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On the Shoulders of Giants
I've been on a bit of a writing hiatus this month while I charge through the first month of school. It's been a great year so far, and I'll be writing more about why in subsequent posts. I first want to shout out two amazing posts by my TLN colleagues.
ONE. If you haven't checked out Jose Vilson's post, How Jay-Z Can Help Us Remix Education, run to Edweek to check it out. As someone who has followed Jay-Z's music and career since his debut almub, Reasonable Doubt, I too have noticed that, wow, he's the only guy from that era still really in the hiphop game as a current artist. What has he done to remain current, influential, and a leader in his field? Jose analyzes that, and points out that he has become more than "just" a rapper. He's become successful and influential in several other arenas, and at the same time, he hasn't stopped being a rap artist. Jose makes an apt comparison to the concept of the teacherpreneur that the co-authors of Teaching 2030 and I put forth in the book and other places.
TWO. Education Nation came and went this past Sunday and I was busy grading, planning, and catching my breath. I did not even tune in at all, partly because of how busy I was, and partly because of what a disappointment it had been for me last year. I was there in person at Rockefeller Center last year and just left feeling used (blogged about it here and here). This year, it sounds like NBC put on a more balanced program, with space for more thoughtful contributions by teachers and less dramatics. But that's not the end of the story. If you have not read Anthony Cody's post at Living in Dialogue analyzing the circular logic of Melinda Gates' statements about her organization's research, you absolutely must.
Cody points out that, while Melinda Gates asserts that we need multiple measures of effective teaching, she goes on to explain that her research is looking at only those measures (forms of peer observation and student feedback, to name a few) that correlate to higher test scores at the end of the year. In other words, what do teachers whose students get high test scores do, and how other than testing, can we measure this same outcome? The problem is that with this model of "multiple measures" all roads are leading toward a single measure--high scores on a narrow and imperfect test, which may have little to do with success in the world students must navigate as adults. As Cody points out, the notion that standardized tests measure the skills that will matter for students in their adult lives remains unproven. Again, you must read his piece on this and decide for yourself whether we are moving in a good direction.
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They say teachers must have eyes on the back of their heads. This is definitely true on some level, and there are some very obvious, but not necessarily intuitive, tricks to get close to this reality--close enough that you might actually hear your students say, "What, do you have eyes on the back of your head or something?!"
You can't really be in charge if you don't see what happens. In our ideal classroom, we could probably turn our backs and business would continue as usual. But, especially in the beginning, and especially with middle schoolers, this is pretty unrealistic. It is key to figure out how to always keep your eyes on the class.
Train yourself to move around the room so that you can see the entire class in your peripheral vision. This sometimes means not taking the most direct route to a student's table, but walking around all the desks to end up next to the student. If you sit down at a table with a group for a few minutes or a work period, it is worth making sure your seat is facing the rest of the class. (Think of yourself as the gangster who insists on a seat in the restaurant where his back is to no one.) I'll even ask a student to switch seats with me so I can have the one where I can see the class.
In your front board/teaching space, try to have your handouts and the basic supplies you might need so you don't have to walk to your desk or a closet during class to get something. Have students pass things out while you watch. When you circulate around the room, adjust your traffic pattern to maintain the most possible students in your line of vision.
I'm sharing this because it's so obvious and easy to do, you might miss it. I know I did, until somewhere in the middle of the year, I was helping students work in groups with my back to most of the class. Thankfully, my mentor pulled me aside and said, "You should try sitting over there." She pointed to the space across from where I had been. "So you can watch the rest." After that, I was always aware of my positioning. Sometimes, I get comfortable with a class and allow some blind spots. That never lasts long, though.
While kids don't really know or appear to care that you're walking the long way or are very particular about which seat ou sit in, they do notice when you don't keep watch. In fact, there are always a few students waiting for those very moments ;) For their sake, and everyone else's, better to always be watching.
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It's now official. Parents are asking me if they can buy their kids Kindles, Nooks, etc, so students can do their reading and their post-it note responses electronically! On the one hand, I love it! I am so happy this day is finally here.
Four years ago I discovered the Kindle. I showed an Amazon promotional video to students and they were stunned. I asked them to write on the questions, "How would school be different if every student had a Kindle?" They wrote thougtfully about the effects this invention could have on student's organization and motivation. Although it was a plausible scenario, it presented as a futuristic dream. It amazed me that year after year I could recycle the assignment and still, it was a pie-in-the-sky vision.
Last year one or two students read books on their ipod touches. I found it easier to review post-its, because you can view all "notes" at once without having to flip through the pages searching for the notes. You can still refer back to the page the student is commenting on to better understand the student's thinking. The students who did this were such voracious readers I didn't worry that they'd be on the internet. I passed by their tables a few times to check and never had an issue.
Now that E-readers are becoming more available and commonplace, I couldn't be happier about it. I do have to figure out what changes I will need to make to accommodate them in the classroom. Clearly, E-readers that have internet and games on them such as Ipads and the new Nooks pose new opportunities for distractions. There may also be organizational changes to the structures around reading I use, which I designed over the years with real-paper books.
Perhaps the changes will make new fertile territory for student writing--no longer a fanciful exercise, I could truly use students' advice on how to make E-readers work in my program!
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Today one of my tasks was to create an assessment calendar for the year. This is a plan for mandatory benchmark and interim assessments to track my students' abilities to perform on distinct sections of the NY State ELA exam throughout the year. There are three major sections of the test, which we track separately through interims and all together in benchmarks: (1) reading & multiple choice, (2) listening and written response, and (3) reading and written response.
I don't really have a problem with giving any one of these assessments. After all, my school has a mandate to raise students' profiency levels, as measured by this test, and we need to do all we can to make sure our students are able to be successful on the it. The standards being assessed are all important--supporting an answer to a question with evidence, identifying literary devices and so forth.
My problem comes when I look at this schedule of assessments as a whole: its effect on my teaching and what it suggests to students about what matters in their learning. Between a September diagnostic benchmark, quarterly interims on each section, and a winter and spring benchmark, at least a day of class almost every month must be devoted to test practice, and hours of time to creating the tests, grading them, and analyzing the data.
Since my time is not unlimited, this means that I do less grading and assessment of other types of tasks and skills. In fact, these standardized-style assessments are the only ones I'm responsible for collecting data on regularly. Of course, I can maintain my usual classroom assessment practices, just with a bit less time and encouragement to focus on them.
So... what's wrong with that? What's to say that standardized assessments aren't sufficient or even superior to teacher-created authentic assessments, being somewhat more objective and performed without any help from the teacher or other students? Aren't we getting a more accurate reading of what students have learned in a standardized assessment? That depends what we are interested in measuring.
Standardized test questions assess students' skills out of context. This is what makes them more objective and simpler to grade. However, in life, the ability to apply skills to a specific context is extremely valuable--more so today, it turns out, than one's ability to perform a task in isolation. Daniel Pink makes this point in his landmark book, A Whole New Mind, which warns that machines and cheaper labor forces overseas are taking over tasks that can be done out of context, through standardized methods. The jobs that remain for Americans demand that we apply our skills through the filters of sound principles, careful judgements and decision-making, empathy, cross-cultural competence, creativity and ever-increasing self-awareness.
It's a complicated world out there, and changing every day. "Mastering" skills in isolation is sort of like learning to sail a boat without going out on the water. I don't have a problem with any one day on my official assessment calendar or any one skill assessed. I usually find it interesting to see how kids do and track their progress. But in privileging standardized-type assessments over authentic ones--which is happening all over the country, wherever the stakes are high for the scores--I suspect we are missing the forest for the trees. And, unfortunately, it's the kids who will lose.
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Cornel West published an interesting Op Ed in the NY Times called, "Dr. King Weeps From His Grave," provoked by the memorial to Martin Luther King which was originally scheduled to be dedicated today on the National Mall (now postponed due to Hurricane Irene). West argues that, although the election of Barack Obama is a significant culminating event in the struggle that King embodied, our country is so far from the dream King really fought for that he would surely weep if he could see us now.
Well worth the read, West outlines the four ills that King feared would send our country "to hell": racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism. He posits that for the last 30 years, our country has become increasingly entangled in these ills. West suggests that we have taken King's dream far too lightly, celebrating only that which we find convenient. He concludes,
"King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a re-evaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens."
When I read these sentences, I can't help thinking about our public education system. Decisions are made and change is enacted in a top down manner. Our hierarchical system holds policy makers, text book and testing companies, and wealthy philanthropists at the highest level. Down the ladder we have school leaders, then teachers...and finally students are on the lowest rung, where they have the least voice and control over their education.
I'd like to see this flipped on its head. The most important and valuable transactions of our education system happen for students in the classroom, under the leadership of teachers, and in partnership with parents. The individuals directly involved in these transactions should be envisioned at the top of the chart--representing the big idea of education. Supporting these moments daily are school leaders. Further removed from the big idea are district, state and national policy makers and other interested characters who play limited supporting roles in the education of children.
My point is not to dismiss non-teachers who care about education. But I am saying that the people we currently hold at the ground level--students, teachers, and by association, parents--are the ones who matter most. And our democracy depends on their ability to engage, think for themselves and thrive. Actually listening to these individuals and allowing them some decision-making power, however, is probably nothing short of revolutionary.
Even flattenning or flipping power dynamics at the classroom level is simpler to talk about than do. Giving students decision-making power in their learning is something I'm very interested in and have been working on a long time, but it goes against the grain of much that we traditionally hold dear in education.
Consider these daily actions of the teacher:
- setting objectives
- setting the agenda
- creating materials
- deciding on assessment criteria
- deciding on the assessment format
- deciding how much time tasks should take
- deciding who can speak and when
- deciding what is fair & weilding rewards and consequences
These actions are generally considered sound teaching practices (although I'm against most rewards and punishments). However, if we want to change the power dynamics in classrooms and the experiences students have in their schooling, we have to consider transfering some of our power (which is mostly decision-making power) to students. Some teachers do this, but I think the majority of teachers feel a mix of skepticism and fear about it.
Education policy makers and other players that are removed from the classroom probably feel the same skepticism and fear when they think of granting teachers real decision-making power. It's time to examine these fears and consider the results of the hierarchical structures in education and throughout our country. We have a democracy where the public is so disengaged that at least 50% of citizens don't even bother to exercise their one obvious tool of power: their vote. Close to the same number drop out of high school.
Much is going wrong in our great country, and King called it decades ago. Cornel West says we will need to put our lives on the line to turn the ship around. Is there anything else that could lead to the dramatic change we need? And could anyone agree on anything long enough to actually see a "battle" through?
I learned something about myself this past week, back at school full time, preparing for the year (no students yet). After a wonderful summer with plenty of relaxation, sleeping late, time outdoors and cooking, I was back in a fixed work schedule. I had to wake up early, but I did not go to sleep earlier.
By the end of the week, I was in an entirely different place, personally, than I had been 5 days before. I enjoyed the work quite a lot and pushed through the days on little sleep, but when I went home, I felt irritable. I noticed myself getting upset over uncontrollable or unimportant things like the traffic or which fork my partner put next to my plate at the dinner table. I knew that as my mind rushed to focus on meaningless negative points, I was missing more important or interesting things. What happened to the glorious summer energy I'd been relishing?
The change was dramatic and, yet, not wholly unfamiliar. Then it dawned on me. This is me on 6 hours of sleep every night. I have met this version of myself on many a school-day as the year presses on and I go through stretches of longer and longer hours. This is not the person I want to be, nor is it the person my loved ones want to be around--nor is it the person my students should be learning from.
Never was this lesson so swiftly and clearly handed to me. The takeaway, of course, is that it is essential to get enough sleep to be at your best. Going a step further, though, I think it has special ramifications for teaching, and they're not just about sleep. The person you are matters in the classroom. In teaching, I'm constantly negotiating relationships with 100 adolescents. And as their teacher, every little thing I do sends a message to them that influences their development.
I'm human and allowed to err--actually a valuable part of being a role model for kids is making mistakes, admitting it, and modeling how to recover and learn from them. But I do not want my students to be learning from a version of me that is far from my best, which is what happens when I teach without taking care of myself. My decision-making ability and discernment is not as good when I'm running on low fuel, and, especially since I run a responsive classroom, my pedagogy is inevitable weaker when I am weaker.
The solution sounds easy--go to sleep earlier. Not such a problem now, before the year really starts, but it sure get difficult as the work piles on. Other things have to change to allow me to consistently go to sleep earlier. I will have to work more efficiently during some times, and rearrange my priorities at other times. I'm still working on how to make this happen (more coming soon organizing my time), but this year, one of my professional goals will be to take better care of myself personally. I can call this a professional goal because part of being a teacher is being a person in relation to my students. I'm at a place in my teaching where I have some pretty sound methods, structures, and curriculum. What I want to develop more fully is who I am, how I feel, and what I project as I implement my plans on a day to day basis.
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It sounds like the complaint of a jaded adult: Kids these days are narrow-minded and just not as creative as they used to be...Experts say creativity is innate, so it can't really be lost. But it needs to be nurtured.
I remember when I was entering my first teaching position, seven years ago, a colleague mentioned that "kids today lack creativity." I totally disagreed and thought she was selling the students short. I did, in fact, find the students to be quite creative--I also made it a priority to build a classroom that fosters creativity and critical thinking and paid the state test little to no mind until the week before.
This article reports that scores on several tests of creativity have been decreasing, while SAT scores have been increasing. The writers conclude that the focus on testing throughout kids' schooling, which teaches kids that there is only one right answer, is suppressing creativity and divergent thinking in Americans.
Some may be put off by Superintendant John Kuhn of Texas calling out politicians directly, and flipping the notion of "failure" on its head. But he is right, and his conviction is inspiring. (See the VIDEO of his speech BELOW.) His points reveal in a timely way an inconvenient truth in education and politics right now. NCLB, Race to the Top, and other policies that use high stakes tests to assign value to students, teachers and administrators do one thing really well: they create an even stronger disincentive for teaching in high needs schools than do the difficult working conditions that have always existed in underresourced schools--the imminent threat of being labelled unacceptable or ineffective by one narrow standradized test given on one day in a year, the results of which correspond more closely nation-wide to socio-economic status than any other factor. They create the same disincentive to learn for such students.
These are tests that ELL's in NY State, who have been in the country for only one year, must take and pass, or be labelled failures, along with their teachers and schools. If your job was on the line, would you choose to work with ELL's? (See the end of this recent post for my own story on this.) If you were an ELL, how would you feel about studying for and taking that test? Would you want to work with students who come to middle school unable to read--if you knew that even if they improved by 3 "grade levels" (which are arbitrary designations as it is), their progress would likely not even show up on a seventh grade test, because they moved from a "kindergarten" to a "2nd grade" reading level, and this progress would be labelled unacceptable? If you were that child, would you want to come to school to prepare for that test?
The heroes, Kuhn says, are the teachers who continually choose to teach these students, despite the threats and labels (and do not take the low road of cheating). The failures, he argues, are politicians who allow the poverty to continue.
Kuhn is right when he says that we are replacing real educational opportunity with the idea of "accountability." It's not that teachers do not want to be held accountable for the job of teaching. It's that this particular system of top-down acountability serves to systematically label the poorest children and those who teach them failures rather than building them up in response to their actual needs. These policies also take the attention away from the politicians whose job it is to address poverty and equality, placing the onus entirely on teachers, who make an easy target. Furthermore, through increasing teacher turnover in high poverty communities by favoring untrained itinerant teachers over experienced career teachers, these policies contribute to the instability in poor communities. I have seen this with my own eyes so many times here in NYC.
Watch Kuhn's speech at the Save Our School March and see what you think.
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I'm realizing once again, but in a new light, that it's not enough for teachers to simply strive to be great teachers inside our classrooms. In fact, I doubt it's even possible anymore in many teaching contexts. There is deep and widespread misunderstanding of what our work is about and what it entails. This misunderstanding, confounded by other, separate, factors and interests--such as privatization, a failing economy, a widening gap between wealthy and poor--is leading to policies that do not support great teaching and healthy youth.
My mentor from Bank Street College passed me a recent article called "Targeting Teachers," by Stanford Professor David Labaree, published in Dissent Magazine, which was very helpful to me in breaking down the roots, nature and some of the effects of the misunderstanding of teaching. Labaree first puts in historical context the current drive to find a "simple and statistically sound" measure for effective teaching (value added measures of test scores being the predominant answer to the quest right now). While he says it's perfectly understandable, he does believe it is justifiable. Labaree writes,
"The problem with this approach is that teaching is an extraordinarily complex and demanding form of professional practice whose quality is impossible to capture accurately in a simple metric. The push to develop such a metric threatens to reduce good teaching--and good education--to whatever produces higher scores on a standardized test. As a result, the value-added measure of teacher quality may end up promoting both the wrong kind of teaching and the wrong kind of schooling."
He then explains the core characteristics of teaching are that make it so difficult to measure in a way that is rarely heard anywhere. For that reason, I'm doing a bit of summarizing here, though the entire article is really worth reading.
First, he talks about the fact that students make choices in the classroom--the choice to learn or not to learn. No one can force a child to do anything. The teacher's job includes figuring out what motivates large numbers of individuals with their own interests, experiences, thoughts, feelings, and senses every day.
Then he points out that students are compelled to go to school by various outside pressures, instead of choosing to go. And if they do choose to go, many do not choose to go based on "a burning desire to learn in the formal classroom." Teachers have weak disciplinary tools at their disposal and are hugely outnumbered by students. So, he explains, "Teachers need to develop a teaching persona to manage the relationship with their students." He describes this persona as being "highly personalized and professionally essential" in how it looks and what it needs to accomplish. He correctly notes that we want kids to look forward to seeing us, also to fear getting on our bad side and our "teacher look", and find our enthusiasm for our subject infectious.
Finally, Labaree argues, "Teachers need to carry out their practices under conditions of high uncertainty." There are so many different ways to teach that meet basic professional standards, and there are many different outcomes we care about--short term, long terms, fact-based, idea-based, intellectual, interpersonal, creative, physical, etc. Also uncertain is who is the client for teachers--students, parents, society, or the school board who signs the teacher's contract? He adds,
"As a society, we are not of one mind about what individual and social ends we want schools to produce. If we can't agree on ends, how can we determine if a teacher was effective or not? Effective at what? One goal running through the history of American schooling is to create good citizens. Another is to create productive workers. A third is to provide individuals with social opportunity. These goals lead schools in conflicting directions, and teachers can't accomplish them all with the same methods."
The article goes on to explain that while teaching is very difficult, it can look easy to the public. Some of his reasons are that it is seen as "an extension of child-rearing" which doesn't require professional training. Also, everyone has been through school, so thinks they know about teaching. The knowledge and skills K-12 teachers teach are skills all competent adults have, so "the impression of ordinariness is hard for teaching to shake...As a group teachers are too visible to be inscutible and too numerous to be elite...They don;t have the distance, obscurity, and selectivity of the high-status professiona...Everyone is an expert on education, except the educator."
I could really quote this entire article. This weekend, the teachers and education advocates who participated in the Save Our Schools March in Washington D.C. responded in an organized way to the policies which grossly misunderstand our students' needs and the nature of our work. The art installations are particularly telling--one that showed 50 boxes, each with a doll inside it, and covered in multiple choice bubble sheets, and another that showed tombstones of creativity, imagination, and critical thinking, and other capacities that are being suppressed by an across-the-board emphasis on a bottom line of increasing students' scores on standardized, high stakes tests.
I'm left wondering, can our work be measured at all? How much of a need is there really to measure teacher effectiveness? If it is a necessity (or even just a curiosity) why are non-educators crafting these measures? The level of understanding the public and/or politicians have of the nature and complexity of teaching must increase. OR it could become irrelevant whether those outside the profession truly understand our work if teachers were actually in charge of our own profession.
Check out this interview by California NPR news station KalNews, Anthony Cody, one the founding organizers of the SOS March taking place in Washington DC tomorrow. Here he breaks down the negative consequences of the education reforms began by No Child Left Behind and continued, actually "intensifed" he argues, by the current U.S. Department of Education. It is a very worthwhile 10 minute listen.
I appreciate his clarity and detail in describing how exactly, over around 10 years' time, conditions in schools have changed, the content and ways children learn have changed, and the conditions of the teaching profession and teacher turnover rates have worsened. He describes the narrowing of the curriculum, which has become a buzzword and is starting to lose its meaning. However, as a high school science teacher he makes it concrete: kids came to him with less and less science knowledge because schools had prioritized ELA and Math.
At the end of the interview, he describes an initiaitive he was a part of years ago and a high needs Oakland public school, where teachers were given time to collaborate, conduct lesson studies together, read books together, and generally learn and support one another as professional teachers. He says during these years, his school retained 100% of its teachers--something that is pretty rare in high need urban schools, and something that is even more important there, where there is so much instability in students' lives and their communities due to poverty and its effects. When the punitive measures of NCLB came, this school was labelled failing for reasons associated with test scores. Schools were encouraged to replace teachers, and the thriving teaching community and its progess came to a halt.
I can offer an almost identical story. In my first school in East Harlem, a high need middle school serving a large population if ELL's and students with special needs, we were developing a teaching community similar to the one Cody describes. Through a partnership with Bank Street College, teachers in our bilingual academy were given time to work on intredisciplinary curriculum, read and discussed relevant child development research together, and began to support one another in our common work with students. (This was in contrast with the usual top-down "professional development" mandates.)
We saw a huge improvement in teacher retention during those years, and in our floor, which was a subset of the larger school, we actually saw a significant spike in student test scores. However, the entire school was still labelled failing. Our principal needed to take measures to improve test scores across the board, due to the pressure from punitive NCLB policies.
One of the measures was to close the bilingual academy. ELL's were too "costly"--not financially, but in terms of how their test scores usually looked and the consequences these posed for the school as a whole. The laws had recently changed and ELL's were expected to pass the state ELA and Math tests after just one year in the country. Because of this change, the school stopped offering its transitional bilingual program and with this change replaced many staff members. Teacher turnover that year was huge, and I was among the leavers. It was sad. I had loved working there with those students and colleagues, and the closing of the academy remains a huge loss.
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Money Matters: A Brown Bag Series
This April 2013, the WIU Financial Aid Office will be hosting weekly seminars to support and celebrate National Financial Literacy Month.
These informal sessions are free and open to WIU students, no registration required. The series will be held every Wednesday evening in April at 5:30 p.m in the Corbin Electronic Classroom (Corbin 1032 - located outside of the Corbin/Olson Dining Center).
Students are invited to bring their own dinner or purchase one in the dining hall - then join our staff as we discuss:
- Strategic Spending (4/3) - To be financially successful, you've got to think strategically when it comes to money. Learn how to reduce your spending and plan ahead.
- Make Your Money Work (4/10) - Put your hard-earned money to work for you! Learn about risk and return while we cover the fundamentals of investing.
- The Cost of Credit (4/17) - Do you understand the power of credit? With great power comes great responsibility - learn how your financial scorecard is tallied up.
- Beyond the Paycheck (4/24) - When evaluating your earning potential, look beyond the numbers. Learn more about the big picture as we discuss employment and compensation.
Attendees will receive a FREE, printed copy of our 2013 Money Management Calendar, a vital budgeting resource full of strategic guidance! Prizes good at local retailers and restaurants will also be given away in a free raffle each week!
Please anticipate each session lasting approximately 30-45 minutes. Questions? Please contact Diana Strom at email@example.com.

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Strategic Plan
Read more of our stories by clicking on the links below.
At Lewis & Clark, we have a proud tradition of moving ahead by building on our proven and rising strengths. We are now poised and ready to go even farther, this time guided by The Journey Forward:A Lewis & Clark Strategic Plan for 2020.
From ambition to action: Q&A with Professor Kugler explains the next steps for implementing the strategic plan and what you can expect to see happen at L&C by the year 2020.
A new institution-wide strategic plan maps our path to 2020 and beyond.
Faculty, staff, and student leaders will gather on Tuesday, January 29, to formally launch "The Journey Forward: A Lewis & Clark Strategic Plan for 2020."
The Board of Trustees has unanimously endorsed the institution's new strategic plan, capping a nearly two-year planning process and setting in motion a series of actions to implement this blueprint for the future.
The strategic planning process is entering the final weeks of its first phase, setting goals to achieve the college-wide priorities set out in "The Journey Forward."
Winter 2012 information on strategic planning.
Frequently asked questions about Lewis & Clark's strategic planning, winter 2012.
In some of my earliest remarks to the Lewis & Clark community I noted that what drew me to the College were the people—faculty, staff, students, administrators, trustees, and alumni—and my experience has more than confirmed my view that assembled here is a truly extraordinary community dedicated to the enterprise of higher education. What I suspected was the case is indeed so: we are poised to become one of the best and most highly regarded institutions of higher learning in the nation.
In October 2005 then-President Thomas Hochstettler charged a planning task force with the development of a strategic plan for the College. The result of that effort was an April 27, 2006 "Report from the Planning Task Force" that articulated five core values for the College and six goals, supported by thirty-four recommendations. Notably, this was the first time in their common history that all three schools of the College were able to come to a shared expression of the mission, identity, and concomitant goals of the institution as a whole.


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Stay at Blue Dolphin Holiday Resort this Easter
Easter is almost here and we are so excited about this fantastic time at Blue Dolphin Holiday Resort! We have so many activities planned for the kids - click here to have a look at our activities program!
We still have a few vacancies, so give us a call to book your site or waterfront cabin on 02 6646 2194.
We look forward to seeing you at Blue Dophin Holiday Resort this Easter!
New directions to Darwin FreeSpirit Resort
We would like to advice all of our guests of the new directions to Darwin FreeSpirit Resort, due to new roads on Stuart Highway:
Heading towards Darwin:
Travelling on the Stuart Highway towards Darwin, after travelling past Coolalinga, keep in the left hand lane and look for the "Casuarina Exit" signs. Travel under the green walking bridge then exit left immediately at "Stuart Highway/Casuarina Exit" lane under the road overpass. Continue along this road and stay in right hand lane. After 600m from the highway turnoff, you will reach a set of traffic lights, where you turn right into Darwin Freespirit Resort.
Should you miss the new turnoff:
Continue along Tiger Brennan Drive for approximately 4kms and turn right at Tivendale Road. Travel to the end of Tivendale Road and turn right, onto the Stuart Highway. Once on the Stuart Highway, travel for approximately 3kms and stay in the left hand lane. On approaching the set of lights, turn left into Darwin FreeSpirit Resort.
Our physical and street address for GPS systems:
901 Stuart Highway, HOLTZE NT 0829
Should you need any further assistance with directions, please do not hesitate to give us a call 08 8935 0888!
We look forward to seeing you at Darwin FreeSpirit Resort!
Hidden Valley Tourist Park - Happy Hour and Jim Harte
We are happy to announce that singer/songwriter Jim Harte is coming back to play at Hidden Valley for the months of May, June and July '11. Jim has previously played at Hidden Valley and he was an outstanding success.
Jim has performed in most parts of the world alongside some great artists including: The Drifters, Van Morrison, John Williamson, Dusty Springfield and Ben E. King. Jim moved to Australia in 1986 from Ireland and settled in Perth.
Jim will perform 3 times a week from 5pm - 6pm at Hidden Valley. Prior to that - at 4pm, join Gina for her informative Happy Hour and get all the 'goss' about Darwin from a local's perspective and find out what to see and do in the area.
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A Simple DIY Frame For Painted Canvases
30 comments:
- meenal bishnoi said...
WOW..you've got some real artists at home, Janell...please don't mind if i say that your frames are completely overshadowed by the art..though i have to admit they do help enhance the paintings..great job!! xx meenal
- April 5, 2011 at 5:05 AM
- Karen@StrictlySimpleStyle said...
Another great idea. Learning to use a miter saw is on my list of 100 things to do before I die.
- April 5, 2011 at 5:18 AM
- Sally J said...
What a difference a frame makes! I love children's art, and clearly the frame elevates it to the perfect level of importance. Tell the kids how wonderful their paintings are from me. By framing them you've said to them that their art is worthy, and that's a great message to convey!
- April 5, 2011 at 5:29 AM
- Tonia of Chic Modern Vintage said...
I love this idea! Talk about simple.
- April 5, 2011 at 5:40 AM
- Ashley said...
What an awesome way to celebrate children's artwork! Beautiful!
- April 5, 2011 at 5:54 AM
- Judy said...
Nice frames. I could see how the TV behind where you sleep could be an issue. Love the view of your bedroom.
- April 5, 2011 at 5:55 AM
- for the love of a house said...
such a cute idea! I've looked through several pages of your blog and must say I am now exhausted!!! Your projects!! I feel like such a slacker;) I'm off to look at my to-do list now, you've inspired me!!
p.s. before we lived in Dallas we lived in Portland (Eastmoreland)... so miss the Pacific NW! - April 5, 2011 at 6:01 AM
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- Inspire Me Heather said...
Well done, they look fantastic!
- April 5, 2011 at 6:09 AM
- Stella said...
Cute idea ! Janell, your house is adorable. Everything is perfect.
- April 5, 2011 at 6:14 AM
- Mr. Goodwill Hunting said...
What a great idea! Of course I saw a minter box in GW and didn't it. Tisk Tisk Tisk. Such a great project!
Rashon aka Mr. Goodwill Hunting - April 5, 2011 at 6:29 AM
- Kathysue said...
I love childrens art framed, nothing better than a budding artist in my mind. YOu found the perfect spot for them, Happy Tuesday,
Kathysue - April 5, 2011 at 6:41 AM
- DomesticJenny said...
Great Idea! I have a ton of unframed canvas art, I may have to try this out!
- April 5, 2011 at 6:45 AM
- Courtney {a thoughtful place} said...
I like that idea. It makes them look so much more finished. The older I get the more I realize that no house, no matter how grand, has a perfect layout. We have a bathroom way too close to the dining room . .. what was the builder thinking????
- April 5, 2011 at 7:08 AM
- christine {bijouandboheme} said...
You amaze me- these look so good- I have piles of kid canvases that I really should attempt this one- they look so much more finished.
- April 5, 2011 at 7:55 AM
- JMW said...
Love the frames! We display our kids' artwork as well - I think it adds so much to one's home. I hear you about the TV. My husband put the big screen with surround-sound in our basement, and there are times I have to march down from the top floor of the house to tell him to turn it down. Ugh!
- April 5, 2011 at 8:18 AM
- Jessie said...
Nice frames and children's artworks. We had the same situation with our previous house with the living room tv sharing the wall with our bedroom but it's the other way round. It's me who stayed up late and watch tv while my husband was trying to go to bed. He kept asking me to turn down the volume so I ended up going to bed early as well...
- April 5, 2011 at 9:06 AM
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- Emily said...
The frames look great! Our tv is louder behind it than it is in front of it. So weird.
- April 5, 2011 at 9:37 AM
- Shirl said...
They both look wonderful.
- April 5, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- Carol@TheDesignPages said...
Those look amazing. I have been planning on doing exactly the same thing with my daughter's art. I hesitate because less than 6 months have passed since my last proect with the mitre saw and I have not fully recovered from the mental trauma:) It's the puzzle of the cuts that makes me insane. Love that you left the wood raw.
- April 5, 2011 at 2:10 PM
- Lila said...
You're such a good mom. What great artists too! I really need to do this for my daughter. She'd feel so proud!
Lila Ferraro - April 5, 2011 at 2:10 PM
- SHERRY HART said...
Sometimes I want to slap myself! How easy was that????
- April 5, 2011 at 2:58 PM
- Linda@ Lime in the Coconut said...
Miter queen!!! Love that splash of color. Kidlet color...perfect!
- April 5, 2011 at 6:23 PM
- Angela said...
I love the art and frames. I'm sure your children are very inspired to be even more creative.
- April 5, 2011 at 7:27 PM
- Linda in AZ * said...
*** What a beautiful, loving way to celebrate Isabella and Max's accomplishments, Janell! You honor them AND introduce a special "personality" to an already UBER LOVELY and ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL FAMILY HOME!!!
I SO ADMIRE YOU & your TALENTS, my friend!
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- lisaroyhandbags said...
The art is great - very talented and the frames work perfectly! Great point about the TV... there are always certain things you encounter in different homes that just aren't thought-out or practical. xo
- April 6, 2011 at 5:34 AM
- LindsB said...
Such a great idea- and I'm loving the look of the unfinsihed wood here
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All we got here in West Knoxville is rain, as expected. Another Weather Service F-up and more stupid worthless hype by the media. KNS should pay all the costs with this stupidity.
I live in west Knoxville and it's raining much harder, and it is freezing just as soon as it hits something. I have 2" icicles on my bench that's on the patio. I have frozen water or whatever it's called on the screens of my screened in back porch where the rain has blown onto the screen and frozen. My front sidewalk is all ice, and every tree in my yard is encased in ice. I live almost on top of a ridge in Cedar Bluff, you must live way farther out, because we have it bad here.
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NILES, Mich. – Funeral services have been announced for two young Niles area girls killed in a tragic traffic crash.
The devastating accident at Leet Road and M-60 in Cass County's Howard Township has a community heartbroken.
WSBT was first on scene as this accident unfolded around 4 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.
Police say 19-year-old Sarah Michael, a babysitter, ran a stop sign at the intersection of Leet Road and M-60 in Howard Township as she was driving 3 young sisters home from school.
A truck hit that car.
9-year-old Juliana Brown and 6-year old Sophia True died.
The youngest, 4-year-old Penelope True, is in critical condition.
Penelope was supposed to start preschool on Wednesday.
24 hours after the accident, witnesses are still shook up, still struggling to cope with the outcome.
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One day later the intersection was quiet, it was normal. But down the street, a school deals with the death of the 2 students.
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Between the million things I do, such as teaching, directing a play, fulfilling my civilian responsibility by going to jury duty, teaching my cat how to play fetch, and laughing at my husband who's laughing at Judge Judy, blog design ranks high on my list.
I sit and ponder at night what will look good on my blog and how I can make it simplified, yet modern, yet girly, yet clean, yet not too froo-froo.
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I'm a stinking perfectionist. It's crazy. And I'm organized. My students even know not to mess with my desk because I'll know when something is unorganized and out of place. I must have my stapler next to the hole punch on the right top corner. As a little almost-joke one time, some of my kids left a note saying, "Dear Mrs. O., We were going to move everything around on your desk, but here's a note instead."
But anyway, back to my gorgeous blog.
What you're looking at is a result of my creative ponderings, musings, and hours of me hunched over the computer. My goal is to keep it this way until the end of the year. I will not change the design. Think I can do it? I think I can....!
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Panasonic announces Windows 8 and Android based Toughpad tablets at CES
As far as pricing is concerned, you'll have to drop a substantial amount of cash in case you want one of these tough devices. The Android-powered Toughpad JT-B1 will cost $1199 when it is launched in February, while the Windows-based Toughpad FZ-G1 will carry a $2899 price tag when it is released in March.
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1. chasetorres125 posted on 09 Jan 2013, 10:07 0 0
Nice and innovative but at that pricepoint no thank u mam c u tomorrow,gudluck you'll need it...Panasonic
2. naptown2 posted on 09 Jan 2013, 10:12 0 0
why to much money for this device but it is nice....
3. AndrewRamirez posted on 09 Jan 2013, 10:23 0 0
These tablets are awesome, until I saw the price tag.... :|
4. OpTiMuS_BlAcK posted on 09 Jan 2013, 10:28 0 0
Meh, they make the Razer Edge/Project Fiona look affordable.
5. Sangeet posted on 09 Jan 2013, 10:28 0 0
Better get 3-4 normal tablets at that price and if one gets damaged use the other one.
Atleast that wouldn't br as ugly as this one
6. anonimust posted on 09 Jan 2013, 11:25 2 0
These arent targeted for consumers but rather for businesses and government that use panasonic toughbooks. A panasonic toughbook runs in the $3000 price range. The windows 8 model would replace a traditional panasonic toughbook laptop that are normally used by utility workers and police department
8. joseph98 posted on 09 Jan 2013, 12:09 0 0
I am glad you explain the missing part for the high price tag. It should have been mentioned in the article before people complain about overpriced tablet. Good catch bro
9. ZeroCide posted on 09 Jan 2013, 15:30 0 0
The panasonic TOUGH series has always been pricey. They are built for harsh enviorments.


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We started out May with our monthly features revolving around all things British in conjunction with the frenzy of the Royal Wedding. We're ending the month with our popular Designer Book Giveaway Series and a great book from English designer Tim Gosling. Signed by the author, Gosling: Classic Design for Contemporary Interiors profiles the amazing work of this talented designer. And there's even a link to the Royal Wedding story – Tim Gosling was the designer behind the public reception rooms at the Goring Hotel. See later in the post for more info…
Classic craftmanship meets modern styling to create stunning interiors and furniture designed by Tim Gosling. In the book, Stephen Calloway introduces Gosling's signature design concepts, reviews the design process, and reveals the timeless craftmanship blended with state of the art techniques in Gosling's furniture.
Gosling Ltd is a luxury bespoke furniture design company whose vision is to combine classical inspiration and exquisite British craftsmanship with ergonomic perfection. These unique pieces of furniture, or whole interior design schemes, are tailored to each individual client's exact specifications.
These amazing doors with geometric detailing are from a dining room cabinet designed by Gosling.
The detailing and planning that go into a bespoke Gosling creation are second to none.
You heard all about the Goring Hotel (Catherine Middleton's choice of accomodation the night before the wedding) in news reports around the world. You might have wondered what the hotel looked like inside. Above is the lounge with its gilded ceiling and design by Gosling.
Empty gilded frames on lacquered walls in the Goring Hotel lend a contemporary look to the classical surroundings.
Be sure to leave a comment here on the blog for your chance to win this autographed copy. We will be accepting entries through Friday 6/3 at noon CST. If you wish to purchase the book, you can find it on amazon. And be sure to check out the wonderful world of Gosling on his website.


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I swapped my R1100RS for this little big bike. A pretty thing with a revvy engine I was eager to test it on our local trails. The Thai tyres were not best for Devon mud and a 17" rear reduces choice of upgrade. I've lowered the gearing so I can use the first 2 gears up steep trails. I've not found a hill too steep for it to climb but a higher gear gives better control in muddy ruts. Ideally I would like a spare set of wheels so I can put in road miles. It's OK on the road although the seat is not for me (too narrow at the tank). The high seating position, good brakes and light steering make it ideal around town. 70.8mph is the top speed on my GPS and 15 mpl is about average before the warning light comes on. This bike punches well above its weight and every time I think about changing it I ask the question, "Is the new bike worth £2500 more than my Derbi?" Emotions aside it's a tough call. The only bike that I would consider is a Beta Alp. I'd like more power spread over the whole rev range. I'd also like Jess Ennis to give me a leg massage. Neither is gonna happen so I'm dealing with it (sort of). I think Derbi missed a trick advertising pictures with hard luggage. They never appeared so they lost any chance of armchair adventurers getting outside. Journeys to Turkey, Morocco and Mongolia can be found on the web so this burro is well up for getting down and dirty.
The one thing I love about the Derbi Terra its very robust for a little 125. It doesn't even look like one! A few of people told me it looked like a 600cc bike! It doesn't even say 125 anywhere on the body panels. All there is are some sophisticated chrome letter spelling TERRA on the fuel tank. Sherlock Holmes would be clue less unless there is a big fat L on the screen! Its suppose to be a sportier alternative to the Honda Varadero 125 but its based on the BMW R1200. I've test drive many 125s including the Yamaha WR125, Honda XL125 varadero and the Honda XR 125. I wanted something powerful, reliable and looks cool as well. I found that the Yamaha had produced too much drag to affecting its acceleration, the Honda Varadero was more of a commuter than an adventure bike but I nearly went for the Honda XR125 until I heard of the Derbi Terra. The Derbi is by fair the quickest but the best handling bike I have ever ridden. It would definitely out accelerate cars in traffic and can hit 70 mph + quite comfortably. The engine can happily rev to 11 1/2 rpm and I can managed 180 miles per a tank of 11 liters of fuel. Not only that its cheap to insure. Most other 125s like the Yamaha YZF R125 cost over a grand for first time riders. I only pay less than a grand. I've got mine fitted with dual purpose tires and it can plow through the mud with ease. The suspension isn't too bouncy but it loves the twisty country roads. It would make a fine commuter thanks to the skinniness of the bike, I can easily make my way through traffic on time through rush hour traffic. The seat is very comfy, pretty much like the Varadero. There is even a top rack fitted to the bike and I often use my givi top box as it is very handy to nipping to the shops, carrying my college bits and keeping my full size helmet in. Heated grips can make the world a difference and I definitely would recommend them for the winter riding. The only downside of the bike is that the muffler can easily rust as it is made from mild steel. Same as the manifold from the Honda CBF 125! There are many aftermarket mufflers available to choose from including GPR, X Racing, Arrow etc. The fuel sensors can stop working when corroded but it can be a cheap and easy fix. Overall, a fantastic first bike. I would definitely recommend it to any new riders as its one of the best handling 125s and quite frankly one of the fastest. I would be sad to see it go when I come to upgrade to a bigger bike. 5* I love it!
Had the bike several months now, turning out to to be a great commuter, riding sat up tall can see well above the traffic easily 2-3 feet higher than the average car and can see a long way into distance. Bike will easily out accelerate most cars at lights unless it's a woman in a new Astra or an old bloke in a white Mercedes >:( (sorry, I shouldn't tar with a brush). Bike seems to be built for off roading more than road riding, took some getting used to cornering with the high riding position but practice is beginning to make perfect. Bike seems to have more grunt than ybr, cbr equivalents top speed a touch above 70mph (if I was on a motorway :-) ) All in all a great bike, starts every time, brakes are keen, seat is very very comfy,tank is large for a 125 and mpg is about the manufacturers claim of 75 MPG with me a heavy guy and a permanent top box fitted. You may get the funny looks from the police but they only have to wind down the window and listen to the engine to realise it's not a 650, it really is a 125 guvnor.
You've got the Long Way DVDs, you've heard Austin Vince's talks, you dream of Saharan sunrises BUT there's just one problem, you can't ride a motorbike. So what do you do? Simple, you get yourself a Derbi. Well, that's what I did anyway. Of course the problem with being a learner rider trying to write a bike review is that apart from the little Yammie I did my CBT on and an ex-girlfriend's Honda CGT is that I've nothing to compare to. Mind you, with its adventure style, and a frame big enough to confuse most into thinking its a 250cc or more, there's not a lot you can compare the Derbi to. So instead I'll point you towards Fernando Retor who has ridden his Terra Adventure all round Europe and into the Sahara, or my friend Cherie who rode hers up from Singapore and round Thailand, both show you don't need cc's to enjoy an adventure. So if you feel the road calling but your budget doesn't stretch to a DAS and a GS then check out a Derbi, you might be surprised. To check out Fernando Retor's travels go here http://www.dondevasconesamoto.com/ And to read Cherie Tan's ride report go to http://dirtbikesaction.com/topic/2349316/1/


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It's trivia time at the Southwest Oklahoma City Public Library.
Tweens and teens are invited for a game of "Teen Jeopardy!" at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 3, in Rooms A and B of the library, 2201 SW 134th St.
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20 s of calling song [1.74MB]; male from Alachua Co., Fla.; 24.5°C. (WTL531-25) | |
5 s of calling song [254KB]; same as above but truncated and downsampled. |
Sound spectrogram of 2 s of calling at 24.5°C (from WTL531-25). Dominant
frequency 6.7 kHz.
Click on first half of spectrogram to hear graphed song.
Click on last chirp to expand its spectrographic image.
n. Fla. seasonal data.
Nomenclature: OSF (Orthoptera Species File Online)


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The Beauty of Different: An Interview with Karen Walrond of Chookooloonks + Giveaway!
There's a whole wide world of blogs out there and sometimes you come across another one that just plain and simple rocks. It makes you smile. It lifts you up. It inspires. For me, that blogs was Chookooloonks: a blog about life, love, and the pursuit of all things good in the world that's chock full of great writing and stunning photographs. After weeks of avid reading, I developed a full out blog-crush and eagerly looked forward to Chookooloonks" daily arrival in my inbox.
Somewhere in there, I discovered that this awesome blogger behind the site, Karen Walrond, had also written a book titled The Beauty of Different. From what I could glean from the descriptions, I was in for a true, inspirational treat that sought to celebrate the innate beauty in everything.
And boy was that hunch right! I sat down and read the book in one sitting, soaking in the beautiful images- both photographic and written- letting them wash over me and settle into my heart. What I loved most was the diversity of people in the book, and how you get a glimpse of their lives and histories in an authentic manner. Even in their portraits, they are 100% real. I mean these aren't airbrushed and glossy touched up people—you can see their pores dangit! And throughout the book, you get a truly intimate glimpse of their happiness and pains and joys and struggles, which ultimately lead you to a closer understanding of your own.
The main message of the book is that in each of our individual differences lies great beauty. This concept really resonated with me as a blogger who is dedicated to celebrating the uniqueness of natural hair and I knew that I wanted to capture a piece of this and share it with my readers.
So one morning a couple weeks ago, I interviewed Karen over the phone and had a great conversation with her about the book and beyond. Now, thanks to the awesomeness that is the worldwideweb here it is for you to check out:
Beauty of Different. Interview with Karen Walrond.
I think everyone should read this book. I really do. And as I said, I wanted to share it with you, my dear readers, so we're giving a copy away! To enter to win, write in the comments what your Different is. Because no Different is better than another Different, I'll be picking a winner at random next Monday May 2nd. Hope you enjoyed to the interview and I look forward to enjoying your Differents!
UPDATE—- contest extended until Friday May 6th. Keep your Differents coming in!!
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My different is always being truthful regardless of the trends, but speaking this truth in love.
My different is loving people where they're at. We don't have to agree on everything and they don't have to be perfect. We're all works in progress.
My different is finding a way to laugh through every experience.
Wow. Great post. Thanks for the recommendation. I'll have Sky Sky submit her "different" comment.
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My beauty is knowing who I am and realizing that there is always room for improvement.
My different is to not judge anyone, while allowing and accepting them just as they are.
My different is accepting people for who they are: trusting them, instead of judging first. I wouldn't want them to do that to me, so I don't do that to them
My different is LEARNING to accept, all. There are so many ignorant individuals that surround us and aren't willing to LEARN. Progress and change are inevitable in evolution.
My different is being true to who I am and just being me. Sounds easy, but it's been a struggle that I'm finally winning.
My different is asking questions and taking time to find out for myself instead of taking things at face value. If the answer is "I don't know" then I go find out.
Thanks for the recommendations! I'll have to check it out. :)
My different is choosing happiness even with all the negativity around me.
I have a physical "different": a conspicuous birthmark on my face. I absolutely despised it growing up; it was all I saw when looking in the mirror. Now I love it.
My Different is my ability to withstand. I may rock and roll and take in water, but when the storm is over, my little ship will still be here, broken mast, torn sails and all.
I have so many differents, I don't even know which one to pick! LOL! Here are 2:
My different is my porcelain (some call it "pasty white") complexion that refuses to tan & either freckles or fries. I've finally embraced it instead of fighting it/hating it.
My different is my super-short black hair (pretty much a 1/2″ all over) that I gel & spike. It gets lots of comments & stares (& an occasional compliment) but it simplifies life this SAHM to a kiddo with multiple medical special needs. More time with her = WIN!!
Thanks for the chance to enter! I bought this book for my BFF on her 40th birthday, and I've been wishing for a copy of my own ever since. Fingers crossed.
I have a couple of "differents." My first is my culture. I am from the Virgin Islands, and I will never forget it. I love my lilting accent, even if it only comes out when I'm talking to family or other Caribbean folks — or when I'm really pissed off. I love that I grew up swimming in the ocean, playing steel pan, listening to calypso and reggae and eating foods that many people consider to be "exotic."
Another is my ability to see the bigger picture. In most situations, I'm slow to react, preferring to take the time to ponder the possibilities. I consider the what ifs — and their consequences — before taking a step. And while that generally means I'll take a little longer to make a lasting decision, it also generally means I'm more comfortable with that decision once it has been made.
I read Psych Mamma's post and grinned from ear to ear! I understand having so many "differents" that it is hard to choose just one!
I used to despise my freckles as a child, wishing for them to vanish off my face. And now I adore them, especially as they get dark in the summer months and look like nutmeg on latte:)
I also love my curves, earned through growing our son, eating my good cooking, and the genitic code passed down from my beautiful grandmother. Took years to learn to love them, and now I can work them with sass!
Fingers, toes, and anything else crossed that I can get crossed:) Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Differences is what makes each of us unique!
My facial features and accent blends with countries I visit. When I am in Mexico people think I am Mexican, Jamaica – Jamaican. I have been asked if I am Ethiopian.
I have a unfilled gypsy spirit. I would love to wander and live off and on the land. -
I love learning and sharing ideas. If I could take at least 1 college course every semester for the rest of my life, I would be a happy woman.
My Different:
ALWAYS wears skirts/dress, although I grew up a tomboy always wearing pants.
Employed as a Rehabilitation Counselor working with people having very visible disabilities, but my own disability is very invisible.
31 y/o Virgin and Proud of it. (My Jesus is prolly proud too since, I've never been married).
Enjoys wearing glasses (I own 23) in public but prefers contacts only when lounging at home.
Always ends up making friends with the outcasts, but really not outcasted of cliques on my own.
A very joyful adult, but was a very depressed child.
I am fully in love with my Saviour Jesus Christ and what He did for me! (Unfortunately, that is becoming more of a different these days, eh?)
grace&peace -
Have we picked a winner yet or do I still have a chance? Can you tell I'm excited about this amazing book.
My different: is knowing that yesterday was an opportunity to try and today is an extension of yesterday's hope, but ANOTHER attempt to prove yesterday wrong…
- The Beauty of Different: MY Differents (+Giveaway) | Natural Selection - [...] couple posts ago, I wrote up The Beauty of Different, the book by blogger Karen Walrond and launched a ...


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Date: Date: 1920-1950
Series: N2009-9 - Papers, ca. 1920-1950.
Personal and medical papers of Alonzo Lashbrook Blalock, a Madison, Florida, physician.
[page 1]
gue fever, which I consider a type of malarial infection.
In accordance with my experience, clinically and microscopically,
the much affection due to malaria can be conveniently and scien-
tifically classified as follows:
Infection by Tertian Parasites. (1) Intermittent fever, paroxysm
every third day counting < day of 1st fever (handwritten)> (2) Malignant
intermittent, due
to double infection, giving a quotidian fever or to severe[?]
infection giving rise to < haematuria (handwritten)> and other alarming
Infection by Quartan Parasites, (1) Intermittent fever, paroxysm
every fourth day (2) Irregularly intermittent, due to double in-
fection, it may be additional infection by Tertian Parasite.
Infection by both Tertian and Quartan Parasites. (1) Bilious
remittent fever, mild, severe and grave. This includes all grades
of intensity which are variously designated as Bilious Fever, , Bil-
ious Remittent Fever, and Hemorrhagic Bilious Fever.
Aestivo-Autumnal Parasites. (1) Continued Malarial fever, Typho-
Malrial. (2) Severe continued fever, malignant or pernicious ma-
larial fever, due to super-addition of infections by the Tertian
and Quartan parasites.
Under the foregoing classification after thorough and efficient
Microscopical research, may be arranged all Acute Malarial Diseases.
And in every instance the character of the disease depends on the species of
Plus the intensity and duplicity of the
Infection. Truly the microscope is an invaluable aid in prog-
nosis as well as diagnosis of malarial diseases. Thus it is possi-
ble to predict very accurately the course and duration of a given
In the early years of my career as a physician I was led to be-
Iieve that the question of Malaria was easy and what we had in qui-
nine a specific, With this impression, I now realize how many and
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It's also the last day for the current batch of $3.99 or less Kindle Books Sale and the last day of the month for Prime members to borrow a Prime Eligible book.
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Poison Flower, the seventh novel in Thomas Perry's celebrated Jane Whitefield series, opens as Jane spirits James Shelby, a man unjustly convicted of his wife's murder, out of the heavily guarded criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles. But the price of Shelby's freedom is high. Within minutes, men posing as police officers kidnap Jane and, when she tries to escape, shoot her.
Jane's captors are employees of the man who really killed Shelby's wife. He believes he won't be safe until Shelby is dead, and his men will do anything to force Jane to reveal Shelby's hiding place. But Jane endures their torment, and is willing to die rather than betray Shelby. Jane manages to escape but she is alone, wounded, thousands of miles from home with no money and no identification, hunted by the police as well as her captors. She must rejoin Shelby, reach his sister before the hunters do, and get them both to safety.
In this unrelenting, breathtaking cross-country battle, Jane survives by relying on the traditions of her Seneca ancestors. When at last Jane turns to fight, her enemies face a cunning and ferocious warrior who has one weapon that they don't.
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Before You Take a Stand ... You Got to Take a Chance. Holden Harris is an eighteen-year-old locked in a prison of autism. Despite his quiet ways and quirky behaviors, Holden is very happy and socially normal---on the inside, in a private world all his own. In reality, he is bullied at school by kids who only see that he is very different. Ella Reynolds is part of the 'in' crowd. A cheerleader and star of the high school drama production, her life seems perfect. When she catches Holden listening to her rehearse for the school play, she is drawn to him ... the way he is drawn to the music. Then, Ella makes a dramatic discovery---she and Holden were best friends as children. Frustrated by the way Holden is bullied, and horrified at the indifference of her peers, Ella decides to take a stand against the most privileged and popular kids at school. Including her boyfriend, Jake. Ella believes miracles can happen in the unlikeliest places, and that just maybe an entire community might celebrate from the sidelines. But will Holden's praying mother and the efforts of Ella and a cast of theater kids be enough to unlock the prison that contains Holden? This time, friendship, faith, and the power of a song must be strong enough to open the doors to the miracle Holden needs.
Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is The Girl of Fire and Thorns ($1.99), the first novel in Rae Carson's Fire and Thorns YA Fantasy series.
Book Description
Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness.
Elisa is the chosen one. But she is also the younger of two princesses. The one who has never done anything remarkable, and can't see how she ever will.
Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king--a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs her to be the chosen one, not a failure of a princess.
And he's not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies, seething with dark magic, are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people's savior, and he looks at her in a way that no man has ever looked at her before. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that is at stake.
Elisa could be everything to those who need her most. If the prophecy is fulfilled. If she finds the power deep within herself. If she doesn't die young. Most of the chosen do.>
Deceived Wisdom: Why What You Thought Was Right Is Wrong ($1.56 / £0.99 UK), by David Bradley, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.99).
Book Description
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Book Description
The Divas are a martini-drinking crowd of aging belles in a historic Mississippi town filled with money and mansions. When the ex-husband of Diva Bitsy is found murdered, and Bitsy is accused, the Divas set out to solve the crime. Book one of acclaimed author Virginia Brown's cozy mystery series.
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You'll notice that C# is a bit funny when it comes to how it treats strings, at least as compared to some other languages. For example, let's say you were to write... [More]
Note - Code snips from now on will be color coded in the same manner Visual Studio 2012 colors text. In a previous article you saw me declare a string by the name of "sRing" and assigned it a value of "My precious!"... if you have no idea what I'm talking about it means you haven't been paying attention and will need to stay after class... anywho. In the case I just mentioned, "sRing" would be the variable, and "string" would be the data type. Here are two more examples of what we like to call "local variables": [More]
In the last article I made a quick comment about not needing to terminate "code blocks", and while the concept isn't difficult to follow I feel it's important to bring it up now because we are going to be using the crap out of code blocks pretty soon, so let's explore what code blocks are, shall we? [More]
If you're coming from another language and aren't familiar with the idea of statement termination, the concept might seem a bit left of center for you, but it's fairly simple once you get used to it. Terminating a statement means, well, exactly what it sounds like... you're done with that particular line of code. In the case of C# ( and a plethora of other languages ) every statement must end ( be terminated ) with a semi-colon ( ; ). ALL statements in C# MUST be terminated except when you're defining a block structure ( conditional statements, methods, and loops are three examples of blocks, don't worry about this right now ), if you forget to terminate a statement... Visual Studio will usually get a bit irritated with you and start barking errors. [More]
While commenting is a standard used far and wide as far as programming is concerned, the entirety of this article will be in the scope of C#, as that is my favored language at the moment. Though the practice can be used in a plethora of other languages. Comments in programming, by definition are lines of descriptive test that are ignored by the compiler. In other words, it's a fancy way to leave a note for developers, or in most cases a reminder for yourself to do something at a later date. To explain further, let's say you have a really convoluted block of code you wrote at who the heck knows o'clock in the morning, a block of code that really would only make sense to you at this ungodly hour, how would you instruct other developers ( or your more awake self ) what the heck was happening? [More]
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Sherlock, Jr.
- Running time:
- 48 minutes
- Cast:
- Buster Keaton -
- Sherlock, Jr./Projectionist
- Kathryn McGuire -
- The girl
- Ward Crane -
- The sheik/villain
- Joseph Keaton -
- Her father
- Erwin Connelly -
- The butler / handyman
A kindly movie projectionist (Buster Keaton) longs to be a detective. When his fiancée (Kathryn McGuire) is robbed by a local thief (Ward Crane), the poor projectionist is framed for the crime. Using his amateur detective skills, the projectionist follows the thief to the train station -- only to find himself locked in a train car. Disheartened, he returns to his movie theater, where he falls asleep and dreams that he is the great Sherlock Holmes.
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The role of academic libraries has been undergoing profound changes over the past two decades. At the heart of these changes is the growing role of technology. The mass digitization of journals, indexes and reference resources combined with mobile technology has profoundly altered the way libraries offer access to information. For today's students, pervasive access to power, wired and wireless connectivity, and computer technology are necessities.
The renovation and future expansion of the Robert E. Kennedy Library will allow easy access to power, large screen display technology, and appropriate furniture arranged in rooms specifically designed to support student projects. Working in collaboration with Cal Poly's Information Technology Services, access to computers and related technology will continue to be greatly enhanced.
Read about recent technology upgrades in the Library
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Upgrades and changes raise service levels.