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Some thoughts for this nice, yet chilly Sunday evening:
- At the beginning of the week, my apartment was unbearably hot. Right now it is an igloo. You have to love spring in New England. Definitely not complaining though I do think it might be time to put socks on.
- Spent most of the day cleaning out my office/utility area of my apartment. Got sidetracked at 4 and now it's after 6 and I'm panicking.
- Crazy busy at work last week, will be again this week. It's good to keep my mind occupied but it's making these days, which I don't really want to go much faster, fly by.
- LOST IS ALMOST OVER!!!! 😦 Two weeks from tonight.
- Seeing Iron Man 2 tomorrow. V. excited.
- Going away party for my boss is on Wednesday. Nice send off for him as he's going to NY two weeks before me. Am dreading what they'll plan for my send off. I wish they could have just stuck us together.
- Believe it or not I'm seeing a ballet on Thursday. Ultimate Balanchine. Hope it's at least entertaining enough.
- That oil spill is just incredible. So much affected by it that I didn't even think about. Very sad. I definitely need to read more about it.
- Tony nominations came out this week and none of them were all that thrilling to me. I haven't seen anything so I don't know what got snubbed and what deserves to win. I guess I'm rooting for American Idiot as I've been on a real Green Day kick lately and it will be the first show I see when I move.
- Speaking of Green Day, is there a sadder song from the 90s than "Time of Your Life"? I cry every time I hear it. I then put "Basket Case" on and rock out. Ah, good times. I remember my brother blasting Dookie from his bedroom when it came out and I would always go in and steal the album from him to listen to that song and "When I Come Around."
- HBO has starting playing the Sex & The City movie again and I keep watching. I swear I've seen that movie 100 times at this point. Definitely a guilty pleasure. Am kinda excited for the new one, however ridiculous it looks.
- Movies coming I want to see: Prince of Persia (I know), Robin Hood (again, I know), Sex & The City 2, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and I'm sure there are others coming that I've forgotten about.
- SQUEE! A week from tomorrow, Muse is releasing a brand new song that will be on the Eclipse soundtrack. It's called "Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever)" which is an appropriately weird song title for my newest musical obsession. I spent 2 hours Wednesday night watching a Muse concert online when I should have gone to bed. I can't get enough of them. I now am the proud owner of a 105 song Muse playlist on my iPod (soon to be 106!). It's pathetic but I don't care. I mean, how could you not love this over-the-top band? Look at those glasses!
Okay, I desperately need to accomplish more before this night is out. Once again, YouTube has proved to be "the internet explorer to my firefox."
Seriously guys, why aren't you all watching The Big Bang Theory?


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I downloaded the demo today and am ssstuck already! Can't get door open and out of ideas to try. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm sorry, Nathan, I didn't mean to post any spoilers, but I got so carried away by what was happening. Just now finished the demo and ... not to say too much, I will be buying the game, that's for sure!

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Lily is too old to do domestic chores. She is tired and has lived too long. In her heart, she entered Sitting Quietly after Snow Flower's death.
Spring Moon, Snow flower's daughter, threw herself down a well on her wedding night, polluting the village. Lily tries to quiet people who repeat her responding letter of vituperation, which is now well-known. Snow Flower's passing was the most difficult day of writing on the fan that Lily has ever done. Lily's husband hired Snow Flower's son as a rent collector and gave him a house, so that he did not have to go into pig butchering. Eventually, his butcher father joined him there.
Lily became a vegetarian, contemplated sutras and hoped to renounce bed business. Out of sympathy for her husband, she chose three concubines, who had his babies and improved his esteem in the...
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The proposals to reform the pension scheme are simply designed to reduce employers' contributions and further increase income for the University on the expense of employees members. The University of Birmingham has backed down from an increasingly embarrassing attempt to discipline 15 students. Online and distance studying courses can be found together with such highly reputable establishments as The University of Essex.
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Like any strange and quarrelsome sect, the church of anti-Trump conservatism has divided and subdivided since Donald Trump's election. Some members have apostatized and joined the ranks of Trumpists; others have marched leftward, with anti-Trumpism as a gateway drug to wokeness. There is a faction that is notionally skeptical of Trump but functionally anti-anti-Trump, a faction that insists it's just calling "balls and strikes" and a faction screaming that the president rigged the game and needs to be thrown out.
But amid all these disputations the central question facing anti-Trump conservatives — and not only us — can be simplified to this: Is what we're watching a tragedy or a farce?
The case for tragedy is made this month by David Frum in his book "Trumpocracy," which builds on his year-old Atlantic essay, "How to Build An Autocracy" and amplifies its central theme: that our president is a corrupt authoritarian, that his party has prostituted itself to wield unfettered power, and that this is an hour of great peril for the American republic, which teeters on the lip of the precipice that Erdogan's Turkey and Putin's Russia have toppled over.
I agree with much of what Frum writes — his diagnosis of how the Republican Party succumbed to Trump, his judgment of Trump's enablers and toadies, his critique of Trump's disgraceful behavior and its coarsening effect.
But I am not convinced by his overarching theme of looming crisis, his hour-is-late tone and the frequent implication (however hedged and qualified) that Trump might be on his way to establishing a regime to rival the populist authoritarianisms of other unhappy countries.
So as a counterpoint to Frum's argument for tragedy, let me make the case for farce. Start with the central issue that disturbs many patriotic critics of our president: that Trump was elected with covert assistance from Vladimir Putin's government, that he or his allies may have cooperated with Putin's attempted sabotage of Hillary Clinton's campaign, and that some combination of sympathy for Putinism, a debt to Russian hackers, and even some sort of kompromat make him effectively a Manchurian president.
Frum, like others, has a moral certainty about the depth of Trumpian collusion that I don't see vindicated in the publicly available facts. But it is certainly imaginable that Robert Mueller's investigation will reveal something truly damning and impeachable.
But whatever the offenses may be, the real-world policy effects that Trump's critics have feared from l'Affaire Russe — an alliance of strongmen, the subordination of American interests to Moscow, the unraveling of NATO — haven't materialized at all. Trump may desire a détente, but instead we are escalating our proxy war with Russia in Ukraine even as sanctions remain in force and our troops train in Eastern Europe and the Pentagon's National Security Strategy treats Moscow as a major threat. If Trump is supposed to be advancing Kremlin interests from Washington, the bargain isn't working, and the Russians might as well just release the pee tape and have done with it.
And what's true with Russia is true on other fronts. A vast gulf between the things Trump says he wants — which are, indeed, often authoritarian — and the things that actually happen is the essential characteristic of his presidency's first year.
He promised to bring back waterboarding and worse; he was easily talked out of it. He promised a Muslim ban; a much more modest travel ban is now tied up in the courts. He launched a voter fraud commission, which his critics regarded as a step toward massive vote suppression; it was ineffective and broke up. He keeps threatening to change the libel laws; they aren't changing, and the anti-Trump press is thriving. NATO and Nafta are both still there; the trade war with China has been postponed; we are not at war with Iran or (yes, I know, yet) with North Korea; the scope of the Russia investigation has only widened since Trump's hamfisted intervention.
Before Trump took office, it was reasonable to worry that he would fill high offices with cronies, but the real cranks have rarely lasted and many appointments have been reasonable and conventional and even boring. The president is filling the courts with Federalist Society conservatives, not his sister or Ivanka or Newt Gingrich, and his cabinet looks a lot like a generic Republican administration, whose efforts liberals understandably oppose and sometimes deplore, but which are not remotely like the workings of a fascist cabal circa 1935.
And then legislatively, the story of the Trump era so far is failure on every front save tax cuts, an outsourcing of policymaking to Hill Republicans, and a general incompetence that is bringing us yet another government shutdown. The recurrence of these shutdowns is, certainly, a symptom of the republic's sclerosis — but it is not a Trump-specific problem, and he seems to have made it neither better nor much worse.
Now it might be argued that all of this — the balking of Trump's authoritarian impulses, the normalcy of his appointments, his massive unpopularity and legislative failures — is due to the intense vigilance of the Resistance, the widespread determination to treat this president as an existential threat.
But I don't think that's right. Senate Republicans succeeded in normalizing Trump's cabinet and judicial appointments by behaving, well, normally: Working behind the scenes to veto bad choices and elevate more conventional picks. Congressional Democrats have stalled Trump's agenda by campaigning against its substance, as they would with any other G.O.P. president, and they are threatening to take the House and Senate by running no-fuss-and-drama candidates. The Deep State of bureaucrats and generals has prevented sudden breaks with U.S. policy not with high-profile resignations or massive acts of sabotage, but by repeatedly, patiently talking the president out of his most disruptive or dangerous ideas.
And where an abnormal response to Trump has kept things on an even keel, it hasn't been furious protests; rather, it's been a collective decision by many different actors, from his own appointees to his congressional opponents to foreign leaders the world over, to simply behave as if he isn't actually the president, as if the system around him is what matters, and his expressed desires are just a reality TV performance.
This is not how a truly dangerous authoritarianism works. It's not how the imperial presidencies of the past worked, either: For all his braggart's talk, Trump has done nothing that compares with the power grabs and norm violations of Woodrow Wilson or Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon, George W. Bush or even Barack Obama … and because he lacks the popularity or media adulation that all of those presidents enjoyed at one point, it's very hard to see how he would go about imitating them.
This doesn't mean that his presidency is succeeding, or that NeverTrumpers were wrong to oppose him; it doesn't mean that his manifest incapacity won't lead to some disaster; it doesn't mean that conservatives or anyone else should be happy to have porn stars and race-baiting in the headlines; it doesn't mean that the Trump chapter in our history won't be remembered for hastening decline.
But if this chapter is a prelude to an authoritarian future, that future has clearly not yet arrived. Trump is a dictator on Twitter, a Dear Leader in his own mind, but in the real world there is no Trumpocracy because Trump cannot even rule himself. And while real tragedy may arrive eventually, in this historical cycle a dismal sort of farce is what comes first.


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After graduating from college and escaping the demands of required reading, I didn't expect to encounter much poetry. I'd studied to be a journalist, after all, a profession in which writers are encouraged to say exactly what they mean. Poets, who had a habit of writing in riddles, seemed an unlikely source of inspiration for my new work and life.
But less than a year after leaving campus, while home alone recovering from minor surgery, I got bored enough to watch a public television documentary about Elizabeth Bishop. It was part of "Voices and Visions," a landmark 1988 series about major American poets that featured Bishop, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman and many others.
Still groggy from pain pills, I drifted in and out of sleep while actress Blythe Danner lent her elegant voice to such affecting Bishop poems as "Questions of Travel" and "The Moose." Bishop had a genius for capturing the alternately liberating and confining strangeness of being human, and listening to her stanzas drift over my sofa, I felt an odd sense of levitation. But then again, as I told myself at the time, maybe this had more to do with my drug-addled brain than Bishop's peculiar art.
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A few days later, with my health restored and my head now clear, I headed to the bookstore to get a copy of Bishop's collected poems and see if her magic endured. Happily, Bishop's poetry continued to charm me, and reading her work led me to other poets, including Frost, Marianne Moore, Pablo Neruda, and Donald Hall. Thus began a love affair with poetry that's lasted more than two decades, and I owe it all to television.
All of this comes to mind with April's observance of National Poetry Month, an annual exercise in awareness-raising that's aimed at getting more people to love poetry just as much as I do. Public readings and other initiatives have their place in building an audience for poetry, but I still think of television as an especially powerful tool in raising poetry's profile.
As far as I'm concerned, there's no better place for would-be poetry enthusiasts to start than where I did – in an encounter with "Voices & Visions," now available on DVD and the Internet. The seven-disc, 13-hour DVD set sells for a whopping $389 at Annenberg Learner, which caters to classroom users. But luckily, the series is also available for free viewing.
To watch "Voices & Visions" is to be reminded that with its frequent use of vivid imagery and verbal music, poetry is tailor-made for television. Appropriating the techniques of music video, the series mixes dramatic visual interpretations of selected poems with biographies and critical views of the featured poets. The haunting musical score also does a great job of simulating the intellectual dreamscape in which poetry so often comes to life.
Another standout in public television's celebration of poetry is Bill Moyers' "The Language of Life," an exhilarating, eight-part series shot on location at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Think of a rock concert for poetry, and you'll get some idea of the energy from the Dodge Festival's heavily attended public readings, which is deftly captured in Moyers' 1995 production. Featuring readings and interviews with leading poets, the series includes Robert, Bly, Adrienne Rich and Gary Snyder among others. The series has just been released by Athena Learning in a three-DVD, $59.99 set.
At the same web site, Athena also offers "Six Centuries of Verse" (three DVDs, $69.99), a series that first aired on public television in the 1990s. The late John Gielgud hosts a sweeping survey of English-language poetry from Beowulf to Robert Lowell, with everyone from Lee Remick to Anthony Hopkins performing dramatic readings. The sets and presentation on this production tend to look dated by modern standards, so it's up to the actors to save the show. One of the highlights, Hopkins' reading of Dylan Thomas, is among the clips available for free preview at Athena's web site.
Danny Heitman, a columnist for The Baton Rouge Advocate, is the author of "A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House."


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"Well" says the doctor "You've got brothel sprouts."-Target (April 29, 2012, 06:33 PM)
They don't have a right to disrupt other people and keep other people from protesting...
Gentlemen, let's get this thing straight, once and for all. The policeman is not here to create disorder. The policeman is here to preserve disorder.-Richard J. Daley
4) Does anyone here own a descendant of Schrödinger's cat? You can tell if you have one if you can see it but not in a mirror.-Arizona Hot (May 27, 2012, 06:55 PM)
4 questions:1) What do you do if you come to a spork in the road? You go both ways. It's a quantum thing.2) Who is the most likely person to use a spork? One born with a plastic spork in their mouth.3) What kind of food do you eat with a spork? Spork chops4) Does anyone here own a descendant of Schrödinger's cat? You can tell if you have one if you can see it but not in a mirror. No, but one tried to bite my neck once.-Arizona Hot (May 27, 2012, 06:55 PM)
Silly.-IainB (May 29, 2012, 01:39 PM)
The phone rings, at a married couple's house, and the wife answers. Wife: Hello!Caller: (with heavy breathing) "I bet you have a tight ars*h*le with no hair." Wife: "Yes. Hang on a moment, he's watching TV. Who shall I say is calling?"
For the love of all that is decent, do NOT choose the "Buy It Used" option. Just trust me on this one.(Written from my hospital bed)
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What is the Progressive Alliance for Cornwall?
It's a growing group of people drawn from centre left parties – Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green Party and Mebyon Kernow – who want to build trust and better co-operation between our parties. It also includes people who belong to no particular party because they don't see party politics in its present form as answering their needs.
As centre-left parties, we have more in common with each other than we do with the Conservatives. Our aim is to unseat Tory MP's and councillors in Cornwall and be part of a wider network to remove them from power at the next General Election.
Are you a separate party?
No. We are neither a separate party nor an umbrella group. We want to develop stronger links between our parties and promote better co-operation at elections. We also want to promote a more consensual politics by campaigning on issues of joint concern, rather than dwelling only on those issues that puts them apart. In particular we want to work for a stronger democracy and accountability.
What do centre-left parties have in common?
Much more unites us than divides us. All want to restore the NHS to a fully funded public body and roll back the privatisation measures introduced by this government. Unlike the Conservatives, centre-left parties want to address climate change head on and implement the transition to a low carbon economy. Other common policy concerns include addressing the housing crisis,protecting human rights, the introduction of proportional representation and real devolution to the regions.
Why is a progressive alliance needed?
Well firstly the majority of people in the UK do not vote Conservative. The fact that they form a majority in the House of Commons shows how deeply dysfunctional our present election system is. The non-Tory parties need to cooperate more, particularly in order to introduce proportional representation that better reflects the increased political plurality we see today.
However there is now much more at stake: Brexit, the election of Trump and the rise of nationalist and far right parties in Europe have given a particular urgency for the need for a progressive alliance. We are now living in a completely different world to the one we had a year ago. The multilateral framework that underpinned globalisation and promoted peace and prosperity is now being rolled back. That prosperity was not fairly shared and it gave rise to the yawning inequalities both within and between nation states we see today. A transnational elite has benefitted far more from the free movement of people, jobs and money than ordinary resident populations. Loss of identity, impoverishment and powerlessness are key drivers of the more angry, aggressive and nationalist politics we see today.
So this is no time for politics as usual. There are bigger battles to be fought and centre-left parties urgently need to come together to defend the values and principles we cherish – tolerance, fair play, diversity, human rights and equality – and to jointly campaign on those issues where there is clear common ground. Climate change, the future of our NHS and the housing crisis are all big issues where we share roughly the same common ground. Not to co-operate in a time of national need, to revert to old enmities is to do a great disservice to the constituents we seek to serve.
Why is PR needed?
In the last general election a majority Conservative government was voted in on only 37 percent of the vote, while five million votes were gained by UKIP and the Greens who won just two seats between them. If we include those who did not vote – and the non-voting public was by far the largest party – this Conservative government holds absolute power with less than 24% of the electorate. How can this be called a functioning democracy that fairly reflects the will of the people?
But voting reform isn't exactly top of the list of public concerns – it is the NHS, Housing and Jobs
True. But those public concerns will never be met if unrepresentative governments are voted into power on a minority of votes. We need electoral reform that gives Britain a democracy and a government that reflects the will of the people. Only one in four people voted for the present government with millions of wasted votes in Labour or Tory safe seats.
The EU and Scottish Referendums showed that when people know their vote counts, they will come out in large numbers-voter turnout was 72% and 84.6% respectively, significantly higher than the 66% at the 2015 General Election. We need to build on that and ensure that future elections follow that principle. Proportional Representation is about ensuring that the proportion of seats won actually reflects the proportion of votes cast for a particular party and that no vote is wasted.
Is this a sort of 'left unity' project that glosses over party differences?
Absolutely not. There will always be strong differences between parties on key policy issues and that's essential for a healthy democracy. We see those differences now when we look at the biggest issues of the day: Brexit, immigration and our future relationship with the EU. The trouble is these differences tend to dominate party politics, while ignoring what we have in common – and that polarising approach is unhealthy for our democracy.
We hope to re-balance party politics away from polarising differences. No-one is pretending that there are no differences and no distinct party identity. It's about being pragmatic: where we have common ground, let's work together. Where we don't, let's disagree but do so in a way that is robust and constructive. Let's ditch the polarising language, ya-boo politics, the personal attacks and under-hand electioneering that is such a turn-off to a wider public.
Why should a party such as the Liberal Democrats align with Labour? After all they were part of the coalition government from 2010 to 2015?
A progressive alliance is about negotiation with no certainty of outcome. That means parties such as Labour, the Greens and Libdems and Mebyon Kernow have to listen carefully to each other and not make assumptions or take each other for granted. We have to keep looking for the common ground, build trust, and work together where we can but robustly disagree where we cannot.
Doesn't Brexit show the impossibility of a progressive alliance-Liberal Democrats and Labour appear poles apart?
Let's be clear: Brexit has upended the political settlement between people and government on a scale no one imagined; it is not just a problem for Labour and Liberal Democrats but all parties and the whole relationship between Westminster and the regions.
Labour is deeply divided and supported the Article 50 vote. The Liberal Democrats voted against and have been strongly critical of Labour's stance. Yet even here there is common ground: neither party wants to see a hard Brexit which does away with regulations designed to protect the environment, labour rights and human rights. Both urgently need to work together to ensure that doesn't happen.
So what is the way forward?
A progressive alliance is driven by an overwhelming imperative not just to co-operate to get the Tories out, but to put forward a radical agenda of change which includes constitutional and electoral reform, to reconnect with disaffected voters and to defend liberal values of inclusivity, tolerance, human rights, economic and social justice.
It seeks to promote a new kind of politics which is more honest, pragmatic and consensual; and it recognises that no single party has all the answers to the most pressing challenges that now face us: climate change, yawning inequality and the rise of populist far right right parties both here and abroad.


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Class of 2011...
The year 2011 was filled with innovation, change, and reward at CCNY. Several City College faculty members received honors and awards for their undertakings and advances. Two history professors, Dr. Gregory Downs and Dr. Emily Greble, received faculty research awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dr. Katherine C. Chen, an assistant professor of sociology, won the 2011 Best Book Prize for the Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), and Dr. Robert P. Anderson, Associate Professor of Biology, was chosen as a finalist in the New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. Additionally, the National Academies' Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE), appointed Hillary Brown, a professor of architecture, to the board for a three-year term, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) elected Professor Robert E. Paaswell as a Distinguished Member, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) selected Dr. Mitchell B. Schaffler to join the College of Fellows.
CCNY students also embarked on great undertakings, demonstrating their incredible skills and work ethic. Ph.D. student Asia Tsang used crowd funding to raise money to conduct research in flying fox bats and their role in spreading disease; and biology major Ashton Dorminvil helped uncover a 19th century African American village in Central Park. Many CCNY students have received recognition for their work. The awards presented to students in 2011 included the Pearson Prize for Higher Education, the American Chemical Society's Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.
The College itself also took on new endeavors, making curricular changes and establishing new programs to improve the quality of education for its students. The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education implemented a new program to teach physicians-in-training to help their patients by encouraging them to ask the right questions. CCNY's Continuing and Professional Studies introduced a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) program in October to provide more short-term vocational training options to students and the Department of Theatre and Speech founded a professional theatre company called the New Harlem Arts Theatre (NHAT).
The College's efforts were recognized by various organizations, which encouraged CCNY's progress by providing it with donations and funding. The donations awarded to CCNY included $15 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to fund NOA- CREST and $4 million from the U.S. Department of Education to fund its efforts to attract more Hispanic and low-income students into the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.


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Feis Milton Keynes marks its second year
By John Egan
As I write, Prince William is visiting Milton Keynes to celebrate its 50th anniversary of being declared a 'new town' in 1967.
Many will know the history of this town's development but few are aware of the relatively recent arrival in town of Feis MK, the newest addition to the dance calendar of London & Home Counties Region of An Comhdháil.
Last weekend Feis MK celebrated its second anniversary and attracted several hundred Irish dance competitors from all over England, Ireland and Scotland.
My interest in Irish dancing has the knack of taking me to towns, cities and places in the UK that I might not otherwise visit.
I first became aware of Milton Keynes almost 50 years ago, but in spite of frequent adverts on the London underground about the benefits of moving to this 'New Town' in Buckinghamshire, the place held no attraction for me then.
Nor did I know of anyone who had upped sticks to move to that place with its famous concrete cows. Londoners tittered at the very idea.
The reality is however, that Londoners and others moved there in their tens of thousands. In 1961 its population was 51,000 and following its urban development later in that decade it increased with the overspill from congested London boroughs.
By 2011 the population had swollen to almost 250,000 and although it was officially designated a New Town in 1967 it was known informally by planners and residents as a 'New City'.
Locally known as MK it continues to attract new residents and businesses and, for sure, the former Wimbledon F.C. does not regret its relocation to become the MK Dons in 2004.
The town even has its very own Irish Centre where Irish dance is practised on most evenings and weekends.
And last weekend, Noreen and I, had the pleasure of driving around the vast open landscapes of this truly rural tree-lined conurbation.
It is regarded as a 'forested city' with over 20 million planted trees. Its planners seem to have left nothing to chance.
The very wide grass margins on main grid roads can readily be converted to dual carriageways, if traffic growth requires it.
Unlike Londoners, MK dwellers won't have to suffer the need for overhead flyovers towering in the sky above them.
Feis MK is still in its infancy but its growth in popularity in such a short timeframe parallels the development of MK itself.
Organised by teacher (TCRG) cousins, Claire Theobald and Vicki Kerridge, of the Mary Drake School, it is now clearly embedded in the regional dance calendar of An Comhdháil.
Claire and Vicki, who are rightly proud of their home town, were determined that their feis should reflect its name, hence Feis MK.
If I were a Rodgers or Hammerstein I would definitely chorus that MK is OK! OK! OK! And so also is its feis.
For the record, for those who might be puzzled by the title of Claire and Vicki's dance school, Mary Drake was their grandmother, originally from Cork, who was delighted to encourage her grandchildren's interest in a facet of Irish culture that she so admired. Mary passed away in 2006 but her grandchildren ensured she will live on in their MK dance school title.
And if Mary Drake could look down from her 'mansion above' she would be proud to see three greatgrandchildren from MK following in the family's soft and hard shoe footsteps.
In particular she would be proud of the achievements of Orlaith, the youngest of Claire's children. Orlaith suffers from a chromosome defect which has delayed her in reaching developmental milestones.
Indeed I remember her last year when she had difficulties in learning to walk. Her condition involves learning difficulties, speech impairment and autism.
Her physical traits include hypotonia, a muscle weakness condition which is seen as militating against the challenges posed by Irish dancing.
In spite of that condition at just two and a half, Orlaith is desperate to learn and joins in every lesson. In fact, she's even put it into her routine with Irish born physiotherapist, Mairead, at the Child Development Centre in Milton Keynes.
Orlaith, assisted by her Nan, was first on the floor to 'compete' in the Walkers Cup, an event that cajoles the very young un's to get up and try out 'this dancing lark'.
And surely the late Brucie would have said 'Didn't she do well'. During his visit today Prince William said: "There is a very strong sense of belonging in Milton Keynes – a busy cultural, heritage and arts centre and a focus on greenery and sustainability."
Feis MK surely reflects his sentiments in many ways.


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There are plenty of companies on the internet toting the sale of consumer lists to businesses, many of which also allow the purchaser to drill down the list by nearly any type of factor that they can imagine. As a commercial grade water slide rental business, this can be a particularly effective marketing tactic to grow your bounce house business. However, like anything this should be entered into with a bit of research and understanding.
Most vendors offer both mail and email lists. While email lists generally come at a higher cost, the price for your water slide rental business to market to these contacts is significantly lower than the printing and postage costs of direct mail. This is an important factor to keep in mind when deciding how to proceed with your list purchase.
The most important factor is to find the right vendor for your list. As a bounce house business, it will be most important for you to find a list based on zip code of the geographic area that you service. From there many list companies will also let you further break this down by age, income level, marital status, and a number of other factors that will make your message more likely to reach your water slide rental business' targeted audience.
Once you have narrowed your search to a few companies you will want to do your research on the vendor. Inquire about a guarantee that the addresses (whether these be mail or email) are valid. A reputable list company will generally stand by their list with a guarantee that at least 75% of their contacts will be valid. This can easily be measured with both mail and email through returned mail and bounced email addresses.
You should also request that the list vendor provide you with some customer references. Be sure to take the time to follow up with this. Many companies do not, and may regret this in the long run. Ask the customers about the success of their marketing using the company's list and the validity of the contacts that were supplied. You will very quickly be able to ascertain whether this is in fact a satisfied customer.
Depending on the list company that you have selected, some vendors choose to send the mailing out for you themselves, with the fee only covering a one-time mailing. In this case you will need to include a very strong call to action in your water slide rental business' message. Only by having the recipient contact you, by email or phone, will you capture their information for future marketing through your own bounce house database.
If the list company does provide you with the contacts for repeat marketing, you will still want to put your best foot forward with this initial communication. This will set the groundwork for how they perceive your commercial grade water slide rental business.
Purchasing a mailing list can certainly be an important aspect of your water slide rental business' marketing. Be sure to do the research so as not to fall prey to the number of companies online offering bad data for low prices.
With today's age of mobile connectivity, social media marketing is a more and more important way for commercial grade water slide businesses to connect with their customers. Twitter is one of the big players in the world of social media, with over 232 million active users, 53 million of which are in the United States. For your bounce house business this means expanding the reach of your audience, at no additional cost to you.
The first component to successfully marketing your bounce house business on Twitter is to create a well branded bio page. Your bio should include relevant words such as 'bounce house' and 'water slide rental'. You want to use this area to be very clear on what your water slide business offers. Take advantage of the location section of this page as well, again being as specific as possible. This is particularly important for commercial grade water slides companies, where your business is so dependent on the geographic area.
Put some thought into the landing page you want your Twitter page to direct to. Keep in mind that this does not necessarily have to be your bounce house business' home page, a sub-page that may be more relevant and eye-catching may be more appropriate.
Once you have your Twitter page set up, reach out to your existing customers and business partners, encouraging them to follow you on Twitter. This will help you to gain an initial following, and further allow you to stay in touch with your bounce house customers.
Another key to successful marketing through Twitter is to create your own list of follows. Select some industry organizations and other professionals in the water slide industry. Feel free to retweet relevant information from these organizations on your own water slide business account. This will work towards establishing yourself as a leader and a professional in the water slide industry.
Regular tweeting is an important aspect of successfully marketing your water slide business on Twitter. Because tweets are short blurbs of not more than 140 characters, regular daily tweets are certainly possible, requiring minimal time commitment from your bounce house business. As you establish followers and continue looking to widen your reach, occasionally ask your followers to retweet your water slide business' posts, or mention favorite tweets to their own audience.
Twitter is a great way to also offer special water slide offers and discounts to your followers. You can have the customer reference an exclusive promo code to take advantage, or simply mention Twitter. This will also help to measure the effectiveness of your water slide business' social media marketing.
Another option is to run a contest through Twitter. For example 'the next 50 people to retweet this message will receive 20% off their next bounce house rental'. Not only will this entice your customers, but by retweeting this will also expand your water slide business' reach through Twitter. Check out water slide rentals Navarre FL to see how they are using there Twitter.
Twitter is a great addition to your water slide business' marketing mix, and will further help you to build and establish your brand in the bounce house industry.
It is that time of year again, tax filing. For many Water slide Rental Business owners the mention of business tax filing can cause you to feel light-headed. However, this time of year doesn't have to be a headache. By taking advantage of tax deductions available to you as a commercial grade water slide rental business owner, you can make this a much more positive undertaking.
Donations. Did you donate your bounce house services this year to a non-profit? Perhaps you provided a bounce house for a local community event. These services can all be deducted from your taxes.
Storage. If you are storing your water slides off-site you can, of course, deduct this cost from you taxes. However, there is also a deduction available if your water slide equipment is kept in your home. You will need to provide the square footage area that your water slide occupies to take advantage of this. These deductions can really add up including mortgage interest, insurance, utilities, repairs and depreciation.
Office Area. Additionally, if you are conducting your water slide rental business out of your home and have a designated space or office area for doing so, this is a tax deduction. You will need to provide the square footage of this space as well, and it should be used solely for your business.
Personal Car. If you are using your personal car occasionally for business use, you can deduct this as an water slide rental business expense on your taxes. This will be calculated based on a percentage of the actual mileage. As always, it is important to keep as accurate a record as possible documenting your mileage and business destinations. You should also keep track of any business related tolls and parking fees for end of the year deductions.
Bookkeeping. Many commercial grade water slide rental business owners send their end of the year taxes to an accountant, or other finance professional. When you are operating an water slide rental business, the cost incurred through this service is considered a business expense, and is tax deductible.
Charitable Contributions. Any contributions made to a charity through your water slide rental business' name can be written off as a tax deduction. Furthermore if you donated old bounce house equipment, computers, etc. to a non-profit organization this can be deducted as well. However, if the equipment has already fully depreciated this is not deductible.
Insurance Premiums. As a self-employed individual, if you are paying your own health insurance premiums this can be deducted as a business expense. Keep in mind that this deduction cannot be more than your water slide rental business' profits, a critical point for new business owners.
Child Labor. When you have your child, who is 17 or younger, working for your business their salary can be deducted as a business expense, allowing you to avoid paying income tax on this. This business deduction is only available for businesses that are sole-proprietorship or partnerships where the partners are spouses.
There are many deductions available for your commercial grade water slide rental business to ease the burden of tax time. Be sure to take advantage of these deductions. However, you also need to ensure that you can provide adequate backup to support these deductions in the event of an IRS audit.
Social media is certainly the up and coming marketing medium for businesses, including the water slide rental industry. Facebook remains one of the biggest players in the social media field, with over one billion active members on the site. Water Slide Rental businesses can utilize this resource to market their products by creating a Facebook Fan page dedicated to their business.
Setting up a Facebook Fan page is a simple and free way to market your water slide rental business, while solidifying your brand image. Through your Facebook Fan page you are able to share fun photos, sales and offers, links, and any other information that may be pertinent to your water slide rental target audience, even water slide video footage can be posted on your business' Facebook Fan page.
There are several ways to drive traffic to your Water slide Rental business' Facebook page, ultimately creating more "likes". You should place the Facebook icon with a link on your web site, encouraging visitors to follow your business on Facebook. Similarly, this logo and link should be included in your business' email signature, and in any email marketing or newsletter that goes out. This will go a long way to creating more likes for your bounce house business, and allow you to reach a wider breadth of audience.
If you are interested in investing some of your water slide rental business' marketing dollars in supporting your Facebook Fan page, you may want to try Facebook advertising. Similar to search engine advertising, these Facebook ads appear to the right column of the site. You are billed only when a visitor clicks on the ad, taking them through to your Facebook Fan page. Facebook allows you to target these ads very specifically with regard to both demographics and geographic area.
Facebook also allows you to promote a particular post that you have on your Facebook Fan page. For this advertising program you would pay a flat rate of your choosing. You can then select to have the post seen by people who like your page only, or this group and their friends. By promoting the post, it will ensure that this appears at the top of the users news feeds beyond the time when it is initially posted.
Another advertising option Facebook offers to businesses is Sponsored Stories. The focus for Sponsored Stories, which shows that a particular individual liked your page to that person's friends, focuses more on word of mouth marketing. This may be particularly useful to the water slide and water slide rental industry, which relies so heavily on word of mouth marketing. When friends see that "Jane Smith" liked XYZ Water slide Rentals on their own news feed, they are more likely to visit XYZ's Facebook page and like it themselves.
Marketing through Facebook is a great option for the Water Slide Rental industry. Today it is not necessarily enough to have a web site as your online presence. By failing to take part in the social media marketing that is available, you are missing out on the opportunity to reach a wider audience for your bounce house products.
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Daddy-Long-Legs/Letter 3
October 10th.
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,
Did you ever hear of Michael Angelo?
He was a famous artist who lived in Italy in the Middle Ages. Everybody in English Literature seemed to know about him, and the whole class laughed because I thought he was an archangel. He sounds like an archangel, doesn't he? The trouble with college is that you are expected to know such a lot of things you've never learned. It's very embarrassing at times. But now, when the girls talk about things that I never heard of, I just keep still and look them up in the encyclopedia.
I made an awful mistake the first day. Somebody mentioned Maurice Maeterlinck, and I asked if she was a Freshman. That joke has gone all over college. But anyway, I'm just as bright in class as any of the others—and brighter than some of them!
Do you care to know how I've furnished my room? It's a symphony in brown and yellow. The wall was tinted buff, and I've bought yellow denim curtains and cushions and a mahogany desk (second hand for three dollars) and a rattan chair and a brown rug with an ink spot in the middle. I stand the chair over the spot.
The windows are up high; you can't look out from an ordinary seat. But I unscrewed the looking-glass from the back of the bureau, upholstered the top and moved it up against the window. It's just the right height for a window seat. You pull out the drawers like steps and walk up. Very comfortable!
Sallie McBride helped me choose the things at the Senior auction. She has lived in a house all her life and knows about furnishing. You can't imagine what fun it is to shop and pay with a real five-dollar bill and get some change—when you've never had more than a few cents in your life. I assure you, Daddy dear, I do appreciate that allowance.
Sallie is the most entertaining person in the world—and Julia Rutledge Pendleton the least so. It's queer what a mixture the registrar can make in the matter of room-mates. Sallie thinks everything is funny—even flunking—and Julia is bored at everything. She never makes the slightest effort to be amiable. She believes that if you are a Pendleton, that fact alone admits you to heaven without any further examination. Julia and I were born to be enemies.
And now I suppose you've been waiting very impatiently to hear what I am learning?
I. Latin: Second Punic war. Hannibal and his forces pitched camp at Lake Trasimenus last night. They prepared an ambuscade for the Romans, and a battle took place at the fourth watch this morning. Romans in retreat.
II. French: 24 pages of the "Three Musketeers" and third conjugation, irregular verbs.
III. Geometry: Finished cylinders; now doing cones.
IV. English: Studying exposition. My style improves daily in clearness and brevity.
V. Physiology: Reached the digestive system. Bile and the pancreas next time. Yours, on the way to being educated,
Jerusha Abbott
P. S. I hope you never touch alcohol, Daddy?
It does dreadful things to your liver.
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,
I've changed my name.
I'm still "Jerusha" in the catalogue, but I'm "Judy" everywhere else. It's really too bad, isn't it, to have to give yourself the only pet name you ever had? I didn't quite make up the Judy though. That's what Freddy Perkins used to call me before he could talk plainly.
I wish Mrs. Lippett would use a little more ingenuity about choosing babies' names. She gets the last names out of the telephone book—you'll find Abbott on the first page—and she picks the Christian names up anywhere; she got Jerusha from a tombstone. I've always hated it; but I rather like Judy. It's such a silly name. It belongs to the kind of girl I'm not—a sweet little blue-eyed thing, petted and spoiled by all the family, who romps her way through life without any cares. Wouldn't it be nice to be like that? Whatever faults I may have, no one can ever accuse me of having been spoiled by my family! But it's great fun to pretend I've been. In the future please always address me as Judy. Do you want to know something? I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers. I take them out and try them on every little while. It's all I can do not to wear them to classes.
(Dinner bell. Good-by.)
What do you think, Daddy? The English instructor said that my last paper shows an unusual amount of originality. She did, truly. Those were her words. It doesn't seem possible, does it, considering the eighteen years of training that I've had? The aim of the John Grier Home(as you doubtless know and heartily approve of) is to turn the ninety-seven orphans into ninety-seven twins.
The unusual artistic ability which I exhibit was developed at an early age through drawing chalk pictures of Mrs. Lippett on the woodshed door.
I hope that I don't hurt your feelings when I criticize the home of my youth? But you have the upper hand, you know, for if I become too impertinent, you can always stop payment of your cheques. That isn't a very polite thing to say—but you can't expect me to have any manners; a foundling asylum isn't a young ladies' finishing school.
You know, Daddy, it isn't the work that is going to be hard in college. It's the play. Half the time I don't know what the girls are talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that every one but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language. It's a miserable feeling. I've had it all my life. At the high school the girls would stand in groups and just look at me. I was queer and different and everybody knew it. I could feel "John Grier Home" written on my face. And then a few charitable ones would make a point of coming up and saying something polite. I hated every one of them—the charitable ones most of all.
Nobody here knows that I was brought up in an asylum. I told Sallie McBride that my mother and father were dead, and that a kind old gentleman was sending me to college which is entirely true so far as it goes. I don't want you to think I am a coward, but I do want to be like the other girls, and that Dreadful Home looming over my childhood is the one great big difference. If I can turn my back on that and shut out the remembrance, I think, I might be just as desirable as any other girl. I don't believe there's any real, underneath difference, do you?
Anyway, Sallie McBride likes me!
Yours ever,
Judy Abbott.
(Née Jerusha).
Saturday morning.
I've just been reading this letter over and it sounds pretty un-cheerful. But can't you guess that I have a special topic due Monday morning and a review in geometry and a very sneezy cold?
I forgot to post this yesterday, so I will add an indignant postscript. We had a bishop this morning, and what do you think he said?
"The most beneficent promise made us in the Bible is this, 'The poor ye have always with you.' They were put here in order to keep us charitable."
The poor, please observe, being a sort of useful domestic animal. If I hadn't grown into such a perfect lady, I should have gone up after service and told him what I thought.


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This has been a popular question that has been highly debated. The theory is that if you choose the same keywords for targeted SEO and PPC campaigns, your efforts will work against each other and you'll lose out, either in paid or organic search. Cannibalization is the term experts use when SEO and PPC compete against each other… this means wasted time, money and effort – especially when paid search is involved.
Surprisingly, a recent study of 400 campaigns by Google shows that 89% of the traffic generated by paid ads is not replaced by organic clicks. Overall, this means that paid ads did not steal clicks away from organic results in this sample.
Of course, this all depends on your industry and you could see stronger results using SEO and PPC or just one method. If you hear anyone make generalizations about using both methods without analyzing your keywords and business, it's safe to be on the skeptical side.
For example, if you're ranking high (or are number one) for a keyword, it probably won't be helpful to focus your efforts on trying to get to the #1 spot for PPC as well. Instead, the benefit of PPC is that it can give your business better exposure for key words that you're not ranking so high for organically.
Let us know if you have any questions about whether SEO and/or PPC is right for your business and we'd be happy to help you out!


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Tigers hope door doesn't close in 2014
BOSTON - Armed with the most dominant starting rotation in the major leagues and the consensus choice as the game's best hitter, the Detroit Tigers seemed poised to make good on their preseason vow to avenge last year's World Series sweep at the hands of the San Francisco Giants.
But even after winning a division title and reaching the American League Championship Series for the third year in a row, the Tigers head into the offseason licking their wounds and wondering how long their window of opportunity will stay open.
"I'm very proud of what we've done, but ever since I've been here, the goal is to win a World Series," catcher Alex Avila said in a somber Tigers clubhouse after Saturday's 5-2 loss to Boston that clinched the ALCS for the Red Sox. "Any time that's not the case at the end of the season, if we don't win our last game, it's disappointing."
Perhaps the most disappointing thing about the season was the way it ended, with a baserunning blunder short-circuiting a potentially big inning and an error by their best defender contributing to Boston's game-winning rally.
"You can always look back and second-guess. We probably should have won at least one of these games," said right fielder Torii Hunter, who has played 2,091 regular-season games and 44 in the postseason over his 17-year career but has yet to play in the World Series.
Hunter, 38, is signed through 2014.
"It's tough, it's tough for me," he said. "The door is closing."
The Tigers were a battered team, both mentally and physically, after falling to Boston in six grueling games.
Third baseman Miguel Cabrera, last year's AL MVP and the front-runner for the award this year, was perhaps the most worn down. Noticeably slowed by leg and abdominal injuries that reduced his mobility and power, Cabrera hit .262 with two extra-base hits in the postseason.
"He was definitely hurting down the stretch and in these playoffs," Avila said. "He's not the guy that's gonna go tell everybody. But I've known him well enough and I've known him a long time. I could see."
How severe were Cabrera's injuries? Will offseason surgery be needed? He wouldn't say after the game. General manager Dave Dombrowski would only say he'd address the matter in a couple days.
First baseman Prince Fielder, who had 25 home runs and 106 RBI during the regular season, also struggled mightily in the postseason. He hit .225 and failed to drive in a run for the 18th playoff game in a row.
He was also caught in a rundown in Game 6 to complete a crucial double play as the Tigers were threatening to blow open the game.
"Failure is part of the game. It happens a lot. We had our expectations and obviously we didn't come through," he said. "Any other expectations, that's what other people put on you. If you try to live up to other people's expectations, you're not going to be a happy person."
Despite the early playoff exit, the Tigers will have plenty of momentum going into next season.
Their starting pitching was dominant during the playoffs, and the rotation's top four – 21-game winner Max Scherzer, 2011 Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander, 2013 AL ERA champion Anibal Sanchez and reliable veteran Doug Fister – will be back. They combined for a 2.06 ERA in the ALCS.
Detroit seems to have found a long-term answer at shortstop in defensive whiz Jose Iglesias, who made several impressive plays in the field during the postseason. But his bobble of a potential double-play ball in Game 6 preceded Shane Victorino's decisive grand slam.
"I think if I turn that double play, it would be completely different," Iglesias said. "I felt it in my glove … I couldn't get it done."
Although the Tigers can share his sentiments, they head to the offseason knowing they were a step from getting back to the World Series.
"We had a good season. We just couldn't come through in the end," Hunter said. "But with all our failures, we're going to make some adjustments in the offseason.
"We'll still have the team intact. We still have a good ballclub and I expect to be back in this position next year."


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Today we learned all about mammals! We discussed the characteristics of mammals–body hair, ability to regulate their own body temperature, give live birth.
Learning the differences between carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores
We then learned about camouflage, so we acted like birds looking for worms (bits of string). We quickly learned it was easier to find the bright colors instead of browns and yellows 🙂
We finished the day by discussing habitats and learning what basic needs animals have in order to survive.
Everyone was given an animal to build a habitat for… this varied from monkeys to iguanas to toucans!
Lots of fun with skulls and habitats! Tomorrow is all about birds!


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USGS Geology in the Parks
primary component of typical beach sand is quartz, or silica (SiO2).
Quartz is a hard mineral which, not having any cleavage
planes, does not fracture easily. Quartz is found in many types
of rocks. Granites, shown below, are common plutonic
rocks that have a high quartz content. The quartz minerals are,
in the rocks shown at left and below, clear to white. They can display
any color, however, from the black of flint to the irridescence
of opal. The rocks in the background of the image below are polished,
showing the minerals of the rock in cross section, whereas the outlined,
inset box shows rocks as they were found, both rounded and angular.
All rocks are subject to weathering - besides plutonic rocks there
are also sedimentary, volcanic and metamorphic (altered by heat
and/or pressure) rocks. Some sedimentary rocks in particular, such
as sandstone, shown below, have a large amount of quartz sand alreadu
incorporated into them. They act as a ready source of sand, easily
eroded quartz grains that have already been separated from their
original mineral matrix. Grains from these rocks may be rough or
already smooth, depending on the conditions in which they were originally
v. Chemical
A rock is weathered mechanically by rain, heat fluxes, expansion
of ice and roots, and impacts of rock upon a surface after a piece
has been detached from the bedrock. The rounded clast seen within
the blue inset box of the image above has been worn by stream-action.
The sharp pieces which break off join the sand in the stream system.
The non-quartz components are more likely to fracture, creating
zones of weakness which are preferrentially eroded as the clast
moves downstream, occassionally knocking a quartz grain loose.
Chemical weathering focuses on the alteration of a substance by
chemical reactions. Rains bearing acid, groundwater, soil processes,
and biotic (organism-caused) effects all act to affect the rock.
Some non-quartz minerals break down into clay minerals while quartz,
and other chemically-resistant materials are isolated and washed
downstream to the ocean. Chemical and physical weathering may both
erode a rock at the same time.
The Final Product
Depending upon how far the sand travels before it gets to the ocean
it may be either angular or very rounded and smooth. The more distance
a grain travels the more likely it is to be knocked into other clasts,
breaking off sharp edges, leaving a smoother, more rounded surface.
The sand grains shown in the scanning electron microscope image
at right have a high level of rounding, lacking angular edges. The
filiments are small roots from nearby plants.
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Island Intro > Flat
Coast > Wetlands
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> Dune > Beach
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Episode 20 – 8/14/10Posted: August 23rd, 2010 | Author: nathan | Filed under: Episodes
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We have this week introduced the students to our Investigations messages board. This is a board for student/teacher communications. This is a great way to encourage the students to think for themselves, develop communication skills, articulate their needs and to build personal organization into their day. Messages can be written or recorded using talking tin lids.
At the end of Tuesday's session we were left lots of very polite messages about the children's learning needs.
Here is a short video with some further explanations.
Messages Board explained from Mr Ramage on Vimeo.
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