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Academic Language Literacy
Course Description
Single subject teacher candidates utilize research-based methods aligned with CA's Common Core Standards and ELA/ELD frameworks. Applies principles and strategies needed to teach grades 9-12 content-based language/literacy instruction for English speakers, English learners, Standard English learners, and students with exceptionalities and other learning needs.
Learning Outcomes
- Utilize research-based strategies aligned with California's Common Core Standards, academic content standards, and ELA/ELD framework needed to effectively teach reading, writing, listening, speaking, and language for all learners, including English speakers, English learners, Standard English learners, students with exceptionalities, students with other learning needs, and with varying stages of literacy/language proficiency.
- Integrate into an appropriate content area of instruction the knowledge and applicability of the major components of evidence-based literacy (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) with an emphasis on making content comprehensible for all learners and building vocabulary, comprehension and academic achievement.
- Analyze multiple forms of assessments needed to address the range of language and literacy needs of all learners within the appropriate content area.
- Design instruction analyzing cognitive challenge(s), language and literacy demand(s) of content area targets and concepts, and technology within disciplinary and cross-disciplinary learning sequences needed to promote language and literacy proficiency for variety of purposes, tasks, audiences and disciplines.
- Utilize text and digitally-based resources offering multiple linguistic and culturally inclusive perspectives needed to provide equitable access to content-area curriculum and to support the literacy and language development of all learners, including those who have experienced poverty, interrupted schooling, long-term ELLs, chronic migration, trauma, homelessness, foster care, incarceration and/or are medically/emotionally fragile as well as students with exceptionalities and students with other learning needs.
- Design comprehensive content-based instruction based on the Learning Map Design, principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and a multiple tiered system of support (MTSS) needed to address the language and literacy needs within and across content areas for all learners.
- Students are expected to attend all class sessions, participate in all class activities, and complete assessment measures/assignments as scheduled.
- Students are expected to complete an assignment in their authorized (CSET) content area requiring four-hours in grades 7-12 school/classroom(s) and/or with one or more educators representing a variety of roles and responsibilities.
- Students are expected to integrate textbooks, internet resources, educational research and literature, and/or lecture concepts into all appropriate assignment requirements.
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A controversial plan to crack down on online piracy and counterfeiting will be opened up to public scrutiny for the first time next week, when the negotiating text of a secret international copyright treaty will be made public, the European Commission said Friday.
Negotiations over the past two years have been conducted in secret. Leaks of the draft text have sparked a public outcry, mainly because of how the text deals with online copyright infringement.
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Countries involved in talks on the Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) agreed unanimously to make the documents available to the public at a meeting in New Zealand this week, the Commission said in a statement.
However, they don't plan to reveal their individual negotiating positions.
"In agreeing to release publicly this draft text in the particular circumstances of this negotiation, participants reaffirmed the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of their respective positions in trade negotiations," the Commission said.
The Commission has never commented directly about the leaked copies of the ACTA draft text but it has refuted claims that the treaty would force signatory countries to introduce a so-called graduated response rule that would ban copyright offenders from the Internet after a series of warnings.
In leaked texts seen by IDG, the draft treaty doesn't mandate the graduated-response approach but it does suggest that countries adopt such laws.
It also calls for Internet service providers to become liable for the content being distributed on their networks. Under existing E.U. laws, ISPs should not be held responsible for content such as illegally copied music or movies that are commonly distributed via peer-to-peer networks.
The Commission has always denied that the treaty would go this far. In Friday's statement it said ACTA "will not interfere with a signatory's ability to respect its citizens' fundamental rights and liberties."
The participants in the ACTA talks next meet in Switzerland in June. They aim to conclude the talks "as soon as possible in 2010." The Commission said that making the draft text public will help the countries to reach a final conclusion.
Participants include the U.S., E.U., Japan, Canada, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, and Switzerland.

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A group of probationers of 65th Batch of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Central Excise) called on the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee today (November 17, 2014) at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Welcoming the probationers to the Durbar hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan, the President said that all of them would start their career in public life very soon and he was happy that prior to beginning of their new assignments, their Academy has brought them to this historic building.
The President congratulated the probationers on their selection to the civil services which he said, is an indicator of their potential to perform and achieve. During the coming years, they all will get ample opportunity to deliver their best in the service of the nation. He was sure each one of them will rise to the occasion and will do their best. He urged the probationers to respect the trust of the nation as the Government has assigned them the sovereign function of tax collection.
The President said that the economic transformation that has taken place in the country over the years is mind-boggling. He said that the officers are entering the service at a time when the country is undergoing transition from a developing to a developed economy. He said that he was sure that the training being imparted to the officers would have equipped them with necessary skills to meet the challenges.
The probationers are presently undergoing professional training at the National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics, Faridabad. Among these probationers five are from the Royal Kingdom of Bhutan.


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Scroll down to the bottom of the lefthand sidebar of Writer Way and you'll see BlogRush in action. I've enrolled WriterWay in the "writing" category of BlogRush, so that Writer Way posts now appear as teasers on other blogs in that category.
The idea behind BlogRush is to accomplish two things at once: To provide blog readers with links to blogs on the same topic, and the drive more reader traffic to participating blogs.
It will be interested to watch the effect on traffic to this blog. My prediction that BlogRush will increase traffic for a while, but then BlogRush will be hacked by the SEO "garbage blogs" and, as a result, readers will lose interest, and then legitimate blogs will lose interest. Of course, if the people who run BlogRush are smart, and have resources, they'll attempt to police the system to prevent abuse.
To paraphrase George Jones, "the rush is on."


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13 Sep Will.i.am premieres song — from Mars
By Faith Karimi, CNN
(CNN) — Rapper will.i.am can boast of an accomplishment that is out of this world: His latest single premiered from Mars, making it the first song to debut on another planet.
The Black Eyed Peas singer wrote the song, "Reaching for the Stars," to mark the successful landing of NASA's Curiosity rover on the Red Planet this month.
A far cry from his regular hip-hop tunes, it features a 40-piece orchestra set to a futuristic beat.
The song is set to transcend time and cultures, he said.


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There are some experiences in America that I have had which I did not have in Japan which are hard to encapsulate into a post heading. This is going to be one of them. In 1988, when I left the U.S. for my three- to five-year planned stay in Japan that ended up lasting 23 years, the culture was not nearly so politically correct or corrective in America. When I say, "corrective", I mean a culture which seems to shove the word "privilege" in my face every three seconds and makes enormous and frequently erroneous assumptions about who I am and the life I've lead based on my skin color alone.
One of the things which has happened to me many times is that I'm lectured to, often in a condescending or patronizing way, about how little I understand what it's like to be a minority, to be poor, to be around mentally ill people or criminals, live with people people with substance abuse problems, have limited opportunities, or understand the impact of certain types of dangerous and difficult work on the underprivileged (particularly as it applies to those who are in developing countries or undeveloped countries). As someone who grew up poor in an economically depressed area and in the middle of strip mines with an alcoholic father, verbally abusive mother, criminal drug-using and selling relatives, and who worked and lived with severely mentally ill people, and who lived in a country in which I was part of a minority that represented .2% of the population with there are no enforced protections of minority rights, I'm more than a little sick of this attitude and the assumptions underlying it.
My white skin, I guess rather shockingly for most people, hasn't produced someone who has grown up ignorant of hardship or what it's like to be a minority and face prejudice and discrimination (thank you, Japan for an unintended gift of empathy in this regard). The irony is that I'm often lectured to about such things by people who have not actually experienced such things themselves and simply assume that I, like they, grew up in some sort of protected existence. They labor under the assumption that they know something I don't and, by God, I need to be enlightened by their superior wisdom of such things! That's my way of saying the biggest gas bags in this regard are privileged white people.
In Japan, people may have reached a lot of silly, stereotyped conclusions about me based on being an American, but they never assumed that it was their place to enlighten me about the hardships of life while they sat in their ivory towers.


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When DeShawn Brown was studying computer science — while building an app development agency in his spare time — at North Carolina State, he sought out a community that was interested, like him, in entrepreneurship, innovation, and collaborating together to "make magic happen."
He found all of those things at a place called the Garage, a makeshift university collaboration space that NC State was testing in MVP mode. While working at the Garage, Brown launched his development agency, Lithios.
When Lithios quickly grew large enough to move to their own office, Brown was initially excited. But that turned to disappointment.
"We got our own office, and it kind of lost its magic," he tells Hypepotamus.
"That's when I began my search for what would become universally known as co-working."
Brown loved the co-working concept and the community it afforded his growing company. But as he spoke with community owners and managers, he realized that the magic was supported by a lot of tedious work behind the scenes.
"Community managers couldn't spend enough time actually building their community, because they were just spinning their wheels staying on top of operations," he says.
Independent spaces used messy spreadsheets and paper-based systems to track members; disparate emails or Slack messages to communicate with their community; and additional software systems to schedule events, collect payments, and track incoming leads.
"There weren't any great products that embodied the community and entrepreneurial aspect of co-working, and delivered a great experience for both managers and members," Brown says. With his brain wheels turning, he decided to build it.
Coworks was founded in 2017 as a co-working management platform for smaller, independent spaces. It has two components: a mobile app for the community members and a web app for the space owners and managers.
The member's app allows users to create a profile and book conference space, see who else is in the community, communicate with other members and the management team, and RSVP to events.
The managers can do all of the above — communicate, explore their member base, share events, etc. — but also get robust data on the health and makeup of their community. Managers or owners can extract reports from the platform to stay updated in real-time.
As Brown was building the software, Tanner Hallman entered the picture. A technologist with a business background, Hallman stepped in as CTO of Lithios and Director of Technology at Coworks.
The small team bootstrapped the business, first getting into local independent co-working spaces in their hometown of Raleigh, including Brown's own co-working space, HQ Raleigh.
"We sold it as the operating system for these independent spaces," Brown says. "We can put them on the same playing field as the co-working giants."
They now have about 20 clients with over 30 locations on the platform, representing 4,000 members. Brown says he was excited to land Switchyards, a well-known Atlanta-based community, as a client.
"[Switchyards co-founder] Michael is super, super strict — we were told that he'd said no to half a dozen software providers before us," he says.
They're targeting additional spaces across the Southeast during their time in the Techstars Atlanta accelerator. Coworks is part of the program's fourth cohort, joining nine other startups in a three-month business-building sprint.
"Building this product taught me the power of building a network. I wanted to work with an accelerator, like Techstars, that is known specifically for its global network," says Brown. "We wanted to be a part of a brand that's on-brand for us."
While completing Techstars, they're beginning to talk with investors about an upcoming seed round. Though Lithios reached $1 million in revenue without taking in outside capital, Brown says he does believe Coworks will benefit from connected, industry-knowledgable investors.
That's because the vision is much bigger than powering individual co-working spaces, he says. Eventually, Brown foresees Coworks as the glue connecting a network of independent spaces across the country, creating even more added value for clients.
"Then we'd build this much bigger, maybe even global community. That's the lifeblood of this whole thing," he says. "You've got to have a community or you're just a building."


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Apple was quick to respond though and did state that the UDID would no longer be used in future revisions of iOS or on future phones. Apple has kept their word about the UDID with iOS 6, but all they have done is to implement a new feature that allows advertisers to track user preferences by phone. The new system called IFA or IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) has not been used to gain access to personal information just yet, but then again the UDID worked well for a while before it was abused. We ran some of this by a few people that we know in "security" and on the surface they said that IFA is fairly anonymous in the way it executes, but they were quick to note that nothing is really secure when it is designed to take user information and preferences and transmit it to someone else. It is, by its nature a questionable thing to track users' preferences or habits in the first place, but it has been a common practice for so long that there is little that will be done to curtail or stop it.
IFA is both more and less intrusive than the UDID was. Because IFA is a random number assigned to the device and only tracks browsing and search habits it is less intrusive and less likely to be tied to a person than the UDID was, however IFA tracks your habits further than was possible with the UDID. IFA can track you all the way through to purchase or app download giving advertisers more ammunition to fine tune their ads and targeting algorithms. This last item is where the most likely exploit would be, if you can track a purchase with IFA then there is a chance you can tie that purchase to a person although what information you can gather after that is questionable.
Still there is good news for iPhone and iPad users running iOS 6. You can turn IFA off by heading over to Settings> General> Advertising and turning Limit Ad Tracking to "On". This will limit the tracking capabilities of IFA, but we have not been able to confirm if they are completely off. Our guess based on what we have seen is that they are not completely off. It is possible that your search and browsing habits are still tracked, but that that IFA no longer tracks the purchase or download like it did before. We are sure that there are people out there working on ways to exploit IFA and get more than it was intended to offer even as we publish this article after all the mobile market is now a major space for advertising. Advertising companies and publishers are very excited about what can be done in the mobile space simply because most mobile operating systems are so amazingly open right now in the same way the PCs were back in the early 90s (when the push pop up ad became popular). It will not be long before mobile OS developers will be required to put some of the same protections in place that we take for granted on the PC if for nothing else than to combat overaggressive advertising companies from inundating phone users with ads that have become little more than spam. Are mobile phone makers wrong to put this tracking ability into their phones and should Apple have left this ability out of iOS 6 considering how badly abused the UDID was? Let us know what you think in our Forum


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Give a context-free grammar that generates the language
A = {aibjck| i = j or j = k where i, j, k ≥ 0}.
Is your grammar ambiguous? Why or why not?
S = D|C|ε
D = Bc|Dc
C = aA|aC
B = aBb|ε
A = bAc|ε
The grammar is ambiguous because we can build two different trees if the number of as, bs, cs are the same: in this case we can consider pairs of abs and then cs or pairs of bcs and then as as prefixes.


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RIAA: What Settlement Money?
After last year's successful legal shakedowns of peer-to-peer services Napster, Kazaa, and Bolt.com yielded a rumored $400 million for major record companies, artists and their managers are wondering when they might see some of that money. The answer? Probably never.
According to Wednesday's Post, artists are considering filing lawsuits for their share of the settlements, even though recording-industry sources say, after legal costs and other expenses, there isn't much left to go around. Funnily enough, we actually sort of believe the labels — if there's anyone wasteful and inefficient enough to make that kind of cash disappear this fast, it's definitely them. Yesterday, EMI's new owner Guy Hands (possibly joking, although probably not really) claimed it would be more cost-effective to package the label's CDs with $100 bills than to employ an unreliable high-paid A&R staff of 260. Now, the RIAA says it will pay artists just as soon as it figures how much each one is owed. Sadly, the guy whose job it is to determine that probably gets paid $400 million a year.
RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue [TorrentFreak]


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The Eagle has landed blow after blow on George Osborne at a gag-tastic PMQs:
Bravura performance by @angelaeagle at PMQs. Osborne left floundering.
— Stephen Kinnock MP (@SKinnock) December 9, 2015
More @angelaeagle please #pmqs
— Jonathan Reynolds MP (@jreynoldsMP) December 9, 2015
Great #PMQs from @angelaeagle – combined wit with serious questions about #euref – Osborne didn't rise to the occasion.
— Emma Reynolds (@EmmaReynoldsMP) December 9, 2015
Top rate performance by@angelaeagle https://t.co/rGIOchiEU5
— Ivan Lewis For Mayor (@IvanLewis_MP) December 9, 2015
#PMQs Angela Eagle wipes the floor with Osborne. He is no Cameron. Teresa 2 George nil.
— Mary Creagh (@MaryCreaghMP) December 9, 2015
.@angelaeagle is truly amazing in #PMQs Funny, articulate, engaging and razor sharp! #GoGirl!
— Sarah Champion MP (@SarahChampionMP) December 9, 2015
Labour benches were louder and happier than they've been for weeks…
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Blues fans to play best hockey since arrival in St. Louis
By LOUIE KORAC
HAZELWOOD, Mo. -- When a fan favorite is suddenly dealt away, the immediate response is backlash for the player/players coming back in return.
Then-Blues owner Bill Laurie decided that the best way to market his franchise he put it up for sale after the lockout of 2004-05 would be to do so without any large and/or heavy contracts on the books. At least that was his excuse.
So when Chris Pronger was traded to Edmonton in 2005, the Blues got a trio of players back in return, and defenseman Eric Brewer was the centerpiece of that deal.
It's safe to say Brewer, 30, has not been a fan favorite since his arrival here five years ago.
And the Blues captain's erratic play during his up-and-down career has often made his a target of Blues fans of all ages.
The ridicule has often surrounded around the fact that he's no Chris Pronger, doesn't talk like Chris Pronger, doesn't walk like Chris Pronger and he never will be like him.
"Brew deals with a lot that people don't know. ... He's really been a guy that's held this team together," Blues defenseman and teammate Barret Jackman said. "He just keeps playing the way that everybody knows that he can. ... He was someone that was dealt for (Pronger), but Brew is his own player. He's not going to try and fill Pronger's shoes nor does he have to."
People questioned when Brewer was named captain in 2008.
And then when Brewer was sacked last season because of sciatic nerve damage in his back, there were even rumblings that his career might be in jeopardy, which to some Blues fans was music to their ears.
But Brewer fought back and got back into the lineup on a regular basis, and although his ascension was slowed at the outset, the defenseman has been quietly putting together a solid campaign this season.
Why has it been good? Because fans are not talking about him. But Brewer has never been one to care what people think of him.
"He's one of those guys that doesn't care what outside people think," Jackman said. "He's going to play his game. As long as he's contributing to the team and he's respected by the rest players .. which he is 100 percent in the dressing room, he's happy with that. He's a team guy. He's not a guy that needs to have headlines that say he's the best player on our team. He's just going to go out there and play and earn respect from his teammates."
Brewer has six goals and five assists in 39 games this season, but it's no coincidence that he's playing arguably his best hockey in his fifth full season in St. Louis.
He's finally found a niche with a defensive partner in Erik Johnson and the duo have formed a solid 1-2 punch on the Blues' blue line.
For probably the first time since his arrival here, Brewer is playing at a high and respectable level.
"It was a long time off," Brewer said of his back woes. "That's one way to look at it, but looking at it another way, I've been able to play some games and have a stretch of games. Me and EJ have played a large chunk of games now, and that helps out the both of us. He was out last year, I was out last year. That helps.
"I don't think that it wasn't that I felt off in the beginning. I just needed to play better. I felt good when I got here, and I felt good throughout."
It's evident playing with Johnson, a US Olympian, has helped the Vernon, British Columbia native. He's played with poise, has been solid in his own end and pinches in offensively and has contributed in ways people haven't seen here.
"I like that there's more assertiveness over the last 10 or 12 games," said Blues coach Davis Payne. "I like that he's reading plays and taking and using his size and strength to separate and to gain pucks back and to close up gaps. It could be confidence, it could be getting comfortable. I've been through back issues myself. It takes a while to really feel just what your level of engagement can be.
"... The assertiveness of his play is the one thing that from a defensive perspective, gaps are tighter, more physical, better in front of our net and from a puck-moving position, his feet are starting to move. You're starting to see him up ice, he can stride it up when the opportunity's there. We're seeing that full compliment of his game. He becomes the player we all know he's capable of."
Perhaps Brewer's decreased ice time has actually helped his game jump up the charts.
While playing for Andy Murray, Brewer was regularly playing between 24-27 minutes a game. But since Payne's arrival on Jan. 2, Brewer has averaged a little more than 18 minutes per game.
Coincidence? Probably.
"He's playing really well," Jackman said of Brewer. "You look at different kind of points. You look at success of the team, you look at the ups and downs we've been through since he's been here. He's obviously played very well. It's hard to compare, but everyone's definitely pleased with the way he's playing.
"I think he's skating very well. It's tough for him with the two back surgeries. Just the way he missed a lot of workout time and a lot of skating time, he's really been a workhorse for us, consistent every night, playing well offensively and really eating up minutes defensively. He's a leader of our team and he really shows it in a night-to-night basis."
Brewer began skating with Mike Weaver upon his return as well as Alex Pietrangelo, but there was chemistry beginning to develop between Brewer and Johnson when they began skating together, enough so that Payne would pair them up and they've remained together since.
One is a talker, one is quiet and reserved, but they've jelled in ways that nobody expected.
"I think the biggest thing is probably me and EJ have played for a stretch of games ... honestly," Brewer said. "That's made a big difference. There hasn't been a ton of change. I think Davis and Andy have very similar styles. Our day-to-day program hasn't changed. Obviously, their personalities are different, practices are a little bit different.
"We've adjusted a few things in the offensive zone and it's kind of changed some looks for the forwards, and as such, the (defensemen) have a few different reads. I can't say if that directly has helped ... I can't say if that's been a major difference, but it's certainly helped. I've tried not to overanalyze things just because there's so many games and you can get caught up on too much.
"... He has typically been very quiet. I think that's been good for both of us. It's actually been very enjoyable. It's been good to kind of see some reflection in myself when I was that age. I certainly was not at his level at that age, but it's been good. I've enjoyed it."
It's evident that the Brewer bashers have backed off, simply because his play has improved with each game. But Brewer, who still has another year remaining on a four-year contract extension he signed in February of 2006, feels like his game can be even better.
"I don't think I ever feel like I'm on top of my game, to be honest with you," he said. "I think you're always looking at ways to improve it and deal with the situations that come about and do the things that the coaches ask us to do."
"It took a little time," Payne said. "Not to specifically point out one occasion, but there was a point there where we sat down and discussed the things about what we felt he was capable of bringing and he's done a great job in recognizing that and adding pieces on top of pieces as he gains that confidence. Now I think you're seeing some real effective play."


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Intel intrigued many with its "charging bowl" concept this week. The idea of coming home and dropping your phone and wearables into a tasteful bowl by the door for fast and easy battery charging is appealing. Yet Asian component powerhouse Mediatek may be racing ahead in the wireless charging wars with its Inductive and Resonance Wireless Charging Solution that offers to recharge batteries through furniture and even walls. The key goals here are charging multiple devices without worrying about how close they are to the actual charger, even if there's a wall separating the two. As households increasingly juggle half a dozen devices, choreographing charging is suddenly becoming surprisingly stressful. Many American families already own two or three smartphones and the number of dual-tablet households is soaring. Add to that an eBook or two and perhaps a smartwatch and the need for unified charging systems becomes obvious.
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NIACW 005 Creepshow 1 and 2
Brother Drew and I discuss Creepshow and Creepshow 2 as well as discuss how wrong it was for an older brother to expose a much younger brother to horror movies at his tender age.
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"Paul Moravec's orchestral score for his opera The Shining is lush, colorful, and totally evocative of the drama throughout." On the eve of the South Dakota Symphony's April 7 performance of Moravec's The Overlook Hotel Suite, music director Delta David Gier offers a glimpse into the composer's musical language and imagination. The Shining was commissioned and premiered by the Minnesota Opera in May 2016. The production was directed by Eric Simonson and conducted by Michael Christie. The South Dakota Symphony's concert features The Overlook Hotel Suite's first performance in its new version for full orchestra.
Delta David Gier continues. "I attended the premiere of The Shining in St. Paul, which was artistically and critically an overwhelming success. Afterwards, my conversation with Paul immediately turned to [him creating an] orchestral suite…I believe [the suite] will have an interesting life in itself because of any audience's connection to this story."
Moravec adds, "The Overlook Hotel Suite is an orchestral fantasy on musical material from my opera The Shining, which is directly based on the Stephen King novel and features a libretto by Mark Campbell. An earlier chamber orchestra version of this suite premiered in October 2016, performed by the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. In this suite, although the winter caretaker Jack Torrance makes an appearance, it focuses on the realm of the hotel's ghosts such as Delbert Grady and his two daughters, Lloyd the bartender, and Mrs. Massey (the dead lady in Room 217). The piece moves through various ghost stories and areas of the hotel, returning repeatedly to a never-ending phantom masked gala in the grand ballroom…[and] The Overlook's manager invites you to join the party."
More April news: Also happening on April 7, is the Enzo Quartet's performance of Moravec's Dialogue for String Quartet; on the 14th, the Newman and Oltman Guitar Duo present Raritan Triptych as part of the Long Island Guitar Festival; and on the 15th and 16th, shakuchai player James Nyoraku Schlefer joins ensemble members of Sybarite5 for two New York performances of Shakuhachi Quintet (version for shakuhachi flute and string quintet).


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The site is located at the western edge of the Oren valley. In the hills there are a series of prehistoric caves where Early Man dwelt.
Home > Sites > Carmel > Oren Prehistoric Caves
The caves
* General View
* Upper Oren
* Lower Oren
* The Finger
Mount Carmel and the Carmel shore have more than 210 prehistoric known sites, spanning from 150,000 years ago. Some of the sites are in Nahal (creek) Oren, at the west side of Mount Carmel close to Atlit, where 3 major caves have been excavated.
Job 30, 6: "To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks"
In Oren creek, at the west edge of Mount Carmel and close to the sea shore, there is a set of famous stone-age caves that were excavated (1958). Two of these caves are Oren-upper cave and Job's cave. Another prehistoric cave is located across the valley on the facing hill (the 'finger' cave).
The north caves are not open to the public, but you can climb up the hill and visit the southern cave. However, the findings, mostly flint stones and bones, are displayed in the prehistoric museum in Central Carmel in Haifa (inside the Haifa Zoo). You can also visit another prehistoric site – in Nahal Maarot (Carmel Caves).
An aerial map of the Oren caves is seen below.
Pre History in the Carmel
The excavations in the Carmel region showed that the early man has been in this area over the last 150,000 years. The number of sites per period fluctuated during these years. The population peaked during the Middle Paleolithic period (80,000-40,000 BC), the Epi-Paleolithic period (16,000 – 8,300 BC) and the Neolithic period (8,300 -4,500 BC). There were fewer numbers in the Early Paleolithic period (150,000-80,000BC) and the upper Paleolithic period (40,000 – 16,000 BC).
In the Middle Paleolithic period (80,000-40,000 BC) there were the majority of the settlements in the Carmel. These people knew how to make knives, scrapers and points out of flint. The popular areas of the Carmel were the sites of the source of the flint stones, and there were many workshops that prepared theses tools. There were two types found in the Carmel: Homo Sapiens (our ancestors) and the Neanderthaloids (the specie that eventually disappeared, which had about 15% smaller brain). Note that this time coincided with the last Ice age (100,000 to 10,000 BC), and so the climate was wet and cold, and many Oak trees were growing in the Carmel.
In the later periods, the Epi-Paleolithic period (16,000 – 8,300 BC) and the Neolithic period (8,300 -4,500 BC) the early man already domesticated plants and animals. The type of early man that was found from this period was the archaic Mediterranean type, with average height of 160-165 cm.
The Caves:
These are the major caves that were excavated on both sides of the Oren valley, at the western edge of Mount Carmel:
Job's Cave (lower Oren cave)
Upper Oren Cave – Located above the lower Oren cave. This cave depth is 25M, and splits to two smaller halls (4.5 X 7 , 4 x 5M)
The Finger Cave – in the southern hill facing the above caves.
These caves were mostly seasonal, and not used throughout the year. They were also used as a base for hunting. There were other caves that served as home bases – like the Carmel Caves.
Early Man in a cave – AI generated by Stable Diffusion
(a) General View:
In these natural caves, the early man used as a shelter, campfire and housing.
The caves are visible from the road through Oren Valley, leading from Atlit up to the Carmel. The following photo shows the north-west edge of the cliffs above the creek.
Click on the photos to view in higher resolution…
The north prehistoric caves are located 500M east to the junction. The lower cave, seen close to the road, is called "Job's cave", while the upper cave is located near the rim of the cliff.
The south cliffs are covered by bush. On the hillside is the "Finger" cave (on the far right side), and a British post (on the left side).
The photo below shows the valley of Nahal Oren ("Pine creek"), passing between these cliffs eastwards, towards the heart of Mt Carmel – Khirbet Oren and beyond. An information station welcomes visitors and provides maps and information. You can park there, and start the hike to "finger" cave and cliffs.
The caves on both sides of the valley are detailed below.
(b) North side: "Upper Oren caves":
On the high side of the north cliffs (at altitude of 120M, or 80M above the valley) is a series of caves called "Upper Oren" caves. A panoramic view of the cliffs on the north side is seen below; the caves are located in the center of the photo.
The Upper Oren cave's depth is 25M, and it splits to two smaller halls (4.5 X 7 , 4 x 5M). The center opening is seen in detail below. Olami excavated here in 1958-1960, and dated the flint tools to the Middle Paleolithic period (80,000-40,000 BC). These were the time of the majority of the settlements in the Carmel.
(c) North side: "Lower Oren cave" (Job's):
This cave is located at height of 60M above sea level, about 20M above the road.
Israeli archaeologist Moshe Stekelis first excavated the cave in 1941, then in six seasons with and Yizraeli (1951-1960), followed by more excavations starting in 1968 (Yizraeli and Higgs).
The findings were dated to:
Middle Paleolithic period (80,000-40,000 BC)
Upper Paleolithic period (40,000 – 16,000 BC), on the terrace before the cave
Natufian culture (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), at the times of transition from the caves to permanent settlements outside the cave and the beginning of agriculture. They lived mostly outside the cave in round huts, and were hunters-gatherers. A cemetery of 50 Natufian skeletons were found on a step lower than the front terrace.
Neolithic period (8,300 -4,500 BC), when the early man already domesticated plants and animals. They were the first farmers, and lived in round huts on the terrace in front of the cave.
(d) South side: "The finger":
The "finger" cave (Ma'arat Ha'ezba, Etzba cave) is located on the other side of Oren Creek, opposite to Oren caves, 110M above the valley. The opening of this cave is seen in the photo below. A path leads to the cave from the center of Nahal Oren park.
A closer view of the entrance to the cave is seen below. The cave has three halls, and the front hall is where the early man dwelled.
The finger cave was excavated in 1941 by Prof Stekelis, who identified two prehistoric layers:
- The "new" Neolithic (8,300 -4,500 BC) on top, when the early man already domesticated plants and animals.
- The "old" Middle Paleolithic period (80,000-40,000 BC), when the early men knew how to make knives, scrapers and points out of flint
From the entrance of the cave is a great view of Nahal Oren ("pine creek"), the north cliffs, and the Mediterranean sea in the background. A carob (Harub) tree stands on the western side of the entrance.
The entrance to the cave is seen in a closer view below. Behind it is a series of halls that extend into the cliff. The following photos were taken inside the cave.
A view from the first hall to the middle hall is seen below. A small hole connects both halls. A stalactite was formed on the right wall from deposits left from the drop of water.
A view from this point towards the entrance is seen below.
A closer view of the hole is seen below. The inner rooms are darker and smaller.
On top of the cave we saw a Hyrax (rock rabbit, or Hebrew: Shafan Sela) which is a typical mammal residing in the cliffs of the Galilee. The Hyrax is mentioned in KJV Bible as coney (an English word for rabbit, "Shaphan" in Hebrew), as in Leviticus 11 5: "And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you". Read more about the Hyrax in Khirbet Fachir.
(e) Path to the finger cave:
A nature path leads from the bottom of the creek to the Fingers cave, and is a recommended hike. Just park your car in the parking area of the Nahal Oren visitors center, and walk up the trail.
The upper section of the path cuts thru the bush and passes near the finger cave.
Along the path is a small British post, which was constructed here during WWII in order to protect the entrance to Nahal Oren, one of the roads to the center of the Carmel. This fortification was part of the "Masada" plan, conceived in order to make the "last stand" on Mount Carmel in case the German forces would have passed the British defense lines in Egypt. There are a number of British-mandate period structures in this area, such as on the west side of this ridge, and on other areas of Mount Carmel.
The plan was to assemble the Jewish citizens in Israel on the Carmel and make a heroic stand, just like in the Roman siege of Masada. Fortunately, the British armies won the Al-Alamein battle, repelled the enemy forces, and these fortifications were not eventually used in combat.
Etymology (behind the name):
- "Oren" is Pine tree in Hebrew
- "Ezba" -Hebrew: finger, since the cave is long like a finger. Based on its Arabic name: Um-Uzba (Usbah).
- Atlas of Haifa and Mount Carmel (1980, ISBN 965-222-003-5) – Prehistory pp 32-33 [A. Ronen & J. Olami)
See also:
- Khirbet Oren – an ancient city, located up the creek
- Nahal Maarot – another prehistoric site (with guided tours)
- Kebara Cave – the southern prehistoric cave on Mt Carmel
- Natuf cave, Samaria – the cave where the Natufian culture was identified
- Prehistoric sites in Israel – overview and sample sites of prehistoric sites
BibleWalks.com – walk with us through the sites of the Holy Land
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How to Be 'Professionally Irresistible' On-line
May 28, 2009
By J.T. O'Donnell Yesterday, I had an amazing time presenting to 700+ people over at ERE.net - a great resource for recruiters and HR professionals. The topic? How to make yourself desirable on-line - I mean, really, really irresistible.
Is it hard? Nope. Can anyone do it? Yep. Is it time consuming? Well, if you think a few hours on the front-end and then 20 minutes/day, 4-5 days/week is too much to keep your professional hygiene in order, then I guess so. Okay, I'm being a bit sarcastic, but that's only because creating a strong personal brand through social media is so doable. Not to mention, interesting and good for your career. So, I hope you'll take the time to check out the slides & read the transcript. Especially, if you like peanut butter. (Now, you'll have to take a look to see what I mean!)


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Sunday, January 20, 2013
The Broken Merida Crown
It was a bloodcurdling scream. One that made me jump and pause my television show at an awkward moment. (I was watching Girls. And one of the men in the show was, ahh, pleasuring himself in front of the girl he sleeps with…)
The noise was coming from Natalie's room.
The child is forever getting hurt.
"WHAT HAPPENED?" I shouted as I thundered up the stairs. Our home is not a quiet one. We shout. We yell. We fart. And, well, scream. All the "experts" would be appalled in our home.
"Look!" Natalie shrieked when I rushed to her room. I expected to find her bleeding or curled up on the ground, gripping a wounded part of her body. But no. Instead she shoved a broken crown at me.
"It's BROKEN and I love it so much!" Natalie wailed. "MERIDA! MERIIDAAAA!"
I took a few calming breaths. I was relieved that she wasn't hurt. No late night trip to the ER. Thank goodness. Our ER takes forever and always smells like old people mixed with vomit and antiseptic.
But. Wait a minute. It was a little after 11 at night. Why was she even awake?
Well, I'll tell you. My daughter is a late owl like I am. I suppose I should force her into bed but if she's anything like me, she'll just lie there, tossing and turning and that's no fun. So on non school nights, I'm lax about bedtime so long as she stays upstairs. I put the kids in their rooms by 8 and they play in their rooms until they get tired.
So long as they aren't bothering me.
Which sometimes they still do.
Like when they break a toy and suddenly it's MY problem.
"I accidentally stepped on it," Natalie sniffled.
"Let me...try to glue it back together," I said, taking the pieces. It's times like these when I wished Tom were home. Natalie is never as dramatic or loud when he's around. She hates to disappoint him. Me? She'll disappoint me all day and be perfectly content with it.
"You hurt my feelings," I'll tell her.
She'll pat my head in a patronizing way and go, "Maybe you need some chocolate."
If DADDY says that she hurt his feelings she'll fling herself into his arms and go, "I'm sorry, Daddy! I love you!" and then kiss him on the cheek.
That's fine though. No biggie. I only gave her life.
I went downstairs with the crown and found the Super Glue. I opened it and squeezed and…nothing came out. There was some dried glue on the tip. So I kept squeezing—not the smartest choice, but it was late and I just wanted to get back to watching TV in peace--and then the glue burst like a zit. Glue sprayed down my hand, on the kitchen counter and floors…
"I've been glued!" I shouted. "I've been glued!" I felt like I was in an episode of an 80s sitcom.
The crown was stuck against two of my fingers. Still broken.
I ran my hand under steaming hot water and most of the glue came off. I still had some residue left behind though. And the crown was still broken.
"I'll deal with this later," I promised Natalie. "You need to get to bed."
She didn't put up a fight because she found her Rapunzel crown and placed it on her head demurely.
Is the crown fixed now?
I've hidden the pieces in a drawer in hopes that Natalie forgets about it.
If she remembers, there's always duct tape…
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My house is full of yells, screams, squeals & any annoying noise you can possibly think of. I wonder if my neighbors think I am a horrible mom? To make matters worse I am the end of the cul-de-sac so I swear everything is echofied... is that even a word?ReplyDelete
My girls are night owls too. I wish the whole let them stay up they will sleep in thing happened... ahhh a girl can dream.
I hope she forgets about her crown, thankfully for the most part I get away with hiding toys often. LOL
LOL! I'm not sure I even want to know what your neighbours think goes on in your house!ReplyDelete
All hospitals smell of old people, vomit and antiseptic, they pump it in like supermarkets with bread smells...ReplyDelete
Fingers crossed she forgets. I love that she has multiple crowns.
As a mom of a now ten year old daughter who was obsessed with princesses, I totally feel your pain.ReplyDelete
Thank god she had a second crown to pull from...hopefully she forgets about it...maybe send it to the crown repair place and so how it gets lost in the mail ! Good luck!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2013 at 9:26 AM
HAHA! I couldn't help but laugh at the 'I've been glued' part :DReplyDelete
Our house is typically so busy and loud that it feels unnatural when there's silence. I'm typically checking on the kids several times to make sure they're not dead.ReplyDelete
I think the internet is your safest bet to "repair" the crown.ReplyDelete
Good luck with her forgetting. I raised 5.....years later they still remember and enjoy ripping out my heart with guilt.
Well those days were so long ago, I don't remember, my kids are 39 and 41. But there were days that were memorable. Hang in there, they will grow up, then they give you a different kind of a pain in the rear.ReplyDelete
Just life I guess. Thanks for letting me visit.
This is too funny! I vote for the duct tape!ReplyDelete
That glue is dangerous, especially for clumsy people like myself. I am just thankful you weren't stuck to the kitchen floor or counter!ReplyDelete
Awe poor baby girl! Just wait until shes a teenager and this happens to her iphone :)ReplyDelete
New follower. Loving your blog!
My boys are constantly complaining about toy problems after I've sent them to bed. Umm...you are supposed to be sleeping. My favorite is when I turn out the lights and they both start yelling, "I can't see! I can't see!!" Boys, that's the point. Now go to sleep!!!ReplyDelete


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Are you saying that LED's put out less light after six months? That's the first I heard that.
"the qualities of these bacteria, like the heat of the sun, electricity, or the qualities of metals, are part of the storehouse of knowledge of all men. They are manifestations of the laws of nature, free to all men and reserved exclusively to none." SCOTUS, Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kale Inoculant Co.
Melonie wrote:
Actually, I experienced this big time. The fall before last, I invested in some 15 x 15 = 225 LED grow lite arrays to keep my potted dwarf lemon trees 'happy' indoors through my northern NY winter.
When I moved the trees indoors for this winter, and I also added a couple of identical but new 225 LED array for additional trees I recently acquired , there was a HUGE difference in lumen output between the old LED arrays and the new LED arrays.
paul wheaton wrote:
I saw some lightbulbs at the local conventional grocery store. They looked exactly like incandescent, but they claimed to put out 20% more light. The box was covered in marketing, but I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. It just seemed like a regular light bulb.
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"the qualities of these bacteria, like the heat of the sun, electricity, or the qualities of metals, are part of the storehouse of knowledge of all men. They are manifestations of the laws of nature, free to all men and reserved exclusively to none." SCOTUS, Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kale Inoculant Co.
paul wheaton wrote:Just in
Green cheap LED light bulbs,,,,~~
"If you want to save the environment, build a city worth living in." - Wendell Berry
"If you want to save the environment, build a city worth living in." - Wendell Berry
"If you want to save the environment, build a city worth living in." - Wendell Berry
Brian Knight wrote:..
40-80% of most peoples environmental damage is due to the dirty energy use of homes and buildings. You mention 7% of this being form Lighting but for some its 25% and I think an accurate average is 12-15%. In high performance homes, Lighting with incandescents could easily account for 40% of the homes energy use.
Regulate home lighting because its the lowest hanging fruit available.
peter dublin wrote:
The simple question to ask, for a neutral observer,
is why the major manufacturers welcome a ban on what they can or can't make!
I AM a Warrior in whom
the ways of the Olde
enhance the ways of the New
richard wafer wrote:A student from the master of environment from the university of sherbrooke have made an essay on the subject. She conclude that it may be too early to ban the incandescent bulbs in Canada.
Maybe some of you know french!
You can get the complete result here
S. G. Botsford wrote:Heavy sigh.
Ok the light in the fridge can be an LED light. I don't think that LED's run well at stove temperatures. Nor do they make good porch and garage lights even at 0 F....
Tel Jetson wrote:
Federal legislation
Many of these state efforts became moot when the federal government enacted the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 in December 2007, requiring all general-purpose light bulbs that produce 310–2600 lumens of light [19] be 30% more energy efficient (similar to current halogen lamps) than current incandescent bulbs by 2012 to 2014. The efficiency standards will start with 100-watt bulbs in January 2012 and end with 40-watt bulbs in January 2014.
Light bulbs outside of this range are exempt from the restrictions (historically, less than 40 Watts or more than 150 Watts). Also exempt are several classes of specialty lights, including appliance lamps, "rough service" bulbs, 3-way, colored lamps, and plant lights.
By 2020, a second tier of restrictions would become effective; which requires all general-purpose bulbs to produce at least 45 lumens per watt (similar to current CFLs). Exempt from the Act are reflector "flood", 3-way, candelabra, colored, and other specialty bulbs.
S. G. Botsford wrote:
I was not aware of all the exceptions. Thanks. Exceptions make for bad law, IMNSHO
A better way to do this sort of thing is taxing it rather than regulating it. Tax at the source -- the light bulb maker -- easy to collect (there are only a handful).....
paul wheaton wrote:Rather than ban or tax the best, cleanest and most eco friendly bulb on the market (the incandescent), how about if the government looks into ACTUAL energy conservation instead of making-somebody-rich-in-the-name-of-green?
If the focus is on lighting, how about making consumers aware of stuff like turning off the lights when not in use. My experience is that the only people where switching to CFL can possibly save money is where they have lights they are leaving on 24x7.
Next up, rather than going over something that uses 7% of the home energy consumption, how about a little focus on the thing that uses 50%: heat. In my article about micro heaters, if just a few people actually adopt that then the savings will be far greater than anything that the light bulb stuff even claims to be.
Either of these paths require zero laws. It is just passing along some information.
peter dublin wrote:
Have they nothing better to do, than to spend all this effort to define what safe and useful products you can or can't buy? No.
(Have I nothing better to do than to complain about it...er, no )


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By Kenneth Jeyaretnam
Like many other Singaporeans I was shocked when I heard about the case of the UK mother divorced from a Singaporean husband and the ensuing bitter custody dispute over their son. Custody battles and marital breakdown are never pleasant but what shocked me most was the light this case shed on our Ministry of Home Affairs whom it appears have been literally asleep on the job. Who actually is guarding our Island and protecting our interests?
To recap on the case. The mother had obtained a court order in the UK giving her custody of her son but the boy's father had successfully applied for an injunction in Singapore to prevent her taking the child whom he had taken to reside with his Singaporean parents. I do not understand why the father was able to block enforcement of a UK court order granting the mother custody and I sympathise with the mother who was able to convince a UK court that she was a fit person to have custody. However, what she did next was extraordinary. She hired a former London Metropolitan detective to help her recover her child and to abduct him back , by return as it were.
I do not understand why the agency she hired, Child Abduction Recovery International, did not advise her to use the legal route rather than embark on this course of action. But whatever the reason we should be grateful that and the former London Metropolitan detective, Adan Whittington she hired was able to uncover a huge breach in our national security. After just one day of reconnaissance in Singapore he found out a universal truth about Singapore and they were able to easily enter Singapore illegally.
The universal truth he uncovered is that (particularly wealthy) foreigners enjoy privileges and freedoms in Singapore denied to us lesser mortals (the locals). In this case Mr Whittington soon identified a bastion of privilege and wealth, almost another country in itself, namely Raffles Marina.
Yet again our border protections and security services have been shown to be inadequate and the personnel charged with enforcing border security incompetent if not criminally negligent.
The former Met detective should actually be praised for his public service to Singapore in highlighting the huge flaws in our security. In a day he was able to establish that our marinas are unguarded and an easy entry point into Singapore for any potential terrorist with a dirty bomb or biological weapons or dirty funds for laundering or indeed human trafficking. I am often told by anti-death penalty activists that drugs are still very easy to obtain in Singapore despite the well-used death penalty, and now I understand why.
It was not as though the couple landed on a beach or secluded inlet. Why are yacht marinas which one would have thought would have been an obvious weak point, not under 24 hour surveillance and security? If no immigration personnel are on duty between 6pm and 9am then surely it should be impossible to access or exit the marina? Perhaps the PAP Government's over eagerness to establish Singapore as a yachting hub for gambling millionaires makes them unwilling to subject owners of yachts to the same laws that lesser mortals like you and I have to obey. After all the PAP's thinking is probably that anyone who owns or is a passenger on a yacht must be a person whom we want to attract.
The fact that this kind of blunder has happened so frequently would be farcical were the implications for national security not so grave. There was the Mas Selamat incident in 2008, though there the security services were unable to prevent him leaving the country rather than entering. Recently there was the case of the Malaysian woman who was able to get through the Causeway checkpoint by tailgating another car. She was able to drive off before the immigration officer raised the alarm or lowered the barrier. Then she was able to give the police the slip for three days. She actually had to drive into the MFA and create a disturbance before the police were able to apprehend her.
This failure at the most basic level of border security is inexcusable, particularly when contrasted with the amount of money spent on defence and defending our skies. This amounted to some $12.5 billion in 2014 or 3.4% of GDP. By contrast Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia spend much less than Singapore on defence as a proportion of GDP. Parliament is not provided with a breakdown of this spending between equipment and manpower so once again we are left to speculate. My conservative guess would be that more than one-third of this goes on equipment purchases. Recently Jane's Defence Weekly speculated that Singapore had increased the number of F15SGs, one of the most advanced fighters in the world, it operates to 40. Coupled with over 70 F16s we have by far the most powerful air force in ASEAN.
I am not advocating cutting defence spending, particularly at a time of rising external threats. There is certainly no economic need to do so since the PAP Government is running a budget surplus of about three times the current level of defence spending. I support the reduction of NS to twelve months or less and a larger professional army which may even lead to higher defence spending. However, I do feel that we need to evaluate the effectiveness and relevance of existing weapons programmes and proposed future purchases, particularly when the Government is unable to prevent what next time could be terrorists landing at a regular marina in Singapore without any kind of border control or screening.
Without surveillance what is to prevent them offloading miniaturised Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) such as dirty nuclear bombs or lethal biological weapons. Even conventional weapons could be smuggled in. We are an island and our coast is a natural barrier but also a potential weakness. Let us spend a fraction of what we spend on sophisticated air weapons like the F15 and the proposed F35 Lightning II purchase, on ensuring these basic security lapses do not recur.
Having such negligent border oversight demonstrates that the Home Affairs Minister, Teo Chee Hean, is incompetent and should be replaced. In any other country sch a serious lapse would result in a public enquiry and heads would roll. How did he get to be Admiral without understanding seaborne threats to our security? At the very least he owes us Singaporeans an apology. He is clearly not fit to be a Minister drawing over two million dollars a year plus his MP's allowance.
What are the chances of him doing the decent thing and resigning? I think the chances are close to zero but the people of Pasir Ris-Punggol deserve better and presumably can make their feelings known at the next election!
This article first appeared on Rethinking The Rice Bowl, Kenneth Jeyaretnam's blog.
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Chapeau to these women for getting up and dancing. It does look medieval.ReplyDelete
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You've caught such wonderful expressions, both of face and of body. Joyful post. Makes me smile. Makes my heart dance.ReplyDelete
They look like they are enjoying themselves. Can't wait to see tomorrows photo!ReplyDelete
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An angry parent has lashed out at the news that lollipop men and women have been instructed to look out for signs of domestic abuse on children.
Devon County Council last week held a 'a child protection course' for their school crossing patrols, during which they emphasised the importance of looking out for 'any types of abuse".
But one man - a parent of four children in Exeter - believes this is an unwelcome distraction on workers who need to keep their focus on the road.
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"I think 'misguided' is the kindest way I can put it," said the man, who wished to remain anonymous. "Their primary concern should be getting my kids across the road without getting run down.
"I think it is lunacy, it really is. If they want health and safety, they want the person in charge of the traffic concentrating on the traffic.
"I think looking out for bruising on kids is the school's responsibility – I want the lollipop man to be looking out for whether the traffic has stopped or not.
"There have been quite a few instances of motorists getting angry and driving dangerously. I don't want lollipop men or women distracted.
"What would happen if there was an accident because they were distracted by trying to see if a kid had a bruise on their face or something?
To me, it just sounds another case of things going too far really. Their primary concern should be getting my kids safely across the road. That's what they're for. To try and drag them into some child protection measure is ridiculous."
In response to an enquiry from Devon Live, a spokesman for Devon County Council said: "We hosted a child protection course for our school crossing patrols last week and included within that was a reminder to look out for any types of abuse and to know how and where to report any concerns.
"Our school crossing patrols are committed to the safeguarding of all children.
"All council employees who come into contact with children, young people and the vulnerable through their everyday work have a duty to safeguard and promote their welfare."
But the unhappy parent felt it should be teachers who should be keeping their eyes peeled for signs of abuse.
"Looking for marks on kids is a distraction, no question. I just can't get me head round the thinking of it," he continued. "If I thought a traffic official was looking at children rather than what they should be doing – which is looking at traffic – I would be concerned.
"It simply isn't their job. The teachers have full access to the kinds. They look out for it and so they should – I completely agree with that. But a lollipop man? Ridiculous.
"You can't have it both ways – if they are there as a lollipop man, their job is to help kids across the road and that is their responsibility. Domestic abuse is not their remit."


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Shaft Seals Rescue Blender
By Kay Mann for Woodex Bearing Company, Inc.
When your blender seals cause between $500-600 worth of product per day to end up in the mop bucket, either the seals have to go or the blender does. The Maintenance Supervisor at a Colorado processor of herbal extracts says that the MECO seals they put on their ribbon blender, "saved the machine." Due to the increased demand for herbal food supplements, the company's sales jumped from $4 million to $20 million in three years. Their principle products are dry plant extracts (such as Echinacea, St. John's Wort, Ginseng, etc.). These are blended with maltodextrin, or "malto-excipient," used to cut the purity of the herbal extracts in order to bring them down to a standardized potency.
Maltodextrin is a fine, abrasive powder, similar in consistency to granulated sugar, that is put through a 90 percent, 80 mesh screen. The blending of the product is done in a double ribbon blender. When the machine was purchased second-hand, it had a bent and badly scored shaft, causing the packing gland that was on the machine to give them "constant problems." The packing gland did not seat properly on the bent shaft, which created a leak path. The abrasive consistency of the product "chewed up the packing" and the shaft as it escaped. Maintenance measures included tightening the seal weekly and replacing the packing every 1-2 months. Each packing change took 1 to 1-1/2 hours and tightening the gland follower took 1/2 hour each time, so they were spending 5 hours per month on seal maintenance alone. With this old packing gland, they ran three blends per day, five days per week. Product loss through leakage amounted to 10 pounds in these three blends for a total dollar value of $500-600 per day. The cleanup time between batches took 1-1/2 hours due to spillage.
The plant has an air changeover room with large exhaust fans. When they were using the packing gland seals, there was so much dust in the air that the dust would be sucked into the exhaust system and it built up in air ducts. Workers recalled drilling holes in the ducts to release the dust. Operators had to wear the correct "PPE" (Personal Protective Equipment), often a full-face respirator, to protect their eyes and lungs from the dust, It was becoming very plain that they would need to replace their blender if they could not improve the seal problems associated with it. They found MECO custom seals through a web search and decided to give them a try. MECO built two 4-inch seals for the blender. The seals were designed to be purged with nitrogen to keep positive pressure against the seal faces. This purge medium required monitoring tank levels and changing tanks when they were empty. This was not realistic for their crew and after the first tank or so, the purge gas was removed from the seal. At some point, it was realized that the shaft diameter was actually 3.926 inches and not 4 inches. During the ten months or so that the 4-inch MECO seals were running on the blender without being purged, they leaked a TOTAL of 30 pounds of product. When the sizing problem was discovered, MECO sent them redesigned internal parts to correct the seal's fit to the shaft. At the same time, the plant engineer set up an air purge to the seals to replace the unused nitrogen. The company is happy to report that for the past five years, their MECO seals have operated on this blender "maintenance-free." Cleaning time between batches has been reduced by 33 percent by eliminating the need for product cleanup outside the blender. This reduced the turnaround time between batches by the same amount, resulting in increased throughput. Batch cross-contamination issues were also mitigated. Operators can safely work around the machine without respiratory protection now and the air ducts are clear. The spectre of having to purchase a new blender at an estimated cost of $25-30,000 has been exorcised. The seals paid for themselves in about one month of operation through elimination of product loss alone.
March 2008•Powder Handling Solutions | Processing
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USA Wheelchair Rugby is pleased to announce the 16 athletes that have been selected to the National Training Squad for 2017.
James Adams, Atlanta, GA
Chuck Aoki, Minneapolis, MN
Clayton Brackett, Birmingham, AL
Josh Brewer, Battle Ground, WA
Jeff Butler, Austin, TX
Ernie Chun, Phoenix, AZ
Chad Cohn, Tucson, AZ
Jake Daily, Belleville, IL
Joe Delagrave, Chandler, AZ
Lee Fredette, East Moriches, NY
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Talbot Kennedy, Atlanta, GA
Chuck Melton, Richview, IL
Alejandro Pabon, Arlington, TX
Tim Vixay, Portland, OR
Josh Wheeler, San Tan Valley, AZ
This is the first national training squad selection for James Adams, Jake Daily, Joe Jackson, Talbot Kennedy, and Tim Vixay. They join several experienced athletes including seven who represented the team in Rio. "25 athletes began this exciting journey this weekend, " said Coach James Gumbert. "We have an incredible mixture of youth and veterans and we will constantly challenge ourselves to reinvent the wheel and have the best wheels possible."
The training squad will next meet for an April training camp at Lakeshore Foundation, the High Performance Management Organization for USA Wheelchair Rugby. At that camp, 12 athletes will be selected to compete at the Americas Zonals later this year.
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You can find serenity in raising your children to be independent, so do not hamper them.
A few years ago I read an article where one mother said that she wiped her seven years old son's bottom after he went to the bathroom because she was afraid he would not get clean enough. I was amazed by this. I do not know if the boy was home schooled or went to a traditional school. I wondered if he went to school how did the boy handle his personal hygiene while he was at school. When the family went out to restaurants or to visit relatives, I wonder if she followed her son to the bathroom to wipe his bottom. I am not telling this story to comment on this mother's parenting choices. I am not writing about it to say that she is right or wrong in her choice. Instead, I am writing about it to illustrate that there is a line between over-parenting our children and teaching them with proper parenting. I am suggesting that this line is a wide one and is best judged on an individual family by family basis
When raising children, it is important to both look at the forest and the trees. In other words, one must teach lessons that are needed for day-to-day life. At the same time, one must plant the seeds that will be necessary for success in adulthood. Step by step and piece by piece we must raise our children to be successful adults. When our children are newborn, we must do everything for them. Babies need to be cared for, children need to be raised. As our newborns turn into toddlers, we stop feeding them and teach them to feed themselves. Almost every parent has funny stories about their children learning to feed themselves.
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September 14, 2009 - The Green Hornet / Christoph Waltz cast as villain
Scooped on Monday, September 14, 2009
Deadline Hollywood Daily is breaking that actor Christoph Waltz, who played the Nazi SS villain Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds, has been cast as The Green Hornet's villain. According to the site the name of Waltz's character is Chudnofsky.
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