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Alisa Franz is the author of Duck Dynasty: Hunting for Spiritual Truths, an interactive discussion guide for families and small groups. She is also the wife of Rich Franz, pastor of Central Christian Church in St. Petersburg, Florida, and the mother of a son, Avery, 15, and a daughter, Aubree, 13. She does not consider herself a "redneck."
Duck Dynasty is a huge media phenomenon, the most watched show on cable TV. But it's obvious from this book you are much more than just a fan.
I remember when I first saw a trailer for the program. I told my friend, "That will be a funny show." When I began watching it, I realized it is the rare show the whole family can watch without fear of embarrassment.
How do you describe the program?
It's about a redneck family with a grandfather who, 40 years ago, started a business that makes duck calls. When the next generation started getting involved, the business became really lucrative, so much that they became millionaires. All of this is for real. And they all happen to be Christians who profess their faith with no shame.
But it's not a "Christian" program.
No, as a "reality show," their faith is just an accepted part of their identity. When nonbelievers watch, they see how people can relate to each other humorously, but also in love, with respect for godly values.
This is certainly not smarmy love.
Oh no. They love, but they also pick at each other. They are rough on each other, but they are still family. When the A&E Network first planned the program, it proposed the theme of "money, family, and ducks." The Robertson family changed it to "faith, family, and ducks." But the network has restrictions on how much their faith can be directly expressed. Through my book, I try to fill in that gap to let the program serve people who are looking for faith, or wanting help in practicing their faith.
So your book has an evangelistic goal?
My book is a tool. I felt called to write something that would enable believers to bring their nonbelieving friends to their small groups or their churches to talk about gospel issues introduced by this show. The book is reaching this market. Christians invite non-Christians to watch an episode, knowing there will be a discussion about how scenes in the show relate to biblical values. I give some specific Bible references to help people dig deeper into the topics the show introduces. Very early, I got news that groups were using it in the way I had hoped.
I have to ask: does this appeal mainly to rednecks?
I'm sure there are some, but the show reaches across cultures and generations. People in their 80s and in their 20s are enjoying it. The crazy family dynamics connect with upscale suburbanites. The Robertson family comes off rather goofy and wild, but their faith and intelligence shine through. They reflect on ethical decisions and act out their personal lives in relation to their church and their faith.
Are you describing the real family or the show family?
They are the same. This show is more real than most "reality shows." People can identify with these hard-working, fun-loving people. It's almost the antidote to the Kardashians. The Robertsons are a functional family that has dysfunctional behavior, but they love God, pray together, and make no excuses for their faith.
I must ask your opinion about the recent controversy involving Phil Robertson, who started Duck Commander, the family business. His comments to a GQ magazine writer that he considers homosexuality a sin, and that he didn't personally see any mistreatment of African-Americans while growing up in the South created quite a controversy.
Neither his comments nor the stir surprised me one bit. Phil is absolutely honest about his opinions. With 14 million Duck Dynasty viewers, the media is listening and watching for any immoral misstep.
The way I understand [the first controversial] quote, Robertson is simply stating his sexual preference and is calling sin illogical. You cannot argue with someone's preference. And you can't argue that sin is sin according to the Bible.
The second statement [about working alongside African-Americans in farm fields while growing up, concluded], "You say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues." How do his words declare him a racist for commenting on his personal experience in life? This is what he saw in his growing-up years with his own eyes.
Admittedly, Robertson could have used a little more tact in regards to the pre-civil rights era, but he never claimed to be politically correct or anything other than a Bible-believing Christ follower.
Did the incident impact your book sales?
Not really. My book is not trying to take on the big cultural questions, but I want to help people get into the Word of God that does address all of these issues.
Tell us more about how you brought this book into being.
You may be aware that Steve Skelton wrote a series of The Mayberry Bible Study guides, based on the The Andy Griffith Show. That provided inspiration, but I really developed this project in a distinct way. I used Willie Robertson's statement, "When in doubt, figure it out—that's the redneck way," as my approach. Each study responds to an episode from the first year of Duck Dynasty. I open the door for discussing the theme of the show, then use quotations from the Robertsons to develop the subthemes. Phil Robertson has frequently said, "Happy, happy, happy," and this phrase paves the way to what makes a family "happy." When Phil says, "Now we're cooking with peanut oil," I offer some recipes that the small group, youth group, or family could enjoy eating together. In response to the family prayer that closes each program, I provide a prayer guide that the group can use to personalize their prayer time.
What challenges did you face in bringing this to publication?
Several things came up. I had to respect the copyright issues, and be careful of the copyright specifications with the Robertson family. I don't expect their endorsement, but I want them to be pleased with what I do. The network was a bigger challenge. The network's concern is to protect the "brand" they are offering.
Does your book take the program where the network dares not go?
A&E has been challenged by the show itself. Jase Robertson overheard a cameraman say, "This show will destroy this family." He responded by saying that the network didn't know this family. The crew once found the men fishing in the river, singing hymns—they had not seen anything like this before. The network has edited out many of the direct spiritual references, but the show still bears the stamp of the Robertson family values. I don't think the network had any idea the show would attract such a following. The Robertsons are delighted that the show presents Christian values to non-Christian audiences. My work is in support of that bridge.
What's next?
I have no plans beyond trying to offer this publication for ministry. But I am excited that some authentic Christians have gotten an audience and I would certainly support other efforts to reach people in the midst of pop culture. It is thrilling that a zany redneck family from Louisiana has people from all over the country in all different cultures thinking about biblical concepts. If we can get those same people to start reading the Bible—so much the better. This is a great adventure and God will lead the way.
Duck Dynasty: Hunting for Spiritual Truths is available for digital purchase only at the Kindle Store at Amazon.com. Cost is $3.99.
Paul Boatman serves as chaplain with Safe Haven Hospice in Lincoln, Illinois.


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I've just finished an intense full day of Adwords training: "Advanced Keyword Research & Management" and "Mastering the Google Display Network" at Search Engine Strategies in San Francisco, courtesy of ClickZ.
|Search Engine Strategies 2012
The ClickZ Adword classes today were focused, in-depth and extremely useful. Applying the techniques, tactics, strategies, technologies, analytics, lessons and options learned today can transform paid search campaigns.
Paid Search is a vital tool to help drive in business, quality leads, and market awareness. It should never replace organic search success, but PPC does a great job in complementing it. Direct Search ads and Display Network ads are important tools in a proper search engine marketing kit. I've been using Adwords since 2003, but I'm not ashamed to say I learned quite a bit of useful information today!
Adword experts Bill Hunt and Joseph Kerschbaum put on the classes today:
Advanced Keyword Research & Management
Bill Hunt
SES Advisory Board; President, Back Azimuth Consulting @billhunt
Don't assume your search campaigns are 'optimized'. Most likely, they aren't. There is always room for improvement. Bill Hunt spent 4 hours showing how adword campaigns can be improved, even transformed.... and how lucrative new business opportunities can be discovered. Bill shows there is huge potential for improving your current campaigns.... generating more leads, more intelligently, and quite possibly at lower cost. It didn't matter if attendees were rookies or grizzled Adwords veterans, this was an extremely useful class. I recommend Bill's class to anyone touching an Adwords account.
Mastering the Google Display Network
Joseph Kerschbaum
Vice President, Clix Marketing @joekerschbaum
Display Ads with Google have been evolving. Joseph shows that the lower expectations and poor perceptions of Display Ads from a few years ago is now unjustified. Joseph guided the class through the improvements and innovations in display options, tracking, exclusions, remarketing, etc. He also dived into tactics and strategies with Display Ads. Joseph makes it easy to understand that the 2012 Google Adwords Display Network is not your Father's old clunky Google Content Network. Thank God. Thanks to Joseph, a new appreciation for Google Display Ads is possible. Display Ads is a resource which should not be overlooked, nor under-managed. For anyone ready to take a serious look at Google Display Ads, Joseph provided an exceptionally informative and eye-opening class today.
My impression of today's events at SES:
There was so much valuable, useful information presented today by both gentlemen that it is impossible to provide an outline here without writing a small book - - in outline form. Based on the wealth of Adwords and Paid Search marketing information received today, I'm confident a rapid payback and positive ROI will quickly result from today's classes - - even if only a few of the many ideas, tactics, and suggestions they presented are used.


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Have you ever looked at some building and thought "All right, that is very, very pretty and solids are in harmony and elements are proportional, but, gosh, how boring it is!"
Yes, it may be unpleasant to look at something, what actually stays the same; no motion, no process – how architects can possibly gaze at it, sometimes for hours?
Answer to this question may be found in Chapter 2 of "Experiencing Architecture" by Steen Eiler Rasmussen. If somebody is not familiar with this volume I recommend looking at my previous post.
We love being in motion
Novels are different. We have a plot, characters talk with each other and quickly we become amused as time proceeds. Just like movies; they are sculptures, which full message we can only read, when we spend on them certain amount of time. Movies are dynamical and we feel it, but can we somehow convey these experiences onto architecture?
According to Professor Rasmussen indeed, architecture can be read as well. However, just like books, it requires imagination. In Chapter 2 of "Experiencing Architecture" we can witness the mental process, which Professor Rasmussen describes over the Church of St. George in Nordlingen (page 42, First MIT Press paperback edition). This part of the book presents two methods, in which we can perceive the buildings, and still it doesn't neglect even more options. These methods are named:
- From a general form to details.
- From details to major parts; then again to details and again to major parts and so on.
Release your imagination
Working out of the box I will start with the second way of perceiving motion in architecture, which is not unambiguously stated in the chapter, however we can notice how Rasmussen leads our imagination over the church's tiles, towards the tower and just before the inevitable crush with the stone wall, he lifts us suddenly from the level of roof through the next layers of the standing construction, right to the verticular roof. Now we are standing on the highest point in the city and we can adore the marvelous view spreading before our eyes.
The first way more obvious. We see the building from distance and drawn by curiosity, we start to discover its form with more and more detail. This mental process was beautifully described by Prof. Rasmussen, therefore I eagerly encourage to read this part, because moreover it may be further helpful in experiencing other buildings. Perhaps we already know the form; maybe the building is in our neighbourhood and we see it everyday. Then there's one more way of using the first method. We can firstly try to simplify the seen form into the most basic solids, like in the example of the Church of St. George, it would be a prism and a cylinder.
I especially like this type of displaying, because it reminds me about the moment in my life, when after a whole month of drafting geometry I endeavored to depict real objects. What stunned me then was the beauty of physiognomy of piers, cornices, bricks, coffers, doors and windows and although they were irrelevant objects looking through the geometrical standpoint, but some subconscious power was present in them, after all. Therefore this profound energy may be released when we start to sculpt our prism and cylinder.
We feel how camera depicts workmen putting tiles on wooden beams and after this picture goes down along the flying buttress and falling we see how vertical decorations shoot out from the featureless solid, and then falls on the roof built over the aisle. Roof starts to get dirty. We see how signs, left by fallen through the ages rain, show themselves and now we look up and see, how the arc above us is becoming heavier, harder, because of the stone texture, which embeds on it. Then camera zooms out and we get the whole view of the roof, the wall and the roof over the aisle, all now decorated, sculpted, with its very own character. But something happens on the left side and camera suddenly zoom into this fragment to proceed the dance of emerging architecture.
To simplify the idea – do you remember when in the game Assassin's Creed the world around us was materialising when we were moving back in time? Generally, that's what I am talking about.
Understanding, imagining, designing
How this techniques may help us in better understanding architecture? First of all, inside buildings are hidden ideas. Everything what has been built must have also been previously designed. The process of design on the other hand means that we must agree for some simplifications, like instead of sculpting in the center of Gothic facade a giant rose, we can design a window to recall rose's shape. If a viewer wants to experience this mental process better, the best to do is to stand before a Gothic cathedral, imagine an actual giant sculpture of rose sticking out of the facade and try to imagine how the sculpture transforms into a flat window, and how its shape gradually becomes more transparent until the holes turn into geometrical shapes, so dramatically letting sunlight into the building.
Needless to say, that the shapes which designer conceive are not utterly finish forms. A finished rose window may be rather considered as only a one frame from video, which is being played in the designer's mind. In relation to this, I shall recall well-known comparison, that architecture (as well as other branches of art) is like a frozen music – it's just an instant of the dynamic mental process occurring through the artist's imagination.
References: Steen Eiler Rasmussen, "Experiencing architecture", First MIT Press paperback edition, 1964


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Futures Festival. A careers fair with an impact./
Futures Festival is an exciting community led careers fair just for local young peopleRead More
Futures Festival is an exciting community led careers fair just for local young peopleRead More
WHERE? 52 Milbrook Road, Wyck Gardens, SW9 7JD
WHAT IS IT? A community carnival day hosted by Building Young Brixton. This free event will feature a whole host of fun activities, including; pony riding, boxing, a climbing wall, face painting, capoeira, sports, music and food.
WHY? What better way is there to launch a partnership than with a community carnival! This Friday 4th August the community carnival is in celebration of the launch of Building Young Brixton. BYB is a consortium of youth focused organisations in Lambeth proudly sponsored by The Young Lambeth Co-Operative. Through close collaboration, we will work to bring Lambeth's young people targeted, enriching and developmental opportunities. Together, we will ensure young people in Lambeth have successful, independent and fulfilling futures.
To find out more about Building Young Brixton, visit here.
We are delighted to have been warmly welcomed into The Collab Groups innovative education network. Together we will strive to broaden access to transformative careers education and opportunities for London's disadvantaged young people.Read More


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If you had a choice, Original Dungeons & Dragons (plus or minus the supplement) or Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, which would you play?
In recent posts we've discuss the merits and flaws of Original D&D [Here's Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 ].
After reading through OD&D and its supplements, I surmised: Since so many of the rules make the game like AD&D, why don't I just run that?
Well, there's a lot of reasons, mainly because of how the rules are organized.
Now here's my caveat before I continue: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons is a decent system. It's how I got into the hobby. I can run it, and I have run it, and I understand it (1 minute combat rounds, segments, and all). This post isn't intended to bash the system.
If I run the game with like-minded players, I have no doubt in my mind the game would run fairly smoothly.
The downside comes with trying to attract players who are more familiar with later editions of the game (which are pretty much most of my friends and acquaintances).
Such a player opening AD&D Players Handbook might rise a brow and say: "Hey? Where's the rules for combat? What about saving throws?"
(Or ask the dreaded question: "Can my character have psionics?")
A few years ago, when I ran AD&D for a group of these newer players, one player (a great gamer in her own right), lamented: "I have no idea what's going on with these rules!"
Players these days want something tangible to study. Having most of the important rules in a Dungeon Master's Guide won't work, at least, not well. I remember one session when multiple characters had to level up and there was only one AD&D DMG available for players to adjust their combat statics (this was before the official pdfs were available, and I didn't allow players use computers at the tabletop, still don't).
Possible solutions?
First, there's the Old School Reference and Index Compilation available for download.
Second, perhaps players can learn AD&D how I learned AD&D: in small steps.
I had access only to the AD&D Players Handbook. My brother who introduced me to the game, forbade me from peeking that Dungeon Masters Guide.
He told me: "Don't worry so much about the rules, just tell me what you want your character to do, and I'll tell you what happens."
There's a lot of wisdom in that.
Perhaps, even now, I'm putting too much emphasis on the rules.


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RICHARD CAHLÉN - Ett liv med kändisar i fokus.
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PUNKLYRIK – Svenska punktexter 1977 – 1982
In Peter Kagerlands "Punklyrik", he presents 160 punk lyrics from 1977-1982. The bands themselves comment on the background to their lyrics and why they were written; what reactions they got and how they look upon them today. Many of the punk lyrics are reproduced in full! This first edition comes with a 22 track CD.
RESAN MOT ROCKENS RÖTTER - Mr. R&B räddar ett musikaliskt världsarv
Kotschack tells the story of how Swedish music enhusiast Jonas Bernholm during the 1970's and '80's became known as Mr. R&B to the music world. Bernholm's passion for black music was the driving force to re-establish true pioneers like Roy Brown, Ruth Brown and other legends.
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While it's true that squats can work your glutes from every angle, they can get pretty
boring. It's why you really can't sustain a tight tush on squats alone. In any case, there
are plenty of variations which, when performed together, could put the basic squat out
of business.If you're ready to switch up your butt routine and round out your glute, then try these 9
butt-kicking, "I'm so sore from my workout, I can't sit" butt exercises.
Repeat each exercise for 45 seconds to one minute in the order listed below, and repeat
the entire set up to three times to seriously feel the burn (and we're not joking about
being sore after – at least for the rst 3 sessions)
1. Single-Leg Glute Bridge
Lie on your back with your knees bent and your feet at
on the or near your butt and hip-width apart. Keeping your knees in line, extend one leg. On your exhale, squeeze your glutes and push your hips up toward the ceiling as high as you can go. Pause, then lower until your butt hovers right above the oor, and repeat without touching the ground.
2. Hydrants with Leg Extension.
Begin on all fours with your knees hip-width apart and your wrists stacked over your
shoulders. Lift your left knee toward the ceiling, then extend the left foot straight out to
the side. Pause before you bend your knee again, and bring your leg back to starting
position. Repeat for 45 to 60 seconds on the left side before you switch to the right.
3. Rainbows.
Begin on all fours with your knees hip-width apart and your wrists stacked over your
shoulders. With a pointed toe, extend your left leg behind you and slightly to the left
side. It should be level with your spine. Keeping your core tight and leg straight, slowly
lower your leg to tap the oor.
Squeeze your glutes as you lift the leg back to starting
position, then slowly tap the oor
about a foot to the right. Return to starting position to
complete the rep. Repeat for 45 to 60 seconds before you switch legs.
4. Curtsy Lunges
Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and your hands holding on to comfortably
weighted dumbbells. Keeping your hips square, cross your right leg behind you and step
backward as you lower your right knee toward the oor.
Your left knee should remain
directly above your left ankle. Pause, then press into your left heel as you stand and
extend your right leg into a side kick. Repeat for 45 to 60 seconds before you switch
5. Heel-Lifted Squat
Begin with your feet hip-width apart and your left heel lifted. (For an extra challenge, lift
the whole foot off the ground and extend your leg in front of you.) With control, push
your hips back as you lower your butt toward the oor,
bracing your core to help you
balance. Don't let your standing knee come out over your toes. Pause, then press into your right heel to stand up into the starting position. That's one rep. Repeat for 45 to 60
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Decorations: Make a bear cave with blankets and chairs, tape bear prints on the floor
"Hibernation Song" (to the tune of "Are you Sleeping?"/"Frere Jacques"):
Bear is sleeping, bear is sleeping
In the cave, In the cave,
I wonder when he'll come out. I wonder when he'll come out.
In the spring, In the spring.
Birds are flying, birds are flying
In the sky, in the sky
I wonder when they'll come back, I wonder when they'll come back,
In the spring, in the spring.
Where is Bear? (Egg-Shaker Song)
(Tune of "Where is Thumbkin?")
Where is bear? (hide shaker behind your back)
Where is bear?
Here I am! Here I am! (bring shaker out and shake)
How are you this winter? (pretend to talk to the shaker)
Very tired, thank you.
Go to sleep.
Go to sleep. (hold shaker like sleeping baby)
Teddy Bear (Egg-Shaker Song)
Teddy bears, teddy bears (jump shaker to beat)
Like to sit in teddy chairs. ("sit" shaker in hand)
RunaroundrunaroundrunaroundrunaroundRUN! (sing very fest with shaker in "standing" position, running fast in a circle)
And then be quiet!
Teddy bears, teddy bears
Like to climb up teddy stairs.
And then be quiet!
Wake Up, Bear
Wake up, bear (quiet)
Wake up, bear (medium)
Wake up, bear. (LOUD)
It's SPRING TIME, TODAY!
Quiet Down Song: "Roar like a Lion" from Preschool Favorites: 35 Storytimes Kids Love (page 196) Really cute, fun, and it works! One of the moms, who works in a school daycare during the afternoon, asked me for a copy of it.
Read Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
Activity: Bear Crawl Race
Activity: Snoring Contest
Craft: Bear masks
Snack: Apple Juice and Teddy Grahams
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Wake UP, Bear!
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President, Karen Lewis
Karen Lewis serves as a Professional Development Specialist for Katy ISD. Prior to working in professional development, Karen taught ESL, Newcomer, and General Education classes across multiple grade levels from elementary to high school. Karen holds a Bachelor's degree from St. Mary's University in English and psychology and a Master's degree in Educational Leadership from Lamar University. Karen has been awarded TexTESOLER of the Year in 2015 and is a Katy ISD Education Foundation grant winner and Fund for Teachers Fellow. Within the area of professional development, Karen creates learning opportunities for teachers through face-to-face training, webinars, social media, online courses, and video production. Her primary interests include academic language and the application of positive psychology in education.
Past President, Irma Rohatgi
Dr. Irma Rohatgi is currently a Supervisor for student teachers at the University of Houston-Downtown. Previously, she served as the Director for Multilingual Programs in the Houston Independent School District as well as Manager Bilingual/ESL Curriculum Specialist PK/12 in the Multilingual Department. She was instrumental in writing and implementing the Title III NCLB grant and assisted in the restructuring of the district's bilingual programs. She has also written the district's first Spanish Project CLEAR curriculum document and the ESL Curriculum Frameworks for students in Bilingual programs as well as Enhancing Parent Involvement for Parents of Bilingual and ESL Students. She has participated in numerous state-wide committees whose input and decisions impact state policies for implementation of programs for English language learners. She has extensive experience as a bilingual classroom teacher, curriculum writer, program developer, trainer of school administrators, parents, and teachers and was a former NABE teacher of the year winner. She is also President of TxTESOL IV which advocates for teachers of speakers of other languages in Texas.
President Elect, James Moore
James Moore received his M.Ed. in Reading at Sam Houston State University in 2011 and has seven years of experience in administration and instruction for intensive English programs at Sam Houston State University and the Texas Intensive English Program, currently acting as the director of TIEP at Lamar University in Beaumont. He is pursuing his Ed.D. in TESOL at Anaheim University.
Conference Chair, Rezvan Khoshlessan
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Conference Chair Elect, Bonnie Duhart
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Secretary, Rachel Kraut
Dr. Rachel Kraut is the Associate Director of Language Programs in the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies at Rice University. She also serves as a site reviewer for the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation. Beyond language program management, Rachel has also worked as a consultant in language teacher professional development for public school districts, a content developer, and a teacher trainer. Her research interests lie in two camps: language program administration and L2 applied psycholinguistics. More specifically, Rachel has recently published and presented papers on ESL teacher training and pedagogy, the development and effectiveness of L2 extensive reading programs, L2 lexical storage and access, and the processing of L2 morphology.
Treasurer, Yuliya Summers
Yuliya Summers is a second language teacher educator and researcher. She has been in education for fifteen years, teaching in ESL and Bilingual classrooms in the United States. She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation in Bilingual Education at Texas A&M University, College Station. For the past 6 years, Mrs. Summers has been teaching courses related to Bilingual/ESL education at various Texas universities. Her community involvement includes serving as a treasurer in TexTESOL V and now in TexTESOL IV organization and newsletter editor for the Vocabulary SIG at AERA. Ms. Summers has also conducted professional development workshops and presents regularly. She was a keynote speaker at Yakut TESOL International Conference 2016, where she also conducted a 72-hour professional development for EFL teachers of Yakutia. Yuliya's research interests are language teacher identity and ESL/Bilingual teacher preparation and development. She currently teaches and develops undergraduate courses related to Bilingual and ESL education. She also serves as an advisor to UH BESO (Bilingual Education Student Organization).
Membership Coordinator, Julissa Alcantar-Martinez (No Photo or Bio Available)
Conference Registration Chair, Marie Moreno
Marie D. Moreno was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Edinburg, Texas where she graduated from Edinburg High School. She attended Baylor University, before moving to Houston, graduating in 1995 from the University of Houston with a Baccalaureate of Science in Information Technology. Upon graduation, she worked in the Houston technology industry, finding her calling in education in 1995 with Houston Independent School District, Lee High School as a Career & Technology Education teacher. She taught for 3 years, was subsequently appointed as an Assistant Principal in 1999, while attending Texas Southern University where she earned her Master's degree in Mid-Management and Texas Principal Certification in 2000. Lee High School represented the catalyst that has fueled her passion for teaching, mentoring, and student success. Lee High School represents students from 70 different countries, speaking 42 languages – with 3 of 4 students speak a language other than English as their first language. In 2005, she assumed the combined duties of Principal at Kaleidoscope Middle School (a Houston ISD Charter School), Las Americas Middle School, and Las Americas Early Childhood Development Center (located in the Southwest Houston-Gulfton area). In 2006, she transitioned the middle schools to a new location in the Gulfton community, where she continues to serve students and the community as Principal of Las Americas Newcomer (4-8) School. Las Americas is an English intensive school for recent immigrants with less than two years in the country. In comparison to her early teaching years, Las Americas represents students from 32 different countries and 29 different languages, including Urdu, Nepali, Swahili, Arabic, and Vietnamese.
Marie Moreno is a recognized member of the American Leadership Forum, Houston/Gulf Coast Chapter, Association of Hispanic School Administrators, Houston Association of School Administrators, and the Gulfton Youth Development Program. She is a featured speaker for the National Hispanic Professional Organization (NHPO), on the topic of Diversity Education in the 21st Century Classroom. She has also presented at Pearson's SIOP Conference, TABE, MASBA, NABE, and TASBE regarding educating our new generation of students. She has helped districts across the nation in creating and supporting newcomer centers. She is currently working on contributing to a book entitled "Serving Our Underserved Children" by Linda Goldman set for publication in early 2017.
Conference Program Chair, Troi Ferguson
Troi's first experience with teaching English as a second language was as a Peace Corps volunteer in the remote Pacific island nation of Kiribati. During her Peace Corps service, she fell in love with teaching and with traveling, which eventually led her to ESL teaching positions in China and Mexico. She has taught in the intensive ESL program at Rice University since 2010. Troi holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Texas and a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from HBU.
Historian, Anahita Rahimi Khoshtinat (No Photo Available)
Anahita Rahimi Khoshtinat received her doctorate in Educational Leadership with a specialization in Women's Education from Lamar University, Beaumont (Texas, USA), a Master of Arts in English Literature from University of Pune (Pune, India), a Post-baccalaureate in Speech Language Pathology from Lamar University, and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Azad University, Rodehen Branch, (Rodehen, Iran). She has 10 years of experience in teaching ESL at universities as wells as K-12 in Iran and United States. Currently, she teaches Math and Reading in Port Arthur Independent School District, Texas. Her research concentration comprises women's educational opportunities, globally, and especially in the Middle East.
Advocacy, Bianca Arriazola
Bianca Arriazola has been in the field of education for the past eight years. She is currently the principal at George I. Sanchez Charter School-North, a middle school located on the north side of Houston. Ms. Arriazola is a strong advocate for low-income, at-risk student populations. She was born and raised in Brownsville, Texas, a predominantly Latino community, where she was able to experience firsthand what it meant to be Latino within the American educational system.
Upon graduation, Ms. Arriazola had the privilege of learning about cultural assimilation while studying abroad in Europe. She holds a dual bachelor's degree in international business and marketing and a master's degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Ms. Arriazola aspires to be a leader who not only paves the way but continues to work on the road toward self-fulfillment by not only pushing herself along but others as well.
Newsletter Editor, Alex Monceaux
Alex Monceaux is completing doctoral work on Global Educational Leadership. He began teaching K-12 in 1999 and in 2006, began teaching Bridge ESOL students at Lamar University. Since then, he has traveled extensively speaking and teaching in South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Spain, France, Italy, UK, Costa Rica, and Chile as an Invited Speaker for Universities and such conferences as TESOL, ACPI-TESOL, France TESOL, MELTA, KoTESOL, and IATED.
Alex uses his MA English background to help in his position on the TexTESOL IV Board of Directors and TESOL International's Material Writers (MWIS) Steering Committee as Editor for the internationally read TexTESOL IV Fourth Estate and Journal of Assessment & Teaching of ELs and MWIS newsletter. His M. Ed – Human Development & Counseling is well used working with international students to mitigate challenges face transitioning into the US university setting in additional to serving Texas Counseling Association as the By-Laws Committee Co-Chair.
Other than teaching and counseling, Alex enjoys researching, writing, a variety of areas involving Assessing Student Self-Regulation, Formative/Summative Assessments, and the Integration of the Affective Domain. Some of Alex's hobbies include hiking, travel, canoeing and rafting, and spending time with his family.
Webmaster, Rosemary Anthony
Rosemary Anthony, M.Ed, is committed to learning and enjoys her position as the ESL lead teacher at Beck Junior High in Katy ISD. She began teaching English Language Arts in 1999 and is excited about her future in the field of education. She is currently pursuing her Ed.D in Educational Leadership at Houston Baptist University.
Member at Large, Trudy Freer
Trudy Freer recently retired from Houston ISD as Manager of the Title III grant for the Multilingual Department. She has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of St. Thomas as well as with the University of Houston Downtown. Her professional experience has included elementary and secondary bilingual/ESL/SSL education in six different states. Her goal in working with the TESOL board is to bring quality professional development opportunities for elementary and secondary teachers. Trudy's interests include sheltered instruction, emergent literacy, and children's literature. She is currently pursuing her doctorate at Texas A&M University.
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A Widow for One Year
A NovelBook - 1999
"One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking--it was coming from her parents' bedroom."
This sentence opens John Irving's ninth novel, A Widow for One Year , a story of a family marked by tragedy.
Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.
Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life. When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer of 1958--Ruth is only four.
The second window into Ruth's life opens on the fall of 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason.
A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She's about to fall in love for the first time.
Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.
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Generally speaking, I love Irving's multi-plot storytelling and larger than life dysfunctional characters. But this one grew stories within stories and wandered along so many tangents that I kept looking at the page number and calculating how many more pages to go? Thank goodness for the interspersed eroticism that offset the bogged down pace.
A little too dark and morbid for me with many sub stories that were barely connected to the main. I ended up skipping through half of it. I wouldn't recomend this book.
John Irving has the uncanny gift of depicting characters in their fullness. Capturing the subtleties of what motivates behaviour, he presents poignant glimpses of how his characters overcome or succumb to their flaws and weaknesses. Set in the 1950's and spanning to present day his descriptions of the leisured life in the Hamptons brings to life my own memories of summering on Lake Simcoe and in Georgian Bay. One can almost smell the Ban de-Soleil and feel the heat of the sun. An unusual story, a compelling read, I did not necessarily like the characters but Irving's writing is too exceptional to pass up. He makes you want to read more of his works!
I suppose it would be that one won't love all the books one reads in a year. This was my first "bust" of 2014. The book is in three portions, following three segments of our protagonist Ruth's life. First, when she is four and her mother begins an affair with her husband's assistant who is 16 years old, Second, when she is mid 30s and contemplating marriage, and Third, when she has been widowed about five years after the wedding. The first segment is the strongest of the three. While I found the affair totally gross it's the best written. But I found adult Ruth to be an incomplete person–there were times where I felt her actions or reactions were completely implausible, and I got really sick and tired of the running commentary on her physical appearance. I hate to say it, but the whole thing seemed like a man trying to write a woman and just not getting it. I can't say I would recommend this one.
Started out good, but I did not care for the ending, and the middle part seemed not to go with the rest of the book. Not one of my favorites.
Irving's 9th novel. He may be a perpetual best-selling author and an Oscar winner to boot (for adapting his own "Cider House Rules"), but I think Irving is a little underrated, at least by the critical establishment who seem to consider him more a craftsman than artist. And he is, but he's better at putting together a novel and creating memorable characters than many of his peers and younger critics' darlings (Franzen comes to mind). If you've read a few of his books, there is plenty here that is familiar and while the plot veers close towards implausible (prostitutes, murder, death, etc.), it's a warm, moving and big-hearted book.
I enjoyed the story. There seemed to be mini stories within the story about characters in the book. All very entertaining, but sometimes it seemed like irrelevant excess detail. I did laugh out loud a number of times.
I couldn't get past the fact that this book seemed reminiscent of the 1970s and Irving's success with The World According to Garp. Its humour seemed old-fashioned, and I didn't care for it. (Jan 2001)
An original story about devastating loss and the different ways people cope with the aftermath.
John Irving works his magic as he churns out this tale of heart wrenching struggle intricately woven with humour as only he can. As with all his novels, this is not a suspense –filled page turner but an unfolding drama that draws you in bit by bit, deeper and deeper. Not everyone will like this genre, but for those who do, it is quite a treat.
The first part of this novel was made into a film called "the Door In the Floor" starring Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger. The film is true to the novel.
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President Obama met with congressional leaders at the White House on Friday to negotiate over the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and the looming problem of the so-called fiscal cliff, with the leaders agreeing that the meeting had been constructive.
We had a very constructive meeting with the President to talk about Americas fiscal problem, said Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, in remarks to reporters following the meeting. I outlined a framework that deals with reforming our Tax Code and reforming our spending. I believe that the framework that Ive outlined in our meeting today is consistent with the Presidents call for a fair and balanced approach. To show our seriousness, weve put revenue on the table, as long as its accompanied by significant spending cuts, and while were going to continue to have revenue on the table, its going to be incumbent for my colleagues to show the American people that were serious about cutting spending and solving our fiscal dilemma, and I believe that we can do this and avert the fiscal cliff thats right in front of us today.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., noted that there has been a precedent for such meetings in the past. The Bush tax cuts were due to expire at the end of 2010, and Congress and the Obama administration agreed to extend them for another two years. He said they were prepared to work during the Thanksgiving recess to hammer out a plan.
This isnt the first time that weve dealt with these issues, said Reid. We feel we understand what the problem is, and I feel very good about what we were able to talk about in there. We have the cornerstones of being able to work something out. Were both going to have to give up some of the things that we know are a problem, and so its like when we arrive at a point where we all know something has to be done. There is no more lets do it some other time. Were going to do it now. I think that we feel very comfortable with each other, and this isnt something where were going to wait until the last day in December to get it done. We have a plan. Were going to move forward on it, and were going to work during the Thanksgiving recess. Were going to meet with the President when we come back the first week. At least thats as I understand it. So I think it was a very constructive meeting. I feel very good about what we were able to talk about.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., echoed the upbeat nature of the comments, which appeared to be aimed at soothing the financial markets.
It was a very constructive meeting, said Pelosi. We had a recognition that every person in America knows that we must reach agreement. The speaker spoke about a framework going into next year. I was focusing on how we send a message of confidence to consumers, to the markets, in the short run too. That is to say that we should have a goal in terms of how much deficit reduction. We should have a deadline before Christmas. We should show some milestones of success so that confidence can build as we reach our solution, because if we do not reach agreement, not only will we miss the opportunity for doing something good for our economy and lifting the spirits and the confidence in our country, we will have an economic downturn that must be avoided. We understand our responsibility there. We understand that it has to be about cuts. It has to be about revenue. It has to be about growth. It has to be about the future, so as we cut investments and as we talk about revenue, we have to do so in a way that promotes growth and supports the future. It was good. I feel confident that a solution may be in sight.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ken., emphasized that he was prepared to agree in ways to raise revenue, but said that entitlement programs should also be part of the discussion. I can only echo the observations of the other leaders that it was a constructive meeting, he said. We all understand where we are. I can say on the part of my members that we fully understand that you cant save the country until you have entitlement programs that fit the demographics of the changing America in the coming years. Were prepared to put revenue on the table provided we fix the real problem, even though most of my members, I think without exception, believe that were in the dilemma were in not because we tax too little, but because we spend too much.
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It wasn't a really good day. Some claim that it takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but I'd say that it takes zero muscle to not give a damn. So yeah don't let anyone piss you off.
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You are here Bugs PlayOnLinux Bug Ticket #5413
Added by booman on 2016-11-26 03:06:05 - Comment or update this ticket
I recently noticed that trying to download dotnet30 or dotnet 35 produces an error during the download:
http://uni-smr.ac.ru/archive/win/MS%20.NET%20Framework/3.0/dotnetfx3.exe An error happened during download. Do you want to retry?
Every time I try "Retry" it produces the same error. dotnet20 and dotnet40 download just fine.
I have this issue as well, it's preventing me from using anything that requires dotnet30.
Same problem here
Now, I get this error:
Retrying does nothing. Is it possible that the server hosting this file has been compromized? This issue should be escalated to a security bug.
same for me. the download location is simply outdated. the bug priority should be high because it prevents stuff from being installed and working.
I think PlayOnLinux pulls them directly from a Microsoft server. So there is a chance Microsoft changed the path.
If you already have dotnet30 in your Resources folder, PlayOnLinux checks there first. If you don't, then try downloading it manually and putting it there in the /home/username/.PlayOnLinux/resources directory.
I'm getting the same error. Not the mismatch. I'm getting the 'connection refused'. Looks like the service is down or unreliable.
To manually get this, download the package from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25150
Then put the file in your ~/.PlayOnLinux/ressources/dotnet35 directory.
Correction. The last comment was for .Net 3.5, not 3.0
Here is the proper link for .Net 3.0 . This is the same link that WineTricks uses.
Lol in over a year this bug has not been fixed. it is still there in POL 4.2.12. The downloadlink simply has to be updated, how hard can that be?! and this bug is on Low priority while it prevents lots of stuff from being installed...what a joke realy.


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If you have recently received a call, either robocall or via telemarketer, stating that your "Google listing" is at risk or has expired, this is likely a sales scam. No, your Google business listing has not and/or is not expiring. Since 2011 when Google Local was gaining internet traction, a new form of business scam has been growing. Automated robocalls have been hounding business owners with false claims of working "for Google" or "with Google" and claim that the business owner's Google listing has expired. This trend has been growing to the point that Google is now suing a California company which it believes is behind most of these unscrupulous tactics.
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