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A reliable wilderness shelter is more than just a well-insulated tent. It's not just a good tent to use during outdoor camping (though you can, and should totally use it like that, too). It's more like a medical-designed, military-grade shelter effective enough to protect the life of a survival victim until further help arrives.
The best survival shelter you can acquire will offer emergency protection in all weather conditions, usually for 2 people, as well as a minimal supply of survival tools and design features. The fabrics that go into a wilderness shelter are capable of reflecting up to 70% of your body heat regardless of how cold it is outside the shelter. So, without further ado, here are our top 10 picks so you can choose the best survival shelter according to your needs.
Delmera Emergency Survival Shelter
- What Makes This Survival Shelter Stand Out
- Top-grade insulation quality and resistance of the fabric
- Designed by NASA to support during space exploration
- Reflects 90% of the survival victim's body heat
- Comes with 20 feet of paracord rope and emergency whistle
- Packs up tight and is easily carried
- Perfect for a survival situation
TEBRION Emergency Survival Shelter
- What Makes This Survival Shelter Stand Out
- Comes with 20 feet of rope
- Large size, fits two adults comfortably
- Multi-use features, very versatile
- Comes with an e-book detailing all its uses
- Reliable insulation, also fit for wintertime
Grizzly Gear Emergency Survival Shelter
- What Makes This Survival Shelter Stand Out
- Preserves and reflects 90% of your body heat
- Two adults can fit inside
- Multi-use: sleeping bag, water collector, signaling device
- The perfect winter survival shelter
- Made from NASA-designed Mylar insulation fabric
SE ET3683 Emergency Outdoor Tube Survival Shelter
- What Makes This Survival Shelter Stand Out
- Bright color makes you easier to spot by rescue teams
- Aluminum-coated material protects from heat loss
- Comes with 23 feet of paracord survival rope
- Comes with 4 steel tent pegs for a more secure grounding
- Big enough for one person
- Very reusable, will last a long time with insulation intact
- Perfect for a survival situation
TEBRION Emergency 2-Adult Mylar Thermal Survival Shelter
- What Makes This Survival Shelter Stand Out
- Big enough for two people
- Includes 2 emergency blankets, individually packed
- Perfect as part of all emergency kits and disaster relief kits
- Contains industrial strength paracord rope
- Bright color makes it very visible for rescue teams
Don't Die In The Woods Ultralight Survival Shelter
- What Makes This Survival Shelter Stand Out
- Very durable, industrial strength insulation and rope
- Big enough for two people
- Remarkably thin and light for its sturdiness
- Flawless insulation
- Easy to set up
- 50% profit goes to charity
LYN Emergency Survival Shelter
- What Makes This Survival Shelter Stand Out
- Silver reflective color, easy to spot
- Easy and secure set up due to buckles and plastic stakes
- Retains 90% body heat
- More suitable for the warm season than for winter
- More reliable and silent than aluminum-based shelters
- Very strong paracord
Coghlan's Tube Survival Shelter
- What Makes This Survival Shelter Stand Out
- Repels fire
- Fits 2 people
- Sets up in minutes
- Very affordable
- Single-use
Wealers Emergency Thermal Survival Shelter
- What Makes This Survival Shelter Stand Out
- Helps conserve 80% of your body heat
- Perfect to fit 2 adults
- Protects you from all kinds of weather
- Reusable
- Silver reflective color makes you easy to see
How To Choose A Survival Shelter – Buying Guide
The options in this list of the best emergency shelter seem to differ from one another quite a lot, right? Here is what you should be looking at depending on your needs.
If you plan to take hiking trips in more dangerous and remote areas, or during wintertime, you shouldn't settle for anything less than Mylar. Aluminum-based ones or alternatives are then the middle level, and polyethylene is the lightest type of fabric to consider.
For colder conditions, you should be looking at the best emergency shelters, capable of preserving 90% of your body heat. If you're camping out in regular environments during spring, summer and fall then an 80% protection rate will be enough. Waterproof is a must, but all of the outdoor survival shelters on this list provide this feature. If you plan to use a campfire right next to your tent, then you should also look for a fire-proof one.
As you can predict, some of the more expensive options in our top are also more durable. Polyethylene is the least durable material, and Mylar is the most resistant. Still, you should look to other factors too when assessing durability (the strength of the rope or string holding it together), the toughness of the seams and so on.
Q: How Do I Make Sure I Get The Protection I Need?
The best way to get heat insulation and weather protection is by using a reliable emergency outdoor shelter inside a regular tent made for camping. An outdoor emergency shelter is much smaller than a classic tent in any case, so it would perfectly fit inside one. Also, just like you protect your sleeping bag from the ground's cold by adding an insulation layer between the sleeping bag and the tent, you will also protect yourself even better by using a-frame shelter.
Of course, the protection offered is not just about the cold, but much more than that (other types of temperatures or weather conditions, etc., not to mention the paracord rope and emergency whistle included with some models).
Before you get inside the outdoor shelter you need, it needs to be well-grounded. Some models come with a paracord rope, such as the one you can find in survival bracelets. You are supposed to use this rope for tying the outdoors shelter to a large and heavy object before it's ready to use. Others come with specialized steel tent pegs for an even more secure grounding. We lean towards the second type of grounding system (using tent pegs), but that doesn't mean the rope method is not trustworthy either, as long as the item you buy is high-quality.
Q: How Do I Store And Use My Survival Shelter?
This will be the least of your worries once you make up your mind about what wilderness shelter to choose. All of the best ones are very lightweight and come in a case which you can use to carry them around, tightly packed.
While you're not gone camping, you can keep your wilderness shelter in a storage closet around your home, or even in a shed outside the home.
Using your shelter is fairly easy and straightforward, especially if you take a look at the instructions leaflet which will come with your purchase. Some of the best wilderness survival shelters also come with multi-use features, and in these cases, you will, of course, have even more instructions (like an e-book, for example) in order to make the most of it.
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Camping outdoors is a wonderful and exciting experience that everyone should have regularly. As long as you follow some basic safety rules and you come well prepared and well-equipped, it will be nothing but pleasant. Choosing best survival shelter available is part of the preparation process, of course. We hope that we managed to give you a glimpse of the features you should be looking for, and that you'll have a great time in your wilderness trip.
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Have you been camping or hiking during winter or extreme conditions, requiring the use of a wilderness shelter? Do you just take one along on any camping trip or do you actually use one on a regular basis? Which a-frame shelter have you tried out so far and where do you plan to take it next? Share your thoughts and experiences with our other readers below! We're always happy to hear from you.


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TL;DR - Open models for value creation work. Look at open source projects, Wikipedia, Kickstarter projects and many others. Lean Startups and Customer Development approaches are pretty open too and we are increasingly seeing open data and open, transparent support ... but how far can we go? Can we open up everything in a startup from idea generation to planning, discussions, financial and testing data? What would an "open source" business look like?
There has been a gear change in many communities towards open collaboration. We know about the open source community, but startups, science, engineering[2], charities and other organisations around the world are experimenting more and more with openness.
Startups have gone from from a default "stealth mode" position to increasingly seeking open feedback on ideas before even beginning to build the product. Entrepreneurs can be found on forums posting "I have 6 months free, what shall I build?" and similar[3] threads. This open approach is increasingly becoming the foundation of startups ... but how far can it be taken?
Over the past year or so I have been thinking about the following question on and off [1]: What would an "open source" business look like? I don't mean a business that makes money from open source software such as Red Hat or Citrix ... I mean a business that is itself as open as open source software.
Using the term "open source" is misleading. Businesses don't have a codebase as such. What if they did? What if you could codify your business in a way that allows anyone to examine it and contribute to its development? How could you make your entire business startup processes more like your Github account and less like an "in the shadows" affair?
When I sit and imagine an open business, it is one of total transparency. Our IRC channel is public, our Trello board is public, our emails are public. If we are planning our marketing approach or what servers to use, that's public too. We would broadcast our meetings as public Hangouts. If we can make it public, we do. We don't have inboxes ... we have public mailing lists. Each of these things have been seen before, and proved successful. Could we make it the basis of our startup's DNA ... would it be beneficial?
Imagine, as a startup, having domain experts join and contribute to your financial, marketing or technical discussions and helping you out because they like the product and want to see it succeed. Contributors may provide input, not because they expect a monetary payoff ... but because they gain value in ways similar to a programmer fixing a bug in an open source software project. The difference is they are helping with startup bugs, not software bugs.
This is part one of a series of posts trying to explore some of the questions an open business throws up. For example:
- Is it even possible? Can a business operate in this way without destroying value or preventing value/wealth creation for shareholders?
- Is making it clear that contribution does not equate to ownership/direct financial benefit deter people? (I think no)
- Would an open business be more scientific? Based more in proof? More meritocratic?
- Is secrecy a requirement of sustainable competitive advantage? Can being open provide more advantage?
- How do you reconcile long-term value generation for shareholders with a business built from the contributions of a wide range of ad-hoc contributors? Are the two things incompatible?
- What value are voluntary contributors getting? Is this comparable to a software developer contributing time to an open source project?
- Is it enough to compare software to a business? Is a business structure analogous to software in a development sense? ... for example is there an organisational equivalent of a commit log? What would that look like? Would it be useful?
- What might a leadership and management structure look like in an open-business? Does it match the leadership and management approach of projects like the Linux kernel? Perl? Python? Might it look more like Valve? What comparable structures exist?
- What about legal obligations to keep things private? What about contractual obligations with partners or customers? How do you manage those?
[2]: For example, Protie by Cesar Harada [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cesarminoru/protei-open-hardware-oil-spill-cleaning-sailing-ro]
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5544738, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5545545, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5529119, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5325445, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5495420 and they are just the first few pages of Ask HN. Not that the HN crowd are typical people ...

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International testing, inspection, and certification firm SOCOTEC recognized Envirokonsult Equipment and Services, Inc. for its support to subsidiary AJA Registrars Group which audited and certified the wastewater management specialist with ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015.
Envirokonsult acquired its ISO 9001:2015 on March 2015 for its effort to employ a quality management system that helps in consistently providing products and services that meet customer and regulatory requirements. In the same month, Envirokonsult was certified with ISO 14001:2015 for implementing an environmental management system that provides value for the environment and company.
Envirokonsult is the pioneering designer, builder, and operator of Fully Mechanized Septage Treatment Facilities (FMF) in the Philippines.


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Sports News of Thursday, 30 April 2015
Source: Cameroon Tribune
Calm seems to have returned to the Cameroonian Cycling Federation (Fecacyclisme), after many court cases.
According to the president of the Fecacyclisme Honore Yossi, all the third-party claims against the federation to invalidate the Elective General Assembly of November 29, 2014 or the resolutions of the General Assembly on July 5,2014 were rejected by the National Olympic and Sports Committee of Cameroon (CNOSC).
He made this statement at a press briefing yesterday April 29, 2015 in Yaounde by the President of the Federation.
The Fecacyclisme can now run its activities on this year's program. In sporting terms, the first race is a nocturnal prologue to be held May 9, 2015 in Yaounde called "Kermesse of Ongola". The race will be held over a distance of 1.2 km on the Mvog Ada boulevard between "Import" and "bar RTK".
During this competition, several types of races will be organized around the clock by elimination, individual pursuit, team pursuit, the pursuit "the Italian", the individual points race, etc.
"This is to bring cycling to the people to create awareness as well. We found out that the popular enthusiasm around the discipline has declined somehow.
All safety conditions have been made to ensure the smooth running of activities, "said Yossi Honoré. The Federation plans to organize three other national races in the year and the championship of the discipline.
Internationally, the Fecacyclisme aims to participate in the All Africa Games in Brazzaville (Congo), and Tours in Ivory Coast, Rwanda and Faso.
Furthermore, at a meeting of the Executive Bureau, April 28, 2015 in Yaoundé, the first outlines of the 13th edition of the Tour of Cameroon were examined but the course was made public yesterday. The event, to be held from March 12 to 20, 2016, includes eight steps: Ayos- Yaounde; Pouma- Kribi; Kribi Douala; Douala, Kumba-Douala; Mbanga- Bafang; Bafoussam- Dschang- Bafoussam; Bayomen (between Ndikinimeki and Bafia)-Yaoundé.
However, while this year the Federation recorded an increase of its licensees (250 for now), it regrets the lack of vitality of regional leagues. "Only five leagues have sent us their programs.
They must always hold at least three races a year. Some do not even count licensees" regrets Bruno Eloumou, secretary general of Fécacyclisme.
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During Sprint 19 we have been focused on improving the user interface options with the addition of carousel banners and user profile bar to the ScaffoldLMS theme. On our dev branches scripted reports is undergoing a major overhaul of the user interface for a future release - the first round of testing was completed this sprint.
New Features
The ScaffoldLMS theme now supports configurable carousel images and a user profile bar to tailor the user experience:
- The carousel banner allow you to upload banner images and link these to LMS or external pages. This can be used to promote or draw attention to new courses or direct users to new activities
- The user profile bar extends the banner to include the learner's profile image, role, or job title. This helps personalise the design and encourages users to update their image for engaging with some of the newer social features.
Improvements and Fixes
- SCORM modules are less aggressive in identifying network errors and potentially providing false positive messages to learners about bad connectivity when accessing SCORM modules.
- Cohort builder was updated to fix several workflows where the user had existing manual enrolments in the same course
- User file synchronisation now handles configuration changes more appropriately to only synchronise incremental changes
- Sub-section course format was improved to support longer section titles through word-wrapping in the grid layout
- A recent code audit identified two potential security issues that have now been fixed


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BY LAURA ASCIONE, eSchool News
U.S. innovation depends on getting more girls in computer science classes and careers–here's how to encourage more participation. The nation needs to engage more minorities and girls in computer science if it hopes to build a diverse and talented workforce–after all, great ideas and innovation don't lie exclusively within white men's brains. There has in recent years been a louder and more resounding call for girls to enter the coding world. This call is buoyed in large part by Computer Science Education Week, the Hour of Code, and extra-curricular coding groups for girls.
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Minnesota State Community and Technical College will celebrate the graduation of 239 students in a combined commencement on Friday, Dec. 21, in Moorhead.
Fall semester graduates from Detroit Lakes, Fergus Falls, Moorhead, and Wadena will participate in the 1 p.m. ceremony at Memorial Auditorium on the campus of Concordia College.
M State will live stream the commencement ceremony for anyone who is unable to attend. Visit minnesota.edu/graduation to watch the event live.
M State's 2019 spring graduation ceremonies will be Thursday, May 9, in Detroit Lakes and Fergus Falls; and Friday, May 10, in Moorhead and Wadena.


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B is for Busy Bees!
We read the book titled Buzz, Buzz Busy Bees and counted the bees in the story. All of the animals on the farm wanted the bees to come play but the bees were too busy gathering pollen to make some honey. At the end of the book when you flip to the very last page there was a big surprise....the book started buzzing like real bees!! Of course, everyone wanted a turn to look at the book!! Anything to promote reading!! ;) We talked about the sound that B makes and practiced writing letter B as well. It is a great idea to have your child practice writing our letter of the week.
Jaycee brought the perfect "bee"snack.....Honey Combs!! The kids love cereal and it is quick and easy too!! They liked searching for the letter B's on their baggies. Good idea Jaycee!! Thanks for the snacks!! :)
We reviewed the color red and sang our red song. We talked about the things in the picture that can be red and we even learned how to write the word red!!! Pretty impressive, huh!!??
B is for Buttons!
Today we read another silly Pete the Cat book about about his yellow shirt with 4 groovy buttons!! Baylor brought snacks today to go along with our story! Everyone had fun counting the m&m buttons on the rice krispy shirts!! Thanks for the GROOVY snacks today Baylor!! :) We decided to use Pete's head and button from Baylor's snack to make a project. I think they turned out super cute!
Listen to the story with your child so they can show you what they learned today!! I think you will be pretty impressed! We talked about subtraction!! Preschoolers subtracting??!! Pretty smart, huh??!! Seriously though they really did a great job with the concept of starting with a number and then taking one or more away. We played a button counting game today at circle time so they could have some hands on counting, adding and subtracting practice.
We played a button counting game today at circle time so they could have some hands on counting, adding and subtracting practice.
We made our letter Bb book to keep at school. We are adding Buzz words that we see in our little readers. We will continue to practice these words everyday at school and add to our list when we make our new books. You might want to make flashcards at home for your child to practice these words. I know it seems early but I promise your kids are ready for this!! Some of the words we are learning are called sight words which means they can not be phonetically sounded out.....therefore they are just memorized by sight. That's is why the more they are exposed to these sight words the better!! They love reading their little books to their reading buddies!! We ran out of time and they made me promise that we would read them on Wednesday!! I love it!! :)
We played the name game to find out who has a letter Bb in their name. I opened up a new center this morning and you should have heard the girls squeal!! And the boys were mad that they didn't get a turn....I had to make another promise for Wednesday!! You would have thought I bought them a pony!! It is a writing center!!! It is a teacher's dream for students to be this excited to write words and letters!!!! There were color books available as well but most of the girls were looking at all of the charts and writing color words and making shapes and writing what they were drawing!!! My heart just skipped a beat thinking about it!! ;)
There you have it.....Another GROOVY day at Busy Bee Preschool!!
B is for Bulldogs!
While we waited for the parade to start we kept busy by eating Emilee's yummy snack. She brought Bulldog chow and Bulldog water bottles too!
We blew bubbles!!
We made football puppets to wave to the football players and all of the parade participants.
It was fun to see all of the floats, the cheerleaders, band and of course the football players!!
But everyone knows the best part of the parade is the CANDY!! We hit the candy jackpot ! :)
Then we met at the park to end our fun day! Thanks to everyone who helped out today!!
I appreciate my Busy Bee parents so much!! :)
B is for Black Bats!
We had fun learning about bats today!! We read a non-fiction book and learned that bats eat fruit, fish, bugs and mice. They sleep upside down during the day and like to hunt at night. Ask your child if they can remember a fun fact about bats. Everyone remembered to wear something black today!! We sang our color song and learned how to spell the word black. We made a Black Bat art project and practiced counting bats too.
Drake brought bat snacks.....bat brownies and bat rice krispy treats!! He brought everyone a bat whistle too!! Thanks Drake! We learned a bat poem and watched Stellaluna (a story of a bat who was lost and was raised by birds) on video. We reviewed our Action Alphabet characters A the Alligator and B the Bear. Ask your child to tell you the sounds that these letters make! I am so proud of your kids!! They are doing a fantastic job!
Here is the song we learned today to help us remember how to spell the word black...
Look at these sweeties!! Sorry Trenton!! I cut off your black shoes! But we know you are wearing them! ;)
Bear Day!
Today we read the classic story Brown Bear, Brown Bear. It is a great predictive book to help children learn their color words and some basic sight words. We have been working on the words....I, see, and a. We are working on our color words too. We made our very own Brown Bear book to take home and read. Please add this book to your child's book box at home.
Next everyone introduced their bears and we had fun singing and dancing with our bears! We made bear ears to wear too! Check out the video below and listen to your child sing the Teddy Bear Song.
We read another book about a bear looking for shapes called Bear in a Square. Then we made silly bears using all squares. Have your child count how many squares it took to make our bears.
Trenton brought the silliest bear snack ever!! It is a bear driving a car made with teddy grahams and candy!! The kids loved them! I don't know what they enjoyed more....driving them on their tables or eating them!! Trenton also brought teddy bear trail mix with all sorts of goodies inside including bear graham crackers and gummy bears too!
We took our bears outside and placed them all in the middle of a blanket. We held on to the edge of the blanket and said...
Bear, Bear, starts with B!
Bear, Bear, 1-2-3!
And then we tossed all of the bears up into the air! The kids were laughing so hard and wanted to do it again and again!! So we did!! ;)
Finally....I was so proud of the boys and girls for really listening during our math lesson today! We sorted M&Ms on our sorting mat and then we graphed how many of each color we had. Impressive, huh??!! The best part of the activity was eating the m&ms of course!!
As you can see......we had a BEARY good day learning at preschool! Check out my cuties!
B is for Busy Bees!!
Today we studied the letter Bb! We read a fun book that everyone loved called....Buzz, Buzz Busy Bees! It is a counting/rhyming book about bees who are just too busy to play with all of the animals on the farm. You must turn the last page of the book to activate the sound chip to hear the bees buzz and discover what they have been so busy making! And of course we had a lot of buzzing going on in our classroom too!! ;)
Next we practiced writing capital and lowercase letter Bs and we made a cute beehive and bees by cutting circles. Check out that nice handwriting!!
Ella brought super cute bumblebee treats to share at snack time and her mommy even made cute bee take home treats!! Thanks to all of my families for really making our preschool days even more special!! I hope you all know how much I appreciate all that you do!! :)
We read our Numbertales Book...Zero Spots. Monster Dot has lots of spots. So do Spike and Sue. But poor Monster Ugg has none, zilch, zero!! In the story Monster Ugg learns to appreciate his spotlessness and realizes it is pretty neat to be different. We talked about the numeral zero and did a worksheet that went with our story. Have your child share their monster paper with you.
Finally, we finished our day by singing our red song and doing a red paper. It might not seem like much at first glance but be sure to check out your child's amazing paper!!!!!! I was so excited to see how well they wrote the word red on their own!! Ask your child to spell red for you...I know they are all able to do this!! Now....ask them to write the word red!! Pretty good, huh???!!! Ok.....Am I bragging?? hee! hee! I am loving the extra time I can spend with your children!! Watch out Kindergarten....my Busy Bees are going to be sooooo ready to knock your socks off and it is only September!! ;)
And one last picture.......Everyone must see all of my girls. They were all sporting bee shirts for our special day! (boys....I am going to order some busy bee shirts in blue and not soooo cutsie so you can sport some bees too!!)
Aren't they adorable??!!!
ok.....I promise I am almost done! My posts have been rather long but I just have too much to share!! I apologize for not putting a newsletter in the folders today. I just haven't finalized my Friday plans for next week. I would like to take the kids to the Odessa Homecoming Parade but am trying to figure out when it is and if it will work in our schedule. I will let everyone know what the plan is on Monday. If you would like to go to the parade with us just send me a text and let me know. I could use a few moms to help transport the kids to town. Thanks in advance for your help. :)
B is for Black Bats!
We had fun learning about bats today!! We read a non-fiction book and learned that bats eat fruit, fish, bugs and mice. They sleep upside down during the day and like to hunt at night. Ask your child if they can remember a fun fact about bats. Everyone remembered to wear something black today!! We sang our color song and learned how to spell the word black. We made a Black Bat art project and a bat counting book too. Jackson brought blacks snacks.....oreos and cool water bottles. We learned a bat poem and watched Stellaluna on video. We reviewed our Action Alphabet characters A the Alligator and B the Bear. Ask your child to tell you the sounds that these letters make! I am so proud of your kids!! They are doing a fantastic job! They are always on task and it makes my job so much more fun!
Black Bats!
Today was so much fun learning about letter Bb! We sang the Black Song. . .(you can find this on the Just for Fun page under color songs!) We started to sing it and Nick already knew the words!! He has been practicing the songs on the website! I was so proud of him and I love that students are using the site as well!! We read about bats and discovered that they like to eat bugs, (gross!) fruit, fish and mice. We made a Black Bat picture too. We went around to share our black clothing that we wore today. Sorry...I should have taken a picture of all of our cool black clothes!! :( We made a Bat book too where we practiced writing our numbers. Have your child write their numbers 1 - 5 for you. Brady brought Bat cupcakes to eat for snacks with purple icing!! . . everyone had purple faces and fingers too! Thanks Brady!! He even wore his Batman shirt today. . . good thinkin'!!
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
Today we read the very popular book. . . Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin Jr. This book reinforces colors, color words and because it has predictive text it is perfect for beginning readers. Some of the students were able to pick out the color words in the text!! (especially the word red because we have worked so hard on that word!!) We made a story bag to bring home to retell the story. The best part of the story bag is that you can retell the story over and over again and in any order. Listen to your child retell the story. Nick brough Brown Bear Cinnamon Biscuits that were "beary" good!! He even brought honey and butter to put on the bears. These were so cute! Again. . . .I love when the students make that learning connection through all of their senses! It is pretty funny though when they want to save their treat and not eat it because it is too cute!! I just tell them they have to eat it now or we would probably never eat snacks!! It looks like we will get to play outside all week long!! Yippee!
B is for Bears!
Learning about letter Bb was "Beary" fun!! We brought our bears to school today. We danced with our bears and took turns sharing about our bears. When we did our school work our bears took a nap in our cubbies. We made bear ears to wear and we read a story called Bear in a Square. We reviewed all of our shapes and made a Square Bear out of . . . you guessed it. . . . squares!! Makennah brought bear cookies and teddy grahams to share with everyone. They were so cute! Thanks Makennah! We went outside for about ten minutes to enjoy this beautiful weather. We finished our day getting Busy Bee Treats for having green days at school. We decided we should get two today. . . . one for bear too!
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Let's Look Back: Why We Failed Online Learning in the Early 2000s
Online learning is not a new concept anymore, and many organizations in the United States have increased to implement online learning over decades. However, I recently realized that some of us as curriculum developers still make the same mistakes we did in the early 2000s when designing and developing online courses. Therefore, it's good for us to think back on why we failed online learning in the past and reflect on what we learned from it.
The failure of early online learning can be divided into five main reasons: 1) poor quality of course design, 2) lack of organizational management, 3) technological limits, 4) lack of learner acceptance, and 5) lack of instructor acceptance.
- Poor quality of course design:
The main barriers of online learning primarily lie not in the technology currently available, but in the misunderstanding of teaching and learning principles. Instruction should be designed, integrating three learning domains including cognitive, affective, and psychomotor activities to support permanent changes in knowledge, attitude, and behavior. This is especially true in a self-paced learning or distance education for successful learning (Lewin & Grabbe, 1945; Morrison, Ross, & Kemp, 2004).However, early online learning focused too much on the cognitive domain only (e.g., comprehension, application, analysis, and synthesis of facts and concepts). While it is critical for learners to learn cognitively, it is also important for them to learn affectively (e.g., appreciating, responding to, collaborating on, and valuing about the topics). Learners learn more effectively, when they get involved actively and emotionally in the learning process. Nonetheless, early online learning put all information in every content area and delivered reading through the Web. Many early online courses were self-navigated, with learners clicking page to page without any interactive learning activity.
- Assessment. Pre-assessment was very often not focused on the needs of the learner. Non-individualized learning experiences resulted in poor quality of online courses. Ongoing assessment (e.g., instructor feedback) was another missing part in early online course design (Yilmaz and Tuzun, 2001).
- Multimedia/Graphics. Early online courses frequently forgot to mix up the text with multimedia/graphics (e.g., drawings, charts, photos, animation, and/or video). The result was text-based courses that were very static for learners. However, also keep in mind that less text and more graphics is not always associated with more effective learning; irrelevant and decorative graphics are not a powerful way to help learners engage in active learning (Reiber, 1994).
- Customization & Maintenance. A variety of template-driven courses were missing in early online learning. A generic template was used to create different types of online courses (Nantel, 2001). Even though customized templates were used, they had a lack of maintenance to update the content for quality assurance and to meet the needs of the learner (Woodill, 2004).
- Oversimplification. A large part of the reason for the failure of online learning was simplistic and reductionistic content. Complex content was often oversimplified (Rosenberg, 2002). Content was also incorrectly directed towards only one audience. Every learner isn't the same. It is imperative to diversify learning and teaching styles and tools to be adaptive and individualized as much as possible.
- Lack of organizational management:
- Decisions to build or purchase LMS.Unfortunately, many organizations were confused about how to build or buy their learning management system (LMS). For example, some organizations just built their LMS as a content library on their intranet and did nothing to manage it. Some others bought larger collections of courses that can be based on "all you can learn" from a professional vendor, paying for access and believing it would lead successful learning (Masie, 2002). Many organizations lacked understanding about how to build or purchase well-targeted online courses and e-learning system to meet their goals. (Rosenberg, 2002; Paynich, 2003).
- Supportive learning environment. One of the key challenges in online learning is how to motivate learners to complete their online courses. Online learners may have insufficient time, too many interruptions, technological problems, or lack of support from their managers. Of course, some learners may be simply not interested in learning with well-designed courses in a supportive learning environment. In early 2000s, many organizations failed to establish a supportive online learning environment to motivate learners to learn. More specifically, they didn't provide the learners with clear guidelines or directions for what to support and how to sustain the supportive learning environment, for example, coaching and support from instructors or managers; time for online learning at work; and/ or recognition for applying learning experience to the work (Rossett & Schafer, 2003).
- Technological limits: Most early online learning failed to provide learners with social interaction. Learners were often isolated and have little individual flexibility in an online learning environment. The most obvious impediment to online learning was that technology still had insufficient bandwidth and high-speed web connections, thus, produced a lack of communication, feedback, and support between an instructor and learners and between learners (Yilmaz and Tuzun, 2001).
- Lack of learner acceptance: Learners need new special skills in an online learning environment such as self-directed learning skills, computer literacy, and capability of searching useful resources on the Web, and so on. However, early online learners didn't know how to be effective self-learners. Most learners felt more comfortable in instructor-led classrooms. Accordingly, they felt easily isolated and frustrated in self-paced learning with technology (Rossett & Schafer, 2003).
- Lack of instructor acceptance: Online instruction needs more labor intensive interaction than face-to- face instruction does. Many online instructors in early 2000s didn't know how to control large amounts of instructional time to interact with every learner. Lack of instructors' technical skills also hindered interaction between an instructor and learners. Many instructors refused to use technology in their instruction if they didn't know how to interact with their students in a new technology environment (Simonson, Smaldino, Albright, & Zvacek, 2003).
In conclusion, the main reasons for the failure of early online learning stem from instructional design, while taking into account lack of organization management and technology related problems which also influenced the failure. Many organizations didn't know how to apply sound instructional design theories and establish supportive LMS and online learning environment in the past. I hope these findings keep us to remind complex instruction and instructional context in an online learning environment and reflect to better design, develop, and implement online courses in organizations. In my next post, I will further discuss the elements of successful online learning should be elaborated, reflecting on these reasons for failure of early online learning.
- Lewin, K. & Grabbe, P. (1945). Conduct, knowledge, and acceptance of new values. Journal of Social Issues, 1 (3), 215-46.
- Nantel, R. (2001). DigitalThink, NETg and SmarterForce: An in depth comparison of the three largest providers of online IT training. Brandonhall.com.
- Morrison, G., Ross, S., & Kemp, J. (2004). Designing effective instruction. NJ: Wiley.
- Paynich, V. (2003). Don't be swayed by the bells and whistles. E-learning, 4 (2), 6.
- Reiber, L. (1994). Computers, graphics, and learning. Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark. Retrieved on January 13, 2003, from http://www.nowhereroad.com/cgl/chapter7/
- Rosenberg, M. (2002, April). Where's the quality? E-learning, 87-93.
- Rossett, A. & Schafer, L. (2003, June). What to do about e-dropouts. Training Development.
- Sellani, R. & Harrington, W. (2002). Addressing administrator/faculty conflict in an academic online environment. Internet and Higher Education, 5, 131-145.
- Simonson, M., Smaldino, S., Albright, M., & Zvacek, S. (2003). Teaching and learning at a distance (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.
- Woodill, G. (2004). Where is the learning in e-learning? A critical analysis of the e-learning industry. Operitel Corporation. Retrieved from http://www.learnflex.com/pdf/e Learning%20analysis.pdf#search='failure%20of%20elearning
- Yilmaz, O. & Tuzun, H. (2001, November). Web-based instruction: Instructors and students problems. Annual proceedings 24th of selected research and development practice papers presented at the national convention of the association for educational communications and technology in Atlanta, GA.


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The age-old questions of when and how thermalization occurs in extended systems have received a large amount of attention recently. It has been found that many integrable models, because of the presence of infinitely many conservation laws, display generalized thermalization: generalized Gibbs ensembles (GGE) describe equilibration states after long time evolutions with short-range Hamiltonians. It was also found that extended concepts of locality, such as those of pseudolocal and quasilocal conserved charges, were sometimes involved in GGEs. In this talk I will discuss my recent results in this subject. Using precise definitions of pseudolocal charges and GGEs, I will describe simple conditions on the time-evolved state and the dynamical response functions that guarantee generalized thermalization. I will explain in which cases this implies ordinary (Gibbs) thermalization. The results are based on studying a family of states defined by paths whose tangents are pseudolocal ch arges. The framework does not involve integrability, and all results are mathematically rigorous.
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- Racial Dynamics in Early Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas by Jason McDonald
In his introduction, Jason McDonald argues that there are few "detailed scholarly comparisons" of the African American and Latino "urban experiences" and that "scholars of ethnicity" have "generally overlooked the potential of comparing the experiences of urban-based nonwhite minorities" (2). McDonald's goal in writing this book, he says, is to "redress that oversight" (1). McDonald selects Austin, Texas, as his case study for two reasons: because of its unique geographical position between the South's "traditional 'black belt'" and the "newly 'Mexicanized" area of the Southwest, and the fact that Austin was the only major city in Texas in which the black and Mexican populations were "reasonably similar in size by 1930" (4). However, McDonald's chart—which states that Austin was 18.6 percent African American and 9.4 percent Mexican—does not seem to fully support this assertion.
McDonald emphasizes two themes throughout the book—the impact of World War I on black-white relations and the Mexican response to being racialized by Anglos. The second part was what I found most interesting. McDonald argues that prior to the Chicano movement of the 1960s and [End Page 222] 1970s, many Mexicans sought to "earn acceptance as the racial equals of whites and thereby gain access to the privileges of whiteness" and "rarely if ever displayed genuine solidarity with African Americans" (6). As a result, McDonald writes, for much of the twentieth century, "ethnic Mexicans in Texas were both wittingly and unwittingly complicit in the racialization and marginalization of the state's African American population" (8).
Despite trying to distinguish themselves from African Americans by attempting to claim their whiteness, Mexican Americans in Texas faced some of the same de facto discrimination as African Americans did. McDonald begins chapter two with a story about Mexico's Consul General for Texas who was denied service at a restaurant in a small town outside of Austin; yet, he was served at a restaurant in Austin because the rules for Mexican Americans there were sometimes more aligned with those for Anglos. Still, the city of Austin attempted to "codify racial demarcations and further restrict black-white social interaction" by significantly expanding Jim Crow laws, and Mexican Americans increasingly found themselves "viewed and treated as a pariah group by Anglo society" (66). Not surprisingly, by the 1930s, Mexicans and African Americans in Austin were more similar in terms of their "ease and level of" interaction with whites, but the key difference, according to McDonald, was that "while the extent of de facto segregation was virtually the same for both groups, de jure segregation only existed—despite a few attempts to apply it to Mexicans—for African Americans" (66). (McDonald acknowledges, however, that mestizo or indio Mexican farm workers most likely would have faced the same type of de facto and de jure segregation that their African American brethren did.)
One of the strengths of Racial Dynamics in Early Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas is the stories that McDonald tells to illustrate the point that he is trying to make—that this "tripartite segregation" that existed in Austin was unique from other cities in the South and Southwest. However, McDonald sometimes extrapolates too much from these stories. I am not sure that it is reasonable to compare the acceptance by white newspapermen of the establishment of a comisión honorífica to look after the interests of Austin-area Mexicans to the hostile reception and beating of the executive secretary of the NAACP by local elected officials when he came to establish an Austin branch in trying to make a point that Mexicans and African Americans were treated differently when they tried to contest white hegemony in Austin. Nonetheless, McDonald has written an ambitious book that gives the reader some understanding as to how three racial and ethnic groups co-existed in Austin in the early twentieth century.


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Former Golden State Warriors Assistant Coach Luke Walton is being sued for allegedly attempting to sexually assault a female sports reporter. She claims the assault happened in May 2017 while Walton was still a coach for the Golden State Warriors. Kelli Tennant claims the two had a professional relationship that went back years. Tennant claims Walton asked her to meet him at his hotel to discuss a book she was writing, which she wanted Walton to write the forward for.
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In the suit, Tennant says when she arrived at Walton's hotel, he convinced her to come up to his room so they could discuss the book. She claims when they got up to his room, Walton suddenly pinned her to the bed, placing his hips and legs over her body.
In the docs, Tennant claims Walton then began forcing kisses on her neck, face and chest. She claims she screamed for him to stop and tried to free herself, but he held her down, groped her breasts and groin, and rubbed his erection on her leg.
She says he eventually relented and let her get up from the bed, but as she was walking towards the door to leave he grabbed her from behind and again forced his body up against hers.
Tennant claims when Walton finally released his grasp, she opened the door and left, but could hear him say, "Good to see you."
Tennant claims she did not initially report Walton's conduct but was forced to continually interact with him because of her job. She says each time she saw him, Walton would impose himself on her with a big hug or a kiss, even though she thought she made it clear his advances were unwanted.
In the suit, Tennant claims on one occasion, Walton greeted her by uttering, "vulgar, guttural sounds at her" and said, "mmmm ... you're killing me in that dress." She says he then forced an aggressive hug on her and rubbed his body against hers.
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Post Author: Rev. Dr. Emily Peck-McClain
I am sitting in my office at the Seminary where I teach on the second day of a new semester. Last year at this time, I was home on maternity leave, finishing out the summer with my three kids, including my two-month-old infant. One year later, I'm better able to process the importance of the maternity leave I received from my then-new employer.
I remember my mother, who is a pediatrician, telling me how she took as little maternity leave as possible. When she started having babies she was a resident, and would have to make up any hours she missed at the hospital, adding them to an already grueling and sleep-deprived schedule. I was shocked by this, until I faced the same reality thirty years later in a Christian organization.
When I was pregnant with my last baby, I found out that if I missed teaching courses, I'd have to make those hours up in subsequent terms. This would have meant teaching an overloaded schedule for two terms while pumping every three hours, not sleeping well, and adjusting to life with a new baby. I would have done it, because it was my job and my vocation. I would have done it because I have a partner at home who could help and because we had childcare for which we would have to pay. I would have done it. It would have been awful. I would have suffered. My children and husband would have suffered.
This was not the reason I left that institution, yet I am so very grateful that my current institution did not ask me to make up those hours I missed while I was getting to know my new baby, nursing round the clock, and trying to figure out how our family of five was going to function in a new location with both parents starting new jobs. I was able to take my maternity leave and come back to work ready to teach. I jumped into a team-taught class mid-semester and taught a regular load the following semester. No, my baby was not yet sleeping through the night, but I was able to think and function fully in my job. My body had healed. And I knew I had the support of my institution in my calling not just as a professor, but as a mother.
I know that in the United States, I am in a small minority of women who have had such a good experience with maternity leave. According to Pew Research, the United States trails the world in paid parental leave even though we have increasingly more two-working-parent households, and many where the mother is sole or primary breadwinner.[1]
For comparison, my brother lives in Norway. Here's the parental leave policy there: "After every birth, the parents[2] both benefit from a two-week leave and then divide up the 46-week parental leave paid at 100%, or alternatively, 56 weeks paid at 80%. In this way, Norwegian babies spend their first year with both their parents. To encourage men to take care of their children, a special 10-week quota is reserved for them. If they are reluctant to take pappapermisjon [paternity leave], they lose the 10 weeks, since the time can't be transferred to the mother and the whole family loses out. The results have been spectacular. In Norway, 90% of fathers take at least 12 weeks' paternity leave."[3]
In work spaces that are, or have been, traditionally male dominated – including the church and church-related institutions – some of us women are the first to have babies or adopt while on staff. There may be no policies in place even for basic maternity leave. We may be advocating for ourselves with all-male boards. Although legal protections prohibit employers asking prospective employees about family plans or current configurations, inside the church, with volunteer personnel committees, it is commonplace. Women are asked if we plan on having children, or told directly that they are wary of offering us a job because we might get pregnant and expect time off.
As long as organizations are choosing to hire younger adults, they must reckon with the fact that some of them may choose to birth, adopt, or foster children. They can be annoyed by this. They can implement practices that punish women for having babies or adopting by not offering maternity leave, cutting hours, letting them go, or setting up a hostile work environment where the woman needs to quit. They can punish the spouse by offering no parental leave, or if offering it, making it clear that they don't really need to take it.
However, because there is always a choice, an organization can embrace this stage in its community members' lives through family supportive practices. That begins with reasonable, or preferably generous, paid parental leave, regardless of what the law requires. Most daycares are legally not allowed to care for infants under 6 weeks old. At the very least, every workplace should have paid parental leave until the baby is old enough to be allowed to be cared for by the childcare options available.
Even then, at 6 weeks a baby is still not sleeping through the night, and healing from giving birth is not complete. For families who are adopting a baby or child, 6 weeks is barely enough time for a new home situation to start to feel anything like home. If we want parents to be able to fulfill their dual callings to parenthood and to work, to do their best work in both places, we must offer, encourage, support and advocate for paid parental leave.
Parental leave is a moral issue, a faith issue, and a justice issue. Christians are commanded to love their neighbors and to care for the most vulnerable. Christians historically have supported families through programming, education, worship, and advocacy. If supporting parents who are expanding their families by adding children is not a family value, then what is? Unpaid leave is unethical – it allows leave for the wealthy and not for the poor. Jesus' care of those who are poor, and his admonition that his followers do the same, couldn't be any clearer.
Churches and church-related institutions must embrace parental leave policies before they are needed. Policies must be formulated with women centered in the conversation. New parents, clergy included, need advocates and allies. Having children should be celebrated and supported, as a matter of conscience. Christian organizations should be at the forefront of this, as a matter of faith, first by providing generous leave policies for their own employees, and then by advocating for the same to be offered to all families. If we aspire to meaningful family values and support, if we take seriously the sanctity of life, there is no other choice.
Rev. Dr. Emily A. Peck-McClain is the Visiting Professor of Christian Formation and Young Adult Ministries at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.
She is the author of Arm in Arm With Adolescent Girls and a contributing editor to We Pray With Her. She is also mom to three great kids, all of whom now (generally) sleep through the night. Thanks be to God.
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Strictly Come Dancing star Mollie King splits from England cricket ace Stuart Broad after five months together
The pair have pulled up stumps on their five-month relationship and unfollowed each other on social media with pals saying the split is amicable
STRICTLY's Mollie King and England cricket ace Stuart Broad have ended their five-month relationship.
The pair have unfollowed each other on social media with pals saying the split is amicable.
A source said: "Mollie and Stuart's romance has fizzled out. Their schedules are packed and it's not been easy to see each other often.
"It wasn't working so they went their separate ways. There are no hard feelings."
The Sun revealed the pair had started dating in March after being introduced by pals.
They were last seen together in public in April.
Radio One DJ Mollie, 31, said shortly after they started dating how she "loved being in love" but would not comment on the relationship. After working at the Ibiza Weekender, Mollie is now on holiday on the island with pals.
Fast bowler Stuart, 31, due to play in the second test against India, hooked up with Mollie after he split from lingerie model Bealey Mitchell.
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Ex-Saturdays singer Mollie had been linked to her Strictly pro partner AJ-Pritchard. She previously told The Sun: "I don't like guys who play hard to get and I can't be bothered to chase somebody.
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A valuable old saying reminds us that "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure". True enough, we only learn its value when we are already sick, agonizing in pain and full of resentment reaping the consequences of the abuse we made to our body and physical health. One of the most common types of cancer is colon cancer which includes rectal cancer. Like any other diseases, there are various ways that we can practice to prevent the development of cancer and for this article, we will focus on the prevention of a specific type which is Rectal Cancer.
Observe a healthy diet
It would be best to start with the basics such as having a healthy diet to evade rectal cancer. Avoid fatty foods and junk foods. Increase fluid intake and fiber. Eat lots of whole grains and vegetables. Regular exercise is a must. Avoid smoking at all costs as this not only will cause you lung cancer; smoke also passes through the esophagus and it can also affect your digestive tract. Avoid eating red meat such as beef and pork especially processed foods like hot dogs, bacon, and sausages.
Skip night caps
Alcohol is a very strange beverage when its health pros and cons are being considered. Although consuming alcohol (like red wine) in moderation has health benefits, having too much will predispose you to develop colon or rectal cancer. It would be best to drink lots of water and fruit juices that are low in fructose with fiber. In addition, you might want to consider supplementation as study shows that Calcium, Vitamin D, and Folate improves gut health.
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Regular physician visit and health screening
Colonoscopy is recommended for older people as they have an increased risk of developing colon or rectal cancer. If you are at least 60 years old, it is suggested that you undergo colonoscopy to assess for the presence of polyps in your colon. Go to your physician for an executive check up every six months.
Watch out for initial signs
Be aware of the early warning signs and symptoms of colon or rectal cancer, although that would depend on which part of the digestive system is affected. But generally, it will include changes in both eating and bowel habits, stomach pain, and the presence of blood in the stool. These could be signs and symptoms of other conditions as well, so consulting with a specialist near you is important in order to determine the specific health condition that you may have. With this said, there is a management and treatment program for you. Click here for more information: https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/therapy/how-do-i-find-a-therapist-near-me/
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There are many factors that cannot be modified such as genetics or having a family history of colon cancer, but taking precautionary measures are of equal importance. Having pre-existing diseases of the digestive tract such as inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's, and gastric ulcer can also increase the risk of colon cancer. Thus, it is essential that preventive measures must be observed.


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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about one-third of the people on Earth are infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB), although not all of these individuals have or will develop the disease. Many will remain symptom-free, even though they are TB carriers.
Air travel has made it easier for disease-causing bacteria to spread. Since tuberculosis is spread via airborne droplets, usually created through coughing or sneezing, people sitting near a passenger with an active infection might be at risk. However, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), you cannot contract tuberculosis by touching items that were used by an infected individual, nor can you get tuberculosis by shaking hands, kissing someone with TB or eating food shared by a person who has TB.
While some airline passengers are pre-screened for tuberculosis, most are not. Typically, airline passengers who are incoming immigrants, students on visas, refugees, military members and families returning from overseas duty, asylum seekers and long-term visitors are screened for tuberculosis prior to their departure date. Most business and leisure travelers do not have to be screened for tuberculosis, and this means that travelers who do not realize they are infected or who know they are infected and travel anyway might spread the bacteria to people sitting near them.
Ideally, travelers who know they are infected should not travel by air until they have been under treatment for the disease for at least two weeks. Practically, however, a situation could arise in which travelers did not know they were infected or knew, did not begin treatment, and flew anyway.
According to the WHO, no cases of transmission of tuberculosis have occurred in situations where the total time passengers spent on board an airplane, including any delays as well as flight time, was less than eight hours. Passenger-to-passenger transmission of tuberculosis has also historically been limited to the area right around the infected passenger, which includes the infected passenger's row, two rows behind and two rows ahead. Risk of infection is lowered if the airplane's ventilation system is activated during ground delays lasting one half hour or longer. Once an airplane is airborne, its HEPA filtration system can trap the bacillus that causes TB, provided that the airplane is equipped with HEPA filters.
The WHO does not identify any increased risk to passengers who travel with a flight crew member who is infected with M. tuberculosis.
In a best-case scenario, an airline will have contact information for each passenger and will be able to cooperate with public health authorities if notification of passengers becomes necessary. In reality, it may be difficult to track down all passengers who might be at risk. The WHO urges public health officials to identify and inform passengers who sat near an infected passenger, whether that passenger was determined to be infected at the time of the flight or became infected within the three-month period preceding the flight.
The Bottom Line
If your doctor tells you that you have infectious tuberculosis and should not fly, stay home. You will put other travelers at risk if you fly before your treatment takes effect.
You can reduce your risk of exposure to infectious tuberculosis by flying on shorter (less than eight hours, including transit time between gates and runways) flights.
Giving accurate, legible contact information to your airline and to customs and immigration officials via the customs and immigration forms you fill out will enable public health authorities to contact you if they determine that you might have been exposed to infectious tuberculosis on your flight. If you are contacted by your airline or by customs officials because you have been exposed to TB, immediately make an appointment with your doctor and insist that you be tested for infectious tuberculosis at an appropriate time.
If you plan to visit an area where infectious tuberculosis is prevalent, discuss your plans with your doctor before your trip. You may wish to have your doctor screen you for infectious tuberculosis eight to ten weeks after you return home.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Health Information for International Travel 2018 ("Yellow Book"). Accessed 27 December 2018. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2018/infectious-diseases-related-to-travel/tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis and Air Travel: Guidelines for Prevention and Control. 3rd edition. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2008. 2-3, 7-8. Tuberculosis on aircraft. Accessed 27 December 2018. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/43921/9789241547505_eng.pdf?sequence=1.


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BATPUSSY (197?…that's actually how it appears on the packaging for the film…)
Batpussy begins the only way it could, with an obviously drunk dude reading a porno mag (which for the record is more of a newspaper than a magazine, but as you may guess, a film with the title of Batpussy isn't going to be concentrating on the minutiae), while his gal pal, who just appears to be winging it, and by "it" I mean "life"…she seriously just reads her lines with a look on her face that reads "Well, guess I'm in a porno now…do I want tuna or egg salad for lunch?". Anyway, the couple, Buddy and Sam for the record, get it on in a way that can only be described as extremely F'n awkward, highlighted by some sort of half mumbled mention of infidelity from Sam, and Buddy rambling on about doing it like the pictures in the magazine (seriously, he's obsessed with this on a level bordering on mania), all with thick Southern accents punctuated by the sounds of the crew dropping shit in the background (also the actor "playing" Buddy appears to be having a hard time getting in the mood…well, maybe "hard" is the wrong word to use).
Cut to Dora Dildo sitting in her secret headquarters waiting for her genitals to tingle alerting her that her alter-ego, Batpussy is needed (take a drink every time this lass mentions "Batpussy" or "Gothum"). Well, she gets the itch (that may not be the "warning sign" she is anticipating), and she suits up and bounces across the countryside on her "Holy Hippity-Hop" stopping a rape along the way, as you do. Meanwhile, Buddy and Sam do more arguing than screwing (with some of the most screamingly hilarious dialog you have ever heard, punctuated by frequent usages of the word "sheeeee-it") and eventually Batpussy shows up and then…well, you can guess what goes on (pay attention to how many times Buddy calls Batpussy by the name BatWoman, and the scene where Batpussy sustains an injury falling of a bed). Also of note, a woman's genitals is referred to as a "warsh tub"…this F'n movie…
As jaw dropping as the actual film is, there are a multitude of bonus features present to sweeten the ol' honey pot! First up we have an audio commentary with Lisa Petrucci and Tim Lewis of Something Weird that details how the film (a 2K print from the only surviving 16mm print presented warts and all) was preserved and brought to Blu-ray and speculation on how the film was created as it's actual origins have been lost to time. It's a fun and fascinating listen, and worth the price of admission alone! Also included are some unrelated short subjects (covering everything from dating tips to shoplifting to visiting a porno theater are covered…and inexplicably enough, the last one features a werewolf having sex). Following that are a series of sleaze crime and smut trailers from the something Weird vaults. Bringing up the rear is another full feature sex flick; Robot Love Slaves! RLS details the erotic adventures of a scientist who creates sexbots…it's also the only time in recorded history that some dude gets a blowie set to a muzak versions of Hey Jude and What A Wonderful World of all things…
Look, outrageously un-titilating sex and the barest p.h. of a parody theme aren't going to appeal to everyone, but if you like laughing until your sides split; this is the film for you, and the bonus content only make it that much more of a can't miss for lovers of absolute trash cinema!
The Violent Years (1956)
Paula is a good girl; pretty, privileged, the leader of an all girl delinquent gang that enjoys stealin' shit and raping dudes (that's a new one…not since Too Close For Comfort my fiends)…you know, typical girl next door material. Anyway, ol' Paula and her pals drive around causing all sorts of hellacious mayhem (and looking damn good while they do it too), some of which is at the behest of a female criminal mastermind (and thinly veiled communist). Complicating matters is the fact that Paula's Father is on the police force and actively investigating the recent spat of juvenile delinquent crime…oh, and the fact that Paula's gang shoots a cop (and loses a member to a bullet in the process) doesn't help things either. Before all is through; a baby becomes involved, there's a jail that is apparently 1,000 feet in the sky, parental guilt runs rampant, and everything ends in a quagmire of absolute tragedy. Family fun for everyone!
The Violent Years is ham-fisted, completely clueless of the actual problems and causes of juvenile crime, and presented so stoically that it immediately becomes a parody of itself. Adding and abetting the off-kilter tone of the film is the script by cinematic genius (and no, i'm not kidding…he's a huge hero of mine) Edward D. Wood Jr. who delivers his usual patented surreal dialog (and why he didn't direct this is anyone's guess…which is discussed in the included audio commentary, but more on that in just a bit). But, all that being said, The Violent Years is insanely entertaining as we watch Paula and her friends form the most improbable crime gang in cinematic history, then meet ends that would make Shakespeare blush.
As downright fun as The Violent Years is, the extras included here may be even better (much like Batpussy up yonder). Kicking things off we get a hilarious, anecdote commentary by exploitation director Frank Henenlotter and Ed Wood biographer Rudolph Grey. These guys are a riot to listen to as they go from engaged and excited to watch the film to completely bored and exhausted with it by the end. Following that we get the film's trailer (plus a collection of other sleazy crime flicks from the something Weird vaults), and a collection of scenes from an unfinished Wood film titled Hellions. Finally we get a second J.D. flick, Anatomy of a Psycho, which concerns a male gang trying to clear the name of one of it's members.
If you love Ed Wood and all the lunacy that entails (or dig on juvenile delinquent flicks) this one is a can't miss, especially with the commentary and sequences from Wood's lost film. The dialog and drama are amped up to the nines, and a howling good time is guaranteed!
Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill! (2017)
Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill! opens with a soldier being captured and tortured in the Middle East before abruptly switching gears to show us a concert in progress by some female rockers. After the show, one of our hard rockin' heroines cries rape after her boyfriend gets a tad too amorous. Well, it's our now crippled veteran to the rescue…and least he would be if said boyfriend didn't kick his ass six ways to Sunday, which as you may guess was a huge F'm error in judgment. You see, the vicious vet has a master plan, and soon he gasses the band and imprisons them in his house of horrors where they must traverse various rooms by murdering their brethren.
While Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill! isn't the most original fright flick on the block, it's certainly filmed, acted, and written well above the average for lower budget hack n' slash features. Everything is presented in garish, carnival colors splashed with decent gore (nothing amazing or over-the-top, but what's there is well done) and inventive reasons for the mayhem to ensue. Also of note, the deformed vet is a nice visual standout with his scared face hidden beneath filthy bandages, and his ghoulish minions are nicely realized as well. There's also a welcome tongue-in-cheek black humor present that definitely makes the whole affair palatable where it could have just been another tedious exercise in torture porn.
The negatives have been mentioned previous; the trope of a gang of hapless characters trapped in an environment of murder and chaos controlled by a seemingly omnipotent mastermind is an old one (dating as far back as moldy oldie fare such as The Most Dangerous Game), and Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill! doesn't exactly try and break the mold with what it presents. This is all fine, as what it does present is entertaining, but a few twists and turns wouldn't have hurt either.
so, the film is decent enough,but what of the bonus content? Well I'm glad you asked (and even if you didn't I'm going to tell you about it anyway)! Starting things off we get a making of featurette, a piece about the fictional band in the film, an interview with writer/director Jared Cohn, another 'making of' piece that focuses on the cast and crews thoughts on the plot, and a collection of video diaries. Following that comes a slideshow, two music videos, and the film's trailer. Definitely not a bad haul by any means!
If you are looking for a well produced alternative to the Saw films and their ilk, Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill! is definitely the film for you! It's surreal, fun, and fast paced with all of the girls and gore the stalk n' slay genre is famous for.
The Sword and the Claw (1975)
The Sword and the Claw begins with a massive brawl between two armies in ancient Turkey (and I'm talkin' about the country, not the Thanksgiving leftovers that still lurk in the darkest recesses of your refrigerator). Before you can say "stock footage" we switch to some blood drenched hoo-hah about the King being assassinated (all set to the most whimsical-ass music that has ever assaulted your eerie ear holes) and his infant son being sprinted away to eventually be raised by…lions?!! What the hmmmm fuck now??? Anyway, the boy grows up among the pride (some stock footage, some actual human child/lion interaction to ensure this production would never be insured anywhere else in the world) becoming a Tarzan/Conan hybrid with a unique fighting style where he can claw people to death (while also doing amaze balls shit like lifting trees straight up from the ground and hucking them at people). Soon the Lion Man returns to challenge the new King and his army as much grappling, forward rolls, mud based healing (…the hell?), leaps that are in no way aided by trampolines just off camera, and a pair of janky steel lion's claws ensue (which come and go during the aforementioned gymnastics).
The Sword and the Claw is a fun one for sure, with it's costuming resembling classic sword and sandal epics from Italy, it's splashes of tempera paint hued blood, absurd flippin' and flyin' and those crazy claws it's like a comic book come to life! There's also no shortage of over-the-top dastardly villains, beautiful babes, and some of the most off-kilter dubbing choices I have heard in a damn sight!
As fun as The Sword and the Claw is, the extras are rather light on this release, with a collection of action flick trailers from the AGFA vaults being the only bonus feature. There is however a second feature included on the disc; 1981's The Brawl Busters (featuring the outrageously named Black Jack Chan). It's a fairly standard period set kung-fu revenge picture (this time with a woman doling out the punishment), but some of the dubbed dialog really "kicks" things up a notch…and a ninja shows up, so you know that earned massive bonus points from me!
The Sword and the Claw stands as both a fun introduction to the wacked-out world of wild n' woolly Turkish cinema, and as a solid sword and sandals affair (with a dash of Tarzan for the shit of it). Give it a shot if you want to throw your brain into park and enjoy some bloody high adventure!
One Million B.C. (1940)
If you're like me (and Dagon help you if you are), you oft times find your mind wandering to that ages old question that scholars have debated for centuries: "What if Romeo and Juliet had some dinosaurs up in that piece?" Well my high thinking fiend, do I ever have an answer for you!
One Million B.C. begins with a professor (sporting a phoney-baloney beard you just have to slap eerie eyeballs on to believe) lecturing some O.G. Bavarian Muv Fuckahs about what life was like for prehistoric man…and from what he says, he obviously received his anthropology degree from Cracker Jack University.com. because it's a yarn replete with cavemen, dinosaurs, woolly mammoths…and sweet, sweet love. Long story short; barrel chested Tumak (Victor Mature) gets ousted from the Rock Tribe, floats down the river like a knuckle-draggin' Moses and finds himself among the Shell Tribe; a more advanced, peaceful lot. Before you can say "Yabba Dabba goddamned Doo" our boy T falls head over hairy heels for the Shell Tribe chieftain's daughter Loana (Carole Landis). This goes over like a fart in a submarine with Tumak's dad (Lon Chaney Jr.), the leader of the Rock Tribe. Will Tumak unite the tribes? Will those real lizards standing in as dinosaurs go apeshit from the glue holding their fins on and tear each other to pieces? Will that ominous volcano spell the end for both tribes?
One Million B.C. is a damn fine action yarn from the Hollywood's Golden Age. While the science may be dodgy, the high adventure element is dialed up so far that the flick enters fantasy territory immediately; and what a fantasy world it is! Mastodons cavort in lands occupied by warring dinosaurs, expert matte paintings and minature present a savage land that would do Frazetta proud, and 'stagey' sets give the environments a surreal flair. Also of not is the acting, especially by the film's leads. Utilizing only nonsense words and pantomime, the cast is able to convey a full range of emotions and generate audience understanding and sympathy…no easy feat!
As for the negatives, those entering this picture expecting it to feature fantastic creature effects like those utilized on it's more well known re-make (1966's One Million Years B.C., featuring breathtaking stop-motion animated creatures created by the legendary Ray Harryhausen) will be left wanting. Real animals made to look huge by photographic trickery, and various costuming accessories are the order of the day (and some groovy,yet threadbare, man-in-suit action) are the order of the day…but the projection techniques that place the actors in the scene with these beasts is really top-notch…so there's lemonade from those lemons after all!
As for extras on this release things are on the light side. Besides the fantastic transfer utilized, we get a photo gallery and an informative audio commentary by film historian Toby Roan…and that's all she wrote.
If you are a fan of One Million Years B.C., or flicks like The Land Time Forgot, The People Time Forgot or even Yor: The Hunter From the Future, this flick will absolutely float your beastly boat; it's fun, filled with action and great visuals, and presents a heightened, imaginative world that's sure to please lovers of barbaric pulp fantasy!


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The exit poll results have been declared on 16th May and there is a surprise consensus across states among agencies except for Tamil Nadu. While all incumbent governments are expected to be thrown out, Mamata in Bengal is expected to be back as CM denying a Congress-Left alliance to make a comeback. There is a bit of a suspense over Tamil Nadu with C-Voter predicting an AIADMK win while others predict Karunanidhi to make a comeback in line with historic trend.
The range of seat estimates is also big especially in case of Bengal with pollsters predicting a simple majority (News Nation 153 seats) to a landslide (India Today 243 seats). This is essentially because a seat by seat exit poll is not conducted and state wide vote share is extrapolated to arrive at seat share. Exit polls point to a direction which way the results will be and they have been successful in this aspect.
While bigger names like C-Voter and Today's Chanakya have come out with their numbers, India Today has partnered with Axis My India, the same agency which got Bihar bang on but its results were not aired by CNN-IBN as they refused to believe them. Axis in the end had the last laugh.
Axis and Chanakya have come up with detailed studies – caste, sex, age, issues, popularity ratings etc. While both point towards the same winner in states the story they narrate is entirely different. Let us analyze the story behind these results.
1. Kerala
This South Indian state has always thrown out incumbent governments for past three decades and this time too trend was maintained. BJP entry made the contest three cornered and threatened the real Hindu party Left in the state. We had mentioned in our article in DailyO that Left is expected to sweep the state and it won't be a close elections like last time. While Chanakya predicts vote share of 42%-37%-15%, Axis predicts 43%-35%-11% in favour of Left.
Overall, the BJP is gaining between 5-9% versus last assembly election with bulk of the damage to the Congress which appears to be losing between 9-11% points while the Left is losing 2-3% points. The scale of anti-incumbency against the Congress is to do with the series of corruption scandals, the Jisha case and the gradual shift of Hindu voters towards BJP.
Both polls show that BJP won more upper caste vote than Congress in Kerala. Chanakya poll also claims that BJP won nearly 30% of the Ezhava vote versus Left at 49%. This could be due to its alliance with Ezhava party BDJS. Further, BJP's best performance came amongst the 18-25 age group. These results could be the first step towards consolidation of Hindu votes in favor of the BJP in Kerala and indicate a bright future for BJP in Kerala.
Chanakya Theme – Left losing vote share across caste groups, but Congress losing more benefitting LDF
As per Chanakya, Left is seen losing Nair (-10%) and Ezhava (-16%) votes to BJP while Congress loss is bigger amongst Nairs (-19%) and Ezhavas (-14%). Congress is seen losing Muslim (-8%) and Christian (-9%) votes as well but this is not going to Left.
Axis Theme – Left losing vote share among Hindus, gaining amongst minorities because of fear of BJP
As per Axis, Left is losing Ezhava (-18%) and SC votes (-16%) which is going to BJP. But this is getting negated by increase in minority community votes from Congress (Muslims +8% and Christians (+12%) which is in line with our prediction for DailyO that even minorities are turning away from Congress. If these trends continue over the next few elections, the two major parties could be Left and the BJP.
2. West Bengal
Mamata is seen getting 200+ seats in both polls however they differ significantly in terms of vote shares. While Chanakya gives vote share of 42%-33%-13%, Axis gives vote share of 51%-29%-10% in favour of TMC.
Chanakya Theme – Left losing vote share across caste groups, Mamata the gainer
Left-Congress combine is seen losing votes from even staunchest of supporters, Muslims (-13%) and STs (-10%) compared to LS polls. Obvious gainer is Mamata. BJP seen losing its upper caste and OBC voters obviously due to absence of Modi factor. Others at 12% is much higher than historic values and may definitely be an overstatement. .
Axis Theme – Left losing vote share among Hindus, Mamata gaining amongst minorities because of fear of BJP
Left-Congress combine is seen losing massive votes from Muslims (-22%), STs (-16%) and SCs (-9%). This is massive having implications for a Congress rout in its citadel Malda and Murshidabad. BJP loses Obvious gainer is Mamata. BJP seen losing half of its Hindu support to TMC. Others at 11% is very high.
As we had opined in our article in DailyO, Muslims hold the keys to victory in the state with influence in 102 seats (35%). A swing in favour of Mamata from the community ensures her victory. However, 45 seats and 70 seats as projected by these two agencies for Left-Congress combine is too low in our opinion as they have historically won 60 / 102 Muslim dominated seats. So their number is expected to be much higher.
3. Assam
BJP looks set to mark its entry in North East with a sweep here. Gogoi suffered from a 15 year anti-incumbency and his failure to form an alliance. Only C-Voter is a dissenting voice here as it predicts a hung assembly with BJP as single largest party. We however opine that this is unlikely to happen. The division of Muslim votes as we had opined in our article in Yahoo has led to this likely defeat for Congress.
As per Chanakya difference between BJP and Congress vote share is 11% which is explained by AIUDF vote share. As per Axis, the difference is 15% out of which 60% is explained by AIUDF which is expected to get 9%.
Both the surveys do not give separate numbers for Assamese & Bengali Hindus, Assamese & Bengali Muslims, Tea garden workers groups. However, AIUDF garners 23%-25% Muslim votes in these surveys accounting for 8% vote share which will likely be the decider eventually
In the Axis Poll, the gap between BJP and the Congress is the lowest amongst lower income voters (8-10%), while it is massive (19% to 23%) amongst middle and high income voters. This trend is worrisome for Congress as more and more voters are likely to move to middle income in the next 5-10 years.
4. Tamil Nadu
DMK led alliance is expected to make a comeback is a setback of sorts as there was no visible anti-incumbency against Jaya govt. However, last mile smart campaigning led by Stalin and voters penchant for change in line with historic trends sealed the deal for DMK. C-Voter and a few regional channels predict AIADMK victory and hence the suspense continues as C-Voter has got Tamil Nadu right for the past 1.5 decades as claimed by them.
Axis predicts vote shares of 39%-37%-24%. This effectively means that DMK has not gained vs 2011 elections (39.4%). AIADMK also has not lost significant vote share (37% vs 38.4% in 2011). However, her erstwhile alliance partners (DMDK and Left) have taken away their chunk of vote share and hit her hard (13%). Axis doesn't predict major gains for DMK across caste groups, however there is a swing from AIADMK to Others across caste groups with highest amongst SC (-15%), BC and MBC (-17%) voters.
Chanakya predicts vote shares of 44%-38%-18%. They estimate that DMK will gain a vote share of 5% from across caste groups with a minor decline of 1% from Muslims. AIADMK vote share is expected to be at same levels as of 2011 with allies taking away almost all of their votes from her.
Jayalalithaa also performed well amongst lower income, lower middle class and women voters. But DMK alliance notched up big leads amongst middle and upper income voters taking an overall lead (Axis Poll). The big issue is what kind of turnout model was considered in the exit poll analysis? If the model wrongly estimated lower number of low/income and women voters than the actual numbers, the final results could even be in favor of AIADMK.This probably explains wide variance in vote share forecasts between varous exit polls.
To sum up, each State has a different story to tell. However, the exit polls in many ways confirmed who will win in Kerala, Bengal and to some extent Assam. Only Tamil Nadu looks a little dicey because of a variety of factors including differing strengths for the DMK and AIADMK. As far as seat shares are concerned, exit polls have a terrible record of estimating them correctly (less than 40% accuracy) so one can be very confident that most exit polls WOULD definitely get the seat forecasts wrong. It is best to sit back and wait until counting day to know the exact seats picture. An entertaining day indeed on the 19th of May 2016.


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Submitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2007-05-03 10:33
The WSJ yesterday had an illuminating interview with David Rosenblatt CEO of DoubleClick about its acquisition by Google.
Mr. Rosenblatt engaged in some pretty effective "spin" so I thought it would be helpful to shine a brighter light on some of his pat answers that were... how should I say it... less than forthcoming.
In response to a question about whether he could reassure web publishers that Google did not have too much market power, he said: "Google shares revenues with publishers so it makes sense that their interests are pretty much aligned."
In response to a question about how DoubleClick intends to address digital privacy concerns, Mr Rosenblatt said:
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I love the word.
But, more than loving the word, I love using it to describe a certain sense of style. Whether in fashion or home decor, it's a style that I think of as carefree, almost careless, indifferent, and definitely not studied or planned. When I think of this style, I almost automatically think of French Country style.
I love the mixing of elements in this image...the sturdy almost masculine ram with the gorgeous undoubtedly feminine white flowers. The image is from one of my absolute favorite home decor books of all time, The New French Decor: Living With Timeless Objects, by Michele Lalande. I have literally spent hours studying the details in the photos in this book...not because I want to copy anything in there (and, even if I wanted to, I couldn't because so many of the pieces are French antiques and rare), but because I want my brain to absorb the elements and the style. For, this is the look I love in my home...that comfortable, unplanned, carefree look that still exudes a sense of style.
Here's another fun one from the same book...incorporating vintage images into kitchen decor...love it!
Don't you just love the use of food and every day objects to enhance a vignette? The eggplants totally make this one divine!
Then, there's Texas designer Carol Bolton, a long time favorite of mine. Look what she's done with an old army cot, painted chair, stump, ball of string and handful of green onions...who would ever think of green onions in a shot like this? I love her furniture...her pairing of different fabrics and trims just tickles me silly. And, I love her liberal use of cheesecloth and gauze (all tea dyed, of course)...beautiful drape, inexpensive and oh so comfortable.
This image is from the book Designers in Residence from Victoria (Claire Whitcomb).
My copy of Comfortable Country by Enrica Stabile is well worn and much loved. These images from the book demonstrate the effective use of everyday objects in designing your home...imagine the use of an old ironing board to prop up a frame or old photo or a woven bark knitting basket...so very cool.
I dream of someday having a studio that is large, open and airy...much like this sunroom, also from the same book. I want a huge farmhouse table to stand in the middle of the room so that I can create from any side and so that I can spread out and make lots of messes :).
Oh, this room just inspires me to create! I think an old army cot like the one put together by Carol Bolton would fit beautifully into this room.
Then, of course, there's the outside...I am always on the lookout for some of the vintage wood/metal French folding chairs like the ones pictured here. I noticed that Ballard Designs had some on sale a couple of weeks ago but I really want them to be crackly and peely...and this shade of blue, which would be so perfect in my backyard. This image is also from Comfortable Country.
I've often thought about the ability of the French to demonstrate this sense of style with such apparent ease. I wonder if it's something that's innate or taught. Are people born with a certain sense of style or do they learn it? I'd really be interested in hearing what you think about this...I don't think there are any right or wrong answers to these questions but rather, just our opinions...would love to hear yours.