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FSF3U Core French – Grade 11 (University)
PREREQUISITE: Core French, Grade 10, Academic
GRADE: 11 (University)
AVAILABILITY: Full-Time – All campuses, Private – All campuses, International Summers Programs, Blyth Academy Online
THE ONTARIO CURRICULUM: French as a Second Language
FSF3U online offers students extended opportunities to speak and interact in real-life situations in French with greater independence. Students will develop their creative and critical thinking skills through responding to and exploring a variety of oral and written texts. In FSF3U online, students will continue to broaden their understanding and appreciation of diverse French-speaking communities and to develop the skills necessary for life-long language learning.
UNIT ONELes Journaux français
- Cette unité se concentre sur les journaux et la compréhension de lecture. On va réviser le présent, le futur, le passé composé, et l'imparfait et apprendre de nouveaux mots de vocabulaire. On va discuter des stratégies pour la compréhension de lecture et on va pratiquer ces stratégies.
- In this unit, students will focus on newspapers and reading comprehension. Students will revise the present, the future, the past and the imperfect grammar tenses and learn new vocabulary words. Students will look at reading comprehension strategies put these skills into practice.
UNIT TWOPoésie
- Cette unité se concentre sur la poésie française et le français oral. Nous allons pratiquer la bonne prononciation des consonnes et voyelles. Nous lirons la poésie française et discuterons de différents poètes bien connus.
- In this unit, students will focus on French poetry and oral communication. Students will analyze famous French poems and poets and explore the poetry form and said authors use these techniques to express their thoughts and emotions. Students will also practice the correct pronunciation of consonants and vowels.
UNIT THREEAutour du monde
- Cette unité se concentre sur la communauté française autour du monde. Nous allons apprendre comment conjuguer le futur antérieur, le conditionnel et le plus-que-parfait. Nous allons aussi apprendre comment utiliser les bonnes prépositions.
- In this unit, students will focus on the French community around the world. Students will learn how to conjugate important French tenses that will allow them to communicate their ideas and thoughts regarding global French culture and language. Students will also learn how to use the prepositions correctly.
UNIT FOURLa Musique française
- Cette unité se concentre sur la musique française et la culture française reliée à la musique. Nous allons apprendre comment utiliser les différents pronoms et apprendre de nouveaux mots de vocabulaire. Nous discuterons des différences entre le langage soutenu et l'argot.
- In this unit, students focus on French music and how it reflects French culture. Students will learn how to use the different pronouns, in addition to learning new vocabulary words. Students will also discuss the differences between traditional and colloquial language.
UNIT FIVEÉcrivains
- Cette unité se concentre sur les histoires françaises. Nous allons lire différentes fables et contes folkloriques et discuter des différences entre les deux genres. Nous allons apprendre comment identifier le passé simple.
- In this unit, students will focus on French stories. Students will read different fables and folklores and discuss the differences between the two genres. Students will also learn how to identify the simple past tense within their studied texts.
FINAL EXAMProctored Exam
- This exam is the final evaluation of FSF3U online. Students need to arrange their final exam 10 days in advance. All coursework should be completed and submitted before writing the final exam, please be advised that once the exam is written, any outstanding coursework will be given a grade of zero. The exam will be two hours. There are two options for taking the exam:
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Barrett, L. F. (2020, July 8). Opinion | College Courses Online Are Disappointing. Here's How to Fix Them. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opinion/college-reopening-online-classes.html
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Hubler, S. (2020, June 28). 'We Could Be Feeling This for the Next Decade': Virus Hits College Towns. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/us/coronavirus-college-towns.html
- Jun 2020
Huckins, J. F., dasilva, a., wang, w., Hedlund, E. L., Rogers, C., Nepal, S. K., … Campbell, A. T. (2020, May 4). Mental Health and Behavior During the Early Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Mobile Smartphone and Ecological Momentary Assessment Study in College Students. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4enzm
Zimmermann, M., Bledsoe, C., & Papa, A. (2020). The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on College Student Mental Health: A Longitudinal Examination of Risk and Protective Factors [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2y7hu
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Papini, S., Dainer-Best, J., Rubin, M., Zaizar, E. D., Telch, M. J., & Smits, J. A. J. (2020). Psychological Networks can Identify Potential Pathways to Specific Intervention Targets for Anxiety in Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4zr25
www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
What's needed to make a campus safe now is at odds with the iconic college experience people crave (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed. (n.d.). Retrieved June 3, 2020, from https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/06/02/what%E2%80%99s-needed-make-campus-safe-now-odds-iconic-college-experience-people-crave
- May 2020
Noetel, M., Griffith, S., Delaney, O., Sanders, T., Parker, P., del Pozo Cruz, B., & Lonsdale, C. (2020, May 18). Are you better on YouTube? A systematic review of the effects of video on learning in higher education. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kynez
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
Sorrell, M. J. (2020, May 15). Colleges Are Deluding Themselves. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/colleges-that-reopen-are-making-a-big-mistake/611485/
www.education.gouv.fr www.education.gouv.fr
Enfin, une attention prioritaire doit être portée à l'orientation pour les élèves de 3e, 2de et 1re et leurs familles. Les chefs d'établissement veilleront à ce que chaque élève soit informé des ressources à sa disposition (échanges avec les professeurs principaux, les psychologues de l'éducation nationale, Onisep, etc.) et puisse bénéficier, s'il le souhaite, d'un accompagnement adéquat dans ses choix d'orientation ou d'enseignements de spécialité, notamment grâce à des contacts, par téléphone ou en ligne, avec les professeurs principaux et les personnels d'orientation.
- Apr 2020
advances.sciencemag.org advances.sciencemag.org
Chirikov, I., Semenova, T., Maloshonok, N., Bettinger, E., & Kizilcec, R. F. (2020). Online education platforms scale college STEM instruction with equivalent learning outcomes at lower cost. Science Advances, 6(15), eaay5324. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay5324
www.imperial.ac.uk www.imperial.ac.ukCOVID-191
COVID-19. (n.d.). Imperial College London. Retrieved April 15, 2020, from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/departments/school-public-health/infectious-disease-epidemiology/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/covid-19/
sciencebusiness.net sciencebusiness.net
Imperial researchers develop lab-free COVID-19 test with results in less than an hour. (n.d.). Science|Business. Retrieved April 20, 2020, from https://sciencebusiness.net/network-updates/imperial-researchers-develop-lab-free-covid-19-test-results-less-hour
- Mar 2020
www.education.gouv.fr www.education.gouv.fr
- Oct 2019
nytimes2.com nytimes2.com
I used to have this one-liner: "If you want to emasculate a guy friend, when you're at a restaurant, ask him everything that he's going to order, and then when the waitress comes … order for him." It's funny because it shouldn't be that easy to rob a man of his masculinity — but it is.
If this statement is implying all guys has the same level of sensitivity and pride, then that is clearly wrong. I, for example, this situation won't strip my masculinity away as well as many guys. But if the author is implying that a man's masculinity is sensitive, then yes, I agree that is true. But each man have a certain degree of masculinity, and how they respond varies. (This is just an introductory to their point of their article, I will continue reading)
Last week, 17 people, most of them teenagers, were shot dead at a Florida school. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School now joins the ranks of Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Columbine and too many other sites of American carnage. What do these shootings have in common? Guns, yes. But also, boys. Girls aren't pulling the triggers. It's boys. It's almost always boys.
Yes and No...It is true that these horrific events happened. The articles are all over the web with a simple search. So the facts are true. But the last few statement contradict each other. It is true that the events she specifically provided all involves a male culprit. But by saying "Girls aren't pulling the trigger"..."many other sites of American Carnage"..."its boys. It's almost always boys" is contradicting, thus false. There are female shooters too. Here's some examples. 1) A women shooter at YouTube Headquarters in California, a very recent event. 2) A women who shot up a elementary school in the lates 1900s: Brenda Spencer. So far of what I have read, I believe that gender has nothing to do with shooting and crimes. The causation is more related to gun laws, federal/city laws, and mental illness, but that is another argument.
But what I agree on is that there are more male shooters/criminals that male. But why is that? What I believe is that is has to do with biological, psychological, and social factors, which I will answer a bit more as I get through the reading.
oregondigital.org oregondigital.org
3. Letter Regarding the Northwest College Personnel Association Student Relocation Committee
This is a remarkable letter from the Dean's office assigning responsibility to a young professor at OSU to head a committee to oversee the relocation of Axis-related college students in the Pacific Northwest and listing institutions that might accept Japanese American college students. Although Italian and German students are named, only the Nisei relocation is "imminent" (and, presumably, the only one that actually occurred). I wonder how the tuition arrangements were to be made, particularly for those who had scholarships, or were paying state school tuition but were being transferred to a private college?
- Sep 2019
scholarworks.gvsu.edu scholarworks.gvsu.edu
It is so interesting how "kin" varies so widely throughout the world. In some societies with multiple wives to one man, the children of them will just consider all of them mothers and not worry about blood. While here in the United States, we have whole TV dramas about finding your blood related mother or father. In the U.S., we have definitely glamorized being a blood related parent more than someone who takes care of kids they have taken duty of. Even now, when speaking of adopting a child, there will still be people that say "When are you going to have real kids" or ask women why they won't have kids if they don't want them.
- Aug 2019
To this point we've been able to "reuse" work from the first limit in the at least a portion of the second limit.
It's interesting to see the same identical problem come out with different results depending if the infinity is negative or positive
if the argument goes to infinity then the log also goes to infinity in the limit.
doing this section of the practice problems proved to be a fun challenge.
We won't need these facts much over the next couple of sections but they will be required on occasion
Nonetheless, they should be thought as an important method of mathematics.
Last, we were after something that was happening at x=1x=1x = 1 and we couldn't actually plug x=1x=1x = 1 into our formula for the slope. Despite this limitation we were able to determine some information about what was happening at x=1x=1x = 1 simply by looking at what was happening around x=1x=1x = 1. This is more important than you might at first realize and we will be discussing this point in detail in later sections.
This reminds me of the exercise we had this morning in class.
Likewise, at the second point shown, the line does just touch the graph at that point, but it is not "parallel" to the graph at that point and so it's not a tangent line to the graph at that point.
A visual representation of a Tangent Line is very useful, I honestly wasn't visualizing what a Tangent Line was, in my head.
We will be seeing limits in a variety of places once we move out of this chapter.
Will the L'Hospital method be explained in this chapter?
The Definition of the Limit – In this section we will give a precise definition of several of the limits covered in this section. We will work several basic examples illustrating how to use this precise definition to compute a limit. We'll also give a precise definition of continuity.
Will we have to memorize all of the types of limits and the properties to determining them?
- May 2019
www.howardcc.edu www.howardcc.edu
FAQs for Online Faculty
this page has been deprecated and replaced by Online Learning and Faculty Resources
Last week, 17 people, most of them teenagers, were shot dead at a Florida school. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School now joins the ranks of Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Columbine and too many other sites of American carnage. What do these shootings have in common? Guns, yes. But also, boys. Girls aren't pulling the triggers. It's boys. It's almost always boys.
Yes and No...It is true that these horrific events happened. The articles are all over the web with a simple search. So the facts are true. But the last few statement contradict each other. It is true that the events she specifically provided all involves a male culprit. But by saying "Girls aren't pulling the trigger"..."many other sites of American Carnage"..."its boys. It's almost always boys" is contradicting, thus false. There are female shooters too. Here's some examples. 1) A women shooter at YouTube Headquarters in California, a very recent event. 2) A women who shot up a elementary school in the lates 1900s: Brenda Spencer. So far of what I have read, I believe that gender has nothing to do with shooting and crimes. The causation is more related to gun laws, federal/city laws, and mental illness, but that is another argument.
But what I agree on is that there are more male shooters/criminals that male. But why is that? What I believe is that is has to do with biological, psychological, and social factors, which I will answer a bit more as I get through the reading.
I used to have this one-liner: "If you want to emasculate a guy friend, when you're at a restaurant, ask him everything that he's going to order, and then when the waitress comes … order for him." It's funny because it shouldn't be that easy to rob a man of his masculinity — but it is.
If this statement is implying all guys has the same level of sensitivity and pride, then that is clearly wrong. I, for example, this situation won't strip my masculinity away as well as many guys. But if the author is implying that a man's masculinity is sensitive, then yes, I agree that is true. But each man have a certain degree of masculinity, and how they respond varies. (This is just an introductory to their point of their article, I will continue reading)
- Feb 2019
static1.squarespace.com static1.squarespace.com
Trinity College
Same School as Gilbert Austin
- Nov 2018
quillette.com quillette.com
it's the whole culture.
The question to ask here is how to set in motion this cultural shift. Titles prevent us from considering a more flexible learning credential or format.
intermezzo.enculturation.net intermezzo.enculturation.net
BUT, our students will not (most) have the economic, cultural, historical provenances nor intention ... the reality of community college students is that most will not produce academic discourse but will eak through multiple courses with minimum academic writing (and if so, poorly) while they will continue their certain continued marginalized communities that are, per Bourdieu, decapitalized (lacking cultural capital), whereas critical rhetoric could address these systemics inegalitarianism.
content.ebscohost.com content.ebscohost.com
Blurring the Lines betweenHigh School and College:Early Colleges and the Effecton Adult Learners
Early College High School
content.ebscohost.com content.ebscohost.com
Learning at the CenterA Proposal for Dynamic Assessment in a Combined University and Community Adult Learning Center Course
Learning Center
- Oct 2018
www.highereducation.org www.highereducation.org
the majority of students who begin in remedial courses never complete their college degrees
need to know/understand why. motivation? finances?
HS-College transition
- Apr 2018
www.tandfonline.com www.tandfonline.com
The school additionally offered multiple programs that both supported students in the college application process and helped educate parents about the process.
There was no mention of such programs at Capital. Did they not exist, I wonder? Or just not exist for the kids in the study?
- Feb 2018
catalogs.degreedata.com catalogs.degreedata.com
Computer Information Systems
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Computer Information Systems
- Compton Center
- http://catalogs.degreedata.com/Search/index_catalog/?id=225671&prog=Security%20and%20protective%20services.&token=qa-user1|1520371161|WRBHfxGF76ECxxeWf6PCPfOxByfIlylsx3RkuyzjhhC|82c51228ecacd73c2002cace495450bba31e372a91d7cf0ce53339c40765bdae
- El Camino College
wvutoday-archive.wvu.edu wvutoday-archive.wvu.edu
Gee has twice served as president of The Ohio State University, from 1990-1997 and later from 2007 to July of 2013 when he was named President Emeritus. He was also president of Vanderbilt University (2000-2007), Brown University (1998-2000), the University of Colorado (1985-1990) and WVU (1981-1985; Jan.-Feb. 2014; and March 2014 and beyond). He also served as the dean of the WVU College of Law from 1979-1981.
- Oct 2017
books.google.com books.google.com
p. 77 Description of Rochdale in 1967 (i.e. before the tower went up)
At the moment there are some 30 full-time members of the college, who come from all over North America and range from Ph.D.'s to high school dropouts. They are much younger than a cross-section of the university, but somewhat older than a cross-section of undergraduates. There are another 50-200 part-time participants, mostly students or teachers at degree-granting institutions in Toronto. We occupy six rented houses this year; next fall we'll move into an 18-storey building which is under construction at the corner of Huron and Bloor. It will house 850 residents, who will own and operate the building cooperatively; it will also become a focal point for the college's external members. It is up to each member to determine the extent, form, and content of his participation in the college's educational life--including, in a number of cases, none at all.
- Sep 2017
engagements2017-18.as.virginia.edu engagements2017-18.as.virginia.edu
Districts of such extent as that every parent should be within a days journey of his son at school, would be desirable in cases of sickness
In my Mortality and Morality engagement class, we often times talk about the role of family in the event that someone does become sick and how their presence can make a huge impact on how a situation is carried out. Family is often time seen as an extra layer of protection over any individual, especially for children. We assume that children are not old enough or mature enough to make major decisions for themselves, so it is ideal to keep them within reach in case of emergency. Therefore, if a school can supply resources that could be beneficial in times of need many parents would view that as a plus. - Kayla Thomas
- May 2017
Why not just run the lottery?
Barry Schwartz proposed this idea in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2005: http://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-psychology/11/
- Mar 2017
www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
presidents need more skills than ever as the world changes around higher education
- Dec 2016
www.gatesfoundation.org www.gatesfoundation.org
better align K-12 standards—including the Common Core State Standards—with higher-education standards.
Close reading, critical thinking, digital literacy and citizenship as h-aligned through lines here.
- Nov 2016
hypothes.is hypothes.is
Finding tutors can be a really tiring job if not taken in a proper direction. Also, it is equally important to find a competent and knowledgeable tutor, who can provide a proper direction and guidance in your studies rather than just basic teaching. As a student, you should always keep in mind that before hiring a tutor you should have a complete idea of his knowledge about that particular subject.
- Oct 2016
qz.com qz.com
"Germany proves tuition-free college is not a silver bullet for America's education woes"
www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
They focused on two kinds of students. The "thrivers" were those who did much better in college than their high school grades would have predicted. The "divers" were those who did much worse. Mostly, these students were neither superstars in high school nor delinquents — they all got fairly good, respectable grades. But upon arriving at college, the thrivers averaged A's, while the divers averaged F's.
One explanation for this could be that the "thrivers" did better because they had to step their game up because of the difficulty of the classes while the "divers" stuck with the same habits they had in high school. The thrivers wanted to become better students than they were in the previous years. The divers thought that their academic abilities needed no change. The thrivers were the students that tried their best to succeed and push themselves forward no matter any obstacle. They are also resilient and try their best to learn from their mistakes in order to succeed. Thrivers have a growth mindset where they strive for success and do not let every little bump in the road alter their paths. Divers, on the other hand were the students that would give up easily when things get difficult, they are the students that would find the easy way out of hard situations instead of challenging themselves. Divers do not necessarily fail because they "lack the skills" but because they have developed a fixed mindset. Divers can still be able to learn how to become thrivers. They just need a little more guidance and assistance in order to get to that level. Thrivers have a different mindset apart from divers. Thrivers want to succeed, to move forward in their educational journey. But a student can become either personality very quickly. A thriver can thrive for a while, and then plummet just as hard as a diver. College is about preparing yourself and trying new things in order to find out what works best for you. Divers are not a lost cause, they might need some extra help, but we should not ignore them because they are failing in their classes, we do not know what is going through their head. Media has made college out to be an option to what happens next after high school. There are more movies portraying a college lifestyle of partying, rather than of success. The movie The Social Network is an example of someone who was a thriver then a diver then rose back to a thriver. Instead of making college seem as glamorous as a party, students need to understand the difficulty of college and the journey they are starting. Here is a link to the Mark Zuckerberg story and his success as both a thriver and diver. https://astrumpeople.com/mark-zuckerberg-biography-success-story-of-facebook-founder-and-ceo/
- Jul 2016
books.google.ca books.google.ca
Page 28
Borgman discusses the invisible College of scientists
www.youthvoices.live www.youthvoices.live
Most of them are in debt once they get out of college because they do not have time to work and make money since they are spending 40+ hours a week doing their sport. I think that the best thing to do to solve this situation is to pay the athletes based on the revenue that they personally bring in themselves.
In this paragraph they talking about how college players should get paid since they don't have any time to work or make money.
This is important so that these college players can get payed.
This connect to me because I will like to play college soccer and hopefully get payed for it.
When Theodore Roosevelt founded the NCAA on March 31, 1906, he had a vision in sight to "encourage reforms" in college sports. He did that because college football in the early 20th century had a high number of repeated injuries and deaths and "prompted many college and universities to discontinue the sport.
In this paragraph they talking about how Roosevelt was trying to change the way college sports was played, football particularly because people were getting injured an dying.
This is important so that these college players can stay safe and avoid death or any injuries.
This connects to me because I have a friend that play foot ball.
- Jun 2016
postgradproblems.com postgradproblems.com
I long for a country that not only accepts, but celebrates bad decisions and low-key alcoholism and calls it 'going to college.'
Local file Local file
However, a diverse body of work on thesocially situated nature of scientific communication alreadyexists which points the way. This ranges from Crane's(1969) pioneering analyses of invisible colleges throughLatour and Woolgar's (1979) classic study of laboratory lifeat the Salk Institute to Traweek's (1992) richly texturedethnography of the HEP community. In addition, the workof Schatz and colleagues on the Worm Community Systemproject, which was designed to capture the full range ofknowledge, formal and informal, of the community of mo-lecular biologists who study the nematode worm C. elegans(see: http://www.canis.uiuc.edu/projects/wcs/index.html)can provide useful insights; so, too, research into the mate-rial practices and social interactions of scientists working incollaboratories, such as the Upper Atmospheric ResearchCollaboratory (see: http://intel.si.umich.edu/crew/Research/resrch08.htm) or the Space, Physics & Aeronomy ResearchCollaboratory (see: http://intel.si.umich.edu/sparc/) at theUniversity of Michigan
great bibliography on ethnographies of different disciplines
www.jisc.ac.uk www.jisc.ac.uk
spaces to develop pedagogy and then think about the role of technology within that pedagogy
Sounds like Innov@Cité!
- May 2016
digital.ucd.ie digital.ucd.ie
"Historic trove of documents discovered in city attic," Herald.ie (2016-05-16) http://www.herald.ie/news/historic-trove-of-documents-discovered-in-city-attic-34707155.html
The four missing volumes of Prisoner Books listing the arrests of more than 30,000 people between 1905 and 1918 include the "crimes" of labour leaders Jim Larkin (seditious conspiracy), James Connolly (incitement to crime), revolutionary Maud Gonne MacBride (defence of the realm), and suffragette Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington (glass-breaking with other suffragettes).
"Dublin Metropolitan Police Prisoner Books 1905-1918," The British GENES blog (2016-05-12) http://britishgenes.blogspot.ie/2016/05/dublin-metropolitan-police-prisoner.html
University College Dublin's Digital Library (http://digital.ucd.ie) has just uploaded digitised editions of four Dublin Metropolitan Police prisoners books from 1905-1908, and 1911-1918, at http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:43945.
- Apr 2016
www2.gse.upenn.edu www2.gse.upenn.edu
College Affordability Diagnosis
See how "Big Six" experiences are linked to key college, work and life outcomes
Wow. Dose response relationship of sorts.
Most of all, the two lessons here are that Under scarcity, the best picture of need is going to be calculated backward from what is needed, not what is bought. Protests that students "in the know" can make do can also doom students with less cultural capital to failure.
If people "aren't spending much" (on textbooks, or food, or healthcare, etc.) it might be because they can't afford what they genuinely need.
First-generation students are likely to need advice about which books to get, and how to get them.
Asking What Students Spend on Textbooks Is the Wrong Question
Cost of textbooks and what students are able to spend.
- Feb 2016
www.americanyawp.com www.americanyawp.com
It never fails to amaze me how whenever a larger country went to a smaller country to colonize the natives ended up suffereing
- Jan 2016
tech.mit.edu tech.mit.edu
Professor Christine Ortiz is stepping down from her post [at MIT] as dean for graduate education to found a new residential research university.
Ortiz said the university would focus on project-based learning and would dispense with some of the familiar hallmarks of university education, like the lecture.
"I don't see it having any face to face, on-the-ground lectures, actually," she said. "No majors, no lectures, no classrooms."
chroniclevitae.com chroniclevitae.com
College students respond to articles by professors about the pros and cons of lectures.
- Dec 2015
medium.com medium.com
Imagine if we could actively facilitate conversations between college-bound high school students and professionals in the fields in which they believe they want to enter. Wouldn't this have the potential to dramatically increase a student's understanding of the industry before they commit an exorbitant amount of time and money towards it?
medium.com medium.com
But my favorite part was the "get ahead" part of this answer. Because, to me, it demonstrates how Clinton — as a Presidential candidate — thinks about public education in America. Education is a scarce resource that helps some poor kids individually "get ahead," but only if they demonstrate talent and ambition. Educating the poor is not a thing Clinton believes benefits the nation, it's just a thing that individual kids can do to enrich themselves.
This is in response to Hillary Clinton's comment during the Democratic debate on Saturday, 19 December:
"I don't believe in free tuition for everybody. I believe we should focus on middle-class families, working families and poor kids who have the ambition and the talent to go to college and get ahead."
I haven't heard anyone mention that we can provide more education without paying an extra dime of tuition to any college. Neither schools nor teachers are necessary for learning and demonstration of knowledge.
- Nov 2015
trends.collegeboard.org trends.collegeboard.org
- Sep 2015
www.slate.com www.slate.com
The rankings appear to be dead.
- Jul 2015
dc.lib.unc.edu dc.lib.unc.edu
class of 1936. Tall building on the left - Main Hall - was classrooms, lower building on the right was dorms. Had more trees...
www.collegeart.org www.collegeart.org
- CAA's long awaited guidelines for the fair use - reuse - of images within publications.
- Jun 2015
docs.gatesfoundation.org docs.gatesfoundation.org
> 500 students
We could probably claim we have (had) this many student users over time.
Web - based solutions that track a student's progress across most/all reading and writing skills and recommend discrete solutions from multiple providers to help build skills based on student performance
Then again, with the right kind of added infrastructure (tagging of annotations aligned with standards) and extraction of that data for visualization, I don't see why h couldn't fit this category. (At least we would have to say we are MVP stage for this level, though.)
"Solution" is our term for an application, game or website that come s from a single provider and address es some or all reading and writing skills and conte nt areas
hypothes.is would seem to fit best within this scope.
e have to ensure that our grantees provide broad availability and affordable access to the products they build using our grant funding. We call this Global Access
test bed schools.
classroom - ready di gital literacy tools,
Additionally, in order to address teachers' time limitations, the interface that teachers use to customize the sequence or differentiate practice for students must be simple and user friendly in order for it to ever be used
performanc e data to be exportable
Educators believe that technology needs to help them more easily
We cannot make these users work for it. Features needs to be built-in.
Just managing distributing and collecting printed copies of 125 student essays per week was overwhelming – and providing edited essays to all students was nearly impossible.
Responses to student annotations could be seen as micro-lessons in writing.
Articulate the weaknesses in the current digital product offering and the gaps between what the market offers and what schools want to buy
Important to articulate this intervention
education.msu.edu education.msu.edu
95% of students between 12 - to 17 - year - old go online regularly,
Need source for that.
Web annotation engages students where they already are: on the Internet. And gives them a powerful tool for being thoughtful, engaged citizens therein.
coretools.ldc.org coretools.ldc.org
in-class, whole group annotation and discussion
Why not use a web-based application that allows for this kind of collaboration!?
campustechnology.com campustechnology.com
www.huffingtonpost.com www.huffingtonpost.com
Message to My Freshman Students
- May 2015
depts.alverno.edu depts.alverno.edu
five critical questions
There's a lot to learn about the leadership and vision shown by these questions and this process.
We want to know what the burning issues are in your field, and we want to know how you are dealing with these issues in your general courses and in the advanced courses.
What so important in your classes that everybody needs to learn it?
Let's forget credits and course requirements. Instead tell us what students need to know to be successful in your department.
Let's assume that your work with students is one piece of a larger picture. How do you think they might connect the work in your classes with their work in other classes? Let's think about the connections, not just hope they get there.
We value the liberal arts and professional learning. How do you see the two interacting.
The scheduled discussions make clear that this is a self-research project. This is what we need to do in schools at all levels.
digital.ucd.ie digital.ucd.ie
Selected images from the Desmond FitzGerald Photographs collection in UCD Archives were used to illustrate Conor Mulvagh's video presentation, "The Destruction of Dublin, 1916," issued as part of the UCD Decade of Centenaries web site; it is also available on youtube.

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Convert single mysql insert statements to one statement with multiple VALUES lists
I needed to convert multiple mysql insert statements to statements with multiple VALUE lists to insert several rows at a time. I have not found any tool for that, so I wrote this script in Python. Thankfully I found a non-validating SQL parser module for Python, so this task became very easy. You must install […]
Google Maps – handling huge amount of markers
Problem We have a huge amount of markers and we want to display it to user using google maps. Solution use ajax requests to fetch markers only for area visible by user display message "please zoom in", if we have too many markers (let's say that limit is 500) use MarkerClustererPlus to display fetched markers […]
Mysql Workbench is unstable on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Problem I use elementary OS, which is based on ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Mysql Workbench from default repository (mysql-workbench_5.2.38+dfsg-3_amd64.deb) is very unstable. If you try to open model and then create a new one, it will crash with:
mysql-workbench-bin: tpp.c:63: __pthread_tpp_change_priority: Assertion `new_prio == -1 || (new_prio >= __sched_fifo_min_prio && new_prio <= __sched_fifo_max_prio)' failed.
Related bug report is here.
MySQL backup bash script
Simple script for cron jobs. It makes backup of all available mysql databases except for IgnoredDatabases array. Dump is compressed on the fly. Backups older than 30 days are deleted.


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Now back in print! This is a great beginner's book and will get you started on silk ribbon embroidery. It retails for 12.95 and is in paperbound format, 48 pages, measuring 8 x 10″. Ann gives you an overview of what items you'll need to embroider with silk ribbon and then jumps right in with the ribbon stitch, French knots, straight stitch, gathering techniques, lazy daisy and bows. She then gives you 5 different projects you can try: Spring Flowers, Bouquet of Roses, Country Garden, Poppies and Wheat and Blackberries. She also covers painting and stenciling a background and framing techniques. This book is full color throughout so you can easily see the accomplished stitches and begin on your own.


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From the Manila Times (Sep 15): US forces here to stay – Defense secretary
AMERICAN soldiers deployed to Mindanao won't be pulled out, the Department of National Defense said Wednesday.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana made the statement after President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday the Philippines won't cut its umbilical cord to its allies, a clarification prompted by the President's statement on Monday that he wanted United States troops pulled out of Mindanao.
There are 107 US troops in Mindanao, part of the Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines (JSOTF-P) that provides assistance to Filipino soldiers, Lorenzana said.
The JSOTF-P operates under the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between the Philippines and the US—a pact that allows US troops to train and advise the Philippine military without engaging in combat operations.
"They (US soldiers) are there because we don't have enough capability [to secure the area]. We requested them to stay behind. What they are doing is limited to civil-military operations within the area in conjunction with our Armed Forces, but the bulk of their job is to manage their assets in Zamboanga City," Lorenzana told lawmakers, referring to Camp Navarro.
Lorenzana presented the P178-billion proposed 2017 budget of the Defense department before the House appropriations committee on Wednesday.
"It's just right for us to be allied with the United States because they are still the dominant military force in this part of the Pacific," he said.
Lorenzana said US troops in Mindanao have two systems providing intelligence to their Filipino counterparts: the Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance system that can take images even at night, and a shadow drone system that hovers around Basilan and Sulu, lairs of the kidnapping and terrorist group Abu Sayyaf.
Muslim reprisal 'unlikely'
The Cabinet official explained that President Duterte was concerned over the safety of the US troops, as they could be "subject to reprisal by the Muslims."
But that's unlikely, Lorenzana said, "because the US soldiers are just stationed in the camp."
"They don't go out of the camp alone. When they do, they are with a Filipino soldier and they are also armed," he pointed out. "Let us remember that they are combatants, not civilians who are subject to kidnappings by terrorists."
Washington said on Monday that Manila had not officially communicated Duterte's demand to pull US military advisers.
Duterte on Tuesday said the Philippines would no longer conduct joint naval patrols with other countries in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) to avoid getting into further disputes.
Three pacts
Lorenzana also clarified that the Philippines won't junk its three defense pacts with the US: the VFA, the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (Edca).
The MDT inked in 1951 states that both parties will defend themselves against external armed attack, while Edca provides that US forces, contractors, vehicles, vessels and aircraft may conduct activities on agreed locations inside Philippine military bases.
Such activities include training, transit, support and other related activities; refueling of aircraft, bunkering of vessels, and temporary maintenance of vehicles, vessels and aircraft; temporary accommodation of personnel; communications; pre-positioning of equipment, supplies and material; and deployment of forces and materials.
"What the President said is we are not going to cut our umbilical cord. As I understood it, we will maintain our alliance with our traditional allies. The military cooperation between the Philippines and the United States is important because our neighboring countries that are our friends are also allied with the United States," Lorenzana said.


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News Analysis
Hollywood has become synonymous with its opposition to President Donald Trump and his policies in recent years. Virtually every A-list actor and actress has verbally attacked the president, and the industry's most famous awards ceremonies have been increasingly tainted with partisan politics.
Hollywood, however, has been struggling with its own controversies, including allegations of widespread sexual assault that brought down one of its biggest names, Harvey Weinstein. Now, changes might be underway for America's top entertainment sector.
One of Trump's closest allies, Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, is set to take up to a 10 percent stake in Endeavor, one of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies.
The company, which changed its name from WME-IMG to Endeavor last year, represented five of the seven movies nominated for Best Picture in 2017.
While discussions are still ongoing, Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund is expected to invest around $500 million in the company, Bloomberg reports.
Part of the reason for the Saudi investment is the kingdom's diversification away from oil toward other sectors, such as technology and entertainment, to meet Salman's goal for the fund to control $2 trillion by 2030.
Salman, however, has proven to be one of Trump's closest international allies, and his presence in Hollywood could herald the beginning of bigger changes.
Since coming to power in 2015, Salman has been a transformative power in Saudi Arabia, changing extremist religious codes that prohibited women from driving, and reforming the country's economy.
In his first interview with an American network, Salman told CBS's "60 Minutes" that he sees women and men as equal and is planning to establish regulations mandating equal pay for men and women in an effort to boost female employment, which is currently only 22 percent.
During Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia last year—his first foreign visit as president—Salman and his father, King Salman, committed to the establishment of a center for combating extremist ideology and the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center, to be jointly operated by the United States and Saudi Arabia.
Salman made headlines last year around the world when he launched a large-scale anti-corruption campaign. Hundreds of elite politicians, businessmen, and members of the royal family were detained and forced to repay what they had stolen from the government through corruption.
The most prominent case in Salman's anti-corruption crackdown was that of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who was released from detention in January after the authorities froze and gained control over many of his assets.
Talal's assets included a large stake in banking corporation Citigroup Inc. and a large stake in social media giant Twitter Inc.
When asked on "60 Minutes" about the total amount of assets seized, Salman said: "The amount exceeds $100 billion, but the real objective was not this amount or any other amount. The idea is not to get money, but to punish the corrupt and to send a clear signal that whoever engages in corrupt deals will face the law."
Salman's actions were praised by Trump, who wrote on Twitter in November last year: "I have great confidence in King Salman and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, they know exactly what they are doing. … Some of those they are harshly treating have been 'milking' their country for years!"
Similarly to Salman, Trump has been waging his own battle in the United States, undoing the influence of people both inside and outside the government who have misused their positions for their own gain.
"We have a lot of sickness in some of our institutions," Trump said in a speech in Pensacola, Florida, on Dec. 8. "The only thing they really care about is protecting what they've been able to do, which is really control the country. And it's not to your benefit."
With Salman's Saudi government soon having a seat at the table at one of Hollywood's most prominent talent agencies, significant changes to Hollywood could be on the way.
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This month's book contains several stories being the main one and longest, "The Body". Here you have a summary of it. Have a nice read and happy Christmas.
The Body is a provocative novella that uses a science fiction premise – the transplantation of old brains into young bodies – to explore the moral and psychological implications of immortality. It is centrally concerned with the young healthy body as the fetish of our times and takes its commercialization to a shocking extreme. The main character's exclusive focus on the materiality of human existence raises questions of identity, the burden of old age, and the promise of eternal youth.
Adam, the first-person narrator of the novella, is an elderly, London-based playwright in his mid-sixties whose heyday of theatre production is long over. He is greatly troubled by his "ailing existence" and feels out of touch with real life. His children have left and together with his wife Margot he tries to make the best of his advanced years.
During a theatre party where the established directors and writers mingle with young, aspiring actors he gets to know Ralph, one of the young and beautiful. To Adam's surprise he turns out to be a great admirer of his theatrical work and claims to have seen some of the performances that took place long before his biological birth. Ralph is actually older than Adam. After the death of his wife and a life of failed opportunities he wanted a second chance. In South America he met a young man who offered him exactly that. In an experimental operation the brain of an old person can be transplanted into the corpse of a young one. Only three or four surgeons in the world are familiar with the procedure. Ralph seized the opportunity and now offers Adam the same chance to become young again and live out his dreams. After another meeting Adam is prepared to go ahead with the plan. He makes all the necessary preparations and convinces his wife that he needs a six month vacation for a "walkabout".
The operation takes place in a run-down warehouse in a bleak industrial estate outside London. Adam quickly settles the business side of this "short-term body rental" and is then asked to choose his new biological self. In the fridge he finds rows and rows of bodies. Suddenly he realizes that he cannot only change his age, but also his gender and race. He is momentarily worried about the large number of corpses and the idea of "shopping for bodies". Finally Adam settles for a "classically handsome", Italian-looking man with "a fine, thick penis and heavy balls". After the operation he wakes up a "newbody", an old person in a "new facility" that he can wear like a garment. The first few minutes are disturbing: Adam finds himself in a state of limbo – out of his old body and not yet inside the new one. As an elderly intellectual he must learn to accept the physicality of his being and the joy of touching and being touched. In this "new incarnation" he will have the "undeviating contact with reality" of which he has been deprived for a long time.
Adam meets Ralph in a hotel foyer where the two discuss important issues, such as having papers forged and choosing a new name. He walks out of the building as Leo Raphael Adams, eager to explore his new body. He spends hours in front of the mirror and tries to become familiar with himself. To his friends and family he is now invisible. Adam starts on a great European tour to explore his growing sexual desire but also, more reluctantly, his past. When he is not out chatting up girls, he reflects upon his old life and all the missed opportunities. He quickly becomes a fashion model and sought-after society "tart". He experiments with rough sex and drugs, yet, after the initial excitement, this self-indulgence becomes tiresome and far too expensive. His young, superficial friends are bores and Adam has his first severe doubts about the whole operation.
In Greece, he joins the staff of a spiritual and physical rejuvenation centre for rich, middle-aged women to earn some money and find peace. It is run by Patricia, a 1960s feminist. In Alicia, a shy poet, he finds a companion to talk about writing and literature, though he has to play dumb for most of the time to keep up appearances. Patricia strongly desires him and Adam gives in to her longings. While she wants him all to herself and to show him off, Adam contemplates fleeing. When they are all invited to a fashionable party on a yacht, Adam flees from Patricia and hides in one of the cabins. There he is found by Matte, the owner of the yacht, who recognizes him as a "newbody" by the marks on his neck. Adam is shocked by Matte's unscrupulousness concerning his vision of immortality. The poor and powerless have to die to guarantee eternal life for the wealthy. The situation becomes ever more threatening, and Matte finally reveals that he wants Adam's body as his brother is slowly dying and there is no suitable "facility" available. Adam refuses to sell his new self and manages to escape from the yacht. Matte's men follow him closely, but he succeeds in leaving Greece on the next ferry.
Back in London, Alicia suddenly turns up and reports what has happened in the meantime. Adam finds her a job and then returns to his old home, fearing the worst. He meets his wife and talks to her for some hours in the guise of his new self. Narrowly escaping the men who are waiting outside the house, he rings Ralph and manages to get the address of the warehouse as he desperately wants to slip into his old body again and spend the rest of his life with his family. He calls a taxi and goes to the place where he was operated on some months before. Matte and his men already await him there and threaten to take his body by force. A doctor is standing by to save the body and discard the brain. Adam has taken precautions by pouring petrol all over his body and is more than willing to ignite it, thus ruining all plans to save Matte's brother. Again he escapes, although he has to realise that he will never be able to return to his wife and family. He remains trapped in the body he so desperately wanted to have.
(source Markus Oppolzer, http://www.sbg.ac.at/alien/index.php?title=The_Body)


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Re: perplexing performance on AIX
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 14:24:26 +0200
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I have a merge statement that sometimes hangs. In fact the Oracle shadow is consuming CPU but it doesn't get accounted for in V$sesstat / v$sysstat (haven't checked that but I believe that to be the case). So I see this shadow process consuming CPU, I took gdb and attached my self and took a stack trace. I found that the merge was doing an insert and for that it had to find more space in the index. While finding the space it seems to be in a tight loop in the space management code for bitmap segments (ASSM). The workaround from Oracle is to not use ASSM for the Index. So if your case one of the slaves (or coordinators) hits this problem it won't sent a completition message to the coordinator. This then could result in the behavior that you see.
On 5/6/08, John Smith <john40855_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been working with an AIX LPAR which has access to 6 CPU's, defaults
> to 3. Its primarily a data warehouse instance, so we enabled parallel on it
> and about half of the tables are large, and are range-partitioned on by
> year, and in some cases sub-partitioned on accounting period (list method).
> There is plenty of memory (32G), and its on an EMC Clariion storage.
> However, when we run loads using merge, and in some cases, some very large
> queries, the queries run for days at a time, but the CPU usage is not all
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> The AWR report (its oracle 10.2.0.3) shows a huge number of wait events on
> PX Dequeue Credit: Send Blkd. According to the oracle documentation, this
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> to track down what is causing the problem? There are also a large number of
> IO wait events, but the time is not significant compared to the PX wait
> event. Is it possible that PX wait event is caused by the IO wait event?
> If so, how could I track it down?
-- Anjo Kolk Owner and Founder OraPerf Projects tel: +31-577-712000 mob: +31-6-55340888 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Wed May 07 2008 - 07:24:26 CDT


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Stop being immature. this is a wooden sculpture thing. It's awesome, I have no idea how long it took to make, or what was necessary to put it together, but it looks ace. {reddit}
Stop being immature. this is a wooden sculpture thing. It's awesome, I have no idea how long it took to make, or what was necessary to put it together, but it looks ace. {reddit}
Reddit user CTpizza23 made a farm house style sink out of walnut. It looks gorgeous, but as many of the commenters on the reddit thread mentioned, it will not last.It's a shame that we can't make something waterproof and still transparent, I would love to have something like this in my house one day. Though … Continued
This is a pretty neat way to make wood burning by painting, instead of using the difficult to use tips on a traditional wood burning iron. {reddit}
This is pretty neat, ETM: Exploration Through Motion is an interesting view of a once static asset. A team of students from the Philadelphia University created this as their final project in Design 1. Together, they took the Thomas Moran painting "Grand Canyon of the Colorado River", and made a 3D laser cut map diorama … Continued
The most impressive part of this marble run is the fact that much of it is carved out of food. Look at the organic shapes made. It must have taken the guy ages to get all that detail in it. It doesn't hurt that marble runs are just fun to watch.
Wendell Kapustiak built a modern Pipe Organ. Modern in the sense that naturally, it's computer controlled. The air is supplied by a modified server cooling fan. The keys are played by an Arduino. And the songs are chosen by a web interfaced run on a Rasberry Pi. It is pretty neat, I will give him … Continued
James McNabb is a furniture maker, he uses a bandsaw to make these intricate city skylines out of discarded, and unusable scraps of wood. I really like the above table. Especially using the taller buildings as the legs. It's not practical for sitting around, or putting stuff under, but it does look cool. While these … Continued
You don't need to watch all 30 minutes of this video. Some parts are well cut while others are static views of control screens. It is an interesting look at how saw mills are set up to operate. I'm particularly fond of the giant mills used to cut the giant tree trunks. Pretty impressive.
There's some pretty neat machines in here that mill wood, work with wood, and do all sorts of things to wood. I like the bread cutting device 3 or 4 minutes in, that thing looks inefficient, but cool. Cutting that giant cedar log down just off center though took forever. It makes sense how slow … Continued
Peter Demetz is an Italian sculptor of an unusual medium – wood. I'd say that wood is potentially more difficult to work with than marble or stone. Wood can split very easily, and if it isn't dried well, then the entire thing can get ruined. Marble and stone can do the same, but at least … Continued


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Princess Nest, Helen of Wales; king's daughter, king's mistress, kidnap victim, wife to a Norman conqueror, mother of a large brood of children, pawn in a power struggle, survivor. You may never have heard of her, but her story is as romantic and dramatic as anything created by a novelist.
Nest's date of birth is uncertain, but she was the daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, King of Deheubarth in south-west Wales. Deheubarth was one of the four principal kingdoms of Wales, the others being Gwynedd in the north-west, Powys in the north-east and Morgannwg in the south-east. The royal dynasty of Deheubarth was long established, although the kingship did not always descend from father to son and succession to the throne was frequently challenged.
Rhys was declared king in 1079, but he wasn't left in peace for long. In 1081, Deheubarth was invaded by a combined force led by Caradog ap Gruffudd, King of Morgannwg and Trahaearn of Gwynedd and Trahaearn's kinsman, Meilyr ap Rhiwallon. Rhys must have been delighted to receive help from Gruffudd ap Cynon, who was itching to get his hands on the throne of Gwynedd. Gruffudd, his life in danger, had taken refuge in Ireland and he now arrived in St Davids with a fleet manned largely by Vikings. A fierce battle took place at a location known as Mynydd Carn, which may have been somewhere on the Preseli Hills. By the end of the fighting, Trahaearn and his two allies lay dead.
In the same year, 1081, another event of enormous significance took place. William the Conqueror visited St Davids on a pilgrimage. This is the first known visit by a king of England to St Davids and may have been made to remind the victors of Mynydd Carn of the power of the Norman kings. It was probably shortly after this time that Rhys married Gwladus, the sister of the Meilyr who had been killed at Mynydd Carn. She is almost certainly the mother of Nest and of Rhys' sons Gruffudd and Hywel.
Nest was born not later than 1093, when her father was killed. As Welsh girls were brought up at home, she probably spent much of her childhood with the royal court.
How well Nest was educated is anybody's guess; she might have been able to read and write, but she was also likely to have been taught how to sew and embroider and maybe to spin and weave and she would have learned how to conduct herself in social situations. Her childhood however was not secure.
Following the death of William the Conqueror in 1087 and the accession of William II, Deheubarth suffered a period of chaos. Rhys was driven from his kingdom by rival claimants and fled to Ireland, returning soon afterwards with a mercenary fleet to defeat his enemies. Then, in 1093, Rhys faced a further threat. The Normans had invaded what is now Breconshire, annexing parts of the old Welsh kingdom of Brycheiniog. Rhys may have felt that his own lands would be next and decided to check a possible advance. He marched to Brecon and was killed there by the Normans. Within a matter of months, Deheubarth had been completely overrun.
It seems that Nest was taken prisoner at this time. Although according to Welsh custom, she could not inherit the kingdom of Deheubarth, or pass on a claim to the throne, she was nevertheless valuable as a hostage. She was probably quickly taken out of Wales so that she could not become a focus for rebellion, but exactly where she was kept and for how long is unknown. At some point she became a royal ward. She was most likely placed in charge of a female chaperone, but during her time at the English court she met William II's younger brother, Henry. In 1100 Henry succeeded to the throne and by this time she had become his mistress and had given birth to his son.
There were continuing rebellions in Wales, as the Welsh tried to regain their ancestral lands. The Norman barons were also quite happy to fight amongst themselves in order to grab chunks of Welsh territory and were even prepared to rebel against their own sovereign. The Montgomery family did so and was forced into exile, leaving behind their stronghold of Pembroke Castle. King Henry quickly seized their landholdings and in 1105 offered the stewardship of Pembroke to Gerald of Windsor. It was a surprising choice. Gerald had been the most important of the Montgomerys' officials in Wales, but he seems to have won the confidence of the king because, in addition to the stewardship, he was also given Nest to be his wife.
We don't know what Nest thought of this. She probably realised that, as a hostage, she had no other choice than to agree. The Normans were very good at arranging marriages between the families of the conquering knights and the children of the Welsh noble families. It gave both sides a stake in preserving an uneasy peace in the conquered areas whilst validating the Norman claims to overlordship… but the strategy didn't always work.
In time, Nest bore Gerald four children - William, Maurice, David and Angharad. The family made its home at Pembroke Castle and at Carew. Gerald also built a new castle at Cenarth Bychan, usually identified as Cilgerran. Nest would also have been aware of the arrival of the first settlers from Flanders, brought into Wales by the authority of Henry I. They were given some of the best agricultural lands to hold from the Norman lords, as well as special privileges.
Then, in 1109, Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, the ruler of Powys held a feast for his nobles at a place close to Cenarth Bychan. Cadwgan's son Owain, hearing that Nest was at Cenarth, decided to pay her a visit. As they were related this seems a perfectly normal thing to do, but their meeting was to cause an almighty upheaval in West Wales. Owain was spellbound by Nest's beauty and was determined to seize her for himself.
He returned at night with some followers and managed to gain entry to the castle. His men then set fire to the buildings and in the confusion surrounded the room in which Gerald and Nest were sleeping. Nest, realising that her husband would be killed if he fell into the hands of the attackers, persuaded Gerald to escape down a privy shute and she and her children were then taken prisoner and carried off.
This story, romantic as it sounds, may not be the whole truth. Cadwgan ap Bleddyn had actively opposed Norman expansion into West Wales and the attack on Cenarth Bychan was possibly the first move in a planned rising, with the abduction of Nest as a political act intended to undermine the honour and reputation of one of the most important Norman lords in west Wales, as well as delivering a valuable hostage into Welsh hands.
The Normans reacted to the raid with not only with fire and sword but with cunning. Those Welsh nobles were thought to be enemies of Owain, or who might be sympathetic to the Normans, were offered the lands of Owain and Cadwgan, if they could take them. Within a short time, Owain was forced to flee to Ireland. His father remained in Wales and by the end of the year had been restored to his lands on payment of a fine and having sworn an oath not to give any aid to his son.
The chronicles make no mention of Nest, or of what happened to her. At some point she and her children were returned to Gerald. It is known that after 1109 she bore Gerald another son and that he later welcomed her brother Gruffudd as a guest at Pembroke Castle. Gruffudd had been sent to Ireland as a child in 1093, after the death of their father Rhys and had remained there ever since. Not long afterwards, Owain also returned from Ireland and began a campaign of raiding and plundering Norman lands. In 1114, King Henry brought an army into Wales to put an end to the chaos. Owain eventually came to terms with the king and was given back his hereditary lands.
Nest may have been hoping for some peace and quiet after such a turbulent time, but further shocks awaited her. Her brother Gruffudd was now accused of plotting rebellion against King Henry. He wasted no time in explanations, but joined forces with other rebels and began attacking Norman and Flemish settlements.
Nest found herself in the middle of not only a national uprising, but a vicious family quarrel. Gerald set about defending the Norman lands against his brother-in-law, marching in 1116 towards Carmarthen with an army of Flemish settlers. Somewhere near the town he came face to face with Owain ap Cadwgan. Despite the fact that Owain was also now fighting against the rebels, conflict broke out between the two groups. The Welsh chroniclers tell us what happened next.
…the Flemings were fired with the old hate that formerly existed between them and Owain; for many a time had Owain done them hurt. Instigated also by Gerald, the man from whom Owain had carried off his wife…they thought to pursue Owain…and with shooting on either side, Owain was wounded until he was slain.
By 1136, Gerald of Windsor too had died. Nothing is known about his end, but Nest was faced with a stark choice - remarriage or entry into a convent. As a potential heiress, the Normans would not have allowed her to remain single. It seems that Nest entered into marriage with Hait, sheriff of Pembroke. According to Gerald of Wales, her grandson, she bore Hait at least one son. This marriage appears to have been short-lived, for at some point she married Stephen, constable of Cardigan Castle. She had another son, Robert, who seems to have grown up in close connection to his half-brothers, Nest's other sons. Gerald of Wales knew him well and described him in admiring terms.
In the years that followed, there were further rebellions by the Welsh against the Normans. In many of them, Nest's sons were amongst the leaders and soldiers of the Norman armies. In 1136 her brother, Gruffudd ap Rhys was involved, with his wife Gwenllian, in a huge and ultimately futile, uprising. Gwenllian and her son Morgan were beheaded and a year later Gruffudd died.
The date and place of Nest's own death is unknown, as is the location of her burial. Her sons, the FitzGeralds and the FitzStephens, all formed part of the new and influential Norman-Welsh dynasties that were to become prominent in Wales and eventually Ireland and beyond. Although we know so little about the detail of her life, Nest, 'Helen of Wales' has never been forgotten in her native land.
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In the town's Golf Green area, more than a third of 16- to 24-year-olds claim jobseeker's allowance
Angela Pace has been sending out dozens of job applications a week, with little luck. So far, she says, she has not even been invited to an interview. The 17-year-old finished secondary school two years ago with a clutch of GCSEs and had wanted to become a plumber. Unable to get on a vocational course or apprenticeship, she drifted aimlessly – until her mother threw her out.
"Mum told me to leave. I have three younger brother and sisters and she had to look after us all. She didn't work. It was too much of a struggle. She said: 'Get yourself a job and get on with your life.' But you cannot get a job without experience and you cannot get experience without a job."
Living on £50 a week in income support, Angela has spent more than a year sofa-surfing with "mates, my nan and uncles" who live just off the sandy beaches of the Tendring peninsula in north-east Essex.
While rising and persistent joblessness among young people in Britain is now setting off alarms across the political and economic spectrum, nowhere is the impact of youth unemployment felt more acutely than here in Jaywick, at the shabbier end of Clacton-on-Sea.
According to data collected for the Commission on Youth Unemployment, chaired by the Labour MP David Miliband, in the Golf Green area a third of 16- to 24-year-olds claim jobseeker's allowance, earning this desolate collection of homes laid out in tight rows the dubious honour of the nation's youth unemployment hotspot. Nationally, the figure is just 6%.
The report, produced by Acevo, which represents the biggest charities in Britain, says that "youth unemployment has reached emergency point" with one in five young people not in employment, education or training (neet). A quarter of a million have been unemployed for more than a year.
The national economy has to pick up the tab of higher benefit payments, lost income-tax revenues and wasted capacity. Acevo calculates that in 2012 youth unemployment will cost the exchequer £4.8bn – more than the budget for further education for 16- to 19-year-olds in England – and cost the economy £10.7bn in lost output.
Paul Gregg, a Bristol University economist who was a member of the commission, says youth unemployment leaves a "wage scar" that can persist into middle age: the longer the period of unemployment, the bigger the effect. He says that every year spent unemployed as a youth leads to a 10% drop in wages in your 30s. "You are not getting stable jobs with a long-term career. That leads to stress and health problems. The problems linger."
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Although youth unemployment has been exacerbated by the crash of 2008, it first emerged as a problem in 2004 as the sectors that tend to employ young people – shops, motor trade, hotels and restaurants – began to shed staff. From 2004 to 2007, these industries lost 200,000 jobs at a time when the number of young people looking for a job rose by more than 100,000 a year.
Miliband admitted to the Guardian that Labour had taken its eye off young people. "We focused on lone parents and disability. So, yes, we missed that. This government has made all sorts of announcements but there's little detail on what they plan to do to get more employment."
Gregg says that all is not lost. "The British economy can create jobs for young people. When we had a brief period of growth in 2010, youth unemployment fell. The British economy creates jobs when there's demand. It's just we don't have any demand right now and things look pretty bad."
Many youth unemployment hotspots identified by the commission are in former coal mining areas in south Wales or where heavy industry collapsed in the north-east of England. What Jaywick shares with these areas is simple: there aren't any jobs.
There hasn't been a big local employer on this part of the Essex coast since Butlin's holiday camp closed down in 1983. Most of the work around today is seasonal – in the funparks or caravan sites that dot the coast. Geography doesn't help. The nearest big town, Colchester, is nearly 30 miles away.
To make matters worse, the government's cuts have begun to bite. The Connexions centre, the Labour scheme that gave teenagers help to find jobs and training, was closed down last year and replaced by three staff offering careers advice to 140,000 people. Dan Casey, the Labour councillor for Golf Green, says that the area is already officially one of the most deprived in Britain. "We know it's bad here. Trust me, we can do without the publicity. People here need jobs, not lectures about getting on your bike."
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Ask Diane Boyd, the manager of a local charity, Signpost, helping young people find employment in Golf Green, what type of jobs young people do get and she's quick to reply: lifeguards. "I have got three interviews for the first five young people who did a week-long intensive lifeguard course. One of them is for Ipswich swimming pool. That's 40 miles away. Word spreads quickly, though – now I have 26 people applying to do the course."
Signpost operates out of a small community centre in Brooklands on the fringes of Golf Green. Under a bright yellow sign carrying the incongruously optimistic slogan "A smiling face makes this a happy place", sit Benjamin Kelly, 19, and Harry Murray, 16. Harry's one of the lucky trio to get an interview as a life-guard. "I will be very happy if I get the job. I'd rather be a mechanic but you've got no choice these days."
Kelly has tried his hand at a variety of roles: mechanic, bricklayer, painter and chef – picking up a variety of qualifications along the way. Worldly wise, he has steered away from the temptations of drink and drugs that dull the expectations of many Jaywick youth. "I know there are plenty of people who will rob to get that next fix or smoke the day away. But that's a total waste."
In the past, Kelly could work on building sites "for cash" but that's no longer possible as no one now is hired without a health and safety card. He would rather not be "exploited" by unscrupulous cafe owners who offer him £30 for a 10-hour shift on the seafront. Because he's been unemployed for almost nine months, Kelly has to do a placement with the government's Work Programme.
"If I don't go on the [Work Programme] I lose my benefits. I don't mind if it gets me a job. I want to work. When I was a chef, I was on £200 or £300 a week. On jobseeker's allowance I get £50 a week. That's not enough money to live on."


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Swedish massage is the most common type of massage therapy offered in the United States. Swedish massage is normally a very flowing, soothing massage with a lighter pressure. There are five basic strokes used in Swedish massage. The one type of stroke easily recognized by most people is effleurage. Effleurage is just a nice long gliding stroke when incorporated in Swedish massage. Petrissage is a stroke that consists of grasping and kneading the tissue. A good example would be when a friend grasps and kneads your shoulders. Friction is a focused pressure going with or against the direction of the muscle fibers. Tapotement is a rhythmic percussion on the tissue. The percussion can be similar to karate chops using the sides of the hands, cupped hands and even just using the finger tips. And finally there is vibration. Vibration has many variations. It can be a gentle rocking of the torso that sends a wave of vibration throughout the body or gentle shaking of a limb to send a soothing wave of movement into the tissue . Below are a few common examples of problems addressed by Swedish massage therapy and who would benefit.
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According to a recent poll, there's a real likelihood that the Garden State may turn a bright purple on November 6th. The Stockton University Poll released on October 1st showed GOP challenger Bob Hugin within striking distance of scandal-plagued Senator Bob Menendez. Moreover, with just two weeks left until Election Day, Hugin has closed the gap to within two percentage ...Read More »
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Tiwanaku is the symbol of the ancient origins of Bolivia, a meeting of diametrically opposed cultures, a meeting between the sun and the moon, where the extreme material poverty has always been balanced by a huge spiritual wealth. On one side the Lake Titicaca, the Isla del Sol and the bolivian Copacabana. On the other side La Paz and the Yungas, coming soon. Bolivia, a hope for all the souths of the world.


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Bangkok, Thailand is a popular Asian destination especially for its rich culture, nightlife and, of course, the unlimited street food choices you'll find everywhere possible. We swear by it!
We were lucky we were staying on Khao San Road where we found almost all the eats and treats we were looking for. If you're on a budget like we were, Bangkok is the best place to go to as all the eats and drinks are cheap yet extremely filling and delicious. No adjective can adequately describe the food experience you'll have.
With different food strips and markets offering unlimited food options, one thing we've realized is that when you're in Thailand, you'll never be hungry. Here is a list of the must-try street food waiting for you to be discovered when you visit Bangkok:
1. Barbecue
You'll see a number of stalls selling skewered anything – beef, sausage, chicken and more. But you can't miss the Moo Ping which is a sweet and tender pieces of meat skewered with vegetables or fruits. Generally, these skewered meats are sweet but every vendor makes their own marinade which makes them unique.
2. Pad Thai
You'd be crazy not to try Pad Thai as it is one of the most famous dishes in Thailand. It's a traditional noodle dish with stir-fried rice noodles, egg, bean sprouts, tofu, peanuts and with your choice of shrimp or chicken.
TIP: It's pretty obvious that a certain restaurant is good when you see both locals and tourists line up. Hailed by CNN, BBC and other notable publications, Thipsamai is a very popular restaurant in Bangkok serving Pad Thai. Watch the video below on how they prepare it:
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3. Iced drinks
Very much like the Philippines, Thailand is also a tropical country so refreshing drinks are a must. To beat the heat, there are numerous stalls serving iced coffee and iced brewed tea mixed with condensed milk. Plus, the ice come pre-crushed to make your drink colder.
4. Torched Scallops
Who would ever pass up on melted cheese on top of torched scallops? Although it may not be as unique as most of the street foods in Bangkok, it's definitely something you would order as soon as seeing it. To make it even better? It is served with a sweet and spicy vinegar sauce for added flavor. And since it's food you can find on the streets or at weekend markets, it's extremely affordable so you can have as much as you'd like!
5.Coconut Ice Cream
Fresh coconut meat is scraped before scooping rich coconut ice cream and sometimes sprinkled with some more coconut bits and other treats. In my case, the vendor drizzled some chocolate sauce and peanuts.
6. Satay
It isn't really a Thai dish per se but they have their own recipe to have that distinct local taste. Strips of chicken are marinated in turmeric and coconut milk for hours before grilling. These skewered tender meat is served with a pandan bread, peanut sauce and cucumber salad.
7. Fried Chicken
Just when you thought Koreans have perfected fried chicken, Thais have their own. Each stall has a different blend that's peppery with a hint of lemongrass that's a staple in Thai cuisine. Make sure you get the drumsticks as it is the juiciest among the chicken parts – has crisp skin and tender meat oozing with juice. It's so popular that we saw locals and tourists having a bite while walking.
8. Mango Sticky Rice
A popular dessert that can also be a snack that's made of sticky rice, ripe mangoes and drizzled with rich coconut cream.
9. Thai Crispy Pancakes
These palm-sized crisp pockets are called Khanom Buang and can be found anywhere in Bangkok. It is a crispy rice flour pancake stuffed with coconut meringue and topped with grated coconut or sometimes with some marinated shrimps.
10. Fried Insects
Feeling adventurous? Exotic delicacies like fried worms, larvae, crickets, beetles and cockroaches are all over Bangkok. They're fried until crispy and is actually tasty! There are hundreds of vendors selling fried insects but what's sets them apart from the other is the sauce they mix with the insects in the frying pan.
BONUS: Crab Omelette
Just a few steps away from Thip Samai, there's another restaurant called Jae Fai serving crab omelette and a few more Thai dishes. It's a little pricey but one order is a huge roll of egg filled with chunks of crab meat that's meticulously cooked over charcoal by the owner who's wearing her iconic goggles for over thirty years now.
What are your food favorites when in Bangkok? Let us know in the comments down below so we can try them on our next visit!