Alfred Thompson: How we can teach computer science to every age @alfredtwo

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQD7ZBon3GwfXbmu8UiNlq9x6AAMr5bpu7RjjnyRCECFevPO9O8T8-gAGZO4MjnOuub6-jWzsxWLGVM0PlmA8khyphenhyphenJJ1i4P6ox8C7lOkH5DsdAiHpwcjyucojixDQQSZRB6Lw8AdfPAFU7R/s182/Photo%252520Jun%2525204%25252C%2525202013%25252C%2525208%25253A02%252520AM.jpg" target="_blank" style=""><img alt="" class="alignnone" height="178" id="blogsy-1370347673639.049" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQD7ZBon3GwfXbmu8UiNlq9x6AAMr5bpu7RjjnyRCECFevPO9O8T8-gAGZO4MjnOuub6-jWzsxWLGVM0PlmA8khyphenhyphenJJ1i4P6ox8C7lOkH5DsdAiHpwcjyucojixDQQSZRB6Lw8AdfPAFU7R/s182/Photo%252520Jun%2525204%25252C%2525202013%25252C%2525208%25253A02%252520AM.jpg" width="182"></a></div> <p> Alfred Thompson (@<a href="http://twitter.com/alfredtwo" target="_self" title="">alfredtwo</a>) "Mr. Computer Science" spent some time talking with me and the listeners of Every Classroom matters about how we should be teaching computer science at all levels. It can be simple. Students should know how to cause the computer to do things starting at a very young age. In 10 short minutes, you can learn all about this topic and how you can put some concepts in your classroom. Are you teaching students about advanced searching? Start there.</p> <p>Alfred serves on the Computer Science Teachers of America board. He's my go-to guy for questions about how to teach Computer Science. I've been a faithful reader of his blog since the first month I started blogging in December 2005. Alfred, though, isn't just a PLN resource, he's my friend. He's a good man and a great servant leader to the cause of Computer science and STEM education and is a wealth of knowledge. Take a listen, follow Alfred on Twitter, and understand how Computer Science Matters in your school.</p> <p>Blog: <a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="http://blog.acthompson.net/">http://blog.acthompson.net</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Twitter: <a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="http://twitter.com/alfredtwo">http://twitter.com/alfredtwo</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Home Page: <a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="http://www.acthompson.net/">http://www.acthompson.net</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1077:teaching-teachers-with-technology&catid=91:every-classroom-matters&Itemid=259" target="_self" title="">Listen to the show </a></p> <h1>Essential questions:</h1> <ul> <li>What should elementary age students to be able to do? <em>(curriculum directors listen up)</em></li> <li>What are your favorite simple introduction to programming tools for kids in elementary? (<em>elementary teachers)</em></li> <li>What do students not understand about searching and search engines? </li> <li>Can every child learn to program?</li> <li>If a high school puts in AP Computer Science or Computer Science what programming languages are being used today?</li> <li>How can use use practical examples to teach programming?</li> <li>What is the Raspberry Pi and how can it be used in the classroom?</li> <li>What are some examples of what you can do with the Raspberry Pi?</li> <li>What is the computer science teacher's association? What does it do?</li></ul> <h1>Show Links:</h1> <h3>Elementary Apps & Teaching Tools</h3> <p>Scratch from MIT: <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://scratch.mit.edu/" target="_self" title="">http://scratch.mit.edu/</a></span></p> <p>Alice from Carnegie Mellon: <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://www.alice.org/" target="_self" title="">http://www.alice.org/</a></span></p> <p>Kodu - Microsoft - make simple games: <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/" target="_self" title="">http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/</a></span></p> <h3>Advanced Searching</h3> <p>Why search engines can't replace teachers: <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/05/why-search-engines-cant-replace.html" target="_self" title="">http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/05/why-search-engines-cant-replace.html</a></span></p> <p>Advanced Google search: <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://www.google.ca/advanced_search" target="_self" title="">http://www.google.ca/advanced_search</a></span></p> <p>Advanced Bing search: <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/ff808438.aspx" target="_self" title="">http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/ff808438.aspx</a></span></p> <h3>High School Computer Science</h3> <p>Small Basic: <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://smallbasic.com/" target="_self" title="">http://smallbasic.com/</a></span></p> <p>Python: <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://www.python.org/" target="_self" title="">http://www.python.org/</a></span></p> <p>Java: <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://www.java.com/en/about/" target="_self" title="">http://www.java.com/en/about/</a></span></p> <h3>The Super Cool, Super Cheap Raspberry Pi</h3> <p>Alfred's Blog Post about the Raspberry Pi: <a href="http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/04/new-toyraspberry-pi.html">http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/04/new-toyraspberry-pi.html</a></p> <p>See official Raspberry Pi Website for projects: <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=15" target="_self" title="">http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=15</a></p> <p><em>Note since I recorded the show. Some people are making game consoles from the 80's with these and hooking them up to their TV's. i.e. Atari anyone? This is so cool, I gave you some bonus links below!</em></p> <p>Lifehacker - How to make a retro gaming console for $35: <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://lifehacker.com/how-to-turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-retro-game-console-498561192" target="_self" title="">http://lifehacker.com/how-to-turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-retro-game-console-498561192</a> (Great Maker project for this summer!)</span></p> <p>Other cool articles about how people are using raspberry pi in many ways: <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/raspberry-pi" target="_self" title="">http://lifehacker.com/tag/raspberry-pi</a></span></p> <h3>CSTA Information</h3> <p><em>I teach Introduction to Computer Science. I do not teach AP Computer science or extensive programming. If you teach any computer science concepts, I highly recommend you should join. Last time I checked, dues are covered by a grant if you're an educator. The newsletter is great and I learn so much about STEM every time I read it. Every school should have one member of CSTA on staff - it is that important. (I also think every school should have at least one ISTE (<a href="http://www.iste.org" target="_self" title="">www.iste.org</a>) member on staff - it is another vital STEM organization that shares best practices. These organizations have become hubs of learning and networking.)</em></p> <p>Computer Science Teacher's Association: <a href="http://csta.acm.org/" target="_self" title="">http://csta.acm.org/</a></p> <p>Computer Science Education Week (December 8-14, 2013): <a href="http://www.csedweek.org/" target="_self" title="">http://www.csedweek.org/</a></p> <p><em>(Add this to your school calendar now. What a great time to plan some activities. How about Raspberry Pi for Christmas? You could have a Raspberry Pi making contest!! This is a perfect time to celebrate computer science just before Christmas because you can do so many fun things. Make fun games on Kodu, etc.)</em></p> <h3> About the Every Classroom Matters show on BAM Radio Network</h3> <p> </p> <p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To find out more about this podcast go to <a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/p/every-classroom-matters.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; ">my Podcast page</a>.</span><br></p> <p> </p><div style="text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both;" id="blogsy_footer"><a href="http://blogsyapp.com" target="_blank"><img alt="Written by Vicki Davis, author - Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds - Posted with Blogsy from my iPad" height="20" src="http://blogsyapp.com/images/blogsy_footer_icon.png" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px;" width="20" />Written by Vicki Davis, author - Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds - Posted with Blogsy from my iPad</a></div>

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Google #23: New additions to Google Hangouts– including an icon to take snapshots of the group!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="84" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnH0nQVY1SuATmCRnzBRAgNJ-iNFnG6P2qeHf6R0eCP6Hb8ocs-5WowPWp_NC7vzIRawZ8sx5A1axY9xVQsrsoqjovf8pnsX1Hnp0fq7-jPy2K30jejBkvH0sxM5dn_NQgnWd_mwt3BNE/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the Google features I absolutely love is Google Hangouts. They have incredible potential for the teacher in the classroom, for professional development purposes and for older students to use for collaboration. Google, of course, is always improving its projects and you never know when something is about to improve before your eyes, and this has proved true of Hangouts! Here are three new features that I have noticed.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. 'Hangouts chat' now get an extension on the Chrome toolbar</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chrome is such a versatile browser to use. My browser bar is populated with extensions which enable a quick and seamless browser experience which puts everything at your fingertips. You just click on the required extension on your browser bar and “it happens”.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxIor24SwrdPd1fHb1YkN97Yl3QT3KzpTousXdnoDz2lUHU7k38KEcW77BHmlNllSh0VHHZ105PSL7FQ6QGJgn3KzdwqKhxBnujJStL16XJNUz9AJrJPqFDRbbPyfLzEgyO2AkTCIILXE/s1600-h/image%25255B11%25255D.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="83" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9QOn3zmw_5FYFcQLw3aMmn_3TnYOdm16kHOrDlrv-jchcqiQKg-G8zCZKyOikqYHnyfm1TBQz30ruLdgXLOe0urivHpCH3SQuNpgEeV0SUxi_Kct_PX_tdga2BkjVFwXDUnvw_VEWlyg/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="108" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Google has recently created an </span><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hangouts/nckgahadagoaajjgafhacjanaoiihapd" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">extension for Hangouts</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> called ‘Hangout chats’ and I have just added it to my toolbar. With this app, you just click on it and it opens a screen in the bottom right hand corner of your browser page for chatting to whoever is a member of your Google+ community. This reminds me of the Skype chat feature which I often felt was sadly missing with hangouts.</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. A new video launcher app for Hangouts</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another new feature is a video launcher app for hangouts. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This can be added to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the Chrome</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoSEEa9hoGvXRoVZejvqHnXFLAiJiTbasrkKMvsVlBst5MhHq54G1fugNx_ETRplMP9fgR2RUmYKoSJMebPrGw0955h_f-Ak9Jyz4BCs8ymDRuV4HmNmxBK5FEiyS1Iy3CWpsh4USI_BI/s1600-h/image%25255B15%25255D.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="83" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZBBei95H8iw7e_cJhYOSkuMgj7W1aeFRNNRY-rrvMOByXMFHu24ZF0tWFMvURfMD76eFrmygJVeofcfSHrOCvay-LOjasISwfJfjeLqAyyxP_pw65g31t29PtxEMx2swIjQGulcGv10g/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="103" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">apps section of your browser on any device and it enables you to launch a hangout from there. What could be simpler! You can see mine on the second row from the bottom in the screenshot below.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhipie_sz1tmzQYq8wD71InBYCCP3GX-BmrPoeuGEnYg9m-ESbvc9jpUQQA3gcypPAkjTL3YQMDtcopSikgb0jUgnA_FvLiRz4TLt7UpZAcLMxYdzuejmVYanpZLQ5ynfZ3hbzm_viYvis/s1600-h/image%25255B20%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvZg4efjkClb_leIfHIdwEyN6Na9W7oOqLD3trlpgRzPRRLJknIDYWDfceSQZklHOHUX2cQeSFk64qOThEY_yG7oW7wqS_Q0l6sLINjAg_6lXwVP4_Q8eUx4Ww3ChzrojyAehTBqmFMgU/?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><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. Take snapshots while you are talking</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One can have a lot of fun while participating in a Hangout, and the newest addition for this is the addition of the camera icon with the word ‘Capture’ on the left side.  I experienced a reunion hangout with buddies from the New York Google Teacher Academy 2012 on Sunday evening and this was a good opportunity to try this out. (This regular reunion is a fun time of catching up with news and views, and various teachers slip in and out of the Hangout as their time permits.) On the side bar below you can see the word ‘Capture’. Whenever anyone clicks on it it takes a photo of whoever is in focus but the awesome is that it lets everyone know so that there is no secrecy about it. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below you can see <a href="http://www.edtechwithgo.com/">JR Ginex-Orinion</a>, a Science High School teacher from New York, with his cute little daughter, Katie. He was preparing for her birthday party so we were singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to her; and you can see that some of us captured snapshots. The camera icon at the side tells how many snapshots have been snapped and the little camera then settles on the thumbnail photo below the main picture showing who took the photo. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiij0jJBGeof_ViOMi-PzzZU5tdDCs5pKZQ4sqhEbDrk6F7hOQ29eLwydlj1oaDdMUAjZlLugEdOpKWy1Dnwv9qJyMljCFrXG9drkNPdkDuwJj61zng-RdZNoIs2yfH2yUC5o5Vg9U4-Ds/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="405" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the photos taken by anyone on the Hangout appear on one’s Google+ events stream afterwards and I particularly liked this one captured by <a href="http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/">Linda Yollis</a> from Los Angeles. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUn0ZyM7jwNuuZqTa9unSA5WL6-fGlA4ZexaZ1Oz-kLedLDl_pDTPRnQoNSHoVqPxxkr7SyjcKGitdIyzfmCf9eHS44nH-jzmpl6wF0sQ7E6sOvc05FjcybApMDLSx55hG8ZTu11lYeWI/s1600-h/JR%25255B3%25255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="JR" border="0" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZXYCzIgtBxqZjR08HeCAgLac2IkfJ-tVvMkWzjjxshWAXmFmU5oNNyHzTJqMUzqMfR4GUuTsB2ibMechrLqo4EiaqVrHJdyIqoe62-Fc4BlBVry7Qm6zjGRtpkBxZOrD8-DWdPqy0yA/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="JR" width="411" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you haven’t tried Google Hangouts before you really are missing out!  They are free with your Google account. Try them!</span></div>

google Google #23: New additions to Google Hangouts– including an icon to take snapshots of the group!

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Creative Writing #12: An African Storybook Project report back from Princess Primary School in Roodepoort

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you so much to those who are sending in their stories about how their writing is going for the African Storybook Project. This is a fantastic project for Grades 1-3 children in Africa where the plan is to create an awesome website of stories that teachers and their classes around Africa can use. The blog post that gives more information about this project is: </span><a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2013/05/theres-still-time-to-submit-story.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">There’s still time to submit a story suitable for a Grade 3 reader for the African Storybook project. Join us!</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The story in this post comes from Princess Primary School in Roodepoort where Eden Daniels teachers Grade 7. Listen to what she has to say:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I am Eden Daniels,the Grade 7 English teacher at Princess Primary School in Roodepoort.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></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;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH7JNPzmiFqTgBoIVoUeOO3_oGyhEGhGCKv50vN_63V5r5h5memi_GbBtSdKgebnmUd0mp30saEEXq5LgeWlr9oc6MbhQJl2xoP96vtLNEWkwM9S_rg-ZMbpMiMAjl3f6X1Wp4i5oXBZ0j/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="291" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eden Daniels from Princess Primary School in Roodepoort</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I first read of this amazing project I thought of incorporating  it into my Creative Writing Assignment for Term 3.The learners first wrote their stories in their Classwork books then transferred it to the computers in the computer centre.I had never seen kids so excited about a project before.They actually begged to remain in the computer centre  during breaks and after school.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6T9I0LqMQe0JO8j2xJFhbT1sxYNAbaLs6Qae8Yya8Hwmgnz4iQNibAvGZG3IJXWMNpBMCXNK8BznoeWrFoft4BaSW9_Xx4ufB4z6D43935tUcmSsDo80ls6f8iqNXJCgv6Dm2QZKq589u/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We don't have an ICT  teacher at our school any more so I don't have help at school. The 4 week course really helped.The free image websites really assisted the kids. I downloaded many pictures according to the children's requests as most of them are underprivileged and do not have computers at home.These pictures were then copied onto the computers for them to pick and choose from.Some of them brought their own pictures and others submitted drawings.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1VwupU3PszJ1K_G8vBJZZfujwGcAuUPYBdfrk3En5dddJL8ra_Ui6GhVeBt2SiccMk59mn8qFk2xv6RFT324e3D7zEWvNpKvUddfhOvRmo70GFZ2-qNsPQIgw_DWvUinCGiCEBGj77E3b/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you so much for this wonderful report back Eden. I am thrilled to hear how the class enjoyed writing. </span></div>

African Storybook Project Creative Writing #12: An African Storybook Project report back from Princess Primary School in Roodepoort

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><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/AVvXsEgjZ1I-pU5cS2vcTTqr9F7OcXuKidnsnfruhxG5RsB-ojyWxaI7OqAaOcl-g704jKOiKCNOcwz1G-sTIQMwu7FAPSu1R21oXRhEyedeKfPOaNdP6NwrMctUW3mkLe9wbni9jsGfXipnAl4/s1600/8inch+tablet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjZ1I-pU5cS2vcTTqr9F7OcXuKidnsnfruhxG5RsB-ojyWxaI7OqAaOcl-g704jKOiKCNOcwz1G-sTIQMwu7FAPSu1R21oXRhEyedeKfPOaNdP6NwrMctUW3mkLe9wbni9jsGfXipnAl4/s320/8inch+tablet.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Acer launced a new featured 8.1 inch tablet with windows due to its features and apps we can say  it is father of Laptop.<br />Which is run with windows 8 operating system.<br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">Acer</span>'s <span class="hps">tablet</span> <span class="hps">computex</span> <span class="hps">2013 </span><span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">launched</span>.  In this </span><br /><span style="color: lime;"><b><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"> <span class="hps">Acer</span> <span class="hps"></span><span class="hps"></span><span class="hps">Iconia W3</span></span></b></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"> model there</span><span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">1.8</span> <span class="hps">GHz</span> <span class="hps">Intel</span> <span class="hps">Atom</span> <span class="hps">Z2760</span> <span class="hps">processor</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">with dual</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">core chip</span> <span class="hps">is plugged.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">The main feature of Acer Iconiya W3 is its picture resolution in range of 1280*800 dpi.In it the backlist displat technology is used and here the front and rear both cameras are 2 mp</span></span><br /><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/AVvXsEjipOL1Zus_th-jYS9zIRJ4d1UrReaSFY7lQDpnvYuSnuml7LAlW2I05BqM_ClF6lur-LSUISVorF4MRbDFGmbvbkvHoI4JjA0NgDsUaoVSWaxDyqA41JhLWAvtkvQy5x_c_R_BagGWBz0/s1600/acer+8+inch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipOL1Zus_th-jYS9zIRJ4d1UrReaSFY7lQDpnvYuSnuml7LAlW2I05BqM_ClF6lur-LSUISVorF4MRbDFGmbvbkvHoI4JjA0NgDsUaoVSWaxDyqA41JhLWAvtkvQy5x_c_R_BagGWBz0/s320/acer+8+inch.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div>Published by <br /><a href="https://plus.google.com/102418621855646948908" rel="author">Narendra Kumar</a>

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Creative Writing #11:An African Storybook project report back from Karin Horne

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am always so thrilled when teachers send in some information about their writing for the African Storybook Project. I would like to thank Karin Horne, the Deputy Principal from Crawford Preparatory in Pretoria for sending in this picture and information. Karin says, “</span><em style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a picture of me down loading photographs from my camera and phone, to use in my story</em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.”</span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></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;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6iv2lyP1uPNDNWAnXTlgGBpV_w62D9oL4YC9z2MRhXAk9G0vVpEuBxhY7bLSKC_bmgTfRuG9FXlk5y8oPJ5eobVVhxNhfaQH7oeYXYPJe2-u23b_hP_2UwU-1-6vKRu73kNMe_x-VfDpJ/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="330" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Karin Horne from Crawford Preparatory School in Pretoria</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karin has also sent in the delightful story she wrote called ‘<em>The sheep who wanted to knit</em>.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhto8P6fumb2dUF6tx7SB2JsPRCV8F4vTSCu0sZpT1KRna877q8F2sC_0ScACe2S-Gu3sl79jDKAR1MZlC8wxLESz4K2Xq7O4y2LhynWJbd3dNAn5kvRS5alNHsTsviDqWnwmlsZEwZuiRy/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="339" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you so much for sending in all of this to us, Karin. Perhaps you'll write another lovely story as well?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>An opportunity for you the reader</b></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are reading this and you feel you would like to write a story for the African Storybook Project yourself or with your class before the 21st June, Please could I invite you to do so. The following blogpost has the details...</span><a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2013/05/theres-still-time-to-submit-story.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There’s still time to submit a story suitable for a Grade 3 reader for the African Storybook project. Join us!</span></a></div></div></div>

African Storybook Project Creative Writing #11:An African Storybook project report back from Karin Horne

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If you want to buy smart phone in less price then try these

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The mobile phone technology growing and changing very fast speed in the world.There the new phone, Tablet,cell phone are launching day by day. So every day, THE COMPANIES BRING NEW PHONES AND PHONE APPLICATIONS TO MAKE THEM INTERACTIVE in qualities in there products range. So there become big changes and choice in mobile phone buying in less cost and more applications.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCV6zUIN9DefIJSmPPMNiKbHGQqA7FD17FkpYbTUqRZy0mSBlQJtOI8BkDOv7UexPs97IWmZo_rkpqno7jVazuBgeod1vO7piloESlRBIBw-IFuGF8q5wjRDeXytvoyWz27L_xEXbHg_c/s1600/sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCV6zUIN9DefIJSmPPMNiKbHGQqA7FD17FkpYbTUqRZy0mSBlQJtOI8BkDOv7UexPs97IWmZo_rkpqno7jVazuBgeod1vO7piloESlRBIBw-IFuGF8q5wjRDeXytvoyWz27L_xEXbHg_c/s320/sm.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />If you want smart phone in less price about in less then 7000 rupees with fantastic and cool apps.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY6dd6uxzrmm7eBEIi2eORYv-4cpULIq9hrYcTw9Z6O4jQjTGrk5CXPgOsQcl2E7tpomNne9RzWJajFOFyqMwHTInqbB9f3WGMLBkObTpnpYVVAflXc9XN3CaUqbo4spPwWM8DQJRKoGg/s1600/sm2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY6dd6uxzrmm7eBEIi2eORYv-4cpULIq9hrYcTw9Z6O4jQjTGrk5CXPgOsQcl2E7tpomNne9RzWJajFOFyqMwHTInqbB9f3WGMLBkObTpnpYVVAflXc9XN3CaUqbo4spPwWM8DQJRKoGg/s320/sm2.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;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT2cFHbboxXnpNCC_URi2S64eOmxjOxVl7wNc-HC2dCP9JhUvI0M7WIY4KkIFn_bBg72MFFlWtc9ymJCXZqMF__vOWOw_5fME4-48wrUeg7ydNzDp0oPT-eq8XRRzJ1ZPZyD3xLm_chCE/s1600/sm3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT2cFHbboxXnpNCC_URi2S64eOmxjOxVl7wNc-HC2dCP9JhUvI0M7WIY4KkIFn_bBg72MFFlWtc9ymJCXZqMF__vOWOw_5fME4-48wrUeg7ydNzDp0oPT-eq8XRRzJ1ZPZyD3xLm_chCE/s320/sm3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h1 class="fs160 lh35" style="background-color: white; font-family: Bhaskar_Web_Head_Test_exp, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 25.454544067382813px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></h1></div>Published by <br /><a href="https://plus.google.com/102418621855646948908" rel="author">Narendra Kumar</a>

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Comedy Tips From Dennis Miller, Asshole

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFhfl4EGbyZrhHBGWWQyWlC7I7-sv4Sh9W2Rrzql_8x8tYp4H7PU4quUKquOS4h-MiG-G6x0q2jOLUAnEglEE5NzDfBhAlBr_WdaLjFceOf2Xb_YbNJFaIVzK5UMuA1U89cpU_2tdNvc8/s1600/Dennis+Miller+O'Reilly+Fox+News+Asshole.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFhfl4EGbyZrhHBGWWQyWlC7I7-sv4Sh9W2Rrzql_8x8tYp4H7PU4quUKquOS4h-MiG-G6x0q2jOLUAnEglEE5NzDfBhAlBr_WdaLjFceOf2Xb_YbNJFaIVzK5UMuA1U89cpU_2tdNvc8/s400/Dennis+Miller+O'Reilly+Fox+News+Asshole.jpg" width="400" /></a>Cha Cha and a Ciceroan-type “Bonum Mane” to all of you fatuous and quixotic perusers of the Rosetta <br />Stone of satirical websites that is IWS Radio.<br /><br />Dennis Miller here with some comedy and joke-telling tips for all of you should you heed<a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/06/we-want-your-funny.html" target="_blank"> <i>Jayman’s clarion call from yesterday</i></a> to participate in the 3rd Annual IWS Radio Joke Show which will air LIVE this Sunday from Noon-2 P.M. ET on Blog Talk Radio.<br /><br />Why am I, Dennis Miller, star of TV, Radio, and oft times acerbically jocular comic relief to Bill “The Castor to my Pollux” O’Reilly, offering tips to those of you who may be neophytes in the realm of cracking wise?<br /><br />Because…<br /><br />When one wants want to find out how to discover Cesium, one goes to Robert Bunsen or Gustav Kirchhof.<br /><br />If a person would like to know how to successfully force Israelites to commit mass suicide, one would dialogue with Lucius Flavius Silva.  However…<br /><br />If a potential humorite would like to be funny and find out how to cast a well baited hook of a joke on to the seas of social media, they need to, and currently are, communicating with me, Dennis Miller, and I, Dennis Miller…<br /><br />Am the funniest man to walk this big, blue, oblique spheroid since Edward of March, who in 1461 after the Battle of Towton said to the disembodied head of John Clifford, the 9th Baron of Clifford…<br /><br /><i>“Roses?  We’ve been fighting over Roses?" </i><br /><br />Cha Cha and Bada Bing, Baby!!<br /><br />If you have been able to glean a trend in my aforementioned essay, you can see that one key to being funny is to use and dare I say (mouthwash please), use <i>liberally</i>…obscure and arcane historical references when making a joke along with words that only turgid Ivy League professors and society’s more cultured idiot savants use.<br /><br />People love that type of thing and will love you for it.<br /><br />When I make a joke that includes words such as, moribund, truncated, and phalanx accompanied, with a reference to people such as Madame Curie, The Borgia Sisters, and/or Zarathustra, the audience laughs effusively, because they don’t want the person next to them to know that they have no clue as to what I am talking about!!<br /><br />And the joke is…The person next to them has no clue either…nor do I!!  Cha Cha Baby!!<br /><br />Ha…The joke is on you, and this Sunday, if you follow my advice, you can put the joke on Jayman and Matt-Man by calling into their show and sharing your favorite jokes.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0GmVNan5b4rAuVtgAVKInrBUdy2JjfbfGC7Nc46HgPrrLozvIBDQEOGez9gz_aVFUNnUteT65DHdMrzHFM6R9YEqfP-O2tqSO-pOvRlrNme52voUHrAJ7zwomQPGKJOnwRlMrYEw1hCA/s1600/tyler_cameron_winklevoss+Facebook+Assholes.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/AVvXsEh0GmVNan5b4rAuVtgAVKInrBUdy2JjfbfGC7Nc46HgPrrLozvIBDQEOGez9gz_aVFUNnUteT65DHdMrzHFM6R9YEqfP-O2tqSO-pOvRlrNme52voUHrAJ7zwomQPGKJOnwRlMrYEw1hCA/s1600/tyler_cameron_winklevoss+Facebook+Assholes.jpg" /></a>Here’s an example…<br /><br />Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are the only two people to lose more money and franchising power than John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, who said unto his chef in 1738 when the chef served him a meal consisting of pepperoni, ham, cheese, sauce, and banana peppers between two pieces of French bread, and the Earl said...<br /><br /><i>“This is a submarine!!  Submarines have yet to be invented!!”</i><br /><br />Cha Cha!!<br /><br />See what I mean?<br /><br />So there ya go; you can see why I am on with Bill O’Reilly.  I’m not only profound; I’m a pundit as well.  You could call me…<br /><br />A Profundit!!<br /><br /><i>Cha Cha,</i><br /><br />Dennis Miller<br /><br /><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">@MattMan_IWS</span></a></div>

Comedy Tips From Dennis Miller, Asshole

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House Beautiful UK

<span style="font-size: large;">Our house is featured in the July Edition of House Beautiful UK which is on sale now. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.534631759906498.1073741841.122333021136376&type=1">Click here</a> to look at some of the pictures.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">It's a 5 page layout and I think the house looks great!</span>

House Beautiful UK

Our house is featured in the July Edition of House Beautiful UK which is on sale now.  Click here to look at some of the pictures. It's...

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Monday, Monday

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.archidose.org/wp/">A Weekly Dose of Architecture</a> Updates:</span><br /><br />This week's dose features the <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/06/03/four-visions-for-penn-station/">Four Visions for Penn Station</a> in New York City:<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/06/03/four-visions-for-penn-station/"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Jun13-03.jpg" title="This week's dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The featured past dose is the <a href="http://www.archidose.org/Dec07/10/dose.html">Four Hotels</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.archidose.org/Dec07/10/dose.html"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://www.archidose.org/Dec07/10/image03.jpg" title="featured past dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />This week's book review is <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/06/03/hand-drying-in-america/"><i>Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories</i></a> by Ben Katchor (L):<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/06/03/hand-drying-in-america/"><img alt="this week's book review" height="300" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/katchor.jpg" title="This week's book review" /></a> <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2004/06/14/mcsweenys-issue-13/"><img alt="this week's book review" height="300" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/mcsweeneys13.jpg" title="This week's book review" /></a><br />(R): The featured past book review is <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2004/06/14/mcsweenys-issue-13/"><i>McSweeny's Issue 13</i></a> edited by Chris Ware.<br /><br />: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">American-Architects <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/pages/50x50">Building of the Week</a>:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/41554_glen_lake_tower">Glen Lake Tower</a> in Michigan by Balance Associates Architects:<br /><a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/41554_glen_lake_tower"><img alt="this week's Building of the Week" src="http://c214210.r10.cf3.rackcdn.com/files/projects/41554/images/900:w/GlenLakeTower1.jpg" title="Current Building of the Week on american-architects.com" width="640" /></a>

Monday, Monday

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Updates: This week's dose features the Four Visions for Penn Station in New York City: The featured past...

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Pulled pork

<span style="font-size: large;">Here is how I made a Pulled Pork Sandwich.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">1.  Popped a loin of pork in to the slow cooker for 4 hrs.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">2.  After this time smoother the meat in BBQ sauce.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">3.  Cook on low for 8 hours more.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">4.  Shred in a bowl and add more BBQ sauce.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">5.  Pop into a bread roll and voila!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpsOsx_T23Lbl4C4z-_xtQbbHC9q7sSOvITksh4py1KoWOAFIKUmbg6kXcdS4P-i-WFE8cxVydOJxf8DaUtebQKdhk_koBHMdFK7raoFUkT5Gv6RDQu5PrIUgSU5k3g0QNiIT8w54RzaFG/s640/blogger-image-1812318240.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpsOsx_T23Lbl4C4z-_xtQbbHC9q7sSOvITksh4py1KoWOAFIKUmbg6kXcdS4P-i-WFE8cxVydOJxf8DaUtebQKdhk_koBHMdFK7raoFUkT5Gv6RDQu5PrIUgSU5k3g0QNiIT8w54RzaFG/s640/blogger-image-1812318240.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx2ZPSZxz4PRH2u3iajkbb9uTxTfzioO57wd5Olfpwb77NgdBLGUgIGNhjOl0z4Ld5BbAgtOplWMztj40_-kUPN83mQ9uTmNcFGspWyeok3P0bc5FBGCRlaTibyVXi59pLHXglSBxTLfrj/s640/blogger-image-1769366224.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx2ZPSZxz4PRH2u3iajkbb9uTxTfzioO57wd5Olfpwb77NgdBLGUgIGNhjOl0z4Ld5BbAgtOplWMztj40_-kUPN83mQ9uTmNcFGspWyeok3P0bc5FBGCRlaTibyVXi59pLHXglSBxTLfrj/s640/blogger-image-1769366224.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgELFxUU8uUvNCdq7Y94dAUUrZAQqtBZlw86IWAVs-cWiMwl46nEQFpMYTfrGL9rH_XeCKFzxELGlDSErKUm1kQLAPSkyozPQb5IB42QZ-rFzbbaSwu5Gu5ny6YGz2v8eVJsdhYtC-eZg46/s640/blogger-image--1580828312.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgELFxUU8uUvNCdq7Y94dAUUrZAQqtBZlw86IWAVs-cWiMwl46nEQFpMYTfrGL9rH_XeCKFzxELGlDSErKUm1kQLAPSkyozPQb5IB42QZ-rFzbbaSwu5Gu5ny6YGz2v8eVJsdhYtC-eZg46/s640/blogger-image--1580828312.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR0KD1gp1A0SreCnp-nrKcsgnSxLG028QwIBBu7wG1ssdK4atP0mBqpAYExeGnKbjf1wL4A3YAc91v-apdzyE_lPMidocl3RHC4RmpnonOxqj8hd-yxbFtynk7aeFXVtXQmLxWiAioPNOg/s640/blogger-image--1716147803.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR0KD1gp1A0SreCnp-nrKcsgnSxLG028QwIBBu7wG1ssdK4atP0mBqpAYExeGnKbjf1wL4A3YAc91v-apdzyE_lPMidocl3RHC4RmpnonOxqj8hd-yxbFtynk7aeFXVtXQmLxWiAioPNOg/s640/blogger-image--1716147803.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQwQGCGwN2f0q9z83m5jhdaJfVJpTVPQ8viHuuPHthsYWVLqgZBGfqyMemMn-ah1fXIMBQrUxA7q5JLvvXljIkgbn0qGkMCEjCjsnPjNYJOEE382ia9pGCx0-QVa_kImQKBZo-uz7Sjrz/s640/blogger-image-236980446.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQwQGCGwN2f0q9z83m5jhdaJfVJpTVPQ8viHuuPHthsYWVLqgZBGfqyMemMn-ah1fXIMBQrUxA7q5JLvvXljIkgbn0qGkMCEjCjsnPjNYJOEE382ia9pGCx0-QVa_kImQKBZo-uz7Sjrz/s640/blogger-image-236980446.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFnJGrBXveaff1XnFIi7NhYPrO0JmYp2zvyVNfUKBGzI00HL0bkRQ8M7ItgYHHDlozIqqz6pqLuBzBEJK18JPgMmfI6xbVMJm3x-GNvPeYQTy7uNw-1Dlb6vigW1F_nKEr3UpOsxGiokkR/s640/blogger-image--741070297.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFnJGrBXveaff1XnFIi7NhYPrO0JmYp2zvyVNfUKBGzI00HL0bkRQ8M7ItgYHHDlozIqqz6pqLuBzBEJK18JPgMmfI6xbVMJm3x-GNvPeYQTy7uNw-1Dlb6vigW1F_nKEr3UpOsxGiokkR/s640/blogger-image--741070297.jpg" /></a></div>

Pulled pork

Here is how I made a Pulled Pork Sandwich. 1.  Popped a loin of pork in to the slow cooker for 4 hrs. 2.  After this time smoother the meat ...

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Ironworks

<span style="font-size: large;">I love to see plants peeping though iron gates and railings.  It softens the look of the ironworks and beautifies the area.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Here are some pictures of some railings that I saw today in the Dublin 6 region.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">It was a lovely sunny day - don't the flowers look pretty?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxeYqy_g2NP9-RcCVDNHltmsgF2qyj4csXrgq8Fkz1BxLc3qNfDNe0WId4B-VRDk6QZ0QmHspynuI_idhV8IwVQD9i0w1R9JnyMz2ycBrpFTXFGOmetwhBT7piNotmMThchwCHrtwcAkjq/s640/blogger-image-428880289.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxeYqy_g2NP9-RcCVDNHltmsgF2qyj4csXrgq8Fkz1BxLc3qNfDNe0WId4B-VRDk6QZ0QmHspynuI_idhV8IwVQD9i0w1R9JnyMz2ycBrpFTXFGOmetwhBT7piNotmMThchwCHrtwcAkjq/s640/blogger-image-428880289.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg47RG3XXjIKglCMB6G8pTMUZDnA2f6oe4VPoEYj1WBohOZ4Lvp9nLx8ULEMijdtHiskLvhYfem9xKLXcvydgo_t9hWA-TvEFi8DM2I5a6x-5I_hgegByMIRJQhZ5eLmHkmgAtG1rEax5e-/s640/blogger-image-731199913.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg47RG3XXjIKglCMB6G8pTMUZDnA2f6oe4VPoEYj1WBohOZ4Lvp9nLx8ULEMijdtHiskLvhYfem9xKLXcvydgo_t9hWA-TvEFi8DM2I5a6x-5I_hgegByMIRJQhZ5eLmHkmgAtG1rEax5e-/s640/blogger-image-731199913.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7fjFOpIiKA_xrRbGHWwP2-XyKQAmHEWYkUDZdvVx5IjPfoOjbXq6PpX27WqNtz8wYAc4c-pJ_Kiv20VXkFYJfoqXRuYXuAiZiHMuLm7Izn_rjPCjuv1fN66pSQ1FQEMBiA6yYlJuhyphenhyphendmR/s640/blogger-image--481952570.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7fjFOpIiKA_xrRbGHWwP2-XyKQAmHEWYkUDZdvVx5IjPfoOjbXq6PpX27WqNtz8wYAc4c-pJ_Kiv20VXkFYJfoqXRuYXuAiZiHMuLm7Izn_rjPCjuv1fN66pSQ1FQEMBiA6yYlJuhyphenhyphendmR/s640/blogger-image--481952570.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh58i6EAdPVwKGVb6DxUK2qdhpuXu5JxPn9z1kN-wRbRgtst3UUSf0Sw3LOASIDQujH3-38cMihUaXRAUlTR_R5I3z0qijoc5dkzO8xMeJ4xPAvdCl85ex58AdI2spc4GRSzZKu84zrL1sG/s640/blogger-image-538172806.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh58i6EAdPVwKGVb6DxUK2qdhpuXu5JxPn9z1kN-wRbRgtst3UUSf0Sw3LOASIDQujH3-38cMihUaXRAUlTR_R5I3z0qijoc5dkzO8xMeJ4xPAvdCl85ex58AdI2spc4GRSzZKu84zrL1sG/s640/blogger-image-538172806.jpg" /></a></div>

Ironworks

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Meme... 'cause it's so much better than working

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When you looked at yourself in the mirror this morning, what was the first thing you thought? <span style="color: magenta;">I wonder how much Botox costs</span><br /><br />2. How much cash do you have on you? <span style="color: magenta;">$1.66</span><br /><br />3. Name a word that rhymes with door? <span style="color: magenta;">whore (and y'all know that's what came to your mind first so quit with the more and floor garbage lol)</span><br /><br />4. Name your favorite planet? <span style="color: magenta;">Saturn</span> <br /><br />5. Do you own more than 100 Cd’s? <span style="color: magenta;">nope  Do I own more than 0? nope</span><br /><br />6. Have you ever finished a bag of popcorn and ate the junk from the bottom? <span style="color: magenta;">Don't care for popcorn... any other kind of chip I eat every bit of junk!</span><br /><br />7. What kind of top are you wearing? <span style="color: magenta;">Cute springy bright pink that ties around the back with a cami under so my boobs don't show at work</span><br /><br />8. Have you ever labeled yourself?<span style="color: magenta;"> it's our duty as women</span><br /><br />9. Name the brand of shoes you are currently wearing? <span style="color: magenta;">Barefoot, but Bass sandals are beside me under my desk</span><br /><br />10. Bright or dark room? <span style="color: magenta;">Daytime, even while napping, I like super bright.  At night pitch black and even the clock bothers me.  </span><br /><br />11.Have you ever been pooped on from the sky? <span style="color: magenta;">the sky, no, but my back was once on the receiving end of a horse poop.  I was trying to pull a horseshoe - not easy without proper tools - and the horse bluntly announced what he thought of standing there so long.</span><br /><br />12.What does your watch look like? <span style="color: magenta;">dusty, I'm sure, haven't seen it in a while</span><br /><br />13.What were you doing at midnight last night? <span style="color: magenta;">sleeping</span><br /><br />14.Have you ever dated someone a decade older than you? <span style="color: magenta;">yes, two people</span><br /><br />15.Have you ever listened to a song and cried? <span style="color: magenta;">yes, though while pregnant everything made me cry so it probably doesn't count!</span><br /><br />16.Who last told you he/she loved you? <span style="color: magenta;">my daughter</span><br /><br />17.What was the last furry thing you touched? <span style="color: magenta;">the dog</span><br /><br />18.How many drugs have you taken within the last three days? <span style="color: magenta;">nothing obtained illegally</span><br /><br />19.Favorite age so far? <span style="color: magenta;">all the pre-teen years... no stress and I already knew everything</span><br /><br />20.Have you ever had a secret crush on a teacher? <span style="color: magenta;">See #14, twice.</span><br /><br />21.What was the last thing you said to someone? <span style="color: magenta;">Yes I will color with you as soon as I finish typing this</span><br /><br />22.Have you ever been found sleep walking? <span style="color: magenta;">yes, and I was usually in the refrigerator eating something random</span><br /><br />23.What was the last song you sang? <span style="color: magenta;">not sure but it was most likely on the XM 80's station</span><br /><br />24.What’s your favorite number? <span style="color: magenta;">27 </span><br /><br />25.Where did you live in 1987? <span style="color: magenta;">NY</span><br /><br />26.What do you do when the vending machines eats your money? <span style="color: magenta;">Say something really loud and sarcastic to make sure everyone in a 2-mile radius knows I didn't get my Doritos</span><br /><br />27.Do you kiss with your eyes open or closed? <span style="color: magenta;">depends </span><br /><br />28.What was the last song you heard?  <span style="color: magenta;">Ready?  It goes to the tune of My Darling Clementine (Oh, my darlin', Oh my darlin' Oh, my darlin' Clementine)  C</span><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: magenta;">'mon join in you know you want to... ready?</span></span><br /><span style="color: magenta;">There are seven days, there are seven days, There are seven days in a week. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.  This followed the months of the year song - ready?</span><br /><br />29.If you could be fluent in any other language, what would it be?  <span style="color: magenta;">Pretty happy that I'm fluent in Sarcasm.  If I could be given the gift of another language without effort on my part, hands down Italian.</span><br /><br />30.Have you ever seen a ghost? <span style="color: magenta;">Never seen one but I was carried down the stairs by my angel when I was around 5.  Nobody believes me other than my husband.</span><br /><br />31.When was the last time you ever wrote a letter to someone and mailed it? <span style="color: magenta;">Today</span><br /><br />32.Can you change the oil in a car? <span style="color: magenta;">Are you asking if I can or if I will?</span><br /><br />33.How far back do you know about your ancestry? <span style="color: magenta;">Dad's side, a few generations.  Mom's side, thanks to my inheritance from a rather obsessive grandmother, is well documented back to the year 1618.  That was before the internet so can't wait 'till I have time to dig up more.</span><br /><br />34.When showering do you start the water and then get it, or get in and then start the water? <span style="color: magenta;">Our shower is huge... mmmm... I get in and stand to the side until it's scalding before getting wet</span><br /><br />35.Have you ever crashed a car? <span style="color: magenta;">As the crasher, no, but been on the receiving end a few times </span><br /><br />36.Does every family have a crazy relative? <span style="color: magenta;">of course... wondering if I have any sane ones</span><br /><br />37.Have you ever sent or made a prank call? <span style="color: magenta;">most likely, can't remember</span><br /><br />38.How old do you look? <span style="color: magenta;">I look around my age, much younger on a good makeup day</span><br /><br />39.Should guys wear pink? <span style="color: magenta;">No... call it cool and sophisticated all ya' want.... you still look like a dork</span><br /><br />40.Have you ever done anything for which you could be arrested? <span style="color: magenta;">I'm utterly shocked I made it through high school and college without earning a criminal record.  An arrest occurred due to my involvement in regards to my #14 and #20.</span>

Meme... 'cause it's so much better than working

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror this morning, what was the first thing you thought? I wonder how much Botox costs 2. How much ...

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Yard work

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJm0XFiTVxHten96svl4xu35qsj8koPmqrcT_2NX-l5hsdcWjfzFh8Xqu425vjvAa_mgD0TTgPUZBIu5q0fKliLmAXpzjtDgAYn7ZT-IW_Smu2AvgFUrOEmeb7ii__f5HiwQMVkrHmol2V/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJm0XFiTVxHten96svl4xu35qsj8koPmqrcT_2NX-l5hsdcWjfzFh8Xqu425vjvAa_mgD0TTgPUZBIu5q0fKliLmAXpzjtDgAYn7ZT-IW_Smu2AvgFUrOEmeb7ii__f5HiwQMVkrHmol2V/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Watering window boxes and potted flowers ...</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/AVvXsEhswr6d98sqLGR65mfCY2OzWD8PdDv8sIg4vItlwz95plknMUb8QyHYlw71sX2Lm95qz3gfR-tdiDO5RHj5mtwA3id0Nj9WPNnL18NRxHfIxaruEBkmVvUH2P9lxfTpaYwqkQTKEoYTO9rT/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhswr6d98sqLGR65mfCY2OzWD8PdDv8sIg4vItlwz95plknMUb8QyHYlw71sX2Lm95qz3gfR-tdiDO5RHj5mtwA3id0Nj9WPNnL18NRxHfIxaruEBkmVvUH2P9lxfTpaYwqkQTKEoYTO9rT/s400/2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> ... and weeding spiderwort.</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/AVvXsEj1vTK1fOxtDWDBhWi3h-Esau7iVRS6CHC4FFYRf4B6KOkOgapdJRYN9BZGpH4XUcBCqlL6si-y9wwy-qCdZzbLNCtL-I4H9hms5aRgw9iuQDNDqsV9T7uWjTG3057LvnWZrrEBJ0oI_QNl/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1vTK1fOxtDWDBhWi3h-Esau7iVRS6CHC4FFYRf4B6KOkOgapdJRYN9BZGpH4XUcBCqlL6si-y9wwy-qCdZzbLNCtL-I4H9hms5aRgw9iuQDNDqsV9T7uWjTG3057LvnWZrrEBJ0oI_QNl/s640/3.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br />Photos by Lynn R. Mitchell<br />June 3, 2013

Shenandoah Valley spiderwort window boxes yard work Yard work

 Watering window boxes and potted flowers ...  ... and weeding spiderwort. Photos by Lynn R. Mitchell June 3, 2013

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Nokia lumia 720 Recommended accessories : Save the world from darkness

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nokia Wireless Charging Car Holder : CR 200</span></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/AVvXsEhD9Zctf-BX-1kP5Ef4XZBCwFbjIkR96jOh0Pj8Kq3G3DpHYxIZ2tYdJizlld_Udh-Y3ej6pIQYN0WSOUP_Iswzf67JcovyCGEUPR-GL5Ys5Hl1FvWhuLEHpRsZD3OImU3_keH5xLQ7Mqs/s1600/charger1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD9Zctf-BX-1kP5Ef4XZBCwFbjIkR96jOh0Pj8Kq3G3DpHYxIZ2tYdJizlld_Udh-Y3ej6pIQYN0WSOUP_Iswzf67JcovyCGEUPR-GL5Ys5Hl1FvWhuLEHpRsZD3OImU3_keH5xLQ7Mqs/s400/charger1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Charge your phone without connecting cables,No more fiddling with cables, just place your phone in the charger and go.Keep safe your phone from scratch or dust .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJbzwgVSwHUjoPDmiy7scaAHSBg-ncV4oKrLleDZOTMmBgYECZu-ygXCc3TRzoE8JPfksKpZOncS3laml3qoAjW8iE2d5_RzBTPOHcnlFsosJ53e6dIb9swjqhAKImJLzZQ04iJ2hXlLA/s1600/charger2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJbzwgVSwHUjoPDmiy7scaAHSBg-ncV4oKrLleDZOTMmBgYECZu-ygXCc3TRzoE8JPfksKpZOncS3laml3qoAjW8iE2d5_RzBTPOHcnlFsosJ53e6dIb9swjqhAKImJLzZQ04iJ2hXlLA/s400/charger2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Purchase this device with Nokia lumia 720</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Best buy from</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nokia.com/in-en/accessories/accessory/cr-200/">http://www.nokia.com/in-en/accessories/accessory/cr-200/</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000033310653&pubid=21000000000636820&lsrc=17"><img alt="Click Here for TV Deals!" border="0" src="http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_impression?lid=41000000033310653&pubid=21000000000636820&lsrc=17" /></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: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>Nokia wireless charging plate : DT 900</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkUW_bxdLyTqWhjQngZFkkRbs9kvgY5_moOTiMvnuebdFNS36oASfyV3dJgBUhpPm4Qhdcb9UrCrdSk1bEoU_2MIwclWWfGs-3Okcv81ZFRZCwrECOaWFjbZeYcDpa1Jy8a6BEXE1NXY/s1600/chargingplate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkUW_bxdLyTqWhjQngZFkkRbs9kvgY5_moOTiMvnuebdFNS36oASfyV3dJgBUhpPm4Qhdcb9UrCrdSk1bEoU_2MIwclWWfGs-3Okcv81ZFRZCwrECOaWFjbZeYcDpa1Jy8a6BEXE1NXY/s320/chargingplate.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Charging your lumia  has never been simpler because lumia is too soft . Just place on the charging plate and your phone charges wirelessly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Available in different colours with good designand  style .</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKvzkg7TcGUkTWzrCaBJL-5v4XzNSMFU2D06PG9PUzvUndLAxbn1Fd8zQk0rc28Gub8s3213-SoDyex_8eaxsiacgvSmra1PBt381uYasyI6399wc1eo3onPxBOibZA8k8PHLDYd-mwrg/s1600/chargingpalte2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKvzkg7TcGUkTWzrCaBJL-5v4XzNSMFU2D06PG9PUzvUndLAxbn1Fd8zQk0rc28Gub8s3213-SoDyex_8eaxsiacgvSmra1PBt381uYasyI6399wc1eo3onPxBOibZA8k8PHLDYd-mwrg/s320/chargingpalte2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Simply put your phone down on the plate. That’s all you have to do. A light indicator shows you when your phone is fully charged and ready to take away.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Available at best price 3599.00 rs</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Best Buy from </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.nokia.com/in-en/accessories/accessory/dt-900/">http://www.nokia.com/in-en/accessories/accessory/dt-900/</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000613802427353&pubid=21000000000636820&lsrc=17"><img alt="291912_Hurry! 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Playful and stylish, co-branded with the Fatboy designer furniture brand, pillows are available in a choice of different colours.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Available at best price 5499.00 rs</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.nokia.com/in-en/accessories/accessory/dt-901/">http://www.nokia.com/in-en/accessories/accessory/dt-901/</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Published by <br /><a href="https://plus.google.com/109838201058606610638" rel="author">Jacob lefore</a></div>

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Rethinking Infrastructure

The fourth issue of <i>Scenario</i>, the newly minted name of the journal at LandscapeUrbanism.com, is <a href="http://landscapeurbanism.com/journal/issue-4/">Rethinking Infrastructure</a>. The spring 2013 issue is edited by Stephanie Carlisle and Nicholas Pevzner and includes contributions by Margie Ruddick, Marcel Smets, Laura Solano, and many, many others.<br /><br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQIr2h1gm-jMnnQK4Tj8Q0qnFaRUhX40IjxYoXgkvy1Og3cLQZchxkCKcAoHfJe_7Ru5A7WVYI4sSItI0c7vZunVtJMQEb_gqmknHFcjKnrXvsrGFSzPzjgagRBPvIlnfXdOIOojo2EDl/s1600/Mumbai.jpg" /><br />[Filled mangrove near Bandra Station, Mumbai. Photo by Stephanie Carlisle] <br /><br />A snippet from the <a href="http://landscapeurbanism.com/article/introduction_rethinking_infrastructure/">editors' introduction</a>:<br /><blockquote>In architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, economics, and even politics, we have recently seen the emergence of “infrastructure” as a central concept within the larger conversation about urbanism. Interest in urbanism has been growing over the last few decades alongside the realization of cities’ economic power and both the epic challenges and game-changing opportunities of the global migration to urban centers. The most difficult questions of urban performance, however, are often inseparable from the functioning and design of urban infrastructure.<br /><br />Long focused on prominent civic objects and spaces in cities, designers are increasingly turning their attention to the less visible, but indispensible systems that underlie urban fabric. As designers expand the scale and scope of their projects, they are also recognizing the potential of infrastructure to serve as fertile conceptual territory. Unlike individual buildings (with the exception of megastructures), infrastructure can be seen as a tangible structuring device that operates at the scale of the city. In embracing infrastructure, designers are extending their agency to look not just at the pieces and parts of the city, but at the design of entire systems and their operations. Infrastructure is also a civic project, and as such just as worthy of design consideration as the vernacular urban fabric and territory to which it gives structure. Finally, amid an accelerating cascade of small failures and several highly visible catastrophic collapses, the value of often-overlooked infrastructural systems is becoming more evident, sparking a perception of infrastructural crisis and finally getting some overdue attention.<br /><br />More importantly for us, however, is the ability of infrastructure to offer a framework for asking larger questions about competing visions of urban structure and performance: about the relationship of a designed intervention to its surrounding biophysical flows; about the connection between a system, its context and constituents; about the role of social and economic forces in shaping urban life.</blockquote>Read the rest of the introduction <a href="http://landscapeurbanism.com/article/introduction_rethinking_infrastructure/">here</a> and see the table of contents for Rethinking Infrastructure <a href="http://landscapeurbanism.com/journal/issue-4/">here</a>.

Rethinking Infrastructure

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Dem Sen. Lautenberg dies at 89 ... will Christie appoint Republican?

Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/303001-sen-lautenberg-dies-at-age-89">died Monday at the age of 89</a> of viral pneumonia. The oldest member of the Senate, he had served more than 30 years in Congress. <br /><br /><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/303001-sen-lautenberg-dies-at-age-89">The Hill</a> reports that Governor Chris Christie can appoint a replacement until a special election is held, and some are speculating whether he will appoint a Republican:<br /><blockquote>According to New Jersey <a href="http://thehill.com/%20http://law.onecle.com/new-jersey/19-elections/3-26.html" target="_blank"><b>election law</b></a>, Christie may appoint a replacement to temporarily fill Lautenberg's seat until a special election occurs to elect someone to serve out the remainder of Lautenberg's term.<br /><br />Christie may set the date of the special election. It's unclear whether he'll choose to schedule it on the same day as the gubernatorial and state legislative elections on Nov. 5. <br /><br />Setting the special on the same date as the upcoming gubernatorial election could give a boost to a Republican candidate from Christie's coattails, as he's running far ahead of the Democratic candidate for governor and is expected to easily defeat her.</blockquote>Lautenberg's passing offers the opportunity for Christie to appoint a Republican. Virginia conservative radio host <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheJohnFredericksShow?hc_location=stream">John Fredericks</a> speculated on Facebook Monday afternoon that two names Christie may be considering are Sen. Joe Kyrillos, a longtime friend, or Tom Kean, Sr., a former NJ governor.

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Hospitals Struggle to Get Workers to Wash Their Hands - NYTimes.com

<p><div id="story" style="clear: both; overflow: hidden; margin-bottom: 40px; direction: ltr; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; "><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At <a href="http://www.northshorelij.com/hospitals/location/north-shore-university-hospital">North Shore University Hospital</a> on Long Island, motion sensors, like those used for burglar alarms, go off every time someone enters an intensive care room. The sensor triggers a video camera, which transmits its images halfway around the world to India, where workers are checking to see if doctors and nurses are performing a critical procedure: <a href="http://nyti.ms/17oq7XA">washing their hands</a>.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This Big Brother-ish approach is one of a<a title="A promotional video." href="http://bit.ly/uxwSj0">panoply of efforts</a> to promote a basic tenet of infection prevention, hand-washing, or as it is more clinically known in the hospital industry, <a title="A video on hand washing." href="http://bit.ly/QzEXfv">hand-hygiene</a>. With <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/health/deadly-drug-resistant-infections-rise-in-hospitals-report-warns.html">drug-resistant superbugs on the rise</a>, according to a recent report by the federal <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/handhygiene/?s_cid=dhqp_009">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>, and with hospital-acquired infections costing $30 billion and leading to nearly 100,000 patient deaths a year, hospitals are willing to try almost anything to <a title="A hand wqashing video report." href="http://bit.ly/ZrDSRO">reduce the risk</a> of transmission.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Studies have shown that without encouragement, hospital workers wash their hands as little as 30 percent of the time that they interact with patients. So in addition to the video snooping, hospitals across the country are training hand-washing coaches, handing out rewards like free pizza and coffee coupons, and admonishing with "red cards." They are using radio-frequency ID chips that note when a doctor has passed by a sink, and undercover monitors, who blend in with the other white coats, to watch whether their colleagues are washing their hands for the requisite 15 seconds, as long as it takes to sing the "Happy Birthday" song.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All this effort is to coax workers into using more soap and water, or alcohol-based sanitizers like Purell.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"This is not a quick fix; this is a war," said Dr. Bruce Farber, chief of infectious disease at North Shore.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But the incentive to do something is strong: under new federal rules, hospitals will lose<a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/medicare/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival health news about Medicare.">Medicare</a> money when patients get preventable infections.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One puzzle is why health care workers are so bad at it. Among the explanations studies have offered are complaints about dry skin, the pressures of an emergency environment, the tedium of hand washing and resistance to authority (doctors, who have the most authority, tend to be the most resistant, studies have found).</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There are still staff out there who say, 'How dare they!' " said Elaine Larson, a professor in Columbia University's school of nursing who has made a career out of studying hand-washing.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Philip Liang, who founded a company,<a href="http://www.generalsensing.com/">General Sensing</a>, that outfits hospital workers with electronic badges that track hand-washing, attributes low compliance to "high cognitive load."</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Nurses have to remember hundreds — thousands — of procedures," Mr. Liang said. "Take out the catheter; change four medications. It's really easy to forget the basic tasks. You're really concentrating on what's difficult, not on what's simple."</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His company uses a technology similar to Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. The badge communicates with a sensor on every sanitizer and soap dispenser, and with a beacon behind the patient's bed. If the wearer's hands are not cleaned, the badge vibrates, like a cellphone, so that the health care worker is reminded but not humiliated in front of the patient.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just waving one's hands under the dispenser is not enough. "We know if you took a swig of soap," Mr. Liang said.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The program uses a frequent-flier model to reward workers with incentives, sometimes cash bonuses, the more they wash their hands.</span></p><p><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://bit.ly/10FGuXA">Gojo Industries</a>, which manufactures the ubiquitous Purell, has also developed technology that can be snapped into any of its soap or sanitizer dispensers to track hand-hygiene.</span></font></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At North Shore, the video monitoring program, run by a company called Arrowsight, has been adapted from the meat industry, where cameras track whether workers who skin animals — the hide can contaminate the meat — wash their hands, knives and electric cutters.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adam Aronson, the chief executive of<a href="https://www.arrowsight.com/public/as/">Arrowsight</a>, said he was inspired to go from slaughterhouses to hospitals by his father, Dr. Mark Aronson, vice chairman for quality at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and a professor at Harvard Medical School.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Nobody would do a free test — they talked about Big Brother, patient privacy — nobody wanted to touch it," Mr. Aronson said.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He finally got a trial at a small surgery center in Macon, Ga., and in 2008, North Shore also agreed to a trial in its intensive care unit. The medical center at the University of California, San Francisco, is also using Arrowsight's video system, and Mr. Aronson said eight more hospitals in the United States, Britain, the Netherlands and Pakistan had agreed to test the cameras.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">North Shore's study, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, found that during a 16-week preliminary period when workers were being filmed but were not informed of the results, hand-hygiene rates were less than 10 percent. When they started getting reports on their filmed behavior, through electronic scoreboards and e-mails, the rates rose to 88 percent. The hospital kept the system, but because of the expense, it has limited it to the intensive care unit, where the payoff is greatest because the patients are sickest.</span></p></div> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/nyregion/hospitals-struggle-to-get-workers-to-wash-their-hands.html?_r=0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/nyregion/hospitals-struggle-to-get-workers-to-wash-their-hands.html?_r=0</a></p>

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Richmond area soldier, 2 others killed in Afghanistan over weekend

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzkL197k50W14qgu63du-aGkvK1UrmVbmm5fBYroMjWAFCZELx5CMcvE7FD6_dnDJgnlwGzG3QC8XjfC8FGyYU_peSxzeg1uL4rUKGZDkxUUcZgs0MJ-frML3OPkNK2VhIXmEvxlbuwF6a/s1600/American+flag+half+staff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzkL197k50W14qgu63du-aGkvK1UrmVbmm5fBYroMjWAFCZELx5CMcvE7FD6_dnDJgnlwGzG3QC8XjfC8FGyYU_peSxzeg1uL4rUKGZDkxUUcZgs0MJ-frML3OPkNK2VhIXmEvxlbuwF6a/s1600/American+flag+half+staff.jpg" /></a></div><br />This morning comes sad news that three U.S. soldiers, including one from the Richmond area, killed over the weekend in <a href="http://www.armytimes.com/article/20130603/NEWS08/306030011/DoD-identifies-3-soldiers-killed-Afghanistan">Operation Enduring Freedom</a>.<br /><br />Spc. Kyle P. Stoeckli, 21, of Moseley, Virginia, was killed in Maiwand, Afghanistan, on Saturday, June 1, from an improvised explosive device (IED). He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, based out of Fort Bliss, Texas.<br /><br />Spc. Ray A. Ramirez, 20, of Sacramento, Calif., died Saturday in Wardak Province when his unit was attacked by an IED. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, out of Fort Stewart, Ga.<br /><br />Pfc. Mariano M. Raymundo, 21, of Houston, Texas, died Saturday in Sharan. The Department of Defense said the incident is under investigation. Raymundo was assigned to the 210th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, based out of Fort Drum, N.Y.<br /><br />The deadly weekend for our Armed Forces is a reminder that our military men and women are still at war far away from home. These young men made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Our prayers go out to their families and friends. Freedom is not free.

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