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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine which spotlights highly anticipated upcoming releases.
Title: Say You'll Remember Me
Series: None
Author: Katie McGarry
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Publication Date: January 30, 2018
When Drix was convicted of a crime--one he didn't commit--he thought his life was over. But opportunity came with the new Second Chance Program, the governor's newest pet project to get delinquents off the streets, rehabilitated and back into society. Drix knows this is his chance to get his life back on track, even if it means being paraded in front of reporters for a while.
Elle knows she lives a life of privilege. As the governor's daughter, she can open doors with her name alone. But the expectations and pressure to be someone she isn't may be too much to handle. She wants to follow her own path, whatever that means.
When Drix and Elle meet, their connection is immediate, but so are their problems. Drix is not the type of boy Elle's parents have in mind for her, and Elle is not the kind of girl who can understand Drix's messy life.
But sometimes love can breach all barriers.
Fighting against a society that can't imagine them together, Drix and Elle must push themselves--Drix to confront the truth of the robbery, and Elle to assert her independence--and each other to finally get what they deserve.
Find Say You'll Remember Me online!
Why I'm waiting on Say You'll Remember Me this Wednesday: It's been a few years since I've read a book from this author but I remember really liking her stories back in the day! This one originally caught my attention because of the cover (it's SO PRETTY!). But the summary also really appeals to me -- sounds like a forbidden romance which I am so here for.
What are you waiting on this Wednesday? Have you read any books by Katie McGarry? Which has been your favorite? I'm really excited to give this one a chance! Leave links to your posts down below!


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P-160: Metalworking Forge Update 6
by PhoenixGames on Aug.13, 2015, under Inventions, Miscellany
This time I concentrated on the hilt of the blade. I began rounding out the handle, and making the finger choil (the protrusion at the end of the hilt, just before the blade, designed to prevent the users fingers slipping onto the blade during use). I also flattened out the blade more.
The top of the blade is bent slightly, this will need to be corrected. This happened while I was making the indentation for the finger choil.
The next goals are to finish flattening the blade, finish rounding the handle, and then finish the finger choil. After than I just need to temper it and polish it, and the basic blade blank will be done.


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Car lease costs more
Car lease prices were 4.2 percent higher in the third quarter of 2004 than twelve months previously.
Lease prices of new cars, vans and lorries
Prices rising faster since second half of 2003
Since the third quarter of 2001 the average lease price has risen by 10.2 percent. More than half of this increase took place after the first half of 2003.
Lease prices of new cars, vans and lorries
Prices of medium-sized cars rise faster
Lease prices differ between car size categories. Prices of small cars and larger cars rose by less than those of medium-sized cars. In addition lease prices of cars with a diesel motor rose by less than those of similar cars running on LPG.
Lease prices of cars by fuel and category
Diesel popular for leased cars
Nearly one in three new cars sold in the Netherlands is leased. On 31 December 2003 there were 517 thousand leased cars on Dutch roads. More than half of these had a diesel motor. By way of comparison, only one fifth of all cars in the Netherlands had a diesel motor.
Smaller price rises for vans and lorries
The price of new lease contracts for vans rose less heftily. On average the lease price for a van was 2.3 percent higher in the third quarter of 2004 than in the third quarter van 2003. For lorries the price increase was 1.1 percent. The prices of lease contracts for lorries have been lower than those for other vehicle categories for quite a long time now.
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Some couples have a song, some have a special date location, we have a flower.
In honor of Andrew's and my wedding anniversary this week, today I'm talking about beautiful Columbines (Aquilegia)!
How We Fell in Love (with Columbines!)
Our introduction to the flower was simple: a former teacher of Andrew's shared photos of Columbine's from her garden and the two of us were instantly enraptured by its lovely shape and vibrant blue colors. Add in the fact that this flower could be grown right here in Maryland and we were smitten! We decided right then and there to use it as inspiration for our wedding colors (blue and white with yellow accents) and to plant some in our future garden.
As far as symbolism goes, Columbines are perhaps not the best flower to have as a relationship flower as in some cultures it represents foolishness and adultery (oops!) but as with many symbols, meaning changes depending on who you ask. The ancient Greeks attributed Columbines with Aphrodite, goddess of love, and in Christian tradition, it represents doves and the holy spirit. So if you don't like one meaning, look for another!
Growing Columbine
We started our Columbine from seed indoors in the winter of 2016. To start the germination process, Columbine seeds first need 3-4 weeks of cold so we refrigerated the seed packets for a few weeks before planting (this process is called cold stratification). They started germinating in the second half of March and we transplanted them outside in the middle of May along with our other seedlings.
Year One
In there first year, the Columbines often had yellowing leaves (I think we had a tendency to water them more than they needed) and they didn't produce any flowers, which is normal for year 1. We also didn't have any problems with leaf miners, a common pest for Columbines, which I attribute to the fact that they weren't exposed to outdoors until late after eggs were already laid for the season.
Year Two
We're just getting started with year two but at this point, our Columbine plant is in full bloom (nicely coordinating with our wedding anniversary!). Buds first started to appear on our Columbines in mid-April. Brimming with excitement, I watched those buds like a pot of water yet to boil and finally, finally, the first bud popped open on April 27.
Since then, we've noticed that the flowers are very short-lived, lasting only a few days before losing its petals, however while we're diligent about removing spent blossoms, the plants keep producing more on a daily basis.
This year, we have also noticed leafminer damage on the leaves. From what I've read, this damage shouldn't kill the plants but it does mar their beauty so I've been cutting off the affected leaves, which is the control method I've most often seen recommended.


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A Guide to Sweeteners/
Sugar is bad. No, artificial sweeteners are bad. No, just some of them. So wait - what are you supposed to do?! Here's your primer on sweeteners.
Sugar in general is associated with a variety of negative health consequences. Elevated blood sugar, insulin resistance, increased cardiovascular risk, general inflammation, behavioral effects. The recommendations to decrease sugar consumption resulted in many artificial sweeteners that have now been shown to be just as damaging, or even more so, than just regular sugar.
In general, it's best to limit your sugar intake as much as possible. For us - this means using sugar where it matters. I try to choose sweeteners smartly at home for myself and for my daughter. Here is my philosophy: I don't need sugar in dried fruit or yogurt, and would rather save my sugar intake for something more worthwhile...occasionally! Flourless chocolate cake anyone?! Stay away from artificial sweeteners in general.
Mmmmm - you guessed it! Honey is my favorite. The best honey is raw and unfiltered. This honey still contains pollen and has not been heated during production. I definitely prefer the flavor and I love that it's less processed. Honey is very sweet and I find I don't need as much as recipes often call for. Chemically, honey is mostly fructose and glucose with a small amount of other sugars present.
Another reason I love honey is for all the non-food uses. Have a small burn? Honey can help. Homemade facial recipes? Honey. Your child is sick and coughing? Honey. Pediatric cough and cold medicines are not safe for children <6 years, and they generally don't help with symptoms for children of any age. 1-2 teaspoons of honey at bedtime can be really helpful for nighttime coughing. Remember that honey should be avoided for infants <12 months due to a possible risk of botulism.
Sugar is produced from sugar cane or sugar beets. Sugar produced from sugar cane is available in a variety of refined states, whereas when produced from sugar beets is always highly refined. Side note - if you prefer to avoid GMO's, sugar from sugar beets should definitely be avoided as they are almost all GMO species. Chemically, sugar is sucrose: equal parts of fructose and glucose. Obviously - sugar is associated with all the negative health consequences that you are familiar with. My personal recommendation if you use sugar at all is to choose organic, coarse, unbleached varieties. I use sugar occasionally, and find that putting a couple slit vanilla beans in my sugar canister makes it easy to really reduce the amount of sugar in recipes without sacrificing flavor.
Maple Syrup
Maple syrup comes from the sap of Maple trees. It has much more of a rich aroma and flavor than sugar. You can read more about the different grading systems here. Chemically, it is mostly sucrose, with some fructose and glucose. There are some trace minerals in maple syrup, such as zinc. I think this is an acceptable sweetener in moderation. Please remember there are many highly refined and processed "syrups" that are made with high fructose corn syrup and all sorts of bizarre chemicals and I would not suggest using them.
I would love to love molasses, but I just don't! The flavor has never appealed to me. It is a byproduct of sugar production, where most of the sucrose has been removed. It has a high concentration of iron and magnesium. Typical use for molasses is more restricted than for sugar or honey, but some cakes and cookies use molasses, and some people consume for various health reasons. A related product is called Sucanat which is a type of cane sugar that retains it's molasses and other vitamins and minerals. It is a coarse, granulated substance that can be used in place of sugar for most things, but it does have a stronger flavor.
Agave Nectar
Agave nectar is a highly processed refined sweetener from the agave plant. Agave is a great example of dishonesty by the food industry. This product has been marketed as a healthy alternative to sugar, however has a very high fructose content and may cause even worse glucose/insulin spikes than sugar. It has a nice clean sweet flavor and is a thin liquid. I don't personally use this and I wouldn't recommend it.
The only sugar alternative I would (cautiously) recommend. Stevia is an herb and can be easily grown. Unlike the chemical artificial sweeteners, stevia does not appear to effect blood sugar levels and is not associated with the same Western Disease risks. I say cautiously because yes - this is still a somewhat processed product and there is some controvery of how "natural" the finished product is. Do your own research and decide for yourself, but personally I think occasional use of stevia is fine and I would much rather see someone use this than "Sweet N Low" or similar. It's also an easy to grow plant if you're into the DIY thing - tips here.
Aspartame/saccharin/sucralose (Splenda) etc
Just don't! These are lab made chemicals, not food. These ingredients are in a variety of "diet" products and soft drinks. They are associated with WORSENED weight gain, insulin resistance, metabolic disease, etc. Unfortunately these have been heavily promoted as being a better, more healthy option, which has not the case.


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Today. the FedEx guy dropped off a Sixteen Pound Coffee Table... I mean Coffee Table book by Taschen, "Magic: 1400-1950." All that I can say is WOW! It measures 29 x 44 cm (11.4 x 17.3 in.) with 650 pages beautiful pages! If you haven't ordered yours, do so. You going to want this one! Beautiful! I've been was looking forward to receiving this, but had no idea that I'd be so impressed! Kudos to Jim & Mike. This book is priced at $200. However, for a 650 page master archive of our Magic history (1400-1950), it is a fair price in my opinion and very well worth it.
About the authors:
Mike Caveney is a writer, collector, professional magician, and the publisher of over 50 books on the theory, practice, and history of magic. His biographical works include Kellar's Wonders (2003) with Bill Miesel, and Carter the Great (1995). An avid collector and performer for over four decades, he has appeared onstage or on TV in more than 20 countries.
Jim Steinmeyer is the author of many books on magic history and practice, including Los Angeles Times bestseller Hiding the Elephant (2004) and The Glorious Deception (2006). He has created deceptions featured by magicians such as Doug Henning, David Copperfield, and Siegfried and Roy, and critically acclaimed illusions for Broadway hits Mary Poppins, Beauty and the Beast, and Into the Woods.
About the contributing author:
Ricky Jay is one of the world's great sleight of hand artists, and a distinguished actor, historian, and best-selling author. His Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women and Jay's Journal of Anomalies were both New York Times "Notable Books of the Year," and he defined the terms of his art for The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre and Encyclopedia Britannica.


text: It's been way too long since my last update here so I am going to try to cover the last month or so since coming home from Alaska. Salmon fishing has been ok, with a decent amount of fish holding in pools it was nowhere near as good as it should be. Water temp played a big role in the tough bite as for the most part never dipped below 60 degrees before the fish decided to just hit gravel to spawn. Now it's time to let those fish do their thing and target Steelhead. Steelhead numbers are decent and improving, a shot of cold and rain to bring the water level up and temp down should kick things into high gear. As of right now egg imitations behind spawning salmon are the best bet to find steelhead as these fish are taking advantage of the easy food source. We should have another good fall steelhead fishery with great fishing thru December just like last year with the slowly cooling water temps. I have just a few late November openings and a decent amount of December openings for anyone looking to get on the river and catch some Steelhead. Here are just a few pictures of what we've been catching lately, salmon and steelhead.


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I originally got these ingredients with a pizza recipe in mind. It took until we actually started preparing the food before we decided to change our mind and make a soup instead. It was pretty hearty, and just a little spicy.
The recipe makes a ton of servings – I think it ended up being about 9 or 10 cups worth of soup. We made it over the weekend and then just ate it for lunch every day – it held up surprisingly well.
If I make this again, I'll probably add a couple more potatoes. You could could also up the amount of black beans, but I was happy with how many I had.
What I used:
5 chorizo sausages, cooked mostly through, cut into 1" coins
2 potatoes, peeled, diced
1 red onion, chopped
2 bell peppers, chopped – I used half each of a green, red, orange, and yellow
1 package frozen spinach, thawed
1 can black beans, undrained
6 cups chicken broth
2 tbsp olive oil
red pepper flakes, parsley, 2 bay leaves, salt/pepper
Heat the olive oil in a large soup pot on medium-high heat. When hot, add the onion, potato, and sausage. Cook on medium heat, stirring frequently, until the potatoes are starting to get soft and the onion is translucent.
Oh yeah, I became really hungry at this point and had a mug full of fruit loops. Nick insisted I add it to the post.
Add the peppers and spinach, and stir until combined. Cook until the peppers soften a little bit, about 3 or 4 minutes.
Add the black beans and broth. I used 6 cups here, but add however much you want – it's up to your taste. Add the bay leaves, red pepper flakes, salt/pepper and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for about 30 minutes, until the potatoes are soft. Top with parsley.
I served it with cheesy garlic bread, but serve it with whatever you want to.


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Kale Salad with Currants, Pine Nuts, and Lemon-Thyme Vinaigrette Recipe
Normally tough kale becomes a delicate salad with a light lemon-thyme vinaigrette and complimented with pine nuts and currants.
Reinventing plant-based eating is what Tal Ronnen is all about. At his Los Angeles restaurant, Crossroads, ( Artisan, 2015) the menu is vegan, but there are no soybeans or bland seitan to be found. He and his executive chef, Scot Jones, turn seasonal vegetables, beans, nuts, and grains into sophisticated Mediterranean fare—think warm bowls of tomato-sauced pappardelle, plates of spicy carrot salad, and crunchy flatbreads piled high with roasted vegetables. In this recipe you are treated to a delicate kale salad with currants, pine nuts, and lemon-thyme vinaigrette.
Raw kale can be tough, so it has to be treated right. Yet all of the talk about "massaging" kale to make the leaves tender and palatable is nonsense. The key to achieving a melt-in-your-mouth texture is to cut the robust green leaves into a fine chiffonade, resembling strands of confetti. Once the kale is shredded, you don't have to chew it endlessly to break down the tough leaves. But be sure to dress the salad with the vinaigrette about 10 minutes before serving, so it has a chance to soak into the kale and soften it a bit.
Kale Salad with Currants, Pine Nuts, and Lemon-Thyme Vinaigrette
Kale Salad
• 2 bunches (about 1-1/2 pounds) black kale (aka lacinato kale or cavolo nero; see Note)
• 1/2 cup dried currants
• 1/2 cup pine nuts, toasted
• 1/4 cup Lemon-Thyme Vinaigrette (recipe follows)
• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Lemon-Thyme Vinaigrette
• 1/2 small shallot, minced
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 2 fresh thyme sprigs, leaves stripped from the stems
• 1/4 cup white balsamic vinegar
• Finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
• 1 tablespoon agave nectar
• 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Kale Salad
1. One at a time, lay each kale leaf upside down on a cutting board and use a paring knife to cut down both sides of the center rib to remove it.
2. Stack a few leaves at a time, roll them into a tight cigar shape, and cut crosswise into thin ribbons (no more than 1⁄8 inch). You should have about 6 cups shredded kale.
3. Put the shredded kale in a colander or salad spinner and rinse well with cold water. Drain and dry well.
4. Combine the kale, currants, and pine nuts in a salad or mixing bowl.
5. Drizzle the salad with the vinaigrette and season with salt and pepper. Gently toss with your hands to dress the salad evenly, and let stand for about 10 minutes.
6. Serve the salad in the salad bowl or divide among four individual plates.
Lemon-Thyme Vinaigrette
1. Combine the shallot, garlic, thyme, balsamic, lemon zest and juice, agave, and oil in a small mixing bowl or a Mason jar and season with salt and pepper.
2. Whisk or shake vigorously to blend.
3. You will want to keep this light, tangy, and faintly sweet vinaigrette in the refrigerator as your go-to salad dressing. Leftover vinaigrette can be kept covered in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.
Try these other recipes from Crossroads:
• Scoty's Marinara Sauce Recipe
• Spiced Chickpeas in Marinara Sauce Recipe
Excerpted from Crossroads by Tal Ronnen with Scot Jones. (Artisan Books). Copyright © 2015. Photographs by Lisa Romerein.


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Noon Exchange Club to host Feast of Sharing
Tue, 2016-11-15 05:00 News Staff
By LYNETTE SOWELL
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The Noon Exchange Club is gearing up for the 19th annual Feast of Sharing to be held Thursday evening at the Copperas Cove Civic Center from 6-8 p.m.
The club has a full staff of volunteers prepared to serve the free Thanksgiving meal for the entire community.
Free tickets are available throughout the city at places like the Copperas Cove Senior Center located at 1012 North Dr., the Copperas Cove Chamber of Commerce office at 204 E. Robertson Ave., Cove House Emergency Homeless Shelter at 108 E. Halstead Ave., Clear Creek Meadows Apartments office at 1202 S. F.M. 116, the Boys & Girls Club of Copperas Cove located at 1002 Veterans Ave., Exchange Sunshine Apartments located at 1103 Leonhard St., and My Brother's House Food Pantry, located at Holy Family Catholic Church.


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Have you ever been on roller coastar ride? Then you know the feelings very well. Bringing a child into this world can be compared to that feeling. You have to go through physical, mental and financial warp and woof as soon as you decide to conceive. Though the man doesn't go through the physical tug of war, he also has to be prepared to welcome a child. It is said that a woman becomes mother as soon as she conceives, but a man get tensed how to provide for the child. Such thoughts keep him so stressed that he can't enjoy the feeling to be a father until he takes the little life into his lap. The choice to bring a child into the world needs enough discussion and knowledge about the whole process. So, what are the ways would be parents can prepare for childbirth?
Talk to Your Partner
Until you both come on the same boat, you can't keep the balance. Maybe you're ready to bring a baby, but your wife doesn't. This can happen otherwise too. You both need to talk about your thoughts clearly. You can also try to convince your partner for it, but never impose your though on them or force into it. After all, your baby should come with the consent of both.
Prepare about Child Bearing
Carrying the child is not the only thing you need to be prepared. You should also have knowledge about rearing the child. Are you ready to face those challenges? Before deciding anything, you can call your parents or elders and talk about the future plan and prospects. This is one of the important ways would be parents can prepare for childbirth.
Think about Your Career
When you think of ways would be parents can prepare for childbirth; you must give a serious thought to your career. It is inevitable that you can't continue your office after 5-6 months. Also, you will need maternal leave for a long period. Are you ready to sacrifice your career at this point? Will your office provide enough support at this time? Decide these minutely. As a father, you may also need leaves to look after your wife during pregnancy and after that. If you need fast ways to get mentally prepared for parents, think about it deeply.
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How parents-to-be can prepare for childbirth? If you're above 18, your body is ready to conceive. But that is not the right time for it. After marriage, you want to enjoy certain couple time. When you think you need to expand your family, the first thing you need is tips to get you mentally prepared for childbirth. You may have heard about the experience. But to get thorough knowledge, you and your partner need to know real issues and facts.
Be Physically Stable
Beside the fast ways to get mentally prepared for parents, how parents-to-be can prepare for childbirth? Both of you have to be physically strong. If you're planning for it, quit smoking and drinking as these habits cause infertility in men and women. Also, fix an exercise routine to shred some pounds, so that you don't repent about post-pregnancy weight gain.
Check Your Financial Stability
One of the most important tips to get you mentally prepared for childbirth. Any planning for pregnancy while you're financially unstable means you're taking huge risk. At the time of pregnancy and after that, you need good amount of money. Therefore, you need to make financial strategies to go through the process smoothly.
Stop Having Contraceptive Pills
Stop taking birth control pills before 2-3 months to conceive. This practice can give you time to check your normal menstruation cycle. Is the gap is for 27 days or 32 days? Thus, you will know when you're ovulating, that means the time when a woman is the most fertile.
Do you get the ways would be parents can prepare for childbirth? If you're planning for it, evaluate these methods and give the good news to your relatives.


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Got an email this morning from an old friend, saying they were happy as heck to be coming my way soon and staying in the near-by town of Canton. And why not? Check out the marketing for this apparently lovely little mountain enclave.
Lovely, right?
The reality? Canton is home to one of North Carolina's largest and most productive paper mills, Blue Ridge Paper. Ever been around paper being made? Not only does it smell REALLY bad for miles in every direction, the pollution output (even though they have dropped in recent yers) for old mills such as Canton's are the stuff of environmentally challenged legend.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
time for a new exam
That's the context. Despite my misgivings about the quality of this plan and my skepticism about motives (I can't turn those taps off, sorry), I quite enjoy the challenge of finding order in the chaos and I've got big plans for this week. The part I want to write about here, and the part that will suck most of my school-time this week, is a new exam. For the last few years I've been using the same Social Studies 10 exam (with some edits) that Ian Leitch and I made in 2005. 150 multiple choice questions, 2 short essay questions, and a diagram to complete. This, in turn, was based on old exams and exam banks that go back to the distant past. Many of the questions came with the 2001 edition of the "Horizons" textbook, some were legacy items from the days of Norm Booth, Keith Gordon, Garvin Moles and other Social Studies legends. There is still a place for a MC test in my course designs, but these are increasingly becoming formative checks for understanding (part of what I call Verifications). I'm becoming less enamoured with the way students slog through MC, especially when there are more than 40 questions, or when all the student sees are pages of text.
One of my Socials teacher friends Rob had a vision for a new kind of exam, something different from the "evil bubblesheet" as he put it. The two of us had worked a small bit for Pearson Education a couple of years ago, developing study guides for a SS11 textbook. We were excited to use "benchmarks of historical thinking" and activities that focused on critical inquiry with students to develop understanding and insight into broad focus questions that were important to the curriculum. Unpacking knowledge, organizing content by theme, interpreting evidence, responding to quotes or prompts, comparing and synthesizing the big ideas and events from the course, and making connections between the curriculum and the identity of the student and his/her personal communities. Why not make an exam like that? Being the super teachers that we are, steeped in all things Social Studies, we put this together in a couple of days, one of which was "sprung for" by our respective principals. Now we get to see how the students do.
The new exam focuses on fewer direct learning outcomes and requires a higher level of engagement with the core problem-solving skills that appear in the IRP (curriculum guide). We are very interested to see what the students know, what they come out of the course able to do (not so much how much stuff they can remember). This puts some balance to the process vs product dilemma embedded in assessment. We wanted to move from summative to performative... can students make connections with the ideas & events that shaped Canada in the 1800s? Can they recognize and interpret iconic images and establish the significance of separate events in the overall story of Canada? Can they map it? Can they move freely between detailed content, accurate contexts, overall themes, source analysis, cause & consequence? Can they rank ideas as to their impact? Can they take position on a historical controversy and defend it? There is nothing "new" on the exam, it falls back on the compelling narratives we've used all year to anchor our teaching and devise student activities. The exam ended up as a 3-page double sided 11"x17" entity (one page is the cover/instructions), looking a lot like the unit study guides we built for Pearson. The prompts launch students into formal and informal writing that moves quickly from unpacking the facts though interpreting evidence to critical inquiry. It will be hard work, but nothing the students are unfamiliar with. And, it is a final exam so it gives us a chance to assess pass or fail for students who have lingered around the "no meeting expectations" zone. Rob's students wrote it yesterday, mine write today. Kind of funny; I've been at this for 15 years now and I can't remember ever being this excited by an exam!
Update: 1:30 pm ...very cool to see how the first and now second group is handling this assessment. It's like they're working on a jigsaw puzzle, some starting at the end, some jumping back and forth between sections as one thing puts another into their mind. Some are trying to cram everything they know into an appropriate cubby (which requires it's own problem-solving... "what am I being asked here?"). Others are methodically working on the sections that fit with their way of thinking and ignoring the rest for now. A couple of freak-outs and one attempted scam but with 38 students writing that's not too bad. It seemed different from other exams where the students simply ran down the path, grabbing as many MC questions as they could along the way. The comments I had from my first class suggests that the exam was trying to get them to tell their version of the story of Canada. Justin, the kid with the 200-yr-old spoon, said "this is great, I get to show what I actually learned." That's just great with me, too -- and pretty much the reason I became a Socials teacher. What they leave on the table is more than just a snapshot, it is a performance piece that shows what skills, knowledge, and insight they've refined over the last 5 months in my class. I'm probably making too much of this, but it was a nice change.
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- Jon Pol-itics said...
Looks great--certainly an improvement. I wonder, though--why have a final exam at all?
- Thielmann said...
good question Jon. I structure assessment in three ways, with the belief that each kind is important for both student expression of learning and teacher evaluation of progress towards learning outcomes and growth of the person.
1. about a third for formative work or verification of ILOs, the slow, deliberate problem-solving we do every day in class to address key content from the PLOs; some student self-assessment and alternative (multi-modal) approaches to demonstrating learning encouraged.
2. about a third for project-based learning (which in SS10 is mostly the "New Home" and "Heritage Connections" projects that exploits key themes from the PLOs; some student self-assessment and project control/deisgn sits with students
3. about a third for summative/performative assessments that focus on critical thinking about key topics from the PLOs - the prep part involves student self-assessment, the performance part (i.e. unit tests and final exams) do not -- students meeting expectations on unit tests do not have to write the final -- the final is a wrap-up activity, a final opportunity for students who have not successfully demonstrated mastery of basic learning outcomes (skills, content, understanding) from the course to do so.


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Sunday, 5:30 a.m.
Finally, Drew Smyly is smiling again.
Smyly finally won another game, his first since mid-May, as the Rays beat the New York Yankees Saturday. Smyly had gone 0-7 over his last 11 starts for the Rays.
On Saturday, however, he threw six innings of four-hit, two-run baseball for the Rays' 10th straight quality start. It is the second-longest streak ever for the Rays.
"Just mixing speeds," said Smyly. "Getting back to the way I'm used to pitching
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and the way I can pitch. Mixing it up. Keep them guessing. Throwing my cutter, my curveball, my fastball on both sides of the plate. When you're throwing all those pitches for strikes, it makes my fastball better. It makes them all better and it keeps the hitter guessing."
The Rays have a 6-1 record by their starters and a 1.50 ERA over their 10 game streak. Opposing hitters are batting .191 against them.
"Smyly was really good again," said Rays' manger Kevin Cash. "It was good to see. Gives up one home run and that's his outing. Six strong innings. Tonight I think was the best we've seen his curveball and the best he's felt with his curveball in quite some time. That's something to really take into these next couple outings for him. That's a big pitch for him, big putaway, he compliments the fastball with that pitch and we saw it tonight."
Tampa Bay had home runs from Brad Miller, Curt Casali and Tim Beckham. The Rays also got a fine defensive catch from Kevin Kiermaier in the eighth.
"We get spoiled (by his defense)," Cash said. "We get to see it all the time, but there aren't many center fielders or players in the game that can get to that ball, jump that high. It was an impressive catch. Fortunately for us we get to see it quite a bit."
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When I don't think about being damaged. I move through life, productive for a time, perhaps even confident. I forget myself. My fears are like flies that can be dusted off without any genuine interruption or consideration. I don't even realize that I am repressing my feelings, it's involuntary. It keeps me functional in that vaguely inhuman way that human being's exist. Then I start to wear out, to feel uneasy, to get angry. In the beginning I don't even realize that I am angry. I think what's going on with everyone today? Why are they being so unreasonable? Then I start to collapse under the weight of all those pent up emotions. I think why I am still traumatized? I have a different life now. I am free. I don't have to live in fear but I continue to live life as if the war were still raging (I have taken the war with me, I have become the war).
In a recent talk I viewed with Alan Watts he said "Now is the creative point of life" Like Merlin we actually live in reverse, our experience of now creates the past. We can't blame the past for anything that happens today because we are the ones creating the values of the past. I thought about this and thought about this, for perhaps 10 good minutes and while I slept I am sure lol I think he is on to something but I can only parrot what he's said at the moment.
I agree that healing comes through connection. I think that making your world safer makes you more paranoid. I think people who are traumatized that talk about it and bond recover in a way people who deny/exclude never do.
Then I started to think about the ego. The concept of the ego has always alluded me. I understand the concept of illusions and denial. I know very well that the world I perceive bares little resemblance to life at a quantum level and that the world I perceive is different than the world perceived by my ancestors and even by my neighbors (ask 10 people to describe a poem you've written you'll get 10 answers). I do not think I know everything or that my view is absolute/correct/all inclusive. I do not think reality is a concrete thing that can be defined and cataloged in any particularly useful way. There is a limit to what our senses can communicate and a limit to what are brains can cope with at any give moment. As a child I could not cope with being abused so I created an alternate space for myself, a pocket, so that I could survive alongside the horrors. The ego is a useful albeit glitchy construct and as long as we inhabit mortal bodies I do not see how we could realistically dispose of it. I do not see how we could convince ourselves that we do not exist or how that would be useful.
This is where it gets tricky. I believe our beliefs shapes reality (I'd go so far as to say we are creators). As I said before whenever I repress or deny any aspect of myself it creates disease. In order to accept oneself can you really deny the existence of that self? I am not suggesting that we are separate, that our actions have no consequence, that we live in a bubble. You are me. I am you. I am sure anyone who has hurt themselves has seen the devastating impact that can have on family and friends. Yes other people take our pain personally. When I claim to hate myself, the people who love me are invariably insulted/wounded. How dare I hate someone so precious? And what does my hating myself say about them? About their judgment? Their value as human beings? The point is we simply cannot escape our connection to each other, so I deduce that we are each other. No one is alone, it is simply not possible to be alone. We are the universe, the universe is not alone. I also think if you look at beings we think of as non sentient long enough you will either imagine them sentient or realize that they are in fact sentient, but it is irrelevant the manner in which they gain sentience. Look at ants. They seem so uniform, so militant but there is always an ant that goes off does a little jig, stares at a rock for 20 minutes and then mysteriously and without fanfare returns to the regime. For a few minutes each day that ant was not a machine, he/she was something else, he/she had a private life, he/she had whims, he/she was chaos.
However, I still do not understand the point of getting rid of ego. Yes yes ego is suffering I have heard that before. The ego says this is unpleasant. I do not like this experience. Sometimes that has value, sometimes the experience is legitimately dangerous. Sometimes we are avoiding something necessary even essential to our growth and development. But if the ego is what conceives suffering. Then suffering is not suffering but experience and if the point is to learn, to grow then why are we are seeking to alleviate discomfort and disappear? Isn't that just the ego talking? Yes there has to be some way to deduce the legitimate danger from the fear but I think we can do that better by opening up to all that we are, rather than pruning bits away. Failure is necessary so is there really any point or any merit to perfection, to establishing absolutes? What do we learn from that? So what I am saying is uncertainty is perhaps the only certainty. That sometimes we will push away an opportunity and sometimes we will step on a landmine and that is exactly what we are supposed to be doing, fumbling around. Which is better for learning the landmine or the opportunity? Who can say? Ask ego (j/k). Seriously though if belief creates reality then we created ego. We created the limitations it imposes. We convinced ourselves that the only way to know anything/anyone is to label it/them, rather to coexist with it/them.
Anyhow this is what I like about Shinto (I like many things about Buddhism too btw). Shinto does not even have perfect gods, the gods themselves are flawed as it should be. There is nothing wrong with being human. We are essentially good. Nothing negative that happens to us makes us bad even if it clouds our perceptions for a time. In Shinto it gives us permission to suffer and rejoice and that is life. If we are here now in these human bodies shouldn't we humble ourselves to that experience and all that it entails even if we do not fully comprehend it?
We are always thinking what's next? Tell me teacher what is the point? What is my reward for completing this lesson? I don't know about you but I have never finished a lesson in my life. I have never said "Great now I know everything there will ever be to know about math!" or "Woot now I know every word in the English language!" Never happened. I remain a student, even when I teach I am a student first. I think that is why Shinto is concerned with life more than death.
When I was around 10 it occurred to me that I would die. I wasn't sure what I believed would happen in the after life, if there was an after life, but the realization was frightening. I didn't want to stop "being". I cried and agonized over this realization for a long time and then…I had an epiphany.
If nothing happens after death: We can only be aware of ourselves when we are alive and while we might perceive the moment of dying, we can't perceive being dead.
If reincarnation then we have not died simply exchanged one life for another.
If heaven/hell exists we have simply moved to another plane of existence
If we rejoin the universe then I expect we are neither alive nor dead but something like the Tao and thus any fear of not being is completely and utterly irrelevant. Which to me is similar to the ego, it is irrelevant. Sometimes we do see beyond into something else and sometimes we see only as far as the end of our nose and that is so.
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I know I know, it is bad, right?!?! I know I would be advised that I should not rush it, why are you doing this. But really there is a reason I promise. See if you.....it is just because.....shoot who am I kidding, I luuuuuuvre weddings, want to be married and all that jazz. I can't wait for the day (but I can if that makes sense!) I dream of being an event planner, who hosts the most extravagant, tasteful, organized, chic, coordinated, fun events....and hey some of them can be weddings too! So the combination of all this "zest" for events makes for some mean blog following.
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EAGLE ROCK – Another pillar of old Eagle Rock is falling. Camilo's California Bistro has shut its doors after nearly two decades on Colorado Boulevard, Eater LA reports.
Camilo's had come to be particularly popular for brunch. But the owners told Eater they were done in by rising operating costs, illness, personal complications, and a drop in business income. Last Friday and Saturday, the owners opened the doors to sell coffee mugs, plates, chairs, appliances, decorations and other items.
"Help us pay for some of our closing costs," said a post on the restaurant's Facebook page.
No word yet on what's going to replace Camilo's in its corner, vine-covered building.
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Bob's a lucky man. Most Sundays he and Grandma go to church, and then Grandma makes him supper.
Both Grandma and Bob like to eat healthy, so this goulash recipe from Eating Well made a terrific Sunday supper. Beef stew meat is seasoned with caraway and paprika and cooked in a slow cooker for several hours in a sauce of tomatoes, onions and peppers. When the stew is ready to serve the beef is so tender that it can be cut with a fork.
Spoon your goulash over a bed of nutty brown rice, and you have a meal fit for a king. Now you can see why I say Bob is a lucky man, can't you?
Enjoy your Sunday!
Hungarian Beef Goulash
Serves 8
- 2 pounds beef stew meat, trimmed and cubed
- 2 teaspoons caraway seeds, crushed
- 1 1/2-2 tablespoons sweet or hot paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Freshly ground pepper, to taste
- 1 large or 2 medium onions, chopped
- 1 small red bell pepper, chopped
- 1 14-ounce can diced tomatoes
- 1 14-ounce can reduced-sodium beef broth
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch mixed with 2 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- In large slow cooker place beef. Combine crushed caraway seeds, paprika, salt and pepper. Sprinkle the beef with the spice mixture and toss to coat. Top beef with onion and bell pepper.
- Combine tomatoes, broth, Worcestershire sauce and garlic in a medium saucepan and simmer for 5 minutes. Pour over the beef and vegetables. Place bay leaves on top. Cover and cook until the beef is very tender on low. Depending on your slow cooker, this could take up to 7 hours.
- Discard the bay leaves and skim fat from the surface of the stew. Add the cornstarch mixture to the stew and cook on high stirring until slightly thickened. Serve sprinkled with parsley.
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America is going through another cycle of Xenophobia, this time centered on Hispanics and the Southern Border. Every generation or so something terrible happens, and the natural scapegoat are ̃Those other guys, the aliens.'. This has been going on since before there was a United States of America.
During the Colonial period, minority religious families were shuffled off to the interior, away from "Gods People", and closer to the heathen Indians. At one time "Irish need not apply.", followed by Italians, Eastern Europeans, and who can forget the "Yellow Peril".Time after time immigrants arrived, were despised, worked hard and finally were accepted by society, all except Black Folks, who didn't want to come here in the first place.
This Generations hysteria is centered on Hispanics coming across our Southern border. It's a group that is easily demonized, add 9/11, Terrorism and drugs and you scare the devil out of everybody. Every time in the past this has brought Political Demagoguery, Repression, and limitation of Civil Liberties. We are shown a tsunami of Brown poor people, Terrorists and Drugs pouring across an unguarded Southern border. and told, "Drastic action must be taken or the Country will be lost", another round of fear is created. It's a theme we have seen again and again throughout American history, and it's getting old.
The reality is, for Terrorists, it's far easier to enter the United States from Canada than Mexico. South of the border, Islamists are scarcer than hens teeth. A Terrorist would stand out like Jessie Jackson at a Klan meeting. In multi-cultural Canada, as long as they ended their sentences with "Eh", terrorists would have no trouble blending in. Besides it's a lot easier to take a boat trip, or walk in the cool woods, where no one is watching, than cross the hot Sonoran desert with the Border Patrol waiting.
As long as there is a demand for drugs they will be supplied one way or another. If we can't even keep drugs out of prisons, how can we expect to keep them out of an entire nation.
The question is what to do about the people who are looking for work, willing to do low pay back breaking jobs no one else will fill. Studies show most immigrants are coming here looking for a job, and not Government benefits, as some charge.Lets face it we need these people. America is getting old, and needs new blood to pay for the baby boom, when it retires in the near future. Without them the Hotel Industry in California, Nevada, and much of America would be devastated. Crops would not be picked, food prices would skyrocket and a drastic labor shortage would harm the economy.
The problem is we need a system that matches Mexican workers with employers who need them. Until the 1960's we had the Bracero program for farm workers. It worked well, but was killed off by Political Correctness. The answer is not a Billion Dollar fence along the border, it would be far cheaper to set up employment agencies in border towns. They would conduct Police record checks, then match the honest workers with employers who need them here. To make this work, employers who hire illegal aliens outside the system would face tough and certain Draconian punishment, while using the employment system would be easy and economical. Employers would rush to join up, and jobs would dry up for those outside the system, giving them the choice, join the legal system or go home.Provisions should allow those here who have been honest contributors to the Nation, and others a pathway to permanent residence, and if they meet the requirements, eventual citizenship. This solves labor shortages here and gives Mexico a pressure valve for its unemployed workers, who only want an honest job.
In addition without the people crossing the border looking for work, it will be harder for Mules to smuggle drugs without being detected. There are simple, common sense, logical, solutions to the problem, however, unless the Media stops whipping up hysteria, they will never be considered.
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Nationalism is just state approved biggotry. Place of bitrh determines your quality of life and future health. Seems like the ultimate die roll to me. An ambiguous and not logical way of dividing man versus man. Instead of a system that is designed to bring humans closer to one another our cultures are serving to divide us and pit us against one another.
As long as we are seperate and afraid of our neighbors than we will pay to not have to deal with them. Thus profit. Thus status quo maintained.
if I go any further all I would be saying has been said by a much better man than I.
"Imagine" by John Lennon covers it.
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When we hear or look at the phrase "Natural Family Planning" what comes to mind first? With the first word of the phrase being "natural," some people may, unfortunately, think that the only thing NFP has going for it is that it is not artificial. Sometimes this may even feed into the common misconception that the Church's main disagreement with contraception is that it is artificial. Other obstacles to understanding NFP come from mainstream culture's inherently contraceptive mindset.
To explain the above misconception, I think it is important to point out that "Natural" is not the main event of the phrase, "Natural Family Planning." In fact, "natural" is not an event at all-- it's a descriptor. Remember when learning grammar, being told to find the verb of the sentence to figure out what's going on with the subject? Well, in Natural Family Planning, both grammatically and ideologically, the subject here is a family and the action is planning. NFP is most importantly about planning a family. Planning is intended to mean anticipation of something actually happening eventually, not an act of indefinite postponement. Included in the planning are the important aspects of knowing how to do the planning and commitment to carrying out the plans. "Natural" is the adjective describing the means of carrying out the plans.
Being natural is important to the context of the family planning, but not in the way many may think. The "N" in NFP does not merely mean "not-artificial." This important descriptor not only signifies a lack of man-made intervention, but it conveys a context of God-established law. Natural law dictates that procreation results from sexuality. For this reason, the main purpose and intent of Natural Family Planning is to plan a family, and to do so in cooperation (not contradiction) with Natural Law. This is what it means to be "open to life."[1] Being open to life does not mean that a woman ought to become pregnant as often as possible. It does mean that a couple ought not to take actions that directly interfere with the natural result of sexuality.
To most people, NFP (aided by the mistaken idea that it is meant solely to serve as Catholic contraception) is only a mindset that comes into play during the "let's not have a(nother) child yet" stage. However, the principle of abiding by natural law continues to apply once conception is being actively sought. The statement that procreation results from sexuality as a principle of natural law deserves more elaboration on this. As we know, artificial contraception is against natural law, not only because it is artificial, but because it intentionally severs sexuality from its natural (law) result. Just as sexuality ought not to be severed from its natural result, so too must sexuality's result not be severed from its natural source. Thus, the principles employed in Natural Family Planning, as an ideology based upon natural law, are applied to both ends of the family planning spectrum. When these concepts are ignored, there is a two-fold result. The result is a culture that is both contraceptive in seeing children as a burden to be avoided but also, paradoxically, one that has a view of human life so consumerized that children are also seen as things to be procured according to desire.[2]
[1] For further explanation on being open to life, there is really good post explaining openness to life at Conversion Diary, by Jennifer Fulwiler
[2] Two previous topics of mine: Contraceptive Culture and The Paradox Surrounding Conception
Thoughts continued in NFP part 2, Obstacles to Understanding NFP
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We are on the same side of the Mater Hospital and located directly beside the Mater Hospital Staff Parking Lot.more
159 Ross River Rd, Mundingburra, QLD, 4812
Ansell chiropractic is a Townsville chiropractic practice that has been providing excellent chiropractic care for low back pain, neck pain, headaches, postural and wellness issues for over 30 years.more
159 Ross River Rd, Mundingburra, QLD, 4812
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Chiropractic is a natural therapy that has been helping people with a variety of health problems such as back and neck pain and headaches for over 100 years. It is proven to be a safe effective.more
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46 Hospital Rd, Emerald, QLD, 4720
- In Emerald for 16 years - Friendly staff - Modern Diagnostic software - Treatment Options to suit you - HICAPS - Instant claims processing for private insurance patients - Open Saturdays - Private Treatment rooms - No charge for consultations - US Trained - Third Generation Chiropractor - Family owned business - Referrals for X-ray and Specialist care as needed - Discounts for Pensioners and Childrenmore
Suite 1 5 Church Lane, Emerald, QLD, 4720