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10 Essential Pat Metheny Albums
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Pat Metheny has been a leading jazz guitarist since the late 1970s, sounding unlike anyone else. While it is possible to describe most jazz artists prior to the mid-1970s by tying them to the influence of some historic musical role models (even if that is often a simplification), Metheny's airy tone (which is easily identifiable within a few notes), his open-minded approach to playing, and the musical ideas that he expresses do not fit into any historic style. After his early successes, he was sometimes described as "fusion" or "folk jazz," but those terms are only a hint of the wide-ranging music that he plays which is beyond simple classification.
Metheny was born Aug. 12, 1954 in Lee's Summit, Missouri, the younger brother of trumpeter-flugelhornist Mike Metheny. He began on the guitar when he was eight or nine, initially attracted to it by the Beatles. However, after being into rock for two weeks, he heard Miles Davis and that immediately led him into exploring jazz. Metheny developed quickly and, by the time he was 12, he was not only into bebop, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins but was heavily influenced by Wes Montgomery who he could credibly imitate. Ironically, by the time he began recording, few guitarists sounded less like Montgomery than Metheny.
Pat Metheny played with local groups in Missouri as a teenager, gaining a strong regional reputation before he was even out of high school. In 1972 he began attending the University of Miami where he met the innovative electric bassist Jaco Pastorius who became his best friend. While the guitarist attended Berklee briefly, his main learning took place by simply playing on the bandstand. In 1974 he and Pastorius moved to New York where they both made their recording debut in a quartet with veteran pianist Paul Bley. Soon Metheny became a member of vibraphonist Gary Burton's quintet, a group that also included Mick Goodrick on guitar. Metheny (who eventually became Burton's only guitarist) was with the vibraphonist's band into 1977 and recorded Dreams So Real and Passengers with Burton.
#1 – Bright Size Life (ECM, 1975)
The guitarist's debut album as a leader teams him with Jaco Pastorius and drummer Bob Moses. Many of his originals (including "Missouri Uncompromised" and "Omaha Celebration") pay tribute to his roots in the Midwest as does the feeling of wide open spaces that can be felt in his compositions and in his solos. Defying the stereotype that would be attached to him in his early years, Metheny also includes a medley of two Ornette Coleman tunes ("Round Trip" and "Broadway Blues") that feature particularly adventurous improvising.
While Bright Size Life was an excellent introduction for the jazz world to the unique Pat Metheny sound, it can also be considered (along with his Gary Burton recordings) to be the end of the guitarist's relatively brief apprentice period. Starting in 1977, Metheny would be heard almost exclusively as a leader or a featured special guest.
#2 – Pat Metheny Group (ECM, 1978)
In 1975, Metheny met pianist-keyboardist Lyle Mays at a college jazz festival in Wichita, Kansas. The guitarist recognized a kindred spirit and within three weeks they were playing together in public. When he left Gary Burton's group in 1977, he formed The Pat Metheny Group, a unit that co-starred Mays that lasted for nearly 30 years.
While Watercolors, a quartet set with Lyle Mays, bassist Eberhard Weber, and drummer Danny Gottlieb from Jan. 1977, was Metheny's first recording with Mays, it was the self-titled album The Pat Metheny Group (with Mays, Gottlieb, and bassist Mark Egan) that launched his longtime band. The music was unlike anything heard before. The rhythms are floating rather than swinging, the group's sound was electric but not rockish, and their repertoire includes a full set of folkish melodies that inspired strong but melodic improvisations by Metheny and Mays. "Phase Dance" and "Jaco" are the most memorable selections but all six songs helped define the group.
To the surprise of Pat Metheny, his band became extremely popular very fast and retained its popularity for decades. As with such popular jazz artists of the past as Dave Brubeck, George Shearing and Erroll Garner, Metheny did not have to alter his music for it to catch on. His music was not conceived for radio airplay or to fill up stadiums; it was simply the way he and Mays (who was often his co-composer) enjoyed playing.
#3 – American Garage (ECM, 1979)
Building upon the success of their debut, American Garage by the Metheny-Mays-Egan-Gottlieb quartet is filled with intensity, hints of rock (as if to show that Metheny could play that way whenever he liked), sophisticated electronics from Mays, a Latin flavor on "The Search," and its highlight, the nearly 13-minute "The Epic." While the unit might have looked a little like a garage band on the album cover, in reality they were sophisticated jazz artists who, rather than copying the past, were creating very original new music that was both consistently inventive and accessible.
#4 – 80/81 (ECM, 1980)
While the Pat Metheny Group would be the guitarist's main outlet for quite a few years, he also enjoyed taking time off for side projects. In 1979 he was part of the Joni Mitchell album Shadows and Light (participating as part of a jazz group with Mays, Pastorius and tenor-saxophonist Michael Brecker).
The double-Lp (later two-CD set) 80/81 was something much different. Metheny teams up with two veterans of both the Ornette Coleman groups and Keith Jarrett's 1970s quartet (tenor-saxophonist Dewey Redman and bassist Charlie Haden) plus Michael Brecker and drummer Jack DeJohnette. The music is their version of Ornette's "free bop," improvising in a swinging manner with strong forward momentum but minimal chord changes. The guitarist was in fast company on this project and shows throughout that he was very much on the level of his well-known sidemen at playing adventurous acoustic jazz.
#5 -Travels (ECM, 1982)
By this point in time, all of the recordings by the Pat Metheny Group were best-sellers including So Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (which is by the trio of Metheny, Mays and percussionist Nana Vasconcelos) and Offramp from 1980-81. The double-album Travels, taken from a variety of concerts (Metheny was constantly on the road), has Steve Rodby succeeding Mark Egan and Vasconcelos making the group a quintet It is particularly notable for Metheny's new-found mastery of the guitar synthesizer and the strong influence of Brazilian music on the unit's sound. Quite typically, the result is not a set of predictable sambas or bossa novas but the infusion of the Brazilian influence on the band's eclectic sound and repertoire, along with aspects of New Age, rock, classical, folk, and World Music from other cultures. Everything was blended together to achieve a group identity that could only have come from this unit.
#6 – Still Life Talking (Geffen, 1987)
Although not quite 33 at the time that Metheny and his Group recorded Still Life Talking in 1987, the guitarist had already been a household name in jazz for nearly a decade, was increasingly influential, and was considered one of the main leaders of modern jazz. During the past few years he had recorded a highly rated trio album with bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Billy Higgins (Rejoicing, ECM, 1983), collaborated with one of his idols altoist Ornette Coleman on the rather wild Song X (Nonesuch, 1985), appeared as a featured sideman on recordings by his brother Mike Metheny, drummer Bob Moses, and Michael Brecker, and recorded First Circle (ECM, 1984), the soundtrack to The Falcon And The Snowman (EMI, 1984) and Still Life Talking (Geffen, 1987) with his regular quartet which now included bassist Steve Rodby and drummer Paul Wertico.
Still Life Talking added percussionist Armando Marcal to the group along with vocalizing by Marcal, David Blamirez and Mark Ledford. Metheny was experimenting not only with adding a strong Brazilian tinge to the group's sound but utilizing voices and additional instruments. 1989's Letter From Home would include Pedro Aznar on tenor, vibes, and percussion and have both Metheny and Mays utilizing synclaviers. Metheny may have been filling stadiums as one of jazz's best-sellers but he never wanted his music to go stale, become predictable, or lose its sense of adventure.
#7 – Imaginary Day (Warner Bros, 1997)
Pat Metheny has been a musical workhorse throughout his career, and that was certainly true in the 1990s. Among his many projects during the decade before recording Imaginary Day were recordings with Gary Burton (Reunion, GRP, 1989), a trio with bassist Dave Holland and Roy Haynes (Question And Answer, Geffen, 1989), an orchestra album (Secret Story, Geffen, 1991-92), sideman sets with Joshua Redman, Roy Haynes, Abbey Lincoln, Tony Williams, Michael Brecker, Kenny Garrett, Marc Johnson (teaming him with guitarist Bill Frisell), and Dave Liebman, collaborations with fellow guitarist John Scofield (I Can See Your House From Here, Blue Note, 1993), and Charlie Haden (the duet set Beyond The Missouri Sky, Verve, 1996), and rather passionate free improvisations with avant-garde guitarist Derek Bailey (Sign Of 4, Knitting Factory, 1996).
While the Pat Metheny Group was becoming a little more of a part-time venture (although they recorded 1991's The Road To You, 1994's We Live Here and 1996's Quartet), the Metheny-Mays musical partnership was not running out of gas. Imaginary Day is filled with fresh melodies and new sounds including both Mark Ledford and David Blamires on trumpets and vocals, along with guest percussionists. A special feature is hearing Metheny on the 42-string Pikasso guitar which he often used as an unaccompanied showcase to begin concerts. On "Into The Dream" he displays its potential.
#8 – The Way Up (Nonesuch, 2003-04)
Lyle Mays, who was becoming very tired of living on the road, dropped out of the Pat Metheny Group after 27 years in 2005. His ability to blend his keyboards with Metheny's guitar, his composing skills (leading to co-writing many originals with Metheny), and the similar way that they thought about music were irreplaceable, so his retirement resulted in the end of the group. The Way Up (the band's 11th studio recording) consists of a 65-minute piece broken up into four parts, featuring both the band's distinctive although ever-changing sound, and its members' individual solo talents. The final version of the Pat Metheny Group was one of its strongest with Metheny and Mays joined by Steve Rodby, drummer Antonio Sanchez, trumpeter Cuong Vu, Gregoire Maret on harmonica, and Richard Bono and Dave Samuels on percussion.
#9 – Orchestrion (Nonesuch, 2009)
While his regular band broke up, Pat Metheny's life remained a whirlwind of musical activity. He recorded duets with one of his musical heroes guitarist Jim Hall, cut several trio albums, teamed up in duets and a quartet with pianist Brad Mehldau, and recorded for the last time with Michael Brecker and Gary Burton.
By 2009, Metheny was heavily involved in what was called his Orchestrion Project. The Orchestrion has its roots in one-man band machines of the late 1800s. Built by the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots and Peterson Electro-Musical Products, the huge machine allows Metheny through his guitar to trigger the sounds of pianos, marimba, vibes, orchestra bells, basses, other guitars, all types of percussion, and even horns and strings. His live shows with the Orchestrion certainly make one wonder how it works, how he can get so many instruments playing complex lines and how he manages to keep everything straight while looking relaxed.
Metheny's debut album with the Orchestrion concept is a strong introduction to his one-man band period. He used the Orchestrion for several years, sometimes in conjunction with a live band, amazing audiences and creating some remarkable music.
#10 Unity Band (Nonesuch, 2012)
A long-time fan of tenor-saxophonist Chris Potter (who also plays soprano, bass clarinet and flute), Metheny formed a quartet with Potter, bassist Ben Williams, and drummer Antonio Sanchez in 2012. A quartet that includes a horn may not be a radical idea, but Metheny had never led a group with that instrumentation before. Ranging from a little bit of bebop and free improvisations to new versions of older Metheny tunes and fresh unclassifiable originals, the Unity Band has toured extensively and recorded several albums (2013's Kin and 2014's The Unity Sessions). Their first release, Unity Band, is an example of the typically eclectic music that Metheny has performed with this stimulating group.
Pat Metheny, whose most recent recording (Side-Eye NYC, Modern Recordings, 2020) is his first album in a bassless organ group (one that features organist James Francies and drummer Marcus Gilmore), can always be counted upon to perform music that is adventurous and full of unexpected moments. He remains one of the most influential guitarists around. These ten releases are excellent places to start in exploring his large and colorful body of work.
Scott Yanow: jazz journalist/historian and author of 12 books including Life Through A Life Of A Jazz Journalist (My Musical Memoirs), The Jazz Singers, The Great Jazz Guitarists, Trumpet Kings, Jazz On Film, and Jazz On Record 1917-76
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4.1 Strategy for What the Eck?
Stampede — Gal'darah summons a Rhino Spirit which charges a player, inflicting Physical damage and knocking them into the air.
Whirling Slash — Gal'darah spins around in a whirlwind of steel, inflicting Physical damage to all players within 5 yards and causing them to bleed for additional Physical damage every 3 sec, for 6 sec. While using Whirling Slash, Gal'darah's movement speed is reduced by 65%.
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The tank should range-pull and then back firmly into the wall and stay there for the entire fight. During this phase, melee should be in back of the boss ready to move away from the Whirling Slash, while ranged and healer should stand behind the melee out of Whirling Slash range. During Whirling Slash everyone but the tank should move to safety—the boss will keep aggro on the tank. The healer should focus all heals on the tank during Whirling Slash—the others can do ranged DPS or bandage if needed. The tank should save all blocking and avoidance cooldowns for Whirling Slash. The boss can be disarmed and dismantled on both normal and heroic and, if he is, the Whirling Slash will result in all misses/dodges/parrys/blocks against a tanking warrior, and minimal damage against bears.
At the beginning of Rhino phase, all players should run toward the tank as quickly as possible and should constantly stay as close as they can to the tank even to the point of directly stacking on the tank with backs to the wall to prevent the knockback. Players that get knocked back should immediately run toward the tank to minimize their potential charge distance. This phase is especially challenging for healers that need to stand still to cast. The healer's highest priority should be to keep the tank up regardless of distance from the Rhino. Second priority is to move toward the tank. Third priority is the other players.
Start the fight in the middle of the room, with other party members further out, and have the tank run far enough away during Whirling Slash to avoid the massive damage, while simultaneously circling around Gal'darah. This requires that the tank and healer be aware of each others position so as not to get out of range for heals. Random players will most likely get impaled and "ride the horn", possibly more that once, but if the tank is topped up, avoids most of the Whirling Slash damage, uses Enraged Regeneration, Lifeblood (if an herbalist), Last Stand, trinkets, etc, this will give the healer time to heal other group members and themselves before the return of Rhino form. Rinse and repeat until the boss is dead.
On heroic, the damage is significantly increased from Gal'darah to the tank (around 8-10k melee plus DoTs) in rhino form, and from the Spirit Rhinos (~5k on leather/~8k on cloth). During phase 2, Gal'darah charges players; the further you are away the more damage taken.
Casters should remain out of range of the knockbacks, but should move in closer to reduce charge damage.
Wipes happen primarily either from Whirling Slash on non-tank players during Troll phase or from charges on non-tank players during Rhino phase. The Rhino knockback is a special concern because it does damage while moving the healer out of range just before a big damage Charge. A very workable strategy is to corner/wall tank the boss using one of the two wall crotches located to the left and right of the boss at about 45 degree angles. The tank and the group can safely move to either wall cavity without aggroing.
Tanks will take a lot of damage during Rhino form, which is then amplified when he enrages for 10 seconds. It is ideal to have a hunter in the group to [Tranquilizing Shot] each time Gal'darah enrages.
Strategy for What the Eck?
The boss may be defeated normally for this achievement, so long as players have the Eck Residue buff from Eck the Ferocious. For strategy on getting the buff, see the What the Eck? entry.
The primary goal of this strategy is to keep DPS to a minimum while extending the encounter long enough for each party member to become impaled. The encounter is not a DPS race, and must be controlled through positioning and coordination. The trick to this achievement is the impales are only random for the first two, then afterward it's the third person closet to boss. Because of this, it forces the group to need a secondary tank because the main tank could possibly not be impaled the first two casts.
Plate class with tanking gear or a secondary tanking spec who can DPS through the whole instance, then switch into full tanking gear as the second tank makes this encounter much easier. Highly recommended because the way impale works.
A Warrior as the main tank can disarm Gal'darah, which helps significantly.
One or two off-healers is helpful when the healer gets Impaled since you don't need DPS for achievement.
For example, a group could consist of a protection-specced Warrior, feral Druid with full tanking gear, an enhancement Shaman with full healing gear, an balance Druid with full healing gear, and a Holy Priest main healing.
Normal form: Gal'darah is pretty weak in troll form; however during Whirling Slash, all party members (including melee) except the main tank should stay away from him as much as possible to avoid any damage. The first tank just tanks the Troll form until he turns into a Rhino.
Rhino form: When Gal'darah transforms into a Rhino, everyone should line up with the healer between the tank unless it's the healer that needs the impale and the person they want impaled for the third and following casts of impale. That way, the right person gets impaled. The other two DPS and/or tank that isn't tanking should be greater then max range so if he knocks someone back, the order doesn't mess up. Once Gal'darah turns back into a Troll, get away from him as fast as possible if you are not tanking.
Tips: Remember that during this fight, you BARELY want to be damaging him; do not go DPS crazy AT ALL. Conserve mana, take it slow, and make sure it gets done right.
To ensure sure that your main tank gets impaled, have the main tank tanking until the off-tank gets hit by the impale, at which point the off-tank can taunt Gal'darah, and take over tanking until the main tank is impaled. Once your main tank is free again, he can taunt and tank the rest of the fight. The off-tank is then free to DPS, but being mindful to minimize the amount of damage while everyone takes a turn at being impaled.
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Quote of the Day: the "Golden Age" of Crisis Coverage Never Existed
April 25, 2013 by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief 3 Comments
Bulletin that announced President Kennedy had been shot.
Our Quote of the Day comes from University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, one of the country's most accurate political analysts (he's the flip side of Dick Morris) who notes the severe criticism the media is receiving for some of its Boston Marathon bombing coverage — and notes that the golden age of crisis coverage never existed. He says the JFK assassination coverage was worse then coverage of the events in Boston. He writes in part:
Critics say it is just another example of the decline of journalistic ethics in our anything-goes era of live, continuous broadcasting, blogging and tweeting. Why can't today's reporters meet the same high standards achieved by their illustrious predecessors in the golden age of journalism?
Well, the answer may be that the golden age never existed.
If you doubt this, take a look back to the start of live TV reporting of national tragedy, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, Nov. 22, 1963. The coverage of this watershed event has often been hailed as the epitome of sober, cautious treatment of a big breaking story.
Yet this is partly because people's memory of the sorrowful four-day TV marathon is dominated by the dignified coverage of the weekend ceremonies and funeral of President Kennedy, which were beautifully designed almost overnight by Jacqueline Kennedy.
Sabato is working on a book about JFK, "The Kennedy Half Century," and is reviewing all the old videos. Here is part of what he found:
Highly inaccurate information was aired almost immediately. In the minutes after he began his CBS broadcast, [CBS News anchor Walter] Cronkite suggested four times that a man and woman on the grassy knoll were the assassins, and that they had been surrounded by armed Secret Service agents and others. In fact, the couple, Bill and Gayle Newman, whom I have interviewed, had simply fallen to the ground to protect their two young sons from the gunfire. They were encircled mostly by spectators who wanted to insure they were safe and by reporters who wanted to interview them.
Then Cronkite and/or the KRLD anchor made a series of pronouncements, presented as facts, which would prove to be unfounded:
*A machine gun had been used to fire the bullets at the motorcade.
*Secret Service man was killed in the volley of bullets.
*The Secret Service had quickly taken a man into custody for the assassination attempt. In fact, no one was under arrest, and Lee Harvey Oswald, who had not yet been identified as the chief suspect, wouldn't be apprehended until considerably later in the afternoon at the Texas Theater.
*A witness saw "a colored man" fire the shots from the Texas School Book Depository's fourth floor. Oswald was white, of course, and the shots were fired from the sixth floor of the building.
There are other slip-ups, but you get the point.
He focuses on the key role in news played by CBS's Walter Cronkite that day but also notes that Cronkite was not the only one cover the story. AND:
…A friend of President Kennedy who struggled to keep his on-air emotions in check, Cronkite was a skilled, comforting presence at a moment when the collective national heart stopped dead, and most Americans were deeply shocked and fearful. Many years later, I was privileged to discuss with Cronkite his views of the assassination and coverage. He freely admitted that he and his colleagues were flying, if not blind, then in pea soup fog.
Cronkite noted that live coverage of breaking news is inherently mistake-prone. Confusion reigns, and normally reliable sources can innocently provide incomplete or misleading information. Network bosses want their news professionals to "break it first," and careers can be made or destroyed easily in such situations. While it was not as true in 1963, today's audience demands a steady flow of information, and news consumers compare what they are getting on TV with what they are reading on Twitter or hearing from competing networks.
Media gaffes and goofs should not be easily excused, since commendable restraint — occasionally, simple silence — is the obvious remedy. There should be a penalty for a big error, even if it is only severe criticism.
But in our supercharged age, when we appear to lurch from crisis to crisis at hyper-speed, we need to remember two news fundamentals. First, we impatient consumers are a large part of the problem. Second, modern media blunders, while deeply regrettable, are consistent with a pattern that stretches back to the beginning of live breaking news.
The technology of news-gathering has changed radically, but human frailty is the constant that connects all eras.
Go to the link and read it all.
Also: this is from Sabato's indispensable political Crystal Ball, put out by him and his University of Virginia team. You can get it for free by email and it is REQUIRED READING for political junkies who want to read serious, accurate analysis and not name-calling partisan rants peddled as analysis.
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Freed to Serve: Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary launches full tuition support for ELCA candidates
The Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary of Lenoir-Rhyne University has launched Freed to Serve, a program aimed at eliminating tuition costs for seminarians within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
"We know that many of our students come to seminary with debt from their undergraduate study," said Rector and Dean of LTSS, the Rev. Dr. Mary Hinkle Shore. "We want to do everything we can not to add to that debt. This program is possible through the generosity of congregations, alumni, synods, and other donors who have earmarked their gifts specifically for student assistance."
Freed to Serve funds will be available to full-time students of LTSS beginning in the fall of 2019. The scholarship provides full tuition support to ELCA members from any synod in the church. To be eligible, students must be in candidacy with their home synod. Freed to Serve scholarships will support those preparing for service on either the Word and Service or Word and Sacrament roster of ministers.
LTSS, founded in 1830, eventually found its permanent home in the Eau Claire neighborhood of north Columbia, South Carolina, in 1911. One of seven ELCA seminaries in the United States, LTSS is the only ELCA seminary in the southeast. It is now part of a thriving graduate campus of LR and also includes programs for students in counseling, occupational therapy, and human services. Rich in tradition and welcoming to seminarians from many denominations, LTSS boasts a dedicated, collegial faculty and a broad alumni base of distinguished regional and national church leaders. LTSS is designated as a Reconciling in Christ seminary and, as a seminary of the ELCA, is positioned to faithfully serve the synods of Region 9.
To learn more about Freed to Serve scholarships or to pursue studies at LTSS, contact The Rev. Jennifer L. Shimota, coordinator of seminary enrollment, at jennifer.shimota@lr.edu or 803.461.3297 or visit lr.edu/apply.


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The Professional Master of Education Primary (PMEP) programme, is one of a suite of education programmes within Hibernia College's School of Education and complements other educational programme provision.
It is a 120-credit award at level 9 and the duration of the programme is two years (24 months). It is a flexibly delivered blended learning programme, combining online content, virtual learning environments and face-to-face delivery to develop professionals and experts who are positioned to be leaders in the field of primary education.
The PMEP consists of a sequence of modules that reflect the contemporary issues faced by teachers today and the skills and knowledge required of them in order to be expert teachers who enable effective pupil learning. In particular, it recognises the importance of ensuring that student teachers consider that teaching itself is understood and practised as a form of self-critical learning by them; learning that is driven by inquiry, reflection and improvements based on evidence.
Synthesise the professional knowledge, understanding, pedagogical skills and competences required to be an effective primary teacher in an ever-changing, ill-defined, complex society, including ability to comply with standards of behaviour and performance that evidences commitment to the required standards of professional conduct and practice as set out in the Teaching Council's Code of Professional Conduct for Teachers (2012) and thus seek registration with the Teaching Council of Ireland.
Use research-based evidence to improve the effectiveness of practice through continuous reflection on that practice; seeking, accepting and acting on constructive advice and thus demonstrate ability to be a reflective and reflexive practitioner.
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Assess critically the suitability of classroom management strategies to determine the appropriateness of their application to lead and support differentiated learning in a safe, interactive and challenging environment across a range of classroom situations.
Synthesise and reflect critically on the pedagogical relevance of the theoretical foundations of education and the social and policy contexts in which the aims of education are defined and implemented: designing learning experiences for primary school children that take account of the integrated nature of learning across and within subjects.
Informed by current research literature at the forefront of the field of primary education, demonstrate systematic knowledge, pedagogical competence, linguistic ability and numeracy skills to teach all subjects of the primary school curriculum.
Design, implement and evaluate critically lessons that take account of the religious and ethical ethos of particular schools as appropriate.
Analyse critically the role of teachers as active partners with school management, parents/guardians and the community and evaluate the most effective strategies in the development of a positive and effective teaching and learning environment in the primary school classroom; demonstrating ability to provide inclusive education for pupils with multiple and diverse needs.
Take significant responsibility for the work of individuals and groups through participation in and implementation of school policies and structures, including communication with pupils, colleagues and members of the wider school community demonstrating competent, reflective and reflexive practice in a variety of contexts.
The teaching and learning environment at Hibernia College is designed so that students engage with the programme content, with their tutors and with each other across virtual and physical learning spaces. Hours spent in direct contact with tutors – as synchronous tutorials, webinars or face-to-face classes – are specifically accountable, as are the hours designated for school placements. Independent learning time is necessary as each student will vary as to the time they need to spend on their own individual research and reading.
Students at Hibernia College interact with four main forms of content on a weekly basis.
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The Premier, Mark McGowan, released the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Strategy 2030 on Sunday Morning 10 February. The following is the link to his media release.
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I'm listening now to The Beatles: One and A Hard Day's Night also by The Beatles.
more stuff- John Mayer, Avril Lavigne, Miss SAigon soundtrack (great play/musical ) , no doubt, etc.
ok yeah, I am a music addict! So sue me!
I listen to Avril Lavinge, Michelle Branch, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Supreme Beings of Lesiure, Our Lady Peace and the Legally Blonde sound track is also soooooooo GREAT!!!!!!
I listen to Steps, ABBA, A*Teens, S Club 7, and kinda Kelly Clarkson, Samantha Mumba, Avril, Vanessa Carlton, Janet Jackson, BBMak, Savage Garden (didn't they break up?), Destiny's Child, The Carpenters, Sugar Ray etc.
Isn't this thread What are you listening to right now now now?
Right now, I'm listening to nothing, but ever since I got the American Idol CD, I rarely listened to anything else.
It doesnt matter if u have it on this second! its ok!
I've got some new tracks off of a site. Awesome stuff.
I am listening to Jim Carrey songs!
Jim Carrey "I am the Walrus"
and Jim Carrey "Don't you want somebody to love"
Good Charlotte : Hold On...anopther great song!
Nothing like a good funny Jim Carrey song!
Jim Carey? so Weird Al and Adam Sandler aren't the only comedians out there singing.
Geez, Jim Carry "Want someone to love" is better than the original, everyone should get his songs, he is really quite good!
i dunno. im kinda hesitant to buy (or even listen to) Jim Carey's songs, considering that he doesn't actually sing for a living and it might just be a bunch of sounds that is supposed to be singing. why would anybody want to waste their time listening to that?
on the cable guy soundtrack he sings one song by jefferson airplane forgot the name..
Coolies....but I disagree with whoever said you cant possibly listen to all at once. TRUST me, you can. I can. It's awesome. As long as you love what you hear and you're in with your music... then it's all good.
sORRY if i sound weird, but music is my life.
I love music. I listen to select songs every night b/c I love them so much!


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Which is more difficult? being a man? or a woman?
I often wonder why most of the people never opt for a gender change if they could in the next birth. I think being a man has its own plus points and minus points. Many women think that it is difficult to live as a man. What about men? Do they think it is difficult to being a woman? My view is; It is more difficult to be a man than a woman. But still I opt for being a man. What do you have to say on this?
I'am a man, but think that the life is very hard and complicated as a whole. Men and women have different obligations and i can't estimate whom are more difficult.
I agree with you, and i think, man and woman cannot live without each other.
I feel like the pressures of being man versus a woman.. are ultimately equal. You always hear about one side or the other complaining about how such and such is so much harder..But I don't believe it. I feel like society has barriers for both genders (althoug historically, I would say women faced more struggles - at least in the workplace, due to discrimination), and I don't think one beats out the other.
I 100% agree with you, they are equal and nothing to be compared off, there are things that a man can do and a woman cannot and there are things that a woman can do that a man cannot. Equal is the answer.... Nicely said.
when you're a man you think that you can do better if you're a woman and vice versa.. but you know whats the hardest part of this? being both.. lets say for example a guy is looking like a man and feels like a woman.. those who undergo identity crisis i think is experiencing more difficulty than straight guys or girls.. but talking about straight guys and girls there is no comparison who has a more difficult role to play.. coz when you look at a guy, he has to work and sacrifice for his family.. he is kind of like the bread winner for them.. and it is hard for men to find decent jobs to pay for their necessities.. and of course women undergo their constant periods and i think it is also hard for them coz they have to change their napkins all the time.. to add to that, women also give birth.. it is not as easy as it looks with all the pain that women go through to give birth.. with than being said i think both have extremely difficult roles in life.. there is no easy way out on this and i think that both genders should be given respect for what they do and what they have done.. have a nice day..
100% agree with you my friend!
The thing with genders are that women face more prejudice than man, but men have to support themselves and their family and have the financial burden while women get housework chores, have to sacrifice their career, and so on. Overall, I believe that it is harder to be a woman than a man, because it is not only the gender issue, women are also shorter (height prejudice), woman in sport gets way less pay than men, woman in science or maths or engineering is a no no, while mem can do ballet and be accepted into society. Prejudice is what women face these days more than men. The other differences kinda balance out.
As a man, obviously I can't feel what a female can feel and for me, being a woman is more difficult. I don't know what is the feeling of being pregnant and most of all, giving birth. However, there are men that want to be a woman and there are women that want to be man. I don't know why most of the men turning themselves into a woman. Is it true that it's because of their hormones percentage?
i'm not saying this because i'm a woman. but for me, it's really more difficult being a woman than being a man. why? because...we have more responsibilities than men especially a married women like me. women take care of everything in the house (cleaning the house, doing the laundry, budgeting, attending the needs of her kids and her husband, etc...) while men, they just work to provide the financial needs of his family. and oh, before i forget, the most difficult part of being a woman is that we conceive and give birth...isn't that painful?
For me being a women is more difficult. First of all the menstrual which is every month. Some of their father are protective more on their daughter because being in a lady is a sensitive matter. They are taking care of , meaning they are not allowed to go out with just anyone, her family must make sure they know the person to be with unless they turned 18. The pregnancy for 9 months. The labor. BEing a mother , who take care of her children, who take care of them not only when they are young but for forever until she is breathing. She never stops to be a mother even her kids have the family of their own isn't it? for me being a women is very difficult. Some of the women are abuse by their husband, when you tend to look at it, are there men who are being abused by their wife, only a few but there are man who abuse her wife and I felt sorry for them.
hi vijayanths as a woman I do think its more difficult being a woman as you not only have to care for your man but you must bear and raise children. men may think that is so easy but believe being pregnant is not all fun and games. much as I loved awaiting myfirst and then my second child, the morning sickness was not fun, and being heavy and ungainly was also not a picnic.then the art of raising children to be good people is not easy, it takes strength and courage and a good sense of humor no being a woman is much harder. a man can rest after 8 hours of wo rk, a woman only gets to rest at bedtime a nd really she is on call 24/7 all the time. she wakes to feed the baby or check on older kids. she sleeps with one ear open at all times. I love being a woman now specially as I am elderly and past all that stuff but yes its more difficult being a woman and now days a woman may have to work, and still bear kids a nd still do housework.no its no cinch.
i guess being a women is much more difficult bcoz there are so many responsibilities and restrictions to a women they r looked down to a man always. this is a general perception tht a women is weaker than a man . and a women requires lots more patience than a man do. and she has to face much more troubles wen it comes to prove oneself in the men's world.
hi friend,as man you are seeing the difficulties of man and FEELING it.If you are women you might be admit the being a women will be difficult.so its all depends.According to me both are difficult and i feel women undergoes more pain than man.so in my next birth certainly i would opt for gender change(just for a change LOL).But i feel proud to be a women in this birth.
Both are not,it's really hard to be a kind.to be a man or women is a destiny,but how we choise our way of life is the most diffcult things indeed.
personnally i think being a woamn more difficult than being a man.and normally man only handle the money issue but woman need to earn money also. care the children. do house works day after day and that's really a big load than man's daily works.woman have weak physical but need to do other stuffs.
Both man and women is difficult but i believe man is much more difficult as they are so called born to protect women .
Being a woman because have to give birth and have to care them when they become babies and children then also care for the husband. many household chores to do.


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Oil Lobby Had Hand in House Lawmakers' Anti-Ethanol Note to EPA
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An odd-bedfellows group of lawmakers — led by an oil-industry ally from Texas and a progressive Vermonter — raised a familiar-sounding concern about ethanol in a letter this week to EPA chief Gina McCarthy.
Their argument that the Environmental Protection Agency is requiring more ethanol than can be safely blended into gasoline has been made repeatedly by the oil industry. The echo in the letter wasn't a coincidence: A lobbyist for refiner Marathon Petroleum Corp. was listed as an author of early drafts of what was distributed to lawmakers for them to sign on. The company says it offered input, but didn't write the letter.
Ethanol producers say this shows that a campaign including chain restaurants, chicken producers, small-engine makers and even some environmental groups is being driven by oil producers and refiners, which oppose the mandates of the Renewable Fuel Standard. They found the lobbyist's name in the letter's electronic record and shared it with a reporter.
"It's not hard to see the oil industry's fingerprints all over this campaign," said Brooke Coleman, the executive director of the Advanced Biofuels Business Council, which represents biofuel makers. "What this is about is trying to destroy the only competition they have in the marketplace."
Michael Birsic, the lobbyist for Marathon and a former congressional aide, was listed electronically as the letter's author.
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"As you would expect, these types of documents are collaborative in nature," he wrote in an e-mail. "Marathon Petroleum was one of the collaborators and suggested technical comments. We were not the original or primary author of the letter. We are just one the many interested parties who are seeking relief from the unreasonableness of the RFS mandate."
Oil and ethanol companies have intensified their battle over the future of the program in recent weeks, as President Barack Obama's administration prepares to issue long-overdue requirements for the fuel's use last year, this year and next year.
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Lobbyists representing companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp. and Tesoro Corp.say the EPA's proposal would force them to blend ethanol in at more than 10 percent of the gasoline supply, breaching what they call the blend wall of how much can be safely used. Ethanol producers say EPA is proposing to illegally cut the requirement for ethanol, and should prod refiners into using higher blends of the fuel.
In recent weeks the debate has a surprising turn, as the oil industry and its allies unveiled a television advertising campaign that argued ethanol is worse for the climate than gasoline. The ads used a quote from former Vice PresidentAl Gore, who won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work to stop climate change: "First-generation ethanol was a mistake."
The letter to McCarthy was sent Wednesday and signed by more than 180 lawmakers. The EPA proposal for 2016 "would constitute a breach of the ethanol blendwall, which would cause adverse impacts on American consumers and the economy," they said. The signers include a wide range of lawmakers, including Vermont Democrat Peter Welch, Virginia Republican Bob Goodlatte and the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Kevin Brady.
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Republican congressman Bill Flores of Texas, who first circulated the letter, "was not aware until last week that the letter contained some material which might have originated from a stakeholder," his spokesman, Andre Castro, said in an e-mail.
Spokespeople for both Welch and Goodlatte, who were signatories of the draft that went around to congressional offices, said the letter came from Flores' staff.
"Congressman Welch signed on to Congressman Flores' bipartisan letter to Administrator McCarthy regarding the RFS because it is consistent with his view that the corn ethanol mandate is a well-intentioned flop that is bad for consumers, bad for small engines, bad for farmers, and bad for the environment," his spokeswoman said in an e-mail.
The EPA has a deadline of the end of this month to set the ethanol mandates.
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