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Tom and the gang discover their memories have been wiped clean. Armed with cameras, tech gear, loads of ideas, and an unfailing sense of optimism, tom and the gang are making their own show from the relative comfort of toms garage app studio. Chandler comes home early to announce that he quit his job. The series launched a season of 52 short webisodes in 2015, and a second season is planned for release sometime in 2017. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your watchlist and rate your favorite movies and tv shows on your phone or tablet. The tone is depressing and uncomfortable to such a high degree that laughing is difficult. The season contains 24 episodes and concluded airing on may 15, 2003. Talking tom and friends is an animated web series by outfit7 limited, based on the media franchise of the same name. Join them in their tv news studio and express your creativity by creating the news or just enjoy watching the two tease each other. Camping aesthetic camping coffee camping equipment family camping tent camping. The ninth season of friends, an american sitcom created by david crane and marta kauffman, premiered on nbc on september 26, 2002.
Election night is fast approaching, but theres still everything to play for. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. The deep secret with pirates of love and ended with a threepart special. Watch talking tom and friends official episodes live now. Friends swapped rachel in an episode and noone noticed. After all these years and so many rereruns, mistakes and easter eggs are still being spotted in friends and the latest is a humdinger. Nothing will stop them not mad cars or ancient curses, giant garbage monsters or epic mudslides. Community the talking tom and friends wiki is a collaborative encyclopedia for everything related to the talking tom and friends franchise. Jan 30, 2020 watch the super cute talking tom and friends minis, featuring all of your favorite stars in these exciting new episodes. Talking ginger is feeling left out because the friends in the garage dont want to do any kid stuff. The wiki format allows anyone to create or edit any article, so we can all work together to create a comprehensive database. This episode is one of the worst and does not exemplify the brilliance of the show. The episode was dedicated, in a title card at the end of the episode, to the people of new york city. It was produced by disney interactive studios, and ran on youtube from 8 june 2012 to 31 august 2012 for 10 episodes.
Season 4 aired on may 16th 2019 and season 5 has been confirmed. Talking angelas angry because talking tom stood her up for their date. Theres a new girl in town, talking becca and shes dissing talking angelas music. As of august 2015 there are six characters talking tom, talking angela, talking ginger, talking ben, talking pierre, and talking hank and 15 apps within the talking tom and friends. Talking tom and friends official home of talking tom. Talking dead on open your eyes chandler riggs and avi nash discuss the season 10 episode of the walking dead, open your eyes. Find out when talking tom and friends is on tv, including series 1 episode 9. Its the annual best friends camping trip and, this time, the gang got more than they bargained for.
Nearly every character in this dark episode is angry or biting at another character. Your favorite team of super friends and superheroes are back and theyre on a mission to save the world. Please leave this template in place to link the article histories and preserve this. The show was produced by the austrian animationstudio arx anima during the first three seasons. An amazing new endless runner adventure starts now. Theres a new girl in town, talking becca and shes dissing talking. Talking tom and friends episode collection 912 youtube. Full of funny oneliners and always ready for an adventure, a talking cat and his equally chatty animal cohorts set out to become famous. Collect stickers, coins, gems, and powerups in this new endlessly entertaining free app.
He was the first of the talking friends character to be created by outfit7. Subscribe to catch fun adventures with tom and his buddies every week. In season 4 onwards it is produced by the animation studio people moving pixels. S9, e2 talking dead on the bridge katelyn nacon, tom payne and deborah joy winans discuss the season 9 episode of the walking dead, the bridge. In this weeks episode ben builds a robot designed to eat garbage. This wiki is about teaching you the past of talking tom and friends. Talking tom and friends s1 e8 talking tom and friends bens high score season 1 episode 7 duration. May 16, 2019 season 4 is the fourth season of talking tom and friends. Starting from season 4, the show has been produced by the spanish animation studio people moving pixels. This is not just an ordinary bubble shooter because you can play with your favorites. Characters tom, angela, hank, ben, ginger, the ceo, darren, the. Friends was produced by brightkauffmancrane productions, in association with warner bros.
With jennifer aniston, courteney cox, lisa kudrow, matt leblanc. Friends season eight, episode one, originally aired september 27, 2001. Watch the super cute talking tom and friends minis, featuring all of your favorite stars in these exciting new episodes. How 911 led to a change for one friends episode insider. Tom is the titular character and one of the main characters of talking tom and friends. Talking tom and friends minis fortune cookies episode 8 by talking. Monica and chandler travel to ohio to meet the mother of the child they hope to adopt. The talking friends wiki is an encyclopedia for the talking friends franchise which was a hit app series. Talking tom and friends minis toms sick day episode 9 by talking tom heroes. Oct 04, 2019 theres a new girl in town, talking becca and shes dissing talking angelas music. On friends, season 7, episode 19, the one with ross and. It has a season 1 of 52 episodes, a miniseries of 8 and second season with 26 episodes. Chandler must spend christmas in tulsa, which monica thinks he might have an affair with a former miss oklahoma runnerup while he is there.
This was originally going to be season 3 but season 2 got halved and were split into separate seasons. Watch talking tom and friends online full episodes of. Watch talking tom and friends season 2 episode 9 online the romantic saga. Who is becca talking tom and friends season 4 episode 9. Tom talking tom and friends talking friends wiki fandom. Talking tom and friends minis toms sick day episode 9.
Watch friends season 10, episode 9 the one with the birth mother. These episodes may be mini in size, but theyre massive in fun. Weve got adventures underground, in the wilderness, and on mysterious islands. Why was 911 never mentioned in friends which was completely. Subscribe to talking tom and friends youtube channel. Aim for total bubble brilliance with talking tom bubble shooter. Outfit7 limited, the creator of talking tom and friends, is a family entertainment company and a pioneer in the field of digital entertainment. S9, e3 talking dead on warning signs pollyanna mcintosh and a surprise cast member discuss the season 9 episode of the walking dead, warning. Who is becca talking tom and friends season 4 episode 9 theres a new girl in town, talking becca and shes dissing talking angelas music. Rachel green, monica geller, phoebe buffay, joey tribbiani, chandler bing, and ross geller played by jennifer aniston, courteney cox, lisa kudrow, matt leblanc, matthew perry, and david schwimmer respectively.
With a trampoline at stake, talking tom and talking angela bounce into action. The season premiered on may 16 and it will have another 26 episodes alike the past two seasons. May 10, 2018 season 3 of talking tom and friends ran during the course of 2018, picking up from the cliffhanger of the last episode of season 2. Although their adventures and inventions never quite turn out.
Talking tom and friends talking friends wiki fandom. Friends the one with the rumor tv episode 2001 imdb. While not perfect in the sense that, for instance, monty python and the holy grail at the time of writing, the 73rd best film of all time in the imdb top 250 is perfect, this is a remarkable achievement. Choose your favorite talking tom and friends character and get ready to run, jump and slide your way through an epic, candyfilled adventure. Jul 24, 2015 talking tom stars in disneys newest show, talking friends, along with talking ben, talking ginger, talking gina and talking pierre. Talking tom and friends is the flagship franchise of multinational entertainment company outfit7 limited. Things are about to get epic with talking tom and friends minis. Talking tom and talking angela mfeo meant for each other. As of august 2015 there are six characters talking tom, talking angela, talking ginger, talking ben, talking pierre, and talking hank and 15 apps within the talking tom and friends umbrella brand. Friends the one with christmas in tulsa tv episode 2002. Talking tom and friends season 4 episode 9 new video musical coub the biggest video meme platform by talking tom and friends. The american sitcom friends was created by david crane and marta kauffman, and produced by brightkauffmancrane productions in association with warner bros. Talking tom and friends 2014 tv g 1 season animal tales full of funny oneliners and always ready for an adventure, a talking cat and his equally chatty animal cohorts set out to become famous. Talking tom and friends is coming to a screen near you.
The former pages history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted so long as the latter page exists. Bingewatch episodes 9 to 12 of talking tom and friends right here. The characters on friends live in manhattan thorugh 9 11 and never mentioned it once seasons 78 of friends occured 20012002, the characters lived in manhattan, relatively close to the wtc in manhattan. Seasons season one, season two, season three, season four, season five, season six, season seven, season eight, season nine, season ten. Talking tom and friends man on the moon episode 9 search. On friends, season 7, episode 19, the one with ross and monicas cousin, what goes on with joeys audition.
The series began with the pilot episode, which was broadcast on september 22, 1994. After playing a video game for 48 hours straight, pierre cant see the difference between game and reality. Join talking tom and the gang on their quest for stardom. Starting from season 4, the show has been produced by.
During season 9 episode 15 the one with the mugging. Aug 14, 2016 friends season eight, episode one, originally aired september 27, 2001. The first three seasons of the show were produced by the austrian animationstudio arx anima. This was originally the second half of season 2 but it became the third after the season split. They are joined by ben and hank dogs and pierre a musical parrot.
Talking tom, talking ben, talking pierre, and talking ginger have a lot of adventures together even with a girl named talking angela, who is in ep. Season 1 consists of 52 episodes and a miniseries of 8 minisodes with season 2 and the rest of the seasons consisting of 26 episodes which first aired on june 15, 2017. You can watch talking tom shorts live right here, right now. This is without a doubt one of the best friends episodes ever. Talking tom and friends man on the moon season 1 episode 9. Apr 03, 2017 the secret tribute to 911 victims and nine other hidden messages that you never noticed on friends handwritten notes featured on dozens of occasions throughout the ten series sophie roberts. While this may reflect true life sometimes, it is unique to friends episodes. There are love stories, cooking competitions, and crazy fights. Join the team as they go on amazing adventures in this super fourepisode compilation. The friends dress up as zombies to let him rescue the princess and finish the game. Velma vanthrax is the teacher of gingers school and the girlfriend of the landlord. Theres celebrations, spooky nights, and even magic.
Talking tom and friends is an animated series or reality show, as tom calls it in the pilot episode of the series by outfit7. Friends the one with phoebes birthday dinner tv episode. Talking tom and friends man on the moon episode 9 report. Oct 31, 2002 this episode is one of the worst and does not exemplify the brilliance of the show. Troubled couples talking tom and friends season 3 episode 9. Talking tom shorts full episodes cartoons live 247 talking tom. Tom and talking ben want tech fame and fortune, talking angela wants to be. Talking tom and talking ben are even chattier and more entertaining as tv news anchors. The series ran for 10 seasons and consisted of 236 episodes which were first broadcast between september 22, 1994 and may 6, 2004. Season 3 aired on may 10th, 2018, ended by december 27th, 2018. Coub the biggest video meme platform by talking tom and friends. Talking tom, talking angela, or talking hank in a colorful burst of actionpacked fun. The characters on friends live in manhattan thorugh 911. Talking tom and friends luomo sulla luna episodio 9 talking tom and friends the man on the moon episode 9 youtube.
Read the topic about manaria friends episode 9 discussion on myanimelist, and join in the discussion on the largest online anime and manga database in the world. The series narrative follows six friends living and working in new york city. Talking tom and friends man on the moon episode 9 eman bilal. Talking tom and his friends balance having fun with running their tech business while learning some valuable lessons along the way. On the aired episode, the two are seen feuding with another newlywed couple heading out to their honeymoon. Talking tom heroes are here to save the day for good. The following is a list of episodes of the emmy awardwinning united states situation comedy friends. Talking dead on the world before seth gilliam, a surprise cast member and deborah joy winans discuss the season 10 episode of the walking dead. Apr 01, 2016 talking tom and friends is a webbased series featuring animated talking animals, including tom, angela, and ginger, all talking cats. Material from list of friends episodes was split to friends season 9 on 18. She has two jobs, a teacher and secretly a monster hunter.
Talking tom 2 followed a year later in 2011 he also appeared in the first virtual pet app by outfit7 named my talking tom. If youve seen all 10 seasons of friends, theres one alternate subplot you may have never seen after 9 11, the show changed monica and chandlers scenes on the third episode of season eight. Talking friends was the first animated web series of the talking tom and friends franchise. Talking tom and friends collection depisodes 912 youtube. You can help the talking friends wiki by expanding it. Talking tom stars in disneys newest show along with ben, ginger, pierre, and gina.
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A Da'eeya, a pioneer, a soldier: Umm Sulaim bint Milhan
When we think of a woman living a thousand years ago, we envision a docile, compliant person burdened by chores, insignificant in societal affairs. The life of Umm Sulaim (also known as Ghumiysa) could not be further from the truth. She was woman of that time blazing new paths and venturing into unchartered ground for the sake of Allah, His Deen and her love for His Messenger (SAW).
First, she did one of the most dangerous yet brave things of her time: accept Islam, which alludes to her clear mind and intelligence. She then began a difficult and patient journey to inviting her then abusive husband, Malik bin Nadhan, to Islam. He did eventually accept it but had left her and gotten killed. She had a son, Anas, whom she gave in the service of the Rasul (SAW) for 10 years and asked him to pray for the best for him in this world and the next.
Then came a tempting test in the form of a marriage proposal, from a highly eligible, handsome, rich and famous man, Abu Talhah, who was not muslim. She repeatedly turned down his offer, explaining that normally she would never have rejected him but had to due to his not being blessed with Islam, but he persisted. In a highly intelligent and effective way, she preached the deen to him and he ultimately understood her arguments; she asked that her Mahr in their marriage be his acceptance of Islam.
Perhaps the most well-known of the stories of her life came next, which exemplified a level of patience unheard of and unmatched. Her infant son died the night her husband returned from hard work and she decided to fulfill all her obligations to him as a wife. At the end of their evening together, she took him to their son's body and told him that Allah had taken back the son that He had entrusted to their care. Allah rewarded her with a righteous son thereafter, as well as 9 grandsons, all of whom were Hufadh.
In the Battle of Uhud, she fed thirsty and wounded soldiers water while pregnant. She also actively aided the army in the Battle of Hunayn, carrying with her a spear for protection, and upon hearing about this, the Rasul (SAW) smiled.
She and her family were close and beloved to the Rasul (SAW), and he often prayed for their dunya and akhira. Anas bin Malik lived to be 103 years old, with a life of wealth and respect, and had 80 children, many of whom were scholars. She, Umm Sulaim, received the ultimate, most enviable prize: The Prophet (SAW) said: "When I entered the paradise, I heard someone's footsteps- it was explained to me that she was Ghumiysa bint Milhan".
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Hudson Yards developer Kenneth Himmel is lobbying for his luxurious purchasing mecca to be the permanent residence of New York Style Week. Contemplating the numbers seen in previous seasons — 26 fashions in Fall 2017, 16 in Spring 2017 and simply four in Fall 2016 — this is an immense improvement. Shui's presentation at Trend Week was so packed that security needed to block the door when the room reached occupancy.
Galore journal and Juicy Couture's occasion was the latest New York Trend Week fail — and organizers are apologizing. A county spokesperson said Wise was the one employee available to touch upon the matter, but she would be unavailable until Wednesday this week.
You agree to obtain occasional updates and special presents for The New York Times's products and services. The Fashion Institute of Know-how reported a 420% improve in Chinese language students enrolled between the 2016 faculty year and 2011. Sparkle-encrusted magnificence appears have been noticed all over the New York Style Week runways this season, including at Jeremy Scott (left) and Carmen Marc Valvo (proper).
The actress, fifty four, joined two of her ladies at the Alice + Olivia By Stacey Bendet New York Vogue Week presentation on the Skylight Clarkson SQ in West SoHo on Tuesday. Fall 2017 collections that confirmed in the course of the Spring 2018 season are included on this report.
Perhaps it's telling that mannequin Teddy Quinlivan, a staple on the New York reveals, selected this season to reveal her transgender identity publicly. There were a lot of florals and lots of yellow on spring 2018 runways, but one of the best results had been when designers fused them collectively using floaty chiffon and delicate silk.


With Mother's Day coming up, it's time to think about gift ideas for moms who are frequent flyers. If you're looking for something a bit more memorable than new luggage or a few crossword puzzle books, consider one or more of the following Mother's Day gift ideas. These gifts can make Mom's upcoming flights more comfortable and enjoyable, whether she's traveling for business or pleasure.
This handy cocktail kit comes in a size that won't cause any problems with security at the airport. The W&P Carry On Cocktail Kit provides an easy way to make a champagne cocktail to savor while flying. The kit includes elderflower syrup, a bar spoon, a half-ounce jigger and a recipe card, so Mom can mix a relaxing cocktail.
Having to dig through a toiletry bag before, during or after a flight can be a troublesome and time-consuming. With this 6-piece Clear Travel Toiletry Bag from Madholly, Mom can quickly and conveniently find cosmetics or any other toiletry item she needs. These clear bags come in three different sizes and are all TSA-approved, so Mom doesn't have to worry about any hassle at the airport.
Celestial Silk's 100% Silk Pillowcase provides a great way to add a touch of luxury to airline flights, even while flying in coach. These hypoallergenic pillowcases, made from Pure 25 Momme Mulberry Silk, are available in a wide range of colors and three sizes. They're also designed to help hair stay smooth and skin stay moisturized, which is ideal for an airplane's dry atmosphere.
PrettyCare's 3D Sleep Mask is made with Memory Foam to help Mom get some much needed rest on the plane while staying comfortable. This sleep mask offers a perfect fit that won't smudge makeup. It also comes with high-quality earplugs, so Mom can block out sound along with light, and a silk travel pouch that can fit snugly in any carry on bag.
Mom can keep her feet warm and cozy with this Travel Airplane Footrest Hammock from YourTour. The hammock is a Memory Foam portable foot rest that keeps feet toasty while also preventing swelling and soreness. This makes a great gift for long flights, but it can also be useful for shorter flights for those who have trouble getting comfortable while flying.
This Premier Class Travel Blanket from Travelrest can do more than keep Mom warm during her flights. This poncho-style plush blanket can also be used as a pillow or provide lumbar support to prevent sore back muscles. A built-in carry case helps keep this luxurious travel blanket clean while also giving Mom an easy way to carry it around.
If you can't decide which gift to get Mom, combine a few of them with this Infinite Rest Travel Pillow Set, which comes with a pillow, eye mask, ear plugs and travel bag. The pillow features Memory Foam to ensure maximum comfort, while the eye mask and ear plugs can help Mom enjoy some peaceful, quiet rest on the plane. All of these items fit neatly into the included travel bag that Mom can carry separately or place easily in a carry on bag.


As visitors look through the Delta-09 viewing enclosure at a Minuteman II missile, a Park Ranger answers questions.
From 1963 until the early 1990s, the missile silo at Delta-09 contained a fully operational Minuteman Missile, bearing a 1.2 megaton nuclear warhead. The Delta-09 missile silo was one of 150 spread across western South Dakota. In total there were 1,000 Minuteman's deployed from the 1960's into the early 1990's. Visitors can now tour the site daily.
The launch facility consists of a silo 12 feet in diameter and 80 feet deep made of reinforced concrete with a steel-plate liner. The door to the silo has been welded and fitted with a glass roof, and an unarmed missile placed inside. For safety reasons, tours are not conducted underground. In addition to the missile and silo, visitors will see support structures such as antennas and motion sensors.
A self-guided cell phone tour is available year-round. Visitors can use their cell phones to listen to a ranger recorded tour. There are ten stops along the tour which interpret the history of the site and Minuteman missiles across the Great Plains region.
The missile silo is located off of I-90 exit 116 on the south side of the highway. Follow the signage once you exit I-90 to the only fenced structure visible from the road (about a 1/2 mile). Park outside of the gate for Delta-09.
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Will the sharing economy disrupt the banking industry?
In the same way that it has torn apart newspapers, radio and the postal service, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney worries that technology will disrupt the banking and financial services industry. His biggest concern is governments will fail regulate it until it's too late - "an Uber-type situation," as he said at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week.
The news that foreign currency exchange startup TransferWise has raised $58 million in investment at a valuation of $1 billion proves that Carney is right to worry: Tech startups — or fintech startups, as they're called in Europe — are working as fast as they can to turn traditional banks into the steam-engine manufacturers of the 21st Century.
At Davos, Carney said he envisioned that tech companies might do to banks what Uber is doing to taxis: destroy their business before governments can get around to regulating them. The backstory with Uber is that in most cities, taxis are heavily regulated and licensed by local governments. This has created dozens of taxi monopolies and cartels that are able to charge high prices for low quality taxi services. Uber — which lets anyone with a car turn into a taxi driver — makes the taxi business look anathema.
At the same time, taxi companies have been lobbying hard to restrict Uber's expansion as much as possible, because Uber will obviously put many of them out of business. In many cities, particularly smaller cities, Uber service is both vastly superior and cheaper than getting a taxi.
Likewise, TransferWise is vastly superior and cheaper than going to a bank to send someone a payment in a foreign country. It works by essentially obviating the need to actually send and exchange foreign cash. Instead, it matches your outgoing payment with someone else's incoming payment, and through domestic currency accounts makes both payments locally. The money never actually leaves the country it's in — which is what makes it cheap.
And, of course, that clever matching system means you don't need to use a bank to send money abroad.
Bitcoin similarly threatens banks. Not because it is an online currency. The currency is basically a joke. Rather it is the blockchain ledger that underpins Bitcoin, which makes all transactions transparent and guaranteed, that makes banking transfers look out of date.
In terms of financial stability policy and the change in banking that is, er, imminent, we have to get the balance of regulation right now and not come down too hard and prevent this type of disruptive technology and not be in this position where we're filling in with prudential regulation after the fact. In other words, facing an Uber-type situation in financial services, which many jurisdictions are struggling with.
Although the headline-grabbing part of this statement was his reference to Uber, it was his deliberate, theatrical stress on the word "imminent" that caught my attention most. It's unfair to read to much into it without asking Carney why he said it that way but my feeling is that he was trying to indicate that banks and bank regulators don't seem to be aware of how much danger they're in, or how fast tech is moving to destroy traditional financial services.


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Forum: General Music Discussion
Topic: the record industry is beginning to get the right idea...
IIRC? what/who is that? or is that some chat-speak that i do not know? as far as I know from my experience on the SellaBand site, 2 bands have achieved the $50,000 needed to be produced, promoted and supported by the Sellaband organization... Nemesea and Cubworld. Shredlix, do you have documented s...
Forum: Steve's Guitars and Gear
Topic: 20th anniversary JEM?
That jem is one freakin ugly guitar.
Except that IIRC, only one band made the 50k, and the guitarist in the band is related to the guy who owns Sellaband. What a coincidence....
Forum: Ibanez and Other Guitars
Topic: How Much does this my rg look like a jem!
yeah, but don't forget, 5k aus dollars are under 3k euros, and a little over 2k sterling, and a jem here costs 2 g's
Topic: why does vai use jems made from japan?
Steve's are/were made in the USA. Allan Holdsworth turned down a deal with Ibanez because they said Allans would be made in the USA shop, and the signature models would be made in Japan, he didn't like that, and he said the sig models were hit-and-miss.
Topic: wanna feel and hear some blues??
If you don't like blues, then piss off.
blues sucks How can you like Steve Vai if you don't like blues? Take Tender Surrender for instance.... The most bluesy (and one of the best) song from Vai... You're maybe someone without any feel for the music... You're probably one of the guys that only like stupid metal shred, metal, death metal ...
johnny boy wrote: I hope Steve Vai gets on here and tells you that you're an idiot.
Nope, bad for business.
blues sucks
Yep, I seen Gary Moore, Gary is good at making ugly faces whilst bending notes, but is sloppy when he plays fast. I dislike Gary Moore's playing, - a lot, but I can agree that he's obviously good at playing slow blues stuff. I've also had the displeasure of meeting him, and he's the most cantancorou...
maybe you're into that "bad pop music" that Steve's always complaining about? I have a lot of respect for the blues not just because of how it has changed music, but also it amazes me that music written so simply (because blues for the most part is simple) can carry so much emotion and power. Then ...
Racer x, planet x, greg howe, allan holdsworth, vai, yngwie, lots of metal, progressive/art stuff, fusion, and drumnbass is the only dance type music I really like.
Yeah whatever.
Anyway, yes instrumentalrockrocks, I do. However, that doesn't mean I like it a whole lot.
No, I don't like even 1% of it, at all, and when I am sad/angry/depressed, the last thing I would want to listen to is lyrics about sad/angry/depressive stuff, I'd listen to something cheerful and uplifting.
Yeah, so? Do I have to respect it too? No ;) It is my least favourite genre of music, I hates it, it sounds incredibly awful to my ears. :) You mustn't like Scott Henderson then...who has the chops to outplay a hundred of your favourite shredders... (Using the music as a competition mentality that ...


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SINGAPORE, Dec 17, 2020 – (ACN Newswire) – Singapore-headquartered WomenIconsNetwork.com (WIN), has announced the launch of an initiative – The Collective for Equality (Singapore) – to promote and support the actions of organizations, programs and people working towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 that deals with achieving Gender Equality and empowering all women and girls.
A not-for-profit country-specific initiative, The Collective will be guided on a pro bono basis by a Council of Leaders and will urge CEOs in Singapore to not only commit time, effort and resources for ensuring gender-balanced workplaces but also share their goals, experiences and challenges, thus inspiring equality in all walks of life. The aim is to 1) Expand C-Suite support for Gender Equality; 2) Deepen organization commitment for Gender Equity; 3) Broaden the pool of aspiring women leaders.
Grace Park, Manisha Seewal and Dr Vinika Rao join as the Council of Leaders to advise on The Collective' efforts in Singapore. The Council will be expanded with other like-minded leaders.
Speaking on the occasion of the launch, Grace Park, Co-Founder & President, DocDoc said, "Though the SDG 5 Goals are common for the world, every country has to work within the boundaries of economic, social, and cultural realities. Thus, it is important that leaders in Singapore come together to discover innovative yet effective ways to overcome the challenges of gender inequities."
?Every organization irrespective of their size, sector or domicile will have to play its part to ensure that Singapore is truly a gender-balanced place of work. However, we have to recognize and assist organizations that need a nudge and a push to discover the long-term benefits of pursuing a gender-balanced strategy," said Manisha Seewal, Group CMO, Carro and CEO, Jualo.com.
Dr Vinika Rao, Executive Director, INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute & Gender Initiative and Asia Director, Hoffman Global Institute for Business & Society, said, "Some of the reputed corporates in Singapore have covered considerable ground in the journey towards gender equality. Their experience should both inspire others to follow suit and provide learnings on best practices for developing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. This is especially relevant today, to ensure that Covid19 does not disrupt decades of hard-earned progress towards developing a gender-balanced workplace and society in Singapore."
Building awareness about an organization's intent for promoting gender-equal place of work is a key benefit of joining The Collective. By sharing news, views, and developments about the gender equality initiatives, an organization can not only attract and retain talent but also distinguish themselves clearly from others in the minds of half the world.
Vishwesh Iyer, Co-Founder & Director, Women Icons Network, said, "The problems of addressing Gender Inequities have been further exacerbated by the pandemic. It is important for leaders to recognize that working towards a gender-balanced workplace is one of the biggest challenges facing us today at the intersection of social and economic inequities.
The initiative, led by the Women Icons Network, aims to internalize the issue of Gender Equity into the collective consciousness as envisaged by the Singapore government. It will also add to the "Conversations on Women Development" that the government has recently rolled out. Following the Singapore launch, The Collective will also be launched in Malaysia and India soon.
About Women Icons Network
Women Icons Network (WIN) is an engagement and data aggregation platform that captures the value of gender-equal places of work across South and South East Asia. Integrating workplace feedback and published data on companies to create a Diversity Metric that differentiates places of work around gender equality, the platform will amplify the efforts of all stakeholders operating in the area of diversity and inclusion.
WIN, headquartered in Singapore, is promoted by two experienced professionals and supported by hundreds of women leaders across South and South East Asia.
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Shafia 'honour killers' do not deserve a new trial: Crown
Why Mohammad Shafia's own words may sink his case for a retrial
By Michael Friscolanti March 5, 2016
Mohammad Shafia leaves the holding cell the Frontenac county courthouse in Kingston Ontario on Monday Jan. 16, 2012. (Lars Hagberg/CP)
Of all the evidence pointing to his guilt (and there is plenty, by any standard), Mohammad Shafia's own words—captured on hidden police wiretaps—may have been the clincher for the jury.
"We lost our honour."
"There is no value of life without honour."
"Even if they hoist me up onto the gallows, nothing is more dear to me than my honour."
At the Ontario Court of Appeal on Friday, Crown prosecutor Jocelyn Speyer chose to read for the judges one especially vile intercept, secretly recorded just days after Shafia's three daughters (and his first wife in their polygamous clan) were found floating in a car at the bottom of a Rideau Canal lock station.
"Even if they come back to life a hundred times, if I have a cleaver in my hand I will cut her in pieces," Shafia barked on July 19, 2009, speaking to his other wife, Tooba Yahya, and his eldest son, Hamed. "If we remain alive one night or one year, we have no tension in our hearts, [thinking that] our daughter is in the arms of this or that boy, in the arms of this or that man. God curse their graduation! God's curse on them for a generation! May the devil s–t on their graves!"
Three days later, the immigrant trio was in handcuffs, charged with four counts each of first-degree murder. The alleged motive? The one word Shafia couldn't stop spewing: honour.
At trial, a jury in Kingston, Ont., completely agreed with the prosecution's theory: that a multimillionaire Afghan businessman—who moved his children to the freest of countries, settling in Montreal in 2007—conspired with his wife and favourite son to execute three of those children (Zainab, 19; Sahar, 17; and Geeti, 13) because they were "whores" whose "treacherous" conduct destroyed the family's reputation. Only their deaths, disguised to look like a tragic wrong turn, could restore their dad's precious honour. (The fourth victim, 52-year-old Rona Amir Mohammad, was a convenient throw-in, long ostracized by her abusive husband and fellow wife.)
All three were sentenced in 2012 to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Four years later, the Shafias are now clawing for a new trial, arguing, among other things, that the original was tainted by the words of a key Crown witness: Shahrzad Mojab, a University of Toronto professor who specializes in honour-based violence. Her testimony reinforced "pre-existing stereotypes of violent and primitive Muslims," the Shafias' new lawyers contend, and invited jurors to convict not on proof, but on "cultural prejudice." (Hamed Shafia has also filed a fresh-evidence application, claiming that newly discovered documents show he was 17 at the time of the crime, not 18 as originally believed, and therefore should have been tried and sentenced as a youth offender.)
On Friday, it was the Crown's turn to make submissions to the province's top court. And reminiscent of the trial, the prosecution's arguments smelled a whole lot more believable than the other side's.
It was Shafia himself—not professor Mojab—who introduced the concept of honour to the case, Speyer argued. Mojab was called to the stand simply to explain the "context" to a jury of Canadians, who wouldn't necessarily understand why some cultures equate honour with things that "might seem trivial and inoffensive" (like, for example, having a high school boyfriend). As Mojab explained, some patriarchal cultures measure a family's honour by the chastity and obedience of its females, and even the mere perception of premarital sex can trigger murder. "The shedding of blood is the way of purifying the name of the family in the community," she told the court. "It is an expected act."
Her testimony was especially important, Speyer said, because one of the defence team's core arguments was that no mother, father or sibling could ever commit such violence against their own flesh and blood. "Her explanation of honour allowed the jury to assess those conversations and understand them in a way that they otherwise would not have been able to do," she argued. "This is not cultural profiling. This was equipping the jury to understand an issue in the trial."
In fact, Speyer noted, Mojab went to great lengths to point out that many people in Afghanistan do not condone honour-based violence, and that her testimony shouldn't paint every Middle Eastern man with the same brush. She was also never asked specifically about the Shafias; her role was to educate the jury about notions of honour, not weigh in on whether this particular case was an honour killing.
"The best evidence that the killings were motivated by honour comes from Shafia himself," Speyer continued.
Then she read out the transcript of that wiretap. I will cut her in pieces. God curse their graduation. May the devil s–t on their graves! (For the record, Shafia has tried to explain what he meant by that last sentence, as if the words aren't clear enough. "To me, it means the devil would go out and check with them in their graves," he testified, back in December 2011. "If they have done a good thing, it would be good. If they did bad, it will be up to God what to do.")
As for Hamed's sudden insistence that he was 17 when his sisters turned up dead, the Crown said there is "a substantial body of reliable evidence" that proves otherwise. Hamed has produced three documents to bolster his claim: an old "tazkira," the official Afghan identity document, which says he was born on Dec. 31, 1991, not 1990 as previously believed; a "Certificate of Live Birth" from Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health, which provides the same date of birth; and a document from the Ministry of Interior Affairs, which is essentially a translation of the tazkira.
But prosecutors say they have their own Hamed documents that clearly contain a 1990 birthday, including two other Afghanistan birth certificates: one issued in 1996, another in 2004. There's also this obvious problem: the three Shafia children born immediately after Hamed—including dead sister Sahar, and two other surviving kids who can't be named because of a court-ordered publication ban—arrived in consecutive years: 1991, 1992 and 1993. Simply put, if Hamed's age is wrong by one year (i.e. if he was really born in 1991), then the other three children are also one year younger than assumed.
In the end, Speyer said, this case ultimately rests on the "overwhelming" physical evidence. The Google searches ("where to commit a murder"). The shards of headlight found at the canal's edge (proving that one family vehicle, a Lexus SUV, pushed the other, a Nissan Sentra, into the water). The fact that the Sentra's ignition was turned off when police hoisted the car from the canal. "It's hard to know how a car can drive into anything with the ignition off," Speyer said. "The evidence at the scene was completely inconsistent with the accident theory."
Even if there were some legal errors during the trial, as alleged by the Shafias' lawyers, Speyer said they were so insignificant that they wouldn't have altered the eventual verdict. The jury still would have found them all guilty, she said.
And the jurors still would have heard those damning wiretaps.
"They messed up," Shafia told Tooba in another intercept, discussing his dead daughters yet again. "There was no other way … They committed treason from beginning to end. They betrayed kindness, they betrayed Islam, they betrayed our religion and creed, they betrayed our tradition, they betrayed everything."
The appeal court has reserved judgment.
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The 'Lavender Brownies' color palette translates beautifully into an interior design. I picture a room with pale gray walls and a reclaimed gray wood accent wall. The dark blackish-brown of the brownies becomes a leather sofa. Then, the lavender drizzle is represented by periwinkle blue accent pillows. For the natural wood tones of the bowl, a mid-century style side table is used. The fork translates into a modern metal chandelier and the powdered sugar becomes a white upholstered pouf. What a lovely look!


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FanDragon 101
FanDragon Supports Its Rapid Growth By Expanding Leadership Team
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Fueled by Positive Industry Response and Upcoming Deal Announcements, Ticketing Tech Start-up Announces Promotions on the Business Development Team; Lori Ross Joins the Company as VP of Business & Legal Affairs
FanDragon Technologies, a leading innovator in open blockchain-powered mobile ticket delivery solutions, announced today it is amplifying its in-house team with international business experience as the company moves forward into 2020. Fueled by rapid growth and upcoming deal announcements, FanDragon announced the following hires and promotions:
L-R: Jim Abel, Gillian Raikes, Alan Rakov, Lori Ross, Steven Dodge
"FanDragon's Business Development team has been successful beyond my wildest dreams and I couldn't be more proud of them," said Mark Weiss, FanDragon's Chief Business Officer and General Counsel. "The market's response to our innovative SaaS ticket delivery platform has been incredible, and these promotions are a reflection of the extraordinary high level at which the team has been operating, and the rate they have been closing deals. Q1 2020 is going to see some major announcements coming from the team. It's an exciting time for FanDragon."
FanDragon Technologies' Business Development team has been pursuing a robust pipeline across North America, UK and Europe that includes rightsholders, organizers, venues, ticket companies and app developers and others in the live events ecosystem. The company's SaaS platform offering secure in-app ticket delivery and enhanced fan engagement has generated interest across a wide swath of business sectors including Music, Sports, Cinema, Theatre, Fandom Events, Theme Parks, Attractions and Family Entertainment. Deals will be announced in the coming weeks.
Lori Ross joins FanDragon as Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs, where she will oversee a variety of complex international commercial and technology agreements – including strategic partnerships – and ensure compliance with laws and regulations dealing with intellectual property and privacy. An experienced lawyer, Ross has worked with clients such as Verizon, Hulu, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Allergan, and Cornerstone on Demand, and has provided legal counseling for several entertainment and technology companies. Her expertise includes privacy, including GDPR and CCPA compliance, SaaS agreements, commercial contracts and more.
FanDragon Technologies recently announced a deal with independent ticketing operator Kaboodle Solutions, Ltd. to offer in-app mobile ticket delivery for music venues and festivals across the UK, Canada, and Europe. Following their July 2019 launch with $12 million in funding, FanDragon has built a team of industry-leading pioneers – including Steve Machin, who previously held senior executive roles at Live Nation and Ticketmaster Europe; and Alan Rakov, formerly the Chief Revenue Officer – Concerts at Live Nation and previously a Ticketmaster executive. FanDragon also issued the first edition of the Fan Experience Index survey report in October and announced the Fan Forum – a unique opportunity for fans to share personal challenges and experiences at live events.
For more information, please visit https://fandragon.com/.
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Parinya Charoenphol: Champion transgender kickboxer
The beautiful boxer
For Parinya Charoenphol, it took a lot of strength – physical and otherwise – to become the person she always knew she was.
Charoenphol [aka Nong Toom]'s mother gives her a bath every time she visits and the famed boxer still loves to run around in front of her parents, who laugh and say that she'll never grow up. Whether as a young boy or now, a grown woman, Nong Toom loves to make her parents laugh.
Parinya Charoenphol had a rocketing career as a Muay Thai kickboxer – 20 wins and 18 TKOs – where she made a name for herself as a gay teen boxer with heavy makeup. Her work was all towards one goal, though: saving up enough money for a sex change operation.
Since transitioning to a woman, Charoenphol has starred in a number of movies and even had her own biopic, Beautiful Boxer. Her mere presence has helped turn assumptions about the male-dominated sport of Muay Thai – and the conservative social underpinnings thereof – on their head.
See also this article in the Guardian about her movie (which, fair warning, takes a, erm, less nuanced approach to the language surrounding her gender).
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Thirty journalists from USA TODAY Network spent a day with teachers. What we found: No matter their conditions or pay, they face historic pressure.
It's shortly after dawn when Edward Lawson, one of America's 3.2 million public school teachers, pulls his car into the parking lot of Thomas Elementary in Racine, Wisconsin. He cuts the engine, pulls out his cell phone and calls his principal. They begin to pray.
Lawson is a full-time substitute based at a school with full-time problems: only 1 in 10 students is proficient in reading and math.
That may be explained by the fact that 87 percent of the students are poor and 1 in 5 has a diagnosed disability. Blame for such test scores, however, often settles on the people who are any school's single-most-important influence on academic achievement – teachers.
It all may be exacting a toll. This year, for the first time since pollsters started asking a half-century ago, a majority of Americans said they would not want their child to become a teacher.
And yet teachers everywhere believe that if only the American people – the parent, the voter, the politician, the philanthropist – really understood schools and teachers, they'd join their cause.
Some people mistakenly think teachers "sit around all summer, collecting a paycheck,'' complains Lawson, the full-time substitute. Not him. In addition to working in both the before- and after-school programs, he teaches summer school and last summer took on extra hours at an Amazon warehouse.
Lawson is a jack-of-all-trades. A walkie-talkie on his hip, he moves from room to room — teaching a class or organizing a lesson plan for a short-term sub or giving students special help with math. He visits homes with the school social worker. He directs traffic in the parking lot. He once used the washing machine in his office to clean the coats of an entire class so he wouldn't embarrass the one kid whose coat was filthy.
Public school teachers' economic prospects have worsened dramatically since the beginning of the Great Recession, especially in poorer states.
The average national salary has decreased by more than 4 percent since 2009, adjusted for inflation. Yet nine in 10 teachers buy some of their own teaching supplies, spending an average of almost $500 a year.
About 18 percent have a second job, making teachers about five times more likely than the average full-time worker to have a part-time job.
No surprise, then, that 8 percent of teachers leave the profession each year, compared to 5 percent a few decades ago; that 20 to 30 percent of all beginning teachers leave within five years, the Learning Policy Institute says, and two-thirds of teachers quit before retirement; that enrollment in college teacher education programs dropped 35 percent between 2009 and 2014.
The result, in some areas and in some specialties, is a teacher shortage. Last year, according to a Learning Policy Institute study, more than 100,000 classrooms were staffed by instructors "not fully qualified to teach'' because they lacked proper licenses or degrees. The percentage of teachers working without bachelor's degrees, although small (2.4 percent in 2016) has more than doubled since 2004.
Those are the numbers, based on federal education data. Here are scenes from the lives of teachers, before, during and after school.
The sun is rising, and teachers are arriving. "Ordinary men and women,'' as educational reformer John Dewey put it, of whom we expect the extraordinary.
In a remote valley in central Montana, on a cool, clear morning with the promise of autumn and a hint of the hard winter to come, there's a scene from teaching's past: A solitary woman approaches a gray clapboard one-classroom schoolhouse and unlocks the door.
But instead of lighting the stove, like her 19th-century predecessors, Traci Manseau makes sure the internet is up.
The public school has 17 students from prekindergarten to eighth grade, up from a total of three when Manseau came here 19 years ago. Montana has less than 80 such schools; about 20 closed in the last decade. Most young teachers don't want to live in such remote areas.
And it's hard work, Manseau says, to wrap your brain around first- and eighth-grade math at the same time.
Each of her students comes from one of five families, all surnamed Stahl. They're Hutterites, a religious sect that speaks a German dialect and shuns modern ways. The students wear a sort of 19th-century uniform: the girls in black headscarves with subtle polka dots and modest dresses, with their hair parted in the middle and twisted behind their ears. The boys wear Western shirts, black pants and suspenders.
And, in order to work on the small Hutterite colony's communal farm, students leave school when they turn 16.
Even in this idyllic setting, teaching comes with its own little heartbreak.
Half a continent away, another teacher approaches another school. But this one is a vision of neo-classical elegance modeled on the University of Virginia's Rotunda.
The classical college preparatory school is another American educational archetype. But here, time has not stood still. Just ask the teacher at the door.
Laura Wasem, 43, has taught Latin here for 17 years. She makes an annual salary of $77,000, a third more than the average American teacher. Yet she is as nostalgic for the past as any Hutterite.
Today, for example, she's distressed that there will be no classes because of a day-long professional development program to improve standardized test scores.
Such a program is fine in principle, Wasem says, but a waste of time for the Latin Department. She and her colleagues must sit through what she calls a "long, poorly-run meeting'' that focuses on English test scores, even though her department does its own analysis to improve Latin test scores.
She's just getting started: "I used to be able to teach Latin and not have to worry about all the testing and extra work centering around our evaluations.'' That, however, was long ago.
Felecia Branch, 51, arrives at Mackenzie Elementary-Middle School an hour before classes begin. She's a product of Detroit city schools and has taught in them for 25 years.
Branch pops the trunk of her gray Jeep Compass and pulls out a big, gray-blue rolling crate with materials for the day's classes.
Her self-sufficiency is a reminder of the district's troubles, including the near-decade it was under state control. Teachers went for years without a raise; their base pay was cut, and many dipped into their own pockets for basic supplies.
Three years ago, Branch says, "I didn't have any sixth-grade materials. None.'' So, she says, she bought them herself – and did a lot of photocopying.
Now a new superintendent is trying to reverse course. Last year, teachers finally got a raise: 7 percent over two years, plus bonuses for those near or at top scale. And this year, for the first time in years, Branch has almost all the materials she needs.
After a two-minute drive from home, Christine McFarland pulls up at Sinton Elementary School, where today teachers are wearing the paraphernalia of their alma mater.
The 45-year-old English and social studies teacher sports a jacket from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, of which she's a proud 2001 graduate.
But the jacket is also a reminder that, despite her $50,000 annual teacher's salary and a second job as a supermarket cashier, she long has been delinquent on the $300-a-month payments on her 30-year student loan, leaving a debt in the high five digits.
It says she's thinking about leaving her calling.
In March, this 37-year-old middle school science teacher started a Facebook page that helped spark the teachers' uprising in the state. Today, her tank top is bright red – the movement's signature color. At home she has a drawer of red shirts, a couple of red blouses and a red dress.
She's driven an hour from her home at the other corner of the metropolitan area. Her long commute helps explain her activism.
So she took a relatively well-paying job a relatively long way from home in a school with relatively large class sizes.
Some teachers are not teaching on this day, for reasons that underlie the profession's crisis.
Amber Ball, 26, is driving back to Columbia, a tiny town (pop. 390) in northeast Louisiana where she teaches junior high language arts. No school today – her financially strapped district is on a four-day week to save money. That's good, because she gets a three-day weekend. And it's bad, because she takes home just $2,300 a month, even though she has a master's degree.
Luis Martinez, 35, is not teaching his two Spanish classes today at West Shores High in Salton City, California. He arrived at the remote desert school to find that a security officer was out and that he had to take his place. He's frustrated. In such cases, "We're supposed to have a plan.'' Now he has to arrange a sub for his own classes.
Traci Manseau has only 12 students (albeit in eight different grades). Several of the older boys are late because they're needed on the colony's dairy farm. "That's just kind of how it is,'' she shrugs.
She uses a standard public school curriculum, even though it's designed to prepare pupils for a life much different than the one hers will lead.
The girls will grow up to cook, sew, clean and garden. The boys will farm and ranch and work in the dairy. But some of these kids are so smart that, especially at first, it bothered their teacher that none would go to college or even graduate from high school.
"I've just learned to accept it,'' she says. "That's their way of life."
At a planning meeting with other teachers, Christine McFarland promises to work on adding some questions to a worksheet.
But her schedule is already packed. She goes, she says, "from one thing to the next to the next to the next, with few breaks in between.'' And today she has a four-hour shift after school at the supermarket.
The supermarket, however, has offered MacFarland a full-time management job. It has her thinking about quitting what she loves – again.
Ten years ago, when she says her ex-husband fell behind on child support because he was laid off, she left teaching for three years to sell insurance. She tells a story about what triggered her return.
She was grocery shopping when the father of a former student came up and asked, ''Are you still doing insurance?' … He goes, 'You should be ashamed of yourself.' And I said, 'What?' He goes, 'Because you have a gift. You're a teacher. … You're wasting your gift that God gave you.' "
She knew what he meant. She'd helped his son, who was a troubled student. She'd even gone to all the boy's baseball games. And she knew she could teach reading, opening the world to her students in small-town southeast Texas.
She started crying, disappointed with herself for quitting.
The encounter, and others like it, she says, "made me feel like what I needed to do was go back. So I took the pay cut" – about $30,000 – "and I jumped back into teaching."
She also took the part-time job, even though a survey of Texas teachers' union members indicates that those who work a second job are more likely to say they're considering leaving the profession and that working an extra job hurts their teaching.
Now, she says, she wonders if she made the right choice.
To watch her is to realize how much some teachers love their students, how some teachers are able to function without much interference and how some have actually seen their prospects improve.
Her effusiveness has a purpose. She believes that without a personal connection with a student, and preferably with parents, she cannot teach effectively.
"Ooh, you have a lot of hair," she tells one boy, who's removed the rubber band that tamed his Afro. "You have more hair than me. That is wrong on so many levels." She laughs.
Second-grader Clint Stahl flies off a swing, lands hard on the ground and, after a second in shock, starts to wail.
Traci Manseau runs over, picks him up and carries him inside the school. When it looks like his arm is broken – for the second time this year – she loads the sobbing Clint into her car and drives him up the gravel road to the colony. She'll look for a parent to drive the child to a hospital 30 minutes away.
"Everyone go in and work on your math," she tells the other students before leaving them for a few minutes with her aide.
She's moving quickly and, somehow, calmly. In an age of specialization, she is the school's janitor, nurse and mother. "I wear a lot of hats every day,'' she says later, "all day long."
Rebecca Garelli has an English Language Learners (ELL) class with 21 students, including native Spanish speakers and two girls from Rwanda. Some have never taken science before.
In theory, ELL students are taught English in addition to the academic subject; first, the teacher is supposed to get them speaking and listening, then teach some science.
Back in Illinois, such students usually were taught by specialists and learned in English and their native tongue; under Arizona law, they must be instructed primarily in English.
Arizona no longer requires teachers to be trained or certified to teach ELL, and Garelli doesn't really know how to do it, especially with no language skills beyond her high school Spanish.
She gives the students a worksheet she downloaded off the internet. The top of the sheet says, "Let me introduce myself." The students pick partners and begin reading answers, memorizing what their partner said and repeating it back.
For those without cafeteria or playground duty, lunchtime is a break in a day of breakfast eaten standing or sometimes walking, of undrunk coffee, of always feeling like you have to pee. There are nonacademic tasks, such as wiping down desks and handing out tampons; countless intercom announcements, many unintelligible; school assemblies and department meetings, some also unintelligible. It's constant motion: desk to desk, student to student. A deadline every minute.
But now teachers can talk about what makes them fume – such as disrespectful parents.
When a parent demanded to sit in her classroom and observe her teach, Wasem said she'd agree – if she could come to the student's home and see how the parent was helping with the homework.
Another topic at lunchtime is unions, which were dealt a blow by the Supreme Court this year when it barred public employee unions from assessing nonmembers a fee for representing them.
Rebecca Garelli's movement had supported a November ballot initiative, #InvestInEd, to raise taxes on the wealthy to fund public education. Since it was tossed out last month by the Arizona Supreme Court, Garelli has been trying to recruit volunteers and voters to support pro-teacher candidates in November.
But the messages that flood constantly into her social media accounts, email and voice mail must wait until late at night, after she's put her three kids – two of whom are still in highchairs – to bed. Wake-up is 5:30 a.m.
Amber Ball sees it differently. While she concedes that strikes may be effective, as a teacher she worries that they set a bad example for students: Complain, and you'll get what you want.
Halston Drennan does some informal teaching in his college physics discussion group. He asks one obviously stumped classmate, "You get that?'' and then uses his pencil to illustrate paths to the right answer.
He still feels he left part of himself back at his former high school. Helping these students, most of them younger than he is, helps feed his teaching jones.
But he's comfortable with his decision to quit. He's also glad he didn't pursue a master's degree at the University of Colorado, which would have cost more than $30,000 a year for two years and not boost his salary all that much. Now, he makes about as much as part-time bartender as he did teaching 70 hours a week. He asked himself, "Can I afford being an adult?'' As a teacher, he concluded, he couldn't.
"A student asked me if I cried when I made that decision,'' he recalls. "I told her: 'Yes, I absolutely cried when I made that decision.' "
As fifth period ends, Rebecca Garelli escorts her class to another building for "specials" – art, music or band. She stands for a moment in the shade outside and lowers her sunglasses. She's drained.
It's the repetition. Today, in the Sonoran Desert, using a 2004 climate science textbook that lists "Katrina'' as a name for a future storm, she'll teach the same lesson about Hurricane Florence and hurricane preparation four times.
She explains that, despite her boredom, she can't mix up the lessons because she has only this one free period in which to plan.
Then there are the standardized tests, where she is measured by her students' performance. She's fighting to keep her passion for the job.
For Felicia Branch, the day's last class includes an "ah-ha" moment and an "oh-no" moment.
The class is discussing "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief," a fantasy adventure novel it's been reading. Branch points out the lead character's comment about not feeling normal.
"I really love that you said that," Branch replies. "Sometimes, it's kind of cool to be the oddball. I've always considered myself somewhat of an odd bird. … So how many of you felt that when Percy said, 'I'm not normal,' that he was dissing and putting himself down – not really owning who he is?" Several hands go up.
Then, about 40 minutes later, Branch notices a dispute developing between a boy and a girl over a note. She walks over, kneels down and asks what's up. The girl says the boy took the paper, so she took it back. When Branch tells the girl to give her the paper, she refuses – three times.
Branch tells the girl to step out into the hall to calm down. The girl refuses. She sits rigidly and stares straight ahead. "This is what I mean about making a mountain out of a molehill," Branch tells her.
Branch sends a student to get the girl's homeroom teacher. When the man arrives, the girl also gives him the silent treatment. Branch then calls the principal's office and finally the girl's home. Her stepfather says he'll come in.
It's a stinging defeat, given the importance she attaches to developing relationships. And it's a reminder of how much is beyond a classroom teacher's control, especially in a city with the nation's highest rate of child poverty.
Postscript: The stepfather never arrives.
Christine MacFarland leaves school to drive to her job as a supermarket cashier, only to find that her 2013 Ford Explorer with more than 100,000 miles has a flat tire. She slumps behind the wheel and puts her hands over her face. "I don't have time or money for a flat tire," she sighs. She calls her brother to take care of the flat while she gets a ride home to change for her 5 p.m. shift.
5:11 p.m. H-E-B Grocery, Register 5. One of MacFarland's first customers is a former colleague, also a single mother, who left Sinton Elementary last year for a better paying job in the oil and gas industry.
Teacher turnover is a problem in Texas, where the annual rate is 16 percent. The Sinton district's rate last year was 20 percent.
The encounter revives her debate with herself: Stay or go?
While she's waiting for another customer to pay, she steps away from the checkout area, leans her head back on a partition and takes a deep breath. She needs a rest.
Amber Ball is back in town and in her kitchen, cooking a week's meals for herself and nine colleagues. Each teacher pays $5 a meal, which covers Ball's grocery bill.
She needs the money. She's in four weddings between now and April and will attend four others. Plus, she's completing a teacher certification program. (She's not yet certified in Louisiana but was hired provisionally to fill a need in a rural school.) The program cost $4,000 over the summer and $2,000 – nearly a month's paycheck – this fall.
Despite her long work day and low pay, Amber Ball is a happy teacher.
That's partly because she's so relaxed. She calls herself "the hippie teacher,'' and her classroom has a hippie vibe. The whiteboard is outlined by twinkling lights, and the overhead fluorescent lights are switched off. This year she got rid of desks and installed a giant foam mat, a large table, yoga balls and 20 big floor pillows in cases sewn by her and her grandmother.
And it's partly because she's so organized. For instance, she has binders and folders for everything – cooking, class plans, teacher training, even her early-morning workout.
Ed Lawson, in Racine, is one of the last teachers to leave the building. That's how he likes it. He's an ordained minister, and he takes a proprietary interest in the school; he considers it his pastorate.
Amber Ball gets ready for bed around 8:30. She'll be out the door by 4:50 the next morning – the only way to get in a workout at the gym before the start of her 10-hour school day.
Christine MacFarland finishes her supermarket shift at 9. She still hasn't written the questions she promised at the faculty meeting 12 hours earlier.
Rebecca Garelli has put her kids to bed and can finally turn to all those messages about #RedForEd. That can take until 2 a.m.
Felicia Branch retires for the night not knowing that she will get through to the student who wouldn't give up the note. In the days ahead the girl will begin to pay attention, follow instructions, even volunteer to be "laptop captain'' when the class's new computers arrive.
Teachers hold our hands and wipe our noses, tell us we can be more than we are, maybe more than we think we can be.
In return, we tell pollsters that they're underpaid, without being sure what they actually make; that we endorse collective bargaining, yet often resist higher taxes; that we even support their right to strike, preferably in someone else's district.
And so a day with American public school teachers ends with this irony: These people, whom opinion polls show to be among the nation's most respected, feel disrespected.
This year that dichotomy led to revolt. Where it leads next is a matter for speculation or -- in Edward Lawson's case – for prayer.
USA TODAY NETWORK journalists spent Sept. 17 with the following teachers: Amber Ball, English, Spanish and reading, Caldwell Parish Junior High School, Columbia, Louisiana; Felecia Branch, sixth-grade language arts, Mackenzie Elementary-Middle School, Detroit; Mindy Demaris, teacher of the visually impaired, Wicomico County public schools, Maryland ; Halston Drennan, former math teacher at Fossil Ridge High School, Fort Collins, Colorado; Maripat Franke, special education, Neenah High School, Wisconsin; Rebecca Garelli, sixth-grade science, Sevilla West Middle School, Phoenix; Sara Grady, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) curriculum specialist, Inglewood Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee; Arturo Hernandez, second-grade special education, Ocean Academy Charter School, Lakewood, New Jersey; Edward Lawson, building substitute, Julian Thomas Elementary School, Racine, Wisconsin; Traci Manseau, Deerfield Hutterite Colony School, Montana, all grades; Luis Martinez, Spanish teacher and athletic director, West Shores High School, Salton City, California; Christine McFarland, fifth-grade English and social studies, Sinton Elementary School, Texas; Lori McLain, middle school science, Babcock Neighborhood School, Babcock Ranch, Florida; Kristy Thomas, fourth-grade language arts, William Dean Jr. Elementary School, Lexington, Mississippi; Laura Wasem, Latin, Walnut Hills High School, Cincinnati.


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Ghana: Environmentally friendly plastics now available
BY: Abdul-Karim Mohammed Awaf
The Ministry of Environment, Science and Innovation (MESI) has reached an agreement with the Ghana Plastic Manufacturing Association to ensure that plastic materials produced in the country are made with "oxo-biodegradable" additives as a way to safeguard the environment.
The "oxo-biodegradable" additives ensure that plastic materials decompose easily without posing environmental challenges to the country.
This was disclosed to The Mirror by the Head of Public Affairs at MESI, Alhaji Zakari Musah, in Accra.
He, however, said the earlier directive that sought to place an outright ban on plastic materials which weigh 20 microns and below had been referred to a technical committee for consideration.
"There seems to be an inaccurate reportage on the ministry's position. The ministry has agreed to allow plastic manufacturers to produce oxo-biodegradable plastic materials while the other aspect which seeks to ban plastic materials below 20 microns is under technical consideration," he said.
Plastic manufacturers
Confirming the agreement to The Mirror, the national coordinator of the plastic manufacturing association, Mr Daniel Mensah Tornyigah, said the association began producing oxo-biodegradable plastic materials from November 1, this year, in line with the agreement to ensure plastic materials became environmentally friendly.
"I want to place on record that there is no ban on plastic materials in Ghana because there is an alternative to plastic materials in Ghana as at now. The only change is that we have decided to add oxo-biodegradable additives to all plastic materials," he said.
Mr Tornyigah admitted that his association faced so many challenges which made it difficult for it to comply with the government's decision to ban plastic materials which weigh 20 microns and below.
He said currently, only one company imported oxo-biodegradable additives from which all the other companies bought their supplies.
This situation, he said, made the additives more expensive and, therefore, there was the need to allow more time for most of the companies to get the needed support to import oxo-biodegradable additives.
Mr Tornyigah said early 2011, the ministry formed a technical committee made up of only sachet water producers which agreed to ban plastic materials which weigh 20 microns and below.
That, he said, accounted for the current challenges for its members, adding that sachet water producers used microns above 20 and, therefore, they could not bargain on behalf of the association.
EPA regulation
The regulatory body for this directive, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is upbeat about its successful implementation and says plans are far advanced to ensure full compliance of the direction.
The Chief Programmes Officer of the (EPA), Mrs Angelina A. Tutuah Mensah, in an interview with The Mirror, said the agency wrote letters to 18 plastic manufacturing companies currently operating in Ghana and asked them to furnish the agency with the type of products they produced.
She revealed that so far, seven companies had furnished the agency with the products they produced but expressed the hope that the remaining 11 companies would do same.
That information, Mrs Mensah explained, would help the agency to monitor and ensure that all the companies complied with the directive.
On plastic bags imported into the country, Mr Mensah said the agency had collaborated with the Custom Division to tighten the borders to ensure that no non-biodegradable plastic materials were passed through the country's borders and would soon clamp down non-biodegradable plastic materials brought into the country through unapproved routes.
She said most plastic manufacturing companies were the same people engaged in the importation of plastic materials into the country and, therefore, was hopeful that the companies would comply with the directive.
She could not, however, disclose the punitive measures for companies who would default in the directive.
Ghana was recently rated the seventh dirtiest country in the world due to its poor sanitary conditions following a deadly flood in Accra attributed to poor and choked drainage system.
In a swift response, the Ministry of Environment, Innovation Science and Technology announced early this year that come November 1, there would be an outright ban on plastic materials which weigh 20 microns and below, as well as all non-biodegradable plastic materials.
These included light plastics used in packaging gari, koko, groundnut etc. The ministry, therefore, gave the plastic manufacturing companies 90 days to clear their stock.
At a conference in Lome in June this year, the representatives of seven West African states agreed that oxo-biodegradable plastic waste was essential to protect the region's environment.
So far, 11 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East have already legislated to make ox-biodegradable plastic mandatory for a wide range of consumer products.


Every half term of my childhood we'd back up the car, head home and escape from the bubble of life on the inside of a school, even if only for a week. We'd go to the beach, explore up on the moor, spend rainy days reading a never ending stack of favourites, and almost always go to Hembry Woods to tramp along the river bank, and then more often than not end up in the pub up the road for hot soup and a chance to warm up by their fire. The leaves would be all the colours of green and gold and fiercely burnt orange, and when the wind blew they would scatter around us like confetti. the mud underfoot was dark and soft, decades of leaf mould producing a very satisfying squelch, and down in the valley the river would call our names in the roar of the rapids.
It hasn't changed. You still have to turn off from the main path to get there, down a little track, just wide enough for one at a time, over a fallen tree still wrapped in ivy vines and then down the final slope to see the river there before you.
The Dart, a lot smaller than down in the harbour , but ferocious through the rapids that carve islands into the centre of the stream. When I was little I could imagine all sorts of secret adventures happening on those islands, and in the summer when the river was lower we could paddle and rock hop out to them, wading through cool peaty water, clear enough to see all the way down to our toes.
In the autumn they're definitely more for looking at from afar, unless you travel by canoe, but being back in the woods was the highlight of my half term, and a definitely highlight of the month as we headed south to spend the final weekend of half term with my Dad. The children were fascinated by the river; the sea is their familiar friend, and they've seen the harbour and big tidal estuaries, but this little moorland stream was something completely new. They hurled sticks into the water and watched them get jumbled up in the rapids, and tried to stir the flotillas of beech leaves that amass in the calms, gently swirling, oblivious to the tumult behind them.
We saw a golden retriever swimming after a stick, and for all that they're not that keen on dogs, we waited to see her come safely ashore, prize between her teeth. On sandy beaches they dipped the toes of their boots, and starred down into the water as it shelved steeply away, or hung over the edge of the bank to count the fish, no bigger than a little finger, that darted across the shallows, brown against the white stone on the riverbed below.
Elma planted acorns along the path, heaping them under sandy soil and planting a feather or a twig in the top of each one to mark where the new tree will be.
And then we climbed a tree.
And I think these might be my favourite Me and Mine photos yet. It seems to sum up so many things that we value as a family and that John and I try to build into our days; being together, being outside in nature, and doing something ever so slightly crazy.
So often so much of our months are characterised by the complete opposite, by being apart because of work and school, by being inside because I've not yet convinced anyone that I could be productive working outside in the churchyard near my office, and by the everyday ordinary, rather than the adventures, it made for a truly wonderful weekend to dive right in, to recreate a memory of my own and pass the tradition on.
But my last photo this month comes from a more recent tradition. When I was a child the cafe was entirely washed away by a storm one winter; I can remember going down the next day and dancing hopscotch on the tiles that had been enclosed by roof and walls. When I was a teenager I worked on the counter and watched people squeeze in to the picnic benches to eat their pasties. Now, breakfast at the cafe on the beach is more of a tradition than fish and chips at the pub, and it's completely delicious so we wouldn't be without it for the world.
That looks like a wonderfull weekend. And the way you describe it, makes photo's project themselves inside my head.
Oh Carie! I think those tree shots are my favourite of yours ever!! So fun! And how big they all are!!! Slow down children!
Love the tree shot and you all look so happy!!


My plan is to make my way west along the Ohio River from here and spend a few days in Cincinnati. Then I'm going to head north to Dayton and back east across the middle of the state. When I've made it back to my maternal grandfather's hometown of Dillonvale, I will head north to the lake and then back west again along the lake to Toledo and on into Michigan. So basically my route will resemble a big reverse "S" as I find my way around the state. I've gotten some great suggestions from people on some places to check out, but please feel free to add to my list in the comments below.
I'm not sure what to expect as I make my way around Ohio. I know a lot of people who are from the Buckeye State and all of them are good people who are fiercely proud of their home state. I consider that a very good start. I have some Midwestern roots myself, in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin and I'm looking forward to getting in touch with that side of my background. If this entire journey is one of self-discovery, then this is the section where I learn about the parts of my family I am less familiar with. I think that is really exciting.
Over the last week, I've been able to do some content creation work for the Athens County Visitor's Bureau, and while it's the same post that appears on my blog below, you can also see it on their site HERE. While I had blogged for my tour company for years before starting Miles2Go, and have published photos in brochures, magazines and books, it was still exciting to be able to work with such wonderful people and produce content about their beautiful county. They gave me a lot of freedom to do what I wanted to do, so they could see Athens County through my eyes. I really respected that and tried to produce something which I would be proud of and which would fall in line with my own mission. I'm pretty happy with the result and really hope I can work with other counties and visitor's bureaus in the future. It really is what I want to do, and is the way I would prefer to be making a living out here.
Athens Brew Week has been going on during my stay here, and it has been great to try craft beers from all over the state. There have been some fun events around town, and I have been able to get out to some of them. I really enjoyed the grand finale or "Last Call" as they refer to it. The weather was threatening, but it held out long enough to get all of the activities in for the day. On the main stage, I enjoyed the spinning of local legend DJ Barticus, followed by Rage Against The Machine cover band Bulls on Parade and Pink Floyd cover band Any Color. It was a great way to close out the week.
This coming week I'm headed towards Cincinnati. I'm going to be working on my first Ohio podcast, but it would be wishful thinking to believe it will be done by this time next week. I'm really excited to see what southwest Ohio has in store for me.
I'm feeling good out here. It is nice to get some work and feel some worth in what I've been doing. It was nice to spend some time with an old friend. Even though we've both been busy at work, it's been nice to catch up at night and have a drink together. Mostly it's just exciting to see what the future of this project might hold. I'm very grateful for it all, and for you for following along with the ride.
Until next week then, thanks for being here. Have a great week and enjoy these long days while they last. You know I will.


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Calvin (1872–1879) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1875 Belmont Stakes. Besides the Belmont, Calvin won two other stakes races as a two and three year old horse. He was euthanized in 1879 after contracting tetanus.

Background

Calvin was foaled in 1872, and was a brown stallion sired by Tipperary. He was bred by Price McGrath. Tipperary was sired by Ringgold and his dam was Roxana by the imported stallion Chesterfield. Calvin's dam was Lucy Fowler, who was sired by imported Albion. Lucy's dam was an unnamed mare sired by imported Leviathan. Calvin was a full brother to the stakes winner Aaron Pennington, who was foaled in 1871. Lucy was also the dam of the stakes winning Tom Bowling, who was sired by Lexington and was foaled in 1870.

Racing career

As a two-year-old, Calvin won the 1874 July Stakes.

During his three-year-old year, Calvin won the ninth running of the Belmont Stakes in 1875 at Jerome Park Racetrack in a time of 2 minutes 40 seconds. He carried  pounds in the race, and won $4,450 () for his owner. The race was run on June 12 over a distance of  miles () on a fast track. Calvin did not lead from the start, but instead came from behind to have a six-length lead at one point before fading a bit before the finish. Calvin won by two lengths from the second-placed finisher Aristides; the third place went to Milner. Both Calvin and Aristides were owned by H. Price McGarth. Calvin's trainer was U.S. Racing Hall of Fame Ansel Williams. The winning jockey was Robert Swim.

Besides his win in the Belmont, Calvin also won the 1875 Jersey Derby, where he beat future Hall of Fame horse Tom Ochiltree again, who was unplaced in the Belmont behind Calvin.

Death

Calvin contracted tetanus in April 1879 from a nail penetrating his hoof and had to be euthanized. Calvin sired no stakes winners.

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References

1872 racehorse births
1879 racehorse deaths
Racehorses trained in the United States
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Belmont Stakes winners
Thoroughbred family A28
Byerley Turk sire line

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A barrier to developing, improving, or sharing our assessment practices is the confusion surrounding the vocabulary of assessment. Whenever it occurs or by whatever method, assessment is simply the process of discovering what and how well students have learned and then using that information to improve. One can quickly become mired in a sea of words that feel like jargon, with assumptions that confuse and distort the real meaning of this otherwise familiar practice of all good instructors. Part of the problem is that the language is not our own and so, by its very adoption, reinforces the impression that assessment is an intrusion into our classrooms. Because these confusions are so destructive to the ability of an institution to move forward with assessment, we must either work to make this vocabulary our own or develop a different vocabulary for the same ideas.
Even though discovering what students have learned in order to improve teaching is a natural part of a good teacher's practice, law schools are having difficulty in knowing exactly what this talk of assessment means. Faculty frequently mistake outcomes assessment for something more complex, unusual, or even sinister. "Assessment" becomes confused with "evaluation" (as in program or teacher evaluation) or "standardized testing," and, before long, we are thinking of K-12 school district funding decisions based a "No Child Left Behind" external control of education.
There is a fundamental difference between assessing student learning for the purposes of program or teacher evaluation and assessing student learning for the purposes of improving that learning. If we are assessing for accountability, we collect data (e.g., pass rates) about students learning outcomes that we do not necessarily control (e.g. bar exams) so that we can report that data to external constituencies (e.g. accreditors). In contrast, if we are assessing for student learning, we observe evidence (e.g., essays, performances) of student learning outcomes that we have designed ourselves so that we can interpret and use that evidence to improve the learning of our students. When accountability to those outside the learning process is the driving force behind assessment, the temptation may be to assess only those learning outcomes that we know students have mastered and avoid looking for places where learning could be significantly improved. We might skew our teaching and curricula away from learning outcomes we truly care about to more closely match the learning outcomes we believe outsiders consider important. Of course that already does happen to some degree. The influence of ABA standards of accreditation and bar examinations on curricula is so obvious we may not even recognize the degree to which our faculty control of the program of legal education is directed by these learning outcomes and assessment methods.
It is against this backdrop of fear that some law teachers approach the topic of outcomes assessment. However, resisting assessment out of a concern that others will rob law faculty of their freedom means giving up one of the most powerful tools to protect that freedom. If a faculty can clearly communicate the learning goals they have for their students, and can demonstrate how their program of legal education leads to more students accomplishing those learning goals at higher levels of mastery, that proof of learning can become powerful tool for demonstrating accountability: to the students, the academy, the bar, and the public. That is not to say that assessment for accountability will not be required or should not be undertaken with seriousness of purpose and honesty in method. Assessment for improving student learning, however, should be just as important, if not more so, so that we can be accountable to ourselves and our students.


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The houses are located within the walking distance to restaurants, cafes, bars, ski rental shops, ski tour companies, child-care, convenience store, bus stops, and the ski gondola station.
The property management office is just right across the street. English speaking staff welcome you upon your check in and explain all about the facilities and Furano information. You can ask them about local information and receive 24 hours support while during your stay.
It is easy to access all of the sightseeing and flower farm attractions during the green season from this accommodation.