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New Professional Learning Book on Innovative Formative Assessment Practices to Check for Understanding with Technology
#FormativeTech: Meaningful, Sustainable, and Scalable Formative Assessment with Technology, the new book by Dr. Monica Burns is now available.
NEW YORK, NY – April 18, 2017 — Tech tools can transform the way teachers check for understanding in the classroom. When used purposefully, they provide a window into student thinking and make it easier to figure out who needs extra help. Formative assessment can be meaningful, sustainable and scalable when teachers have clear success criteria and use the digital devices in their students' hands to check for understanding.
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Dr. Monica Burns is a former classroom teacher, EdTech & Curriculum Consultant and Founder of ClassTechTips.com. Monica has shared her passion for thoughtful technology integration speaking at SXSWedu, ISTE, EdTechXEurope, EduTECH, and numerous other national and international events. This is Monica's second book published with Corwin and she is excited to continue her work supporting educators across the country this summer and during the 2017-2018 school year.
In #FormativeTech readers will find practical tips to check for understanding with technology during whole class, small group, and individual lessons. This professional learning book includes ideas for assessing project-based and inquiry-based approaches and ways to evaluate data and communicate results with families. #FormativeTech is full of Monica's favorite tools for teachers and big ideas for any type of classroom technology.
Praise for #FormativeTech, from Dr. Robert Dillon, Director of Innovative Learning, School District of University City, "This book is an ideal read for educators looking to grow more agile in their use of data to individualize and personalize instruction." As well as praise from Jennie Magiera, Educator and Author of Courageous Edventures, "Assessment can often be seen as a four-letter-word, but Monica Burns reminds us that if done well, it can be a tool in better supporting student learning and creating student empowerment. #FormativeTech is approachable and full of 'use it on Monday' ideas."


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Emblem3 Announces Three California Concert Dates, Plus New Debut Album Details (VIDEO)
2013 began with a bang for the trio known as Emblem3. After all, it's not every day that one gets signed with Columbia Records(!). And the good news will continue over the next few months for Drew Chadwick and brothers Wesley and Keaton Stromberg as they've just announced that they have concerts coming up in Cali! From February to March, they'll perform at three different venues throughout the Southern-most parts of the state. Wesley says of their announcement, "It's going to be off the chain!"
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Chancery Resources Announces Operations Update Forecast and Grow Opportunities for 2011
Mar 01, 2011, 12:24 EST
DALLAS, March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Chancery Resources Inc. (Chancery) (Pink Sheets: CCRY) is pleased to announce an update in operations as Q4 2010. Highlights on "El Cafetal" property in Antioquia, Colombia, include a sale disposition assessment completed, recommendations for expansion and additional mineralization in the area and include refurbishing and reconditioning of the plant for production stage. Lastly, we are looking into more strategic opportunities and assets carefully selected to expand and diversify our asset portfolio before the end of the year 2011 primary on Rare Earth Materials sector. The exploration will start in our properties at the HDL Zone targeting separate vanadium, niobium, tantalum and phosphate targets, as well as, a unique zone of Rare Earth Elements (REE) mineralization. Our expansion will continue in additional properties in British Columbia, Canada and Australia.
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The Social Security Administration announced on Friday that it will begin offering partner benefits to same-sex couples, but BuzzFeed reports the benefits will not be applied as consistently as some other federal benefits available to same-sex couples since the Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act. For now only married same-sex couples who live in a state that recognizes their marriages will be eligible to receive the Social Security spousal benefit. This is inconsistent with other benefits, such as recognition for immigration purposes, which rely entirely on "place of celebration." In other words, a same-sex couple could marry in Minnesota and move next door to North Dakota, and one spouse could still sponsor the other for a green card, but that spouse couldn't receive spousal Social Security benefits because they're in a state without marriage equality.
A growing patchwork of federal rights is now available for same-sex couples, but the inconsistency adds significantly to the case for marriage equality in more states. For example, benefits for federal employees offered through the Office of Personnel Management do not apply to civil unions, implicating states like Illinois and New Jersey to upgrade their relationship recognition. Similarly, couples who even marry elsewhere will not be able to move to those states and receive Social Security. This puts particular pressure on New Jersey, which claims that it recognizes marriages as civil unions as justification for not recognizing marriages as marriages. In addition, it's unsettled in New Mexico whether a same-sex marriage from another state might be recognized, a decision a court may have to make before Social Security benefits can be claimed.


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A Belvidere, N.J., man's 9.73-pound catch caught him the grand prize in the third annual Forks of the Delaware Shad Tournament in Easton.
Robert Washer Jr. won $2,000 for catching the largest shad throughout the 18-day event, which began April 17 and concluded at noon yesterday. Washer reeled in the fish on April 19.


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In 2012, we first estimated the annual economic loss to pharmaceutical companies because of medication nonadherence in chronic health conditions. Our report, conducted with Capgemini Consulting, estimated that nonadherence cost pharma $564 billion a year.
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Mountain Molds strikes again! After floundering around with "not right" cast bullets for an original Win 95 in 405 (DOM 1904)... I used MM's online bullet design feature and took a stab at designing a cast bullet to do justice to this cartridge and gun. The bore is excellent and the groove diameter is .415. The original bullets for this smokeless cartridge were jacketed soft points with a somewhat long, roundnose. Most of the so-so available cast bullets/molds either don't drop a bullet the right diameter, are the wrong design, wrong weight or something.
A couple days ago I received the mold from Dan. Today cast up 50 bullets. As is routine right on the money to my specs (the bullets drop at .417 and weigh 318 gr.) I seated the GCs, sized, pan lubed and loaded a few for range testing. Just a mild smokeless load of 5744. Checked for function and chambering in the rifle... perfect. Now the final test at the range on Monday... weather permitting.
Update 1-20. Have gone to range twice to test this bullet. So far very good results. No leading and good stability (perfect round holes in paper & cluster groups). Alloy BHN is about 10.
First chrono range session. Mean MV = 1150 and group size at 50 yds = .95.
Second chrono range session. Mean MV = 1475 and group size at 50 yds = .92.
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Obama Voters At My Workplace
The people at my workplace overwhelming voted for Obama. ( I wonder how the job search is going for most of them) A friend of mine at work voted for Obama. When Obama "won" the Nobel Peace Prize, he wasted no time coming to me to gloat. When I asked him what Obama did to earn the prize, he had no answer.
We don't talk politics often because we are friends and I figure what would be the point. He will continue to think Obama is god like no matter what the facts are.
My friend isn't the kool-aide drinking kind of liberal. He does have a little common sense and we do agree on some things like all the waste in welfare. We both personally know people gaming the system. We agree they all should be drug tested before collecting welfare.
My friend and I also agree we pay too much in taxes and there are programs that could be done away with. I would say he is almost a blue dog Democrat but not quite. He is against gun ownership, falsely believing crime is higher because of it. We agree child molesters should serve life with no parole or be executed.
Since we haven't talked about Obama in a very long time, I have no idea if he has had a change of heart or not. I have been tempted to ask him what he thinks of the hope and change now but I'm not sure I want to hear his answer.
My workplace is a union shop. UAW. However it's not like the big three. We make a fraction of what they make with less benefits. We have never gone on strike. There had been times we have forgone a pay raise to help out the company. We also gave up our pension so they could pay for the waste treatment cleanup.
Our contract is up in Dec. The company wants us to postpone negotiations for one year. The union put it to a vote. We all know work trickles in and we have people laid off who will most likely never be called back. So I was surprised when the vote came back no.
I immediately went to the union president and told him I want out. The union is an embarrassment and just greedy. I was told I couldn't get out of the union.
The company tried a different tack. They had a plant wide meeting to explain why they wanted to postpone contract talks.
What they had to say was an eye opener. They almost didn't make payroll a few times, they had to borrow money for the first time in their history to keep the doors open, they wasn't paying suppliers on time, customers were slow in paying for work done, profits dropped 50% after Obama was elected. We are now 25% below what they used to be, and all management took a 25-35% pay cut they will most likely never get back.
The main gripe of the union members isn't the pay. It's the health insurance. It seems some have actually paid attention to what is going to happen. Our premiums will not go down $2000 a year as Obama said they would but go up. The members want some kind of guarantee they will not increase as though the company has a say into what the insurance companies charge us.
The company repeated every time someone brought up the subject, no one knows what is going to happen for sure. Congress passed a 2,000 page health bill that hasn't been read and slowly things are being found out about it that does not look good. The full impact wont happen till 2014. My friend the Obama voter was nodding his head in agreement. I almost wanted to slap him. Its people like him are the reason we are in this mess to begin with.
This still didn't satisfy a couple of the members. I'm not sure what they want. Maybe they want the company to absorb the cost of the rising premiums. The union is a fraud. They demand all kinds of things then when people end up losing their job because of the higher costs, they blame the company??
I told one person the whole insurance premiums is moot anyway because the insurance companies will be run out of business as was the purpose of Obama's so we will be forced to receive rationed ObamaCare.
I was glad the company had this meeting with the Obama supporters. Its obvious the company hasn't done as well since the Democrats took over both houses of congress in 2007.
Our next vote on the contract talks is in a couple of weeks. I suspect this time the vote will be different. If it isn't, then it will show me Obama voters are truly brain-dead and there is no hope for them.


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|On January 7th, 2016, King Philippe of Belgium and Queen Mathilde of Belgium hosted a reception at the Royal Palace in Brussels for members of the diplomatic corps accredited in Belgium.
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Starlin Castro's Performance Has Dramatically Improved and Other Bullets
In every stage performance featuring kids in the three to six-year-old range, you know you will see a handful of "types." The cryer. The frozen. The ad-libber. And the nose-picker. Which one are you rooting for as your kid? Do you really care? Well, yesterday, we had … the nose-picker. Unfortunately for The Little Girl, she was staged front-and-center, and put on a nose-picking show like it was part of the choreography. Thankfully, she did it with a smile, and we all had a blast watching her (she managed some excellent dance moves when she wasn't mining for goblins).
- After his two double game yesterday, Starlin Castro's slash line climbed to a career-best .302/.341/.491. It's still only mid-May, but everything's going well for Castro this year: his walk rate is slightly up, his power (ISO) is way, way up, his strikeouts are way down, and his line drive rate is way up. If Troy Tulowitzki wasn't going all Barry Bonds, we'd be talking about the fact that Castro is having the best offensive season of *any shortstop in baseball* right now. I don't think I can emphasize that enough.
- Castro has been crazy good this year, and you have to wonder how much credit is owed to new manager Ricky Renteria. Certainly, Castro deserves the bulk of the credit (he worked very hard in the offseason, and he's the one, you know, hitting the ball), and there were some external circumstances that have improved for Castro. But given how much the previous coaching staff worked with Castro on his approach last year, largely at the behest of the front office, and given how spectacularly awful he was last year, you wonder if his uptick this year is simply a matter of feeling more comfortable with the man (and the coaching staff) working with him on his approach. Of course, on the other hand, you could argue that the hard lessons he learned last year are simply taking root this year – indeed, the goal of the approach changes (focus on a smaller hitting zone, be selective in pitches you can drive) was to increase Castro's power (that's happened) and increase Castro's walks (up slightly from last year, anyway).
- Pedro Strop (groin) threw a bullpen session this weekend, and then headed to Mesa, Arizona where he'll presumably start appearing in Extended Spring Training games before heading out on a rehab assignment (Cubs.com).
- Anthony Rizzo's approach at the plate continues to improve – have you noticed how relaxed he looks up there, regardless of the count? – and he's now fifth in the league in pitches per plate appearance (ESPNChicago).
- Renteria subscribes to the "clutch" philosophy I believe to be most likely: although there isn't really a special ability that allows guys to be better than they would otherwise be in those situations, there is an ability to be calm and productive, regardless of the situation. "I think there are clutch approaches," Renteria told Bruce Miles. "I think there are hitters who have good approaches in those situations. Part of that is they take the anxiety, somehow they're able to manage the anxiety in those situations."
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One hundred years ago this week, one of the bloodiest episodes of the First World War ended as the Somme offensive was abandoned.
Prior to the start of the battle on 1 July 1916, and after months of preparations, the Allied expectation had been of a swift breakthrough, and potentially even the defeat of the German Army on the Western Front.
But the attack on the first day was a disaster, with 60,000 British casualties including nearly 20,000 dead. The Allied troops had suffered heavy losses by both machine gun and artillery fire as the Germans emerged from deep dug-outs to defend their positions during the prolonged artillery barrage in the weeks preceding the battle.
Many attacks faltered on German barbed wire and reinforcements suffered heavily as German artillery concentrated their fire on the British trenches.
Over the following 141 days, the Allies continued to struggle gaining just six miles of territory. Many attacks were launched, often with mixed results and little progress overall. Infantry pressed forward, but ultimately foundered and were unable to seize their objectives.
Where surprise could be achieved the results were often successful, but the Allies were never able to exploit local successes.
Technical innovations were also used which surprised the German defenders. On 15 September tanks were used for the first time, but there were insufficient numbers, they were mechanically unreliable, and the tactics were untested. The attack caused initial surprise but this fell away and breakthrough was not achieved.
Despite setbacks Allied tactics continued to develop with ever closer cooperation between infantry, artillery, tanks and the Royal Flying Corps, but German resistance continued to defy all Allied attempts to break through.
Having lost most of the army's pre-war regular soldiers in the battles of 1914 and 1915, the bulk of the Army was now made up of volunteers of the Territorial Force and Lord Kitchener's New Army which had been forming since August 1914.
The vastly expanded armies on both sides lacked experience at every level of command and both had the weapons to make any attack on trench lines and heavily fortified positions very costly.
Mounting an offensive meant months of preparation (building roads, railways, camps and water supplies) but such efforts meant surprise was difficult and the problems of exploiting success proved insurmountable. The British had fielded new technology and achieved limited success, but not on the scale needed.
By the time the offensive was finally called off on 18 November, the Allies had lost around 620,000 men and the Germans 450,000. Allied success was limited; the British 'Kitchener' Army had developed as a fighting force, Commonwealth forces had distinguished themselves, the front line had advanced some six miles on a twelve mile front, and the Germans had been forced to divert troops away from Verdun. But no breakthrough had been achieved, the German fighting spirit had not been broken, and they too had learnt lessons.
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Americans cheered when Mexico elected Vicente Fox a year ago.
How could we not cheer? Mexico's PRI had ruled for 71 years, most of that time marked by anti-democratic, anti-free-market, anti-American governments long on corruption. The PRI's penultimate president wrecked the economy and went into exile, his brother into jail. Fox was a new start.
Fox wants to govern in the interests of all Mexicans, not just an elite clique. His policies take aim at Mexico's most serious problem, the rich-poor gap. Mexico's richest 10 percent take home 42.8 percent of national income, its poorest 10 percent earn 1.4 percent. That ratio is bad, politically, sociologically, economically.
Fox's controversial immigration proposals, his desire to legalize the millions of Mexicans residing illegally in America, grows from his desire to help the poor. Mexicans sent $7 billion home from America last year, mostly to poor families. Fox knows that the more Mexicans in America, the better it is for Mexico.
Fox is working on George W. Bush. Bush lost the popular vote last year because he lost the minority vote. He won 9 percent of the black vote, 35 percent of the Hispanic vote and 41 percent of the Asian vote. Bush knows the chances of winning again in 2004 without the popular vote are low. If Fox needs Bush, Bush needs Fox.
Bush would like to make a deal for Fox's official visit here in September, but there's a problem: U.S. and Mexican interests on immigration are not the same. Fox touts open borders. Few Americans support open borders. Bush has to find a way to satisfy Fox and Hispanics without losing the Midwestern and Southern Anglos who voted for him.
Bush is floating two ideas, amnesty (regularization in White House lingo) and guest workers. Fox says no guest workers without amnesty; Bush says no amnesty without guest workers. A deal is in the works. Congress would have to ratify the deal, but Bush thinks he can put together a left-right coalition to approve it.
The trouble with this deal is simple: Both parts of it are bad, especially for California, where 40 percent of illegal Mexican immigrants (INS figures) reside. There are some 9 million illegal immigrants in America, 3.6 million of them in California. If we amnesty (regularize) them, still more will come, waiting to be regularized, adding to the population pressures already straining our state's resources.
The nation has been down this road before. A 1986 law offered a similar deal: amnesty and an end to illegal immigration. Three million illegals were amnestied, but illegal immigration didn't even slow down. We have 9 million illegals today. Bush's deal is amnesty and guest workers.
It's a bad deal for two reasons.
Amnesty rewards those who come illegally and punishes those who would come legally. Amnesty encourages more illegal immigrants, people who come knowing that when the system is overwhelmed again, a new amnesty will be granted. Morally, amnesty is wrong.
Guest-worker programs have terrible records. Commenting on Germany's problem of assimilating guest workers, the writer Max Frisch said, "we wanted workers and they sent us people." Doris Meissner, former INS director, put it this way: "Contract (guest) workers are defenseless, falling prey to employers willing to pay less than market wages and to use contracts over workers to maintain silence about substandard conditions."
A guest-worker program only makes sense if you stop illegal immigration. Bush's task force, drawing on work by Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, says its guest-worker program will be free of the flaws referred to by Meissner. But Bush's program would not solve the fundamental problem:
If you don't halt illegal immigration -- and Fox has no proposals for that -- guest workers simply increase the total number of immigrants. Gramm says Mexicans won't come illegally if they can come as guest workers.
Gramm is wrong for several reasons: As illegal immigrants they have greater freedom to move about, can bring their families and do not have wages deferred. If they stay long enough, they can earn more money.
It's going to be hard to stop Bush on this. He's courting Latinos, and, allied with liberals from states seeking immigrants -- like Joe Biden of Delaware, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Dick Gephardt of Missouri -- he can probably do his coalition.
California's Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer should oppose Bush's deal, but it's not certain they will. They opposed guest workers in previous bills, but are being pressured by agriculture, always seeking to drive down farm wages. Real farm wages fell in the 1990s (while the rest of the economy boomed) from $6.89 hourly in 1989 to $6.18 in 1998.
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Next up: a fox for a customer (special request).
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An asset class with three beauties
Michael Moses is the keynote speaker at the Art as an Investment conference, organised by Luxembourg for Finance in collaboration with Deloitte Luxembourg. The associated professor of New York University's Stern School of Business has developed the Mei Moses Fine Art Index that compiles data allowing him to track the long-term performance of fine art. In the LFF interview he talks about the true market size and the comparison to more classical indexes.
What is the Mei Moses® family of fine art indexes used for?
The indexes can be used for several different purposes. They can be used to compare the returns achieved at the major auction houses to those of other asset classes. They can be used with other indexes in wealth management for the design of optimally balanced portfolios. They can be used to mark art assets to market.
How do you measure relative performance of art indexes compared to other more classical indexes?
Once you have an index that explains well the true returns achieved by the underlying assets that make up the asset class then the index can be used just like any other financial index. Each of the Mei Moses family of art indexes explain at least 50% of the variability in the returns of the repeat sale pairs that make up each index. The post war index is at the 50% level while the old master and impressionist index explain over 70%.
What is the demand for art and the market size?
No one really knows the true size of the art market. The only public information is what transacts at auction and that can run from 10-25 billion dollars depending on the year. There is no price transparency in the dealer market and therefore it is impossible to know how big it is on a worldwide basis.
Our guess is that the markets are of about the same size since if one was better than the other it would drive the other out of business which has not yet happened. If you add to these figures the inventory of museums and other institution we would not be surprised by a market capitalization of 2-5 trillion dollars for the entire art and antiques market. Therefore art is a major asset class!
Why make a passion investment?
Art is one the few asset classes that possess three beauties. The observational beauty of the object, the fun of being a collector and the positive, above inflation, return the asset produces. Passion investors get the latter for free, financial investors get the first two for free.
Do you have to be an expert to invest in this relatively new class of assets?
Like any other class study and information gathering are important characteristics of successful investing. Over the last ten years a substantial body of research and transactional databases has become available in the art market to help the fledging investor.
One important fact that any art investor should understand is that art is very democratic. Our research has shown that you do not have not to buy the most expensive works to get the best financial performance. Masterpieces tend to underperform the overall art market.
Is art a safe haven investment in times of crisis?
Our all art index tends to lag the S&P 500 by 6-18 months. It is often the case that for short downturns the art market is not affected at all. However during significant periods of global wealth destruction, like 2008, the art market will not be untouched. Our all art index dropped by about 30% in 2009.
How can an art fund generate return?
Like any other funds an art fund can generate return by the wise buying and selling of the underlying assets. It can also act like a gold or other commodity fund whose assets appreciate on a market to market basis without the paying of a dividend.
Does high quality yield high return?
We have found no quantifiable definition of quality that uniformly implies high returns or less risk based on our database of over 15,000 art objects that have sold at auction at least twice. As mentioned earlier, if price is your definition of quality, then that does not work. If the number of cumulative citations and exhibitions achieved by a work of art at the time of purchase are used to define quality, then a larger count does not yield higher results.
Which works of art have the highest liquidity?
Liquidity in the art auction based market is difficult to measure. Objects are usually not left on the auction house walls for long periods of time, or from auction to auction, waiting for a buyer. We therefore measure liquidity by how likely an object will sell between the auction house estimates or not sell at all.
The question then is: do high price works perform better on these measures than low priced works? This can be studied since the impressionist and modern sales at the biggest auction houses are divided into day and night sales with the really pricey works selling in the night sales.
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Artist Residencies
Artists -specializing in music, theater and dance - visiting the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center offer the campus and community a multitude of opportunities to interact with them in workshops, master classes, lecture demonstrations, informal gatherings, and other activities. Visit the Center for information on artists, videos, blogs, events, and more.
Campus Contact
Jermaine Antoine Lewis
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Center for Literary and Comparative Studies
A venue for critical and creative work at the University of Maryland, the Center for Literary and Critical Studies will sponsor lectures, symposia, and readings throughout the year. Scheduled speakers for our 2009-2010 series, "Reading: Histories, Practices, Futures," will include David Baker, Duncan Wu, Morris Dickstein, Linda Gregerson, Teresa Svoboda, and James Longenbach. All events are free and open to the public.
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Robert Levine, Professor
Department of English
Chamber Music Connections
Chamber Music Connections brings UM student opportunities to K-12 schools to provide educational outreach activities.
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Lori DeBoy
School of Music
Chillum Internship Program
The Chillum Internship Program (CHIP) unites Chillum Elementary School, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the College of Education for a collaborative after-school program in which Maryland upperclassmen teach their academic discipline to K-6 students.
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Valary Rawlings, Senior Academic Advisor
College of Arts and Humanities
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Sheila Jefferson, Principal
Chillum Elementary School
Choreographer's Showcase
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center collaborates with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission to present outstanding contemporary dance from the region. Adjudicated by national artists, this annual program showcases six up-and-coming young choreographers each year.
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Ticket Office
Cognitive Science of Language in AP Psychology Series
This program consists of a lecture and a workshop. The lecture on language acquisition is presented to 3 sections of AP Psychology at Northwood High School. In the workshop, Northwood students work with University of Maryland faculty and graduate students in small groups examining particular problems in the psychology of language. Activities include laboratory demonstrations and problem-based learning exercises in the acquisition, processing and neural representation of language.
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David C. Driskell Center High School Arts and Education Program
The David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland developed the David C. Driskell Center High School Arts and Education Program in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition AN AMERICAN CONSCIOUSNESS: ROBIN HOLDER'S MID-CAREER RETROSPECTIVE. The program engages high school students and local art teachers to learn more about Holder's body of work, emphasizing social, political, cultural and historical messages and themes. The program follows the mission of the Driskell Center to educate future generations about African American art, to celebrate the legacy of Professor David C. Driskell, and to tell the story of African American art as part of the canon of American art.
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Dorit Yaron
Deputy Director - David C. Driskell Center
Department of Education: Teaching American History Grant
For the next four years, the Department of History will partner with Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS) and the UM School of Education in a prestigious and competitively awarded Teaching American History grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The goal is the professional development of approximately fifty PGCPS high school teachers of U.S. history through a series of graduate credit-earning workshops and summer institutes designed and led by UM faculty. This is the second TAH grant in which the Department of History has participated, and the first for our home county.
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In the summer of 2009, the U.S. National Park Service commissioned the Department of History to complete a Historic Resource Study of one of its historic properties – a stately, red brick Georgian country house built in 1760s that overlooks the Potomac River in Prince George's County ten miles south of Washington, D.C. The Resource Study will serve as the reference of record for National Park Service officials, historians, and guides who interpret the site for the public.
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David Sicilia
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Latin American Studies Community Outreach Program
A joint effort by the Latin American Studies Center in association with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland that works to recruit first generation Hispanics to the University of Maryland and to create partnerships with area high schools. Activities have included workshops for parents, oral history collection, and classes for native speakers.
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Leticia Goulias
Latin American Studies Center
Latin Teacher Pedagogy Program
The Latin Teacher Pedagogy Program seeks to familiarize Latin teachers and students with some of the major issues in teaching Latin at all levels, but especially K-12. The program also provides the support and instruction needed by high school Latin teachers so that they can meet the certification standards being set by the No Child Left Behind legislation.
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Judith P. Hallett
Department of Classics
Maryland History Day
Maryland History Day is the state affiliate of National History Day, an innovative nationwide program designed to help secondary schools invigorate history education.
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Elsa Barkley Brown
Department of History
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Judy Dobbs
Maryland Humanities Council
Music Education Division School University Partnership
This partnership creates a network of music educators in local schools who serve as mentor teachers for students who are at various levels of experience in their programs. Educators and student teachers meet on campus and participate in workshops, special events, and concerts at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
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Janet Montgomery
Chair of Music Education
Music Technology Lab
The Music Technology Lab, Room 1108, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, is a state-of-the-art facility designed for the study and practice of applications in music technology. The Lab works on outreach initiatives with middle school students, as part of The College Park Scholars Service Learning Program.
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William Evans
Director, Music Technology Lab
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Playwrights of the Future
Playwrights of the Future is a Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center community engagement initiative pairing a team of graduate and senior-level undergraduate students within the Department of Theatre with Hyattsville Middle School's students within their Creative and Performing Arts Program. The program augments the middle school's curriculum by developing playwright and performance skills and encouraging a greater understanding of the role of theater in their own communities. The 15-week collaboration results in a final presentation of new work performed at the center during the spring term. Projects include playwriting, editing, and directing students' plays.
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Saralyn Trainor
Hyattsville Middle School- PGCP
Prince Georges County Public Schools
Professional Writing Group
The PWG connects professional writing students and instructors with local business clients including the Center for Food Safety and Nutrition (CFSAN) in College Park and the TVI Corporation in Greenbelt.
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Reward yourself with crackers and dips made from scratch. Fun and refreshingly simple, Manning introduces dishes utilizing whole ingredients and no preservatives. Her popular cookbook, Crackers & Dips: More than 50 Handmade Snacks, Manning invites fun into kitchen with her crunchy AND creamy formulas bound to please your guests. Recipes for vegan, gluten-free and whole-grain snacks rest alongside those with traditional ingredients – making for a cooking class that covers all snack bases!
Sourdough Soda Water Crackers with Warm Dungeness Spread
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All-Ireland Gold June 3, 2009Posted by Rambling Man in Sports.
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I had the pleasure recently – whilst channel hopping – to churf * across TG4's excellent series, All-Ireland Gold. The programme features entertaining and special GAA matches from the last 25 years or so.
On this particular programme, my own county – Wexford (for I am but a blow in to blaa land) were playing Offaly in the Leinster Final of 1996. Looking back, it was the match that started "it all" … Wexford not only beat Offaly in that game (who were reigning champions) but went on to win their first All-Ireland in God knows how long.
I was at the match in question – I must've been about 17 – but its great to be able to look back at a match like this and see it on TV. You get to see so much more than I did when I was there. All I remember is running onto the pitch at full-time and being swallied ('swallowed' said the Wexford way) by the crowd … I also remember Tom Dempsey getting an outrageous point over his shoulder without even looking at the posts – we were so scared to believe that this day, for once, we wouldn't be returning to Slaneyside brokenhearted. And so the TV program brought it all back …
What a team we had in those days – you would find it hard to leave most of the 1996 team out of any modern team … and they went hell-for-leather at Offaly that day as if their lives depended on it. I haven't seen a Wexford team harry the opposition like it since which in its own way is disappointing.
The great O'Connor brothers, Adrian Fenlon beating lads out the gate, the mad Larry O'Gorman putting his head where others wouldn't put their hurleys … the list goes on … Larry Murphy at half forward banging over the scores, Liam Dunne and the man mountain Ger Cushe … nobody in Wexford can forget Martin Storey or Tom Dempsey or any of the others … the commentators calling Eamonn Scallon Scallion … great days. Liam Griffin dancing along the sidelines … what a feckin team we had !
So thanks TG4 for this series – it's highly entertaining, especially if your only memories of the matches were from being at them … I hope they show the semi-final (against Galway) and the final (against Limerick) soon.
Loch Garman abú !
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In PJ Media this morning I discuss why the "two-state solution" should be abandoned forever.
As yet
another round of the relentless jihad against Israel opens up, it's
useful to consider: would the two-state solution now taken for granted
and offered by both parties really bring peace?
The need to establish a Palestinian state wasn't even a point of
controversy during the last election campaign. The Democrat Party
platform read: "A just and lasting Israeli-Palestinian accord, producing
two states for two peoples, would contribute to regional stability and
help sustain Israel's identity as a Jewish and democratic state." For
his part, Mitt Romney promised to "recommit America to the goal of a
democratic, prosperous Palestinian state living side by side in peace
and security with the Jewish state of Israel."
But would a Palestinian state really stop the rain of rockets into
Israel? Judging from the fact that so many of those rockets are coming
from Gaza, it looks as if the dreaded, notorious, much-maligned object
of frenzied Leftist and Islamic supremacist propagandizing, the Israeli
"occupation," was much more conducive to peace than independent or even
semi-autonomous Palestinian entities. For before Israel withdrew
voluntarily from Gaza in 2005, rockets were not flying into Israel in
anything like the numbers they reached after the withdrawal. Around 35
rockets were fired into Israel in 2001; by 2006, the number had grown to
1,777 — almost all from Gaza.
Yet at the time of the withdrawal, pundits and politicians the world
over predicted that the withdrawal would herald the dawn of a new age of
peace between Israel and the Palestinian Muslims. Palestinians, we were
told, would finally be able to turn away from war and live normal
lives. Publishing magnate Mortimer Zuckerman tried to facilitate that
return to normalcy by spearheading the purchase (for $14 million) of
greenhouses the Israelis had constructed in Gaza; he gave them to the
Palestinians so that they would have places to work. Instead, they
turned them into weapon-smuggling tunnels.
Why would an independent Palestinian state be any different from
post-withdrawal Gaza? Would such a state really bring, at long last,
peace between Israel and the Palestinians — and, for that matter,
"contribute to regional stability"? Egyptian Muslim cleric Muhammad
Hussein Ya"qoub answered that question in January 2009, when he said on al-Rahma TV:
If the Jews left Palestine to us, would we start loving
them? Of course not. We will never love them. Absolutely not. The Jews
are infidels — not because I say so, and not because they are killing
Muslims, but because Allah said: "˜The Jews say that Uzair [Ezra] is the
son of Allah, and the Christians say that Christ is the son of Allah.
These are the words from their mouths. They imitate the sayings of the
disbelievers before. May Allah fight them. How deluded they are."
The quotation is from the Qur'an (9:30). Ya"qoub explicitly rules out
what is conventional wisdom in the U.S.: that the conflict between
Israel and the Palestinian Muslims is simply over land, and can
ultimately be resolved if only the right formula could be found. He goes
even farther, saying that if all the Jews left "Palestine,"
Muslims should still hate them, because it is their responsibility
before Allah to do so. "It is Allah," continued Ya"qoub, "who said that
they are infidels. Your belief regarding the Jews should be, first, that
they are infidels, and second, that they are enemies. They are enemies
not because they occupied Palestine. They would have been enemies even
if they did not occupy a thing. Allah said: "˜You shall find the
strongest men in enmity to the disbelievers [sic] to be the Jews and the polytheists.–


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Minnesota Clay
Hey, Mister Clay (Cameron Mitchell)! I'm so happy to see you again, my friend. Ever since you went away two rival groups of bandits have managed to take over the town. And in process one faction of this group has had the audacity to appoint one of their own into becoming the new town Sheriff. I'm sure you've heard of him before! Cause it's your old advisory -- Fox (Georges Riviere).
But hey! Now you're back I bet you anything you'll be able to kick him into touch no swe... swe... eh? What seems to be the matter, Clay? Come on, man. Speak up! Are you worried about loosing your vision to some rare disease? Or are you concerned that the authorities will track you down since you bust out of prison? Or better yet, are you troubled about revealing your true identity to your estranged daughter, Lucy (Diana Martín)?
Then again, that's most probably why what next transpires all goes from bad to worse when you say to me, 'Shut up, Scratchy (Gino Pernice). Can't you see that a semi-blind man has to do what a semi-blind man has to do?'. As a bunch of bandits get caught in their own trap - that scab named Fox isn't a very nice chap - a lone gunman shoots with the aide of sound - and at the end of the day, get ready to cart off another bad-guy to the nearest impound.
In my most humble opinion 'Minnesota Clay' is a very good film, yet only if you enjoy following a story-line that's rather a-typical for this sort of production. For instance, you have a main protagonist who isn't always perfect but manages to get there in the end. Then you have a number of bad-guys and good-guys who one way or another serve the purpose of the plot. Plus to top if all off there's the usual dose of operatic music, rustic visuals, dodgy dubbing, as well as, well, you know the sort of thing I'm sure.
What I personally liked about it the most were those occasions where the narrative tried to do something different from the norm. Like that scene where the Clay character offered to turn himself in so he could help his friend's out financially. Or those scenes where Clay used sound to gun down the bad guys due to his dwindling vision.
But as for everything else, though, well, yeah, they were good I suppose. Although to some extent I've seen estranged daughters, humble friends, Mexican bandits, sultry swindlers, and old adversaries, so many-many-many times before, I think I'm starting to become immune to their charms.
Again, my friends! Please don't get me wrong. Cause I do mean this with all due respect. Plus I'm positive if I viewed this picture from a less jaded perspective I'd put it in a much better light! Especially since Cameron Mitchell gave some real depth to his sullen performance, as well as Ethel Rojo with her... coff-coff... ample cleavage!
Overall I'd say 'Minnesota Clay' was a pretty good film to watch. Was it an original film to watch? No. Not really. Nonetheless, if you're ever in the mood to spend some time with a repackaged spaghetti western about a visually impaired gunfighter, this would be a fairly good place to start.
Nuff said. Jumbled review. So sorry.


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I have a memory foam mattress pad on my bed and take Mobic 15mg right before I go to sleep, but pain still wakes me early in the morning. If I sleep on my back, the arthiritis in my back wakes me up from pain, if I sleep on my side, it's my hips.
What have other people tried with success?


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For complete details visit:W32.Bugsoft is an intended worm that attempts to send itself to all the contacts in the Microsoft Outlook Address Book. When W32.Bugsoft is executed, it displays a message box. See the "Technical Details" section for an illustration.
W32.Bugsoft is written in Microsoft Visual Basic.
NOTE: Virus definitions dated prior to August 18, 2003 may detect this as Bloodhound.W32.VBWORM.
Number of infections: 0 - 49
Number of sites: 0 - 2
Geographical distribution: Low
Threat containment: Easy
Removal: Easy
i can see the arrogant look on that script kiddie's face right now.


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Frequently Asked Questions
10 most frequently asked questions
- What's the difference between TEFL and TESOL?
- Do I need a degree to do the course?
- What type of people take an online course?
- I am a non-native English speaker - can I do one of your courses?
- Help! I'm stuck on a question, what do I do?
- What type of assignments are there?
- How is my work assessed?
- When can I start and when do I receive the course?
- If I'm not satisfied or change my mind, do I get my money back?
- After the course, do I get a certificate and any help in terms of my job search?
What's the difference between TEFL and TESOL?
TEFL means Teaching English as Foreign Language
TESOL means Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.
The terms mean the same thing and are often used interchangeably.
It doesn't matter whether you do a TEFL course or TESOL course, but if choosing an online option, then an accredited TEFL course is important. Ensure your online TEFL certificate/TESOL certificate is awarded by an professional external accrediting TEFL body such as ACTDEC and is not just an in-house certificate. See our accreditation page for more information on why getting the right accreditation is important.
Do I need a degree to do the course?
No. Although many of our students do have degrees, we welcome applicants from a wide variety of backgrounds. 'A' levels, a HS diploma or significant life experience in teaching, business or some contact with children is advantageous. Some employers may wish you to have a degree and in certain countries (such as Korea) it will be needed so that a work visa can be issued. However our Travel and Teach section gives more advice of what you need for each country and should be a good starting point for information gathering before you travel.
What type of people take an online course?
We have a wide range of trainees from a wide variety of different backgrounds. Some examples from our current students include:
- Existing state sector/further education teachers looking to broaden their teaching base
- Gap year students or 'teacher travellers'
- People wishing to teach ESL to immigrants
- Mature students looking for a change of career
- People who plan to move or retire overseas
- Non native English teachers or foreign teachers abroad
- English people already living overseas who wish to teach EFL locally
I am a non-native English speaker - can I do one of your courses?
Yes, of course! We welcome applications from people whose first language is not English. However, non-native speakers should possess a high standard of both written and spoken English. As a general guide, if you have English to one of the following international exam levels then you should be successful on a GE course:
- IELTS 6.5 or above
- TOEFL iBT 110 or above
- TOEIC 880 or above
- pass at Cambridge CAE (Certificate in Advanced English).
While we do not test applicants on their level of English, should submitted work contain a significant number of errors and understanding is impeded, at our discretion, it will be passed back to the student for re-working until it is of an acceptable level. Marks are deducted for poor use of English in responses.
If you do not have an acceptable level of English to succeed on the course then we reserve the right to cancel your course and refund your course fees.
Help! I'm stuck on a question, what do I do?
Call or chat with your tutor via your student login page.
The depth and quality of the tutor response and marking generates the most positive student comments on our returned course quality questionnaires, which are sent out to students on course completion.
While we won't necessarily provide you with the correct answer, we will point you in the right direction.
What type of assignments are there?
On our accredited courses there are stop and think tasks throughout. These may take the form of simple multi-choice answers or require more in-depth responses that are tutor-assessed. You might be asked to map out the seating arrangements for a class of 12 students or comment on the choice of material for a group of young learners. There is sample material on each of the course pages. We aim to provide tasks and material that will be of real, practical use to you in the classroom.
The grammar courses are all multi-choice response with explanations following each question, with further tutor support if required. All our courses come with access to a personal tutor and the forum, where you can share ideas with other trainees.
How is my work assessed?
You are graded by continuous assessment. In this way you always know how you are doing and we know your strengths and can help you with any potentially weak areas.
Your marks are added up as you proceed through the course and there are more marks for the latter modules, so you have the chance to make up any marks you may have missed out on in the earlier ones.
So that you can check the level you are at, you need to get 50% for a Pass, roughly 67% for a B grade (ACTDEC Pass with Merit) and 83% for an A grade (ACTDEC Pass with Distinction). You'll receive individual comments on all of your completed sections. Not just ticks and crosses but feedback designed to be of real help to you as you progress.
When can I start and when do I receive the course?
You can start any time and you will receive access to the student login page just as soon as you sign up and make payment.
We will assign your tutor within 24 hours or on the next working day.
If I'm not satisfied or change my mind, do I get my money back?
In this unlikely event, simply email us that you have decided to withdraw within 14 days and return any materials sent to you to receive a full refund. See our Terms and Conditions for more details.
After the course, do I get a certificate and any help in terms of my job search?
Upon successful completion of our online courses you will receive the appropriate Global English certificate in PDF format, free as a part of your course. A printed version is available via our Bookstore page for a small extra fee. An ACTDEC certificate in PDF format is available for an extra fee for the Level 2, 3, 4 and 5 courses from the same location. Purchase upon completion of your course.
Weekend course students will receive a TEFL certificate. We will also let you know when schools contact us looking to recruit our graduates through our regular emails.
TESOL CV help is provided in the modules but for more individual help in your search for work, contact our office via your student login page.


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Interview With One Of The Grand Daughter Whom Her Family invented Thr Quality Street " Mackintosh " – مقابلة مع احدى حفيدات صانعي كاكاو ماكنتوش
The star of reality show Made In Chelsea on being an exhibitionist, getting bullied at boarding school and why she isn't as wealthy as people think she is
I'm a total exhibitionist.
When I signed up for Made In Chelsea, I was concerned that my family would object to some of my wild antics. But they couldn't have been more supportive. My grandfather rang me up after one episode and congratulated me on how well I'd done when I stripped down to my underwear and brandished a whip.
My family invented Quality Street.
I'm so proud of my toffee connections. Before my great-great-grandparents came along, toffees were more like boiled sweets. In the 1890s my great-great-grandmother invented a new recipe that made for a much tastier and chewier sweet. Her husband successfully marketed them under the Mackintosh name and he became known as the Toffee King of England. His sons went on to invent Quality Street, Caramac and Toffee Crisp, treats that became part of the fabric of our lives. Every time I see a family buying a box of Quality Street for Christmas, it makes me think that my ancestors are responsible for that. The penny-shaped toffee in the yellow wrapper was always my favourite.
Success is always the best form of revenge.
As a kid I was such an ugly duckling, and that made me very unpopular at school. I had braces and glasses, and the other girls nicknamed me Sparrow Legs. They would smear Marmite in my hair and Vaseline on my face. One time someone tried to break my nose. This went on for three years. I was at boarding school, so I was effectively trapped. I so much wanted recognition from the people who were mean to me. Now that I'm a success, it feels like payback for the girls who made my life a misery.
People severely overestimate how wealthy I am.
I'm routinely referred to as the heir to the Quality Street fortune. As though I hit 21 and inherited millions. If only. It's not as if I get a cut every time someone eats a toffee. My family sold the business years ago. I'm comfortable, but I don't live a flash life. I don't have a Bentley or a chauffeur. Unlike Bernie Ecclestone's daughters, my dad isn't about to buy me a multimillion-pound flat. My parents helped me out with rent when I first moved to London but I've been completely self-sufficient for the past two years.
TV success has forced me to develop a thick skin.
People get very emotional about Made In Chelsea and some of the comments on the social-network sites can be fairly scathing. One of my co-stars, Louise Thompson, even received death threats after being caught cheating on her boyfriend in the show. I've not had anything as extreme as that, but I've been on the end of some harsh comments. People say some very sick, twisted things. But I've learnt to let criticism wash over me. If I didn't, I'd go mad.
When I go off, I go off big time.
In one earlier episode I threw a martini in Hugo Taylor's face. That was spontaneous, a natural thing to do when you find out someone's been cheating on you and you feel furious. I'd found out he'd cheated on me the night before and rang the producers saying I wanted to meet him. I knew I was about to get angry but I didn't know I was going to throw the drink until he denied it to my face. I usually have a long fuse but I have my limits. Being lied to is something I just won't stand for. While certain situations are set up in the show, most of the dramatic moments aren't staged at all. It's not like I walk out of my front door and the cameras follow me around
'I'm a no-nonsense businesswoman. I can be ruthless when I need to be,' said Millie
Don't call me an It-girl.
I'm sure some people have this idea that my life is an endless cycle of glamorous holidays, oxygen facials, handbag shopping, movie premieres and cocktail parties. Don't get me wrong: all that is a part of my life. But I'm not some posh bitch who's been given everything on a plate. What people don't see is that I work tremendously hard. My family have always been grafters, and from an early age I was encouraged to have a work ethic. I'll never let that go.
I've got mixed feelings about fame.
When I wear a gorgeous outfit to some premiere, I like the idea that I'm being photographed and people will write about it. If I'm in the hairdresser's flicking through a magazine and I see a photo of myself, I get a kick out of that. But I try to keep it in perspective. I know how to court the press. I know there's things I can do and say that will guarantee me column inches. But I've come to realise there's a price to pay for playing that game. Especially now that I've got a boyfriend who's in the public eye (rapper Professor Green), things I say can be exaggerated. So I've learnt where to draw a line in the sand. For example, my relationship with my boyfriend is now off-limits.
The paparazzi are my friends and my enemies.
Being photographed in public is part of my life. Sometimes the attention is welcome, sometimes not. If I'm attending an event or promoting something, I'll invite the paparazzi along, because I want the publicity.
I'm a no-nonsense businesswoman.
With any project I'm involved with, I'm very hands-on. I'll attend every meeting and need to know exactly how things are developing. I can be ruthless when I need to be. If anyone is slacking I'll be the first to tell them. I expect everyone who works with me to have the same level of commitment and motivation that I put into a project.
Reality TV can be a dead end.
Some people do a reality show, expose themselves as much as they can and then it's back to obscurity for them. People can get completely used up. Suddenly they're famous for not being famous. That's not going to happen to me. I'm too ambitious. I'm aiming to expand my beauty line, have my own clothing line and maybe own my own boutique. If Hollywood comes calling, I'm ready to do movies. I'm not ruling anything out. The sky's the limit.
We need more glamorous people in this country.
It infuriates me that we don't make stars like we used to. I'd love to go back to the Sixties and Seventies and hang out with Brigitte Bardot and Marc Bolan on the Riviera. Stars were so much more glamorous back then
Posted on October 28, 2012, in Celebrities, Interviews and tagged caramac, great grandmother, king of england, quality street, transportation, ugly duckling. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.


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Earlier this year we reported about the Bugatti Veyron fbg that Hermès designed. Now, Hermès has set it's sights, or designs, on a car that's much smaller – The Smart Car – in celebration of Smart Car's10th anniversary. The Hermès Smart Car is available in 10 colors including Hermes signature orange, indigo and gold; Each comes complete with Hermès leather covered steering wheels and gear levers in fun colors like lime and fuchsia, along with the Hermès canvas toile H. Normally retailing for about $12,000, the Hermès Smart Car is going for about $48,564. For that much money, I'd want the seats in Hermès leather! I'm hoping these little babies will come stateside – they are perfect for finding parking in the city.
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To those who have any interest in foreign events, Brazil has been going through some social unrest.
Present government has its base of support in the usually corrupt Unions who promote noisy protests whenever government asks them to.
The present turmoil and street demonstrations are not originated from these "purchased" Unions. They are a genuine indignation of the middle class that got tired of watching helplessly to the slow and steady destruction of our economy, infrastructure and morality.
What we see in the streets is a big contingent of young people who lost hope in government, political parties and Brazilian style democracy, that doesn't actually work as one with such a huge percentage of its population being illiterate and ignorant.
Voting is mandatory here, so previous governments buy these votes providing an official monthly financial help to families who ask for it and can prove that are poor and in need. Needless to say this serves as a perpetuation of the parties in power and the deterioration of the production base.
The inefficient government has gone from 12 Ministries to 40, from Fernando Henrique's government, through Lula (a deeply corrupt politician turned into Myth) up to the incompetent Dilma government that has grown tax collection to unbearable levels.
Capitalism in itself is prone to corruption and the modern democracies have been able to reduce this aspect to a livable minimum. According to philosophers it will never end.
In Brazil corruption is a way of life and it's very unlikely to become successful if one is not involved in some type of mischievous scheme.
Brazilian economy isn't going anywhere, since investment in security, health and education is much less than what it should be. Public schools are not a possibility for someone like me who demands a good level of education for kids. Even USP, the famed University of São Paulo, has suffered from several years of negligence… not only from government but also from its own ranks. No education, no future! As simple as that! Just look at the old Soviet Union. They had very bad quality education and that will cost them decades to pick up, before they can be called a world power again.
Our judiciary system also sucks and is overloaded with useless processes. Judges are overwhelmed and cannot get anywhere near meeting the needs of society. Even if they wanted to, which they don't. Really!
Just now we had, for example, to decide if we rented a house for commercial purposes. It has some legal issues, from bad management in the past. To fix this we'll need to go through city officials (who will ask for money), judiciary system (that doesn't work) and fixing stuff we didn't even brake. So, property owners are in the hands of corrupt regulators. Even with the PT government having become the leading party in Sao Paulo city, things didn't get any better. If anything, they got worse! A political party who is in power just to be in power and whose moves denounce that all they want is to stay in power… bribing the people with false propaganda and tax money they collect from the economy.
Doing charity with tax money will slowly bring inflation back, jeopardize infrastructure and produce a society of lazy people.
Labor laws are another huge problem here. A business owner needs lots of cash if he wants to fire someone for whatever reason. He cannot lower wages to save jobs and the business itself. A Labor Law system benefits perfidious employees who lie to a senseless judge and many times produce decisions that break the company, leaving no hope of recuperation or further employment.
We are living a Chavism in Brazil, where there is a Myth built around one person who has been armored by its accomplices with the objective of keeping them in power.
The traditional formula of bread and circus is being taken to its maximum here. They give soccer to the people, with athletes being paid hundreds of times more than the common worker who actually carries this country on their backs. A common worker gets a 1,000 Real pay per month, while an average soccer player gets paid 100k Real, going up to 5 million!
This craziness and stupidity also happens in the USA and Europe, so we are merely importing it, but even then, it's an outrage to have a woman put in prison for stealing a butter bar while our previous president has enriched his son thousands of times and isn't even being prosecuted!!!
Professional sports, in my opinion, have become a cancer to our society. Nothing morally justifies the money involved in these activities. No one will convince me that Tiger Woods can get a check of 1 million dollars while there are children dying of cancer, unattended for lack of conditions, in a public hospital somewhere in the world and even somewhere in the USA… a country of contrasts… and more and more unjust.
Corporations are governing this world and, allied to corrupt politicians, morally dysfunctional, have unlimited power.
A lawyer that saves millions from tax benefits for his client, receives millions as pay while the person who plants the corn that he eats cannot afford to put his kids in a decent school.
Where have we gone wrong?