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Great Different Pineapple Smoothies - Erase Winter Colds With Pineapple
Erase winter colds with Pineapple. This sweet tropical fruit contains Bromelain, an enzyme that eases congestion and suppresses coughs associated with Bronchitis and other respiratory ailments.
Erase winter colds with Pineapple. This sweet tropical fruit contains Bromelain, an enzyme that eases congestion and suppresses coughs associated with Bronchitis and other respiratory ailments.
You can throw just about anything in a fruit smoothie to enhance its flavor such as honey, tofu, jams, any combination of fruits, peanut butter, juices, etc., but keep in mind it will effect the nutritional values.
20 ounces unsweetened pineapple chunks
1 cup buttermilk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 teaspoons liquid sweetener
Mint leaves--optional
Drain pineapple, reserving 1/2 cups juice. Freeze pineapple chunks. Place juice, buttermilk, vanilla, sweetener and frozen pineapple into a blender container.
Blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and garnish with mint if desired.
6 ounces can pineapple juice concentrate, thawed
1/2 cups water
1/2 cups skim milk
8 ounces carton vanilla yogurt
2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups ice cubes
Pineapple wedges, for garnish
In a blender container, combine the pineapple juice concentrate, water, milk, yogurt, sugar, and vanilla.
Blend mixture until smooth. With the blender running, add ice cubes slowly through the opening in the lid and blend mixture until slushy.
Pour into tall glasses and decorate each serving with fresh pineapple wedge.
1/2 cups pineapple chunks
1 cup soy milk, any flavor
1 carrot, peeled and sliced
1/3 cups pineapple juice
1-1" piece ginger, peeled and minced
Honey to taste
Place all ingredients in blender container and blend until everything is smooth.
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"All that your worship has said so far," said Sancho, "I have understood quite well; but still I would be glad if your worship would dissolve a doubt for me, which has just this minute come into my mind."
"Solve, thou meanest, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "say on, in God's name, and I will answer as well as I can."
"Tell me, senor," Sancho went on to say, "those Julys or Augusts, and all those venturous knights that you say are now dead — where are they now?"
"The heathens," replied Don Quixote, "are, no doubt, in hell; the Christians, if they were good Christians, are either in purgatory or in heaven."
"Very good," said Sancho; "but now I want to know — the tombs where the bodies of those great lords are, have they silver lamps before them, or are the walls of their chapels ornamented with crutches, winding-sheets, tresses of hair, legs and eyes in wax? Or what are they ornamented with?"
To which Don Quixote made answer: "The tombs of the heathens were generally sumptuous temples; the ashes of Julius Caesar's body were placed on the top of a stone pyramid of vast size, which they now call in Rome Saint Peter's needle. The emperor Hadrian had for a tomb a castle as large as a good-sized village, which they called the Moles Adriani, and is now the castle of St. Angelo in Rome. The queen Artemisia buried her husband Mausolus in a tomb which was reckoned one of the seven wonders of the world; but none of these tombs, or of the many others of the heathens, were ornamented with winding-sheets or any of those other offerings and tokens that show that they who are buried there are saints."
"That's the point I'm coming to," said Sancho; "and now tell me, which is the greater work, to bring a dead man to life or to kill a giant?"
"The answer is easy," replied Don Quixote; "it is a greater work to bring to life a dead man."
"Now I have got you," said Sancho; "in that case the fame of them who bring the dead to life, who give sight to the blind, cure cripples, restore health to the sick, and before whose tombs there are lamps burning, and whose chapels are filled with devout folk on their knees adoring their relics be a better fame in this life and in the other than that which all the heathen emperors and knights-errant that have ever been in the world have left or may leave behind them?"
"That I grant, too," said Don Quixote.
"Then this fame, these favours, these privileges, or whatever you call it," said Sancho, "belong to the bodies and relics of the saints who, with the approbation and permission of our holy mother Church, have lamps, tapers, winding-sheets, crutches, pictures, eyes and legs, by means of which they increase devotion and add to their own Christian reputation. Kings carry the bodies or relics of saints on their shoulders, and kiss bits of their bones, and enrich and adorn their oratories and favourite altars with them."
"What wouldst thou have me infer from all thou hast said, Sancho?" asked Don Quixote.
"My meaning is," said Sancho, "let us set about becoming saints, and we shall obtain more quickly the fair fame we are striving after; for you know, senor, yesterday or the day before yesterday (for it is so lately one may say so) they canonised and beatified two little barefoot friars, and it is now reckoned the greatest good luck to kiss or touch the iron chains with which they girt and tortured their bodies, and they are held in greater veneration, so it is said, than the sword of Roland in the armoury of our lord the King, whom God preserve. So that, senor, it is better to be an humble little friar of no matter what order, than a valiant knight-errant; with God a couple of dozen of penance lashings are of more avail than two thousand lance-thrusts, be they given to giants, or monsters, or dragons."
"All that is true," returned Don Quixote, "but we cannot all be friars, and many are the ways by which God takes his own to heaven; chivalry is a religion, there are sainted knights in glory."
"Yes," said Sancho, "but I have heard say that there are more friars in heaven than knights-errant."
"That," said Don Quixote, "is because those in religious orders are more numerous than knights."
"The errants are many," said Sancho.
"Many," replied Don Quixote, "but few they who deserve the name of knights."
With these, and other discussions of the same sort, they passed that night and the following day, without anything worth mention happening to them, whereat Don Quixote was not a little dejected; but at length the next day, at daybreak, they descried the great city of El Toboso, at the sight of which Don Quixote's spirits rose and Sancho's fell, for he did not know Dulcinea's house, nor in all his life had he ever seen her, any more than his master; so that they were both uneasy, the one to see her, the other at not having seen her, and Sancho was at a loss to know what he was to do when his master sent him to El Toboso. In the end, Don Quixote made up his mind to enter the city at nightfall, and they waited until the time came among some oak trees that were near El Toboso; and when the moment they had agreed upon arrived, they made their entrance into the city, where something happened them that may fairly be called something.
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The Man I Need To Be
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I want to thank the Lord for the dad he gave to me,
The man God chose to show me the man I need to be.
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The Mormon Church: Issue an official apology for racist teachings that declared Blacks cursed
I joined the Mormon Church when I was a youth growing up in Nashville. At the time, I didn't know about the racist teachings by the Church that persisted until 1978. Nor did I realize that the Church had never apologized for those teachings. All I knew is that these were kind and giving people who helped me establish my relationship with God and seemed to be putting me on a path toward success. It wasn't until I was serving a mission in my early 20's when I met an African American man who challenged me to question the racist ideas and past teachings of the Mormon faith that had once declared that I was cursed.
While most Christian churches relied heavily on racist inclinations about Blacks as an accursed and stigmatized group who fell out of favor with God to justify their enslavement, the Mormon Church took this one step further. They taught that the origins of the curse began with Cain for having committed the world's first murder against his brother, Abel. Though there is no scripture to support this claim, LDS faithful believed that the curse placed on Cain by God was the skin of blackness. Additional dogma was also created in the LDS Church on why Blacks were banned from Mormondum, but these differing interpretations were nothing more than racist creations to serve as justification of bigotry. Over time, when various Christian-based white churches began to distance themselves from the racist rhetoric and teachings of their faith, the LDS Church remained steadfast in its persistence of racist folklore well beyond the Civil Rights era.
What is even more egregious is that despite ending the ban on Blacks in the priesthood in 1978, the Mormon Church has yet to issue a formal apology on matters of race and their mistreatment of Blacks. While the Catholic Church and other Protestant based faiths—Episcopal Church, United Methodist Church, Southern Baptist, Lutheran—have since made peace with their racist past and issued public apologies for their role in slavery, Jim Crow racism, and their participation in the mistreatment of African Americans at the hands of misguided Christians, the LDS Church remains unshakable, convinced that its policy was divinely sanctioned by God and that no such apology is needed.
Our goal is to get the Mormon Church to apologize for its racist actions and teachings, just as other faith-based traditions have apologized. This is necessary is to disprove the prevailing notion that God "had His reasons" why humans denigrated and discriminated against other human beings based on race. When the Church refuses to give an apology, it leaves its millions of members left to question whether this was really God's will rather than human racist actions. A recent online survey revealed that the majority of Mormons no longer believe that Blacks were cursed, but most of them still continued to hear these teachings in their church. Black Mormon members in the survey overwhelmingly asked for a public, unambiguous apology.
Like most of us, I'm hoping to leave this world a better place for our children. I am not cursed. And I certainly don't want my children growing up thinking or even hearing that they were cursed. Please join me in asking the Mormon Church to issue an official, public apology for their role in racism. Click here to sign the petition.


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Data: The Importance of Accuracy, Integrity and Real-Time Integration
While it's easy to see why data has become so important to modern businesses, the hazards it presents must also be accounted for. With new risks and pitfalls appearing daily as technology evolves, it's no surprise that security is usually at the top of the priority list.
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There's no getting away from the fact that data comes from everywhere these days. Just as a few examples, we have mobile devices, loyalty cards, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, social media sites, GPS location data and complex market research tools. The source pool is still growing too; the ongoing development of concepts like the Internet of Things (IoT) mean that machines are also becoming an integral part of the data deluge. Alongside the more traditional computerised devices, businesses will soon be mining information from seemingly inanimate objects (think fridges, tables and cars).
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Unless every data-using employee is singing from the same hymn sheet, auditability will always be a chore at best. With different platforms being depended on, and information coming from lots of different sources, the reliability of information cannot be reliably determined; and when this is the case, it should not be used to influence decisions. At the very least, decision makers need to know about the data heritage and the (lack of) confidence they can place in this information.
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The time it takes experts to generate actionable insight from raw data has always been a stumbling block, especially when the older BI model is adopted. Data is undoubtedly the business' single greatest asset, but with every other organisation looking to harness its power, the usefulness decreases as time goes on. It's no longer enough to embrace information. Now, it must be used quickly – or even instantly.
The periods of time in which businesses have to make their decisions – both major and minor – are shortening. When sales staff are out talking to clients, for example, they must be able to draw on the facts and figures that are up to date and that support their cases there and then; instead of having to wait for days, or even longer, until it's ready. It's this instant access that enables a firm to get ahead of its competitors, or keep up with them at the very least.
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Companies that utilise sophisticated data-led insights can't simply rest on their laurels and marvel at a job well done, however. Inaccuracies in the data can quickly escalate from a minor niggle into something that compromises all the hard work and effort previously invested. Analysts (among them Joel Curry of Experian QAS UK and Ireland) have noted that accurate data can drive efficiency, profitability and growth. Inaccurate data, on the other hand, can cause real detriment to a business – and its bottom line.
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As innocent and accidental as this all sounds, the impact could be huge. Curry went on to cite a survey which showed that one pound in every six that is spent from departmental budget is wasted. The biggest consideration here is that these losses are wholly avoidable, by ensuring that data accuracy always remains a key consideration.


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An inch off seat pitch can go a long way
I am sure you have heard many times the story of the American Airlines manager that saved his airline millions of dollars but just removing an olive from in-flight menus..it's a good example to illustrate how, when you are flying millions of people every year, even a small optimizing change can compound really quickly.
I don't know if the olive story is true or not, but it came to my mind when I read this very similar story about Southwest Airlines.
As the story goes, the American low cost carrier might have achieved hundreds of dollars of extra revenue by reducing seat pitch by just a single inch, as this allowed the airline to add up to six additional seats per flight!
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Finally edited the time lapse of building my Gertboard. It took about 4-5 hours from start to finish. I missed a small portion of soldering the header pins because the camera ran out of battery. The surface mount components were the hardest, but after that it was pretty straight forward and really fun! Here is the link to Vimeo and the Time Lapse (https://vimeo.com/56662328). After finishing the board I ran the test scripts that were written in C and it worked except for the motor controller. For some reason it would not turn the motor. Still working on figuring out what I am doing wrong there…
Finished shot of the Gertboard connected to the Raspberry Pi.


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think // it's a year old, but this article on streaming services makes me think there must be a better way*
*I'd really love to support musicians with my listening choices, and if I love an album, I still buy it, but wondering if anyone knows of any online services for streaming music, that pay artists fairly? (I know, I'm only half-joking)
For the record, I really like Bandcamp, where bands/artists can set the price of digital downloads/physical media purchases, but offer free streaming of tracks so you can preview their music. It's mostly used by independent musicians, and you can support them directly through this service. I just wish I could "shuffle" the music, or listen to playlists, so I could find new bands easily.
*EDIT - I just received an email from Bandcamp this morning, they have launched a new music feed functionality, that plays your favourite artists and their favourite tunes. Looks like a step in the right direction for making music more discoverable on this service. Hooray!


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In this collection, I capture the shapes, textures, and ambiance of the Central Valley. Much of the inspiration for this work comes from areas surrounding the San Joaquin and Kings Rivers, as well as the canals that transport water to various locations throughout the Valley. The rows and roads bisect the compositions as gridded fields take shape on the canvas. The shimmering river cut a cool wavy line through the verdant, but sometimes arid, landscape.
I create, oil paintings, mixed media work, and even a sculpture to convey the different moods of the central valley. I represent the lines, shapes, light, and colors of the fields of the valley in a tactile way that reminds the viewer of the place they live.


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"Make the call." He growled at no one in particular, before stomping over to the phone in uneven, sleep-deprived steps. I felt like I should say something, do something to stop the horror that was unfolding. But I didn't. I had only slept in bits and snippets over the last forty-eight hours, and I was simply too apathetic to really care.
The day before, my alarm had rang and rang in banshee style at four thirty in the morning. At first, I thought it was a cruel prank or ugly dream. I groggily checked my watch. I had gone to bed at two-thirty, and slept for a monstrous two hours. Dimly, I thought about how I had classes that lasted longer than two hours. I was utterly drained. But the new routine did seem to have promise. My alarm was still shrieking, and Longhorn was writhing in angry discontent. Every easy aspect of life was trouble. I was able to get dressed, barely, but shoe tying was a six minute struggle. Finally, I trudged over to the back of the cafeteria. I was certain that no one would be standing there, and that it was all an elaborate hoax.
But, in the early morning gloam, exhaust writhed around too-bright tailpipes, and everyone was there, gloomily rubbing appendages and looking around blankly. We boarded the vans were like the undead. Rigidly, with unseeing eyes, we rode to the lake in even rows, with the bumps and permutations of the road causing people to twitch and jerk awake. Then, we rowed, cold brown water sloughing over into the boats, and onto pale flesh in the early morning. I couldn't conceive of why I had signed up for this fun voluntarily. At a quarter to seven, I was back at my room. I had Acting at 9. I could sleep for two more hours, and get four hours, if two and two doubled still meant four. At 8:30, I turned the alarm off and skipped class, calmly sleeping until noon.
Things were exactly the same at the present. I had again foolishly stayed up inordinately late. I had slept for two hours. I had let my alarm ring extra to annoy Longhorn. The shoes were easier to solve, because I had laced them loose the night before, and merely slipped them on. However, most of the team had been missing at the pickup. Instead of simply boarding the vans with what remnant he had, the Coach had decided to call each person who was not there. Crabby roommates answered phones, woke the appropriate parties, and in a short while, disheveled parties straggled out, and in a haze, all three-quarters of the original team made the trip to the lake.
Weeks blurred. Even though I had the best intentions of getting into bed early, and sleeping, dorm life precluded that. In retaliation for my early mornings, Longhorn would open and close the door loudly, and tramp in and out, often with guests when I was sleeping at my odd times. I then refused to answer my name at roll-call one morning, causing the Coach to call my half-empty room and wake Longhorn a half hour after I had already left. Life was becoming difficult. I was misplacing things, forgetting others, and speaking in simple one syllable words. I had also taken all of my semester absences from Acting in a two week span, and been caught sleeping in another course four times.
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When practices had started, we had enough men and women to crew eight full eight person boats. After four weeks, there were only twenty-eight survivors left. The lure of the drug of sleep was a real force that led to serious attrition. Yet, Party and I, and the remnants stayed. We didn't know why we stayed. It wasn't because of skill, because we could tell that we had next to none. It wasn't because we loved rowing. We stayed, because our brains were mush from a lack of sleep and susceptible. We stayed, because despite our best efforts to avoid one, we were now members of a campus cult


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PHILIPPINE SEA - A Sailor stands watch in the Combat Information Center aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53). USS SECURE Project Lead Adam Simonoff received the Department of the Navy Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) Excellence Award Feb. 11 for his work with USS SECURE - a standalone cybersecurity test bed that determines the best combination of cyberdefense technologies to secure a naval combatant such as the Mobile Bay, without impacting real time deadline scheduled performance requirements. Simonoff - a Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division cybersecurity engineer - anticipates that USS SECURE's successful cyberdefense technologies will transition into the fleet and will be offered throughout DoD and the Department of Homeland Security to protect and defend the nation's critical infrastructure. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman James R. Evans (Released)
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - A Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) cybersecurity engineer received the Department of the Navy (DoN) Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) Excellence Award here Feb. 11.
DoN Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen presented the award to USS SECURE Project Lead Adam Simonoff for his work with USS SECURE - a standalone cybersecurity test bed - during the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association awards ceremony.
"I am extremely pleased and proud that Adam has won this award as it demonstrates his commitment and enthusiasm to cybersecurity engineering excellence and to ensuring Navy combat and weapon systems can protect, detect, characterize, mitigate, and recover from unauthorized activity, vulnerabilities, and cyberattacks," said Chris Nerney, NSWCDD Cyber Lead.
The annual DoN IM/IT Excellence Awards recognize IM/IT projects, teams and individuals that have helped to transform the Navy and Marine Corps through information technology.
"I feel honored to be a part of NSWC and to receive this award on behalf of all the organizations that collaborate on the USS SECURE project to defend and respond in the event of a cyberattack against our fleet," said Simonoff. "Our men and women in uniform will be able to execute their mission trusting their automated systems to communicate reliable information and return home to their families and loved ones."
USS SECURE's test bed determines the best combination of cyberdefense technologies to secure a naval combatant without impacting real time deadline scheduled performance requirements.
"This test bed enables us to develop, evaluate and test cybersecurity concepts and technologies to defend mission critical systems at sea and ashore," said Simonoff.
The USS SECURE cybersecurity test bed is a collaboration between the National Security Agency, DoD Information Assurance Range Quantico, Combat Systems Direction Activity Dam Neck, NSWCDD, NSWC Carderock/Philadelphia, Office of Naval Research, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, and Real Time Innovations Inc.
"The USS SECURE has led a series of cybersecurity and cyberengineering 'firsts' for NSWCDD and has helped position the command as a leader and innovator for cybersecurity solutions that will benefit not only our Navy but the Department of Defense community at large," said Nerney.
USS SECURE's objective is to immunize a warfare system against the effects of a cyberattack and to rapidly recover when the system is impacted.
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From App Smashing to Sequencing Activities Based on App Affordances
There has been considerable attention on the use app smashing to combine or "smash" content from different apps to produce a video, image production, blog-post, e-portfolio, or e-book. A key proponent of app smashing is Greg Kulowiec; for one of his presentations and a video about app-smashing. App smashing often involves creating images from the Camera Role or video to then add or edit those images or video to then share with larger audiences.
Kulowiec cites the example of using ThinkLink to add images or video clips to an image or video that provide additional information or material about that image or video. For example, using an image of one of their school's sports team pictures, students may icons that open up to provide information about contributions of individual team members. Or, using Explain Everything to create a video, export the video to camera roll, speed up the video using TiltShift Video, use iMovie to add voice over and then publish the video on YouTube or Vimeo.
App smashing can also be used for fostering students' multimodal responses to texts. In his book, The Definitive App Smasher's Guide, Miguel Guhlin describes using Kenneth Koch's poem, "Rose, Where Did You Get that Red?" to have students create poems where they are posing questions to a creature, for example, asking a rabbit why do they twitch their nose. Students use Haiku Deck or Camera Roll to create images and then load these images into Explain Everything or 30Hands.
As reported by Kelly Medoza summarizing a CUE conference session on app smashing, Jon Corippo cites the example of using app smashing for portraying a book review through a talking avatar using:
- Google Docs to create storyboard script for drafting dialogue for the avatar.
- Tellagami to record themselves as avatars describing their review.
- iPad Camera to take of characters or scenes in the story.
- Doceri to import camera images to add information about the review.
- iMovie to edit the Tellagami and Doceri files into a video and add music.
- YouTube to export and publish the video.
For a list of apps for app smashing from K-12 Technology and examples from different disciplines, from Richard Wells, and on Padlet and Jessica Jackson Meacham's Pinterest
Planning app-smashing activities therefore involves selecting those apps that will generate content for further modification or editing of that content to then produce a final product.
Sequencing Activities for Transfer of Learning Across Uses of Apps
A somewhat different perspective on use and sequencing of multiple apps involving sequencing activities using app affordances to fostering transfer of learning across the activities. Medoza cites the example using Graphite's Lesson Flows that provides a template for selecting apps based on sequencing activities so that each activity prepares students for subsequent activities. This requires teachers to plan according to "first-things-first" so that what students acquires or learns from one activity transfers or scaffolds the next activity, requiring teachers creating what VanDerHeide and Newell (2013, Written Communication) define as use of "instructional chains" across activities.
For example, in a study of 6th grade students examining the issue of climate change, students engaged in a series of activities involving uses of different apps (Castek, Beach, & Scott, in press). They began with use of Mindmeister mapping app to visually contrast the differences between "weather" and "climate" for sharing with peers. This then led to use of Diigo annotations to collaboratively respond to an essay about analyzing carbon dioxide emissions related to climate change based on the students understanding of climate change. The students then used VoiceThread to collaboratively add annotations to images portraying the effects of emissions on people and animals to document their critique of the effects of climate change. These activities then culminated in students using Google Docs to craft, provide peer feedback, and revise letters to Obama arguing for him to oppose building the Keystone Pipeline given potential effects of increased use of oil on climate change (for a presentation on these activities).
As illustrate below, each of these activities involved use of an "instructional chain" that helped students not only develop content that then transferred for use in the subsequent activity, but they also involved use of the app affordance of fostering collaboration in ways that were mediated by the use of apps.
Understanding the difference between weather and climate using the mapping app enhanced students' understanding of climate change. They used this understanding to collaboratively share their Diigo annotation responses to how scientists measure carbon dioxide emissions to determine the increase in those emissions. This led to collaboratively creating VoiceThread annotations to images portraying the effects of emissions. Students then drew on what they learned about climate change from these previous activities to formulate their arguments to Obama using Google Docs on the need to block the Keystone Pipeline.
The use of apps in this sequencing mediated collaborative understanding of their knowledge of climate change. Having shared knowledge strengthened their shared Diigo and Voicethread annotations because they could respond to and challenge each other's ideas. And, they drew on this shared knowledge to provide each other with feedback on Google Docs leading to revisions.
Planning a logical sequence of activities based on use of apps to support "instructional chains" involves:
- determining a "first-things-first" sequence—what are those activities that serve as prerequisites or initial hooks that prepare students for subsequent activities.
- selecting apps that mediate collaborative sharing of knowledge that support students co-learning across activities.
- using apps to scaffold learning processes that then transfer across activities, for example, how use of Diigo annotations transfer to use of VoiceThread annotations.
- culminating a sequence with use of an app that combines knowledge from previous activities to demonstrate learning from those activities.


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This project includes the design, bidding, and construction administration of replacing 42 miles of existing treated water lines. The "North End" water users system was in disrepair, and under EPA direction for replacement and/or upgrades. The Northwest Rural Water District agreed to create a service area for this system, but required replacement of the entire system. In addition, 105,000 gallons of storage at two tank sites, a PRV connection building, and connection to over 200 taps are planned for this extensive upgrade. Funding was provided by WWDC, SRF, SLIB, and CDBG for this massive system replacement north of Powell, Wyoming.


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The Amazon outage and SaaS marketers' response/
Marketing people aren't completely off the hook, though. They should be doing some scurrying around too.
It's not all bad news
First, though, some good news on the reaction to the AWS outage. There's concern, but not panic. The SaaS and cloud market seems to be mature enough by now to withstand this kind of episode. People understand the risks, but they know they can be managed. Occasional downtime - as long as it is only occasional - can be tolerated.
Marketers' role
But there's a reminder here that prospective SaaS customers are legitimately concerned about performance and reliability. Good marketers should be prepared to address those concerns, especially in light of the AWS outage. If they don't ask, CIO's and IT people aren't doing their jobs.
For one, SaaS marketers should clearly explain their company's reliability and performance policies and procedures. A comprehensive document explaining security procedures, data back-up, redundancy, and other processes should be readily available. You might even prepare a short version that covers the highlights.
CIO's and IT professionals should be educated early in the sales process. The IT group might not be the entry point for your solution, but if it's to be deployed broadly through the organization, assume that IT will eventually be a part of the evaluation. Educating and gaining their confidence early on in the process can be very helpful.
By involving the IT people early, you may, in fact, find that the prospective customer can't or won't deploy a SaaS solution for this particular application. There are applications or organizations for which SaaS simply isn't a good fit. Better to find that out sooner rather than later.
Communication is essential
In the midst of the outage and after, AWS has been communicating with its customers about the problem. They reported regularly on system status and provided post-mortem reports to explain what went wrong. Salesforce.com and other large enterprise SaaS providers do the same.
Publicly exposing our companies' mistakes is not a natural act for marketers. But in the SaaS world, it's vital to building the trust required to win and keep customers.
This work by Peter Cohen, SaaS Marketing Strategy Advisors is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.


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Washington: Having lost patience with China, the Trump administration is studying new steps to starve North Korea of cash for its nuclear program.
The options include one that would infuriate Beijing: sanctions on Chinese companies that help keep the North's economy afloat.
It's an approach that's paid off for the US in the past, including with Iran. So-called secondary sanctions upped the economic pressure on Tehran and helped drive it to the nuclear negotiating table.
There are significant risks, too, however. They include opening a new rift with Beijing that could complicate other US diplomatic efforts.
Washington already has sanctions on North Korean companies and people accused of illicit dealings with the North. Secondary sanctions would target banks and companies that do legitimate business with North Korea.


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"Poor baby, what happened?"
"I was on Caddo Trail waiting for the left turn light, and some big dumb art teacher stepped right on the middle of my back. She said she was looking at the fall leaves."
"Did she say she was sorry?"
Very. And a wee bit freaked. Her Reptiles of Texas book is at school.
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July 25
Art Challenge: Real Life
Journal Prompt: At this Moment
Sandi Keene: is celebrating a banner mailbox day HERE
Rae Missigman: See her simple process here.
Lorraine Bell shares a gift with you right HERE
This week our featured artist is: Jeanne Oliver!
Jeanne's take on this challenge can be found HERE.
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Hi Everyone! Welcome to another Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #292.
Our challenge this week is
(can be for any male - husband, father, son, grandson, nephew or male friend)
This week our fabulous sponsor is Doctor Digi who is offering the winner 2 digis of their choice.
For my card this week I have used the great image - Mr Speaker (Birthday). He is coloured with Copic Markers.
We hope you will join in with our challenge this week. We look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing your fantastic creations. Please be sure to post a link back to Fab'n Funky Challenges in your blog post, to be eligible for this week's prize. The deadline for entries is Tuesday evening 8.00 pm GMT.
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24 Sep 2019 - 25 Sep 2019
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I have been to Fukuoka Hakata. I ate Hakata ramen there. It was really delicious!
The biggest, most modern city on the southern island of Kyushu has an international flavor, with ferries zipping back and forth to Korea and a surprising number of international university students. The city still has plenty of Japanese traditional appeal too, including world-famous Hakata-style ramen. It's also a great jumping off point for exploring the rest of the island, whether you're headed to the hot springs of Beppu and Yufuin, volcanic Mt Aso or the southern castle city of Kagoshima.
Beyond the industrial areas, much of Fukuoaka has a rural aspect to it yet also easy access to the sea. Had a wonderful experience staying in a Japanese ryokan style traditional inn. Also had a wonderful seafood meal at a local restaurant. Had the feeling that few foreign tourists make it here other than occassional business travellers checking in on factory operations.
Though it can feel gray and industrial, central Fukuoka has its charms. The highlight for me is late night ramen at one of the riverside stalls. The people are friendly and the nightlife can be fun if you are gregarious and don't mind striking up conversation at one of the many small bars. Famous for tonkotsu (pork bone) ramen.


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Actress Lena Headey's ex-husband has reportedly requested she pay all the legal fees he has incurred in a custody dispute over their son.
The Game of Thrones star, 43, and ex Peter Loughran, whose six year marriage ended in 2013, became embroiled in a bitter legal spat after she relocated to the U.K. with their six-year-old son Wylie and her 17-month old daughter Teddy.
Loughran claimed she had violated a 2013 custody agreement by enrolling Wiley into school in Britain without seeking his permission, with a judge ruling in his favor in October (16).
A court filing obtained by TMZ.com reportedly shows Loughran is demanding his ex-wife pay $40,000 (£31,510) in legal fees, as he is unemployed while Lena is earning huge sums from her role as evil royal Cersei Lannister in the hit HBO fantasy TV show.
The documents reportedly claim she earns more than $1 million (£790,000) for each episode of Game of Thrones, whose seventh season begins next year (17).
In the October ruling, a Los Angeles family court judge told Lena to return her son to the U.S., but allowed her to keep him with her in the U.K. until the next period of filming finishes on Game of Thrones early next year (17).
According to TMZ, the actress' former spouse is allowed to visit Wiley for 10 days every month and she was ordered by the court to pay any travel expenses he incurred by seeing his son.
The court is yet to rule on Loughran's new demands.
Lena and the musician separated in 2011, but the divorce was only finalized in 2013 after a lengthy dispute over custody and financial issues, which was only initially resolved when they struck a deal to share joint legal custody of Wylie.


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The drawing point out that the sway's exactingness measures are turn to gnaw in the cerebration manufacture, according to the Queenly Formation of Hired Surveyors' Edifice Tariff Word Advantage (BCIS).
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Form 1. Business Orders 2011, Undeviating 2005 Prices (Seasonally Weighted)
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Conformation 2. Catholic Non-Housing Orders and Production, Immovable 2005 Prices (Seasonally Tuned) Yearly Interest Switch
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Universal Non-Housing Orders and Efficiency, Immovable 2005 Prices (Seasonally Oriented), Yearlong Cut Interchange
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Skill workers besmeared by means of the Artifact Diligence Junction Consistory (CIJC) accord would collect an ancillary 17p an distance below the proffer and public operatives objective 13p an distance.
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Expression unions described the tender as 'contumelious and opprobrious'.
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The negotiating unions aforesaid that they were moment everything considered their following place.


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In the prologue, the author states, "I am not a mentor. What I want through this book is to be friends with diverse generations." Discarding his formal title as a legal scholar, he starts to confess the passion and desire that still burn in his heart.


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Has a coloring instructor ever asked you what you want to learn?
Why not?
You're giving them money and you are spending your valuable time in their classroom; there is a reason why you are sitting in class rather than mowing the lawn. Does your instructor know why you're there?
One of my students recently noted that she'd been coming to me for 3 years. Looking back, she's made a lot of progress but not in the usual obvious ways. When she started, she already had a solid grasp of advanced coloring techniques, so there hasn't been much change in the look of her projects over the years.
So what was the point of 3 years of classes?
Here's the subtle part that doesn't show up in her before and after shots:
She has improved her intangibles- her instinct and her eyes.
Now I've never secretly spied on her through her kitchen window as she colors at home, but I know the entire coloring process is much easier for her now.
She doesn't have to stop and wonder how to best color images anymore. A newly found instinct kicks in and she "feels" the decisions rather than stopping to consult a tutorial.
So if I'm not a creepy stalker, how do I know that she's coloring more efficiently at home?
Because in class, she always works several steps ahead of my instructions. Occasionally she gets in trouble, but for the most part she can draw on her new knowledge base to accurately intuit the next step before I talk about it.
And here's the bonus: she not only knows what to do, she understands the reason why.
Remember, my classes are all about the Why.
It's been 3 years and she's grown a lot. But here's the rub, my class might not always be the right place for her. At some point, every student outperforms the curriculum. What then?
Think about the classes you are taking now, even if it's not a live class, maybe it's an internet workshop or you regularly read blogs with tutorials. Think about the skills you want to learn.
Are you in the right class?
To simplify matters for this post, I'm going to divide all marker coloring classes into two categories:
Busy Fingers
Busy Minds
A Busy Fingers class gives you something to do. It might be a Make & Take or an introductory level marker class. Most drop-in classes fit this category. You'll be handed a bag of prepared project components and given access to tools. You leave a Busy Fingers class with a completed (or nearly complete) project.
A Busy Minds class is the next level up. This isn't a drop-in or a one-and-done; there is always a next lesson that builds upon the previous session. You'll be given a general supply list that requires some shopping and investment. In this type of class you may work on small practice studies but you'll never leave the session with a project worth pinning to the fridge or giving as a gift.
You need to decide what kind of class is best for you. If all you want is to make fun things and enjoy the zen of crafting, Busy Fingers is where you need to be.
But here's my concern: there are a lot of students who want More. More skill, better instinct, sharper technique, greater range. And most of the world's More students are sitting in Busy Finger classes.
There's no wrong reason to take a class, but not all classes are right for you.
Think about your last trip to the grocery store. Once you got past the old-guy greeter, you were faced with an important decision: should you use a hand basket or shopping cart?
So you mentally ran through your shopping list and chose the storage device best suited to your needs. If all you needed was a loaf of bread and a carton of yogurt, you grabbed a hand basket.
But if you needed to get a gallon of milk, a ten pound bag of potatoes, and four 2 liters of pop, you grabbed a shopping cart.
What you DID NOT do was duct tape four hand baskets together to form a single super-sized hand basket capable of meeting all your advanced carrying needs.
A lot of people who are enrolled in multiple Busy Finger classes are using duct tape to make a super-class.
Smart students shop for good teachers who offer the lessons they need most.
Our reluctance to comparison shop for quality art instruction has roots in the public school system.
I don't know about you, but I don't remember taking a pass/fail test to decide if I moved on to the third grade. Nope, the teacher made the decision about who would be promoted. All we did was report to the fourth grade when the new school year started.
Someone else made all the learning decisions for us.
But now you're an adult and there is no expert telling you when you've passed the class. Some of you are still sitting in the kindergarten wing, waiting for the command to report to the first grade. A command that will never come.
Adulting is hard.
So if you find yourself suddenly bored in a class that once fascinated you, CONGRATULATIONS!
Give yourself a pat on the back. You've grown! That's a great thing and it should be celebrated.
Now you need to start shopping around for a class that better meets your new needs.
Maybe it's with the same instructor but a different class. Maybe you'll have to travel to next town over. Maybe... just maybe... (I don't want to shock you here, so hold tight to your seat...) maybe you're ready to move from a craft class to a genuine art class. Don't sit and stagnate; find classes in your area that will challenge you at your new level!
But don't just look up "Copic class" on the internet
Ugh, there are a ton of marker classes out there right now and lots of people carrying around certifications. Please understand how little that certification means.
Copic certification means that someone sat through a product information seminar. No skill evaluation, no qualification exam. In my certification class, the woman next to me learned about the existence of the chisel tip. She and I both received the same exact certificate.
So choosing a class based on an instructor's Copic Certification status is like dumpster diving for dinner.
Sure, you may find lobster alfredo amongst the fish bones and coffee grounds, but what are odds?
When you're looking for a new instructor, you need to look at HOW they teach. Look at HOW they color. It is entirely possible that you may have more skills than some of the instructors you encounter.
Also look at their class goals. Ask the instructor what specific skills they want their students to master. If they don't have a good answer, that means they don't have a plan. Without a plan, they can not take you very far.
Class size is important too! Fifteen students in a 2.5 hour class is my maximum. I know my limits and I do not have super-powers; with more than 15 students, I can not provide adequate individualized instruction. It's perfectly okay to leave a class that's over-crowded. You're paying for the experience, it's not unreasonable to require basic space and a modicum of attention.
But seriously, aren't all marker classes the same?
Whoa, Nellie! No, no, no, no, no.
In fact, I spend a great deal of my time warning prospective students that while I teach with Copics, I do not teach actual Copic classes. If you want to learn standard blending techniques, the kind that you see in free tutorials and in most YouTube videos, boy are you going to leave my class completely unfulfilled. It's simply not what I do.
Wait, what's standard blending technique?
This is what you'll get in most marker classes. You'll be given a marker list that looks like the one I used on this balloon:
Now maybe this is exactly the class you need right now. If you're starting out fresh you definitely need to learn gradiation, blending, and highlighting. But this is pretty basic stuff and darned if it's not boring the socks off of me. Yes, it looks better than Crayola coloring but it doesn't look realistic and ... yawn ...
Standard technique is usually found in a Busy Fingers class. Week after week you'll color lions, then penguins, and then dolly-girls in ruffled dresses, all using the very same technique... You may improve the smoothness of your blend and you'll get faster at coloring, but this kind of class will never get you promoted to the second grade. You can duct tape 10,000 of these classes together and never improve your art instincts.
Here's that same image, colored for a Busy Mind class.
Different, eh? But it's not just that the image looks different, the class structure is different too.
In my classes, we'll hardly ever mention hot air balloons. Instead we talk about levels and planes, pushing and pulling, overlaps and creases, and we'll talk a lot about receding surfaces. It's a skeletal approach to coloring where we improve your bone structure knowing that the results of your practice will eventually show at skin level. I'm not the only Copic instructor who teaches this way. We're rare but with some searching, you can find instructors who worry less about the stamp and more about the skills you use to color it.
Here's a side by side. Can you see the difference between busy hands and busy minds?
Let me be clear: there is nothing wrong with busy hand classes!
In fact, busy hand classes are good for the soul. It feels really great to be in a room with like-minded crafters who share your love of stamps, markers, or card making. Because let's face it, most of our spouses do not get all giggly when Memory Keepers releases a new dual purpose score board and they're definitely not breathlessly waiting for Tim Holtz to announce next month's color. Busy Hands classes create a community experience that's usually well worth the price of admission.
But if you're looking for More, I want you to rethink your busy hands habit. More isn't going to find you, you have to track it down. More is waiting for you if you'll go out and grab it.


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GM unveils its Chevrolet Aveo RS
- Published: 13/01/2010
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The Australian-designed concept car took centre stage at the Detroit motor show
The Chevrolet Aveo RS was built at Holden's design centre in Melbourne, and the production version is likely to head to Australia as the new generation Holden Barina in 2011.
In recent years Holden has designed and/or built several concept cars for major motor shows on behalf of other GM divisions.
GM says the five-door Aveo concept is longer, wider and more spacious than the current Barina, and is powered by a 1.4-litre turbocharged direct injection petrol engine.
The 103kW/200Nm four-cylinder engine is mated with a six-speed manual transmission.
Styling features of the Aveo concept include an aggressive face, 19-inch wheels, headlights and tail-lights inspired by motorcycle design, rear doorhandles that disappear into the rear pillar and 'Boracy Blue' paint finish for the body and brake callipers.


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