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Found a very interesting blog a few days ago, 'Quotes on Writing', created by writer Jim Harrington. Each post begins with a favorite quote of his, then addresses a specific writing topic that he's used to help him grow as a writer.
Mr Harrington stated in a sidebar on his blog, "My purpose in writing this blog is to clarify in my own mind some of these topics and, hopefully, to stimulate the reader to do the same." He pulls those quotes from resources such as articles, other websites and books.
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Home Defence Security challenges: President Buhari commends military, pledges priority on training
Security challenges: President Buhari commends military, pledges priority on training
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said the Federal Government would continue to give priority to the training of officers and men of the armed forces to effectively tackle security challenges in the country.
Buhari made the commitment during the graduation of 207 Students of Senior Course 41 of the Armed Force Command Staff College (AFCSC) in Jaji, Kaduna State.
"This is not only because we salute their courage and sacrifice to improve the security of our country but also because the armed forces have continued to be the beacon of unity in the country.
"I must again commend the armed forces, who continue to provide prompt responses to the numerous security challenges facing our country.
"Your response to Boko Haram insurgency, banditry, militancy, kidnapping as well as the activities of several armed groups among others have been very commendable,'' he said.
Buhari said the Nigerian armed forces had also committed good resources toward stability of the West African sub-region and world peace.
He noted that the grandaunts had passed through several aspects of training in leadership, public security, command and staff functions to prepare them for the challenges ahead.
"With such an investment in you, the nation expects the very best from you in terms of your commitment to your duties, loyalty and service to your fatherland," he said.
"The president urged them to make honest contributions to the discharge of the constitutional responsibilities of the armed forces and be good ambassadors of the college
Some 207 students, comprising 87 Nigerian Army, 58 Nigerian Navy, 40 Nigerian Air Force officers, nine personnel from Ministries, Department and Agencies and 13 international students from allied countries graduated from the college.
The president noted that the college was now well respected globally.
"It is the reflection of commitment, discipline, work ethics and high moral and academic standards that the college has maintained over the years.
"It is my pleasure to observe that there are 13 international officers from 11 African countries and Republic of South Korea, who have successfully completed the course.
"This is an improvement on the number of international students and I believe that in the coming years, this number will still increase significantly as the excellent reputation of the college is increasing around the world.
"I trust the international grandaunts will return to their countries with good morals and absolve the friendship and bonds we are contributing.''
Buhari asked the students to bear in mind that they might meet again on foreign assignments as members of coalition of allied countries and as such should maintain the bond between them.
He added that the main purpose of the college was to train tactical and operational level officers to address the increasing contemporary security challenges.
"As you all know, Nigeria has been facing numerous security challenges which are both asymmetric and trans-border in nature involving mainly northeast side of the country and outside our borders.
"Many of the security challenges that we have had are trans-border in nature and that is why the West African countries and indeed the entire African continent must step up the level of military cooperation as they currently exist among us.
"I want to assure you that Nigeria in partnership with our allies will not relent until the terrorists are completely decimated.
"The AFCSC will be playing a leading role in developing new doctrine and military tactics and conceptualising new strategies to improve the combat activities of the armed forces,'' he said.
The president commended the effort of the college in introducing media awareness functions in order to sensitise officers to the importance and methodologies of utilising information and media in supporting military operations.
Earlier, the Commandant of the collage, AVM Shittu Alao, said that the course lasted for one year and that 32 of the students were recommended to be directing staff.
He explained that the course had equipped the students with expertise to lead units and conduct operations at tactical and operational levels.
"You are expected to play key roles in the battle against insurgency, banditry and other challenges in the country.
"As you return to your respective agencies and countries, I implore you to be good ambassadors of the college, and continue to sustain the friendships you have developed here with your colleagues and members of staff,'' he said.
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New Book | William Ellis
Posted in books by Editor on December 8, 2022
From the University of Hertfordshire Press:
Malcolm Thick, William Ellis: Eighteenth-Century Farmer, Journalist, and Entrepreneur (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2022), 224 pages, ISBN: 978-1912260492, £17 / $34.
William Ellis, who lived and farmed at Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire in the first half of the eighteenth century (d. 1759), is an important figure in English agricultural history. In his time the most prolific writer on agriculture in England, he authored many works that were read not only at home but also in the American colonies and continental Europe. Ellis was essentially an agricultural journalist, then a relatively new occupation. He wrote about his own life as well as those of the ordinary people of Little Gaddesden and further afield—he travelled extensively throughout the southern half of England. Most of his copy was derived from conversations he had had with farmers, their wives, and other rural folk, the sheer immediacy of his books outshining those of his rivals.
Ellis's style was discursive, particularly so in The Country Housewife's Family Companion (1750). As well as providing a compendium of household management, cookery, and medicine, Ellis delighted in relaying gossip. He included the activities of farmers, wives and maids, labourers, travellers, and beggars, as well as the gentry and aristocracy, rich pickings for social historians.
Ellis also used his books to advertise his business as a supplier of agricultural instruments, seeds, plants, trees, and fowls—an innovative approach. The Swedish botanist Pehr Kalm visited Little Gaddesden in 1748 to inspect Ellis's farming and the various farm implements he advertised for sale. The two men didn't warm to each other, but Kalm's independent observations add to what we know about Ellis.
Piecing together the scant facts about Ellis's early life, Malcolm Thick has uncovered new information on his time before he commenced farming and unravelled some of the complexities of his two marriages. The book's central focus is on Ellis's agricultural writings, which provide a fascinating picture of rural life in the period and shed light on the evolution of English farming. This is the first book about Ellis for over sixty years and the first to consider him fully in the round—as a farmer, an active member of his community, an innovative salesman, and a wonderfully curious mind.
Malcolm Thick is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a winner of the Sophie Coe prize for food history writing. He has published books and papers on early modern gardening, food, and agriculture, including a critically acclaimed biography of the early scientist Sir Hugh Plat and a history of market gardening around London. He also wrote the introduction to a new edition of Ellis's Country Housewife's Family Companion and has contributed a chapter on "Plants as Staple Foods" in volume 3 of A Cultural History of Plants (Bloomsbury, 2022).
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Hundreds of students opt out of PSSA
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Passing the Keystone Exams won't be a high school graduation requirement until 2019.
Students in grades 3 through 8 are taking the Pennsylvania Standardized System of Assessment this week, which has been revised to reflect the Pennsylvania Core variant of the national Common Core standards.
Among the biggest changes to the test is a writing section that has been added to the reading assessment, forming a new English language arts section that joins a modified math portion.
In light of concerns about the PARCC test in New Jersey, similar resistance to the revised PSSA has cropped up in Pennsylvania.
According to PhillyMag, the opt out movement is growing in Philadelphia, where the families of 486 students have already requested exemption from the test, compared to just 20 last year. Those numbers may continue to grow, according to Kelly Collings of the Caucus of Working Educators.
Statewide opt-outs will not be totaled and available until July, but last year the number was about 1,000 across Pennsylvania.
Various reasons have been given for families deciding to opt out, but most identity fears about how the scores will be used and a belief that the test diverts class time that should be used differently.
In order to opt out, parents must follow a protocol that involves writing a letter, visiting the school, reviewing test material , and signing a confidentiality agreement not to disclose PSSA content.
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ACCC wins appeal against Google for deceptive paid search results
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Advertisers who used competitors' names as keywords in Google AdWords campaign landed the search giant in hot water with the Federal Court five years ago, where it was cleared, but the case raised questions about the role of search engines and their responsibilities around paid content.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) appealed that decision and this week announced it had done so successfully, with the Full Court declaring that Google, by creating and serving the advertisements on result pages of the Google Australia website, engaged in conduct that was misleading or deceptive, or likely to mislead or deceive, in breach of the Competition and Consumer Act (formerly known as the Trade Practices Act).
The advertising in question involved the use of competitors' names in keywords and in the actual advertisement headlines served to users. The ACCC alleged these advertisements contained representations that by clicking them the user would find information on the competitor, rather than the advertiser.
The original case went in Google's favour because the judge found Google did not 'make' the representations but merely communicated them, even though some of the advertisements were misleading or deceptive.
ACCC chairman Rod Sims says the ACCC appealed because, "it raises very important issues as to the role of search engine providers as publishers of paid content in the online age.
"This is an important outcome because it makes it clear that Google and other search engine providers which use similar technology to Google will be directly accountable for misleading or deceptive paid search results," Sims says.
The Full Court upheld the ACCC's appeal, concluding that Google is responsible as it created the messages in question: "Google's search engine calls up and displays the response to the user's query. It is Google's technology which creates that which is displayed. Google did not merely repeat or pass on a statement by the advertiser: what is displayed in response to the user's search query is not the equivalent of Google saying here is a statement by an advertiser which is passed on for what it is worth."
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Google will now possibly have to pay civil pecuniary penalties and the ACCC's appeal costs and introduce a consumer law compliance program. It's next avenue of response would be an appeal to the High Court.
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It was her interest in improving public education that first got her involved in politics, having worked as a teaching assistant in a minimum-security facility for pregnant teenagers in Los Angeles after graduating from UCLA. In the private sector, she worked for Scholastic Inc., one of America's leading children's media and education companies, on projects including strategic development for literacy programs, afterschool education, and reading intervention. Finney also served as the chief spokesperson and Communications Director for New York City Schools, managing crisis communications for the system of more than 1.1 million children in the aftermath of 9/11.
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There Are No Women Nominated for Visual Effects at the 2018 Oscars
"It also comes down to cultural expectations of women."
By Kristin Corpuz
The nominations for the 2018 Oscars saw a number of historic firsts for women both behind and in front of the camera. Rachel Morrison's work on Dee Rees's Mudbound made her become the first woman ever nominated for best cinematography. Mary J. Blige is now the first woman to nab a nomination for best supporting actress for a performance in a film directed by a woman of color (along with being nominated with Taura Stinson for best original song "Mighty River").
Definitely some noteworthy progress, but there's still plenty of work to be done. According to the Women's Media Center, the percentage of women nominated for behind-the-scenes roles barely increased to 23% from 20% at the 2017 Oscars. And there are three categories in which there was no representation of women in the nominations this year: score, sound editing, and visual effects.
For women working in visual effects, also known as VFX, things continue to look bleak. Female VFX supervisors worked on only 5% of the 250 top-grossing films in 2014. But there are people who are fighting for better representation in the industry, including Charmaine Chan. She's a Tech Lead Compositor at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a VFX and animation studio associated with Lucasfilms. Charmaine created a video series, aptly named "Women in VFX," which spotlights and interviews female VFX artists from all over the globe.
"It wasn't until I started working with other women in the industry that I realized that there actually are a lot of women who work in VFX — they're just not at the forefront, and they're not the faces that you see in the media," she tells Teen Vogue. "The way I see it, is if you can find someone and relate to them — being a Chinese woman, I looked for other Asian women at my company — it's good to see and know that you can possibly succeed as well."
Charmaine cites the fact that there's just general unawareness about what people in visual effects do. They do more than just "pushing buttons on a machine," which is why she sees the need to "humanize visual effects more." What most average movie-goers don't know is that visual effects are considered by those in the industry as more of a science and technology-based art form, rather than a creative one — but it does blend the two quite seamlessly. As is the case with most other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields, a good number of people assume that men are better for the job. Charmaine believes that these factors play into challenges women in VFX face when hoping to grow in these disciplines.
"Disciplines like compositing and robosculpting tend to have more women in them. The more technical artistic roles, like rigging and animation, tend to have less women," she says. "The more 3D you get [in the work], the less women you get. It comes down to companies trusting men to do work that's more STEM-oriented. It also comes down to cultural expectations of women: we aren't expected to go into more technical, science-driven roles."
In the nearly 80 years that the best visual effects category has existed, only one woman has taken home the Oscar: Sara Bennett, a supervisor at Milk VFX in the U.K., was awarded for her work on 2014's Ex Machina. Throughout the entire field, there are only a handful of female VFX supervisors, and supervisors are often the only people from VFX teams who have the opportunity to sit down with a director. Charmaine sees the continual perpetuation of a "boys club."
"Those [men] are the people who started this industry, so they're in higher positions in the company," she explains. "At the same time, we have issues where directors only like working with specific supervisors — who are usually men — and these supervisors only like working with certain people on their teams — who, again, are usually men — so the whole industry becomes homogenized, in a way. The same people end up working over and over again."
Lindy DeQuattro is a female VFX supervisor at ILM, one of the few in the industry, who worked on the 2017 feature film Downsizing. When asked about gender quotas, she told Women in VFX, "I think you have to start with some kind of quota to get women in those roles so people get used to seeing them in those positions and once that happens — you know, you sort of take the fear out of giving those jobs to women."
And when it comes to the Oscars, there are still barriers that need to be broken.
"It has been ingrained [into the minds of people in the Academy] that men do this work better. This industry is fueled by word of mouth and who works with whom, and we need to break out of that," Charmaine says. " We need be willing to take chances on new talent … If a director came to any VFX company asking for a female supervisor, and that company couldn't provide that, it would be embarrassing for the company. We should be able to provide [these opportunities] for people, whether it's women, or people of color, or LGBT folks. All across, we need that diversity."
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Founder and Former Fox News CEO, Roger Ailes who celebrated his 77th birthday on Monday, died this morning at his home in Palm Beach, Florida.
His death was first announced by his wife, Elizabeth Ailes, in a statement on Drudge Report.
'I am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband, Roger Ailes, passed away this morning. Roger was a loving husband to me, to his son Zachary, and a loyal friend to many. He was also a patriot, profoundly grateful to live in a country that gave him so much opportunity to work hard, to rise and to give back," she said in a statement.
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Roger Ailes who was the man behind the transformation of the television news and American politics resigned from his post last July, amid allegations of sexual harassment.


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How lovely to welcome the new Willow class back to school, looking bright eyed and bushy-tailed!
The children are settling quickly into the class routine and raring to go!
We will be learning to read and spell words with long vowel digraphs, i.e.: 'ee', 'ea', 'oa', 'o-e', 'ow', 'ai,' a-e', 'ay', 'ie', 'igh', 'y', 'oo', 'u-e', 'ew', 'ue', 'oo' (as in good). At the beginning of each week the children will be given spellings to learn, these will be sent home on Friday and tested the following Friday. We will be investigating the use of capital letters, commas and exclamation marks and using them in our writing. We will also try to make our writing more interesting by using connectives, such as suddenly, unfortunately, luckily, etc. Our text work will be based on fiction and poetry, with familiar settings and we will use non-fiction to look at instructions. Good letter formation is a priority, with Year 2 children practising a cursive style. Children are invited to take home a home reading book as often as they wish- please fill in the title and date in their home reading book, together with any comments about their reading. The children are invited to take Bouncer Bunny and his cousin Betsy, for a sleepover: they record what the bunnies do at home, in Bouncer Bunny's Diary. They may also take Willow Bear home for a weekend visit. Speaking and listening is crucial to children's development and 'Show and Tell' is on Mondays, although often spills over to other days!
Children are becoming familiar with reading and writing numbers over 100. They will count on in ones, twos, fives and tens. They will practise recording in number sentences, using +, -, =, x and division. They will learn to recall pairs of numbers that total 10 and 20 and addition doubles to at least 10+10, together with corresponding halves. Year 2 children will become familiar with multiplication facts of the 10x, 5x, 2x and 3x tables and deduce corresponding division facts. They will recognise odd and even numbers. We will also be looking at: length, 2D and 3D shapes, time, money and position and the associated vocabulary. We will recognise halves, quarters and thirds and investigate maths problems and puzzles. We will look at ways of handling data, including tables, bar charts and Venn diagrams.
We shall be studying 'Animals, including Humans', finding out about their needs and how they grow.
Our topic is Famous Events- we shall be finding out about Remembrance Day.
We are comparing a village in another country with Elham.
This term we are studying Christianity: the Creation and the parables of Jesus. We will be making a book of the Christmas story, linking with our Nativity play.
We will learn ball skills and develop these into playing football. P.E. is on Fridays. Please wear suitable plimsolls or trainers and bring a cosy top and trousers or a tracksuit to wear.
We shall investigate the sounds we can make, loud and soft, short and long, fast and slow and rhythm. This will develop into using percussion instruments to compose and perform music. Mrs. Hickman teaches the Ocarina, as well as singing and percussion on Wednesdays. We will be practising singing songs for the Nativity play.
We are investigating making different marks on paper and colour mixing. We will develop this into studying portrait painting and sculpture. In the second half of the term we shall be designing and making pop-up cards for Christmas.
Thank you very much to all the parents and friends of Elham School, who give up their precious time to help in Willow Class: your contribution is very highly valued. If anyone feels they can help with any area of the curriculum we would be delighted to hear from you!
We made the most of the fine weather and went on a conker hunt! We had Rugby Tots in and we learned how to carry a rugby ball, score a try and kick a goal!
What else have we learned this week?
Star of the Week: Arthur for being quick to help in class and for always trying his best.
We have been busy preparing for our Harvest Festival in the Methodist Church next Friday - watch out for a pride of lions! We had a visit from Sound Art and had great fun with Mrs Sharp using microphones to record our voices making different sounds and rhythms.
Star of the week: Gabriy'el for always trying her best and for being quick to help.
We went to the Methodist Church for our Harvest Festival on Friday. The theme was 'Generosity' and when discussing this with the children I was surprised how many of them thought about being generous with your actions; as a result we told the story of 'Androcles and the Lion' in church and showed the magnificent lion heads they had made. Despite being nervous, they read very well: we were very proud of them!
Star of the week: Joe A. for an excellent attitude towards his work.
We had some beautiful sunny weather towards the end of the week and were able to go outside and collect horse chestnut leaves for our science lesson and play football on the playground.
Star of the week: Samuel for trying hard and always being helpful in class.
Again some lovely 'Indian summer' weather to hunt for Sweet Chestnut leaves and nuts and to practise our football skills!
We ended the week with the start of Book Week: Ian Crosher from KIC Theatre is an old friend of the school and never fails to delight the children with his exciting drama activities! He is already booked in with us for the next two years as he is so popular and he gets snapped up really quickly!
We have lots going on next week!!
On Monday we have Tales from the Book of Life, visiting us again - I can't wait! On Wednesday Ian MacDonald a local author is coming in to do workshops and Jane Buss will be in KS 1 and Reception on Friday enthralling the children with tales of Keiller, the Cathedral Cat.
Do not forget the Scholastic Book Fair after school next week until Thursday; a lot of the books are at discount prices.
There is a competition for KS1 and Reception to draw a Super Hero.
Next Friday is Dressing-up day for Book Week - come as your favourite Super Hero!
We will be sending home Readathon sponsor cards, for the children to complete, if they wish, over half-term: this is to raise money for Roald Dahl children's charities, for very poorly children.
Star of the Week: Erin for always trying her best and being helpful in class.
On Monday 'Tales from the Book of Life', combined music and storytelling to entertain the children. Ramona has visited us for a number of years and plays an enormous array of instruments, notably the harp and viola. Tony Cooper, stood in for Tony Edwards, and enthralled us with tales from around Kent. We wish Tony E. a speedy recovery and look forward to seeing him next year.
On Tuesday, the children were invited to enter a competition: KS 2 had to write a 'day in the life of their Super Hero' and KS 1 had to design a costume for their Super Hero. In Willows, Sabine won for her beautiful drawing of 'Cloud Woman' (she also came dressed as Cloud Woman!). We also had an assembly visit from a representative from the Scholastic Book Fair - she must have inspired the children, for over £820 was spent over the four days after school. An enormous' thank you' to Mrs. Clayton for arranging the rota of parent helpers and to all our wonderful Mums for selling the books!
On Wednesday, Ian MacDonald, a local author, read from his books and spoke about the craft of writing. After school he signed copies of his books, which proved very popular!
On Friday, Jane Buss (Philips), another local author (and grandmother to Jacob and Joanna), read her book 'Keiller, the Cathedral Cat', to Acorns, Hazel and then Willows. They enjoyed asking her questions and will be able to do some interesting follow- up work.
We also, of course, had our traditional 'Dressing-up Day'. I applaud the creativity of the parents and children! The Kent Messenger took some photos - so look out for them next week!
Welcome back after a lovely half-term!
We have started learning the songs for our Nativity play - 'Off to Bethlehem' and the children have been allocated parts: understandably, they are very excited!
What heve we learned this week?
Star of the Week: Beaumont for making an enormous effort to make his writing smaller and neater.
This week we were visited by Fire Fighter Max, who showed us his uniform and told us not to touch matches and to get regularly check our smoke alarms; the children did some very good recounts following his talk. We also went to church for the first time this term and took part in a service led by the Year 6s.
Star of the week: Sabine for always trying her best.
What a busy week with two parent evenings, but it was lovely to meet all my parents!
On Friday, we celebrated 'Children in Need' day - it was hard to know who had chicken pox and who had gone spotty for the day!
'I learned the story of The Little Red Hen' with actions.
'I learned to put capital letters and full-stops in my sentences.
Star of the Week: Tamsin for always working hard and teaching us Polish!
We held our annual seed competition and had a lot of beautiful, varied collages, based on the song 'Autumn Days'.
The winners were; 1st Samuel, 2nd Daisy, 3rd Tamsin and 4th Charlie. Well done to all the children who entered; Mr. File, who judged the competition , was very impressed with your creativity!
On Wednesday we had our first music concert of the year and I was very proud of the Willows as they played their ocarinas beautifully in front of the whole school and then joined in a rendition of Silent Night with all the other classes. Thank you very much to Mrs. Hickman for organising the concert and to Miss Hickman for joining her in playing her wind instruments.
Rehearsals for our Nativity Play are coming on apace - prepare to be amazed by your children!
'I learned to write a prayer about 'wisdom'.
Star of the week: Joe H. for trying hard with his writing.
On Thursday, we had a visit from the 'Make time for Music' team. They demonstrated a range of instruments and the children were very keen to have lessons ( drums featured heavily on their wish list - sorry parents!).
Friday, 1st December, what an exciting day this was! The children came into school to find the class had been decorated with a Christmas tree, a 'Merry Christmas' banner, an advent calendar, a Father Christmas/ stocking advent calendar and a stable with Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus and all the characters from their Nativity play. Needless to say they were very excited! Thank you, Riley for your help!
To add to the excitement, it was the Christmas Fair after school and we had fun practising our 'Bean Bags in a Basket' game. We had a constant stream of children taking part and everyone enjoyed the fair.
'I learned that Mexicans put plain chocolate in their stews: it is called 'mole'.
Star of the week: Howie for a great attitude towards his learning and making very good progress.
On Wednesday we went to the pantomime! " Oh no we didn't", "Oh yes we did!" It was up to its usual brilliant standard and the children loved it and were very well behaved.
After a throw off for first place in the 'Bean Bag in a Basket' competition, at the Christmas Fayre, the winner was Arthur for KS 1 and Sammy for KS 2 - well done boys!
Friday saw our first proper dress rehearsal in front of Age UK, Elham Pre-school and KS 2; the children sang beautifully and their acting was amazing! We are looking forward to our matinee performance on Monday, starting at 2.00 pm and our evening performance on Tuesday, starting at 6.00 pm. Please bring your children back to school for 5.30 pm and collect them at around 6.45 pm.
Star of the week: Beaumont, who stood in for Howie for our Friday performance of 'Off to Bethlehem', and was magnificent!
On Monday we had our matinee performance of 'Off to Bethlehem'. The children were magnificent! Then on Tuesday we had our evening performance - the best ever! Well done Acorns, Hazel and Willows, we were very proud of you. Especial thanks to Mr. Davison, our lighting director, Alice, our voice coach and Mrs. Lewis, publicity and Box Office - well done team!
On Wednesday we made Christingles, using oranges, a candle, red tape, cocktail sticks and sweets. In the afternoon we went to church and lit the Christingles - it was a beautiful service. Father Christmas visited Mrs. Lewis and left Christmas cards for the children - they were beside themselves with excitement!
On Thursday we made our Christmas cards - a lovely Nativity scene, and made snowflake calendars, with a picture of the children in costume.
On Friday we had a class party because we had achieved 20 marbles in the jar, through team work. The children were allowed to bring games from home and it was lovely to see them playing together.
It is lovely to see everyone healthy and happy to be back at school!
Below is a guide to what your child will be learning in Willow Class this term. If you have any queries or can help in any way, please contact me.
We will be learning to read and spell words with long vowel digraphs, i.e.: 'air', 'ere', 'are', 'ear'; 'or', 'oor', 'aw', 'au', 'ore'; 'er', 'ur', 'ir'; blends, e.g. 'wh', 'ch' and 'ph'; prefixes, e.g. 'un', 're' and 'dis''; antonyms, e.g. pretty and ugly, cheap and expensive; compound words, e.g. playtime, homework and icepack. We will learn to count syllables and phonemes. The reading and spelling of high frequency words is an ongoing priority. At the beginning of each week the children will be given spellings to learn, these will be tested on Friday. We will be investigating the use of commas and speech marks and using them in our writing. We will also try to make our writing more interesting by using adverbial connectives, such as suddenly, unfortunately, luckily, etc. We will be looking at grammatical agreement and using the standard form of verbs. Our text work will be based on fiction and poetry, by significant authors and we will use non-fiction to look at instructions. Good letter formation is a priority, with Year 2 children practising a cursive style. The children will be looking at different ways of presenting their work, including using word processing. Writing is encouraged and practised at every opportunity and this term we will be focussing on the structure of a story and key elements, such as setting, character, the use of adjectives, alliteration and onomatopoeia. Children are invited to take home a home reading book as often as they wish- please fill in the title and date in their home reading book, together with any comments about their reading.
Children are becoming familiar with reading and writing numbers up to. They will count on in ones, twos, threes, fives and tens. They will practise recording in number sentences, using +, -, and x and division. They will learn to recall pairs of numbers that total 10 and 20 and addition doubles to at least 10+10 together with corresponding halves. Year 2 children will become familiar with multiplication facts of the x10, x5, x3 and x2 tables and deduce corresponding division facts. These will be tested on Fridays. They will recognise odd and even numbers. We will also be looking at: length, 2D and 3D shapes, time, money, capacity, weight and position and the associated vocabulary. We will recognise halves, quarters and thirds and investigate maths problems and puzzles. We will look at ways of handling data, including bar charts and Venn diagrams.
We shall be studying the uses materials and investigating how plants grow.
We are investigating the Great Fire of London. What is London like now? What was it like before the fire in 1666? How can we find out about it? Who was Samuel Pepys?
This term we are studying the parables of Jesus and learning about Easter.
We will be learning how to take photos and edit them using I pads.
We will be exploring different ways of moving, combining sequences into a dance. For the first six Fridays, Mr.Hodgeman will be teaching us hockey skills. After half-term we will be learning rugby skills, on the pitch – wrap up warm!
P.E. is on Tuesdays and Fridays.
We shall investigate the sounds we can make, loud and soft, short and long, fast and slow and how these affect the rhythm of a piece of music. We are going to learn songs, to put together as a class performance. Mrs. Hickman will to teach the ocarina, singing and percussion on Wednesdays.
We will be looking at buildings and observing different patterns. We will turn our sketches into a clay collage.
This will be an integral part of our R.E. project, investigating the need for rules in our lives. We will also discuss social problems as they arise naturally in the group.
It is great to get back into the swing of things - the children have worked so hard!
On Tuesday, we had Dance with Mrs. Everett and then we went to Church in the afternoon. On Friday we continued our Hockey training with Mr. Hodgeman: it was great fun, but cold - do make sure your child has warm clothes to wear for outside P.E. (they can wear gloves - I did!) and trainers.
'I learned that if a word ends in a 'y' and you want to add an 's', you need to change the 'y' into an 'i' and add 'es'. For example, 'cry' becomes 'cries' and 'try' becomes 'tries'.
'I learned how to use exclamation marks, for example when there is a loud noise or someone is shouting, if there is danger and you are warning someone, or if something is funny or unexpected.
Star of the Week: Jack for always being so helpful and trying his best.
The children noticed the interesting date on Thursday: 18.1.18. They had also spotted the palindromic date on 8.1.18!
Star of the week: Benjamin for trying hard with his sentences.
An exciting start to the week with a visit from Jo, of The Dogs' Trust. We learned a lot about how a dog uses its senses and compared it with our senses.
Star of the Week: Saul for trying hard with his sentences and maths.
What a very busy week we have had!
It was Mental Health week and the children came up with super ideas as to what mental health meant. They wrote poems describing themselves in terms of other things, e.g. If I were a colour, I would be black and white. If I were a season I would be spring.
We also wrote our stories for The Winter Writing Competition. The children were really inspired by the snowy pictures and by our research into snow leopards. The winner for Year 2 was Beaumont, with a very entertaining and well written story about the friendship between a rabbit and a mouse. Well done Beaumont!
'I learned silent letters; 'gn', 'wr', 'sw' and 'kn'.
Star of the week: Owen for a lovely winter story.
Lovely to be back with...a brand new interactive whiteboard! It was super to see all the children looking healthy and rested - bring on Term 4!
Star of the week: Daisy for trying hard with her sentences.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! We were closed for two and a half days, but for the intrepid and healthy there was still lots to learn!
Star of the week: Jeremy for always taking part in class discussion.
We had our last hockey session with Mr. Hodgeman, which was a mini tournament. He was impressed with the children's skill and how competitive they were! A huge thank you to Mr. Hodgeman, the class have thoroughly enjoyed the lessons and learned a lot.
On Tuesday we went to church with Rev. Jane and Howie took part in the Cracker Challenge! He was determined not to give in and have a drink of water! A lesson to us all during Lent.
Happy Mothering Sunday on the 11th!
'I learned the 'zh' phoneme, as in 'beige' and 'treasure'.
Star of the Week: Nicholas for a lovely Mothering Sunday Card.
What an exciting Science Week we had! Bridget and Mr. Clayton visited from Pfizers and did some hair-raising experiments with static electricity and Mrs. Levitt taught us about balance and gravity. The Folkestone School for Girls taught us how to track animals by their poo, how to make a Ph indicator using red cabbage, how to find out what birds eat by the shape of their beaks and about digestion.
What else did we learn this week?
'I learned that when a noun or verb end in 'y' to add 's', you must change the 'y' into 'i' and add 'es'.
Star of the Week: Ava for trying very hard with her Samuel Pepys Diary.
'I learned that I could check my subtraction number sentences by doing the opposite - adding!' For example: 14-7=7 so 7+7=14.
'I learned the 'le' phoneme, as in 'able' and 'sensible'.
'I learned the 'er' phoneme as in 'mother, 'father' and 'brother'.
Star of the Week: Joe A. for a consistently high standard of work.
On Thursday, the last day of term, we went to church and performed our acrostic poem about The Last Supper. The children were magnificent and we were very proud of them!
'I learned the suffix 'ly'.
'I learned to find missing numbers in number sentences, by doing the opposite operation. For example: 8+ ? = 16, so 16 - 8 = 8.
Star of the Week: Beaumont for much quicker application of his skills in writing and maths.
Lovely to see the children back from the Easter break and what beautiful weather we had at the end of the week to do our sponsored bounce and to experiment with capacity!
Star of the Week: Charlie for a much better attitude towards his work.
Star of the week: Finlay for a great effort with his work.
What a lovely week we have had! On Thursday we went to The GulbenkianTheatre in Canterbury to see 'What the Ladybird Heard' by Julia Donaldson. It was an excellent production, with singing, dancing and playing instruments - the children were enthralled. When we got back to school we designed and made posters to advertise the show - the children were well and truly inspired!
A huge 'thank you' to Mrs. Lester for organising the trip and to the PTA for subsidising it.
Mrs. Woodward and I took cards the children had made for Mrs. Collins; she is making very good progress and misses all the children very much. We miss her very much and can't wait for her to return after half term!
'I learned to compare things using words like 'funny', 'funnier' and 'funniest'.
Star of the week: Arthur for working extremely hard to catch up on work he had missed.
SATs testing week and the children were magnificent! They worked really hard and deserve a lot of TLC!
'I learned all the different ways of writing the 'or' phoneme, especially the tricky 'al' as in 'ball' and 'ar' as in 'warm'.
We had a party to celebrate getting' 20 marbles in the Jar' and the end of SATs! Hurray!! On Friday we dressed in our PJs to raise money for charity - well done everybody!
'I learned the suffixes 'ness' and 'ment'.
Star of the week: Sabine for persevering with maths problem solving.
How lovely to see the children back, full of their stories of the half-term holiday! And....drum-roll.. we had a very special returnee - Mrs. Collins! She has been sorely missed!
On Wednesday we were visited by Tiempo Dance: it was so hot we danced on the playground!
'I learned the 'al' phoneme/grapheme, as in 'metal'.
Star of the week: Jack for stretching himself with his math's investigation.
On Thursday we had our whole school Music Concert in front of an invited audience of parents. What incredible talent we have at Elham School! We were so proud of Tamsin (violin) and Howie (guitar) and for all the Willows playing their ocarinas - what stars!
Another beautiful sunny week, culminating in Sports' Day. Lovely to see all the children doing their best and giving it a go as not all children are natural sportsmen or like performing in front of parents. Well done Willows!
We started the week with a treat! M and M Productions performed 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and the children were enthralled!
Next week I intend to give the class their first SRE lesson, looking at gender stereotypes.
A brilliant week, watching the KS 2 play, 'The Flower Girl', culminating in our reception and KS 1 outing to The Rare Breeds Centre.


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Young star appears to be ripping away layers of close-orbiting 'hot Jupiter'
by Rice University
An artist's impression of likely new giant planet PTFO8-8695 b, which is believed to orbit a star in the constellation Orion every 11 hours. Gravity from the newborn star appears to be pulling away the outer layers of the Jupiter-like planet. Credit: . Passwaters/Rice University based on original available under CC license on Wikipedia
Astronomers searching for the galaxy's youngest planets have found compelling evidence for one unlike any other, a newborn "hot Jupiter" whose outer layers are being torn away by the star it orbits every 11 hours.
"A handful of known planets are in similarly small orbits, but because this star is only 2 million years old this is one of the most extreme examples," said Rice University astronomer Christopher Johns-Krull, lead author of a new study that makes a case for a tightly orbiting gas giant around the star PTFO8-8695 in the constellation Orion. The peer-reviewed study will be published in The Astrophysical Journal and was made available online this week.
"We don't yet have absolute proof this is a planet because we don't yet have a firm measure of the planet's mass, but our observations go a long way toward verifying this really is a planet," Johns-Krull said. "We compared our evidence against every other scenario we could imagine, and the weight of the evidence suggests this is one of the youngest planets yet observed."
Dubbed "PTFO8-8695 b," the suspected planet orbits a star about 1,100 light years from Earth and is at most twice the mass of Jupiter. The team that compiled the evidence was co-led by Johns-Krull and Lowell Observatory astronomer Lisa Prato and included 10 co-authors from Rice, Lowell, the University of Texas at Austin, NASA, the California Institute of Technology and Spain's National Institute of Aerospace.
"We don't know the ultimate fate of this planet," Johns-Krull said. "It likely formed farther away from the star and has migrated in to a point where it's being destroyed. We know there are close-orbiting planets around middle-aged stars that are presumably in stable orbits. What we don't know is how quickly this young planet is going to lose its mass and whether it will lose too much to survive."
Astronomers have discovered more than 3,300 exoplanets, but almost all of them orbit middle-aged stars like the sun. On May 26, Johns-Krull, Prato and co-authors announced the discovery of 'CI Tau b,' the first exoplanet found to orbit a star so young that it still retains a disk of circumstellar gas. Johns-Krull said finding such young planets is challenging because there are relatively few candidate stars that are young enough and bright enough to view in sufficient detail with existing telescopes. The search is further complicated by the fact that young stars are often active, with visual outbursts and dimmings, strong magnetic fields and enormous starspots that can make it appear that planets exist where they do not.
PTFO8-8695 b was identified as a candidate planet in 2012 by the Palomar Transit Factory's Orion survey. The planet's orbit sometimes causes it to pass between its star and our line of sight from Earth, therefore astronomers can use a technique known as the transit method to determine both the presence and approximate radius of the planet based on how much the star dims when the planet "transits," or passes in front of the star.
Christopher Johns-Krull. Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University The Orion constellation as seen over the Mayall 4-meter Telescope on Kitt Peak. Credit: J. Glaspey/NOAO/AURA/NSF
"In 2012, there was no solid evidence for planets around 2 million-year-old stars," Prato said. "Light curves and variations of this star presented an intriguing technique to confirm or refute such a planet. The other thing that was very intriguing about it was that the orbital period was only 11 hours. That meant we wouldn't have to come back night after night after night, year after year after year. We could potentially see something happen in one night. So that's what we did. We just sat on the star for a whole night."
A spectroscopic analysis of the light coming from the star revealed excess emission in the H-alpha spectral line, a type of light emitted from highly energized hydrogen atoms. The team found that the H-alpha light is emitted in two components, one that matches the very small motion of the star and another than seems to orbit it.
"We saw one component of the hydrogen emission start on one side of the star's emission and then move over to the other side," Prato said. "When a planet transits a star, you can determine the orbital period of the planet and how fast it is moving toward you or away from you as it orbits. So, we said, 'If the planet is real, what is the velocity of the planet relative to the star?' And it turned out that the velocity of the planet was exactly where this extra bit of H-alpha emission was moving back and forth."
Johns-Krull said transit observations revealed that the planet is only about 3 to 4 percent the size of the star, but the H-alpha emission from the planet appears to be almost as bright as the emission coming from the star.
"There's no way something confined to the planet's surface could produce that effect," he said. "The gas has to be filling a much larger region where the gravity of the planet is no longer strong enough to hold on to it. The star's gravity takes over, and eventually the gas will fall onto the star."
Additional team members were Wei Chen and Sarah Frazier, both of Rice; Jacob McLane of the University of Texas at Austin; David Ciardi and Julian van Eyken, both of NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute; Charles Beichman of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Maria Morales-Calderón of Spain's National Institute of Aerospace Technology; and John Stauffer, Andrew Boden and Luisa Rebull, all of the California Institute of Technology.
The team observed the star PTFO8-8695 dozens of times from the University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas, and the Kitt Peak National Observatory 4-meter telescope in southern Arizona.
Astronomers find giant planet around very young star
More information: H-alpha Variability in PTFO8-8695 and the Possible Direct Detection of Emission from a 2 Million Year Old Evaporating Hot Jupiter, arxiv.org/abs/1606.02701
Journal information: Astrophysical Journal
Provided by Rice University
Citation: Young star appears to be ripping away layers of close-orbiting 'hot Jupiter' (2016, June 9) retrieved 16 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2016-06-young-star-ripping-layers-close-orbiting.html
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tblakely1357
How much probably depends on how strong the planet's magnetic shield is.
Chris_Reeve
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Otto_Szucks
I don't think that it's a "filament". The planet is much too close to its star to have that type of "connection" as it would if the planet was safely farther away. A "ripping away" of planetary material should indicate that the star's gravitational force has locked onto the planet and will eventually draw it close enough to absorb it as it loses mass.
wduckss
"It likely formed farther away from the star and has migrated and to a point where it's being destroyed ..
..the first exoplanet found to orbit a star so young that it still retains a circumstellar disk of gas. "
Probably someone to play chess game where the stars and other bodies figures to scroll!
Classics (already), quickly rotating star (creates fast orbit around the body), white (if it is dwarf) or blue star high temperatures, small radius (relation mass / radius, Sun = 1) high surface gravity. It meets the optimum value from the article "The causal relation between a star and its temperature, gravity, radius and color" http://www.svemir...e-causal the existence of the disk article "Why is there a ring, an asteroid belt or a drive around the celestial objects?" http://www.svemir...hy-there
Garrote
That has to be one of the biggest EU fails ever. OS thinks it looks like a load of bschot!
Figures in a duel between a broken clock and negative knowledge. Negative knowledge will constantly point you away from the answer, but a broken clock is right twice a day.
glen9
Or... is this evidence of the solar fission model for planetary formation? Is the planet 'emerging' from the star?
(I know this is not the current 'mainstream' theory, but this is a good test of the theory.)


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South China Karst (China) (N 1248bis)
Having examined Document WHC/17/41.COM/7B,
Recalling Decision 38 COM 8B.9, adopted at its 38th session (Doha, 2014),
Welcomes progress achieved by the State Party to integrate planning, governance and management across the whole serial property, including the finalization of the Conservation and Management Plan of South China Karst (CMP-SCK) and the establishment of the Protection and Administration Coordinating Committee for South China Karst World Heritage Sites (PACC);
Notes with appreciation the efforts made by the State Party to address impacts from tourism, water pollution, agriculture and urban development, considers that the implementation of the CMP-SCK should enable the State Party to make further progress in this regard, and urges the State Party to closely monitor the effectiveness of the measures taken, in particular to ensure that the promotion of tourism as an alternative livelihood to agriculture does not exacerbate the current impacts and threats from tourism development and high levels of visitation in the property;
Notes with concern the two planned tourist roads that would cross the property at Shilin Karst, which according to the State Party would have a negative influence on the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the property, and also urges the State Party to not proceed with these projects;
Requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, for review by IUCN, the results of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the planned Guiyang-Nanning High-speed Railway (GN Railway) that would cross the buffer zone of Libo Karst, including a specific section focusing on the potential impact of the project on the OUV, before making any decisions that would be difficult to reverse, in accordance with Paragraph 172 of the Operational Guidelines;
Takes note of the relocation of Wukeshu Village, and also requests the State Party to provide detailed information about the processes followed, in particular to ensure that the relocation was carried out with the consent of the population concerned;
Further requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 December 2018, an updated report on the state of conservation of the property and the implementation of the above, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 43rd session in 2019.
WHC/17/41.COM/18
WHC-17/41.COM/7B
States Parties (1): China
Properties (1): South China Karst
2017 South China Karst


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Home News Breaking News Israel's Blue Flag International Air-Force Drill Was 'Most Advanced' To Date
Israel's Blue Flag International Air-Force Drill Was 'Most Advanced' To Date
Israel completed its fourth international air exercise in southern Israel, Blue Flag 2019, earlier this month—a drill that planners have described as being the most advanced of its kind to date.
Towards the end of the exercise, held from Nov. 3 to Nov. 14 at Uvda Air Force Base, just north of Eilat, other jets from the Israel Air Force were busy striking Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip as rockets flew in the direction of Israeli cities.
Yet the air forces of the United States, Germany, Italy and Greece joined Israeli flight crews and completed the joint training as planned.
"In 2017, we called Blue Flag our biggest drill. Now, in 2019, we are describing this drill as being the most advanced," Lt. Col. (res.) Tal Herman, head of the IAF's Blue Flag management team, told JNS in the midst of the exercise.
"What makes it advanced is that, first of all, this is the first time that fifth generation aircraft—the Israeli F-35 and the Italian F-35—are taking part. We focused on integrating these planes and linking them up with fourth-generation planes, like F-15s and F-16s, and the German and Italian Eurofighters," he explained.
"There are lots of flying computers, and they all have to talk to one another," he added.
The introduction of the F-35 to the exercise helped make that task easier since the international aircraft all have NATO's Link 16 communications system installed onboard—a system the IAF has not previously had until the arrival of the Israeli F-35, which comes with the system installed.
This means that for the first time, Israeli jets connected to the NATO Link 16 network.
"It has been very successful so far," stated Herman. "We made major efforts to enable this connection. It is a breakthrough, and it could have operational dividends –if and when needed," he said referring to the possibility that in future, Israeli F-35 jets would be able to work smoothly with NATO F-35s on joint missions if necessary.
Meanwhile, the IAF's Eitam command and control aircraft flew with its Italian counterpart; both of these platforms were produced by Israel Aerospace Industries.
The drill consisted of a Red Team—Israeli jets playing the enemy—challenging the Blue Team in the air, as well as simulated missile batteries on the ground "targeting" the Blue Team.
Blue Flag featured fighter-jet transport planes on the Blue Team taking on Red Team aircraft, including F-16s, drones and a Patriot system simulating surface-to-air missiles.
"We wanted this to be advanced in the sense that the Red Team simulates assets that are relevant to the arena today, and not only the established threats from past," said Herman. The Red Team also had F-35s as a result.
"We want the Red Team to be responsive and not come only with a prior game plan. This team has a controller, and he wants to win, so he challenges the Blue Team. But safety comes first. We didn't come to defeat the Blue Force; we came to train it."
'More comfortable to cooperate'
Integrating the F-35 into such a drill is no easy task, as it's an aircraft designed to be invisible to others. That also creates challenges for the after-flight review stage, when air crews sit down to watch recordings of their maneuvers played back to them showing the location of the various aircraft. To overcome that challenge, planners placed location and time-stamp pods on the F-35s so that they could take part in the post-flight reviews.
Otherwise, Herman said, "the plane won't tell anyone where it was."
Learning how to deal with fifth-generation stealth planes was a key aspect of the exercise. "How do I bring it down? We placed certain blocks on the plane for the drill to make it fair," he said.
Until 2014, Herman was responsible for the IAF's international cooperation with other air forces before joining civilian life. But he has come out of retirement twice to lead Blue Flag exercise: once in 2017 and again now for Blue Flag 2019.
In a statement, the IAF said that "the goal of the exercise is to simulate extreme war and coalition flight scenarios in the most realistic manner. The exercise is of high strategic importance and has a significant influence on the international strategic plans of the State of Israel."
Asked to list the advantages of such a drill, Herman said, "The first is that it brings people from different air forces together. On the day that a real order might come, it makes it more comfortable to cooperate. We have been together, sitting in the same briefing rooms. We are not strangers. Diplomatically, every picture of a foreign air force flying with the IAF is good for Israel."
On the professional-technical level, the drill challenges the foreign air crews by removing them from their comfort zone and getting them to fly in unfamiliar spaces. "They have to fly together with platforms they do not know, against tactics that are not their home court tactics. Some of us have to fly in a different language. Flying in English is a different difficulty level," said Herman.
Pilots on their home turf know where to land if they run into technical problems. Not so when training abroad.
"The professional tension is high. This is similar to what could happen in a real emergency," explained Herman. "They could get taken out of their comfort zone, and they don't wake up in a familiar bed. Everyone wants good results; everyone wants to perform. These aspects mean there is a big added value for training the individual."
In 2019, the IAF took a part in a number of training exercises in Israel and abroad, including joint drills in Greece, Cyprus, and Britain.
(JNS)
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