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It appears "Chasing Ice," the new documentary film created by a team from Boulder, is catching fire.
The film enjoyed a stronger-than-hoped-for opening last weekend at New York City's Cinema Village, according to Dan Braun, spokesman for the film's distributor, Submarine. The independently produced film about climate change grossed just less than $21,000 on a single screen in New York during the all-important opening weekend.
"That's a significant number," Braun said. "I think the closest number for an independent was about $7,000 per screen, so it was triple what any of the competition got to on that three-day period."
That strong opening led to 35 theaters across the country contacting "Chasing Ice" distributors in just one day this past week to ask for the film. It opened Friday in several other bigger markets, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle and Portland.
"Chasing Ice" is scheduled to open next Friday in Denver at the Landmark's Chez Artiste. It's set for a Dec. 12-15 run at The Boedecker in the Dairy Center for the Arts, according to Boedecker programmer Glenn Webb.
Directed by Jeff Orlowski, "Chasing Ice" focuses on the work of James Balog, the Boulder-based photographer who has documented rapidly melting glaciers in the far reaches of the northern hemisphere since 2007 through his Extreme Ice Survey project. Using time-lapse photography over months and months, Balog and his crew have captured stunning imagery of massive ice forms in decay.
The film's co-producer, Jerry Aronson, said "Chasing Ice" offers two stories: one about the ice, the other about Balog, a world-renown photographer and former climate-change doubter.
"The film tells his story of going from climate-change skeptic to believing what his own eyes are telling him, and what his photography is telling him," said Aronson, who lives in Boulder. "And the other story is what the cameras are telling us. What we see as an audience is frighteningly amazing footage of glaciers melting at an alarming rate.
"I tell people it's the most beautiful film you'll ever see about the end of the world."
Balog, interviewed by the Camera via phone last week while he was in Los Angeles promoting the film, said Hurricane Sandy's devastation of parts of the Northeast has brought the issue of climate change back into the forefront of many people's minds.
"There is a widespread sense of frustration if not outright anger that the subject of climate change never came up in the presidential debates, given the fact that 70 percent of the American public has been polled as saying that they think there's climate change," Balog said. "And a solid majority is saying there's man-made climate change."
Braun, who works in New York City, which suffered heavy damage from the recent storm, said current interest in the film might have been sparked in part by Sandy. The cinema that screened the film in New York was without power until five days before "Chasing Ice" wowed audiences there.
"There is a direct relevancy to the storm," Braun said. "I think people are hearing about it and thinking, 'Here are some actual images that show what's going on.'"
It was the ability of Orlowski, Balog and their team to capture striking, beautiful and sometimes-harrowing images of city-block-sized portions of glaciers slowly or suddenly disappearing that caused Paula DuPre' Pesmen to get involved with the project as co-producer in 2009. DuPre' Pesmen, of Boulder, was still busy producing eventual Academy Award-winning documentary "The Cove" when she agreed to meet with Balog and Orlowski that year.
"They opened the laptop and showed me some footage and I said, 'OK, I'm on board. This one's for the kids; this one's for my children and other children,'" said DuPre' Pesmen, a mother of two young sons. "I had never seen anything like it.
"James' work is visual," she continued. "We all hear about (climate change) and read about it, we've seen graphs and reports ... But as humans, we need to see things."
An educational smart phone app that will aid school teachers and anyone else who wants to learn about the film's subject is in the works, Balog said.
"Chasing Ice" will open in the United Kingdom in December, and mainstream movie-house chain Cinemark has shown interest in screening it, the film producers said.
"We want people to see the film to really understand that climate change is a problem, and if we don't do something soon, it's going to be a really big problem," Aronson said.


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NEW YORK — On an unseasonably warm November day in a cozy corner of the Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca, the director David Russell was speaking confidingly over coffee. Soon, his new movie "American Hustle" would arrive on the awards circuit — just this week it took honors at the Gotham Independent Film Awards and the New York Film Critics Circle, where it won best picture. But as Russell, 55, eyed an oncoming tray of sweets ("Wow, that's a lot of cookies"), he wasn't speculating about the fate of "American Hustle" as much as marveling at the long, circuitous, sometimes punishing road it took to get here.
To hear Russell tell it, the whole thing started at MoMA. In 2002, the Museum of Modern Art invited Russell to inaugurate a new series featuring young filmmakers, honoring a career that ignited in 1994 with "Spanking the Monkey," a daring, offbeat comedy about young adulthood, incest and identity. In short order, Russell followed up that auspicious debut with the equally well-regarded "Flirting With Disaster" and "Three Kings."
It was on the heels of "Three Kings," a whip-smart, hyper-kinetic Iraq war comedy starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg, that Russell was invited to MoMA, an honor he was reluctant to accept. "I said, 'It feels like I'm getting too much attention too young. I've only made three movies, and I don't know where I'm headed,' " he recalls telling his hosts. "I felt that it would be bad luck, and it was bad luck."
The museum event, as it happened, was emceed by Lily Tomlin, who had appeared in "Flirting With Disaster." She then co-starred with Dustin Hoffman in Russell's next movie, "I Heart Huckabees," an "existential detective story" that found the filmmaker — who studied English and political science at Amherst College — playfully splashing around the philosophical conundrums and theoretical loop-de-loops that had long fascinated him. Some critics cheered "Huckabees" for its idiosyncracy and willingness to take risks; others maligned it for maddening self-indulgence. (Later, "I Heart Huckabees" would become the source of instant Web notoriety for Russell, when on-set footage of him profanely berating Tomlin became a viral YouTube sensation.) In any event, audiences were indifferent, and so began what might fairly be described as the Danish Prince years.
"A period began where I was over-self-conscious and over-thinking things too much," Russell says now. "You start down certain paths, you do the same thing as before the bubble burst, [so] I did a project with Vince Vaughn, because I just love his voice. I spent a lot of time working on that only to go Hamlet, so we decided not to make it. Don't ever go too Hamlet, that's what I say."
By "go Hamlet," Russell refers to the pondering, second-guessing and temporizing that are seen in many quarters as the artist's prerogative. Meanwhile, his marriage was ending and his son, Matthew, was grappling with the symptoms of bipolar disorder. A political satire called "Nailed," which Russell wrote with his close friend Kristin Gore, wasn't completed. He began taking work-for-hire as a writer, that glittering night at MoMA a now-cautionary reminder of just how quickly life can circle back around and bite you in the backside.
"It's like, okay, you've got to pick over everything and change your mind 50 times and torture over things, and then you get brought to your knees financially and emotionally, until you are writing to survive [and] support your family," Russell says. "And you now have two households, and suddenly it's not as easy as you imagined it would be. And Sydney Pollack offers you a chance at a writing job, as a writer for hire, to adapt 'Silver Linings Playbook,' which I adapt as a job — no promises of directing. Everything is different now. The guy who was honored at MoMA is a humble person happy for a gig."
Russell was "wood shedding," as he describes it, writing scripts for "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" and "Old St. Louis," another Vince Vaughn picture, "and eventually Mark Wahlberg sends you a film that you couldn't get the first time or the second time around because your stock had dropped. But because you've been good to him, he comes back and says, 'I think we should let you try this.' "
That film, of course, was "The Fighter," a scrappy, spirited boxing drama about a washed-up athlete that found Russell hewing to his familiar spontaneous shooting style but in service to a story that felt deeply personal and imbued with new, higher stakes. The film, which earned Oscars for stars Christian Bale and Melissa Leo, was widely hailed as a triumph, with Russell's own comeback story uncannily echoing the arc of the film. Having survived his own bruising sixth round, the writer-for-hire on "Silver Linings Playbook" was able to cherry-pick that very film as his next directing project.
Even more of a critical and commercial hit than "The Fighter," "Silver Linings" earned another Oscar, for lead actress Jennifer Lawrence. (It received seven additional nominations, including for best picture.) Immediately, Russell plunged into "American Hustle," a stylish, anarchically funny caper set against the backdrop of the FBI's Abscam corruption investigation in the 1970s.
The film, opening Dec. 20, stars Lawrence, Bale and "Silver Linings" star Bradley Cooper as highly fictionalized versions of some of the scheme's real-life principals. The movie possesses a larky, slightly wild energy, punctuated by a mesmerizingly unhinged supporting turn from Lawrence. But it also speaks to Russell's re-invigorated sense of sincerity: An oft-repeated catch phrase, "from the feet up" is the director's shorthand for the kind of truth, authenticity and big-heartedness he now strives for and insists upon in every project, regardless of genre or real-life roots.
With "The Fighter," "Silver Linings Playbook" and now "American Hustle," Russell has created what he considers a trilogy of films animated by the very defeat and tenacious will to survive that characterized those years in the mid-aughts, when he was grappling with the same obstacles and self-deceptions as his protagonists. "I feel like everything was preparation for these three pictures," Russell says enthusiastically. And, whether it's the Big Bout in "The Fighter" or the Big Dance Contest in "Silver Linings" or the Big Sting in "Hustle," Russell has vigorously embraced the kind of unapologetic sentiment and sheer exhilaration — what he calls "enchantment" — that he might have pooh-poohed as a more self-serious young auteur.
"I discovered things about myself as a filmmaker that I wouldn't have told you 20 years ago," Russell readily admits. "That I believe in romance, if you come by it honestly. And I don't believe any story is a cliché if you do it from the feet up. . . . Let me tell you something: If you've lived it, it's not a cliché."
Charles Roven, one of the producers of "American Hustle," last worked with Russell on "Three Kings." He notes that, in many ways, Russell hasn't changed: He's still unafraid to take the counterintuitive path, finding drama in humor and vice-versa. He's empathetic. He doesn't like hearing the word "no."
"When he has a vision for something, he always goes for that," Roven says. "But the way he goes about getting there now is a bit different. . . . He catches himself and will say, 'Let's start over.' He'll catch himself if he's going down a road that may be leading towards a result he didn't intend a lot sooner than he used to.
"Part of his process is to be constantly trying to learn from his past, particularly in areas where he maybe could have done something better or smarter," Roven adds. "I think that he's just gotten more mature."
For Russell's part, he's now perfected a way of working — from choosing material to filming his actors with a constantly moving Steadicam, talking to them through their takes to create an intimate sense of immediacy — that's given him a new lease on his career, if not life itself. His famously structured-but-spontaneous shooting style has created an informal repertory company of actors — including Bale, Cooper, Lawrence, Amy Adams and Robert De Niro — who, in the case of "Hustle," agreed to work with him on the basis of a simple pitch. "De Niro said he hadn't had this kind of challenge in 25 years," says "Silver Linings" and "Hustle" editor Jay Cassidy, "since working with [Martin] Scorsese."
The result is a recent cinematic oeuvre that feels both liberated and deeply grounded in Russell's own life, even when he's telling other people's stories. It's the people — not the plots themselves — that matter, he says. And if he doesn't instinctively recognize those people — if their stories don't chime with his own voice and values and sense memories — he'll pass.
"That's how I felt when I saw that world of the people in 'The Fighter,' " he explains. "You meet the people and you say, 'You know, this kind of reminds me of my mother's Italian Brooklyn relatives, or some of my father's Bronx relatives. Wow, interesting.' You dial into that rhythm: Oh, I love the plaid couch, I love the cigarettes in the ashtray like my mom's were. I love how they talk to each other, how they laugh, how they fight.' That's [what I brought] into 'Silver Linings,' and now with ['American Hustle'], I'm going to do that here."
The guy who was honored at MoMA is still humble and happy for the gig, but now he's electrified, as if he's just discovered a secret that he can't wait to share. "I have a thing I'm doing now," Russell says, sounding almost surprised that, after all these years, Hamlet has finally staked his claim. "It's like a song comes to you that says, 'This is the song you should be singing.' "

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TECUMSEH — Sean McNatt and Kelly Coffin were next up as the Tecumseh Board of Education continued to interview candidates for superintendent Wednesday. Six people are semifinalists to succeed Mike McAran as superintendent of Tecumseh Public Schools.
McNatt has been superintendent of Breckenridge Community Schools since 2008. A former Onsted and Tecumseh principal, Coffin is currently director of instructional services for the Lenawee Intermediate School District.
Both candidates' resumes showed extensive education as well as lengthy classroom and administrative experience. McNatt holds a master of arts degree in educational leadership and Coffin holds a doctorate in educational leadership.
Collaboration and community involvement in the schools were again the main topics of questions from the board. McNatt, who also holds degrees in liberal arts and business administration, said communication and transparency are important parts of education.
"It is important to be out of my office and be sociable and visible to the staff," he said.
McNatt said school improvement plans are usually focused on student achievement. But in light of today's society, safety is becoming another important factor. Still, he said, education has to provide a sound basis for students to succeed.
"Curriculum is my passion. It's what I enjoy doing," he said.
With extensive experience as a teacher, McNatt first became a principal in 2002 at Arenac Eastern School, where he also served as curriculum director. After a year, he moved to Bronson as principal of the middle and high school. His building achieved Annual Yearly Progress all five years McNatt was principal.
Since coming to Breckenridge, located west of Saginaw, McNatt has led two successful bond issues and implemented a number of collaborative programs and services. The district, like many others in Michigan, has been hit with declining enrollment. However, all of the school district's buildings achieved "A's" on their state report cards.
"It would be my pleasure to live here," McNatt said. "If you have to travel two hours to get to work, that is two hours you could have spent doing something productive."
Coffin has lived in Tecumseh for 20 years and has two children still in the district. A third is a student at Western Michigan University.
"I believe the majority of my professional experience has led me to this moment in time," she said. "This (would be) my last job. This isn't a stepping stone."
Coffin detailed her experience building collaboration and developing curriculums on a countywide level in her job with the LISD.
Collaboration and communication are important to a school district's reputation and performance, she said.
"If people have trust in the process, even if they disagree with the decision, they will be invested," Coffin said. "I see myself as the number one teacher and the number one leader of the district."
Coffin began her education career as a core teacher at the Adrian Training School from 1992 to 1996. She taught special education and seventh-grade mathematics at Tecumseh Middle School for eight years before taking the job as principal at Onsted Middle School.
While in Onsted, Coffin served as interim superintendent in 2007 and oversaw district operations as well as developed the budget for the school year, which resulted in an increase to the fund equity. After two years as principal of the Onsted Elementary School, Coffin became director of instructional services and regional supervisor for special education with the LISD. Since July 2011, she has been assistant superintendent for special education and general services.
"I've worked with local boards to develop a curriculum support system. But it is also very important to talk about alignment and coherency," Coffin said. "It doesn't make much sense if teachers aren't able to work with the plan in the classroom."
Coffin said the relationships the superintendent builds with the teachers and the board are important parts of the job. She presented the board with a 90-day plan of action that she intends to implement if hired.
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A former gymnastics champion recalls the hazards of her sport, including coaches who shouted at girls, "You're a fat pig!"
Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams. By Jennifer Sey. Morrow, 289 pp., $24.95.
By Janice Harayda
Girls' sports have had legal equality for more than three decades, but they still have nothing close to parity at bookstores. There are probably hundreds of good books about football, baseball and golf for every good book about gymnastics, figure-skating and youth soccer. The number of coffee-table books about golf alone might dwarf the number of books about girls' sports.
This pattern doesn't result from a conspiracy but from a cultural reality. Large numbers of female athletes haven't been around for long enough for the books to catch up with them. Men were playing professional baseball for more than a century before Jim Bouton wrote Ball Four. Another generation or two may have to pass before all bookstores and libraries have worthy books about female athletes in every sport.
All the more reason, then, to welcome Chalked Up, an unusually thoughtful and intelligent memoir by the 1986 U.S. National Gymnastics Champion Jennifer Sey. This isn't just a good book about gymnastics – it's one of the best recent books about female athletes in any sport.
Much of what Sey has to say will be familiar to anyone who has read Joan Ryan's Little Girls in Pretty Boxes and other exposés of abuses in gymnastics. Judges play favorites. Parents overinvest in their daughters' successes. Coaches commit physical and emotional abuse, and doctors support them. Even the youngest female gymnasts may have powerful incentives to develop eating disorders and risk permanent damage to their health by competing with serious injuries.
But Chalked Up is unique for the maturity that Sey brings to bear on these issues. After beginning to compete at the age of six, she had grueling career, winning the national championship less than a year after breaking a femur in competition. Now, in her late 30s, she is old enough to have some perspective on her experiences but not so old that her memories of the pain have faded beyond retrieval.
Sey sees the harm done by the coaches who taunted girls, as she says they did at Bela Karolyi's camp in Houston, with "You're a fat pig!" and other insults. But she hasn't written a polemic. Instead, she shows how gymnastics started out as fun and gradually took over her family's life. Many factors kept her in the sport — her own drive and love of performing, her ability to find kind coaches who helped to offset the others' abuse, her parents' willingness to ignore signs of trouble. Although she never got to the Olympics, the cost of her participation emerges in final chapters that list the chilling health problems that she still has.
Yet Set misses gymnastics – or parts of it – every day. Years after she quit the sport, she watched the 1996 Olympics, when Kerri Strug collapsed on her first vault and did a second that helped the U.S. team win a gold medal. It rankled that some broadcasters praised Strug as unique. "Any girl on that team," Sey says, "would have done the same thing."
Best line: Sey argues that gymnastics is a contact sport, like football, in which the body is constantly colliding with objects with brutal force: "In football, it's another player who crushes, bruises, breaks the athlete. In gymnastics, it's the floor. Or the beam. Or any piece of unmoving, unforgiving equipment that meets the body on its descent through the air from great heights."
Worst line: When Sey was about eight years old, she saw Saturday Night Fever. She says she was struck by a character whose well-developed body got her into trouble: "After seeing this R-rated movie with my parents, I linked a developing body to danger and unwanted male attention." That's a pretty sophisticated perception for an eight-year-old.
Recommendation? A book with crossover appeal, written for adults but likely to appeal also to many teenagers.
Editor: Jennifer Pooley
Published: May 2008 www.jennifersey.com and www.harpercollins.com
Furthermore: A graduate of Stanford University, Sey lives in San Francisco.
Janice Harayda is a novelist and award-winning journalist who has been the book editor of the Plain Dealer and a vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle www.bookcritics.org.
Would you like to share a literary discovery or warn others about an overrated book? Join the conversation on the Ruthless Book Club, the online reading group for people who don't like reading groups www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/06/01.
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Zach had the second highest number of points in one season with 543 points this year. Tyle Kaus had 714 points in 2002-2003. Zach is fourth on the career points list at the end of this year with 1152. Froehling has moved into 26th place with 612 points.
The boys basketball team held it's banquet at the First Presbyterian Church on Tuesday night.
Zach Brandts was named the MVP for the Saints this past season.
Zach and fellow junior Walker Froehling were also named to the All Conference South Central team earlier in the week.
Sam Carlson won the best teammate award. The most improved award was shared by William Runge and Ryan Menssen.
Captains for this year were Joe Nelson, Carlson and Froehling.
Walker also won the PluslMinus award. Plus/Minus is a statistic that looks at how teams perform with a certain player on the court, how they perform with a certain player off the court, and calculates the overall impact that player has on team success.
Sam Carlson, Joe Nelson, Zach Brandts, Walker Froehling, Ryan Menssen, John Olsen, Jonathon Peterson, William Runge, Devon Schmitz, Justin Stevens, Logan Sykes, Tyler Witcraft, David Bradley, John Foss, Jordan Sandmeyer and Cole Skow.
Coach Steve Walker has calculated the lifetime career stats for all SJA players and teams as of the end of this season.
Zach had the second highest number of points in one season with 543 points this year. Tyle Kaus had 714 points in 2002-2003. Zach is fourth on the career points list at the end of this year with 1152. Froehling has moved into 26th place with 612 points.
Brandts is fourth in field goal in one year and fourth in that category for his career.
For three point shots in a career, Walker is in fifth place with 97 and Brandts is in ninth place with 65. The three Kaus brothers Tyler, Coby and Justin are in first, third and fourth place respectively. Austin Pinke is in second place in career treys.
Behind Jeff Nessler, Zach is now in second place in free throws made in one season. Zach made 128 this year and Jeff made 147 in the state championship year of 71-72.
Zach's in third place in free throws for his career and Zach made 14 free throws against Fairmont, which is the third highest total by a Saints player in a single game.
Walker Froehling had the fifth highest number of blocked shots in one season with 47. He's also fourth in the career blocks list with 77. Sam Birkholz, who played from 03-05 is first with 74. Another good season of blocks could put Walker at the top of this category
The Saint set a new team record this year, when the team scored 63 points in a half. They did that in the first half of the first game of the year against Madelia.


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Thursday Night FootballDenver @ OaklandRaiders-Broncos isn't just a mismatch because Denver is 9-3 and Oakland is 3-9. The Broncos' offense excels in areas the Raiders defend particularly poorly, and Denver's dynamic, quick-twitch front seven is likely to overwhelm Oakland's unathletic offensive line. NFL games shock us every week -- Thursday nighters have been especially unpredictable -- but on paper this is a game the Broncos ought to control from start to finish. ... Knowshon Moreno took over for injured Willis McGahee as Denver's feature back two weeks ago. He's averaged 24 touches in two games since, playing 85 percent of the offensive snaps. Moreno's production has been mediocre with a 3.85 YPC average and no TDs, but the workload combined with Thursday night's matchup vaults Moreno into high-end flex discussion. In fantasy leagues, he'll be difficult to bench against an Oakland defense that ranks 28th versus the run and is four days removed from being peppered by 30 Browns rushing attempts. ... Ronnie Hillman will be active Thursday as Moreno's change-of-pace back, but his role has diminished since McGahee went down. The quick-footed rookie is no more than an RB5 late-season stash. ... Onetime third-down back Lance Ball has been weeded out of Denver's offense. He had two carries in last week's win over Tampa Bay, losing two yards.Peyton Manning's target distribution over the past month: Demaryius Thomas 38, Jacob Tamme 29, Eric Decker 19, Brandon Stokley 17, Joel Dreessen 14, Moreno 9. ... Thomas has passed Decker to be Manning's top pass-game option and ranks No. 4 overall in fantasy receiver scoring. Lining up primarily against right corners, Thomas also has the most favorable Week 14 matchup of Denver's receivers. Decker will take on LCB Michael Huff, whose conversion from safety has been a quiet success. Huff is the Raiders' best cover man. .... Oakland defends the run poorly, but pass defense is its true Achilles' heel. Putting it in a nutshell, the Raiders benched RCB Ronald Bartell in Week 13 after their alleged No. 1 corner got smoked by Browns rookie Josh Gordon for a 44-yard touchdown. Bartell was replaced by special teamer Phillip Adams, and Adams was promptly concussed. Bartell figures rejoin the starting lineup Thursday night, squaring off with Thomas. ... Is Tamme's role increasing? Primarily due to Stokley's (wrist, hip) absence, it did in last week's win over the Bucs. Replacing Stokley in the slot on all passing downs, Tamme played 74 percent of Denver's offensive snaps -- his most since Week 1 -- and led the Broncos with 13 targets, securing nine for 89 yards. Tamme is hardly trustworthy in the first round of the fantasy playoffs, but desperate owners could do worse, especially if Stokley is declared inactive. The Raiders have allowed the sixth most fantasy points to tight ends. ... Manning is a no-brainer top-five QB1. Oakland's No. 25 pass defense has allowed the second most passing touchdowns in football, and consistently allows opposing receivers to run uncovered throughout its secondary.
Thursday Evening Update: A game-time decision leading up to Thursday's game, Stokley was announced as active for the contest and will resume slot duties at Oakland. Stokley's return to the lineup renders Tamme a considerably less attractive Week 14 fantasy option.Raiders running backs are best left avoided in Week 14 fantasy lineup decisions. With Marcel Reece battling hamstring and quadriceps injuries, Reece, Darren McFadden, and Mike Goodson are all candidates for touches in a matchup with Denver's No. 7 run defense, a unit allowing an AFC-low 3.58 yards-per-carry average. The Broncos shut down Doug Martin (18-56-0) last week, as well as McFadden (13-34-0) in these teams' Week 4 meeting. Starting any Oakland rusher is a likely recipe for fantasy failure. ... There aren't many Raiders skill-position players worth locking in with confidence against Denver, but Brandon Myers looks like one. Fifth in fantasy tight end scoring on the season, Myers would be an obvious beneficiary if Oakland fell into pass-heavy comeback mode. The Broncos also surrender the second most fantasy points to tight ends. "He really understands what we're trying to do as an offense," Carson Palmer explained of Myers this week. "He understands how to get open. He understands defenses. Naturally. You don't teach that."Held to four receptions for 60 yards in his last 12 quarters, Denarius Moore was benched for poor performance in last week's loss to Cleveland. Undrafted rookie backup Rod Streater capitalized for 96 yards and a touchdown on three grabs. An unreliable role, shortage of recent production, and Broncos top CB Champ Bailey's probable shadow coverage combine to make Moore an unattractive Week 14 fantasy play. Bailey held Vincent Jackson to 55 scoreless yards on three catches last week. ... Darrius Heyward-Bey has been the third pass option in Oakland's offense this season, taking a step back from last year's 64-975-4 statistical finish. Fantasy playoff owners should be able to do better in WR3 slots. ... Palmer has intermittently salvaged productive fantasy efforts due to comeback mode this season, but his slow-footed offensive line will struggle to block Defensive Player of the Year candidate Von Miller & Co., who will dial up the pass rush if they grab an early lead. Palmer is a two-quarterback league starter and nothing more Thursday night. In the Raiders and Broncos' Week 4 matchup, Palmer completed 19-of-34 throws for 202 yards, no touchdowns, and no interceptions. He absorbed three sacks and 11 quarterback hits. Expect a lot more where that came from in the rematch.Score Prediction: Broncos 28, Raiders 10
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I hope to read more from minds like that.
"The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh."
I hope to read more from minds like that.
"The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh."
Untermag -- I like it.
Last edited by 11 Bravo; 10-21-2005 at 09:18 PM.
Sign me up, i'm all for educating others, even though some of them won't accept facts. Also, i've loved mags for a long time, and i know german so i actually got the name (even though it's not hard to figure out). Also, for those who said this should be an exclusive thing, i believe you are missing a vital detail about the creed. "The points on the red star represent all of the players that do not understand our creed. The points flow into the stars center showing that all are welcome to work with us in seeking to understand the truth. The red color represents that we are active in our communications with others both inside and outside the Revolution." Basically it says to be accepting, and to accept all. Also, this isn't a cult, it's a movement.
I am all for it....
"chuff chuff"
Still chuffing.
Really? Buy a Halo! Solved it for me! Lol.Originally Posted by Spider-TW
We really are a cult, aren't we?
Chuff, chuff!
Autocockers are the greatest markers ever made.
~The greatest BACKUP markers to AUTOMAGS!!
Only temporary, get'n a new sig soon.
souds like a cult to me. lol
Talk about last post.Originally Posted by nathanjones008
Just to say that mags still have a very big under ground movement in the uk.
And i keep the movement alive and well.
Gommies mag thread @ walkonzone.com
Nearly 20 years a mag owner and still going.
I have this as a new screenname, I couldn't get my old one to post anything..
so I've been on AO since 06 (not too long) but I've owned my two mags for 10 & 15 years
classic 15 my RT 15.. kept them from Chuf to Chuff, and to another Chuff
before the lvl X.. still chuffed the crap out of things!! loyal to mags to the end of my paintball career (thats when I quit being able to pull the trigger due to being dead)
still chuffin in 08, wont stop..cant stop..
They can pry my Chuffin' chuffers from my Cold dead Chuffin fingers
Chuff Chuff,
Last edited by MagModderMatt; 06-29-2008 at 05:01 AM. Reason: because I can
Six Mags and still Chuffing!!!!
To all of you out there Chuff Chuff
Chuff! Cuff!
this shouldn't die
Last edited by Epic_Scotsman; 07-14-2008 at 08:33 PM.
Just in case some are looking for justification for continuing to own and operate THE premier paintball marker...
Saturday June 14,2008, during the Oklahoma D-Day main event, I shoot just short of three (3) CASES (That's almost 6000 rounds, for you folks from Rio Linda), WITHOUT A SINGLE BROKEN BALL!!!!
That figured out to several HUNDRED eliminated ALLIES with just my TAC-ONE RT!!
CHUFF! freakin CHUFF!
That's Chuffin' sweet Silver,Originally Posted by Silverback
'Chuff Chuff' on...
I started playing the game with an automag 68 custom with an expansion chamber...
Back when the automags and the cockers were at each other throats.
I was 11.
I had no idea how big the automag world was.
I never played anywhere but Texas Paintball in Austin, Tx from '96-'00
That paintball venue was so low key and exclusive.
It kept me from taking a bigger view at the world of AGD.
Then I stopped playing in 2000. I moved and there were no places to play around me in Washington DC and none of my new friends cared for paintball.
But as of a week ago, I am back.
I walked into a paintball store here in Tucson and was appalled at what I saw. Kids my age, kids younger than me... never even heard of an Emag or a Minimag.
I drove all over Tucson asking if anyone could help me relearn my automag. The techies all told me the same thing: "You'll have to talk with our owner... only he knows anything about anything to do with mech guns."
The owners? Only two people in Tucson I could find who would talk mech guns with me?
I was immediately getting trash-talked and told they couldn't help me if it wasn't closed-bolt.
Well let me tell all of you.
I didn't give up.
I've been talking with Dark Blade for the past week.
He has been re-teaching me everything I knew and need, nay, MUST know again.
My mag is coming back. And with the newly purchased Emag-Lowers, X-valve Lvl 10, and HPA tank, it is coming back with a vengeance... A new burst of energy and excitement that I haven't seen in a decade.
This, my friends, is the re-birth of the Angel-Killer that terrified anyone who knew anything back in the day when people paid 1000 bucks to have what a $140 Ion can do today.
My friends have Ions and other Electric guns. They tell me I'm crazy for putting the money into this old '69 chevelle SS. But they do not know what is coming. They are unfortunate in the lack of experience from what the game held and meant fifteen years ago.
They will soon learn what their ancestors feared. A world they never knew existed is coming back...
Das Untermag will reemerge victorious on the battlefields of Tucson once again and prove to the already drying paintball community why it has refused to falter in the wake of Ego's and Bob Long's.
Das Untermag Lives On.
I will be creating a thread which tracks the JTWUSAF-Dark Blade Joint Project: Rustymag to Emag, The Chronicles of the Long-Lost Hero.
That's chuffin sweet JT, let em have it. I too will emerge on the tourney battlefield later this month, some 13 years later, with my chuffer in hand !!
Just a few quotes from my more recent forays with my 'mag:
"What kind of Ion shell is -that-, Dad?" (between two players in the dead zone when I came off the field)
"Where do the batteries go in that thing?"
"Dude, run, that's the guy with the automag!" - me as a young player in 1997, part of the reason I bought one when I could afford it in 2004.
"Why do you insist on using that thing.... %#$%!" - my seapup in the Navy, who's secondhand cocker decided to drop another part on the ground at a very convenient moment.
"My Shocker's a lot faster than your overpriced 'mag." to which I responded, "Yeah, but at least my 'mag isn't rusting apart."
And, perhaps this is digressing, but since when am I old enough, at 28, that the guy behind the counter at the local paintball shop has to call his boss to find out what in the world a "BigShot" barrel is, and then offers me $5 for a used, new condition cocker-threaded one, because "no one with an autococker is going to buy a cheap no-name barrel"?
Fix'dOriginally Posted by Clockwork_Orange
I love it... im going to get the emblem tattoed on my project
chuf chuff
what emblem would that be? the chuff chuff emblem?Originally Posted by TaCticulMerderer18
I redid the emblem from the discription in the creed, then did it in a subdued patch jpeg. Here it is for all to use.
that one, without the words....
and shouldnt "The" be "Das"?
yup, sure should be...Originally Posted by TaCticulMerderer18
EVERYBODIES A CRITIC..... But good pointOriginally Posted by TaCticulMerderer18
How's this?
Last edited by Silverback; 06-06-2009 at 01:05 AM.
did i request that? oh.. either way very nice...
That will look nice on the new mag you just builtOriginally Posted by TaCticulMerderer18
Now to find a home on there for it...
im thinking scorpion on one side and that on the other right behind the detents
chuff chuff
bump n chuff!


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DENVER -- A Longmont man and his company on Monday were fined $10,000 each for illegally dumping sewage in Union Reservoir, the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Environmental Protection Agency announced.
John Albert Paquette, 53, and the company, East Point, LLC, were accused in March of discharging 1,000 gallons of raw sewage in to the Oligarchy Ditch, which flows in to Union Reservior.
Paquette and the company pleaded guilty in federal court in April.
On June 20, a city maintenance crew cleaning up the Oligarchy saw Paquette's truck pull up to the ditch, then run a hose from the truck's interior down to the ditch, Longmont environmental services manager Cal Youngberg said in March.
Paquette had allowed someone to live in a small house at his storage facility, East Point Mini Storage, 12121 Sugar Mill Road. While the unit had a city water tap, it did not have a access to sewer service. According to Boulder County authorities, the property's septic tank was not big enough.
Subsequent testing found the discharge caused no damage to Union Reservoir.
The business faced up to five years of probation and a fine between $5,000 and $50,000 per day of the violation; Paquette faced up to a year in prison and a fine between $2,500 and $25,000 per day without the plea deal.
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Police log
Jan. 23
1:46 a.m. Warrant arrest and citation on East Church Avenue for driving on a suspended license as a result of a driving-under-the-influence conviction and driving under the influence.
4:25 a.m. Theft-of-identity report on West California Avenue.
8:21 a.m. Warrant arrest on North China Lake Boulevard.
9:12 a.m. Disturbance – subject on North Norma Street.
9:17 a.m. Runaway/out-of-control juvenile at Burroughs High School.
10:29 a.m. Runaway/out-of-control juvenile at Burroughs High School.
12:15 p.m. Child Protective Services referral on South McCall Street.
1:25 p.m. Residential-burglary report on North Norma Street.
1:58 p.m. Disturbance – family on North Norma Street.
2:15 p.m. Noninjury-hit-and-run report on North China Lake Boulevard.
3:56 p.m. Vehicle-burglary report on West Vera Avenue.
4:04 p.m. Arrest and citation on West Robertson Avenue of unlicensed driver.
5:03 p.m. Follow up on Golf Course Road.
5:14 p.m. Violation-of-court-order report on South Sunland Street.
5:50 p.m. Theft report on North Alvord Street.
7:22 p.m. Grand-theft-auto-recovery report on West California Avenue.
8:54 p.m. Warrant arrest on South Gateway Boulevard for burglary and theft with a prior conviction.
9:06 p.m. Arrest at North China Lake Boulevard and West French Avenue for public intoxication.
9:33 p.m. Warrant arrest on North Norma Street for driving on a suspended license and public intoxication.
10:21 p.m. Warrant arrest on West Dolphin Avenue for driving under the influence and failure to appear.
11:10 p.m. Domestic-disturbance report on North Sahara Drive.
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INTRODUCTION With this brief extract, you can take a first look at your personal "Color Horoscope" by Johannes Schneider. Small samples from the individual sections will give you an overall impression of the complete horoscope. The "Color Horoscope" combines the delineation of the birth chart with color psychology. It provides you with an insight into the character structures by describing your distinctive traits and your needs as well as the various roles you play. The internal psychological defense mechanisms are also described, and the possibilities for alleviating these conflicts are pointed out. At times, the text is somewhat confrontational and demands an active analysis of your own personality. You can order the complete "Color Horoscope" by Johannes Schneider, consisting of 10 to 12 pages, as an E-Horoscope in the Astroshop.
YOUR BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS Objectives and Motivations
Based on the ranking of the planets receiving a high score, your objectives and the motivations for your behavior can be described as follows:
You try with heart and soul to achieve better life circumstances, whether for yourself or for others. You determinedly obtain what brings you joy and well-being: good financial situation, sensual pleasure, success, prestige, meaningful and satisfying job or ways and means to achieve physical and emotional health. Your optimism and ambition help you to succeed.
In your opinion, life should consist not only of toil but also of enjoyment and pleasure. For this reason you are determined to create a pleasant life for yourself.
You attempt to win people's sympathy and affection with your amiability, and thanks to your charming ways, you usually achieve this without much effort. Whenever possible [...]
Distress and Problems
The tendencies and modes of behavior which can cause you distress and problems can be described on the basis of the ranking of planets with a low score. However, it cannot be deduced to which degree you have become aware of and overcome your personal weaknesses, and consequently have gained a deeper understanding of the problems of others. The following statements indicate what you can do to improve your ability to move through life with fewer problems.
Due to your sensitivity you often feel someone is hampering you, either because your wonderful plans are crossed, because someone puts bothersome obstacles in your path or disturbs your life's flow, or because someone drives you crazy in some other way. If you do not express your anger but store up resentment instead, this can cause you harm in the long run.
When people or circumstances anger or frustrate you, you believe yourself to be a victim of undeserved adversities. As a result, you suffer and you are [...]
By combining your objectives and the motivations behind your behavior with your fears and the indications of your underlying issues, it is possible to conclude that your psychological needs are as follows:
expanding your horizons. In your search for enjoyable and enriching experiences, you are always open to contacts, light-hearted, entertaining get-togethers [...]
Your Color Horoscope indicates a variety of roles that you play on the stage of life. The following section describes the role plays you engage in, as well as the motivations, objectives and modes of behavior associated with it.
Analyst It is clear to you that you cannot cope with the difficulties that life brings unless you possess inner clarity. For this reason you try [...]
Nice Person Since it is important to you to get along well with people and to avoid bothersome conflicts, you always try to be friendly and accommodating. For the [...]
Resourceful Due to your intelligence, intuition and creativity, you manage to get through life fairly easily. At times, though, even you can be confronted [...]
Searching for Improvement With pricked ears and a watchful eye you absorb what goes on around you and you keep an eye out for opportunities for improving [...]
In conclusion, here is a description of those facets of your personality which can stand in the way of your development into a free and happy person as long as you are not aware of them. You hardly notice in you the presence of these intellectual and emotional patterns, nor do you perceive their mode of action. Nevertheless, the effects they have on your life are usually not to your advantage. Use the following interpretations as a working hypothesis for self-exploration. The recommendations given for each postulate indicate alternative attitudes which could possibly allow you to leave the old field of negative emotions behind.
Surrogate Pleasures You attempt to compensate feelings of frustration with satisfying activities, sensual pleasures or the enjoyment of material [...]
About this Horoscope This interpretation of the positions of the planets at the time of your birth is based on the Astro-Color-System® developed by Johannes Schneider; in addition to the ten typical planets, this system also includes the two minor planets Chiron and Vesta. In this system Chiron is considered to rule the sign of Virgo and the sixth house of the horoscope; Vesta rules the sign of Taurus and the second house. The twelve celestial bodies are awarded points based on their position in the signs and the houses of the horoscope and on the aspects between them. These scores are used to establish a ranking of the 12 celestial bodies, called the planet profile, and four subgroups, called the basic structures. Since a typical color has been assigned to each of the celestial bodies, this ranking can also be represented as a series of these twelve colors. As you can see from the personal planet profile calculated for you, each planet has its assigned color above it; the height of the colored column indicates the number of points awarded to the planet. Together with 13 additional colors, these same colors form the basis of the psychological color test Color-O-Scope®, which can be found here under the name "Color Oracle".The colors you select in the test indicate your current behaviors and problems, while the astrological analysis of your birth constellation describes your personality. The combination of these two interpretations makes it possible for you to compare your present situation with your intrinsic nature and to see which facets of your personality you are currently living out and which you are not. This comprehensive insight is entirely new within astrology and is impossible to achieve with any conventional method.
Astrological Data used for Color Horoscope Free Try-Out Edition
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Seen outside Globe Willow class: "I wish this was a boring school and it was longer so I can finish my work."
I was excited to capture this video of a preschool friend doing the 9 Layout recently. The 9 Layout is a Montessori math activity that presents the ideas of place value and increments. Beads representing ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands are counted and matched with the numerals. Here, my friend has completed the ones place and has started the tens. She is adding bars of ten until she makes ninety. (You might turn down your volume. The background is a bit noisy.)
What I noticed when I reviewed the video is how she stops to reflect after each increment. She moves the bars up, adds one, then sits back to review or reflect on the work. This is one of the beautiful aspects of Montessori - or really, just scientific pedagogy in general - the child doesn't need a teacher to step in and say, "Great! That makes 60!" All she needs is to see how to do the work then be allowed to do it. When she is all finished with the tens, then she looks up at me. My mentor, Don Czerwinskyj, made sure I understood the importance of offering a child a reflection when they were finished with work. He told me to wait for the child to finish and watch her face when she looks up. Is she pleased? surprised? excited? confused? Wait for her to assess her own work before offering any feedback. In this child's case, when she looked up at me and seemed satisfied, I said, "Ok. You did it! You completed the tens. Are you ready to count the hundreds?" She said she was and she continued.
A friend of mine told me recently about visiting a preschool where every child's work was praised lavishly. Every painting or block structure was met with, "Oh my! That's the most beautiful picture/castle/birthday cake I've ever seen!!" Montessori educators try to avoid empty praise because it causes children to look outside themselves - rather than inside - for affirmation. Just like adults, kids have opinions about their work and their performance. If a child is happy with her work then we can be happy for her. If she is unsatisfied with her work or feels she doesn't understand it, we can offer empathy, advice, or suggestions - depending on what's needed.
When this student was finished with the work, I snapped this photo just as she added the last thousand cube. She was pleased with herself, as the photo shows.
Now, because my job is to observe and assess her understanding of the concepts she was learning, I noticed that she had only stacked 8 cubes, instead of 9. This was no time for criticism - look at that beaming face! So I commented on how pleased she was with her work. I asked her if we could count all of those cubes. When she got to 8 thousands she realized that she needed one more. She added one more cube, we counted them again together, and I said, "There are 9 thousands and this says 9000. Is that correct?" She said it was, and together we determined that her work was complete. She then put all of the materials away.
Sometimes we think our grown-up words are essential to motivate children to learn and to keep them on track. But most of the time, we could get by with a few words and more time simply observing and offering reflections. Rather than saying, "That's a beautiful painting," we could say, "Wow! You used 5 different colors in this painting. Do you have a favorite?" It requires more work for us to look so carefully before commenting, but it shows the child that we are truly interested in her work. And, we are interested in the process and not just the product.
If words fail us, we can always try those three little words everyone loves to hear, "You did it!"
~ Heather
February in Indiana is tough. It's 28 days of Arctic cold, howling winds, and brown slush everywhere you turn. The air hurts your skin and the gray sky steals your hope. Do you know why February is only 28 days long? Because no one would survive if it lasted even one day longer. February is the Chuck Norris of our calendar year.
I think February brings out the worst in everyone, even the sweet little children at the Montessori school. So it's often in February when I remind myself that the primary purpose of preschool is socialization. Sure, our Montessori classrooms have these beautiful materials and teachers trained to present them, but our primary goal is for each child to develop naturally into a well-rounded and well-adjusted individual. And for that to happen, each child must learn many, many social skills. Here's a partial list. Lucky for me, blog inches are cheap!
Preschoolers do all of this really challenging work surrounded by 23 other children who are all trying to do exactly the same thing. (Twice that many, if enrolled for a full day.) Preschool can be very hard work!
Sometimes a child will do something inappropriate to another child and a well-meaning parent will ask me, "Did you tell them not to do that?" Of course. Every day our teachers remind children that hands are not for hurting and to use their words. But listening is not the way young children learn morals and social skills. (Although it IS the way they learn language.) Preschoolers learn by doing and that means that sometimes - lots of times, actually - they do inappropriate things. And gradually, they learn from them.
So, since young children are not born knowing the difference between appropriate and inappropriate behavior, and they can't simply follow our instructions, the grown-ups have to give them lots of opportunities to figure it out with other children. We must provide them with an environment that allows them to safely - with close supervision - make many, many bad decisions. In our preschool classrooms, the teachers expect inappropriate behaviors and respond to them consistently with each occurrence, knowing that they will lessen over time. A child's "bad" behavior might keep us on our toes, but it rarely surprises us.
And thank goodness for that! Imagine if doctors were shocked to see so many sick patients every day. Or if plumbers were bewildered by clogged pipes. Or firefighters were stymied when houses caught fire. They would not be very effective at their jobs. In order to be effective at my job as a teacher in a Montessori classroom of three to six-year-olds, I have to first: like children, and second: understand that all of the terrible things that children can do to each other are not failings, but simply a natural part of their development. A child who hits or bites or kicks is showing me that she is upset about something and has not yet learned to respond without hurting. It's my job to help her develop a new, appropriate response while doing my best to keep the other children safe.
I admit that my best isn't always enough. And it's not easy to watch these children suffer through the process of dealing with separation anxiety, or a friend's harsh words, or simple frustration at being unable to dress themselves. I love the children in my care and it hurts to watch them hurt themselves or others when their anger literally comes out of their fingers and toes.
Recently, I was sitting next to two children who had been playing very actively all morning. I will call them Danny and Sandy. They were having trouble working together but they just couldn't stand to be away from each other. They are each learning how to be friends with someone who drives them a little bit crazy. I stayed close to them so I could intervene and help them resolve the issues that were bound to arise when things got out of hand.
At group time the children got to talking about which animals they liked the most. Danny laughed and said, "My favorite kind of animal is Sandy." I turned to them just as Sandy pulled back her arm and punched Danny squarely in the face. Danny was really surprised. He thought maybe he was hurt for just a moment, but quickly regained his composure.
Seeing that he wasn't hurt, I said, "I don't think Sandy liked it when you called her a name. What do you think?"
"I was just saying it to myself," he said.
"Well, I'm pretty sure she heard you," I responded.
Having made herself clear already, Sandy had nothing to add.
Did Danny deserve to be hit? No. But he did need to know that Sandy didn't like the way he treated her. Should Sandy have hit him? No. But she did need to let him know that it wasn't okay to call her a name. Did either of them "get in trouble" by me? No. We talked about other possible responses and there was no more name-calling or punching that morning. But it's not over. I will keep those two on my "Watch List" for the rest of the year and when I hear their voices get loud or see them chasing each other I will do my best to be right there to help them work through their next disagreement. That's my job. Not to punish or shame children, but to help them learn to express themselves and to be good listeners and… ah, just refer to the previous bulleted list.
I have read about preschools with zero tolerance policies for hitting and biting. My question is always, "Where will they send all of those children?" If a 4-year-old is banned from preschool because she has not yet learned to get along with others, what's next for her? Reform school? Prison? Dr. Phil?
Preschool is THE BEST place for young children to learn how to get along with others. Sometimes it's tense, sweaty, gritty, even frightening work. But the mis-steps children make in preschool prepare them for a future that is much less secure. A time when they won't be surrounded by loving adults waiting to step in and guide them to resolve problems peacefully. A time when using hands to hurt can have lifelong consequences.
I am not complacent about children hurting each other and I put myself between thrown punches and sweet little faces every time I can. But I also know that "bad" behavior is not a fault in a child, it signals an important learning opportunity. A child who lashes out is showing us how we can help her. Maria Montessori put it this way,
"The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty. Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with."
"The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty. Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with."
Please try to be patient with your children and other people's children as we all wait for the Earth to travel just a little further around the Sun. February will become March, winter will become spring, and children who are not yet peaceful will develop a little more self-control and gradually, gracefully learn to cope with the many frustrations of being a small child.
Thanks for reading,
Following Friends to Physics
Free play and building with logs and boards is a realistic way to explore physics concepts. MSGL has an outdoor space that allows for more than just "recess." Outside time is not a chance to get away from the classroom, it's an opportunity for children to use their whole bodies to learn and, most importantly, have fun with friends.
On Thursday, a quartet of boys was getting very silly in the back corner of our Montessori classroom. They were speaking with outside voices and using all available paper to make pretend swords so they could have a pretend swordfight. When I tried to redirect them, they asked to make paper airplanes and see whose would fly the farthest. Although Montessori teachers are known for their flexibility and laid-back grooviness, I could not condone sword-fighting and airplane-flying during class on this, only the second full week of preschool. What would people say?
I empathized with these friends because they wanted to play together and needed to actively move their bodies, but it was still 30 minutes before we (read: I) could even think about going outside where this type of gross-motor play was appropriate. They took a half-hearted interest in another activity and I sat at a table nearby to observe. When they realized I was there to stay, they started putting away their work and chanting with dead eyes and sad voices, "No more fun. No more fun. No more fun." It would seem I had officially become "the man." They went to the other side of the room to build a tower with the brown stair and the pink cubes and within minutes, they were using the smallest brown stair as a lever to launch the smallest pink cube across the rug. Clearly, they were trying to tell me something.
What these boys wanted was action. They are perfectly willing to come in each morning and work on their maps or practice writing their names, but after a time they really want to make things move. And it's not just the boys, of course. Girls thrive on kinesthetic learning activities and they are usually the first to line up to walk across the log seesaw.
In fact, all young children are kinesthetic learners. Most mature into adolescents who can learn successfully through watching and listening, but not all. As long ago as 1979, researchers studying how humans learn understood this:
"Restak (1979) and others have indicated that many students do not become strongly visual before third grade, that auditory acuity first develops in many students after the sixth grade, and that boys often are neither strongly visual nor auditory even during high school. Therefore, since most young children are tactual and kinesthetic learners, such resources should be developed and used, particularly for those who are experiencing difficulty learning through lectures, direct verbal instructions, "chalk talks," and textbook assignments."- See the full article at Education.com
"Restak (1979) and others have indicated that many students do not become strongly visual before third grade, that auditory acuity first develops in many students after the sixth grade, and that boys often are neither strongly visual nor auditory even during high school. Therefore, since most young children are tactual and kinesthetic learners, such resources should be developed and used, particularly for those who are experiencing difficulty learning through lectures, direct verbal instructions, "chalk talks," and textbook assignments."- See the full article at Education.com
No one is suggesting that preschoolers should be taught through lectures, but sometimes society (or maybe our high school principal's voice in the back of our head) worries us into thinking that if we don't make our children sit down, concentrate, and learn - how will they ever be successful in school or the Real World that supposedly comes after?
Parents sometimes ask, "When will you teach him to sit still and listen to the teacher?" The answer is that he will sit still and listen when what I am saying is of interest to him. It's my job to find the topic that is so fascinating to the child that he can't help but hold his body still so as to not miss a single word. A teacher's job is to be fascinating; but only until the child is so interested in the subject that he sets off to explore it on his own. At that point, the teacher observes and prepares for the child's next question then guides him to find the answers on his own. (Please note: Matters of health, safety, and courtesy are always addressed immediately. No one in the classroom has the freedom to hurt themselves or to hurt or disrupt others.)
Maria Montessori observed that not only do young children learn kinesthetically, they absolutely MUST learn this way for proper brain development.
"Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas." - The Secret of Childhood
"Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas." - The Secret of Childhood
So, as a good teacher who believes in a research-based approach to education, I am obligated to consider the kinesthetic learning style of my preschool students. I am also obligated to follow a child's interests because a child who is studying something she is interested in, as opposed to an externally-imposed curriculum, is much more likely to retain that information and build connections in her brain. So why were we still inside the classroom and NOT outside studying the physics of flight and simple machines? Because I didn't know they were interested until Thursday. But now I do.
As a result, my assistant and I will be following our 3, 4, and 5-year-olds into the action-packed world of physics this week starting with the simple lever. We will spend a little extra time outside on the log seesaw for some major gross motor exploration, then we will scale down the kinesthetic experience to make smaller levers inside the classroom using blocks, rulers, pennies, rocks, and pompoms. We will introduce the appropriate words such as "load", "effort", and "fulcrum" and we will figure out how many pennies it takes the raise the rock load. I will do my best to be fascinating. There may be squeals of joy and pompoms flying through the air, but no more "No more fun."
Thanks for reading,
"Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek with Carissa Pekny during the 2016 College Championships.
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Montessori School of Greater Lafayette (MSGL) alumna Carissa Pekny appeared this week on the "Jeopardy! 2016 College Championship." A senior studying environmental science at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Carissa was one of 15 contestants competing this week on the TV game show for a chance at a $100,000 prize. Carissa graduated from second grade at MSGL in 2002.
You can watch the contestant preview video here: https://www.jeopardy.com/tournaments/2016/college-championship
Carissa almost didn't take the call the day an unknown number from Culver City, California showed up on her phone. She gets a lot of phone solicitations and was going to ignore it, but she answered and heard, "Hi, this is Amy from 'Jeopardy!'" That call was the end of a two-month process that started with an online test in November. Approximately 3,000 students took the online test and Carissa was one of the few who moved on to the regional audition.
"They tell you (at the regional audition) that if you get a call in a few weeks, you will be on the show. If you don't get a call and you don't see yourself on the "Jeopardy! College Championship" episode in February, you'll know you didn't make it," she said.
Carissa did make it to the show and she took her parents Joe and Chris, her sister Chelsea, and a West Point friend along to Universal Studios when the show was filmed over two days in January. There were fourteen other contestants and they filmed five tournament episodes each day. She described the "Jeopardy!" studio as being much different than she expected.
"You watch them on TV and think the studio is massive, but the studio is actually really small. There is room for maybe 100 people in the audience," she said.
Carissa has always liked trivia and she and her mom would compete against each other while watching the TV show at home.
"Jeopardy has been my mom's dream, too," she said.
In fact, Carissa was surprised to hear just how excited her mom really was. When she told her parents she was accepted into medical school in November, her mom was happy. But Carissa wasn't prepared for her response to the spot on "Jeopardy! College Championship."
"When I called to tell her, I said, 'Wow, you didn't even act this happy when I called you a month ago!'" she said.
Carissa started out strong in the first round of the quarterfinals on Monday answering questions about science, history, and popular music, but ultimately it was Emily Sun, a freshman from Columbia University, who advanced to the semi-finals. Carissa said she was a little nervous at first, but her experience as an athlete helped her concentrate on the task at hand.
"Just like any sports game, I was able to focus my nervous energy into focusing on answering the questions and buzzing in on the buzzer," she said.
Carissa's natural curiosity might be at the heart of her love for trivia. She discovered an affinity for research when she was in Marshall Overley's chemistry class at West Lafayette High School. After graduating in 2012, she moved on to West Point where she started doing malaria research in her sophomore year. That interest led her to spend 3 ½ weeks in Australia working at the Australian Army Malaria Institute.
"This was a way to do things that I liked doing that had implications for medical research," Carissa said.
Carissa Pekny, second from left, during Ring Weekend at West Point.
She plans to continue in the field of medical research next year as she begins medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.
In high school, Carissa was an accomplished athlete who played on the WLHS soccer, basketball, and softball teams. When she arrived at West Point in July of 2012 for Beast Barracks, West Point's Cadet Basic Training, she thought she was physically fit but discovered she wasn't really prepared for that level of physical conditioning.
"I'm not much for quitting things so I decided to stick it out until the school year and not do anything too brash," she said.
That decision paid off when it became clear that even though she may not have been physically prepared for basic training, she was academically prepared for a challenging course load. On top of becoming a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, every West Point graduate receives a Bachelors of Science degree, no matter what their major, because of the required core of math and science classes.
Carissa Pekny playing rugby for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Photo courtesy of West Point.
Once she made it through Beast Barracks, Carissa went out for the women's rugby team. She had never played rugby before, but was selected for the West Point team in her freshman year and currently plays inside center. Carissa was named to the USA Rugby Academic Honor Roll in 2015 for being a consistent starter on the team and maintaining a 3.9 or greater cumulative grade point average. The team travels around the country for both a spring and a fall season. She expressed some ambivalence about ending her rugby career at West Point by saying,
"It is rough on the body. I think I'm gonna miss it a lot because my teammates are my best friends here," she said.
Carissa Pekny pulls a friend on a sled at Morton Community Center in 2000.
When asked what she remembers about her five years at the Montessori School of Greater Lafayette, she recalled her kindergarten year, when the school was located in the Morton Community Center near Purdue's campus.
"I remember Kindergarten with (teacher) Ginny Meyer pretty well. We used to do this Thanksgiving feast and all the parents used to come and have a feast with us. That was pretty cool," she said.
Carissa said Meyer had another lasting impact on her life by always making time to listen to her read and making sure she understood what she was reading.
"I always really loved to read. Having teachers that cultivated that skill and made sure that I understood the words I was reading has benefited the rest of my academic career," she said.
In 2000, she attended the Montessori Elementary I class with teachers Linda Bolam and Jeff All.
"I remember singing with Jeff and his guitar in the circle all the time," she said. "That was a lot of fun."
She also appreciated being able to choose her activities from around the room.
"In Elementary there were certain things we had to learn, there were milestones we had to reach," she explained. "But we had a lot of free activity time and we could just do whatever we wanted. Then the teachers would come around and make sure, first off, that we were being productive," she laughed. "If we needed help with anything they would help us."
Carissa Pekny, in blue, looks on as Jeff All and a friend play for the MSGL Kindergarten class in 2000.
One specific subject she remembers learning about at MSGL is the history of the U. S. Presidents.
"This is gonna sound totally crazy, but the reason I like to study the Presidents is because (the Elementary class) had this placemat and that's how I memorized the Presidents," she said. "I remember learning a little bit of Spanish, too. I don't remember it now, but I remember trying to learn it. I think it was with Ana (Orizondo)."
Carissa's parents were involved in the MSGL school board and helped with the transition from the Morton Center to the current campus on Soldiers Home Road. Her siblings were also MSGL alumni. Her brother, Andrew, now works for an accounting firm in Indianapolis and her sister, Chelsea, works as a pharmacist in Kenya. Carissa is open to where her life after West Point and medical school might take her.
"The great thing about the Army is, if you want to go somewhere you can pretty much go anywhere," she said. "I'm just really excited to go out there and see what's out there and serve our country wherever I'm needed."
This is the first post in the series "I Am MSGL" featuring alumni of the Montessori School of Greater Lafayette. If you or someone you know would like to be featured in this series, please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
MSGL Summer Camp is open to Preschoolers through 1st Graders who are currently enrolled or recent alumni and while it is a really great time for all of those kids who have been here before, it is especially helpful for children new to MSGL and for the toddlers who are graduating to preschool. For these children, Summer Camp is the perfect way to ease into the routines of preschool and to set the stage for a successful start in August.
The absolute best part of being a Montessori directress - or ANY teacher, anywhere, I imagine - is watching the children develop and grow. We spend time with your children each day, observing and guiding them, and we get to see them just as they are in that moment. And what they are, as Grace Harvey says, is "totes amazeballs" (totally amazing). They grow in strength, wisdom, and courage right before our very eyes.
Today I will just speak to their courage because courage is the thing that gets your child through his or her day without you. In more stuffy circles it might be called confidence, but when you are only 28 inches tall and mom or dad just drove out of the parking lot, you've got to be brave to pull yourself together, to turn to face that great big green space filled with people you don't know and sally forth through the rest of your morning.
Maya Angelou said, "Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistenly without courage." During last week's Summer Camp, there were many examples of children developing their courage and I will share a few.
During Friday's Bike Day, a 4-year-old friend who enthusiastically embraces everything at school stopped his bike right at my toes, looked out at the cars going by on Sagamore Parkway, and said, "I miss my dad and my mom. And my little brother. And our dog. And they are missing me, too." I listened and commiserated and soon he took off speeding around the course. His courage waned for only a moment then he got back on his bike.
The 5-year-olds are totally courageous (one might even say fearless) out on the bike course and they consider their turn during Bike Day to be a race even though there is no starting line and no trophies. As they put on their helmets, their talk is all about who will win. When D missed his turn to ride with his fellow 4-year-olds, he got to ride with the 5's (a truly courageous decision) alonside his big brother. After the race, D was a little upset that he didn't "win." His big brother reassured him, "No, you DID win, D! Did you see all those people going by you? That's because you won!" (Just a note: We have a lot of siblings at camp this year and even though we know sibling rivalry is a real thing, you couldn't tell by watching these brothers and sisters interact at school. Whether it's inviting a little sister to play or feeding a little brother apples during snack, your children take good care of each other when they are away from mom and dad.)
The exploding paint activity required all different types of bravery, especially from the teachers. For this activity, the children put a scoop of baking soda and some colored vinegar in a plastic baggie, sealed it and shook it up before throwing it on the ground to watch it explode. If there was no explosion the child could take a pin-puncher and pop the bag. Loud noises, spraying liquids - it's not an experiment for the timid.
Courage hung thick in the air under the willow tree on Friday as children experimented with the log seesaw. Little ones who started out holding our hands as they walked the length of the log until it dropped to the ground were able to do it by themselves after seven or eight attempts. One group of brave 5 and 6-year-old girls inspired their younger sisters and friends to walk the seesaw and soon there there were eight girls waiting in line for a turn. These are some of the same girls who regularly show others how to draw pictures of princesses and fairies in the classroom. For me, this experience was a reminder that when we worry that a child is "only drawing" or "only playing" it's time to take a break and get a cup of coffee while the children follow their interests.
Maria Montessori observed that by using their senses and their big, beautiful brains, children can naturally learn everything they need to about their world. All they need is a caring community of adults to prepare an environment where that learning can occur. She described it this way, "The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences."
MSGL provides such an environment in our classrooms and on our beautiful campus that has been created by you and other parents like you. When you bring your child to Summer Camp next week or to Preschool this fall, you are allowing her to bravely conduct her own experiences apart from you. And that requires real courage from both of you.
See you soon!
"The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!" - Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind
The Spinosaurus
Perhaps you like listening to and collecting phrases like I do. Our Montessori classrooms are great theaters for listening. Three, four, and five-year-olds are intensely thoughtful and they tell us so much about themselves just by talking with their friends.
This week I had the pleasure of working in the Willow, River Birch, and Canoe Birch classes and I collected as many fabulous phrases from the children as I could. The words are theirs, the spelling is mine.
On being the first to arrive... "The only time I'm not first is when Mommy brings me. Daddy is faster than Mommy."
"Frogs lay eggs, right? Butterflies lay eggs, right?"
"I had my birthday before my brother's."
"Our grandpa makes a Donald Duck sound."
While drawing dinosaurs with friends... "It's a Spinosaurus. It's the biggest carnivore on land and it's name means lizard. It reaches in the water just a little bit and snatches a fish with it's crocodile long snout."
"A drobeosaurus has toe claws and it goes 25 miles an hour."
A different dinosaur friend... "It runs 100 and 90 hours. He has a bunch of blood in his body. It's called Spinadoctora Hundreds."
"At my house I have five lipsticks. No, six."
A child was looking for a bike to ride on the playground. I asked, "I see that blue bike is available. Would you like to ride that one?" "No! he said. "I just fell off that one."
"I'm trying to sing Let it Go, in German, but it's too hard." (The children in one class burst into singing "Let it Go" from the movie Frozen at least six times in one morning:)
"Being in the sun is so much fun."
"Will you do something interesting?"
I like to listen to teachers, as well. I overheard a few of them talking about the possibility of having a couple of chickens at school and which type might be best suited to be Montessori chickens.
"They're good egg layers, the Wyandotte's. "And they're peaceful."
"I am concerned about them getting upset and flying up into the pine tree."
"There is a 100% chance of them getting upset."
Wyandotte chick
May all your chickens be peaceful as you enjoy some fun in the sun this holiday weekend.


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