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From steamy soccer star to "chubby" carpool dad!
David Beckham retired from his celebrated, long-running athletic career in 2013, and in the years since, he's picked up a new job as a chauffeur for his and Victoria Beckham's four children, and according to his youngest, added a few pounds to his lean soccer body.
"My little girl turned 'round to me the other day," Beckham began of daughter Harper, 3 in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday, Jan. 28. "I'd just bathed her and I was in the bath as well, so I got her out and you know, I was toweling her down and she said, 'Daddy, I love you so much but I don't like you, you're so chubby!' I mean, I didn't think I was!"
The allegedly softened-up soccer star, 39 — who still looks buff in those famous H&M underwear ads — went on to explain that many of his hours are now spent in the car, rather than on the field, perhaps accounting for what his daughter sees as a "chubby stomach."
"To be honest, I've become a taxi driver overnight with the kids," he said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! of his retirement activities. "I'm literally an Uber driver now. I take them from seven in the morning to the schools — I have four drop-offs at four different schools — so I get that done in an hour and fifteen minutes. Then I pick my little girl up at 12, and then the boys at four, and then the boys train in a soccer academy every single night of the week so I'm busy every night until 9:30 and then I'm at home."
Beckham and his wife Victoria Beckham welcomed their first child Brooklyn, now 15, in March 1999 just months before he married the former Spice Girls singer, 40, in July 1999. They went on to welcome son Romeo, 12, son Cruz, 9, and the aforementioned Harper. Beckham spilled to Kimmel that while his retirement involves far little fanfare than his years as the world's most famous soccer player, he is enjoying the quieter life.
"It's great," the former Manchester United star said. "I've been playing football for the last 22 years, not always with the family, of course, I travel a lot. It's nice to actually be at home and spend some time with them and be a taxi driver."
While Beckham is getting a kick out of his new role, not all of his four children are as enthusiastic about having the Brit around.
"The younger one obviously loves me taking her to school," he began. "The two smaller boys, they love it, apart from my middle son Romeo, who's 12, he's just started — as soon as I take him into school, I'll go to kiss him and he'll turn his cheek. I will then pick him up and give him a bear hug and kiss him in front of his friends."
"That happens with him and then my eldest, Brooklyn, who's 16 in March, I take him to school and he says to me, 'Daddy, park around the corner.' Sorry, 'Dad, park around the corner,' not Daddy, he's passed that," Beckham continued. "He tells me to park him around the corner, and then he gets out and he walks 'round to his school. He did it to me the other day after doing it about five times on the trot, so I'm driving around and he's just walking in his school, and I open the window and I said, 'Brooklyn! I love you!' Obviously it didn't go down very well."
"Victoria did have to remind them the other day, 'Actually, you've got quite a cool dad,'" he added. "It didn't seem to make any difference."
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From: clayton stirling bartholomew (email@example.com)
Date: Sun May 14 2000 - 21:16:24 EDT
Hello Carl,
Does his thread seem a little familiar to you?
Does me.
on 05/14/00 3:01 PM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> My one big question, Clay, regarding the sort of database that you
> envision: do you think that there's enough consensus regarding a
> "Functional" approach to grammar?
Probably not a whole lot of consensus.
I am currently reading Simon C. Dik "Functional Grammar", (3d ed. 1981)
because Randall Buth recommended it. Anyway this is my first exposure to
"Functional Grammar" as an academic theory. However, many of these ideas are
not new to me. I absorbed the essential ideas of "functionalism" working in
a systems architecture group in the late 80's.
> I know how you despise theory,
Not at all. Theory is great.
> but do you
> think a "Functional" approach to grammar that is independent of theory is
> in plain view somewhere or even on the horizon?
I don't think you will ever get beyond morphology without embracing some
sort of theoretical model. I don't see anything wrong with embracing such a
model. Even the existing tools embrace a theoretical model but since it has
been around for several millennia we don't think of it as theoretical model
any more.
Building a database according to a model which is likely to be defunct
before you get the database finished is a problem which is always raised in
these discussions. But what are the alternatives? The alternative is to
keep on limiting ourselves to the analysis of the first two layers in the
communication model (i.e., phonology, morphology ) and ignoring the higher
layers including syntax (syntactical functions), semantics, and pragmatics.
For the purposes of exegesis the top layers are where the big payoff comes.
The fact that no one is willing to "risk" building a database for these
higher layers of the communication model means that we must do all of our
analysis at these higher levels the same way A. T. Robertson did before we
had personal computers. We must do it manually. This means we will have a
great deal of trouble finding the time to look for significant patterns at
these higher levels across a large corpus.
I know there are people building databases for research projects which
include information in the semantic and pragmatic layers. But I suspect that
these databases are not general purpose enough to be useful for mass
distribution, otherwise they would have been packaged and marketed with one
of the leading products.
Enough on this topic.
We have been around this barn before several times.
Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
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In general, whenever we teach or learn something new, we start with the easy stuff then build on to the more difficult stuff. But this isn't always a good idea, because sometimes the easy stuff causes us to be stuck in a "good enough" situation.
When I started learning the harmonica, I learned to play with a "pucker technique", ie I covered the wholes with my lips. The alternative technique of "tongue blocking" (self descriptive, really), was just "too" difficult for me as a learner. So for a long, long time, the pucker was "good enough" and tongue blocking was too difficult for not enough reward. It limited my technique for a good number of years, and now that I can do it, I wish I'd learnt it years ago.
The same block of effort vs reward happens in all spheres of learning. If you learn something easy, but of limited utility, it's far too easy to just continue along doing the same old thing, and it's far too difficult to learn something new, so you stagnate. Harmonicas, singing, swimming, skiing, mathematics, computer programming; there's always the temptation to just hack about with what you've got rather than learn a new and appropriate technique.
This problem, unsurprisingly, rears its ugly head all too often in language learning, but with language it has an altogether insidious form: the "like your native language" form. If you've got a choice of forms, one is going to be more like your native language than the other, and this is therefore easier to learn. Obviously, this form is going to be "good enough", and the immediate reward to the learner for learning the more difficult form (ie different from the native language) isn't enough to justify the effort. However, in the long term, the learner who seeks mastery is going to need that form in order to understand language encountered in the real world.
The problem gets worse, though, when you're talking about dialectal forms.
Here's an example. Continuous tenses in the Celtic languages traditionally use a noun as the head verbal element (known as the verbal noun or verb-noun). I am at creation [of] blog post, as it were. Because it's a noun, the concept of a "direct object" is quite alien, and instead genitives are used to tie the "object" to the verbal noun. In the case of object pronouns, they use possessives. I am at its creation instead of *
Now in Welsh, the verbal noun has become identical to the verb root, and is losing its identity as a noun. This has led to a duplication of the object pronoun, once as a possessive, once as a plain pronoun -- effectively I am in its creation [of] it. This really isn't a stable state, as very few languages would tolerate this sort of redundancy, and the likely end-state is that the possessive gets lost, and the more English-like form (I am in creation [of] it) will win out. In fact, there are many speakers who already talk this way.
But for the learner, learning this newer form at the beginning is a false efficiency. There are plenty of places where the old form is still current, so unless the learner knows for certain that they'll be spending their time in an area with the newer form, they're going to need the conservative form anyway. To a learner who knows the conservative form, adapting to the newer form is trivially easy, but for someone who knows only the newer form, the conservative form is really quite difficult to grasp.
So teaching simple forms early risks restricting the learner's long-term potential. So while you want to make life simple for yourself or you students, make sure you're not doing them or yourself a disservice.


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I finally completed Fire Emblem Awakening yesterday and with that I have played every single Fire Emblem game released in the West, and completed all of them excepting Shadow Dragon.
This post will be about Fire Emblem Awakening only, but I do plan to compare Awakening and Fates with the older entries in the Fire Emblem series in a later blog post.
So, without further ado….
To briefly introduce the game
The 13th instalment of the Fire Emblem series, Fire Emblem Awakening puts our avatar Robin and prince Chrom to the task of repelling the future devastation of their world by the hands of the fell dragon Grima.
So, let's take a look at the elements of the game one by one, shall we?
- The biggest addition to the game gameplay-wise is the ability to 'pair-up' units. Paired up units can defend each other from the enemy's blows as well as attack in unison which makes it a rather powerful and game-changing option. It us definitely a a good change as it makes moving across the map easier and lets players quickly unlock the vast number of supports in the game.
- Though it may be noted that the inability of enemies to pair up can make the game trivially easy for experienced players. A one-two strike by a paired up duo will kill most enemies.
- The removal of the 5 supports per character limit was easily one of the best decisions IntSys could have taken. It's possible to obtain all support conversations in just one run with enough grinding, which is a far cry from the time it took in older games.
Music: The music in Fire Emblem Awakening is, in a word, solid. This is one point most everyone will agree on. It is on the same high standards as the rest of the series. My favourites are Prelude (Ablaze), Id (Purpose) and Conquest.
Map Design: This is unfortunately one place where I have to agree with the game's critics. While the maps do attempt to give different flavours depending on the location of the chapter, the variations in them are simply not significant enough to merit a different strategy from the player. Add this the extremely limited set of objectives – literally only "Rout the enemy" and "Defeat the Commander", so there is basically no incentive for the player to do anything besides grind up and kill 'em all.
Plot Setting: Awakening does a decent job at world building. The continent of Ylisse is quite fleshed out with Ylisse, Ferox and Plegia taking up unequal amounts of land and having their own way of ruling. Valm was rather weak though. The only things you can deduce are there are East Asian styled dynasts (based on Say'ri and Yen'fay) as well as European style Rosanne on the continent. So a missed opportunity there. Still miles better than Fates.
Story: [SPOILER WARNING]
Awakening has received some controversy over its story, and while it's certainly not the best storyteller out there, it's story is actually quite par. It's coherent, and you can make sense of what's going on. The story is basically three mini-plots in sequence with Gangrel, Walhart and Grima as the the bosses of each part. That's fine, but the problem arises when the game tries to build Grima as the final boss, but the foreshadowings and hints it drops have no immediate consequence on what's going on, so they don't really tie the whole thing together.
Gangrel's quotes are really exploitable.
The sub-plots by themselves are fine and quite well-written, and the villains are okay (Gangrel in particular is pretty entertaining), but the sum total is a bit underwhelming as no villain gets enough focus to leave that much of an impact.
Characters: Ah, the other thing Awakening often gets criticised for. Overall, the game focuses only on a handful of characters – most importantly on the dynamic of Chrom and Robin, and to a lesser extent Frederick, Lissa, Say'ri, Lucina, Flavia and Basilio. Outside these eight characters, others don't get much (if any) screen time other than their initial appearance, which is a bit short to get the player to care. The obvious remedy to that is support conversations, but even they focus too much on the character's single defining trait. (Lon'qu being afraid of women, Sumia always tripping, etc.) Of course, there are exceptions to this, most notably Virion.
The other issue I had with the games is the unnecessarily sexualised designs of some female characters – notably Cherche, Tharja, Nowi and Olivia. It's not much of an issue in-game as the game won't let you ogle them, but it's still a sore point.
Though, on the positive side, the eight characters I mentioned are treated well. Not all of them undergo character development, but are certainly presented in a way to get the player to like them and care about them. The relationship between Chrom and Robin, in particular, is where the game truly shines. True companions to the end. Two halves of a whole, as they like to put it. (I actually regretted not marrying my Robin to Chrom.)
As an aside, I chose the ending where Robin gets the final blow on Grima and the following cutscene actually moved me to tears. Though it made the credits at the end all the more satisfying.
So, to conclude…
I had gone into Fire Emblem Awakening expecting a mediocre game, and I was quite happy to be proven wrong. While the game does have flaws here and there which make it look weak compared to the games before it, it is still a good entry in the series and an excellent entry point for newcomers. Nintendo and IntSys's strategy obviously worked, as Awakening ended up saving the franchise making it Nintendo's new darling.
Hours sunk into the game: 34
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Publisher: Candlewick Press
Pages: 399
Series: Lumatere Chronicles #1
Source: PurchasedRating: ★★★★★
At the age of nine, Finnikin is warned by the gods that he must sacrifice a pound of flesh to save his kingdom. He stands on the rock of the three wonders with his friend Prince Balthazar and Balthazar's cousin, Lucian, and together they mix their blood to safeguard Lumatere.
But all safety is shattered during the five days of the unspeakable, when the king and queen and their children are brutally murdered in the palace. An impostor seizes the throne, a curse binds all who remain inside Lumatere's walls, and those who escape are left to roam the land as exiles, dying by the thousands in fever camps.
Ten years later, Finnikin is summoned to another rock--to meet Evanjalin, a young novice with a startling claim: Balthazar, heir to the throne of Lumatere, is alive. This arrogant young woman claims she'll lead Finnikin and his mentor, Sir Topher, to the prince. Instead, her leadership points them perilously toward home. Does Finnikin dare believe that Lumatere might one day rise united? Evanjalin is not what she seems, and the startling truth will test Finnikin's faith not only in her but in all he knows to be true about himself and his destiny.
In a bold departure from her acclaimed contemporary novels, Printz Medalist Melina Marchetta has crafted an epic fantasy of ancient magic, feudal intrigue, romance, and bloodshed that will rivet you from the first page.
I didn't even know how long I was staring at my computer but the words just wouldn't come out. Don't get me wrong, I LOVED Finnikin of The Rock and I loved it so much that I found it so hard to put down my thoughts and feelings into words. I loved every single thing about this book: the world, the characters, the writing, the plot. It's just...I couldn't believe why I waited that long to read it now. I seriously must live under the rock because this book is it, guys, the bomb =) Fan of high fantasy, you've to check out Finnikin of the Rock if you've not already.
Some said Finnikin of The Rock is depression but I said perfection. Yes, I know this book is not all about rainbows, butterflies and happy things. It's brutal and it'll wrench your heart but it was written beautifully and the story hit me at all the right notes. It made me feel so many feels: sad, angry, happy, confused that it shocked me because I could feel so many things in just one book. The characters are all well developed (both MC and side characters) and I loved them all. But I have to mention Finnikin because he is my new book crush. He had my heart right at the beginning and it hurt so much that I loved him more and more as I read. He's smart, funny in some ways, loyalty, in another word DROOL. Melina created such a fantastic world but you don't have to worry about the slow pacing because the pacing of this book is really good. And I couldn't guess the big twist until the last page, it kept me on the edge the whole time. Finnikin of The Rock is such a page turner.
Finnikin of The Rock has climbed its way to my all time fav list and I was so happy that I read this book because it is just simply AMAZING. Highly recommend.
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Archive for June 2nd, 2018
Reinventing the Underground 3
It is strange that even self-professing hardcore materialists confuse the contingent with psycho-subjective factors, while reducing the objective to crude necessity. However, atoms of events like any atom are composed of nuclei and binding electrons. The matter of necessity is the nucleus, which is forever bound and negated by the electron-ic, giving shape to the contingent. Hence, our materialists would always consider the pilot – the psychic element to be the subjective and contingent factor. But in this story and in Kluge's self-explanation, it is the corporeo-human element, i.e., "intestinal colic" which is "smarter" countering the necessary tendencies of "the age of asymmetrical warfare." The objectification of our "head's foresight" into general intellect – the machine paralyzing the psycho-human subject, forces our body to strike back. As Epicurus would have said, with whom Marx concurred, atoms do fall, but swerve. It is how the realm of "abstract possibilities" invades that of "actual possibilities".
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In an interview quoted by Devin Fiore in his Introduction to Negt and Kluge's History and Obstinacy, Kluge explains, "If intestinal colic prevents the bomber pilot from propagating death in Iraq then his intestines were smarter than his head. And that the intestines do this dates back to a previous time. If the intestines' ability to anticipate is greater than the head's foresight — which is also artificially deadened again and again through education — then the intestines were the prophet. It concerns a reason that is underneath reason. That is the core issue."(159)
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In his tale "Unintentional Stroke of Luck", Alexander Kluge narrates the story of a young fighter pilot of the US Air Force who was going to target a wedding celebration suspecting it to be the headquarters of a terrorist gang. But due to "a convulsive evacuation of the pilot's bowels", "intestinal spasm" that generated shame and confusion in his mind, the target was missed and "the missiles struck the swampy fields." In the "age of asymmetrical warfare", it is this unintentional luck which is "at least one possibility open, when all other luck fails."


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Prior to the current and lively discussion on the actual validity of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation from the Papacy, there was (and is) a group of Catholics called sedevacantists who believe that the Chair of Peter has been empty for nearly 50 years, due to putatively-changed doctrine. "Sedes" (pronounced sed-ayz) as they are nicknamed in the traditional world, believe that the last valid Pope was Pope Pius XII. Some even deny the validity of his papacy and some even deny the validity his predecessors, going back centuries. Sedevacantism is Latin for "empty chair," in reference to the Roman Chair of Peter. They have very good arguments for their positions, many of which I can not counter. (For those unfamiliar with this debate, yes—there are actually Catholics who make me look like an ultra-liberal!)
In any case, I have a good friend looking at the sedevacantists. Here is an email I wrote to him to discourage him from joining them. It was only after I hit "send" that I decided it was worth a blog-post, published with his permission, but no names of course:
You write "I simply don't know what to do at this point." My answer: Nothing. There's an old phrase in Canon Law that is: impossibile non tenetur which means one is not held to the impossible in the Catholic life. In other words, God has not made life to be an intellectual riddle that is impossible to solve except for being solved by a few sedevacantists with their big book of old Pope quotes. I fully understand the difference between God's positive will and His permissive will for this current Church crisis. But both types of providence still fall under God's sovereignty. If that were not the case, then the only people to be saved would be sedevacantists because they have figured out God's post V2 code.
It's all intellectual for them, and really, it's all intellectual for your quotes to me this past week. Yeah, they are pretty air-tight. So maybe they are totally correct. But sedes are so miserable and mean, that even if they were correct, I'm pretty sure I would not want to go to heaven with them. If only the miserable and mean who have finally cracked the intellectual code of Pope Paul IV and the 1917 code of canon law are going to heaven, then we are all held to the impossible by God and we are essentially nothing more than 5–point Calvinists (who the sedes all remind me of.) Also, remember the sedes don't really have charity (just try to counter me on this!) and if faith without charity means nothing for salvation (1 Cor 13) then no one is going to heaven…in which case every single person is in an impossible situation…and Satan has beat us all into despair via a mind game.
You will never beat Satan at mind games in quoting canon law. I believe sedes are following Satan because Satan can quote Councils and Popes as well as Satan quoted Scripture to Jesus in the desert. But Satan quoted Scripture without obedience and charity. As Calvinists live Sola Scriptura without obedience or charity, so also sedes are Sola Conciliar without obedience or charity.
Every family that goes sede is because the man gets wrapped up into endless syllogisms. I have never met a sede family where the woman, in total love, has a deep understanding of the Church. It is always the mind games of very, very intellectual men who is led by some spirit to lead their whole family into sedevacantism. And their arguments are usually air-tight. But again, Satan can quote Scripture and Popes perfectly.
Be very, very careful to not look at only all your endless arguments but to do St. Ignatius of Loyola's discernment of spirits. More or less, St. Ignatius teaches that the one gift of the Holy Ghost that Satan can not simulate is peace. Peace is deeper than a feeling. If you are called to lead your family to sedevacantism, you will have an overwhelming peace of the Holy Ghost. (And remember that numerous Popes have set St. Ignatius' discernment of spirits as the gold standard of retreats and decision making.)
But you will never have peace in sedevacantism, as evidenced by the fact you have never met a peaceful sedevacantist. They are all so jumpy. I used to think they acted neurotic, but now I see that from a secular point of view (not theological) they all act mildly psychotic. There is no peace there. Have you ever met a joyful, peaceful, inspiring sedevacantist?
If you say "No, but that doesn't matter in the face of all their arguments" then you are left with this:
We are all then called to this Catholic-Calvinism or Sola Conciliar Catholicism of anger, where God has (in His permissive will) wired the universe as a horrible riddle where only loveless sedes are saved and where the average Catholic (who can not read hundreds of pages of 14th century Popes every week to figure out the truth) has a goal of SALVATION HELD TO THE IMPOSSIBLE.
Sounds like a pretty good pathway to despair made perfectly by Satan, if you ask me.


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Last Saturday I had the pleasure of meeting Kelly & Danny in Frederick for their engagement session! We spent about 2 hours in Baker Park enjoying the spring weather, walking Murphy (their dog), and getting to know each other. Kelly & Danny met in Las Vegas! I guess sometimes what happens in Vegas … changes your life! Kelly is originally from Massachusetts, is an avid Boston Red Sox fan, and is enjoying planning her October wedding. Danny was born and raised in Maryland, is an avid Baltimore Orioles fan, and can't wait to marry Kelly in October. Unfortunately, I will not be able to photograph their wedding as I have another wedding booked that day. Kelly and Danny – I hope you love your photos. I wish you the best of luck for the future!
This shot is my favorite from the session. I love the "painted" spires of Frederick!
If you look in the background you can see a pair of ducks! There were SO many ducks in the creek. At one point they all came on the grass next to us, and Danny remarked "It's the great duck migrate of 2010!" haha. Love it!
I love that Kelly and Danny chose to include their dog, Murphy. What a cute family!
I love the emotion in this shot.
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You all probably know by now that I'm a HUGE fan of Independent Work Stations. I've posted about them many times and shared how to use them successful. I absolutely love the independence we build for our students.
Today I'm sharing 5 quick tips for setting up a work station in your Special Education classroom.
Tip 1: Define a space
When you're starting your work station you need to define a work space for your students. There are a few questions you're going to want to ask yourself:
- Where will students complete work stations?
- How many stations do I want to set up in my classroom?
- What type of work stations will my students utilize?
- Do I have space for each student to have a desk?
Tip 2: Create Visuals
Our students are visual learners. They need visual supports to access their environment. I structure my work stations with TONS of visuals. Not only do my students have visuals for the tasks to be completed, they also have visuals for all of these items:
- icons for matching (to task boxes)
- visuals for reinforcement
- visuals for rules and expectations
- boundaries
Tip 3: Plan what students will do when they finish their work
Ok, you have a space for your students to work. You have visuals for them to get started, but one of the essential questions when setting up a work station is "What's next?" Our students need to know what they will be doing when they have completed their work. If you haven't planned what students will do when they finish their work I can guarantee you're going to have students wandering around your classroom.
In my classroom, when students arrive at the work station, they immediately choose a reinforcer they want to work for. I keep these choices at our work station and when students finish their work, they are able to walk to the shelf, get the reinforcer, and bring it to their work station. They then engage with the reinforcer until it is time to transition.
Other ideas? You could have students check their schedule and move on to another center. This doesn't work well in my classroom with a precise schedule. You could also let students engage in some free choice time when they have completed their work station.
You know you're a special educator when every activity you set up in your classroom has to have a data collection system attached to it. Setting up a work station is no different. If the goal of a work station is teaching our students to be independent workers, how will we know that they have reached that level? We need to use a data collection system that not only tracks the students independence, but will provide information to the prompter when they are collecting data.
When I set up a work station, I keep my data on a clipboard hanging on a nearby wall. We are able to quickly grab the clipboard, bring it near the station, and see what prompts the student used the last time they completed the work station. This helps because we know where to start fading the prompts on the next trial. If I can see on the data, that a student is independently moving work to the finished box, then I don't have to prompt that step. I will expect independence from the student. I will start to fade back on the work completion step in the work sequence.
When you're planning for data there are a couple points to keep in mind:
- What will my data sheet look like?
- What steps are needed to complete this work sequence?
- Where will I store data?
- How will I know who is responsible for data on a given day?
Tip 5: Get your center ready
Ok, you've defined a space, prepared visuals, planned for what's next, and set up a data collection system. Now it's time to add the finishing touches to your work stations and get started!
In my classroom, I have three work stations that I use. I don't have the space for each student to have a desk to work at, so I've set up the three stations that I regularly use and I've color coded them. When my students check their schedule they will see either blue, yellow, or orange work. To make this easy for my students to locate, I got some large pieces of butcher paper and adhered them to to wall in the corresponding color. This way students have a visual cue of where they are headed.
Another thing you need to do before you get started is gather the tasks your students are going to be using while they complete their work stations. Over the past 8 years, I have gathered hundreds if not thousands of tasks, so I have a large collection on my hands. You can see how I get things ready for stations in this blog post. In my classroom, my students are always working on a variety of skills, so keeping fresh materials on hand requires a lot of things. I tend to like flat tasks for easy storage.
I like to keep all of my tasks organized in a file cabinet so it's easy to grab what I need. Check out my file cabinet:


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Brave Brooke Docherty was given just 30 minutes to live when she was nine days old - after she was born with six major heart defects.
The 15-month-old had appeared in perfect health until her lips turned blue and her mum, Kierran Reid, rushed her to accident and emergency.
Within minutes puzzled doctors said she was "the sickest baby to come through the hospital doors" and her devastated mum was told to say goodbye to her only child, the Daily Record reports.
The newborn's dad, Barry Docherty, had gone off-shore the previous day and had to be told the heart-breaking news over the phone.
Their precious daughter, whose lungs collapsed more than 10 times during her five-month fight for life, was so ill doctors had to drill fluid directly into the bone, in a desperate bid to stop every organ in her body from shutting down.
Miss Reid, 23, from Inverness, said: "It was like a scene from a film. As soon as I saw the drill meet her leg, I fainted.
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"I couldn't believe what was happening. It was totally out of the blue. We had her at home for six days and she seemed fine, like a normal newborn.
"We had photos taken of her just 24 hours before and she was lovely and pink.
"Then I was told she only had 30 minutes to live and was taken through to say goodbye to her. I was in complete shock."
Even when Brooke's lips turned blue Miss Reid had no idea how sick her baby was.
She said: "I thought she just had a bit of mucus, they'd suction her and we'd be home by lunch time.
"But when we arrived at A and E she collapsed and when they took off her sleep suit her whole body was limp and grey. I have never seen anything so awful.
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"They had to resuscitate her and the on-call consultant said Brooke was the sickest baby to come through Raigmore Hospital in a long time."
Medics initially thought Brooke had pneumonia but scans confirmed the battling baby had six major heart defects.
She was then given drugs to buy her time while doctors consulted with experts across the country to decide if she was "viable" for surgery.
Less than 12 hours later the tot was airlifted 200 miles for a risky 12-hour operation, which went ahead when she was only 11 days old. Her heart was only the size of a walnut.
Now 15 months on, the battling baby, who also spent three months on a ventilator, survived multiple blood clots and had to be tube fed for 50 weeks, is a picture of health.
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Her parents know that Brooke will need a second heart operation in the near future, but right now they are enjoying having their lively, cheeky baby home.
Miss Reid, a part-time administrator at Raigmore Hospital, said: "She's meant to be here. She has fought every obstacle in her path and on her first birthday she came off all her medications. She's such an inspiration and I'm so proud to be her mum."
Brooke's tiny heart had to be stopped as surgeons battled to correct the deformities, including closing two large holes and repairing her short aortic arch with piece of Gortex.
They also had to widen her aorta - the main artery that supplies blood to the rest of the body - and fix and widen a deformed valve.
The left side of her heart was also much smaller than the right and, at first, experts were unclear if they could repair her heart to work as a whole or if they would have to rewire it so everything ran of the right side.
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Complications also saw Brooke battle back from the brink when her lungs collapsed more than 10 times in three months, due to a build up of fluid.
The tot also suffered multiple blood clots, which if left untreated could have caused a stroke.
So when she finally got home five months after her open heart surgery, her devoted mum had to inject her twice every day for almost four months with blood thinning medication.
Miss Reid, said: "I used to pass out every time I saw a needle. But I knew I had to do it for Brooke.
"Now you would never tell all that she has been through.
"She's meant to be here, that's for sure.
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"But we were told that if we had waited for an ambulance to come instead of just taking her the five minute drive to A and E, she wouldn't have made it."
The young mum had endured a nightmare pregnancy so when Brooke was born on October 31, 2014 at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, weighing a healthy 7lb 1oz, she was over the moon.
Brooke showed no signs of ill health after being delivered by cesarean section, and she was allowed home at three days old.
When she was eight days old Mr Docherty left to go off-shore and Miss Reid spent the night at her mum's for moral support with her first child.
The next day their world was torn apart and by midnight a specialist neonatal team was on its way from Glasgow to collect Brooke, who had to travel by private jet as she was too poorly to be transported by ambulance or helicopter.
Miss Reid followed by car but she had to wait one hour before leaving in case Brooke's condition worsened soon after take-off, and the plane had to turn back.
She said: "I was devastated I couldn't go with her. But there was no room with all the equipment and medical staff. I gave her a teddy and a kiss and said goodbye, and pleaded with her to keep fighting."
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The next time she saw Brooke, she was in intensive care and her tiny body had almost doubled in size due to the drugs being pumped into her to keep her alive.
Miss Reid said: "I said, 'that's not the baby I gave you'. She was so swollen and she was surrounded in drip stands with multiple drips on them. They even had to hang them on the end of her incubator, she had so many.
"But the scariest part was when the surgeon came in and said they would have to stop her heart during the operation and then restart it and hope that it worked."
Thankfully, they managed to repair her faulty heart, although it was so swollen after the surgery they had to keep her chest open for the next few days.
After clinging to life for two months, she was transferred back to Raigmore with the hope she would be well enough to go home within a fortnight.
But just 10 days later Brooke was rushed back to Yorkhill due to a constant build up of fluid in her chest.
It put so much pressure on her lungs that over the next three months her lungs collapsed more than 10 times.
"They had never seen a case like it," said Miss Reid. "They didn't know how to deal with it.
"She's now got 28 scars in total from her open heart surgery and all the drains they needed to put into her chest."
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The tot also had to be tube fed for 50 weeks, but had it removed just in time to enjoy a piece of cake on her first birthday - a day her parents feared she would never see.
Miss Reid said: "She's an inspiration and I'm proud to be her mum. She's so cheeky and she steals everyone's heart."
Miss Reid is now supporting Yorkhill Children's Charity's pledge to boost the coffers of the cardiology fund at the new Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow in a bid to help save more babies like Brooke.
"I'm just in awe of these people," said Miss Reid. They're just amazing and without Yorkill, Brooke wouldn't be here today."
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Government of Punjab has approved a fund of about 6 and a half crore Rupees for the developmental projects to be carried out for the progress of religious minorities. This fund was given a green signal by the Chief Minister of Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif, this fund is to be used for the betterment of religious minorities nestled in Sargodha.
This grant was recommended by member of Punjab Assembly Kanji Ram, whereas, after the approval of funds from the Chief Minister of Pakistan. In this connection the funds have been released, so that the developmental projects may be carried out.
Also Read: Condolences expressed over loss of lives in Lahore bomb blast
Chaudhry Mushtaq Gill, General Secretary of Minority Wing of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz Punjab (PML-N), had previously requested the Chief Minister of Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif for funds in order to carry out developmental projects for the Community Centre and Sewerage at Noori Gate neighborhood.
Moreover, the developmental projects were considered to be carried out at the Solang, Gawala, Tasawarabad, PPC, Union Councils of Municipal Corporation 6 and 14, Community Centre and Church at Rasala number 16. Chaudhry Mushtaq had requested MPA Kanji Ram to beseech the provincial government for the funds.


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What: schedule will consist of 40 minute sits separated by 20 minute periods walking meditation either inside or outside, with a talk by Grant on Saturday afternoon.
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We conduct baptisms, weddings and funerals for all who live in the parish, even if they do not attend church. To find out if you live in John Keble parish, put your postcode into this website: http://www.achurchnearyou.com.
Baptisms – Baptisms (also called Christenings) take place during our Sunday service at 10am. They are a great way to welcome children into the church as well as entrusting them to God to grow up knowing him. If you would like to celebrate God's gift of a child but don't think a baptism is for you, we also offer an act of Thanksgiving as an alternative. If you would like to have your child baptised, come along on a Sunday and speak to the Vicar, Simon. We also baptise teenagers and adults who have made a commitment to following Jesus Christ. There is no charge for baptisms.
Weddings – We conduct weddings for all who live in the parish, those who have worshipped with us for six months and those with a family connection. Weddings at John Keble reflect the two people who are getting married, as well as including the traditional church vows and a reading from the Bible. If you are interested in getting married at John Keble Church, come along on a Sunday to talk with the Vicar and he will make an appointment to visit and discuss further.
Funerals – We provide funerals for all in our parish or those with a connection with the church.


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Getting a Boost from Quality Tools
by Nicholas Leifeld
Serigraph Inc. prints, forms and molds plastic decorative components for the original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and point-of-purchase (POP) advertising industries on a global scale. The company's products range from graphics for the instrument cluster in a car, to the control panel on a dishwasher, to promotional displays advertising sandwiches and soft drinks in a fast-food restaurant. Serigraph's basic technologies revolve around a variety of printing processes, including silk screening, offset and digital printing, and many other methods of adding decorative effects for products and stores.
Serigraph has maintained a steadfast commitment to the environment. The company is grounded in the idea that sustainability and social responsibility requires the simultaneous promotion of equitable economic growth, environmental protection, and social well being. By using ISO 14001 and lean/Six Sigma as a template for continuous environmental improvement, Serigraph has actively reduced its environmental footprint on its journey to becoming a socially responsible organization.
Improving Air Quality
Serigraph's unique bio-filtration system uses bacteria that "eat" volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at 85 to 92 percent efficiency, and it was the first system of its kind to convert 25 compounds simultaneously. Since 2000, Serigraph has prevented over 470 tons of VOCs from being discharged into the air. The water used to maintain humidity levels in the bio-filter is reused water reclaimed from the screen washing process rather than fresh water from the city, which further reduces Serigraph's environmental footprint. These processes are improving air quality in southeastern Wisconsin by reducing ozone levels and saving millions of gallons of water.
Serigraph has also researched and tested the application of ultraviolet (UV) inks, which contain no VOCs, for use on plastic substrates to further reduce VOC emissions.
Recycling Program
Serigraph operates a corporate-wide recycling program that resulted in keeping more than three million pounds of plastic out of landfills from 2008 to 2010. Packaging materials are reused whenever possible by pulling masking from sheeted polycarbonate and using it as packaging filler. The company earned a Green Tier II contract with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and was certified to ISO 14001 in 2008, making Serigraph one of the few companies in the state to achieve this status.
Serigraph's energy management team works to reduce the company's energy consumption further by meeting every two months to discuss and implement projects to save energy, ranging from installing energy-efficient lighting to installing frequency drive motors.
Natural Resources Conservation
Serigraph preserves 75 of its 100-acre main campus in its natural state. Carbon credits can be allocated to land at the rate of .4 tons/acre in southeastern Wisconsin if kept in a natural state to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. This means 30 tons of CO2 are absorbed every year by vegetation surrounding Serigraph to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG).
Measuring Progress
Serigraph participates in the Wisconsin Green Masters Program, an objective certification program that allows organizations to measure progress on the road to sustainability. The bullet points under each category in the section below describe Serigraph's actions in addressing the program's 10 components.
Serigraph uses ISO 14001 and lean/Six Sigma as its template for environmental and sustainability improvement (see process models in Figures 1 and 2). Each year, environmental objectives are established and actions are developed. (Figure 3 presents objectives for 2010.) This process involves completing an environmental aspects and impact evaluation of Serigraph's business practices and an assessment of how the company impacts the environment. All significant aspects are prioritized and processes are developed to control or prevent the impact on the environment.
Taking Steps Toward Stronger Environmental Sustainability
The Wisconsin Green Masters Program
1. Energy Actions
- Serigraph measures energy metrics for business such as therms and kilowatt hours used per production hour
- Replaced current light fixtures with energy-efficient light bulbs
- Replaces existing industrial equipment with more energy-efficient models whenever replacement is needed
- Replaced energy-inefficient electronics with ENERGY STAR rated electronics (PCs and monitors)
- Uses motion sensors, timers, or other lighting controls in appropriate rooms
- Installed temperature control systems in all buildings
- Audits building and processes for energy efficiency opportunities as part of the energy management council
2. Climate Change Actions
- Developed and measures relevant GHG metrics by using EPA carbon calculator
- Identified and quantified sources of emissions
3. Water Actions
- Serigraph measures water usage as the number of gallons of water consumed per production hour
- Retains and reuses storm water using a sediment pond as managed water runoff
- Identifies and eliminates water leaks and/or other causes of wasted water as part of energy audits
- Evaluates all production methods that use water and determines how the water can be used more efficiently
- Maintains storm drains on a regular basis to keep free of litter, debris, and soil
- Has implemented water conservation projects, which has saved over four million gallons of water per year
4. Waste Management Actions
- Developed and measures waste management as pounds of waste per production hour
- Recycling bins are located next to all trash cans in the office
- Identifies a source of waste every year and sets a goal to reduce that waste
- Eliminated paper files by using an electronic file system
- Encourages the use of permanent cups for vending machines by charging more for disposable cups and provides new employees with free permanent cups
5. Transportation Actions
- Uses teleconferences or web conferences rather than traveling for face‐to‐face meetings whenever possible
- Provided bike racks for employees
- Has a regular schedule of maintenance for company vehicles that includes checking air filters, tire air pressure, and engines
6. Purchasing Actions
- Encourages suppliers to become ISO 14001 certified and offers to help them become certified
- Established a corporate purchasing policy that ensures the practices of suppliers align with those of Serigraph
- Purchases environmentally friendly office supplies (i.e., paper, toner, ink cartridges)
- Leases equipment that was previously purchased
- Eliminated individual printers/scanners wherever possible
- Purchases raw material(s) in bulk
7. Natural Resources Actions
- Planted 75 acres of native, water-efficient plants on company grounds and near buildings for shade and carbon absorption
- Manages company property to support habitat/biodiversity (e.g., native prairie, no‐mow grasses)
- Uses more eco‐friendly cleaning supplies for janitorial, pest control, and facility maintenance (low‐toxic cleaners, unbleached/chlorine-free products, non-aerosol containers, etc.)
8. Educational Outreach Actions
- Developed an annual sustainability report and submits to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
- Shares organization's experiences and best practices in a mentoring relationship with other businesses to replicate benefits
- Publicizes sustainability achievements via the Internet, press releases, etc.
- Invites surrounding community and city officials annually to visit Serigraph to showcase environmental practices
9. Addressing Social Stratification Actions
- Works with Moraine Park Technical College to assist the training of students using Serigraph as a business example for ISO 14001
- Ensures all employees have access to good lighting and fresh air
- Mandates a minimum set of working conditions for domestic and foreign employees
10. Systematic Evaluation Actions
- Uses a systematic approach to perform annual environmental aspect and impact evaluations of Serigraph on the environment
- Appointed a sustainability officer to lead, measure, and manage all aspects of the journey toward sustainability
- Shares information on sustainability activities with senior management at least twice a year
- Created an "energy management team" to develop additional sustainability ideas
Achieving Goals
As Figure 4 shows, results for Serigraph's environmental objectives for 2010 all exceeded their goals.
Considered collectively, the results become even more exciting. They add up to a smaller environmental footprint that moves Serigraph forward in the spirit of continuous improvement in the journey toward becoming more socially responsible.
Figure 1 - Serigraph's Sustainability Improvement Process
Figure 2 - Environmental / SRO Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Methodology
Define Measure Analyze Improve and Control
Figure 3 - 2010 Objectives
Figure 4 - Accomplishments
For More Information
- Learn more about Serigraph Inc. at http://www.serigraph.com
- Find more resources on ISO 14001
- This case study was selected as the third-place winner in the 2011 "What Path Are You Taking?" content contest by TheSRO.org, an online community providing resources and networking focused on social responsibility
About the Author
Nicholas Leifeld is the vice president of Corporate Compliance for Serigraph Inc., which is a plastics decorating company that provides products to the automotive, computer, and telecommunications industries. Serigraph was the first Wisconsin company to be recognized at the Excellence Level for the Wisconsin Forward Award. Serigraph is TS 16949 and ISO 14001 certified.


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Below role is office based in Abu Dhabi for 2 months on business trip basis
Then back to either 1 of 3 UK design offices in London, or 1 in Rome (the Rome office will be project hire)
Our client as the PMC consultants for the job will mobilise some of their team to Abu Dhabi for approximately 2 months to assist ADNOC in the FEED evaluations and then once the FEED contract is awarded the whole team will be embedded within the success EPC contractors offices.
The FEED contract is being bid by 4 EPC contractors 3 of which are based in the UK and one of which is in Italy.
Candidate MUST clearly demonstrate within the CV skills and experience required for each role.
We are looking to mobilise a number of skills sets to Abu Dhabi in October and November 2017 for around 2 months, and the overall contract is for circa 18 months. The remuneration packages and methods of potential engagement of successful candidates are still being considered, and will be made known as we progress through the recruitment process.
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Photographer Adam Ekberg in front of his photograph Aberration #8
A friendly reminder from your pals at MIR—this is the last week to attend the Elements of Photography exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art! It's a lovely array of works that hang like varied planets in the MCA's little universe, each flashing their own light and brilliance—works such as Aberration #8 and Disco Ball in the Woods by Adam Ekberg.
I witnessed Ekberg's works in the MCA last summer, and jotted his name in my little notebook, intending to discover more about this striking photographer (his video Disco Ball in the Woods is positively enlivening). Last month at the MCA, I felt very lucky to attend a coffee and conversation event with Ekberg. He led us through the shifting terrain of photography, remarking that the genre of photography is like a perennial adolescent—self-conscious, looking at it shoes, asking timorously, "Is it ok what I'm doing?"
Refreshingly absent from the Ekberg's talk—the sharp, wooly itch of theory found in "fancy pants" lectures (in fact, Ekberg told us that in his own classes, he usually feigns a trip or a guffaw of some stripe right away to try to put everyone at ease and take the air out of the puffy chest of academia).
Ekberg constructed a marvelous wreath of photographic history. In brief, Ekberg related the passage of photography over the genre-altering threshold of the self-referential; the initially non-negotiable photographic elements—a clear divide between subject and object, a strong emphasis on a singular plane of focus, a scientific cataloging of information, and an examination of society and culture—blend, divide, or shatter.
Ekberg took us on a dazzling tour, from Walker Evans
A Walker Evans subway portrait (Evans' camera tucked covertly into his jacket)
to Edward Weston; Bern and Hilda Becker to Lewis Baltz;
Lewis Baltz, West Wall, Unoccupied Industrial Structure, 20 Airway Drive, Costa Mesa
from Robert Adams to Diane Arbus and William Eggleston.
William Eggleston, Memphis, Tennessee, 1975
Ekberg remarked that in the 1960s photography asked, "What am I in terms of painting?" This is fascinating in light of the anxiety that photography was the "death of painting" and in terms of Eggleston's painterly influences. Ekberg related that Eggleston was the photographer to first usher color photography into the realm of what was accepted as "high art." Suddenly everything was a possibility.
From Candida Hofer
Candida Hofer, Théâtre royal de la Monnaie/Koninklijke Muntschouwburg
to Thomas Ruff; from Andreas Gursky,
Andreas Gursky, Chicago Board of Trade II
to Cindy Sherman and Nikki Lee,; from Gregory Crewdson's theatrical, "epic moments"
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, from the series Twilight
to Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall, The Storyteller (One of my favorite photographs. I was so moved seeing this photograph in the Jeff Wall exhibit at the AIC a few summers past)
To Alec Soth's lyricism
Alec Soth, Peter's Houseboat (I am so taken with this photograph—the houseboat clad in bones and ice, and some of the best colors I have ever witnessed in my life in the clothes on the line, like colorful life inside a winter animal, strung up on a wire.)
Thank you, Adam, for introducing me to Alec Soth!
Alec Soth, Charles (This is truly one of my new favorite portraits—such a tender, most gentle, understated portrait, model airplanes orbiting the little giant universe of a man dressed in forest colors with white speckled paint. He looks like a humble knight, clad in the clothes of a house-painter.)
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Ekberg talked about how photography shifts as it reconsiders its relationship with the photographic subject, and also in its negotiations with time in general as it aims for something perhaps more expansive than Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moment."
Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura: View of Florence Looking Northwest Inside Bedroom
Abelardo Morell turns rooms themselves into cameras using the camera obscura; the outside environment is projected into spaces—and we must ask, "What is the camera?" If, in the words of Richard Hugo, "a photograph is death at work," these recent considerations of the nature of photography shield us from being struck through the heart by the bullet of of time-specificity; the photograph, then, announces a living field.
Uta Barth, from In Between Places
Uta Barth certainly calls into question what the subject can be—the subject can be a liminal thing, an in-between thing.
Uta Barth, Untitled, from the series "…and of time"
Uta Barth:
"In 1998 I made a decision to only make photographs in my house because I wanted to find another way to empty the subject out of my images, to separate meaning and subject. Seeking something to photograph made no sense anymore, but I still had to point the camera somewhere, so I point it at what's familiar and everyday that it's almost invisible. I don't want to become the subject I've tried so hard to erase." (Cheryl Kaplan interviews Uta Barth, http://www.db artmag.de/2006/2/e/1/421.php)
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Similarly meditative are Hiroshi Sugimoto's works (an inverse of Maybridge, says Ekberg) who takes one long exposure of a "subject"—as one long breath. In his Seascapes series, the sea is a "time-lapse space," remarks Ekberg. What Michael Fried identifies as the "quiet grandeur" of Sugimoto's Seascapes commenced in Jamaica in 1980.
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Caribbean Sea, Jamaica
Each photograph that follows in the series references this initial placement of the horizon line (Sugimoto recorded the placement of the horizon line on his viewfinder) (Fried 294). In the words of Sugimoto,
"'[In the Seascapes] there is no human presence. Because I try to depict the prehuman state of the landscape. It is as if I were the first man to appear on this planet which is the earth. The first man who I am looks around and discovers his first landscape, a marine landscape" (Fried 294).
Michael Fried poetically pairs Sugimoto's Seascapes with Yukio Mishima's The Decay of the Angel:
"'The sea, a nameless sea, the Mediterranean, the Japan Sea, the Bay of Suruga here before him; a rich, nameless, absolutely anarchy, caught after a great struggle as something called 'sea,' in fact rejecting a name. As the sky clouded over, the sea fell into sulky contemplation, studded with fine nightingale-colored points. It bristled with wave-thorns, like a rose branch. In the thorns themselves was evidence of a smooth becoming. The thorns of the sea were smooth'"(Fried 298).
Fried remarks that the Seascapes are "in no sense views" (Fried 298). They are the meditative pondering of primordial, elemental stuff—they gently undo the formal stage of setting.
These photographs bring to mind these poetic masterpieces from one of my favorite photographers, Roxane Hopper:
Roxane Hopper, from Physical Properties
A little "light event" on the roof of the Smurfit-Stone Building in downtown Chicago:
Roxane Hopper, from Physical Properties (I adore this photograph!)
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Malanie Schiff engages in performative work which references youth culture, and, in the words of Ekberg, Spit Rainbow records the ephemeral nature of the performative moment.
Melanie Schiff, Spit Rainbow
An excerpt from Nicole Pasulka's interview with Schiff:
"With Spit Rainbow I had been on a boat with my brother somewhere and there was a teenage boy on the boat with us and he was driving us nuts. All of the sudden he was like, "Look at me, look at me," and he spit a water rainbow off the boat. I was like, "That's so beautiful," but he was obnoxious in kind of a sad way, 'cause he was a teenager by himself and he just wanted attention. So it was a beautiful gesture from someone who was driving us crazy. It struck me as something I wanted to do. Make a rainbow through this sort of aggressive and stupid teenage gesture." (http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/spit_rainbow/)
Ekberg says he would categorize his own work as "performance photography"; the work is not augmented—everything comes together when the photograph is made. He spent hours with this balloon, trying to get the balloon in its floating life to perform in a particular way before this photograph could be made:
Adam Ekberg, A Balloon in a Room
We found out that the rock in A Splash in the Middle of the Ocean is fixed on a piece of asphalt from Ekberg's apartment building, caught in the precise frame of the photograph as it was thrust into Lake Michigan.
Adam Ekberg, A Splash in the Middle of the Ocean
Ekberg told us he had stopped believing in happy accidents; then he took the photographs for his Aberration series—the ethereal sun-rings—like he painted a halo on light itself!
Adam Ekberg, Aberration #8
For the video Disco Ball in the Woods, Adam carried a disco ball and smoke machine up a mountain with a friend at dusk.
Adam Ekberg, Disco Ball in the Woods
What we choose to focus on and light up becomes the world for us; this seems an integral part of the dazzling spheres in Ekberg's Aberration #8 and his film Disco Ball in the Woods—here are these little universes revolving with sweet individual power, in private communication with the life force. The spherical "photographic subjects," placed in the center, make us sense the center of our own psyche. We are viewing our own hermetic life as a precious thing suspended in space.
Mythologist Joseph Campbell often commented upon the ways in which the first moon-landing event forever changed our concept of the cosmos. He felt the poet Giuseppe Ungaretti expressed well the radically jarring perspective we beheld—not of the moon, but of the earth seen from the moon. He often quoted Ungaretti's poem,
Che fai tu, Terra, in ciel?
Dimmi, che fai, Silenziosa Terra?
What are you doing, Earth, in heaven?
Tell me, what are you doing, Silent Earth?
—Giuseppe Ungaretti
Campbell felt Ungaretti's verse corresponded to the post-moonwalk mythos which asserted that "cosmological centers now are any—and everywhere" (Campbell 236).
Ekberg's "light worlds" are cosmic reconsiderations, in the graininess of dusk light, in bright rings of sunlight—and a novel kind of performative work, in which Ekberg allows nature itself to perform as he bears witness, at the ready with his technical savvy.
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We sit together, the mountain and me
Until only the mountain remains.
—Li Po
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Thanks to Ekberg and to the MCA for such a dazzling little "coffee and conversation" event—what a perfect way to spend a Saturday morning!
The staff at MIR Appraisal Services, Inc. seeks to fully understand the arts in their particular cultural contexts and to analyze relationships between various artistic mediums and genres; in this way we can broaden our expertise as art appraisers. We are located just steps from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Cultural Center; please do give us a ring to set up an appointment for a verbal evaluation of your most prized works of art.
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Works Cited:
Campbell, Joseph. Myths To Live By. New York: Penguin Compass, 1972.
Fried, Michael. Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.


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I'm coaching currently 4 friends. All women, all mothers, all living in foreign country. We found very quickly that their first and main issue is to put their ideas into the action.
The most interesting part for me in the role of coach is to watch the mind in work. It is all about to put the limitations where we have our pure, unlimited potential. With time, education, society messages we programmed ourselves to restrict us and give into our fears. What I observe as our biggest fears?
1. Fear of failure.
We are afraid that we will not be perfect, we will not be able to reach the high of our highest expectations and we will prove to ourselves ( and others) that our deepest hidden fear of not being worthy is actually true.
We all know that Edison did not find his bulb at first try ( actually he steals it from Tesla;). And still we have a pretension to do it much better then him and succeed on the first shot. We teach our kids to go, try, fail and start over and over again… Yet we stay hidden behind our great ideas that we never try to materialise and we give to who wants to listen whole list of excuses why we cannot do it. Let me tell you: Bullsh**. If you want be authentic, if you want to educate self – reliable, free, courageous and successful kids, see yourself as successful woman ( or man) not because you are in the Forbes magazine but because you dare to try. The only SURE failure is not to dare. The true success is the inside job and if you dare to step out of your comfort zone and put your skin " outside", you are already authentic success; you overcome your fear.
2. Fear of success.
Oh yes, this one is coming immediately after " what if I don't have any client/ nobody buy my stuff. Actually sometimes it is even the first fear coming out: " But what if I have too much clients/ too much orders and I will not be able to handle?"
Well ladies ( and gentlemen), it can happen. And I wish from all my heart that it happen to YOU, yes, to YOU!
You are actually afraid of your own greatness. Of the expansion of your being. Of expression of your gifts. What your little scared Ego would do if it could not beat you up about how little and insignificant/ unhappy/ poor little me/ victim of circumstances you are? What other nourishment would the Ego asked for? This little complaining voice in your head is well-known. What would happen if this voice is shut down? You would shine. Are you afraid of this light?
So stop excuses. Nobody is putting any limits on you except yourself. So being afraid of going " too big" is another Bullsh**.
Let me remind you ( and me): The Ego's job description is to keep us in the fear.
Our dreams work only when we start to work on them. How?
1. Dream.
What your dream would be if there is no " if", " but" and there is just DREAM? Many people don't even have dreams. So get one first:)
2. Put the date on the dream.
If you put the date on your dream, it becomes Aim. And you have a direction.
3. Make little chunks of the path towards the aim.
Rome was not build in one day and you don't climb Himalaya straight up. Define smaller steps. Then walk one step at the time. It is called PLAN.
4. Fire!
Without action the best dream, aim and plan stay a dream. You need the energy, not even a lot, but enough to make THE first step. Then second. And with each one it will flow better. There will be obstacles and troubles. You will improvise, change the steps, sometimes go little bit back or more to left or right. Sometimes you will be stuck for while. But wherever it will lead, will be the success. You will learn on the road. You will change, transform, grow. And one day you will watch back and you will realise that all steps led you exactly where you are and you have no regrets of never work on your dreams…
I am going trough the same process right now.
Launching a company in Prague. It is new born but my idea pull together bunch of amazing people. Everybody go deep to find and realise her own gifts and dreams.
Launched Yoga at Spencer Dock. Just started. Nobody called yet. Well, maybe will.
Establishing my coaching practice. 4 clients in 2 weeks. Hey, cool!
Money? So far more investments then return. But I am already gaining money from my investment that I did 10 years ago. So let's speak about money from those new projects in 10 years!
At the end, I have only one advice from my experiences:
Just Do It!


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A Day at a Time
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018
Reflection for the Day
"It is of low benefit to give me something. It is of high benefit to enable me to do something for myself." – Emerson
I've been taught in The Program that I begin to use my will properly when I try to make it conform with God's will. In the past, most of my problems resulted from the improper use of will power. I'd always tried to use it, in sledgehammer fashion, as a way of solving my problems or changing the conditions of my life.
Do I see that a primary purpose of the Twelve Steps is to help me channel my will into agreement with God's intentions for me?
Today I Pray
May I direct my will-power into a channel where it can pick up the will of God. May I no longer use my will-power – which has not proved mighty in the past – as willfulness. May I think of my will only as an extension of God's will, listening always for direction.
Today I Will Remember
To use my will-power as willingness, not willfulness.
Hazelden Foundation


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Introduction of GeoNetwork:
GeoNetwork is new face of era to share or manage geo-referenced information over internet. By definition, we can describe as it is an open source web based catalog application for searching and editing not only spatial data but also non-geographic datasets.
Now there are some highlighting points for GeoNetwork are:
- It provides effective searching on the basis of keywords, scale etc.
- It uses OpenLayer 3 to access the services i.e. WMS, WMTS.
- Also it provides metadata in multilingual for viewing and editing and its schema is used for validation and generation error reports.
- It uses catalog service – web (CSW) which is the part of OGC catalog service. The various organizations can exchange their records/data by using these services over the Internet.
- It uses Z39.50 protocol for remotely accessing the data.
- It yields their metadata by various sources e. OGC services, ArcSDE etc.
Integration with Geoserver :
As we know till now, GeoNetwork uses CSW service to serve metadata which are links to WMS/WFS/WCS services and these services in turn provided by the Geoserver to server data as a services. So we have to create synchronization between both of them.
- First of all add XLink resolver to support the GeoNetwork by using sandbox versions (GeoCat etc).
- Use WxS getcapabilities GeoNetwork harvester which provide getcapability response to create a service of metadata for layer in WxS.
- Meta data and getcapability xml trade by using xslt. So, harvester can make sync on regular intervals.
Coupling between Geoserver and GeoNetwork is not as tight but the end result will be fine. It is still is in developing phase, so anyone has better technique for integration, please share it and helps open source users/community.


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Your photos are lovely. Glad you found good hay. I can't tell you how often ppl tried to sell us moldy hay. Have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
Awww, what a cute fuzzy baby! And I just love that sweet sheep face too!ReplyDelete
You and your 'squeals' crack me up. I have noticed the leaves on my huckleberry tree have began to fall. I am not ready for winter. Nor will I ever be.ReplyDelete
Keep the home-fires burning. I'm watching from the other side of the Mountain.
We know nothing about hay but it sounds like a big job. Always better to be prepared.ReplyDelete
Benny & Lily
Sounds like you all are all ready for the Winter snows! You Still worked hard Girl!ReplyDelete
Happy Weekend!
oh, that chickie is too cute! love the stacked hay! can smell it! :)ReplyDelete
Wonderful feeling, isn't it, to be so well prepared for winter.ReplyDelete
Cute little ball of fluff!!
Awww...I would love to hold that baby!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 10, 2012 at 1:04 PM
Cute pictures, Paula. I have just recently tried kale for the first time. It is so good for you and I like it a lot! Best wishes with the garden. Glad you have the hay stacked and ready for Winter. Hope you have a nice weekend. Hugs to Lily.ReplyDelete
Oh the little chick is adorable! :)ReplyDelete
Looks like you're well prepared. I bet that did beat all the work doing your own hay.
Have a great weekend, my friend!
Glad you found good hay and I love all of your warm and fuzzy photos..Have a nice weekend..SusieReplyDelete
Hi Sweet Paula...ReplyDelete
So nice that you were able to find hay, and I can appreciate that you are grateful for not having to do all the work to get it.
Nice for your hubby's back too!
It is never too early to prepare for winter.. I agree!
I always love seeing your pictures, and farm goings-on.
Hope you guys have a great weekend!!
wow, ya'll are on the ball! I used to hate stacking hay as a youngin' - it's such a hot, sticky job but it's so nice when it's all in and you're ready.ReplyDelete
Do you promise winter will be here before I know it?
Blessings to yall from the holler.
Glad you are getting all ready for the unspeakable word.. Winter.. ugh...ReplyDelete
That chick is a darling..
Have a great weekend my dear friend..
Always love visiting the farm! Have a great week-end!!ReplyDelete
And all this work is your hubby taking it easy? LOL Love the photos. Glad you found some hay!ReplyDelete
Those sneaky silkies...but they really are the best & fluffiest mamas.ReplyDelete
The expression on your sheep's face is so cute. Sheep do have individual personalities, we know that, don't we?
I have to say, along with a full pantry and freezer, a shed full of well-stacked firewood, a good amount of hay set aside for the animals causes me to smile at a hard winter and praise God for such blessings and abundance. You live a very special and picturesque life. Thank-you for sharing it. I look forward to my visits at your place Paula.
Hahaha...I bet that is a smug silkie. What a cute babykins. I am tired just from reading all the preparation you have to do. You are sure hard workers.ReplyDelete
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Amei esse post, especialmente as fotos.
Bom fim de semana!
Paula, I love your pictures. I can't get over how green your grass is. You guys must be getting plenty of moisture there.ReplyDelete
I love the picture in your last post of Lily getting her beauty spa treatment, aka bath! ;-)
Looks like you guys are well on your way to being ready for winter! I am sooooo ready for it, at least to see a end to these hot temps! We have our wood, just waiting on cooler temps to plant my winter veggies. We are working our way there too ... Will be really nice to see this 103-108 temps give way to something cooler! whewReplyDelete
Yay for good hay!ReplyDelete
That last picture is tooo precious!
Hope you have a wonderful week, Paula!!
ha!! What a sneaky chicken! I thought I had a broody but it was a false alarm. I need to get some silkies. They always seem to go broody!ReplyDelete
I can't imagine the lower stress level from not having to do hay. I'm glad Hubby is listening to his doctor!
You asked if I was on Pinterest, yes, I am! How did people ever plan a wedding before it? Ha! ;-)
Very cute post. RichardReplyDelete
Dear one~I'm not sure if that thing in my yard is a corn shucker-(did I spell that right?)It was interesting, and I know the wood will all fall off it-it was very rickety to move...so someday I will have the wonderful old iron parts, and probably then they will come in the house for a decoration. If I can get Geoff to haul it for me!ReplyDelete
~Love ya!
I'm glad your hubby doesn't have to cut and bale hay this year...all the other farm work like cutting firewood, though, I would think would also take its toll on his back! But, I know how important it is to hang in there with your farm! I would give anything to have such a place of my own! You will get winter before we do....here it starts getting night freezes in about December and that will run through January, but our daytime temps will be a very pleasant 55-70, depending. Fall is 60s and 70s and such a pleasant time to be here, but we will have to go into the mountains to discover much fall color. I will email you about the bees....I can't thank you enough for all your help regarding my concerns! Right now my hummingbirds are a little confused about the empty feeders. :-) Love your garden spot! I am cleaning out the dead cucumber vines and even the dying squash vines now, and thinking towards my fall and winter garden!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for your very sweet comments about my new machine and the T-shirt quilt! I appreciate you checking out my quilting blog! Take care!!! All my best--
I love seeing all that hay stacked. I have a fascination with hay. I love buying it for my piggies, but now i just go to the pet store as i only have two pigs(guinea pigs that is!)ReplyDelete
Looks like your place is truly getting ready for Fall. Love the way you capture your property and share with us... its the next best thing to being there.ReplyDelete
So now You have got very much work. This chicks look so charmingly. Meybe in next year i will be have thats chicks.. Who know? Now i have incubator 3 peacocks eggs.ReplyDelete
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text: Category Events - United Kingdom, Colchester £ 8.00 / Age 18 And Up Additional Info: Three Wise Monkeys in conjunction with This is Now Agency Present: Son of DaveSon of Dave is an international notorious one-man blues & funk party. He's got himself a new cheap suit and after the winter thaw will be taking Music For Cop Shows all over the globe through 2018. Here in the UK we'll be treated to a May tour of tunes from the new album, a bit of Bluesman stand-up, and plenty from the lucky dip bag of favourite covers and older Son of Dave classics. Plus he'll be rolling out new tunes, as ever is his habit. Whatever keep's 'em throwing shapes on the dance floor."I've made it through winter without getting flu. That's reason enough to celebrate with a UK May tour I think. The new album is gaining fans and spreading joy. Time to get out there and boogie for my living."Son of Dave is fifty years old, and has lived for twenty-one years in the UK, hailing originally from Winnipeg Canada where he was steeped at a young age in the blues-bar tradition. His rsum is long, having had many other successes along the way. He plans to perform until his 80's at least, pointing out that there is no pension plan for Bluesmen, and the whole live-fast-die-young game is for kids who can't handle their booze, or their managers simply after publicity.Support on the night TBC Tickets: https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/son-of-dave-support-three-wise-monkeys-tickets/8211795?REFERRAL_ID=twfb


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The Mexican foods category began with Butcher Boy Food Products in 1950 as a small, family-owned meat-grinding outfit in Riverside, Calif. In the early 1960s, Butcher Boy saw potential profitability by expanding the food line into burritos and other Mexican foods. Eventually, it grew to be the largest supplier of frozen Mexican foods in the food service industry and acquired competitive brands such as Marquez.
In the 1970s, Butcher Boy began selling wrapped burritos. Back then, each burrito was filled by hand with an ice-cream scoop. And while many burritos are still handmade today, volume and speed have increased dramatically to an average of one million burritos being manufactured per day.
The POSADA® brand was introduced in 1980 to serve a new premium, upscale market niche that redefined the frozen Mexican food service industry, shifting the product focus from cost to quality. Soon after, the company's geographical coverage was expanded nationally from its previous focus on the Southwestern United States, and POSADA® grew quickly into one of the most premium frozen Mexican foods products in the U.S.


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Researchers: Dustin MacDonald & Theurn Campbell, Grade 12
A palisade is a wall constructed around forts or settlements. The purpose of a palisade is to protect the occupants behind them from attacks. 1950s Archaeologist Wilfred Jury believed that Fort Willow had a palisade, but his evidence for this conclusion cannot be confirmed due to a lack of notes, descriptions, drawings or photos from his excavations. Historic documents relating to the Fort also seem to indicate that no palisade ever existed at the Fort. It is because of this 'palisade controversy' that only a portion of the palisade has been reconstructed at the Fort today.
Palisades have been used for fortifications since the time of the Roman Empire. Ancient Greek and Roman palisades are not much different from what the British would have used during the War of 1812. Some native groups in pre-European North America also used palisades as defensive structures.
Palisades were made by cutting down small or mid-sized trees. The logs gathered could then be sharpened at the top to make for a sharp point. Holes would be dug around the fort/village for the sharpened logs to be placed in and erected side by side for best defense. The height of the logs ranged from a few feet to ten feet tall. They were not used to protect large forts/villages. Palisades were vulnerable to fire and siege weapons.
Wikipedia contributors. "Palisade." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisade
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