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The evolving Internet of Things (IoT) may potentially cause an explosion in the number of communicating Connected Objects (CO). Even when most of these objects contribute with limited traffic, the sum may well become a significant source on the Internet. IoT must also find its places in the Future Internet architecture. M2M services could benefit the society in many areas, including environmental, health care, trade, transportation, alarms and surveillance. However, such development depends on the availability of global interoperability and powerful communications features.
There are urgent actions to be taken to pave the way for this development to take place, in order to benefit individuals, interested parties and the community as a whole. The pivotal point is establishment of a global market through service ubiquity. This requires new attitudes with respect to cooperation, coordination and standardisation in order to ensure inter-carrier interoperability. Interoperability is not only required for provision of a standard QoS controlled IP bearer, but also for cross domain security, mobility, multicast, location, routing and management, including fair compensation for utility provisioning. Although the requirement for these features varies between the different scenarios, standardisation would allow a smooth incorporation into the overall architecture.
The background for the strong interoperability demand is described by Metcalfe's Law, stating that the usefulness of a network increases by the square of the number of nodes (users or devices) connected to the network. Furthermore, Reed's law states that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network. Formation of such groups is gradually happening, e.g. the social utility Facebook which connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. These strong positive network externalities, where the benefits are an increasing function of the number of other users, represent a huge commercial potential which may be severely reduced by the lack of interconnect and missing ubiquity in service support and provisioning.
The two critical elements for the support of ubiquitous services are interoperability for services and bearers. Bearer interoperability requires both interoperability for the IP bearer (user plane) and for the bearer control (control plane). There is a whole range of alternative QoS bearer control mechanisms, including RSVP, DiffServ, NSIS, RACF and RACS. These alternatives are in many cases incompatible. Additionally, there are two IP versions (V4 and V6) and no standard security for the bearer, which also cause incompatibility. The lack of Standards Development Organisation (SDO), operator and vendor coordination in this area can be paralleled to the lack of incumbent ISP coordination for the Internet, e.g. for inter-carrier QoS provisioning and multicast. This hampers the introduction and pickup of new ubiquitous services. The ICT industry will gain by settling these matters, i.e. by attaining a new attitude towards cooperation and coordination, in order to create a larger market as the arena for competition. There is a strong need to develop and agree on an IoT architecture for this purpose.
M2M Standardization is a strategic topic for ETSI in 2008. The huge opportunities the M2M market presents were highlighted at the ETSI workshop the 4th and 5th of June on the subject. It was clear from this workshop that there is a need for requirements gathering and concentration specifically for this market, and independently of any specific technology committee (such as those dealing with wireless sensor technologies, mobile networks or service layer standardization). At the workshop there were strong calls to establish an ETSI group which would act as a focal point for M2M standardization activities, gathering consensus on requirements, and enabling ETSI members to co-ordinate their activities in other M2M standardization groups. The first step to establishing an ETSI group is to put in place a Board ad hoc group which would be charged with evaluating needs and drafting a scope and terms of reference due by the end of 2008.
What are the main objectives of this Project?
The required architecture for M2M should include a secure Application Programming Interface (API), a backbone and separate device networks with standard interface to the backbone. It must offer harmonised functionality required to serve as a baseline for standardisation and implementation. The API and the backbone, with an open device network interface, should be given priority in order so ensure interoperability, ubiquity, and evolutionary flexibility. The architecture must be more generic than traditional hierarchical sensor and actuator networks as it must support grids and autonomous neural type of networks.
There is also an urgent demand for a standard API for end-to-end service control. An API would decouple innovation of services and service logic from protocols and network elements. It will also support service portability between systems, i.e. a service may be allocated to end-systems or servers with possible relocation and replication throughout its lifecycle, e.g. for migration of a trial peer-to-peer service to a network centric production version.
Incorporating M2M services in today's and future Internet, based on cooperation and coordination, e.g. on new selective standards, will ensure global interoperability, evolve Internet towards a ubiquitous IoT, enlarge the market, stimulate competition, and remove obstacles for innovation. The value of the IoT market will be extended, not only by new service offerings for M2M, but additionally by the value increase caused by positive network externalities resulting from general service ubiquity.
The migration to the true all-IP IoT may be achieved through obeying the following goals:
The condition for success is to avoid the mistakes made by ISPs for the Internet, i.e. by not cooperating and coordinating, in order to allow interoperability at the Internet layer for service ubiquity, effectively enlarging the market to the benefit of the whole ICT industry.
A European draft standard architecture for the IoT should be trialled in parallel to its development. The official trial is proposed to be conducted by ETSI, and should commence as early as possible.
The study shall:
The objective of this study is to provide the foundation for efficient and coordinated standardisation of the IoT architecture in order to remove the business and technology obstacles emerging through uncoordinated introduction of M2M communication on the European and global scale.
The study shall improve the efficiency of this process by carrying out initial investigations and design as input to the ETSI standards work. The study shall involve but is not limited to:
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With a total budget of NOK 50 million over four years, Statoil and NTNU wish to build up a world-leading research group to develop sustainable energy solutions.
The group will also assess the market prospects and effects of various kinds of climate policy. The first step is to recruit an internationally renowned researcher with relevant expertise to guide our work and build up the research group, which will be based at NTNU in Trondheim.
"Statoil's ambition is to be a leader in shaping the future energy society. Development of new technologies and solutions through industrial cooperation and collaboration with the best research and development institutes in the world are a key factor in this," says Statoil CEO Eldar Sætre.
Statoil CEO Eldar Sætre (left) and NTNU Rector Gunnar Bovim. (Photo: NTNU/ Thor Nielsen)
Earlier this year, Statoil and GE launched the technology-based Powering Collaboration program to find industrial solutions to reduce the environmental impact of oil and gas production.
Statoil also has partnerships with leading international academic institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where we and other industrial companies develop knowledge about new energy solutions through the MIT Energy Initiative.
"In Norway, NTNU represents top-class knowledge and research in key strategic areas for Statoil and we look forward to solving new demanding challenges together," says Lars Høier, Statoil's head of research.
Increased, safe and sustainable access to energy is a key challenge for the world community.
"Norway has both opportunities and responsibility to help deal with this challenge through the production of more environmentally friendly energy. Collaboration with Statoil will help to strengthen the knowledge base for this production," says NTNU Rector Gunnar Bovim.
Oil and gas will still account for a large share of the future energy mix, but growth in energy supply will mainly come from new energy solutions. Renewable energy, energy efficiency and carbon capture and storage will all play a major part in the coming decades.
Statoil's financial contribution will be NOK 5 million annually for four years. Statoil also wishes to provide project funding linked to the initiative.
The agreement is part of the Akademia cooperative program with NTNU, and Statoil has an option to provide funding for an additional four years.
NTNU has a similar budget to Statoil for the agreement, which means that NOK 50 million will initially be invested in future energy solutions.
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An all-electric, twin-motor French airplane known as the MC15E Cri Cri piloted by Hugues Duval recently reached 153 knots, breaking its own speed record for electrically powered airplanes by about 10 knots. While several power plants have been tested on the Cri Cri, the record setting airplane was powered by a pair of 35-horsepower Electravia E-Motor GMPE 104 motors and E-Props propellers designed specifically for speed. Power is stored in two lithium-polymer Kokam batteries — one for each motor — totalling three kilowatt-hours.
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So, I told you all I had made a resolution to take better care of myself and had joined Weight Watchers. I'm proud to announce that my first week in the program netted me a five pound weight loss. I followed the program, kept track of what I ate and stayed within my daily points allowance (well, for the most part. There was one day I went over a bit.) It has not been as hard as I feared it would be to follow the program.
The next step is figuring out how I want to get more exercise. Through my health insurer, I can join a program that costs $29 a month and I can go to any participating gym I want, as many times as I want, without a contract. I'm wondering if I might do better though if I just find a good used treadmill or elliptical and put it in my garage. I think if I have to find the time to go somewhere away from home to exercise, it won't happen. Whereas if I have a piece of equipment at home, I can get on it whenever I want.
I'll keep a sidebar going documenting my weight loss and health journey. Check in with me each Monday to see how it's progressing.
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- Animal said...
The whole health-club-vs.-home-equipment debate is as individual as the people who exercise. What I've found, though, is that the very ACT of going somewhere else gives me the focus to exercise, without distraction. Yes, we'd like a deadmill in the basement. On the other hand, the club has a dozen of them, not taking up a buttload of room in my house, and once I get my butt into the car for the quick drive over there, I'm not distracted by the phone, the kid, etc. etc. etc.
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Remembering Memories: A Personal Timeline Journal Of Your Life
Updated 13 February 2020
Have you ever wondered what is the oldest memory of your life? If not, then you should really just try for a second. How old is that memory, exactly? Is it from when you were a toddler? Or maybe still a baby? Or is your earliest memory in life from when you were in preschool? This article will be about one of my personal biggest fears: to lose memories of what my life is.
How do I remember my memories? By constantly writing down old memories in my personal timeline journal. In my case, this is a digital document that I can access from my smartphone, in which I write down every memory as soon as I think of it. This is how I make sure I never forget hundreds of my greatest memories.
I want to show you exactly what I'm doing to inspire you to think about your own memories for a moment. I'll show you my personal timeline journal, filled with all the memories of my life.
- Filling in the blanks
- My personal timeline journal and how it works
- What is the earliest memory you can remember?
- How do memories work?
- How to recall past events in your life?
- Fill your personal timeline journal with photographs?
Lately, I have been obsessed with memorizing my own memories. This obsession slowly entered my mind almost 5 years ago. I was 20 years old at the time, and I wanted to make sure I'd NEVER lose any of my memories ever again. My life was about to get slightly more interesting, and I wanted to be able to reflect on this period and read about it later when I was old. This is where I began journaling and tracking my happiness.
But what about all those years BEFORE I started journaling?
I wanted to find a way to "immortalize" my memories from before that period. You know, a way for me to NEVER remember them. That's when I came up with the idea of "filling in the blanks".
Journaling, gratitude, mindfulness, and introspection. What do all these things have in common? It's that they're all significantly correlated to your happiness. That's what the section Journaling For Happiness is all about in the biggest (freely available) guide on how to be happy.
Filling in the blanks
What is this idea about? What exactly is "filling in the blanks".
Well, ever since I started journaling and tracking happiness, I have immortalized pretty much every memory that happened on these days. If I ever have trouble remembering something from 4 years ago, I'll just open my happiness tracking journal and there it is: I probably covered this memory in all its detail and glory in my journal!
I obviously don't have this daily data for every day before I started journaling. Or at least, not in writing.
Most of these memories still exist somewhere in my head, though.
I want to write them down before I forget about them completely. I want to write down these memories as I stumble upon them, to slowly fill a memory journal which contains memories from the time before I started journaling!
And that's what I call "filling in the gaps". I want to slowly fill my memory journal so that I eventually have a timeline of what (I think) happened to my life at any point in time.
My personal timeline journal and how it works
My personal timeline journal is actually REALLY simple.
Whenever I stumble upon a memory that I haven't yet recorded, I simply open up my timeline journal and write it down.
There are only 3 columns I fill in here:
- The approximate date of the memory
- My age at the time
- Obviously the memory itself
That's it. Pretty easy, right?
But it gets better.
I use Google Spreadsheets to keep track of my memories. It's extremely convenient to use, as I can access it from my smartphone, tablet, and laptop. It saves the data in the cloud instantaneously, and I never have to worry about losing my precious memories.
So as soon as I stumble upon a memory, I whip out my smartphone and log it all in a matter of seconds! It really is that easy! 🙂
As a result, I now have a digital memory journal that contains a couple of hundred rows of memories, ranging from small and vague memories to long and detailed recollections!
I have also visualized my memory journal in a timeline, which I think is a cool idea. This allows me to easily recognize the areas of my life which I haven't yet memorized as well. This also shows what I mean with "filling in the blanks". I want to cover this entire timeline with memories!
The size of these bubbles is determined by the number of words I've used to describe the memories. A small bubble is, therefore, a relatively vague memory without a lot of details.
I started tracking my happiness at the start of December 2013, which is why the bubbles are WAY bigger here. By journaling, I'm automatically saving all my memories for later with a lot of detail. 🙂
But you can see here how relatively few memories I have of my life before I started journaling. There is SO much of my life which I have forgotten about, and that's something I really hate.
What is the earliest memory you can remember?
If you didn't think about this question at the start of this article, then now is a good time to dig deep inside your memories.
You are probably thinking that this is actually a VERY HARD question to answer, right?
You are not alone.
All of the people I have asked this question to have struggled in finding an answer. Hell, even I find it difficult, and I keep a freaking memory journal!
My earliest memory
It's the memory that is the leftmost bubble in my memory timeline. It's a pretty small bubble, actually, meaning that the memory is relatively small and blurry. But I still remember it. This is what I've written down in my personal timeline journal:
I vaguely remember how I was at kindergarten and was about to be given a shot via a needle. All the kids and their parents were gathered in the gym building. I wasn't impressed at all, and just sat there watching it. I didn't feel anything, and I remember that some of the older kids made a BIG deal about it. Some even cried. My mom actually remembers this as well. She says I just sat there and watched the needle go into my arm without even blinking. I wish I could still do that now...
This is (so far) the first vague memory I have of myself. I don't know the exact age of this memory, but I estimate it must have happened when I was about 4 years old. The details are pretty blurry though...
So you might be wondering now, what is the first real BIG memory of my life? What's the clearest and most early memory of my life, that I could recall just as if it happened yesterday?
I'm already quite a bit older by the time this happened, but this is what I've got:
This is one of the most epic stories of my youth. I was in second grade and 5 years old or something. The entire day at school consisted of playing outside, being read a book and relaxing. We were free to choose whatever activity we wanted to do for the morning and the afternoon. We got to choose in which part of the classroom we wanted to play. There was a building corner, a drawing corner and some others. I only cared about the building and drawing corners, just like the other boys in the class.
The school had bathroom stalls with doors that were super short. Everybody could peek above it and watch you sit there. Fucking weird. That's why I NEVER went to the bathroom when I was at school. NEVER.
This one day, I had spent the entire morning in the building corner and I had to pee like a maniac. I didn't know what to do, and I was starting to get really stressed. There was NO way I was going to the bathroom stalls. My parents weren't at home and I had to stay over at school during lunch break. What could I do?
Ah-ah! After lunch break, I moved my little magnet (of a train) from the building corner to the READING CORNER on the big magnet board. All the kids had to move their magnets to whatever corner you wanted to stay in for the rest of the day. Why did I pick the reading corner? Because literally NO ONE ever sat in the lame and boring reading corner. Also, they had a soft couch in the reading corner that was covered in all these cushions. So my plan was to sit there alone, and to just pee straight through my pants onto the cushions without anyone ever noticing. I'd rather do that than to go to those horrible bathroom stalls.
So that's exactly what I did. Nobody noticed. NOBODY. I pissed straight through my pants, onto the cushions and nobody saw me do it. I just sat there and waited until it dried and spent the rest of the day pretending I enjoyed reading all these books. And that's how I made it through the day. Man, I love this story...
Man, I already LOVE to re-read these memories. I feel glad that I now have a personal timeline journal that contains a LOT of memories like this. And it feels great to know that I'll never ever forget about them because I can re-read them whenever I want.
Thinking about all these memories like this makes me think, though...
What causes me to forget about my memories in the first place? How can I suddenly remember a memory again? What causes me to suddenly stumble upon one of my long-lost memories?
How do memories work?
It made me wonder about the following question:
Do we lose memories, or only the ability to access them?
It actually turns out this question hinges on some hotly debated topics in memory research that try to define how and where memory representations are stored in the brain.
At the moment, there is no good, definite, or agreed-upon answer to this question.
The science behind accessing memories
However, the simple answer to this question is that a loss of memory is usually a loss in ability to access that memory. I'll give you a scenario that is easy to relate to first.
Let's say you're going to the grocery store, and you have five different item to buy that a friend asked you to pick up, and don't have a list or any way to contact them.
If you remember the first three items perfectly but don't quite remember the last two, do you give up and go home? No, right? You would most definitely walk around the store, hoping something would cue your memory and you would be able to buy what you need. Your memory of the 'forgotten' items was not immediately accessible by free recall but would be accessible with better cues.
Accessing memories
Events at the time of memory recollection are very important in determining whether you will be able to produce a certain piece of information. There is a ton of insightful research in this area. There's an interesting paper by Malthup (1995) that used a 'false fame' procedure created by Larry Jacoby.
This procedure involves asking participants to pay attention to a list of made-up, non-famous names. Then after some time (a day, a week etc.) bring those same people back into the lab and test them on a new list of names that contains some names from the previous list, some new non-famous names, and some names of famous people. Then participants are asked to rate the fame of the names presented. Names that were studied from the previous session, although they are fictitious and not associated with any level of fame, are consistently rated as being more famous than fictitious names presented for the first time at the test.
Older individuals are reliably shown to be worse at this task (i.e. rate studied names as famous more often) than younger individuals. Malthup manipulated this task by specifically telling participants the three options for names they will see (i.e. famous name, new non-famous names, and old non-famous names). In this context, older adults performed as well as younger adults.
This is just one example of how memory for certain events can be thought of as 'lost' because they are simply inaccessible at the moment, or need to be probed, cued, accessed in a different way.
That's why it's important to always be able to write down a memory at the moment you stumble upon it. If you don't write it down immediately, you will likely forget the memory again within a matter of minutes. The problem is, who knows when you will access that memory again? You may never encounter the right cues again.
How to recall past events in your life?
If you are looking to fill your personal timeline journal as much as possible (as I am), then it's important to know how to remember those lost memories. Or rather, how to re-access those memories, as they probably still exist in your mind. You just have to find the right cues in order to access them again!
And that's how to remember lost memories! You need to seek out these cues.
A few methods to seek out these lost memory cues are to:
- talk to your (grand)parents more often (always a good idea anyway!)
- talk to family and friends about your childhood
- travel back to your hometown
- re-connect to your former classmates
- look through old photo albums
- listen to old music you used to like
- watch your favorite childhood movies, shows, and cartoons
- visit your old school building, the sports club you practiced at or the playground you always hung out on
You might notice that everything on this list has the potential to reignite those long lost memories.
When you ask your parents a simple question like "what was I like when growing up?", you might hear a story you are already familiar with. But your parents will give you their version of the story, as they have to dig around in their own memory in order to answer you!
Discussing a simple question like this will probably create a lot of lost memory cues, which you can then write down in your memory journal!
As said before, this likely happens because some cue in your environment, or some aspect of a thought you were just having, was connected in some way to the sudden involuntary memory recall that you experience.
However, those cues don't always seem relevant to the memory itself. This is something you might be familiar with: a random memory seems to enter your mind, and you don't know why you suddenly just started thinking about it?! Sounds familiar?
One reason why the memory might not seem relevant is that the cue associated with it may be really subtle, or not very meaningful content-wise; a powerful example of this is when a smell or a sound (like part of a song) is associated in one's mind with a certain period of time or an event, or even a feeling about an event. This could lead to a neural activation of circuits that represent other events, ideas or feelings from that time.
You see, memories appear to be more organized by emotions, senses, or ideas, rather than the time when they occurred. Scientists also don't completely understand yet how memories are maintained over time. it could be that infrequently recalled memories are not deliberately discarded by the brain, but instead fade gradually, as if the neurons and synapses involved in representing them are eventually recruited to be part of other memories instead.
It's also been shown that the act of recalling a memory can actually change the information that is stored, conflating things that happened during memory recall with things during that actually happened during the original event. So in that sense, an infrequently recalled memory might possibly be more accurate than a recent one.
This may sound strange, right? How can a memory become more "distorted" when we recall it more often? This is a topic for an entirely different post, to be honest. I'm only really just scratching the surface of scientific research on memories here. If you want to continue reading about the sciency stuff, I'll list a couple of resources at the bottom of this post!
Fill your personal timeline journal with photographs?
Before I end this post, I want to discuss one more method of memorizing your life that I haven't discussed yet.
One of the best tools for memorizing your life - besides journaling - is taking photographs.
Nowadays, with smartphones and cloud storage, it is SO easy to just snap a picture of something and to forget about it. With services like Google Photos or the iCloud Photo Library, your photos are instantly backed up to the cloud so you may never lose them again. I absolutely love it.
I have made it a habit to make as many photographs as possible. It doesn't have to be of anything impressive, I mostly just want to capture the memory. If I'm sitting outside on a beautiful day and notice how pretty my surroundings actually are, I usually just snap a quick picture. Even if it is not a fantastic picture, I will still have captured the memory so that I may never forget it again.
I view my photo library (it's HUUUGE) as a different kind of memory journal. I like to think that 70-year-old me would be very grateful to have so many memories immortalized. I already take pleasure in skipping through my old memories and pictures, so I bet I will like it even more when I'm an old dude in retirement! 😉
And with that said, I want to conclude this list of methods covering how to start remembering all your life memories. I believe these methods can help you create a huuuge memory journal, and I hope this has somehow inspired you to get to it!
As always, if you have any questions about anything, please let me know in the comments below, and I'll be happy to answer you!
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Employee production can vary as much as 30 percent based on the culture in a particular office.
Proper staff development can have a large impact on the continued success of a business. Not only do employees need to learn the skills needed for advancement, but managers need to effectively coach their teams to create a cohesive unit.
An article by Talent Management notes that it is important for team leaders to build a solid relationship with staff. This helps to increase communication and can lead to strong performance by building on the strengths of individuals.
"Providing the environment where someone can acquire the skill and practice it with peers or with trusted others before they actually go and deploy it with the workforce is essential," Joan Dasher, vice president for BlessingWhite, told the source.
Research by Hay Group shows employee production can vary as much as 30 percent based on the culture in a particular office. Incentive programs can be used to create consistency across departments by providing clear objectives for teams. These tools are most effective when there is a clear link between performance and reward, making it important to track execution and acknowledge success.
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The duodenal switch also commonly known as biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (BPD-DS). It is a type of weight loss surgery treatment that comprises of a restrictive and a malabsorptive aspect. The restrictive part of the surgery involves removing 70% of the stomach while the malabsorptive part involves rerouting a long part of the small intestine.
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A large portion of the stomach is reduced to create a banana-shaped pouch connecting the esophagus to the starting portion of the small intestine. Several feet length of the upper part of the small intestine is cut. This piece of the small intestine is then attached to the stomach so that the digestive juices can break down the food coming from the stomach.
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08:30 I joined Nexeon for three months and enjoyed the company culture so much I'm still here three years later. I have an extremely varied job and the atmosphere is so positive. No-one is too proud to fill the coffee machine. Every day is a challenge, but in smaller companies, you can have much more impact.
I start my day with some payroll work; I need to make sure everyone's salaries are correctly paid, accounting for overtime, pension contributions and so on. As it's April, there are a few statutory rule changes to apply, and I work in liaison with our external payments provider as well as our Accounts Department.
10:00 As a fast growing company, Nexeon has recently begun another recruitment drive. We're looking for around seven people in scientific and engineering roles to work at our Abingdon site near Oxford, in both junior and senior roles. As we gain customer traction, we expect the balance of roles to change, but applicants need to be of high calibre, team players, adaptable and flexible.
I work with recruitment agencies, but also use online job boards which bring in lots of interest from many countries. We advertise, for example in New Scientist, and also receive a steady stream of speculative CVs sent through our web site. Our staff profile is very much an international one; currently we have employees on our team from at least ten countries. I'm pleased to say we have an almost equal gender balance too.
12:00 I take a walk around our site to speak with people, and to sort out a few facilities matters. It's important to keep close to people in all types of roles and to understand any issues they might have. Working in the exciting field of battery materials, there's a sense that we're all part of something with a bright future.
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17:00 Recently, we've been injecting a little more fun into our culture, and as well as the 'Potlucks', we might have pizza, or bring a pet to work. Last week my dog got lots of attention when I brought him to the office. Right now, it's Easter, so my final task of the day is to go around the office doing a chocolate egg drop!


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The History of the UK Entertainment Industry
The entertainment industry allows people to amuse themselves in terms of leisure time. In history the more advanced a society becomes the more time is set aside for the pursuits of leisure. In the earliest times there was little to entertain the people except for the odd execution and life was pretty mundane on a day to day basis. The only real exception was the annual fairs that would be held in most towns and villages each year. This gave the local people to opportunities to buy various goods and also enjoy certain entertainments that that would not usually be available. Small theatre companies, dance troupes and musicians would perform giving the local population the opportunity to enjoy their acts
Prior to industrialization and urbanization people had little time to enjoy leisure activities. Subsistence life styles would mean that people would go to bed and get up with the light. In the UK there would be few times when people would enjoy activities away from working on the fields. There was no television and radio and the only creative activities that were really enjoyed were based around the tavern. Taverns were bawdy hostelries where the main entertainment involved people getting very drunk. The early plays produced by Shakespeare were performed in the Globe and the Blackfriars Theatres from end of the 16th century. These theatres were small, and the price of admission was expensive which meant that the majority of the population simply couldn't afford to attend the performances.
The taverns soon became the centre for entertainment as the public houses started to support music hall acts from the 1830s onwards. It wasn't long until the music halls started to move into their own theatre type premises such as the Canterbury Music Hall in Lambeth which was established in 1849. The 19th century became the era when other entertainments became available for the working population. The creation of professional sports meant that people could spectate certain games of cricket, rugby and football. The creation of large stadiums specializing in certain sports enabled the grounds to hold many people. As industrialization gathered pace more people were now paid higher wages and given more free time which enabled them to spend their income. Tourism started to flourish, and certain towns grew as seaside resorts.
One of the most popular towns was Blackpool which is situated on the North-West Coast just above Liverpool. Its seven-mile beach, tower and pier made it popular to the working-class population of the north-west especially after the railway line was constructed in 1840. This linked it to the nearby industrial cities and families would spend a week enjoying the entertainments provided by the area. This growth in the tertiary sector gathered pace at the start of the 20th century especially with technological advancements. The radio, television and film industries were created and soon people would be able to sit at home after a hard day's work, being able to relax by listening to, or watching, a program. The entertainment industry really took off as it became fuelled by populations wanting to become entertained, with more people having the income to afford it. Today the entertainments industry is a massive business with certain areas relying exclusively on it to support the local population.
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KINGSPORT, TN (WJHL)- The dealer principal of several car dealerships in Kingsport told NewsChannel 11 on Wednesday he is moving forward with plans to relocate all of his business to the Tri-Cities Crossing site.
Tri-Cities Crossing is retail development site that has sat vacant since developers broke ground in 2013.
The land sits right at the intersection of I-26 and I-81 in Kingsport.
Rick Hill of Rick Hill Imports in Kingsport said his family has been selling cars at their location off of Stone Drive for decades.
"Since May 1st 1983, I bought the dealership from John Smith," Hill said.
That is all about to change, as Hill said they are getting closer to final approval on a plan to move their dealerships out to the Tri-Cities Crossing development.
"You begin to draft out the building plans, and we are pretty far along in that process, we are at the point where we are ready to submit the plans to the manufacturers over the next few weeks," Hill said.
Rick Hill said he hopes to make the move as soon as possible, and that the new location will bring more business.
"Well obviously it would be as soon as we possibly can, but if things go really, really well maybe by the end of this year, early next year. Interstate 81 is the busiest road in our entire market area, and we hope more people will see us and it will be easier for people in the region to come to us," Hill said.
When Rick Hill Imports moves on, Kingsport's Business Development Specialist, Corey Shepherd, said there is still plenty of opportunity for redevelopment on that end of Stone Drive.
"That's one of our highest traffic count commercial corridors and it will continue to be that for the foreseeable future," Shepherd said.
Shepherd explained that the zoning for the area where the car dealerships sit could allow for more dealerships, or ever what they described as highway oriented businesses.
"Just think of traditional commercial corridors around the region, a mix of sit down restaurants, national retail, national franchises," Shepherd said.
We also reached out to the developer of the site, Stewart Taylor, who said at this time he is not ready to make any comment about the progress or development of Tri-Cities Crossing.


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During extreme temperatures, it can be very annoying to need repairs to your HVAC system. Knowledge about your system will go a long way to keeping it operating well. You should continue reading if that is your goal.
Be aware of the type of system that is installed in your home prior to calling a contractor to fix it. Know the brand name and model number. It is also helpful to have the maintenance history. In this way, you can be sure your repair person has all vital information.
If you've been having trouble with an HVAC system, look around your home before calling in people to help. Jot down the rooms that are hot and the ones that are cold. That knowledge can help the technician figure out what is going on.
Before you choose an HVAC contractor, have an idea in your mind of what needs to be done. This will make the quote process much easier. It will be way more hard if you can't figure out what they need to do. Understand this information beforehand.
Your system should be checked twice a year. The best times to have the system checked is spring and fall, so you are sure everything is running at peak performance before the heating and cooling seasons. Even if you do not detect a problem, you can identify and fix any potential problems when you have it checked.
Condenser units for the outdoors should be shut off when it starts to get cold outside. Avoid damaging the unit by turning it off when the outdoor temperature drops below 60 degrees. You will save in repair bills and increase the efficiency of your system.
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Rail Trail work to affect parking, traffic, pathway access in Cardiff
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Cardiff residents can expect parking closures and occasional construction noise along San Elijo Avenue as preliminary work begins on the Encinitas segment of the Coastal Rail Trail, project officials announced April 27.
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Cardiff's section of the Coastal Rail Trail has stirred up controversy for almost two years now, but even with the Encinitas City Council's approval, the project isn't rolling forward just yet.
LETTER: Costs justified for safe and legal beach access, rail upgrade
February 18, 2016
In a letter to the editor ("Hypocrisy on Encinitas City Council?" Feb. 4), a resident accused me of a double standard in not considering repair and replacement expenses for a rail crossing in Cardiff, while voting against artificial turf at Leo Mullen sports park for reasons he assumed were the ...
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February 4, 2016
This is a tale of two projects approved by the Encinitas City Council. The first is the Coastal Rail Trail (CRT) approved on May 20, 2015, and eagerly championed by Deputy Mayor Lisa Shaffer. This approval was followed by an add-on project to construct an at-grade railroad crossing at Montgomery Avenue....


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Students and parents returning for the 2017-2018 school year to Paris Schools were greeted by a new modern digital information sign located on State Business Highway 24 on the south side of Paris High School.
The sign replaces one that was destroyed in a storm. TBNB Bank donated $10,000 to build the sign.
"The old signs appearance had been deteriorating for quite some time. The storm provided us an opportunity to upgrade the sign," said Chris Willingham, principal of Paris High School."
Courtney Jones, vice president of operations for TPNB Bank said the plan for a new sign first surfaced a year ago.
"I reached out to Aaron Vitt (Paris superintendent) to let him know that the bank would be interested in assisting the school in purchasing a new sign. He had been gathering information to see what the cost and options would be for a new sign," she said. "Aaron sent me the rough estimates of the signs and the bank approved a donation of $10,000 to be contributed to the purchase of the sign. The school board decided on the digital sign."
The sign has rotating messages about major school events, including meeting and sports schedules, and deadlines for parents and students.
"The TPNB contribution was vital," Willingham said. "With the insurance money we received for the old sign, and the very generous $10,000 donation by TPNB, we were able to purchase a state-of-the-art high-tech sign board. The new sign is great for its appearance and its ease-of-use. We are very thankful to TBNB."
Vitt said the sign has proved popular with parents and students - and the community.
"The feedback we have received has been positive," he said. "The sign adds a nice touch to the school. We have also received feedback as to what colors are easiest to see. We will continue to experiment with different backgrounds, colors, fonts, and message speed rates so the sign best serves its intended purpose - communication."
Jones said the sign continues TPNB Bank's longtime support of Paris schools. For instance, for the last 40-plus years, the bank has hired an intern from Paris High School, she said, Jones says helps the student gain work experience and learn how to work in a team.
"The bank also sponsors a financial class at the school that includes the program for the students to use during class as well as bank employees coming to the school and teaching a class about banking and finance," she said. "The bank also awards a scholarship each year that provides the awarded student $500 per year, up to four years in college."
Jones said TPNB Bank sponsors popcorn bags (for concession), After Prom, School Carnival, FBLA and the golf tournament.
"The bank purchased the football sign for the school and is having a fundraiser on Sept. 15 to help raise money for the school to purchase some new folding tables for events. Some of the old ones are getting in bad shape," she said. "We also donate $250 to be awarded to a support staff member at the school each year…If we're donating funds for certain things, the school is able to allocate their funds to their education instead. "


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Mercedes-Benz will hold a presentation of new hydrogen crossover in 2017
Next year German car brand Mercedes-Benz intends to make a presentation of its new crossover, which will be equipped with non-conventional power plant. This was reported by foreign automobile editions. According to them, during 2017 Mercedes-Benz brand intends to present the car to be fitted with a hydrogen engine. According to the head of the brand's research department, Thomas Weber, Mercedes-Benz has being working on a development of such power plant for more than 5 years, thus making it clear that the power unit has a fairly mature age.
As for the specific model, it is known that the basis for the new items will become the chassis of the full-size crossover Mercedes-Benz GLC. Many details of the vehicle will be borrowed from the same model. Car will be able to pass at least 600 kilometers at one fuel filling. The price of the car will be around 70 thousand Euros. The hydrogen crossover will appear on the assembly line in 2020.
It was announced that the novelty will receive the name GLC F-Cell, and it will be able to compete with Toyota Mirai and Honda FCV Clarity. Next hydrogen powered car is expected to be developed by BMW.


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Payments made toward the maintenance of children are exempt from USC.
Where a separated couple is jointly assessed for income tax purposes, the spouse or civil partner:
Please contact Revenue if you wish to claim USC exemption during the year for legally enforceable maintenance payments. We will then send your employer a letter stating the amount of salary that is exempt from USC.
Please claim USC refunds for legally enforceable maintenance payments at the end of the year.
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Zhao Xiaoyong was called China's Van Gogh, as the farmer-turned-oil painter made over 100,000 replicas of Van Gogh's work over the past 20 years.
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However, he never saw a single authentic piece by the Dutch post-impressionist painter until 2014 when he finally saved enough for a trip to the Netherlands.
The trip inspired him to think over his business and create his own works.
Zhao has a studio in Longgang's Dafen, where 1,200 studios and 8,000 painters are based. Dafen produces millions of replicas of Van Gogh, Monet and Picasso that are sold at home and abroad. According to statistics, 80 percent of China's export of oil paintings comes from Dafen.
Zhao Xiaoyong's studio in Dafen Village.
A bird's-eye view of Dafen Village.
The painting industry started in Dafen Village in 1989 when Hong Kong purchasers sought to establish an oil painting base near Hong Kong.
Zhao started learning how to paint from scratch in 1996. He imitated Van Gogh's works via a painting album, including "Sunflowers" and "Almond Blossoms." He sold his first works in 1999 when an American buyer ordered 20 paintings. More orders later came from abroad, prompting Zhao to recruit apprentices. "I was even called China's Van Gogh in a documentary," he said.
Zhao and his team worked from 1 p.m. to 3 a.m. painting eight pieces per person every day at most. Prices for the replicas ranged from 200 yuan (US$30) to 3,000 yuan per piece, depending on the size.
While the market demand for replicas is shrinking, Zhao and other painters in Dafen are creating their own artworks to attract tourists.
Chen Qiuzhi, who used to paint copies of masterpieces, has worked hard to develop his own style, combining Chinese calligraphy with painting.
Ten years of hard work has won him fame, with his works popular in the auction market. Now, one piece of his calligraphy is worth tens of thousands of yuan, almost 100 times the value of replicas he painted. "Only by creation can one's works be remembered," said Chen.
Visitors tour the Sunrise Art Center, Dafen Village.
Tourists try out oil painting in Dafen Village.
Today, Dafen has gathered nearly 300 artists. In 2017, the annual output value of Dafen reached 4.15 billion yuan, among which the original works accounted for 20 to 30 percent.
From imitation to creation, Dafen Village has been making the transition from a low-end oil painting workshop cluster to an art center.


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The deadline to nominate 2018 honorees is Jan. 24, the awards ceremony will take place in March.
The United Way of Monroe County is looking for nominations of people who have done heroic acts in the past year for its Everyday Heroes Awards to be given in March.
An advisory committee is still in need of nominations and will select the winners, said Executive Director Connie Carroll.
Nominees must be a county resident or employed in the county. An act of heroism must have taken place in 2018. Nominees can be a firefighter, law enforcement officer, medical professional, adult or youth Good Samaritan, local military or community hero or someone who performed an animal rescue. There must be a specific incident involving the nominee.
Nominations are being accepted until Jan. 24. Winners will be recognized at an awards dinner in March.
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"Chamber Talk" with Rick Stanley
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Medically Speaking
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The Doo-Wop Show with Captain Carl Cash
Saturdays: 7pm - 9pmAll those great street corner harmonies from the 50's and 60's for your listening and dancing pleasure. It's Doo-Wop done right!
Rock, Roll & Remember with Dick Clark
Saturdays: 9pm - 1amAn encore presentation of Dick's weekly radio show. Digging deep into the 50's, 60's and 70's with great songs and information about the singers and groups that did them.
The French Hour with Roger
Sundays: 7:30am - 9am
Roger Hurtubise plays great french music, has community activities for the French-Canadian community and more!
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Sundays: 9am - 9:30am
Hosted By: Peggy Hill. Buying, selling or just thinking about it? Don't miss the great advice from Peggy and her guests. Real estate, mortgages and helpful home buying and owning tips.
Forgotten 45's
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Boston Country Oldies
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Michael Burns and Stu Fink are two Boston based radio personalities who met as friends during the summer of 1980. Reunited in 1988, they hosted their first program together in late 1989, and in 1994, their fate was sealed when they were tapped to co-host a weekly country oldies show, which enjoyed a 20+ year run on Boston radio.


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Shining a Light On Those That Connect Youth In Care to Permanent, Loving Homes.
As a non-profit, our team is comprised mostly of passionate interns and volunteers who want to make a difference in the lives of foster children in Virginia. By increasing awareness and fundraising, we hope to better the lives of children and give them a sense of normalcy in their sometimes turbulent world.Meet the Team!
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The foster care system can be a confusing and sometimes disheartening place. Through our fundraising and network of passionate volunteers, we strive to give children in foster care a brighter future, a sense of normalcy, and belonging. Events like The Bowling Ball, our "Birthday Bags" donation program, numerous holiday gift events, Thanksgiving Day family meal, and overnight camps, allow foster youth to get out, play, and learn new skills just like any other kid. Additionally, we support permancy for children and youth in care by featuring children and youth who are awaiting adoption in our Heart Gallery. These 5,000 plus kids in foster care are our future and they deserve every opportunity to have a "normal" childhood in an ever changing environment.
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The Birthday Bag is a reusable tote filled with complete party supplies, including theme decorations, paper goods, cake (or cake mix with frosting, candles, etc.) balloons, a personalized card, and gifts for the youth in care. Bags can be mailed or picked up!
Connecting Hearts works tirelessly to not only connecting potential parents with licensed child placing agencies, but to advocate for children and families in the state of Virginia.
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Each year, Connecting Hearts gathers foster care and adoption champions together to raise money that goes directly toward connecting youth in care with permanent, loving homes.
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Let it Breathe
It's hard to write about a "scene," especially a local "film scene." So hip and cool, right? What's crackin'? Who's doing what? Who's got the friend with that cousin in LA who knows people who make things happen? And what are those happenings, anyway?
Recently, Wisconsin has rolled up her creative sleeves and done a Warhol Art and Commerce move that could catapult us into the national "film scene." In a time of dwindling production budgets and on the heels of the writers strike comes the Film Wisconsin Bill: that tax-incentive-Johnny Depp-Matthew McConaughey-Jennifer Garner thing we keep hearing about. Goodwill from Wisco to the film industry! It's already cheaper to do just about anything here on any given day, and we've got the scenery and the talent to back up Hollywood.
Cash is king, no doubt about it. Big productions shot in Wisconsin will get the hotels changing sheets, AV rental houses
buzzing and Jimmy John's delivering 150 sandwiches at a time to odd places at odd times of day. If Film Wisconsin does its job,
we'll be raking in the dough – and kick-starting that "creativeclass economy" we keep hearing about. Fresh. So, now what?
The task at hand, then, is to support locally-sourced film – as well as homegrown art and music – as much as possible. Sounds like a fragment from a speech at some ribbon-cutting, but we really need to get out and see films in any way, shape or form and do our part to make that scene real. Gallery Night is all well and good. The Milwaukee International Film Fest means well, but when there are more films from Sundance 2006 than local and regional works, it makes you wonder what their direction is – or whether they have one. Resolved: We need to take this film movement into our own hands, get our united arms around this
inspired time and prop our scene up on our own.
What can we do? That's not rhetorical, people! The more of a groundswell we create by supporting our film community, creating online buzz and attending indie fests, the more real energy there will be. Hollywood will sense it and it will "make a meeting" of our underground and their commercial film worlds. And it's the collision of environments that makes a real scene.
So enough safe and sane – its time for dumb and dangerous. Charge your cameras, write that scene and film it. Post it. Everyone would love to meet you. Just do what you do and let it breathe. Go to REEL Milwaukee: The blog at vitalsourcemag.com and post your script ideas, YouTube/MySpace links, email video clips from your cell phone, ask questions, write comments or smack downs or party info, or anything popping. We need to know! VS


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How One Teacher Changed for the Good of Her Students
The excerpt below is from the book "Passionate Learners: Giving Our Classrooms Back to Our Students," by Pernille Ripp. This excerpt is from the chapter entitled "When Change Happens to Good Teachers." Four years ago, I realized that I needed to take responsibility for the damage I had done to students who came into my room loving (or at least liking) school and left diminished in some ways.
Teaching Questioning Skills to Arm Students for Learning - Work in Progress
In the earliest part of my career, I wrote full procedural lesson plans that spelled out to the letter the questions I would ask AND the answers I considered correct. When the students didn't provide the proscribed answer, I asked helper questions until I elicited the appropriate response. Man, did I have it wrong! This is the battle we fight. It demands our full attention.
A Classroom Management Strategy For The First Days Of School
At the start of a new school year, it's common for teachers to send home a packet of information for parents. This packet typically consists of school policies and procedures, daily schedules, papers to be signed, and hopefully a classroom management plan. This is all fine and good.
Ten Takeaway Tips for Teaching Critical Thinking
Suggestions from educators at KIPP King Collegiate High School on how to help develop and assess critical-thinking skills in your students. Ideally, teaching kids how to think critically becomes an integral part of your approach, no matter what subject you teach. But if you're just getting started, here are some concrete ways you can begin leveraging your students' critical-thinking skills in the classroom and beyond. 1. Questions, questions, questions.
Why Trust Is A Crucial Ingredient in Shaping Independent Learners
Preparing students to be "college and career ready" is a catch phrase in many schools, but those same institutions often block large swaths of the internet in an attempt to protect students from acting inappropriately online. While well-intentioned, blocking useful digital tools prevents educators from guiding students through appropriate online behavior while still in the relative safety of school. College and job recruiters are seeking students who are creative problem solvers, collaborative workers and independent thinkers, but in many cases, rules prevent students from practicing those skills online. "When you try to use a computer in a school, it's shocking what is blocked," said Michelle Luhtala, head librarian at New Caanan High School in Connecticut during an edWeb webinar. "That is not 21st century learning." In many ways, trust underlies much of what happens in school each day.
Tools for metacognition
Metacognition is an important part of intentional learning, since it involves actively thinking about what you know, what you don't know, and how you can get better at knowing and applying what you know. A mantra for metacognition State the learning problem with some specificity: identify what you want to know and what you want to do with that knowledgeChoose strategies to solve the learning problem—draw upon your own prior knowledge and the knowledge of othersObserve how you used the strategies—keep a learning journal or blogEvaluate the results: What worked? What didn't work?Rinse and repeat: Apply successful strategies to new learning problems
5 Powerful Questions Teachers Can Ask Students
My first year teaching a literacy coach came to observe my classroom. After the students left, she commented on how I asked the whole class a question, would wait just a few seconds, and then answer it myself. "It's cute," she added.
Smart Strategies That Help Students Learn How to Learn
Teaching Strategies Bruce Guenter What's the key to effective learning? One intriguing body of research suggests a rather riddle-like answer: It's not just what you know. It's what you know about what you know. To put it in more straightforward terms, anytime a student learns, he or she has to bring in two kinds of prior knowledge: knowledge about the subject at hand (say, mathematics or history) and knowledge about how learning works.
How the Power of Interest Drives Learning
Teaching Strategies Peninsula Park In recent years researchers have begun to build a science of interest, investigating what interest is, how interest develops, what makes things interesting, and how we can cultivate interest in ourselves and others. They are finding that interest can help us think more clearly, understand more deeply, and remember more accurately. Interest has the power to transform struggling performers, and to lift high achievers to a new plane. So what is interest?
Education Week
Published Online: September 22, 2015 Published in Print: September 23, 2015, as Growth Mindset, Revisited Commentary By Carol Dweck For many years, I secretly worked on my research.
7 First Day of School Activities Students Love
The first day of school will be here before you know it. Most teachers face the big day with enthusiasm, but they dread the inevitable challenge: what to do on the first day of school. Every teacher's approach is different. Whatever your goal, here are a few things to try to get the school year off to a great start!
In the education world, the term student-centered classroom is one we hear a lot. And many educators would agree that when it comes to 21st-century learning, having a student-centered classroom is certainly a best practice. Whether you instruct first grade or university students, take some time to think about where you are with creating a learning space where your students have ample voice, engage frequently with each other, and are given opportunities to make choices.
Teacher: A student told me I 'couldn't understand because I was a white lady.' Here's what I did then.
Emily E. Smith is a fifth-grade social justice and English language arts teacher at Cunningham Elementary School in Austin, Tex. She was just awarded the 2015 Donald H.
Fostering Relationships in the Classroom
Students and teacher need to develop positive and trusting relationships in an effective classroom. It is also critical that all students, especially English-language learners, develop trusting and enriching relationships with each other. There are many activities which can be used for both introductory purposes and throughout the year to build and maintain positive relationships in the classroom. Some activities which work well to introduce students to each other and to the teacher can be used again at later points in the year as students' interests change and as they gain new life experiences. While this is certainly not an exhaustive list, it contains several suggestions we have found successful and which could easily be adapted for use with different levels of students. 1) Sharing Weekly Reflections


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SC deprecates strictures by HCs against lower judiciary
"Further, the trend seems to be persistent like an incurable cancerous cell which explodes out at the slightest imbalance," a bench of justices B S Chauhan and Dipak Misra said in a judgement.
The apex court gave the verdict while upholding the appeal of Bulandshahar Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Amar Pal Singh challenging the strictures passed by the Allahabad High Court after the CJM refused to direct police to record an FIR of alleged attempt to murder lodged by one Sunil Solanki.
"The respect for the judiciary is not enhanced when judges at the lower level are criticised intemperately and castigated publicly. No greater damage can be done to the administration of justice and to the confidence of the people in the judiciary than when the judges of the higher courts publicly express lack of faith in the subordinate judges for one reason or the other. It must be remembered that the officers against whom such strictures are publicly passed, stand condemned for ever in the eyes of their subordinates and of the members of the public. No better device can be found to destroy the judiciary from within. The judges must, therefore, exercise self-restraint," Justice Misra, writing the judgement, said.
The apex court expunged the strictures passed against the CJM. Quoting an adage `It is well said that a judge who has not committed an error is yet to be born," the bench said, "That applies to judges at all levels from the lowest to the highest."
The apex court said sometimes the difference in views of the higher and the lower courts is purely a result of a difference in approach and perception. On such occasions, the lower courts are not necessarily wrong and the higher courts always right, it said.
"It has also to be remembered that the lower judicial officers mostly work under a charged atmosphere and are constantly under a psychological pressure with all the contestants and their lawyers almost breathing down their necks ? more correctly upto their nostrils.
"They do not have the benefit of a detached atmosphere of the higher courts to think coolly and decide patiently. Every error, however gross it may look, should not, therefore, be attributed to improper motive," the bench observed.
The court said it is possible that a particular judicial officer may be consistently passing orders creating a suspicion of judicial conduct which is not wholly or even partly attributable to innocent functioning.
"Even in such cases, the proper course for the higher court to adopt is to make note of his conduct in the confidential record of his work and to use it on proper occasions," the bench said.
Solanki had claimed that on February 11, 2007, one Mauzzim Ali had opened fire at him which narrowly missed his friend Shafeeque. Though he lodged a complaint with police, they refused to register it following which he moved the CJM under Section 156(3)Cr PC for a direction to the police to investigate his complaint, which was declined. Aggrieved he appealed in the Allahabad High Court which passed the strictures.


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The bags chinked and crackled against the metal coils as they were inserted rhythmically, efficiently into the vending machine. Irving made it a point to get in and get out as quickly as possible. Luckily now all the vending machines were digital and took credit card or PayPal so he didn't have to empty any cash boxes or refill the change box. Marco stood silently guard a few feet away. He would look from side to side, confidently, his hand resting over the large gun slung around his larger chest. Irving was glad he had the more physically demanding tasking of refilling. If he guarded, he would likely sweat through his shirt and not look appropriately confident or dangerous, and that would just invite trouble.
"Almost done?" said Marco glancing over his shoulder at Irving.
"Just one more row man," said Irving.
"Could you hurry it up?" said Marco.
"I'm going as fast as I can," said Irving.
"Speed it up. We got a patron who looks like he can't wait."
"What?" Irving paused and looked back. A toothless stringy man bobbed from foot to foot a few yards away. "Oh, geez."
"Don't stop," whispered Marco. "I don't want to have to plug this guy."
"Yeah, yeah," said Irving. He suddenly felt hot. His fingers shook as he plucked bags from the cardboard boxes and deposited them in the coils.
"These animals smell fear," said Marco.
"I'm not an animal," said the stringy man.
"Then back up a few feet, dude," said Marco.
"I have every right to be right here, just like you," said the man.
"Sure you do," said Marco.
"Don't you make fun of me!" screamed the man.
"It's all right dude, I just don't want no trouble," said Marco. "You'll get your fix in a few minutes, just hold on."
"I wish I didn't have to," said the man. "I wish I never saw that machine." There was a commiserating murmur from the waiting crowd. Irving briefly looked around. There were a lot of them. Shabby skinny toothless people in tattered, nasty-dirty vestments, adults and kids, all google-eyed and staring at Irving's hands, following them hungrily from box to vending machine. Finally he reached the last bag in the last box and put it in a bottom coil.
"Done," said Irving. He stood up, shuffled the empty boxes onto his dolly, and reached for the door to the machine. A hand grabbed his wrist and twisted. "Aaah!"
"Get off him!" yelled Marco.
"No!" said a woman, the owner of the hand. "I'm not paying for this anymore! It's not right! I'm taking what's mine!" She pulled Irving to the ground with inhuman strength.
"Get off me!" screamed Irving. Brrrraaaaapp-brap. The woman flew back from Irving, and crunched, lifeless, to the ground. Irving scrambled up quickly, and stood frozen next to the vending machine. The customers looked angry and uncertain.
"Close the door Irving," said Marco calmly.
"Yeah, yeah," said Irving. He reached for the door and pulled it closed, locking it with a loud thud.
"We're leaving now," said Marco to the crowd.
"Screw you!" said someone in the back of the crowd. "We ain't paying!"
"They got more in the truck," said someone else. Marco and Irving had more deliveries that day, so their armored truck was still more full of filled boxes than empty boxes.
"Let's get the truck," said another.
"Stay back," said Marco. "If you got a complaint with the prices, call corporate. We don't have nothing to do with that."
"We don't care about you," said the stringy man. "You're incidental."
BRAAAAAAAP! Marco shot into the air.
"Consider that a warning. Make a move towards that truck or us, and I'll mow you down."
"You can't do that and get away with it. We're still human!" said a woman with a half-dead looking infant hanging limply from her arms.
"Not really," said Marco, "and it's not illegal to kill one of your kind. So back up!" No one moved.
"Let's not antagonize them," said Irving. He quickly packed the boxes and piled them haphazardly on the dolly.
"Yeah," whispered Marco. "I shoulda never opened my mouth. Never turns out well."
Suddenly a man lunged for the truck, and hit it shoulder first. He grunted and collapsed on the ground. Then the crowd closed in on the truck, rocking it back and forth. It all happened in a matter of seconds.
BRAAAP-BRAAAP-BRAAP-BRAAAAAAAAAP Marco shot into the air again. No one in the crowd seemed to notice.
"Scatter if you value your lives!" screamed Marco. His face was flushed, and the veins in his thick, muscular neck stood out.
"We haven't got a chance. Let's just run for it," said Irving.
BRAAAP-BRAAAP-BRAAAAAAP-BRAAAAAAP-BRAAAAAAP This time Marco shot at the crowd. Emaciated men, women, and children dropped like wooden marionettes relieved of their masters. The crowd noticed now, and turned from the truck towards Marco.
"No man! Let's run for it!" said Irving.
"Bastards! You're gonna get what's coming to you!" Marco pulled the trigger again. Irving ran in the other direction. The customers took almost no notice of him, and instead were fixated on the strapping Marco, a Mad Hatter with a machine gun strafing the crowd.
Irving only had to run to the next block before he heard Marco's guttural screams. He imagined him down on the ground, being plucked apart by the crowd, being eaten, because that's what they did when they didn't get their drugs on time. Irving unzipped his jacket with the company logo emblazoned on the back. He threw it to the ground and kept running. The screams would have drawn dozens more by now, attracted by fresh blood and a clean meal. The cold air was refreshing but his chest started to hurt. As nervous as he was, in general, and as useless as he was in a fight, he wasn't used to flight. He slowed to a jog, looking furtively around.
This part of the city was unclean; it was fully tainted by the effects of the product he helped to sell. It was a drug used to ameliorate the effects of poverty. It satiated the feeling of hunger. It made the user satisfied with even the most menial and demeaning work. It generally killed libido so the poor would stop reproducing so quickly. It also made most pregnancies unviable, and those babies born addicted to it were unhealthy and didn't live long. It changed their bodies too. All the calories they did ingest went straight to the building of sinewy muscle. A man on the drug had enough strength to snap a human femur in a matter of seconds. And they didn't really care where their calories came from. They had a form of pica, where they would chip away at the walls in their dingy tenement apartments, eating chalk from drywall, and washing hunks of fiberglass insulation down with dirty water. They would cook up rats, and fry cockroaches in rat fat. If someone in their family became sick, they'd carve up that individual and have a real feast. They didn't care.
Irving slowed to a quick walk. No one took notice of him. The people who were out shuffled towards the truck. Irving headed for the gate. He punched in his security code, and the gate slowly slide open. He ran out to freedom, and decided to quit his job.


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