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A large plume of dust blew across southwestern Alaska in early November 2012, shrouding much of the land and Bristol Bay with a light colored veil. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA�s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image on November 6 as it passed over the region. A fine, wide plume passes over the mainland, and then curves with the wind as it crosses the Alaskan Peninsula.
In Alaska, dust can arise from glacial flour or from sediments along riverbeds. Glacial flour is created when glaciers slowly grind over rocks, turning them into a fine dust that can be blown aloft by strong winds. There are many glaciers in the region, and dust is common. Also, autumn is the season when river discharge reaches its annual minimum, which means river beds are maximally exposed, and fine river sediment is most likely to rise with the wind.
While there are potential sources for this dust close to home, some scientists have suggested a different source of this plume - it may be blowing from far distant China.
In early November, severe dust storms struck the Taklimakan Desert of western China, blowing thick layers of dust from that desert eastward. The Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite, (OMPS), an instrument that tracks aerosols worldwide from the Suomi NPP satellite, made observations that indicated dust travelled from the Taklimakan Desert across China, then across the Pacific Ocean to southwestern Alaska from November 2 through November 8, 2012.
At this time, and from this Aqua image alone, the source of the massive dust plume cannot be definitively located. However, the massive size and length of the plume created a spectacular event when viewed from space.
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Devin Nunes was a low-profile Republican from California's Central Valley, perhaps best known for his battles with environmentalists over water, including once bringing a bowl of fish to a Capitol Hill hearing to argue that their interests were being elevated over those of farmers.
And then he uttered four words, describing colleagues who were willing to let the federal government shut down over Obamacare as "lemmings with suicide vests.''
That put the six-term legislator in the very small circle of Republicans willing to speak out against his party's strategy.
He said the "lemming caucus" that sought to defund the 2010 healthcare law as a condition for keeping the government open has misled his constituents into believing — falsely, he says — that their strategy could succeed. He said that he, too, hates Obamacare but sees no prospect of its repeal with its biggest fan in the White House and Democrats in control of the Senate.
"You guys ever watch 'Sixteen Candles'? ... That's going to be us tomorrow," Nunes recently told reporters, suggesting — tongue in cheek, he later said — that Republicans would end up like a character in the 1984 movie, waking up on a lawn after crashing the car.
The 40-year-old farmer says he believes the shutdown is hurting his party by dominating the headlines when Republicans could otherwise be highlighting problems with the rollout of the healthcare law. He's also taken on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a darling of the tea party. "He's the one that got us into this mess," Nunes says.
Despite his vocal criticism, Nunes has voted with his party every step of the way, seeing it as important to stand with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and other fellow Republicans. "You try to make your case, and if you lose, you have to go with your team," he said in an interview outside the House chamber.
But he's also drawn flak, judging by comments on his Facebook page. "Mr. Nunes — I applaud you for calling out your Republican colleagues and instead of just following the party line, calling it like you see it. Um, and then you voted for the bill? Wow — what a courageous stand you took," one person wrote.
Nunes has no regrets. "I felt that I had to be truthful with my constituency and truthful with my Republican conference and try to keep them from going off into this abyss," he said.
Nunes is in the spotlight at a time when he and other California Republicans have worked to increase their influence in the GOP-controlled House, even though they make up only 15 members of their deep-blue state's 53-member House delegation — their lowest share since 1936.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield is majority whip, the House's third-ranking Republican, and Darrell Issa of Vista, Howard "Buck" McKeon of Santa Clarita and Ed Royce of Fullerton chair House committees.
Nunes has been mentioned as a possible, albeit a seeming long-shot, candidate for chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee if Republicans hold on to their House majority in next year's election.
He is fifth in seniority on the panel, whose leader, Dave Camp of Michigan, must step down because of Republican-imposed term limits for chairmen. Nunes currently chairs the trade subcommittee but, perhaps more important, has raised gobs of cash to help elect fellow Republicans, including contributing $565,000 from his campaign committee to the House GOP's campaign arm in the last election cycle. Nunes declined to talk about a possible bid for the gavel. "That's far off," he said.
The grandson of Portuguese immigrants from the Azores and father of three daughters, Nunes was managing his family's Tulare farm when he began his political career at age 23, winning election to the College of the Sequoias board. In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed him to serve as California director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development section. He was reelected to the House last year with 62% of the vote.
He has worked with House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin in developing a budget blueprint that recommended major changes to entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare, including allowing younger workers to divert part of their Social Security taxes to personal retirement accounts. He also has opposed California's high-speed rail project.
He's made headlines before, suggesting in 2009 that then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a fellow Republican, should step down for his "failure to respond to the ongoing California water crisis."
Nunes, whose district is about 45% Latino, has broken with the GOP ranks on some immigration matters. In 2005, he voted against a GOP bill that would have cracked down on illegal immigration but omitted a guest-worker program important to Central Valley farmers. He was recently one of six House Republicans who opposed an effort to cut off funding for an Obama administration program that halted the deportation of many young immigrants who are in high school or college or have served in the military.
Among his legislative accomplishment is a 2008 bill signed into law by Bush ensuring that "sole survivors" — members of the military who lose all their siblings in war — would continue to receive veterans benefits if they left the service early. The measure grew out of problems suffered by one of Nunes' constituents, who was in the Army and was denied benefits after leaving the service when his two brothers were killed in the Iraq war.
His stand on the government shutdown is likely to be more controversial.
Nunes would not identify by name the members he considers to be in the lemming caucus, but he said they are about two dozen House Republicans who say "no on everything."
Rep. John Campbell of Irvine shrugged off Nunes' comment but defended the Republican strategy, saying the fight isn't only about derailing Obamacare.
"It's about the fact that we Republicans control one house of this government," he said. While House Republicans don't expect to get everything they want, "it also doesn't mean that we get nothing."
Asked about Nunes' criticism, Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said that "Americans aren't interested in politicians bickering among one another — they want Congress to fix the problem."
Nunes is not sure how it will all end.
"Everybody on both sides is dug in," he said. "It's going to be tough to get out of this."


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Lessons from 2003 fires help San Diego area
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The weekend before nine wildfires erupted in the San Diego area, scores of state firefighters were sent along with engines and aircraft to the region -- knowing that the forecast of a heat wave and gusty winds was setting the stage for a tinderbox.
The positioning of crews was among several steps fire officials say they have been fine-tuning since 2003 when the San Diego area experienced one of the worst infernos in California's history. Communications between firefighting agencies has improved, residents are notified more quickly when to evacuate, and more aircraft are available to dump water on fast-moving flames.
A flare-up Thursday prompted 18,400 new evacuation notices in and around San Marcos, a north San Diego, suburb, and served as a reminder of how quickly conditions can turn. But with cooler temperatures forecast, there was an overwhelming sense that far more damage could have been inflicted on a region of more than 3 million people.
This week's unseasonably early wildfires have driven tens of thousands from their homes and shut down schools and amusement parks, including Legoland, which reopened Thursday. Flames have charred more than 15 square miles and caused more than $20 million in damage, burning at least eight houses, an 18-unit apartment complex and two businesses. Firefighters found a badly burned body Thursday in a transient camp in Carlsbad -- the first apparent fatality -- and a Camp Pendleton Fire Department firefighter was treated for heat exhaustion while battling a square-mile blaze on the Marine base.
San Diego County had some of the strongest Santa Ana winds Wednesday, with gusts reaching up to 50 mph, which may have set conditions for fires to be easily ignited, just as they were in 2003. The 2003 Cedar Fire scorched more than 437 square miles, nearly 3,000 buildings -- including more than 2,000 homes -- and killed 15 people before being contained.
The tragedy led to California creating one of the world's most robust firefighting efforts, which resulted in the smooth evacuation of thousands this week and crews able to save hundreds of homes from being consumed by the fast-moving wildfires, said Battalion Chief Nick Schuler of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Before another devastating wave of fires swept the San Diego region in 2007, the city and county introduced a 'reverse 911' system of automated calls to homes and businesses. Previously, evacuations were accomplished by going door to door or driving down the streets with loudspeakers.
Upgrades at dispatch centers have allowed firefighting agencies to share resources far more quickly by computer, a contrast to 2003 when agencies had to pick up the phone to move engines around, said David Allen, division chief for the state firefighting agency.
There is also a stronger relationship between the state firefighting agency and the military, which had 22 aircraft fighting the fires Thursday.
Those procedures are expected to be tested further as drought-plagued California heads into the summer months of what is expected to be one of its busiest firefighting seasons yet.
Jeff Bowman, the former city of San Diego fire chief who was on duty for the 2003 firestorm, said the outcome of this week's blazes was what everybody hopes for, but several factors worked in firefighters' favor that weren't in place in 2003 and 2007.
In 2003, firefighters from San Diego were deployed all over the state, where multiple fires were burning, and other counties didn't have resources to send because they were battling their own blazes.
"Our guys were fighting in other counties and other counties had nobody to send us. That's a very unique thing that's happening right now," Bowman said. "The other guys are sending guys to San Diego and that didn't happen before."
Also, new construction standards that arose from 2003's devastation helped protect homes.
And finally, the fires Wednesday broke out during the mid-morning and afternoon, when residents weren't as likely to be home and when helicopters from all agencies could fly.
"If San Diego County is so well-prepared for fire, do they have any more firefighters on duty today than they did in the 2003 and 2007 fires? The answer is no," he said. "So why is there a significant different in the outcome? The answer is, the circumstances surrounding where and when the fire started."
It could take months to find the causes of the blazes concentrated in the northern San Diego and its northern suburbs, from the coast to areas 10 to 15 miles inland. San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said arson will be among the many possibilities that investigators will look at in trying to determine what caused nine fires to break out during a heat wave, including eight in one day. The first fire started Tuesday.
Associated Press writer Gillian Flaccus in Los Angeles contributed to this report.


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NFL Hall of Famer Sonny Jurgensen may not have become a quarterback if it wasn't for Charlie "Barrel" Niven. Niven, who was enshrined into the Greater Wilmington Sports Hall of Fame on Sunday, was two years ahead of Jurgenson in school. During their childhood, the two would often participate in pick-up games in the streets. That's where the future Eagles and Redskins star learned the position. "I was younger and couldn't run, so Charlie said, 'You be the quarterback and… Read More »


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Every one who trains for violence uses a platform to test it. The limitation most times is not the platform but rather the student's ability to explore the work. Some can't see the forest for the trees…a line is a line...Angles and entries is most of the game, the rest is mindset.
No magic bullets, but if you don't test your load you'll never hit the target!
Sport is the realm of pressure testing these days as killing the peasants is frowned upon in this day and age. The key to realistic training is to pressure test from a position of disadvantage. Same rule for shooting or empty hands_ you're training to the failure point reassess and go again.


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In my earlier post about my 3 x great grandparents' home at 29 Charing Cross, I made the mistake of assuming that the Francis Place living nearby at No. 16 in 1841 was the famous 'radical tailor of Charing Cross'. In fact it was his son, also Francis, who took over the family business when Francis senior retired in 1817.
I came across this information while reading Place's autobiography, where I also made the astonishing discovery that the tailor's first shop in Charing Cross was actually at No. 29 – the very building where my ancestors would be living at the time of the 1841 census. On 8th April 1799 Place went into business with Richard Wild, and they set up shop together at No. 29. Place only moved out, and took up residence further up the street at No. 16, in 1801, when his partnership with Wild ended acrimoniously.
As well as being a key document of the radical and working-class political movements of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, The Autobiography of Francis Place offers a fascinating insight into life in London – and especially Charing Cross – during this period. As someone with a keen interest in the history and literature of the period, I'm intrigued to think that my 3 x great grandparents' home once served as a meeting-place for some of the key figures of the London Corresponding Society.
James Gillray's depiction of a London Corresponding Society meeting at Spa Fields, 1795
In Chapter 11 of his autobiography, Place describes at length how the business arrangement with Richard Wild came about, and their search for suitable premises (I have left Place's spelling and punctuation unchanged):
Having thus satisfied ourselves that we could raise forty pounds, we went in search of a house towards the west, and having seen several we at length found one, No. 29 Charing Cross which just the thing for us, if we could obtain possession of it. The rent was only fifty pounds a year, but for the lease, fixtures, and conveyance of the Lease eighty four pounds were demanded, the house had a good front and needed only outside painting. The rent was very low the house was small, it was rated low in the Parish Books, but how to raise the Eighty four pounds was a question not easily solved. Borrowing was the only chance we had, so we set to work at it, Wild amongst his acquaintances I amongst mine.
Once the two men had managed to obtain sufficient credit, they moved into the house in Charing Cross and opened the shop:
My furniture consisted of very few articles, and excepting two or three pieces were of a very mean description. As we were going into a respectable neighbourhood, as the Shop had been nicely painted, and our names put along the front in large gilt letters, so as to have the appearance of means to do business in good stile; as the goods we had purchased would enable us to make a handsome display in the windows we were desirous to conceal the proofs of our poverty which the furniture would have given if exposed by day light, A small cart was therefore hired, the goods were packed in convenient pieces and at dusk were put into the cart. My Brother, Wilds Brother Richard Hayward, myself and Wild were all there and in a few minutes the goods were carried into the shop and we were in actual possession of a house and a shewey shop almost to our own surprise, in which I anticipated great success my wife great fears for the result.
The house was in excellent condition but very dirty, so on the next Sunday, Wild his brother, myself and my wife all set to work early in the morning and scowerd it from the top to the bottom, as well the wainscot as the floors, and finished by whitewashing the Kitchen ceiling.
Thus for the first time in our lives, or rather I should perhaps say since we were married I and my wife enjoyed a truly comfortable residence in which we had rooms enough intirely to separate our domestic concerns, and get rid of the many inconveniences which had hitherto annoyed us.
Up to the time that I collected the money due to me from my customers to take the house I never had been at any time since my birth in possession of five pounds which I could fairly call my own.
When we got into the house at Charing Cross we had but one shilling and tenpence among us all, but we had a well digested plan to obtain and carry on business, we had health and knowledge, abstemious habits great industry, a shewy shop a good stock of fashionable goods and a determination to succeed let what would happen.


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PHOENIX (Thursday April 21, 2011) -- Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne and his colleagues from 17 states have released a letter to the Pabst Brewing Company calling on the brewer to significantly change its marketing strategy and lower the alcoholic serving content for its new Blast malt beverage. Sold in brightly-colored packaging that appears designed to attract young consumers, the drink also contains enough alcohol in a 23.5 ounce container to quantify as binge drinking if consumed on one occasion. Binge drinking is defined as men drinking five (women drinking four) or more servings of alcohol in an hour. Such drinking can raise a person's blood alcohol level concentration to 0.08 grams percent or more, putting a person at significant risk for legal intoxication.
"I am joining my fellow Attorneys General in denouncing both the alcohol serving size and marketing efforts for this new drink," Horne said. "It is evident that this beverage is designed to attract young people and contains enough alcohol in one serving to constitute a threat to public health and safety. It is rightly being described as a 'binge in a can' because, with an alcohol content of 12 percent in a 23.5 ounce can, it reaches the threshold of nearly five servings in one can, which meets the federal definition of binge drinking. A person who drinks this amount of alcohol and gets behind the wheel is an even greater menace to health and safety. I urge the Pabst Brewing Company to reduce the number of servings of alcohol in each container and to forgo the cynical marketing of a clearly dangerous beverage to anyone, especially youth."
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The pilot episode for this comic is a more than year old, which was my second entry in the Yen Press New Talent Search. I just started doing the continuation of it recently, because I wanted to expand on the lore of the world. The comic itself is about a young girl, who lives in a scarcely populated world, where the life expectancy is about eight years old. She was lucky she could make it to live to age fourteen. Because the Grey Death plagues the land, the once industrious steam punk world left the machines unattended and unused, factories shut down, and houses abandoned. (No one is left to operate them!) With a vast majority population dying prematurely, they have unfinished business left in the material world. Instead of going straight to the afterlife, their souls transform into "Lone Naughts", deadly creatures that further the death toll in this world. Ruby has very few allies, only her deceased "mother", her deceased REAL mother, and her uncle, a retired priest who studies medicine.
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Erin Belieu
You're mad that I can't love the ocean,
but I've come to this world landlocked
and some bodies feel permanently strange.
Like any foreign language, study it too late and
it never sticks. Anyway,
we're here aren't we? —
trudging up the sand, the water churning
its constant horny noise, an openmouthed heavy
breathing made more unnerving by
the presence of all these families, the toddlers
with their chapped bottoms, the fathers
in gigantic trunks spreading out their dopey
circus-colored gear.
How can anyone relax
near something so worked up all the time?
I know the ocean is glamorous,
but the hypnosis, the dilated pull of it, feels
impossible to resist. And what better reason to
resist? I'm most comfortable in
a field, a yellow-eared patch
of cereal, whose quiet rustling argues for
the underrated valor of discretion.
And above this, I admire a certain quality of
sky, like an older woman who wears her jewels with
an air of distance, that is, lightly,
with the right attitude. Unlike your ocean,
there's nothing sneaky about a field. I like their
ugly-girl frankness. I like that, sitting in the dirt,
I can hear what's coming between the stalks.
When was this poem composed? How did it start?
I think I wrote it in early 2006 when I was working on the poems for my last book, Black Box. It was one of the first ones to come for that book.
How many revisions did this poem undergo? How much time elapsed between the first and final drafts?
This was an odd one in that I usually go through many (possibly too many) revisions of a poem and it takes months and months—sometimes years—to eke out anything, but in this case Doug Powell got a hold of me and kindly asked if I had anything for him to publish in The Electronic Poetry Review. I'm not a very prolific writer--I didn't have much to show him--still I didn't want to miss the opportunity as I really admired what Doug was doing there. So I kind of sheepishly sent "Last Trip to the Island," which was only in its third or fourth draft, and said, "Hey, you know, this probably isn't finished and you may not want it, etc. etc." And Doug wrote back something like "What are you talking about, you idiot? I think it's terrific…" And then he writes this brilliant explication of the poem and why he thinks it's well done and by the time I was finished reading what he'd written I decided maybe it wasn't so hopelessly pointless after all. Marie Ponsot once told me years ago "Erin, you really need to lower your expectations" but I still struggle a lot with this self-sense of nothing ever being good enough. And pretending to be exacting is also a handy way of masking my inherent slothfulness.
Do you believe in inspiration? How much of this poem was "received" and how much was the result of sweat and tears?
I do believe in inspiration, but really, inspiration and $1.50 is worth a cup of coffee. Everybody's inspired, aren't they? It's getting it on the page where the ditch digging begins. So I carried around this idea about how I wanted to write a poem about how much I mistrust the ocean and how uncomfortable I feel when I go to the beach—any redheaded freckled people who might be reading this know what I'm talking about—and it took some years before the notion gelled with a scene and point-of-view and argument. That vague idea needed an occasion and a stance. So ideas are like asses: everybody has one. I guess I think all the various elements have to gather together and you almost always have to sweat for those. Sometimes you win the poem lottery, but for me the muse doesn't hand out the free samples very often.
How did this poem arrive at its final form? Did you consciously employ any principles of technique?
Again, I'm not certain that it did arrive at its final form. I'm very much a sculptor with my poems, even when my poems appear to approximate narrative, free verse voice as some of them do, and this one came out a little bit too loose for my tastes. But other people liked it and I've finally learned when I get that lucky to say "Oh, good!" and shut my cake hole.
How long do you let a poem "sit" before you send it off into the world? Do you have any rules about this or does your practice vary with every poem?
I have to admit that I don't often send my poems into the world. I'm really not trying to sound repulsively self-deprecating, but I'm under no delusion that the world can't sleep without the next Erin Belieu poem. Plus I react very badly to rejection. Back years ago when I did try and send out a few things, the first time I got rejected I nearly beat the mailbox to death. Seriously, I kicked it till the post broke. And I'm pretty sure that's a felony. Anyway, I'm in the ludicrously lucky position to sometimes have editors ask me for things and then I send them along. Better for everyone involved. But I do suspect that people write and send and publish too much generally. I remember Edith Wharton describing a powerful New York society couple—Mr. and Mrs. van der Luyden—in her novel The Age of Innocence. When one character asks why these two—who are neither particularly fascinating nor entertaining—wield so much influence over the social scene, another character responds by saying "they make themselves valuable by making themselves rare." I may be paraphrasing slightly, but I think the point is a useful one.
Could you talk about fact and fiction and how this poem negotiates the two?
I could talk about it and I completely understand why you ask—it's a fair question—but honestly I'm sick to death of discussing the supposedly biographical elements in poetry. Even if themes or images originally spring in some way from the biographical, any poem worth reading moves beyond that quickly. I mean, I know that Hardy had a miserable relationship with his first wife, but I didn't know that when I first fell in love with his poems and knowing this doesn't add anything to them. "The Voice" is an incredibly powerful portrait of grief without this "fact." My persistent fear is that reality television and celebrity blogs and all that delicious but nutritionally void garbage are completely devaluing acts of imagination in every form. I hate those "based on a true story" stickers they put on books now. I think we all need to take the pledge to stop caring about what the facts are and just be hopeful for something imagined that truly moves us. On my next book I'm putting stickers on them that say, "based on an imagined story."
Is this a narrative poem?
Yes, I suppose so. A lyric-narrative, technically speaking.
Do you remember who you were reading when you wrote this poem? Any influences you'd care to disclose?
I think I was reading Josh Bell and Marina Tsvetaeva. Man, that'll give you a nosebleed! But in the good way…
Do you have any particular audience in mind when you write, an ideal reader?
Maybe my editor, Michael, at Copper Canyon. It's always good to make him happy.
Did you let anyone see drafts of this poem before you finished it? Is there an individual or a group of individuals with whom you regularly share work?
I have a little posse who've been generous enough to give me feedback over the years—Carl Phillips, Susan Aizenberg, Mark Bibbins, Josh Bell, Kay Horwath. Very good souls. Couldn't do without them. And my best and toughest critic is my partner, Adam Boles, who's a wonderfully mean editor. Really, I just picked him for his looks, but then he turns out to be brilliant. Go figure. So he wrestles with me whenever I shout, "I'm done!" Then I snarl at him, tell him he doesn't understand my genius and stomp back to my desk to try and fix what he was talking about. He's almost always right. Very annoying. But unlike the mailbox, I never kick him.
How does this poem differ from other poems of yours?
I guess it seems pretty much like a typical Belieu specimen—oppositional, contrary, hopefully amusing in some black humored way. It doesn't have any dirty words in it, though. That's strange.
What is American about this poem?
What an interesting question. Well, its currency privileges the image, so I suppose that distinguishes it from what my friends are doing in Britain where the focus is still more often pointed at music. And it has bad manners but a big heart.
Was this poem finished or abandoned?
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I enjoyed the poem very much. I had just been teaching Emily Dickinson's "I Started Early -- Took My Dog" and was taken with the absolute rightness of both Erin's poem and ED's poem. Both say something profound about our world and the world that was. We are stuck on the beach with all the other beach lovers. Whatever pull/force/fear/wonder the sea can manage has been diluted by the folks around us, moping their lives away.ReplyDelete
Utterly refreshing, poem and poet.ReplyDelete
So much here to laugh at, to learn from.
Thank you, blythe and belligerent spirit.
Then there's that doozie by Frost, "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep.
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I just discovered this post today, so I hope people are still looking at the comments. I know it has only been two weeks, but I think in the blog world that's like 20 years.ReplyDelete
I personally know Erin. She served as my thesis advisor at FSU while I was getting my MFA and this was always one of my favorite poems of hers. Erin's answers to these questions are right on with the way she teaches poetry and treats your work.
She helped shape many of my poems and could always find that little place where you were trying to get away with something and she'd call you on it. It's hard to find a reader like that.
The only thing I'll disagree with her on is that I think the world could use a few more Erin Belieu poems.
Oh and I am one of those redheaded freckled people, so I do understand feeling uncomfortable on the beach.
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Nigeria/Zambia: Revived Super Eagles Score, Zambia Nets Late Penalty
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Nelspruit — Zambia kept alive the defence of their African Nations Cup title by netting a late penalty against Nigeria on Friday to force a 1-1 draw in the battle of the Group C heavyweights.
Goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene, who had to face a penalty from Nigeria in the first half, stepped up calmly to slot home the ball with just five minutes left.
It came as a relief to Zambia, who let their first-half dominance slip against Nigeria and who conceded a goal after 57 minutes to Emmanuel Emenike.
Nigeria had earlier missed a penalty when John Obi Mikel hit his 26th-minute effort wide. The penalty came after a clumsy challenge from Davies Nkausu on Ahmed Musa inside the box and there was little discussion about the validity of the award by the Egyptian referee.
But there was much contention over the late spot kick handed to the Zambians when Ogenzi Onazi tugged at Emmanuel Mayuka on the edge of the Nigeria area. It seemed an innocuous challenge and led to heated protest from the disappointed Super Eagles, who for a second successive match let slip a lead late in the match.
Both teams now effectively need to win their last games on Tuesday to go through to the quarter-finals.
Obi Mikel made up for his miss by setting up the opening goal in the 57th minute when he stripped Zambia's Chisamba Lungu of possession and passed for Emenike to score. It was a second goal in as many games for the Russian-based striker, fast emerging as a potential new Rashidi Yekini.
Emenike might have had a second soon after as he sought to bulldoze his way to the Zambia goal.
The defending champions looked far the brighter side in the first half.
But the break revived Nigeria and the goal 12 minutes into the second half added to their confidence.
Zambia made three changes to try and fight back but will leave somewhat relieved at their turn of good fortune.
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"For learners it is very important to see that their work is valued by others, and they will respond to the challenges that sharing knowledge and skills with others involve by creating great work!" – UK
Alessio Bernardelli is quick to attribute his success as an educator to those who shaped him along the way, in particular Stuart Ball (Director of Microsoft Partners in Learning Network U.K.) who was
instrumental in his development as an innovative educator. "I was able and fortunate enough to have great role models who helped me step up and face a global audience through the development of my personal blog and personal learning network on Twitter," Bernardelli notes. That act of sharing his ideas with a wider audience led to an opportunity for him to make an even bigger impact through his work as science lead at TES (billed as "the largest network of teachers in the world"). Bernardelli also tweets as @tesScience and promotes innovative resources and practices from the TES website, which has over two million members worldwide. Here, Bernardelli shares his pride in educators he's mentored, the wonders of mind-mapping, and lots of practical tips and free tools for creatively integrating technology in the classroom.
What has changed as a result of your efforts?
My efforts have undoubtedly made me a more reflective and confident educator, who is willing to take calculated risks to push the boundaries of conventional practices and employ technology to inspire and enthuse others. As a result of my efforts, a number of teachers, both in my school, with the local authority and from my Personal Learning Network have started using technology in innovative ways with their learners. Quite a few of these practitioners went on to win regional, national and international awards. In particular, three teachers I mentored were in the UK Microsoft Partners in Learning Innovative Education Forum top 10 projects, two of them were selected to compete in the European Forum and one won an award at the Partners in Learning Global Forum. These three Educators are James Allan (Westmonmouth School, Pontypool, Wales) who was in the top 10 UK projects, James Kent (Torfaen LEA) who was in the top four UK entries and attended the European Forum, and Gareth Ritter (Willows High School), who won an award at the global forum.
How can others facing similar challenges implement what you've learned through your work?
The greatest challenges I have faced when trying new ideas in education were usually the lack of resources and the restrictions that sometimes are in place in local authorities in terms of access to websites and social media. Many Web 2.0 tools, for example, are often blocked and it is not always easy to get around these blocks. It needs to be said that this is not always due to the unwillingness of local authorities, or schools' senior leadership, as in many cases they can be really supportive and excited about the opportunity to showcase innovative teaching and learning in their establishments. But in some cases the tools you want to implement require, for example, quite a few ports to be kept open, or take up quite a lot of bandwidth, and that can be quite disruptive for school networks, etc.
The trick is to try something different, not necessarily a different tool, but a different approach! An example is the 'EM Spectrum TV Show' that I created with my 14 to 15 year-old learners in 2009. The original idea was to develop a number of activities that would form a 30 to 40 minute TV show. Each group worked on a different activity and they all chose the tool and type of resource they wanted to produce. So, we ended up with a brilliant news report, a number of visual podcasts, web-tours to showcase useful games and websites to revise the EM Spectrum, revision songs, etc. We wanted to broadcast the show live from the school using our online TV Channel on Livestream, but the service was blocked by the local authority because to broadcast live we would have needed almost all the ports open and that was not possible. So, I decided to pre-record the learners' work using mainly Community Clips and I then broadcast the whole show live from my house at 8.30 p.m. This meant that my learners could sit at home with their parents and watch the show. They were also using the chat on the channel page to interact with each other and with me as I broadcast their work. So, at first I thought I might need to call the whole project off, but with a little initiative we could turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone for success, as the involvement of the learners' parents was something quite unique and very meaningful for these students. You can find all the details of this project as well as tips and tricks to support anyone who wish to try something similar in this resource shared on the TES website. I have uploaded many resources on the TES website and other teachers can use my profile page to access other innovative projects and tools.
How have you applied technology in innovative ways to support your work?
When I was the Head of KS3 Science (11 to 14 year-old learners), I used Office Web Apps to create a collaborative spreadsheet that contained the names of all the learners in year 7, 8 and 9 (equivalent of grades 6 to 8) and the assessments that each class was undertaking. Each teacher in my team could then upload their levels for each learner simultaneously, which meant no duplicate versions of the same spreadsheet, which could have caused data to be lost or missed out, less emails to update the team on the overall outcome of the department and it also meant that each member of staff, including myself, was held accountable for uploading their pupils' levels. This, in turn, allowed me to identify needs and underachievement and act upon them more promptly.
I have been using iMindMap for the last four years or so and, although I used mind mapping before with software like OneNote and using the Drawing Tools in PowerPoint on my tablet PC, my mind mapping skills have improved considerably since then. The simple interface and quick ways to add daughter and sibling branches in iMindMap are so useful that I can take notes in meetings directly as a mind map, which is a really great advantage, as it gives you an overview of all the issues discussed. Most of my planning is done on iMindMap and I often create presentations of great effect thanks to the 3D view presentation mode. I have used iMindMap with my students, too, and they found it really useful for their learning.
I have been using the excellent TES website to develop my portfolio of resources and to share innovative ideas and teaching activities. The rating system allows all members of the community to leave a comment and a one-to five-star rating for the resources they download. This feedback is very valuable to me and to all the contributors on the website for various reasons. Firstly, they can act on resources that people have found problems with and improve them. This encourages users to become reflective practitioners who constantly aim to improve their impact in education. Secondly, seeing the comments and the number of downloads and views is really rewarding for a teacher who spent time and effort to create great resources and upload them on the website. This not only encourages them to upload more resources, but it also allows them to develop their own professional portfolio of evidence that can be used in their CV and with potential employers. A great example of this is Gerwyn Bish, who was a Post-graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) student this year. Gerwyn uploaded some really great resources and I started to notice his work, so I would regularly give five stars to his resources and promote them through the @tesScience twitter stream, as well as on the TES Science newsletter. Gerwyn used the evidence from his resources, i.e., the comments and ratings from the TES Panel, in his professional portfolio and he completed his training with great praises from his tutors and got a job as a Newly Qualified Teacher starting in September. I have also invited him to join my TES Science Teacher Panel and inspire others to use the TES website to develop professionally and as a space to interact with other innovative educators. You can see Gerwyn's professional portfolio here.
I use Twitter to promote the best resources from the TES website and from the sharemylesson.com website (TES sister website for the US) and to engage with the science community of educators and science communicators. I also engage in twitter chats like #asechat which is the chat for science educators in UK where a topic is voted by the contributors and then discussed for an hour each Monday evening. I have moderated the chat a few times.
I used Livestream and WordPress when I worked with NGfL Cymru (National Grid for Learning in Wales) to set up the NGfL Cymru Live channel to broadcast the professional development events we organized for the educators who could not attend, or who would be too far to get to the venue. I also developed the NGfL Cymru Blog to promote the work of the network. The blog received over 10,000 views in the first three months since its launch and both the blog and the Livestream channel are still the NGfL Cymru's main assets to reach out to teachers in Wales and beyond.
What is great about all these tools and innovations is that they didn't cost my establishments anything, as they are free tools! In fact, you can upload as many resources as you want on the TES website and build your lifetime portfolio, which shows your progression and development as an educator free of charge. This also allows you to have a portfolio that is not attached to a local environment, like any virtual learning environment from a college, school, etc. So, if you move schools, you can still bring with you the experience you built on your TES portfolio.
What is the biggest obstacle you have had to overcome to ensure students are receiving a quality education?
I think the biggest obstacle I encountered was in my first years of teaching when laptops where not as popular yet and most schools had computer suites full of PCs. But the disadvantage with those was that most of the time these rooms were timetabled for the IT Department, so I had classes that I could often take to use the PCs and others that I could never take, because the room wasn't available at the time I taught them. But in my last school I was fortunate enough to have a set of 30 laptops in the science department, which was great, because we now didn't even need to move from the science lab to use a computer and we could run experiments and record our findings in innovative ways using a laptop. I remember a group of girls using Photosynth to show a beautiful 3D display on
circuits they had made or a group of boys explaining their circuit using Photo Story 3. Having laptops in the science lab opened up a wide range of learning experiences that my learners didn't have the chance to explore previously.
What is your country doing right to support education?
The greatest innovation in Wales to support education, I believe, was the introduction of the Skills Framework 2008, which gave clear guidelines on the importance of developing thinking, communication, ICT and numeracy skills. The framework became also the underlying principle of the new national curriculum in Wales, which shifted the emphasis from a content driven curriculum to a skills-based one. That gave freedom to teachers to become more creative and develop schemes of work that addressed their learners and community needs more adequately, i.e., learning became more personalized. However, not all institutions made that step and some carried on doing what they had always done, but the principle of the framework was right.
What conditions must change in your country to better support education?
The mindset of teachers needs to move towards a more collaborative approach to education. That is why sharing resources and ideas through platforms like TES is very important, as it allows teachers to interact with other educators worldwide and learn new and effective ways to teach their subjects.
Wales is a very small country and schools compete to be the best, so teachers are often under pressure to perform better and better and to outperform the schools in their clusters. This can sometimes lead to the situations where teachers don't want to give away their "secrets" and can become reluctant to share good practice, because, at the end of the day, they need to get their school at the top of the band.
What is the best opportunity for innovation in education?
I believe the best opportunity for innovation in education is using the learners' skills and enthusiasm to drive the curriculum. Projects where the learners are given the opportunity to decide how and what they want to learn turn them into more independent learners. We need to help our students to become creators of knowledge and not just consumers of knowledge. So projects like this, where learners are actively involved in developing and delivering innovative learning activities, and this one where learners became educators of teachers by producing video tutorials to show how to use certain features of a particular software, or the 'EM Spectrum TV Show' where learners became responsible for the education of students worldwide by developing a revision TV show to share with students online, gives children ownership over their own learning and that of others! The development of Web 2.0 tools, video storing websites, and platforms like the TES, which allows you to reach an active network of over 2 million teachers are the ideal tools to provide students with a real audience of monumental proportions. For learners, it is very important to see that others value their work and they will respond to the challenges that sharing knowledge and skills with others involve by creating great work.
What advice would you give a new teacher (or to anyone wanting to make a difference in education)?
Start blogging and reflect upon your teaching inviting others to join you in your journey. If you develop your personal learning network on the TES website and twitter, you will always find someone to help and give supportive advice and you will never feel isolated, even if you work in an unsupportive school.
What educational "trend" do you think is helping students? Is there a trend that is getting in the way of learning?
The popularization of self-created video content and blogging is having a great impact in students' progress and development of skills. In fact, many cannot just find a pool of great video content online, but they are more and more encouraged to develop their own content and share it with the world. In this respect there are two examples I am particularly fond of.
The first one is my 13 year-old nephew's homework on the Spanish Armada, where through a clever use of images, sound effects and humor, he created a very professional looking video. In the development of this video he used a wide range of higher-order thinking skills, as well as ICT and communication skills. The technologies he used enabled him to be creative and address his audience in a very effective way.
The second example is a teacher (Gavin Smart) who asked his granddad to Skype with his 6th grade class to explain the causes and effects of acid rain. Gavin recorded the Skype conversation and edited the video by adding useful visual aids, and uploaded the video of his granddad here. I got so excited about this project that I wanted to reward this granddad by making his efforts as visible as possible, so I started the #mygrandadvideo hash tag on twitter and encouraged as many teachers as possible to see this inspiring project. This Skype session was very valuable for the learners because they could access real life experiences from someone who worked as a hydrologist and could share details and information their classroom teacher might not have come across, but it was a really
valuable experience for the granddad, too, because he could still offer an important contribution to education and the school community. The video got over 2400 views in less than two days and that was another confidence booster for this very generous pensioner.
Having mentioned blogging, I have experimented with an 11th grade class by setting a series of tasks where the learners had to write a blog/resource about the physics in their curriculum and I invited a primary school teacher to get her children to read and comment on the blog posts. The idea was that my students should try to make the information they were trying to explain accessible to their very young audience and, in my opinion, that was a really useful exercise, because in order to simplify complex physics topics like photon absorption and emission, they needed to first really understand the process thoroughly and then create mental models that could be used to teach these concepts to a 10 to 11-year-old learner. Modeling scientific processes invariably leads to better understanding and retention of those processes.
Another attempt to blogging with young learners was setting up my eldest son's blog. Matteo (7) is a very reluctant writer, but he gets excited about the comments he receives on his blog and seeing new spots appearing on his world viewers counter and that is good encouragement for him to continue writing.
A trend that is getting in the way of learning, in my opinion, is teaching to the exam. Again, this is a consequence of the growing pressure to improve performance, but there is the risk that teachers become more and more reluctant to try new approaches to learning and teaching, new technologies and collaborations with other schools. I have witnessed teachers actively discouraging their learners from digging deeper into a topic they were interested in, because "You don't need to know that for your exam!" I think these trends are becoming more and more popular in the teaching community in UK.
If you could give one educational tool to every child in the world, what would it be? Why?
I would give a tablet to every child, whether it is an iPad, an Android, or a Microsoft Surface, it doesn't matter, but I believe the flexibility and enhanced interactivity a tablet is offering (especially to young learners) makes them a very effective learning tool. I have seen some excellent practice with iPads, but I am really excited about the potential of the Microsoft Surface, because I have always believed the lack of a way to effectively take handwritten notes on Android and Apple tablets is a great disadvantage. I have used tablet PCs for years and they have been one of the most useful tools in my teaching. For example, having the ability to add handwritten notes, diagrams and drawings in OneNote has been a very powerful learning and teaching tool. If I could get hold of a Microsoft Surface I would certainly promote its potential in education and explore the advantages of the stylus and of the Windows 8 OS, which brings this tablet much closer to a more powerful laptop, or PC, which is what has been missing in other tablets available on the market.
But what makes tablets really useful and exciting is the fact that they can just be picked up and used with no delay due to loading time. Also, the integration of back and front cameras, together with their size and weight, makes them a very creative device. So, learners have a much wider and more creative choice when it comes to create their own notes and work. In fact, they can decide to create and edit a quick video on energy resources, for example, or use one of the many free apps for note taking and mind map drawing. Many of these also allow them to save and share their work online. So, merging these exciting features with more traditional and excellent software like Office and an operating system that is completely compatible and integrated with your PC/laptop could be the solution that many have been waiting for so long and the Microsoft Surface seems to offer that solution. So, exciting times ahead for learners and teachers!
About Alessio Bernardelli
Birthplace: Parma, Italy
Current residence: Cardiff, Wales, UK
Education: BSc Degree in Physics and Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)
Website I check every day: http://tes.co.uk
Person who inspires me most: Tony Buzan
Favorite childhood memory: My dad was reading a story from a book and it was so gripping that I ask him to read it again the day after, but he told me he was pretending to read from the book, but he actually made the story up and couldn't remember it exactly! That was pretty cool and made my dad look pretty cool, too.
Next travel destination (work or pleasure): West Wales on holiday with my wife and four boys, but we like going back to Italy, too, and visit my mum.
When was the last time you laughed? Why? Last time I laughed was today when I
was recreating the story of Daniel in the lions' den with my boys (we were recording a short animation) and Stefano my second boy kept adding melodies with his voice in different situations. He was really funny and cute!
Favorite book: The Mind Map Book by Tony Buzan
Favorite music: Pearl Jam, Dire Straits, Paul Simon, Lucio Battisti and Paolo Nutini
Your favorite quote or motto: "I cannot fail, because in any situation I can learn something!" -Anthony Robbins


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Gen. William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam, tells U.S. news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
Having been reassured by the general, most Americans were stunned when the communists launched a massive offensive during the Vietnamese Tet New Year holiday on January 30, 1968. During this offensive, communist forces struck 36 of 44 provincial capitals, 5 of 6 autonomous cities, 64 of 242 district capitals and about 50 hamlets. At one point during the initial attack on Saigon, communists troops actually penetrated the ground floor of the U.S. Embassy.
The fighting raged all over South Vietnam and lasted almost until the end of February. Overcoming the initial surprise of the attack, the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces recovered and ultimately inflicted a major military defeat on the communists. Nevertheless, Hanoi won a great psychological victory by launching such a widespread attack after Westmoreland assured the American people that the corner had been turned in South Vietnam. As a result of the unexpected Tet Offensive, many Americans came out forcefully against the war. Even CBS television anchorman Walter Cronkite, widely regarded as the most trusted man in American, publicly questioned U.S. policy in Vietnam.


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any one seen all the discussions on other forums regarding Greenies.
Seems there have been cases where they block the digestive system and require surgery to remove. They do not completely decompose in the stomach
I for one have stopped using them
any one seen all the discussions on other forums regarding Greenies.
Seems there have been cases where they block the digestive system and require surgery to remove. They do not completely decompose in the stomach
I for one have stopped using them
Well... there have been these kinds of discussions ever since I first heard of greenies -- one post went around about an elderly chihuahua dying from eating a greenie, about a year ago. However the dog had been fed a Greenie way too large for the breed and it died from a heart attack suffered under stress if I recall, not directly the Greenie.
I guess my own feelings are that dogs die every year from choking on regular old kibble, swallowed the wrong way. Also from eating pebbles, socks, rawhides, chewing sticks, bone splinters etc. I feed raw and understand the potential risks of feeding bones but feel the benefits outweight the risks. I do give greenies on occasion -- both mine chew them down gradually. If I had a gulper or a dog that eats chunks then I wouldn't feed them.
I think it all becomes dependent on one's own comfort level. I haven;t seen enough written on bad points of Greenies to feel uncomfortable about feeding them. I was offered one link to a story but the story was no longer at the link provided so I never saw any of the actual examples of what happened to comment any further.
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Just gotta watch them. Shelby is a gulper but has never had a problem with greenies (other than chunks of greenie in her poop ). I give them once or twice a week max and watch them while they are eating them.
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I never feed Harvey or Chloe any treats as they seam to have dicky tummies and seem to thrive on there complete food anyway but for those who do feed greenies as treets this is what i found about them.......................................A KIRO 7 Consumer Investigation exposes a potentially deadly problem involving one of the most popular dog treats on the market.
Millions of dogs chew on the treats every day, and there's a good chance your pooch is one of them.
Consumer Investigator Wayne Havrelly discovered the danger.
These dog treats are called "Greenies." They're sold in stores everywhere.
But our investigation found Greenies and products like them can pose a real danger to dogs.
Matthew Balkman of Issaquah uses cheese to reward his dog "Beau."
He used to use Greenies, a doggie treat designed to clean teeth and freshen doggie breath.
"The dogs do like 'em. They're tasty; he liked eating them," Balkman said.
But last May, Beau acted started acting sluggish after eating one.
"He wasn't eating at all," Balkman said. "I took him to the vet, the vet monitored him for a day and said there was something obstructing his bowel, 'We need to go in and operate.'"
Dr. Jayne Jensen performed the operation and removed a large green lump from Beau's intestine.
"She handed it to me, asked me if I knew what this is, and I said, 'Yes, that's a Greenie,'" Balkman said.
The package says Greenies are "100 percent edible" but a company spokeswoman told us they are "85 percent digestible."
"That was not 85 percent digestible," Jensen said. "That was not digestible."
Constance Odle's dog Berkley is recovering from the same emergency surgery. But instead of a Greenie, a similar product was blocking the dogs intestine.
"At first, I thought he ate a piece of a toy and when the vet told me what it was, I felt terrible guilt because I was the one who gave it to him," Odle said.
Berkley is the latest of several dogs Dr. Jennifer McBride has operated on after eating teeth cleaning products, mostly Greenies.
"We will see things in abdomens that will dissolve like bones and over time, they will dissolve and go away. But these are mostly indisolvable, so they tend to get stuck more often," McBride said.
Our investigation discovered the results are sometimes fatal.
"I tried to revive her," said Gilbert Wright.
Wright lost his prized show dog, "Pompey of the Desert" after feeding him a petite size greenies treat. He feels an overwhelming sense of guilt.
"And I will feel that ways for the rest of my life!" Wright said.
During our investigation we tracked down nine people who claim their dogs died after eating greenies. We passed that information on to the company.
A warning on the Greenies label says to make sure you're giving the right size Greenie for your breed of dog. It also cautions you to "monitor your dog to ensure the treat is adequately chewed".
"They don't chew. They don't even have the muscles to chew. I mean, we chew, we do that. Dogs don't do that," said Jensen.
"They also say on their Web site to avoid gulping or sloppy eating but heck people can't even train their children not to do that," said Gilbert Wright.
Company officials with Greenies declined our request for an on-camera interview.
They sent us a statement expressing sadness over all the dogs in our investigation. They say "millions of Greenies are sold and enjoyed by dogs, every week without incident."
And "though injurious incidents are rare, more often than not, the pet is not fed according to our feeding directions."
Gilbert Wright just got a new Pompey, but his heart will always be with the show champion original who won countless awards for agility.
Beau has recovered from surgery and Mathew Balkman feels lucky.
"I'm saddened for the people that have actually lost their pets because we came very close."
Vets say nearly all dog treats, chews and toys can make your pets sick.
They say it's important to keep a close eye on them.