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Okay, short post here to let everyone know I'm still alive! I've been transcribing quite a bit lately, and doing a few reviews for stroller.com Now, I'm off to the store, and I'm still only going on about five hours total of sleep at night. Going to doctor tomorrow to see what's up. I'll give you an update tomorrow! Hugs to all, and I'm still drinking a really good cup of coffee thanks to my PUR Water Filtration Pitcher. Oh, and I did send our Village Hall another e-mail because I'm trying to get some answers. It went something like this:
April 14, 2010
Dear Sir or Madam:
I am a curious citizen, and a blogger, and first of all I want to say I'm NOT trying to create waves. I'm just trying to get some answers.
I did a post on my blog regarding my coffee, and what it looked like. I asked everyone in my blogging community if they knew what it was & what I should do. Almost everyone said check the water. Well, I did and I wrote another post praising PUR Water Filtration Company. I have before and after pictures of my coffee posted if you'd care to see. http://thenewxmasdolly.blogspot.com/2010/03/whats-in-my-coffee-part-ii-solution-pur.html
The PUR Water Filtration Company was nice enough to send me a new pitcher free to do my experiments with the water, plus I did a give-away for my readers. PUR company's website is amazing in what they do for the citizens world, and for our water (i.e. Haiti). I'm wondering maybe they make some sort of filter for a plant for a city. A filter that is supposed to last two months or so lasted me about a month.
As far as the water pipes in our home they are brand new as of a year and a half ago. Is there anything you can tell me about our City's water that I should know about? Maybe send me some pamphlets. I sure would appreciate it to cure my curiosity. Thank you so very much.
So, we'll see if we hear from anyone this time. Have a great day my friends
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One our teachers, Chris, tells us about moving into a new house and the difficulties with renting and buying property in London…
Living in London is expensive. Renting a room in Central London makes it even more expensive! That's one of the reasons my fiancé and I decided to move. We're also not getting any younger, and we wanted to live by ourselves. Therefore, we thought it would be sensible to buy a flat outside London.
We soon found out that buying a property in the UK is incredibly complicated. Many of my property-owning friends told me that it's one of the most stressful things you can do in your life (alongside organising a wedding, of course!).
I won't go into too much detail, but the process of buying a property in the UK is generally a little different to other countries. The procedure is that you have to:
1. Make an offer to the seller.
2. Choose a mortgage with a bank or building society.
3. Hire a lawyer to liaise with the seller and write up a contract.
4. Have a survey of the property done, and make sure the property doesn't have any structural problems.
5. Negotiate a price with the seller (if the property has structural problems).
6. Exchange contracts with the seller.
7. Pay the mortgage for the rest of your life!
To put it mildly, it's a bit of a nightmare. Everything takes a long time, and sometimes the lawyers and agents don't reply to your emails on time. In our case, it took about three months to get everything sorted out. The problem is that, before you exchange contracts (number 6), you have no legal protection. A person I know paid a lot of money to the lawyers to write up the contract, but before the person could sign, someone else had made another offer for the house. The other was accepted, and so this person lost the money they paid to the lawyers. Ridiculous!
Luckily for us, we have been through the most stressful part of the process. Last weekend, I organised a "man with a van" to help me move all of our possessions to the new flat. After a lot of packing and heavy lifting, we managed to move everything. Now to find suitable furniture!
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WM Motor to Pick up CNY billions in Series C Funding This Month
WM Motor, a China's Electric Vehicle maker, is set to close its a new round of financing this month, according to an internal letter by CEO and founder of WM Motor SHEN Hui.
WM Motor, a China's Electric Vehicle maker, is set to close its a new round of financing this month, according to an internal letter by CEO and founder of WM Motor SHEN Hui (Freeman SHEN, 沈晖).
The company was reported to raise at least CNY 2 billion (USD 288.33 million) in its latest funding round, valuing the firm at over CNY 20 billion, WM said the size of the latest fundraising would exceed 3 billion yuan and the proceeds would be used in "developing new phase of R&D, customer experience and services", reported by Reuters.
Rumors said this round of funding can be led by Baidu, which has invested in series B in 2017. At CES 2019, WM Motor announced the strategic partnership with Baidu to jointly develop on Level 3 autonomous driving solutions which will be mass produced by 2021 (see more in this article).
WM's co-founder and senior VP LU Bin has released "Customer-focused Platform" strategy last December, marking the start of the company's reconstruction, according to SHEN in the letter. Feb 28, the company launched the First Annual Smart Mobility Dealerships Meeting. LU Bin claimed that smart mobility dealerships will provide not only sales and after-sale services but also mobility service in the future. WM has signed agreements with 50 dealerships, covering around 50 cities in China. The company expects the number to grow to one hundred at the end of 2019.
Nio, an NYSE-listed Chinese EV manufacturer opened its seventh Nio House in Shanghai in July 2018, trying to lure wealthy Chinese customers to buy its luxury car. Tesla, on the other hand, is implementing the online sales strategy. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said last Thursday the company will be reducing headcount in sales, and closing most of its retail stores, which caught many investors and even employees by surprise, reported by Blomberg.
The company has more than 3,000 talents in its team and SHEN announced two important executives have joined. The company's Chief Data Officer MEI Songlin (梅松林), former J.D.Power's VP, will be in charge of data application and customer-focused refined operations. LIU Xianzhi (刘宪志) was appointed as the company's VP, who leads WM's auto finance, fundraising, and management operations.
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RICS is committed to setting and upholding highest standards of professional excellence and integrity – providing impartial, authoritative advice affecting business and society. As a knowledge manager and think tank, RICS looks to provide significant and substantive inputs to Government policy and advocacy and brings together key industry stakeholders (Government, Developers, Occupiers, Lenders, Financers, Investors, Suppliers, and Consultants etc.) for our thought leadership initiatives, which take the form of industry conferences and leadership forums. These events discuss and debate important policy and regulatory matters, along with market trends, opportunities and challenges that shape the built environment sector.
RICS recently set-up a Leadership Forum on Corporate Real Estate & Facility Management, to create a collaborative and participative platform that will aide in steering and leading the dialogue on key issues related to the sector and its professionals. Forum members comprise of senior industry professionals, who are experts and leaders in their respective field and can help provide the organisation with sound business advice and bring fresh ideas, in order for RICS to be an 'advocate of change' and address key industry issues, leverage important relationships and embed standards at the very heart of the sector.
As part of this framework 'Colliers International' will be Knowledge Partner for the key leadership forums and a large industry conference that RICS plans to organise this year in the CRE & FM sector, as part of its calendar of events. These events will take place across Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. The partnership with Colliers will aide in highlighting the importance and relevance of Corporate Real Estate in India and how its leading the performance of the overall realty sector and contributing to economic growth. The focus will also be on the changing face of facility management professionals and services, and how it's evolving and impacting realty businesses.
Commenting on the partnership, Nimish Gupta FRICS, MD-South Asia, RICS said "RICS looks forward to forging an even stronger collaboration with Colliers International, through this partnership, where we are keen to generate ideas and discussions that are relevant, thought provoking, actionable, and research-backed. Through our leadership forums and industry conferences, we will draw on the intelligence and expertise of Colliers as a recognised and respected authority in the domain, to answer relevant and persistent questions to address the current concerns & future challenges in CRE & FM. Through this partnership, we are looking to deliver knowledge and value that will help shape the future of the sector."
RICS conferences and events provide a unique platform to showcase ideas and knowledge and we are extremely pleased to be working with Colliers International to explore specific trends that lie within the corporate real estate and facility management domains; discuss enablers and disruptors of business; and focus on policy, reform, standards and professionalism in the sector. Colliers is ideally placed to share expert insights and knowledge on the CRE & FM domain through reports and white papers, which will be produced in their capacity as Knowledge Partner.
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Enterprise Theme
I'm currently testing the new Enterprise Theme http://shimworld.wordpress.com/ and found a couple of issues which I have written to support about. I have 10 pages only 7 currently show while the other 3 are tucked under the bar somewhere below Home | Contact Me | About. The bar on the right presently shows 3 categories which I cannot or don't know how to disable (perhaps through CSS?)
The blog I need help with is shimworld.wordpress.com.
[Moderation Notice] This topic thread has been merged over to the themes forum.
Also…The header text still seems to show up on every page, except home, when you turn it off and use an image for a header instead.
@shimworld: Apparently the theme can only accomodate a single row of page tabs; it's not the only one with that limitation. And you'd be interested to know that in some browsers your blog shows up like that:
I did indeed.
Wow, that's not cool. :(
Switching back to P2 for now.
@feetfan then I suggest contacting staff directly since this theme is still new and may have bugs that still need to be ironed out. » http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
Should I also contact support.. on the findings that I have on it… though several seem to be ( browser ) related… the problem is… I like Firefox, and strangely, this template works better on IE???
I'm using Firefox 3.6.4 and it display well for me.
1. The top horizontal menu displays static Page tabs with dropdowns to Child Pages.
2. Immediately beneath it in the second row of that horizontal menu Categories are displayed.
@sonsothunder, I checked out you're site with the dev version of Google Chrome and Firefox 3.6.4 and the site seems to load and display just fine
I did notice your top post the wording is in all bold. Is this what you're referring to ?
He's tried a few themes now and he made the text blog himself by coding into the HTML editor.
I just viewed the theme in IE8 and it display fine too.
I have activated enterprise and so far the only glitch so far is that my nestled page only drops down from the parent page on fox and not ie8 .
http://www.sdnovascotian.ca The page is 'little moments' and it has 'test' nestled. Still testing. I really like this one, I hope it can be ironed out.
@shimworld The issue with header text in Enterprise has been resolved. I'll be taking a look at your other issues in the next little bit. Also, you can gain some control over the layout and total length of menu items by making some of your top-level pages child pages of a parent page in the Edit Page screen.
@knitvision The header drop-downs for your "Little Moments" page is working correctly for me in IE8. Are they working now?
Sort of.. I have a 2nd test page nestled and it is hidden behind the category header.
That is probably why when I go to move my cursor down to click on the first test page below cat header it disconnects and I am unable to click on it.
I'm contemplating a switch to Enterprise as well since it's pretty much exactly what I've been looking for these last couple of years. I can attest @themeshaper his advice is sound. I had to shorten the title of some of my pages and nest some of the more closely related ones and I now have a design that looks good to me.
BUT, into every life some rain must fall. @timethief has stated, there is that second nav bar that displays categories. If I could just find a way to turn off that nav bar so that it would just be a nice looking static bar, I'd be happier than a pig in mud. As it is, you will be very limited on the number of categories you can use without messing up your layout.
Does anyone know of a way to cut that bottom bar off?
Don't throw tomatoes :) but I like that display of categories in the horizontal menu. I believe Enterprise is the only theme of the 86 or so of them that is coded to provide that feature for Category display in the horizontal menu.
I don't know how to remove it, and if it's coded into the underlying template as I expect that it is then even CSS editing will not remove it. The Theme team can you give a definitive answer when one of them post to this thread again.
@timethief I agree with you. I like the horizontal cat menu. I don't know how to make it better so I can live with it.
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The author of the controversial bitcoin stock-to-flow (S2F) price model said that at current prices the S2F model is "perfectly on track." S2F shows the price could hit around $30,000 by the year's end and by August 2021 prices could be $100,000 per bitcoin. The crypto asset bitcoin (BTC) is up over 24% over the last 30 days and up more than 16% during the last 90 days. BTC touched a 2020 high of just above $12,000 per coin before tumbling 10.9% last Sunday. With the price giving traders optimism…Read More
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Bitfinex Offers $400 Million in Rewards to Get Back 120,000 Stolen Bitcoins
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is offering rewards of up to $400 million to the hackers who stole almost 120,000 bitcoins from its platform in 2016 as well as anyone putting it in touch with the hackers. Up to $400 Million Reward for the Recovery of Stolen Bitcoins Bitfinex announced on Tuesday that it is offering up to $400 million in rewards for the recovery of almost 120,000 bitcoins that were stolen from its platform in August 2016. Not only is the exchange offering a reward to any persons connecting it with…Read More
Bitcoin Cash Difficulty Algorithm Debate Heats Up With Fears of Another Chain Split
With a touch more than three months left until the next Bitcoin Cash upgrade, crypto proponents have been witnessing a new quarrel rise after last year's contentious Infrastructure Funding Proposal (IFP). This time around, the tensions derive from the Difficulty Algorithm Adjustment (DAA) discussion which is a conversation about replacing the network's current DAA. Every six months the BCH community plans for an upgrade and this coming November, a number of users are concerned about another chain split. There is a lot of infighting within the community at present and…Read More
Orchid: Bringing Decentralization to VPNs
Whenever we browse the web, read news online, or purchase a new pair of glasses from an e-commerce store, we leave traces. These traces sometimes show us content that actually provides us with value, but more often the information we leave is used in concerning ways with scandals like Cambridge Analytica just forming the tip of the iceberg. Fortunately, tools like VPNs allow everyone to easily gain more privacy and increase the security of their network connection. A VPN (a virtual private network) sends your data through an encrypted tunnel…Read More
Genesis Reports Q2 Crypto Loans Spiked 118% to $1.4 Billion Amid Rising Yield Farming Interest
Genesis Capital said Tuesday that its total number of loans outstanding more than doubled to $1.4 billion for the second quarter to June, up from $649 million three months earlier. The crypto lender, which targets institutional investors and wealthy individuals, added over $2.2 billion in new originations, an increase of 324% year-on-year. Since the launch of the business in March 2018, Genesis has originated nearly $8.4 billion in loans, the bulk of which are denominated in bitcoin (BTC) and cash. For the review quarter, BTC loans increased, accounting for 51%…Read More
Ripple Says Over-The-Counter XRP Sales Soared 1,700% to $33 Million in Q2
Ripple has reported that over-the-counter sales of its XRP digital currency soared 1,760% to $32.55 million during the second quarter of this year. That figure compares with sales of $1.75 million posted the previous quarter, according to an earnings release published August 3. Ripple said programmatic sales – third party trading which was stopped late 2019 following a string of declining XRP sales – remain on hold. But XRP volumes took a severe knock. For the April to June quarter, Ripple reported average daily volume plunged 40% to 196.3 million…Read More
Crypto Derivatives Set New Records, ETH Futures Set All-Time Highs, CME Open Interest Spikes
Digital currency derivatives have been on fire during the last two weeks as ethereum futures volumes touched an all-time high on Sunday. The popular derivatives trading platform Deribit saw 1.9 million ETH contracts traded and CME Group is now the third-largest exchange in terms of bitcoin futures open interest. Data shows that cryptocurrency futures and options are seeing significant demand in 2020. Statistics from Skew.com, CME Group, The Tie, and Deribit indicate a lot of action has been happening in the land of crypto derivatives. Deribit's recent newsletter shows that…Read More
Flooding Threatens China's Bitcoin Miners, Chinese Billionaire Says 'Three Gorges Dam Collapse Imminent'
This week cryptocurrency enthusiasts are still focused on the severe flooding in China during the 2020 monsoon season. The flooding has already displaced millions of Chinese citizens and skeptics are concerned about the vast number of bitcoin miners located in the Sichuan province. The landlocked province in Southwest China, Sichuan is located upstream of the Three Gorges Dam. During the last two months, the 2020 monsoon season ravaged the region. Reports note that by the end of June, flooding from the rainy season has displaced 744,000 Chinese residents stemming from…Read More


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Chronic Headaches Overview
Chronic headache conditions are those where a headache recurs. A headache that occurs daily is called a Chronic Daily Headache (CDH). Long-lasting headaches, worsening headaches, or severe headaches, are not usually what is meant by chronic headaches.
Chronic recurrent headaches may be caused by many of the causes of headache in general, but there are some causes that are more likely to cause chronic headaches or recurring headaches.
Some of the more common recurring headache conditions include: Migraine (including various subtypes of episodic migraines), Tension headaches, Cluster headaches, Muscle contraction headaches, Neck muscle headaches, and Vascular headaches. There are also headaches related to work activity (e.g. eyestrain), recurring headache reactions to substances (e.g. alcohol, caffeine), and also chronic head pain syndromes.
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Meghan Markel and Prince Harry are in a pickle and they're reportedly turning to their good friends – the Obamas – for help and guidance.
Meghan wants to kick the dust off her heels and leave the Royals and their stuffy lifestyle behind and head to tinsel town with her Prince Charming.
However, it's not that easy.
RELATED: WATCH: New Video Shows Markel Pushing Harry Aside and Dominating Conversation With Group of Men at an Event
There's a lot more to this story than just saying "we're done," and leaving jolly ol' England and starting over.
So, the couple is now asking the Obamas for help – apparently, they want to emulate the Obama's success by starting a film company, land lucrative book deals, and get paid big bucks for speaking engagements.
The Sussexes are rumored to be close friends of Barack and Michelle Obama and the Daily Mail reported they have "turned to them for help."
Markle is believed to want to become financially independent by mimicking the blueprint for success that the Obamas have drawn up for themselves in terms of securing lucrative book deals, collecting huge payments for speaking appearances, and creating a film production company built around using their "star power."
The problem with that ambition of independence for Harry and Meghan is that British Royals are very limited in what they are permitted to do in terms of generating income for themselves.
"This is going to be the thorniest of all the issues because they're not supposed to be political, they're not supposed to have political ties," said New York Post editor Emily Smith in her Fox News interview. "As royals, they're not supposed to accept gifts. And also there is certain work they're not supposed to do. They're not supposed to work for companies, they're not supposed to do paid appearances.
"If they want to be financially independent, they're going to have to do some of those things," she said.
It would seem, at least from a distance, that the apolitical shackles may be the most difficult requirement for Markle in her role as a member of the Royal Family. Before the announcement of her engagement to Prince Harry in 2017, the former actress was vocal in her criticism of President Trump, calling him "misogynistic" and "divisive" in 2016. [Bizpacreview]
This woman has come in like a wrecking ball and turned the Royals upside down.
But she's going to be surprised that her "fairytale Hollywood" life s not going to be that easy to come by.
Hopefully at some pont Harry wakes up and does the
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Our tortoise died last week. A week ago today, actually. Or a little over. I found him last Thursday morning. He could've died any time the night before. I'd made sure to check on him; since getting an automated light, I didn't have my twice daily checkin. I found him a week ago. He was dead. The mucus running down his face was more serious than I had thought the night before. He just seemed lethargic, which happened often. But when I found him, the mucus had already started hardening. Later, when I took him out of his enclosure, it ran down over his mouth, under his chin, solid and shining, especially since it stopped just as the head met the now distended neck.
Horrific end for a really sweet, shy creature who was supposed to outlive us. We were supposed to have to pass him off to friends or family. Or set him up in a sustaining nature preserve with maybe some other tortoises but definitely a Croc™ for every mood (google keywords: tortoise, squeaking, shoe). Not have him die out of the blue. We just had the last rat die a few weeks ago and it's getting to be summer so rethinking the tortoise setup was on our minds. It was going to be Green Beans's chance to run wild and eat dandelions and poop free. And probably have toys in his enclosure because he likes pushing up against things (google keywords: tortoise, squeaking, shoe). But, no, we discovered he really liked moving objects. I wanted to set him up with some blocks. He's going to live to a supercentenarian, he should be enjoying himself.
Not dying.
We had another tortoise before Green Beans. Sweet Pea. Only it turned out Sweet Pea wasn't a boy but a girl, something the original owner and the vet didn't know either. So Sweet Pea was Petula. After Petula Clark. And she was super-sweet. She loved strawberries and she'd bonded with us. And she died after being outside for a while. We assumed something poisonous bit her because she was in terrible shape when I found her.
But maybe I just wasn't taking good enough care of her.
I wanted a tortoise–I came into being a pet enthusiast in my twenties, I had none consistently growing up–but I wanted a tortoise because they were supposed to last forever. My first interactive pets had been rats. Rats do not last forever. Depending on the pet store's holding cage quality or just plain genetics, rats might not last as long as that one school fair goldfish your friend had one summer. Tortoises are supposed to last forever–you're part of this dinosaur's life instead of it being part of yours.
And then you find it dead and you killed this amazing creature. Not maliciously, not directly, not willingly. You just weren't equipped for the task. I mean, aquatic frogs, rats, cats. All fairly low maintenance. Tortoises are supposed to be low maintenance too. So you can successfully just be an enthusiast, you don't have to know everything. Though when Green Beans had shell rot, we took care of it real quick. And successfully.
I felt responsible enough. Right up until I found Green Beans hadn't eaten the dandelions I'd given him two nights before. I should've known something was wrong then. Green Beans devoured dandelions. He didn't like strawberries, but he devoured dandelions. And green beans, which is how his original owner named him. But he liked dandelions more than green beans, which my wife discovered one summer day, letting him roam and weed the yard for me.
It's one of those micro-tragedies. One more way the expected narrative gets shook and it's in a constant state of rattling these days. There's no moral, just the resulting hit to morale.
Wocka. Wocka.
The whole point to having a pet is to give this animal a better life than it'd have in nature or elsewhere. Within reason, of course. I'm never going to be ready to talk about the LICKI brush. Not for free, anyway.
Maybe I'll bury him in a Crocs™ box. Pet ownership, while extremely humanizing and rewarding in innumerable other ways, is a really fucking dumb idea. It invites sadness. It requires it. Of course, requiring sadness is the entire human condition malarky.
Tortoises who hibernate shouldn't be house pets. It's not right. Tortoises need to burrow down deep, scrunch up, their heartbeats slow but rhythmic against the shell, against the soil around them. It's cold, but that heartbeat is this warmth below the snow covered ground. And then come spring, the tortoises will dig their ways up to the surface, as the dandelions bloom yellow and there are Crocs™ of every color.
Google keywords: tortoise, shoes, squeaking.


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Creation of client-independent records in NiōBase.
NiōBase is best suited for all companies, organisations and institutions that need to create client-independent records of processing activities (RoPAs), processes, documentation, data processing agreements, notifications, organisations and their contact persons as well as correspondence.
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Christmas Wreath Making Workshop - December 6th
This product is currently sold out.
If you're looking to make a Christmas wreath this year that's really personal to you then join us and create your own handmade wreath with tips from local floral designer and grower Hannah Willcock.
During the two hour long class, using a wire and moss based frame, Hannah will take you through how to create your own festive wreath combining locally foraged greenery and seasonal decorations.
Tre, Pol & Pen, Lezant
All materials, minced pies and a glass of mulled wine are included.


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Saturday, April 18, 2020 9:45 AM to 12:30 PM
(check-in begins at 9:30) 9:45 AM to 12:30 PM
(check-in begins at 9:30) Registration for this program closes at noon on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 or when the program reaches maximum capacity.
Come to Tellus Science Museum to experience a fun and exciting side of chemistry! During your visit, we will complete four of the activities toward your Home Scientist badge; you will also receive directions to finish a fifth, fun activity at home. This workshop is full of messy, scientific fun; as part of your program, you'll also get to explore the Collins Family My Big Backyard gallery.
Some activities will take place outdoors. Please dress appropriately.
Program will consist of 4 rotations of 35 minutes each.
Lab 1:
a. Activity 1: Bubbles – make your own bubbles and bubble makers.
Lab 2:
a. Activity 2: The chemistry of carbon dioxide – harness this gas for fun!
Lab 3 :
a. Activity 3: Make ice cream – create creamy chemistry in a bag.
Lab 4/MBBY Gallery:
a. Activity 4: Static – participate in an electrifying demonstration on an electrostatic generator.
b. Activity 5: Spend a few minutes in the Collins Family My Big Backyard engaging with magnets and electricity.
All groups end at the store where Tellus patches are available for purchase.
Take home directions for an activity to experiment with densities of different liquids will be given out to complete on your own.
Be a kitchen chemist.
ACTIVITY: Make your own ice cream.
Create static electricity.
ACTIVITY: Experience an electrostatic generator and experiment with static.
Make something bubble up.
ACTIVITY: Film canister rockets… and more!
Play with science.
ACTIVITY: Make and play with bubbles.


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The multi-cuisine cafeteria of the college kindles the taste sense and caters to the hunger needs of guests, inmates, visitors, staff & students. The cafeteria offers a wide medley of hygienic, nutritious south and north Indian vegetarian wholesome edible food. We are effectively functioning to satisfy the needs of students and staff with a variety of delicious food items at affordable rates.
Sports And Games
Living a healthy life is an important lesson that the Institute tries to impart to the students. The Institute gives importance to sports as well as education. Currently, the Student's sports and games club organizes all games and sports events in the campus as after-college activities. The Institute has standard basketball court, football and cricket grounds, and select college teams in these events. Tournaments with other colleges and institutes are also organized. Indoor games facilities like table tennis, badminton, chess, and carom boards are provided at the hostels.  Students are encouraged to engage in daily exercise and games to keep themselves fit. For training the students, the institute provides the game specialists after college activities.
College has a club named OASIS CLUB to provide practical exposure as a professional and as a focal point for campus engineering programs and projects, well organized cultural programs and activities, and leadership experience. OASIS club is a nursery of various equalities evaluating knowledge and leadership enrichment with a total of 17 members and organizes an ample of events throughout the sessions without affecting the academics of the students.
Aeronautical Club
The students of Mechanical engineering started an aeronautical club in order to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of the aeronautical science & aircraft engineering and elevation of aeronautical profession. Also, the club emphasizes on promoting the advances and updates of the knowledge of mechanical engineering. It provides a wide platform to the young & fresh minds to take interest in the science of aircrafts and to bring out greater awareness in the field. With the same objective, the club keeps on organizing various seminars, workshops & conferences apart from the academics.
Fine Arts Club
Fine Arts Club is a house to many contemporary and modernist artists primarily in the visual arts. We at Fine Arts club are dedicated to offer a free and helpful service at SRMSCET Unnao campus students and faculty, to those interested in art, providing a showcase for amateur artists. We range our work from realism to abstract expressionism, from chalk carvings to wall paintings, from miniature paintings to huge scale backdrops and large scale structures. Apart from all these services, club is also a big platform for those who want to learn and develop skills and ideas.
Literary Club
Literary club is committed to tap the effective communication talent among the students; club is poised to enable the talents with cutting edge. The clubs' aim is to foster a love for language, enhance literary creativity & provide an avenue for self-expression beyond the college curriculum. To develop & hone the literary skills of the students, club inspires the students to develop a taste for literature and also works in the direction of educating their spoken and written language. The club has initiated competitions in extempore, essay writing, creative writing, poetry writing, debate, elocution, quiz, and reading to enhance the speech and oratorical skills.
Robotics Club
Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, and application of robots, as well as computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing. The design of a given robotic system will often incorporate principles of Mechanical engineering, Electronic engineering and Computer science particularly artificial intelligence. Keeping all these factors in mind, we through ROBOTICS CLUB provide such knowledge to the students that help them to understand the field in a far better way. The club organizes various workshops and seminars so that the students can get how exactly a robot works.
There are comfortable residence facilities provided for the faculty within the campus itself with 24 hours power backup. An ambient environment in the lap of nature away from the hustle bustle of the city.
Health Care
The health care centre facilities for the students are provided by the institute, which provides a gym that engages every student to work-out, relax and recharge their mind & body. Apart from that, a medical room has been setup for first-aid and an ambulance is always available for emergency transport.
Safety of our students is our prime concern. Thus, our transport facility is fully equipped to provide the safest & the most convenient transport solution. The college provides excellent transportation facilities with a fleet of buses for students and staff. Transportation focuses on accessibility rather than the mobility thus provides a wide range of solutions. The students have to commute from different cities for which the College is providing comfortable buses to cover the entire routes of Lucknow, Kanpur and all adjoining areas.
Apart from providing transportation facility to students and staff, the College also provides this facility for industrial visits and excursion trips.
A home away from home provided for both boys and girls separately and can accommodate 482 boy students and 216 girl students. The architecturally designed buildings and the surroundings offer a cool, green, pleasant and eco-friendly atmosphere which stimulates positive learning. It provides a lively environment which helps in healthy interaction among the students. Hostels have 24hours power supply, hot water facility in winters, 24 hours Wi-Fi facility, common room with LCD screen.
Music Room
We have a well-established music room which offers a wide range of quality instruments. The music room is available to the students right after the academic hours so that the students can practice them and get a relief as well. Also, the music room has a well experienced trainer to make students learn about a vast variety of music and musical instruments.
Seminar Room
Different engineering departments have their individual seminar rooms. Each seminar room has a seating capacity of 120 students and is equipped with fully air conditioned & audio-visual facility making it ideal for invited talks or lectures through video conference.
A well-lit and built auditorium having a seating capacity of 1200 has been dedicated to the students by our Hon'ble Chairman in 2011. This centralized air conditioned hall has well balanced acoustic engineered designs using sophisticated sound equipment.


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Easter Vigil
Alleluia! Christ is Risen!
I love the story of the Resurrection for many reasons. After journeying through the Lenten season, spending the week steeped in Holy Week and darkness, the Resurrection is the waking up, the rejoicing and the celebrating that is so desperately needed. And the Resurrection is both an invitation and a call to action. We, like Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, are invited to come and see and go and tell.
The Resurrection is one of those things that is just beyond all logical comprehension. It invites us to "come and see"… to believe in things that just seem too good to be true; to believe deeply that with God, all things are possible. It invites us to reconsider the words of Jesus "I am with you always". The Resurrection calls us out of a place of fear and anxiety, and into a new life of love. What is it that we need to come and see?
The Resurrection experience also calls us to action. Like the two Mary's at the empty tomb, we are called to share the Good News. When Mary Magdalene and the other Mary discover the empty tomb and later encounter the Risen Christ, they are urged to share the experience with the disciples and others. It is the first commandment of the Resurrection. How are they models for us? What is it that we need to go and tell?
And finally, the Resurrection calls us to rejoice. No longer do we need to be afraid. No longer do we need to be in darkness…we can rejoice in the breaking open of the Kingdom of God. When the two Mary's encounter Christ on the way to tell the disciples, the word that he speaks is "Chairete"…a form of greeting that literally means "Rejoice". This word "rejoice" is repeated three times in the exsultet (the chant from the beginning of the service):
Rejoice now, heavenly hosts and choirs of angels…
Rejoice and sing now, all the round earth…
Rejoice and be glad now, Mother Church…
All of heaven and earth, and the people of God are invited to rejoice. Resurrection living is now…it is not something of the past, but invites us to sing, be glad and go and tell the Good News…so let us rejoice together!
As we enter into Resurrection living, what is it that we need to be invited to see and who are we going to tell? I hope you will rejoice in this season of Easter!
Palm Sunday
I need to make a confession. Palm Sunday snuck up on me this year. I don't know how it happened. I haven't been particularly reflective this Lent…all my Lenten practices pretty much fell to the wayside within a week. I haven't been practicing the chant for the Great Vigil. I haven't been spending much time in prayer and meditation. However, despite my being unprepared to enter into Holy Week, it is here anyway.
At the beginning of Lent, I decided I was going to read Henri Nouwen's "Walk with Jesus" as part of my Lenten practice. It's a short book and I haven't finished it. In the introduction, Nouwen explains why he wrote this book…as he traveled in Bolivia, Peru and Guatemala, he was surrounded by poor people walking and he was feeling guilty because he was in a car. He realized how "easy" his life was and how much other people had to struggle. As he reflected on the poor and on his deep love and commitment to Jesus, he said:
Jesus walks from village to village, and, as he walks, he meets the poor. He meets the beggars, the blind, the sick, the mourners, and those who have lost hope. He remains very close to the earth. He feels the heat of the day and the cold of the night. He knows about the grass that withers and fades, the rocky soil, the thorny bushes, the barren trees, the flowers in the fields, and the rich harvest. He knows because he walks so much and feels in his own body the harshness and the vitality of the season. He listens attentively to those with whom he walks, and he speaks to them with the authority of a true companion on the road.
Throughout the course of the book, Nouwen goes on to explore the relationship that Jesus has with the poor and the marginalized. He reminds us that in our daily living, we often overlook these people that Jesus spent so much time with…not because we're cold-hearted or uninterested, but because in our busyness we forget they are there. As I re-read the introduction on Thursday, I realized that's exactly what had happened to me this Lent. In my busyness, I lost sight of walking with Jesus. And here we are, at Palm Sunday; the beginning of the longest part of Jesus' journey…his journey to the cross. Maybe now I can take a moment to notice.
What is it that needs noticing on this day? That we begin the morning in joy and leave in silence? That we all participate in the calling out to "crucify him"? That Jesus is played by a young woman and Pilate is played by the priest? What voices are heard and which ones are silent? Who are the crucified ones in our culture? What is it that we take notice of?
Every year, we gather, sing, process, wave palms, read the Gospel, and leave in silence. In the process of celebrating Palm Sunday, we enter into kairos time—God's time, holy, sacred liturgical time—and that's where we'll stay until Easter.
Holy Week is about spending time with Jesus, walking along the road as a companion on the journey. It is fluid time that allows us opportunities to take notice of those who are often overlooked. If we believe that Christ is all around us, if we believe that we can see the face of Jesus in the other, how do we treat him? Would we anoint his feet or would we stand in the shadows like Peter? Would we criticize, rebuke and taunt him? Would we have the courage to stand at the foot of the cross and wait for his broken body to be let down?
If I hold myself accountable to these questions, it makes me realize that more often than not, it's easier to be like Peter …it's easier not to take this walk with Jesus. But we are invited into this kairos time not to live in guilt and remorse, but to experience transformation. It is an invitation to reflect, confess, be healed, and celebrate. This is the Christian life.
Sometimes it is hard to walk with Jesus to the cross…to "feel the heat of the day and the cold of the night". But Jesus is patient and kind. He has drawn us out, he has called us to slow down and take notice, to reflect and confess. He has invited us to break bread together, to share in a holy feast, to be healed and to celebrate.
Blessings to you all as you walk the road with Jesus to the cross this week.
Lent 4
This spring my Ph.D. course is titled "Women Philosophers, Mystics and Wisdom Teachers" and we have been reading books from various spiritual and religious traditions throughout the centuries. Our current readings are on justice, reconciliation and peace. This past Monday I had to give an online teaching presentation on the book "Relational Reality" by Charlene Spretnak. It's a rather dense book, full of research studies and statistics, but ultimately what Spretnak is trying to do is explore our current state of affairs (or "current crisis"), and the impact the Relational Shift of thinking/understanding would have on our way of being. Spretnak discusses this Relational Shift as an awareness that "all forms of life are composed of relationships and function in dynamic relationship with everything else…Nothing exists in isolation" (Kindle location, 377-380).
This idea that "nothing exists in isolation" is not really a new idea. I think we've all known that for a long time…even if we didn't "know" it. When we were created, God intended us to be in loving relationship and communion with God, each other and creation. And yet, we sometimes forget that and end up being angry, unhealthy and detached. We become more focused on ourselves than on our community.
In the gospel from Luke, we encounter the Pharisees and scribes who are grumbling because Jesus is welcoming to and eating with sinners. They are grumbling because they've lost sight of their relationship to these folks. They are grumbling because instead of seeing children of God, they see what's wrong with the person—"the sinner". They are grumbling because they are driven by pride, jealousy, anger and self-righteousness. But Jesus is a man of grace and compassion, and so instead of scolding the Pharisees and scribes for their grumbling, he tells everyone a story.
Most of us are familiar with the parable of the Prodigal Son. At some point in our lives, for better or worse, we've probably identified as each of the three characters—the young son who left home and comes back begging forgiveness, the older son who has stayed home and is resentful about the welcome his younger brother was extended, and the generous and loving father who welcomes his son home.
We don't like to admit it when we've behaved like the older son, but the truth is, we've all behaved that way at some point.
So why is it that the older son can't be happy for his brother's return and his father's welcome?
Because he assumed the worst about his brother and he was driven by his anger, pride, jealousy and self-righteousness. And these are all expressions of fear. He is afraid that if his brother is welcomed home, there won't be enough room for him, he won't have a place in the house, that he won't be loved anymore. Like the Pharisees and scribes, he is afraid that if Jesus welcomes the "other" then there won't be room for them in God's kingdom.
How often have we felt that same kind of fear in our lives? The fear that if we welcome the "other"—the gay man, the immigrant woman, the homeless couple—that we will somehow lose our place?
But God's love and grace don't work like that. Every time God's love and healing reaches out to welcome the "other", we are not diminished; there isn't less for us, but more! So wait, how does that work? Maybe you're saying to yourself, "Anna, the math doesn't add up".
Here's how it works…
God's love and grace are based in God's reconciliation with humanity and all creation. Because God is reconciled with us through Christ, we become, as 2nd Corinthians tells us, "ambassadors for Christ"…in other words, we become instruments of reconciliation. So as we have been reconciled with God, as we reconcile with others, as we act as an extension of God's love and reconciliation, we only multiply God's healing in the world…not take away from it. We're working towards that Relational Shift that Charlene Spretnak talks about; we're working towards re-membering our community instead of trying to live in isolation.
The only way this is not a "winning" situation for us is if we chose NOT to extend God's love and reconciliation. When we aren't actively working towards reconciliation, actively working towards re-membering the body of Christ in the world, then we are diminishing the Kingdom of God in our midst.
In my class next week, we're reading Alice Walker's "Anything we love can be saved". Maybe you've heard of Alice Walker…she wrote the book "The Color Purple"…it made Oprah a movie star in the 80s. Anyway, this book we're reading is a collection of essays and reflections by Alice Walker about her work to re-member her community, her relationship with the Divine, and the world. It's a book about reconciliation.
So this is a great parable for Lent, and an invitation into the final weeks of Lent to prayerfully examine which relationships need to be reconciled in our lives. As a matter of fact, reconciliation is what Lent is all about, and why I offer the opportunity for people to make private confession during Holy Week…so that we can move into a place of healing and well-being, so that we can be a new creation, so that we can be resurrected in Christ.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is, I believe, a saint. His work on reconciliation has been life-altering for so many wounded and broken people in the world. On the topic of forgiveness and reconciliation he said, "without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals…" Without forgiveness we exist in isolation. Without forgiveness, we are not as God had intended us to be.
I think Alice Walker was right when she said "anything we love can be saved" so long as we practice reconciliation.
Lent 3
I like to think that I enjoy gardening. This time of year, I start to get itchy about wanting to be in my tiny little green space outside, planting herbs and primroses, and watching to see if the crocuses are ready to bloom. But there's a lot of work to do before I can begin to tend my garden. I need to sweep and remove the dead branches that have fallen over the fence. I have to weed. And I hate weeding. Right now, things in my little garden space look dead. It would be easy to pull it all up and scrap it. Maybe even plant grass or put the rock garden back in so I won't have to mess with the little patch this year. But for some reason, I just can't. The labor of love that is my little garden is a special place for me, and so I patiently wait, and watch, praying that things will bloom again this spring.
When Jesus is confronted with the questions of his followers about why bad things happen in this world, they are asking questions about sin. In the ancient world, it was believed that the sins of the father resulted in consequences that could last generations. So these people who are killed and had their blood mixed with the blood of sacrifices and those who had been crushed under a fallen building…were these tragedies the result of their sin or the sin of the generations before them? Jesus doesn't respond to questions of blame. Instead he says that if we don't repent of our sins, if we don't experience a complete turning around or metanoia in our hearts, then we too will suffer consequences. It's a simple lesson in cause and effect.
But Jesus wants his followers to know something about God's judgment and grace. Instead of ending the teaching there, he takes it further with a parable about a fig tree. So let's look at the parable again.
"A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. So he said to the gardener, 'See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?' He replied, 'Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it. If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.'"
For a long time, this parable was hard for me to relate to until I saw a fig tree in a friend's back yard. The tree looked much like the trees do right now…no leaves, no buds about to bloom…just barren branches. And my friend said it had been that way for several years. But she was waiting, watering it, fertilizing it, pulling weeds from around its base, because she knew that one day, it would bud and begin to bear fruit.
God is like that with us. Sometimes, we become barren, unable to produce the fruit of goodness, charity, love. Sometimes we get bogged down with feelings of frustration and anger, and so we can't produce anything beautiful as a result. Sometimes our doubt and worry prohibit us from enjoying life around us. And so, God patiently waits, tending to our weeds, watering and nurturing us, hoping that we will bloom. God doesn't look at us and say, "Well, that person comes from a long line of sinners; they're rotten to the root." Instead, God sees that we all have potential to bloom and grow.
This parable is a reflection of God's grace and love for us. God continues to give us the gifts that we need to do the work we've been called to do—to teach, to love, to bring about the Kingdom—the gifts that bring us into full relationship with God. One difference between us and the fig tree though is that the tree doesn't have to recognize the water and fertilizer in order to do its work; we, on the other hand, have to open our hearts and minds to these gifts for them to work in us. And how do we recognize God's fertilizer? God's gifts are found in those things that are life-giving to us: the love we share with families, friends and neighbors, acts of kindness and generosity, prayer, meditation and being in community with each other and all of creation. The other difference between us and the fig tree is that we can choose to stay closed off to God's nurturing love. We can choose not to bloom. We can choose not to have a metanoia. And when we make those choices, then yes, we will wither away, decay and die.
So here we are at the half-way point in Lent, continuing our journey to Jerusalem with Jesus. And we find ourselves presented with the option of accepting God's fertilizer or ignoring it. Which do we choose? Being fertilized, accepting the call to discipleship, means that sometimes the road will be hard. Following Jesus to Jerusalem can be scary. It means being called out of our comfort zones to do mission work that might be challenging…like becoming gardeners to others. Or we can ignore God's fertilizer and stay rooted in the way things are, only to find that it's not life giving, but rather life ending. So which do we choose? I choose the fertilizer. I want to bear much fruit and then share it with someone else. I hope you'll join me.
I don't know what the future of the church is, but I know that we will continue to be a place of sanctuary and hope, working towards healing in the world.
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I know that this subject could be a "taboo" and sad issue, but soon or later, hopefully as later as possible, that moment will arrive. A fact of live. My question is to know what the people having hundred of thousands of digital images and maybe hundred of boxes full of slides did already when they abandon us, or plan to do, when we will not be here in this world. The whole collection of images could be worth from pennies to lots of money depending of course of the quality of them at that moment. I my personal case, I do not have children, my wife will keep them, but what about later... To be honest I do not know what I would like to do, for what it is at the end, in fact, my life in images. Too personal to ride off all at some point of time, and to get some cash, and at the same time to abandon them. When I bought my house I found dozen of interesting stereoscopic photograph in the middle of old furniture and I have kept them. It is sad how could end your memories sometimes.


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On Flipboard. If You Do Any of These 4 Activities in Your Classroom, You're Already Personalizing Learning. Decoding the Buzzwords "Personalized Learning" A MiddleWeb Blog Because I read a lot of educational publications, I am fluent in jargon and buzzwords.
A few years ago, I started seeing the phrase "Personalized Education" pop up regularly. At first, it seemed to be aligned with my educational philosophy of putting students first. The Golden Age of Teaching Yourself Anything. Illustration by Kyle Platts Who can resist the romanticism of self-taught achievers?
They didn't need school. They didn't need "the system. " They needed only their passion and their talent to propel themselves to grandeur. Bill Gates, college dropout turned billionaire techie and world saver, is the modern apotheosis of the autodidact. 5 Tools And Strategies That Support Personalized Learning. 5 Tools And Strategies That Support Personalized Learning by TeachThought Staff.
Edsurge. Thursday, May 26, 2016 A couple of years ago, Benjamin Riley kicked up a fuss with a blog post provocatively titled "Don't Personalize Learning."
Personalized learning, of course, is a very popular notion; as he slyly noted, it's "a head-nodder phrase": "Sprinkle the word into virtually any conversation or speech regarding education, and you'll typically see at least a handful of heads nodding in the room in happy agreement." But this apparently benign approach, Riley goes on to argue, actually rests on several assumptions unsupported by evidence.
(Riley is the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Deans for Impact, and a vocal advocate of applying learning science to education; here's a video of a panel I moderated for the organization last fall.) The Inconvenient Truth About Personalized Learning. Personalized learning is quickly gaining steam among educators, philanthropists, and policymakers.
The promise of a personalized education system is enormous: we are witnessing an era when new school models and structures, often supported by technology, can tailor learning experiences to each student and allow students more choice in how they access and navigate those experiences. But we've found that amidst the enthusiasm for personalized learning models, there's a less talked-about aspect of the education system that will need to shift to make these models viable: education research.
Even though education receives paltry R&D dollars compared to other sectors, like defense and energy, there's been a relatively steady stream of research over the past decades trying to look under the hood of "what works" in education. But if we are going to break open successfully the factory model of school, that research needs to go further. Click to enlarge. Stop Trying to Define Personalized Learning. No.
No we don't. While personalized learning (PL) may be a "thing," it is not a thing. The Battle for "Personalized Learning" -e-Literate. So here we go again.
Another terminology war. First there was the battle for open. Then the battle for MOOCs. Somewhere in there was the battle for edupunk. I stay out of terminology wars because, even though they are often about very real and important issues, the emphasis on finding a single correct definition tends to distract rather than focus the conversation. Providing Transformative Personalized Student Learning Opportunities as a Path Toward Equity.
Providing Transformative Personalized Student Learning Opportunities as a Path Toward Equity Promoting equity and excellence at every level of education to ensure that every child has the opportunity to succeed is one of U.S.
Secretary of Education John King's top three priorities over the coming year. How can new instructional models provide more powerful, personalized learning experiences driven by learner needs and interests to ensure innovation for equity? Gamification, personalization and continued education are trending in edtech. I've spent most of my life in and around schools.
First as a student, then as a teacher and lately as an innovator building tools and launching programs. As Nelson Mandela said, "education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Despite its importance, education seems to have been missed by the Internet revolution. Gamification, personalization and continued education are trending in edtech. Step by Step: Designing Personalized Learning Experiences For Students. The phrase "personalized learning" gets tossed around a lot in education circles.
Sometimes it's used in the context of educational technology tools that offer lessons keyed to the academic level of individual students. Other times it's referring to the personal touch of a teacher getting to know a student, learning about their interests and tailoring lessons to meet both their needs and their passion areas. As with most education jargon, the phrase isn't fixed, but it usually connects to the idea that not all students need the same thing at the same time. It implies choice, multiple pathways to learning, many ways to demonstrate competency and resists the notion that all students learn the same way. Educator Mia MacMeekin has put together a clear infographic highlighting some of the ways teachers design "personalized" curriculum. Personalized Learning — The Synapse. Personalized Learning Making the Paradigm Shift In his latest book, author and academic, Yong Zhao articulates a challenge that is facing many schools today.
Most Popular of 2015, No. eight: 7 steps to creating PLCs teachers want to use. Practical tips for building PLCs that serve every educator Ed. note: We're counting down the top stories of 2015 based on popularity (i.e. website traffic) to No. 1 on Dec. 31. Today we revisit our in-depth look at how to set up your own professional learning communities, which truly serve educators' needs. It was published as part of Innovation In Action, a column from the International Society of Technology in Education focused on exemplary practices in education that runs the third Monday of each month.
At my district, the MSD of Wayne Township in Indianapolis, we have found that changing the way we think about teacher training not only benefits staff developers and administrators, but schools, the district as a whole, teachers, and ultimately students. A critical part of our revitalized PD plan has been the use of professional learning communities (PLCs), which are essentially groups of educators that work collaboratively and share ideas, often in an online format. Ten Trends to Personalize Learning in 2015. About ETR Community EdTechReview (ETR) is a community of and for everyone involved in education technology to connect and collaborate both online and offline to discover, learn, utilize and share about the best ways technology can improve learning, teaching, and leading in the 21st century.
EdTechReview spreads awareness on education technology and its role in 21st century education through best research and practices of using technology in education, and by facilitating events, training, professional development, and consultation in its adoption and implementation. Here's why Mark Zuckerberg is dumping billions into 'personalized learning' Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg believes personalised learning is the answer to many of education's current woes, and is one of the four key areas that he and his wife Prescilla Chan's US$45 billion Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will fund. While some argue whether this is a philanthropic act or a shrewd business strategy, others will ask: what is personalised learning anyway?
Because despite some politicians' enthusiastic endorsements of personalised education, there's still no clear definition. Many in education would argue that personalised learning is what all good teachers do as a matter of course – modifying learning materials and teaching styles to accommodate the different ways pupils learn. Others see it as an antidote to top-down, centralised school bureaucracy, with the term "personalised" used interchangeably with individual, learner-centered or customised.
Zuckerberg has a clear definition in mind, however. Using Ed-Tech for Personalized, Adaptive, and Differentiated Learning - The Startup Blog: Ed Tech From the Ground Up. By guest blogger Sidharth Kakkar, co-founder and CEO of Front Row Education, Inc. The world of education has transformed in recent years, and along with this transformation has come a new vernacular for how to describe it. One confusing aspect of this new language is the difference between adaptive, personalized, and differentiated learning.
While these terms sound similar, there are some key distinctions between the three. Personalized is the broadest category. It entails anything a teacher or program does to adjust to the student. Differentiated entails the teacher customizing the type of instruction provided based on what they know about a student's abilities. 3 Personalization Myths. Personalization is all-the-rage across the country, and it's no small wonder. Technical Challenges on the Path to Personalization. CBAM: Stages of Concern about Personalized Learning. Personalized Learning Changes: Effect on instructors and coaches -e-Literate.
Kate Bowles left an interesting comment at my previous post about an ASU episode on e-Literate TV, where I argued that there is a profound change in the instructor role. Her comment: Phil, I'm interested to know if you found anything out about the pay rates for coaches v TAs. I'm also interested in what coaches were actually paid to do — how the parameters of their employable hours fit what they ended up doing. Education Week. Updated Personalization vs. Differentiation vs. Individualization Chart Version 3. Personalization v Differentiation v Individualization (PDI) Chart (Version 3) The PDI chart was created for a reason: to clarify the differences in these terms. In 2010, the National Ed Tech Plan defined all three of these terms as they are related to instruction. We needed to emphasize the differences: Personalization is learner-centered.
The other two, Differentiation and Individualization are teacher-centered. Personalizing learning through the power of technology. We live in an exciting time. Technology is being integrated into every facet of our life, including the classroom, and it is unlocking the world for our students, teachers and families. While there may never be universal agreement on how we educate our future leaders, we all know that we cannot keep doing the same things and expect better results. Early Childhood Blogs. Personalizing learning through the power of technology. TEPLS_report-FINAL-051415. TEPLS_report-FINAL-051415. A Brave New World for "Personalized Learning"? Posted by Bill Ferriter on Thursday, 04/09/2015 I have a rather uncomfortable confession to make*: I think I am more than a WEE bit paranoid about the corporate takeover of education. Learning in a Connected World. 10 Trends to Personalize Learning in 2015.
2015 is the year the focus will finally turn the corner by organizations in education and the business world to get it right: it is about the learner. We don't care enough to give you constructive feedback. A Beginner's Guide To Personalized Learning -


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Listen to This: Whitney Houston's Last Recorded Song With Jordin Sparks "Celebrate"
It's nothing short of kismet that Whitney Houston's last recorded song, "Celebrate" is about getting rid of the hate and negativity to take time and focus on the good in people. Jordin Sparks presented the single to Ryan Seacrest this morning on his radio show. It's hit the internet since then and now we're bringing it to you.
Check out the track, which will be featured on the Sparkle soundtrack. The movie, which was Houston's first film since the 1996 hit, The Preacher's Wife will open in theaters on August 17.
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USTDA Facilitates Energy Security in Morocco
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
RABAT, Morocco – Yesterday, the U.S. Trade and
Development Agency signed an agreement with
Nador West Med SA to fund a feasibility study
that will support the implementation of a
hydrocarbon storage, blending and distribution
terminal at the Port of Nador West Med,
Morocco. By providing technical and
transaction advisory services, USTDA's
feasibility study will assist with Nador West
Med's planned private sector concession of the
hydrocarbon terminal.
"This USTDA grant is emblematic of our shared vision of Morocco's role in the regional economy," said U.S. Ambassador Dwight L. Bush Sr., who signed the agreement with Jamal Benjelloun, the Director General of Nador West Med. "It demonstrates our support for Morocco's goals to strengthen its economy and develop its provinces. We are thrilled to be part of the development of the Nador West Med complex. It will improve Morocco's energy security and promote trade throughout the region."
The feasibility study will provide a pre-front-end engineering (FEED) technical assessment of the storage and distribution platform, which would include the design and specifications for all of the control, electrical, pumping, valve and distribution systems. In addition to these analyses, the study will focus on the transaction of the concession, including the development of an implementation timeline as well as a sophisticated sales and marketing effort. Lixia Capsia Gestionis LLC (Wilmington, Del.) will lead the feasibility study with the technical support of three specialized U.S. engineering, finance and transaction advisory service firms.
The development of the terminal, which supports Morocco's energy security goals, will facilitate trade with neighboring countries and the region. By the time the project is complete, the terminal could store over 4.5 million barrels of bulk hydrocarbon products.


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Woman delivers baby in bathtub at home
RIFLE – Someday, Dorian Jacob Noffsinger may amuse himself by splashing around with rubber duckies and toy boats in his bathtub.At about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday in that same tub, he made a splash of an entirely different sort.Dorian's mother, 22-year-old Rhonda Richardson of Rifle, was eight-months pregnant and having contractions, and went to take a bath to try to relax as her husband, Dustin Noffsinger, slept on the couch.Richardson's bath proved anything but relaxing. Instead, Dorian decided it was time to be born, and Richardson delivered him by herself. The only one doing any relaxing was Noffsinger."My husband slept all through it. I was screaming and yelling for him and he didn't wake up," she said.Both mother and baby are doing well after the unconventional birth. Somehow Noffsinger also is still in his wife's good graces – and apparently not consigned to continuing to sleep on the couch for life. Richardson said he had been helping her a lot in the days before the birth when she wasn't feeling well, and is a heavy sleeper who was catching up on some badly needed rest.Besides, Noffsinger eventually heard his wife's screams. Dorian just didn't wait for him to wake up."It was really quick," Richardson said of Dorian's delivery. "It went by really fast, I would say about four or five pushes and he was out."Said Noffsinger, "He was just ready, he was ready to come out of there. … I turned the corner, and she was sitting there holding her baby in her arms."When Dorian was born, he was still inside his amniotic sac, so his mom broke it with her fingernails and he immediately began crying as he drew his first breaths. She then began to clean him, and when Noffsinger got there he called 911 and wrapped both of them in towels to warm them. He and Richardson left it to the paramedics to cut the umbilical cord. Mother and son were taken to Grand River Medical Center in Rifle, and then to Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs.They remained there through the week, so medical personnel could keep an eye on the prematurely born Dorian, who weighed 4 pounds, 6 ounces at birth, Richardson said."He's improving, he's doing really good," she said.She and her son went home from the hospital Sunday.He wasn't supposed to make his arrival into the world until Christmas Eve, but there was no waiting on this precious family gift. Richardson said doctors have since determined that she suffered from HELLP syndrome, a liver disorder that can occur during pregnancy, causing blood pressure to rise and potentially resulting in premature birth."They usually catch it as you're in labor or before but they hadn't caught it yet," she said.As a result, when she started having contractions and called the hospital she was advised to take medication to stop labor and to take a calming bath, rather than braving snowy roads that night to come in.This was Richardson's first child. Noffsinger has a 5-year-old son, Colby, who was the first to hear his stepmom's screams Wednesday. Richardson said next time she probably would prefer to give birth in a hospital, but she just did what needed to be done."Honestly, you just kind of trust your instincts. A lot of it just came naturally. You know you need to push. With the sac cover over him, naturally your instinct would be to take it off the baby's face."Richardson said she managed to catch Dorian as she delivered him before he fell into the water in the tub, which was only slightly filled.She said she didn't have time to panic as her baby arrived."It came so fast and I just knew what I needed to do. I didn't really have a chance to react to it," she said.She and Noffsinger both wonder how he would have reacted had he arrived in the bathroom before Dorian arrived in the world."He's beating himself up pretty good about it," Richardson said. "Now that I think about it I'm kind of glad he wasn't there because he was pretty scared. I think he thought he was still dreaming when he came in the bathroom."Said Noffsinger, "Maybe it was meant to be. I might have freaked out."Richardson's mother, Oly Squires, can't believe her daughter's actions. "I don't know if I could have done what she did," Squires said.She also has a new respect for her daughter."I figured that she would be the one who would be at the hospital 10 hours before she even started labor. She's a whole lot stronger than I gave her credit for," Squires said.Noffsinger said he didn't realize how much pain Richardson could tolerate. But he said she's a hard-working, highly responsible person. During her pregnancy she put in eight-hour shifts starting at 3:30 a.m. at the McDonald's restaurant in Rifle.Noffsinger said he appreciates the help from all the rescue workers following his son's birth. He also understands that he's going to hear some grief about dozing through the event. A welder at Innovative Ironworks in Silt, he's already being teased by co-workers and friends."They asked me if I'm one of the Seven Dwarfs, if I'm Sleepy," he said.
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