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THE CROWN - Part 1

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<br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6896989063397229776" name="Neo-British_Empire_of_the_Crown_--_500_Y"><b><span style="font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEm6ceoDm9OuOL_tC_cyygYmnhXWtsnPQYQR8tLGcH-FFvih3BhIUwTnwhNvOfQqxRSH80LGM7X4Z4V1vgPWVzTYTmvgC0sEI-j00xphHRMjHQMuvGy0Dmv-7YgityyrNQGD1xIdoFvw5/s1600/edwards_crown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEm6ceoDm9OuOL_tC_cyygYmnhXWtsnPQYQR8tLGcH-FFvih3BhIUwTnwhNvOfQqxRSH80LGM7X4Z4V1vgPWVzTYTmvgC0sEI-j00xphHRMjHQMuvGy0Dmv-7YgityyrNQGD1xIdoFvw5/s320/edwards_crown.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Elephant","serif";">NEO - BRITISH EMPIRE OF THE CROWN - 500 Year Chronology</span></b></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Elephant","serif";"> </span></b></span></span> <br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By James Daugherty</span></i><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></u></b></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Elephant","serif";"> </span></b></span></span> <br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #351c75; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">HYPOTHESIS OR REALITY? – FOOD FOR THOUGHT</span></b></span></div></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><hr align="center" size="2" width="100%" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">  </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I. Power Organisms.</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To bridge the gap between "conspiracy" and "history", that is, correspond to the charge that it is ludicrous to claim that "history is a conspiracy", we postulate the concept of "power organisms", which once programmed by their founders, take-on a "life of their own". A wide variety of power organisms, sub-organisms, and supra-organisms exist.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">II. The British Empire.</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The British Empire (NBE or Neo-British Empire since World War II) constitutes a world supra-organism which includes many organisms and sub-organisms that are manipulated on multiple political, spiritual/psychological, military, economic, and scientific levels. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Its primary, relatively directly controlled organs are:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">A. Financial.</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The "World Money Cartel" or "Empire of the City (of London)" operated for the "Crown" by the "legendary" Merchant Bankers of the Bank of England, including the Warburgs, Rothschilds, Barings, Brown-Shipley, Schroeders, Morgan-Grenfels, Lazard Freres, etc. with outposts in New York, Paris, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Switzerland, etc., provide the financial muscle required to achieve the "balance of power" in all important arenas.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">B. Secret Societies.</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Masonry and its myriad of Illuminist, Jewish Cabalist, and Sufi offshoots form a coherent (at the top) world-wide propaganda, intelligence, promotion control, and covert action capability at the command of the Neo-British Empire. Covert action ranges from violent "destabilizations" of runaway governments and Institutions (world revolution) to subtle "planting" of "useful" ideas and movements such as communism, ecology, drug revolution, New Age Movement, Bible Prophesy, British Israel/Identity, etc. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">III. The Crown's International Bankers.</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The "Crown", or "High Cabal" in Winston Churchill's phrase, is the British Royal Family and its allied and inter-married European Royal/Noble Dynasties such as Hesse, von Thurn und Taxis, Orange, Mountbatten, Cecil, etc. ultimately at the helm of the currently dominant, parasitical world supra-organism or "ruling class/conspiracy." The extent to which the Crown" can actually change long-standing directions of the NBE without risking being ground beneath its wheels can, for now, only be surmised. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It must be assumed that a good part of the "Crown's" attention must be directed simply to maintaining its position by "balancing" the NBE component organisms (nations, religions, cults, corporations, etc.) against one another. The world under the "Crown's" domination seems to lurch from one crisis to the next. On the other hand, there is evidence that crisis management is scientifically used to move the world in preconceived directions, at least on occasion. The extent to which the apex of the NBE has a "tiger by the tail" or a "tiger on a leash" remains a prime research topic for the <b>Project.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We hypothesize that the "Crown's" power rests ultimately on personal prestige and enormous hoards of cash, probably secreted in Switzerland and other banking havens and not even hinted at publically. Such a <i>"Royal Depositors League"</i>would have the leverage required to use the worlds Merchant Bankers in multifarious strategies, with or without the explicit knowledge of the Bankers themselves. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">IV. Dialectical Method.</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The NBE's Crown does not operate in a linear, command and obey fashion outside its direct financial and secret society organs, although it should be noted that these "organs" penetrate all major private and public bureaucracies. Long known by its "continental" enemies as Perfidious Albion, the NBE <i>"High Cabal"</i>, from its historically insular island bastion, has used "balance of power" and "divide and conquer" strategies to achieve and maintain its domination of world power organisms beyond its direct control. In all fields of human concern, the "Crown" conceives and sets near equal forces in opposition to each other, <i>thesis vs. antithesis, retaining the "balance of power", required for "policy making" or "synthesis", ie. control.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To a major extent, the "Crown's" power, contrary to many conspiracy theorists, is based on prolonging the thesis vs. antithesis, or stalemate stage of the "natural", Hegelian conflict process in human affairs. Thus, the "Crown's" nearly "automatic" day-to-day manipulation consists of keeping forces "balanced", often under the rationalization of "fairness". Destructive "destabilization" of ascendant organisms through subversion. both left and right, is usually less expensive than supporting organisms perceived to be weakening. Guiding the creation of a major new synthesis by carefully "tipping the balance" in the conflict between thesis and antithesis. on the other hand, is a major "undertaking" for the NBE. Post-war "decolonization", now rapidly nearing completion in South Africa, is perhaps the best example. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">V. Prestige Associations.</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderbergers, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Trilateral Commission, Club of Rome, and a multitude of lesser Establishment associations perform the function of arranging an acceptable range of public opinion by propagandizing the "higher circles" and "leading lights" of each important field of human activity with spurious "issues" and false dichotomies which fuel the dialectical process and "conflict management" scenarios. Prestige associations are the most fertile field for the work of direct secret society and financial agents of the "Crown". <b><i>To be continued</i></b></span></div>

THE CROWN - Part 1

NEO - BRITISH EMPIRE OF THE CROWN - 500 Year Chronology By James Daugherty HYPOTHESIS OR REALITY? – FOOD FOR THOUGHT I. Power Organ...

Tech-savvy teachers shine in Durban at the 2012 SA Partners in Learning Forum Awards

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is a news release from Microsoft about the winners of the 2012 Partners in Learning Forum in South Africa. 20 finalists were chosen and they attended the finals in Durban. Microsoft sponsored the finalists to attend the South African Basic Education  Conference and the winners were announced at a ceremony at the conference. Photos have been added by the editor. </span></i><b></b><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Durban – 3 April 2012 </i></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br /></i>Projects that encourage learners to tell stories digitally; find solutions to rehabilitate a local polluted area; collect data on how trees grow; and create educational toys and games for the blind have won four tech-savvy teachers top honours at Microsoft’s annual Partners in Learning Awards, announced here last night. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The teachers, Caroline Adelaar from St Mary’s School in Johannesburg, Maxwell Funo from Mkhanyiseli Primary in Cape Town, Gaye Pieterse from Durban Girls’ High and Charli Wiggill from Eden College, also from Durban were among 19 finalists at the awards. The awards aim to stimulate the use of technology in schools, enhance teaching and learning and give teachers an opportunity to share their ideas and projects with their peers both locally and across the world.  </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA0wpXUZGwbyoeMjjZYIhVasbiJir-mMqXGodqwlo6NPpC1S7h9rMo2c6sZfgSH_beBXYYuzNxtc7yuHzwxXYw9_z1g-IicKNvZjr2DMFBS0Ky6aq6jL3w9gCynNiwizKt80qoD-QfcxA/s1600-h/image%25255B18%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBxc2oOoedNwFx0qh6Q4Q9zNMjA5CnLxBOdsKgEBxQ2xPa-435e9cPyNOA2wYDYGCq593silR_OA_3FmNmLHUXJ_zaECYUmpXX0MhREhDAuetjmPAlChyphenhyphenKkHIUuTDddzi4RYUL0f4DTs4/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The four overall winners</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each of the four innovative teachers has secured a spot to represent South Africa at the regional finals in Morocco in July. Two of the projects, Trees4Africa and the Braille Memory Game/Toys for the Blind, collaborated with other schools to widen the reach of their project results. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTadA73SXHDhJyJKuKyi6x0sxJVCu1HF03r-beyImtbATAAuzBbIdj4HWRL2qF9bD3CJLvASwBTGlNniqGemSmVFX6pVUDamm8Yfz20B6Gtq8iF1TBZ0VBUBxmpi0Z4gALPQceW9gvYuo/s1600-h/image%25255B5%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlnxPFruCSvyH-uHOO3E-eHmlXHkqjt3vBjOc2th2TlDyQJH4CVm2jY6fCyGX8hJ5ZXDukS7m-4I_syxVwm_hifalpGpiau6UkCLvcReogfkNSSzFy5J5_433Unowxc44kIljup9vJBX0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="161" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caroline Adelaar from St Marys in Joburg</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAWs-S-xGVWbFlP0qPLewKtA2Wyy9qhgMbwB-8zR4srOWKY89fqfM014ll0jJnfAzFcxv-DcUgLV1UGBmTAGIUlgFbAltBu4PzqdEpz_RaWC7clcmSBivvAGIoAZd5F-htTMx8T7jipxk/s1600-h/image%25255B23%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvEId_LBIrlWK6kxShg-_-dULlxZ2ZzaoS-BpREx8qCyvuHM7MeuM5Shl0tItGp0WJKsANZxFYnpe7BYxzu1d3U512u6h29zfzjkc2iORyADrilVG_1oIINa7TWWj_qq4RSb-NBMbuOQw/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="295" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charli Wiggil from Eden College in Durban</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In a third, learners were taught how to effectively use social media as a platform for distributing movies while fostering emotional intelligence by teaching them how to use emoticons to comment on their peers’ work. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVfOINH7EsyUFf-dgFDVQ5j2j3Z85yAuzHOagy308HWHdEZJimswUfCpTjGnTvMtpMQu8I1XJMdYiR5FlnSFtQ7kD1jW1o1VJe1vI5TQtslagGPwqPuTge-hVhh0KYTkSsEB9HO0EeZdM/s1600/Gaye+Pieterse.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVfOINH7EsyUFf-dgFDVQ5j2j3Z85yAuzHOagy308HWHdEZJimswUfCpTjGnTvMtpMQu8I1XJMdYiR5FlnSFtQ7kD1jW1o1VJe1vI5TQtslagGPwqPuTge-hVhh0KYTkSsEB9HO0EeZdM/s320/Gaye+Pieterse.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mkanyiseli Primary School teacher Maxwell Funo is delighted with the results his pollution impact project is delivering. “It all began when we noticed an alarming number of learners had been developing infected wounds from playing in polluted areas,” he says. “The children are now able to make a real difference to the safety of their community as we are escalating our suggested solutions to the local municipality and the City of Cape Town.” </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbQsqcHoGPXYDiPyPR-XjP2kAfkEa10TQ5apuhAuAmCDn0fcebFEUQZT45BdDjQMzFkcKDukaL-aNiyGmcnF-ICey6mxggKz-HAvxKHGUmoHVocLhm2cYTLJhlkGZUobrIn6XRYeiPcZA/s1600-h/image%25255B22%25255D.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4SnDdpha8cn7KrzgExThMMSfmNA37NEzPpIdWb3rgQO3dpUgZAAgKjyf6hGyGx8V8-lJZGf9eqQsWfyuCuLse5V8g94_17bL1yeuTSUhKoZQh2_rOyag3fY05BypZjDnJtrTZxdjX4JA/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="161" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maxwell Funo</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Nifoqj67UGkY_uWSU871JzPbfFnoSnDVh2sEZRD2l4T7xU28C3lu9_rotudd_no2VMuLIMxgTFkcvjjnfxqhmUeHq5tnQnb-eOEQI3exRSTVR5v7N3MW75163u7bPlHE3Z0ICT12S5k/s1600-h/image%25255B30%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlHB7nF_uErQ8BvC3eMJQ-W8SSa7kx3BcwyUUvIpr0eSDr-tmO126cRIqGlVVEdqrV42RZMvXXOcFE2mx362Axbesw8555tP21fGZG2-Xv0u6QCZwPhgd6d9_oteTavricjAxdnkRjqmA/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maxwell Funo from <span style="font-size: x-small;">Mkanyiseli Primary School</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Speaking at the awards, Microsoft South Africa managing director Mteto Nyati said a Microsoft-commissioned Innovative Teaching and Learning Research (ITL) study in 2011 showed that innovative teaching practices will flourish when supportive conditions are in place such as peer support, the sharing of ideas and a common vision among teachers to offer relevant, innovative and learner-centric teaching methods.“The quality of the entries demonstrated that even the slightest change in how teachers use the technology tools they already have – like a cell phone or laptop – can impact the way teachers teach and learners learn,” said Nyati. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The finalists and their projects</b></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJqvC7IAwSiJqIR7lQtnZ7iR4Chp2vODN6lrIo8dpb_BQ4qLk7F3343x6oz_btLhHd2EFAY2coKpmhyTBFHGTeVv_sfT8nQ3xXusmhoVtBKf2xVefwqFAZwPN7Z2WEGEJbBMI-iG0cCx0/s1600/Finalists1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJqvC7IAwSiJqIR7lQtnZ7iR4Chp2vODN6lrIo8dpb_BQ4qLk7F3343x6oz_btLhHd2EFAY2coKpmhyTBFHGTeVv_sfT8nQ3xXusmhoVtBKf2xVefwqFAZwPN7Z2WEGEJbBMI-iG0cCx0/s400/Finalists1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finalists</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNR-DNQLjqQv3LKSMvKOycotm98iBhgGppxQ8uO7YKST9SQl9PVy4vW9xBH3A5bNhk6Lfm3qJ2wR78WI2dESZdw7niZal_2kyiPHRb6yqIiRyPn2OwgEHi4Qy2ML7QS7Rr9WBY-snv4ao/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The finalists</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The following projects were on display at the South African Finals. Unfortunately one of the finalists, Clair Dean from Stirling Primary, was unable to attend the finals this year and her project is not listed here.<br /><br /></div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Caroline Adelaar</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">St Mary’s School </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Johannesburg </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Gauteng</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Trees4Africa</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Grade two girls initiated a Smithsonian tree growth data collection project and collaborated with other African schools to create a Trees4Africa Wikispace. The wiki will be used to generate collaborative presentations integrating ICT skills, movement and music. These will be filmed and used a community outreach project to encourage sapling planting.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nkosilathi Dlodlo</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Batswana Secondary School </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Mafikeng </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">North West</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Serving water to save</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Learners investigated a range of possible causes of water shortages and proposed several solutions. Interviews were conducted with the community and a local mining industry next to the school; models were constructed; research took place in the lab and a song was produced. Findings were presented to the MEC of Education for further consideration.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Riathe Engels </b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Harmonie Primary School </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Virginia </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Free State</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Innovative ways to recycle -TRASH ART</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">The intention of this project was to give learners not participating in other extra-curricular activities an opportunity to experience technology and learn new skills. Learners collected bags and cans; they researched pollution and the fusing of plastic using the internet and they created art from recyclable materials. At the final event designs were revealed at a fashion show. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Maxwell Funo</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Mkhanyiseli Primary </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Cape Town </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Western Cape</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Our community our pride</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">This project began when the teacher noticed that learners were developing infected wounds from playing in polluted areas as there were no playgrounds or parks in the area. The grade seven learners photographed the affected learners and interviewed people living near the polluted areas. They are now investigating solutions and raising the issue with the municipality and City of Cape Town. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lisa Gair </b></span> <br /><span style="text-align: left;">The Rock Academy</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Fish Hoek </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Western Cape</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Cultural Exchange</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">The aim of this project is to connect grade four classes in South Africa and the United Arab Emirates to share information about their environments, cultures and faiths. A variety of tools are being used including a blog, wiki, screencasts and skype to commmunicate and keep a classmate who is spending the year at sea involved. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gilmour Gordon </b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Elkanah House School </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Tableview </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Western Cape</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fun with Class Music</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Groups of grade sevens wrote stories and selected songs to enhance their plots. They performed the songs, recorded them with their cell-phones and imported the songs into their stories using Moviemaker. Grade eights and nines become familiar with Audacity and manipulating music using this application. They viewed a soundless video clip and added in the sound based on their interpretation of the clip. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Siobhan Louw </b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Somerset House </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Somerset West </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Western Cape</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ICT'd! Innovative and creative travel document</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">In this project Grade six learners take a virtual international holiday. The “vacation” includes creating an itinerary, booking airline tickets and creating a travel journal. Learners sourced screenshots from online maps and their street views and manipulated these. They also edited photos to put themselves in a variety of destinations. Collaboration with the drama and English teachers allowed for extended learning opportunities.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mabore Dorothy Lekalakala </b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Toronto Primary School </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Polokwane </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Limpopo Project</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lazily learning</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">The activities in this project draw on the learners’ love of television. Firstly learners watch their favorite television programme and compare and contrast their conclusions with learners from the United States. Secondly they draw up time management tables and share these. Thirdly they create posters and act out puppet shows, dramas, poems and songs on different learning content as alternative entertainment. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Hafeeza Ebrahim Mayet </b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Marlboro Gardens Secondary School </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Sandton </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Gauteng</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mathe City</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">The focus of this project was to build a model of ‘MATHECITY’ that integrates grade five Geometry content. Learners investigated tessellations and created an AutoCollage of these. Learners folded nets of 3D shapes to form buildings and decorated these in the Arts and Culture lessons using MS Paint. Learners then used the model to find out more about cardinal points, measurements and even and odd numbers. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nombuso Mnguni </b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Asithuthuke Combined School </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Balgowan </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">KwaZulu-Natal</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Designing and building a model of bridge</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">This Grade nine Technology project involved learners identifying contemporary problems in the community and exploring them using various technological tools. Learners were then challenged to design and build a model of a bridge that can be used to address a problem that they identified. This will be presented to the community. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Neith Moore </b></span> <br /><span style="text-align: left;">Durban Girls’ High</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Durban </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">KwaZulu-Natal</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Mobile Digital Classroom – ’Flipping’ a studio</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">This teacher designed and built a mobile digital classroom and is training teachers and learners to use it. The flipped classroom has led to teachers starting their own blogs; a local gallery and artists working with the learners; the local environment being interrogated through a ‘shoot-n-share’ task; and the Glenwood Forum being involved as a showcase. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gaye Pieterse </b></span> <br /><span style="text-align: left;">Durban Girls’ College</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Durban </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">KZN</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Inside Outside</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">In this digital storytelling project, girls created their own screenplays that showed how emotions are experienced inside and external factors which impact on them. The movies were posted to a closed social networking site and feedback was given. In addition to the technical skills of creating a movie, learners learnt how to comment on peers’ work and how to use digital storytelling to foster emotional intelligence. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Anita van Vuuren </b></span> <br /><span style="text-align: left;">Primêre Skool Universitas</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Bloemfontein </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Free State</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>TjokvolLEER</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">In this project, The grade 3 learners chose an individual project to work on with their own plan and goals. They were paired with grade four learners who supported their younger colleagues. The projects involved taking photos, making videos and producing PowerPoint presentations. In addition to doing worthwhile activities such as making cards to sell to support the CANSA foundation, this project taught time and self-management skills and the importance of completing something that you start.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Charli Wiggill </b></span> <br /><span style="text-align: left;">Eden College Durban</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Durban </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">KwaZulu-Natal</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Braille Memory Game and Toys for the Blind</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">In this project pupils identified with the blind and manufactured memory game cards in Braille. As an extension project, they adapted existing educational games and designed and created new educational games and toys for the blind. As a Pass it Forward-type exercise, they communicated with and collaborated with other pupils in their class and around the world.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lerato Mazimba </b></span> <br /><span style="text-align: left;">St. Bernard's High School</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Bloemfontein </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Free State</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>From Trash to Couture</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Learners sketched designs of fashionable clothing and shoes; runways and props for a fashion show. They gathered waste material and learnt how to turn this into fashionable items. They began designing clothes or shoes from plastic and waste material and then graduated to designing couture clothes using cloth from old clothes. Invitations, score sheets, photos and film were all produced as part of the fashion show.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Michelle Dreyer</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Courtrai Primary School </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Paarl - Boland </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Western Cape</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bread Tags</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">This school’s enrichment team has implemented a number of initiatives to collect plastic bread bag tags and to use these across learning areas. Activities include competitions to guess how many tags are in a jar; using bread tags to create three dimensional objects in Technology; and finding out about the stages of production in Economic and Management Sciences. The school hopes to collect enough bread tags to purchase a wheel chair.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sarah Hanton </b></span> <br /><span style="text-align: left;">Boudina McConnachie</span><br /><span style="text-align: left;">Anna Wertlen</span><br /><span style="text-align: left;">Victoria Girls High School</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Grahamstown </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Eastern Cape</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Good Vibrations through Social Networking</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Using internet research, interviews and awareNet (an online school social network) learners engaged in cross-curricular research projects focusing on science and music. They created on-line teaching and learning resources and they collaborated with one another and with community members to research and publish information. This project involved working with a disadvantaged school, sharing presentations at SciFest and using discussion forums, messaging and chat to develop and share resources. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Jenny Martin </b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Somerset House </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Somerset West </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Western Cape</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>T-ICT 7.0</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Grade seven learners were challenged to research randomly assigned ICT tools, work out how to use them and then record videos of themselves discussing the merits of their tools. The project included a WebQuest and a wiki maintained by learners who wished to build a tool to support their peers in this challenge. Learners identified community members who could benefit from their tools and then demonstrated the tools to them.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="308"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Joan Martin </b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Gaye Pieterse</span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Durban Girls’ College </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Durban </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">KwaZulu-Natal</span></td> <td valign="top" width="496"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Project Runway</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">The objective of this project is to integrate technology with art. Learners were required to research an artist and to then present their findings in an innovative way by transforming the artist’s concepts into fashion design. Learners were required to research their artist and find inspiration, “buy” their fabric online and create a PowerPoint with suitable music showcasing their designs.<b> </b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The prize-winners</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Categories for Awards</span><br /><br /></b><u>Extending Learning Beyond the Classroom</u></span></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"><i>1st place</i>: Charli Wiggill, Eden College Durban, KZN – Braille Memory Game and Toys for the Blind</span></li></ul><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>2nd place:</i> Caroline Adelaar, St Mary’s School, Gauteng – Trees4Africa</span></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>Collaboration</u></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"><i>1st place:</i> Maxwell Funo, Mkhanyiseli Primary School, WC – Our Community Our Pride</span></li></ul><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>2nd place</i>: Lerato Mazimba, St Bernard’s High School, FS – From Trash to Couture </span></li></ul><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWuJIBo1tcDII_OmvtnIixRK2Q6Gl_hdbGo1cqyz4ixcl41NOHaULvVN0fBPZjPEehXamSRpI1VSPiyYjHW_8u8-wy4kqVgCDrJwgPtYW6s6SPz0LxYyoFSMzJJTveLXcHSdwqKTxZ84s/s1600/misc_123.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWuJIBo1tcDII_OmvtnIixRK2Q6Gl_hdbGo1cqyz4ixcl41NOHaULvVN0fBPZjPEehXamSRpI1VSPiyYjHW_8u8-wy4kqVgCDrJwgPtYW6s6SPz0LxYyoFSMzJJTveLXcHSdwqKTxZ84s/s320/misc_123.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lerato Mazimba</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Knowledge Building and Critical Thinking</u></span></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"><i>1st place</i>: Gaye Pieterse, Durban Girls‘ College, KZN – Inside Outside</span></li></ul><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>2nd place</i>: Jenny Martin and Siobhan Louw, Somerset House, WC – T-ICT 7.0</span></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9FCrXmABosOaMME7Nj5sfUXPDnNgcMsOs4WnG0hoKLcY_CLuA_S53UWZ85UP3nKB5VqV-WOO9cjgla80F3X6O7zyDFIkuHLqenWvQdxNds4SMmWW3_xL-zOKJTehq8DyIKN_yG9EqnUU/s1600/Siobhan.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9FCrXmABosOaMME7Nj5sfUXPDnNgcMsOs4WnG0hoKLcY_CLuA_S53UWZ85UP3nKB5VqV-WOO9cjgla80F3X6O7zyDFIkuHLqenWvQdxNds4SMmWW3_xL-zOKJTehq8DyIKN_yG9EqnUU/s320/Siobhan.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Siobhan Lowe and Jenny Martin</td></tr></tbody></table><u>Cutting Edge Use of Microsoft Technology for Learning</u></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"><i>1st place</i>: Caroline Adelaar, St Mary’s School, Gauteng – Trees4Africa</span></li></ul><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"> <i>2nd place</i>: Anita van Vuuren,Primêre Skool Universitas, FS – TjokvolLEER</span></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg68hyLtj6gYdBe2gPNz2V0XJQx1sC0Y6sjUM-5m3noNQ_VYnjl6OCmb89CFMGQ9Ii7m0J6fx12GUxdCIXjWdFFviR6s4XXs_EKsf5gBzSS6qSQoKEcpuF3VwzUd7ewx_bvKdWr3Nsbaoo/s1600-h/image%25255B39%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ItWnlIWtkPUCzVUUcWjwqoadl-4720s4O5RzICj2QRqCoPRoOS7C51wB2E-ZchHJ0OraFrrECLZZDq2iX4ZFk2FprC9HHnrnk9HtUU0ONVO_-v5S3QSupHhLORAAwDR7hRxMHdZ0EZo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="183" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Innovation in Challenging Context</u></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"><i>1st place</i>: Maxwell Funo, Mkhanyiseli Primary School, WC – Our Community Our Pride<br /></span></li></ul><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"><i>2nd place:</i> Nkosilathi Dlodlo, Batswana Secondary School, NW – Serving Water to Serve</span></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqQkEk0hlq1z1E9YZI5nGGvgiNdl10pQPLv1mEJD8IvGZrbaow-3-q2qDQzf-4QXeoOPCeHlEZ8nROcsYHoDWJyq2ILHbzFc3MDWML8Xb7QGq2CRkSNzDDjw84SODWqfxg-D5rnX72JXo/s1600-h/image%25255B48%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQvyGpRtdvRHYuW-1ukNjG9eK6yE5xGWifinN0pqRJjgWB4ZHkB7EXFOD21plTqyVomLgjuqUrAklOBiBb_crO-bCaeW_tucPIuMNlKdB76GNkwumJIwRn5Iz4eypin_US7TvCWnl9lwQ/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="244" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Educators’ Choice</u></span></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">Riathe Engels, Harmonie Primary School, FS – Innovative Ways to Recycle – TRASH ART</span></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcoR-Vcpa_TIxN1ltqj5_6_NZo7XSAaSmz0W1C2v7ZX5X4DYa2q3kW1qEkJav65syYKaDcs_R4gK_dzSU0L-kkLq2CF-C1a0SJ-REzrvcwtJCYllfopHlvL_4zg5YIf8gD3hPXWnMgMX0/s1600-h/image%25255B45%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj_GngzFBS9G9eKX2_vB2kPeElIs6faQgFE_TXdJMAP7oZP1V3qcKuwD5tSV-t9VLnV8FrD0kF-QuCLmuzHGSE2Udz6zat_ovf5kKzZXR80LLeGF7_m35u6qy83m1ns22M13sHeHF64Ao/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="187" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><span style="font-size: small;">Judges‘ Awards:</span></u></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">Use of Social Networking -Sarah Hanton, Boudina McConnachie, Anna Wertlen, Victoria Girls High School, EC - Good Vibrations through Social Networking </span></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitibxQvUhpuz0-4UX4xUIFCEibrw_duvsyYmT2qoEz6D2GxIa5WTfhw9yTLoRxkrQMF7roPd8lXMeco1LYX0-bB90OrkBIGX-MaA-oR9b5PQ-Xu35LjE5P3p48IoKKrv08ug_wTroVqjs/s1600/misc+128.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitibxQvUhpuz0-4UX4xUIFCEibrw_duvsyYmT2qoEz6D2GxIa5WTfhw9yTLoRxkrQMF7roPd8lXMeco1LYX0-bB90OrkBIGX-MaA-oR9b5PQ-Xu35LjE5P3p48IoKKrv08ug_wTroVqjs/s320/misc+128.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Use of Technology – Neith Moore, Durban Girls‘ High, KZN – The Mobile Digital Classroom – ’Flipping’ a Studio</span></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIcG899hpRQTYJmIx1aLYA9DV3TH6qouy5KdWzj5Ko8oi-uS88PXK8Z2eVuQGRAyZdSvK9SjP94kMc7KpEatquDDFp-N6xA0wdHUVCFnau3rrdPwr-xQuo9dVxeSv6AyPb0E-pi15mDPw/s1600-h/image%25255B42%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7pyxM5RRKxz2jS7kIMGadQq1WQsMXYxzPNqr7fAI5r4fdWUYURJ956H34heLkkjPThACfHzSqUzPaFUsS-jLDeyFhGozVsMAzJBDgVZF42FCwsET6C5nDcAP0vLo1KjDr9VnnNPHvUig/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="185" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Neith Moore</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqf8TUPwZAnkRIR62WNPm-RUTqZgz0EuuOHD-CnuJVZM8dzGGL28mHxM6nA05X36WgYrcBks0U2iSTBxvHFpHNhB2LbGa5yGK2S8Ce9mrr_aVuhmB14awTVKbqeWss17fxT729mypewA/s1600-h/image%25255B54%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3z8Rb2HFZHY19YA0qgX_Hdz5YY-jz33k7fCyRFKNmor3vsk5W2WF_0VAVqRGkx_4Y_6RPA1BAlTw2HMXUT8fAYdNCIIiq3wtDLk-UtUxf5I-nZ0NlTppGILQm2d_fc7NtWbTzRNaC3gM/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="162" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Neith Moore</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Innovation and Change Agent - Anita van Vuuren,Primêre Skool Universitas, FS – TjokvolLEER</li></ul></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDGFORog5ImpZEebq-P7HvRGNsNeDVYIKlA96c2gYa2w43zIPkbFT2RlledYu_gJFvSPd8qL3KxZOOOeFNrv926271oNz3ua864DxClBS9MD5d25uR0MzkLqxxaHVtrnY0V_IvmIW3880/s1600-h/image%25255B57%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh11BoOvIglS8VZX4OtVvxWQ1qAGK_13w9-L-tQr9fmJ7B8ZPZUQV0gj1_cT8mdika0KtHiO744uq_hNFxi906JXwoi7xr_8MR9TJdqju5rzsjNoLN_W_A2N9y0frKu60nEn74pk8jE_5Y/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="172" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anita van Vuuren</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Top Four Overall winners</u> who will be participating in the Middle East Africa Partners in Learning Forum (in alphabetical order):</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Caroline Adelaar, St Mary’s School, Gauteng – Trees4Africa<br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">Maxwell Funo, Mkhanyiseli Primary School, WC – Our Community Our Pride<br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">Gaye Pieterse, Durban Girls‘ College, KZN – Inside Outside<br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">Charli Wiggill, Eden College Durban, KZN – Braille Memory Game and Toys for the Blind</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja_vSDnzcMFMaP3LLvBN-233LFwkHFE1APVgyMQLCfVypLmpSpXpiTU6y_FqYfmimCuCjy0XQh0gMFjrYXO_aeJpaYJj_hhdw19Tujm59G_sH876fJWGFTyecwWilFZilN7M2aR6Q49F8/s1600-h/image%25255B26%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYjqO7VXCdQdsOdvL5pJAANzgZpVFAXdGeNjU4owTJXxBO6jO8KmhEBNbH9We75fYnUH8qcHmJNzFGPuacKZ1Mqg4KXKByHlwEmfEIIkYSiY-pC-8_TZSCLOYtnyLJrb5P42YooTyMeMU/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top four overall winners</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Prizes</span></b></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">*Each of 1st place Winners will receive a Dell Laptop<br />*Each of the 2nd Place Winners will receive a Slate Device donated by Vodacom Foundation<br />*The Educator Choice winner receives a SMART SB680iV interactive whiteboard system including SMART Notebook, installation and Basic User Training.<br />*All Finalists will receive a subscription to Encyclopaedia Britannica and Interactive Curriculum Content from Learnthings<br />*The Judges‘ Award Winners </span><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">Use of Social Networking –EInstruction Mobipad and portable Interactive Whiteboard from Sangari</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">Use of Technology -EasyView Visualizer from Sangari</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">Innovation and Change Agent – Mouse Mischief Set</span></li></ul></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; 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Microsoft Tech-savvy teachers shine in Durban at the 2012 SA Partners in Learning Forum Awards

This is a news release from Microsoft about the winners of the 2012 Partners in Learning Forum in South Africa. 20 finalists were chosen and...

ARGENTINA: A COUNTRY WITHOUT VISIBLE POLITICAL OPPOSITION.

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<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6l6LtHQdBWWKoMAA5h4nrLD-v2Z9Y1MuHPV2oQAIPcBmJcEpoMWWTUF9D484M4xsZmiZat-Qi3s8ch9DgdA4a_kbGvcLW0sD4A0YhLgYa-sGVUbVdXAaYRCdGDe9wm9GYiEzeSXbXC4Rm/s1600/media-manipulation.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6l6LtHQdBWWKoMAA5h4nrLD-v2Z9Y1MuHPV2oQAIPcBmJcEpoMWWTUF9D484M4xsZmiZat-Qi3s8ch9DgdA4a_kbGvcLW0sD4A0YhLgYa-sGVUbVdXAaYRCdGDe9wm9GYiEzeSXbXC4Rm/s400/media-manipulation.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ARGENTINE</span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">’</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">S "INVISIBLE OPPOSITION", CONSISTING OF SELF - SEEKING ONE MAN SHOWS, WHO USE CORPORATE MEDIA TO OPPOSE THE GOVERNMENT </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Since the Kirchners’ (Center left) took rein back in 2003, their “unorthodox” but successful governing of Argentina infuriated Argentines “conservative” political opposition, if one can call it that, for unlike other countries, Argentina in reality does not have a political party system as such. Granted, when election time arrives, different so called political "parties" with fancy names start emerging, but in reality they are one man shows of ambitious self seeking individuals, mostly of who are from the large but fractured Peronist  movement, but with completely different political ideologies. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This is where it becomes complicated understanding Argentines political landscape. The first thing that comes in one’s mind when talking about Argentine politics is Peronism, which by definition stands for an </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">economic, political, and social ideology called Justicialismo (social justice). When listening to some of the so-called “opposition individuals” ( who claim to be Peronists) one comes to conclusion that their political objectives are a far cry from social ideologies but rather are those of a center right conservative political stance. Thus, since the Kirchners’ took office, during election times a fractured opposition of self seeking individuals with conservative views have tried to gain power and failed to do so for lack of unity and being unable to “feel the pulse and needs” of the common people. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">OPPOSITION LACKS UNITY THUS USES CORPORATE MEDIA TO OPPOSE THE GOVERNMENT </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAXdjkoy45XwVOXt9EAf8wbJrijd0TsdBRlhr0tTGfhNQEOTZ_Qhy8NQyLhShbzhxhnvD2zjiU7Sjd_sQBiWh6TGRGPVQdiibbbL26aSDeHoQzQzxrjP3wAishhDDB-A9XUBOwUpXzvO5J/s1600/_48871145_papers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAXdjkoy45XwVOXt9EAf8wbJrijd0TsdBRlhr0tTGfhNQEOTZ_Qhy8NQyLhShbzhxhnvD2zjiU7Sjd_sQBiWh6TGRGPVQdiibbbL26aSDeHoQzQzxrjP3wAishhDDB-A9XUBOwUpXzvO5J/s1600/_48871145_papers.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Since they (the opposition) lack unity they are practically invisible and thus refer to a different tool of opposing the current government: CORPORATE MEDIA.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Since 2003 the media giant Clarin Group and La Nacion have been the main and powerful tool of the “invisible opposition” to oppose the current government. Misinformation, lack of objectivity etc. both in Clarin Groups TV News Channels as well as print media is a daily occurrence in Argentina. Needles to say these media giants are well connected and thus use their influence to spread misinformation about the economic situation of the country etc to <i>The Economist</i>, who as long as this government is in power will never write an objective article on Argentina, as well as international mainstream media outlets. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">THE AVERAGE CITIZEN HARDLY HAS THE TIME AND PATIENCE TO ANALYZE AND RESEARCH NEWSPAPER ARTICLE IN ORDER TO FORM AN OBJECTIVE OPINION, SOMETHING MAINSTREAM MEDIA EMPIRES ARE FULLY AWARE OF</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfjOmQU2nHGRZmKjKZswbU6znnGK8k1R0VWTFJLMOOPZzoMiRs6j8s619BtVSVZCtqif6tSrgJlKPc5wulgat5EVeye_3cmB2I2FY6jEaDuepP2KYhUolAJjwy21LpxWrbiX5hxkRBCtz2/s1600/0622_todo_negativo_g.jpg_1121220956.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfjOmQU2nHGRZmKjKZswbU6znnGK8k1R0VWTFJLMOOPZzoMiRs6j8s619BtVSVZCtqif6tSrgJlKPc5wulgat5EVeye_3cmB2I2FY6jEaDuepP2KYhUolAJjwy21LpxWrbiX5hxkRBCtz2/s320/0622_todo_negativo_g.jpg_1121220956.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Todo Noticias news channel belonging to Clarin Croup, reporting predominantly negative news </span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Needless to say that media giants such as Clarin group, La Nacion and the “invisible</span></span>opposition” are fully aware that the average citizen hardly has the time and patience to analyze and research each article or report these entities print or transmit, nor use alternative information sources to research their claim in order to form one’s own objective opinion. <b>Thus the majority of people of different social and educational background by large absorb and take for grant what Clarin and La Nacion (the two most read dailies in Argentina) “feed” them with.</b> The same goes for their News Channels who are also a manipulative tool to form public opinion. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">IN VIEW OF ABOVE MENTIONED FACTS <i>THE ECONOMIST,</i> WITH THE HELP OF ARGENTINE S INVISIBLE OPPOSITION AND BACKING OF LOCAL MEDIA GIANTS, STRUCK AGAIN WITH ITS LATEST ARGENTINE BASHING ARTICLE:</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">See related article: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/economist-far-cry-from-renowned-and.html"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/economist-far-cry-from-renowned-and.html</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/12/economists-sorry-journalism.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/12/economists-sorry-journalism.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrftReL8kF1YpKtoIW4GrjaMHEE5h3_5spm2wg-47iKTL7u94XGjP0N6Boh88P4SJUYYV_bcvgO_PGy4Wyk55J_FgOYwHfuLwntZGVI7zgr0Pnb7GqAgOb5jEsCaDcZgGUWdoUiXSA98nM/s1600/EconomistOrPropagandist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrftReL8kF1YpKtoIW4GrjaMHEE5h3_5spm2wg-47iKTL7u94XGjP0N6Boh88P4SJUYYV_bcvgO_PGy4Wyk55J_FgOYwHfuLwntZGVI7zgr0Pnb7GqAgOb5jEsCaDcZgGUWdoUiXSA98nM/s400/EconomistOrPropagandist.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Economist wrote:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Argentina’s economy</span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Piggy bank</span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rootling around for cash</span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">FOR the past 20 years a plaque has adorned the lobby of Argentina’s Central Bank, proclaiming its “primary and fundamental mission to preserve the value of the currency”. This week the plaque was removed after the country’s Congress approved a government bill that gives the bank a new, wordier mandate: “to promote, to the extent of its ability and in the framework of policies established by the national government, monetary stability, financial stability, jobs and economic growth with social fairness”.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Put more simply, the bank has lost the last shred of its legal independence and become the piggy bank of President Cristina Fernández’s government. It can now be required to transfer to the treasury cash equal to 20% of government revenues plus 12% of the money supply; to use its reserves (of $47 billion) at will to pay government debts; and to play a more active role in regulating banks and in steering credit to favoured industries.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">After forcing out the bank’s governor, Martín Redrado, in 2010, Ms Fernández has used more than $16 billion of reserves to pay debt, and earmarked $5.7 billion for 2012. But there was a hiccup: under the old law, which dated from the currency board in effect in the 1990s, the government could only spend reserves above the amount needed to back up the stock of pesos in circulation, and it had already exhausted that amount. Rather than “brutal belt-tightening,” as Mercedes Marcó del Pont, Mr Redrado’s replacement, put it, the government changed the law.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ms Fernández, like her husband and predecessor, Néstor Kirchner, has relentlessly pursued economic growth. </span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This is getting harder. Public finances have fallen into deficit thanks to bloated subsidies used mainly to keep utility and transport tariffs low. As the current-account surplus diminishes, the government has imposed curbs on imports and stricter capital controls. The latest protectionist measure requires buyers of books from foreign websites to collect them personally from the airport and pay a fee of up to $80.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The government could now use the Central Bank’s reserves to pay the $9.3 billion it owes to the Paris Club of creditor governments—an obstacle to its being able to tap international capital markets. But the immediate effect of the change in the law has been to stoke worries that inflation will take off, putting pressure on the peso (see chart). The gap between the official exchange rate and the rate in the swap market has widened to nearly 20%. But Ms Marcó del Pont insists that the bank will be “very rigorous” and will not print more pesos than needed. The government’s fairly low debt burden and its strict curbs on capital flight may prevent a rapid collapse of the peso.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Another sign of the government’s growing desperation is its bullying of YPF, a unit of Spain’s Repsol. As the former state oil monopoly, YPF tugs at nationalist heartstrings. Government-inspired posters recently went up in Buenos Aires showing YPF’s logo, a map of the Falkland Islands and the statement: “They’re Argentine.”</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ms Fernández blames YPF for a fall in output of oil (down 32% since its peak in 1998) and gas (down 10% since 2004). Oilmen blame the government: producers receive just $42 per barrel for exports and around $70 in the domestic market, whereas the world-market price is over $120.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Repsol has offered to pay YPF’s 2011 dividend in stock, and not to repatriate profits. But the government wants the dividend paid into a special investment fund. It is not clear whether the president’s aim is renationalisation: she would find it hard to raise the funds, although her threats have depressed YPF’s share price by 14% this year. Six provinces have stripped YPF of oil concessions, but mostly minor ones.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What makes all this perverse is that Argentina sits on possibly the world’s third-biggest reserves of shale hydrocarbons. (<a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/argentine-shale-gas-production-could.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/argentine-shale-gas-production-could.html</a>)YPF estimates that developing them will cost $25 billion a year for a decade. Not even the Central Bank can provide Ms Fernández with funds like that. But short-term political need, rather than long-term prosperity, is dictating Argentine policy.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnNBIvWqOn48YHDHUl2tWP_DHi-1uQv57C3P4MuacGwQsGkjv7YVE6QSuUZN8qNZfjZAlsOwhY8YpRhSRElkhnCcy-IinkoB-16Diha5Zv3bzBv3nxB4DNYdQBG5yVca2YgvuXEodm8Htj/s1600/image_people-together.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnNBIvWqOn48YHDHUl2tWP_DHi-1uQv57C3P4MuacGwQsGkjv7YVE6QSuUZN8qNZfjZAlsOwhY8YpRhSRElkhnCcy-IinkoB-16Diha5Zv3bzBv3nxB4DNYdQBG5yVca2YgvuXEodm8Htj/s400/image_people-together.gif" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">FEELING THE PULSE OF THE PEOPLE: – DIFFERENT VIEWS AND OPINIONS REGARDING <i>THE ECONOMISTS</i> ARTICLE</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">The "independent" European central banks have lead the economy of Europe to a total collapse, whereas the economy of Argentina has been growing at exuberant rates in the last few years. Why is Argentinean government wrong?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">  </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Argentina has been growing at fast pace for almost 10 years with what <i>The Economist</i> calls "short term policies, cheap tricks, lies, etc.<br />How many years of nonstop growth does it take for <i>The Economist</i> to call Argentina's growth a solid sustainable growth?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">  </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">IMF measured the GDP growth of Argentina taking into consideration their own private sources to measure inflation. And the number they came up with was 8.6% of solid growth for 2011. 2012 economic outlook indicates that  the economy will probably grow "<b>only 7%"</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">  </span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">THE ECONOMIST</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">is unleashing an ideological battle of words.<br />In the US the infrastructure is decaying. Potholes are cropping out in highways and expressways. Refineries are shutting down driving gas prices to 5 dollars a gallon. Sick people are getting kicked out of hospitals. There are tons of men, women and children in the streets begging for money.<br />But hey, at least nobody is lying about the inflation in the US</span></span></div><div style="color: black;"><br /></div>

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