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At its TechEd conference today, Microsoft announced the next step in its "mobile first, cloud first" strategy with a preview of Apache Cordova support in Visual Studio. Cordova is a toolkit for building apps for iOS, Android, and Windows using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With the Cordova integration, Visual Studio will directly support building apps for all of these platforms.
This new thing Microsoft's got going on takes a bit of getting used to. I hope it sticks for once, because this company has changed direction more often than a politician in need of campaign funding.
I think Microsoft is at the same point of evolution with its mobile apps as Apple was with early versions of OSX. Its a good platform, but hardly anyone wants to write apps for it because the market is so small. So they'll support any cross platform system they can to keep the app count up.
I fully expect them to ditch this approach, if they become modestly successful in the mobile realm. Just as Apple did when it became successful again and ditched first class Java/Python integration with Cocoa.
How can we force people to buy our products if they don't want them?!
I know, lets allow third party to terribly hack our Visual Studio IDE to build our competitors products poorly!!!
If we can some how get them to use the same crappy Visual Studio, we can make Android almost as unwanted as Surface!
Profit!...I think...
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Hmmm... the Visual Studio Shell is extremely versatile and is used widely by third parties. Even MS now use it for their SQL Server Management Studio IDE. No third parties I've ever seen using it seem to have a problem, not are their offerings crippled.
Visual Studio is hardly "crappy" though. How does this ever stop anyone from downloading Android Studio (or Eclipse) and using that also?
Microsoft is only doing this because they have monetized Android. Its in their best interest to support Android. You won't see this moving to Linux though as they don't get anything out of Linux. And you can be sure that if they ever get to a point where they can make more money or gain more marketshare by screwing over the people who adopt this technology, they will.
That's true, but that's not why. The problem isn't that they don't get anything out of Linux, the problem is in the Linux development world no one uses Visual Studio to do development - and frankly no one wants to either.
On the other side of the equation, developers who prefer VS are not terribly interested in Linux development...
There would literally be no point in Microsoft supporting Linux desktop development with their tools. Their own developers won't use them, and they certainly won't attract anyone from the other side of the fence.
Mobile is different. There are lots of developers out there with a background in Windows development, who are comfortable with VS, who have experience with HTML5 development methodologies, and who want to do mobile development but would rather not stray away from the tools they know. For those people this makes sense, as it keeps them in the fold.
Also, Cordova is extremely easy for MS to support. Its not like they had to write their own framework from scratch - its just Phone Gap with a new name... Its already there, it already works, All they did was wrap it in a VS plugin (more or less). Easy win.
I'm just saying I don't think this is about Android at all. Yes, Cordova can be used for Android apps - but it also supports iOS, Fire OS, Firefox OS, Blackberry 10, Ubuntu Mobile, Tizen, and of course Windows Mobile. It's more than just an Android framework.
Completely disagree. As one developer that has done plenty of Linux development, I would love to have a high quality C++ IDE like Visual Studio available. I would even go as far as saying one of the reasons I switched back to Windows was exactly because I couldn't find a proper VS replacement.
Same thing goes for OS X. While Xcode is continously getting better there, I would switch to VS there too if I could.
They won't attract those that prefer terminals, make and emacs or whatever a lot of Linux devs might be using. But I think Microsoft's biggest problem today is that they intentionally gimp their own products. If they were willing to support other platforms truly (like Xamarin Studio) they would return to an age where using MS tech empowers rather than limit.
Their problem is essentially their "the Microsoft way or the highway" attitude that historically worked so well for them in the later 90's. It isn't so much a question of winning over the Linux developer as it is about making sure that existing MS developers doesn't jump ship. It used so be everyone elses problem if things didn't integrate with MS - now the tables have turned and it has become MS's problem.
And this is the real problem. Microsoft is yet to show they truly changed their ways. There are sign they may be changing, but adding a small plugin is little more than a PR move than an actual attempt of fixing the key issue.
I have used it extensively through the years, and although I don't consider it to be a poor tool set, it is also not particularly stellar either.
The most important feature for me personally is probably source file management and navigation. Over the years I have developed a very efficient way to move between files virtually always using the keyboard and mix of "find in files" and go to reference.
You could argue that competing IDE's have similar features, but somehow they always are lacking in one way or another. Take for example Xcode, which for 4 versions (10 years) refused to acknowledge the usefulness of tabbed open documents. And when they finally added the feature the tabs still arent behaving in a way where I get multiple open documents each time I try to open a new file. Add to that the tabs visually looks like ass and when you use a program every day such things matter too.
The competing Linux IDE's like Anjuta tended to instead to have no intellisense (go to reference, etc.) and no proper debugger integration. A situation that is probably better today (I hope!) - I haven't checked.
But don't get me wrong in the sense that Visual Studio is the perfect IDE with no flaws - I just wanted to point out that developing for Linux doesn't mean you can't like or want the Visual Studio IDE. We are many developers that largely like the way VS works and some of us like Open Source at the same time too.
My main beef with Xcode is the lack of plugin support. I'd say that being able to customise IDEs using plugins is very important for developers.
That's also my main beef with the Visual Studio Express Editions. No plugin support. Quite frankly, if I couldn't get the proper, grown up versions of Visual Studio via BizSpark, I wouldn't bother with Microsoft's platforms. I need my Vim key bindings to be able to code.
The IDE that I'm currently spending the most time with is IntelliJ, due to the polyglot nature of it. I can do Web, PHP, Java/Android, Scala, even iOS development using a familiar tool. Which brings me to my main point. It's hard to objectively rate an IDE. People usually like the one they're most used to.
Your making an argument for porting VS to Linux - that isn't the same thing. I still say no one doing Linux development wants to do it on Windows...
That doesn't apply for mobile, because it is (at least up to now) restricted to embedded development.
Its not about Android. Its about getting people making apps for Windows mobile devices. But, since Microsoft makes money off Android, they don't mind putting tools out for the platform. The real goal though is that now devs can make apps for both Android and WinPho without much trouble. Its a win-win
Microsoft´s new strategy is "devices and services". Before they were basically an OS provider+leveraging that OS (and Office for Mac but anything apart from that). Now they develop for other OSs (Office, OneNote for Android, etc) so it´s logical that they want people to use their OS as a development plataform.
It is probably the default suite right now, but I indeed wouldn't put it past them to add "enhancements" in the future.
This has been Microsoft's modus operandi for decades and old habits are hard to overcome.
I guess this move can be surprising for people who have not followed the recent history of the Microsoft dev tools, especially the web part.
The pace of which their web tools has improved is astonishing. They sucked for the longest time, creating such monstrosities as WebForms, but with the release of ASP.NET MVC 3 in early 2011 they really have a great platform. Afraid of lockin? Don't be, it is licensed under the apache 2.0 license, http://www.asp.net/open-source
Not only does their own web tools now rock, but they integrate nicely out of the box with things like jQuery and Bootstrap, instead of inventing their own libraries. (The default templates it comes with are even based on bootstrap)
Their recent update of the authentication frameworks now includes standard OAuth support, so you can, again out of the box, accept logins from Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc in your project.
Don't want to host your web app on windows? Then do it on mono, Microsoft is cooperating with mono. The below quote is taken from: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingASPNETVNext.aspx
While Mono isn't a project from Microsoft, we'll collaborate with the Mono team, plus Mono will be added to our test matrix. It's our aspiration that it "just work."
So yes, this move follows nicely in thread with what they have been doing for the last 3 years without much attention from the general public.
So those slamming the Visual Studio team, please stop living in the past and stop with the standard knee-jerk reaction, or at least realize that Microsoft is a big company that doesn't have one big coherent vision.
Now if you want to go yell at the Windows division and whoever made it totally impossible to figure out their server side licensing, then i am ready to join :-)
(Also notice that integration with a boatload of 3rd party components is available from the package manager built into visual studio, and there are lots of 3rd party plugins to visual studio, so they most likely didn't do anything that others couldn't do as well)
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Cordova is, IMHO, the wrong way to do multi-platform development. I don't like the one size fits all approach. You end up with a subpar user experience where the app does not feel native on any of the target platforms. Also, interpreted JavaScript in a web view? Bye bye performance.
Xamarin is the better way. It enables code reuse, but does not attempt to abstract away the underlying platform. You want the framework to bridge down to the first party APIs so that you can take advantage of the strengths of each platform. You don't want the framework to wrap them and dumb them down to the capability of the lowest common denominator.
That's all true - but that is assuming the target audience is mobile developers looking for a cross platform toolchain.
Cordova is not for that. It is targeted at web developers who want to do web apps for deployment on mobile. You don't need to learn most of the intricacies of each platform, you don't need to know Java or C#, etc.
No doubt. But arguably you can accomplish much of the same thing by moving your common libraries into C/C++ classes and just doing the UIs/platform specific stuff using each platforms native toolchain.
Xamarin users don't because it is more complex, harder to learn, etc. Cordova is another rung or two down the ladder on the complexity scale.
For most of Cordova's target audience, Xamarin is complete overkill (too complex, too much learning curve, too foreign, etc.).
Just saying, they both have their place in the world.
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Cordova is not for that. It is targeted at web developers who want to do web apps for deployment on mobile. You don't need to learn most of the intricacies of each platform, you don't need to know Java or C#, etc.
You are right, my assumption was that the use case would be to enable multi platform. The other use case just does not resonate with me. I was a primarily a Web developer before I got into mobile. When I wanted to build iOS apps, I learned Objective-C and Cocoa Touch. And then when I wanted to get into Android, I also learned the platform. It only takes around 3 months to get up to speed with either. You won't become an expert on any platform in 3 months, but your output will be better than what you'd be able to put out with Cordova.
I think that people should use the right tool for the job. Developers are doing a disservice to their users if they simply stick with what they know when that results in a subpar user experience.
I think what you say is true, in the perfect world you would use the best tool for the job, and all apps would both look and work great.
Unfortunately in the real world we often have limited resources and spending 3 months playing with a new platform means 3 months that could be spent actually being productive instead.
It is really quite simple, in most places development is prioritized after how much business value it generates compared to the resources needed to make it. Of course this is rather complex in reality as things change fast, new needs arise quickly, and quick fixes can be expensive long term, so things are a constant balancing act. The result of this is that things like Cordova is good enough in many cases because you can get an app out fast and move on with other things.
You don't get to spend 3 months aimlessly playing with platforms anywhere though. You'd still be producing code while learning the platform. It's par for the course for us developers.
How much of it is an actual business case for using Cordova vs. developer bias/inertia at the company? I've been in the situation before where the company I was working for was either going to outsource the work, or use Web technologies to build a mobile app. I put my hand up and said I was willing to take on the project and learn how to do it native. Sometimes that is all that it takes.
Some developers tend to pigeonhole themselves, and this is a disservice that they're doing to themselves. For example, some see themselves as .NET developers, and that's all they'll stick with. Others may see themselves as Web developers. They'll happily learn Angular JS or Dart, but somehow they'll think that desktop or mobile is too different.
Sorry if I'm rambling on. Like I said before, I'm clearly biased in this matter
That is a great outcoming, assuming it meets the companies objectives. But there are sometimes other factors that matter too:
1. Cost of web developer vs mobile developer. If the developer leaves, what will it cost to replace them?
2. Are there even any experienced mobile developers in the employment pool of the company? In some areas of the country the pickings are rather slim. What happens if the guy who was willing to learn leaves and there is no one to step in.
3. How much time do you have? If you don't already have an experienced mobile developer 3 extra months if learning (assuming the developer in question is as competent as you) might be too much.
4. How much of a difference will it make? Sometimes the app is so simple that there is little benefit to going native.
5. Are you porting an existing web app/site? Say something like a banking site. You'll find in most cases these kinds of "apps" are using phoneGap/Cordova because doing anything else requires completely reworking how security is implemented.
6. Do you want to be able to do application updates without having to rebuild and deploy a new version to the app store?
I'm not arguing, just saying that there are cases where something like Cordova is a good fit.
This I completely agree with on principle. Developers should be more willing to expand their horizons a bit.


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Hundreds of employers to participate in Career Showcase
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — More than 250 employers will be looking to recruit University of Florida students and alumni during the 2014 Career Showcase Jan. 21-22 in the O'Connell Center.
The showcase, hosted by UF's Career Resource Center, offers students the chance to meet potential employers face-to-face and find jobs and internship opportunities. The showcase runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on both days. A new addition to the event will be a LinkedIn photo area from 12:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. to provide professional headshots for profiles on the social networking site.
On Tuesday, employers will be seeking students from non-technical fields like political science, communications, humanities and accounting. Employers on Wednesday will meet with students from technical backgrounds, such as engineering, physics and mathematics.
Last spring, Career Showcase set and broke a record with more than 8,000 participants.
Students attending the event must bring their Gator 1 cards and are strongly encouraged to bring several copies of their resume. The showcase is open to only UF students and alumni.
A list of participating companies is posted in Gator CareerLink, which can be accessed through the CRC's website www.crc.ufl.edu. Twenty-nine of the employers are new, including Capgemini and CURTCO Media Group. For more information about the event, the Career Resource Center or the center's other workshops and events, go to www.crc.ufl.edu.
Impact on parking
The top two levels of the O'Connell Center parking garage will be reserved all day for the Career Showcase on Jan. 21-22, and the top level and ramp will be reserved on Jan. 23. In addition, on Jan. 21-22, section B5 of the O'Connell parking lot (located in the NW corner) and the row of spaces between the garage and O'Connell Center will also be reserved.
Decal holders who normally park in these areas should be aware of this impact and may need to seek alternate parking during this period. Additional shared Red/Green parking has been created on the top level of Garage 5 (located at the Gale Lemerand Drive and Museum Road intersection) to help alleviate event parking issues.

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Sky Candy is thrilled to offer private instruction for birthday parties, team-building, and other groups!
What to Expect
We usually do an "intro" level tour of static trapeze, lyra (aerial hoop), silks, and hammock. No experience with gymnastics, aerials, or flexibility training required – anyone can participate! We are also available for apparatus-specific parties, such as silks parties, lyra parties, etc.
Students of any age are welcome to attend youth parties. However, for students under age 6, a parent/guardian of that student must be present in the studio throughout the party.
Our parties (and classes) have a maximum 6 to 1 student / teacher ratio. For parties of more than 6, we engage additional instructors (at no additional cost). We have found that this ratio optimizes our students' fun and safety, and ensures that each person has plenty of time in the air!
Party Pricing
Private Party: $240
75-minute party includes warm-up, aerial lesson, cool-down, and time for photos. $240 for up to 6 people, $40 for each additional person.
Private Party Package: $300
2-hour party includes warm-up, aerial lesson, cool-down, and 45-minute space rental for celebration, with table and chairs provided. $300 for up to 6 people, $40 for each additional person.
Please note that all events require an initial nonrefundable deposit to secure your booking.
For groups of up to 12 participants (with no space rental) the deposit is $50.
For groups of more than 12 participants OR for any party with space rental, the deposit is $100.
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PHILADELPHIA -- The timing couldn't be worse for the Washington Redskins.
Facing a stretch of three games in nine days and 22 hours, the team was left wondering who their starting quarterback was after last night's 28-14 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.
"I don't know," coach Joe Gibbs said when he was asked who would start against the New Orleans Saints Sunday.
"We've got some serious problems," Gibbs said.
Coming right after the New Orleans game will be a Thanksgiving date in Dallas against the Cowboys.
The quarterback who can be ruled out is Stan Humphries, who sprained a knee when he was tackled by Reggie White on a fourth-and-one play at the Eagles' 9 with 9 minutes, 55 seconds left in the game.


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Everyone has a general idea of what child custody is, but not everyone knows all the different types of child custody that parents and guardians can have. This article will give you an overview of the various types of child custody.
Physical Custody
Physical custody is one of the most commonly known types of child custody. If a parent has been granted physical custody of a child by a court or other ruling body, this means that the parent has the right to have the child live with him or her. In some states, an award of joint physical custody is possible when a child will be staying with both the mother and the father for significant periods of time.
In most situations, joint physical custody will only be awarded when the parents of the child plan on living relatively close to each other. If the parents live too far apart, the strain on the child may play a role in awarding one parent or the other sole physical custody.
Sole physical custody is the term used when a child lives primarily with one parent while the other parent only has limited visitation or custody rights. As an example, a mother could have sole physical custody where the child spends every day living with her and only visits the father for a few hours at a time.
Legal Custody
If a parent has been awarded legal custody of a child, this means that the parent has the legal authority to make decisions about the child's education, health and upbringing. The parent with legal custody of a child will have the authority to decide which school to send the child to, which religion the child will practice, and what sorts of medical care the child will receive. Many states regularly award joint legal custody after a divorce. This means that parents will have to cooperate and make joint decisions about their child's upbringing.
If one parent in a joint legal custody arrangement takes decision-making powers away from the other parent (perhaps by making unilateral decisions about a child's education), the other parent can go back to court to get a judge to enforce the joint legal custody order. Although the judge will probably not punish the parent that violated the order or send them to jail, it will probably cause a lot of embarrassment as well as introduce more stress into the already strained relationship (which could cause harm to the child). In addition, legal fees may add up each time a lawyer is called to court.
If you feel that the other parent in the joint legal custody arrangement is making it hard or impossible to make decisions simply to spite you, you are free to go back to court to attempt to get sole legal custody of your child. However, many states and courts try to refrain from granting sole legal custody as they feel that having both parents looking out for the interests of the child is preferable to just one.
Sole Custody
It is not unheard of for a judge to award sole legal or physical custody of a child to one parent. Sole physical custody is often awarded in divorce proceedings when it can be shown that one parent is unfit to be a parent, often due to financial, drug or alcohol problems. In addition, if one parent has taken to living with a new partner, and that new partner is deemed unfit to care for the child, then sole physical custody may be awarded to the parent that is in the better position to care for the child.
However, there has been a recent trend towards allowing joint legal custody even when sole physical custody is awarded to one parent or the other. In addition, even if sole physical custody is awarded, there has a been a push to allowing more lenient visitation rights for the parent that does not live with the child.
If you are involved in a messy divorce, it is ALWAYS best to keep in mind that a child is not a bargaining chip that can be used to hurt your ex. Arguing for sole custody just for the sake of hurting your ex is never wise and will most likely hurt your child in the end.
Joint Custody
If the parents of a child do not live together but share the responsibilities of making decisions about the child or housing the child, they are engaging in joint legal or physical custody of the child. Joint custody can be joint legal custody, joint physical custody, or both joint legal and physical custody.
For couples that share joint physical custody, it is pretty common for them to share joint legal custody as well. However, the opposite is not necessarily the case. Parents that share joint legal custody will not always share joint physical custody.
Joint Custody Arrangements
When parents share joint physical custody of a child, they will often draw up a joint custody arrangement (sometimes called a parenting agreement) that they will present to the judge to be ratified. This arrangement is based upon the parents' work schedules, the child's school schedule as well as the needs of the child. For parents that live close together (meaning that getting to school for the child is not a problem from either house), it is pretty common for parents to rotate weeks or months with the child. In addition, when parents live a bit farther apart, it can be common to have a joint physical arrangement where the child will stay primarily with one parent, but split weekends and holidays between the two.
Lastly, some custody arrangements allow the child to remain in the family home while the parents move in and out according to the custody arrangement. This is often called a "bird's nest custody arrangement," and can be beneficial to young children that attach their emotions to the family home.
Joint Custody Pros and Cons
It is often useful to consider the pros and cons of the many types of child custody arrangements. One of the main advantages of joint custody for the children is that they get to remain in contact with both of their parents and continue their relationships on both sides. In addition, joint custody has the advantage of placing an equal load on both parents in terms of the burdens of raising the child.
However, joint custody arrangements also have their disadvantages as well. For instance, the children subject to the arrangement must be continually taken back and forth, and if either parent has any ill will towards the other, it may come off with negative side effects on the children. Lastly, it can become expensive to keep two homes for a child.
If you do have a joint custody arrangement for your children, you should be sure to keep track of all the money you spend on your child's living needs. If your ex ever calls you to court to complain that he or she spends more money caring for the child than you do, you will have the documents you need to show just how much you spend caring for your child.
Get Legal Help With Your Child Custody Case
Child Custody cases are legally complicated and put quite a bit of emotional stress on the parents. Getting professional feedback from an impartial party can help you make the right decisions. If you have questions about the various types of child custody, and which may be best for your child, your best option is to speak with a local family law attorney.
Contact a qualified child custody attorney to make sure your rights are protected.


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Kid Zone
Children are very important to us at FUMCCB. Parents and volunteers partner to teach our kids about God's love and what it means to be a follower of Jesus. We do this by making Bible stories come alive through storytelling, crafts, and various other activities.
On most Sunday mornings, elementary school kids start with their family in worship at 11:00 a.m.. (A nursery is provided for infants and toddlers.) During this time, we encourage parents to teach their children about the basic rhythms of worship, helping them read the prayers, sing the songs, and participate in the sacraments. About fifteen or twenty minutes into the service, children are invited to be dismissed for an age appropriate Bible lesson and activity. Although children are always welcome to remain with their families in worship, those who choose to participate in the children's lesson are picked-up by parents after the service in our Sunday school classrooms (downstairs).
On the second Sunday of the month when we offer contemporary worship, children's church is offered during this 9:30 a.m. service and "Wiggle Bags" are given to kids who remain in worship with their parents at the 11:00 a.m. service.
Note to Parents: The safety of your children is very important to us. Every volunteer in the children's ministry receives training in our denominational Child and Youth Protection Policy and must sign a covenant agreement to strictly abide by this policy. Your child will always be supervised by adults that have undergone national background checks. You are welcome to observe class and are encouraged to ask questions.
Warren W. Willis United Methodist Camp: The UMC in Florida is blessed with awesome summer camp, and we encourage parents to consider allowing their children and youth to be a camper. It's a life changing experience! For more information: http://www.warrenwilliscamp.org/.


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It's officially the month of falling leaves, plum and vampy lipstick shades, deep smoky eyes, chunky sweaters, ankle booties and beating your face everyday because humidity be damned! Yes, I'm a Fall stan. I decided to compose a nice little affordable makeup wish list because as much as I love lip gloss, my love for matte has come back. Yes, matte lipstick and I go way back, we broke it off after I realized our relationship was drying up(bad pun, I know and I don't care). I ran to the moisturized arms of lip butters and glosses, but Lord knows matte will always have my heart.
The first on my matte lipstick wish list has to be the Ruby Kisses Matte Lip Lacquer
This year I decided to try out some new Fall colors outside of my favorite plum to black shades. I decided to try out a deep red this year, experiment with a little grey silver shade like Insecure. I know I can make the shade Insecure work with a black lip liner and that mauvey lip shade Mirage, just looks like a great nude for a more natural look. These lip colors are each very comfortable on the lips and extremely affordable. I have the shade Queen in this collection, you can see that review here.
Now as much as I love matte, I still reserve the right to experiment with other finishes, right? I decided to hop on the metallic lip color bandwagon and found some incredibly cheap dupes in the process. We all are aware of the ColourPop mania that happened earlier during the Summer when they debuted the constantly sold out metallic lip shades.
I was doing a little browsing on iKateHouse and found these metallic liquid eyeshadow shades from Absolute Makeup which are 2.99 a piece. At first I thought that the texture of the shadows would make for a really good hold on the lid, but it was the application process that troubled me. The formula is kind of thick so if I were to apply the shades to my lid it would take a little work. Suddenly, it hit me, why don't I just wear the shadows as a lip color? I bought about two of the shadows and found that it comes with a doe foot applicator like a liquid lipstick would, it was just much smaller than your average sized tube.
Applying the fluid eyeshadow was just like applying a liquid lip color. The formula was a little drying but nothing that actually harmed my lips. I was amazed at the hold and the fact that it indeed did not budge. The finish is indeed a matte metallic with some glitter but not an alarming amount. I was so amazed at the quality and duality of this product. The colors themselves are pretty opaque but make sure you allow your lips to dry before applying another layer because sometimes you can rub the color off in an attempt to add more. I didn't really have this issue because my first layer was pretty opaque and pigmented but if you're heavy handed with your product then you might, just a forewarning.
I'm obsessed with using these shadows as lip colors and are currently ordering more lol.
So far this concludes my fall lipstick wishlist.What are you looking forward to this fall?


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Questions and Answers About the Citizens Advisory Committee (Posted July 7, 2016)
1. There is a rumor that there are some "special invitees" in the Citizens Advisory Committee, which is concerning to me. Who are they and why do they receive special invitations to be on the Committee?
There are no special invitees. Here is the composition of the Citizens Advisory Committee:
- There are thirty (30) voting members, consisting of twenty-nine (29) parents and residents within the District's boundary, and the President of the teachers' union, who has one vote on behalf of all the teachers in his organization.
- Within the twenty-nine (29) parents and residents, three (3) are current PTSA Presidents and one (1) is President of the PTSA Council. The PTSA President of Lynbrook HS had applied and was selected to serve on the CAC, but due to personal/family priorities, could not accept the invitation. A Lynbrook area applicant was invited to take her seat.
- Five students from three (3) of our high schools will take turns having three (3) seats in the committee. They are not voting members, since our students are not of legal age.
- Two administrators, one from Lynbrook high school and the other from the Enrollment and Residency Office of the District, serve as subject matter experts on issues such as enrollment and scheduling of classes, sections and programs. They are also non-voting members.
- The facilitator is assisted by a communication coordinator, and at times a transcriber to capture meeting minutes. The communication coordinator also handles questions sent by community members to email@example.com, and reports them to the committee. These people make up the facilitation team, and are not voting members.
- From time to time, subject area experts from FUHSD are asked to provide information to the CAC, however these FUHSD staff members are only present at a meeting at which they present and they do not vote on any CAC matters.
2. Who is this retired judge that we have been hearing about, and what is his contribution to the process? The facilitator is supposed to maintain his own independence and impartiality regarding the proceedings and outcomes of the committee. Why does he need guidance and "supervision" by a retired judge?
In the early stages of setting up the committee, establishing selection criteria, determining its proper composition, and ensuring proper diversity and balance, the District and the community all looked to the facilitator to make the most neutral and unbiased decisions.
While the facilitator possessed 15 years of experience in the practice of neutrality, the complexity of the issues raised by more than 76 applicants in the one-on-one conversations he was having with applicants convinced the facilitator to request the assistance of a retired judge.
This is a frequently used service by an organization called JAMS (Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services). JAMS provides judicial neutrals who are retired judges using their decades of experience in the legal practice of neutrality to assist individuals, organizations and communities in resolving disputes. In this case, the facilitator requested a service called neutral analysis and was given the names of four judges to select from, none of whom he had never worked with in the past, lived in the District boundary, or had children or grandchildren attending school in the District.
He then connected and met with Judge John Flaherty to go over the facts of the case, review all of the decisions he was planning on making, and make use of the legal and impartial expertise of the judge to ensure that all decisions were arrived at with no bias. After that the judge would remain available for consultation by telephone and email if additional issues showed up.
This was a wise decision by the facilitator to seek additional support from someone with decades of experience in the legal practice of neutrality. Two heads are always better than one, and 50 years of combined experience are much better than 15 years of experience in dealing with complexities. This is a major collective effort by many people who devote much time, energy and passion to achieve their desired outcomes for our community. Shouldn't we take seriously the decisions required to set it up, establish selection criteria, determine its composition, and ensure proper diversity and balance?
3. We have been told that seven (7) of the twenty-nine (29) parents and residents in the committee (24%) are either teachers or staff employed by the District. How is this a fair inclusion? What actions are taken to ensure that they don't feel pressured to vote according to the wishes of District administrators?
Initially there were seventy-six (76) applications received by the deadline. Over the next few weeks, six (6) individuals withdrew their applications for a variety of reasons, most of which had to do with lack of time. Of the remaining 70 applicants, 17 of them were parents and residents in the school district, who were also teachers or staff working for the District.
The controversy was conveyed to the facilitator in strong oppositional terms. Some community members from the Lynbrook area believed that no District-employed teachers or staff should serve on the committee, as they would feel pressured to take positions or vote in ways that were consistent with District administrators' leanings.
Teachers and staff who applied to serve on the committee felt that their knowledge about school culture, student motivations, and the educational code were assets that would benefit the committee. They argued that they too were legal residents in the District, and their children's quality of education was also at stake. They were acting on their own best interests as members of a free society, and to deprive them of the opportunity to serve on the committee would be unfair. Furthermore, as members of their own collective bargaining units, their independence from District administration was well established.
The facilitator and the judge discussed the issue at length, and made the decision in favor of the teachers and staff who were also parents and staff in the District. However, two additional actions were recommended by the judge, and implemented by the facilitator, to prevent any possibility of bias, no matter how slight:
- All seven (7) teachers and staff who were selected were contacted personally and advised that they were selected as parents and residents, not as teachers or staff, and the school district and its administration would have no authority over how they chose to participate in the committee. They also acknowledged in writing that if they ever felt any inappropriate pressure for them to take a certain position or vote a certain way in the committee, they would contact the facilitator immediately, who would take action to address this problem.
- The facilitator will provide anonymous voting in committee activities requiring voting, as long as any member of the committee requests it.
4. What is the percentage of teachers and staff who were selected vs. the number that applied? How does this compare with the percentage of other applicants who were selected vs. applied?
As mentioned previously, seven (7) teachers and staff were selected out of seventeen (17) who applied. This works out to roughly 41%. In comparison, of the 53 others who applied, 22 were selected, or 42%. Be aware that the percentages just worked out that way, as it was not the intention of the facilitator to select proportionately more or less teachers and staff than those who were not teachers or staff. They were all treated as parents and residents in the District, and the percentages were not a goal or target he was aiming for.
5. Why not publish a list of all applicants, what attendance area they come from, what their profession is, and whether they were selected for the CAC or not?
On the FUHSD Citizens Advisory Committee web page you can see a list of all the selected members of the CAC. When they applied, they were aware that if selected, their names would be published on the web site. However, many of them specifically requested not to have their contact information published for fear of being targeted for attacks by individuals within some social media groups in the community. We have complied with this request to date.
The applicants who were not selected have not given their permission for their names to be published. The facilitator has emphasized that because there were only half the number of seats as there were applicants, many excellent candidates were disappointed. A few were extremely upset by this news and communicated their feelings to the facilitator. To ask them for permission to publish their names as "not selected" would seem to be adding insult to injury. Furthermore, no one was asked to list their professions on the application form, other than teachers and staff who had to identify their school and position. In that case, posting applicants' professions publicly may seem to be an unfair action with a bias against those who are teachers and staff.
6. I have been hearing from one of the residents in the Lynbrook area that the CAC is more representative of teachers and residents who are current or former employees of the District and a very minor number of folks unrelated to FUHSD. This resident concluded that the CAC is not shaped up to be true representation of the community as it was announced in the Board meeting on January 12, 2016, and is looking more like teachers, FUHSD staff committee deciding on their future, and a career planning activity.
The facts are explained clearly in the Qs and As on the web site, as are the names of all members of the committee who are investing time and energy to study and discover collaborative solutions to the enrollment challenges facing the District. You are welcome to talk with any of them to hear how they really feel about the composition of committee and the caliber of their fellow committee members.
Here is the current composition of the 29 parents and residents who are voting members of the committee:
12 out of 29 from Lynbrook HS area (41%)
6 out of 29 from Cupertino HS area (21%)
6 out of 29 from Fremont HS area (21%)
3 out of 29 from Homestead HS area (10%)
2 out of 29 from the Monta Vista HS area (7%)
Please make up your own mind about the CAC activities and progress reports based on facts, and insist on evidence whenever someone sends you rumors and innuendos. Continue to send your questions/comments to us at email@example.com, and we will share them with the members of the CAC, and provide you with a prompt, truthful and accurate responses.
7. One of the residents in the Lynbrook area told us that their application to the CAC was rejected. The resident felt that the rejection was due to prior opposition to cell towers at FUHSD and that was the real reason for the rejection. Is this true?
The CAC facilitator alone made the selections using the criteria that he developed with community input and approved by the retired judge. He said, "I asked no one, and no one told me who was involved in the cell tower situation." He offered his regrets to those applicants who were not selected, and asked them to continue to stay informed about what can be done to sustain the highest quality of education to all the students in the school district.
8. One resident in the Lynbrook attendance area was told that the enrollment issue was only related to Lynbrook, and assumed that the Citizens Advisory Committee should consist of mostly Lynbrook parents and residents. The resident was surprised and upset that parents and residents from other attendance areas were now also involved in the CAC. When did this committee become a District-wide effort?
On January 12, 2016, when the Board of Trustees made the decision, it was documented as follows in the Board meeting minutes:
To form a District-wide citizens' advisory committee to study the enrollment needs of the District and all its aspects to provide a report and findings in order for the Board to make decisions for implementation in the 2017-2018 school year.
All five high school attendance areas are inter-dependent, and an action taken to increase enrollment at Lynbrook might draw students from other high schools, resulting in an enrollment decline at those schools. Understanding these inter-dependencies will allow the CAC to be more knowledgeable, and their recommendations to the Superintendent and the Board much more effective.
9. How was it decided how many parents and residents from each high school attendance area would be selected for the CAC? Who made this decision?
This was the most challenging decision that the facilitator and the retired judge made together, having taken on the role of being objective neutrals in the situation. They deliberated the two main arguments that had been submitted:
Option A: This is mainly a discussion about what to do with the declining enrollment at Lynbrook HS, 50% of the residents and parents should come from this attendance area.
Option B: This is an advisory committee on District-wide enrollment, and all five high schools are inter-dependent with regards to enrollment stabilizing actions, therefore 20% of the parents and residents should come from each attendance area.
They concluded during their deliberations that Option A was too Lynbrook-centric, and Option B did not give enough weight to the impact of any actions taken to stabilize enrollment at Lynbrook which may primarily impact enrollment at Cupertino High School and Fremont High School. The CAC facilitator and the judge considered different percentages and eventually settled on the following:
Lynbrook HS 40%
Cupertino HS 20%
Fremont HS 20%
Homestead HS 10%
Monta Vista HS 10%
As a reasonableness test, they looked at the percentages of applicants from each of the attendance areas, and saw that they were very close to the above proportions:
Lynbrook HS 42%
Cupertino HS 20%
Fremont HS 19%
Homestead HS 10%
Monta Vista HS 9%
Questions and Answers About the Citizens Advisory Committee (Originally posted April 2016)
1. What is the makeup of the committee, and how will balanced representation be ensured?
Assuming the current enrollment projections are accurate, which the committee will verify, Lynbrook High School is the only school in the District with an enrollment decline, and therefore Lynbrook will have the largest number of participants in the committee compared to other high school attendance areas. Each of the options that may be used to stabilize enrollment for Lynbrook may have an impact of varying degrees on the other high school attendance areas, so representatives from other FUHSD high schools are required. Community members and current and future parents of our high school students will be included, as well as teachers and students who will need to understand and respond to how the options will impact them. A small number of school and District staff will be needed to serve on the CAC as subject matter experts to the committee because their knowledge and information regarding scheduling and enrollment will be essential to deepen the understanding of the CAC members.
2. In selecting CAC members, shouldn't we give higher priority to property owners rather than renters in the attendance areas? Owners have a lot more at stake, whereas renters can just move away whenever their children are finished with school.
The sentiment is understandable, but for the committee selection process to favor owners over renters could be considered an illegal discrimination. If a parent or legal guardian resides in a school district, their child's attendance area is designated by the publicly elected school board for that district. The law regarding public education makes no distinction between owners and renters, and the only valid consideration is their legal place of residence.
3. Of the teachers who are in the CAC, how many teach STEM subjects rather than liberal arts subjects? This ratio should be balanced because both perspectives are important to the excellent education quality in all of our high schools.
This was not used as a criterion for committee member selection. However, it turned out that three members of the committee have taught Math and Chemistry, and three others have taught liberal arts subjects. In addition, committee members have served on the FUHSD Math Advisory Council and volunteered for Science Fair, Book Fair, Music Booster and Athletic Booster programs. There is excellent diversity of interests in the committee.
4. What is the procedure for assembling the committee? What is the process for the committee to do its work?
On April 1, 2016 the CAC webpage on the FUHSD website was launched and included information about the CAC facilitator, the schedule of meetings, and an application form that interested parties can download from the FUHSD website. Applications can be submitted by mail, by email or fax and must be received by the deadline of April 22, 2016. Selections will be completed and invitations issued to committee members by the middle of May, as the first committee meeting is on May 25, 2016. Final committee selection will be made by the CAC facilitator and determined in adherence to the goal of forming a committee that is representative of a variety of stakeholders throughout FUHSD. The main criteria for selection include:
A passion to contribute to the highest quality of education for ALL students in the District.
A willingness to be open-minded in examining facts and verifying information
A commitment to seek win-win or compromise solutions with other committee members, since the goal of stabilizing enrollment involves complex issues and multiple alternative solutions
Leadership and affiliations with PTA/PTSA or community groups which yields the ability to assist in the dissemination of information to the larger community
Ability to be present at all meetings of the committee
The committee will hold ten meetings, typically on a Wednesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the District office. A hot meal will be served at 6:00 pm before each meeting.
The first meeting will be organizational in nature, going over goals, tasks, process, priorities, agreements, and expectations between committee members. A communication process will also be determined so that the larger community can monitor and communicate to the committee regarding its progress.
Several meetings will be devoted to examining and confirming information, such as the enrollment projection information, funding and bond programs, physical and educational capacity, boundary differences vs. Cupertino Union School District, enrollment and relationship to classes, sections, programs, student performance, diversity, property values, and college admission implications.
Several meetings will be devoted to clearly understanding the options available to stabilize enrollment, such as boundary change, area of choice, open enrollment, or existing program relocation, the pros and cons of each one, and especially their multi-faceted and District-wide consequences.
The rest of the meetings will be focused on developing solutions, building partial or full consensus, and preparing the report and presentation to the Superintendent and the Board of Trustees.
As this is a Superintendent committee and not a Board committee, its working meetings are not going to be open to the public. To ensure transparency a detailed report will be published after each meeting. All questions and comments should be addressed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
5. How was the facilitator selected, and how can we be sure that he will do a satisfactory job with this committee?
Pursuing a comprehensive and measured process, FUHSD consulted with a number of community members and FUHSD staff in order to obtain the name of an individual who has a proven track record of successful facilitation for organizations, large groups, and communities. FUHSD feels fortunate to have retained the services of Minh Le, President of the Wilfred Jarvis Institute in Cupertino, to facilitate the Citizens Advisory Committee because of his qualifications, thoughtful leadership, and strong desire to serve the community. Click here to learn more about Mr. Le and his background.
6. How can we make sure that the facilitator will not be biased in favor of the Superintendent who made the decision to hire him?
Mr. Le is clear that as a facilitator his commitment is to listen to and care about every person who has a stake in the quality of the education received by every FUHSD student. However, in order to be effective in his role, he will maintain neutrality and impartiality with regards to the proceedings and final recommendations of the committee. His independence is an asset to the committee, and a benefit to the committee's work.
7. Please publish the names and email addresses of all committee members so that we can contact them with questions or concerns related to the work of the committee.
Once the CAC members have been selected, their names will be published on this website. However, rather than including the email addresses of members of the CAC, members of the community who want to send questions or comments to the CAC are invited to use the firstname.lastname@example.com email address and this information will be provided to CAC members.
8. How can I find out about what happens at the CAC meetings? How will the process and eventual CAC recommendation be transparent to the community?
The communication process from the CAC to the community will be prompt and frequent. Following each meeting a summary of what transpired at the meeting will be posted on this website. We anticipate that in the Fall the CAC will submit a recommendation to the FUHSD Board of Trustees and this recommendation will be shared in full on this website before it is presented at a FUHSD Board meeting.
9. Is there a minimum of meetings that I am required to attend in order to serve on the Citizens Advisory Committee?
Selection will be based on the five criteria listed under question two above. On the application there is a space where an applicant can indicate how many meetings will have to missed due to a schedule conflict. That information will be taken into account in evaluating the applicant's qualifications compared to other candidates.
10. Why does the application ask for information about volunteer activities and leadership roles in schools?
This is one of the criteria for selection. The rationale is that volunteer experiences in local schools and leadership roles in school-related organizations are correlated with knowledge about education, experience in working with parents, teachers and students, and the ability to connect to or influence a larger network of people in the community.
11. Why is it that the application wants to know if I have any children and where they go to school?
We want to make sure that each of the following groups of participants is represented in the committee in appropriate proportions: students, teachers, current and future parents and community members. If an applicant's student's attendance area is one of our high schools, the applicant will be considered as a current parent. If the attendance area is a Cupertino Union School District or Sunnyvale School District school, the applicant will be considered as a future parent. In addition, see the answer to question one above regarding the makeup of the committee, and why some of our high school areas may have more representatives in the CAC than others.
12. I understand that the CAC meetings will not be open to the public. Isn't this a Board committee subject to the requirements of the Brown Act?
Once the Superintendent considered the timeline for decisions and the need to have the group consider a large amount of information, the Superintendent chose to create an ad-hoc Superintendent's committee. Although this committee is not subject to Brown Act requirements, FUHSD is focused on transparency for the public including having the committee members act as liaisons to the community so that they can receive community input and bring that input to the meetings. The committee members can freely discuss issues with the community outside of the confines of an agendized meeting.
The facilitator's criteria for committee members will allow the selection of people with passionate voices, as well as those who have leadership and affiliations with community groups to maximize two-way communication. We will share as much in terms of minutes and topics on the website as we can in an effort to make the process highly transparent.


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American opposition to the Vietnam War, propelled
largely by young adults and college students in small numbers in
the mid-1960s, grew into a national phenomenon by the end of the
decade and on into the 1970s. As the War pushed seemingly endlessly
forward, so did the protests. The draft, first-time-ever television
coverage of combat, the Kent State shootings, the My Lai massacre
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contributed to a nationwide beating drum of anti-war sentiment.
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Below are some of the more memorable quotes from well-known figures
about the War.
We are not
about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from
home to do what Asian
boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson, Oct. 1964
brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room.
Vietnam was lost in the living rooms
of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan
was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without
censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public
General William C. Westmoreland
No event
in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It
was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. Nixon
One of the
greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is The Great Society ...
shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
numbers have increased in Viet Nam because the aggression of others
has increased in Viet Nam.
There is not, and there will not be, a mindless
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and
stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone
General Curtis LeMay
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not in Vietnam all that part of the world would be enjoying the
obscurity it so richly deserves.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I was
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were my babies.
Benjamin Spock
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human activity.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.
Alexander Haig
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of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for
South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?
General William C. Westmoreland
It's silly
talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles
of Vietnam when we could pave the
whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by
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seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably
the very last one.
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Some of the letters and epistles written by Paul include Romans, First and Second Corinthians, and Titus. Additional letters from Paul that urge Christians to maintain strong faith are Paul's letters to the Thessalonians.Continue Reading
Paul writes to the Romans in the middle part of the first century. Paul tells the Romans how to behave when they interact with non-Christians, including Jews. His letter reiterates that a person receives salvation through his own faith and through God's grace. Paul also affirms the validity and importance of Old Testament laws.
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Similarly, in his two letters to the Thessalonians, Paul encourages Christians to remain faithful even though they may suffer persecution for their faith. Paul writes that Christians can expect Jesus' return to come unexpectedly. He compares Jesus' return to a thief in the night. Paul also says that Christians can look forward to the resurrection of Christians that already died. He encourages Christians to avoid panic and fear and to continue to work hard and await Christ's return.Learn more about The Bible


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On this special occasion the downtown will be embellished with wonderful sculptures made with fruits and glass by Francesco Falasconi and Fabrizio Della Pasqua.
GelatiAmo is also a contest among Italian ice cream chefs, whose winners will take part into the final stage of Gelato World Tour.
The name (in local pronunciation Arcaton) comes from the Greek and Byzantine occupation dated back to the sixth century AD: "Archeion" is the name of a plant, the burr, which still grows spontaneously in some areas of the beach now occupied by the bathing establishments but which was once abundant on the desert shore of Riccione.
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August 23, 2007Janet Newcomb to become Executive Director of Charleston Symphony Orchestra
Rochester, NY – The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has announced that its Interim President & CEO Janet Newcomb has accepted the position of Executive Director with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra beginning on October 1 for the opening of its season. In a letter this morning to the RPO board, musicians and staff, RPO Board Chair Jim Boucher praised Ms. Newcomb for her "outstanding job heading up the RPO during a transitional period," referring to her interim position following the resignation of former President & CEO Richard Nowlin last March. Prior to that time, Ms. Newcomb had been the RPO's Vice President of Development.
"The RPO has been a wonderful learning experience for me," said Ms. Newcomb. "I've truly enjoyed the relationships that I've formed with our many constituents, and I certainly will miss seeing the Orchestra celebrate its 85th anniversary and helping lead it into the future. But the opportunities presented by the Charleston Symphony and the pull of South Carolina were things I couldn't pass up." Before coming to Rochester, Ms. Newcomb worked as Consulting Executive Director for the Metropolitan Arts Council in Greenville, South Carolina, Director of Grants for the South Carolina Arts Commission and Founding Executive Director of the Arts Council of Beaufort County, South Carolina. She and her husband also have family in the South Carolina area.
Charles H. Owens, the RPO's incoming President & CEO and outgoing Executive Director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, begins his tenure on November 1. For the month between Ms. Newcomb's departure and Mr. Owens' arrival, Director of Artistic Operations J. Andrew Cassano – who has worked closely with Ms. Newcomb at the RPO and with Mr. Owens in his former position at the Hartford Symphony – will step in to help oversee the RPO on a day-to day basis. Between now and November 1, Mr. Owens will be in Rochester at various times, including attending the RPO's Red Carpet Spectacular season opener on Saturday, October 6.
"I personally want to thank Jan for the dedication, time and energy she has put into this organization and for the positive influence she has had on us all," said Boucher. "Thanks to our strong strategic plan, we will continue to move ahead seamlessly into an outstanding new season."
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HendersonRobert Bateman Secondary SchoolAbbotsford, British
For some time, Bill Henderson tells us, educators have been saying that
"the computer is a tool," but for many this is just a catch phrase. If
computers are to be used as tools, to create works, then teachers should
train the students accordingly. He wants to teach his students to see
computers in a way similar to how craftspeople see chisels and planes; how
artists see brushes and kilns; how performers see lights and cameras; how
the author sees a word processor. Jacob Bronowski points out in The
Ascent of Man that "the mark of man [sic] is the refinement of the
hand in action."
Below, Mr. Henderson talks about how he introduces his students to one
of the most exciting applications of information technology, computer
animation. He first introduces his students to storytelling and animation
and then helps them learn to use the computer to realize their own
creative ideas.
With new technology, every student potentially knows as much as the
teacher. In fact, the students can easily surpass the teacher's technical
ability as they are afforded the opportunity to use the technology
extensively while doing assignments. There is really no good reason to
hold students back, so the role of the teacher becomes that of guiding and
directing the student. I use the analogy of a ship's captain. I see my
students as being on board as the group takes a journey of exploration and
learning. Collectively they negotiate the waters, developing expertise and
experience, which they share among each other. Students move forward,
helping each other along the way. My challenge is to keep the ship and its
precious cargo going in the most appropriate direction. It is a direction
that, in my classroom and in many across this country, is charted in
consultation with curriculum, industry and business specialists.
If you want to get students to use technology transparently, you have
to get them focussed on the project not the tools. During the first few
weeks of my Design Communications classes, students discuss the artistic
side of character development and what it means to tell a story.
When it is time to work with the tools I find, paradoxically, that it
is better to start with very low-level technology rather than the
computers. To begin creating a character I ask the students to draw it in
pencil. Why pencil? Because it is a familiar piece of technology; so
familiar that people take it for granted. It is "transparent" technology.
They focus on the character and its story, not on the technology.
Unexplored technology, such as the computer and its software, is initially
a barrier to creativity.
After conceptualizing their ideas in two-dimensional sketches, students
use the software to create a three-dimensional model of their character
and develop their ability to animate it. Their first efforts are usually
simple interpretations of their original ideas. This is the
skill-development stage of using technology.
I offer a variety of skill-building activities to develop specific
technical abilities. Students quickly learn that technology does some
things well and others not so well. A few years ago, for example, a girl
wanted to create a teddy bear character and make it soft and furry, which
is difficult and certainly not a task for a beginning computer modeller or
animator. I took the student back to the beginning of the project and
talked to her about what she wanted, which was a cuddly character. I was
able to suggest how she might get that feeling in other ways: rather than
trying to create fur she might make a bear with ears that are bent over so
they seem softer. Or, she might have the bear move in certain ways so it
would appear softer to the viewer. This allowed her to keep the original
intent but use the computer technology in a way that was more appropriate
for her skill level.
Students work with tutorials and other "monkey-see-monkey-do," canned
learning opportunities to perfect their technical techniques. Their
personal projects, such as developing characters, should be just that,
personal; projects of which the student takes ownership. Tutorials rarely
offer this level of possession. It is all very well, for example, to be
able to create a fireball but the fireball has to have a purpose. Unless
the students can explain the where and why of the fireball's existence,
being able to create it is just an isolated skill of little creative or
marketable purpose.
A critical life skill is the ability to work and communicate with
others. Students have more learning opportunities, even in high-technology
settings, when they work in groups. This approach is one of the most
effective ways to get students to experiment, try new ideas and,
therefore, learn how to use computer technology effectively. They bounce
ideas off of one another and get a solid grasp of what does and does not
An added advantage of this approach is that it allows students
to work on projects they develop themselves; it also produces better group
dynamics than having everyone do the same tutorial. The brain trust that
develops as dozens of students develop similar, yet divergent skill sets
becomes awesome. Learning grows at an exponential rate. There is a
communal feeling to the class.
As with personal projects, the best way for students to learn about the
use and application of technology is for them to start with a vision and
try to realize it with the technology available. While it is likely
necessary for the teacher to initiate the first group project, inevitably,
students find the group experience valuable and they come to see that I
place a special importance on it. The day always comes when some of them
ask me when they will be working in a group again. In response, I ask them
when they are going to put a group together and create their own project.
They are masters of their own success, and the sooner they take control,
the better they will fare after graduation.
The personal projects and group work put students in a mode of
self-discovery. One of my challenges, then, is to create situations that
will give students the feedback they need to learn how to use technology
correctly and appropriately. One very effective way to do that is to bring
students into contact with professionals in the real world.
DigiFest is a provincial student/teacher symposium in British Columbia
in the area of computer animation education. The two-day event gives
educators and students opportunities to participate in workshops taught by
industry leaders, and provides a forum for sharing successful strategies
in implementing digital communication and arts programs in their schools.
Students and teachers from all jurisdictions are invited to attend. For
the past two years we have had more than 250 people and 65 schools each
year. One of the biggest payoffs of doing this is that the students see
first hand the industry's expectations and standards. Hearing the message
from successful people in the industry that students are preparing to
enter drives the point home. They listen and learn. It backs up the daily
message they get in class.
One additional, and very valuable, lesson that goes along with learning
how to use technology appropriately is learning how to identify and
develop marketable skills. It is too easy to sit down in front of today's
technology and get blown away by what it can do. What employers want to
know, however, is what graduates can do, think and create. It is not an
employable skill to only know how to push a button to get an effect.
Knowing when and how to use that effect to enhance or tell a story is a
skill employers value.
Upon graduation, I want students to have some tangible assets for their
portfolio. These may be video tapes that demonstrate the students'
abilities, talents and accomplishments, or projects they completed for
themselves and members of the community. This adds a real-world dimension
to their accumulated experiences.
Other venues for taking the students beyond the classroom are the
Skills Canada competitions. Three years ago I developed a computer
animation event to provide students from across Canada the opportunity to
demonstrate their accumulated knowledge in a practical situation. This
competition offers much the same experience as final scholarship exams.
Industry experts judge student creations, validating the students'
preparedness for their future.
The added bonus of these kinds of events is that they also serve to
establish common standards for new programs that do not yet have
established curricula.
The computer animation industry is enormous and full of promise. Yet
students must also realize that it can take you in, chew you up and spit
you out a few years down the road. We don't tend to think of high tech
jobs as "sweat shop" jobs -- yet! I help my students see that using
technology isn't the only point. The really important thing is to be able
to take any technology, including the "whiz bang" of tomorrow, and apply
it creatively to make things happen. That becomes the creative human
endeavour; these are the hidden tools of technology.
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"When I Dream is for all teachers who dream and inspire their students to dream. As part of a poetry, dance and music institute the phrase "When I Dream" came to mind. I took up that phrase and began to build on it, When I Dream was the result. It is a message of hope and responsibility: We can and must create new worlds for our children, worlds filled with the inspiration they require to grow into their best potential. It is meant to be a gift of inspiration for veteran and future teachers. Illustrations are original art work by my son who dreamed of being an artist." - Francisca Sánchez
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Francisca Sánchez is a poet, educator, and former English Learner. As a young child, she learned the value of education from her parents, who sacrificed so that each of their nine children could have the opportunity to attend college. Francisca received a full scholarship to Mount Holyoke College, and as a graduate student, attended both San José State University and Stanford University.
She began her 37-year career in education as a high school teacher and since then has served in a variety of leadership positions, including as Associate Superintendent for Hayward Unified School District and Chief Academic Officer for San Francisco Unified School District. In recognition of her continuing contributions to education, she was named 2002 Inland Empire Educator of the Year, and selected as the recipient of ACSA's 2005 State Valuing Diversity Award and CABE's 2006 Vision Award.
Over the years, she has collaborated on a number of projects with her son, visual artist and interior designer Nicolás Sánchez. When I Dream | Cuando Sueño is her first fiction book and her first publishing project in partnership with Nicolás. Currently, she is CEO of Provocative Practice™, an educational consulting organization, and President Elect of the California Association for Bilingual Education. She makes her home in Patterson, California, where her granddaughter Liliana attends a dual language program.
Nicolás Gabriel Sánchez was named after two illustrious authors – Nicolás Guillén and Gabriel García Márquez. He has lived up to this creative legacy through his own work as a visual artist and interior designer. His organization, Urban Arts, Inc., features his gritty and often stylized artwork that has a strong social justice perspective. Taking great care in setting up a platform in each of his pieces of artwork, Nicolás thrives on igniting an emotion from those who see his work. White or black, it's his way of perhaps helping thrust dialog to what otherwise may be thought but never openly discussed.
In addition to his featured work, he has created original artwork for San Bernardino County Office of Education, San Francisco Unified School District, the California County Superintendents' Arts Initiative, and the California Association for Bilingual Education. He also enjoys bringing an artistic sensibility into people's homes through his interior design work, using space, color, texture, and individualism to create customized living environments that reflect the owners' interests and personalities.
Nicolás lives with his wife and children in Patterson, CA.