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We're Not Chicken About Getting behind Our Students
(As Demonstrated at the Spring '17 BIS Meet & Greet - Presented By BIS Society and SAP Club)
This annual Conference was, once again, a blur of activity, filled with good food, fun, networking, job prospects, and collegial conversion. Kudos to everyone involved in planning and participating. Students I spoke with were hopeful about their job prospects, several of them scoring invitations to continue their discussions with representatives. I've come to know and appreciate many of the exhibitors, who truly represent opportunities for our students.
Much as I enjoy them all, I have to give a round of keypad applause to the Foster Farms representatives, not only for a new organic line of chickens sold through our local Costco, but also for their marketing approach. In fact, I would like to order a small version of this sign for personal use. If this is the Year of Fiery Thinking, I'd better get cooking (or in the spirit of eggs, cracking) with some ideas of my own.
Behind Good People Resounds the Voice of Experience: A Mother and Mentor
Many of you might have already seen this article written about Peter Straus' mother, Kathleen Straus, shown here with granddaughter Naomi. After I read it, I found myself going back to it a few times thinking, "I so wish she were here in Chico to tell us about her experiences." She and her husband, a retired federal judge, would be a panel presentation in themselves, considering their vast experiences and contributions to the world. Here's an excerpt from the article:
When Kathleen Straus retired in December at the end of her three eight-year terms on the Michigan Board of Education, she was one of the longest-serving board members and well-respected for her indomitable commitment to public education. Her colleagues recognized her expertise and leadership by electing her board president six times.
Straus' work for both government and nonprofits spans the eras from school busing and desegregation to today's focus on charter schools and protection of {all} students' rights. Beginning as a classroom teacher and later PTA president, through both volunteer and professional positions, she perfected the skills necessary to get people to work together.
Thanks to Peter for permission to share his mother's story with the College of Business. What a courageous and rare person she is.
Behind the Department of Management Are Special People
Who Support Us
A Research Project: Find out more about three wonderful people who support the Department of Management
Method: A list of numbered questions and a request to answer one or more, as able. Leave list, rush out the door to prepare for class and hope for best.
Expectations: Low, because who has time for this?
Results: Exceeded expectations by far and were a delight to review.
Notes: I did not edit these responses. They were perfect as is.
Heather, Administrative Support Coordinator, Management Department
What would you be doing if you weren't at your current job?
If I wasn't at my current job I would be homesteading. I would grow my own food and fibers to make wonderful brightly colored life.
If you were going to start a business from scratch what would it be?
If I were going to start a business it would be called the Whiskey Woolery and it would be a bookstore bar with warm solid furniture in little nooks like a library. It would be a place where conversations over bourbon turned into novels and revolutions.
What one memory do you treasure most?
I have too many treasured memories to value one above all others, but the first one that came to mind is of walking in the woods of Plumas National Forest with my Grandpa Lee on sunny afternoons, after pre-school. He would whistle while we walked, and he would quiz me on the names of trees and flowers.
How would you describe yourself as a child?
I was a tiny quiet girl with big eyes…perfect for observing the world.
How do you recharge?
I recharge by hiking in pretty places in the woods where there are many trees and flowers and no other people.
Madi, Management Department Student Assistant
What were you like as a child?
I was actually a tomboy as a child, always copying and following around my older brother.
How do you recharge?
I recharge by laying on my couch with my cat Macaroon, watching Netflix.
When are you happiest?
I'm happiest when I'm at the beach.
If you were going to start a business from scratch what would it be?
I would start an independent makeup company. All the products would be organic/cruelty free while still being high quality.
What one memory do you treasure most?
My favorite memory is of my brother and me baking cookies with my grandma as young kids, dancing and singing along to 50's music.
What do you admire most in people?
I admire kindness in others.
What would you like to do during the course of your life?
Visit every country in the world.
What's a good joke?
There's two muffins in an oven. One muffin says "Man it's hot in here." The other muffin screams "AHH a talking muffin!" (My 5 year old cousin loves that one)
What's your idea of a perfect day?
A perfect day for me would be wandering around Paris aimlessly, spending most of my day eating macaroons and drinking coffee in front of the Eiffel Tower. Sside note: I have done this, and it was the best day ever.)
Do you speak another language?
I can speak a little French. Most of what I know is regarding food!
Tess, Management Department Administrative Support Assistant
Do you have a favorite teacher from your past?
I have been very lucky to have had many amazing teachers, but the first one that came to my mind was Mrs. Jordan, my 4th grade teacher. She was so loving and kind and made every student feel that they were very special. She loved us so much, she asked to move up with us and be our teacher again in 5th grade! I moved away midway through my 5th grade school year. She had a party for me and gave me a pink address book. All of the students had written their address in it. She also included her address, and I corresponded with her for several years until she died from cancer. I still marvel that she took the time to continue our friendship and answer every letter.
What is your favorite sport to watch?
I don't think it would surprise anyone to know that I'm not a big sports fan, but my husband, Wes, is a huge soccer fan. He is a soccer referee and serves on the Board for Chico Youth Soccer League, and he trains the other referees. He kept the statistics for the Chico Rooks when they were here, and they gave him a plaque for his volunteer service. So, I see almost every CSUC soccer game and lots of other soccer games (high school games because many of the players are "his" Chico Youth Soccer League referees and he wants to support them, not to mention countless TV soccer games. Don't even get me started on the World Cup!) Yesterday as I went for a walk around campus on my lunch break, a group of young men came jogging past. I immediately recognized the CSUC soccer team! Wait till I tell Wes!
What is the best perk that you have had at a job?
I lived in the Bay Area and worked as a legal secretary during the week, but on the weekends, I drove a tram at the Concord Pavilion. Once the last tram run was over, I got to sit at the top of a hill at the tram gate and watch every performance. It was magical. Most of my friends worked in the concessions stands and didn't get to see any of the shows, but I got to see every show from beginning to end. I loved it because I saw a lot of shows that I would never have seen otherwise and gained an appreciation for all kinds of music and entertainment.
If you had one free hour each day, how would you use it?
This one was easy. READ!
Thank you Heather, Madi, and Tess, for sharing your thoughts with us. We appreciate getting to know each of you, and are grateful for all you do on our behalf.
If there are willing volunteers for the next round of "Getting to Know You," please let me know and I will send along some advance questions.
Faculty Development is Behind Us, Too
Here's a reminder of the many offerings FDEV has waiting for those interested in career development, pay range advancement, and more.
By the way: Have you seen the dossier-building video FDEV produced for us? Sooner or later, we all need to deliver on that obligation, and now we have an easy-to-view reference.
Newer lecturers especially may find this information from Susanna Boxall valuable:
March 24th, Noon, Kendall 207-209, Range Elevation. CFA negotiated new eligibility for many lecturers. We'll talk about what you need to know to advance through the lecturer salary schedule.
May 12th, Noon and 4pm, Kendall 207-209, Filing for Unemployment. Most Lecturers are eligible for unemployment during the breaks, but most don't file. Please come find out if you're throwing away up to $450 per week during breaks.
Three Items of Possible Interest That Showed Up on the Radar
Twelve Books Bill Gates Thinks Everyone Should Read
Artist Paints Survivors "Because Everyone Deserves a Portrait"
The Movie I Have Been Waiting to See is Available at Pageant Until March 2
Finally, the following quote showed up in a compilation of quotes about teaching. Thought-provoking, to say the least.
If members of another profession—say surgeons—were like college teachers, they would perform in isolation without apprenticeships, learning to cut and sew by trial and error. They would know anatomy but be ignorant of biology. They would hold colloquia discussing incision tips and suture innovations. To demonstrate the quality of their work, they would ask surviving patients to fill out bubble-sheet questionnaires with items like: 'Does the surgeon demonstrate a commanding knowledge of his field? Is the surgeon well organized? Did she show respect for patients?' No one would look at survival rates."
– Larry D. Spence, "The Case against Teaching," Change, November/December, 2001, p. 14
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Sri Lankan President Received Warmly By Emir Of Qatar.
The President was warmly welcomed by the Emir of Qatar when he arrived at the Emir's Palace in Doha and President Maithripala Sirisena was received with a Guard of Honor at the Palace.
A Bilateral meeting between the two leaders was commenced after the cordial discussions between the two leaders.
The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani expressed his gratitude to the President for under taking a state visit to Qatar marking the first state visit by the President to the Middle East region. He also said that this tour of the President will pave the way to further strengthen longstanding bilateral relations between the two countries.
At present Qatar ranked as the highest GDP per capita in the world. During this meeting both leaders discussed in detail regarding the ways to broaden the ties between the two countries in all the sectors.
A joint committee to boost bilateral ties
Assistance to develop the ports of Sri Lanka & infrastructure facilities
Emir of Qatar agreed to invest for a natural gas power plant
Assistance for development activities in Sri Lanka through Qatar Development Fund
Seven new agreements signed between the two countries
The special attention of the Emir of Qatar was drawn to the request made by the President regarding entering into partnership with the Sri Lankan Airlines. He also paid his attention to provide relief for the fees for the certification of Products when exporting more than one ton weight goods to Qatar and promised to do the needful in this regard.
More than 150,000 Sri Lankans are working in many fields in Qatar, while some of them are living there with their families. The President requested the Emir of the State of Qatar to establish a school for Sri Lankan children where Sri Lankan syllabus is taught. The Emir, paying attention on that directed the relevant ministers and officials to seek about necessary arrangements on this regard.
The two leaders agreed to appoint a committee, consists of the representatives of both countries to seek the paths to cooperation in all sectors.
Sri Lanka and the State of Qatar signed one agreement and six MoUs.
Those are -
1. MoU on mutual visa exception for holders of diplomatic, official and special passports - the MoU was signed by the State Minister of Foreign Affairs Vasantha Senanayake and Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohamed Bin Abdur Rahman Al Thani
2. MoU on Cooperation in the field of diplomatic training and research - the Mou was signed by the State Minister of Foreign Affairs Vasantha Senanayake and Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohamed Bin Abdur Rahman Al Thani
3. Agreement of donation for providing emergency relief to Sri Lanka to face drought - the MoU was signed by the State Minister of Foreign Affairs Vasantha Senanayake and Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohamed Bin Abdur Rahman Al Thani
4. MoU on cooperation in the field of energy - the MoU was signed by the Minister of Power and Industries of the State of Qatar Mohamed Bin Salih Al Sada and Sri Lankan Deputy Minister of Power and Renewable Energy Ajith P. Perera
5. MoU in the field of waste water management - the MoU was signed by the Minister of Municipality and Environment of the State of Qatar Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al Rumaihi and Sri Lankan Minister of City Planning and Water Supply Rauf Hakeem
6. MoU in the field of health and medical science - MoU was signed by the Minister of Public Health for the State of Qatar Dr Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwariand Sri Lankan Health Minister Rajitha Senarathne
7. MoU in the field of exchange of financial investigations - MoU was signed by the head of Qatar's Financial Information Unit (QFIU) Ahmad bin Eid al-Thani and the Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit of Sri Lanka H Amaratunga
President Sirisena attended a luncheon hosted by the Emir of the State of Qatar, in honor of the President.
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This post has been brewing for a long time, bubbling and simmering in my head and heart. Thanks to friends @learningmurd and @hechternacht, who read it in advance, and encouraged me to publish, even if it does ruffle a few feathers…
It has diminished somewhat, now, but for a while, on the Twitterz, I had something of a reputation as "She-Who-Tweets-With-Kindergarten" Thanks to some very positive media exposure, it was widely known that I tweet with my class. Then, my blog post about using Evernote for student portfolios got a fair amount of attention. In addition to that, I myself am very active on Twitter. I co-moderate the #kinderchat community. I run Kindergarten Around the World. I blog right here. Altogether, I manage 4 twitter accounts, 3 blogs, 2 facebook pages, a pinterest account, and a partridge in a pear tree. I love my iPad and my shiny new iPhone 5 like nobody's business. I lust after a new MacBook. I own (and proudly wear) an Evernote t-shirt.
OBVIOUSLY, then, I MUST be passionately interested in The Use of Technology In Early Childhood Classrooms, right?
Ehrm, actually, no.
I am very very ambivalent about being perceived as a "techie teacher." To be utterly completely honest with you, the "tech in ECE" (and, by "ECE" I mean infants thru 3rd grade) conversation is BORING to me. It is tiring. It often feels faintly dirty, as, far too often, the people advocating FOR screen-based technology in ECE/primary classrooms, turn out to have some personal or financial interest in putting tech into those classrooms, while on the other end of the spectrum, the anti-tech people tend to deliberately misrepresent and misunderstand how tech is being used, and construct elaborate criticisms of tools that they themselves do not use and therefore do not understand. I have often felt like I was being recruited by both sides of this conversation. I have deliberately been non-committal, even downright slippery and evasive, while secretly squirming in discomfort. So here, I'm throwing it all out there — all the random reasons why the "tech in ECE" conversation is not my thing. Maybe sharing them here will help me make sense of them. Maybe this will help move the conversation in a more compelling direction. Or maybe this will just help me feel a little lighter by getting things off my chest.
- I guess the very word "technology" is a good place to start. The word "technology," in this conversation, is really just a cover for "screen-based technology." The conversations and debates are never about whether we should use CD players or listening centres or digital cameras or tape recorders or or even electric pencil sharpeners (all of which are "technology"). The discussion is ALWAYS about: iPads, iPods, computers, smartboards. Let's make no mistake: this is about screens.
- And THEN, because the "tech" conversation is really the "screen-based tech" conversation, the "anti-tech" people get to start talking about the evils of "screen time" as if there is no difference between a 2 year old parked in front of ScoobyDoo for 8 hours a day while the babysitter does her nails, and a 5 year old dictating a tweet that will be sent to (and replied to by) another 5 year old on the other side of the world. And any conversation that requires that many sets of quotation marks to describe is ALREADY exhausting. And boring. And probably futile. I have experienced first-hand how the anti-screentime people don't want to hear about how an inner city classroom uses a smartboard to go on virtual fieldtrips to the rainforest, or how tweeting with friends in Indonesia brought empathy to a whole new level in my classroom. If it happened using a screen, it apparently… doesn't count? Really?
- All of that being said, if pushed on it, I have to say: I'm just not sure that handheld screen-based tech has a place in classrooms for children under 5. There. I said it. I said "no, thanks" to iPads in the Preschool and Junior Kindergarten classes at my school. Those kiddos have too many things to do with their brains and their bodies and each other to be spending time on a screen while they are at school. I'm also really not sure that putting a device worth several hundred dollars in the hands of 3 year olds is the world's soundest decision. There, I said it.
- I think that screen-based versions of real-life things are rarely the better option. The people who sing the praises of these sorts of apps seem to be inordinately focused on the "easy and convenient" factor: No cleanup! Less noise! Easy and convenient is for 7-11, not kindergarten teachers. Maybe I will someday encounter a situation where virtual pattern blocks provide more learning opportunities than the real thing, but until then I prefer real, three-dimensional blocks that kids can touch and move and feel and manipulate.
- As it says in my bio, I believe tech is a tool. Nothing less and nothing more. What's more, "tech" is a category of tools. Asking "what do you think of technology in ECE?" is like asking "What do you think about writing utensils in ECE?" Well, um… they are definitely good to have. I like some better than others. Different utensils are better suited to some tasks/age groups/goals than others. Some require adult supervision. Some require specific instruction to use them properly and safely. Some are really not my favourite in kindergarten, but may be great for other age groups. I think there are teachers who are not very thoughtful about which writing utensils are most appropriate/provide the most learning opportunities for their students. Even the ones I don't LOVE may have their place for a specific child trying to master a specific skill or complete a specific task… You see? All of these things are true about technology, too. And yet, we do not devote hours of debate to the question of writing utensils. (Sidebar: I can actually get quite worked up about writing utensils in kindergarten, and WHY CRAYONS ARE BETTER THAN MARKERS, but that is another post…) We don't have conferences about writing utensils. We don't get pressure from admin to better integrate writing utensils. We don't have to apply for grants to GET writing utensils. We don't have to prove why we need them or how they will benefit our students. Writing utensils are not that interesting. To me, tech isn't, either.
- Also in my bio "if you don't have a sandbox, you don't need an iPad." We have so many bigger fish to fry in this field right now. There are teachers who have had their dolls, blocks, sandboxes, sensory tubs, housekeeping centres, ripped out of their classrooms and replaced by desks and worksheets. There are schools without recess, without daily PE, without any fine arts programs. When and if you are confident that your students are getting adequate play time, exercise, fresh air, interaction, exploration, creative expression, time in nature, sensory stimulation, and rest time, THEN let's talk about careful, thoughtful, use of screen-based tech. What would happen if, when an administrator offered an iPad to a kindergarten teacher, that teacher asked for $500 worth of toys and books and puppets and puzzles? Or even… a sandbox? $500 will buy A LOT of paint and playdough and dolls and blocks. It will even buy a sandbox.
- And, on the other hand, to borrow from a comment I made earlier today on my friend Matt Gomez's blog: in a program where "play" has been systematically eliminated (and those programs and settings DO exist, let's make no mistake here), an app or software package that feels like a game to a child might help create some positive associations about school. Even if that app is "worksheety." (That is SO my new favourite adjective.) Even if it is dressed up drill & kill. A child who looks forward to SOMETHING about school is always going to be a better learner…. right?
- A lot of the praise-singing for tech in the classroom talks about "sharing with an authentic audience." I'm really not sure about this one. I'm not sure that this sharing is truly motivating for kindergarten students. Often, they are far more interested in the process of creating something than they are in the finished product, and I WANT IT THIS WAY. The learning is in THE PROCESS, right? Once the goal becomes the sharing of the product, what happens to the process? When my students DO take an interest in the product, their first question is "Can I take it home?" They want to show Mom and Dad, Sister and Brother, MAYBE Grandma and Grandpa. Sharing students' work with a global audience is undeniably exciting for teachers, but is it interesting to 5, 6, 7 year olds? Do they even care? Are they more excited by seeing it posted in the classroom or the hallway? By inviting the principal or librarian to come see it? By taking it home and put it on the fridge? Who is the sharing really for? When we ask for #comments4kids, how authentic IS it?
- A global audience is not the same as building global relationships, and we need to be careful not to confuse the two, or to treat them interchangeably. If screen-based technology is helping kids build relationships with others (especially other CHILDREN), and those relationships motivate our students to share their work and learning, I am all on board. Heck, I am more than On Board. I will captain the ship and take Kindergarten all the way Around the World.
There. It's out there. Part of me is worried that I may have offended some of you with this post. Another part of me says that at least I was pretty even-handed in distributing potentially offensive comments; people on BOTH sides of this conversation could (and likely will) take issue with some of my points. But that's exactly the thing, isn't it? There shouldn't be a question of "sides." Somehow, on this issue, we hear every question as a criticism. Every mention of a useful app becomes an Endorsement for iPads in All Kindergartens. Jebus Crisco. Just because I like a new kind of Sharpie doesn't mean I think all teachers everywhere should scrap the crayons.
So, let's stop. Let's stop talking about "tech." Let's talk about the children we love and ALL the tools we use to reach and teach them.
Because that conversation? Now THAT is interesting.
23 Responses to "Why I am not interested in "Tech in ECE.""
I LOVE this. I think you should publish this on a teacher website or as an article with a Teacher zine or Education Company. I think you have SO many good points – esp about how grade levels and student needs to be considered when considering any kind of supplement to Education, especially technology. People tend to see "differentiation" as something done in a classroom with different ability levels. I think your point is completely valid, tech needs to be differentiated according to grade level, and it sounds like for the under 5 age group – manipulatives are more impt than tech. I also really liked how you explained the two camps: tech & anti-tech. I think there is so much truth in your analysis and people should see your perspective.
1 year later…After exploring several hashtags on twitter (#ecechat, #kinderchat) I came up on this incredibly inspiring post! I don't teach ECE but feel a lot of these points can be applied to upper primary as well. I particularly appreciated your argument about the process being more important than the product. Often my Grade 4 students are more excited to work on the project, fiddle with it and improve/add to it rather than finish it. After identifying certain outcomes from IT-based projects/assessments (using checklists, rubrics etc), I've learned to allow students to share where they are in the process, rather than focus on having everyone finish at the same time with identical results. This has also enabled more natural differentiation in the screen-based tools they choose to share their understandings, as well as how in depth they go with the applications. Thanks again for starting this conversation..I will be following your blog now and look forward to reading more brave and honest posts like this!
Favorite part is the difference between global audience and global relationships. You'll know when your students are fostering relationships and it will be magical.
Yes, the teachers need to be transparent with the tools before they try and get the students using it. It's the only way to be successful!
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How is it that you are always able to post the things I'm thinking…..I am really impressed and agree wholeheartedly. Well done. 🙂
I really enjoyed this post. I don't think there will be many issues with using any tool as long as teachers are being as thoughtful as you have been in this post.
One area I really feel that technology has been extra beneficial for my class is by giving them a voice. Pictures, tweets, blogs, etc. have given them an opportunity to share learning. They are proud of this and that is a big win. Young kids often do not have a voice and I see this as a powerful way to use technology tools regardless if it is local or global.
Your distinction between a global audience and global relationships is something I had not considered before and I think it is a valid point.
Lastly, crayons are much better than markers (#kindertwin)
When I taught elementary school we always had a computer in class and it was primarily used for word processing and the occasional math drill game. The best thing I loved about tech in the classroom was the ELMO. (Sadly I've never had a smart board.) Now the ELMO's a device that enables everyone to see something well! You can model how to work out a long division problem and draw pictures as well as show the numbers. You can let Joey share his marble collection where everyone can see it immediately, and be more patient when it gets passed around. And I could go on. When I left traditional education to work in alternative education venues tech equipment was virtually non existent. ( All the years I taught preschool we also opted not to have a computer for student use.) And you know….when I'm working with my students it's so much fun to converse and get our hands dirty with all those hands on projects. This fall I got an IPad and I've used it a bit to show photos I've selected from the internet of things like architectural features or artworks. I could use it for recording dictation. I could use it for taking photos (but I use my camera instead). But really….the majority of kids have plenty of chances to explore screens outside of school. And the great social skill building and direct learning experiences with peers are far more important to their intellectual development than any device ever could be.
I agree, the document is my most favorite technology tool and i think is ti underused in favor of other technology.
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts and writing them with such pose and grace. I often feel the same way and think you hit the nail on the head with it's a tool, not a substitute. I find on the tech journey the tool needs to create things and not be an app – worksheet substitute. It's another language, if you have read anything or study the Reggio Emelia Schools in Italy. Thank you for sharing, it was needed.
I enjoyed reading this article over my breakfast. In my school (England) we have much less focus in the early years on 'screen' technology than it appears is often the case in USA. By highlighting the issue as being about the 'best way to help children learn' you hit the nail on the head. Far too often the teacher is the most excited person in the room when it comes to technology. You are right to make the point it is not a question of either / or , just what is best for children. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Amy I take no personal offence in this blog post if I was one person you thought you might offend. While some may view me as a teacher all about technology, if you've ever been in my classroom or have seen how I teach you'll see that EVERYTHING, like absolutely EVERYTHING I do, I do because of and for my students. The ONLY THING that matters to me is finding the best ways to meet each and every one of my students individual needs. Period, end of story case closed. When I have concerns you'll see that my concerns always stem back to my students, and what they need. Always.
As always something to think about in your blogs. Don't think sharing apps is the culprit. But eliminating the arts, PE, block and dramatic play, recess and Developmentally Appropriate curriculum in ece is. Screen time/devices has impacted how we all look at schooling now.
If there was a like button for your response I would press it enthusiastically!!!
You pose excellent questions. The focus should be on the conversation–all tools and venues that will promote a child-friendly, engaging and successful education for children should be on the table with regard to teaching teams' discussions and conversation. Then teams in each school need to do the research, collaborate and make decisions about the best ways to teach each child–there won't be one tool, one way or one path, instead there will be multiple, ever-changing avenues including paper/pencil, play, outdoor exploration, conversation, drama and more. Without debate and questions, we won't grow, and without growth, our programs won't evolve and serve children well. Thanks.
I, too, get frustrated with the "screen time" discussion and I love the examples you have shared about Scooby Doo vs dictating a tweet. Too often in education we dichotimize issues to the point that you are good if you do it and bad if you don't (or visa versa – and I have done this and had this done to me). Do I think there are some things that we should avoid? Absolutely. But for the most part… your last statement sums it up: "Let's stop talking about "tech." Let's talk about the children we love and ALL the tools we use to reach and teach them."
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We take a look at the different types of food you're most likely to spot on the lifestyle influencer's plate on any given day.
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Issue 91 is coming your way soon and we are very pleased to include an essay by Alie Benge, a winner in this years Landfall Essay Competition
Here's what judge, David Eggleton had to say about Alie's winning essay.
"Alie Benge's essay, 'Shitfight', which is about raw army recruits in Australia being prepared for a theatre of war in the Middle East, has a physicality and dynamic urgency to it that stopped me in my tracks," says Eggleton.
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New "domus" will be open in Pompeii
Starting form August 4th, more guardians have been recruited in Pompeii archeological site, so it will be possible to visit many "domus" that have been closed sice now. They will make the site much more interesting.
The "domus" at issue are:
Termopolio di Vetutio Placido
Casa dei Ceii
Casa del Larario di Achille
Casa di Marco Lucrezio Frontone
Casa dell'Ara Massima
Casa di Apollo
Terme Suburbane
Casa della Caccia Antica
Casa di Cornelia
Casa di Marco Lucrezio
Pliny the Younger, the eye witness of the eruption of the Mount Vesuvius in 79AD
At the time of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79 the Roman fleet under the command of Pliny the Elder was stationed across the Bay of Naples at Misenum.
Pliny was a scientist, a historian and a naturalist and he felt the need to get closer to observe the phenomenon of the eruption.
He decided to land in Stabia, where lived his friend, but he died because of the toxic gases.
Pliny's nephew, whom we know as Pliny the Younger, was with him at Misenum, but did not venture out on the ships with his uncle. He stayed back at Misenum and observed the events from there. He also received first-hand reports from those who had been with his uncle at his death. Based on this information Pliny the Younger wrote two letters to the historian Tacitus that recount the events surrounding the eruption of Vesuvius and the death of Pliny the Elder.
The letters survive and provide a vivid account of the events.
An ancient harbour brought to light in the center of Naples
The realization of the Line 1 of Naples underground allowed the reconstruction of the landscape, the topography and the functions of the coast between the sites of Partenope and Neapolis.
The station of Piazza Municipio stands inside an ancient creek, that used to stretch out on a tuff promontory from Castel Nuovo to the Ferry station and the area around the Church di Santa Maria di Porto Salvo.
In the Piazza Municipio have been brought to light the I century A.C. ruins of an harbour (whose deepest seabed are notched by dredgings datable between the end of the IV century and the second half of the III century B.C.) with a quay in calcareous rock supported by wooden poles, perpendicular to the coastline, along which were abandoned two boats ( shipwreck A and C) and a third one (shipwreck B) of the end of the II and beginning of the III century A.C. At the beginning of the V century A.C., the harbor basin became swampy; the piazza Municipio, during the Middle Ages, was characterized by the presence of house ruins around the Castel Nuovo, destroyed at the beginning of the 16th century for the construction of bastions.
Pompeii in 3 D – Film
Pompeii (referred to by marketing as Pompeii in 3D) is an upcoming American disaster-adventure film co-written, produced and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, the film starsKit Harington, Emily Browning, Carrie-Anne Moss, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica Lucas, with Jared Harris, and Kiefer Sutherland.
The papyrus
The Latin word chart, from the Greek χαρτης describes a sheet made by juxtaposing and stacking thin layers made from the papyrus stem. The papyrus was common in swampy areas and warm climates. The romans perfected the process for treating it, which the Egyptians used as early as 3000 BC, described by Pliny the Elder. Romans made lightweight sheet with smooth surface on which they could write easily with a calamus, a pointed reed, dipped in ink, which was made of water, sap, squid ink, and soot.Contact me for your tour at Pompeii and Herculaneum
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Rome to Pompeii by high-speed train
Of all the ancient Rome tours, a visit to Pompeii is a must while staying in Italy. Nowhere else will you see history so well preserved. The story behind this famous place is laid bare as you wander around the streets between former houses and brothels. You will see the last moments in the lives of the people of Pompeii that were captured by the erupting volcano.
From Rome tourists can take two modern and comfortable high-speed trains getting Naples in 1h:10min. The trains are called "Italo" and "Frecciarossa"; return tickets cost between 80 and 100 euros. Sometimes there's the possibility to get discounts booking a couple of months in advance.
From Naples the best way to get Pompeii or Herculaneum is by Circumvesuviana local train. The trip lasts 30 minutes; stop at "Pompei Villa dei Misteri" 100 meters away from the main gate of the excavations called "Porta Marina Superiore". The return ticket cost 4, 50 euro.
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The Mozilla Developer Roadshow: Asia Tour Retrospective and 2020 Plans
November 2019 was a busy month for the Mozilla Developer Roadshow, with stops in five Asian cities —Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Singapore, and Bangkok. Today, we're releasing a playlist of the talks presented in Asia, with subtitles available for all these talks in languages spoken in the countries on this tour: Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, as well as English. We covered CSS Subgrid, Mixed Reality, Web Compatibility, and more.განაგრძეთ კითხვა


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Biogas Plant Costs
Understanding Biogas Plant Costs – Biogas Plant Types
Biogas design, or in other words, the design of biogas production plants, varies greatly and any discussion about biogas plant costs must take the types of biogas plants into account as the cost of each varies substantially.
Here is a list of some of the most common types of biogas plant designs which have been conceived and built, and some of them in large numbers, numbering in the tens of thousands:-
1. Household sewer and soil biogas plant designs (developing nations): Low cost, low maintenance gravity fed concrete tanks below ground close to the dwelling with a lead off pipe from the top of the digester vessel which provides biogas to the kitchen where it fuels a hob.
2. On-farm biogas design which is simple and automated, but restricted to the developed nations and an order of magnitude more high-tech than the household plant just described. These may use purpose grown biofuel crops, or they may use animal slurry. They do have basic automation and usually run as a continuous process which reduces biogas plant costs.
3. Sewage treatment biogas plant designs. The truth is that these in the past were probably designed first and foremost as a method of taking sewage sludge and rendering it pathogen free an safe for use as a fertiliser and soil conditioner for farmland and nurseries. These are quite large plants but until recently they would supply no more than the power to run the sewage works and maybe some would use the biogas directly to run site owner's vehicles.
4. A biogas design option emerging in the last 10 years has been that of the community biogas plant, providing both a convenient waste disposal route for organic wastes ad a source of income to farmers and residents alike within the community. Such plants will accept a wide range of feed materials from food waste from local residents to farm animal waste slurries, and where food processing takes place probably also food waste processing. These can be highly cost-effective investments where there are no biogas plant costs for the provision of feedstock materials.
5. All the foregoing options are water based so called "wet" digestion processes, but anaerobic digestion can be carried out on solids, with the exclusion of air. Mixing is more difficult and many examples of this technique therefore operate on a batch rather than a continuous production basis. Rather than a tank a batch type dry digester comprises a tunnel filled and emptied by a wheeled front end loader or similar. Simple dry digester systems may be low cost and help reduce biogas plant costs.
6. Many further options have been developed for larger digester plant designs and plants using municipal solid waste (MSW), and specialist technology provider companies have patented many of these. They first is where the biogas designer adds pre-processing variations on the feed materials to ensure the best percentage of organic matter is digested while in the reactor. The most common is to reduce the particle size for quicker digestion. Another pre-digestion stage method is to add hydrolysis which again improves the conversion rate of biomass into biogas, however adding such additional sophistication can easily increase initial biogas plant costs during construction.
Opinions About Biogas Plant Costs for a Variety of Biogas Plant Types
With the above biogas digester types in mind we have collected some articles which discuss biogas plant costs, as follows:
ᔥ Credits: North America's First Zoo Biogas Plant to be Built at the Toronto Zoo …
Although the construction cost is estimated at $5.4 million, the benefits of the biogas plant will be worth the cost. The 500-kilowatt plant will provide enough electricity to power over 250 households. In addition, it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 12,000 tonnes (the equivalent of removing 2,100 cars off the road).
ᔥ Credits: VFDs Lower Engineering and Operating Costs 15% for Biogas Plant …
Jackson offered the owners a Siemens integrated solution that included a VFD to control a large fan in the anaerobic digestion process. The VFD would yield an energy savings of 54%, a considerable savings given the large power requirements for the fan.
Additionally, the solution featured an in-feed automation system that would control a mixture of agriculture waste and animal manure to increase the methane output by 30%. This would open the opportunity for the developer to sell process gas to the grid.
Ultimately, Jackson showed the developers that considerable cost and time could be saved through the design and engineering phases by specifying the mechanical and electrical drive components as a single, horizontally integrated drive system.
A growing number of large food vendors in the US. "Universities and even sports teams are beginning to embrace biogas production as a means of reducing waste and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while creating renewable energy", but costs are an issue, as the follwing article reveals:
ᔥ Credits: Big Food Vendors Turn Waste into Biogas, Despite the Costs …
But, they handle biogas plant costs effectively in East Africa by having a pay-as-you-go biogas business model:
The scarcity of wood fuel and high cost of kerosene may no longer be a concern for many rural households in Central Kenya, thanks to a patent pending pay-as-you-go biogas business model that delivers a user friendly and …
The technology provides an affordable alternative, compared to traditional biogas systems. Farmers pay a small fee to install the system; they then pay for the biogas as they use it. This saves the farmers upfront cost (an average of $1,700) for purchasing the biogas system.
ᔥ Credits: The East African Energy Blog: Innovative Biogas Business Model …
Others say that Biogas plants can be extremely cost-effective when you control biogas plant costs:
Human society is facing changing climates and eroding landscapes, after centuries of exploiting non-renewable resources biogas is the emerging alternative, and for good reason. Moreover, biogas is extremely cost-effective …
ᔥ Credits: Biogas: The Renewable Answer To The Fuel Crisis | Family Crisis
You might find the following Plant Design page interesting.


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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testified before a U.S. Senate panel that the central bank's monetary-policy committee will keep the economy from overheating, adding to speculation over rising interest rates that have rattled markets this week.
Powell said Thursday the Federal Open Market Committee, which has raised interest rates five times since late 2015, will "strike a balance between avoiding an overheated economy" and allowing inflation to rise.
While high inflation is considered bad for the economy, the Fed has been troubled by persistently low inflation in recent years. When inflation is low, it's usually seen as a sign of a sluggish economy. The Fed's preferred measure of inflation climbed 1.7% last year, below the central bank's target of 2%.
Powell told the Senate Banking Committee that while there's "no evidence that the economy is overheating," he expects unemployment at a 17-year low to lead to accelerating wage increases that in turn might drive up inflation.
The Fed chair was testifying before Congress as part of its semi-annual report on monetary policy.
His comments before the House of Representatives on Tuesday have strengthened convictions that the Fed will continue on its pace of gradual rate increases, with many traders now speculating that four hikes may be in the offing this year, instead of the three projected in the central bank's latest forecast.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 1.7% Thursday and was down 2.9% on the week.
Yields on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes fell by 0.06 percentage point, a sign that traders saw an increasing likelihood that the Powell-led Fed would stick with its promise to raise rates enough to keep inflation from climbing too quickly.
Over the past few months, investors have kept a close eye on surging Treasury yields, often seen as a barometer of future inflation. Yields on the 10-year note have climbed to 2.81% from 2.43% at the end of the year, due to the prospect of higher inflation as well as increased Treasury-bond sales to cover the cost of the recently enacted tax cuts.
Lindsey Bell, an investment strategist at the analysis firm CFRA Research in New York, wrote in a report Thursday that the yields have risen "far too fast for the market to digest."
"A real tug of war is developing between higher economic growth, improved corporate earnings and global growth on one hand, and the potential for increases in inflation, rising interest rates and an increased national deficit on the other," Bell wrote. "Higher interest rates and higher levels of inflation are normal in an improving economy, but the speed at which those rates increase needs to be steady and not swift."
Last month, the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) - Get Report lifted its forecast for year-end 10-year yields to 3.25% from 3%, adding that they could eventually reach 3.75% during the current economic expansion.
According to Goldman Sachs, additional moves higher in the yield might reflect wariness by investors of holding bonds that don't pay off for a decade -- since their value typically falls harder than shorter-term securities when interest rates rise.
"We find that U.S. term premium should increase as the economy progressively overheats," the Goldman analysts wrote in the Feb. 16 report.
Goldman Sachs economists wrote in a separate report last week that a rise in yields to 4.5% could trigger a 20% to 25% decline in prices for stocks.


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We live in a fast paced society. Everywhere we go, every where we look, we are bombarded with information.
If you're trying to learn how to make money online its even worse. Everyday you are pitched a new "system", "tool", "blueprint", etc.
But here is something I want you to think about. I've been using one business model since I started to see success. It's a business model that worked long before I ever used it and its one that will continue to work for years to come.
And it boils down to a few simple components which I am going to put into a blueprint for you.
Passive Income Blueprint
1. Offers – Products, memberships, services, coaching/consulting. These offers can be your own offers or affiliate offers.
2. Traffic – A way to get your message in front of targeted people who will join your email list and purchase those offers in the last step.
3. Lead capture – A way to capture that traffic, get them on our email list, and convert them into paying customers.
4. Content – Emails, blog posts, videos, free reports, etc. This is what gets people to know, like, and trust us enough to purchase based on our recommendation.
Now how do we turn those steps into a passive income stream?
First you need a niche and offers in that niche to promote. Your own products and memberships or affiliate offers.
Next you need a lead capture system. The best way to do this is set up a squeeze page giving something of value away for free.
After that you need autoresponder emails that promotes the offers you selected in the firs step. But not just boring robotic style emails. Emails that get people to actually pay attention. Emails that get people excited to get emails from you. And to really top things off you can send them free content emails in between offers that delivers value to them.
Finally, you need to send traffic to your squeeze page. You can do this with blog posts, YouTube videos, guest blogging, Facebook, Paid traffic, etc.
Last but not least you fine-tune along the way and increase conversions.
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- September 19th – Healthcare: Value based Payment Model @ the Spanish Tavern in Newark
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Golf courses in Burgenland & nearby Styria
A golfing holiday in one of Austria's sunniest holiday regions
Stegersbach is a hole-in-one for golfing enthusiasts: the Hotel Larimar is located in a hilly thermal spa region and surrounded by dreamy golf courses. Austria's largest golf resort is just a few steps from the hotel: the Stegersbach Lafnitztal course with a total of 45 holes. But if that's not enough: there are three more charming golf courses in the area surrounding the thermal spa hotel.
Golfers can enjoy pure pleasure in and around Stegersbach in the picturesque landscapes of south Burgenland. Golf in Burgenland is very highly regarded thanks to the mild Pannonian climate. You can play golf here all year round and from March to the end of October as a minimum.
Stegersbach Lafnitztal golf course
Two 18-hole courses, one 9-hole course and the Simon Tarr Golf Academy together form an unrivalled golfing paradise. You can play a challenging, exciting or leisurely round of gold here, depending on your preferences and the strength of your game. Picturesque brooks, still ponds and magnificent mixed woodlands are dotted across the fairways which more than live up to their names: the 'Panorama' and 'South Burgenland' areas with 18 holes each offer dreamy enjoyment on the fairways and greens.
The hilly panoramic landscape offers endless panoramic views and a challenging game. There are two ponds to be crossed, among other things. The South Burgenland course blends in perfectly with gentle hilly landscape, is clear and easy to play and as such is ideal for beginners. No tee-off times are allocated on this 9-hole course and players only need to pay a green fee. Both beginners and experienced golfers can play a round here. The course also includes two driving ranges – one in-front of the Hotel Larimar and the other at the club. The fun course is located alongside the latter and is popular with beginners thanks to its short fairways.
Larimar guests receive attractive special prices on courses at the Simon Tarr Golf Academy.
Simon Tarr Golf Academy in Stegersbach
Austria's most renowned Golf Academy offers tailor-made courses for beginners, intermediates and experts. A top class training team led by head pro Simon Tarr will support you on your way to becoming a golf professional or gaining your proficiency certificate.
Bad Waltersdorf (Styria)
The Bad Waltersdorf golf club was established in 2004 and quickly became a favourite on the local golfing scene. The course was designed by English golf course designer Michael Pinner and blends in perfectly with the existing natural setting. It offers an 18-hole course and spacious practice area.
Bad Tatzmannsdorf
The Golf & Country Club Bad Tatzmannsdorf is home to a championship course with 18 holes and a 9-hole practice course in a forest clearing. Austria's largest driving range also offers plenty of space for unlimited training sessions.
Loipersdorf (Styria)
The thermal spa golf resort of Loipersdorf is nestled in the alluvial area around the Feistritz and Lafnitz rivers. The charming 27-hole championship course on the border between the states of Burgenland and Styria impresses both experienced golfers and beginners.
Let us know your requirements when you book – the committed Larimar team would be happy to organise your golfing holiday for you. All you have to do is tee-off!


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There's nothing as encouraging as seeing the first spring flowers pop out of the ground after a long, cold winter, their colors a first hint that warmer times are on their way. But just imagine seeing millions—yes, millions—of them spread out over fields and lawns and in wooded parks. You can witness a natural spectacle like that in the Keukenhof Gardens in the western Netherlands.
The Netherlands, as the undisputed world capital of flowers, honors its reputation in this magnificent spring garden—truly one of the greatest gardens in the world. And you can only visit it in spring. In 2019, the Keukenhof Gardens will be opened to the public from March 21 through May 19. You have about a month and a half to explore this extraordinarily "flowerful" park.
But let's backtrack a little bit and take a look at the park's location, history and what it stands for.
The History of the Keukenhof gardens
Located near the popular college town of Leiden in the province of South Holland, just a short distance from the North Sea coast, Keukenhof is set in the heart of the appropriately named "Dune and Bulb Region." Bordered by historic cities such as The Hague , aforementioned Leiden and Haarlem, and the sand dunes along the coast, this region is literally covered with flower fields. In spring, the entire region is a palette of all colors imaginable, from red tulips to blue hyacinths to yellow daffodils.
The name Keukenhof is Dutch for "Kitchen Garden", which refers to its former use as the herb garden of the Teylingen Castle Estate. Its history begins in the 1400s, when Countess Jacqueline of Bavaria and her staff gathered vegetables, herbs and fruit in the dunes and woodlands that surrounded her castle. The current Keukenhof Castle was constructed in 1641, after which the estate expanded to an area of more than 200 hectares (494 acres). F
ast-forwarding two centuries, the castle gardens were redesigned in 1857 by renowned landscape architects Jan David Zocher and Louis Paul Zocher, a father-and-son team. They, incidentally also designed the well-known Vondelpark in Amsterdam. Their English-style landscaped gardens are essentially still the design of the Keukenhof Gardens today.
The Keukenhof Gardens Today
The park's current use as a spring attraction began as an idea from twenty local bulb growers who wanted to use it as a place to exhibit their various cultivars of spring flowers. Keukenhof Gardens opened its doors as a spring flower park in 1950 and became an immediate success—more than 230,000 people visited the park in its very first year.
Nowadays, the Keukenhof Gardens are renowned around the world for their overwhelming flower displays, exhibits and beds. Showcasing the very best Dutch flowering bulbs, this 32-hectare (79-acre) park attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each spring.
The spring flowers in Keukenhof are supplied by nearly 100 flower-growing companies. Each company can exhibit their flower varieties and cultivars in a specific area designed by the park's garden designers—together, the companies and designers create the best possible flower beds, according to colors, flower heights and flowering times. The gardens of Keukenhof are home to no fewer than 7 million (!) flowering bulbs each year.
In addition to the flower beds spread out across the lawns and in the woodlands, there are also about twenty indoor flower displays, where an additional 500 flower growers can display their work.
This sheer abundance of spring flowers—millions upon millions of tulips (800 different varieties of them), daffodils and hyacinths—makes this one of Europe's greatest spring destinations. It truly is a spectacle unlike any you've ever seen before.
In addition to the flower displays, the park also features a number of food stalls, children's playgrounds and information boards. It wouldn't be in the Netherlands if there wasn't a network of pretty canals that crisscross the park, while a beautiful windmill makes it seem even more Dutch.
After you're done exploring the park and its colorful gardens, be sure to go for a ride in the surrounding countryside as well. Bicycles can be rented at the park. This countryside is almost as spectacular as the park itself, a region that is simply covered with spring flowers. From mid-March to mid-April, this is arguably the most colorful region on earth, featuring flat fields of tens of millions of flowering bulbs. This is a landscape that's nothing short of breathtaking.
If you want to explore more of Holland in the Spring, you can also take a river cruise from Amsterdam.
More information on the Keukenhof Gardens
Written by and photos by Bam Reusen for EuropeUpClose.com


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Being Momma Bear has changed me. I've changed drastically and dramatically and for the better. We grow up, drag ourselves in to the world of adulthood and expect nothing. For some people things don't change. They blend from one decade to the next with the same ideals and shoes. Others change quickly, become bigger, better versions of their younger selves. And then there are new parents. The change is sudden and immense. The growing up and learning is vast. Parenthood is like an affliction that changes the internal mechanisms of your body and brain – in a positive yet frightfully severe way. Has parenthood changed you?
There seems to be an instant switch that is automatically turned on when your baby takes their first breath. As though, their newfound life is connected to a trigger in the brain that downloads the parenting gene. But this change is an odd meandering of trials. You are forced to recognise who you were and who you now are. You're almost blindsided into accepting that the old life and the old you are to be no more. It's not an easy process. It's almost akin to a death – there's mourning and acceptance. And life goes on.
The Mourning Period
The old life is gone. The freedom and youth you reveled in shimmers to a memory. Someone else takes center stage as you become the understudy. And yes, that is of course the way it should be, as this helpless, beautiful miracle coos their way into all of our hearts.
But there is a loss for an identity which you know will slip away, for the person you were and loved. Becoming a parent is a big deal, bigger than anything you've ever imagined. Your world, your life gets twisted, turned upside down and wrung out to dry. Every month, every week, every single day, you delve deeper into parenthood changes something in you.
How you thought life would be, filters through a million changes. Things you said you would do are revised. Ideas you had for the future, fragment and refine.
But all is not lost. Change brings new opportunities, new ideas and new loves.
Accept Me the Way I Am
Old traits become quashed by new attributes. They're not gone. They are simply placed in the shadows until they are ready to peek through again. And they will. We never really lose parts of ourselves. We pack them away until its time for them to shine again.
Parenting takes over your life on a level you can't comprehend until it happens. Before I became a mum, I didn't think parents had it hard. I didn't believe they had it any better or any worse for that matter but I definitely didn't think their life was hard. It never crossed my mind that raising children of any age was difficult. Sure, wasn't I the perfect child, never giving my parent grief? Well Mum, wasn't I? I can practically hear my Mum laughing to my Dad, "Look what I just read on the perfect child's blog!"
But it is hard. We all know that. It's hard because it's impossible to prepare for this huge change. And as they grow older, we can't account for their actions. There are no puppets in parenting. There are strong, determined and stubborn characters that we must guide and love and nourish. And that changes you.
I sauntered through life, living, loving, working and learning.
Before I became Momma Bear, I was selfish. Selfish with my time, with my money, with my space. And why not? It was mine. Mine to do with as I pleased. I begrudge no one to spend their money and their time in ways that a child free life allows them to. But once you become a parent, there are very few "that's mine" moments (unless you're the toddler, then there's a lot!) And that's ok. In fact it's more than ok.
Becoming a parent loosens parts of your mind that were tight and particular. You live for more than just yourself, more than just your partner. Your children encompass your world, and they won't realise this until they have children of their own.
It Takes Time to Find Yourself
I'm still learning and still changing. I'm still becoming Momma Bear, becoming the new me through parenting! I expect I will always be learning. I expect my own Mum and Dad are nodding in agreement. I have changed and I love the new me. But it's only the last few months that I've started to love Momma Bear. I love her positives and I love her faults (because we all have them). I love her thoughts and dreams and I acknowledge her fears. I love Momma Bear.
I am stronger, faster and more capable. I am gentler, happier and wiser. I live more in the moment but am terrified of the future.
How has Parenthood Changed You?
I asked a simple question on twitter (my new favourite social media platform – If you're not following me yet, hop on board!) to fellow parents – How has Parenthood Changed You? I don't think I've ever had as many twitter notifications beep their way through my phone! Parents like to talk. And why not?
I started writing this blog because I love to write and what better to write about than our family and our beautiful daughter. So, I asked the vital question and ping, ping, ping, the answers came flooding in! Twitter, for those of you who are unaware, only allows you to write 140 characters. How do we Momma and Papa Bears trim our whole parenting world into 140 characters?
The answers were wonderfully succinct, precise and to the point. The nuts and bolts, nitty gritty, the essence of parenthood. Thank you so much to everyone for sharing their thoughts with me for this post.
So, how has parenthood changed you?
~ TJ from The DADgum Blog
~ Alex from fatherof5blog
~ Hannah from Hi Baby Blog
~ Jordanne from Life of a Glasgow Girl
~ Kimberley from Forever Kimberley
~ Emma from Self Care Mom
~ James from A Life Just Ordinary
~ Rachel from Our Rach Blogs
~ Australian Mum
~ Colette Singer Songwriter Colette O'Connor
~ Wendy from Naptime Natter
~ Hollie from Trusty Mama
~ The Joys of Motherhood
~ Claire from Now My Name Is Mummy
~ Val from Magmum Lady
~ Laura from Dear Bear and Beany
~ Sarah from Sarah Lea Stories
~ Kate from The Less Refined Mind
~ Lucy from Lucy at Home
~ Cécile from The Frenchie Mummy
~ Nicola from All Things Spliced
~ Jade from Raw Childhood
~ Amy from Mama Amelia
~ Cheryl from Reimer and Ruby
~ Fran from Whinge Whinge Wine
~ Louise from My Gorgeous Boys
~ Kate from Along Came Poppy
So tell me…
How has parenthood changed you? How are you different? How is your life different?


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For anyone who pays attention to visits from our alien neighbors, you know that UFOs come in a variety of shapes and sizes. First, there's the classic saucer UFO, and then there's the iconic (but mysterious) cigar-shaped UFO. Some speculate that these cigar UFOs are motherships of some sort. Strangest of all, however, are triangle UFOs.
Usually, the shape is inferred by the arrangement of lights on the underside. To UFO researchers, triangle UFOs are certainly the most mysterious and the most threatening. In recent years, the number of triangle UFOs spotted has skyrocketed. The most recent sighting of a triangle UFO occurred over Charlottesville, Virginia. Luckily, the person who spotted the craft had their camera on hand.
Of course, there is always the possibility that this video is fake, or that what we're seeing isn't actually a UFO. It's easy for your imagination to start running wild with footage like this, but that just makes keeping a level head all the more important.


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Warning to teachers about signs a girl may be at risk of undergoing FGM
Teachers are being advised of the signs a girl may be at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) as 'cutting season' approaches.
The so-called season arrives at the start of the summer holidays, when potentially thousands of UK girls could be flown abroad to unwittingly undergo the procedure.
The National FGM Centre says any teacher who suspects a pupil is going overseas for this purpose should follow normal safeguarding procedures.
But these professionals can only help protect children by knowing what to look out for.
Some indications may come from the child. She might:
- Begin to tell her friends about FGM
- Confide she is going to have a 'special procedure', or attend a special occasion to 'become a woman'.
- Talk about looking forward to a long holiday to a country where the practice is prevalent.
- Approach a teacher or another adult if she's aware or suspects she's at immediate risk.
The child's parents may unwittingly give the following clues:
- Say they are taking their child out of the country for a prolonged period of time
- Ask permission to take their daughter out of school during term time.
- Talk about looking forward to a long holiday to a country where her relatives live and where the practice is prevalent.
- Mention they are going to a country with a high prevalence of FGM, especially during holiday periods.
The National FGM Centre, run by Barnardo's and the Local Government Association, trains professionals to spot the signs which may suggest girls have had FGM.
These include difficulty in walking or sitting down comfortably, taking a long time in the toilet, or a significant change in behaviour such as becoming withdrawn.
This is as figures published this week show that we still have a long way to go before new cases are stopped.
There were 1,030 newly recorded cases of female genital mutilation in England between January and March 2018, according to figures published on Thursday (June 7) by NHS Digital.
This is compared to 1,045 newly recorded cases for the last quarter of 2017.
In all, for the first quarter of this year, there were 1,745 women and girls reported at NHS trusts and GP practices where FGM was identified or a procedure related to FGM was undertaken.
Of these 1,745, the FGM took place before the girl had reached her 10th birthday in 77% of the cases, and before she was 18 in 87% of cases.
And 3% of the cases happened here in the UK.
Head of the National FGM Centre Leethen Bartholomew said:
"Much more needs to be done to support survivors of FGM and protect girls who are at risk.
"FGM is child abuse and no girl should ever have to live with the harmful physical and emotional consequences of this practice.
"We hope our reminder of the signs will help not just teachers but all agencies to prevent FGM from happening by identifying girls at risk and helping to prosecute those who fail to protect girls from this type of abuse."
The figures are published by NHS Digital and show between January and March 2018, there were 1,745 women and girls who attended a medical setting where FGM was identified or a procedure related to FGM was undertaken:
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These accounted for 2,320 attendances reported at NHS trusts and GP practices.
1,030 women and girls with FGM were recorded in the FGM Enhanced Dataset for the first time.
Since October 31, 2015, it has been mandatory for health, social care workers and teachers in England and Wales to report known cases of FGM for under 18-year-olds to the police.
If any child tells one of these regulated professionals they have had FGM, or if a professional observes she has had FGM, they must phone the police on 101.
If an adult tells someone a child has had FGM, this is a report of child abuse.
If this is the case then the adult should follow their normal child safeguarding procedures.
Figures show there are at least 137,000 girls and women affected by FGM in England and Wales.
Since the Government introduced the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act in 1985, which made FGM a specific criminal offence, there have been many initiatives to stop FGM in the UK.
In 2003 the Female Genital Mutilation Act made it illegal to take a girl abroad for FGM.


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WinMill Software Announces Managed Services for CA PPM
LAS VEGAS , November 8, 2014 CA WORLD '14 - WinMill Software, a CA Platinum Services Partner and Global Partner Program Advanced member, recently unveiled its newest service offering: Managed Services for CA PPM (formerly CA Clarity PPM). Using an entirely US-based staff, WinMill provides high-end, long-term services to manage, maintain and support client CA PPM environments."Our clients want to focus on what they do best, which is running their business," said Kevin Kilgore, President of WinMill Software. "Managing CA PPM is not part of their mission statement, even if CA PPM is critical to their business. And they are realizing that we can do it better and cheaper than they could ever do it themselves. It's a win-win for everyone."
WinMill provides four tiers of CA PPM Managed Services, which can be combined according to a client's particular needs. The service levels include CA PPM Administration & Helpdesk, CA PPM Technical & Report Development, CA PPM Mentoring & Functional Support, and CA PPM Full-Time Staff. Pricing is based on the size of the organization's CA PPM implementation and the level of support needed.
"We've been providing this kind of service to our clients for years," said Amy Skaar, WinMill's CA PPM Practice Manager. "But now we've bundled it into clear service tiers with simple pricing. Some of our clients want us to keep the lights on, while others want us to help move them forward along their long-term CA PPM roadmap. Others want certified technical staff available to chip away at their growing wish list, or functional staff to support end-users. Our service tiers can be mixed and matched to meet the needs of any client."
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Closing the abstraction gap in 100M-gate designs
Closing the abstraction gap in 100M-gate designs
By Chi-Ping Hsu, Chief Operating Officer, Get2Chip, Inc., San Jose, Calif., EE Times
December 19, 2002 (11:00 a.m. EST)
URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20021219S0031
One-hundred-million gates. One-billion transistors. Once the province of speculation and dreaming, chip designs of enormous complexity are now in the planning stages and, in a few cases, in the design stage. Ninety-nanometer process technology enables the creation of chips with 175-million gates aboard a single die. At the time that register-transfer-level (RTL) design was commercially deployed on a broad scale in the late 1980s, the average ASIC size was a mere 10,000-gates. While the gate counts possible have grown by 1,000 times, designers have clung to the same tools and same level of abstraction, even though abstraction has been long known to be a superior source of complexity reduction.
To efficiently scale to 100-million gate design, fundamental changes in tool technology and design methodology must be made. A new generation of front-end design must be deployed in the industry. This "New Front-end" will be a combination of further abstraction and next generation tool technology. It will give design teams the boost required to reach the dizzying heights of 100-million gate design.
Designers need to be conscious of downstream bottlenecks that can kill gains made at the front-end of the design process. Capacity, runtime and quality of results limitations of first-generation synthesis tools have shown to be severe issues in the design of large, high-performance chips. A new generation of RTL synthesis has recently emerged, which uses global optimization methods that achieve a balanced gate architecture that increases chip performance and decreases congestion problems. It also offers an order of magnitude higher capacity and runtimes with increased quality of results. Netlists generated with this new global synthesis technology often close timing with 1/10 of the effort.
The hype surrounding "physical synthesis" has distracted attention from the debilitating limitations of existing front-end tools. Fundamentally, "physical synthesis" is detailed cell placement with local, incremental gate optimizations for example, sizing and buffering. The idea of pushing responsibility for performance optimization to the back-end designers was and is popular with front-end designers. However, every pragmatic engineer realizes that design is a chain of processes that is only as strong as the weakest link. If a weak/watered down form of front-end synthesis is used to create a global logic structure, no amount of back-end, physically-driven incremental synthesis will fix the problem, no matter how long it runs. Placement is just one link on the chain of tools for a successful SoC design.
SoC strategies incorporate processors, memory and other pre-designed/pre-defined intellectual property (IP) blocks in order to better exploit the full potential of the target process technology. To make this integration effective, the design of these IP blocks also needs to be tailored for its specific usage. When the IP is delivered as RTL code, synthesis tools can optimize the implementation within the confines of the specified micro-architecture. The added capacity and global optimization technology of next-generation synthesis technology enables chip-level optimization where the global view of the design can be used to create a global logic structure that best fits the criteria of a particular project.
Abstraction solutions
As IP blocks get larger and more complicated, it is harder for IP developers to anticipate and make tradeoffs to get the best return on their investment. Abstraction may be the answer to some of these tough trade-off questions faced by IP architects.
For the SoC designer, IP reuse strategies have alleviated some of the complexity pressure, but to create the highest value, significant portions of chip function must be original to better differentiate products. While P reuse strategies may have bought some more time for design teams, the mounting complexity tsunami is surging forward.
| Architectural synthesis offers several advantages over RTL synthesis. Using architectural synthesis with Poca code in Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL or SystemC, an IP designer can create a single source that can generate multiple microarchitectures. Architectures are optimized for the target application, design constraints and process technology. IP designers will be able to provide solutions that fit into a broader variety of applications and contexts with less effort.
Source: Get2Chip
In the past, there's been a disconnect between any abstraction above RTL and the target process technology. The net result was that the tools trying to automatically bridge that gap could only get lucky once in a while at producing good desig ns, they could never be good. The crux of the problem was the absence of timing information accurate enough to drive an optimization process. With these problems, chip designers rejected the adoption of those tools. However, new algorithms that integrate multiple levels of abstraction offer a solution to those problems. By tightly interweaving high-level, RTL, logic and closure-driven place and route techniques, the abstraction disconnect can be eliminated to open up a whole new frontier to IP and SoC designers alike.
In conjunction with these new algorithms, an evolutionary coding style called pins-out-cycle-accurate (POCA) can be employed in Verilog, VHDL, or C dialects to offer chip designers benefits of abstraction within the confines of the language environment of their choice. Key attributes of POCA code are that it takes about 1/10 as many lines to describe a function as its RTL counterpart, that code will simulate about 25 times faster, and there is no loss of testbench compatibility thr ough the synthesis process. The synthesis technology that processes POCA code and creates optimized micro-architectures in RTL, or fully optimized netlists is called architectural synthesis by the research community.
Using architectural synthesis with POCA code in Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, or SystemC, the IP designer can create a single source that can generate multiple micro-architectures. Architectures are optimized for the target application (in context), design constraints and process technology. As a result, IP designers will be able to provide solutions that fit into a broader variety of applications and contexts with less effort.
Coupling abstraction and architectural synthesis yields a quantum gain in handling the complexity of 100-million gate design. When coupled with the new generation of global RTL synthesis algorithms that have been tuned for timing closure, results are pretty amazing. The essential elements of the "New Front-end" have been proven on some of the biggest (more than 250-million transistors) and some of the fastest (4 GHz) designs fabricated so far.
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