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I've been reading a whole host of blog posts recently about friends having to put down their family pets and each time I always find myself fighting back tears. Not necessarily because I knew the specific dog, but because I know what it feels like to lose the adopted four-legged family members. It's a pain that sits deep in your chest and holds your heart in its icy little hands. It rips at it and smashes it, and causes you to stop. You have to appreciate that kind of pain because it shows you just how much you can love. We love those members of our family with an abandon that most are unable to replicate for another human being. Reciprocal human love comes close to the love shared between man and pet, but it can never be replicated.
We feel for these creatures in ways which are unique - we scoop them up into our hearts and love them for no reason other than the joy they bring to us. And they love us simply because they can. We provide them with a place to sleep and food to eat, and they provide us with more warmth and compassion than any of us really deserve. They simply love us, with no qualifications and no pretenses. They love us when we need someone to cry to, they love us when we kick them out of the room, they love us when we yell at them, they love us every moment from the second they come into our lives. And that is what makes it so hard to make that final decision, that last compassionate act for an old friend.
My family has been blessed and cursed with animals that live long and healthy lives. Our last cat lived to be over eighteen, our dog was nearly seventeen, one horse was nearly thirty-five, and the other horse was thirty-three - and both refused to leave us on their own terms. We cared for them and loved them and kept putting off the decision just hoping that we'd wake up in the morning and they would have left us by their own means. Instead, it seemed as though they loved us so much, that despite their age and the various ailments that accompanied old age, they couldn't bear to leave us. So we had to make that decision for them, and love them enough to let them go.
Kit-Kat, the beautiful white cat which I had a love-hate relationship with for much of my childhood (I loved her, she didn't love playing with a kid so much), was my first real experience with the death of a pet. Sure, I had hamsters and fish, but Kit-Kat was the first major part of my menagerie that I had to say good-bye to. She'd been around virtually since I was born, and I never knew a life without her. When we had to put her down one time when I was home from college, I cried and I cried. I held her, her tiny aged body wrapped up in her towel in front of the wood-stove and told her stories. I apologized for dressing her in doll clothes when I was little, I apologized for calling her names when she scratched me, I promised her that she'd be with Chelsea again real soon(my father's dog whom passed when I was too small to really understand), and I told her over and over again that I loved her. I wanted every last second of her life to be filled with as much love as we could give her. I still feel bad for not going to the vet with my mom that next morning, but I couldn't face her death. I gave her my love and thanked her for her life with us.
Inkey was my puppy. I picker her out when I was in elementary school - I wanted another Collie and when I saw her tiny tri-color face sticking out of a pack of traditional colored collies I was hooked. She bounded around after me day and night, she slept on my twin-sized bed with me (which was an amazing feat as she and I both got bigger). She grew up as I grew up and I loved her in ways that only someone who has known the love of a dog can understand. When I came home from college for breaks the best moment for me was always when the door to the house would open and Ink would run out as fast as her legs could carry her right to me. Even in her older age when she would baby her joints, she would abandon everything and run to me. That was the love we shared, that was what a best friend was to me at the time. When my parents called to tell me they had to have her put down I cried for hours. I still regret that I wasn't able to be there for her the way I was for Kit-Kat. I wasn't there to tell her how much I loved her, I wasn't able to tell her what her friendship had meant to my life. It still hurts, but I believe she knows.
This post wasn't meant to be a walk through the pets of my life, but rather one whom we had to put down today. I just think it's important to know a little of the history of our family and our pets. And also, I just needed to set down a little memory to them as every time another pet joins them I feel like I am flooded with longing for them all.
As a preface to him, I need to talk about our other horse, Shimmer. Shimmer was my mother's first horse - a beautiful chestnut colored horse who, for some reason or another, had let my mom teach her silly tricks. She would "shake hands" with you by lifting her knee and when you grasped it she'd let you shake it; she'd smile when you'd point at her lips and ask her to smile pretty for you; when you'd ask her if she was a pretty girl she'd bob her head as if to say "yes!"; and when you asked her "Shimmer, do you like boys?" she'd (almost always, unless she was feeling particularly nice) shake her head no. As she got older she started to get stuck laying down in the barn and my mother and either my father or me, if I was home from school, would have to go and push her back up. One Thanksgiving vacation I was helping my mom get Shimmer up when she slipped and crushed my hand between her and the wall of the barn. I had to get x-rays to ensure it wasn't broken, but it was bruised and swollen for weeks. It was after that mom decided that it was the right and compassionate thing to do to have her put down. This way we were able to have her walk off our property on her own accord and be taken to the vet to be put down and then buried (the alternative, if she broke a leg or died on our property would be having to drag the body away; and that was not something that needed to happen to such a sweet creature). She was spunky and had more personality than you can imagine. It hurt me for a while, as I felt as though I were the catalyst that caused her to be put down. If she hadn't fallen on my hand, maybe we wouldn't have had to let her go quite so soon. It's taken me a while to realize that it's not my fault. Mom made the decision for an old friend to let her leave the world with dignity and love.
And now, with this background I can tell you about Glory. He was Shimmer's baby. Mom has had him since he was born. She's had him longer than she's had me. He's her boy, her "Goofball," and even more, he's her friend. He had a habit of knowing when you were sad and he'd shove his huge brown head into your chest so you could hug him close. When you were happy he'd stick his big nose in your face and puff hot air at you to make you giggle even more. I know making the decision to put him down was one of the most difficult decisions she's had to make in her lifetime, and I respect the courage and love that it shows.
When he was younger he had an accident that made him basically lame. It was the type of accident that would cause some horse-owners to put them down. He couldn't be ridden, but he wasn't going away from our family. He basically became a jumbo-sized dog, and we loved him even more because he was our jumbo-sized dog. Despite this accident he was never without energy or happiness or love to spare. When it was time for shedding season he'd come up to the fence when he saw you and whinny. What did he want? He wanted you to use the rake (for raking leaves in the fall) and scratch his back for him. He'd just stand there and stretch out his neck and make this sound of complete happiness.
When we had Shimmer put down my parents said he cried and whinnied for days. He stayed in the barn with his head hanging out watching the direction she had walked away. Dad said after a few days he went hoarse, but still cried and waited for her to come back. If anyone ever tries to tell me that animals cannot feel the loneliness and depression of loss, I can tell them with great confidence that they're wrong. Glory missed his mother and his friend. He stood for days just waiting for her to come back to him. He never gave up. Even years after you could still catch him staring out around the corner of the house where he watched her disappear. He loved her like he loved us - completely and unselfishly.
One time when I was little I wanted to feed him an apple. I knew feeding him meant that I had to keep my palm flat and my little fingers together and still. Despite that knowledge when his tongue licked out and tickled my hand I tried to hold on to the apple. My little fingers got chomped by his giant white horse teeth. And it hurt. And I cried. It took me weeks to go near him again. I was convinced my pink little fingers looked like juicy little carrots to him. But he was part of the family, and family forgives and moves on. Whenever we had carrots or apples in the house I'd always smuggle one down to him just as a treat (careful to keep my fingers away) because I thought he'd enjoy it.
He loved peppermints. You could just see him get excited when it started to get cold out and snow because he knew it meant that candy canes and other peppermints would be coming his way. He always looked so silly with the end of a candy cane looping out of his mouth. The crunch of the candy was so loud as he'd nuzzle a thanks into your jacket and poke his nose around looking for more. He'd roll in the snow, legs kicking in the air. He had the energy of a pony even when he was becoming an old man.
There are a thousand stories I could tell you about him, but none would do him justice. Mom would be a much more valuable resource on the matter as she had his lifetime to share. Like with Shimmer, she made the decision to let him leave this world with dignity. There is no greater act of love that I can think of when it comes to these animals. It's an act of love that can only be understood by those who have to make it. Mom and Glory got to say goodbye on their own terms. She got to thank him for the thirty-three years of friendship and companionship he provided, and she got to tell him she loved him.
It's hard for me to think of a life with no horses in the back yard as no such life has ever existed for me. Glory has been around since before I was born, and has been a constant staple in my life at home. I went out and talked to him on many occasions when I just needed to get out of the house and someone to listen. I know this is going to be much harder on my mom than me, and I can only begin to imagine the pain her heart is in. But he was, and still is, a part of the family. And he will be missed and loved as such for the rest of our lives.
RIP Glory


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The project team will be out and about at four conferences in 2013, sharing what we've been developing at Exeter with the wider HE and FE community. If you'd like to chat with us in person, you'll find us at the following events:
- First up is the Assessment in HE Conference, 26th-27th of June (2 days) at the Maple House Conference Centre, Birmingham. We have a poster about the approach the project has taken accepted for this, which Charlotte will be presenting. Posters are being discussed at 11:30 on Thursday the 27th of June. Our poster has a special twist, as we've augmented it using Augmented Reality tools provided by Layar.
- Next is the Academic Practice and Technology (APT) Conference: Next Generation Learning Places and Work Spaces, 2nd of July (1 day) at Queen Anne Court, Maritime Greenwich Campus, University of Greenwich. We have a presentation accepted for this, which Stuart will be presenting. It's the second time that Stuart has attended this event, last year it was to hear what others have been doing in this area, but now to it's our turn to share what we've been up to. Stuart's talk is titled "A curriculum design tool to align assessment with technology".
- Then it's the HEA Annual Conference – Powerful partnerships: defining the learning experience, 3rd-4th of July (2 days) at the Ramphal Building, University of Warwick. We have a presentation accepted for this, which Rich will present. Rich will be talking about the work we've been doing bringing employers into the assessment process, and his presentation is titled "Collaborative curriculum approaches for the design of 'authentic' assessments to enhance student employability".
- Finally it's the Association for Learning Technology Conference, ALT-C 2013 – Building new cultures of learning, 10th-12th of September (3 days) at the University of Nottingham's East Midlands Conference Centre. We have a presentation and a research paper accepted for this, and Liz, Rich and Stuart will all be attending. Stuart will be talking about "Raising the profile of technology use amongst learners: Taking control of digital literacy development" and Rich will be talking about "Integrating technologies into 'authentic' assessment design: An affordances approach".
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Diane Keaton Just Defended Woody Allen In A Tweet
In news that has disappointed many fans, actor Diane Keaton has tweeted her support for Woody Allen on Twitter. On Monday, Jan. 29, the Annie Hall actor tweeted, "Woody Allen is my friend and I continue to believe him. It might be of interest to take a look at the 60 Minute interview from 1992 and see what you think." Allen's daughter Dylan Farrow alleges that Allen molested her at age 7. Allen has denied all allegations against him.
The 1992 60 Minutes interview that Keaton urged her followers to watch took place in midst of the custody battle. In the interview, Allen claimed that Farrow's claims were a "total non-event." Allen, who famously prefers to stay out of the spotlight, agreed to a public interview in order to share his side of the story and deny the allegations against him.
This is far from the first time that Keaton has come to Allen's defense. Keaton has starred in eight of Allen's films over the course of her career, including Annie Hall and Manhattan. Furthermore, she and Allen were romantically involved in the '70s, and they have remained close friends since then. In 2014, Keaton accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes on Allen's behalf, just one month before Farrow publicly called out Keaton in her New York Times op-ed for supporting her father. Farrow wrote in the op-ed, "You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me?"
Keaton responded to Farrow's allegations in a May 2014 interview with The Guardian. When she was pressed about being called out by Farrow, Keaton asserted that the truth was that she didn't know Allen's adopted daughter. She stated that she had only seen Farrow "maybe three times" when the young woman was growing up. As for Farrow's assertion that her father molested her, Keaton would only say, "I have nothing to say about that. Except: I believe my friend."
It seems that Keaton is sticking with that sentiment even as the accusations about Allen have resurfaced in light of the #MeToo movement. In early January, Farrow sat down with CBS This Morning's Gayle King for an on-air interview in which she asserted that she has been telling the same story consistently for 20 years and she wants to be heard. During her interview, an emotional Farrow said, "I want to show my face and tell my story. I want to speak out, literally."
Since Farrow's interview aired, many celebrities who previously worked with Allen have apologized or expressed regret for doing so. Actors Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Hall both donated their salaries from working with Allen on the upcoming film Rainy Day In New York to the Time's Up movement. Meanwhile, actors like Ellen Page, Greta Gerwig, Mira Sorvino, and David Krumholtz have publicly condemned the director.
However, Keaton is not alone in coming to Allen's defense. Recently, Alec Baldwin, who worked with Allen on Blue Jasmine (2013), Alice (1990), and To Rome With Love (2012), tweeted his support of Allen on Twitter. Baldwin faced an almost immediate backlash on the social media site for his tweets. The 30 Rock actor tweeted,
"Woody Allen was investigated forensically by two states (NY and CT) and no charges were filed. The renunciation of him and his work, no doubt, has some purpose. But it's unfair and sad to me. I worked w WA 3 times and it was one of the privileges of my career."
In addition to the detailed allegations of molestation, Farrow also claimed in a Dec. 7 Los Angeles Times op-ed, "Allen's pattern of inappropriate behavior — putting his thumb in my mouth, climbing into bed with me in his underwear, constant grooming and touching — was witnessed by friends and family members. At the time of the alleged assault, he was in therapy for his conduct towards me."
Allen denied the claims and declined to comment to the LA Times regarding the op-ed, but a Connecticut prosecutor claims that he had "probable cause" to charge Allen. However, according to the LA Times, he decided not to in order to protect the "child victim." The op-ed goes on to state that Farrow's allegations of were investigated by sex-abuse experts at Yale-New Haven Hospital, but no evidence of abuse was found.
Regardless of how celebrities like Keaton and Baldwin feel about Allen, it's still disheartening to see them outright dismiss Farrow's claims. Throughout the years, Keaton's defense of Allen has always been that she believes her friend. While loyalty is an admirable quality, that doesn't change the fact that Farrow's voice should be heard.
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With an average temperature as of 30.8 degrees through Thursday, March 2013 is poised to end as the
"We're 5.1 degrees below average," said Robert Ruhf, senior research assistant at Western Michigan University's Mallison Institute for Science Education.
Ruhf said Kalamazoo is running below average in precipitation for March, too, by about 1.25 inches, though rain is in the forecast for the last day of the month Sunday and may boost the stats. And overall, 2013 is running just about right for this time of year, with a wetter than usual January, he said.
Although there's a chance of rain and snow Sunday and Monday, April 1, Ruhf said he expects to see a return to dry weather for much of April.
Probably the most remarkable feature of the winter now, finally, coming to an end in Kalamazoo is that "Kalamazoo missed every major snow storm," Ruhf said.
"When Grand Rapids got a foot of snow, Kalamazoo got four inches," he said. It went like that all winter, Ruhf said, with storms hitting to the north, south, east and west, and, for the most part, missing Kalamazoo.


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Okay, finally, for all who really want to know who's really at fault, here's the exhaustive list of all the Bad Guys who've really conspired to really wreck our lives and destroy our freedoms. We must make sure we are really really angry with them.
Adam Weishaupt
Agenda 21 sponsors
Aleister Crowley
Alex Jones and Infowars
Alfred Kinsey
Alice Bailey
American Civil Liberties Union
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Anonymous hacktivists
Anthony Levandowski and other prominent A.I. proponents
Anton Lavey and the Church of Satan
Antonio Gramsci
Archbishop of New York
Arcturians, Andromedans, and other secret space alien humans
Aspen Institute
Bank for International Settlements
Bank of England
Banking cartel (Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, etc)
Beat generation figures (Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, et al)
Benjamin Creme and Maitreya
Berkshire Hathaway
Bernie Sanders and the legion of democratic socialists
Big arms lobby
Big data analytics firms like Palantir
Big finance lobby
Big gun lobby
Big media conglomerates (Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, etc)
Big oil lobby
Big pharmaceutical lobby
Big tech lobby
Big tobacco lobby
Bilderberg Group
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Billionaires funding political endeavors (Maurice Strong, George Soros, et al)
Black Lives Matter
Bloomsbury Group
Bohemian Club and Bohemian Grove
British Royalty
Business Roundtable
Cabal of tight-knit Jews in strategic positions of power around the globe
Cambridge Apostles
Carlyle Group
Cecil Rhodes
Central Intelligence Agency
Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs)
Club of Rome
Cold-hearted plutocratic members of Congress
College professors indoctrinating the youth with things like Marxism
Colonel Edward Mandell House
Communist China
Council on American-Islamic Relations
Council on Foreign Relations
Covert Psy-Ops (Psychological Operations)
Critical Theory proponents such as those associated with the Institute for Social Research at Goethe University
Cryptocurrency administrators and manipulators
David Spangler
Deep politics operatives who are essentially building Skynet (the A.I. system that takes over the world in the film Terminator)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Department of Homeland Security
Donald Trump
Drug cartel kingpins
Drug Enforcement Administration and their war on drugs
Earth Charter & Earth Summit sponsors
Elon Musk
European Union
Fabian Society
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Bureaucracy
Federal Court System
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
Federalist Society
Fidel Castro or other Latin American leaders (Vicente Fox, Hugo Chavez, et al)
Fifth column organizers, fifth column operatives, and fifth column members who blindly follow them
Food and Drug Administration
Ford Foundation
Foreign investors
Fox News
Frankfurt School
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade sponsors
General Motors
Georg Hegel and consensus
Georgetown University
GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)
GLSEN (Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network)
Golden Triangle Universities (Oxford, Cambridge, etc)
Goldman Sachs
Google, Twitter, or other extraordinarily monolithic, rent-glomming, data mining companies
"Green New Deal" sponsors
Guggenheim, Schiff, Warburg families
HAARP operators (High Frequency Active Auroral Research, a program to manipulate weather)
Harvard and its ultraliberal faculty
Helen Blavatsky
Henry Kissinger
Henry Luce family
Herbert Marcuse
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, and other best-selling race-hustlers
Intelligence community
Internal Revenue Service
International Monetary Fund
Islamic terrorist groups such as al Qaeda
"Islamofascist" countries such as Syria or Iran
Jeff Bezos
John Dewey
John Maynard Keynes
Justice Democrats, Brand New Congress, and their main policy spokesperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
KGB (Soviet/Russian police agency)
Knights of Columbus
Knights of Malta
Knights of Pythias
Knights Templar
Ku Klux Klan
Kyoto Protocol sponsors
Larry Silverstein and any who may be exploiting 9/11
Lazard Freres brothers
League to Enforce Peace
Led Zeppelin
Leo Strauss and the Neocons (Neoconservatives)
Liberal court judges
Liberal eastern establishment
Liberal education elite
Liberal media
Lucius Trust
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
Marx, Darwin, and Freud
Mikhail Gorbachev
Military-industrial complex
Monsanto and any unabashed food modification company
Mossack Fonseca
National Education Association
National Insitutes of Health
National Organization of Women or other organized radical feminists
National Rifle Association
National Security Agency
New World Order
New York Times and Washington Post
Noam Chomsky
North America Free Trade Agreement
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Office of Strategic Services
Opus Dei
Order of the Garter
Order of the Quest
Ordo Templi Orientis
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Oxford University orders and groups
Patriot Act legislators and enforcers
People for the American Way
Peter Drucker and human management
Planned Parenthood
Plutocrat-funded political shakedown organizations led by young, intelligent, dedicated, socialism-obsessed Ivy Leaguers
Prescott Bush
President of the U.S.
President's Working Group on Financial Markets
Priory of Sion
Project Echelon
Project for the New American Century
Protocol of the Elders of Zion writers and distributors, or those who believe what they wrote
Puritan Victorian busy-body moralists
Radical environmentalists
Radically liberal members of Congress
Ramsey Clark
RAND Corporation
Religious right-wing moralists (Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, et al)
Reptilian humans such as members of the British royal family or anyone in power doing the work of the deceiving serpent
Reverend Moon network
Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven
Rockefellers and the Rockefeller Foundation
Rothschild family and bank
Rupert Murdoch (or any other excessively influential high profile media mogul)
Saturnalian Brotherhood
Saul Alinsky and young Alinskyite community organizers
Saurians and other secretly reptilian humans
Scroll and Key
Sexually exploitive Roman Catholic priests and the powerful prelates who know about it and let them get away with it
Shell company millionaires hiding or laundering money
Sierra Club
Skull and Bones Society
Social Security Administration
Socialist Parties or Internationals of which there are many
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Southern Poverty Law Center
Sympathizers of some rejected ideology still finding a place in the mainstream
Tech companies pushing artificial intelligence
Tech companies pushing transhuman technologies
Theodor Adorno
Theosophical Society
Think tanks that set agendas (Brookings, Cato, Heritage, or whatever others with pronounced ideological bents)
Thule Society
Tides Foundation
Timothy Leary
Trilateral Commission
UN Secretary-General
United Ancient Order of Druids
United Nations and UNESCO
United Order of the Golden Cross
Wall Street financiers who secretly fund revolutionaries, Communists, Fascists (hedging bets on both sides of any conflict)
Whichever particularly influential person or group with the power to teach loathsome things to the gullible citizenry
White nationalists
Working Group on Financial Markets
World Bank
World Court
World Economic Forum attendees at Davos
World Health Organization
World Trade OrganizationZionist Israel
Finally, mention must be made of the thousand or so extraordinarily powerful World Operatives who are so good at what they do that to appear on this list would be an insult to them and their deft ability to sustain brilliantly opaque obscurity.
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What will I study on a Modern Languages course?
Studying Modern Languages provides both practical training in written and spoken language and also an extensive introduction to cultural topics covering a very wide range. You will learn to write and speak the language(s) fluently, and will be able to choose from a broad range of options including international literature, linguistics, history, philosophy, film studies, art and advanced translation.
A typical Modern Languages course aims to teach spoken fluency in colloquial and more formal situations, the ability to write essays in the foreign language, and the ability to translate into and out of the foreign language with accuracy and sensitivity to a range of vocabulary, styles and registers. Most Modern Languages courses will focus on the study of literature. This gives you an understanding of other cultures that cannot be acquired solely through learning the language, and it leads you into areas such as gender issues, popular culture, theatre studies, aesthetics, anthropology, art history, ethics, history, philosophy, politics, psychology and theology. You can study a broad range texts, or focus your studies on any period from the medieval to the present day. Reading a great book, for example, or watching a film in the original language provides an experience that is truly unique, giving you an incredible sense of achievement, bringing the whole world at your fingertip, for most languages are spoken on many continents and straddle widely different cultures.
Year abroad
A modern language degree is not just about learning a new language – though of course attaining a high level of fluency is one of the goals. Many programs will require students to study courses which develop their understanding of past and present cultures relating to the country (or countries) in which the language of study is spoken. This learning often requires the study of literary texts, film and media, as well as learning about the historical and political contexts of a certain region.
One of the main attractions of a modern language degree is the opportunity to spend either a semester or a year abroad in a country where the language of study is widely spoken. This experience aims to increase proficiency in the language of study, while also allowing students to immerse themselves in another culture and meet the challenge of communicating with a broad range of people. For this reason, many modern language programs are four years in length, with one year (often the third year) spent in a partnered institution abroad, either working or studying. This year abroad is highly valued by all students of modern languages who are often reluctant to come back!
What skills will I gain?
Aside from the most obvious – being able to communicate fluently in more than one language – common skills gained from a modern languages degree include:
• The ability to communicate clearly in a foreign language, both verbally and in writing
• Professional communication, spoken and written
• Sensitivity to different cultural contexts
• The ability to work independently and collaboratively
• General research skills, including use of academic literature
• Self-management, including planning and meeting deadlines
• Analyzing written and visual sources
• Constructing and defending a coherent argument
• Approaching issues from multiple but also in-depth perspectives
• Self-reflection and critical judgment
• Adaptability and flexibility
• Curiosity about other cultures
• In-depth understanding of globalization
What kind of career will I have?
Employers value Modern Languages graduates because they are competent linguist, fluent in one foreign language (and often in more than one), have acquired a range of transferable skills and have first-hand experience of other cultures. Studying languages enables students to participate in societies whose language they study and to operate within different linguistic and cultural contexts. This enables them to reflect on their own society from new perspectives, thus increasing their understanding of the concept of citizenship. They can compare and contrast diverse visions of the world, thereby promoting intercultural understanding and bringing distinctive benefits both to their own society, for example, in employment terms, and to the societies of target languages.
Modern Languages graduates regularly go into highly competitive areas such as law, management consultancy, accountancy, international press agencies, the media, advertising, the Foreign Office and the performing arts, NGOs, development studies etc. Some graduates pursue careers that make special use of their language skills, including translating, interpreting and teaching, while others continue with graduate training and research.
It's amazing how far an additional language can get you, especially in a world in which global relationships are often a necessity for businesses and organizations to thrive. Because of this, graduates of modern language degrees have long been in demand across many sectors of business and industry, in roles that extend well beyond interpretation and translation to encompass all elements of business transaction, international cooperation and politics.
German Literature: The Brothers Grimm and European Fairy Stories
Grimms' fairy-stories are the most-read works of German literature around the world, and are familiar to audiences everywhere.
Cinecittà and Italian Cinema
Cinecittà's fascinating history comprises over 3,000 films made by Italian directors like Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti and Bernardo Bertolucci, to name just a few, as well as foreign filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Mel Gibson. The current studio was built between 1936 and 1937 on the outskirts of Rome. It was soon called 'the dream factory' of Italy, since by 1943, just six years after it opened, nearly 300 productions had been made on the Cinecittà lot.
Saudade: That Untranslatable Feeling
Saudade is a peculiarly Portuguese word, being culturally specific and appearing, as we shall see, as an important theme across the Lusophone world from its beginnings to the present day.
Spanish: Musical Adaptations of Verse
In this module, we'll consider two examples of verse that have been adapted into popular songs over the course of the riotous twentieth century. While the musical performances of two songs may sound a bit dated to our 21st century ears, they both found great success during their respective eras. Most importantly, the texts themselves will help us begin to get a sense of just how collapsible the line is between poet and songwriter, musician and reader, 'high' and 'low' culture...
Italian - Inspector Montalbano
You might think that the characteristic small towns, the sun and the sea of Italy have nothing to do with the stereotype of a crime's scene. However, as many thriller authors show, a sprawling metropolis and a body lying in thick fog are not essential to create an engaging detective story. Like many other great Italian and foreign thriller writers, Andrea Camilleri chose Italy, and Sicily specifically, as the setting for his successful crime fiction. Thanks to inspector Salvo Montalbano, his main character, he has had more than 10 million copies published since 1992 and his books have been translated into 36 languages.
French and Belgian Comics
This resource will introduce you to the world of French and Belgian Comics.
Meet the Linguist in You
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It studies language at various levels and you will understand them better as you read more about linguistics and its sub-disciplines.
Goethe: Germany's Shakespeare
Goethe was a prolific writer, with his output covering poems (of all kinds, from sonnets through to elegies), plays and novels. As a result, some people see him as being 'Germany's Shakespeare', even though he was born a good 150 years later.In this resource, we will delve deeper into Goethe's work as an author to learn more about this broad range of output.
German: Uncanny Visions
The 'uncanny', or 'das Unheimliche' in German, is a key theme that appears repeatedly both German and English literature of the Romantic and Gothic
Spanish: Latin American Poetry From Page to Webpage
From Shakespeare to Dr Seuss, Wordsworth to Walt Whitman, poetry has always been a vehicle for expressing a wide range of issues, emotions and concerns. In Latin America, examples of poetry can be found as far back as the 14th century, when Aztec poets wrote in the Nahuatl language about their relationship with nature, wildlife and the seasons. More recently, during the 20th century, Latin American poets have attracted the world's attention with their distinctive approach to articulating personal views on love, desire, politics and conflict.
Italian Cantautori
In Italy, at the end of the 1950s, popular music witnessed a revolution.
German Language: The Brothers Grimm
In this topic you will be able to look at several aspects of the language used in the Grimms' stories.
Italian: The Vespa
Visually Italy is a very easy country to picture, thanks to its many icons that have created a varied but very rich identity.
French: The Diary of a Teenager
It might seem that with the popularity of social media and the 'selfie', people are thinking and talking about themselves more than ever before.
Italian: Bestiary Lore
Why is the stork a symbol of parental and filial devotion? And why do we consider the fox to be a fraudulent creature?
Spanish: Do You Speak Spanglish?
Everyone has heard about English and Spanish bilingualism – but have you ever heard the term Spanglish?
Spanish: The Art of Oration: Speeches from Latin America
What makes great speeches great? Why are some more memorable than others?
Portuguese: Favelas
While the historical intricacies of the favelas are mostly unknown by the general public, writers, musicians, composers, filmmakers and artists have depicted its geography, stories and human relations. Such richness and variety of this depiction enables Portuguese language to be approached through its main subtopics, such as class struggle, high and low culture, community and individual values and economic dependency.
German: Translation
For this module you will focus on the topic of translation. You can work through the whole module, completing all tasks in chronological order.


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Our Staff
Kenna – Business Manager
Kenna is our Business Manager. She works behind the scenes to ensure that the practice runs smoothly. She enjoys spending time with her family at the beach when she is not at work.
Steph – Practice Coordinator
Steph is our full time practice coordinator, and has been with the practice since we opened in July 2016. Steph books all of our private operations, and organises our theatre lists.
Steph's main roles are assisting Doctor Jefferson with the smooth running of his day-to-day activities, and overseeing our reception staff. Steph enjoys playing netball, socialising with her friends and spending time with her family.
Rochelle – Medical Receptionist
Rochelle is our full time medical receptionist who joined our team in November 2016. She is usually the first friendly face you will see when entering the practice.
Her main roles are managing all front of house enquires and the daily running of all front desk administration duties. Rochelle enjoys walking her dogs Lexie and Harley, and spending time at the beach.
Alex – Medical Receptionist
Alex is our casual medical receptionist who assists us in the smooth running of our busy clinic days


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Whidbey General Hospital is 45 years old.
Staff gathered in front of the entrance March 25 to take a group photo commemorating "45 years of Neighbors Caring for Neighbors."
"As we celebrate our 45th anniversary, I am grateful to the visionaries who were determined to build a hospital on Whidbey Island so many decades ago," said Anne Tarrant, the hospital's board president.
"From a small country hospital in 1970, we have grown into an extensive healthcare network that includes seven clinics, a nationally recognized award-winning cancer program, specialized services such as hospice care and soon, a state-of-the-art inpatient wing."
Tarrant said the hospital could not have been successful without the support of the island's residents.
"I am also thankful to our community, whose support has always been essential to our growth and success," Tarrant said. "I look forward to our future with great anticipation."


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Monday, November 8, 2010
Critter Sketch Challenge Monday
Anyway, onto today's card. This is my first Monday of the month for the Critter Sketch Challenge. This month's sponsor is Stamp and Create. You really should go check them out. They have tons of different stamps and a great clearance area too! This week's challenge on their blog is Dragons (and so is ours so you can put your card in for both challenges!) so I just had to use a dragon on my card. Isn't he ADORABLE? I thought this little guy would be super cute on a baby card so that is what I went with. The patterned paper I had in my stash and while cute I decided I wanted the card to be a little special so I embossed the yellow then punched the star out of it. A little sponging and some glitter pen finished the star off. Then on the left side of the main image panel I used the heart border punch. Not matchy matchy but I really like it.
So there you have it! Jump on over to the Critter Sketch Challenge blog to check out our challenge for this week and then be sure to check out the rest of the design teams cards, too!
9 comments that make my day!:
- Jackie Randolph said...
Oh, Lorie this is so adorable, cute image and I really like how you used the embossed star. Have a great week my friend.
- November 8, 2010 at 5:54:00 AM PST
- Michele said...
Adorable, Lorie! I love the embossed star!
- November 8, 2010 at 6:04:00 AM PST
- Elizabeth S. said...
This is so adorable! Love that little dragon!
- November 8, 2010 at 9:05:00 AM PST
- Missy said...
That is the cutest dragon I have ever seen. Great job on the card. I love it!!!
What base is your son at. We came to California via Alaska, Anchorage and LOVED it there. We actually plan on retiring there when my hubby does his 20 years. Just about 7 years to go. He is getting there at a rought time. Snow is already on the ground and it is getting darker by the hour. I am sure he will enjoy it though.
- November 8, 2010 at 9:22:00 AM PST
- Susan Says (Stupid Stuff) said...
This is wonderful, and the yellow parts really complement the blues :D
- November 8, 2010 at 9:44:00 AM PST
- CreativeMish said...
Adorable! I love the little jammies. What an awesome star, too.
- November 8, 2010 at 5:00:00 PM PST
- Sue from Oregon said...
A thumb sucking dino!! How very cute! This makes a perfect baby card. Makes me chuckle!
- November 8, 2010 at 8:30:00 PM PST
- Sparkplug17 said...
Such a cute card!
- November 8, 2010 at 9:02:00 PM PST
- pescbrico said...
Love the embossed star! And love your blog design too! Have a wonderful day!
- November 13, 2010 at 2:45:00 PM PST


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The Welsh Government have published a prospectus for a new regional park in the south Wales Valleys, which is hoped will have the same impact for tourism in the region as the Wales Coastal Park.
Distinctive & Breathtaking
"The Valleys are home to some of the most distinctive and breathtaking natural landscapes in Wales and the United Kingdom, but for too long their potential to attract visitors and to be used fully and recognised by the communities themselves has been overlooked and undervalued."
– Public Services Secretary, Alun Davies (Lab, Blaenau Gwent)
From the work of the Valleys Taskforce, it was clear people living in the Valleys were proud of the natural landscape, which has undergone a "remarkable transformation". The Secretary's vision is for the Valleys to be recognised globally in terms of landscape, heritage and outdoor recreation.
£7million has been allocated by the Welsh Government to develop the regional park in the 2019-20 draft budget.
While the Shadow Communities Minister, Mark Isherwood AM (Con, North Wales) was in no doubt of the area's beauty, he criticised the Welsh Government's track record in the region.
"Why is it, do you think, that, in the eighteenth year of Welsh Government, when the last official figures were produced, the value of goods and services produced per head of population in West Wales and the Valleys was still the lowest out of the 12 UK nations and regions, despite billions spent on economic regeneration and anti-poverty programmes, with Anglesey bottom, at 52 per cent, Gwent not far behind at 56 per cent, and the central Valleys at 63 per cent of the UK average?"
– Mark Isherwood AM
He also reminded the Secretary that the West Wales & the Valleys region contains four north Wales local authorities; where was their fund?
The Secretary refused to be drawn on "partisan disagreement" and warned of the dangers of parochialism – success should be celebrated regardless of where in Wales it comes from.
Ambition and Faith
Dai Lloyd AM (Plaid, South Wales West) welcomed the initiative. Wales is rightly proud of its industrial heritage, but he wondered what would be made of the nonconformist tradition?
"We see it now in hundreds of non-conformist chapels—most of them shut; some, occasionally, thriving—and the history of powerful preachers and revivals dotted around the last 250 years."
– Dai Lloyd AM
The Secretary believed that we all have a duty to teach ourselves some of our own histories, with both AMs reflecting on where their respective families lived prior to moving to the south – namely, the Welsh-speaking north and west. One part of the park prospectus is creating "Discovery Gateways" to recreate the stories of communities and showcase the best parts of them.
"Fantastic Creativity"
"….there are real opportunities within the regional parks for exploiting our network of disused railway tunnels—that's in terms of active travel links, heritage tourism and so much more. How could you see this fitting into the wider Valleys regional park policy? I'm thinking specifically of the Abernant tunnel, which links my constituency with my colleague Dawn Bowden's constituency in Merthyr Tydfil, and comes out, really, right at the entrance to BikePark Wales. "
– Vikki Howells AM (Lab, Cynon Valley)
The Secretary has visited and spoken with groups seeking to re-open disused rail tunnels and he was inspired by their "fantastic creativity" – though despite the warm words there were no commitments either way.
Suzy Davies AM (Con, South Wales West), Rhianon Passmore AM (Lab, Islwyn) and Dawn Bowden AM (Lab, Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney) all raised points about potential projects and "gateways" in their patches, with the Cabinet Secretary generally concurring that they all had "fantastic potential".
Cwmcarn Forest Park was singled out as an example of what the Welsh Government wants to achieve.
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The global debate of healthcare access and social detriments of health in the 21st century continue to coalesce our thoughts around the paramount question how we are teaching the future physicians of the day who are an integral part of the team that delivers healthcare to us as a society. Given the challenges that society faces with the rapidly aging population and increase in chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension, are we delivering healthcare education in manner that allows them to be both educated and competent in order to combat the health problems of global society? This might be considered a grandiose question when thinking of the latest pedagogical methods used in medical education today but this is where we need to begin in order to assess the role of new methods of educational delivery for medical training and determine if they are indeed the most appropriate for the task at hand. The education of medical students in the 21st century should not come without some reflective thought and in thinking back over the past 100 years in medical education, this reflection has not occurred since the first definitive report by Abraham Flexner in 1910 on the landscape of teaching methods used in medical schools at the turn of the century. That report culminated with a harsh and systematic review of the state of medical education of the day and provided clear guidelines that evoked broad sweeping changes that have since governed medical education for past 100 years and has shaped the direction of how medical students should be taught and by what methods.
Flexner's principles have influenced medical education for the past century but it has truly been in the past 30 years that we have witnessed tremendous growth in medical education teaching practices. According to Harden (2000), we can think of this growth in two fundamental ways. Harden argues:
We can look at the changes taking place in medical education as a journey where the future is a continuing evolution of what has happened in the past three decades or so-an evolutionary approach. Alternatively, we may visualize a more dramatic journey to a different world where there are fundamental changes in medical education, some of which we have difficulty envisaging at this point at the beginning of the 21st century- a revolutionary approach. (p. 435)
I would suggest that today's teaching of future physicians resonates with the latter of Harden's comments and this is a result of a what can be considered a "perfect storm" in medical education that combines the rapidly advancing technology being developed, the changes in the medical student as a learner and the context in which the learning occurs. The confluence of these circumstances will allow a fundamental cultural shift in teaching the next generation of physicians. This cultural or paradigm shift in medical education pedagogy can be put under the umbrella of moving teaching practices towards a blended learning approach.
In the recent Futures of Medical Education in Canada Report (2010) delivered by the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) one of the key recommendations was to diversify learning contexts in which physicians must provide continuing medical care in a wide range of institutional and community settings. To achieve this, the learning experiences throughout the MD education program must include a variety of settings ranging from small rural communities to complex tertiary care settings. To enable this mandate, current medical schools must modify current MD curricula and adapt and improve the use of technology (i.e., blended learning). This suggestion aligns with an earlier report of the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) (2007) institute for improving medical education in which it was concluded that medical educators must continue to increasingly use technology to supplement the delivery of learning resources. These two reports and the highlighted recommendations suggest new teaching modalities are required to teach the future physicians and in my opinion the blended learning approach is the ideal method to meet the developing needs of teaching these students.


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Day 2
Same as the first, a little bit louder and a little bit worse....
No, it hasn't been a bad day at all. I actually am quite spoiled at the moment. I have goodies to eat, books to read, and no where to go. I have had visitors today, and others loving on my kids for me.
Vinny came by for a visit this morning and lit right up to see me. He cried when he left, and I wish I could hold him and read to him. I spoke with the other boys on the phone tonight-they are excited for a sleepover since Josh is on call all night. The school nurse let me know Ivan fell and bumped his head-during Math. Who needs Math? He got a black eye last week while sledding at recess and a different bump 2 or 3 weeks ago. The nurse and I are becoming friends. I think he is just fine, but it is slightly swollen, we (I mean my friend who has him) will keep an eye on him. Ivan also asked if he could stay the night with me. It is good to feel love from my boys who usually just wrestle and complain about chores, and avoid my affection as if I could really spread cooties. These sweet questions (and Vinny's tears) melt my heart.
Speaking of hearts, I thought I would explain my condition in a little more detail. My placenta is in the shape of an upside down heart, more rounded than pointy. The umbilical cord has three main vessels go from the belly button to the placenta and then branch out like spider webs or tree roots. They go along the surface of the placenta and then dive deep down. One of these vessels, travels along the top, comes off the placenta all together and hangs like a necklace between the divots (butt cheeks) of this heart shape, it then connects again to the top of the placenta and dives down. So, baby is getting his needed nutrients through this vein and the other "roots" and is growing well. The scary thing is that it is so fragile and if it were to have any strain put on it or changes it could rupture. It carries babies blood, not mine. Babies this small have about a 5 minute survival window and then sadly, they just don't make it due to blood loss. Additionally, the placenta planted at the bottom of the uterus vs. the top or side, putting this vessel right above the cervix. Bad geography! If there are to be changes it will be an effacing or dilating cervix. The uterus also will grow, and so is baby, and things can move, so for all these reasons I must sit just outside of an OR. Just in case. And I will deliver at 36 weeks because baby will be essentially term and should do okay, and the risk of an early labor too scary.
If Josh has free time, he will come by tonight and sleep on the pull-out in here. I guess this is his new "on-call" room. I hope to see him.
Thanks for every one's concern. I've also been asked to make sure this website is being passed around, and so far we are getting plenty and it is so wonderful to know my family is being taken care of, so thanks to all of you: It's called http://www.takethemameal.com/ and username is McElderry password is Lara


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"Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins." James 4: 17 (NIV)
The following letter to the editor was printed in the Peoria Journal Star on May 5, 2007, page A4. I am posting it in its entirety and then will make comments on it. Judge for yourself who is telling the truth about historical events.
"Please inform yourself how and who extricated the United States from the Vietnam quagmire. Most people are deluded that Nixon, Kissinger or the Republicans ended U.S. involvement in that war. However, the Nixon administration's vicious Christmas 1972 bombing of North Vietnam showed that some very strong arm-twisting was needed to get them to stop.
Electoral politics, not street demonstrations and coercion (so-called 'civil disobedience' and 'direct action') which only gave peace a bad name, brought the Vietnam War to an end. President Lyndon Johnson was dumped as a result of door-to-door canvassing for Eugene McCarthy, and George McGovern's success in electing peace delegates to the Democratic National Convention put pressure on Democrats in Congress to cut off funds for the Vietnam War.
On January 2, 1973, the Democratic Caucus of the House voted 154 to 75 to cut off funds. Two days later the Senate Democratic Caucus voted 36 to 12 to cut off funds. On January 15, 1973, Nixon announced the suspension of offensive action in Vietnam. He announced a peace agreement on Jan. 23, 1973. The Paris Peace Accords were signed on January 27, 1973. The first U.S. prisoners were released on Feb. 11, 1973. U.S. soldiers were ordered to leave by March 29, 1973.
Republican claims that cutting off funds for war is unprecedented is just another of their big lies. Cutting off funds for war was exactly how we got out of Vietnam. It is just a shame that the Democrats are so spineless that they are not willing to take credit for it."
I'm not going to get into the whole Vietnam Conflict debate. It is, however, necessary to point out the obvious lies, invalid conclusions, and misrepresentation of the facts presented in this letter.
Starting with this incorrect statement: "President Lyndon Johnson was dumped as a result of door-to-door canvassing…." Sorry, but this individual is twisting history. Lyndon Johnson was not dumped by anyone including the Democratic Party. In March of 1968, months before the Democratic convention, Lyndon Johnson announced on national TV that he would not seek or accept the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency. Did the primary campaign of Eugene McCarthy influence him in his decision? Maybe. However, this writer does not know that unless he was a major advisor to President Johnson or some how was able to get into President Johnson's mind. Consider this. Eugene McCarthy did not win the presidential nomination of his party. Hubert Humphrey, President Johnson's Vice President, did. It seems reasonable to believe that if President Johnson would have sought the nomination; he would have received it since his Vice President did. Libertines love to twist history because they think no one actually knows it!
The writer continued his sentence with this statement: "… George McGovern's success in electing peace delegates to the Democratic National Convention put pressure on Democrats in Congress to cut off funds for the Vietnam War." What! That is a major stretch from reality and is impossible to prove. The Democratic National Convention selects the Party's nominee for President and presents a party platform. Congressmen do not have to and often do not pay attention to the party platform. They run on issues that are important in their districts and States. The Democratic National Convention disbands after the convention and has no means to "put pressure" on anyone! Libertines love to twist history because they think no one actually knows it!
Also, consider this. George McGovern lost the election of 1972 to President Nixon badly. George McGovern won only 17 electoral votes out of a total of 537! Tell me how that lopsided loss put pressure on Congressional Democrats in 1973? Libertines love to twist history because they think no one actually knows it!
The supposed conclusive proof of his argument is this declaration: "On Jan. 2, 1973, the Democratic Caucus of the House voted 154 to 75 to cut off funds. (By the way, the new term of office for Congress begins on January 3rd in the year after the general election—Amendment 20 of the United States Constitution [January 3rd of 1973 for the 1972 election]. Therefore, unless the old Congress was in special session on January 2, 1973, it would have been Constitutionally impossible for the House of Representatives to vote to cut off funds or for that matter to vote on anything!—my addition) Two days later the Senate Democratic Caucus voted 36 to 12 to cut off funds. The conclusion, as the writer seems to allude to, is that the Democrats cut off funds to end the Vietnam Conflict.
FALSE! FALSE! FALSE! A vote in a Democratic Caucus is not a vote in Congress! A Democratic Caucus is just that. It is a vote of members of the Democratic Party to help guide them in policy decisions. IT IS NOT A VOTE OF CONGRESS. Libertines love to twist history because they think no one actually knows it!
Notice that the writer makes no mention of an actual vote in Congress. There are 435 members in the House of Representatives. If 154 Democrats were in favor of cutting off funds (his figures; not mine) the Democrats would have needed approximately 60 Republican votes to actually do so (a majority vote is 218 votes of 435 if all members voted). A similar situation is true in the Senate. With 100 Senators and everyone voting, they would need 51 votes. In caucus, they only had 36 votes by the writer's own admission. Then, of course, President Nixon could have vetoed the bill which would have required a 2/3rds vote to override the veto. I'm sorry, but if CONGRESS actually voted to cut off funds and sent that bill to the President, why didn't he say so. The only logical conclusion. CONGRESS DID NO SUCH THING!!! Libertines love to twist history because they think no one actually knows it!
Also, because process A occurs and then is followed by process B, it does not necessarily mean that process B was the result of process A occurring. For example, if I observe a stork landing on the rooftop of a hospital and a baby is developed in that hospital immediately thereafter, it does not mean that the stork developed the baby to the hospital! Libertines also love to draw false conclusions based upon illogical thinking!
The writer seems to imply that the peace accord between the United States and North Vietnam would not have occurred without the supposed vote to cut off funds. Once the vote occurred, the peace accord quickly took place and the United States almost immediately left Vietnam—January 15 through March 29, 1973—according to the implied comments of the writer.
This is what Encarta ® says about the process. "(President) Johnson had initiated peace negotiations after the first phase of the Tet Offensive. Beginning in Paris on May 13, 1968, the talks rapidly broke down over disagreements about the status of the NLF, which the Saigon government refused to recognize."
"In the spring of 1972, with only 6,000 combat troops remaining in South Vietnam, the DRV leadership decided the time had come to crush the ARVN."
"After the 1972 elections, Kissinger attempted to revise the agreements he had already made. North Vietnam refused to consider these revisions, and Kissinger threatened to renew air assaults against North Vietnam unless the new conditions were met. Nixon then unleashed at Christmas the final and most intense bombing of the war over Hanoi and Haiphong."
"On January 27, 1973, a cease-fire agreement was signed by all the participants in the Vietnam War. United States president Richard Nixon announced the terms of the agreement in a televised address. Although the agreement provided for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam, it did not resolve the conflict. Fighting continued until South Vietnam surrendered in 1975." "Vietnam," Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2007 [DVD]. Redmond, Wa: Microsoft, Corporation, 2006.
What are some of the relevant comments from these quotes? The peace negotiations started in 1968 before President Johnson left office and before President Nixon was first elected. The peace talks continued off and on from 1968 to the conclusion in 1973. By the spring of 1972 the United States, which had been removing combat troops from Vietnam already, only had about 6,000 combat troops left in the country. Note that according to Encarta ® most of the American combat troops had already been removed from Vietnam, long before the so called "arm-twisting" vote of the Democratic Caucus in January of 1973. And remember, this was a caucus vote NOT A VOTE OF CONGRESS!!! In 1972 before the election, agreements between the North and the U.S. had been reached. The Christmas bombings after the 1972 election were an attempt by the United States to try to get an even more favorable agreement between the two countries. It did not seem to work and by January a final agreement was approved. Would you agree that the actual history of the events is a far cry from the implied nonsense proclaimed by the letter writer? Libertines love to twist history because they think no one actually knows it!
Remember this concluding paragraph by the writer? "Republican claims that cutting off funds for war is unprecedented is just another of their big lies. Cutting off funds for war was exactly how we got out of Vietnam. It is just a shame that the Democrats are so spineless that they are not willing to take credit for it."
I agree with one statement in this paragraph. Present day Democrats are spineless. They want to retreat and surrender in Iraq because the going got tougher than originally thought. Most of them were all for the fight when they believed victory would be with little effort. I can't speak for Republicans, but I can speak for myself. I've said all along that the only Constitutional way that Congress can end the fighting is to cut off all funds. I stand by that. I also said that I know of no instance when Congress has cut off funds for a war. I stand by that statement too. The letter writer has NOT established that Congress has ever cut off funds for a war. The best he can come up with is that two Democratic Caucuses voted to cut off funds. The two votes are NOT THE SAME! Therefore, "Cutting off funds for war was" NOT "exactly how we got out of Vietnam." Libertines love to twist history because they think no one actually knows it!


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Ian Van Dahl (Belgium)
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02/10/2009 : Annagrace (former Ian van Dahl) performed a song entitled Love keeps calling on Lasgo's new album release party. Will it be her next single ? (thanks to Dancevibes)
20/07/2009 : Annagrace (former Ian Van Dahl)'s single Let The Feelings Go is #1 in the USA Billboard Dance Airplay Chart.
14/06/2009 : AnnaGrace (former Ian van Dahl) performed 9th of june Nightlife Awards 2009 at Bunnik Holland (thanks to eurodance blog) http://www.nightlifeawards.nl/
19/04/2009 : AnnaGrace's (Ian Van Dahl) first single You Make Me Feel will be licensed in the UK under Hard2Beat, the same records company which is already promoting September and Basshunter (thanks to eurodance blog). The video of her second single Let The Feelings Go was released, you can preview it here.
19/02/2009 : Annagrace's (former Ian van Dahl) new single is entitled Let The Feelings Go (thanks to eurodance blog)
20/12/2008 : Annagrace (former Ian van Dahl) is #7 in the US Top 50 Club Chart.
18/10/2008 : AnneGrace (former Ian van Dahl) single You Make Me Feel is #1 in NewYork music pool.
Ian Van Dahl albums
|ACE Special Edition 2 CDs
|Lost And Found
|May 2004
Ian Van Dahl singles
|Castles In The Sky
|Will I
|28th Nov 2001
|24th Sep 2002
|Secret Love
|17th Jun 2003
|I Can't Let You Go
|20th Oct 2003
|Where Are You Now
|Sep 2004
|26th Oct 2004
|Movin On
|14th Nov 2005
|Just A Girl
|6th Jul 2006
|Black Angel
|22nd Sep 2011
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Ian Van Dahl biography
Ian Van Dahl was created by Christophe Chantzis and Erik Vanspauwen in the beginning of 2000. Christophe Chantzis is no stranger in the Belgian dance scene... he was already involved in projects like Absolom and Astroline in the past. Their first single Castles In The Sky was an instant hit, no only in Belgium. In Germany it reached #2 in the dancecharts, it was # 3 in UK, and in the Canadian dancechart it got up to # 1 ! Last but not least they entered the American billboard charts (highest place #78) for a few months and they got into the Top15. Some remixes were made by German DJs like Tomasso Dedonatis (Watergate, DJ Quicksilver) and Wippenberg aka Olaf Dieckmann.
The lyrics of Castles In The Sky were written and sung by Marsha (her real name is Martine Theeuwen) a 24 year old Belgian woman born October 7th, 1976 in Neerpelt. But suddenly the record company and Christophe Chantzis decided they had to replace Marsha for the public appearances, despite the fact that Marsha was really motivated to do the performances. They first found Cindy but she was soon replaced because during live acts it was too evident she was only lipsyncing. Then came Annemie (real name Annemie Anne Francine Coenen) together with the dancers Jeanine and Diana. A new version of Castles In The Sky with the voice of Annemie has been made but until now all the versions that you can buy are still with the voice of Marsha.
Besides, Marsha performed solo her version of Castles In The Sky during a 3 months tour in America in order to prove she was the one and only singer. During her stay she didn't only perform but she also got the opportunity to work with a very talented team consisting of Justin Time, Russ Reign and Marino Bragino. This resulted in a new song called Distant Places, released under the name of LD 30 featuring Marsha X.
However the Ian Van Dahl project kept on. The follow-up single to be released was Will I, in 2002. The European release was planned for August and included a Pulsedriver remix.
The 4th single was entitled Try, it was released on the 24th of September in UK.
2003 : Ian Van Dahl will release in Germany a double A-side single with the tracks Secret Love and Try at the end of March. Then they started working very hard on a new album. In April six brand new tracks were almost finished. A new single was planned for release before the summer and the new upcoming album was expected for November.
2004 : I Can't Let You Go, the new single, reached #19 in German DJ Playlist in January. The follow-up was entitled Where Are You Now and it was released in Europe and the USA, excpted in the UK. There, Ian Van Dahl will release the track Believe on the 31st of May. The new album Lost & Find will be released a little sooner, on the 24th of May.
Where Are You Now peaked in the danish dance-chart as #35.
The follow-up Believe was released in September. Then came Inspiration, which went #1 in Belgian Dance Charts in December.
2005 : In January, Annemie and Evi from Lasgo did a tour together in Japan (they played in Tokyo and in Nagoya). The February, they toured all around the UK. This special tour was a success as they were still very popular in the UK. In March, Annemie started working on new songs together with Peter & David. The new Ian Van Dahl single, planned for release before the summer, will be a brand new single not available on their current Lost & Found album.
In November, the vinyl of the new single entitled Movin' On was released and the video was shot. The maxi followed in December. It went up to #3 in the Belgian Ultratop 30 dance.
2006 : Ian Van Dahl and Lasgo came to Brazil between 4th and 9th April. The show was announced as an exclusive battle between Evi & Annemie. Another part of this tour took place in the US in May and June.
The follow-up single was entitled Just A Girl. The videoclip was shot in Paris.
2007 : the Ian Van Dahl World tour 2007 started. In early July 2007, it was announced that Ian Van Dahl's third album was completed, but instead will be released as Annemie Coenen's solo debut album produced by Peter Luts.
2008 : Jens O. did a cover of Reason. Ian van Dahl does not exist anymore, Annemie is now known as Annagrace and her first single is entitled You Make Me Feel.
2009 : Annagrace's new single is entitled Let The Feelings Go, while her first single You Make Me Feel will be licensed in the UK under Hard2Beat.
Ian Van Dahl at Dancevibes Belgium
Marsha Personnal Homepage
Thanks to Denis "DJ Hooligan" Zhabkin, Tavi Meran and Anders Bøgh
Ian Van Dahl biography was last updated Sat, January 13th 2018
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Project Prima Volta: Young people thriving through voice
Project Prima Volta exists to give teenagers the opportunity to find their own voice, through song and in life.
Hawke's Bay's Prima Volta Charitable Trust offers kids a positive path to finding purpose and meaning, using music and performance. Project Prima Volta opens up a whole new world of hope, opportunity and shared experience to young people who only have one thing in common – their ability to sing in tune.
Each year 30 teenagers from entirely diverse backgrounds are accepted for a year-long programme of coaching and mentoring culminating in their performance in a fully staged classical opera. Training together for up to eight hours a week, they work alongside international and homegrown industry professionals as well as local performers and volunteers. Their hard work culminates in the unique experience of creating supportive roles in a major opera production, during the Tremains Art Deco Festival.
This year, as a new project, the PPV students also presented their very own opera as part of the Hawkes Bay Arts Festival in October, Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas'.
The focus extends from singing and stage performance, to backstage skills required to run a successful production. Along the way, the teenagers develop leadership, respect, trust, problem solving, self-reliance, teamwork, resilience and self-confidence. There is a ripple effect as they find common ground with the adult performers, developing friendships and being part of a collective success.
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Uniondale, New York – September 4, 2018 – Evan H. Krinick, Managing Partner of Rivkin Radler LLP, has announced that Timothy Bang and Siobhain Minarovich have joined the firm.
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HOUSTON -- The Children's Theatre Festival, a professional project of the University of Houston School of Theatre, has announced its 21st summer season. Unlike past bills, all three shows this year will be straight plays, one world premiere and two versions of beloved classics.
The world premiere is a fable in the making: Sidney Berger has penned The Greatest Love of All, a fast and "furry-ious" tale of a bear, a lion, and an elephant who venture out of their comfy home at the zoo to explore life in the big city. It will run June 5-19.
The two other plays revisit old favorites. Kristen Sergel's adaptation of Winnie the Pooh will run June 26 - July 12. William Glennon's version of Jack and the Beanstalk will run July 24 - Aug. 9.
The Children's Theatre Festival was co-founded by Berger, who functions as its producer. Since he picked his own play, one might be tempted to accuse him of hubris, and nepotism. But the prolific playwright has precedence. His rendition of The Little Match Girl, a musical written with Theo Fanidi and published by I E Clark, has been performed throughout the country in more than 50 productions. His interpretation of Rapunzel, also published by I E Clark, has been mounted by more than 20 companies.
And Berger just found out that this spring his fantasy The Star Stealer will be offered in translation in Guatemala. "I was told that the title would have to be changed a little bit," he recounted. "I'm not married to it, but I was curious as to why. Apparently it's not proper to refer to stealing in Guatemala. It's not appreciated in Guatemalan society. So now it will be called The Boy Who Wanted a Star." What's more, Berger is the director of the University of Houston School of Theatre, founder and producing director of the Houston Shakespeare Festival, an associate artist at the Alley Theatre, a regular guest director for Theater Under The Stars in Houston, former artistic director of Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, and a director of numerous USO-Defense Department tours. He's co-founder of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America and a board member of Sam Wanamaker's International Shakespeare Globe Centre project. He's a scholarly writer as well as playwright, a screenwriter, and a director for public television. So one can deduce he's a good judge of talent, even his own.
The Children's Theatre Festival only casts non-equity actors. "It's financially more feasible this way," Berger explained. "Also, it gives young people a chance to work professionally in the theater. And since its sister summer project is the Houston Shakespeare Festival, they can move on to it in a variety of roles."
More than 35,000 children and kids-at-heart attend the Children's Theatre Festival each summer season.
The Children's Theater Festival is located at the University of Houston School of Theatre. For information, call (713) 743-2929
-- By Peter Szatmary
Texas Correspondent