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Overpopulation cannot cause death by starvation, because the human body has a mechanism to prevent starvation death when food is limited.
Every day, human beings starve to an early death.
How does this happen?
We know that for every person that starves to death in th eworld today, there is plenty of excess food that goes unused and uneaten, more than enough to have kept that person alive.
Any large scale starvation to death only occurs as a result of disaster causing an abrupt stoppage of resources, or as a result of human choice not to redistribute resources.
To test this, consider a thought experiment given these parameters: in a closed community of people, food is distributed to each individual according to need. To mimic a starvation scenario caused by finite supply and population but not by natural disaster, we keep the rate of food production constant and the population's desire to reproduce constant.
Given a supply of food, the people in the thought experiment will naturally multiply. As they multiply, they will eventually start using all of the food supply. As they continue to multiply, each person's share of food is decreased.
This will contnue to happen until population is high enough to mean that each full grown person will lose weight.
Eventually, each grown individual loses weight and begins losing fat stores.As the sexually mature women lose weight and fat stores, they become infertile. As a result of infertility, population ceases to rise.
Thus, the body makes reproduction impossible in the absence of excess, and therefore, rising population cannot cause death by starvation because people become infertile because they starve to death. As female athletes often prove, a woman can be infertile yet quite fit and healthy until she reaches old age.
The biological mechanism is that the human body becomes infertile before it starves to death..
The purpose of this conversation is point out that how we treat each other is more critical to our survival than any population number we attempt to adopt.
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Nov 12 2013: 18th century scholar Thomas Malthus predictions of overpopulation leading to massive worlwide starvation, despite not coming to pass have lingered on until now. Some still ascribe to them. Simply put from Malthus' arguments the claim remains that exponential population growth is destined to overtake food production.
While it is true that exponential curves increase more quickly than, say linear growth, human population growth is not perfectly exponential. My opening statements explain why: humans depend on food excess to be fertile in the first place.
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Nov 12 2013: Thank you for adding your comment again via reply function, as I didn't come back here so far and would, most likely, not have noticed otherwise.
I understand now the motivation of your idea and like to point out, that its base is only valid under steady state conditions and without abrupt changes within food production. A single harvest below average can already cause starvation, the moment the minimum calories produced drops under the minimum calories needed to maintain malnutrition above lethality levels.
A very sensitive equilibrium and many variables are either in gray-scale, such as fertility dropouts and food distribution equality, or even unpredictable, such as harvest results, which all together should not be confused with a save, harmless and automatic 'stabilization mechanism' in human population.
The great famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1852, also known as the 'Irish Potato Famine', is exemplary, that sudden drops in food supply, caused at that time by a potato pest, can not be adjusted to via fertility adaptation, as the harvest result already cuts to short on the existing population.
Also important is the given and exclusive dependency of our worldwide food production on fossil fuels and the fact, that nobody can foresee its decreasing behavior, which effects the price development, which effects the cost of food and which may also result in the situation, that the leached out soil wasn't productive enough for conventional farming methods without fossil fuels before alternative farming would manage to cope with it. If this happens suddenly, within a view years, fertility couldn't cope with it either and mass starvation would be the result.
All in all a theoretical method which we should carefully examine to learn from, yet not to rely on. But without doubt a very interesting theory indeed!
Thank you for bringing this up!
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It should, in the UK and in this day and age, be the case that education in arts and culture is something to which every child should be entitled, and enabled to access. Who would disagree that this is a basic human right – it is enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that children have a right 'to participate fully in cultural and artistic life'. However, the fact remains that cultural education remains the privilege of some, but not all our children.
So why aren't all children accessing great arts and culture? Research provides irrefutable evidence that the benefits of cultural education extend far beyond opening students' eyes to the vast array of the UK's cultural riches. Music lessons, drama groups and art classes enhance academic achievement across the curriculum. Add to that improved self-esteem and self-confidence, and you have a pretty potent and proven combination.
These benefits inevitably spill over into social behaviour. Cultural education has been shown to reach a variety of 'disconnected' students. Taking part in the arts increases individuals empathy and tolerance by requiring that students step out of their own lives and put themselves in another's shoes, temporarily adopting their attitudes, aspirations and anxieties. When cultural education in schools is paired with the opportunity to participate in community-based arts, this translates into increased civic participation. Cultural education emerges not as an optional extra but a necessity for a democratic, cohesive society.
The failure to engage certain sections of society with a cultural education is profoundly damaging. While statistics measuring access to cultural education in the UK are conspicuous in their absence, there are a number of indicators that point to the exclusion of certain groups. For example, 27% of students on free school meals and 14 % of low-income students choose not to study arts or music due to the associated costs (equipment, school trips etc.), compared with only 8% of better-off students. Similarly, a recent study by the National Society for Education in Art and Design shows that learning opportunities for pupils in art, craft and design have reduced significantly in many state schools. This is not the case in independent schools, where curriculum entitlement and choice has been sustained.
Schools and teachers need increased support from cultural organizations if they are to ensure that children can engage with arts and culture throughout their education. Good work is happening. Programmes, such as those run by A New Direction promote the value of cultural education, regardless of wealth, class, ethnicity, gender or religion. But we have a long way to go in terms of teacher training, parental engagement, funding for school trips, out of hours activity, curriculum focus and formal inclusion in Ofsted assessments to ensure that cultural education is available to all our children in the UK.
Looking ahead fifteen to twenty years this will be vital for our economic future, as recent Government statistics confirm that the creative industries are worth £8million an hour to the UK economy. In addition a recent British Council report, 'As Others See Us', indicates that culture is regarded as the UK's number one 'selling point' among 18-34 year olds from Brazil, China, Germany, India and the US. If the UK is to continue to attract tourists, business investors and students from overseas, in the face of growing international competition, it must act now to educate the young.
Baroness Andrews' 2013 report on culture and social mobility argues that 'the arts can open windows for young people to think differently'. Now is the time for parents, educators, policy-makers and arts practitioners to acknowledge the fact that collaborative work is needed to achieve universal entitlement to cultural education - and open those windows.
Vikki Heywood is chair of the RSA. This article forms part of a series asking why access to the arts and cultural learning are so important. If you would like to share your view on this topic, please email email@example.com
A New Direction is one of ten Bridge organisations, including the Royal Opera House, that connect children, young people, schools and communities with art and culture. The Royal Opera House Bridge works across Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and North Kent and you can find out more about some of our projects here.
Don't Stop The Music, a new campaign headed by pianist James Rhodes, aims to improve provision for teaching music in schools.
Inspired by the notion that every child should have the chance to play an instrument, the campaign coincides with James's two-part Channel 4 series of the same name. The first episode was filmed at St Teresa's primary school in Basildon. Following on from the series, ROH Bridge - one of ten national organizations that work to connect children and young people with art and culture - will be working with St Theresa's and other schools in the area to further their involvement with the arts.
'I want music to inspire brighten, and improve the lives of every child in this country, but today thousands of primary school kids aren't getting the opportunity to learn an instrument,' says James of why he believes the campaign is important. 'I've met music teachers who have as little as £2.20 to spend per child, per year. Others tell me they have a big fat zero. For some children, music lessons mean playing dustbin lids or biscuit tins. We're at risk of failing a generation.'
As well as asking for instrument donations, the campaign also features a petition, lobbying the government to deliver a good music education for every child, regardless of background or ability to pay, as well as the chance to learn an instrument.
Don't Stop The Music follows lobbying from arts organizations on the importance of creative subjects within the curriculum. Many arts organizations, including the Royal Opera House, work with schools and local communities to give them access to all-important cultural activities and learning.
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Earlier this year, artist Bob and Roberta Smith presented his provocation to arts and education professionals at the Royal Opera House. Speaking at the Culture Counts conference organized by ROH Bridge, he called for a radical rethinking of arts education and argued for more value to be placed on cultural learning, explaining that art is vital to our long-term economy and society.
To explain the value of art in its simplest terms, Smith reminded us that a still life drawing in any art class gives us 30 different perspectives of the same stimulus. The exercise demonstrates that there isn't one answer, a right or wrong or a correct answer from the teacher, instead it asks young people to understand and explain their own perspective. He called for us to explore these differences and encourage young people to form their own opinions and reactions.
Attendees were encouraged to give children the power to discuss, debate and manipulate using their own voices. Smith went on to reference the work of Hannah Arendt, a political theorist who featured in his commission for Stratford Underground station, Who is Community?, which he created with Tim Newton for London 2012. Arendt believed that, in order to maintain a democracy, we require performance, association and participation, and encouraged individuals to bring their own ideas and thinking into the public realm.
Smith also discussed the detention of Ai Weiwei, the prominent Chinese artist and political activist who was arrested in 2011. Numerous art institutions and artists, including Bob and Roberta Smith, protested against his arrest. There can be little doubt about the power that China attributes to art, while in the UK we consistently underestimate the social, economic and political impact of arts and culture.
Bob and Roberta Smith referred to one of his own political messages; his letter to Michael Gove, the then education secretary, which he created to share a range of perspectives on why the arts are so important in schools. Writing for the Guardian, Smith explained that the piece is his way to 'say to the government that a future that works will be a future where people can draw and design wonderful British products – one where they can be inventive and innovative, creative, discursive, and imaginative.'
We don't have a clear message or figure on the value of the arts, so Smith's letter aims to highlight why cultural learning is so important. The letter begins begins 'Art, images, artifacts, songs; culture are the principal means by which Human beings define themselves' and protests against changes to curriculum that put at risk children's access to cultural learning. View the full letter.
Speaking at the event, Smith stated that 'we need to rethink arts education at the beginning of the 21st century as radically as it was redrawn 100 years ago. The Bauhaus created a teaching environment born out of Modernism. The digital revolution and the threats to freedom of expression which are evolving to contain it force us to radically re-imagine art and art's role in democracy and 'how' and 'why' art is taught.'
The artist reminded us that we not only need art for our society, but also that our economy relies on people who draw, design and make things, and we need to teach these skills to young people because everything is made. This sentiment was echoed later in the event by Tom Kenyon from Nesta, who discussed Make Things Do Stuff.
To conclude his presentation, Bob and Roberta Smith presented us with the statistic showing that the number of young people taking Art GCSE has dropped by 14% over the last few years. He called for us to see arts centres as freedom centres, as a place where voices, expressions and opinions can be shared and reminded us how vital these are for our future. This, if nothing else, acts as a reminder about the importance of arts and cultural learning in schools.
Bob and Roberta Smith's Art Party Film will be released on 21 August. Bridge is a three-year, publicly funded Arts Council England programme that helps to connect children and young people with great art and culture. Read more about how you can step up for Cultural Learning or see some of our favourite tweets from the day.]]>
In April this year, together with Elstree Film Design and supported by Elstree Studios we launched 'A Sense of Place', a filmmaking competition for young people aged 7-19 (up to 25 for SEN).
The competition is exclusively for young people based in the Royal Opera House Bridge region, covering Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex and North Kent*.
Entries will be based around the concept of 'A Sense of Place' and encourage young people to explore ideas around their home, school and local area. The films will be judged by professionals from the industry and awarded against Best Story; Best Look; Best Idea and Best Sound.
Find out how to enter here. The deadline for submissions is Monday 02 July.
We are excited to have developed this competition and are keen to support our young filmmakers as the future of film education is given a boost with the Into Film project. This project is a key part of the BFI's Film Education Strategy for 5 to 19-year-olds.
Working alongside partners in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, Into Film is delivering a wide range of activities to encourage watching, making and understanding of film. The project will deliver a film education programme into the 26,700 schools in the UK, to create a single unified programme for watching, making and learning about film. The aim is to safeguard and boost future film audiences through learning and appreciation of film and stimulate a new generation of filmmakers and film talent.
If you are looking for funding to support filmmaking activity with young people, Into Film also have a grant programme to support learning related to watching, making and understanding film. Organizations can apply for a grant of up to £10,000 to create two short films as part of the project.
Over the last two years, as a Bridge, we have helped organizations tap into £35,000 of funding to understand, support and develop film education across our area. This funding has been part of a wider grant from the Department for Education to encourage increased engagement and participation for children and young people in film.
We want this competition to inspire young people to become active in creating and making film and we aim to give young people a chance to express their opinions and ideas, allowing space to explore what 'a sense of place' means to them. As a Bridge organisation, we want to encourage and enable young people to experience all aspects of the creative process from coming up with the initial idea to filming, directing and editing a final product.
*Swale, Medway, Gravesham and Dartford.]]>
The Royal Opera House Bridge programme is, for the first time, inviting any teaching school in their region to apply for a grant of up to £7000 to support them in their development and leadership role.
As a Bridge organization, we exist to connect children and young people to great art and culture and we believe effective leadership is a vital component of our mission. This year, we are continuing to work with the Department for Education (DfE) to support teaching schools to increase participation and engagement with the arts and strengthen quality cultural education and provision for young people but this is the first time we have made an open call for proposals.
All planned activity must be needs-led and proposals must be driven by clear aims and specify desired outcomes that relate to one or more of the teaching school's DfE Big 6:
This funding is available to teaching schools in our specific geographic area: North Kent, Thurrock, Southend on Sea, Essex, Hertfordshire, Luton and Bedfordshire. To find out more about the funding and advice on how to apply, please download our Guidelines.
To apply for the funding, please send the application form to Hannah Ferguson, Administration Co-ordinator, ROH Bridge by noon 7 July 2014. You can send the proposal by email to firstname.lastname@example.com or by post to Royal Opera House Bridge, The Vinery, High House Production Park, Vellacott Close, Purfleet RM19 1AF.]]>
Theatre is about emotional fitness, it is visceral, human, in-the-moment, it is not about grades or outcomes #culturecounts
— kayte judge (@kaytejudge) April 3, 2014
Attended @ROHBridge conference #culturecounts Schools will improve attainment in all subjects by expanding arts engagement NOT reducing it!
— James Dickinson (@jdhornblower) April 4, 2014
#culturecounts artist Bob and Roberta Smith says talent is distributed around the country irrespective of wealth
— Carmel Littleton (@LittletonCarmel) April 3, 2014
Young people's experience of the arts doesn't always have to be educative. Good point from Purni Morell #culturecounts
— Steph Fuller (@ideas_test) April 3, 2014
@BobandRoberta #culturecounts art allows the kids to have the answers. Art makes children powerful.
— kayte judge (@kaytejudge) April 3, 2014
@ideas_test so true, but if we want to keep the arts as an entitlement for all YPs we still need to engage with the educators.#culturecounts
— michele gregson (@objectfreelife) April 4, 2014
'How we construct our identities through culture makes us powerful if we don't teach kids hw 2 do this we undermine democracy'#culturecounts
— Beth McDougall (@BethMcDougall2) April 3, 2014
#CultureCounts 80by18 Bristol project @Kerileef shares how city resources (inc arts) harnessed to inspire young people
— The Audience Agency (@audienceagents) April 3, 2014
#CultureCounts interesting that DfE doesn't think making art counts as employment! Whole issue around understanding it's a profession.
— Dawn Giles (@BCADirector) April 3, 2014
How do you think arts and education can come together to ensure more children and young people have access to art and culture?
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On Thursday 3 April Royal Opera House Bridge host Culture Counts, a conference that brings together people from across education and the arts and culture sectors to ask how we can step up for cultural learning.
Find out how you can get involved:
1. Get to know your local cultural organizations
There are many local and regional cultural arts organizations that offer opportunities for children, young people, families and schools to get involved. Find your nearest ones through local council pages, newspaper listings and tourist information.
2. Tell school governors how important it is to have access to culture
Fair access to arts and culture isn't always assured for all children. Speak to a school governor about what's on offer for children in your area. Artsmark – the Arts Council England's flagship programme for schools – helps schools evaluate, strengthen and celebrate their arts and cultural provision. Find out more here.
3. Be influenced by young people
Children and young people have great ideas and know what they want. Listening and creating things with them can lead to great things. Arts Award can help structure their engagement with arts and culture, offering five levels of accreditation in the process.
4. Join the Cultural Learning Alliance mailing list
The Cultural Learning Alliance (CLA) is a collective voice working to ensure that all children and young people have meaningful access to culture. Join their mailing list to hear up-to-date news on policy and opportunities to make a difference.
5. Become familiar with Arts Council England's Quality Principles
Goal 5 for the Arts Council England is that every child and young person has the opportunity to experience the richness of the arts and culture. The Quality Principles help explore what a quality cultural learning experience looks like. Find out more here.
6. Celebrate and share the impact of cultural learning
There are lots of greatcultural learning activities happening across the country, with great outcomes. Sometimes we are so busy doing, that we forget to take a minute to step back and celebrate. Keep an eye on our News & Features section, where we often feature Learning projects.
7. Visit the Creative and Cultural Skills website and find out about creative apprenticeships, traineeships and internships
Know a young person who is interested in a career in the arts? Find out more here.
8. Keep inspired: make time for your own creative interests
Dust off the violin; get back to dance class; join the local film club. Remembering why you're passionate about arts can helps inspire others.
9. Join in the debate
Write a letter. Post a tweet. Fill out a survey. Adding your voice helps us speak louder as one.
10. Talk about why it's important
"We know that cultural learning makes a huge impact. Make sure you tell others.
As a child I remember overhearing the music teacher at school rehearse a performance of the most ravishing song I had ever heard. I was 12 years old and I had no idea what it was, but something in the way the tune worked on my emotions made me fall in love with the girl I happened to be looking at across the classroom.
Philip Pullman, Author.
Read about other people's early experiences of culture.
What was your most memorable cultural experience when you were young and how has it stayed with you?
This week, the first set of Creative Employment Programme trainees will start their positions in cultural organizations across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Essex. The traineeships, offered exclusively to young people not in education, employment or training aged between 16-19, offer participants their first chance to work in the arts.
Paul Surridge, 16, from Clacton is about to start his traineeship with the Colchester Institute. Paul left school last year with no qualifications and is hoping this traineeship will be the start of a career in sound and lighting.
'I want to be a technician as I have always enjoyed watching light shows and seeing how lights connect with the music,' he says. 'I feel very excited that I have the next ten weeks to find out all I want to know about sound and lights from the technicians supervising us.'
As well as gaining experience, the trainees will work towards Level 1 qualifications, including a Bronze Arts Award. They will also spend at least 12 days working in cultural organizations and will visit the High House Production Park - the location of the Royal Opera House scenic workshop - and attend a performance at Covent Garden.
At the end of their placement trainees will have support with the next stage of their career, whether progressing to a college course to start a Level 2 qualification or looking for suitable employment opportunities.
The Creative Employment Programme aims to create 1,600 traineeship opportunities across England by March 2015. To help reach this goal, ROH Bridge will create 100 traineeships across Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and North Kent over the next year.
Find out more about creative traineeships.
Royal Opera House Bridge is a three-year, publicly funded Arts Council England project that helps to connect children and young people with great art and culture.]]>
Following on from 'Re-Imagining Cultural Learning' - a day held by Royal Opera House Bridge to explore the future of cultural learning - you can now hear the introduction to the day as well as full presentations from four key speakers.
Nic Marks Founder of the Centre for Well-Being
Nic Marks took to the stand first to explore the role of happiness and creativity in learning.
We pay more attention when we are in a good mood and are more creative…we are more open to relationships… You could say that the evolutionary role of positive emotions is about opportunities. The evolutionary role of so called negative emotions is about threats.
Martin Green Former head of Ceremonies at London 2012 Olympics
Martin Green gives a first hand account of what it takes to build the 'biggest show on earth' and why art and creativity are so important.
The main message is if you're going to succeed you need to trust in artists and you need to protect the integrity of the idea. We all work in culture and unless we can trust people to believe in the integrity of a single idea and fight it through, you'll end up with beige soup.
Louise Thomas Education lead at the Innovation unit
Louise Thomas follows-up with a fascinating look at the future of schools and the innovative practice currently taking place.
What's really important about these 're-imagined' schools is not so much what they're doing so much as how they are challenging conventional notions of how time, space, relationships and learning are constructed in their schools.
Mick Waters
Education Consultant Professor Mick Waters finished up the day with a brilliant round of thoughts raised during the presentations and discussions from the day. Mick tackles provocative questions including 'Does having culture in schools matter?'
What might schools do to take on Culture? Do we say if you take on culture in our schools it will help your results; your attendance will get better; your behaviour will get better; your exclusions will drop? Do we pander to the notion that if you do this OFSTED will like it? …which in truth they will. OFSTED does recognize the width of the curriculum and the offer to youngsters…but is that what we go for or do we say that culture has a value as culture? It should be there as an essential for every youngster and it should be a way of understanding the world in which we live… Young people need a guarantee of lifetime experiences!
Re-imagining Cultural Learning offered valuable time to discuss and reflect on the future of cultural learning. Guests included teachers and senior leaders from across arts, education and cultural settings and local authorities in each of the Royal Opera House Bridge areas - Essex, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and North Kent.
Royal Opera House Bridge is a three-year, publicly funded Arts Council England project that helps to connect children and young people with great art and culture.]]>
How important is it that children are happy at school? Few people would argue that happiness is paramount, so why do we measure success by productivity and knowledge gained, rather than happiness and well-being? A recent conference organized by Royal Opera House Bridge, one of ten national 'Bridges' that work across England to connect children and young people with great art and culture, explored innovative approaches to improving happiness through exposure to the arts.
The three speakers were Nic Marks, a statistician researching happiness; Martin Green, Head of Ceremonies for London 2012; and Louise Thomas, leader of the education programme at the Innovation Unit.
Each agreed that we should be prioritizing arts-based learning.
'The arts are everything,' said Martin. 'We've got to stop thinking that the arts are some kind of luxury you do when you've found some time outside maths.' And, after the success of the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies, 'we can demonstrate it works on a really large scale.'
The speakers were of the opinion that cultural learning cannot be delivered effectively if we ignore happiness in schools. Encouraging it should be more of a priority than it is, said Nic, but not just for children. 'Often teachers' happiness is forgotten', he said. 'Happiness is contagious. If the teacher is very unhappy and closed, they're not going to be as good a teacher as one who is happier. One way to make children happier at school is to make sure their teachers are happier.'
Education policy often restricts and dictates what schools can do, but Louise says it is time to challenge that: 'The model of the teacher-learner hierarchy comes from the idea – which has now proved to be false – that learning is about delivering knowledge into empty boxes. But learning is a live, dynamic process. Our formal learning still exists in this hierarchical constraint that doesn't reflect that.'
We will be uploading audio highlights from the conference in the next couple of weeks. If you would like us to let you know when it is ready you can join Royal Opera House Bridge on Twitter.
Royal Opera House Bridge is a three-year, publicly funded Arts Council England project that helps to connect children and young people with great art and culture.]]>
Could exposure to a range of cultural experiences help children do better in school and raise their aspirations? Local school, Frobisher Primary, and Signals Media Arts, were given funding by Royal Opera House Bridge to experiment with film, animation and illustration. In preparation for their Sats exam, children aged 10-11 worked on bringing Walter de la Mare's poem The Listeners to life.
The Royal Opera House Bridge team was really excited to fund the week-long project. Kelly Lean, ROH Bridge programme manager, explains: "We knew the children at Frobisher Primary School would respond to working intensively on a film project. Frobisher and Signals Media Arts were able to dedicate the entire week to working with Year 6 on understanding the poem, storyboarding ideas and creating films. It really captured their imagination."
Headteacher of Frobisher School, Julia Hall, says: "The children need to develop their language skills and this has been a really good opportunity for them to do this. They've come out with some incredible thoughts and responses to the poem and have a real comprehension of it."
"I had lots of fun. We did lots of things we've never done before, like making puppets and filming. It's really helped me understand the poem better." Chloe, aged 10
The children also used the work to gain a Discover Arts Award, an Entry Level 3 qualification. To achieve this award, children need to discover the arts around them, find out about artists and their work and share their experiences with others. Twenty-seven children achieved this award during the week. Kelly says, "It's likely that this is the first accreditation these children have achieved, which is a significant milestone, especially before they begin secondary school in September."
Julia Hall adds: "We've covered so many different aspects of the curriculum: ICT, reading, writing, listening, team-work and identifying roles. It hits a lot of objectives."
You can find out more by visiting Signals Media's website.
Royal Opera House Bridge is a three-year, publicly funded Arts Council England project that helps to connect children and young people with great art and culture.]]>
Taking education outside of the school gives students the chance to do hands-on learning. It's also a great way for organizations, such as the Royal Opera House, to get children excited about its art forms. In 2010 a report by MPs found that there is a risk of school trips becoming less common in state schools because of health and safety regulation and fear of litigation.
We've found somewhere that has really made learning outside the classroom work: Southend Education Trust's website SaLT (Southend a Learning Town) is leading the way in supporting schools to discover what is in their local area. It also helps schools share experiences and swap resources.
It features profiles of educational destinations across the South East of England, alongside key resources a teacher can use to make the visit a success.
Christine Farrell, Deputy Head Teacher of Blenheim Primary School and Southend Learning Town Project Co-ordinator says: 'The site came about when we asked the question, "What do teachers really need to know to get their students outside the classroom?". The answer was the logistics. Things like risk assessment, learning plans – all the details.'
The site allows teachers to upload and share their resources. They can also rate the venues they've visited, discuss experiences, as well as document their visit with video and photographs.
Christine explains: 'We hope that by giving teachers a place to share, it will encourage more of them to get outside the school walls, use facilities on offer and explore.'
'There is also an award on offer where, if a school meets the criteria, they are given financial help with their transport costs. If schools achieve the bronze, silver or gold award they will receive £500, £750 or £1000 each year for three years.'
Teachers can join by visiting the website and creating a profile.
Christine says: 'Learning outside the classroom is so important because it really builds on skills you can't get in a school setting. The simplest things like getting some fresh air or being in different scenario can really help children learn.'
Royal Opera House is one of 10 Bridges across England publicly funded by The Arts Council England over three years to help to connect children and young people with great art and culture.]]>
Children got to try out musical instruments in their local libraries, thanks to a project funded by Royal Opera House Bridge.
The project has seen Inspiring Music – Central Bedfordshire's music service – and Central Bedfordshire Libraries coming together to offer a programme of music workshops across the county. The project was created to encourage more young people to use their libraries.
Of the collaboration, Chris Jones, Music Director of Inspiring Music says:
'There is a perception that libraries are a place where you have to be quiet but - as the staff reassured us - libraries are actually full of life and music fits really well with the space.'
Young people got the chance to play with African drums, ukuleles and samba shakers and so far 15 sessions have taken place in five libraries across the area. To date 218 children and 119 adults have strummed and drummed with a number of these taking up instruments afterwards. The programme has meant that those who wouldn't usually have access to music have been able to get involved.
'There are a few people who might not be to keen on the noise but as I say to them: "Isn't it brilliant to see kids being involved with the library"' says Wendy Featherstone of Central Bedfordshire Libraries, now under the management of the Arts Council.
'The music session leaders brilliant at engaging the children and adults - it was a real family affair. Everyone learnt a lot in a fun environment. I hope it's the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship between the library service and Inspiring Music.'
Since this programme, Royal Opera House Bridge, Central Bedfordshire Library Service and Inspiring Music have been working on developing a creative network for the area that will support more partnerships in the area.
If you're interested in getting involved, find out more about Royal Opera House Bridge or email email@example.com]]>


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These were fun to make and everyone at my Halloween party was very impressed! Mine turned out perfectly, wrinkles and all. 15 minutes in the freezer made the dough too stiff to roll out. 8-10 minutes is enough. I baked them with convection, and they were a light crispy texture. No cheese melted out like other reviewers described. I agree, they were great with the Devilish chorizo chili!
Cheddar Witch's Fingers
susanhale Posted: 10/30/10
jeniand Posted: 10/31/09
These are are great! I also had to bake a little longer - about 18-19 minutes. Definitely a fun and easy recipe for any Halloween party.
FallsDoll Posted: 10/29/09
These are delicious. They are going to a 55 and older Halloween party. I found it necessary to bake for 19 minutes. A suggestion: make sure that you firmly press the almonds into the "finger". I found myself with loose almonds. No worries, though, witch's fingers are more gross with missing finger nails!
bartolina Posted: 10/30/09
Cheddar Witch's Fingers were a hit! They were a welcome addition to our Halloween Tea Party menu. It is nice to have a Halloween treat that is savory rather than sweet. The cheese did melt and make the edges crispy. In my opinion, it was a bonus. I would roll them a little thinner next time.
foodie1yum Posted: 10/26/09
I was pretty disappointed with this recipe. The cheese in the fingers melted and seeped out the sides and crisped up, making them jagged. The detail in the knuckle ridges disappeared, and they flattened out too much. I thought maybe I missed a step or added a wrong ingredient but I followed the recipe exactly and these just turned out completely unappetizing. I threw them and the recipe away.
alfalfadarla Posted: 09/12/11
Made for a Tailgate party and called them "Steeler" fingers. They were a hit with Ravens fans. Plus they went well with adult beverages.
jelder Posted: 10/30/11
This was fairly messy at first but freezing for 15 minutes really helped. I found that adding flour as your forming the fingers help also. Mine came out kinda Fat fingers, but they were still pretty awesome. Oh and after cooking, I broiled for about a minute or two and it burned the almonds enough to look extra creepy:) All in all, I enjoyed the process and will do again next year.
lhsimmons88 Posted: 10/29/11
Easy to make. They look and taste great.
seaside725 Posted: 11/12/11
I thought these were ok. I followed the recipe and they did look like fingers. I found it difficult to handle the dough, so I had to keep putting it back it the freezer so that I could work with it. My only problem with the recipe was that I found it a bit bland. My family like it better then I did and asked that I make them again.
KMoneycookin Posted: 10/25/13
This recipe is flawed for sure but thanks to the other reviews and a little creativity mine turned out great! Here's what I did. First refrigerated the dough overnight. Then rolled them, cut them and put them in the freezer for 15 minutes. Then shaped them and made the knucle grooves before putting salt on. I found pinching the fingertips and knuckles much like the edge of a pie crust worked well. Then brushed them lightly with a egg wash. I made a seasoning combo of salt, seasoning salt and a touch garlic powder and sprinkled that on with a salt shaker. I dipped the tips of the almonds in the egg wash and pushed them in the end of the finger tips sticking inside the dough. With these few changes the almonds stayed in place and were super yummy with the added seasoning! Thanks for the great tips! Hope it turns out well like mine did!


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ST. PAUL, MN (June 18, 2010) – Those attending the 125th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church will have an opportunity to work together on Saturday morning next week in a project called Local Impact, a service project at an elementary school that serves a diverse and disadvantaged community. Continue Reading »
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International Guests to Join in ECC 125th Celebration
ST. PAUL, MN (June 17, 2010) – Since its founding 125 years ago, the Evangelical Covenant Church has emphasized spreading the gospel internationally. To honor that commitment and help celebrate the denomination's landmark anniversary next week, Covenant leaders from around the world will participate in the celebration, which begins Thursday and concludes with the traditional ordination service Sunday morning. Continue Reading »
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Offering of Letters to End Hunger Set for Annual Meeting
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Juliet Lawrence is at a crossroads. Her ex-husband stole her trust fund and she isn't trained for any employment. An old acquaintance, Cary Daniels, needs a pretend-girlfriend to get back in the good graces of his grandmother so he'll inherit a fortune. Out of desperation Juliet agrees, something she deeply regrets after meeting Cary's grandmother and his cousin Raphael Marchese. Juliet and Rafe are extremely attracted to each other, but since she's "engaged" to his cousin, they don't act on it. But Rafe senses something is amiss. Juliet doesn't act like a woman
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Everyday Glory by Sedrick Huckaby, at the Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden - December 4: 6-8:30 p.m. 6616 Spring Valley Road, Dallas, Tx 75254.
I've written about Huckaby's work before, which continues to evolve into stronger and more subtle explorations of color, tone, and texture, as images morph into abstractions that carry metaphoric grit.
Stephen Lapthisophon and John Judd Lecture at the Dallas Museum of Art – December 5: 7:30-8:30 p.m. 1717 North Harwood Street, Dallas, Texas 75201.
Stephen Lapthisophon's Concentrations exhibition at the DMA is a difficult, disarming, and labyrinthine installation, a series of riffs and improvisations that suggest dead end associations and tease-out an ever-elusive coherence. I keep thinking of the show as a kind of epistemological free jazz, a melding of conceptual, expressive, and improvisational techniques that demand pride of place for incoherence within the context of an exploration of meaning. Tonight Lapthisophon will be speaking about his work with the actor John Judd, who has been friends with the artist since the early 1970s.
BAGGAGE by Michael Corris and Kelly Kroener at RE Gallery – December 6: 7-9 p.m. 1717 Gould Street, Dallas, Texas 75215.
For their second collaboration after The Dallas Collective, which exhibited at the Texas Biennial, artist, SMU professor, and former Art and Language collaborator, Michael Corris, and S.C.A.B.-associated artist Kelly Kroener have created hand bags fabricated out of digitized images, exhibited in vitrines created by Travis La Mothe. The visual content of the commodities are images from Corris' artistic career, stretching back to work he created in the 1970s and focusing on a variety of theoretical and literary influences. One surface tension of the project is the object-based mash-up of art, language, and commodity. But another seems to be that of memory and the status of art remembered and forgotten, which seems particularly relevant in a contemporary art world that regularly churns through cycles, fads, and regurgitations of already-trodden aesthetic and conceptual terrain.
Creative Differences: 35 Years at 500x at 500x – December 7: 7-10 p.m. 500x Exposition Ave, Dallas, Texas 75226.
We just celebrated the 35th anniversary of the Dallas Contemporary, and this weekend 500x will host its own celebration of the same landmark birthday. The exhibition will feature a survey of artists who have participated over the years in the artist-run gallery, a vital and historic Texas institution, the oldest artist-run cooperative in the state. The year 1978 was a potent one in Dallas.
Studio Paintings by Gideon Bok, and Ship to shore: Photographs of Maine by Allison V. Smith, at the Barry Whistler Gallery - December 7: 6-8 p.m. 2909-B Canton Street, Dallas, Tx 75226.
The pairing of painter Gideon Bok and photographer Allison V. Smith is a particularly intriguing one for a few reasons. The first obvious one is that Smith's photographs of Maine, where she spends much time when not in Dallas, will hang with the work of a Maine-based painter. But there is also an aesthetic and thematic contrast that may prove potent. Smith's images are characterized by an evocative formality — pristine and suggestive, though occasionally anodyne. Bok trades on internal landscapes with visceral sizzle, renderings of his studio space which, in its constant flux and disheveled glory, is incorporated into a dialectic of material and conceptual contemplation.
"Everyday Glory" by Sedrick Huckaby, at the Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden – December 4: 6-8:30 p.m. 6616 Spring Valley Road, Dallas, Tx 75254.
dcU: Ira Greenberg lecture at Dallas Contemporary — December 4: 7:00 p.m. 161 Glass Street, Dallas, Texas 75207
Stephen Lapthisophon and John Judd at the Dallas Museum of Art — December 5: 7:30-8:30 p.m. 1717 North Harwood Street, Dallas, Texas 75201.
Next Topic: Feminism & Contemporary Art at CentralTrak — December 5: 7 p.m. 800 Exposition Ave, Dallas, Texas 75226.
RAWartds Dallas Semi-Finals 2013 at Life in Deep Ellum — December 5: 7 p.m. – 2 a.m. 2803 Taylor St, Dallas, Texas 75226
BAGGAGE by Michael Corris and Kelly Kroener at RE Gallery — December 6: 7-9 p.m. 1717 Gould Street, Dallas, Texas 75215.
ARTHASH at White Space Gallery — December 6: 7-10 p.m. 2001 N. Lamar st suite 500, Dallas, Texas 75202.
"Jen Blazina and Anda Dubinskis – New Works Exhibit" at the Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery at the University of Dallas - December 6: 6:30-8:30 p.m. 1845 East Northgate Drive, Irving, Tx 75062.
"11th Anniversary Celebration!" at the Artists' Showplace – December 6: 6-9 p.m. 15615 Coit Rd, #230, Dallas, Tx 75248.
Creative Differences: 35 Years at 500x at 500x — December 7: 7-10 p.m. 500x Exposition Ave, Dallas, Texas 75226.
" Studio Paintings" by Gideon Bok, and "Ship to shore: Photographs of Maine" by Allison V. Smith, at the Barry Whistler Gallery - December 7: 6-8 p.m. 2909-B Canton Street, Dallas, Tx 75226.
Blue Yule Artist and Ornament Sale at The McKinney Ave. Contemporary — December 7: 6-9 p.m. 3120 McKinney Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75204
Holiday Presence IX at Kettle Art Gallery — December 7: 7 p.m. 2650-B Main Street, Dallas, Texas 75226
"Collaging" by Dwayne Carter, Randall Garrett, Julia McClain, David McCullough, Devin McCullough, and Manuel Pecina, at The Bath House Cultural Center – December 7: 7-9 p.m. 521 E. Lawther, Dallas, Tx 75218.
"The Mechanical Soul: Steampunk Style in Contemporary Art" by Karin Michele Anderson, Timothy Armstrong, Rita Barnard, Vicki Charlotta, Patricia Curry, Jacque Forsher, Rebecca Guy, Juli Hulcy, Caleb Winter Massey, Sarah K. Morgan, Sharon Neel Bagley, Melia Newman, Tory Padden, Kate Schatz, Kelly Scott, Daniel Sellers, Sammy Thomason, Marilee Vergati Haynes, Kyle Wood, and Theresa Wood, at the The Bath House Cultural Center – December 7: 7-9 p.m. 521 E. Lawther, Dallas, Tx 75218.
"Sidewalk Artist" at Dutch Art Gallery – December 7: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. 10233 E. Northwest Hwy, #420, Dallas, Tx 75238.
"Kent Wallis" at Southwest Gallery – December 7: 1-5 p.m. 4500 Sigma Road, Dallas, Tx 75244.
Image at top: From Baggage, by Michael Corris and Kelly Kroener at RE Gallery.


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Gore was just too smart to win the presidential election. Only lesser minds are qualified. Go John McCain!
People don't want change for change's sake. If Obama had a well-thought out, realistic program that most Americans consider practical, he might win. He doesn't, so likely he won't. You can call it fear. But it's practicality. You have a guy who's not far from 50, without a single tangible accomplishment to his name, asking 300 million people to trust him with the White House. No record, no tangible plan. It's too big an "ask." His chief accomplishment seems to be his 2004 convention speech. That was 4 years ago, and what's he done since? He's a one-hit wonder. Sure, many great leaders are remembered for great speeches. But they gave those speeches while actually leading and doing great things, often amid the turmoil of war, the Great Depression etc. He only has the speeches part.
Gore likeing Obama to Abe Lincoln is absolutely stupid. Obama is nothing like Honest Abe; Lincoln was an honorable man, not arrogant, not egotistical, Abe was a patriat, a wise man. None of these descriptions fit LiarObama. Abe would not have needed a hugh stadium and a stage resembling the ancient temples of the Romans which was designed by Britney Spears' stage designer. Obama is a showman and a very arrogant person who does not belong in the White House.
Obama has very well thought out plans for virtually every concern facing America today. If you don't know what those are, it's cause you've limited yourself to the 15 second soundbites offered by the media. Go to http://www.barackobama.com and educate yourself.
One hit wonder? That's ridiculous! He's done more campaign reform than McCain and McCain claims that to be his cause celebre'.
Going back to the 2004 speech as his 'only' accomplishment is just parroting Clinton's primary speak, it's FAR from accurate.
As to "BidenIsNotChange" – Lincoln was a brilliant political statistician – in fact he won the nomination not cause he was 'honest' but cause he was cagey and no one knew his position on slavery so he was an acceptable compromise at the time.
Do your research.
What do you mean Biden is not change??? I live in Delaware… Biden is the poorest Senator despite the fact that we've elected him back for over 30 years… why cause he's a great guy. I emphasize that he's poor cause it tells you he's not playing that lobbyist game.
He's NEVER lived in DC. In fact, he takes the train every day too and from DC and that is one reason so many folks know him… we see him on the train.
If you've elected fatcats to represent ya… well I'm sorry but as for Biden in Delaware – he's NOT cut from that cloth and never has been.
He's been highly effective for civil rights, supporting law enforcement and foreign policy just to name a few things.
I agree with Julie… you guys need to do some serious research!
Way to go Obama! Barack Obama is one of those leaders that comes along perhaps once in a hundred years. He is a prodigy, and is a wise leader. He has the ability to bring the country together, and restore our future as a nation. It's about time! I really hope Obama wins this election.
Al Gore is living proof that America does not know how to elect a great man with vision, humanity and great ideas for the future. Assuming nothing has changed in 8 years, Barack Obama has no chance in hell of winning this election.
But the fact of the matter is, Bush has been an almost complete failure as Commander in Chief, and has managed the economy only slightly better than any other man with a history of leading failed businesses could hope to manage. John McCain has backtracked on his once laudable divergence from the Republican establishment, and can now no longer champion himself as an independent and maverick thinker. He has flip-flopped, cow-towed and he has pushed many failed Bush agendas and plans to continue to see them through, damn the torpedos. We deserve change, now.
Al Gore's speech was one of my favorites. Here is a politician that actually knows what he is talking about, not a puppet taking orders from greed-ridden lobbyists
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Intrusion detection solutions still play a crucial part in a layered network security plan.
Increased complexity of networks, access to the Internet, and computer literacy have necessitated that network security vendors offer users a technology for detecting network breaches. Begun in the 1980s as a series of government projects, intrusion detection software quickly matured and crossed over to the commercial market. By February 2000 there were numerous commercial IDS offered as part of a layered security approach.
Intrusion detection systems monitor, detect and respond to unauthorized network activity. In order to do this, IDS use policies to define certain events that will trigger an alert if detected. While some IDS only issue an alert, there are systems that respond automatically by logging off the perpetrator, disabling the user account, or launching scripts. IDS tools act as a complement to firewalls. They allow for the complete supervision of networks and ensure that there will be information available to help determine the nature of the security incident and its source.
According to GFI CEO Nick Galea, "As part of an organization's security practices and policies, it is important for companies to be aware, in real time, of unauthorized access and/or any attempts of this, be it from internal or external sources. It is essential for administrators to have a product in place that immediately notifies them in cases of critical network events as they occur, as this enables them to take immediate action."
Types of Attacks
There are three types of network attacks. In a reconnaissance attack or scan, the intruder will find out as much about the system as possible. In an exploits attack, the intruder takes advantage of bugs or vulnerabilities in order to gain access to the system. In a denial of service (DoS) attack, the intruder vandalizes the system so that it becomes unavailable to legitimate users.
Many network incidents inside the network occur by error, attempts of authorized users to go beyond their authorization, and disgruntled employees. However, attacks do come from outside the network. These attacks generally take the form of denial-of-service attacks.
While IDS can be used in conjunction with firewalls, a firewall regulates and controls the flow of information into and out of a network and attempts to prevent an intruder from entering a network. Prevention is also what an intrusion prevention system provides, since instead of just reporting incidents while or after they occur, an IPS has software that attempts to prevent the incident from occurring.
IDS vs IPS
Five years ago, there were many IDS vendors and products, and the market flourished. Now, due to spin-offs, mergers and acquisitions, there are fewer IDS vendors. The growing trend is migration toward the more sophisticated intrusion prevention systems, which provide prevention as well as detection in one system or device.
The increased popularity of IPShas raised some controversy regarding whether IDS are still important. Robert Geiger, senior director of products development for Network Security Solutions at Symantec, said, "Symantec recommends that IDS be part of a total security architecture. Enterprises want to block (or protect against) many threats but still will want to record and report on threats they do not block automatically. Thus, there will always be a place for IDS."
Attendees at the 2004 InfoSecurity Conference & Exhibits in New York City supported this statement. According to a senior vice president at JPMorgan Chase, "The demise of IDS has been exaggerated. Right now, changing over to IPS is unfeasible, inefficient and not very cost-effective for many companies that already have IDS and other security products."
An IT director at New York University Medical Center agreed, saying, "If a company has already invested time and money in an IDS that works well and is integrated with their other security products, they'll want to keep the existing IDS because it's part of the security system that they've already cost-justified and implemented. Even with the increasing security awareness, it's hard to cost justify getting rid of existing security that works and replacing it with a better mousetrap, especially in a tight economy."
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