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In which Richard E Grant plays an arrogant hotshot Advertising Executive named Dennis Bagley who thinks he can sell anything to anyone. Until he tries to come up with an advertising campaign for a new pimple cream.
He finds himself creatively blocked and becomes so stressed out that he himself develops a boil on the side of his neck, the boil gradually gets bigger as Dennis gets more stressed out and eventually develops a mind, eyes & voice of it's own and starts to take over Dennis's life completely.
There are some wonderfully surreal comic moments in this film & Richard E Grant is hillarious as he starts to act more and more bonkers. I really enjoyed this film.
The 1993 Psychological Thriller Malice stars Nicole Kidman and Bill Pullman as a seemingly happily married couple named Tracy & Andy, who would like to have children. Tracy (Kidman) is a bit of a femme fatale, and manages to entice nice-but-dim Andy (Pullman), aswell as enticing a charismatic arrogant surgeon named Jed (Baldwin) into a decidedly dodgy scheme. However Things go a bit pear-shaped when Tracy is rushed to hospital and is operated on by Doctor Jed.
The film also stars Bebe Neuwirth, George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, Peter Gallagher and Gwyneth Paltrow. It was directed by Harold Becker.
Spiderman 3
Spiderman 3 sees Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) hailed a hero after saving New York from Dr Octopus. However he is still having trouble with his girlfriend Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst), and to make matters worse, his former friend Harry Osbourne blames him for the death of his father Norman A.K.A The Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe), and is determined to clobber him.
Meanwhile an escaped convict named Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church) finds himself caught up in a sinister experiment whilst on the run from the Police and ends up developing some rather interesting powers as a result, which he then puts to good use running amok in the city.
As if this weren't bad enough Peter then finds himself being taken over by a sinister alien life form and starts to behave very oddly indeed, until events are brought to a head by a foolish act and the alien is dealt with, only to find another host with a grievance against Spiderman.
I think this film is quite complicated, it is as if they threw every element at this film in order to make it entertaining, with loads of explosions, chases and exciting bits, that said I still enjoyed it, especially the cameo from Stan Lee – The creator of Spiderman. It's not as good as Dark Night or Watchmen, but it's still pretty exciting.
Heaven's Fall
Heavens Fall is a powerful story set in 1933 which Stars Anthony Mckie, and follows the difficulties of a New York Attorney named Sam Leibowitz (Timothy Hutton) who finds himself in the Deep South defending nine young black men charged with rape.
What first starts out as a Taut courtroom drama eventually sets in motion a legal battle which ultimately changes the course of American Justice forever.
Sleepy Hollow
This entertaining film stars Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones, Richard Griffiths, Ian McDiarmid, Michael Gough, Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee, it is Set in 1799, and is based on Washington Irving's classic tale The Legend of Sleep Hollow. (I wonder if I can get that on Kindle..hmmm)
In it Depp stars as Ichabod Crane, a man who is sent to investigate a number of beheadings, said to be the work of the legendary Headless Horseman, of course being a man of science Ichabod thinks it's all a load of superstitious codswallop, until the horseman gets his chopper out & starts chasing him…..
The film also stars Christina Ricci, and her rather impressive heaving bosom , as Katrina Van Tassel
I am a huge fan of all the Pixar animated films and this is no exception, So recently I thought I'd watch this film again. It is the inspiring story of an old chap named Carl Fredricksen, who, faced with the prospect of losing his house & ending up in a retirement home, decides he wants some excitement in his life (I don't blame him Go for it!).
So, Inspired by his childhood sweetheart & the daring exploits of his boyhood hero, he ties thousands of balloons to his house and sets off for a lost world of adventure. Along the way Carl unwittingly manages to pick up an overeager eight year old Cub Scout named Russell who has never ventured beyond his backyard, he also meets a talking dog named Dug and a rare flightless bird named Kevin.
The Piano
This weekend the Sunday Times Newspaper is giving away a DVD of the 1993 film "The Piano" with the paper. You can also download 5 tracks from the movie as well. I think it's a great film & the music is wonderful, so I would like to get it.
Directed by Jane Campion and taking place in the mid-nineteenth century. It stars Holly Hunter as Ada, a mute woman who has a young daughter, Flora. After an arranged marriage to Stewart (Sam Neill) she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by Flora and her beloved piano and travels to the rugged forests of New Zealand's South Island
At first Life in New Zealand is hard for Ada and her new husband Stewart is not the saviour he first appears to be. She then suffers more torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbour, George (Harvey Keitel). However Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship develops and Ada finds a way out of her miserable predicament…
Adapted from the comic books by Frank Miller & directed by Zack Snyder I think Watchmen is a, fast paced exciting and visually spectacular film, which takes place In An alternate 1980's reality where Richard Nixon is still president of the United States of America, and America stands on the brink of Nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Superheroes are used for secret operations by The US Government, but after an unfortunate incident erupts into violence and innocent people are killed, it then decides to outlaw them. ( The Incredibles spoofed this to great effect)
Then After a former superhero named The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is murdered. his friend, another vigilante superhero named Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) approaches his former colleagues: Dr Manhattan (Billy Crudup), Silk Spectre (Malin Ackermann) Ozymandias (Matthew Goode) & Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson) to find out the truth. Then when Rorshach is framed for murder, so Silk Spectre & Nite Owl decide to rescue him & investigate further. Their investigations lead them to where they least expect it and they uncover a sinister plot to turn the planet against Dr Manhattan by starting a nuclear war, killing millions, and blaming him, and they face a race against time to avert disaster…
The Odd Couple
Neil Simon's hilarious film stars Jack Lemmon stars as a neurotic chap named Felix Unger, who devastated by his recent divorce, decides to move in with his happily divorced friend Oscar (Walter Matthau). Unfortunately Felix likes everything spotlessly clean and Oscar is a total slob, the results are predictably hilarious and they find their friendship being severely tested…
Nobel Son
This really entertaining thriller stars Alan Rickman Mary Steenbergen and Danny DeVito. It tells the story of Barkley Michaelson (Bryan Greenberg) , whose life is in a deep rut who is struggling to finish his PhD thesis.
Meanwhile his father, the learned Eli Michaelson (Rickman) , wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and now Barkley and his long suffering mother, Sarah (Steenburgen), now have the misfortune of living with an insufferable, arrogant chap whose philandering ways have become less and less discreet.
As if Barkley's world is not bad enough, on the eve of his father receiving the Nobel Prize, Barkley is kidnapped and the requested ransom is $2 million – Exactly the same sum as the Nobel Prize money. Eli's selfish refusal to pay soon spurs on a venomous (and very entertaining) tale of familial dysfunction, lust, betrayal and, ultimately, revenge…
Gran Torino
I've also recently watched Gran Torino again, In which Clint Eastwood stars as a grizzled bigoted old curmudgeon named Walt Kowalski, whose prize possession is his 1973 Ford Gran Torino, and is not best pleased when a family of Hmong refugees move in next door to him, especially when the youngest lad Thao (Bee Vang) tries to steal his prized car.
It becomes known that Thao was planning to do it it as part of an initiation into the local gang, but is prevented by Walt. To atone for his disgraceful behaviour Thao is made to do chores for Mr Kowalski and gradually the two of them bond, Walt teaching him all sorts of useful Do-It-Yourself trade secrets for fixing up houses.
Eventually though things come to a head when Thao's sister (Ahney Her) is attacked by the local gang in revenge and their house is attacked, Walt then finds himself drawn into a confrontation with the local Gang and decides to take action….
The Shawshank Redemption.
I've also recently watched this inspiring film Directed by Frank Darabont & Based on a novel by Stephen King. It is Set in the 1940's, and stars Tim Robbins as a chap named Andy Dufresne, a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover and sent to Shawshank Prison.
At first he is lonely & isolated but despite the grim conditions Andy adapts to prison, and realizes there is something deep inside you, that people can't touch and get to….'HOPE'. He eventually gains the respect of his fellow inmates, especially longtime convict "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), a black marketeer, and becomes influential within the prison and epitomizes why it is crucial to have courage, spirit and determination to fulfill your dreams.


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In May 2018, Gary Stager sat down with Change.School founders, Bruce Dixon and Will Richardson for their Modern Learners Podcast, to discuss learning, teaching, school improvement, and a host of other provocative topics. The title of the podcast is "The Lost Art of Teaching with Gary Stager."
You may listen to the conversation or download the audio podcast here or watch the Zoom video below.
My pal Will Richardson asked me to respond to news that the Florida legislature (ground zero for destructive education policies) has passed a bill allowing high school students to substitute "coding" courses for foreign language requirements. (see Florida Senate approves making coding a foreign language)
If you are a toddler learning English as a second language between binge watching seasons of Glitter Force, it's easy to see how "coding" in a programming language and literacy in a foreign language are equivalent.
For adult legislators entrusted with governance, this policy means two things:
- They have no idea what computer coding is.
- When policy makers say that students should "understand" technology or refer to technology as a "basic skill," they reveal a profound ignorance of computer science and have reduced a powerful intellectual pursuit to the level of a bicycle safety assembly or "don't copy that floppy" poster.
- They are finally willing to admit that they don't give a rat's ass about teaching foreign language.
- This may also be a tacit recognition that high school foreign language instruction is mostly torturous and unsuccessful.
When Will tweeted me about the news, a fellow twitterit asked, "Why music can't satisfy foreign language requirements?" While, there is no greater advocate for music education than myself, this newfound willingness to substitute one discipline for a completely unrelated required course is an admission that all course requirements should be abolished. There is so little consensus on what matters. And that may be a very good thing.
Related articles:
- President Obama Discovers Coding – Yippee!
- Code.org – Oy Veh
- Education's Most Dangerous Idea: Curriculum
- Yuck!
- The Secret Key to Girls and Computer Science
In First Chance to Make a Learning Impression, my friend Will Richardson shares his disappointment with the "back-to-school" packets he just received in anticipation of his children's next school year. Will explains how the focus of the packet is on everything but learning.
Just for fun, I set out to see how long it would take to find the word "learning" somewhere in the mix. Nothing on the first page, or the second, or the third…by the time I finally found the first instance I had stopped counting. It was a buried line in a letter from the principal explaining that due to NCLB, every teacher has to be "highly qualified" and that "every teacher continues life-long learning through professional development activities."
Will's 2013 article reminded me of a similar article I wrote for District Administration Magazine way back in 2004. I recommend reading Will's article as well.
Gary Stager on One-sided Parent Contracts
Here's a list of promises I think schools should keep
By: Gary Stager
District Administration, Sep 2004
The back-to-school commercials each summer fill me with dreadful flashbacks of my own days as a student. As a parent, the end of summer is signaled by a last-minute desire to squeeze in a bit more family fun and the arrival of a large ominous envelope from the local high school. The package contains countless documents commanding our immediate attention and signatures in triplicate.
This enormous collection of murdered trees contains countless rules, regulations and a list of innumerable sanctions the school intends to visit upon my child. As if this draconian catalogue of crimes and subsequent punishments were not bad enough, I am then expected to sign the documents, implying that I agree with them.
This recent and disturbing phenomenon leaves me with many unanswered questions. What if I don't sign the forms? When did the local public school become a gulag? Was there a public meeting in The Hague at which these rules and sanctions were compiled and democratically agreed to? Is this the best way to start a fresh school year? Can I have Johnnie Cochran look over the documents before I affix my signature?
If the school expects parents to sign-off on a list of ways school discipline may be enforced, perhaps I can circulate a list of expectations for how I expect the school to educate my child. It only seems fair.
So here's my list, in no particular order:
- School to home communications will be proofread and spell-checked
- Teachers will take reasonable steps to maintain expertise in their subject area
- Homework will be purposeful and only assigned when necessary to reinforce a concept, engage in a long-term project or as the result of work not completed in-class
- Children will be encouraged to play
- Classroom libraries will be stocked with interesting books
- Students will not be treated as numbers
- Teachers will discuss current events with their students
- Students will be encouraged to talk about books they read, not just create mobiles and book reports
- School personnel will publish their e-mail addresses and respond to e-mail promptly
- The school district Web site will be updated more often than every five years
- Class sizes will be 20 or lower
- Teachers will attend at least one professional learning event outside of the school district per year
- Teachers will not talk down to children
- Punishment will be viewed as a last resort
- The school will offer rich visual and performing arts opportunities for all students
- Curriculum will endeavor to remain relevant and connected to the world
- Classroom rules will be developed democratically
- There will be formal and informal opportunities for parents to interact with teachers
- The principal will be accessible to students and parents
- Administrators will make an effort to interact with students in positive contexts
- Student diversity will be valued and celebrated
- Cooperation will be valued over competition
- The school will refrain from sorting, tracking, streaming and labeling children
- Students will play a large role in all aspects of the life of the school;
- Authentic forms of assessment will be used
- A modern functioning computer will be available whenever a child needs one
- Teachers will embrace opportunities to learn with and from students
- The school will take teacher input seriously
- Teachers will feel supported and encouraged to take risks
- Effective models of professional development will be designed and include the participation of the principal
- Equal attention and resources will be applied to the arts as to sports
Will Richardson wrote a nice blog post, "The Thin Value of Proposition," in which he argues that the true value in education is the relationship between teachers and students. Good point.
"By taking the burden of lesson planning and assessment creation for all students at once away from the teacher, administrators can empower teachers to individualize instruction for every student."
Tony,I would argue that the mess we're in is largely the result of twenty years of thinking like you describe. Reducing teachers to technicians who may make decisions about individualizing instruction for each student is impossible since agency to make larger decisions has been steadily robbed from teachers, along with an ability to fight the forces deskilling them. Teachers incapable of deciding what to teach will be less capable of determining how to teach. There is no pedagogical change or dramatic shift in student outcomes possible without an ability to change the intellectual diet provided for children.
Papert used to say that School at best teaches a billionth of a percent of the knowledge in the universe, yet we quibble endlessly about which billionth of a percent is most important – the piece we have always taught. Take mathematics for example, the curriculum and pedagogical approach has remained constant since the Inquisition, despite dramatic societal shifts and the revolutionary impact of computers in real mathematics, not the BS served up in school. Teachers can either be experts in the true nature of mathematics, it's beauty and power or devise little tricks to make a toxic curriculum a tad less poisonous. The result of that decision creates a scenario where we teach "Algebra in Utero," pushing it down a grade level constantly while NAEP scores remain stagnant.
I want children to have teachers who can see a flower, read a short story or use a newspaper article as the basis for connecting lots of disciplines and powerful ideas at any moment to create rich rewarding learning contexts for children.
I'm in Krakow, Poland right now and am staying across the street from sort of school. I walked by today and heard children singing along to a song being played on the piano by their teacher. I don't hear a lot of singing in American classrooms these days.
I became an elementary school teacher at the very end of the era when you needed to learn how to play the piano a tiny bit, teach PE, harvest meal worms and make puppets out of Pop-Tart boxes. We were explicitly talked about how if we saw educational value in playing Scrabble for three months, how to identify the educational objectives being met and write them in our plan book.
For generations, THAT was a teacher. Why do we ask so little of them today?
When I walk into classrooms, rich and poor – private and public, around the world today I see a remarkable return to whole class instruction. Gone are the projects, centers and other joyful spaces for becoming lost in one's own learning. This sad reality may be the result of changing the definition of teaching to the delivery of curriculum and management of classrooms.
The elaborate ruse called differentiated instruction is only necessary because the curriculum is handed down to teachers on stone tablets. If the educators closest to children had the greatest voice in curricular decisions, individualization would be natural.Gary Stager
First, my good friend Chris Lehmann wrote about in "Why I Am Against For Profit Schools," how the school privatization movement (and I would add the Obama administration) have embraced the rhetoric of personalization and individualization to replace teachers with less expensive drill and practice systems. These integrated "learning" systems reduce education to an endless series of multiple-choice quizzes. (read what I wrote about this idea in 1992, Integrated Learning Systems, The New Slavery) They never have worked and never will.
Since the evidence supporting computerized teaching systems has been weak since WWII, the dystopians and their bankers pushing this idea feel compelled to dress it up in fancy names like "Carpe Diem," "Flipped Classroom," "School of One," "Blast," "Khan Academy," etc…. Each of these old wines in new marketing slogans have at their core a desire to reduce the cost of education as low as possible and attempt to do so by replacing qualified educators with 200 terminals, Math Blaster and an armed security guard.
Soon after Chris published his article, our mutual friend Will Richardson wrote "The Thin Value Proposition," in which he too agrees with Chris and argues that the the value in schooling is the establishment of relationships among teachers and students. I often end my speeches by saying that teachers make memories and when students come back to reminisce, they never speak about the time they raised PISA scores or used all of their spelling words in a sentence, they remember meaningful projects teachers created the context for.
I agree with the arguments made by Chris and Will. They perfectly frame the terms of the conundrum many of us who advocate the use of computers as intellectual laboratories and vehicles for self-expression face when more powerful forces wish to use computers as tools of oppression, cost-cutting or antidotes for progressive education. How is it possible to love computers in education and hate the popular implementations of computers in education?
It is questions like this that led me to create The Daily Papert two years ago.
Papert articulated Will's argument twenty-two years ago.
"It is this freedom of the teacher to decide and, indeed, the freedom of the children to decide, that is most horrifying to the bureaucrats who stand at the head of current education systems. They are worried about how to verify that the teachers are really doing their job properly, how to enforce accountability and maintain quality control. They prefer the kind of curriculum that will lay down, from day to day, from hour to hour, what the teacher should be doing, so that they can keep tabs on it. Of course, every teacher knows this is an illusion. It's not an effective method of insuring quality. It is only a way to cover ass. Everybody can say, "I did my bit, I did my lesson plan today, I wrote it down in the book." Nobody can be accused of not doing the job. But this really doesn't work. What the bureaucrat can verify and measure for quality has nothing to do with getting educational results–those teachers who do good work, who get good results, do it by exercising judgment and doing things in a personal way, often undercover, sometimes even without acknowledging to themselves that they are violating the rules of the system. Of course one must grant that some people employed as teachers do not do a good job. But forcing everyone to teach by the rules does not improve the "bad teachers"– it only hobbles the good ones."
Papert. S. (1990, July). Perestroika and Epistemological Politics. Speech presented at the World Conference on Computers in Education. Sydney, Australia.
Seymour Papert began giving voice to Chris Lehmann's concerns as far back as 1968!
"The phrase, "technology and education" usually means inventing new gadgets to teach the same old stuff in a thinly disguised version of the same old way. Moreover, if the gadgets are computers, the same old teaching becomes incredibly more expensive and biased towards its dumbest parts, namely the kind of rote learning in which measurable results can be obtained by treating the children like pigeons in a skinner box."
Papert S. (1980). Teaching Children Thinking in Taylor, R., Ed., The Computer in School: Tutor, Tool, Tutee. New York: Teachers College Press. pp. 161 -176.
Note: This paper was originally presented in 1970 at the IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education in Amsterdam. The paper was published as an MIT Logo Memo No. 2. Nicholas Negroponte reports that Papert first presented this work in 1968.
A few years ago, I turned my friend Will Richardson onto Seymour Sarason's great book, And What Do YOU Mean About Learning? Ever since, Will has been asking people to define learning.
Earlier this week, I had a meeting in Reggio Emilia, Italy where I picked up a pamphlet explaining their awe-inspiring approach to early childhood education. It looks like the sort of document you might see scattered at the DMV or local health clinic, but its contents are profound.
Here is how the infant-toddler centers and preschools of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia define learning:
"Learning as a process of individual and group construction
Each child, like each human being, is an active constructor of knowledge, competencies, and autonomies, by means of original learning processes that take shape with methods and times that are unique and subjective in the relationship with peers, adults and the environment.
The learning process is fostered by strategies of research, comparison of ideas, and co-participation; it makes use of creativity, uncertainty, intuition, curiosity; it is generated in play and in the aesthetic, emotional relational, and spiritual dimensions, which it interweaves and nurtures; it is based on the centrality of motivation and the pleasure of learning."
Infant-toddler Centers and Preschools Isituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia. (2011). Indications – Preschools and Infant-Toddler Centres of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia. page 11.
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I just posted the following a comment on Will Richardson's blog post, How Can You Not Be Angry?
Dear Will,
I salute you. Stay angry!
You may remember that my New Year's resolution was to swear more. That resolution was only partially tongue-in-cheek. We need to scream, swear, pull our pants down, wear costumes and whatever else it takes to save our public treasure (schools) from becoming the plaything of Gates, Murdoch and Broad. We are in deep trouble (kids are in worse trouble) if we don't drop teacher civility and continue to be victimized.
As for swearing, Bill Gates called constructivism – a scientific theory as valid as gravity or evolution – bullshit IN PUBLIC AND IN PRINT. The quote appears within a few sentences of my comments in a recent Wired article. If Bill Gates calls the work of me and my colleagues, mentors and friends bullshit, how should I respond? Set up a VoiceThread? Make an Animoto? Decorate my bulletin boards with orange construction paper?
I always cite Abbie Hoffman as one of my heroes. Satire, mockery, outrageous behavior, civil disobedience and the courage of patriots helped end segregation and the War in Vietnam.
Teachers have changed the world, occasionally even in the United States. In 1964-65, African Americans in Alabama considered voting rights the folly of young people. It wasn't until the TEACHERS of the Selma area refused to accept second-class status and joined the movement that African American adults across the state not only took the issue seriously, but were mobilized to take action. This led to Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettis Bridge and the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Some people, like Congressman John Lewis, had their skulls bashed in so that the rest of us may live up to the promise of America.
Watch http://amzn.to/pSXLZQ and learn how fearless college students changed America, jeopardizing their degrees and risking their lives. Buy the DVD and show it everybody you know.
Apartheid began to unravel in South Africa when thousands of students walked out of school because they were being miseducated (taught Afrikans instead of English). Some children were killed but Apartheid ended less than twenty years later. When countless American urban schools are entirely segregated and the students are fed a steady diet of test-prep, it may be time to end Apartheid education in this country as well.
Frankly, I didn't give much thought to Saturday's March on Washington because progressive educators can't normally organize a softball game, but I plan on being there Saturday. I also signed-on as an endorser.
I will travel cross-country because of the unequivocal DEMANDS listed at http://www.saveourschoolsmarch.org/about/guiding-principles/ It is so refreshing to see educators start demanding what is right, not looking for compromises when none are warranted, ala Barack Obama.
If children cannot count on each and every one of their educators to stand between them and the madness, who can they count on?
Okily Dokily,
On June 26th, The Constructivist Consortium hosted the Fifth Annual Constructivist Celebration prior to the ISTE Conference in Philadelphia. In addition to multiple meals, participants enjoyed a day of creativity, collaboration and computing thanks to software and project-based support from representatives of Tech4Learning, LCSI and Generation YES.
The day culminated with a 37-minute conversation between Will Richardson and myself. I am most grateful to Will for his generosity and participation!
Here is video of the conversation. Regrettably, the first few seconds of the conversation were not captured.
A Conversation with Will Richardson from Gary Stager on Vimeo.
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The Constructivist Consortium is hosting its 5th annual Constructivist Celebration in Philadelphia, June 26, 2011 – the day before the ISTE Conference begins.
Join colleagues from around the world in a day-long minds-on celebration of creativity, computers and constructivist learning.
The Constructivist Celebration features project-based activities geared towards K-12 educators, administrators & teacher educators.
This year's theme is HARD FUN! Educators completing a difficult year deserve some HARD FUN!
After a kickoff keynote by Dr. Gary Stager, participants will select challenges using the open-ended creativity software provided by Constructivist Consortium members, including LCSI, Tech4Learning and Inspiration. In addition to your mind and spirit, you body will be nourished by continental breakfast, hot lunch and afternoon snacks courtesy of our Maggiano's Little Italy! Last year's participants could not stop raving about the food!
Representatives of Generation YES, LCSI, SchoolKiT and Tech4Learning will lead challenges and support project development.
The day ends with time for project sharing and reflection followed by a conversation, "Digging Deeper," with Will Richardson and Gary Stager. I am most grateful to Will for his generosity and willingness to participate!
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I'm in the Sierra Mountains skiing where the altitude has replaced sleeping with hallucinating.
So, unable to sleep, I read Will Richardson's latest blog post at 4AM. Will expands upon a blog post by David Weinberger in which Weinberger asks breathlessly,
"Why did the world shatter at the touch of a hyperlink?"
Weinberger is a Web philosopher, so one can expect that in his world view, the universe is made of "the Web." It is the answer to every question. He also makes the mistake (IMHO) in believing that human behavior, culture and institutions may be reduced to information access.
Weinberger, admittedly one of the smarter "Web philosophers," nonetheless uses the bits vs. atoms analogy first expressed by Nicholas Negroponte in his 1996 book, Being Digital, not to predict technological innovation, but in order to paint a dystopian vision of the present in which "every discipline" is now "a fiction."
Will Richardson expands on Weinberger's theme and writes the following:
"And I'm wondering, deep down, have we known all along that this idea of an "education" was really a fiction, something we created out of necessity with the implicit understanding that in a world limited by atoms, it was never really the end all, be all, but it was the best we could do under the circumstances? And if we didn't know that, can we admit that now?
The circumstances have changed. We're no longer constrained by atoms. For 125 years we've been making the learning world small, and now the world is all of a sudden big…huge. All of a sudden, the walls have been obliterated. Learning is unbound, and "an education" is next."
I fully appreciate Will's impatience with the educational landscape, but I think I disagree with his thesis.
There was no omnipotent power forcing us to make learning small. Besides, some pretty great freakin' stuff was invented over the past 125 years – including the World Wide Web. Diseases were eradicated and great social movements triumphed. The past century gave us Dewey, Patri, Papert, Malaguzzi, Piaget, Kohl, Kozol, Kohn, Sizer, Littky, Meier, Holt, Postman and countless others who reinvented education.
The 1826 book, "Last of the Mohicans," was the most popular book in America at the time of its publication, but is barely readable by literate Americans today. 100-110 years ago, millions of Americans could read and play Ragtime sheet music on their piano. That feat surely "atomizes" the ability of a lot fewer people to demonstrate a whole lot less talent with a much simpler instrument like Garageband today.
We might turn President Obama's recent proclamation, "We do big things," into the question, "We do big things?"
It's weird playing the role of the conservative, but isn't there a hell of a lot we (all) can do to make schools more productive contexts for learning? Can't we teach interesting things in meaningful ways? Can't we develop genuine expertise and share it with our peers and the next generation? Can't we be receptive to the intentions of young people and learn from them – if not skills and facts, perhaps intensity?
It seems to me that the "blow up the past," "extinguish everything that brought us here (good and bad)" stuff is really a cheap parlor trick – pure rhetoric.
Kids may discover how to play with a cello on the Web, but they'll never become a cellist that way. We see how well factual knowledge is obtained when half of America is sympathetic to birtherism. We live in a society where most Caucasians don't know someone of a different race, yet we embrace the "diversity of the blogosphere," which is less diverse than a public bus. How does culture sustain itself and progress? Democracy?
So many questions…
Why do we congratulate ourselves for using Skype? Why do we limit children's computing to keyboarding instruction, Internet research or burping into VoiceThread? Is nothing fixable? Do we need 21st Century skills to supplant time-honored intellectual processes?
Why do we so lack the capacity for self-correction. Why is it safer and more comfortable to behave in a way contrary to the interests of ourselves and the kids we are supposed to serve? Why has the slightest act of disobedience against the curriculum or administrative edict taken on biblical significance? What's wrong with US?
Who can we trust to invent a future when so few of us have the courage to teach as well as we were instructed the first night of teacher-ed? The only reason for despair is if we are truly "the change we've been waiting for."
If you're interested in learning more from the wisdom of our predecessors about how to "educate" better, check out this collection of books provided by The Constructivist Consortium.
You should also check out The Daily Papert and Constructing Modern Knowledge!


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Can you explain how to read the claim ratio and the profit ratio of critical illness insurance shown on this page?
For the top company PRU, the claim ratio is 18.3% and the profit ratio is 27.1%, giving a total of 45.4%. What happened to the remaining 55.6%?
The remaining 55.6% goes towards commission, expenses and increase in reserves.
The claim ratio is very low. For every $100 in premium, the policyholder gets back only $18 in claims. This payout ratio is worse that 4D or Toto!.


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Family Carols 11am
Featuring a children's nativity, Christingle oranges and a special performance from St Mary's school choir. After the service we will be serving mulled wine and mine pies.
Candlelit Carols 6.30pm
We suggest arriving early to get your seat! This service features sing-along carols performance pieces and a nativity photo booth. Mulled wine and mince pies served after the service.
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Candlelit communion service
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Hi from a Bouv lover
Hi all-
I noticed that people tend to read posts and never post, so after reading three or so posts, I decided to introduce myself.
I was led to this forum because we have three dogs at present (a bouvier, a cockapoo and a goldendoodle----all black). My son wants a dog that he can pick up, so we're looking into a Havanese, but my husband wants our next dog to be another Bouv. My hubby has major allergies and asthma, so all our dogs are non-shedding and rather expensive, as a result!!!
When we got our Bouvier, Monk, 12 years ago, we picked the sleepiest, most unresponsive pup in the litter because we had done our research, and had never owned a dog before, so we knew what we were getting into with a Bouv. We were also a single professional couple. Monk quickly stole our hearts with his bouncy Bouvier antics and his momma-boy personality. He was also very responsive to training (both housetraining and obedience training), although he never, ever, ever took to his crate, which we quickly abandoned.
When we had our son 10 years ago, Monk had a job! He stayed with me all through the labor and delivery process and kissed our son on the top of the head as soon as he came out. Ever since then, he has kept a watchful eye on our son, and the two of them have the most incredible, loving bond.
Since the arrival of our other two dogs, Monk has been a respectful big brother after an initial dose of complete indifference to the puppies.
Anyway, he is now 12 years old, and although he can't run as fast as he once did, he is still just as frisky and just as much a puppy and momma's boy as ever.
So, although my husband said no to a Havanese because three dogs is too many, and four would be way over the top, he is now open to the idea of a Havanese, as long as he can get a second Bouvier. Are five dogs in our near future????
Oh, back to how I found this forum....we live in Vermont, so I Googled "Vermont Bouvier" and found Dalmar Bouvier's posts (she's from Vermont). It turns out that her breeding bitch comes from the same highly discriminating breeder as our Monk, Mapleridge Bouviers.
We had to visit Mapleridge a few times prior to being "approved" by herself as well as her older Bouvs, who have a way of telling her if the visitor is an acceptable Bouvier "owner" (for lack of a better term) or not.
Anyhow, sorry for the long-winded initial message, but I just wanted to let y'all know that there is a new member out there who hasn't been perusing the forum for very long before posting.
Glad you stopped in to visit Lori, and even introduced yourself. It sounds like Monk has enjoyed a great life in your family.
Is 5 too many? That depends on the dogs and the family. Some people have problems managing even one dog. Others do fine with more. Mike and I have had multiple dogs for years and it's worked out. The main problem we've had is traveling with the whole crew... we drove two rigs for some years and finally just bought an extended Chevy van that holds everyone.
Hi Lori, welcome. It sounds like for a change the husband is the smart one if he wants a Bouvier.
As Sue said, some people can deal with muliple dogs and even multiple Bouviers. Some people should keep pet rocks (although for a few, that would even be a streach). Also as Sue said, once we got beyound the ability to carry all of our dogs in one Town and Country mini-van, it did start to limit where we could go and how long we could be gone if we both wanted to go. The extended cargo van did give us the ability to haul everyone plus all of our junk and also pull a good size trailer across country a few times. Now we have two elderly Bouvs that we haven't really wanted to subject to long travels for the last couple of years. They just turned 13.
If they all get a long the majority of the time, it can be real rewarding to have more than one or two dogs. They learn from each other as well as have their own personalities. One note about getting another Bouvier. If you haven't been doing much in the Bouvier world, do your home work very carefully. There have been a number of changes (some good some not so good) in Bouviers over the last 10 years, both in health issues and temperment. There are a lot of breeders out there that shouldn't be allowed to breed Bouviers (or any living animal at all for that matter). Like with many breeds, to many see the dollar signs of what they can sell a dog for and completely over look the commitment and dedication it takes to breed healthy and well mannered Bouviers. So do your home work.
Again, welcome to the forum, Lori. You are right, a lot of people read, but not everyone posts. It's unfortunate but many of those interested in Bouviers are not that familiar with forums like this. They are more use to the list forums that come in through your e-mail.
Hi Mike, I'm a new member and was reading your post about how careful one should when getting a new Bouvier. We are very seriously considering getting one, my only apprehension is how well would it do with my 2 young dugthers (they are 5 / 9).
I live in Puerto Rico so I would like to buy from a breeder that has direct flights from their local airport to San Juan as to minimize stress on the puppy. Dallas is a good choice because the flight is only 4 1/2 hours.
Anyway great to be here, hope you're still out there, there is not a lot of activity in the forum and for people like me needing information on this breed the forum is invaluable.
Hi, MJC and welcome.
I've not heard of any Bouvs in PR, but I know a lot of them that would love the location.
Bouviers can get along with kids just as well as any other breed. A lot depends on the temperament of the dog and how the kids treat the dog and how the parents set down rules and guidelines on acceptable behavior of both. Our Bouvs have regularly been around youngsters from crawling rug rats to toddlers to older kids. Some Bouviers have a tendency to want to herd the kids around to keep them all together and some don't think that kids should be running around screaming so try to keep them rounded up and quiet (my kind of Bouvier ) others will start all the ruckus and think the more running and yelling the better.
You are right about shipping on a direct flight. One thing that is even better is, depending on the puppies age, either go get it and carry it in the plane in a Sherpa bag or have someone bring it with them that is coming down there. Sue has carried a number of puppies this way, a couple of times she had two that just fit in one bag that flew with her. It's a good thing the puppies didn't have any growth spurts along the way.
The good thing about this is that there is a lot less stress on the puppies and they are a lot safer because they aren't down in the hold of the plane.
Yes, the forum is not that active. A lot of people read it (when there is something new to read) but unfortunately, most of the people don't do message forums very well. They prefer email lists since they get new messages in their email and they don't have to log on to read them. If I can ever find a program that will let me import and export email from Sue's Bouv List, there will be a lot more traffic in here. The good thing about a message forum like this over a mailing list, you can post and view pictures and someone new can read past threads and not just new mail that comes through.
Again, welcome to the Forum. Sue is the person that knows all the Bouvier info, who's who and who thinks they are but they aren't. I'll let her know you are new on here.
Hi, I have the almost perfect Bouvier. Almost because he suffers from allergies and I cannot find the cause of the allergies. We know the foods to avoid but the source must be from somewhere else. Any ideas ?
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Lately I have wanted to branch out and learn new mediums that I haven't used before. These are some quick watercolor studies i did to help me understand and control the medium.
On these sky studies I wanted to focus on light and mood. These samples are my first attempt at watercolor.
I also wanted to play with textures within the watercolor media. Starting from the top, I investigated: wood, marble, and finally rust. These were just a few of the many studies I am doing to help teach myself a new medium.


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The Nelson Leafs now trail Castlegar 3-1 in the playoff series after dropping a game against the Rebels 7-6 in overtime.
The Leafs fell just minutes into the first period when the Rebels took advantage of some weak Nelson defense and netted a short-handed goal to set the tone for the rest of regulation time.
"It's hard for our goalie to play a strong game when right off the bat he's faced with two on one's and breakaway's," said Leafs assistant coach Stu Linnen.
"The best thing for us to do is to come out in the first 10 minutes and take the play to them so we don't have to play catch-up hockey all game long."
Castlegar scored their second goal only about a minute after their first from the stick of Stuart Walton.
The Leafs wouldn't go down without a fight though, and Matthew Naka was the first to let the Rebels know that with an unassisted goal five minutes into the first period.
The rest of the first period went back and forth between teams as Carson Willians, Max Mois and Nik Newman each added a mark of their own to counter each of the Rebels' goals leaving the final first period score at 5-4 for the Rebels.
Each team played smarter defense for the second period, but the Nelson Leafs started to show signs of frustration, taking five penalties including a 10 minute misconduct penalty for J.J Beitel, who also happened to score the only Leafs goal in the middle period to counter the Rebel's sixth goal.
The Leafs came into the third period charging hard and hoping to tie up the score. Both teams continued to battle hard, however resulting in a very physical game with big hits followed by ample crowd applause.
Just five minutes into the third, Nik Newman suffered a cross-check form Braydon Horcoff that sent him into the boards head first and off the ice for several minutes while Horcoff was given a game misconduct.
With only a minute left in the third period, the Leafs pulled their goalie for an extra attacker in one last effort to send it to overtime, and with 35.8 seconds in regulation time Patrick Martens buried a mark in a mad scramble in front of the net sending fans to their feet.
Despite their efforts, however, the game was ended by Scott Morisseau who slid the puck neatly under Walton.
"Once they got to a quick lead, we didn't fold our tent, we chipped away and clawed our way back and were able to put it into overtime. Unfortunately we didn't get the breaks that we wanted," said Linnen.
"It's a huge loss… now it's a must win situation," said Linnen.
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Teen Vogue criticised over article telling minors how to get abortions
By Maddison Leach|
Teen Vogue has added fuel to the fire that is the raging abortion debate in the US after sharing an advice column that provides a 16-year-old girl with information on how to get an abortion.
In the article author Nona Willis Aronowitz explains to the questioning teen the different laws around abortions in different states, as well as how to access reproductive healthcare without her parents knowing.
In the original question the teen confessed she was pregnant and didn't want to be and was too scared to go to her anti-abortion parents for help, but was unsure if she could terminate the pregnancy without their permission.
With few other details to go off, Aronowitz provided a full rundown of different laws and legislations that govern abortion access in different parts of the US, as well as the judicial process the teen may need to go through to access an abortion without her parent's say-so.
Many pro-choice activists hailed the article as a positive information source, adding that it could be a great resource for other teens unsure of reproductive rights in their states and situations.
But some parents and pro-life activists are up in arms about the column, branding the publication a "disgusting child sex guide."
Conservative activist Elizabeth Johnston, who goes by "The Activist Mommy" online, slammed the article for providing teens with information on how to access abortions.
"As Christian parents, if we aren't willing and able to train up our children, the leftist culture of death is ready and eager to take our place," she opened a provocative blog post responding to the Teen Vogue piece.
"Unborn children have no rights, but teenage children should have all rights to bodily autonomy, including consent to dangerous, irreversible procedures like abortion without their parents' involvement?"
Johnston argued the article encouraged the teen's "desire to kill her child" and focussed largely on the pregnancy, rather than the worried teenage girl carrying it, and claimed that if her parents were to support her abortion, they would be "hypocrites."
She also argued that teens should not be hearing (or reading) about "sexual health and identity" from anyone but their parents, however in the digital age that simply isn't realistic.
Though parents should encourage an open and honest dialogue with their teens the fact is that teens are also looking online for information these days.
Many pro-choice activists argue that it's therefore safer to provide genuine information about abortions online to ensure that teens who look into the topic aren't fed misinformation or damaging myths.
Some teens in strictly anti-abortion households can even face abuse or forced homelessness for seeking or undergoing an abortion, while others may be punished for falling pregnant in the first place.
The fact of the matter is that many teens seek and undergo abortions, and it's safer for them to do so with accurate information provided by trusted sources.
Amnesty International warn that many women who are unable to safely seek abortion will turn to illegal options, which can often result in health complications and death.


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Should I have A Seasonal Or Non Seasonal Menu?
The Juice Bar Experts Podcast. Exploring all things relating to opening and scaling a successful juice bar business. In this episode, we are talking about whether to have a seasonal or non-seasonal menu. Enjoy this episode with your host Andrew McFarlane, founder of the Start A Juice Bar Agency and multiple juice bars, and consultant to juice bar entrepreneurs around the world for nearly a decade.


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Star point guard Darius Garland has a meniscus injury in his left knee and is out indefinitely, Vanderbilt announced Saturday morning.
Garland suffered the injury early in the Commodores' game against Kent State on Friday.
A 6-foot-2 native of Nashville, Tennessee, Garland was the No. 1 point guard in the 2018 high school class and is a projected lottery pick in the 2019 NBA draft. He is averaging 16.2 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game while shooting 47.8 percent from 3-point range. He scored 33 points Monday during a win over Liberty.
"He's going to get some further testing tonight. Hopefully we get some good news in the next 48 hours," Vanderbilt coach Bryce Drew said after Friday's game. "We will obviously be careful with his injury. He obviously has a bright future in basketball, and we just want to make sure we give him the best care we can for him to figure out what's the plan of attack."
Without Garland, Vanderbilt suffered its first loss of the season, 77-75 to Kent State. Sophomore Maxwell Evans saw an increased role in Garland's absence, playing 21 minutes and finishing with 8 points and 4 rebounds.
The Commodores host Savannah State on Tuesday and face NC State in Miami next weekend.


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Barents cooperation
A Framework Programme for 2016–2019 has been adopted for the Joint Working Group on Health and related Social Issues (JWGHS) of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council. The priority areas of the Framework Programme are:
- Prevention of non-communicable diseases, including reducing threats related to lifestyles and the environment
- Prevention of communicable diseases
- Strengthening health systems and social services within healthcare.
In the priority areas, the focus will be on:
- Prevention of HIV/AIDS
- Prevention of tuberculosis
- Supporting children and young people who are in danger of social exclusion.
In 2018-2019, Norway will be chairing the Joint Working Group on Health and related Social Issues of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council. Komi Republic will act as vice chair.
JWGHS usually meets twice a year. Regions involved and joint project implementers present their topical reports at the meetings.
Further information
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Prime Minister' Private Industry and Investment Advisor Salman F Rahman has emphasised the need for creating skilled manpower to take the country forward economically.
"Foreign workers are taking away four to five billion US dollars' worth every year through their employment in Bangladesh. This is never desirable for us," he said, adding that "they can take the money because their efficiency is higher than us in some sectors. We have to increase our efficiency in all of these".
Salman F Rahman was addressing a workshop on 'Formulating National Action for Skill Development', organised by the National Skills Development Authority (NSDA) at a hotel in the capital yesterday.
He pointed out: "We have long been one of the top producers in the garments industry but the irony is that we still need manpower here from outside. In this case, we haven't been able to increase the efficiency of our own people." "Our Prime Minister has set some targets for the country's economic development. If the targets are fulfilled, we can move to a better position by 2041. But to fulfil these targets, we have to increase our skills." He reiterated that such progress would not be possible without proper skills development.
Salman F Rahman, also a Member of Parliament (MP), said the Prime Minister has set some issues to enhance efficiency. She has taken the initiative to establish the NSDA. She has also put some sectors, which are more important for the country, under her jurisdiction. "Since this is an important issue, she is looking into the matter herself," he added.
Salman F Rahman cited Japan as an example, saying that some Japanese organisations are working here in Bangladesh, which are "taking the people of our country to their country by increasing development in skills".
"In many cases, a number of people cannot go outside as there is lack of co-ordination," he observed.
"In recent times, Japan is said to have taken four lakh workers from nine countries, but Bangladesh was not included there. The Prime Minister then requested Japan to name Bangladesh, in view of which we had an MOU with them. Basically, these four lakh people will go to Japan for construction purposes. But they need to develop their skills in order to serve the purpose of the Japanese," he added.
"The biggest thing is that I will send people to a foreign country by increasing their skills. But if I don't do it for my own country, it will affect the domestic market," he noted.
He emphasised the fact that Bangladesh has become digital now, mentioning that many years ago, when the Prime Minister said this, many people had made fun of it. "You may not be aware that 85 per cent of the unions in the country have access to broadband internet through fibre optics. That means there are about 6,000 unions with internet connectivity. The remaining 15 per cent is to be completed within the next year."
He mentioned that in neighbouring India, people have to pay INR 1,200 for 1 Mbps-speed internet, which Bangladesh has given for only Tk. 500.
He talked about bringing the freelancers, who are currently working as programmers for other countries, under a registration list with the information and communication technology (ICT) ministry.
He said there are about 10 lakh freelancers in the country and if they can be put on a list, the country's economy will be further enhanced through them.
Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister's principal secretary, Md. Nojibur Rahman, said, "To keep pace with the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we have to transform our population into manpower."
"The Prime Minister has already approved a manpower structure. This framework will work on how to increase manpower further. Basically, the young people should be given a chance. They will take advantage of it if they get the chance," he said.
Md Salim Reza, the secretary of the expatriates' welfare and overseas employment ministry, said: "We have to increase our manpower to develop the country within 2041."
"There are 1.2 million Bangladeshis working abroad now. There is opportunity in new, other countries where we could send manpower, which would help develop our country's economy," he said.
Md. Faruque Hossain, executive chairman (and secretary in-charge) of the NSDA, chaired the programme.


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Forces to Flyers is a three-year research initiative led by the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) and its Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.
The research initiative will study pathways for entering the pilot workforce, identify barriers to pilot training and employment, and implement and evaluate a demonstration initiative that will provide flight training to veterans without prior military pilot experience who are interested in becoming airline pilots. The results of the research will be used to help to determine how to assist veterans' transitions to new careers as airline pilots and thereby preserve air service to rural and small communities.
January 2019 Update
The 44 slots for veterans to participate have all been filled and the participants have begun their training to become commercial airline pilots. There are no slots available for additional participants.
Selected Flight Schools
The following flight schools were awarded contracts as part of the Forces to Flyers research initiative:
- Western Pacific/Northwest/Mountain/Alaskan Region: Leading Edge Aviation, Inc. – Bend, Oregon
- Central/Great Lakes Region: CTI Professional Flight Training, LLC – Millington, Tennessee
- Southwest Region: U.S. Aviation Group, LLC – Denton, Texas
- Eastern/Southern Region: CTI Professional Flight Training, LLC – Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Training Provided
Under the contracts, the flight schools will provide the training necessary for up to 44 students to earn the following certificates and ratings:
- Private Pilot Certificate
- Instrument Rating
- Commercial Pilot Certificate
- Multi-Engine Rating
- Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) Certificate
- CFI-Instrument (CFI-I) Certificate
After receiving a CFI-I Certificate, participants will be able to seek employment as flight instructors while obtaining the flight hours necessary to qualify for an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate (ATP) and become an airline pilot.
Solicitation Attachments and Additional Resources
Eligibility requirements for participants and other supporting information regarding the contracts can be found in the documents listed below.
For Offerors (Flight Schools)
For Student Applicants (Veterans)
|Combined Synopsis/Solicitation No. 6913G618R200012
Attachment 3: Flight School Checklist for Student Eligibility
|FAQs for Veterans
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Other Materials : enamel and fine silver foil |
Fitting Type : Post or Stud |
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The Lehigh & New England Railroad: Volume 1
John Pechulis Media
Format: DVD-R
Length: 63 Minutes
Time Period: 1949-1961
Locations: Pen Argyl, Catasauqua, Bethlehem, Allentown
Sources: Charlie and Ken Bealer, Arthur Angstadt, Randolph Kulp (collection)
The Lehigh & New England was a rarely filmed railroad. To have a complete show from John Pechulis Media, is a compelling reason to view this program. LNE was probably remembered by most for it's fried egg logo. An attractive paint scheme for the fleet of Alco locomotives is also memorable. Nice scenery and classic structures, are another positive.
As we will see, the LNE is a great railroad, for railfans and model railroaders.
This railroad was out of business in 1961. Safe to say, many viewers will need some historical background. Operations are another part of the story. Maybe a little bit of steam. Connecting lines would put the railroad in context. Long defunct, Alco is a perfect match too. In a perfect world, railfans can wish for clean film, and in color.
That is a tall order….
Start with the usual basics. There is no chapter menu, or chapter search. Maps are included. No previews or extras. Narration and synchronized sound, and some music are the soundtrack. Films are mostly color. Still photos are displayed to augment the storyline. Contains elements of a PBS style show. Single disc, DVD-R, in a sturdy plastic case with nice artwork.
The program is organized with a chapter format. Early origins, and chronological progression. Later, the territory being covered is the basis. Various types of maps outline the lines shown. Traditional paper style railroad route maps, and some custom maps. The information and locations are well done.
Three narrators are within this show. John Pechulis is our host.
Mike Bednar is the gravel voiced main narrator. A retired towerman and block operator with Lehigh Valley into Conrail, he offers plenty of first hand knowledge. Occasionally, some words are a bit hard to discern. It's a trade-off versus a hired performer.
Mike knows the operations as a professional. He has authored books on anthracite coal roads as well. It is unusual to hear a narrator call the names of the people in the scenes. The show benefits from the insider view of the railroads. The way he discusses a wreck of FA locomotives will enlighten viewers.
Ken Bealer has some commentary, about shooting some scenes with his brother. He was employed as a crew dispatcher by Lehigh Valley, until Conrail discontinued the yard clerk jobs in 1988. Coming from a railroad family, he had been in towers with his father as a boy.
Big news is the production of the source 8mm films. While an average 1950's era film can have multiple issues, they are the common source for the time period. Color balance, grain, specks, streaks, and a lack of sharpness, can detract from viewing.
John Pechulis has worked some real magic with this rare collection.
To The Trains….
Picture quality is excellent overall. Scenes like this are stunning! The images are handcrafted. Attention to detail that exceeds the original films. Fantastic results!
A trio of Alco RS-3 locomotives. The soundtrack is excellent. Burbling engines and single chime 1950's airhorns. The narrative is the bulk, but the train sounds are sweet.
A 1958 view of the LNE crossing Lehigh Valley at Catasauqua Tower.
Pen Argyl was the main facility for LNE. While the main buildings are all included, this view contains the Alco S-2 switchers. A nice tour has the roundhouse and transfer table.
Although the paint is deteriorating on some Alco FA's, they were still reliable.
Lehigh Valley had success with Alco PA's in freight service. Here, is where the interchange yard. Jersey Central, New Jersey Zinc and Reading, also are seen in cameo roles.
Check the cameraman at lower right. This is 8mm…. amazing!
Mike Bednar knows why this scene was filmed after 1958. You will too.
Seldom seen, these 40′ boxcars are all-time classics. This frame could make a case for a 3 pack special in HO scale. On the roofwalk, a crewman relays hand signals, no radios!
This curve looks tight! Model railroaders often have trackage like this.
The Lehigh & New England Railroad has plenty, for both railfans and model railroaders. A chapter menu would be handy to have. At a minimum, a chapter search should be available. While missing a common DVD chapter standard, it plays like a train video. The show itself is amazing. Contains rarity of subject, and overall excellent quality.
For viewers used to smooth announcers, Mike Bednar may take some getting used to hearing. He knows the material and is an expert on these trains. Where else does the narrator actually know the railroaders in the scenes? He is a good fit for the show.
John Pechulis has produced this high quality program. The LNE certainly had a unique charm. Anyone with an interest in classic trains will find this show enjoyable.
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Incorrigible Optimists
Over the last 63 years the cause of Palestinian statehood has made a lot of progress. From a "state of the mind" (which, of course, refers to some mental attitude, rather than a sovereign territory), Palestine has moved "closer" to becoming a "virtual state."
Now, let me explain a little more. First, by framing my statement in this fashion I am trying to be closer to the generally buoyant mood of my fellow Indian Muslims on the issue. The UN General Assembly is likely to consider a proposal by the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who is more president of a Bantustan called "West Bank" than that of whatever is left of the historical Palestine after relentless Israeli illegal annexation and settlement building for the last 44 years.
A look at the present map, especially of the West Bank, would clearly show that the idea of a sovereign state of Palestine is a huge joke played upon the Palestinians, other Arabs, Muslims of other areas, and almost all people of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The whole former colonial world knows that the former colonising countries of Europe and their ally United States have played a huge joke on the Arabs. Hence, like always, the entire Afro-Asian and Latin American world will vote for a Palestinian state even if it is no more powerful than a small town municipality. This is so because they cannot do anything more than that. The UN General Assembly has always backed Palestine heavily because it has a preponderant majority of formerly colonised countries that know the sorrow of a colonised people, identify themselves with the Palestinians, and empathise with them.
However, they are still as powerless as ever, despite their huge numbers. The United States, as a matter of habit or a reflex action, ends up vetoing in the Security Council everything that can provide the slightest relief to the Palestinians. And that puts an end to everything. The European Union stands behind the US in its blatantly unfair and unjust stance on the issue. Even Russia and China, which often try to resist US-EU blackmail on issues of their national interest, mostly stand aside and watch.
That being the case, how do we justify so much of optimism on a Palestinian state coming up anytime too soon as we so often hear Indian Muslims talking about? In fact, this incorrigible optimism, that borders on romanticism, is an old trait in our way of looking at things.
Our people tell us that optimism is part of the Islamic perspective on life: La taqnatu min rahmitillah (Don't despair of God's mercy). However, there has to be some distinction between optimism and naivety. What Indian Muslims (and quite a few Arabs and others) have been showing so far can be described as an extremely simplistic stance.
Yours Truly has always found it disturbing the way we have rushed to believe the nice words of people like George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama. There are quite a few among us who are always prepared to delude themselves and others about America's good intentions regarding Palestine. Such delusions take various forms, including hilarious and ludicrous.
When George W. Bush came to the While House in his first term, one of the worthies of Urdu journalism, who has been the editor of a newspaper for several decades, sought to enlighten like-minded listeners at a talk on prospects for a Palestinian state in the near future.
This editor told the gathering that it was a good omen for relations between the US and the Muslim world, and that prospects for a Palestinian state had brightened "because there is no Jew in the new Administration." Perhaps he had not heard of key figures like Carl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz and others. Nor did he seem to be aware of the agenda-setters at PNAC, half of whom were not only Jews, but quite often hard core Zionists, and directly related to the Israeli security establishment. (By now, at least, this worthy editor should have known the PNAC agenda behind the crusade against Muslim countries.)
The audience seemed to agree with what he said, including the interpretation that Mr Bush would be the champion of Muslim causes as against Al Gore, the villain of the piece.
Quite obviously, the choice between Mr Gore and Mr Bush was not between the villain and the hero, but between a pair of villains as suggested by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev at the time of the electoral battle between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon for US presidency. When asked about his choice between the two, he said there was no choice between the shoe on the left foot and the shoe on the right foot.
Never prepared to learn from past follies, our people had another round of elation and celebration when Obama came to the White House. Obama was the hero now and George W. was consigned to the rogue's gallery in the company of Gore and assorted villains.
Yours' Truly must admit that what was a euphoric moment for the qaum was the dark hour for him. The qaum was not celebrating the progress of an African American from his humble Uncle Tom's Cabin to the majestic White House (which could be understandable), but Mr Obama's middle name, "Hussein." One senior Muslim journalist told like-minded guys, "After all, Obama is the son of a 'Muslim' father. He would take care of Muslim causes." He did not seem to mind the fact that the Senior Obama used to describe himself as an agnostic. From this journalist's reckoning, one can be both an agnostic and a Muslim.
One of the senior journalists (who also writes in Urdu) told Yours Truly assertively that Mr Obama was a closet Muslim, adding: "You will see. Let the time come."
Now, compare this naivety to the clear-headed title of an article in New York magazine that calls Mr Obama "The First Jewish President" (reminiscent of the black Nobel Laureate Tony Morrison's article calling Bill Clinton "The First Black President" for his sympathetic stance on Blacks).
Mr. Obama has come out in full support of Israel's rejectionist position on Palestine. It is worth reading Al Jazeera's senior political analyst Marwan Bishara about Obama contradicting everything he said earlier on Palestine: "But that's not the Jewish position. It's a radical Zionist position. Many Jews, including US and Israeli Jews, do not embrace such extremist views."
How come Mr Obama has made such an about-face, vaporising the hopes raised in his Cairo speech a couple of years ago? Bishara says: "…Obama's career was built on his relationships with generous Jewish contributors in Chicago."
In an article in the latest issue of Time magazine an Israeli cabinet minister, Uzi Landau, uses the menacing language of a street goonda to threaten the Palestinian Authority President: "Abbas will regret this", and "Israel will respond accordingly" if the Palestinians bring the issue to the General Assembly. With Obama firmly behind Israel, the threat could mean anything.
So much of US-Israeli bullying is coming not to thwart a proper state, but a virtual one. The difference between the real and the virtual is that between sleeping with a woman and watching a pornographic movie. In the first case the woman is real, in the second she is a "virtual" woman, a phantom inside your head.
Finally, a word to our qaum in India. Please don't delude yourself. Don't be credulous. Learn to wait. The time for celebration has not come yet. It will take some time coming.


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52 Create, my weekly creative outlet for 2011… I've been looking at spoons lately. Carved wooden spoons to be precise. You can find them all over the net, but most of them look far too nice to ever use. I'm also a firm believer in having less things in life, so why not combine two of the most useful kitchen utensils ever?
I bring you the Spatoon, 50% spatula, 50% spoon, 100% awesome. Ok so it's not that great, it's more of a prototype really. I was glueing up some blanks to make some wooden rings and I wasn't paying attention and glued two pieces with the grain parallel. Not so good for rings, but fine for a spoon. It's made from maple and walnut, which I like not only for the colour combination, but also for the ice-cream reference. Next time I'll make the spoon a bit wider, maybe the spatula as well. I'd also like to do a bit more shaping with it, but not bad for a first go round. Probably won't finish this one, but if I did I would use sesame or walnut oil.
My other 52 create projects.


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Film & Television
'The Punisher' Season 2 Trailer Has Frank Castle And Jigsaw In A Bloody Battle
A full trailer for Season 2 of Marvel's The Punisher has been released, and it's just as you'd probably expect: very bloody and violent. We get a good look at what Frank Castle has been up to since we last saw him, as well as his old buddy, Billy Russo – who has healed considerably since the last time we saw his face getting mashed in. He's obviously Jigsaw on this season – but won't be referred to as Jigsaw, I guess.
Either way, here's the new trailer for you to check out:
As always, some fan reaction:
— alex(is) | #karenreturns (@ltfrankcastIe) January 10, 2019
That's up to the kid. pic.twitter.com/UY10dEhWsg
— The Punisher (@ThePunisher) January 10, 2019
— The Punisher (@ThePunisher) January 10, 2019
Exactly. These scumbags aren't with the program. pic.twitter.com/LnGqCog5YG
— The Punisher (@ThePunisher) January 10, 2019
Penny and dime.
— The Punisher (@ThePunisher) January 10, 2019
The official synopsis for Season 2 of The Punisher reads:
Former marine-turned-vigilante Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) has been living a quiet life on the road until he suddenly becomes embroiled in the attempted murder of a young girl (Giorgia Whigham). As he is drawn into the mystery surrounding her and those in pursuit of the information she holds, Castle attracts a new target on his back as new and old enemies force him to confront whether he should accept his destiny and embrace a life as "The Punisher."
Steve Lightfoot (Hannibal) serves as showrunner, writer and executive producer. The cast also features Ben Barnes (Billy Russo), Amber Rose Revah (Dinah Madani), Jason R. Moore (Curtis), Josh Stewart (John Pilgrim), and Floriana Lima (Dr. Krista Dumont).
The Punisher Season 2 premieres on Netflix on January 18th.
What did you think of the show's first trailer? Are you excited for Season 2 of The Punisher? Be sure to tell us all of your thoughts in the comments down below!


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Happy Monday!
If you're going for more of a casual look, this is for you! One of the best things ways to save money when building your wardrobe is to have some go-tos that you can add statement pieces to, to make it different every time you wear it.
The big statement piece here is the pink coat! Mine (technically it's my mom's!) is from Old Navy and while they don't have the same exact one right now, they still have a very nice pink one!
So what else, you can't go really go out without anything underneath!
I'm going to skip over the jeans, I'm sure you all have jeans at home (dark wash isn't necessary!). I'm going to skip over the sweater as well because I'm sure you can find this in your closet as well! I would suggest going with a neutral like gray, black, or cream!
You're also going to need a statement necklace! I'm wearing my favorite one from J. Crew Factory.
The last must have is a simple black purse. I worked at DSW the summer before I went away to college and it's such a great place to get purses! Kelly & Katie is one of my favorite brands for shoes and purses!
And the last thing: just break out your favorite boots! Whether their higher or ankle booties, they tie this look together!
Stay stylish!


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This moist, simple cake has a tender golden crumb and a subtle citrus flavor. I love a thin slice—okay, a thick slice—in the middle of the afternoon with coffee, but it's also well matched with summer berries and stone fruits. My husband enjoys it for breakfast. Accompany the cake and fruit with a dollop of the Yogurt Cream, if you like. In winter, pair the cake with a citrus compote or poached quince.
This recipe is adapted from one given to me by Bill Corbett, executive pastry chef for the Absinthe Group in San Francisco, who uses yogurt frequently in his desserts. The cake stays moist for a week if stored in a lidded plastic cake container.
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- One 9-inch cake
- For the cake:
- 1 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup plain whole-milk yogurt
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 1/2 teaspoons grated lemon, Meyer lemon, or orange zest, or a combination
- 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/8 teaspoon kosher or sea salt
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- For the yogurt cream:
- 1 cup plain drained yogurt or Greek yogurt (not nonfat)
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup heavy cream, whipped to firm peaks
- Preheat an oven to 350°F. Butter the bottom and sides of a 9-inch round cake pan with 2-inch sides. Line the bottom with parchment paper and dust the sides with flour, shaking out the excess.
- Sift together the flour and baking powder in a bowl.
- In a bowl, whisk together the yogurt, oil, zest, vanilla, and salt.
- In a stand mixer fitted with a whip, beat the eggs on medium speed until frothy and well blended. Add the sugar gradually. Raise the speed to medium-high and whip until the sugar dissolves and the mixture is thick and pale, stopping the machine to scrape down the sides of the bowl at least once. Lower the mixer speed and add the yogurt mixture gradually. Add the dry ingredients gradually and beat just until well blended.
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We can't wait for the premiere of MOANA!! 🌺
The music, the story, the culture, and Hawaiʻi's own Auliʻi Cravalho and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson!!
So much excitement!!
During the weekdays, this is the "hot" spot of a new construction activity in town. Tinkering sounds shower down from somewhere up in the sky and neon-yellow dots of workers in the still hollow concrete frames highlight how high they are going up.
On Saturday mornings, it is quite a contrast that you can munch on your favorite food and enjoy live music under the soaring blue sky at Kaka'ako Farmers' Market (Saturdays, from 8 a.m. to noon). The mauka-side parking lot of the Ward Warehouse is literally transformed into a long swath of farmland where you can find a load of Hawaii-grown bounty. It is amazing how much you can learn about Hawaii's local farms and their sincere dedication to our well-being in a short casual stroll.
As is always the case with anywhere in the Islands, fresh crisp greens are the first-grab for many of us. A packaged green mix or neatly wrapped lettuce goes out fast here too. Pick some bunches of green lettuce and cabbages just arrived from the Big Island at the Kozen Farm's tent. This is the only place in Oahu where you can taste Kozen's vibrant greens grown in the rich soil of Waimea.
Join us this Sunday October 16 at the Hawaii Theatre for the Hawaiian Concert Series: 100th year Kamaka Ukulele Celebration, featuring Jake Shimabukuro! Jake Shimabukuro is a well known ukulele player known for his amazing complex finger work. Today he plays the popular "Kawika" mele
The journey of the 'Ulu (breadfruit) to the Hawaiian Islands began as early as 300 A.D. Polynesian people traveled the Pacific by way of their mighty canoes, and the 'Ulu was the perfect staple food to keep them company during these long sea voyages. An old double-hulled canoe boasted great storage rooms where pigs, dogs and even fowl were the guests onboard. And this was also the perfect place to store the 'Ulu. Experienced Polynesian seafarers sailed thousands of miles with a solid stash of cut, dried, and fermented 'Ulu that could last up to three months! It's no wonder that it was also known as a "canoe plant".
Originally from Papua New Guinea, the 'Ulu traveled greatly beyond the Pacific on the ships of the Western explorers as well. Their voyages traced over the strands of precious little Pacific islands where Polynesians had been traveling for thousands of years, and then reached as far as the Caribbean and Africa.
Today we feature another of our favorites: Paula Fuga in "Country Road" with Jack Johnson.
Leading up to the Oct. 16 Kamaka Ukulele 100th Anniversary Celebration at the Hawaii Theatre, we'll be featuring our favorite songs from performers that will be playing.
Here's Ho'okena with He Wahine U'i:
Literally translated as The Beautiful Wahine, He Wahine U'i is a kolohe song about the love of many different flowers, or sweethearts.
Tickets on sale at hawaiitheatre.com and at the Hawaii Theatre Box office. See you there!
The Hawaii Mamo bird is a tiny black honeycreeper with golden yellow feather accents on its shoulder, tail coat and legs. Because of its deeper hue of yellow, Mamo's yellow feathers were much more valued and used to plait the magnificent feathered ornaments which were reserved only for the ali'i (chief) and high-ranking warriors in Hawai'i.
Endemic to the Island of Hawai'i, the bird is now extinct due to the change of their habitat. Some reports indicate that the last time the Mamo was observed, was in Kaumana (Hilo) in 1895.
The Dodgers hosted the annual All Access Event September 1st at Dodger Stadium where participants toured the stadium and enjoyed a buffet dinner on the infield. There they listened to the panelists about the front offices and listened to popular current players share stories about the season.
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When it comes to bottled water, there are two primary categories of water that you should be aware of: Purified and Natural.
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Did you know that Diamond Head was the first United States military reservation in Hawaiʻi with Fort Ruger being built directly in the interior of the crater?
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Formed more than 100,000 years ago, the crater was used as a strategic military lookout since the early 1900's and was named a National Natural Monument in 1968. These days, the crater is home to one of Oahu's most popular hiking destinations and one of the most iconic landmarks to come out of Hawaii.
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FineWaters and the Fine Water Society, in collaboration with the Water Expo Guangzhou conducted their 2nd annual International Fine Water Tasting Competition in Guangzhou on July 1st 2016.
Over 70 of the World's finest waters participated in the blind taste tests. No processed water or municipal water were admitted to the tasting competition. After all the tasting was done, Hawaiian Springs walked away with the Gold taste award for the Still Category of Low Minerality!
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Opening on March 11, 1901, the Moana was the first hotel to call the beautiful and iconic Waikīkī home. Rested upon land that was once home to Hawaiian royalty, the Moana became the center of Waikīkī's growing popularity...
Every year, Da Hui holds an annual paddle race from Turtle Bay & Sunset Beach, culminating at Waimea Bay on the North Shore of Oahu. Over 600 watermen from across the world entered the competition with courses ranging from OC1 world class competitors to the SUPZILLA.
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Naupaka is a shrub found in the mountains or near the shores of Hawaiʻi beaches that bears glossy green leaves and white flowers that resemble only half of a flower. The legend of these half-flowers come from Kauaʻi and honors the love between two young students, Nanau and Kapaka.
Nanau and Kapaka were haumāna, students, of a hula hālau who were expected to memorize long chants and dances as well as obey strict kapu (prohibitions) and protocols.