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Mango Cultivars
Richard J. Campbell, Ph.D.
Senior Curator of Tropical Fruit
The first in the new QuickGuide series, Fairchilds QuickGuide to Mangos of the World has practical information on over 60 mango cultivars. Whether youre a mango aficionado or a new home grower, the Mangos of the World will quickly provide you hands-on information on height, fruiting season and more.
Picture | Origin | Name | Description |
India | Alampur Baneshan | 'Alampur Baneshan' originated in the Andhra Pradesh region of North India and is considered as one of the finest dessert mangos in the country. The fruit are large, averaging 14 to 16 oz. They are oblique-oblong. The skin color is green, even when ripe, and is overlaid with characteristic corky dots covering the fruit surface. As with most other fine dessert mangos of India, 'Alampur Baneshan' is best harvested hard-green and ripened at room temperature. In this manner one can expect an exceptional, multi-leveled flavor, from the deep and resinous to the intensely sweet. This is a mango for the true connoisseur, not the beginner, as its flavor could prove to be overpowering to the unaccustomed palate. The fruit are uncommon outside of India and due to its green skin color, yield limitations and propensity for pre-harvest splitting, it is improbable that they will enter into international export markets. | |
India | Alphonse | 'Alphonse', often termed 'Alphonso', is among the finest of Indian dessert mangos. Originating in Goa, 'Alphonse' weighs 10 oz, with an ovate-oblique shape. The fruit can be green or a bright yellow depending on the environmental conditions, and they often have a pink blush on the sun-exposed shoulder. The ripening fruit are the perfect accent for the kitchen, perfuming the air with a wonderful sweet and fruity aroma. The flavor also is intensely sweet, rich and full, with multiple aromatic overtones and a hint of citrus. There is no fiber in the orange, melting flesh. 'Alphonse' is best eaten out-of-hand, and is exported from India to specialty markets in Europe, where it is sold for a good price. The fruit are harvested firm, at the mature green stage, and are not refrigerated prior to ripening. Mature-green fruit are ripened at 70F to develop optimal flesh texture, flavor and aroma. | |
Bailey's Marvel | 'Bailey's Marvel', a mid-season cultivar with large, colorful fruit and an excellent flavor | ||
Haiti | Baptiste | 'Baptiste' was selected in Haiti, where it is grown on a locally commercial scale. The fruit are oval, with a smooth, non-waxy skin, weighing from 8 to 16 oz. They are bright yellow to orange and are exceptionally firm, with surprisingly little fiber. The flesh is a deep orange, with a mild and sweet flavor. 'Baptiste' is popular in Haiti, and can be found in local markets, but it is mostly unknown outside of the island. The tree is ease to manage for size and has characteristically small leaves with a light green color. The tree and fruit are moderately susceptible to anthracnose infection. The firm flesh holds its shape upon cutting, which suits it well for fruit salads and for cooking. | |
Jamaica | Bombay | 'Bombay' is a traditional variety from Jamaica. As the name would suggest, it originated from seeds brought to the island by early immigrants from India, and the fruit and tree are similar in shape, taste and habit to the 'Paheri' of India. The fruit range from 12 to 14 oz. and remain a deep green color even when ready to eat. When exposed to the sun they often develop a dull red shoulder. The flesh is a deep orange, melting and juicy with no hint of fiber. The flavor is rich and spicy, reminiscent of the finest of the Indian dessert types. The tree is vigorous, open growing and forms a large, handsome tree. This particular selection was handpicked for consistent fruiting under South Florida conditions. The fruit can be cut around the middle, twisted to separate into two halves and eaten with a spoon. | |
Carrie | A home garden favorite offering small tree size, disease tolerance and excellent flavor | ||
Florida | Cogshall | 'Cogshall', selected on Pine Island, Florida in the 1940s, is recognized for its small tree size, heavy production, eating quality and beauty. The fruit, averaging about a pound, have eye-catching yellowish-orange skin, overlaid with a brilliant crimson blush. The soft, completely fiberless flesh is aromatic, with a rich, spicy flavor that is sure to please. Both fruit and tree have good disease tolerance. The fruit ripen like jewels, a few each day, over an extended season from mid June through July. The 'Cogshall' tree remains compact; with minimal pruning it can be maintained at a height and spread of six feet or less while producing 30 to 50 pounds (3 to 5 boxes) of fruit. | |
Cushman | grapefruit shape and sweet flavor | ||
Dot | yellow color and excellent flavor | ||
Florida | Duncan | 'Duncan', of unknown parentage, was one of the few patented varieties of Florida, being bred and protected by David Sturrock of Palm Beach County due to its exceptional production, disease resistance and eating quality. The fruit are oblong and are of uniform shape throughout the canopy, from 16 to 24 oz with an average size of 550 g (19.5 oz). The color is a solid canary yellow with no blush. The skin is thick, waxy and resistant to handling damage, with a soft, tender, and juicy orange flesh. The flesh is velvet-smooth and bright yellow, with an exceptionally sweet, slightly tangy, refreshing flavor reminiscent of Carabao, with a hint of citrus and a fruity aroma. The fruit ripen in July in Florida and are tolerant of anthracnose infection, making them suitable for production under humid, rainy conditions. Production is heavy. The tree itself is vigorous and open in its growth habit, but highly manageable. It can be maintained at a height and spread of 8 to 10 ft with a minimal of care and pruning. | |
Edward | superb eating quality and a consistent, moderate bearing habit | ||
Panama | Fairchild | 'Fairchild' was selected in the early 1900s in the Panama Canal Zone. It was a favorite of David Fairchild and his family due to its distinctive flavor and heavy production under humid conditions. The small, oblong fruit average 10 oz and are lemon yellow at maturity in June and July. The juicy flesh is deep orange and fiberless, with a rich, aromatic and spicy flavor. %lsquo;Fairchild' always ranks among the top echelon of cultivars in public evaluations at the Fairchild International Mango Festival. The tree and fruit are highly tolerant of disease and fruit well under humid conditions, making it a natural for South Florida. The tree is among the most ornamental of mangos, with its compact shape and deep green color. It can be maintained at a height and spread of eight feet or less, perfect for those with a modest-sized home garden. | |
Florigon | 'Florigon', a pure yellow, early season cultivar with an excellent flavor and good disease tolerance | ||
Florida | Glenn | 'Glenn' was discovered as a seedling tree growing at the residence of Mr. Roscoe E. Glenn, Miami, Florida in the 1940s. The fruit are oval to oblong, weighing from 16 to 20 oz with a bright yellow background and a pastel orange-red blush on the shoulders. The deep yellow flesh has no fiber and is soft and silky, with a rich, sweet and aromatic flavor. This is accompanied by a prevalent, sweet aroma. Glenn is a favorite in home gardens of Florida because it may be maintained at 10 ft throughout its life with consistent production, disease tolerance and superb eating quality. | |
Trinidad | Graham | 'Graham' is a descendent of 'Julie' selected in Trinidad. The fruit are oval, averaging 13 to 16 oz. The fruit ripen from mid-July to August to a bright yellow, with a slight pink blush. The thick, tough skin conceals a fiberless, deep orange, soft and juicy flesh with a sweet, rich and aromatic flavor. During the late summer, a finer-flavored mango cannot be found. 'Graham' grows well in moist, humid conditions, typical of South Florida. The tree is naturally compact, and with annual pruning can be maintained with a size and spread of eight feet, perfect for the space-limited homeowner. | |
Haden | A traditional favorite despite disease susceptibility | ||
Trinidad and Tobago | Ice Cream | 'Ice Cream' is small and flattened, weighing 8 oz, with a greenish-yellow color when ready to eat. The skin is thick; yet, tender and easily separating from the fiberless, soft, melting and juicy, yellow flesh. It is the flavor that distinguishes this fruit, with a sweet richness reminiscent of mango sorbet. The fruiting season stretches over a month from June to July. It is perfect for those with limited space or interest in container growing - easily managed to a height of 6 ft. The tree is tolerant of disease, allowing for large harvests with no pesticides. | |
India | Imam Pasand | 'Imam Pasand' is one of the best mangos of India, ideally suited for dessert, the table and show. The fruit weigh 16 oz or more and are a beautiful smooth oval at maturity. The skin is a dark green, with distinct white highlights over the entire surface. Upon ripening the fruit can attain a deep yellow blush the shoulders and mid-section. The tree has a trailing growth habit and is easily controlled by annual pruning. The properly pruned tree will have a full, spreading canopy of 8 to 10 ft in height and spread. During the fruiting season of June and July, 'Imam Pasand' hangs heavy with consistent production. The fruit should be harvested mature green and ripened off the tree at a temperature of 75° to 85° F. Harvesting should occur 2 to 4 weeks before ripening on the tree for the development of the best quality. Properly harvested and ripened fruit have a fiberless, silky flesh with a deep, sweet flavor and distinct citrus overtones. The tree and fruit are tolerant of diseases and require little in the way of special care. | |
Jamaica | Julie | 'Julie' is synonymous with the Caribbean. Selected in Jamaica, the fruit have a flattened oval shape and are small, generally weighing from 6 to 10 oz. The fruit are greenish to mustard yellow, with a pink blush when exposed to the sun. The deep orange, fiber-free flesh is soft and extremely juicy, with a rich and spicy flavor. The fruit are not stunning specimens, but they certainly have an extraordinary flavor. The fruiting season is from May to July, but unpredictable, with multiple crops throughout the summer. The tree is dwarf and should be grown in combination with other varieties to assure production. | |
Keitt | 'Keitt', an excellent late season cultivar with superior quality, manageability, yield and disease tolerance | ||
Kent | late season mango with good color and exceptional flavor, great for drying | ||
Honduras | Lancetilla | 'Lancetilla' This impressive mango comes from the north coast of Honduras. The fruit are quite large, ranging from two to five pounds. The thick skin, bright red color with radiant, crimson on the shoulders is tolerant of rough handling and is easily separated from the firm, juicy lemon-yellow flesh. The fiberless flesh is aromatic and has an intensely sweet, flavor. The fruit ripen from mid-August through September, almost the end of the mango season in South Florida. With branch tipping and selective pruning, it can be formed into a small, productive ten-foot tree. 'Lancetilla,' with its excellent disease tolerance, is the perfect late season mango, offering beauty, compact size and flavor. | |
Haiti | Madame Francis | 'Madame Francis' is a traditional dessert mango from Haiti. The fruit are saber-like in shape, with an undulating and naturally waxed skin. The size of the fruit is from 1 to 1 ½ lb., with a bright yellow color at full maturity. The dark orange somewhat fibrous flesh is soft and juicy with a rich, spicy and sweet flavor that speaks of the Caribbean. 'Madame Francis' is one of the few specialty mangos available in the United States for a number of years. The tree is open growing and vigorous, with large, light green leaves and moderate anthracnose tolerance. It is generally one of the first mangos to ripen during the season and often produces multiple crops here in Florida and throughout the tropics. | |
India | Mallika | 'Mallika' is a hybrid between 'Neelum' and 'Dasheri', and is considered among the best of the new generation of Indian dessert mangos. The bright yellow fruit are a flattened oblong shape, with a rounded base and an irregular, non-waxy skin, and weigh from 10 to 18 oz. When properly ripened, the pasty, but completely fiber-free flesh is a deep orange, with an intensely sweet, rich and highly aromatic flavor with hints of citrus and melon. 'Mallika' fruit are harvested mature-green, before they break color on the tree and should be stored at a temperature of not less than 70°F for 2 to 3 weeks for proper ripening. In this manner their ultimate eating quality will be achieved. The fruit can be refrigerated after complete ripening, but not before. Although best consumed out-of-hand, 'Mallika' also excels in juices and as dehydrated slices, with a distinctive honey flavor. Mallika receives accolades for flavor among chefs and participants in the Fairchild International Mango Festival. The fruiting season is from late June to July. The tree is semi-dwarf and moderately vigorous, making it attractive to mango growers outside of India, who are always looking for new niche markets around the world. | |
Mexico | Manilita | 'Manilita' is from the Pacific Coast of Mexico. The fruit are small and elongated, weighing 250 g (9 oz). The color is an eye-catching pastel red, which covers all but the nose of the fruit. The flesh is light yellow and silky-smooth, with a pleasing sweet and uncomplicated flavor. It is perfect for eating out-of-hand, for slicing and dehydrating. The fruit ripen early in the mango season; it is among the earliest red mango to ripen in Florida. The tree is dwarf and disease resistant and is perfectly suited for container or patio production. Tree size can be maintained at 2 m or less in height and 1.5 m in spread. Production is consistent, but modest. | |
Thailand | Nam Doc Mai | 'Nam Doc Mai' is among the best known dessert mangos of Thailand, with an exceptional appearance and eating quality. It can sometimes be found in specialty markets in Japan, Europe, and rarely the United States. The fruit are long, slender and sigmoid, weighing from 12 to 16 oz. The ripe fruit range from a greenish- to canary-yellow, rarely with a reddish blush on the sun-exposed shoulder. The fruit are most often eaten when ripe, when the flesh is soft and juicy, with a sweet and aromatic flavor. Nam Doc Mai, like most Southeast Asian mangos has no fiber. In Thailand and throughout much of Asia, this cultivar encompasses what is most desired in terms of a quality ripe dessert fruit, with a smooth, silky texture and extreme sweetness and bouquet. The fruit are also used while mature green for dipping in sauces and for the making of sweet preserves and pickles. The tree can be pruned to maintain a productive tree of 10 ft or less. It has found a home in the Caribbean, where it grows and fruits well. | |
India | Neelum | 'Neelum' is a South Indian dessert mango, widely grown throughout the country and to an increasing extent in southernmost China. The fruit weigh 9 to 12 oz, with the general shape of a fat cashew nut. They are smooth-skinned and bright yellow upon ripening and have no blush. The flesh is deep yellow or orange. There is no fiber and a rich, aromatic flavor that is over-powering to the unaccustomed palate. 'Neelum' is best eaten out-of-hand, or used as slices or cubes in mixed fruit salads, as the firm flesh holds its shape. They have a late ripening season and can be stored for an extended time, which offers advantages in marketing. However, the fruit are only occasionally exported outside of their production areas, due to significant local demand. Fruit should be harvested when mature green and ripened at room temperature off the tree. 'Neelum' is a dwarf tree perfect for the home gardener and may fit into modern production systems, which will hopefully increase its availability in commercial export markets. | |
Florida | Parvin | 'Parvin,' a seedling of 'Haden,' was selected in Bradenton, Florida. On the average, the fruit weigh about 19 ounces. They have a heavy wax coating. The skin is an attractive greenish-orange, with a deep red blush extending over all but the nose of the fruit. The deep orange flesh is firm but fiberless — perfect for adding that tropical touch to fruit salads. The flavor is sweet and rich, reminiscent of the cultivar's 'Haden' parent. It ripens in the middle to late season in most climates. The fruit store and ship well. Production is consistent and heavy. The tree can be maintained at 12 feet or less with proper care. 'Parvin' often produces seedless fruit that are smaller than normal, but have excellent color and flavor. | |
Thailand | Phimsen Mun | 'Phimsen Mun', the premier Thai mango for eating mature green | |
Cuba | Prieto | 'Prieto' is another heirloom cultivar from Cuba, an island rich in mango diversity. The fruit are small in size, ranging from 8 to 10 oz. The skin color is a dark green - the green so dark in fact that it earned the name black, or Prieto in Spanish. Beneath this dark green exterior lies a deep orange flesh, and considerable fiber. However, one must not let this stop you. The fruit can be rolled on a table to release the juice for drinking. A rich, sweet and spicy flavor is the reward - well worth the effort to be sure. The tree can be maintained at a height and spread of no more than 12 ft. Prieto will not be found in United States or European grocery stores, as it is not exported and is not commonly planted in modern times for commercial use. However, it remains an important local market mango in Cuba and can now it can take a prominent spot in your home garden. | |
Southeast Asia | Rosigold | 'Rosigold' is a local selection of Southeast Asian heritage. It is the answer to those who cannot wait for the mango season to arrive - the fruit ripen from middle to late March. The fruit are cylindrical, weighing 11 oz and are a bright yellow, with crimson and red highlights on the sun-exposed shoulders. The skin is thick, tender and adhesive to the soft, melting and juicy deep-orange flesh. The flavor is rich, aromatic and sweet, with a hint of the Asian Tropics. There is no fiber in the silky flesh. The tree is small, manageable and highly productive and can be kept at 8 ft. Blooming often occurs in successive waves throughout the winter, resulting in a multi-harvest fruiting season. There is a need to thin fruit in most years to improve fruit size and quality. | |
Cuba | San Felipe | 'San Felipe' is an eye-stopping beauty from western Cuba. Selected in more recent times, San Felipe has many characteristics of the Haden of Florida. The fruit weight nearly a pound each or slightly more and have a bright yellow background color and an apple-red blush overlaid by a blanket of white dots. The tree is vigorous; yet, productive and consistent in its production. The flesh color is a deep yellow to orange and the flavor is rich, sweet and spicy, one of the classic mango flavors of the world. San Felipe is perfect for the home gardener searching for a taste of old Cuba, and bragging rights among his neighbors for the most beautiful of mango fruit. | |
Cuba | Toledo | 'Toledo' is an heirloom mango from Western Cuba that is still common in local markets throughout the island. The tree is dwarf by nature and can be maintained with a height and spread of less than 8 ft throughout its life. The fruit are small, averaging less than 6 oz. The skin is a speckled greenish-yellow with a slight orange-pink blush. The flesh is fibrous, but the flavor a rich, sweet experience - a true lowland mango experience. Toledo typifies the local Caribbean mango, abundant in season and always taken for granted, but when it comes to taste these cultivars may be the best kept secret. Toledo will hopefully always hold a place in the tradition and diversity that is Cuba, but just in case, it has a niche in your back yard. | |
Tommy Atkins | the work horse of the home garden in production, reliability and beauty | ||
Florida | Valencia Pride | 'Valencia Pride' is a seedling of Haden which was planted at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Zapiain of Miami, FL. The tree is vigorous, forming a large, spreading, open canopy of 50 ft. The long, slender fruit have a pronounced S-shape. They are quite large, weighing from 21 to 32 oz. (600 - 900 g). The skin color is striking, having a yellow base color and a vivid crimson to dark red blush. The flesh is firm, melting, and juicy with a mild, and sweet flavor and little fiber. The fruiting season is July to August. This variety is recommended for dooryard planting because of its good eating quality and consistent production. | |
Colombia | Vallenato | 'Vallenato', from Colombia, which also produces deep red fruit with firm, nearly fiberless, juicy flesh and a rich, sometimes spicy flavor |


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Why Bahujans always remain divided & quarrelsome
while Brahmins stay united & solid?
This is a country-wide problem with all the parties of the oppressed communities. There are numerous political outfits calling themselves Ambedkarite, Phule-Ambedkarite or Phule-Periyar-Ambedkarite. But these organisations and their leaders make a limited impact on the lives of the masses. Each organisation and its leader has so much ego and there is no inter-organisational understanding. Each leader projects only himself but the cause or mission becomes secondary.
Politics as master key: Compare this with the Hindu nazi organisations like the RSS. They do not nurse personal ego. They have carved for themselves a "national" agenda. their own "nation's" policy. The RSS, co-secretary. Mohan Bhagwat. says: "Rashtra Niti not Rajnit is important for the Sangh". (Organiser, March 19.2000).
Thus, they have a Rashtra Niti (national policy) above Rajnit (politics). BJP is secondary to RSS and not vice-versa. RSS dictates the terms not the BJP. Their political wing is just a part of their Sangh Pariwar
We may have fundamental differences with these Hindu nazi organisations. They may be our oppressor-enemies. That does not mean we should not admit the fact that they give top priority to "cultural revolution" - whatever they mean by it. They have built their socio- ctiltiiral -religious, literary, media fronts and enslaved the Indian masses. They do not call "politics as the master key". In their view political power is only one of the keys. So, even if the BJP is defeated the nazis are not defeated. On the other hand it acts with renewed vigor. RSS is an all-embracing organisation. It is the mother of many organisations. It gave birth to Jan Sangh then to the BJP. Socio-cultural organisation is the mother of BJP. What about other political parties? Have they such a origin? Are they having the Pariwar to handle all other branches of human activities?
Periyar E.V.R. example: We have somewhat similar example of the DK and DMK. Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy launched a socio-cultural movement under the Dravida Kazagham(DK). DMK, its political front, was formed not by the DK but because of the differences between Periyar and Annadurai. Periyar did not take the initiative to form the political party (DMK). So, the comparison between RSS-BJP and DK-DMK is not correct. DK does not have or had no control over DMK or the ADMK. But both DMK and ADMK exploited the work done by Periyar and his Dravida Kazagham all these years. For that matter no political party has such a rich background like the BJP in the whole of India
Congress Party: The Congress Party, the original brahminical party of India was born out of a political movement. It had no defined "national' social policy as the RSS. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar called it a brahminic organisation. It too was to some extent the mother of the Hindu nazi party. Because, the leaders. who were heading the Congress Party like Bal Gangadhar Tilak were the pioneers of the RSS or Hindu Mahasabha. Though the Congress today calls itself "socialist", "secular" etc. the persons who led the party so far were all the same brahminical forces. Sometimes the RSS opposed it but many times it supported the Congress. Openly the Congress leaders criticised the RSS and BJP but secretly they supported it because the leadership of both came from the same Brahminical Social Order (BSO).
Today, the Congress is dying because the BSO has virtually shifted to BJP. The Indian communists did not have a separate socio-cultural agenda. They did not create any organisation to counter the RSS organisations. On the contrary, the communists and the socialists derived inspiration from the vedic literature, smritis and puranas. Even today the socialists and communists praise the Vedas Gita, Ramayan etc. (Examples of E.M.S. Namboodripad and S.A. Dange are enough to prove this point). So, they too are birds of the same BSO father. Their secularism is "liberal brahminism". They pretend to be secular. But this is a bogus claim. Both the socialists and communists had no alternate socio-cultural philosophy.
Bogus communists: Thus, the RSS alone stands unique - its socio-cultural organisation in the "nation" is unparalleled in strength and the area covered. All other political parties, specially the upper caste parties like the Congress, communists or socialists derived inspiration from the RSS ideology. The upper caste Left parties could not create any alternatives in cultural or other fields worth the name. These parties had no strong values contradictory to the RSS.
In Maharashtra, the satyashodhak Movement of Mahatma Jyotirao Phule took an uncompromising stand. He not only opposed brahminism but tried to project the alternate Rashtra Niti; i.e. Bahujan Rashtra Niti. He declared that India was a Balisthan (Bali's kingdom) and the alien Aryans destroyed it and imposed their own values.
Our Bahujan leaders suffer from too much ego. They do not come together even on a common cause. But the RSS Pariwar does not project or worship the personality cult beyond a point. The Brahmin as a caste is greater than any non-Brahmin personality. Others have only personalities but no cause. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar worked for the Dalit cause because very few among Dalits were able to reach that height. When Babasaheb was alive he was followed and adored by millions. Today. he is a Cult Figure. Worshiped by millions.
Is there such a personality cult among Brahmins? No. Why? Because, Brahmin as a jati itself is a cult and does not need a great person around whom they can flock. They only use "a great person" to fool the Bahujans. They are not worshipers of Rama. They used Rama during his time to establish Brahmin supremacy. They also used Shivaji calling him a great hero of Hindu Rashtra.
But the same Shivaji who is lionized by Brahmins was dubbed a shudra by the Brahmins at the time of his coronation. He bowed before Brahmins or was made to bow before Brahmins. This was to fool the non-Brahmins. Because, by using Rama Krishna and Shivaji, the Brahmins got their job done. That is why the Brahmins need no great personality. M.K Gandhi too was used as he was useful to fool the masses. Even Bal Gangadhar Tilak being projected as a great man was not accepted fully. When he wrote in the Arctic Home in the Vedas that the original abode of Aryans was near the north-pole, he was disowned. Thus, the Brahmins defy their own great Jatiman when he goes against their Jati interests. This is the secret of a Brahmin not producing a great man. They do not need a great man because they as king-makers make or unmake great men.
Brahmins don't produce great men: Each Brahmin considers he is above all other great men among non-Brahmins To them their jati (caste) is greater than a personality. They maintain the high status of their caste. Non Brahmins must also see that their castes rise, above a personality. An inch of collective progress of the masses is greater than a single great man. If the non-Brahmins rise by an inch it will be a bigger challenge to Brahmins.
Our duty today is not simply to worship these personalities. Our duty is to translate their teachings into reality. I have seen many Dalits who do not read the writings of Babasaheb, who do not think on his lines but simply regard him as a god. They are ready to get killed if Babasaheb's statue is broken or defaced. Brahmins have found out this weakness. That's why they always encourage the personality cult, idol worship and then mislead us. Babasaheb Ambedkar's thoughts are greater than his statues.
Burn constitution: My point is Bahujans should not be blind worshipers. Compared to Babasaheb's or Phule's time our people are better educated in thousands. If we take up his mission, take his thoughts jointly, we can create miracles. But, if we simply worship Babasaheb and keep our brains limited to that act, we cannot rise, we cannot face the challenges thrown daily by the Brahmins.
Dalits will be hurt it somebody says anything against the Constitution. But how many of them know the Articles of the Constitution? How many know that Babasaheb himself has said: "I myself will burn the Constitution if it did not serve the masses". What was the spirit behind his speaking like that? We should he assertive and aggressive in implementing the Constitution, which professes social justice, equality and fraternity. Without assertion, without becoming aggressive to implement the egalitarian Articles in the Constitution, we have become over sensitive and mere worshipers of the Constitution. This has given the nazis the chance to start demolishing the Constitution. Had we been aggressive since the beginning, the Hindu nazis would not have dared to dump the Constitution. Here too, our weakness for hero worship has come in the way of Bahujan assertion.
Damage done by personality cult: We only react when the enemy acts (attacks). Ours is always a reaction to their action. On our own we take no action. We keep silence, nurse our ego until we are attacked. It is surprising that those who are against the Truth and Justice, who are for inequality, who are against all human rights are always on their toes to be aggressive but those on whose side is the Justice. Truth and the nobility are only reacting and put on the defensive.
The policy "offence is the best form of defense" is adopted by the nazis but we the Bahujans are engaged in defending and not offending. We worship the personality. They worship the policy. They are always engaged in planning the strategy. An attack on our personality engages us for days together. Attack on their heroes, is not similarly reacted to by them. Because they are not for the personality, they are for the cause.
To repeat, Brahmins do not promote personality cult. They only promote their jati. Anybody among them can head the nazi party. K.C. Sudarshan is not popular, learned or a great figure. So was Rajju Bhaiya who became the chief of RSS. They can name any Tom, Dick or Harry and work with him as a figurehead. Because in the hindu nazi party of RSS everybody has equal stature. A.B. Vajpayee's case is similar.
How about Dalit or BC organisations? Our numerous organisations are like those tribes. There are numerous organisations or parties for each caste. For example among the Mahars in Maharashtra we can find a large number of organisations - social, religious, cultural and political. Each organisation has a "leader". He looks after his flock. He is the leader for his sheep. To keep his flock together he will abuse everybody else and every other organisation. He will claim that he alone has understood Babasaheb correctly. This is the case with our leaders. That is why one leader hates the other leader of that same caste. They will never come together.
Similar is the case in their political parties. Kanshi Ram's BSP is the biggest party. The RPI is divided into many factions. Each RPI leader has a following only in certain pockets or among a certain sub-caste. All are followers of Babasaheb Ambedkar but divided. They hate each other more than they hate the upper castes. They do not compete for the uplift or progress of the Dalits but spend all their time and energy in fighting each other.
To brahmins, Jati is above personality: So also is the case with Backward Caste organisations and their political parties. Why there are differences between Laloo Prasad Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sharad Yadav? Why there are differences between Sharad Pawar and S.B. Chavan both Marathas, because, neither the Dalits nor the BCs have any "national" or social, cultural policy. Kanshi Ram, Mayawati can sit with the BJP but not with Mulayam Singh. Nitish Kumar Ram Vilas Paswan can go with BJP but not with Laloo. Are there any policy differences between them? Or only personal clashes? When Kanshi Ram calls for unity of the 85% Bahujan Samaj, why he cannot sit with Mulayam Singh Yadav and vice-versa?
Because to us personality is greater then the policy. Bahujans do not have a policy "Rashtra niti". Their personal ego is above the people, their castes. Exactly opposite is the case with Brahmins. They kill their personal ego to promote their caste and their "national cause".
Intellectual pygmies; I have seen many Dalit, BC leaders who fight among themselves but behave like dogs before Brahmins. A Brahmin can easily handle warring non-Brahmin chelas. Brahmins thrive only because non-Brahmins fight among themselves. This is because we are intellectual pygmies. Only the dwarfs need a big personality to be worshiped.
My aim in writing this piece is to rouse these pygmies. Do not indulge in inter-tribal fights. Do not simply be blind worshipers. Worshipers cannot be warriors. Just worshiping a personality will make you a sheep and a sheep can never lead. It needs a lamb. I want the sheep also to think of coming out of their sheepish mentality. Study the enemy. Study his strategy. Study his moves and policies. It you want to usher in the Bahujan national era, you will have to develop a Bahujan "national policy" (Bahujan RashtraNiti) exactly opposed to that of the Aryans.
The Brahmins have instilled in you not only a personality cult but have also made monkeys out of you by making you fight among yourselves. When you (SQ IST/RO) tight a Muslim, Christian or a Sikh you are playing into the hands of the Brahmin.
Identifying Enemy is not an easy task. Many Dalits, BCs organise their caste just to hate their immediate higher or lower caste. This creates hatred within the Backward Castes. The fight remains within Bahujan castes. Instead of identifying and fighting the Enemy, we indulge in brothers fighting brothers.
All castes have caste consciousness. They are conscious to some extent but they have not identified the Enemy. Some Dalit intellectuals call BCs as their Enemy No.1. Some BC sections hate higher BC castes. So much so, all these Bahujan castes because of this internal contradiction cannot get anything except division. Caste unions should be formed to identify the common Enemy. If you do not identify the Enemy who made you lowly, who made you untouchable, who made you Shudra and thereby denied you your human rights, your share, your dignity, you can not achieve your goal.
Common Agenda: The actual fight should be between the Aryan brahminical forces and the rest of the Bahujans. Such a Bahujan caste-consciousness should lead us to unite all these castes. We know that a whole caste cannot be made conscious. Only a few among each caste are able to identify the common Enemy. These few in each caste, if they come together will become a force to fight the Aryan machinations. But if these conscious, alert intellectuals stick to their own caste, the force to fight the common enemy will get reduced. There can be caste-based social and other organisations. Let them continue to work within each Jati as they are doing now. But can we not evolve a pariwar and form a joint front that will unite on a common minimum Bahujan National Agenda? How the VHP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena, ABVP, Goraksha Samiti, Durga Wahini have all united on a common program?
The most recent striking examples are of the "Mandal Commission" and the demolition of Babri Masjid. They did not have any differences over these issues. They fought together. But we Bahujans did not act together. Even, the common cause of defending reservation and the Constitution is seen as a separate program by each party. BSP will have its own meetings and morchas for the issue, the different RPIs will have separate protests and morchas. Thus, the cause of defending the Constitution has become a factional cause. These factions cannot come together and launch a joint attack. In today's situation no single person can command respect of all sections. We should learn from the Brahmins how they all combine and act unitedly.
The situation is such that everybody tries to project himself above the cause, his leadership above the goal. This is not the case with the Brahmins. On the contrary they use SC/ST/BCs for their cause. Why not combine your energy? Why all those groups being exploited by brahminism cannot come together and put up a joint struggle?
Fake historians created: The Bahujans are unable to utilise/use the Truth which they possess in plenty. They were the people who built the great glorious Indus culture. That means they were far advanced than the Aryans in every aspect. Yet they could not build their own future based on facts. Whereas, the Aryans have built their history on fiction and falsehood. They have no support of Justice and Truth. They do not have any history, any historical creation. Yet they have created such gigantic fake castles before which Bahujan history is lost in oblivion. The problem is the Bahujans do not think and act together; their intellectuals are divided. Their interests are divided. They can not see their historical unity.
Dalits, Adivasis and BCs are one and the same people. This is an established fact. History tells this great Truth. We only have to join the disjointed and fabricated history.
Aryans by their cunning ways have diverted our minds. Compelled us to look into our sectarian interests. There were no Untouchables as a separate group. There were no Adivasis, the jungle-dwelling people as they are today during the Indus Culture and there were no Backward Caste people. All of them were one stock. The Indus Culture was based on human equality. There were no four varnas, so there was no untouchability. Babasaheb Ambedkar in his book "The untouchables" has given us the historic truth that untouchability as we see today, is post-4th century AD. That means untouchability was absent before that. There was no untouchability during the Buddhist period not prior to that in the Vedic period and certainly not during the Indus Culture period.
Brahmins are confusing us on each and every historical fact. They have started creating fake historians to prove that Indus Culture was Aryan and that the varna system was the product of Indus Culture. When they can create such fake theories, it is easier for them to obliterate the "Truth", because, they are the greatest enemies of "Truth" in the whole world.
Inferiority complex: Bahujans admit they have "lower status". They are graded under the hierarchically placed bhrahminic scheme. It is because of this hierarchy they keep on fighting between themselves. They suffer from inferiority complex. Their ego is blended with inferiority. This blending is the cause for their typical infighting. This is the cause of their personal ego over-riding the social ego. They do not have social status. i.e. social ego compared to Brahmins and. therefore, only personalities try to assert. These puffed-up personalities then claim that they are the 'leaders' of the caste, the subcaste. Sometimes there are numerous leaders in one subcaste, region-wise. They try to overcome another leader through unhealthy competition. One does not see eye to eye with another. That is why there are many RPIs within a caste, within a subcaste. There are different parties of Yadavas, Kunbis, Kurmis, Chamars, Mahars etc. It is all chaos. But the Brahmins are a single party Brahmin Jati Party (BJ P).
Gavai - Prakash Ambedkar fight: Brahmins also have many jatis and subcastes but they all have one party. They have long back broken the barriers of subcastes. BJP is the party of all varieties of Brahmins. That is why they do not fight among themselves. In BJP, there are no intra-Brahmin fights. Fights are there only between Brahmins and non-Brahmins: Vajpayee-Advani, Vajpayee- Kalyan Singh, Vaghela, Khurana-Sahib Singh Verma etc.
Bahujan ego being inferiority-blended it takes the shape of personality cult. Because of this personality cult the cause of strengthening "caste identity" and caste consolidation suffers. Because of caste, people fight among themselves on behalf of the faction leaders. R.S. Gavai and Prakash Ambedkar belong to the same subcaste of "Mahar". They head two factions of RPI. The competition is because of their inferiority-blended ego and personality cult. Such examples are there among BC leaders also. Because of this sectional ego, even one single caste cannot be organised. The organisational rivalry between BCs and Dalit is also of the same type. Dalits hate BCs and vice-versa. Bahujan leaders whether they be Dalits or BCs crave for recognition by the Brahmins. A non-Brahmin scholar will rebuff another non-Brahmin scholar but at the same time these very scholars claim that they are the best non-Brahmin scholars. Such a duplicity, self deception is the reason for no Bahujan entity gaining ground.
There are numerous BC, Dalit, Adivasi organisations all over the country. BC organisations hate Dalit organisations. They do not jointly oppose brahminic machinations. This Bahujan inferiority-blended ego is the most damaging one. They cannot get a vision of forming a Bahujan India. Infighting within Dalits, within the BCs and infighting between Dalits and BCs is the outcome of this inferiority-blended ego. That is why they cannot carve out an India free from Aryan Brahmin domination.
Cultural revolution: Who will lead the Bahujan cultural revolution? Can a political leader lead it? The head of a political party is engaged day and night in manipulating political equations. He has no time for cultural-revolution. Who are upholding the brahminic culture? It is not the BJP. It is not Atal Behari Vajpayee as the Prime Minister. No Prime Minister or President can alter the brahminical culture. They are all products of the established culture. What V.P. Singh did by partially implementing the Mandal Commission? He okayed the demand of a vast majority of the BCs, Dalits brewing in the society through social and political organisations. That means the society should have the desire for a change. A willing and committed head of the state can then fulfil the desire.
DS4 & BAMSEF discarded: I see a bleak future for non-BJP political parties, because, these parties are without the backing of any socio-cultural movement. Whereas the BJP is not only -supported but is actually controlled by the RSS the most powerful cultural organisation. I repeat. This is not the case with any other party. Laloo Prasad, Mulayam Singh Yadav have no political future. Laloo Prasad and Kanshi Ram compared to others have taken the anti-brahminic stand but they too do not have the backing of any socio-cultural movement. Dalit parties, BSP or RPIs, also sail in the same boat. Kanshi Ram once created DS-4 and BAMCEF and then discarded both. BAMCEF has broken into many factions. Dalit Panthers was formed as a protest movement against the RPI inactiveness in the light of atrocities. Its existence today has to be searched.
There was a good Dalit literary movement in the 70's started by the Dalit Panthers but that too is now divided into groups or around numerous personalities.
Non-Dalit BCs do not have any such cultural organisations. There arose many organisations of BCs at the time of Mandal Commission but they too could not sustain the test of time. There are some talks of revival of "Satyashodhak Movement". But the moment it starts politicians will jump into it and divert it or use it for personal and political game. The Dravida Kazagham in Tamil Nadu has still some fire in it because of the pioneering and well founded work of Peryar E.V. Ramaswamy. Today K. Veeramani is holding the DK movement. But it does not control the Dravida parties as the RSS has the control over the BJP.
Muslims and Christians have their religious and cultural identity but politically they are weak.
After the ] 956 conversion, lakhs of Mahars embraced Buddhism. The Bhikkus are keeping Buddhism alive. But there is no organic relationship between them and the socio-political movement. They play second fiddle to political parties and personalities.
Grim picture: Is this not a grim picture? No Dalit or BC organisation takes up an aggressive or militant posture like the RSS pariwar. The Hindu nazis speak in one voice, they act in unison for a cause, they indulge in deliberate, calculated violence. But this is not the case with the Bahujan organisations, who speak in different voices, in different tones, and often opposed to each other. They do not act together, take no offensive posture unitedly. They only show re-active militancy in selected cases, such as renaming of Marathwada University or after the killing of Dalits in Bombay (1997) or insult to or desecration of Babasaheb's statue. They become sentimental, emotional when Babasaheb is insulted or the Dalits are killed. They do not initiate an offensive attack so that upper castes are made to react.
Any sundry cause is sufficient for the RSS pariwar to become aggressive but howsoever big a cause may be the Bahujans will not be consistently aggressive. The source of inspiration has to be non-political. Will the Dalit and BC leaders of different parties sit down and ponder over this problem?
How to keep BSO as ruling class: There are many organisations in almost all the states that are working on Babasaheb, Phule or Periyar thoughts. But non-Brahmin political leaders do not have faith in them. They do not consult non-political intellectuals. They do not support non-political intellectuals and organisations. On the contrary many of them seek advice from Brahmins only. This is the problem. Are Dalits, who have the legacy of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar ideology, an awakened conscious community? If so what is the extent of their awareness, consciousness? The Dalits are the most divided people. So is the case with their organisations. Their parties are personality-oriented. Division increases as you go down the scale of caste.
But division cannot be the yardstick of awakening. Look at Brahmins. Division is minimum among them. That is why they are the real awakened people. They only follow the dictum "united we stand, divided we fall". This is not true of Dalit political parties and BC and other non-Brahmin parties and organisations. Exactly opposite is the case with Brahmins. Their cause is above parties or organisations and above all personalities. Brahmins are never divided ideologically.
Every Aryan Brahmin has one single ideology: how to sustain and keep the Brahmins as the ruling class. (DV Dec.16, 1996, p.9: "Brahmin as a sociological/ wonder': V.T. Rajshekar).
They do not worship any one towering personality like Mahatma Phule or Babasaheb Ambedkar. Still they are united. Brahmins, whichever be their party, they all respect and refer to RSS as their ideologue and strategy-determining centre of power. Bahujans have no such centralised non-political organisation. They consider politics as the master key that will open all locks. This is not the case with Brahmins. Even if their political party fails their other organisations will remain intact. A Brahmin can rise from the ashes. Neither Dalits nor BCs have the backing of non-political roots to keep them upright. When will the Bahujans (SC/ST/BCs) learn that the cause is greater than the personality and political Parties and the organisations? Until they learn it they will continue to be slaves.
The ego they carry is the out come of their inferiority complex. Or is it the outcome of their selfish, personality-oriented nature? Is it because of the wide gap between these leaders and the masses? There is no such gap between Brahmin leaders and their jatwalas. Individuals do not matter. Their individual status is determined by Jati. But a non-Brahmin leader has no such caste status. This is the cause of all problems.
But what prevents them from coming together for the cause? This question still remains unanswered. The awakened leaders, if they come together can form formidable force. The masses will he more happy if they come together. The masses will also find that they arc not deceived by their leaders. Leaders take for granted the urges of the masses, and, therefore, there is no dialogue between them and the masses.
With regards Tata Sivaiah

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Monitoring and fixing your apps issues have never been easier. You can easily watch your app and check if there are any issues. What's special about it is that you can do this wherever you are, as long as you are connected to the internet.
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Loggly is another management and security platform that specializes in network performance assurance. This does a pretty good job in giving you the transparency you need in checking your I.T. logs, as well as notifying you of any potential threats to your system infrastructure.
Notable Features
You'll receive constant notifications regarding the current status of your infrastructure. Recent changes and performance checks also show up, giving you better transparency as to what is happening with your system.
The dashboards are fully customizable, giving you the freedom to tweak it and make it sync well with how you're going to use it. It's with this that you'll easily get the hang of using it.
The way this monitoring tool shows you your infrastructure's current situation is made in an attractive and easily understandable way. Graphs, charts, and simplified paragraph explanations would show up.
Intended Users
Loggly would perfectly do well for small startups, mid-sized businesses, or large enterprises. Any business which needs a reliable network infrastructure would need this tool.
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Loggly is very easy to setup as it just takes a few minutes. What's great is that in-house technicians are available at almost any time of the day to help you out in whatever technical inquiries you might have.
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You won't feel restricted with Loggly because you can choose from three different packages. They're fully customizable, which is why you can tweak them and only get the features you're going to need.
Getting a standard subscription will cost you $49 per month, while a pro subscription is priced at $349 per month.
Splunk Cloud
Splunk Cloud is what big enterprises need because it can analyze and monitor a big amount of data. It allows you to index raw data from different sources, as well as help you identify patterns in your system's performance. It shows all of the information in a user-friendly dashboard, complete with forecast visualizations and smart suggestions.
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Splunk Cloud lets you easily collect log information and machine data that you can analyze and suggest corresponding actions too.
You don't have to do everything because the tool does it for you manually. It searches, analyzes, and visualizes forecasts autonomously.
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Intended Users
Splunk Cloud if perfect for mid-sized businesses and large enterprises that need to have a lot of processing power to analyze and sort out its huge chunks of data.
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The best thing about Splunk Cloud is its real-time alert notifications that show up on your RSS feed. It gives you live up-to-date changes in a very interesting manner.
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Splunk Cloud gives you accurate predictions on patterns and trends. This perfectly matches its easy-to-understand info visualizations.
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The way it collects, indexes, and analyzes data is so efficient. The server doesn't lag, and dashboard interaction is so smooth.
The monthly subscription price for Splunk Cloud is $675, which is quite expensive. However, it's worth your money because of its capability to analyze huge amounts of data and its smooth operation.
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Her arms full of patient files, Dr. Erika Sheraton tipped her head back as Darren, her premed intern, poured a double shot of espresso down her throat. The hot liquid delivered the instant adrenaline boost she needed to get through the rest of her fourteen-hour shift.
Dinner? A quick glance at the clock on the wall above the nurses' triage station revealed it was almost nine. A late dinner.
"How are you not vibrating? That's your third in two hours." Darren crumpled the paper cup and tossed it into a recycle bin as they walked.
"Caffeine stopped affecting me a long time ago. Now's it's about the taste," she said, only half kidding. Double course loads and all-nighters in college and then med school had prepared her for the long hours she put in now as a general surgeon and caffeine had been her best friend.
The twentysomething looked like he could use a cup himself, as he stifled a yawn. His sandy blond hair poked up in the back as though he'd crawled out of bed at the last possible minute and his hazel eyes were bloodshot. If he was tired now after only eight hours on shift, he'd be reconsidering this particular profession by midnight. The staff at Alaska General Hospital never rested. The revolving doors at emergency constantly rotated with broken bones, heart attacks and bleeding patients filing in. No day was ever the same. Unpredictability kept Erika alert and on her toes.
"After these rounds, I'm going to need you to check in on Mr. Franklin—he's in recovery. His family is wondering when they can see him." The man's entire extended family was camped out in the surgical ward waiting room—fifteen or sixteen of them at least. They couldn't see the man, but they all refused to leave. Each one took turns driving the nurses on duty crazy. "Make sure they know only immediate family can go in. He needs his rest."
Darren nodded, but a look of hesitation appeared behind his dark-rimmed glasses.
"What?" She checked her watch.
"I just… Well, shouldn't you talk to them? I know his wife wanted to thank you…"
Erika shook her head. "Keeping him on the low-cholesterol, low-sodium diet I've prescribed—and off my operating table—will be thanks enough," she said, scanning the top folder on her stack.
"Okay, but…"
She shot him a look.
"No problem. I'll check in on him."
"Thank you." She continued down the hall toward the next high-priority patient.
"Don't forget, your dad still wants to see you," Darren said, struggling to keep up to her half sprint.
"I know." And she could do without the hourly reminders. Her father rarely requested her presence during her rounds, so whatever it was wouldn't be good. If she put him off long enough, maybe he'd forget.
"Top chart—Mr. Grayson. He's scheduled for an appendectomy in a few hours," she said, approaching the man's hospital room.
Darren nodded as he smiled. "This old guy is hilarious. Did you know he was a stunt motorcycle driver in the circus in the '80s?"
"No." She knew he had an inflamed appendix and had waited far too long to come in. She knew his vitals and that in an hour, they'd be prepping him for surgery. Knowing personal details of a patient's life didn't make her job any easier or guarantee a better outcome. She juggled the files on one arm as she reached into her pocket for a new set of sterile gloves.
"Hey, before we go in there, can I talk to you?" Darren asked, stopping her outside the room. He stared at the checked patterned floor tiles.
----. "You're requesting a transfer to a different physician." He wasn't the first medical student who'd gotten reassigned. She'd made it a month with Darren—a new record.
Another intern bites the dust.
He nodded, obviously relieved that he hadn't had to vocalize it himself. "You're amazing, Dr. Sheraton, and I feel so fortunate for the opportunity to work with you, but you're also very busy and unavailable…"
The sharp sting of the words was familiar. She'd heard the same speech from interns and boyfriends alike. She'd successfully eliminated the problem in one group right after her first year of residency…interns were hospital assigned and therefore out of her control.
"I mean I just need all the training I can get and between patients and your research work…"
She didn't need an explanation. She was busy. Too busy to have someone following her around in fact. This was totally fine with her. "I understand."
"You're not upset?"
"Only about having to get my own coffee from now on," she said.
The joke missed its mark and the intern's eyes widened. "I can still do that…"
Wow, was she really that scary? She was demanding and expected the students to put in the hours she did. She may not be the friendliest doctor on staff, socializing after work and remembering birthdays and such, but she gave these interns a real picture of their future in medicine. Wasn't that what they were there for? "I was kidding, Darren."
"Dr. Sheraton, please report to emergency. Stat."
The call over the hospital intercom had her handing Darren the stack of folders. "Please take his heart rate and blood pressure," she said, practically running to the elevators. "And don't forget Mr. Franklin."
"Got it," he called after her.
The quiet twenty-six-second elevator ride to the first floor was the closest thing she got to a spa day. It was the only time she was forced to slow to a pace other than her own usual breakneck speed. But even that half a minute was too long. It gave her time to think. Think about her previous surgeries and replay the details—what went right, what went wrong, what she could do better next time. Constantly reevaluating herself made her a better surgeon, but too often it left her feeling like she was coming up slightly short of her potential. Her type A personality left little room for failure or complacency.
Checking her phone in her lab coat pocket, she scanned her schedule for the rest of the evening, evaluating what she could push back if this emergency demanded her immediate attention. The number of things marked urgent made her will the elevator to move quicker. She'd be lucky to get out of there by 2:00 a.m.
A text popped up from Darren.
If you change your mind about Mrs. Franklin…
She wouldn't. She ignored the text from her intern—former intern—and put the phone away.
As the elevator stopped, she took a deep breath, expecting to see a flurry of organized chaos as the doors opened. Stretchers, ambulance lights flashing and sirens wailing outside, paramedics and nurses… Instead, she ran square into her father.
No emergency, just his six-foot-three frame and his usual neutral expression. It was impossible to read her father, as his face gave nothing away. His emotions were never too high or too low, just infuriatingly balanced no matter the circumstance. His calm presence and rational thinking made him fantastic at his profession, but sometimes he was irritating as shit as a father.
"Hi. I was just coming to see you." Eventually.
"Walk with me," he said, turning on his heel and nodding.
Her jaw clenched so tight her teeth might snap. This was so like him—assuming she could drop everything at his command. He may run the hospital, but he often had no idea how hectic her schedule was. "Can we talk as I do my rounds, Darren is…"
"More than capable," he said, leading the way to his first-floor corner office. "And requesting to be transferred, I see."
His tone made her palms sweat. He should be happy that she was pushing these interns to their limits. What awaited them once they graduated wasn't for the faint of heart. Better to get used to grueling days and nights now, performing on little to no sleep, living on caffeine and leftover Halloween chocolate bars, than to realize they couldn't cut it when lives were in their hands.
Unfortunately, he didn't always agree with her beliefs . He wanted the interns to feel at home at Alaska General so they'd apply here once they graduated. The hospital was short staffed and more doctors would benefit everyone, but Erika preferred to work alongside the best.
Her father had an open-door policy—literally—so when he closed the office door behind her, she knew the head of General Surgery hadn't called her in to discuss Thanksgiving dinner plans.
She glanced at his wall calendar as she sat. Especially since Thanksgiving was a week ago.
"Dad, this intern thing is just ridiculous…"
He held up a hand. "This isn't about your inability to effectively manage others."
Kick to the gut delivered and received. She clamped her lips together.
He opened his desk drawer and handed her a letter as he sat in the plush, leather chair behind his oversize mahogany desk.
Her eyes widened, seeing the Hospital Foundation logo on the top of the page. "Is this the final approval from the board for the clinical trials?" They'd submitted the application six months ago to start trials on a new antirejection drug after years of research, and they were waiting on the formal go-ahead to start with a test group.
Would Darren reconsider staying with her if he knew he could be part of a medical breakthrough? He'd been a lot of help in the past month.
"Just read it," her father said.
She scanned the letter from the board of directors, feeling her excitement fade and anxiety rise with each word. "Recommended vacation? What is this?"
"I don't like it either, but the board is reviewing policies and making sure we are following them," he said, the edge indicating he'd been outvoted in this decision. He certainly didn't believe in time off and had never encouraged her to take any. Her life was her career, just like him.
"But any day now we will be starting clinical trials on the new drug." It had taken her father and his team almost three years to get the experimental antirejection product approved for testing on organ transplant patients and they'd finally gotten it. They'd worked around the clock for a year to make sure they did. Subjects were undergoing assessment right now to be ready for the trials.
Now was not the time to take a break.
Her father looked as though he'd made the same argument to the hospital board. "The team will have to handle it."
So recommended actually meant forced. "Why now? I'm fine. I don't need a break." At twenty-nine, she was eager to prove herself as one of the top general surgeons in the state. Between her surgical success record and the research time she'd invested in this new drug, she was close. Helping her father get one step closer to winning the Lister Medal was high on her priority list. "Come on, Dad, you know I'm good. My last two operations were impossible surgeries…"
"Improbable surgeries."
Erika clamped her lips together again, forcing her argument to stay put. It wouldn't do any good. Three years working alongside her father and she'd yet to prove herself. Despite two back-to-back improbable surgeries that she'd performed successfully, he still doubted her abilities. His micromanagement over her research team had driven her insane, but he'd reluctantly agreed to let her run her own set of clinical trials on the antirejection drug, and she'd foolishly believed she was making progress with him.
Now she was being forced into taking a break.
What the hell was a break? She hadn't had one since starting university. She'd graduated with her bachelor's in three years instead of four by doubling up on courses and then had applied directly to med school. She'd interned at Alaska General and secured a position there shortly after graduation. She couldn't remember the last day she had off, let alone…she glanced at the letter. Two weeks?
What the ---- would she do with all that free time?
Excerpted from An Alaskan Christmas by Jennifer Snow, Copyright © 2019 by Jennifer Snow. Published by HQN Books.
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Posted by- Neelam Mathews
June 25, 2013
Press Release
SEPANG, 25 June 2013 – AirAsia today announced its decision to terminate its participation in the joint venture with ANA Holdings Inc. under AirAsia Japan with the signing of a termination agreement.
The joint venture, created two years ago under the name AirAsia Japan faced many challenges since its launch. Issues stemmed from a fundamental difference of opinion between its shareholders on how the business should be managed from cost management to where the domestic business operations should be based.
AirAsia Berhad through AirAsia Investment Ltd. had subscribed 25,120 voting shares and 23,880 non-voting shares at JPY 50,000 per share, which represented forty-nine percent (49%) of the paid-up share capital in AirAsia Japan.
The termination comprises an acquisition of AirAsia's entire shareholding in AirAsia Japan by ANA Holdings Inc. for JPY 2,450,000,000 (approximately RM80,475,150 based on current exchange rates). The termination also involves the return of all AirAsia aircraft leased to AirAsia Japan by November 1st 2013 and the payment of all monies accrued from the leasing of the aircraft.
Under the termination, AirAsia Japan will also settle all outstanding invoices due to AirAsia accrued from the commencement of operations. AirAsia Japan will unwind the use of the AirAsia brand in its operations, including the name of AirAsia Japan itself by November 1st 2013. Operations of AirAsia Japan flights up to October 31st 2013 will continue as planned.
Following the transfer of shares and payment of the purchase price, the Shareholders Agreement, the Brand License Agreement and other commercial contracts between the parties will be terminated immediately.
On the termination, AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes said, "I have great respect for ANA as the leading legacy airline in Japan but it is time for us to part ways and focus our attention on what we do best, which is running a true LCC. Despite the cost issues, the AirAsia brand has resonated with Japanese customers and the trend we see for July and August is very strong for all of Japan. I remain positive on the Japanese market and believe there is tremendous opportunity for a LCC to succeed, as proven by the tremendous success AirAsia X has seen. We have not given up on the dream of changing air travel in Japan and look forward to returning to the market."
Operations of AirAsia X, the long haul low fare affiliate of AirAsia Group will not be interrupted as a part of this termination. AirAsia X will continue its operations into Japan including Kuala Lumpur to both Tokyo (Haneda) and Osaka (Kansai).


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1. Nudge Mail - Reminders Made Easy
If you use your email as a to do list, nudge mail can help keep you organized. Once you sign up, you can forward your email to "firstname.lastname@example.com" or "firstname.lastname@example.com" and your email will return as a reminder when you need it. You can even "snooze" a message if you aren't quite ready to deal with it yet.
2. PS Give - Make your holiday shopping benefit others.
Bid on items and give to charity at the same time. Organizations include Boys & Girls Club, Children's Defense Fund, Keep America Beautiful, National Breast Cancer Coalition and more.


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We've had a few requests about Social Media Icons. So we thought we'd put together a few for you to use on your blogs! You install them just like a button. So copy and paste the code into an HTML/JavaScript Gadget in your sidebar. NOTE! You will need to replace the line that says "ENTER YOUR LINK HERE" with the link to your site (so that when they click the button it will go to your own Twitter account, for instance). To do this, open a new window, go to the site you would like the button to link to, then copy that URL (the www address in the field up top). Paste that into the "ENTER YOUR LINK HERE" space. Leave the quotes around the link. ** You can put many of these icons together in one widget (like we did on our site). They are small enough that they will line up side by side.
Learn how to make your icons vertical by clicking here!
• If you ever want to center the items in your HTML gadget, enter the code <center> at the very beginning of everything in that gadget. And then </center> at the very end.
• You can add space between icon within the gadget by adding a break. The code for a break is <br>
• If you want the mail icon to open a new e-mail addressed to you, you have to add the following to the "ENTER YOUR LINK HERE" space:
mailto:YOUREMAILADDRESS (<----for example, we would put mailto:email@example.com)
So the final code for the e-mail button would look like this (with your e-mail address, of course):
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Previous Lesson
Complete and Continue
How to Delegate without Stress: What Project Managers Need to Know
Welcome to your Course (3:26)
Delegation or Allocation: What is Delegation? (3:51)
Reverse Delegation: How your Team ends-up Delegating to You (5:20)
Why People in Your Role find it Hard to Delegate
Exercise 1: Why do You find it Hard to Delegate? (1:41)
Debrief: The Excuses People Give for Not Delegating (3:33)
Exercise 2: How would You Counter Excuses for not Delegating? (1:14)
Debrief: Answers to Excuses for Not Delegating (9:20)
Mental Blocks to Delegation - an Introduction to TA (6:55)
What and When to Delegate
Exercise 3: What are the Poor Reasons for Delegating? (0:58)
Debrief: Poor Reasons to Delegate (5:10)
Exercise 4: What are the Good reasons to Delegate? (0:49)
Debrief: Positive Reasons to Delegate (3:15)
Exercise 5: What should You not Delegate? (0:54)
Debrief: The Work You should Keep to Yourself (3:49)
How to Delegate
Exercise 6: What is Your Delegation Process? (0:47)
Debrief: The Things that should be in Your Delegation Process (2:04)
The Five-step Delegation Process (5:00)
Step 1 - Preparing to Delegate (5:35)
Step 2 - Principles of Setting-up Your Delegation (3:54)
Step 2 - Practice of Setting-up Your Delegation (4:58)
Step 3 - Principles of Locking-down Your Delegation (2:50)
Step 3 - The Five Levels of Delegation (5:08)
Step 3 - The Jiminy Cricket Effect (4:20)
Step 4 - Overseeing the Delegation (4:46)
Step 5 - Closing-out the Delegation (2:47)
Step 5 - How to Offer Feedback (5:43)
Step 5 - Positive Feedback or Negative Feedback (3:00)
Closing Section
Four Attitudes for Good Delegation (3:52)
Exercise 7: Reflection on Your Skills Development (1:03)
Goodbye and Good Luck (1:29)
Win-Win-Win: Our Refer a Friend Program
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Autobahn in Germany
The German Autobahn are famous because they are some of the few public roads in the world without blanket speed limits for cars and motorcycles. Lack of blanket speed limits does not appear to negatively impact the road safety of Autobahn compared with motorways in other countries; motorways are safer than other road types. Perhaps this is in part because traffic can be heavy enough to restrict speeds to little above the typical motorway speeds found elsewhere, or due to reducing the exhaustion of the drivers by shortening their travelling times.
Just like all European motorways, the Autobahn have multiple lanes of traffic in each direction, separated by a barrier with grade-separated junctions and access restricted to certain types of vehicles only.
For German and Austrian autobahns only accept motor vehicles that can obtain a speed of at least 60 km/h (37 mph). For Swiss autobahns the vehicles must be able to obtain a speed of at least 80 km/h (50 mph). In most countries, "Autobahn" usually refers to the German autobahn specifically.
The German Autobahn network is approximately 12.000 kilometers (7 565 miles) long. The third in the world after United States and China. Also take in consideration the land area of USA is more than 25 times Germany. China is about the same size as United States. With this taken into account, the US ought to have approximately 1.8 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) of motorways to match Germany.
Top 3 Motorway Networks (Autobahn Networks)
Unites States: 74 950 km (46 570 mi)
China: 43 000 km (26 720 mi)
Germany: 12 174 km (7 565 mi)
The numbers above is a little misleading because the differences between European and American standards in what classifies a Motorway. In United States there are many names for "Autobahn" (Highway, Interstate, Freeway, Turnpike etc.). Motorway-like roads in USA which allow pedestrians and bicycles would not be classified as Motorway in Europe, but are counted for in the statistics above. They would certainly not be classified as Autobahn in Germany.
This section of Autobahn near the Czech border probably have speed limits
Check out this Travel Guide to Germany written by Mark Spencer at Carre VIP.


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This is the open letter I'm responding to.
While I'm not the person being addressed, I wanted to talk about the liberal viewpoint and their perception of what is proper work ethic.
Let's start this conversation by stating this fact: I live in a planet that has 2 of 3 Americans overweight (including the OWS protestors that are "poor") and in a world that has people dying every 3.6 seconds due to starvation -- and most of these folks that die hungry are under the age of 5.
Now with that framework, let's continue reading.
Do you really want the bar set this high?
Why not? Compared to the world that has kids dying every few seconds, we should feel lucky that we have the opportunities here in this wonderful country to set any bar "high".
Do you really want to live in a society where just getting by requires a person to hold down two jobs and work 60 to 70 hours a week?
This is a country where there's tons of opportunities to move up in class. College education for high school grads are deeply discounted for those that have good grades. Hospitals and desperate medical facilities will pay for your tuition and license fees if you graduate as a nurse. I know many people that work hard in low paying jobs only to find higher paying jobs by getting an education that the market needs. What is wrong with this?
Is that your idea of the American Dream?
My American dream is that you work hard, get work experience or an education that the market needs, you land a decent job, then you can pay for your expenses and take care of your family. The majority of the world does not have this. I'm lucky enough to understand this concept because I lived poor from another country. From my point of view, the protestors look extremely spoiled. Given mostly free education up to high school, significant amount of employment (91% have jobs), and a college system that gives deep discounts on tuitions or scholarships for folks with high grades. If your state doesn't have that, move. Plus a federal govt that actually pays for education if you join part time reserves in the Coast Guard or other branches that's not directly involved in armed conflict?
The opportunities here are enormous. Wake up to what you have and appreciate it.
Do you really want to spend the rest of your life working two jobs and 60 to 70 hours a week? Do you think you can? Because, let me tell you, kid, that's not going to be as easy when you're 50 as it was when you were 20.
The rest of the world does, and I actually love work. Surprise. I don't think I'll stop working -- ever. It's not about the money, it's the love for work. But America has opportunities, there's tons of positions in health care that continues to be left unfilled. It doesn't matter what age either -- you can find work if you really want to. You can get an education if you really want to.
And what happens if you get sick? You say you don't have health insurance, but since you're a veteran I assume you have some government-provided health care through the VA system. I know my father, a Vietnam-era veteran of the Air Force, still gets most of his medical needs met through the VA, but I don't know what your situation is. But even if you have access to health care, it doesn't mean disease or injury might not interfere with your ability to put in those 60- to 70-hour work weeks.
Doesn't the American govt and taxpayers provide more than enough? If you are poor, Medicaid. If you are a senior, Medicare. If you are disabled? Social Security. But are we forgetting responsibility of our family members as well?
Most illnesses that is not caused by lifestyle or personal choices (nearly 2 of 3 Americans are overweight), are the common cold and bacterial infection. If it's bacterial, antibiotics are mainly provided for free by most pharmacies and deeply discounted in retail chains like WalMart.
Let's get educated on health care, let's understand what causes the problems (bad diet/no exercise/smoking), and if we want to talk about specific points or illnesses, let's look at it and how much of that is a personal responsibility and how much of that is an issue that the rest of America has to pay for. (Example: Instead of a $3,000 operation that a US medical facility might charge you due to overhead expenses in labor/minimum wage laws and malpractice insurance, could you take an $800 flight and $300 bill in a professional facility in another country to get it done?)
Do you plan to get married, have kids? Do you think your wife is going to be happy with you working those long hours year after year without a vacation? Is it going to be fair to her? Is it going to be fair to your kids? Is it going to be fair to you?
Lots of subjectivity here and lack of respect for contentment. Travel outside of the world and you will realize what real hunger is. Do you put food on the table? Do your kids have a better chance than you because they went through school? Can your wife work or take up classes in college after the kids have grown? Improve your family status if you want to, and stop comparing yourselves to others -- because if you do, compare down as well as up. You'll realize you are extremely lucky to have not been born elsewhere and instead in America.
But by the time we got through the Great Depression and WWII, we'd all learned some valuable lessons about working together and sharing the prosperity, and the 8-hour workday became the norm.
Are we forgetting the other story?
And then the unions became more selfish and killed every industry it touched (auto/GM/Ford/airlines/etc). Companies who have investors (70% of American households invest in retirement accounts that invest in corporations) had to move their business to other states or countries to make a profit.
Other Asian companies saw this mockery of work, innovated and built cars and have even built factories in America just to show how it's done.
Let's not totally forget that side of the story -- that the legacy costs of union demands have almost wiped out our once golden industries. Thank goodness for the foreigners that built factories here, learned from GM/Ford/etc, and reminded us of the original American work ethic, innovation, and quality. We are just now catching up to our competitors.
There needs to be workers rights - sure - but not to the extent where companies go belly up and can't compete. Unions are no longer about fair treatment but how much they squeeze out of a corporation.
Anyway, do you understand what I'm trying to say?
Yes, you want more stuff for less work. Your level of comfort is what the "dream" is about. One statistic tells it all. 2 of 3 Americans are overweight, while in the rest of the world, every 3.6 seconds one person dies of starvation. Usually it is a child under the age of 5. (Source: UNICEF)
The point? Stop being spoiled, appreciate what you have, and work.


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Front Porch Blog
Last week, an attempt by the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet to toss concerned citizens out of court failed.
Judge Phillip Shepherd denied a motion to dismiss our challenge of a settlement between Frasure Creek Mining and the cabinet. Appalachian Voices and our partners KFTC, Kentucky Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance, will now be allowed to proceed with our argument that the settlement should be vacated.
In October of 2010, we filed a Notice of Intent to Sue Frasure Creek for submitting false water monitoring data. Frasure Creek and the cabinet reached a settlement for those violations, but it has not been approved by the court. Before that, the data Frasure Creek submitted to the state never showed any violations. After our legal action, they switched labs and began showing hundreds of water quality violations every month.
We attempted to sue Frasure Creek for these subsequent violations, but the cabinet filed a complaint in state administrative court for the same violations. We intervened and became full parties to that case, but then a slap on the wrist settlement was entered between Frasure Creek and the cabinet completely without our consent. Our current challenge to this settlement is based on the fact that we are full parties in the case yet we had no say in the settlement's creation.
The cabinet attempted to get our challenge thrown out because they claimed that we did not follow proper procedures when we filed it, but the judge dismissed their arguments. Now, the cabinet must respond to the substance of our challenge.
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- Order number: L-9975
Icelandic wool Alafoss Lopi in colour 9975 - black tweed
100% icelandic pure new wool
100 g ball
Yardage approx. 100 m
Needle size 6
Gauge: 13 stiches and 18 rows = 10x10 cm
For a ladies' sweater you will need around 900 g in total, for a men's sweater around 1100 g depending on the pattern.
Please note:
We tried to illustrate the colours as exactely as possible. But on a website this colour representation is quite difficult and depends on many factors. Therefore the shade can slightly differ from the original.
Lopi yarn is woven from the wool of the islandic sheep, a globally unique breed that lives in Iceland for over 1000 years and has adapted to the subpolar climate of the island.
The icelandic wool is unique in its quality. It consists of two types: the long outer fibres, on which the rain rolls off and the fine soft, well-insulating inner fibres. Both of them are processed into the original icelandic wool and create a yarn that is lightweight, efficient in its usage, wonderful warming and water-repellent. The garments are pleasantly comfortable to wear. Icelandic wool has natural thermo-regulating characteristics and is a renewable resource.
Lopi is offered in different thread sizes, so you can knit thicker outdoor sweaters as well as thinner knitwear and lace scarves.


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Teachers Teaching Teachers #263 Listening Without Agenda Puts Us in Serious Danger of a 3-Letter Word that Starts w/ "F" 9.7.11
On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, Monika Hardy, Chris Sloan and Paul Allison invited Amy Lewark, Mary Ann Reilly, Adam Mackie, and Jodhbir Singh, who has been visiting visiting the Lab that Monika Hardy facilitates. He has a passion to help change education in India where he is from. Monika writes, "We've been corresponding for some time now. This is our first face to face. He's incredible and will have some good insight of what we're doing and how it looks in person."
Mainly, we learned from a group of educators who teach the classics using gaming. We hope you'll enjoy learning more from the Pericles Group.
From their web site:
Kevin Ballestrini teaches Latin and Mythology at the Norwich Free Academy in Connecticut. He has received an M.A. and B.A. in Classics from the University of Colorado and University of Connecticut respectively. In addition to experience teaching in a traditional classroom setting, in the 2010-2011 academic year Kevin deployed the first fully practomimetic introductory language course at the high school level in a section of Latin I. The experience has clearly enhanced student engagement and connection to life and culture in ancient Rome. For 2011-12, he will be expanding the offering of practomimetic courses to the second year of introductory Latin in addition to the first. As an avid technology enthusiast, he maintains his blog, Techna Virumque Cano (http://kevinbal.blogspot.com) where he discusses the intersection of technology and his teaching. He is also a regular contributor to the collaborative blog Play the Past (http://playthepast.org). Kevin is the leader of a large kinship in The Lord of the Rings Online and active in many gaming communities.
Roger Travis is an Associate Professor of Classics in the Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages of the University of Connecticut. He is also the Director of the Video Games and Human Values Initiative (http://vghvi.org) at UConn, an interdisciplinary online nexus for online courses and scholarly activities like fellowships, symposia, and the initiative's Proceedings, of which he is the editor. He received his Bachelor's degree in classics from Harvard College, and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley before arriving at UConn in 1997. He has published on Homeric epic, Greek tragedy, Greek historiography, the 19th C. British novel, HALO, and the massively-multiplayer online role-playing game He has been President of the Classical Association of New England and of the Classical Association of Connecticut. He writes the blog Living Epic (http://livingepic.org) about his discovery of the fundamental connection between ancient epic and the narrative video game, and is a founder and contributor of the collaborative blog Play the Past(http://playthepast.org). In the 2009-2010 academic year, Roger offered the first courses ever designed entirely as practomimes (seehttp://www.academicimpressions.com/news.php?i=59 for detail).
Stephen Slota is a Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut and holds a full-time assistantship with the UConn Two Summers Program under his advisor, Dr. Michael Young. Stephen received both his Bachelor of Science in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Masters in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Connecticut, followed by two years teaching life science at a Title IX Connecticut high school. He has previously served as a professional development specialist in educational technology and now works with Dr. Roger Travis of the UConn Department of Modern and Classical Languages on the effects of game-based learning in high school and college Latin courses. Stephen's research interests include: gaming and its effects on student engagement and achievement, situated effects of gaming on secondary learners, prosocial learning through massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), the influence of imagination and dreams on situational perception, and pedagogical means of improving student self-efficacy.
Welcome to the 'teachersteachingteachers' room.
paulallison: Come learn with us on Teachers Teaching Teachers - Meet Jodhbir Singh and the Pericles Group - Wed. Sept. 7, 9 PM East / 6 PM Pacific.
Kevin Ballestrini: Testing
Roger: test
Steve: test
monika: say
Jodhbir: Jodbeer
monika: joe and beer with a d in the middle
monika: can you hear me
pgeorge: Hi everyone
Jodhbir: I can't hear you Monika
Jodhbir: yes
pgeorge: now that the ad is finished I can hear great :-)
pgeorge: does Monika have power/light tonight?
Jodhbir: Yes,.. probbaly she forgot to turn on
pgeorge: watching the Jack Daniels ad... :-)
pgeorge: are there two different chats--one in hangout and one in ETT/Livestream?
Steve: yes
Steve: the G+ one appears to be better synced though
pgeorge: I can't see Google plus because I'm not in the call
monika: no power in my roo
monika: m
monika: Jodhbir has it
Steve: fair enough :)
Amy Lewark: I kinda missed Jodhbir's intro with that server reboot. :)
pgeorge: no problem Monika-- can hear you great!
monika: thank you Peggy
adammackie: I'm trying to join, Adam Mackie here. I'm sorry I'm late...I don't want to interrupt. I can just listen this time...
monika: just go to google + Adam
monika: and join Paul's hangout.. but close livestream
pgeorge: I love being able to see everyone but it definitely requires more bandwidth--very slow typing upload
Amy Lewark: I had to close all my browser tabs for it to work well... my computer was overheating.
Amy Lewark: Adam, you need to close the EdTechTalk window to get rid of the echo.
monika: or grab earbuds or both
Stephen: good rant
pgeorge: I know Pokemon :-)
pgeorge: this sounds like so much fun!
Stephen: I think the singing adds a nice flavour to the audio
pgeorge: authentic learning for us!
pgeorge: clever!! 3 letter word that starts with f :-)
pgeorge: hold the card up again :-)
Jodhbir: Monika, do you have light switch in your room?
Jodhbir: Your image is dark
monika: no electricity up here Jodhbir
Jodhbir: :(
monika: your's is a line from downstairs
pgeorge: thank you!!
pgeorge: those are similar to the trading cards you can create on bighuge labs :-)
Kevin Ballestrini: www.thegamecrafte.com is the link, btw
pgeorge: thank you!
Kevin Ballestrini: ooops, www.thegamecrafter.co
pgeorge: :-)
Kevin Ballestrini: .com
Kevin Ballestrini: typing lag :)
pgeorge: 3rd times a charm!! got it :-)
Roger: practomime.com
pgeorge: thanks Roger
Chris Sloan: My son's reading the Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian right now in his English class
Chris Sloan: good book
pgeorge: love that term! continuous embedded formative assessment :-)
Chris Sloan: are the rubrics online somewhere?
Steve: we have created rubrics for the prompt responses in order to provide some guidance for assessing them
Kevin Ballestrini: Chris, feel free to email me or tag me on G+
Kevin Ballestrini: I'd be happy t share it with you
pgeorge: tooo funny!
Amy Lewark: I had to mute because my husband is on a skype meeting in this same room. Thanks for including me.
Amy Lewark: Sorry I can't speak, but I find my kids learn better when they are answering questions that they themselves generate. But, I do think that they would like such an approach, if they chose to take a
Amy Lewark: course on the classics. That being said, my son has chosen on his own, just through what I leave around the house, to study Greek and Norse myths, and the Children's Homer.
pgeorge: @Amy-great way to get him hooked :-)
Amy Lewark: He hooked himself. I just make it available.
pgeorge: that was an important piece to it though!!
Amy Lewark: Yes, and that can happen long before college. I don't see the point of requiring these courses.
Amy Lewark: The difference in my "hook" is patience. I can bring the information around, and the kids can take more than a semester to develop interest.
Amy Lewark: So when there is interest, it is genuine.
Amy Lewark: Learning is everywhere. I was just thinking that we could help people notice.
pgeorge: this has been fasicnating! thanks to all of you very inspired, creative teachers!!
Steve: thank you for your interest :D
pgeorge: how about a flashlight???
Amy Lewark: Maybe I'll bring her a spooky flashlight. ;)
pgeorge: :-)
Amy Lewark: If she promises to put a QR code on it.
pgeorge: is there a specific circle for this on google plus?
pgeorge: poof! you're all gone!
pgeorge: thanks everyone!
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