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In three volumes, John Goldingay explores Old Testament theology as narrative, belief, and ethos. His Old Testament Theology is not only a scholarly contribution to the ongoing quest of understanding the theological dimensions of the First Testament. Preachers and teachers will prize it as a smart, informed, and engaging companion as they read and represent the First Testament story to postmodern pilgrims on the way. This is Old Testament theology that preaches.
The first volume focuses on the story of God's dealings with Israel, or Israel's gospel. The second volume investigates the beliefs of Israel, or Israel's faith. The third volume discusses Old Testament perspective on the life that Israel should live in its present and future, including its worship, prayer, spirituality, practices, attitudes, and ethics before God.
The Logos edition of these monumental works will streamline your research time. Each subject theme and verse reference link to the rest of your digital library. Whether these books are required reading for a class, additions to a reference library, or aids for sermon preparation, John Goldingay's Old Testament Theology series will prove to be a priceless addition to your collection.
In this first volume of Old Testament Theology, John Goldingay focuses on narrative. Examining the biblical order of God's creation of and interactions with the world and Israel, he tells the story of Israel's gospel as a series of divine acts. This is an Old Testament theology like no other. Whether applying magnifying or wide-angle lenses, Goldingay is closely attentive to the First Testament's narrative, plot, motifs, tensions, and subtleties. Brimming with insight and energy, and postmodern in its ethos, this book will repeatedly reward readers with fresh and challenging perspectives on God and God's ways with Israel and the world—as well as Israel's ways with God.
In this volume, John Goldingay, as usual, presents himself as a knowledgeable, sensitive interpreter who pays close attention to the text and to the faith given through the text. The focus on narrative indicates the peculiar way in which biblical faith is mediated that is not excessively tamed by the usual categories of doctrine, piety, or morality. The title of volume one, Israel's Gospel, exhibits Goldingay's acute theological passion, one that warrants close, sustained attention.
—Walter Brueggemann, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary
In a style that cleaves closely to the text, Goldingay offers up a masterful exposition of the faith of the First Testament, one born of living long with the text and the refined skill of asking interesting questions and listening with trained attention. Never one to sacrifice a close hearing of a text for an easy generality, or to mute a discordant note for the sake of reassuring harmony, Goldingay gives us an Old Testament theology shot through with the edge-of-the-seat vitality of discovery.
The fruit of a lifetime of teaching and reflection, exhaustive in scope and mature in articulation, John Goldingay has assembled a vast reflective account of what the Old Testament says about God, Israel, humanity, and creaturely existence. Goldingay especially enjoys the challenges of the Old Testament for present faith and life, and he rises to them. Comprehensive and engaging.
—Christopher Seitz, professor of biblical interpretation, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto
In this third volume of his critically acclaimed Old Testament Theology, John Goldingay explores the Old Testament vision of Israel's life before God. Goldingay sees three spheres of life giving order to Israel's vision: its life in relation to God, its life in community, and the life of the individual as a self. Within these frameworks he unfurls a tapestry that is as broad and colorful as all of life, and yet detailed in its intricate attention to the text.
With this final volume John Goldingay has given us the third pillar of an Old Testament theology that is monumental in scope and yet invites us to enter through multiple doors to explore its riches. Students will profit from a semester in its courts, and ministers of the Word will find their preaching and teaching deeply enriched by wandering its halls and meditating in its chambers.
The fruits of Goldingay's lifelong devotion to the study of the Old Testament are visible on every page. This work is a sure and steady guide that will lead the reader into the riches of Israel's legacy and its God.
—Gary Anderson, professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, University of Notre Dame
In the third and final volume of his massive Old Testament Theology, John Goldingay turns to ethics and explores 'the life of the children of God' (Barth). He shows how this is presented as response to the gospel as Israel experienced it and as an expression of their faith in Yhwh. Goldingay sees the ethics of the Old Testament as a direct call to us today: the presentation is as far from antiquarian as it could be. Christians and Jews alike will need to ponder this challenging work.
—John Barton, Oriel & Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, University of Oxford
John Goldingay writes with magisterial knowledge of the biblical texts and a keen eye for how to open them in fresh ways for scholars, teachers, preachers and all serious readers. Drawing deeply and widely on the scholarly literature—and also on literature that most scholars would not think to consult—he demonstrates with utter lucidity and conviction how the Hebrew Scriptures present a vision of life in community that is still sane, salvific, and maybe even more essential for this generation of faith than for our ancestors.
—Dr. Ellen Davis, Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology, Duke Divinity School
Finally, Goldingay's OT ethics! In a highly readable fashion he demonstrates masterfully that Israel's vision of life before God is not irrelevant to modern existence. In fact, the communal shape of Israel's faith, as well as its profound sense of individual responsibility and freedom, cast our own society's peculiar sicknesses into sharpest relief and point firmly in the direction of a cure. This is first-rate, thrilling stuff—the appropriate culmination of a glittering trilogy.
—Stephen B. Chapman, associate professor of Old Testament, Duke University
With his characteristic thoroughness and engaging writing style, Goldingay offers a rich reflection on the life God expects of his people. This third volume of his tripartite theology begins with God himself as the appropriate place to ground the meaning and significance of this life. It then turns to explain the centrality of the communities within which individuals share their existence, grow in virtue and find their true self. Faith in action, worship and spirituality as inseparable from ethics, and leadership as service—these are a few of the emphases of the message of the Old Testament developed in this work. Read Israel's Life and deepen your appreciation of the Old Testament's relevance . . . and enhance your vision of a life well-lived and pleasing to God.
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Present CFP : 2013
- NEW2AN/ruSMART 2013 proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS (confirmed) and indexed by relevant databases - Acceptance ratio is 35% (4 years) - Authors of the selected best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to be published in a special issue of a journal Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220; CODEN: SENSC9) - Impact Factor: 1.771 (2010); 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.917 (2010)
About the Conference
Nowadays we see strong demand for development of robust infrastructure for retrieving, storing and processing information of various types, which is obtained from and delivered to the broad spectrum of different user devices. This is especially critical when the volume of information increases as rapidly as its value. As a consequence the methods and solutions for efficient processing, reusing and reasoning over user's data has gained a lot of attention in the last years and became the key aspect of application design. Further developments in this field creates a lot of opportunities to apply new business models and is a key enabler for the concept of pro-active service.
The wireless solutions have moved beyond their traditional areas of application and today we can talk about a space where users can access a number of wireless technologies and interact with various services. Also the Internet of Things disrupts limitations of Internet that use to based on human-entered data. New technologies for short-range and low-power wireless communications, real-time localization and sensor networks allow computers to perceive the world. Support of the future commercial success of IoT solutions require efficient and scalable infrastructures for managing, sharing and processing collected data. We can see that reseach on interlinking of the physical and cyber worlds is becoming more and more relevant. This conference is targeted to bring together top specialist in the field to discuss ongoing studies and obtained results.
Similarly, existent and future services cover the wide range of user demands, ranging from searching and browsing contents to interactive context and location aware solution that explore advanced multimedia capabilities of the surrounding devices. These layers form a smart environment that harmonizes a number of technologies and provides the best possible personalized user experience. Also it helps to address a number of challenges of the modern society, starting from efficient indoor use of energy and to smart logistics and broad-scope deployment of the green principles and technologies. This conference will explore and explain the scope and challenges of smart space technologies and solutions. In this regard, the conference aims to bring together research professionals from diverse fields including but not limited to wireless communication, ubiquitous networks, software development, multimedia, services, and business in both academia and industry. Conference proceedings will be published in LNCS, Springer (confirmed) and indexed by relevant databases.
The ruSMART 2013 will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia - the meeting point of East and West. Through its stunning architecture and wonderful art galleries and museums, among a number of other attractions, the wealth of history of East and West can be seen and felt in this beautiful city.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to
- Internet of Things and related technologies
- Research on Smart Spaces architectures and Smart-M3 platform
- Modern green technologies and Internet of Things
- Heterogeneous communication technologies for smart spaces and IoT
- Design of technologies for linking the physical and virtual world
- Semantic web, distributed information management and processing
- Novel services and applications on top of smart spaces and IoT
- Role of cloud computing in smart spaces and IoT
- New business models and breakthrough use cases for smart spaces and IoT
- IoT enabling communication systems and network architectures
- Personal and body networks, wearable computing
- Wireless technologies for smart spaces
- Experience of use networked things and smart spaces in healthcare, logistics, transport, etc.
- Social impacts and consequences, such as security, privacy, opportunities, risks, etc.
- Distributed and pervasive services, pro-active service provision
- Service discovery and composition in smart environments
- Convergence of technologies for smart space
- Smart environments for house/office/shop/city/transport/hospital/etc
- Tools for modeling and prototyping smart spaces and IoT
- Heterogeneous sensor information fusion in smart space
- Intelligent multi-modal user interface and impact of combined use of various human-computer interface modalities
- Learning technologies in smart spaces
Selected authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to be published in a special issue of a journal Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220; CODEN: SENSC9) - Impact Factor: 1.771 (2010); 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.917 (2010)
Paper submission
The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking and data communications. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Papers must be submitted electronically in the conference site. The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures. Please adhere to the formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. Selected best papers will appear in a journal special issue.

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* Complete the installation
* Open windows-vc2005/OpenBabelOBF.sln with Visual Studio and
* Open windows-vc2005/OpenBabelOBF.sln with Visual Studio and , Properties, C/C++, Additional Include Directories and add C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_34_1 (or whereever you installed Boost)
=== Environment Variable ===
=== Environment Variable ===
Revision as of 12:53, 12 December 2008
Here we describe how to compile OpenBabel on Windows using the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler (MSVC).
We recommend the following compiler which is available for free:
Microsoft would prefer you use the .NET framework, but they also support "native" code - it's just that they don't make it too easy.
You also need to install the Platform SDK to provide the Windows files. Follow the step 1 to 3 in the instructions in [1]. At Step 3 when updating the corewin_express.vsprops file, the list of libraries should be "kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib comctl32.lib rpcrt4.lib". Also just before this add a section:
<Tool Name="VCCLCompilerTool" PreprocessorDefinitions= "_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE;_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE;_CRT_SECURE_CPP_OVERLOAD_STANDARD_NAMES" "_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE;_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE;_CRT_SECURE_CPP_OVERLOAD_STANDARD_NAMES; _SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE" />
This (usually) avoids warnings about unsafe functions like sprintf for which Microsoft have provided "safe" alternatives. Read a critique of these here. They are not usable in cross-platform code because they are non-standard. Ignore any such warnings that have failed to be supressed.
OpenBabel source code
Although the source code package from the SourceForge download page has all the OpenBabel code, it may not have some of the ancillary files, since it is really intended for UNIX(Linux) systems. If you intend to compile under Windows it is much better to download the code from SVN. Tortoise SVN is a very convenient client for SVN - it operates from Windows explorer - and is easy to install. Then make a directory for the OpenBabel file, right click and select SVN Checkout. For a released version of OpenBabel enter something like:
or for the development code:
Click OK and all the code and required external DLLs (e.g. for InChI and libxml2) are downloaded.
You need to install some elements of the Boost Library. This is done as follows:
- Download and run the BoostPro 1.34.1 Installer
- Choose the Visual Studio 2005 version
- Choose both of the single thread variants
- On the next screen, choose just the Boost header files and deselect everything else
- Complete the installation
- Open windows-vc2005/OpenBabelOBF.sln with Visual Studio and from the Menu choose Project, Properties, C/C++, Additional Include Directories and add C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_34_1 (or whereever you installed Boost)
Environment Variable
Make an environment variable BABEL_DATADIR to point to OpenBabel's /data folder. This needed for functions like logP, although the basic data, like atomic weights, are also compiled into the program and will be found even if this variable is not set.
Basic build
At this stage you should be able to compile the command-line version of OpenBabel. Open windows-vc2005/OpenBabelOBF.sln and build all the projects except OBPythonOBF, OBJava, OBCSharp and OBGUI. In this build, the core is contained in multiple DLLs, and formats and extensions as plugin *.obf files. This allows the package to be expanded or slimmed after compilation by adding or removing obf files. In the Release build these files are in the window-vc2005 folder and in the Debug build in windows-vc2005/debug.
There is an example program in window-vc2005/examples which is usable as a template for application programs. It has a Debug build which eases the development of such programs and can also assist in understanding the workings of API calls.
window-vc2005/Tools.sln has projects for several small programs based on the OpenBabel API to do useful things, and may also be a model for further applications. There is a brief description of these in window-vc2005/OBTools/Projects in OBTools.txt and Guides and Tutorial:Other_Tools.
The project OBPythonOBF, OBJava and OBCSharp builds the Python and other bindings using SWIG, which need to be installed before the projects are built. Build these projects in Release mode only.
Compiling wxWidgets
To compile the Windows GUI, you will need to install and compile wxWidgets. We are currently using wxWidgets 2.8.3. To compile it...
- Unzip it into a folder that doesn't contain spaces
- Read the install notes in the distribution
- Read more install notes on the web site
- Set the environment variable WXWIN to the installation directory of wxWidgets, e.g. E:\wxWidgets-2.8.3, and restart MSVC.
- In the file$(WXWIN)/include/wx/msw/setup.h change
#define wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM 0
#define wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM 1
- In the file $(WXWIN)/include/wx/msw/wx.rc find the section "Manifest file for Windows XP" and add immediately after it:
//For Visual Studio 2005 #define wxUSE_NO_MANIFEST 1 #if defined(__WXMSW__) && !defined(__WXWINCE__) #pragma comment(linker, "\"/manifestdependency:type='Win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='184.108.40.206' processorArchitecture='X86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df'\"") #endif //
This ensures that the latest version of Common Controls is used.
- Open "build\msw\wx.dsw" and answer "Yes to All" for the format conversion. (There is no need to save the converted project files.)
- On the menu, choose "Batch Build", and sort by "Configuration". Select only those configurations of type "Release" and, possibly "Debug", and click on Build All.
The GUI can be built by opening openbabel.sln and building the project OBGUII.
Debugging with Visual Studio
If you do a significant amount of debugging of OpenBabel code, you may wish to have the OpenBabel objects appear in the the Autos or Locals debugging windows in a more useful form. There is a lot that can be done but the simple suggestion here is a start.
Edit the file C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Packages\Debugger\autoexp.dat
In the [AutoExpand] section add the following text
; OpenBabel OpenBabel::OBMol =<_title> <_natoms> atoms, <_nbonds> bonds OpenBabel::OBAtom =index=<_idx> <_type> charge=<_fcharge> wxString=<m_pchData,st>
and restart Visual Studio.
In the debugger OBMol, OBAtom and wxString objects will be easier to identify.


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Staging myeloma
Once active multiple myeloma has been diagnosed, doctors will want to determine the extent – or stage – of the disease.
Knowing the stage of the myeloma helps doctors understand how serious the disease is, establish a customized treatment plan, and arrive at a prognosis (an estimate of how the disease will progress).
Several systems are used to stage active myeloma. The two main systems are the International Staging System (ISS) and the Durie Salmon Staging System.
|International Staging System (ISS)
|Durie Salmon Staging System
Based upon two blood test results:
Requires a number of other blood tests, including:
In both systems, active myeloma is staged according to its extent at the time of diagnosis. There are three possible stages, referred to as Stage I, Stage II and Stage III, in order of increasing disease severity.
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There's a saying that if something is too good to be true, it probably isn't. It's one of those warnings against falling for a con job, like a pyramid scam or Ponzi scheme. Well the latest "Too good to be true," is Humana's medigap insurance. The weird thing is, it IS true.
I changed my Medicare supplemental insurance last year from AARP to Humana. Humana offered more and cost less. The only drawback, if it could even be considered a drawback, was that Humana contracted with John Muir Physicians' Network and AARP contracted with Hill Physicians. Hill is very strong in San Ramon, but John Muir is stronger in Walnut Creek. So it made it a little hard to find a convenient specialist at first.
John Muir has been expanding into San Ramon and recently bought into San Ramon Valley Medical Center. I still had to drive to John Muir Medical Center
in Walnut Creek for an MRI this summer, but my hospital stay at San Ramon Valley Medical Center after my accident in January was covered by Humana. I was billed $200 for my co-payment, but this should be recovered in the legal settlement.
But none of that is too good to be true. What is, is next year's coverage. This year my insurance cost $62 a month for the Humana Gold Plan. I added Dental and Vision for another $26 a month for a total of $88 a month.
I received the 2014 Renewal Information book last week. I started reading through and thought "this is too good to be true." I called Humana to find out what the changes in the plan really meant. First I answered a bunch of questions from the robo phone.
Then I was switched to a real person. When she saw my 925 area code, she told me she used to live in Walnut Creek. We chatted about living in the East Bay and how much nicer the weather is here than in Arizona. Actually Arizona isn't so bad. The way she was talking I thought she moved to the Midwest Snow Belt. Anyway she was in Customer Support so she couldn't answer my questions and switched me to sales.
Each time I was switched I had to answer all of the questions over again -- name, phone number, address, birth date, etc. I need a program on my phone to re-answer all of the same questions over and over again. Anyone who could design an Ap for That could make a bundle.
The sales person I spoke to was really nice, but he didn't cover California. "I cover 20 states, but unfortunately California isn't one of them." So he switched me to someone in India. The Indian man was a little harder for me to understand, but he answered all of my questions well.
I wanted to know what was different about my old Human Gold Plus (HMO) plan and the new ones for next year. In the first place the 2014 plans cost less. Huh? There's one with $0 monthly fee. Double Huh? I wasn't interested in the "free" plan or the one for $19 a month. The "top of the line" at $49 has everything my $62 plan had this year, plus the $26 vision and dental coverage, FOR NOTHING. So the new plan next year will cost $39 a month LESS than what I paid this year for the same coverage.
I know, I'm suspicious about it too. How can they do that? I suspect they expect to get more enrollments now that they have been in this part of California for a year. More enrollments mean spreading the costs around. That's how insurance works, everyone pays but not everyone uses it equally; so those who don't need it pay for those who do.
Kaiser Permanente is also offering Medigap plans in San Ramon. I used to be on Kaiser 30 years ago when I worked at Hughes Aircraft in El Segundo. Kaiser was convenient to where I lived back then, but until recently the closest Kaiser here was in Pleasanton. Now there's one on Camino Ramon.
Kaiser has a great reputation, but I'm sticking with Humana for now. I'm very happy with it. And as I said in the Satisfaction Survey after my phone call, I will recommend it to my friends and readers. Some times things that seem too good to be true turn out to be true. Believe it.


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DiS' editor compiles a mixture of tracks (including a special premiere!), some mixes (one of which was made especially for you DiS readers) and a selection of things that have cropped up in his social feeds and inbox this week, for you to have a listen to over the weekend...
Let's Buy Happiness
Let's kick things off with a special premiere of the forthcoming single by I-can't-believe-they're-not-far-bigger-yet new band from the North East of England Let's Buy Happiness (pictured, above). This is their forthcoming single, entitled 'Works Better on Paper' and its a gentle song that flits in the same sort of doe-eyed space as The Sundays. Singer Sarah Hall sounds a little bit like a sleepy Regina Spektor backed by a slightly sozzled Antlers. It's a lush slice of uplifting melancholy and it's out on June 11th via Ghost Arc. For upcoming live dates and more visit letsbuyhappiness.com. Oh, and if you're wondering just how you go about buying happiness, this month's Wired has the answer.
Nick Zinner with an Orchestra
Wondering what the guitar God from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs gets up to between albums? Well, it seems he heads to the land down under to work with the Australian Youth Orchestra, the result of which sounds like a glorious mixture of Explosions in the Sky and, like, proper classical music. Perfect for your Sunday morning.
Watch Nick Zinner and members of the Australian Youth Orchestra and other great gigs on Moshcam.
Sylver Tongue
Charlotte Hatherley's (Ash/Bat for Lashes) new space-race project released a new single this week, and I ended up DJing at the launch of it. Have a gander at the video for the single:
Alessio Natalizia (aka Banjo or Freakout) and Sam Willis (of Allez-Allez), are the duo also known as Walls. Last year they released Coracle an album of swooshing hazy electronica on Kompakt. On Monday they release Coracle Remixe compiling their favourite remixes of tracks from the album, so we started to wonder, what are their all-time favourite remixes? We didn't just ask this aloud at our desk, we bashed off an email and this is what the band fired back at us...
- Philip Glass - Heroes (Aphex Twin Remix)
- Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig Remix)
- LCD Soundsystem - Too Much Love (Rub 'N' Tug Mix)
- Caribou - Bowls (Holden Remix)
- Ricardo Villalobos - What You Say Is More Than I Can Say - Long End (Isolée tough remix)
- Depeche Mode - Behind The Wheel (Shep Pettibone Remix)
- Thom Yorke - Cymbal Rush (The Field Remix)
- Gabriel Ananda - Doppelwhipper (SuperMayer Remix)
- Villalobos - Easy Lee (Smith N Hack Remix)
- IZ & DIZ - Mouth (Pepe Bradock's Peeps For Friends remix)
And here is a sampler from their forthcoming remix album:
Rival Consoles
If those Walls mixes didn't get you ready for the weekend, then this certainly will. It's a 24minute mix by Ryan L. West aka Rival Consoles created for Soundcrash, ahead of his performance at their London warehouse party on June 2nd alongside Luke Vibert and 808 State Soundsystem (tickets).
He says:
"I was interested in faults and buzzing and imperfections and dub bass lines with slow house rhythms. I used analogue gear and sampling, with less emphasis on change and more emphasis on old school tone and mood." – Ryan L. West
And, well, it's rather awesome (hence sharing it with you!). We've got a pair of tickets to give away to the warehouse party, as well as Rival Consoles and Luke Vibert CDs to give away. To enter, simply comment below answering the following question: Which label is Rival Consoles signed to?
You heard their new record yet? Here you go (oh, and it is the first of four albums they are releasing this year!):
Emmy the Great
DiS favourite Emmy the Great has a new video to accompany her latest single 'God of Loneliness'. It is less of a run of the mill video and more of a short film directed by Chris Boyle starring Isy Suttie (Peep Show) and Shazad Latif (Spooks). Described by Emmy as 'horror rom-com', it is set in her favourite Brutalist tower block, west London's Trellick Tower. Watch it with your eyes and ears here:
They played our DiS party in London on Wednesday and we premiered their new video. Just in case you missed it, here it is again:
Dark Horses
What do you get when you cross rock'n'roll and shoegaze? Well, sometimes it's bands like the Warlocks or A Place to Bury Strangers, but in this case it's the Banshees'n'Stooges-inspired expansive sound of Dark Horses, and it's an altogether more intoxicating, erring on the side of ethereal aural experience that that combination of genres might suggest. I mean, it's sort of like M83 with a bruised heart. They recently did a stint bothering Kasabian's arena audiences and Lisa Elle and her gang play their first UK show for a while in London show at Electrowerkz on 13th June. The gig also features a performance from Stockhausen student and current Brian Eno collaborator: singer songwriter artist EBE OKE who's well worth a listen too. Here's Dark Horses' forthcoming single, exclusively premiered right here, right now, on DiS:
How to Dress Well
He's back, new material on a new label (Weird World), and a new album Total Loss due out in the autumn. Here's a comeback track...
Sleigh Bells vs Diplo
And let's fire you into the weekend with this...
BONUS: May 2012 As a Playlist
This is DiS' May Spotify Playlist...
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Hokkaido Shinkansen was opened in March 26, 2016. You can get Hokkaido by Shinkansen directly without changing trains at Shin-Aomori.
I have received some questions about train transfer at Shin-Aomori station. Shin-Aomori is the last station of Tohoku Shinkansen from Tokyo. And this station is the place to change the train to Hokkaido, like Hakodate and Sapporo. Some travellers worry about the transfer. They are not sure how big Shin-Aomori station and how many minutes is a enough to transfer the trains.
I show you map and images. I hope this instruction will help you to plan your itinerary.
First of all, please see Shin-Aomori station map on JR East website.
Shin-Aomori station is not a big station, like Tokyo. It is composed of two parts, Shinkansen tracks at 3rd floor and conventional line's tracks on ground floor. Ticket gate, transfer gate and exit are located on 2nd floor.
Shinkansen tracks and platforms
After you get off the trains, just take elevator, escalator or stairs to 2nd floor. And exit or transfer to conventional lines.
Exit, ticket gate and transfer gate
All exits and gates are located on 2nd floor.
There are two stairs at both side. But these stairs go to same platform and tracks. But if you get a reserved seat of Super Hakucho, take left. If you get a non reserved seat of Super Hakucho, take right. Anyway it is easy. Don't be nervous.
Most of you do not exit this station. But if you plan to stay in Aomori, don't stay around Shin-Aomori. Shin-Aomori station is one station away from Aomori station. Aomori station is located in downtown Aomori. There is nothing special around Shin-Aomori station.
Conventional lines tracks and platforms
It is very easy to find the train that you need to take. As far as you follow the sign, you can't miss it. And also the trains do not come very often at Shin-Aomori. You don't need to worry about taking the wrong train.
How many minutes is enough to transfer
When I get off the train at Shin-Aomori in this past March, I changed from Tohoku Shinkansen Hayate 33 at 18:28 arrival to Limited Express Super Hakucho 33 at 18:38 departure. It was very smooth transfer. I have checked the location of stairs, exit, transfer gates and took some pictures in this 10 minutes. I could do it very easily.
So all of you don't need to worry about taking pictures or inspection there. All you have to do is just change the trains. I can say 10 minutes is enough. If you rush, you may be able to do it in even 5 minutes. It's a piece of cake!
Move to Aomori station and transfer
Most of trains can be transferred at Shin-Aomori, like Limited Express Super Hakucho to Hakodate, Limited Express Tsugaru to Hirosaki and Rapid Resort Shirakami to Shirakami Mountains and Gono line. However only one train, overnight express Hamanasu cannot be transferred there. If you take Hamanasu, you need to go to Aomori.
Aomori station is one station away and takes only 5 minutes. This section, between Shin-Aomori and Aomori, is one of the special exception. You can take non reserved seat on limited express trains, like Super Hakucho and Tsugaru without surcharge. If you don't use Japan Rail Pass or JR East Pass and get on the express train only this section, you need to pay only basic fare.
Please see the map of Aomori station if you need. There are only 4 trucks for JR trains (#3-6). You may need to change the platform when you transfer the trains. But Aomori station is not a big station either. 5 minutes is enough to transfer.
I will write about Hakodate station on next post.


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(CNN) -- Hip-hop performer will.i.am is no stranger to the political arena -- having spearheaded the Internet-favorite "Yes We Can" music video in support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Now he's taking a stance in opposition to some of his fellow performers. The Black Eyed Peas front man says that staying away from the Beijing Olympics because of China's human rights record and crackdown on protesters in Tibet is a mistake.
"I feel the same passion on the injustice that's happening in Tibet and wanting to take a stand," said the performer, whose group plans to perform in China next month. "But then, at the same time ... you could stay home and hold picket signs or you could go there and influence them."
Since the announcement that Beijing would be host of the games, human rights activists have decried the International Olympic Committee's decision.
They say the games will provide an international public-relations platform for a Chinese government that denies its citizens basic human rights and has enforced a crackdown in Tibet, which lost its independence to China in 1951, over anti-Beijing demonstrations there.
Many high-profile entertainers have said they will not support the Olympics in protest of China's record. Actress and longtime political activist Mia Farrow said boycotting the Beijing games would send a strong message to China's government.
"No one wants to hurt the athletes," she said. "But to boycott the opening ceremonies -- yes. It's up to us as human beings to make it clear what the right thing is."
Richard Gere, who opposes China's handling of Tibet, has appeared at demonstrations and favors a boycott.
Money/Fortune reported Steven Spielberg resigned as an artistic adviser to the summer games because of China's economic, political and military ties to the Sudan.
A number of world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, have said they will not attend the opening ceremonies in Beijing.
A handful of senators, including presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, sent President Bush a letter urging him not to attend the opening ceremonies, saying that "if the Chinese government is ever to treat its people with basic human rights, it must be sent a bold and clear message."
Bush has said he will attend the Olympics, but has not committed to attending the opening ceremonies.
Last month, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging China to end its crackdown on Tibet and free nonviolent protesters imprisoned there.
Meanwhile, will.i.am and others argue that boycotting the ceremony and the games only hurts Chinese citizens, who have no control over their leaders. The Grammy-winning artist also said he senses a whiff of hypocrisy in some calls for staying away from the games.
George Clooney, in a widely reported interview with Spain's el Paris newspaper, said that "it seems excessive to boycott the games because China does business in Darfur."
"America is talking out of both sides of its mouth," will.i.am said. "I know that everything I buy in America says 'Made in China' on it. So for me to just say, 'Yeah, that's right, boycott China' ... you're talking out of both sides of your mouth."
CNN's Karen Winter contributed to this report.
All About China • Summer Olympics


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This guest post by author Lincoln Cole is part of a blog tour sponsored by 4Wills Publishing.
Writing Tips
- Tip #1 – Just write. Don't be afraid to put the words on paper and try new things. Sure, a lot of it won't work, but some of it will. That first draft can be a nightmare, but you'll be happy once it's done.
- Tip #2 – Join communities and find beta readers. The RRBC is a great place to meet people who can help, but you also want to look into WriteOn, Wattpad, and other places where you can showcase works in progress and get feedback. You never know when you'll make lifelong friends from it and the feedback can motivate you to finish a story.
- Tip #3 – Practice and learn from your mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes, and it's unwise to think anything you write will ever be perfect. I, for one, would hate to write a perfect book because I think it's better to be always improving and to have each book you release be better than the one that came before it.
- Tip #4 – Start building your blog and online presence early. Think of social media like laying the foundation of a castle. You have to do it brick by brick and it takes a lot of time, so the earlier you start the sooner you can start reaping the benefits. A lot of people think they need to have published books and a lot of credibility before starting a social media presence, but it's really the opposite.
- Tip #5 – Have fun. If writing isn't fun or feels like a chore for you, then take a step back and ask yourself what your motivations are. Then, reevaluate and change course until you're enjoying it again.
Who is Lincoln Cole?
Lincoln Cole is a Columbus-based author who enjoys traveling and has visited many different parts of the world, including Australia and Cambodia, but always returns home to his pug-a-monster and wife. His love for writing was kindled at an early age through the works of Isaac Asimov and Stephen King and he enjoys telling stories to anyone who will listen.
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Tigi Catwalk creates a personal style that is luxurious and that you can call yours alone. Bruno Mascolo, The Chairman and CEO of Tigi Catwalk has quoted it clearly in the statement "TIGI isn't just about products, it's about sharing ideas and inspirations. TIGI – it's a way of life." According to Anthony Mascolo, International Creative Director of Tigi, "TIGI translates fashion trends into an image statement."
You can buy Styler, shampoo, conditioner, treatment with Tigi Catwalk label. It comes in gift packs and super sizes. It has whole range of fashion forecasts to give shiny, bouncy, strong hair. Catwalk has a full set of designer haircare products to condition, clean and style your hair.
With the "How to get the look kit" you can style your hair like Elizabeth Hurley – The Hollywood actress and model, Samantha Fox – the world famous singer, Daniella Cicarelli – the MTV Brasil TV Show Hostess, or Donna Feldman – the famous TV show actress and model. She had appeared some films also.
Tigi has a wide range of products like Bed Head, Catwalk, SFactor, B For Men etc. Some of the best sellers in catwalk category are Curlesque Curls Rock Amplifier, Curlesque Hydrating Conditioner, Curlesque Strong Mousse etc. Each of these items has its own specific quality and style.
For example Curlesque Defining Shampoo is a sulfate-free formula for curls styling. The ingredients in it are seaweed, sea fennel, cucumber water etc. The seaweed and sea fennel smooths the cuticle and subdue the frizz condition. Cucumber water maintains the bouncy, beautiful curls. "Calories Blasting Dance" – the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Power Squad Bod testifies to the effect of Bed Head range of haircares.
In the TIGI Cat walk category we have many hair care items. Some of them are TIGI Catwalk Fashionista Shampoo, TIGI Catwalk Thickening Conditioner, Curls Rock Curl Booster, Curls Rock Shampoo etc. Each has to be used as per the instructions. Then only you will get the perfect look, each of them states.
For example TIGI Cat walk Fashionista Shampoo should give you smooth, shiny, vibrant looking hair. The hair should feel silky and smooth. TIGI Cat walk Thickening Conditioner should give your hair thick, full, healthy look. Your hair should feel soft and thick.
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The founder of Notre Dame, Indiana; b. 6 Feb., 1814, at Ahuillé, near Laval, France; d. 31 Oct., 1893, at Notre Dame, U.S.A. His early education was directed by his mother, a woman remarkable for intelligence as well as virtue. After completing his classical studies, his vocation for the priesthood being marked, M. Sorin at once entered the diocesan seminary, where he was distinguished for superior ability and exemplary life. Among his fellow students were Cardinal Langénieux and others who shed lustre on the Church.
At the time of Father Sorin's ordination, glowing reports of missionary enterprise in foreign lands had fired afresh the hearts of French clergy, and inspired numerous vocations, not a few of which were those of future martyrs, particularly in China and Japan. It was to the first of these countries that the Abbé Sorin felt attracted; and to the end of his long life accounts of the trials and triumphs of Chinese missionaries had for him a singular fascination. He was influenced by circumstances to enroll himself in the Congregation of the Holy Cross, a community of priests, brothers, and sisters lately founded at Le Mans by the Abbé Moreau. The need of missionaries in the United States so earnestly represented in letters from bishops in this country and in addresses by others who had occasion to visit Europe, was not to be disregarded by the heads of religious orders; and although France had not as yet recovered from the effects of the Revolution, she generously contributed men and means for the support and spread of American missions. Father Sorin, but recently ordained, was selected by his superiors to establish the Congregation of the Holy Cross in what was then considered a remote district of the United States.
Accompanied by six brothers, he arrived in New York in the autumn of 1841, and immediately set out for Indiana, which was destined to be the field, the center rather, of his apostolate for upwards of half a century. After a short stay at St. Peter's in the Diocese of Vincennes, he proceeded northward with five of his confreres. In the beginning of an exceptionally rigorous winter, in poverty and privation he began the foundation of Notre Dame, which, under his fostering care, from the Indian missionary station, developed into one of the largest religious and educational institutions in the new world, the centre of far-reaching activities for the work of the Church. Several colleges which Father Sorin founded elsewhere are also in a flourishing condition.
It is a far cry from Indiana to India; but the flourishing mission in Eastern Bengal, in charge of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, owes much of its success to Father Sorin's ardent zeal and active co-operation. Thither he sent its former bishop and other priests whose services could ill be spared, together with a band of sisters, the superior of whom, a native of New York, died at her distant post, a victim of her self-sacrifice. The founding of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in the United States is rightly regarded as one of Father Sorin's most important services to religion. Under his administration and care, this community, at first a handful, has become a host, with flourishing establishments in a dozen states. During the Civil War, thanks to Father Sorin's forethought, this sisterhood was able to furnish nearly fourscore nurses for sick and wounded soldiers on transports and in hospitals. A number of priests of the Congregation of the Holy Cross served as chaplains at the front. Another of Father Sorin's many claims to the grateful remembrance of English-speaking Catholics is the "Ave Maria", which he founded in 1865.
Father Sorin was elected superior-general of his order in 1868, and held this important office during the rest of his life. In recognition of his work in educational lines, the French Government conferred upon him the insignia of an Officer of Public Instruction (1888). Soon after the celebration of his sacerdotal golden jubilee (the same year), the venerable founder of Notre Dame entered upon a long period of mental and physical suffering, which closed with a peaceful and painless death on the eve of All Saints', 1893.
MOREAU, Le Tres Reverend Pere Basil-Antoine Moreau (Paris, 1900); A Story of Fifty Years (Notre Dame, 1905); Circular Letters of the Very Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C., privately printed.
APA citation. (1912). Edward Sorin. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14150a.htm
MLA citation. "Edward Sorin." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14150a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Thomas M. Barrett. Dedicated to the memory of Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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Crews searching for missing Atascadero man
January 21, 2013
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Unit is searching for an Atascadero man who went hiking Saturday morning and never returned home.
Richard Gates, 44, of Atascadero left around 6:30 a.m. to go hiking near Ragged Point. His wife told deputies he sometimes spends the night when he goes hiking.
However, when he did not return home on Sunday she filed a missing persons report. Deputies then discovered Gates' vehicle parked near the Ragged Point Inn.
Gates is described as a white male, about 6 feet tall, weighing 290 pounds with brown eyes and a beard. Deputies said Gates is possibly wearing khaki pants, a long-sleeved khaki shirt and brown boots.
Anyone with information about Gates is asked to call the sheriff's office at 781-4550.


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Dog & Fowl Rivers Communities
Just north of Dauphin Island, Fowl River and Dog River feed into Mobile Bay. These areas are hot spots for water recreation, local fishermen and weekend boating. Various family-owned seafood restaurants feed locals and tourists alike. Dauphin Island Parkway provides a scenic drive from these areas with views of Mobile Bay. Enjoy an evening dinner on the water while watching the boats come into the marinas from their afternoon excursions. Wildlife can be found throughout Mobile Bay's many inlets, including manatee and alligator sightings. On a clear day you can look to your east from Dog River and see parts of Baldwin County's Eastern Shore.
Overlooking Fowl River in Theodore, Bellingrath Gardens & Home offers walking tours through the 65-acre property. Each Christmas thousands of locals and tourists gather at Bellingrath to welcome the region's largest Christmas lights display, Magic Christmas In Lights, featuring over 3-million lights across the popular property.


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A Computer For Every Student
Peek into Lorelei Saito's seventh-grade social studies class at Punahou's Case Middle School and you'll see students sitting in front of personal laptops, completing multimedia projects to share with students in a classroom halfway around the world.
Walk over to Punahou's high school and you'll see students in Douglas Kiang's iPhone app-development class typing up programming on personal laptops for their final app projects.
Head over to Mid Pacific Institute and you'll see students of all ages checking their campus email or downloading educational apps on their new school-distributed iPads.
In a few years, step onto a public-school campus and you just might see the same things.
Gov. Neil Abercrombie's Makana Connection initiative seeks to provide public schools with technology for students, in partnership with community organizations, businesses and local schools with existing one-to-one programs.
The first phase of the initiative seeks to put laptops or tablets in the hands of every public-school student from grades three and up. It's a bold plan that will cost millions of dollars to start and maintain, take years to implement, and require hours of training for both students and teachers. But the time and money are worth it, say supporters.
"Together with the BOE and DOE, the Governor believes that our high school graduates need to be prepared to succeed in college and careers as citizens and stewards of our island state as well as an increasingly global and complex world," says Tammi Chun, policy analyst for the governor. "Makana Connection is an initiative (that) gives students tools being used in colleges and the workplace, and access to a world of learning opportunities."
The governor requested $1 million in the current fiscal year's state budget for a pilot project, but it was not included. Instead, the governor's office has partnered with nonprofits and the state Department of Education to plan and fund a pilot project at three public schools this school year.
For the project, approximately 1,500 laptops will be given to students at Keaau Elementary and Keaau Middle School on Hawaii Island, thanks to funding from the Hawaiian Electric Industries Charitable Foundation and other donors, and faculty will receive training and other support.
Kalani High School in East Honolulu, which has had a one-to-one program since 2009, will continue to use the laptops already at the school, but will receive support for additional teacher training.
The differing demographics of the two districts – the Keeau schools serve many low-income families while Kalani serves few – will provide insight on how one-to-one programs function in different environments, says Chun. "A statewide plan needs to consider a variety of family circumstances and community assets, and the involvement from both Keaau and Kalani schools is important to understand how a program will work in different school communities," she says.
Whether the state expands the program to other public schools hinges on the success of the pilot program and whether the state can find funding.
"There are competing priorities around funds right now, even funds for education," says Chris van Bergeijk, VP and COO of the Hawaii Community Foundation, which has provided the governor's initiative with insight and lessons learned from its Schools of the Future technology project. "The goal now is to get a lot of answers and on-the-ground experience with the program first. But no question, scaling it across several hundred schools has a pretty big price tag attached," van Bergeijk says.
One-to-One in Hawaii
Computers and other technology have been used in education for many years, but a one-student-to-one-mobile-device ratio is considered by advocates to be ideal for learning, largely because students can personalize the devices and use them in and out of school.
One-to-one programs have been in U.S. schools since the 1980s, when Apple started its decade-long Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow research and development program to study the computer's effects on learning.
With the turn of the century, educators realized students would need to develop and apply "21st-century skills," such as creativity and innovation, information literacy, and social and cross-cultural interaction, to be successful after graduation. This spurred individual schools, districts and even entire states to initiate one-to-one programs.
In Hawaii, many private schools, and some charter and public schools, have implemented one-to-one programs, citing the perceived benefits of the programs and that technology is already a big part of many students' lives. Advocates say it makes sense to leverage that knowledge and interest.
"We realize that, once kids get used to the idea of having the technology with them all the time, it does change the way they learn and we definitely have to change the way we teach," says Carey Inouye, dean of instruction at Iolani School.
"Technology is their world," adds Amy Kimura, assistant principal at the high school of Kamehameha Schools' Kapalama Campus. "That's where they live and that's what they understand. If you want to engage them, you have to change how you engage them because it's different now."
Why One-to-One?
There are many reasons support for one-to-one programs is strong.
Advocates say one of the most significant benefits is student engagement, which has been demonstrated to markedly improve with one-to-one programs because teachers can teach in a context students understand and relate to.
A University of Southern Maine study done two years after the start of Maine's initiative in 2002, which is the most expansive one-to-one program in the country, found that eight out of 10 teachers believed their students were more actively involved in their learning because of the laptops.
Saito, now in her sixth year as a social studies teacher at Punahou, also believes her students are more engaged because of the dynamic learning environment created by Punahou's one-to-one laptop program, which started in 2002 and now includes every student from fourth through 12th grades.
"As a social-studies teacher, using the laptops to open up doors to other parts of the world is so valuable, much more engaging than just saying, 'Look at the picture in the textbook' or 'Take a look at this map,' " she says. "Doing things like communicating with students their own age in the region they're studying about makes it real."
One-to-one programs are also touted for their support of project-based learning, which emphasizes a student-centered classroom instead of the traditional teacher-centered classroom. Students take a more active role in their education by applying what they learn through collaborative projects rather than sitting through lectures and taking tests to show what they've learned, or merely memorized.
Technology is a whole new medium for project creation and allows students to collaborate easily even when they're not physically in the same place.
"Having the one-to-one program, students can choose how they want to show their learning," says Saito. "… Having students think critically, saying, 'Well, how are you going to take these concepts and then turn them into something? How are you going to apply that?' is more challenging for them. That's why projects are more of an authentic learning experience and form of assessment."
Many supporters also say one-to-one programs are important because they help to bridge the digital divide that exists between the haves and have-nots. Students who already have access to technology at home have a distinct advantage over students who do not, especially in acquiring important 21st century skills. So, the theory goes, providing all students with laptops puts them on the same playing field.
"What about the kids who are sleeping in Makaha Beach Park, who don't have electricity, don't have access to computers, don't even have access to shoes?" asks Brendan Brennan, a math teacher at the University of Hawaii-Manoa's Laboratory School and one of the teachers heading the charter school's one-to-one pilot project this year. "We need to look at how to help them enjoy the same kind of learning that the kid at Mid Pac or Punahou will enjoy."
Because the technology is portable, students can use their laptops or tablets all around campus, as well as outside of school, eliminating time and space as barriers to learning.
"The fact that students aren't tied to their desks to do certain tasks, they can do (school work) at home, they can do it in the classroom, is a big deal." says Bob McIntosh, technology director at Mid Pacific Institute. "And the majority of our teachers, especially in the high school, share classrooms, so there's that idea of not having a home base."
One-to-one programs are designed to prepare students for college and most careers, where technological knowledge is essential.
"Given the requirements and expectations of the 21st century and what you need for college and a career, you need to be technologically ready," says St. Louis principal Pat Hamamoto. "Students need to hands-on use it."
Does It Work?
Despite the touted benefits of one-to-one programs, the evidence is not conclusive.
Some studies have shown that student engagement does improve, but there are indications that improvements are not sustained past the first few years as the novelty of the program wears off. Another University of Southern Maine study, done five years after the start of the Maine initiative, found only six out of 10 teachers felt their students were more engaged because of the laptops, 20 percentage points lower than the results of the initial study.
"If you talk to the folks in Maine, they'll tell you that, sure, student engagement increases, student attendance will increase and grades will increase," says David Wu, assistant superintendent and CIO at Hawaii's Department of Education, who has been planning for a possible one-to-one program in Hawaii public schools. "But like all introduction of technology, there's this peak when the people are excited about it, so they come to school more often, they're more engaged, but then they get used to it and activity goes back to normal."
Some critics don't believe one-to-one programs help to bridge the gap between the privileged and disadvantaged. Though the programs may benefit the disadvantaged and provide them with skills they otherwise may not develop, one-to-one programs benefit the privileged just as much, if not more, effectively maintaining or even widening the gap between them.
Although one-to-one programs have been around for years, their actual academic benefits are still being questioned.
When one-to-one programs were first implemented in public schools, many educators hoped they would raise standardized test scores, but studies of programs throughout the country have shown mixed results when it comes to improved performance in core academic subjects and standardized test scores. Some programs have shown statistically significant academic improvement, while others have found no improvement or even worse performance.
Supporters argue that assessing one-to-one programs by looking at test scores will not provide an accurate reflection of their effectiveness because things like 21st-century skills cannot be measured through traditional testing.
One success is well-documented: Writing-test scores frequently show improvement. Many say this is because computers support the writing process by making it easier for students to draft, edit and refine their writing, resulting in more and better writing.
Cost Is a Big Factor
Money is a major concern in one-to-one programs. The hardware for each teacher and student, as well as maintenance, upgrades to infrastructure and insurance, add up, making one-to-one programs a huge investment.
Though one-to-one programs save some costs, often by reducing the use of paper and traditional textbooks, many local private-school officials say their programs cost a lot more than traditional educational tools and materials.
"We're not looking at technology to save us money," says Inouye of Iolani's program. "It hasn't up to now. In fact, it costs a lot more. Just updating the computers and upgrading software is very expensive."
Wu adds that if the state's one-to-one initiative in public schools proceeds, it won't be cheap.
"We did a theoretical budget and the run rate on this, if we did it at the volume that we should, we're hoping to hit a cost of about $200 to $250 per student per year, just for the devices," he says. "Professional development may cost between one and two times that." That means, with about 128,000 public school students in grades three through 12, the cost for the devices alone could be $32 million a year.
Some educators and parents have also expressed concern that access to too much technology will distract many students and make them too dependent on it, inhibiting the development of necessary social and cognitive skills.
If students believe technology can do everything for them, there is concern that, when it is unavailable, students will be unable to adapt and accomplish tasks.
But Wendi Kamiya, CIO at Punahou, says one-to-one programs are not about emphasizing technology, but how it can facilitate effective learning.
"Technology is not the point," she says. "It's not how much time you spend on the computer. If you're using the computer, the goal is developing critical-thinking skills; if you're having students search on a computer, it's not just about searching, but how they use the information they get out of it."
Van Bergeijk adds, "At first thought, it was all about the technology, but we found early on that it's not. The technology just supports learning."
Saito says these concerns are partly why she tries to keep laptop use to a minimum during class.
"In-class use (of laptops) is a very small percentage of class time. When the students are here in class sitting down with their peers, I'd rather they interact with each other. … Never does this tool take the place of face-to-face collaboration."
Make or Break
Though many one-to-one programs have been deemed successful and continue to thrive, there are many others that have shown little to no benefit and are being abandoned.
A district-wide one-to-one program in New York City was scrapped after seven years because there was little evidence the program was improving student achievement. Also, teachers found the laptops were a distraction in class, students often used their school-issued laptops inappropriately, and schools faced many technical and infrastructural problems.
"As a whole, one-to-one programs are not proven to improve education or learning yet," says UH Lab's Brennan, which is why the Lab School is running a pilot program this school year.
Depending on the results of the pilot program, which will study the educational benefits of Apple Macbook Pro laptops and Google Chromebooks, the school will determine whether to expand or cancel the program.
When programs fail, the key problem is often that schools and individual teachers fail to integrate the technology into the curriculum, says van Bergeijk. If integration is ineffective, one-to-one programs only provide students with a heavy toy to lug to and from school.
"The device is the easiest part of putting a one-to-one program in place," says Wu. "The real challenge is how do you transform the pedagogy to match the use of technology in the classroom?"
"It's a matter of getting our teachers up to speed and having them understand how to infuse all this into the curriculum," adds Kimura. "It shouldn't be just a fluffy add-on type of thing or it won't be effective."
Parental involvement and support is also crucial to a successful one-to-one program. If parents don't actively support it, in-home use of the devices may be minimal or more for entertainment than education.
That's why schools with one-to-one programs often hold seminars and workshops to help parents understand the program's relevance, plus provide tips on how to monitor and support laptop or tablet use at home.
"We want to really focus on appropriateness and creating community," says Brennan. "A lot of programs fail because there's no created community buy-in. The parents don't want to pay for it unless they see value for it; the teachers don't want to use it unless they know how to use it appropriately; and the students aren't going to care about it if they don't have a reason to use it for their learning."
What's Next?
Considering the benefits and concerns associated with one-to-one programs, the big question is whether or not they will help Hawaii public schools.
While many support a statewide one-to-one program, they agree that students without one aren't necessarily at a disadvantage to those who do because it's not all about the technology.
"I think the more important thing is how (the technology) is being used to cultivate 21st-century skills," van Bergeijk says. "… Classrooms that don't have a laptop for every child can still achieve that. If you've got a great teacher who really knows how to cultivate those 21st-century skills, they can do it with minimal technology."
Saito, who has taught in both public and private schools, adds, "I think it's really up to the teacher and how he or she is going to make learning real for (the students). Being fortunate to have the one-to-one at Punahou, we're very lucky, but if they took it away from me and I had to teach without it, I could do it. It would just take some getting used to again."
Laptops or Tablets?
In one-to-one programs, choosing a device is a huge initial decision. With the new advanced tablets, laptops may no longer be the obvious choice.
This school year, Mid Pacific Institute started a one-to-one iPad program for all students in grades 3-12, with K-2 students having access to iPads at certain times during the school day.
Bob McIntosh, technology director at Mid Pac, says the iOS 5 operating software expanded the capabilities of Apple's iPad, making it more relevant for education. That's one of the main reasons the school chose it. The popularity of earlier iPads on campus, plus the lower cost versus laptops, made the decision easier.
"We asked, 'Do kids need a laptop to do what we really truly want them to do with the device, knowing that we're always going to have the high-powered (computer) labs?' " says McIntosh. "I think that's when we realized they don't and made the decision that, well, the cost (for tablets) is less, too, so we can do this, grades 3-12, in one year."
Although tablets are gaining popularity, many one-on-one programs still use laptops. The decision often depends on what teachers want the devices to do.
"We considered the iPad," says Amy Kimura, assistant principal at the high school of Kamehameha Schools' Kapalama Campus, "but our teachers have been learning and preparing to integrate things into their curriculum with a more robust laptop capability and if we switched it now to an iPad, they would have to rethink all of that. It does a lot, but it doesn't do everything the laptop can do."
Here's a look at some educational benefits of laptops versus tablets:
Laptops (not netbooks)
- Portable, so students can take them to and from school, though heavier than tablets
- Full-size keyboard that is optimized for word processing
- Large, easy-to-view screen (13 or more inches for laptops vs. 9.7 inches for iPad 3s)
- High-capacity processors that can multitask and perform complex tasks quickly and easily
- Built-in CD/DVD drive, so students can use software from a disk
- Batteries that usually run up to five hours nonstop
- More portable and compact, and lighter than laptops (iPad 3 is 1.44 pounds whereas a 13-inch MacBook Pro is 4.5 pounds), so even young students can carry them easily
- Touch screen provides a more natural, hands-on experience
- Cheaper than most laptops
- Optimized for ebooks and etextbooks
- Battery life of about seven to 10 hours, so students can use them throughout the school day without a charge
Flipping the Classroom
No more sleep-inducing lectures and pages of review exercises for homework. Instead, imagine students watching short video lectures for homework and going into class ready for hands-on activities and projects that reinforce concepts already learned.
Welcome to the "flipped" classroom. What makes it possible is one-to-one programs that ensure all students have access to a computer outside of class, along with Internet access, whether at home, school or a cafe.
This classroom model has grown in popularity over the past half-decade. Students watch short video lectures or narrated slideshows outside of class at their own pace, freeing classroom time for practical applications and review. Students are more accountable for their own learning and the teacher-student relationship is transformed from lecturer-listener to collaborators.
Flipped classrooms are happening in many local private schools and some public schools, although challenges arise with students who do not have their own computers, or lack easy Internet access outside of school.
"Some of our teachers are flipping the classrooms now," says Amy Kimura, assistant principal at the high school of Kamehameha Schools' Kapalama Campus. "They put out information ahead of time so when students go to class, they're not going to spend time in a lecture, but they'll do projects and other activities."
Lorelei Saito, social studies teacher at Punahou's Case Middle School, says flipping the classroom helps her pinpoint what students understand and what they struggle with.
"(Students) view the lecture at home and then I have them do an online check for understanding," she says. "… If I see that they've got it, I can move right on to the hands-on activity."
Flipped classrooms change what students and parents perceive as homework and class time, which can take some getting used to. But this kind of self-paced learning, in which students can pause, rewind or fast-forward through lectures, has benefited those who can't keep up during in-class lectures and motivated smart students who found the lecture pace too slow.
Saito adds that flipping the classroom gives her more time to interact with students, supporting them individually and as a class. "Before, my attitude was, 'Oh, I only have an hour with them.' Now, it's 'Wow, I have an hour with them!' "
Making Textbooks Interactive
Word processors are replacing paper and pen. Will high-tech textbooks be next?
Although etextbooks are increasingly common in college, their creation and adoption in primary and secondary schools has been limited. But at Punahou School, teachers are digitizing the textbooks they have written by using iBooks Author, a free app that allows users to create multitouch textbooks for the iPad. The software makes creating etextbooks simple, says Douglas Kiang, a Punahou computer science teacher working on his own etextbook.
"It's never been as easy as it is now" to use video and sound to create multimedia textbooks, he says.
More etextbooks mean students are lugging around fewer heavy, traditional textbooks, plus the texts are more interactive and, hopefully, more engaging for students.
Unfortunately, there are few studies on the effectiveness of etextbooks in primary and secondary education. Textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt did a study that compared the use of an algebra etextbook and a regular algebra textbook in a California middle school last year.
The study found that students using the etextbook were more engaged, more motivated and performed better on tests at the end of the school year, compared with students using the traditional textbook. Critics were unconvinced, saying one study done by the company that made the etextbook proves nothing.
Creating etextbooks requires teachers to change how they view the text and how it supports students' learning.
"We don't want to just take advantage of the greater accessibility by just digitizing books and making them available as a PDF or something," Kiang says. "We actually want to rethink what is the purpose of the textbooks, how do they enhance learning, and how can they be personalized and localized to the direction a class is taking with a particular group of students?"
This personalization is big part of etextbooks' appeal. "I think that most teachers constantly try to improve their courses," says Kiang, "and we have seen very few technologies that have caused this amount of excitement. The fact that you can interact that physically with the material makes it feel more intimate. That's what students need."


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An ability to avoid the plant equivalent of vapor lock and a favorable evolutionary history may explain the unusual drought resistance of junipers, some varieties of which are now spreading rapidly in water-starved regions of the western United States, a Duke University study has found.
"The take-home message is that junipers are the most drought-resistant group that has ever been studied," said Robert Jackson, a professor of global environmental change and biology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.
"We examined 14 species from the U.S. and Caribbean, and they're all relatively drought-resistant -- even ones in the mountains of Jamaica that get hundreds of inches of rain a year," he said.
"They've been expanding for about 100 years in some places, and drought plays a role in that," added Jackson, who is corresponding author of the new report published Feb. 27 in the American Journal of Botany's online edition. "For example, recent droughts have decimated pinyon pine populations in pinyon-juniper woodlands of the Southwestern U.S. but left the junipers relatively unscathed."
Many juniper species -- including several popularly known as cedars -- "are invading drier habitats and increasing in abundance where they already exist by surviving droughts that other conifers cannot," the report said.
The work was funded by the National Science Foundation, Duke University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To understand why junipers are so successful, Jackson's graduate student Cynthia Willson and Duke associate biology professor Paul Manos assessed structural and genetic features in the 14 species that can explain their special drought tolerance.
They found a key structural adaptation in junipers: resistance to what scientists call "cavitation" -- a tendency for bubbles to form in the water-conducting xylem tissues of plants.
Water is sucked through xylem tissues under a partial vacuum, "so it's almost like a rubber band being stretched out," explained Jackson. "The dryer the conditions, the greater the tension on that 'rubber band' and the more likely that it will snap. If it snaps, air bubbles can get into the xylem."
The scientists found that xylem tissues of juniper species tend to be reinforced with extra woody material to prevent rupture. Such rupturing can introduce bubble-forming air either through seepage from adjacent cavities or by coming out of solution from the water itself, Jackson said.
The scientists also determined that the more cavitation-resistant Juniper species have thicker but narrower leaves -- a trait known as low specific leaf area (SLA) -- and live primarily in the western United States.
"Plants in drier environments typically have lower SLA," said Willson, the study's first author, who having completed her Ph.D. at Duke is now a student at North Carolina State University's College of Veterinary Medicine. "We found that junipers from the driest environments were more drought resistant and also had the lowest SLA."
Their research found that the most cavitation-resistant species is the California juniper, which grows in California's Mojave Desert, while the least resistant is the eastern red cedar -- the most widespread conifer in the relatively-moist eastern U.S.
While less drought-tolerant than other junipers, eastern red cedars still handle dry spells well and are in fact invading into Midwestern states including Nebraska, Jackson noted. Juniper species growing in wet parts of the Caribbean also benefit from drought tolerance because they "tend to grow in shallow, rocky soils that don't hold a lot of water," Jackson said.
In parts of the Southwest undergoing an extended drying period, junipers are edging out another hardy, water-thrifty conifer -- the pinyon pine. "They're both very drought- resistant, but the pinyons aren't as resistant as the junipers are," Jackson said.
The scientists also investigated how and where these tree types evolved their collective drought tolerance by analyzing each juniper species' DNA. That analysis found that junipers evolved into different species relatively recently, separating into eastern and western groups -- technically called "clades."
"The center of diversity for junipers is in arid regions of Mexico," said Willson. "The fact that many juniper species seem to be more drought-resistant than necessary for their current range suggests that a common ancestor of those two clades was also quite drought-resistant."


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