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Q: How would I make elements move faster when resizing browser? I'm trying to make elements move faster when the browser is resized, as the browser is doing it too slow as you can see here. I used percents and this is the code I used on the huge block.
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How would I make it so the element moves faster when resized?  All I can think of is making it pushed by another element.

A: I think I understand what you want, but I'm not sure. Try giving the orange box a:
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That will center it and make it move faster towards the left on resize =)
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AFL Power Rankings: Round 8 (or reality checks and balances)
So last week Adelaide wins a game by playing well in one quarter; critics said they'd need to put in a four quarter effort if they wanted to win again. In an attempt to disprove that cliché, the Crows again played well in only one quarter and they… lost.
In footy, there's something to be said for clichés.
In the first few rounds of the season Fevola looked to have fitted in nicely with the Lions. Some people were thinking, maybe he's changed his spots, maybe having Jonathon Brown in the forward line has got him to straighten up and fly right – Carlton supporters were all thinking, just wait, just wait. On the weekend, Fev might have been injured, we guess… but he played like Carlton supporters knew he would eventually. My bet is they don't miss him.
Collingwood beat the Dockers in a top of the table, and now have another top of the table clash with the Cats. With all due respect to the Dockers, this feels like a real top of the table clash. In fact it feels like the Grand Final preview – and will get a crowd around 90,000 if it doesn't rain. In a season, where for the firs time in quite a few years, there is no one team that looks like dominating the minor season, this match will decide which team will be the benchmark.
A few jumps around the top of the Power Rankings – the Bulldogs make a big jump, but to be honest it feels like a very weird season that hasn't quite settled down yet.
Yep, they're looking good. The big test, and perhaps the biggest game of the year, this Friday. Should be a cracker.
As I said last week, when they're going no one can stop them, and I think they're pretty well going – this week will be the test.
The Blues ran over the Power in the last quarter – which gives them great momentum for this week against the Hawks.
A set back, but they still look good, though a trip to the SCG is never easy, and they will want to win to stop the jitters from setting in.
Things for the first time for a while clicked, and they played like everyone thought they would prior to the season. Need to beat North this week to consolidate.
The Saints have hit a major speed hump – good thing their next 3 rounds are the Eagles, Crows and Tigers.
Port were found wanting in the last quarter, they now travel to Darwin to play Melbourne.
A bad loss, this week against the Dockers is setting up as a big test of whether or not they're good enough to play finals.
Wow, four losses in a row. The Lions must be grateful to the AFL that they now get to play the Crows, so at least that's one win they can pencil in.
A big win for the club, that keeps them in touch. A win over the Tigers this week will have them just a game out of the eight.
North played 3 good quarters and 1 horrible one. They very nearly blew it. Will not be so lucky if they do that against the Bulldogs this week.
Hmmm…. it's starting to look like those 3 wins were a bit of a mirage in the desert. With Port, Geelong, Carlton and Collingwood ahead, things don't look too bright.
A rare win away from Perth; now they face the Saints to see if they can win 3 in a row.
Oooh the Hawks nearly lost that one. Is their season back on track? You're kidding right? They nearly got beat by Richmond! Carlton this week is a more honest test.
Like last week they only started playing in the 4th quarter. They looked good then, but by then it was too late.
Another of the very many good honest losses by the Tigers. But to be honest, their supporters should feel positive about the future – Jack Riewoldt will be a star.
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Communication Systems Laboratory Projects Featuring Interactive Simulation And Visualization
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Ed Doering Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Edward Doering received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Iowa State University in 1992, and has been a member the ECE faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology since 1994. He teaches courses in digital systems, circuits, image processing, and electronic music synthesis, and his research interests include technology-enabled education, image processing, and FPGA-based signal processing.
Sam Shearman National Instruments
Sam Shearman is a Senior Product Manager for Signal Processing and Communications at National Instruments (Austin, TX). Working for the firm since 2000, he has served in roles involving product management and R&D related to signal processing, communications, and measurement. Prior to working with NI, he worked as a technical trade press editor and as a research engineer. As a trade press editor for Personal Engineering & Instrumentation News, he covered PC-based test and analysis markets. His research engineering work involved embedding microstructures in high-volume plastic coatings for non-imaging optics applications. He received a BS (1993) in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA).
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Engineering communication systems courses rely heavily on mathematical descriptions that can be difficult for students to quickly grasp. Hands-on laboratory projects and interactive simulation are two well-established methods to help students develop an intuitive understanding of a knowledge domain. Constructing a tangible physical system helps students connect the mathematically-expressed concepts to something real. Moreover, building an interactive simulation fosters intuition, provided the simulation itself can be constructed quickly and efficiently.
We have developed a set of laboratory projects that leverage the unique interactive visualization and simulation capabilities of the LabVIEW graphical dataflow programming environment. With LabVIEW, students quickly transform mathematical models, algorithms, and block diagrams into real-time systems whose dynamics can be experienced visually and aurally with an interactive graphical user interface. The laboratory projects guide students as they assemble working simulations and interact with the finished result. Each project presents required background theory as a mini-lecture embodied by a combination of text, diagrams, and streaming video screencasts, detailed specifications for subsystems to be built supported by video screencasts of relevant LabVIEW coding techniques, and suggested experiments to study and interact with the finished system. Hosted on the Connexions web-based open publishing resource, the projects are openly available and suitable as a turn-key solution for faculty who wish to enhance an existing communication systems course with little effort. What's more, the modularity of the project materials and availability of Connexions editing tools enable faculty to modify and extend the projects.
Project topics cover fundamental concepts such as bit error rate (BER) vs. Eb/No performance measure, coherent detection, baseband modulation, inter-symbol interference (ISI) and eye diagrams, and block coding. More advanced projects explore bandpass modulation schemes using the computer soundcard and speaker-air-microphone (SAM) channel; students visualize the signals as they pass through each subsystem and listen to the modulated waveforms, and quickly develop an appreciation for interrelationships between carrier frequency, channel bandwidth, bit rate, and noise level. Practical projects such as text messaging over the SAM channel and Caller ID signal decoding motivate student interest to further study of communication systems.
Communication systems constitute an important part of all electrical engineering curricula. Introductory communication systems courses rely heavily on mathematical exposition to convey concepts, and traditional textbooks likewise feature mathematical derivations and proofs to explain fundamental concepts. The importance of a mathematical framework cannot be denied,
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Packet Sniffing
Packet sniffing is the act of capturing packets of data flowing across a computer network. The software or device used to do this is called a packet sniffer.
Packet sniffing is to computer networks what wiretapping is to a telephone network.
Packet sniffing has legitimate uses to monitor network performance or troubleshoot problems with network communications.
However, it is also widely used by hackers and crackers to gather information illegally about networks they intend to break into.
Using a packet sniffer it is possible to capture data like passwords, IP addresses, protocols being used on the network and other information that will help the attacker infiltrate the network.
All network data travels across the Internet, and then into and out of PC's, in the form of individual, variable size data packets.
Since the typical PC user never "sees" any of this raw data, many spyware systems covertly send sensitive information out of the user's computer without their knowledge.
A "Packet Sniffer" is a utility that sniffs without modifying the network's packets in any way.
By comparison, a firewall sees all of a computer's packet traffic as well, but it has the ability to block and drop any packets that its programming dictates. Packet sniffers merely watch, display, and log this traffic.
One disturbingly powerful aspect of packet sniffers is their ability to place the hosting machine's network adapter into "promiscuous mode."
Network adapters running in promiscuous mode receive not only the data directed to the machine hosting the sniffing software, but also all of the traffic on the physically connected local network.
Unfortunately, this capability allows packet sniffers to be used as potent spying tools, this is obviously not an activity that is on the good side.
Today's networks are increasingly employing "switch" technology, preventing this technique from being as successful as in the past.
It is still useful, though, as it is becoming increasingly easy to install mote sniffing programs on servers and routers, through which a lot of traffic flows.
Today's networks may already contain built-in sniffing modules. Most hubs support the RMON standard, which allow the intruder to sniff remotely using SNMP, which has weak authentication.
Many corporations employ Network Associates "Distributed Sniffer Servers", which are set up with easy to guess passwords. Windows NT machines often have a "Network Monitoring Agent" installed, which again allows for remote sniffing.
How do Packet Sniffers Work?
Packet sniffers work by intercepting and logging network traffic that they can 'see' via the wired or wireless network interface that the packet sniffing software has access to on its host computer.
On a wired network, what can be captured depends on the structure of the network.
A packet sniffer might be able to see traffic on an entire network or only a certain segment of it, depending on how the network switches are configured, placed, etc.
On wireless networks, packet sniffers can usually only capture one channel at a time unless the host computer has multiple wireless interfaces that allow for multichannel capture.
Once the raw packet data is captured, the packet sniffing software must analyze it and present it in human-readable form so that the person using the packet sniffing software can make sense of it.
The person analyzing the data can view details of the 'conversation' happening between two or more nodes on the network.
Network technicians can use this information to determine where a fault lies, such as determining which device failed to respond to a network request.
Hackers can use sniffers to eavesdrop on unencrypted data in the packets to see what information is being exchanged between two parties.
They can also capture information such as passwords and authentication tokens (if they are sent in the clear).
Hackers can also capture packets for later playback in replay, man-in-the-middle, and packet injection attacks that some systems may be vulnerable to.
What Software Tools are Commonly Used in Packet Sniffing?
Just like everybody else, both network engineers and hackers love free stuff, which is why open source and freeware sniffer software applications are often the tools of choice for packet sniffing tasks. One of the more popular open source offerings is: Wireshark (previously known as Ethereal).
How can I protect my Network and its Data from Hackers Using Sniffers?
If you're a network technician or administrator and you want to see if anyone on your network is using a sniffer tool, check out a tool called Anti sniff. Antisniff can detect if a network interface on your network has been put into 'promiscuous mode' (don't laugh that's the actual name for it), which is the required mode for packet capture tasks.
Another way to protect your network traffic from being sniffed is to use encryption such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS).
Encryption doesn't prevent packet sniffers from seeing source and destination information, but it does encrypt the data packet's payload so that all the sniffer sees is encrypted gibberish.
Any attempt to modify or inject data into the packets would likely fail since messing with the encrypted data would cause errors that would be evident when the encrypted information was decrypted at the other end.
Sniffers are great tools for diagnosing down-in-the-weeds network problems. Unfortunately, they are also useful for hacking purposes as well. It's important for security professionals to familiarize themselves with these tools so they can see how a hacker might use them against their network.
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The memory of two young University of Melbourne students lives on through the Alexander and Bridget Jones Memorial Scholarship.
Developed in partnership with Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and the University of Melbourne, the Scholarship was established in memory of siblings Alexander and Bridget Jones, whose lives were tragically cut short after the Swanston Street wall collapse in 2013.
For Grace Newton from Bairnsdale in regional Victoria, the scholarship provided an opportunity to follow her ambitions of a career in journalism or the arts.
"Coming from a rural and low socioeconomic area, I realised that I needed a lot of money to pursue my dreams of higher education at Melbourne – money I just didn't have," says Grace.
The scholarship will provide $13,500 to each recipient for the duration of their undergraduate program. They will also receive up to $2,500 for an exchange or study abroad program via a Melbourne Global Scholars Award.
"My goal is to focus on journalism or the arts – something that will empower me to address wider community issues. I hope to someday be a strong influential voice that can return to society the knowledge and prospects it has given to me," Grace says.
Grace acknowledges the generosity of Alexander and Bridget's parents, Ian and Sue Jones, in bringing this scholarship to fruition.


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Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science /
Environmental Evidence /
Rytwinski, T. (Trina), Harper, M. (Meagan), Taylor, J.J. (Jessica J.), J.R. Bennett (Joseph R.), Donaldson, L.A. (Lisa A.), Smokorowski, K.E. (Karen E.), Clarke, K. (Keith), Bradford, M.J. (Michael J.), Ghamry, H. (Haitham), Olden, J.D. (Julian D.), et al. Boisclair, D. (Daniel) and S.J. Cooke (Steven)
What are the effects of flow-regime changes on fish productivity in temperate regions? A systematic map
Environmental Evidence , Volume 9 - Issue 1
Background: There is growing evidence of the potential negative consequences of altered flow regimes, in terms of magnitude, frequency, timing, duration or season pattern, on fluvial ecosystems and the fisheries they support. The scientific and policy communities have acknowledged the need for a better understanding of the effects of flow alteration on fish productivity. We conducted a systematic map to provide an overview of the existing literature base on the effects of flow-regime changes on direct outcomes of freshwater or estuarine fish productivity in temperate regions to inform stakeholders and policy makers. Methods: To identify relevant articles for inclusion in this systematic map, we searched six bibliographic databases, 29 organizational websites, one search engine, and 297 reviews, and solicited grey literature through relevant sources. We screened articles at title and abstract, then by full-text using predefined inclusion criteria. Included studies were coded for key variables of interest, along with a very basic critical appraisal for internal validity (i.e., susceptibility to bias). The quantity and characteristics of the available evidence, knowledge gaps and subtopics with sufficient coverage for full systematic reviewing are reported in a narrative synthesis. The distribution and frequency of examined effects of flow-regime changes on fish productivity outcomes are presented in visual heatmaps. Review findings: A total of 1368 studies from 1199 articles were included in the systematic map database and used to identify a number of interesting themes in the evidence base: (1) large evidence bases were found in temperate regions of United States of America (USA), Canada, and Australia; (2) most studies either used a temporal or spatial trend design i.e., lacking a 'true' before intervention time period, or no intervention control sites; (3) the most studied causes of altered flow regime were natural (e.g., floods, droughts, climate change), hydroelectric facilities (hydro), and dams with no hydro; and (4) there were clear clusters of studies evaluating effects of changes in magnitude and surrogate measures (e.g., velocity, water depth) on fish productivity outcomes, in particular abundance and diversity metrics. A number of potential knowledge gaps were identified: including geographic (Northern Africa, and possibly parts of Asia), causes of altered flow regime (restoration, land-use change, and water abstraction/extraction/diversion), interventions (flow duration, frequency, rate of change, or timing), outcomes (population viability) and specific intervention/cause/outcome groups (e.g., changes in flow magnitude due to hydro or natural causes and fish survival, performance, and reproduction). A few aspects in methodology were also identified across studies, primarily a lack of true comparators (e.g., temporal or spatial trend designs). Conclusions: This map suggests subtopics warranting future evidence synthesis include, examinations into how changes in flow magnitude affects: (1) fish abundance for dams with no hydro causes; (2) fish abundance, diversity/richness, migration, and growth for hydro causes; and (3) fish abundance, diversity/richness, growth, community structure, recruitment, and migrating fish abundance for natural causes. More comprehensive evidence is needed to understand how: (1) fish productivity metrics are affected by changes in flow regime due to restoration, land-use change, and water withdrawal/diversion activities; (2) how fish productivity is affected by changes to components of flow regime other than magnitude (e.g., flow duration, frequency); and (3) changes in flow magnitude due to hydro or natural causes affect fish survival, performance, and reproduction; and (4) changes in flow regime (all causes, all interventions) affect population viability.
Keywords Dam, Evidence-based policy, Fish abundance, Fish biomass, Fish density, Flow modification, Hydroelectric, Reservoirs, River regulation, Stream
Persistent URL doi.org/10.1186/s13750-020-00190-z
Journal Environmental Evidence
Organisation Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science
Rytwinski, T. (Trina), Harper, M. (Meagan), Taylor, J.J. (Jessica J.), Bennett, J.R, Donaldson, L.A. (Lisa A.), Smokorowski, K.E. (Karen E.), … Cooke, S.J. (2020). What are the effects of flow-regime changes on fish productivity in temperate regions? A systematic map. Environmental Evidence, 9(1). doi:10.1186/s13750-020-00190-z


This gorgeous guy lives at the Living Desert Reserve. If you wish to see the leopards, you need to go early in the morning. They aren't always out, and certainly not in the afternoon! We were fortunate to see him one morning enjoying a nice sun nap on his rock and taking a bath. Isn't he gorgeous! His PAWS are huge and deadly silent!
Absolutely positively beautiful animals and beautifully photographed.


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Behind Enemy Lines: Cardinals prep for Chiefs' offensive buzzsaw
By Arizona Sports | November 8, 2018 at 6:31 pm
UPDATED: November 9, 2018 at 7:02 pm
Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt (27) carries the ball away from quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15), during the first half of an NFL football game against the Denver Broncos in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Nine games into 2018, the only slip-up for the Kansas City Chiefs came in Week 6 against the New England Patriots. And if it truly was categorized as a slip-up, it was a three-point one against a team that's now 7-2 with six wins in a row.
Point being, the Chiefs are still darn good and lead the NFL in scoring at 36.3 points per game.
At Arrowhead Stadium, they will host a 2-6 Arizona Cardinals team that is coming off a bye week that was preceded by a win over the San Francisco 49ers.
To get a heartbeat on Arizona's opponent in preparation for Sunday's game, let's take a look at the Chiefs beat. It's Behind Enemy Lines.
• Chiefs' Mahomes faces familiar foe for second week in a row: Cardinals QB Josh Rosen (kansascity.com)
Josh Rosen and Patrick Mahomes know each other well – they were roommates at the Manning Passing academy while they were in college at UCLA and Texas Tech, respectively.
"He was a guy that was up with me early, working with all those kids and just loving the experience," Mahomes said of Rosen. "I know that he loves football and loves being able to just go out there and being a quarterback, and those are the guys that have success."
• Five things to watch as the Chiefs host the Cardinals (ArrowheadPride.com)
Among the things to watch this Sunday is whether the Cardinals will be able to exploit a Chiefs run defense that allows a league-worst 5.2 rushing yards per attempt. David Johnson averaged just 3.7 yards per rush in the Cardinals' most recent win over the 49ers.
• Chiefs vs. Cardinals: How the Kansas City offense beats Arizona (ArrowheadPride.com)
Kansas City's offense hasn't had any trouble scoring this season and it's possible it could exploit a Cardinals' pass defense that isn't as good as the numbers show. Chandler Jones and Robert Nkemdiche key the front against the pass, but Nkemdiche isn't playing so it could be weakened. The secondary has a star in Patrick Peterson, but questions about the rest of the secondary against Mahomes and company remain.
• Patrick Mahomes Week 9 Film Review: something improved and something that needs improvement (ArrowheadPride.com)
The preseason and early slate weren't overwhelming (although there were plenty of glimpses of what was coming), but now we're starting to see a jump in productivity between Mahomes and the receiver from Clemson. Hopefully, his recent foot issue doesn't get too in the way of the continued cultivation of yet another weapon in the Chiefs' offense.
• Chiefs Stock Report: Whose stock is rising — or falling — heading into Week 10 (ArrowheadPride.com)
For the Chiefs, expectations have been ratcheting upward all season. Beating a team like the Browns doesn't necessarily push their stock higher, but losing to them would certainly hurt it. This Chiefs team continues to perform at a high level, especially on offense. Mahomes setting records and throwing for over 300 yards is no longer a surprise, it's the expectation.
• Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes talk Len Dawson, reinforcements and not overlooking the Cardinals (ArrowheadPride.com)
Mahomes has 29 touchdown passes on the season, which ties Dawson's 1962 record but is still one short of the Dawson's franchise record of 30 set in 1964's 14-game season.
"Len has had a ton of success in the NFL and was kind of ahead of his time," said Mahomes. "Throwing all those touchdowns, I think the record has stood for a very long time. It would be awesome to pass that, but hopefully we can just keep building on that and getting more and more wins."
Mahomes said he isn't focused on Dawson's record any more than any of the other records he's been surpassing.
• Dorian O'Daniel is coming into his own at exactly the right time for the Chiefs (ArrowheadPride.com)
Through the first six weeks of the season, Kansas City Chiefs rookie linebacker Dorian O'Daniel had 10 defensive snaps. Given those statistics, it made sense that one of the most common questions from Chiefs fans here at Arrowhead Pride was, "Where's O'Daniel?"
And it was worth asking. General manager Brett Veach was the one who told us O'Daniel would serve as a "chess piece," for the Chiefs, that he'd be on the field in dime and sub-packages.
Coming off bye, Cardinals have fingers crossed for healthy roster
Former Cardinals RB Chris Johnson formally announces retirement
Arizona Cardinals re-sign wide receiver Kendall Wright
• Chiefs close to perfection in the season's first half (ESPN.com)
The Chiefs have had quite the 2018 season to this point. From their dominance in wins to the MVP-level play of quarterback Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City looks destined for a deep playoff run.
• Chiefs' RB Kareem Hunt Earns AFC Offensive Player of the Week Honors (chiefs.com)
Kansas City Chiefs' tailback and Cleveland-area native Kareem Hunt put together a homecoming to remember in the Chiefs' victory over the Cleveland Browns last weekend, and it earned the second-year running back some hardware.
Hunt was named the AFC Offensive Player of the Week on Wednesday morning after tallying 141 total yards and three touchdowns on Sunday. It was Hunt's third-career game with three or more touchdowns.
• The Chiefs have been good at nearly everything this season, including the coin toss (kansascity.com)
What worries Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes the most going into a game isn't the opposing defense or executing coach Andy Reid's intricate offensive plans.
It's the coin toss.
"It's one of the most nervous points of the whole game for me right now," Mahomes said.
He's kidding, but the Chiefs' coin-flip record is better than their overall mark, which stands an AFC-best 8-1.
• How Andy Reid outcoaches the Chiefs' most aggressive opponents (SBNation.com)
If you want to get a glimpse at the state of coaching in the NFL, look no further than what the Chiefs' offense did to the Browns' defense in their 37-21 win Sunday.
Andy Reid has taken the Chiefs' offense and turned it into a damn near unstoppable machine. Having guys like Patrick Mahomes, Kareem Hunt, Travis Kelce, and Tyreek Hill helps, but the coach still has to put them in the right position to make plays.
• Patrick Mahomes says he hears Andy Reid's voice in his head during games (ArrowheadPride.com)
Mahomes revealed that Reid has him so prepared, he hears his head coach's voice during the course of a game.
"I can recognize the coverage based on the film study from the week," Mahomes said. "Then at some point you hear that little voice in your head of coach Reid talking to me, telling me if they play this coverage, we need to go through these reads versus if they play the other one.
"Just having that, it makes it so that I can play fast on the field, go out there and get the ball out of my hand and make plays."
• Chiefs activate S Daniel Sorensen, waive LB Nate Orchard (ArrowheadPride.com)
The Chiefs announced Tuesday morning that safety Daniel Sorensen has been activated, via the team's official Twitter account. The Chiefs waived outside linebacker Nate Orchard in the process.
Sorensen, 28, has been a member of the Chiefs since 2014, when the team signed him as an undrafted free agent. Similar in a sense to Eric Berry, Sorensen was due to be one of the Chiefs' starting safeties this season before injury struck in training camp.
• Patrick Mahomes is nearly flawless when the offensive line keeps him clean, says PFF (ArrowheadPride.com)
Each week, Pro Football Focus shares some notes from the Kansas City Chiefs' previous game as part of something it calls PFF Insights. This week, the Chiefs are coming off a 37-21 victory over the Cleveland Browns.
Once again, when the offensive line gave him a clean pocket, Patrick Mahomes is nearly flawless.
• Odds are big Chiefs will win on Sunday vs. Arizona Cardinals. Will focus be an issue? (Kansas City Star)
The Chiefs are an early 16½-point favorite, according to VegasInsider.com. That's a huge line in the NFL. In fact, no Andy Reid-coached Chiefs team has been a bigger favorite.
But Reid said he doesn't think the Chiefs will need to search deep for motivation.
"They're coming off a bye week — they'll be fresh and they're coming off a win," Reid said. "We just have to make sure we get ourselves ready to play."
• Kareem Hunt said he wishes he could play the New England Patriots right now (ArrowheadPride.com)
(Deion) Sanders said he "didn't want to look forward" but then implies that the Chiefs should think the only team that could possibly beat them is Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. Sanders asked Hunt if he's look(ed) forward to that future matchup.
"It's going to be a heck of a game," he said. "I know they ready. Just know we coming ready. I wish we could have that game right now."
• Snap counts: Chiefs must strike a balance between health and playing their stars (Kansas City Star)
Unprompted, Chiefs coach Andy Reid made mention of wide receiver Tyreek Hill and inside linebacker Anthony Hitchens playing through injury issues in his post-game remarks. During the game, wide receiver Sammy Watkins came out with a foot injury, though he did return to the field after being evaluated by the training staff on the sideline.
Health, of course, will be a concern for the rest of the regular season for a team that appears poised to make a run at the top seed in the AFC for the playoffs.
• Five Things We Learned From Head Coach Andy Reid on Monday (Chiefs.com)
The plays Patrick [Mahomes] was making outside the pocket and the way he moves his body and can throw from different angles, is that something you guys can coach or develop or how do you coach that?
REID: "[Quarterbacks' Coach] Mike [Kafka] works with him a lot on that type of thing, but not everyone is as flexible as he is or can do the things he can do with the ball. He definitely works with him on it. Very seldom do you just get back in the National Football League, be able to take a drop like you would in practice with nobody [around you] and then just be able to throw. It just doesn't happen like that normally. So, you have to be able to throw from different angles with your weight distributed in different places. Off-balance throws become huge. On the move throws become huge.
• Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes is subject of this fun campaign commercial (Kansas City Star)
As the announcer notes: "Patrick Mahomes is a fresh face who's shown he can connect with both the right and the left."
The commercial then cuts to Mahomes completing that left-handed pass against the Broncos.
The last message in the commercial: "It's time to put a real Chief in charge."
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Lawsuit likely reason Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge is no more
2015By Reva Friedel on 03/21/2015 03/21/2015
As you may recall, last year as we got ready for March Madness, Warren Buffett gave us a new reason to think extra hard about that Stanford over Kansas pick because he was offering $1 BILLION dollars to anyone who emerged with a perfect bracket. Well, unsurprisingly, Buffett didn't have to pay anyone because the odds of selecting a perfect bracket are one in eleventy billion and everyone knows it. But, it did add some excitement to an already exciting month.
Sadly, no such offer exists this season, and the reason is likely because of an ongoing lawsuit between Yahoo and SCA Promotions, which underwrites such contests.
According to Slate, SCA's president is tight with Buffett and they basically decided that this contest was a good idea and asked Yahoo to host it. Buffett and Yahoo couldn't come to an agreement on terms, so he walked away and left SCA and Yahoo to try to figure things out. Buffet then decided to launch his own contest with Quicken Loans, whose founder, Dan Gilbert, also happens to own the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Yahoo was basically up a creek on this one, so they hosted the contest anyway, and then got sued by SCA after dropping them (because Buffett owns Berkshire Hathaway, which also underwrites such contests). Lost yet? Me too! Additional details from Slate:
This is where things get dicey. In its lawsuit, SCA claimed it signed an agreement with Yahoo to run its own billion-dollar bracket competition; according to SCA, the contract required Yahoo to pay half the insurer's $11 million fee in the event of a cancellation, but the company refused to do so.
Yahoo responded with a countersuit that offered an opposite narrative. The company claimed that the billion-dollar bracket was its own brainchild all along, and that it approached SCA to help find another underwriter that could insure the hefty prize. According to the suit, SCA was subject to a strict confidentiality clause requiring them to keep mum about the precise details of the contest, which it apparently violated during talks with Berkshire about acting as an underwriter.
I mean, the idea had to come before the agreement, right? This isn't one of those chicken and egg type questions, is it? It seems that Yahoo is accusing Buffett of stealing their idea, which I am frankly not buying because really, how many web sites are going to host a contest that would pay out an amount of money nearly impossible to underwrite unless the underwriters come to them first. Am I thinking too much about this? Probably.
Whatever the details, and we may never know them all, the contest is sadly no more, and we'll have to settle for entering the measly $1 million dollar contests that ESPN offers. Chump change.
[Slate]
About Reva Friedel
Reva is a staff writer for Awful Announcing and the AP Party. She lives in Orange County and roots for zero California teams.
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import React, {Component, PropTypes} from 'react';
import {branch} from 'baobab-react/higher-order';
import * as notes from '../state/actions/notes';
import * as session from '../state/actions/session';

import Toolbar from 'material-ui/lib/toolbar/toolbar';
import ToolbarGroup from 'material-ui/lib/toolbar/toolbar-group';
import ToolbarSeparator from 'material-ui/lib/toolbar/toolbar-separator';
import ToolbarTitle from 'material-ui/lib/toolbar/toolbar-title';

import IconMenu from 'material-ui/lib/menus/icon-menu';
import MenuItem from 'material-ui/lib/menus/menu-item';
import Divider from 'material-ui/lib/divider';

import LinearProgress from 'material-ui/lib/linear-progress';
import TextField from 'material-ui/lib/text-field';
import IconButton from 'material-ui/lib/icon-button';
import FontIcon from 'material-ui/lib/font-icon';

import ShareButton from './share-button';
import OpenButton from './open-button';
import DeleteButton from './delete-button';
import CopyNoteButton from './copy-note-button';
import MoveNoteButton from './move-note-button';

class NoteBar extends Component {
    constructor(props, context) {
        super(props, context);
        this.state = {
            muiTheme: this.context.muiTheme,
            undoDelete: null,
        }
    }

    static get contextTypes() {
        return {
            muiTheme: PropTypes.object,
        };
    }

    static get propTypes() {
        return {
            note: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
        };
    }

    handleTitleBlur(e) {
        this.props.actions.saveNoteTitle(this.props.note, e.target.value);
    }

    handleTitleChange(e) {
        this.props.actions.setNoteTitle(this.props.note, e.target.value);
    }

    handlePin(e) {
        const note = this.props.note;
        if (note.pinned) {
            this.props.actions.unpinNote(note);
        } else {
            this.props.actions.pinNote(note);
        }
    }

    handleDeselectNote() {
        this.props.actions.deselectNote();
    }

    render() {
        const note = this.props.note;

        if (!note) return null;

        const theme = this.state.muiTheme;
        const pinAct   = note.pinned ? 'Unpin' : 'Pin';
        const pinClass = note.pinned ? 'fa fa-flag' : 'fa fa-flag-o';

        const progressStyle = {
            height: 5,
            backgroundColor: theme.toolbar.backgroundColor,
        };

        const saveProgress = note.saving
                             ? <LinearProgress mode="indeterminate" style={progressStyle} />
                             :

        let toolbarStyle = {};

        if (note.data.active) {
            toolbarStyle.backgroundColor = theme.rawTheme.palette.accent1Color;
            toolbarStyle.color = theme.rawTheme.palette.alternateTextColor;
        } else {
            toolbarStyle.backgroundColor = theme.toolbar.backgroundColor;
        }

        return

                   <Toolbar style={toolbarStyle}>
                       <ToolbarGroup key={0} float="left" style={{width: '70%'}}>
                           <TextField
                               fullWidth={true}
                               hintText="Give me a good name"
                               inputStyle={{fontSize: '1.2em'}}
                               value={note.data.title}
                               onFocus={this.props.actions.selectNote.bind(this, note)}
                               onChange={this.handleTitleChange.bind(this)}
                               onBlur={this.handleTitleBlur.bind(this)}
                           />
                       </ToolbarGroup>
                       <ToolbarGroup key={1} float="right">
                           {note.data.active ?
                               <IconButton tooltip="Stop Editing" onTouchTap={this.handleDeselectNote.bind(this)}>
                                   <FontIcon className="fa fa-eye"/>
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                           <IconButton tooltip={`${pinAct} this Note`} onTouchTap={this.handlePin.bind(this)}>
                               <FontIcon className={pinClass}/>
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                           <IconMenu iconButtonElement={
                               <IconButton tooltip="More Options">
                                   <FontIcon className="fa fa-ellipsis-v"/>
                               </IconButton>
                           }>
                               <MenuItem
                                   primaryText={note.file ? note.file.path.base : note.data.title}
                                   disabled={true}
                               />
                               <Divider/>
                               <ShareButton note={note} menuitem={true}/>
                               <CopyNoteButton note={note}/>
                               <OpenButton note={note} menuitem={true}/>
                               <MoveNoteButton note={note} />
                               <Divider/>
                               <DeleteButton note={note} menuitem={true}/>
                           </IconMenu>
                       </ToolbarGroup>
                   </Toolbar>
                   {saveProgress}

    }
};

export default branch(NoteBar, {
    actions: {
        selectNote: notes.select,
        deselectNote: notes.deselect,
        setNoteTitle: notes.setTitle,
        saveNoteTitle: notes.saveTitle,
        pinNote: notes.pin,
        unpinNote: notes.unpin,
    }
});

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Beattie Mansion, known affectionately as the House on the Hill is an incredible building with a rich history. Built in 1854 by Armstrong and Eliza Beattie as their personal residence, the building originally consisted of just the east wing. Armstrong was the 1st banker in St. Joseph and was a shrewd and wealthy businessman. He was first elected mayor in 1857 and would go on to be re-elected 4 other times making him the only person to serve as mayor of St. Joseph 5 times.
Armstrong died mysteriously in 1878 after a "sudden bout of cholera". Eliza died 2 years later in 1880 and the couple left no heirs. The home was sold to the Ladies Union Benevolence Association (LUBA) and became a "Home for the Friendless" accommodating the homeless and distressed. In 1895, along with funding from a private family, the home was expanded and the west wing was built.
Also in 1895 LUBA converted the home into the Memorial Home for the Aged which it served for 100 years. In 1995 LUBA, in need of more modern facilities for its residents, moved the aged home to another location and the building was temporarily used as a group home for the mentally ill and substance addicts. It was sold to the current owner in 2004 and has sat empty, with the plans to turn the building into a quaint B&B.
During attempts to renovate the mansion, numerous contractors experienced paranormal activity and many refused to return. Contractors and caretakers report hearing disembodied voices, seeing shadow figures and full bodied apparition. In 2017, the current caretaker, Rob, decided to contact a paranormal group to come in and help figure out the mystery of the mansion.
It seems that the most prominent spirit in the house is Eliza who lurks upstairs on the 2nd floor, guarding the hall connecting the east/west wings and she does not like males! Armstrong has also been discovered, pacing the halls, particularly in the East wing, whistling. On the 2nd floor, near the hallway connecting the 2 wings is a room housing at least 1 child spirit who has been captured yelling and laughing.
The 1st floor kitchen seems to also be a hot spot, with a variety of activity and various shadow figures of child size and tall male adult size seen walking through the kitchen. Down in the basement is perhaps, the most haunted floor in the house, housing a darker, male entity. He has been seen walking the hallway connecting the 2 wings, heard laughing, and often likes to taunt visitors. There is a room in the basement on the west wing that houses a male figure seen by 7 different people and described as being a tall man in overalls and a white shirt. He often peers out the window at the parking lot.
Additional claims have been piano playing at various times in the night, pokes, grabs, and scratches.
This is truly a paranormal playground!


This week we went to visit Folly Acres. After a very long walk up a very steep hill on a very cold and windy day we were delighted to be greeted with cups of hot chocolate and biscuits!
This gave us the energy to split into two groups. Group One had the important role of looking after the chickens. This involved feeding the chickens, collecting eggs, petting the chickens and adding extra straw to their house.
Group Two had to plant sunflower and bean seeds in their hot chocolate cups and plant a row of potatoes. We are hoping to visit Folly Acres later in the year to dig up our potatoes and bring them home to cook and eat. The groups then swapped and completed the opposite task.
Finally we all walked back down the hill and into school. We would like to say a huge thanks to Lizzie and Dan for making us so welcome and for planning such an exciting morning for us.
We have been exploring collage in art and have created some lovely pictures of animals from the different continents that we have been exploring. We used tissue paper and looked carefully at the colours and patterns of the animals we were re-creating.
In maths the Year Two children have been learning about fractions. They are now much better at deciding which slice of pizza they should choose! The Year One children have been exploring measures and are now able to find the length of different objects more accurately.
We are continuing to learn about the world's oceans and continents. We have used maps to track the journey of the snail and the whale (from our literacy text The Snail and the Whale) and believe that they traveled from England to Antarctica, Hawaii, The Shetland Isles and then back to England. We have decided to write diaries about the snail's adventures and will write newspaper reports next week instead. Our focus has been using adjectives and expanded noun phrases to describe the different places that the characters visit.
This week has been a very musical week. We are obsessed with the Five Oceans Song ( look it up on YouTube!) as it is unbearably catchy but also brilliant in teaching us about the different oceans of the world. We have also been playing the ocarina and are working hard to play Happy Birthday.
This week we have used salt dough to create our favourite food. We have used different modelling and painting techniques in order to make them look as realistic as possible. In geography we have been finding out about the different continents and oceans in our world and have used maps to find them. Our literacy text is The Snail and the Whale which is a lovely story about a snail who hitches a ride on the tail of a whale all over the world. We will be linking this story to our own discoveries about the continents and oceans. We plan to write a newspaper report about the snail's adventures next week.
In PE the children have started country dancing. They are doing a magnificent job and Mrs Knight is already very impressed with how quickly they are learning the different dances.
We are all very excited to be starting our new topic, 'From Plant to Plate'. To help us get thinking about where our food comes from we have been looking at the packaging on our food and finding the different countries that food is produced on, on maps. We have also enjoyed looking at these countries on Google Earth.
In English this week we have been watching a video explaining how marmalade is made. We have discovered that oranges are grown in hot countries such as Spain and are brought to England to be made into marmalade in factories. We have used this information to write our own reports. Our favourite marmalade story is that marmalade was invented in 1700 in Dundee when a ship carrying oranges from Spain had to stop due to a storm. A lady called Mrs Keiller made 'orange jam' from the rotting fruit by adding sugar to it.
Our Christmas adverts are finally being completed! Here are a few more for you to watch.
This week we have been watching different Christmas adverts and planning our own versions. We have spotted that most of the adverts include a journey that results in the solving of a problem. Our absolute favourite was one called The Longest Journey which features a snowman going shopping for the lady snowman who he loves!
We have started by choosing different Christmas characters and planning where their journeys will be. We hope to film these next week and add them to the blog.
Rehearsals have begun for our Christmas performance. As you will have guessed from the costume letter, our theme is Strictly Come Dancing! The children are already working hard to learn the steps to the Charleston and we have discovered some amazing acting talent. We are sure that you will be thoroughly entertained at our performances!
This week we have been writing our own versions of a story based on the lovely animation Mon Ami Le Robot. The children have used a range of adjectives to describe their underwater world and have ensured that they have a clear beginning, middle and end to their stories. We are all working hard to ensure that our sentences are properly punctuated and some of us are beginning to use exclamation marks and speech marks.
We have also made some beautiful Christmas tree decorations which are currently displayed on our tree in St Laurence Church, Stroud as part of the Christmas Tree Festival. The tree will remain there until Sunday 9th December, so please visit the church and take a look.
This week we have been investigating how light travels. We have discovered that some material blocks light. These materials are called opaque. Materials that let light travel through a bit are translucent and things that light can easily pass through are called transparent. We can see easily through transparent things like windows and glasses.Later this week we plan to sort different materials according to whether they are transparent, translucent or opaque.
On Wednesday this week Owls Class went to Stratford Park with Merlins Class. At the park we took part in different activities to do with autumn. We each had a colour chart that we had to match with the different plants in the park. We were amazed at the many different coloured leaves that we were able to find! After our snack we collected leaves and tried to make beautiful patterns with them in the style of Andy Goldsworthy. Owls class will be writing autumn poems at the end of this week so we also brought back a huge selection of leaves for inspiration.
We had a very exciting start back to school with a visit from Ian McGuire from Wild Owl. He has two pet owls (a barn owl and a tawny owl) and had lots of information to share with us about owls. We can now name the five main species of owl found in the United Kingdom and understand how owls are able to fly silently!
For the past two weeks the children have been working in teams to create Tudor style buildings. On Monday we set up our own version of Pudding Lane and then used red paint to represent the flames leaping from building to building. In a matter of minutes our houses were all destroyed and we talked about how this made us feel.
Although we were sad to see our hard work go up 'in flames' we now have looks of amazing words to describe our feelings. These will be used in the diaries that we are also writing this week.
The Great Fire of London comes to Uplands!
Well, what a fantastic start to the school year we have had in Owls Class! In order to start our topic on The Great Fire of London with a bang we lit a small fire in our garden. This gave us a wonderful opportunity to really explore what fire is like and to collect describing words that will support our writing later in the term.
Taking part in lots of drama activities and using our imaginations has enabled us to really understand what it felt like to be alive during the Great Fire of London. We have also sequenced the events of the Great Fire and have learned about Samuel Pepys and his diary.
A highlight from the term so far has definitely been baking. We have made cakes based on a recipe from a book written more than 300 years ago by Sir Kenelme Digby. It was printed in 1669, three years after the Great Fire.
This is what Sir Kenelme wrote in his book, which is called "The Closet of Sir Kenelme Digby Opened".
"Take one pound of very fine flower, and put to it half a pound of sugar. Add one pound of currants well washed. When your flower is well mixed with the sugar and currants, you must put in it a half a pound of melted butter, three spoonfuls of milk, with the yolks of three new-laid eggs beat with it, some nutmeg; and if you please, three spoonfuls of Sack.
"When you have mixed your paste well, you must put it in a dish by the fire, till it be warm.
"Then make them up in little cakes, and prick them full of holes. Bake them in a quick oven unclosed. Afterwards sprinkle them with sugar.
"The Cakes should be about the bigness of a hand-breadth and thin; of the cise of the Sugar Cakes sold at Barnet."
As well as making the cakes, we have enjoyed working out what the original recipe says. 'Sack' is actually Maderia wine, so we didn't include that in our cakes!
We started work on finding out about Uplands - both local history and geography too. We completed a traffic survey at the front of school, using our data handling skills to collect data in a tally chart. The children enjoyed choosing their own categories of vehicle and spotting the traffic going past on Thompson Road.
Finally, we had a fantastic walk around Uplands on Friday morning looking at all the different houses. We spotted the different types of housing we had talked about in class and were able to talk about how they were different to each other. The children enjoyed pointing out their own houses and we even saw some parents out in the garden! We also noticed the differences between the older and newer houses in Uplands, which is something we will look further into during our history lessons. Thank you so much to everyone who has sent in photographs and information about their own houses - this will be used in school next week and will really bring the subject alive for the children.
As a bonus, we also had chance to walk through the co-housing and we were given a brief guided tour by a resident. It was incredibly peaceful because they were no cars and we learnt that all the houses were made from wood and designed to be eco-friendly, which the children found fascinating.
This week the children have really got in to our weather topic. They finished off their wind socks which we then took outside to measure the wind speed and direction - they decided that there was a light North Easterly breeze! They also finished their weather vanes which you probably saw outside this week and which the children have designed and made themselves. They are fully working although I'm not sure they would last very long outside in all weathers! We have now bought our own weather vane, thermometer and wind sock for the class so that we can continue measuring the weather each day over the summer term.
We have also been using the ipads in school this week to program our own animations about the seasons. The children used an app called Scratch Jr which allows them to input commands to make different characters move around the screen. They can also add text and sound. They did a fantastic job and were really good at just trying things out and learning from their mistakes which is often the best way to learn when using new technology.
Please take a look at the 'Wonderful Writing Wall' blog where I have added some of the Owls stories about 'The Bog Baby'. Please leave the children a comment too if you have chance! Thank you.
We have been really busy over the last couple of weeks. We have continued learning about the weather during our topic work where we have researched weather vanes and designed our own based on what we found out. We learnt that they needed to be strong and waterproof to be left out in all weathers! We are going to each be making a weather station to use across the term for measuring weather on a daily basis. It will consist of a rain gauge, wind sock and weather vane and we will also use the class thermometer each day to compare the temperature. This week we started to put together some of the pieces and they are going to make the classroom look very colourful!
In English, the Year 1 children worked on their sentence writing by creating a treasure hunt out in the playground for the year 2 children to complete. They decided where to hide the clues, thought about prepositions and adjectives and then wrote questions for each clue so that they could practise adding a question mark at the end of a sentence. The year 2 children had a great time running around the playground looking for the treasure.
In PSHE we have continued our work on managing emotions and the children wrote and performed short plays about how best to manage anger and frustration, thinking about the reasons why they might feel that way and how best to deal with the situation. They all did a fantastic job and we performed out on the stage in the outdoor area.
Have a fantastic half term and we will see you back in June!
This week we learnt about the weather for our topic 'Uplands News and Journal'. We kicked off by going outside one of the beautiful sunny afternoon and sitting down to enjoy the feel of the sunshine. We talked about how we could use our 5 senses to explore different kinds of weather and also thought about what we associate with different weathers e.g. sunshine and beaches, snow and Christmas. The children came up with some fantastic ideas and I'm sure they are going to really enjoy finding out even more during our science this term.
I have attached a copy of this term's year 2 homework which started this week. The children should have come home on Friday with a new homework book and the list of homework's stuck inside the front cover. As always they can choose which order to do the homework's in as long as one is handed in each week and the first one will be due this coming Friday.
This week the children have started their art for the term, they began by drawing pieces of fruit in the classroom to learn about colour, lines and shading then they went out in to the playground to take pictures of different man-made and natural objects which they then carefully sketched inside. We are building up to a picture of the countryside which will be part of our topic all about Stroud.
The children have been busy sharpening up their calculation skills in maths; adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. They are starting to become really fluent now.
Finally, we have been thinking about managing emotions in PSHE and how we can spot how other people are feeling. We started by naming different emotions and discussing how they show on people's faces and in their body language. Can you tell which emotions the children are portraying in the photos below?
Have a fantastic bank holiday weekend and enjoy the sunshine - see you on Tuesday!
I can't believe we are in the summer term already! The children seem to have had a great rest over Easter and are raring to go back in school. We have had an exciting start to the term with swimming lessons beginning straight away and the wonderful Country Dance Festival at Stratford Park last Thursday. We have been so impressed with how the children have approached swimming lessons so far. It is a long walk down to the leisure centre and they have to be incredibly independent with getting themselves changed and staying organised in the changing rooms and so far they have really surpassed our expectations. They have all been keen to get in the pool and I'm sure they will make excellent progress over the term.
Thank you so much to all of you who came to the Country Dance Festival, we really appreciate your support and it meant so much to the children. The best moments of the night were seeing the massive smiles as they galloped past with their adult in tow! I cannot stress enough how proud we were of them on the night, they have put in a huge amount of work alongside Mrs Knight in PE lessons last term and it is a lot for them to remember and some of the dances are really complicated! I even had a teacher come over from another school to compliment them on their energy and skill! They really were fantastic - well done everyone!
Apologies for the delay, but I wanted to share some photos from our trip to Cotswold Wildlife Park at the end of last term. It was a fantastic day and we got to see a whole range of animals. The best thing about this particular park is how up close and personal you can get to some really fantastic beasts! The giraffes and the wolves were a real highlight and it is also very special to see a lion so close up - hopefully it is something the children will always remember.
In maths this week the children have all tackled fractions - looking at how to find 1/2 1/4 1/3 and much more! They did a whole range of activities and have done a great job with this tricky subject! In English we began our stories based around 'Giraffes Can't Dance'. They came up with Bunnies who can't hop, puppies who can't play the drums and even a crocodile who can't eat meat! As always, please feel free to come in and see any of their writing after school whenever you are free - the children love to share their stories with you!
In topic the children have listened to the orchestral music for 'Peter and the Wolf' with Mrs Wride and will be composing their own animal based music next week. They have also created their very own animal sculptures in art with Mrs Wride based on the work of artist Alberto Giacometti.
In maths this week the children in both Year 1 and 2 have really nailed multiplication! They have drawn arrays to help them find the answers and also used their times tables knowledge as well. The Year 2 children have started 'Magic Maths' where they do a daily 4 minute session of both multiplying and dividing - if you have chance to ask them about it please do and any time you get to test them on their 2, 5 and 10 times table will really make a difference.
In English we wrote a recount of our wonderful Harry Potter day including all the snow excitement! We then read the book 'Giraffes Can't Dance' and the year 1 children acted out some of the story which you can see in the photos below. This coming week we will begin writing our own version of this story with an animal of our choosing!
We have been very lucky this week to welcome into class Mr Moorcroft, a student teacher from the University of Bath who is completing his placement in Owls for the next 8 weeks - no doubt you will have heard about him already from the children but please do come and say hello if you get the chance.
In English the children have written their stories based on 'The Bog Baby' which we had read together. They have done such an incredible job and some of the creatures they created were so imaginative, I thoroughly enjoyed reading them all.
In maths, as you can see from the photos below, we have started to tackle multiplication! The year 2 children will be starting rainbow maths this week to help them practise their 2, 5 and 10 times tables - ask them to share with you what they know and practise any chance you get as this is a really important skill as the children get older.
In our 'Jaws, Paws and Claws' topic we have moved on to finding out about the 5 senses. The children completed a scavenger hunt where they had to use their senses to identify different objects around the school - inside and out! They had a lot of fun and will now use this knowledge to write an information text on the subject.
This week we have continued to find out about the human body with a particular focus on faces. We thought about how faces can be different to each other and made a collage of different facial features. We then did some research on body parts which we will continue next week in order to write an information text about the human body. Thank you to all the children who have bought in books from home too - they are very useful!
In maths the Year 1 children have continued learning about subtracting and counting backwards. If you have chance at home to count backwards from 100, maybe in the car or at tea time, then the children will really benefit - it is as important a skill as counting forwards! In year 2 the children have been tackling missing number problems - a really tricky task which they have been working hard on. I have been really impressed with their perseverance and positive learning attitudes!
In English we have had great fun reading 'The Bog Baby' by Jeanne Willis. The children first described The Bog Baby and then created their own woodland creatures - you may have seen their first draft pictures which I sent home. They have now written a description of their creature and will use this to develop a story next week. Do ask them about their creature as they are really enthusiastic and I'm sure their writing will be fantastic as a result. I will share some of the creatures with you next week.
I have also included some photos below of the children enjoying a fun game in phonics as I thought you might like to see the smiles on their faces as they learn their sounds!
This week the children have continued their work on body parts. We sang along with and danced to 'The Body Parts Song' and played Simon Says to help us identify different, more unusual parts of the human body. We then thought about what we use each body part for and the children were particularly good at thinking about the number of body parts involved in simple everyday tasks such as writing your name or riding a bike. They had to justify their choices and came up with some ideas that even I hadn't thought of.
In maths Year 1 finished off their work on addition and Year 2 have become really fluent with subtracting 2 digit numbers. In English, the children completed their writing about sharks and lions - some of which will be on display in the classroom soon.
In PE, the children have started learning some dances in preparation for the country dance festival in April. They have done so well so far, working together and having to remember a huge amount of moves. They have to keep it up for a 3 minute song too so lots of energy burnt off! As you can see from their smiling faces, they are having a lot of fun!
Don't forget - Jungle Agility started this week - your first challenge card was attached to Friday's newsletter and our focus this week is on BALANCE. If you have lost your card, you can find them all on our new Jungle Agility blog page.
The Owls class have come back to school raring to go and have already been working incredibly hard this term. We have started our new topic 'Jaws, Claws, Paws!' by beginning to find out about the human body and it's different parts. We went out in to the playground to draw around each other and label our body parts - ask the children if they can remember where their forehead, heel or torso are?!
In English, the children researched lions and sharks and then used the information they gathered to write reports and descriptions of these fierce animals. Did you know lions sleep for up to 21 hours a day!? or that sharks don't blink?!
In maths, we have been working particularly hard. The year 1 children have spent a long time on adding and getting this important skill right and the year 2 children have become really confident with both adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers.
In the last week before Christmas arrives at Uplands, we have been busy in Owls with a lot of learning! In English, the children followed up their visit by Mr Jardine and his ambulance by writing a recount. In maths, we continued our work on adding - speeding up our mental addition by spotting near doubles and number bonds in year 2. In art, the children are working on a painting with Mrs Walker which will be finished next week ready for Christmas! As you can see, they had great fun getting messy and created some beautiful backgrounds. Finally, we followed up our work on creating maps by learning how to use a compass and finding out where North, East, South and West are. What a busy week!
Please can I remind everyone about our snack policy in Owls, ready for the new term. The children are allowed to bring in any type of fruit or vegetable, cheese or yogurt (in a squeezy container of some kind to prevent mess!) and also dry rice crackers with no added extras! They are also allowed fruit snacks e.g. YoYo bars, as long as the ingredients are 100% fruit. If you are not sure about anything, please do ask any of us.
This week we had a go at map-making as part of the geography element of our topic. Super Cat had set us a challenge to hide some treasure from his enemy - Big Dog! We talked about how modern maps are created using satellite navigation and then walked around the playground imagining what it would look like from space so that we could make our own maps of the school to help out Super Cat. The children did a really good job thinking about the different shapes they needed to include on their plan and also labeling the different areas carefully.
Following our science experiment, where we found out which material would make the best waterproof cape for Super Cat, this week the children designed a logo and had chance to make a cape! They enjoyed going outside and trying them out in the playground! A lovely end to our science investigation.
This week in maths we have started to practice our addition skills. The year 1 children have focused on learning their number bonds to 10 off by heart - if you test them at home they should be able to respond quickly now! The year 2 children have been practicing different strategies for adding quickly in their heads. For example by spotting number bonds, using near doubles or by jumping to the next ten - this has really helped them to speed up their mental addition.
On Thursday, we were very lucky to be visited by Nick Jardine with his ambulance! The children were able to climb inside, look at all the equipment and even hear the siren working! They were particularly impressed by the magic step on the side and the sheer number of sick bowls on board! Next week, they will be writing a text based on their experience and seeing it first-hand will really set them up for some fantastic writing I'm sure.
Last week the children took part in anti-bullying week alongside the rest of the school. Thank you so much to all the parents who came along on Wednesday afternoon to see what we had been finding out about. We talked about bullying and being kind to each other in school and also found out how we can keep ourselves safe when we are playing or working on the computer. As you can see from the photos, the children particularly enjoyed acting out a story about bullying called 'Chrysanthemum' by Kevin Henkes.
On Wednesday, we braved the cold and went to the park with Merlins class. It was the Merlin children's very first outing from school and the Year 2s were fantastic - holding their hands and showing them how to behave whilst we were walking on the pavement, we were very proud of them. When we got back to school, we looked at all the interesting leaves and other Autumn items we had gathered, sorting them by colour and shape and then using them to create some lovely art for display in the classroom.
We have had another lovely week in the Owls and the children returned to school after half term raring to go! We have been joined in class by Miss Sampson who is helping out on Mon - Wed in Owls until Christmas. However, Miss Francis and Mrs Knight will still be there everyday across the week.
This week in maths we have been working on counting in different ways - some of us counted to 100, some counted in 2s, 5s,10s and 3s and some of us found out about the pattern of odd and even numbers.
In art, we worked with Mrs Walker on our cutting and sticking skills in order to create a collage. The children had to really concentrate to make sure their cutting was accurate and they are improving all the time with practice. If you have chance at home, using scissors is a great way to strengthen their fingers and work on their fine-motor skills.
This week we welcomed a visitor into Owls class. PCSO Underwood came to talk to us about crossing the road safely. We went outside in small groups and put our knowledge to the test! She taught us the importance of making sure we stop, look and listen every time we cross the road. It was great to see some of the children applying this knowledge on the way to the field for football club on Wednesday. Next week we will be making our own books to share with Merlins to help them cross the road safely too.
In art, the children have been looking at pop art with Mrs Walker. They created their own designs in polystyrene and then printed with them - creating some fantastic results.
Another wonderful week in the Owls - we are really settling in now and getting used to all the new routines and expectations. In English, we have read the 'Supertato' series of books. The children have really loved the stories and we were inspired to write a set of instructions for 'How to trap the Evil Pea...' We made evil peas out of plasticine and then trapped them in jelly - just like the end of the story! As you can see the children had a lot of fun watching the jelly change from a solid to a liquid.
In PE we were learning different ways to travel across the floor, including galloping, side-stepping and hopping! We also worked on our balance by trying to keep beanbags on our heads whilst completing different tasks - very difficult indeed but lots of fun!
Finally, in maths we have been using the 'numicon' pieces to help us find out about all sorts of new concepts, including more than and less than. The children were also challenged to create a superhero city scape using this fantastic resource. They had to count the windows and make sure it all added up to the total they were given. They worked well together and grew in confidence as the task progressed.
Mrs Wride has had a fantastic two weeks in Owls and the children have been really busy. They found out all about the superhero 'Big Brave Bill' created by folk singer Kate Rusby. He comes from Barnsley and likes Yorkshire tea! The children went outside and made their own 'Big Brave Bill' drawings out on the playground in chalk and then they all enjoyed some tea and biscuits to finish off the week!
Calling all superheroes! We have had a super first week back in Owls class. We have practiced our hero handwriting, who knew there was a superhero for every letter of the alphabet! Marvelous maths challenged our brains, especially when the evil teacher came along and muddled up our numbers, we worked as a team to put them back in order. Our art work was spectacular and we had a brilliant time getting to know each other during golden time.
Miss W-S and Mrs Knight are really impressed and can't wait to see how our super learning powers grow over the term.
We have had a fantastic final week! We had lots of fun playing at the park. We played rounders and some of the children scored a rounder first time! After that, we had a fantastic water fight and everybody got soaked. All the children loved it and so did the grown ups. Mr Lucas very much enjoyed squirting everybody with the super soaker. On Wednesday, we made pizzas. It was really great learning how to make the dough from scratch using Miss Dempster's recipe. At the end of the week, we brought in our own toys and games to share with each other. We also got to go and play with the Merlins.
It has been a fantastic year and all the children have achieved so much. It is all made possible by the support we get from all of you so thank you. We hope you all have a fantastic summer holiday.
On Monday, a dance lady came in to teach us dances and we made big Kenyan animals using different materials. It was really fun!
On Tuesday, Miss Dermody did beading and someone came in and did felting.
On Wednesday, we went to the CINEMA to see Despicable me 3!
On Thursday, we met our new teachers.
On Friday, we did some drama and finishes our photography collages.
A message from Miss Dermody and Miss Dempster.
Next week, we will be doing lots of fun activities to celebrate the end of term. On Tuesday, we will walk up to the park and spend the morning there. Please could you ensure your child has got a snack and water bottle that they can take with them. If necessary, please apply sun cream before school.
On Thursday, the children are allowed to bring in one of their toys from home!
This week we have done lots of DT. We used a range of materials to design and make printing blocks which we then used to print on to paper and fabric. We took our inspiration from a Kenyan artist and used the colours of the Kenyan flag to make our prints. On Wednesday, we had sports day. We all had a great time and the Leopards in the class were very pleased to have won. We finished off the week with a fashion show to display all of our fabulous work. All in all it has been a great week!
Just a reminder about our trip to the cinema on Wednesday. If you have not yet signed the permission slip then please could you do so by Monday.
Miss Dermody and Miss Dempster.
At the beginning of the week, we planned and carried out a science investigation about habitats. We made choice chambers out of a cardboard box and went to look for woodlice to see if they would choose either the dark/dry, dark/wet, light/dry or light/wet corner. We wrote down our predictions and then we looked in our boxes to see where the woodlice chose to go. After, we wrote up our conclusion.
We used a program called Scratch on the iPads to learn about coding. We had to create a safari scene using different animals. We had to create a code to make the different characters move.
At the end of the week we dug up our potatoes and did some cooking. We made a Kenyan dish called Irio. It took ages. Afterwards we ate the food. Some people didn't want to try it but when they did, they loved it. Only two people didn't like it.
Hope we you have a great weekend.
She was the best of them all!
I am a sea monster, a waving, snaking sea monster as blue as the foaming waves.
Thrashing, crashing, flying, smashing. Leaping through watery caves.
I am a sea monster, a swirling, curling sea monster loving the autumn breeze.
Swooping into the distance. Moving, wriggling, being careful not to freeze.
I am a sea monster, a whirling, twirling sea monster flicking up water.
An old wooden shipwreck sitting at the bottom on the sea.
A turtle's dangerous tooth and a ripped message hidden in a bottle.
A treasure chest's lock sparkling like silver.
A bobbing clown fish as orange as the sun and a smooth shiny seahorse weaving through seaweed.
A string of bright green seaweed swaying in the water and a shiny, light blue fish left in a coral reef.
What else could be under the sea?
So it faded away for the rest of the day and I kept on going for my five metre badge!
This week we had a brilliant trip to Bristol Zoo. At Bristol Zoo, we saw some meerkats, lions, flamingos, dinosaurs and ducks. The dinosaurs weren't real although they did roar! When we had our lunch a duck ate half of my sandwich! At lunchtime, Miss Dempster and her son George turned up. He is really cute! We got all wet when we went in the water park. It was really fun because it was a really hot day.
In our English lessons we wrote recounts about out trip. Some of them are up in the classroom on display.
In genius hour we explored how things fly and made awesome paper aeroplanes.
This week we cracked a code for finding Miss Dempster's Lego cards. Mrs Moore was the thief. How fun it was!
On Thursday, the Year 2s got into partners and made posters about Kenya.
We made some special cards. Everybody made different cards.
On Friday we did lots of repeated patterns. We made them out of Lego, boxes and we even drew them.
On Monday, we will be going on our trip to Bristol Zoo. Please apply sun cream before school. Children will need a hat, lots of water and a snack. It's forecast to be a scorcher! They will also need a rucksack to carry their lunch in.
On Monday, we had a visit from a tortoise. It was very funny.
On Tuesday, we wrote instructions about how to care for a tortoise. It was quite fun.
On Wednesday, we did doubling and halving. It was hard.
On Thursday, we researched lots of things about Kenya. It was fun!
If children have not brought back their slips for the Bristol Zoo trip, please could they remember to bring them on Monday.
This week we were doing our 'We love maths' books. They are fun, awesome and brilliant for new learners. On Tuesday, we went swimming. How hot it was! We also did lots of work on shape.
On Friday, we did golden time. Lots of people did IPads and some did colouring. What fun we had!
I hope everybody has a brilliant half term filled with loveliness and enjoyment.
On Monday we had a reading day where we dressed up as are favourite book characters. Miss Dempster dressed up as Gerald the giraffe and Miss Dermody dressed up as Big the kangoroo. We had breakfast with the parents and we made potatoes look like book characters out of school for everyone to see.
On Tuesday we wrote a book review for Giraffes Can't Dance and went swimming in the afternoon.
Today we played fun, exiting and extremely cool games including rob the nest and we typed up are animal riddles.
Have a lovely weekend, Eleanor.
This week we've been doing some riddles about animals. We've also been learning about habitats and doing some gardening. It has been very fun. Surprisingly, we all finished our animal models. It was the best week yet. What wonderful models we made!
We made African masks with Mrs Walker and we've been doing some hard maths and English. On Friday in maths, we worked on telling the time.
Hello everybody. Hope you have a good week.
We have been writing stories about animals using the story of 'How the tortoise got his shell'. Read on to find out what sort of things we used to write our stories. We used conjunctions, character descriptions, setting descriptions and some of us used commas to separate our clauses. What fun we had!
On Thursday afternoon Mrs Walker came in for our art lesson. We looked up Kenyan masks on Ipads to give us ideas and then designed them. Were you wondering what the milk bottles were for? They were for making the masks.
In maths we were writing shape riddles and then we told them to the class to see if they could guess them. What an excitement it was when we guessed the shapes right!
Finally we built houses during genius hour. We tested to see if we could blow them down with a hair dryer.
As part of our DT week near the end of term 6, we will be printing onto t-shirts. All children will need a white or light coloured t-shirt.
If you have one of these going spare or want to provide one for your child then that is brilliant. Otherwise, we are happy to take a £2 payment to buy one for your child.
A letter has been given out which will need to be returned by Monday 15th May.
Hope you had a great Easter Holidays!
This week we learnt the story of how tortoise got his shell. Do you know the story? We also painted this wonderful story.
We used modroc to make safari animals. How messy we got! We used some balloons to put the modroc onto and these became the animal's bodies. We started our new topic on Kenya. So far we are full of excitement!
We will be starting our swimming lessons on Tuesday. Please could your child remember to bring their swimming kit.
Here is a topic overview for this term so that you know all about the exciting activities that are coming up!
This week it was the Country Dance Festival. We loved showing our families all of the dances we have been learning. We were really brilliant and it was a lot of fun.
At the beginning of the week, we were set a really exciting challenge. We were told that each group would be given a budget of £5 to buy ingredients to make a healthy food item. We had to work together to design our item and then we went to Tesco to buy the ingredients. We decided to make fruit jellies, cakes, wraps, smoothies, soup and fruit kebabs.
We then had a shop in our classroom to sell everything we made. Lots of people came and it was really brilliant! The carrot cakes won the competition of making the most money in total.
We also made bird nest cakes.
On Tuesday we went to Cotswold Farm Park for an awesome school trip.
When we got there we took our belongings to the lunch room so we could eat our snacks and then we went to the toilet.
We went to the demonstration barn to see the sheep with the lambs. We then went on a tractor ride. What a bumpy ride it was!
Next we went back to the lunch room to have our lunch.
We went to the touch barn and held a rabbit, chick and guinea pig.
Would you like to go on this school trip?
This week we will be working on a DT project to end our brilliant topic From Plant to Plate. The children will be set the challenge of designing a food item that includes fruit or vegetables that they can produce and sell to make a profit. They will work in teams and be given a budget of £5 per team. We will be opening our class pop up shop to sell our products to you on Wednesday 5th April at 3pm - please come along to support us and buy lots of our goodies. We look forward to seeing you there!
Hello everybody. Welcome to our weekly blog!
This week we watched a video from food glorious food. We listened to the rhythm and we listened to the beat.
In maths we looked at position and direction using the b-bots. What fun we had!
In English we designed our own animal and we wrote information about our animals. The Year 1s wrote information about the life cycle of a seed.
Our trip to the farm is coming up on Tuesday 28th March! Please make sure you have given in your child's permission slip. We will be carrying our lunch throughout the morning so rucksacks would be very useful. It will be muddy so it would be great if your child could bring their wellies.
Hello everybody! We hope you've had a good week.
This week we planted potatoes in our vegetable planters. We had a lot of fun because it was exciting to imagine our own potatoes growing.
We wrote explanation texts in English. The year twos wrote about the life cycle of a seed and the year ones wrote about a heffalump.
On Friday we created mini bridges that we tested to see what materials are the best.
Hi everybody. Welcome to our weekly blog!
This week we were writing instructions of how to make spam fritters. We made them and they tasted delicious, yummy and scrummy in your tummy.
We also started measuring capacity and we liked that.
The past few days have been fun.
This week we wrote instructions of how to make a sandwich for a giant and in some of the sandwiches there were gooey snozzcumbers and blue slime.
In maths we did very tricky number problems. We got stuck on some of them but then we persevered and solved them in the end.
We also had a visit from a very jolly gardener. We planted cress, sunflowers and mustard and we all enjoyed it. We get to take home the sunflowers when they're 10cm tall!
We hope you all had a good week.
Hello everybody. Welcome to our first weekly blog!
This week we were writing instructions of how to make a sandwich. We learnt that the main features of how to write instructions are the title, a what you need list and a method. We got to make our own tasty peanut butter and jam sandwiches.
Next we interviewed some older relatives including Henry's great aunt and uncle. Then we had a visit from Caterlink. They are the nice people who make our yummy school dinners. They talked to us about fruit and vegetables and what is healthy.
During Genius Week the children had loads of fun trying out new skills and taking part in lots of different workshops. Take a look at the photos of our busy week!


If you want evidence of how the British tabloid press blames minorities for white extremism, this week has been a perfect case study.
Yesterday the Daily Mail implied that Jo Cox's murderer Thomas Mair was perhaps angry because the Council wanted to give his house to immigrants.
It couldn't find any evidence to back up this assertion.
Today The Sun implies that Mair's mother's black boyfriend was responsible for his radicalisation.
There is no "race war" here – a white neo-Nazi killed a white woman because of her political views. This is white extremism.
More importantly, there is no evidence Thomas Mair was radicalised by his mother's relationship with a black man (and how is that an excuse anyway?).
Mair was born in Kilmarnock when his mum was just 17 but moved to Yorkshire two years later with his baby brother Scott after she split from his dad, James.
That was the last time either of them saw or had any contact with their dad. He died in August 2006 aged 63. Mary gave birth to her third child – Duane – in 1973 and later married his father Reginald St Louis in 1979.
Three years later Mair moved in with his grandparents and remained there alone after their deaths. His shocked half-brother Duane St Louis, 41, said he became a loner and vowed to remain single after a girlfriend cheated on him with a pal.
There is nothing here to support The Sun's claim at all. You can read the full article – it has nothing more.
Perhaps, next, the Sun will blame the ex-girlfriend for his radicalisation.
UK's tabloids want to avoid any suggestion that their own hysterical stories about the EU and immigration may have played a part in radicalising him.
And what if he were Muslim? They'd be criticising any suggestion that other factors made him an extremist.
If Brexit was about one thing for the tabloids, it was about them (or, more accurately, their proprietors) retaining a stranglehold on British politics.
It is therefore hardly surprising that they attempt to divert attention away from their own culpability in the wave of violence and racism that their reckless behaviour provoked and legitimised, lest the people demand full implementation of Leveson.
So his fascism is the fault of black people and women. So absolutely no racism or misogyny there then!!!


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Actinomyces viscosus is a human and animal pathogen/pathobiont which colonises the mouths of 70% of adult humans. A. viscosus has a low level of virulence and is often mistaken with other actinomycetes.

Morphology
A. viscosus is Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, and filamentous. It grows slowly on nonselective media, forming gray and white colonies.

Pathogenesis
A. viscosus causes periodontal disease in animals and has been isolated from human dental calculus and root surface caries, as well as the oral cavity of hamsters and actinomycotic lesions in swine, cats, and dogs.
Furthermore, it has been shown to cause endocarditis in humans. A. viscosus has also been known to cause lung infections, but only in very few cases. Infections are treatable with penicillin for three-week therapies.

Diagnosis
A. viscosus infection symptoms are indistinguishable from Actinomyces israelii infection symptoms or Actinomyces bovis infection symptoms. A. israelii and A. bovis infections usually cause actinomycotic infections, but sometimes and very rarely will the pathogen be A. viscosus. A. viscosus colonies test positive for catalase and negative for indole.

Treatment
Multiple-week antibiotic therapies have cured actinomycotic infections caused by A. viscosus in every recorded case. Therapies include treatment with penicillin, sulfadimethoxine, flucloxacillin, clindamycin, tetracycline, and ticarcillin. A. viscosus is usually resistant to vancomycin, metronidazole, cefalexin, and dicloxacillin. Treatments last at least three weeks, with some exceptions. Although A. viscosus is difficult to distinguish from other closely related actinomycetes, the general determination of being an actinomycete is sufficient for treatment of infections.

References

External links
 Type strain of Actinomyces viscosus at BacDive -  the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Actinomycetales
Gram-positive bacteria

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Rupnagar deputy commissioner, Pardeep Kumar Aggarwal, held a meeting to review arrangements for the two-day delegate session as part of the NRI Sammelan which is being organised by the Punjab government.
Aggarwal said NRI delegates from various countries would participate in the delegate session at Virasat-e-Khalsa on January 10. He directed the officials to complete the arrangements in stipulated time.


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