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Jimmy Carter, after hip surgery, back teaching Sunday school
ATLANTA (AP) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter talked about his recent health setback and his conversation with President Donald Trump, as he returned to teaching Sunday school in Georgia for the first time since breaking his hip.
Carter told people gathered at the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains that he and his wife, Rosalynn, have nursing care at home and are doing fine. He thanked those present for their prayers and good wishes.
The 94-year-old Carter broke his hip last month at his home when he fell while leaving to go turkey hunting. He subsequently had hip replacement surgery.
The former first lady also was hospitalized around the same time for what Carter said was initially thought to be a stroke, but turned out to be less serious.
A devout Christian, Carter regularly teaches Sunday school in Plains, drawing hundreds of visitors for each session. But he had to cancel plans to teach after hip surgery.
People began gathering at midnight to hear Carter, and by 8 a.m., a line wrapped around the church despite pouring rain, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
"We wanted to pay tribute for all of the work he has done," Glenda Morris-Robinson told the newspaper. "It is so wonderful to see a true servant leader. He was remarkable."
Morris-Robinson, a pediatrician from Atlanta, drove down with her daughter, Gabriella, who flew in from New York City just for the occasion.
Carter said he recently wrote to Trump to explain how the Carter administration had tried to address economic friction with Japan, and Trump called him.
"He was very gracious," Carter said, adding Trump expressed his appreciation for Carter's letter as well as admiration for the former president.
"The main purpose of his call was to say very frankly to me on a private line that the Chinese were getting way ahead of the United States in many ways," Carter said.
He said he told Trump the U.S. has been in constant war for years, spending trillions of dollars, while China has invested in projects such as high speed rail that benefit its people.
In March, Carter became the longest-living chief executive in U.S. history, exceeding the lifespan of former President George H.W. Bush, who died Nov. 30 at the age of 94 years, 171 days.
The milestone came despite a cancer diagnosis more than three years earlier. Carter disclosed in 2015 that he had melanoma that had spread to his liver and brain. He received treatment for seven months until scans showed no sign of the disease.


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April 2009
The Android 1.5 platform introduces many new features for users and developers. The list below provides an overview of the changes.
User Interface Refinements
- System-wide:
- Refinement of all core UI elements
- Animated window transitions (off by default)
- Accelerometer-based application rotations
- UI polish for:
- In-call experience
- Contacts, Call log, and Favorites
- Browser
- Gmail
- Calendar
- Camera & Gallery
- Application management
Performance Improvements
- Faster Camera start-up and image capture
- Much faster acquisition of GPS location (powered by SUPL AGPS)
- Smoother page scrolling in Browser
- Speedier GMail conversation list scrolling
New Features
- On-screen soft keyboard
- Works in both portrait and landscape orientation
- Support for user installation of 3rd party keyboards
- User dictionary for custom words
- Home screen
- Widgets
- Bundled home screen widgets include: analog clock, calendar, music player, picture frame, and search
- Live folders
- Widgets
- Camera & Gallery
- Video recording
- Video playback (MPEG-4 & 3GP formats)
- Bluetooth
- Stereo Bluetooth support (A2DP and AVCRP profiles)
- Auto-pairing
- Improved handsfree experience
- Browser
- Copy 'n paste in browser
- Search within a page
- User-selectable text-encoding
- UI changes include:
- Unified Go and Search box
- Tabbed bookmarks/history/most-visited screen
- Contacts
- Shows user picture for Favorites
- Specific date/time stamp for events in call log
- One-touch access to a contact card from call log event
- System
- New Linux kernel (version 2.6.27)
- SD card filesystem auto-checking and repair
- SIM Application Toolkit 1.0
- Google applications (not available in the Android 1.5 System Image that is
included in the Android SDK)
- View Google Talk friends' status in Contacts, SMS, MMS, GMail, and Email applications
- Batch actions such as archive, delete, and label on Gmail messages
- Upload videos to Youtube
- Upload photos on Picasa
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- UI framework
- Framework for easier background/UI thread interaction
- New
widget - New
- AppWidget framework
- APIs for creating secure home screen
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Live Folders
with custom content.
- APIs for creating secure home screen
- Media framework
- Raw audio recording and playback APIs
- Interactive MIDI playback engine
Video Recording APIs
for developers (3GP format).- Video and photo sharing Intents
- Media search Intent
- Input Method framework
Input Method Service
framework- Text-prediction engine
- Ability to provide downloadable IMEs to users
- Application-defined hardware requirements
Applications can now use a new element in their manifest files, <uses- configuration> to indicate to the Android system what hardware features they require in order to function properly. For example, an application might use the element to specify that it requires a physical keyboard or a particular navigation device, such as a trackball. Prior to installing the application, the Android system checks the attributes defined for the
element and allows the installation to continue only if the required hardware is present. - Speech recognition framework
- Support for using speech recognition libraries via Intent. See
- Support for using speech recognition libraries via Intent. See
- Miscellaneous API additions
- LocationManager - Applications can get location change updates via Intent
- WebView - Touch start/end/move/cancel DOM event support
- Redesigned
Sensor Manager APIs
- GLSurfaceView - convenience framework for creating OpenGL applications
- Broadcast Intent for app update install succeeded - for smoother app upgrade experience

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Feel free to email me if you have any questions about moving to Costa Rica. Pura vida and happy reading!
-Norm Schriever :-)
In this humorous and witty account, Nadine Pisani shares what it is like to follow her dream of quitting her job and starting a new life under the sunny skies of Costa Rica. Along the way, she finds reliable utilities are not that reliable, quirky neighbors are unavoidable, and tackling red tape takes the strength of a linebacker. But with all its challenges, you'll learn why Costa Rica is ranked as one of the happiest places on earth--and you too may want to taste the Pura Vida lifestyle.
A gonzo blast of laughs and adventure about a year spent in the tropical paradise of Tamarindo, Costa Rica. Frustrated and unfulfilled with the rat race in the States, businessman Norm Schriever quits his job, sells and donates all of his possessions, and moves down to Tamarindo, Costa Rica, with nothing but a laptop and a surfboard. But Norm soon finds that paradise has its dark side. Whether it's adapting to the local customs and the language barrier, dodging lawless drug traffickers and corrupt cops, or spending "quality time" in a Third World prison, Norm always keeps his sense of humor and forges ahead, intent on finding the paradise he has been looking for.
To download a free sample, click here.
In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his long-time surfing companion, Patrick, who had vanished into the depths of Central America. In this rollicking memoir of his quest from Mexico to Costa Rica to unravel the circumstances of Patrick's disappearance, Weisbecker intimately describes the people he befriended, the bandits he evaded, the waves he caught and lost en route to finding his friend.
Have you ever been attacked by monkeys, hiked in one of the most biologically diverse places on earth, or had your wallet stolen, then given back? Matthew Houde and Jennifer Turnbull share these adventures and more in the book, Two Weeks in Costa Rica.
Ever wonder what it would be like to leave the U.S. and move to the tropics? This book deftly blends the personal story of the author (who, along with her husband and parents, moved from Maine to Costa Rica) with incredibly helpful practical advice. A wonderfully readable resource for anyone considering moving to Costa Rica. First in the Mainers in Costa Rica series.
Margot and Anthony were ordinary parents. With two jobs and three kids, there was soccer and carpool and too much to do, and a little chronic stress about money. Then one night, following a day that was a regular amount of hectic, Margot had an idea: "I think we should move to Costa Rica." Seven weeks later, there they were, jobless on top of a mountain, hours from the nearest paved road. This witty, insightful memoir of a family's struggle to right itself in a leafy new world is about parenting and privilege, loneliness and connection. It's about what happens when a stressed-out technology professional escapes with her loved ones to an idyllic mountaintop...and finds that even when everything changes, some things remain the same.
Heart Attack = One Week Vacation = A Story of Adventure = Life Lessons = Is Your Life in Need of a Makeover? Go along on an adventure as Debbie Knight shares a seven year journey that she and her husband, Chuck, followed in pursuit of the "pure" life in Costa Rica. You will learn about the magic of Pura Vida in one of the happiest places on earth and learn sometimes why it can also be a rather frustrating experience. You will question if your life is on the right track or if it too is in need of a makeover.


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You'll have to forgive me (or I hope you will) - I was sixteen.
The book was on my high school English teacher's loaner shelf, there for me to borrow, and then bring back, and I borrowed it, and I'm still borrowing it, and now I don't know where the teacher lives, so what can I do?
The reason I never returned the book was because in it I found an essay by Dylan Thomas that started like this:
"I was born in a large Welsh town at the beginning of the Great War---an ugly, lovely town (or so it was and is to me), crawling, sprawling by a long and splendid curving shore where truant boys and sandfield boys and old men from nowhere, beachcombed, idled and paddled, watched the dock-bound ships or the ships streaming away into wonder and India, magic and China, countries bright with oranges and loud with lions; threw stones into the sea for the barking outcast dogs; made castles and forts and harbours and race tracks in the sand; and on Saturday afternoons listened to the brass band, watched the Punch and Judy, or hung about on the fringes of the crowd to hear the fierce religious speakers who shouted at the sea, as though it were wicked and wrong to roll in and out like that, white-horsed and full of fishes."
This paragraph can explain so much, like why I never could stop wanting to write, and why I gather books just to have them (even if they don't belong to me), and why I tend to like parentheses, and why my sentences tend to run on for whole paragraphs.
Until I have to break them up.
I never returned the book because I could never let go of a line like, "streaming away into wonder and India, magic and China, countries bright with oranges and loud with lions."
Could you? Aha, I thought not.
So here's your assignment: Go to your shelves and pull down the library book you never returned. Find the line that made you keep it.
And tell us.
We love to read what you can't let go.


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If you have worked in the IT industry for a reasonable amount of time, you have probably heard the term bit rot, referring to the gradual decay of storage media over time, or simply Data Corruption. What I never realised was what one of the primary causes is behind bit rot, and the amount of effort the storage industry goes to prevent it!
At Storage Field Day 9 we attended one of the most genuinely fascinating and enjoyable sessions I have ever seen. It was "proper science"!
Apparently one of the dominant causes of data corruption in SSDs, is in fact something which completely blew my mind when I heard it! Believe it or not, bit rot and data corruption is often caused by cosmic rays!
Cosmic Rays cause Data Corruption!
These cosmic rays are actually protons and other heavy ions which originate from the Sun, or even distant stars! Next thing you know these evil buggers are coming down here, taking our bits and stealing our women! Ok, maybe not the last part, but they're certainly interacting with other elements in our atmosphere and generating storms of neutrons (we walking flesh bags actually get hit by about 10 of them every second but as we're not made primarily of silicon, no biggie on the data corruption front!).
These neutrons occasionally also then slam into integrated circuits, and more occasionally still, this causes a bit to flip from a 0 to a 1, or vice versa.
Now a flip of a single bit might not seem like a lot, especially with CRC and other features in modern HDDs, but the cumulative effect or a large number of these flips can lead to corrupt data. Furthermore, corruption of even a single bit of certain data types, such as the vast quantities of DNA data we plan to store in the future, could mean the difference between you being diagnosed with cancer or not!
As such, Intel have introduced a feature within their SSDs which will deliberately brick the drives if they detect too many bit flips / errors! More amusingly, they adopt "aggressive bricking", i.e. brick the drives even when minimal data corruption is detected! A brilliantly ironic description for something which is actually trying to protect data, as this has the effect of causing your RAID or Erasure coding data protection to rebuild the drive contents on another drive, therefore ensuring that you don't end up with corrupt data replicating etc.
Intel actually test this using a particle accelerator at Los Alamos Neutron Science Centre, by firing neutron beams at their drives and checking the data corruption rates! But don't worry about the poor drives… it's all over in a flash! 😉
This is genuinely an absolutely fascinating video and well worth spending 45 minutes watching it:
Also for those of you who may notice some snickering and shaking of shoulders going on in the video, it was partly down to the crazy awesomeness of the subject, but also due to some very humorous twitter conversations going on at the same time! I finally understand the meaning of the term corpsing now, having most definitely experienced it during this session! Vinod did an awesome job of putting up with us! 🙂
Further Info
You can catch the full Intel Session at the link below, which covers other fascinating subjects such as 3D XPoint, NVMe, and SDS – They're all well worth a watch!
Intel Storage Presents at Storage Field Day 9
Further Reading
Some of the other SFD9 delegates had their own takes on the presentation we saw. Check them out here:
- Matt Leib – Intel, Storage, Bitrot, and Cosmic Rays
- Enrico Signoretti – Memory-based storage? Yes, please!
Disclaimer/Disclosure: My flights, accommodation, meals, etc, at Storage Field Day 9 were provided by Tech Field Day, but there was no expectation or request for me to write about any of the vendors products or services and I was not compensated in any way for my time at the event.


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The 70s Supper – #dinnerpartyYVR
Recipe collections tell a story. Through their tattered stained cards, clippings and notes you can tell a lot about their owners. Their likes, dislikes, which recipes they used frequently and what kind of dinners and…
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H&R Block to Release Fiscal 2012 Results on June 26
H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE: HRB) will report fiscal 2012 results on Tuesday, June 26, after the New York Stock Exchange market close. At that time, a copy of the press release will be available on the company's investor relations Web site at investors.hrblock.com.
At 4:30 p.m. Eastern, the company will host a conference call for analysts, institutional investors and shareholders. To access the call, please dial the number below approximately 5 to 10 minutes prior to the scheduled starting time:
U.S./Canada (877) 809-6980 or International (706) 634-7287
Conference ID: 81619408
The call will also be webcast in a listen-only format for the media and public. The link to the webcast can be accessed directly at investors.hrblock.com.
A replay of the call will be available beginning at 6:30 p.m. Eastern on June 26 and continuing until July 10, 2012, by dialing (855) 859-2056 (U.S./Canada) or (404) 537-3406 (International). The conference ID is 81619408. The webcast will be available for replay beginning on June 27 at investors.hrblock.com.
About H&R Block
H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE: HRB) is the world's largest tax services provider, having prepared more than 600 million tax returns worldwide since 1955. In fiscal 2011, H&R Block had annual revenues of nearly $3 billion and prepared more than 24.5 million tax returns worldwide, including Canada and Australia. Tax return preparation services are provided in company-owned and franchise retail tax offices by approximately 100,000 professional tax preparers, and through H&R Block At Home™ digital products. H&R Block Bank provides affordable banking products and services. For more information, visit the H&R Block Online Press Center.
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Press Information Bureau
Government of India
29-June-2016 18:49 IST
Cabinet approves Implementation of the recommendations of 7th Central Pay Commission
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the implementation of the recommendations of 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) on pay and pensionary benefits. It will come into effect from 01.01.2016.
In the past, the employees had to wait for 19 months for the implementation of the Commission's recommendations at the time of 5th CPC, and for 32 months at the time of implementation of 6th CPC. However, this time, 7th CPC recommendations are being implemented within 6 months from the due date.
The Cabinet has also decided that arrears of pay and pensionary benefits will be paid during the current financial year (2016-17) itself, unlike in the past when parts of arrears were paid in the next financial year.
The recommendations will benefit over 1 crore employees. This includes over 47 lakh central government employees and 53 lakh pensioners, of which 14 lakh employees and 18 lakh pensioners are from the defence forces.
1. The present system of Pay Bands and Grade Pay has been dispensed with and a new Pay Matrix as recommended by the Commission has been approved. The status of the employee, hitherto determined by grade pay, will now be determined by the level in the Pay Matrix. Separate Pay Matrices have been drawn up for Civilians, Defence Personnel and for Military Nursing Service. The principle and rationale behind these matrices are the same.
2. All existing levels have been subsumed in the new structure; no new levels have been introduced nor has any level been dispensed with. Index of Rationalisation has been approved for arriving at minimum pay in each Level of the Pay Matrix depending upon the increasing role, responsibility and accountability at each step in the hierarchy.
3. The minimum pay has been increased from Rs. 7000 to 18000 p.m. Starting salary of a newly recruited employee at lowest level will now be Rs. 18000 whereas for a freshly recruited Class I officer, it will be Rs. 56100. This reflects a compression ratio of 1:3.12 signifying that pay of a Class I officer on direct recruitment will be three times the pay of an entrant at lowest level.
4. For the purpose of revision of pay and pension, a fitment factor of 2.57 will be applied across all Levels in the Pay Matrices. After taking into account the DA at prevailing rate, the salary/pension of all government employees/pensioners will be raised by at least 14.29 % as on 01.01.2016.
5. Rate of increment has been retained at 3 %. This will benefit the employees in future on account of higher basic pay as the annual increments that they earn in future will be 2.57 times than at present.
6. The Cabinet approved further improvements in the Defence Pay Matrix by enhancing Index of Rationalisation for Level 13A (Brigadier) and providing for additional stages in Level 12A (Lieutenant Colonel), 13 (Colonel) and 13A (Brigadier) in order to bring parity with Combined Armed Police Forces (CAPF) counterparts at the maximum of the respective Levels.
· Gratuity ceiling enhanced from Rs. 10 to 20 lakh. The ceiling on gratuity will increase by 25 % whenever DA rises by 50 %.
· A common regime for payment of Ex-gratia lump sum compensation for civil and defence forces personnel payable to Next of Kin with the existing rates enhanced from Rs. 10-20 lakh to 25-45 lakh for different categories.
· Rates of Military Service Pay revised from Rs. 1000, 2000, 4200 & 6000 to 3600, 5200, 10800 & 15500 respectively for various categories of Defence Forces personnel.
· Terminal gratuity equivalent of 10.5 months of reckonable emoluments for Short Service Commissioned Officers who will be allowed to exit Armed Forces any time between 7 and 10 years of service.
· Hospital Leave, Special Disability Leave and Sick Leave subsumed into a composite new Leave named 'Work Related Illness and Injury Leave' (WRIIL). Full pay and allowances will be granted to all employees during the entire period of hospitalization on account of WRIIL.
8. The Cabinet also approved the recommendation of the Commission to enhance the ceiling of House Building Advance from Rs. 7.50 lakh to 25 lakh. In order to ensure that no hardship is caused to employees, four interest free advances namely Advances for Medical Treatment, TA on tour/transfer, TA for family of deceased employees and LTC have been retained. All other interest free advances have been abolished.
9. The Cabinet also decided not to accept the steep hike in monthly contribution towards Central Government Employees Group Insurance Scheme (CGEGIS) recommended by the Commission. The existing rates of monthly contribution will continue. This will increase the take home salary of employees at lower levels by Rs. 1470. However, considering the need for social security of employees, the Cabinet has asked Ministry of Finance to work out a customized group insurance scheme for Central Government Employees with low premium and high risk cover.
10. The general recommendations of the Commission on pension and related benefits have been approved by the Cabinet. Both the options recommended by the Commission as regards pension revision have been accepted subject to feasibility of their implementation. Revision of pension using the second option based on fitment factor of 2.57 shall be implemented immediately. A Committee is being constituted to address the implementation issues anticipated in the first formulation. The first formulation may be made applicable if its implementation is found feasible after examination by proposed Committee which is to submit its Report within 4 months.
11. The Commission examined a total of 196 existing Allowances and, by way of rationalization, recommended abolition of 51 Allowances and subsuming of 37 Allowances. Given the significant changes in the existing provisions for Allowances which may have wide ranging implications, the Cabinet decided to constitute a Committee headed by Finance Secretary for further examination of the recommendations of 7th CPC on Allowances. The Committee will complete its work in a time bound manner and submit its reports within a period of 4 months. Till a final decision, all existing Allowances will continue to be paid at the existing rates.
12. The Cabinet also decided to constitute two separate Committees (i) to suggest measures for streamlining the implementation of National Pension System (NPS) and (ii) to look into anomalies likely to arise out of implementation of the Commission's Report.
13. Apart from the pay, pension and other recommendations approved by the Cabinet, it was decided that the concerned Ministries may examine the issues that are administrative in nature, individual post/ cadre specific and issues in which the Commission has not been able to arrive at a consensus.
14. As estimated by the 7th CPC, the additional financial impact on account of implementation of all its recommendations in 2016-17 will be Rs. 1,02,100 crore. There will be an additional implication of Rs. 12,133 crore on account of payments of arrears of pay and pension for two months of 2015-16.


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Halloween Tips and Tricks
The haunting season is upon us and we're the place for all of your Halloween Tips & Tricks! This Halloween 105.5 WDHA invites you to join us in some howling good fun and dive into some of the magical things that make this spooky holiday so enchanting. From the goriest Halloween makeup to the Top Costumes of 2019 to the scariest cocktails, we're gathering the best ingredients to help you make this Halloween jam-packed with screams of delight.


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About Andrew Huffer
Andrew Huffer has over 25 years experience in working with organisations, businesses, managers and communities and at a state, national and international level. He designs and delivers specialist engagement processes, with a focus on facilitating open decision making processes and skill development of clients. He has delivered presentations and workshops at a number of state, national and international conferences.


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Commerce Department Seeks Comment on Protecting Copyrighted Works on the Internet
The U.S. Commerce Department's Internet Policy Task Force today issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) seeking comment from all interested stakeholders - including rights holders, Internet service providers, and consumers - on the protection of copyrighted works online and the relationship between copyright law and innovation in the Internet economy.
"The Department of Commerce has played an instrumental role in the development of policies that have helped digital commerce flourish," U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said. "These policies explicitly recognize the legitimate rights and expectations of those whose creation and distribution of digital works strengthen our economy, expand our exports, and create jobs in America. Our ongoing challenge and commitment is to align the flexibility needed for innovation in the Internet economy with effective means of protecting copyrighted works that are accessible online."
Considering the vital importance of the Internet in today's society, the Department of Commerce has made it a top priority to ensure that the Internet remains open for innovation. The initiative on Copyright Policy, Creativity and Innovation in the Internet economy seeks to identify policies that will:
1) Generate benefits for rights holders of creative works accessible online and make recommendations with respect to those who infringe on those rights;
2) Enable the robust and free flow of information to facilitate innovation and growth of the Internet economy; and
3) Ensure transparency and due process in cooperative efforts to build confidence in the Internet as a means of distributing copyrighted works.
The comments gathered through this NOI will be used by the Internet Policy Task Force in preparing a report that will contribute to the administration's domestic policy and international engagement in the area of online copyright protection.
Today's announcement and NOI represent one of many issue areas being tackled by the department's Internet Policy Task Force, which Locke launched in April. The Task Force is comprised of staff members from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the International Trade Administration (ITA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), and is coordinated through Commerce's Office of Policy and Strategic Planning, which reports to the Secretary.
Prior to releasing this NOI, the Task Force held dozens of listening sessions with a wide range of stakeholders over the first half of the year to better understand the current and most complex questions related to online copyright protection and the broader impact of content issues on innovation in the Internet economy. The Task Force also convened a public meeting on July 1 to address these issues further, which included 20 speakers and representatives from a range of stakeholder groups.
Interested parties are encouraged to submit comments by e-mail to email@example.com. Comments filed in response to this NOI will be made available to the public on the Internet Policy Task Force website. For this reason, comments should not include confidential, proprietary or sensitive business information.
More details concerning the NOI can be found in the Federal Register notice at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-24863.pdf.


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(Family Features) Resilience – the capacity to prepare for, adapt to and grow through disruption, trauma and loss – is a skill many parents want for their children. However, there is more to it than "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" or persevering through hardships.
According to a Pew Research Center survey, approximately 70% of teens between the ages 13-17 cited anxiety and depressions as a major problem among peers, while 55% said bullying was a major problem. Among the pressures facing teens, getting good grades topped the list at 61%.
Mollie Marti, PhD, founder of the National Resilience Institute, delivers workshops and trainings around the world to help organizations and communities cultivate resilience – a need, she says, that pre-dates COVID-19, especially among young people.
Recognizing the importance of resiliency in youth, Connections Academy, an online public school program for grades K-12, has partnered with the National Resilience Institute to elevate the topic of resilience and share expert advice for raising children who are brave, curious and better able to adapt to life's ups and downs.
"Even before the pandemic, the statistics about anxiety and depression among teens were cause for great concern," said Marti, who also compiled a guest blog series on resilience-building for Connections Academy. "More than ever, it's important for parents and schools to actively foster the growth of children who can problem-solve and adapt when facing challenging situations."
Teach Self-Care
To ensure your kids can joyfully and effectively contribute to those around them – socially, physically, emotionally and mentally – it's important to teach them self-care skills. Modeling behaviors such as eating healthy, getting proper sleep, exercising, investing in meaningful relationships and activities, and finding time to reflect, rest and repair can lead to your kids mimicking these acts. Ensuring your children are finding time to care for themselves can help them lead more balanced lives.
Create Self-Awareness
Children often learn the most about themselves when faced with adversity. Helping your children understand what motivates, scares or frustrates them and what they need to feel valued or loved can help build self-awareness. Understanding those feelings can help them better respond to stressful or negative situations and minimize conflict while also communicating their needs and expectations.
Build Relationships and Resources
Human resilience is often best cultivated in a community with others, and encouraging your children to actively seek out meaningful relationships can help them build a social support system. For example, because of the online school model at Connections Academy, teachers can spend more one-on-one time with students building strong relationships and ensuring they are thriving both emotionally and academically via phone calls, interactive video lessons, email and in-person events.
"We see many students come to Connections Academy because they faced social or emotional challenges at their former school," said Melissa Brown, Connections Academy director of schools. "I hear from our teachers all the time that they know their students better in the virtual classroom than they ever did in the traditional classroom."
Heather Franz was one of those parents who decided to transition her son to virtual school after he suffered through years of bullying at his brick-and-mortar school. The switch to a safe learning environment at home and the individual support provided by the teachers helped Franz's son thrive.
Practice Regulating Emotions
In times of fear, stress or frustration, it becomes more difficult to regulate emotions and take a logical approach to the situation at-hand. To prepare your children to deal with these situations, have them practice breathing exercises when they feel anger or stress setting in, and encourage stress-reducing physical activities such as yoga, meditation or working out.
Promote Self-Advocacy
Teaching your children strategies to mitigate conflict and to be advocates for their needs and wants can go a long way when facing difficult situations. However, it's also important to make sure they're not afraid to seek out help from a parent, teacher or other trusted adult. Encourage them to use direct language and phrases like "I don't like it when you do that, please stop" when necessary and to recognize stressors – like bullies or social anxiety – and toxic environments. For example, Franz knew it was time to intervene and make a change in her son's academic environment when he finally told her he needed to talk to someone about his situation. By getting her son treatment for his anxiety and switching schools, she was able to start him on a path toward wellness.
As all children will encounter various levels of adversity during their lives, helping them build resources and relationships can ensure they're prepared to deal with the experiences that await. Visit ConnectionsAcademy.com to learn more and find a variety of tips and insights for parents about remote learning and building resilience, among many other topics.
Creating a Safe Zone for Students
When Heather Franz noticed her son was starting to shut down, become withdrawn and his grades were slipping, she became concerned. Another parent brought it to her attention that there might be bullying involved and, upon digging deeper, she realized it was to the point of him "being afraid to say anything in class without being torn apart."
After beginning to have panic attacks at school, Franz's son was diagnosed by a specialist with anxiety, trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder in the sixth grade. While continuing to get professional help, Franz also opted to put him in a virtual school as crowds in the brick-and-mortar school environment exacerbated his anxiety, and he sought more individualized challenges.
Franz noticed a change almost immediately in her "previously shutdown" son after he started his seventh-grade school year at Connections Academy, which created "a safe zone for her son." Now in eighth grade, his mood has improved and he's an honor roll student who frequently wants to take part in activities and have friends over to visit. He's also working to help other kids with similar challenges, even integrating creative ideas, like putting calming rooms in public schools and other public places, into his school projects.
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Let's start with a clear understanding of what "information literacy" means. Most definitions center on the basic communication competencies of accessing, analyzing, evaluating and communicating information.
Information literacy involves these steps:
- Planning research or posing a question — for example, "Is global warming real?"
- Organizing a way to search for the answer — divide students into groups and use a research model like the Super3™ or the Big6™ .
- Finding resources — such as databases, documentary films, Web sites (like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), print sources, and local experts.
- Evaluating the resources and thinking critically about them — Who made the message and why? What is left out of the message? How might others view the message differently?
- Expressing the information learned in meaningful ways — for example, student-produced podcasts, e-zines, and wikis.
Within those simple steps are many opportunities for students to develop discrete skills like learning to synthesize and evaluate complex thoughts and ideas. Many skills are required for progress. Teacher-librarians can help by:
- Using an information gathering model. Use The Big6™ or the Super3™ as a tried-and-true method to teach students to become information users extraordinaire.
- Teaching discrete skills in real-world settings at the moments when students need to know them — like when the air conditioner breaks and it is 105 degrees!
- Providing rich opportunities and motivating materials for gathering information, such as viewing actual data online at the NOAA website .
- Providing a variety of ways for students to repackage information — like producing podcasts for the school library Web page.
Where to start
Ask students to pose simple questions about topics that interest them. Once they have their questions, help them make a plan for gathering information about the topics. Lead students to the resources and assign meaningful, technology-rich methods for them to evaluate and repackage the information they learn.
The following professional resources can help you get started:
- Get Them Thinking! Use Media Literacy to Prepare Students for State Assessments by Summers helps you teach literacy skills as you prepare students for state assessments.
- Information Literacy: Search Strategies, Tools & Resources for High School Students by Ercegovac helps teach formal research skills.
- InfoQuest: A New Twist on Information Literacy by Milam helps teacher-librarians guide students on their information quests.
- Media Literacy: Activities for Understanding the Scripted World by Endich helps you help students become media literate.
- Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century by Warlick shows you the rationale for developing information literate students and using technology.
- The Super3™ : Information Skills for Young Learners by Eisenberg & Robinson helps the very youngest learners get started researching.
Today's students must develop information and media literacy skills in order to function in society. As teacher-librarians, we have a responsibility to use our resources to collaborate with classroom teachers to make sure that our students become both information literate and media literate. Let's take the challenge!
Capstone Press, Initials. (2007, October). Teaching information literacy skills. Retrieved from http://www.capstonepub.com/content/TEACHER_ARTICLES.


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Saturday, 13 May 2017
"[There] appeared in heaven a woman clothed with the sun". So the seer of Patmos tells us in the Book of Revelation (12:1), adding that she was about to give birth to a son. Then, in the Gospel, we hear Jesus say to his disciple, "Here is your mother" (Jn 19:27). We have a Mother! "So beautiful a Lady", as the seers of Fatima said to one another as they returned home on that blessed day of 13 May a hundred years ago. That evening, Jacinta could not restrain herself and told the secret to her mother: "Today I saw Our Lady". They had seen the Mother of Heaven. Many others sought to share that vision, but… they did not see her. The Virgin Mother did not come here so that we could see her. We will have all eternity for that, provided, of course, that we go to heaven.
Our Lady foretold, and warned us about, a way of life that is godless and indeed profanes God in his creatures. Such a life – frequently proposed and imposed – risks leading to hell. Mary came to remind us that God's light dwells within us and protects us, for, as we heard in the first reading, "the child [of the woman] was snatched away and taken to God" (Rev 12:5). In Lucia's account, the three chosen children found themselves surrounded by God's light as it radiated from Our Lady. She enveloped them in the mantle of Light that God had given her. According to the belief and experience of many pilgrims, if not of all, Fatima is more than anything this mantle of Light that protects us, here as in almost no other place on earth. We need but take refuge under the protection of the Virgin Mary and to ask her, as the Salve Regina teaches: "show unto us… Jesus".
Dear pilgrims, we have a Mother, we have a Mother! Clinging to her like children, we live in the hope that rests on Jesus. As we heard in the second reading, "those who receive the abundance of the grace and the free gift of righteousness exercise dominion in life through the one man, Jesus Christ" (Rom 5:17). When Jesus ascended to heaven, he brought to the Heavenly Father our humanity, which he assumed in the womb of the Virgin Mary and will never forsake. Like an anchor, let us fix our hope on that humanity, seated in heaven at the right hand of the Father (cf. Eph 2:6). May this hope guide our lives! It is a hope that sustains us always, to our dying breath.
Confirmed in this hope, we have gathered here to give thanks for the countless graces bestowed over these past hundred years. All of them passed beneath the mantle of light that Our Lady has spread over the four corners of the earth, beginning with this land of Portugal, so rich in hope. We can take as our examples Saint Francisco and Saint Jacinta, whom the Virgin Mary introduced into the immense ocean of God's light and taught to adore him. That was the source of their strength in overcoming opposition and suffering. God's presence became constant in their lives, as is evident from their insistent prayers for sinners and their desire to remain ever near "the hidden Jesus" in the tabernacle.
In her Memoirs (III, 6), Sister Lucia quotes Jacinta who had just been granted a vision: "Do you not see all those streets, all those paths and fields full of people crying out for food, yet have nothing to eat? And the Holy Father in a church, praying before the Immaculate Heart of Mary? And all those people praying with him?" Thank you, brothers and sisters, for being here with me! I could not fail to come here to venerate the Virgin Mary and to entrust to her all her sons and daughters. Under her mantle they are not lost; from her embrace will come the hope and the peace that they require, and that I implore for all my brothers and sisters in baptism and in our human family, especially the sick and the disabled, prisoners and the unemployed, the poor and the abandoned. Dear brothers and sisters, let us pray to God with the hope that others will hear us; and let us speak to others with the certainty that God will help us.
Indeed, God created us to be a source of hope for others, a true and attainable hope, in accordance with each person's state of life. In "asking" and "demanding" of each of us the fulfillment of the duties of our proper state (Letters of Sister Lucia, 28 February 1943), God effects a general mobilization against the indifference that chills the heart and worsens our myopia. We do not want to be a stillborn hope! Life can survive only because of the generosity of other lives. "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (Jn 12:24). The Lord, who always goes before us, said this and did this. Whenever we experience the cross, he has already experienced it before us. We do not mount the cross to find Jesus. Instead it was he who, in his self-abasement, descended even to the cross, in order to find us, to dispel the darkness of evil within us, and to bring us back to the light.
With Mary's protection, may we be for our world sentinels of the dawn, contemplating the true face of Jesus the Saviour, resplendent at Easter. Thus may we rediscover the young and beautiful face of the Church, which shines forth when she is missionary, welcoming, free, faithful, poor in means and rich in love.
SOURCE: http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2017/documents/papa-francesco_20170513_omelia-pellegrinaggio-fatima.html


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What Money Cannot Buy
"If it pleases the king, let a decree be written to annihilate them, and I will pay ten thousand kikar of silver to those in charge of the king's business, to bring it into the king's treasuries." (Esther 3:9)
Ten thousand kikar of silver. It is interesting to calculate how much money in today's currency Haman was willing to pay to destroy Klal Yisrael. The weight of ten thousand kikar of silver can be calculated as follows: A shekel of silver weighs 15.35 gram (.54 oz). A kikar is comprised of three thousand shekels. So ten thousand kikar is 10,000 times 3000 times 15.35 gram. This is approximately 460 ton of silver. Though the value of silver keeps changing, today one kilogram of silver is worth approximately one thousand dollars, therefore one ton is worth about one million. This would mean that Haman was ready to pay about half-a-billion dollars. However, it is clear that since the time of the Purim story, the buying power of silver has changed dramatically. In those days, a person could meet all his basic needs for a whole year with just fifty shekel, which is approximately $750 in today's value. Obviously today, one needs at least ten times as much to pay for all of one's expenses for a year. Accordingly, in today's value, Haman was willing to pay about five billion dollars — an astronomical sum by any account — to have Klal Yisrael killed. Haman was the wealthiest non-Jew in history, and he was able to pay such a huge sum for the purpose of killing Klal Yisrael. Even though wicked people have a tremendous desire for money, his hatred for Klal Yisrael was so great that he was able to overcome his greed in exchange for the opportunity to destroy them. Haman offered Achashverosh such an exorbitant sum because he was asking to kill out a whole nation. He knew that just the profit from taxes from a whole nation in the course of one generation can be expected to reach, at the very minimum, billions of dollars. Therefore, to compensate Achashverosh, he offered to pay for the potential losses.
The knowledge of how wealthy Haman was and how much he was willing to spend for his diabolical plot strengthens the wonder of the miracle. Even though wealth is power and with money one can do many things, and even though Achasheverosh the powerful king agreed with the plot; nevertheless, through natural events — all Divinely ordained — the plot fails.
Achashverosh, who was no less greedy than Haman, refused to accept this astronomical sum of money. Since he too was a Jew-hater, he was concerned that if Haman would part with so much money, this might dampen his enthusiasm for destroying Klal Yisrael, and Achashverosh didn't want this to happen. This can be compared, l'havdil, to a speaker who is offered a huge sum of money to deliver a lecture to a crowd of irreligious Jews who are interested in learning more about Torah and mitzvahs. The speaker may offer to speak for free because he is so happy to take part in the kiruv organization's blessed activities. If he would charge a large sum, then the burden of running that important project may become too heavy and the organizers may lose interest in keeping it going. Similarly, in the worse manner possible, Achashverosh felt that this project, i.e., killing out Klal Yisrael, was so wonderful that he wished to do it for free, so that Haman would not be hesitant about carrying it out. When we learn how wicked they were and how much they wished to carry out this evil decree, we have a better understanding of how great the miracle was.
Later on, when Achashverosh became suspicious of Haman, as will be explained later, he had nothing to lose by falling out with him. Had Achashverosh accepted the money, then even when his feeling toward Haman became negative, his desire to hold on to the money would not have allowed him to cut ties with him completely. If he decided to overturn the decree, he may have even been obligated to return the money, some thing that no one ever wants to do. Furthermore, we know that once one has been bought by even much smaller favors, it is extremely difficult for him to find fault with the one who has given him the gift. Achashverosh's enthusiasm at the beginning which caused him not to take the money, was part of the very undoing at the end. Once he became angry with Haman, he had no ulterior or financial motive to keep the plot going. Again, we see the miraculous ways of HaShem even in Achashverosh's enthusiasm for sinning.


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10 Hilarious Rock Star 'Family Guy' Moments
Having aired for over 20 years, Family Guy stands next to the Simpsons and South Park at the pedestal of adult animation. Throughout the show's 19 seasons, Seth McFarlane and his team of writers have delivered hilarious depictions of rock stars, so we rounded up 10 of those most memorable moments.
Remember when KISS saved Christmas? In the third season of Family Guy, the show parodied terrible rock movies like KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, depicting the legendary band rescuing Santa Claus from next of pterodactyls. The ending was a happy one, especially for KISS, whose ridiculous merch was likely delivered to thousands of kids just in time for Christmas morning.
Nirvana's Kurt Cobain has been depicted in Family Guy numerous times. One scenario saw Cobain's future if he had quit heroin, telling his fans to say no to drugs before leaving the stage. The butt of the joke was Courtney Love, however, with Family Guy questioning how well-known she'd be today if Kurt was still alive.
Would you watch a show called Vedder Call Saul? Continuing Family Guy's fascination with grunge, they created a scene where Eddie Vedder called Bob Odenkirk's classic Saul Goodman character, getting legal advice after crashing his car into a milk truck… to the tune of "Even Flow."
Watch these 10 Hilarious Rock Star 'Family Guy' Moments in the Loud List below.
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Continuation guides our eye through each row, grouping them together and communicating to us that they are related products. Continuation is further enhanced by all of the shoes pointing in the same direction, encouraging movement from left to right. By the way, I should add that many of the principles I've discussed in previous articles are also at work here. Continuation is often aided by similarity and proximity, and, in this example, the principles help to align things by grouping alike items close together, to form a relationship.
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On December 7, 1975 Indonesia secretly – but with the complicity of the Western powers including the US, the UK, and Australia – invaded the small nation of East Timor. Two Australian television crews attempting to document the invasion were murdered.
In 1993, with the Indonesian army still occupying the country, John Pilger and his crew including director David Munro, slipped into East Timor and made this film. In the intervening 18 years, an estimated 200,000 East Timorese – 1/3 of the population – had been slaughtered by the Indonesian military. The C.I.A. has described it as one of the worst mass-murders of the 20th century.
Pilger tells the story using clandestine footage of the countryside, internment camps and even Fretlin guerillas, as well as interviews with Timorese exiles, including Jose Ramos Horta and Jose Gusmao, and Australian, British, and Indonesian diplomats.


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Much to the chagrin of summer party planners, weather is a notoriously chaotic system. Small changes in precipitation, temperature, humidity, wind speed or direction, etc. can balloon into an entirely new set of conditions within a few days. That's why weather forecasts become unreliable more than about seven days into the future—and why picnics need backup plans.
But what if we could understand a chaotic system well enough to predict how it would behave far into the future?
In January this year, scientists did just that. They used machine learning to accurately predict the outcome of a chaotic system over a much longer duration than had been thought possible. And the machine did that just by observing the system's dynamics, without any knowledge of the underlying equations.
Awe, Fear, and Excitement
We've recently become accustomed to artificial intelligence's (AI) dazzling displays of ability.
Last year, a program called AlphaZero taught itself the rules of chess from scratch in about a day, and then went on to beat the world's best chess-playing programs. It also taught itself the game of Go from scratch and bettered the previous silicon champion, the algorithm AlphaGo Zero, which had itself mastered the game by trial and error after having been fed the rules.
Many of these algorithms begin with a blank slate of blissful ignorance, and rapidly build up their "knowledge" by observing a process or playing against themselves, improving at every step, thousands of steps each second. Their abilities have variously inspired feelings of awe, fear, and excitement, and we often hear these days about what havoc they may wreak upon humanity.
My concern here is simpler: I want to understand what AI means for the future of "understanding" in science.
If You Predict it Perfectly, Do You Understand It?
Most scientists would probably agree that prediction and understanding are not the same thing. The reason lies in the origin myth of physics—and arguably, that of modern science as a whole.
For more than a millennium, the story goes, people used methods handed down by the Greco-Roman mathematician Ptolemy to predict how the planets moved across the sky.
Ptolemy didn't know anything about the theory of gravity or even that the sun was at the centre of the solar system. His methods involved arcane computations using circles within circles within circles. While they predicted planetary motion rather well, there was no understanding of why these methods worked, and why planets ought to follow such complicated rules.
Then came Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton.
Newton discovered the fundamental differential equations that govern the motion of every planet. The same differential equations could be used to describe every planet in the solar system.
This was clearly good, because now we understood why planets move.
Solving differential equations turned out to be a more efficient way to predict planetary motion compared to Ptolemy's algorithm. Perhaps more importantly, though, our trust in this method allowed us to discover new unseen planets based on a unifying principle — the Law of Universal Gravitation—that works on rockets and falling apples and moons and galaxies.
This basic template—finding a set of equations that describe a unifying principle — has been used successfully in physics again and again. This is how we figured out the Standard Model, the culmination of half a century of particle physics, which accurately describes the underlying structure of every atom, nucleus or particle. It is how we are trying to understand high-temperature superconductivity, dark matter and quantum computers. (The unreasonable effectiveness of this method has inspired questions about why the universe seems to be so delightfully amenable to a mathematical description.)
In all of science, arguably, the notion of understanding something always refers back to this template: If you can boil a complicated phenomenon down to a simple set of principles, then you have understood it.
Stubborn Exceptions
However, there are annoying exceptions that spoil this beautiful narrative. Turbulence—one of the reasons why weather prediction is difficult—is a notable example from physics. The vast majority of problems from biology, with their intricate structures within structures, also stubbornly refuse to give up simple unifying principles.
While there is no doubt that atoms and chemistry, and therefore simple principles, underlie these systems, describing them using universally valid equations appears to be a rather inefficient way to generate useful predictions.
In the meantime, it is becoming evident that these problems will easily yield to machine-learning methods.
Just as the ancient Greeks sought answers from the mystical Oracle of Delphi, we may soon have to seek answers to many of science's most difficult questions by appealing to AI oracles.
Such AI oracles are already guiding self-driving cars and stock market investments, and will soon predict which drugs will be effective against a bacterium—and what the weather will look like two weeks ahead.
They will make these predictions much better than we ever could have, and they will do it without recourse to our mathematical models and equations.
It is not inconceivable that, armed with data from billions of collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, they might do a better job at predicting the outcome of a particle physics experiment than even physicists' beloved Standard Model!
As with the inscrutable utterances of the priestesses of Delphi, our AI oracles are also unlikely to be able to explain why they predict what they do. Their outputs will be based on many microseconds of what might be called "experience." They resemble that caricature of an uneducated farmer who can perfectly predict which way the weather will turn, based on experience and a gut feeling.
Science Without Understanding?
The implications of machine intelligence, for the process of doing science and for the philosophy of science, could be immense.
For example, in the face of increasingly flawless predictions, albeit obtained by methods that no human can understand, can we continue to deny that machines have better knowledge?
If prediction is in fact the primary goal of science, how should we modify the scientific method, the algorithm that for centuries has allowed us to identify errors and correct them?
If we give up on understanding, is there a point to pursuing scientific knowledge as we know it?
I don't have the answers. But unless we can articulate why science is about more than the ability to make good predictions, scientists might also soon find that a "trained AI could do their job."
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
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In their three-plus years in Durham, Head Coach David Cutcliffe and Offensive Line Coach Matt Luke have built the Duke offensive line into what is expected to be a position of strength in 2011. The past two recruiting classes have brought in a very good group of young offensive linemen, and the Blue Devils hope to continue that trend with the class of 2012. Alex Kozan, a 6'4" 295 pound prospect from Valor Christian in Colorado, is one of the most highly recruited offensive linemen in the country, and the Blue Devils are among the long list of schools he is considering.
BDN: Can you start off by describing your strengths for fans who haven't had a chance to see you play?
As a player, I'm smart, I never forget my assignments, I've got good quick feet that allows me to stay in good position. Explosiveness off the ball, hand contact, hip movement, that kind of stuff, that'd be my strength.
BDN: What are some of the things you have been working on this spring?
Pretty much everything, you know, you just work on technique, you've always got to work on technique when you've been off the game for six months, so you just work on pass technique, run technique, that kind of stuff.
BDN: Coming off back-to-back state championships, is a three-peat your goal for your senior year?
Definitely, you know we've got a strong senior class, we've got probably 25 seniors this year. A lot of us have been with the program since our freshman year, our first varsity year when we went 4-6 that year and then won two back-to-back championships, so we're just trying to get it done for a three-peat this year.
BDN: As you look at your college decision, what are the most important factors you are looking for in a school?
Five things. Number one, business program, that's going to be my major in college, so a good business program. Number two would be coaching staff that I get along with and is going to develop me as a player, send guys to the NFL and send guys to be All-Conference players. Number three is going to be the strength and conditioning program of the team, does it have a good strength and conditioning program? Will they develop me physically, get me bigger, faster, stronger? Number four is whether it's a place where I can compete, both as a player to start earlier and where I can compete as a team for conference championships, BCS bowl games and national titles. Number five is that I have a strong faith in God, so a place where I can grow that faith and they're going to be supportive of that.
BDN: What schools have you been in contact with the most?
On the East Coast, for your region, I'd say North Carolina, Duke, Wake Forest, South Carolina, would kind of be in that area. Up more Northeast would be Pitt, Syracuse and Connecticut.
BDN: Have any schools stopped by your practices this spring?
We've had Syracuse, UConn, I don't think Duke came out, Wake came out, North Carolina is supposed to come out, I don't know if they're still coming. Those are the schools that have come out from the East Coast.
BDN: Do you have any visits planned for this spring or summer?
I'm still looking at it. I'm going to narrow it down to 7 or 5 by July or August and I'm going to try to visit as many of those schools as I can unofficially, and then a couple of them on official visits if they're farther away, like schools on the East Coast, to get a better feel for the program.
BDN: It sounds like you have a good idea for when you want to narrow things down; do you have an idea for when you would like to make your final decision?
I want to take a couple officials, so I'd probably say October.
BDN: Is there anything else you think is important for college football fans to know about you?
You know, just off the field, I'm going to be a great person, a strong character for the team, I'm going to help the team off the field, I'm not a guy who will get in trouble or anything like that. On the field, I'll give 110% and people will see that in my game.
BDN: Thanks a lot, Alex, and best of luck to you.
Alright, thanks.


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When I first heard about Doritos' Burn flavor chips, I thought it was a promotional stunt or something to sell more Pepsi, which was the focus of the radio commercial I heard. But being a snack food junkie and a lover of all things spicy, I kept looking for this stuff in stores. Finally, I found it, at a Walgreens here in Madison, Wisconsin no less. And let me tell you, the First and Second Degree Burn flavors are positively awesome, and spicier than any snack food I've ever tasted. Frito-Lay tells me Third Degree Burn was only available for a short time, and sadly I didn't get to try it. But here are the ones I did try….
First Degree Burn (Blazing Jalapeno)–These chips are hot and also have a strong jalapeno flavor. And the heat, which I'd rate as an 8 out of 10, is subtle and somewhat pleasant, like a spicy food drug.
Second Degree Burn (Flaming Buffalo)--This chip has a tangier flavor, just like, well, Buffalo wing sauce. And like first degree, the heat sneaks up on you, but this one is more like an unexpected kick to the groin, a 9 out of 10 on the heat index. What's more, they get hotter and hotter the more you eat. But if you like spicy food, that's one of the best parts.
Late Night Cheeseburger–Not spicy at all, but part of the new Late Night lines from Doritos. These taste like a McDonald's cheeseburger, but you taste onions first and foremost, and, like with all Doritos, the ones coated in cheese powder are the best tasting ones. That's especially true here, because otherwise the onion overwhelms the cheese.
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To Isis worshippers, Princess Selene and her twin brother Helios embody the divine celestial pair who will bring about a Golden Age. But when Selene's parents are vanquished by Rome, her auspicious birth becomes a curse. Trapped in an empire that reviles her heritage and suspects her faith, the young messianic princess struggles for survival in a Roman court of intrigue. She can't hide the hieroglyphics that carve themselves into her hands, nor can she stop the emperor from using her powers for his own ends. But faced with a new and ruthless Caesar who is obsessed with having a Cleopatra of his very own, Selene is determined to resurrect her mother's dreams. Can she succeed where her mother failed? And what will it cost her in a political game where the only rule is win-or die?
Sorceress. Seductress. Schemer. Cleopatra's daughter is the one woman with the power to destroy an empire...
Having survived her perilous childhood as a royal captive of Rome, Selene pledged her loyalty to Augustus and swore she would become his very own Cleopatra. Now the young queen faces an uncertain destiny in a foreign land.
The magic of Isis flowing through her veins is what makes her indispensable to the emperor. Against a backdrop of imperial politics and religious persecution, Cleopatra's daughter beguiles her way to the very precipice of power. She has never forgotten her birthright, but will the price of her mother's throne be more than she's willing to pay?
I started these books as soon as I finished Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George, I just had to find out what happened to her and Mark Anthony children. Having been taken captive by Octavian to Rome Selene vows that she will get Egypt back and fulfill her mother's dreams.
My favorite would be Lily of the Nile, I loved how it portrayed each of the children, you got a real sense of the emotional impact all these changes were having in their lives. I mean seriously what would it have been like to live back then. Your parents are dead (that was their choice, but for that time period they really didn't have a choice), you get dragged across the Mediterranean Sea - not knowing what was in store for you. Were you to be dragged in Triumph through the streets of Rome or something far worse? Then arriving in Rome weeks later to a country totally different in every aspect then you are accustomed to.
Song of the Nile I also enjoyed, there were times I wanted to grab Selene by the shoulders and give her head a shake, but alas I couldn't. There is a 3rd book to complete this series, not sure when it will be released but I will be reading it as soon as it does.


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Events for the Week of 12/7-11: American Indian Dancing, Inspirational Toys, ZooLights and More!
Monday, December 7: Seasons of Light
For an all-inclusive seasonal celebration, check out "Seasons of Light." Performed annually for the past ten years, "Seasons of Light" features the customs of winter holidays from different cultures, such as Ramadan, Devali, Hanukkah, Las Posadas, Christmas and Winter Solstice celebrations. Tickets are required. Prices are $6 for adults, $5 for children, $4 for Resident Members. Discovery Theater. 10:15 AM. This event repeats today at 11:30 AM. This event also repeats throughout the month of December, but show times vary. Please check goSmithsonian for show times on the day you intend to visit the National Mall.
Tuesday, December 8: The Mountain Spirit Dancers and Holiday Tree Program
The Mountain Spirit Dancers from Arizona's White Mountain Apache Reservation perform the mountain spirit dance to honor trees brought from their home territory to Washington, D.C. for the holidays. A large tree will grace the grounds of the U.S. Capitol Building and a smaller tree will be placed at the museum. Free. American Indian Museum, 12:00 PM.
Wednesday, December 9: Crafty Cards Workshop
The holiday cards you buy at the corner store may get the job done, but for some, prepackaged sentiments leave something to be desired. Come out to the National Postal Museum for this greeting card workshop where you can create unique expressions of holiday cheer to send to your family and friends. Free. Materials are provided. National Postal Museum, 10:00 A.M-1:00 PM.
Thursday, December 10: Meet Our Museum: Toys and Invention
We all know that some toys provide a little more mental stimulation than others—but some go so far as to inspire inventors when they go to create the nifty new things that shape our modern mode of living. Come on out to the American History Museum where historian Monica Smith will talk about the toys on display at the Lemelson Center's Invention at Play exhibit and the innovators who drew on their playtime experiences. Free. American History Museum, 12:00-12:30 PM
Friday, December 11: ZooLights
That's right kids—ZooLights is back once again! For kids of all ages, a menagerie of LED light sculptures modeled after critters at the zoo will be on display. Tickets are required for visitors aged 2 and older and can be purchased at any National Zoo store, at the door (unless that day's worth of tickets are sold out), or through Ticketmaster. Unless the Zoo closes due to inclement weather, this event runs from Friday through Sunday until December 13; between December 18 and January 2, ZooLights occurs every night except December 24, 25 and 31. Tickets are $8 general admission; FONZ $5. National Zoo, 6-8:30 PM.
For more information on events and exhibitions at the Smithsonian museums, check our companion website, goSmithsonian.com, the official visitor's guide to the Smithsonian.


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Poetry Unit (for senior students)
Product Description
Poetry Unit for Senior Students (Bundled)
I love poetry! I love reading it, I love teaching it, and I love the discussions I can have with my students because of it. May students (and some teachers) dislike poetry because they think it's too difficult. I once had a student tell me that poetry was like a "code" that needed to be unlocked. Cringe!! Some poems are meant to be analyzed. Some poems and meant to sound beautiful, and some poems are meant to be simple and enjoyed for what they are. This unit has a little of all of those things.
Students love this poetry unit. It is a complete unit with no prep required on the teacher's part. This 2 and a half week unit includes a student guide, 12 detailed lesson plans, two multimedia presentations (no internet connection required), a complete answer key with annotated poems (this is a teacher favorite!) , and an end of the unit evaluation with answer key.
Just print it and teach it. It really is that easy.
This bundle includes individual lessons devised to teach students the importance of:
• Figurative language (its uses and effects)
• How to read poetry
• How to understand and apply symbolism and imagery
• The importance of rhythm
• The importance of tone and attitude in a poem
• Types of poetry
• How to analyze poetry
• How to appreciate poetry (even when you don't understand it)
• Includes some Canadian poetry
This unit's focus is the analysis of poetry and teaches students how to make inferences, which is a skill they must learn for their other subjects as well.
Poems include authors such as Emily Dickenson, Dorothy Parker, Maya Angelou, Thomas Gray, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Noyes, T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Frost, Pearl Jam, Langston Hughes, Margaret Atwood, and Walt Whitman. The Unit includes 21 different poems.
The unit has been conceived to last 15 days – with 65 minute periods (although they are easy to modify).
The unit includes:
1 – The teacher guide (Contains 12 comprehensive lesson plans to teach the poems included in the unit. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO TEACH THIS UNIT HAS BEEN DONE FOR YOU. )
2 – The student package (Contains students' notes, poems, and questions) (28 pages)
3 – The answer key includes annotated poems and answers to all student activities, as well as an example of paragraph developing a theme in poetry (saving you time).
4 – Included is a test with multiple choice questions as well as one development question. All answers are included. (Word format for easy changes)
5 – 2 PowerPoint presentations – one multimedia presentation to introduce the unit (17 slides) and the second to reinforce the use of imagery and symbolism (19 slides) – NO INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED
A total of 68 pages + 36 slides are included in this package.
This unit is complete and does all of the thinking for you. All you need to do is to print out and photocopy the student package, and you're set.
Check out these individual lessons from the unit:
Poetry and Imagery – Langston Hughes
Tone in poetry – Robert Frost
Rhythm in Poetry
Poetry Lesson on Sonnets (Shakespeare and Browning)
Free Poetry Lesson: Analysing Poetry (NO PREP)
Lesson on Allegory and Symbolism Analysis in Poetry is ready to teach (NO PREP).
It's teaching made easy!
You may also be interested in the following products:
Lord of the Flies Unit (No prep required)
Hamlet Unit (No prep – Complete Unit)
Death of a Salesman (No prep required)
Frankenstein (No prep – Complete Unit)
Poetry Unit for Intermediate Students
Poetry Unit: The Art of Interpretation
Romeo and Juliet – A No Prep Unit
Total Pages
68 pages
Answer Key
Included with rubric
Teaching Duration
3 Weeks