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Looking to Ebay--for Online Learning?
How to make learning happen online is a big topic these days.
It should be. Basically, our educational system in the U.S. is failing at every level. It is either not successful, or it is too expensive--or both. In short, it's a lot like the U.S. health care system, which costs more than other systems and is less effective.
In fact, our major human-oriented support systems in the U.S. are failing: education and health care.
If you look at the top American companies, we can sell people energy or phone service or loan them money or sell them prescription drugs. But we cannot educate Americans or keep them healthy at nearly the same rate as other 'developed' countries. America's top universities are world-class. But our high school students are not.
With both health care and education, the rewards must be in the wrong place. Money is not rewarding success. Yes, there are other rewards, but money is one, and it's not working. Think of paying health providers per procedure rather than for successful outcomes.
And there is no political will to fix either education or health care. If we could find a model for fixing one, we might be able to replicate it. So the stakes are high. An online learning platform might not be better than the best face-to-face educational systems in the world--South Korea and Finland, for instance. But it could be opened to poorer countries and students, and it could be a great leveler in this regard.
If you want to find web sites that successfully enable social interactions, it is not hard to find examples.
Ebay does not come to mind as a learning platform. But as a platform for highly-structured social interactions--and buying and selling things is a social interaction--Ebay is superb.
How's it work?
- People come together based on common interests and clear roles. I want to sell a what-cha-me, and n persons want to buy this kind of what-cha-me.
- People can find their common interests easily enough. The search engine plays a critical role here.
- The interactions have a specific time frame. An item is on sale for so long. I can go back as often as I like--or as little. This helps the users to make specific, strategic choices.
- The number of interactions permitted and supported are limited. I can sell, bid, ask questions, give answers, modify the information about the item, search through past sales for similar items. I have all the information I need to buy or sell effectively.
In essence, Ebay is an information system in which people learn about objects that interest them. One of the things they learn is: Can I afford a what-cha-me in mint condition? Or can I only afford one in non-working condition?
Any habitual Ebay user can learn these things. You browse auctions. You look at past sales. You bid. You might have to bid multiple times to get the thing you want. And when you unwrap it, you discover how worthwhile the whole enterprise was for you.
Ebay is a curriculum--as all markets are. A market is a curriculum in which a sequence of economic interactions teach the participants the values of items and the various economic behaviors needed to operate successfully.
An insightful entrepreneur will simply describe Ebay in an object-oriented vocabulary and then clone an instance of it for learning. One such description would sound like this:
- The center of such a system would be learning tasks with clear criteria. Some might be completed by interacting with an automated agent and other tasks with peers.
- Let people come together based on common interests and clear roles. Maybe we both want to learn about economics, but I want to offer a learning task, and you want to perform a learning task. Leverage social affinities to make learning social and appealing.
- Let people find their common interests easily. If learning materials were inherently interesting, learners could follow their own interests the way web surfers usually do. Other sites could even link to a learning platform--and vice-versa.
- Learning tasks would probably need some timing--like auctions. Time frames seem to lend a certain mental clarity and facilitate social interaction. There is no waiting for Joshua to take his turn: when the deadline has passed, no more turns can be taken, so if Joshua doesn't take his turn, someone else will.
- Make the number and kind of interactions simple and clear. Let some tutor, some learn, some contribute materials, some evaluate performances, etc. Let the system reflect as much information about tasks and users as possible--so learners can act strategically to get what they want and need.
The system itself could aggregate information to optimize itself for the learners.
- A self-adjusting system could right-size groups working on social learning tasks based on behavior within the system.
- Early in the system's development, users might have a lot of latitude about what tasks they completed when. But when the system stored enough information, the system administrators could know with a good degree of certainty that Task C should not be attempted before several successful performances on Tasks A and B.
- Whether objective norms or social validation from peers or experts were the best predictor of future task success could also be inferred from system logs.
Ebay did not destroy the yard sale and the junk shop and the police auction. Face-to-face interactions still have their place. But it is a tightly-focused place.
And when someone builds a powerful online learning platform, there will still be schools: but smaller and more specialized schools.
If we care about education, we should be most concerned about the results rather than the methods--as long as they are both humane and effective. What is inhumane is having an educational system that is so profoundly ineffective for so many--basically all but those at the top.
--Edward R. O'Neill

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a happy holiday.
I am so happy this morning to see that my dear friend Abby just added two sets of winter/holiday postcards to her shop. Each set comes with 8 matte postcards and arrives beautifully wrapped in 90% recycled tissue and crepe ribbon. These are definitely going to be the cards I send out to friends and family this holiday season. ($9 per set)
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In frak after all that, I still have not encountered, through the inadvertent channels I encounter everything else in, a solid case made FOR Clinton. Only against Trump, and in such an event people were never going to unite behind one opposition force, and trying to shame people into abandoning their alternate opposition was also never going to work. And Clinton still won the "popular" vote, because all that comes across is how popular she is and how good she is at knowing popular people. In New York and California. So make her president of New York and California. Ha ha ha I assure you the longer and bloated this post gets the less likely I am to make another!
With regard to my freak-up last week, I think The Media owes people either impartial reporting or a clear presentation of its biases. But they tend to assume that is not necessary and that their audience is already of one mind with them. Because they have to sell advertising, and advertisers need specific targets. Television news is complete trash. It was never presented to me as: here are the facts on these candidates." It always came across as "our candidate is cool and we're cool and you can be cool too! plus oh oh oh she's a lay-deh" I suppose I should have put THAT in the spiteful little comic strip but the exact sources for each of my frustrations have been difficult to determine.
If Trump is dangerous, that ought to have been reported, and reported how so, not just show the Clinton club's latest stupid celebrity selfie stunt. I don't understand how I become a like a pariah for refusing to support either of them, given this climate of non-information.
I realize my current stage of distrust and discomfort came about in part to riding a hype wave to electing Obama. I wasn't closer to any of those people afterward and felt let down by the result, and I hated myself for letting myself be led. This time, I rejected the hype wave, but I still hated myself because I have so many people around me who continued to ride the hype wave that seems to be the dominant public opinion. The difference is that I hate myself based on my own choices rather than inheriting them, so this is better, I think, I hope.
I am not scared of Trump, I am scared that I have no soul. Once I sort that out I will get back to you. Obviously I am white and in Connecticut. You know I am so bent up by this I keep forgetting that I didn't actually vote for the guy or say a single bloody thing in support of him at any point. He is a goon. Maybe I just subconsciously relate to goons. Is my personal problem the biggest threat to the country? It IS because it underlines that I want to fight almost everybody for silly reasons. But I don't fight them and I still want to. I don't know any white supremacists but I know loads of people who are paranoid about white supremacists and really smug about condemning them and looking conspicuously angry about them, like that's a challenge.
Breaking: the cast of Chess has vowed to take on Mike Pence's support for a federal flat tax if he ever comes to Sweden.
I have no recollection of ever lacking for hamilton news, but i appreciate that it recognizes its solvency and would draw a line in the sand like that, and I don't know what a dork like Mike Pence is thinking will happen when he attends a liberal mass service like that in person, and then when he tries to walk out while it's happening. It's like a scene from Rent.
111:01 am, November 21, 2016
Indighost sez:
Honestly I prefer you less political. How furry of me
21:03 pm, November 21, 2016
Frimpinheap sez:
I assure you everyone I know on the internet does! I have been completely alone for two weeks. That is how these posts got so long. But I do not accept that I am totally wrong since the same principles also inspire what I do that is appreciated.
32:38 pm, November 22, 2016
Indighost sez:
I maintain that Politics is not as big a deal as people think it is, and really has very little effect on things, especially if you are a white male normal-gender majority member.
42:46 pm, November 22, 2016
Frimpinheap sez:
That is true! But loads of people are not. But I do not meet them in person. It is hard to know to what degree people are exaggerating their suddenly new hardship. I concede being very white, but I have always had gender struggles. To some degree it messes with almost everything I do. If I made it a very public matter, would I be discriminated against due to that?
I don't know since I have loads of other barriers on top of that one. Which only gives me more guilt. So I have loads of guilt. But then I have anger because I think I am getting extra guilt from people who put me in the comfortable white male group which is not and has never been in the case. I would slice off all related body aspects and toss them in the sea if I were not terrified of being a sickly expensive freak.
53:35 pm, November 22, 2016
Indighost sez:
Agreed 100%. That's why I prefer being a ghost. I can take on various bodies when appropriate, but generally enjoy being a cloud of tastefully lightly scented purple vapor.
63:40 pm, November 22, 2016
Frimpinheap sez:
I have to sell myself to people, though, so I must find a way to coexist without wanting to kill or die.
This here`s me trackback!


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9:09 a.m.
Evelyn Lozada: Don't you call me sugar lips you mean, hateful, head-butting chump.
9:13 a.m.
Chad Ochocinco: I'm sorry about dat babe. I lost my temper and I did not mean to head butt you like I did - and let me say dat I forgot dat I had my Miami Dolphins helmet on at the time.
9:17 a.m.
Evelyn Lozada: Oh you forgot did you. Well you sure didn't forget ta buy the case of Glow-In-The-Dark Condoms did you Mr. Romeo?
9:22 a.m.
Chad Ochocinco: Now sweet muffin, you know dat I told ya dat I bought those condoms ta give ta my good pal Terrell Owens.
9:27 a.m.
Evelyn Lozada: Wassamatter can't little old Terrell buy his own freakin condoms or what?
9:34 a.m.
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9:39 a.m.
Evelyn Lozada: Shy my aspen tree.
9:43 a.m.
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9:49 a.m.
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Many caring and compassionate individuals feel that local media has been creating as of late a dynamic that have folks hating the people who are being oppressed in our community and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
The Redding Police Officers Association who wants the community to take back South City Park from the homeless and transients who use it daily and give it back to families, hosted a daylong event Saturday that was marred by controversy, injury, and a lack of public attendance.
Much has been spoken of in the Redding area of the sex trade, and teen girls being forced to provide sex for pimps in the Redding California community. There are approximately 1.7 million homeless teens in the U.S. Often times young vulnerable populations of homeless teens can be found and targeted by these pimps in exactly where the Redding Police Officers Association wants to shoo them away from .... South City Park.
As a community, do we want to take back the park back from them? Is that the best we can do ?
Creating and spinning the dynamics of fear, unwarranted generalizations, and pushing the demonization of a population with no voice of their own spiritually weakens and degrades the community at large.
Perhaps the Redding City council and Police Department needs to rethink taking back anything from the homeless including their tents, sleeping bags and other personal possessions and survival gear and consider returning what you have taken for years now that may very well assist in their coming out of homelessness... Their dignity


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Zellig S. Harris, in full Zellig Sabbetai Harris, (born Oct. 23, 1909, Balta, Russia—died May 22, 1992, New York, N.Y., U.S.), Russian-born American scholar known for his work in structural linguistics. He carried the structural linguistic ideas of Leonard Bloomfield to their furthest logical development: to discover the linear distributional relations of phonemes and morphemes.
Harris was taken to the United States as a child in 1913, and he received a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. (1934) from the University of Pennsylvania, where he began teaching in 1931 and became Benjamin Franklin Professor of Linguistics in 1966.
Harris's Methods in Structural Linguistics (1951) established his scholarly reputation as a theorist. In subsequent work on discourse analysis, Harris suggested the use of transformations as a means of expanding his method of descriptive analysis to cross sentence boundaries. Since Harris was Noam Chomsky's teacher, some linguists have questioned whether Chomsky's transformational grammar is as revolutionary as it has been portrayed, but the two scholars developed their ideas in different contexts and for different purposes. For Harris, a transformation relates surface structure-sentence forms and is not a device to transform a deep structure into a surface structure, as it is in transformational grammar.


text: WALLACE TULLIS, 82, 1307 W. 10th St., Sanford, died Thursday. Born in Glenwood, Ala., he moved to Sanford from there in 1946. He was a retired construction laborer and a member of New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, Sanford. Survivors: daughter, Lorine Paris, St. Petersburg; sons, Johnnie Ray, DeFuniak Springs, Willie Paul, Detroit, Joe Edward, Saginaw, Mich., Edward, Sanford; stepdaughters, Annie Dudley Simkins, Sanford, Bobbi Nell, Saginaw, Annie Merrell, New Jersey. Several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Sunrise Funeral Home, Sanford.


text: I've taken a picture of the kids in front of the Christmas tree every year. It's probably my favorite picture I take all Christmas season. I knew I wasn't going to be able to pose them perfectly and keep them from moving, so I let them just do whatever they wanted. Thank goodness for all of the musical ornaments on the tree to keep their interest! I still managed a few cute shots with all the dancing going on! I can't help but smile when I look at these pictures of our two little miracles. There will never be anything better than these two under the tree!


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This order is quite special. It's for one of my brother's oldest friend's baby - Jojo. He requested for me to make a Little Einstein theme and again, i was really excited! I just love to do all things cute :) and new!
Here goes the result! Please note that the figurines around are Jojo's toys and not made by me :)
Usually I'm quite shy to deliver orders especially alone but i had a lot of fun with this one. I guess it's partly because Jojo's mom & dad made me feel so comfortable!
And here's the birthday boy! Soooo cute!
Jojo with mummy & daddy :)
Sorry this took forever to be posted up but i'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of you on the new addition to ur family (on the way)


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I like to think I have good taste in music, I make an effort to seek out new music and go to see bands live but as I get older with more
responsibilities I find it more and more difficult.
I couldn't help but see the video for the new Fightstar single (Charlie, the posh one from Busted's new band) and against my better judgement appreciated its rock styling, though found the video a bit formulaic.
My question is, does this mean any credibility I may have had as a music fan is now officially gone, or have I just matured and now appreciate the music irrespective of the artist's baggage?
Yours anxiously,
Confused music fan.
A good question, CMF, which requires a considered answer. Londonist hasn't seen or heard the Fightstar song yet which means the first thing is to throw a question back at you: why were you watching the Fightstar video in the first place? You say you couldn't help but see it, yet unless you were forced, Clockwork Orange-style, to watch the video, we're betting you could have helped it. So you fall at the first hurdle, you have no musical credibility.
Let's assume, however, that you were stuck somewhere where there was no escape from the video. The question is, then, is there anything inherently wrong in liking pop?
There's a weird reciprocal snobbery between the pop and indie camps. Indie snobs think anything that isn't difficult to like in some way is somehow inferior to pop. Pop kids think that indie bands should learn how to sing and dance properly and just cheer up, and they might sell some records.
Of course, the days when indie was somehow outside of the mainstream are long gone, and the argument is more about 'is it good'? And, CMF, you're not the only confused one. Londonist find ourselves appreciating some of the Girls Aloud pop stylings whilst decrying the likes of Coldplay and New Improved Anthemic Athlete for being boring. Yet would we argue that the song-writing of the latter two to be weaker? For us, it's like comparing sherbet dabs (mmmm, sherbet) with a fillet steak. We love both, but we take different types of enjoyment from each of them.
Just because we find something enjoyable, doesn't mean we have to think it's brilliant. Music ticks different boxes and they don't always have to tick all of them at once.
So, to answer your question directly, you have matured and you deserve credit for allowing yourself to enjoy music irrespective of the credibility that goes with it.
Also, it's quite trendy to like pop nowadays. It shows how broadminded you are.


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Fieldwork of Fauna and Flora were terminated by the second quarter.
In this quarter we submitted data on Flora. We also finalized processing pictures of camera traps. However, we are having problems with the TPK of array 2 which was not possible to open once we uploaded it on Dropbox. We are currently working with Jimmy Mccarthy to have this problem solved.
Clima data is updated until october 2nd; no clima data have been lost within the first three quarters of this year.
Protocol Problems:
We are currently trying to solve a problem with the TPKof array 2 that is not possible to read.
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We have intended to retrieve climatic data on a monthly basis, however, we have not been ablo to do so. We hope to improve this schedule problem for the next year.


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WASHINGTON — The White House on Sunday night released an aggressive list of priorities for any deal to protect young undocumented immigrants in limbo — a list that could make a deal almost impossible to reach if it is strictly followed.
The Trump administration has asked lawmakers to include tough border security and immigration enforcement measures in any deal to replace the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program the administration is ending. Those measures include provisions to make it harder for unaccompanied minors to enter the country illegally, money for the President's border wall and cuts to legal immigration.
Trump announced he would end the Obama-era DACA program, which protects young undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children, at the beginning of last month, but gave Congress a six-month window in which to act to make the program permanent. Trump has repeatedly said he wanted border security measures as part of a deal, but Sunday night was the first time lawmakers were able to see the full list of the White House asks.
The list represents Republican priorities for immigration and border security, such as tightening the standard for asylum protections, beefing up staffing, cracking down on sanctuary cities, expanding the ways would-be immigrants can be rejected and cutting back significantly on the number of ways that immigrants can obtain green cards in the US by restricting family categories and transforming the employment-based system.
While Democrats have signaled an openness to some deal on DACA and border security, many of the proposals alone would be deal-breakers. Democrats are almost certainly needed to pass a bill to clear the filibuster threshold of 60 votes in the Senate and to make up for Republicans in both chambers who may decline to vote for any path to citizenship or legalization for DACA recipients.
What will be key, one Democratic congressional staffer said, is how hard the White House pushes for the wish list.
"Depends on whether they're serious or just positioning," the staffer said. "If it's the latter, and they leave themselves a lot of room to move, then maybe we can still negotiate something. The problem is that they could lock themselves in politically and then not be able to bend."
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer were quick to pan the list, saying it shows Trump "can't be serious" about reaching a deal if they start with proposals that are "anathema" to immigrants and Democrats.
"We told the President at our meeting that we were open to reasonable border security measures alongside the DREAM Act, but this list goes so far beyond what is reasonable," the Democratic leaders said in a statement, referring to discussions over dinner at the White House last month. "This proposal fails to represent any attempt at compromise. The list includes the wall, which was explicitly ruled out of the negotiations. If the President was serious about protecting the Dreamers, his staff has not made a good faith effort to do so."
While Trump has Republican supporters on Capitol Hill who have endorsed a similar wish list of measures, even among his own party, lawmakers have pleaded with the White House not to seek a comprehensive immigration reform package before dealing with DACA — for which permits begin expiring March 6.
At a hearing in the Senate last week with representatives from the Department of Homeland Security, both Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, who have proposed different DACA measures, implored the officials not to seek a complete immigration deal before any action. Durbin said it was "too much" to "put the burden" on a DACA bill to answer all of the issues on the table.
"It's too much to ask … and I hope you'll take that message back," Durbin said.
Responding to the general principles articulated at the hearing, Tillis said: "It reads like a laundry list for comprehensive immigration reform, and if Congress has proven an extraordinary ability to do anything, it's to fail at comprehensive immigration reform."


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What a week this has been! I went to go see Dr. Polisky as I told all of you I would but because I ended up having a late start leaving my house because I was not feeling very well and we did not have luck with the buses by the time I arrived at his office he had already left to do rounds in the hospital. I still did my blood tests and I weighed my self. This was the shocker. Dr. Polisky's scale said I was 353 lbs.!!! I almost passed out. How is that possible? Just two weeks before when I was in the hospital I was 339 lbs. and when my scale was working I was 339 lbs. Now I know I was dressed in street clothing but that would not weigh that much. I know scales can have a difference in balance and weigh but 14 pounds? I KNOW I have been sticking to my regimen. I have been very good. Something is definitely wrong here!! I tried VERY hard NOT to go into a panic attack. I made another appointment to see Dr. Polisky to get the blood test results and to discuss why the sudden weight gain IF it is a real weight gain and not just a difference in scales. I mean my wacky scale at home was saying I was between 342 and 339 moving up and down when I weighted myself the next morning. Needless to say this could very well sent me off into a very bad depression but I have to say even though I did get a bit emotional… who wouldn't… I think I handled it pretty well. It did not send me off into an eating frenzy or make me feel I should just give up. If anything I did re-examine what I have been doing and I did realize that I will I have been good, I have kind of relaxed a little here and there which does happen so I have to recommit and tighten up my regimen. Eliminate more sugar. I am weaning myself to only having one diluted splash of coke and seltzer a day. Drink more water.
Another thing I am doing is seeing Dr. Kashani on Monday to start the ball rolling for the surgery to remove my tummy peliculis. I FINALLY know when I am doing the movie!!! YIPPIE!! I have had a couple of meetings with my director and producer AND I have met my leading man!! I have a final costume fitting this week. My leading man and I will be getting together by ourselves to get to know each other and rehearse also this week. I am very excited about doing this movie. It is going to be a challenge and a wonderful experience.
These are definitely the winds and times of change for me and also for Walter too for what affects me affects him. It's interesting that at the same time I am having not only a physical transformation but now a career transformation. This is what I have been wanting so much. Both are extremely big risks I am taking and I am scared but the prize is so great and I am worth it and Walter is so worth doing it for. He's stuck by me all these years and has not only been there for me but also my family when they needed him too. He deserves some payback. There is nothing I would like better than to be able to someday make life easier for him. That's what marriage is. That's what love is.
I am really blessed and lucky that me… a morbidly obese woman with disabilities… an actress… has met this medical team which is helping me get my life back together and has been given this wonderful gift of this film against all odds. Parts that are tailored to me likes this are so extremely rare. Producers, Writers and Directors like the ones I am involved with are so rare. True this is an independent film not a big studio budget but the best films and the most creative and risk taking ones are the independent ones. I could very well not be doing another project for a long time after this one but who knows. I plan to relish every moment.
Let me also say I am also lucky and blessed to be doing this blog!! I thank the creators of this website and bless them! I am so happy they let me share my journey with all of you each week. This blog and all of you have become very important to me. I hope we all remain together throughout my long journey!!!
Now since this is our 12th week together I think it is about time I did a bit more sharing… as if I didn't do enough of that already… about my show business career. For those of you who have not seen them already, I have some clips on You Tube of some of my film, TV, and cabaret performances. So here the link to my acting reel now…. have some fun watching it….
I will post other links through the weeks. This picture is from a print job I did years ago. I love doing wild & challenging things!! Here is another… my flying Brunhilda… I was flying at least 30 feet up in the air for this one!!! Nothing like flying!!!
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Pride and prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English nobility during the Georgian era. The classic tale of love and valves unfolds in the class-conscious England of the late 18th century. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartford sire with his overbearing wife. The Bennet five daughters (beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia) have been raised by their mother, with one propose in life: fiding a husband .Unfortunately for the Bennets, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependant on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival in the neighbour hood of the rich gentleman Mr. Bingley, who rents a large house so he can spend the summer in the country. Mr. Bingley brings with him his sister and the dashing and richer but proud Mr. Darcy: Love is soon in the air for one of the Bennet sisters, while another may have jumped to a hasty prejudgment. For the Bennet sisters many trials and tribulations stand between them and their happiness, including class, gossip and scandal.
I didn't like this story very much because it has a lot of different characters. I lost the line of the lecture several time s probably it can be also because it has new vocabulary that I had to look up in the dictionary. This book is very long and it's more difficult than the books I usually read. It's a romantic story and I don't like these types of stories, I like action books. In addiction I wouldn't recommend it.


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Master of Science in Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling (online)
TU's CMHCRC Master's program has been awarded accreditation to October 31, 2023!
OUR MISSION: The mission of Thomas University's Council on Rehabilitation Education (CORE) accredited graduate program in Clinical Rehabilitation & Mental Health Counseling is to create a dynamic learning environmentthat advances the intellectual and personal development goals of our students to work as professionals in the field of rehabilitation and mental health counseling, and to train students to effectively advocate on behalf of the clients they serve. This includes preparing each student to pass the national Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) exam, as well as providing students with the academic requirements necessary to sit for the professional counselor credential in the state in which they reside. The Clinical Rehabilitation & Mental Health Counseling program accomplishes this mission through the following objectives:
- Faculty will provide rigorous and intellectually challenging studies that require creativity, discipline, and personal responsibility.
- Students will become competent in a variety of counseling focus areas including but not limited to, theoretical foundations and techniques, community services and resources, ethical practice, case management, group work, crisis counseling and diagnostic procedures and cultural awareness through 63-credit hours of coursework.
- Students will learn through classroom, practicum, internship, and community experienceshow to address the needs of persons with physical and mental disabilities and chronic illnesses in a manner that is consistent with the program's mission of advocacy and awareness.
- The Division will provide students with the curriculum content that abides by the CORE requirements for CRC certification, and students are eligible to sit for the CRC exam as early as after successfully completing 75% of the Master's program. This exam is administered by the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification.
- Graduates of the Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling graduate program will also meet state licensure requirements upon graduation and may sit for the professional counselor credential in their state. Students need to make sure that state requirements for licensure in the state in which they reside are completed prior to graduation
- For students who previously graduated from a 48 credit hour program and are looking for additional coursework to apply for CRC certification, Thomas University offers a Bridge Program that can help non-degree seeking students complete the academic requirements for certification and licensure. (See video on Bridge Program)
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- Participation in an active and community oriented counseling honor society, Chi Sigma Iota.
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Polar ice loss worries photographer Camille Seaman – 'It's painful to see the devastation. It's painful to know what is being lost'Posted by Jim at Tuesday, March 03, 2015
By Duncan McCue
2 March 2015
(CBC News) – It was by chance that Camille Seaman first travelled north — a bumped flight on Alaska Airlines led to a free trip to Kotzebue on the Bering Strait.
Little did the San Francisco-based photographer know it was the beginning of a decade-long quest, an unshakable compulsion to take pictures of icebergs in some of the most extreme environments on Earth.
At the time, she simply wanted to document beauty in visually stunning vistas of the Arctic and Antarctica.
She wasn't thinking about climate change then, but as the newest artist-in-residence at Denali National Park in central Alaska, it's top of mind now. On her last Arctic sailing in 2011, she says there was almost no ice.
"There was nothing on the radar for ice," she said. "We could have kept going [to the North Pole], if we had enough fuel. It just shouldn't be."
Part Native American, Seaman attributes her environmental awareness to her childhood spent near the Shinnecock Reservation in New York State, and especially to the teachings of her grandfather.
He would take her for long walks in the woods to introduce her, individually, to trees.
"He really required that you stop at each tree and acknowledge it physically, place your hands on it and feel its life force, its physical structure, and understand it's a relative to you."
She later brought her grandfather's sensibilities to her polar art.
While working as an expedition photographer aboard science vessels and commercials ships, she approached each photograph of an iceberg as if it was a portrait of an ancestor: "I've never met two which were alike."
She compiled those photos and stories in a new book titled Melting Away: A Ten-Year Journey through Our Endangered Polar Regions.
"It's painful to see the devastation," said Seaman. "It's painful to know what is being lost, and what we may not get back." [more]
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I'm currently putting together a Gallery of images taken on a recent trip to Vietnam.
I finished the tour with a few days on the island of Phu Quoc where this shot of a lone swimmer was taken. It was handheld on a compact, so not tack-sharp by any means, but of all the beach shots this is the one that 'takes me back' the most.


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You may have heard of Iran's few and far between 'Fashion Police' who regulate how women present themselves in public.
So far, the new Rouhani government has brought a more relaxed attitute towards the morality police, and is much more lenient on western influence and the expression of culture.
Fashion designer Shadi Parand has been working for nearly 30 years, inspired by her couturier mother who also had a passion for all things patterned, colourful, interesting, and unique. In a short documentary by the Guardian, Shadi explains Iran's nature of "Inside and Outside fashion." On the inside, Shadi says Iranian women as the same as western women, and wear beautifully colourful, patterned, and unique clothing. On the outside, they wear hijabs or chardors, which she believes is similarly "sexy."
"Iran is a country of contrast and contradiction. We have our own way. We are the ones who impose what has to be done" – Shadi Parand
Shadi seems like an incredibly liberated, powerful and determined women in spite of her sex, place of birth, or religion. It is so rare that we are exposed to this wonderful side of Iranian people, and is an absolute pleasure to finally see it in western media.
We highly recommend you watch this insightful documentary: http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/video/2013/may/24/shadi-parand-iran-fashion-deisgner-video
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Honestly, we all hate razor burns & bumps; besides irritating, painful and just annoying, they look horrible. The following soothing mask is great for both women and men and it can be incorporated into your post shaving experience. Great for legs, face and basically anywhere on our bodies The Cucumber Yogurt After Shave Mask is soothing, refreshing, moisturizing and yes! anti-inflammatory.
All you need is a peeled cucumber and three to four spoons of plain greek yogurt (keep in mind we always select regular yogurt and avoid the fat free ones because the high levels of fat are key in repairing and adding a glow to our skin especially during these cold months). You can also use more or less of the ingredients (depending on the area of focus)
Time to make our Cucumber Yogurt After Shave Mask.
Blend the cucumber (blender) with plain yogurt. After you have created a smooth mask apply to the irritated area. Cucumbers are packed with hydration and anti-inflammatory properties. Yogurt is exfoliating, smoothing. moisturizing and repairing. After 15 min. rinse off with warm water, pat dry and finish off as usual (moisturize!)
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May 2 - Richard Beales and Breakingviews columnists discuss why Google's Motorola Mobility patents aren't as strong a defense against Apple and Microsoft as expected.
Because a lot of other Smartphone patent wars. An apple and Samsung have been on the front lines of that but there's another plan which is Google's military wrote Motorola mobility unit which -- -- for. It well over ten billion dollars and how to would -- the patents that -- you've concluded that lately at least they've been firing blanks from the Google. So I yeah I mean as as you point out in the Smartphone wars it's all about Pat -- apple Microsoft had a bunch. Google didn't have hardly any bomb had the android operating system wanted to protect it with its own -- so it bought Motorola mobility for the past but. Here's a thing. A lot of those patents turned out to be what's called standard essential patents which are so important they're sort of set the standard for the industry everybody's got to be able to use them -- is because they usually say you have the hack license doesn't have to run for reasonable price we don't one man's reasonable is another persons -- -- -- and Motorola have been very aggressive and what it -- and asking -- licensing fees. And the courts eventually some wore it a minute this is far too much if you gonna charge this much people are going to be able to make products that they've been losing. Cases in the courts over the -- so you know the big question is does that make the Motorola deal a Boston. I think -- be crossed -- are all these. A lot of Smartphone makers because the product apple makes really big margins on its to -- and make android phones. Make very much lower margins but it is Simpson Simpson's -- -- -- many other things that is like single digits that poses quoted as saying exactly and so that worry was that apple would come in there and basically it'd be like beating a bunch of first -- -- -- come in there. And they would have just they'd be able to disclose about the war all the seats because they -- take on that one into the company had time and say OK they can't compete for a drop out. And so they've the world Google with us to Munich the big prize it would come in there and defend all of these all these companies right with their patent true and I guess that's not quite an. And let me just say I mean. You know courts are to sort of making up and could not just the courts but the international trade commission German. Courts are not to sort of coming up -- these decisions out of their own hands. Apple and Microsoft are very much behind the scenes pushing this argument that these fees have every reason. But this is selling it takes to Apple's. Patents than. Sounds well and as well in the this not some skirmish in missiles hurtling down to a more reasonable arrangement or it. Not so much because apple and Microsoft their patents are largely non standard essential so they haren and under no obligation to do anything but enforce them. However they want. Junction -- which -- quarter orders to stop other companies from using them. They can get very high licensee fees. And courts are really gonna stand in the way of that but again if the industry needs to use the technology and the court's gonna be very wary. But anything that Tom that blocks and that's why mr. -- abilities patents of it kind of in the week his position and right I think that's front of him. Okay we'll leave that thanks guys we'll be watching the patent was closely and we'll have more breaking news -- tomorrow.


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I completely forgot that I hadn't written my review for this yet! Hopefully I remember everything I wanted to say now…4 weeks later…
Let me start with what I loved about this book:
- Riordan went back to just ONE POV. While I enjoyed the Heroes of Olympus series, it was too overwhelming having 4 or 5 POVs in each book. Over the course of that series you had seen at least 7 POVs, but I think it was more than that. Having just the one POV made it much easier to follow and you really got to connect with Apollo. I feel like Riordan does a much better job with his characters when he is only focusing on one of them.
- Percy!!! While this series is not specifically about Percy, it is still in his world. Percy was in this book for a lot longer than I thought he would be at the beginning. Percy is by far my favorite character from all of these books so it's a lot of fun to catch up with him.
- Updates on a lot of our favorite characters! We get to see a lot of previous characters in this book. We also meet a few new characters. You'll love seeing where everyone is today and what they've been up to since the end of Heroes of Olympus.
- The Oracles. Having actually been to Delphi and saw where the Oracle actually sat, I've always been intrigued with this part of the story-line. I really enjoyed learning about the other oracles and the end explanation for what was going on. Riordan does a good job of making things seem irrelevant to each other, and then bringing them back so it make sense at the end.
- Apollo learns a lot in this book. I didn't particularly like him much at the beginning, but by the end I was rooting for him. He grows a lot and learns a lot. He makes some connections with his kids and Meg.
- Meg was an interesting character. I can't say too much about her without spoiling things, but I really liked her and her history.
- Apollo was way too self-absorbed at the beginning. While I understand that it's the personality of the God, it just didn't translate well in book format. I also think that Riordan may have over done it so that it was more obvious the growth that Apollo has in the book.
- The book was a little slow in the middle. Not a lot of action happens in the middle of the book and you are not given many answers…which leads me to #3…
- I HATED the plot device Riordan used of Apollo's amnesia-like situation. Apollo would know everything and have the background info you needed, but then he'd always conveniently "forget" it before he translated that info to another character and the reader. As a reader, it's infuriating to be teased with info and answers, to only have it dangled there and then pulled away.
I'm interested to see how the remainder of the series goes and how often we'll see previous characters and how involved they will be in helping Apollo with his quest.


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SAN FRANCISCO — With a surprise appearance by Steve Jobs as emcee, Apple on Wednesday unveiled its second-generation iPad, giving the ailing CEO a kid-in-a-candy-store moment to celebrate a lighter, thinner device with front-and rear-facing cameras and higher-octane software that analysts say will extend Apple's lead in a growing pack of competitors in the tablet market.
Stepping with a quick gait onto the stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco to a standing ovation by the group of press and analysts, Jobs looked thin but every bit the master showman who has led Apple's phenomenal success in recent years,
"We've been working on this project for awhile," Jobs said in classic understatement to the stunned audience, "and didn't want to miss it."
Introducing the iPad 2 as "our third post-PC blockbuster product," Jobs spent much of the next 74 minutes boasting of the device's improvements and new features, many of which had been rumored for weeks. Key among them were a sleeker design, with the iPad 2 weighing in a few ounces below its predecessor, thinner by a third and driven by a new more powerful chip that will speed up graphics nine-fold. And it will cost the same as the original, starting at $499.
"2010 was the year of the iPad," Jobs said. "2011 will be the year of the iPad 2."
While Jobs' appearance had also been rumored, the sight of the him striding onto stage with a bounce in his step elicited an audible gasp from the crowd. Despite a struggle with cancer that led to his third medical leave in January, Jobs was pure promoter. He called every product "cool" and "awesome," and said several times how much this or that new feature "blows my mind."
The new device represents an upgrade from the first one, which has been a runaway hit.
Thanks to the cameras, the new iPad will be able to make video calls using Apple's FaceTime software. And Apple will include with it its PhotoBooth program that allows users to take self-portraits and customize them with all kinds of goofy filters.
Apple is also bringing two programs familiar to Mac computer users to the tablet: video editing program iMovie and GarageBand, a music editing application. IMovie was previously available for the iPhone; the new version that will be compatible with both the iPhone and the iPad will be available on March 11 for $5.
According to Jobs, the new device's processor will be twice as fast as the first iPad and its graphics performance will be nine times faster. But the iPad 2 will have the same 10 hour battery life and will have the same prices as before, ranging from $500 to $830, depending on the amount of memory included and whether or not it includes a cellular antenna.
Apple plans to ship the device in the United States on March 11. It will be available in many other countries on March 25, Jobs said.
Jobs also showed off some new accessories for the iPad 2, including a cable that will transmit full high-definition video to a television via the TV's HDMI port. Jobs said the cable will work with all apps available for the iPad. He also unveiled a new screen cover that folds back into a stand for the iPad 2 and will clean the screen when it's closed.
Before presenting the new device, Jobs touted the success of the first iPad. Apple sold 15 million iPads in the device's first year, hauling in $9.5 billion in revenue, he noted.
"We've never had a product that started like that," he said.
Developers have now created some 65,000 applications that are specifically designed for the iPad, Jobs noted. In contrast, there are only about 100 applications now available for Honeycomb, the version of Google's rival Android operating systems that is designed for tablets, he said.
Jobs began his presentation by giving some updates on Apple's mobile device business. Apple has shipped 100 million iPhones, paid out $2 billion to developers who make applications for the iPhone and iPad, and now has 200 million customer accounts for iTunes, its App Store and iBooks, he said. Since iBooks launched last year, iPad customers have downloaded 100 million ebooks from the store, he added.
Analysts had predicted the iPad 2's release would be more "incremental" than jaw-dropping, an acknowledgement of how the original iPad, released last April, was an exceedingly hard act to follow. Much of the event was devoted to some of the more gee-whiz features on the new iPad. Large chunks of time were turned over to other executives, who exalted the new iMovie and GarageBand apps for the iPad, as well as its new snap-on magnetic cover.
Jonathan Ive, Apple's top creative executive, called the new iPad "a giant step forward," and predicted Apple would dominate and define the tablet niche going forward, just as it had since the first iPad was unveiled.
The excitement — and the rumors — had been growing since last week when Apple, in typically cryptic Apple fashion, sent out an invitation to members of the press that included a calendar being peeled back to reveal an iPad with the tease: "Come see what 2011 will be the year of."
Wednesday's event was viewed as the first chance to see if Apple can improve on what's already showed itself to be a spectacularly successful device for tech-hungry consumers increasingly getting their content on the go. Braving a cold San Francisco drizzle, a crowd of tech reporters, bloggers, analysts and assorted Apple faithful showed up hours before the unveiling of the new device.
Mercury News Staff Writer Troy Wolverton contributed to this report. Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689. Follow him at Twitter.com/patmaymerc.


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Libya Jobs – Getting a Health Certificate
Despite the war, the instability and the very real dangers, Libya jobs continue to attract expats from all over the world. Very little can be found on the internet to help those expats prepare a move to Libya. My expat life in Libya may be over but I lived there and i can tell you what google can't: getting a […]Continue Reading