha! I look at it as freedom..... freedom to just BE!!!


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I've also tried cooling down in the tub with 20C water, ice tea and a movie - waiting for that moment my hands start looking like a 90 year old' or could I rather call it fish skin. Heat and humid is never much fun unless you go to a steam room. Then I find out I am allergic to the veet waxing strips I blogged about giving me major rosacea (rash), break outs and huge stubbles in my armpits (Sigh, drama). I'm trying to heal it with eucalyptus and coconut oil see if it works.
The weekend's been good to me since temperatures dropped a bit and the humidity flew over hopefully to Canada or somewhere even further, and I got to hang out with my Chicagoan friends I absolutely adore. But today I am packing my bags since Diederik and I are going on a road trip to New York city! I am super excited to do this trip, also because I will meet with my parents who I haven't seen for 2 years at least, in the big city that never sleeps.
So tomorrow I will put up a what's in my bag the road trip to NYC blog and prior to leaving my third home, Chicago, I am going to Ulta to purchase some new products which will also be on the blog later today.
Some weekend pictures:
|The neighborhood I stay at (Lakeview East)
|Lakeview also represents the gay
|Good coffee indeed
|Wood made horse, kind of cool
|Biked to the beach
|Super happy
|This is typical Chicago, the railways from underneath.
Diederik doesn't know how to pose for a picture
|Playing beer-pong :) saturday
Thank you for reading again.
A lot of love,


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We also were able to visit NC for a few weeks (Levi and I) while Curan took all of our things to our new house in IL. He so sweetly unloaded the car, and got things mostly settled for us while we were visiting.
We definitely miss NC still, but we are very much enjoying our new life we are starting here in IL. The people in the Midwest are very friendly, and have welcomed us so far. We have found a church that we will probably be joining in the next couple of weeks. Our neighborhood is adorable, and everything is close by. We love it! If you would want to pray for us though, please pray we get an offer soon on our house in NC. It is a huge financial burden right now, and we would love to be able to put the money that we have invested into that home, into our new home.
Well, thats all for an update, stay tuned for a more insightful (hopefully) post :)


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Driving through Hagby parish in Uppland on a tiny road Friday, I was lucky enough to cross the bridge at Focksta right at the moment when the afternoon sun hit this lovely runestone straight on. I didn't even have to get out of the car to take the photograph.
Dating from the early 11th century, the stone is an unsigned work of à smund KÃ¥resson (U 875). It's unusual in that it has a couple of Bronze Age cupmarks too. The inscription reads, "Tyrvi and Ingegärd and Tjälve had this stone erected after Kalv, Tyrvi's husband. May God and God's mother help his spirit."
Note the cross and the prayer. Did you know that a huge majority of the runic inscriptions date from after the Christianisation of Scandinavia? The neo-Pagans should do their scrying in Roman capitals instead.


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The Winner of the Voice is…. Javier Colon!
By now you all know, because you all watched last night as The Voice proved once again, it was way more than anyone expected it to become. Yes, last night each performer sang with a music icon : Train, One Republic, Miranda Lambert and the incomparable Stevie Nixx!
BIG names, BIG performances – songs that couldve been recorded and released as major hits!
Seriously, Javier and Stevie Nixx had something last night…and after that duet, I knew that I'd be very happy if he won over my girl Dia.
It was a great finale, no one can argue with that.
And I doubt you can argue with the winner. After it was announced that Dia and Javier were the Top 2, my mind was at peace. Both were deserving, both had incredible performances along the way, both had a fantastic final performance and original song.
Javier came out on top, but both will go on to record and have great careers…
Dia might just get adopted by Blake and join in their happy singing family. Don't rule it out folks.
Did the right person win in your opinon? Will you watch next season starting…this winter?


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I've been working on some small items and while they're not all quite finished, they won't take long tonight/tomorrow. So, I'm including them!
White Kitty 24gr
Abby Gloves 39gr
Allie Gloves 34gr
Boot Laces 30gr
Lisa Gloves 61gr
Sideways Mittens 68gr
Kroy Gloves 46gr
Lisa Trial Gloves 67gr
Blue Kroy Gloves 34gr
Pom Pom 30gr
Donated Yarn 33gr
Total: 466gr
Yarn In: 9989gr
Yarn Out: 466gr + 8806gr = 9272gr
Balance: 717gr more BOUGHT than used
Costs: $430.10 /365 days = $1.18/day
I think those are pretty reasonable totals. The two mermaid blankets I'm working on now will use about 1500gr, and the hat and scarf set will use 300-400gr. And all that is yarn I just bought recently. So, I would say this year has a 0 net gain of yarn into the stash :) I just wish it looked like a 0 net gain LOL!


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200 thousand rubles for the lawn: Otis gets off cheap
A fine for parking in a greenfield area turned out to be minimal but there are doubts about its legitimacy
The social networks have been stirred up by the story about the fine at 200 thousand rubles issued to a company for parking on the lawn. Despite user concerns about the reliability of the information, the amount of the fine is not only possible but is minimal. Moreover, in Kazan such fines together with sanctions against defaulters for municipal parking make up 2/3 of all revenues of the administrative commissions of the city. However, social activists believe it contravenes the federal legislation.
Fake or real fine?
Recently Dmitry Penkin published a post about a 'cosmic' fine for parking on the lawn. The scan-copy of the ticket was attached to the post. On the ticket you can see a car parked in a residential yard under a tree. From the document we can understand that 'the fine in the area of municipal improvement' was issued to the Kazan representation of Otis Elevator LLC (apparently, the owner of the car) — the global manufacturer of elevators. The fine is 200 thousand rubles.
Other users in the comments doubted the plausability of the ticket, citing the fact that a fine for parking on the lawn is only 2,000 rubles. Other social media users have hypothesized that there was a typo or system error. What is more, people often encounter errors of the system of photofixation. The ticket was actually made through the system of photofixation, which is used in the traffic police and in the municipalities. However, according to Ramil Khairullin, the regional representative of the Federation of Automobile Owners of Russia, the violation is recorded not by using the Parkon but through the mobile applications of the administrative inspectors of the municipality or the applications for all citizens — National inspector.
In the traffic police they explained that such fines are issued by the municipal authorities. The Kazan Executive Committee did not answer Realnoe Vremya journalists' inquiries. In Otis Elevator LLC they did not want to comment on the situation. In the Kazan office, the correspondent was sent to the Moscow office. Elena Kudryavtseva, a communications manager in the Moscow office, declined to comment, saying that she knows nothing about the situation, and all comments to the media 'go through the world headquarters' (Otis Investments, LLC (the USA)), and she doesn't think the company will comment on such issues.
Get off cheap
Fake or not, but the fine amount is quite real.
The parking on the lawn is considered to be a violation of the 'Rules of improvement of the city of Kazan', the article No. 155.9, which states that it is prohibited 'to park and to store vehicles on playgrounds, lawns, greenfield areas, regardless the season of a year, including the dismantled (defective) ones'. According to the same rules, a lawn is considered to be 'a ground cover created by sowing of the seeds of the specially selected herbs, which are the backdrop for plantings, park buildings and an independent element of landscape composition and natural herbal vegetation.'
According to the documentation posted on the website of the Executive Committee, for 'violation of the municipal rules of improvement of territories of settlements and urban districts, municipal regulations of waste management' the individuals face a fine from 2 to 3,5 thousand rubles, the officials — from 15 to 300 thousand rubles, the legal entities — from 200 to 500 thousand rubles. For repeated violation within a year the amount of a fine grows up to 1 million rubles. The listed on the website of the Kazan Executive Committee figures are determined by the Kazan City Duma on the basis of the Code of the Republic of Tatarstan on administrative offences and are contained in the article No. 3.6.
So we can say that if the ticket is not a fake then the producers of elevators got off cheap.
Ramil Khairullin: 'The Administrative Code of RT in terms of traffic can not set the fines. On the website we even have the model statement with reference to the Supreme Court. We will insist to abolish these rules.' Photo: tavto.ru
The Supreme Court is against
How often the legal entities are fined by this law is unknown, but in general, the city budget receives a good revenue due to improper parking. According to the Executive Committee of the capital of Tatarstan, for 10 months of 2016 the administrative commissions of Kazan made 59 thousand protocols on administrative offenses. The violators were imposed fines at more than 207 million rubles. Most of the revenue were brought by 27 thousand protocols for non-payment of municipal parking fines at 67,5 million rubles. Protocols for parking of cars on greenfield areas are two times less — 14 thousand rubles. However, the total amount of fines on them due to the legal entities is almost the same — 64,5 million rubles. That is, almost 2/3 id from the parking fines. This 'cornucopia' appeared after the introduction of photofixation.
However, Ramil Khairullin, the regional representative of the Federation of Automobile Owners of Russia, believes that such fines contravene the federal law: 'There was the interpretation made by the Supreme Court that the motor vehicle drivers can be fined only by the federal law — the Traffic Rules and the Administrative Code. The Administrative Code of RT in terms of traffic, automobiles can not impose fines. On the website we even have a model statement with reference to the Supreme Court. We will insist to abolish these rules. Yet there's a catch: the federal law prohibits the parking, but there are no penalties for that. The sanctions are imposed at the local level, which contravenes the federal law.'


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Torchlight is an action role-playing game currently under development by Runic Games. The game is scheduled for release for Windows on October 27, 2009. The fantasy-themed game is set in the fictional town of Torchlight and the expansive caverns and dungeons nearby, which adventurers explore to collect valuable loot and battle hordes of monsters. Development of the game is led by Travis Baldree, designer of Fate, and Max Schaefer and Erich Schaefer, co-designers of Diablo and Diablo II, joined by the team that developed Mythos.
It was an interesting and funny game, but i've played it with the italian translation.
The first time i've played this game, i've thinked it was too easy, now i'm going to play it in difficulty version.
(P.S play this game is awesome!!!!!)


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Volume 8 Number 2
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A Look at Children's Adjustment to Early Childhood Programs
This paper describes a pilot project during which the author visited different early childhood classrooms and used a handheld video camera to record how children adjust to new programs. The objectives were (1) to describe how children adjust to new programs or classes, (2) to sensitize teachers to the issues involved in those adjustments, (3) to collect data using a handheld video camera, and (4) to encourage teachers to view themselves as classroom researchers. Included in the paper are video clips, brief descriptions of selected children, and a discussion of issues raised by the children's behavior in the videos, related research, and implications for practice.
Young children's lives are more complex now than at any time in our history. On a daily basis, more children are going to early childhood programs than ever before. Some children are spending time in several programs each day. The programs have a variety of designs: Some are "traditional" programs where the same children and adults enter and leave at the same time, creating a stable group of children and adults. In some of those programs, however, children are moved from one classroom to another on their birthdays. In other programs with flexible schedules, children attend on different days and weeks across the semesters. There are also wraparound programs, partnerships between Head Start or prekindergarten programs, and community-based programs where children attend one program in the morning and another the rest of the day.
Moving from home to one of these settings or from one of these settings to another involves adjustments. Children face different adults, peers, room design, location, schedules, expectations, values, ways of interacting, and so on (Bronfenbrenner, 1979; Ladd & Price, 1987). How children adjust in their first experiences may influence later success or problems in school (Ladd & Price, 1987; Putallaz & Gottman, 1981).
The major objectives of this pilot project were (1) to describe how children adjust to new programs or classes, (2) to sensitize teachers to the issues involved in those adjustments, (3) to collect the data using a handheld video camera, and (4) to encourage teachers to view themselves as classroom researchers.
To prepare, I briefly reviewed studies that had employed naturalistic observation on children's entry into programs as well as studies that used a video camera to collect the data. According to those studies, when children are new to a program, whether they are 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7, they will generally avoid jumping right into play or an activity. They are more likely to stand immobile, fiddle with their clothes, suck their fingers, twist their hair, and investigate from the side in a subdued, nonassertive manner (as we might do at a cocktail party or other event where we don't know anyone). They often appear uncertain as to what behavior is acceptable or how to act in unfamiliar situations (Blatchford, 1983; Feldbaum, Christenson, & O'Neal, 1980; Ladd & Price, 1987; McGrew, 1972).
In general, boys seem to adjust after about a month and begin to orient at first to other boys. Girls seem to take a few weeks longer, and their beginning overtures are to the adults (Feldbaum, Christenson, & O'Neal, 1980). Children may take as long as 3 months before they increase their social approaches and decrease silent observations. Factors such as how stable the peer group is and whether there are familiar children in the group influence children's ability to adjust (Doyle, Connolly, & Rivest, 1980; Ladd, 1990). A child's adjustment is also influenced by whether the child has had to transfer to a new school or class (Field, 1984). In those cases, children face the task of becoming integrated into a new social setting in which others may have known each other for a long time. These last three factors—the stability of the peer group, whether there are familiar children, and whether the children have changed programs or transferred—are particularly important in relation to flexibly scheduled programs and wraparound programs.
The consensus concerning the use of the video camcorder in research projects is that it is an effective tool for data collection in the classroom. The camera captures classroom dynamics and provides a systematic and permanent record rather than just spontaneous impressions about what teachers remember. Forman (1999) expressed it this way: "The video camera could be treated as a memory machine that would yield a fairly replete and honest record of everyday events." Teachers can have immediate or delayed feedback. According to Wells and Chang-Wells (1992), "the role of reflective analysis of video data in the process of changing conditions for learning hardly needs to be emphasized. Indeed, in our opinion it was evident the video data provided of the children ... was the most significant factor in empowering Thompson [one of the teachers in their collaboration] to become an agent of curriculum change" (p. 127).
Project Description
I spent three days a month, from August through January, in each of four campus-based children's programs. One program was a half-day nursery school program with the same children attending yearly, arriving and departing at the same time. Another housed a half-day nursery school and a day care center, with some children attending both programs. A third program followed the university's quarter system, with children changing their schedule four times a year. The last program followed the semester system but had children change rooms on their birthdays.
My focus was on children who were new to the program, who had changed classrooms, who attended more than one program, or who just appeared to look like new children even though they were not. The teachers and directors identified the new children to me. As I was recording the data, I found the children who looked isolated or apart or behaved like new children even if they were not.
Because children may act differently at various times of the day, as well as across the semester, I observed at different times throughout the day and across the semester, through the beginning of the second semester for periodicity. I took a room scan every 5 to 15 minutes, and between times, I followed the selected children. In centers where I was observing in more than one room, I analyzed the different schedules to see what activities would be going on. I was particularly interested in times when the children had the opportunity to interact freely rather than during teacher-directed activities.
I considered my role to be that of an observer, "a cameraman" if you will, and tried to remain as unobtrusive as possible. The zoom on the camera allowed me to stand in corners, away from the action, and yet capture clearly what was going on. Children generally ignored me. These classrooms receive many visitors and often have student observers, work-study students, and faculty around. After a few visits, some who recognized me said, "Oh, you're here again," but other than that comment paid no attention to me.
Before beginning the project, I met with the teachers and the director to describe what I was planning on doing. Then each parent received a letter (1) describing the project, (2) letting them know that each teacher would receive an unedited tape of all that I recorded, (3) inviting them to review the tapes, (4) informing them that the tapes were for instructional purposes, and (5) informing them that if any part of the tapes were to be published, names would not be used. Parents signed permission slips allowing the videotaping to proceed, and throughout the project and after, no teacher or parent had any problem with what was taped.
I recorded between 2 and 4 hours in each classroom. I reviewed the tapes holistically, as teachers might do. I looked at the new children to see whether they had "new-child" behaviors described in the research. I considered what they were doing in comparison to the other children and teachers. I watched to see whether they became more comfortable over time. I also picked out children who exhibited new-child behavior even though they were no longer new to the programs. Then I prepared tapes of individual children, usually resulting in at least 30 minutes of tape for each child.
A Look at the Children
The excerpts that I have chosen to include show very brief visual examples—really just a flavor of some of the different ways children adjust to new programs. Only by looking at the whole video, showing the context of all of the action, can one fully appreciate all of the different situations. However, in light of my introductory discussion, I think the clips will be enough to suggest to readers and viewers, particularly those who are not familiar with the literature in this area, how important it is to consciously observe and attend to children who are new to their programs and classrooms.
The clips include a very social child, a child who came late every day, a non-English-speaking child, a child who attended two programs, and a child who still looked new after 9 months. When viewing the clips, you will be able to tell the change in day by the child's different clothing. The accompanying description will help to fill in some of the details.
Example 1: The Ambassador
The first clip is of a bilingual 3-year-old girl attending a flexibly scheduled campus-based program on the quarter system. You see her on the third day of the semester. She was very social immediately, quickly inviting another child to join her in looking at both of their paintings. The second scene is 5 months later, at the beginning of the second quarter, and you see her take the hand of a new little girl and bring her to meet other children. She actually did that with two or three other new children as well. Not only did this child not need time for her own adjustment, she seemed to serve as an ambassador for new children. This video suggests a strategy that teachers might use—teaching more children how to help newcomers.
Example 2: The Latecomer
The second clip is of a 3-year-old boy who attended a nursery school program in which all the children arrive at 9:00 and depart at 11:30. This little boy arrived at least a half hour late every morning. During the entire semester through the beginning of the second semester, he had trouble figuring out where to play. In the first scene, he has been at school for about a month. Each morning, he goes to get a book and brings it to one of the teachers. Notice where his eyes are and his facial expression. He is not really looking at the book, but he uses it to give him time to look at what the other children are doing. In the second scene, several weeks later, all the children are engaged in activities, and he is standing immobile except for pulling at his clothes, holding his hands together, and looking around, not knowing where to start—just as the literature describes. Eventually the teacher acknowledges his presence.
Example 3: The Immigrant
The third clip is of a 3-year-old Russian boy who speaks no English. He attends a flexibly scheduled campus-based day care program. Children, though scheduled, arrive and depart at different times of the day, according to their parents' school schedule. As you can see, he initially behaves as a newcomer on the playground, standing apart, holding his arms. Though an assistant teacher is there, she does not interact with him at all. In the next scene, the teacher helps him separate from his mother. During the next several months, he spends considerable time observing and copying the other children's behavior, particularly at music time (not shown in this video). By the third section of the clip, he is comfortably playing next to the children, and by December (not in the video), he has offered toys to the other children and is really at home. As noted earlier, the research indicated that boys seem to adjust in about a month (Feldbaum, Christenson, & O'Neal, 1980). This child took longer, perhaps because of language issues or other cultural issues. However, his progress was steady until he no longer behaved like a new child.
Example 4: The Two-Program Child
In the next clip, you see a 4-year-old girl who attended a morning day care center with a flexible schedule and an afternoon nursery program, one that she had attended as a toddler. Her morning behavior, in the first two days shown on the clip, was typical of a new child. You can see her pulling at her clothes, wiggling and turning, and avoiding joining the other children who were engaged in activities with the teacher. Here again, no teacher approached her. In the last scene, you can see a change. She seems to have built some continuity for herself by developing friendships with two children who were also in both programs. Occasionally they would start a picture in the morning without completing it because they were called to do something else. They would say, "Oh, we'll finish that in nursery school." That comment seems to speak to how helpful familiar peers can be (Doyle, Connolly, & Rivest, 1980).
Example 5: The Constant Newcomer
The last clip is of a 4-year-old girl who had already been in this program—a flexibly scheduled campus-based program on the quarter system—for 3 months. The clip shows her in her second and third quarter. In each of the sections, she is alone, with facial expressions and body movements projecting her lack of comfort. In the third section, she stands immobile for a long time—longer than the clip shows—before the teacher finally comes to take her in hand. As I reviewed this excerpt, I thought of the teacher's role as described by Dalli (2000), which I discuss in the next section.
Issues to Consider
These video clips raise many issues worthy of consideration. Even in these brief excerpts, it is apparent that children vary considerably in how they approach a new situation—in this case, a new classroom or program. As newcomers, they bring to the teacher the dilemma of deciding whether the child needs more time to make the adjustment or immediate intervention because the child is behaving as a newcomer too long. We can encourage teachers to observe carefully and systematically in order to decide on different strategies to use with a child like the little Russian boy, who adjusted slowly but deliberately, as opposed to the 3-year-old child who came late, or the 4-year-old who still looked new after 6 months.
Dalli (2000) brought out an important point when she wrote, "what the teachers did, in terms of relating to the new children, had an impact on the kind of relationships that developed between the teachers and the new children. In other words, what teachers did, as well as what teachers did not do, made a difference. At the very least, this finding suggests that teachers need to be self-conscious about how their center policies and theories of practice influence children's learning." We can help children learn about lunch, friends, toilets, and other aspects of the classroom that may be unfamiliar. We can help children develop buddies. Remember the 3-year-old ambassador and the child who found continuity by finding two friends who also attended both programs in the video clips. That clip also brings to mind the important research about the role of peers and how they help some children make smoother adjustments (Doyle, Connolly, & Rivest, 1980; Ladd, 1990).
Katz and McClellan (1991) note, "In our view, the preschool and kindergarten years are the best time to help children establish a positive cycle in their social relations. Teachers and caregivers can provide models of interactive skills, set patterns for class interaction, and provide help to children who are in the process of acquiring and strengthening social understanding and skills" (p. 17). In most of the excerpts, the teachers were slow to approach the children. It appears as though this would be a fruitful area for staff development, particularly related to teaching children how to enter a group (Corsaro, 1985; Katz & McClellan, 1991; Ramsey, 1991). Understanding playmate familiarity (Doyle, Connolly, & Rivest, 1980; Ladd, 1990) would help teachers promote successful adjustment in cases when a few children together attend more than one program. Defining staff roles is particularly important in flexibly scheduled programs. According to Keyes (1988), "[One teacher is assigned] to greet each child as she arrives. It's important to do that for children, particularly when the room is humming with activity.... [A teacher is also] assigned to warn each child about fifteen minutes before his parents are to come to pick him up. This procedure allows a child time to disengage and finish up his activity before his parents come" (p. 78).
Reflections on My Objectives
In terms of meeting my original objectives for this project, I was able to sensitize teachers to how children in the particular programs adapted to the new programs. The teachers, through watching and discussing the videos, became more aware of the adjustment issues. Just becoming conscious of the issues helped them respond more effectively as time went on. The teachers reported the following changes:
"I was better able to differentiate between the lost child and the silent observer."
"I've watched new children adapting to the group with more care and tried to figure out why it seems so easy for some and so hard for others."
"I interacted, modeled, and facilitated social skills earlier amongst newcomers."
"We implemented specific changes in staff training. We look more closely at children who can get lost in the crowd."
"We were more aware of identifying those children in need of social support and worked with those children one on one to give them the support they needed."
I succeeded in collecting data with the handheld video camera and feel that it is an excellent tool for classroom research. As far as skill goes, you really only have to be able to point and shoot. The camera is flexible enough for a teacher to pick up at a moment's notice to videotape an interesting occurrence.
As I moved around the classrooms almost unnoticed, I was able to capture a lot of wonderful action. In addition to the video clips described above, I captured a new 2-year-old child in a mixed-age group who only came a few times a week. He crawled around the children, pausing to observe, doing parallel play—utterly comfortable with himself in the setting. I discovered a child who spent her time following the adults. She would stand or sit by one of the teachers, sometimes participating in a peripheral way, other times just standing or sitting next to the person. When the teacher stood up to move somewhere else, the child stood up and followed her to the next location. This pattern continued over several of the days I taped in that classroom. Different adults throughout the day carried around another child. In these cases, because the staff had staggered hours, they only realized what was happening when they viewed the videos. There was also a 4-year-old who slowly changed from appearing like a new child to looking like one of the group, but who, in January, was moved to the kindergarten class and reverted back to the original new-child behaviors that she had started with in the fall.
The camera also eliminates the need for extensive note taking, and it gives a good-quality visual and auditory record of what transpired. It provides a piece of action to examine right away or later, allowing immediate or delayed feedback and opportunities for teacher reflection, as Forman (1999) discussed. If used regularly, the children will view it as part of what naturally takes place in the classroom. And as Forman (1999) and Hong and Broderick (2003) note, the 8-mm video camera with the fold-out screen is flexible and versatile and allows for "instant video revisiting."
Videotaping has been recommended more and more in recent years for looking at teaching practice and curriculum, but I believe that looking at children is the first step for teachers, particularly those new to classroom research (Eisner, 2002; Finn, 2002). Graue and Walsh (1998) wrote, "[We] must think of children differently from how we have in the previously dominant research paradigm. Rather than sampling subjects to represent a population, we must be fiercely interested in individuals, particular individuals. The focus of inquiry must become intensely local.... A local context is just that, local, right here, right now. It is a physical and social place, a yard or a park or a classroom" (pp. 8, 9). As Forman and Hall (2005) and Hong and Broderick (2003) have described so effectively in their recent articles, I also think that, in the beginning, looking at children is less intimidating for teachers than looking at themselves. Classroom observations on students' behavior focus the teachers and video camera where it should belong—on what's happening for children. Then as teachers reflect on what the outcomes for children should be, they naturally begin to discuss their own roles.
Finally, in terms of encouraging teachers to become classroom researchers, the teachers' responses were mixed. Teachers felt that they would assist with research, but they could not undertake it on their own because they did not know how and didn't have the time. They felt that they needed more information on how they could combine teaching and classroom research. I believe that the teacher responses were reminiscent of what Avery (1990) wrote: "I thought of research in terms of clinical investigations involving control groups, statistical analyses and absolute findings. Research was something done by high-powered university people far removed from my classroom" (p. 32). For the teachers in this project as well as others in the field, it is important to demystify the term research and show that doing classroom research is really solving problems that they are interested in, using the camera as one tool that is appropriate for some situations. Avery (1990) later reported: "I have since learned of another kind of research: that done by teachers, like myself, who closely examine the teaching and learning processes in our own classrooms, conduct case studies of individual students/groups of students and make discoveries about ourselves and the children we teach" (p. 32).
Some options to encourage teachers to engage in that kind of classroom research would be (1) to provide mentors or partners for the teachers, (2) to enlist aides and parent volunteers to do some of the video taping, (3) to provide sustained professional development for practicing teachers, and (4) as some colleges and universities are doing now, teach classroom research as part of the undergraduate and graduate teacher education programs (Keyes, 2000).
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Corsaro, William A. (1985). Friendship and peer culture in the early years. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
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Doyle, Anna-Beth; Connolly, Jennifer; & Rivest, Louis-Paul. (1980). The effect of playmate familiarity on the social interactions of young children. Child Development, 51(1), 217-223.
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Field, Tiffany. (1984). Separation stress of young children transferring to new schools. Developmental Psychology, 20(5), 786-792.
Finn, Lou-Ellen. (2002). Using video to reflect on curriculum. Educational Leadership, 59(6), 72-74.
Forman, George. (1999). Instant video revisiting: The video camera as a " tool of the mind" for young children. Early Childhood Research & Practice, 1(2). Retrieved June 22, 2006, from http://ecrp.illinois.edu/v1n2/forman.html
Forman, George, & Hall, Ellen. (2005). Wondering with children: The importance of observation in early education. Early Childhood Research & Practice, 7(2). Retrieved June 22, 2006, from http://ecrp.illinois.edu/v7n2/forman.html
Graue, M. Elizabeth, & Walsh, Daniel J. (1998). Studying children in context: Theories, methods, and ethics. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Hong, Seong B., & Broderick, Jane T. (2003). Instant video revisiting for reflection: Extending the learning of children and teachers. Early Childhood Research & Practice, 5(1). Retrieved June 22, 2006, from http://ecrp.illinois.edu/v5n1/hong.html
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Keyes, Carol R. (2000). The early childhood teacher's voice in the research community. International Journal of Early Years Education, 8(1), 3-14.
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Author Information
Carol R. Keyes is professor emeritus, Pace University's School of Education, an adjunct professor at Hofstra University, and an early childhood consultant in New York. Dr. Keyes began her career as a parent and then teacher/director in a cooperative nursery school. A founding member of the National Coalition for Campus Children's Centers Inc., she was one its early presidents. During her career at Pace, Dr. Keyes was chairperson of the Early Childhood Department, director of the Child Study Centers, and coordinator and professor in the Master's in Early Childhood Program. Her scholarly work has focused on campus children's programs, children's transitions, teachers as researchers, and parent/teacher partnerships.
Carol R. Keyes, Ph.D.
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Hello, kind folk! October is racing past with the rain storms this week. I do want to have beautifully golden capsules of life captured and held briefly. I do want to tell you all about the footpath, and my mum, and my new job, and the fact that I can get neither my hair cut nor my wing mirror fixed, and the two, yes TWO, things that I seem to have crocheted in a week.
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Labels: A New Career, Autumn
6 comments:
- Kezzie said...
Er, I am really tired, but that didn't quite make sense to me my dear! Please expand!!! x
- 23 October 2013 at 22:59
- Pom Pom said...
Oh, Mags! You're so busy. Praying for you.
- 24 October 2013 at 01:03
- Fat Dormouse said...
We shall be happy to see you when you have time. But for the moment, Mags, Breathe! In...out...In...out...!
- 24 October 2013 at 10:14
- Angela said...
If you DO manage to fit in a haircut, can you have a bit extra trimmed off on my behalf please. Why is life like a roller coaster ride with long slow patches, then devastating fast bits where you barely have time to breathe [let alone scream with the terror of it all?]
Trusting that the minions are being helpful xx
- 24 October 2013 at 12:40
- Jane and Chris said...
...and breathe.
Jane x
- 24 October 2013 at 13:14
- Thistle Cove Farm said...
I need me some minions; do they do farm work?
- 24 October 2013 at 15:42
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When I first came to the US, I had no idea what Memorial Day was really celebrated for. For many years, it was a day I had off from school and work so I could do things I enjoy to do. I went camping and hiking. I did my crafts. I spent time with my family. Sure, I knew what Memorial Day was - to honor those who fought and died for the country. But I really didn't think of it much. It was not my holiday to celebrate since I was not born here.
It wasn't until years later when it hit me. America is MY country now, not Poland. This is where I live, where I have my family and where I will spend the rest of my life. I do have to say, living through the moments like September 11 and Hurricane Katrina had a big impact on me and the way I think about America and the people that live here.
Memorial Day for me is to remember that freedom is not free. This country is free because of the people who fought for it and died for it. It is not just a fact. It is not just another day off. It is a feeling in my heart, the ache for those who are no longer with us and for those families that grieve for their loved ones. I have all I have and I can do what I do because of these brave souls. When I'm with my kids enjoying the sun in my back yard, and I watch them play and laugh, there are men and women somewhere out there that are dying so I can enjoy those moments.
|"Freedom Is Not Free" metal artwork by Iowa Metal Art
But America is where I live now and where my heart is. This is the place where I plan to spend the rest of my life, and where my kids will live. This is my home and I care deeply about those who keep it safe.
God bless to all who are no longer with us and who died fighting for freedom. God bless to all who continue to do so. Today and always - I remember and I thank you.


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Maps, Magic, and Medicine was made possible by the Amazon Conservation Team. For 20 years, the Amazon Conservation Team has lived these stories and worked to protect indigenous culture for generations to come. To get involved further visit amazonteam.org
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Production Assistant: Erik DeLuca
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A special thanks to Osa Conservation for hosting the gathering of indigenous leaders and conservationists where we recorded much of this audio.


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Lloyd's Large Time – A Benefit for the Lloyd Johnson Foundation
Lloyd Johnson Foundation
To honor the memory of Lloyd Johnson and his appreciation of music from Western North Carolina, especially Bluegrass, Country, and Classic Country, a memorial scholarship fund is being established to help local artists who wish to further their education. A formal organization (501-C-3) will be established soon for this purpose. In the meantime we are asking for donations to seed the scholarship via the Go Fund Me site. Any donation amount will be accepted and documation of your contribution, which may be tax deductible, will be provided. Thank you for helping keep Lloyd's legacy and love of music viable for future generations.
Jim Lauderdale
A longtime ambassador of the Americana genre, Jim received the WagonMaster Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by George Strait, on Wednesday, September 21, 2016, as part of the 15th annual Americana Honors & Awards.
"I know him mostly as a songwriter; a really, really, really good hit songwriter, and I've been very fortunate to cut a lot of his songs over the years," Strait said in his speech. "Like Porter Wagoner, Jim Lauderdale is a consummate entertainer, a sharp dressed man as well, a terrific songwriter and a great singer."
Si Kahn
Si Kahn is a bluegrass, folk and roots music legend, once described as "a rumor in his own time." At almost 74 years old, he is at the peak of his powers as performer, songwriter and recording artist. His songs of family, community, love, work, peace and freedom have been recorded and performed by hundreds of artists in Europe and North America. He's proud to have been inducted into the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame, joining such legendary musicians as Doc Watson, Etta Baker, Ralph and Carter Stanley, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Jens Kruger, Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt.
Ironically, Si has never even attempted to earn a living as a musician. He's currently in his 52nd year as a civil rights, union and community organizer. He's currently the Lead Organizer for Musicians United To Protect Bristol Bay, working to help stop the proposed Pebble Mine and to protect permanently the people, jobs, communities, Native languages, cultures, traditions, and wild sockeye salmon of Alaska's Bristol Bay, one of the great remaining wild places in the world
Sarah Burton / Mark Bumgarner
Sarah Burton's playful soul has found its home in music through three diverse albums, and countless ups and downs while traversing the globe. She's seen her way through acoustic folk beginnings, into country swing and steel guitars, then electrifying blues-rock. On her new album Make Your Own Bed, Sarah doesn't just embrace indie-pop into her musical inventory, but returns to her frst inspiration; the piano. www.sarahburton.ca
Mark Bumgarner a son of the South, but Mark's musical influences span the American landscape, from the traditional sounds of the Appalachian Mountains, to the West Coast country and folk rock of the 60's & 70's. His musical style is a blend of roots country, bluegrass and rockin' hillbilly blues that is true Southern Americana. www.markbumgarnermusic.com
The Po' Ramblin' Boys
Born in the shadow of the Great Smoky Mountains, springing to life with all the zest and zeal you'd expect from a 1940s-style Tennessee bluegrass band, The Po' Ramblin' Boys have rambled far from home, touring throughout the United States and Europe.
Yet, these four friends – C.J. Lewandowski (Vocals, Mandolin), Jereme Brown (Vocals, Banjo), Josh 'Jug' Rinkel (Vocals, Guitar) and Jasper Lorentzen (Bass) – remain close to their musical roots by cranking out some of the tightest and hardest-driving traditional bluegrass you'll find anywhere.


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This lovely piece of white dress has caught my eyes when my sis and I were out shopping at the Gurney Plaza prior to her wedding on the coming weekend. I can honestly tell you that it was the one and only that fits my body so perfectly, as most of them are either too loose or extremely tight. Geez, those tiny-waist dresses really made me feel like I'm an extinct dinosaur living in the 21st century. I adored the design, it's beautiful, but the quality just doesn't live up to the price tag unfortunately.
We had some quick snacks at 600cc Taiwanese Restaurant before dinner. I haven't been here for ages!
Ordered some sort of deep fried yam rolls to try.
To our surprise, the fillings were not yam but purple potato?!! How disappointing... I mean, we are no food experts but at least we can still differentiate the taste between these two.
Day 1 Bridesmaid Dress Hunting Mission unaccomplished. We went on having Pizza Hut's Ultimate Cheesy Bites Pizza at the Sunrise Tower, Gurney Drive.
Garlic bread which miraculously looks like a caterpillar to me in this piccie.
My little cousin. He's such a poser in front of the camera.


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Yes, you read it right! A medical doctor from the Philippines, Dr. Nathaniel "Nace" Cruz, is a finalist in America Meet World, a global comedy video contest. When he was asked by a local TV host, if he's a real doctor, he replied "I'm really a doctor, I just happen to look like a patient".
His video entry on the said site has been making a buzz in the internet world. Portraying as a beggar in his comedy skit "Junjun: The Social Network Savvy Beggar- The Hunger", he describes his entry as "If you think beggars don't use social media, think again". In his video, Cruz as the hungry beggar, seemed to more keen in the social media scene rather than satisfy his hunger. He took a a snapshot of the food (given to him by a young kid) with his own cell phone, shared it online and was so happy that he immediately got a like on his post. As of to date, the Pinoy doctor seems to be leading in the online votes and views and rated 99% funny. His video entry is in the satire category.
According to the site of America Meet World, the votes contribute to determining which finalists will be the winner and will be flown to New York City to get advice from award-winning executives from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
To vote for Dr. Nace, just click this link: https://www.americameetworld.com/submissions/355
To checkout his profile, go to: https://www.americameetworld.com/profiles/91
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Sociology & Anthropology
Lora Ebert Wallace
Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2001
Professor of Sociology
Contact Info
Office: Morgan Hall 423A
Phone: (309) 298-1156
E-mail: Dr. Ebert Wallace
Areas of Specialization
- Medical sociology, family sociology, Sociology of women's health and reproductive health, and survey methods/quantitative methods
- Soc 100 Introduction to Sociology
- Soc 424 Sociology of Mental Health
- Soc 430G Sociology of Women's Health
- Soc 472 Medical Sociology
- Soc 565 Sociology of Health and Medicine
- Taylor, Erin and Lora Ebert Wallace. (forthcoming). "Feminist Breastfeeding Advocacy and the Problem of Guilt", in Breastfeeding and Feminism: Informing Public Health Approaches, Paige Smith, Miriam Labbok and Bernice Hausman, editors.
- Erin Taylor and Lora Ebert Wallace. "Feminist Breastfeeding Advocacy and the Problem of Guilt." Presentation at Breastfeeding and Feminism Symposium, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Center for Women's Health and Wellness. Greensboro, NC (March, 2010)
- Robert J. Hironimus-Wendt and Lora Ebert Wallace 2009. "The Sociological Imagination and Social Responsibility." Teaching Sociology, 37(1): 76-88.
- Wallace, Lora Ebert and Chason, Holly B. (2007). "Infant Feeding in the Modern World: Medicalization and the Maternal Body". Sociological Spectrum, 27(4): 405-438.
- Wickrama, K.A.S., Rand. D. Conger, Wallace, Lora Ebert, and Glen H. Elder, Jr. (2003). "Linking Early Social Risks to Impaired Physical Health During the Transition to Adulthood." Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 44 (1): 61-74.
Organizational Memberships/Affiliations
- American Sociological Association, National Council on Family Relations, Midwest Sociological Society.
Dr. Ebert Wallace joined the Department in 2004.


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Hey y'all I know it has been a lil' minute since your girl checked in but I'm a writer, so you know I stay with a good story! It is always a struggle to balance my ambitions, and this past month or so has been nothing less than hectic. At times it feels like a bit of an overload to be honest. It's like I have so much to express I don't know where to start. Without a proper outlet, I am easily overwhelmed by my own thoughts – which brought me here.
Back in June I had to press pause on my modeling in order to get my fourth book done. My original plan was to wrap up the "Fast Life" series on 7/17/17, with the release of "Paradise & Promises: An End to the Fast Life." After all, July marked my 10-year anniversary as an author, and I am a pretty big fan of symbolism. However, some unexpected news on the family front clouded my mind with too much emotion to touch upon. As much as it killed me to do so, I had to push the book back by a month.
Needless to say, I felt janky as fuck because I pride myself on being a woman of my word. If I say I'm going to do it, you better believe it will get done. Not to mention, it is my name on that cover which means when things go wrong, I take the fall. But hey, I still accomplished my goal – even if it was a little later than intended. And although it bothered me not to deliver as promised, I take pride in my work.
With that being said, I am super proud of how this last project came out, and feel confident about the series as a whole! I had been working so hard for so long on this book, sorting out formatting and cover issues down to the last minute, that when it was finally done and the pressure wore off, I was left to process all these mixed emotions. I was so consumed by my characters and their story that once it was over, I didn't know what to do with myself.
Now, I won't lie, there is some relief in knowing I am finally DONE. Another part of me is sad, though, because I have to say goodbye to these characters I've grown up with, too. Overall, I am most excited to execute new ideas and continue to grow as a writer. As with any book, I am curious how I will be received now and in the future. It's still too soon to tell.
All I can really say for sure is that I have been going hard all year, and it seems as if my dreams are finally starting to manifest. I can't quite describe it. But I can feel it. In the few weeks I took a break from blogging, I have seen and heard so much that I want to share with you guys, like my experience working a NASCAR event as a brand ambassador the weekend of the Charlottesville protests, where I witnessed some young white boys walking around in Confederate flags draped like capes. Then there are the amazing 4 days I spent in LA trying to recoup from it all, but I'll be sure to touch on those adventures in another post. Just know I am back. I am on fire. And I am hungrier than I've ever been.


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Episode III: The Making of a Shaman
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In this third installment of HedgeFolk Tales the witch covers the initiation of the shaman – from knowledge of this world into knowledge of all worlds and the universe itself. You will be hearing two tales; first a retelling of the Welsh myth of the famous bard and poet Taliesin and then a special appearance of Mojo from the Wigglian Way Pagan Podcast with a trancework tale of an apprentice's journey into initiation. Join us on the shaman's journey to find out if it is reflected in your own life… (and excuse my possibly horrible Welsh pronunciation)
Main Characters: Cerridwen, Morfran, Gwion Bach, Taliesin, Gwyddno Garanhir, King Maelgwn, Elphin, Rhun, Heinnin Fardd (chief bard)
Music Credits: Opening — "Cân Cerridwen" by Gwydion; Closing — "Crystal Cave" by S.J. Tucker
References & Resources:
- Cochrane, Jennifer. "Taliesin". Encyclopedia Mythica <http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/taliesin.html>
- Dr. Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
- Eliade, Mircea. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Princeton University Press, 2004.
- Guest, Lady Charlotte. The Mabinogion. Bernard Quaritch, 1877.
- Harris-Logan, Stuart A. Singing With Blackbirds: The Survival of Primal Celtic Shamanism in later Folk-Traditions. Grey House in the Woods, 2006.
- Llyfr Taliesin – The Book of Taliesin
- Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru by Elis Gruffydd
- Wilby, Emma. Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic. Sussex Academic Press, 2005.