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Big Two is a popular card game and is also known as Big Deuce, Big 2, Top Dog, "The Hannah Game" (used in Canada), Da Lao Er, Sho Tai Ti, Chor Dai Di, Dai Di, Cap Sa (Hokkien), and Pusoy Dos.
It is very popular in Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore and played by 4 players. Each player will be dealt with 13 cards and the objective of the game is to be the first to get rid of the cards.


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Christopher McBride and Frank Badaszweski
The highlight of this year's event was the snow plow rodeo. Operators from various airports around the world maneuvered heavy snow removal equipment around obstacles in a specially designed time course. The skills needed in the contest reflected challenges commonly seen at airports: backing into a dock area, plowing around a radius, a serpentine obstacle, plowing close to a fixed object.
Christopher McBride from the Buffalo Niagara International Airport airfield crew brought home the bronze medal, competing against the best in the world. Nicely done.
This was the Snow Symposium's first rodeo. Due to its popularity, they now plan to hold one every three years, to coincide with years in which equipment is features.


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Child Welfare: Responding to the 'Accident of Birth'
Earlier this week the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare hosted its 15th Annual Spring Child Welfare Conference at the St. Paul Student Center. Not only did the event feature excellent keynote presentations from renowned child welfare experts Bryan Samuels and Terry Cross, it was a great way to recognize and celebrate National Foster Care Month.
At the forefront of this event were practical and organizational strategies for attending to the concept of "well-being" in child welfare. In an effort to spread awareness during this important time of year, I would like to share some of my experience in this area.
Safety and Permanency: Guideposts of Child Welfare
Safety and permanency have always been the two preeminent concepts in child welfare. Within these two concepts are many characteristics of a safe and permanent place to live. "Maintaining the ties that bind" provides the framework for policies and regulations that encourage the maintenance of sibling bonds and preferences for kinship care. National studies have shown that up to 75 percent of children are separated from at least one of their siblings placed in foster care. These placement issues often make the adjustment to loss and transition that much harder.
The kinship foster care movement has been crucial in enabling children to live with persons whom they know and trust, which strengthens the families' ability to provide support. Relative foster care also reinforces children's sense of identity and self-esteem, which flows from knowing family history and facilitates connections to their siblings. These placements are characterized by fewer disruptions than non-kin foster care.
The Emergence of 'Well-Being'
Now the concepts of safety and permanency have been augmented with what we call "well-being." The history of this idea is quite interesting. At first well-being was defined as ensuring the educational competency of children in foster care. But the problem was that most child welfare systems did not have the resources to take on the challenges of providing a successful educational experience. It was more than enough for them to make sure children had a safe and permanent place to live.
But the debate surrounding well-being has since encompassed more than just educational competency. The new challenge comes from behavioral economists who say an indispensable component for the well-being of a child is whether or not that child has acquired social skills, sometimes known as "soft skills." This has been defined not only as a key indicator for success in his or her personal life, but more importantly, a promise that he or she can be successful in the job market.
What kind of social skills are we talking about? Now the debate really opens up. One area of concern is what we refer to as "good manners" or common courtesies such as saying hello, goodbye and glad to meet you. More advanced social skills include empathy, compassion and the capacity for reciprocity. In other words, I know how to take, but when I have something to offer, I also have the capacity to give. These are very challenging behavioral outcomes for a child welfare system to instill, especially when children have been through complex trauma of some kind such as exposure to drugs, violence, abandonment, etc.
Early Childhood Development
We have come a long way in understanding the importance of a child's early years in encouraging his or her social and emotional development. Today this is a universal concept. In fact, the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota has been a leader in establishing the importance of the early years. Its work in understanding how we can help to shape a child's future has always emphasized the infant and toddler stages, which is when child welfare is often called upon to intervene.
The human condition is variable, complex and almost always uncertain. When we approach these questions, hopefully with an acute mind, a sense of history and a vivid set of observations on how much work is being done in human behavior, we can begin to find answers. Overall I'm very optimistic about our ability to create a happy, healthy voyage for children born into situations full of complex trauma—and I believe we will continue to find success in responding to what some behavioral economists call "the accident of birth."[sc:esther-wattenberg]
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Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy, a treatment in which anti-cancer drugs are put directly into the abdominal cavity through a thin tube, has been trying to achieve progress by changing the method of drug delivery.
A Gynaecological Oncology Group study has been reported in the January 5th edition of The New England Journal of Medicine, which studied its impact with over four hundred women with stage three disease, optimally debulked and randomized to intra-peritoneal or intravenous drug therapy.
Ovarian cancer patients are now living longer than they did in the past, but this is almost certainly owing to better and more aggressive surgery. This study could be an indication of the "right chemotherapy," but using the "wrong drugs."
The hallmark of cancer is heterogeneity. Not just many types of cancer (ovarian, breast, lung, colon, etc.), but many subtypes of cancer within a given type. Many types of ovarian cancer. Many types of breast cancer. Many types of lung cancer, etc. The biologies are very different and the response to given drugs is very different.
The hallmark of cancer treatment is heterogeneity. There are currently over 100 FDA approved cancer drugs, with hundreds more in the pipeline. All of these drugs tend to be partially effective, and even then, in only a minority of cases, and often for only a short duration of time.
The single most neglected area of cancer research has been the development of methods and technologies to be "matchmakers" between individual cancer with individual cancer treatment.
The single most neglected area of cancer treatment has been the unwillingness to utilize, or even study, the matchmaker technologies which have already been developed and which are already available. These technologies involve studies of cancer cell responses to drug exposure in cell culture systems, "outside" of the patient's body, before they are put "into" the patient's body.
With only 42% of the women being able to finished the rather arduous trial, perhaps abdominal chemo is the right therapy, but they were using the wrong drugs? Test the tumor first!


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In the months following the election of President Donald Trump, economic data have been on an upswing.
Survey measures of expectations such as consumer confidence, purchasing manager surveys, and regional Federal Reserve surveys have all seen booms. Citi's US economic surprise index — a measure of economic data' performance against expectations — has been pushed to multi-year highs.
There's only one problem: This boost may not be as good as it appears.
Much of the recent uptick in economic data has been due to "soft data," or data from surveys and sentiment readings, as opposed to "hard data," or actual measures of economic activity.
According to Gluskin Sheff's David Rosenberg, the stronger survey data doesn't show the full picture. Not only is "hard data" weak, but many of the underlying measures of actual activity in the surveys have failed to meet expectations, while survey questions about sentiment are pushing the "soft data" higher.
For one thing, housing surveys have softened up in the past few months.
"The NAHB housing index peaked in December at 69 and proceeded to drop to 67 in January and 65 in February," said Rosenberg. "There has been a notable decline in both buyer traffic and sales expectations. The AIA Architectural Index slid from 55.6 in December to a four-month low of 49.5 as of January."
While manufacturing surveys have been soaring post-election, the enthusiasm hasn't translated into higher expectations for investment or hiring.
"It is also interesting to see how that ripping Philly Fed manufacturing index for February showed only a modest uptick in capital spending plans — to 22.1 from 21.9 and really no higher than it was right before the election," said Rosenberg. "Go figure. Hiring intentions also collapsed to 28.5 from 38.6, and yet I didn't see this factoid mentioned on bubblevision."
Small business enthusiasm has crept up since the election, which Trump's own team has noted. Rosenberg said there is a problem there too.
"The NFIB index also edged up to a cycle high and yet again, capex plans dipped to 27 from 29 and also stands where it was just prior to the November election," said the note. "Ditto for hiring plans."
The issue here, based on Rosenberg's analysis, is that not only is "hard data" not following the surveys, but the surveys themselves aren't indicating an actual increase in economic activity. Instead, the jump has come from businesses and consumers saying that they believe the general economy will get better.
In order for that to happen, businesses actually have to spend more on capital more or hire more, and so far the surveys don't indicate that firms intend to make those investments.


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Running Time: 83 minutes
Director: Kenji Misumi
Starring: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Fumio Watanabe, Tomoko Mayama
Genre: Action, Drama
Kenji Misumi steps behind the camera for the first cinematic adaptation of the Kazuo Koike manga series Lone Wolf and Cub with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Ogami Itto the Shogunate samurai who is betrayed by the Yagyu clan and forced out into the Japanese countryside on a quest for vengeance along with his infant son, Daigoro.
If proof was required of the universal power of narrative then Lone Wolf and Cub provides it. Before, and indeed after, it there have been many samurai films that have transcended culture to find their way into the heart of the Western world; Seven Samurai and Yojimbo to name but two, but none seem to encapsulate a common story quite as well as Lone Wolf and Cub. The vengeance narrative is one that all of us can understand and relate to but how the film (some 41 years later) is not only still relevant but also still fresh and powerful is a testament not just to the source material but also Misumi's direction. As a piece of cinema LW&C is beautiful, striking and poetic. Alarmingly it's at it's most beautiful when it's striving to be it's most combative or destructive. The sword fight between Itto and the five samurai at the waterfall is wonderfully shot as Misumi plays with death and nature, vengeance and the symbolic meaning of water and the slower paced the action gets the better it becomes. Intuitively directors lean towards making a sequence like this as fast paced and frantic as possible in order to jump-start the audiences' heartbeat and get them inching towards the edge of the seat but Misumi fights this instinct and what he creates is unbearable tension. As the (would be) assailants line up to face the disgraced shogun they become statuesque and unflinching which creates an amazing calmness on screen that magnifies the cinematic tension in a way that "high octane" shenanigans could never achieve. Contrarily the climatic showdown that not only channels Kurosawa but also his
Hollywood (western) counterparts the action
is fast, measured and beautifully graphic.
Much of the violence results in degrees of amputation which still looks
great. The scene in which Itto uses the
sunlight to throw off his opponent before decapitating him (again set against a
beautiful, natural location) is awe inspiring in it's simplicity and
cinematography alike.
All round the performances are top drawer, granted there are one or two "evil swordsmen" that come across a little pantomime but it's almost required, and most certainly expected in this genre.
carries himself with a quiet dignity that's amazing, he draws you in. You want him to be angry, to be the
aggressor, to be as outraged as you would be and it's perfect that he's
not. He has a decency and yet a quiet
menace that attracts you and forces you to find him on screen whenever we're in
long shot. Similarly Tomoko Mayama (as
Osen – the prostitute) is very strong, she arrives on screen quite late-on but
is deserving of acknowledgement because of what she does with the character but
also how she draws out even more of the character of Itto. They are a lot alike, both disgraced yet both
admirable, respectful and incredibly dignified human beings. Whether Misumi was trying to say something
about traditional versus modern day Japan is a question for another day but the
classic western device of the "hooker with a heart of gold" is taken on board
as Misumi attempts to reclaim the hijacked genre for the Eastern world and
Mayama carries all of these sensibilities in her elegant performance.
Lone Wolf and Cub – Sword of Vengeance is not just a great "comic book" film, it's not just a great samurai film but it's a great film. It's textually plentiful, visually beautiful, incredibly enjoyable and so close to perfect.


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More than 20 university campuses nationwide will participate in Iran Awareness Month this April as part of Iranian Alliances Across Borders' Campus Action Network (ICAN). University student leaders initiated Iran Awareness Month this past Fall at the IAAB Student Summit in Washington, D.C. Responding to heightened anti-Iranian and pro-war sentiments, the student leaders called for a coordinated series of events across the country in order to raise awareness and build community.
Furthermore, in response to a recent wave of hate crimes, IAAB's Campus Action Network expands Iran Awareness Month to also include a message of no hate against all communities. ICAN's Iran Awareness Month: No Hate will include actions honoring both Trayvon Martin and Shaima Al Awadi, two victims of recent hate crimes, as well as a coordinated action condemning the unwarranted surveillance of New York's Muslim students association by the New York Police Department.
Participants in Iran Awareness Month: No Hate will take action in any of the following ways:
Student groups and representatives host on-campus events that raise awareness of Iranian culture and promote an anti-hate message such as:
Participants may also send a photo to email@example.com of their group members wearing hoodies and hijabs. Images will be mailed to the Sanford Police Department, the New York Police Department and will appear as a part of a larger photo collage honoring Trayvon Martin and Shaima Al Awadi.
If you or your university are interested in participating in Iran Awareness Month: No Hate, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Please click here for full coverage on IAAB's website.
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The invention of the Internet has allowed us to contact dentist in another country in this world of rapid globalization.
All of the dental information that you could ever want is available with ease and comfort virtually with the click of a mouse.
Dental tourism is one area that is quickly catching up. Here are some a few facts about why dental tourism, and especially affordable dental implants, is increasing in popularity.
In the United States, dental implants are currently being offered as well as in other countries. It is absolutely amazing that an ever increasing number of people are going overseas to get the dental implant procedure done cheap.
The cost of dental implants overseas is much less expensive than they are in the United States. The cost for the average dental implant procedure is somewhere around $5,500 in the United States.
However, India, Brazil, and Vietnam the cost is only $500, $750, and $1000. That saves the person who needs dental implants a considerable amount of money.
But, there is another reason why people want to get their affordable dental implant procedure done overseas which is because they can go on a vacation and have the cheap dental implant procedure done while they are there.
The fact is that your entire family can go on a luxury vacation together, have the inexpensive dental implant procedure done while you are there and the cost of vacation is nearly free as a result of the amount of money you will save as a result of the high cost of cosmetic dentistry. This includes the additional costs of hotels and airfare.
If you have a concern about your safety, you can do some research on the Internet which will provide you with some idea about the dental clinics that can provide these affordable dental implant procedures you can decide for yourself if you want to go there to have the cheap dental implant procedure done.
All dental clinics that are reputable will certainly post information on the Internet about their quality and performance of dental service and dental implant procedure.
In addition, the quality of the medical practice all over the world is continually improving as a result of the quality controls that are in place.
You can do some research to gain some additional knowledge and answer any question that you may have about the dental implant that are affordable. It is certainly possible that you might just find an exotic location that also offers inexpensive dental implants as well.
You might just find yourself on a luxury vacation complete with all the hospitality and scenic views that these overseas countries can offer.
With the ever increasing cost of dental care in the United States, especially for dental implants, dental tourism is here to stay.
This is particularly true when you can get affordable dental implants that will also pay for a free vacation to some exotic location. If you want an affordable dental implant it's the only way to go.


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Just thinking further for a moment I wanted melting moments with cream and jam.
150 g butter
80 g icing sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 egg
150 g flour
Pinch of salt
Whipped cream with yet some more vanilla extract (or use some clotted cream, if you have)
Your favourite jam (I used strawberry jam with even more vanilla in it)
As you can see from the list above, it's all about vanilla. Hey, vanilla is absolutely gorgeous and when I have the chance to use it in something sweet, I go for it.
Now let us have a go at the dough for the melting moments. First of all we start by creaming the butter with the icing sugar and the vanilla extract.
Then comes the egg and a bit more beating.
If you are in the mood you can add the pinch of salt and sift in the flour. If not, add the pinch of salt and chuck in the flour.
Mix everything well together so that you are able to make little balls of dough afterwards.
Have a baking tray with baking paper ready and heat up the oven to 180 °C.
Choose your right kind of size for the balls depending on how big you want your melting moments. I went for slightly larger balls as you normally would. Place them in distance on your tray and slightly flatten them with a fork.
Bake them for 15-20 minutes until golden brown, but not burned. Make sure you really have the right temperature. I mixed things a bit up, because I am not 100% familiar with my oven yet. So I baked them a while on 160 °C. In the end they needed a bit longer and not all looked nice.
Whatsoever, cool them on a wire rack before putting them together like sandwiches with your vanilla whipped cream and jam. Right now this moment, while writing this down, I think of how lovely it would have been to use some lovely Cornish clotted cream to put between the two halves ... maybe next time. Or just imagine it would be.
After then you can enjoy them with a nice cup of tea. So, when you are observant it's no big deal and you have some lovely melting moments with vanilla and cream.
On the other hand, though, when the time for strawberries has arrived in your neighbourhood you can go ahead and make your own strawberry jam as well. That would be something great. In the meantime then, you have to be satisfied with the best jam you can get.


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(2015) (Jack Black, James Marsden) (R)
- Dramedy: A high school reunion committee leader tries to be cool for the first time in his life by convincing a former classmate, now a TV commercial actor, to attend their 20th anniversary reunion.
- Dan Landsman (JACK BLACK) has always longed to be popular, something he clearly never was back in his Pittsburg high school two decades ago and still hasn't obtained. That's proven when others in his high school reunion committee -- including former classmates Craig (HENRY ZEBROWSKI), Randy (KYLE BORNHEIMER), Jerry (MIKE WHITE) and Lucy (CORRINA LYONS) -- don't invite him to go drinking with them.
When he spots their class' most popular student, Oliver Lawless (JAMES MARSDEN), in a suntan lotion commercial, he gets a crazy idea. If he can convince the L.A. based actor to attend their reunion, Dan will then be popular through association.
To get that ball rolling, Dan convinces his technophobe boss, Bill Shurmar (JEFFREY TAMBOR), that he has a new potential consulting client in Los Angeles and needs to fly out to meet him. What he doesn't expect is that Bill wants to come along to land the business, and despite his best efforts to convince his boss to stay home, the two fly across the country. Dan convinces Oliver to meet him for drinks, and after a night of partying, Oliver pretends to be the business prospect in a meeting with Bill.
The ruse only becomes more tangled when Dan and Oliver have an unexpected, drunken and drugged up one-night stand. Arriving back home, Dan isn't sure what to tell his wife, Stacey (KATHRYN HAHN), while Oliver's later arrival there complicates matters, especially when the actor encourages Dan's 14-year-old son, Zach (RUSSELL POSNER), to lose his virginity via a planned three-way encounter with his older girlfriend and another girl. With the reunion quickly approaching, Dan must contend with these unexpected developments as well as what occurred between him and Oliver.
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How Pinterest makes it super easy to find & buy the stuff you see! - Discovery is at the heart of Pinterest. This month, Pinterest introduced 3 new functionalities that seamlessly move Pinners from the moment of discovery to fulfillment. Google, watch out! Given that 97% of monthly searches are unbranded, i.e. pinner is searching open-mindedly and not for a particular brand, the potential to capture new customers in the upper-funnel is undeniable. If you sell products or services online, it's time to start optimising your Pinterest presence.
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Pinterest has introduced three new functionalities that take it one step closer to becoming THE Inspiration, Search & Shopping go-to platform:
LENS | This is undoubtedly the most exciting new kid on the Pinterest block – the Shazam for objects! A new visual discovery technology is what sets Pinterest apart from traditional search engines. It uses deep machine learning and human curation to generate recommendations. Lens turns something you see into a search request.
Let's say that you have some courgettes in the fridge and you need some inspiration to prepare dinner. Point Lens at the courgettes and it will propose several recipes. Since it knows from your Pinterest actions that you have an interest in vegan food, it will include plenty of vegan recipes. How cool is that?! Needless to say that this type of personalisation undoubtedly leads to higher engagement.
For the moment, search results through Lens work best for interior decoration, clothing and food. The results and range of search topics will increase as it learns to recognise other categories. If you want to learn more about the Pinterest search technology, you can find a detailed explanation on the Pinterest Engineering blog.
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SHOP THE LOOK | Welcome to your digital shopping mall! Shop the Look allows Pinners to tap a blue circle and see similar products that they can purchase via Buyable Pins on Pinterest. Go on a shopping spree right from the comfort of your couch! Currently, Buyable Pins are only available for brands in the US. Shop the Look is initially being rolled out on iOS for fashion and lifestyle products.
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INSTANT IDEAS | Discover related pins in your home feed based on your interests and likes. By tapping the white circle on the pin, new pins appear that are relevant to the pin topic. It makes the home feed more personalised and recommendations more relevant to your tastes and interests.
What e-tailers and marketers should know
A VERY different kind of Search
Traditional search engines like Google can capture the intent of a user directly searching for a product. However, the power of Pinterest lies in tapping into those moments where potential customers are just browsing around and might stumble onto a product they may later buy. By rethinking the way consumers search for products on the web, Pinterest bridges the gap from inspiring consumers' future purchases to driving them to make a purchase.
If you own an e-commerce store, you should seriously consider capitalising on Pinterest's shopping features. Exciting times lie ahead for personalised online shopping and Pinterest is at the forefront of a visual search revolution. Even though Pinterest is slow in rolling out advertising functionality in Europe, it is expected to arrive very soon.
The roll-out of Promoted Pins (Pinterest ads) in non-Anglophone countries is expected to start in 2017. Want to be first in line when Pinterest Ads are rolled out in your location? Then it's time to get ready!
Let's create the next Pinterest success story.
Kleiner Perkins' 2016 Internet Trends report
A new take on search - Kenshoo, Pinterest White Paper
Discovery is at the heart of Pinterest Search. This month, Pinterest introduced 3 new functionalities that seamlessly move Pinners from the moment of discovery to fulfillment. Google, watch out! Given that 97% of monthly searches are unbranded, i.e. pinner is searching open-mindedly and not for a particular brand, the potential to capture new customers in the upper-funnel is undeniable. If you sell products or services online, it's time to start optimising your Pinterest Search.
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Download EBOOK Sarah's Sin PDF for free
Category: Fiction
The author of the book: Tami Hoag
Format files: PDF, EPUB, TXT, DOCX
The size of the: 328 KB
Language: English
Edition: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Date of issue: 1 April 1993
Description of the book "Sarah's Sin":From award-winning author Tami Hoag comes a warm, moving story of two cultures in conflict and two hearts in love. Matt Thorne had come to his sister's rural inn to recover from an injury far from the city and his fast-paced life as an emergency room physician. Drifting between sleep and waking, Matt didn't trust his eyes when he saw the young woman who sat at his bedside in her plain cotton dress and apron, her chestnut hair tucked demurely beneath a white bonnet, like a beautiful vision from the past century. Sarah Troyer had PDF been warned about the womanizing Dr. Throne, but nothing prepared her for the shiver of desire that shook her to her core when she gazed at him. Though her life was bound by the simple Amish way, Sarah had always longed for the world outside. Her job at the inn already branded her as a rebel in her community, and falling in love with a stranger would mean the loss of her family and the only life she knew. Yet something sparked within her with every touch of his hand, each glance from his dark eyes. Sarah was willing ePub to allow herself a brief, secret adventure in the arms of a forbidden man. But she hadn't counted on Matt's passionate love--a love that would not let go, a love that could cost them both everything they knew.
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Saturday, February 20, 2016
Awful Mean Naughty Journalism
Bermudez wants to call out the anti-reform narrative, the "amalgamation of all the myths spewed forth against education reformers." These pieces are "political propaganda as nuanced as a jackhammer drilling into concrete." But those pieces come from people like Valerie Strauss and Jeff Bryant who, she implies, are eminently dismissable, but it makes her really sad when the New Yorker publishes film critic David Denby's "hollow critique" of the general anti-teacher tenor of education reform. And he did it without any data!! Or reliable evidence!! Bermudez's indignation would be more compelling if "No data or reliable evidence" were not the reformster movement's middle name. Can we talk about how Common Core arrived without a stitch of evidence to its name, not even for the very idea of using national standards to improve education, and it's still prancing around naked today? Or the kind of fake research regularly churned out by groups like TNTP or NCTQ?
But Bermudez is not here simply to register her righteous shock and blah-blah-blah over a major magazine pointing out what millions of teachers already know. She would also like to take a moment to mock all articles that disagree with the reformsters. She calls the anti-reform pieces "endemic" and notes that reformsters "utter familiar groans" when they come across these articles that so often "repeat the same sound bites."
And then she lists the things she's tired of hearing:
1. Education reformers disrespect teachers.
2. Reformers solely blame teachers for educational failure.
3. Poverty goes unacknowledged by reformers.
4. Public education is fine. Reformers are hysterical.
5. Charter schools privatize public education.
6. Reformers reflexively hate unions.
So, I guess the good news is that she has been listening, kind of? The bad news is that Bermudez does not offer any research, data or arguments in response to any of these alleged criticisms. But education reformers do disrespect teachers, from their idea that anybody from the right background can become a teacher with five weeks of training, to their insistence that bad teachers are the root of educational evil, to their steady attempts to reduce teachers to simple "content delivery clerks."
Of course, almost no reform critics claim that reformers only blame teachers (and that includes the article she linked to, which also doesn't claim that), just as no serious reform critic claims that reformsters don't acknowledge poverty at all. There are some good conversations to be had about poverty, its effects as an obstacle to education, and how to deal. But Bermudez is hell-bent on overstating her case in order to make a point, so she says silly things like claiming that pro-public education writers say that public ed is fine and that reformsters are hysterical (once again, the article she links to, which actually has a good deal of charts and data, doesn't actually say what she suggests it says).
Not all of her points are overstatements. Lots of pro-public ed writers point out that charter schools privatize public education, which is kind of like pointing out that the sky is blue and water is wet. I don't think I've read all that many reformsters who even try to claim otherwise.
Union hatred? Well, yes. DFER hates unions with the hot, shiny hatred of a hundred suns. Vergara, Friedrichs, Baby Vergara in New York-- all lawsuits brought by big-money reformsters to roll back the union, just like the arguments about removing tenure and other job protections, all rooted in a general philosophy that a school leader CEO should be free to make choices without having to deal with a union. maybe her point is that reformsters don't hate unions "reflexively," but after lots of thought and careful consideration. Fair enough.
Of course, she also doesn't argue that any of these oft-repeated points is wrong. Just that they're of-repeated.
Bermudez has some specific recommendations. "Ambitious, valuable journalism" does not, for instance, use terms like "corporate reform." Not that she thinks reformsters should never be critiqued:
While our opponents believe we prefer to live in an echo chamber, we would much rather have our work analyzed—even challenged—thoughtfully and without an obvious agenda.
So says the woman who handles PR for a website launched with $13 million dollars from Eli Broad and other reformsters in order to make sure that they get their message out there.
The irony is that I actually know several thoughtful reformers with whom it is possible to have thoughtful, productive conversations. But they generally don't open by making unsupported mis-statements of pro-public education arguments. Bermudez is not trying to start a conversation; like many reformsters before her, she is arguing that the other side should by and large be silent.
She is also promoting the old subtext that Education Post and some others are fond of-- the notion that pro-public ed folks are some large, well-coordinated conspiracy, passing talking points back and forth and creating swarms that make it hard for the beautiful truth of reformster policy to be heard, and occasionally infecting real journalists with their mean propaganda. I'll give her credit-- she at least doesn't accuse all pro-public ed writers of being tools or paid shills of the teachers unions. You haven't really arrived in the pro-public ed writing world until you've been accused of being a union shill.
I always want to ask the paid reformsters mouthpieces like Bermudez-- just how much do you believe this stuff. If you were not a paid PR flack for this site, how much of your time and effort would you devote to your cause. Because I'm sitting here tapping one more blog post out for free in the morning hours before I head to work (all day rehearsal-- it's school musical season here). In a couple of months the Network for Public Education will have its third annual convention and some of us won't be there because we can't afford it and nobody pays us to go. Sometimes I just don't think that folks like Bermudez get that we are neither well-funded or well-organized-- we just believe that we see something that has to be called out and resisted. I have no idea how much Bermudez is paid to be Education Post's PR flack, and I don't know how much she got to write this particular article, but I'm responding to it for free.
Of course, Bermudez is not arguing against bloggers so much as decrying that a real paid journalist is picking on ed reform, but she tries to dismiss Denby by lumping him in with the rest of us, by treating all anti-reform writing as if it's one big piece of fluff. But at no point in her piece does she explain where she thinks Denby-Bryant-Strauss-Ravitch-Heilig get it wrong. Maybe coming up with the research and data to support such a view would just be too rigorous, or maybe such work has no place in a pro-reform screed. But if Bermudez knew more about teaching, maybe she'd remember that a good technique for teaching is to model the behavior you want to see.
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Ah yes, Bermudez trots the good ol' straw man argument. Criticize the critics of her shaky credentials, and the empty "data", supporting her argument, to shift the onus of proof on the critics. It would be laughable if this argument wasn't the main way our countries leaders get elected and impose their empty policies on very real people with very real lives... What a load of crap!ReplyDeleteReplies
Regarding the shifting the onus of proof on the critics:Delete
Russell's teapot, sometimes called the celestial teapot or cosmic teapot, is an analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically unfalsifiable claims rather than shifting the burden of proof to others. Russell wrote that, if he claims that a teapot orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars, it is nonsensical for him to expect others to believe him on the ground that they cannot prove him wrong. Russell's teapot is still referred to in discussions concerning the existence of God.
The burden of proof regarding college and career readiness, higher order thinking skills, and closing the learning gap is just as preposterous as the claim of an orbiting teacup.
We have no obligation to disprove these scientifically unfalsifiable claims. Nor do we have any obligation to offer alternatives to their FAILED policies.
I like the Bertrand Russell reference.Delete
I could put forth dozens of quotes where reformers bash teachers.ReplyDelete
Here's one:
KATI HAYCOCK: "But what we need to do is change the idea that education is the only career that needs to be done for life. There are a lot of smart people who change careers every six or seven years, while education ends up with a bunch of people on the low end of the pile who don't want to compete in the job market."
So Kati divides public school teachers into two categories:
1) HIGH QUALITY: that small minority — the elite "smart people" (TFA & others) who, over a lifetime, "change careers every six or seven years"— with just one career being teaching, and the other five or six being non-teaching careers—and who, albeit briefly, deliver the highest quality of education to their students before moving on…
2) LOW QUALITY: the vast majority — the "low-end-of-the-pile" slackers who make teaching a long-time career, merely to avoid having "to compete in the job market," with teaching being a place to hide out and be lazy… and, in the process, willfully destroy the academic and career potential of millions of students… and who do so without the slightest twinge of conscience.
In Kati's deranged mind, if you teaching in classroom for more than five years—ten years at the absolute most—you're guilty-as-charged of being one of those "low-end-of-the-pile" slackers that are driving our country to ruin.
Seriously, teaching is "the only career done for life"? What is she smoking?
Here's Ravitch with some of the list:ReplyDelete
"Let's start with anti-corporate reformer Leonie Haimson:
LEONIIE HAIMSON: Scapegoating teachers has become the mantra of the so-called reformers. From Katie Haycock claiming (with no evidence) that the problems of low-performing schools are primarily due to poor teaching, to the recent cover of Newsweek, proclaiming that the " Key to saving American education" is to "fire bad teachers," with these words repeated over and over on the blackboard, this simplistic notion notion infects nearly every blog, magazine, and DC think tank, including this one.
In what other sphere would we make this claim? Is the key to reforming our inequitable health care system firing bad doctors? Or the key to reducing inner city crime firing bad cops? No. But somehow this inherently destructive perspective is the delivered wisdom among the privateers who populate and dominate thinking in this country.
From corporate reformer Kati Haycock: (originally at NEWSWEEK—since deleted by NEWSWEEK) but still available at
KATI HAYCOCK: But what we need to do is change the idea that education is the only career that needs to be done for life. There are a lot of smart people who change careers every six or seven years, while education ends up with a bunch of people on the low end of the pile who don't want to compete in the job market. Kati Haycock, President of Education Trust, (Newsweek, 9/1/08)
From Corporate Reformer & hedge fund guru Whitney Tilson:
WHITNEY TILSON : (Public school teachers are) gutless weasels and completely disgraced themselves in siding with the unions against meaningful reforms of a public school system that systematically, all over the country, gives black and Latino students the very worst teachers and schools, thereby trapping black and Latino communities in multi-generational cycles of poverty, violence and despair. (July 30, 2011 blog post)
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And finally… From Michelle Rhee
ATLANTIC MONTHLY: One of the other concerns I've heard voiced about alternative selection models is that the teachers aren't making a thirty-year, or even a ten-year commitment.
MICHELLE RHEE: Nobody makes a thirty-year or ten-year commitment to a single profession. Name one profession where the assumption is that when you go in, right out of graduating college, that the majority of people are going to stay in that profession. It's not the reality anymore, maybe with the exception of medicine. But short of that, people don't go into jobs and stay there forever anymore.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY: So you feel like teachers can be effective even within a short term?
MICHELLE RHEE: Absolutely, and I'd rather have a really effective teacher for two years than a mediocre or ineffective one for twenty years.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY: One thing that I've encountered personally in talking to a lot of veteran teachers is this idea that programs like Teach for America or the D.C. Teaching Fellows de-professionalize education. They see it as a kind of glorified internship.
MICHELLE RHEE: I'll tell you what de-professionalizes education. It's when we have people sitting in the classrooms—whether they're certified or not, whether they've taught for two months or 22 years—that are not teaching kids. And whom we cannot remove from the classroom, and whom parents know are not good. Those are the things that de-professionalize the teaching corp. Not Teach for America, not D.C. Teaching Fellows. That, I think, is a ridiculous argument.
Put yourself in the shoes of a university student. Are you going to spend and/or incur debt in a range of $100,000 – 300,000 for tuition/room & board/other expenses, then face all of that?
Hard to take a writer (I cannot call her a "journalist") seriously who responds to "screeds masked as journalism" with a screed masked as journalism.ReplyDelete


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What is your most treasured possession?
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What motto do you live your life by?
I stole it from my brother, 'If you aren't living life on the edge you are taking up too much space' or 'You're a long time dead'.
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Where do you see Ruxx in five years?
A luxury British brand standing for innovation, creativity and style and exporting British workmanship to the far corners of the world.
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The eclectic mix of quality and new ideas, oh and the postcode!
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More hours in the day.


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Berry's team, out there to win, is 1-2 this summer. He is in his first exhibition season as a head coach, having taken over when Ron Meyer was fired a week before Halloween last year.
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The Litigation Daily|January 9, 2015
By Julie Triedman
Opening statements are set for Tuesday in the latest international terrorism trial to come to New York, pitting U.S. terror victims and their families against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
An appeals court cleared the way for trial this week, refusing to override a judge's ruling that the case can be heard in federal court in Manhattan. Taking the lead for the plaintiffs is Arnold & Porter partner Kent Yalowitz, who'll try to persuade jurors that the Palestinian leadership groups directly and indirectly sponsored or encouraged seven deadly terrorist attacks.
The trial promises to be emotionally intense: Expected to testify are eyewitnesses and several plaintiffs in the case, Sokolow v. PLO, including injured survivors and families of those killed in the attacks in and around Jerusalem between 2000 and 2004. The plaintiffs are seeking $1 billion, though damages could be trebled under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1991.
The judge has set aside six to eight weeks for the trial, which is unfolding in a climate of ongoing terrorism concerns that can only favor the plaintiffs. This week, for example, saw the gruesome Paris killings of more than a dozen journalists, police officers and others by violent jihadists, as well as jury selection in the U.S. trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev.
The trial also erupts at a sensitive time for the Palestinian Authority, which won United Nations approval this week to join the International Criminal Court. A verdict finding that the Authority supported terrorist attacks could stain the Palestinians' accelerating, unilateral quest for statehood. And a large damages award could financially cripple the Authority, which is already deeply in debt.
The families initially tapped Brooklyn solo practitioner Robert Tolchin to lead the case in conjunction with an Israeli law center, Shurat HaDin, focused on defending Israeli interests and pursuing terrorism-related claims. The Israeli group's chief, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, roped in Arnold & Porter's Yalowitz to lead the trial team in the spring of 2013. (Darshan-Leitner, who was not available to speak at press time, formally filed war crimes complaints against three PLO leaders before the ICC in the Hague on Wednesday.)
Yalowitz has handled several high-profile cases during his 25-year career at Arnold & Porter. In the so-called Winstar cases, he's helped a group of bank clients recover nearly a quarter of a billion dollars so far from the United States government. Those cases arose when the U.S. reneged on regulatory and tax promises made to buyers of defunct savings and loans in the late 1980s. He also won a case on behalf of a New York State judge, Margarita López Torres, in a landmark voting rights challenge to the state's method for electing trial court judges. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately overturned that decision.
In the terror victims' case, lawyers for the plaintiffs have marshaled and translated thousands of Arabic and Hebrew documents—largely collected by Shurat HaDin—which they hope will help illustrate the alleged complicity of Palestinian leaders in the attacks. They plan to put on about 40 witnesses, including victims, eyewitnesses, and experts on terrorism, terror injuries and damages. Plaintiffs will also present a paper trail that they say shows the Palestinian authorities continued to pay salaries to those convicted in the terrorist acts, Yalowitz said. The defendants are expected to put forward roughly 20 witnesses, including PLO executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi and other high-ranking Palestinian officials.
After first refusing to appear in the cases, the Palestinian defendants eventually tapped U.S. counsel to aggressively litigate their defense. Since mid-2007, they've looked to Mark Rochon, litigation chair at Washington, D.C.-based Miller & Chevalier, a firm best known for its tax controversy practice.
Neither Rochon nor Miller & Chevalier's Laura Ferguson, an appellate expert on the defense team, were available for comment because of the upcoming trial, according to a firm spokesman. A&P's Yalowitz described their approach to the case as "relentless," pointing to a crush of motions, appeals, and most recently, a mandamus petition challenging U.S. District Judge George Daniels' ruling that he has personal jurisdiction over the case. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied that petition on Tuesday, setting the stage for trial.
Ferguson has handled at least three other significant cases for the Palestinian entities. In 2012, she was counsel of record in Mohamed v. Palestinian Authority, persuading the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm two lower court decisions dismissing claims for lack of jurisdiction. That case was filed by the family of a U.S. citizen of Palestinian background who was tortured and killed in the West Bank in 1995.
Ferguson also won rulings upholding defense wins for the Palestinian entities in 2010 and 2011 in two other appeals. One was a dismissal of an Alien Tort Statute lawsuit that had been lodged by a Palestinian alleging he was tortured by the Palestinian Authority and PLO on suspicion of being an Israeli spy. The other case was brought by the family of an Israeli citizen who was killed driving in the Gaza Strip.
According to Yalowitz, decisions in other recent cases on the terror docket in New York, particularly the verdict in Linde v. Arab Bank, have helped set the stage for the current case.
"The work that Gary Osen [lead plaintiffs' lawyer in the Arab Bank case] and others have done over the years has really been precedent-setting, developing the contours of the law in ways that have been very helpful," he said.
Yalowitz declined to say how much the case has cost the plaintiffs' side so far—plaintiff families "are not in any position to help pay for this," he said—or to comment on who is paying expenses.


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The first time I reflected on my yelling and nagging, I felt horrible. I don't want Sister Sue and G to remember me this way. One of my principals told a story in a meeting that really hit home. She said she found herself nagging her own children in the mornings to hurry up and get ready. One day she compared it to why a student came to school upset and having a bad day before it even started. This student was yelled at the entire morning by his parent. That's when she decided it's not her children's fault she's running behind. If they need more of her attention while they're getting ready for school, then she needs to get up 10 minutes earlier. When she told this story, I felt like I hit a brick wall...in a good way. I started getting up 10 minutes earlier and now I feel like I don't nag my kids as much. They still need lots of reminders and help getting ready, but at least I'm not rushing to get myself ready starting at the same time.
Some of my students live in a homes where they get yelled at constantly. This makes it difficult to focus on schoolwork, play fair and speak kind words. I don't want that to be Sister Sue and G. I want them to remember me in a more positive way and start their day off feeling great.
What are some of your tricks to staying calm when you want to scream?
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GRIP has a strategic position between the basic disciplines of the FSE and the (pre)clinical disciplines in the UMCG. This intermediate position has fostered translational research and has opened new directions for multidisciplinary collaborations.
1. The research of GRIP is embedded in two research institutes together with the Faculty of Medical Sciences, GUIDE and SHARE2. GRIP researchers actively participates in three out of four research themes of the Faculty of the FSE; Molecular Life and Health, Advanced Materials and Data Science and Systems Complexity.
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I've been sharing quite a few patterns with everyone lately. I really love some of the PDF patterns from bloggers. You get a lot of fun, original designs that just aren't available with commercial patterns. Plus, they usually come in a large range of sizes so you can use them for a long time. I also have learned some new techniques and tricks, because the pattern designer can really walk you through the sewing process. They've undergone testing by real people {me being one of them this time} who receive the pattern free in exchange for sewing it up to make sure the pieces fit together correctly and the instructions make sense.
Anyway, this pattern is the Schoolday Skirt from Blank Slate Patterns. Melissa is one of my favorite pattern designers. I love the way her patterns have extra details that really make them unique. They also are easy to adapt to your own style.
To go with this skirt, I came up with my own pattern for this little three-quarter sleeve cardigan. I covered the buttons for the cardigan in the same fabric I used for the buttons on the skirt. There are also little pockets on the cardigan, because spring means time outdoors, and that means finding little treasures. You need pockets for those!
I'll have the tutorial for the cardigan up in a few days. It will include a pattern for the cardigan in size 2T because I'm nice like that. In the meantime, go check out some of the Blank Slate patterns.


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Here at Mount Rainier National Park, we are pleased to welcome back for several weeks the Japanese Volunteers-in-Parks Associates from Waseda University in Tokyo. This is the 16th year of partnership between the J-VIPA program and Mount Rainier National Park and every year we mark our calender in anticipation.
As some of you may already know, Mount Rainier National Park has a special relationship with Japan. We are the sister mountain to Mount Fuji, and every year we play host this remarkable program, bridging both geographical and cultural divides.
Every year, the J-VIPA participants work on a particular project around the park, last year it was a bio-toilet for backcountry use. This year the J-VIP's are helping to build an accessible trailhead at Paradise. A sorely needed amenity.
They arrived at Sea-Tac on Saturday the 22nd, but I only managed to make it up to Paradise to see their work on Thursday. Working with maintenance,the progress they've made is amazing. For these volunteers to come thousands of miles and create something that will last far longer than their stay is really quite a cool way of experiencing the place you travel. We all like to leave little reminders that we came.
This Sunday, I'm joining the J-VIP's and their host families as we head out to Safeco Field for day at an Mariners Game. This is something that speaks across culture, baseball is as big in Japan as it is here in the U.S. Plenty of pictures will be forthcoming. And encourage anyone planning to visit Paradise soon to go and admire the J-VIP's (and Maintenance's) handiwork. I'll be sure to keep everyone updated.
Well, that's about it, so I'll simply say ではまたあとで.
Friday, August 28, 2009
J-VIPA Arrives at Mount Rainier
Here at Mount Rainier National Park, we are pleased to welcome back for several weeks the Japanese Volunteers-in-Parks Associates from Waseda University in Tokyo. This is the 16th year of partnership between the J-VIPA program and Mount Rainier National Park and every year we mark our calender in anticipation.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Mount Rainier National Park Associates plans final projects of 2009
On Saturday, September 12th MRNPA will conduct our last trails work party for this year. We will again be working on the reroute section of the Glacier Basin Trail. The building of this new section of trail still a priority. The work that has been done looks great. But, there is still plenty to be done and this new section of the trail probably will not be completed until the summer of 2011.
We will meet at the White River Campground parking lot at 8:30 AM on Saturday morning, and be ready to move out at 9:00 AM.
Bring work gloves, safety glasses, full rain gear (you never know if you will need it), your lunch, and plenty of fluids to drink. Also bring a hard hat if you have one.
On Saturday, September 26th MRNPA will be assisting Will Arneson and his Restoration Crew in planting of alpine meadow plants at the site where the old Jackson Visitors Center once stood at Paradise. Will Arneson and his crews will be working at this site on September 19th, 20th, 26th, 27th, and August 3rd and 4th. They would appreciate volunteers coming to assist them on any of these days, but MRNPA will be conducting our scheduled work party only on September 26th. [Editor's note: this is also National Public Lands Day.]
On Saturday, September 26th , the MRNPA volunteers will meet in the Paradise upper parking lot, near the new Jackson Visitors Center, at between 8:30 and 9:00 AM. We will work until at least 3:00 PM. Please find Rose or Allan Evans and sign in. The NPS needs to know the names and hours worked of all volunteers who participate - so please sign out with Allan or Rose when you leave too.
Bring your lunch, plenty of fluids to drink, and your favorite gardening gloves. Heavy leather work gloves are too clumsy. The thin gloves with rubber palms and fingers work great. We will be planting seedlings that are at times tiny, so clumsy gloves are not good.
Also consider bringing your favorite garden trowel or small digging tool and a knee pad. You will be on your hands and knees all day, so protecting your knees and keeping them dry really helps you enjoy the day. The NPS does have trowels you can use if you don't bring your own.
And of course, bring your sun hat, sun screen lotion, and a full set of rain gear. The weather at Paradise in September can be anything from a glorious autumn day to a cold and wet preliminary to winter.
Volunteers are welcome to camp in the Longmire Campground for free either the night before or the night after their volunteer service, or both. Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com, or Nick at firstname.lastname@example.com, or call them at 360-569-2211 ext. 3385, if you'd like to reserve a site. Sites will also be available on a first-come, first-served basis, but you'll get the best selection if you call ahead.
If you plan on attending either the Saturday, September 12th, MRNPA trails work party at White River or the Saturday, September 26th planting work party at Paradise please write to the Mount Rainier National Park Associates at firstname.lastname@example.com indicating that you are coming and the number of volunteers you are bringing with you.
John Titland
Volunteer Coordinator
Mount Rainier National Park Associates
Shadows of the Past a HUGE Success
Hey everyone, long time no see. It's been awhile since I last wrote. I took some time off to visit my friends as school starts up, a sorely needed trip, but now I'm back and rearing to go. Hear's to the end of the season, lets let it go out with a bang!
Now for some late breaking announcements:
First off, I want to say "Thanks You!" to all the volunteers who participated in Shadows of the Past.
The Shadows of the Past program on Saturday, August 15th was a smashing success, not in small part due to the huge volunteer response we got. Whether you were a Lantern Bearer, helping to light the way and set the ambiance of the walk, or an actor, dressed up and playing the part, it was the volunteers who allowed this program to go on. It's you guys and gals who really make this program. So give yourself a pat on the back, because you deserve it.
The Lantern Bearers especially deserve our thanks and congratulation. Without them, the walk would not be nearly as successful, or even possible. We had 27! volunteers of all ages helping carry the lanterns, both first timers and old hands. They came early and stayed late, signed forms and waited patiently, and all did an excellent job. They have our recognition, because without the volunteers, there are no Lantern Bearers, and without the Lantern Bearers, there is no Shadows of the Past.
I also want to thank everyone who came to the Volunteer Picnic. It was great fun seeing everyone coming together and discusses the season. That picnic was for you, the volunteer, and it's our little way of saying thanks for helping out and making Mount Rainier National Park all the better for it.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Let's Do the Puyallup!
Hello! We it's time again to look for volunteers to help with our National Park Service exhibit at the Puyallup Fair. We had great success last year talking to over 8600 people and this year should be even better.
The park will have a prominent place in the Northwest Outdoors Building at the Puyallup Fair. Our 10' x 20' space will have two exhibits, our tabletop exhibit on the animals of the park and our efforts to keep them wild, and another one featuring the National Park Service sites in Washington. In recognition of the Ken Burns PBS series on the National Parks we will also have a station for fairgoers to make entries in a journal. But the most important part is a real live person representing the park service, talking with all those enthusiastic fairgoers.
This is where you come in. The fair runs from September 11th through September 27th. We would like to have at least one park person for each of the three 3 1/2-hour shifts a day (10:00 AM – 1:30 PM, 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM, 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM). You will receive a ticket for admission to the fair and a parking pass (together worth $20-22). You can experience the fair before and/or after your shift. As I make the shift assignments, I will mail you instructions, maps, and tickets.
This will be the second year for trading cards. Each organization in the Northwest Outdoors Building will have cards to give to the kids and the building will have posters highlighting this activity. Our cards feature park animals and a message about keeping them wild. This should open up many more positive contacts with fair goers, especially kids. You will have a great time at the fair and I look forward to hearing from you.
I hope you can help out. An email response is best, since at this time of the year I work out of two locations.
Thanks and we will see you at the fair!
Jim Ross (email@example.com)
Outreach Specialist
Mount Rainier National Park
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Sunrise Volunteer Brunch
Julia Pinnix, our delightful East District Interpreter, just let me know about this little end-of-season potluck taking place at Sunrise. Come and join fellow staff and volunteers on August 22 at 10:00 AM in the Sunrise VC, and celebrate this successful Summer Season, and a job well done (of course, it's not over yet).
When: Saturday, August 22 at 10:00 AM
Where: The Rover Room in the Sunrise Visitor Center
Why: Why not?
Hope you can all make it!
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Groups needed for native planting in September and October
One of our best opportunities for group volunteering at Mount Rainier National Park is now on the calendar!
September 20
September 26
September 27
October 3
October 4
Seattle volunteer needed to help with digital video
Mount Rainier National Park's Urban Outreach program is looking for someone in the Seattle area who can help manage digital video files collected during the recent Camping Adventure with My Parents (CAMP) program.
- Moving the video files onto an external hard drive;
- Creating backup copies on DVD discs; and
- Copying the video from each camera and each weekend onto separate DVDs for distribution to the families who captured the video.
Because the computer at Klondike does not have the ability to burn DVD discs, we are looking for someone who would have that capability on their own computer. Moving the files to the external hard drive will need to be done at the Klondike office, but the other tasks could be done in the volunteer's own home.
The teenage members of our CAMP program are eligible to participate in a video competition sponsored by KCTS public television, for which the deadline is September 1st, so we're looking for someone who can complete this project as soon as possible.
In addition, optionally, we would be interested in creating several short (3-minute) videos from the raw footage, highlighting Mount Rainier's outreach program in general and the CAMP program specifically. This could also be done from the volunteer's home, and with a much looser deadline.
Individuals interested in volunteering for this job should contact Brad Carlquist, Urban Outreach Ranger, at email@example.com or 206-220-4229; or Kevin Bacher, Volunteer and Outreach Program Manager, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 360-569-2211 ext. 3385.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Volunteers needed for amphibian surveys August 10-11
I received this e-mail today from Caitlin Kenney, our Citizen Science Volunteer Coordinator:
I was wondering if you might have a couple people that would want to do an overnight trip to Spray Park for amphibian surveys on Monday Aug 10th to Tuesday Aug 11th. It is a mile and a half walk to the campsite and another to the wetlands. I had three volunteers and they all had to cancel, and none of my other volunteers are available those days. I would hate to cancel survey work for lack of volunteers, since some of the other dates have almost too many.
Help Light the Way: Looking for Latern Bearers for Shadows of the Past
Does history get you excited? Does historical reenactment get you even more excited!? Then come join us on Saturday, August 15 and take part in our 'Shadows of the Past' historical reenactment program.
One moment you're a hired hand working for the Longmire's, leading groups of adventurous travelers to the "healing springs" of Longmire Meadow. The next you're a seasoned park ranger, leading tourists through the woods of the new and recently established Mount Rainier National Park. Walk through nearly half a century of history as we take visitors on a travel through time (and space).
You'll help lead groups of visitors along the Trail of the Shadows, where they will come into contact with famous figures from Mount Rainier's storied past. Learn what life was like in the past from the people who lived it.
One group walk lasts about 90 minutes, and the walks start at 8:30, 8:50, 9:10, 9:30. Don't worry, we only have you participate in one walk. We meet outside the Longmire General Store around 8:00, where we will quickly complete the required paperwork and familiarize everyone with the lantern operations. Each Lantern Bearer is assigned one walk, and multiple Lantern Bearers are assigned to each walk.
You don't need previous experience with leading groups, and you are not required or even preferred to participate in the historical reenactment part of the night. Costumes are not needed. All we need you to do is come with an open mind and a willingness to help.
If you're interested in volunteering for this event, you can contact Nick Abel at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at 360-569-2211 x3385.
We would love to see you there!
"We are the lantern bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind."
-The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff
Join us for the annual Volunteer Recognition Picnic and Shadows of the Past!
Hard as it is to believe, it's already the 4th of August, and our annual Volunteer Recognition Picnic is fast approaching! Please consider joining us on August 15 for lasagna, potluck, awards, photos, stories, friends, and history!
Volunteer Program Manager
Mount Rainier National Park
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Better late than never right? These are photos I took about 2 weeks ago when I went to Nojoqui Falls with my mom, sister and doggies. It doesn't look like you can do overnight camping and the day use areas are over priced in my opinion. But it is perfect for a day to walk and have a little BBQ in the park area (romantic picnic maybe). It's been about 15 years since I last visited Nojoqui and it has not been crowded either time I have gone. Both times in good weather! Maybe it's not a popular spot to visit? Maybe it isn't well known? It doesn't matter to me because it's sorta close to home, dog friendly and beautiful. If I could make this post scratch 'n' sniff for you I would. So clean and crisp!
Though it had just rained earlier in the week this is it. This is Nojoqui Falls, small yet beautiful. And the water coming down was much warmer than the water I used to wash my hands in the loo! If you do a Google search for these falls you can see that the water can come down in a big fall or little fall like I got. The sound of the falling water was really relaxing.
This is another hike that I had no cell phone reception. Though it was doggy friendly, no doggy bags were provided at the head of the trail. But, much to my delight, there are several waste bins located along the trail. I assume to accommodate trash from people going out to have a picnic on the trail. There are several benches to sit and enjoy the area. Next hikes to be posted are Oso Flaco Lake and Monarch Butterfly Grove and Meadow Creek.


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BoeingGuy wrote:767333ER wrote:BoeingGuy wrote:
Nor totally correct. The LCD displays have several very modern functions like a Vertical Situation Display and RNP Nav Performance Scales. That outdated FMC was the first airplane in the world to support a .1nm RNP.
And the NG's screens could do all the same things other than OMF which they could have fit on those as well. Why put those huge 787 screens if it still can't tell/show you what the systems are doing, where at the airport you are, or have your checklists or anything like that on there? RNP and ANP scales could be put on the old CRT displays if the old 737s needed it and any relatively modern plane would have that, just not in the same place. Even a Dash 8-100 can tell you that. And VSD is from the early/mid 2000s so it's not as modern of a thing as some think compared to airport diagrams for example. Considering the 737 isn't the only RNP capable plane, it being the first doesn't say much because it was only first because the first operators that saw the need for RNP happened to be 737 operators, many other types of plane that are as old can do the same thing and do nowadays. The FMC lags when you type, it can't do FMC COMM or NAV RAD functions, and it can't tell the pressurization system what you landing elevation is and even worse the cruise altitude. Even an old 757 that's parked in the desert could do that latter.
So what exactly is your point? We've already established that the 737 Max has some less than futuristic design. If you happened to have read previous posts before your rant, you might also understand there are some valid reasons for that. I don't like it anymore than anyone else. But there are some good business reasons why the 737 is what it is.
Personally I don't have the big drama that some people have about how the A320 is soooooo much wider and more comfortable. I find AS's 737s just fine in coach. AA's seem more cramped.
Well first of all I didn't say anything about the passenger experience so that's besides the point. There are some good business reasons why you don't get the food you used to or the seat pitch you used to, but that doesn't mean you have to like it. I look at it though the pilots point of view, I couldn't care less what the beancounters think because if they could have it even more their way things would be even worse. This is a thread about why we think the 737 is outdated and I'm just listing the things I think might be outdated. If it bothers you, why are you even reading this thread as the nature of this discussing is critiquing the 737, if it doesn't great.
barney captain wrote:I'm not at all saying the 737 doesn't have plenty of room for improvement, but some of your comments are just hard to justify;It has those massive LCD displays that can't display much of anything more than the CRTs could on the classic.
Huh?The autopilot still needs to have CWS for when it supposedly screws up from time to time.
That's just plain nonsense.
The rest, I agree with. )
That may be a 737-200/300 cockpit, but I wasn't comparing to the electromechanical instruments, but rather the CRT EFIS. As for the autopilot I'm just coming to a conclusion based off of what information I've been given. I've been told that CWS is a feature never used on the 757/767 which is why it has largely been removed at operators such as Delta and I've also been told that the 737's autopilot has a few issues others do not such as it does trance things on VNAV or it sometimes just gives up on an approach so the conclusion I draw from that is that there is a reason they still feel the need to put CWS or there is a need for operators not to remove it. I wasn't 100% sure which is why I said supposedly. I respect that you fly the thing and I haven't, it makes me wonder about the others that have and do complain, opinions I guess...