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John Muir Health's Walnut Creek Medical Center Achieves Magnet® Recognition Again
Recognition for the third time reinforces a commitment to nursing excellence.
Walnut Creek, Calif., May 9, 2018 – John Muir Health's Walnut Creek Medical Center attained Magnet recognition for the third time, a testament to its continued dedication to high-quality nursing practice. The American Nurses Credentialing Center's Magnet Recognition Program® distinguishes health care organizations that meet rigorous standards for nursing excellence. This credential is the highest national honor for professional nursing practice.
John Muir Health's Walnut Creek Medical Center was originally honored in 2008, then re-designated in 2013 before achieving Magnet recognition for the third time in 2018. John Muir Health's Concord Medical Center is also a Magnet recognized hospital, originally honored in 2010 before being re-designated in 2015. The two John Muir Health medical centers continue to proudly belong to the global community of Magnet-recognized organizations. Just 463 U.S. health care organizations out of over 6,300 U.S. hospitals have achieved Magnet recognition. In California, just 34 hospitals (out of nearly 400) are Magnet recognized with just eight of those in northern California.
"Magnet recognition is a tremendous honor and reflects our commitment to delivering the highest quality of care to our community," said Michelle Lopes, Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer at the Walnut Creek Medical Center. "To earn Magnet recognition once was a great accomplishment and an incredible source of pride for our nurses. Our repeated achievement further reinforces for our patients the exceptional care and experience they can expect to receive at John Muir Health."
To achieve initial Magnet recognition, organizations must pass a rigorous and lengthy process that demands widespread participation from leadership and staff. This process includes an electronic application, written patient care documentation, an on-site visit, and a review by the Commission on Magnet Recognition.
Health care organizations must reapply for Magnet recognition every four years based on adherence to Magnet concepts and demonstrated improvements in patient care and quality. An organization reapplying for Magnet recognition must provide documented evidence to demonstrate how staff members sustained and improved Magnet concepts, performance and quality over the four-year period since the organization received its most recent recognition.
Research demonstrates that Magnet recognition provides specific benefits to health care organizations and their communities, such as:
- Higher patient satisfaction with nurse communication, availability of help and receipt of discharge information.
- Higher job satisfaction among nurses.
- Lower nurse reports of intentions to leave their positions.
- Lower risk of 30-day mortality and lower failure to rescue rates.
"Magnet not only recognizes excellence in nursing, but also the outstanding care and experience that our physicians and staff partner with our nurses to provide to our patients and the community," said Lopes. "Our commitment to our patients, their family members, visitors and our community is to demonstrate every day why we are deserving of this prestigious honor."
About John Muir Health
John Muir Health is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit health care organization east of San Francisco serving patients in Contra Costa, Alameda and southern Solano Counties. It includes a network of more than 1,000 primary care and specialty physicians, more than 6,000 employees, medical centers in Concord and Walnut Creek, including Contra Costa County's only trauma center, and a Behavioral Health Center. John Muir Health also has partnerships with UCSF Health, Tenet Healthcare/San Ramon Regional Medical Center and Stanford Children's Health. The health system offers a full-range of medical services, including primary care, outpatient and imaging services, and is widely recognized as a leader in many specialties – neurosciences, orthopedic, cancer, cardiovascular, trauma, emergency, pediatrics and high-risk obstetrics care.
About ANCC's Magnet Recognition Program
The Magnet Recognition Program — administered by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the largest and most prominent nurses credentialing organization in the world — identifies health care organizations that provide the very best in nursing care and professionalism in nursing practice. The Magnet Recognition Program serves as the gold standard for nursing excellence and provides consumers with the ultimate benchmark for measuring quality of care. For more information about the Magnet Recognition Program and current statistics, visit www.nursecredentialing.org/magnet.
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Thursday 31st March 2016
Welsh alt-rockers, Calling Apollo, are set to release their forthcoming EP "The Great Depression: Act 1" any time now, so I catch a moment with the band to find out more for The Junction.
Wales is known for producing some of my favourite artists, so hearing that you're a rock band from Cardiff has made me listen up. What's the story about how you guys got together, and is it true that you never met before the band formed?
That is true. We had all taken a break from music following our previous bands all self-destructing, but all by chance found each other on internet forums looking for new band members. It was a bit like internet dating at first, we encountered some, let's say "interesting" people, but we all found each other and hit it off from the get-go. True love!
What bands were you guys in previously, and at what point in your life did you decide that you wanted to make music?
We all listened to music at infant ages. Whilst other kids would be listening to the charts, we'd be rocking out with our toys to our dads' rock albums. Eventually, making music was a natural progression. We've all been in bands before. Zak played in a math-rock band called City Circus, Chris was in a respected South Wales band called Mr Maggs and I blew all my money on a melodic hardcore band called Through Solace.
You're receiving a great reaction to your music, having being picked up by Andrew Shay, and being featured on Scuzz. How are you finding that, and have you had any "somebody pinch me" moments?
Honestly, not yet. Whilst being on TV can be crossed off our musical bucket list, we're just focusing on working hard and writing the best music we can. It's definitely something to tell the grandkids though.
For anyone who hasn't heard of you before, what can we expect from your EP "The Great Depression: Act 1?" I hear it's going to be a two-part record.
That's right. A two-part record is something we've always wanted to do and having a theme is a great challenge. The first part has so much scope and diversity. It's catchy and rocking but then all of a sudden we'll go really heavy and then extremely ambient and epic. Think Arcane Roots, but obviously not as good!
Could you tell me about your writing and recording process? How do you work to put a track together with each other's skills?
Each song is different but a good thing is that we all know each other as musicians. I'm bad at explaining things musically so I have to write a demo, but then with that demo I can use everyone's strengths. For example, our guitarist Dan is very good at creating sonic, ambient guitar tones so if we need something like that, we can suggest it to him and then all of a sudden it's done.
You've supported a number of bands on tour, but when can we look forward to a headlining tour from your guys?
No plans for that just yet. We're very happy being the support for now.
How far have you taken your music? You've picked up a good fan following in Wales, but how are you finding the crowds further afield?
We haven't had much of a chance to get out of Wales much, although when we have we've played some good shows. Bristol has a good scene, as does Brighton.
Whose brain child was it to set up your own record label "Signal & The Noise Records", and how has that benefited the band?
If I remember correctly it was Dan and me who thought of it. We've learned that just chucking a couple of songs on Soundcloud or Bandcamp is going to do nothing unless you invest in your music. We're also aware that we're fairly new and a label isn't going to invest into us, so we may as well do it ourselves. There are some success stories of bands who have done this, like Chvrches, but even if nothing comes of it, the label side of it has been very educational.
Have you worked with any other bands or artists on your record label?
We can barely manage ourselves at the moment so we wouldn't want to put the kiss of death on any other bands. But in the future, who knows?
You're pretty busy in the studio working on your EP at the moment, but what are your future plans for the band, and where do you see yourselves progressing?
We have a tour in August of which the details will be announced soon. In the meantime, what's set in stone is this new record, some new videos and then working on part two of the record. And then hopefully as many shows as we can squeeze in.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Cookie starring in new motion picture King Kong
Me have been offline for a while, because me was practicing me lines for new motion picture: Cookie & King Kong, starring me, offcourse. Well... it could be, but me is kidding - again. Me was at Apenheul, the monkey & ape zoo in Apeldoorn, and there was this great friendly Gorilla statue I could sit on. But be honest, if me hadn't told you it was statue you would have believed Monster, right? At the other picture you see Jambo, the great Gorilla boss. He looked very friendly though, loving his tomatoes and leek. Me would loved to cuddle him... But maybe Cookie could be in a happy ending movie with Jambo in my imagination!
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text: The rack is chromed finished. It has 6 rack. The sign was included. The sign is a sturdy alluminum finish. Each rack holds 15-20 polishes depending on the shape and size. Total polishes pictured was 100 bottles. I did have to force some nail polishes (finger paints and some china glaze) in because of the height. It seems like every other shelve is a little higher than the other. The rack came with 4 nails. To feel more safe, I may use more nails. It super heavy so make sure to nail to wall before putting the nail polishes in the rack. I hope this rack last a long time,because I really like it alot. I posted a video on my YouTube channel if you would like to take a look at it. As always thank you so much for stopping by.


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Coventor recently sponsored an expert panel discussion at IEDM 2017 to discuss how we might advance the semiconductor industry into the next generation of technology. The panel discussed alternative methods to solve fundamental problems of technology scaling, using advances in semiconductor architectures, patterning, metrology, advanced process control, variation reduction, co-optimization and new integration schemes. Our panel included Rick Gottscho, CTO of Lam Research; Mark Dougherty, vice president of advanced module engineering at GlobalFoundries; David Shortt, technical fellow at KLA-Tencor; Gary Zhang, vice president of computational lithography products at ASML; and Shay Wolfling, CTO of Nova Measuring Instruments.
What the Experts Think: Delivering the Next 5 Years of Semiconductor Technology
Reducing BEOL Parasitic Capacitance using Air Gaps
By: Michael Hargrove, SP&I Engineer
Reducing back-end-of-line (BEOL) interconnect parasitic capacitance remains a focus for advanced technology node development. Porous low-k dielectric materials have been used to achieve reduced capacitance, however, these materials remain fragile and prone to reliability concerns. More recently, air gap has been successfully incorporated into 14nm technology [1], and numerous schemes have been proposed to create the air gap [2-3]. There are many challenges to integrate air gap in BEOL such as process margin for un-landed vias and overall increased process complexity. In this paper, we introduce virtual fabrication (SEMulator3D®) as a means to study air gap process integration optimization and resulting interconnect capacitance reduction. Initial calibration to published air gap data is demonstrated. read more…
Photoresist shape in 3D: Understanding how small variations in photoresist shape significantly impact multi-patterning yield
By: Mustafa B. Akbulut, Ph.D., Team Lead, Quality Assurance, Semiconductor Solutions
Things were easy for integrators when the pattern they had on the mask ended up being the pattern they wanted on the chip. Multi-patterning schemes such as Self-Aligned Double Patterning (SADP) and Self-Aligned Quadruple Patterning (SAQP) have changed that dramatically. Now, what you have on the mask determines only a part of what you will get at the end. read more…
Coventor Unveils New Scientific Findings on Lithography Processing For Improved Semiconductor Scalability and Performance
At SPIE Advanced Lithography 2017, Coventor Will Present Results of Studies to Increase Density and Yield of Next-Generation Semiconductor Devices
CARY, NC– February 13, 2017 – Coventor®, Inc., the leading supplier of virtual fabrication solutions for semiconductor devices and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), will present findings from its research on advanced semiconductor fabrication processes at SPIE Advanced Lithography 2017. The results of these studies provide insight into techniques for advancing the state-of-the-art in semiconductor technology through use of new and emerging photomask, lithography and process technologies. read more…
BEOL Barricades: Navigating Future Yield, Reliability and Cost Challenges
By: David Fried, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, Semiconductor
Coventor recently assembled an expert panel at IEDM 2016, to discuss changes to BEOL process technology that would be needed to continue dimensional scaling to 7 nm and lower. We asked our panelists questions such as: read more…
IMEC Partner Technical Week Review
IMEC Partner Technical Week Review
By: Aurélie Juncker, Semiconductor Process & Integration Engineer
In March 2016, Coventor was invited to the biannual Partner Technical Week (PTW) at IMEC in Leuven, Belgium. IMEC, a world-leading research group in nanotechnology, organizes their Partner Technical Week every 6 months to present scientific results to their partners. During this week, a number of specialists from IMEC's many partner companies also discuss their progress in areas related to IMEC's research. This event brings together a large number of engineers who are specialists in their domain, and provides an interesting forum to leverage the scientific knowledge gained by IMEC and its partners. read more…
Inside Process Technology
By Mark Lapedus
Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the foundry business, memory, process technology, lithography and other topics with David Fried, chief technology officer at Coventor, a supplier of predictive modeling tools. What follows are excerpts of that conversation.
SE: Chipmakers are ramping up 16nm/14nm finFETs today, with 10nm and 7nm finFETs just around the corner. What do you see happening at these advanced nodes, particularly at 7nm?
Fried: Most people are predicting evolutionary scaling from 14nm to 10nm to 7nm. It's doubtful that we will see anything really earth-shattering in these technologies. And so, a lot of the challenges come down to patterning. We are going to see multi-patterning schemes really take hold at more levels. For example, the fins are now based on self-aligned double patterning. People will move into self-aligned quad patterning. The gates are maybe self-aligned double. Now, they will move into self-aligned quad. So, that's going to be a big expense, because each level is going to have multiple passes and multiple cuts.


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Mr. Sundar Sampath
Prestige Summer Fields
"We had traditional design in mind & it was out of the box and Furdo was able to execute it. We approached multiple Interior design firms & none of them were able to deliver."
If you are like most guys, then you are already too familiar with your partner's tendency to pay more attention to interior decor than to you- unless of course, you fracture your skull; but even then, chances are she'll be mentally redecorating the hospital waiting room while you go under the knife.
If you're hoping for things to change, well, good luck! For now, swallow the bitter pill, bandage your head and wait for her to take a detour on your way back home.
This is a checklist you wish you had before you started dating.
When you are shopping for anything at all, in any store, anywhere, she seeks the weirdest of details - things like "thread counts," and other similar information that means absolutely nothing to the average male. It is seemingly more important to her than your immediate state of comfort - you could be emaciated, or profusely bleeding, or taken hostage in any given scenario. You will be hard pressed to gain her sympathy or even peripheral attention.
The photographs on Pinterest have become your rival in inconceivable ways. She is so consumed with the decorating tips posted there that you begin to wonder if she even acknowledges your presence when you and Pinterest are in the same room together. It can be unsettling - that marginalizing of your existence. It routinely plays tricks on your ego and magnifies the pain of your abandonment.
She is usually very unhappy with the appearance of any given room and is going over and over in her mind about what could be done to make it look better. You begin to feel that you are living with a chameleon – although a glamorous and pleasant smelling chameleon. She is always excited by the possibilities of creating limitless makeovers. She is in a constant dream-like trance mesmerized by her own dreams.
When you realize that NDTV Good Times calls to her like a waking dream, it is clear that she has succumbed to a destiny that will eventually eliminate the need for your participation in any meaningful interaction. You can only hope against hope that she peripherally uses logic and reason to eventually understand that you are the one who actually loves her – not her Anatolia Jaali table runner.
When you notice that a copy of 'Inside Outside' (home decorating) has mysteriously replaced the 'Kama Sutra' on the table by her elegant bed, it is a natural cause for concern. That moment will replay itself in your nightmares until the time comes when you realize that you too, are more concerned with home decor - the nightmares will subside, and then intensify, when you completely comprehend it all.
Most women know all the shades of pink but yours studies hues and patterns with a vengeance, second to no known painter, even from the distant past. She slaps your wrist every time you say – "Can you pass me the blue cushion?"
Your woman shops with the same insatiable commitment in which she cultivates her career. And if you consider accompanying her on those adventures, even in a very limited capacity, it is because you instinctively sense that she is out of control. She needs to be reminded that there are other practical matters that warrant more thought and are crucial to survival yours and hers.
When you propose spending a romantic evening at home, even offer to whip up a gourmet meal for her, she unhesitatingly declines. It is because she has been planning on shopping for bed linens for a very long time, and she must now embark on that fulfilling journey. You are almost certain there is something amiss in her priority department.
When her wallpaper features a well-manicured garden and she has no memory of your romantic vacation, it is time to accept that she is addicted to all things aesthetic and that she might need medical attention to alleviate her blatant proclivities. This, however, totally depends on her willingness to understand your state of mind, which she probably considers to be somewhat Neanderthal.
And finally, deep down, inside your soul, you know that she would much rather be in the company of an interior designer who caters to her every whim with beautiful imagery and airbrushed possibilities that mesmerise her and elegantly accommodate her love for decorarion. But you tolerate it all with grace, and whisper to her - using pleasant, "strategic verbal decor,"(sweet nothings) because you love her.
Curated Partners. Great Products. Impeccable Finish
Customer Delight. Delivered
Mr. Sundar Sampath
Prestige Summer Fields
"We had traditional design in mind & it was out of the box and Furdo was able to execute it. We approached multiple Interior design firms & none of them were able to deliver."
Mr. Abhijit Paul
Klassik Landmark
"This is our first home & Furdo did a brilliant job in designing our dream home. My wife had a lot of design related inputs and they incorporated all of it in the design plan. "
Disrupting Interior Design. One Home At A Time


text: When Hades sees Persephone gathering flowers in a field, he carries her off to the underworld to be his queen. Her mother Demeter is so distraught that she curses Earth with endless winter. With intervention from Zeus and other gods, Persephone is found and rejoins her mother. But she ate pomegranate seeds while in the underworld and so must spend three months each year with Hades, during which time winter occurs above ground. This pourquoi tale from ancient Greek mythology has everything to recommend it to modern readers. Clayton employs vivid imagery, powerful emotions and loads of action to convey adventure, grief, love, drama and the circle of life. Dialogue is crisp and accessible, while retaining just a hint of the formality expected of gods and goddesses. Lee's imaginative illustrations, detailed in glowing earth tones and sweeping across double-page spreads, complement the action. In depicting the characters, she borrows features from Greek statues but manages to give them humanity. A beautiful retelling of an enduring myth. (Picture book/mythology. 7-10)


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On Monday March 6th, 2017 poachers broke into a French zoo, shooting a four year old White Rino and sawing off its horn. Officials say this incident is the first of its kind in Europe. A Crocodile at the Belvedere Zoo in Tunisia was brutally stoned to death by a group of visitors on March 1st, 2017. Earlier in that same week a horrific incident at the National Zoo in El Salvador resulted in the death of a Hippo when it was attacked by a group after dark with metal bars, knives and rocks. Obviously the management at these facilities didn't participate in these heinous crimes, but you have to wonder if there are sufficient protective measures in place for the animals if this is happening in the first place. These are not isolated incidences in remote corners of civilization either. Every day wild animals are mistreated at captive facilities throughout the western world.
In 2013 Sea World was exposed in a shocking documentary titled Blackfish. As an organization that had been viewed for generations as a destination for clean family fun, Sea World turned out to be anything but.
Many animals are bred illegally without proper monitoring of genetics, causing all kinds of complications for the baby animals and a deterioration of the species gene pool. I'm pleased that the local Phoenix Zoo here in my home state of Arizona is fully accredited with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) and participates in the Species Survival Plan (SSP) for 29 different species. AZA accredited zoos that are involved in SSP programs engage in cooperative population management of various endangered species and conservation efforts. These include research, public education, reintroduction, and on site or field conservation projects. There are currently 172 species covered by 116 different SSP programs throughout North America. The goal of the SSP is to engage in animal husbandry and research projects for selected species that are in need of conservation efforts. SSP programs focus on animals that are in danger of extinction in the wild, when zoo conservationists believe captive breeding programs may be their only chance to survive. These programs also help maintain healthy and genetically diverse animal populations within the zoo community.
Captive wild animals at non accredited facilities are often used for "shows" to perform in front of audiences, sadly there is one of these located right here in my home state of Arizona. To find an accredited facility near you search the database on the AZA website. Game Farms (where many photographers go to quickly pad their portfolios) are some of the worst offenders. Animals often have food withheld so that they can be manipulated more easily with bait by their handlers in front of the throngs of photographers that are paying big money to photograph them. Another atrocity of these game farms in the euthanization of healthy animals. As pointed out by Ted Williams in his article, a Montana game farm euthanized eight wolves in one year because they were "dangerous." In other words, their behavior was too wolflike. Thomas Mangelsen, one of the world's most respected wildlife photographers has been speaking out against game farms for years. Those leading photography groups to photograph in game farm settings are equally guilty as the people running the facilities. They vehemently defend this robust revenue source of theirs, much like those that are profiting from photographing baited wild mammals and birds do.
All too often today wild animals are used as a source of our entertainment, like some extension of the internet or television, instead of being respected as the amazing and intelligent creatures that they are. The images in this article are from the new 'Captive Emotions' series that I'm currently working on to illustrate the lives and behavior of captive wildlife species.
Please know what you are supporting before you go to your next captive wildlife facility. We should respect, love and protect the natural world, not exploit and seek our entertainment from it.
If you'd like to view the growing collection of images from my Captive Emotions project please visit this link.
Your thoughts and comments are always welcome. – Nathaniel


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Former burglar reveals four-point guide to protecting your home from thieves
Ex home-breaker Michael Fraser has revealed the ways you make your property wide open to a burglar's dirty tricks.
A FORMER burglar has revealed how crooks can crack your home in seconds – and how you can stop them.
Ex home-breaker Michael Fraser has written a four-point guide to ensure your valuables stay safe from thieves.
In his guide he has urged people to...
- Ensure they keep garden tools locked up in their sheds
- Keep calendars away from the fridge
- Don't keep a spare key by the front door
- Stop bragging about holidays on social media
Michael, 57, fell into a criminal career after getting mixed up with a gang when he was a troubled teenager.
He admits to breaking into scores of homes in the past, but has now turned to help people make sure their properties are safe from thieves.
Michael said that keeping tools locked away is important as home-breakers will often use spades or shears to prise open doors or windows – rather than smash the glass.
He told the Daily Mail: "Most criminals would avoid breaking a window or door panel, as there's a high risk of cutting yourself and leaving behind traces of DNA, which could lead to their arrest."
For many families a calendar is a crucial part of keeping on top of domestic life, whether it's the kids' half-term dates, doctor's appointments or trips abroad.
But Michael said they also offer crooks a golden opportunity to find out when you'll be leaving your house empty and should be kept out of sight.
He said: "Even if the writing is small and the calendar some distance from the window, a determined criminal could zoom in and take a photo of it on their mobile and then enlarge the image for a better view."
While it may seem like a good idea to have a spare key near your porch or front door in case of emergencies – Michael also advises against this.
He said that a "high percentage" of burglaries happen when homeowners have had work done, with unscrupulous tradesmen passing on information to thieves.
For many people sharing photos on social media is a great way to share memories with friends and family.
However, while you're cherishing the moment – you are also letting thieves know that your house is empty.
Michael said: "I would never share my holiday snaps on social media, just as I wouldn't get a taxi to take me to the airport, tipping off the driver, and anyone else he might know, that I'm away."
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I keep muttering patience grasshopper...
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I'm not a twitter user, but I did follow the link in the in-game news to the twitter account, and today's post from Helsinki shows the animals watching a curtain with a caption something like "coming soon..." I don't think any of us are holding our breath, just feeling quietly optimisticic that our l-o-n-g wait is going to be over.
EDIT: ditto SmallChange! You posted while I was writing.
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Farm Level 128 | Town 41 | Achievements 143/144
As much as I am hoping the update comes this Monday, I also want it to wait another week. I'm going on vacation and won't have as much time to play if it's released on Monday.
The June 24 date is circulating because last years update was the same week - and the birthday event was then too. Sneak peeks were from, I think, Thursday to Sunday.
So we will either see something tomorrow, as today's twitter feed hints....or we won't.
I for one strongly hope they take as much time as they need because big updates usually mean big fails.
Farm name: when doves cry
level 173, town 65
🌿🌿🌿🌿happy farming🌿🌿🌿🌿
I do have a problem with us not receiving the permits regularly. First I don't like that there is anything over and above the regular three expansion materials. It makes things extra hard. When the extra land came out I was dealing with a device issue and so by the time I got back in the game they had pretty much dried up. Now my board is all wonky and trees obscuring the space I have managed to open and there's not a damn thing I can do about it except wait for the scrolls to be gifted to me by the gods or pay for them by chancing diamonds at the wheel? Its a really crappy way to treat your customers.
Let me point out that the last time you needed an extra item to expand things was the town and they are still gifting maps left and right in regular gameplay such as town bonuses. We can also buy and sell them from each other to benefit the people who are still catching up.
A little consistency here???
I'm derbied out too. But I do find that having the derby along with events gives me a direction for my gameplay. In other words having a special task to work on gave me a priority ...which crops to grow, which products to make, which customers to serve. I also like that I can choose something usually that suits my playing style esp when the derby task jives up with an event.
I do not like the competitive nature of the derby. It has caused quite a bit of friction in my neighborhood. As leader of a mostly full group it can be hard to manage derby related tensions. My group is specifically NOT overly derby centric but we stay in the top two tiers of competition and that's fine with me.
I am very happy that players can opt in and out as they like without affecting their neighborhood stats. In fact opting out when you aren't feeling it actually helps your group by not punishing them for you taking a break. In faaaaaact it seems to me that by some people opting out as a strategic measure then actively helping the derby players with their tasks....they might be helping a lot more than if everyone had tasks going on. What do you guys think?
Lethia, what is the name of your hood and is there a spot available?


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The wait for the spookiest weekend of the year is over. Welcome the Halloween with zeal and enthusiasm in the amazing city of Montebello. Here are some ideas on how to decorate your home for Halloween. Let it be a bit scary but a lot of fun!
Headless Horseman: Yes, you got it right! Make a headless man's body, arms and legs with black trash bags filled with paper. Once the torso is complete, add clothing to it. Do not forget the shoes and cape. Old gloves can be used for hands. Place his Jack-o'-lantern head on one of his hand. This can be used as a welcome note for the Halloween guests.
Candy Corn Piñata: Halloween is all about candies! Enjoy this festive season by constructing beautiful and jazzy piñatas to entertain your kids and their friends. This can serve as a party starter, vibrant decoration as well as fun games.
Scarecrows: Cut out Scarecrows and garden gnome yard silhouettes from a plywood and paint them black. Place them in your garden with a basket of toys and candies for the arriving kids. This decoration can be used year after year.


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Andy Schneider and Jonathan Britnell of youtube channel Burger Fiction mashed together the wackiest action movie moments when heroes get creative and improvise weapons. Sometimes, these silly moments are played for laughs, like Clive Owen punching a carrot through a man's head, and sometimes, they are treated with the utmost seriousness, like Vin Diesel puncturing a man's heart with a teacup.
Really, though, this video is just a loving tribute to Jackie Chan, the MacGyver of kicking butt.


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I am the above named person from Kuwait. I am married to Mr Williams Chirs. who worked with Kuwait embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year 2004. We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days.
Before his death we were both born again Christian. Since his death I decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of US$1.5M (One Million,Five hundred Thousand United States Dollar) in the bank here in Abidjan in suspence account.
Presently,the fund is still with the bank.Recently, my Doctor told me that i have serious sickness which is cancer problem. The one that,disturbs me most is my stroke sickness.Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to a church or individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein. I want a church that will use this fund for orphanages, widows,propagating the word of God and to endeavor that the house of God is maintained.
The Bible made us to understand that Blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are not Christians and I don't want my husband's efforts to be used by unbelievers. I don't want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly way. This is why I am taking this decision. I am not afraid of death hence i know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace.
I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health hence the presence of my husband's relatives is around me always I don't want them to know about this development.. With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the bank here in Abidjan.I want you and the church to always pray for me because the lord is my shephard. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian.
Whoever that Wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and Truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life.Contact me on the above e_mail address for more informations, any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing another church or individual for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I Stated herein. Hoping to receive your
Remain blessed in the Lord.
Yours in Christ,
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I am an assistant professor of Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST). I received all my degrees from Osaka University: both ME and PhD in Computer Science from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology in 2014 and 2017, respectively. My research interests primarily lie in computer vision, especially in computational photography and illumination.
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Leather Holder for Wicker Covered Bottle by Ken Scott for David Parish
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Is this a copy of an original or even an original method? Where can I find primary documentation on this please?ReplyDelete
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Do you have primary documentation for this type of carrier for a water bottle?ReplyDelete
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Leather covered bottles have been around for quite some time.the Spanish had them, also the Italians. Canteens can be documented back several thousand years. These canteens were often covered with leather to protect them during our American civil war. I have no documented leather covered bottle that I used as reference for this. I simple answered a friends rewuest to cover his wicker wine bottle with leather. I took his wicker covered bottle and put the leather cover and carry strap on it so it wold protect his bottle. My apologies if this caused confusion in your mind.Delete
Leather covered yes, with carry straps? I have yet to see this documentation. I believed that this blog was for people copying original authentic items. This IS very misleading, very disappointed.Delete
very nicely done id imagine its just one step up from carrying it by hand every where some one decided to add a strap as they did with wine skinsReplyDelete


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Cass Daniels isn't waiting for her knight in shining armour. She knows that girls like her don't get a happily ever after. Not if you live in a trailer with your mom, work at a greasy spoon diner, and get leered at by old men. Maybe that's why she puts up with Jackson—her poor excuse for a boyfriend, who treats her like dirt. Cass has learned to accept her lot in life. That is, until he walks into her diner. . . .
His name is Tucker White, and he's different from any man Cass has ever known. Tall, tattooed, and bad-ass gorgeous, he's the lead singer of the rock band Damaged. From the moment they meet, Tucker sees something in Cass he just can't shake. Something beautiful. Something haunted. Something special. And he's determined to find out what it is—if only he can get her to open up and let him in. . . .
When I first saw that cover...I thought two things; one- this is going to be an epic love story, two- this is the most gorgeous cover EVER. I had heard about the book for quite a while in the bloggersphere, but didn't know anything else other than the title; and speaking of the title, that was one of the reasons I knew this wasn't going to be a mushy-kind of love story, that it would have some depth but not too-good-to-be-true kind of stuff. And the blurb just blew me away and drew me in at the same time. I was expecting a kick-ass heroine, an amazing backdrop for the novel in a Southern town (which I love...) and an epic love story...and I may just have got it...
Ah, reading this book felt like listening to a Taylor Swift album; in the BEST way, (because, she's a lyrical genius, btw) and it just gave me a way to relate a little more as well.
Cass was a headstrong, feisty and strong lead character. It serves her good in some aspects, but when Tucker is introduced, she's not too keen to take his help, though he hadn't yet to give her a reason to doubt him at all. He sees nothing but amazement in Cassidy, and I wished she saw that a little earlier!
She's a waitress, stuck at a dead end job with a drug-addict Mom and an abusive, horrible boyfriend and she had dropped out of High School; she thinks she knows where she stands in the world and takes it as it is, when...there was so much more out there for her. It was pretty dark and intense before Tucker walks into the diner and from then, White Trash Beautiful takes a whirlwind in another direction.
"I know I don't get the happily ever after. My knight and shinning armour took the highway detour around this godforsaken shit hole. I've made peace with that. That doesn't mean I'm going to lie down like a doormat and let every cocky prick in the trailer have his way with me."


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"We would like to welcome his appointment into office by inviting him to a nationwide tour of communities affected by coal-fired power plants, as well as communities who are struggling against new coal plant proposals approved by the DOE. Hopefully he will be more receptive to reason than his predecessor," said Anna Abad, Climate and Energy campaigner for Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
"Greenpeace hopes that once he has seen the real impacts, Secretary Jericho Petilla, will end the strong pro-coal energy bias of the DOE, and fully enforce the Renewable Energy Law.
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How do I safely power cycle (reboot) my server?
Restarting your droplet is a very simple process.
To safely shutdown your server
- Log in to your Droplet as the root user and execute:
shutdown -h now
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- Visit the control panel and select your droplet, then the option to power on your droplet.
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First try at newspaper blackout poetry
One of the pages in the Steal Like an Artist Journal by Austin Kleon tells you to "create a newspaper blackout poem," which are poems made by redacting newspapers with a permanent marker.
I've been completing the journal because it's a ton of fun and it helps me wake up a side of myself that I shut down way back in elementary school.
The whole activity was surprisingly hard. It's not easy to work within the constraints of a limited bit of text. I had no idea just how much my creative fiction muscles had atrophied.
This one is titled The real root of evil.
This was supposed to go:
We don't need a
but we get one anyways.
I got distracted and Sharpie-d over "but we get one." Creation begets improvisation.
I wish I had an assistant (or two) who would protect me from meetings.
In case you're wondering, I used a ultra fine, fine, and extra bold Sharpie to make these and a copy of the New York Times purchased from Starbucks.


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On a lonely day, my mind starts to wander. Have you ever noticed how the holidays get here before you are ready for them? Or have you sometimes thought to yourself, 'What? Half of January is gone already? How did that happen? Have I already spent half a month of lonely days?' Or 'Is that commercial holiday - Valentines Day, a painful experience of temporary loneliness for about two weeks each February going to be upon me soon? '
The other day it occurred to me, 'If this keeps on happening, death itself will arrive before I am ready for it.' As if I am ever going to be ready for death to arrive! When I was a teenager I had resolved to live up to a hundred and twenty or more! So I am only middle aged and yet I have these thoughts. I have found a solution to these kind of thoughts though.
I have spent so many week days by myself that I think I have a routine for each week day but not for my lonely birthday. I decided that I could imagine a metronome tick tocking in the back of my mind while I went about my lonely day.
Let's see. Tick. Wake up at 6 a.m. and go through my morning routine. Tock. 6:30 a.m. Drink tea. Tick. 7:00 a.m. Do the next item. A half hour passes between a tick and a tock. That way all I have to do is figure out thirty four enjoyable things to do to have an enjoyable lonely day.
Step 1. Buy a notebook.
Buy a notebook that has 180 sheets in it. That will provide enough pages to write your lists for the whole year. Don't write anything on the first page.
Step 2. Write a header.
If possible, start this process on a lonely Monday. On the second page, write the day and date in the header space at the top of the page leaving room to write one set of words underneath the day and date. In that space, on the left hand side write the word Goals and on the right hand side write the word Actions. Draw a line down the middle of the page.
Step 3. Write the time slots.
If your normal wake up time is 6 a.m. then in the margin of the page write 6 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. on the first line, 6:30 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. on the second line and so on until you get to the line that is third from the bottom.
On the last two lines of the page write down the time slots 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Step 4. Write the goals.
Under the heading Goals, write down the things you would like to do, starting at the 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. line and going on until you get to the third line from the bottom. Write these items in, regardless of how much time it takes to do each item.
For example Tick. 6 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. Wake up and do morning routines. Tock. 6:30 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. Drink coffee or tea or eat breakfast. Tick. 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. Write this list for today. Tock. 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Do my morning reading. Tick.
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On the last two lines write in the things you plan on doing between 6:00 P.M. and 11:00 p.m. You will find that you use those hours for eating dinner, watching tv or some low brain activity or relaxing activity related to your hobbies.
Step 5. Write the activities.
All through the lonely day, as you do the activities, write them down under the Actions heading in the proper time slot. No matter how quickly you complete an item, write your actions in the time slot that is at least half an hour. That way, when an item takes you longer than a half hour, you will be using time you saved from the items you completed in a few minutes.
If you look up from your task and see that an hour and a half has passed when you thought you had been doing something for only a half hour, that is good - you have been in the flow - and you haven't had time to be lonely.
Step 6. Repeat the process for each day.
The next day follow the same procedure on the facing page. You might find yourself looking at your first page to see how you proceeded on your first day on this system. Then follow the process each day. You will find that Wednesday and Thursday are on facing pages. Friday and Saturday are again on facing pages. I don't write a list for Sundays. There are a lot of outdoor activities that I can enjoy on lonely weekends.
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Step 7. Optimize the procedure for yourself.
Adjust this routine so it works for you. This idea occurred to me in August 2008. I have used several variations of the list. Sometimes I make the list the previous day and sometimes I make it at 7 a.m. Sometimes I write in an hour and a half for some tasks. That way the page is long enough for me to list all my activities.
If you like you can use this process just for lonely days only. I am amazed at how many variations there are to using the list.
I would caution you about one thing. The idea can be varied so much that you could possibly end up with a variation that makes the whole idea useless. Then the idea will not work to achieve the end purpose: to fill a lonely day with useful work and completion of tasks you know you need to accomplish. You could have a variation where you list only four items for the day. Then you accomplish those four items within the first hour or two of the day, leaving you free to be bored and lonely for the rest of the day. If you go for a variation like that one, you will not be able to turn a lonely day into a happily engaged day.
Sometimes I find it useful to give myself a break, up to four weeks off and no more, from the system. In the beginning this system kept me so busy through the day that it restricted my creativity. However, after four months of practice and falling off the list and getting back on it, I find I am able to be creative while still using the system.
If you create the daily list and first do the things you really or urgently want to do and look at your list around 3 p.m. you might find that you still have time to complete all the items on your list. It is a real good feeling when you have achieved all your daily goals by 7 p.m.
Using the system with the mental metronome feels like a change of attitude. Instead of a worry filled, boring, lonely day, you can have a beautiful action filled day. With a metronome you can make great music. With a mental metronome going on in the back of your mind you can have a beautiful un-lonely day.
You might end up singing a part of the lonely day song lyrics by SYSTEM OF A DOWN -
Such a lonely day
And its mine
A day that I'm glad I survived.
It is a good technique to learn because the twelve stages of getting out of loneliness involve quite a lot of activities.
Search for your purpose in life or search to find your passion in life. Search in Google for "find your purpose" or "find your passion" and follow the links to learn how to find your purpose or passion in life. Once you find your purpose or passion you won't have any use for lonely song lyrics.
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Fish has become a crucial part of the daily diet of the people around the world and swai fish has presented itself as an inexpensive and readily available option. However, before you start adding this fish to your diet, it is important to know where it comes from and some of the potential risks posed by it.
What is Swai Fish?
Swai fish is the common name of the iridescent shark, a type of catfish that is native to Southeast Asia. Bearing the scientific name Pangasianodon hypophthalmus, this fish is widely cultivated in that region of the world, and is exported to the United States. Swai is a white-flesh fish, with a flaky texture that makes it ideal for broiling, grilling or frying. The flavor is also quite mild, thus making it a popular option for those who don't want their fish to taste too briny.
In the United States and elsewhere, swai fish is often marketed as a river-farmed catfish, but that name can be misleading. Much of the fish that is exported to other countries is bred in fish farms in Vietnam and other areas of Southeast Asia, with low levels of regulation and health standards, which is why most experts do not recommend eating swai fish.
Is it Safe to Eat Swai Fish?
Although factory-farmed fish are not inherently unhealthy, swai fish has developed a particular reputation as being below quality standards. Numerous health organizations around the world have criticized the water quality of Vietnamese fish farms, as it can be filled with bacteria and other chemical pollutants. There are many reports of swai fish being contaminated with trace minerals and heavy metals, largely due to the conditions in which they were raised.
Even more troubling are the reports of the food being given to these fish before they are farmed and exported to restaurants around the world. Like many catfish, swai fish are not picky about the food they eat and are often labeled as bottom-feeders. As such, swai fish in Vietnamese fish farms are occasionally fed food waste and other garbage from local restaurants and from the fish farms themselves, which greatly increases the chances of toxins being introduced into the flesh of the fish. With a lack of regulation and a track record of being unhealthy or contaminated, swai fish should be avoided, despite the low price. There are plenty of other white-flesh fish and pescetarian options that are better for your overall health.
List of Recommended Fish to Eat
The most popular white fish, catfish and river-farmed fish options available for those who want an alternative to swai include:


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At the start of the week we presented the ideas we had in mind from week 1 to our supervisors. Our supervisors gave us feedback and we filtered down the initial ideas based on complexity and technical issues.
On Wednesday, we met Jesse and presented our initial ideas to him. Jesse gave us advice about our project suggesting we look into a number of educational games such as Battleship Numberline, and create lots of prototypes.
On Friday, the team visited the clients. We met Audrey from Intermediate Unit 1 and the students & teacher from Colonial School. We used the visit as an opportunity to collect information about our client and our players:
- We presented a number of pictures to the students to gauge their art interest.
- As them what kind of games they played
- Asked them what kind of music they listen to
- Spoke the the teacher and narrowed down a subject
Based on what we learned from the visit, we had a better understanding about our audience. We then came up with many new ideas based on angles which was confirmed to be the main subject.
Our lead programmer Carl then built a prototype on the iPad based on one of our ideas. The prototype detected the drawing of acute and obtuse angles to explore teaching the special properties of angles (obtuse, acute, straight, right angle).


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When running a deficit, governments often use the need for expenditure reductions as an opportunity to cut programs they consider less important. Unsurprisingly, various organizations have offered their thoughts on what should be cut from Alberta Education's budget.
If the Calgary Board of Education has its way, axing provincial achievement tests for grades 3, 6, and 9 students will be one of Alberta Education's first cost-cutting measures in next year's budget. In a letter to Alberta Education Minister Dave Hancock, the CBE argues there is no need to test all students in these grades when smaller sample tests are (they claim) just as effective.
It should come as little surprise that the Calgary Public Teachers Association supports the CBE in its desire to scrap the tests. As with other teachers' unions across Canada, the Alberta Teachers' Association opposes the use of provincial achievement tests to measure the academic progress of students. However, their position on this issue has little to do with cost.
The total budget of the Learner Assessment Branch, responsible for administering the tests, is approximately $12 million. Even if the province eliminates that entire budget, it is still a drop in the bucket compared to the planned $300 million in education budget cuts next year.
So it's disingenuous for the CBE and the teachers' union to use budget cuts as the main reason for eliminating provincial achievement tests. The real opposition to these exams stems from a philosophical belief that schools should focus less on academic content and more on the so-called "process" of learning. Using the overused slogan, "We're teaching students, not subjects," advocates of this approach de-emphasize subject matter knowledge.
When schools couple this approach with misguided no-fail policies and watered down course curricula, it's unsurprising that an increasing number of high school graduates are unprepared for university–or life. Supporters of the progressive philosophy of education strongly support the elimination of all standardized achievement tests because they know these tests stand in the way of their goals.
Provincial achievement tests play a critical role in ensuring schools focus on academic content. Since schools know that all students must write these tests, they help hold all educators accountable for their students' academic progress.
It is sensible to balance teacher-created assessments, which often vary from teacher to teacher, with standardized assessments, which do not vary by class or by school. Teachers are able to account for local conditions while standardized tests help ensure the core academic content and skills are taught regardless of the schools students attend.
Critics argue provincial achievement tests force teachers to simply teach to the test. Realistically, properly-designed tests are closely correlated with the curriculum. As a consequence, teachers should teach to the test. If they don't, they haven't followed the provincially-mandated curriculum.
Standardized testing enhances accountability. As in other government departments, it is necessary to use properly designed measurements to assess whether students have learned what they are supposed to learn. An educational system bereft of standardized tests is similar to an optometrist who refuses to use a standardized eye chart in eye exams. Patients would not tolerate such unprofessional behaviour.
In short, eliminating provincial achievement tests as a cost-cutting measure makes as much sense as removing diagnostic equipment from hospitals in order to save health care funds. Provincial achievement tests are the diagnostic tools our schools use to evaluate whether or not students are learning the academic basics. The public has a right to know how our students are doing. It would be foolish to take away one of the best mechanisms we have for holding schools accountable in the name of saving a few million dollars.
Alberta's students regularly outperform students from other provinces on standardized achievement tests. Clearly, Alberta has done something right in the field of education. Before undertaking an action as drastic as eliminating provincial achievement tests, the education minister needs to carefully weigh the long-term implications of this sort of change.
Alberta has the strongest and most effective provincial achievement test regime in the country. Let's hope the provincial government has the foresight to keep it in place.


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I started this blog as a way to promote myself as an independent plain language writer. But, like many first-time bloggers, I lacked the time, focus, and discipline to keep it going. What I do have is a basket-load of good intentions. I will complete the incomplete pages of this blog … someday … soon?
But, for now, I will use this space to fulfill a requirement of my first course in the Master's of Education in Literacy program that I started just last week. My first course is Literacy Learning I taught by Dr. Susan Walsh. One of the requirements of this course is to keep a notebook, making entries once a week. In the notebook, and on this blog, I will "reconfigure [my] beliefs and understandings about what it means to be a teacher/learner of language and literacy." The notebook entries must bring together at least two of the following:
- required course materials (readings)
- my own experiences with language and literacy
- other reading resources or class work
- at least one lecture from the MSVU Literacy as Ways of Knowing lecture series
Notebook entry #1 2011-09-19
For this entry, I will bring together the following:
- my preconceived notions about literacy
- what I learned in my first class of Literacy Learning I
- Paulo Friere's The Importance of the Act of Reading
- Natalie Goldberg's Meeting the Mind and Hallucinating Emeralds
- Dr. Jerry Harste's lecture From Literacy to Literacies: What Everyone Should Know
I only began to think about literacy in the last five years when I began working as a plain language consultant. My work involved taking complex messages from government and turning them into language accessible to "the general public," or a particular audience usually perceived as having lower literacy skills than the government workers with whom I contracted. Literacy, for me, was defined as the ability to read and understand a written document. From there I began to understand "the general public" as having various levels of literacy:
- excellent readers – those who can read anything as long as it is written in an official language that they understand
- good readers – those who can read most things but have some difficulty with complex texts
- poor readers – those who can read if they work at it. They have a better understanding of documents written simply and clearly
- non-readers – I would have called these people illiterate
What I discovered during my first class with Dr. Walsh was how narrowly I had defined literacy. I have always been considered to be someone with a flair for language. I learned to read before I went to school. In elementary school, I was moved out of my regular class to study Language Arts with the grade ahead of me. In university, my English professor asked me to major in the subject. I went on to work as a journalist, and later, a freelance writer. By this time, I came to consider myself as pretty darn knowledgeable about the English language. But I walked into Literacy Learning I for the first time and learned that I didn't know the basics: that there are six dimensions, I like to think of them as three pairs of dimensions, of English Language Arts:
- viewing and representing
- listening and speaking
- reading and writing
All this time I thought of literacy as reading. It was only very recently that I even considered writing as literacy. I have played with representing insofar as that can be done on paper, but that was the extent of it. I had never even thought of the remaining dimensions. That was my first eye-opener.
Then I read Friere's The Importance of the Act of Reading and my eyes were opened further. Until I read it, I thought of reading as reading the written word – decoding letters and punctuation to find the meaning behind the symbols. But Friere begins by talking about reading the world. While he talks about it from his personal experience as a child in Brazil reading the world around him, I realized that we all read the world before we read the word, and we derive meaning from the things we see around us.
When I was a child, and my family had taken a day-trip somewhere in southern Ontario, a specific neon sign ( I don't know what it said) against the night sky told me that I was close to home. I immediately felt warm and comfortable and usually fell asleep soon after seeing it and woke up in the driveway of my home. Likewise, after a long car trip, my own children see a tall building near MicMac Mall and know that home is near. If they have been bickering, they stop. For a few minutes, everyone in the car is quietly content. What we saw in our minds was a sign that said: "You are almost home." Until I read Friere, I never thought of those experiences as reading. Now I can't stop thinking of all kinds of activities as reading:
- infants read facial expressions before they read anything else
- we are expected to read body language without anyone teaching us and we are judged harshly if we are unable to do so
- long before there were meteorologists, farmers and fishermen read the weather
- my brother-in-law can read space and instinctively know how one thing fits into another until he has built a shed, laid a floor, or installed a door
I agree wholeheartedly with Friere that we need to be able to read the world before we can truly read the word. We need some understanding of the world around us before we can see how that world is reflected in the squiggles on paper called writing. The world and the word must meet. If they don't, there can be no understanding.
Dr. Harste touched on this during his lecture when he said that children focus on what interests them. "If a kid can't see himself in literacy, he's not going to be literate," Harste said. Because my interest is in communicating important and complex messages to people deemed "less literate," I took his message to heart. Somewhere along the way, too many people were missed on the road to literacy. For some reason, the lessons stopped resonating with them and they stopped seeing themselves in literacy.
Harste said something else during his lecture that also struck a chord with me. He said that if you want your child to sound like a teacher let him hang out with teachers and if you want your child to sound like a lawyer let him hang out with lawyers. His point was that we all learn the pragmatics of language, the rules of language use in a context, from that context. I believe this is true but that is has also become the bane of modern communication. Lawyers spend so much time talking to other lawyers that they've forgotten how to talk to everyone else, which is why even the most literate among us have trouble deciphering legislation, regulation, and contracts. The same is true of the medical profession, the financial sector, and government. All of whom have forgotten that the end users of their documents, "the general public," need to see themselves and need to see their world reflected in those documents for them to be able to read and understand them. In my view, among the so-called "educated," too much effort is placed on pragmatics and not enough is placed on semantics — what does the document actually mean?
I used to think that you needed to listen before you could learn to speak and that you needed to read before you could learn to write. Dr. Harste and Natalie Goldberg have shaken that belief as well. During his lecture, Harste showed a slide of three pages of "writing" by preschool children. Without a a recognizable word on any of them, everyone in the lecture theatre was able to spot the one from the United States, the one from Israel, and the one from Saudi Arabia. The children, who couldn't read yet, already knew so many things about writing. It was clear from the examples that they knew what the letters of their language looked like, they appeared to know which direction to write in (left to right or right to left) but more importantly, they knew what writing was and they knew what it was for — to convey meaning. Later examples of early writing showed that children were immensely creative with their writing; one invented a letter for "s" when is sounds like "z," and another invented a punctuation mark to convey sadness.
Goldberg's advice to writers? Writing is a voyage of discovery. Yes, it has structure but that structure cannot be imposed from the outside. Through writing, the writer discovers the structure and allows it to grow organically.
Both Harste and Goldberg appear to be in agreement that one learns to write through the act of writing without external constraints or limits. This appears to apply equally to children just entering the world of letters as it does to adults. What is sad for me, is that so many people appear not to have had that opportunity. Perhaps the constraints and limits placed on them at school stifled their vision of themselves as writers. Sadder still, is that their other literacies (visual, digital, environmental, cultural, musical, technological, etc.) are granted less or no importance and these people are therefore deemed "low-literacy," or "illiterate."
It seems to me that our challenge is two-fold:
- to redesign the way reading and writing is taught in schools so that more people see themselves in literacy and stay on the road
- to recognize and accept other literacies and use these to communicate important messages to the public
I will leave the first item to the teachers in the class. I believe the way to address the second item is to spend as much time with adults considered to have poor literacy skills as Harste spent with young children to find out how they read their world. We can then use that information to design ways of communicating complex but important everyday information to them. This may mean that rid ourselves of the notion of "the general public" and communicate to smaller audiences. It will be expensive, but I think it will make us all more literate.
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