text:
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Craft Tip #6: Pearl Ex Powders

Pearl Ex powdered pigments are simply a dry powdered form of color which has some sparkle to it. You can use it as a dry powder or mix it into something and apply it wet as a paint.

Pearl Ex powdered pigments can be used in a wide variety of ways. The key to understanding them is simply to experiment with them. I'll give you a few ideas to get your started. This is pretty much what I like to do and what I have found that works for me.

Put hairspray and dollop of Pearl Ex in spray bottle, spray on paper for shimmery look. You will keep adding the Pearl Ex until you get the right amount of simmer. Download a Printable Pearl Ex Tip Sheet.

Here is a video on rubber stamping with Pearl Ex by night cats.

Monday, March 28, 2011

You're Out Of This World

Welcome my friends, just want to start off by saying you are out of this world. I have created a Birthday spinner card to share with you this week. I used the sentiment from the Hip Hip Hooray set by Creative Vision. I'm sure any young boy would love receiving this interactive card.

The moon was created using a 1 1/4 circle, small and large oval punches. I then ran the circle through an embossing folder. I used the word window punch to create the slot for the rocket but, you could use a kraft knife and ruler. The digital paper and rocket element are from the Not for Girls Definitely for Men CD created byPolkadoodles.

Spinner cards are highly addictive. If you start to steal pennies from your child's piggy bank, or you stumble across them; I'm sure you will enjoy making one. Start collecting your pennies now! Click here for a tutorial on how to make a spinner card.

Challenges I participated in: CD Sunday - Transport, Gingerloft - Die Cuts or Punches, Wee memories - Anything Goes

Recipe: Stamp: Hip Hip Hooray set (Birthday Boy sentiment) Digital Paper and Printable Elements: Polkadoodle Not for Girls Definitely for Men CD Paper: HL (green, red, white) Other: SU punches (1 1/4 circle, large and small oval, word window), circle embossing folder

Friday, March 25, 2011

Best Fishes

It's been awhile since I used this Stampin Up set and this card was just screaming for for me to use it. I dedicate this card to all my on-line crafting 'Best Fishes.'

This hybrid card was created with Polkadoodles Tweet digital paper from the Paper Boutique Volume 1 cd and Stampin Up Best Fishes stamp set. The layout was created using Microsoft word features.

The stamped images were colored with Copic markers, added Doodle Dewdrops and some ribbon for the finishing touches. I can say this is my favorite hybrid card I have created so far.

Challenges I participated in:
Little Miss Muffet Challenges - Brads, Gems or Pearls
Southern Girls - Animal
Crafts and Me - Anything Goes

To play along in this week's Polkadoodles book challenge, simply make a project and post it to your blog or another on-line gallery and link it to the Polkadoodles Challenge Blog. Prizes are waiting to be won!

Paper - Polkadoodles (Paper Boutique Volume 1) cd, HL (kraft & green) cardstock
Stamps - SU Best Friends set
Copics - BV00, BV02, V15, V17, B0000, B000, Y21, Y17, YR61
Ink - Memento Rich Cocoa
Other - Ribbon & Doodle dewdrops

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Decorative Label Punch Cropped Video

I love working with SU new large decorative label punch but, wait till you see what you can do to create a small label die cut. This is a video I found on YouTube and thought you would enjoy.

Click the last box (box with 4 arrorws) on your right to make video bigger.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Craft Tip #5: Acrylic Blocks

An easy and quick way to clean up your acrylic stamping blocks is to use a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. It'll take all the ink (including permanent!) and the oily residue you get from stamp cleaners right off of them with practically no effort at all.

Now, let's get our blocks out and create a stamped background.

Courtesy of Splitcoast Stampers

Monday, March 21, 2011

Hey Lady

Okay, here's my take on the the sentiment 'I heard they're dusting off your old bar stool!' from the Creative Vision Officially Single stamp set. What do you think? Does the sentiment and elements work together?

Being on the Creative Design team we are not allow to use other companies stamps so, I used this punch art of a lady sitting with her back to a bar. I believe Ellen Kemper is the person who originally created this punch art.

Challenges I participated in:
Sugar Creek Hollow - Anything Goes
Paper Cutz - Your Choice

Paper - Polkadoodles Paper Boutique Vol 1, HL (Kraft/green)
Stamp set - Creative Vision
Other - SU square lattice embossing folder, SU punches (lg oval, 1 1/4 circle, butterfly, heart to heart, word window, scallop oval)

Friday, March 18, 2011

Floral Frenzy Flip Album

Tracie, over at Polkadoodle choose the theme of books this week. I’m still loving the springtime feeling which made me want to make a bright and cheerful flip album. This album can capture your Easter photos of your family and friends.

My album was created using the Floral Frenzy digital paper and flowers from the All Around & Everywhere cd.
Challenges I participated in: Art Impressions Stamps Challenge - Punches or Die Cuts, Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Anything Goes, Southern Girls - Use Flowers, Creative Cottage - Spring

To play along in this week's Polkadoodles book challenge, simply make a project and post it to your blog or another on-line gallery and link it to the Polkadoodles Challenge Blog. Prizes are waiting to be won!

Recipe: Paper: HL and Polkadoodles, Digital Elements Polkadoodles, Scribbles Swirls, SU top note die, ribbon, silver cord, eyelets, 3/4 & 1 inch circle punches.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Today I have a quick, clean and simple card to share. The base of this card was created using only white cardstock. The silver layer was created by dragging a silver ink pad around all sides of the cardstock leaving the center untouched. Using the ink pad to create the silver paper is a cost savings idea. Next, I dragged the silver ink pad over the embossed paper.

Challenges I participated in:
Make it Monday - Anything Goes
Paper Sundaes - Keep it Simple

Stamp: Bliss SU
Paper: SUwhite
Other: AU Wallpaper embossing folder, silver ink, ribbon, SU scallop square punch.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Craft Tip #4: Flower Soft

Have you ever heard of Flower Soft? Flower Soft is an innovative product that allows rubber stampers and paper crafters to add floral embellishments to a wide variety of projects. Flower Soft is sprinkled onto glue where it adheres to create the impression of flowers.

This was my last year's Thanksgiving day card.
Flower Soft is sold in jars and in a range of different colors. As Flower Soft is very light, a little goes a long way. The range of colors includes bright primary shades through to light pastel colors.

Click here to download a handout '20 Top Tips' for using Flower Soft.

Want to purchase some Flower Soft? A full list of stockists can be found on the retailer page of the Flower Soft website.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Kite Flying

Hello friends, today I have a card which I did some sewing on. I have seen many cards incorporating this technique so I thought I would give it a try.

My sentiment? Officially Single is from the Creative Vision Officially Single stamp set. I was trying to decide what I could create to go along with this sentiment...and then it came to me. Kite flying.... I always enjoyed kite flying when I was a young girl.

Challenges I participated in:
Let's Ink It Up - NO DIGI and Embossing
Aly's Sunday Challenge - Anything goes

Stamp: Officially Single
Paper: HL & SU
Other: Rhinestones, Crystal Effects, glitter, sewing, circle embossing folder.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Romantic Wedding

Today's challenge over at Polkadoodles is to create a project using black, white and one other color. For this card I stepped a little outside my comfort zone.

This card was created with black, white and various shades of cream. The digital paper is from the 'Shabby Estate' collection from the Polkdoodles All Around and Everywhere CD. This CD is perfect for your craft project, scrapbooking, invitation, web design, paper product, design card and everything else.

The dimensional window was created using Microsoft features. I added a punched butterfly and pearls to give it another level of wow.

Challenges I participated in:Digi Doodle Shop's Best -Pearls, Do You Stack Up? - Layers, ABC Challenge - P is for Pearls, Paper Pretties - Ribbon, Alphabet Challenge - R is For Ribbon

To play along in this week's Polkadoodles black, white and one other color challenge, simply make a project and post it to your blog or another on-line gallery and link it to the Polkadoodles Challenge Blog. Prizes are waiting to be won!

Recipe: Polkadoodles All Around and Everywhere CD, Small and large pearls, ribbon, SU scallop edge border punch and Crystal Effects.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Four Leaf Clover Printable and Lesson

Download a printable sheet of four-leaf clovers and follow along as Michelle Houghton teaches you how to colour them in with Copic markers to make this card.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Today I'm sharing one of the cards we made last week at our monthly stamp club. I loved how we used the framed tulip embossing folder and then applied different colors of ink to bring out the details. Isn't this darling?

I love embossing folders and this new one is's just the frame around the card that get emboss so the center you can insert some DSP to give your project a perfect frame.

Challenge I participated in:
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Craft Tip #3: Liquid Applique

Today I will provide you with some tips and ideas using a product called liquid applique. If you have not never worked with it, let me tell you will become addicted.

Liquid applique can help emphasize a certain area of a shape or picture, such as the center of a flower or the candles on a birthday cake. You can color your liquid applique with ink to enhance an element of your projects. Extra fine glitter can be added to the liquid applique for extra sparkle. Liquid applique comes in different colors. If you are planing to mail your project put clear embossing powder on the liquid applique before heating it. This will make it hard so it will not flatten in the mail.

Here is a card I did using liquid applique.

Click here for a printable handout about liquid applique. Must have a Google account to access handout.

This week, I challenge you to make your project using a little bit of liquid applique. Create some snow, the look of fur or wool or anything else that would work with liquid applique somewhere on your project!

Monday, March 7, 2011

Let's Celebrate

Today I'm sharing a bright and colorful card using a technique called Glitter Window. Since this upcoming weekend is Daylight Savings I thought it would be fitting to showcase spring colors.

My sentiment? Let's Celebrate is from the Officially Single stamp set. I love the simplicity of this card and the texture and bling – provides some extra pizzazz! The Glitter Technique tutorial is located here.

Challenges I participated in:
Let's Ink It Up - NO DIGI and Embossing
Card Cupids - Anything Goes
Catch The Bug - Anything Goes

Stamp: Officially Single
Paper: HL & DCWV
Other: SU Square Lattice embossing folder, SU large oval punch, Fine glitter, tape, Suzzix Tulip die, Ribbon, Black Ink, Rhinestones, Silk flower.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Petal Power

I wanted to share a gift box I created and embellished it with three fancy folded flowers. The digital paper is from Let's have a Picnic on the Polkadoodles All Around and Everywhere CD. The flowers were created using 8 (1-1/8 inch) circle punch and the Swiss Dot embossing folder.

I just loved how this gift box turned out. I'm thinking I can purchase a small gift for my mother-in-law for Mother's day. If you would like to make the Fancy Folded Flowers you can download the printable instructions (1st page/2nd page).

Challenges I participated in: C.R.A.F.T. - Mother's Day, Do You Stack Up? - use anything with green in it, Simply Create - Power of Flowers, The Stamp Man - Curls and Swirls

To play along in this week's Polkadoodles 3 flowers challenge, simply make a project and post it to your blog or another on-line gallery and link it to the Polkadoodles Challenge Blog. Prizes are waiting to be won!

Paper: Polkadoodles digital paper and HL
Other: SU lattice edge border, sizzlet leaf die, 1 1/8 circle punch, swiss dot folder, ribbon and a hot glue gun.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Lucky Hat Freebie

Top o’ the mornin’ to ya! Here’s a new free svg from MyGrafico for St. Patrick’s Day, a lucky hat. You can use this design for cards, scrapbook pages, decorating or any craft projects you might be doing.

Click here to download the freebie.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Lake People

Today I have another card using the Hooked on Fishing set from Creative Vision to share with you…have I convinced you to purchase this set yet?!

My goal on this card was not to use allot of stamping but, for the sentiment to stand out. So, I created this cute male swimmer with punches. I loved how the colors put a smile on your face. Download the printable instructions here. You will need a Google account to access document.

Challenge I participated in: Woodware USA - Anything goes

Recipe: Creative Vision Hooked on Fishing (Lake People), Paper HL, SU Punches and Ink, Oval Coluzzle and SU Lattice Embossing Folder.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Craft Tip #2: Card Sizes

Do you have trouble figuring out card and envelope sizes?

Common card & envelope sizes:
Half sheet 8 ½ x 11” cardstock folded in half makes a 4 ¼ x 5 ½” card = fits an A2 envelope (4 3/8 x 5 ¾)

5 ½ x 8 ½ - full sheet of cardstock folded in half = fits an A9 envelope (5 ¾ x 8 ¾)

5 x 7 card = fits an A7 envelope (5 ¼ x 7 ¼)

4 x 6 card = fits an A6 envelope (4 ¾ x 6 ½)

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...


Content-Type: application/http; msgtype=response

WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: text/html

WARC-Truncated: length

WARC-Type: response

text:
Paver Driveways, Decks and Sidewalk Specialist In Carbon County

Schaffers Mill Dream Home

If you are looking for paver deck and driveway in Carbon County, Wyoming, we can help. Increase the curb appeal and value of your Carbon County home with a beautiful driveway, sidewalk or patio created by paving stones. Professionally installed pavers won't crack, sink or shift and are incredibly durable with the added advantage of being replaceable if some ever get stained by oil or paint. The virtually endless range of colors and patterns are the perfect choice for your Carbon County driveway, deck or courtyard.

With years of paver deck and driveway experience in Carbon County, our top rated Paver Decks and Driveways professionals can help. Fill out the short form below, tell us about your Paver Decks and Driveways needs, and we will get right back to you with estimates and the best options for your needs.

Get A Free Quote On Paver Driveway and Deck Services

* Required fields

When submitting your information, you are agreeing to be contacted regarding your home service request, by means of email, telephone or text, including the use of auto dialed or/and prerecorded calls or messages to the phone number provided, including your wireless number, if provided. You understand that consent is not a condition of purchase.

Why us

Paver Driveways

Paver Decks

Paver Sidwalks

Paver Driveways, Decks and Sidewalk Services

Contact us today to learn more about all of the professional and affordable paver services we provide.

The Best Paver Deck And Driveway In Carbon County, Wyoming

If you need a Paver Deck and Driveway expert in Carbon County, Schaffers Mill Dream Home is ready to help. We can handle just about everything Paver Decks and Driveways related. Contact us above and we will get back to you with a free quote in no time.

Paver Deck And Driveway

  • Paver Driveway Cost

  • Brick Paver Driveway

  • Grass Paver Driveway

  • Concrete Paver Driveway

  • Permeable Paver Driveway

  • Heated Paver Driveway

  • Raised Paver Deck

  • Concrete Paver Deck

  • Stone Paver Deck

warcinfo:
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-166-65-126.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-26
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for June 2017
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf


WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: application/xhtml+xml

text:
Translate into a different language

Saturday, June 24, 2017

This is your brain on PhD | Times Higher Education (THE) (blog)

Photo: Steven Franklin
Steven Franklin, visiting tutor in the history department and a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London lays bare the questions and doubts that go through his mind as he sits down to work on his thesis.

Photo: iStock

When you start a PhD, the first words you hear are: “It’s going to be hard.” As someone just starting out on an academic journey, your natural response “Pah! I’ll prove them all wrong, I’m the exception, not the rule.” But there's a reason they say these things – it’s because a PhD is difficult and sometime torturous too.

Thinking logically about the process, it shouldn’t be difficult at all. You have four years (eight if you’re doing it part-time), and so by my poor maths, it works out at roughly 65 words a day. Easy! We can all do that. I mean I’ve written more here already! Sadly, it’s not that simple – what a pity. That logic doesn’t factor in any time for conceptualising your idea into something achievable, the research, the manipulation of that research into argumentative prose and then the inevitable rewrites.

Still, let’s be generous and say 200 words a day for less than two years and your project will be complete. In fact, you’d have almost written two.

Of course, there are other pressures that every PhD student must deal with. There’s an expectation for us to take some baby steps into the world of academia. We must present our work at seminars and conferences. Get used to our work being criticised and come back stronger from that. After all, no piece of work is ever the finished article. No one, to my knowledge, is yet to write the last word on any piece of history – although there are plenty of academics who’d be disturbed by the thought of their word not being the last.

Conferences are another way to introduce yourself to the academic world. Make a name for yourself. Socialise in the correct circles. These are the people that might one day examine you, become colleagues or write you a reference. We need to make the most of these exchanges. At the end of the day our future depends on it.

Then, if you’re like me, you don’t have funding, and so you must work to make ends meet. Mummy and daddy might be able to support you, but this 28-year-old would prefer some form of independence. I may be a student but I refuse to be seen as the stereotype. I work, undoubtedly more than I should, and I do my work well. One finds that if you work hard and do it to a high enough standard more doors open. People see your use. Before you know it you have an invite to the department Christmas meal. Not a bad achievement given you were employed on a short-term basis to help with some admin.

Factoring in those things, I’m now needing to write in the region of 400 words a day. Thinking about it, maybe a little less. It’s still achievable. Isn’t it? Well of course it is.

But our list does not end there. If you’d like to get anywhere in academia it’s desirable that you've taught. Published an article or two prior to thesis submission. Write a few academic book reviews. These, sadly, suck time. Time we, perhaps just I, do not have.

Let's also pause for a moment to reflect on the poker game that you play with your PhD peers. It’s an unspoken truth, but academia is essentially a game of “my fish is bigger than yours”. It’s not necessarily about quality of produced work. It’s all about quantity. The more you have, the better you are. What “have” can be anything, too. Scholarly works, academic prizes, research scholarships and media contributions are all ways of physically displaying that you’re on your way to greatness.

PhD students play the game as well as anybody else. Why blame them? The very nature of the profession dictates that you must sell yourself at every possible moment and be opportunistic, too. Don't get me wrong. I love my PhD peers but there are times when the game gets tiresome.

So, where am I left now? Ah yes, 500 words a day over 200 days and the job’s done!
Read more...

Source: Times Higher Education (THE) (blog)

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my Email Updates!

Explore the diversification of 21st century classrooms and schools | Eduplanet21 - Learning Paths

Check these out below.

Digital Citizenship: Preparing Teachers and Students for Online Interaction

Digital Citizenship: Preparing Teachers and Students for Online Interaction

Digital Citizenship is defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use by, a leading digital citizenship informational website that we will further explore later in learning path.
Throughout this learning path, you will engage in a variety of activities designed to help you think critically and actively about how to express the ideas of digital citizenship with your students and encourage them to demonstrate positive online behavior. Topics discussed in this pathway will include digital literacy, digital foot prints, social media, plagiarism, privacy, copyrights, standards, and policy

  • Develop an understanding of the responsibilities and challenges associated with being a digital citizen;
  • Relate the elements of digital citizenship to professional practice;
  • Explore resources designed to help incorporate digital citizenship into the classroom;
  •  Review district policy and procedures related to digital literacy and digital learning; and
  • Recognize standards that are addressed when teaching digital citizenship.
Read more...

Text-Dependent Analysis: An Introduction

Text-Dependent Analysis: An Introduction

Text-dependent analysis (TDA) is a unique-to-Pennsylvania term for text-dependent questions. Text-dependent analysis epitomizes why reading and writing have been joined under the umbrella of English/Language Arts. The first module builds background knowledge, explores the instructional shifts, and takes a dive into the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s explanation of Text-Dependent Analysis. Understanding the similarities and differences of open-ended and text-dependent questions, along with exploring common myths and misconceptions, is the focus of the second module.

  • Define Text-Dependent Analysis;
  • Explore your current understanding of Text-Dependent Analysis;
  • Expand your knowledge base of the instructional shifts for English/Language Arts;
  • Tackle several myths and misconceptions of Text-Dependent Analysis and provide examples of best instructional practices; and,
  • Examine resources provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to learn the cognitive demands of Text-Dependent Analysis.

Source: Eduplanet21

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my Email Updates!

Friday, June 23, 2017

Will Free Community College Really Help Low-Income Students? | Education Week - Opinion

Photo: Kate Schwass
"Money isn’t the only obstacle to college completion" argues Kate Schwass, San Francisco Bay Area executive director for CollegeSpring.

Photo: Getty

In the face of soaring college tuitions and skyrocketing educational inequity, many educators and lawmakers are suggesting a way to help low-income students earn degrees: Why not offer in-state students community college for free?
After years in the shadows, the idea is gaining real momentum. Just last month, Tennessee, which already had a free-community-college program for recent high school graduates, announced it will open that program to any adult in the state without a college degree in 2018. Earlier this year, San Francisco became the first city in the country to offer free community college to all of its residents, and lawmakers in California, New York, and Rhode Island introduced similar proposals to cover tuition and other costs for students.

At first glance, it’s hard to see why free community college (specifically, free tuition for two-year schools that grant associate degrees) would be anything but helpful for students from low-income backgrounds. Students who graduate from community college have lower rates of unemployment and earn $6,600 more a year than those who have a high school diploma. Remove the cost of earning an associate’s degree, and you’ll put its benefits within reach of any student who wants one—right?
It’s clear that the prospect of free tuition will likely motivate more low-income students to enroll in community college. But those students still face considerable obstacles having nothing to do with money once they arrive on campus. What’s more, free tuition could deter low-income students from pursuing four-year colleges and universities.

Until educators account for these truths, we could be inadvertently pushing large numbers of students away from their best educational path in four-year colleges or universities.

One challenge for low-income community college students is that they are more likely to be needlessly placed in remedial courses than their wealthier peers and those at four-year colleges. Most colleges require that incoming students take standardized placement tests to see if they need remedial reading, writing, and math courses. About 70 percent of low-income community college students are placed in remedial courses, compared with about 50 percent of their wealthier community college peers.

Despite the good intention, remedial courses are a significant barrier to graduation. A 2012 report from the nonprofit Complete College America found that fewer than one in 10 students who begin in remedial courses graduate from community colleges within three years. This is in part because remedial courses don’t count toward a degree—a discouraging prospect for many students. What’s more, the standardized tests that typically determine remediation decisions are often not accurate—as many as a third of all students are forced to review content they already understand well.

Source: Education Week

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my Email Updates!

LBCC program to help adults return to school | Albany Democrat-Herald - In brief

A free program designed to help adult learners go back to school is being offered through Linn-Benton Community College starting June 27.

Classes meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. starting June 27 through Aug. 31. Classes cover computer skills, time management, communication skills, critical thinking skills, employment skills, learning styles, how to identify strengths and more.

The Empower Program is a strength-based, supportive learning program designed to help with transitioning into LBCC and being successful in college.

Empower classes are free, with a focus on college and career readiness, self-development, self-assessment, goal-setting and planning, support network development, and overall well-being.

Participants learn to increase their ability to succeed, realize potential, develop a network of college and community support, and become empowered in lifelong success in college, professional and personal development.

For more information, contact Malinda Shell at  email at

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my Email Updates!

Scholar Documents Economic War on Chinese Restaurant | Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

"New research reveals another level of the United States’ exploitation of and discrimination against Chinese Americans. University of California, Davis law professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin and research assistant John Ormonde have uncovered evidence of economic bias over the years against Chinese restaurants through a search of digital archives." notes Gia Savage, Journalist.

Photo: Gabriel “Jack” Chin
Chin has been conducting research on race and the law and Asian Americans and the law for over 20 years. He discovered the restaurant bias years ago, but was not completely sure of how it connected to a broader historical point. He and Ormonde, the study’s co-author, decided to dig deeper.

“We spent some time to see what else we could find out about the treatment of Chinese restaurants in this period,” said Chin.

By using digital archives, Chin and Ormond were able to find a disadvantageous pattern of jobs and economic growth being withheld from Chinese restaurants.

“It shows an unfortunate tradition of good jobs being reserved for Whites,” said Chin. “The unions that approached the Chinese restaurants frankly and explicitly argued that Whites should patronize
White restaurants, and give their business to White people, and Chinese shouldn’t have these opportunities.”

Though once inaccessible because their existence was limited to paper copy, archived newspapers, records of city council proceedings and outdated state codes are what led to the discovery of a “war” on Chinese restaurants that lasted over 30 years. These documents have been digitized, which makes them more accessible to those interested in viewing.

As Chinese food and restaurants became popular in the United States, traditional American restaurants were suddenly at risk of losing business.

Source: Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my Email Updates!

Companies must move fast to take advantage of digitally skilled population in the mainland and Hong Kong | South China Morning Post

Photo: Gianfranco Casati
"A high level of digital readiness displayed by both male and female undergraduates is the new weapon of choice to foster growth, according to several shining examples on mainland’s corporate horizon" says Gianfranco Casati, Accenture’s group chief executive.

Executives should act quickly to tap digital skill set of their staff
Photo: Nora Tam

Hop on a mainland-bound train in Hung Hom station and you are likely to see the same thing you would see on any other MTR commuter train: people sat hunched over their mobile phones, engaged on WeChat or playing Honor of Kings, one of the mobile games by Tencent Holdings, listening to music or reading work emails.

Herein lies a weapon for corporate growth – digital readiness.

The mainland’s digital readiness, internet technology expertise, use and investment will serve as a powerful base to spur growth. For example, by harnessing the power of digital, China stands to grow its gross domestic product by 3.75 per cent by 2020, the equivalent of adding US$527 billion to the economy during that time frame.

Consider the fundamentals. Earlier this year, we commissioned research on women in the workforce with an eye to see what skills are needed to help women attain pay parity with men.

One of the ancillary insights the research yielded was that in many emerging markets, particularly the mainland, women tended to be as schooled in IT as men, creating a much larger potential pool of candidates for such work.

We found that the digital capabilities of male and female undergraduates in the mainland were fairly equal – 96 per cent of the undergraduate women surveyed said they had taken computing/coding module classes (against 100 per cent of the surveyed men), and 73 per cent of the women students said they thought they adopted new technologies fast, as compared with 79 per cent of the men. A graduate base of nearly universal tech savviness is an essential building block for future ready businesses and nations that can rotate to the new world order.

Managers need to harness this digital strength. Offering corporate training on mobile phones, to be finalised when an employee chooses, gives staff the option to use their commuting time for continuous learning. It makes retooling and refining skills more flexible.

Source: South China Morning Post

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my Email Updates!

Malvern International PLC Launch Its First Digital Learning Technology | Malvern International plc - Education

"Malvern International plc (AIM: MLVN), the provider of educational services in the UK, Europe and Asia, is pleased to announce, that following the strategic plan announced in November 2016 and as part of its collaboration with Playware Studios Singapore (announced in January 2017), the launch of its first digital offering in the area of Learning Technology." continues Malvern International plc.

Malvern and Playware Studios, are offering the platform and relevant service to allow potential customers to create customised mobile based games that can be used for learning and corporate training. The product is not only useful for schools but also can be used by all industries with training needs.

The mobile games produced through the platform can increase user engagement and enhance knowledge retention, with a practice-based learning experience that is fresh, interesting and effective. The platform can also be used to create virtual labs, simulations and interactive case studies, and direct training and testing games where learners can experiment with different scenarios through their mobiles.

The product has a proven record of success in improving training engagement and efficiency within the classroom or workplace. As an innovative technology platform has been recognised internationally with awards such as: the Brandon Hall Group Awards for Excellence in Technology and Excellence in Education (2015), Microsoft Partner of the Year (Public Sector Education 2013), BETT Asia and IDA Award for EdTech Innovation (2014) and the Innovplus Flame Award from WDA Singapore (2016).

The platform and series of sample games have been tested with a few large and small organisations in Singapore. Malvern has commenced marketing the product in East Asia, India, Nepal, and the UK. It will continue the expansion to cover other countries through a strategic distribution model. This initiative forms part of the expansion of Malvern’s Learning Technology division which is seeking to position itself as a global learning technology partner. More information can be found through Malvern International’s website.

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my Email Updates!

Thursday, June 22, 2017

UAB scholars study in Japan, Cuba, and France | Birmingham Times

Follow on Twitter as @TiffanyWestry
"Four University of Alabama at Birmingham students are among 1,200 undergraduate students from 354 colleges and universities across the United States selected to receive the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship" inform Tiffany Westry Womack, Education; anthropology; language and communication studies; government; history; philosophy; social work; sociology; computer and information sciences; justice sciences; exercise science.

University of Alabama at Birmingham

The Gilman Scholarship is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The program aims to make study abroad experiences accessible to a more diverse population of students and to encourage students to choose less traditional study abroad destinations. It also gives students the opportunity to gain a better understanding of other cultures, countries, languages and economies — making them better prepared to assume leadership roles in government and the private sector.

Students are selected for the Gilman Scholarship through a highly competitive application process. The program receives more than 10,000 applications each year and awards about 2,500 scholarships. Gilman scholars are awarded up to $5,000 toward their study abroad or internship program costs. The program aims to support students who traditionally have been underrepresented in education abroad, including, but not limited to, students with high financial need, first-generation college students, students in STEM fields, students from diverse ethnic backgrounds and students with disabilities.

Kenneth Davis, a sophomore double-majoring in chemistry and mathematics with a minor in Japanese, is studying in Japan. Davis is a native of Selma, Alabama, and is in the UAB Honors College’s Science and Technology Honors Program. He is also a recipient of the Freeman-ASIA Scholarship to study abroad. Davis plans to obtain a master’s degree in mathematics before applying to medical school to become a neurosurgeon.

“Spending the summer in Japan is fulfilling a curiosity about Japanese culture that I have fostered since I was a child,” Davis said. “Now that I am able to actually live and interact with native Japanese speakers in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures, I have learned that I am becoming more aware of the subtle differences between my home and Japan. It is my hope that proficiency in Japanese and a mathematics degree will make me a more marketable job candidate.”

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my Email Updates!

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

The most forward-thinking, future-proof college in America teaches every student the exact same stuff

College is supposed to help young people prepare for the future. But as headlines warn that automation and technology may change—or end—work as we know it, parents, students, and universities are grappling with a new question: How do you educate a new generation for a world we can’t even imagine?

Photo: Peter Marber
As David Brooks of the New York Times recently wrote, the college has the “courage to be distinct.” notes Peter Marber, teaches at Harvard and Johns Hopkins

Great books.
Photo: Unsplash/Roman Kraft

A recent Pew Research Center survey of 1,408 technology and education professionals suggested that the most valuable skills in the future will be those that machines can’t yet easily replicate, like creativity, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, adaptability and collaboration. In short, people need to learn how to learn, because the only hedge against a fast-changing world is the ability to think, adapt and collaborate well.

Academically Adrift:
Limited Learning on College Campuses
But many American college students may not be learning them at all. In the 2011 book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, Richard Arum and Jarip Roksa chronicled how few American students really improved cognitively–and learned to learn–during their undergraduate education. Few bachelor’s programs require sufficient amounts of the reading, writing, and discourse needed to develop critical thinking skills. In fact, forty percent of American undergraduates now major in business and management-related subjects, reading mainly textbooks and short articles, and rarely writing a paper longer than three pages. Further, the social bonds and skills formed in college today often center on extracurriculars that have little connection to cognitive development and collaborative problem-solving.

But perhaps instead of reinventing higher education, we can give students what they need for the future by returning to the roots of liberal arts. Consider St. John’s College, America’s third-oldest institution of higher education, founded in 1696. With fewer than 700 students between two campuses in Annapolis and Santa Fe, St. John’s is a bit under the radar. But it’s emerged as one of the most distinctive colleges in the country by maintaining a strict focus on the classics of the Western canon...
The Program’s philosophy and practice
You will not find 100-person lectures, teaching assistants or multiple-choice tests at St. John’s. Instead classes are led by “Tutors” who guide students through Socratic inquiry (and yes, students do read about the Socratic practice during freshman year in Plato’s Theaetetus). Despite its reputation as a sadistic exercise in student humiliation, the Socratic method is actually an interactive form of intellectual sandpapering that smooths out hypotheses and eliminates weak ideas through group discourse. Tutors lead St. John’s discussions but rarely dominate; they are more like conversation facilitators, believing that everyone in class is a teacher, everyone a learner. And you won’t find Johnnies texting or surfing social media while in class; there is no place to hide in classrooms that range from small (seminars, 20 students led by two tutors) to smaller (tutorials, 10 to 15 students, one tutor) to smallest (preceptorials, 3 to 8 students, one tutor).

There is a formality in a St. John’s classroom—an un-ironic seriousness—that feels out of another era. Students and Tutors address each other by “Mr.” or “Ms.” (or the gender-inclusive honorific of choice). Classrooms have a retro feel, with rectangular seminar tables and blackboards on surrounding walls, and science labs filled with analog instruments, wood and glass cabinets, old school beakers and test tubes.

You have to observe a few St. John’s classes to get a sense of what’s happening between and among the students and Tutors. Discussions are often free-flowing, with students thinking out loud and talking to the ceiling; you can almost hear the gears turning in their brains. There are many “a-ha” moments in a St. John’s classroom, sometimes coaxed out by Tutors in Socratic fashion. But often they are triggered by students theorizing and responding among themselves.

In one class I attended, students were covering Ptolemy, the second century mathematician. Ptolemy believed the all the celestial bodies and sun revolved around the earth in a circle, and based all his mathematical calculations on this perspective. Students were buzzing at the blackboard, working with a geometry sphere around the table, talking about diameters, meridians and equators, tilts, and horizons. Keep in mind this is all prep for what will be studied in a few months, when these Johnnies will learn that it would be another 1400 years before Copernicus proved Ptolemy’s calculations correct but his conclusion wrong: the earth and planets actually revolve around the sun. These same students will eventually feel the excitement learning of Kepler’s conclusion 150 years later, that Copernicus was also right and wrong: yes, the earth and planets revolved around the sun—but in an elliptical, not circular, orbit. This curricular layering is central to the St. John’s Program. Later texts respond to and build upon previous texts. In essence, students intellectually follow modern thought as it has been built over the last 2000+ years instead of just memorizing the end results.

The cognitive rigor, immersion, and passion so present at St. John’s are rare on American campuses these days. Johnnies read roughly 100-150 books during their four years and write 25 to 30 papers that are more than 10 pages long. Seniors choose a writer or single text and do a deep dive thesis that typically runs 40-50 pages. Here are a few of the senior capstone topics for the class of 2017: 19th century English scientist Michael Faraday’s heuristic description of electromagnetic phenomena; 17th-century mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s treatment of curvature in what’s called the “chain line” problem; the use of Aristotelian terminology by 20th century physicist Werner Heisenberg in describing quantum mechanics; and the possible revision of “space” from Immanuel Kant’s The Critique of Pure Reason into a plurality of “spaces.” Few college-educated outsiders may have a clue what any of these papers are about, but they are not atypical of what’s being studied, discussed, and written about at St. John’s.
Read more...

Source: Quartz

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my Email Updates!

Antigonish 2.0: A Way for Higher Ed to Help Save the Web | EDUCAUSE Review - New Horizons

Follow on Twitter as @bonstewart
"Antigonish 2.0 offers a call to colleges and universities around the globe to consider how their staff, faculty, students, spaces, and resources can help create a less polarizing information ecosystem and can reopen the web to its participatory, democratic potential" reports Bonnie Stewart, Coordinator of Adult Teaching at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI).

Photo: EDUCAUSE Review
I remember when the World Wide Web was going to revolutionize everything. I don't mean the techno-centric narrative of automation and The Jetsons that bursts repeatedly out of our culture, like a pimple, every generation or so. I mean the web that was going to connect us to each other. The one that was going to allow us all to produce and contribute to a shared world of digital artifacts. One without gatekeepers.

More than a decade after Web 2.0 heralded a connected, participatory world and three decades after Richard Stallman's "GNU Manifesto,"1 the web has instead become, in far too many of its corners, a fetid stream of ugliness and sensationalism. The web has become media. Attention—not voice or connection—is the currency of media.

Mike Caulfield, director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University, talks about the structures behind the current state of the web in the opening column2 in this EDUCAUSE Review New Horizons series: how the social media model of stream communications amplified decontextualization and reactive response on the web.3 Technology entrepreneur Anil Dash also laments the web we lost.4

Meanwhile, I wander around in a social sphere increasingly calibrated for constant hits of scandal and outrage, and like a frog boiling in a pot, I wonder what to do. Hyperpartisan sites—run on business models that profit from both sides of the binary5—fuel an attention economy bent to the purposes of autocratic governance. Facebook algorithms and 24-hour news and platforms that privilege retweets over replies6 feed out a steady diet of toxic narratives that encourage polarization and anger and lashing out.

If the web was indeed a revolution, it sometimes seems to have entered its Reign of Terror phase. But the resolution doesn't lie in a return to the equivalent of the monarchy—the old gatekeepers of institutional knowledge and power. That path leads to another Napoleon. Rather, the same higher education institutions whose hierarchy and gatekeeping the web was supposed to open up and democratize7 are increasingly necessary partners in building any kind of democratic future for society, full stop.

That's because the web is a big part of where we live now. But we neither understand it nor know how to use it for learning. What we need is not a revolution, but a way to develop the local and global literacies needed to foster functional democratic participation. This won't just spontaneously generate out there on online platforms such as Reddit or Instagram. Neither will it happen in classrooms. Or community halls. But if we can find a way to weave all three together into a functional model, maybe there's a possibility.
Read more...

Source: EDUCAUSE Review

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my Email Updates!


text:
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Recent literature is said to reflect growing acknowledgment of multiple conceptions of risk but often to obscure an important distinction. Building on work of Kristin Shrader-Frechette, the authors explore the potential for debate over competing philosophical conceptions of risk.

Repository Citation

Paul B. Thompson & Wesley Dean, Competing Conceptions of Risk , 7 RISK 361 (1996).


text:
Maori Education Trust: Frances Irwin Hunt Art Scholarships

Updated: 3 months ago
Deadline: 31 Mar 2017

Tenure of award:

Awarded Annually

Closing dates for applications:

31 March 2017
Applications close at 4.30 pm, Friday, 31 Poutū - te - rangi (March) 2017 .

Number of awards offered:

History or background of award

The Māori Education Trust scholarship programme comprises a range of scholarships for Māori secondary and tertiary students.

Purpose of award

The purpose of the scholarship programme is to provide support for Māori students to pursue and achieve success in programmes of study and training.

Selection criteria

Undergraduate applicants must: of New Zealand Māori descent; enrolled at a New Zealand tertiary institute in
2017; attending full-time study for the full year; the criteria for the scholarships applied for;
v.submit the application and supporting documentation on time.

How do students apply?

1.Incomplete or late applications willnot be considered.
2. Additional information including missing or corrected information, must reach the MāorI Education Trust by the
closing date.
3.The Māori Education Trust does not accept any responsibility for lost or delayed application packages caused by incorrect mailing instructions or delays in delivery.
4.You must advise the Māori Education Trust of any changes to your application. All changes must be advised in
writing (email and post are acceptable).
5. Please do not staple your papers together; use a paper clip or place in a plastic sleeve.
Application Form

Additional information

Available to full-time Māori undergraduate students studying in the fields of performing or cultural arts at a recognised New Zealand tertiary institute. Priority will be given to students with leadership skills and academic merit.

Decision makers

Māori Education Trust

How and when do students learn of the decision?

All applicants (successful and unsuccessful) will be notified in writing within three months after the
scholarship closing date.

What conditions are attached to acceptance of this award?

If you meet scholarship criteria, you can apply for as many scholarships as you wish, however you can only be
awarded one.

For guidelines, application forms and more information about this award contact:

Name: Evelyn Newman
Position: Manager
Organisation: Maori Education Trust
Address: PO Box 31213 Wellington 6142 New Zealand
Phone: (04) 586 7971

View or Apply

Similar Positions


text:
June 2017
« May
  1. A special person to be a great teacher

    I just finished watching the Super Bowl where physically impressive men pounded on each other for the right to be called football champions. On either side of the field there were about a hundred guys each earning at least six figure incomes, if not millions. At the same time, there were teachers all around the country preparing for an early start to another week of guiding and forming the minds that will one day decide the direction of our country and our world. Teaching is perhaps the most underrated and undervalued profession in our society. Nursing may run a close second, but at least in most cases, nurse’s patients realize at the time what a great service they are receiving. For teachers, there is often a delay of years before those that they are helping realize what a great job their teachers have done.It takes a lot of energy to be a teacher; it takes a special person to be a great teacher. As a student in both inner-city public and prestigious private schools as well as a substitute teacher and even a corporate trainer, I have had the opportunity to observe some great teachers at work and believe they share a few attributes in common.

    Passion –

    Great teachers have a passion for their profession as if what they do is more of a mission than a job. There are a lot of administrative hurdles, budget restrictions and curriculum guideline challenges that make a teacher’s job tough before they even step in front of a class to begin teaching. A good teacher needs to be armed with a passion for what they have chosen to do in order to handle all of these obstacles and still have the mental and emotional energy to be effective in front of their students.

    Love of Learning –

    Closely related to a passion for teaching, having a love for learning themselves is a very important trait of good teacher. There is nothing more energizing for a student than having a teacher who demonstrates that they are still willing to learn themselves. It is a rare person who can completely answer off the top of their head every question that a student asks them. Rather than ignoring a question or pushing it aside when they don’t know the complete answer, a good teacher will engage the student by showing them that they are genuinely interested in discovering new answers themselves.

    Empathy –

    A good teacher feels for his or her students, striving to understand not only where the students are, but also where they come from. In order to present material in a manner that will best be absorbed and retained by their charges, the teacher should know his or her audience, both as a group and individually. Much study and research has been done on the effects of environment on learning and a good teacher should be well aware of these effects. Are the students from tough, impoverished, high-crime neighborhoods, blue collar, working class families or highly competitive, driven environments? While some elements of teaching are consistent across the board, a teacher should be able to relate to her students on their level regardless of their backgrounds. Even individual circumstances might come into consideration when a teacher is working to reach a particular student. A good teacher understands what her students feel, inside and outside of the classroom.

    Perspective –

    Having developed some amount of empathy, a good teacher now needs a good dose of perspective to temper their empathy. They understand where their students are coming from, but must maintain a perspective on the importance of what she does to where the students are going. What goes on in the classroom has a lot to do with changing what goes on outside of the classroom. A good teacher thinks, “I can feel empathy for where you are coming from, I understand you are poor or from a broken home, or even driven to succeed by overbearing parents you can’t relate to now, but we have to get beyond that because the world I have to prepare you for is not going to care. It is your results and achievements that will make the difference.”A good teacher keeps their perspective on what importance their jobs have in the lives of their students. Dealing with the rules, the politics, the administration or even the classroom environment cannot make them forget the big picture of why they became a teacher: to make a difference in the lives of their students.

    Learning cannot take place where chaos rules. A good teacher must establish rules that apply to classroom interactions, respect for others and their property, and participation in class. Effective teachers establish from the beginning at least a few basic rules that remain consistent throughout the year with clear-cut consequences for any infractions. Being balanced, the teacher doesn’t make the list of rules over-bearing such that they become a distraction or get in the way of classroom dynamics. Discipline should be designed to improve the learning environment but not create one that is restrictive and constricts the flow of information and exchange of ideas. The best teachers know how to achieve this balance.

    Patience –

    “God grant me the Serenity
    To accept the things I cannot change;
    Courage to change the things I can;
    And wisdom to know the difference.”

    The first stanza of the Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr is probably never far from a good teacher’s mind. The classroom is no place for a control freak; organization and self-discipline are necessary traits, but you will never have complete control of a classroom. Here, patience is more than a virtue, it is an absolute necessity or you will go insane.Patience also extends to expectations for student performance. A good teacher understands that each student learns at a different pace and within the limits of the school parameters, they attempt to bring students along that may not be the quickest to grasp the concepts being taught. One of the most rewarding feelings as a teacher is watching the light go on in a students eyes after taking a little extra time to help them understand a lesson.

    The World Is A Stage –

    It also seems that great teachers just have that little something extra, a little magic that seems to grab your attention and captivate you so that you were hardly aware that what you were doing in that class is learning. I can recall two teachers that had this spark in two completely different subjects. Zabriskey Warren was a math teacher extraordinaire. He would snap his fingers, spin around in front of the class and intersperse his lectures with German exclamations like, “Wunderabar!” after a student had answered a particularly tough question. Frederick Peterson taught English and I can never forget his Shakespeare classes, whether it was his dressing up as one of the witches in Macbeth and cackling, “Double, double, toil and trouble…” or having us recite our chosen soliloquies as he provided the background noises. Thirty years later, I can still recite Romeo’s lines when he encountered Juliet’s apparently lifeless body though I am far from being a Shakespearean actor. All these attributes are really only facets of what makes up a great teacher, because like most great things in life, a great teacher is really more than just the sum of their parts. They are a complete package that just comes together in that special person that you one day realize has gotten more out of you in a particular class than you may have believed you had to give when you entered their classroom. (6)

    I. Michael Akbar

  2. Innovative classroom management tools

    Effective classroom management strategies are essential for successful teaching and learning. Organized lesson plans and exceptional teaching skills are ineffective without quality classroom management.  Teachers, who implement the following techniques into their management system, will find they have created a well-functioning classroom in an environment conducive to learning and teaching.... Comment
  3. Tips:classroom discipline and management

    Effective classroom management strategies can ensure a pleasant teaching environment for the entire year. Conversely, poor classroom management may lead to a difficult class and a year that drags on. These tips will get you well on your way to creating a positive environment in your classroom. as the teacher... Comment
  4. Teacher tips: Reading aloud

    Reading aloud to children is an art (1)   Pinkali Chatterjee Reading aloud to children often comes very naturally to most parents and teachers. But to make the children listen, enjoy, participate, feel interested and understand, the simple act of reading aloud has to be perfected by love and attention... Comment
  5. Garden Based Learning

    Seeking garden activities and curricula for your classroom, program, or club? Working to integrate the garden into your teaching and learning with children, youth, or adults? Looking for gardening resources, research, and support? Here, you’ll find that and more.  Our programs utilize the garden as a vibrant foundation for integrated... Comment

SOE Empowering…

Feedjit Widget

Popular Threads

Recent Comments

Receive updates on Facebook .. Click on Like

Follow us!

  • Likes

  • Followers

  • Links

About Us

School of Educators have empowered 5 lac educators  with 1.5 million downloads ( power point presentations, speeches, books, research papers, articles etc. ) of resources with more than 21 million article views in last 3 years for FREE.

Team behind SOE?

Vishal Jain, Deepshikha Singh, Archna Sharma, Rohini Saini, Piyush Kaushik
Follow us: Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook
Copyright © 2011 School of Educators. All rights reserved.
WP Like Button Plugin by Free WordPress Templates


text:
Fraudsters’ scams cost schools thousands

Fraudsters’ scams cost schools thousands

Schools have been scammed out of thousands of pounds after their phone systems were hacked and calls diverted to pricey premium-rate numbers.

Schools Week can reveal that schools in at least two different regions of England called in police to investigate up to five-figure phone bills last year.

The scam was among scores of frauds reported at schools across the country in the past three years and uncovered in police figures obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws. They show, for instance, that a Hertfordshire school lost £265,000 after transferring payments for building work to the wrong account.

Meanwhile, Merseyside police investigated six potential frauds at schools totalling £202,000 and schools in Suffolk have lost £107,000 in the past three years.

At the other end of the scale, police were called into a Cumbria school in 2012 over an allegation that a pupil failed to hand over just £4 raised at a sponsored event.

Police investigated but no formal action was taken.

The figures only provide a small snapshot of the national picture, as many police forces say they do not hold records of the figures.

However an Audit Commission report released last year found fraud in maintained schools cost a staggering £2.3 million.

Marianne Pope, a researcher at The Key, which provides management support to schools, says one of the most important ways to prevent fraud is to make sure all staff are aware of their responsibilities.

“School business managers should always check invoices, receipts and accounts records for irregularities, and those responsible for recruitment should make sure appropriate pre-employment checks are carried out on prospective staff.

“Furthermore, it’s vital that schools have clear reporting processes for staff to follow if they notice anything unusual.”

Essex police logs show officers investigated three reports of school phone scams in 2014-15, involving calls diverted to a premium rate number.

One school was left with a bill of £1,000; another totalled £900. No offender was found for any of the offences.

A North Yorkshire school lost £4,020 after its phone lines were hacked. Police investigated but no further action was taken.

The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau says hackers target private branch exchanges (systems that allow improved communication) and use them to make a high volume of calls to pricey numbers.

Small to medium-sized businesses, including medical and dental practices, have been targeted by fraudsters taking advantaged of flaws in security systems.

The bureau’s advice is for schools to change any default pin/password settings on voicemails, ask telecom providers to restrict calls to premium numbers, and cap outbound calls at certain times.

The Hertfordshire school lost its £265,000 after paying three instalments of a large contract for new buildings into the wrong bank account.

The FOI response read: “Payments were arranged via Bacs transfers. The Bacs account details for the building company had been changed by persons unknown and without authority.”

The offender has never been found.

A school in Suffolk also lost £55,000 after receiving an email purporting to be from a building company working on repairs asking for outstanding invoices to be paid into a new bank account. The account turned out to be fraudulent.

The Audit Commission report, Protecting the Public Purse, found 206 cases of fraud across maintained schools in 2013-14 worth £2.3 million overall. More than half the cases involved staff.

The report called on the government to extend to academies and free schools the requirement to report information on detected cases of fraud.

In June 2013 the government wrote to academy accounting officers to recommend actions to reduce the risk of fraud, including ensuring financial controls were regularly assessed, anti-fraud training events were held and significant business transactions scrutinised.

The department has also released guidance documents including fraud indicators and sample anti-fraud policies.

To report an incident call Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040


text:
Kepler-36: A Pair of Planets with Neighboring Orbits and Dissimilar Densities

+ See all authors and affiliations

Science  03 Aug 2012:
Vol. 337, Issue 6094, pp. 556-559
DOI: 10.1126/science.1223269

You are currently viewing the abstract.

View Full Text

So Close and So Different

In our solar system, the rocky planets have very distinct orbits from those of the gas giants. Carter et al. (p. 556, published online 21 June) report on a planetary system where this pattern does not apply, posing a challenge to theories of planet formation. Data from the Kepler space telescope reveal two planets with radically different densities orbiting the same star with very similar orbital periods. One planet has a rocky Earth-like composition and the other is akin to Neptune.

In the solar system, the planets’ compositions vary with orbital distance, with rocky planets in close orbits and lower-density gas giants in wider orbits. The detection of close-in giant planets around other stars was the first clue that this pattern is not universal and that planets’ orbits can change substantially after their formation. Here, we report another violation of the orbit-composition pattern: two planets orbiting the same star with orbital distances differing by only 10% and densities differing by a factor of 8. One planet is likely a rocky “super-Earth,” whereas the other is more akin to Neptune. These planets are 20 times more closely spaced and have a larger density contrast than any adjacent pair of planets in the solar system.

View Full Text


text:
CAS Number: 930-55-2
Chemical Profile for N-NITROSOPYRROLIDINE (CAS Number: 930-55-2)

  • Human Health Hazards
    Health Hazard Reference(s)
    Recognized:Carcinogen P65
    Suspected:Gastrointestinal or Liver Toxicant RTECS
  • [ top ]

  • Hazard Rankings
    More hazardous than most chemicals in 1 out of 5 ranking systems.
  • [ top ]

  • Chemical Use Profile
    No data on industrial or consumer use in Scorecard.
  • [ top ]

  • Rank Chemicals by Reported Environmental Releases in the United States
    No data on environmental releases in Scorecard.
  • [ top ]

  • Regulatory Coverage
    On at least 2 federal regulatory lists.
  • [ top ]

  • Basic Testing to Identify Chemical Hazards
    Information on whether basic tests to identify chemical hazards have been conducted on this chemical is not available in US EPA's 1998 hazard data availability study.
  • [ top ]

  • Information Needed for Safety Assessment
    Lacks at least some of the data required for safety assessment.
    See risk assessment data for this chemical from U.S. EPA or Scorecard.
  • [ top ]

  • Links
    Other web sites specific to this chemical:
    If none of these sources meet your needs, you can try searching some other chemical database Web sites.
  • [ top ]

  • Notes
  • [ top ]


text:
Corliss, MN Real Estate

Corliss MN Real Estate Overview

Open Houses

Short Sales

Corliss MN Real Estate Stats

Average Price in Corliss: $467,967  County Average: $328,855

Average Taxes in Corliss: $3,422  County Average: $2,516

Average Cost Per Sqr Ft in Corliss: $215  County Average: $148

Average Walkscore in Corliss: 0  County Average: 19

Average Year Built in Corliss: 1964  County Average: 1973

Average Days on Website in Corliss: 54  County Average: 133

Corliss MN Real Estate Market Health

Most Popular Listing

Popular Corliss Real Estate

Most Expensive Listing

Expensive Corliss Real Estate

Least Expensive Listing

Cheap Corliss Real Estate

Listings in Corliss

Gather the family and head to the lake! take advantage of this opportunity to own a gorgeous property on beautiful little pine lake...

Nice 40 acre parcel fenced for cattle or horses with a watering hole...

Rural living only 5 miles from town with gorgeous toad river frontage and 10 acres of park-like setting...

40 acres to be split from larger parcel. a mixture of 20 tillable acres, 11 crp acres and little lowland make for a great hunting haven...

Large 5 acre lot on toad river. wonderful spot to build your dream home...

Two for the price of one! two quaint cottages located on private lot on east shore of little pine lake...

Property Search

Saved Properties

This is a list of your favorite properties. We will email you if a property is reduced or leaves the market.

Click 'Save' to add a property to this list.

Register / Login

New & returning visitors please enter your information to login.

By clicking 'register' you are agreeing to our terms of use & giving us expressed written consent to contact you.

Questions? Comments? Complaints?

This message will go directly to the head of our team.

Location & Address

Scott Schauff
130 E Lincoln Ave
Fergus Falls, MN


text:
Musings of a morbid mind

The general ravings of Scott Baldwin

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Cyclovia comes to Melbourne

I just got back from Cyclovia in which Sydney road was closed to traffic for half the day and only cyclist, pedestrians and trams were allowed through.

Here are some photos from the event.

The event was very enjoyable, and I really liked the ride from Fistzroy Street to Brunswick. I did have to stop myselft from yelling out "Make public transport public" when the transport Minister Peter Bachelor got up to speak on "sustainable transport". It seems as though Yarra Council is also interested in the concept. I think it would be great to do something similar in Yarra, maybe close off Brunswick and Smith streets.

Post a Comment

<< Home


text:
01 Nov 2015

A Fall Collection

Mother knows best.  Nothing like a call to mom on Sunday to have her kick you in the butt to post some photos.  This is a small collection of shots I took over a few weekends in the fall.   Most are from a hike I took by myself through

0 Read More
28 Dec 2014

Trip to Iceland Recap

In June of 2014 my wife and I went to Iceland for the sole purpose of taking photographs. I had become interested in Iceland while staggering around the Internet looking for time lapse videos.  I was lucky enough to find an outstanding video on Vimeo that just floored me.  I

0 Read More


text:
Thursday, October 4, 2012

"My First Guitar", by Julia Crowe

I first met Julia many years ago, and now look: she's written a book! And a wonderful book it is. This contains so many inspirational and nostalgic stories by some of today's guitar superstars, that you'll find yourself reading straight through to the finish before you know it. I hope this book does extremely well, and, to Julia Crowe, the author, THREE CHEERS for a herculean undertaking so artfully done.

New Podcast To Enjoy...

A new podcast, produced by Dr. Scott Wolf, is now up and running on iTunes. It's a really fun and informative, with some great interviews and skillful, snappy editing. Follow the link here and be a subscriber TODAY!


text:
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Keeping up with the big boys.....

Stan trying to sidle up to his brothers and cousins. Inspired by this lady and her circle layout, I continued to use up some more patterned papers scraps. I'm not sure I'll make it onto prompt 3 at this rate.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Bob the Builder....

...and his {{{pink}}} baby.

I started Shimelle's class "Something from almost nothing" and as usual I'm plodding along....way behind the prompts. As I said in the previous post, the first prompt was to use metal. You'll be pleased to know I did find my metal box....but it was a little too late...I'd already completed this simple layout.

(Bazzill Swiss Dot, DCVW yellow patterned paper, unable to remember the manufacture of the star and dot paper...sorry!)
Notice the metal brads....something I haven't used for a while!
Before I go I made a note of some blog posts I thought you might be interested in:-
1. How to create a layout...step by step....on Sarah's Cards Blog.
2. Tips on creating butting on the Kaisercraft case you hadn't noticed Bunting is HUGE at the moment!!
3. and a gorgeous wall hanging also on the Kaisercraft site.....{{{i really want to try to do one of these}}}
4. Bubblefunk is showing some beautiful fabric mini book's.
5. and then there's this spring reef....which I love...and although I always admire them and think it's a fab way of using up all those scraps, I will probably never ever get around to creating one.
Wishing you all a super weekend and if you find yourself surfing the net then you may want to hop over to the happyscrapper who is hosting a blog party this weekend - It sounds like there will be lots of ideas and inspiration.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Something from Almost Nothing...

Shimelle's new class started last week.
Prompt one was to use metal.....I have one of them Really Useful Boxes.....which I use just for know those metal tags, corners, washers etc....but do you think I can find it...NO!! My scrap stash is quite well organised (I think!) but it is scattered all over the house. With no dedicated room ("sigh"... I so wish!) I use whatever space is available for storing stash. My excuse to buy more is to say "its for the classes".
Shimelle challenged us to photograph our stash, so I put together a little collage.
  • 1 sideboards (two of the top drawers hold punches) which holds papers and embellies.
  • 1 four door sideboard which holds stamps, big shot, paints, threads, scraps and RUB's.
  • a corner for two big bags and a guillotine.
  • a shelf in the study (no photo) for magazines and books.
  • a very high top wardrobe shelf in younger sons bedroom for material, more stamps, dreamcuts.
  • Plus a low shelf for sewing machine.........which is rather antique and very rarely comes out
  • a metal cabinet in the garage for the sizzix dies and bind it all.
  • and then there's a chest........which holds all my books/albums:-

Sketch #3

Sketch #3 uses three photos, a number I normally work in. Maybe it's because I have three children, maybe it's because we're told to plant in odd numbers and not even.....all i know is three works well for me!

Thanks again to everyone at Fridays class who used the sketch.....and I'd like to say thank you to Jacky for introducing two of her friends to scrapbooking, Pat and was lovely to meet you and we hope to see you all at the next class.

"He really is a devil in disguise"

Using the lovely MME papers and assortment of alpha's

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

This is why I scrapbook....

Back in January, while I was still working on JYC, Shimelle posted a project on her blog "This is why I scrapbook". After having a look at her project and all the competition entrants I knew I wanted to have a go....So after pinching (although I'd like to think of it more as a "compliment" to those people that came up with the fabulous idea's!) ideas from all the talented posted entrants (which you can find here!) I was ready.

Taking advantage of a week off work to recover from a chest infection I settled down with the following items to create my mini book:-
1. 7x5 Zutter Bind it all Cover All
2. 7x5 Zutter Bind it all acrylic tabbed pages
3. Some old tags I've been harbouring for a while
4. Literally all those odd bits and pieces of patterned paper.
5. Bits of ribbon and string
6. and some paint.

Here it is:
My Story - My Memories
The front cover - not sure what happened to this oh so small photo!
Why OH Why!!....
1st Page - this is one of the scrap-lifted ideas that I love, using a bingo card as a page.
The inside I scrapbook.....this is why}...
oopps my bracket has fallen off! its supposed to be after the "why"!

"For Us"

"and them"

" for ME"
"and to remember moments like these"

Now i'm ready to start Shimelle next class "Something from almost nothing"
Thank you for stopping by.

Friday, March 05, 2010

Sketch #2

It was my intention to post a sketch every month - where did February go? - my excuse is that Feb is a short month and i......ran out of days! So......a little later than planned, here is Sketch #2.

I am a big fan of one photo layouts....its much better to have more room to play around with on a LO!....but there are occasions when one photo just isn't enough.........when one photo just doesn't tell the story.......and this sketch is based on one of those occasions.

Here is my LO created from the sketch.....{note to self}.....really must find a better place to photograph my layouts....the lovely bright yellow patterned paper looks washed out, as do the photos.
Happy scrapping and if you use this sketch please do send me a link to your creativeness.
Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...


text:
Thursday, January 15, 2009

Celebrate Faith Mini Album

. . . this is a very special album I created for my Mom's Christmas gift this year. I shared some of her favourite bible passages along with some gorgeous photo's of God's own handiwork. . . I hope you enjoy it.
Using the 8x8 "Old World" paper pack made coordinating the paper easy. I use any kind of cardboard/chipboard I can get my hands on, mostly cereal boxes. I like to design my own albums from scratch, so I'm on the look out for cardboard/chipboard all the time.
On the cover i stamped flourishes in grey ink and then placed a black rubon flourish over top to give it more dimension (I had a lil help from a friend for this). I made the title using my trusty Cricut and sprayed it with Tattered Angels "Glimmer Mist".
To frame the bible verses I used a digi-frames pack from Rhonna Farrer and coordinated coloured fonts to match the "Old World" paper.
There are a few more pages to this album, however my blogging skills are still in da works and this gives you an idea of what the album looks like.


text:
Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Guild presentation

What was I thinking?!  I volunteered to do a presentation at my guild on "things you still have time to make before Christmas."

Almost all were freebie patterns/idea from either facebook or blogs.  I stayed away from bags or tablerunners since we have done those "to death!"  Plus they always take longer to make than the pattern claims...sort of like the chocolate chip cookie package recipe that says it will make 4 dozen cookies...in what universe!!

Anyway...I digress...so here are a few of the things I showed along with some tips I learned while making them...

First, this super easy pin cuff.  Since I know a lot of you also collect shirts and cut them up a-la-Bonnie you may also feel a bit guilty about tossing the cuffs.  Well, attache a bit of wool and a bit of magnet and you have a pin cuff!  (decorative stitching is optional!)The longest part of this project is waiting for the glue under the magnet to dry!

Next I showed a few of the mug heat cuffs...you can use a shirt cuff for this too.  A men's extra large is perfect for a Dunkin Donut's medium cup!

Wrapping a bit of felted tartan with a safety pin around the office white mug helps keep tabs on your mug - a mug kilt if you may!

More using of recycled shirts...a sewing machine cover.

This one I gave to my friend Tari and she nicely loaned it back for the meeting!  My "cheater" on this was using some of the pre-quilted fabric for the inside which was quick and gave it a lot of body.  Since I had a big box of 2-1/2 inch squares this only took a day to make.

Most of you may have seen this leaf potholder around the internet.  I unfortunately gave the pattern away last night so I don't have the pattern designers name.

 I used a layer of Insul-Bright and a layer of cotton batting.  I do that now when ever I make a potholder or table-runner.  (warning Insul-bright cannot be used in a microwave.)  Again this was a quick project since I have lots of strips around the sewing room and even enough left-over binding for a whole tree of these!

Also showed a pillow made using a vintage quilt block with some new embroidery and hand quilting.

This was a great take-along project. Think I did most of this in the doctor's waiting room!

I did show one bag...this one is made from a pair of men's chinos.

Some in-process name tags...

And then I made a casserole carrier...not a really quick project but can be done in a day.

It just takes a 20-inch quilted square with two short straps and one long one.

Well, back to binding quilts for the show!

Rocky Creek Scotties and Rocky Creek Ramblings said...

I've gotta make some of those casserole carriers!! What a great idea! I could even use some Scottie fabric

cityquilter grace said...

great ideas!

Sherrill said...

I like that first project..very cute and clever. Whodda thunk? HA And I've made a bajillion (or thereabouts) of those luggage tags. LOVE them! The leaf potholder is adorable, too!

Janet O. said...

So many clever ideas. I'd say you did a really good job!

AnnieO said...

I did not know that insulbrite can't be used in the microwave! I like that leaf hotpad. All good and short projects!

Judy in Michigan said...

Thanks for sharing!!! Great ideas - your guild and all of us readers love them all!!

Beatrice said...

Great patterns! Thank you for the inspiration (and the advice on Insul-bright).
Leaf potholder pattern: there's one here (free):
and one from Patchwork Pottery here:
or here:


text:
RJvernel's TV spoof of T.U.F.F. Puppy
T.U.F.F. Bat poster

A poster of T.U.F.F Bat.

  • Dudley Puppy - Bartok (Anastasia)
  • Kitty Katswell - Tiana (in her frog form; The Princess and the Frog)
  • Chief - Basil of Baker Street (The Great Mouse Detective)
  • Keswick - Hugo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
  • Veminous Snaptrap - Scar (The Lion King)
  • Chameleon - Dr. Facilier (aka Shadowman; The Princess and the Frog)
  • Birdbrain - Drake (The Pebble and the Penguin)

Ad blocker interference detected!

Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers

Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected.


text:
April 15, 2008

Ron Paul Sees Bailout Writing on the Wall

"They cannot have all these bailouts—whether it's bailing out homeowners, or mortgage companies, or banks. If they do it by just the creation of new credit, eventually they destroy the dollar. So I think we are going to face something much greater than the crisis we faced in 1979 and 1980, when we needed 21 percent interest rates in order to rescue the dollar. I think conditions are much worse [today]."

>>> Read More

No comments:


text:
What Came Before 101: A Big List Of All Anarch-O-Meters So Far

Associate Editor, Features; Rotterdam, The Netherlands (@ardvark23)
to Vote
What Came Before 101: A Big List Of All Anarch-O-Meters So Far

[Anarch-O-Meters will remain at the top of the page for the duration of the day they were published. Please scroll down for today’s film news]

Time flies when you're having fun, especially if you can't count.

I expected that shortly we'd have to do a special ScreenAnarchy-O-Meter because number 100 was coming up. But when I finished counting them all, guess what: I was already too late. Last week was actually the hundredth of these that got published.

Which makes this ScreenAnarchy-O-Meter number 101.
And that gave me the idea to put up a list with links to all the 100 which had come before.

Sometimes we do get asked what the ScreenAnarchy-O-Meter is supposed to be, or what its purpose is. What it is is quickly answered: it's a weekly column, mostly (but not always) in the form of a list or a countdown.

What the purpose is takes a bit longer to explain, but it basically amounts to this: here at ScreenAnarchy, most of the time we write about news. New movies, new plans from actors and directors, new DVDs...
But we didn't become film fans because of news. We started to love films because of specific titles, specific events, specific genre highlights. The ScreenAnarchy-O-Meter was invented so we had a chance to write about things we love and hate. And to share opinions and other stuff which does not necessarily constitute news.

These are our labors of love, or at least they should be. And what have we done with the freedom this column grants us? Find out after the break!

So here it is: the full and comprehensive list of all ScreenAnarchy-O-Meters ever written, with links to all of them.
Have fun (as we sure did when we wrote them)!

1: Behold The Glory Of The ScreenAnarchy-O-Meter! (5 genre mash-ups)
2: Little Lost Riot Grrrls - Not on DVD (?%$#!) (5 movies featuring nascent feminists)
3: The Takashi Miike List of Lists by Logboy. (5 lists telling you all about Miike)
4: The Top 5 Filipino Indie Film Directors You’ve Never Heard of (the… well, guess)
6: Take Off, You Hoser! (5 vintage Canuck movies)
7: My personal Fight Club List [film related] (5 people or issues Mack wants to hit)
8: The Return of the Top-Loading VCR (5 eighties movies nostalgia)
9: Five Hong Kong Gems (2000-2001) (title says all, follow-up very possible)
10: Ultraaaaaaa Magnetic Taaaaaaaap! (giant robot series)

11: ‘All In Good Time’ (10 key issues for world cinema lovers)
12: Corporate Cringe! (five films which are wholly inappropriate for employee motivation)
13: Rites of Passage (5 movies showing a world beyond Hollywood)
14: Video Screams! (5 movies which use video to their advantage)
15: Memories of IFFR’s past. (5 experiences from the Rotterdam Film Festival)
16: Film Goes Pop. (5 examples of masterful uses of pop music in film)
17: Blood and Donuts (5 lesser-known Canadian filmmakers)
18: Don’t call it a come back. He’s been here for years. My love for Albert Pyun (5 Albert Pyun films)
19: The Heebie Jeebies (5 scary movies)
20: The Console Incarnate (5 illogical film-to-video-game conversions)

21: Superior Sequels (5 sequels more loved than the originals)
22: Beefcake! BEEFCAKE! (5 action movies with muscles)
23: Favorite Grindhouse Experiences? (title says all...)
24: Computer Enabled Fantastic Battles (5 fantasy films with large armies)
25: Top 5 film watching experiences (title says all...)
26: Animals Amuck!!! (5 animal horror movies)
27: Five Things I Learned In Cannes (Todd’s 2007 trip)
28: “Damn! We’re in a tight spot!” (5 claustrophobic pics)
29: Most Memorable Family Viewing Experiences (title says all...)
30: How I got here… (how Joey discovered Twitch)

31: Movies that bear repeating! (5 rewatchable movies)
32: Disappearing Acts (5 directors which aren’t visible anymore)
33: Rebirthing your own movie (5 remakes by the same director)
34: Adapt This! (5 writers whose work has been often adapted)
35: Confessions of an Anime Neophyte (5 relatively safe anime series for starters)
36: The Unfilmable Novel And The Directors Who Should Try Anyway (title says all...)
37: City on Fire (5 Overlooked Urban Apocalpyse Flicks)
38: Close Calls and Near Misses! (5 cases of unexpected excitement during moviewatching)
39: Hooray for Hollywood? Eh, Kind Of… (social commentary in Hollywood)
40: We Love Well-made Monsters! (5 damn fine monsters)

41: Category III Madness! (5 intriguing Hong-Kong movies)
42: Top 5 ScreenAnarchy-y Films From 1972 (Title says all)
43: Return of the Top Loading VCR Part 2! The Heady Days of Adolescent Sci-Fi … (follow-up)
44: Song Kang-Ho is ready for his extreme close-up, Mr. deMille! (5 movies with SKH)
45: Tourist, Know Thy Place. (5 movies about mindbreaking travel)
46: So you wanna be an action hero? (5 good tips for wannabee action heroes)
47: Favorites failing financially?? (5 popular bombs)
48: Sequel-ize It! (5 movies which should have sequels but don’t)
49: When Oscar Goes Bad. (5 actors who slumped after winning)
50: MEGA-ToM (multi-writer effort)

51: MAD MEN and Bad TV (5 enjoyable tv series)
52: Hong Kong Movie Music That Stuck With Me (4 addictive HK scores)
53: Birth of a … (5 ‘untraditional’ births)
54: Top 5 Almost a good idea for a ToM (title says all...)
55: JMaruyama’s MEGA-ToM aftershock! (Anarch-O-Meter turns 50, late submission)
56: Horror of yore. (5 favorite period horror films)
57: Reel Vs. Real (5 found-footage films)
58: Briefcase! BRIEFCASE! (5 mega-DVD editions)
59: Tadanobu Asano is ready for his extreme close-up, Mr. deMille! (5 movies with TA)
60: Zhang Ziyi is ready for her extreme close-up, Mr. deMille! (5 movies with ZZ)

61: When Oscar Goes Bad Part Two. Here Come The Ladies … (5 actresses who slumped after winning)
62: 10 Films to Cry From Punishment (10 films to get depressed fast)
63: The Home Depot. You can kill it. We can help. (5 deaths by powertools)
64: The Apocalypse on a Budget (5 Mad Max clones)
65: His Mother Would Not Recognize Him! (5 examples of practical make-up)
66: Mystique of the Miniseries (5 miniseries of old)
67: Losing My Virginity - Top 5 Experiences with New Cinema (title says all..)
68: Anthony Wong is ready for his extreme close-up, Mr. deMille! (5 movies with AW)
69: Primordial Soup of the Spotless Mind (5 prototype mindfuck movies)
70: Okay. I’ve seen ‘The Forbidden Kingdom’. What is next? (Its 4 martial stars)

71: Summer Floppin’ (5 big bombs)
72: When Plants Attack! (5 movies with aggressive plant life)
73: The B-Movie Splendor of Herman Yau (5 movies by HY)
74: Top 5 Bad-Ass Blockbuster Babes (5 action-actresses who are iconically cool)
75: When Theme Songs Attack! (4 theme songs for series, and James Bond)
76: Eat to live. Don’t live to eat. Bon appétit (5 movies with questionable food)
77: Ghost i/t Wallet, or the Five-fold dip (my five owned versions of Ghost in the Shell)
78: The Shape of Things to Come (shifts in technology that might mean big things)
79: Am I my brother’s keeper? (5 movies with brotherly feelings in them)
80: If only my design could save the world (career action films)

81: Elegy for Gas-Guzzling Supercharged Car Movies (5 Gas-Guzzling Supercharged Car Movies)
82: The Implacable Lightness of Being - 5 Eco-Horror Films for Our Times. (Title says all)
83: Will The Next Great Screen Fighter Please Stand Up? (5 possible upcoming martial arts gods)
84: Tony Leung is ready for his extreme close-up, Mr. deMille! (5 movies with TL)
85: Remakes Done Right (title says all)
86: Time to put together your Dream Team (some choice combinations of talent)
87: This Film’s Got a Game in It (5 videogames based on un-used movie licenses)
88: The Asian Games of Historical Drama Openings (5 ToMs worth of Asian series by X)
89: An Ode To Uncle Ernest (5 appearances by the great Ernest Borgnine)
90: Too Soon! (5 movies about the 9/11 attack on the WTC)

91: It is more blessed to give than to receive. (5 horror stories about lending out your stuff)
92: Politics as Usual (5 political movies)
93: Danny Trejo is ready for his extreme close-up, Mr. deMille! (5 movies with DT)
94: Stephen Chow is ready for his extreme close-up, Mr. deMille! (5 movies with SC)
95: Movies That Apparently Have Nothing in Common (5 movies about eh.. inability to cope with loss?)
96: ♬ Tonari No To-Toro To-To-Ro ♫… (5 Japanese score componists)
97: Sexy-Killer, Qu’est-ce que c’est? (Seven Crazy Ladies To Die For)
98: Shin Ha-Kyun is ready for his extreme close-up, Mr deMille! (5 movies with SHK)
99: Technology Gone Wrong! (5 movies with aggressive devices)
100: WHEN EXTRAS ATTACK (5 DVD releases where disc 2 is actually better than disc 1, so to speak...)

to Vote
Screen Anarchy logo
Do you feel this content is inappropriate or infringes upon your rights? Click here to report it, or see our DMCA policy.
blog comments powered by Disqus


text:
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

on the friends we have ...

There are people who walk into our lives sometimes and we just know they're going to be a big part from then on ... that they will become a close friend, someone significant. Maybe it's a personal radar in search of goodness for our lives. Intuition. It happens very seldom, as it should ... we all have only so much space in our hearts.

One of my friends like that moved away last month and I've been strong and positive and kept it all together but today I feel sad and it's permeating everything and my son, who misses her son too, said there are some friends you can never ever replace, no matter how many times you try. He knows this at age 7. I wish there were words I could say to him to make it all OK but i have to let him grieve and try and guide him on the way, wishing it were easier.

I just finished reading Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Committed' a few days ago and I really enjoyed it. She writes about many aspects of marriage across different communities ... and one of the things which really resonated with me throughout the book was the reminder of how much we, as women, need our female friends. Our mirrors, our reflectors, our reminders of who we were and who we are becoming ... friends to laugh with and cry with and sometimes drown sorrow into the red with. Women who keep us real and centered, and to whom we can vent to about the women we are not good friends with! In some communities generations of women share daily life, they cook and harvest and grow their children and help out where it's needed and share husband-frustrations all under the same roof. While that might drive some of us completely crazy there is a great support in a community like that - the men go off and do what men do and the women take care of their day to day work together - whether it's weaving or cooking or childcare ... some are earning livings but in their communities, together. How the fabric of society has changed.

We have so much freedom now, in the Western first world, and so many new choices of how we live and what values we hold dear. But we still need that network of sisters, friends, women around us - holding us up, taking our hands, laughing loudly at our jokes, walking with us, drying our tears, loving our children. Loving us. We place so much importance on finding a partner for life with a long list of qualities we long for ... we should be teaching our daughters that finding good friends is just as important, arguably more so.

Today, after missing one friend and fighting for another, I am tired and needing a little quiet space to recover. I am sending this out across all the seas between us and our friends in this world. It's a good day to reach out to the people you love, even if you haven't seen them in a while and feel like things are drifting. Just a word, a smile, a silly note.

Let's send a little love and appreciation into the ether today for the women who truly touch our lives and make us better versions of who we were before we met them.

This one's for you M.

Debbie said...

Be strong sweet friend!!

Mx said...

You have a way of saying what Im thinking before I can - just so much more beautifully. Thanks for this - really needed it today.

Silvia Byrne said...

Thanks Debbie ! x

Silvia Byrne said...

Vas byt hey. We miss you. x


text:
Project: TARDIS Baby Quilt

So, I know that of late Scrimpalicious has been much more heavily focused on cooking, food politics, environmentalism, and natural health than it has been on around-the-house stuff and crafts, but I just had to share. It's not every day that one of your best friends has a baby, and it's not every day that your best friend who just had a baby is also super into Doctor Who (and so are her kids). It's also not every day that two other friends offer to help pay for the fabric for you to make a totally awesome TARDIS quilt for your friend's new baby.

Well, the stars aligned and everything came together just right and just in time for me to make this awesome thing for my dear friend Stacie of Red Hog Farm.

TARDIS baby quilt? Oh yes.

I'm not going to get real crazy with the details of design and all that. I did some googling of various images of the TARDIS, I blocked it all out square by square in an excel spreadsheet and on graph paper, I did a bunch of math, and I dropped a bunch of dollars on this gorgeous purple batik that looks like the time vortex:

You can't see it here but because I quilted around the TARDIS in front, the back of the quilt has the almost-invisible afterimage of the dematerializing/dematerialized TARDIS
I improvised pretty hard on the border of the quilt. Wasn't positive exactly how it would turn out so I just started sewing until I got something that was about the right size and then centered it, sewed it on, and mitered the corners and let the chips (or quilt squares) fall where they would. I figured that since it was a semi-patchworky thing it would probably work out alright, and it did!

Diagonal striped border with mitered corners

The black fabric for the Police Public Call Box sign and the yellow in the windows was chosen specifically because I thought it was kind of reminiscent of the swirls of paint in Van Gogh paintings, which is of course also a Doctor Who reference.

Paint swirls! But also lit-up window panes!

The signs were done two ways. The white on black is actually iron-on lettering which I cut out one at a time and then lined up with a ruler and ironed on (painstakingly). The black on white was white fabric that I ran through my printer, soaked and ironed to set the ink, and then sewed in as an applique.

Note black fabric's swirls and the unfortunate little leftover bits of clear iron-on transfer.
The whole thing is quilted with low-loft organic cotton batting. I did a combination of hand-basting and safety pinning (I had some concerned about the thickness of my safety pins in some spots), then stitched over all of the seams ("stitch in the ditch") where the TARDIS was pieced together.
It took me the entire Titanic episode to get this thing put together and ready for quilting

The very outermost border is made from the folded-over backing of the quilt. I originally bought dark blue binding to use but upon experimenting liked the look of the purple batik far, far more.

I couldn't be happier with how this turned out. Hooray!

I'm not going to list the total fabric cost here because it was a gift. Time spent, including planning and shopping and being grumpy over mistakes and doing things over because I got it wrong the first time was probably about 50-60 hours. I think I could probably make another one in about 20, if I could muster the energy. Maybe when I'm not so busy with other things?

I have already had four requests from other people to make one for them. We shall see.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...