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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
I'm back!
Man I am totally exhausted. Taking part in this year's UCU show was an amazing experience. I have been doing craft shows for so long now and have always wanted to be more involved in the actual planning process. I am so happy to be part of the UCU team and I have to say I think we did an awesome job! We had around 7,800 attendees! Holy cow. The vendors seemed really happy as well and that makes me even happier. So if you came out, Thank You so so much!
Here are some updates:
Michal Wright-Ward is selling some stuff you don't want to miss!
Check out the new Plushroom Soup
Megan always features the best stuff!
If you live in the Seattle area, like kids and like to sew this job might be for you!
Tomorrow night is our next event for Grassroots Business Association. Hope to see some folks there!
I will be interviewing Alicia Paulson this week for the blog and will be having a giveaway for her awesome new book. Check back soon!
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These last couple weeks have been odd. I went and got Gravol so I could have it on hand for when my nausea gets really bad, and that very night I was so sick I took it… and it didn't even barely cut it. Then I continued to take it for 2 more days afterward constantly feeling like at any moment I was going to upchuck! I figure it was Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, since I was still able to eat, but I was mad dizzy! Thankfully the last two days have been much much much better!
Amanda; my sis, and I, went and saw the movie, Woman In Black. It wasn't a bad movie at all, but I think I was expecting more than I got from it. Definitely a neat movie idea, and some jumpy spots!
I've started taking Omega 3 vitamin, since it's supposed to be helpful against inflammation and Arthritis pain. Figure it can't hurt right?
Dad and Amanda came over the other day and he brought me Valentine's Day roses 🙂 He has done this every year for me and Amanda since I was in my first year away for college. I look forward to it 🙂 He also brought us both a necklace and bracelet (which I lost when we went to the movies BOO). Very sweet of him!
Last Monday, I was to go to the Devil… OOPS I mean dentist hehe to get my gum therapy going, but when I mentioned Mitral Valve Prolapse, they refused to touch my teeth until they got a hold of my Cardiologist and asked him if I needed to take an antibiotic before hand to stray off any possible infection. I heard Friday thankfully that everything is a go, and I go tomorrow morning to ACTUALLY start the treatment lol. Should be fun…. eek.
Wishing you all a great week! *big hugs*


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But let me backtrack a little.
Back to the entry gate, in fact.
As the very helpful ranger offered us the free entry, she also gave us a stack of papers, including the park's newsprint guide pamphlet, as well as a plain, unadorned sheet of standard paper with simple print, instructing us as to how to behave around the wildlife. In bold ink it said "DO NOT APPROACH THE ANIMALS."
It pointed out that bears can run three times as fast as the average human being, so you probably wouldn't beat it to your car, if it decided to come after you.
It pointed out that bison have repeatedly gored visitors who underestimated their speed and strength.
|The water looks so cooling, until you notice the steam in the background…
It mentioned that elk and deer were also capable of doing a body permanent damage. In fact, it said "Do not even feed the ground squirrels."
So, what did we see people doing as we first rounded the bend at the top of the lake? A pair of idiots far across the field, being ushered away from where they had been trying to approach a black bear. A little farther up, a bunch of photographers in the field right near some bison, and a handful of rangers gesticulating for them to get the hell back. By the visitor's center, somebody holding out crumbs to a ground squirrel.
Congratulations, humanity, you've produced people stupider than Darwin can account for.
It's a good thing I don't feel responsible for them, or I'd have been yelling.
Instead, I was shopping.
We popped in first to use the plumbing, then to ask questions at the visitor's center, and admire a lovely, gnarled old tree
|Gnarly, dude!
followed by a short drive across the street to the gift shop, aka the Fishing Bridge General Store. The rest of the crew bought a pile of stuff…a blanket, a hat, some buffalo jerky, souvenir drinking glasses, and other odds and ends. I, the Big Spender, bought a magnet for Mom, and some postcards.
I asked the clerk at the counter which route she recommended for us to get to Old Faithful, since, already, my friend's patience with tourism was waning. She suggested we follow the southern route, along the lake,
|One of the backwaters
as it was slightly more direct and awesomely scenic. We decided to take her advice. I have no regrets. Not when I got a chance to keep looking at this body of water.
|The last days of May, and it was still this much frozen over, this year.
My friend…I can't speak for her. Still, she says it was mostly worth it. Except for the horror of finding out that gasoline is nearly forty cents more per gallon inside the park than it is outside it. This she discovered at the visitor center at Old Faithful, while she and the boys filled in the roughly fifty minutes before the next eruption of the geyser by filling the tank.
She had a little trouble not bringing up the waste of all that money from having not gotten filled up in Cody when she told the boys to. She talked about it pretty much steadily, all the way from the walkway around the geyser back to the truck, and then that particular issue came back up repeatedly for the next two weeks.
On the positive side of things, though, the drive to and beyond Old Faithful
|They were there
|Biffalo, buffalo bisons
The scenery was gorgeous, and, I imagine that a couple of years ago, it was lush and green
at every turn, but there was still a lot of evidence of
last year's big fire.
The drive north from Old Faithful, and then Madison and beyond, goes gradually from a cozy, nestled drive lined by trees and occasional bears doing what they do in the woods, to a suspended roadway daring you to drive recklessly faster than 10 miles per hour, lest you drop the twenty thousand leagues to the river at the canyon bottom, to, finally, the twisting loop to get you from the top of the Mammoth Hot Springs to the village below, where we were expecting to spend our night.
Somewhere in the middle of the worst of it, Z decided to start pushing his aunt's buttons while she drove, talking about how drunk he wanted to get "right away tonight when we get to the campground". This pretty much guaranteed that (a) he wasn't going to get what he wanted any time soon, and (b) neither was anybody else. We were not going to stop at any of the scenic pull-outs to take pictures or stretch our cramping legs. Not that I really wanted to dangle my legs over the side of a cliff, or stand and inhale the steam of a sulfurous stack of hot springs' formations, but it would have been nice to document some of the awesome vistas for myself.
Ah, well. At least I saw Mammoth Hot Springs from their base.
The campground was just a half mile or so beyond the edge of the village, around a bend and blocked from view by a lovely high hill. As we pulled up to the entry, there was a short line of cars, which, at first, made us all a little anxious, but my friend got out, walked up to the office, and, after a couple of minutes, came back smiling.
Not only did they have a campsite we could occupy for the night, but it was really close to the restroom facilities, it had running water (no shower, though), and it was half price for disabled veterans. Our total savings on fees for visiting the park would end up almost making up the difference in the cost of a tank of gas. But that still didn't stop the "I told you so."
Ah, well. The boys and my friend unloaded the camp chairs, the coolers, and whatever else we needed for the night. Then, while they pitched the tents and put all the loose tasty bear temptations (other than my inconveniently, untimely messy self) into the truck cab, I went for a ride on my bicycle, just as the sun disappeared behind the hill.
A few hours later, the sun went down. We had had a fine supper (I cooked. I'm good at that, especially when I can do it while bicycling across Cornwall) of all those varieties of hamburger patties and hot dogs they'd bought at the WalMart in Cody, cooked over a briquet-and-wood fire, and I was exhausted. My friend took a nap, then did some homework. I packed it in for the night around 8:30, long before dark, and long before anybody else in our party was even close to nodding off. I didn't expect to sleep straight through the night, due to said bodily issue, but I was determined to get the as much as I could, in whatever way I could. I needed the rest, since I'd had a short, none-too-restful night in Cody.
Besides, the next day was going to be a long one.


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Williamstown Theatre 2018
Dangerous House
The Member of the Wedding
Artney Jackson
The Sound Inside
The Closet
A Doll's House
A Month in the Country
After the Revolution
An American Daughter
American Hero
And No More Shall We Part
Animal Crackers
The Atheist
Beyond Therapy
The Blue Deep
Caroline in Jersey
The Chinese Room
The Clean House
Cost of Living
David Storey's "Home"
The Elephant Man
Far From Heaven
Fifth of July
A Flea in Her Ear
Fool For Love
Funny Thing/Forum
Funny Thing II
A Great Wilderness
Importance of/Earnest
An Intervention
It's Jewdy's Show
Johnny Baseball
WTF's June Moon
The Last Goodbye
A Legendary Romance
Living On Love
The Model American
Moon for the Misbegotten
Moscow, Moscow, . . .
Off the Main Road
The Old Man&The Old Moon
One Slight Hitch
Paradise Blue
Quartermaine's Terms
Romance Novels for Dummie
The Roommate
The Rose Tattoo
Samuel J. and K.
She Loves Me
She Stoops To Conquer
Six Degrees of Separation
Streetcar Named Desire
Ten Cents a Dance
Three Hotels
Three Sisters
The Torch-Bearers
True West
Unknown Soldier
The Visit
What is..Cause of Thunder
Where Storms are Born
WTF's Our Town
10x10 Upstreet
6th Annual New Play Festival
by Suzanne Bradbeer, Tom Coash, Aline Costa, James McLindon, Susan Middaugh, Marilyn Millstone, Scott Mullen, Gwendolyn Rice, Ann Marie Shea, Annette Storckman. Directed by Julianne Boyd and Matthew Penn. Reviewed by J. Peter Bergman.
"I Don't Know" by James McLindon: (l-r) Matt Neely, Dina Thomas, Lucky Gretzinger, Jane Pfitsch, Douglas Rees; photo: Scott Barrow
". . .a sprint, not a marathon."
Every year, when Spring is in the air, Pittsfield bubbles over with the festival of new one-act plays at Barrington Stage Company's second space, newly redesigned and enlarged this season. Seating more people and providing a larger playing space, the St. Germain Stage shows us this collection of little shows has nothing little about it; this is a production of mini-masterworks by a group of very talented playwrights.
As directed by company director Julianne Boyd and her guest Matthew Penn, a very talented collection of artists - six performers, four designers and a wonderful stage crew - bring to life thirty characters impossible to ignore and difficult to forget. Each director gets to helm four plays in each act and one in the other act - five each - and I will address them in that way, more or less.
Julianne Boyd starts the program with "Sandbox" by Scott Mullen, a tour-de-force look at second childishness and the needs of adults to overcome the strife of everyday living. Dina Thomas is the antagonise and Boyd brilliantly gives each participant a moment of absolute ecstasy as their troubles slip away.
Susan Middaugh's "When I Fall in Love" brings the brilliant Peggy Pharr Wilson to the stage to give us the emotional catharsis of realization. Playing opposite Douglas Rees whose gentleness and understanding are truly touching, the pair deliver for Boyd a beautiful blossoming of friendship that is hard to overlook.
"Pockets" by Gwendolyn Rice allows Boyd a second shot at what love is all about as Jane Pitsch and Matt Neely discover for each other what the other one already knows. Each twist provides surprises for both audience and characters and the time flies by.
For Allie Costa's "Don't Shoot the Messenger, Pigeon" Boyd takes a sardonic tone in a merry comedy of manners and self-interest. Pitsch and Lucky Gretzinger get to exchange the sort of looks that actors love to use, those confusing elemental emotional gazes that sometims say more than the words behind them.
Boyd's final play is "Desk Fort" by Annette Storckman in which corporate pressure and that distant call of self-protection combine in ways you won't expect. Pfitsch, Gretzinger, Neely and Wilson manage to fit into the small spaces of life while exposing the big picture that frames their characters.
In the first half of the program Matthew Penn has only one play and it is a doozy! Wilson and Rees, living upper-class lives in the mid-1920s discuss the Irish problem, Sacco and Vanzetti, the 18th amendment and aspidistra in a comedy of manners that moves good manners into a corner and allows those special factors of societal distance to take center stage. The entire cast of this one is brilliant.
The second half opens with "I Don't Know" by James McLindon, a military viewpoint play that brings the 21st century, and the probable Trump years, onto the stage in a very humorous way which is next to a miracle.
Penn follows this with Suzanne Bradbeer's quizzical "Broken Window Theorem," a play that combines the national pasttime with higher mathematics and gives Thomas and Neely a chance to show how relationships survive in the intellectual spheres.
The director next takes on the plight of the ignored elderly who have to connive their way into normalcy in a situation perpetrated on them by loving children in Marilyn Millstone's "Compos Mentis." Wilson has the best moments, but Pfitsch and Rees hold their own in this precious play about social work, sense and sensibility.
Penn's fifth play is Tom Coash's "Raghead." Here we have two people coping with one another's quirks while trying to comprehend what the other one is all about. Thomas and Gretzinger pair well in this play, each managing the look of befuddlement before the only sad ending in the evening's collection.
The very straightforward unit set and its "pieces" have been designed by Managing Director Tristan Wilson and they serve the plays very well, especially as lit by Jeff Davis who gives each little show its own look. In the second half, before the second piece, he presents a beautiful, lengthy and effective dawn which prefectly sets up Bradbeer's play.
Costume Coordinator Kelsey Vonderhaar has done a nice job of moving the actors from play to play with different looks which work well with their characters. The wonder of sound, designed by Alexander Sovronsky, moves us through the ten plays with perfect setups, music and effects blending into a perfect transition from piece to piece.
All in all this is the way I like to begin Spring. New plays that speak volumes in mere minutes. Fine performances that grow characters quickly and definitively. A production to be proud of in a winter landscape that, as it melts, reveals nothing but fine talent at work.
"The Dirty Irish" by Ann Marie Shea: Douglas Rees, Peggy Pharr Wilson; photo: Scott Barrow
"Broken Window Theorem" by Suzanne Bradbeer: Matt Neely, Dina Thomas; photo: Scott Barrow
"Don't Shoot the Messenger, Pigeon" by Allie Costa: Lucky Gretzinger, Jane Pfitsch; photo: Scott Barrow
10x10 Upstreet 2017
plays on the St. Germain Stage at Barrington Stage Company's the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center at 13 Linden Street, Pittsfield, MA through March 5. For information and tickets go on line at www.barringtonstageco.org or call 413-236-8888.
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If you thought last night's rant was over the top, check me out on the subject in 2004 here (ex-Diary-X stored on the Big Archive). Julie Bishop's performance last night is transcribed here.
…TONY JONES: You're not suggesting that good retention rates or higher retention rates are a bad thing, are you? Still, you haven't explained what this means – 'a soulless and narrow form of national economic service'. National economic service, what does that mean?
JULIE BISHOP: The focus of Labor has been very much on the numbers only and not on the individuals. I mean, we're talking about providing choice in schooling. The Labor Party had a policy about no new non-government schools, taking away choice from parents. They were focused on a very narrow definition of education that was strictly public education and strictly on numbers. We're looking at choice and opportunity and that's what the Prime Minister was discussing tonight. My point about retention rates was this: you don't set a target, you pluck a target out of the air and say, 'That must apply across the board', you look at what's best for individual students. Now some students would rather leave school at 16 and then come back to education later. The point is that they ought to have the basic skills when they leave school so that they can come back to education. It's the quality of the education they receive, not whether they were forced to stay to complete Year 12, for example.
TONY JONES: Let's be absolutely clear on this. Does the Government think it's a bad idea to link education to national prosperity and productivity?
JULIE BISHOP: Not at all. Of course it's fundamental. But the point is we're not constrained by just a narrow focus on targets and numbers. We're looking at the individual. We're looking at choice and opportunity for students…
What the PM actually said last night is not at this stage on his web site, but it is in The Australian.
[Contextualising claptrap section] What links our education reforms is a simple yet powerful idea: that the way of the future is to trust the people whose decisions matter most – students and parents, employers and employees – the people whose decisions will determine Australia's future productivity.
Let me make a broader point. Education serves a much wider purpose than a material one. It's about the rounded development of the individual. It's about giving people the capacity to control their own lives and to make informed choices over the course of their lives.
Second only to families, our schools are charged with society's greatest task – the socialisation and character development of children. Education provides the seeds for an informed citizenry and the shared values on which a free, democratic and open society rests.
It's our main source of cultural and historical sensibility. A nation can't know where it's going if its children don't know where it's come from. The project that I launched at the start of last year – the restoration of Australian History in our schools – is one I'll return to in coming months.
Education speaks to the great liberal ideal of hard work and self-sacrifice opening doors of personal freedom, social responsibility and civic duty…
[Bullying and all the usual suspects section] Schools
The Australian Government makes a substantial investment in schools, providing about $33 billion over the period 2005-08 to government and non-government schools and delivering genuine choice for Australian parents.
Contrary to the professional peddlers of misinformation in this area, non-government schools still receive much less public funding than government schools – roughly $6,000 per student compared with about $11,000 per student at government schools.
The states and territories have primary responsibility for government schools. They run the schools, develop the curriculum and employ and appoint teachers.
Controlling these levers creates a framework of incentives, but sometimes not very good ones. The incentives need to be right to ensure our schools perform at their best with high academic standards, good teachers, principals with real power and proper accountability.
The Australian Government is committed to ensuring all Australian children receive a good quality education and develop core skills in areas such as literacy and numeracy. From 2009, Australian Government funding will be tied directly to quality reforms.
This builds on the reforms Brendan Nelson advanced in the last funding agreement and is consistent with what Julie Bishop has proposed to the states and territories in a spirit of co-operation.
In the case of principal autonomy, for example, the Commonwealth has proposed that all jurisdictions agree that principals should be provided with a statutory right to:
• veto the transfer to their school of a new staff member;
• appoint any registered teacher to the staff of their school; and
• terminate a staff member from their school on prescribed grounds, including for a lack of performance.
We also believe principals should be given greater control over school budgets. Whilst some of these are in place to varying degrees, there is a need for greater consistency to empower principals to make decisions at the school level.
The Australian Government remains in the market for the best ideas to improve the performance of Australia's schools.
Overall Australia's schools are delivering good results based on standardised international testing. But a rising Australia demands we aim much higher than good results based on minimum benchmarks.
The percentage of underperforming students is still too high. The Year 3, 5 and 7 literacy and numeracy testing implemented at the Australian Government's request show that around 10 per cent of students are not meeting basic benchmarks in literacy and numeracy. Worryingly, performance actually declines at higher levels of schooling.
Research shows that literacy and numeracy achievement in Year 9 is the most influential factor in students staying on to complete Year 12 and the strongest predictor of tertiary entrance performance.
There is also a large and persistent performance gap between students in metropolitan areas and regional and remote Australia. And there's no doubt that our challenge is greatest in the case of indigenous education outcomes.
Many of our mainstream, quality-focused reforms will help indigenous students who are falling behind and reward schools and teachers working to lift their performance. We are also providing more financial support for indigenous students in the form of scholarships, new boarding school facilities and assistance to relocate from remote locations to attend high schools and be in a position to pursue further education.
I am conscious also of the detailed work Helen Hughes and others at the CIS are doing to advance indigenous education, with ideas like 'twinning' mainstream schools with indigenous schools.
One of David Kemp's many legacies as Federal Education Minister was to push reluctant state governments towards literacy and numeracy testing. Now, finally, we have a national framework of testing on which to base improvements.
Last Tuesday, the Government announced $457 million in assistance for students who are not meeting the literacy benchmarks at years 3, 5, 7 and 9. Parents will receive $700 vouchers to enable those children to receive extra, personalised tuition.
We are also providing financial rewards to schools that achieve the greatest improvements in literacy and numeracy.
As if on cue, the Australian Education Union is now arguing that literacy and numeracy tests are invalid because they cannot assess a child's 'sense of wonder'.
No, I'm not making this up. In 2007, the Australian Education Union believes that testing if a child can read, write and add up is wrong. I await the howls of protest from those on the so-called 'progressive' side of politics who supposedly care about social mobility.
I look forward to reading the co-authored letters and full-page advertisements attacking the AEU's outdated ideology from those human rights lawyers, academics and welfare groups who regularly criticise the Government for not doing enough for the underprivileged.
This thinking is not simply a recipe for a failing schools system. It's a script for national decline. And it only strengthens my determination to implement in full the Government's forward agenda in education.
A second key focus of our schools agenda is teacher quality. The evidence on the importance of teacher quality is overwhelming and let me recognise in this context the fine work of Jennifer Buckingham of the CIS.
School teachers are an important but undervalued profession. In their crucial work shaping the lives of future generations, teachers and principals deserve strong community support.
We need to create better incentives for good teachers to do what they do best. Current teacher salary arrangements are largely based on annual incremental progress through a number of salary bands and teachers hit salary peaks relatively early in their careers. Promotion unfortunately often means taking an administrative role.
It's clear that pay dispersion in teaching has stayed the same, or declined, over the past thirty years, while wages and dispersion have increased in alternative occupations. And OECD evidence suggests that lack of financial recognition of teaching performance is a contributor to teachers leaving the profession.
Performance-based pay for teachers is an idea whose time has come. But the Australian Government is not prepared to wait for the states to reward teachers who put in extra effort.
From 2008, we will establish Summer Schools for teachers to undertake professional development to upgrade and to extend their skills in a range of areas. Teachers will receive a $5,000 bonus on successful completion of their courses.
We are also providing better training for student teachers, including more practice time in the classroom.
A third quality reform area I'd like to focus on tonight is the need for greater transparency to assist parents in assessing school performance. International evidence suggests that schools with higher levels of public reporting and accountability deliver greater improvements in student results.
Because of this Government's efforts over many years, a lot of data is now collected. It's just that state governments hate the idea of shining a spotlight on school performance.
The key issue, as Gary Banks of the Productivity Commission has argued, is 'the willingness of the education sector to submit itself to scrutiny'. In most Australian states, school-based test score information is very limited, in contrast to countries such as Britain and the United States. Keeping test scores secret especially disadvantages low-income parents with limited information about schools.
Many seek to defend the indefensible – data on school performance would be misleading, choice would be dangerous. These are defences from an outdated philosophy of education, out of step with international best practice, and barriers to delivering higher quality education in the 21st Century.
Parents should have information about school performance and be able to exercise choice about which school is right for their child. The Australian Government is not prepared to accept the patronising view that too much choice and information is dangerous. We don't believe Australian parents are either.
Parents also are entitled to expect that their child is safe at school, that classrooms are orderly and that teachers and principals have the authority to maintain a strong learning environment.
Like all Australians I am very concerned when I hear reports of school violence and disorder. At the moment, state government information about school discipline, bullying and disruptive behaviour in the classroom tends to be partial and fragmented at best.
I believe this is another area where greater transparency and more information for parents would serve a useful purpose. Too often, the only information available is on an aggregated, state-wide basis when parents need to know what is happening at their child's school or a school that they are considering sending their children to.
Now perhaps in speaking about this issue I'll again be accused by my political opponent of being captive to old ideas. Perhaps a well-ordered classroom where teachers have authority is an old idea. But it is a good idea, a forward-looking idea, and a prerequisite for giving every Australian child the chance to reach their full potential.
In education, as in any area of public policy, the test of an idea is its merit, not its age.
1. What links our education reforms is a simple yet powerful idea: that the way of the future is to trust the people whose decisions matter most – students and parents, employers and employees – the people whose decisions will determine Australia's future productivity. Who is missing in that list? I'll tell you: governments and teachers. Prelude to privatising?
2. Parents also are entitled to expect that their child is safe at school, that classrooms are orderly and that teachers and principals have the authority to maintain a strong learning environment. Like all Australians I am very concerned when I hear reports of school violence and disorder. At the moment, state government information about school discipline, bullying and disruptive behaviour in the classroom tends to be partial and fragmented at best. I believe this is another area where greater transparency and more information for parents would serve a useful purpose….
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Bullying. No way! is created by Australia's educational communities:
State, Territory and Commonwealth government education departments, and Catholic and independent education sectors Students, staff, parents, agencies, education officers and community members from schools around the country.
We are working together to create learning environments where every student and school community member is safe, supported, respected, valued — and free from bullying, violence, harassment and discrimination.
The clear implication of the PM's remarks is that bullying is a state school issue, reinforced by the coincidental publicity surrounding a damages case in NSW. This is of course not so, as recognised in the backing noted there for Bullying No Way: a recent Australian film explores this. [The following trailer of Boys Grammar contains adult content.]
— YouTube
A hard-hitting new Australian film depicting the terror and impact of bullying in a boys' school will be shown at a string of international film festivals, and its makers hope schools will use it to combat bullying.
Boys Grammar director Dean Francis and producer Justin Davies drew on their own experiences of bullying in Melbourne and Sydney schools 10 years ago to make the 12-minute film.
"When a father says in the film that bullying is just a rite of passage that will make you tougher for life, that resonated with all those who were bullied," Mr Francis said.
"The attack on one boy by a pack of others is an amalgamation of real-life events reported in the press and our own experiences. The victims become the bullies. I saw it happen time and again at my school, Ivanhoe Grammar in Melbourne."
Mr Francis said he hoped the film would strike a chord in schools and at home and that it would be shown in boys' schools.
"Parents of perpetrators refuse to acknowledge the truth and schools would rather employ a PR expert to handle negative publicity than to try and fix the problem," Mr Francis said.
Mr Davies said his school days at Sydney's Waverley College were filled with terror. "I was hung out from a second-storey window by my ankles above a concrete court," he said.
"I was strangled by my tie in a soundproof music room. It was terrifying. In a way I am exorcising my demons with this film.
"Bullying hits everyone. All of the half-dozen young actors we used in the film had their own stories of bullies in school."
OK then, aside from the wedge politics being exercised now, what would Howard's initiative achieve? Answer: nothing.
ELEANOR HALL: We've been hearing from the politicians, but what do some of the experts on school bullying think? Professor Ken Rigby is an education specialist at the University of South Australia. He has spent the best part of two decades studying bullying and he argues there's no easy or quick fix. Dr Rigby says parents are in regular contact with him, often to complain that they're not aware of what's being done to combat the problem. And he is on the line now in Adelaide…
ELEANOR HALL: Now, the Prime Minister suggests that principals should play a greater role. Do you agree?
KEN RIGBY: Yes. It depends of course on how informed the principals are. I mean, I go to schools quite regularly and I know that some principals are extremely knowledgeable about what can be done about bullying, the variety of things that are coming out to deal with different cases, different kinds of bullying.
If principals do make a point of becoming informed and skilled in the area, then greater autonomy is obviously desirable.
ELEANOR HALL: Is there a danger or any danger at all that schools may not to be so open about dealing with the problem if they have to account publicly for the level of bullying?
KEN RIGBY: Well, it depends what we mean by account for. I think it is very desirable for schools to let parents know about the anti-bullying, the nature of the anti-bullying policies that they have developed, and to involve parents in meetings and tell them all about what is being done and what kind of help they can actually get. That's a form of accountability that I would be very much in favour of, and I think there should be more of it.
On the other hand, I'm not sure that it's a good idea to have a kind of league table of schools indicating how much bullying at this school and that school and so on, because measuring bullying is rather a subjective matter. And also I think that it could be really quite unfair on some schools because they're in some areas where there is a good deal of violence and they could get a reputation that was undeserved.
ELEANOR HALL: I guess the Prime Minister's answer there though would be that the parents do have a right to know.
KEN RIGBY: The parents have a right to know what the school is doing, and they've a right to be informed I think in the process of helping to stop the bullying, but I don't know that the kind of detail that some people perhaps would be in favour of providing is in the public interest…
ELEANOR HALL: So, what would you like to see on bullying in the Prime Minister's speech tonight?
KEN RIGBY: Okay, I look with great interest to see what he would say. I think that it's necessary to be aware of the fact that our practices in schools at the moment are not very effective in reducing bullying.
I don't mean simply in Australia, I mean worldwide the so-called experts have not been able to produce the programs that reduce bullying very significantly. About 15 per cent reduction is around the norm…
ELEANOR HALL: Fifteen per cent?
KEN RIGBY: And so, I think we need to have a good deal more research on what practices work with what kinds of bullying, and far more information about what appears to be working going into schools.
ELEANOR HALL: Just clarifying there, you said 15 per cent or 50 per cent?
KEN RIGBY: Fifteen. One-five. Fifteen per cent. So, about one in six, reduction of one-sixth. So, that if we've got five or six bullies going on, bullying incidents going on in the classroom, then perhaps one of them is being solved and means that a great number of, great amount of the bullying is not at this stage being dealt with effectively.
And this is not because of the inadequacy or the laziness of schools or the culpability of schools, it's simply because at this stage a lot more work needs to be done to work out what are the best ways of actually dealing with it.
ELEANOR HALL: Professor…
KEN RIGBY: It's not enough simply to say we need more discipline. We need to know more precisely what kinds of work it needs to be done with both bullies and victims…
Substantively, then, the PM has offered nothing. Zilch.
Let him turn his attention to bullying in the Australian defence forces. Or the Liberal Party of NSW… That should keep him busy.
— YouTube
Not only here in Australia…
Two more points.
- A bullying "league table" would encourage schools to under report, don't you think?
- Schools can only address bullying incidents if they are reported. Even in the best schools this does not always happen. It is important for schools to have in place mechanisms like peer support, conflict resolution, anti-racism and anti-homophobia policies and personnel, and of course a full welfare program. And rules. The Prime Minister's old school, a state school with a sometimes challenging clientele these days, is a good typical example of what is being done. In 2004 there was a notable TV series on the school, Our Boys. Not the following, but you will get the idea…
— YouTube
For other issues raised — most of them old issues — in the PM's propaganda exercise last night, go to Literacy — Why I reject Kevin Donnelly's educational analysis.


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The N-Extra Element Theorem (NEET) derives from the NGNT using N injections. A transfer function is decomposed in terms of its value when $N$ extra elements (EEs) $W_i$ are absent, and a correction factor expressing the modifications due the EEs. An element is absent if it is assigned either a zero or infinite value, select by appropriate injection.
The NEET can be written as, a.o.:
\begin{align} H &= \Href D \Dn \end{align}
For one extra element $W$ and a single injection, the 1GNT can be written as the 1EET:
\begin{align} H &= \Href D \Dn \\ &= \Href \frac{1+\frac{1}{\Tn}}{1+\frac{1}{T}} \\ \end{align}
Depending on whether current or voltage injection is used, $T$ and $\Tn$ can be interpreted as: \begin{align} T &= \frac{W}{W_d} \\ \Tn &= \frac{W}{W_n} \end{align} or \begin{align} T &= \frac{W_d}{W} \\ \Tn &= \frac{W_n}{W} \end{align} with $W_d$ and $W_n$ the driving point immitance and null driving point immitance, respectively.
2EET and NEET
See references.
R D Middlebrook. Null double injection and the extra element theorem. IEEE Transactions on Education 32(3):167–180, 1989. URL, DOI
R D Middlebrook, V Vorperian and J Lindal. The N Extra Element Theorem. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications 45(9):919–935, 1998. URL, DOI
R D Middlebrook. Structured Analog Design. 2004.
R D Middlebrook. Low-entropy expressions: The key to design-oriented analysis. łdots in Education Conference, 1991. Twenty-First łdots, pages 399–403, 1991. URL


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Boston - The New Balance Men's Mile at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix meet turned into a gambler's nightmare at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston.
On the roster were names like New Zealand's Nick Willis and Americans Leo Manzano and Alan Webb. All three Olympians.
But after eight laps around the blue banked track, it was former Stanford teammates Russell Brown and Garrett Heath who were elated and Webb and Manzano greatly disappointed. Willis was at best satisfied.
In a furious kick in the last 150 meters, Brown shocked himself with a win in a personal-best 3:54.81 while Heath improved on fifth here last year into the runner-up spot in 3:55.87.
Willis, the Olympic silver medalist and defending New Balance champion, ended up third in 3:56.29, slightly off his winning time of 3:55.26 from 2010.
"I was proud of myself for being aggressive and being a front runner," Willis said, pointing out that he ran 3:58 on a flat track two weeks prior.
The race had as many story lines as tentacles on an octopus.
You had Nick Willis defending. You had Webb making his highly-anticipated track debut under new coach Alberto Salazar. And you had the sentimental favorite, the kid Lukas Verzbicas, trying to join Webb as the only two high school runners under 4-minutes indoors.
Off the gun, Willis and Webb folded in behind the pacesetter Christian Hesch. When he departed early after 600 meters, Willis and Webb pulled the field through 800 in 1:58 and a lap later, Webb started falling back fast into fifth.
"I thought it was going to be there but it wasn't," Webb said.
Meanwhile, Verzbicas brought up the rear with his long lanky stride. The newly-minted 18-year-old had bypassed Millrose the week before for a shot at sub-4 in a fast race of elite athletes. In fact, he is the only high school runner ever invited to race in the elite mile here.
"I was nervous," he said. "It's unusual for me to be nervous before a race but I was running with the pros."
One of those pros, Webb, had just presented the Illinois resident from Lithuania with his second straight Gatorade National Boys Cross-Country Runner of the Year award a week before.
And he was fairly close to Webb as he passed through 800 meters in 2-flat.
"In the middle we really slowed down so I knew I could pick it up," Verzbicas explained.
The entire field was slowing, too. As Webb was fading back, Verzbicas was reeling in Kyle Miller, Pablo Solares and Manzano.
"When I passed Leo, I was wondering if I should be passing him," Verzbicas said of America's No. 1 ranked 1500-meter runner last year.
Up front, Willis still was in control. Brown was tucked in behind Heath, transcending himself back to the workouts they did together at Stanford when he focused on Heath's back.
"I got out pretty hard, 57 for the first 400," Brown stated. "Just looking at how many people were in the race, I knew the winner would come from the pack. I knew I was in a good spot. The guys who I thought were going to make the moves in the front were falling back."
Willis was no stranger to Brown, either. The two met at the Falmouth Mile on August 15 last year, where Brown edged out a recovering Willis in 3:59.61.
And Brown was no stranger to the Boston blue track. As a prep runner from Hanover, N.H., Brown said he had competed on the track at least five times, including a New England Championship in the 600 (1:19.41).
"I think I was No. 2 all-time here," said Brown, who joined the OTC Elite in the fall of 2008 after graduating from Stanford where he was a nine-time all-America for the Cardinals. "This is the track I ran on in high school. It's amazing. This always has been the Holy Grail of indoor tracks."
Willis still clung to the lead through 1200 meters in 2:57.
When Heath flew by Willis to open the final lap, the 25-year-old Brown went quickly by too. Then with 150 meters left into the back stretch, Brown jutted passed Heath into the lead and held around the final turn.
"It just kind of happened," Brown said of his move. "I saw Garrett go by Willis and I just went. I went by Nicholas hard and then went by Garrett. At 100 going around the corner, I thought I was going get caught.
"And I heard the announcer say 'Russell Brown is going to win it' and I was shocked. I gave myself a 5% chance of winning this race."
The huge win was vindication for Brown, who since graduation suffered tears in both calves. He finished the New Balance mile with spike marks under his knees.
"Given what I've been through, you have low points," he said. "You don't know if you'll ever get back. It feels good to be back. The '08 [Olympic] trials, I was pretty anemic, ran like crap."
He also topped his previous best of 3:55.79 set in victory at the 2010 Tyson Invitational Mile in Fayetteville, AR.
Heath, who is aiming for the Husky Invitational in Washington a week later, was quick to dish out praise for his former teammate.
"That was quite a kick," he said of Brown. "I just didn't have enough for the win today. I'm feeling good in training; this was good for my confidence. I just didn't have that extra gear today."
Verzbicas said he closed in 56 for the last 400 meters, overhauling Colin McCourt into eight place with the only high schooler to break 4 minutes in the indoor mile – Alan Webb - just ahead.
"Alan Webb's like my best friend," the 6-foot Verzbicas said.
In the end, it was a learning experience for the high school senior heading to the University of Oregon in the fall.
"I should have gone out a little quicker and stayed with the leaders," he explained. "[Being in the back] definitely made it harder. A tactical mistake. But it's propelling me to the next level."
But the pressure builds every time he sets foot on the track and the sport's fanatics expect a sub-4.
"I can't disappoint," he said, posing the possibility of another sub-4 attempt in New York a week later. "I can't come out there and be last and run a 4:20. But I've never had so much fun in a race. It went by really fast."
The fun ended in a personal-best 4:03.88 clocking, just four ticks shy of joining Webb. "I'm still disappointed," he offered.
Not nearly as disappointed as the Portland, OR-based Webb, who was just one place and three seconds ahead of the kid in seventh.
"I'm just a little annoyed at the way things have gone over the last several weeks," a visibly frustrated Webb said, who initially pulled out of the meet recovering from the flu before re-entering mid-week. "It had been going really well prior. I always tell myself that I need a couple of warm-up races to get ready but I thought I could come out here and do some voodoo stuff but it didn't work out.
"I need to go back and start over. I didn't do nearly enough race pace training."
Webb went on to explain that at the end of December, beginning of January, during his transition from strength training to race sharpening, he encountered hamstring issues and then the flu. His workouts, he said, were reduced to jogging.
"I just really wanted to race," he said of his ultimate decision to come to Boston. "I waited all fall, I got myself healthy. We can definitely build from here. It's not the end of the world. It's just me whining. I kind of gave up at the end
"I just need more time to get into it. I just got impatient and I wanted to do it anyway."
Webb has envisioned the evening going quite differently.
"I was thinking I'd be up there and just would grind it out and hopefully win and if not, then fighting for the win," he said, anticipating a time in the 3:55 to 3:57 range.
Instead, he stopped the clock at 4:00.70.
"I still ran 4-flat," he said, when ask what, if any, positives came from the race. "You got to start somewhere. I definitely fell apart mentally though."


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Cafe Oratnek is a cute cafe in Redfern; opened by ex-Bills head chef, Kenny Takayama. The cafe is housed in a cosy terrace, with some outdoor seating perfectly located to soak in the sunshine.
The counter display is full of baked goodies, mostly matcha flavoured.
Iced coffee & fizzy rhubarb ginger beer
My rhubarb ginger beer totally hits the spot; it tastes of fresh ginger and is perfect match with the tartness of the rhubarb.
Spicy pork stuffed chicken wings
I love stuffed chicken wings, and don't see them often so it's always a must-order when I see one on offer. Oratnek's version is served with a homemade chilli jam, and chips sprinkled with green laver. The chips are absolutely delicious, and remind me of those shaker fries with seaweed flavouring.
Pork katsuando
200g of pork fillet katsu, cabbage, Japanese BBQ sauce and mustard. It's a task to try and fit one of these monsters in your mouth; once I did manage to take a bite though, I was rewarded with a layer of crunchy skin with juicy pork fillet inside.
Calamari, spicy cabbage slaw salad with cucumber and herbs
The tender calamari is served with a Thai influenced salad, with herbs such as mint, parsley, coriander and basil.
Matcha tiramisu
I was tossing up between getting the matcha lamington or tiramisu - the tiramisu won out in the end. The tiramisu is dense and creamy; the matcha flavour is subtle compared to the Cafe Cre Asion offerings.
I loved the dishes at Oratnek, and will most definitely be back to try the other options on the menu too.


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Hampton Roads Naval Museum Educators
A short time ago, while researching a different project, a colleague ran into an interesting vignette which mentioned CSS Virginia several days after the Battle of Hampton Roads. Our interest was piqued by an assertion made within the March 12, 1862 Richmond Dispatch article seen below:
"The Virginia, it is intimated, while up here, has changed her forward and aft pivot guns for two of the celebrated Armstrong guns, which lately found their way into this vicinity."
This statement quickly raised many questions. But first, what was so special about Armstrong guns to make them "celebrated?" Early Armstrong cannon from the mid-1850s were a unique British design that was breech-loading. As was popular technology at the time, there were bands on the breech to reinforce the cannon when it fired, as sometimes the guns burst (as happened onboard USS Princeton in 1843). These guns had an advantage over muzzle loading, smooth-bore cannon as they had a higher rate of fire, greater accuracy, and longer range. By the time of the Civil War, there were naval variants of the Armstrong guns, as can be seen on HMS Warrior. Clearly these cannon were seen as advanced technology, most likely due to the aforementioned advantages.
We knew that the Confederates could have been well aware of Armstrong guns, but the real question was whether it was even possible for the South to have acquired them. Could some of these new cannon have made their way through the blockade to Norfolk? Could these guns have done more damage to the Monitor in a future fight? And if this article were true, why had we not heard of this before? If it was not true, was this an honest mistake or was it propaganda building on the events of the Battle of Hampton Roads? To add to our uncertainty was a report from one of the postwar salvage operations of the wreck of CSS Virginia which mentioned a "large Confederate banded rifled gun."
Could this have been an Armstrong? Or was it a Brooke gun? From The Daily Journal (Wilmington, NC), June 23, 1867. Special thanks to Dr. Anna Holloway for providing this article.
So could the newspaper report have been an honest mistake? CSS Virginia did replace damaged cannons after the battle, but it seems to be a stretch that someone could have mistaken these guns for the other. While a later triple-banded variant of the Brooke rifle might be confused at first glance, the rounder edges of the Armstrong seem to be quite unique and the Brooke gun was not produced until months after the article. Adding to this doubt was the fact that no Armstrong guns should have been available for purchase. The inventor of the Brooke gun, John Mercer Brooke (also one of the designers of CSS Virginia) wrote in a July 1862 letter that the Confederates did not have any breech-loading guns (alluding to the Armstrong). He continued that "their manufacture is confined to the government shops of England." Strike three!
|An illustration of a single banded Brooke rifle.
|A double-banded Brooke rifle mounted on fortifications. (Photo by Joseph Miechle)
In the end, our research put a quick death to some tantalizing possibilities. While perhaps we did not make any significant new discoveries to add to the historiography, we did come away from the experience both more knowledgeable and perhaps a bit wiser. Sometimes the fun of researching history is all about the hunt.
* Letter from John M. Brooke to Stephen Mallory, July 16, 1862, in Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy: The Journal and Letters of John M. Brooke, ed. George M. Brooke, Jr. (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2002), 102.
**"Armstrong Gun at Fort Fisher." New York Times, January 29, 1865.


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IT WAS a long, miserable journey home for Town and their loyal band of 350 travelling fans.
Defeat to the Third Division leaders and a slip to 17th in the table was hard enough to stomach.
But the sendings-off of Paul Scott and Ian Hughes rubbed salt in gaping wounds inflicted by goals from Swansea's dangerous frontmen Lee Trundle and Kevin Nugent.
Referee Steve Tanner, who issued five yellow cards and one red in his previous match this season, went one better at a sun-drenched and throbbing Vetch Field.
The Gloucester official - who awarded Swansea 20 free-kicks in open play to Town's seven - set too low a threshold for the bookings.
His first in only the 18th minute was for an innocuous-looking challenge by Tony Carss on Leon Britton.
After that, in a match which was always going to be keenly fought and passionate in a bear-pit of an atmosphere, he was struggling to allow any sort of contact without resorting to the book.
Scott - who had been playing well - could count himself extremely unlucky to walk for two tussles with the tricky Trundle.
His first yellow could easily have been interpreted as `backing in' by the striker, and Scott's frustration cost Town another 10 yards as Mr Tanner moved the ball forward for his alleged dissent.
His second, coming just two minutes into the second half, was crucial to the whole game and, while it was a bookable offence, Trundle looked to make a meal of it.
The referee showed his inconsistency by not booking Trundle for a blatant dive in the box when tackled by the excellent David Mirfin midway through the second half, but Hughes admitted he could have few complaints about his straight red card in front of a baying home contingent.
Having seen Trundle tumble on top of the ball near the lefthand touchline, where there was no danger, he lashed out at the ball in what was going to be seen only as violent conduct.
That was in the final minute and had no effect on the outcome, although the three-match ban he will serve against Southend, Torquay and Lincoln presents manager Peter Jackson with another headache as he bids to lift Town out of the lower reaches of the division.
That is also going to be difficult while Town's win-draw-lose scenario continues, and the upcoming home League games against Leyton Orient and Kidderminster are now massively important.
It would help, of course, if Jackson's men could emerge victorious from tomorrow's Carling Cup trip to Sunderland and, certainly, one young member of the team should be full of confidence as he heads up the A1.
Teenage centre-back David Mirfin did nothing at the Vetch to dent his growing reputation as arguably the brightest new talent from the Academy.
He got a foot caught by Trundle's boot as the striker turned to crash in his ninth goal of the season on 33 minutes - an unstoppable drive into the top corner - but apart from that he was faultless and kept a cool head under pressure.
Scott, too, looked in determined form until his dismissal, while Nat Brown added fuel to the debate about whether he's a striker or a defender by deputising superbly as a substitute alongside Mirfin.
Before that, Andy Booth slotted in for a few minutes at the back (now there's another debate) until Jackson decided who to sacrifice to get Brown onto the pitch.
It was Jon Newby who had to give way and, playing with 10 men, Town did marvellously well to keep themselves in the match until seven minutes from time.
Everyone battled hard and Town created more threat than they had in the first half with 11 on the pitch.
Jon Stead will rue ballooning the best opportunity of the match on 28 minutes, from a lovely Booth flick, because a goal then would have taken the steam out of Swansea and their fans.
At that stage, the defence had been keeping Trundle and Nugent under wraps and the main danger was from Leon Britton and Brad Maylett on the right.
Scott, Mirfin and Hughes all made great interceptions in the box, while Lee Fowler blocked a Trundle free-kick.
Scott's sending-off made the search for an equaliser all the more difficult, although Stead had a left-foot drive blocked by Kristian O'Leary, Booth beat Freestone in the air - Town should have sent every set-piece his way - and Carss hit bodies with a downward header from a corner.
Hard-working Jon Worthington, who finished the match at left-back following Rob Edwards' hamstring injury, also sent a skidding shot just wide as the hopes of the fans were momentarily raised, but Nugent's goal finished Town off.
There was a suspicion of offside as the ball was chipped into the box and everyone stopped (including keeper Gray) before the Swansea skipper scored.
It was a bad mistake and one which clearly added to Hughes' frustration.
Gray saved magnificently with his legs from Nugent and superbly at his near-post from Maylett to keep the score respectable, but Swansea finished with a fifth straight home win of the season while Town are still looking for a first away success.
Maximum home points, however, are now vital in the next two League matches.
Town (4-4-2)
Ian Gray Made super saves from Maylett and Nugent but hesitated badly for the second and clinching goal on 83 minutes Rating: 5/10
Ian Hughes Solid throughout but admitted he was foolish to make the challenge on Trundle which earned a straight red Rating: 5/10
Rob Edwards Had to work hard to combat Maylett and Britton down the right before going off with a hamstring injury Rating: 5/10
Paul Scott Playing well until his second yellow card. The first, again for a tackle on Trundle, looked very harsh Rating: 6/10
David Mirfin He will long remember an eventful full League debut. Made some terrific tackles and kept a cool head throughout Rating: 7/10
Jon Newby Retained his place on the right flank but was sacrificed in a major reshuffle after Scott's sending-off Rating: 5/10
Lee Fowler Started well with some testing passes and remained very much involved as Town did well with 10 men Rating: 6/10
Jon Worthington Had a couple of cracking shots and worked his socks off. Finished the game deputising for Edwards at left-back Rating: 6/10
Tony Carss Should have hit the target on a first-half break and had a header from a corner blocked. Worked hard Rating: 6/10
Andy Booth Had a short spell in the back line after Scott's red. Whacked one volley just over and did well in the air Rating: 6/10
Jon Stead Grafted, but hammered his best chance of the match high over the bar on 28 minutes when it could have been a lead Rating: 6/10
Swansea City
Freestone, Duffy (Johnrose 60), Howard, O'Leary, Iriekpen, Maylett (Durkan 90), Britton, Wilson, Robinson (Connolly 67), Nugent, Trundle.
Subs not used: Thomas, Murphy
David Mirfin
Determined, strong and quick, Mirfin made a big impression on his full League debut despite having three partners in the red-card mayhem and facing dangerous opponents in Trundle and Nugent. Cool and assured, he looks one for a very bright future
The sending-off of Paul Scott for two challenges on Trundle, the first of which looked particularly harsh. At 1-0 down, Town were in with a shout, but playing with 10 made it an unfair uphill battle
Subs used: Swansea: Johnrose for Duffy 60, Connolly for Robinson 67, Durkan for Maylett 90. Town: Brown for Newby 50, Holdsworth for Edwards 74.
Subs not used: Swansea: Thomas, Murphy. Town: Booty, Ahmed, Senior.
Scorers: Swansea: Trundle 33, Nugent 83.
Dismisals: Town: Scott (two yellows) and Hughes (straight red).
Bookings: Swansea: Duffy, Britton. Town: Carss, Scott, Holdsworth.
Shots on target: Swansea 6, Town 2.
Corners: Swansea 4, Town 2.
Caught offside: Swansea 4, Town 2.
Free-kicks awarded: Swansea 20, Town 7.
Attendance: 8,048.
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Lanesboro is a destination not only for visitors but also for entrepreneurs.
Local merchants sell everything from outdoor gear to fine art, women's clothing to unique souvenirs. From the practical to the atypical, you'll find furniture, apparel, and even treats for your backyard birds.
Small towns, small businesses, big dreams: Lanesboro was named one of America's Prettiest Towns by Yahoo! Travel/Forbes Traveler, along with one of the 20 Best Small Towns by Smithsonian Magazine.
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The making of an Educational System that works in the Digital Society
The educational system is transforming, the edtech market booming and learning is becoming adapted to humans like machine learning is adapted to artificial intelligence. So, let's dig deeper of what the latter means in practice with a focus on five areas: Evaluating learning performance, soft skills development, relevance and inspiration, teaching and the Lab. Evaluating learning performance The industrial society grading system for schools is rather strange. Since it starts with an A as… Continue reading


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Navistar to close Chatham, Ont., plant
Truck manufacturing facility has been idle since June 2009
Navistar confirmed Tuesday that it intends to close its Chatham, Ont., truck assembly plant.
The company said in a statement Tuesday that the plant has been idled and employees have been on layoff status since 2009 "due to the company's inability to reach a collective bargaining agreement with the Canadian Auto Workers."
"It's not a surprise, but it doesn't take the disappointment away," Canadian Auto Workers president Ken Lewenza said after Tuesday's announcement.
Lewenza criticized the decision to shut the plant and said the proposal put forward by the company "was not ratifiable."
"It's troubling … without that facility truck manufacturing in Canada is taking another blow," Lewenza said ahead of the announcement.
He said the only good thing about Tuesday's announcement is that it finally brings closure for the workers.
"You can't keep 1,000 people that remain on the seniority list — 350 active when we were laid off, but 1,000 total on the seniority list — waiting for another day or waiting for another rumour or waiting for another announcement," Lewenza said. "It's been very, very tough on the community."
The truck plant has been idle for the past two years. At its peak in the late 1990s, the facility employed more than 2,000 workers, he said.
Navistar is building its heavy duty commercial trucks in the United States and Mexico.
The company said the Chatham production has already been absorbed by other truck plants.
Lewenza said the union will meet with company representatives soon to discuss plans to "reduce the pain on the members through retirement and severance options."
Randy Hope, Chatham's mayor, said the real economic impact of the closure was felt in 2009 when the plant was idled.
"Nothing will ever replace the high-paying jobs that were there in that facility," Hope said before the company made the announcement.
Hope wants to have a discussion with the company about the fate of the large site on Richmond Street. The Chatham plant has been around for well over 100 years, he said.
According to the CAW, Navistar benefited from over $60 million in federal and provincial funding over the years, as well as $40 million in contract savings from union members.
Karen Denning, a Navistar representative, said the company would do whatever was necessary to meet any outstanding obligations tied to government funding.
- A previous version of this story misstated the amount of government funding Navistar received. According to the CAW, the company benefited from $60 million in funding from the federal and provincial governments and $40 million in contract savings from union members.Aug 02, 2011 5:26 PM ET


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My overriding feeling after losing to world number one Mohamed Elshorbagy in the final of the AJ Bell British Squash Grand Prix was disappointment.
When I spoke to my coach yesterday, he told me I should be delighted with how I performed considering where I was a week or so ago. Given the preparations I have had due to recovering from a knee operation, I would have snatched your hand off to go that deep into the tournament.
I know that my coach is right when he says I should be happy with my performance but, as a competitor, you want to win. The good thing is that shows I've still got the competitive juices. If I wasn't disappointed, it would maybe show I've lost a little bit of hunger.
I am trying to keep things in perspective. I knew it would be a tall order playing against Elshorbagy, despite him having a tough semi-final clash with Gregory Gaultier the day before.
Monday night was the first time I had been exposed to that pace in a long, long time. You can't replicate that high intensity and skill level on the practice court. It took me about a game and a half to adapt to the pace that Elshorbagy was playing at.
After going two games down, I told myself that there's no point going down with a whimper. I knew I had to go down fighting as that's the way you learn and improve. I took the third game before Elshorbagy claimed the fourth.
At the age of 35, I am over the moon to have reached the final as there were times over the summer when I questioned whether I was on the right path.
You have to keep putting yourself in the mix and be happy to get to the latter stages of a tournament. If you keep putting yourself in those positions, you will win your fair share. Roger Federer will be the saying the same thing after making back-to-back Grand Slam finals in tennis.
What I have done is given myself a fantastic platform to build on. There are areas that I need to work on in my game but I have got to remember the things that I did well in the Grand Prix.
I should not be worrying about the here and now. I want to peak for the World Championships in a couple of months time and I am confident I will get better with each tournament I play.


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New blog category: A thanks to all the people who help us on our photographic shoots. Here's Toepfer!
New blog category: A thanks to all the people who help us on our photographic shoots. Here's Toepfer!
Nick from A Time to Get stopped by the studio the other day and we ended up driving fast around town and he happened to shoot some photos of it. Check it out. Photos do a great job showing how many appliances we share our parking lot with.
Atlantic/Pacific from THIS.
You can hear Eli cough at :47.
THIS Los Angeles is a gallery space we started with some friends one year ago. For the inaugural show we decided to invite all our friends to show one piece and it was a huge success (photos), over 800 people spilling out into the streets of Highland Park to try and catch a glimpse. We had a bunch of other shows throughout the year, some we had a hand in and some that we didn't even make it to the openings. We never started the spot so we could be gallery owners, we just wanted to showcase our friends work and our interests in a nice space. I think we did a good job so far and are very excited for the upcoming year, kicking off with another huge group show… These Friends 2. Opening February 4th, 2011. Hope to see you all there/here sometime.
Here's an outtake of a shoot we did of artist Lisa Solberg for Monster Children a little while back. The one they ran after the jump.
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Counterintelligence (CI) and Counterterrorism Awareness at LBNL
The rationale behind counterintelligence is that knowledgeable, aware employees are the key to identifying and preventing foreign intelligence and terrorist activities. Although Berkeley Lab does not conduct classified work or store classified information, employees and guests have a responsibility to report suspicious behavior that may involve foreign intelligence efforts or other inappropriate attempts to gather information.
You are encouraged to notify the LBNL Counterintelligence Office about situations you observe or experience, either in the U.S. or abroad, which are suspicious in nature or make you feel uncomfortable. Of particular concern are attempts to solicit information about Berkeley Lab beyond the scope of what is publicly available. Inappropriate interest in the Laboratory could be part of efforts by a foreign government to collect U.S. national defense or proprietary technology information, whether actually at LBNL or not. Similar incidents or inquiries about laboratory facilities, employees, or research programs could be an attempt by terrorists to target the Laboratory. Such incidents should be reported to the CI Office.
Please contact the CI Office at 925-422-5557 or send email to [email protected].


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Static Awareness: An Insight Into The Indian States (LAKSHADWEEP)
Dear Readers,
The Union Territory of Lakshadweep is an archipelago situated in the Arabian Sea at a distance of 220 - 440 km from the west coast of India. Lakshadweep is the tiniest Union Territory of India and lies about 220-440 km from Kochi, Kerala. All Lakshadweep islands are of coral origin and some of them like Minicoy, Kalpeni, Kadmat, Kiltan and Chetlat are typical atolls.
"Lakshadweep, the group of 36 islands is known for its exotic and sun-kissed beaches and lush green landscape. The name Lakshadweep in Malayalam and Sanskrit means 'a hundred thousand islands'. "
Capital - Kavaratti
Administrative HQ - KAVARATTI.
Administrators - Vijay Kumar
Various Islands:
Census of India 2001:
1. Population - 60,595
2. Sex ratio - 947/1000
3. Literacy rate (%) - 87.52
4. Density of Population: 2013 people/Kms.
Major Tourist Attractions:
Agatti island, Kavaratti
Minicoy island, Minicoy
Lighthouse, MinicoyMuseum,
AgattiLagoon, AgattiUrja Mosque,
KavarattiKadmat island,
BangaramThe lighthouse,
AndrothJuma Masjid,
MinicoyAmini beach, Amini
Unique feature - The only coral reef island in India,rich flora and fauna.Great tourist destination for Watersports,Fishing etc.Virgin,Fragile eco-system.A unique and quiet getaway destinations
Folk Dances:
1. Lava Dance
2. Kolkali Dance
3. Parichakali Dance
Monuments / Historical Places
1. Minicoy Tower House
One of the most impressive sights of Minicoy is a fifty meter tall Lighthouse, built by the British.
Anthropological Museum at Phoenix Bay
Anthropological Museum at Phoenix Bay exhibits the life of the Paleolithic Islanders while Aquarium or Fisheries Museum exhibits species of marine life peculiar to the islands.
Regional Airport - Agatti Airport
1. Prime Minister Award for Excellence in Public Administration for the year 2006-07.
2. Bronze Icon Award for Exemplary Leadership & ICT Achievement of the year in Professional Category (2006).


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The Bell Section Trail, Mulmur
After working all weekend, I thought that a little run this morning would brighten up the dark gloomy day. Once on the trail my spirits were lifted and I felt totally present and connected with nature. it was so beautiful even without the sun.
This trail is known for its beautiful trees but also the pine river that flows through the park, which provide sought-after shade during the summer's heat and its cooler being so close to the water. The trail is hilly but surprisingly very easy to hike or run. Today it was a bit muddy in places but overall it was a fun run.
Runners can disappear into the woods and feel at one with nature. It's very normal to find yourself the only one on the trail as it's very remote and not many people know about it.
This section of the Bruce Trail is called the Bell section, named after the founding members of the Dufferin Hi-Land Club, Grant and Grace Bell. There is an old abandoned power plant that once supplied power to Shelburne, Horning's Mills and part of Orangeville in the late 1890's and day 1900's. The creation of Ontario Hydro, however, put many of Ontario's private power plants out of business, and by 1927 hydro power was no longer being generated here.
At the start of the trail head you will see some awesome views of the pine river on the right side of the trail and there is even a sitting area so you can take in the great views. Further along you will find a flat straight away section next the lake. It's a great spot to take a photo.
The trail then goes up, up and up. After a steep climb you reach a lookout over most of the Pine River Provincial Fishing Area. Here a plaque has been erected in memory of Grant and Grace Bell. Soon the main Trail heads north (right) through a mixture of woods, young growth and abandoned fields to reach the 15th Sideroad. Hike east on the 15th Sideroad. Where the white blazes turn north on the 1st Line WHS, continue straight ahead, following the blue blazes of the Kilgorie Side Trail, and follow the route down a hydro right-of-way to the River Road.
Cross river road and go left then on the right side you will see a bridge just to the edge of it you will descend down the trail and along the edge of the river until you see the power plant. Go around the left side of the plant then turn right then follow the trail up a hilly section. Watch your footing in this section as it can be muddy and there are lots of roots sticking out of the ground. Continue going up and down then you will find yourself next to the river again. Continue a few more minutes and you will come back out onto river road. Cross the rd and turn right then the trail head and your car will be on your left side.
The side trail has been extended westward. The extra distance gives runners the option to run approximately 4k but you can very easily add an additional 10k by using the main bruce trail. If you only have an hour to go running or hiking then this might be an option but it is a 10 minute drive north east of Shelburne.
How to get there and Where to Park: From Dufferin Road 124 head into the community of Horning's Mills and turn right (east) onto River Road. Follow this winding, scenic road past the Pine River Fishing Area and over the Pine River several times until you see the white blazes of the Bruce Trail on the right (south) side of the road.You should be approaching the small community (if you really want to call it that..LOL) of Kilgorie. Park on the shoulder of the road and walk back (westward) until you see the white blazes heading into the park.
Note: Parking is very limited at the edge of the woods and can fit a maximum of 3 cars on a summer day. In the winter you will have to park on the side of river road.
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THE winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2014 will share the stage with the Worthing Symphony Orchestra on Sunday.
Martin Bartlett, 17, will play Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 as part of an afternoon of Vienesse New Year Celebrations.
John Gibbons, the orchestra's principal conductor, said: "Worthing Symphony Orchestra had the pleasure of working with BBC Young Musician of the Year, Martin Bartlett, at the 2014 Malcolm Arnold Festival so we are thrilled to be welcoming such an outstanding young musician to Worthing on Sunday.
"He is a wonderfully sensitive musician with an astonishing technique and is destined for great things."
Martin began playing the piano aged six. At the age of eight, he began studying at the Royal College of Music Junior Department.
He has won many competitions and performed in a number of prestigious venues, including Wigmore Hall, and the Royal Albert Hall.
The concert is taking place at Worthing Assembly Hall at 2.45pm.
To book tickets, visit www.worthingtheatres.co.uk


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If you're travelling abroad this year, the chances are you will need to hire a car. Approximately 70% of the world drives on the right, and with different highway codes, driving etiquette and unfamiliar surroundings this can prove difficult.
Driving on 'the wrong side of the road' can be awkward, so here's our useful tips to cope when you drive abroad.
Slow and steady wins the race
For your first time in the car you may want to drive around your hotel/holiday rentals carpark or drive up and down the same bit of road. Being aware of your surroundings before you make a journey will make you more comfortable. The worst thing to do is go into a busy place, attempt maneuvers or try to find your way around a place you do not know. Instead, check your surroundings and drive safely and slowly before going all out.
Drive with someone
Having someone else you know in the car with you could make you feel a little calmer and can be useful. They can help you out by acting as a second pair of eyes, navigating, checking your surroundings and helping you in difficult situations. This means you can focus on the cars and roads around you more efficiently.
Make yourself aware
With different surroundings, you are likely to be stressed in the car. The best way to minimise this is to have a walk around the local area and familiarise yourself with what is and isn't normal on the roads. You should also check the driving laws in the country and speed limits.
The overtake
Everything else is back to front, so of course so is overtaking. Remember to be wary of the left-hand side of your car, the blind spot over your left shoulder and your left-hand mirror. If you are driving abroad, we know you are a good driver, but you never know who is around you, so stay safe.
The roundabouts
As with overtaking, roundabouts can be tricky, going from clockwise to anti-clockwise might seem crazy, but once you've navigated one you will be able to navigate them all. As with overtaking, be wary of the left-hand side and always give way.
Pedestrian crossings and walkways
Certain towns or cities may have pedestrianised areas, like in the U.K., these are easy to spot. However, there will be the chance of pedestrians in areas you would not expect, so always expect the unexpected when driving overseas.
Take a break
Driving the opposite way around is more tiring and worrying. It is vital that you make regular rest-points, especially if you are doing a long journey. Be sure to limit fatigue and stress by taking much needed breaks.
We hope this post will be helpful to you. Happy travelling.