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A girl upon the shore did ask a favour of the sea;For nearly 20 years, Newfoundland group Great Big Sea have been creating acoustic Celtic folk-rock covers and interpretations of traditional Newfoundland and Labrador sea shanties, folk, fishing and party songs, which draw from the island's rich 500-year-old multicultural (Irish, English, Scottish and French) heritage. [more inside]
"Return my blue eyed sailor boy safely back to me.
Forgive me if I ask too much, I will not ask for more,
but I shall weep until he sleeps safe upon the shore."
"A ballet dancer needs a mirror to perfect her style, her technique. A singer needs the same -- an aural mirror."In 1950 and '51, Japan's first reel-to-reel tape recorders, the "G-Type" (for gov't use) and the "H-1" (for home use) were released by a company named Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo. Music student Norio Ohga was unimpressed by the wobbly sound of "Talking Paper," so he wrote a note complaining to the firm's founders, who hired him. Mr. Ohga never achieved his original dream of becoming a baritone opera singer, but the future President of TTK, (later renamed Sony,) would still make an indelible, global impact on the world of music -- including the development and introduction of the compact disc. Mr. Ohga died on April 24, 2011. [more inside]
"The "chitlin' circuit" sounds like something that's gone, and with good reason. After all, the name itself derives from the "soul food" of chitterlings (fried pig intestines) that was a staple at early performances. But from CC Blues Club on Thomas Street to the Cannon Center downtown, thousands of Memphis music fans flock to hear stars like Marvin Sease and Bobby Rush sing what's too risqué for radio play, and to watch dancers shake what's too big for TV. That's both the beauty of the chitlin' circuit and the reason for its survival. While its roots run back to racial segregation, it thrives today because performers give audiences what they can't get through mainstream media. It's called "grown folks music," and it's all in the name of the blues."Soul-blues singer Marvin Sease has died at age 64. Here's a comprehensive playlist of his (sexually-explicit/NSFW) songs on YouTube, including the one that never received any radio airplay but whose title the former gospel singer took as his professional nickname: Candy Licker [more inside]


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Charging Plug-In Electric Vehicles in Public
For fleet drivers and consumers to charge their all-electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in public, charging stations must be deployed and integrated with consideration for daily commutes and typical driving habits.
Charging Stations
Public charging stations make all-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles more convenient. Although the majority of early EV and PHEV owners will charge at single-family homes, public charging stations can increase the daily useful range of EVs and reduce the amount of gasoline consumed by PHEVs.
General public charging will use AC Level 2 or DC fast charging. Charging stations should be located where vehicle owners are highly concentrated, such as shopping centers, city parking lots and garages, airports, hotels, government offices, and other businesses.
Read more from Project Get Ready about infrastructure costs and charging infrastructure development.
Learn about the U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Cities infrastructure projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and other infrastructure deployment projects.
Workplace Charging
The ability to charge at work can potentially double the daily feasible commuting range for an EV or a PHEV driver.
With proper workplace charging implementation, building managers can provide significant value to their occupants at relatively little cost. However, charging at work during peak electricity demand may lead to higher electricity bills for the facility manager.
Learn about the U.S. Department of Energy's EV Everywhere Workplace Charging Challenge that aims to increase the number of U.S. employers offering workplace charging tenfold by 2018. Employers and workers can find information about workplace charging implementation in Clean Cities' Plug-In Electric Vehicle Handbook for Workplace Charging Hosts.
Fleet Charging
Fleets that choose to incorporate EVs and/or PHEVs into their operations must account for several factors when planning for charging stations. Duty cycles, drive cycles, routes, garaging locations, vehicle models, and availability of off-site public charging stations can all factor into decisions about the number, location, and type(s) of charging units. City planners, fleet managers, and utilities can work together with installers to determine the best locations. For more information, see Clean Cities' Plug-In Electric Vehicle Handbook for Fleet Managers.


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To diagnose painful kidney stones in hospital emergency rooms, CT scans are no better than less-often-used ultrasound exams, according to a clinical study conducted at 15 medical centers.
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Watch five esteemed faculty members give TED-like talks, called Discovery Talks, on a specific aspect of their research at UCSF Alumni Weekend 2014.
April 25, 2014
A lecture about Magnetic Resonance Imaging and its new applications will occur on May 1. William G. Bradley, Jr., MD, PhD, professor and chair of UC San Diego's Department of Radiology and an alumnus of UCSF, will return to campus as the 2014 Margulis Alumnus Lecturer.
October 14, 2013
Teams of scientists at UCSF are collaborating to build upon existing imaging techniques and find new ways to monitor diseases using creative applications of emerging technologies.
July 09, 2013
Sensory processing disorders are more prevalent in children than autism. In a groundbreaking new study, UCSF researchers have for the first time shown a biological basis for the disease in the brain structure.
December 18, 2012
Hospital MRIs may be better at predicting long-term outcomes for people with mild traumatic brain injuries than CT scans, according to a clinical trial led by researchers at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
November 27, 2012
Very high and very low levels of physical activity can both accelerate the degeneration of knee cartilage in middle-aged adults, according to a new study by UCSF researchers.
November 08, 2012
A 20-year study following 110,645 workers who helped clean up after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident shows that the workers share a significant increased risk of developing leukemia.
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The American Heart Association will recognize Charles Higgins, MD, FAHA, professor of radiology at UCSF Medical Center, as one of six Distinguished Scientists at scientific sessions in November 2012.
Virtual Colonoscopy Without Laxative Equals Standard Colonoscopy in Identifying Clinically Significant Polyps
June 14, 2012
Computed tomographic colonography (CTC), also known as virtual colonoscopy, administered without laxatives is as accurate as conventional colonoscopy in detecting clinically significant, potentially cancerous polyps, according to a study performed jointly at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, UCSF and Massachusetts General Hospital.


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Ari Berman, a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute, is working on a book about voting rights since 1965. He has written extensively about American politics, foreign policy and the intersection of money and politics. His stories have also appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone and The Guardian, and he is a frequent guest and political commentator on MSNBC, C-Span and NPR. His first book, Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics, was published in October 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux—for whom he is now working on a history of voting rights. He graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a degree in journalism and political science.
A five-decade bipartisan consensus on this key piece of civil rights legislation has collapsed—right when we need its protections more than ever before.
It didn't work for Republicans in this election—but their war on voting is far from dead.
It will be resisting not only voter-suppression laws in key swing states but also harassment from the Tea Party group True the Vote.
An important court decision stayed the GOP's voter-suppression scheme in Pennsylvania. But that battle, and others like it across the nation, is only just beginning.
In this crucial swing state, organizers are betting that a strong grassroots ground game can defeat Romney's Super PAC cash.
Judging by his advisers, Romney would embrace Bush's unilateral interventionism and massive military budgets.
A GOP win in November would move the most conservative bench in history even further to the right.
How the politics of the super-rich became American politics.
Republicans are using the redistricting process to undermine minority voting power and ensure their party's dominance.


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Using a Digital Camera to Measure Skyglow
AbstractThis is a great project for someone that is interested in both stargazing and photography. Bright city lights and even the light of the full moon obscure the dimmest stars, which can make identifying constellations more difficult. This project shows you a way to measure the amount of background light (skyglow) in the night sky. It can be a great way for you to quickly compare the star viewing quality for different locations, or for the same location at different times of the year.
ObjectiveThe goal of this project is to measure skyglow (also known as light pollution) in the nighttime sky using a digital camera.
SourcesThis project is based on an article in Sky & Telescope magazine:
- Flanders, T., 2006. "Measuring Skyglow with Digital Cameras," Sky & Telescope, February, 2006: 99–104.
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If you've ever had the chance to see the clear night sky somewhere "out in the country" and away from city lights, you know that there are many more stars to see under these darker conditions. In urban and suburban areas, artificial lights create a skyglow that is bright enough to obscure dimmer stars.
Skyglow is scattered light in the atmosphere from artifical light sources on the surface. In the daytime, the bright light of the sun obscures any light from more distant stars. Skyglow acts in a similar way to obscure starlight. In urban areas, bright skyglow obscures light from all but the brightest stars.
An experienced stargazer can estimate the amount of skyglow in a given location by noting what features of the night sky can and cannot be seen. The Bortle Dark Sky Scale is a recent example of this type of skyglow measurement (Bortle, 2001; NOVAC, date unknown). A problem with any such scale is that familiarity with the night sky is required in order to use it. If you are just starting out in astronomy, you won't have that knowledge.
This project shows you how to use a digital camera to get a quantitative measure of skyglow. You could use the information you collect in this project to find out what stars you could expect to see in a new location, after taking a reading in the new location with your digital camera.
Terms and ConceptsTo do this project, you should do research that enables you to understand the following terms and concepts:
- pixel gray levels,
- saturation,
- dynamic range,
- apparent magnitude (measurement for brightness of stars),
- zenith,
- horizon,
- altitude.
- Which is brighter, a star with an apparent magnitude of 6 or a star with an apparent magnitude of 1?
- For the same two stars, how much brighter is the brighter one?
- This project is based on an article in Sky & Telescope magazine:
Flanders, T., 2006. "Measuring Skyglow with Digital Cameras," Sky & Telescope, February, 2006: 99–104.
- This website has information on night sky brightness all over the world:
Cinzano, F., 2000. "The Night Sky in the World," Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell'Inquinamento Luminoso (Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute) [accessed February 19, 2007] http://www.lightpollution.it/dmsp/index.html.
- You can find information about local observing conditions for locations all over North America from this website, which uses forecast information from the Canadian Meteorological Centre:
Danko, A., 2007. "The Clear Sky Clock Home Page," [accessed February 19, 2007] http://www.cleardarksky.com/csk/.
- Here are two references on star magnitudes:
- Wikipedia contributors, 2007. "Apparent Magnitude," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia [accessed February 19, 2007] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude.
- Haworth, D., 2003. "Star Magnitudes," Observational Astronomy [accessed February 19, 2007] http://www.stargazing.net/David/constel/magnitude.html.
- ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program that runs on any computer with a Java 1.4 or later virtual machine. Downloadable distributions are available for Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X and Linux. The webpages below are the ImageJ home page, the ImageJ download page, and the ImageJ installation instructions page:
- Rasband, W.S., 1997–2006a. "ImageJ Home Page," U. S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD [accessed February 19, 2007] http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/.
- Rasband, W.S., 1997–2006b. "ImageJ Download Page," U. S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD [accessed February 19, 2007] http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/download.html.
- Rasband, W.S., 1997–2006c. "ImageJ Installation Instructions Page," U. S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD [accessed February 19, 2007] http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/docs/install/index.html.
- For information on the Bortle Dark Sky Scale, see:
- Bortle, J., 2001. "Introducing the Bortle Dark-Sky Scale," Sky and Telescope February, 2001: 126.
- NOVAC, date unknown. "John Bortle's Light Pollution Scale," Northern Virginia Astronomy Club [accessed April 2, 2007] http://www.novac.com/lp/def.php.
Materials and EquipmentTo do this experiment you will need the following materials and equipment:
- digital camera that can take reasonably long (10–20 s) exposures under full manual control,
- computer,
- imaging software that can create histograms of pixel values from digital photos:
- this project uses a freely available, multi-platform program called ImageJ,
- if you have Adobe Photoshop it will also work, but you will need to figure out how to create the histograms on your own (should be pretty easy);
- one or more locations to take photos of night sky,
- sheet of white paper,
- tripod (useful, but not absolutely necessary).
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Experimental Procedure
- Use the following procedure to measure your camera's dynamic range (its range of response to different light levels).
- Set up a piece of white paper so that it is uniformly illuminated by indirect sunlight.
- Set up the camera so that the paper fills the field of view. Mount the camera on a tripod, if you have one. Otherwise, place the camera on a solid support. (Many of the exposures you will take will be too long for hand-holding the camera.)
- Put the camera in manual mode. If the camera has a manual focus mode, use it to set the correct focal distance. (The auto focus system may have difficulty focusing on the blank white paper, and you want the camera set at a constant focal distance.)
- Set the camera's sensitivity to ISO 200.
- Set the aperture to f/2.8.
- Take a series of photos at different shutter speeds, varying by a factor of 2 each time. For example: 8, 4, 2, 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000 s.
- To avoid shaking the camera when you take the photo, use the camera's self-timer feature, if available.
- Repeat the sequence twice. This is a control to make sure that the ambient light level is constant. You should get very similar results each time. If not, repeat the test. Avoid changing light conditions, such as when the sun is periodically dimmed by clouds.
- Follow your camera's instructions to download the photos to your computer.
- Use an image processing program to measure the average pixel intensity of each photo. We used ImageJ, a freely available, multi-platform scientific image analysis program (Rasband, 1997–2006a). Here's how:
- Follow the instructions on the ImageJ website to download and install the program (Rasband, 1997–2006b; Rasband, 1997–2006c).
- Start the ImageJ program. You'll see a small window similar to the one in the screenshot below (the 'skin' may look slightly different on your system). This window is the ImageJ menu bar.
- Use the "File/Open..." menu command to open your first image file.
- Use the "Analyze/Histogram" menu command (or type "H") to create a histogram of pixel values for the image.
- The histogram will pop up in its own window, similar to the next screenshot:
- Make a table in your lab notebook to keep track of the pixel intensity information for each file. For example:
Filename Shutter Speed
(from your camera's photo-browsing software)
Pixel Gray Level Statistics Mean Std. Dev. Min Max Mode
- Use "File/Open Next" (keyboard shortcut "Shift+O") to open the next image file.
- Repeat steps 3d–3g until you have analyzed all of your calibration files.
- Make a graph of average pixel gray level vs. shutter speed.
- Which 'average' value should you choose for plotting on the y-axis? The short answer is: either the mean or the mode should work fine. (See the Science Buddies How-To materials on Summarizing Your Data for more information.)
- Since you are using a logarithmic series of shutter speeds, your x-axis should be logarithmic.
- Use semi-log graph paper, or set up your graphing program to use a logarithmic axis for the x-values.
- Here is an example graph, plotting the mode of the gray levels (blue circles) vs. shutter speed for a series of photos (two trials for each shutter speed). The shutter speeds are plotted on a logarithmic scale. The red squares illustrate a linear series of gray levels, for comparison (each successive point is twice the gray level of the previous one). The red bars show the regions of saturation, and the green bar shows the available dynamic range of the camera.
- Here are some camera setup tips for taking skyglow photos.
- You need to use manual mode, so that you have full control over the shutter speed and aperture.
- Set the aperture to its largest f-number (widest opening).
- Typical settings for a reasonably dark sky would be 15 seconds at f/2.8.
- If your camera has a manual focus option, use it to set the focal length at infinity.
- Set the camera's sensitivity to ISO 200.
- If your camera has a black-and-white mode, use it.
- Set the image resolution to a low setting (e.g., 640 × 480).
- To avoid shaking the camera when you take the photo, use the camera's self-timer feature, if available.
- A tripod is helpful, but not absolutely necessary. Typically, you want to take a picture straight up, so you can simply lay the camera down on the ground (padded with an old towel, perhaps) facing up.
- Write the location, date and time of each picture in your lab notebook for future reference. You'll be able to match the location to the picture using the date and time information saved in the image file. (Make sure your camera's date and time are set correctly!)
- Follow the instructions in step 3 to measure the average pixel gray level in the center of each skyglow image.
- The only difference is that instead of using a histogram for the entire image, you'll select a rectangular area from the center of the image.
- Using the rectangular selection tool, click and drag to create a rectangular selection at the center of the image.
- Use the same rectangle for each image (note the size and location in your lab notebook for future reference). If you follow the instructions above for stepping through the images one by one, this is easy to do.
- Here are some ideas for different skyglow experiments you could try:
- compare different locations (e.g., urban vs. suburban vs. rural),
- compare the same location at different times of night,
- compare the same location different weather conditions (e.g., clear vs. foggy vs. high clouds vs. heavy clouds),
- compare the same location during different seasonal conditions (e.g., snow on the ground vs. not, leaves on trees vs. not, Milky Way visible vs. not).
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- For a much more basic experiment on light pollution, see the Science Buddies project Where Did All the Stars Go?
- If you are located on the outskirts of an urban center, you may find that the skyglow in your area is much stronger in one direction than another. How does skyglow change in different parts of the sky? How does skyglow change with angle from the horizon? A tripod with a pan-tilt head that has marked angles is required for this variation.
- Advanced. The gray scale calibration covered in this project established the dynamic range for your digital camera. However, you still don't know where that dynamic range falls in terms of absolute light levels. The Sky & Telescope article by Tony Flanders describes a method for calibrating the camera using photographs of stars of known magnitudes (Flanders, 2006). If you know the night sky well enough to identify some constellations and individual stars, you might be interested in trying this. You'll need to get a copy of the Flanders article, and study especially the section under the heading, "Calibration."
- Super advanced. "Starlight, airglow, scattered moonlight and various kinds of artificial lights have different spectral signatures. It should be possible to tease out a huge amount of information about those by comparing the readings of the red, green, and blue pixels. Anybody interested in the challenge?" (Flanders, 2006) Can you use spectral information from your camera (i.e., red, green, and blue values) to identify the source of the skyglow?
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2013-11-16 13:46:04
What was the most important thing you learned?
The farther you get from urbanity, the less skyglow exists.
What problems did you encounter?
Can you suggest any improvements or ideas?
Overall, how would you rate the quality of this project?
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WyvernRyvers said:
2012-12-05 01:11:02
What was the most important thing you learned?
How to change the shutter speed and aperture size on my digital camera.
What problems did you encounter?
As I gathered my data, and began to form data charts on Microsoft Excel, I noticed that there were major differences between the first control group of shooting pictures of a piece of paper in sunlight. I don't understand why this was the control, as it would obviously be brighter because it is being shot during the day. Then I didn't understand at all what sort of conclusions I was supposed to draw from this experiment. I probably won't be doing something like this again. Hopefully my grade won't suffer too much.
Can you suggest any improvements or ideas?
Have more specific details in the procedure that will allow the student to understand more of what he/she is looking for in terms of results.
Overall, how would you rate the quality of this project?
What is your enthusiasm for science after doing your project?
Compared to a typical science class, please tell us how much you learned doing this project.
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In 1977, Frank moved his successful New York operation to North Carolina and opened Asheville's first authentic "New York Style" pizzeria in the Innsbruck Mall. It instantly became a hit with Asheville locals…
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text: Posted Online: Jan. 16, 2013, 5:22 pm Benjamin 'Benny' Sparacello Comment on this story Photo: Benjamin J. "Benny" Sparacello Benjamin J. "Benny" Sparacello, 86, of East Moline, died on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, at Illini Restorative Care, Silvis. Private family services are at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Celebration of Life Chapel at Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Moline. Burial is at Rock Island National Cemetery. Memorials may be made to St. Jude's Hospitals. Benny was born on Aug. 1, 1926, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of Vitale and Frances Avezzano Sparacello. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and married Naomi Bizzarri on Feb. 23, 1952, in Brooklyn. She died on Oct. 14, 1992. He was employed as a laborer at W. R. Grace Company, Brooklyn, for many years. He enjoyed fishing and walking along the river and feeding the ducks. Benny is survived by four children and their spouses, Vito and Susan Sparacello, Moline, Frances and Albert Anderson, Janesville, Wis., Naomi Sparacello and Allan Dietz, Davenport, and Ann and Dean Sellers, Moline; six grandchildren and their spouses, Jennifer Hart, Ben "B.J." Sparacello, Michael and Alisha Sellers, Doug and Trish Sodeman, Tammy and Jason Caldwell, and Laurie Denys; 10 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife and four siblings. Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at www.TrimbleFuneralHomes.com.


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I enjoy Doctor Who and people with privilege not being fucking awful. My blog will be full of both these things, as well as pictures of cats. I also run a fat-positive health blog.
Feel free to come to my askbox! Just know I keep anonymous off because nothing makes trolls more angry than not being able to hide behind greyface. But if I fuck up, you can absolutely call me on it. I will apologize and strive not to do it again.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
This painting represents a very special labor of love that the chief geeks at Geekcetera.net have been scheming on for a few years now….
After finding a brilliant painter to make a few of their insane dreams come true, Bunny had another crazy idea. What if we could do the same thing, but with characters from our favorite shows and movies?
The team immediately went to work, sourcing the right images and creating a series of composites and figure studies for the painter. Hundreds of hours and a dozen drafts later, the first of the 2012 Geekcetera.net painting series is ready for your viewing pleasure:
Sorry about the watermark. You know how it goes.
This painting is based on Rembrandt's "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" featuring most of the major cast members of the last 6 Doctor Who series. The actual painting is over 3 feet wide, and two feet tall, and to say that it is stunning is an understatement.
I'm an oil painting now. Oil paintings are cool.
No one cares about poor old Mickey…
When the painter dropped it off, we all stood around the office in a mixture of silence and intermittent high fives. It is just beautiful.
Read the rest at the link.
Well, you nailed it until you dissed Martha.
Then I wanted to punch you in the face.
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Early Learning Center has provided a strong foundation for Glencoe's preschoolers for more than 35 years. Our goal for children is not just school-readiness, but life-readiness: the ability to problem-solve, work with others, feel good about oneself and one's abilities and meet new challenges with interest and curiosity. We promote active play, take time for the creative arts, taste foods from other cultures, try words in unfamiliar languages, and set the stage for life in the world community.
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You'll hear laughter, music, and learning, and you'll understand why Glencoe families turn to Early Learning Center to provide their children's first school experience.
We pride ourselves on our ties to the community; some of our teachers have been with Glencoe Park District preschools for more than twenty years! Staff educational backgrounds vary, with degrees in Special Education and Fine Arts, and life experiences that encompass parenting and grandparenting. This broad depth of knowledge enables us to provide an exceptional preschool experience, supporting the growth of your child with love and skill.
With the support of hundreds of Early Childhood Educators, the Illinois Early Learning Standards were established to provide developmentally appropriate benchmarks for preschool teachers seeking to understand their role in the educational continuum. Our Early Learning Center teachers use this resource to guide classroom experiences and activities, providing a solid foundation for developmental and experiential learning.
Adventures in Learning are preschool enrichment classes that piggyback onto the ELC 3- and 4-year-old classes. Your child remains with his classmates, socializes over a sack lunch brought from home, then enjoys an engaging activity led by specially trained staff! Topics change in January for a fresh blast of fun. Registration takes place in March. You must already be registered for ELC to be enrolled in Adventures in Learning. Fees for this program are in addition to ELC tuition.
3-Year-Olds: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30 a.m-1 p.m.
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4-Year-Olds: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 11 a.m-12:30 p.m.
R/NR Fee: $235/258 | Register
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This pin is absolutely stunning.
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We looked at this pin as an example and really liked the quality and professional look of this pin. It is a very attractive pin and everyone who sees it were in awwwhhh of it.
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The Academic Excellence pin is a well-crafted, professional-looking, well-packaged award item!
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