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I hope you enjoy your training. It is kinda rough the first day. I don't know much about the radiology accounts at Transcend, but I do know that the people are very nice. I had 2 weeks of a slow period, which was frustrating. However, this happens at all companies from time to time. Especially in the summer. I know this because I have worked at other companies and have had the same slow time. At Transcend, I never had to ask for another account, a secondary, one was offerred to me and I started right away on it. I have a very good line count and make good money.
I may have to take on other accounts in the future, I don't know. If I do, then I will. Transcend is not the only company that this happens at. It is all in how you look at it also. The more you can do, the more valuable you are to your company. This will only benefit you. Of course it is not ideal, but sometimes unavoidable. Yes, it does slow you down but this is just at first. You eventually become accustomed to your secondary, or whatever number account that it is for you, just like you did on your primary when first starting at Transcend. I have found in my experience that the less flexible I am, the more limited I am. In this line of work, that is not good.
You will also hear about Transcend using VR. I am getting ready to train on that. I hear horror stories about the whole thing and I am sure that it is everything that everyone says it is. But the thing is, a lot of companies are going to be using it. Maybe not all of them, but a lot. It is a step towards the future and we have to learn to accept that. I am not worried about doing it. If I have to work longer hours for a while to get used to it and get my $$ back where it was, then so be it. I believe that this too will be something that an MT can get used to and become good at, just like having multiple accounts.
All I know is, at Transcend, I have always been paid on time, paid well, never had a check bounce, and I have not ever been lied to or mislead. This is my experience and my opinion. Good luck to you!
To the questions about 20,000 lines per pay period, I noticed that the poster(s) are not saying whether that is post escription lines or preescription lines. Beyond Text, or the other platforms that Transcend has. In order to answer, these questions have to be more specific as to what platform someone is working on.
I get 20,000 lines per pay period, however, that's after they do the conversion rate on my account and take 20% of those total lines. Standard = transcribed. Edited = VR lines. And that puts me in the incentive. The incentive Transcend has it the BEST in the business, and it is attainable. And they pay a shift diff for both weekend days, which I work to get the shif diff.
There's lots of questions of what to do when work is low, well work is not always low, and you have to go with the flow and work as hard as you can and keep your butt in the chair, and not do dishes, laundry, clean, watch TV, play with the kids, visit with your husband, boyfriend, significant other, or any other activity that takes away from truly being productive. Then when work is slow, there is less headache of worrying about whether to get your lines or not. And NO I am not one of those people who works "off the clock" that only hurts all MTs in the long run. I work my 8 hours, no more no less on the days I am scheduled. However, if I missed some hours because of running out of work or slow work, I will get prior approval BEFORE I come on to make up the time, or wait until late when no one wants to work, which is usually between 6p and 9p. Always with prior approval!
What I do is email my supervisor and ask her if it is alright to adjust my hours to accommodate the the flow of work. There is also a tool on the internet with Transcend to see when everyone's schedule and to be fair what I do is work when there is very little coverage, or hours when there is a break in coverage, that ensures that there is work, but you have to be flexible. I have found that many of the MTs that work and complain about not getting their lines want banking hours, and this is not a 9-5 job, M-F. I work BOTH weekend days and ALWAYS have plenty of work. In the few months that I have been with Transcend work was slow on one weekend day, otherwise I can manage to get usually about 3000 lines per day on the weekends, now that's VR and transcribed lines combined, and NO I am not typing 3000 lines, but remember there's a conversion formula. I usually work a split shift on the weekends, there's work in there in the a.m. and then I start up in the afternoon (when NO ONE is around) on the weekends, and I have plenty of lines on the weekend evenings. That's how you get your lines, you work the hours no one wants.
And a comment to the posters down further on the board. Everyone is correct about speaking up. So few people do that, and chose to fly "under the radar" because of fear of "making waves." Well, there are those of us who make the waves, and do not fly under the radar, and we are the people that help make it better for those who want to sit back and put negative posts on these boards, but do nothing to make it better. It's like the people who complain about who we put in office, but they do not VOTE! If you do not vote, you have no say in what happens. That one vote could make a difference, and the same with MT. We need to be more unified as MTs and then the nationals might sit up and listen. We need to refuse to transcribe, edit, etc., all these horrible dictators for the ridiculous rate of money they offer, if we all got together and stuck together and had ONE VOICE, we WOULD MAKE a DIFFERENCE! I have been very successful in this business for almost 30 years, and have been in management in 2 soon to be 3 companies, and the only way I got where I am is to SPEAK UP and get noticed! Otherwise, you are just another stereotyped warm body in stretch pants with a cigarette hanging out your mouth and a beehive hairdo to these companies. (Nothing wrong with stretch pants, beehive hairdos nor cigarettes either, if that is your choice, to each his own) but that is how most nationals see transcriptionists, and that is just not so.
Do not let anyone tell you that it is a "privilege" to work at home. It is not a privilege, it is the only arena for us to work in because almost all transcription is done in the virtual office. So it is no longer a privilege and I will correct anyone who makes that statement. If you do not work at home, you most likely cannot be an MT.
Most of us are well educated, intelligent women, who love our families, who love what we do, and enjoy transcription. But we can't make any changes if people do not "vote."
I am management, but not at Transcend.
Just curious.
Does Transcend have a "honeymoon" period or bait and switch like some other larger companies I've heard of and do they overstaff accounts with MTs? And, if you know, do they cherry-pick like some others I've heard of? TIA.
since work is so low and go ahead and start with Amphion, see if you like it better, and then maybe make the switch. If I were you, I wouldnt put all my eggs in one basket in this business. Or maybe PT with Amphion to see if you like it first. But I definitely would not rely on Transcend for my bread and butter since they have shown just how much they think of their MTs lately with the pitiful new platform, low work volumes but continual hiring of MTs, etc., etc.
I agree-get out while you can!!!
I see that some people have made negative posts on this board about Transcend. I've been with the company for a long time and have been using the editing platform for several months now. At first I was concerned about what it would really do/not do; however, I've learned to love it and now am glad that I've made the change to editing reports (as well as transcribing some that aren't on editing yet).
Transcend announced last week that they're providing a word Expander program to those moving to the editing program free of charge, and it's a great program that would retail for $100.
Therefore I encourage anyone reading posts about this company to remember that there are plenty of us happy on this new format. I know because I've talked with many peers on it who have been on it as long as I have and we all have the same sentiments.
The ad on the job board says IC for 90 days and then if satisfactory, transfer to employee - does this mean you work 6 months before being eligible for insurance, rather than the normal 3 months?
Current information on Transcend? Is the management better than it was a 6 months ago? I read the archives, and am looking for current information. They are looking for people on the Job Seeker's Board.
Thanks for your help.
Yup, I just accepted a VR position. My shoulders hurt. Tired of typing. I only pray I can make enough money to eat, pay my rent and get though coding school. Took the cpl rate - gettin' desperate folks - ain't pretty.


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Washington Monthly ranks Lewis & Clark in top 25
August 26, 2013
Focusing on how schools contribute to the public good, Washington Monthly named Lewis & Clark among the top 25 liberal arts colleges in the country.
Lewis & Clark was ranked third among liberal arts colleges for community service participation and hours served. The college has made service a priority, creating the Office of Student Leadership and Service to give students the chance to engage, learn, and lead through ongoing and one-time service, immersion programs, and academic civic engagement.
The college also received high marks for participation in the Peace Corps, for which Lewis & Clark has consistently been a top producer of volunteers.
Washington Monthly rates schools based on their contributions in three broad categories: social mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and service (encouraging students to give something back to their country).
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Sydney's CBD fringe plays host to myriad lanes and back streets that are seeing a rebirth as the area explodes with creative businesses and an increase in residential developments where there were once commercial operations or derelict sites.
Some months ago we wrote about a small Sydney City run gallery on Alberta St to the city's Southern boundary, it's a blink and you'll miss it location and quite hard to stumble upon - but where this rotating public gallery once stood now stands Creasion - a slick addition to this gritty urban landscape.
Opened by Yu Sasaki, (having trained under Christine Manfield of Universal fame), the space is sparse but instantly inviting in what is ostensibly a back lane that rarely - if ever - sees sun!
Their speciality is Macarons and sweet things but we just can't go past the single origin coffee which is genuinely fantastic. Worth a visit... for those who know their secret Sydney eateries, it's right next door to Berta at 21 Alberta St, Sydney.


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1. He has appeared in over sixty films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler and Spike Lee.
2. An Emmy Award winner, Turturro has also been nominated for four Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
3. He majored in Theatre Arts at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and completed his MFA at the Yale School of Drama.
4. He repeated it the following year Off-Broadway and won an Obie Award.
5. This movie was the first of a long-standing collaboration between the director and Turturro, which includes work together on a total of nine films—more than any other actor in the Lee oeuvre–
6. He has also been nominated and won many awards from film organizations such as Screen Actors Guild, Festival Filem Cannes, Golden Globes and others.
7. Turturro produced and directed, as well as acted in, the film Illuminata , which also starred his wife, actress Katherine Borowitz.
8. dalam 2010, he directed Passione, which chronicles the rich musical heritage of Naples, Italy.
9. His stage directorial debut was in October 2011, with the Broadway play Relatively Speaking, in which he guided an ensemble of veteran actors in a production of three comedic one-act plays, written by Elaine May, Woody Allen and Ethan Coen.
10. Artist Ralph Turturro, composer and film director Richard Termini and actress Aida Turturro are his cousins.
11. He has two sons: Amedeo , dengan isterinya, actress Katherine Borowitz.
12. Turturro participates as a member of the Jury for the NYICFF, a local New York City Film Festival dedicated to screening films for children between the ages of 3 dan 18.


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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – Two weeks ago, Colorado Rapids midfielder Davy Armstrong faced the daunting prospect of having his career cut short at the tender age of 20.
But last Friday, Armstrong was back out on the practice field, having been cleared to practice again after a possible seizure sidelined the Rapids' first-ever Homegrown signee for several weeks.
On Sept. 8, Armstrong said he felt "light-headed" while away from the Rapids' facilities and went to the hospital the next day, where he was told he'd suffered a possible seizure. Armstrong was also told that the injury could be career-threatening.
But the Aurora, Colo. native was then told by a second doctor that he had not suffered a seizure and was subsequently fully cleared to practice again just last week, drawing a huge sigh of relief from the Denver Post's 2008 Colorado High School Player of the Year.
"It's a new outlook on life," Armstrong told MLSsoccer.com. "I'm just really happy. [I've] got to thank the man upstairs for that."
Armstrong, who turned down a scholarship to the University of Washington to sign with the Rapids in August 2010, faced a potentially career-threatening condition only two years into his professional career. But after a scary wait, Armstrong has been gifted a second chance to play again, a new start that Rapids head coach Oscar Pareja is urging Armstrong to use to his advantage.
"If I put myself in his shoes, it's another opportunity to do what I love, because sometimes we take it for granted that we're going to be healthy," Pareja said. "And the same with the players, sometimes we take it for granted, we have it there, and then you hear you might not have it any longer. But it's good. I think it's going to be a second breath for him and we're happy to have him back."
Now, Armstrong can focus on more routine day-to-day tasks, such as working his way up Pareja's depth chart. He has yet to appear in an MLS game in his two years with the Rapids.
"My fitness isn't there yet, so I've got to keep working on that," Armstrong said. "My technique can always get better. There's always stuff to work on. So of course I'm just going to just work as hard as I can for these last few weeks."
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November 2011 Sake TastingsWednesday, November 2nd, 2011
With November comes Hiyaoroshi season and Thanksgiving which are not mutually exclusive, as the aforementioned seasonal sake are the perfect complement to the traditional holiday fare.
Please mark your calendar to join us to sample some superb fall seasonal sake, an elegant, silky, under-the-radar food-friendly brew, an exciting new addition to our selection from iconic toji (master brewer) Philip Harper, and an exemplary aromatic daiginjo from Akita prefecture made using flower yeast.
We look forward to seeing you at one or all of our November tastings!
Rick & Hiroko
Saturday, November 5, 2011, 5-7pm
Hiyaoroshi Sake Tasting
Sawanoi Junmai Hiyaoroshi, Urakasumi Tokubetsu Junmai Hiyaoroshi, & Wakatake Onikoroshi Tokubetsu Junmai Hiyaoroshi
Saturday, November 12, 2011, 5-7pm
Chiyomusubi Sake Tasting
Friday, November 18, 2011, 6-8pm
Tamagawa Tokubetsu Junmai Tasting
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Greece Faces Fresh Threats
The economic crisis in Europe is still very real as new worries have emerged over the financing of Greece's bailout program. Matina Stevis reports.
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Gayle Anderson was live in Los Angeles at the California African American Museum, where museum members ONLY are invited to watch the presidential inauguration. Gayle also talked about this past weekend's Martin Luther King Day parade.
In addition to the public inauguration ceremony, today is also the MLK Day of Service. To honor MLK's life and legacy, the California African American Museum (CAAM) will host its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday celebration, "Cake for King," from 11am to 2pm The "Cake for King" celebration is FREE and open to the public.
From 3pm to 5pm, CAAM will host the regional "The Dream @ 50 Awards Ceremony," in honor of the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream Speech." This ceremony honors Los Angeles students from grades 1-12 for their artwork inspired by a word or phrase from Dr. King's legendary speech. This event is FREE and open to the public.
Monday, January 21, 2013:
"Cake for King" & "The Dream @ 50 Awards Ceremony"
Events start at 11am and it's FREE & open to the public
California African American Museum
600 State Drive, Exposition Park
Los Angeles, CA 90037
(213) 744-7432
"Honoring the Dream" Candle Light Prayer Vigil
from 4pm to 6pm
City Hall Breezeway
3900 Main Street
Riverside, CA
(951) 288-4375
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So since today I do not get the day off work, and neither do I tomorrow, there wasn't much traffic this morning en route to my job. Let me just tell you, to drive a measly 18 miles to work from my house, I must get on the 405 to the 55, to the 5, to the 57, to the 91. Yup, that is my route in the mornings. This morning as I traveled, I was like man, I seriously drive a lot of freeways to get to work. Pretty crazy.
On another note, this weekend I had a great long run of about 6 miles, and also did some cross training. Two very funny things happened that I will share for your laughing pleasure. I wore only a sports bra and shorts while jogging on Saturday because at 8 am it was already like 78 degrees out and I knew I would be a sweaty animal if I wore more clothes, but normally I hate not wearing a shirt. I figured, who would be out on this Saturday morning.
Sidenote: I live in a very small town, but it's surrounded by big towns, so it's not like the 'small town' you may think of when you think small town.
I'm out on my large loop, running on the sidewalk next to the main road and things are going good. I ran through the park and there are a bazillion little families watching soccer games. I'm running down some more streets to cross over, to the other side of town to run through a little greenbelt in between some housing neighborhoods. This is where I ran into a wall. Yes, I have a tendency to run super close to the wall, perhaps because I am fearful of cars, but I got to close and totally skinned my right arm up against the concrete wall. This has now left me with some scabs and bruises along my whole right arm. Seriously. I ran into the wall.
So anyways, I get to the greenbelt and think I see some hubbub at the other end. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING ever happens in my small town, so I was wondering if it was a carnival or what was going on. I continue down the little winding path, and to my disbelief there is a small carnival thing being set up, oh and a PARADE is going to be happening on the street I was planning on running. People are lined up on the sidewalk, therefore my path was taken. So yes, I had to run down the parade route, in the street, in my purple sports bra, with all these parade watchers looking at me, like I was some crazy triple headed monster. Either because:
a. My sports bra was purple
b. My face was disgustingly red
c. I was a sweaty beast
d. I looked amazing and they wanted to be like me.
I like to think it was D, but I know it was a combination of A-C.
Needless to say, I was excited to get home and off the parade route.
So this is a recipe I'll be making this week, I'll let you know how it turns out, but it looks delish!
Low Calorie Beef Stroganoff
1pound of ground lean hamburger
1/2 pound of mushrooms, sliced
1 onion
1 pint of low-cal yogurt, plain
1 can of beef consommé soup
Flour to absorb fat
Sauté chopped onion and mushrooms in butter. In separate pan brown hamburger with a little garlic powder. Add all the above ingredients together. Put in enough flour to absorb fat. Add beef consommé plus a little water. Cook at simmer for 10 minute, stirring occasionally. Take off heat, fork in yogurt. Serve over noodles or rice.
Though I don't know how the yogurt mixes in, we shall see how the final product turns out. This one sounds a little different though. :)
Hope everyone had a great weekend, and is keeping up with their running! I have so many people I know doing the Couch to 5k plan, and have heard only such great things about it! This week I'll be hitting up the gym again and putting in about 25 miles. I love the crisp weather to run in during the morning hours… and I ran in the new target jacket I talked about here and it was the BEST purchase ever. So great with the mesh back and I love it! :)
I also wanted to thank everyone who was so encouraging and nice with the comments you guys left on my last post. I know that is a big part in my life, and I'm glad that you were inspired or touched by it. It's made me who I am today and I am so thankful to the blogging/running community as well for being such supporters. :)


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Marburae Art Gallery is a gallery space in Macclesfield, Cheshire dedicated to contemporary visual Arts.
The Art Gallery was founded in 2011 to create an exciting mix of music and visual arts in a combination that is accessible to Artist's and Art lovers but also to the ordinary person. Marburae Art Gallery shows national and international Artists.
Located within Shackleford Pianos in Macclesfield, Cheshire, the gallery space is flooded with natural light due to a glass ceiling, allowing perfect viewing conditions for artwork. There is also a varied collection of small, darker rooms for art that requires intimacy.
All our art exhibitions are free to attend, as are the Art Gallery Open Evenings so please pop in and enjoy the art in macclesfield.
Our aim as a gallery is to help support the arts - we do not charge Artists a submission fee or a hanging fee and we only take 25% commission on work that has sold. Therefore the Artist only incurs a charge if they have made some money themselves. We are part of a town with 14 galleries who are working together to create a wider appreciation for the arts - as such we really want to showcase great work from artists from our own country but also from international countries.
Please explore the website for more information about Marburae Art Gallery's exhibitions, past present and future. You can find all the details about Artists that have exhibited with Marburae Art Gallery, discover Art, Art galleries and Art studios in Macclesfield and surrounding areas such as Knutsford, Wilmslow, Leek, Congleton, Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester and find out exactly where we are based.


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If you're anything like us, you're always looking for a more convenient, efficient way to live your life. You've got insulated two-pane windows, a phone that doubles as a television, music player and email device, and your haircut is both attractive and a functional shield against the sun's deadly UV radiation. You're a streamlined testament to mankind's ingenuity, yet there's one element of your existence that you've always felt was a bit clunky. A bit antiquated. In today's rush-rush 24/7 world, who has time to breathe?
Fortunately for your bizarrely specific issue, science now has a solution: Oxygen microparticles that can be injected directly into the human bloodstream, completely negating the laborious, time-intensive process of inhaling and, barring any unforeseen disasters, exhaling.
According to ScienceDaily, a group of scientists led by Dr. John Kheir of the Department of Cardiology at Boston Children's Hospital developed the microparticles to aid patients unable to respirate on their own. These microparticles, which consist of a small pocket of oxygen gas surrounded by fatty lipids, are administered intravenously as part of a liquid solution, and once inside the human body the gaseous oxygen functions in much the same way it would had it been delivered through normal human breathing patterns. Effectively, this breakthrough allows doctors to provide necessary oxygen to patients while completely side-stepping the lungs — which is a great boon for anyone whose lungs are failing or whose airways are blocked.
Though these microparticles have yet to be tested extensively on humans, trial usage on animals shows very promising results. According to Kheir's team, animals who received infusions of the oxygenated microparticles were able to survive "for 15 minutes without a single breath, and reduced the incidence of cardiac arrest and organ injury."
Kheir hopes that this new development will allow medical workers to prolong the lives of patients unable to breathe on their own until proper medical treatment can be administered. Now that the treatment has proven effective, Kheir's next goal is to create a fully portable version of the solution that could easily be carried by EMTs, firefighters or anyone else routinely called upon to provide quick, stabilizing medical care in any setting outside of a hospital. "This is a short-term oxygen substitute — a way to safely inject oxygen gas to support patients during a critical few minutes," Kheir says. "Eventually, this could be stored in syringes on every code cart in a hospital, ambulance or transport helicopter to help stabilize patients who are having difficulty breathing."
While scientists have previously attempted to directly administer oxygen to the blood, our bodies are simply not built to accept oxygen from any source but our own lungs. Experiments in IV oxygenation date back to the 19th century, though before this most recent attempt, the vast majority of these trials caused deadly gas embolisms in patients. Dr. Kheir's method however, seems successful because of the highly technical way his team created its fancy new microparticles. According to ScienceDaily, "they used a device called a sonicator, which uses high-intensity sound waves to mix the oxygen and lipids together. The process traps oxygen gas inside particles averaging 2 to 4 micrometers in size. The resulting solution, with oxygen gas making up 70 percent of the volume, mixed efficiently with human blood." Kheir claims that this method, unlike earlier efforts, gives his particles drastically increased surface area, thus enhancing their ability to pass oxygen directly to a patient's red blood cells. Likewise, their tiny size allows Kheir's microparticles to pass easily though the minute network of capillaries in the human body, preventing any sort of catastrophic gas build up within the circulatory system.
That's all well and good — and given the prevalence of respiratory failure in our modern population should prove invaluable quite rapidly — but our heads are currently swimming with more futuristic uses for this technology. Imagine SCUBA diving into a deep trench without a heavy tank of air strapped to your back. Instead a pump full of oxygenated microparticles injects you every few minutes with a solution that completely removes your need to breathe. Likewise, imagine soldiers fighting an enemy keen on the use of chemical weapons; if our men and women don't need to inhale possibly toxic air, even horrific, terrifying weapons like mustard gas become a minor annoyance that can be defeated with a simple pair of goggles and a face mask.
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Joined: 28 Oct 2005
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Location: Haifa, Israel
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:00 pm
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You couldn't possibly be the last one - it's still on all the bestseller lists. I did wonder about that, thinking that surely everyone who'd wanted to read it would have done so by 2004. But I guess I was wrong!
Personally, I hated it. My biggest problem was the constant breaks for lengthy discourses about religion, art history, etc. Apparently not even a factually correct discourses, though I am no expert. I think that like you, I expected too much. There was quite a bit of potential there because the ideas can be interesting - the writing just wasn't there to support any of it.
Re WW2, there are two books for kids/young adults that I like: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr, though it's not exactly about WW2 (it's about a German-Jewish family who become refugees in the 1930s), and The Island on Bird Street by Uri Orlev.
p.s. You're absolutely right about the BBC list. A lot of time with lists it'll be either too bestellerish or too pretentious, but this one is neither. And P&P is way better than LOTR, though I like both.
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Location: Within view of Elliot Bay, The Olympics and every ship in the Sound
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 8:17 pm
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Actually the WW2 books I read were mainly about Jewish families escaping the Nazi's, the Warsaw uprising many others about what families went through during this period. I wish I could remember some of the titles, because the stories are still with me. 'Escape From Warsaw' was one that I really learned a lot from.
About The DV Code, you hit it on the head. It may be popular now, but I can't see this standing the test of time. If it does I think it will be purely based on subject matter.
I also agree with you about P&P. Jane Austen style of ironic literature is my cup of dare I say tea? LOTR is also up there for me, Tolkien's imagination really fascinates me.
Zoe, I think we must have the same taste in books.
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Location: Far, far away
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:01 pm
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Zoe wrote:
You couldn't possibly be the last one - it's still on all the bestseller lists...Personally, I hated it. My biggest problem was the constant breaks for lengthy discourses about religion, art history, etc. Apparently not even a factually correct discourses, though I am no expert.
I have only heard about the book and do not intend to read it. However, from what I understand, there are best-selling authors who set out to write entertaining popular fiction (vs. literature) who are better writers.
Dan Brown's mastery of the material he takes on is lacking. Leonardo did not have a last name; Da Vinci refers to the fact that the artist was born in ("da" means "from") the town of Vinci and no one who knew him would have called him "Signor Da Vinci."
There is no such thing as symbiology on the curriculum of respected institutions of higher education, let alone a place like Harvard. Even "iconography," the proper term, raises problems since it artificially separates the content of a work of art from form, or what has been called its "mode of representation."
Influenced by feminism and great scholars such as Caroline Walker Bynum, the study of the biblical composite figure, Mary Magdalen, has inspired much exciting scholarship that Dan Brown had to ignore in a work of fiction that presents MM as a real historical figure who was once as much a living breathing person as you are now. The town of Vezelay in France claims to have relics of the saint, but relic-forgery is symptomatic of the power of the cult of saints and not an indicator that the object of veneration is real.
The role Constantine plays in the book is yet another source of irritation. There are now entire courses that take the book as a point of departure, geared towards teaching students what biblical scholars and historians currently understand to be true, the different, sometimes conflicting perspectives that prove most compelling, and the problems that still challenge them.
What the popularity of the book does is connect a lot of people through reading. It interests them in art, religion and history.
If you would like a genuinely engaging, short, original and masterly written book that covers Italian Renaissance art in a way that would make the subject come alive to you, I'd recommend Michael Baxandall's
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Florence
. The book is around 30 years old, yet still dominates its field.
Baxandall focuses on the relationship between the artist and his client and tries to establish what he calls the "period eye." That is, he believes that our way of seeing works of art depends on our points of reference and view of the world. It is therefore different from that of a 15th-century Florentine. If we are to understand the art of Leonardo, we need to know more about the perception and thought of the people who lived in the city where the artist learned his craft.
It's been a long time, but I loved
The Last Temptation of Christ
when I read it in high school.
Recently, I found *Mariette in Ecstacy* by Ron Hansen to be a beautiful, compelling portrait of a women who believes she has a calling.
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Location: Far, far away
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:36 pm
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Other literary works that have moved or entertained me:
Jane Smiley,
A Thousand Acres
. Devastating, but exquisitely written. Powerful story of a family on a farm.
Gregory Macguire,
. The author has made a specialty of retelling stories from childhood. This is the only one I've read and I loved its alternative take on the Wicked Witch of the West.
Zadie Smith,
White Teeth
. Foggy London Town and its transplants interact with natives. Class matters ensue.
Vladimir Nabokov,
Speak Memory
. One of the most stunningly beautiful memoirs I have ever read. Gerald Durrell's
My Family and Other Animals
is one of the funniest. Ruth Reichl is not exactly MFK Fisher, but her first two books are fabulous food memoirs. I am a sucker for autobiography, whether fiction or non-fiction and could go on and on. Nino Ricci. *My Life as a Dog.* Michael Chabon is an amazing writer and his first novel, *The Mysteries of Pittsburgh* fits into this category too, though I'm partial to *Wonder Boys.*
Almost finally, from Japan, *The Makioka Sisters* by Tanizaki & *Kitchen* by Banana Yoshimoto. All C&Z readers would love the latter. Just pick up the slim book and read the first page. Hooked.
Now, finally, I have only read one of Willa Cather's books. I really want to read more, but find it hard to press forward. *My Antonia* is haunting and lovely. I'd recommend starting there. It is NOT Jane Austen, though. Heart-breaking.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:49 pm
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Speaking of WWII, I am about halfway through Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovski. I will (must) finish it in the next couple of days, as we are discussing it in book club on Saturday. I already mentioned some of this in my post looking for dessert ideas to take to the get together.
The book is about a vast array of characters in France in the early part of WWII. The first half (that I've already read) covers the exodus from Paris when the Germans arrived in 1940. It is really well written. One of my bookclub members has already read it in the original French, so we're looking forward to the discussion on how well it was translated as well.
Almost as facinating as the novel itself is the story behind it. The author was a Jewish woman who's family fled Russia during the revolution. She fled Paris like many of the characters in the book, but was eventually captured and died in Auschwitz in 1942. It was 65 years before one of her daughters read the notebooks that she assumed were her mother's journals and discovered the novel. Tragic, but at the same time triumphant because the book was not lost forever.
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Location: Within view of Elliot Bay, The Olympics and every ship in the Sound
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 10:18 pm
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Deste, I had to laugh at your mention of symbology. I hesitated earlier writing , if there is such thing as a symbologist then I am a chefologist. Ha, ha, ha.
"It's watery....and yet there's a smack of ham."
"It's hot ham water."
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Location: buried under a pile of books somewhere in Adelaide, South Australia
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 1:08 am
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Erin, have you read any of Tim Winton's novels? Greg and I actually met because of a shared love of Cloudstreet, which is still one of my all-time favourite books.
When we come to the US at Christmas, I'll bring you a copy of Dirt Music if you haven't read it yet. His prose and characterisations make me sit back and think "How does he write like that?". There's a very minor character in Dirt Music who is probably only in the book for about 3 pages, but he is so well described that I still remember him and how much I disliked him.
Read any of Tim's books and you'll be booking tickets on the next plane to Western Australia!
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Location: Haifa, Israel
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 6:22 am
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- thank you so much! That's a much better review of (some) of the inaccuracies in the book than I could have written...
If The Da Vinci gets people interested in exploring religion, art history or general history, that's great. I do wonder, though, if most of them don't just read it and then feel very, very smart. My brother claims the key to its success is that it makes people feel like they know a lot without putting in the effort to actually learn anything. But that's really enough about that... I'll try and find some of the books you recommended at the library. They don't have Wicked, that's certain; have already tried looking for that one.
- well,
taste, maybe? I really don't get philosophy. Like poetry, I can see why it would appeal to others, but can't understand it myself. I do wish I could expand my book collection, but unfortunately neither the size of my appartment nor my salary can support such a project at this time...
- I'm looking at Suite Francaise over on Amazon, am not sure how I managed to have missed it. It sounds interesting. I'll have to wait for paperback, though; hardcover is to expensive for me, and the library doesn't have it. But they do have two earlier books of hers, so maybe there's hope yet!
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Location: Gold Coast Australia
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 6:59 am
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Judy - I think Tim Winton is a genius. I enjoyed both Cloudstreet and Dirt Music. The beginning of Cloudstreet was set in the area I grew up which made it very special.
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Location: Within view of Elliot Bay, The Olympics and every ship in the Sound
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 3:37 pm
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I have not read any of his work, but am interested already. Can't wait till December!!
The book you're reading sounds great. I have read little on the experience of Parisians in WWII. maybe I'll even tackle the origional version. Have fun on Saturday!
"It's watery....and yet there's a smack of ham."
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:17 pm
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Barbara, I'm so pleased you like Tim. I read 'The Turning' a couple of years ago while we were camping around Esperance and Israelite Bay and it seemed so 'real' to be reading it whilst in the area he was writing about, even though I was only visiting.
But to read that you, as a local, think he got it right, really confirms it. He is a genius, but so .... normal and down to earth.
Have you read Tim Bowden's "Penelope Goes West"? About a camping trip he and his wife did to the SW of WA. I haven't read it, but have read another - "Penelope Bungles to Broome" - where they go across the Tanami Desert to the north of WA. Fantastic book, wish I'd had it while we were doing the same trip.
What is it about Aussies named 'Tim'? Winton, Bowden, Flannery - all great writers. I should have named my son Tim if I wanted him to be a writer!
Tom is close enough, I guess, but I think he'll be an engineer or a mechanic, he's always tinkering with bikes or some other form of wheeled transport.
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 10:25 pm
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Have you read Tim Bowden's "Penelope Goes West"? About a camping trip he and his wife did to the SW of WA.
No Judy I haven't, but I must if it is set in the SW. I'm sure I'll recognise places.
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 3:47 pm
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A High and Hidden Place by Michele Claire Lucas is a tragic novel i would highly recommend for anyone with an interest in WW2 and/or French history. It is a fictional telling of the real tragic events which occurred at Oradour-sur-Glanes, a village in Limousin, on June 10, 1944. It is not only of historical interest but also a damn fine piece of writing. If you are ever in Limousin a visit to Oradour is definitely a must, if only to remind ourselves of the horrors of war.
Vivant Linguae Mortuae!!
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Location: Oakland, CA
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:17 pm
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I am reading
Suite Francaise
right now, also, and REALLY enjoying it. I agree the story behind it is as compelling as the novel itself. I will have to put
A High and Hidden Place
on my list.
Another book about WWII in France is
Five Quarters of the Orange
by Joanne Harris (
). It is just such a poignant story. I adored it. I do love her writing.
L'appetit vient en mangeant. -Rabelais
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:46 pm
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David and Donna,
I am looking forward to reading these books. With such rave reviews, I can't resist!
"It's watery....and yet there's a smack of ham."
"It's hot ham water."
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For some reason I keep getting this error on my one costume:
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Not sure if my new pictures are uploading or if I uploaded duplicates cause its only showing three of them and giving me this error.
Its the Fai D. Flowright from Tsubasa costume that is from the Jade Country that is here:
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Your fourth picture is way too huge (3MB). Delete it and resize it so it's less than 300 kb, then it should be fine for reupload.
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I have something similar going on. The jpeg was corrupted instead and I can't get rid of it on my end:
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The image got cut off at the end for some reason, so I cropped and replaced it - you might want to upload it again just in case.
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Advice for New Gifted Education Specialists
Welcome to the best job on Earth! Whatever route you took to land here, I'm glad you've landed. Some of us aimed to be here. Others were re-routed. Still others have turned a detour into a permanent location. I predict that you will soon discover this to be a delightfully thought-provoking, fascinating, engaging, enlightening, and fulfilling job. I love it dearly. But it does come with many challenges unique to the job. The difficult parts of this job are ones that others won't see and/or won't understand. My aim here is to offer some insights from my many years as a Gifted Education Specialist. Perhaps lessons from my experiences can save you a bit of the heartache! :o)
...in no particular order:
1) Connect with others who do what you do. Being a Gifted Education Specialist is an often lonely, misunderstood undertaking. We are frequently the only one in our school, district, town, or (as in my case) county who do what we do. You will need a support network of others who "get it" and speak the same language, and you may have to look farther than locally to find it. Join your local, state, and national gifted education associations. Attend gifted education conferences where you can meet people who will become a part of your network. Utilize social networking. On the days when you have a question or need to vent or want to share a success, it will be immeasurably helpful to have even a small handful of people to call upon.
2) Start small. Then celebrate your successes, no matter how small. The job of a Gifted Specialist is incredibly complex, with facets that others (yes, even others in Education) don't realize and don't understand. If you start off expecting yourself to be able to "do it all" right away, you will drown. Determine a few goals and focus on those. Evaluate, revise, celebrate, and then decide on the next goal. Step by step the mountain is climbed, but you still have to take it one step at a time.
3) Be flexible when it comes to the location where you work with your students. In my 17 years, I have worked with my students in the teacher's lounge, at a table in the hallway, on a fold-up plastic table in the Music room, on an old (*old*) cafeteria table in the lobby of the gym, in a classroom shared with Title I aides, in other teachers' classrooms, in the Library, in the back of the Library during other classes' Library times, in the computer lab, and in my own classroom (at our middle school) which is also used by three other teachers during the day when I'm at other buildings. I've learned that it's kind of like that Sunday School lesson - the one about "the church" not being the building but rather the people in it, together. Your "classroom" is you and your students - and the locations where you gather may change and will certainly have advantages and disadvantages, but it is your time together with these kids that is most important.
4) Get really good at Plan B... for yourself, and for the kids. A couple times a year, I go to a classroom - either to pick up my students or with a lesson for the whole class prepared - and the room is dark and empty. Whether a field trip or an assembly or some other opportunity, the teacher has forgotten to tell me (or just overlooked) that it conflicted with my time with her students. Roll with it. Like you, they are busy people and if you get bent out of joint every time this happens, you'll be sour a lot and they'll be sour about you being so sour. The silver lining is you were just granted a surprise half hour or so of time to work on something else. Also, when it comes to those well-laid lessons plans, there will be days that you realize what you need is at your other school building, or another teacher borrowed it and left a note that you just now discovered, or the copy machine is broken down. You may only have one minute to decide what Plan B is, but there sure better be a Plan B. These kids have high expectations of you and they're on their way, ready to be challenged and engaged. Quick, what's it going to be?!
5) Be okay with not being popular. You won't be everyone's favorite person, and some will dislike or be cynical about you simply because of your job title and without ever taking a chance to get to know you. People will assume all sorts of things about you simply because of what your job is (some perhaps true, others perhaps not). Some will cringe or roll their eyes (literally or internally) when you speak up at meetings: "There she goes again, asking 'what about the advanced kids'..." For some, you will be a thorn in their sides because what you are advocating for means they will have to change a three decade pattern. When you ask how the newly adopted textbook will be adapted/supplemented/replaced for gifted learners who've already mastered much of what it contains, others will think you are just plain annoying for always asking those questions when there are so many other kids to worry about. Yes, being an advocate for your students will often mean others won't be keen on you. So be it. *shrug* Now you know who your (& your students') allies are - and are not. Now you can commiserate with your students when they talk about how the other kids don't understand why something is so important to them or how the other kids get annoyed when they ask questions in class. Now you know who needs to be the object of further efforts on your part to educate them about the needs of gifted learners. Now you can model for your students how to be okay with doing the right thing even when it means you're not popular for doing it.
6) Balance. A good working relationship with your colleagues (i.e. the regular classroom teachers) will often involve you walking a tightrope, balancing the needs of your gifted students with the patience, talents, willingness, open-mindedness, stubbornness, and needs of their teachers. Maintaining a great working relationship with your fellow teachers is really important because it increases opportunities for them to understand where you're coming from and means they are more likely to implement your suggestions for the gifted and advanced learners in their classrooms. But advocating for these kids while not stepping on a fellow teacher's toes is a delicate balance of trust, timing, temerity, humility, and bridge-building. Burning bridges, though occasionally tempting, doesn't do the kids any good and is definitely best avoided. Take advantage of opportunities to get to know your colleagues. Join a committee. Go to the staff Christmas party. Bring treats for the teacher's lounge. Stop to chat in the hallway. It all works toward building and nurturing those relationships.
7) Allow yourself to shine. Let your students know about your current and past honors, awards, successes, accomplishments, etc. Obviously I don't mean brag about them, but I do mean they are good things to drop from time to time into conversations with your students or to use as examples. Sometimes gifted kids feel like freaks of nature because they realize how much they stand out or stick out compared to others. Sometimes they hide their abilities or successes so they won't feel like such a freak. But if they can see you humbly, casually, honestly, and comfortably acknowledge your own shining moments, it provides them an example of how they can do the same. And it inspires them to be all they can be.
8) Cloak yourself in humility. These are REALLY smart kids. They will best you at every turn. You must be comfortable with high intelligence, not knowing the answers to some (many!) of their questions, conversations about chaos theory and Shakespeare and computer programming languages, and being stumped or beaten. If you have insecurities about your own intelligence and abilities, this is not the job for you. They will amaze and outshine you daily - and you must be able to be comfortable with that. I have been beaten at chess by a Kindergartener. One of my 7th grade students scored better on the SAT than I did as a junior in high school (and I did pretty darn well on it). My students often have conversations about topics I don't understand (the difference between PHP and JavaScript, for example). And that's okay. My particular job is not necessarily to know more than them. My job, primarily, is to open doors for them. "Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master." (Leonardo da Vinci)
9) Embrace your inner geek. Whether it's always been a big part of you or whether you hid it away in high school, now would be a great time to polish up your nerdiness. Bring out that old Star Trek costume. Dust off your reading glasses. Start using big words again. These kids need to know the ways in which you are one of them - because smart, nerdy role models who are comfortable in their own skin are hard to come by for these youngsters (particularly the ones whose demographics or locations mean they are much less likely to cross paths with such individuals). You may be their best or only chance to see what an intelligent, dorky life "looks" like and how to be comfortable embracing it. So embrace it!
10) Be ready to commit to committees. If you're not at the table, you're on the menu. Even if others in your school or district understand the needs of gifted and advanced learners, that doesn't mean they are as prepared and as willing and as mindful to be a voice for these kids as you are. For you, these kids are your first thought and first priority. For someone else, they may be third or tenth on the list. Don't trust that someone else will have the needs of these kids in mind. They might, they might not. The only way to be sure that the needs of the gifted and advanced learners are considered is for you to be at the table and to be a part of the conversation as often as you are able. This year, my district is reviewing (and in many cases revising) all of our district policies. ALL of them. That means I volunteered for the committee and I'm there at every meeting with an eye for how each policy may impact my students and their teachers' opportunities to meet their needs. It's quite a time commitment, but it has already paid off for my students.
11) Nurture and support your students' parents. Just as being a Gifted Specialist is a lonely road, so is parenting these off-the-charts kiddos. You may be the only person outside the family who understands the challenges of raising an intense, quirky, highly sensitive, unendingly curious, exhausting - and yet inspiring - child. Helping the parents, whether it's to better understand their kids or with parenting strategies or with a commiserating ear, indirectly helps the kids.
12) Nurture and support positive working relationships with your administrators and school board members. They are often the final deciders, and whether or not they have some understanding of the needs of gifted learners (and therefore how those needs are impacted by their decisions) may depend on whether or not you've made or taken advantage of opportunities to educate them about those needs. Be positive. Be proactive. Be persistent. Be subtle when necessary and blunt when necessary. But above all, put in the effort - with small and big steps over time - to communicate to them who gifted learners are and what they need in school. Never assume they already understand - because, frankly, they often don't. At least not initially. It will be up to you to help them develop understanding.
13) Sometimes "Doing Right by Your Students" and "Being a Good Employee" will be in conflict. (*sigh* Okay, more times than I care to admit.) I know it doesn't make sense. It's perfectly illogical that doing right by your students might mean having to be an incorrigible employee - or that being a model employee might mean having to sacrifice the needs of your students. It shouldn't be that way. But it sometimes is. I can't profess to have any answers for you on this, either. These are incredibly difficult situations fraught with complexity and emotion. Sometimes I choose one way, sometimes I choose the other (circumstance dependent). Sometimes it turns out I chose wisely, and sometimes not. Either way, it always eats me up inside and I've had to re-build some bridges and apologize - and yet, try again. Being the rope in a tug-of-war (in this and, as you may have noticed here, so many other ways) brings with it a lot of stress. So, while I'm at it, having good stress-coping-strategies (or developing them if you don't already have them) is imperative. The level of stress that comes with this job is much higher than others will notice or understand. (Don't let that scare you away! It's still the best job ever!)
14) Know your stuff. You must become the local expert on these kids. There's a lot of misinformation out there regarding what is and is not best for advanced learners. It will frequently fall to you to clear up the confusion or to set someone straight (politely, of course) or to make the distinction between research-based best practice and long-held mythology. Read as much as you can in the field... books, journals, research articles, blogs, debates, etc. Join local, state, and national gifted education associations. Attend as many gifted education conferences as your district is able to send you to. Take graduate coursework in gifted education. Even though there may always be some who will doubt you or don't believe you, someone locally still needs to be highly knowledgeable about gifted kids. Soak up as much as you can as often as you can because you will be the one they come to.
15) And finally, be proactive. Gifted students are (among) the most misunderstood, overlooked, inadequately taught learners in our classrooms... because others think they are okay on their own or where they are. But okay isn't good enough. ("One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar!" Helen Keller) The needs of gifted students stem from their strengths, and helping others to understand this counterintuitive reality is now part of your aim. It's a never-ending process of two steps forward, one step back. You will have to be comfortable and confident in what you do - and yet never let your guard down. You will need to be an advocate, a warrior, a confidant, a subversive, a leader, a researcher, an expert, an ally, a burr in someone's saddle, a little voice in the back of everyone's minds, a steady presence, a humble inspiration, an invaluable resource, and one who can bounce back time and time again. Yes, it's exhausting. But it's mostly exhilarating. Come... thrive with me!
Now, take a deep breath and go back and read #2 again. :o)
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