guest post - vivid hue home

<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am so flattered that Elizabeth has asked me to be a guest blogger while she enjoys some much needed R&R.  Hi, I'm Heather from </span><a href="http://www.vividhuehome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vivid Hue Home.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  One thing you should know about me is that I love color and patterns and textures.  And I love to mix them all together! </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.vividhuehome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE-NKkEZfaP7SNEJVc_hEnnl1HMOeUUS0O1_IYcDD6ns2vfWM39P82_zRILOUeoWQucWvBJ2uRCGQ-MOlY__0z5hB1O-cTwyj94tuYNet7YHKM5UZUhthnyRQGZ3eULH18O94yCAz0rMY/s640/banner.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">My philosophy is you should have fun with design. Don't be timid to mix and match patterns and styles. Use color. Mix antique with modern, flea market with new. Show your personality. You can't go wrong with doing what feels right.  </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't believe me?  Here's proof from my </span><a href="http://www.vividhuehome.blogspot.com/p/house-tour.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">own home</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:  </span></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://vividhuehome.blogspot.com/2012/02/house-tour-sun-room.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH5FFitBVQyJhnffcGVbvN3T4UNQiPsMZx73LdKOCGgytU9bi1ijulubhosR65k-T_I9KrFktJCc9MdhGjcqoWjughLDckCWIDPU2QyjPYEuTQPuVaWYk8atsipj70uCo6IphVFUZLAiQ/s640/design+post2.JPG" width="448" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />I have long been a believer that fashion and decor are closely linked together.  The runway not only dictates fashion trends but also guides how colors, fabrics and styles will transcend into the home.  Apparently, I'm not the only one that thinks this.  The theme for this fall's </span><a href="http://www.highpointmarket.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">High Point Market</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 2012 is "Fashion Focus."  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to have some fun with ya'll today and show you some fabulous examples where runway fashion meets interior decor:  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQQmKanEQzO1SCtTyx8D4RrpOPNEscEqqcczM6QcAIicOqth5NYPCz0z50UCR2VKaJrXD7PU3BXvqr-fRihdwjO2mSaDy11-B2hRPRpF2qXNHDaMpYqYJVJq4j_S9k5FbP79qpFThi-DU/s1600/Versace+Fall+2012+RTW+and+Elle+Decor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQQmKanEQzO1SCtTyx8D4RrpOPNEscEqqcczM6QcAIicOqth5NYPCz0z50UCR2VKaJrXD7PU3BXvqr-fRihdwjO2mSaDy11-B2hRPRpF2qXNHDaMpYqYJVJq4j_S9k5FbP79qpFThi-DU/s640/Versace+Fall+2012+RTW+and+Elle+Decor.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Versace Fall 2012 RTW and Elle Decor</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><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/AVvXsEiEykybrBkQqUoalBztNwuEjKsp8pUdz3qiUhAmdCeqe2wbt0jkbGTdBFzeknU1n9QSso3WrfFygFm7Fn9aQJEhcubo5PO7xtI9QPRQHTe1741ggsXuAS5Thaf7VOxM4rV12YAkQCig37A/s1600/Tracy+Reese+Fall+2012+RTW+and+Elle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEykybrBkQqUoalBztNwuEjKsp8pUdz3qiUhAmdCeqe2wbt0jkbGTdBFzeknU1n9QSso3WrfFygFm7Fn9aQJEhcubo5PO7xtI9QPRQHTe1741ggsXuAS5Thaf7VOxM4rV12YAkQCig37A/s640/Tracy+Reese+Fall+2012+RTW+and+Elle.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tracy Reese Fall 2012 RTW and Elle Decor</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><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/AVvXsEjLogqL7LDB8sJVirLCnDwXNmx1KalPQfmdL7o3qohxo-9iaqw4QU6cJWF_DIj9Mhh4qvVMxFTd9ZBbFl8ujf843MBsR2iRDpaGXZUodYrfyJOPXLSuBgUeYo2lvqqiyR_wZHRQwn7pgws/s1600/Todd+Synder+Fall+2012+and+Elle+Decor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLogqL7LDB8sJVirLCnDwXNmx1KalPQfmdL7o3qohxo-9iaqw4QU6cJWF_DIj9Mhh4qvVMxFTd9ZBbFl8ujf843MBsR2iRDpaGXZUodYrfyJOPXLSuBgUeYo2lvqqiyR_wZHRQwn7pgws/s640/Todd+Synder+Fall+2012+and+Elle+Decor.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Todd Snyder Fall 2012 and Elle Decor</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><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/AVvXsEhXXcfIJbVNDcYjnU_ane6_-i3ZglUZBdgoZrqCRhOnX9dLEGafRpKGvOmOlDGesrhN7Lzlb4CYym5sLAzl4Y8aO3ihBqd_HbCAhpKv9KjEVAmvgq3LQlFBv_dyzN_N_LBiVyMBQL4BAc0/s1600/Prada+2013+and+Elle+decor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXXcfIJbVNDcYjnU_ane6_-i3ZglUZBdgoZrqCRhOnX9dLEGafRpKGvOmOlDGesrhN7Lzlb4CYym5sLAzl4Y8aO3ihBqd_HbCAhpKv9KjEVAmvgq3LQlFBv_dyzN_N_LBiVyMBQL4BAc0/s640/Prada+2013+and+Elle+decor.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prada 2013 and Elle Decor</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><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/AVvXsEgWWzZFxojTEtPfP7HUDVJpSxlEV5NZxbBnBzIlHvoOZnzTkK-4qmpRGF0s0rcb4v48NH8eNX_czi7jLB5qRD7h40Gj2smU7XsW9q4sEretWzGNvbTozcQc4nvgy4w2C0U7q28XaCJkY0A/s1600/Mulberry+Spring+2012+and+Elle+decor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWWzZFxojTEtPfP7HUDVJpSxlEV5NZxbBnBzIlHvoOZnzTkK-4qmpRGF0s0rcb4v48NH8eNX_czi7jLB5qRD7h40Gj2smU7XsW9q4sEretWzGNvbTozcQc4nvgy4w2C0U7q28XaCJkY0A/s640/Mulberry+Spring+2012+and+Elle+decor.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mulberry Spring 2012 and Elle Decor</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><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/AVvXsEjYJwyS0rq_pfs4rtmoK7XDxGkd7hYYKg6iBT6_nanwhXzMkxucPQnNaRjPGMidDa-V5jC2HjDhVTi2FlPmwZFb43UpokoKZmMmbqXfFhyphenhyphenqhLswMC98Ma4BXuiwv6N0YoBdN-1MBj-VVPU/s1600/Erin+Fetherston+Resort+2012+and+Elle+Decor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYJwyS0rq_pfs4rtmoK7XDxGkd7hYYKg6iBT6_nanwhXzMkxucPQnNaRjPGMidDa-V5jC2HjDhVTi2FlPmwZFb43UpokoKZmMmbqXfFhyphenhyphenqhLswMC98Ma4BXuiwv6N0YoBdN-1MBj-VVPU/s640/Erin+Fetherston+Resort+2012+and+Elle+Decor.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Erin Fetherston Resort 2012 and Elle Decor</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><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/AVvXsEhgxUnx3wB8RiXh-7NZPKxcVZKiJONe2yLg1i4eeRbAxAl2dWInlLXvCpZvcG6UgIksGeRISyMGZonq-ybEzxPK2Yhirr-g2WGfGZSY2uyq0feKyuyhvWa9Vd_bAuRGkTVSAXYaAxOkWN4/s1600/Elie+Tahari+Resort+2012+and+Elle+Decor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgxUnx3wB8RiXh-7NZPKxcVZKiJONe2yLg1i4eeRbAxAl2dWInlLXvCpZvcG6UgIksGeRISyMGZonq-ybEzxPK2Yhirr-g2WGfGZSY2uyq0feKyuyhvWa9Vd_bAuRGkTVSAXYaAxOkWN4/s640/Elie+Tahari+Resort+2012+and+Elle+Decor.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elie Tahari Resort 2012 and Elle Decor</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><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/AVvXsEiBo1c5gk1Fo1Jy8jSIrm86rzJXZFTDBohqV4-qOD442zIv2tqu4CqgNiT7-SbLedGKEHOTv8vb-M4Fsb3jBN-_PVdHvMoFz0hWR7E00KZ_fvf0FrmxBHjyl1W5inV-UkKm9zOSoro8TOY/s1600/Burbery+Prorsum+Fall+2012+and+Elle+decor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBo1c5gk1Fo1Jy8jSIrm86rzJXZFTDBohqV4-qOD442zIv2tqu4CqgNiT7-SbLedGKEHOTv8vb-M4Fsb3jBN-_PVdHvMoFz0hWR7E00KZ_fvf0FrmxBHjyl1W5inV-UkKm9zOSoro8TOY/s640/Burbery+Prorsum+Fall+2012+and+Elle+decor.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Burbery Prorsum Fall 2012 and Elle Decor</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><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/AVvXsEiLdNqIdJleW96VqKGKoHjWGhZ8epTX7lQDaqWa80fGtPYEUJmCvik-0haI3yblu82qPi51T4YnodTmfnBEkdfY3_vouhXPXaIRz0x3Oug54hZE_La4FxyB16v4Cb0QRtfmJaB2vdmoWTU/s1600/Gen+Art+Fall+2012+RTW+and+Elle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLdNqIdJleW96VqKGKoHjWGhZ8epTX7lQDaqWa80fGtPYEUJmCvik-0haI3yblu82qPi51T4YnodTmfnBEkdfY3_vouhXPXaIRz0x3Oug54hZE_La4FxyB16v4Cb0QRtfmJaB2vdmoWTU/s640/Gen+Art+Fall+2012+RTW+and+Elle.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gen Art Fall 2012 RTW and Elle Decor</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><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/AVvXsEicDFyNA_2OS79O9ZlLMPv0lZBKoRTSxr5aK91ANZq_QPIBRGLtnrlYEylDGj1paimvVBF1IzUAejmA3q_FUoddcOLqFjEJIG2lSVlfphilSusjYiibufuEf7HXBHum3MbZ1YLg1pPXqPg/s1600/DVF+spring+2012+and+Elle+Decor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicDFyNA_2OS79O9ZlLMPv0lZBKoRTSxr5aK91ANZq_QPIBRGLtnrlYEylDGj1paimvVBF1IzUAejmA3q_FUoddcOLqFjEJIG2lSVlfphilSusjYiibufuEf7HXBHum3MbZ1YLg1pPXqPg/s640/DVF+spring+2012+and+Elle+Decor.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DVF Spring 2012 and Elle Decor</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><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/AVvXsEjiOHRURTbgE31lqVDMZRi7R2dBdZm-eVoGwwm-2HByeAJgI-0r1VDrf77tZ6JMhTv-2Gk8idUPe1-Bl00GZDuc2uOQA7Qqb-YSMLl2yP7zRWT5mVAViftqgQDsahV-DxVpyM5GTy9RQ-c/s1600/chanel+resort+2013+and+elle+decor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiOHRURTbgE31lqVDMZRi7R2dBdZm-eVoGwwm-2HByeAJgI-0r1VDrf77tZ6JMhTv-2Gk8idUPe1-Bl00GZDuc2uOQA7Qqb-YSMLl2yP7zRWT5mVAViftqgQDsahV-DxVpyM5GTy9RQ-c/s640/chanel+resort+2013+and+elle+decor.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chanel Resort 2013 and Elle Decor</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><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/AVvXsEiLKKY6EJfEIln5Ls1aTZOJQQpAIE9n2IbrKAycG0AHIcjDPLFCyDLNPpwUrQm6zPWCE5JK9f-Ggy5qV_BI_iurySzcpTdPdckL-rOp24lX8bR8e-n5Y_mM4FtZxvDDPKKd0VE21W06Lh0/s1600/mj+resort+2012+and+la+times.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLKKY6EJfEIln5Ls1aTZOJQQpAIE9n2IbrKAycG0AHIcjDPLFCyDLNPpwUrQm6zPWCE5JK9f-Ggy5qV_BI_iurySzcpTdPdckL-rOp24lX8bR8e-n5Y_mM4FtZxvDDPKKd0VE21W06Lh0/s640/mj+resort+2012+and+la+times.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marc Jacobs Resort 2013 and Los Angeles Times</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><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/AVvXsEiOCAvsFzd0degmAlFKdcByKA2bPfS2XaWU_K95oeSbE7XfuiJS_lcn1xvRMogXNVveASlFqjXW4JTXMBUGjmtckojH9ubp3unJEGzhv4RFsGmnqJ76Q7qxEcRYRDcGMz4fc0gm1G141eM/s1600/gucci+resort+2012+and+apartment+therapy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOCAvsFzd0degmAlFKdcByKA2bPfS2XaWU_K95oeSbE7XfuiJS_lcn1xvRMogXNVveASlFqjXW4JTXMBUGjmtckojH9ubp3unJEGzhv4RFsGmnqJ76Q7qxEcRYRDcGMz4fc0gm1G141eM/s640/gucci+resort+2012+and+apartment+therapy.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gucci Resort 2013 and Apartment Therapy</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><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/AVvXsEgGiZZKzJLIVg63i87il3t7TusQ_QGoHoCHeBOk8bKK7X_IleYJKqvbhrwlyV2gxdOu4f2ckGx01Bc4-U_-_WKKlGzQTeE97uQwDnOzNaywkC_wThLKt8CFPWc5ztA46VFVlV_zfS2WI8M/s1600/Michael+Kors+Spring+2011+RTW+and+Elle+Decor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="479" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGiZZKzJLIVg63i87il3t7TusQ_QGoHoCHeBOk8bKK7X_IleYJKqvbhrwlyV2gxdOu4f2ckGx01Bc4-U_-_WKKlGzQTeE97uQwDnOzNaywkC_wThLKt8CFPWc5ztA46VFVlV_zfS2WI8M/s640/Michael+Kors+Spring+2011+RTW+and+Elle+Decor.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michael Kors Spring 2011 RTW and Elle Decor</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><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/AVvXsEgj6sVpnrfHSytFeTRyCIYD2cciCwpur4X9keKSF6paem4K9tr0bgc-_6IFEj2eCVK_0xTE0eBnd6Mp1hk7Ntsg6My4eL5G954z2IL3RPUKc-t8rKt3yGLpdDRnFUJtyLdJvGQ8Txudr2k/s1600/Elie+Tahari+Fall+2012+TYW+and+Elle+Decor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj6sVpnrfHSytFeTRyCIYD2cciCwpur4X9keKSF6paem4K9tr0bgc-_6IFEj2eCVK_0xTE0eBnd6Mp1hk7Ntsg6My4eL5G954z2IL3RPUKc-t8rKt3yGLpdDRnFUJtyLdJvGQ8Txudr2k/s640/Elie+Tahari+Fall+2012+TYW+and+Elle+Decor.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elie Tahari Fall 2012 RTW and Elle Decor</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">{All of these fabulous photos are courtesy of </span><a href="http://fashiondecor.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fashion Decor</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">}</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next time you're stumped with how to re-decorate that room in your home that doesn't quite seem like it's getting finished, try looking down at your outfit for inspiration--ha!  </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you've enjoyed this tour and I'd love if you came to visit me over at </span><a href="http://www.vividhuehome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vivid Hue Home</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.  Heck, feel free to stay awhile!  </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">xoxo Heather from Vivid Hue Home</span><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.vividhuehome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGN7Kh6wyYT62UIMuXEKiJjI_dqsnfQKKCwhpIeBJa_eN5t2mCTZ1Pl1vE8hdTvGGJfUdcu0OQZgRlaRtrNHmRvBy4MQ1k9WgglhG8xqfWIVS3t2_dJEd1mQ_drYY7TpaKNgMjhud-rgA/s1600/Heather-1-copy.gif" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

guest post - vivid hue home

I am so flattered that Elizabeth has asked me to be a guest blogger while she enjoys some much needed R&R.  Hi, I'm Heather from Viv...

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La Biennale di Venezia

I'm in Venice this week covering the <a href="http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/">13th International Architecture Exhibition</a> of la Biennale di Venezia for World-Architects.com. Check out the <a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/pages/biennale-architettura-2012">Insight feature</a> in <a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/emagazine/architecture-news">today's eMagazine</a> for some Day-1 photos and impressions.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/pages/biennale-architettura-2012"><img alt="Insight-cover-3.jpg" src="http://www.world-architects.com/img/frontend/pages/1757/1000x750/Insight-cover_3.jpg" title="La Biennale di Venezia" width="640" /></a>

La Biennale di Venezia

I'm in Venice this week covering the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia for World-Architects.com. Che...

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Made to Crave - Ch 2 Reflections

I'm already on chapter 6 of this book!  I'm really enjoying the bits of advice so far.  Below are my reflections from chapter 2.<br /><br />Chapter 1 Reflections can be found <a href="http://the-big-weight.blogspot.com/2012/08/made-to-crave-ch-1-reflections.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br /><b>Chapter 2 - Replacing My Cravings:</b><br /><b><br /></b><i><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>1.  When it comes to your relationship with food, what repeated behaviors or events describe the cycle you experience and feel powerless to stop?</b></span></i><br /><br />When it comes to eating in general (not following a healthy eating plan), I have a major problem with emotional eating.  I eat out of boredom, sadness, stress and loneliness.  I also experience strong cravings for sweets. <br /><br />I feel powerless to stop the emotional eating because as much as it sucks after the binge, for that particular moment in time, there is nothing that will satisfy that emotion but shoving food into my mouth.  So, I guess I need to keep myself busy, happy, stress-free and around others? Easier said than done.<br /><br />I have proven to myself, <a href="http://the-big-weight.blogspot.com/2012/07/cutting-back-on-sugar-for-july.html" target="_blank">recently</a> in fact, that I can live without sweets, at least in the short term.  However, it's not beneficial to me because when I do allow myself to eat them again, I go crazy and binge on sweets.  I would like to limit my intake of sweets, to say, 1-2 sweet treats per day.  I mainly crave them after lunch and after dinner.  So there's a possible solution to this overabundance-of-sweets problem!  I'll give that a go this week and see how it goes. <br /><br />What I really need to do is incorporate prayer into these 2 situations when I feel powerless to food. <br /><span style="color: #674ea7;"><br /></span><b><i><span style="color: #674ea7;">2. There are many reasons we have for wanting to eat differently - losing weight, fitting into a favorite pair of jeans, looking good for an important event.  What reasons motivate your desire to eat healthier?  Do these reasons give your struggles with food a purpose strong enough to help you resist unhealthy eating?  How do you respond to Lysa's statement: "I had to see the purpose of my struggle as something more than wearing smaller sizes and getting compliments from others....It had to be about something more than just me"?</span></i></b><br /><br />I listed 17 reasons for why I wanted to lose weight <a href="http://the-big-weight.blogspot.com/2011/09/why-do-you-want-to-lose-weight.html" target="_blank">here</a>.  I guess if those reasons were enough to have me eat healthier, I would be dropping weight like it's going out of style.  In years past, I think the typical reasons for losing weight (as mentioned in the question and in my previous post) were enough for me at the time.  Now, however, it's different.  I think that this time around it has to be more about improving on my relationship with God.  It's clear that I cannot do this journey alone - I need His strength and guidance to reach my goals.<br /><br /><b><i><span style="color: #674ea7;">3. "I had to get honest enough to admit it: I relied on food more than I relied on God.  I craved food more than I craved God. Food was my comfort.  Food was my reward.  Food was my joy.  Food was what I turned to in times of stress, sadness and even in times of happiness."  Consider your eating experiences over the last few days or weeks.  Using the list below, can you recall specific situations in which you turned to food for these reasons?</span></i></b><br /><br />I want to point out that I think you can really insert any problem into this and all questions in this book. Replace the word "food" and insert the word(s) alcohol, drugs, shopping, sex, etc into the sentences above.  The same principles apply.<br /><br /><ul><li><b>Comfort</b> - I was feeling anxious last night about the amount of schoolwork I have piled up for the next several days, and so I ate (chocolate no less) while sitting in front of the TV to calm my nerves.  Please note that the chocolate didn't do the textbook reading for me!  </li><li><strike><b>Reward</b></strike></li><li><b>Joy</b> - Joel and I enjoyed ice cream and alcohol both nights while at the beach.... as a celebration of sorts for our vacation in a new place.</li><li><b>Stress</b> - on the drive home yesterday we stopped at a Wendy's to take a break from the blinding rain storm.  I ate and I wasn't even hungry.</li><li><b>Sadness</b> - I ate more before I went to bed last night because I was sad for not staying within my DPT yesterday.... as a result of poor eating earlier in the day.</li><li><b>Happiness</b> - this would be the same as joy...</li></ul><div><b><i><span style="color: #674ea7;">Keeping the same situations in mind, how do you imagine your experiences might have been different if you had relied on God, craved God, instead of turning to food?</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="color: #674ea7;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div>For starters, I wouldn't be spending the rest of this week trying to undo all the damage I did last night/yesterday.  I also believe I would have received more of a depth of comfort from God if I would have consulted Him with my troubles rather than turning to food.  Food cannot accomplish my studies for me, but perhaps by praying I could have found peace in Him knowing that He will help me get through whatever assignments I have mapped out for the week.  I <i>know</i> that turning to God will fulfill my needs completely, rather than food, but I <i>need</i> to practice turning to Him instead of food.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i><span style="color: #674ea7;">4. How do you respond to the idea of using your cravings as a prompt to pray?  How had prayer helped or failed to help in your previous food battles?</span></i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>I think using cravings as a prompt to pray is a great idea.  I haven't used this technique in the past so I have no immediate experience as it helping me before.  However, I think the same thing applies as I said in the previous question.  It is putting this idea into practice.  When I have a craving, my automatic response (most of the time) is to satisfy the craving without even thinking twice.  I need to get into the habit of recognizing the craving, then reminding myself to pray about it first, and <i>then</i> walk away from the craving knowing I can because of Him.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i><span style="color: #674ea7;">5.  Brick by brick (or craving by craving), Lysa dismantled her tower of impossibility and used the same bricks to build a walkway of prayer, paving the path to victory.  Brick by brick in an effective way to dismantle something but it also takes time and careful work.  In your battles with food, are you more likely to choose a drastic, quick-fix approach or a moderate but longer-term approach?  What thoughts or feelings emerge when you consider dismantling your own tower of impossibility one craving at a time?</span></i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>I am more like to choose a moderate, long-term approach to removing this weight.  This is the longest I've ever stuck to trying to lose weight without completely giving up.  This is also because I am committed to finding something that works for the longterm, not just to meet some short term goals to only have it backfire later on.  For example, I've had people suggest that in order to accomplish sticking to a plan, I should just eat the same few things everyday - that way I don't have to worry about planning each week.  I did this before and it worked for me.  However, there are a lot of foods I cannot even stomach the thought of today because I just ate that same stuff over and over and over again.  Did it yield results?  It sure did, but eventually I gained all the weight back, plus 10 lbs.  I enjoy variety with my food, and I'm trying to find a longterm approach to getting to enjoy variety, while still being able to lose, and eventually maintain my loss.  </div><div><br /></div><div>Taking a more moderate approach takes time as well as trial and error.  There are days when I just want to revert back to eating the same 5 meals every single day just to get the weight off quickly.  However, I know this didn't work for me before and so I have to remind myself to be patient and deal with each issue as it comes.  I think if I can get a handle on my cravings, one craving at a time, I will enter into a world of joy and success!</div>

Made to Crave Made to Crave - Ch 2 Reflections

I'm already on chapter 6 of this book!  I'm really enjoying the bits of advice so far.  Below are my reflections from chapter 2. Cha...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 08/28/2012

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.21stcenturycollaborative.com/2011/05/7-lessons-educators-can-learn-from-the-urban-outfitters-pr-disaster/">7 lessons educators can learn from the Urban Outfitters PR disaster | 21st Century Collaborative</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">An excellent story about how Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach's daughter, Amber, became part of a viral story. This is an excellent example of how social media influence can allow students to become activists.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/socialmedia">socialmedia</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://maps.playingwithmedia.com">Mapping Media to the Curriculum » What do you want to CREATE today?</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Wes Fryer has created an excellent resource mapping media to the curriculum that starts off with what you want to create today. This is a fantastic resource to share.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/evernote">evernote</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch/2012/08/26/tlchat-live-get-ready-for-more-cafe/">#tlchat live & get ready for more Café « NeverEndingSearch</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Joyce Valenza, teacher librarian extraordinaire, shares about the #tlchat (teacher librarian chat) and how teacher librarians can join in and learn on Twitter. Joyce is a wealth of information, so if you're a teacher librarian, you should join in.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='http://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 08/28/2012

7 lessons educators can learn from the Urban Outfitters PR disaster | 21st Century Collaborative An ...

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 08/27/2012

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://teach.com">Teachers Make a Difference | Teach.com</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">A new website about teaching and how to become a teacher.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://maps.playingwithmedia.com">Mapping Media to the Curriculum » What do you want to CREATE today?</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Wes Fryer has created an excellent resource mapping media to the curriculum that starts off with what you want to create today. This is a fantastic resource to share.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/evernote">evernote</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch/2012/08/21/crowdsourcing-fifty-or-so-ways-to-leave-your-paper/">Crowdsourcing Fifty (or so) ways to leave your paper: « NeverEndingSearch</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Excellent post on 50 ways to leave paper in the classroom from Joyce Valenza.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='http://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 08/27/2012

Teachers Make a Difference | Teach.com A new website about teaching and how to become a teacher. ...

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guest post - living savvy

<div style="text-align: center;">Hello I am Tiffany from <a href="http://www.savvydesignwest.com/" target="_blank">Living Savvy</a> and I am excited to be here today kicking off Elizabeth's vacation!  I am a little jealous that she is having some fun in the sun because currently I am in the middle of packing up my house and moving!  Both exciting and frustrating... I will be moving my house into storage and living at my parents summer house {it only sounds fancy... they live here in Nor Cal in the summer and winter in Hawaii} till our new home is ready.  But since I have packed all of my belonging it makes me think about how my style has evolved over the last 3 years that I have lived here.  And even now as I make plans for my new house, I still have not quite decided what direction I want to go... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So I thought it would be fun to share the evolution of my house over the last 3 years, maybe a road down memory lane will shoot me in the right direction for my new house!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtYhCrKPSc1eLZmxZnlkMg-XlpC4RznCjeNAJ5Mk4LfgRF9deT1gupBOuVZx1X4X5Luj3vG7BB_5cPX15BjoFzd6rKn5c7b978Ys3Nu3_MEXvUv83BnXp1XZWpC7Jp2wr5Pn0qy5TT74GD/s1600/4.24+IMG_5379.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtYhCrKPSc1eLZmxZnlkMg-XlpC4RznCjeNAJ5Mk4LfgRF9deT1gupBOuVZx1X4X5Luj3vG7BB_5cPX15BjoFzd6rKn5c7b978Ys3Nu3_MEXvUv83BnXp1XZWpC7Jp2wr5Pn0qy5TT74GD/s400/4.24+IMG_5379.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOqBFsbCYF49XtT7BHk6nGt5r-w2nX_T6wH1xCNz84S9j2NLt2dP_j6YvEwLv5tX4ODqnAAPGlw0nblPQbHSP_qaDIKT0MGAHlieYYmzPxbyg11ge8IWsBi6Z2p7nAf3spSWQ17rrdSY2_/s1600/4.24+IMG_5373.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOqBFsbCYF49XtT7BHk6nGt5r-w2nX_T6wH1xCNz84S9j2NLt2dP_j6YvEwLv5tX4ODqnAAPGlw0nblPQbHSP_qaDIKT0MGAHlieYYmzPxbyg11ge8IWsBi6Z2p7nAf3spSWQ17rrdSY2_/s400/4.24+IMG_5373.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> I wanted to bring some blue into my house, a color I have never had in my house before, but I wanted it to be soft and still work with my red.  So in the Spring of 2011 I changed out my color scheme to bring navy and reds together.  It was a good change, but not my favorite combo...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPF5vbtwRzSIOUEjG5cVVw91J-x6IKbDJAvcXSKfA0KB3eXlGJr0ii9e5-fuykz4nnY4Be-d2ef5kUJGQz8EmyDd5KNNRnH-AOzmPNGydzTsrFhnlZgH1mS3w7_cK1jxMmhCdtRFeqfsZA/s1600/8.15+IMG_6613.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPF5vbtwRzSIOUEjG5cVVw91J-x6IKbDJAvcXSKfA0KB3eXlGJr0ii9e5-fuykz4nnY4Be-d2ef5kUJGQz8EmyDd5KNNRnH-AOzmPNGydzTsrFhnlZgH1mS3w7_cK1jxMmhCdtRFeqfsZA/s400/8.15+IMG_6613.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc6KjgDT0uu0s_Va6k6G1_EHZx_5XZdOABQsBFdZQWwbuGvTdO9D54qWhvFT95tLt9OeaGC5NLYVnHNS0LASLeLI9EDpqlTx9a8puRcFfOHUI2PEN_VUdNGyWXPHeA-r8tUVOJBa5E6MRz/s1600/8.15+IMG_6615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc6KjgDT0uu0s_Va6k6G1_EHZx_5XZdOABQsBFdZQWwbuGvTdO9D54qWhvFT95tLt9OeaGC5NLYVnHNS0LASLeLI9EDpqlTx9a8puRcFfOHUI2PEN_VUdNGyWXPHeA-r8tUVOJBa5E6MRz/s400/8.15+IMG_6615.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhonEYcOjetx5MGpJODbNNmJQNd134BC2jByZQ93bmh-Bdblq3Lnbdw3t1lBRM-tzLj2Bs-C2UBv-5IuO8J_0GYR4Fd2PJmQyaDaFQP6Kh8nia0CAqObtARraoAPfd3p8npzr5B9vBCNijf/s1600/8.15+IMG_6631.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhonEYcOjetx5MGpJODbNNmJQNd134BC2jByZQ93bmh-Bdblq3Lnbdw3t1lBRM-tzLj2Bs-C2UBv-5IuO8J_0GYR4Fd2PJmQyaDaFQP6Kh8nia0CAqObtARraoAPfd3p8npzr5B9vBCNijf/s400/8.15+IMG_6631.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This was my family room redo after a design domino effect in Late summer of 2011. {<a href="http://www.savvydesignwest.com/2011/08/weekend-recap-domino-effect-complete.html" target="_blank">see post</a>} I wanted to tone down the bossy navy with a softer blue.  And I was really lusting over the Covinton fabric!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ngTa0QEknDZmR9UoGN12btU82yGmN7twg4dOL6vegJ67SoKtmitqOWHhldr_w2bUdRgqGxHkG_zrP0oY5R4IpM8FPMTvFXSx-7mOirW4PPdiHaM8wWDfCZ_Pd4ggvZ-FNKNvX_nmIC6W/s1600/IMG_5587.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ngTa0QEknDZmR9UoGN12btU82yGmN7twg4dOL6vegJ67SoKtmitqOWHhldr_w2bUdRgqGxHkG_zrP0oY5R4IpM8FPMTvFXSx-7mOirW4PPdiHaM8wWDfCZ_Pd4ggvZ-FNKNvX_nmIC6W/s400/IMG_5587.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW_T_kRm-r91HLaJhjdjAQWlN9Q0EHHjhVu_6cBeB31J9o-oDZA7Bs67AoArv1y0euM0JNpgimxVdVKCFPpE9S6fq6hkZZu5mkNpjEoURq3rELrZN6Hu6dAKtuvYu7QhRmVtBcSnA42tnw/s1600/8.17+IMG_6694.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW_T_kRm-r91HLaJhjdjAQWlN9Q0EHHjhVu_6cBeB31J9o-oDZA7Bs67AoArv1y0euM0JNpgimxVdVKCFPpE9S6fq6hkZZu5mkNpjEoURq3rELrZN6Hu6dAKtuvYu7QhRmVtBcSnA42tnw/s640/8.17+IMG_6694.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I took my moms old wingback chairs from chintz floral to bold floral! {<a href="http://www.savvydesignwest.com/2011/08/how-to-reupholster-wingback-chair.html" target="_blank">see post</a>}  I loved the fabric then </div><div style="text-align: center;">{summer 2011} but now I am over it and plan on changing them again for the new house!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbuQda1xROoiQOcB_E823EooIfzX1_lboOuHDpVC2LhTq6Dp_YUArKvjTxtif6R9nRyrFsKMyvGI4bVXVwSBPA6OpMe_51wq7HxqMif1on5DGhkFHngpZBdCnIn_IiitJBEstBhTP7kOb/s1600/1.15+Dragon+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbuQda1xROoiQOcB_E823EooIfzX1_lboOuHDpVC2LhTq6Dp_YUArKvjTxtif6R9nRyrFsKMyvGI4bVXVwSBPA6OpMe_51wq7HxqMif1on5DGhkFHngpZBdCnIn_IiitJBEstBhTP7kOb/s400/1.15+Dragon+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In January of this year I splurged and added some <a href="http://www.savvydesignwest.com/2012/01/year-of-dragon-chiang-mai-dragon.html" target="_blank">Chiang Mia Dragon</a> to my space!  I am in love and plan on using the endless color pallet to create my new family.  I think this has to be my favorite of all the pillow combinations.  But I think I can tweak it a little bit more for the new space!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Be sure to join me as I take my new suburban home and make it amazing {as soon as I get the keys}!  </div><div style="text-align: center;">I will have loads of DIY's and projects to share with you all!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Thank you so much for having me!  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><img align="center" src="http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd408/lizzygal18/Living%20Savvy%20Install/signature.jpg" style="border: 0;" />

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Virginia Beach Recap

Sadly, we are back from VA beach.  We drove back Saturday afternoon, and what should have been a 3.5 hour trip ended up taking us 6 hours!  It poured down rain the entire drive home and <i>that</i> is why it took us so long to get back to northern VA.  There was even a tornado warning as we were leaving the Virginia Beach area - scary!  I've never been in a situation where a tornado has been spotted while driving. <br /><br />It was raining so hard that we had to take a diversion to the local Target just to take a break (and seek shelter - as the NWS was warning us to do.)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbXzV-lnk9ZDleeHjSXIruCKGEBx84YD8OKv6440ZzvV36vpGmtctPnfFPcXH4oMZ79aZvM8BwdExysVqUARqt4Dvwr4rXFo27AdDR5geMB1frctxKSj1sEkyjjo27sTN278d2leGws7o/s1600/Beach+Busbee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbXzV-lnk9ZDleeHjSXIruCKGEBx84YD8OKv6440ZzvV36vpGmtctPnfFPcXH4oMZ79aZvM8BwdExysVqUARqt4Dvwr4rXFo27AdDR5geMB1frctxKSj1sEkyjjo27sTN278d2leGws7o/s400/Beach+Busbee.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />The weather, unfortunately, was not ideal on this trip.  It was in the high 70s/low 80s the entire time with a strong breeze along the ocean.  I was actually covered up with my towel most of the time it was so chilly.  The surf was so rough they issued rip current warnings.  I still managed to get some sun, however, so I'll take that as a plus :).  I love trying to maintain a tan for the summer. <br /><br />On Friday morning, after Joel came back from surf fishing, we headed out to rent some beach cruisers (bicycles) to ride along the amazing boardwalk.  I have to admit, as much as I love OC, they have nothing on VA Beach's boardwalk.  VAB's is cemented with a separate, paved path running parallel to the boardwalk that is just for biking.  This way, you can bike all day long!  OC's boardwalk is wooden, splinter ridden and only allows biking at certain hours.  We biked for 45 minutes and had a great time.  Joel relived his childhood by popping wheelies and thus, popping the chain off of his bike :). <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOU-nWpxtIAhEAQMS8fRO-HEzbS0J4-RPDQ1z6d04wX9N70mD5ues274dy1p5Ru-yJP-Bj4HyrHMepjizJ5QjwdG8Ze3BxF1yVOM-x09JAYxxz3ZAyGr7U7NkTkuIM9S_XaDmlJ2uyQpU/s1600/beach+feet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOU-nWpxtIAhEAQMS8fRO-HEzbS0J4-RPDQ1z6d04wX9N70mD5ues274dy1p5Ru-yJP-Bj4HyrHMepjizJ5QjwdG8Ze3BxF1yVOM-x09JAYxxz3ZAyGr7U7NkTkuIM9S_XaDmlJ2uyQpU/s400/beach+feet.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />On Friday, we enjoyed a "homemade" lunch in our hotel room.  I had a turkey/hard salami sandwich on Sara Lee Delightfuls bread with pepperjack cheese and a swipe of pesto.  Later I snacked on Rold Gold Pretzels.  I'm very happy we packed our own lunch for the trip.  Not only did it save us money, but it saved me on Points!<br /><br /><strong><span style="color: #674ea7;">Do you have a last minute beach trip planned before summer is over?</span></strong>  <br /><br />It's hard to believe we're approaching fall.  It seems like just yesterday that we were planning our wedding to the Carribbean..... *sigh*...

Vacation Virginia Beach Virginia Beach Recap

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This week's SchoolNet webinar programme

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfAil-C1i5cXpCQZbQjTx4k2NLKaYAE_Y2MYT-IqRNft3i3k3DTqccZ7QQgqc9FXk7vQZKUUUZjeAIWN0-CUVxzRV76YCq1AlYcZcDA7NhIy2QC9NGSGPEYxbfgnoQs54b2u9MtvHVctc/s1600/webinars1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfAil-C1i5cXpCQZbQjTx4k2NLKaYAE_Y2MYT-IqRNft3i3k3DTqccZ7QQgqc9FXk7vQZKUUUZjeAIWN0-CUVxzRV76YCq1AlYcZcDA7NhIy2QC9NGSGPEYxbfgnoQs54b2u9MtvHVctc/s320/webinars1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Please consider joining Schoolnet's webinar programme this week! These webinars are short 30 minute demonstrations and you can leave any time! <br /> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">a) Fiona Beal will do the first one on Tuesday which is on creating a <i>Mybrainshar</i>k. This is <b>such</b> an exciting tool for adding voice to a PowerPoint, document or video online. <br /><br />b) In the second webinar on Thursday we are pleased to announce that Lisa Gair from The Rock Academy will tell us how she uses a lovely vocabulary tool called <i>Flashcard Stash</i> at School. Fiona Beal will be presenting on an amazing free tool called <i>Mentormob</i> where you can create a playlist on a topic consisting of videos, articles or websites. </span><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mybrainshark webinar details</span></b><br /><u>Meeting Name</u>:  Learn to use <i>Mybrainshark</i><br /><u>Summary</u>: This is an exciting tool for adding voice to a PowerPoint,<br />document or video online - presented by Fiona Beal<br /><u>When</u>:  Tuesday 08/28/2012 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM<br /><u>Length:</u> 15-20 mins<br /><u>Time Zone: </u> (GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria<br /><u>To join the meeting</u>:<br /><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/mybrainshark/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/mybrainshark/</a> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Flashcard Stash & Mentormob details</span></b><br /><u>Meeting Name</u>: Two webtools - <i>Flashcard Stash</i> and <i>Mentor Mob</i><br /><u>Summary</u>: Lisa Gair will show how she uses a lovely<br />vocabulary tool called <i>Flashcard Stash</i> at school. <br />Fiona Beal will be presenting on an amazing free tool called <i>Mentormob </i>where you can create a playlist for your class consisting of videos, <br />articles, or websites. <br /><u>Length</u>: 30 mins in total<br /><u>When</u>: Thursday 08/30/2012 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM<br /><u>To join the meeting:</u>  <br /><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/flashcardstash-mentormob">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/flashcardstash-mentormob</a><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Test your system</span></b><br />All you really need to do for an Adobe webinar is test your connection before the time <br />if you have never tuned in before, as you might need to add an add-in: <br /><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm</a><br />Then on the evening just click on the link, log in as a guest and write your name.<br />Think about joining us!</span></div>

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30 Days of webtools: #22 Use Edmodo or Obami as free interactive classroom management tools

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">What are Edmodo and Obami? </span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsFJbyFmKy38nPyAPUOan0q5imTchb2fZ6CK58AEBUEzjMsXT9gNqPe5P1nnOrjU5ggFuX9sGlwZDzOnNTOha7BbSZ4VuPuLaiBvj8MuT8po0ZF7hOzDNIFkBlp60i3QnKjPZHc58q2w/s1600/edmodo2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsFJbyFmKy38nPyAPUOan0q5imTchb2fZ6CK58AEBUEzjMsXT9gNqPe5P1nnOrjU5ggFuX9sGlwZDzOnNTOha7BbSZ4VuPuLaiBvj8MuT8po0ZF7hOzDNIFkBlp60i3QnKjPZHc58q2w/s320/edmodo2.JPG" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinbcn195zuo0GR4PuwMzBFhvmo6E64ivb0-cwng9-C6Klmhe8DsyqOvEPj5M_J6CH-O5qw4a3t0_ySC47cgD_4ww6KFJu3F6ySiJMWQDQe3Xz8DdnC2UdxnQAScscPChn9_x3i6musVRc/s1600/obami.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinbcn195zuo0GR4PuwMzBFhvmo6E64ivb0-cwng9-C6Klmhe8DsyqOvEPj5M_J6CH-O5qw4a3t0_ySC47cgD_4ww6KFJu3F6ySiJMWQDQe3Xz8DdnC2UdxnQAScscPChn9_x3i6musVRc/s320/obami.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both Edmodo and Obami are free classroom management tools that help you as a teacher make your classroom into a community. You would use either one or the other. They provide teachers and students with a secure place to post messages, discuss classroom topics, assign and grade classwork, connect and collaborate, share content and educational applications, and access homework, grades, class discussions and notifications.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Classroom uses of Edmodu and Obami</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Both have a user-friendly interface which is easy and simple for all to use<br />*There are easy-to-use wizards for creating calendars, pages and managing documents<br />*Teachers can set up and manage small groups for students projects <br />*Students can post notes, files, links, and discuss.<br />*Teachers  can post spelling, maths, research and other homework on Edmodo so that  parents can access it <br />*Students can help each other with homework tasks through using Edmodo <br />*Reading groups could use Edmodo or Obami to role play characters in the book they are reading.<br />*Students can ask questions they may feel silly about voicing in the classroom. <br />*Students can contact the teacher and send messages about homework they might forget to ask during the day. <br />*Edmodo is useful for project-based learning (see Further Reading post below). This would also be the case for Obami.<br />*You could post a document, students could download it, complete it and send it back to you, then you could grade it right online. Students could get instant feedback on graded materials.</span><br /><b><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">SchoolNet webinar on Edmodo and Obami</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the recording for the the webinar that took place on Tuesday August 14th at 6pm. Lisa Gair from The Rock Academy spoke about how she uses Edmodo in her classroom, and Siobhan Louw from Somerset House spoke on how she uses Obami in her classroom. NO: There might be  slight gap in Siobhan’s recording as my internet dropped and I had to log in again. Apologies for that.  Here is the link:<br /><a href="http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p78kokkty1y/">http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/p78kokkty1y/</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Slideshare on Edmodo</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lisa Gair has kindly allowed me to share the PowerPoint she used with you.</span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14008475" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="427"> </iframe> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11/introduce-your-class-to-edmodo" target="_blank" title="Introduce your class to Edmodo">Introduce your class to Edmodo</a> </b>from <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Schoolnetsa11" target="_blank">Schoolnet SA </a></b></div><b><br /></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Further reading</span></b><br /><a href="http://blog.edmodo.com/2011/05/27/pbl-edmodo-awesome/">http://blog.edmodo.com/2011/05/27/pbl-edmodo-awesome/</a><br /><a href="http://edmodoteacherhub.wikispaces.com/Teaching+Strategies">http://edmodoteacherhub.wikispaces.com/Teaching+Strategies</a> </div>

30 days of web tools Edmodo Obami Tutorials Web tools 30 Days of webtools: #22 Use Edmodo or Obami as free interactive classroom management tools

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A wonderful Adobe Youth Voices media opportunity for South African teachers!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTEESemn04G0BjdJiE5BUTsMq6oyi1dQFn_IBiMNEZXbClwM9SshtgiVth1TEDSdp_sbmbqaP5Y5tpjl56AJpv0I5a8GH3V2cSJVVb_YYzCG6hd5k74F-j4ohm3d5qmr6mwzeZPjtfojA/s1600-h/image%25255B6%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZxbuy7dViWfHvpDI0XJYeOUvI0aYUAa-1f_gDX4JY25vVFO_IMzs7z0mgZMyecQHRLZRh1v_q4uo2E07QMXycLRl1P5ZTpB9CcDCMQBiPpOXoG-GJ3c261jDu2tqy6XiOy4bdZMDl0l8/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></span></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; font-size: large;"><br />What is the Adobe Youth Voices project?  </span></b><br />Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) engages talented educators of middle- and high-school-age youth in a year-long professional development and support program. Educators enhance their teaching strategies, gain new skills, and collaborate with like-minded educators and youth media experts to enable young people to express themselves using digital tools and to create media with a personally meaningful purpose. Educators from participating sites join a global network and exhibit and share youth-created media projects, including videos, documentaries, photojournalism, animations, websites, and multimedia. iEARN joined the Adobe Youth Voices program as a founding partner in 2006, and now manages and supports the program in over 16 countries around the world. SchoolNet South Africa coordinates this programme and has received sponsorships for twelve teachers to participate in the 2012- 2013 year. SchoolNet has written two posts about Adobe Youth Voices participants visiting different countries in 2011:<br /><br />1) <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-abour-getting-involved-in.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">What about getting involved in SchoolNet’s Adobe Youth Voices programme </span></a></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/AVvXsEh_cV0SjWwrS0prd7M6hti6kcLL4_Nqr6G51sn9jhV8kLByMU2xJNLSWaf-VsgkWCaGJIII35jwDV6aLUzHQGhESU3LaAVsLJkOK00qFgf3vONlC3kyi3U7WB4Niz25RQgn3abXKbNLjEY/s1600/Hlengiwe.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_cV0SjWwrS0prd7M6hti6kcLL4_Nqr6G51sn9jhV8kLByMU2xJNLSWaf-VsgkWCaGJIII35jwDV6aLUzHQGhESU3LaAVsLJkOK00qFgf3vONlC3kyi3U7WB4Niz25RQgn3abXKbNLjEY/s320/Hlengiwe.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hlengiwe Mfeka visits California with her movie project on Street Children</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">2) <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2011/08/schoolnets-adobe-youth-voices-programme.html" target="_blank">SchoolNet’sAdobe Youth Voices programme sends a team to California</a></span></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/AVvXsEiZvxNXijj7S0CltQ892BMYSIkFT2KKXjsSg6qPRyhnHBow_SZHeo6Cw3z0gqWasedpygnPD-LKW08DetcUZ1ajzzv30fwhcCmMN1Aa6sz_bH1qg_O7uvp5Jh-O8GykCL7t2WTzMcxXiLs/s1600/Warren.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZvxNXijj7S0CltQ892BMYSIkFT2KKXjsSg6qPRyhnHBow_SZHeo6Cw3z0gqWasedpygnPD-LKW08DetcUZ1ajzzv30fwhcCmMN1Aa6sz_bH1qg_O7uvp5Jh-O8GykCL7t2WTzMcxXiLs/s320/Warren.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The SchoolNet team visit Taiwan with Warren Sparrow's 'Super Veggie-Man' movie project</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">View more of these media projects on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/schoolnetsa?feature=results_main" target="_blank">Schoolnet's YouTube 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Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Benefits:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <br />Up to 30 Adobe software licenses for installation at the site Recognition and opportunities to exhibit the site’s AYV youth projects to regional and global audiences<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> </b></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Educator Selection Criteria:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Experience in facilitating or an interest in learning new strategies for project-based learning Strong belief in student-centered community and social change projects Passionate about sharing youth perspectives and voices Committed to engaging youth in rigorous investigation of topics of their own choosing that are relevant and meaningful to their lives Motivated and available to participate in AYV,without any insurmountable barriers to success </span><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Educator Responsibilities: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Participate in an 8-week online course Develop an AYV program plan for the year, which will be drafted collaboratively during the training Launch their program plan and guide at least 25 youth over the course of the year in the creation of youth media using the digital tools provided. The youth media needs to be planned and designed to ensure youth voice is being heard. Youth should be guided to choose issues that could effect positive change in the immediate community and design a project that highlights the social issue and perhaps provide solutions as well.Complete periodic reports describing progress, sharing best practices, and evaluating the benefit of AYV for youth Participate in the AYV online community, sharing stories and program progress Work with Ms Omashani Naidoo (SchoolNet) to launch exhibition events during the program year Contribute youth media work (accompanied by required model releases and licensing agreement paperwork) to the AYV collection by end May, 2013 to be exhibited locally, online, and globally</span><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />What to do now:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />If you are interested in this programme, please write to </span><a href="mailto:omashani@schoolnet.org.za" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">omashani@schoolnet.org.za</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> or contact our office 011 4035777 for more information or to receive an application form. Please note that teachers’ can participate in either of two sessions.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Adobe Youth Voices Online Course Session One:September 24 - Nov 19, 2012<br />Adobe Youth Voices Online Course Session Two: February 18 - April 15, 2013</span></b><br /><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />Please note that all student media work will need to be submitted by end of May 2013 to be considered for the International Youth Festival.</span></i></div>

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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmVTcaKLJq2ZAv9BZM3ueWl_oebZJG5knIg2UKI4pk_wezKMWxQty1IFieRQwGTXFH-9eLkUL1JtLVopNBLQ3fN8aQhctqQqsjnrEGulAwJLX4HPPBvWvv2fZ-E8Q3UizB5VgLhXEgx7UN/s400/wind_turbines_golan_heights_photo1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Windmills on the Golan Hights</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN, EXCEPT FOR ENERGY ISSUES</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By John Daly</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">CHINA and ISRAEL are the most pragmatic of partners. For CHINA, ISRAEL’S prime attraction is as a source of cutting-edge high technology, for ISRAEL, its gaining a foothold in the world’s largest market.<br /><br />CHINA’S interest in ISRAEL’S technology combined with CHINA’S go it alone attitudes on energy issues represent a mixed blessing for Tel Aviv.<br /><br />On the plus side for ISRAEL, a CHINESE bank is in talks to <a href="http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000756344&fid=1725">finance the construction</a> of a $25 million, 14-megawatt wind farm for <b>Yarok Energy Ltd</b> on the <b>Golan Heights</b>, where the company has operated a 4.8-megawatt wind turbine farm for the past two decades.<br /><br />CHINA’S determination to invest in contested <b>Golan territories</b> comes despite that fact that the United Nations on 12 January passed a “Resolution adopted by the General Assembly (on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee [Fourth Committee] [A/66/427] ‘66/80. The occupied <b>SYRIAN Golan’</b>” which noted, “Deeply concerned (italics in original) that the <b>SYRIAN Golan</b>, occupied since 1967, has been under continued ISRAELI military occupation,” …” 2. Also calls upon (italics in original) ISRAEL to desist from changing the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure and legal status of the occupied SYRIAN <b>Golan</b> and in particular to desist from the establishment of settlements…”.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgot37xK64WgTkB4YLtK40-r_ul3uCC7iZdLmHuRQTxXAYwh7UouF8jdmKqeUWEfLhKBEenekbzxuGH0FXfLuzIYN1RvdfrtVlavepkr7QKVKovW_qIOAZNH9cg2pfk2jlvJSX5nKcV0x2I/s1600/tributaries.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgot37xK64WgTkB4YLtK40-r_ul3uCC7iZdLmHuRQTxXAYwh7UouF8jdmKqeUWEfLhKBEenekbzxuGH0FXfLuzIYN1RvdfrtVlavepkr7QKVKovW_qIOAZNH9cg2pfk2jlvJSX5nKcV0x2I/s320/tributaries.png" width="214" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background Information</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">: See: <b style="color: blue;">GOLAN HIGHTS</b><span style="color: blue;"> - </span></span><b style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">REGIME CHANGE IN SYRIA, FULL SCORE FOR ISRAEL? </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/strait-of-hormuz-and-syria.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/strait-of-hormuz-and-syria.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Extracts from above article</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">: …..”<i>For ISRAEL keeping the GOLAN HIGHTS on the other hand had been always a priority, not so much for strategic advantages or prestige, but for its freshwater supply, a key issue which is hardly addressed in mainstream media</i>”…..</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">See also:<b> <span style="color: blue;">DRAGON OF THE NEGEV, Israeli - Chinese railroad project </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/china-and-israel-enter-dragon.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/china-and-israel-enter-dragon.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">MILITARY COOPERATION BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS IS DEEPENING</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_2wuxX0fyiQ-htmnMEoTtU0tMT1jpaEWiiBx7eiZU7sAI92IB1vfEsyICx3FjMSMWtYycpmgOL5Bvag0fEhJ8Quuuqqwcrcz2gjr_QkSsSPORBdfhUlEc5C9grzhDxrR062a1CBgu180T/s1600/China-Israel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_2wuxX0fyiQ-htmnMEoTtU0tMT1jpaEWiiBx7eiZU7sAI92IB1vfEsyICx3FjMSMWtYycpmgOL5Bvag0fEhJ8Quuuqqwcrcz2gjr_QkSsSPORBdfhUlEc5C9grzhDxrR062a1CBgu180T/s200/China-Israel.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For ISRAEL, CHINA’S occasionally pusillanimous attitudes towards both the UN and the world community are not an overwhelming source of distress – if CHINESE capital wants to fund a power project on the Golan Heights despite “changing the physical character” of the region  amidst a slowly roiling SYRIAN civil war, who are the UN to criticize such actions?<br /><br />And military cooperation between the two nations is deepening – according to Xinhau, during a 21 May meeting in Beijing CHINA and ISRAEL pledged to boost ties between their armed forces as their chiefs of staff held talks. CHINA'S People's Liberation Army General Staff chief Chen Bingde told ISRAEL Defense Forces chief of staff Benny Gantz after lauding political, economic, cultural and people-to-people ties over the past  two decades since the establishment of diplomatic relations between CHINA and ISRAEL, "Military-to-military ties between the two nations have also grown along with the overall bilateral relationship." Underlining the importance of his visit, Gantz also met with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping.<br /><br />The bilateral military discussions build upon when ISRAELI officials hosted PLA Navy commander Wu Shengli, and a month later, when ISRAELI Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited CHINA. Chen reciprocated with a visit to ISRAEL two months later, while ISRAEL'S paramilitary Border Police unit hosted a delegation from the People's Republic of China’s People’s Armed Police (PAP). <br /><br /><b style="color: red;">TOP OF CHINA’S MILITARY WISH FROM ISRAEL’S DEFENCE ESTABLISHMENT?</b><br /><br />Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, along with <a href="http://www.israeltrade.org.cn/">advanced technology</a> from fields ranging from agriculture to automobiles.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Xn1py74_pNTY-WJd1A9O6mJ-TqN5dCY68OYJT1BJv8nNUl9hOPwIWMVpS_D-Ft0Z_1D7yKMhwyKmOWYym-ZUX7g03HK3Y8qLM7LEHIGCXP7I6LghjHX5XndhyrgTs5T77WHsR-bgBSeD/s1600/Israel_Elbit+Systems_+Hermes+450_UAV.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Xn1py74_pNTY-WJd1A9O6mJ-TqN5dCY68OYJT1BJv8nNUl9hOPwIWMVpS_D-Ft0Z_1D7yKMhwyKmOWYym-ZUX7g03HK3Y8qLM7LEHIGCXP7I6LghjHX5XndhyrgTs5T77WHsR-bgBSeD/s320/Israel_Elbit+Systems_+Hermes+450_UAV.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="BTX">Israel Aerospace Industries Hermes 450</span></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But, as far as CHINA’S interest in ISRAELI military high-tech, University of Haifa the Department of Asian Studies Professor Yoram Evron <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-04/04/c_13812028.htm">noted</a>that ISRAEL is very "strict" in its defence exports to CHINA as so much of it is derived from the U.S.  and consequently ISRAEL "will not dare to jeopardize its relations with the U.S., on which it depends so heavily."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">See:  <a href="http://www.asian-defence.net/2011/02/elbit-unveils-new-generational-uav.html">http://www.asian-defence.net/2011/02/elbit-unveils-new-generational-uav.html</a></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For ISRAEL?<br /><br />Political support, and access to China’s immense market.<br /><br />CHINA is now ISRAEL'S third-largest trade partner, after the EUROPEAN UNION and UNITED STATES. In 2011 ISRAELI-CHINESE bilateral trade exceeded $8 billion, roughly 20 percent higher than in 2010. <br /><br />What could cloud this otherwise sunny picture?<br /><br />IRAN.<br /><br />CHINA relies on IRAN for roughly 10 percent of its oil supply and has repeatedly rejected intensifying UN sanctions against IRAN for its nuclear activities, an effort led by the U.S. and ISRAEL, which suspect that Iran’s nuclear energy program in facts mask a secret military effort to acquire nuclear weapons.<br /><br />According to IRAN’S Ambassador to Beijing Mehdi Safari, in 2011 CHINESE-IRANIAN<a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9010172485"> trade increased</a>55 percent to more than $45 billion a $16 billion increase over 2010 trade. Notably, CHINA boosted its oil imports from IRAN by 30 percent in 2011 despite Western and UN sanctions pressure, importing nearly 557,000 barrels per day (bpd) of IRANIAN oil. Furthermore, Safari late last year <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/201218.html">observed</a>, “The real expectation that the volume of trade (between IRAN and CHINA) has the capacity to reach $100 billion is on our agenda.”<br /><br />So, $5 billion versus $8 billion annual trade?<br /><br />Oil now, or drones later?<br /><br />Beijing’s not saying.<br /><br />Neither is Tel Aviv.<br /><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Via Oilprice</span></span></div>

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