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Mini Monsters creepy crawly roadshow

Mini Monsters

The Mini Monsters creepy crawly roadshow is available for your school from one off sessions for individual classes to full day visits for the whole school.

Sessions are an hour long (shorter sessions are available for eyfs children) and are suitable for class sized groups of up to 30 children. During the session I introduce 5 different species of fascinating animals before allowing the children the opportunity to handle each animal in turn.

This unique experience is designed to compliment the   national curriculum from mini beasts and rainforests through to living things and habitats. The sessions can be tailored to suit any specific subject you are covering.

All sessions are presented by me, Ed Mackay (BSc Environmental Science) an enthusiastic and experienced educator with a full DBS check, £5million public liability insurance and risk assessments available on request.

For more information please visit or call Ed on 07846 182 611

 “Thank you for an amazing and informative workshop. The children really loved it and so did we! When I asked them what was the best part of their day, they all said the animals!”

•  Melbourn Primary School

“Just wanted to say thank you for coming in today. The children loved it and many said it was the best lesson they’d ever had”

 •  Taverham Junior School

“I just wanted to let you know how much the children enjoyed your visit to our class yesterday. I had several parents tell me they went home and talked of nothing else last night”

 •  St Edmunds Primary School

“Thanks for a lovely visit the other day. The children have been painting drawing and talking about it ever since. Your quiet, calm approach was perfect for young   children”

 • The Albert Pye School

Expected outcomes

The sessions help build confidence and understanding of various biological processes including adaptations, habitats and diet of various different species. The sessions are very interactive and, above all, a lot of fun!

To book this activity, please contact:
Ed Mackay
07846 182 611

60 Gertrude Road
NR34SF Norwich Norfolk

The STEM Directory is provided as a service to support you in finding enrichment opportunities. The activities are offered by external providers and are not endorsed by STEM Learning. We are not responsible for their content or delivery.

Grants for school

The Royal Institution runs two enrichment and enhancement grant schemes. Grants of up to £500 are available to UK-registered state schools to host a STEM activity selected from the STEM Directory.

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Show Notes for Monday, September 29, 2014

The Rude Pundit calls in at 9:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about whether sex toys can save Kansas

• Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to talk about how the DC press portrays women

jim_wardVoice Deity Jim Ward joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 11am ET / 8am PT for Maximum Mookage Mondays

• President Barack Obama admitted Sunday on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that the United States underestimated the threat posed by Islamic State fighters in Syria, as US-led coalition warplanes pounded the oil sites that fund the jihadist group.

• At least a dozen people were arrested Sunday night in Ferguson, Missouri as a large crowd gathered in front of the city’s police headquarters, St. Louis County Police report. Officers said bottles and rocks were thrown at Ferguson officers.

• A man accused of beheading a woman in Oklahoma will be charged with first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon, authorities said. Alton Nolen, a recent convert to Islam, allegedly attacked a woman Thursday at a Vaughan Foods processing plant, soon after he learned he’d lost his job there.

• Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton say they are “blessed, grateful, and so happy” to become grandparents. Their daughter Chelsea gave birth to a daughter Friday night.

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Meeting the demand for materialographic preparation of radioactive materials

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CitoPress-1 for hot cell is an automatic, electro-hydraulic, hot mounting press for one cylinder. Complete with control box with electric parts and controls for rack mounting outside the hot cell. The system is cooled by the use of water or compressed air. The system is based on Struers’ standard equipment for precision cutting, hot mounting, grinding, and polishing, which is adapted to allow remote operation and remote handling of specimens.

Easy installation in hot cell

The front panel and electronics are placed outside the hot cell. The distance between the front panel and the equipment placed inside the hot cell is a standard 8.0 m. A selection of cable and tube lengths are available. The equipment is provided with rollers and handles to facilitate movement around in the hot cell.

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The equipment is adapted to allow remote operation and remote handling of specimens using hot cell manipulators. The control unit is separated outside the hot cell. The apparatus features and functionalities match CitoPress-5.

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A sturdy, reliable design minimizes the need for service and repair. The equipment can be moved and turned in the hot cell for easy access. The cabinet is fastened by cylindrical Allen type screws, which facilitate removal. Electrical elements are connected by plugs for individual removal. Maintenance and exchange of vital parts including motors, belts, and plastic tubes can be carried out in the cell using manipulators.

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    CitoPress-1 is controlled from outside the hot cell with touchpad controls placed on the front plate of the control box. The operation can be carried out in the cell using manipulators.

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    The equipment has been prepared for various cooling options, such as water recirculation or air-cooling, and can be moved by lifting the front end. The electric parts are mounted in a control box with the normal touchpad front plate. This box is made for rack mounting, or it can stand alone.

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    The mounting unit facilitates remote handling. The mounting unit can be opened, closed, or replaced directly in the cell using the manipulators. Cooling is based on water or air. The plastic sections of the top closure are made from radiation resistant plastic.

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    Whenever possible, plastic is substituted by metal, and electrical parts are located outside the hot cell. Gear wheels and belts are, as far as possible, made of radiation resistant material.

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    The equipment can be repaired in the cell simply by using the manipulators, avoiding the necessity of discarding it as radioactive waste.

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Fordham Law to Host 44th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy

Fordham Law School’s 44th Annual International Antitrust Law and Policy Conference in New York City, led for the third year by Fordham Competition Law Institute Director James Keyte, will take place Thursday-Friday, 14-15 September 2017. The conference will feature topics focused the role of the courts in antitrust enforcement, “must-have” content and the antitrust playing field in media and sports, and the multijurisdictional challenge of e-commerce and antitrust.

Keynote speakers include Andrew Finch of the U.S. Department of Justice, Johannes Laitenberger of the EU Commission, Andreas Mundt of the International Competition Network Steering Group, and Maureen Ohlhausen of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Additional speakers include antitrust agency heads Isabelle de Silva of France, John Pecman of Canada, Giovanni Pitruzzella of Italy, Han Li Toh of Singapore, and Pablo Trevisan of Argentina; judges Anthony Collins of the General Court of the European Union, Wenlian Ding of the Shanghai People's Court, and Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; and in-house counsel Horacio Gutierrez of Spotify, Mathew Heim of Qualcomm, Dina Kallay of Ericsson, Munesh Mahtani of Google, Greg McCurdy of Uber, and Greg Slater of Intel.

The institute has also organized two pre-conference events on 13 September.

• The Antitrust Economics Workshop will explore key topics for practitioners related to platforms, parity and pricing for digital markets; state-of-the-art economic analysis of mergers; and current trends in merger enforcement policy. In addition, Keyte will moderate a conversation with Nobel Laureate Daniel McFadden.

• The new Global Practitioners Workshop, conducted under the Chatham House Rule, will present two sessions on practical issues: protectionism and national interest in merger enforcement moderated by Cal Goldman of Goodmans LLP (Canada) and patent licensing in a multijurisdictional environment moderated by Ingrid Vandenborre of Skadden Arps (Brussels).

In-house counsel and newly admitted attorneys may register for free. Discounted registration is available for government attorneys and academics.

EVENTS:   Antitrust Economics Workshop and Global Practitioners Workshop,

September 13, 2017

44th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy

September 14–15, 2017

WHERE: Fordham Law School, 150 West 62nd Street, New York NY 10023
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ansformation. It is based on the assumption that if different senses rendered by the same phonetic complex can be defined with the help of an identical kernel word-group, they may be considered sufficiently near to be regarded as variants of the same word; if not, they are homonyms.

Consider the following set of examples:

  1. A childs voice is heard.1
  2. His voice…was…annoyingly well-bred.2
  3. The voice-voicelessness distinction…sets up some English consonants in opposed pairs…
  4. In the voice contrast of active and passive…the active is the unmarked form.

The first variant (voice1) may be defined as sound uttered in speaking or singing as characteristic of a particular person, voice2 as mode of uttering sounds in speaking or singing, voice3 as the vibration of the vocal chords in sounds uttered. So far all the definitions contain one and the same kernel element rendering the invariant common basis of their meaning. It is, however, impossible to use the same kernel element for the meaning present in the fourth example. The corresponding definition is: “Voice that form of the verb that expresses the relation of the subject to the action”. This failure to satisfy the same explanation formula sets the fourth meaning apart. It may then be considered a homonym to the polysemantic word embracing the first three variants. The procedure described may remain helpful when the items considered belong to different parts of speech; the verb voice may mean, for example, to utter a sound by the aid of the vocal chords. ________________________________________________________________

  1. Maugham W.S. “The Kite”
  2. London J. “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”

This brings us to the problem of patterned homonymy, i.e. of the invariant lexical meaning present in homonyms that have developed from one common source and belong to various parts of speech.

Is a lexicographer justified in placing the verb voice with the above meaning into the same entry with the first three variants of the noun? The same question arises with respect to after or before preposition, conjunction and adverb.

English lexicographers think it quite possible for one and the same word to function as different parts of speech. Such pairs as act n act v; back n - back v; drive n drive v; the above mentioned after and before and the like, are all treated as one word functioning as different parts of speech. This point of view was severely criticized. It was argued that one and the same word could not belong to different parts of speech simultaneously, because this would contradict the definition of the word as a system of forms.

This viewpoint is not faultless either; if one follows it consistently, one should regard as separate words all cases when words are countable nouns in one meaning and uncountable in another, when verbs can be used transitively and intransitively, etc. In this case hair1 all the hair that grows on a persons head will be one word, an uncountable noun; whereas a single thread of hair will be

denoted by another word (hair2) which, being countable, and thus different in paradigm, cannot be considered the same word. It would be tedious to enumerate all the absurdities that will result from choosing this path. A dictionary arranged on these lines would require very much space in printing and could occasion much wasted time in use. The conclusion therefore is that efficiency in lexicographic work is secured by a rigorous application of etymological criteria combined with formalized procedures of establishing a lexical invariant suggested by synchronic linguistic methods.

As to those concerned with teaching of English as a foreign language, they are also keenly interested in patterned homonymy. The most frequently used words constitute the greatest amount of difficulty, as may be summed up by the following jocular example: I think that this “that” is a conjunction but that that “that” that that man used as pronoun.

A correct understanding of this peculiarity of contemporary English should be instilled in the pupils from the very beginning, and they should be taught to find their way in sentences where several words have their homonyms in other parts of speech, as in Jespersens example: Will change of air cure love? To show the scope of the problem for the elementary stage a list of homonyms that should be classified as patterned is given below:

Above, prp, adv, a; act, n, v; after, prp, adv, cj; age, n, v; back, n, adv, v; ball, n, v; bank, n, v; before, prp, adv, cj; besides, prp, adv; bill, n, v; bloom, n, v; box, n, v. The other examples are: by, can, close, country, course, cross, direct, draw, drive, even, faint, flat, fly, for, game, general, hard, hide, hold, home, just, kind, last, leave, left, lie, light, like, little, lot, major, march, may, mean, might, mind, miss, part, plain, plane, plate, right, round, sharp, sound, spare, spell, spring, square, stage, stamp, try, type, volume, watch, well, will.

For the most part all these words are cases of patterned lexico-grammatical homonymy taken from the minimum vocabulary of the elementary stage: the above homonyms mostly differ within each group grammatically but possess some lexical invariant. That is to say, act v follows the standard four-part system of forms with a base form act, an s-form (act-s), a Past Indefinite Tense form (acted) and an ing-form (acting) and takes up all syntactic functions of verbs, whereas act n can have two forms, act (sing.) and act (pl.). Semantically both contain the most generalized component rendering the notion of doing something.

Recent investigations have shown that it is quite possible to establish and to formalize the differences in environment, either syntactical or lexical, serving to signal which of the several inherent values is to be ascribed to the variable in a given context. An example of distributional analysis will help to make this point clear.

The distribution of a lexico-semantic variant of a word may be represented as a list of structural patterns in which it occurs and the data on its combining power. Some of the most typical structural patterns for a verb are: N + V + N; N + V + Prp + N; N + V + A; N + V + adv; N + V + to + V and some others. Patterns for nouns are far less studied, but for the present case one very typical example will suffice. This is the structure: article + A + N.

In the following extract from “A Taste of Honey” by Shelagh Delaney the morpheme laugh occurs three times: I cant stand people who laugh at other people. Theyd get a bigger laugh, if they laughed at themselves.

We recognize laugh used first and last here as a verb, because the formula is N + laugh + prp + N and so the pattern is in both cases N + V + prp + N. In the beginning of the second sentence laugh is a noun and the pattern is article + A + N.

This elementary example can give a very general idea of the procedure which can be used for solving more complicated problems.

We may sum up our discussion by pointing out that whereas distinction between polysemy homonymy is relevant and important for lexicography it is not relevant for the practice of either human or machine translation. The reason for this is that different variants of a polysemantic word are not less conditioned by context then lexical homonyms. In both cases the identification of the necessary meaning is based on the corresponding distribution that can signal it and must be present in the memory either of the pupil or the machine. The distinction between patterned and non-patterned homonymy, greatly underrated until now, is of far greater importance. In non-patterned homonymy every unit is to be learned separately both from the lexical and grammatical points of view. In patterned homonymy when one knows the lexical meaning of a given word in one part of speech, one can accurately predict the meaning when the same sound complex occurs in some other part of speech, provided, of coarse, that there is sufficient context to guide one.

An important issue that needs to be discussed is the generalizability of the results from written to spoken language. Although we cannot offer definitive arguments on this point, we can cite some reasons why the results might underestimate the difference between same and different class homonyms in speech. First, the disambiguating information provided by orthography would be absent. Second, homonyms from different grammatical classes would tend to have acoustic differences that could aid in disambiguation. In particular, because of the basic clause structure of English, nouns are more likely than verbs to appear at the end


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Maja Jezerce summit

Because of that amazing scenery is not so difficult to make some effort, walk through the deep snow and sleep one night in the tent on the snow below the peak. People on the summit of Maja Jezerce (2694 m), the highest peak of PROKLETIJE range. Impressive Maja Briaset peak dominate on the left in the background. March 2008.

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Monument Peak Climber's Log

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Kadee - Nov 26, 2008 3:06 pm Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2007

Camped Out  Sucess!

Nice camping around this area. Easy peak, but worth a visit.

rmjwinters - Aug 12, 2008 10:35 pm Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2008

start of a highpoint trip  Sucess!

We came, we drove, and then headed toward East mountain

madsjim - Oct 19, 2007 9:05 am Date Climbed: May 19, 2007

Drove to the Top  Sucess!

Drove to the top after work one day and camped out on top. I enjoyed the sunset on Nebo and scenery out towards the San Rafael Swell.

Dean - Oct 16, 2007 8:05 am Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2005

Part of a Utah week  Sucess!

Fellow SP member Dennis Poulin and myself were wrapping up a week in utah and this was about the 9th county highpoint we did. We slept in our vehicles about 5 miles down the road, just off to the side and did this summit at sunrise. We drove our trucks to the very summit and Martinized the peak (a county highpointer term for putting your foot on the very summit with out getting out of your vehicle)

KirtDavis - Oct 15, 2007 3:55 pm Date Climbed: Oct 14, 2007

last of a 5 summit weekend  Sucess!

What a weekend we bagged
Brian Head, Andy Nelson Peak, Bluebell Knoll, Fish Lake Hightop and Monument Peak.

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Carnamah-Eneabba Wildflower Drive

The Carnamah-Eneabba Wildflower Drive provides one of the largest and most spectacular wildflower displays in Western Australia. Allow an hour or more to enjoy the self-drive tour and appreciate the beauty of the natural floral exhibition and the photographic opportunities along the route.

The drive ranges from the picturesque coastal town of Coolimba through to the rural town of Carnamah.

Coolimba is situated on the western side of the Indian Ocean Drive on the Coolimba Eneabba Road. Coolimba offers a variety of water activities such as swimming and snorkelling.

From Coolimba, follow the Coolimba Eneabba Road (crossing the Indian Ocean Drive) through to the Brand Highway. Turn left and travel north on the highway for approximately two kilometres then turn right onto Eneabba Three Springs Road. Turn right onto the Carnamah Eneabba Road until you reach the town of Carnamah.

Just three hours drive north of Perth, the Carnamah-Eneabba Wildflower Drive will be sure to delight flora enthusiasts and with more than 180 species of fauna in the region.

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Coorow Wildflower Drive

The extensive display of vibrant colour along the Coorow Wildflower Drive is a breathtaking sight to see. Renowned for the overabundance of wildflowers, you will not be able to take your eyes off Mother Nature's work at its best. There are many opportunities for you to stop and capture the scenic views on camera.

Meander through the bushland of Alexander Morrison National Park to see the wildflowers close up and keep an eye out for the occasional kangaroo, emu or kookaburra. For the more adventurous, explore various limestone caves throughout the park.

Situated just three hours' drive north of Perth, the wildflowers of Coorow will be in full bloom between late July and early October. If time permits, try to include a visit to the idyllic coastal town of Green Head or the fishing town of Leeman. Relax on the pristine beaches or take a boat out to try and catch the illusive "Big One".

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Coorow, WA, 6515

Located 19.0K from Winchester

Coorow Farm Wildflower Trail

The Coorow Farm is situated one kilometre from the town centre and is host to a variety of wildflowers including orchids, everlastings and natives. Wildflower times are between July and October annually depending on weather patters. The trail around the farm can be either walked or driven and is free entry.

Also found on the Coorow Farm is the site of the original settlers of Coorow, the Long Family Homestead. William and Sara Long first settled the area in 1862 raising sheep and horses. The horses were shipped to Singapore, where they were used by the British forces, and the wool was taken by dray to Dongara and Perth. The ruins of their homestead can be seen on the final leg of the trail approximately 550 metres from the exit to Coorow Latham Road.

Brochures including map and locations can be found at the Coorow Community Resource Center or the Shire of Coorow Office, both on Main Street.

Coorow Latham Road
Coorow, WA, 6515

Located 19.1K from Winchester

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Aging Malls Breed Litigation

TASA ID: 396

Prior to October of 2012, my previous shopping center personal injury case was in 2004. Since last October, I have been asked to serve as an expert witness in four litigation matters involving serious personal injury or wrongful death that happened in or around regional malls.  In my analysis of this unique cluster of cases, it occurred to me that they all shared a common, but poorly understood, element that I thought worth sharing with readers of The TASA Knowledge Center.

Inappropriate Buffer Zones in Sports and Recreation May Lead to Litigation

TASA ID: 658

A young girl in a daycare gymnasium ran to access a low trampoline which was in close proximity to an unpadded wall.  She tripped on the egress of the mat ramp, sustaining a head injury.  Three of the gymnasium walls were padded, while the fourth was not padded, thus creating a double standard of care. There have been many sport/recreation litigation cases in which the proximate cause for the injury is related directly to inappropriate safety zones on the court or field, or in the gym.

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If you haven’t seen on Instagram, I’m running a week long series of giveaways because you guys deserve some gifts! I will be updating here on the blog, on Facebook, and on Instagram, and you can enter the contests on any one of these social media channels. Ready?

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compaq SR1109

  chippy+ 18:56 08 Jan 2007

my daughter has the above pc can anyone tell me what key is it for safe mode i have tried F5,F8, and F10 but no luck thanks Chippy

  Diodorus Siculus 19:32 08 Jan 2007

Can you try a different keyboard? Could be a problem there somehow.

  ed-0 19:53 08 Jan 2007

Are you keeping your finger on the F8 key or tapping it.

It should work by tapping the F8 key as soon as you switch on.

If you get a compaq splash screen on boot up, try pressing the tab key to see post and then tap the F8 key.

  chippy+ 22:09 08 Jan 2007

hi Diodorus Siculus, ed-0 thanks i will take note of what you say and give it a try when i go to her house Chippy

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  Terrygee 00:13 21 Mar 2009

My antivirus software regularly warns me that CFW Tracker Upload is trying to access the internet and advises me to deny if I don't understand. I don't. What is it?

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This should tell you a little bit about it. click here

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Thanks. I recently installed Uniblue so that must be it

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I am an international Student doing undergrad in Management Information Systems in a University in Minnesota. I am 24 years old but I have been into computers from the age of 17. Thats when I made an Access-based Application for a video store. Then I learnt C++ and all the other cool programming languages. Right now I am working on-campus as a web developer, I was the first one to start working on an ASP.NET application (we ususally use Classic ASP). Overall I have the knowledge of C++, Java, VB, SQL Server, ASP, (Just started), some networking (took a basic class) and I have the magic-touch.. that is.. if your computer has a problem all I have to do is to touch it and it would start working. My Question is What is the best way to go for a career, Companies hiring International Studenst - chances are very slim specially with the current economic trend.. Is there a secret to making in the Industry for people with similar cases?

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It is known that 70 percent of the earth’s surface or more is covered by the ocean. About 97 percent of the earth’s water is accommodated in oceans and seas. The five oceans—the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern, and Arctic—are all connected and create a colossal body of water. Seas are smaller bodies of salty water within the oceans.

Oceans are not appropriate for drinking since the water is too salty. Most of the salt comes from soil that has been washed from the land and drifted into the oceans through rivers and minerals from rocks. The ocean’s amount of salt varies in it. In warm, dry areas, the water is more salty than those in cold weather such as near the North and South Poles.

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INCLUSION POCKETBOOK. By Niki Elliot, Elaine Doxey and Val Stephenson. Teacher's Pocketbooks. pound;6.99

Subtitled "A pocketful of tips, tools and practical advice", this is indeed a small book, with small print and more bullets than a James Bond film. But its ideas are big and what it lacks in depth it makes up for in breadth.

For those who want to read more there is a good bibliography.

The authors cover most of the bases - inclusion as a process not an end point, collegiate management, mind mapping your principles and aims, inclusivity through different learning styles, and so on. Lots of practical information and advice which is, of necessity, brief - but the upside is there is no waffle.

The chapters on setting suitable learning challenges and on creating an inclusive learning environment are particularly good. There is also a section on legislation and comprehensive and sound advice on evaluation - but, even given that this is a pocketbook, I would have liked more than one page on pupil voice.

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Headteacher, Redlands primary school, Fareham

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Science practicals spark if you can get pupils to behave

2nd April 2010 at 01:00

So, less practical work is being done in science lessons and one major factor is poor pupil behaviour ("Science practicals put on back burner, claim teachers," March 26). Well, no surprise there.

About 20 years ago, I had a difficult Year 8 group which contained a number of disruptive pupils. The modern "twee" name for them would be "challenging", as if their behaviour was something one should gallantly rise to.

No - they were simply unmanageable in a mainstream science class, likely to squirt any liquid at other pupils if teat pipettes were in use, jog others who might be heating a liquid over a flame, push wires into the sockets and so on. Most surviving science teachers could recognise these dangers and add their own examples.

Purely out of courtesy, I provided my then head with a list of those in that group whom I would be excluding from some practical work for safety reasons. The head informed me I should not.

He brought in the science adviser who observed the class a couple of times disguised (at my request) as a lab technician, working on apparatus in the corner. He told me he hadn't observed any behaviour worse than he saw elsewhere.

As the disruptives had behaved in their usual way, I felt bound to inform him that he was failing in his duty to the parents of the well-behaved majority in not seeking to improve standards. I acknowledged that he would report to the head and that as a result, I would continue to ban any pupil I judged to be potentially dangerous from potentially hazardous practicals.

I heard nothing more from him, or the head, so continued teaching in relative safety until I retired.

Tom Trust, Redruth, Cornwall.

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Tertiary - Concerns grow that 'mechanistic' view could force education to go belly up

28th January 2011 at 00:00
Mixed reaction to Scottish Funding Council chief's declaration that all study should lead to improved economic growth

Fears surfaced at a major event on part-time education that Scotland was heading toward a "mechanistic" view of learning, where courses must prove that they have clear economic value.

Mark Batho, chief executive of the Scottish Funding Council, told this year's Part-Time Forum that all study should lead to improved economic growth. At the same event, new Skills and Lifelong Learning Minister Angela Constance said that skills "must be related to jobs".

There were some dismayed responses to Mr Batho's comments, typified by John Morrison of Aberdeen University's history of art department: "This appears to be a rather mechanistic view of education, which sees it as skills training and not something that has intrinsic value itself. I find that distressing."

It could lead to the arts being given a lower priority, said Edinburgh College of Art's Robbie Bushe, yet they played a "vital role in the economy and cultural well-being of our country".

A Hebrides-based student voiced concern that Scottish education, despite a history of supporting education for its own sake, would risk becoming a "training machine".

Mr Batho strongly denied favouring education that provided a clear pathway to a specific job, recalling a colleague who had pointed out that 70 per cent of FTSE 100 chief executives were history graduates.

While he could not confirm that claim, the point was clear: "If you say you shouldn't be funding history because it doesn't have economic benefit, then you're 100 per cent wrong."

He disputed that, by demanding a connection between education and economic growth, areas of study such as the arts and humanities would suffer in a time of cutbacks.

"Economic growth is not mechanistic - it's about the development of a culture and a society that is at ease with itself and has cultural integrity," Mr Batho said.

But, given Scottish education's dwindling coffers, he insisted institutions would have to decide whether it was worth funding courses which were "of no benefit".

An open mind was necessary, however: he recalled discussion about the study of belly dancing and rabbit anorexia; ultimately, rabbit anorexia had been deemed a worthwhile course of study.

Willy Roe, who is leading a review of post-16 education and vocational training, said Scotland was one of the best countries for higher education, but one of the worst for post-16 destinations.

To get the best out of higher education, he said, there was considerable evidence to show that investment should be focused on the six months before birth, and the first two years of life.

The possibility of being an entrepreneur or an employer should be "woven into every part of higher education", he added, advocating "deep and extreme collaboration with people outside our sector".

Mr Roe insisted that the financial turmoil looming over Scotland should not induce panic in education spending. It was not as bad as many believed and, in any case, funding already came from a mixed economy of public, private and personal investment.

The Government should offer incentives to students willing to put money into higher education, he said, if they agreed to learn skills for industries with recruitment problems.

Martin Bean, vice-chancellor of the Open University, had a clear message about how to bring the digital world into learning, which might not sit well with specialist educational platforms such as Glow, the Scottish schools' intranet. He thinks educators must work within digital media used by young people already, such as Facebook. "The secret is to meet them where they live," he said.

The Part-Time Forum is a joint venture of the Open University, the University of the West of Scotland and Holyrood Events

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Mike McNeil stood on his deck last Memorial Day weekend and shined a flashlight across his backyard. It was a half hour before midnight, and he couldn’t really see much in the dark. But the roar he heard was unmistakable. The Blanco River was rising.

McNeil quickly retreated into the Wimberley home he shared with his wife, Gayla. During the near-decade they had lived there, the house had never flooded. But now the Blanco was lapping at the exterior walls, pressing against the back French doors like water filling an aquarium.

“Gayla, we’ve got to get out,” Mike said. He leashed their dog, Sienna, and Gayla grabbed her iPad and purse. Then, suddenly, the doors gave way, and water cascaded into their bedroom. The McNeils ran to the front door, but the water had already surrounded the house, and the pressure had jammed the door shut. It wouldn’t budge—until it crashed into the living room, just as Mike and Gayla were trying to climb out a window.

Brown, turbid water inundated the room. A piano, a grandfather clock, and heavy furniture swirled like bath toys. After a few moments of confusion, the couple managed to get outside, only to find Mike’s pickup truck drifting away. They got into Gayla’s Volvo, but as they backed out, the car began to float; the side air bags deployed, and the roll bars, acting as if the car had been in a crash, shattered the rear window. Terrified, they made their way to the street, where they met up with their next-door neighbors, Mike and Theresa Graves, who had just pulled out of their own driveway. The Graves handed over the keys to a second car they had already moved to the street, and Mike and Gayla got in and finally sped away.

Mike and Gayla McNeil at the construction site of their new home in Wimberley on March 29, 2016.
Mike and Gayla McNeil at the construction site of their new home in Wimberley on March 29, 2016.

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From the time Mike first spotted the rising water until their narrow escape, five minutes, at most, had gone by. “It’s hard to get your mind around how fast it was coming up,” he says.

The Blanco River flood of May 23, 2015, was part of an immense storm that left a trail of destruction from Mexico to Oklahoma. In Texas, no place was harder hit than Wimberley, a Hill Country community of artists, vacationers, and retirees less than an hour southwest of Austin. The river’s surge killed eleven people in Wimberley and one man in Blanco. It felled an estimated 15,000 trees and smashed hundreds of homes, washing some completely off their foundations.

Reflecting the general sentiment around town, Hays County commissioner Will Conley told CNN, “Nobody has ever seen anything like this.” That was certainly true. But it was also true that, a quarter of a century ago, a government agency had foreseen something much like the 2015 flood—and Wimberley didn’t want to listen.

In 1984 the Federal Emergency Management Agency hired the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct the first rigorous study of flood hazards in Hays County. The engineers were tasked with identifying the hundred-year floodplain—land that has a one percent chance of flooding in any given year. Because Hays County participates in FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program, it is obligated to regulate development in areas that are most at risk. If property owners wish to build a home within the floodplain, they may be required to elevate the structure so that its floor level is above the hundred-year threshold.

There was no doubt that Hays County needed a new set of floodplain boundaries. When flood-hazard maps were first created in the seventies, they were little more than “artistic sketches,” recalls Craig Loftin, an engineer who worked on the project. “It was basically just you or me drawing what we think the floodplain would look like, possibly never even visiting the site at all,” he said. “Nobody would want to defend them.”

The Army Corps spent five years studying the steep terrain along the county’s rivers and streams and developing computer models to predict future flooding. In 1989 Hays County residents got their first look at the updated map, and many were appalled. The floodplain boundaries had significantly expanded, limiting the amount of land that could be developed. More than three hundred residents signed a petition requesting a new study, and a group called the Guardians of the Blanco River Watershed was formed to oppose implementation of a map based on what some referred to as “artificial data.” In Texas, where property rights are paramount, the federal overreach was unacceptable.

“FEMA needs to remember they’re dealing with people, not just statistics,” Raymond Czichos, the owner of the 7A Resort, a beloved vacation spot, told the Austin American-Statesman. “It’s so insensitive. They don’t think anything of taking someone’s homestead, someone’s property, and saying they can’t use it.”

Wimberley residents were basing their skepticism on a vanishingly small sliver of history—their own lifetimes. But FEMA knew that the Blanco had been flooding for millions of years, and the area’s topography all but guaranteed eventual disaster. Because the terrain along the Blanco is so steep, the potential water velocity is “ridiculously high,” Loftin notes. “No matter how you tried to build, once a flood happened, the water was going to be so horrifically violent the chances of a structure being able to sustain itself were going to be really low.”

Unwilling to jeopardize the county’s standing in FEMA’s flood insurance program, Hays County commissioners approved the map in 1993. But at the same time, they took FEMA to court, and U.S. senator Lloyd Bentsen’s office intervened on the county’s behalf. “FEMA was treated like a villain,” Loftin says. Led by county judge Eddy Etheredge, the map’s opponents argued that the flood risks were wildly overblown.

The case went to arbitration, and a settlement was reached that gave the county a major role in drafting a new map. The resulting do-over reduced the hundred-year floodplain boundary in Wimberley by up to eight feet. That might not seem like a big change, but even small reductions in the floodplain elevation can add many acres of developable land. Hays County adopted the new map in 1996.

“I was sure hoping we would have gone on and done additional analysis,” says retired Army Corps engineer Bill Black, who worked on the original study. “When the next flood event occurred, in 1998, it exceeded the [1996] map in a few places. But the political attitude [at FEMA] was ‘We’ve already had a major controversy in this area. We don’t want to tackle it.’ ”

After last year’s flood, at least one FEMA opponent had second thoughts. “I’ll be the first to admit it crossed my mind—should we have left things alone in 1992 or ’93?” says Etheredge, who today works as a business development representative for the engineering firm Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam and lives on a tall bluff overlooking the Blanco, just east of Wimberley. But he believes that if FEMA had felt strongly about the issue, it wouldn’t have let the revised map stand for two decades.

“FEMA’s not one that wiggles very much. When they agreed to a restudy rather than going to court, I thought, ‘Well, they’ve figured out that there are some errors there, and they’re willing to correct them.’ ”

Sitting in his office on a recent afternoon, Hays County’s floodplain administrator, Tom Pope, opened the map that FEMA pitched to a hostile populace back in 1989. Another map, on his computer screen, showed something new: a preliminary “advisory base flood elevation” map that FEMA completed after last year’s floods.

Pope ran his finger across the map on his desk, reading the flood elevations at river crossings throughout Wimberley. Then he compared them with the map on the screen.

“Huh,” he said. “That’s interesting.”

The new map, Pope couldn’t help but notice, is strikingly similar to the old one. In fact, it’s even more radical. In most places, the advisory elevations are a couple of feet higher than the Army Corps engineers had thought necessary in 1989. At Ranch Road 12, for example, the older map put the 100-year mark at about 40 feet; the new map puts it at 42 feet.

In fact, during the Memorial Day Weekend flood, which FEMA considers a “120- to 150-year event,” the water crested at 44.9 feet. There are a number of possible reasons for such an extreme flood. Perhaps it was simply a freak occurrence, a 120- to 150-year event. Perhaps climate change has altered the weather patterns in Central Texas, and we’ll see another such event well before 120 years have passed. Or perhaps the recent increase in “impervious cover” has made flooding more serious. Hays County is the fifth-fastest-growing in the nation, and the Blanco River floodplain has been transformed from cattle country to rows of residences and vacation homes. “When we were first studying the floodplain, it was open country,” Loftin says. “Now it’s house after house after house on both sides of that river.” All that cascading water has less soil to sink into, so it just keeps on flowing.

As in 1989, such arguments often fall on deaf ears. “It’s an emotional issue. It’s their property,” says Roy Sedwick, the executive director of the Texas Floodplain Management Association. “Anytime you get an increase in floodplains, you’re going to have some kickback, although we don’t see the fights we used to. There were times they were ready to run you out on a rail and lynch you when you started talking about regulation of floodplains.”

Steve Graham, the assistant general manager of the San Antonio River Authority, notes that there’s a double standard at work. “When homeowners are wiped out, they’re going to want FEMA to help them,” he says. “So it’s got to be a two-way street.”

Wimberley got another taste of disaster in October, when the Blanco River flooded once again. This time Cypress Creek also overflowed its banks, inundating shops in the village square. “It convinced a lot of people that, whoa, maybe we need to think about this twice,” says Don Ferguson, Wimberley’s city administrator.

Ferguson urged the city council to adopt FEMA’s advisory map, but it declined, as did the Hays County Commissioners’ Court. “We’re regulated to death, so I would prefer we have this as suggestions, strong suggestions,” county judge Bert Cobb said. “If they widen the fringe areas and people cannot build there, that affects our tax rate, that affects our taxable properties. Plus, it impacts the local control of property.”

Cobb recognizes that flash flooding is a major threat. To reduce that risk, he wants to build a string of reservoirs along the Blanco, though that’s a nonstarter for environmental groups, which prize flowing rivers and bottomland forests. The county is also one of several entities pitching in to install sirens, flow meters, and rain gauges along the upper Blanco, to give Wimberley more warning next time.

FEMA’s next official floodplain map is expected to come up for review in the fall; in the meantime residents are free to rebuild to the 1996 map’s specifications. Wimberley, though, is hedging its bets by requiring homeowners to sign an affidavit if they build below the new advisory elevation. “They feel like they’ve seen a once-in-a-lifetime flood,” Ferguson says. “The reality is there will be a similar event, if not worse.”

A Wimberley home that was torn off its foundation by the Memorial Day weekend flood.
A Wimberley home that was torn off its foundation by the Memorial Day weekend flood.

Photograph by Rodolfo Gonzalez/Austin American-Statesman via AP

The morning after the Memorial Day flood, Mike and Gayla McNeil returned to their house. The roof was barely hanging on, and many of the exterior walls had caved in. The flood had filled the structure with ten and a half feet of water and left behind a foot of mud. The house was a total loss.

Two weeks later, a church friend demolished their ruined home, and the couple, who have been living in someone else’s home for the past year, started over. “We thought long and hard—wouldn’t it be easier to buy a house somewhere in town?” says Mike, who is a retired general contractor. Their home, which was built in 1940 and expanded in 1996, was well within the floodplain according to both the 1989 map and the new advisory map. But the McNeils weren’t deterred. “We’ve got a really nice piece of property here,” Mike says. “We decided to go ahead and rebuild.”

The McNeils are constructing their new home on the same spot as the old one, this time on sturdy steel-reinforced concrete piers that are drilled about fifteen feet into the earth and extend four to eight feet into the air. If they had decided to build in accordance with the advisory map, their home would tower fifteen feet off the ground. “We’d need an elevator to get to the front door,” Mike says. To withstand a future flood, they’re taking extra precautions, like bolting the floor beams to the pillars.

On a pleasant morning in March, the McNeils stood among their home’s newly dug concrete piers. Down below, the Blanco flowed past tree stumps and brush piles, and the roar and thrum of home renovations sounded from both sides of the river. Once they have moved into their new home, what will happen if a historic flood strikes again?

“We’ll have about three feet of water in the house,” Mike said.

“And,” said Gayla, “we’ll probably be in there.”


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