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Social presence in collaborative learning: Analysis of interactions in knowledge building community
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Social presence is a key element in a collaborative learning environment to promote interaction and a sense of community among online students. The purpose of establishing social presence in online courses is to facilitate levels of comfort and assurance of safety among participants. Based on two distinct online graduate courses, this paper explores the interactions and evidence of social presence among students. The results discussed in this paper focus on the analysis of student and instructor messages. In-depth analysis of messages was based on the social presence model by Garrison and Anderson. Findings suggest, overall, low levels of social presence among the two groups. The paper discusses several factors affecting the creation of social presence within two courses. These include (i) profile of the students such as maturity, time availability and their own agenda, (ii) type of course, and (iii) workload. Strategies to improve social presence in online courses are discussed.
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After a string of attacks in Europe and the U.S., Brazil is ramping up security at and around the Olympic games, deploying some 88,000 troops and police. Mana Rabiee reports.
Security at Rio's Olympic park has been ramped up on this, the Olympics opening day. Soldiers are searching cars entering the compound and doing foot patrols inside. But it's not just at the Olympic facilities. Brazil is deploying the military to Rio's iconic tourist sites and heavily armed police are patrolling the streets. 88,000 personnel in all. A security measure, against what officials say is the "minimal" chance of an attack, and to deter violent street crime, for which Rio is notorious. The military presence is designed to put residents and visitors at ease as the city welcomes half a million tourists for the Games. (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) 22-YEAR-OLD LOCAL RESIDENT RODRIGO SAYING: "There is an enormous contingent of troops, all kinds of troops and national guards. It's really interesting, but I don't know how it will be when it all starts. " After a string of deadly attacks elsewhere in the world -- from Europe to the United States - Brazil's taking no chances …. as it gets ready to host one of the largest public celebrations of the year.

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Halloween is here – a holiday for children, but also an opportunity to partake in silly, childlike events that would otherwise be considered socially unacceptable. A few days ago, a co-worker asked me if anyone in the office was dressing up for Halloween. I haven't given it any thought, but we mused about things we would dress up as. Of course, as the day came to pass, I did not dress up. This was mainly because I never really planned on doing so. I have gotten to the point of choosing to play the adult part that I seem to be. Second, I honestly didn't want to be the stand-out at work. I knew nobody else was dressing up, as we had not come up with a definitive plan amongst us all. So, aside from the indulgence in a few cookies and candies, the day went by as a normal day…at work, at least. After work and school, I stopped by a bar for a few drinks, and started to finally see these "adults" come out of the woodwork. The few people who dressed up appeared to have no real destination – say, a costume party – nor were they handing out candy (as they were at a bar); no, they were simply taking part in a holiday largely meant for children. I find a little bit of irony in dressing up for Halloween then heading off to a bar – becoming a child once again, then thrusting yourself into an adult atmosphere. It's a little strange, honestly. I also recall, when I was a child, I would dress up as something I wanted to be, or a role model (be it cartoon or real life), such as Super Woman, or a cheerleader, or something scary like a ghost. You see a much more eclectic mix of costumes when adults decide to participate in Halloween. There is a witch, a cat, and a waitress at the bar right now. Funny, though – they aren't playing the part of witch, cat or waitress. They are sitting around, otherwise being normal adults – with the exception of the ridiculous get-up. Another thing that I always remember – part of the fun of dressing up for Halloween as a child – is that you could be anything you wanted to be, and you would throw yourself into that act. If I dressed up as a witch, I was a witch. If I dressed as a ghost, I would try to haunt people. It seems that when the adults do it, they're merely trying to get attention or stand out. Why else would you feel the need to dress up like a cat if you didn't want to be a cat? Perhaps Halloween allows those certain individuals to break the mold for a day – to get out of the normal routine, but only in the obscure way that Halloween allows. If that is the case, then what is the point? I guess there is still that need to be accepted for the most part – to be on the fringe, but just temporarily, and in an appropriate setting.
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It turns out that everything I post on both this blog and my music blog gets automatically reposted on a site called The Brummie. Recently, I've been a frequent contributor, without even really realising it. I kind of have mixed feelings about that.
First, I think it's great that there's a website that brings together news and information from around Birmingham. Really. Potentially, that's a very useful thing. I also think that having a hub that gives people pointers to a wide range of different bloggers from around the city is a really helpful thing to do and may even contribute to the overall sense of community among local writers and citizen journalists. Cool.
Unfortunately – that's not actually what's happening. As far as I can tell, The Brummie is merely scraping people's web content without permission from their RSS feeds, re-presenting it as if the content was submitted voluntarily to their site.
I have three problems with that:
1) As a site that aggregates content, they have more 'Google juice' simply because of the sheer volume of words being published on their site. So if someone goes looking for something and it turns out I've written an article that may help, Google is more likely to point them to that article on their site rather than mine. That's not a major problem, as they're still going to be getting the same information, and there's no commercial ramification to that. But it's not ideal.
2) It looks like I have contributed willingly, which I would only do to a publication that I was very familiar with and felt comfortable submitting to. And that depends on everything else that appears on the site. I'm never going to write for the Daily Mail, and I don't want to be part of a publication whose other contributors would happily consider it. Context is important to me. And so are things like presentation, layout and design. Simply reposting my words in a different environment imbues them with all sorts of unintended meaning.
3) When people comment on my posts on their site, they erroneously think they're communicating directly with me. The only reason I know that there had been any discussion at all of a music post (let alone a message from the featured band themselves) was that Mark Blackstock who runs The Brummie was kind enough to let me know in an email.
I'm giving the benefit of the doubt when it comes to intention here. There's no sense that Mark and his team (if such a team exists) are doing anything designed to be exploitative. And he's keeping within the rules (strictly speaking) of the Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial Licence that applies to everything on my website. He's not doing anything wrong.
And all the same, I have asked him if I could please opt out for the reasons cited above. Of course, it would have been nice to be asked, but I probably would have expressed a preference not to be included – while fully admitting that there is nothing to prevent him from going ahead anyway.
The moment there's a revenue stream derived from that site, then it falls foul of the licensing conditions for my work. But even though it plays within the boundaries of what's permissible with my writing, it does so in a way that detracts without adding anything, which is more a problem in terms of the spirit of the deal.
I don't know whether my site will be removed from The Brummie. I'm not going to do anything further about it either way. I've asked nicely, and I hope that Mark will respect that and let me bow out. I may be taking my ball and going home, but I'm not going to make a fuss.
If not, and you're reading this on The Brummie, any of its affiliated websites, or some other website that has simply scraped my content off the RSS feed and presented it as if it had my consent, then I encourage you to head to the actual source of this post: http://andrewdubber.com.


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Over the years I have owned a fair few printers, and the one thing, the only thing I never liked about owning one was having to buy the replacement ink cartridges. So when I was offered the chance to review the HP Instant ink replacement ink service, my inner tech got a little excited and I needed to find out more.
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This last week has been all about prepping for my soon-to-be four-year-old's birthday party and I am doing a colouring in table for her and her friends. What preschoolers don't like to colour in?! Especially if they need a little break from bouncing around!
We do a lot of printing in this house; with school assignments & name tracing worksheets {because I'm preparing my youngest for Primary school}. Not to mention our weekly chore charts and also my husbands University degree assignments. So the HP Instant ink service is perfect for us as a family.
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i missed some things a few {ahem} months ago because i couldn't post on pics on blogger but i still wanted them in my little scrapbook here.
benny turned 26! that's his dot cake. it's not on a fancy stand {because i don't have one}. don't judge my little carrier. the cake tasted just as good! but i thought we were going to burn the house down with all those candles. getting old = lots of fire
harley saying, "mom & pop please come get me from the crazy brzinski home!"
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it made being a puppy parent a lot easier. especially in february covered in snow.
we also celebrated love day. just two heads swimming in a sea of black - i haven't improved my photography skills much yet. especially pictures that i'm in. but we're still in love!
i got to enjoy precious time with the love of my life. and pretty flowers too!
now that i can upload pics once more i wanted to include a few more favorites from my photo adventure with jenna a few weeks ago {seen originally HERE} that it wouldn't let me have on the first go 'round. what a sweet jenna.
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Tilapia is usually called "white fish" since it doesn't really have a strong or distinct flavor. It lends itself well to sauces and seasonings.
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Submitted From: Davis, CA, USA
- 1 package ramen
- 1 tilapia filet
- lemon wedges (to taste)
- flour
- salt
- black pepper
- paprika
- chili powder
- Optional spices for ramen: thyme, basil, garlic powder, etc.
- Heat oil in a frying pan (enough so that it is about 1/4 inch deep). Boil some water in a sauce pan (enough to cook the ramen).
- Mix the flour, salt, black pepper, paprika, and chili powder together on a paper towel.
- When the oil has heated, coat the tilapia in the flour mixture and place it in the oil. Cook each side for about 3 minutes (it should turn dark brown).
- Meanwhile, cook the ramen in the sauce pan. I like to add the ramen spice packet, as well as some thyme, basil, and garlic powder.
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Conferencing part 1 - ETech | March 27, 2009
As you're no doubts aware I'm an unabashed conference junky, so it will come as no surprise to you that I've spent the last couple of weeks in the States attending three such events.
First up was ETech, the emerging technology conference from O'Reily. Moved from it's spiritual home in San Diego, this year it was help in the Chino wearing capitol of Silicon Valley, San Jose. The event was much smaller than last year and the tone was somewhat downbeat. However I don't think this was necessarily down to the economy as a lot of people were speculating. ETech is an amazing place to showcase new technologies and is where start-ups like Flickr made their debut. However if there are no new breakthroughs on the horizon, the events obviously lacks its reason d'etra. I think that was the case this year.
As with the previous year, there was a lot of green technology being discussed, which led one attendee to suggest that it be renamed GreenTech. There was also a lot of ubicomp stuff like the lovingly realised siftables which made a big splash at TED. I definitely have to get hold of when they launch. O'Reily bought along their Maker Shed and I was tempted to buy a whole stack of tech to take back to Clearleft with me. Home assemble robot kits and botalicals arduino kits that will Twitter when your plants need watering. Sadly the weak pound put a stop to that.
One of my favourite talks was a session from Nick Bilton of the New York Times innovation labs. Nick showed some really interesting examples of the thinking going on behind the scenes at the NYTimes, including a lovely demo of a digital newspaper format that completely changed layout, image style and content density depending on the size of the device being used.
However the stand-out talk for me had to be a session on the info you can learn from monitoring GPS data, which turns out to be a lot. By mapping users GPS date onto census and commercial activity data, Sense Networks were able to deduce exactly what type of person a particular subject was and the percentage chance where they would be at any given time. By using a sort of Geo Page Rank algorithm they could look at the kind of place you had arrived from, the kind of place you had let to and by that deduce the kind of place you were at. They would then use cluster analysis to match you with similar types of people, thus defining you as a member of a particular type of tribe.
Sadly the current use was rather pedestrian, taking GPS data from marketing companies to deduce the type of people going to different types of bars to enable more accurate targeting. However the business opportunities were huge, and I could easily see the creation of some kind of Geo Google. On a very prosaic level you could create an amazing, geo-aware dating app that would let you know if you were in the same location as other people like you, and then facilitate you hooking up. A mundane use, but one that could prove popular and make a mint.
Apart from those two sessions I thought the rest of the presentations were rather weak, like an edition of Wired magazine in a month where nothing much had happened. My feeling that ETech was in a holding pattern this year, waiting on the next big thing to emerge. When it does, ETech will no doubt be at the front of the queue. However I'm not sure Ill be rushing back next year as it's all somewhat out of my domain. One for the Friends of O'Reily I think.
Why Friends Reunited Failed | March 2, 2009
I was recently interviewed by the Independent on Sunday to get a design perspective on why Friends Reunited ultimately failed. However rather than the design of the site, I think the design of the system was ultimately to blame.
Friends Reunited was one of the first "Social Networks" in the UK, long before the term had even been coined. Like all good web applications it made something that was difficult to do in the real world, incredibly easy. You could now re-connect with people from your past and spark up new friendships. It also tapped into two basic human traits; curiosity and gloating. Whether this was through design or by pure accident, the desire to see what had become of your childhood sweetheart or your school bully proved impossible to resist.
Like all social sites, Friends Reunited relied on the network affect, so when membership reached its tipping point the whole site went viral. However a lot of viruses burn through their fuel so quickly they die almost as fast as they grow, stifled by their own success. So with Friends Reunited once you'd registered, seen what your old friends were doing, connected with the ones you'd wanted to and had a laugh at the (hopefully) tragic lives of your childhood tormentors, there was very little reason to stick around.
The design of the site was delightfully amateurish, which was no surprise considering the background of the creators. However it had a low-fi aesthetic that made it feel genuine; something it shares with it's later contemporaries like MySpace. The truth is, while a better design would almost certainly helped its fortunes, people are willing to ignore bad design and usability if the perceived value is great. With Friends Reunited there were no credible alternatives or competition so people were happy to make do.
I think one big problem was the business model itself. With so many users, Friends Reunited wanted to capitalise on this by charging a membership fee. Now this was during a time when Internet business models were still being tested, so it's impressive that they managed to charge for the service at all. However charging for a service changes the whole dynamic of a site and causes people to game the system in order to get the maximum return on their investment. So it becomes less of a community and more of a commercial relationship. Like a lot of commercial relationships, once the value runs out, people will stop paying and leave.
Modern social networks do a much better job at keeping their members engaged than Friends Reunited. So Facebook quickly expanded from a way of getting to know people on campus into a way of connecting with old friend and managing new ones. In fact you can now use Facebook in numerous ways, be that chatting with friends, playing games, managing your social life, flirting or micro blogging. Facebook has managed to create a whole ecosystem and become an essential part of peoples social lives. What's more, rather than charging for this privilege, they give it away for free and make their money from additional services.
Conversely LinkedIn started life as a generic social networking site but quickly specialised in the field of professional reputation management and recruitment. This model has much more longevity than simply "getting in touch with friends from school" and allows LinkedIn to charge for professional services that help their users solve a real world problem.
Product design and business model speculations aside, I think there is also a big element of timeliness and zeitgeist. Friends Reunited managed to capture the attention of millions of people and was very successful in it's day. However human attention is fleeting and you can only maintain this until the next cool meme comes along. Because of this I'm unsure if any of the big social networks have much longevity and if we'll be having the same conversation in 10 years time. Is social networking here to stay or is it just a blip on the evolutionary path of the Internet?


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01:30 Australia Gross Domestic Product (YoY) Quarter II 2.5% Revised From 2.3% 2.2% 2.0%
08:30 United Kingdom PMI Construction August 57.1 57.5 57.3
09:00 Eurozone Producer Price Index, MoM July 0.0% Revised From -0.1% -0.1% -0.1%
09:00 Eurozone Producer Price Index (YoY) July -2.1% Revised From -2.2% -2.1% -2.1%
11:00 U.S. MBA Mortgage Applications August 0.2% 11.3%
The U.S. dollar traded mixed to higher against the most major currencies ahead the release of the U.S. economic data. According to the ADP employment report, the U.S. economy is expected to add 201,000 jobs in August.
The U.S. factory orders are expected to increase 0.9% in July, after a 1.8 gain in June.
The euro traded mixed against the U.S. dollar after the weak economic data from the Eurozone. Eurozone's producer price index declined 0.1% in July, in line with expectations, after a flat reading in June. June's figure was revised up from a 0.1% drop.
Intermediate goods prices were flat in July, capital goods prices rose 0.1%, and both durable and non-durable consumer goods prices climbed 0.1%, while energy prices decreased 0.5%.
On a yearly basis, Eurozone's producer price index dropped 2.1% in July, in line with expectations, after a 2.1% fall in June. June's figure was revised up from a 2.2% decline.
Eurozone's producer prices excluding energy fell 0.4% year-on-year in July. Energy prices dropped at an annual rate of 6.5%.
The British pound traded lower against the U.S. dollar after the weaker-than-expected construction PMI from the U.K. Markit's and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply's construction purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the U.K. increased to 57.3 in August from 57.1 in July, missing expectations for a rise to 57.5.
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EUR/USD: the currency pair traded mixed
GBP/USD: the currency pair fell to $1.5263
USD/JPY: the currency pair traded mixed
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12:15 U.S. ADP Employment Report August 185 201
14:00 U.S. Factory Orders July 1.8% 0.9%
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That's right. Nothing about plastic model kits (again). Somebody should turn me in to the authorities.
Marilyn Vos Savant (Savant? Really?) writes a column for the ultimate old-people magazine–the one called "Parade" that comes in the Sunday paper. She is the world's smartest woman, obviously, because she has parlayed a high IQ into a career without having to do much other than answer trivia questions.
That, my friend, is brains.
Now, I think of myself of being one of the smartest people on the planet, and I'm aware that telling people how smart you are is not smart. It causes them to want to hit you with a hammer until you stop moving or making those whiny sounds. But I have been interested in Ms. vos Savant since I discovered "The Monty Hall Problem" through her column. The Monty Hall (a.k.a. "game show problem") is probably the best brain-twizzler ever invented. I got it wrong when I read about it the first time, but so did Paul Erdős.
But we're not here to talk about THAT puzzle. We're here to talk about this one, which appeared in Ms. vos Savant's column a couple of weeks ago.
Joint Checking Accounts
December 3, 2017 – 5:00 AM
By Marilyn vos Savant
My wife and I contribute equally to our joint checking account. Also, I sometimes pay for shared expenses myself, and she pays me back half. One time, she put $1,000 into the joint account, but instead of matching it, I suggested that she just not pay me back for her half of $2,000 of shared expenses that I had paid myself. This seemed fair at the time, but I'm starting to wonder about it. Did somebody get the better end of the deal?
—Steven S., Honolulu, Hawaii
Marilyn responds:
Yes, your wife did. The joint account gained $1,000, and $2,000 in shared expenses were paid. Of this $3,000, your wife contributed $1,000, and you contributed $2,000.
Yeah. Well, I went to her website and looked around and found a forum, and I was surprised that a bunch of washed-up old accountants hadn't explained the answer six-ways from Sunday. Instead, the forum people (people hang out at her forum??) agree, sort of, that Mrs. S. owes Mr. S. a thousand bucks.
I'm sure this is a misunderstanding. Marilyn was a bit vague on this one. I think she meant that Mrs. S. owes Mr. S. FIVE HUNDRED dollars American, not a thousand. The answer "she owes him a thousand dollars" is wrong. That amount, if it's the amount she should pay him, is double the actual amount she owes. So it's wrong, you dig?
Now, I spent some years earning a living doing financial accounting. I could get all technical on you and explain why this is true, but instead I'll try to act like a human being.
Let's assume that nothing "unusual" happened, that Mrs. S. has plenty of cash in her personal account and so does Mr. Trump, uh, I mean "Mr. S." Let's say that she just pays Mr. S. the thousand that she owes him for the joint expenses, and he then, turns around and gives her back one thousand dollars, to "pay her" for her contribution to the checking account. He just hands her the cash and says "have a good time."
Is this right? Of course not. He does not owe her because she put money in the checking account. He has an obligation to match her contribution, which is a very different thing. Because neither of these people are accountants (I hope) they have this set up in a confusing way. They (properly) have a system where they share payments of joint expenses, but they (improperly) have a system of "matching" for the joint checking account. That's the source of the problem. When he pays a two thousand dollar expense, she incurs a thousand dollar debt to him, automatically. She should pay it, sooner or later, directly to him.
On the other hand, when she puts a thousand dollars in the checking account, they handle it differently and foul it up. They each "match" the other person's contribution. When she puts a thousand in there, he must put a thousand in. He can't hand the money directly to her and say "we're square." The money MUST go in the checking account because that's the only way a "matching" system can work.
The problem with having a "sharing" system and a "matching" system is that, sure as hell, you're going to mingle the money and start mixing up the systems, and this leads to the confusion that led to the letter to Marilyn. An accountant would (should) tell them to stop this and use a "sharing' system for all joint activity. That way, every time one partner puts in some money, either to pay an expense or to fatten up the checking account, then the other partner incurs a debt for half that amount, to be paid directly to the other partner. So when Mr. paid two grand into expenses, she owes him a thousand. When Mrs. paid one grand into checking, he owes her five hundred. To simplify, over dinner with wine and candles, he doesn't say "just call it even." He says "we'll count the five hundred I owe you on the checking contribution against the thousand you owe me on the expense payment–so you only owe me five hundred now, baby" or something like that.
What bothers me about this whole thing is that for years I could have been swindling people using this simple device, and I didn't. Even Marilyn von Savant didn't figure it out. If only Bernie Madoff had thought of this, people would still be running around Manhattan smiling to themselves as Bernie cleaned out their accounts.


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Shouldn't the 22-20s been bigger?
I reckon so, they've been lumped unfairly with the Nine Black Alps of this world and I think they're far better than that.
They've got a real bluesy edge to them, I always thought they were like the British version of The Black Keys.
I quite liked them
a bit of a one trick pony, but no less than a lot of bands out there
I like them
they are very good at that thing they do, but they do lack variation. And Nine Black alps are good too. People love to slag them off, but as a pop-grunge outfit they are very good.
way !
I think they're a bit rubbish to be honest.
I'm not big on 'blusey' stuff at the best of times but they do nothing but big ol' slabs of MEH for me.
I fell just shy of buying their album
I liked it, but not quite enoguh to buy it. They are excellent live.
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liked their album... and yes they are good live. they did manage to get a tune used on a car ad though! but it didn't really boost them at all, not that i know of anyway.
Sorry mate
The zeitgeist moved on.
I quite liked them
they were nothing extraordinarly special but the album was enjoyable and they werent bad as a live band.
and The Immortal Lee Country Killers are better then them live and on record.
You are right Tom
The Immortal Lee Country Killers are better. Much prefer their psychedelic tinge.
To clarify, by bigger I only meant an OUNCE of recognition.
them opening for Oasis last year... felt a bit sorry for them. There was about 200 people there just walking around and talking.
No one paid any attention.
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Parents are expected to guide the kids, in addition to spending time with them; yet, most patients find it hard because parenting involves attention to multiple facets. For instance, if the parents have the good understanding with the children, it can assist them in trusting each other. Similarly, parents can also build confidence by giving the children a strong sense of security and emotional control. Moreover, it is very important to give freedom to your kids, guiding them to fix the inconsistency in the behavior is equally relevant, which can be done by giving them constructive input.
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You can also make your kid responsible by giving them chances to prove them. You can make a task list that they can complete when they wake up. Parents must avoid screaming at them to avoid mishaps or misunderstanding. When you prepare a task list for your kids, it helps them to take charge of the lives. When kids become efficient in doing the daily tasks on their own, parents starts to love them more. Therefore, it is essential for building the personality of your kids and becoming the useful member of society.
When you get back from your work, put your mobile aside to give full attention to your kids. If use the mobile phone after coming back home, it is usually not taken well by kids. Children want their parents to be there for them and focus on them, the same rule applies over the weekend. Another benefit of this tip is that you can spend quality time with children. Additionally, kids want to be heard by the parents to approach hurdles like they should be.


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Kayla is a feminist, but when she gets involved with the school dance group, the Lady Lions, she begins to wonder if she can be a feminist while still being a normal girl.
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Mumbai: To gain the maximum visibility, Global Advertisers has deployed hoardings at prominent locations for the outdoor promotion of Gurukrupa builders. The Marina Enclave is a residential development by the Gurukrupa Group. It has a thoughtful design and is well equipped with all the modern day amenities as well as basic facilities and has started luring consumers towards its new project through OOH.
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If you like to spoil your guests with mouthwatering dishes that are also a delight for the eye, then this vegetarian starter with Aubergine and Goats Cheese is for you. I fell in love with it the first time my dear friend Marlu made this for me and it has been one of my favourites ever since then. The combination of Aubergine and Goats Cheese with an olive oil, balsamic vinegar, honey and mustard vinaigrette is just so delicious. And, the basil is not just there as garnish, but gives it that extra kick. Really yummy. Another reason to really love this: you can make it in advance. This means you can spend more time with your guests
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Tuesday, February 8
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