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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Playing Games, Part 2
By Dorothy Zemach
ESL Materials Writer, Editor, Teacher Trainer
Eugene, Oregon
Email: zemach at comcast dot net
A Conversation Board Game
My previous post, Playing Games, Part 1, offered my reasons for playing games in the language classroom and a description of what I feel makes a successful and useful game. However, what most teachers really want to know is, What are some good games that I can make and use? So in this and the following two posts, I will describe how to create and play some games. These can be adapted to a variety of classroom levels, and I have used them with private students and huge classes alike (though note that in larger classes, students will be playing in groups, and you will need one set of materials per group).
This conversation board game is easy to create, but one of the most useful ones I have in my magic bag of teacher supplies. If the ones in the photos here look a bit beaten up, it's because I've been using them since 1992! The originals are made of heavy cardboard that has been painted and then shellacked; the questions are written with permanent marker. I have also made color photocopies of the boards and had the copies laminated, so that I can roll them up and travel with them when necessary.
The game is a merely a series of questions, such as What do you like to do on rainy days? What is something that makes you angry? How does your family celebrate birthdays? I have simpler versions that feature only topics: children, money, television, birthdays. Students play in groups of 4-5 (more than that means that some students will fall silent).
Each student places a marker on start, and then they take turns to role a die and move their marker around the board. I buy the 8- or 12-sided dice from hobby shops to spread students around the board more; if you don't have access to these, I recommend using two of the traditional six-sided dice.
When a student lands on a question (or topic), she speaks about it as much as she likes. She can address any aspect of the topic; it is entirely her choice. Her group members ask her questions, but do not offer their own answers or opinions. When she feels she has finished, she passes the die to the next student, and play continues.
It's not a game that anyone can "win"—if someone reaches the end of the path, the final square says "go back," and play reverses. I generally have students play for 20-30 minutes, but I have never had a group where any player got all the way back to start.
This is my game for the first day of class. Students get to know one another, and while they are playing, I walk around and listen to them—this is my evaluation of their English level. It provides solid practice in speaking and listening and turn-taking. An extremely simple activity, and yet just having the questions in a "game" format makes it more interesting than the standard pair interview presented on a worksheet. I've frequently had classes request to play the game again during other sessions.
More complex questions can of course be designed that practice only the past tense, or conditional structures, or certain vocabulary.
I'll close with a look at a blank game board I've used for grammar games—this takes more effort to create, but you can also consider having students make your game cards or at least using the game over and over again if you are lucky enough to teach the same class for several terms.
This game board, as you can see, has nothing written on the squares other than a few simple game-play instructions not related to language; however, the squares are all painted one of six colors. Each color represents a type of task, and I create a stack of cards with the tasks on them. For example, yellow might indicate "spell this word." If a student lands on yellow, he draws a card and hands it to a fellow player without looking at it, and the other player asks him to spell the word. If he succeeds, he stays where he is; if he makes a mistake, he moves back one square. Blue squares might ask a student to put a sentence in the present tense into the past, and so on. You could assign students in groups to come up with a series of tasks or exercises as homework and then have each color represent a different group's cards.
Really, any type of drill-based language exercise can be put onto cards, where suddenly it becomes fun instead of boring. You needn't think up all of the exercises yourself, even—copy them out of your class textbook as a review. A student who has done Exercise 13 on page 143 doesn't want to do page 143 again. However, if items from Exercise 13 appeared on the backs of cards in a stack—well, you would be surprised at how happily students drill themselves with those items again and again!
I cannot quite get away from the issue of usefulness, however! And I would like to stress again that the use of any game must not only be clear to you, but clear to your students. You should always let a class know why they are doing what they are doing, and when the game is concluded, point out to them what language they practiced and how they practiced it.
Tags: conversation practice, Dorothy Zemach, fun, games, group, materials development, teaching tips
Comment from Claire
June 9, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Thank you for the reminder that games do have a part in the ESL classroom. And thank you for sharing your creative ideas! I look forward to incorporating them into my lessons.
Comment from Dorothy Zemach
June 10, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Thank you, Claire. For a while, especially as a young teacher, I was reluctant to try too many games with adult classes. But as long as you can (and do!) clearly explain why the activity is useful, I find that adults just love a bit of color and variety in their learning tasks.
Comment from Sam Kawakami
June 15, 2010 at 8:09 am
Hi Dorothy,
Great post! I found that games with adults was definitely much more fun than just "practicing" the grammar points and conversations.
And with current technology, it is even easier to make your own game boards. You can make them on your computer and print them out. To make them bigger, you can just expand them to A3 and print on 2 sheets of A4 which you then tape together and laminate.
Comment from Dorothy Zemach
June 16, 2010 at 11:16 am
@Sam: Yes, those ones are an awkward size, as I found when I photocopied them–I had to tape bits together. Starting with standard-sized paper is a better idea! I think the laminating is important, though, or you'll have to make them again and again. I'm a strong supporter of not making materials unless you know you can use them more than once.
Comment from vanie
August 18, 2015 at 4:06 pm
love the games
Comment from Ouafa Elbargui
October 21, 2017 at 5:44 am
Thank you so much for sharing yr creative and inspiring ideas. i really like them.


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Discover the world of the Vikings in this major exhibition – the first at the British Museum for over 30 years.
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On November 5, I posted here about Florida v. Jardines, in which the U.S. Supreme Court would decide this question: when a police officer takes a dog trained to sniff for drugs onto the porch of a home to sniff the air coming from under the door of a house, does this action constitute a search under the Fourth Amendment? If the answer was yes, this would mean that police would need a warrant from a court before bringing the dog up to the door. In past cases, the Court had given police considerable leeway to use dogs; no warrant had been required before having the dog sniff a piece of personal luggage (the Place case is here) or a package addressed to someone (the Jacobsen case is here).
The Court has now issued its opinion in Jardines: bringing a drug-sniffing dog up to a home is a Fourth Amendment search, and requires a warrant. The author of the opinion was Justice Antonin Scalia, which may surprise those who think of Scalia as the author of the Court's most conservative cases. But it should not shock anyone. The case follows the pattern of one of Scalia's opinions from 2001: Kyllo v. U.S. In Kyllo, the police used a thermal imager on a home; the device detects patterns of heat, and the police used it to see considerable excess heat coming from the defendant's home, which indicated the presence of a marijuana growing operation inside. According to Scalia, this required a warrant because the target was a home, which is where people conduct their most intimate activities. The imager, used from outside, was designed to detect activity inside. Any method of "seeing" inside the home, Scalia said, requires the judicial oversight of a warrant obtained prior to the search.
Scalia used some of the same reasoning in Jardines. Yes, the dog was outside the home. And it is true that many non-family members have implicit permission to come onto the porch of the home, right up to the door: letter and package carriers, delivery people, and even police officers wanting to talk to the homeowner. But the dog is there specifically to detect activity inside the home, and that is more like the thermal imager than someone delivering mail. Folding this reasoning around the Court's rediscovered interest in the law of trespass, Scalia said the presence of the dog is an intrusion that the Fourth Amendment doesn't permit without a warrant.
Jardines does not put dog sniffs of homes off limits to police. Rather, police must first demonstrate to a judge that they have probably cause to believe that there is criminal activity the dog could detect inside the house. Probable cause is one of the lower legal standard in the law; it does not require anything close to proof beyond a reasonable doubt.


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The optional content of this element is an integer indicating the order in which the servlet is to be loaded and initialized with respect to the web application\qs other servlets. An empty <load-on-startup\> indicates that the order is irrelevant, as long as the servlet is loaded and initialized during the startup of its containing web application.
The Servlet 2.4 schema for web.xml no longer supports an empty <load-on-startup\>, meaning that an integer must be specified when using a Servlet 2.4 based web.xml. If specifying an empty <load-on-startup\>, as in <load-on-startup/\>, the web.xml will fail validation against the Servlet 2.4 schema for web.xml, causing deployment of the web application to fail.
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Family, friends say Chicago woman killed in Kabul attack dedicated life to serving others
CHICAGO – Friends and family of a Chicago woman killed in Kabul, Afghanistan, say the 27-year-old was committed to helping others despite potential dangers, telling friends it was "something she was meant to do."
Lexie Kamerman was among 21 people killed Friday in a Taliban suicide bomb and gun attack at a Kabul restaurant popular with foreigners.
She had worked since June as a student development specialist at the American University of Afghanistan, where her family said she was helping women "get an education and take their rightful place as leaders in Afghan society."
Kamerman graduated from the Latin School of Chicago and Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., The Chicago Sun-Times reported (http://bit.ly/1dJDDX ).
"When she told us that this is what she was doing, we were all definitely concerned about her safety," friend Carmen Knight, 28, of Milwaukee, Wis., told the newspaper. "She knew this had to be done and that she could do it. She kept reassuring us it was something she was meant to do."
In a statement, Kamerman's family described her as "an amazing young woman — smart, strong, beautiful, funny, stubborn and kind. And fearless."
The statement continued: "Her death is a shock to us all and we can't imagine a moment going forward when she won't be desperately missed."
Friend Sherrille Lamb told the Sun-Times that Kamerman had just been back to Chicago to visit her family over the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
Lamb and Kamerman became friends when they worked together at Elon College in North Carolina, where Kamerman was an assistant director of residence life during the 2012-2013 academic year. Kamerman also had done volunteer work in Africa, served in a soup kitchen and an animal shelter and volunteered in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Lamb said she believed Kamerman felt a responsibility to help others.
"It's rare to see that in someone that young these days," Lamb said. "A lot of people talk about what they're going to do. ... The things she talked about, she actually did. And that just shows a wonderful sense of humility and just something that's going to be so missed in this world."
Knox College president Teresa Amott said in a statement Sunday that the news of Kamerman's death was "heartbreaking."
"Our hearts are with Lexie's family and all who knew and loved her," Amott said.
The statement also said Kamerman, who graduated with degrees in anthropology and sociology — a single major — and environmental studies, was remembered as a leader on the college's water polo team and in her sorority, Pi Beta Phi.
Calling Kamerman "a global citizen," Amott added that "in such a short life, she embodied the best values of a Knox education and sought a better world."
A Michigan woman, Basra Hassan, 59, was also killed in the attack.
Information from: Chicago Sun-Times, http://www.suntimes.com/index


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Even as the president and Congress make overtures about the importance of greater investment in science, federal agencies are under increasing pressure to make the most efficient use of the funds they are given. Bruce Alberts, editor-in-chief of Science Magazine, and others say that traditional funding mechanisms have created a peer-review culture that funds conservative and incremental science (1). In response, federal agencies, nonprofits and private enterprises are developing new ways to fund creative, innovative and breakthrough-oriented science. But will they create more scientific "bang" for our buck?
•The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Policy Blotter blog posts regular news and commentary about current science policy issues. Below are some recent highlights. You can read them and other posts at http://asbmbpolicy.asbmb.org.• A Lesson From Nobel Laureates:
Basic Science Requires Federal Dollars (http://wp.me/pFLHF-27)
President Obama's recent visit with the 11 American 2009 Nobel Prize laureates underscores the importance of federal funding for basic science.
• An Ongoing Conversation:
Women In Science
Several nonprofits, blogs and federal agencies recently have released publications about women in science, and some have surprising takes on the issue.
• NIH, Collins Announce
Approval of Stem-Cell Lines
The National Institutes of Health has approved the use of 13 lines of stem cells under a new policy that will expand dramatically the resources available for regenerative biomedical research.
• "Growing Pains" for Evolution (http://wp.me/pFLHF-1W)
Actor Kirk Cameron has teamed up with a creationist group to promote a version of Darwin's "Origin of the Species" with a creationist introduction.
Traditional science funding is project oriented. Proposals historically have required detailed descriptions of specific methods and preliminary data. Peer-review panels traditionally have chosen proposals that may be the best science but are also most likely to succeed. Many policymakers and scientists say that approach has created a culture adverse to the risk-taking necessary for innovative research.
In response, federal agencies recently have re-evaluated their grant-review procedures to make the process more innovation-friendly. For example, the National Institutes of Health recently changed its grant application form, reducing its length and requiring less preliminary data and fewer specific research methods (2). Further, the National Science Foundation has adopted the language of innovation into every grant review it facilitates. Since 2008, the NSF has used a definition of so-called "transformative" research to instruct reviewers in identifying research on the scientific cutting edge (3).
But, the NIH and the NSF have gone even further and created project-based funding mechanisms that attempt to specifically fund innovative research. For example, the NIH's Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) Awards "target investigators who are testing novel, unconventional hypotheses or are pursuing major methodological and technical challenges" (4). Demonstrating that it, too, will fund yet-untested ideas, the NSF has created the Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) to support potentially transformative ideas or approaches in the absence of preliminary data (5).
Other agencies in the U.S. defense and energy departments are specifically tasked with funding innovative research projects. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is famous for supporting efforts that led to the development of the stealth fighter and the Internet (6). The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, ARPA-E, is modeled after DARPA and aims to fund "nimble, creative inventive approaches to transform the global energy landscape" (7).
While federal agencies rely on project-based grants to fund the vast majority of research, some private foundations have developed different philosophies. By funding "people, not projects," Howard Hughes Medical Institute believes that scientists will be able to "capitalize on a flash of insight that occurs at three in the morning," Gerald M. Rubin, vice president of the institute, said in recent testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Science and Technology (8). The institute's investigator program provides multiyear funding to individuals who will creatively push the boundaries of science, working at the frontiers of their chosen fields. With funding that is not tied to any specific project or proposal, the institute hopes to give investigators the "ability to move quickly to take advantage of unforeseen targets of opportunity," Rubin said.
Following that model, the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding for early-stage investigators. Each year, between 15 and 20 early-career faculty members are chosen to receive the four-year awards. While freed from the constraints of presenting extensive amounts of preliminary data, investigators must demonstrate creative, innovative, risky approaches and ideas (9).
Even the NIH is experimenting with this approach. In 2010, it awarded seven Pioneer Awards to investigators who proposed pioneering and transformative approaches that could have an unusually high impact on a broad range of biomedicine (10). Additionally, the NIH Director's New Innovator Award is tasked with "stimulating highly innovative research and supporting promising new investigators" by funding early-career faculty who may lack preliminary data (11).
Popular in the private sector, innovation prizes soon may fund federal science research. These competitions award large cash prizes to teams that successfully complete predefined tasks. Previously, awards have inspired scientists and engineers to measure a ship's latitude accurately, fly across the Atlantic Ocean and even develop better algorithms for predicting how much someone is going to enjoy a movie based on their Netflix movie preferences (12, 13). Now, the U.S. House of Representatives is encouraging the NSF to explore innovation prizes as a possible catalyst for scientific innovation (14).
With so many new mechanisms for funding innovative research, it is difficult to determine which will prove the best. More time and more research will be needed to assess whether these novel mechanisms are fostering high rates of breakthrough science. But, by carefully comparing them and other programs, we should soon know the outcome of our nation's innovation experiment.
1. Alberts, B. (2009) On Incentives for Innovation. Science, 326, 1163.
2. NIH Web site. Restructured Application Forms and Instructions for Application Due Dates on or after Jan. 25, 2010. http://bit.ly/6QAL8v.
3. Testimony of James P. Collins, assistant director, Directorate for Biological Sciences, National Science Foundation, before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Research and Science Education. Oct. 8, 2009. Investing in High Risk, High Reward Research. http://bit.ly/7kdy9v.
4. NIH Web site. Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) (R01). http://bit.ly/6eULHx.
5. NSF Web site. Chapter II -- Proposal Preparation Instructions. Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research Grant Proposal Guide. http://bit.ly/7T2r5g.
6. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency Web site. www.darpa.mil/history.html.
7. U.S. Department of Energy Web site. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. http://arpa-e.energy.gov.
8. Testimony of Gerald M. Rubin before the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education of the Committee on Science and Technology, United States House of Representatives. Oct. 8, 2009. http://bit.ly/5rsUJ6.
9. Pew Charitable Trusts Web site. Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. http://bit.ly/54QhQd.
10. NIH Web site. Pioneer Award. http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/pioneer.
11. NIH Web site. NIH Director's New Innovator Award. http://bit.ly/4XQBfd.
12. King, R. (2009) Innovation prizes through history. Business Week.http://bit.ly/6M59xc.
13. Netflix Web site. Netflix Prize. www.netflixprize.com.
14. House Report 111-149.Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2010. http://bit.ly/6edHEc.
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City of Heroes: Missing Worlds and NCsoft negotiating resurrection of IP
While it may not be a done deal at the moment, there may be hope for fans of City of Heroes yet.
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City of Heroes tenth anniversary inspires new City of Titans trailer
City of Heroes spiritual successor City of Titans has gravely marked what would have been the tenth birthday of the beloved MMO with a new trailer.
City of Titans surpasses Kickstarter goal with over $678,000 pledged
City of Titans surpassed its Kickstarter goal yesterday with $678,189 pledged toward the spiritual successor to City of Heroes. The original goal for Missing Worlds Media was to earn $320,000 in funding, which it surpassed in early October. The game is set for a November 15, 2015 launch.
The Phoenix Project approaching Kickstarter launch
City of Heroes spiritual successor The Phoenix Project will take to Kickstarter in September.
Paragon buy-out fell through at the last minute
Paragon Studios did indeed try to purchase itself from NCSoft, and was shocked when the deal fell through at the lats minute.
City of Heroes spiritual successor The Phoenix Project trailered
City of Heroes was put to bed in November last year, and developer Paragon Studios were laid off. However, players of the game have come together for their love of the concept and have formed an independent studio. Their first title is The Phoenix Project, a spiritual successor to City of Heroes.
City of Heroes players hold Unity Rally on game's last evening live
City of Heroes, the first superhero MMO which launched in 2004, is no more, as NCSoft shut the game servers down last night at 11.59pm PST. Players held a final Unity Rally on all servers at City Hall as a last goodbye until the lights went out over Paragon City. NCSoft announced in August the […]
City of Heroes hopes quashed by NCSoft
City of Heroes cannot be saved, publisher NCSoft has told fans campaigning to keep the MMORPG running.
City of Heroes petition gathers 20,000 signatures
City of Heroes fans have poured tremendous effort into trying to save the MMORPG, which is scheduled to close before the end of the year.
City of Heroes end game events scheduled
City of Heroes goes offline on November 30 and Paragon studios has released a schedule of "parties, invasions, and a knife twisting double XP weekend," according to RPS.
City of Heroes refunds will be doled out starting next week
City of Heroes players with outstanding balances will start getting automatic refunds next Wednesday, September 26, Paragon Studios has announced.
City of Heroes may be saved from shutdown
City of Heroes, City of Villains and Paragon Studios may yet escape a fateful late November shutdown.
City of Heroes and Paragon Studios to be shut down by end of the year
Paragon Studios has announced City of Heroes will be shut down by the end of the year, as will the studio itself.
NCSoft details Summer Blockbuster Event for City of Heroes
NCSoft has announced details for this year's Summer Blockbuster Event for City of Heroes, featuring two back-to-back quests for players to get into.
City of Heroes turns eight, event kicks off next week
City of Heroes is turning eight, and Paragon is planning some festivities in celebration. In a new post on the MMO's website, the team has teased an event which starts next week, as well as a look back over the game's history. The anniversary event starts after Tuesday's maintenance on May 1. Thanks, TenTonHammer.
Issue 22 released for City of Heroes
Ncsoft has released a video for the latest update to City of Heroes, Issue 22: Death Incarnate. In it, the Statesman has fallen and the heroes must face the sorceress Diabolique and "her plans for Dark Astoria." Issue 22 is out now.
City of Heroes Issue 23 in final stages of pre-production
Melissa Bianco, City of Heroes' new producer, has said Issue 23 of the MMO is in its final stages of pre-production and Issue 24 is being worked on as well.
City of Heroes Player Summit 2012 hits Palo Alto in April
NCSoft and Paragon Studios have announced the full details of this year's Player Summit.
City of Heroes adds new missions to Spring Fling line-up
NCSoft has detailed its Spring Fling plans for City of Heroes. On top of the three traditional Spring Fling co-op missions , characters of level 30 or above can take on a quest involving the Red Widow to score the Widow Maker badge, while level 20 and above can access Valentines, which awards players with […]
City of Heroes to introduce new loyalty program
Paragon's announced the 2012 Salute to Statesman Loyalty Program for City of Heroes. The scheme will enable players of the MMO to gain exclusive costume parts, emotes and more by remaining a loyal sub. Those who would like to gain their extras will need to make sure their subscription doesn't run out between December 1 […]
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Thursday Shorts: Street Fighter Patch, Red Alert Reborn, NCIS, Hasselhoff and more
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Saturday Shorts: StarCraft Universe, Sdatcher, Skulls of the Shogun, sales
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SAN LEANDRO — A rainbow flag will fly above City Hall early next week as a sign of solidarity with those seeking to overturn California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act in the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court.
City council members voted unanimously Monday night to raise the rainbow flag in place of the city's flag.
Following San Leandro's lead, the Berkeley City Council was expected Tuesday to also approve the raising of a rainbow flag and Oakland also will fly the flag.
The actions coincide with next Tuesday's U.S. Supreme Court hearing challenging the constitutionality of the 2008 Prop. 8 same sex marriage ban. On Wednesday, the court will hear a challenge to the denial of benefits for legally married gay and lesbian couples under the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.
Rulings in both cases are expected by late June.
San Leandro Mayor Stephen Cassidy said it will be the first time City Hall has raised the rainbow flag, and the move signals that "the San Leandro of the past is not the San Leandro of the present. It's not the San Leandro of the future." He was asked to consider raising the flag by the national nonprofit Courage Campaign advocacy group.
"I think it is one of the defining civil rights issues of our day," Cassidy said at Monday's meeting. "Flying the flag is a statement by the City Council saying we support marriage equality for same sex couples and that marriage is a fundamental human right that all couples who love each other should be able to enjoy. And we also want to send a message that San Leandro is a tolerant community, that we welcome all individuals to our City."
Two San Leandro residents and the president of the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club spoke in support of the item Monday before the council vote was taken.
Ashly McGlone covers San Leandro, San Lorenzo and the Washington Township Health Care District. Contact her at 510-293-2463. Follow her at Twitter.com/AshlyReports.


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Photograph © Phumzile Sojola
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess; at far right is Alicia Hall Moran.
Vocalizing has always been an important part of Alicia Hall Moran's self-expression. As a newborn in the maternity ward, Moran was known as "Lungs." As a child, she enjoyed performing concerts and musicals for her family. As a Barnard student, Moran majored in music. Now a seasoned mezzo-soprano, she recently completed a run on Broadway in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. Why did she pursue music as her art form? Without question, she says, music chose her.
An opportunity in high school took Moran's musical education to the next level, when she applied and was accepted to the summer Tanglewood Institute. It was also in high school that Moran decided she wanted to attend the best college in New York City, one where her intellect would be taken seriously. Barnard was the obvious choice. "I didn't understand it then, but Barnard gave me an ability to question anything and everything with freedom and responsibility," she says. "You need to know how to do that to sustain yourself as a woman, as an artist, as a mother, as a citizen." Moran majored in music with a concentration in anthropology. After Barnard, she attended the Manhattan School of Music (MSM) where she earned a bachelor's in music; Lynn Owen, her Barnard voice teacher who also taught at MSM, helped Moran get admitted. Because she had already received a full education in theory and music history at Barnard, Moran took courses at MSM in such areas as composition, acting, and dance.
This comprehensive training is evident in her résumé, which lists a range of creative endeavors from the traditional to the experimental. In addition to The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, Moran was a 2012 Biennial Artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art, curating and performing BLEED, a five-day music and arts festival that surveyed the musical landscape of Moran and her husband, Jason, an accomplished musician and the artistic advisor for jazz at The Kennedy Center. The event brought together artists, practitioners, and ideas that have been key to the couple's thoughts about music. "It was time to turn the private partnership inside out and let the art world see inside our mechanism," says Moran.
She planned much of BLEED while living in Cambridge, Mass., working on the The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess premiere while her husband was in New York City. Moran found herself shaping many of the project's ideas, including its title. "Then it hit me," she says. "My dream had come true. I was planning a major spectacle for an American art museum. I could do whatever I wanted." The performances of BLEED blended genres, formats, and media and took on a number of themes. Moran would perform two or three concerts at BLEED then jump into a cab to make curtain for her Broadway performances. "It was truly the most invigorating week of my artistic life," she says.
It was through another project that Moran was first considered for The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. She was performing in Alicia Hall Moran + the motown project, an operatic cabaret featuring Japanese taiko drums, harp, guitar, and bass, with Motown songs sung in operatic style performed at the prestigious Regattabar, a jazz club in Cambridge, among other venues. Producer Diane Borger, with Harvard's American Repertory Theater, learned of Moran's performance, met her after a show, and sent her name to the casting agency; several months later, she auditioned for and was quickly offered the part of Ensemble/Bess Understudy.
Collaboration, which she uses as a means of exploration to enhance her artistic growth, is evident in much of Moran's work. Moran is currently the musical director on visual artist Adam Pendleton's opera in development for Performa 13, a biennial of new visual-art performance. Moran enjoys working alone as well. "Art is solitary and I love that," she says. Moran spends a lot of time each day speaking and writing. Does she have a dream role? "Michelle Obama," she says, "but I don't think it's been written yet."


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Maureen Hickman Swanson '90 on common chemical exposure.
Q: As director of the Healthy Children Project of the Learning Disabilities Association of America, can you explain how chemical exposure harms the brain?
A: A growing body of scientific evidence links toxic chemical exposures with harm to brain development. Certain chemicals, such as flame retardants, can harm brain development and interact with genetic factors to contribute to learning and developmental disabilities. Scientists are homing in on prenatal development and early childhood as a time in which the brain is very vulnerable to harm from toxic chemical exposures.
Q: Are the risks of chemical exposure greater today?
A: I work in coalition with several hundred other health, environmental and disabilities organizations. We would say yes. We know from national bio-monitoring studies that levels of dangerous chemicals are increasing in Americans' bodies. Likewise, when there is a policy change or a chemical stops being used, we can track decreases in that chemical in our bodies.
Q: What is the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)?
A: The TSCA is the federal statute to regulate tens of thousands of chemicals in commerce. It was enacted in 1976 and is our only federal environmental law that has never been updated. Under TSCA, chemicals do not get tested for safety and health effects before they are used, and the EPA doesn't have the authority to restrict their use. There are bills in the House and Senate to reform TSCA, and we work to promote reform so chemicals must be found safe for people, especially children, before they're used in products.
Q: How can people limit their exposure to toxic chemicals?
A: You can do simple things like take off your shoes when you come inside and dust regularly, because chemicals accumulate in household dust. Don't use plastics when cooking or heating foods and try to buy local, organic produce. Environmental Working Group has a web database that rates cosmetics, cleaning and personal care products to help you choose nontoxic products. But nobody can shop their way out of exposure to toxic chemicals, and they shouldn't have to. That's why we need policy change.
Q: Subway removed an FDA-approved chemical from its bread in response to an online petition. Can greater awareness effect changes in chemical use?
A: We've seen increasing demand from consumers to know what's in their products and their food and a willingness to demand that toxic chemicals are taken out. That happened with Bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles and sippy cups. The market has a lot of power.


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I stumbled across this video today while browsing YouTube.
Nissan LEAF US Battery Factory -- How an Electric Car Battery is Made:
It was a good video but some of it was out of sequence.
Somehow I missed the fact that it was posted at viewtopic.php?p=340488#p340488 almost a year ago.
I also stumbled across these:
Nissan Smyrna Battery Plant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-W7ab0zHcQ - the first ~1:20 or so isn't worth watching.
Planet Vehicle: Nissan EV Battery Plant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBboW2Sw3Co - not a lot of detail


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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Family networking and genealogy website MyHeritage said it bought rival Geni.com as it continues to expand into the United States.
The Israeli company did not disclose how much it paid for Los Angeles-based Geni.com but said it was an eight-figure deal in a combination of cash and equity.
MyHeritage, which helps people delve into their ancestry and connect with long-lost relatives, is second in the sector behind market leader Ancestry.com, which agreed last month to be bought for $1.6 billion by a group led by Europe-based private equity firm Permira Advisors LLC
The acquisition is the first of the year for MyHeritage but eighth and largest since 2005. A year ago, it bought Utah-based FamilyLink.com.
MyHeritage also said it raised $25 million in a funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, while existing investors Index Ventures and Accel Partners also participated. The company has raised $49 million in total.
The funds will be used to boost growth of its historical content services and expand commercial operations worldwide. It said it will also enable MyHeritage, whose network has 72 million registered users, 1.5 billion profiles and 27 million family trees, to explore further mergers and acquisition opportunities.
Reporting by Steven Scheer


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WWE dished out a superb Royal Rumble on Sunday, but left fans feeling frustrated with what looks to be The Rock vs. John Cena 2.
The WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view was going great until the main event.
But I guess you can't ask for everything.
After a strong opener with WWE World Champion Alberto Del Rio defeating Big Show, followed by a decent match with Kane/Daniel Bryan retaining their WWE tag-team titles, John Cena won what is easily the best Royal Rumble match in recent memory.
Then, WWE decided to restart a title match that was already decided (and won by CM Punk), and then The Rock won.
So, we're looking at Cena vs. The Rock 2 at WrestleMania 29.
Let's review:
Antonio Cesaro beats The Miz. ANALYSIS: I only saw clips of this match from the live PPV. Some solid spots were executed. It was smart to have Cesaro get the victory. His character is extremely strong right now. The Miz's use as a part-time announcer didn't help his case. PICK: I'm 1-0.
Alberto Del Rio beats The Big Show. ANALYSIS: It was a no-brainer that Del Rio would win after Bret Hart gave him a pre-match pep talk. I slightly marked out when Hart gave Ricardo Rodriguez his shades. The biggest spot of the match, where Big Show threw Del Rio off a structure near backstage and through a table, was superb. Decent spot with Big Show going through the barrier, too. You have to remember you can only do so many things to beat Big Show, even if they don't come across as 100 percent perfect on TV. I thought this worked, and was helped by chair shots and fire extinguishers. I really liked the use of duct tape on Big Show's feet to get the 10 count. It was refreshingly different. Very strong opener. PICK: I'm 2-0.
Dolph Ziggler interview. ANALYSIS: Typical Ziggler stuff, but Big E. Langston stole the show here as an "announcer."
Kane/Daniel Bryan beat Cody Rhodes/Damien Sandow to retain the WWE Tag Team titles. ANALYSIS: I'm a little surprised the champs retained, but I guess WWE is going to ride their popularity as long as they can. Doing so, however, WWE really needs to have another very credible tag team or two to develop, and fast. Maybe The Shield will go after the straps. This was a decent match. Nothing horrible. Nothing great. PICK: I'm 2-1.
ANALYSIS: Dolph Ziggler entering as No. 1, of course, wasn't a shocker. Chris Jericho entering as No. 2 was the surprise of the night. The best feud was Cody Rhodes vs. Goldust (no one saw Goldust as an entrant). Another good feud was Bo Dallas vs. Wade Barrett, with Dallas tossing out Barrett and then Barrett getting revenge by tossing out Dallas.
Kofi Kingston had the spot of the night, even though he wasn't able to completely execute it. Had Kingston been able to jump from the Spanish announce table back into the ring, I would have majorly marked out. I think the table was just too far. The use of JBL's chair was a solid re-entry into the ring by Kingston. I can live with that. It hadn't been done before.
I liked the eliminations of Daniel Bryan and Kane. That was great stuff with Bryan throwing out Kane, and then Kane catching Bryan and debating whether to drop him after a back-and-forth of "yes" and "no."
In case you are wondering, WWE's pre-match list of the 20 confirmed were all in the match. The names of the wrestlers that stormed the Raw ring on my pre-match list only delivered one (Brodus Clay). The other surprise nine, besides Jericho and Goldust, were Santino Marella, Tensai, The Godfather, Zack Ryder, Sin Cara, Rey Mysterio and David Otunga. Of those, The Godfather was easily the biggest surprise. My predicted final eight was Cena, Orton, Sheamus, Ryback, Ziggler, The Miz, Barrett and Bryan. I got the first six of those, with Barrett being tossed out at 20 and Bryan being tossed out at 16. Instead, Sin Cara went out at 23 and Jericho went out at 25.
I almost had the final four correct. I predicted Randy Orton, Ryback, Cena and Sheamus. Instead, Ziggler made it and Orton was the 26th elimination. I personally think it's too little, too late in pushing Ryback to the final two, but WWE had to do that after having him enter as No. 30. And what was with Sin Cara at No. 29? Wow. What a downer. Clearly, Ziggler and Jericho stole the show as starting 1 and 2, respectively, and getting tossed at 25 and 27, respectively. So much for my Orton pick, too. I guess WWE fears he could get his third strike in the Wellness Policy as the champion. That wouldn't be good press.
Of note: Those left out from my pre-match list of wrestlers that stormed the Raw ring included JTG, Alex Riley, Jey Uso, Jimmy Uso, Justin Gabriel, Tatsu, Michael McGillicutty or Ted DiBiase, Primo or Epico and Curt Hawkins. Those that were rumored that didn't show up included AJ Lee, Big E. Langston, Shelton Benjamin, Carlito, Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Shane Helms, Chris Masters, Tommy Dreamer, Road Dogg, Billy Gunn, Low Ki (Kaval), MVP, Goldberg, Papa Shango (although The Godfather showed up), Jack Swagger, Mark Henry, Diamond Dallas Page and X-Pac.
So, Orton didn't win. Cena did. PICK: I'm 2-2.
The Rock's mom is shown in the crowd. ANALYSIS: A no-brainer he would win. Shame, shame.
The Rock beats CM Punk to win the WWE title. ANALYSIS: Pretty good match. It started out slow, but picked up when it went to the outside. Bad table spot when the table collapsed on The Rock and Punk before a move. Not their fault, but it didn't help the match. I'm assuming The Rock didn't hurt his knee, but who knows this early. I didn't care for the lights going out and WWE wanting us to believe The Shield aided Punk. Where was Brock Lesnar? Why did Vince McMahon not strip Punk of the title, instead letting The Rock's wish of restarting the match rule WWE? It was obvious The Rock would win on the restart. Crying shame. The "once-in-a-lifetime" match of The Rock vs. John Cena is almost upon us. Again. Simply put, The Rock will bring in more money and more interviews leading up to WrestleMania 29 as WWE Champion than CM Punk will. It is what it is. We can at least hope Punk vs. Undertaker is given to us. PICK: I'm 2-3.
Where was the Divas title match? Pick: None.
ANALYSIS: Strong opening matches, a superb Royal Rumble topped by Jericho's return and a few new feuds and a strong main event until the end. Tough to grade because I have a sour taste in my mouth over how the show ended. GRADE: B.
Dana White said Brock Lesnar won't be back in UFC. REACT: Agree.
Ric Flair reportedly suffers a blood clot in his leg. REACT: Still think WWE will let Flair wrestle again?


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WETUMPKA | Auburn University officials have testified about the hundreds of thousands of dollars they say the school has spent because of the poisoning of the oak trees at Toomer's Corner.
WETUMPKA | Auburn University officials have testified about the hundreds of thousands of dollars they say the school has spent because of the poisoning of the oak trees at Toomer's Corner.
The testimony came during a hearing Wednesday before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker to determine how much restitution Harvey Updyke should pay for poisoning the famous oak trees.
Walker did not rule and gave attorneys 30 days to submit briefs.
Updyke pleaded guilty in March to one count of unlawful damage to the trees by poisoning them after the 2010 Alabama-Auburn game. The trees were cut down April 23 and Updyke was released from jail June 10.
The state has asked for $1.35 million in restitution.
Updyke's attorney, Andrew Stanley, said his client is indigent, only has $630 to his name and doesn't have a job.
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Lee County District Attorney Robbie Treese said the state needs a ruling ordering Updyke to pay the restitution.
Treese said the state would be able to collect if the 64-year-old Updyke "wins the lottery."
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And those are opportunities area companies shouldn't pass up, said Michael Ammann, chief executive of the San Joaquin Partnership.
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