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Amazon Kindle Fire and Google Nexus promoting overturned Jobs damaged Principle, 7-inch pill though is small, the market circulation velocity may be very fast, as of the end of the yr, based on know-how blog investigation Nexus 7 the sales volume of 800 million items. As mentioned above, there are plenty of information plans and different low-cost Apple iPad 2 Offers, to select from. Right here, allow us to take a look at a few of the more profitable ones –
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Home enhancements, renovations and repairs require great amount of talent and getting a superb agency or contractor or expert labor is a large job in itself. The third form of home improvement changes you can also make involved the skin of the house, and generally the basic things that make your home, these are typically a little bit more difficult and you will need to consider perhaps getting some skilled assist for these duties, unless you know what you might be doing. So let's take a look at basic design components for some of the main residence improvement initiatives individuals undertake. Have a have a look at their references first if you're thinking of getting anyone to work on a home improvement venture for yourself. These maximizes seen ground space which is an essential in any residence enchancment project.
If you're tiling partitions, that is additionally useful as these measurements will allow you to know how much tile you have to for that exact floor when it's time so that you can go to the store and purchase. Home Improvement had been in the works between Tim Allen and the writing/producing staff of Carmen Finestra , David McFadzean and Matt Williams because the summer time of 1990.
You should have an in depth plan and idea of how a lot money your private home enchancment project will value. Many dwelling house owners put off the thought of investing in residence improvement as a result of they contemplate it to be such a costly processes, however there are a number of how of bettering your property with no particularly large budget. You can implement a number of dwelling enchancment ideas to create changes to your own home.
Since 1995, because of its reputation, reruns began airing on The Disney Channel , Channel four and ABC1 in the UK. Originally, Home Improvement was aired on Channel four and then later the Disney Channel ; nevertheless, in 2005, it began broadcasting on ABC1 On September 26, 2007, ABC1 ceased transmissions and no official announcement was made as to which channels could be broadcasting ABC1's previous programming.
Home improvement could be very general time period for the modifications that you may make within the inside of your own home, the household rooms, the kitchen and the home workplace, or the adjustments you could make in your yard or backyard, patio or porch. Getting an unsecured dwelling enchancment mortgage is troublesome with good or poor credit. A good technique to get ideas for home improvement, take a look at the hardware store. One is standard dwelling improvement equity loan wherein you get the lump sum price of the mortgage quantity.

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Mxi Technologies has announced the opening of their new corporate office in Hong Kong in order to support the growing demand for the Maintenix software throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The decision to locate Mxi Technologies' office in Hong Kong was supported by the city's close proximity to all major Asian markets and its role as an aviation and MRO hub for the region.
Witono Lukman has been named Managing Director for the new office, bringing years of aviation maintenance expertise to current and potential Mxi customers in the region.
With this addition, Mxi Technologies' global presence has expanded from regional offices in Sydney, Amsterdam, Miami, Seattle, Washington D.C, and corporate headquarters in Ottawa.
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Online car insurance: Simplifies life!
Twenty first century has been the century of uncertainties be it tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricane Katrina or man-made problems like terror strikes.It is essential to have protection against such unanticipated yet undesirable events.The best way to hedge such risks is by getting insured.Nowadays insurance is given for everything be it television, car, jewelry, furniture, house and even life.
The prima facie thing that should be done by you at the time of buying a car is to apply for a car insurance. Automobile insurance not only covers damage charges needed for car, but also health expenses of the person driving it, needed in case accident or a collision.The traditional method, in which insurance agent visits, to have a check of car and acquire important driver details, are no longer popular.With the arrival of internet you can buy car insurance online instantly, without following the cumbersome traditional procedures.
There are large numbers of insurance companies who are offering automobile insurance.By making the in depth study of varied proposals, coverage options, credit worthiness and premium charges of policy you can get the best auto insurance.The company offering the cheapest policy, might be selected by you but you shall have the assurance, of being adequately protected, at time of unanticipated occurrence or mishap.
The driving history of driver, age of car, type of car, average miles per day and the locality where the car will commute are some of the essentials to compute the insurance premium.In order to decrease the insurance amounts, while it is not possible to change some of the facets, you can squeeze things like driving lesser miles by using other public transportation options or carpool.Further you may take benefits of special discounts offered during Christmas and summer holidays , or by taking multiple automobile insurance in case you have more cars.
It is essential to check the credit history of the company from which we are taking insurance, especially when you are booking it online, as there are many fraudulent companies working with dummy names.Legitimacy and swiftness in clearing the claim amount, of an insurance company can be judged by reading on the suggestions and recommendations made by bloggers, who have taken policy from the company, on the internet. Such a resourceful study will not only provide you sufficient cover, but also at an acceptable rate.It is advisable to pay a small premium and remain protected during good days rather than losing everything on a bad day.


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Westlake Church is a place that is passionate about helping people find their way back to God. You will find people here from a variety of different backgrounds and experiences. We are going to be up front and tell you that we are not the perfect church. In fact, we hope we don't ever make someone think that we've got it all together at Westlake, because we don't!
Just inside the main entrance, you'll find our Guest Services area. You're welcome to stop there if you have a question or need help finding out more about what we offer for your children.


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The 58-year-old pop diva, also known for her acting, has now revealed that she wants to try her hand up stand-up comedy.
The Like A Prayer star said: "I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking.
"I keep telling (my former opener) Amy Schumer and Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock that I'm going to do stand-up and they'd better watch out.
"I'm coming. I'm coming right behind them."
Madonna made the statement in an interview with Harper's Bazaar for its 150th anniversary edition.
The star was seen in a smouldering black and white shoot for the magazine.
Madge stripped down to a basque, suspenders and a veil in one of the hot shots.
Another saw her stare intently into the camera with a dangerous look in her eye.
As well as revealing her comedic ambitions, the icon also got serious by discussing the current political state in the US.
When asked how she felt about Trump being elected as president, she said it was like "a horror show" and recounted how she had been praying Hillary Clinton triumphed in the race.
She said: "We were doing everything: lighting candles, meditating, praying, offering our lives to God forever, if only.
"I went to sleep, and since that night [Trump was elected], I wake up every morning and it's like when you break up with somebody who has really broken your heart."
Her comments aren't surprising considering the star offered fans at one of her gigs oral sex if they voted for Hillary.
A video taken from her show in New York's Madison Square Garden heard the star tell the crowd: "If you vote for Hillary Clinton, I will give you a b*** job, okay?
"And I am good… I am good. I'm not a tool, I take my time. I have a lot of eye contact, and I do swallow."


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King's College Choir, Cambridge: Carols from King'sShow recording details
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Come Let Us Adore Him
The creation of the world is a beautiful display of light and hope. God never intended his world to be one of darkness and by coming as Christ, He sought to restore creation to its full meaning. This piece links the creation of the world to the coming of Christ and how the light of Christ in the Christmas narrative gives us hope.
Key Themes; Nativity, Salvation, Hope, Love, Joy, Peace
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Director Antoine Fuqua and actor Denzel Washington first worked together on the acclaimed David Ayer-scripted crime drama/thriller Training Day in 2001, netting an Oscar for Washington in the process. The duo reunited thirteen years later for the 1980s TV show-based movie reboot, The Equalizer; less of a critical hit than Training Day itself, but a mostly well-received genre movie and box office hit regardless. Fortunately, fans of the Fuqua/Washington pairing have only had to wait two years for their third collaboration: The Magnificent Seven.
The Magnificent Seven (2016) was scripted by Richard Wenk (The Equalizer) and Nic Pizzolatto (the creator of True Detective), based on director John Sturges' 1960 western of the same name - itself, a western re-imagining of Akira Kurosawa's classic 1954 Samurai adventure, Seven Samurai. Some major details have been changed from the 1960 version, yet the general premise for Fuqua's Magnificent Seven is mostly the same: seven warriors of the Old West assemble to protect a village from a nasty gang of criminals.
Playing the eponymous "seven" are Washington, along with Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy), Byung-hun Lee (Terminator: Genisys), Vincent D'Onofrio (Jurassic World), Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series), Martin Sensmeier (Lillin's Blood) and Fuqua's Training Day and Brooklyn's Finest collaborator, Ethan Hawke. The Magnificent Seven premieres in theaters later this month (at the time of writing this), but the first wave of reviews are already online, following the movie's showing at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
Read on for SPOILER-FREE excerpts from a number of the first reviews for The Magnificent Seven to hit the 'Net:
Variety - Owen Gleiberman
The cheeky but square, dutifully manufactured, ultimately uninspired remake of "The Magnificent Seven"... points to a deeper reason why remakes often don't pan out: The appeal of the original tends to be rooted in the way it expresses something of its era, so trying to recapture what made it winning is a fool's game. You can reassemble the same plot and characters; what's tricky is reigniting the material's inner spark... Yet if there's a so-what? quality to it all, Antoine Fuqua's "Magnificent Seven" is still a reasonably engaging movie for its first hour or so...
Joblo - Chris Bumbray
The finished film is rock-solid, thanks to the above-average craftsmanship of director Antoine Fuqua (as solid a mainstream director as they come) and the always-towering charisma of star Denzel Washington. While not exactly "THE EQUALIZER in the Old West", the two movies have the same philosophy, being that the strong must protect the weak... While THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN is unabashedly in the blockbuster mode, as always Fuqua and Washington give it that little push that makes it a cut above-average, and had this been a summer release many would have called it one of the season's best studio movies.
TheWrap - Robert Abele
A handsomely made if lackluster riff on John Sturges' epic about desperados hired to save threatened villagers, it won't challenge the original's supremacy as a big-cast entertainment with a wry, redemptive sense of humor. But it can certainly lay claim to the same problem as that previous version: What shallow fun there is doesn't survive the final shootout; in this instance, it's just one more death knell for the crisply made action sequence.
Den of Geek - Edward Douglas
The Magnificent Seven serves as further evidence of how Antoine Fuqua has improved as a filmmaker since making Brooklyn's Finest in 2009, delving into different genres and mastering them all. Any trepidations about the film's slow pace are more than made up for with the final battle. Even so, when we're talking about a genre in which filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Ti West are doing such unique and original things like last year's The Hateful Eight and the upcoming In a Valley of Violence, Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven seems too steeped in tradition, which at times, makes it feel like old hat.
IndieWire - David Ehrlich
It would be hard to mess up a remake of "The Magnificent Seven," but it might be even harder to remake it in a way that allows the premise of John Sturges' iconic Western — itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" — to feel newly relevant... This year's version doesn't have the benefit of such an obvious paradigm shift... And yet, despite being directed by the singularly bland Antoine Fuqua (whose post-"Training Day" filmography could double as a list of the millennium's most forgettable action movies) and co-written by suffocatingly dour "True Detective" mastermind Nic Pizzolatto, "The Magnificent Seven" 2016 is almost as fun as it is familiar. More surprising still, it's as timely a blockbuster as they come.
THR - Todd McCarthy
The main difference between the new version of The Magnificent Seven and the revered 1960 feature on which it is based is that, in this one, the three men left standing at the end aren't all white guys... Other than the revisionist casting, however, nothing particularly original or fresh has been injected into this competently made, violent but uningratiating remake of the star-studded John Sturges Western, which itself was a redo of Akira Kurosawa's imperishable 1954 classic, Seven Samurai. This efficient but uninspired third teaming of Denzel Washington and director Antoine Fuqua looks to be a solid box-office performer upon late September release.
Cinemablend - Sean O'Connell
Basically, with Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven, you get exactly what you paid for, but many of us have paid for it at least two times before. This is a meat and potatoes Western, with two ladles of gravy poured over the top to fill in the narrative cracks. Its macho ensemble isn't trying to reinvent the wagon wheel. They just aim to retell a recognizable, infamous and forceful vengeance tale. And to a certain extent, they have succeeded.
Uproxx - Mike Ryan
My gosh, this movie is so simple... There's a bad guy; then the slightly less bad guys team up to defeat the "badder" guy; The Big Fight happens. Most big movies today have so much plot. Where do all these contrived plots come from?... All we want out of a movie like this are good characters and a simple story. And, yes, some good one-liners. Well, here it is. And you can hate or love True Detective's Nic Pizzolatto all you want (who co-wrote the script with Richard Wenk), but this does feel like a concise vision. The Magnificent Seven is a shoot 'em up Western. What you see is pretty much what you're going to get. But, sometimes, that's all a buckin' desperado really wants.
So far, there's certainly some variation in terms of how much mileage critics are getting from The Magnificent Seven's shoot-em-up western entertainment. However, when it comes to the overall critical impression so far, most everyone seems to agree that there is fun to be had in the simplicity of Fuqua's take on the western genre. How much fun there is to be had is where critics seem to vary; though, most every critic has singled out Fuqua's well-proven ability to put together a solid action sequence as being one of the film's strengths, along with the collective screen charisma of its talented cast.
Fuqua has carved out a comfortable niche for himself as a B-movie filmmaker over the past few years especially, delivering crowd-pleasing commercial genre films in Olympus Has Fallen and The Equalizer. The Magnificent Seven is expected to join the growing list of hit action/thrillers that Fuqua has been adding to his belt of late, with most box office predictions pointing towards a solid opening weekend take - and Fandango's users likewise singling out the western as one of their most anticipated releases of Fall 2016. It might not be the most popular or the most memorable offering of the fall, but a number of critics appear to agree: The Magnificent Seven is, in many ways, a better summer film than a number of this year's actual summer tentpole releases.
You can check out the trailer for The Magnificent Seven, below:
The Magnificent Seven opens in U.S. theaters on September 23rd, 2016.
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Guest Blogger: Wayne Fritch
Home School Instruction, Cedar Rapids Community School District
Guest Blogger: Wayne Fritch
Home School Instruction, Cedar Rapids Community School District
Every newspaper you open these days has a map with an informational overlay. These maps allow the reader to quickly make some analytical observations regarding a wide variety of topics, such as population density, average temperatures, wealth or poverty, migration of various animals, crime rates, traffic fatalities, etc. The same information could be displayed in a spreadsheet, but this would throw most of us into analysis paralysis with the overwhelming amount of numbers. Visualizing quantities of data in a geographic manner puts context to the data and simplifies the analysis process. Question: Who creates these kinds of maps and how are they created? Answer: They are created by people who know GIS—Geographic Information Systems and are created with a unique kind of mapping software. ArcGIS Online is powerful mapping tool which can be used by students, teachers, and professionals alike. Educators in the USA can complete a single page application to gain access to a free school, district, or state account. The account is robust and online--no downloading of software or worrying about software licensing.
Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! To celebrate this occasion, Grant Wood AEA has hosted a series of blog posts on accessibility to support GAAD's purpose of getting people talking about designing online content and interactions that are accessible to a broad range of abilities. For those that missed it, here's a quick run-down of the series hosted on the Grant Wood AEA Blog, The Linker:
Thursday, May 9, 2019 - Introduction to GAAD
This post introduced readers to Global Accessibility Awareness Day and how web accessibility is defined in the K-12 classroom.
Monday, May 13, 2019 - It's As Easy As A-B-C
No, we're not learning to read! This post introduced readers to Grant Wood Area Education Agencies work to support employees to 'design with integrity' by ensuring Accessibility, Branding and Content.
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 - Designing with P-O-U-R
This post introduced readers to the Web Content Accessibility Standards and the acronym P-O-U-R.
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - Let's Get Social!
Social media accessibility is essential in our world today. This post focused on some tips to create accessible social media.
The series has been filled with tips and strategies from the AEM Center to support designing content with accessibility in mind in our K-12 classrooms.
A Call to Action
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
Newton's Third Law
Global Accessibility Awareness Day offers opportunities for educators and professionals in the field of education to reflect on the impact our practices have on student learning and stakeholder engagement.
Take a moment to reflect on YOUR practices. How can you strengthen your communications and teaching by supporting accessibility practices?
Now, commit to building that practice by recording a Grant Wood AEA GAAD FlipGrid video with the stem, "To make my space more accessible, I commit to..."
-Maggie Pickett, Digital Learning Consultant
Grant Wood AEA
When thinking of concept mapping, graphic organizers often come to mind. But concept mapping is more than that. The graphic organizer is the tool for this strategy, but can often be confining to our students that see connections outside of the typical graphic organizer. Concept mapping has an effect size of .64. It is important to highlight that this is effective when students are making their own connections and not the connections predetermined by the teacher.
This instructional strategy is comprised of three specific steps.
Step 1. Predetermine the topic or question for the concept map. "A helpful way to determine the context of your concept map is to choose a focus question--something that needs to be solved or a conclusion that needs to be reached (Kieschnick, Bold School, pg. 124)." Teachers can help students focus their concept map by asking essential questions.
Step 2. Pull a list of key terms or ideas from the topic being addressed. Students should work to classify those key terms or ideas in some way. For example, they might identify the broadest ideas working down to the most specific details. Because students may visualize this in different ways, it is important they have the freedom to choose a tool that best supports their thinking.
Step 3. Connect concepts by creating linking concepts and words. In this step students might need language stems to support the connections they are making. For example, "is related to", "as a result of", "caused or causes", "leds to", etc.
Incorporating Digital Tools
It is important to provide kids with a variety of options for concept mapping, both digital and unplugged. For example, Mindy would rather create a sketchnote as a tool for concept mapping while Gina really likes being able to have a stack of manipulatives with a broad canvas to organize and connect. Online tools that support concept mapping might include Jamboard, Mindmup, Lucidchart , or Google Drawings. For kids who prefer an unplugged option, the Post-its App can allow students to start their work in an analogue environment and then move it and manipulate it online. Finally, for kids who prefer a drawing or sketching method for organizing their thoughts, consider using a camera to capture and share unplugged work.
Key Takeaways
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~Mindy Cairney
Chances are if you have heard of reciprocal teaching you have thought of it in the context of an English Language Arts class. Although reciprocal teaching is a text processing strategy, its application is further reaching than the English classroom. Reciprocal teaching has a .74 effect size making it a powerful instructional strategy for all content areas where text is being used.
What is Reciprocal Teaching?
Reciprocal teaching includes four steps:
Reciprocal teaching is a process that best works in a collaborative environment so most commonly small groups will be used in this strategy. Additionally, the process helps students organize their thinking about text. Creating a Doc or Slide Deck template for groups to use (see examples in Step 1) can be used to record ideas and provide links to additional tools used in the process.
Incorporating Digital Tools
Step 1 - Predict: The predict step can look different in different grade levels and content areas, however, no matter what grade level or what content area prediction involves previewing the text and connecting prior knowledge to what is seen. Additionally, students think a little bit about what the text might focus on based on the quick previewing that they did. Collaborative conversations are imperative to the prediction process. Recording thoughts on a table in a Google Doc or collaborative Google Slides can help classmates when returning to the conversation and for later evaluation of predictions.
Step 2 - Clarify: In this step students read through the text and note any areas that are unclear for them. One area that can be focused on is vocabulary. To clarify and further make meaning out of unknown terms, students can use an online dictionary tool (like the dictionary feature in Read & Write for Google or the Google Dictionary Chrome Extension) , but additional development of this new vocabulary might be needed. Vocabulary programs have an effect size of .62. One model that can support the explicit teaching of vocabulary is the Frayer Model. On a collaborative doc, students determine words needing clarification. Repeated words from the doc are collected and distributed to groups for further investigation. A shared Frayer Model tool can be used to further build the group's understanding of their assigned words. Google Slides or Google Drawings fulfill the need to share and collaborate as a class.
Step 3 - Question: After all of the predictions have been made and all unknown terms have been clarified, groups begin in-depth reading of the text. Each group will record three questions they have as they read. Groups are encouraged to come up with a 'right there' question, a 'between the lines' question, and a critical thinking question (Kieschnick, Bold School). Teachers will need to model the question generation process prior to turning kids loose with this responsibility in addition to providing language scaffolds to help students generate questions. To learn more about question generation check out some of the resources in our Riddle Me This blog post.
Step 4 - Summarize: The final step in reciprocal teaching is summarizing. As a small group, students create a summary of what they just read and come to consensus on how they will show what they know about the text. There are a variety of different ways that students might share their summary of the text. With the time constraints of a classroom, this strategy might not be completed in one day. Flipgrid allows students to share their summary in the moment, with the ability to view with the class at a later time as they evaluate their summaries against previous predictions. This could also be great for students to reflect and review before an assessment.
Key Takeaways
~Gina Rogers
~Mindy Cairney
If you have ever attended PD at Grant Wood AEA chances are you have been exposed to the obligatory Jigsaw Method for processing learning. Although this is said with a hint of sarcasm, the Jigsaw Method ranks as a 1.2 high effect size instructional strategy. Originally the Jigsaw Method was implemented in Austin, Texas as a way to diffuse racial tensions in a recently desegregated school. In order to get the students to work together and learn from one another's diverse perspectives, researchers devised a method that focused on cooperative learning. The history of the Jigsaw Method is quite fascinating and can be read about here.
What is the Jigsaw Method?
The Jigsaw Method includes a few steps:
1.) Divide students into groups of 5 or 6 that include diverse representations. Appoint a group leader and, as a group, segment the learning into equal chunks (teacher should provide guidance in how to segment), each individual taking one chunk.
2.) Provide enough time for students to read and reread their material and become familiar with the content. Then, the students that have read the same chunks gather together to become experts, discussing main points and preparing a presentation to share with the original group.
3.) Students return to their original group to share the presentation that has been prepared, answering any clarifying questions. During this time, the teacher moves from group to group making observations and providing support where needed.
4.) Finally, students should be formatively assessed to check for understanding and to guide future instruction.
Google for the Win!
We have to admit, it's Google for the win when it comes to the Jigsaw Method! Google Slides provides an excellent opportunity for student collaboration while working within expert and 'home' groups. As a teacher, create a collaborative slide deck for the whole class (Alice Keeler example here), with each group assigned one slide in the deck. Allow expert groups to collaboratively add notes, main ideas, talking points, or even images. When students return to home groups, each student, not just the expert, will be able to access the notes digitally. Pro tip: View all the Slides at once by clicking on 'Grid View' in the View Menu.
This same idea is possible within Google Docs, as well. Creating a table in Google Docs allows for the same collaborative power, just with a different feel. As a teacher, create a template for your students. Each home group should have one template. Use 'Force Make a Copy' with the group leader. The group leader will share the template with the rest of the group. Pro tip: Thirty kids in one doc is usually frustrating! This idea works best in smaller groups.
One concern that we have when looking at the Jigsaw Method is that it places a high level of independent learning on students who might need support in order to fully participate in the learning. We recommended supporting learning objects (texts) be digital in nature and accessible to a screen reader so students who need the decoding support of a screen reader will be able to fully participate. Additionally, we feel that allowing students to record the summary of the learning from the expert group with something like Screencastify or another recording tool might help ease the anxiety of students who are quieter and don't like to share even in the smaller group.
Key Takeaways
Questioning as an instructional factor weighs in at a .48 effect size, demonstrating the capacity to have a significant impact on student growth. Teachers ask anywhere between 300 and 400 questions a day, with the vast majority of those questions being lower level questions - recalling facts, demonstrating knowledge of procedures, etc) (Wilen, 1991). The researchers suggest that since these questions are lower in their cognitive level, teachers need to use many of them to get students to recall concepts (Wilen, 1991).
Effective questioning is a complex teaching task and should be planned for. Scripting out questions and evaluating them for their complexity has a significant effect on student's ability to more deeply understand and evaluate concepts. According to Weston Kieschink, "What gets scripted gets asked", and spontaneous questions are often low-level questions (Bold School). Additionally, supporting students in developing their own questions about concepts can lead them to deeper levels of conceptual understanding (Hattie, 1998).
Using a resource to develop and evaluate teacher and/or student questions is key in this process. Here are a few tools that we use at GWAEA:
Looking to get your students to ask more questions?
Incorporating Digital Tools
So, what does this look like in practice in a tech-rich environment? Pre-planned scripted questions can be loaded into a variety of different tech options. Poll Everywhere lays the foundation for high-level, pre-planned questions. With one click, teachers can display responses or additional questions for a deeper classroom discussion around misconceptions or opinions. Additionally, teachers could also structure a series of higher order questions into Socrative or Nearpod. These could be used to launch into a longer discussion of a concept or as an exit ticket to help plan for further discussion and instruction. Teachers can display student answers anonymously for further consideration by the class.
With regards to soliciting student questions and structuring student-led discussions, a few approaches and tools come to mind. Students can contribute their questions to an online board like Padlet. The 'Shelf' feature in Padlet can be used to model, organize, and scaffold student questions from recall to analysis/evaluative questions. This online question board may also serve as a spot for students to begin to prepare for a Socratic Seminar.
As students are engaged in discussion, Google Slides Q&A option allows students to pose questions in real-time and additionally upvote questions they find intriguing. Teachers or student moderators are able to choose and present any question to the whole class to build-up the discussion or introduce a new thought.
Key Takeaways
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Nicklas Bendtner has done the right things by swallowing pride and dropping down to Nottingham Forest in the Championship
SunSport Football League reporter Tom Barclay gives his lowdown on the Lord's move to the Championship
"I'VE made many mistakes in my life. It's in the past. I'm just looking to the future."
Words from Nicklas Bendtner, at his Nottingham Forest unveiling this week, where he vowed to rid himself of the off-field controversies which have reduced him largely to a comedy character in England and focus on the football.
If only someone had told Forest's sponsor 888sport, who encouraged fans to tweet in their own versions of the Dane's infamous nigh-on nude selfie - which has sadly served as a symbol of his wasted potential - with the hashtag #DareToBendtner.
Just a bit of Bendtner banter, the betting company would argue.
Fair enough, but not exactly helpful to a man who badly needs to change his image - both here and back home in Denmark.
Bendtner's talent has long been overlooked on these shores for all the silliness off the pitch and the risibly cocky statements he's spouted.
And it seems patience has finally run out back home too.
For all Bendtner's flop performances in club colours, he regularly delivered for the national team - as 29 international goals proves - and was idolised accordingly.
But two inept displays in Denmark's play-off clashes against Sweden in Euro 2016 qualifying - fixtures dubbed 'Bendtner v Ibrahimovic' in the Danish press - saw the mood change.
Suddenly the public weren't so forgiving with the PR gaffes and misdemeanours - such as drink-driving and being fined at old club Wolfsburg for sleeping through his alarm.
Yet his move to Championship side Forest still made a big splash in Denmark.
The major news station TV2Sport livestreamed his press conference on their website while three Danish newspaper reporters hot-footed it to be there - despite only being given eight hours' notice.
Hope remains that he can turn it around.
He's only 28 and you have to remember this is a player who scored 47 goals for Arsenal, including a Champions League hat-trick against Porto in 2010.
The move to Forest also suggests he has swallowed his pride and realises he needs to take a step down to get himself back on track.
Though his representatives did have to spend an entire month convincing him to pick the rough 'n ready Championship ahead of more lucrative offers from China and Mexico arrived.
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He is now back in the country where he has produced his best football and where his son Nicholas lives - albeit in London.
There were other interested parties as meetings with QPR and Wolves took place - though Sunderland was never an option.
But Forest are the ones he has plumbed for and while I understand his heavily-incentivised contract means he could be one of the best-paid players in the second tier if he performs, it is still a move that suggests he understands his current standing in the game.
He is a galaxy away from one of best strikers in the world - where he once laughably claimed he was - but he has an opportunity now to rebuild his battered reputation.
Should he have a good season, he will then have one year left at Forest and could very quickly become an attractive proposition for Premier League sides again.
Perhaps then #DareToBendtner can signify daring to turn your life around and finally realise your potential.
Oh Lord, please let it be so.
HUDDERSFIELD have been mightily impressive this season - and it appears they are impressing other clubs too.
When Manchester City signed Australian Aaron Mooy from sister club Melbourne City this summer, they always planned to immediately loan him out.
The Terriers were disappointed at City snaffling the 25-year-old as they had had their eye on the him for a while.
Yet unbeknown of their interest, City representatives phoned Huddersfield to see if they would take the midfielder on loan this season as they had been so impressed with David Wagner's style of play and the way they are bringing through youngsters.
It is looking a great move for all parties as Mooy has been Town's key player in their stunning start, scoring a howitzer in Saturday's win at Leeds.
THE curious case of Dean Cox's Orient exit looks to have concluded this week with the striker set to sign for Crawley.
But he can't actually play for his new club until January as Orient terminated his contract after the registration deadline on the final day of the transfer window.
Cox signed a confidentiality agreement as part of his departure from the O's so cannot talk publicly about what went on.
So I'll speak for you Dean - I think you received some pretty shoddy treatment for a player who scored 59 goals in 275 appearances.
Talk about respecting a club legend.
Swindon keeper Lawrence Vigoroux had a mare when his clearance was charged down for Chris Maguire.
And he lost it completely late on and was promptly dismissed for raising his hands on Alex MacDonald.
James Coppinger.
The 35-year-old scored one and made two on his 500th appearance for Doncaster.
An amazing achievement unlikely to be replicated.


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If you follow makeup trends then you have heard about strobing. Strobing is using highlighter to enhance and create a glow – no contouring here, feel free to leave your favorite contour powder off to the side for this look. Strobing is perfect for spring because spring is all about having healthy and glowing skin – strobing allows you to cheat a glow while your skin is transitioning from the winter months.
How to do it
Use your favorite highlight and apply it where the sun naturally hits your face: the center of your forehead, cheekbones, brow bones, down the bridge of your nose, and Cupid's bow. This will create a mesmerizing and natural glow that will have you doing double takes of yourself as you pass a mirror. Don't lie, when you nail your daily beat, you have totally looked at yourself twice in the mirror and may have said, "Damn, I did THAT!" Self love people. Self love.
What to Use
This is definitely on the top of my faves for highlighters/bronzers to use for strobing. It gives a very light, but stand out glow that looks so natural. Plus for the price point at $2, you can't beat it!
M.A.C. Mineralize Skinfinish in Gold Deposit
One of my holy grails and I use it for nearly everything when I want a nice glow. The texture is light and the pigment is outstanding.
Black Radiance True Complexion Contour Palette
I love this palette overall for my contouring and highlighting needs and the highlight within the palette is IT! When you want a more stand out highlight for your strobing efforts, this is the one to lean on. The texture is velvety and can be a slight dupe for M.A.C.'s Gold Deposit if you are trying to save some coins.
N.Y.X. Cheek Contour Duo Palette
For a more natural and barely there glow, this NYX highlighter within this duo is amazing. It shines perfectly in the right light without being obvious that you have been going strobing crazy.
Do you love the all time favorite Orgasm blush? Well if you do, this illuminator is for you. This is another one that will give you a very natural looking glow. It is buildable if you would like more punch to your glow, but can be subtle on days you just want to do a little something something. I love the fact that this is in a liquid because you can add it to other areas of your body that you want to add an extra glow to.


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I stamped this gorgeous lace pattern stamp (I don't know where it's from...does any one recognise it?) with Versamark and heat embossed it with off white embossing powder from american Crafts.
The words die is from Cuttlebug.
Sweet and simple isn't it?
I am entering this card for the 'Stamp Away With Me' Monday Mood Board no.9
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It crept in at night, "on little cat feet" – the tickling whisker brush in my throat, the tingling clawing in my nose, the liquid gleam of my watery eyes. At first, I shrugged it off.
Allergies, I said.
Just need a good night's sleep, I insisted.
But I had a flu shot, I whined.
Hah! I had caught the most miserable of all body invaders – the common cold. The one that rears up every season to wrack your body with dripping orifices, explosive exhalations of air, and above all the cough that starts at your toes and spasms upwards through every inch of your wretched being.
I don't know where I got it. In preparation for the seasonal invasions, I shunned the grocery clerk who wiped a forearm across his nose; I avoided the cute little kids with smeary faces in the mall; I looked suspiciously at the mail carrier who shoved thousands of unwanted ads, handled by who knows how many infected fingers, into my mailbox.
Was it you? How about you? Maybe it was you…?
No matter. The Typhoid Marys are legion during flu season.
Despite sanitizing gel, pathological avoidance, and obsessive hand washing, I caught the cold like practically everyone else. As mentioned, it began with a scratchy throat and tiny pinpricks of discomfort at the back of my nose. My voice warbled in and out like a pubescent boy.
"Not a cold," I tried to assure everyone. All my friends made the sign of the cross and backed away. Even my dogs crept into hiding when I sneezed like a crazed walrus all the way down the hall in a mad dash for tissues. They don't understand nose drool, moans, and honking sounds.
Next morning I gave in. "I'm thick…" I announced to my daughter.
She scowled and stepped back. "Don't give it to me."
We both knew it was already too late. But I blazed the path. We stocked up on lemons, orange juice, honey, soup, vitamin C, antihistamines and lots and lots of gentle-on-your-skin tissues. I sat in my chair, huddled in a blanket, plodding bleary-eyed through a book that had enthralled me a couple of days before. I hopelessly watched old, old movies in an attempt to recapture the carefree joy of my healthy childhood. I stopped answering the phone because people selfishly wanted to talk about themselves, not the plague I was suffering under.
About the time my daughter turned feverish, I started getting better. The better where everything irritates you, you don't want to sit, but every activity is stupid and you just don't want to do it. I made her tea but only sloshed though half the dishes. Chicken soup out of a can is just as good…no it isn't…as home made. But making it takes forever! And pizza doesn't taste as good as it used to…
And surely some day the sneezes will stop, the fevers subside, and the coughs cease to erupt. Surely health and happiness will return to our existence.
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This past weekend, Geneseo's cross-country teams ran two separate races; the top runners traveled to Canada, while the rest of the squad raced at Roberts Wesleyan College.
Saturday at the 35th Annual Western International in London, Ontario, the men's A team turned in a first place finish in the 10K competition, beating teams from all over New York State and a few from Canada.
Senior Tim Chichester finished third overall in 32 minutes, 24.2 seconds while senior Jesse Berube crossed the line in 32:25.6 for sixth overall. Sophomore Chris Mateer placed 10th in 32:43. Seniors Lee Gabler and Will Haskell finished in 32:48 and 32:53, respectively, placing them in 11th and 14th place overall to complete the scoring runners.
Coach Mike Woods had nothing but positive remarks to sum up his team's performance. "Down here in the states, we don't usually run 10K, we usually run 8K," Woods said. "This was a test for my team's fitness, if they weren't in shape, they would have struggled. I am proud of our performance in this team's first ever 10K competition."
The women didn't find as much success, however, as the A team finished fifth overall. Freshman Marissa Liberati led the way for the Knights as she finished 17th in 18:48.3. Fellow freshman Brigid Heenan broke the tape in 25th place overall in 19:05.0. Graduate student Maggie Morris finished in 19:11.1 for 28th place and senior Erin Marks finished in 33rd in 19:16.6. Liz Montgomery, the second graduate student on the women's team, finished 35th in 19:18.2.
Woods was less animated when referring to the women's performance in Ontario. "I am disappointed in our performance overall," Woods said. "I know we are a better team than what we showed Saturday. At Penn State we performed great, but it didn't carry over to this event. When I talk to the women next, I will talk about how we didn't show up, and how we can improve for our next match."
The men's and women's B teams were also in action as they traveled to Robert Wesleyan on Saturday. The men finished second out of nine teams. Sophomore Nick Pardee placed third in 26:08 to pace the Knights. Freshman Chris Moore and sophomore Ben Peterson were the sixth and seventh harriers to finish, as Moore crossed the line in 26:32, and Peterson followed in 26:38. Senior Tim Kramer was ninth in 26:51 and sophomore David Szymkowiak finished 12th in 27:08 to round out the scoring runners for Geneseo.
The women's second team did nearly as well, placing fifth out of 10 teams. The next meet for both teams will be Geneseo's lone home race of the year on Oct. 3 at Letchworth State Park as the Knights host 27 other teams for the Geneseo Invitational.


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A few things of note about our last two days on the road. We stopped to get root beers at the site of the World's Largest Rocker on historic route 66. Historic route 66, for those of you who don't know, runs in a much straighter line than either of us can draw from Chicago to Santa Monica. At various points on our journey we have followed it's route, several times in the wrong direction for a westward migration.
We then stop at the Cahokia mounds historic site, just outside of St. Louis, MO. The mounds are the largest archeological site in the Americas north of Mexico. There are mounds like this scattered all over the American Bottom, but the mounds at Cahokia are the remains of a great Mississipian culture, a sprawling city on the flood plains of the Mississippi river. The tallest mound (otherwise known as Monk's mound, because a bunch of Trappist monks took up residence there) has three terraced levels, and from the top you can see St. Louis and a wide swath of the Mississippi valley. You can also see quite a few locals running up the steps for a good cardio workout. It's the perfect place for a self-timer photograph.
We stayed in the glorious little town of Litchfield, IL, where we wanted to eat dinner at Ariston's, a legendary Greek cafe on Route 66, but it was closed on Mondays, so we tucked our tails between our legs, choked back our disappointment, and ate at Pizza Hut, which began our extended meditation on the question: "If you grew up in Litchfield, IL, what do you think you would do?" That question stayed with us through our surprisingly decent breakfast at Denny's the next morning. One of us said they would have done 4-H. One of us said they would have driven a low-slung muscle car.
On our way from Litchfield to Milwaukee, we drove through or by both of our Ancestral homelands (my paternal homeland of Springfield, IL, her maternal homeland of Winetka, IL). We stopped in Springfield, IL to get a coffee at Starbucks and to fill up our gas tank. We noticed a giant smoke stack (a kind of theme out here in the Heart of the Heart of the Country) looming over the town as we got back on the highway. We didn't actually see Winetka, IL, but we waved to it out the window from the I-294 toll road as we zipped by.
We will have more to report about Milwaukee tomorrow. So far it has been a very exciting (and musical) city.


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And some great news: the first interview on the new site will be with Jim James of My Morning Jacket. So stay tuned. We'll be back soon!
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Sins of the Solar Empire: Rebellion will be getting it's very first DLC called "Forbidden Worlds". The DLC will add things like new planet types, new planet specialization, technologies, planetary bonuses and additional Steam achievements.
The Official Feature list is as noted below:
• Four new planet types to colonize and exploit (Barren, Ferrus, Greenhouse, Oceanic), each created with beautiful high-res textures.
• New Planet Specialization System: Dedicate your worlds to either social or industrial output. Devoting your planet to social improvements will increase its population and culture, at the cost of trade income and ship production. Choosing an industrial path will limit your growth and culture, but make your planet a trading and ship building powerhouse.
• 15 new research subjects allow the races to conquer and expand onto the forbidden worlds.
• Discover 40 new planet bonuses during your exploration of the galaxy, unlocking the dark past of the Sins' universe.
• Unlock five new Steam Achievements and display your mastery of forbidden space!
The new DLC The Forbidden Worlds will be available direct as well as on Steam, GameStop, GamersGate and GameFly. It is slated for release on the 5th of June and will go for $4.99. For more info hit up the games website here.


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Custom param lets you categorize your survey respondents with a tag. You can use this to monitor the responses and identify how each category of users responded to your questions.
For instance, you are running a global survey and you want to track the responses relevant to each country. You can create any number of categories (countries in this example) and monitor the responses that falls under each category using Custom Param. Likewise, you may track the location, source, or name of survey takers using Custom Param feature.
You can do this by adding a custom variable and passing along the variable with survey URL as key and value pair. SurveySparrow will submit this as a hidden value and let you monitor the survey results based on these categories.
Let's see how it works:
- Click on the globe icon placed at the top to add new custom variable. For example, add '$country' to the question to create your custom variable.
Enter the custom variable in your question.
2. Pass the variable and its key by adding it (?variable=value) manually to the end of the URL. You can do this by typing '?product=macbook' at the end of the URL for respondents who purchased macbook.
3. These hidden variables are tracked by SurveySparrow as you share the URL with your respondent groups.
4. In the survey results, under Reports, you can see the custom column with the responses relevant to the variable you set.
5. You can now download these responses in Excel or CSV format and proceed to slice and dice the data.


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- Band:
- Kreator
- Relase date:
- June 19, 1989
- Label:
- Noise International
- Production/Genre:
- Burns Randy
- Media:
- Album
Extreme Aggression tracks
Extreme aggressions
From an extremely insane mind
Resting unconscious
Pushed up by white lines
Inhuman violence
I never thought it would come this far
Sadistic intensions
My greed for blood is growing more
And more
Extreme aggressions
Seeing you suffer brings pleasure to me
Extreme aggressions
My aggressions became too extreme to be
Kept under control
From the darkest part of my brain
I still can't believe it
Am I really insane?
You scream from your torment
As I commit my my heartless crime
I hear you pleading
But no one hears the screams
Of this soul of mine
Extreme aggressions
Ruling your life means nothing to me
Extreme aggressions
My aggressions became too extreme to be kept under control
Society, what have you done to me
Society, bring you to your knees
Once before I die
Now that I have lost the will to live
Once before I die
I'll want to take revenge on
Those who've led me to these
Extreme aggressions
My emotions, twisted by your lies
Extreme aggressions
Condemned my soul to hell for all time
Growing up like any other child
Like millions of others before
A statistic living exactly
By the norm
Don't need to think about
Future now
It's already decided for you
You got all you need
So don't ask for more
Existing like the rest
In endless emptiness
Manipulated slaves
From the womb until the grave
You never had a chance
They put you in a trance
Against your will
No reason to exist
Life is controlled
No way to resist
No reason to exist
There has to be a reason to exist
Year by year and day by day
You feel the need to escape
You realize that you're
Not the same
But you're too uncertain
To make a step
Away from their false truth
But remember how fast you
Lose the years of youth
Existing like the rest
In endless emptiness
Manipulated slaves
From the womb until the grave
You never had a chance
They put you in a trance
Against your will
No reason to exist
Life is controlled
No way to resist
No reason to exist
There has to be a reason to exist
The only way to fight the system is to keep a state of mind
Old enough to draw conclusions
Young enough to see the light
Only you can know what's right for you
Only you can know what you should do
Find the courage to make your own way
Follow it, don't waste your life away
The only way to fight the system is to keep a state of mind
Old enough to draw conclusions
Young enough to see the light
Only you can know what's right for you
Only you can know what you should do
Find the courage to make your own way
Follow it, don't waste your life away
Do you really believe you were put in a corpse to obey?
Don't let them rule, don't let them take your life away
Don't waste your life, don't be a slave
No reason to exist
Life is controlled
No way to resist
No reason to exist
There has to be a reason to exist
Don't try to tell us
What is right for us
We don't give a fuck anyway
Don't try to steal
Imagination from us
Things we believe
We will never betray
Those who has the power to
Suck us dry - throw us away
Those who never could create
Destroy the music of today
Those devoid of any feeling
Those who make the compromise
Betray themselves to make a deal
Sell their soul at any price
Sounds without feeling,
Energy of agressions
From money hungry brains
And not from the heart
Fortune, fame and glory
Are their obssessions
Salesman, deaf to music
Blind to art
No honesty, just sterility
A cautious sound they make
Without creativity
It's still the same
As another age
When they took the words
Of truth and put them
To a flame
No more
Love us or hate us
No more
Love us or hate us
Some have eyes
And still can't see
Their plastic noise is
Anything but music to me
Mechanized and computerized
Switch off your brain and
Make sounds that dehumanize
Don't try to take our dreams
Away from us
We will never be like you
Love us or hate us
It doesn't matter to me
We don't want to be a part
Of this sick society
Those who have a passion to
Will never change our way of life
We may not think the way you do
But we know that we are right
Those who want to form a world
Of friends and monotony
Have to do it without us
Cause we always be free
There is no difference
Between death and life
Just a circle to be
Closed by time
Creatures comforts in this
Earthly plane
Have become more hallowed
Than wisdom today
In the stream of consciousness
We cannot see the truth
Play your role so perfectly
No matter which life we choose
Emotional terror confusing
Our minds
Love and hate keeping us blind
Pretend death is the
End of the line
Expect reward in paradise
Living in an ice age,
Emotions gone numb
The truth once so near
But now so far away
So turn another page
Get our daily work done
All the nightmares are clear
And happening today
Mindless fools obey all rules
Lost all worth, born to serve
Emotinal terror confusing
Our minds
Hate and love is keeping us blind
Creature comforts in this
Earthly plane
Have become more hallowed
Than wisdom today
There is no differnce between
Death and life
Just a circle to be
Closed by time
Pretend death is
The end of the line
Intense devastation of nature
Constructing a future for a man
The world is sold dirt cheap
For promises no one can ever keep
There is no hope, just decay
Creation leads only to chaos
The seas full of tears they've created
A new kind of pain that lasts forever
The very first years of your life
Mother makes things right
But soon you just cannot deny
This is only a lie
We live in a world of
Hate and deceit,
Corruption and greed
Just wait my friend, you will see
Misery's coming your way, horror
And pain reserved for you
Some pain will last, last forever
Some pain will last
Eternal slaves of morbid minds
Helpless and blind
Dealers of heartless oppression
Controlling mankind
Resistance is quelled, its birth
Incomplete, no chance to succeed
And those, those who don't care
If you live or die
Are never around to shoulder the blame
Some pain will last, last forever
Some pain will last
Time, time flies fast you will feel
Still a child tomorrow you'll be
A man full of hopes and dreams
Dreams are destroyed easily!
So easily, dreams are destroyed so easily!
Prepare, prepare for some pain
Yet Unknown
Planned and arranged for so long
Chemical mutants arise
A generation born just to die
Born just to die, A whole generation
Born just to die!
Walking on thin ice
Lost in the storm's eye
Desolated oceans that one day
Were teeming with life
They conquered all the forests
And plundered all the seas
They tortured our souls and minds
With a pain that will last forever
This is a song in which
I use to describe what I feel
About people like you
No sense for humanity,
No idea about life
This premise has been proved
You used my trust to
Satisfy your brainless lust
Your word isn't worth more
Than puke in a dust
Misleader, you twisted things
To satisfy
Deceiver, this greedy lust
You can't deny you can't deny
How could I be so naive
To believe all the lies
You so easily told
I think I've learned my lesson
Too late
The story took time to unfold
Now I see your true face
Behind your mask, a cheat, a fake
Your word isn't worth than
Puke in a dust
Ignorant twisted mind, maybe it
Would help
To think before you speak
From time to time
Pretend to be a friend of mine
But you would sell
Your mother if you could
For less than a dime
Intelligence lost, brain deceased,
So you will lose,
Fall to your kness
Guys like you I cannot stand
Maybe I must speak
Another language
Before you understand
The only truth I've ever heard
Is the truth I've spoken myself
A pack of lies is all I get from
Anybody else
Experience shows that I'm right
So be careful what you choose to
You can't believe in nothing
Insane to trust in anything
So I don't trust in no one
But myself
What happened to your honesty
Did it take a back seat
To your greed
Forgotten cause you've
Found out you need to live a lie
And if you question why you have
A future without security
Just fear and lies and terror
No one can tell you why
Synthetic creatures ordered
And numbered
Unsympathic to everyone
Death of intelligence and
Preordained from death to day one
Lost trust in the future
Lost faith in prophecies
Lost truth in government promices
Lost hope for honesty
Young girl so sweet
And once so innocent
Your life so brutal,
True emotions suppressed
You scream , but he won't
Hear a word till
He's had his way
Victim of the cruelest
Kind of love
Against his urges there is
No defence
The one who gave you life
Stole your innocence
You want to be free at any cost
But you're chained by the shame
And everything seems to be lost
Bringer of torture
You're not afraid of dying
What could be worse
Than this life?
You're terrified of the pain
That always returns
Every night, every night
Insanity and terror,
Hand and hand
Till childhood dreams
Come to an end
This situation, so vile and insane,
Will never be over
He's coming back again,
Again and again
Lies, I can't stand these
Lies anymore
These tells about
A better world
A better world for you and me
Hate, our hate is growing,
That's for sure
Future thoughts till us with rage
Uncertainty about our fate
Cry out in fear of the future
Cry out in fear of the unknown
Cry out in fear of our planet
That the human race calls
Its own
And the gods are watching
From lofty places
Indifferent to you and me
They wonder if their
Humans can handle
The violent forces
Of fatal energy
Violence, cruel violence,
In the minds of all
The killer instinct
Is still intact
It never leaves our minds alone
Greed, our greed will
Cause us to fall
Destroy the land of unborn sons
I hear them cry, I hear them call
Screaming in desperation
Screaming from hunger and pain
Scream for relief from this misery
Searching for someone to blame
Easy, it's so easy to control
Our fate
Turn the world into a bomb
That destiny will detonate
Tomorrow, tomorrow it will be too late
When the children cry
In fear of death
A horrid death they can't escape
Crying tears of confusion
Crying for they don't understand
Crying because their young lives
Will be taken by their creator's
And the gods are watching
From lofty places
But Indifferent to you and me
The test is through, our world is destroyed
Destroyed by the fatal energy


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A team of NDSU researchers has been awarded a National Science Foundation–Smart and Connected Communities Grant to develop sustainable energy solutions.
Rajesh Kavasseri, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is the principal investigator. Other researchers include Malini Srivastava, assistant professor of architecture and landscape architecture; Dominic Fischer, assistant professor of architecture and landscape architecture; Dong Cao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering; and Qifeng Zhang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering.
According to the researchers, an estimated 1.2 billion people do not have access to electricity due to economic and environmental barriers that arise in conventional electrification.
This project brings together electrical engineers, architects, community planners and artists to envision the development of an ensemble of tools and technologies for low-cost, non-toxic, off-grid capable future household energy delivery systems. The research will integrate concepts from passive home design to develop a primarily-DC energy delivery system (unlike the primarily AC systems used currently) while integrating photovoltaic and energy storage systems using next-generation low-cost, high efficiency and earth-abundant materials.
"A community's cultural, environmental and ethical dimensions are sometimes easily overlooked in traditional energy planning solutions. We hope the project's multi-pronged research agenda can help integrate some of these issues and improve the quality of life in small, remote, and rural communities," Kavasseri said.
If successful, the concept will help support the design of cheaper off-grid residential systems in communities without access to transmission, improve the survivability of existing off-grid micro-grids in the wake of natural or system disasters and engage Native American communities from the Dakotas in the development of technologies and educational materials that reflect their conservationist ideals.
The grant number is CNS # 1737538.
As a student-focused, land-grant, research university, we serve our citizens.


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5 key Design elements in Chinese Medicine packaging
This is a title designed for the Chinese Deity Tam Kung. It is part of the larger 'Football Tribes_Hong Kong project', and the aim was to establish a style and direction for the rest of the project. The inspiration was Tradititional Chinese Medicine Packaging from HongKong, and the aim was to blend characteristics of this with the naiyo style. To do this, 5 elements commonly found in TCM packaging were identified.
1. Limited colour palette
A combination of cost and printing technology resulted in a limited colour palette in a lot of the old designs. This often resulted in a few vivid and highly contrasting colours, or a selection of more harmonious shades of one colour. I ended up choosing a harmonious colour scheme, as these titles will be used next to lots of other images. I wanted to contrast the titles against these other elements rather than high internal contrast by itself.
2. Vertical Structure
With the tall box shape of many packages, it is not surprising that the many designs feature a strong vertical structure. This usually consists of a circle with the image of the owner/illustration, and the name of the medicine descending down from this. It is the obvious way to maximise the space for clear and strong branding.
3. Image of owner/trademark
As mentioned above, images of the owner often graced the front of the packaging or as a trademark. It was very enjoyable to play on this element with a big smiling face of Tam Kung
4. Decorative borders
Many designs included ornate decorative borders, which I followed but adding a vintage ball motif in the design.
5. Ornate decorative flourishes
Another consistent feature were over the top flourishes that embellished the design. Common motifs were flowers and leaves entwined around the borders and typography. Tam Kung has the ability to influence the wind and rain, so a cloud like motif has been used instead of flora. The excessive, decorative nature of Traditional Chinese Medicine packaging is one of it's defining features and part of its charm.
Most of the research into this subject came from the excellent 'HONG KONG APOTHECARY - A visual history of Chinese Medicine Packaging', a super book for any designer. Also came across these Skateboards designed by Zhan Wei - a nice play on the aesthetic, and these designs by Benny Luk, which are not specifically Chinese medicine designs, but share some of the aesthetic feel.
For the FBT_HK project, these titles were successful in helping define a style for the project, and looking forward to developing it further as the project progresses


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Prototype: Platformer
The code itself is pretty straight forward, but there's a number of places that hard code entity placement based on the width or height of said entity. Since I don't want to use a 18px tall sprite for the player, for example, I had to make it so it was taking in the width and height of the actual sprite and compare it against the tile size. It wasn't hard, I just had to track it down in all the spots it was happening (keys, coins, enemies, player).
Anyway, the goal is to make a platformer like the one built into Alien Hominid. The theme would be Sadie rescuing me and other Shen family members from Mr. Peterson (the jealous cat that pees on things).
This game will come out one day.


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What we love
- High up in the Himalayan hills of Sikkim, stands a haven of peace and luxury, steeped in Sikkemese architectural design and style, cocooned by a bird sanctuary and the premier monastery in the area offering breathtaking views of the snow capped mountains beyond. Welcome to your abode of calm and serenity!
- Bordered by the countries of Nepal, Tibet and China, the architectural design and style of structures in Sikkim has been influenced from all these regions giving rise to a style that's distinctively unique. The earliest structures in Sikkim were monasteries, set up to promote Buddhism, that were built using a locking system of architecture to combat frequent earthquakes while intricate carved wood-work on the windows, balustrades and doors, distinguished the home of a person of importance from that of the common man. Here, you'll see the intricate monastic designs that skilled craftsman have created using stone and wood, resulting in a space that perfectly fuses the ancient and the modern.
- The bedrooms, designed after the quarters of a Buddhist monk, offer enchanting views of the Kanchendzonga range in the distance! Wake up to views of orange coloured peaks while lazing around in the wooded bedroom admiring relics and art that have passed the test of time. For an indulgent experience, replete with Sikkimese aesthetics, opt for the suites.
- Go on a trek around the resort, through small villages and age old trees. While on these refreshing walks, discover a recreated Lepcha tribal home with traditional wooden utensils.
What to know
- The resort has a traditional Sikkimese restaurant where you can sample a variety of local dishes - pakku - a traditional mutton curry served with rice, tama - a dish made from non fermented bamboo shoot, chhurpi-ningro - a curry made from wild edible ferns and cottage cheese! You must also try some of the local alcoholic beverages that play an important part in rituals and ceremonies in Sikkim. Try raksi - a distilled wine or chhang - a local beer imitation an the cozy bonfire set up under the light of the shimmering stars.
- Fresh organic ingredients as well as many food produce and rice used at the resort have been cultivated in the region; the vegetables, herbs and spices, cardamom, tea and fruits are grown in the resort garden. You can choose to relish your food indoors or choose to eat outside on the stone-paved patio with divine views of the valleys of West Sikkim.
- Get a relaxing and rejuvenating traditional herbal stone bath, dottho. Local herbs, tangsti and phuzhu, known for their healing properties, are released in the water - an experience that'll certainly be a balm for your tired body and soul.
- The hotel's owner is a visionary and a monk who turned into a renowned filmmaker. His passion for film-making and all things related to movies can be seen in various parts of the resort. There's even a private movie theatre in-house! Watch the classic film 'Sikkim' by Satyajit Ray while here perhaps?
- Internet is available only in the lobby area, though that too can be patchy more often than not.


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Sticker #7.5 (Feb Bonus!) - Artist: Regan Stewart
Regan Stewart is an Art History/French major living (mostly) in Portland. Her favorite dead people are Vincent van Gogh, George Harrison, Albrecht Dürer, Toulouse Lautrec, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. In her free time she enjoys watching independent films and speaking french (poorly). You can check her out on Instagram or on Twitter.


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Southern Spain: A Seafood Paradise
When you first think of Spain, it might be sun, sangria and siestas that spring to mind. However, in my opinion, one of the main attractions for visiting this sun-drenched European country is the food. Spanish people are passionate about what they eat, from the much-loved tapas found in bars all over the country to the large paellas cooked in traditional paelleras. The country has almost 5,000 km of coastline and so, seafood features prominently on every menu. While you can find the tasty fruta del mar wherever you travel, here we'll look at the unique quality of the dishes found in Southern Spain.
Seafood Market in Japan by Alex Knight CC0
You will find Gibraltar at Spain's southern-most tip of Europe, just nine sea miles away from the land of Africa. The proximity of these two continents has influenced the flavors and dishes found in this tiny place, introducing Moroccan spices to the blend of traditional British and Spanish cuisine most commonly eaten in Gibraltar. Grille53 is a relatively new enterprise in Marina Bay, serving high-quality scallops, prawns, octopus and more at an affordable price. Then just along the quayside, you'll find The Landings, a popular luxury restaurant with a broad array of expertly cooked seafood on offer. Surrounded by the sea, you can't help but find freshly caught seafood in this town.
Marbella is a city filled with delight. From the luxury yachts in the harbor to the miles of white sandy beaches to the exclusive parties and poker tournaments held there, it screams of good fun and good taste. This atmosphere extends into Marbella's cuisine, with plenty of fantastic eateries to choose from and tasty seafood always the dish of the day. Head to Chiringuito El Cable for a spot of people watching on the beach while you enjoy their delectable seafood paella. Or seek out Bar California for the best pescaíto frito (fried fish) around before strolling down to watch the waves crashing onto the perfect sandy shore.
Flying Fishes on the Ground by Erwan Hesry CC0
The city of Málaga is a hustling, bustling place filled with plenty of restaurants, cafes, bars and other eateries. But if you journey just a few miles up the coast, you'll come to the province of Pedregalejo. This small fishing village is the real deal when it comes to fresh fish, traditional recipes and an authentic atmosphere. Each restaurant has a specialty, and all of them are well worth trying at least once! I'd recommend making a day of it and trying to sample as much as you can. Back in the big city, you'll find fresh and tasty seafood everywhere from the casual Freidura Chupytira to the simple delights of Puro Pescaíto. The vibrant color of the environment is more than matched by the choice of dishes on offer, and you'll find the chefs passionate and enthusiastic about their work.
Seafood Paella by Kaitlin Dowis CC0
Heading further up the coast, you'll come to the smaller town of Almería. Upon arriving, you might think you've stumbled upon an old Hollywood film set, dressed to film the latest Clint Eastwood Western. Well, it may look reminiscent of the USA, but the food here is 100 percent Andalucían. The town's oldest bar Casa Puga still serves delicious grilled prawns where Restaurante Isleta del Moro condenses four family's worth of cooking knowledge into its menu, specializing in cuajadera and paella both. Not to be missed! It may not be an established destination for the tourist in Spain, but it should make your tour around the South on the hunt for the best seafood.
With so much to learn about Spanish cuisine, you're sure to be enlightened by the time you return home. The joy and pleasure found in food are celebrated throughout Spain, but it's in the South where the "fruits of the sea" come into their own. How could they not with the Mediterranean right on the doorstep?
Featured photo: Food by Ting Tian CC0


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CINEMA CLASSICS: Aliens (1986)
With Alien: Covenant on the way, Oscar revisits James Cameron's guns-blazing sequel.
Who made it?: James Cameron (Director/Writer), Gale Ann Hurd (Producer), 20th Century Fox.
Who's in it?: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton.
Tagline: "This Time It's War!"
IMDb rating: 8.4/10 (Top 250 #65).
As fitting from James Cameron's film library, Aliens is to Alien what Terminator 2: Judgment Day is to The Terminator, even down to transitioning from sci-fi horror to sci-fi action. Despite this genre shift, I find the emphasis on terror and suspense over gore and shock value more preferable, because the emotional range isn't just fear but also excitement and humour. It might be a bit more accessible, but the suspenseful heart of the first film isn't compromised. For this review, I will look at the longer "Special Edition", as it is Cameron's preferred version.
For fifty-seven years, Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) drifted through deep space in the USCSS Nostromo's escape shuttle before being retrieved by a salvage team. She is debriefed by her employers at the Weyland-Yutani Corporation over the destruction of the Nostromo, and are dismissive of her claims that an alien killed the ship's crew and forced her to destroy the vessel, revoking her flight license. Suffering constant nightmares with her career in ruins, and grieved by the loss of her daughter, Ripley's life is all but over.
On LV-426, now home to the terraforming colony Hadleys Hope, a travelling family come across the alien ship discovered by the crew of the Nostromo. When contact is lost, Weyland-Yutani representative Carter Burke (Paul Reiser) and Colonial Marine Lieutenant Gorman (William Hope) ask Ripley to join Burke and a Colonial Marine unit to investigate the disturbance as a consultant. Ripley initially refuses, but she relents and makes Burke promise to exterminate, and not study, the aliens. Aboard the spaceship USS Sulaco, she is introduced to the aforementioned Marines, including Sergeant Apone (Al Matthews), Corporal Hicks (Michael Biehn), Private Vasquez (Jeanette Goldstein), and Private Hudson (Bill Paxton). Among them is the android Bishop (Lance Henrikssen), toward whom Ripley is initially hostile following her experience with the treacherous android Ash aboard the Nostromo. They arrive at LV-426, but the Marines finds themselves overwhelmed by the horror of the "Xenomorphs" and Ripley has to come to terms with being a leader before they're all hunted down and killed.
The acting is solid all around. Weaver was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Ripley, and it's fully deserved in how she handles the softer, motherly moments and various badass scenes. Biehn is believably earnest as Hicks. Paxton's Hudson is easily one of his best roles, a swaggering, sarcastic dick with more bravado than guts. Reiser does a really convincing job as the seemingly considerate and harmless Burke, effectively giving off the impression of being too nice for his own good. Having a stand-up comedian play a character nobody would suspect as a bad egg was inspired casting. Henriksen is wry and sarcastic but believably characterised as a self-aware synthetic lifeform. Matthews and Goldstein are both enjoyable badasses with comedic chemistry with the other Marines, and Hope is more of the straight man to the more eccentric Marines as the weak, inexperienced officer. Carrie Henn, despite her lack of acting experience, is remarkably well-cast as sole colony survivor Newt, nailing the look and behaviour of a traumatised child and making the intergenerational friendship with Ripley play.
The cinematography by Adrian Biddle is sublime, with sharp contrasts between darkness and intense but sparse light, ranging from fiery oranges to cold pale shafts. The added on-set lighting blends amazingly well with the background plates. Despite the film's reputation of being frontloaded with action, Aliens is still just as rich with atmosphere as its predecessor, with a cold, steely blue palette and hard-edged surfaces. It might be an overused clichè to describe a setting as "gritty", but here it is is a vital component to why the film works. Even the visible celluloid grain adds to the tangibility of the picture. The action is shot at fairly close quarters, holding to the claustrophobic nature of the setting and making things way more tense for the audience. Time has been kind to the miniatures and rear-projection work; they look amazing even to this day.
Another outstanding aspect of this film is the practical visual effects, because they hold up splendidly! The Powerloader exoskeleton was created by John Richardson, while the fully-articulated face-huggers and alien Queen were brought to life by Stan Winston. The epic finale between the Powerloader and the Queen was augmented by cranes, control rods and cables, with a stuntman behind the Powerloader moving the arms and legs, as well as two puppeteers operating the multiple arms of the Queen. Some scenes had miniatures of the loader and the Queen, such as when they fall into the airlock. The matte paintings are highly-detailed and still hold up well today. The miniatures maintain a consistent sense of scale, seeming large and powerful. Better still, it's all filmed in-camera; nothing in that fight was generated in post like so much VFX in 2017.
The score by James Horner is an aggressive, angry and brutal one, being full of sharp dissonances and nerve-shredding suspense. It makes effective use of ominous horns and threatening military drums. Horner's score is perhaps more versatile in its approach than Jerry Goldsmith's work on the original, nailing both the horror aspects by creating a more threatening orchestral setting and being more uplifting for the rousing action cues in the finale. While I wouldn't necessarily call this one of Horner's most sophisticated or emotional soundtracks, it is still a feat of composition considering the limited time he had to work with.
Aliens succeeds as a faithful follow-up to Alien, successfully expanding on the lore of Ridley Scott's classic, never rehashing the formula. This is an example of sequel escalation done brilliantly, there are more humans, aliens, sets, weapons, vehicles, deaths, effects, and set-pieces, and yet none of it feels like gratuitous excess for its own sake. It is all a logical extension of what we saw in the first film. The behaviour of the Xenos is just as creepy and as hard to read as in the first film, making them unpredictable and intimidating enemies.
Despite the underlying context in their characterisations, I really love the supporting cast as each of the Marines has a lot of personality and some hidden depths, making for a more entertaining dynamic than the previous crew of "truckers in space." The tone and look of the film borrows from Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers, with the references to terms such as "bug hunt" and "the drop", as well as the cargo-loader exoskeleton taking cues from the mech-suits featured in that story. In a way, this is a more faithful and overall better adaptation of Starship Troopers than the more satirical Paul Verhoeven film! The subtext of the Vietnam War is also present in the attitudes of the soldiers towards a technologically less-advanced faction, and is represented in the look of the ships and ground vehicles; the drop ship in particular looks like the F4 Phantom 2 and the AH1 Cobra, which were frequently deployed at the time. As such, the hubristic approach to the Marines' expedition is in full-force, leaving them ignorant to Ripley's advice and experience. This is something that we have sadly seen in modern military history.
Ripley's arc has multiple layers, including coping with the loss of her daughter and colleagues, adjusting to a new time period and accepting her role as a fighter with a maternal streak. While absent in the theatrical cut, the inclusion of Ripley's deceased child is vital to her arc, particularly with regards to her treatment of Newt. The additional scenes at Hadleys Hope give some character to the colony, as well as introducing Newt earlier on. Both of these serve a purpose in setting up the attack and getting to know Newt before the shit hits the fan. Ripley is ultimately a badass, but she's not some thinly-written macho woman; she's just as fragile and emotional as the rest of us. Her motherly tendencies are depicted as a strength, tempered by a headstrong attitude and determination to fight on, allowing Ripley to convincingly hold the team together. Over the course of the film, Ripley and Newt become a surrogate mother and daughter unit after being directly and indirectly affected by the aliens. Indeed, the Queen is the mirror opposite of Ripley as the mother figure of her own brood and is just as determined to ensure the survival of her own species.
There's so much to chew on with this film. A particularly unhinging aspect of Burke is how he isn't outwardly insane in his plans to weaponise the aliens, and could pass for a perfectly average, well-meaning guy on the street. But that also makes you think that men like him could be anyone, anywhere. This not only enhances the underlying corruption and moral horror of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, but it puts the human side of the conflict under serious scrutiny. While these ideas were introduced in Alien, the sequel furthers this to a more satisfying degree. At least the aliens do what they are born to do for the survival of their race, something that cannot be said for Burke.
Throughout this review, I have probably made it no secret that I hold this film in very high regard, perhaps marginally above Alien even. But I fully acknowledge that its iconic and influential predecessor is the reason why the sequel exists. As a guy who normally prefers Ridley Scott as a director to James Cameron, I have to hand it to him for crafting what I would readily call a superior sequel and a masterpiece of science fiction and action films.
Best Scene
Ripley: Action Hero.
Useless Trivia
(Via IMDb)
- Sigourney Weaver's Best Actress Academy Award nomination for this movie was the first ever for an actress in a role in an action movie.
- The alien nest set was kept intact after filming. It was later used as the Axis Chemicals set for Batman (1989). When the crew first entered the set, they found most of the alien nest still intact.
- The knife trick scene was not in the original shooting script. According to Lance Henriksen, the adding of Hudson's hand to the knife trick was discussed with almost everyone, except Bill Paxton.
Like most films, the movie wasn't shot in sequence. But for added realism, James Cameron filmed the scene where we first meet the Colonial Marines (one of the earliest scenes) last. This was so that the camaraderie of the Marines was realistic because the actors had spent months filming together.
When filming the scene with Newt in the duct, Carrie Henn kept deliberately blowing her scene so she could slide down the vent, which she later called a slide three stories tall. Cameron finally dissuaded her by saying that if she completed the shot, she could play on it as much as she wanted. She did, and he kept his promise.


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About Busta Rhymes
One of the most interesting questions in the rap world has been what the actual amount of Busta Rhymes net worth is. The question was answered recently and it was stated that his net worth reaches 60 million dollars, which is a reasonable amount of money for a rapper like he is. Busta Rhymes whose real name is Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., was born and grew up in New York. In addition to his rapping career, Busta Rhymes is also a songwriter,
producer and an actor. Talking about his rapping career more, Busta Rhymes has released eight albums. Seven of them have been ranked as Golden and Platinum, which also added huge sumes of money to the total amount of Busta Rhymes net worth.
In 2011, Busta Rhymes released his ninth album which also was a huge success and the sales of it went really good. Not everything about his career revolves around his net worth. While being involved into rapping career, Busta Rhymes also developed a sense of pride and accomplishment, which is really important in the hip-hop music world. As a rapper, Busta Rhymes is known for his high speed lyrics and music and the use of slant and internal rhyme. These are the things which make him different from the other rapping artists. Busta Rhymes started his career in the rapping group called "A Tribe Called Quest", which added first sums of money into the overall amount of Busta Rhymes net worth.
One of the songs from the album entitled "The Low End Theory" has a song in it called "Scenario" and it has been evaluated as the best song in the album which makes the audience stand up and go nuts. The reason for that is that Busta Rhymes delivers a climatic verse in that song. However, the tension started to be felt in the group which is said to be because of the growing popularity of Busta Rhymes and the group finally split up on the set of the MTV program called "Yo MTV Raps".
After the separation from the group, Busta Rhymes continued his career as a solo artist involved in rapping. Moreover, he tried his acting skills in films such as "Strapped" and "Higher Learning". Since that time, Busta Rhymes produced and released many successful solo albums, including the one called "The Big Bang" which was his first number one album. The sales of it added a huge amount of money to Busta Rhymes net worth.