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Your homeowners insurance policy can save you from severe financial loss if your home is damaged or destroyed. It can also provide you with compensation for liability claims and medical expenses that result from property damage and personal injuries suffered by others on your property. Your policy can protect you from the following winter scenarios:
A tree limb is blown down in a blizzard and shatters your picture window.
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Adequate homeowners insurance would compensate you for these damages to your property and protect you from liability claims resulting from these injuries to others.
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Author Lester Brown explains climate change's impact on food security
As shifting weather patterns and weather-related disasters become more prevalent, food insecurity is a growing concern. During today's OnPoint, Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute and author of the updated book, "Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization," explains why he believes food security is "the weak link" for our civilization. Brown also discusses recent worldwide progress on renewables, including solar, wind and geothermal energy.


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Trade Winds, Sound Policies Push Portugal to the Renewable Energy Forefront
Typically, the Scandinavian countries and Germany have set the example in the European renewables field. Yet lately, a Southern country - Portugal - has attracted attention after delivering its National Renewable Energy Action Plan to the European Commission this June.
Portugal has made dramatic changes in its energy policy over the last five years under the government of Prime Minister José Sócrates. The country's installed renewable energy capacity more than tripled between 2004 and 2009, from 1,220 megawatts (MW) to 4,307 MW, and renewables now represent roughly 36 percent of electricity consumed. Portugal currently ranks fourth in Europe in energy production from renewables.
Of course, Portugal benefits from favorable conditions for renewables: a strong wind resource, great hydropower, good tidal waves potential, and a high sunshine rate. After the country removed several dams in recent years, Sócrates' government has focused instead on wind power development, under most conditions the cheapest renewable energy source after hydropower. With more than 600-percent growth in wind energy production between 2004 and 2009, Portugal now ranks sixth in Europe in total installed capacity and third in capacity per capita, behind only Denmark and Spain. Some even expect Portugal to overtake its neighbor Spain in per-capita wind energy production as early as this year.
Additionally, Portugal is starting to exploit its solar potential. A photovoltaic (PV) power station located in Moura, operative since 2008 and expected to be fully completed by the end of 2010, will count among the world's largest solar farms. But despite a great progression of installed PV capacity in Portugal (from 1 MW in 2000 to 75 MW in 2009), solar power still lags far behind wind's installed capacity of 3,353 MW. Portugal also deploys other renewable energies, albeit at a much smaller scale. Biomass and biogas represented 3.2 percent of total consumed electricity in 2009, and the world's first shoreline wave power plant has been operating since 2005 on the island of Pico in the Azores, with 400 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of capacity.
How did Portugal assume such impressive leadership in the clean energy transition? The key, as usual, lies in ambitious supportive policies. Prior to 2000, Portugal's transmission lines were owned by private power companies that had no interest in investing in renewables, as the deployment of these technologies would require radical changes in the grid infrastructure and therefore raise costs. To address this barrier, the government bought the lines and began adapting the grid to renewables requirements, including more flexibility and a better grid connection in remote areas to allow the production and distribution of electricity from small generators, such as domestic solar panels.
A combination of incentives was implemented to attract investors. Feed-in tariffs (FIT) - which guarantee producers of renewable energy a specified price for every megawatt-hour of power fed into the grid - were first introduced in Portugal in 1988 and have increasingly evolved into a highly sophisticated system with individual prices for each renewable energy source. The latest tariff stipulations, issued in 2005 and 2007, take into account environmental considerations, the level of technology development, and the inflation rate. The government also integrated new technologies such as Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) and tidal power into the system.
Today, all renewable energy sources in Portugal wil benefit from the feed-in tariff for 15 years, and small hydropower prices are guaranteed for 20 years. The tariffs vary from around 7.5 Euro cents (around 9.5 U.S. cents) per kWh for wind and hydro to more than 30 Euro cents (38 U.S. cents) per kWh for photovoltaic energy. Renewable heating and cooling is also supported under conditions by financial and fiscal incentives, largely for the benefit of small and medium-sized enterprises.
The European Commission plays a decisive role in setting targets for each Member State via its 2009 Renewable Energy Directive. Portugal is expected to reach a 31-percent share of renewable energy in its gross final energy consumption by 2020. Also, the European Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) encourages participating countries to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases and therefore move from fossil fuels to renewables, by requiring energy producers and energy-intensive companies to meet strict carbon dioxide emissions targets and to purchase additional permits for overshooting them.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), Portugal became a net power exporter last year, delivering a small amount of electricity to Spain. Inspired by these good results, Portugal set more ambitious targets in its National Energy Strategy (ENE 2020), adopted by the Council of Ministers on April 15. The country now aims to reach a 45-percent renewables share in its electricity production by the end of the year, and a 60-percent share by 2020.
The main focus of Portugal's renewable policy will remain on wind power, a dynamic industry that represents a source of revenue and creates green jobs. The electricity operator Energias de Portugal even invests in wind farms located in the U.S. Midwest.
Prime Minister Jose Socrates' government wants to improve the reliability and efficiency of Portugal's renewables supply. Renewable energy production is often challenged by natural flows-including the common criticism that the sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow, even in Portugal. By the end of the year, the government will set up a system to monitor on-going energy demand and potential supply from various available renewable sources.
What is driving Portugal to undertake such changes? One factor, of course, is the fact that the country does not possess any noteworthy fossil fuel resources, as illustrated by 2007 IEA data. Yet in 2005, the bulk of Portugal's gross electricity was generated by three fossil sources: coal (32.7%), natural gas (29.2%), and oil (18.9%). The country is therefore heavily dependent on imports that place a high toll on the national budget - amounting to 86 percent of spending in 2006, according to the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC). In its ENE 2020 strategy, Portugal aims to reduce fossil fuel imports 70 percent by 2020 and cut its energy import balance 25 percent, saving some US$2.55 billion.
In order to address initial local conflicts due to the financial costs of intense development of wind power plants, a unique mechanism has been set up. Under the current feed-in tariff legislation, municipalities that host wind farms benefit from additional financial support in the form of a 2.5-percent share of the monthly remuneration paid to local wind project operators.
Overall, the IEA's Shinji Fujino tells the New York Times, "So far, the [renewable energy] program has placed no stress on the national budget."
Alexander Ochs is director of the Climate and Energy program at the Worldwatch Institute and Camille Serre is a research intern with Worldwatch. They can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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A leading theory posits the Giants will keep Buster Posey in the minors until June to ensure he does not gain an extra year of arbitration eligibility, but team officials have discussed bringing him up sooner, The Chronicle has learned.
One team official said fans likely will not see Posey in San Francisco this weekend or even in Florida next week. However, the brass is keeping close tabs on Posey as the Giants' offense regresses.
The 2008 first-round draft pick is catching and playing first base at Triple-A Fresno at a time when Giants catcher Bengie Molina and first baseman Aubrey Huff are not producing. One does not need binoculars to see the potential benefit of Posey as a backup at each position.
That option was available to the Giants when spring training ended, but they elected to send him to Fresno to catch more innings and get consistent at-bats.
One consideration weighs against a quick callup. Though Posey is hitting .353 in the offense-friendly Pacific Coast League, reports on the ground say he is not driving the ball. He has only two doubles, one triple and one homer in 68 at-bats.
Another theory that apparently holds no water suggests the Giants will not promote Posey until he is ready to stay. To the contrary, the team would have no problem bringing him to the majors to help the offense, then returning him to Fresno if he struggles.
That's cold: During a news conference to discuss his five-year, $125 million contract extension at AT&T Park on Monday, Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard was asked if he would have considered the Giants had he become a free agent.
"Would you turn up the heat?" Howard said. When a reporter joked that Howard has the political acumen to answer a question without really answering it, he smiled and said, "We work on that."
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Good. Not stout enough for the Sicilian sausage on Tuesday, but wonderful with the grilled rib steak with sauce chasseur, ravioli left over from last night, and salad on Sunday.
The Sicilian sausage is made by the meat department head at Cosentino's on Homestead Road in Santa Clara. It's a wonderful sausage and if I had any Barolo, that would have been my choice. A Rhone-style wine seemed like a good idea, and it was perfectly acceptable, but a more assertive southern Rhone style might have fit better.
The sauce chasseur I made up from some of the Espagnole sauce I made last week and froze, and some shiitake mushrooms. Unfortunately, I didn't have a fresh tomato on hand. <sigh> With the wet spring here, tomatoes are late.
Dark color, small legs, only medium ripe (less than usual for the vintage and winemaker), light in the mouth without much tannin, and a medium, smoothly fading finish. Very little sediment in the bottle; as are many DCV wines, it's unfiltered.
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Sept. 28, 2009 -- Women with diabetes may be 26% more likely than other women to develop a heart rhythm problem called atrial fibrillation.
Researchers report that news in the October edition of Diabetes Care.
Data came from more than 34,000 adults who got their health care through Kaiser Permanente Northwest. The group included 17,000 diabetes patients.
When the study started, atrial fibrillation was more common in diabetes patients than in people without diabetes, affecting 3.6% of the diabetes patients, compared to 2.5% of those without diabetes.
The researchers then tracked everyone else -- all participants who didn't already have atrial fibrillation -- for seven years.
During that time, people with diabetes were more likely than people without diabetes to develop atrial fibrillation. That risk was higher for women than for men.
Regardless of factors including age, height, weight, blood pressure, previous history of heart disease, cholesterol levels, and hemoglobin A1c (which is used to estimate blood sugar control in recent months), women with diabetes were 26% more likely than other women to develop atrial fibrillation.
But diabetes didn't stand out as an independent risk factor for atrial fibrillation in men. That is, atrial fibrillation was more common in men with diabetes than in men without diabetes, but that gap vanished when the researchers controlled for other risk factors.
The reasons for the gender gap in the results aren't clear from this study.
"Diabetes has long been recognized as a risk factor for atrial fibrillation," write the researchers, who included Gregory Nichols, PhD, of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore.
Nichols and colleagues say the gender gap in their findings was unexpected and needs further study.


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If the question was asked by a new user, and they commented something like "thanks, that worked!", then I would say that a polite comment asking them to accept would be, well, acceptable.
There is a thin line between being helpful to new users and being inappropriately demanding. So tread lightly.
I wrestle with this as well. What I have worked out as a habit is:
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I feel like this solution both educates, welcomes to the community, and doesn't beg for rep. I also try to keep a mental state that the 15 points just don't matter, and frankly, in percentage terms they just don't anymore. E.g. I try not to actually beg for rep, not just to seem like I'm not begging for rep :-)
Finally, I try to wait a half hour or more after they've acknowledged it as the right answer before posting my request. It's always possible someone swoops in with a better answer or it turns out that the solution I provided wasn't really the exact problem they needed.
It's absolutely OK to ask that an answer be accepted. That way, people who find the question using Google can have more assurance that the answer is correct.
There is a reason the accept answer button is there...that way, we can see (in most cases) the best answer. Voting takes care of bringing the other competing answers that are also good to the top.
Post a comment on the original post asking the user to consider accepting an answer. This will ensure that there isn't any bias involved when the OP picks an answer. Don't ask the OP to accept your answer... that's not the way it works here.
If the user is new and doesn't know how to accept an answer (or what it even means), you can always link to this image as well. :)
I also believe that it is perfectly acceptable to ask a user to accept an answer. They might not know of the conventions on Stack Overflow. And people without accounts will more easily know which answers solved the problem if they come to the site from a search engine or some other referring source.
No. Please accept this answer.
Well, as long as the answer has a good explanation value etc. I think it's acceptable. Does sound a bit reputation whorish though.
I think a better approach is to leave a comment on your own answer if you believe it should be accepted. However, in the comment I dont mention anything about how the op should or can accept my answer. I just use it as a follow up and offer additional help if needed. More than likely the answer will get accepted. If it doesn't get accepted and the op is not very engaged, oh well, move on to the next question and hope for a few up votes. There are plenty more questions that your answer can be accepted on. I kind of view this the same way I viewed tips when I was a server in college at a well known restaurant. The quickest way to a bad tip is to mention anything about a tip. Being genuinely helpful is often the best way to good tips. I think the same applies to accepted answers. People will go the little extra to accept your answer.


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The five sense-objects enter the avenue of five sense doors at the static stage when one or several thought moments have passed.
Hence the thought-process (4) runs as follows: -
Suppose a visible object which has passed one instant (i) enters the avenue of eye. Then the bhavanga-consciousness vibrates for one moment and perishes, (ii, iii) arresting the bhavanga stream. Subsequently the five-door apprehending consciousness (iv) arises and ceases apprehending that very visible object.
Thereafter the following thought-moments arise and cease in order -
(v) eye-consciousness seeing that very form,
(vi) recipient consciousness receiving it,
(vii) investigating consciousness investigating it,
(viii) determining consciousness determining it.
Then any one of the 29 kinds of sense-sphere javanas, thus causally conditioned, runs mostly for seven moments (ix - xv).
Following the javanas two retentive resultants (xvi, xvii) arise accordingly. Finally comes the subsidence into the bhavanga.
Thus far seventeen thought-moments are complete, namely,
fourteen 'thought-arisings' (cittuppāda)
two vibrations of bhavanga, and
one thought-moment that passed at t he inception.
Then the object ceases.
Such an object is termed 'very great.' (See pp. 231, 232.)
That object which enters the avenue of sense, having passed (a few moments) and is not able to survive till the arising of the retentive thought-moments, is termed 'great. '
That object which enters the avenue of sense, having passed (a few moments) and is not able to survive even till - the arising of the javanas, is termed 'slight.'
In that case even the javanas do not arise, but only the determining consciousness lasts for two or three moments and then there is subsidence into bhavanga.
That object which is about to cease and which enters the avenue of sense, having passed a few moments and is not able to survive till the arising of determining consciousness, is termed 'very slight.'
In that case there is merely a vibration of the bhavanga, but no genesis of a thought-process.
As the eye-door so is in the ear-door etc.
In all the five doors, the fourfold presentation of objects should be understood, in due order, in the four ways, known as -
1. the course (ending with) retention.
2. the course (ending with) javana.
3. the course (ending with) determining, and
4. the futile course.
§ 4. There are seven modes* and fourteen different types of consciousness in the thought-process. In detail there are accordingly 54** in the five doors.
Herein this is the method of thought-process in the five sense-doors.


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For Some Debtors, "Coming Out" Is First Step Toward Resistance
I could buy a two-bedroom home in most American cities with what I owe on my student loans. I've been making monthly payments for four years now and, thanks to a locked-in 4.5% APR, my debt is bigger than when I started paying. I'll most likely die before it's gone.
So when I heard that people from Occupy Theory, the Occupy Student Debt Campaign, and OWS Free University, among others, were holding open assemblies in Washington Square Park on the topic of debt, I showed up to the next one scheduled.
Occupy Wall Street's Next Move: Bailing Out the People
Strike Debt organizers are mobilizing arts, eduction, and media for a "People's Bailout."
It took place at noon on a Sunday in early June. Just a handful of people were there at first, but our numbers grew to around 25 over the next couple hours. The conversation focused on debt, and how something had shifted in Occupy that was turning our focus toward this issue. I recognized some labor folks, some professors, and people who I had been in marches with. There were also people I didn't know.
One professor talked about his work with the Occupy Student Debt Campaign, and about a personal conflict he had been having. He had realized, he said, that he was participating in an exploitative system of education that was sending students out to start their lives in service to enormous burdens of debt. This struck an immediate chord with me, being in service to enormous burdens of my own through that very system.
Another speaker described the idea of debt as a negative commons, how most of us shared a permanent state of docile servitude to our creditors through a constant, nagging anxiety of maintaining credit ratings. People talked about their own medical bills and horrific experiences with the American healthcare system. Municipal and sovereign debt was discussed. People talked about their experiences with credit cards and underwater mortgages, which are mortgages that exceed the current value of the property they're paying for.
The conversations fluctuated between analytical ruminations on debt and its effect on people's lives, and emotional anecdotes about speakers' personal experiences with debt. Some people floated ideas of debt abolition and debt strikes, different ways that we could mobilize large masses of people to refuse to pay their debts.
I felt compelled to speak and began talking about my experience being brought up in a working-class family, and how all of my education was financed by loans I'd taken on. In the flow of what I was saying, I felt angry, and then sick with nerves as I approached the specific amount in dollars that I owed.
I realized in that moment that, while I've spoken about how much I owe to a very few close people, I had never before stood up in public and spoken about how enormous my debt actually is. This is something I have always kept secret, in the dark. My debt is something I had always been ashamed of. In spite of my sick nerves, I let it out, and was met with a circle of nodding heads and twinkling fingers. It was liberating and empowering to, for lack of a better phrase, come out with that.
Finding support
By the end of the assembly, quite a few others spoke out about their debt. We had this eureka moment, realizing shame was a powerful tool used by all different types of creditors to manage us, keeping us working and committed to treating our debts as if they were actual moral obligations.
We came to understand that this shame is one of the things that gives debt power over our lives, both individually and collectively. Perhaps letting go of the shame around our debt was a first step toward identifying other debtors and beginning to lay the groundwork toward building a global movement of debt resistance. We vowed to pick up this conversation the next time we met, and to allow time for a debtor's speak-out.
The next week, our assembly had more than doubled in size. We dedicated an hour for debtors to speak out about their debt. What followed was, judging from a palpable range of affect, something very powerful for the speakers and assembly alike. A diverse group of women and men of all ages stood up one at a time and spoke emotionally of their own struggles. They received spontaneous encouragement, attentive respect, and applause from the group. They spoke of their fears, humiliations, regrets, and choices they may have made differently in life if these burdens of debt hadn't been weighing down on them. It was clear, having listened to these testimonials, that we really are not alone.
Looking ahead
Weekly meetings continued all summer. In addition to the speak outs, rigorous research and organizational work continues to be done. Several initiatives were developed in time for September 17, the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and the beginning of Year Two. On Saturday, September 15, Strike Debt released the Debt Resistors' Operations Manual (DROM) at Judson Church.
The DROM is a living document collectively written for collective action. It provides useful information for any debtor considering becoming a debt resistor, with a focus on dealing with types of debt such as: municipal, housing, student, medical, fringe finance, credit card, and bankruptcy. In addition to being available online, 10,000 copies have been printed and distributed. Translations into other languages are currently being made.
Strike Debt also has several special events planned for the fall. The Rolling Jubilee is a Strike Debt campaign to liberate debtors at random by purchasing and abolishing bundles of anonymous debt for pennies on the dollar. [Editor's note: organizers aren't sharing the financial details behind this project at this time.] The Rolling Jubilee will launch a People's Bailout with a variety show & telethon on November 15, with 100 percent of ticket proceeds to benefit the Rolling Jubilee. Comedian Janeane Garofalo, songwriter Jeff Mangum (of Neutral Milk Hotel), and members of the Yes Men are among those scheduled to perform.
Strike Debt aims to transform the shame and fear of being burdened with debt into outrage, and turn that outrage into action, resistance, and mutual aid. Strike Debt is the beginning of a radical movement of international debt resistance.
Personally, I have more hope and faith in the possibility of Strike Debt continuing to spread and to build viable alternatives to living at the service of credit ratings, than I do in ever paying down my own debt.
Debt—and the shame that surrounds it—is the tie that binds the 99 percent. Can young people reimagine it as something productive, rather than a tool for profiteering?
There's a biblical precedent for forgiveness—of debt. Why churches are standing by students on one of the Bible's most surprising social principles.
Introducing the movement that's shifting our vision of what kind of world is possible—from the new book, "This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement."


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Slideshows and Book Signing Tour, The Hand-Sculpted House, November 2002
This is a first draft of what we hope will be very helpful to anyone in
the Natural Building movement planning a lecture, slideshow or
booksigning tour.
Ianto Evans and Linda Smiley completed a slideshow/booksigning
tour, 20 stops in 26 days, from Arcata to San Diego. This was our first
book tour, so we were a little unprepared for the potentials of such an
event. It felt like a great success. It's clear from the early feedback
that this was an important step, the effects of which will be felt for years.
We've seen authors who just sat in a bookstore and signed books for
customers. What a waste of our efforts! We're working for free for the
bookstore, but a lot worse, missing the chance to perform, to provide a
lot of information, to fire up a crowd, make cross-connections between
people and help create community around Natural Building.
Overall, we had a wonderful time. People were enthusiastic, hospitable,
generous, excited. At a time when so many people feel trapped and
powerless, it was wonderful to see people come alive, make positive
plans, begin to take charge of their fates and live according to their
conscience. It was a month's work for the two of us, plus untold
preparation and arrangements on the part of local organizers, so we want
to maximize the output by making our learning available to anyone else
planning a slideshow or booksigning tour. This sort of event has
tremendous potential for the Natural Building movement. We would
encourage other authors to do similar trips.
We signed over 300 of our new book, The Hand-Sculpted House, sold over
100 of other titles, talked to more than 1,000 people and hopefully
seeded new outgrowths of Natural Building in most of the communities we visited.
Perhaps the most useful product was learning how to make tours like
this even more valuable and how to cut down on the work involved. Here
are some hints and observations. We'd appreciate comments and feedback
to incorporate into a later version.
Plan ahead
- Begin planning 2-4 months ahead, contacting local sponsors and
helpers, booking presentation rooms, ordering stock.
- Write down your goals and what exactly you want to accomplish. Prepare
in advance for those things, e.g. I want to sell a lot of books or I
want to provide information or I want to help reinforce community.
- Consider different ways to accomplish your goals. This is Performance
Art, be ready to show slides, talk, demonstrate, teach, play games, etc.
- There should be two of you; you'll need an accomplice to do all the
other things needed while one of you is performing, to help read the
map, to be company, to bounce ideas off. Don't try this alone.
- Stack functions. Figure out in advance how many things you can
accomplish at the same time, then prioritize them. A book tour can be
exhausting, expensive and a lot of work for a lot of people. Have it pay
for itself as many ways as possible. Examples: generate a mailing list,
advertise upcoming workshops, get people to work together on a local
practical project.
- Have a short descriptive title for your show, to be publicized in advance.
- Use existing networks to publicize. e.g. permaculture, green building,
internet lists, specialist newsletters and journals e.g. Hope Dance, New
Settler, The Last Straw, The CobWeb and The Permaculture Activist.
- Decide in advance if you want to make deliveries to book retailers.
Get lists of local retailers from local organizers and make
prearrangements to carry extra books.
- Contact all local hosts and organizers well before leaving home.
Reconfirm with them details from your checklist.
- Have a reliable backup switchboard, all hours. Give the phone number
to all organizers. Our office might be prepared to offer that service if
you don't have your own arrangements.
- Choose a suitable vehicle for carrying a large amount of books, other
goods, for sale or displays.
- Advance publicity: Help all sponsors with a poster they can print off
the Internet, a brief description of your book and slideshow. Design it
to be striking in black and white, but color is possible. Have local
newspapers carry an article a few days in advance, perhaps a phone
interview of you, the author. Try local radio.
- Create generic announcement poster, listing each gig but with space
for a big splash on the current one, location time, etc. Describe the
book, describe the slideshow. Have a catchy title. Say that you will
have several titles for sale, that prices are CASH, with a surcharge for checks.
Venues and Locations
- Don't run a tour more than 2 weeks without a break. (Ours was 4 weeks,
much too tiring.)
- Try to do 2 or more shows clustered in the same area. Encourage people
to bring friends to the next slide show. Then take a day off before
driving to the next town.
- Set up venues where you can retail your books yourself. Church halls,
private homes and public libraries are perfect. Avoid bookstores,
they'll take your profit. Colleges and universities are hard to deal
with (finding the room, parking tickets, impersonal, uncomfortable).
- Schedule slideshows 6 or 6:30 workdays, 7 or 7:30 weekends, no later.
Try to arrange supper or a potluck in advance for everyone interested.
Social time is very important.
- Start slides 20 to 30 minutes after announced start time. Use preceding
time to sign and sell books. Warn hosts to be prepared for late endings;
people hang around to ask questions, share enthusiasms, socialize.
Daily Rhythm
Be realistic about how much you can get done. There's a lot to do each
day apart from signing books and showing slides. You will need time for:
- Hanging out with hosts. Often they are the most interested,
interesting, kind, hospitable people.
- Local sightseeing.
- Visiting local bookstores, making sure they stock your book.
- Phoning ahead to the next organizers/hosts/venue, to confirm.
- Getting precise directions, finding the site.
- Organizing your display material.
- Driving between towns (we were on the road an average of 3-4 hours
per day).
- Unforeseen opportunities, breakdowns, traffic jams, etc.
- Extra sleep (sometimes you get to bed very late).
- Make sure you're well supplied with everything you'll need before you
leave home. Don't count on finding things on the road. Here are some
obvious ones: colored felt pens, markers, clear tape and scratch paper;
a box with change in it; colored tablecloth, flowers, vase; folding
table if possible; white double bedsheet for the screen, thumbtacks,
duct tape; standup signs for prices; flyers for distribution; notebook
for signups and mailing lists; drinking water and snacks; flashlight;
maps and directions; projector, spare bulb, spare slides, extension
cords, slide trays, spare projector if possible.
- Take other titles to sell (we started with 8 titles, sold some of all
of them). Some people are in a mood to stock up on the subject. A few
bought one of every title we sell.
- Have extra books and other gifts ready as thank you presents to
helpers, hosts, etc. You may need quite a few. Overestimate
optimistically how many books you may need. We took 320 copies of The
Hand-Sculpted House, never expecting to need them all, yet returned with
only 9 copies.
- Have backup boxes of books for wholesale sales. Make sure you have
your own name and contact information taped to everything in case you
lose it. It can cause a lot of confusion otherwise.
- Have duplicate backups for all contact information, times, dates,
phone numbers, etc., stored in a different place, also backup in your
home office.
- If you're short of room in your vehicle, have extra books or other
heavy items shipped ahead to pickup points, allowing extra time for slow deliveries.
Advance Preparations
- Send sponsor/local contact a checklist to get back to you on. Their
address, phone number, possible changes; address and phone number of
venue, directions to get there; is there free parking for delivery;
screen size (clear white wall is our preference, or large rolldown
screen at least 12 feet wide). How good is the black out, both daytime
and night? Is there at least one large display table available? Are the
chairs movable? Is there a fee and do they need advance payment? When
would you have access to the venue? You need access at least 1 hour
ahead. Make sure there's no early closing time. Dealing with an irate
janitor can put a wet blanket on everything.
- Check in with overnight hosts; make sure you have directions and if
possible a map.
- Carry your own bedding. It may save your hosts washing bedding.
- In the room, set up display table by the door so people have to pass
it coming in. Put stacks of books for sale on it with other display
material. If you have free handouts, try to keep them separate to avoid
confusion. Have someone greet everyone, get their contact information
and remind them that a donation would really help with expenses. Have an
open-topped donations bowl so people can make change themselves.
- Be prepared for sudden changes so they are not disasters. We had flat
tires, car breakdown, difficulties finding places, a power blackout, etc.
Slide Show
- Have 2 half slideshows, each of which stands alone but which together
make a whole, between 1/2 and 1 1/2 hours total. Decide if the slides
can tell their own story, or if they are diagrams of your explanations,
stories and thought chains. The latter is better. Don't automate the
slideshow; you are the key performer, as author, not the images. Keep it
mechanically very simple, e.g. single screen, but offer complex
viewpoints from your own experience. If you read from your book, keep
readings short (1-5 minutes each). Set up to get as big a picture as
possible and stand in front of it, facing the audience. Arrange seating
as close as possible to the screen; you want people to feel they're in
the picture like the movies, not looking at a tiny image like TV.
Select only horizontal slides as most screens don't accommodate
verticals. None too dark as there may be blackout problems.
- Have a checklist of what you want to communicate: announcements,
commercials, announcements from sponsors, the fact that you have an
exciting book for sale. Ask if anyone else has announcements
- Plan slideshow to be thought-provoking and inspiring. At beginning,
define essential terms, eg cob or Natural Building. Introduce yourself,
your background and credentials.
- Make your show as dynamic as possible. Pass around anything relevant
for inspection, e.g. samples; involve as many people as possible in
setting up; involve your audience however you can.
- Limit questions from the floor, e.g., 'I'll take 3 questions of
general interest. If you have issues specific to your situation, take
with me later,' and police big talkers. (You're the performer, not them.)
- This is an opportunity to build community and set up local projects.
Plan for and announce followup local events, eg a breakfast planning
meeting the following morning, potluck and ovenbuilding the next
Saturday. Emphasize practical, dirty-hands events. You don't need to be
there, but make sure you give contact information for one or two people
who are really enthusiastic, and have them speak briefly about their own event.
- People sometimes need to leave before the end of a slideshow. Start
selling books when you arrive, then in a 10-15 minutes break between
carousels, then sell them after slides. Announce several times what
you're doing.
- Presign each day at least as many books as you think you'll sell. At
the table you can personalize them. Say something like, 'What name would
you like me to sign it to?' and add special messages.
- Have a special colored pen that you really like to use, to sign books
with. Choose a number of personal phrases in advance in case you don't
know what to say. Don't just sign your name; make it as personal as possible.
- Prestuff books with other current information, upcoming workshops,
information about other books you sell, etc.
After the Show
- Try to take photo of each sponsor/host/organizer, make sure you have
name spelling correct and have contact information complete. You may
want to thank them formally later. Ask what expenses they have and
settle up with them right then.
- Ask for feedback from hosts, sponsors, or anyone you meet later who
was at your show. Be prepared to change your act.
- Send thank you cards/make calls to all helpers, within a few days of
getting home.
- Lick your wounds and congratulate yourselves. It was hard work but oh
so rewarding!
Our biggest regret was that we didn't have enough time to hang out with
so many fascinating people who came to see us. The schedule we set
ourselves was too exhausting. Some days we had 8 hours of driving, then
4 or 5 hours of setting up, showing slides, questions, booksignings,
then getting to know unfamiliar hosts and sleeping in a new place. Don't
be so ambitious; leave plenty of time to relax between shows.
We can't given enough credit to Wes Roe and Margie Bushman of Hope
Dance magazine, who coordinated the whole tour. They did an amazing job,
during weeks of preparation, then being our backup throughout the trip.
Feedback? Call Ianto Evans or Linda Smiley, 541-396-1825.


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This is how I imagine GJ1214b, a super-Earth discovered only forty light-years away from us, orbiting a red dwarf star in the constellation of Ophiuchus. The good news: It's three parts water. The bad news: The beaches are too hot.
400 degrees Fahrenheit, that's how hot. But still, there are signs which indicate the planet has a gaseous atmosphere. GJ1214b itself is composed mostly of water and other ices, with one fourth of it being rock. As Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics' graduate Zachory Berta puts it: "Despite its hot temperature, this appears to be a waterworld. It is much smaller, cooler, and more Earthlike than any other known exoplanet."
The other good news is that it was discovered by an array of eight 16-inch optical telescopes using Apogee U42 CCDs, a kind of sensor which is used by amateur astronomers all over the world. The array is part of the MEarth Project, which monitors 2,000 red dwarves for signs of planetary activity.
The next step would be to direct Hubble to the planet—which orbits the star in only 38 hours—and analyze its atmosphere. After that, we will send Kevin Costner in a one-way spacecraft. [Eureka Alert]


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Each week we post a round-up of some of our most exciting national and international PUP book coverage. Reviews, interviews, events, articles–this is the spot for coverage of all things "PUP books" that took place in the last week. Enjoy!
We begin this week with that gray matter in your head. We will get your brain working with our list of News of the World books, especially this first pick. What do you know about your brain — besides the fact that it feels a bit fuzzy around that 2:00 p.m. work day slump? We turn to expert and PUP author Gary Marcus for more on cerebral matters. Marcus wrote a New York Times op-ed entitled "The Trouble with Brain Science," and he discusses what we do and don't know about our brains.
Marcus writes:
Are we ever going to figure out how the brain works?
After decades of research, diseases like schizophrenia and Alzheimer's still resist treatment. Despite countless investigations into serotonin and other neurotransmitters, there is still no method to cure clinical depression. And for all the excitement about brain-imaging techniques, the limitations of fMRI studies are, as evidenced by popular books like "Brainwashed" and "Neuromania," by now well known. In spite of the many remarkable advances in neuroscience, you might get the sinking feeling that we are not always going about brain science in the best possible way.
Check out the full op-ed on the New York Times' website. Marcus is the co-editor of a forthcoming Princeton book entitled The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists. An unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, the book takes readers to the absolute frontiers of science.
Original essays by leading researchers such as Christof Koch, George Church, Olaf Sporns, and May-Britt and Edvard Moser describe the spectacular technological advances that will enable us to map the more than eighty-five billion neurons in the brain, as well as the challenges that lie ahead in understanding the anticipated deluge of data and the prospects for building working simulations of the human brain.
You'll have this book on your BRAIN all day, so go ahead and pre-order your copy of The Future of the Brain now. It's the smart thing to do.
When your country has just won the World Cup and you look to celebrate your sixtieth birthday, what author should you choose to share in the celebration? When you are German chancellor Angela Merkel, you look to the best, and you find one of the best in German historian Jürgen Osterhammel. Bloomberg reports that Merkel's birthday present to herself was a speech by Osterhammel at CDU headquarters.
Osterhammel is a professor of modern and contemporary history at the University of Konstanz, and he is a recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Germany's most prestigious academic prize. His most recent book, The Transformation of the World, is a monumental history of the nineteenth century, and Merkel read it for herself.
In the book, Osterhammel, who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. He examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century," taking readers from New York to New Delhi, from the Latin American revolutions to the Taiping Rebellion, from the perils and promise of Europe's transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet.
Osterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railways. He explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much more.
The book is mentioned in a "Summer Reads" feature in the Times Higher Education, which quotes "scholars and senior sector figures on two books they plan to devour on holiday." Linda Colley, Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 professor of history at Princeton University, names the title as her summer read.
The Transformation of the World also reviewed on naked capitalism. Satyajit Das writes:
Jürgen Osterhammel's fine The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century … swoops, shimmies and carves ellipses and spirals through the facts to give readers an insightful view of the nineteenth century in all its complexity and confusion. In a great work of scholarship, Professor Osterhammel…and his able translator…Patrick Camiller have fashioned a remarkable picture of the nineteenth century….[It] brings a new meaning to the term block buster.
Looking to grab a copy for your own reading? You can preview the introduction of The Transformation of the World here.
Next, we bring you a title focused on words that defy translation. Princeton University Press's Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that cannot be easily translated from one language and culture to another. Drawn from more than a dozen languages, terms such as Dasein (German), pravda (Russian), saudade (Portuguese), and stato (Italian) are thoroughly examined in all their cross-linguistic and cross-cultural complexities. Spanning the classical, medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary periods, these are terms that influence thinking across the humanities.
This week, a piece by Dictionary of Untranslatables translator Jacques Lerza ran in the Washington Post. Lerza describes his work on the title:
The project provided me, and my co-editors, with a vivid sense of the history of how people think, and how societies think differently from one another. The "Dictionary" aspires to do the same. For example: spirit is not the same as mind, but both are used to translate the German Geist. Happiness, which retains an old etymological connection to chance and happenstance (in English, at least), is different from bonheur, which doesn't, and from German Glück and Seligkeit, which split "happiness-as-good-fortune" and "happiness as moral virtue."
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The Dictionary of Untranslatables was reviewed in this month's issue of Asymptote. Michael Kinnucan writes:
"[A]stonishingly successful….entertaining and revealing…strikingly complete and correct….[A] fascinating book…. The translation of European "philosophy" into American "theory" has probably been the most consequential event in American intellectual life in the last fifty years, but it has entailed a great deal of "mistranslation"…. The Dictionary of Untranslatables, in addition to its other pleasures, has a great deal to teach American scholars of the humanities about the depth and complexity of the languages and discourses we've picked up only recently—and a few powerful suggestions about what we may find waiting when we choose to turn back to our own."


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Murder at the Azalea Festival
In Wilmington, the azaleas are blooming, the dogwoods are flowering, and the bodies are dropping faster than cherry blossoms on a windy day. But it's spring, and Ashley Wilkes, historic preservationist, is much too distracted by love to give a thought to recent homicides, until one occurs at a garden party where she's a guest. When her client is arrested for murder Ashley tries not to get involved. But she knows the actress is innocent. And just who...
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Set at Christmas on the Olde Wilmington by Candlelight tour, the mystery features Ashley Wilkes, a historic preservationist, and her sister Melanie, a realtor. (Mama was besotted with Gone With The Wind.) It's a dream come true for Ashley; her restored Victorian house is on the tour. But the dream turns nightmarish when a docent is murdered in the library, and history professor Binkie Higgins is the likely suspect. As the bodies drop faster than dead ne...


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1 Secret to Bakken Oil Production
Oil production out of North Dakota's Bakken Shale continues to surge higher. The play is now expected to hit daily oil production of more than a million barrels of oil sometime early next year. One secret to its success is that oil companies continue to get more out of each drilling rig.
According to a new report from the Energy Information Agency, each rig in the Bakken is being used to produce more oil. This month, the average rig will be used to deliver 459 barrels of oil production per day. Production per rig is expected to grow in November to about 482 barrels of oil per day. What's pretty stunning is, that's nearly double the just-more-than 250 barrels of oil each rig was adding a year ago. The following chart shows just how efficient rigs have become.
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The transition to pad drilling, along with other efficiency gains, has really helped fuel the Bakken's latest surge. The results have been pretty remarkable. Kodiak Oil & Gas , for example, recently reported a 54% spike in its Bakken oil production. The company has focused on cutting down on the days required to drill each well. As the following chart shows, drilling days for Kodiak Oil & Gas are steadily falling, while completed wells per quarter are increasing.
The trend toward faster drilling is fueling more than just quicker growth for Kodiak Oil & Gas and its peers. For example, Continental Resources has used a combination of drilling efficiencies, and the shift to multi-well pads, to slash $800,000 off the cost of drilling each well. That's yielding an increasing rate of return for the company. Overall, the returns that Continental Resources enjoys at $100 oil have improved from 50%, to 65%.
By getting more oil production growth out of each rig, it's enabling companies like EOG Resources to simply print money from the Bakken. Over the past year, EOG Resources has seen its drilling days drop from 24.3 per well to just 16.9 this year. That has helped EOG to shave more than $600,000 off its completed well cost.
What's pretty remarkable is that, at the same time that the company is drilling more quickly, it's also drilling longer laterals. In fact, each well is now more than 2,000 feet longer than the ones the company was drilling last year. Those longer laterals are helping EOG Resources to recover more oil per well.
Energy companies in the Bakken are really getting much more efficient at drilling wells. That's enabling each rig to deliver more oil production growth. It's this continual improvement, which is yielding real results, that's enabling the Bakken to continue exceeding expectations. That's one of the secrets to why production keeps growing.
How you can profit from America's energy boom
The Bakken is one of the plays really driving record oil production that is revolutionizing the United States' energy position. EOG Resources, while not the top producer, has really found the keys to unlock this and other shale oil plays. It's a company that has potential to fuel your portfolio for years to come. That is why the Motley Fool is offering a comprehensive look at EOG Resources, along with two other energy companies set to soar during this transformation in the energy industry. To find out more, check out the special free report, "3 Stocks for the American Energy Bonanza." Don't miss out on this timely opportunity; click here to access your report -- it's absolutely free.
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Alena Beljakova photography via: Beautiful DecayI love these photographs by Alena Beljakova. Some are surreal, others are beautiful. Many involve people in unusual locations or costume. They are like some kind of strange film.
Analogue Landscapes via: BehanceI was delighted when I saw these photographs this week. There is something about unadulterated nature that takes my breath away. It's so much more beautiful than anything humans can create. This series of photographs has been taken by a variety of people along the Panamerican highway between Alaska and the Mexican border, I dream of this all the time. The American landscape is breathtaking.
H.P. Lovecraft themed scents including:
"The Deep Ones" - Black algae, drooping seaweed, salty brine, and crushed coral.
A more appetizing sounding combination is "Arkham" A shadowy, unapproachable forest of maple, birch, dogwood, cypress and pine softened by a garland of New England wildflowers: bergamot, columbine, rue anemone, blue violet, creeping phlox, bloodroot, toadflax, and pixie moss.
They also have Labyrinth themed scents, I would without a doubt go for "Jareth" Ethereal lilac fougere and gleaming leather with ti leaf, tonka absolute, white musk, and oudh.
And finally, they have.... *drumroll* Fraggle Rock fragrances. It's almost too much to bear! I want everything!
Suspiria still via: Behind Ballet
The Behind Ballet blog has a 'styling dance' feature and this time it's based on the film Suspiria. It's a visually striking film from Dario Argento, I was lucky enough to see it on the big screen a year or two ago. If you check the link you can see what Hila Shachar styled based on the film. If you aren't perturbed by horror films (it's more psychological than gory horror, although Dario Argento does love splashing blood around, it was the 70's after all) I highly recommend this film. It's pretty good, it has a surreal David Lynch type atmosphere to it. Speaking of David Lynch, I watched Blue Velvet this week for the first time (I know...) I really enjoyed it. I was wondering if Dennis Hopper's resemblance to David Lynch in the film was intentional? If so, I'm scared of David Lynch and his feelings toward blue velvet robes.
image via: NPR - Stefano Giovannini/Courtesy of the artistI don't usually post about music. I'm not sure why, it's a really big part of my life. Anyway, for some background, I have a really wide taste in music from classical to country (only the old stuff in case you're wondering) to noisy screeching guitars and gentle folk songs. I'm pretty excited that Cat Power has a new album out, she is and artist that I really enjoy. You can listen to the entire album right now on NPR. I've only heard the first song, I thought I'd save it for the weekend. I hope you enjoy, she's one talented lady.


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Napster, the online music service that allows users to swap MP3 audio files for free, was ordered to stop distributing copyrighted songs yesterday by Judge Marilyn Hall Patel. A preliminary injunction was issued against Napster despite attorney David Boise's attempts to argue that personal copying of music is protected by federal law and that the main purpose of Napster is the promotion of new music.
The company contends that they do not encourage the transfer of copyrighted materials, and did not know piracy was taking place. Sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in December of 1999, Napster hired Boise, best know for being instrumental in breaking up Microsoft, to create a defense strategy for the San Mateo based company. The injunction will take effect at on July 29th, 2000 at 3am (EST) unless Napster can obtain an appeals court issued stay.
Despite music sales that are up approximately 3 percent over last year according to SoundScan sales charts, the RIAA claims that Napster has cost the music industry more than $300 million in lost sales. In a recent Billboard magazine interview, Napster CEO Hank Berry stated the company is trying to modify their business model so that it recognizes intellectual material and properly compensates its owners. Napster is licensing tracking technology from Liquid Audio that allows users information to be audited. It is possible that Napster could become a monthly fee based service and artist will be paid according to the amount of times their material is traded.
Other file swapping services such as Gnutella and Scour.net will most likely face the same dilemma that Napster is in right now. AudioRevolution.com will keep you posted as more details of Napster's future unfold.


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Bleeding Rainbow are about to release their follow up to last year's much-augmented release, Yeah Right....
Philadelphia-based Bleeding Rainbow oozes with 90s nostalgia. While their name may evoke memory of afternoon lessons with LeVar Burton (even though they've tried to avoid it), their glittery garage tones on recent full-length release, Yeah Right are reminiscent of the shoegaze era's bubbly pop personalities....
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Do you ever just want to lock yourself in your room, pick up a fantastic book and disappear into the fluff of fiction?
The holidays tend to do that to us. Everything comes to a point. Work deadlines, children concerts, family obligations and holiday gift shopping. It's like the world conspires to make us have insomnia, break out into hives, constant exhaustion, short fuses and general feelings of hatred towards all things holiday-y by the end of it.
It's really a colossal shame. Cuz no matter your beliefs, traditions or religious practices, this should be a time for happiness, family and friends.
So- how to reconnect?
I truly believe that an important, and often overlooked, step in the process of reconnecting with a joyful holiday experience, is the 'do nothing' and 'let it go' part. We talk about creating meaningful memories, more time for family only- important for sure, but this still requires planning and DO-ing.
During this month of lack of sleep, of GO-ing, of planning of socializing and shopping and DO-ing...
Take one day (or half day) a week and specifically DO nothing on your list. That includes cleaning. Sleep in, eat Kraft Dinner cuz it's easy, practice yoga in your living room, read a book all afternoon curled up with some tasty coffee. Tell your partner your "do nothing" day plans and ask for their support- delegate tasks, pawn off the children if you have to.
Put everything on pause for a good chunk of hours. The world won't implode if you put the shopping for tomorrow. I have discovered the world won't end if I don't sweep, or bake cookies or do all my shopping RIGHT NOW.


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When it comes to the eventual fate of the solar system, we've all heard the standard line. The sun, currently enjoying a healthy middle age converting hydrogen to helium will eventually turn into a red giant, and that'll be bad news for the planets that surround it. Once the core of a star is exhausted of hydrogen, it expands in radius up to a hundredfold, and that tends to have serious implications for things in nearby orbit.
Although it had been assumed that this enlargement would destroy orbiting planets, new findings in Nature suggest that there's life after giant-hood, at least as far as planets go. The star in question in V 391 Pegasi, currently a B-type subdwarf that's in that relaxed stage of a star's dotage when it wants nothing more than to convert helium into carbon. V 391 Pegasi also pulsates, apparently not a very common trick for B-type subdwarfs, but it is thanks to this pulsation that we were able to spot a planet in orbit around it. This was done by a periodic change in the timing of the pulses, due to the planet's gravitational effect on the star.
The planet surrounding V 391 Pegasi was originally in orbit around the star at about the same distance that we orbit the sun, 1 astronomical unit (AU). When the star became a red giant, it would have expanded to around 70 percent of this distance, and now the planet, a massive gas giant, is around 1.7 AU. V 391 Pegasi is a rather uncommon type of dwarf star, having lost most of its atmosphere of hydrogen as a red giant. It is speculated that perhaps the presence of this planet might have contributed to its eventual fate as a B-type dwarf, with the gravitational pull from the planet somehow accelerating the loss of hydrogen from the star.
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5: Rooted in Culture
Examine the Topic
Now that you have read the research and viewed the video discussion on integrating culture with foreign language study, you will examine the topic further by exploring the three components of the cultural framework: products, practices, and perspectives.
One of the challenges teachers face when introducing cultural products or practices is that these pieces of information can appear to be disconnected, like bits of trivia, and possibly lead to the stereotypes teachers hope to prevent. By using the cultural framework in their planning, teachers can instead ensure that culture is explored in a systematic and contextual way. The framework helps teachers tie together the disparate knowledge that they have about products and practices, and helps students begin to relate products and practices to perspectives and acquire a deeper understanding of culture overall.
A. Exploring the Cultural FrameworkIn the following interactive activity, you will use the triangle model of the cultural framework to explore how products, practices, and perspectives are interrelated and begin reflecting on how you might use it to plan lessons.
B. Reflect on the ActivityNow that you have explored the three Ps of the cultural framework, select a target culture for the language that you teach and use the triangle model to think about the interrelationship of products, practices, and perspectives associated with that culture. Also, consider the following:
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Ramsey came off the bench to net a well-taken goal in the Gunners' 3-1 win over Olympiacos at Emirates Stadium, which put them in control of Group B and safely on course for the knockout stage.
"I am feeling good and confident again, getting back to my old self which got me here in the first place. Hopefully now this will kick me on again and I will keep on improving throughout the season," he said.
The 21-year-old has certainly been through more than his fair share of personal battles - fighting back from an horrific leg injury which ruled him out for almost a year and then, in November 2011, dealing with the death of Wales manager Gary Speed.
Ramsey, though, is now fully focused on producing consistent displays for Arsene Wenger's side, who will look to get their Barclays Premier League campaign back on track at West Ham this weekend.
"It is always difficult to overcome things like that in life," he continued. "A lot happened last year for me, there were loads of things going on off the pitch as well.
"However, now I am feeling happy and hopefully that's showing in my performances."
Ramsey had short loan spells at both Nottingham Forest and former club Cardiff after recovering from a double leg fracture following a tackle by Stoke defender Ryan Shawcross.
"It makes you stronger and it is getting over the mental side of it," said Ramsey, who was part of the Team GB Olympic squad. "As soon as you get through that, the confidence comes back and it's a thing of the past.
"You are not sharp in your mind and you take a bit longer to think things through on the pitch which normally come naturally. Little things like that make such a big difference I was patient. I didn't want to rush back, I wanted to make sure everything was correct."
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