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The Islamic Way of War
In Iraq, the world's only superpower finds itself mired in a conflict that it cannot win. History's mightiest military has been unable to defeat an enemy force of perhaps 20,000 to 30,000 insurgents equipped with post-World War II vintage assault rifles and anti-tank weapons.
In Gaza and southern Lebanon, the Middle East's mightiest military also finds itself locked in combat with adversaries that it cannot defeat. Despite weeks of bitter fighting, the IDF's Merkava tanks, F-16 fighter-bombers, and missile-launching unmanned aerial vehicles failed to suppress, much less eliminate, the armed resistance of Hamas and Hezbollah.
What are we to make of this? How is it that the seemingly weak and primitive are able to frustrate modern armies only recently viewed as all but invincible? What do the parallel tribulations—and embarrassments—of the United States and Israel have to tell us about war and politics in the 21st century? In short, what's going on here?
The answer to that question is dismayingly simple: the sun has set on the age of unquestioned Western military dominance. Bluntly, the East has solved the riddle of the Western Way of War. In Baghdad and in Anbar Province as at various points on Israel's troubled perimeter, the message is clear: methods that once could be counted on to deliver swift decision no longer work.
For centuries, Western military might underpinned Western political dominion everywhere from Asia to Africa to the New World. It was not virtue that created the overseas empires of Great Britain, France, Spain, and the other European colonizers; it was firepower, technology, and discipline.
Through much of the last century, nowhere was this Western military pre-eminence more in evidence than in the Middle East. During World War I, superior power enabled the British and French to topple the Ottomans, carve up the region to suit their own interests, and then rule it like a fiefdom. Until 1945, European machine guns kept restive Arabs under control in Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and Palestine.
The end of World War II found the Europeans without the will to operate the machine guns and short on the money to pay for them. In the Middle East, Arabs no longer willing to follow instructions issued by London or Paris demanded independence. Eager to claim prestige and respect, these nationalists, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser foremost among them, saw in the creation of large machine-age armies a shortcut to achieving their goals.
Placing an order for Soviet-bloc armaments in 1955, Nasser began an ill-fated Arab flirtation with Western-style military technique that did not fully end until Saddam Hussein's army collapsed on the outskirts of Baghdad nearly a half-century later. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Arab leaders invested in fleets of tanks, field artillery, and other heavy armaments, which they organized into massive formations supported by costly air forces equipped with supersonic jets. On the ground, bigger meant better; in the air, speed was thought to signify superiority.
All of these pricy exertions yielded only humiliation and indignity. Israel—a Western implant in the Muslim world—also adopted Western-style military methods but with far greater success, subjecting the Arabs to repeated drubbings. Designed on the Soviet model, the new Arab armies turned out to be ponderous and predictable but with little of the Red Army's capacity to absorb punishment and keep fighting. Taking the best of the German military tradition, the Israel Defense Forces placed a premium on daring, dash, and decentralization as they demonstrated to great effect in 1956, 1967, and 1973.
What was it that made the IDF in its heyday look so good? According to the punch line of an old joke: because they always fought Arabs. In 1991, the Americans finally had their own chance to fight Arabs, and they too looked good, making mincemeat of Saddam Hussein's legions in Operation Desert Storm. In the spring of 2003, the Americans looked good once again, dispatching the remnant of Saddam's army in a short and seemingly decisive campaign. In Washington many concluded that an unstoppable U.S. military machine could provide the leverage necessary to transform the entire region.
The truth is that U.S. forces and the IDF looked good fighting Arabs only as long as Arab political leaders insisted on fighting on Western terms. As long as they persisted in pitting tank against tank or fighter plane against fighter plane, Arabs were never going to get the better of either the Americans or the Israelis. His stupidity perhaps matched only by his ruthlessness, Saddam may well have been the last Arab leader to figure this out.
Well before Saddam's final defeat, others, less stupid, began to develop alternative means of what they called "resistance." This new Islamic Way of War evolved over a period of decades not only in the Arab world but beyond.
In Afghanistan during the 1980s, the Mujahadeen got things started by bringing to its knees a Soviet army equipped with an arsenal of modern equipment. During the so-called First Intifada, which began in 1987, stone-throwing and Molotov-cocktail-wielding Palestinians gave the IDF conniptions. In 1993, an angry Somali rabble—not an army at all—sent the United States packing. In 2000, the collapse of the Camp David talks produced a Second Intifada, this one persuading the government of Ariel Sharon that Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank was becoming unsustainable. Most spectacularly, in September 2001, al-Qaeda engineered a successful assault on the American homeland, the culmination of a series of attacks that had begun a decade earlier.
First in Afghanistan and then in Iraq, the United States seemed briefly to turn the tables: Western military methods overthrew the Taliban and then made short shrift of Saddam. After the briefest of intervals, however, victory in both places gave way to renewed and protracted fighting. Most recently, in southern Lebanon an intervention that began with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowing to destroy Hezbollah has run aground and looks increasingly like an Israeli defeat.
So it turns out that Arabs—or more broadly Muslims—can fight after all. We may surmise that they now realize that fighting effectively requires that they do so on their own terms rather than mimicking the West. They don't need and don't want tanks and fighter-bombers. What many Westerners dismiss as "terrorism," whether directed against Israelis, Americans, or others in the West, ought to be seen as a panoply of techniques employed to undercut the apparent advantages of high-tech conventional forces. The methods em-ployed do include terrorism—violence targeting civilians for purposes of intimidation—but they also incorporate propaganda, subversion, popular agitation, economic warfare, and hit-and-run attacks on regular forces, either to induce an overreaction or to wear them down. The common theme of those techniques, none of which are new, is this: avoid the enemy's strengths; exploit enemy vulnerabilities.
What are the implications of this new Islamic Way of War? While substantial, they fall well short of being apocalyptic. As Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has correctly—if perhaps a trifle defensively—observed, "Our enemy knows they cannot defeat us in battle." Neither the Muslim world nor certainly the Arab world poses what some like to refer to as "an existential threat" to the United States. Despite overheated claims that the so-called Islamic fascists pose a danger greater than Hitler ever did, the United States is not going to be overrun, even should the forces of al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iraqi insurgents, and Shi'ite militias along with Syria and Iran all combine into a unified anti-Crusader coalition. Although Israelis for historical reasons are inclined to believe otherwise, the proximate threat to Israel itself is only marginally greater. Although neither Israel nor the United States can guarantee its citizens "perfect security"—what nation can?—both enjoy ample capabilities for self-defense.
What the Islamic Way of War does mean to both Israel and to the United States is this: the Arabs now possess—and know that they possess—the capacity to deny us victory, especially in any altercation that occurs on their own turf and among their own people. To put it another way, neither Israel nor the United States today possesses anything like the military muscle needed to impose its will on the various governments, nation-states, factions, and political movements that comprise our list of enemies. For politicians in Jerusalem or Washington to persist in pretending otherwise is the sheerest folly.
It's time for Americans to recognize that the enterprise that some neoconservatives refer to as World War IV is unwinnable in a strictly military sense. Indeed, it's past time to re-examine the post-Cold War assumption that military power provides the preferred antidote to any and all complaints that we have with the world beyond our borders.
In the Middle East and more broadly in our relations with the Islamic world, we face difficult and dangerous problems, more than a few of them problems to which we ourselves have contributed. Those problems will become more daunting still, for us and for Israel, should a nation like Iran succeed in acquiring nuclear weapons. But as events in Iraq and now in southern Lebanon make clear, reliance on the sword alone will not provide a solution to those problems. We must be strong and we must be vigilant. But we also need to be smart, and getting smart means ending our infatuation with war and rediscovering the possibilities of politics.
Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at Boston University. His most recent book, The New American Militarism, is just out in paperback from Oxford University Press.


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Tales of Fraud and Corruption: Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets
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Wednesday, December 31, 1969 — Monday, October 25, 2010 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Peace & Justice Theatre, Joan B. Kroc Institute
On October 11, 2010, a Bloomberg Business Week article titled Schwarzenegger Says Russia is Gold Mine for Investors said that Governor Schwarzenegger met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for the second time in half a year and has embraced the Russian leader's plan to recreate a Silicon Valley in a suburb outside of Moscow. Governor Schwarzenegger compared Russia to a gold mine of economic opportunity as he led a trade mission to Moscow.
But there is price for the opportunity. Zealous government oversight and corruption continue to plague even the most stable developing market.
William F. Browder and Robert P. Smith have both personally experienced the good and the bad sides of doing business in emerging markets, and CNN's Fareed Zakaria has described Browder's experience as a real-life thriller with a tragic ending that will soon be made into a Hollywood movie.
Cynthia Richson, Co-director or the Center for Corporate & Securities Law at USD School of Law, will moderate a panel of experts including William Browder and Robert Smith. The panel will discuss the risks and rewards of investing in emerging markets such as Russia and Turkey.
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- Robert P. Smith, author of Riches Among the Ruins, Adventures in the Dark Corners of the Global Economy, is the founder and managing director of the Boston-based Turan Corporation, which specializes in trading emerging market sovereign debt and evaluating creditor claims against foreign governments.
5:30-6:45 p.m. – Registration – KIPJ Rotunda
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- The Peace & Justice Theatre is on the first floor; there will signs to direct you to the theater.
- Campus Map. Look for building #12 on the map (Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice).
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Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Watching Willow Watts
When I heard that Talli was launching her new novel 'Watching Willow Watts' by asking people to answer the question 'If I Could Be Anyone, I'd Be…' , I didn't have to think for long about my answer.
In a way I didn't choose this person, fate kind of chose her for me ...
Back in 1996 when I got married and changed my name to Helen Hunt I didn't realise that I was taking on a very significant life partner – my new namesake, the Hollywood actress Helen Hunt. Yes, that's right, 'the other Helen Hunt'.
By 1998 the other Helen Hunt was riding high with an academy award for her role alongside Jack Nicholson in 'As Good As It Gets' and every time I introduced myself to someone on the phone I was asked if I was 'that' Helen Hunt.
From a live radio interview for work when the presenter decided it would be funny to interview me as if I was really the other Helen Hunt and ask me what it was like to snog Mel Gibson, to my most recent experience of receiving a letter asking for a signed photo (from someone I fear was about to be VERY disappointed) 'the other Helen Hunt' has been a constant presence in my life.
So would I actually want to be her? Well, I wouldn't mind some of her success! But on balance I'd rather be a writer than an actress, so I think I'll stick with what I've got for the moment!
About Watching Willow Watts
For Willow Watts, life has settled into a predictably dull routine: days behind the counter at her father's antique shop and nights watching TV, as the pension-aged residents of Britain's Ugliest Village bed down for yet another early night. But everything changes when a YouTube video of Willow's epically embarrassing Marilyn Monroe impersonation gets millions of hits after a viewer spots Marilyn's ghostly image in a frame.
Instantly, Willow's town is overrun with fans flocking to see the 'new Marilyn'. Egged on by the villagers -- whose shops and businesses are cashing in -- Willow embraces her new identity, dying her hair platinum and ramming herself full of cakes to achieve Marilyn's legendary curves.
But when a former flame returns seeking the old Willow, Willow must decide: can she risk her stardom and her village's newfound fortune on love, or is being Marilyn her ticket to happiness?
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15 comments:
- Talli Roland said...
LOL! Yes, I don't think you had much of a choice there. :) But I'm with you -- I'd much rather be a writer than an actress.
Thanks for taking part, Helen!
- 14 September 2011 at 11:36
- Unknown said...
I wouldn't mind her success either. I could manage to snog Mel Gibson too... ;)
Great post, Helen!
- 14 September 2011 at 13:00
- Unknown said...
The stories behind a lot of these is what makes them so cool!!!! This was such a fun post!!! I found you via twitter (cuz that's the place to be right now)!!!!
- 14 September 2011 at 13:02
- J.L. Campbell said...
It's nice to dream about someone else's success, but much nicer being yourself.
- 14 September 2011 at 13:50
- Ann said...
Now that is funny. The "Other Helen Hunt".....Great story.
- 14 September 2011 at 15:44
- Jayne said...
The Other Helen Hunt sounds like a fab story-in-the-making to me! Funnily enough though I did want to be an actress, once a long while ago. But then I went to an audition and decided it wasn't for me. :)
- 14 September 2011 at 16:06
- Unknown said...
I have to agree on the writer rather than actor thing. Great post!
- 14 September 2011 at 19:45
- Julie Flanders said...
How fun! I definitely wouldn't mind her success either. Great post!
- 14 September 2011 at 23:02
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- 14 September 2011 at 23:55
- Alleged Author said...
Helen Hunt is an amazing actress. She drove me to tears in "Castaway"!
- 14 September 2011 at 23:55
- Susan Fields said...
I think Helen Hunt is great, but I'm glad you chose yourself. I'm rather be a writer than an actress, too.
- 15 September 2011 at 00:31
- Amanda said...
I'd much rather write than act too, Helen. You've chosen wisely! :-)
- 15 September 2011 at 07:56
- scribbleandedit.blogspot.co.uk said...
Fabulous tale. I'm glad you don't mind playing along.
- 15 September 2011 at 08:55
- Rebecca Emin said...
This is great, and I agree on preferring to be a write as well. Funny to share the same name. I get a lot of "Are you related to Tracey."
- 15 September 2011 at 10:48
- D.J. Kirkby said...
I'd rather be a writer than an actress too but not as much as I'd rather be a burlesque dancer. Hope your workshops are going well today.
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The National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics (NCHPEG) closes
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The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) in Bar Harbor, Maine, a highly regarded institution for genetics research and education, recently signed an agreement with the National Coalition of Health Professional Education in Genetics (NCHPEG) to acquire and maintain the coalition's website, content and other assets. NCHPEG's website hosts a wealth of targeted instructional programs for various disciplines including genetics and dentistry, genetics and psychiatric disorders, and genetics and common diseases.
"JAX will maintain NCHPEG's educational programs and websites so that they can continue to be freely available to the healthcare community, while also developing new programs," said W. Andrew Faucett, M.S., C.G.C., president of the NCHPEG Board of Directors. After a period of transition, the NCHPEG logos on existing programs and materials will sunset, he noted.
The American Society of Human Genetics has maintained the NCHPEG website after the nonprofit organization, based in Lutherville, Md., was forced to close on August 31, 2013, due to funding problems.
JAX hired three of NCHPEG's staff members - Kate Reed, Emily Edelman and Therese Nissen - to continue NCHPEG's vital work. It will add the NCHPEG website to its already robust education program, which provides pre-college and college education programs, pre-doctoral and post-doctoral training programs, and a growing roster of web-based educational material, courses, conferences and workshops for working scientists, lab professionals, physicians and the public.
The National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics (NCHPEG) closes
ASHG to maintain the NCHPEG website
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The National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics (NCHPEG), an organization that has promoted health professional education in human genetics and genomics for two decades, will cease operations on August 31, 2013, according to NCHPEG Executive Director Joan Scott, M.S., C.G.C. Fortunately, the wealth of information collected on its website will be maintained by the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), confirmed Joseph McInerney, M.S., executive vice president of ASHG and former executive director of NCHPEG.
"NCHPEG has made outstanding contributions to the genomic education of healthcare professionals," said Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). "I applaud NCHPEG's important educational efforts and their many important contributions to the educational enterprise."
In 1996 when NCHPEG was first founded, the only healthcare applications of genomics were within the reproductive context, pediatrics and, later on, in oncology. There were very few applications for primary care providers.
"A lot has changed since then," Ms. Scott said. "There are many more clinical applications of genomics available and a growing awareness within the healthcare provider community that they need to be thinking about incorporating them into practice. We see more institutions and organizations developing initiatives to bring genomics into the clinic."
"We hope the community recognizes the need for education," Mr. McInerney said, as ASGH considers how to fill the educational gap left by NCHPEG's closure. "But we have to be thoughtful. NCHPEG is closing as a direct result of the current funding climate. We have to determine where our funding for education programs would come from if our board decides to take this on."
History of NCHPEG
As the Human Genome Project progressed in the 1990s, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., then-director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Kathy Hudson, Ph.D., then-director of the NHGRI Office of Policy and Public Affairs, began to think about educating health care providers on incorporating genetics into their practices. Drs. Collins and Hudson are, respectively, current NIH director and NIH deputy director for science, outreach and policy.
Dr. Collins reached out to the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association, organizations that had also recognized the need to train health care providers in genomics. Their conversations resulted in the development of NCHPEG.
In the first few years, the organization functioned with donated work by volunteers but no actual funding. Over time, its membership grew to include genetics professionals, primary and specialty care providers at all levels, industry leaders, major health plans, consumer and patient advocates, and government and regulatory agencies.
In 2000, Dr. Collins and Alan Guttmacher, M.D., then senior clinical advisor to the NHGRI director, applied for and received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant. Dr. Guttmacher is the current director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). They then hired Joseph McInerney, M.S., as NCHPEG's first full-time executive director in 2000.
"My task was to make the organization grow, which required concrete visible programs," said Mr. McInerney. One of its first efforts was led by Jean Jenkins, Ph.D., staff with the NHGRI Genomic Healthcare Branch. She headed development of NCHPEG's first publication in 2001, Core Competencies in Genetics for All Health Professionals. In 2007, NCHPG updated this landmark document.
"We distributed thousands of them," Mr. McInerney said. "Our premise was that healthcare professionals want to be up-to-date on all areas of medicine. Many of them already felt like the field of genetics and genomics was snowballing and they wanted to be ready."
NCHPEG also started developing targeted instructional programs for various disciplines: genetics and dentistry, genetics and psychiatric disorders, and genetics and common diseases. They encouraged member organizations to submit proposals for developing educational programs for their own specialties. NCHPEG developed more than two dozen programs in the last decade in collaboration with specific audiences.
NCHPEG maintained quality control of the educational programs through the use of a rigorous and iterative curriculum development process imported from the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, in Colorado Springs, Colo., where Mr. McInerney worked for 22 years before joining NCHPEG.
"These programs, which include field testing, were expensive to produce. NCHPEG website content reflects no less than a $10 million investment. This is important to save," he said.
In his new role at ASHG - Mr. McInerney started as ASHG vice president in March - he found ASHG's leadership supportive of maintaining the NCHPEG website. Over the next six months, the ASHG board will consider whether to become more deeply involved in healthcare provider education in genomics.
Whatever the outcome, NCHPEG has been a worthwhile endeavor, Ms. Scott said. "We owe a great deal to the dedicated time and efforts made by our collaborators, our members and our staff. We salute the community writ large."


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"I wish I had good news," said Worcester County Chief Financial Officer Harold Higgins on Tuesday.
Higgins reported on the recent property tax estimates and assessment numbers at the County Commissioners' Tuesday meeting, offering solid numbers on property tax revenues after weeks of dire predictions. The revenue estimates are based on the current county property tax rate of 70 cents per $100 of assessed value. The estimates also include the homestead tax credit numbers.
The just completed reassessments in the Berlin and Ocean Pines areas, roughly the north end of Worcester County, excluding Ocean City, show a 36-percent decline in property market value.
Much of the decline can be attributed to falling property values in the Glen Riddle development, Higgins noted. Homes in the $300,000 to $800,000 range are at the greatest risk for value reductions.
"Unfortunately for us, a lot of our real estate, especially in the northern end falls in that range," said Higgins.
Commercial property has lost less value, he said, roughly 7 percent.
Worcester County, with a 20-percent reduction overall, lost more value in the recent reassessments than any other county in Maryland except Frederick, which lost 22 percent of its cash value.
House values in Ocean Pines declined 12 percent to 39 percent on average, Commissioner Judy Boggs noted. Overall, the greater Ocean Pines area shows a 20-percent decline.
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A few weeks ago I starting looking for a carry case or bag to replace my well used waist pack which I had been using for storing and carrying my ultralight radios around, sadly this bag had gotten too small and I also managed to break the main zip on it.
To start with I was planning on purchasing a hard ABS type case, the problem with this was the cost (more then what my ultralight radios had cost) and the fact that it really stood out due to the size I required to fit all my gear including my loop aerial, sort of going against the minimal type nature of the ultralight radio hobby.
Next I started researching camera bags, these looked to be a good possibility and after checking some details regarding sizes and prices online I managed to track one down locally which was affordable and sounded like it would be perfect. When I went to check this out in person I found that the dimensions they had listed were wrong and it was going to be too small, to move up to the next size was quite a leap in price and it was starting to get too big to be manageable. With this I sort of gave up and was just going to carry them in my backpack.
On the weekend just been I had to make a quick trip to our local hardware store to buy some screws, while I was getting these I spotted something which I thought might be suitable, for AUS $20 I thought it was worth the chance.
Getting home and spending about 30 minutes placing some bubble wrap in the bottom and cutting some foam I had sitting at home I have managed to come up with a case which fits everything I need, looks good, is low profile and fits inside my normal backpack if I go for any long walks. Photos below:


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My colleague unfortunately got a worse diagnosis (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) The chances for her now are minimal (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
That´s terrible, and everybody is scared, disappointed and afraid...
Today I had my first English-Lesson - and well... we wrote a test at first, and the children managed that very well. Then we learned some new words ("Easter egg, Easter bunny,) and repeated colours, animals and numbers.. The kids were quite surprised, that their teacher for religion is also able to teach English (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) But - I´m not interested in teaching the children English religion or religious English (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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I'm sorry to hear about your colleague's illness Leslie. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
As for religious education and English, how about singing a gospel or two with the kids? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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definitely... not definitively... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)
And I´m sure you´ll find more mistakes (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
But: I left school 26 years ago - and since then I didn´t use my English... Ok, I"ve read some "Harry Potter"-books in English (and in Spanish and in Netherlands) - but that´s all...
Actually I´m exchanging English-materials and religious education-materials with my colleague - because she has to teach religious education now while I´m teaching English... I am thankful for her help, she is thankful for my help - so we both will try to do our best (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
@Regenbogen: Singing - wow, that´s my personal enemy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) I hate it - thus I´m glad that I don´t have to teach music in my own class. But we have CDs which we can use during the English lessons - so I let the CD sing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) - and the kids have fun (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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Don't worry about making a few mistakes, it's more important that you're a good teacher (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Oh why didn't I see that topic earlier? The english language is my hobbyhorse! I just finished a part time MA in England and will soon leave the country, this time for longer.
I also have an english cat, but she's learnt quite a bit of german language. So now she's bilingual (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Brought her back with me, when I moved back from England to Germany in 2012.
How is the teaching going, leslie? Recently I was forced to teach music, which I have even studied years ago, but never taught...so that was a small catastrophe....good luck!
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Hey, cup of tea,
thanks for asking (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
Well - we recently learned some items concerning birthday parties ("fancy hat", "birthday cake", "candle", "present",....) - and actually we are learning something about the seasons - we started with spring (sun, flowers, tulips, daffodils etc..), the other seasons are going to follow...
I think the children have accepted that I have to have a look into my papers, but they can remember the new words quite well, that´s impressing. Last time we learned a new song and played a game - and they just had fun, and that´s important, too (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
(My cats can only speak "cattish" - but at least they know their names - but some of them think that it´s definitively not necessary to listen to them (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) )
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Hey leslie,
it's always great for students to see, that their teacher is also learning. Usually at least.
I had a group all year now and will still have another course, that expect the teacher to spread wisdom over them like sprinkle of salt....which is really not my way of teaching. At the same time they're so leant back and don't really want to get involved...young adults who are not through their puberty yet it seems. Sometimes I'd rather exchange them for high school students.
Enjoy the fancy hats and face masks! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cheerlead.gif)
and have a cuppa (IMG:style_emoticons/default/morgen.gif)
warm wishes-
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Well, meanwhile I don´t have any stuff to teach any more - we´re through, even the special projects are done...
We´ve been going on a bear hunt, we heard a story about a bear family who couldn´t find the right beds in the house... we played games and sang songs...
And now there are 4 more weeks to go and I don´t know how to "fill" the lessons... One of my colleagues told me that she´s got some additional material which she could give me - but she is so very occupied with her own family that I can´t rely on her (and no, I don´t mean this in a negative way, she definitively has a whole lot of work at home and I can understand that she can´t think of everything!)
Ok - I´ll take a cup of tea and go to bed...
Maybe my dreams will show me a solution (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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I spent the last two days working with a teacher from France. Last night we were talking with a few people about food and cooking, and he explained in English (or rather: "English" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) ) that he loved cooking and had probably inherited some of his father's talent:
(imagine this with a French accent:)
"My father was a cooker in a restaurant in Paris." (IMG:style_emoticons/default/a5.gif)
It makes me smirk every time I think of it... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
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Kurz auf deutsch.
Hat eine Erfahrung mit Bab*el? Ich überlege, meine Fremdsprachenkenntnisse wieder aufzufrischen. Theoretisch könnte ich das an der VHS,
dank Corona sind da aber natürlich alle Kurse abgesagt.
Oder gibt es eine andere Seite / App mit der man gut arbeiten kann? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/gruebel.gif)
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Country artist Blake Shelton's not above mixing a little business and personal life when it comes to finding a potential music superstar on "The Voice." In fact, he's asked his wife to help him.
For the second season, each of music industry mentors on the singing competition was allowed to bring in a pair of celebrity coaches to help the singers on their teams gain even greater insight on what they need to do to make it. Shelton's brought in his wife, fellow country star Miranda Lambert (as well as Kelly Clarkson, "American Idol's" first champion), to help, and he tells PopcornBiz about working directly with his new bride, running his favorite music into the ground and gearing up for a major Grammy night.
Can you talk about choosing Miranda to help you mentor? Has she been giving you her opinions already?
Oh, are you kidding me? She gives me her opinions about everything. But especially with this show. I mean she's really- I mean this show really hit Miranda in the heart a lot harder than I expected it to because she's not really- I think after 'Nashville Star' she kind of purposefully hasn't paid attention to many of these type of shows. And now that she's able to look back and see that she made her own way she can see these kids on here like Dia and Xenia for me last year. And she sees how attached I get to them and she can't help but get emotionally involved also, you know. And so of course as this season's been going along she wants to know every artist I picked. She wants to hear them. Any DVDs I may have of their auditions, anything like that that she can see, she wants to know every one of them. And trust me, I get an earful about what direction I should try to take them in.
It's been an exciting year for you. Can you talk about the first year of marriage and what it's been like for you?
Marriage? It's not really not that different. I mean just, we still, we just spent the longest amount of time we've ever spent together over December. I think we were together a little for over four weeks without a break. And I think we're still married, actually. You get to the point where you go, 'Oh, that's enough – You need to go do a show now.' And that's how it works with us. So that's why we've been together so long.
Who's a music artist that you and Miranda are both really into?
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I don't know that there's ever that one artist that we agree on, but there's probably ten or so that we can both agree to listen to. She used to absolutely love 'Forget You' by Cee Lo until I played it so many times. I played it five times a day, and then I made it my ring tone. And then finally one night she goes, 'Okay, that's it! We need a new Cee Lo song.' So it's like that: usually, when I find something that she's okay with, I play it so much that she's not okay with it.
With Kelly Clarkson's connection with "American Idol," was it an easy thing to talk her into doing "The Voice"?
Yeah. Because Kelly, I mean, Kelly has nothing but love for 'American Idol' as far as I know, but she also has nothing but love for artists. I've never met an artist that loves other artists more than Kelly Clarkson. I can say that without any hesitation. I've never heard her sit back and talk crap about other singers. She just loves records and loves to hear people live. And see their show. She's just a fan, you know. She just loves- she lives and breathes music. I can't say it enough. It's so true. And I knew from last year, we've been friends for a while now, and I knew last year that she had been watching the show and she bought Dia's record. And so I knew if she was available she would do it just because, again, like I said earlier, she knows what these artists are going through to some degree.
It's so hard to break through in the music industry and you have to think about yourself a lot. Did this sort of bring you back seeing what people had to go through? And also be a little bit more empathetic and not think about your own career so much while you try to help other people?
Yeah, in fact, that's one of the biggest criticisms that I get from my management around me is that: 'Man, I know you want to help this person but goddangit, man, I mean at some point we gotta...you know what I mean?' And they're right. You can't fix everything for everybody. But last year when I got down to my final two with Xenia and Dia on the team, I've never gone through anything like that before ever in my life. I mean, I don't have kids. And I don't have a younger sibling. It was the first time I ever experienced 'Oh my God. I care about these two girls and I want to protect them. And what do I gotta do? Show me what's the right thing to do,' you know. And I'm probably not very good at that. And that's why people could see it in me on television that it was like, 'Dang man, he's a dude that needs to let go a little bit, you know? He's getting emotional on television.' But I just, I'd never gone through anything like that.
With Kelly and with Miranda on the show, how is it working exactly?
This year we have 12 people per team instead of eight, and so we decided instead of having one advisor talking to 12 people, let's pick the six that are most likely to fall into Kelly Clarkson-land and let her advise those six so she can spend more time with them. Listen to them sing. Not just run into a room and go through them real quick. She actually spent a day talking to each one of them a couple of different times. And then the same thing with Miranda. If I happen to have country singers or maybe some female singers that are a little bit more rootsy, they may fit into Miranda's category, same thing.
Do you always agree with the advice Miranda and Kelly deliver?
No, I don't agree with everything anybody has to say, you know. But that's neither here nor there. I brought them here because I know they know what they're talking about. And if they have something to say, who am I to go, 'Oh, no, no, no,' because- and they sell a hell of a lot more records than I do.
Has this experience changed your own music at all?
Yeah, I think it has a little bit. I mean, I got a damn iPhone full of Maroon 5 songs right now! I didn't before. Again, it's just an eye-opener for so much that's out there. And then on top of that the artists that come on and audition – there's a couple of times where, I'm sure they'll hear it because it's funny as hell, but I don't recognize a certain rock song or a pop song that clearly. I guess people were born knowing, but I, somehow missed it along the way and I say 'I don't know that song'. But that's why this show's been good for me. And I do think it already is affecting my music. And not changing who I am and what I want to say, but definitely expanding as far as sounds and things like that go.
Are the contestants from Season Two more savvy because they've seen how the show works?
Yeah, they are. They know what to expect. Last year, I've actually had a lot of conversations with Dee about it, and she said that if she had known what the show was she would have never have auditioned for it because of the battle rounds and these awkward positions that you get put in on this show. And they are awkward. And sometimes it's hard to watch it and you're going, 'Oh s**t'. But that's why the show's good, because of those things. And so this year we got the kind of singers that damn sure aren't afraid. I mean, they go into it ready for battle from day one. So, yeah, they're definitely prepped.
Have you seen an uptick in your own sales and popularity and recognizability as a direct result of "The Voice"?
Oh absolutely. I mean twentyfold. It's crazy. I guess that's the power of television.
You're nominated for two Grammys, are you excited for the big night?
Oh s**t, yeah – am I excited about the Grammys? Gosh dang! I won't sit here and go 'I don't watch that stuff.' Hell yeah, man! I want one of those things bad. I do. Because this is the first time I've ever kind of been embraced by that community, and it feels good. It really does. Because I've been doing this now for- this is eleven years I've been making records and having some hits. Just kind of keeping my head above water. And been happy and thankful of that. And for this to be happening to me this late in the game with the Grammys, everything else is that much more exciting because I know the value of it.
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When you combine a hot videogame like Tetris with the Connect 4 concept, you get something like Radica's new Tetris Tower tabletop game. Basically the machine indicates which piece the player must drop into the upper slot area. When you pick up a game piece and drop it in, it slides straight down, guided by bulit-in plastic ridges. You then indicate to the system which of two competing players accomplished a line by flicking a switch on the side of the unit. Not quite as portable as the Gameboy edition, but maybe just as cool.
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A few of us have been deliberating and discussing the need for a bridge certification between the MCITP and MCM certifications from Microsoft. This discussion was brought about due to an editorial by Steve Jones at SQLServerCentral. As the discussion has progressed I believe there are some good ideas coming about from the discussions on how to create such a bridge. I want to share some of that info here as well as some background on the topic.
Why is there a need?
Microsoft has two levels of certification that are of interest to many Database Professionals. The first is the MCITP and the second is the MCM. The MCITP is a series of exams taken from computer that are designed to test general skills related to one of the database roles and the exam topic in particular. This certification is relatively accessible and has minimal relative cost (you pay for each exam and study materials).
The MCM is a higher achievement with considerably more cost. The MCM is conducted via a "boot-camp" training session on the Microsoft campus for three weeks straight. The cost is $18,500 for the three weeks alone. Beyond those costs are all associated travel fees (lodging, food, transportation). To be accepted into the program there is an application process and a non-refundable fee of $125. There are exams and labs that must be passed in order to receive the certification. There is also the time requirement of five years in the profession and be an MCITP. Now, you do get to receive training at the hands of some MVPs such as Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randall – which could be quite an experience alone. As you can see, this certification is designed for Senior level Database Professionals and has some high barriers to entry.
These two levels of certification create a chasm between themselves. There is a lot of middle ground that is not covered. Many can't afford the MCM, and many won't do the MCITP due to perception. If there is something between the two that can bridge the gap, there will be change in perception from the community as well as business. The certification in the middle needs to be able to build on the MCITP and serve as a building block for the MCM if one should desire to pursue it. However, it should also be recognized as being able to stand on its own (which the MCITP does not) as a quality certification.
Barriers to Entry
Barriers to entry are requirements that must be met by an individual prior to being accepted. This term is used in business and economics and denotes the difficulties a company may have when starting up in an industry. Barriers to entry are good. They help create competition and try to help create a perception of quality.
I believe the MCM has some high barriers for a few good reasons. These reasons are:
- Prevent people from cheating the system. Certifications have received a black eye in general due to people cheating the exams and through the use of widely available brain-dumps.
- Be a credible certification. Since MS is controlling the environment of this certification, it would be difficult to cheat your way to being an MCM. By being so difficult as well, it could garner more respect for the person having achieved it and thus instill a little more confidence in the certification system.
- Make the MCM prestigious. With so much cost and so few people attaining the certification, it could become a desirable certification.
- In addition to those reasons for the barriers, there is the revenue that this program will generate for Microsoft as well.
Bridging the Gap
How does a company that sponsors a certification bridge a gap such as exists for Microsoft with the MCM and MCITP? That is the dilemma that has several people talking and particularly in the discussion forum from the editorial mentioned already. There is a foundation of ideas that are forming into a consensus on how to handle this middle ground. This does not however mean that all of the questions have been answered. Nor does it mean that these ideas are to be adopted by Microsoft or even PASS. Here is a review of the foundation being proposed.
- MCITP Certified
- Lab / Project
- Review Board
- Presentation
- Exams
- Time in Service
This bridge would be akin to the Journeyman in the trades. The idea being that the MCITP is more like an apprenticeship. You have hopefully learned a little bit from the exams and studying performed to gain that certification. The next step is to journey out as an apprentice and establish yourself in the industry. Somebody signs off that you are able to perform the duties that to which you ascribe. A journeyman can do the work without supervision and has the endorsement of his peers. This is a formalized approval. Does one need to be certified to be able to do the job? NO. This is a path for those that desire to be certified. Will this path lend more credence to the person doing the job? Potentially. Since this certification is not in a bubble there will be some gaming of the system. The amount of gaming and cheating will be considerably less.
MCITP Certified
Being certified at the base level should be a pre-requisite. This requirement holds for the MCM and shows some level of competence and intent toward certification and the DBMS.
Lab / Project
The conducting of a hands on exercise is essential to testing the ability of the candidate. Being able to perform a given task under pressure is what we do as professionals. This will help to divulge the mettle of the candidate as well as demonstrate the skill set. The administration of this exercise is one yet to be flushed out. There needs to be a large pool of exercises for this to help prevent any brain-dumping of content or cheating of the system.
Senior level professionals in the community need to be able to communicate effectively. This presentation can be a topic of choosing by the candidate. The presentation could be scored by the attendees to provide additional feedback for the Review Board. A benefit of requiring this is to help build a Presenter pool for the various events in the community. This also helps to provide additional material for review on how the candidate handled the task being presented and knowledge base.
Review Board
A panel of peers needs to review each and every applicant. This will serve multiple purposes. The primary purpose is to reduce the likelihood that somebody has gamed the system. The board themselves should be Certified and well respected individuals in the SQL Community. A nice example would be to have MVPs sign up for this. A secondary benefit of this is that this review could serve as the application for the MCM. The review will entail a review of a presentation (at minimum) the candidate has done, the lab / project, Exam Scores and potentially be an interview directly with the candidate.
Time in Service
This is the most controversial requirement for the certification. If one is pursuing the MCM, then one must wait five years anyway. If not then the candidate may or may not be intrigued by the need to wait for 2 years. I feel that time in service gives more credence to the certification. From Boy Scouts up through employment there are several time in service stipulations that one must meet in order to attain the goal. I don't think two years as a Database professional is a hard requirement (especially for those that have been working in the arena for several years already). This time in service can serve as a fleshing out period. I think there can be exceptions built in for this requirement.
This is pretty straight forward. There are exams required for the MCITP, there need to be exams for this middle cert. The exams need to entail greater difficulty and possibly be more specific skill-set. This is an area for greater discussion.
These requirements are designed in an effort to build the community and bring a higher level of credence to the profession. In no way should these be considered as an effort to esteem ourselves as the elite. There are plenty of details to be discussed. This is a worthwhile cause to champion and try to get PASS and MS on board with it. Currently we call this certification the MCJ (JourneyMan). I think that a renaming of the MCITP is also in order to help delineate the path from beginner to master. MCITA would suffice for me. Maybe the MCJ should also be more along the lines of MCITJ. However, the MCJ works in coordination with the MCM as far as naming convention goes.


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The only American beers I have seen over here are Budweiser and Miller. They are "brewed under licence" so you can bet they bear little resemblance to what you get in the States Stuff brewed under licence tends to have been modified to suit what are perceived to be local tastes.
I have had imported Michelob (in bottles) at a US Navy base, and I found that rather nice
There was a trend over here in the 1980's and 90's for the large brewery chains to take over the smaller local brewers and foist their chemical crap on their outlets. Eventually this spawned a reaction in the formation of CAMRA (CAMpaign for Real Ale) who avidly promote traditional beers, brewers, and outlets.
Things have gone full circle now, with the emergence of small and micro breweries making "real ale" (organic) using traditional methods and ingredients. These are generally what I drink.
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Valentine's Day means cookies. My grown up children still expect fancy heart-shaped cookies decorated with pink icing. Oh dear, this year there's not enough time for fussy cookie work, but cookies we must have. We'll consider another favorite— thinly rolled shortbread, cut into heart shapes. These don't need icing, and a sugar sprinkle before baking will add a touch of glamor.
Shortbread's the cookie recipe everyone needs to memorize. It takes almost no thinking and with a deft hand is something anyone can manage. So easy—basically three ingredients in the proportion 1, 2, 3: 1 oz. sugar, 2 oz. butter, 3 oz. flour. That's it! It's most reliable with a scale, and possible with cups. If you want a touch of vanilla, a dab of seeds scraped from the bean or a few drops of extract will add that extra dimension. Shortbread is best made with salted butter, but if unsalted butter is what's on hand, add a pinch of fine salt.
Supposedly first made in ancient Rome and popular since Elizabethan times in England, Scotland and Ireland, happily, it's been passed down to us Americans. Of course we've doctored our shortbread with chocolate, ginger, coffee, and other sweet flavors as well as turned it into savories with cayenne, cheese, and rosemary. I still prefer the tried and true plain little cake which never fails to delight—faintly sugary, rich flavor, tender texture. Add shortbread to almost any pudding or ice cream or serve it along with your coffee or tea for a memorable way to bring sweet greetings for Valentine's Day.
Shortbread Hearts
2 oz. sugar (5½ tablespoons)
4 oz. butter (one stick or ½ cup) at cool room temperature
6 oz. all purpose flour (1 scooped cup + 3 tablespoons)
(1/8 teaspoon salt if using unsalted butter)
(seeds scraped from 1 inch vanilla bean or ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract)
Slice the butter into a heavy mixing bowl. Add the sugar, optional salt and vanilla. Cream together until well combined. (It's not necessary to beat this mixture to the light and fluffy stage.) Add the flour and work to a crumbly mass with the wooden spoon, then use your hand to bring the mixture together into a soft dough. (At this point the dough may be left, covered, at room temperature for an hour or more.)
Roll the dough into a log on the counter. Cut off one third and shape into a flattened patty. On a lightly floured surface use a rolling pin to roll the dough gently back and forth to a desired thickness between 1/4 and 1/8 inch. Cut with a small heart-shaped cutter (or any other cutter). Place the cookies on an ungreased heavy baking sheet and sprinkle each heart with granulated sugar. Scrape up the dough scraps, add another third of the shortbread dough. Gently bring the pieces together, shape the patty, repeat the rolling and cutting. (At this point the cut cookies placed on baking sheets may be covered, chilled and baked a few hours later.)
Bake the cookies at 350° 12–14 minutes or until ever so lightly golden. Remove to a cooling rack while still warm. Store in a tin or an airtight plastic box when cool. Makes 3½ dozen.
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