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Do you want to be a mangaka in Japan?
☆ Part 1: Introduction to Manga. ☆
(This is a continuation of part 0: http://hinoai.livejournal.com/781747.html )
This is just an introductionary post, more or less! ~.^/
What makes manga.. manga? Ask ten different people and you will probably get nine different answers. But to me, and for this guide, manga are comics originally published in Japan. So this would include your favorites-- Dragonball Z, Naruto, One Piece, Sailor Moon, Prince of Tennis, Air Gear, Nana, Death Note, etc etc. It would not include comics that are drawn in a "manga" style but were originally published overseas, such as The Dirty Pair, Goong, Megatokyo, etc.
American comics, OEL, manhwa, manhua, webcomics, etc, are all great mediums! I'm a fan of a lot of them! But I don't consider them manga any more than I consider Space Battleship Yamato a Hollywood movie.
After all, the whole idea of this guide is: How to become a mangaka! How does someone normally become a manga artist, and how can you (if you're interested) become one?
Some things about me:
~ I aim to be a mangaka, and take you along with me for the ride! =^-^= I'm not a mangaka yet, though I've had my work published in Shonen Jump and Jump SQ and even appeared on tv as an assistant.
~ I was an assistant to Konomi Takeshi (on Shin Prince of Tennis) for a year and a half. I also worked on his one-shot (Moonwalker Ltd.) earlier this year. I'll talk about the duties that I had and how I got the job in a later chapter.
~ I came to Japan at the end of 2004. Before that, I had only lived in America, and never studied Japanese at all.
~ I've drawn forever. Ever since I could pick up a crayon, in fact! I have a bachelor's degree in Media Arts & Animation. This is just my case, but I don't think this is necessary at all! (will elaborate on this later)
~ I love manga and anime, and that was one of the reasons I came to Japan. My favorite shonen manga is probably Hunter x Hunter, and favorite shoujo is probably Nana. Though I like a LOT of them. I'll gladly talk about them anytime!
This part is by definition short, so look forward to Part 2: Do you need to live in Japan or know Japanese to be a mangaka?
I will get it up soon! Let me know if there's anything in specific that you want me to cover in it! =^-^=


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What Ebenezer Scrooge Can Teach Us about e-Learning, Linda Kovreq, Judy Albers, & Don Humphreys of Bank One
Bank One needs to train office staff and bank tellers at bank branches all over the country while at the same time dealing with a down economy and big cutbacks in travel and training. As with Rockwell Collins and Grant Thornton, they had to battle entrenched ideas about the nature of "training," which was off site, classroom-based education. Their business driver for an e-Learning system, starting in 2000 was to enable faster development and deployment of learning to the field -- to the tellers -- with a learning content management system.
They presenters described two recent scenarios that have each grown and taught them new things. And they are excited for the next project. The first experience was a rollout of a new software package that was a "no training required" system. They quickly discovered that this is never true. They also learned the hard way that they needed to have management support. But they did learn that providing training at the branch, rather than pulling people off the job and sending them to hotels, gave much more immediate return (and was cheaper, Ebenezer).
The second, and current, experience is the rollout of a new teller system that the tellers use for 90% of their daily activities. There is lots of resistance. The tellers are comfortable with their old systems, and can operate them with their eyes closed. In learning from their last experience, they have roped the branch managers into the program as the learning coordinators for their tellers. They have also given much more autonomy to the tellers - they are responsible for their own training. And the presenters are clearly excited that their approach will work.
They wrapped up their quick session with a list of lessons that sound quite similar to those described earlier in the day:
Choose your battles; be prepared for setbacks and skeptics. Be flexible
Get senior management support early and often
Be prepared to sacrifice long-held beliefs and institutions for a new strategy
Be prepared to be held responsible for bottom-line results
Integrate and balance accountability, support, and structure in your blended learning approaches

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Planning your adventure can be just as exciting as going – researching what to see and do, counting the days until you go, packing your bags 2/3/4 times to check you are within the weight limit – but what about your money? Have you thought about this – do you take cash, travellers cheques or do you plan to take your debit or credit card? Have you thought about a prepaid travel money card?
There are pros and cons for all. Travelling with cash or travellers cheques means you know your money will be accepted, but it can seem daunting. What if it gets lost or stolen? How do you hide the cash you're not taking to the beach, and how do you plan to keep a track of your spending? Let's be honest, you won't keep your receipts and calculate your daily spending!
Debit and credit cards have the security, but when your next statement arrives and you see all the fees you've been charged, it may make you wish you had left it at home!
These days it really does pay to be savvy with your money. There is another option. The Young Traveller Cash Passport may just be the answer you're looking for….
Cash Passport is a prepaid, travel money card that you can load with money before and top-up during your adventure (and you can even use any left over money when you return). It is Chip and PIN protected and has no link to your own personal bank account, making it the safer choice to carrying cash or travellers cheques.
The Card has the ability to lock in the exchange rate at the time you load money and has the option to carry just 1 or up to all 7 currencies, making it the smarter option over credit or debit card.
And to help keep you on track with your spending, you can download the handy mobile app or use the online portal to check your balances and transactions any time, any day- as much or as little as you like!
What's more, Cash Passport is accepted at over 37.1million locations worldwide, including over 2.1 million cash machines, wherever the MasterCard Acceptance Mark is displayed*.
And that's not all…for those who might need a hand, Cash Passport has the support of a UK-based Card Services team available 24/7/365, and the networks they have means they can get a replacement card and/or emergency cash to you (if you've got some left on your card) if your card is lost or stolen. Bonus: less stress for you!
There are also exclusive MasterCard offers you can sign up to through Priceless Cities.
Whether you're travelling for a week or planning a year-long adventure Cash Passport is the easier, safer and smarter option for your money.
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This past Thursday and Friday we held our first Children's Ministry Leaders' Conference here in Legacy Hall at the Creation Museum. Over 200 leaders in children's Sunday school, VBS leaders, and children's ministry workers from all across the USA (and one participant from Mexico) gathered to strengthen their outreach to the next generation in our churches.
Here are just a few comments from some of the attendees.
So much excellent info and all speakers so knowledgeable. But the best part—their "heart" for this ministry—love for it and so real. Each poured so much into their hour. – Linda B.
Material presented here like no other CM workshop. I was needing different and got it—done with excellence. – Brad M.
Superior conference! I learned much and will be taking back a lot to my church. – Diane R.
[This conference] exceeded my expectations. If I had come out with one or two new ideas, I would have been pleased. I got so many new ideas it will be a challenge of which to start first. – Bill M.There is such a need to training up our children to stand on the authority of God's Word. It was a blessing to be able to help equip and encourage these faithful servants.
Here are some photographs taken during some of the sessions.
Special ABC Presentation
After the conference, over 150 of those attendees stayed over to learn more about our major new Sunday school program, Answers Bible Curriculum (ABC). Two special informational sessions were hosted by our marketing and editorial teams, who are working hard to begin shipping this much-needed new Sunday school program by this coming June. (We expect to be shipping by mid-June, and we have already received many orders!) We gave a detailed overview and a Q&A session covering many topics about the curriculum, pricing, how to help your church decide to use it, etc. The presentations were videotaped and will be uploaded to the ABC website in the next few weeks.
There are already numerous ways to get more info about the Answers Bible Curriculum at the website, including a free PDF sample lesson for each of the seven age groups, three-minute and eight-minute introductory videos, prices, and ordering information, etc.
This curricula is so needed. It has been over two years in writing, editing, and illustrating, and I have just been informed that we will begin sending it off to the printers this week! We are indeed excited at what we see the Lord doing. Individual teachers and entire Sunday school departments are already seeking to begin teaching this 3-year, chronological, through-the-Bible curriculum that has all age groups studying the same Scripture at the same time. We even see a lot of homeschool families signing up for one or two of the seven age groups! What tremendous help this will be, not only in church settings, but in homes as well. Parents and children are able to talk about the same Bible lessons with one another as they sit at home, travel together along the road, and talk together in the evenings and the mornings. Sounds a lot like Deuteronomy 11:19, doesn't it?
What Was the Response to ABC?One attendee wrote the following:
Just a thank you for having the wisdom and diligence in writing this curriculum for kids!Our staff shared this with me.
We also had numerous individuals and couples share how much they see the need for apologetics-based teaching across-the-board in terms of ages, but that they're concerned their committee or their leadership won't be willing to switch to it. In fact, that doesn't surprise us! We have had many people from different churches tell us that the people in the congregation see the great need for creation apologetics teaching in the church, but the leadership, either because of compromise with millions of years or because they don't want to change from their denomination's "sanctioned" curricula, they are reluctant to switch.We believe the ABC curriculum is really needed in our churches, homes, and Christian schools, and that once it is adopted, the feedback and responses from those doing it will clearly show this. That has definitely been the response in the churches where ABC has already been tested!
We just encouraged those folks to do what they can, starting with just one age and one class if that's all they can get permission to do at first. They were actually happy to hear us encourage baby steps, if that's all they can do. They want so badly to see it across the board but to know that we support them in doing whatever they can do is a shot in the arm. We also saw many nods when we encouraged them during the Q&A time to utilize any homeschool families that may be willing to teach ABC at home first (or in a single class) and then band together with them in presenting the need and the enthusiasm that we expect homeschoolers to have toward being involved in helping to teach this material.
Here are some photographs of parts of the ABC curriculum.
Find out more about the Answers Bible Curriculum at www.answersbiblecurriculum.com.
I urge you to get your church to prayerfully consider adopting ABC! I believe you will be pleased—and the church will never be the same!
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,


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Root Canals for Renton Residents
You've had a toothache for a while now, and what used to be a dull ache is now a searing pain that occupies all of your attention. This probably means that the infection in your tooth has become quite advanced, and in the past, this often meant that the tooth would need to be removed. Fortunately, this is no longer the case thanks to root canals. Despite its dubious reputation, a root canal is actually an extremely useful procedure that Dr. Yuchen Hu, your Renton dentist, can use to relieve severe dental pain and save your most damaged teeth.
Why Would I Need a Root Canal?
The teeth are actually composed of layers, and the innermost layer is where the sensitive nerve resides. If a cavity is left untreated for a long time or if a person sustains an injury, this inner layer can become infected or damaged. This can cause quite a bit of pain, and usually, the best way to treat it is with a root canal.
A person might require a root canal if:
- They are experiencing extreme dental pain.
- There is a lot of redness and swelling around a particular tooth.
- They have a lot of pain when biting down on a specific tooth.
- There is a sore located on the gums near a single tooth.
How a Root Canal Works
If you experience any of the symptoms we've listed above, you should come to SDK Dental Care as soon as you can. Otherwise, the infection/pain may only get worse, and we might even need to extract the tooth.
If Dr. Hu decides that a root canal is the best course of treatment, it will involve 4 basic steps:
- He will create a small access hole to reach the inner part of your tooth.
- He will remove the damaged tissue and clean the area.
- He will fill your tooth with a sanitizing material called gutta percha.
- You will return to the office at another appointment to have the tooth restored with a dental crown.
Thanks to modern day dental techniques and sedation, we can assure you that you'll barely feel anything during your root canal. If you have any questions or concerns coming into the procedure, please let us know. We'll do everything we can to ensure your comfort at all times. We even give you tips and hints to ensure a successful recovery from your root canal procedure.
Any Questions?
With a root canal, we can relieve your pain and save your smile at the same time, and we promise that it won't be a painful experience.
If you are currently dealing with any of the symptoms we listed above or if you have any other questions, please contact our office today.


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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. How do you begin your morning? Do you instantly look at your phone, check your e-mail... maybe look at Instagram? Or do you take a moment to be grateful, sit in silence and read a little positive material before you walk outside and take on the day? It only takes a few minutes each morning to start off on the right track and create your positive energy field. I'd like to share a few of my favorite spiritual reads that can open your heart, inspire you to be the best you can be, help you focus, and laugh along the way. When you dwell in an energy of positivity and power you become a magnet for miracles. Aren't you worth it?
As much as I can't wait to escape with Netflix, I also look forward to sitting with a good inspirational book and becoming motivated to live this amazing life we've all been given. How great is it when you discover books that make you feel like it's speaking right at you! Inspirational books or self-help books can open up a world of possibilities and offer great tools for navigating in our busy world today.
Here are 10 benefits of reading:
1: Mental Stimulation - Keeping your brain active and engaged prevents it from losing power. 2: Stress Reduction - While engaged in reading material you enjoy you're distracted from stress and it keeps you in the present moment. 3: Knowledge - Everything you read fills your head with new information, and who knows when it might be useful. 4: Vocabulary Expansion - The more you read, the bigger the vocabulary becomes, the more conversations you can participate in. 5: Memory Improvement - When you read you have to remember characters, plots, situations...every new memory you create opens up new synapses (brain pathways) and strengthens existing ones. 6: Stronger Analytical Thinking Skills - You begin to put your analytical and important intelligence to work when discussing the book with others... you are able to state your opinions clearly. 7: Improved Focus and Concentration - Living in a world crazed by the computer, our attention is all over the place...I'm beginning to think we are turning into a culture that can no longer focus for more than two minutes! And when we can't focus we are actually lowering our productivity and welcoming chaos. When reading a book your attention is focused on the story, we zone in on the information. 8: Better Writing Skills - Following the flow of the material you read, you are an observer of the writing styles of other authors & you learn to enhance your own work. 9: Tranquility - Reading Spiritual text can lower blood pressure and literally melt anxiety and worry away. That's worth it!
Napoleon Hills book THINK & GROW RICH was written in 1937 - and the information is flawless today. I read parts I've highlighted in this book daily, and If I don't read it in book form, I read the emails I receive from the company every morning . EXCUSE ME YOUR LIFE IS WAITING - Lynn Grabhorn is another great read for motivation and inspiration. Love Warrior - Glennon Doyle Melton - A good "kick in the butt" for getting real in your life & relationships. The goal is is to just keep growing; our world is changing, and we need to move forward and continue our mental growth along with embracing the change around us. Here's a fact about your mind: It's going to control you - or you're going to control it. When you work on your mind, you are improving your quality of life. It's never about "stuff" it's about quality.
Self-improvement, personal development, or simply getting more from life feels good. If you want to expand your mind and your possibilities then I encourage you to find books that speak to you, make a solid commitment to yourself to read every morning, even if it's 5 minutes, and I promise you will elevate your happiness and feel joy make it's way into your sub-conscience and accomplish a few goals along the way. One of the best lessons I've learned is you can't do it alone, and why would you...there are so many incredible writers who want to share their wisdom and experiences with you.
In the morning find a quiet place to sit, light one of your favorite candles and set the tone for your day ahead. Yes... you might be thrown a zinger or two during the day but you will have grounded yourself for protection before stepping out the door. I have many mantras I've learned over time that I repeat during the day and it can instantly change my energy. Don't let negative people or situations ruin your day. You be in charge, this is your movie, you be the director. Another great lesson I've learned; our thoughts, words, and energy will either connect or disconnect us from The Universe - or your Higher Power - God - Source Energy. When you change your words you change your world. Don't forget; expect wonderful things to happen, and P.S. Don't sweat the small stuff... My favorite word I've ever learned...GRATITUDE
Share with me what your favorite word is...I'd love to hear from you.
The more I read, the more I learn, and the more I share I transform fear to faith...Me.
Three Fearless Females writing about living life, feeling the fear and moving forward... Gabrielle Bernstein - Glennon Doyle Melton - Maria Shriver


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I should know better.
After months of contemplating self-care and smugly defining what it meant for me and what it could mean for other people...After months of work developing a theory and a spectrum and starting to focus group the ideas...After allowing myself to imagine I was well on my way to becoming some internet celebrity self-help guru...After all that, do you know what I did? I went on a six night "vacation" to my parents house and acted liked some kind of demonic hair-shirted martyr.
It's true that the purpose of the trip was to help my fiancé do a bunch of tasks around the house that would in turn help my parents, who have had a Very Hard Year. But we were by no means treated like indentured servants, and instead offered many opportunities to rest and relax. I just didn't take any of them. I ignored all of my pillars of self-care. Worse, actually, I completely forgot they ever existed. I didn't floss, I didn't wear sunscreen, I didn't hydrate, and my sleep hygiene was poor. I had created a protocol of self-care activities to enact in a crisis, a bare minimum required to keep my sanity intact, and I didn't do any of those either. But Slurpees and Starbucks every day? Sure. One measly run. My physio exercises like they never existed. Yoga? Never heard of it.
So, it would be a surprise to no-one to discover that upon our return, after less than six hours of sleep, I was a complete hopeless disaster. Starbucks breakfast (did I have milk for cereal at the office?). Starbucks lunch (no leftovers to bring). Questionable hydration. After almost a week of not taking care of myself with the belief that other people needed my time more than I needed my time, the wheels had completely fallen off the bus.
It's easy in these situations to launch a "fuck it" cycle, telling yourself that since you're already so deep down a hole that there's no point in trying to climb out until tomorrow. Maybe even Monday. But mid-afternoon, I remembered a new mantra I've added to my motivational lexicon. "Today is not over yet." So. Fill up the water bottle. Do a vinyasa in my cubicle. Find an easy work task to start with and rock it out until home-time. Make a plan for what I need to do tonight. Shake it Off.
We are useless to our employers, colleagues, friends, and families if we tap ourselves out in the belief that our needs matter less than theirs. It doesn't matter how good your self-care intentions are unless you are willing to Do the Work. Self-care is hard. It takes time. It takes time away from our loved ones. But that makes it no less worthwhile.
It's 9:00pm on a Sunday. Today is not over yet. What's your move?


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I finally got my hands on Killing Calvinism by Greg Dutcher. This is a book I have been eager to read, and after scanning through the book I do not expect to disappointed. When my mother saw the book last night she said, "That doesn't sound quite right. Killing Calvinism?" Once I explained what the book was about she was eager to read it. From the website:
As "insiders" of the Calvinist resurgence, there are at least eight ways we can mess everything up. 1. By loving Calvinism as an end in itself. 2. By becoming theologians instead of disciples. 3. By loving God's sovereignty more than God himself. 4. By losing an urgency in evangelism. 5. By refusing to learn from non-Calvinists. 6. By tidying up the Bible's "loose ends". 7. By being a bunch of arrogant know-it-alls. 8. By scoffing at the emotional hang-ups others have with Calvinism.
You can pick up a copy Killing Calvinism here, or on Amazon.
For more help with the heart and spirit of Reformed theology check out The Joy of Calvinism, by Greg Forster and Living for God's Glory, edited by Joel Beeke.


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This weeks special is
Wild Fiddleheads
Sautéd wild fiddleheads in lemon garlic butter with sweet potatoes and eggplant gnocchi, shrimps and Parmesan cheese. Fiddleheads are hand picked in the forest by Chef Tran, limited quantities. Come and try it out before it's all sold out, otherwise you gotta wait till next year for Chef Tran to go picking once again. Lunch is $16, Dinner is $28.


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Archive for the 'Reading Street-Unit 4' Category
Reading Street: Unit 4 Skills Sheets (Grade 1)
Educator Station is back from February vacation and the school days are in high gear. Gearing up for progress monitoring, the push through March, and the countdown to April vacation. Lots to get done before now and then!
Here are the Unit 4 Skills Sheets. They are great for planning and a great resource for parents to keep on the refridgerators to reference for tests and homework throughout the week.
(Click on the images below to download)
Mama's Birthday Present
A Trip to Washington, D.C.
Peter's Chair
Henry and Mudge and Mrs. Hopper's House
To download Unit 1, Unit 2, and Unit 3:
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Teaching Phonics Based Spelling: Intensive Intervention Strategies
As part of our Reading Street curriculum, we have 10 spelling words to read and write for each story. Students need to be able to have an understanding of the phonics rule, it's sound, it's spelling, and be able to decode and encode the word.
When we begin a new story, I spend time talking about our new spelling words. I explain we are going to see our new spelling words. This week we are going to learn about igh and ie.
I refer to my spelling pocket chart to begin my spelling lesson.
This first thing I do is familarize my students with the words. I point to the igh and explain that the three letters igh say one sound, it says /i/. This sound is in the middle of the word. All the words that have igh have 3 sounds (except the word "high"). Let's take a look at my first word. It says "tight."
To make sure the students can give meaning to the word, I use the word in a sentence.
My old jeans from last year were too tight!
Let's sound out that word. /t/ /i/ /t/. As we sound out the word, I point to each of the letters in the word as I say their sounds.
Then, using the finger spelling method from Project Read, we then practice finger spelling. I throw the word out to the students, saying "TIGHT" They "catch" the word and begin to let out their sounds. As they do this, they lift up one finger, starting with their thumb, and let each sound out. When using their fingers, they can see that each word has three sounds. The beginning sound, middle sound, and ending sound.
I do this for each word on the igh list.
Then, I go over to the words with -ie.
I remind the students this is a vowel team. There are two letters that say one vowel sound. This sound is /i/.
I again go through the above process.
1. Say the word, while pointing to the word in the pocket chart.
2. I put the word in a sentence
3. Then, we finger spell the words.
4. Review: igh is in the middle of our words and it says /i/. ie is at the end of our words and also says /i/.
The next day, the students come to my teacher table and I review the igh and ie sound.
Using spelling cards (see below to download them), I sort them with my students. I ask them to listen to the word. If we hear the long /i/ sound in the middle, we are going to place the card in the igh category. If we hear the long /i/ sound at the end of the word, we are going to place them in the -ie category.
I read each word to the students. Each student helps me to place the card in the correct category. I ask students to tell me where I am going to sort the word and why it is under either igh or ie.
Now, it is their turn. I pass out the cards to the students, so each student gets 2 cards. Sometimes, I make two copies of the word cards, so that each student will get more cards to sort. They each read their card. Then, I ask them, "Where is the long /i/ sound? Is it in the middle or is it in the end? They answer and I ask them, "Should this card go under igh or -ie? Then, the student puts the card in the correct category and I go onto the next student. I go around the table until all cards have been sorted correctly.
I give my students the opportunity to practice, so that they are reading the word, listening for sounds, and using language to explain where they hear the long /i/ sound. It also gives them an opportuntiy to be out of their seat. They all love "being the teacher." It builds their confidence and, at the same time, it provides me an informal assessment of each student.
(To download the PDF, click on the image below)
DAY THREE: Let's Build!
I love to work on word building with our spelling words. I believe if children can build it, they can read it! Below is an activity I did with my students. I cut out the letters below and modeled how to build words with igh. The students built their words on cookie sheets. Once they built a word, I had them share their word and I wrote their word on the board. Then, I took out the igh and gave them the ie and had them build words ending with ie.
When they are comfortable building words and can do this independantly, I put word building out into a center for them to practice during the week.
(To download the PDF, click on the image below)
DAY FOUR: Let's Write!
Before we write our words, I review the long /i/ sound, along with igh and -ie. I do a quick sort (See Day 2) and I am ready to begin!
Using my pocket chart, which has the cards sorted, I begin by explaining the the /i/ sound, when in the middle of a word has three letters that make one sound. I practice a few words using Finger Spelling, so that the students can see the sound in the middle, as well as hear the sound as they finger spell along with me.
Let's practice writing! I am only going to teach the igh words.
Let's practice the word: tight.
I finger spell the word /t/ /i/ /t/. I hear three sounds! But, we know the word has more than three letters. The beginning sound is the letter t, the middle sound has 3 letters, igh, and the end sound in another t. As I explain this, I write the word on my board. I continue to go through each word the same way. As, I write the word, each of my students write the word on their paper. I have them underline or highlight the igh in each word.
When I am done with igh words, I then teach the -ie words the same way. These words have two sounds, buy there are three letters. The letters -ie make the /i/ sound when at the end of the word.
The following day, I have some sort of spelling center to reinforce what we have done at the teacher table.
Now that the students have a solid understanding of the sounds, it is time to practice spelling those words on paper. Today, I simply review what I have been doing at my teacher table all week and work mostly on writing our words. Sometimes, I use white boards and sometimes I use paper to practice our spelling. Today, is practice spelling test day. I do this by reading the word, putting the word in a sentence, and finger spelling the word. I finger spell the words, so that the students can hear and place the sounds correctly when writing the word.
When we have completed the practice test, I correct each student's practice test. If they have a word incorrect, I spell the word on their paper and review the sounds and letters in the word. Then, I have them write the word a few times on their paper. By the time they are done, they can verbally spell the word to me.
Our school runs on a six day cycle. So, Day 6 is our assessment day. I use this time to assess the students with the good ol' spelling test.
To learn more about the Project Read Curriculum,
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The True Story of the Three Little Pigs- A Read, Think, Write Activity
This is one of my favorite stories to do as a read-aloud. This book is the story of the Three Little Pigs, but is written from the wolf's perspective. The wolf's name is A. Wolf. He didn't mean to blow their house down! He had to sneeze a great sneeze! He was framed! Read it and you decide if he REALLY was a big bad wolf!
I introduced the lesson to my students and told them we were going to read a fun story. While I read, I wanted them to think about adjectives to describe the wolf and events that happen in the story.
This lesson was divided into three different parts. The fist part is simply to read the book to the students and engage them in conversation about the wolf. Did he mean to blow down the pig's houses? The second part is "Think." Giving them a graphic organizer, we are going to think about events that happened in the story and think about adjectives to describe A. Wolf. The third part of the lesson is to "Write" sentences in paragraph form using their graphic organizer.
Let's Begin!
-Review the story of the Three Little Pigs with the students.
-Introduce A. Wolf and explain that he is telling the story, not the pigs.
-Engage students in conversation. Get them excited about the story! Talk about the wolf! Was he framed? Was he mean or was it just an accident?
My students were seated on the rug for the story and conversation. Now, we move to the teacher table and each student receives a graphic organizer.
Using my pocket chart, I model how to fill in their graphic organizer.
(You can download the graphic organizer by clicking on the image below).
I used my pocket chart to help the students think about events, adjectives, verbs, and our sentence expander (where?). They brainstorm the words and I write them on cards as I model where their answer is going to be on their chart. I found it easier to write the word "wolf" in the noun column and then brainstorm a list of adjectives. Then, we filled in the verbs going across, as well as their sentence expander, where.
This is what their chart looked like once we were done brainstorming.
Now it's time to write some great sentences. I model on the white board how to write the first sentence, making sure my students understand that we are reading across to write our sentences. For some students, it may be easier to cover the other sentences and move the paper down as they progress from one sentence to another.
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We are currently in unit 4 in our Reading Street curriculum and have been learning about adjectives. I wanted my students to be able to write sentences using adjectives to describe the subject.
As a Special Education teacher, I like to use organizers as an educational tool for writing. The organizers give my students something concrete to work with. It gives the students something to see, interpret, and apply to their learning. It empowers them to write!
I recently found these graphic organizers from Swamp Frog First Graders:
This graphic organizer helps students to break up the sentence into parts: An article to start (We use either "The" or "A" to start our sentence), an adjective (descriptor), a noun (subject), a verb, and a sentence expander, where.
This activity was teacher led with a small group of students. I modeled the graphic organizer using the pocket chart and word cards and my small group brainstormed adjectives and the sentence expander "where?" Next, I modeled how to use the graphic organizer to write sentences.
The next day, at their independent center, I gave the students a similiar activity using the word "student" as the noun and the word "plays" as the verb. Their job was to brainstorm adjectives and our sentence expander "where?" When they were done, they started writing their rough draft.
The following week, we were ready to write independantly at the teacher table. This student wrote about a bear. She used her graphic oragnizer to brainstorm adjectives, verbs, and our sentence expander "where?" Then, she wrote her sentences in paragraph form.


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We decided to try something....different this week, and sorry up front to our now-WoW listeners. Basically Ashley came up to me and said she wanted to try podcasting while we were doing some "Battlegrounds" in World of Warcraft. They are places where players can fight each other in different scenarios, so if you don't play WoW, you'll get a taste of what the game is like. If you do play WoW, listen on to see how uncoordinated and bad we are at PvP.
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The double dip in the US housing market has begun, which means that already depressed home prices have further to fall.
The picture looks especially bleak right now because the federal tax credit for home buyers, which had buoyed sales, expired in April. That's why sales of new homes were expected to fall in May.
But the actual plunge, reported Wednesday, was far worse than almost anyone expected. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of 300,000 homes in May is the lowest level ever reported by the Census Bureau since the bureau began tracking the data in 1963.
The median sales price of new homes sold in May also fell to a seven-year low of $200,900, the report said.
"The remarkable 32.7 percent month-on-month plunge in US new home sales ... officially marks the start of the double-dip in housing activity that we have been expecting for some time," writes Paul Dales, a Toronto-based economist with Capital Economics, in an analysis.
Combined with other disappointing housing data, the outlook for housing this year is growing gloomier.
Overall, home prices will be down 1.3 percent by the last quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2009, according to a survey of 106 economists, real estate experts, and others released Wednesday.
"The consensus expectation for future US home price performance is now somewhat less optimistic, most notably for 2010," said Robert Shiller, cofounder of MacroMarkets, a risk management firm in Madison, N.J., which conducted the survey. A month ago, only 40 percent of the panelists expected home prices to fall. This month, 56 percent did.
Other indicators have also turned negative. Sales of existing houses fell unexpectedly last month, down to 2.2 percent, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday.
Mortgage applications by home buyers also fell 1.2 percent last week, near a 13-year low set a couple of weeks ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
"Prices will continue to edge lower at the bottom end of the market," forecasts Joshua Shapiro, a New York-based economist at MFR, in a written analysis. "Conditions remain brutal in the middle and upper ranges of the spectrum, with elevated unemployment and prices that are still considerably too high in many markets."


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Ivonne Lamazares's novel was translated into seven languages.
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Tanya, the teenage protagonist of Havana-born Lamazares's timely and memorable debut, comes of age amid the political and social turbulence of Cuba in the late '60s and early '70s. This spare, lyrical and brilliantly observant novel holds an ironic twist: Tanya has a greater grasp of reality than her mother. Both characters are fascinating, strong-minded individuals: "Mamá" is reckless and recalcitrant, but has winning ways and a unique sense of humor, while Tanya is stubborn and practical, even as she admits that she and her mother are "splinters from the same unblessed stick." The familial struggle is exacerbated by the hardships of day-to-day life in Cuba, especially the constant surveillance by neighborhood watchdogs, known as CDR. The novel begins in 1958 when Mam leaves five-year-old Tanya to join Fidel Castro's rebel army in the mountains near their village; she returns a year later, disillusioned and pregnant by a rebel cook. The narrative then skips to 1966, when, in a town across the bay from Havana, Tanya is a bright and sassy 13-year-old schooled in the virtues of communism her half-brother, Emanuel, is seven and a talented musician; and Mam , quixotic as ever, is planning the family's escape to Miami. The plan fails, Mam is sent to prison and the children must live with an elderly distant relative, a nearly blind piano teacher whose Catholic faith helps her to cope with the restrictive regime. But Mam is both uncurably romantic and indomitable; on her release, she continues to dream of escape and forces Tanya to join her attempt to cross "the black water" on a makeshift raft. This is only the halfway point in a story whose suspense builds to a dramatic climax and a bittersweet denouement. In addition to the mother-daughter conflict, the irony of life in Castro's CubaDdepicted here as a land of food shortages and literacy campaigns, a godless society where people attend mass or believe in voodoo and where a young girl like Tanya cannot summon any faith at allDcomes across clearly in the hands of this talented new writer. Agent, Gail Hochman. Author tour; rights sold in France, Germany, Italy and Holland. (Sept.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School-A novel of Cuba in the 1960s. A "slippery heart" is how Tanya thinks of her mother, and her love for the woman is shadowed by distrust. When her daughter was five, Mama ran off to join the revolution, leaving Tanya with her grandmother. Mama reappeared a year later, pregnant and disen-chanted. From then on, she is determined to leave Cuba for a better life; the stronger her determination, the stronger Tanya's opposi-tion becomes. Her first attempt, when the girl is 13, fails. Mama is sent away for "rehabilitation," and Tanya and her brother are sent to live with a distant relative. Tanya meets Paula, a schoolmate who becomes her best friend and confidante, teaching her the facts of life. Tanya's sexual awakening comes later, when she meets a revolutionary officer whom she loves and with whom she lives for a short time. When Mama returns and goes to work in a matchbox factory, life stabilizes for awhile, but the woman is still determined to flee, and eventually succeeds, with Tanya protesting until the last minute, but giving in and leaving with her. The relationship between mother and daughter is the focus of this beautifully written novel, but the background of life during the Communist revolution is equally well developed. The beauty, the culture, the difficulties, the characters-all are vividly portrayed.-Sydney Hausrath, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA
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Stock indexes that rode accelerating global growth to fresh records in January are now hamstrung by a moderate but unmistakable slowdown in economic momentum in Europe and elsewhere.
Business activity globally has slowed from multi-year highs, according to the JPMorgan Chase and IHS Markit global purchasing managers index. The global manufacturing index fell to 53.1 in May, a nine-month low. The services index for April, which will be updated for May on Tuesday, slid to 53.8 from 54.8 two months earlier. And business activity in the eurozone fell to its lowest level in a year and a half last month.
The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of shipping costs that investors often look to as a proxy for global demand, has fallen 22% from a recent peak last month. Copper prices, another gauge of economic activity, have been on the decline. Among developed economies, data on the whole have been missing economists' expectations by a wide margin, according to Citigroup's index on economic surprises, after easily exceeding expectations for most of 2017.
Hardly anyone expects a recession any time soon. A rise this year in energy prices is being attributed to a combination of solid demand, reduced stockpiles and producer discipline. Growth in the U.S. and some other major economies continues apace, with the U.S. nonfarm payrolls report Friday showing a gain of 223,000 jobs and an unemployment rate of 3.8%, the lowest since 2000.
The upbeat jobs report helped steady the Dow Jones Industrial Average, but not enough to recoup all of its losses from earlier in the week. The blue-chip index on Friday added 219.37 points, or 0.9%, to 24635.21.
But with government bond yields near record lows in many countries and the median S&P 500 stock trading at price/earnings multiples seen only rarely in the past century, many investors are buying government bonds and other lower-risk assets in a bid to brace against what is expected to be a volatile market year. It is a safe way to proceed, they say, at a time when much of the expected upside from the global economic expansion for 2018 appears significantly less likely to be realized.
Investors' risk-off approach has been a hurdle for the stock market. The Dow industrials have struggled to push past 25,000 since March, a feat the index has done just once before falling below the mark again, even as the Federal Reserve has stuck to its well-choreographed pace of interest-rate increases. In the U.K., the path is less certain as the Bank of England weighs whether to forgo further planned rises in its key interest rate or even ease policy depending on how its departure from the European Union proceeds. Meanwhile, trade issues and a volatile currency could force the European Central Bank to alter its own fiscal-tightening plans.
"We generally think markets are in for a series of rude awakenings," said Joachim Fels, a global economic adviser at the money-management firm Pacific Investment Management Co. The firm recently said it expects to see more market volatility.
Developments in some of Europe's biggest economies, such as labor strikes in Germany and France in recent months and a harsh cold-weather spell across Northern Europe, are also undercutting the global growth narrative. The threat of more-restrictive trade policy has added further uncertainty to the outlook. And recent data have underscored how the economy remains sluggish, even years into the economic cycle.
Politics has also caused concern. Investors fled stocks and piled into super-safe U.S. Treasurys Tuesday after a brief stretch of turmoil over the formation of a government in Italy. The episode refocused investors on the weaknesses in Italy's economy as European policy makers attempt to pull back on post-crisis monetary policies.
Italy's divisions have dimmed much of the investor enthusiasm around last year's election of the business-friendly French president Emmanuel Macron, whose victory eased fears that the Continent would be riven by anti-Europe populist movements.
Fears of a trade war sharpened after the Trump administration imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada, Mexico, and the EU. All three outlined their own tariffs in response, such as proposing levies on U.S. food and agricultural products. Barclays economists estimated that steel tariffs plus the toll from retaliation could reduce global growth by 0.1 percentage point. That, plus tariffs on $150 billion of Chinese goods and any retaliation, could hit growth by 0.9 point.
The tariffs "reduce business confidence," which makes it more difficult for companies to make plans and execute on them, said Gary Pollack, head of fixed-income trading at Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management. "That has ramifications for the real economy."
The strengthening U.S. dollar is also exposing weaknesses in the developing world. Currencies are tumbling in countries with large trade deficits and large positions of short-term dollar debt. Turkey and Argentina felt compelled to jack up interest rates in May. Indonesia also lifted rates on Wednesday to stop its currency slide.
The U.S. is once again looking like the star performer. That was reinforced Friday by data that showed the U.S. continued to add jobs at a rapid clip. The U.S. factory sector picked up in May, according to data from the Institute for Supply Management.
"We're being more mindful of the risk we're taking outside the U.S.," said Andrew Slimmon, a managing director at Morgan Stanley Investment Management who runs several funds, including a global equity strategy. Mr. Slimmon said he recently cut exposure to emerging markets, reaping some of the gains from last year, and increased fund allocations to U.S. stocks.
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Spent most of the day at Jim's tattoo shop, Rogue. I took promo photos for them (i posted some of em' below).
I don't know about this place, I swear I came close to passing out a few times from the heat and everyone just made fun of me because apparently 95 degrees is "cool" here... hum?
This made me laugh, I was very tempted to throw down a dollar to see if I would get a hairy mole or sideburns but I just took a photo instead.
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For some reason we started taking pictures in front of their cars.
Later in the evening we had to get "shockiat" (chocolate) ice-cream. It was delightful.


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Soil map, Fannin County, Texas
Description: Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, roads, railroads, towns, schools, colleges, and churches. Includes legend and symbols. A polyconic projection, 1927 North American datum. "Horizontal control by U.S.G.S. and U.S.C. and G.S. Base map in part from Texas State (North Central) system of plane coordination. 10,000 foot grid based upon Texas (Central) system of plane coordinates."
Date: November 1946
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Research Administration. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering. Division of Soil Survey.
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Inspired by the spectacular landscape of the Saudi Arabian province of Asir, London hosted a truly unique art exhibition that brought together the two royal princes who had for a long time shared a mutual passion for supporting the arts as well as being amateur painters in their own right.
The Painting & Patronage exhibition, held at the historic Banqueting House, under the shadow of Big Ben was such a success that it was heralded by some as one of the largest cultural collaboration between the two countries and dynasties.
The exhibition included twenty-six oil paintings by HRH Prince Khalid Al-Faisal depicting the mountainous landscapes and people of the south-western province of Asir. Hung alongside this insight into the hidden magic of Asir and Saudi Arabia, were 30 watercolours by HRH The Prince of Wales. These included views of Scotland, Turkey, Greece, France and two watercolours of the mountains of Asir, which The Prince of Wales painted during his second official visit to the province in November 1999.
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Visitors to the exhibition also had a rare opportunity to experience a traditional Saudi Arabian village, re-created by the Asir-based Dhafir bin Hamsan Centre in the vaulted basement – known as the Undercroft – beneath The Banqueting House. Originally designed in 1623 as a drinking den where King James I could entertain his friends, the Undercroft was transformed and filled with the sights and sounds of Saudi Arabia, including soft furnishings, woven floor coverings, mannequins in traditional dress and the sweet aroma of herbs, spices and burning incense from Asir province.
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[Although my ongoing campaign is archived at rpol.net, I find it increasingly hard to find anything in their archives, since the site has no search feature that searches across multiple pages. Hence, my decision to "clean up" the story a bit and publish it here in installments.]
Prologue: Dice Morgan
Eu Claire, Wisconsin was his own personal purgatory. Rural life was such a drag compared to the hustle and bustle of Chicago. But, for the last six months, it meant staying out of Malone's reach and staying alive. It wasn't all boring. Dice took a job washing dishes at the local diner just to keep busy and had been romancing one of the waitresses, Cassie. Unfortunately, because he never knew when to keep his trap shut, he started bragging to Cassie about his criminal past to hold her attention. That, and Cassie was married. The night he talked Cassie into staying late at the diner and kissed her, she went home and confessed everything to her husband. Of course, Dice didn't know that at the time. He only found out days later when the guys in suits came into the diner asking about him.
Dice was smart enough to attempt to escape out the back, but they had expected it and had a man waiting back there for him. If they had been Malone's boys, Dice would have been fitting for a pine overcoat, but this was almost as bad because the guy out back flashed him a badge and said he was FBI.
The other two from out front joined them and, once the three of them had Dice's complete attention, the oldest and the tallest one said, "Dice Morgan? You don't have to answer; we know that's you. We know about Chicago and the Romanian too. Got a hot tip that you were hiding out here and chasing people's wives. Your rap sheet is about as long as my arm and I've got long arms. But we're here to talk to you about a deal. We need a criminal for a sort-of inside job. Something that's going down up by Duluth, Minnesota. It's gonna get you even farther away from Chicago and, if you do right by us, we can make your record disappear. You interested?"
Duluth, Minnesota meant more rural life, but since all three of them were packing heat, it made no sense to say no. The man who did the talking, Agent Schultze, said he would rendezvous with Dice in Proctor, Minnesota. Agents Outcalt and McCay were to "stick to him like glue" until Dice got there. They drove him back to the motel Dice had been staying at and let him pack. Dice considered making a break for it, but that offer about a record was too tempting. With the heat off from the law, Dice would only have Malone to worry about for the rest of his days. Maybe the FBI could even help with Malone too, he considered.
On the ride up to Proctor, Agent Outcalt opened up to Dice a little. He said Dice might be holed up in Proctor for a week before they needed him. He wouldn't be handcuffed at all unless he misbehaved. They had a room waiting for him there at the Comeback Motel. It sounded like Eu Claire all over again, except without Cassie and the dish washing. As to the job they needed him for, all Outcalt would say was that it involved some vigilantes. And he didn't sound too happy about that.
Prologue II: Cliff Shale, the Mountain Man
Life in the wilds of Northern Michigan had changed since his exciting adventure at the mine last month. The Mountain Man was already becoming a local legend. No one had yet realized that the legend vaguely resembled him. That might have been a good thing too, as the Mountain Man was not a popular legend at the moment. The mine had been closed all month while under investigation, which meant a lot of temporarily unemployed miners. The owners were promising to reopen soon and his father, Thomas, was confident he'd soon have his old job back. Cliff wasn't as confident and, though he was happy with being a lumberjack, he began checking the classified ads in the paper to see if something that paid even better was available. That was when he saw the strange personal ad. It read:
"MM, you're needed in Minn. Take U.S. Rt. 2 to Duluth tomorrow and stop for the night after you pass it. Stop to buy some apples. Will pay you back generously."
He could not shake the thought afterward that "MM" referred to the Mountain Man and that some mysterious benefactor was trying to offer him a clandestine mission! Of course, his father had always accused him of being a romantic dreamer and perhaps he had read too many pulp novels and superhero comic books since realizing what the gorget could do. Still, it wouldn't hurt to check it out. A glance at a map revealed that he could follow Rt. 2 almost the whole way from Michigan. At worst, he'd be gone for a day or two.
Chapter One
The Comeback Motel
May 2, 1940. Thursday, early evening.
Cliff Shale was slow to decide things but once he did he was like an avalanche tumbling down a mountain. He made excellent time and was pulling into Ashland, Wisconsin where he pulled off at a park overlooking Chequamegon Bay and ate the lunch he had packed.
He drove on through the afternoon and the low skyline of Duluth was well in view as the sun was beginning to set behind it and Cliff drove his Ford across the bridge from Superior and over the estuary of the St. Louis River.
The destination along Rt. 2 closest to Duluth turned out to be Proctor Township. At the top of a hill, overlooking the highway, sat a lonely motel with an unattached diner next door. The neon sign proclaimed this to be the Comeback Motel. Some cars, mostly Chevrolet and Plymouth sedans, sat out front, but one was a Ford roadster with a bucket of apples sitting on the hood. A man in a suit and hat was sitting behind the wheel, reading the newspaper, while another man sat next to him looking bored. The bored man was Dice Morgan.
Cliff Shale was the first to arrive, pulling up to the motel and going inside to rent a room for the night. He quickly decided that the roadster outside with the two occupants must contain his mysterious contacts and changed into his Mountain Man outfit.
From Detroit, Michigan, teenaged Tommy Russel arrived in his car. Tommy was rather excited. I can't believe I got hired to do something. I can't wait to find out, he thought to himself. He drove an old Buick, a junker he had to fix himself. Used to the city, he had little driving experience, and the rental shop had banned him because of the smell he always left after his adventures as Sewer Rat. Still, Tommy tried to be as comfortable above ground as he was below ground.
The Mountain Man walked purposefully up to the car with the apples from a half-block up the street while everyone assumed that the Cliff Shale, the man who had arrived in the old Ford pickup, was entertaining himself in the room he had rented. The Mountain Man was a built like mountainside. He was just over 5 1/2 feet tall and seemed to be almost 4 feet wide. He had a barrel chest and stocky legs. He sported a red plaid shirt and heavy work-worn blue jeans. His heavy work boots bore the dirt, dust, and scuffs of many a wilderness trail. All that just made him seem like any other hard-working man from around Lake Superior. What made him look unusual was the black domino mask he wore and the even stranger heavy gold gorget that was clasped to his neck. The gold shined with the wealth of a lost civilization and the craftsmanship looked ancient.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
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Tech review: A look back at the week's headlines
A leaked online document suggests intelligence agency GCHQ worked on ways to alter the outcome of internet polls, sent spoof emails that appeared to be from Blackberry users and looked at private Facebook photos. GCHQ said it "did not comment on intelligence matters".
A "smart" contact lens to help diabetics monitor their glucose levels is being developed in a deal between pharmaceutical company Novartis and Google.
And the head of a parliamentary committee looking into US spying in Germany has said they have considered using typewriters for sensitive documents to avoid electronic eavesdropping.
Watch more clips on the Click website. If you are in the UK you can watch the whole programme on BBC iPlayer.
18 Jul 2014


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Now that I've finally settled back into some kind of routine, I can take a moment to reflect on the weekend of CTN and post some photos courtesy of table buddy Mike Amos. Eager beavers that we were, we set up on the Thursday night when no one else was around. How sneaky!
When the first day began with Jerry Beck handing me his card and offering to review my book (released next April folks!), I knew this was going to be a weekend to savor.
Caught in the act!
Our friend and helper extraordinaire Laura Craig
The table looking splendid complete with preview copy of Alpha Monsters. Although the tub of free Red Vines proved slightly more popular than our actual work!
An admin oversight meant my name was left off the main banner. I soon put that right
There were many other amazing tables around, we didn't get to photograph them all, but here's a small selection of my favorites.
The friendly folks from Muertoons and their great book Rosita Y Conchita
Bill Robinson a blogger I've followed for a while now and genuinely nice bloke
The awesome Disney Peck N Paw project and (below) the super nice Brittney Lee
Special mentions too for Drake Brodahl, John Nevarez and the boys at Ghostbot for being, quite possibly, the nicest guys on planet earth.
All in all it was a great experience. Would I do it again? Heck yeah! But let's just see how 2011 pans out first though shall we?


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Mark and Kim | Renaissance Savery Hotel Des Moines Wedding
Fun fact: I had known about Kim for years. She was actually in my gym class in high school! I always admired how perfect her hair was. ;)
I knew their wedding day would be absolutely beautiful from the day she asked me to be their photographer! AND IT WAS! Their day was incredible. I don't think I've ever had so many reasons to tear up behind my camera. These two treasure their families + God above all else, and it was such an honor to witness it! On top of that, everyone was STUNNING and the details were all things glam + wonderful. Golds, greenery, and floral. Love! Basically I was hanging out with a sweet + put together version of the Kardashians.
Their ceremony was at Lutheran Church of Hope in West Des Moines and the reception was at the Renaissance Savery Hotel downtown Des Moines. Chandeliers everywhere!
Mark and kim in a nutshell:
Kim: A teacher to the super little ones. I love anything GOLD and FLORAL. Making things pretty is my passion. Whether it is decorating a room, cooking and serving food in/on fun dishes/platters, or keeping things festive in every situation. It's all in the details for me! 99% of the time I am listening to my favorites, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Dean Martin, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Ray Charles and watching Doris Day and Bing Crosby movies, I love Lucy and any Hallmark movie. I am somewhat of an old soul! Family is huge priority to me. Jesus begin a redemption story in me the day I became an aunt and changed me forever. This road eventually led me to my future husband and I am eternally GRATEFUL!
Mark: played football, baseball, was on the swim team and in the choir throughout high school. Basically a jack of all trades! Baseball is his true passion though and played through college (although injuries caused some major upsets). Mark eventually graduated from ISU and a couple years later ended up in West Des Moines! He is now a financial analyst at W.R. Berkley. Mark is the king of researching and will not rest until the best deals and options are found! He is a great cook and a wine connoisseur. ;) Mark knows everything there is to know about everything SPORTS (teams, players, statistics, games that happened a hundred years ago, etc.) Family is a priority to Mark as well and is a very loving son, brother and uncle! :)
Their love story:
Mark and Kim first laid eyes on each other at Bluemoon's trivia night (with a group from church) when Kim lent Mark her "Vote for Pedro" pen.
They began to hangout more with groups of friends through Revive at Lutheran Church of Hope but still weren't able to talk to just each other much at all. Little did Mark know that Kim had already told her friends and family that she was going to marry this guy (who she called Prince Harry at the time).
Kim had a Christmas party at her house and "Prince Harry" showed up! Mark stuck around after everyone had left and Kim was so nervous she thought she was going to be sick! Mark FINALLY asked for her number. They talked and talked a couple weeks later went on their first date and their lives were forever changed! They fell in love. :)
Later, they got engaged on a beach in Florida. Dreamy, right?!
What do you love most about each other?
Kim: Mark is, his patience with me, his determination, he is supportive and always willing to listen, the way he pursues me through little unexpected surprises (flowers, doughnuts, cooking a fancy dinner), and because he is a MANLY MAN but really has a sensitive and sweet side that I love to see. :)
Mark: Her attention to details, making every occasion special, being supportive when it comes to my work and family, her huge heart and values.
THeir Ideal Saturday:
Coffee, a big breakfast, errands, watching sports (Mark), waiting for the game to be over (Kim), cooking a new recipe and watching movies. We're all about taking it easy and relaxing!
Thank you so much for letting me be a part of your day, Mark and Kim! I'm so excited for you two as you start your lives together! Congratulations! :)
With love,
Ali Leigh
Ceremony: Lutheran Church of Hope
Reception: The Renaissance Savery Hotel
Dress: Perry Bridal in Valley Junction
Shoes: Gianni Bini, Dillards
Bridesmaids: Weddings by Design - Sorella Vita
Groomsmen: Skeffingtons
Hair: Kalie Luczycki at Bombshell
Makeup: Beauty of All Faces
Desserts: Hyvee
Flowers: Kim's aunt Becky Doane (she owns an interior design company Doane Designs)


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It was possibly wise for Skye's Gaelic college not to invite a political figure to deliver its Sabhal Mor Ostaig (SMO) Lecture this year.
After all when Gordon Brown, then Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, travelled to Skye in April 1999 to deliver the 10th lecture, he did so amidst charges by his political opponents that it was a blatant piece of electioneering during the campaign for the first elections to the Scottish Parliament.
Indeed since it was launched in 1990 high profile politicians have frequently headed to the Sleat Peninsula to share their thoughts with the college and invited guests.
Irish President Mary Robinson delivered a memorable lecture in 1997, while every Scottish First Minister (Donald Dewar, Jack McConnell and Alex Salmond) with the sole exception of Henry McLeish have been invited.
Donald Dewar died on October 11, 2000 a few weeks after delivering the lecture and there wasn't one in 2001. By the time the next one was held, Henry McLeish's stint as First Minister (October 2000 to November 2001) had been prematurely ended in the "Officegate" expenses row.
Doubtless SMO did not want to appear favouring one side or the other in the run in to the referendum. But as it happens Gaelic seems to be one of the few Scottish issues which has not become a pawn in the independence debate. Perhaps because all four of Scotland's main political parties can claim some credit for what has been achieved so far in the attempts to save the Gaelic language. Just as they can share the responsibility for what hasn't been.
The first lecture was given by Highland historian Jim Hunter. The second was by Lord Gus Macdonald, the boss of STV who went on to be a Labour Government minister. Others included Shetland fisheries leader John Goodlad and Donnie Munro, a founding member of Runrig who went on to become SMO's director of development. The lecture became a prestigious event which has been televised in the past.
This year's choice was arguably the one that provided the most global perspective, while retaining relevance to the cause of the Gaelic language. SMO is to be congratulated on the choice of Rita Izsák, the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues.
She spoke in detail on what defines a minority, whether it be on the basis of religion, ethnicity or language, and on the work that has been done and the legislation that has been implemented to protect minorities and their rights across the globe.
She knows a wee bit about prejudice and discrimination. Her father's family was forcibly moved under post-war population transfers from Czechoslovakia (present day Slovakia) to Hungary due to their Hungarian ethnicity in 1947 and her mother is of Romani origin. She has been working on human and minority rights for a decade.
During that time she was at the Budapest-based European Roma Rights Centre and was a consultant with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Open Society Institute, the Roma Education Fund, and the Association for Women's Rights in Development.
She also worked as a Human Rights Officer with the Somaliland National Youth Organization in Hargeisa (Somalia). Also with the Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe in Srebrenica, in Bosnia where thousands of Muslims were massacred in 1995, mainly men and boys. She was the Chief of Staff of the Social Inclusion State Secretariat of the Hungarian Ministry of Justice and Public Administration, and between 2011 and spring 2013, Ms Izsák was the President and CEO of the Tom Lantos Institute in Budapest.
This last body, the Tom Lantos Institute (TLI), is an independent human and minority rights organisation with a particular focus on Jewish and Roma communities and other ethnic or national, linguistic and religious minorities. It aims to "bridge the gap between research and policy, norms and practice".
The TLI was established in Hungary in May 2011 by the decision of the Hungarian Government and the U.S. Senate to honour and continue the legacy of Tom Lantos, a Hungarian-American and the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the United States Congress. He had been a powerful voice for human rights and civil liberties throughout his life.
Rita Izsák said of SMO: "Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is a true gem and should serve as a model for all linguistic communities on how language and a community should be preserved and advanced. I feel privileged to be part of your community, at least for today, and to be able to benefit from the beautiful view and the friendly atmosphere."
She obviously thought the challenges facing Gaelic should be put in a wider context.
She said minority languages were still under threat globally and needed to be protected by the law, and that their speakers still were not being given the chance to be educated in their native language.
She said: "In some countries the use of minority languages has been deemed a threat to national unity and an attempt by minorities to reinforce territorial or separatist claims and has consequently been restricted or banned. Any restriction on the use of minority languages and freedom of expression must be fully justified and proportionate. Attempts to prohibit or abolish the use of minority languages constitute a gross violation of minority rights."
But never far from her world are reminders that too often unspeakable human cruelty has denied the most basic of rights: "To talk about minorities is indeed timely and as important today as it has always been throughout history. In 2014, we sadly remember the Rwandan genocide that took place 20 years ago, killing hundreds of thousands in just a few months. And this year, we also hold a Holocaust Memorial Year reminding ourselves in Hungary how 70 years ago the tragic deportation of Hungarian Jews has started."


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Part 2: What it means to be Net Zero and how this will be achieved in the Hegstad Haven
There are many defining factors that go into creating a Net Zero home, today we will take a deeper look into the home's exterior walls. Firstly you need to create an efficient envelope, this is done with the use of extra insulation, thicker walls, and the reduction of thermal breaks throughout.
To get the higher quality envelope we made a thicker exterior wall, however, we needed to make the construction as affordable as possible. In order to meet this goal we first started with you typical 2x6 exterior stud walls at 16" on-center, as framers can build these walls efficiently. On the exterior side of this wall we have added 2x4's running horizontally at 2' on-center. By adding these we have given added protection against thermal bridging on this portion of the envelope. Next we added a Zip-System sheathing to the exterior instead of plywood and building wrap, doing this does not give added R-Value, but instead gives a much higher resistance to any water penetrating through this layer as the sheathing is factory coated with a water proofing membrane. On the exterior of the Zip-System there will then be a rain screen for added protection against moisture becoming entrapped within the walls. The rain screen also helps to further reduce thermal transfer and since it is very simple to construct it does not have a nominal effect on the overall cost. Finally, there will be hard board added with wood siding to complete the exterior finish. Overall this will make the exterior walls approximately 8 3/4" thick, not including interior drywall. Now, prior to adding the interior drywall the cavity of the wall will be filled with High-Density Cellulose. This was chosen over traditional fiberglass insulation for several reasons, one being that spraying in the insulation coats the 2x6's and 2x4's and all their joints, which is where the majority of your thermal bridging occurs. Another reason for choosing High-Density Cellulose is that it is only 4 PSF. Typical fiberglass insulation is heavier and eventually starts to sag under it's own weight, creating entirely uninsulated cavities at the top of your walls! Lastly, it is made of, up to, 85% recycled materials, helping to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the new home. All this forward thinking will bring the envelope of the home to an insulation value of R-27, rather than the standard R-21, making the exterior envelope of the home very well insulated with little to no thermal breaks and little to no chance for moisture to become entrapped in the walls, which is of extreme importance in our moist climate!


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With two First Division titles already to his name during his 12-season League of Ireland career, Vinny Sullivan knows what it takes to succeed.
Getting out of the lower tier requires plain hard work.
And if Waterford United – where the ex-Celtic trainee has returned to for a third spell – are to do it this season, they'll need to get their finger out.
Paul O'Brien's pre-season favourites have had a disastrous start to the season taking just one point from their opening four games, which included an embarrassing 4-0 drubbing at home to Mervue United.
After three defeats on the spin, Sullivan wants the Blues' season to begin tonight when Roddy Collins' Athlone Town visiting the RSC.
"It's been a difficult start and we've shot ourselves in the foot on a couple of occasions," said the 31-year-old.
"But we've had a couple of good chats over the last week or so, to put our finger on where it's gone wrong.
"Every game is a massive one for us at this stage to try and get that first win. It would be a monkey off our backs. Get that first win and go from there.
"It would relieve that bit of pressure that's building around the place.
"It's a home game. If we beat Athlone tonight we can kick-start our season."
Their poor start has been a big wake-up call for the Blues who lost out in the play-offs last year.
"There were expectations in Waterford after how well they went last year, how close they got," said Sullivan.
"Some people maybe thought it was a foregone conclusion, that they should be up there again. But football is not like that. You can't take it for granted. You have to work really hard and take each game as it comes.
"You build up a run and get momentum on your side.
"Little things don't seem to be going for us at the moment. But it doesn't stay like that forever. We just have to keep working hard to turn it around."
Sullivan was Cork City's 11-goal topscorer in the Premier Division last year, but being based in Dungarvan he opted to rejoin Waterford this year.
He teams up again with stalwarts like John Frost and David Breen, with whom he won the First Division in 2002/03, and feels their experience can only benefit the younger players.
"We have the experience which should see us through this situation, players who have been there and done it.
"It's competitive enough in the First Division and if you are not at it on the day you can be beaten by any team.
"I do think we are good enough to get promoted this year. We've experienced players who've won the First Division with Waterford before so it would be great to do it again.
"It's a big club that has great potential. You could say it's a club that deserves its place in the Premier Division.
"But you need to put in the hard work to get there. You can't just say it's a big club that has history. It would be great to get promoted."
"We've a blend of a few experienced lads and younger players. We're hoping to get the right mix. We have to stick with it and all row in together.
"There will be ups and downs. No-one goes through a season where everything is plain sailing, no team will go through it without a blip.
"So maybe this is just a test of character for a few people and hopefully we'll come out the better side of it."


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