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The Forest Trust (TFT) is an international non-profit organization that helps international retail and manufacturing companies to source responsibly-produced products, meaning products that respect the environment and improve people's lives. Since 1999,
TFT's main focus has been to provide solutions to the issues of deforestation and the empowerment of forest-dependent communities through market-based incentives.
TFT is seeking an experienced and motivated professional, keen to secure a career within a dynamic nonprofit that builds partnerships with companies to drive responsible practices across international supply chains. The successful candidate will a have passion for environmental and social issues, be a critical thinker, pragmatic problem solver, a collaborative team player, a self-starter who can thrive in a dynamic and diverse work environment.
Ecuadorians and non-Ecuadorians are welcome to apply. Foreigners must have legal permission to work in Ecuador.
- Full-time position.
- Start date in February.
- Based in Quito, Ecuador.
- Frequent trips inside Ecuador and potentially to other countries in Latin America.
- Able to work flexible hours (outside 9-5 workday), as required.
Responsibilities and scope
- Project Responsibility for implementing responsible sourcing programs with TFT Member companies;
- Support Members and partners in supply chain analysis, mapping, and reporting;
- Conduct field visits to agriculture and forestry companies in support of better environment, social and labour practices;
- Develop learner-centred workshops in support of better environmental, social and labour practices;
- Develop member-related communication tools and documents
- Communication with Members, including responsibility for managing Member relationships;
- Develop proposals and work plans collaboratively with Members, colleagues and other TFT offices;
- Communication with external stakeholders as necessary for outreach and research, and to develop strong relationships with other organizations and experts;
- Support development of tools and process for our local and global work in palm oil, cocoa and other commodities.
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- University degree or higher in a field related to business management, forestry, rural development, the environment or agriculture;
- 2-4 or more years working in or with the private sector, ideally in the areas of agriculture, environmental management, procurement or quality control;
- Good understanding and high interest in environmental and social responsibility issues;
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal);
- Excellent organizational skills and keen attention to detail;
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to analyze systems and identify key issues and risks;
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Last week I talked about my journey to self-love. How it can look a little different than what others might expect and how self-love looks for me with anxiety and depression always being there.
I have an issue with remembering this at times. My biggest issue is allowing myself to take up space. Last year, while I was in graduate school, we were visiting local universities. When I went to one, I hid in the back since there were no seats at the table. I found a seat in the back corner and decided just to stay there. I didn't want to be a bother. I didn't want other people to move their seats for me. In my mind, I felt that I didn't deserve to be there as much as others. The all too common theme of not believing in my worthiness.
I still have this thought. On Sunday I ran in a 15K. I know I'm not the best runner. I ran steadily for all of the 15K, but it was at an 11-minute mile pace. That's not great- I mean it's not awful – but not great. I was with people who didn't train and did a whole lot better than me. I was wearing bright green baggy shorts, a big white sports bra, and a bright pink loose tank-top. My point was it's not like I looked "attractive." I saw girls with their hair perfect and stylish. Wearing tight shorts, cute bras, and shirts. I felt like a poser. Like I shouldn't be there. Who did I think I was? I no longer wanted to be there. I ran anyway. I have this idea in my head that if I'm not the best, then I'm not worthy. Not worth of what? You may ask. Not worthy of anything; not worthy of love, belonging, friendship, or sense of achievement.
As I was running, I fought with these thoughts. I realized that running this race was a huge deal for me. Simply finishing the race, is an achievement for me. I have never run 15K before. I should be impressed with myself and happy with knowing that. That knowledge should be worth something.
I still struggle with it. Even though I realize it, it becomes hard to fully accept it. I have come a long way since that day in graduate school. I take up space more and more now. Even writing this blog shows how far I have come. I take it easy. I take it a day at a time. I take up more space just a little bit more. I stopped apologizing so much. I'm slowly finding my self-worth. I'm nowhere near satisfied with where I am with it. I have come so far – I'm so happy to say that- but I still have space to grow – which is okay to recognize.


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Grade Level: all
Skill Level: Easy/Beginners level
Common Core Standards: This app can be used to cover just about any standard.
iOS Device: iPod, iPhone, iPad
Cost: SimpleMind+ is free (for the version on the iPhone, iPod, and iPad). SimpleMind (full version) is $6.99. Also, there is a desktop version of the software that can be purchased for your computer. You do not need to purchase the desktop version to use this app effectively in the classroom (I have not purchased this).
SimpleMind+ is a mind mapping app. If your school site is using the Thinking Maps program, SimpleMind+ creates a "bubble map." This creative app can be integrated in every academic area from language arts, to math, to social studies and science.
Students are able to easily save their map creations within the app so they can refer back to their maps later. However, they are disappointed when they can't print their maps. While I am not a huge advocate for printing all student creations (we are trying to save some trees by using iPods), students can take a screen shot (to make a screen shot simply hold down the home key and the sleep button at the same time) of their map, save it to their camera roll, then email it to you.
I have used this map in my classroom mostly in the area of writing. As a prewriting activity, my second graders can create a mind map about their writing topic. However, this app is easily adaptable for any academic area. Here are some examples of what you can do with this app:
Language Arts:
- Describe a character from a story.
- Describe the setting of a story.
- Describe the events of a story.
- Create a map of facts gathered from reading an expository text.
- Vocabulary development: write the vocabulary word in the middle and branch out with the meaning, parts of speech, synonym, antonym, and use it in a sentence.
- Create a map of a phonics skill (such as words that have ow or ou, etc.).
- Brainstorm details for your writing topic.
- Create a mind map of alternative words for words that are used too often (like good, fun, etc.).
Science/Social Studies:
- Create maps of the topics of study.
- Create maps using science and social studies vocabulary.
- Create a mind map of math vocabulary.
- Use to describe shapes.
- Create a map that shows the key words for problem solving.
For the purpose of the classroom you can easily use the free version, SimpleMind+. If you want to be able to have more control with the editing features such as color choice and linking maps together, then the paid version would be better for you. I would love for the app developers of this software to add a feature that allows you to insert pictures into the mind maps.
I hope you enjoy using this app creatively in your classroom! Please share with me any other ways you can use this app with your class. Thank you!
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The Secret Knowledge
On the Dismantling of American CultureeBook - 2011
From the critics
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Some people like to post two comments. I like to post one. Excellent book, by the way. I may not agree 100% with Mr. Mamet, but he has very good points and knows how to make them. And the fact that he is a "white guy" has no relevancy here. Read a judge for yourself.
Ivory tower dweller Mamet, writer of juicy dialog(check out Glengarry Glen Ross, pausing often to let the brilliance of the wordplay(words as brickbats - fire away!) wash over you...) decides, at long last, that he is dissatisfied...and chooses a safe target to be his whipping-post - which will make him the darling of the crowd he hangs with as he marches on into elderly dementia(as opposed to whatever dementia owns him now). Christopher Hitchens said once he became a journalist so he wouldn't have to depend on corporate-owned media to get his information; he travelled widely and got his data at the source, so it was difficult to fool him, because he did his homework and also read voraciously. For Mamet to whine about the mass-media being liberally biased means he is admitting to being mentally lazy and believing the media swill that is designed by the corporate owners to be a smokescreen, a false zeitgeist for the brainwashed masses to believe in while they, the almost impossibly rich microscopic minority do whatever they want. This book is almost unreadable as Mr. Mamet twists logic until he's comfortable with his mewlings - it's almost comical, except that he will do a lot of damage with this book - he's considered brilliant because of his movie scripts and lots of people will be guided by what he has to say and will be led astray. The old Show-business saying, People don't know what they like, they like what they know has worked for Bill ORielly and Rush Limbaugh and Mamet is in show-biz, too. If anyone actually reads these reviews, try being an autodidact and thinking for yourself.
Is Mamet related to Ben Stein?
I am looking forward to reading his book again. I think reading and being educated regarding both sides of an argument is the only way to understand it's real desired outcome. The left as noted by those below making negative comments are used to demonizing or trying to destroy those whose disagree with their motives especially when it is one of their former own. Liberals are the true destroyers of what good this country stands for, which they rather choose to destroy with their blather. For they have the time while not working to produce anything of real value. God bless their trust funds and Mommies.
Not many can boast that after so many years on the wrong side (read "Left") someone finally sees the light and goes to the right side--read, of course, "Right"! Mr. Mamet did just that: he realized he was wrong and courageously went against the left-wing media and his left-wing supporters turned against him like rabid dogs (as one can see right here). Welcome to the Light, Mr. Mamet! (I highly suggest NappimusMaximii follows his own advice for a change...)
First notice the title,THE SECRET.Just another very wealthy white guy who can't see the poverty around him for what it really is namely the corporate destruction of the working class.GREAT PLAYWRITE but a lousy sociologist/economist.Nice pseudo Hemingway pose on the cover though.
// 'the government' commit sixty years of fairly unrelieved and catastrophic error nationally and internationally, that I not only hated every wasted hard-earned cent I spent in taxes, but the trauma and misery the produced \\ Fortunately, I've never cared for Mamet so I have never read his stuff, no doubt considering him to be quite the lowbrow, which he has now unequivocally proven. No, Mamet, you are just getting older & richer, stingier and suffering from hardening of those woebegone brain arteries [atherosclerosis, sonny]. Missed the part where you served in the US military, discharged your citizenship duties, or is that only for the goyim, dude?
You remind me of all those American Jews who avoided military service but then complained that the US didn't somehow miraculously go in and rescue all the Jews [and Roma, et cetera] from Hitler's death camps! Join your Nazi-Jewish buddy, Henry Kissinger, I'm sure he'll welcome your swill! [Had you ever read anything serious in your self-serving life, like the congressional investigations into the Rockefellers, du Ponts, Morgans, Mellons and Ford, after WWII, and various GAO reports over the past 40 years, and David Talbot's outstanding books, especially The Devil's Chessboard, you might have an inkling of what you called error to be by design, sonny!]
Has Mamet gone off the rails ? Some claim it started with Speed the Plow or Oleanna. Some say he develops through oppositional stances. Some say the conclusions land awkwardly where the assumptions started. These opinion pieces doodle with veils, leap canyons, levitate and bait and switch without bothering the facts. Unless you think barking in chorus buys you up, give this one a wide pass. Try his better books, Five Cities of Refuge, Handbook for the Actor.
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Experience San Miguel and learn the traditional methods of Mexican cooking, walk the cobblestone lanes through the hilly city center, shop at the markets, cook with the local men & women, listen as the church bells ring, wander the art galleries and discover the true Mexico and it's most beautiful city, San Miguel de Allende.
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Apple won't stand in the way of people who want to run Windows on its forthcoming Intel-processor Macs. But whether or not users will be able to run Windows directly on the machines is still a mystery.
Apple Computer last week announced plans to begin selling computers based on Intel processors by June 2006.
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UGI Urges Residents to Remain Vigilant Regarding Carbon Monoxide
30 Nov 2015
Reading, PA – Recent news reports of several carbon monoxide (CO) incidents prompt UGI to urge customers to take several basic steps to ensure proper operation of heating equipment and appliances to prevent a build-up of CO inside homes and work spaces.
- UGI encourages all customers to ensure that natural gas appliances are properly maintained. A malfunctioning furnace, boiler, water heater or stove can emit CO into a home. In addition, restricted or damaged ventilation or exhaust equipment, including a blocked chimney, can produce high levels of CO.
- Customers are also urged to ensure that both internal and external vents are free from obstructions such as clothing and furniture inside; and dirt, leaves and debris outside.
- Customers should ensure that equipment rooms or utility spaces are properly sized and provide appropriate levels of ventilation and air circulation around heating equipment and appliances to ensure safe operation. Enclosing furnaces and water heaters in small rooms during remodeling or renovation can reduce air flow and create a potentially unsafe situation.
UGI also urges residents to be aware of the signs of CO in their homes. Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas that is a by-product of the improper combustion of fuels such as wood, charcoal, gasoline, kerosene, oil, natural gas and propane. Symptoms of CO poisoning include headache, fatigue, shortness of breath, nausea and dizziness. Physical signs within a home that an appliance may be malfunctioning and producing CO include:
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CO poisoning can be fatal. Individuals who think they might be experiencing symptoms of CO poisoning should immediately seek fresh air and prompt medical attention. To prevent CO poisoning residents should:
- Make sure smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are installed inside the home or workspace, are working properly and have fresh batteries.. CO detectors/alarms should be located on each floor of a home, especially near every separate sleeping area. Be aware that CO detectors have a limited operating life. Check the manufacturer's instructions for related information and replacement considerations.
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- Black stains on the outside of chimneys or flues could mean fuel burning appliances are not working properly and that pollutants are leaking into the home. Contact a qualified contractor to check both the appliances and the chimney or flue to ensure their safe operation.
- Change or clean furnace filters regularly.
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Watching a child grow to an adult is an amazing thing.
Watching three, four, five or six do the same is staggering.
Guess I'm getting old. That's something old people say.
But since I said it…
There is a magic time in the lives of your children when the pecome… people. Not to say that kids aren't people… But Thy really aren't. They are… Kiddos, kiddies, little ones, cherubs…
You get the picture.
But somehow… One day… You look up and the kiddies are gone. They have vanished and have been replaced with people.
Hopefully good people. Happy people. People with hopes, dreams, realities and fantasies.
That's what I saw yesterday. Here… Let me show you:
Six… People. Amazing… People! Grew up in different parts of the country under different circumstances and yet, they all made it to this spot, on this day, to celebrate, love and support that person with the flowers.
I proud of them. All of them.
Where are your kiddies in the mix? Are they people yet? How does that feel?


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The Worst Things That Happened at the Rio Olympics
List Rules Vote up the most awful and regrettable occurrences at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio have come to a close. Medals were won, records were broken, and dreams were achieved. However, there was a fair bit of bad news at the 2016 Summer Olympics, too.
The Olympics always feature some terrible injuries, scandals, and unanticipated weirdness. Sadly, some of the worst things at the Rio Olympics tarnished the gold medals won by some of the competitors. Visuals like sickly green swimming pools, meanwhile, dinged the overall images of the Olympics, the IOC, and Rio itself.
Whether it's Ryan Lochte lying about being robbed or oddly sexist TV coverage by NBC, there is plenty of bad along with the good of the Summer Games. Take a look, choose for yourself, and vote up the worst things that went down at the Rio Olympics.


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Published 14th October by Avalon Rising Publications
For a long time, it was thought giants were just part of folklore, but recent research into old documents, newspapers, journals, first hand reports, and old photos now suggest that these may have been a reality. It is the discoveries in the mounds and megalithic sites of North America that have created a huge controversy, because there are at least 1500 reports of a giant race, some with double rows of teeth, horned skulls, powerful jaws, and elongated craniums, who ruled the continent since at least 7,000 BC. They were mostly found in ancient mounds and have been reported as going up to a staggering 18 feet tall. Often they have strange bronze armour, red and blonde hair, unusual skulls and a physique suggesting that some of them may not be native to North America. Most reports range the heights between 7ft and 12 ft, but it still doesn't answer the question of why this part of history has been so meticulously covered up. From New England, to Miami, Ohio and California, these giant skeletons have been dug up in the thousands, yet when the Smithsonian Institution got involved they mysteriously vanished. The Native American NAGPRA Act of 1990 removed the final bones from museum displays, so there is now little evidence to go on, but the reports, photos, excavations and eye-witness accounts - even from Abraham Lincoln and other luminaries - suggest that the history books are on the verge of being rewritten.
The book reveals:
- How early explorers to America witnessed these giants first-hand, including Sir Francis Drake, John Smith and even some of the early presidents.
- Legends and myths that talk of cannibalistic, red-haired warrior giants.
- Strange inscriptions, metal armor, mummified remains, and sophisticated technologies buried with the skeletons.
- Evidence of extreme antiquity, such as Spirit Cave Man, Lovelock Cave mummies, and discoveries on Catalina Island.
- That secret societies such as the Rosicrucians, Freemasons and Theosophists all claim the existence of giant humans in the past as historical fact in their literature.
- How the giants are connected with the Denisovans from Siberia, the Nephilim of Bible tradition, and other ancient cultures.
- How a major cover-up was initiated by Smithsonian scientists to suppress the existence of giants starting in the late 1800s.
Jim Vieira is a stonemason and writer and has collated 1500 newspapers and scholarly accounts of giant skeletons being found in North America, In 2012 he created the online blog 'The Daily Giant' presenting one giant report per day. He is star of the History Channel TV show Search for the Lost Giants with his brother Bill. He presented at a prestigious TedX event, but got his lecture controversially taken down just like Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake. He lives in Ashfield, Massachusetts.
Hugh Newman is an explorer, megalithomaniac and author of Earth Grids: The Secret Pattern of Gaia's Sacred Sites. He has been a regular guest on History Channel's Ancient Aliens and featured in Search for the Lost Giants. He has articles published in Atlantis Rising (US), New Dawn (Australia) and numerous other publications. As well as organising the Megalithomania conferences and tours, he has spoken at events in the UK, Malta, France, Peru, Egypt, Bosnia and North America. He lives in Glastonbury, England. His websites are www.megalithomania.co.uk and www.hughnewman.co.uk
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Drivers in West Yorkshire are facing rush-hour delays this morning following a crash on the M62 near Halifax.
The motorway was shut eastbound due to the multi-vehicle collision between junctions 25 and 26, close to Hartshead Moor services.
All lanes are now reopen but motorists have been told to expect severe ongoing delays that could add as much as 90 minutes to their normal journey time.
A Highways England spokesman said: "If you're planning on using this section of the M62 please allow plenty of extra time for journeys and consider alternative routes if possible.
"Alternatively please consider delaying your journey until the incident has cleared and traffic conditions have eased."
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Friday, 24 July 2009
Hello Everyone,
On Monday we will know whether or not Isabella has won the Great Britons competition.
One of the very first Great Britons winners was Daniel Dolan, who is about to take up his place at the Bolshoi Ballet. Daniel will be flying off to Moscow, courtesy of British Airways, in August.
As the most popular single entry, 16-year-old Daniel Dolan from Widnes in Cheshire beat hundreds of applications to secure flights to Moscow to train at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy– one of the world's most renowned ballet schools.
The BA Great Britons Programme is a £500,000 travel fund offering up to 180 free flights a year until 2012 to enable British budding talent to realise their dreams.
So, it can be done & with the help of your votes I hope that another high achieving Briton can further their career this time.
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Just to let you know, I hadn't noticed a problem with my comments at all.Don't know why there would be one as I am not at all spammy. I will keep an eye out.SReplyDelete
Hi Sarah - I didn't mean to imply that the problem might be at your end - it's entirely this end ! For some reason the dashboard just went haywire and emails which are most definately not spam would disappear for days. I have done some work on it all and I hope things will be smoother and faster now !ReplyDelete
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hi i'm isabella , today is the last day of voting and if you would be so kind as to vote for me , i would very much appreciate it xxxxReplyDelete
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Garibaldi's Lovers (2013)
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- Release: 2013
- Director: Silvio Soldini
- Writer: Doriana Leondeff, Marco Pettenello
- Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Claudia Gerini, Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Zingaretti, Valerio Mastandrea
Video archive for the film Garibaldi's Lovers, which has a domestic theatrical release in the year of 2013. There is currently one video available for the film, of which one and only one is a trailer, as listed below. Happy viewing!
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Scientific publications
Predictive value of the Luminex single antigen panel for detecting flow cytometry cross-match positivity
Moreno C, Burgos L, Perez C, Delgado JA, Mata JJ, Errasti P, Martín P, Merino J.
Department of Immunology, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Faculty of Medicine, University of Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain
Magazine: Human Immunology
Date: Mar 6, 2012Nephrology [SP] Immunology [SP]
Anti-human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibodies are a major cause of allograft loss. Solid-phase immunoassays, notably Luminex technology, have lately begun to replace traditional techniques for detecting these antibodies. This platform, however, carries some restrictions in the type of antibodies it detects. For this reason, results using these new technologies must be correlated with results using traditional techniques that have proven clinical significance.
We have correlated flow cytometry cross-match (FCXM) outcomes with results from Luminex assays. Serum samples from patients awaiting transplantation who had known anti-HLA antibodies as detected by Luminex were incubated with lymphocytes expressing (a) 1 of the HLA antigens detected by the sera or (b) several of them. Of the 169 T-cell FCXMs we performed, in 92 cases the target cell expressed only 1 of the HLA antigens detected by the serum. The results obtained correlated well with Luminex data (r = 0.84).
A cutoff mean fluorescence intensity value of 6,500 for the Luminex single antigen assay yielded a sensitivity of 85% and specificity of 82% for detecting a positive FCXM. In the other 77 cases, the target cell expressed 2 or more of the HLA antigens detected by the serum. In this situation, the same cutoff proved a useful tool for differentiating negative from positive FCXMs.
CITATION Hum Immunol. 2012 May;73(5):517-21. doi: 10.1016/j.humimm.2012.02.022. Epub 2012 Mar 6
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Sensory abilities can be trained! And it can be a lot of fun, too. Especially when you train it on the occasion of an exclusive wine tasting with good friends. Try to analyise and describe the taste, the smell and the visual effect of the wine you´re testing. The enjoyment of wine does not only involve your tounge. Your nose plays a role that is just as important. The taste buds in the tonque make it possible for us to recognize the taste of sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Our scent, however, allows us to differentiate between more than a thousand odors. But only the interaction between scent and taste opens the door to a world of pleasure. While smacking the wine, supported by the typical breathing and sipping, the aromatic substances get inevitably to the nose. It is here where the senses decide whether the wine is fruity or bloomy. Everyone who has ever had a flu will acknowledge the importance of smell to one´s ability to taste properly. Even your favorite dish then has a stale taste. To top the experience of wine-testing off, try to describe the color of each wine. If you follow these simple advises you´ll be a real wine analyst soon!
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These articles are a good introduction to Mantle of the Expert
Viv Aitken – Mantle of the Expert – A Brief Introduction. This is a chapter from 'Connecting Curriculum, Linking Learning'
Dorothy Heathcote – Contexts for Active Learning, Four Models. In this seminal article Professor Heathcote introduces her four models for forging links between schooling and society: Drama used to explore people; Mantle of the Expert; Rolling Role; and the Commission Model
Jenny Lewis – Mantle of the Expert – The Sea Company. This article was first published in the NUT magazine and outlines Jenny's moe work with her year 2 class.
Luke Abbott – Mantle of the Expert as a route to irresistible learning and transformative teaching.
Tim Taylor – The Paradox of Mantle of the Expert: "How can children be experts?"
Tim Taylor – Using Mantle of the Expert – The Tudor House
Brian Edmiston – Authoring Complexity with Dialogic Dramatic Inquiry. In this important article, Professor Edmiston theorizes dramatic inquiry as a new pedagogy.
Michael Bunting – Questions, Questions, Questions. Drawing extensively on the work of Dorothy Heathcote and Luke Abbott, Michael has drawn together a categorized list of many of the most important questions used in dramatic-inquiry.


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In the fields between the track and the stone circle nothing is marked on the OS map, but walking across you can't help but notice scores of low (60cm) round mounds all about 2.5m in diameter.
They can not be field clearance because they litter the floor with just 4 or 5 m between each one. I can only imagine that they are burials.
One is topped with a standing stone. This whole area is amazingly packed with stuff.
Without the fog the standing stone on the one mini-cairn really does stand out across the field. It is about 1m tall (from the top of the cairn.)
I will not include directions for these sites. If you wish to find them then I recommend a good compass and an OS map. Even better a GPS.
This is an explanation of (and a bit of a disclaimer for) the coordinates I provide.
Where a GPS figure is given this is the master for all other coordinates. According to my Garmin these are quite accurate.
Where there is no GPS figure the 6 figure grid reference is master for the others. This may not be very accurate as it could have come from the OS maps and could have been read by eye. Consequently, all other cordinates are going to have inaccuracies.
The calculation of Longitude and Latitude uses an algorithm that is not 100% accurate. The long/lat figures are used as a basis for calculating the UTM & ITM coordinates. Consequently, UTM & ITM coordinates are slightly out.
UTM is a global coordinate system - Universal Transverse Mercator - that is at the core of the GPS system.
ITM is the new coordinate system - Irish Transverse Mercator - that is more accurate and more GPS friendly than the Irish Grid Reference system. This will be used on the next generation of Irish OS maps.


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A DOG owner was left heart-broken after he was attacked in his street and robbed of his pet Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
Simon Bevan, of Camden Street, Hockley, said he was taking his four-month-old dog for her normal morning walk around 8.15am on Thursday when he was set upon by a gang of youths just yards from his home.
They beat him several times around the face and kicked him until he let go of the lead and although he chased them toward Hockley flyover, they escaped. The 28-year-old believes his puppy has a maximum of three weeks to live if she does not get her diabetic medication.
Mr Bevan said: "I felt absolutely devastated and more upset than you'll know. I'm all over the place at the moment.
"I've always wanted a Staffordshire Bull Terrier and I saved up to buy her with the leftovers of my benefits for months. I've saved up for so long. "We're going through every channel possible to try and get her back."
He described the gang as being three or four black men aged around 20 years old.
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Congratulations UW-Whitewater spring graduates! As you celebrate your achievements during various events, you are probably hearing several age-old quotes and clichés.
Graduation is a big thing, but you still may get doubts that the "the tassel is worth the hassle." You earned a degree, but you may not be excited about your new employment or may have no job at all. Graduation can be sobering when you do not receive the outcome you expected four years ago.
Do not fear. Now is a good time to replace your worries with planning and preparation. Here are three roadblocks and four alternative career considerations as you pursue your ideal career.
Three Roadblocks After Graduation
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Graduate School: It is amazing when someone pursues a graduate program in which they are passionate, committed, and prepared. The dangers of graduate school arise when one pursues graduate school just to avoid the workforce. Do your research before attending graduate school.
- The Couch: In 2011, the New York Post reported that up to 85% of graduates were moving back home. Disclaimer: Living at home does not mean a free-for-all on The View and Nintendo Wii. Continue to improve and develop skills through some combination of volunteering, internships, or other form of employment.
- Job Search Breaks: Continue your normal job search and set-up e-mail notifications for job openings. In addition, maintain your relationship with networking contacts and find ways to meet new contacts through various means (friends, family, professional associations, LinkedIn). Even if you have a job, stay up-to-date on position openings in your field.
Four Alternative Career Considerations
"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." – Malcolm X
- Duties of Interest: You may not immediately become a copy editor for HarperCollins or perform marketing for Google. For now, try to utilize the skills you love even if you are not working with the product, employer, or environment you love.
- Environment of Interest: Are you interested in working for the federal government? Get a job, any job, and use it to build networks and knowledge to help you move closer to your dream job with your employer.
- Service Programs: You may desire to build more experience or are still trying to discover fields in which you are interested. Try a service program to build experience and earn a few benefits along the way. City Year, AmeriCorps, and Milwaukee Teaching Fellows are just a few such programs.
- Temporary Work: If you are in the position to be flexible, staffing agencies can be a great way to build various skills. The key is to be strategic about the types of positions you are willing to work.
Career services is here to help you develop and evaluate your job search strategies. Make an appointment at some point during the summer and we can assist you in your pursuit of your ideal career.
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Outsourcing Your IT Services
Posted on: 22-03-2016
It's only your servers that you can outsource, it's your IT department. If you're a big believer in the agility and responsiveness of the cloud, outsourcing your IT services could be for you. Trusting a purpose-built, continually-updating company with the maintenance and servicing of your infrastructure can seem like an enormous step with a lot of unknowns attached, but it can be a transparent and beneficial arrangement for you and your employees.
The problem
Maintaining in-house IT expertise is an expensive ongoing commitment for your company. Not only are you paying labour costs, you're also funding education and additional training as standards change and the market moves to embrace new technology. The paradox is that businesses with an internal team can't afford not to spend money.
Additionally, you'll be constantly looking to expand the team. As your company grows and your number of employees (and thus terminals) goes up, you'll need more and more experts on deck to help you resolve an increasing number of support tickets.
Hiring IT professionals is also famously difficult. Apart from giving them a shot and evaluating their ability, it can often be difficult to find out if someone with fewer than five years of experience is any good at their job. Being a trouble-shooter or a system administrator requires a breadth of skills that many other vocations simply don't. It's nearly impossible to deduce from a resume and a 20-minute interview if someone is good at not just each individual task but managing all of them within the same day.
With the industry always changing and evolving, an employee you thought was fantastic and a stand-out 24 months ago can now seem out-of-date and left behind. If IT technicians don't show the initiative and mental dexterity needed to constantly reinvent themselves and adapt to a changing field, their usefulness will quickly expire.
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|We're rocking around the garden again! After the April 2011 gravel garden project proved to be such a success, we were shoveling and raking again on the first sunny days of a very early spring. I have to be more specific with the work credit—my husband did the heavy hauling and shoveling and I raked the gravel to smooth it into place.
We did nothing to the last year's garden (photo below, click to enlarge) except raked it a bit and tugged out a few weeds that were easy to pull. All the shoveling and raking work of the last week was done to extend the use of gravel in the front entrance, upgrade the path through the deer resistant garden and create a Zen-inspired garden where a chaste tree was removed.
My husband is an enthusiastic supporter of gravel projects because he is in charge of mulching. Over the years, the application of hardwood mulch had to be repeated at least twice a year. That was a lot of work and expense. Voles love to tunnel under the hardwood mulch and they were slipping into the garden and devouring nearly every root they found. In Winter 2010, the vole damage was devastating! In Winter 2011, after we'd increased gravel mulch, the vole damage was ZERO! Of course, we still use hardwood and compost mulch in some garden spaces.
The maintenance of the gravel garden has been easy and I certainly needed to downsize my work! We've not added gravel to last year's locations and the weeding was minimal. We use a wide plastic rake and a battery-operated blower to keep the gravel clean. The ground beneath the gravel stays relatively moist, making it easy to pull weeds (and flower seedlings). In fact, I easily wiggled out larkspur, poppy and nigella seedlings that were then transplanted into proper spaces in the garden beds.
We mulch Japanese irises, monarda, nepeta, salvia greggii, perennial heliotrope, amsonia hubrichtii, rosemary, sedum, buddleia, crape myrtle and hollies with gravel. When I left the irises and monarda in place last year, I was sure that the perennials would bake and die since the gravel garden is in a southwest location. However, the opposite happened! I never once provided supplemental watering to any of the gravel garden plants during the summer drought. The gravel is permeable, allowing water to slowly seep into the soil. The gravel then reflects the sunlight, keeping the soil shaded and moist far better than hardwood mulch.
The gravel makes it easy to walk in the garden year-round. It is especially nice on moonlit nights!
The Cons of Using Gravel
Not everyone likes the look and it's difficult to remove gravel once it is in place. While I'd love to use an expensive pea gravel for a prettier look, the cost is prohibitive, tripling the price of what we are using. The gravel that we use is $50 per CUBIC yard.
You must keep the edges separated from grass. Grass will creep and crawl across the top of gravel, so using edging will help keep the grass at bay. We use a flexible metal edging (dark brown color) that is easy to drive into soil using the provided stakes and a rubber mallet. If you've got rock beneath your soil, it will be more difficult.
You must have a way to keep the gravel from washing away during heavy rains. We have buried French drains around our entire garden perimeter, uphill from all of our gravel.
Entry Garden: We removed the unwanted plants and hardwood mulch on either side of the flagstone walk that leads to the cottage garden gate. In areas where we want in-ground plants, we do not use landscape fabric beneath the gravel. Sedum and dusty miller are at the base of a crape myrtle (on the left behind birdbath). I am going to use container gardens, placed on top of the gravel on the right side. Nepeta, crape myrtle, Japanese irises, amsonia and a clumping bamboo remain planted in the ground.
Deer Resistant Garden Path: We set aside our existing flagstone while we worked. We hammered the flexible brown metal edging in the ground. The edging curves along the bottom of the deer resistant garden on the slope on the right side. On the left side, around the carrisa hollies and the crape myrtles, we replaced hardwood mulch with gravel to integrate with the new path. We raked the gravel into place and then placed our flagstones on top.
In that location, we had a large chaste tree that littered the ground with millions of seedlings each year. The seedlings were horrible to pull, requiring a shovel for the long roots. (We transplanted a few offspring out into our grassy meadow where they can no longer cause a problem in the garden.) Removing the large tree freed up my space for the Zen-inspired gravel garden.
While it is still a work in progress (I want to add evergreen hollies behind the pagoda and find more large rocks for the edges), we're already enjoying this tranquil space. An existing clumping bamboo (fargesia variety) was left in place.
Osmanthus fragrans provide a green, fragrant wall on the left side. Another osmanthus fragrans on the right side creates the entrance to the this garden after passing the willow tree and a garden space filled with red monarda 'Jacob Kline' and crocosmia 'Lucifer'. I must say that the fragrance from the osmanthus is heavenly right now! We moved our curved concrete bench to the space to provide a place to sit. The willow tree, large oakleaf hollies and osmanthus provide afternoon shade.
Early spring is the perfect time for construction projects. While the edging looks stark right now, the plants will grow and flourish to soften the edges as the garden wakes up from winter, fills in, greens up and blooms. We have some tweaking to do as the gravel settles. We'll level out the flagstones and rake the gravel again after a few rains. Then, we'll enjoy the new space year-round.
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Global Citizenship
Sidwell Friends students learn about other cultures and global interconnections across the curriculum and in all divisions of the School, from the earliest grades through graduation.
The School's global programs are designed to build on this strong academic foundation, augmenting and complementing the curriculum with cultural activities, virtual exchanges, travel experiences, school-to-school collaborations, experiential fieldwork, and other activities that put learning and Quaker values into practice through global service. These programs prepare students for responsible global citizenship by
- fostering self-awareness, empathy, cultural understanding, and respect for difference;
- raising critical awareness of our community's global position of power and privilege;
- decentering students and challenging worldviews in which they are the focal point;
- creating an environment in which learning carries an imperative of moral action, inspiring students to let their lives speak; and
- promoting sustainable development through programs that improve living and environmental conditions worldwide and that build long-term institutional and human relationships.
Lower School: Explore
In Lower School, global programs help students develop an open and global mindset through the use of essential questions or queries. In carving a path that will guide students throughout their Sidwell Friends experience, teachers stimulate thinking and inquiry about the nature of perspective while encouraging students to raise questions, to discuss and debate, to demand justification and support, and to expect answers to change as understanding deepens. Explorations of cultural roots, sameness, and difference prepare students to become global citizens who can celebrate every individual's unique qualities as well as our shared humanity.
First graders interview Head of School Bryan Garman as part of their study of community.
Second graders listen to Gyasi Ross, a Native American activist, speak about issues surrounding the name of the Washington football team.
Fourth graders spend the year studying Ancient China, including traditions such as Lunar New Year.
- Studying Our Roots: Kindergarten families are invited to bring stories, objects, and food that represent and celebrate the cultural history of each family.
- Learning about Community: First graders learn about how communities are structured through a study of our school community, the neighborhood around the school, and the greater metropolitan area.
- Focus on Perspective: Second graders learn about perspective through interviews with people of Native American descent in preparation for studying the history of Native Americans in our region.
- Historical Perspectives: Third graders study the American colonial period through the lens of Quaker history, with a focus on seeing history through many lenses.
- Ancient Civilizations: Fourth graders study ancient civilizations, including ancient China. They connect with Upper School China fieldwork program students to learn about their experiences.
Middle School: Experience
Students in Middle School begin to understand the world by discussing current events, studying the culture and history of many areas of the world, and establishing virtual and sustainable relationships with established institutions. The Minimester program, a week of experiential learning before spring break, provides opportunities for students to take the global experience to a new level by traveling to diverse regions and engaging with other cultures. Available to 7th and 8th graders, these travel programs are a key link in the integrated progression from exploration in the Lower School toward engagement in the Upper School.
During Minimester, students traveled from Paris to the Normandy coast, where they learned about D-Day and the Battle of Normandy during WWII.
Middle Schoolers spent Minimester immersed in the culture of the Amazon rainforest. They got to know local people, studied the flora and fauna of the area, and took hikes and boat trips.
The Minimester group visiting China participated in a workshop focused on painting opera face masks in Beijing. They also visited the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and the Temple of Heaven.
- Amazon Adventure Minimester: Students travel to the Amazon River basin in northern Peru to learn about the rainforest ecosystem and the rich culture of the indigenous peoples of this area.
- Bootham Quaker School Exchange: In this two-way exchange, students travel to Bootham, England, every other year for homestays and immersion into a British Quaker school.
- Sweetgrass Spring: Exploring Gullah History, Culture, and Environment: Students stay at the Penn Center on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, and learn about the distinct culture and language that have survived among the descendants of formerly enslaved African people.
- War, Peace, and the Arts: Explorez l'Esprit en Normandy, France: Students learn about the political, social, and military events of World War II and reflect on the meaning of war, peace, and human connection.
Upper School: Engage
Global programs in the Upper School are a culmination of the exploration and experience programs in Lower School and Middle School. Students are asked to commit to a more substantial connection with the world through global experiential learning and global community engagement.
Global experiential learning programs may involve semester or summer courses abroad and may accrue academic credit. Students travel to the cultural and environmental areas they are studying, where they take part in hands-on fieldwork and reflect on their experiences. These courses use a range of curricular programs to accomplish the overarching objective of learning through immersion.
Travel programs may contain a service dimension, but the main focus is on learning in and about a place, with as much immersion in the cultural context as possible. Students participate in homestays and grassroots experiences—such as cycling, trekking, or manual labor—away from hotels and tour buses.
Global community engagement programs are substantial service or community engagement travel programs that have a learning dimension before and during the trip, with a follow-up after the students return. These projects count toward fulfilling the 60-hour service or community engagement graduation requirement, and students can incorporate the follow-up into their senior projects. Global community engagement projects include these four features:
Students in China pause to explore a roadside temple in Yunnan.
Upper School students help rebuild houses in West Virginia.
- Commitment: Students participate in rigorous programs that demonstrate their commitment to strong community partnerships, incorporate learning and reflection, and require follow-up activities.
- Social Justice and Solidarity Focus: Projects address root causes of social issues and educate students on understanding social inequality, oppression, and discrimination. Students work together for a more just society in solidarity with community leaders.
- Decentering: Students step out of their comfort zones and live in grassroots contexts that challenge their position in the world; projects confront the issue of power and privilege directly. The dissonance students experience is then mediated by reflection and processing the learning components with trip leaders.
- Reciprocity: Students engage other cultures with respect and in an attitude of humility; projects follow guidelines for participatory development and incorporate measures that promote collaboration, equality, and reciprocity. Whenever possible, projects that involve institutional relationships are mutually beneficial.
- New Orleans Quaker Work Camp: Students engage with environmental justice issues in New Orleans in partnership with the William Penn House.
- Japan Voices of Peace: Japan Language and Culture Summer Study: Students learn about the culture and history of Japan, visit Hiroshima to learn about nuclear nonproliferation, and foster cross-cultural friendships while living with homestay families.
- Jamaica Library Project, Kew Park, Jamaica: Students connect with the people and culture of Jamaica and work on sustainable literacy justice while exploring the socioeconomics and history of Jamaica.
- School Year Abroad: Sidwell Friends students may participate in School Year Abroad, a program in which juniors or seniors spend a year in Beijing, China; Rennes, France; Viterbo, Italy; or Zaragoza, Spain. Students pursue a full academic course of study while living with host families supervised by the program.
A student hangs 1,000 folded paper cranes at the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima, Japan.


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It's been awhile since I've posted. I've been in the process of moving, not to mention the fact that I've had a whole slew of personal family issues that have neccessitated any extra attention I may have had.
So, where to begin… I suppose I'll start with President Obama's first 26 days or so…
Sorry, Barry, but I give you a x for your job performance. Granted, you've done better than Bush or McCain would have, but I'm still unimpressed. For all the praise you've gotten for your ability to communicate, you've done a less than stellar job in communicating your stimulis bill to the public. Instead, you've allowed the defeated and repudiated Republicans to control the debate and define your stimulus bill. The othe glaring failure, has been you nominations. One after another has been shown to have tax problems, and most have had to drop their nominations. You have, through actions, told the American people that there are two standards: one for them, and one for elites. Though you have apologized for these blunders, you nontheless have started off on the wrong foot– and out of step with the message you spread throughout the campaign.
A red flag should have gone up when Bill Richardson dropped his bid for the Commerce Secretary spot. Since then, there have been a number of candidates drop thier nominations: Tom Daschle, and Nancy Killefer, and or, in the case of now-Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, get approved by congress under a dark cloud. There was also the hideous nomination of Republican Senator Judd Gregg to the Commerce Secretary position, who subsequently withdrew his nomination because, as it turns out, he doesn't agree with Obama's economic policies! Duh! How could he be the point-man on selling Obama's economic policies if he doesn't even agree with them! Not to mention the fact that in 1995 Judd Gregg had lobbied hard for the abolishment of the Commerce Department. Hmmm… doesn't seem like he was the right guy to have nominated.
To be fair, Senator Gregg did lobby President Obama for this position. He apparently asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to express his interest in the position to the President's aides. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs recently said that "Senator Gregg reached out to the President and offered his name for Secretary of Commerce. He was very clear throughout the interviewing process that despite past disagreements about policies, he would support, embrace, and move forward with the President's agenda." President Obama probably viewed this as an attempt at bipartisanship; however, Gregg soon found himself at odds with his Republican colleagues who, like Rush Limbaugh, want President Obama to fail. In a move thaqt surprised the White House, Gregg withdrew his nomination. In the picture above, the President clearly looks as if he wants to tear Gregg a new one. One more failed nomination to add to the list.
Of course, the biggest blunder has been the stimulus bill. Republicans, to their credit, have been able to hijack the discussion and sway public opinion. Our President, however, assumed that his November victory would compell the support of the American public. Following through on his promise to reach across the aisle in bipartisanship, President Obama met with GOP leaders on the hill and held several meetings with them in order to incorporate their ideas into the stimulis bill; however, the GOP seems to not understand that they are the party that lost (big time) in the last election. Instead of being thankful for being included they demanded that Obama bend to their will. By the time Obama took his case to the public, in early February, the GOP had convinced the public that the bill would not save the economy, and that the bill was loaded with pork.
Adding to his headache, Democratic leaders, eager to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, in both houses were squabbling with one another about how much money was needed in the stimulus bill. Many in the Democratic party were even critical of his attempts to incorporate tax cuts into the stimulus bill.
The President has not been able to catch a break.
By the end of the whole process, after Senator Lindsey Graham screamed about how scare-tactics don't constitute leadership (funny– where was he over the last 8 years?), President Obama signed the bill into law. He could have passed the bill weeks earlier without GOP support, but, instead, he wasted so much time and effort (not to mention political capital) trying to reach across the aisle to a group of people who do not want to be bipartisan. Thus, his hope for "One America" died within weeks of taking office.
Though President Obama has tackled his foreign policy agenda rather aggressively, he has still failed to address the problems in the middle-east. He dispatched former Maine Senator George Mitchell, his enovy to the region, in a sign that he wants to focus on the issue, but he has not followed that with any action. While he may have been distracted by political and economic issues at home, he still needs to be able to divide his attention. Events on the ground are progressing in such a way, at present time, that could undermine any hopes for peace in the near future.
Mitchell was an obvious choice, since he was key in resolving the seemingly intractable conflict in Northern Ireland. However, the middle-east is far more complicated and nuanced an issue; there are questions of refugees, settlements, security, historical narrative disputes, and a whole host of boundary issues. If Obama and Mitchell hope to make any success they have to do more than just talk and listen, which is what Mitchell did on his whirlwind trip through Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. It is going to take someone who can strong-arm both parties to make concessions and adhere to any agreements made.
But there is hope for Mitchell. He has a history of involvement in the middle-east. For instance, he went on a fact-finding mission to the region during the second intifada, after which he published a 2001 report on how he would resolve particular disputes. He wrote that the second intifada was the manifestation of Palestinian frustration and grievances over the failure of Israel to abide by previous agreements. He also noted that the cycle of violence will only continue as both sides resort to violence. He also noted that both sides of the conflict had lost all confidence and trust in the other, a problem that would need to be remedied if there was any hope for success and peace.
Of course, the Israel lobby has been very critical of Mitchell. Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, blasted what he called Mitchell's "evenhanded" approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "Sen. Mitchell is fair. He's been meticulously even-handed. But the fact is, American policy in the Middle East hasn't been 'even handed' — it has been supportive of Israel when it felt Israel needed critical U.S. support. So I'm concerned. I'm not sure the situation requires that kind of approach in the Middle East." The fact that so many people, like myself, applaud Mitchell's evenhanded approach is frightening to pro-Israel groups who adored Bush's laissez-faire approach to the middle-east. Another source of mistrust is the fact that he identifies himself as an Arab-American, which concerns the pro-Israel groups who prefered the Jewish Dennis Ross.
The Israelis have taken a large part of the West Bank, according to Israeli officials, for the purpose of constructing some 2,500 homes. Despite pressure from US officials to halt settlement construction in the West Bank, Israel has boldly moved forward with their plans to increase settler activity. Palestinian landowners have objected to the construction of these homes, but the Israelis have ignored these complaints. Mahmoud Abbas, PA President, has warned that future talks would be crippled by this move. Nonetheless, as it seems the Israeli government will be ruled by right-wing Benjamin Netanyahu, it all but certain that these settlements will expand, war with the Palestinians will occur with greater frequency, and the Palestinians can kiss their hopes for change goodbye.
President Obama could act. He could do something to change the conditions on the ground, or at least publicly condemn this brazen act of defiance, but he has not and he will not.


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In an extensive post on a Facebook memorial page, her mother Leah Parsons described how the straight-A high school student became depressed and suicidal after the incident.Racialized women in Canada experience this daily. First Nations, Metis, Inuit, Black, all brown-skinned women of mixed ancestries rarely if ever trust the police to take reports of sexual violence directed at them seriously, and to investigate properly. In reality, reporting such violence makes them vulnerable to the cops' own abusive practices, as case after case demonstrates. Operation Thunder Bird attempted to expose this reality.
"The person Rehtaeh once was all changed one dreaded night in November 2011. She went with a friend to another's home. In that home she was raped by four young boys . . . one of those boys took a photo of her being raped and decided it would be fun to distribute the photo to everyone in Rehtaeh's school and community where it quickly went viral," Leah Parsons wrote. "Because the boys already had a 'slut' story, the victim of the rape Rehtaeh was considered a slut.
"This day changed the lives of our family forever."
Rehtaeh, who was a 15-year-old high school student in Cole Harbour at the time, was repeatedly bullied at school and "suddenly shunned by almost everyone she knew."
"She was never left alone. She had to leave the community. Her friends turned against her. People harassed her. Boys she didn't know started texting her and Facebooking her asking her to have sex with them. It just never stopped," her mother told CBC.
In Ottawa, a judge recently exonerated the sexualized brutality that a police officer used against a woman detained for alleged public intoxication - a "charge" which was never actually shown to be founded.
Violent cops like Steve Desjourdy can sexually humiliate, degrade and punish jailed women with impunity. His actions which were challenged in criminal court, have been excused and thus can become the official standard that police taking women into custody can apply.
According to the judge who presided over the trial, Desjourdy "used reasonable force".
Many who viewed the internal video that captured Desjourdy and his colleagues' actions, observed that he seemed to be enjoying his job, exerting force in order to break the detained woman's will and her instinct to defend herself from the cops' deliberate, sexualized violations.
Familiar patterns of cops' fetishized brutality against women keep surfacing. It would appear a measure of implicit identification with the perpetrators of sexual assault impinges upon some police officers' professional capacity to effectively investigate violent crimes against women.
In my opinion, the RCMP has become irreversibly corrupted and poisoned by misogyny; this latest outrage is more evidence of the toxicity of its systemic sexist culture.
UPDATE: Two excellent blogposts that MUST be read. Both cut to the core of the way rape culture enables violence against women and girls.
Child porn isn't a "community issue," RCMP from Steph Guthrie really nails the misogynist sub-text of the shoddy excuse the RCMP provided for its MASSIVE lack of due diligence, with regard to the taking and distribution of the photo of Rehtaeh Parsons. A crime was committed; it's the RCMP's job to deal with it. Unless its officers' sloppy lack of professional dedication is a recognition that the institution is de facto complicit with child pornographers and sexual assailants in that community.
This is heart-wrenching:
[...] where the fuck were the school officials, the members of the law enforcement, the people who should have made sure that she had adequate follow-up mental health care after her hospitalization? Where were they, and why didn't they do anything? Or if they did do something, why didn't they do enough?
Rehtaeh's rapists are still out there. They are still in high school, they are still going to parties and they are, quite likely, still raping. Why wouldn't they? They got away with it once, didn't they? Rehtaeh's rapists are still living normal, untroubled lives, and she is dead. [...]
Saying that we need to educate boys and girls about appropriate behaviour is victim-blaming. Saying that this wouldn't have been a problem if the pictures hadn't ended up online is like saying that rape is fine, but publicly broadcasting it isn't. Calling Rehtaeh's death a tragedy because we've lost a beautiful young woman is a joke – seriously, what bearing does her appearance have on how sad her death is? And since Landry is refusing to open an official review into how the RCMP handled this, isn't he basically saying, "I think she was lying about the rape, but gosh, she sure was hot"?
All of this, every single word of this statement, all of the things that Rehtaeh endured, every single detail presented here is rape culture.
Read the comments too.
So, with regard to the way it deals with sexual violence against women and girls, should Canada feel *superior* to India?


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WordPress is a simple to use and install program that makes developing and editing websites a simple task that almost anyone can use with competence. Blogs and even major websites can easily be edited by using WordPress that allows you to edit web content from almost anywhere; this is a simple step by step guide that will walk you through the process of how to install WordPress to the root of your website's domain.
Step 1: Downloading and Unzipping
The first step to installing WordPress onto your site is to obtain a copy of the software. The relatively small sized file (3.0 MB) can be downloaded for free from WordPress.org. Once the zipped file has been downloaded it is necessary to unzip using Winrar or some other similar program.
Step 2: Creating the Database and a User
If your site is hosted by a hosting provider it is important to check to see if it is already installed in which case it will not be necessary to install WordPress. Most hosting providers use cPanel as its main interface with your site, this step will walk you through the process of configuring it to install WordPress as the editing tool.
Log into cPanel
Click MySQL the Database Wizard icon found beneath the databases area.
Insert the name of the database and click next step
Create database users by entering the database username and password, then click create user.
Add user to Database by clicking the "all privileges" checkbox and click the next step button.
Complete the task by noting the database name and user, make sure to record the hostname, username, database name, and the password.
Step 3: Setting up wp-confic.php
To install WordPress it is necessary to go back to the files that you downloaded and unzipped, look for the file "wp-config-sample.php" and rename it as "wp-config.php" and open it in the text editor of your choice. You now need to enter your database information in the necessary fields such as "database_name" for the name of the database which you used, "database_user" for the user which you assigned to the database and "database_password" for the password which you assigned to the user. Zip the files and name it as WordPress.
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Using your FTP client upload the zipped file and extract it to the directory where your domain is pointing at. Make sure that the files were unzipped properly.
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Looking for some weekend entertainment in north Palm Beach County?
Here are three ideas for this weekend:
Go to the market
Sunday mornings should all be this leisurely. The green market in Palm Beach Gardens is a low-key setting. It offers a mix of farm-fresh produce, prepared foods and artisanal goods. There are seating areas and live music. Spoto's Oyster Bar will host live cooking demonstrations. It runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The Palm Beach Gardens Green Market, 10500 N. Military Tr. (municipal complex), Palm Beach Gardens
Get a good stretch
Work off that weekend cocktail crush. Twisted Trunk Brewing in Palm Beach Gardens offers weekly Sunday morning yoga classes right in the brewery. Sunday detox yoga begins at 11 a.m., runs for an hour, and finishes with a pint of beer or kombucha for $18.
Twisted Trunk Brewing, 2000 Pga Blvd #5506, Palm Beach Gardens. 561-671-2337
Shop 'n' Roll
Why just shop when you can shop to a beat. Live music highlights Downtown at the Gardens Saturday with the band Groove Merchant from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Theirs is a mix of jazz, top 40, funk and blues.
Downtown at the Gardens, 1701 Lake Victoria Gardens Ave. More info at Groove Merchant's Facebook page.


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La Creazione dei miei lavori, avviene attraverso la fusione di …
La Creazione dei miei lavori, avviene attraverso la fusione di diversi materiali, come ossidi, cemento,pigmenti, legno e metalli, assemblati tramite l'utilizzo di resine.
Il mio lavoro, trae ispirazione dall'osservazione dei micro e macro elementi della natura; è uno sguardo lontano, in alto ad osservare il cielo, e uno in basso, a mirare le muffe del terreno.
L'elaborazione di questi elementi, genera e alimenta le immagini visionarie, che si confrontano poi con la materia e la sua capacita, di trasformarsi e comunicare
All my works are crafted by the fusion of differentmaterials, like oxides, cement, pigments, wood and metals, then finally assembled with the use
of resins. My work draws inspiration by observing all the micro and macro elements that are found in nature; one glance goes far and high above our
heads to observe the sky, another goes deep down to contemplate the molds growing on the ground.
Elaborating these elements generates and nurtures the visionary images that will then collide with matter. It is matter that finally has the ability
to transform and communicate.
June 2016 showed at Basel/Miami/HongKong design. Works: "Biturame" "Ririapparecchiato per due"
June 2016 showed at art Basel/Miami/HongKong. Works: "White shark"
April 2016, showed at Miart (Milano). Works: "White shark" "Ririapparecchiato per due"
January 2016, showed at art Geneve. Works: "White shark"
December 2015, showed at art Basel (Miami), HongKong design. Works: "apparecchiato per sei" "otto marzo" "little egg"
June 2015, showed at art Basel (Miami), HongKong design. Works: "Apparecchiato per sei", "otto Marzo" "Ovum" aurum"
June 2015, showed at ad Icastica "Coltivare cultura" (Arezzo). Work: "Terra Origine" (in collaboration with artists Mauceri and Carrai) Winner of the " l'Icasticità" Prize.
April 2015, showed at Milano design week, installation "Lookback" by Nanda Vigo, at Erastudioapartmentgallery. Works: "otto Marzo" "Ovum aurum"
March 2015, showed at Miart (Milano). Works: "otto Marzo" "riapparecchiato per due"
February 2015, showed at art Geneve. Works: "White egg" "Alien Eye"
June 2014, showed at art Basel (Miami) HongKong design. Work: "Alien egg"
June 2014, showed at Icastica (Arezzo) "Restart". Works: "Fytanthropos" "Promenade" (in collaboration with artists Mauceri and Carrai)
March 2014, showed at Miart (Milano). Works: "Alien egg" "apparecchiato per due"
September 2013, Beginning of collaboration with Erastudio apartmentgallery (Milano) www.erstudioapartmentgallery.com
Academic background:
2002/ 2007: "Accademia di belle arti" art academy, painting (Firenze)
1998/ 2000: "lettere e filosofia" conservation of cultural heritage (Arezzo)
1992/ 1998: "Istituto Piero della Francesca" (Arezzo)
Diploma for professional metal and gold work; Score 52/60.
italian:mother tongue English: academic


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