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Inclusion is a process that helps overcome barriers limiting the presence, participation and achievement of learners.
Equity is about ensuring that there is a concern with fairness, such that the education of all learners is seen as having equal importance.
– UNESCO. (2017) A guide for ensuring inclusion and equity in education
Inclusive pedagogy is focused on including all students in learning. The aim is to bring students together and build a classroom community where every child is valued and is able to reach their potential.
This means:
"...providing rich learning opportunities that are sufficiently made available for everyone, so that all learners are able to participate in classroom life. By focusing on what is to be learned by the community of learners in the classroom, the inclusive pedagogical approach aims to avoid the problem and stigma associated with marking some learners as different."
Inclusion is one of eight principles in The New Zealand Curriculum. The principle of inclusion applies to all students in all New Zealand schools. Knowing your students is key to creating a more flexible environment that supports all learners, where barriers to learning are minimised.
"The curriculum is non-sexist, non-racist, and non-discriminatory; it ensures that students' identities, languages, abilities, and talents are recognised and affirmed and that their learning needs are addressed."
Inclusive practice is often focused on students with exceptional needs. Generally it's about how to differentiate instructional material in order to include these students with their same grade peers. Inclusion is not just about students with diverse or "special" needs. It is about considering all students including: cultures, identities, languages, and abilities.
Inclusive pedagogy:
Build an inclusive classroom by:
In an inclusive classroom the contributions of all students, their families/whānau, and communities are valued. Every learner is recognised as unique and their languages, cultures, and interests inform classroom organisation and planning for learning. Barriers to participation and achievement are identified and removed.
Planning for all students needs to be the foundation rather than planning "for some" or "for one". By focusing on what is to be learned by the community of learners in the classroom, the inclusive pedagogical approach aims to avoid the problem and stigma associated with marking some learners as different.
Learner profiles support you to:
Learner profiles are designed to help you plan instructional activities and provide materials that will support your students to effectively access the classroom curriculum. Learner profiles can be created collaboratively with students and parents, and in any format, including:
Identify what:
Effective teachers use a range of assessment data to differentiate the curriculum as needed and engage learners in purposeful learning through a range of media and resources.
Dimension 2: Frameworks and evaluation indicators for ERO reviews
Consider how you can create learning opportunities that all students can participate in.
Teacher, Kate Friedwald explains how she uses a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach in her classroom at Wairakei School. Teaching is based on students' specific needs and learning activities are differentiated and personalised for each learner.
Your students will have a unique perspective on learning and teaching. Ask them the following questions and gather the information to find out what they think about inclusion. Use this to inform your approach to creating an inclusive classroom, where everyone belongs.
"The key challenge facing teachers who wish to become more inclusive in their classroom practices is how to respect as well as respond to human differences in ways that include learners in, rather than exclude them from, what is ordinarily available in the daily life of the classroom."
Wairakei School teacher, Kate Friedwald explains how information and feedback presented visually and orally in her digital classroom are designed to meet the learning needs of Daniel, a student with ADHD. This way of setting up the classroom environment means Daniel can participate fully in the classroom programme and access information easily. The modifications made to include him support all students in the classroom.
Developing an inclusive classroom culture
This guide for teachers provides strategies and suggestions for developing an inclusive classroom that:
Consider how you can use digital technologies to:
Having multiple learning pathways helps to foster motivation in students because their interests and strengths are used as a vehicle for exploring new concepts and reinforcing learning.
"Robbie had lost interest in reading. He was a past reading recovery student and had plateaued in the classroom. I had noticed that he particularly enjoyed working on the iPads and worked hard to gain reward time on the devices. In term two I introduced him to some extra activities for him to do at reading time.
Within a couple of weeks I noticed, Robbie was totally independent in doing these tasks and really enjoying being read to. His enthusiasm for reading increased and a positive attitude towards group time and home reading was the result."
"A child with learning difficulties, who finds writing hard work, used My Story to dictate and write a story. He was able to share his work with the class. The class enjoyed the story so much that they made suggestions about what could happen next etc. His chest puffed out and his head visibly swelled!"
– Teacher
The Pegasus Digital Devices Project: How digital devices became a resource for transformative change in a time of crisis , pp. 19 & 21
"[Using a laptop] is the best thing that ever happened to me......I've been able to actually complete my work and generally just have a good time."
Felix is a Year 5 student with dyslexia at Wairakei School. He explains how he uses iPad apps like IWordQ to make the process of reading and writing easier.
Students and teachers can work together to find the most effective ways to integrate digital technologies into learning environments: removing barriers to learning, providing increased choices matched to student needs and interests, and expanding collaboration opportunities.
What is differentiation?
"Differentiations are changes to the content of the school and classroom curriculum and expected responses to it. These changes support students to experience success."
What is adaptation?
"Adaptations are changes to the school and classroom environment, teaching and learning materials, and associated teaching strategies. These changes support students to access and respond to the school and classroom environment."
Wairakei School teacher, Kate Friewald describes how she uses Google Docs to support differentiated learning in her classroom. She uses Google spreadsheets to create her weekly plan, maths plans, and literacy plans. She shares these with students based on a "must do/can do" process. Students are split into cooperative work groups, not necessarily structured on reading or maths ability. Each group member has a number of "must dos", to complete within the morning block, and some blank time to structure their own learning focused on their learning needs.
Within a flexible learning environment, where barriers to learning have been minimised and supports and options made available to all, there will still be a need to differentiate learning for particular students in specific contexts.
Consider how you could use digital technologies to answer some of these questions as you plan to meet the needs of your students:
In deep expressions of practice, students' learning activities and the curriculum/knowledge content they engage with are shaped in ways that reflect the input and interests of students, as well as what teachers know to be important knowledge.
Supporting future-oriented learning and teaching – a New Zealand perspective
It is important not to confuse individualised and differentiated learning with personalised learning.
Personal learning or instruction is a method of teaching that tailors learning for each student's strengths and motivations, needs, and interests –including enabling student's voice and choice in what, how, when, and where they learn – to provide flexibility and supports to ensure mastery of the highest standards attainable.
Basye, 2014; Bray & McClaskey, 2014; iNACOL, 2016; Patrick, Kennedy, & Powell, 2013 in Ntuli, 2017
Personalising learning allows akonga/students to take control of their own learning. In a personalised learning environment, students can articulate the how, why and what of their learning. Student voice is expressed and encouraged, while learning goals – and the means of achieving those goals – are co-constructed by students and teachers.
When learning is personalised, students:
At St Hilda's Collegiate, every Year 9 student is mentored with someone from the local community and they work throughout the year on their Passion project.
Personalised learning
Using digital technologies to support personalised learning
|Students drive their own learning.
Students have options when deciding on their own student inquiries, or are prompted to define their inquiries and content areas themselves. They are encouraged to select tools that support them to realise their learning goals. Teachers act as facilitators and guides for learning and reflection.
|Learning is connected with interests, talents, passions, and aspirations.
Students are given choices in their learning and are encouraged to explore their passions. Teachers need to know their students. Using digital technologies enables students to take learning beyond the classroom and choose the best medium for constructing and sharing their learning.
The Impact project – Miranda Makin, DP Albany Senior High School explains, the purpose for us was to utlilise the opportunities digital tools afforded to collaborate online and to get feedback.
|Students actively participate in the design of their learning.
|Students can provide explicit feedback to teachers on units and projects, and have input into their classroom curriculum. Students manage part or all of their timetable, which is accessible online and shared with the teacher. School timetables are flexible, student-centred, and self-managed.
|Students are able to express their voice.
|Students are encouraged to express their voice by creating content through blogs, uploading videos to YouTube, and other digital tools and media. The experiences and views of students can reach a wide audience for feedback, including their peers, whānau, and the wider community.
|Students can acquire the skills to select and use the appropriate technology and resources to support and enhance their learning.
|Students can respond to tasks using a variety of digital tools. They can choose from a range of mediums – whatever suits their goals. For example, art students visit a gallery in order to document their favourite pieces, describe and evaluate them, and share their documentations with their peers. The students are encouraged to find a digital tool that can help them do this. It may be that they take photos of the exhibits, upload them to flickr , and use the site's tools to tag, annotate, and comment on what they've seen. Or, they will create an Instagram group in which they can upload images and videos and comment on each other's posts.
|Students build a network of peers, teachers, and experts to guide and support their learning.
Students are encouraged to reach out to experts (both within and outside the school), industry professionals, and the wider community in order to assist with their learning goals. For example, students creating an online game modification contact a game designer for advice, expertise, coding tips, or involvement in their project.
Watch Daniel Cowpertwait describe the Portal Unity project »
|Students can demonstrate mastery of learning content.
|Students can articulate and reflect on the what, how, and why of their learning. They can identify their strengths and what they need to work on. e-Portfolios and Learning Management Systems like Moodle can be instrumental in facilitating learner reflection. By showing learning progression over time, e-portfolios and LMS help students show evidence of having understood and taken control of their learning.
|Students become self-directed, experts of learning who monitor progress, provide self-directed assessment and reflect on learning.
Students can post work on a blog space or padlet and receive immediate feedback from peers by commenting on each other's work. They can design their own assessment rubrics for projects. Google docs and other web 2.0 applications allow for collaboration, showcasing of work, and instantaneous feedback from teachers, parents, and Whānau.
|Students have access to flexible, personalised learning environments.
Students have choice in where they work – they can find the space in the school that works best for them. Furniture is flexible, allowing students to arrange the classroom for both collaborative work and quiet time. Digital technologies can be used create different learning spaces, for example the "flipped classroom" allows students to access material anywhere anytime. Online tools enable collaboration and sharing, and online blogs provide a space for solitary reflection. In flexible spaces, learning pedagogy and design-theory meet to define a people-based, flexible learning environment.
|Learning takes place through relevant, authentic, real-world contexts.
Projects can model real-world activities, solve real-world problems, and have real impacts on the school environment and lives of students. These projects can be multidisciplinary, and draw on the expertise of a wide range of teachers, local experts, peers, Whānau, and peers. For example, students can set up a school horticultural company. They take on defined roles, such as market researcher, business strategist, financial officer, web designer, agricultural scientist, builder, architect, graphic designer, and so on. They consult teachers and members of the local community to build the greenhouse, grow the vegetables, market the products, set up a stall at the school fair, and so on.
Watch Woodend School students respond to issues in their local environment »
In a personalised learning environment, students can use digital tools and technologies to learn at their own pace. They can access and revisit content to support them with achieving their learning goals. They can be the experts, share their learning, and provide feedback to their peers. They can showcase their expertise to a selected audience using the digital tools that work best for their need. Students can work at their own pace according to intrinsic motivations, leading to higher engagement, and improved student outcomes.
Kate Friedwald, teacher at Wairakei School, describes how students in her classroom use iPads to engage in independent, self-directed learning.
Making Learning Personal
This site is maintained by personalised learning specialist Kathleen MacClaskey.
Personalising learning: Principal's Perspective
Pat Heargreaves research project includes the views of principals in schools around New Zealand on personalising learning.
Plan learning that acknowledges who your students are and where they are from.
Susan Lee, Te Kura o Kutarere, shares how using Storybird , a free digital story writing tool, has made a significant impact on the literacy development of her students. She describes how students have become self motivated and proud of their work. Susan's planning is based on her learners. She designed the learning around who they are and where they are from, with literacy being grounded in local stories from Opotiki and the kura's place-based curriculum. The student in the video clip makes these connections when he says, "It's about Māori people and dragons and stuff and yeah, it's Maui. He put on a meeting for all the people of Opotiki."
This approach allows students to:
The technology (Storybird on laptops) supports the local focus, the reciprocal nature of the activity, and the different strengths and needs of the students.
Teachers from Pegasus Bay School discuss how introducing waiata, students learning their pepeha and rakau games has created an inclusive environment where tikanga Māori is celebrated and valued.
By creating classrooms that encourage peer supports, we:
Consider the following:
Students at Houghton Valley School made a book using digital photos with simple captions to help prepare a student needing extra support for their first school camp experience.
Matt is a Year 13 student at Wairarapa College. In this video Matt, who has low vision, describes how, with technology and the help of friends, he accesses and participates in the curriculum alongside his peers.
Supporting positive peer relationships in the classroom
This guide focuses on supporting relationships between students to develop their sense of belonging and wellbeing and to improve their learning outcomes. It outlines whole-class and small group strategies that support every student to build relationships and work successfully with others.
Employ an inclusive pedagogical approach that includes everybody rather than an individualised approach that focuses on "most" and "some" students.
A comparison of what an inclusive pedagogical approach that includes all students looks like compared with an individualised approach in the classroom.
Shift the focus from those individuals who have been identified as having additional needs to the learning of all children in the classroom
Reject deterministic beliefs about ability as being fixed and the idea that the presence of some will hold back the progress of others
See difficulties in learning as professional challenges for you, rather than deficits in the students
Adapted from Florian & Black-Hawkins, 2010
Kate Friedwald teaches Years 5 and 6 at Wairakei School. In her classroom, groups are needs-based rather than ability-based. She and Daniel, a student with ADHD, talk about how this approach has helped him to be a successful learner. This type of grouping allows all students, Daniel included, to help each other. Daniel can use his skills with his app to help students that are even working a level above him in writing. Rather than always being in the bottom or top group, students work with others learning the same skill.
Developing an inclusive classroom culture
An inclusive classroom is one that values the contributions of all students, their families/whānau, and communities. This guide, from the Inclusive Education website, includes strategies, suggestions and resources to encourage more student and whānau input in developing an inclusive classroom.
"If the teacher demonstrates cultural knowledge it has an effect on the children. They see the teacher as an individual who respects them and knows where they are coming from. The children see those teachers who have made an attempt to try and get on the same thought patterns, wave-length as them."
– Māori parent, Te Kōtahitanga Phase 1:The experiences of Year 9 and 10 Māori students in mainstream classrooms
Consider how you will:
What kind of workshops, presentations, parent evenings can you plan? How will you organise these so parents and whānau are able to come, feel welcomed, and have their ideas and concerns listened to and addressed? How can you use digital technologies to support communication and collaboration?
Hillcrest Normal School teacher, Michelle Macintyre shares how technology has enabled parents to be involved in different ways with students' learning. She explains, at their classroom learning celebrations they have been engaging parents with technology in practical ways. Creating video of learning experiences facilitates discussion between students and parents, particularly for English as a second language families. The class blog has become a portal for parents to interact with. It's become an e-portfolio where student progress is shared.
Communicate and share information in ways that work for everyone, for example: social media, email, a class blog, newsletters with photos, e-portfolios.
Parents from Holy Cross School explain how they are able to connect easily with the school, using mobile devices and different forms of electronic media such as the school website, Facebook, email, text, and Google docs. This anytime anywhere connection enables them to engage with and support their students learning.
Students at Motu School use e-portfolios for goal setting, sharing their learning, and reflecting on their progress. Students lead the three way conferences with parents and teachers, using the e-portfolios to share and explain their learning. This process means conversations about learning are more focused. Students value parent feedback and engagement in their learning. Having the portfolios online means parents can access and be part of their children's learning at anytime.
Miranda Makin (DP Albany Senior High School) explains the benefits of using e-portfolios for students participating in the Impact Projects . e-portfolios showcase the richness of the learning through images, video, and audio. The students' e-portfolios provide an online document for students to take with them when they leave school that demonstrates the kinds of competencies and skills they have developed.
Filter by: Primary Secondary Cultural responsiveness Diverse learners UDL
Rob Clarke principal of Burnham School describes the benefits of using e-portfolios in the school community to connect with parents.
Parents from Holy Cross School explain how they are able to connect easily with the school, using mobile devices and different forms of digital media.
Matt is a Year 13 student at Wairarapa College. He describes how, with technology and the help of friends, he accesses and participates in the curriculum.
Students at Houghton Valley School made a book using digital photos with simple captions to help prepare a student needing extra support for their first school camp experience.
Waerenga o Kuri student, Herepo Wynyard talks about how the involvement of her whānau both online (through her e-portfolio), and face-to-face at school has encouraged success with her learning goals.
Motu School teachers describe how an inclusive approach and incorporating te reo Māori across the school curriculum has impacted on student learning.
Motu School community talk about the positives of parents engaging in their children's learning.
Pegasus Bay School Principal, Roger Hornblow, talks about the ways that whole-staff PLD benefited them when taking the Te Reo Puāwai course.
Primary school teacher, Bridget Harrison talks about using digital stories to support students with English as a second language.
Teachers from Pegasus Bay School discuss how introducing waiata, students learning their pepeha and rakau games has created an inclusive environment where tikanga Māori is celebrated and valued.
Teacher, Kate Friedwald explains how information and feedback presented visually and orally in her digital classroom are designed to meet the learning needs of a student with ADHD.
Teacher, Kate Friedwald and parent, Denise Fuller, explain how Mitchell, a student with Aspergers syndrome, uses Facetime on an iPad to support his learning needs and develop friendships.
Daniel, who has ADHD and his teacher talk about how having a must-do/can-do list and an ipad enable him to have ownership and control over his learning.
Daniel, a student with ADHD, and his teacher explain how he uses apps on his ipad to support his reading and comprehension.
Kate Friedwald a teacher at Wairakei School and Daniel, a student with ADHD, talk about how needs-based rather than ability-based grouping has helped him to be a successful learner.
Denise Fuller, describes the difference using Facetime to connect with others has made to the confidence, self-esteem, and overall happiness of her son who has Asperger's syndrome.
Felix, a year 5 student with dyslexia explains how he uses iPad apps like IWordQ to make the process of reading and writing easier.
Wairakei School principal Shane Buckner explains the benefits of using digital technologies to build connections with parents and whānau.
Matt is a Year 13 student at Wairarapa College. He has low vision. He reflects on his use of technology, effective partnerships with teachers, and the need for self-advocacy skills and a sense of humour.
Wellington High School teacher, Ben Britton explains how digital technologies are used to create an inclusive environment for students.
Teachers from Pegasus Bay School share how they incorporate te reo Māori into the classroom.
Teacher, Kate Friedwald explains how careful and consistent presentation of visual information and classroom organisation supported by technology is designed to foster independent learning in a student with dyslexia.
Teachers, Sara and Emma, talk about the biggest changes they have seen in their teaching since they started using flipped learning. "I think for me the biggest changes that it's had are it's more individually centred and it's changed my position within the classroom."
Teachers Sara Lambert and Emma Jensen explain how the flipped model allows them to tailor the learning to students' individual needs.
Teachers at Taupaki School explain how their makerspace facilitates student collaboration. (Filmed September 2015)
Wairakei School teacher, Kate Friewald describes how she uses Google Docs to support differentiated learning in her classroom.
Te Ika Unahi Nui is a wānanga (learning) partnership between Tarawainuku marae, Coastal Taranaki School, and the local community.
Students and parents from Coastal Taranaki School talk about the difference marae-based learning has made to their engagement, motivation, and confidence.
Coastal Taranaki School teacher, Chris Luke explains how he connects students' learning at the marae with the learning in the classroom.
Pegasus Bay School principal, Roger Hornblow explains how Huakina Mai and Te Reo Puāwai helped them build culturally responsive practice schoolwide.
Tyler, a year 6 student with dyspraxia, uses a netbook to help him write creatively instead of being inhibited by the speed of his handwriting or his ability to form letters.
Implementing 1-1 netbooks has enabled personalised learning to meet the needs of all students in the senior classes at Parkvale school and provided opportunities for success.
Using a netbook, Google docs, and blogging has increased engagement and improved learning outcomes for student Kieren.
Visually impaired student Renée Patete describes the difference technology makes to her learning by providing access to the curriculum and enabling ease of communication.
Teachers and students at Finlayson Park school describe the flexibility technologies provide for learning and some of the websites they use for teaching te reo and tikanga Māori.
Deputy Principal Miranda Makin explains the benefits of using e-portfolios for students participating in the Impact Projects .
Lalaosalafai Tu'ua describes his experience of using video conferencing to teach Samoan at NCEA Level 3 at Southern Cross Campus in Mangere.
Nicky Lewis, e-Learning teacher at Ashburton College, explains how she presents content in a variety of ways to make it accessible for all students to engage with.
Ashburton College e-Learning teacher, Nicky Lewis explains the importance of building relationships with the students she works with online and how she does this.
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Inclusive education: Guides for schools
This site provides New Zealand educators with practical strategies, suggestions and resources to support learners with diverse needs.
Inclusive classrooms project
Support for teachers striving to make their classrooms and their practices more inclusive. It contains some explanations of practices that can support inclusivity in schools, suggestions for further reading in specific topics of interest.
What an inclusive school looks like
This information sheet describes what an inclusive school looks and feels like in the English-medium context. Use the information to reflect upon and review the inclusive values, policies, and practices in your school.
Inclusive toolkit
The Inclusive Practices Tools explore the extent to which school practices are inclusive of all students
Success for all: Every school, every child
The Government has set a target of 100% of schools demonstrating inclusive practices and improving special education systems and support. The Success for All resources can be downloaded from the Ministry of Education website.
Inclusive practice in secondary schools: Ideas for school leaders
The purpose of this resource is to give secondary school leaders ideas for discussing inclusive practice in your schools. It is intended to start the discussion and help school leaders reflect on what is working well and what may need to improve.
Developing learner profiles
A learner profile tells teachers about students. It sits alongside assessment data. It helps school staff to build relationships with students and to understand things from a student perspective. This can inform planning, classroom layout, and supports to enable students to participate and contribute in all classroom learning.
Relationships and Sexuality Education: A Guide for Teachers, Leaders, and Boards of Trustees
This refreshed resource focuses strongly on consensual, healthy and respectful relationships as being essential to student wellbeing. It is available in two volumes: one for years 1–8, and one for years 9–13.
The guide informs principals, boards and teachers on the requirements of the Education and Training Act 2020. It also assists schools to consult with their community on the ways in which health education should be implemented.
Safety in our schools Ko te Haumaru i o Tatou Kura
An action kit for Aotearoa New Zealand schools to address sexual orientation prejudice. Safety in our schools ~ Ko te haumaru i o tatou kura presents information and strategies to assist Boards of Trustees (BOTs), principals and staff to develop environments for their school communities that are inclusive of sexuality and gender diversity.
The New Zealand Curriculum principle of inclusion. Information and links to tools, examples, and resources.
Inclusive practice and the school curriculum
Inclusive Practice and the School Curriculum is a resource for teachers and leaders in New Zealand English-medium school settings. It has been developed to build professional knowledge and create a shared understanding of inclusive practice within The New Zealand Curriculum.
Quality teaching for diverse students in schooling: Best evidence synthesis iteration (BES)
This best evidence synthesis has produced ten characteristics of quality teaching. The central professional challenge for teachers is to manage simultaneously the complexity of learning needs of diverse students.
School leadership and student outcomes: Identifying what works and why best evidence synthesis iteration (BES)
This BES provides examples of principals and others in leadership activities that advance achievement and social outcomes for students. The theory included in the synthesis explains how and why is critical to enable leaders to adapt and use the findings in their own contexts.
The New Zealand Curriculum principles: Foundations for curriculum decision-making
This is ERO's second national evaluation report looking at the extent to which the principles of The New Zealand Curriculum are evident in schools' curricula and enacted in classrooms. The curriculum principles are intended to be the basis of curriculum decision-making at schools. The findings in this report show that there is considerable variability across schools in the level of evidence of the curriculum principles.
Te Kōtahitanga phase 1:The experiences of Year 9 and 10 Māori students in mainstream classrooms
Researchers talked with Māori students, who clearly identified the main influences on their achievement. They said that teachers, in changing how they related and interacted with Māori students in their classrooms, could help students succeed.
Inclusive practices for students with special education needs in schools (March 2015)
This ERO report examines how well students with special education needs are included in New Zealand schools. The report provides an update on progress towards meeting the Government target that, by the end of 2014, 80 percent of New Zealand schools will be doing a good job and none should be doing a poor job of including and supporting students with disabilities.
Ki te Aotūroa: Improving inservice teacher educator learning and practice
A literature review to help in service teachers learn more about inclusion in NZ classrooms.
Literature review on the experiences of Pasifika learners in the classroom
This literature review examines the current practices of schools, teachers, and the wider education system in relation to Pasifika achievement, as well as outlining the proven pedagogical methods that facilitate inclusion and lift success.
Wellbeing for young people's success at secondary school (February 2015)
This report presents the findings of ERO's evaluation of how well 68 secondary schools in Term 1 2014 promoted and responded to student wellbeing.
Inclusion: Cultural capital of diversity or deficit of disability? Language for change - Timoti Harris – Sabbatical report 2014
If we do not change our language to match changes in thinking, we perpetuate what always was. If we keep talking about "special education, disability, dysfunction, disorder", we focus on the deficit. We have changed theory, we have changed practice, but we haven't changed the language. Timoti Harris reports on creating an environment truly inclusive of ability, ethnicity, culture, gender and language at Otorohanga College.
Leadership in the development of inclusive school communities
Dr Jude McArthur gives an overview of the research she and others have undertaken in the schooling sector about the experiences of young people who have disabilities. She connects the key themes to what school leaders can do to support developing their schools as inclusive communities. Learning better together: Working towards inclusive education in New Zealand schools is Dr McArthur's research into inclusive education in a New Zealand context.
The gifted child and the inclusive classroom
Rosemary Cathcart presents two decades of research on ability grouping. She looks at arguments both for and against grouping, and at various forms of grouping, poses some crucial questions for policy-makers, offers a re-definition of 'inclusive', and suggests an approach relevant for Aotearoa/New Zealand.
NCEA exam preparation tools for students
Digital Technologies in the curriculum
Learning with DT in Secondary School
Supporting Students who are deaf
Supporting English language learners
Digital tools for te reo Māori
Innovative learning environments
Digital Technologies in senior secondary


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T-44-100 Marathon – Extended from 32 to 38 days – EU Server2 min read
3 September 2016 Harkonnen
Hello everyone,
Just a quick update on the T-44-100 Marathon on the EU Server. Wargaming just announced they have extended the T-44-100 from 32 days to 38 days, based on the Community bad feedback that has been going on in the official forum.
Update: We have been following marathon discussion threads and we appreciate your constructive opinions and suggestions. Based on Community feedback, we have decided to extend T-44-100 Marathon by 6 days.
It is very important for us that you see the marathon as an event worth participating in, and T-44-100 as a reward worth pursuing, and also worth your time and dedication. Even though we aimed at keeping the challenge at a similar level as previous marathons, many of you considered it more demanding than past editions. We don't want that negative perception to eclipse the fun part of the event, which is completing the challenge and reaping the rewards!
After receiving your feedback, we considered different ways to adjust missions, but moving the end date eventually turned out to be the most straightforward solution. It also gives you additional flexibility, as you now have more days to choose from in case you are not able to play every day. Total duration of the event changed from 32 to 38 days–that's almost 20% longer than initially planned, and gives you the extra time you need to take care of the 8th nation. With an additional 6 days available, the average daily amount of damage and kills to score is now the same as in last year's WZ-111 marathon.
Thank you very much once again for helping us making World of Tanks more enjoyable!
To he honest, it's not easy to get it, it's not 100% worth to get the tank, but I've tested it at Tankfest 2016 and it does make loads of credits. If you go based on some crazy number that Quickybaby came on a video he made, no wonder people started going ape shit with this.
And if you don't have the time and really want to have the tank, remember you can buy the tokens, all of them or just the ones you need, and if you finish the missions you get Gold compensation for it. For me, most probably will be getting it the expensive way, because I won't have time to grind it…
About Author
Tank Nut and Gamer Wannabe! Huge fan of tanks and World War II history. Playing video games since I was six years old, from Streets of Rage on my Sega Mega Drive to World of Tanks, I've never stopped since and will always love games.
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Day 137:
My mom is in town (Hi Mom!) and she came into Bassanova with my bro and his fam for lunch today. A big part of why I am here doing what I am doing is because of them and the support that they have given me. My days have been long, but seeing my nieces run into my arms asking for ramen makes it all worth it.
Tonight was a very long night. It was the first night that Komuro-san, Sugahara-san, and I worked without an additional 4th person. With a line out the door, the three of us scrambled to recieve orders, grill the chashu, make the ramen, wash the dishes, serve the food and drinks, and clean up after the customers. It was hectic and crazy but we did it. We survived and it felt good to do so.
You're probably getting tired of seeing pics of Bassanova's food by now (sorry), but I'm sure not getting tired of eating it.
Welcome to my ramen dream... Currently being interpreted in Ramen Burger Land... Looking for a good slurp? Email me ! - Keizo
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Support from the fam...
Slurped by Keizo Shimamoto at 10:59 AM
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4 comments:
i've been following this blog for a year i think.... and each post come with different storyReplyDelete
keep posting keizo... share your dream with us...
ps: because of your blog here, now i also following your friend nate and brian... it's fun seeing the three of you slurping together
keizo, please keep posting bassanova's food. i enjoy reading it and will never tire from it.ReplyDelete
awesome man. just awesome. can't wait to have my next bowl with you.ReplyDelete
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ie ie. I never tire of seeing more great Ramen and food you're making! :) Keep it up.
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|Yosemite with the Climate guys
Aug 27-29, 2004
random trip report
With Erica, we load up the mighty Honda Civic, leave at 6:30, and are at the Cedar Lodge by 10:30 or so. Erica is disturbed by noise and vows to get a back-facing room next time.
Next morning we drive into the valley and head up the Mist Trail.
Yosemite Falls is dry but there's still some flow through
Nevada and Vernal falls.
Next morning we drive to Tuolomne Meadows and climb Mt. Hoffman.
Frame's old knee injury is aggravated and he has a lot of pain.
Tolu and I climb a castle, and do the summit.


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It was at lunch after a morning revival service last summer that a few of us sat around, munching on Southern casseroles and talking about one of the most memorable mothers any of us had ever known.
Bedelle Nix. A memorable name attached to an unforgettable woman. As my sister's mother-in-law, Mama B, as she was known all over the countryside, became part of our family when I was 7. This introduction into our family meant that Mama B, a strong, mindful woman, would meet the closest thing to a match she would ever encounter: My mama.
Since Mama's name was Bonelle, the sing-song sound of "Bonelle and Bedelle" would chime often through the stories told round the dinner table.
As the two grew older and, thus, more willful and cantankerous, the tales of their stand-offs and put-downs became legendary. Especially at the beauty shop where my sister would take them together for perms and wash-and-sets.
Mama B particularly relished the telling and constant retelling of being 11 years old and my daddy, a smitten 12-year-old who thought the future Miss Lumpkin County beauty queen was enthralling, had given to her his Baby Ruth candy bar, quite a generous gift for a poor mountain boy during the Depression.
For a long time, Mama simply seethed as Mama B proudly recounted the story. Finally, several years after Daddy died, Mama had had enough. This was never a pretty sight. If you never saw Mama when she had had enough, consider yourself properly anointed and blessed.
We were sitting at the dinner table. Mama pursed her lips tightly and put up her hand. "Bedelle, that's enough. Just hush," she commanded firmly. "I don't want to hear no more about you and Ralph and that dang Baby Ruth candy bar. He married me."
Before she could say more, I stepped in to quickly change the subject. Mama B, to her credit since it was against her nature, shut her mouth.
But the long entertaining, often laughable saga of Bedelle and Bonelle is not the purpose of this story. It is to tell you how Mama B, a woman of the most remarkable faith I have ever seen, served the Lord to the immense discomfort of all the sinners who tripped across her path.
Mama B could spot the most downfallen sinner anywhere. She was especially adept at finding them at the grocery store.
I was about 9 when I tagged along with her to the small Mauney's grocery store in her little town. She was in the canned goods section when a beleaguered man had the misfortune of looking for a can of soup while Mama B was studying a Campbell's label. She looked up, saw him and grabbed him by the arm. Apparently, she knew him and some of his history.
"Where are you with the Lord now?" she demanded.
Instantly terrified, he mumbled something about being "right with the Lord now." Aw, but Mama B never stopped with that. Her questions fluttered around him like a mockingbird flapping its wings.
"Did you get saved? Have you been baptized? Did you join the church? Did you go to church last Sunday? Where? Who's the preacher? Whatta he preach on?"
The man was red-faced flustered, Mama B was determined and I was bored so I wandered off. I have no idea how the conversation ended, but I did see the man hurry out the door, having not tarried long enough to buy anything.
The conversation that day at lunch was how many owed their salvation to Mama B's constant pestering. One preacher allowed how his own daddy owed his trip to heaven to Mama B.
"He'll tell you to this day about how he hated to see Mama B comin'. She'd start on him about findin' the Lord before it was too late."
What a mama. What a legacy. What a gift to so many.


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Leo Maxwell is the fictional creation of US author Lachlan Smith. Here is how Lachlan describes his lead character:
What Leo lacks in judgment he makes up for in perseverence and loyalty,
qualities that I hope readers find admirable. Also, no matter how
cynical he may become once he begins to shed his naivete, he never stops
seeking the best approximation of justice he can achieve in a murky and
uncertain world.
The first novel, Bear is Broken (M) is described by Booklist as "a superior blend of amateur-detective mystery and belated-coming-of-age novel cunningly masked as a legal thriller."
The sequel Lion Plays Rough (M) has just been released.
"At the start of Smith's tight second Leo Maxwell mystery, the young Oakland, Calif., attorney receives a collect
call from Santa Rita Jail. The man on the other end introduces himself
as Jamil Robinson and, because he feels it unsafe to talk over the
phone, sends his sister, Lavinia Martin, to speak with Leo in person.
Lavinia claims that the Oakland police have framed Jamil. Despite his
suspicions about the story, Leo goes to the DA with evidence that points
to police corruption, only to discover he's been set up-the real Jamil
has not only never heard of Leo but does not have a living sister. As
Leo continues to pursue the truth, he puts his life at risk and
discovers a trail of crooked police activity that leads disturbingly
close to home. This finely paced mystery is full of intelligent plot
twists and should appeal to any fan of good writing" - Publisher Weekly
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Meet Leo Maxwell - a San Franciscan defense attorney
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Eclectic Light does it again going deep into High Sierra where no other tech writer seems to go. Lots of writers have been complaining about the removal of app syncing in iTunes 12.7 but nobody seems to know about the replacement:
Apple's answer, I suspect, is in the new Content Caching feature in High Sierra, although that doesn't appear to be offered as a retrofit for Sierra. Apple hasn't yet provided full details, but what I think is intended is that those with multiple iOS devices use their Mac as a local app and update server…
In many ways, this is a much neater solution than poor, overburdened iTunes has been.
If you used iTunes app syncing at all do yourself a favor and read the Eclectic Light post.


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The "Twitter Political Index" helps the masses figure out just how the rest of the Twitter world feels about the two presidential candidates. Instead of relying on intuitions of political experts or waiting for the polling phone calls to be made, Twitter's new tool powered by Topsy will keep you informed about the general consensus on the candidates.
The tool sorts through 400 million tweets from 140 million active users every day and assigns a sentiment score to each tweet, either positive or negative. The scale runs on a 0-100 scale and is individual to each candidate, meaning they are not head-to-head. Both candidates can have a score over 50 and they can both lose or gain points on the same day.
Not only can the algorithm tell if a tweet is positive or negative, it can determine the severity of the sentiment. It is not without error, of course. For instance, it can't take into consideration any sort of sarcasm. That being said, the algorithm still agrees with the sentiment of a randomly selected human 90 percent of the time over 300,000 tweets according to Topsy's chief scientist Rishab Ghosh. That's not a bad record.
Twitter will release the results daily on the Political Index site. It already has a poll from May 1, 2012 through July 30, 2012 with a sweet line graph that shows some drastic changes. You can even track some of the changes with events, for example: May 10, 2012 was Obama's highest score of 74. That was the same day he attended a fundraising dinner at George Clooney's home. Chances are there was a lot of chatter about him that day.
It's great that a tool like this has come around to fill in for the traditional methods of opinion polling. By simply searching out generic tweets, there are no restrictions on what a person might say. They are not confined to simple black and white answers of a phone poll, and we get a lot more of a cross sample with the millions of Twitter users. While this may not be a direct poll, it certainly helps to see how the Twitterverse feels about the candidates, and it will be even more crucial as the November date draws near. That is, if these kids will actually go out and vote!
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Annemarie Derrick is an artist working in oils on a range of subjects, including dog and human portraits, flowers and still life. She graduated from The Art Academy in London in July 2013 and moved from London to Bath later that year. She has also studied at LARA (London Atelier of Representational Art) and at the St Ives School of Painting.
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Flash flood: Ravens' Smith gets off to a soggy start
Here is a reminder that professional athletes face regular problems just like everyone else. Ravens receiver Steve Smith Sr. returned to his rented house in the Baltimore area this weekend only to find a flooded mess in his garage.
Turns out a leaky pipe was the culprit, as water ended up flooding his master bedroom closet before seeping into the floor, and eventually caused the wood beneath it to crash down on the garage below. A frustrating situation to come home to for sure, but thankfully no one was injured.
"My garage ceiling was my garage floor and there was water – a little baby stream – coming out of my garage," Smith said via the team's official website.
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Smith said he can't wait to get to his hotel room for the start of camp. "It's going to be an interesting project going on in my garage. I'm kind of looking forward to the hotel life and the West Coast life during the season because they're going to be doing some minor construction to my house for the next couple of weeks."
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Below you find a quick list of destinations within about 15 miles of Indian Rock Campground. You can browse by activity type, general category (like a park) or rentals/outfitters. If you are looking for information about Indian Rock Campground, and not about destinations nearby, please click the "Overview" tab above.
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Old City of Tangermünde
From the shore of the water mouth of the Tanger flowing into the Elbe you can see the fortification of the old city of Tangermünde with a city gate and the Church of St. Stephan.
The Harbour of Tangermünde
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The CBD market is growing rapidly and retailers can capitalize on this trend by offering high-quality products to consumers. Statistics have suggested that the CBD market will increase by 700% by 2020. This provides an opportunity for CBD oil distributors to grow their business and increase their revenues. However, retailers need to have an in-depth understanding of the CBD industry and its competitors to be at a competitive advantage.
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WDX Guide is a nice tool for testing WDX plugins for Total Commander. I wanted to use this utility as a Lister plugin, so I wrote WDXGuideInLister. The purpose of this plugin is to launch WDX Guide inside the Lister window. May be someone will find this plugin useful too.
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India's moon mission lifts off
Only the United States, Russia and China have been on the moon.
India launched a rocket into space on Monday in an attempt to safely land a rover on the moon, the country's most ambitious mission yet in the effort to establish itself as a low-cost space power.
If successful, the 10-billion-rupee ($146-million) mission will allow Indian scientists to carry out studies regarding the presence of water at the moon's south pole, unexplored by any other nation before.
"This mission will offer new knowledge about the Moon," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a Twitter post, praising the scientists responsible for what he called a fully indigenous mission.
China, Russia and the United States are the only other nations to have sent missions to the moon.
A live broadcast showed images of the rocket, carrying the unmanned Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, blasting off from a space centre in southern India as thousands of onlookers cheered the launch, delayed for a week by a technical snag.
The boosters separated safely as the craft began its nearly 50-day journey, after which the lander will attempt a controlled landing to deploy a rover at the moon's south pole.
The spacecraft had been successfully injected into the earth's orbit, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.
The next month and a half will see the spacecraft perform crucial maneuvers to ensure a smooth landing, ISRO Chairman K. Sivan said, as the agency's officials congratulated each other with handshakes and bear hugs after the launch.
"We are going to experience 15 minutes of terror, to ensure that the landing is done safely near the south pole," he told reporters, describing the final moments before the craft is expected to land on the moon, about 47 days from now.
The space agency has previously said the descent on the moon could be complex, with potential problems from variations in lunar gravity, terrain and dust having to be taken into account.
Globally, Chandrayaan-2, whose name means "moon vehicle" in Sanskrit, will be the year's third bid at a moon landing, following China's successful launch of a lunar probe and the Israeli Beresheet spacecraft, which failed and crashed on the moon in April.
India's space agency suspects the south pole region of the moon contains water in the form of ice as well as craters that could reveal fossilized information about the early solar system.
Last week saw the 50th anniversary of humankind's first steps on the moon in 1969.


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Leslie Heaphy / Ladies Leagues
Women in Baseball
Committee Newsletter
June 2004 Vol. XXXIII
@Society for American Baseball Research
Send info., questions, submissions, etc to Leslie Heaphy, 135 Hillcrest Ave North Canton, OH 44720, or e-mail; firstname.lastname@example.com
The new baseball season is now underway for both men and women. New teams have been formed (such as the Motown Magic or the team from Philadelphia), lots of tryouts are being held and Team USA has been narrowed down to 34 players.
The SABR Annual Meeting is coming before you know it and is in Cincinnati this year. We will have a committee meeting on Sunday Morning and you should watch for more exciting details as we hope to have a couple of special guests present to make some presentations.
I attended the Vintage Baseball Association annual meeting in March and was excited by what is happening there. They are doing a fair amount of research on 19th century womens teams and more teams are being created to play by those rules now. Rochester seems to have been an area where womens participation was encouraged.
The 2004 season is underway for a lot of womens teams and before long youll see articles with some tournament results we hope. If you see any send them along.
Has any one heard anything yet about Shanna Kook the newest female umpire in the game?
Please send me any and all articles, programs, citations etc that you find. It will be better for me to receive the information four times than not at all. You can either mail the materials to me or attach them as e-mails or even fax an article to me at 330-494-6121. Thanks in advance for your continued help in preserving the history of women in baseball.
Book Project Update: Articles are being revised and the manuscript is slowly coming together. The project grows every day as I continue to hear from players and others, especially those involved today.
Recent books, articles, websites and other projects. Thanks to the following people for sending material.
Dick Clark, Larry Hogan, Justine Siegal
(**Denotes item available for a SASE, 1 stamp per 4 pages).
Reviews of Pat Browns A League of My Own
**Reviews of Girl Wonder: A Baseball story in Nine Inningsa story based on the life of Alta Weiss
** Womens League Brought Dream to Life September 1993
** The Second Career of Woody English September 1988
** Playing Hardballs A Down and Dirty Escape from Real Life.June 1993
** No League of Their Own
**Articles on the NYWBA
Check out the National Womens Baseball Hall of Fame website if you have never been there before. They archive all copies of their monthly newsletter and it includes information on each years inducteesthis years have already been named.
The 2004 World Series is scheduled for July 15-23 in Uozo City, Japan. This will be followed on July 30 by the start of the IBAF World Cup of Baseball in Edmonton, Alberta.
Over the July 4th holiday many teams will be in Washington, D.C. at their invitational. And the WBL sparks play in Cooperstown from July 2-9.
Labor Day will find the Great Lakes invitational taking place.
September 23-26 is the West Coast Invitationallots of baseball out there for us to go out and be supportive of.
Research Requests
What are you looking for? What are you currently working on? Let us know and we can help one another as we are doing our research.
If you have a topic you are researching let me know what it is and I can now check the bibliography I have for what articles, collections etc I am aware of on all kinds of subjects.
Anyone with any information about the Dolly Vardens please send to Leslie Heaphy and it will be passed on to a student working on a school paper.
Anyone with any information at all about former player Urseal Williams of the Knoxville Giants or Isabel Baxter please pass that on to Leslie Heaphy.
Anyone with any knowledge or information about the South Side Bloomer Girls of Youngstown, Ohio please pass that on the Leslie Heaphy and it will be given to the person searching.
Farren, Patricia
Farren grew up playing little league with her brothers but ended up on the high school softball team because there was no baseball team for girls. Farren played softball, basketball and field hockey in East Windsor, Connecticut but no organized baseball. She played softball at Southern Connecticut State and then got married and moved to Virginia. She played for three seasons in the Washington Metropolitan Womens Baseball League, taking trips for tournaments to Florida. After her family moved back East Farren continued her career with the Lowell Robins in the NEWBL in 2000. {Kaster, Julie. Baseball Diamonds this Girls Best Friend. Eagle-Tribune, 25 July 2000.}
Trivia question:
Who led the AAGPBL in hitting in 1946 and what was her average?
Ever get a chance to interview any women ball players? We need to be thinking about documenting the current game as women are playing so that we are not searching for the stories 30 years from now.
Member News
An interesting question posed to your chair and one I continue to share with all of youIf you had to put together a womens all-star team with 5 pitchers and 3 utility players in addition to your regulars who would you include and why? Send your replies to me and the results will be shared with the rest of the committee in future newsletters and in the near future on our newly revamped website.
Womens All-Star Team
C Mary Bonnie Baker
1B Dottie Kamenshek
2B Toni Stone
3B Jean Weaver/Maddy English
SS Dorothy Harrell/Dorothy Schroeder
OF Helen Candaele
OF Betty Foss (Weaver)
OF Jane Stoll/Joanne Weaver
P Jean Cione/ Ila Borders
P Helen Nicol (Fox)/Linda McGill
P Doris Sams/ Connie Wisniewski
P Pat Scott/Mamie Johnson
P Dottie Wiltse (Collins)
U Sophie Kurys
U Elizabeth Mahon
U June Peppas
Others suggested:
Charlene Wright
Katie Pappa
Ruth Richard
Jean Faut Eastman
Dottie Ferguson
What do you think? Agree/disagree? Who would you want on your team? What about some of the earlier women ball players like Loretta Lipski? Send me your picks and Ill continue to add them in the next newsletter.
Fairies of the Field
A team calling themselves the Fairies of the Field reported losing a game to a mens team in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1885. They lost the game 14-4. The team was composed of all ladies except the catcher who was a man. {New York Clipper, 12 September 1885, 403.}
Did you know that Rhonda Palmer hit .518 last year for the S.F. Fillies?
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Prevent an independent PMI from worsening the tobacco pandemic
In anticipation of the expected announcement on 30 January 2008 of the timing of Philip Morris International's spin-off, public health organizations worldwide say there is heightened urgency for governments to enact comprehensive laws to control Philip Morris and other tobacco companies.
"The unleashing of Philip Morris International from Philip Morris USA poses the risk that Philip Morris International will become even more predatory in pushing its toxic products to young people worldwide," says Anna White, of the U.S.-based corporate accountability group Essential Action, "An independent Philip Morris International, which is likely to be based in Switzerland, will no longer feel constrained by public opinion in its home country and most important market, the United States."
Altria/Philip Morris is the world's biggest multinational tobacco corporation. Eighty percent of its sales are outside of the
The company announced last August its intention to pursue the spin-off. Today, Altria's Board of Directors is expected to finalize the decision and announce the timing of the spin-off, assuming required regulatory approvals.
More than 150 public health organizations in over 70 countries worldwide have endorsed a call on governments to adopt comprehensive tobacco control measures to ensure that the spin-off of Philip Morris International does not worsen the tobacco epidemic. Among other measures, they are urging that governments ratify and strongly implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, ban the tobacco industry from lobbying or working on legislation to implement the global treaty, and exclude tobacco products from bilateral and multilateral trade and investment agreements. A list of their demands is available at www.philipmorrisbreakup.org/calltogovs .
"An independent Philip Morris International based outside of the
The litigation risk to Philip Morris International was recently made apparent in the
"The World Health Organization projects that 10 million people will die annually from tobacco-related disease by 2030, 70 percent in developing countries," says White. "We must work to lessen this toll, not allow an independent Philip Morris to make it worse."
Central Chronicle, Madhya Pradesh, India (2 February 2008)


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KOVOŠROT GROUP CZ a.s. has cooperated with the company Hydraulika Petráš s.r.o. practically since it was founded in 1991. The main area of our cooperation is the purchase of grabs for mobile scrap metal loaders, and the repairs and general overhauls of grabs for crane bridges and mobile loaders. The products and repair work are supplied in excellent quality, within the agreed deadlines and under fair terms, to the satisfaction of our company's plants.
KOVOŠROT GROUP CZ a.s. regards the company Hydraulika Petráš s.r.o. as a reliable partner and appreciates, above all, their quality, expertise, capability and readiness to solve possible problems.
We have been working with Hydraulika Petráš s.r.o. since 2001. We use only grabs produced by Hydraulika Petráš on our hydraulic arms and loaders. The company provides warranty and post-warranty service, general overhauls of grabs, and also supplies us with spare parts. It is a highly trustworthy family company.
We have had grabs by Hydraulika Petráš in our supply for about three years, and we are very satisfied. The grabs are of high quality and are designed for heavy-duty operation in metal scrap handling. The material the grabs are made of – high-quality Swedish HARDOX steel – is itself of top quality, and together with Swedish INDEXATOR rotators ensures a long service life. The only issue that has arisen during our three-year cooperation was resolved by Hydraulika Petráš in a simple and prompt manner, thanks to Lenka's and Pavel´s helpful approach. We appreciate the flexibility of this family company; their decisions are swift and efficient. We look forward to many more years of cooperation.
During our three years of cooperation in France we have not received a single complaint, and there have been zero repairs or other interventions. Our clients are satisfied with the design of the grabs and their fault-free operation. The design of some grabs has been customized to meet a client's requirements. Another thing our clients appreciate is the complete supply, including the manufacture of a swivel head according to specific parameters of their machines.
From our long-term experience, I can confirm that the grabs by Hydraulika Petráš s.r.o. used by our company to load scrap metal feature very high resistance to damage and wear. The materials and design used for the grabs ensure a long service life and fault-free operation.
We are direct manufacturers of high-quality hydraulic grabs, which we supply all across Europe. We also provide warranty and post-warranty service within 48 hours and have the entire range of grab parts available. Our family company has operated in the market since 1991.


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Quantifying Hands-Free Call Quality in an Automobile
Journal Article
ISSN: 1946-3995, e-ISSN: 1946-4002
Published June 15, 2015 by SAE International in United States
Citation: Amman, S., Charette, F., Nicastri, P., Huber, J. et al., "Quantifying Hands-Free Call Quality in an Automobile," SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars - Mech. Syst. 8(3):1104-1109, 2015, https://doi.org/10.4271/2015-01-2335.
Language: English
Hands-free phone use is the most utilized use case for vehicles equipped with infotainment systems with external microphones that support connection to phones and implement speech recognition. Critically then, achieving hands-free phone call quality in a vehicle is problematic due to the extremely noisy nature of the vehicle environment. Noise generated by wind, mechanical and structural, tire to road, passengers, engine/exhaust, HVAC air pressure and flow are all significant contributors and sources of noise. Other factors influencing the quality of the phone call include microphone placement, cabin acoustics, seat position of the talker, noise reduction of the hands-free system, etc. This paper describes the work done to develop procedures and metrics to quantify the effects that influence the hands-free phone call quality. It will be shown that a listening study of using 49 evaluators, indicated that the ETSI EG 202 396-3EG (VoIP Standard) for SMOS (Speech Mean Opinion Score) and NMOS (Noise Mean Opinion Score) correlates better than the ETSI TS 103 106 (Mobile Standard) for speech and noise ratings when quantifying the quality of a hands-free phone call. However, ETSI TS 103 106 was found to correlate better for GMOS (Global Mean Opinion Score). Using these results, MOS scores can be calculated to investigate the influences of factors that can influence the quality of a hands-free call. Two examples are given in this paper. The first example investigates the effect of background noise level in the vehicle cabin on hands-free phone call quality for two suppliers of such systems. The second example explores the effect of noise suppression level, as set by the hands-free system, for two suppliers. The relationships of these effects to SMOS and NMOS are developed and discussed.


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Over 46 percent of the Earth's population uses the Internet. Today, a lion's share of that Internet usage is done through social media networks. As such, marketing campaigns must have a social media component to succeed. However, despite this, many social media marketing campaigns fail. With this in mind, below are seven tips that can give your company's social media strategy a serious boost.
1. Create a Marketing Plan for Your Social Media
One mistake many companies make is using Twitter and Facebook accounts without any concrete marketing plan in place. This should include a plan for all the social media networks you wish to utilize. It should also include defined objectives and goals. Lastly, it should have a means of auditing the success of your campaigns. With a firm plan in place, you will be more likely to profit from your social media presence.
2. Place a Strong Emphasis on Engagement
One of the keys to a successful social media marketing campaign is engagement. Engagement isn't possible with many forms of advertising, but it is with social media. Be proactive and interact with other social media users who mention your brand. Also try to react to customer questions in a timely manner. Customer feedback on social media should be forwarded to the correct people in your organization.
3. Monitoring Is Also Important
Another key to utilizing social media correctly as a business is monitoring different social media platforms for how your company, brand, products and services are being discussed. This information can be invaluable. You may gain direct insight into how your company and products are perceived by the public at large. Implement social media management software such as HootSuite to allow you to more easily track mentions of your company and products.
4. Keep Your Social Media Updates on a Schedule
While you want your engagement with users to appear spontaneous and genuine, you should also be posting updates on a regular basis. If your account goes days without an update, you are not using your social media correctly. You also need to schedule your updates for the correct times. Do some research to find out when your target demo's peak times for social media usage is.
5. Realize that Users Grow a Following by Following Back
There's one unwritten rule of social media. If someone follows you, it's polite to follow back. While you don't need to follow everyone who follows you first, you can use this courtesy to your advantage in reverse. Follow social media users who mention you or re-blog your content. They are likely to follow back. This is especially important to do in the beginning to grow your following.
6. Use Social Media to Edge in on Your Competition
More than likely, all your competitors are already using social media. With that in mind, it's a good idea to track their accounts. This can give you good intel and present you with openings to develop a competitive advantage with social media engagement. Adding your competitors' followers may also allow you to lead some of them back to your own social media accounts.
7. Use Social Media to Drive People to Your Business
Overall, you should be using social media as a tool to drive people to your business and convert them into paying customers. Whether your business is brick and mortar or e-commerce, you need to be using tactics to get social media followers to purchase your products or services. To do this successfully, you'll also need to be tracking click through rates of links posted on social media, the use of coupon codes published by your social media accounts and more.
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Poor Mark Driscoll. Really, I mean it this time.
He and his beautiful wife Grace sat down yesterday on a beehive of irritated TV personalities on The View. The Driscolls were barely introduced before co-host Joy Behar asked why they oppose homosexuals "having fun."
"Nice to meet you too, Joy," Driscoll should have said.
Whoopi Goldberg was clearly irritated by the Driscoll's biblical views, rolling her eyes at their rather patient answers on marriage and sexuality. Finally her disdain burst out: "Are you saying that the widow or widower should just do without [sex] because God doesn't like it?" I can't believe Driscoll didn't lose it (laughing). Her question was inane on so many levels.
Seriously, Goldberg is scandalized that it matters "if God doesn't like" something? She apparently thinks God's version of truth is only one opinion!
Is Whoopi outraged that God prohibits remarriage for widows or widowers? Not at all. She's outraged that God instituted marriage for sexuality, without leaving an escape clause for hot-and-bothered, random widow-sex! Of all the pressing issues, widow/er sex gets top priority…so goes the "arbitrary rightness" of Postmodern ethics.
"Since when is believing that sex belongs in the confines of marriage between a man and a woman wrong?" asked someone at the ABC site. I too am surprised it's a surprise.
Ironically, Goldberg is producing a Broadway version of "Sister Act" about Catholic nuns, which makes you wonder if she knows anything about the Catholic view on marriage. If she researched it, she would find it's easier for a widow/er to have sex in Catholic doctrine than a nun!
See also:
- Pastor Mark and Grace Driscoll's Controversial Marriage Advice: What's Your View?
- The View: Joy Behar Asks Mark Driscoll About Gay Sex
- Leadership Network to Discuss Church Future
- Imparting Outlaw Faith


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We have an important update about Kiss of the Revenant and its rewards. Many of you have asked us for information or assistance because you participated in the game but haven't yet received your rewards. Here are details on what's happening:
- Kiss of the Revenant ends on Friday, July 28th–this day is your last chance to play and register your email address for rewards.
- After the 28th, Kiss of the Revenant's site will turn off. The key giveaway is closed after this.
- The final wave of reward keys is to be sent out on Saturday, July 29th via email.
Everyone who was eligible for rewards, including those that may have already received a key prior to this, will be sent a mail. This is to ensure that everybody gets their key! If you've already claimed your rewards, you may safely disregard this email. For everyone else, please check your spam filters on Saturday!
If you attempt to register an email address and receive a message stating that it's already registered, then you should be fine–a key will be sent via email on Saturday.
If you have any questions or further issues with this, please contact Customer Service or contact us directly through Twitter, Facebook, Discord, Reddit, etc. and we'll work to clear things up for you. Previously we said to contact a separate email address–this is no longer the case.
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A new bunch of weddings for the year mean some great new venues to highlight! First up on the list is The Herrington, in Garrett County MD.
Photo courtesy of Carrie Leigh Photography
If you've always dreamed of getting married in your own private castle, The Herrington is it! It has all the amenities of a large resort, without all the other people. There is an indoor pool, two hot tubs, a private like with a small island and gazebo, a grand drive up the front of the gorgeous house, and 10 bedrooms to house plenty of guests (with plenty of other lodging options for guests in nearby Oakland and Deep Creek, MD).
Additionally, there are 11 acres of rolling green lawn with plenty of space for both a ceremony and reception, as well as a ballroom for an indoor option. The wedding we filmed used the ballroom for cocktail hour, but it's great to have that option as a backup in case the weather goes south.
I mean, would you just look at that lake and island gazebo.
Aerial photo/video by WV Motionworks.
There's also small theater, and a really nice game room that makes for a nice, big room for the guys to get ready in (with some games and tvs for sports, because we all know it takes them about 10 minutes to get ready).
All the gorgeous outdoor space you need for stunning wedding photos, and all the room you need for tons of wedding fun!
Gallery photos courtesy of Carrie Leigh Photography
Still aren't convinced that The Herrington is amazing? Check out Joana + Alan's wedding film. Their beautiful love story, heartfelt vows, and the gorgeous Maryland scenery can't be beaten!
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Allpress Espresso, the specialty coffee roasters, are taking our idea of 'a great coffee' to a new level. Founded in New Zealand in 1986 by Michael Allpress and established in Sydney in 1999 by his long term friend, the highly respected restaurateur Tony Papas, Allpress have been a huge success.
Tony launched Allpress Espresso in Shoreditch in October 2010. For London's coffee lovers their Roastery Café is a must visit destination. Allpress coffee can also be purchased online. Allpress immediately attracted excellent reviews including the 'Café/Coffee Bar Independent of the Year' in 2011 by The Café Society.
Most importantly, the Roastery Café provides a working billboard for the wholesale business which supplies independent café owners and restaurants from Sussex to Somerset, from London to Leeds and Edinburgh. UK turnover is over £1 million.
Tony commented "A focus on flavour and sustainable supply is driving the espresso industry. We have sourced our green beans through direct trade since 2000. We regularly visit coffee growers, millers and exporters. Our approach to buying beans is simple; they must be the best to make exceptional tasting coffee. Direct trade is mutually rewarding, the farmer gets a fair price and we benefit from personal relationships with growers."
"At its best, coffee roasting is a fine balance of art and science. We have over 25 years' roasting know-how." The ultimate espresso machines are used. Tony explains "La Marzocco's brewing system consistently delivers great coffee. Our people (the baristas) are well trained." Allpress offer barista training to clients too.
Tony appointed Kreston Reeves in February 2011. "We wanted a firm that really got involved in understanding what our business is about. Michael O'Brien and the Kreston Reeves team ticked all our boxes. They are proactive and responsive. We're very happy with the level of support they provide."
Kreston Reeves handle the annual accounts, audit and corporate tax and have provided consultancy services. Tony mentioned "I have looked to Michael for support on HR and they were fantastic with that. Having advice in other areas has been great for us. We know they are there if we need expert advice on specific projects. Having Michael work with us and understand our goals gave us a different standard of service. We trust them. When La Marzocco arrived in town, we recommended Michael."
"We wanted a firm that really got involved in understanding what our business is about. Michael O'Brien and the Kreston Reeves team ticked all our boxes. They are proactive and responsive. We're very happy with the level of support they provide."
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Valiant Comic Watch: Sony Confirms the Bloodshot Movie
This has been speculated and rumored on for the last few months and more so these past two weeks but it has been confirmed by Sony and Valiant today that the two companies have joined a five movie project bringing the Valiant universe to life.
Sony and Valiant also confirmed that the first film to be released will be Bloodshot in 2017. Bloodshot's first appearance Eternal Warrior #4 has already been trending upwards as of this week. This book has been selling for $30 to $40 by itself on ebay. Right now this is the book to look for, and it has great holding potential.
Valiant and Sony have two directors already tied in for the Bloodshot film so the likelihood of it actually happening is very high. Plus the new Jeff Lemire, Bloodshoot Reborn title is a great read! Bloodshot is coming back baby!
Another thing that happened this week is Iceman comes out as gay in All New X-Men #40. Its really a comical panel where the information is revealed. The Market wasn't very responsive to the Northstar wedding issues, but when it comes to Marvel you never know.
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Taper Bush RM Rigid Couplings provide a convenient method of rigidly connecting ends of shafts. Taper Bushes permit easier and quicker fixing to the shafts with the firmness of a shrunk-on-fit.
These couplings have a male and a female flange fully machined. The male flange can have the bush fitted from the Hub side H or from the flange side F, the female flange always has the bush fitting F. This gives two possible coupling assemblies horizontal shafts, the most convenient assembly should be chosen.
When connecting vertical shafts use assembly FF only.