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Photographer Mathew Pillsbury created a series of photographs called 'Time Frame' that capture the permanency of art. The photos are simply long time lapses of visitors to art galleries and museums. Since visitors are only within the camera's frame for a short time, they come out as transparent and featureless beings.
Pillsbury took pictures with exposures that went from just a few minutes to many hours. The result is a series of ghostly silhouettes that pass static pieces of art.
Time Frame captures works from famous tourist attractions such as the Louvre in Paris and the Tate Modern in London. No matter what location the artist took pictures of, the result was the same. Static and permanent pieces stand in front of the camera while fleeting spectators move in and out of the picture.
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"End Truth", a new song included on KYLESA's upcoming archival collection "From the Vaults - Vol. 1", is streaming now via Pitchfork.
The US-based outfit recorded the song as band members Phillip Cope and Laura Pleasants poured through their weighty archive of unreleased and uncompleted tracks in preparation for this forthcoming 12-song collection, due November 16th (November 20th in North America). Amongst the rarities included on "From the Vaults - Vol. 1" are "Inverse" as well as a cover of Buzzov-en's "Drained".
Kylesa recently released a video montage featuring behind-the-scenes footage, candid photos and a collection of memorabilia set to music from "From the Vaults - Vol. 1".
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HBO has revealed a trailer confirming the 2017 return of some of its most popular titles, but Westworld isn't one of them.
Game of Thrones, Girls, Ballers, Veep, Vice Principals, Silicon Valley, The Leftovers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Vice, Insecure, Divorce and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, will be gracing our screens once again in 2017.
While HBO confirmed the return of some of its most highly anticipated titles for the coming year, the popular Westworld series – which only recently concluded it's first season – was not among HBO's 2017 list.
In an interview with Variety, creators of HBO's newest hit series, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, revealed why Westworld wouldn't see a return until 2018.
"We won't be on the air until 2018. We started that conversation with the network when were shooting Episode 2 and we realized the complexity of trying to write and produce the show at the same time. We both work in the movie business as well, and in the movie business the best that you can possibly hope for with a film franchise is to turn around another installment in two or three years. So really on that schedule, we're doing great."
While we have a long wait before we see the return of Westworld , HBO's brand-new 2017 titles might just make you forget all about it.
Big Little Lies, The Young Pope, The Deuce, Room 104, and Crashing, will make their way to television screens next year; as well as films The Wizard of Lies, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Beware the Slenderman, and Rock and a Hard Place.
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The Glasses will be able to beam information instantly to a students visual field. Questions could be asked instantly and information is obtained instantly. No longer will they need to inquire about something, they could simply ask something and it will be in front of them.
Teachers could be informed of any notices about their students and information relating to their latest test scores could be beamed to the teachers visual field and as a result, the questions in which the teacher asks can be specific and related to the students next learning step.
Little Jonny scored low on inference questioning. During reading time, the teacher would receive a specific question to ask Little Jonny, based on the text they were reading. Similarly for other students.
This synergy between assessment information and class learning becomes blurred and no longer will a teacher need to analyse information, as it will be beamed to them wirelessly.
The Google Glasses have the ability to reinvent education. Reinvent assessment of data and make privacy a thing of the past. We just need to be able to show our students how to use this technology correctly.
What is most important?
Research from Blooms shows that students who are taught one to one improve their achievement scores dramatically. Education has the ability to be revolutionised, but are we as teachers ready for this?
Education can be defined simply as a wheel. A cog in the classroom which rotates throughout the day. A first group sees the teacher, then that group moves to individual repetition of the learning, in the third rotation they complete a group activity, finally the forth mode is for the computer or digital device. This digital device asks a number of questions to the students to gauge their understanding...daily.
This information is then processed and communicated with the teacher on the small groups progress and their next learning steps.
In order to shift students, group learning needs to be specific and based on their learning need. A programme that can find this, integrate it into planning, and include resources (page numbers and book or online activity) automatically will enhance any students progress dramatically.
Android TV
I have been using an Android TV for over a year now and use it frequently in class. From listening to audio books, reading books, sharing documents and photos, Google Drive, YouTube and the internet. This tiny device is small, and fast.
Unlike most PCs that require a start up and shut down, this box simply stays on all the time and can be used to show students information as soon as you require it. It is an incredible invention and has challenged the way I teach. I enjoy the fact that I can control my laptop through it, making everything easily accessible.
Making Android Apps for Student Learning
Future search engines and video
Imagine searching for your school and the returning web pages are no longer there. Instead you are given the option of multiple live video streams.broadcast live through the internet and streamed to your phone, tablet or laptop.
We have arrived in a time whereby the constraints of limited broadband speed and data caps are a thing of the past. Youtube makes no secret that it wants to open up millions of live streaming channels. No longer do you have to upload, you stream live to the net. Now comes the interesting part...
Picasa, Googles photo manager system uses facial recognition which then changes web searching even further.
Imagine searching for your childs name and the returning web pages are no longer there. Instead you are given the option of multiple live video streams from varying angles, broadcast live through the internet.
The future of this venture has certainly begun with websites such as klip, justin.tv, ustream ans youtube live. Just how far it goes is limitless but how far the government pushes it depends on who you vote for.
The application for this in the classroom is immense. Sitting with a group on the mat doing reading and across the room you can hear the story another group is listening to is too loud. Simply drag the volume control and you can turn it down so you can hear the students you are with.
Android@home (codenamed project tungstein) will be a huge leap in education. From here you can have speakers throughout the school and control it from any tablet with administration rights.
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Android and Us
The students were invited to explore the device. Software such as Twitter, Blogger and Docs were installed on it. Immediately the students were mobile. Able to send photos and email their learning to anyone interested in hearing it. This authentic audience has certainly changed many students perception of learning. No longer are they writing for their teacher. They are writing for the entire world. That certainly is a very different course from the current mode of thinking.
What's next? Our goal is to have up to 5 tablets in every classroom. We won't be purchasing anything over $300 and will be using the Android system.
Google knows the whole class
Uploading photos with only one click
Uploading video and editing it on Picasa
Uploading and updating home learning weekly
Providing a forum for students to converse in learning
We took the process one step further. By downloading a file of all student names, we allocated them with individual logins to google (using our own domain address). This has now opened a world of opportunity for our students. They are emailing their learning, creating newspapers, blogging, tweeting, uploading photos and creating a platform for their learning. The best thing of all is that Google provide this service for free. They charge businesses to use it but provide that same level of product to education facilities.
Being a computer administrator for the school, our next step is to enable Google Cloud Printing so teachers can print from anywhere in the world. Free.
The only sacrifice you make is allowing Google into your world, your likes, dislikes and your e-life. A small price to pay for those willing.
Chromebooks in Education
Enter the Chromebook. A small wifi-enabled laptop at a fraction of the price of other laptops. They are so compelling that a reporter in for The Daily Telegraph expects 10 percent of all laptops to be sold next year will be Chromebooks.
I believe that will be an astounding boost after only one year on the market. But it is the uptake from education that will certainly be worth more of a mention. Schools are stuck with old computers that run of different OS and CPU speeds. On the other hand, the Chromebook has a web-based desktop, taking you straight to your photos or videos you have stored online. If you want to add photos, simply insert the USB Flash Drive, and instantly the photos will be uploaded to Google Picasa Web Albums for the world to see. It is this innovation that doesn't stop when you buy the Chromebook. Updates are a thing of the past with webware: you simply receive the update by clicking onto your webpage and begin to use. I think Google is positioning itself perfectly as a leading provider for education in terms of both webware (Google Docs) and hardware. I just wish I had a Chromebook I could fit in my pocket. Oh wait! I do, and it's called my android phone.
Collaborative Classrooms
Recently I have dabbled in using web2.0 tools such has wallwisher, voicethread, gcast, google docs and apps, worldTV, ispring and glogster...wait! I am speaking english still! These tools are simply good websites I recommend you visit and let your students simply explore. Why? Well it is a simple answer and a complicated one at the same time. Answer 1: They're paving the way for a revolution beyond the classroom walls. Answer 2: These web2.0 tools (I'll just called them websites from now one) are connected to others all over the world and can be used to learn, communicate, debate, collaborate and infuse knowledge between one class and culture together.
An example of this is the website 'collaborative classroom' which has been set up to allow other classes to explore and understand other classrooms; either within the same neighbourhood, of further away in other planets.
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Assess all in 6 minutes.
Testing students can take a relatively long time from the delivery of the test, marking and analysis of the results. With e-asTTle making inroads, how can we best shape tests for ourselves and create them across the curriculum areas? Is is really possible to get significant data and analyse it within 10 minutes? The answer is yes: read on.
A website that enables the teacher to create a test, set parameters like the amount of time allowed to complete the test and initiate it to the children has been created and is guaranteed to be 100% free in the future.
This web 2.0 site is called that thatquiz.org. This website markets itself as 'The most accessible math test resource on the web today with over 6 million graded exams to date and over 300,000 participating students.' Certainly a large number of test papers to mark by any account!
Upon deeper investigation into the web-based application is appeared to be written by Andrew Lyczak. This man's credentials include designing web-based applications using Java, Perl, HTML, AJAX, and Javascript.
The websites belief is simple and straight to the point: 'What we don't believe in: Games, advertising, fees, spam or gimmicks.'
So, how does it work? Firstly you can begin with two options. Create your own test from scratch or load up a test someone else has written, change it around a bit and then give it to your class. Each child has a login and can set their own password. Since you are the administrator, you can reset these or set your own password for the children.
Once the quiz has been accepted, the student can then go through it and complete the questions. Finally, a summary mark is given and you have the opportunity to see which questions they got wrong also. This can be conveniently emailed to anyone and the results can be exported to Excel for closer analysis.
To truly see the simplicity of the tests, Hadleigh Benson administered a number of tests within mathematics. Each quiz was 20 questions and had a time limit of 6 minutes. The quizzes were on: time (analogue), multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, fractions, graphing, place value, measurement, decimals, and inequality.
Once the entire class had completed the tests which occurred over the two week test period. The results were clear to see. Each student was conferenced on their area of weakness and strength, and what they needed to do in order to learn new mathematical skills.
The results were extraordinary, the data provided by these tests were exactly what a teacher needs. They are short tests in length and provide the next steps for the student in their learning. Along with individual results, the graphs provide in-depth analysis of the class or group learning needs and what areas need to be taught more than others.
Further research needs to include the same tests administered over time, from the beginning of the year, to a mid year and end of year test. These results should then be analysed in order to see how the shift in student knowledge has progressed.
The posts are lining up and falling gradually into place. The juggernaut of the computing industry is positioning itself to supersede any other operating system and computer we have seen to date. Google's ambitious move to create a 'cloud computer' that is cut price web based computer will shake computing to its core.
According to industry writer and former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review Nicholas G. Carr in his new book "The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google." He hypothesised applications and files would be stored on a large, centralised supercomputer whereby users log in and save their files to this supercomputer.
Imagine a computer with no hard drive, no CD drive and therefore no major moving parts. Now imagine a computer that simply connects to the internet, is never required to be turned off (in fact there is no off button) and will never need updated because the Operating System is non existent. How could it be used? Has this been done already? The answers are "yes" and "yes!". Take the idea from Live Kiosk which has created a computer that doesn't require a hard drive and instead uses the CD Drive to create an Operating System that simply loads up one fundamental piece of software: Internet Explorer (it will actually be Google Chrome).
Now you have the makings of an extremely cheap 'computer' that is always connected to the internet. By using the plethora of Google applications that are web based you can then have a computer for less than NZ$300. The most incredible thing is that is won't need updating, repairing or any maintainance, just a screen, small box, keyboard and mouse. With this function Google will win the race and illiminate all other opponence by simply not allowing any other viable option.
Google has created the initial Operating System set to rock computing to the core. It is in the form of the Google Andriod OS. Although initially it will be for mobile phones. It makes a great platform for launching a computer that will be (if you want) as small as a mobile phone. Development is in its early stages but the refining is continuing on the gOS.
Although this will take time, the writing is on the wall as discussed by the Google President in this interview. This phenomenom has been discussed for years now, but it has taken Google time to complete all the chapters in the book. Each chapter represents a replacement for Hard Drive software applications, for example: Word, Powerpoint is now Google Docs. Has this started? The posts are in place, just the cement has not set.
"Google Apps, set... go!"
Put simply Google applications allow many pieces of the Office Suite to 'talk' to each other. What is meant by that is the fact that a student can have on his/her own blog within Google apps a plethora of learning throughout the year. Sounds like an e-portfolio of learning? Precisely what it is and now the ability is there for the learning to follow the student throughout their education.
Google applications consist of Powerpoint (simply titled presentations), Excel (spreadsheet), Word (write) and now Forms. The Forms have been added as an extension of the spreadsheet. Forms enables a student to create a questionnaire online for other people to answer. It can be closed of open questions and the results it provides are enormous.
Forms have the ability to collate, analyse, graph and comment on the data enabling a student to quickly see responses to questions and generate some generalisations about the data.
Simple forms can be created during statistical investigations like "What is your favourite colour?" to more in-depth questions asking the students to reflect on their home-learning this week or review the latest book they have read.
Google Applications is more than a traditional suite. It is freeware, web2.0 (web based and no need to upgrade any software) collaborative and more importantly offers a package that can 'talk' to all the other applications as well.
Further research into the Google applications should be made into the effectiveness of statistical teaching and learning for students to conclude if the data and results the application produces can enhance students' minds and understandings.
Hadleigh Benson
Teaching music in 2010
The latest games to hit the games' market include Rock Band and Guitar Hero World Tour. These two similar games have the ability to create a revolutionised classroom.
These two games enable the user (student) to hold a guitar, drum kit, microphone or bass guitar and play the notes as they roll down the screen. This links directly to the New Zealand Curriculum Level 2 objectives to share sound making using basic music performance skills and techniques.
These techniques include using this system of performance in a competitive nature between classmates, inter class competition and inter school competition. What is missing in today's learning environment? In order to create this form of competition and involve as many students as possible the only thing lacking is a second set of instruments and a second projector.
With this enabled you would have a total of eight participants, and within only 4 rotations the entire class would have participated.
Recent observations in the classroom of only one guitar and projection resulted in a total of 24 out of 27 students actively observing the projection and acquiring an understanding of the game's task.
Further research should include the link between this type of game play and the ability to cross-over into playing traditional instruments to see if the cross-over makes learning the new instrument more straightforward and simpler.
Hadleigh Benson
Digital Classrooms or Digital Storage rooms?
Teachers should remain aware that technology is not just about having computers in the classroom but in fact having a myriad of other technologies at hand. Old technologies have there place too, including the analogue clock, tape deck stereo system, VHS video player, and typewriter.
In order for students to understand the world they are currently living in, it is vital they understand the world that once was and these aged technologies have a place in educating students about the changes in technology.
Although some classes have these dated technologies, they aren't fully being utilised and realised for their true potential. Stereo decks are fantastic learning tools for use during independent reading. Students can use pre-recorded School Journal articles and use them in order to enhance their listening comprehension.
VHS video players offer a plethora of videos relating to current topics and provide back catalogue videos not yet converted to DVD or Blu-ray. The typewriter can be used as a publishing tool and provide insight into its use before the advent of the modern computer- guiding students toward an understanding of the purpose of the QWERTY keyboard layout.
Technology is continuously being updated and refined; it is up to the educationalists to provide hands-on pieces of equipment that offer insights into the period of time when that certain piece of equipment was in main stream use. Instead of letting these gather dust, we should be upskilling our students on how we once used these technologies.
Hadleigh Benson
Using Sketchup as a powerful learning tool
Sketchup offers a 3 dimensional learning environment that can aide students within integrated learning areas. Sketchup has been trialled within the classroom for a number lessons and it has become evident that this teaching tool fits within Inquiry Learning, English, mathematics, and Social Studies.
Further trials of Sketchup revealed an enhanced interest and motivation towards the areas of Mathematics and Social Studies. During the Inquiry Learning process Sketchup has been used to enhance and consolidate childrens' learning about cultures.
The children were asked to consider the enduring question throughout the entire Inquiry Process: ' By looking at what other countries and cultures do, how are they different and similar to ours?'
The trial of utilising Sketchup with the students included five 12 year olds and two 9 year olds. Data collected after the activity was complete during discussions included student comments that 'learning was fun, motivating and interesting'. Students wanted to learn more because they were using a tool that looked like they were 'making a movie'.
Students were taught about foreign countries in a whole class teaching method, namely South Korea, China and New Zealand kiwiana. In order to promote learning within the classroom students were then directed to select a culture of choice for study.
The application has been used widely by classroom students to recreate the Great Pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China. Information was then inserted into the project and after using research processes.
Sketchup has been promoted by Google as a tool essential to learning in classrooms; however the promotion is more directed towards purchasing the Pro version.
Further trials should look towards using the Google Pro version for education and compare and contrast the differences between the freeware programme and the Pro package.
Hadleigh Benson
All computers are equal
Web 2.0 and its ability to challenge the way we install and hold software on our computers is turning computers on their heads. Traditionally a Mac was a Mac and a PC was a PC but all that is changing.
If you have a computer you will be well aware of whether it is operating on Windows or Mac Operating Systems. But they can both access the internet and the advent of Web2.0 has very quietly challenged our understanding and blurred the lines between what computer you have and use.
This synergy has been grasped by companies such as Google and Yahoo to name a few, who offer documents, presentations, photos and videos to be stored on their servers. This has now enabled students to simply click on a website, upload their learning and view it both at home and at school.
Simple online programmes coined webware like scrbl, tutpup, mind42, Google Apps, voicethread, grogster, and blogging have removed the need to install and continually upgrade this software at a nominal fee.
For marketing companies, this is the perfect weapon when faced with a David and Goliath battle. The need for creating DVDs and placing your software in shops to be purchased by consumers has been reduced because they can market their product simply by word of mouth.
The quiet unfolding revolution that is occurring at the exact same time is the fact that because of these webware tools being created more and more every single day the notion of asking which OS you use is becoming more and more redundant. The difference is simply a click of a button and the rest is equivalent.
Hadleigh Benson
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Former Miss Colorado, nurse to speak at WVU
Former Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson made headlines for her powerful monologue in the 2016 Miss America pageant. Ms. Johnson, a registered nurse, will be presenting, "I'm More Than Just a Nurse" on Friday, July 14, 2017 from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Erickson Alumni Center in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Ms. Johnson became a celebrity after delivering her monologue focusing on why she became a nurse during the talent portion of the Miss America Pageant, which earned her second runner-up. The video of her speech has more than five million hits on YouTube. She has appeared on Dr. Oz, the Ellen DeGeneres Show, Inside Edition, E! News, and The Doctors to shine the light on the nursing profession. Johnson is an advocate and voice for the nursing profession and the important role in healthcare settings.
"As a nurse I encourage area nurses and others to attend this event and be reminded of the difference nurses make in the lives of the patients we touch every day. It's very exciting to bring our nursing community together to celebrate and lift each other up in the work we do," said Ms. Malene Davis RN, MBA, MSN CHPN, President and CEO for Capital Caring and West Virginia Caring and Chair of the WVU Alumni Association.
Capital Caring, West Virginia Caring and the WVU School of Nursing are sponsoring this free event which is open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP to Capital Caring by calling 304-599-4200 before Monday, July 10, 2017.


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Brian Fuller - editor in chief of the now-lamented EE Times during its best years - and I were talking about it being great that there are these predictions about where EDA/IP is going in 2014. Chris Rowen's wrap up prediction talked about EDA's need to move beyond component – level focus. Chris isn't alone in this idea.
The question is: HOW will EDA/IP get beyond the component level and start looking at what's beyond the 25-year EDA horizon and how EDA can and must add value.
Brian and I would love to hear what readers out there think…..
Does EDA & IP need to go beyond?
Where does it need to go?
And how will it get there?


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August 30, 2004 "SMH" -- History is beginning to repeat itself, this time over Iran. Just two years after the British Government's notorious "Downing Street dossier" on Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction and the first efforts to get United Nations approval for war, Washington is trying to create similar pressures for action against Iran.
The ingredients are well-known: sexed-up intelligence material that puts the target country in the worst possible light; moves to get the UN to declare it in "non-compliance", thereby claiming justification for going in unilaterally even if the UN gives no support for invasion; and at the back of the whole brouhaha, a clique of US neo-conservatives whose real agenda is regime change.
The immediate focus for action against Iran is the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has produced five reports on Iran in the past 14 months. Part of the UN, the IAEA in its reports has raised questions about Iran's professedly civilian nuclear program and its desire to create its own fuel cycle that could eventually be used to produce bombs.
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To satisfy its critics, Iran agreed last year to allow so-called intrusive inspections. As a confidence-building measure, it also stopped enriching uranium. In a few days' time the IAEA will issue a new report, and it is its wording that is causing the latest flurry.
John Bolton, the Bush Administration's point-man, has been rushing round Europe claiming the evidence of sinister Iranian behaviour is clear, even though the IAEA has consistently made no such judgement. It has called for more transparency, but prefers to keep probing and, like Hans Blix in Iraq in 2003, insisting that it needs more time.
Iran, meanwhile, says the IAEA should accept that nothing wrong has been found and let Iran receive the civilian nuclear technology - with the safeguards that go with it - that countries such as Germany and France have promised.
Bolton is not, at this stage, claiming to have intelligence that the IAEA's inspectors don't. After the fiasco of the US's pre-war material on Iraq, he has not started to trumpet US sources. But he is choosing to interpret the available knowledge as harshly as possible. He is also close to the Washington hardliners in the Project for the New American Century, who created the doctrine of pre-emptive strikes against unfriendly states and who favour regime change to deal with Islamist fundamentalism.
Norman Podhoretz, the arch-conservative editor of Commentary magazine, one of their house journals, said last week: "I am not advocating the invasion of Iran at this moment, although I wouldn't be heartbroken if it happened."
There are differences from the anti-Iraq campaign two years ago. This time the US is taking the lead in going to the UN. Bolton wants the IAEA board to say that Iran has violated its commitments under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and take the matter to the Security Council for a decision on sanctions or other stern action. France and Germany are resisting a move to the UN.
Second, even the US (Podhoretz excepted) is not talking about a full-scale US invasion with ground troops. It has too many soldiers tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan to spare many for a third campaign. The talk is of using US Special Forces or air strikes to destroy Iran's nuclear plants, or giving a green light to Israel to do it.
The biggest difference, though, is in Britain's stance. Unlike the Bush campaign against Saddam, Britain is siding with France and Germany this time. It is part of a "troika" that promotes constructive engagement rather than confrontation with Iran.
They have powerful arguments. The disaster of the Iraq war and the failure to bring peace, stability or order make them want to avoid a repetition with Iraq's more populous and larger neighbour. Even "limited" air strikes on Iran's nuclear plants would unify the country and harden hostility to the West throughout the Middle East, especially if Washington subcontracted the attacks to the Israeli air force.
Most Iraqi resistance to the Americans is based on nationalist resentment, and Iranians are no different. People of all political persuasions in Tehran support their country's right to have nuclear power, and probably even bombs. Threatening them with force is not the most intelligent way to persuade them otherwise.
The defeat of Iran's reformist MPs in this northern spring's unfair elections, as well as the certainty that President Mohammad Khatami will be replaced by a less liberal figure next year, have not ended the chance of dialogue with Tehran. European diplomats detect the emergence of a group of "pragmatic conservatives" in the Iranian leadership who could be easier to deal with than the beleaguered liberals of the past seven years. They want better relations with the West.
London's difference with Washington on Iran is remarkable. But does Britain's alignment with France and Germany on Iran mean that Tony Blair has really parted with George Bush on a key geo-political and military issue?
We will know the answer after the US election. Even if John Kerry wins, European diplomats expect no major change in Washington's policy towards Iran. So how will Blair cuddle up to the new president? What easier way than to break with France and Germany and show Kerry that, whether there's a Democrat or a Republican in the White House, Britain's prime minister is still best friends when it comes to being tough with Islamist bullies and taking the brave and moral route to war?
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IRONMAN: What changes to the competition rules were made for the 2017 season?
Jimmy Riccitello: We only made small changes to the rules for the upcoming season, and nothing substantive. The primary changes are as follows:
Yellow card penalties will change from a stop-and-go to a one-minute stop-and-go penalty.The goal is to standardize the time that athletes cited for a yellow card rule violation spend in the penalty tent on the bike course or served on the spot while on the run course.
Bicycles with disc brakes are now allowed globally in all non-drafting middle and long distance triathlons, including IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 events.
In an effort to better define the rule prohibiting bare torsos during the bike and run, and to align with the global standard, uniforms with a front zipper must not be undone below the point of the end of the breastbone (sternum). If not remedied promptly, athletes will be issued a disqualification.
With athlete safety in mind, we've amended the rule prohibiting the use of communication devices. The rule now prohibits athletes from using communication devices in any unsafe or distractive manner. We understand and appreciate how technology is evolving the sport of triathlon, however, the use of technology in any distractive manner is grounds for disqualification. For example, a "distractive manner" could include, but is not limited to, making and receiving phone calls, sending and receiving text messages, playing music, using social media, and taking photographs.
In addition to the above changes, and with respect to the PC Open Division, visually impaired participants may use a single guide of either gender. In this participatory division, and because of the challenging long distance nature of IRONMAN's events, visually impaired athletes are encouraged to find a compatible guide.
Is IRONMAN continuing to work closely with the ITU regarding a common set of competition rules for Middle and Long Distance Triathlon?
We continue to work together with the ITU regarding a singular set of competition rules for middle and long course triathlon. Most of our changes for 2017 are a result of this collaborative effort.
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Fighting fans will be looking at the PlayStation 3 in a new light following the latest PlayStation Archives update in Japan. Sony added eleven games to the download service today, including a bunch of 2D fighting classics from SNK Playmore and Arc System Works.
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Guilty Gear (Arc System Works)
Spectral Tower (Idea Factory)
Spectral Force 2 (Idea Factory)
Suna no Embrace (Idea Factory)
The King of Fighters '95 (SNK Playmore)
The King of Fighters '96 (SNK Playmore)
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Real Bout Fatal Fury Special Dominated Mind (SNK Playmore)
Little Princess Marl Oukoku no Ningyouhime 2 (Nippon Ichi)
Septentrion (Hamster)
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Sony is also trying something new with the service as of this update: free downloadable demos. Or at least one free downloadable demo. Joining the eleven full games in today's update is a demo version of XI, playable on both the PS3 and PSP. It's currently unclear if the company intends on making downloadable demos the rule rather than the exception.
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By Larry Lee
"Politics must stop at the schoolhouse door." -- President Bill Clinton's State of the Union address, Feb. 4, 1997.
I thought of these words when I read that former Alabama Gov. Bob Riley intends to create an education foundation to promote charter schools, merit pay for teachers and consolidation of rural schools.
Goodness knows Alabama public education needs all the friends it can get. Riley was just that with his support of the Alabama Reading Initiative, the Alabama Math, Science and Technology Initiative, distance learning and other programs.
But his new agenda leaves me scratching my head and recalling the words of Clinton. For one, charter schools and merit pay have no better friend than President Barack Obama's Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and given the toxic relationship between Republicans and Democrats these days, it's bewildering to see a Republican endorsing Democratic issues.
Over the past month, I have met with 30 principals from one end of the state to the other. We've talked about their needs with a new school year upon us. Not a single one has said they need charter schools or merit pay.
Neither does research support Riley's agenda.
The most definitive study of charter schools was conducted by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University. They partnered with 15 states and the District of Columbia, and their analysis covered more than 70 percent of all charter school students in the United States.
Their findings? Only 17 percent of charters provided superior education opportunities, while 37 percent delivered results that were significantly worse than traditional schools, and 46 percent had results that were no different than public schools.
The most rigorous study of performance-based teacher compensation was done by the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University. Nearly 300 middle-school math teachers were part of this three-year project that allowed for bonuses of up to $15,000 if student achievement reached certain levels.
"We tested the most basic and foundational question related to performance incentives -- does bonus pay alone improve student outcomes -- and we found that it does not," said Matthew Springer, executive director of the Vanderbilt center.
These results would not surprise Edward Deming, the father of quality management who said in "The Man Who Discovered Quality," "The merit rating nourishes short-term performance, annihilates long-term planning, builds fear, demolishes teamwork, nourishes rivalry and politics. It leaves people bitter, crushed, bruised, battered, desolate, despondent, dejected."
As to rural school consolidation, Riley should go to the mobile home of Delania Laster on a dirt road seven miles north of Coffeeville. He needs to be there at 5:30 a.m. when she leaves to take her 5-year old daughter to meet the school bus at 5:50 that takes her 30 miles to Grove Hill because the school at Coffeeville was closed this year.
Yes, public education in Alabama needs all the help it can get. And given Riley's connections both in Washington and Alabama, he can play a significant and much-needed role in securing help and focusing attention on the challenges we face.
But he needs to rethink his agenda.
The first thing he can do is to get back on his motorcycle and travel Alabama, visiting schools and spending quality time in them. Spend a day in a classroom of any high-poverty school. Don't just dash in, wander the halls for a few minutes and leave. Get to understand the context of what teachers and principals face daily.
Riley needs to do what any good student does: a lot of homework. He should read "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," by Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush; "The Hardest Questions Aren't on the Test," by Linda Nathan, an educator of 30 years; "The Flat Word and Education," by Linda Darling-Hammond, one of the country's foremost education researchers.
Riley should take a long, hard look at the reports, "Closing the Talent Gap: Attracting and Retaining Top-Third Graduates to Careers in Teaching," by McKinsey and Company, and "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, an American Agenda for Education Reform," by the National Center on Education and the Economy.
Riley needs to look at the Yes We Can campaigns in Mobile and Dothan and what they've done to boost public participation in education. He needs to look at the Rural School Partnership effort of the Community Foundation of the Ozarks and how it is helping bring good teachers to rural schools. He should learn about the Neighborhood School Centers program in Dayton, Ohio, and how inner-city schools are benefiting.
Jim Williams and his staff at the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama do a great job of school system assessment and giving communities an appraisal of how their schools perform. Riley could help move this work to other locations.
But as anyone who pays attention to Alabama politics knows, an agenda concentrated on charter schools and merit pay is not as much about improving education as it is about drawing a line in the sand for another battle with the Alabama Education Association.
Unfortunately, this will only waste resources and energy and will once again make schoolkids the rope in a political tug of war.
Larry Lee led the study "Lessons Learned from Rural Schools," a look at 10 high-performing, high-poverty rural schools. Email: email@example.com.


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The Characters:
Jimmy - Michael Moriarty! Small time crook with a deficiency in the intelligence department.
Joan - She seems to like small-minded, greedy, and clumsy jerks who abuse their girlfriends.
Detective Shepard - David Carradine! Any professional law enforcement officer willing to lay blame on an Aztec god in his report is okay by me. Dirty Harry might have gotten away with murder, but let's see him spell "Huhueteotl."
Sgt Powell - Richard Roundtree! At some point he picked up a badge and is now struggling to cope with police brutality. Dude is always angry. (Daaammmnn right!)
Australopithecus Woman - She's living with Shepard and must be either his girlfriend or wife. "Girl Interrupted?" I think not, more like "Evolution Interrupted."
Some Diamond Thieves - Aztec god chow.
Kahea - Psycho that likes the idea of a voracious creature flitting around Manhattan. Shot for his religious beliefs.
Quetzalcoatl - Winged Aztec god awoken from hibernation by Kahea's sacrifices. It terrorizes the skies over New York City before being shot full of holes by the police. Strangely enough, chicken nuggets would soon become a popular fast food item.
The Plot:
Notice: That "Freedom of Religion" amendment does not include conducting human sacrifices, even when the sacrifice signs a waiver. Just another sure sign of how the European invaders have consistently imposed their society on natives of North and South America.
Well, perhaps we should just blame it on the fact that the New York City Police Department has always had a strong Irish membership. They are Roman Catholics and, as such, hardly look kindly on the worship of ancient Aztec gods. Ones that have a bad habit of flying around, often eating practicing Roman Catholics (even if they are Italian), tend to be really frowned upon.
Strange deaths are plaguing the otherwise safe streets of New York. Window washers are mysteriously beheaded while earning their living and flayed bodies have been found in hotel rooms. Shepard's investigation turns up even more intriguing information; the bodies are part of Aztec rituals intended to supplicate a giant winged serpent named Quetzalcoatl. Hold on, there is more! The departed were
participants in their own deaths. Can you imagine trying to lie still and become one with harmony while a madman slowly cuts your chest open? All without Novocain or strong whiskey to dull the nerve endings. Mass never looked so good and that's not even part of my branch of Christianity.
Shepard is shaken by the ramifications of what he learns. Imagine the problem of every fanatic knowing he could summon a bloodthirsty archon by following the directions in half a dozen textbooks on primitive cultures. Complete madness! You can be certain some fool is going to make that giant hydraulic orgy machine required to conjure the Lord of Chaos. Of course, it might already have been done, meaning that Ron Jeremy is only a shell hiding the demon's true form.
Quetzalcoatl flies around the city, eating hapless construction workers and women sunbathing nude. Before I forget, here is some wisdom for any ladies who like to even out their tan on the roof. Make sure you are on the tallest building. Who do you think invented telescopes and binoculars anyway? Us men! Despite what professors might tell you, those renaissance scientists were not trying to get a good look at the moon. They knew that someday there would be tall buildings and maidens would disrobe to enjoy the sun's rays. Only with a device able to peer far distances would a peeping Hans (some of you get it, others are probably thinking I meant to type "Galileo") be able to get a clear picture. There can be no doubt: they were men of vision, men of the future..
Parallel to the main plot is Jimmy's failed attempt to be a positive member of society. Immoral and stupid to the bone, he refuses to look for an honest job. Instead the jerk hooks up with a group of small time crooks that holdup a jewelry shop. In the middle of said heist Jimmy loses his nerve (realizes he never had any in the first place is more like it, but you understand) and bolts. Having stolen several thousand dollars in diamonds and made good an escape, it is time for Jimmy to commit a standard bonehead mistake. Jaywalking across a busy street will do nicely, so he does. Ah, a fool and his diamonds are soon parted by a hurtling cab.
Limping now, the moron enters the Chrysler Building and climbs all the way to the spire. First off, if my leg is bruised and swelling, I'm not going to hide somewhere that involves climbing lots of stairs. Secondly, I didn't realize it was that easy to infiltrate a major office building. Jimmy finds something amazing though; inside the tower's spire is a huge nest with a tenant. A fittingly huge egg sits in the nest!
Jimmy's discovery is important for a surprising reason. The enormous flying creature has been flitting around New York, snatching people off rooftops, but nobody has really seen it! You absolutely have to be joking, right? It is the size and shape of a legendary dragon, lives in one of the most populated cities in the world, and has not been photographed? Our police friends will explain this by it "staying in the sun." Negative, that does not compute. Several times the monster is flying only a few hundred feet from the ground. It might not be on radar, but any bored office worker (there might be a few of those around in NYC) could look out and behold stop motion made flesh.
The appearance of a flying god would undeniably attract the attention of America's military; except in this movie. The police department is given the task of finding and killing Quetzalcoatl. Okay, so maybe they would undeniably begin a systematic search of locations where the creature might be nesting. No, they don't do that either. What they do is wait with thumbs stuck up their butts until a brainless crook blackmails the city.
Greed will make a genius out of simpletons; for the luckless goon says, "I know where the nest is and will reveal it for one million dollars, plus exclusive rights to the story and immunity for my crimes." The immunity clause is important; he was in hot water with his "business associates" over the diamonds and tricked them into becoming Quetzalcoatl snacks.
Armed with submachine guns, the police kill the young god as it hatches and spring a trap for mama bird. South American cultures should have taken a few hints from the European oppressors, like making your god invulnerable to "normal" weapons. Perforated by bullets, the divinely stricken chicken vindicates Nietzsche by dying. Shepard even hunts down the man who brought the god back, but it appears this story is not over. The Aztecs must have coined the phrase, "never put all your eggs in one basket."
I've gone on at length about the film's many problems, though flagrant disregard for anything approaching plausibility would be more accurate. "Q: The Winged Serpent" is still a fun movie. The inexplicable plot makes it entertaining and the monster is a real crowd pleaser.
Things I Learned From This Movie:
Window washers are not fooling anybody.
Flaying is a lost art.
The top of the Chrysler Building is a slum.
Pigeons are carnivorous.
Men do not find physically fit women attractive.
Nixon's pardon set a bad precedent.
Mimes are actually undercover police officers.
Lawyers will only show up when a briefcase full of money is present.
.38 pistols do not have a lot of stopping power (well, duh).
Stuff To Watch For:
2 mins - You really cannot hear anything from the outside, but without the squeaking he would be less annoying.
5 mins - The Red Balloon! Noooo!
6 mins - RANDOM GRATUITOUS BREAST SHOT!
16 mins - Great job Mr. Security Man. Keep it up.
19 mins - Happens to me all the time. I try to take a leak and pigeons attack, then a bloody skeleton (still intact and wearing a bracelet) falls on my back.
26 mins - Yes! Please turn off the lights! Unfortunately you'll still be able to feel her body hair. Ewwwww.
45 mins - They have to read it to you, but nowhere does the law say they are not allowed to be sarcastic.
76 mins - Who would have known that the Statue of Liberty figured so prominently in Aztec religion?
80 mins - RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST A LAMP!
Joan: "And I told you, the next time you hit me I'll break a lamp over your head while you're asleep!"
Police Captain: "My God, with a wingspan like you're talking about here that thing could fly miles into New York City every day. And it would do that of course, you know, because New York is famous for good eating."
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Starving actors speak out
Powell: "The only place I haven't looked is up in the parapets."
Shepard: "There won't me much left of it. Did you ever drop a cantaloupe from forty stories?"
Shepard: "Let me get this straight, you're talking about human sacrifice now?"
Curator: "Willing sacrifice, they give themselves to the god willingly."
Jimmy being dumb and weird. "I see dead things. Muh!"
Jimmy: "You pay the God damned lottery winner one million dollars and I'm saving the Big Apple ten...a hundred million dollars, maybe a billion dollars and you're going to welch on one million lousy dollars?"
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Q: The Winged Serpent
Reply #1.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by Smeazel
Whoops, didn't even notice the line BELOW the headline at first... "Witnesses Descriptions Conflict". "Witnesses" should have an apostrophe. I'm guessing the former copy editor of that fictional newspaper is now holding down a job at the a local McDonalds...
Q: The Winged Serpent
Reply #2.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by Smeazel
I like the headline on the newspaper in the fifth still: "Photographs Fail to Prove Existance [sic] of Giant Bird".
You know, in the real world, newspaper editors may let the occasional grammatical error slip through, but they're usually pretty good about not letting blatant misspellings get through. Especially in the headlines...
Q: The Winged Serpent
Reply #3.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by Squishy
Astonishingly Stupid Dialog explains why no one sees "Q" coming as he soars over New York City:
"I guess he was flying in line with the sun."
...or some such crap. Sh'yeah.
I cannot believe the same Michael Moriarity I watch on "Law & Order" reruns is the same guy I saw in "Q" (and "It's Alive III: Island of the Alive"). Eeeewwwwwwwwww.
One Shining Moment: look at that eighth still under the review, the one with Q's head popping up behind Carradine. I had no idea that was a process shot until that very millisecond; startled the living crap outta me. It almost makes up for the stop-motion "swimming" men Q hurls off the Chrysler Building.
Q: The Winged Serpent
Reply #4.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Fritz
Michael Moriarity is in a lot of Larry Cohen's movies, the most famous apart from Q is The Stuff.
Q: The Winged Serpent
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Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by Jordan Garren
How could anyone truly hate this film? Michael Moriarty is hilarious as the down and out ex con (the scene where he talks about his "baaaddd dreams" to his girlfriend is a must see). The effects are kinda cool and the movie pace is good and steady. The director, Larry Cohen, uses a lot of foreshadowin in this flick too, and it's fun to point it out while watching the movie. Now this is just my opinion (which is completely biased since this is one of my childhood favorites) but I'm sure that when you see this film...you'll enjoy it (or at least enjoy Moriarty's acting).
Q: The Winged Serpent
Reply #6.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Steve
In all the comments I've read everyone has seemed to ignor two facts: 1.Quetzalcoutl was a feathered serpent not the winged and clawed reptilian dragon depicted in the film and 2.Quetzalcoatl was the portector and guardian of mankind who among all the Aztec gods rejected human sacrifice.
Q: The Winged Serpent
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Posted on July 18, 2004, 09:11:15 PM by firebird
The window washer getting his head munched off and the creature lives atop the chrysler building i guess becuase KING KONG(classic got the empire state building and him running around saying EAT EM EAT EM
Q: The Winged Serpent
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Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM by Felicity
Time once again for a Felicity-talks-about-what-her-life-was-like-at-the-time-she-saw-the-movie review.
It was late 1998. Id just been fired from the best job Id ever had and I was always low on money. I was hanging out with this depressing man-hating lesbian dominatrix who only wanted to do things that didnt involve leaving her apartment, and we were desperate for a movie...so we decided to rent Q--The Winged Serpent.
So you can see how I might not have been in the best frame of mind.
Add to that that the movie was all gross and 1970s, with bad hair, bad clothes, and bad cinematography, and no likeable characters...the movie had signed its own death warrant.
Only two positive experiences came out of this otherwise completely hateable movie:
1. The naked woman on the rooftop.
2. Two years later I e-mailed the proprietor of a bad-movie site (I cant remember the name now, but it was these really nice guys in Lynnwood, Washington) who had asked for suggestions for bad movies to review, and I suggested Q--The Winged Serpent, and he seemed really, really thrilled that I suggested it. :-)
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Osinbajo receives 2017 Budget from National Assembly; Court orders forfeiture of N449.6m recovered from Lagos shop; Politicians under security watch over Buratai's coup alarm; Army Yet to Make Arrests After Buratai's Coup Warning – Army Spokesman . . .
Osinbajo receives 2017 Budget from National Assembly
The Presidency on Friday confirmed that the National Assembly has formally transmitted the 2017 Appropriation Bill passed by the National Assembly last week to the Presidency. The Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President, Mr. Laolu Akande, confirmed this on his Twitter handle, @Akandeoj. He said the document was formally received in the office of the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday. Mr. Akande wrote on his twitter handle: "2017 Budget -Appropriations bill now officially received in the Acting President's office and undergoing very prompt and diligent consideration,"
The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Mr. Ita Enang in a closed door session presented the document to Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Court orders forfeiture of N449.6m recovered from Lagos shop
A Federal High Court on Friday in Lagos ordered the final forfeiture of the N449.6 million found in an abandoned Bureau de Change at Victoria Island to the Federal Government. The money was recovered in Lagos by the EFCC. The forfeiture order was made by Justice Mohammed Aikawa, following a motion on notice taken before him by the EFCC. When the case was called on Friday, Counsel to the EFCC, Mr Idris Mohammed, told court that the interim order of April 19 was advertised in a newspaper on May 11, to bring the case to the notice of Tauheed and any interested party.
He said that apart from the newspaper publication, Tauheed was also served with the motion on notice. Mohammed urged the judge to order the final forfeiture of the money since neither Tauheed nor anyone else came forward to claim it. Justice Aikawa, in a short ruling, granted the application. "This court ordered, among others, that the respondent (Tauheed) and any other interested party should show cause, within 14 days, why the interim forfeiture of N449, 597,000 should not be made final.
Politicians under security watch over Buratai's coup alarm
Some Nigerian politicians are under security watch following the revelation by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) that some unnamed politicians were hobnobbing with some unnamed senior and/or junior army officers. Lt. Gen. Buratai also cautioned the unnamed politicians, who are said to have been placed under surveillance by security agencies, not to influence soldiers.
There are reports that Lt. Gen. Buratai was disturbed that the ongoing professionalization of the military might suffer a major setback if politicians were allowed to "infiltrate the system".
The COAS is believed to have set in motion a pre-emptive move by the military authorities as a result of intelligence reports that some politicians were out to infiltrate the Armed Forces. The Nation reports that a source confirmed that "The COAS decided to cry out following intelligence on the attitude of some politicians who were uncomfortable with the anxiety over the health of President Muhammadu Buhari." Gen. Buratai's warning to officers was to protect democracy, stress that the Armed Forces must subjugate themselves to civilian authority, pledge the military's loyalty to the Presidency and caution politicians that officers cannot be used for political mischief, the source said
Army Yet to Make Arrests After Buratai's Coup Warning – Army Spokesman
Following the revelation by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, of attempts by some unnamed politicians to infiltrate the military in a suspected coup plan occasioned by speculations and rumors over ailing President Muhammadu Buhari's health concerns, the Nigerian Army said Thursday that it was yet to make any arrests.
Lt. Gen. Buratai on Tuesday had warned officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army to steer clear of politics and politicians, whom he claimed were attempting to influence them. He said the Nigerian Army headquarters had received information that some individuals had been approaching some officers and soldiers for undisclosed political reasons. No arrests so far by the Nigerian Army the spokesman stated.


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This week, Stephanie Frank answers the question:
How Do I Stop Panic Attacks?
Q: S**** asks, "Why do I react to a problem or an issue by running around and panicking, even when I know that reaction won't resolve the problem any quicker?"
A: The reality is no matter what, as you go through life, problems, challenges and obstacles happen every single day. (I mean really, when was the last time that any of us had a day when we didn't have a problem of some kind?)
It doesn't happen. So here's the thing. Your job is not to be problem free. That will happen when you're dead. Until then, you are alive and dealing with all kinds of obstacles – big ones, little ones…and the reason that you're freaking out every time a problem comes is you're trying to force yourself not to have any problems. That will never happen. So….
…instead of looking at your problems as constant crisis management, flip it around.
Look at your problems as the creative challenges that show up in your life specifically to give you an opportunity to do something new. Look at it like a long distance runner. You're going to have things that will get in your way, possibly slow you down, and maybe even things that you're going to have to jump over. Is your focus on the obstacle or on the finish line?
Here is one of the things that I do every single morning: I sit down and say, "I realize that my day is whatever it's going to be today and I would like to have a day that no matter what challenges come up, I would like to go through this day with ease and grace." (Ease and grace, those are my two favorite words.)
What that means is this. You're setting the tone for the day so that these problems that you're talking about don't absolutely sideswipe you and wreck your day. Ease and grace is the intention you are setting.
Now, if you're talking about the kinds of problems where somebody just walks in and dumps something on you and all of a sudden it's up to you to handle it and deal with it, that's a whole different issue.
In that situation, what we're dealing with is that you are teaching people how to treat you. So if you've taught people to just come in and dump their problems on you (and you no longer want them to do that), now it's up to you to teach them not to do that.
Just because someone else has a problem doesn't mean it's your problem. There's nothing that says when somebody comes in and dumps something on you that you have to take it onto your own shoulders. You've probably got enough of your own problems without taking someone else's on too.
Instead of taking the world on your shoulders, the next time someone brings you their problem, respond with this, "Hey, is this something that you'd like me to deal with or are you just venting?" Ask the question. Don't assume that the whole world is on your shoulders. Those kinds of assumptions can quickly lead to overwhelm, panic and major freak out.
Now it's up to you to set up your day with ease and grace and to ask more questions when you feel put upon.
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My titles for Camp Home are a combination of two numbers: the number that represents the location it was shot - so in the photo above, 5052 is the number that was assigned to the particular homestead farm property. That number is combined with 19617, which is the number the government gave my family during the internment.
In just my first hour at the Tule Lake Pilgrimage, I learned the number associated with the barrack and actual space my family resided in: 5903b. After so much time thinking about this specific place, it's somewhat amazing to put an "address" to a place that I've only imagined.


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As you can see from these examples, low self-confidence can be self-destructive, and it often manifests itself as negativity. Self-confident people are generally more positive – they believe in themselves and their abilities, and they also believe in living life to the full.
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Two main things contribute to self-confidence: self-efficacy and self-esteem. We gain a sense of self-efficacy when we see ourselves (and others similar to ourselves) mastering skills and achieving goals that matter in those skill areas.
This is the confidence that, if we learn and work hard in a particular area, we'll succeed; and it's this type of confidence that leads people to accept difficult challenges, and persist in the face of setbacks. This overlaps with the idea of self-esteem, which is a more general sense that we can cope with what's going on in our lives, and that we have a right to be happy. Partly, this comes from a feeling that the people around us approve of us, which we may or may not be able to control. However, it also comes from the sense that we are behaving virtuously, that we're competent at what we do, and that we can compete successfully when we put our minds to it. Some people believe that self-confidence can be built with affirmations and positive thinking. At Mind Tools, we believe that there's some truth in this, but that it's just as important to build self-confidence by setting and achieving goals – thereby building competence. Without this underlying competence, you don't have self-confidence: you have shallow over-confidence, with all of the issues, upset and failure that this brings.
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So how do you build this sense of balanced self-confidence, founded on a firm appreciation of reality? The bad news is that there's no quick fix, or five-minute solution. The good news is that building self-confidence is readily achievable, just as long as you have the focus and determination to carry things through. And what's even better is that the things you'll do to build self-confidence will also build success – after all, your confidence will come from real, solid achievement. No-one can take this away from you! So here are our three steps to self-confidence, for which we'll use the metaphor of a journey: preparing for your journey; setting out; and accelerating towards success.
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The first step involves getting yourself ready for your journey to self-confidence. You need to take stock of where you are, think about where you want to go, get yourself in the right mindset for your journey, and commit yourself to starting it and staying with it. In preparing for your journey, do these five things:
Look at What You've Already Achieved
Think about your life so far, and list the ten best things you've achieved in an "Achievement Log." Perhaps you came top in an important test or exam, played a key role in an important team, produced the best sales figures in a period, did something that made a key difference in someone else's life, or delivered a project that meant a lot for your business. Put these into a smartly formatted document, which you can look at often. And then spend a few minutes each week enjoying the success you've already had!
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Next, use a technique like SWOT Analysis to take a look at whom and where you are. Looking at your Achievement Log, and reflecting on your recent life, think about what your friends would consider to be your strengths and weaknesses. From these, think about the opportunities and threats you face. Make sure that you enjoy a few minutes reflecting on your strengths!
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Next, think about the things that are really important to you, and what you want to achieve with your life. Setting and achieving goals is a key part of this, and real self-confidence comes from this. Goal setting is the process you use to set yourself targets, and measure your successful hitting of those targets. See our article on goal setting to find out how to use this important technique, or use our Life Plan Workbook to think through your own goals in detail (see the "Tip" below). Inform your goal setting with your SWOT Analysis. Set goals that exploit your strengths, minimize your weaknesses, realize your opportunities, and control the threats you face. And having set the major goals in your life, identify the first step in each. Make sure it's a very small step, perhaps taking no more than an hour to complete!
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At this stage, you need to start managing your mind. Learn to pick up and defeats the negative self-talk which can destroy your confidence. See our article on rational positive thinking to find out how to do this. Further useful reading includes our article on imagery – this teaches you how to use and create strong mental images of what you'll feel and experience as you achieve your major goals – there's something about doing this that makes even major goals seem achievable!
And Then Commit Yourself to Success!
The final part of preparing for the journey is to make a clear and unequivocal promise to yourself that you are absolutely committed to your journey, and that you will do all in your power to achieve it. If as you're doing it, you find doubts starting to surface write them down and challenge them calmly and rationally. If they dissolve under scrutiny, that's great. However if they are based on genuine risks, make sure you set additional goals to manage these appropriately. For help with evaluating and managing the risks you face, read our Risk Analysis and Management article.
Either way, make that promise!
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Consequently, KFC's traditional menu, chicken legs, wings, thighs and breasts with bones are on their way out.
But why? Perhaps Colonel Sanders and the KFC concept needs revamping since it lacks fast food competitor Popeye's' urban, Louisiana flavor and appeal.
Kentucky Fried Chicken's cursory announcement that bones may be eliminated from its time honored menu should have Colonel Sanders rolling over in his secret recipe mix. Still, the menu switch up may be great news for KFC competitors like Church's and Popeye's.
All three chains have built their companies on its crispy chicken recipes and meals. Traditionally, meal boxes are boned pieces of white and dark meat.
KFC says its decision to go boneless is a response to a generation of consumers who grew up on chicken nuggets, but McDonald's introduced the chicken McNugget almost 30 years ago.
Since then, a number of chains have picked up on the American trend for buffalo wings, most international Pizza chains serve boned wings. Zaxby's and Buffalo Wild Wings are favorite stops with younger generations. Chik-a-Filet serves boneless sandwiches and most fast food burger chains sell boneless pieces and sandwiches too.
KFC only introduced boneless strips and bites to its menu a year ago. KFC boneless premieres April 14 only in the U.S ; both white and dark meat portions are available. But the boneless menu may have more to do with portion, than bones.
Today's younger generation and younger families are eating healthier. They're eating smaller portions of healthy foods more, rather than large servings of foods with fats, cholesterol and other precursors to heart disease and diabetes.
To further the argument, New York City went as far crafting a ban on soda sales of bottles larger than 16 oz in its restaurants.
After an internet photo of a large pink slimey goo said to be the "meat" for McDonald's Chicken McNuggets, McDonald's dropped the pink slime ingredient used to makes it boneless chicken and hamburger meat.
In 2011, a consumer launched a lawsuit against Taco Bell. The lawsuit claimed that fillers in its meat products decreased nutritional value.
For a number of reasons, whether or not KFC boneless menu is really targeted to the younger generation is a legitimate question pondered briefly on MSNMoney. But fast food presidents aren't typically as people concerned as they are profit driven.
Earlier this month, Popeye's US president lashed out against mandated health insurance legislation and offered that many of his full-time employees may reduce hours in order to avoid paying health insurance. It doesn't appear likely the fast food conglomerate will consider raising employee salaries.