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The five friends who make up Na'an Stop couldn't believe they sold out their first headlining show at the Fox Theater last January. It was a big achievement for the reggae-roots band born out of CU-Boulder, which had been slowly gaining recognition around town for the last couple of years at bars like The Goose and K's China, or opening for bands like West Water Outlaws. Patrick Mulholland, the band's trombone player, remembers hearing the exciting news.
"When it sold out, I was hanging out with Dave, and he started screaming. I tried to get him to shut up because he's our singer," Mulholland says, laughing as he re-enacts Dave Halvorson's vocal-frying yell. "We never expected anything to happen that has happened. I like that mentality, because when you start expecting things you can get let down. But so far, though, things have gone our way."
Though Na'an Stop members may have never thought their project would take off, they certainly are gaining steam in Boulder's music scene. The band plans to tear down the Fox again on April 5, but this time it's unveiling another career landmark; its first, fivesong EP titled It's All In The Cheese. The group recorded the EP in Boulder with producer Evan Reeves at UI Sound Studios and have already released a few songs online. Though the band has always played original material at its shows, this EP is Na'an Stop's first chance to curate a definitive style.
"There isn't necessarily a consistent message we're trying to portray to our listeners," explains the band's drummer, Joe Pesa. "We're trying to give a good representation of our sound and our energy and all of the different styles we play."
Na'an Stop specializes in genres like reggae, rock, dub and hip-hop and aims to create a West-Coastmeets-Colorado sound. Many of the guys are multi-instrumentalists, such as Caton Smith and Tom Huber, who both play guitar and bass, or Mulholland, who provides percussion and keyboards in addition to his trombone. But, like Pesa says and like the light-hearted EP title implies, Na'an Stop's main goal is to make music with a sense of fun. Even when describing the group's live shows, the first word that the members can agree on is "party."
"We are naturally having a great time up there and we just try to do our thing and have fun. That usually gets the crowd pretty involved," says bass and guitar player Smith. "There's a good flow of energy that creates a party atmosphere."
One element of its live shows that Na'an Stop had to refine for the EP was the length of its songs. The band likes to experiment and let songs run their course for the crowd. But for the EP, Huber says the group had to rethink some songs.
"We had to alter them in a way that works with recordings because sometimes live we tend to go off, jam things out a lot longer," Huber says. "So, making that adaptation, it was pretty cool to see how that came together and I think it worked out really well."
The members of Na'an Stop are all from different parts of the West Coast or Hawaii, and come from different musical backgrounds. But Smith, Huber and Pesa all started playing together their freshman year at CU and added Halvorson and Mulholland not long after. For them, the Boulder music scene has given the group a place to create music and enjoy each other's company — any future success they find is just more icing on the cake.
"When I came to school up here at CU, I never wanted to stop playing music, and everything sort of fell into place," Pesa says. "Music is such a foundation of not only my life but these guys' lives as well. Luckily, my best friends became members of the band we're in."
Na´an Stop plays the Fox Theatre on Friday, April 5. Cold River City opens. Doors at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance, $14 day of show, $2 more for under-21. 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
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October, we meet again. What's in it for families this half term at FACT? From family film to workshops, make sure FACT is top of your to-do list!
It's that time of year again; winter is coming, Halloween is just around the corner and school's out for half term. So with the warm weather officially storming off on its yearly tantrum, there's no better time than now to tell you about all the incredible family events we're inviting you to come and sink your teeth into.
There's no denying that Minecraft has found a firm place in the hearts of kids and adults alike, providing a fleshed out virtual platform to build anything you can imagine - literally, if you think of it, you can build it. Well, we're inviting you join us this Saturday for Do Something! Saturdays: Memorycraft, a free Minecraft-based workshop to explore the ideas of memory and place, which ties in nicely to our current exhibition Lesions in the Landscape. This Saturday will offer the chance to experiment with a handful of tech including Python, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi to look at connecting Minecraft to the real world. Booking is required, which you can do here, but its Minecraft! Need we say more?
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CLARK — Ericka Barrett, a teacher at the Clark Preschool Annex, was one of only 25 teachers statewide selected to present at the Curriculum Fair of the New Jersey School Boards Workshop in Atlantic City this past week. Each year the workshop seeks to highlight what they believe to be the most innovative curricular programming ideas in the state.
Teachers are encouraged to apply by writing a description of their programming to the Professional Development Committee of the New Jersey School Boards Association (NJSBA). The committee then selects the 25 programs they feel are the most innovative and invites those program creators to present at the statewide workshop in Atlantic City. Program creators then make informal presentations at the workshop to board of education members, superintendents, and other educational leaders throughout the state so that the programming ideas might be adopted in other districts.
Barrett's "Children's Engineering" program uses problems identified in children's literature to give students opportunities to create tangible solutions. Children identify the problem, consider how it could be solved, ponder what they could make, plan and build a solution. Next, they test their solutions to determine whether or not their creations meet the needs of the problem.
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Clark Superintendent of Schools Kenneth Knops said, "Ms. Barrett is a very gifted and creative teacher. Due to the popularity of her presentation, there was no room left at the table provided to her. The Children's Engineering Program has been a big success here in Clark, and I'm sure it will be adopted in many other districts throughout the state after Ericka's presentation."
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The culture of science is the culture of the Left
5 Comments · Posted by David Hume in science
Robert Tracinski, in What Atheists Have To Offer The Right's, kindly points to this website. He also goes on to assert:
That leads me to what atheists have to offer to this agenda. One of the problems with citing a religious foundation for freedom and Americanism is that these arguments tend not to appeal to those who don't share your faith. People will naturally assume that, in order to agree with you, they have to believe in the same particular religious creed you have adopted. And given the vast range of religious belief, that's a lot to ask for.
I've made this argument before. Modern American conservatism has become so culturally captured by the Religious Right that there's a lot of talk about "Biblically based values" without much reflection that it might turn some people off who don't share the basis of those values. I do think it is notable that conservatives with broad cultural influence such as George F. Will and David Brooks tend to have a secular affect (Will is personally an agnostic).
Trancinski goes on to talk about the relationship between conservatism and science at some length. I can speak here personally, as I am a scientist and a conservative. One issue is while most liberals may not be scientists, most scientists are liberals. Those who are not are invariably libertarians. I would cop to being conservative, albeit with a strong libertarian streak. And that makes me exceptional. The culture of scientists and culture of religious conservatives are so opposed to each other that a Christian evangelical friend who is an evolutionary biologist once told me he was asked literally every day how he could be a scientist and a Christian. I have been in the room several times where scientists talk about how they can outreach to the broader public, like conservatives, assuming of course that there were no conservatives in the room.
I don't think this correlation is a logical necessity. It's just an empirical sociological fact. And we have to deal with it in our political and policy culture. Most scientists exhibit strong domain specific in their cognitive competence, so there's no reason to think that someone who has a strong command of molecular genetic mechanisms can therefore think cogently about global trade. But many scientists mislead themselves, assuming their powers of ratiocination are generally robust in all areas to which they put their minds. Scientists often are in fact ideally situated to be what F. A. Hayek would term Constructivists.
Eat That Apple!
8 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in philosophy, science
Stanley Fish is not normally my favorite commentator, but his New York Times piece on curiosity today is well worth a look:
…There is another tradition in which, far from being the guarantor of a better future, curiosity is a vice and even a sin. Indeed, it has often been considered the original sin.
When God told Adam he could eat of all the fruits of the Garden of Eden, but not of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, he placed what has been called a "provoking object" in Adam's eyes. The provocation was to go beyond the boundaries God had established and thereby set himself up a rival deity, a being with no limits on what he can conceive, a being whose intellect could, in time, comprehend anything and everything. Such a being would imagine himself, God-like, standing to the side of the universe and, armed only with the power of his mind, mastering its intricacies. Those who engage in this fantasy, says Thomas Aquinas, think "they are doing something great, if with surpassing curiosity and keenness they explore the whole mass of this body which we call the world; so great a pride is thus begotten, that one would think they dwelt in the very heavens about which they argue."
Another churchman, Lorenzo Scupoli, put it this way in 1589: "They make an idol of their own understanding" ("Knowledge puffeth up," I Corinthians 8:1)…
Give this indictment of men in love with their own capacities a positive twist and it becomes a description of the scientific project, which includes among its many achievements space travel, a split atom, cloning and the information revolution. It is a project that celebrates the expansion of knowledge's boundaries as an undoubted good, and it is a project that [N.E.H.] Chairman Leach salutes when he proudly lists the joint efforts by the University of Virginia and the N.E.H. to digitalize just about everything. "The computer revolution," he announces, "holds out the prospect that the digital library could be become an international citadel for the pursuit of curiosity."
That's exactly what Paul Griffiths, professor of divinity at Duke University, is afraid of. Where Leach welcomes the enlargement of curiosity's empire, Griffiths, who is writing a book on the vice of curiosity, sees it as a sign of moral and spiritual danger.
I'd expect no less from a professor of divinity, but how sad…and what a useful reminder of what a block to progress (suspect word, but it'll do in this context) certain types of religious faith (and their accretions and superstitions) can represent.
Speaking of which, I wonder what that Senator Brownback has been up to recently….Ah yes.
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An atheist who favors Intelligent Design?
45 Comments · Posted by David Hume in culture, science
Over the past few days I've followed a slight controversy involving Intelligent Design proponent Michael Behe & John McWhorter (you can see the posts at ScienceBlogs, Michael Behe speaks on bloggingheads.tv affair, John McWhorter & Michael Behe bloggingheads.tv, 2 and John McWhorter & Michael Behe bloggingheads.tv). In the course of tracking down other weblogs with reactions, I stumbled onto a most interesting individual, speaking from an anthropological perspective, the atheist who speaks in favor of Intelligent Design. Consider the matrix:
|Pro-Intelligent Design
|Anti-Intelligent Design
|William Dembski
|Ken Miller
|Richard Dawkins
I have given examples for three of the classes crossing the variables, but none for one of them. Steve Fuller arguably falls into this rare class of atheist apologists for Intelligent Design, but I judge him to be somewhat equivocal and frankly self-interested (Fuller raised his profile by appearing as a witness for the Dover school district).
Bradley Monton, a philosopher at the University of Colorado at Boulder, fits the bill in a more straightforward manner. He's written a book: Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design. Monton thinks Intelligent Design is false personally, but seems to believe that there is some fruit to be gained by engaging with the movement. Here is the abstract of a paper, Is Intelligent Design Science? Dissecting the Dover Decision:
In the case of Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al., Judge Jones ruled that a pro-intelligent design disclaimer cannot be read to public school students. In his decision, he gave demarcation criteria for what counts as science, ruling that intelligent design fails these criteria. I argue that these criteria are flawed, with most of my focus on the criterion of methodological naturalism. The way to refute intelligent design is not by declaring it unscientific, but by showing that the empirical evidence for design is not there.
More of the same to be found at Monton's weblog, which I offer mostly in the spirit of a guide who introduces his charges to the bizarre rites of a primitive tribe. My own attitude toward the demarcation problem is that it has an easy resolution: what scientists do is science. The opinions of lawyers and philosophers are so much window dressing. Intelligent Design theorists in the natural sciences might consider simply taking over departments at the numerous Christian universities, such as Wheaton, and generating their own original research, instead of battling it out in the public square.
The politics of science
5 Comments · Posted by David Hume in science
Bryan Caplan observes of Behaviorial Geneticists versus Policy Implications:
In most disciplines, experts oversell their ability to give useful policy advice. In behavioral genetics, however, experts strangely undersell their ability to give useful policy advice….
…The upshot: Behavioral genetics makes its politically-correct critics angry because the scientists are putting the politically correct in an awkward position: Deny the science, abandon some of their favorite policies, or sound like dogmatic ideologues. It's no wonder that they're angry – and no wonder that they deny the science. They're not just making the best of a bad situation; they're also getting a little revenge on the researchers responsible for their unpleasant predicament.
As they say, "read the whole thing!" Currently the most emailed piece in The New York Times is Rising Above I.Q. Scientists know very well the sort of research and findings intellectuals and the public find acceptable. One set of conclusions will usher a chorus of denounciations, while others will prompt laudatory praise.
Greenhouse gasbags
7 Comments · Posted by Heather Mac Donald in Uncategorized
More proof that greenhouse-gas environmentalism—for liberals, one of the main reasons for getting rid of the allegedly anti-science, religiously-driven Bush Administration–is just posturing.
The California legislature has been struggling to close a $41 billion budget deficit. This is the same legislature that insists on imposing its own emissions standards on Detroit auto-makers—safely out of sight and out of the voting booth–because it cares so much about global warming. Now, if ever, one would think, would be the time to increase gasoline taxes, a two-fer that would raise revenue and discourage greenhouse gas emissions.
So did a proposed 12-cents-a-gallon surcharge on gas make it into the crippling $12.8 billion in tax hikes which the California legislature finally passed yesterday? Of course not. Voters would raise bloody hell. Better, apparently, to kill all businesses slowly with a sales tax hike than to interfere with Californians' right to cheap gasoline. Liberal politicians' pious devotion to the science of global warming never translates into action, unless the costs of action can be safely transferred onto non-voters. And environmental groups are just as cowardly. I sure didn't notice the Sierra Club or the NRDC protesting when presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for a suspension of the federal gas tax last year.
Theology and belatedness
36 Comments · Posted by Heather Mac Donald in Uncategorized
Anyone who has not read evolutionary theorist Jerry Coyne's essay on science and religion in the New Republic is missing a tour de force. Under review are two books attacking creationism and intelligent design. Their authors–a physicist at Eastern Nazarene College and a cell biologist at Brown University—then try to reconcile their Christian faith with evolution and physics. This, Coyne concludes, authors Karl Giberson and Kenneth Miller fail to do, however masterful their demolition of creationism:
It would appear, then, that one cannot be coherently religious and scientific at the same time. That alleged synthesis requires that with one part of your brain you accept only those things that are tested and supported by agreed-upon evidence, logic, and reason, while with the other part of your brain you accept things that are unsupportable or even falsified. In other words, the price of philosophical harmony is cognitive dissonance. Accepting both science and conventional faith leaves you with a double standard: rational on the origin of blood clotting, irrational on the Resurrection; rational on dinosaurs, irrational on virgin births.
Coyne touches on several topics already discussed on this site, such as the unwillingness of certain high-minded apologists to discuss what Coyne calls "religion as it is lived and practiced by real people." But what struck me most while reading the review is how post hoc theological reasoning has become. It has been reduced to forever playing catch-up to science. Whatever new insights about the universe science establishes, religious divines will immediately conclude that that is exactly the way God would have done things and what they had meant to say about him all along. Did it take 14 billion years before God's intent to create a species that would worship him reached fruition, 14 billion years of laborious preliminaries before anything even remotely resembling human beings could have been glimpsed on the scene? Well, of course! It makes perfect sense; that's exactly what any omnipotent God would have done. If scientists tomorrow found powerful evidence that in fact species came into existence whenever a giant sling-shot fired a wad of chewing gum at the earth, we would learn that the sling-shot is the divine instrument par excellence. (more…)
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Chuck Colson and science
41 Comments · Posted by Heather Mac Donald in Uncategorized
Chuck Colson has weighed in on the "proper role of science," in response to President Obama's inaugural science plug. Colson's column is a perfect example of theological panic, the condition that besets a certain portion of the devout when they contemplate the fact that not everyone believes in God.
Anticipating that President Obama will lift the ban on federally-subsidized embryonic stem cell research, Colson posits only two reasons why anyone would back such research: either he is "driven by greed" or he is "driven by a dangerous worldview called scientism."
Though Colson purports to distinguish scientism from science (and makes claims regarding the former that no one has ever advanced, such as: "Scientism assumes that science is the controlling reality about life, so anything that can be validated scientifically ought to be done"), ultimately, what seems to most upset him is a worldview lacking a divine creator, or what he calls "scientific naturalism, a philosophy that the natural world is all that exists." Scientific naturalism denies "the reality of those things central to our humanity: a sense of right and wrong, of purpose, of beauty, of God."
Colson may be right about the last item on his list, but it is nothing more than hysterical ignorance to claim that without belief in God, humans can have no "sense of right and wrong, of purpose, or beauty." I have never met a non-believer who has no sense of the difference between right and wrong. If someone is not killing his parents only because he believes that God prohibits it, but that it would otherwise be OK, his religiously-based moral compass does not have much to recommend it. Parents teach children to treat other human beings with respect based on humans' innate ethical intuitions (which a parent reinforces with a strong dose of brute, unappealable authority). These intuitions can, but need not, be given an explicitly religious cast. (more…)
Science and public policy
12 Comments · Posted by Heather Mac Donald in Uncategorized
New York Times Deputy Science Editor Dennis Overbye celebrated the alleged "restoration of science" under the Obama Administration this week, sounding a Chris Matthews-ian note of ecstasy about Obama's ascension. I agree with most of Overbye's essay, which makes a beautiful case for the social accomplishment of science. The scientific enterprise teaches such humane, democratic values as "honesty, doubt, respect for evidence, openness, accountability and tolerance and indeed hunger for opposing points of view," Overbye writes. (Our religious friends will of course claim that these values are uniquely Christian ones, and that science is parasitic on Christianity.)
But Overbye's column also hints at the facile conflation of science with favored liberal politics.
Overbye appears to link the repression of scientific inquiry and democratic expression in China, where a physicist was disciplined for teaching the Big Bang theory in contravention to Marxist teleology, with the scientific and quasi-scientific culture-war battles of the Bush Administration: "But once you can't talk about one subject, the origin of the universe, for example, sooner or later other subjects are going to be off-limits, like global warming, birth control and abortion, or evolution, the subject of yet another dustup in Texas last week." (more…)
Obama's science
63 Comments · Posted by Heather Mac Donald in Uncategorized
Obama says he will "restore science to its rightful place." All very nice and anti-oogedy-boogedy. I'll believe Obama's self-congratulatory rhetoric, however, when he stands up to the radical green lobby and considers the case for nuclear energy, a power source conspicuously absent from his inaugural list of PC alternative fuels.
On the oogedy-boogedy front, Texas is once again debating the teaching of evolution.
Science & society
8 Comments · Posted by David Hume in philosophy, science, Uncategorized
I have a piece up at Taki's Magazine, The Limits of Certitude. It might be read along with a post at ScienceBlogs, Science is rational; scientists are not. I might as well have labeled it "An argument for conservatism."


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Assorted "losers" sang from the Talking Heads' oeuvre this past weekend at Joe's Pub.
Loser's Lounge pays tribute to another American idol
By Todd Simmons
Loser's Lounge is one of those New York City treasures that help make fighting through the crowded sidewalks and the rest of the daily hassles we face worthwhile. The eclectic music collective reminds us why we live here because the unique cultural payoffs are unrivaled elsewhere. Joe McGinty understands this. He knows there are so many talented musicians in this town that the possibilities of collaboration are endless, and he and his friends have been making the most of this talent pool since 1993. For three nights last week, Loser's Lounge turned the intimate room at Joe's Pub into a glorious theatre of time-warped absurdity with "A Tribute To Talking Heads."
When I saw them do "No Time For Losers: A Tribute to Queen" at the Bowery Ballroom last year, I was astonished by their passion and the detailed re-creations of these very famous and complex rock tunes. Sure, they utilized a blend of male and female singers to capture Freddie Mercury's high-end vocal parts, but that's the beauty of this collective of merry pranksters. They do whatever the songs call for and they do it with the fresh enthusiasm of people who appreciate the body of work that they're covering. They also manage to slip in a smattering of in-jokes that make the faithful howl with approving laughter.
On Friday night, as always, McGinty was the host of the evening and the maestro behind the keyboards who introduced the guest vocalists one by one. Out they'd stroll from behind the big red curtain, and snatch the microphone for their shot at Talking Heads wordplay and physical expression. Backed by the extremely adept Loser's Lounge band, The Kustard Kings, the front men and women were given the freedom to play it as straight as they wanted to or ham up the humor, or both. Rene Risque's sleazy lounge treatment of "Psycho Killer" and Wilder Selser's "Drugs" were both borderline David Byrne caricature, but managed to fly as colorful homage to the ultra-quirky leader of Talking Heads. Michael Cerveris demonstrated the great energy level some of the more up-tempo Talking Heads songs require on his exuberant rendition of "Crosseyed and Painless."
The women themselves were quite crafty with their own versions, particularly Anney Fresh on "Stay Up Late" and Victoria Liedtke on "Life During Wartime." Robin Goldwasser, Jenni Muldaur, and Natalie Weiss were just a few of the other performers that put their feminine imprint onto the cannon of tunes. Their instinctive influence was particularly effective during the Tom Tom Club interlude.
Joe McGinty has played keyboards for the The Ramones, The Psychedelic Furs, and Martha Wainwright to name a few. He currently holds down the fort at the Lucky Cat in Williamsburg on Mondays for "Keyboard Karaoke" night. He will soon appear in Moby's back-up band for an upcoming autism benefit at the Beacon Theatre. And his hands stood in for Eric Stoltz's in the movie "Grace of My Heart." Along the way he has become acquainted with a vast stable of enigmatic personalities and working musicians that seem to get a major kick out of covering the songs of their idols. Burt Bacharach, David Bowie, Prince, The Bee Gees, The Highwaymen have all been given the Loser's Lounge treatment. At Joe's Pub on Friday, McGinty polled the crowd for their ideas for future shows.
The eager audience bombarded the stage with suggestions. I myself, caught up in the excitement, hollered out "Steely Dan!" It may have been drowned out and lost, however, because they're planning on an evening of Elton John the 14th and 15th of December, again at Joe's Pub. There appears to be no limit to what these "losers" can do.
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Date: 13/5/2009
The Planning Officers Society annouces the death of Hilary Herbert, former President and current Vice President Emeritus, following a battle with cancer.
Hilary was President of the Society for 2006/07 and continued to serve on the Cabinet as Vice President Emeritus; she was also the Planning Manager for Surrey CC.
David Hackforth, Society Senior Vice President, said coming so soon after the death of David Wood this is a sad loss for the Society. Our thoughts are with Hilary's family and colleagues.
Surrey Head of Environment, Roger Hargreaves, said she was not only a very respected and professional town planner but a wonderful colleague whose friendliness and serenity touched all who worked with her.


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A 'virtual' space for digital makers
This web system, which is being progressively developed, aims to provide support for digital 'makers' in and around Marlborough, Wiltshire and is maintained by members of the Marlborough Area Maker Group (MAMG).
News and Events
Maker Group Meeting: the next meeting of the Maker Group has not yet been scheduled but will be at The Green Dragon in Marlborough.
Town Hall Raspberry Jams: a series of Digital Making events at Marlborough Town Hall has now been scheduled. The first event, to coincide with the Raspberry Pi's 6th birthday, was on Sunday 4th March and the second was held on Sunday 20th May. Future dates for further Jams will be published here so keep watching .
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St John's Digital Making Club: this weekly lunchtime club at the School has been running from September '17, thanks to a grant from the Community Youth Fund.
Digital Making Kits: all three of these Kits: Electronics, Image Taking and Servo & Stepper Motor, are now available to order on-line. Click here for details.
The definition of 'making' is somewhat wide, but is generally taken to be a technology-based extension of DIY, that whilst it involves programming and code development, is more concerned with the creation and development of physical things rather than just the use of software. The activity scope is therefore quite broad, embracing electronics, photography, robotics, 3-D printing, music, artwork/installations, etc., but within the Group there would generally always be a digital element to the activities i.e. digital 'making'.
Through the use of this web system and other activities, apart from providing mutual support for projects undertaken by members of the Group, a key set of aims is to:
- encourage skills development and expertise in digital systems/computing and embedded software for all age groups, but in particular for the under-18's;
- establish citizen science and 'internet of things' (IoT) activities that encourage collaborative working for social/community benefit outcomes for the area;
- support the combination of new digital technologies with craft and engineering expertise to develop creative and fun 'things'; and
- encourage creative and fun 'things' to evolve into new business ideas and to support the establishment of potential new businesses in the area.
To support the educational aims, Marlborough Area Development Trust (MADT) is making available a number of Digital Making Kits that together with a Raspberry Pi can be used to explore various projects and digital making methods.
Events are also being planned that promote 'digital making', with workshops to help users with their Digital Making Kits, and to generally encourage everyone to 'have a go'.
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1997 Toyota Camry 2.2 2.2
Next car will be a Camry again
The car is driving on bezine and LPG (Gas). The only problem I had was a broken pump in the LPG-tank. Therefore I had to place a new LPG-tank. (has nothing to do with the engine of Toyota) I had to pay €700,00 for letting it build-in
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Taylor Swift Will Also Be on the Justin Bieber Album
Congrats, tweens!
So far, the big names rumored for Justin Bieber's new album include Kanye, Drake, his mentor Usher, Big Sean, and maybe even Lil Wayne (though truthfully it looked like Biebz and Weezy spent all their "studio time" outside on skateboards.) How many more very famous musicians can young Bieber crowd onto Believe? One, at least: Biebz told the U.K.'s Capital FM that noted "Baby" fan and Punk'd victim Taylor Swift contributed to the album as well. (Listen closely: That is the sound of a million tweens screaming with joy.) Vulture assumes that Bieber-GF and Taylor-BFF Selena Gomez gave the collaboration her blessing, and so we too approve. Still waiting on a Carly Rae-Bieber single, though.


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Nation and Empire in the Age of Internationalism
Monday 21 July 2014
CCANESA Boardroom
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The University of Sydney
Held under the auspices of the Laureate Research Program in International History, the Sydney Intellectual History Network and the Nation-Empire-Globe Research Cluster.
This workshop investigates the socio-political relationship between nationalism, internationalism and imperialism from the nineteenth century to the present. Panels of historians, legal scholars and political theorists from Australia and abroad will address the following questions:
- Did nationalism give birth to international human rights norms?
- How internationalist is international law?
- How did the end of colonialism transform the nation-state?
- Is the European Union a successor to continental European empires?
- Does supra-nationalism threaten the democratic nation-state?
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I'd been watching the Criterion DVD of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1966 film Le deuxieme souffle, and then worked my way through the typically generous extras. One of these, a French on-the-set TV report of the time (who finds this material?!), mentioned in passing that Melville's cast included the actor Mel Ferrer. Now I know what Mel Ferrer looked like, and I was pretty sure he wasn't in the movie – no surprise, since his name wasn't in the credits either. But then I did a Google search and found several sites which did list him as a cast member. Oddly though, those sites didn't have a specific character against his name, as though he'd been merely an extra.
Mel Ferrer Mystery
Well, in the end I found the story, via a French-language website. According to my own translation, Ferrer started shooting the film, and Melville decided during his very first scene that he wasn't right for the role (in part because, and again you have to rely on my shaky skills here, he was knock-kneed). Melville then set out to exasperate the actor, quickly succeeding to the point that Ferrer fell into the trap and declared he would have nothing more to do with the film. And things went on with a replacement.
Nothing so strange about that story – actors are recast all the time in the course of shooting. Sometimes (as in Woody Allen's September) virtually the whole cast turns over. What's unusual with the Ferrer example is how the alternate universe, in which he does appear in the film, continues to trace through the real world in which he doesn't, even forty years on. I love these oddities of cinema – I can't imagine I would ever have searched Mel Ferrer's name on account of any of the films in which he did appear (maybe the feat of having married Audrey Hepburn is worth the occasional Google search in his memory though).
One of the more famous examples of a phantom film appearance concerns Quentin Tarantino, and Jean-Luc Godard's 1987 King Lear. Tarantino was cited for years as one of the film's cast members, and included it in his own publicity brochure, but he later said he made it up: "I put it on my resume as an actor, and said I was in that, because nobody would ever see the film."
Fair enough, except I have a distinct memory of actually seeing Tarantino in the film – it's just about the only thing I remember clearly about it (except, to bring him up again, Woody Allen's disconnected appearance as the Fool). Assuming Tarantino is telling the truth about lying, what accounts for this? I'm pretty sure I saw the film after Tarantino rose to fame, so I must have picked out some vaguely similar actor and imprinted the then-hot auteur's identity onto him. Did Tarantino base his lie in the knowledge that a vague look-alike did appear in the film, increasing his chances of getting away with it?
Tarantino Mystery
I don't think the film is readily available on DVD, but I expect if I had the willpower I could track down a definitive answer to this mystery. But you know, it's more fun this way.
Tarantino's recent flop Grindhouse is a different kind of phantom – a film originally released, you'll recall, as a double-bill, along with faked intervening trailers, only to be rapidly withdrawn from that form and cannibalized into two separate releases. I admired the exercise more than I might have, and there must be another alternative universe in which it hit the spot, unleashing a whole new wave of skuzzy, decaying-before-your-eyes anti-entertainments. But in this universe, it didn't work too well, and may seldom be seen again as originally intended.
And Tarantino slowly drifts from supreme hero (it's fair to say no one in the last twenty years of American cinema directly inspired so many imitators) to rather forlorn figure, laboriously injecting his increasingly tedious "touches" into unworthy material. His new project, a remake of the Italian war meller Inglorious Bastards (a film long forgotten by everyone except, perhaps, the same narrow audience who got the Grindhouse concept) hardly seems likely to turn things around.
Tarantino reveres Godard, even naming his production company - Bande a part – after one of Godard's films. But what a difference in trajectories. I'm currently reading Richard Brody's Godard biography Everything is Cinema. It's a long read, but necessarily so to convey the often-painful grit of Godard's life-long struggle to be at peace with his art, and with himself, if there's any distinction. For all the detail, the man himself barely comes across – you glean his turbulence and waywardness, and of course his intellectual overdrive, but if you ask if he's ever been, say, happy?...I'm damned if I can tell.
Of all the filmmakers I most value, Godard's the one in whom I've always felt my investment of time and concentration to be the most inadequate – at worst, you come away from his films with just scraps and impressions (albeit dazzling ones). But I can live with it – I'm just a dabbler. What about Tarantino, a biography of whom might also carry some variant on the "Everything is Cinema" title (such as: "In Search of Kick-Ass Flicks")? Doesn't he feel, for lack of a better word, lazy, by comparison with his hero's giving of himself?
The Tiger's Tail
Maybe the saddest kind of cinema phantom is the kind haunting us in plain sight. Thirty years ago, Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now, The Man who Fell to Earth) was another cult hero – his latest film Puffball opened earlier this year for one lonely, under-advertised week. A similar example just arrived, long after its release in its native UK – John Boorman's The Tiger's Tail. Boorman made Point Black and Deliverance, and while those films still get mentioned from time to time, his more recent work (Country of my Skull and now the new movie) just doesn't seem to matter to anyone.
It's a Doppelganger concept – big-shot Irish businessman Brendan Gleeson, struggling to keep his head above choppy economic and personal waters, starts to think he glimpses a double, who then starts to take over his life. This could have, should have been a good platform for the kind of mythmaking Boorman's specialized in, but the film becomes heavy and weary, and the metaphoric force rapidly dissipates. It's not a bad film, but it's not in any sense a necessary one. And where is the veteran director in there? That plot, of a country and then an identity getting away from you, might be all too meaningful for the man notionally at the helm. Unlike Mel Ferrer, he's certainly there, and yet in all the ways that used to matter, he barely is.
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CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Jan. 10, 2014) - Manson Creek Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:MCK) (Manson Creek or the Company) announced today that its Board of directors has approved a change of the Company's auditors. At the request of the Company, PricewaterhouseCooper LLP (the Former Auditor) has resigned as auditor of the Company effective January 10, 2014. The audit committee and board of directors of the Company have appointed BDO Canada LLP as the successor auditor, effective January 10, 2014 (the Successor Auditor).
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Video ideas for promoting LYRC:
All About the Louisiana Readers' Choice Program, YouTube Video: 33 Minutes Long, https://youtu.be/l0PiKtpT79A. This video explains what the Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Program and Louisiana Teen Readers' Choice Program are and how to participate.
- Canva
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- Flipgrid main site and Our LYRC Flipgrid to discuss LYRC Building your PLN through Vedchat
- Booksnaps
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Educator Collaborative
- International Literacy Association
- International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
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- Make a Bulletin Board or other display featuring the cover art of nominated titles (You can use the art from the PowerPoint's on the website.)
- Have the students participate in some of the activities listed in the Study Guides
- Have a "book of the week" for each week to remind students to be reading, announce it on the PA system each week. They could read short excerpts from the book of the week.
- Set up the library up like a cafe' and hold a book tasting program. Look online for examples.
- Offer a special prize or incentive for kids who participate and or meet the goal of reading 3 books (2 for teens). Incentives could be pens, pencils, fancy erasers, special pizza party, etc.
- See if any of the authors will do free Skype visits for book clubs
- Book Pass Reading Activity: You can use a Book Pass to acquaint students with the books on the Louisiana Readers' Choice list. A copy of each of the titles (multiple copies if needed) is placed in the center of each for students. Use the first 20 minutes of the class to give quick 2 minute book talks for each book. Pass out a preprinted list of the titles you will be using, in alphabetical order, with a 1, 2, or 3 next to each title. A legend at the top should say: 1 = Sounds great, I want to read it. 2 = It seems ok, I'll try it. 3 = Not interested at all. Instruct the students to select a book from the center of the table. Everyone will then read for 3-5 minutes. Call "time" after three minutes. Instruct students to find the title on the sheet and rate it. Repeat as many times as your class time allows.
- If your school has a newsletter be sure to mention your school's participation in the LYRC program
- Include information about LYRC on your library web site and link to the State Library's web site
- Have a Read-In after school. You could make up a permission slip for them to stay after school and serve light snacks. Each student must bring his/her LYRC book to the Read-In. Students could read for 45 minutes – 1 hour and maybe have one fun ice breaker game.
- Closer to Election Day have the students create posters and fliers to campaign for their favorite book
- Have a voting party – students who read their 3 books (2 books for teens) could vote and enjoy snacks and a break from class
- Incorporate the LYRC titles with Web 2.0 tools as student projects, for example:
- Have students create an Animoto video slide show for a LYRC book or books. http://animoto.com/
- Have students make an interactive digital LYRC poster with Glogster. http://www.glogster.com/
- Use a digital video recorder like a Flip Camera (http://support.theflip.com/en-us/home/) or even their smart phone to make book talk videos and load them on the school library webpage
- If you can't get a real voting machine for your school consider having the students vote online by creating a Survey Money for them to vote with.
- Set the LYRC PowerPoint Presentations to be the screensaver to computers in your library
- Once your students vote, let them know which books won for their school and be ready to compare those results to whichever titles wins for the state. Comparing and discussing the winners is a great activity.
- Save all the book trailers to a thumb drive (they are embedded in the PowerPoints) and loop them on a monitor in the library or a computer.
Incorporating Writing Exercises
- Create a display or bulletin board with short reviews by the students
- Have students start a LYRC journal or Blog for the student to write notes about each book that he/she reads. The students can refer to their notes before they vote.
- For older students, have them give booktalks or make a book report on their title and present it to the class, this could be a group project
- If you have a school library club or book discussion group at your library, encourage those students to promote the program, read the books and write reviews for the student newspaper, newsletter, or website.
Tracking Reading:
- Have each student put their name on a ballot (ballots are available on the website, they print 2 per page). Each time she/he reads a book, check off that title. Students who have read at least 3 titles are eligible to vote. The librarian or teacher may want to keep the ballots in a file or binder.
- If your students take AR tests on the books you will know which students have read LYRC titles
- If you have a display or bulletin board of the LYRC books, you can have students put their names next to the titles they have read.
- The ideas are endless, just be creative and use what works for your particular situation
***Remind students that if they read every single title on their LYRC list we can send a certificate signed by the State Librarian that they can be given at their school's end of the year award ceremony.