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A stack of research suggests that all the classroom technology in the world can't compare to the power of a great teacher. And, since we haven't yet figured out how to clone our best teachers, a few schools around the country are trying something like it: Stretching them across multiple classrooms.
"We'll probably never fill up every single classroom with one of those teachers," says Bryan Hassel, founder of Charlotte-based education consulting firm Public Impact. But, he says, it's important to ask: "How can we change the way schools work so that the great teachers we do have can reach more of the students, maybe even all of them?"
Public Impact is working with schools in Tennessee, North Carolina and New York to build what it calls an "opportunity culture" for teachers. It's part of a broader turnaround strategy at schools like Bailey Middle Prep in Nashville.
Meet Whitney Bradley
Bailey sits tucked into the gentrifying neighborhoods of East Nashville, but its test scores rank among the worst in Tennessee. Many students here are behind, and it's up to top-notch teachers like Whitney Bradley to close the gap.
"That is awful," says Bradley, pinching her nose while spraying a can of air freshener. "They're the most flatulent group of children."
One of Bradley's 8th-graders has passed gas, setting off a classic, middle-school moment of chaos and laughter.
Bradley — as she's known to students and colleagues alike — isn't afraid to get silly with her kids, and they love her for it. That's one reason she's in the running for Tennessee's Teacher of the Year. Another reason: She knows when to get serious.
"Let's face it," she tells the class just minutes later, "we've got six weeks and one spring break before TCAP."
When prepping her students for the state's writing test, she doesn't rush in headlong but eases them into the material with a journaling exercise. Why?
"For struggling readers and writers, they may not know a lot about Shakespeare. And they might not know about literary allusions, but they know about themselves," she says after explaining to the class how to organize an essay. "It's strategic. They're writing. And they don't really know they're about to crank out an essay."
Bradley's tactics pay off. Her evaluations place her in the top echelon of teachers statewide for student growth. She's the kind of natural leader who's told — and even tempted — to become a principal.
But professor Barbara Stengel of Vanderbilt University's Peabody College says Bradley is precisely the kind of talent schools should bend over backwards to retain as teachers.
"How do we create career paths for teachers, fabulous classroom teachers like Whitney Bradley, so we don't have to make them administrators?" she asks. "They can still be in classrooms."
Stengel advises Bailey Middle in its experiment with multi-classroom instructors. The school hires "lead teachers" to handle their own class while also paying them to oversee a small team of fellow teachers. At Bailey, those teams also include non-certified aides and full-year student teachers from Peabody.
The new hierarchy solves several problems at once, Stengel says. The lead teacher becomes an automatic mentor to the teachers she oversees. The mid-level management position also helps the school justify paying them more while giving teachers something to aspire to that won't take them out of the classroom.
In The Trenches But In Charge
The pay and new title merely formalize what a lot of great educators already do.
Whitney Bradley says mothering and mentoring come naturally for her, even at 28 years old. Her colleagues seek her out for help. Her room is a hub. Teachers duck in with a quick question or ring Bradley's phone every few minutes.
As a multi-classroom instructor, Bradley is like an infantry officer — in the trenches but in charge. Between calls, she teaches lessons that draw in every student. Then she lets her student teacher take over some one-on-one work while she helps a teacher next door with a discipline issue. A boy has a cartoonish, mostly naked woman on his hoody.
"If you wear a shirt that has boobies and bottoms on it again, I'm going to write you a referral, capeesh?" she says. The student nods after the third "capeesh?"
As part of her new role, Bradley is no longer responsible for her classroom alone. Her evaluation now depends on the test scores of her students as well as the scores of students under the teachers she leads.
"The weight of these 100 students is on my shoulders, but I have a team that is strong enough," she says. "They follow me."
Bradley admits it is an "awkward dance" at times. For better or worse, teachers are accustomed to working alone. Now they have a fellow teacher looking over their shoulder.
Ann Marie Dvorak, who is considered an apprentice teacher, jokes that she's one of the "underlings."
"We talk about how we're equals, and we plan like we're equals. And there are times – obviously – when Bradley will have more of a responsibility," Dvorak says. "But honestly, I think the philosophy behind it is so important."
It's too early to tell if this model is genuinely helping students. But for teachers, Dvorak says, the multi-classroom idea makes the job feel more like a profession with room to grow.
Well, now to a challenge facing school districts across the U.S.: how to have a great teacher in every classroom. To that end, a few schools are trying something new: putting their best teachers in charge of multiple classrooms. Blake Farmer of member station WPLN visited a school in Nashville that's putting that model to work.
UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT: Ew.
BLAKE FARMER, BYLINE: No eighth-grade classroom is immune from the occasional chaos, especially when someone - shall we say - breaks wind.
WHITNEY BRADLEY: It does smell like tacos.
FARMER: That's 28-year-old Whitney Bradley, the teacher, pinching her nose while spraying a can of air freshener.
BRADLEY: They're the most flatulent group of children.
FARMER: Bradley - which is what everyone calls her - knows how to get silly with her students, and they love her for it. She also knows when to get serious.
BRADLEY: Let's face it, we got six weeks and one spring break before TCAP.
FARMER: Students here at Bailey Middle in Nashville have struggled mightily on Tennessee's standardized test, known as TCAP. Tucked into the gentrifying neighborhoods of East Nashville, this school ranks as one of the state's lowest performers. When prepping students for the state's writing test, Bradley eases them into it, starting them off with a journaling exercise.
BRADLEY: 'Cause for struggling readers and writers, they might not know a lot about Shakespeare, and they might not know about, like, literary allusions, but they do know about themselves. So it's strategic. And they're writing, and they don't really know that they're about to crank out an essay.
FARMER: Bradley's tactics pay off. Her evaluations, which include test scores, place her in the top tier of teachers. And she's the kind of natural leader who's told - and even tempted - to become a principal. But education professor Barbara Stengel of nearby Vanderbilt University says Bradley is precisely the kind of talent schools should bend over backwards to keep as a teacher.
BARBARA STENGEL: How do we create career paths for teachers, fabulous classroom teachers, so that we don't have to make them administrators? They can still be in classrooms.
FARMER: Stengel advises Bailey Middle, which is one of several schools across the country that's in the trial phase of a big idea: putting top-notch teachers in charge of multiple classrooms.
BRADLEY: Ms. Branch is out, so I need you to go over the lessons plans for next week and tell me what you need from me.
FARMER: Here's how it works: Whitney Bradley acts like an infantry officer - in the trenches but in charge. Her phone rings every few minutes with a question or problem from another teacher in a nearby classroom. Between putting out fires, she teaches a sharp lesson on essay organization. Then she lets her student teacher take over the one-on-one instruction and she helps out next-door with a discipline issue. The young man has a cartoonish, but mostly naked, woman on his hoodie.
BRADLEY: If you wear a shirt that has boobies and bottoms on it again, I'm going to write you a referral, capeesh?
FARMER: As part of the new role, Bradley is paid more. But she's also judged not only on the performance of her students, but on those of the teachers she leads.
BRADLEY: Yes, the weight of this 100 students is on my shoulder, but I have a team that is strong enough where I say, hey guys, we got to get this done. This is what we need to do. They follow me.
ANN MARIE DVORAK: We talk about how we're equals, and we plan like we're equals.
FARMER: Ann Marie Dvorak is an apprentice teacher who works under Bradley.
DVORAK: And there are times obviously when, like, Bradley will have more of a responsibility. But honestly, I think, like, the philosophy behind it is so important.
FARMER: It's too early to tell if this model helps students. But Dvorak says the multi-classroom idea does make teaching feel a bit more like a profession with room to grow. For NPR News, I'm Blake Farmer in Nashville. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Evan Soltas has responded to me and others who don't quite see us as bumping up against full employment and capacity constraints any time soon. Fortunately, he clearly lays out his argument so it is easy to see the error in his ways. He notes the unemployment rate has fallen by 0.8 percentage points annually the last three years and assumes that we will continue on this path.
That one doesn't seem very likely unless Evan is either way more optimistic about growth than almost anyone else or way more pessimistic about productivity. The basic story is that unemployment has fallen more than most economists (including me) expected in the last three years. The reason is that productivity growth has slowed to a crawl. The average rate of productivity growth over this period has been less than 0.9 percent.
There is considerable debate about what sort of rate of productivity growth we should see going forward, but you won't find many estimates under 1.5 percent, and most would be around 2.0 percent. The average from 1995 to 2007 was 2.7 percent. If we use a 2.0 percent productivity number and assume 0.4 percent annual growth in the labor force (600,000 jobs a year), that gets 2.4 percent growth in potential GDP.
Most forecasts put GDP growth at the next three years around 3.0 percent. If we get productivity growth rebounding to its normal pace then we would be exceeding potential GDP growth by around 0.6 percentage points. Using historic relationships, this translates into a drop in the unemployment rate of roughly 0.3 percentage points a year. If our target is 5.0 percent unemployment (I'd shoot for lower, remembering the good old days of 2000 and 4.0 percent unemployment), we would get there in 2019.
This is why I and others are not anxious to see the Fed slam on the brakes any time soon. For what it's worth, any movement toward tightening any time soon would be seriously out of line with what the Fed did following the last downturn. It left the federal funds rate at 1.0 percent until the summer of 2004 when the unemployment rate was 5.6 percent and the economy was growing at almost a 4.0 percent annual rate. (Yes, they deserve to be strung up for allowing the housing bubble to grow to such dangerous levels, but that was a question of regulatory policy and targeting the bubble, not interest rates that were too low.)


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So back in cairns charlie and I had already pre-booked some accommodation that happened to be at the same place as a couple of our friends from our tour, so we headed over to check in and then all ant for dinner and a drink together before getting an early night.
As I said in a previous post charlie and I had managed to get two vouchers for a minjin swing so the next day we were picked up at 11am to head up there. We arrived and sat and watched a couple of other people go first. When you see them doing it, it really doesn't look that high up, but once your up there it's a different story! We got all strapped up and they crank you up to the right hight and then you have to pull your own cord to make you fall! Charlie an I got to do it together which is a good thing I think as I made him pull the cord, there's no way I would have been able to do it!! It was the most amazing feeling ever!! A couple of people even said they thought it was scarier than the Bungy but we can't compare, yet!
We had a great day, an cant thank Nathan and Hayley enough for giving us there vouchers!! Thanks guys!!
We got back to discover that my big rucksack had broken! The main zip down the front had split!! It was already 3:30pm and all the shops shut at about 5pm in cairns so charlie and I were getting ready go spend a fortune on a new bag when one of the guys we were sharing a room with, Denis, told us he was really good with zips! An odd but very useful talent! And luckily for us he managed to fix it!! Saving us a huge $450 which is what it would have cost to buy a new bag the same size!! Denis we are eternally grateful!!
The next morning we had to leave at 4am to catch our flight back to Brisbane which is where we are flying out of to Fiji!
It was valentines day while we were in Brisbane and charlie and I stumbled upon the most amazing chocolate shop EVER!! It ha everything you could ever possibly want covered in chocolate, as well as chocolate fondant, chocolate drinks (hot and cold) CHOCOLATE EVERYTHING!!! It was literally the most amazing place I've ever been to! So charlie and i decided a there was so much on the menu that we wanted, rather than going for a nice dinner later we would spend the money here!! It was SOOOOOOOO worth it!!! By the Time we finished i was in Chocolate coma!! Genuinely couldn't move for a good 10mins!!
Apart from that couple of days we spent in Brisbane were just spent organising stuff so I won't bore you with the details!
It's sad to say goodbye to aus, we have had the most amazing time, met some awesome people and it's been the best start to our trip possible! But now it's Fiji time!!


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Aaron Haydon
Aaron Haydon | D Niagara | OHL
Height: 6'4" Weight: 200 Shoots: Right
Born: January 6, 1996
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|Haydon has dropped the mitts a few times, but prides
himself on playing a physical, shut down game
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Haydon is playing for the Niagara Ice Dogs, the team with the second worst goals against in the OHL this season. So while a -29 plus/minus would generally be a concern for a stay-home, shut down type defender like himself, there is some understanding in this case.
Haydon is a big, strong, physical, defensive defenseman. And while his size allows him to play that physical role and throw his weight around, it also affords him a long reach. Effective at closing gaps, Haydon doesn't give his opposition much space or time on the rush. Overall though, that talented defender excels when he keeps things simple and plays within himself. Still developing an offensive side of his game, he is at his best playing solid "d", using his size and clearing out the net front.
But while Haydon displays great potential defensively, another attribute that stands out, especially to David Bell (Niagara Asst. Coach) is the big man's mobility. There are not many defenders his size who are that mobile and that is something that surely benefits him as a defender.
He will join the rush if he sees an opportunity, and can unleash a big shot from the point but plays a tough, gritty game with a focus of securing his own zone. Haydon earned a spot (and almost an early exit due to a first period fight) in the CHL Top Prospects Game and has continued to display the defensive mindset and compete level scouts look for.


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Eclipse de sol (Argentina, 1943) & El cura Lorenzo (Argentina, 1954)
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Eclipse de sol (Argentina, 1943), directed by Luis Saslavsky. A vaudeville singer (Libertad Lamarque) secretly marries a wealthy landowner (George Rigaud), who soon returns to his ranch, fearing the rejection of his snobbish family. To teach him a lesson, she shows up at his estancia pretending to be a maid. Working from a popular stage play adapted by tango lyricist and versatile writer Homero Manzi, Luis Saslavsky directed a screwball comedy with singing star Libertad Lamarque. Giving the film's title an ironic twist, Lamarque is cast as Sol Bernal, a platinum blonde defying class conventions in 1940s Argentina. A comedy of white telephones and lovely musical numbers, Eclipse de sol is peppered with sentimental touches and a dash of sex farce, thanks to Saslavsky's visual sophistication. As Variety noted, "With many scenes and situations frankly borrowed from Hollywood productions, Eclipse de sol is nevertheless a fast-paced, expensively done comedy that because of its top star and direction should do well."
Followed by El cura Lorenzo (Argentina, 1954), directed by Augusto Cesar Vatteone. A heart-warming and entertaining chronicle of Salesian priest Lorenzo Massa. His work in the Almagro neighborhood of Buenos Aires in the early 1900s led to the founding of San Lorenzo de Almagro, one of the best soccer clubs in Argentina. (Pope Francis, who grew up in this neighborhood in the 1940s, is a fan). Father Massa (Ángel Magaña), an athletic young priest, is sent to serve a working class community, where he initially faces indifference and hostility. Following the conventions of the Hollywood biopic, the film describes the characters and their plights with affection, and a dash of drama, as they are changed by the example of the priest. As noted by renowned Argentine film historian Domingo Di Núbila, El cura Lorenzo transmits an optimistic message about human solidarity. Unfortunately, the work of Vatteone, as Di Núbila wrote in a profile of the director, remains one of the most undervalued and forgotten in the cinema of Argentina.
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We stuffed a bunch of pumpkins and made a 3D Pumpkin Patch for Art today.
|The students made their own Jack o Lantern faces out of black construction paper. I drew a few ideas on the board.
Zombies were popular. I wonder if they know about the Zombie Apocalypse?
|Hey there's a blue pumpkin! Gotta love an original!
|I might be a witch too!
|I haven't started reading the Halloween books yet. I have a dozen to put out though. We'll have to read Runaway Pumpkin now that our pumpkin faces are all done.
|These two look kind of sad. It is funny how they almost have expressions!!
|There were many girls who want to be Elsa from Frozen of course. She is going to be VERY popular this year!
|Jack o lantern 3D art.
|I think this is Darth Vader.
|The Transformers were popular costume choice too!
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Scientists working in the South American highlands of Suriname found five new frog species, including a purple flourescent one, six species of fish, and new beetles and ants. The area is ripe for miners, so groups like Conservation International will likely be working with local miners and governments to come up with a plan. (Australia's ABC) The purple fluorescent frog (right) of the genus Atelopus was discovered during a follow-up survey of the Nassau plateau in mid 2006 by Surinamese scientists Paul Ouboter and Jan Mol. Thanks to Ed for the link!
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A stop block is a device that limits the travel of a saw when it is being used to cut an object. Variations of the stop block are also used when drilling an object to prevent the drill bit from going too far into the material. Typically constructed of a plastic or aluminum material, a home-built version of a stop block can be made by cutting a piece of wood to the correct measurement and affixing it to the saw cradle. Many different types of power tools come from the manufacturer with a stop block attached to the tool itself. This type of stop is typically adjustable and easily set by tightening a set screw against the tool's framework.
Often, a stop block is used when making a repetitive cut along the length of a stock where all of the cuts are to be the same length and depth. This allows the worker to make the several identical cuts in a rapid manner by simply sliding the material along a fence and pulling the saw into the material. This is especially effective on a radial arm saw where the saw is easily pushed and pulled into the stock. This is particularly useful when cutting a number of pieces at a specific length. The stop can be placed on the tray of the saw and the stock pushed tightly against the stop and cut to length.
In many cases, a pair of locking pliers or a clamp will be used to fix the stop in place on the cutting bench. Due to vibration and the possibility of contact with the material being cut, exact measurements should be taken periodically to assure that the stop has not shifted its position. In precision cutting with a wooden stop, the stop should be checked every now and then to ensure that the force of pushing material has not altered the stop's profile, which would also alter the cutting length. Using a hard wood stop block will aid in eliminating this potential problem.
When using a stop block in a metal working project such as welding, a steel block is commonly used due to the ability to tack weld the stop in place on the welding bench. Similarly, the block can be clamped to the lathe bed to prevent the tool rest from moving past the intended point on the lathe. For small projects on table saws and other tools that use a metal material rest, a magnetic stop block can be quickly applied and removed when needed.
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For Women's History Month 2014, ACRL WGSS has asked writers from outside of the association to share their writing on our blog. The first piece comes from Alex Dill. She is a working writer living and daydreaming in Manhattan, NYC. You can find her first published work, a book of collected poetry entitled Venn Diagrams, wherever eBooks are sold. For more thoughts on feminism in this post-millenium world, check out her blog continuumissues. Please give Alex a warm ACRL-WGSS thanks in the comments.
The first thing you should know is that there is not only one kind of feminism.
Like all big political/cultural movements, there are different sects and different strains. When you stop for a moment to think about why this is, the answer seems simple: women are not all alike. We are not one monolithic group. We differ across race and class lines, we grew up in different neighborhoods with different families, we have different motivations and desires, and yes, even different bodies. But while women everywhere are different, in some ways, we are still alike in others. We are oppressed by a system (the patriarchy) that works to keep us quiet, confused, and caged, and stifles our full potential. This oppressive system works in big and small measures, in ways both obvious and insidious, and it will affect each person differently, depending on some of the factors I have mentioned above. Feminism has to morph and shift around race and class lines, and spread across all the neighborhoods on all the continents on this earth. Feminism has to be huge because the needs of women world wide are huge and no girl or woman can be left behind.
We feminists are not always successful when we try to do feminism. Usually, someone gets left out or left behind. These shortcomings do not negate the good our work does, but we must be ever-vigilant and self-reflective so we can get better and better at doing feminism as globally and completely as possible. I think we will continue to approach the limit without ever reaching it. But even so, we will keep striving.
Feminism today has many voices and faces, folks of all genders and races and backgrounds who align with feminist values. Technology has given those voices a great boost, especially in the blogosphere. It is only a matter of minutes after someone (usually a dopey, aging senator/governor/political candidate) says something so sexist that his quote is blasted across the interwebs, scathingly dissected and re-tweeted and mocked as a symbol of a system that is bygone and breaking down. I think that this is freaking awesome. Adding my own voice to these stories is one of the most rewarding things I do.
Sometimes, though, it's not just the old white guys who mess it up. Sometimes it is one of our own. And I think how we deal with those kinds of screw-ups is much more important to the movement. The latest example of this is a new campaign launched by Sheryl Sandberg, author of the well-known, but less-liked, book Lean In. The campaign is titled Ban Bossy (#banbossy), which is simple and alliterative and perfect for a Twitter hashtag. The video features such prominent bad-ass ladies as Beyonce, Condaleezza Rice, and Jane Lynch. The issue they are hoping to tackle is the dearth of female leadership in this nation, both as political leaders as well as your run-of-the-mill front-office execs, scientists, board members, etc. This is such an important problem to tackle. The message is that when boys are assertive, we call them leaders and give them a gold star, but when girls act the same way, we call them bossy. So they think we should stop using the word "bossy."
Hm. If that sounds kind of awkward, well, that's because it is. I wanted to like this campaign so much (hello, Beyonce is involved), and yet it lands with a thud at my feet. We are going to change how girls feel about themselves by banning a word? A word that could actually be helpful to use when it is warranted? One word, amongst all the varied and hateful words that are used against women of all ages, that make us feel less than human, small, and incapable? That's the plan?
Now, over at leanin.org you can take the #banbossy pledge and download some activities for girls of various age groups. There are some actual leadership tips, so it's not totally about the word "bossy." But I would really love to see more action from a group of women with considerable resources, reach, and influence.
Let's leave that aside for the moment and just be happy that Beyonce is out as a feminist and that the media is talking about these issues at all. Here is where and when I take a step back, become just a little bit more frustrated. This campaign, like Lean In, is for a very specific group of people. Lean In speaks for women who want to make partner or senior executive at a corporate firm, land the corner office. It is a campaign for educated upper-class women with high-paying jobs. It is very smart and I believe it makes some important points. However, it doesn't speak for women who want to succeed without foregoing work-life balance. It doesn't speak for anyone who doesn't have corner-office ambitions. It is absolutely pro-corporation and gives no advice on how to change the system itself, only how to better work within it.
The campaign #banbossy echoes that Lean In idea. Not all little girls are leaders. For that matter, neither are all little boys. And while I can completely back the need to make room for more girls in leadership roles, what about the quiet girls? The thinkers and dreamers? They too need tools and tips to gain self-confidence. Not everyone is on-track to make partner at a law firm or run a Fortune 500 company. And the sad fact is that because certain players have the money and the voice, it is the issues that they choose that will get the most press coverage and the most support. It means only one kind of feminism gets disseminated., It means that we alienate potential allies who look and say 'That doesn't have anything to do with me. That's not for me or about me.'
Ok, obviously, one campaign cannot cover the vast array of issues faced by women (access to healthcare, reproductive rights, the wage gap, everyday sexism and misogyny, homophobia, domestic and sexual violence, etc.). I don't expect any organization or campaign to touch on everything and, indeed, specialized sects are good. It's better to focus on one thing and do that thing well. Some other campaigns and organizations that are worth discussing are the #girlscan campaign from Cover Girl, the Joyful Heart Foundation, Planned Parenthood, and Amy Poehler's Smart Girls. Can you guess what all these have in common? They have lots of money, a corporate sponsor, or celebrity endorsements. Which is absolutely tremendous and wonderful. But I get nervous that those with the most money, and the most access to celebrities and politicians, will end up with all the light and resources despite other worthy issues.
Regardless of the limitations our media does have, we must remember that campaigns like these are important, because they shine light on feminist issues even if they aren't perfectly executed. And I believe with all my heart that when powerful, popular women come to bat for feminism, that act does a great service for a movement that continues to be misrepresented and maligned (we are not all whiny complainers who don't shave their body hair and wish men would disappear, although body hair is totally fine, FYI). I hope that the more people are given access to facts and stories they can relate to, the more they will come to understand and internalize feminist values. We are all more alike than we are different and I believe that empathy and compassion are the best tools we have against the hateful, against the patriarchy, and against our own persistent shortcomings.


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Regional News of Saturday, 29 March 2014
Source: The Chronicle
Ibrahim Baidoo, the Ashaiman Municipal Chief Executive has noted that because Ashaiman is a cosmopolitan city, with people from different backgrounds, the residents, including the educated, throw refuse into drains and open places, thus creating insanitary conditions in the town.
He has, therefore, called on the residents to change their attitude towards, since that is the only way they can rid the Municipality of the filth.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with the paper, Hon Baidoo explained that when individuals drink pure water and litter the ground, it generates garbage.
"When you throw a piece of toffee paper on the ground in Indonesia, a young child as young as five (5) will pick it up and give it back to you, yet in Ghana educated people litter around," he revealed.
He noted an emerging phenomenon where young people, who are engaged in the collection of garbage in fertilizer sacks for a fee, dump them on the streets instead of sending the waste to designated dumping site.
Hon Baidoo revealed that "Whilst the Assembly is taking serious look at how to address the waste management concerns, we also wish to caution all those engaged in these activities to desist from it, so that together we can help make Ashaiman clean".
He noted that his outfit is enforcing the sanitation bye-laws so as to maintain a clean, safe and serene environment in all settlements to promote the social economic and physical well-being of all sections of the population.
"The Assembly shall collaborate with the court to take the appropriate action to enforce the bye-laws, so that we can control sanitation and prevent filth within the Assembly's area of jurisdiction", he hinted.
Touching on the poor state of roads in the Municipality, Mr. Baidoo revealed that vigorous efforts were being made to fix the roads to facilitate the free movement of both goods and people to improve productivity.
He was optimistic that by the end of the year, residents shall experience massive improvement in the road sector, saying "Apart from the main Ashaiman dual carriage road, which is receiving urgent attention, a number of roads and streets in the municipality shall see bitumen surfacing this year".
On congestion in the area, Hon Baidoo hinted: "we don't have enough bus stops, that is why most drivers stop their vehicles in the middle of the road for passengers to embark and disembark; so we will purchase some of the property in the central business area and use them as taxi loading bays.
"More access routes will be created for drivers so that they will not necessarily ply the market roads", he said, adding "Ashaiman fitter lane road will soon be expanded so that drivers from Roman Down and Adjei Kojo will use it, instead of using the main road to dodge traffic".


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It's almost Thanksgiving!
I love this time of year. The weather in my neighborhood cools down to a perfect 78 degrees, and everyone starts to get super festive with get togethers, holiday activities, and lots of yummy food. I had my girlfriends over on Saturday evening for a potluck and jewelry party (you can check out my friend Chun's dainty pieces here), and my contribution to the dinner table was this Slow Cooker Chicken Curry that turned out to be a hit. I make this dish probably 2-3 times a month, and I almost always put it on the menu if we are entertaining guests. Aside from being a crowd pleaser (it's even kid-approved), it's an easy, fool-proof recipe that requires little prep time, and then the slow cooker does the majority of the work for you.
I used to make my curry with a can of organic diced tomatoes and a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste, but last week I started on a modified version of the Autoimmune Protocol Diet, which sadly does not include tomatoes or any of the nightshade vegetables. It may sound like an extreme way of eating, especially since I don't actually have autoimmune disease, but this anti-inflammatory diet has already improved my digestion and lessened my fatigue symptoms in just 6 days, so it's 100% worth it to me to stick with this eating plan for now.
To make my Slow Cooker Chicken Curry nightshade free, I used puréed pumpkin in place of the tomato, and it turned out wonderfully! I thought that the pumpkin would be a perfect substitute for the tomato because of it's slightly tart flavor, and because it goes so well with spices such as cinnamon, clove, and cardamom. You can't taste the pumpkin in the curry, but it gives the dish a beautiful color, a boost of fiber and nutrients such as beta carotene, and it blends with the coconut milk and spices to create a deeply flavorful sauce. If anyone in your family is finicky about eating their vegetables, this is a fantastic way to sneak some veggies into their diets. I'm sharing a batch of this at Nikhil's Thanksgiving celebration tomorrow at school, and I am curious to see how the parents and kids like it!
Whether you are looking for a seasonal alternative to the traditional Thanksgiving dinner, or wanting to add a hearty slow cooker meal into your weekly rotation, I hope you try this out and enjoy it as much as we do!
Prep time: about 25 minutes Cook time: 5-6 hours Servings: 10-12 (you'll have leftovers for sure)
4-5 pounds boneless skinless chicken thighs
1 cup pure pumpkin purée (canned or homemade)
1 14 oz can full fat coconut milk
1 medium yellow onion, peeled and cut into large chunks
5 cloves garlic, peeled
2 inch chunk of fresh ginger, peeled and cut into chunks
1 cinnamon stick
1 tbsp ground cumin
1 tbsp ground coriander
1.5 tsp ground turmeric
6 whole cardamom pods
6 whole cloves
1 bay leaf
1 1/2 tsp sea salt
15 turns of the pepper mill
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice (or more to taste)
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
Note: If you would like to try my original recipe that calls for tomato, simply replace the pumpkin purée with one 14 oz can of diced tomatoes, plus 2 tablespoons of tomato paste, and omit the cinnamon stick. Add the diced tomatoes to the blender with the coconut milk, ginger, garlic, and onion, and purée until smooth, then add this sauce to the chicken and dry spices. The rest of the recipe remains the same. If you'd like to make the pumpkin recipe, but can tolerate tomatoes, I highly recommend adding a tablespoon or two of tomato paste to your curry. It gives the dish a beautiful depth and really brings everything together. If you are sticking to the pumpkin recipe, be sure to add lots of lemon juice to taste, as it will brighten the curry and tie the flavors together.
Rinse your chicken under cold water, and shake off as much water as possible. Trim any excess fat from the chicken thighs, and cut the meat into large chunks. Place the chicken in the pot of your slow cooker, and get started on the sauce. Place the coconut milk, onion, garlic, and ginger into a high speed blender or food processor, and blend on high until smooth. Pour this mixture over the chicken, then add the pumpkin, and all of the spices- cinnamon, cumin, coriander, turmeric, cardamom, cloves, bay leaves, salt, and pepper- and give it a good stir. Cover the pot, and turn your slow cooker to the low setting. Let it do its job for 4 or 5 hours, then turn the setting to high, and crack the lid so that the steam can escape and the sauce can reduce, stirring occasionally. I usually do this in the last hour or 2. Alternatively, you can leave it on low for 8 hours overnight, or while you're gone during the day, and you most likely won't need to let the sauce reduce. When you are ready to serve, stir in the lemon and cilantro, and do a taste test. Add more salt and/or lemon if necessary, to taste. Serve with rice, quinoa, or chapati. I like to eat mine drizzled with virgin coconut oil and a squeeze of lemon, with a side of roasted sweet potatoes and a dollop of green chutney. For a little kick, I suggest adding some Sriracha or your favorite hot sauce.
I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday filled with love, gratitude, and good food. I am certainly grateful for all of you.
With Aloha,
Fauz, I love this recipe!! I'm going to make it soon. Miss you all. XO Katherine
This has to be one of my favorite things I've ever eaten in my life. Truly delicious, especially with that lime cilantro sauce! Is the recipe for that somewhere on your blog? You have a special gift Fauzia!


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Here are the top ten most-read Anthropology News articles of 2015!
Click on the links below to read recent articles at anthropology-news.org. Links to older articles will take you to the AN AnthroSource archive. Happy reading!
1. Indian Mascots: Naturalized Racism and Anthropology
Bernard C. Perley
2. Mentoring the Next Generation of Practicing Anthropologists
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3. Too Expensive to Eat
Lisa Garibaldi
4. Two Views on Anthropologists and Boycotts
Thomas Blom Hansen, David M Rosen and Alex Weingrod
5. Suddenly Liminal: Reflections on Sweet Briar College Closing
Deborah Durham
6. Anthropologists at the Table
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7. Culture Through the Photographer's Lens
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9. Two Anthropologists Look beyond Diplomacy for a Peace Framework in South Sudan
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Learning the Game: The Xia Dynasty (Part III)
39 winters have passed since the art of farming has graced us with better meals and sturdier clothes. Now, the people of Banpo grow restless. Crime and disease plague the streets and Liao Taizu is well aware of the problems. Meeting up with the village council, they have decided to call upon the Ancestors for help. They called upon Cai Yun, the village diviner, to pray and pay homages to the Creator Goddess, Nu Wa, who arrived in Banpo by December 1963 BCE.
The Goddess taught Liao Taizu music played on bamboo instruments and our leader opened Banpo's very first Music School on the same month. Music now plays constantly on the Market Square as musicians perform songs taught to them by the Creator Goddess.
Nu Wa also blessed clay pits and their clay was fashioned into beautiful ceramics in the kilns that Liao Taizu built. She blessed the Inspector's Tower and showed the people a better way of building it. She also blessed the village's Hunter's Tents, making it so that the hunter's arrows always find its prey.
Travelers from the East brought with them new knowledge about the many benefits of plants and herbs that abound in the woods near the village. They then opened a new Herbalist's Stall in the village and provide herbal remedies to the many ailments of the citizens.
Learning the Game: The Xia Dynasty (Part II)
We're back in ancient China, peeps for another episode of Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom's tutorial missions. This time we're going to learn about how to farm for sustainability in a mission we'll call "Seeds of Civilization." Enjoy!
Welcome back to the village of Banpo!
Several generations have passed and the village that your people founded along the banks of the Wei River has prospered. There is a renewed sense of excitement in the town today. Word has just arrived of a nutritious new food source — millet. As a highly respected village elder, you are needed to plan the establishment of farms where millet can be grown to supplement the diet. Hemp farms can also be built. The fibres from the hemp plant have many uses, not the least of which is for durable garments.
Learning the Game: The Xia Dynasty (Part I)
This is probably going to be like a walkthrough for the game and you can use it as that.
I made up a fictional Chinese name for myself in the game and it's Liao Taizu and his zodiac animal is the Serpent.
Begin your journey into ancient China here, with these simple tutorial missions. It is here, in the time of the prehistoric Xia Dynasty, that our people first learned to work the land for sustenance and shelter. To prevent stumbles later, travel now down the path of the Xia. Listen closely, and learn all that our venerated ancestors have to teach us…
Follow Liao Taizu as he and his descendants witness the birth of the Middle Kingdom!
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Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
So recently, I've unearthed an old (from 2004) PC game of mine called "Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom" from Impression and Breakaway Games. It's a city-building game similar to Sim City. I've played other city-building games before from the same companies and they're really pretty awesome so I want to share this with you.
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (Emperor:ROTMK) is set in ancient China. The histories are pretty accurate so you learn geeky bits from ancient Chinese history if, you know, you're into that sort of stuff. Me? You bet I'm into that.
The game starts off at 2038 BCE during the very early beginning of the Xia Dynasty. These parts are the tutorial parts so I just breeze through them easily. The next few posts will be about my adventures at learning Chinese history! Let's go!
P.S. If you want to check the game out, click here. It's an old school game, so don't expect too much on the graphics department but it's still one of the best games ever!
I Like: Total Eclipse of the Heart
This is an old video but it still makes me laugh so hard I think I might die.
Saw a bunch of these almost a year ago, but some of them disappeared. Kinda makes you wonder why most videos don't show what they're really saying (or say what they're showing). This could probably spark a groundbreaking revolution in music video making and if you took that statement literally then I think you should be killed and fed to the poor.
Persephone Maewyn's voice is incredibly angelic so continue reading my blog for more heavenly Rocket Powered Stuff from around the world!
The Hangman
This is a poem by Maurice Ogden that really spoke to me:
Into our town the Hangman came,
Smelling of gold and blood and flame,
And he paced our bricks with a diffident air,
And he built his frame on the courthouse square.
The scaffold stood by the courthouse side,
Only as wide as the door was wide,
A frame as tall, or little more,
Than the capping sill of the courthouse door.
And we wondered, whenever we had the time,
Who the criminal, what the crime,
The Hangman judged with the yellow twist
Of knotted hemp in his busy fist.
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Let's see. It's a USB drive with the words "Porn Detection Stick" written on its side, so it's probably NOT for detecting p0rn. Go ahead, continue looking at those nude pictures – I got your back on this.
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Big Brother employers are probably the worst types of employers there are, but imagine having someone at home use this on your computer. There goes my Best Sunday School Teacher Award. Stupid Bang Bus pictures accidentally copy-pasting themselves into an inconspicously hidden folder named Rocket Powered Stuff! IT WAS FOR RESEARCH, MOM!
It's very effective so you better be careful with those key-"strokes" and keep on reading my blog for more Rocket Powered Stuff from around the world!
Crazy Internet Sensation Fugitive Taunts Police, Moves Me to Tears
Remember that time when I idolized the nevernude who started a dance craze at the Sasquatch Music Festival? Me neither. Anyway, I've got a new idol now and his name is Craig 'Lazie' Lynch. He's an escaped British prisoner who's on the run from the authorities. So why do the hell do I idolize him?
You see, I recently removed myself from Facebook because I value my personal privacy and also because I failed to find a good reason to stay (apologies to my Mafiosos). But if we're thinking about a good reason to be on Facebook, posting pictures of yourself taunting police officers to come and find you while you're a fugitive escaping the law would probably be the last thing anybody would come up with, right? Wrong.
If any of you was doubtin my freedom. Here's proof. How the fuck could I get my Ahands on a bird like this in jail. ha ha. -Lazie
So yeah, Lazie Lynch decided to create a Facebook fanpage about him being a fugitive, posting photographs and updating his status mainly to irk the British Constabulary. Talk about balls.
He's an escaped burglar who's daring enough to play around with British Police ire. If that's not Rocket Powered, I don't know what is. I definitely want to be like him some day. Oh, wait.
EDIT: He's been caught. F my life. His Facebook page has also disappeared.


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The AGO is currently one of the largest art museums in North America, having recently expanded with an innovative architectural design by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry. It houses more than 80,000 works in its physical facility of 583,000 square feet and contains an extensive library, student spaces, gallery workshop space, artist-in-residence, a high-end restaurant, café, espresso bar, research centre, theatre and lecture hall, Gehry-designed gift shop, and an event space called the Baillie Court, taking up the entirety of the 3rd floor.
The AGO Art Gallery of Ontario is a 10-15 taxi drive from Inglis House.
For up to date info go directly to the following links:
About The AGO
About The AGO
The AGO collections span from 100 A.D. to the present. Its' significant collections include: The Canadian Collection that vividly documents the development of the nation's art heritage since pre-Confederation, including one of the largest and finest Inuit art collections in the world; The Masterpieces of European Art that include works by renowned artists such as Anthony van Dyck, Thomas Gainsborough, Auguste Rodin, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and René Magritte; The Thomson Collection at the AGO includes a broad range of works, from European to Canadian art, ship models and decorative arts; and the AGO also maintains a comprehensive collection of Contemporary Art spanning from 1960 to the present, reflecting global developments in artistic practice across all media, including painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, projection art, and installation art.
In addition it houses the world's largest public collection of works by internationally renowned British sculptor Henry Moore as well as a Photography Collections of more than 40,000 works representing the emergence of the medium in all its artistic, cultural and social diversity. Works by 19th-century British, French, American and Canadian photographers, and 20th-century modernists, including a significant group of 1850s prints by British photographer Linnaeus Tripe, one of the foremost collections of works by Czech photographer Josef Sudek, and more than 18,000 press photographs from the Klinsky Press Agency taken in the 1930s and 40s.
Visitor Information, Tours, etc
- Hours: 10:00a - 5:30p Tuesday through Sunday. Closed Mondays and most Civic Holidays. Check with gallery for other Holiday closings
- Wednesday evenings admission to all permanent collections are FREE to the public from 6:00p - 8:30p
- Tours: AGO Tours are FREE with admission and offered on a number of different topics. They range from 20- 60 minutes in length.
- Special Exhibits and featured events are typically ticketed separately and include general gallery admission
- shopAGO operates 11:30a - 6:00p Tuesday through Sunday with a later 9:00p closing on Wednesdays
- Admission is $19.50 Adult, $16 Seniors, $11 Students & Youth and Free for Children 5 and under. Check for group prices. Check out the AGO Ticket Portalto buy tickets on-line
- In addition, the AGO is proud to be one of the founding members of the Toronto Public Library's Museum + Arts Pass (MAP) program, "Borrow" free of charge a family pass to the AGO from any of the Toronto Public Library's 99 branches. Contact your library for more information.


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Land clearing is now underway for a stormwater retention pond related to the rumored Epcot entrance area hotel. A permit was recently filed with the state for the excavation of the site. Here's a look at the work taking place along World Drive and the Epcot entrance road, near the solar fields that were installed last year.
Here's a look at the permit related to the work. The land clearing is currently taking place in the area marked Pond A – Phase 1.
There is even some work taking place in the Phase 2 section of the permit as seen below.
The pond, when complete, will take up the entire space represented by the green color below, making room for the rumored Epcot entrance hotel somewhere in the yellow space. For a more detailed breakdown, check out our post where we first reported the news.
The stormwater retention pond serves two purposes when being used for a large project. The first is that it displaces a lot of dirt that is usually used in connection to land grading/filling for a secondary site. We saw this with the pond created to support work being done in connection with Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, the Hollywood Studios parking lot expansion, and the Star Wars Hotel. The second use is to allow for proper management of water resources. Oftentimes, an existing canal or low-lying area will be filled in for a large project and Disney needs to allow for the proper runoff of the large amount of rain and other ground-level water displaced.


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More topics on transistor:
Transistors basics Transistor operation Transistor characteristics Transistor configurations Transistor as a switch Transistor oscillator circuit Darlington Transistor
Amplifier is an electronic device which basically boost up the strength of the weak signal and converts it into a strong signal. We have covered transistor configurations and its working in our previous articles. Here we going to put some shadow on how transistor works as an amplifier.
Transistor as an Amplifier:
In this Article You will learn:
We can use a transistor as an amplifier by raising the strength of the weak signal. With the help of suitable diagram, we explain you how transistor circuit acts as an amplifier. The Figure given below shows the basic circuit of a transistor amplifier.
As shown in the figure above, we apply input signal or the weak signal between the emitter-base junction and takes the output across the load Rc connected in the collector circuit. For faithful amplification, always ensure that the input circuit is forward-biased and the output circuit is reverse-biased. For this purpose, we apply d.c voltage i.e. VEE in the input circuit in addition to the signal as shown in the figure above. This d.c voltage is known as a bias voltage and its magnitude is such that it always keeps the input circuit forward biased despite the polarity of the signal.
As we know the input circuit has low resistance, consequently, a small change in the signal voltage occurs at the input circuit lead to an appreciable change in the emitter current. Due to transistor action, change in emitter current causes a similar change in the collector circuit. Now, the collector current flowing through a high load resistance Rc produces a large voltage across it. Thus, the weak signal applied in the input circuit appears in the amplified form in the collector circuit. In this way, transistor acts an amplifier.
Common emitter Amplifier circuit Diagram:
Generally in most electronic circuits, we use most common circuit configuration for an NPN transistor i.e. Common emitter Amplifier circuit. Let us consider a single stage common emitter amplifier circuit which is commonly known as Voltage divider biasing circuit. This biasing arrangement basically uses two resistors as a potential divider network across the supply, with their center point it supplies the required base bias voltage to the transistor. This type of biasing is commonly used in the design of bipolar transistor amplifier circuits.
In this type of biasing, transistor greatly reduces the effect of current amplification factor β by holding the base bias at a constant steady voltage level and allows accurate stability. The base voltage Vb is calculated by the potential divider network formed by the two resistors and the power supply voltage Vcc.
As shown in the figure above, the total resistance is equal to the sum of two resistances i.e. R1 and R2. The voltage level generated at the junction of the resistors R1 and R2 holds the base voltage constant at a value below the supply voltage. The bias reference voltage can be calculated using the simple voltage divider formula:
Vb = (Vcc R2) / (R1 + R2)
The same supply voltage also determines the maximum collector current, when the transistor is switched "Fully-on" i.e. in saturation mode.
Note: β has no units, as it is a fixed ratio of two currents, Ic and Ib so a small change in the base current will cause a large change in the collector current.
Common Emitter voltage gain:
Common emitter voltage gain is equal to the ratio of the change in the input voltage to the change in the amplifier output voltage. Consider Vout as Δ VL and Vin as Δ VB.
In terms of resistances, voltage gain is equal to the ratio of the signal resistance in the collector to the signal resistance in the emitter is given as:
Voltage Gain = Vout / Vin
With the help of above equation, you can easily calculate voltage gain of common emitter circuit.
As we know, bipolar transistors also comprise of small internal resistance built into their emitter region i.e. Re. When the internal emitter resistance is connected in series with the external resistance, the modified equation of the voltage gain is given as follows:
Voltage gain = – RL / (RE + Re)
At low-frequency the total resistance in the emitter circuit is equal to the sum of the internal resistance and the external resistance i.e. RE + Re
For this common-emitter amplifier circuit, the voltage gain at high and low frequencies is given as:
At High Frequency:
At high-frequency voltage gain is given as:
Voltage Gain = – RL / RE
At Low Frequency:
At low-frequency voltage gain is given as:
Voltage gain = – RL / (RE + Re)
With these formulas, you can easily calculates voltage gain of an amplifier circuit.
The action of the transistor as an amplifier can be more illustrative if we consider typical circuit values. Consider a collector load resistance value = 4kΩ. Now assume that a change of 0.1 V of the signal voltage produces a change of 1 mA in emitter current. Because of transistor action it is obvious that the change in emitter current is equal to the change in collector current. Therefore, the change in collector current would also be approximately 1 mA. This collector current flowing through collector load Rc would produce a voltage equals to 4KΩ x 1 mA = 4V. Thus, a change of 0.1V in the signal has caused the change of 4V in the output circuit. Consequently, you can see that the transistor has been able to raise the voltage level of the signal from 0.1V to 4V i.e. voltage amplification circuit is 40.
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Usually I do not ( definitely do not) want to know what I'm getting as a present. Please never hold something up asking if this is what I want and then buy it then and there. Surprise is my operative word for gifts...Usually.
This year though, I asked for a family photo shoot. And that's exactly what John gave me :o)
I love, love outdoor photo sessions with photographers. It's just, more fun, than going inside the Sears studio and getting everyone carefully set up in front of a lambskin backdrop.
I mean, this is good, with two such handsome guys how could it not be:
|nicely done, gents.
But this is alive
|from MA Family Institute
Sessions are often expensive, and I want digital rights, so I'd never really pursued it....until now :o)
We found a fantastic photographer (from Spain no less) with extremely reasonable prices AND she was fun to work with!!
Her website is: http://www.nateandaranchaphotography.com/ or here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nate-Arancha-Photography/59681445127?sk=wall; she's excellent, sweet and so good at getting Abigail to smile.
Unfortunately for everyone else their family is moving to Spain next year to plant churches.
We should get the finished product today, but I wanted to show you a few of the pictures now. We took a couple of Abigail with her monkey and I'm hoping to use those for her 11 month growth-chart pics....she was awfully chilly and hungry though, so we'll see what came out :o)
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Last night's Person of Interest, "Root Cause," was a number-of-the-week tale of political intrigue and 1337 haX0r drama. And you know we can't resist 1337 haXORz. That's why we're raising our scotch glasses to Root, a hacker with good taste in nailpolish and a fiendish interest in getting Finch stuck in her honeypot.
Our number of the week was a guy named Powell, who has just lost his job. He's so desperate for work that he takes a shady gig that turns out to be a "we're going to set you up as the guy who tried to kill a politician" job. Seems that a politician's sleazy aid, working with our new favorite überhaXOR, named (wait for it) Root, is going to frame Powell for attempted assassination.
When Finch tries to figure out our hacker's IP address, he zooms into her computer . . . only to find out he's caught in a honeypot! It sounds so dirty, doesn't it? If you actually know what a honeypot is, you will be grumpy. But whatever. Hacking! It's all just a bunch of stuff!
Also, don't fuck with Root. She has a voice modification machine and she knows your ex-wife's email address. At least, that's what we find out when Sleazy Politician Helper Guy calls her up and asks why patsy Powell is still alive, thanks to Reese and Finch's meddling.
Meanwhile, Finch has brought Zoe Morgan back to help out with the case - she's the awesome "cleaner" type who gave Reese a run for his money in an episode last year. So we've got Female Reese and Female Finch going on in this episode.
By the way, they managed to save Powell and hopefully have ditched Fusco for good now that Carter is playing Cop Gofer. (Please can she have a cooler role that that? She is so badass.) Also, Root is totally flirting with Finch using the UNIX talk utility - erm, I mean IRC. Love that black nailpolish.
Here is my absolute number one fantasy. Root is the grown-up version of Veronica Mars' hacker friend Mac, who is now working with Keith Mars, AKA Elias. This will make no sense in terms of Veronica Mars, but will cause all the fans of that late lamented show to become so excited that they'll have fainting spells. Also, every schoolteacher mob boss needs a smart-mouthed hacker sidekick.


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Philip Pullman's acclaimed His Dark Materials trilogy, a sweeping retelling of Milton's Paradise Lost and the biblical Fall, has caused great controversy among Christian readers. Watkins, a self-proclaimed Christian and managing editor for the Damaris Trust's CultureWatch Web site, offers a perspective on Pullman's work that is anything but dark and is sure to enlighten the debate among Christians. The book is divided into three parts, the first a walk through Pullman's life and background and the second an overview of the major dimensions of each book in the trilogy. It is not until the third section that readers will find what they are really looking for: a critical evaluation of major themes and story dimensions such as dæmons, sin, and the infamous "death of God"—an assessment that is smart and wisely restrained. Watkins's critical appreciation of Pullman's trilogy will surely appeal to a Christian audience, but will reach well beyond this market to a general readership looking for a solid, substantially sourced, and well-written analysis of this beloved work of literature.
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This is indeed a thinking fan's guide! Tony Watkins delves sympathetically and seriously into Pullman's fiction. He provides a readable and fun way into the theological and philosophical questions, while showing integrity towards the stories themselves.
David Wilkinson, Principal, St John's College, Durham, and author of The Power of the Force: The Spirituality of the "Star Wars" Films and God, Time and Stephen Hawking
As more of these guides to His Dark Materials are published, its good to see that they're covering more and more material. Dark Matter by Tony Watkins (published by Damaris) is the first of the books to really go in depth into the more controversial issues raised by His Dark Materials. He looks at the series from the perspective of a Christian who deeply enjoyed His Dark Materials, and is willing to tackle some of the questions that Pullman raises. While some of the earlier guide books have presented just the facts about the books, just going through and reciting the storyline without adding much commentary, Watkins has provided some excellent analysis that will be insightful to new readers and long-time fans alike. There are extensive footnotes throughout the text that are useful in following up on some of the information and quotes he uses, as well as an appendix on the science in the trilogy . . . Some readers might have expected Watkins to condemn parts of the trilogy because of his Christianity, but he is successful in portraying both his enjoyment of the story as a whole and his respectful disagreement on a few issues which are all handled tactfully.
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In New York last week flying the flag for Britain at the 2014 American Bar Association International Spring Meeting was Head of International Services & Litigation, Paul Marmor, seen below left in the photo.
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In my role as chair of the legal membership of Alliott Group, I also play an important role in helping to grow the alliance and ensure that only firms of the highest quality are admitted to the group. "
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- I never drive when Ive been drinking (or do I ??) what about the morning after? I bet there has been more than one occasion in my life when Ive been close to the limit the next morning. So I bought one of these - especially now that the limit has lowered in Scotland (I work in scotland maybe once a month and stay in a hotel and have a couple of drinks) I did some tests when I didnt have to drive the next day. On one occasion (my big test) I drank a LOT and I was on 79 at 10:30 the next day. 80 is a fail / ban. 90 minutes later I was ok (I didnt drive all day) its a sobering thought.... especially if you go to work at 07:00 etc. Imagine being involved in an accident and hurting somebody including yourself and passengers - then finding out you were over the drink drive limit. I couldnt live with that thought.Whilst this unit has been set to turn red near 80, it still tells you your Blood Alcohol as a number, so you dont need to buy a special one if you live in scotland - but at the time I purchased it, I think they were gearing up to providing 2 options. You can send it of once a year to get it re calibrated if you are seriously concerned But I think that I'll have a better understanding of my limit much sooner.


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In my old age I've learned a few things. One is that it is far better to humble yourself than to have someone else do it for you. Our Proverb reminds us of that today. It says "humility comes before honor". Maybe today, instead of tooting your own horn, take a humble position on your skills, abilities, or possessions. If someone honors you anyway, great! I know I'd rather be lifted up than give someone a reason to smack me down.
2 Samuel 7:1-8:18:
- 1-17 – David felt guilty that his house was nicer than God's. He intended to build a temple, but God doesn't want him to. God also establishes a covenant with David and his son who will be king after him. God promises to keep David's line in the throne forever.
- 18-29 – David humbly accepts God's blessing of his house.
John 14:15-31:
- 15-17 – Jesus is telling the disciples that the Lord will send the Holy Spirit to counsel and guide believers when Jesus is no longer on earth.
- 27-29 – It would have been very scary for Jesus to simply leave and the disciples to not understand where he went. He offers them peace and tells them what will soon happen so the completion of what Jesus says will help them believe in his identity even more.
Psalm 119:33-48:
- 37 – How many worthless things are our eyes drawn to?
- The psalmist clearly has great love for God's word and law. He is committed to them and recognizes how effective they are in leading him to truth and blessings.
Proverbs 15:33:
- The phrase "humility comes before honor" is reminiscent of Jesus explaining that at a dinner party you should take one of the lesser seats. Often the host will move you to a place of more honor, but if you assume and take a place of honor, often times you will be humbled to a lesser seat.