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by Shawn Maureen Powers
Serious Rejiggering
The textbook weighs nearly four pounds. The timeline of the topics to be presented spans from 3500 BCE to the Protestant Reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries. The topics include visual arts, political theory, literature, music, philosophy, anthropology, history, and sociology, among others. This expansive offering is the survey of the humanities course, a nearly ubiquitous feature of the liberal arts curriculum in higher education.
The field of higher education teaching and curriculum design has an extensive literature on the challenges inherent in the survey course. The issue of coverage versus uncoverage has been pursued by history departments (Calder, 2006; Sample, 2011; Sipress & Voelker, 2011), while the loss of prestige among the disciplines represented in the survey arena has been explored by others (Altschuler & Blumin, 2000; Agresto, 2011; Farganis, 1989; Tyrrell, 2005).
The field of higher education teaching and curriculum design has an extensive literature on the challenges inherent in the survey course.
Another issue worthy of consideration is the relevance of the course material to a 21st-century young adult. The news information sources of higher education publish accounts on the death of liberal arts education on a nearly weekly basis. Yet, given the requirements found in many general education programs, courses in the liberal arts remain in university catalogs.
In preparing for my first foray into teaching Introduction to Humanities at a private, nonprofit university, I found myself reliving the survey history courses I had taken as an undergraduate nearly 30 years earlier. As I lifted the four pounds of department-approved humanities textbook onto my lap and read through its coverage of Western human expression, the original source documents of my undergraduate studies danced in my head. References to the Hundred Years' War prompted me to pick up my copy of Froissart's Chronicles (1968) and consider using excerpts to whet the Middle Ages palate of my students. The exploration of empire in ancient Rome inspired me to consider Tacitus's The Annals of Imperial Rome (1971). And Machiavelli's The Prince (1984) was a highlight in my history course of long ago, so perhaps we could read it as an introduction to political theory.
But upon reflection, it was clear that I was defaulting to college teaching as I had experienced it in the 1980s. While the ideas and themes to be culled from Tacitus and Machiavelli remain relevant to the world of undergraduates in 2015, the integration and application of these themes needed serious rejiggering.
At the 2013 annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities, I had the great pleasure of attending a session titled "Disrupting Student Work: Designing Meaningful General Education Assignments" (Hanstedt, 2013). In the session, Paul Hanstedt of Roanoke College presented an assignment design construct that promotes student ownership of the knowledge covered in general education courses, like our survey of the humanities. The student ownership of knowledge is produced by realigning assignments to be directed to an audience of non-specialists or the general public, as opposed to the generic research paper that is implicitly directed to an audience of the professor for evaluation. In doing this, Hanstedt (2013) argued, students are engaging in a real-world practice because they aren't using academic language. This approach is more similar to what students would experience on the job or out in the community.
Examples of Hanstedt's (2012) disruptive assignments include explaining the biological ramifications of a land reclamation project in a paper to a policy board unfamiliar with the biology discipline; using theories from a psychology textbook to offer a friend seeking advice about a combative relationship; and role playing as the World Health Organization advisory board to evaluate dietary habits of a region and propose recommendations.
The New England Patriots and Trajan's Column
Borrowing Hanstedt's (2012) design template proved easy for Introduction to Humanities. The first occasion arose with an exploration of Sophocles's play, Antigone (Sophocles, 2000). Following a session of reviewing excerpts from the play and articulating themes from the exploration, I asked students, many of whom were majors in the business school, to develop a quick and dirty marketing plan for a made-up production of Antigone on campus. The plan had to include a targeted audience from the campus population and the reason for selecting the audience as based on a theme or themes found in the play. Many students focused on the university's large veteran population as an apt audience for Antigone, noting the tension between the mandates of service and individual ethics—much like the tension felt by the citizens of Thebes between the laws of the state and those of the gods.
Another disruption occurred with a unit test on ancient Greece and ancient Rome. In our humanities exploration of these eras, we had talked about the commemorative drive within ancient Rome to celebrate triumphs and victories. We also viewed the monuments built for these occasions and noted the forms often used in these efforts. On their test of these eras, students were asked to brainstorm a recent event or occasion that warranted commemoration. They were to select from one of the forms used by ancient Romans for commemoration purposes and provide a reason for why the selected form was appropriate to the event being memorialized. Given our location in New England, there were a number of submissions that detailed the commemoration of one of the professional sports teams in the region. These submissions focused on celebrating the triumph of national championships, and the forms included larger-than-life sculptures of key players and coaches as well as columns detailing key plays or innings of the particular team's triumph, as exemplified by Trajan's Column in ancient Rome. Just as many students, however, focused on the Boston Marathon bombing as a tribute to those whose lives were lost or forever altered. Many of the forms were sculptures that included references to the finish line of the marathon.
One is inclined to ask if these disruptions were successful. One method of assessment can include the completion rate for these disruptive activities. The completion rate for the marketing Antigone assignment was 100 percent, which is what one should expect in a college course. However, completion rates can also be assessed according to timeliness. In the case of marketing Antigone, the students completed the work by the date and time it was due. Again, one would expect this level of compliance in a college course, but this is not always the case.
Perhaps the greatest sense of success emerged from qualitative sources. One of these sources emerged from unsolicited comments in the students' journals. In an attempt to give pause in the survey course for students to reflect on the essential questions that are guiding our exploration, I try to set aside at least 10 minutes each week for students to respond in class to a writing prompt. One week, students were asked to map the idea of morality to human expression in ancient Greece. The journals included several comments about the learning experience in our session on Antigone and the application of those sessions to the assignment. One remark was, "This was my favorite session so far" (student A, personal communication, October 2, 2015).
In assessing the effectiveness of the exam question, a related look at compliance is helpful. The commemoration question was one of two offered as optional, extra credit, short-essay questions on the exam. Ninety-three percent of the students opted for the extra credit. Of those seeking additional points, one-half selected the commemoration question. However, two-thirds of those applying the ancient Roman commemorative motif to a current event failed to provide a reason for why the selected form of statue, column, etc. was especially appropriate for the chosen event.
The possible reasons for this phenomenon are numerous. They might include students not reading through the entirety of the question before responding and submitting the completed exam, not enough emphasis in the text of the question or the required elements for the response, or not enough scaffolding within the course on the particularities of the forms of human expression and their uniqueness for commemorative purposes.
Despite the formative data that suggest the need to revise both the course delivery and the essay design, there was qualitative evidence that supported the effectiveness of this disruption. At the conclusion of the exam, students told me how much they liked the commemoration essay. Reasons for this might include the opportunity they had to connect to their world and the engagement of creativity in answering the question. Regardless, I was confident I had found a means of engaging active critical thinking in a summative assessment.
Disruption of this survey course has also manifested in using social media. Inspired by conferences, digital journals, field articles, and more, these disruptive attempts embrace the ethos of meeting students where they are. I am currently using the framework of social media applications to assist in bringing contemporary relevance to our studies of humanistic practices of long ago.
Disruption of this survey course has also manifested in using social media. Inspired by conferences, digital journals, field articles, and more, these disruptive attempts embrace the ethos of meeting students where they are.
At the start of the course, I used digital image applications as both an icebreaker and a conceptual introduction to the study of the humanities. Students were asked on the first day of class to review their own digital visual collections. These might be found within such online sites as Pinterest, Tumblr, Flickr, or some other, more recent app that is utterly unknown to their Gen-X professor. Or the collection might simply be found on their smartphones. This digital assignment asked students to select (curate) five of their saved photos. They were asked to respond to a series of questions that probed what they view as happening in the photos and how they came to know what was happening. Was it because of what they see in the pictures, or was it because of what they remember from the time the photo was taken?
This probing is meant to prepare students for the visual thinking strategy (Yenawine, 2013) we used in class. The strategy is a protocol based on Abigail Housen's (2002) work in developing critical thinking through imagery. In using the students' own digital collections as a starting place, my hope was to reduce the inhibition of approaching the high art found in a college survey course while also presenting the role of interpretation in our view of history.
Another example of social media occurred later in the course as we explored the black death in the Middle Ages. Our textbook features experts of Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, written in the 14th century highlighting its "objective attention to human society" (Fiero, 2015, p. 364). This introduction to social realism in our historical exploration provided the connection towards employing 21st-century social media as an exercise in integration and application.
After reviewing Boccaccio's introduction, which explicitly describes the effects of the bubonic plague on the human body, along with Fiero's (2015) account of how people of the time dealt with the prospect of the black death, students were assigned to create a Twitter tweet and hashtag. Assuming the role of latter-day Boccaccios, the students' tweets needed to offer advice about how to manage the plague culture in which they found themselves. They could use the contemporary linguistics of texting but could not apply current scientific knowledge in their advice.
Most of the tweets offered advice that used options available in the 14th century, as outlined in the Fiero (2015) text. The real charm and integrative thinking came from the hashtags. Some examples of these include #NeighborsRuinEverything, #EatSleepPlagueRepeat, and #TheseRatsAintLoyal. Jesse Stommel (2012) of Georgia Tech writes that "a clever text-message or tweet unravels, offering layers of meaning and interpretability for the reader" (para. 8) in an act that evokes "playfulness" (para. 7). These descriptors were evident with my students, one of whom, upon receiving the assignment, exclaimed to the room, "This is the best assignment yet" (student B, personal communication, November 10, 2015).
Both of these assignments were characterized by a 100 percent completion rate and on-time submission. The Boccaccio Twitterfeed assignment was also characterized by a 100 percent compliance to the requirements of the assignment in applying the historical limitations to the content of the tweets. Being the first assignment of the semester, the digital assignment served a formative function in that only 50 percent of the students successfully completed each element required in the assignment. Again, the data from digital provided information on the students and their capacity to follow directions and helped me understand how to revise the assignment in subsequent semesters to ensure student success. Those revisions can include simplifying the tasks required or revising the assignment text to make the tasks more explicit.
Mezzes and Live Art
Midway through my inaugural semester in teaching Introduction to Humanities, I found myself seated at a café in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, sharing a mezze platter with a faculty member from the humanities department at my university. Each semester, the university takes students to the museum to do research for their museum papers, where students write about a work of art from the time period covered by our curriculum. It's a standard assignment used in college art history courses, which I remember from my own undergraduate experience. My colleague and I talked about how the course needed revision, noting it was designed as a lecture-based experience. She explained how she was going to embark on a yearlong overhaul of the course to move it into a seminar-based delivery. I mentioned some of my own disruptive activities over the semester.
However, I didn't mention a disruption that was happening with my students there at the museum. While my students were doing the required research for the museum paper, their reasons for the research were vastly different from the students in my colleague's section of the course. I changed the paper assignment into the development of a proposal using a made-up scenario in which the president of the university was working with a wealthy donor to bring works of art on loan to the campus. The impulse for the president in doing this was because of the inherent insight that is gained from seeing a work of art in person instead of through a photographic representation projected onto a screen. This phenomenon of the live observation was happening for real in the students' research that afternoon at the museum.
As I write this article, we are in the final weeks of the semester and the students are submitting their museum papers next week. It has been an exhilarating experience in both adopting and disrupting a survey course curriculum. As with any new teaching experience, each assignment and lesson plan is a petri dish of formative assessment. I have already begun revisions on the activities where instructions weren't followed by all students. I have noted where greater scaffolding (which can include other disruptive activities) needs to happen to facilitate greater success in the integrative tasks I am requiring of my students. Next week, I will step out of the classroom for 15 minutes so my students can complete their course evaluations. I hope to learn if tweeting, proposing, and curating made a difference in their connecting to the past.
Shawn Maureen Powers is Assistant Dean at Southern New Hampshire University's School of Arts & Sciences.
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Preethi Eke Bhoomi Melidhe, the launching pad of director Prem as the hero which is produced by Ram Prasad of Ashwini Productions will be released on December 7 or 14. This was disclosed by both Ram Prasad and Prem in a Press Conference.
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The recessed sensors are a bit more difficult to install, but once they are set in place they are very unobtrusive, as they are basically hidden from view.
Motion detectors are interior backup sensors & there are generally three different types of these sensors that are used with most home alarm systems today. They are (PIR) Passive Infrared, Dual Technology & Pet Immune motion detectors.
To acquire a comprehensive understanding of these commonly used motion detection devices, please visit my motion sensors web page.
This page also discusses the importance of using motions detectors as interior backup sensors only & explains how they can significantly reduce the level of electronic security you need when being used as a perimeter detection device.
Glass break detectors that detect the acoustical sound of breaking glass are interior backup sensors. You also have glass break shock sensors that detects vibrations from a window being tampered with & these are perimeter detection devices.
A glass break acoustical detector can electronically secure multiple windows within the sensors range. A shock sensor only secures a signal window, but they are the ideal alarm sensor for securing windows that are hidden from view.
For a complete understanding of shock, acoustical & dual technology glass break sensors used in today's home alarm systems, please visit my glass break sensors web page.
With most quality hardwired, wireless & hybrid alarm systems, you can also install several types of non-intrusion detection devices that may be beneficial to you & your family in an urgent or emergency situation.
The most commonly used non-intrusion alarm sensors that are apart of many home alarm systems being used today are:
In addition to alarm companies monitoring your alarm system for unlawful intrusions, you will also find many of them will also monitor non-intrusion detection devices.
If you want to install one or more of these alarm sensors & having it monitored 24/7, you may first want to ensure the monitoring company you choose can monitor the detection device(s) for you.
The content on this page along with the additional information you will find thru the web page links above, should provide you with a better understanding of the quality home alarm systems that are available in today's market.
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Ninety school districts statewide, including two in Niagara County, have been designated as fiscally stressed under New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli's Fiscal Stress Monitoring System. DiNapoli's office evaluated 672 school districts with fiscal years ending June 30, 2014.
This is the second year DiNapoli's office has assessed and scored the financial stability of school districts on a fiscal score rating of 0.0 percent to 100.0 percent. The second round of scoring designated 10 school districts in "significant fiscal stress," 27 in "moderate fiscal stress," and 53 as "susceptible to fiscal stress."
Last year, a total of 87 districts were listed in fiscal stress.
For the second straight year, the Niagara-Wheatfield Central School District and the Lewiston-Porter School District ranked in the significant fiscal stress category. Niagara-Wheatfield had a fiscal score rank of 88.3 percent - tied for worst in the state with the Wyandanch Union Free School District in Suffolk County. The Lewiston-Porter Central School District finished No. 7 in the ranking with a fiscal score of 71.7 percent, tied with the West Seneca Central School District in Erie County.
"School districts are the hearts of many of our communities, but they face fiscal pressures that are unlikely to change any time soon," DiNapoli said. "Although the increases in fiscal stress are relatively minor, the same problems persist, including increased deficits and dwindling fund balances. I urge school officials, especially those overseeing districts with deteriorating fiscal health, to use these scores as an impetus for more deliberate and careful long-term budget planning."
Using financial indicators that include year-end fund balance, short-term borrowing and patterns of operating deficits, the monitoring system creates an overall fiscal stress score that classifies whether a district is in "significant fiscal stress," in "moderate fiscal stress," is "susceptible to fiscal stress" or has "no designation."
By comparison, other school districts in Niagara County ranked favorably in the fiscal stress category. The Royalton-Hartland Central School District and Starpoint Central School District both ranked with "no designation" and scores of 0.0 percent. The Wilson Central School District and North Tonawanda School District also had "no designation" and scores of 16.7 percent and 23.3 percent, respectively, in the fiscal stress category.
The 10 school districts classified in "significant stress" included: Wyandanch Union Free School District (Suffolk County), Niagara-Wheatfield Central School District (Niagara), East Ramapo Central School District (Rockland), Lawrence Union Free School District (Nassau), Watervliet City School District (Albany), Copiague Union Free School District (Suffolk), Lewiston-Porter Central School District (Niagara), West Seneca Central School District (Erie), Hempstead Union Free School District (Nassau) and the Peekskill City School District (Westchester).
DiNapoli's report said school districts in fiscal stress share a number of common characteristics. Most are operating with low fund balance, a pattern of operating deficits and limited cash on hand. In addition, DiNapoli's office found high-need urban/suburban school districts were four times more likely to be in fiscal stress than low-need districts.
The scores are based on financial information submitted as part of each district's ST-3 report filed with the State Education Department as of Dec. 31. DiNapoli's report does not include scores for the dependent school districts in the "Big Four" cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers. Information for these districts will be incorporated into the scoring for their respective cities later this year.DiNapoli's report can be viewed at http://www.osc.state.ny.us/localgov/fiscalmonitoring/pdf/schools/2015_SchoolStressList.pdf.


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where the members of the homeowners Association can stay informed on
activities and proceedings of the Association. The second is
to provide potential property owners with information about the
Association. The third purpose of this website is to provide
Title Companies with the correct board member contact data to process
their escrow demands.
El Rancho Loma Serena HOA was established in 1969. We are a
non-profit organization. There are 148 lots in the
development. All lots are privately owned. 69 percent of the
lots are developed. The homes are not the "cookie cutter"
variety. The homes range from cottages to very large exquisite
homes. The Association has common areas including the
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a bedroom for an overnight stay or reserve the
kitchen/yard for a group activity. Suggested donations are Each Bedroom $20.00,
Shower Only $3.00 and Kitchen/Yard $75.00/group day use*. The grounds would
be a perfect setting for a wedding and/or reception. Dry camping on
the grounds at the Ranch House is also available. (Dry camping defined as
a camper/trailer, no electrical or sewer hookups) Maximum of 2 dry camp
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Spend a fun afternoon at the horse shoe pits located across the street from
the Ranch House. While playing horse shoes you will hear the sound of the creek
flowing (at least in the winter and spring). Take a load off your feet on one of
the benches overlooking the creek. Wild black berries grow along the banks of the creek. They
are usually ripe in July/August. The properties in the Association
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parcels. View the parcel map on this website for further
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here at the Ranch. A favorite saying around here is "If you're lucky enough to live in Mountain Ranch, you're lucky enough".
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Donalda "Nollie" Amelia Page, age 82, formerly of Barnet, VT, passed away peacefully at the St. Johnsbury Health & Rehab Center, Tuesday evening October 3, 2017.
Nollie was born on March 27, 1935, in St. Johnsbury, VT, daughter to the late Charles and Dorothy (Sicard) Mayhew. She was raised and educated in St. Johnsbury graduating from the Academy with the Class of 1953. Nollie married Melville W. Pierce and after 28 years parted ways. She remarried and shared over 21 years with Ralph C. Page until his passing in 2005. Nollie was a homemaker for many years and worked as a clerk at Northern Auto and St. Jay Hardware. After marrying Ralph she worked with him refinishing floors, raising horses and refurbishing horse carriages and sleighs.
She enjoyed music, gardening, her family and friends. She loved to laugh, sing and play games. She was very athletic, enjoying bowling, golf, volleyball and softball. She was one of several mothers for the kids of the North Danville village for many years. She was also active in the North Danville Community Club. She was member of the North Danville Baptist church, leading the choirs with her good friend Shirley. Later she was an active member of the Peacham Congregational Church, singing in the choir and serving as treasurer and secretary. She was on the board of directors for the Danville Meal Site. And thanks to family friend Heather Willard, Nollie continued to partake in meals there right up until her passing.
Nollie is survived by her 4 children: Wayne Pierce (Susan) of Essex Junction, VT, Eric Pierce (Diane) of St. Johnsbury, Sarah Systo (Ron) of Essex Jct., Audrey Pierce (Karen Adamski) of Southampton, MA, a brother: Robert Mayhew of St. Johnsbury, 2 sisters: Sarah Bergen (Dave) of Vernon, CT, Marie Batchelder (Arlan) Walden, VT, a sister-in-law: Sonya Mayhew of Hartford, CT, 6 grandchildren: Jessica & Aaron Pierce, Heather Hayes, Heidi Systo, Darren & Erika Pierce, a number of great-grandchildren and several cousins, nieces and nephews.
She was pre-deceased by a brother, John.
Funeral Services will be held at the North Danville Baptist Church on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at 10:00 a.m.
Friends may call on the family from 6 to 8 PM on Friday, October 6, 2017, at the Sayles Funeral Home, 525 Summer Street in St. Johnsbury, VT.
Burial will take place at the St. Johnsbury Center Cemetery and will be held at the convenience of the family.
Donations may be made in Nollie's name to the Danville Meal Site, PO Box 35, Danville, VT 05828 or the North Danville Community Club, c/o North Danville Baptist Church 4243 Bruce Badger Memorial Highway, Danville, VT 05828
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Rhythm Cafe is a cozy bistro in the heart of West Palm Beach's antique district. Consisting of about 10 tables and seating for about eight at the counter/wine bar, this "retro-artsy" cafe was once a pharmacy and still features '50s vintage soda-shop vinyl and chromium seats around small linen-covered tables.
Pop and disco music from the '70s plays in the background, but not loud. There are framed prints on the walls and lots of objets d'art scattered around (most are priced for sale).
To further set the beat of the Rhythm Cafe, the back of the menu lists the rules of being a "Fabulous patron." Statements such as "turn your cellular phone to vibe and take your calls outside" and "please limit your meals to no more than two hours so that others can enjoy" are bold, but well intentioned to prevent distractions from the dining experience.
Although the chef-owner offers an eclectic mix of contemporary dishes, his presentations proudly portray classical culinary discipline.
The appetizer offerings range from a Greekish sampler plate to ginger-lime-scented Tuna Tartar ($9.75). The Cheese on Fire ($10.75) is not to be missed, especially since the tableside flaming with brandy is as dramatic as it is delicious. Also noteworthy is the salmon, smoked Gouda and scallion cream cheese-filled tarragon crepes ($7.75) perched on lemon buerre-blanc sauce.
Two soups were offered at $5.75: Moroccan chicken and butternut squash. If you can't decide, a sampler with a cup of each is offered ($6.75). Both are excellent. The Moroccan chicken had a very pleasant combination of chicken, pistachios and raisins in a flavorful stock that hinted of coriander. The butternut squash was rich yet surprisingly light.
Salads are standard (Caesar $5.75, spinach $5.75 and Caprese $7.75) but are prepared and presented well.
The menu offers an adequate selection of poultry, seafood, pasta, beef and pork entrees. Preparations noted for each made it difficult to narrow down two selections out of 10 entrees listed. Finalists were the duck, seared in a frighteningly hot pan until dark and crispy ($25.75), and Our Notorious Crab Cakes ($22.75).


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Rails to Trails is an amazing group that works to create great places to ride and walk, from unused railways. They've been doing great work in the Sunshine state and have launched an effort that needs our local support
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Daily, we're reminded about the violence and chaos that is Iraq. Not so readily available are ways to help. Many people have asked about how to make donations, for deployed troops and how to help the Iraqis. Here are a few things I've found.
How does a library help the environment? One home delivery at a time. And home delivery has been at the forefront of services offered by the Orange County Library System (OCLS) for more than 30 years.
Young Professionals of Brevard will host their monthly networking social, sponsored by Community Educators Credit Union, on Thursday, May 26, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at The Redhead Martini & Cigar Bar – 626 Glen Cheek Dr., Port Canaveral. All young professionals in Brevard County are invited to attend.
SBIC teaches, values, and advocates a balanced, holistic approach to designing new buildings. These days many terms are used to describe improved buildings, such as "green," "sustainable," "high performance," and "environmentally responsive." We are always mindful that these ideas must be kept in context with other equally important design objectives, such as aesthetics, accessibility, cost effectiveness, flexibility, high productivity, and security. Our members believe that all sustainable buildings must be low-energy, climate-responsive, use minimal fossil fuels and cleaner, renewable energy.
Every day we're reminded that American military personnel are serving in foreign lands. As we write and publish GreenBrevard each and every month I'm ever mindful of those who give of themselves and put their lives on the line to secure our freedom and way of life. Unfortunately, today's climate in mainstream media often only shows the negative things occurring around the world. This publication's mission is to shine a spotlight on the good news.
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When I moved from Ohio in June of 2000 to the Melbourne beach area, the world was a different place then. We didn't have a inclining of fear with the sound of a jet overhead, because we didn't have our innocence ripped from us, as on that fateful day of September 11th 2001.
In the United States and many industrialized nations, we're drowning in activity. Most of us have more than a safe number of plates spinning in the air: reports due, projects to manage, meetings to attend, doctor visits, home/auto maintenance, school activities, family responsibilities, finances… It's no wonder that we plop on the sofa after a late dinner and just veg out.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Florida has been serving the local community since 1975. The mission of the program is to help children reach their potential through professionally supported one-to-one relationships by developing the emotional, social, educational, and physical well being of the child.
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We are seeing such incredible things on campus. As we step out in faith and share the gospel, we are finding many open and receptive hearts. Over thirty Dominicans have begun a relationship with Jesus in the past two weeks. We are also getting to continue to meet with these new believers and encourage them and ground them in their faith.
God is doing BIG THINGS in our hearts as well. Students are growing in prayer, in leadership and in loving others. We are really experiencing tiredness now, but I am encouraged by their desire to finish project strong.
The church we go to has invited us to sing in front of the congregation on Sunday. We are going to sing Montana (mon-tan-ya, the spanish word for mountain, not the state). And, we are dancing. I knew this would be a problematic area in working in the Latino culture. I have no rhythm or balance. And dancing is a huge part of this culture. I have a hard time clapping to the beat of most songs. Ay yi yi! Oh well, it's only one song.


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The software-defined data center (SDDC) aims to decouple hardware from software and automate networking, compute and storage resources through a centralized software platform. IT can either implement this type of data center in increments by deploying software-defined networking, storage and compute separately, or in one fell swoop. IT pros at Gartner's data center conference this month in Las Vegas said their organizations are interested in SDDC to address changing storage needs.
In the beginning of SDDC's foray into the IT landscape, IT pros generally used software-defined infrastructure for one application or region. But in the past 18 months or so, more organizations are expanding the use of software-defined from one application to everywhere, as general-purpose infrastructure, said Daniel Bowers, research director at Gartner.
"That's a shift," he said. "That means software-defined is going from a niche technology — great for certain applications — to the mainstream."
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As interest levels increase, adoption in the software-defined data center market is on the rise. By 2023, 85% of large global enterprises will require the programmatic capabilities of an SDDC, as opposed to 25% today, according to Gartner.
Some IT teams are evaluating the software-defined data center market as their higher-ups demand innovation, including one financial services company.
"Our CIO is increasingly demanding to move in a software-defined direction," said an infrastructure architect at the company, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the media.
The company's IT strategy is to shift away from a traditional, scale-up, monolithic storage model and toward a scale-out storage model, which enables IT to buy more storage in smaller chunks. The company also aims to update its "big, flat network" through software-defined networking's automation and orchestration capabilities, the infrastructure architect said.
Currently, the company's IT department struggles to deliver adequate test environments to its developers. It aims to close those gaps by spinning up an entire test environment through APIs. When developers are finished testing, they can spin it down, rinse and repeat.
A software-defined data center is a perfect match for an API-driven infrastructure, the infrastructure architect said. With the click of a few buttons, programmers can provision the temporary development environments they need to build applications.
For others, software-defined infrastructure is a secondary solution to an accidental problem. Wayne Morse, a network administrator and systems analyst at Jacobs Technology, an IT services company based in Dallas, runs local storage across 24 servers.
"The problem is, we're running out of disk space on any individual server, and we need to share those resources across multiple servers," he said.
IT didn't implement a SAN due to cost issues, Morse said. Now, the company needs distributed storage across the data center to share resources — and software-defined storage (SDS) is a way to achieve that.
SDDC challenges
But one of the most significant advantages of an SDDC — the ability to implement it gradually — can also be its biggest downfall.
"[Software-defined storage] needs to be a part of a bigger picture," said Julia Palmer, a research director at Gartner. "It's very difficult, because all of the components of software-defined are developed separately."
For Morse, that means a limited network could hinder the capabilities of SDS. He is considering upgrading the company's network to fully take advantage of the SDS' storage-sharing features.
Other organizations see the advantages of software-defined, but costs keep actual adoption just out of reach.
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Walt Bainey, the director of infrastructure operations at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, has looked at the software-defined data center market for years, but only from afar. That's because his IT team doesn't roll out a lot of compute storage or make constant changes to the network.
"We are more static," Bainey said. "The costs of implementing and purchasing the products to make [an SDDC] happen are greater than the actual need."
Still, one ideal use case for SDDC would be in the university's research computing cluster, which provides the infrastructure that supports research needs of professors, researchers and students. There, the IT team could license a smaller footprint of hardware, software and networking components to cut costs, Bainey said. Through software and scripts, IT can provide resources such as servers and file shares and automate routine tasks to build out the environment's compute, storage and networking components.
"We could have our faculty members and professors self-serve and dole out things they want by spinning them up and spinning them down," Bainey said. "I think there's a huge advantage in that type of scenario, but we're not there yet."
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By John Harding
A weird mix of staunch conservatism and liberal freedom. It's a country that can host the multicultural splendour of the Notting Hill Carnival, the diverse Edinburgh Fringe and the fantastic Hay-on-Wye literary festival. It's a melting pot of cultures and attitudes, and a land which seems to embrace … almost everything.
Except naturism; we lag behind our European cousins with their care-free, laissez-faire attitude towards a clothes-free lifestyle. However, the laws in the United Kingdom that address naturism are clear: it is not illegal. Indeed, this may come as a shock to many. Perhaps they only ever see naked people in public when a sozzled sports supporter streaks at a sporting event and is subsequently arrested. Perhaps they buy into the myth that it is "indecent exposure" or perhaps they just believe because of their years of conditioning it must be illegal.
But it isn't.
Not directly, anyhow. There is a law called the Public Order Act; this permits the Police to ensure "order" is maintained and that anyone who knowingly causes "distress" or "alarm" can be arrested and charged; it is a vague law open to abuse. And is often abused.
I understand the desire to have a piece of catch-all legislation. The time and effort required to pass new laws is immense and it is impossible for a Government to consider every piece of abhorrent or undesirable behaviour to pass into the statute books. Our laws would be a mess if they tried and we would end up with a myriad of bizarre laws, like the Dangerous Dogs Act or the Digital Economy Act: that aim to do good but have spectacularly failed in their implementation. Therefore, the Public Order Act exists so errant behaviour which the authorities seeks to discourage can be outlawed. After all, you wouldn't want someone walking through London showing support for a terrorist state?
If I am being generous, the Public Order Act seeks to hold a mirror to society; what the majority in society finds non-distressing is fine, but everything else falls within the scope of the law. But it fails. It seeks not fairness but the perpetuity of the status quo: anyone that steps significantly from the meridian could find themselves labelled as "distressing" others.
At my core I am a libertarian. I see if no harm is being done to anyone or anything else, then I see no reason to seek to regulate or outlaw that behaviour. I believe in personal choice and freedom of expression. I like freedom from interference, and I see conservatism as an enemy of progress and liberty.
A couple of years ago, with some other naturists, we conducted an experiment. We wrote to every police authority in England and asked the following question:
Dear Police,
I am a naturist. When the weather becomes more clement I would like to organise a series of naked walks around the country, with potentially a handful of other naturists, in the countryside as a protest in support of Nigel Keer and Stephen Gough.
As you are aware there is no law against public nudity, and we have no intention to cause any trouble. I will endeavour to pick a route away from towns and villages and we will have no intent to alarm or distress any one else, although obviously, I cannot guarantee that we will not be seen.
To save misunderstanding and to ensure that there is no objection from yourselves, what notice or arrangements do I need to give the Police of our intentions prior to our naked walk?
Kind regards,
The answer I was looking for was: "Thank you for your enquiry. We have no reason to object to your walk. We hope you have a pleasant time."
The response was incredible; so many of our respondents didn't know the law. I spoke to a lovely lady in Cheshire, who admitted that she had to check my assertion that public nudity wasn't illegal in her Police Handbook and was amazed that it wasn't. Until that day, if she had encountered a naturist in the wild fields of Cheshire, there is a reasonable chance they would have been wrongfully arrested.
Others were less reasonable. My response from Derbyshire can be summarised as "kit off, cuffs on." Some stated that they would have no issue with the proposal but if someone complained we could be arrested.
We got responses from most of the authorities and provide the map below; areas of green were where the police authorities correctly understood the law and were happy to work with myself if I had wanted to proceed. Areas of yellow were where the police authorities sought to dissuade us; they gave us warnings that they may seek to halt our right to remain unclothed. Areas of red were where the police authorities served to prevent us. I got no meaningful responses back from the police authorities in black.
This exercise was not designed to criticise the Police but expose a ridiculous state of affairs where public naturists are vilified and harassed by the very people who should protect them. It the Police's job to uphold the law and their role in the public justice system to be fair and just.
There is no explicit law against public naturism; there is no demand from our legislative assembly for all people to be clothed in public. While I wouldn't seek to stroll through the streets naked, I will fight for the right to do so. After all, who is hurt by a naked person strolling through the countryside?
The footnote to that exercise was that more senior people than myself were able to use the material we gathered to demonstrate issues in law enforcement caused by a non-understanding of the legislation and uneven implementation. We helped people faced with prosecution.
But it shouldn't be necessary. The Public Order Act was surely never meant to be used against naturists? Do we really live in such a prudish society where the sight of a bare bottom can cause such rampant distress to warrant prosecution, like Stephen Gough.
Instead, perhaps it was designed to be used for situations such as last week, when a man walked through London carrying an IS flag aloft. Islamic State, a barbaric and vile terrorist group, spreading misery and death throughout the remains of Syria and Iraq, advertised proudly by a deluded gentleman is, apparently, not distressing to the wider society.
But a naked man is.
So, according to the British authorities, the promotion of religious extremists is acceptable but the natural state of homo sapiens isn't.
Once again, I ask, what sort of country is Britain? Confused, I'd say.
John is doing the ZSL's Streak for Tigers; if anyone would like to sponsor me to run around London Zoo naked then I would be very appreciative (https://www.justgiving.com/john-harding10). And so would the tigers. 🙂


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