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Category: Behaviour
Why Did You Come Into Teaching?
In 1848 a religious advice pamphlet observed: "Some boys laugh at poor cripples when they see them in the street. Sometimes we meet a man with only one eye, or one arm, or one leg, or who has a humpback. How ought we to feel when we see them? We ought to pity them."
Historic England, The Daily Life of Disabled People in Victorian England
Why did you come into teaching? I'm guessing this is a question that teachers across the country will be asking themselves whilst clutching at the last of the Christmas chocolates and knocking back the last of the Christmas wine. Indeed, I'm sitting here, eyeing the half-completed pile of marking, making optimistic plans to eat less and exercise more, regretting that last tub of Heroes and wondering where the hell my school shoes are – and I know this week, I will ask myself that question at 5.45 every morning…and possibly for the next three months at least. I have a sneaking suspicion that I will be less and less grateful to be employed as the week wears on.
But it is an important question. When we rock up to the university/training training programme, new folder and notepaper in hand, ready to learn about Vygotsky and Freire, we have all chosen to do so in the knowledge that the old adage about teaching is just not true. At least I hope we realise that 'if you can't, teach' is an insidious misrepresentation of the worst kind. Some of us absolutely love our subjects and want to be employed using the knowledge we have gained in our education. Some of us do it because teaching is a craft to be mastered. Some of us because it is the least altruistic profession, in the same way giving a birthday gift might not really about the joy of giving to another person; it is simply the desire to feel that warm glow that says 'I'm a good person'. To borrow a phrase I am rapidly coming to dislike, teaching might be for some folk a Jedi-level 'virtue signal'.
So why do I do it?
I was once fresh-faced and enthusiastic, I thought I wanted to teach because I loved my subject and I wanted others to love it too. But it turns out that wasn't entirely it. So here it is, on a blustery Sunday evening. The reason why I do it.
When I started teaching, I was given a Year 7 English class. They were also my tutor group. In that entirely mixed ability class, I met Vikesh* and I realised that I had absolutely no understanding as to how to teach him anything. Vikesh had been born with microcephaly; alongside having a distinctively small cranial cavity, he had the cognitive ability of a six year old boy. On top of that, he didn't speak English. It was a lucky coincidence that we spoke the same home language and Vikesh didn't judge me for having a six year old's linguistic ability in Gujerati. I panicked. I became frustrated. What was I supposed to do with this boy? I had thirty other students and I wanted to teach. I couldn't because he couldn't learn like the others.
You'll be reading this thinking that he should have been in a special school. I agree. But he wasn't. He was there, with me in that classroom and I had to do something. My LSA – one of the best people I have ever met – embarked on a programme that meant that he would have some meaningful education. We learned letters. We learned sounds. We learned verbal communication. We played cricket in the aisle of the classroom when he achieved something small. The other students didn't get any less of my time. It's just that Vikesh got me in the blank spaces in my lesson when the others were scribbling away furiously. It as the most tired I had ever been in my life but I was finding something. In the midst of the madness of learning how to teach, I learned why I teach.
Because Vikesh – like so many students with additional needs – didn't choose to be there. Society put him there. There was no provision for a child of his needs within a reasonable distance from his home and his parents knew he had to learn to be around people. I'm pretty certain that as much as he learned the basics, the children around him learned just as much about humanity and acceptance. He wasn't to be pitied. He was a member of our community. And just like society is legally obliged to make reasonable adjustments to be compliant with the Disability Discrimination Act, I was obliged to make reasonable adjustments to my teaching. The discussion about what constitutes 'reasonable adjustment' is a valid one and it needs to be had. But exclusion on the grounds of special education need is much more problematic.
When we separate the act of teaching from its intended or unintended effects, we ignore that fact that whether we like it or not – for whatever reason we came into teaching in the first place – we change someone's world. And we can either show the love and acceptance that comes with that, or we can move people into boxes. To teach is to change someone's world, in a million ways, in a million moments.
If I believed that Vikesh should have been in a special school, or that Jenn* (blind, autistic, impaired mobility) or Henry* (a descendant of Dickens with Aspergers) should have a school for themselves, I would worry about the line. Where is the line in separating out students with additional needs? Who stays in a mainstream school? Vikesh is an extreme case, but if we start to categorise who we can and can't teach, that way trouble lies.
This brings me to the other reason. The fundamental belief that teachers, not politicians, are the engineers of society they want to live in. I don't want to live in a society that places people in neat little boxes so that I can get on with it. By believing that teaching is more that a knowledge-delivery system, we subscribe to William Temple's school of thought:
'Are you going to treat a man as he is or as he might be? Morality requires that you should treat him as he might be, as he has it in him to become…Raising what he is to what he might be is the work of education.'
As I put in the years at inner-city schools, I came to know that exclusion in any form is wrong – either in segregation according to educational need or as a method of managing behaviour. And the statistics on exclusion and SEN make for horrible reading. The brilliant and well-informed blog, Ed Yourself, points out:
The single biggest reason for permanent exclusion from school is "persistent disruptive behaviour" and two thirds of pupils who are permanently excluded have some degree of special educational needs, with 1 in 10 having a statement.
Let's throw race into the mix just to see what happens when we start to see children as categories and not people…
Combine some of the greatest risk-factors for exclusion and you have this: a black boy, with SEN and claiming free school meals is 168 times more likely to be permanently excluded than a white girl with no additional needs, who does not claim free school meals (Institute of Race Relations).
Add to that the fact that exclusions are on the rise in academies and free schools due to a lack of legislative clarity on the mandate to use alternative provision in educational establishments that are guided by their funding agreement and not the Education Act – we have a bigger problem than we think in how we deal with students who do not fit the ideal.
Add that to the study that outlines the correlation between permanent exclusion and crime and you have a problem that exists not in the classroom, disrupting your teaching of a poetry anthology, but in your streets, in your prisons, in your morgues.
I don't have the answers to the challenges of teaching students with all sorts of different needs because I don't think there are any hard and fast answers. What I do know is that these children – the dyslexic, the dyspraxic, the rich, the poor, the able and not so able – are in our care. And we have a duty to make sure that we make reasonable adjustments to ensure that they achieve their potential. Because that is what changes worlds.
When I get up tomorrow, as hard as it might be to prop my eyelids open with the burnt-oust matchsticks of a great Christmas, I will remember that my job is to teach. And that 'teaching' means more that being in the room, delivering content.
Speak to me in a week and you may find less fighting spirit in me, but for now, before I go and find those shoes, this is it.
The Great British Bake Off/Teaching Mash-Up
The return of The Great British Bake Off is a welcome addition to my summer holiday. You can't beat the unadulterated joy of watching complete strangers bake well. Or, indeed, bake badly. It's safe to say I have missed the sight of grown men and women weeping disconsolately over a battenburg and I am relieved that there will now be something to tweet about other than English-related minutiae.
However, before GBBO takes over my Twitter feed entirely, I have had a thought. And of course, when I have a thought (it is occasional and should be marked by fireworks and bunting), inevitably there is a blog post of some sort. So, without further ado, it occurred to me, whilst watching the first show of the new season, that teaching is a lot like The Great British Bake Off.
In what way is this true, my dear? Well, teaching is as old as the hills – ask the teachers of Norman conquerors. They must have been in intervention for years, learning English grammar. Can you feel the Saxon frustration, folks? "I just cannot imagine how we are going to get a decent pass rate this year (1066). The influx of EAL students is of grave concern." I tried to translate that into Old English, but it didn't work, so you'll just have to imagine. Well, baking is also as old as the hills: "How are we going to bake good old-fashioned British fare when all these French ingredients are being drafted in? Pah!"
Maybe that's why I know so many teachers who love GBBO; something in the process reminds them of what they face in the classroom and out.
We all start somewhere. Mixing the ingredients in GBBO reminds me of lesson planning. The recipe analogy is often used when lesson planning is discussed; ingredients, or parts of lessons, must be meticulously measured to ensure a perfect bake. After all, who wants to risk putting in too much flour (teacher talk) as it might dry out the sponge (engagement levels)? Of course, sometimes, you need more flour. It is (and I nod in deference to the traditionalists), a vital ingredient and far more important than all those frivolous cherries on top.
And we all have our Signature Bake, don't we teachers? That lesson you roll out because you know it is spectacular and you've taught it before, so many times. The bake has been good, the students have made better than expected progress, there are no soggy bottoms (students coming in below a Level 4 have been more than catered for) and your sponge on this one is definitely not dry. You have engaged in whichever way is appropriate for your challenge. Here, I feel it is my duty to point out that it's not a good idea to turn students over to tap their bottoms to check progress. That's not okay.
Moving swiftly on, you've definitely cracked the behaviour of the cake. Obsessive oven-watching is reminiscent of behaviour management in classrooms. You've set the temperature, you've established a time for baking. And now, when all is done, you are waiting (the equivalent of sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of an oven door), waiting to that cake to rise – to expectations.
You've already dealt with 'decoration'. You've definitely got a preference: Powerpoint, SmartBoard, Promethean, sturdy old chalk and slate, but your resources are prepared. Damn, that bake is going to look good after it has made progress. Like student books. Flawless icing on the cake.
Everyone hates the technical challenge. It's the exam preparation of the Bake Off. It is the English Language controlled assessment of BBC One. No one knows what they are doing and they keep checking other tables to see if they've got it right. I despair.
The process needs Mel and Sue. Think of them as Bake Off Assistant Principals in charge of Teaching and Learning. They come round, on their 'baking walks', offering advice and support. You need them because they function as mocksted inspectors; it's a formative evaluation of the bake/lesson, sampling your off-cuts, critiquing the decoration, asking about your soggy bottom. They are never needed more than when you experience The Great Cake Drop – when a lesson goes wrong and it's almost unsalvageable. Mel, Bake Off SLT with experience of this kind of thing, can offer consolation. Sue, a joke and some whisky, probably.
The show has its own form of Ofsted inspection in the quite glorious shapes of Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry. If you like, they are the summative inspectors – coming in with a day's warning to prod your cake and raise a brow. Brought round to each 'table' by a nervous looking Mel and Sue, they impart their own wisdom. They've been doing it for years, don't you know. Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry: Cake Inspection Team. Never knowingly underbaked.
The question on everybody's lips is whether we ought to grade that bake. Is it an outstanding bake? Does that word even work in teaching or baking? What does it mean? It is a good bake? Is it a bake that requires improvement? Will the baker go into special measures?
The show wouldn't be complete as an analogy without its nod towards performance management. Star baker – give that person a TLR. Going home? Suggest that they find 'employment' elsewhere, out of sight of cake-trays and KitchenAids.
Ultimately, GBBO reminds me that I may have dropped my cake, made more than one dry sponge, had a few soggy bottoms and been harangued by the Paul Hollywood of Ofsted inspectors (actually not true – no one has those crinkly blue eyes on the Ofsted team), but sometimes – just sometimes – I make an amazing cake. And those students eat that cake right up. And I take my apron off, wipe my floury brow and know I am okay to bake another day.
Now where did I put my icing spatula?
Starting the Dialogue: A Teacher's Advice to Parents
It was with a considerably arched brow that I read recently about how The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) have issued guidelines to parents on managing problematic behaviours in their children. As a teacher, I have long been an advocate of collaborating with parents, not only on the ins and outs of academic success, but also in terms of behaviour management and developing resilient and characterful children.
It is absolutely clear that success in education does not just come from parental understanding of the finer points of an English APP grid. Quite often, schools approach parental collaboration with a half hearted nod towards sharing academic resources and fulfilling statutory requirements to keep them informed as to how access the Ofsted Data Dashboard. I have heard conversations in the last ten years that start with a moan about how if only teachers could get parents to manage their own children and end with the inevitable: "but I don't have time to set up a parental engagement session in which we discuss how to set boundaries and encourage co-operation!"
We can't have it both ways. If we are going to comment on parental engagement as teachers, we have to be willing to have an open dialogue about what children – students – need to become successful adults. This means biting the proverbial bullet and dealing with the fact that this dialogue can be painfully awkward. As a teacher, I am allowed to say "your child is not behaving in a respectful or productive way" or "I am setting a sanction for undesirable behaviours" but when it comes to providing advice to parents on what I think they should do, that is when the awkwardness begins.
Fundamentally, the fact that I am not a parent works against me and in conversations with parents, I have faced that knowing smile (slightly sad, perhaps even pitying) that says: how can you possibly know what it is like to raise a child and all the difficulties that brings?
My response, never spoken aloud, is always the same. All I do is raise children. They come to my classroom as eleven year olds and they leave as eighteen years olds and for that time, I am partly responsible for their upbringing. Not only do I see them through their silly seasons, their traumas, their successes, I see each and every one of them standing next to other children with other parents. The full range.
I think if teachers had just one opportunity to stand up to the nation and give advice to parents, they would probably all say very similar things. There are many parents out there who are brilliant at doing all those things – this is not intended to generalise about parents' ability to raise their offspring. So, in the spirit of sharing and dispelling the awkwardness and to start a dialogue, this is what I want to say to parents.
Talk with your child
It is not easy maintaining dialogue with a teenager. I, too, have seen sulking and unresponsive stares. As an English teacher, I see that the most literate children – the ones who go on to achieve the highest grades, are the ones whose parent/s talk with them. I say 'with' deliberately, because I have also seen a lot of talking 'at' and that doesn't necessarily work if it used all the time. Children switch off and become immune to lectures, they are much more responsive to carefully considered questions. Suffice to say that the talking must begin early. All the research shows that modelling speech and conversation at an early age leads to more literate and successful children. Shouting parents almost always lead to shouting children.
Follow through with sanctions
If your child does do something you do not approve of, or is misbehaving at school and you set a sanction, it is imperative that you follow through with that sanction. Sitting in a meeting with your child's teacher and saying that you will take away the X-Box/ground them for a week/stop them watching TV and then caving at the first tantrum or sulk just means they will keep on with the negative behaviour. There is nothing more frustrating than when a teacher has a meeting with parents and is told about the sanctions that will be put in place, only to find that student gloating about how they have not had any consequences at home. Teachers are told constantly to be consistent and firm with behaviour and sanctions; it would be brilliant if this could happen at home too.
Don't give up
There is an oppressive sense of despair when I hear the words: "I can't do anything with them – they won't listen to me anymore – I give up" from a parent. The simple fact is that if you as a parent have given up, then there is very little hope that I am going to be able to turn things around, at school or indeed, at home. I want to be able to work with you to ensure the best outcome for the child – and yes, I can help to make things better, but if a parent washes his/her hands of a child, we may as well go for that early bath. The thing is, I also know that even though the words are said, it is very rare that a parent actually does wash their hands of their child. But the damage often comes from a child hearing those words. It offers carte blanche to a child to continue behaving in the way they are, whether that be not completing homework, or arguing with teachers.
It's not about success, it's about effort
Carol Dweck and Claudia Mueller from Columbia University conducted a large-scale programme of research into the psychology of praise. The findings were incredibly clear – children who were praised for effort outperformed those who were praised for success. The day in, day out praise from a parent needs to be focused not on how clever the child is, but on how hard they work. This is something my colleagues and I are starting to recognise and see the results of – children who are praised for effort become more resilient and are more likely to pick themselves back up from failure. The biggest issue I see with my teenagers is the fear of failure; it often manifests itself in the child not even attempting to start something that is perceived as difficult, because that is easier than failing and trying again. Parents can help their children to overcome this fear by praising their effort and showing them that hard work is more important than success. Until it comes to the final examinations, of course.
Don't blame me
The most divisive and destructive thing a child can see is a parent publicly blaming the school or an individual teacher for any problem that has occurred. When I call parents in for a meeting, chances are I have to squeeze it into a busy day. I am not there because I have some sort of antipathy for that particular child – I want to move forward. If a child sees a parent criticise a teacher, that division is set. By all means, disagree with me and my methods – tell me you think I am wrong, but not in front of the student. You will remove any respect that student has for me and if that is the case, how can I be expected to maintain the performance of that child and to ensure that rules and regulations are kept? In many ways, it is exactly the same thing as criticising your spouse's interaction with your child in front of them. One parent attacking the other's ability to parent in front of the children is seen as destructive; it is just as much so when you make it clear to your child that you do not respect that teacher enough to speak to them privately.
Get involved with the school
My biggest hope is that more parents feel they can become involved with the school their child attends. Lots of research has shown that parental engagement and involvement means different things to schools and parents. Fathers often feel marginalised as parent activities in schools can be perceived as being geared towards women, some parents do not feel they can access services the school offers for parents for fear of stigmatisation. One of the most difficult barriers in engaging parents is often their own experience of education. I firmly believe that schools have to find ways to engage with parents productively, as studies show that children of parents who are involved with the school not only outperform other students, but also have better attendance and behaviour.
If your school has a parents' association, try to join it. Be proactive about contacting teachers – show that the dialogue is open. Attend school events, where you can, with your children. It is not easy; working hours often mean that parents find it incredibly difficult to attend evening events. I have a lot of respect for working parents who manage to get into the school for concerts and parents' evenings alike.
There, I've started the conversation. I look forward to working with you.
A Universal Panacea? The Empathy-Led Curriculum
I keep going on about it and I probably will, simply because it makes good sense. Empathy, or the lack thereof, causes so many of the daily frustrations in teaching and prevents so much of the learning that could take place in the classroom, that it seems foolhardy to ignore the potential impact of examining this concept in detail.
The term empathy was coined many years ago from the German 'einfuhlung' meaning 'in-feeling'. You might ask, how is that relevant to the discussion here today? Having a developed sense of 'in-feeling' and being able to tap in to others' 'in-feeling' is fundamental to classroom success. How many conversations have you had, as teachers, with students who do not seem to care whether they are failing in your subject and/or others? Is it the same student who disrupts others' learning? Perhaps that is a symptom of that student's lack of einfuhlung and in order to encourage him or her to succeed, that sense needs to be nurtured and developed. Think of the times when you have invested in a particular child's 'in-feeling' – did it have a knock on effect on that child's perception of other students?
There are many reasons why empathy may be impaired. The link between low socio-economic background and lower levels of empathy is established in reams of research. However, for once, the 'kids these days' attitude may hold some truth. Technology, as much as I am an advocate of its use, has seen an increase of poorer levels of empathy. If the majority of a child's interactions in early years are with a screen, and they grow up to interact using technology and have very few mechanisms for human interaction, it is not hard to see the possible impact that might have in the classroom. All of a sudden, the constant talking over the teacher, or another student, seems understandable (if still hugely irritating). That child does not understand, does not have the neurological experience of interacting in society with all of the regulating behaviours that involves. If a child is constantly borrowing others' equipment, if a child is punching other students, if a child is tapping on the desk, or stealing someone's lunch – all of these behaviours signal a poor level of empathy. I must point out that every child has the capacity to do this – I'm not saying that anyone who taps their pen on the table to the chagrin of others, is a psychopath – I'm saying the one who does it constantly, having been told, is probably a child whose ability to empathise with others is impaired.
The empathy-led curriculum, I must say, is not a substitute for an attainment or knowledge-led curriculum. The concept, as I see it, is one of two parallel structures existing as the ballast for a robust education system. Attainment and knowledge and results are one thing, and one reason why we do our jobs. The other reason we do our jobs is to ensure that we send out functional human beings who understand what it means to exist and interact in our world. Hinton et al in 'Brain Research, Learning and Emotions: Implications for Education Research, Policy and Practice' (2008) assert "if schools are involved in intellectual development, they are inherently involved in emotional development" and for me, I do not consider the two to be mutually exclusive. Building a student's emotional and empathetic capacity has a knock on effect, not just for that child but for the whole room.
It think of it as an equation (and I apologise to teachers of Maths everywhere – my idea of equations involves some basic concepts joined together by mathematical symbols). The equation is: raised empathy levels = decreased disruption = higher attainment and success levels. I told you it was basic.
So what is the empathy-led curriculum, this panacea of which I speak so lengthily? I do not pretend to have all the answers – indeed, you may be better off speaking to someone who is an expert in child psychology and the development of empathy. I can only present ideas that may increase levels of empathy in your classrooms.
Of course, the PSHE curriculum, the ways we study texts in English, the way we present historical events through the people who were there can all be enhanced to include a greater focus on empathy. Just adding on modules on empathetic behaviour may not be the answer here; it's in our daily interactions (the curriculum that we don't ever see written down) that empathy needs to be pushed to the forefront. Our language has to change when it comes to encouraging students to behave in a more empathetic manner.
Speaking and Listening suddenly becomes absolutely vital. Admit it, if you're an English teacher, you've thrown the odd speaking and listening activity to pay lip service to a National Curriculum that doesn't quite exist, knowing that you ought to do something that involves roleplay and thought-tracking. Admit it, if you don't teach English, speaking and listening is something that you know ought to happen in a classroom, but you'll be strung up naked before you make students work on groups to solve whatever problem Pythogoras had. In particular, explicitly teaching what good listening looks like, using verbal directions like "show me that you are listening by looking at me" and "good listening means turning around" helps to establish the interpersonal nature of the classroom. Teaching students to incorporate other's words into their own responses ("I'd like to you to respond with 'I agree/I disagree with X because they said…") is also a good tool to show students that they must absorb another's point of view before churning out their own.
Group work can be difficult in classrooms where there are lots of students with low levels of empathy – I believe in harnessing their einfuhlung to the einfuhlung of others using table competition, team activities and team consequences. And no, I can't believe I wrote that either. One way of increasing empathy levels in the classroom is to expose students to a wide range of people – those they would not normal encounter or choose to spend time with. I am as guilty as everyone else of allowing students to work in the same groups because it is easier for me to manage that to deal with a whole new dynamic every time. Changing it up and showing students that they can link to new people is empathy-booster. Praising empathetic behaviour can work wonders for classes who have a terrible track record of working collaboratively.
Behaviour management of low level disruption can be an opportunity to stress the importance of considering others. I used to stress the impact of poor behaviour on that individual's attainment. Now I try to link it to the impact on others – can you think of a student in the room who always behaves well? What do you think they felt like when their learning stopped because of you? Encourage your mischief-maker to find the similarities between him or herself and that other student. It has had surprising consequences – not consistent consequences, mind you, I don't pretend that one nod towards empathy can change years of unempathetic behaviour. It can start a process though.
If you are interested in perusing this subject further, there is a raft of literature on the subject – my own favourite – Simon Baron-Cohen's 'Zero Degrees of Empathy' and also Jeremy Rifkin's 'The Empathic Civilisation' – and more and more people are looking to the psycho-educational value of learning the theory behind how students interact with their peers and teachers and how this impacts upon their success levels. Daniel H. Pink's 'A Whole New Mind' gives a tantalising insight into how the "conceptual age senses" as linked to developing a greater sense of empathy can impact on what happens in the classroom. He defines these "senses" as design, story, symphony, empathy, play and meaning. Consider each of those words and imagine what would happen if those "senses" were developed in your students, and in particular, students from inner city backgrounds whose levels of deprivation in their early years have led to an innate dearth of these skills.
So, is this is universal panacea? Well, possibly. There are lots of musicians who have said things like 'love makes the world go round' but that's a bit soft, if you ask me. Replace 'love' with 'empathy' and you might be on to something.
This post is a response to the #blogsync topic for January suggested by Edutronic here: http://share.edutronic.net/
The Death of Empathy: Who is to Blame?
What do misbehaving students, a bus crash in Coventry, the Tottenham riots and our current government have in common?
The concept of empathy is one I have long been interested in. Differences between students can often be attributed to varying levels of empathy – persistent low level misbehaviour speaks volumes about that particular child's lack of empathy for students around him or her. Generally speaking, the more empathetic a student is, the better their relationship with their peers and the adults around them; it comes as no surprise that these students often achieve more highly than less empathetic students.
Simon Baron-Cohen's brilliant and precise 'Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty' had me thinking about the links between empathy and student behaviour. His assertion that certain people exhibit "a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others that begins in childhood or adolescence, and continues into adulthood" may seem only to apply on the surface to those with diagnosed pathological conditions and yet, as teachers, particularly in urban, deprived areas, do we not see these behaviours exhibited by our poorest behaved students on daily basis? These students turn into the adults of the future, sometimes taking their low empathy levels with them. Some of them become inconsiderate drivers, noisy neighbours, litter-droppers, looters and muggers.
Whose responsibility is it to teach people to consider others, to be more empathetic?
The curriculum (when we have one coherent one) ignores this life skill – it is overlooked by those who design the curriculum, perhaps out of a mistaken belief that it is not a teacher's responsibility to develop levels in empathy in children. We don't explicitly teach empathy; it is a by-product of studying History, Literature, PSHE and RE but it is not something that is taught as a life skill that can mean the difference between success and failure. It doesn't fit onto a league table. It would look odd nestled in the data outlining A*-C grades including English and Maths. And yet, in our society – one that is struggling against a 'me-first' culture highlighted most horrifically by the Tottenham riots – we can't afford to ignore the impact of ignoring this most human of skills.
Recently, in Coventry (a town blighted by the German bombing and then by some shockingly poor architectural choices), a bus carrying passengers crashed into a pawn shop, scattering the gold in the window display. I would like to think that if I was on a bus and this had happened, my fellow passengers' first instincts would be to check on each other, to make sure that everyone was safe, out of danger and uninjured. But no: many of the passengers and onlookers began looting the gold, scrabbling in the debris for what they could gather up. They left the scene with their pickings. When reading this story, I couldn't help but associate it with other instances of disintegrating empathy. Only someone with very low levels of empathy could set fire to buildings that may be occupied during the Tottenham riots; only someone with very low levels of empathy could assault a Malaysian student and pretend to be helping him. Lack of compassion has been very much in the news in the last few weeks – a recent study by the journal Psychological Science suggested this week that the less compassionate you are, the less moral you become.
Where, then, does a decreased ability to display empathetic behaviour come from? Have we always been this way? In a lesson with Year 11 students, we were discussing Hamlet. In analysing the line: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark", my students made the link between the quality and style of leadership and the knock-on effects on state and society. Claudius, the 'king', is rotten and therefore, the country is too. We don't have to travel too far to see the parallels in our own society. Empathy is not a feature associated with the Coalition government, or those appointed by it. Sir Michael Wilshaw's statement almost sums up my argument: "If anyone says to you that 'staff morale is at an all-time low', you know you are doing something right". When you've finished being astounded by the sheer bullishness of the line, it is hard to find an iota of empathy in that sentence. The sacking of Downhills Primary governing body by Michael Gove can be seen as yet another nail in the coffin of empathy. The act in itself is the result of complex wranglings influenced by the need to demonstrate total control over a system that is powered, ultimately, by human beings with human feelings. Whatever our opinions on school underachievement, the end result leaves onlookers asking uncomfortable questions about the methodology of improvement on such a public scale.
Combine Sir Michael Wilshaw with Michael Gove, add in cuts to services such as domestic violence support charities, whisk in a whole host of measures that adversely affect women and ethnic minorities, and sprinkle liberally with a reduction in public sector pay in the poorest areas and you're left with a potent mix that may account for the unease in communities. It's a recipe that lacks one vital ingredient: empathy.
The inevitable consequence of a right-wing government that is more interested in the stick than the carrot and nothing in between can only lead to a society that reflects their own lack of empathy. Society is a mirror of leadership. I don't imagine the Coalition government sees itself in the Tottenham riots, or the bus passengers that looted the pawn shop – but maybe it should. Maybe it should.


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It turns out that Mike Vanderboegh, enjoying his 15
minutes of fame as the former militiaman and current "Christian
libertarian," gun rights advocate and wingnut with a blog (always a
dicey combo) who has been urging
people to break windows to stop the "Intolerable Act" that is health
care reform; the guy who warns of "thousands of small Wacos" unless we
throw bricks through the windows of "this arrogant elite" who seek
"control over our liberty, our money, our
property and our lives" - it turns out that he lives on government disability checks from the aforementioned arrogant elite. Oh, irony.
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Rent a boat Amsterdam – Flying Dutch Boats got you covered!
Can you not guarantee the safety of other passengers if you bring your friends, family or colleagues? Or do you just hate other people? Then the best thing to do is to rent your own private boat so you can cruise on your own 'private island' in the middle of the hectic city.
Make any 'Amsterdammer' jealous by cruising our boat! Our boat is perfect for smaller groups that are looking for a way to celebrate a birthday party, business trip, bachelor party, a wedding proposal, or for folks that are too lazy to walk and want a watertaxi to show them around while sit back and relax. In other ways; anybody that is looking for a great canal boat hire Amsterdam deal,. Because life is too short!
Why share the boat when you can have it all? Rent your own boat in Amsterdam and decide for yourself where to go and what to do. In the end of the day you will regret the things you didn't do, than the things you did do (great caption for your epic photos by the way).
Drinks & Appetizers
Despite the fact Dutchies traded in spices and herbs in the old days, you barely see it back in our food. Just so to say: our cuisine isn't as refined as the French one. However, in order to experience the Netherlands inan authentic way, you just HAVE to try some traditional Dutch cuisines and specialties.
So go local by eating some Dutch snacks. No worries, we promise you will go home safely and you can let the world know that you tried it all. As we say it: if it ain't 'Dutch', it ain't 'much'. So try famous tasty little Dutch snacks like typical dutch organic cheeses and real local sausages. We can assure you, it is sometimes even better than from Italy or France!
Drinks options
Flying Dutch Drinks Basic
Unlimited Heineken beer, wine and soft drinks.
€ 6.50 p.p. per hour (ice included)
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Unlimited Heineken beer, wine, prosecco and soft drinks.
€ 8.50 p.p. per hour (ice included)
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Unlimited Heineken beer, wine, prosecco, vodka, rum, whiskey, gin and soft drinks.
€ 11.50 p.p. per hour (ice included)
Flagship Luxurious snacks
Organic cheeses, fresh imported olives, the best humus in Amsterdam, sausage of 'Olijck', and premium meats. All produce is sourced from local suppliers. A plateau is composed of at least 10 people.
€ 9,50 p.p.
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If you like food and would like to have it all, we got you covered with this. Organic cheeses, fresh imported olives, the best humus in Amsterdam, sausage of 'Olijck', and premium meats. All produce is sourced from local suppliers. A plateau is composed of at least 10 people with a big appetite.
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How To Pay Your Honda Financial Services Auto Loan or Lease
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- In Person: For an extra fee, you can pay your Honda loan or lease at any Moneygram location.


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Today kicks off Connected Educator Month. The hashtag being used to centralize the posts, tweets, and chats about being a connected educator is #CE14. I encourage you to follow this hashtag throughout the month of October to find great educational leaders to add to your personal learning network (PLN). It will be a great example of what it means to be a connected educator. Being that I am in a constant state of learning, I will be tapping into the great people and resources there all throughout the month of October.
I must remind you, however, that being a connected educator isn't limited to October. Should we only be cheerleaders of being a connected educator one month out of the year? In my opinion we should be modeling what a connected educator is all year-long. It has become (or needs to be) who we are in providing relevant, innovative opportunities for our students. Who are we modeling this for? For me, I'm modeling it for my coworkers, my own children, and teachers, students, and administrators in my district. That's my immediate impact zone. Of course it is my hope that while modeling being a connector educator here in the Kansas City area I'm also helping others in other schools and districts around the globe. If my learning helps others do the same, then that a win all around. It's more than being "connected", I'm doing it to show that I am first and foremost a learner. My friend Molly Schroeder calls it "Living in Beta". Have you identified who you need to me modeling this for and why? Are you modeling a learner first mindset?
Just like with anything else that's new, becoming more of a connected educator is no different. There are options, options, and more options for how you can become connected. For some it's Twitter. Some like to join Google+ communities. For others it might be reading and commenting on blog posts; or writing your own. Voxer has even taken off as a new way for educators to connect with others to collaborate. The list goes on. To each his/her own right? Of course, part of being a connected educator means recognizing that there isn't just one way to do so. Just like we should be doing for our students, our own learning should be no different. Not everyone is going to learn the same way nor is how we model what we've learned.
My challenge to you for Connected Educator Month, is to pick one thing and get really good at it. Make it stick. Follow some chats on Twitter, start a blog, etc. The choice is yours and yours alone. Don't focus on how fast you're moving forward – the point is you're moving forward!


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We had great night of sleep after our memorable night. I was already satisfied just with this night, my trip was already worth it just from the first few hours. But well, we still had one entire day to explore before moving to the next destination.
The cool thing about not partying is that when you're traveling during the daylight, you feel really more energetic to go out and explore the city that you're visiting than if you partied until late in the day before. I don't avoid parties when I have the opportunity to go, but this was the positive side about to skip a Saturday night party, my Sunday morning was really more productive.
We walked around the entire city seeing a different view between the daylight and nightlight. We couldn't see anymore the lights in the hill and in the castle, but my perspective changed completely. With the daylight I could see all of the details of the old houses and the cute narrow streets crossing the city. There were so many different ways to see the city. My favorite one were from the low part of the city where I could sit in the riverfront in a sunny and warm day seeing the tallest town from the castle in front of me. By the first time in this trip I could walk in the street with a shirt without any sweater or jacket. The day was surprisingly warm for a beginning of April.
The second stop that I really liked as well was from the castle to the city, where you I could see the entire city from the top. All of cute houses and their roofs, the river, mountains, a big church and another part of the castle were making the perfect post card picture of the city.
As I did with Landshut, I believe that I can make you get know about this place more with pictures than with words.
The pictures are what I my old phone registered. A little bit that what my eyes saw in this cute medieval city. I'm not going to be informative about Český Krumlov to you. There are great sources online talking about it. I'm just going to advice you to visit there. Even being a tourist city, I really loved the city and if in Germany I chose Landshut, in Czech Republic my city is Český Krumlov.
Užijte si!!
Užijte si!!
Uvidíme se!


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The Travel Mistakes That You Can Avoid
During the holiday seasons, everyone is always looking for the best destinations that they can spend their holiday. Failing to plan for your trip can cause a great disaster. You should collect sufficient information about the place that you will spend your time at. Below is guide that you can embrace to have the best of the times According to Andrew M Berke.
Check Out For The Different Travel Agencies
Andy M Berke Insider Trading advises that the new visitors need to find the best travelling agencies for their travel needs. Hiring the travelling agencies ensures that you reserve your booking in advance and get the most ideal prices for your hotel bookings. The company will ensure that you save time and they will also provide the details of the place that you are considering.
Have A Background Information Of The Agent
The best vacation does not end in employing the travel agent. You need to ensure that you have a proper knowledge of the trebling firm that will handle your journey. You should not here any company before verifying if they are genuine or not. Andrew M Berkeadvises that you should get the top-rated company to manage your traveling needs.
Book The Hotels Near Your Attraction Sites
You should ensure that you keep in touch with the travel agency to advise them on the places that you prefer. The travel expert Andrew M Berker Insider trading companies understands the importance of security and says that the tourist should value their security more than the price that they will pay for the services. Your travel experience will be cheap if you maintain the locations that are within the areas that you intend to visit.
Have The Needs Of Your Kids In Mind
Travelling as a family or in groups will require special attention. You should ensure that all the family members are able to have fun at the destination. You should ensure that the hotels are kids friendly to ensure that their needs are met. You should ensure that the company have the kid care centers and tents to ensure that your children can be taken care of during your private moments.
When you intend to travel for the vacation, you need to ensure that you are updated about the different destination. You need to decide on whether you will go as a family or as an individual. Some of the leading companies in the different destinations such as the Andrew M Berker Insider Trading have their offices in most of the destinations to give advice to the travelers.


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Chanel is known worldwide for the gorgeous fashion collections created every season. This spring Chanel found inspiration from vintage, rustic and femininity. These characteristics being visibly present throughout his designs.
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Chanel has left it's print over the fashion world since decades ago. It has since then created numerous incredible fashion collections, which some, like the LBD have remained timeless. It is incredible how the preoccupation for beauty and aesthetic can help transform a person.
Chanel is a fashion empire, known worldwide for it's gorgeous collections, collections which exude elegance and good taste. This is one of the reason Chanel has expended as much as it did until today.
The 2010 ready to wear spring fashion collection created by Karl Lagerfeld didn't fall under peoples expectations, it was actually more that one could have asked for. The collection is based on expressing femininity and style. A woman's body is something precious and sensual that needs to be emphasized by the right fashion items.
The collection seems to bring a certain breath of fresh air, with a certain vintage, rustic feel. The colors and the materials used in the collection are very light, warm colors, and the materials used to confection the collection are high quality materials like lace, chiffon, tweed, etc.
The main colors were ivory, beige, black but also interesting feminine prints gave a fun allure to the fashion collections.
We can see a lot of feminine touches that are meant to emphasize the legs, drawing attention towards one of women's most admired body part.
The gorgeous lace above the knee dresses helped gave a certain vintage, elegant feel to the fashion collection. Vintage is very fashionable and fashion designers seem to find it a perfect source of inspiration.
Accessories are also an important detail of the collection. Gorgeous chunky heels, cute handbags and subtle hair accessories helped complete the collection. Every detail matched perfectly the theme of the collection, ensuring it's success.
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Don't Hurry Anything
Sometimes we float somewhere in the depths of our minds, wondering about the future or replaying past events.
Completely unaware of present moment, carried by our thoughts, we forget that all we have is here and now.
We need to remember to let it all go and observe how life unfolds before our eyes.


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I know, I feel the appropriate amount of guilt for posting these way over a month late. Life has been hectic so I didn't have anytime to sit down editing and posting all the photos. Anyway, the Khoon Hooi show was sooooo beautiful... I of course loved the dresses with draped pleating at the skirt and also stunning detailing, thick black panelling tops, and the pairing of neon and nude, yes. The freshest take on our local runway, I think we can all agree on this.
With darling Ami Schaheera and Aishah Amin.
I'm wearing Topshop dress, earrings, hair clip and sunglasses, vintage trench coat and clutch, Charles & Keith heels.


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Lady Laimani Bidali, Founder of Alabastron Network Trust
The twenties are a very important decade in shaping our lives and life outcomes. I am not saying that you cannot correct them later, you can. However, why not save yourself a few years of heartache, regret, and pain. Why not shorten your learning curve?
That is why Almah Life is here, tailor-made for young women in consideration to the struggles and fears they have that affect their future.
The Twenties are about self-discovery (identity), self-esteem (value) and defining your life (significance)
It is about who am I? Who am I becoming? And why?
How Almah Life came to be
Alabastron Network Trust has been in existence for 10 years and through its various programs has interacted with over 20,000 women, and coached approximately 10,000. Our aim is to create a network of women who are committed to improving the quality of life experience for themselves, their families, and society.
When a woman is INpowered, there are ripple effect benefits experienced by her entire circle of influence. Alabastron has received feedback from parents, husbands, children, and employers on the impact it has had on their lives indirectly.
Alabastron works with a diversity of women in age, religion, race, culture, social economic background and economic position, sexual and gender orientation. It is through this work that we have realized that women lose themselves very early in life and this accelerates in their college years. Thus the birth of Almah Life
Almah is a Hebrew word meaning young maiden. A maiden in our society, refers to a young woman between the ages of 19-29 years, at this age she is making decisions on career, marriage, and children. The words Almah Life, express our desire to equip young women with life tools that will give them value and significance.


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Are you a Martian? In Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Science James Greenwood's class, "Mars, Moon, and Earth," students test their hair for hydrogen isotopes to determine where in the solar system they come from. As it turns out, no one in the class is from Mars.
"But we haven't checked all of the professors here, so got to watch out," Greenwood said.
Origin is an important concept for Greenwood, who welcomed the addition of a German mass spectrometer in his new lab by outfitting it with the scarf of its hometown's Bundesliga soccer team. In 2011, Greenwood made a groundbreaking and controversial discovery of large amounts of water in rocks from the moon. Now, he's focusing on figuring out how much water is on the moon, and, using the same technique he used to determine that his students are terrestrial, where in the universe lunar water comes from.
NASA's Apollo 11 mission, the moon landing that broadcasted commander Neil Armstrong taking man's first steps on the moon, is somewhat less famous for collecting the first lunar rocks. Since the early 1970s, scientists have been searching geological samples brought down from the moon for signs of water.
"First they wanted to look for life in the lunar samples," Greenwood said. "They quickly found no life. And then they started moving on to water because water is important to life, and they weren't able to find any water either."
Greenwood studies lunar samples of apatite, the main phosphorous-containing mineral on earth and important bio-mineral that is found in teeth and bones. In apatite, which means "deceit" in Greek, Greenwood found levels of hydrous materials that had never been seen before.
"Our group was the first to measure lots of water," Greenwood said. "That [discovery] really changed the paradigm to, 'Wow, the moon has water.' Before that, it was, 'Does the moon have water?' Now, the question is how wet [is the moon]?"
Greenwood's finding of earth-like quantities of water on the moon challenged the core of our understanding of the moon and baffled scientists. Everything we thought we knew about the moon suggested it was rather dry. For example, certain rocks that hold a lot of water and are abundant on the earth simply aren't found on the moon.
Greenwood's discovery even challenged the moon's origin. In the widely accepted "giant impact hypothesis," a Mars-sized body is thought to have collided with Earth, blasting off debris that coalesced into the moon. However, in this model, the moon is dry; all of the lunar water would have been vaporized by the collision.
Living up to its name, it seems that apatite had been deceitful. Using a mathematical simulation, Greenwood found that it can appear to have a lot of water under what are actually very dry conditions, and this might be what he was seeing in his lunar samples. He gladly scaled back his estimates of the amount of water on the moon.
"[The samples] did not have earth-like amounts of water.; they had less…which is good because it was really bothering…us that the moon would have more water than the earth," Greenwood said.
A smaller amount of water on the moon makes sense, but exactly how much there is and how it got there are subjects for debate among scientists.
Greenwood searches for the source of lunar water in rocks by measuring their ratio of deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen with a neutron in its nucleus, to regular hydrogen. All of the hydrogen and deuterium in the universe was created in the big bang. These isotopes were then distributed, and each planet, star, and meteorite gained different amounts of the two isotopes. Therefore, each object has a unique ratio, or signal. Just like your unique scent tells your dog what he is sniffing, the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen tells scientists like Greenwood the identity of a certain sample of water. The signal of water on the moon is different from water on Earth.
"It turns out that the lunar water is unique," she said. "The only thing that looks anything like it in the solar system are comets, and so we suggested that the water was brought to the moon from comets."
Comets may have delivered water to the moon right after the giant collision or more recently (in the last few millions of years), and this water may become a natural resource for humans in the future. Because of the rotational axis of the moon, large craters at its south pole have never been exposed to sunlight. When rocks like apatite were heated on the ancient moon by volcanic activity, water vapor may have formed ice in these craters that is still there today. Future space missions may therefore utilize lunar ice as a water source for building a refueling station on the moon.
"There's some sources of ice on the moon and we don't know how much of these come from the magmas versus comets, actually, so that's something that would be nice to figure out in the future," Greenwood said.
This summer, Greenwood and his students will test lunar rocks in their new lab to trace the origin of the water held within them, a mystery that is clearly out of this world.


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Liam and Mickey Spain are second generation singer / songwriters from the mill town of Manchester, NH. They grew up in a household steeped in folk music and musicians. Their father, Mike Spain, was a well known folk singer performing Irish and American Folk songs throughout the New England area. Mike, not only inspired the boys to perform, but he introduced them to the work of a myriad of artists, and educated them on the folk song tradition and its importance in society. LEARN MORE…
Boston's Erin Og, is based in Boston MA, possibly the most Irish city in the USA. Boston's "Erin Og" translates to Young Ireland and with good reason. BEO is the next generation of Irish ballad groups, continuing the legacy of Irish music left to the world by the great bands of the past. ie. Dubliner's, Wolfetones.
(They say the war is over, but we still have hope)
Pat Kelleher who hails from Dripsey, County Cork, Ireland is an accomplished musician and singer and has played and sung for over 30 years and is now renowned locally and abroad for his folk singing and in particular his five string banjo playing in many styles. He is now in 2012 taking it more seriously and is starting out on a professional basis as a part time commitment for now.
He generally performs at pubs, theatres and festivals all over Ireland and has toured in the USA, Germany and the UK.
He has had many influences during his life, notably Luke Kelly of The Dubliners, Tommy Makem, Christy Moore, Pete Seeger, Furey Brothers, Peggy Seeger, Stan Rogers, Eric Bogle, Tom Paxton to name but a few. He has met all of these afore mentioned artists and has performed with many. Read more….
The music of Green Heron stretches across the entire American folk landscape. Old-time, folk, bluegrass, country, Irish and blues music are all represented as the band brings the back porch to the stage. Featuring Betsy Heron (formerly Green) on fiddle, banjo and vocals, and Scott Heron on guitar, banjo and vocals, the duo has been sharing New England stages together since 2016. The two songwriters weave the contemporary with the traditional and meld high energy performances with emotion and finesse.
Tom Sweeney is a balladeer, songwriter and storyteller from Omagh, County Tyrone and a genuine 'rarity' in the field of Irish singing.
Along with brother, Jimmy, the late Donegal fiddle player, P.V.O'Donnell, and fellow Omagh man, Brian Doherty, Tom founded the musical collective known as Barley Bree. He then spent nearly twenty years in Nova Scotia, Canada plying his musical trade. Read more…


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It's discouraging You invest thousands on a vibrant new website, and wait …
Zilch …
No phone calls …
Not a soul contacts you …
Day by day you put your main keywords into a search engine to check where you are placed. Oh well, maybe next week ?
It's frustrating.
The problem is that every day you don't rank effectively is a day you are forfeiting takings. Possible clients are Googling today, at this moment, for your service.
You may give an outstanding service, but like every other company you need an uninterrupted input of new leads, enquiries and clients.
If you're not showing on Google they probably will not be choosing your service. Why would they make a fuss about clicking onto the second page, or scrolling to the base of the first page when they can quickly look around your competitors' web pages?
If you're annoyed with your rank on Google then you'll be relieved to find out that your wait is over.
The Remedy? Find An SEO Expert For Crawley.
A Contemporary Maxim
What's the ideal location to conceal a body?
On the second page of Google– nobody searches there!
But even getting on the first page isn't sufficient on its own to guarantee results – SEO experts know that more than 50% of all of the clicks on Google head to the top 3 results, with approximately 30% of all clicks going to the number one result.
If you're not at the top you are missing outing on business and your sales are hurting– fact! That is where SEO can turn things around.
Does Search Engine Optimisation Work?
You're looking at this, aren't you? How did you find this website?
SEO Crawley – We Start With Your ROI
At Build Business Online Ltd. we only take advantage of SEO industry best practice, and we don't take shortcuts. Don't fall for cut-rate cookie-cutter SEO solutions– they can cause a massive amount of damage.
Cut-rate services often bring with them cheap service levels, and second-rate end results. Having declared that, you will likely find our pricing very reasonable. Unlike some SEO companies in Crawley we never tie you down to long obligations either– you should stay with us simply because you want to -not because you have to.
Effectively executed SEO brings income into your firm, rather than taking it out.
We don't ever do a one-size-fits-all Crawley search marketing service. We take the time to inspect your webpages, the search expressions you wish to be winning, your competitors, and present you a quote based on what it will take to get you to the top positions.
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Types of Protected Content
- Content Pages
- Photo Albums
- Blog Posts
- Videos
- Calendar Entries
- Entire Website (Site Wide Protection)
Site Wide Protection (*)
If wanting to protect the entire website from public access, you can choose between a simple passcode entry or a full member login.
Option 1: Simple Passcode Login
The simple passcode option is separate from the built-in member manager. It's designed to restrict access to your site, but not provide full member access in case there is additional content on the site set as "members only" that you don't want the simple passcode visitors to have access to.
Option 2: Full Member Login
A full member login means that visitors must have a user account within the "MEMBERS" area of VedaCMS.
Adding Members
How Members Login
In older versions of VedaCMS (anything prior to version 9.2), members login with their email address and whatever you have set as the universal member password. The universal member password is set within 'Settings > Member Settings' of VedaCMS. In newer versions (v9.2 and later) members still login with their email address as the username, but they have their own password that they're able to reset at any time. Visit the 'How do members login?' KB article for more details.


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New Drapes!
This is really a big deal for me because I don't often make purchases this large (a couple of hundred dollars), and I've never bought any kind of window treatments before, so it's exciting for me.
I wanted to take advantage of Columbus Day sales, so I headed over to Joann's and considered this gorgeous lemongrass-colored silk.
The lovliness doesn't really come across on the scan--the sheen, the cripness...
After 50% off, it was $12 per yard.
That was do-able (I needed 10-1/2 yards for a sliding glass door and a small window), but I figured I'd go back to Home Fabrics and see what they might say.
I'd rather support Home Fabrics anyway.
Joann's, especially this particular location, is scattered brained.
Just to get a 1/4 yard sample took over an hour.
It was ridiculous.
I'm not fond of the changes made to the layout of the interior either.
Anyway, the assistant manager, Jake, at Home Fabrics in La Mesa was so incredibly helpful.
For less money than any other place I checked, I got drapery rods, a lightweight fabric to sew into sheers, and pre-made panels in a simple neutral (whew, that saved me some serious time--I had planned to sew my own tab-style panels, but these are fine. And easier).
My God, the sheer fabric was only $3.99 per yard!
Jake helped with color choice, with telling me what hardware I needed, how to sew the sheers (they have how-to leaflets they give to customers at no charge), how long and full the drapes should hang, and honest-to-goodness customer service.
I would not have even gotten close to that at Joann's.
When I showed Jake my bedding colors and paint swatches, he stood back and said, "that's a whole lotta green".
Hmmm. I guess I had better break it up a bit and bring in one of the neutrals.
A beige/yellow was perfect.
Jake said it should feel "aaaahhhh".
(note whatever that spot is on the corner was on my scanner and not the curtain itself).
The beige fabric has what Jake called a
Granted these are both polyester (eeww), but it really is a lot more practical.
Poly can be washed, it isn't as wrinkle prone as linen or cotton, and it doesn't absolutely have to be dry cleaned like silk.
This fabric is also light and simple to match the room, versus something heavy or overly dramatic.
I found a mosaic'ed shell rod at a thrift store--I thought this was a fun find for $6.50.
I purchased the other three rods to match the nickel finish (a simple metallic ball finial on the longer rod will be fine).
Home Fabrics was having a sale too, but in typical Barb fashion, every item I chose was full price.
But their prices really are amazing (geez, I sound like an advertisement. Like I said, I'm just kind-of excited).
I guess I'm excited because the project is all mine.
My space, my stuff, my research...
I got out to my car, reviewed the receipt, and realized the cashier had forgotten to charge me for the long rod ($24.95).
I wish I could tell you I didn't hesitate, but a small flick in my brain wanted to take the value and run...
but I pulled the good karma and went back inside to pay for it.
I had to.
Of course I'll blog completed pics when I finish the room (which will hopefully be soon).
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THE leader of the anti-corruption group that filed tax fraud charges against Princess Cristina were jailed without bail on Monday April 19, according to a report published by ABC.
Miguel Bernad, of the organisation 'Manos Limpias' (Clean Hands) is under investigation for extortion and membership of a criminal organisation amid allegations that his group requested a €3 million payoff in order to drop the case.
Court documents written by judge Santiago Pedraz claim that Bernad's alleged accomplice and Ausbanc chief Luiz Pineda contacted the banks that Cristina and her lawyer work for demanding the money, and that both have now been imprisoned in case they decide to flee.
In further developments on Tuesday April 19, ABC reported that Ausbanc allegedly offered to cover all Manos Limpias expenses, including €3,000 per month rent for a Madrid office, the salary of the secretary, plus telephone, water, and electricity bills. The report claims that these monies were paid in cash since Manos Limpias does not even have a bank account.
Cristina's trial has been underway in Mallorca since January. She is the first member of the Spanish Royal Family to face court charges since the restoration of the monarchy in 1975.
The accusations against her state that she failed to declare money paid to her by a real estate firm which she owns alongside Olympian hubby Inaki Urdangarin as income.
Urdangarin has also been charged with embezzlement to the tune of €6.2 million in relation to alleged employment of inflated or unfulfilled contracts for sports conferences and events.
The case against Cristina is only ongoing due to the intervention by Manos Limpias, after prosecutors concluded that she should pay an administrative fee at most, with the other charges dropped.
A loophole in Spanish law permits external bodies to file tax fraud charges when officials fail to do so, meaning Cristina now faces up to 8 years imprisonment if found guilty.
Lawyers for the pair maintain their innocence.


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Simple Gifts Day 23 - Scroll Wine Cozy
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How can you make a special bottle of wine into an even more special gift? Dress it up in this lacy wine cozy!
Scroll Wine Cozy, by Joanna Roye, is a free pattern available to download from Ravelry. Our sample used less than a skein of Berroco Folio, in color 4557, Blue Lakes. The lace pattern is both charted and written out line by line so you have the option of whichever method you're most comfortable with. It's also knit in the round, so once you bind off (and knit a bit of i-cord) you're all done! As always, full details are available on our project page.
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At The Feet Of Jesus Series
Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Dec 1, 2013 (message contributor)
Summary: When our work proceeds out of a devotion to Jesus, we will not be without our critics.
It has been remarked as remarkable that on three occasions when we meet Mary of Bethany in the Scriptures, she is found at the feet of Jesus. In Luke 10:39 she is sitting at the feet of Jesus. In John 11:32 Mary is prostrated at His feet. In John 12:3 she is wiping His feet with her hair.
1. Sitting at the feet of Jesus, listening to His Word (Luke 10:38-42).
Mary's sister Martha is like those Christians who, though saved by faith, make such a labour out of their everyday duties that they do not have time to stop, and hear what God the LORD will speak (Psalm 85:8). There is nothing wrong with industry and hard work, but we must not become overwhelmed with the cares of this world, choking the seed of the Word of God (Mark 4:19)! Our salvation does not rest in a frenzy of good works, hospitality and church activities, but in a relationship with our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Mary is of a much quieter disposition. She is content to sit still at the feet of Jesus, feasting on His words. According to Jesus, she has found the better part, the one thing needful (Luke 10:42). She is not a lazy girl, but for her spiritual things have priority over even the practicalities of eastern hospitality. No-one can take that away from her.
2. Prostrated at the feet of Jesus, the posture of humble prayer (John 11:32).
The difference between these two women of God is also seen in their prayer to Jesus when their brother Lazarus died. Both seem to rebuke Jesus for not having been present at His friend's bedside in his hour of need (John 11:21; John 11:32). Yet Martha goes a step further, and grasps in faith at a practicality: even now, at this late hour, God will grant whatever Jesus asks of Him (John 11:22).
Mary, for her part, is content to remain prostrated at Jesus' feet, this part of the prayer unspoken (John 11:32). Her humble posture and her tears have an eloquence all of their own. What is more, it is the tears of the more devotional of the sisters which swings Jesus into action in answer to the prayer (John 11:33-44).
3. The anointing of Jesus, the posture of worship (John 12:1-8).
It was six days before the Passover, and the family in Bethany made our Lord a supper. The resurrected Lazarus was there, and Martha was serving. In a singular act of devotion, Mary took a whole bottle of very expensive Indian perfume and lavished it upon the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair.
The treasurer, one Judas Iscariot, was incensed at this apparent waste! After all, it could have been sold for a year's wages and the proceeds given to the poor. Yet the evangelist John is at pains to inform us that this particular church officer, who would later betray Jesus (John 12:4), was cross for another reason: he had his hand in the bag (John 12:6).
Again we see something of Mary's humility and spirituality. Jesus says that she has got the rights of the matter, because she had the insight and precognition to thus anoint Him for his burial (John 12:7). All of Mary's service commences, as should ours, at the feet of Jesus.
When our work does proceed out of a devotion to Jesus, we will find ourselves criticised, sometimes even by our fellow-believers. Yet our heart's extravagance is a sacrifice of a sweet savour to the Lord. What Mary did was accepted as part of her reasonable service, because her motives and her motivation were sound (Romans 12:1).
This is not to undermine the place of almsgiving in Christian service. Jesus says that we will always have the poor (John 12:8), and we should always minister to them appropriately. This is taught throughout the Bible.
Yet for the Christian this is no longer a legal obligation, but a debt of gratitude for what Jesus has done for us through His death and resurrection. Jesus applauded Mary for her perception that this costly ointment was intended to be kept for His burial. It was now poured out in an act of sacrificial giving because His time had come.
When all is said and done, what Mary did was quite shocking. In any other situation it would have been considered a cultural faux pas to let down her hair as she did, and to wipe His feet in such a manner. The fragrance of Mary's act of devotion stands as a testimony to the ends of the earth, for ever (cf. Mark 14:9).
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As we're approaching to Google I/O 2014, the biggest event of the search giant, Google has posted a video introducing Android Wear. We've written a short article introducing Android Wear after it was officially announced as well as the first two smartwatches running it, but the video gives a clearer look at what it is and how it can be useful in your daily activities.
Android Wear is going to be a big part of this year's I/O. Google explains in this video what separates Android Wear from Android on a smartphone experience. It also discusses about its voice-controlled features as well as how notifications from a smartphone can be directed to a device running Android Wear. All in all, the five minute video is mainly focused on developers. But if you're an Android enthusiastic, you may have a glimpse into the future of wearable device from Google in this video.
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ADRS launches 2018 United Way campaign with special event
The Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services and United Way combined campaign kicked off Friday, Sept. 14, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. with a few new incentives.
The special event, held in the State Office, featured food, fun, fellowship, and door prizes, along with presenters to explain how contributions to the United Way make a difference in the community.
ADRS staffer Beverly Floyd, who is chairing the ADRS campaign, said the 25th-anniversary effort is themed "Love Your State."
Floyd said the campaign committee hopes to improve upon last year's total and reach this year's goal of $20,000. Even more importantly, Floyd said, they would like to see contributions from more employees.
"What we're really focusing on this year is participation," she said. "We want to see more people participate."
There are plenty of reasons to do so in 2018. Floyd said those who donate $25 or more will receive gift cards offering discounts to restaurants and other local businesses. Each donation will also enter participants in a drawing for a prized parking spot near the program building, with the space reserved for a different employee each month.
An email distribution list will be created for donors notifying them of spontaneous casual dress day. These donors will be allowed to participate when an email blast is sent by Commissioner Jane Elizabeth Burdeshaw.
If the $20,000 goal is met, a movie day in the large conference room has been proposed. Snacks will be provided, and participants will have a chance to view an educational movie related to disability.
Fundraisers also will be conducted throughout the year. Floyd said the committee is considering a cookout featuring either barbecue or hamburgers. Plates will be sold, and proceeds will go toward the department's totals.
ADRS employees who do not work in the Montgomery office will also have a chance to participate. Floyd said they are hoping each office will host a small-scale kickoff of its own to begin the fundraising campaign.
Board members and retirees can also donate toward the department's total.
The United Way supports more than 400 health and human service agencies that are working to make a difference and prove local communities.
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