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Telling my 5-year-old about sexual consent was just as awful as it sounds
I got a lot of calls from my daughter Mia's kindergarten teacher. I'd kind of expected this, and it actually came at a bit of a relief. My daughter is one to push limits and test boundaries. Through preschool, it'd seemed like she was a model child at school, and saved her challenging behaviors for me. At home, we butted heads, in a constant battle of wits, so I was thankful it wasn't just me she pegged as a possible if-she-could-just-catch-her-at-the-right-minute pushover-type of person. Then I got a call from the principal.
"We had an incident involving Mia today," he said. I'd just gotten home from my college class, and was in a rush to get to a client's house to clean before I had to meet Mia at the bus stop.
"Okay," I said, hoping it didn't mean a conference or suspension. Did they suspend kindergartners? I hoped not.
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"Two boys were chasing Mia on the playground today," he said. "When they caught Mia, they pinned her down on the ground and told her they wanted to have sex with her."
It's not often that I feel what they call a "Mama Bear rage," but I felt a bit like the Incredible Hulk in that moment. I double-time my parenting as a single mom, and felt the "dad" side of me growing violent thoughts to the boys who'd tackled my little girl.
I thought back to my elementary school days of boys chasing me on the playground. I'd been taught, from the beginning, that if a boy was mean to me, it meant he liked me. That if a boy did a physical act that hurt me, it meant he had a crush. On the flip side, I was also taught to hug and kiss all relatives good-bye from a young age, even when I didn't want to, because otherwise it'd hurt their feelings.
That situation with family should be the beginning of teaching our children about consent, from when they are little babies, not in a principal's office after they've been tackled by a boy.
"Is Mia okay?" I squeaked.
"Oh she's totally fine," he said, hoping he meant physically. "We talked to the boys, and they didn't even know what they meant when they said 'sex.'"
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When I talked to Mia that night, she asked me what the word meant. She thought it was a compliment, being a huge fan of the song Gangnam Style at the time.
"Sex is another word for when a mom and dad make a baby," I said. I watched the wheels turn in her head a little.
"I'm too little, Mom!" she said. My heart ached. She was. Mia had done the right thing in the situation. She'd told them to stop, and when they didn't she told an adult what happened. When we talked about it, she didn't feel like it was a big deal and even said, "They're just boys."
The next time I saw a blond boy in Mia's class run up to her, hugging her even though she told him to stop, I intervened, Mama Bear style. I bent over so I was right next to his face. "You are not allowed to hug her if she doesn't want a hug," I said. "Ask if you can hug her, and if she says 'yes,' then it's okay. Do you understand?" He looked at me, wide-eyed, and ran away. I never found out who the boys were that tackled her.
Consent is not sexually oriented at all when it comes to allowing other people to touch you. It's important to teach children that not only should they ask before touching someone, even if it's holding their hand, they should wait for a "yes." The absence of a "no" does not give consent.
I'd always been so focused on teaching my daughter about her private parts and keeping them to herself, I didn't think that included her whole body. A sexual predator would not start with the most extreme interactions from the get-go. It starts with pats on the back, or hugs or sitting in a lap. A child should never be forced to physically interact with friends or family members if they don't want to, and in turn they should always ask before they touch their friends and family.
More: School has perfectly predictable response to 9-year-olds reading about sex
I've started practicing this as an adult. Asking friends if I can hug them gives more credit to the action. There's a moment, a pause and an acceptance, or a welcoming. It gives the action a mutual sincerity, appreciation and affection. Before I'd hugged friends goodbye without thinking, but giving it that moment of consent changes the action.
It's important that my daughter sees these exchanges. It's vital I teach others who interact with her the same. The exchange of asking to touch and saying yes should be as obvious and important as asking to borrow something before taking it. As a parent, I teach to give, to allow, but also that saying no is not only OK; it will be validated.


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Picture: one of the demonstrations in 2011 that toppled the Gaddafi regime. Source: Wikipedia
The situation in Syria is desperate, while the diplomacy surrounding it is getting more tangled by the day. Is there a role for the European Union in the quest for a settlement to the Syrian war, in line with its commitment to crisis management?
On 8-10 November, EUNPACK held a workshop in Bamako, Mali. In this workshop, Morten Bøås and Silje Skøien from NUPI met with the ARGA team led by Abdoul Wahab Cisse and Ambroise Dakouo for two days of discussions about the implementation of the field work in Mali. Among the items discussed was the question what sectors we should target in this case. We decided to focus on the EU's support to Security Sector Reform through the EUTM and the EU's approach to rule of law programmes in Mali.
In an opinion piece for Norwegian daily Dagsavisen, EUNPACK project manager Morten Bøås and Tina Gade ask what will happen after Islamic State are driven out of Mosul. They argue that an apparent lack of planning on the part of the anti-IS forces currently attacking Mosul makes it likely that they will win the war, but lose the peace in the city. "The coalition now fighting against IS is a short-term military coalition that has an interest in chasing IS out of Mosul but has little else that unites them," they write.
External crisis response in the form of peacekeeping and peacebuilding has never been easy, but the current context of broad and ambitious mandates combined with robust instructions to use force may provide for further challenges. If we take recent conflict trends as a guide to ongoing and future externally-driven crisis response operations, the field is and will continue to be characterised by complex missions in politically difficult terrains.
In today's world, efficient crisis response is much needed and often attempted. Yet after more than two decades of heavy international engagement in various types of external third-party crisis response, we still do not know much about what works, what does not, and under what type of conditions. New tools are constantly being added to the international crisis response toolbox, resulting in missions with ever-expanding mandates that are not met by more resources. Rather, the opposite seems to be the case.
It has been five years since the self-immolation of Tunisian Mohammed Bouazizi sparked a series of uprisings against authoritarian rule in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. In contrast to the crowds celebrating the transition to democracy in Tunisia, there were no mass ceremonies on the fifth anniversary of the Egyptian revolution. After having arrested activists and shut down cultural spaces, security personnel were out in force. Only a handful of regime supporters were allowed to organise a low-key gathering, not to celebrate the instigators of the revolution, but to praise the police who tried to stop them. All other demonstrations were banned. The social media networks were silent. Egypt has been thrown back to the darkest days under former President Hosni Mubarak.
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The Annual General Meeting of Evotec AG took place on Wednesday, 14 June 2017, at 10.00 am (CEST), at the Sofitel Hamburg Alter Wall, Alter Wall 40, D-20457 Hamburg.
Agenda of the AGM 2017 of Evotec AG including the report by the Management Board on item 6 of the agenda
Presence and voting results 2017
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Microsoft's latest security service--this time to provide anti-spyware to customers--could put the software giant in a bit of a pickle if the company decides to charge for the protection
Last week, the software giant announced it had launched a beta program for the public to test its recently acquired spyware-proofing software. While the company has been coy about whether it will charge for the service at the end of the beta program, Microsoft has not ruled out the prospect.
Yet, a fee could mean that the company is requiring customers to pay to protect their PCs against software defects that Microsoft developers should have caught.
While spyware usually takes advantage of a user's trusting nature to get installed on a PC--something that should not be considered Microsoft's fault--some software surreptitiously installs itself using flaws in the operating system. A user should expect that Microsoft would clean their systems from those hazards for free.
While the company has created a cleaning program to remove many worms, its unclear whether it will extend the program to clean all malicious software that installs itself using flaws in the Windows operating systems and applications.
Microsoft has made significant strides in locking down the Windows operating system in the past three years. However, a fix-for-fee anti-spyware tool could leave users questioning whether the company has done enough.


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Since 2011 UNICEF has working to give voice to the youth through the U-Report project, which is a social messaging tool allowing anyone from any community, anywhere in the world to respond to polls, report issues, support child rights and work as positive agents of change on behalf of people in their country.
U-Report use OSM maps to show from which city (or department, county...) the users are responding their polls, and by now we are developing the implementation for Fiji, and that is why we are trying to import this data.
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MapChickamauga Battlefield Scale not given. LC Civil war maps (2nd ed.) 162.8 Folded title: Chickamauga Battlefield, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia and Tennessee. "June 1973 GJB." Includes text, map of "Chattanooga and vicinity," and ill. Text and col. ill. on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 110
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A few days earlier at Computex 2013, ASUS showed Transformer Book Trio which puts Android and Windows 8 at the same device. Now during CES 2014, ASUS has revealed the Transformer Book Duo, a hybrid device of Laptop and tablet and will be available at a later date for $599. According to the released information, the top of the device is removable, giving the user the possibility to easily change between tablet and laptop. The exchange of operating systems also promises elapse without many problems: simply touch this button at the bottom of the screen to choose between Windows 8.1 and Android 4.2.2.
The Transformer Book Duo comes with a Core i7 processor, 13.3 inch display, 4GB of memory and has battery that lasts about 5 hours running Windows and having approximately 6 hours as the Android operating system.
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Friday, 7 December 2012
Parallel Universe Cont.
I found the box with the Parallel Universe artwork in it! ( that's quite an achievement in our house.)... now the scanning begins. Going to see how i can best work with this stockpile of images. I need to find the best way to get a large range available for people to buy affordable prints from. It's something for the New Year, although i have put 9 available to buy for £15 each on my online, Big Cartel shop, GarrettWare. First I need to archive them. As far as I can remember there are about 220-240 of them, so it may take a while!
Anyway I'll come back to them and let you know what i decide to do. If you live in Hastings and St Leonards then you can still pop down to the Kave Gallery, Kings Rd, this weekend and pick one up on the spot, you can even get them framed ready to put up on your wall or wrap and give as a gift. I shall also be selling my wares at Christchurch School, St Leonards later this afternoon, pop along say 'Hi' and grab some goodies. I'll have cards, prints, framed prints, little envelopes filled with special prints, pebbles and even some of my Klutz Mix & Match, drawing books... buy one and get a FREE doodle (wow!) by yours truly. I think that about covers it. I'll leave you with a few more Parallels, hope I can bring a smile to your face.
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Yorktown will stop in town a total of six times on trips between Chicago and Detroit.
Four-year-old Benjamin Perkins loves to watch the boats when his family visits Saugatuck from Kansas City, Mo.
This morning, he got a 257-foot surprise when the Yorktown cruise ship pulled along Wicks Park for a day-long stay — the first of many stops for the vessel along the Kalamazoo River this summer.
"We love to look at the ships," said Benjamin's dad, Andy, as he and his son sat transfixed by the ship that carries 138 passengers from Chicago to Detroit and back again. They didn't know the ship would be in town. "We come down each and every day."
Hundreds of people lined the riverbank to wave and snap photos. The Saugatuck Township Fire District boat sprayed water as it led the Yorktown up the river to turn around in front of Coral Gables. A band played "America the Beautiful" as the ship docked along Wicks Park.
"It was beautiful. ... Elegant," said Susan Compagner of Yacht Boat Charters who rode a boat called Boat, one of the several vessels that followed the Yorktown from Lake Michigan to town. She, her husband Michael, both captains themselves, Marla Sundquist and Jack Martin stood together, each wearing red, white and blue hats and waving to the passengers.
The Yorktown is the first U.S.-flagged passenger ship to visit Saugatuck since 1929.
Cruise ships returned to Saugatuck in 1999 after a decades-long hiatus when French-owned Le Levant entered the Kalamazoo River to cheering crowds. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers funded an emergency dredging of the harbor earlier that spring so the vessel could turn around in Kalamazoo Lake and dock at Wicks Park.
The U.S.-owned Yorktown, with a draft of 8 feet, is designed for smaller ports.
"It's a delight to welcome you here," Patty Birkholz told the captain of the Yorktown. Birkholz is director of the Michigan Office of the Great Lakes and was a state legislator who represented the area in Lansing. The visit will help the area's tourism-based economy, she said.
The passengers were being taken on excursions to see the dunes, shops and experience the area's history before departing tonight.
"What I enjoy most is meeting people in the small towns along the Great Lakes," said Capt. Jim Abbruzzi.
The Yorktown is scheduled to visit Saugatuck five more times — Sunday, July 13 and 15 and Aug. 17 and 19.
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Dear School of Generosity graduates,
On behalf of Pastors Judah and Chelsea Smith we wanted to once again thank you for participating in our school. After pouring through the surveys we were encouraged by your overall responses. From your responses most all of you were inspired to earn more, save more, and most importantly give more to God's work here on earth. You told us that our speakers not only inspired you, but equipped you to do the same, but that you were even more interested in developing the skills to implement the principles the speakers taught. We too, believe the school can only educate you to a certain level and then to go deeper, we must learn how to take our education, and develop effective strategies and plans to accomplish what God has put on our hearts.
Therefore we are in the process of identifying approximately 20 quality leaders who have diverse backgrounds, expertise, and different passions or interests that have a strong desire to lead groups, so as to better equip you on your specific interests and need. These leaders will be equipped to accomplish these goals by attending a six (6) week City Group training session that will be hosted by Neil and Gina at the Kirkland Campus, beginning May 2nd from 6:30 to 8:00pm. Many have showed great interest in going through these empowerment meetings, if any of you see yourself as future leaders please contact Neil by email and he will set up an individual meeting with you prior to April 15th.
Each group leader will be asked to gather approximately 10 to 20 people interested in the specific subject they will cover. The group will be designed around equipping you, but a lot of time will be dedicated to dialogue, encouragement, fellowship, and praying for one another; in essence doing life together by building lasting and strong productive relationships. A culture where everyone is for each other and will act as a support group. We believe that much lasting fruit will come out of these groups.
As many of you know we have an exciting retreat planned for our Generosity team August 9 through August 11th at Suncadia. The retreat will be life changing, we promise, and like our school we will put a lot of quality time and thought into making this a wonderful week end in a variety of ways. We have had hundreds of you indicate that you wanted to be counted in and would intend on participating for what we believe will be a life changing weekend however space is limited. Therefore it is imperative that you register as soon as possible to secure space. To register and for pricing details, click this link: http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/?eventid=1210309 .
We hope to see you there! Our new groups will be kicked off that weekend, however if you are in a current group that is satisfying your needs, we encourage you to keep on attending. We will keep you updated monthly for more specifics on the retreat.
We have gathered many names who have indicated that they either want to attend a group or lead one. Please email firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested in leading a group so he and possibly Gina can meet with you before April 30th.
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Hood River Valley High School students get to have some fun with this week in two ways while raising money for FISH food bank.
n Polar bear car wash — from noon to 3 p.m., Saturday, HRVHS football captain Eli Fults, boys basketball captain Luke Kopecky and varsity soccer player Oscar Becerra will all be wearing bikinis at the Polar Bear Car Wash this Saturday to help raise money for FISH Food Bank.
The car wash happens in the Columbia State Bank parking lot, across from Safeway. Fully clad female classmates will be doing the actual washing.
n Van smash — Rivers Edge Towing has donated a derelict Chevy Astro van to be delivered today to HRVHS. Students can hit the car with a baseball bat or sledgehammer, at $1 per smash.
The Astro was a non-functional abandoned vehicle. "If we can get good use out of it, great; normally we donate them to the fire department," said Rivers Edge owner Jason Shaner.
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Jobless claims can be erratic at times, and economists are expecting the Labor Department\'s report due Thursday at 8:30 a.m. to show an increase following the 18,000 drop to 324,000, which marked a five-year low. Economists polled by MarketWatch are expecting claims to rise to a 335,000 level in the week ended May 4, which still, all things considered, is pretty good.
The readings on claims have been pretty good for some time, however. A different jobs report released this week, on job openings, wasn\'t as bullish. The problem in essence is that companies have stopped firing but they\'re not hiring to any great degree either. That\'s why the jobless rate is still north of 7% nearly four years into the recovery.
Also on the docket: Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker heads to New York to deliver a speech at 8 a.m. on financial stability, while another of the Fed\'s hawks, Charles Plosser of the Philadelphia Fed, speaks at 1:15 p.m. on monetary policy. Wholesale inventories data for March comes out at 10 a.m.


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The next morning we set off via Zodiac in search of an oyster bed on the northwestern portion of Byers Peninsula. While oysters indicate a marine setting, they are found in shallow waters, which have potential for terrestrial mammals.
We arrive at Rays Peninsula to an interesting smell … Antarctic Fur seals. These are quite different from true seals in that they can use their front legs to walk semi-upright, and they have external ears.
We hike about a kilometer in search of the oyster beds over some fairly steep terrain. No avail … again snow cover has not been nice. The views, however, are spectacular.
We have been on the windward side of the Antarctic Peninsula. In a few days, we will be on the leeward and, hopefully, drier and more ice-free side.


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Fairfield, CT (September 10, 2013) – The Columbia Lions drilled a free kick from about 25 yards out in the 83rd minute to down the Sacred Heart women's soccer team 1-0 Tuesday night at Campus Field. For the second game in a row, the Pioneers could not find the back of the net and now fall to 1-5 on the season.
Senior midfielder Beverley broke a 0-0 tie in the 83rd minute with a powerful free kick from about 25 yards away that slammed into the upper third of the goal past the outstretched arms of SHU goalie Sydney Judkins (South Park, PA).
Columbia goalies Gabby Dubbick and freshman Allison Spencer combined for the shutout, with Spencer making some big saves in the second half to keep the game tied.
Sacred Heart controlled most of the action in the late stages of the first half and especially most of the second half, outshooting Columbia 10-5 in the second stanza. SHU had a few notable chances throughout the game but could not find the back of the net. Freshman forward Lindsay Jossick (Newtown, CT) drilled a shot that just went over the goal with about 15 minutes left before halftime. Following Jossick's lead, senior Kristin Verrette also roped one just over the cross bar early in the second half.
Possibly Sacred Heart's best chance of the game came in the 51st minute on an Alexis Parlato (Center Moriches,NY) header in traffic that Spencer barely knocked away and Columbia cleared. Parlato's header was the result of a corner kick from senior defender Alyssa Brandofino (East Northport, NY). Columbia's Spencer also thwarted away a deflection off of her own defender after Kristin Verrette (Saugus, MA) took a shot from close to the end line in the 75th minute.
SHU looks for their second win of the season on Sunday afternoon when they welcome UMass-Lowell to Campus Field at 1:00 pm.


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Pictured: Among potential employers at the job fair held Tuesday at the VFW was the Border Patrol. The event was sponsored by the EDC, Coastal Bend College and WorkSource. Photo by ALICE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
About 30 employers set up booths as well
Ofelia Garcia Hunter, Alice Echo-News Journal
Organizers said the job fair on Tuesday at the VFW Hall attracted about 300 job seekers.
Some like Roger Arkadie, from Kingsville, made the 30-mile trip to Alice to find a job.
"I've been here since 9:30 (Tuesday) morning," he said as he was filling out an application at the sheriff's department table.
About 30 employers participated in the six-hour job fair Tuesday at the VFW hall and organizers said that the long lines formed about 30 minutes before they opened the doors.
The job fair was sponsored by the Alice Jim Wells County Economic Development Corporation, Coastal Bend College and WorkSource of the Coastal Bend Alice center.
The job fair included a variety of businesses from the oil and gas industry, education institutions, retailers, and rehab service along with military and border patrol representation.
Individuals looking for a job also received free give-a-ways such as pens, CD holders, frisbees and key chains. The job fair was a way for employers to seek employees, organizers said.
Some employers - like the city department - ran out of applications by lunchtime.
"We ran out of applications and I'm going to the office to make more copies," said Rosa Hinojosa with the Human Resource Department with the City of Alice.
Virginia Garcia with WorkSource said she was pleased with the turnout.
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Over 200 Craft Beers, Food Trucks, Music, Mechanical Bull; Benefit for Newton Fire Museum
April 6, 2015 – The Big Brew Sussex Beer Festival is returning to the Sussex County Fairgrounds in Augusta, New Jersey on Saturday, May 9th, 2015. The Fest will be outdoors and under tents.
Over 200 styles of craft beer will be available for tasting, and many New Jersey breweries will be featured including Sussex County's popular Angry Erik Brewing.
There will also be six great food trucks on-site including award-winning food trucks The Cow & The Curd, Oink & Moo BBQ, Empanada Guy, Waffle de Lys, The Outslider and Pizza Vita.
Big Brew Sussex will also feature a Mechanical Bull, which is certain to add to the festive atmosphere.
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On the Bioethics Channel, Dr. Glenn McGee, the John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics, stakes out his own position regarding the recent U.S. District Court judge's decision to deny federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
McGee's view? First, that no one yet in the discourse has come up with a unique position regarding this issue, whether bioethicist, pundit or politician. Thus, this is just the same old merry-go-round brought back to life again.
Yet, this time around the debate is just a LITTLE bit different….
There is no longer the debate, says McGee, that pits adult stem cell research versus embryonic stem cell research. Instead there are separate debates over what kind of adult stem cell research is merited and others over what kinds of embryonic research (if any) can be done with federal funding.
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The first prize winner in the painted category appears to be a cropped exact copy of a photo from a website
Many people have made comments about this. Most are discouraged and questioning why a category that is supposed to be ART, has resulted in entries that been rewarded for appropriation of others' work!
" I realize Houston show officials can't be all knowing about photos and art quilts that copy them, but surely there is something that can be done to correct this, at least in the future, or is there? Again, the Master's piece with girl in earrings should be recognizable by anyone associated with art. "
" The issue is using another artist's work as the basis of your own art quilt and no matter how dazzling [the ] work is technically, if she copied some existing work even if it is out of copyright, it is not an art quilt in the eyes of the serious art quilt world."
" I was always under the understanding that to do work on a national level especially at the amazing Visions, your work needed to be truly original."
" I complain because I once was VERY excited to show my work there and I feel that, with so many copying other forms of art, I'm not competing with other quilters but with Vermeer or photographers or famous Art Nouveau ads, or what have you in a category that is specifically about
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A Microsoft employee has been arrested for groping the breasts of a schoolgirl.
The 40-year-old salaryman, an employee of Microsoft's Kansai banch office, was travelling on the JR Kobe line on a train headed for Osaka.
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New Orleans master plan approved by City Council
Bruce Eggler, The Times-Picayune
Three years after the City Planning Commission began seeking consultants to write New Orleans' first master plan and almost two years after New Orleans voters amended the City Charter to give key provisions of the plan the force of law, the City Council gave final approval to the document Thursday.
The vote was 6-0, with Councilwoman Stacy Head absent.
The commission and its consultants spent 18 months and $2 million creating the voluminous document, which is supposed to provide what the charter calls a 20-year plan "for the physical development of the city."
After Mayor Mitch Landrieu signs the ordinance approving the plan, which he is expected to do, the council and administration officials will be barred from making any zoning or land-use decisions that conflict with the goals, policies and strategies in the section of the document dealing with land use.
Many other parts of the plan, such as the call for a study of demolishing the elevated expressway over Claiborne Avenue, do not have any legal force.
Councilwoman Jackie Clarkson, who took the lead in pushing for approval of the plan, said its adoption will provide certainty to both residents and developers. "The rules won't change in the middle of the game," she said. "You will not be able to just whimsy and whamsy change zoning."
With the plan in place, she added, developers or others seeking approval of land-use proposals "can't go buy their four votes on any City Council. They couldn't buy it on this council anyway."
However, the charter provides that the plan can be amended as often as once a year, and it must be updated at least every five years.
Planning Director Yolanda Rodriguez said it has not been decided how soon in 2011 the first amendments will be considered. She said it could be as early as January, the first anniversary of the planning commission's original vote approving the master plan.
Meanwhile, the commission and its consultants are working on a complete revision of the city's comprehensive zoning law, which translates the broad land-use categories and principles of the master plan into specific rules about what is and is not allowed on each piece of land in the city.
Until the new zoning law is adopted, probably sometime next year, it is unclear what the commission and council will do if they are confronted with a land-use request that is legal under the old zoning law but illegal under the new master plan, or vice versa.
David Dixon, leader of the team of consultants who worked on the plan, has said that for the first time it gives New Orleans "a plan that provides a credible and legitimate basis for future public policy and decision-making regarding land use, development, zoning, city capital expenditures, transportation and similar fundamental decisions that shape the city's future."
He said its "development and urban design recommendations make clear that the persistent debate between preservation and innovation is meaningless by demonstrating that New Orleans' cultural heritage is its most potent weapon in attracting investment and talent."
After getting the version of the master plan the planning commission approved in January, the council voted in April -- a few days before three new members took office -- to send it back to the commission with calls for extensive revisions in the document's format and approach, plus scores of specific changes in its recommendations.
The commission in June turned down many of the council's suggestions, but the council had little choice Thursday but to approve the commission's final version. The charter amendment approved in 2006 gave the council only 45 days to "take final action" on the amended plan. If it failed to act within that time, the version of the plan adopted by the commission in January would take effect, the charter said.
Frances Sewell, a longtime leader of residents in part of Lower Coast Algiers, told the council Thursday that the finished plan is "a political dream, not a property owners' dream," but Dalton Savwoir, vice president of the Gentilly Civic Improvement Association, said his group supports it.
Councilwoman Cynthia Hedge-Morrell, whose district includes Gentilly, said she considers the plan only the first phase in a two-step process. The new zoning ordinance "is the most important piece," she said.
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I don't know if I've mentioned that Kenneth is a health nut. Every once in a while he likes to go on a ketogenic diet. For those of you who don't know what that means, keto is basically a super low carbohydrate diet. I love carbs. I love them so, so, very much. Needless to say, I really hate it when Kenneth goes on this diet. =P Anyway, this is from a while ago, but this is a cheesecake that is appropriate for people who are looking for a low carb dessert!
The crust is made of only almonds, butter, and a little bit of cinnamon. If you have a food processor, you can throw your almonds in and pulse until all the ingredients are combined and stick together. I don't have one, so I had to do it manually.
This is whipped cream that is sweetened with stevia. It is hard to find whipped cream that is not pre-sweetened, so it is probably best to whip up some of your own! It only takes a few minutes.
I have a bad habit of cooking without following very strict recipes (unless it is something super finicky, like macarons) so I can't exactly say what I did to make this, but since there are only a few ingredients it's really not difficult. Just make sure to taste what you're making while you're making it!
For the crust:
1/4 c butter
1 1/2 c almond slices or 1 c almond meal
2-3 drops stevia
dash of cinnamon
combine almond meal, butter, cinnamon, and stevia in a food processor (or by hand). Press the mixture into the bottom of the pan and bake at 375 F for about 5 minutes. Take the crust out and turn the oven up to 400 F
For the filling:
3 packages of cream cheese
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
a little bit lemon/lime juice
4 or 5 drops of stevia
Start by creaming the cream cheese! Then combine all the other ingredients, making sure to incorporate them fully without over beating. Too many bubbles in the mixture can cause your cake to crack! Pour the mixture into the crust then put it in the oven! Turn the oven down to 200F and bake until the filling is firm, but the middle still jiggles a little (about 80 min in my oven).
If you don't want your cake to crumble when you cut it (like mine did), wait until the cake is completely set and cooled before cutting it… I was too impatient!
Between you and me, I prefer normal cheesecake with all the carbs in it… the graham cracker crust and the real sugar can never be replaced. However, if you or anyone else in your life is on a low carb diet, this might be the perfect treat!


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As the name implies, Denali Backcountry Lodge is situated deep within Denali's rugged backcountry. Located at the end of 92 Mile Park Road in Kantishna, offering you a complete Denali Park vacation experience - as well as surprising comfort. Most park visitors limit their visit and stay near the developed and crowded Denali park entrance. The more adventurous take one of the grandest drives on earth and stay inside the park. Winding through the Alaska Range, deep into the heart of the Denali park, the "Park Road" offers opportunities to see Denali's famed wildlife: Grizzlies, Caribou, Moose, Dall Sheep, Wolves, and Eagles. And, should the weather smile upon you, above all of it towers Mt. McKinley (Denali) itself, the highest point in North America (20,320 feet). At the very end of the Denali Park road, past Wonder Lake, you'll find a unique enclave in the park known as Kantishna. This area is home to Denali Backcountry Lodge.
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The Clearwater Smithy is a large building run by three talented Smiths. The owner and chief smith, Urlock Zabub a hulking Half-Orc is quite efficient at his duties, With Urlock and his apprentices most of the cities day to day requirements for Smithing are easily met. Recently Urlock has hired on two Dwarf brothers.
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Time Warner (NYSE:TWX.DL) may be getting closer to offering stand-alone HBO on-demand service, Fool contributor Tim Beyers says in the following video.
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The experiment comes on the heels of another. Barely a month after an Internet simulcast of True Detective brought HBO Go to its knees, the Game of Thrones Season 4 premiere did the same. In each case, password sharing appears to have crashed HBO's servers. Hardly surprising when you consider that Game of Thrones is already the most pirated show in television.
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Dear friends, I hope the site will allow this question to remain up! I have heard many people say their fibro seems related to weather conditons and I know I feel worse when storms are coming. Thursday, I had pain so bad, I almost took a lortab, but I have this theory that it is the barometric pressure, and not the rain. When I was hurting so badly, the barometric pressure was 30:09 and falling. Once it dropped a bit, I was better. I did NOT take the lortab, but was tempted as 2 ALEVE barely did anything for the pain.. I have been largely symptoms free for several years, but we are in storm season where I live along the gulf coast. Would anyone else be on board to track barometric pressure when they feel pain from fibro the worst. Actually pain from any conditon, even if it is NOT fibro related, can. Start tracking it. I know once it starts raining, I am usually so much better, but I really feel its the pressure change, and not the rain itself, that brings relief. Thanks, your friend, pattishan61
Fibro symptoms in relation to barometric pressure?
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Thanks to all who answered. I guess what I really want to know, is if when we are in the WORST pain, is the pressure simply within a certain range and stagnant, whether it is worse when it rises....or falls. It sounds like there are a few ways that it is expresses as far as a measurement goes. My local news lists it for our area, I was really hurting severely at 30:09 , don't know if that is millibars, inches, what it. Is. It was listed as falling, and when it changed, i got better little by little.i have got to check it now, as I am hurting bad enough to take an Aleve. Hasn't started working yet ....aaaarrrggh! And pledge, if you find something, let us know. Or if anyone was told by the dr that when it is stagnant it's worse, or rising, or falling or simply a certain range. I am NOT really sure what I can do if I even figure out what it is, ya can't change the weather...or the barometric pressure. I looked up a few examples of anti inflammatory diets. It was all foods I hate, like blueberries. I do drink red tea, aka rooibus and hope that has some anti inflammatory effects, I do know it has powerful antioxidants to rid y ou of free radical just like green tea. That's what I am going to do next, check the barometric pressure and drink some red tea. Thanks to every single one of you. Y'all had me worried for a while, only one person answered and one commented for hours and I thought, well heck, no one wants to answer. Then when I awoke this morning, there were quite a few positive responses. I had to go to a class for haircut tin in Pensacola today, haha pledge. I am really close to p'cola. Anyway, I have been up since early, was off, had to be driven 45 miles to that salon, do the 4 hour class and be driven back, then we had a very small get together for a girl I work with who is getting married next week and moving soon to Mississippi. We didn't know what direction the storm w heading until late morning, they had from louisiana to the Florida east coast prepped for the storm. We had rip currents, all the beaches were closed, so far, no rain or anything but that dam pressure is about to kill me. Thanks friends, so glad I can count on you. Red tea now. Patti
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29:64 inches and falling is what local news says, so I know at 30:09 and 29:64 and both falling, I am gonna have to take an Aleve or something, last blood work they said my liver enzymes were elevated. I stopped taking any Tylenol, I don't drink but maybe 3 or 4 times a year at weddings or something very special, and then only have one or 2, had to quit allergy meds for a while. Aspirin really hurts my tummy big time, although it works for the pain. I took a lorazepam and an Aleve and am hoping I will wake up and feel better. The amitriptyline is out as a help now because of the liver enzymes. They will recheck those soon and hopefully get the GI scopes and test to see if ulcer is present, I suspect a hiatal hernia too. So tummy gets sore when I take Advil or Aleve sometimes, I have to use thos sparringly. Thanks friends.
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Yes Dr. Patti, I agree re barometric pressure and will log it twice a day, OK?
This should be interesting!! Hope I remember, because of my xanax messing with my memory, yet will take it at night, like Mary of the many numbers, to eradicate memory problems.
You can count me in!!
Thank you so much. The pressure stayed right about 30:09 for almost 2 days, now it is dropping, but the storm in the gulf may be the reason. I am in just minimal pain now,just slightly aware I have fibro, but wednesday, thursday and Friday, wow, horrible pain. It woke me up Thursday, luckily I was off and could stay home. There is a storm in the gulf. I would like to tell my friends who live in the hurricane zone, to not only log the Barometric pressure, but also to prep for a storm. Gas your vehicles up, call in refills for necessary meds, wash all laundry and dishes and make preps for your pets too. I could go on and on about hurricane preps, but gas and meds are the first thing that comes to mind for me, since I have lived thru several huge hurricanes and know running out of gas or meds can be terrible when a storm has hit. Thanks you so much, patti
You and your neighbours are in my prayers. Great advice for prepping for a storm! I don't live in a hurricane state, yet we have our share of disasters.
Buying a new Barometor this week, but I will check online until then.
Thanks, all prayers and thoughts welcome. I wonder if anyone in our community knows a ything about barometric pressure. Anyone care to help us?
Patti, Like Ondine, with her wild irish locks, you can count me in too. Fibro is a killer. I hate it. Patti, you are too sweet, honest, and caring to be facing this. I too will take my Xanax (well, Klonopin) tonight like Mary, the classiest, and most honest, to say the least, person I've had the pleasure of knowing. Don't know what I'de do without my Mary, and you're not too shabby either, Patti. I hope you get to feeling better. I'm here if you need me. That's what friends are for. To support each other. And I will. You can always count on me. Your friend~Ruthie
p.s. Patti, you will definately be in my prayers hon. Ruthie
Thanks Ruthie, please plot your barometric pressure along with your worst symptoms too. The storm likely will be more like a strong regular storm than an hurricane. Been thru a bunch of pretty significant ones, so, I think I will be ok. This one is only forecast to be a 1 if indeed it does make it to that. No kidding, my old boss opened our salon and made us work during a 1 a while back. We were very busy that day. Humidity and an unplanned off day, brings lots of people in to get haircuts, because anyone with curly hair has a bush on their head during a storm. Thanks, patti
Ondi: where have you gone again???
Mary, the madhatter.
I second that question. He/she reminded of alias Lara, alias the wild irish nut, alias sweet lemon... strange...
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Hello. My muscle disease responds to barometric pressure changes. My sisters osteoarthritis does too. I think it is about being in tune with your body and noticing. I bet most people experience it. Didn't grandma complain about her knee when a storm was coming?
My muscles do not need a hug by increased pressure. Ouch!
Just before a storm comes in, livestock will buck and jump around a lot-even cows will buck. My hounds R finally not acting up before a storm. Feb. 2011, a cold front came in and it went drom 20 degrees to 40 below- about 2 hours before the temperature dropped, my Bluetick went to the patio door and growlwed and bawled with his fur standing up-trying to keep the cold away. Our bodies and nervous systems react to the barometer, change in humidity, etc before it hits. Some people don't make the connection. My doctors said that people that ache and hurt before storms are very intelligent people.
Thank you. I really am interested in people's findings . Patti
Hello patti. Interesting. What I'd like to do is do some reading up on your question, pick out high lights and post it below. Just out of my own curiosity. The only pain I seem to have as of late is via snide remarks by some of the "family" Having said that, say hey to that gator. pledge
Dear Pledge, thank you so much, was so hoping someone would help eith the barometric info. Please keep Oh Snap!!! And all of us in your thoughts, we are under storm watch and this one is weak by our standards, but will likely cause some flooding, we already got 23 inches in 2 days about 2 weeks ago and are not real far above sea level. Oh Snap!!! Lives in a creek that could see some strong water rushes and flooding. He is so big, I have always thought of him as male, he actually is so still while resting on the bank putting on his shoe, that people think he is fake, til ya see him blink his eye. If it is a she, then she may have babies or eggs that could be in danger. And I know what you mean about the sniping. Remember ChrisATU, we all loved her. We all had her in our hearts, prayers and thoughts, as she fought for medical coverage and then the big surgery. Suddenly she left, no mention of why.
I had her email and Facebook page, I emailed her often at first and each time, she told me thanks for checking on her AND that my emails kept her smiling or something or other and that the emails from friends on the site had dropped off, and she missed them. Suddenly, she stopped posting on Facebook and returning emails. It could have been several things. She mentioned right after her surgery, her mom and sis both were EXTREMELY sick and not sure if either would make it. So it could have been that, it could have been she was told over and ov by her husband that she spent to much time on the computer, her surgery maybe hadn't healed so well, or she simply needed a big big break. I do miss her, but will not trash her, as I am sure she had her reasons. She knows where to find me if she needs me. Thanks pledge, I asked Mary to ask you something specific and hope she has. I value your intelligence and your supportjust wanted to see if I am off base. I asked her saturday, so hopefully you know what it is by now. Please help us understand the barometric thing a bit bett. Patti
Afternoon Pledge. I missed the cuppa this morning and woke too late to make the homemade blueberry pancakes. Take a raincheck? It's blistering here. I'm sure you can relate. Well, have yourself a pleasant afternoon.
Patti, girl, take care of yourself hon. Best of luck to you. You are always in our hearts and on our minds. Ruthie
Hello and good afternoon Ruthie and that sounds like a plan. (don't mention rain check) check yes, rain no. If patti hears you... truth be told, my son lives in Pensecola and they are in for a soaking. These storms, slow movers can be deadlier than a hurricane. But we all live in the south and its part of being who we are. Its a sauna here... bye bye Ladies, lets hope that this storm does minimal damage and hardship (no power, gas stations down) pledge
my pain is not fibro; rather an old injury; 2 actually, but my shoulder lets me know when its gonna rain for sure. winter is usually worse; but the last 3 days have been 95 and sunny yet my shoulder has been bothersome to put it mildy; moms neck also(broken between4-5) she takes meds; im still working on detox from subs; down to 4 mg a day, from 32 5 years ago? give or take. if my phone has the barometer i can check it each day? i will try and figure it out. i find the green bc powders to be the most helpful when my shoulder flares. hope you feel better.
Dear Pattishan,
My ortho dr and I have had this discussion on several occasions. He agrees totally that the barometer has quite a bit to do with the pain level of people with various diseases, including the OA that I have. It even tends to affect my migraines and their severity. Of course I have another dr (who is actually quite bright in other respects!) who thinks the whole theory is "nothing but a bunch of hooey". It shouldn't come as any surprise that he's not a chronic pain patient!
I will be happy to help log the pressure and accompanying pain levels. What a good idea. No wonder we all think you're so smart! If it makes things easier for anyone, The Weather Channel will list the barometric pressure in your area and update it regularly throughout the day and night. Just set the page up for your area using your zip code. Do you have any idea how long you'd like this experiment of ours to last? Looking forward to everyone's results!
Considering that our bodies are 80% water, I totally agree with the barometer theory. I had leg pain so bad for two days & should have know it was a storm coming, but it's been soo long since we have had rain wasn't sure what was causing it, & yes mame, it did rain! As soon as the rain started the leg pain quite! Consider what our oceans do with the tides & the full moon each month. Water is affected by a lot of different things & as I said we are 80% water. Just my thoughts... Mary
Have a good one friend. Cuppa is awaiting, and a fresh bagel to boot :-0)
Thanks friend. Just woke up & it's going to be a hot one today. Need that cuppa & a bagel with cream cheese would hit the spot. :o)
:-0) Coming up. I'll have seconds this morning, catch you later Mary.
sorry my friend I have been gone for a few days, but to anwser I do think you are right. Not only do I have the same systoms as you, but so does my husband who has had 3 leg operations and my sister who has to many conditions to list, but we all hurt so much worse when the rains and storms come in, also very cold weather bothers us alot, and yes we too live along the gulf coast and thank god that storm is finally gone, only we live in the area where it just hung around for 3 days, omg the floods and tornadoes were bad, much worse than when the 3 huricanes hit us all in the same place. my hot tub helps, heating pad and ice, but sometimes I still have to take a norco, but never like I used to. Hope you are feeling better now, But I think we may be in for several storms like that this year, funny I can remember as a child my grandmother always telling us ahead of time while she was holding her arm and leg, yea I think we are going to get a storm tonight and every darn time she was right.
Hey Patti, just saw your Q, and you might find the answer that you are seeking through The Weather Channel. Either as an app on an iPad, or on the computer. They actually have a chart on "Aches and Pain Forcast". It actually tells you about the barometric pressure, and how you are going to feel. It might save you a lot of work!! Hope that this helps you out!!
I was wondering if any results were tallied and posted anywhere yet? Or Are you still collecting data? and Can I help? I have an outdoor weather station that shows me barometric pressure. I can check it as many times as needed. What caused me to find this particular post is I was searching for information regarding changes in Barometric pressure and pain levels. My current pressure reading is 30.09... and I am hurting something fierce. I have Fibro, and several other conditions that are flaring right now. But right now my biggest problem is my entire rib cage feels like I have some massive person squeezing the whole thing. Every single joint hurts... I picked the particular weather station because it has the barometric pressure readings. And I can attest to the fact that when the pressure drops I hurt all over, but when the pressure goes back up my migraines flare... I cant win no matter what.
I have told my hubby on more than one occasion that I want to live in a pressurized bubble where it is always sunny and the pressure is constant (or at least it cant change as fast). Problem is I dont know what "fast" is. You know how fast a change is too fast for my fibro, migraines, oa, headaches caused by muscles in my neck and head, sinus stuffyness and on and on??? I would rather live somewhere cold and dark where the pressure does not change much than in a beautiful place where the pressure changes constantly. Unfortunately I live in Oregon where the rain and stormyness are a fact of having green trees and lots of plants.
So if you need more data, I will collect it for you. If you know how much pressure change is considered "fast" or "extreme" changes, I'd love to find out.
And last but not least... I hope anyone hear who lives on the East Coast is doing ok and is safe after storm Sandy.
I have recently started keeping track of my barometric pressure. I have had a cervical fusion on three disc in my neck at age 45 and resulted in fibromyalgia. After five years they found severe arthrithis in my s- 1 disc. I start having discomfort at 29.60 and irritable pain over 30.00. This seems to be the norm from what I read from everyone. I live in san Antonio Texas so no matter where you live if it get cold or rains we are all doomed to have to live with this pain. I worked in a lab so everything is science for me. I keep updated with the latest news on cures and research. I've lived with pain for ten years now AMD jut hit age 55.
I have recently started keeping track of my barometric pressure. I have had a cervical fusion on three disc in my neck at age 45 and resulted in fibromyalgia. After five years they found severe arthrithis in my s- 1 disc. I start having discomfort at 29.60 and irritable pain over 30.00. This seems to be the norm from what I read from everyone. I live in san Antonio Texas so no matter where you live if it get cold or rains we are all doomed to have to live with this pain. I worked in a lab so everything is science for me. I keep updated with the latest news on cures and research. I've lived with this for ten years now and just turned 55.
So true. We are animals of nature and the fact that we all experience this is left over from the time when danger of storms was essential to know ahead so we could find or return to safety. When I lived on a farm that awareness got me running with my brother and sister towards the house. Within moments a tornado went through our yard. Yep, worth paying attention. By the way, the cattle were still and were all lying down.
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This week, the Preps looked at a new app called Animate Me, the Gr 1-2s started work on Stop Motion photography, the Gr 3-4s did more work with Scratch, and the Gr 5-6s learned about shot composition and went out in the "field" (ie: outside the classroom) to film examples.
Animate Me
I had planned for the Stop Motion lessons to include the Preps, but I ultimately decided against it thinking that it would be more appropriate to the older classes. So I found another app I gave them called Animate Me. Animate Me is like a cross between Easy Animator and Sticknodes. It has the kind of fun 3D characters that Easy Animator has, but has the pivot points that Sticknodes have.
For this lesson, I let them play with the one character that comes in the free version – a fun worm like creature. They needed to create frame-by-frame animation, experimenting with the different movements and perceptions (the eyes can follow around). Unfortunately as of writing, there is no way for the app to export their projects as movie files, so we weren't able to save them for later. The kids enjoyed the app though.
Stop Motion
Stop Motion is one of those classic techniques you look at when you study animation. When explaining it to the students, I explained that it was pretty much the same kind of animation they were used to making, but instead of drawing pictures, they needed to take photos.
I set up iPads on tripods all around the room, and room on couches and tables for them to play with some toys I sourced from the early years classrooms. Again, they were encouraged to make small movements as they took their photos. If you don't know, Stop Motion is the process of taking many, many photos and having the computer (or in this case, the iPad) stitch it together to make a movie.
Now, you can use an ordinary camera to do these, or the standard iOS camera app, but I chose to use the Stop Motion app available on iTunes. I did this mainly because it has the onion skin effect that shows the students where the last photo was taken.
This week was about playing around with the app and understanding how the stop motion worked. We saw straight away that because of the excitement and the rushing to get as many pictures as possible, there were a lot of mistakes made. To make a good stop motion movie, you really need to make sure that the background is consistent and steady. That wasn't really a problem, but there were a lot of instances when hands or parts of the body were accidentally included in the shot. This really does spoil the effect.
We shared a few of them at the end of class, and we discussed some strategies to try and avoid getting things in the way of the shot. Mainly this boiled down to the students realising to slow it down when making their movies.
Next week we will do this again, but I will show them how to delete a photo if something gets in the way, as well as to check their project to remove any photos with issues.
The Scratch "Pressure Test"
The cooking reality show Masterchef is absolutely huge in Australia. For those not familiar with the competition, one of the regular tasks the contestants have to do is a Pressure Test. This is where a guest chef comes in to the kitchen to show off an extremely complex dish that the contestants all freak out over. They are given a recipe (usually many, many pages) and time (which is always just short of anything realistic) to make the dish as close to what the chef brought in as possible.
This week, the Gr3-4s did a Scratch "Pressure Test". I had a project built based on something I already found on the Scratch site (hey, no need to reinvent the wheel, right?) and I printed out copies of what the script looked like. The students, in their pairs, had 20 minutes to recreate the project, using the script "recipe" as a guide. If something didn't work, I wouldn't tell them what they did wrong. They had to go through their work and "debug" it themselves.
I said to the students the reason we were doing this was the same reason they do it on the show. It pushes them to explore parts and blocks in Scratch they might not normally use.
Needless to say, they LOVED doing this. Most groups finished in the given 20 minutes, but not all of them. I gave help after the 20 minutes to groups who couldn't work out where they went wrong. Usually it was something quite small which was hard for them to pick up.
Here below is the recipe they were given.. I can't take credit for the project, but the idea of the pressure test in class – that was all me!
Shot Composition
Here is another lesson that must mostly be credited to another. This time, from Deila Bumgardner – an online educator that, amongst many other things, teaches using Adobe products. Delia provided a chart that explains how directors and cinematographers set up a shot, and the various shots and angles they might employ.
From this, I created a PowerPoint to show the grade 5-6 students, using the examples Delia provided, to briefly discuss each type of shot and what the purpose is behind them. I will admit, I did not go to film school, so I'm going off what I read, but I think I knew enough to get them started on the ideas.
Next, I provided them with an iPad and a tripod (we haven't yet got the budget for camcorders, but they'll be coming hopefully soon) and a clipboard which has this chart on it. The students were then tasked to go outside with their group and film a four second example of each shot. Next week, they will begin editing the shots together to create an instructional video on shot composition. This will go over a few weeks, where I will teach them some more Premiere skills as their project goes on. So, examples to follow in the next few weeks.


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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Good bye Illinois.....Hello Colorado
A friend from small group was moving to Colorado, and a "colorado rockies, mountous" themed cake was requested :) This was for sure a challence, but I had a blast making it :)
Happy Birthday Faith~
This cake was a BIG deal for me to make. My friend that asked me to make it (for her daughter that was turning 10) was the one that made fondant cakes to begin with! She had made them in the past and they looked so neat, that I wanted to try it. PLUS she makes an AMAZING chocolate cake......the BEST chocolate cake that I have EVER eaten in my entire life. The cake is so good that I actually asked her to make one for me a few years ago for my birthday! Sooooooo when she asked me to make this cake I was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo nervous! It really think it turned out cute, and they seemed to like it too. I made fudge marble cake with chocolate butter cream frosting(my first attempt).
Happy Birthday, and Happy Birthday
I feel like I am suffering from de jau vue......I am making a grill cake and coach purse cake....again. Not that I am complaining :) The grills is a white cake with vanilla butter creme, and the purse cake is devils food with vanilla butter creme.
Happy Anniversary Happy Anniversary Happy Anniversary HAAAAAAAPY Anniversary!
4o years of marriage is cause for a GREAT celebration. This cake and cookies cakes were made for people that have known me since I was born! What an honor to be asked to make desserts for their special day.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Welcom Baby!
I think this by far was the most frustrating cake I made, and I am really not sure why :) It just seemed to take FOREVER. I just couldn't get the head the way I wanted, and for some reason my cake kept ending up in my icing when I was frosting it. None the less it was fun to make a baby shower cake, and at this point it is just about learning and getting better.
So long, farewell.....
Making a cake for someone you have never met is sometimes hard. Not knowing their favorite color, or now knowing what color they REALLY dislike can make it a bit difficult. I went out on a limb and decided to make a "suitcase" cake when asked to make a farewell cake for a co-worker of a friend. I personally think it ended up looking more like a briefcase, but hey live and learn.
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