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You may have noticed that the state of science education has been in the news lately because of the perceived problems in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. While much of this activity has been centered on K-12 education, its impact can also be felt in higher education, where there is now greater emphasis on active engagement versus passive lecturing.
You may have noticed that the state of science education has been very much in the news of late, including reports from the National Academies (1) and editorials and articles in Science, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal (2 – 4). Responses to the perceived problems in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education include calls for revised MCAT and College Advanced Placement exams, better science and mathematics standards (frameworks), and the appointment of prominent scientists, focused on education, to positions high in the government. While much of this activity has been centered on K-12 education, its impact can also be felt in higher education, where there is now greater emphasis on active engagement versus passive lecturing (5).
You might well ask yourself what drew so much attention to this subject – what is the evidence that our educational system is doing a bad job, that it needs reform? Early hints came from the work of Treagust and Hestenes and colleagues, together with an awareness that grades and conceptual understanding are not always correlated (6). One also can do one's own experiments – ask students or colleagues to describe the evidence that respiration and photosynthesis share a common evolutionary origin, explain why oil and water do not mix, describe the mechanisms by which mutations lead to novel phenotypes or consider whether DNA is inherently more or less stable than protein. The answers, or more often the hemming and hawing, might surprise you.
The recent emphasis on the science education system is based in large part on the perceived need to broaden the appeal of science and deepen appreciation for the scientific approach's value when thinking about a wide range of phenomena. While the current system is demonstrably adequate for those who succeed in it, it actively discourages the majority of students. All too often, the function of a science or math course is perceived by students (and, sadly, by some faculty) as a sorting mechanism rather than an opportunity to learn (and teach). This is a perception that can lead to the loss of important contributions and talent as well as misunderstanding of and hostility toward science within the broader community.
Recently, there have been a number of encouraging developments. For example, there is an increased emphasis on learning goals for science courses and curricula, although how far this has moved into the consciousness of most science educators is unclear. While learning goals are critical for effective instruction, they are essentially meaningless without a close link to informative assessment. Accreditation bodies, who you might think would be interested in the assessment of learning, only rarely require this type of data. Goals and assessments form complementary parts of a dialectic. The assessments needed are quite different from typical course exams (and assessments that correlate with exams are more or less superfluous). The types of assessments needed are those designed to reveal whether particular goals are realistic, whether they are being met, and if not, what is going wrong – they need to map out how students are thinking about a particular idea.
In this light, it is critical that when a learning goal is formulated it is also illustrated: What exactly does it mean to achieve that goal? What kinds of questions should students be able to answer, and what should their answers contain? Such assessments dig deeper than the typical exam for a number of reasons (6, 7) and serve to provide feedback on the learning goals themselves as well as the pedagogical strategies used to attain them. Often authentic assessments (like Socratic dialogues) are uncomfortable for both the student and the instructor, since they are designed to reveal the limits of understanding rather than to identify who is paying attention. A simple strategy, applied to a multiple-choice question, is to ask students to explain why incorrect choices are wrong. This forces students to become explicit (and instructors to hear) about their understanding of both the question and the proffered response. When carried out rigorously, this dialectic between goals and assessments often reveals that apparently simple goals are quite complex and that students may not be prepared, either by curricular prerequisites or by their current instructional experiences, to address them. It also can reveal serious holes in students' understanding and, by implication, holes in course and curricular design.
Addressing such problems is not for the faint of heart and depends critically on the culture of the department and institution in which one finds oneself (as well as one's position in the hierarchy). Perhaps counterintuitively, a rigorous learning-goal analysis can lead to what appears to be a simplification of the materials presented, with the goal of producing a deeper, more rigorous and more confident understanding of key ideas. Consider, for example, gene expression. A thorough understanding of this process includes the thermodynamic factors involved in protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions, the general effects of post-transcriptional and post-translational modifications, the stochastic and cooperative nature of the interactions that regulate transcription, RNA processing, transport, translation, the localization of gene products, the assembly of macromolecular complexes, the turn-over of RNAs, polypeptides and proteins, the repair of DNA and the geometric factors that regulate DNA's accessibility (epigenetics). From this perspective, for example, what is important about miRNA activity is not the details of miRNA processing but the fact that miRNAs (primarily) regulate mRNA stability and translation, a role (and in fact a mechanism) not conceptually distinct from that played by various proteins (a similarity rarely appreciated by students). A rigorous and confident understanding of the molecular underpinnings of gene expression prepares the student to approach more complex issues, such as making informed predictions about the effects of mutations and the behavior of the regulatory networks involved in adaptation, homeostasis and a wide range of processes from embryonic development to immune and nervous system function. But how many programs prepare students to even consider the noise inherent in gene expression and molecular behavior? And how many students howl in disbelief (or even recognize the error) when biological processes are displayed as deterministic, as is often the case, for example, in video presentations of various polymerization processes?
So how do we take science education seriously? I suggest that, just as in a scientific experiment, we must establish objective and informative assays and use the results of those assessments to provide feedback that serves to develop, constrain and redirect our learning goals. This is a contagious behavior, since it tends to infect other courses both within and beyond a particular department. If the learning goals in the biological sciences demand and depend upon an understanding of molecular-level phenomena, then we are within our rights to demand that the mathematics, physics and chemistry courses we require our students to take address these concepts. Within a departmental context, it is critical to present this type of analysis not as a critique of current teaching but as an opportunity to think seriously about the educational system in a scientific (that is, skeptical) manner. Effective change is likely to be evolutionary, not revolutionary; it will take a number of cycles of reflection based on informative assessment to achieve and continuing assessment to maintain a rigorous, welcoming and effective science education system. To paraphrase Socrates, perhaps we can come to appreciate that the unexamined course is not worth sitting through.
1. Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (2010) Rising above the gathering storm, revisited: rapidly approaching category 5. National Academies Press.
2. Alberts, B. (2010) Prioritizing science education. Science 328, 405.
3. Editorial. 48th Is Not a Good Place. The New York Times. Oct. 26, 2010.
4. Editorial. Why we're failing math and science: a panel of experts talks about what's wrong with our education system – and how to fix it. The Wall Street Journal. Oct. 26, 2010.
5. Powell, K. (2003) Science education: spare me the lecture. Nature 425, 234 – 236.
6. McClymer, J. F., and Knowles, L. Z. (1992) Ersatz learning, inauthentic testing. J. Excell. Coll. Teaching 3, 33 – 50.
7. Klymkowsky, M. W., Taylor, L. B., Spindler, S. R., Garvin-Doxas, R. K. (2006) Two-dimensional, implicit confidence tests as a tool for recognizing student misconceptions. J. Coll. Sci.Teach. 36, 44 – 48.
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A 6-foot-2 forward from Converse (Texas) Wagner High in suburban San Antonio, Arielle is being recruited by Colorado women's coach Linda Lappe. According to MaxPreps, Arielle was averaging 19.1 points as of Feb. 1. Like Andre, she appears to be a terrific rebounder, averaging 9.8 boards.
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Australian trade officials are quietly confident the Trans-Pacific Partnership – a 12-nation agreement to boost trade in the region – can be concluded by the end of 2015, given that 80 per cent of it has been agreed.
In the meeting, in which Mr Abbott will present the president with a hand-made surfboard bearing the presidential seal, he will emphasise Australia's commitment to the alliance as well as boosting trade and investment.
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A small company includes a group of limited dedicated professionals, getting different skills of all of the corners to tackle the majority of the business needs. Small companies, sometimes, compromise in certain crucial areas given that they can't hire specific individuals because of the insufficient budget. To obtain your business positioned to the peak, do not bear together with your inefficient area. Hurry into hiring experienced professional(s) to ensure that every part of the business fire with similar intensity.
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Despite dealing with your full potential, you might not generate enough pressure to contend with the key competitors. Other small companies with similar concept may face exactly the same situations. Just locate them and participate in the talks to determine the options from the merger to create a combined pressure, which could supply the needed pace and power to offer the common business goals. Mergers possess a lengthy, wealthy good reputation for producing effective companies, so don't stear clear by using it. Similarly, business acquisitions really are a noble idea to inject more strength to the business if budget enables us to do this.
7- Keep your quality service always on:
Quality service is an essential source that keeps the consumer a bit longer of your time also it spreads huge positive feedbacks within the mass, driving in a lot of new customers. There has been not only a couple of companies reaching to the peak just on the bottom of excellent service as well as without having to spend a explosive device on advertisements and business promotions. While there are more companies that have unsuccessful miserably due to giving no importance to the caliber of the help they provided. Overall, getting the seem excellence of the products/services is paramount to succeeding in the current vicious competition.
8- Don't quit:
Managing a effective business isn't a easy because it requires lots of guts, courage, and risk-taking abilities. It, sometimes, shakes your ambitions when dealing with some rough patches, and you must have the burning desires inside you to help keep it alive. Keeping persistence can also be an essential character the small business operator should have, because the formation of the business and climb the ladder of success, demands to hold back for lengthy time period. So, as an entrepreneur, you have to instill never quit attitude to visit your dreams become a reality!!
Summing up, although the above-pointed out points aren't entirely foolproof but yes, following these points will certainly enable you to be a smart small business operator who are able to defy all of the challenges and obtain on top of your competition. Obviously, the likelihood of failure or success of the business completely depends upon your planning and execution.
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Zoe Saldana And Elmo Talk About Transportation On 'Sesame Street'! Watch This!
The Avatar actress stopped by Sesame Street to help Elmo demonstrate the word "transportation."Boy, did they have fun flying, driving and rocketing away!
The latest celebrity to take a walk down Sesame Street is Zoe Saldana, and we must say, she's a natural! Elmo and the actress had a great time acting out a couple of different ways we can get around town, including taking the train, flying on an airplane and hopping on a motorcycle! The adorable duo were the perfect pair to describe the word "transportation"! Watch the video after the jump!
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"Elmo's not Elmo anymore, Elmo's a car!" our favorite furry friend tells Zoe. "Transportation is a way of getting from one place to another, and a car gets you from one place to another," Zoe, 32, explains. "So a car is…" "BEEP!" Elmo says," Transportation!"
Check out the video below and see Zoe and Elmo have tons of fun transporting themselves around Sesame Street!
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BEIJING — Mao Zedong was arguably the father of Chinese feminism, with his famous observation that "women hold up half the sky." But when Mao's Communist Party heirs take to the stage next week to unveil their new leadership lineup, there aren't likely to be many females — if any — among the country's new rulers.
Only one woman, State Councilor Liu Yandong, has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the powerful Politburo Standing Committee, which effectively runs the country. But her chances appear to be slim, particularly amid suggestions that the Standing Committee could be cut from its current nine members to seven.
Besides Liu, the only woman on the 25-member Politburo, the list of women in top positions in China's Communist Party hierarchy is remarkably short.
China has 22 provinces, five autonomous regions and four centrally controlled municipalities, but only one — Anhui province in the east — is run by a female governor, Li Bin, who was appointed in February. And there is only one female Communist provincial chief, Sun Chunlan, the party secretary in Fujian province, on the east coast.
In the past 30 years, the Chinese Communist Party has appointed only four women as provincial governors. And Sun is only the second female Party provincial chief in the 63-year history of Chinese Communist rule.
Since China's top party ranks, the Politburo and the more important Standing Committee, are most often filled by officials who have served as provincial chiefs and governors, the future for women here does not look bright. The latest statistics from the party's Organization Department show that, at the minister level or above, 11 percent of officials are female.
"If we talk about power-sharing, they don't want women holding up half the sky — or even one-third of the sky," said Feng Yuan, a women's rights activist.
"Generally speaking, I think more women want to be involved more than the positions they already have," Feng said. "On the other hand, many women don't want to adjust themselves to the current political culture — the boys' club, the drinking culture."
China's women, in their minuscule numbers in the top party jobs, fare better in one respect than ethnic minorities. Han Chinese make up more than 90 percent of the population of 1.3 billion people, and the country's 55 other minority groups have no chance of getting one of their own anywhere near the Standing Committee.
China's five ethnic-minority autonomous regions do have minorities in the governor's positions, and the party has been trying to recruit more minorities into the provincial governments in Xinjiang and Tibet as a way to ease tensions. But the minorities are Communist stalwarts who have undergone intense scrutiny and are largely there to help the party maintain its grip. Also, the more important party secretary jobs typically stay in Han Chinese hands.
Women have had more success advancing in the private sector. Although women still languish in the Communist Party's lower ranks — more likely to be serving tea in local or provincial offices than leading the meetings — many have climbed to the top in the businesses world.
According to a Chinese entrepreneurs' association, about 30 percent of entrepreneurs are women. Six of the top 14 women on the Forbes list of self-made female billionaires are from China. Not far from where the Communist rulers will soon reveal their new, likely all-male team, one of those women on Forbes list, Zhang Xin, the chief executive of Beijing's largest real estate development firm, on Saturday unveiled her new project, a massive retail and office complex called Galaxy Soho.
"People look at China and they see the powerful women in the business world. You have CEOs of state-owned enterprises, advertising companies, lawyers, but you see a clear lag in government," said Hung Huang, a prominent female publisher of a fashion magazine. "You just don't see women in top political positions. I have friends who were in government positions who dropped out eventually because it's an old boys' club. They're not comfortable there. There's no policies to support them."
The question is, why does a party that is officially committed to gender equality have such an abysmal record at promoting women within its ranks?
Under Communist rule, educational opportunities for women have opened, particularly at universities. Forced marriages were banned. The one-child policy has helped erase the age-old idea that girls are not as valuable as boys. Birth control is readily available to women who want it.
The advances have been huge when compared with the pre-Communist era, when Chinese women were generally subjugated to men, marriages were arranged between families, some women were forced to become concubines, females could not inherit land and a woman's sole job was to produce male heirs. The Communists also were able to stamp out the practice of binding women's feet.
But the progress still weighs against some deeply entrenched traditions and a paternalistic culture.
Advertisements seeking employees can list "attractive" as a qualification. Chinese cities are replete with karaoke bars filled with young "hostesses." During the Euro 2012 soccer championships, a Guangdong television station decided to attract viewers by having young women wearing barely there bikinis read the weather for European cities during the matches.
And then there is the ubiquitous mistress culture.
Communist Party officials exposed for corruption are routinely found to have had multiple mistresses. Liu Zhijun, the railway minister fired in February 2011 for allegedly embezzling more than $150 million, was said in the local media to have kept 18 mistresses. When deposed Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai was expelled from the Communist Party in September, among his alleged misdeeds was "improper relationships with a number of women."
"This is an organic component of the paternalistic, male-dominated culture," Feng said. "Owning several mistresses" is, she said, for many officials, "evidence that he is a strong man."
Women are also still fighting the negative stereotype — hardened by Mao's widow, Jiang Qing of the Gang of Four, and reinforced through a daily diet of television period dramas — that women can be ruthless and conniving concubines who have used their beauty and wiles to attract men and end up causing the destruction of ancient dynasties.
There are other impediments to women's advancement in China. One of the most prevalent is the disparity in the retirement age.
For most professional jobs, including the civil service, the normal retirement age is 60 for men but 55 for women. The difference has many practical effects, such as reducing the size of a woman's pension, which is calculated by the number of years worked. More important, women have fewer hopes of advancing past their mid-to-late 40s, because employers know they will have to retire soon.
Women say part of the problem is that China's predominantly male political leadership doesn't recognize that the imbalance is a problem. Instead, many of the country's leaders hold the view that it doesn't matter how many women are in the top ranks, as long as men make decisions that benefit women.
But women say that's not necessarily what's happening. They say women's voices need to be heard on issues large and small, such as the design of city subways and buses — where the handrails are too high for the average Chinese woman — and the manufacture of agriculture equipment, which is still made to the specifications of men, although women, with typically smaller frames, are now doing most of the farm work.
Hung Huang said the Party should also view the inclusion of more women as an issue of its own survival.
"Don't you think it would help preserve the system if you had a Communist Party that was gentler, sweeter?" she said.
Liu Liu and William Wan in Beijing contributed to this report.


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Philippines buries dead as typhoon total tops 400
RESIDENTS in the southern Philippines buried their dead on Friday even as rescue workers continued scouring remote areas for survivors of Typhoon Bopha, the nation's strongest storm this year, which killed 418 people and left nearly as many missing.
Officials in Compostela Valley, one of the worst hit provinces on the resource-rich island of Mindanao, were considering mass graves for unclaimed bodies killed by the typhoon which hit two days ago.
Bopha cut a swathe of destruction in the valley, flooding farming and mining towns and burying many people in mudslides.
"We are thinking of burying the unclaimed bodies on health concerns," Major General Ariel Bernardo, an army division commander in the southern Philippines, told Reuters.
"The foul smell is becoming strong."
Bernardo said rescue and retrieval work was hampered by lack of equipment. "Some of the dead are buried in knee deep mud and we only have our hands and shovels," he said.
Arturo Uy, governor of Compostela Valley, said the province was considering digging mass graves if most of the dead are not claimed in two to three days. He estimates 212 died in his province while nearly 400 were missing.
"Probably half of the missing could be dead by now," he told Reuters.
The official death toll stands at 418, with 383 missing and hundreds injured, the national disaster agency said in its latest tally.
But the toll is expected to rise, with local government officials quoting higher numbers of missing. The army said they had recovered 439 bodies in Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental provinces.
A Reuters photographer saw at least 10 bodies under mud and piles of logs and debris and only a few hundreds of metres from a crowded makeshift grandstand in New Bataan town in Compostela Valley, where President Benigno Aquino handed out cash and food rations to displaced families.
"I want to know why this tragedy happened. I also wanted to see how this can be avoided, this tragedy," Aquino told the crowd at an open field in New Bataan town.
The search and retrieval operations were temporarily halted after Aquino left due to heavy rain, making it more difficult for rescue workers to penetrate remote areas.
"Up to now, we are not discussing stopping (the search)," Uy told reporters. "There are still survivors in barangays (villages) which we couldn't reach immediately."
Stephen Antig, executive director of Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association, estimates about 7 billion pesos ($171 million) worth of bananas mostly for export in Compostela Valley and Davao del Norte were destroyed by the typhoon.
The area, where plantations owned by Dole Food Company Inc and Del Monte Pacific Ltd are located, accounts for almost a fifth of the country's total banana production.
Bopha has now weakened and is slowly moving north-northwest towards the South China Sea, with central winds of up to 110 kph (68 mph) and gusts of up to 140 kph (87 mph).
About 20 typhoons hit the Philippines every year, often causing death and destruction. Almost exactly a year ago, Typhoon Washi killed 1,500 people in Mindanao, but most storms make landfall further north.


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Ron Howard on 'Arrested's' development
To some, he'll always be Opie. To others, he's Richie Cunningham.
But for a new generation of television viewers, Greenwich resident Ron Howard is simply an unnamed voice that narrates the cult-hit show "Arrested Development."
The reboot of the short-lived sitcom about a wealthy, dysfunctional family, which ran on Fox from 2003 to 2006, will be released on Netflix on May 26. Howard, 59, an executive producer of the show, also has a cameo, and is still working with the show's creators on some finishing touches to the unconventional project.
The Oscar-winning director spoke with Hearst Connecticut Newspapers about the long-awaited Bluth family reunion, a wide array of current projects -- including a documentary featuring Jay-Z -- and his desire to contribute to Connecticut's growing film industry.
Q: As executive producer of "Arrested Development," what kind of role do you have with the show, other than as narrator?
A: Initially, the idea of the tone and the style of the show was something that I was eager to try on TV. A little bit more of a documentary feel. (Creator) Mitch (Hurwitz) elevated it with the absurdly hilarious characters, with all their dysfunctions. I was a champion of the show. I worked with Mitch a little bit on the style, but he really took it from there. I wasn't supposed to be the narrator. I just did that as sort of a temp track. It was something we were experimenting with, but it stuck, and Mitch called me back one day when they tested the pilot and he said, 'Well, the good news is that among the highest testing factors was the narration.' So, I was drafted into a full-time job there. Now, it's much more a function of the business of getting it done, getting it rebooted, being a part of making the decisions along with Mitch, along with (producer) Brian Grazer and our other partners, as to what really can be done with the show and trying to be a catalyst in this sort of experimental approach. I thought it was exciting and interesting.
Q: Can you describe what went into getting the show back into production?
A: It is complicated because it was experimental. We'd been angling toward a movie, and we still are. But, as the years passed, Mitch began developing story lines. There was just so much material, it was really more than a movie could hold. There was a lot of comedy there to ignore by approaching it that way. It became clear to both Mitch and I that it would make some great episodes. They are a drumroll into something else. They're a drumroll into what we still hope is a movie.
That's what coincided with Netflix reaching out to us and saying, if you have any interest in more anything, more 'Arrested Development' in any way, shape or form, we'd love to talk to you about it, because our fans clearly love the show and we think there's an appetite for more based on the data that we've collected. That was Ted Sarandos (chief content officer at Netflix). Cable companies were interested in what a reboot might look like, but there was just a real passion for it at Netflix, and there was something bold about it, and experimental, which is just kind of consistent with what the show is, anyway. It felt organic and right for us. It was also a little nod to the fans. Technology and the Internet, and the access and the downloading, I think is what has kept the show vital and fresh in people's minds. It seemed, to us, a good way to go.
Q: I was interested to see you're in talks with Netflix about an adaptation of the Stephen King book series 'The Dark Tower.'
A: I can't really comment on that. The one thing I think I can say is 'The Dark Tower' is something that I am far from letting go of, and I've continued to work on it. We've been staying a little bit below the radar because there was just so much noise about it, it was putting a lot of pressure on the process that I didn't think was necessarily healthy. But, I've become my own brand as 'Tower head' and don't want to let go of that dream.
Q: Circling back to "Arrested Development," what are you most excited, of this new series of episodes, for fans to see?
A: Because it's Netflix, that offered Mitch and company a little added measure of freedom. There's an eye toward binge viewing, and the possibility that a lot of people are going to view these episodes more as a whole than as the single episodes. So, it's designed in that way. It's a fantastic story construction that's hilarious and smart, and I think really unique to the way TV comedy has ever been presented before.
Q: Was filming the new episodes different from working on the other three seasons?
A: I was virtually never around much when we were filming. I do my narration from all over the place. Like, I did the first bit of narration for these Netflix episodes from the trailer of a 1976 Ferrari Formula 1 car because I was still directing 'Rush' in England -- that's a movie about Formula One racers from the '70s. So I literally, at lunchtime, went in there because it was the quietest space I could find at the track, and shut the doors and recorded the first episode. And that's always the way it's been. So, I wasn't around much as they were shooting. I'd visit once in a while.
Brian Grazer and I are actually going to show up in these episodes, in a few places. It was a lot of fun and it was inspiring to see how much joy the actors were getting out of re-inhabiting these characters. They're just laughing and enjoying it, and appreciative that there's more 'Arrested Development' to do. I think that infuses all the episodes. I hope there are more still. Everything about this show has been kind of its own little unpredictable expedition. We'll see how fans respond to these episodes. Everything about this show's life has turned out to be about the commitment of the fans and how vocal they're willing to be.
Q: How much of the online discussion do you tune in to?
A: Not too much. But, in the last year or so, I've picked up the Twitter hobby (@RealRonHoward). I've really been enjoying that, and I get a lot of feedback via Twitter. Every time I tweet something about 'Arrested Development,' or me doing some narration, it's among the highest retweeted (comments). I'd say 'Arrested Development' and anything at a racetrack that I've tweeted have been among the highest-rated tweets.
Q: What are some other projects that you're working on now that you can discuss?
A: I'm working on a number of things. There's a new kind of television show that I think is kind of experimental that I'm a part of that we're going to do for Fox. We're going to shoot that next month. (It's) untitled at this point. There are movies that I'm prepping, projects that I'm working on -- an adaptation of 'The Graveyard Book,' a Neil Gaiman book, for Disney. Like I said, still working on 'Dark Tower' (and) an adaptation of (Jon) Krakauer's book, 'Under the Banner of Heaven.'
I'm in post-production on my first documentary, which is called 'Made in America.' It's about Jay-Z and the festival that he curates in Philly. The first one was last September, and I covered that. It's a really fascinating, cool story, full of remarkable talents and individuals, both on stage and backstage, and Jay-Z has been a really amazing guy to get to know and understand. Creatively, I feel like it's a good period for me. I'm getting to work on a lot of different kinds of shows, from the edgy comedy of 'Arrested Development' to the drama of a thing like 'In the Heart of the Sea' (Editor's note: Howard was recently scouting filming locations in Mystic for an adaptation of this book about the crew of the Essex, which was sunk by a sperm whale in 1820) or 'Under the Banner of Heaven,' to the fantasy of 'The Graveyard Book' or 'Dark Tower.' It's exciting for me.
Q: With the Connecticut film industry booming, have you ever considered shooting in Greenwich?
A: When I was raising my kids here, all I would do is dream of finding something that I could do in New York or, better yet, Connecticut. Now that there are these tax breaks, and all kinds of incentives to be here, I haven't had a script that I could do here. It's one of those frustrating ironies. But, I'm searching. I'm searching all the time.


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Sunday, May 8, 2011
I have the MOST Amazing mom
My mom was a stay at home mom, however she never had a moment that she was bored. I am much like my mom ... can't ever seem to relax without a project in hand. Let me just list a few of her MANY talents.
She is a watercolor artist and in fact I can remember many many days sitting by my mom water coloring with her as a young girl. She was so patient to let me create things myself, teach me techniques, and let my creativity soar!
She loves to scrapbook (and is the reason for me getting started!) She loves to create family histories that leave an impression on people. A few years back she made a "Mom, where did I come from?" Album and gave it all to us for Christmas. It was the written histories, pedigree charts, and pictures of many of my ancestors. It will forever be cherished!
She is an AMAZING cook, and my love for cooking came from her. Every night, at 6 pm on the dot (still haven't mastered that!) we had dinner on the table. It was always well balanced with a fruit and vegetable. Every Sunday it was usually Roast Beef and Potatoes (Dad's Favorite), and was always sure to let us help.(Printed in Creating Keepsakes Magazine 2010)
She has the most organized and clean home you have EVER seen! She prides herself on Cleanliness and makes her house a home. Because of the habits she taught all of us growing up, we have been able to stay organized and clean. I don't know if I will ever be as amazing as she is on keeping up on her house, but I sure do try!
She is an AMAZING seamstress! When she had young kids, my parents had a very low income. She would take old dresses of hers and make cloths for my older siblings! She always made us dresses for Easter, and Christmas. Even today she has become addicted to Quilting and stitchery. I am amazed by the awesome things she creates and not only that ... but how fast she does them.
She taught my dad to snow ski, and is the reason for all of us loving motorcycles! She taught me to ski at 3 and I even had my own dirt bike at 5 years old! She was always about creating memories for us and our family!
She always seeks to do things to make me happy. In Jr. High she told me if I saved up for my own airline ticket, she would take me to Disneyland. Well I did it ... and we went on vacation all by ourselves just she and I. For Mother's Day, Adam took the day off this past Friday, and so I could have a day to do whatever I wanted. My mom came with me and we enjoyed an incredible day in Salt Lake. I even had a Doctor's appointment at the University of Utah that lasted 4 hours. She was so patient to sit with me and calm my frustrations as the time was ticking away, and my shopping hours were decreasing by the minute!
She absolutely loves her Grandkids and spoils them rotten. Each Sunday she provides popcorn, dessert, and candy galore. She loves them so much and would do anything for them.
I am SO extremely lucky to have the mom I have and I love her more than I can express! I hope I can even be half the mom she was to me!
I love you lots!
(This is my gift to her. She has 20 grandkids ... so it was hard to fit all the flowers). Sorry I did get it posted earlier. Idea for next year right??
30 comments:
- Maggie said...
I agree, your mom is amazing, and you are right up there with her!
- May 8, 2011 at 9:52 PM
- Wendy said...
Such a cute Mother's Day gift!
- May 9, 2011 at 2:34 PM
- Natasha said...
so lovely!!
just to let you know that i have featured the flowers on my blog
Natasha xx
- November 9, 2011 at 3:03 AM
- Michelle Lundy said...
I wanted to let you know I found the flower pot picture on Pinterest and decided to use it in my classroom.
I also followed the Pin all the way back to you so I could link you in my blog post about it.
I always want to give credit where credit is due!
I love how ours turned out and so do my students!
Thanks for sharing and I'm now following you!!
- January 7, 2012 at 12:18 PM
- Ann said...
I found this project on Pinterest too. Love it - I'm going to make a version for my Mum on our UK Mothers Day - she's 87 and so hard to make something for as she has everything she needs and sooooooo many knic-knacks.... but this is perfect. Thank you for your inspiration.
- March 9, 2012 at 5:10 AM
I also found your flowers on Pintrest and I just love it! I am going to do is for all of the Grandma's in my life... Thank you for sharing them :)
- March 19, 2012 at 12:46 PM
- Alli @ Cupcake Diaries said...
Hi! I am a new follower of your blog and I just love it. I'm sharing your cute Mother's Day idea on my blog along with some other great Mother's Day ideas. Thank you for being so creative so the rest of us can make fun things! :)
- April 12, 2012 at 10:35 PM
- Michelle said...
How did you make the flowers?
- April 16, 2012 at 12:26 PM
- Debra Kapellakis said...
thank you for sharing
- April 28, 2012 at 1:36 AM
Does anyone know how to make the flowers I want to make this for my mom for mothers day badly!!!
- May 2, 2012 at 4:43 PM
- Barbara Platt said...
- May 13, 2012 at 12:10 AM
I stumbled here from Pinterest too! Just wanted to say what a great idea the flower pot picture is, absolutely love it :)
- May 14, 2012 at 3:45 AM
I would love to make somcething like this for my grandma. She loves homemade gifts and anything that includes pictures. But I was wondering since I'm not so crafty is how you made the flowers and what all is needed to do this.
Thanks for sharing.
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WASHINGTON—The Senate on Friday passed a $60.4 billion emergency spending bill to provide disaster relief after superstorm Sandy, although the measure's fate in the House remains unclear.
The Senate passed the bill on a 62-32 vote Friday, on a day dominated by last-minute jostling to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" of wide-ranging tax increases and spending cuts. House lawmakers have not yet crafted their own version of the bill.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), speaking just after the vote, said Congress has a history of stepping in and approving aid when natural disasters strike.
"I would hope the House would take this up very quickly," Mr. Reid said.
The White House had strongly urged congressional passage of the bill, saying the money is urgently needed to help the East Coast rebuild after Sandy left a swath of damage in its wake in late October.
The wide-ranging bill includes money for a long list of projects aimed at helping the East Coast—especially New York and New Jersey—recover from Sandy.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) said the bill was an important first step in helping beleaguered Northeast residents.
"We've seen so much suffering in new York, so much hardship," she told reporters after the vote.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) noted that the measure received bipartisan support in the Senate and said it would be "unconscionable" for the House to not hold on a vote on the measure. If the House fails to vote before the end of the year, Mr. Schumer said they would begin the process immediately in the new year.
Senate passage came after lawmakers dispatched with a slew of amendments to either scale back or alter the package. Republicans in both the House and Senate have raised concerns that the measure is unnecessarily large, with money not going directly to respond to Sandy.
The most expensive provisions are for billions of dollars for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to spend on rebuilding damaged homes and infrastructure, money for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to distribute to storm victims and funds for repairs to New York and New Jersey's mass transit network, the nation's largest.
The House is set to return from the holidays Sunday evening at the earliest as part of last-ditch efforts to prevent tax increases and spending cuts from going into effect after the first of the year.
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Unit 11: Atmospheric Pollution // Section 1: Introduction
The first week of December 1952 was unusually cold in London, so residents burned large quantities of coal in their fireplaces to keep warm. Early on December 5, moisture in the air began condensing into fog near the ground. The fog mixed with smoke from domestic fires and emissions from factories and diesel-powered buses. Normally the fog would have risen higher in the atmosphere and dispersed, but cold air kept it trapped near the ground. Over the next four days, the smog became so thick and dense that many parts of London were brought to a standstill.
Public officials did not realize that the Great Smog was the most deadly air pollution event on record until mortality figures were published several weeks afterward. Some 4,000 people died in London between December 5-9 of illnesses linked to respiratory problems such as bronchitis and pneumonia, and the smog's effects caused another 8,000 deaths over the next several months. Samples showed that victims' lungs contained high levels of very fine particles, including carbon material and heavy metals such as lead, zinc, tin, and iron.
Air pollution was not news in 1952—London's air had been famously smoky for centuries—but the Great Smog showed that it could be deadly. The event spurred some of the first governmental actions to reduce emissions from fuel combustion, industrial operations, and other manmade sources.
Over the past half-century, scientists have learned much more about the causes and impacts of atmospheric pollution. Many nations have greatly reduced their emissions, but the problem is far from solved. In addition to threatening human health, air pollutants damage ecosystems, weaken Earth's stratospheric ozone shield, and contribute to global climate change (Fig. 1).
Figure 1. Air pollution on the Autobaun in Germany, 2005
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Understanding of pollutants is still evolving, but we have learned enough to develop emission control policies that can limit their harmful effects. Some major pollutants contribute to both air pollution and global climate change, so reducing these emissions has the potential to deliver significant benefits. To integrate air pollution and climate change strategies effectively, policy makers need extensive information about key pollutants and their interactions.
This unit describes the most important types of pollutants affecting air quality and the environment. It also summarizes some widely used technical and policy options for controlling atmospheric pollution, and briefly describes important laws and treaties that regulate air emissions. For background on the structure and composition of the atmosphere and atmospheric circulation patterns, see Unit 2, "Atmosphere"; for more on global climate change, especially the role of CO2, see Unit 2 and Unit 12, "Earth's Changing Climate."


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Fifth-inning decision to face Papi backfires
BOSTON -- The percentages do not always prevail. At a critical juncture in Thursday's game against the Red Sox, with first base open and the Indians trying to claw their way back into the ballgame, starter Josh Tomlin decided to go after slugger David Ortiz.
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BOSTON -- The percentages do not always prevail. At a critical juncture in Thursday's game against the Red Sox, with first base open and the Indians trying to claw their way back into the ballgame, starter Josh Tomlin decided to go after slugger David Ortiz.
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Tomlin surrendered a towering two-run home run to Ortiz in the fifth inning, putting the Indians on a path to a 5-2 loss in the opener of a four-game set at Fenway Park. The defeat was the third in a row for Cleveland, which struggled to solve lefty Jon Lester and slipped to 3-4 on its three-city tour through Texas, Kansas City and Boston.
"I made a bad pitch to Ortiz there and he made me pay for it," Tomlin said. "That kind of changed the outlook of the game."
The Red Sox managed just one unearned run off Tomlin across the first four frames -- a throwing error by shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera set the stage for an RBI double for Boston's Grady Sizemore in the second -- but the pitcher required a handful of escape acts. After all the bending, Tomlin broke, allowing Ortiz to up the momentum for Boston.
The fifth-inning rally began with a single from Jackie Bradley Jr., who moved to second on a throwing error by Tomlin on a pickoff attempt gone awry. Bradley then advanced to third on a groundout from Brock Holt. Tomlin followed by inducing another groundout -- this time from Dustin Pedroia -- to pull within one out of escaping.
Due to hit was Ortiz, who had gone 0-for-2 against Tomlin on the night, making the designated hitter 0-for-10 in his career against the righty to that point. Entering the evening, Tomlin also had more success facing lefties (.200 average) than righties (.228). Looming on-deck was the right-handed-hitting Mike Napoli, who boasts one home run in his career against the pitcher.
Pitching coach Mickey Callaway headed to the mound to talk things over with Tomlin, but an intentional walk was not part of the conversation.
"No, we just wanted to make sure we knew what we were going to do," manager Terry Francona said. "Going into that at-bat, he was 0-for-10, but I know what David can do. I've seen him do it."
Tomlin knew Ortiz's track record against him and was confident with the task at hand.
"It was a conversation of, 'We can get this guy out. We can attack this guy, but attack him in a smart way,' Tomlin said. "I made a mistake. Good hitters like that make you pay."
Tomlin got ahead with an 89-mph fastball, which Big Papi fouled off for strike one. Tomlin came back with the same pitch, but this time, Ortiz did not miss. The goal was to send the pitch outside the zone, but the heater leaked back over the middle. Ortiz launched the ball high over the center-field wall, where it landed in the bleachers for the veteran slugger's 15th homer of the year.
"David breaks through for us," Red Sox manager John Farrell said, "as we've witnessed many times."
With that shot, Cleveland found itself in a 3-0 hole. Second baseman Jason Kipnis delivered a two-run single off Lester in the sixth inning -- capitalizing on an error by Lester and pulling the Indians within one run -- but that is all the Tribe managed in that brief push. Lester allowed just the two runs (one earned) in his 7 2/3 innings of work, notching his seventh win of the season.
"He came out of the chute firing and looking really good," Francona said of Lester, who scattered eight hits and struck out four. "Trying to beat a pitcher like that, sometimes you have to try to get him out of the game or keep the score [close]."
The Indians again appeared poised to pull closer in the seventh.
Mike Aviles singled to left off Lester with one out. Michael Bourn followed by slicing a pitch to the wall in left-center, where Bradley ran it down on the warning track for an out. The catch was impressive on its own, but Bradley then sent a rocket of a relay back first base. Napoli gloved the one-hopper and stepped on the bag, doubling up Aviles for a highlight-reel double play as the Fenway faithful roared.
"That was a heck of a play, because he broke in," Francona said. "I didn't think he had any chance to catch that ball."
Tomlin -- charged with four runs (three earned) on nine hits in 5 2/3 innings -- pitched into the sixth, but he was chased from the contest when Jonathan Herrera came through with a two-out triple into the right-field corner. At that turn, the Indians turned to lefty Nick Hagadone to face the lefty-swinging Bradley.
Hagadone walked Bradley on four pitches, allowed him to steal second and then yielded a two-run double to Holt.
"I thought it was a perfect situation for Hags," Francona said. "It worked out about as bad as it could. That's not how we drew it up."
Once again, the percentages betrayed the Tribe.
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Teachers union: Districts can bear loss of No Child waiver
As state lawmakers consider measures that aim to keep Washington's waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the state teachers union is working to convince them that losing the waiver wouldn't be a big deal.
The union is fighting lawmakers' attempts to mandate the use of statewide tests in teacher and principal evaluations — a fix the federal government has said is necessary for Washington to remain exempt from certain onerous provisions of the federal law.
Many state lawmakers, the state superintendent's office (OSPI) and Gov. Jay Inslee say losing the waiver would mean school districts statewide will lose control over how they spend $38 million in federal education funds. They — and district leaders in Tacoma and Seattle — say that will result in cuts to programs for low-income students.
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Lawmakers are considering two bills that would change the state's teacher evaluation system to meet federal demands for state test results. Neither has passed either chamber of the Legislature, and with only three days to go before lawmakers adjourn, it's unclear whether either measure will pass.
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