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Project Based Learning in Early Childhood Education
"Inquiry activities allow children to explore concrete phenomena and ideas central to the content area theme. Children engage in problem-solving and collaboration as they manipulate ideas and materials to develop understandings about the content being discussed." -International Reading Association
Project Based Learning in Hathaway Brown's Early Childhood program is based within a set of strategies that enables educators to guide and encourage students to partake in an in-depth investigation of a pragmatic topic that piques their interest. This interest-based learning is critical in order for children to flourish, helping to keep them on track in constructing their own knowledge - faciliated by the teachers - while building the social and emotional skills that help them grow as individuals.
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The Pokemon Go tracker FastPokeMap stops scanning again as Niantic rolled out a new security measure.
The creator of FastPokeMap just announced to shut down the real-time Pokemon Go tracker again amidst new security measures deployed by Niantic. The team behind FastPokeMap broke through the security Niantic put in place on October 7 on Sunday and was providing real-time Pokemon scanning since then.
The scanning service had issues and was slower and more constraint than before the first shutdown on October 7. Now Niantic has apparently reacted to FastPokeMap accessing their servers again. A new unspecified security measurement forces FastPokeMap to shut down within the next hours. Theoretically the service still works, but only at 20% says the FPM developer. He needs two to three days to make adjustments to make the service work 100% again. Apparently they already know how to circumvent the new security measure.
Update 4: On October 29, FastPokeMap switched to spawn based scanning. Spawnscanning involves placing bots at known Pokemon spawn points, which limits its use in rural areas. According to an update on Discord, the FastPokeMap developer (Waryas) is working on a solution. After some turmoil, the FastPokeMap team has released the new Pokemon Go API to the developer community.
Update 3: The FastPokemap creator has upgraded the Pokemon Go scanning accounts to use the latest protocol rolled out in 0.43.4. The service was down during the upgrade, but is back up. Scanning is though very slow or not working at all. In my tests at 10pm PDT, I could not find any Pokemon with FastPokeMap. There is still the implementation of the Captcha handling missing that is supposed to be ready somewhen Thursday or Friday.
Update 2: Niantic forced now version 0.43.3 and FastPokeMap has shutdown to protect its accounts. The 3rd party Pokemon tracker developers have already reverse engineered 0.43.x but need time to implement the changes. The creator of FastPokeMap said on Discord that Niantic is trying to shut them down hard. He also said that he would stop the service if Niantic would offer a real Pokemon tracker.
Update 1: The FastPokeMap developers have now detailed the problem. Niantic has made the Captcha more aggressive banning FastPokeMap scanner accounts more frequently. They need to stop scanning to not lose all accounts. The developers tease IV's and move sets of Pokemon displayed in the map. As mentioned above the creator of FastPokeMap is confident to find a solution against the Captcha and getting accounts banned.
FastPokeMap is supposed to work again on the coming weekend. The decision to a complete shut-down is not definitive yet. It is possible the service keeps on running at the 20% functionality until fixed.
Niantic has now a multi-layer security in place that makes running unauthorized 3rd party software very difficult. Niantic uses Google's SafetyNet to block the app from running on rooted Android. A heavily obfuscated encryption tries to make sure only the app can communicate with Pokemon Go servers. When the server detects unusual behavior, a captcha appears that needs to be resolved by a real user. Then there are also restrictions on how fast a scanner can move around. The 30mph limit has an impact on GPS spoofers and Pokemon scanner accounts.
Niantic managed to score some positive points with players in the past hours with the Pokemon Go Halloween Event.


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Huffington Post – Penthouse Club And Steakhouse San Francisco Opens
Penthouse Club and Steakhouse San Francisco Opens: First West Coast Location Seeks Michelin Star
In San Francisco, Michelin stars can burn in unexpected places: at lunchtime cafes, at Moroccan spots way out in the avenues and at restaurants that push the limits of our culinary comfort.
But if Chef Michael Ellis nabs himself a star at his new restaurant, it will be the most unusual inclusion yet: the Penthouse Club and Steakhouse. (Yes, that Penthouse.)
And with Ellis at the helm (who already boasts a star from Dry Creek Kitchen), it just might be possible.
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Rumour: Yehvin Konoplyanka might join Manchester United according to his agent
Ukraine winger Yehvin might make a summer move to Manchester United, and Manchester United not playing Europe football next season will not be an issue for the player according to his agent. The winger had earlier said that he would rather stay in Dnipro and play in the Champions League than making a move to Old Trafford, but now his agent has come up and telling new things.
Speaking to The Peoples Person, Burbas said, "Although Dnipro has a chance to play in the Champions League, Konoplyanka could move to Manchester United, as he would still get the chance to play games at the highest level in the Premier League to showcase his talent.
"For a long time, Konplyanka has wished for a move to a top five European club, and his current club knows this. He has a clause in his contract which states that he can leave for £15 million, which is perfect for a player at such a high level."
"Since he has sprouted up to the highest level, Dnipro bosses have realized that one day the player will have to move and that this summer is the perfect moment to sell him, otherwise he could lose his motivation, his drive and that would be the clubs worst error."
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USAC is Going to Audit You … Now What?
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If you are a telecommunications provider in the United States, you never know when you may be audited by the Universal Service Administrative Company. In this podcast Steven Augustino and Denise Smith provide an overview of Universal Service Fund audits, detail the process and timeline of an audit, and offer helpful tips to survive an audit. For more you can also listen to Kelley Drye's 7th Annual Universal Service Update webinar, available here.


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Cley 18 The Greater the Distance the Clearer the View
Cley 18 is an annual open submission contemporary art exhibition in and around the village of Cley-next-the-Sea in North Norfolk
Cley 18: The Greater the Distance the Clearer the View is chosen by this year's guest curator Dr Caroline Fisher.
The exhibition will be open daily 10am-5.30pm from Thursday 5 July to Sunday 5 August 2018, showing work over artists including paintings, sculptures, textiles, ceramics and installations in five locations: St Margaret's Church, the beach and Norfolk Wildlife Trust Visitor Centre on the coast road.
Cley 18 is a unique opportunity for Norfolk-based artists to make and exhibit site-specific work and for visitors to see new, and original work set in the fabulous landscape of the North Norfolk marshes and coastline.
To see the artists click here. For a map of locations click here. For the curator's introduction click here, for events and workshops.
At St Margaret's Church, the beach, Norfolk Wildlife Trust Visitor Centre, Cley-next-the-Sea, North Norfolk
Events as part of Cley 18
Full list of events and workshops at
A photo of Studio Hark's Cley 18 project Ebb & Flow has been published in the Eastern Daily Press. The photo, by award-winning photographer Matt Cooper, shows the two timber pavilions set against a dramatic sky and was printed as part of the newspaper's 'iwitness24' feature.
The project is a first for the team of young architecture students; Rachel Braude, Jack Cripps, Guiseppe Ferrigno and Henri Lacoste; who used local materials for the construction. They sourced timber from local wood merchant, Thaxters of Holt; reeds from Wiveton based reed-cutter Tony Hoare; and filled gabions with shingle from Cley beach.
Ebb & Flow focuses on the notion of perspective and viewpoint, while also considering sensory experience; human interaction; and the connection between distance and clarity. The form of the pavilions amplifies both view and sound, whereby the orientation of the two shell like structures to both land and sea creates two distinctly contrasted environments.
The project has been very well received by visitors to the art festival, locals, beach goers and dog walkers alike. We hope you too will enjoy Ebb & Flow and the other works on show at Cley 18!
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Thursday, 10 July 2014
Plants behaving badly, and a confused frog
On what is probably the hottest day of the year I squelched around the planting shelf in neoprene wellies, only falling over once when I had one of those "boot stuck in mud" moments. At least the mud was soft to land on and I didn't end up head first in the water :}
The detritus will rot down beautifully and have a new life enriching some other part of the garden.
As for the frog, ah well, no photos but just another episode in the insanity which is my life at Bag End.
Picture the scene: 11.00pm - Daisy in her bed snoring for England (we had a lovely walk at Crummock Water at teatime and she was tired), me propped up in bed reading. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed something dark on the cream carpet. I looked. It didn't move but I knew it hadn't been there earlier. I looked again. It was a bloody frog - a medium sized one that was just as confused as me. What the hell was it doing in the middle of my bedroom carpet, how the heck did it get there and how the HELL was I going to get rid of it?
Get out of bed quietly - any rapid movement is going to have Daisy leaping around the room wanting to help. Frog is a couple of inches long, with legs twice that, and fast moving, thankfully it is heading towards the window, not in the opposite direction which would have given it a bed and Daisy's sofa to hide under. Long story short, despite much hopping in it's part and adrenaline on mine (love frogs, HATE the jumping) managed to get little creature into one of those large paper bags that posh clothes shops dispense. The window was open so I flung both bag and frog outside - it's near enough the small Cottage Garden pond and this morning froggy was nowhere to be seen.
Sometimes we have a little too much wildlife in our wild garden :}
I have now recovered from both events and am spending much of this afternoon testing the effectiveness of a new garden lounger and proving that you really can read a Kindle outside in the sunshine ...
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I don't like the jumping either, you never know which way they're going to go.ReplyDeleteReplies
Absolutely Jessica, intellectually I know they're not going to do me any harm but the unpredictability of those jumps - urghh!Delete
Pity about the rampant pond plants and good that it's now sorted. Poor froggy!! One day I'll tell you a funny story about frogs and the workplace. Take care and enjoy the warm weather.ReplyDeleteReplies
Poor froggy my ***** ! What about poor me? If I hadn't got the dratted thing out of the room there's no way I could have slept in there - and I looked around VERY carefully before I went to bed last night!Delete
Hobbit on a lounger? The sky is falling!!! The sky is falling!!!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh it's worse than that, much worse ... Hobbit in one of those deliciously comfortable "zero gravity" chairs wearing shorts and getting a tan! The sky has not only fallen, but landed with a monstrous thump:}Delete
These things need a good long test don't they? I wonder how the frog arrived in your bedroom - hitched a ride on Daisy?ReplyDeleteReplies
Sue, no idea how our little 'friend' got in. There's a huge clematis outside the bathroom window - maybe it climbed into that and managed to fall into the en-suite? I'll never know ... unfortunately.Delete
I'm the same with spiders. I know they won't hurt me (well not the usual ones in this country) but still they scare the living daylights out of me.ReplyDelete
Good to hear you are doing some of the revolutionary relaxing too.Replies
Management would agree with you Sue, he hates arachnids as well :}Delete
That weather looks fabulous.ReplyDeleteReplies
Our heatwave goes on and on - the Lake District is definitely the place to be right now! Who needs airport queues and budget flights :}Delete
I love receiving your comments, sometimes they are the only way I know I am not talking to myself . . . 😊 and I always try to respond to each and every one. So thank you.
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The Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA) and the Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage (SCCS) group have both welcomed the announcement from the Department of Energy and Climate Change of £2.5m funding for the North Sea project.
The cash injection, from the DECC's Innovation Fund is to support the development of geological stores for the next phase of UK Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects.
Luke Warren, Chief Executive of the CCSA, comments, "We welcome the Government's continued efforts to advance CCS. The announcement today reinforces the UK's competitive advantage in CCS by putting the North Sea at the heart of the CCS development programme. The UK is one of the best places in the world to develop CCS. Its unique geology - which could provide over 100 years of storage capacity - is optimally located to be used by the UK's major CO2 emitters".
The International Energy Agency has long argued that CCS is the single most important technology available in meeting the challenge of reducing CO2 emissions from power and industrial sources. Last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its 'Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report' in which CCS was identified as the essential low-carbon technology needed to help cost-effectively reduce global CO2 emissions.
The report found that without CCS the total cost of limiting CO2 emissions could increase by 138%. Successfully developing a commercial CCS industry could therefore provide the UK with a distinct competitive advantage versus those countries that don't develop CCS.
This is new funding and comes in addition to a number of Government announcements on CCS, including the announcement last month of additional funding available for CCS research, development and innovation as part of DECC's Energy Entrepreneurs Fund. Phase 4 of this Scheme makes available £5m for projects in Financial Year 2015/16, with up to £2.5m prioritised for projects focused on CCS and related technologies.
Prof Stuart Haszeldine, SCCS Director, said, "Today's funding announcement is a positive indication that DECC is planning ahead for a second phase of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) development, following what we hope will be the realisation of the UK's first large-scale demonstration projects, Peterhead and White Rose. It signals a strong commitment to seeing the development of CO2 storage sites in the UK move from theoretical to licensable."
"SCCS has been very much involved in identifying and characterising the UK's considerable North Sea storage assets, including work on the CO2MultiStore Joint Industry Project, and our Progressing Scotland's CO2 storage opportunities analysis. We believe the UK is unique in Europe in being able to offer around 70 billion tonnes of CO2 storage. This will be of huge benefit to high-carbon economies sited around the North Sea, such as Denmark, the Netherlands, the UK, Germany and Belgium. Other European countries, such as Poland, will be able to connect to a North Sea CCS storage network, and we are working on progressing this opportunity through the EU's Projects of Common Interest."
"With our considerable experience in storage analysis both in the UK and globally, we look forward to bidding with commercial and academic partners to assist DECC and ETI in delivering this forward looking analysis."


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DE USURIS - Arnie Bernstein on Fritz Kuhn 80 Years Later
Charlottesville, August 12, 2017. Three deaths. Nineteen other serious injuries reported. Many more if you consider the psychological trauma inflicted on the scores of individuals there that day. Historian Arnie Bernstein sees comparisons and contrasts to another troubling time in our history.
As we process these events, individual and corporate stands were swift, condemning racism, hate and bigotry, and awakening, even as the story continues to unfold, a new cycle of activist movement against the forces of evil exemplified in the KKK, neo-Nazi and white supremacists. With history as a barometer, words and boycotts are not enough to stem the tide of domestic terrorism in our Nation and around the world.
In the decade leading up to American involvement in World War II, the rise of the German American Bund Movement, a neo-Nazi organization led by Fritz Kuhn, is a harbinger of the kind of polarization we have witnessed that led to violence and death in Charlottesville this weekend.
Arnie Bernstein, author of Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the German-American Bund, joined me for a program last year during our live series at Skokie Theatre, a conversation about the life and times of a man whose rise and fall in 1930s America provides a glimpse into another troubling period in our nation's history.
This week, we asked Arnie Bernstein to expand on our conversation in the context of the events in Charlottesville. ET 8/15/2017
ET: Talk about the social climate in the mid-1930s, the political divide that fostered Fritz Kuhn and the German-American Bund movement and how it compares or contrasts to the polarization in our society today?
AB: The German-American Bund movement was largely what the name said: German Americans, mostly naturalized immigrants escaping from the terrible economic conditions of post-WWI Germany. But post-war America was rough for them, given the anti-German fervor in the United States during the war years and afterwards. They banded together during the 1920s under various groups, culminating in the founding of the German-American Bund in 1936. Instead of embracing American ideals, the members of these groups looked to Hitler and the rise of National Socialism back in the Fatherland. But the vast majority of German-Americans (both immigrant and those who had been here for a few generations) had no interest in the Bund and despised what it stood for. The Bundists were a loud group of maybe 15,000 nationwide. They never revealed official numbers, and estimates vary depending on what resource you look at, such as the FBI or the American Legion.
ET: The rise of the Bund had immediate detractors. Who were some of the more prominent individuals and organizations involved and how did they express themselves?
The Bund's opponents were a disparate association of legal authorities like the FBI, elected officials including New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and his district attorney Thomas Dewey (later governor and presidential candidate), citizen groups and veterans, Jewish organizations, and journalists, most famously Walter Winchell, who delighted in attacking the Bund's leader Fritz Kuhn. Others who went after the Bund included major players in the Jewish criminal underworld, like Mayer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, and Mickey Cohen. They were approached on the sly by important figures in the Jewish community. The boys in the mob responded, and refused to take payment for their services. They busted up Bund meetings and busted up Bundists' bones in the process.
ET: What impact did they have?
AB: As varied as the groups. LaGuardia and Dewey were effective taking down the Bund by cutting off the dragon at the head: they found that Fritz Kuhn was embezzling the group's money and eventually got him sent to prison on those charges, sort of like how Al Capone got tripped up not by his crimes but through tax evasion. As I said, the mobsters broke up meetings with fists and Winchell attacked them in his column and on his radio show. The FBI worked their wiles on the Bund, with something like 3,000 pages of files accumulated on their activities. In one case, the community of Southbury, CT banded together so the Bundists could not open a private retreat on the outskirts of town. The efforts around the country were considerable on so many fronts.
ET: Compare the rhetoric of the time to what is occurring now.
AB: Similar and different, to be sure. The fascist Nazi standards of anti-Semitism, racial hatred, anti-Communist (which they associated with Jews and African-Americans), and the "purity" of the Aryan race sound exactly the same. They are separated by decades but not rhetoric. On the other hand, the groups today are much more violent in what they say and much more open about it. You didn't see Bundists walking around with tattooed swastikas on their arms, marching through streets of towns like Charlottesville wielding semi-automatic weapons. The Bundists were scary, to be sure, but they pale in comparison to the things we're seeing today. Sure, they attacked people, but it was with fists and baseball bats, not wielding menacing heavy-duty firepower and driving cars into groups of protestors.
ET: In your book, Swastika Nation, you attribute the collapse of the Bund movement to a series of factors. Talk about these and by example how they may or may not apply to what is happening today.
AB: The factors really are different. The Bund was an organization with a strict constitution and bylaws that were enforced. Fritz Kuhn brought them down himself in late 1939 by embezzling the group's money to fund his romances. He was a dynamic presence who made the Bund what it was, and when he was gone, they struggled. With the rise of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and early 1940s, members jumped ship—it just wasn't safe to be associated with a pro-Hitler movement in the United States. Then came Pearl Harbor, America's entry into WWII, and that was the end of the Bund.
ET: Historians often tend to examine social injustice, racism, gender issues and bigotry as having been the product of another time long past. And yet, today, we are grappling with extreme anger, hatred and a new strain of lawlessness fueled in growing numbers by fear, oppression and domestic terrorism.
Learn from the past … or doomed to repeat it?
AB: I think a bit of both. The Bund was an overt group, while for a long time the people like what we're seeing in Charlottesville were more underground and outcasts. During the 1930s social conditions certainly fostered many alienated German immigrants and their sympathizers in the United States. What they did not have were like-minded individuals in high positions engendering that anger and hatred, such as we're seeing today. There's no question in my mind that what happened in Charlottesville was a culmination of many factors: a right-wing propaganda machine fostering hatred and playing to the lowest common denominator and using well-understood code words and social dog whistles. "Liberals control the media" sounds just like what the 1930s counterparts said, only it was "Jews control the media."
Ultimately, though, there are many more good people in the world than there are of these types. We're always going to have to face the reality that they exist and they want to do damage in order to protect a mythical ideal of something that never was. But the world is changing. People who didn't have a voice before are speaking out and standing up to these groups. That happened in the 1930s and it's happening now, as we've seen since the deadly events in Charlottesville. We're standing up to those who want to pervert American ideals.
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For a little bit over a week ago I had the pleasure to shoot this cool guy, Jeppe at my apartment! It was such a chill shoot and fun shoot! Nanna Møller (@nannahmoeller) helped me out with the grooming, so that the hair stayed fab the whole time shooting!


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Strategical Location Commercial Premises
Property ID: CF023ML
Strategical Location Commercial Premises in Caleta de Fuste, semi furnished and waiting for you to start working in it. They stand in a strategical zone of the town, in a well-known Shopping Centre in Caleta de Fuste, one of the most sought after areas of the island.
The Premises:
These Strategical Location Commercial Premises are disposed on two floors and they feature bar, restaurant area with chairs and tables, kitchen area, bathrooms and storage rooms. The premises stand in a Shopping Centre full of activities. You will get a lot of traffic in this zone!
In conclusion, you cannot miss the excellent location-price rate. Therefore, we recommend to catch up this terrific opportunity before anyone else does! Contact us to have more information on this one!
Caleta de Fuste:
Caleta de Fuste is the town of sun, wide relaxing light sand beaches and clear waters. Here you can practice a lot of activities and sports, such as luxury golf, diving, windsurfing, snorkeling, restaurants, shopping, casino and much more. Located at just 7 minutes by car from the island airport and from here you can reach all the main points of interest in the north, south and west of the island in 30 to 45 minutes by car!
Caleta is one of the most sought after areas of the island and more and more people are buying a house here, whether as a second home or to live in. Real estate market is indeed growing a lot every year and properties are getting more and more valuable.
Property Features
- Other
- Land is 130 m²
- Floor Area is 190 m²
- Area with a lot of traffic
- Easy Parking outside the Shopping Centre