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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Much of the country got a first real dose of the rainy season Tuesday. The metro area saw a series of storms that dumped up to 50 millimeters (about two inches) in places.
There was flooding, and the rain is being blamed for a two-vehicle accident in El Coyol on the Bernardo Soto highway west of Juan Santamaría airport. Two persons were injured critically. There were other accidents that were attributed to the weather.
The storms passed over the capital since midday, but the skies really opened up at 4:30 p.m. and sent rain punctuated by thunder and lightning onto the evening rush hour.
More is expected for today.
The Instituto Meteorológico Nacional said that a tropical wave passed over the country and that the approach of the intertropical zone of convergence has caused atmospheric instability.
The weather institute also said that the Pacific coast, the northern zone and parts of the Caribbean also experienced storms.
Session today will consider the future
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio with the support of a German development organization and the International Labour Organization, is inviting the public to participate in open discussions about the future of Costa Rica in the year 2050.
The meeting will be at 4:30 p.m. today in the Colegio de Profesionales en Ciencias Económicas en San Pedro.
The ministry announcement said that it was seeking citizen participation to design a policy that would begin a new era of production in Costa Rica. It is a continuation of a similar meeting in March, it added.
A new policy is sought to enhance production and also social progress, it said.
The German development organization is the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit.
Man faces his 35th criminal case
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A 31-year-old resident of Matina, Limón, has been placed in preventative detention on the allegation that he was selling crack cocaine.
His arrival should be old home week at the prison. The Fuerza Pública said that this is the man's 35th criminal case. They said the first arrest was on a drug charge in 2011. He also had been detained for armed aggression this year. Nearly all the cases involve drugs.
Police said he was detained Sunday with 74 crack rocks near a church in Batan.
'Midsummer Night's Dream' to be presented
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Teatro Nacional and the Ministerio de Cultura y Juventud is presenting "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Friday, Saturday and the following Tuesday, all at 8 p.m.
This is the comedy by William Shakespeare. This production will be in Spanish as "Sueño de una noche de verano." The production also is part of a program of the Ministerio de Educación Pública.
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area still wants to attract tourists despite the volcano
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Talk about mixed signals.
The nation's animal health service said Tuesday that it had allowed the evacuation of 100 cows from the neighborhood of the Turrialba volcano at the request of the animals' owners.
Meanwhile, the national emergency commission issued a statement that the canton of Turrialba was a secure location for tourism. The commission noted that restrictions only apply to a five-kilometer radius around the mountain.
Mauricio Ventura, the tourism minister, joined with the commission to say that visitors can continue to come to the area.
The volcano has entered an active phase, and there are some suspicions about the nearby Irazú volcano, too. The two volcanoes are linked underground.
The transportation of cows, mostly milk animals, presents a health risk that could cause the spread of disease. The Servicio Nacional de Salud Animal said it had inspected and issued health permissions for the transport of the animals from Central and La Picada on the skirts of the volcano. The ash has damaged the pasture heavily, and the emergency commission has been trucking in hay.
There still are other animals in the vicinity.
The government promotion of Turrialba for tourism comes at a dark time for the country's industry. Photos of the volcano spewing tall columns of ash have been featured prominently in foreign news reports.
On the other hand, when Irazú erupted violently in 1963 it became a tourism attraction.
Then there is the outbreak of zika in the central Pacific coast. Residents there say that the latest toll cited by the
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A committee is trying to salvage the World Surfing Games that are scheduled for Jacó in August.
Not helping the situation is the arrival of the rainy season that will create many more locations where the mosquito vectors can breed.
There are no official statistics yet, but individual tourism operators are reporting cancellations of reservations because of zika fears. But arrivals at the country's airports do not seem to be affected as the country moves into the second high season based on vacations in the north.
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company retires another petroleum-burning generating plant
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The state power company says it retired a 39-year-old generating plant in Moín Tuesday. The plant, operated by the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, was used to back up the hydro generating facilities operated by the company.
The state firm known as ICE said that with the Reventazón hydro project having gone on line, the backup was not needed.
The plant in the Sandoval section of the canton of Limón, went into service in the 1970s when the country experienced an electrical shortage. It has four generators that ran on bunker oil. The country produces the bulk of its power from hydro sources. The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad also has retired the generating plant in Colima, Tibás, after 57 years of cooperation.
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public as part of fraud lawsuit
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A federal judge has released nearly 400 pages of documents that detail how Trump University employees used aggressive practices to get customers to sign up for more expensive seminars about succeeding in real estate.
The playbooks' for the now defunct business owned by the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump, include information about how its sales people were told to deliberately mislead potential customers, manipulate their emotions and ignore their concerns.
The release is part of a lawsuit by customers who claim they were defrauded.
At a Tuesday news conference at Trump Tower in New York, Trump continued his recent streak of bashing Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge who unsealed the documents.
"He's been a very bad judge . . . very, very unfair," Trump said.
He has maintained that customers were overwhelmingly satisfied with the offerings, a point his attorneys repeated after the documents were unsealed. The documents do include testimony from a number of satisfied customers.
Trump University's core customers are identified in the documents as male heads of households between 40 and 54 years old, with annual household incomes of at least $90,000, a college education and a net worth of more than $200,000.
The documents show meticulous attention to details such as seating at seminars. Room temperature should be set no higher than 68 degrees and music should be the O'Jays' "For the Love of Money."
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is leading one of several lawsuits against Trump University, applauded the release of documents. Schneiderman said Trump is absolutely shameless about lying to people to induce them to his seminars, which cost upward of $20,000. He said the playbook was a guideline to dupe people into paying for more courses.
Trump University faced a handful of legal challenges, as well as scrutiny from the New York Department of Education, before it shut down in 2011.
But Trump has repeatedly proclaimed his innocence, releasing reviews from students lauding the courses. He says he won't settle the case because he'll be vindicated in court.
Egyptian authorities arrest
journalism union leaders
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Egyptian prosecutors have ordered the head of the country's journalists union and two other senior union officials to stand trial for allegedly spreading false news and harboring fugitive colleagues.
The order, issued Monday, targets union chief Yehia Qalash, Khaled al-Balshy and Gamal Abdel Rahim. It calls them to trial June 4 in Cairo.
The controversial case stems from a May 1 police raid on the Cairo offices of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate, where police aimed to arrest two opposition journalists who had sought refuge inside.
Qalash and the union condemned those arrests, at the time accusing police of storming their offices for the first time in the union's 75-year history. The Interior Ministry later denied using force to enter the building, while acknowledging police had arrested the opposition reporters.
Days later, the union demanded a presidential apology and the release of all detained journalists, while threatening to strike if its demands were not met. Protesters spurred by the arrests also called for the removal of Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar.
Monday's order charging the union trio comes as authorities face rising public dissent against President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, whom rights activists and diplomats inside and outside the country describe as increasingly authoritarian.
The rights group Amnesty International denounced the union leaders' arrests, calling them "the most brazen attack on the media the country has witnessed in decades." Amnesty's Magdalena Mughrabi also said the arrests signal "a dangerous escalation of Egyptian authorities' Draconian clampdown on freedom of expression."
A lawyer for the union trio, Sayed Abu Zeid, said his clients were questioned for hours Sunday evening and that they initially refused to post bail because "publishing news . . . should not involve imprisonment or bail." Prosecutors later said bail was posted.
The two suspects arrested May 1 were detained after publishing content in mid-April criticizing Egypt's decision to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.
Advice about beating wives
raises ruckus in Muslim lands
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Saudi Arabian national television has aired a video showing a family therapist teaching men how to beat their wives correctly.
In the tutorial, Khaled Al-Shaqby says he is "aware that this issue is a thorny one, which contains many hazards." But he adds: "Allah willing, we will cross this bridge safely."
The video aired in Saudi Arabia earlier this year, then was translated and released in the U.S. by the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute.
Al-Shaqby points out that men should not resort to violence as a first option, but should discipline their wives first before using violence. While admitting that some men use rods, sticks or sharp objects to beat their wives in order to discipline them, he advises against it. He suggests using a twig or a handkerchief to hit the wife, merely as a symbol to express their anger at the disobedience.
Human rights groups and women's organizations are outraged by the video, which comes after a draft proposal by Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology that husbands be allowed to beat their wives, as long as they do it lightly.
Council chairman Muhammad Kahn Sherani said, "If you want her to mend her ways, you should first advise her. . . . If she refuses, stop talking to her . . . stop sharing a bed with her, and if things do not change, get a bit strict."
A bit strict, he clarified, would include hitting her with light things like a handkerchief, a hat or a turban, but not hitting her on the face or private parts.
The council's draft proposal has met with a furious response in Pakistan, including calls for it to be disbanded.
A Pakistani photographer has launched #TryBeatingMeLightly, a photo series showcasing Pakistani women's reactions to the proposal. Some of those include:
#TryBeatingMeLightly, I'll become the destruction you will never foresee.
#TryBeatingMeLightly, I'm the sun. Touch me and I will burn you like hell fire. I am light, you will try, but you can never stop me. You can never contain me. I am the kind of woman they name hurricanes after. I dare you, #TryBeatingMeLightly
#TryBeatingMeLightly, and you'll regret it for the rest of your miserable life.
The Council of Islamic Ideology advises Pakistan's government and lawmakers on Islamic issues. Its proposals are recommendations, and not legally enforced.
Asian Americans in media
seek bigger share of jobs
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Recent controversies surrounding Hollywood's casting of white actors to play Asian characters have some people wondering why popular media continue to ignore minorities. Despite calls by advocacy groups to increase hiring, some Asians fear they are becoming invisible, token characters, especially in the entertainment media. Analysts say the problem extends to television news, where they say minorities are often underrepresented and their viewpoints largely ignored.
Clicking through the channels, it is obvious that there are not many Asians reporting on the evening news, even though they're the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population.
Juju Chang is one of only a handful of Asian-American news anchors, and she said it's due to a lack of diversity in top management.
"When I went on air at the network here, I was the only Asian-American and among the few women, and I'm sad to say that many all these many years later, I think that we've gone a long way in terms of diversity in front of the camera, but I think we still have a ways to go behind the scenes, especially in upper management," said Ms. Chang.
Ms. Chang said it's important for minorities to be involved when story ideas are approved.
"Until Asian-Americans get real traction in that sense, you know, we're going to keep pressing our noses against the invisible window," she said.
Asians make up only 3 percent of the broadcast workforce. Journalism Professor Angie Chuang said a cultural bias may be to blame.
"The truth is that all kinds of psychological studies and employment studies have shown that we tend to favor or be more comfortable with people who are like us," said Ms. Chuang.
Gender bias is another issue. Television journalist Alan Wang spoke via Skype.
"I think the image for Asian women for other people is that they're soft, they're beautiful, they're not threatening, whereas the image of the Asian male, what you're looking at, really has been the face of the enemy of this country during the last three major conflicts," said Ms. Wang.
Analysts say Asians lack the political clout of other groups such as African-Americans and Hispanics. Another group fighting for greater representation is the Asian American Journalists Association. The group's vice-president for broadcast, Niala Boodhoo, responded on Skype.
"I feel like even having those conversations is something that would not have happened years ago, and I think the fact that we're even having those conversations is a sign of progress. But there is more to be done," said Boodhoo.
A leading broadcast industry group says 2011 was the best year for Asian American broadcasters. That's when Asians made up just 3.5 percent of the industry. But that percentage has declined since then. And, without greater representation, many Asians fear issues important to their communities will continue to be misinterpreted or ignored.
Mount Everest expedition
was more than climbing
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Climbing Mount Everest, at 8,848 meters the tallest mountain in the world, has long been the ultimate challenge for people with something to prove. Two of the most recent teams making a bid for the summit learned how the lonely task of climbing a mountain can bring other people closer.
On May 24, retired U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Chad Jukes, 32, became the second combat wounded veteran to get to the summit of Mount Everest, climbing with an artificial leg to replace the limb he lost to an improvised explosive device in Iraq in 2006.
Jukes, an accomplished climber, was accompanied by two active duty Army officers, 2nd Lt. Harold Earls and Capt. Elyse Ping Medvigy. The trio made their climb in order to bring awareness to post-traumatic stress disorder and the high suicide rate among returning U.S. veterans.
For many veterans, including Jukes, the suicide problem hits close to home. One of the organizers, retired Command Sgt. Maj. Todd Burnett, said Tuesday that one of Jukes' Army buddies committed suicide while Jukes was away on the climb.
"There's 22 veterans taking their lives a day," Burnett said. "So we wanted to show the resilience of the climb, and the camaraderie."
Burnett said the team -- known as USX, for the nonprofit U.S. Expeditions and Explorations, completed their descent of the mountain on May 29. "Chad had some frostbite on his hands, Harold had some on his feet, but overall they're in good physical condition," he said.
Burnett said the point of the climb was not to echo the experience of combat, because nothing could do that, but to give the climbers "a life changing experience, just the way combat is. It gives you . . . people you will have a lifelong bond with. So in the middle of the night, if you're having a problem and you can't cope, you reach out to that person and that person will help you."
Burnett said war veterans give more of themselves in combat than anyone could understand, and he wants to help keep them alive once they come home. He said, "That's what we're trying to do: just raise awareness, show that you can overcome things, and that there's people you can lean on."
The USX team is sharing its expedition the old-fashioned way, through telling the stories now that the trip is at an end. Adventure guides Cory Richards and Adrian Ballinger carried an extra seven kilograms of equipment up the world's highest peak to share their adventure in progress through the mobile app Snapchat.
On Snapchat, Richards said Tuesday, "You can't alter anything, and you've got a limited amount of time to say something and you just say it, you show it, and you move forward." He said the mobile app gives a much more raw, unfiltered look at the climb than traditional media can do.
The app allows the user to post short sound-and-image snaps that are accessible for a limited time and then disappear.
Because there is no regular cellular service on the world's highest peak, transmissions took 10 to 15 minutes, so they were accomplished mainly during the climbers' down time. Richards tried to snap an image from the summit itself when he reached it on May 24, but his phone died in the low oxygen at the peak. Because the altitude is as dangerous for humans as it is for cellphones, Richards spent only three minutes at the summit.
But the view from the peak wasn't the most important part of the climbers' message to their followers, Ballinger said. The view they wanted their followers to see was the weeks of work, including the boring, frustrating and mundane moments, that lead to one big moment of glory.
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Study reports 45 million
are in slavery in world
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
An Australian group tracking modern-day slavery says countries doing the least to fight the practice affecting some 45 million people worldwide often have slavery-complicit governments, as well as high levels of conflict and political instability.
Among the countries it singles out in the Global Slavery Index as taking the least action to combat slavery are North Korea, Iran, Eritrea, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. Slavery conditions can include forced labor, including forced labor in prisons, commercial sexual exploitation and forced marriage for women.
The Walk Free Foundation behind the study says North Korea has the highest percentage of its population enslaved. Nearly one in 20 people, or 4.37 percent of its population, are in servitude. India has the highest number of people living in slavery conditions at 18.35 million, followed by China with 3.39 million and Pakistan with 2.13 million.
Those numbers are up 10 million since the group's first survey in 2014.
Many of those enslaved are working under forced labor conditions to make clothing that is exported globally, says Walk Free's executive director, Fiona David, adding that consumers who buy those products may be contributing to the problem.
"The surveys in Bangladesh showed an estimated 1.5 million people being held in some form of forced labor," she said. "And, of course, Bangladesh is our largest source of ready-made clothing for consumers around the world. So this really has implications for everyday people in terms of what clothing they buy and sell. The same can be said for Cambodia."
Even the making of cheap fabric can contribute to global slavery numbers. Uzbekistan, for instance, subjects its citizens to forced labor in its annual cotton harvest. That fact has particular resonance in the United States, where African slaves two centuries ago were forced to labor in cotton fields in the American South before such slavery was outlawed.
Human Rights Watch spokesman Wolfgang Buetner spoke on the issue Tuesday.
"The textile industry presents a big problem with regard to forced labor, because very often the textile workers have to suffer very long working hours, are paid badly and often can barely leave the factories," he said.
"This is a problem in Bangladesh, where a lot of textile workers are working, but also in India and other countries in Southeast Asia. What is important is that the companies also live up to their responsibilities and that they check on the subcontractors comply with labor law standards."
Walk Free has collected surveys in several wealthy countries where consumers can buy imported clothing made under forced-labor conditions. In 2016, 66 percent of U.S. consumers said they would stop buying a product if they were aware that its manufacture involved use of slave labor. Fifty percent said they would pay more for clothing, electronics, food, tea or coffee that was made under slavery-free conditions.
In 2015, Walk Free reported that 78 percent of Brazilians and 54 percent of Indians would switch brands if they found that the products they were using involved slave labor.
Also in 2015, Britain's parliament passed a law known as the Modern Slavery Bill, updating its anti-slavery law to include provisions that defend slavery victims against prosecution for crimes committed while they were enslaved. It also ensures that child victims have an advocate to support and care for them.
Walk Free estimates that there are as many as 13,000 victims of modern slavery in the United Kingdom, which includes England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Wealthier countries generally had lower slavery rates. The top 12 countries with the lowest rates of slavery are Western European, the U.S. and Canada, and Australia and New Zealand.
The study said Qatar, Singapore, Kuwait, Brunei, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Japan and South Korea are among the nations whose governments have taken relatively little action against modern slavery despite adequate wealth and stability.
One hundred and sixty-seven countries were included in the study. Ratings for Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen were not included due to ongoing conflicts.
The study assessed factors such as "protection and respect for rights, physical safety and security, access to the necessities of life such as food, water and health care, and patterns of migration, displacement and conflict" to reach their conclusions.
Alibaba faces U.S. problems
over money and fake products
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, which has posted stellar financial performances year after year, is suddenly going through stormy times, with two different investigations launched against its operations in the United States.
Alibaba, known as the closest rival to Amazon and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, is under the microscope of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition.
After Alibaba disclosed the SEC investigation of its accounting practices and sales data last week, nervous investors sent share prices tumbling. The Washington-based IACC, an industry-driven group, recently expelled Alibaba just one month after the Chinese firm had been admitted as a member and described by coalition as "one of our strongest partners."
The company, named after the famous Arabian tale, "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves," now will have to convince the coalition it did not deliberately allow or condone sales of counterfeit goods to boost its revenues and profits. Alibaba's online platforms Taobao and Tmall are widely seen as sources of fake or falsely branded goods, but analysts say it is unclear whether this was the company's deliberate policy.
"Alibaba's Taobao site is notoriously well known for selling counterfeit goods," said Jeongwen Chiang, professor of marketing at the China Europe International Business School. "They claim they have been trying to clean up those merchants but the problem continues."
After the coalition action, Alibaba said it closed down 5,000 stores and removed 180,000 sales listings for counterfeit goods from Taobao, its online shopping platform, in cooperation with product makers and the industry group, which strives to combat counterfeiting and piracy through self-regulation.
"We are 100 percent committed to fighting this battle," Michael Evans, president of Alibaba Group Holdings, said at a recent coalition event in Florida. Counterfeiting is a massive and pervasive industry issue, he said. "It happens on our platforms and on every other e-commerce platform globally. It is happening everywhere around the world, not just in China."
There are some who think that Jack Ma, head of Alibaba, has done what he can to stop counterfeiting. The 17-year-old company's shopping platforms attracted 423 million shoppers looking at over a billion listings last year. Supporters of the $15.7-billion company say it is nearly impossible to police hundreds of millions of daily transactions.
"Jack Ma is not so stupid as to condone fakes," said Ernie Diaz, consultant and publisher of China Digital Review.
"Selling fakes is not in the interest of Alibaba or the Chinese e-commerce industry in general, and Ma knows it," Diaz said. "It would take upwards of a million people to check hundreds of millions of transactions that take place each day, and this is not viable."
Alibaba's various online platforms account for about one-third of all e-commerce transactions in China. They were worth about $1.4 trillion in 2015.
Amazon and other e-commerce giants have not been accused of selling counterfeit goods, for the most part, because they filter the process of product listings, displays and authentication more efficiently, analysts say. The Chinese government, which is keen to encourage online sales, may have been lenient in dealing with Alibaba and other local companies, some analysts add.
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|Thousands march against Keiko
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Thousands marched in Peru's capital, Lima, to oppose presidential frontrunner Keiko Fujimori, just four days before the election.
Protesters chanting slogans such as "Keiko No!" and "No to a state run by drug traffickers!" likened Fujimori to her father, controversial former president Alberto Fujimori, who ruled from 1990 to 2000 and is currently serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses and corruption during his term.
Keiko Fujimori, 41, has tried to distance herself from her father by promising not to revive his hardline methods or authoritarian rule, and proposing generous spending on infrastructure, including building more prisons in an effort to combat crime.
The march, organized by the group "Keiko No Va" (It is not going to be Keiko), was led by Veronika Mendoza, a leftist former presidential candidate who came in third in the general election in April. Mendoza has since endorsed former World Bank economist Pedro Kuczynski, despite vast ideological differences between the two.
Ms. Fujimori faces 77-year-old Kuczynski in a runoff election Sunday. She beat him by a large margin in the first round of voting.
The center-right politician would be Peru's first female president.
Despite a recent fall in commodity prices and a slowdown under outgoing president Ollanta Humala, Peru is one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America.
U.S. consumer spending takes a jump
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
The consumer spending that powers most U.S. economic activity jumped a strong 1 percent in April, the biggest gain in about six years.
Tuesday's report from the Commerce Department says the gains were due to increases in purchases of cars and other expensive, long-lasting goods. PNC Bank Chief Economists Stuart Hoffman calls the report good news for economic growth in April, May, and June. He also predicts that inflation will rise a bit this year.
New data also show inflation rose a bit, but remains below the 2 percent rate that experts at the U.S. central bank say would help economic growth.
Top Federal Reserve officials are scheduled to meet in two weeks and will consider this and other reports as they decide how soon and how much to raise interest rates. Those rates were pushed down to record lows to boost growth during the financial crisis.
Experts worry that once the economy recovers, keeping interest rates too low for too long could over stimulate the economy and spark sharply higher inflation that could hurt growth. Experts at Wells Fargo Securities predict the Fed will not raise rates at their June meeting.
A separate report on housing from Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller shows home prices rose more than 5 percent in March from the same time a year ago. Low mortgage rates and improving wages are encouraging home buying, but a limited supply of homes for sale is pushing up prices.
Friday, experts will publish the newest U.S. unemployment rate. The Bloomberg financial news service surveyed economists and the consensus is that the jobless rate will drop slightly to hit 4.9 percent. The survey also shows experts expect the economy to have a net gain of 158,000 jobs nationwide.
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U.S. issues warning for travelers to Europe
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The U.S. State Department has issued a travel warning alerting U.S. citizens to the risk of potential terrorist attacks throughout Europe, targeting major events, tourist sites, restaurants, commercial centers and transportation.
The travel alert that expires on Aug. 31 states that "the large number of tourists visiting Europe in the summer months presents greater targets for terrorists planning attacks in public locations, especially at large events."
In particular, the warning draws attention to the European Soccer Championship from June 10 to July 10 and the Tour de France cycling race which will be held from July 2 to 24 in France, as well as the Catholic Church's World Youth Day event in Krakow, Poland, between July 26 and July 31, which is expected to attract up to 2.5 million visitors.
Although European authorities continue to take steps to assure public safety and disrupt terrorist plots, the State Department urged U.S. citizens to exercise vigilance when in public places or using mass transportation.
Brussels was targeted by Islamic State terrorists in March with 32 people killed in bombings that hit the city's airport and metro. The Islamic State also attacked Paris in November of last year and killed 130 people.


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Mine was not bad. Too short, as usual, but what can ya do...
The weather was beautiful all weekend, so that was really nice. Fall weekends that feel like summer sure make me appreciate San Diego.
Friday -
There were some warm sprinkles on the way home. Not so much that the freeway got crazy (as generally happens with rain around here) but just enough to smell like rain.
I watched some playoff baseball, great games this post season!
I did some Etsy browsing (and buying - see below).
We watched some Jeopardy and the last episode of Great Food Truck Race from the DVR.
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I woke up at 10:30! Woo hoo for sleeping in!
I had brunch with my friend from Malawi (again!! they were here for post surgery checkup on the cutie bambino).
The BF and I went to REI and ran a couple of other errands.
I watched some more baseball.
We watched UFC fights at a friends house Saturday night.
Sunday -
I went to a nearby thrift store to see if they had any picture frames for a project I am going to attempt. (And, for the recrod, I am not a "project" girl, but I have this one idea...) Scored 4 for $10 total!
We went to a friends for some BBQ and hanging out in the early afternoon. They were having a KC ribs vs Virginia pork butt BBQ cook off so...we kind of had to be there.
And then we went to dinner at Morton's for our anniversary. I like going there because everyone wishes you a Happy Anniversary all night, and...they take your picture and give it to you in a little Morton's picture folder. Cute!
So, now it's Monday again...blah.
Off to work/blog hop to see what everyone else did this weekend. :-)

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Saturday, December 16, 2017
Anything That Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong
The oft-quoted Murphy's Law states, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."
Examples of Murphy's Laws - and examples in the open water swimming world - include:
* If the possibility exists of several things going wrong, the one that will go wrong is the one that will do the most damage.
In the open water: Swimmers wear a swim cap, goggles, swimsuit and perhaps a pair of earplugs and skin lubricant. But it is usually the goggles that cause the most damage by leaking, fogging and its strap breaking.
* Everything will go wrong at one time.
In the open water: Swimmers in a competitive race head towards a feeding station. When a feeding is missed, other swimmers are in the way, the contents of the cup are dropped, the coach mistakes the swimmer for another swimmer, and too much time is taken to try to rectify the situation.
* If nothing can go wrong, something will.
In the open water: The conditions for a lake or channel crossing look good. The timing of the tides are right. The wind forecast is mild. The water temperature is reported as ideal. When the swim starts, the tides are not quite what is forecasted, the winds pick up, and the water temperature drops to unexpected levels.
* Nothing is as easy as it looks.
In the open water: Looking over the course in a race across a tranquil open body of water, swimmers imagine an enjoyable swim. In the heat of a competitive race, the optimal direction between turn buoys becomes uncertain and the pack of lead swimmers is difficult to swim with and swimmers around you are much more physical than swimmers first imagined.
* Everything takes longer than you think.
In the open water: Looking at the course finish or coastline ahead, the swimmer can imagine finishing in a certain time. The expectation of finishing in that time is nearly never met.
* Left to themselves, things always go from bad to worse.
In the open water: A solo crossing or a relay, conditions start off very nice. And gradually get more difficult as time passes. Almost always.
* Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
In the open water: See above.
* Mother Nature is a bitch.
In the open water: See above.
* The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.
In the open water: Pre-swim planning is comprehensive and based on historical data and previous swims. An experienced support crew and veteran pilot use GPS, pace swimmers, and kayakers. And yet conditions make the crossing more difficult than planned.
* If it doesn't fit, use a bigger hammer.
In the open water: If the conditions are getting tougher and more turbulent, the escort pilot and crew always yells, "Swim faster" or "Just push for one more hour."
On the other hand, open water swimmers and other endurance athletes also experience Yhprum's Law or the adage that states "Everything that can work, will work." Note: Yhprum's Law is the opposite of Murphy's law. Yhprum is Murphy spelled backwards.
"Both laws often result in the same open water swim or race," observed Steven Munatones. "One example of Murphy's Law is when the feeding pontoon at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro broke in half and sunk 36 hours before the start of the race. The swimmers and coaches could not practice feeding or even get on the course on the eve of the most important race of their lives. On the other hand, Yhprum's Law expressed itself when the 2016 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim went off as planned and the race offered some of the most exciting finishes in Olympic history for both the men and women."
Vito Bialla recalls during one of the Night Train Swimmers relay crossings from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay. "I think it was our second attempt. Things going just fine with a max flood of 3.5 knots and the finish in sight. But Joe Locke was swimming in place six miles from the Golden Gate Bridge. After an hour, he started going backwards.
The dams in the Sierra Mountains and up in Sacramento were opened due to excessive snow and water. So here we are swimming in fresh water six miles off shore - and not a taste of salt in the water. We all started laughing and called it a day."
Paul Asmuth, one of history's greatest professional marathon swimmers experienced his own share of both bad and good during his 59 professional races. "In the early 1980s during one of the Atlantic City Around Island Swims, the ocean leg was very rough with big swells. After about an hour of swimming through this slop, something strange happened to the lifeguard dory that I was drafting behind. When I looked up, the boat had capsized and thrown my coach Dr. Sam Freas Jr. about 6 feet away.
The boat was half filled with water and all of our gear was floating in the water or had sunk.
I assessed the situation and saw Sam was safe and said "See you later" and kept swimming toward Longport. There were enough other boats around that I knew my general direction was good. I didn't know if Sam would be able to continue with me or not and I may have even taken a feed from James Kegley or another swimmers boat nearby. About 20 minutes later, Sam had collected all the gear he could salvage, bailed out the boat, and caught back up with me.
We went on to win the race."
Ben Stubenberg has established one of the world's most beautiful races in Turks & Caicos - the Race for the Conch" Eco-SeaSwim. He recalled his first swim in San Francisco Bay in an Alcatraz race in 2002. He was in a wetsuit and everything went perfectly.
"Friends and family cheered when I got to the beach. I felt terrific and was not very cold. It was Yhprum's Law at work. I was amped up and decided to swim the race the following year without a wetsuit.
In 2003, I was hoping to stay dressed in a hoodie and sweatpants while on the ferry, but for some reason we could only bring what we were going to swim with. So, I boarded with only Speedo and goggles. I could feel the chill right away and just hoped the ferry would get to the drop-off point quickly. But, of course, it did not.
There was an hour delay, maybe to wait for the slack tide. Meanwhile, I'm starting to shiver and acutely conscious that my body temperature was dropping. At one point, I awkwardly asked a couple of people in wetsuits if I could sit between them.
Finally, officials called out that swimmers could jump in the water and wait for the ferry whistle to signal the start. I hit the cold San Francisco Bay water and knew I had to keep moving. The whistle didn't blast for another five minutes, but at least I was off. Soon I could feel my hands and then my forearms going numb. I just kept going even as the numbness reached past my elbows and it felt like I was moving two sticks through the water. Then I looked to the left and to the right, but I could not see any kayakers through fog.
It was a perfect time, I thought, for a Great White Shark to grab me. At least I sighted well enough to reach the cut in the Aquatic Park seawall which was a huge psychological boost. I ran up on the beach and straight to the sauna. I was so glad they had one. I sat in the sauna for 30 minutes until I warmed up again.
It was a lesson learned: Plan for the worst."
Antonio Argüelles of Mexico, the oldest individual to complete the Oceans Seven, described his Yhprum's Law moment. "It came days before my swim of the North Channel. Years of mental training paid off [see here].
My Murphy's Law moment came the day I did my first long swim when I was just starting to do open water swimming. I went with Nora Toledano to Lago de Zirahuén, a lake in Michoacán to do a long workout. The objective that day was to swim in the dark and do six hours using Maxim as part of my feeding. We woke up and the lake was totally surrounded by fog. Even so, we started swimming at 4 in the morning.
My feeding began at the hour and from there it was downhill. I could not handle Maxim.
Since quitting was not an option, I continued drinking and drowning up until we finish.
When I got out of the water I was almost fainting. They did a blood test and I had hypoglycemia, my glucose level was 68 mg/dl."
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In 1989, Christopher Ashley teamed with a couple of other young New York theater artists to stage "Buzzsaw Berkeley," a late-night musical spoof about a deranged choreographer with chainsaws for arms.
"It was demented, that show," the La Jolla Playhouse artistic director says now of the piece he created with playwright Doug Wright (later a Pulitzer Prize winner for the Playhouse-birthed "I Am My Own Wife") and Michael John LaChiusa (who became a five-time Tony Award nominee).
But it was madness with some meaning: Ashley says the show captured "the kind of anxiety about sexuality and AIDS at that moment. It was like: 'Someone is out to kill anyone who is having promiscuous sex — or making musicals!' Musicals sort of stood in for the joy of forbidden physicality."
It was also born of a moment "when you're young enough that anything is possible, and you could make something extraordinary or something truly terrible — and you don't know which it's going to be."
Then Ashley pauses, and adds: "I don't know if that's just about young people. That could still be true."
This is not (in case you were wondering) the preface to an announcement that the Playhouse is about to revive "Buzzsaw."
But as Ashley, now 52, marks a decade of Playhouse artistic leadership this year, the theater's programming reflects in many ways his wide-ranging tastes and his zeal for introducing new work and fresh voices.
Tomorrow night, the Playhouse hosts a concert reading of "Come From Away," a musical that was born at the La Jolla theater in 2015. Next month, that show — based on a real-life episode in which thousands of stranded air passengers were adopted by a tiny Canadian town on 9/11 — begins performances on Broadway.
Sending shows to Broadway is nothing new for the Playhouse, of course: "Come From Away" will be the 27th Playhouse-connected work to make the journey (with the play "Indecent" soon to follow as the 28th) since two-time artistic chief Des McAnuff presided over the theater's revival in 1983.
But while Ashley has extended that legacy with such Playhouse shows as "Chaplin," "Hands on a Hardbody" and "Memphis" (which he directed to a best-musical Tony Award in 2010), he has also intensified the theater's commitment to commissioning and developing new plays and musicals.
And with the Without Walls initiative, which grew from a series of site-specific and immersive shows into a full-blown festival of works (held twice now), he has helped midwife some boundary-busting theater that occasionally might rival the long-ago "Buzzsaw" for sheer surprise and daring.
Ashley forges into his second decade of Playhouse artistic leadership with a trio of big musical projects that, while not the most edgy the theater has ever done, reflects the range of artistic partnerships he has built in his time here.
Besides "Come From Away" — an uplifting, ensemble-based show built around the homegrown music of Newfoundland — Ashley is also directing "Freaky Friday," a Disney-associated musical adaptation that opened this weekend.
And in May comes "Escape to Margaritaville," the Ashley-directed musical based on the songs of Jimmy Buffett; that show is scheduled to hit Broadway in 2018.
What ties the projects together?
"They're all shows I like," Ashley says with a laugh, balking a bit at the idea of a theme that unites them.
"One of the things you do as artistic director is you're always balancing tones," he says. "I want some dark and some light, I want some small and some big, I want some musicals and some language-based (plays), I want some family and some politics. There are all of these kinds of axes that you're trying to create a balanced season around.
"But definitely my work in this season has an aspect of celebration to it."
That aspect, he adds, has not been true of all the shows staged since he arrived at the Playhouse in October 2007.
"Darrell Hammond's show — there were some dark things in that play," Ashley says of the former "Saturday Night Live" star's deeply confessional 2015 solo work, a Playhouse world premiere.
"'Glengarry Glen Ross' is a pretty savage play. (Ashley staged the David Mamet drama in 2012.) I've certainly directed some plays with some real edges and teeth on them.
"But I would say that different artists have different modes and phases they move through. (And) I would say my eye tends to go toward: 'How do we bring people together, and how do we create a celebration on the way out?'
Artistic journeys
With 10 years under his belt at the Playhouse, Ashley has now lived in San Diego longer than any other place besides New York (where he spent 20 years).
It's a contrast to his peripatetic early life: The Chicago-born Ashley's family (his late dad was a philosophy professor, and his mom is a retired author of academic books) moved frequently, and he estimates he lived in 17 different places before entering Yale University.
Long before college, though, he had become a theater devotee, thanks in part to a favorite uncle whom he saw take the stage as King Arthur in a high-school production of "Camelot."
"Watching my uncle, whom I idolized, with the crown and the ermine cape, singing those songs from 'Camelot' — I just thought that was the most glamorous thing to do and be," he recalls.
Ashley jumped more or less straight into directing out of college, gradually making a name in the New York scene. One of his big breaks was staging the 1992 Paul Rudnick play "Jeffrey," which he later also directed for the big screen.
He eventually landed on Broadway, with such musicals as "The Rocky Horror Show," "All Shook Up" and "Xanadu."
But Ashley had been eyeing the Playhouse for a long time, and was up for the job of artistic director both in 1994, when McAnuff left for the first time (he was succeeded by Michael Greif), and in 1999 (Anne Hamburger was chosen to replace Greif but left after about a year, spurring McAnuff's return.)
When McAnuff departed again in 2007, the job was finally Ashley's.
"I don't know why La Jolla Playhouse has always been the theater that was my idea of exactly where I should end up," he says now. "But I definitely more aggressively went after running the Playhouse than almost anything else in my life."
Part of what he loves about running an institution and programming entire seasons, as opposed to freelance directing, is that "you can create such a more complicated portrait of the world; you can have such a more nuanced conversation about what it's like to be alive in America right now," Ashley says.
He seems to have had little trouble adjusting — both to the scope of the job and to San Diego.
"I love it here," says the director, who makes his home in the Pacifica neighborhood of eastern Pacific Beach with his boyfriend of 2½ years (a scientist) and their rescue dog, Murphy. "I love being able to be indoors and outdoors and then indoors again."
What keeps him excited about what he does? Ashley cites both the Playhouse's artists and its audiences.
He praises "the sense that anything is possible onstage, and how much pride the staff here takes in impossible tasks that get conquered."
And he adds, "I think the theatergoers here are adventurous and inquisitive and interesting. I love what they say in talkbacks after performances.
"As audiences go, (ours) is such a pleasure to make theater for. I feel as though they're in it for great reasons."
A decade's highlights
La Jolla Playhouse artistic director Christopher Ashley picks a few shows and developments that stand out during his 10-year tenure:
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" (2010): Ashley directed this Shakespeare adaptation, a show that was staged visually "upside-down" and featured the San Diego Youth Symphony. Putting the symphony onstage "was a crazy idea that really could happen because they wanted to do it," he says. "And all the upside-down-ness was possible because the shops here are so amazing and fearless."
"Come From Away" (2015): Ashley says of the Broadway-bound, 9/11-inspired musical: "Watching the audience watch that play (in its original Playhouse incarnation) was really satisfying, because most people were simultaneously working through their own memories of that week. (It was) personal to everyone in the audience."
WoW Festivals (2013 and 2015): ("They've been) as good as it gets for me," Ashley says. "I love that sense that it's art and it's a party. And the blurring of lines between art and reality I find really satisfying."
Commissioned plays: "There's something special about sitting down with a writer and saying, "What are you excited about, what ideas do you want to explore?' And then taking the ride until it's a full production." (Among the 14 or so commissions during Ashley's tenure: "Milk Like Sugar," "The Darrell Hammond Project," "The Bitter Game," "Miss You Like Hell," "The Last Tiger in Haiti" and "Hands on a Hardbody."
Des McAnuff's mentorship: The man who brought the Playhouse to national prominence (and is now a Broadway regular) has returned twice in recent years, to direct "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" and "Sideways." McAnuff will be back again in late 2017 to stage a new musical about Donna Summer. Says Ashley: "He's an artist I have so much affection and respect for."
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Earlier this school year, I upgraded my two-year old Pantech Breakout to a fancy new Samsung Galaxy S5 (to be honest, I have a little bit of buyer's remorse over that. It seems like an awfully fancy phone for a teacher who's a single mom). The new phone supports more apps and has more memory than my old phone. I went a little crazy signing up for Pinterest (I don't grock it), Instagram (much more fun than Facebook), and Twitter. My Twitter subscriptions include several teachers, education bloggers, and education websites. Today there was a tweet from Edutopia that linked to a year-old entry about notebooks as a management tool. This is an idea that I'm going to try. This makes such sense to me. In my inquiry class for my masters, I got in the habit of jotting notes about what was working and what was not, and I found that this helped trigger brainstorms of new things to try. I like the idea of using it for management problems as well. The author runs Cult of Pedagogy which I'm now following on Twitter as well.
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Math in Life, Nature, & Work
The final lesson in Jo Boaler's "How to Learn Math (for Students)".
Math is all about finding patterns. One of the most famous patterns was discovered by Fibonacci. He found that if we start with 1, 1, and then add the two previous numbers, we get a pattern that looks like this: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21,…. If this pattern is drawn as squares, it creates a spiral that is found in art and nature.
Snowflakes have a pattern, too. Even though every snowflake is different, every snowflake has something in common: they all have six points. This is because water freezes in a hexagon, so snowflakes are also hexagonal.
Animals intuitively use math. Take the spider: its web is created using a logarithmic pattern to stabilize it, and then the spider completes the web using an arithmetic pattern. It would take an engineer quite a while to figure that out, but a spider does it intuitively. Dolphins use math, too. They use it to echolocate.
Athletes use math intuitively as well. And dancers are extremely good at using physics and math to create complex patterns. Jugglers use tons of math!
The work world uses amazing amounts of math. It's not about being fast (we have computers for that) but problem solving and thinking about numbers creatively. Math in the real world is hands on and collaborative.
The modern world gives us math games that are really fun. Here are some of Jo's favorites: Wuzzit Trouble, Motion Math, DragonBox, and Mathbreakers.
I really loved this course. I'm going to save up the $125 to take her teacher-focused class.
The world is mathematical!
Number Patterns and Representations
This is the fifth lesson in Jo Boaler's "How to Learn Math (for Students)".
It is up to us to make sense of math. One way is by using intuition, which is a general sense or feeling about what works. According to Sebastian Thrun, founder of Udacity, "Every time you see a math problem it is useful to stop and think intuitively, what do I think is going on here?"
A great aid to intuitive thinking is visual representations through drawing. That takes the math out of the realm of formulas and algorithms and puts in into a concrete context.
There are "Big Ideas" in math that the formulas and algorithms are about exploring and using. However, sometimes in math class, those big ideas get lost, and consequently, students get confused. For example, the Big Idea of Pi: In every circle and every sphere the circumference is always a little bit more than three times the diameter. If students can learn the big ideas and hold onto them, they will find math really clear and easy to use.
In other words, formulas are only useful if you understand the big idea that they are illustrating, so students should always start by trying to understand the big idea. Drawing a picture helps a lot. Keeping in mind that math is about relationships between quantities helps too. So asking questions about how the quantities relate (like diameter and circumference) can help facilitate understanding of the big idea (pi is the same for all circles).
Number Flexibility, Mathematical Reasoning, and Connections
This is the fourth lesson in Jo Boaler's "How to Learn Math (for Students)".
She starts by discussing some more math myths: That math is just a lot of rules that need to be memorized, that it is all about right or wrong answers, and that it is not a creative subject. But studies show that high achievers think of numbers flexibly and low achievers believe there is only one correct way to do any problem.
For example, there are many ways to work out 18 x 5:
Multiply 10 x 5 = 50 and 8 x 5 = 40 then add the results, so 50 + 40 = 90
Multiply 20 x 5 = 100 and then subtract 2 x 5 = 10, so 100 – 10 = 90.
Since 5 = 2+2+1, multiply 18 x 2 = 36 and double that 36 + 36 = 72 and then add the last 18, so 72 + 18 =90
18 x 5 is the same as 9 x10 because 18 = 9 x 2 so 18 x 5 = 9 x 2 x 5 and 2 x 5 is 10, so 9 x 10 = 90
That was four different methods – there may be more!
But some students believe that it is not allowed to change numbers in this way, but this type of flexible thinking is really important. Students can get in the habit of thinking about multiple ways to solve any problem. One way to develop this habit is to work with others.
Math is not an individual, solitary activity. Talking about math can greatly increase a student's level of understanding. In fact, mathematician Uri Treisman studied UC Berkeley students who were failing calculus classes and leaving the university. He found that there was only one difference between students who were failing and those that were not: The successful students worked together on their math and talked about it, where the unsuccessful students worked alone. So Treisman put the failing students in study groups, and within a year they started out-performing the other students. It works because discussing problems engages students in reasoning and metacognition.
Lastly, it is important to remember that all math is connected. It is not just discrete topics that need to be mastered. For example, proportions come up again and again in math over a lifetime of math learning – fractions, similar triangles, dilations, graphs, slope, rates of change, the Pythagorean Theorem and Pythagorean triples. Higher achieving students see these connections to big ideas, whereas lower achieving students just try to memorize methods.
The PISA study showed that students with a fixed mindset (who believed that people are either good at math or not) achieved at lower levels, and the kids with a growth mindset were the highest achieving. And students with a growth mindset who also used positive strategies (who made connections and didn't memorize) were the highest achieving students in the world.
This is the third lesson in Jo Boaler's "How to Learn Math (for Students)".
Our brains grow in response to stimulus, and mistakes are stimulating! When we get an answer correct, there is not the struggle needed for brain growth. So it is important to try difficult problems and make mistakes in order to build a strong brain.
As Thomas Edison said, "Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
The more mistakes we make, the more successful we are. So how do get this mistake-making experience? By trying different things, being okay with being wrongs, and by not judging ourselves or our ideas.
As we move in to Common Core, students may be frustrated by the open-ended nature of the problems they will begin to encounter. It is important to keep a growth mindset and be determined to struggle on, knowing that mistakes actually aid the learning process.
Fast math isn't always good math. Math requires deep thought, and deep thought takes time. What is essential is making connections and asking (and answering!) questions such as why things work the way they do.
Math and Mindset
This is the second lesson in Jo Boaler's "How to Learn Math (for Students)".
Carol Dweck's mindset model says there is a "Growth" mindset, where students believe they can improve with hard work, and a "Fixed" mindset that believes that people are either smart or not and that can't be changed. It's not uncommon to have a growth mindset in some areas (like sports) and a fixed mindset in others (like math).
When it comes to math, those students who have a growth mindset consistently outperform those with a fixed mindset. This is because mindset influences behavior. People with a growth mindset persist until they succeed, and see mistakes as feedback.
Ironically, praise for being "smart" can lead to developing a fixed mindset! It leads students to shy away from difficult work so that their self-image of being smart isn't challenged. However, student that are praised for being hard workers had a growth mindset. They wanted to reinforce their self-image as "hard workers" and so picked more complicated problems to do. It is important that students choose demanding tasks, because their brains grow the most when they struggle.
The key to a growth mindset is to keep positive self-talk even in the face of negative messages. This could be "I can I can learn anything I choose to" or "I can achieve at the highest math levels if I want to."
One study had teachers gave half their students a note with their feedback that read, "I am giving you this feedback because I believe in you." Those students achieved at significantly higher levels than the students who didn't get the note with their feedback. As teachers, it important to give our students the message that we believe in them and expect high things from them.
How to Learn Math
In my previous post, I talked about Stanford's MOOCs. I decided to register for Jo Boaler's "How to Learn Math (for Students)". There is a teacher version, but it is not free, so I thought I'd take the student version to see what I can learn.
To counteract the assertion that "some people are just better at math," Boaler directed us to the article "Teaching the Brain to Learn", which posits that the "distributed neuro functional systems," which are the basis for later cognitive ability, can be shaped by the type of activities students do. It also stresses that emotions are connected to learning as well, influencing the affective filter in the brain. This is why emotionally meaningful experiences lead to students improving their cognitive abilities, while emotionally stressful situations can disrupt the learning process. Student engagement is the key to enhancing outcomes, which is why project based or discovery learning can have great results, as long as it is rigorously structured. Otherwise, the outcomes are no better than direct instruction methods.
We then were watched a series of videos. The first asked people "What do you think about Math? Why?" and then reflect on the people who didn't like math – what turned them off? Some said they didn't know how it related to the real, physical world or how it was applicable to their lives. Some said there were too many rules to memorize, or that it was boring and too repetitious.
Next was smashing math myths, and how the brain works. Math isn't just in textbooks, but living, breathing math is all around us. There is no such thing as a "math person" – everyone is a math person, and everyone is born with the innate ability to do well in math. What we think of as "math people" are that way because of the experiences they have had. You can catch up to brainy people! The brain is like a muscle, the more you work it out the stronger it grows, but you have to keep increasing the "weight" which means the more you struggle with an idea, the more your brain grows.
The brain is very plastic. London taxi drivers have to learn so many streets – twenty thousand! – that their hippocampus actually grows bigger. Interestingly, once they retire and are not accessing this information any longer, the hippocampus shrinks back to its original size. A seven year old girl who had half her brain removed was able to teach the remaining half to take over many of the tasks of the missing hemisphere. In one study, students worked on a task for just a few minutes each day for 6 weeks. At the end of the study, they had changed the structure of their brains.
There is a stereotype that math is "for boys." Unfortunately, that is reinforced by the kinds of toys that are marketed it for boys. These are the type of toys – building toys and strategy games – that help build the math part of the brain. Stereotypically "girl toys," such as dolls, don't do this. Always resist stereotyped thinking. Always. The ideas in the world are for everyone.
To sum up, we were asked to summarize the three main points in the lesson that we feel everyone our age should know. Mine would be:
1) The brain is plastic. It can grow based on how we work it out, and those things that we struggle with and are challenging build it more.
2) Certain activities and games, such as origami and backgammon, can help develop our math ability.
3) There aren't "math people" – everyone is a math person. It is possible to catch up to the "brainy" people. Always resist stereotyped thinking – Always!


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CrossFitting since: June 2015
I need to improve on: Flexibility; mainly in my shoulders/ lats so I may better engage for getting to hand stand push-ups, OH squats and muscle ups
Have you done the Open before? If so how many times?
This is Open #1 for me.
What are you looking forward to in the Open?
Everything. Really looking forward to see what I can achieve and overcome. Would love to be able to Rx every workout but who knows what will come out every week.
What are you not looking forward to?
OH Squats, lol – these will be the death of me 🙂
Are you anticipating a "first" in the Open, like a first Pull-up, Box Jump or Muscle up? How about a PR?
Would be totally excited to get a first of anything completed but knowing I am giving it my best I will be completely satisfied.
When you get into that "dark place" in a workout how do you get through it? T
he "dark place"? don't really have one but usually the first 1-2 rounds of an AMRAP are tough…get through those I can normally get in the groove and find my happy place.
Favorite workout music or song?
Like hard rock/metal – Deftones, Pantera, Korn are all good but Arnel's rave music works for longer workouts because I tend to zone out and keep going.
If you were to choose either "Murph" or "Fran" for a workout of the day which would it be?
I like both, they totally capture Power, Speed and Endurance.
I like … showing up to the box, getting loosened up and ready to give the WOD a go. Love the competition, team work and friendships made as part of the Caliber team. It's great to experience and be a part of every day.


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International trade in services on the increase
In the first six months of 2004 the value of international trade in services showed an increase by about 3 percent on one year previously. The value of imports and exports rose more or less at the same rate as statistics recently introduced by Statistics Netherlands show.
In the first six months the Netherlands bought services worth 27.1 billion euro in other countries and sold services worth 27.7 billion euro to foreign customers. Transport and tourist traffic services are the most important service categories.
International trade in services, first six months
Mainly transport and tourist traffic services imported
In the first six months of 2004 the value of import of services increased by 0.9 billion euro, a rise by more than 3 percent, compared to the same period last year; 44 percent is directly or indirectly related to transport and tourist traffic. The value of transport services imported amounted to 5.6 billion euro in this period, 0.5 billion euro in excess of the same period in 2003. The import of tourist traffic services increased by 0.6 billion euro to 6.3 billion euro in the first six months of 2004. The import of other services was reduced by 0.2 billion euro.
Import of services, first six months of 2004
Export of services
In the first six months of 2004 services sold by the Netherlands to other countries exceeded last year's value in the first six months by 0.7 billion euro, an increase by almost 3 percent. The export of transport services rose by 0.8 billion euro to 7.4 billion euro. The export of tourist traffic services maintained the level of one year previously at 3.8 billion euro. The total value of other services also hardly changed. Over 40 percent of the export of services is related to transport and tourist traffic.
Export of services, first six months of 2004
Trade balance tourist traffic services further in decline
Tourist traffic services have shown a considerable deficit for a long time now because the total amount Dutch tourists spend abroad by far exceeds the amount spent by foreign tourists in the Netherlands. In the first six months of 2004 the deficit was 2.5 billion euro. The deficit over the corresponding period in 2003 was 1.8 billion euro.
Share of services stable
In the first six months of 2004 the Netherlands imported goods and services worth 133 billion euro and exported goods and services worth over 151 billion. Imported services accounted for 20 percent of total Dutch imports in this period, exported services accounted for 18 percent of total Dutch exports. The share of imported and exported services remained unchanged compared to the same period last year.
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The temple of Hatshepsut is built in three levels connected
by ramps. The first terrace was once nourished by myrrh trees
imported from the land of Punt (probably present-day Somalia).
The first ramp is bounded by colonnades
The ramp leads to the second terrace which is also bounded
by colonnades. The reliefs behind the colonnade carry the
important story of Hatshepsut's expedition to the land of
To the extreme left-hand side in the second terrace there
is an entrance flanked by square pillars that leads to a shrine
dedicated to Goddess Hathor.
Other reliefs behind the colonnades carry the divine birth
story of Hatshepsut. To the extreme right-hand side of the
court there is a chapel dedicated to Anubis.
The chapel is sided by an unfinished sanctuary.
The second ramp opens into the last terrace which has rows
of colonnades and an entrance that gets you to the upper hypostyle
hall that has the temple's sanctuary and chapels dedicated
to Queen Hatshepsut and her father hewn out in the rock. This
part of the temple was recently opened in early 2002 after
completing restoration work by Egyptian-Polish restoration
team that lasted more than 40 years.
To the south of Hatshepsut's temple a small temple built by
Thutmose III was found damaged because of a landslide.
Going further south, there are ruins of mortuary temple of
Montuhotep II (Nabhepetre). This temple was built earlier
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