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It's time for some inspiration from the late, great John Wooden.
ClarinetMike says, "Watch the video above and read the tips below over and over and over. AND, show them to your students."
John Wooden (1910-2010) was a legendary UCLA basketball coach whose principles transcend sports. His ideas on leadership, performance, motivation, and success are powerful and life-changing. A friend of mine called him "an educational visionary." Coach Wooden's ideas have had a profound influence on me as a musician, music teacher and as a person.
The above video, John Wooden – Values, Victory and Peace of Mind, has been released on YouTube and elsewhere by FilmRise. It features Coach Wooden at 90 years of age teaching his famous "Pyramid of Success" and other concepts to a small audience. Also featured are video clips from Wooden's career and interviews with basketball legends such as are Phil Jackson, Bill Walton, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Below are some tips I gleaned from studying John Wooden's works. The tips below are from an article I wrote a few years ago in the NACWPI Journal – CLICK HERE to read.
Preparation and Effort: Tips on Applying John Wooden's Concepts
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1. Focus on Preparation and Effort. Spend your time working on what is under your control: your preparation and effort.
2. Work Hard and Plan Carefully. The first block of the Pyramid of Success says, "There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning." Wooden says, "I fully understood that the success of my leadership was directly linked to using time wisely." (Wooden on Leadership, p. 162)
3. Teach Good Habits. Steve Jamison says that the key to Wooden's winning championships is that he was great at teaching good habits. (Wooden on Leadership, p. xi-xii) A band director I know in Long Beach, CA, Chris Stevens, says, "Practice does not make perfect, practice makes habit."
4. Focus Teaching Comments on How to Do Things Better. A study in the 1970's of Wooden's utterances during coaching found that only 6% were praises and 6% were reproofs. The study reported that 75% of his utterances were instructional in nature. (http://ronaldgallimore.com/resources/GallimoreTharp2004.pdf, p. 127-128)
5. Focus on Fundamentals. Constantly work on basics. "There is no replacement for sound fundamentals and strict discipline." (They Call Me Coach, p. 168)
6. Little Things Make Big Things Happen. Identify relevant details and accomplish them at a very high standard of performance. (Wooden on Leadership, p. 135)
7. Keep it Simple.
8. Model Expected Behaviors. Make every effort to match practice to precept. Wooden says, "Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good role models more than they need critics." (Quotable Wooden, p. 98)
9. Be Quick, But Don't Hurry. Wooden says, "If you hurry, you're more likely to make mistakes; but if you're not quick, you won't get things done." (http://id3430.securedata.net/teamarete/10tipstomanagement.html)
10. Develop Mental Toughness. John Wooden was very disciplined. Beneath his grandfatherly exterior was the heart of a lion. Wooden and his players' mental toughness made them great.
11. Balance is Everything. Life is complicated and it's easy to get out of balance. Keep things in proper perspective. (Be Quick – But Don't Hurry!, p. 92)
12. Be Patient and Persistent. Coach Wooden developed his ideas and concepts over a long period of time – he spent fourteen years carefully crafting his Pyramid of Success. Wooden says, "Good things take time and that's the way it should be." (Wooden Video, Values, Victory and Peace of Mind)
CLICK HERE for an easy-to-print PDF version of the above tips.


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May 29, 2015
By Pat Maurer
Local news and weather won't be available to some satellite television viewers now.
Because their contract with Dish Network has expired, WWTV/WWUP-TV, in our area the Cadillac Station 9 & 10 news, was removed for the Dish Network channel lineup at 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.
Heritage Broadcasting which operates the CBS affiliate for Traverse City, Cadillac and Sault Ste Marie announced that their contract with Dish expired April 15.
They said, "Prior to the expiration and since then Heritage Broadcasting has been negotiating with Dish Network. Heritage Broadcasting has offered multiple extensions so service to our viewers was not interrupted. Unfortunately, Dish Network has refused to recognize the value of local news, weather and sports that are delivered everyday by 9&10 News. Additionally, Dish Network fails to recognize the recently increased cost that 9&10 News as a CBS Affiliate must pay CBS in order to deliver all the live events, sports and CBS Primetime."
Heritage, which has been broadcasting television across the area since 1954, produces four and a half hours of local news, weather and sports daily. They also deliver CBS and syndicated programming to the Northern Lower Peninsula and Eastern End of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In addition to the local news and weather Heritage has viewers in at least 36 of Michigan's 83 counties.
The press release said, "Dish Network is using their status as a Fortune 500 company, headquartered in Colorado, to bully Heritage Broadcasting, a locally owned Michigan Company. Dish Network is attempting to use their vast corporate wealth to dictate the terms and conditions of a new contract."
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Direct Measurement Videos?
Yes, Direct Measurement Videos. I attended a workshop at the 2014 AAPT Summer Meeting by Peter Bohacek (@bohacekp) and Matt Vonk (@matt_vonk), and throughout the 4 hours, all I could think about was "Ahh! The possibilities!" I can't wait to implement them this school year.
The "Direct Measurement" part comes in through the overlays that allow students to make measurements directly from the video.
This one is one of the simpler videos in which students are asked to calculate the velocity of the ping-pong ball. At first glance, this may seem trivial. Just do distance divided by time, which you get by using the frames and frames-per-second values, and bam. You're done. But just because the computation seems trivial doesn't mean the physics are!
Why I love them
What would otherwise be a mostly trivial formula-hunting textbook problem has become a wealth of enriching discussion. For instance, students will need to decide how to measure the distance the ping-pong ball travels. Should they measure from the front of the ball? The back? The middle? Does it matter? How do we get the time? What's this frames-per-second thing?
Another great feature is that their customized video player allows for frame-by-frame playback, thus opening further discussion. What frame should we start the measurement? End it? Why? There are lots of opportunities for students to justify all the choices they make along with many different paths to getting a solution. Having so many different ways of solving the problem, I think, goes a long way in helping students see that models and assumptions are made about a physical system based on intuitive and logical choices. And those choices need to be justified in order for any calculations to hold any weight. I think that this will help students move away from the idea that all these crazy equations are mystical, immutable descriptors of objective reality.
One activity we did today fit hand-in-hand with another idea that I'm in love with that I got from @kellyoshea: goal-less problems. The basic idea is that instead of giving students a situation and asking them to solve for various parameters, students are just given a description of a situation. They're asked to figure out which models apply to the situation and to figure out, based on the given information, what things they could solve for.
We ran through the activity for a video of a toy plane flying in a conical circle.
What we did is break into groups of 2-3, and each group came up with a problem. Many of them were fairly obvious (to us physics teachers, that is) things to ask: How long is the string? What is the radius of the circle the plane flies in? What's the plane's angular velocity? But there were also ones like "if the plane's speed were to double, what would the scale read?" or, my favorite, "how long is the propeller? Wow. Peter read off some of the things his students have come up with, and they had just as many interesting and unique problems as we did, many that none of us came up with.
We then traded problems with another group, and tried to solve their problem. The overall goal was to come up with a problem that would stump another group in a sort of "face-off", but the group had to be able to solve the problem they wrote. This encourages students to think about physics and physics problems in an entirely new way. Being able to write a good physics problem requires a thorough understanding of the physics involved.
What else?
I was especially excited about the last video we looked at.
The screenshot above isn't of the exact video we looked at, but it's similar. The video we looked at is still in the prototype phase, so it's not ready to be released.
The bulb on the left and Joly Photometer are the same. However, the photometer is attached to a bunch of smaller light bulbs at a fixed distance away, and the bunch-of-smaller-light-bulbs-and-photometer system all move together on a track. There were 9 videos in total, each one turning on one additional smaller light bulb. If you plot the distance from the bulb on the left of the smaller-light-bulbs-photometer vs. the number of bulbs lit at the point where both sides of the Joly Photometer are equally bright, you get an inverse-square relationship for distance vs. intensity. My first thought?
Paradigm lab!
I'm not confident in my ability to set this up in a way that students could use to get meaningful measurements. I'm not sure that I want to devote the time and resources to building a reliable setup. Instead, I can check out my department's laptop carts, and students can take all the measurements themselves. For labs with difficult and finicky setups and equipment like this? This is perfect.
I could rant more and more about how awesome these videos are, but I'm exhausted after my first day at my first AAPT Summer Meeting. I encourage you to check these videos out! I can see them being useful in any style of classroom, and they're a much better alternative to spending a day solving textbook/worksheet problems when you can.


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Some things are hard to ignore when celebs keep us entertained with their dramatic lives.
We predict some of the things that might happen in 2019.
The predictions are based on the fact that some of this celebs are so clueless when it comes to matters privacy hence we added one plus one.
1.Tanasha Donna getting pregnant
The only way to determine how fertile a man is by getting a woman pregnant and 2019 might the year where Diamond Platnumz tests this on Tanasha.
Well getting pregnant is not such a bad thing we are just worried that if she gets paged it might limit her chances of fully exploring her new bae.
Fierce Kenyan goddess!! Media Personality Serah Teshna serves fashion goals
2. Willy Paul going secular
The signs have been there all along it's just that he does not have the guts to go secular maybe for the fear of what people might say.
His latest songs lack a gospel touch and his increased collaboration with secular artistes makes us think come 2018 Willy atakua anakamatia chini.
3. Anita Nderu wedding
The stunning damsel has been in a long term relationship with her bae and we feel like 2019 will be her year to say 'I DO'
'My zipper tore,' Vivian Kenya narrates her embarrassing story on stage in front of a large crowd
4. Ethic will split
Ethic is famous for hits such as 'Lamba Lolo' which is the newest anthem in town. Sadly we predict that come 2019 they might break up.
They might end up like Camp Mulla, MOG, Kelele Takatifu, Deux Vultures, Gidigidi Majimaji, Tatuu, Cash Money Brothers (CMB), Kymoh and Stiga famous for their song 'Thitima'.
5. Nai Boi,Kaligraph Jones and Guardian Angel will dominate
Two in One hit maker Naiboi and Kaligraph Jones alias the OG will command attention and rule the air waves in 2019.
Love or hate them they know how to entertain the crowd and their music is DOPE.
Guardian Angel on the other hand will dominate the gospel as his songs are uplifting.
What! Timaya reveals the dirty job he did before all the success
6. WCB will relocate from TZ
As you might know by now Wasafi artistes have made Kenya their home and we often see the likes of Diamond Platnumz, Rayvanny, Harmonize, and Mboso in town.
Things have been especially tough for Diamond and Rayvanny after they were banned from performing in Tanzania and elsewhere until further notice.
Diamond responded by simply stating that
"If you ban my songs I will still perform them.If you still don't want me to perform I will leave and perform else where.
I will move to another country because they wont follow me there.
You can't block my songs both in Tanzania and Kenya because you don't feed me or my children."
Isn't that a hint that he might relocate.
7. Itumbi will not date Jacque nor spend valentines with her
Call him the love doctor, he always has the right answers to console and make his friend Jacque Maribe smile.
Despite the fact that the two have denied having any romantic relations, it is evident even for the blind to see that given a chance Itumbi would love to date Jacque.
But as they say atakula huu na hasara juu coz believe you me come 2019, he will be spending valentines alone.
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Quebec Bill 1418
April 11, 2013 by LeVoyageur
Struggles over minority language rights are nothing new. There are many examples from the 20th century alone that show how governments have used laws, intimidation, and violence to suppress the languages of minority populations.
Welsh schoolchildren, for example, were punished with humiliation for speaking Welsh in the 19th and 20th centuries. Breton activists have struggled for years for official recognition of their language by the French government. In Canada, First Nations children in the 20th century were taken from their homes and placed in residential schools where their languages and cultures were forbidden and where many were sexually and physically abused.
In Maine, children from French-speaking homes in the 20th century were punished in schools for speaking French. Many other examples could be used to illustrate the point. It is a blight in the histories of all nations who attempt to control the peoples within their borders by denying this central aspect of culture.
In Quebec, Bill 14 is currently being debated in a committee of the Assemblée Nationale. This bill would broaden the application of Bill 101, the Charter of the French Language passed in 1977, to ensure that French remains the main language of the province in all respects. French speakers form a majority (at about 85%) in Quebec, while they represent a minority, in the range of 25-30%, in the whole of Canada.
Proponents of the bill, which was introduced by the Parti Québécois government, include a wide array of organizations such as the largest labor unions in Quebec, the French heritage group Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montreal and others. The argument in favor of the bill is that more must be done to ensure that French remains the language of Quebec.
Supporters point to Montreal as an example of the marginalization of the French language, where all of daily life can be experienced in English and many people have come to expect that is not only their right, but also the right direction for the province. Their fear is that by the time such a scenario reaches Quebec City, the homeland (along with Acadia) of French culture in North America will no longer be French.
Opponents of the bill include Anglophone rights organizations who claim Bill 14 undermines their human rights by denying them the opportunity to live and speak in the language of their choice. They say the bill is discriminatory and will allow "language inspectors" too much control over private and business life. Opponents claim that English is the language of business in the world and forcing French on companies will drive business away. They point to the exodus over many years of Anglophone residents to Toronto.
The public debate has been acrimonious from the start. Language politics raises the ire of people on all sides, all claiming the moral high ground. In following this debate on Twitter, comment boards, and in the media, I am repeatedly struck by the vile nature of many comments from the Anglophone communities around Canada. French language proponents and activists have been subject to an array of insults from the old canard "communists" to accusations they are anti-semites, fascists, nationalists, hillbillys and the like.
If this were just a matter of comment boards, it could be ignored. But this sort of calumny is also taken up by national and international media. For example, this article in Time magazine by Montreal Anglophone writer Hillary Brenhouse quotes many put-upon Anglophones who object to having to use French at all. The whole tenor of her article, which is passed off as journalism, is that the Québécois people are waging a war on English speakers.
While we can be sure that there is a tit for tat of insults and accusations going on in this debate, the larger issue for me is why are English speakers so intent on forcing French to the side in Quebec? Furthermore, when the debate veers from language rights to name-calling of the sort I've mentioned, just what are these proponents of English doing?
Much of the wider discussion from writers such as Brenhouse focuses on revenue loss. But there is another explicit tone which says, if you are for Bill 14, you are among the most vile people on the planet. In other words, the French Canadian workers, the rural and small town residents, and the generations of Québécois who have maintained their culture against all odds for 400 years, are all obstacles to a greater English Canada.
I speak English as my primary language. I can get by in French which I learned as an adult. My father's generation had French as a heritage language. My grandfather's generation and before were French-speakers from the Detroit-Windsor area. He learned French in a home in Northern Michigan. What would some of these Anglophone activists have thought of my French Canadian forebears and the language they spoke? One of the insults I have read repeatedly is that they don't really speak French at all, just some illiterate dialect no one can understand.
It is with regret that the descendants of many immigrants look back on lost languages. How much more so when language and culture is lost because of social exclusion and cultural marginalization? Quebec is a French-speaking island in the sea of English-speaking Canada. It is regrettable that the colonialist mentality that formed Quebec into "Lower Canada" in the 19th century is still at work, seen in the protests of activists, journalists, and politicians today.
Whether Bill 14 passes or fails, it reminds me of similar social conflict last year in Quebec during the election that brought Pauline Marois to the premiership, and of the Maple Spring. Yet with social media activists such as Put Back the Flag and aggressive campaigning by Anglophones, such as this video by the mayor of Cote Saint-Luc, it is as yet unclear whether the minority Marois government will be able to pass this legislation. And if not, will a loss be to their benefit in the long run.
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I love reading your blog. Thanks for the update on the language issue. Well-written!
I really enjoy this blog and I love reading the very informative history and news articles. It is one or the only things I read thoroughly on the Internet and occasionally I will print it off to read later—yes, I know; ink on paper! What a hoot!
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You talk about Maine and Quebec, but not about Ontario, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Saskathewan…
Well, you're highlighting well the everyday language debate/name-calling from Montreal's Gazette readers, but you could have explained the purpose of this new legislation : the main goal is to prevent employers from asking English when it is not really mandatory for the job. Let's say you're a janitor in Baie-Comeau ; it'd be nonsence to ask you to be perfectly fluently bilingual, yet, such things happen sometimes (I exaggerate, of course, but I think you get the point). Another aspect is to ensure it's possible to work in French in some categories of enterprises that do not have any such obligations yet according to the current law. Currently, a lot of cities are officially bilingual, yet, in some of them, their anglophone population has diminished so much the said cities should no longer have their bilingual status according to now's legislation.
About Quebec bashing just look at the comments after the terrorist attack at Métropolis against Paulin Marrois… It's insane and sick.
Let me begin by recounting my story as a once ignorant English speaking insecure Canadian. I am still only English, which does sadden me, but I grew up in many parts of Ontario, mainly northern Ontario, where we had a mix of not only English, but First Nations and French, I was oblivious to the language barrier and issues of how since the days of early Canada that we English have pushed and bullied our language onto many regrettably. I quite enjoyed learning French (Core) in school, but never pursued it beyond my first year of high school. You see I had parents whom were insecure about their own language and enjoying the diversity of difference, so was not encouraged to take anything up that was different or new. I am a mother of five children, four of whom excelled in their French learning throughout school. I encouraged each of my children to reach beyond and to try new things, experience new ideas and methods. I am saddened to say that I have many regrets not being multi-lingual and it was a cruel blow to our present society when our forefathers who came here and bullied the native people of this land and forced them into ways that were foreign to them, but the most devastating tragedy was to all but extinguish an entire culture and many native languages, it was a genocide of our native Canadians that is still reeling from this generations later! Their is no difference to what we are doing to the French language and culture that is being slowly extinguished now, I applaud you and your fight to keep this alive, we are supposed to be a country of many cultures, opening our doors to others, yet here we are closing a door to our past, what message can we possibly be sending? Why is it that we have not yet learned how to live with both languages equally? I as an English speaking person, feel that a compromise is available, we can still retain a level of English in Business by having on staff interpreters while in the province of Quebec, I agree that French is the main language that should be used wherever possible, the culture should be embraced and celebrated by the rest of Canada, we need to find ways to attract people , rather than forcing, we must place incentives. Much more work is possible when we place the decision in their own hands
(residents, business owners, tourists), and with an incentive program, this will have them adopting and changing voluntarily. We need to restore the balance removed generations ago by going back to our roots and restoring them, a tree does not survive long if we remove it's roots, as a country we are that tree that is slowly dying without the roots!!
do a little more research, your only providing one side of the story and the point of view from Anglophone Canadians in other provinces, you might have better insight from Anglophone Quebecers themselves.
Also, Durham report was never implement and in the end the Crown allowed the French Canadians to keep their language and religion (unheard of during colonization).


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- Heat oil in a 4-qt. saucepan over medium heat; add onion and cook until soft, 3 minutes. Add ¼ cup water and all but ¼ cup corn; simmer until heated through and almost tender, 2-3 minutes. Add salt and pepper and transfer to a blender; purée crema until smooth. Heat a 10" cast iron skillet until hot; cook scallions, flipping once, until charred, 2-3 minutes. Transfer scallions to a cutting board and mince. Wipe saucepan clean and add remaining oil; cook reserved corn and the scallions, 1 minute, then add corn crema and cook 1-2 minutes more. Meanwhile, bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil. Cook pasta until al dente, about 7 minutes. Drain, reserving ½ cup pasta water; add pasta and reserved water to saucepan and toss to coat. Transfer to a serving platter and grate ricotta salata over the top.


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Five new tax year resolutions to start today
SPONSORED FEATURE: Now that we're in a new tax year, why not set yourself some new tax year resolutions to get your savings in shape?
Here's five resolutions that are easy to make.
1. Invest in your ISA
Why put it off till the end of the tax year when you could get your money working for you now? Investing at the beginning of the tax year gives your ISA more time to potentially grow. Even if you're wary or unsure of where to invest right now, you can shelter your money in your ISA and make the decision a little later. You'll have secured your tax-free savings, which is up to £20,000 for those over 18.
Children have an annual ISA allowance too. They can save up to £4,260 a year in what's known as a Junior ISA (JISA). You can again pay in a lump sum or start their savings habit by arranging a regular investment that will grow nicely until they reach the age of 18 when they can top-up and continue their own ISA journey.
2. Pay into your pension
ISAs are, of course, not the only way to invest for you, or your child's, future. Pensions are another way to save and reap the rewards of tax-efficient investing. In this new tax year new auto-enrolment levels have kicked in. Workers and employers have to pay in new minimum contributions of 5% and 3%, respectively, meaning a total of 8% of your earnings have to be paid into your pension.
The amounts have gone up from a minimum employee contribution of 3% and a minimum employer contribution of 2% totaling 5% a month into your pension pot.
So, for example, if you earned £30,000, in the 2018/19 tax year you'll have been having a total of £99.87 paid into your workplace pension; £59.92 contribution from you and £39.95 from your employer.
From now, the total monthly contribution going into your pension pot will rise to £159.09, made up of £99.43 from your earnings and £59.66 from your employer. That's any extra £59.22 into your pension in return for giving up £39.51 of your gross monthly salary. But the difference to your take-home pay is only about £21 a month - because your contributions benefit from tax relief. So that's effectively £21 a month extra to you, but worth an extra £59.22 into your pension.
However, more than 9 million people - many of whom are women and young people or part-time workers whose earnings are below the level at which they're automatically enrolled in their employer's pension scheme - will miss out on this chance to pay into a company pension automatically. If you, or your partner, spouse or child, is one of these people then you need to take steps to secure your own financial future.
Everyone can pay into a pension and still get the tax perks; even if you lose out on the "free money" from your employer. But on the plus-side, even someone who isn't earning a penny, maybe because they're taking a break, say to look after a baby or care for a relative, can still save for their future in a tax-efficient way.
3. Save without sacrifice
Whether you choose to invest in your ISA or a SIPP or do both, you don't have to make saving a burden. By saving just £50 a month into your ISA or £80 into your SIPP you can make investing more manageable.
Fidelity's analysis shows that if you invested a lump sum of £1,200 in the FTSE All Share at the end of each tax year since 5 April 2010 (a total of £12,000) you'd be left with a pot of £16,594.09 after 10 years.
If however, you had regularly invested £100 in the FTSE All Share every month at the start of each tax year since 6 April 2009 (again a total of £12,000) for the past 10 years, you'd now have a pot of £17,803.20 - a significant difference of £1,209.11 Please remember past performance is not a reliable indicator of future returns.
4. Make sure you stay on track
Planning for the future can feel like something of a 'finger in the air' exercise. Knowing how much you'll need and for how long can feel at best like a guess when it comes to your retirement. But it doesn't have to be. We have tools that can help you make sure you get your figures right and - most importantly - stay on track.
Our easy-to-use retirement calculator lets you see how much you might need for the lifestyle you want.
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The value of investments and the income from them can go down as well as up, so you may get back less than you invest. Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and all tax rules may change in the future. Junior ISAs are long term tax-efficient savings accounts for children. Withdrawals will not be possible until the child reaches age 18. A Junior ISA is only available to children under the age of 18 who are resident in the UK. It is not possible to hold both a Junior ISA and a Child Trust Fund (CTF). If your child was born between 1 September 2002 and 2 January 2011 the Government would have automatically opened a CTF on your child's behalf. If your child holds a CTF they can transfer the investment into a Junior ISA. Please note that Fidelity does not allow for CTF transfers into a Junior ISA. Parents or guardians can open the Junior ISA and manage the account but the money belongs to the child and the investment is locked away until the child reaches 18 years old. Withdrawals from a pension product will not be possible until you reach age 55. This information is not a personal recommendation for any particular investment. If you are unsure about the suitability of an investment you should speak to an authorised financial adviser.


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Why You Should Choose Pennsylvania Christian Summer Camps
The Pennsylvania Christian summer camps are the best options for all families. They are the solution to keeping your kids occupied and making sure that they are making the right choices all through the long summer holiday. They are also very crucial in helping the whole family to grow spiritually and also to reunite. You will have an array of camps and conference centers to choose from so you need not worry. The kids will enjoy the horse rides, water sports, recreation grounds, and other fun activities. This will help them to use their energy constructively and meet other young people.
Young adults are especially encouraged to join the Pennsylvania Christian summer camps since they get to meet people of their own age who are like minded. This relieves the pressure exerted by their peers and it helps them to grow to be responsible and well behaved. They also learn life skills from each other as they are able to join in forums and discussions as well as counseling sessions. The retreat center is crucial for helping them to avoid drugs and engaging in premarital sex. This makes them grow into mature and respectable people in society and reliable leaders of tomorrow.
Pennsylvania Christian summer camps are very important because here one can help to mold their children's lives in the best way. They will be able to engage in sports and other activities and they will also find their way to good literature that can build their lives. With the world moving so fast the summer holiday is one time in the year where one can sit down with their children and be able to discuss their lives. Young adults who are ready for marriage will also greatly benefit from these camps as they enhance their relationships with the opposite sex and help them to live honorably.
In the Pennsylvania Christian summer camps one will find creative alternatives to the present world's influences that corrupt the young people's minds. Activities that will help people to grow closer to Christ include music and worship, devotionals, prayer and one on one talk with the staff on campus. Other activities such as playing music instruments, dance, baking, and all other games will keep your children happy and occupied. You can also join in these activities and fully enjoy yourself away from the pressures of normal life. You will also greatly benefit spiritually from sharing with other people in the Pennsylvania Christian summer camps.


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Health Information Literacy Outreach: A Curriculum for Improving Health Information Literacy of 6th Grade Children
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Library and Information Science | Medicine and Health Sciences | Public Health
This health information literacy (HIL) curriculum is designed for sixth grade students. It was developed by librarian and faculty from MCPHS University in collaboration with a local public library, art museum, local department of public health and local public elementary schools. It is designed around a major environmental health problem in the U.S., childhood lead poisoning.
The curriculum is designed to: 1) improve the health information literacy skills, and 2) increase knowledge of lead poisoning. A secondary goal of the project is to encourage 6th grade students to include attending college as one of their aspirations.
The curriculum is highly interactive and designed to be utilized over three to five sessions. A detailed description of the program components can be found in the following paper: Bond I, Friel C, Lahoz M. Spearheading Health Information Literacy in the Community: The Libraries as Leaders, IFLA Congress, June 04, 2011. Available at: http://conference.ifla.org/past/ifla77/114-bond-en.pdf.
Materials in this curriculum packet include: a pre and post-test to evaluate the effectiveness of the program, laboratory "experiments" to be conducted in the classroom or college laboratory, worksheets to guide students as they evaluate health information websites, non-fiction stories to read to students about lead poisoning cases, and a poster template for students to use to design a capstone poster. The curriculum also includes fictional Medical Mystery cases that contain artwork specific to the Worcester Art Museum. These cases could be adapted to include works of art from any partnering art museum.
This curriculum can be modified and used by librarians, teachers, public health workers, museum staff and anyone interested in conducting an HIL outreach project. The project was funded by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine-New England Region.
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Bond I, Friel C, Lahoz M. (2013). Health Information Literacy Outreach: A Curriculum for Improving Health Information Literacy of 6th Grade Children. National Network of Libraries of Medicine New England Region (NNLM NER) Repository. https://doi.org/10.13028/n62e-qg65. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/ner/26
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I'm delighted to welcome USA TODAY Bestselling Author DELILAH MARVELLE to Rakes and Rascals today for an exclusive interview.
Thank you SO much for having me, Carol! I absolutely love reading your blog and so it's fun to actually be on it!
Could you tell us where you were born and what it was like growing up there?
I was born in Chicago in the US. Growing up in Chicago, and in the city proper, was fodder for writing, I'd say. Aside from the fact that I lived in an apartment just two streets down from a railroad track where gangs gathered, and there was more cement than grass, the people I grew up with and the characters I met made it all worthwhile. What many of my readers don't know is that English is actually my second language. Even though I was born and raised in the US, my parents were from Poland and so I was raised and immersed in the Polish culture until I reached grade school, where I learned how to speak English.
If you've ever seen MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, it pretty much sums up how I grew up. A Polish neighbourhood, a Polish dad (though he didn't use Windex for everything, he was a total clean freak), and I even went to Polish school every Saturday. Although it set me apart from most of the kids in my grade school where kids would throw slurs at me like "Dumb Polak", I got to experience a side of life most Americans don't.
I grew up feeling very much like an immigrant and an outsider in a country that was supposedly mine. It was a fascinating experience and the sole reason why I connect with writing historical romances about men and women on the "outside" of respectable society. Because I was never really an insider when it came to anything. Everything I experienced while growing up was almost opposite to my American friends. While they were going to the movies, I was attending political rallies before the Polish consulate to demonstrate against the Communist Party that oppressed the country of Poland. Being connected to a culture and a country outside of the one you're living in sets you apart and in many ways, I'm glad for it. I experienced the sort of people, books, music and movies most Americans have never heard of. It created a large part of who I am: Delilah Marvelle and her world of the unconventional, lol.
How would you describe yourself – temperamental or easy-going?
I'm incredibly easy-going and get along with everyone on almost everything, BUT I am temperamental when it comes to things I am most passionate about. When it comes to defending others, myself and my family, I don't mess around by being easy-going. I've learned to balance my life by being both, because you can't survive in life by being one thing.
When it comes to food do you like sweet or savoury or both?
What many don't know is that I went to culinary school, so I learned to love it all. Sweet and savoury and everything in between. My personal speciality in culinary school was actually experimenting with historical foods which had a tendency to be more savoury. For the most part, there are very few foods I won't eat. I love trying new foods and often surprise myself by liking it almost every time. The only things I won't eat are certain organs on an animal that includes testicles. That just seems wrong to me. And yes, I've tried them.
What is your most treasured possession?
Aside from my family? A necklace from 1880. I started collecting historical jewellery pieces and it's by far what I consider my most treasured possession. I attached a picture of it because when it comes to all things historical, I'm all about sharing. What is fascinating about this necklace is that although it looks incredibly heavy, it's very light. It's made out of gold book chains. In the Victorian era, book chains were draped in the pages of a book, much like a book mark was used to hold a place. It became the fashion for ladies to show off their "intellectual" side by wearing book plate necklaces. Mine is on the higher end of that scale and I cherish this piece of history, often dreaming about who wore it and why. For those of you who want to see it in person, along with my entire historical collection of jewellery, I'll be wearing it all at the Historical Romance Retreat (www.HistoricalRomanceRetreat.com )
My 1880 necklace
If you were able to afford a second home anywhere in the world where would you choose and why?
Not to brag, but I already own two homes, lol. One is in the high desert of Oregon and the other is in lush forest of Oregon, so I get the best of both worlds. BUT…if I were to go for a third home, I'd say it would be in Paris. After visiting Paris for the first time two years ago, even my husband agreed it was a place we could both see ourselves living. The history, the people, the food, and the city itself were breath-taking. Maybe in about ten years, it'll happen!
Finally, what has been your most embarrassing moment?
I've had SO, SO, SO many embarrassing moments, I honestly don't know where to begin, lol. There is a reason I twist in humour into my writing. I live it all the time and have no one to blame but myself. If I had to dwindle it down to one of those moments, I would say the time I went to a Halloween party dressed as a ghost (all white, right?…not a good idea). I walked out into the backyard to join in on the party when I walked right off the ledge into a swimming pool (hey, it was dark!). I wasn't wearing any underwear or a bra given the outfit was tight and knowing this, I stayed in the water with my head sticking out waiting for people to stop laughing while I waited for a friend to get me a towel. I was totally laughing with them, but let me tell you, I never left the house without a bra and underwear again….especially on Halloween.
Delilah, thank you for taking time out to be here today and sharing these interesting facts about yourself.
You are very welcome! I loved being able to share. I look forward to seeing you at the Historical Romance Retreat next year!
If you would like to find out more about Delilah and her books, here are the links:


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AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. Announces Long-Term Spent Catalyst Recycling Agreement
Amsterdam, 29 June 2016 (Regulated Information) — AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. ("AMG", EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: "AMG") is pleased to announce that AMG Vanadium has signed a new long-term, multi-year agreement to process and recycle spent catalysts from a major oil refinery operator in North America.
"This is an important new business partner for AMG Vanadium and a key element of our long-term raw material strategic plan", said Mr. Hoy Frakes, President of AMG Vanadium. "We are pleased to have the opportunity to provide our new partner with the industry leading environmental solution for their spent catalyst recycling needs."
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AMG Vanadium is the largest domestic producer of ferrovanadium in North America.
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AMG is a global critical materials company at the forefront of CO2 reduction trends. AMG produces highly engineered specialty metals and mineral products and provides related vacuum furnace systems and services to the transportation, infrastructure, energy, and specialty metals & chemicals end markets.
AMG produces aluminum master alloys and powders, titanium alloys and coatings, ferrovanadium, natural graphite, chromium metal, antimony, tantalum, niobium and silicon metal. AMG Engineering designs and produces vacuum furnace equipment and systems used to produce and upgrade specialty metals and alloys for the transportation, automotive, infrastructure, and energy markets.
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